I am currentley resarching the line of Christian Musser who died in Coshocton , OH. His revolutionary records show him as MESSER. His pension is MESSER; The 1800 census is MUSSER. A eed in 1840 has the name spelled Messer and Musser on the same deed. I think it was largley a matter of phonetics and the fact a majority could not spell or read and write. (X)