Someone asked on this list, how do you go about finding if your ancestor had been in the American Revolutionary War. I will tell you how I found my ancestor. This was back in the 1983. I had been told by my mother that she had an ancestor who was at Valley Forge. She didn't know his name, however, or even where he came from. When she died, she had left me information about her family including a letter written in 1910 where someone had done research going back several generations. One of the people mentioned was a John Wyckoff who was born c1750 and died 1818 in Bourbon County, KY. He married an Ursula Herriott dau of Ephraim Herriott. How proud I was the day I looked in the DAR's Patriot Index and found my John Wyckoff listed as being a Patriot. I knew it was him because it mentioned his wife, Ursula Herriott. I wrote to the National Archives and was told that they had no record of him and I should look to the State. I wrote to the State of New Jersey and for a small fee, received his military record. My ancestor was in two battles: Springfield and Germantown. He was in the 2nd New Jersey Militia. I understand that that militia unit was at Valley Forge but I cannot prove that he was there. His military record never mentioned it. Later, I went to join the NSDAR and at that time, I requested copies of the papers of the woman who had gone into the NSDAR on my ancestor. She turned out to be my mother's first cousin. My mother had never mentioned her name but she had often talked about her Uncle, Preston, this woman's father. Let me tell you, it is indeed a honor to have a patriot in the American Revolutionary War. I can remember my mother telling me when I was old enough to vote, that "I should always vote because if my ancestor could fight for this country, I certainly could vote." Annie