In a message dated 5/1/02 1:21:28 AM Eastern Daylight Time, joslake@attglobal.net writes: > Subj: 87th Illinois Mounted Infantry > Date: 5/1/02 1:21:28 AM Eastern Daylight Time > From: joslake@attglobal.net (Joseph E. Lake) > Reply-to: <A HREF="mailto:joslake@attglobal.net">joslake@attglobal.net</A> > To: PatAnder73@aol.com > > > > > Mr Anderson: I've been reading your series of letter by Mac Hooker, of the > above unit, with growing interest. Not a good speller, but a pretty > perceptive, candid & solid individual apparently. > > I receive them because I, along with many others, subscribe to a Rootsweb > Screen and I receive messages which include my surname or variant spellings > of same including Leek and Leak. A lot of Salt Lake Cities and Lake > Michigans as well. > > Hooker mentions, in almost every letter, a Peter Leek/Leak. A number of my > surname families lived in Illinois "on the way west", so I'm wondering if > you > know anything more about Peter Leek/Leak, such as home county, parents, etc. > > I could check it out the standard way but I thought I'd try the easy way > first and ask you. > Thanks very much. > > Patrick J. Anderson http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=patanderson 9654 Baltimore Avenue, Laurel, Maryland 20723