der@redrose.net wrote: > > Hi John and other LIGHT researchers, > > > Date: Fri, 22 Oct 1999 14:06:48 -0700 > > From: "John Light-Monterey,CA" > Is the flag placed here because > > Francis once believed and tradition holds that II John Light was > > secretary to the Lebanon Resolves? > > According to the DAR Patriot Index, ladies have joined the DAR using > various LIGHTs as their Rev. War ancestor. John LIGHT married to Anna > LANDIS is listed for Public Service. > Regards, > Donna Ristenbatt > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I meant to comment on the "Lebanon Resolves" in my previous message, but I was interrupted by a phone call and lost my train of thought. I assume that what you call the "Lebanon Resolves" is the group that passed the resolution on June 25, 1774, signed by John Light, Secretary, and J. P. DeHaas, Chairman, as printed on p. 17 of Rev. Francis' book. Rev. Francis revealed his pique with the following comment: "Rev. Croll eulogizes at great length Major DeHaas, later Brig. Gen., and Captain Greenawalt he could not overlook, he must pass on to the Gloningers, the "Weidman House," to Mr. J. Andreas Shultze, etc., etc., but not one word for John Light who first penned the foregoing noble words. Of course the descendants of John Light should not be admitted to the Sons of the Revolution or to the D.A.R.. He does not belong to America's aristocracy. He was only a Mennonite and what is a Mennonite? Surely Lebanon will yet bestow becoming honor on John Light." (If the above paragraph sounds like something is missing, that is way the paragraph is written in the book.) As to Rev. Francis' preference for identifying this John Light as a III John Light rather than the II John Light that you mentioned above, it is given in a footnote on p. 18: "My father had added the following pencilled note to his manuscript: "More likely it was John, son of II Jacob Light." (See page 406)" For clarification here, let me say that II John Light was married to Anna Landis. III John Light the son of II Jacob Light was Rich Hanessly and was married to Veronica Light. I was also going to comment on "Henry the Fuller" in my previous message. He had a "fulling mill." What was a fuller??? My dictionary gives the definition: "A person who fulls cloth" and then says that the verb "full" means "to cleanse and thicken cloth by special processes in manufacture." I think he made felt. One would think that they could have come up with a few other names in place of all the Jacobs and Henrys and Johns (no offense, John Light in Monterey!!). It reminds me of the report I heard on TV several years ago that discussed the plight of the postmaster in Gap, PA, who had to contend with the distribution of mail to something like 17 Amish men named Jacob Stolzfuss in his territory! I'll quit now, and go do something useful, like mowing the lawn. Leroy Miller