This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Carson Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/DiH.2ACEB/1697.1.1 Message Board Post: "Descendents of William Carson, A Revolutionary Patriot Who Survived Valley Forge with Related Berggren, Johnson, Lee, Miller, Patton, Scott and Thompson Lines" by Beatrice Carson. published ca. 1964. Page "v" "Another roadblock in the way of tracing the eight surviving children of William Carson was the report that William, Jr., born on Independence Day in 1776, had died in infancy and another child given the same name. The Ross County chapter of the DAR had actually granted membership to an applicant claiming to be the descendant of such a son. Diligent research on her lineage confirmed the hunch that her ancestor was in no way even related to our Revolutionary ancestor."