Hello All, I realize this will become a somewhat lengthy post and I apologize. But, I do hope someone can either help me or find something useful here for themselves. Below I have posted an excerpt from "Bev" who posted this to the "General" message board on Rootsweb in 2000. I wonder if anyone can tell me who the 2nd Lt. William Anderson is? I recognize several names of the other soldiers listed, such as William Griffith, Thomas Evans, Joseph Black, John Beaton and possibly Thomas Davis and John Llewellyn. I think I have read that Griffith, Evans, Black and Davis were Quaker, but I don't know for sure. Several were dismissed from their Quaker status after the war when they returned home. My Anderson family married into the Beaton, Davis and Evans families, and my Jerman/Jarman people married into the Evans' and possibly the Llewellyn's. James Anderson and wife Elizabeth Jerman had 8 children, of which only two (Capt. Patrick and Edward Anderson) have been researched and linked to them. They "did" have a son William, but no source I know of has linked a William to them. There are a total of eight children mentioned in Elizabeth Jerman's mother's will (Elizabeth Jerman, d. 1741) as being children of James and Elizabeth, but they are not named. (this is me, pulling out my hair :-0 ) If anyone can point me to some sources for this military group and how I might find out more about the 2nd Lt. William Anderson, I would be grateful. Thanks, Laura Pa. Archives, Fifth Series, Volume V. Starts on page 843...at the top it says County of Chester William Griffith, David Hays, William Carlile, Jr., John Williamson, (blank) Hollman, Ephraim Blackburn, Benjamin Brumback, (blank) Colby, Edwin Parker, John Ramsay, John Snyder, John McKee, Isaac Eyre, James Fulton, John Cummings, Thomas Evans, Samuel Junkens, Joseph Black, John Kincaid, James Ramage, John Crosby, Richard Strode EIGHTH Battalion Lt. Col Joseph Spear, Major John Boyd, Number of men: 570 CHESTER COUNTY BATTALION [most of htis battallion were taken prisoner at Ft. Wahsington, but as wil be seem, we have only a partial roll of one company] Col. William Montgomery, Lt. Col Thomas Bull, Captains: Joseph Gardner, John Shaw (resigned), Samuel Wallace, Mathew Boyd, Samuel Culbinson, John Beaton, James Boylan, William Price in place of Capt. Shaw, John McDowall, James McClure. Page 844 First Lt.: William Henry, John Smith, Andrew Dunwoody, Allen Cunningham, Thomas Henry, Joseph Strawbridge, Benjamn Culbertson, Joseph Bartholomew, Second Lt: Robert Filson, William Anderson, William Lockard, Joseph Wherry, Thomas Davis, David Curry, Samuel Hamill, Alexander McCarragher. Ensigns: William Cunningham, Thomas James, John Grardtrensher (??), Lazurus Finney, John Filson, Archibald Dysart, Andrew Curry, John Llewellyn Captain McClures Company Payroll of Prisioners of Capt. James McClures company, Col. William Montgomery's Regt of the Flying Camp, in the State of Pa., taken at Ft. Washington Captain James McClure,1st Lt. John Smith,2nd Lt. William Anderson, Sgts: John G Rencher, ex. January 3, 1777; William Kennedy, ex. January 3, 1777, Robert Campbell, ex. January 3, 1777

Have you done a patriot lookup to see if any woman has joined the DAR with William as their Vet? Have you checked the NARA to see if Wm has any military/pension papers on file? (as an aside, I can tell you that any and all Quakers who served in the military, in any way, were no longer Friends...they would have been disowned by their meeting.) Sandra "2nd Lt. William Anderson ?" -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.394 / Virus Database: 268.9.1/369 - Release Date: 6/19/2006