I'm new on this list, so I don't know what the lastest subject/topic of conversation has been discussed or what I am jumping in the middle of now that I am just posting to the list. I am hoping that someone will educate me considering now that I've found myself to be 'the new kid on the block' with much to learn. I just found out that I have a German soldier, from the Thirty Years War, as an ancestor who came to New Jersey in 1750. Here is what I know about him and here am I ready to learn more about someone who is believed to have been a loyalist just before the Revolutionary War began. Anyone know where in Germany the Sovereign family came from? NOTE -> "In 1793 the Sovereign and Culver familes originally from New England, later New Jersey and New York, settled in the townships of Windham and Townsend in Norfolk County, bringing with them 20 wagons, 40 yoke of oxen, 300 sheep, and a large number of hurses, cows, etc." --pg. 153. "Philip Sovereign, whose father had come from New York State in 1799 and settled in Waterford, Norfolk County, had owned a farm, a grist mill, a saw mill, a tavern, and a distillery at Waterford. In 1812 he moved to Trafalgar Township." --pg. 119. "Sovereign, Frederick and sons; migrated from New Jersey to Waterford Township; Soldier in Germany, came to New Jersey in 1750." --pg. 224. [From: The Trail of the Black Walnut, by G. Elmore Reaman, reprint 1993.] <END Rhonda Warmack Houston (rfhouston@mindspring.com)