This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg//1cW.2ACIB/1180 Message Board Post: Looking for information about John Fitzgerald, who states on his pension application that he was born 1784 in Spotsylvania Co, VA. He was living in Georgia when he enlisted to fight in the Seminole Wars in Eastern Florida where he was wounded in the Battle of Fowlstown. I believe him to be the John Fitzgerald who is next found in Washington Co, AL and then is found in Jackson Co, MS on the 1820 census and on the 1825 tax records for Jackson Co, MS. I believe him to be the father of my Ellis Fitzgerald that I have been stuck on for a long time. Ellis was born ca 1804 in Georgia. I cannot determine which part of Georgia they were in before they moved to AL and MS. Ellis ended up in Mobile Co, AL by 1836.