In a message dated 9/25/2006 7:25:25 PM Eastern Daylight Time, Desmond@DesSpencer.wanadoo.co.uk writes: Boude, Thomas (Pa). 2d Lieutenant 4th Pennsylvania Battalion, 5th January, 1776; 1st Lieutenant 5th Pennsylvania, 1st January, 1777; Captain, 23d September, 1777; transferred to 2d Pennsylvania, 1st January, 1783; Brevet Major, 30th September, 1783; served to 3d November, 1783. (Died 24th October, 1822.) Heitman, above in blue, is citing Thomas Boude of Stony Point (1779), then a Lieut. who was given a 1777 date of rank as a Captain with his promotion occuring after the Stony Point action in 1779. See below-- Boude, Thomas, from first lieutenant, for gallantry at Stony Point, ranking from September 23,1777; transferred to Second Penn'a, January 1, 1783. Captain Thomas Boude of VF is not accounted for on the muster rolls of the 5th PA, but is shown as the Company Commander on the Muster Roll Data Sheet of Lieut Thomas BOUDE of the 5th PA (ID # PA00347) and further shown on the Regimental officer staffing roster of the 5th PA. Thomas BOUDE signed the Oath of Allegiance as Captain, 5th PA in the spring of 1778 more than a year before the Storming of Stony Point in July 1779. It is inconsistent to show the same man as a Captain at VF in 1778 and as a Lieut. at Stony Point in 1779. Thus there must be two Thomas BOUDEs Is there some additional information that would claify this issue? Best regards, Hugh