This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Duncan Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/YAB.2ACI/1.1555 Message Board Post: James Duncan, Sr. is listed as "passing for service" on July 19th, 1776, and as being discharged July 16th, 1779. Papers from the National Archives, Washington, D.C., show the same date of discharge and his discharge record is under the casualty list. James Duncan enlisted for three years beginning in 1776. The camps are sometimes named: White Plains, Camp Fish Kill, Second River, and Valley Forge. His commanders on these records were Captain William Heyser, Lieutenant Colonel Ludwig Weltner, and Colonel Baron Arendt. One payroll record for James says, "Deserted January 6, 1777." James Duncan Jr. was born May 12, 1777 and James Sr. was back at camp and on the rolls by May 22, 1777. Source: The Archives of Maryland-Muster Rolls and Other Records of Service of Maryland Troops in the American Revolution 1775-1783 Served as a Private in Capt. Robert Burns' Co., Hazen's Regiment, Continental Troops. #3195. Enlisted 1777, discharged 15 January 1781. "9000 Men who signed the Oath Of Allegiance and Fidelity to Maryland during the Revolution."