I was given copies of some notes done back in the forties. Miess/Mease is part of my maternal line. Has any person working on this family heard the story of a Miess that was part of Washington's army and his job was to keep the fires burning the night Washington crossed the Delaware so the Hessians would not know the army had left the camp? I have not done any research on the family but thought this was a pretty neat story, if true. Beverly Walmer Wyld