In a message dated 6/7/02 8:40:58 AM Eastern Daylight Time, maryshoe@cox.net writes: > even > his lst name got mangled... Boston instead of Sebastion. etc. Mary Ann- Bostian or Bastian are fairly common nicknames for Sebastian. So if they wrote Boston they may only have been mangling the nickname a little bit. :-) Joan

It is found both ways.. but.. the surname was Shehan by 1800... or some spelling of such.. a court record in 1808 states.. "Boston Shehan formerly Boston Schuechen"...etc... that plus the 1880 census makes for just about 100% certain. Mary ann ----- Original Message ----- From: <JYoung6180@aol.com> To: <MD-FRED-GEN-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, June 07, 2002 11:10 AM Subject: Re: Sources: Re: [MDFred] hessian soldiers > In a message dated 6/7/02 8:40:58 AM Eastern Daylight Time, maryshoe@cox.net > writes: > > > even > > his lst name got mangled... Boston instead of Sebastion. etc. > > Mary Ann- > > Bostian or Bastian are fairly common nicknames for Sebastian. So if they > wrote Boston they may only have been mangling the nickname a little bit. :-) > > Joan > > > ==== MD-FRED-GEN Mailing List ==== > Come on over to the Maryland Roots Network at: > http://midatlantic.rootsweb.com/MD/ > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > >