All of these surnames made their way west to our area (some on the url/list I wasn't sure of and didn't include). There has to be a BIG connection to Berks Co., Pa.!!!!!! =;o) Carolyn P.S. My names are marked with an "*". http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/pa/berks/military/deppay01.txt Berks County Patriots who received "Depreciation Pay" for service in the Continental Line during the Revolutionary War. Following is an interpretation of a list of depreciation pay recipients included on pages 254 thru 270 in Volume IV of the Fifth Series of the Publications of the Pennsylvania Archives published 1906, many corrupted spellings remain. Acker, John (cs note: Noacre?)* Bishop, Paul (cs note: Bishoff?)* Brown, John (cs note: surname relates to a Custer fam.) Deffenbach, Peter (cs. note: Dellenbaugh/bach?)* Derst, Peter (cs note: Durst?) Dewees, Owen (cs note: relates to a Custer fam.) Diehl, Philip Diehl, John Dietrich, Leonard, Ens. Dietrick, George Durst, Abraham Eisenbiss, Andrew Eisenhouer, Jacob Eisenhouer, Michael Feather, Peter Fichthorne, Jacob (cs note: could be Fike?) Fick, George (cs. note: Fike?)* Geist, Conrad, Capt. (cs note: Gist?) Gottschall, Frederick Hager, John Hering, Ludwig (Estate) Hauser Gotlieb Hay, Jacob Heck, Yost Hoff, Jacob Kehly, Peter (cs note: Kelley?) Keizer, Valentine Kirrick, William (cs. note: Carrick?) Koos, Henry (cs note: abbrev. of Kooser/Custer?)* Kooser, Michael (cs note: Custer?)* Korr, Thomas (cs note: Kohr/Core?)* Kuffer, Peter (cs note: Custer?)* Lantzer, Abraham (cs note: Lantz?)* Levengood, Jacob (cs note: Livingood?) Levengood, Jacob Levergood, Jacob Levinhart, John McCarthy, Felix Metz, Peter (cs note: Mertz?)* Millard, Jonathan Millard, Benjamin Miller, Henry Miller, Michael Miller, Peter Miller, Christian Miller, John Miller, Mathias Miller, Philip Moore, John Moser, Valentine Moser, Michael Moser, George Mourer, Michael Myer, George Parks, Benjamin* Patton, John* Paul, Philip Radebach, Henry Rectmyer, George (cs note: Rightmyer?)* Seibert, Nicholas Seibert, Nicholas Lt Seivert, Jacob Shaffer, John Shaffer, Jacob Shaffer, Christian Shaffer, Philip Sheffer, Michael Shrack, Henry (cs note: Shrock?) Shwartz, Peter Slaughenbaugh, John (cs note: Slaubaugh?) Stahl, Adam Sterner, Henry Sterner, Christian Strack, Yost Waggoner, Isaac Waggoner, Henry Waggoner, Philip Wagner, Philip Wagner, Henry Wagner, Adam Wagner, Henry Wagner, Valentine Weaver, Christian Weaver, Michael Weaver, Jones Weimert, Jacob (cs note: Weimer?) Weiser, Philip (cs note: Weishaar/Whitehair?)* Weiser, Jacob* Weyand, Nicholas Weyandt, Jacob White, William Wilhelm, Christn Wiser, John* Wix, Henry (cs note Wick?)* Wolf, Daniel Wyant, George