In a message dated 4/18/2006 1:49:29 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: I am seeking information on Samuel Givens who was a Private in Col. > Dubois > Regiment during the Rev. War. My ancestor Jean Lamoreaux was in the same regiment. Your Samuel was probably a POW and taken maybe to the Sugar House prison. I did not see his name on the list of men who were on The Jersey prison ship. You can look here: _American Prisoners of the Revolution Names of 8000 Men Aboard the Old Jersey Prison ship_ (http://www.usmm.net/revdead.html#anchor266979) _Cornell University Making of America_ (http://cdl.library.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/moa/pageviewer?frames=1&coll=moa&view=50&root=/moa/mono/beac0110/&tif=00025. TIF&cite=http://cdl.library.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/moa/moa-cgi?notisid=ANY7838) - mentions the heavy casualities of Col Du Bois- in a history of Cornwall: A list of the men taken at Fort Montgomery has been pie- served, and it appears there were two hundred and thirty-seven that failed to make their escape. In looking over the names we find but few familiar in the annals of our present town. They mostly belonged to the militia of Ulster and Orange county. The latter embraced principally the two regiments which had been organized in Cornwall at the outbreak of the war, then under the respective command of Colonel Zacha- riali Dubois and Colonel Jesse Woodhull, but their members are now largely represented in the records of towns subsequently erected from the original precinct. The militia were reported by Governor Clinton to have acted with great spirit.* They lost heavily in the action. Indeed the entire district was filled with the lamentations of those bereaved of husbands, fathers, and sons. * The regiments engaged were: colonel Dubois’ and colonel Woodhull’s, from corn- wall; colonel Ellison’s and colonel Mcclaughry’s, from New Windsor; colonel Has- brouck’s, from Newburgh; three regiments from other districts, and colonel Lamb’s artillery. The regiments were by no means full. The cornwall regiments were the last to leave the forts, and hence suffered the most severely in killed and prisoners. Valerie Reynolds