Colonial spelling was nothing if not creative. There are four men with the surname of "Millar" on the 1779 Cambridge District Tax List. Two Johns, a Thomas and a George, but no one named James. Which leads me to conclude that your James was not a taxpayer. However, he was a Cambridge district resident, by virtue of his service in the 16th Regiment. So either he was a young man who was still living at home on his father's farm, or he was a new enough tenant farmer that he was excused from paying real estate taxes or he was a subtenant, whose over lord was responsible for paying the real estate taxes under the terms of his lease. I have not looked to see if George Jackson has posted my transcription of the 1779 Cambridge District Tax List on the Washington County Web site yet, but you might find the list of interest to you when it is posted. In the 18th Century the tax assessors simply went from farm to farm recording their assessments. So you can tell who lived next to whom merely by looking at the order of the names on the tax list. Combine that with a little title work and you can plot a whole neighborhood. (this is also called fun and games for the feeble minded.) Leslie Michael McAlonie wrote: >With the help of Mr. Ellis, I found James Miller listed on the 16th [Cambridge] Regiment NYS militia roster as James Millar. It listed the colonels as Col. John Blair, and Col. Lewis Van Woert. > >http://www.revwar75.com/ob/m246.htm#ny > >On this site I saw a NARA microfilm listing for "Van Woert's Reg't of Militia 1779-1780" but nothing for the 16th Reg't NYS Militia or that of a Col. John Blair. Is this the right unit? > >Revolutionary War unit rolls: M-246-77 > >Has anyone used these unit rolls and were they helpful? >Did this unit go by any other name? >What was the typical length of service in this situation? > > > >I would like to say how much I appreciate all of your collective help with this - Thanks for all of your time and efforts. >-Mike > > > >============================== >Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration >Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. >http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237 > > >