Hello, listers: I've just started receiving this digest and would like to offer cordial greetings to all you Orange County researchers. Yesterday the mail brought me a welcome packet from the National Archives- the Revolutionary War pension papers of my 4th g-grandfather, Robert Kerr of Florida, town of Warwick, Orange County, NY. His deposition says that he enlisted in 1776 when he was thirteen years old! He enlisted in Warwick and his service was all in New York State. Initially he served in Captain Blain's company, Colonel Nichol's Regiment--the names check out, but as Orange County militia, not Connecticut Line as written on the pension folder cover. (Connecticut is nowhere mentioned in the affadavits.) He served five months and was at Kingsbridge when the British first occupied New York City. Two years later, he was enrolled in Capt. Colvin Shepherd's company of militia and served in the Minisink and other places on various occasions. I have two questions: Isn't thirteen very young for enlistment? (He didn't really know just how old he was.) I know that the age for militia duty later was 16. Also, has anybody ever seen this kind of discrepancy in the troop designation? Is there any way it could be right? Hoping for some light, Terry Strasser Albany, NY