Philip Fishback was born in Alsace, then a province of France, about the year 1752, and his wife was a German woman. He was a Frenchman but spoke both German and French, though his children were taught in the latter language only. He came to America with the French soldiers under Lafayette, under whom he fought in the Revolution of 1776. At the ... <the ramainder is "chopped off" on my photocopy> John Charles Tippet [email protected]