I spent the morning in the new Seattle Public Library today. I cam away with a number of new bits of data that need further work and some massaging but the short of it is I did learn a few things. John Paul Lantz, son of Hans Peter LANTZ, was born 1733 in Winsberg in what is now Germany, and arrived in America in October of 1738. John Paul married Anna Margaret UNKNOWN and had six children we know of. There has been for some time speculation as to his date of death. Some have listed it as 1771 and others contend that was a date of death for his father. Today I found an abstract of wills that gives the location of Lebanon twp, Hunterdon Co, and a date of the will as Dec 8, 1770 and that the will was proved Feb 6, 1771. An inventory was made Jan 14, 1771 so it looks like the date of death was after Dec 8, 1770 and before Jan 14, 1771. If the will names the children in order of their birth, and it does name JOHN PETER as John Paul's first born, we then see William , Haman, Peter, Anthony and Mary Magdelana. So, Hans Peter has John Paul who has Anthony who has only two recorded children, John and Jacob, but Anthony has no fixed date of birth or death. But something curious happened today. Looking through the NJ veterans records I find a listing for the War With Great Britain 1812 - 1815. Now I know John is buried in Hainsburg Cemetery and that at least while his stone was ledgable it read that he was a soldier of the war of 1812. Now find in the records that under Capt William Swayze's Company of Infantry, Second Regt: Jacob, John and William all join on the same day, are listed on the roster as #s 23, 24 and 25. This suggexts to me they were related. I'm now thinking that John and Jacob were the known children of ANTHONY and that the last to sign, WILLIAM is the unknown third male of the line!! Curious too is that amoung the other soldier we find many of the names who married into my LANTZ - LANCE line and people we know were neighbors - such as James and John Blair, presumably of "Blairstown". Under Capt. Teasdale we find Abraham and Moses Decker as Lt and Sgt. We find further, Moon, Beemer, Decker, two DeWitt men, Hann, two Potter men, and a Reed. William Vliet's company has, and I've only part of this, Joseph Deats, a drummer and George Beatya fifer.