Nelda asked that we thank those who have helped us, so here goes. John Casper Shana Wolf was married in Leominster, Mass and is buried in Rockingham, Vermont; and family tradition had him coming probably from the Battle of Saratoga, and hiding out with his employer, when the troops were marched south, before marrying. Trouble was, there was no one with that name registered as being with the Burgoyne campaign. With the help of John Merz, Eric Schnitzer, Michael Kassler, Robert Webler, Don Lohdahl-Smidt, Bob Brooks, Thomas Blumenstein, Dee Dee Rypka, Gail Krause and Jean Sanders, and their writings in the archives and elsewhere, we were pointed first to Johann Kaspar Schoenewolff, from Retterode, Hesse-Cassel, listed in Hetrina as deserting in June 1781. The only problem was that he was married in Mass. in January, 1781, and the names of his parents in German church records did not match the family tradition. You then suggested that he may have been on the transport ship "Favourite", captured at sea in summer of 1777 but listed as deserting later, and then possibly farmed out from the Rutland, Mass. prison camp, which was just down the road from Leominster. But we still had the family name problem. The family tradition listed his father as Casper Wolfe and his mother as Catherine Young. It turns out that Johann's father died when he was 5 and his mother when he was 9. He had no siblings he could go to, so it appears that he probably lived for a while with his godfather, Johann Caspar Catrey.I learned today that his godfather's wife was Maria Catharina Catrey (birth name unknown). Casper and Catherine?? They died when he was 10 and 13, and he went to live with their son in Hausen. We may never know for sure, but it looks good so far, and I intend to keep after it. So thank you all for all your kind suggestions on this subject over several years. The archives are fascinating, and if we all keep plugging, and volunteering information, we may tie up some more loose ends for others in the years ahead. Jack Wolfe