Arrah (Jim) >How did you find out so much about... From cousins and other researchers of Schaffer,and tax records, cemetery records, census, Berks County PA Historical Society, this list, the Family History Library at Salt Lake. I bought books: Dohla's diary, C.N. Smith's "British and German Deserters...", POW List from J.S.H.A. Some of these at least provided negative info--so I look somewhere else. Really, Jim, I'm very new to genealogical searching, so I just stumble around and stab here and there--sometimes with the good fortune to meet some really knowledgeable genealogists. The nearest I found for your Kaspar Spohn is from Clifford Neal Smith's: "British and German Deserters, Dischargees, and Prisoners of War Who May Have Remained in Canada and the United States, 1774-1783: Part 1 and Part 2 [and] Disbanded Soldiers from British, German, and Loyalist Military Units in the South, 1782" Spotz, Caspar a German farmer Regiment von Ditfurth Pass to Pennsylvania "Research Notes: According to Hetrina, 2:9030, soldier SCHATZ, Kaspar, born 1758-1759, from Bromskirchen, deserted from company 4, Regiment von Ditfurth, in September 1782. Jeri