Hi, The Dour Celt wrote: > I hope that this brief essay will add a bit of clarity and ease some > of the frustration experienced by researchers, but I doubt it. <snip> > yet > what I am able to learn of him I get from other frontiersmen's > accounts because he was apparently too modest to record his own > exploits. How very fortunate to have your ancestor mentioned in others writings. What I have been struck by are the Journals that were kept by 'very' young men, just '19' years of age. They were not speaking of themselves but recording history for us. Examples I know about are the Charles Herbert Diary while at Mills Prison which Ed St Germain has up on his website now; The Adlum Diary of his imprisonment after the Battle of Brooklyn and his return home, and another which I came across recently ... in 1818 Captain David Perry recapped his participation in the 4 previous wars, both sides; website: http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~dagjones/captdavidperry/captdavidperry.html Another 19 yr old was Simon Fobes who Kenneth Roberts said: 'is the only journalist who kept a record of a return journey to Maine over the same route followed by Arnold on his march to Quebec.' One of the Journals included in his book 'March to Quebec', compiled during his writing of Arundel, 1938. If anyone can recommend Journals from the 1781 SC Battles and Skirmishes with the British Army around Eutaw Springs, I would appreciate hearing about them. Thanks, Jan