Robin <rogerene@snet.net>: > Only recently I discovered my ancestor William Stark > (brother of General John of Bennington fame) recruited > Loyalists for the New Hampshire Volunteers <...etc...> I had the opportunity to dabble with William Stark today. First stop at the library, as always in cases like this, was the "National Cyclopaedia of American Biography." Yep. He's there all right. I also found a few other brief references. For example, his estate was confiscated, and it never was released, except just enough of it to pay off some creditors. That was I think his New Hampshire property. He also had property in Maine, but that part is vague. And, he was at the Battle of Long Island, all right. Fell off his horse, too. And died in the fall. All true, too too true. That must have been one *TALL* horse!!! Either that, or the horse was standing next to a cliff at the time. William Stark was described by one source as serving the British as a dragoon, but by another source as a ranger. NO source I saw said anything about a specific unit for him, nor any commanding officer. I did notice in a historical atlas of the Revolution that Lt. Gen. Clinton (the Brit) had dragoons under him at the Battle of Long Island, but that was a tiny annotation, no details, and there certainly could have been dragoons elsewhere among the Redcoats, not to mention rangers, so this bit really amounts to nothing. No mention of any New Hampshire (Loyalist) Volunteers. So, I found no answers to the real questions. Let me know if you want the inconclusive bits. I assume you have those already. Lester Powers ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/web/.