Forwarded to proper posting address: ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dick Kruse" <dekruse@huntel.net> To: <AMREV-HESSIANS-L-request@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, August 16, 2004 10:36 PM Subject: Looking for George Fluckey > My GGGGGGrandfather George Fluckey (Flocke ??) was a "Hessen" soldier. He was born about 1751. Our legend has it he escaped the British during the battle of Trenton. A woman (a Margaret Stotz, whom he later married), hid him in an outside dutch oven. He proceeded to join Washington's Army, possibly as a tailor, making him a couple of uniforms. The "shears" he used for cutting the cloth are supposed to be in a museum in Ohio, where he is buried. He had 7 children. One of those boys, Adam, had 10 children -- one of them named "George Washington Fluckey". > > Fact or fiction?? > > Thanks for any help. > > Evelyn Fluckey Kruse >