In a message dated 8/25/2003 9:51:49 AM Pacific Daylight Time, SHUPE@citcom.net writes: > > http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/pa/lancaster/military/revwar/pensions/hedreik-w.txt > Carolyn, Thanks so much! The first official census in this country was taken in 1790. The Cobin (or Carl) Hetriech family arrived in America Aug. 27, 1733. I believe the petitioner mentioned in this site, William (Wilhelm) Hedrick, to be Carl's grandson named after Johannn Wilhelm Hedderich-Hetrick (Carl's second oldest son, b. 1717). My information says that John Wilhelm probably settled in Connecticut in 1750 or 1751--a great part of Pennsylvania belonged to Connecticut at that time. Wilhelm had 13 children, 11 boys and 2 girls. The oldest child, Adam, was b. 1751. If the William Hedrick was 89 at the time of the request (in 1833) he would have been born in or abt 1744. Johann John Onst (Just?) Hetreich was the oldest son b. 1713. Jacob D. Hetrick, gg-grandson of John Wilhelm Hedderich-Hetrick (through John Wilhelm's son Jacob), said ". . . he had been told by his father that the whole family had served in the Revolutionary War." Lois (Hetrick) Stewart