This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/IMJ.2ACEB/2266.1 Message Board Post: According to "The Fighting Cochranes" Alexander Cochrane, page 342: During the American War of Independence the Honourable John Cochrane, foruth and third suviving son of the 8th Earl of Dundonald served in Canada as Paymaster General and Deputy Commissary to the Biritish Forces in America. His immediate superior officer was Commissary-General Nathaniel Day....... The exact date of the future Rear-Admiral's (Nathaniel Day Cochrane) birth is not known but, in the memoranda and notes of the Rev. D. F. Montmollin, the first incumbent of the English Cathedral in Quebec, the following item occurs: Nathaniel Day Cochrane, natural child of John Cochrane, Paymaster General, and Genevieve Dulon, was baptized November 22, 1780. Godfathers: Nathaniel Day, Commissary-General; Alexander Dundas, Major of the 31st Regiment: Godmother: Elizabeth Walker. Cynthia