This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: debrajeandavis Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.fitzgerald/2466.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Some possibilities for Edmund's father and Abel's grandfather: Fought in the Revolutionary War A Henry FitsGerald mustered into Captain Martin Kurtlands Company of the Connecticutt Regiment of Foot (foot soldiers) in the service of the United States under the command of Colonel Jonathan Meigs as a private on May 7, 1777 (signed up for the duration of the war) [The only Fitzgerald found in the 660 pages of this microfilmed document was Henry Fitzgerald]. Source: National Archives Microfilm M246 Roll 17; Revolutionary War Rolls--Connecticut ------------------------------------------------ Source Information: Jackson, Ronald V., Accelerated Indexing Systems, comp.. Ohio Census, 1790-1890 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: from microfilmed schedules of the U.S. Federal Decennial Census, territorial/state censuses, and/or census substitutes. A Henry Fitzgeralds is listed on the tax rolls of Ohio Northwest Territory in 1801 ------------------------------------------------ Henry Fitzgerald is listed among the soldiers who served in the Revolutionary War from Salisbury, Litchfield County, Connecticut ----------------------------------------------- A John Fitzgerald is listed in Hartford, Connecticut, on the 1790 Fed Census is a young man with a young family... in his 20s; 1800 Federal Census. He's over age 26 under 44 (New London, Connecticut) [Note: an Edward Fitzgerald was minister of a Presbytery of the Scotch-Irish Church in Worcester, Massachuesettes, circa 1718-1725 Source: The Colonial Clergy and the Colonial Churches of New England by Frederick Lewis Weis; pub. Clearfield. online Ancestry.com p. 85) Rolls and lists of Ct. Men in the Rev. 1775-1783. Ed. By Albert C. Bates. Hartford, Ct., 1901-1909. (Vols. 8 and 12 of the "Collections" of the Ct. Hist. Soc.) (2v.):8:18 AND Record of Conn. Men in mil. And naval service during the Rev. war, 1775-1783. By Henry P.Johnston. Hartford. 1889. (17,779p.):210, 339 Fitzgerald: Thomas, John, Henry, James all born between 1740-1750 In the list of soldiers from the town of Sharon, Litchfield County, Connecticut, there is a William Fitzgerald Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.