> Dave, > > Do you have a first name for your Shoemaker. There are a number of them > listed in New York in the Revolution. Maybe I could locate something for > you. > > Don R Don, here's the quote from the official history of Saratoga County with biographical sketches published in 1893: "Mr. [Charles F.] See [fire chief of Saratoga Springs] is a descendant of a revolutionary soldier, his paternal great-great-grandfather having been an American soldier who fell in battle during the movements against [Col. Barry] St. Ledger in the Mohawk valley in 1777." That's it. The ancestor wasn't named! I don't think his straight-paternal See g-g-grandfather was the one though -- and there don't seem to have been any Sees in the Tryon Co. militia -- so I'm looking at his paternal grandfather's mother, whose name was Schumacher. She lived in Gallatin, in Columbia Co. NY, but had evidently come from somewhere else, so maybe she came from German Flatts. David See and Catherine Schumacher named their third son John, and John Schumacher is in one list of the militia marked as killed, so he looks interesting. From the family trees posted on the web of the German Flatts Shoemakers, though, it is not obvious where Catherine and John might fit. Complicated subject. Thanks for your help. I might see if D.A.R. lineages and pension lists can reveal anything. -Dave See