Most of you are probably way ahead of me on this, but I am posting a "Factoid" that I learned from John K. Bryan. Nine units of North Carolina Continentals overwintered at Valley Forge; the First North Carolina Regiment was the largest. By Christmas of 1777, only 1,033 North Carolians remained, and one out of five of these were ill. Helen Gant Donald ==== NCORANGE Mailing List ==== Larry Noah - lrnoah@bigfoot.com - Listowner - NCORANGE mailing list Orange Co, NC USGenWeb site is at http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncorange GENDEX at http://www.gendex.com/gendex/ has over 1500 databases on line