THE RAUCH FAMILY OF HANOVER TOWNSHIP Here's some interesting information about the Rauch/Rough family that lived in the Hanover Townships of Lancaster County, PA, during the Revolutionary War. Three members of the family between the ages of 18 and 53 were enrolled in the Fourth Company of the Ninth Battalion of the Lancaster County Militia in 1781 and 1782 according to pages 934-936, 954-955, of Vol. VII of Series 5 of the Pennsylvania Archives. One was John Rough (Rauch) who is known to have died in 1803. Interestingly, since he was 53 or under in 1782, he was born in 1729 or after. Almost all genealogy entries on the Internet have his birth at 1726 or younger, indicating that these entries cannot be documented. A second was William Rough (Rauch) who was the oldest son of John Rough (Rauch). He was born in 1760 according to the Hill Reformed Church records. The third was a Barnet/Bernet Rough. According to Egle's History of Dauphin and Lebanon Counties, Barnet Rough paid taxes on 100 acres in Hanover Township, Lancaster County, in 1781. On the same list was Rev. John Rough with 180 acres. How John got the title of Reverend I do not know. Was he addressed this way on the tax records, or did Egle know something that we don't know? Who was this Barnet/Bernet Rough? Old Bernard Rough of Bethel Township, possibly a relative of John Rough, had died long before 1781. Old Bernard Rough's son Bernard was living at the time in Jonestown in the part of Bethel Township that is now Swatara Township. John Rough's youngest son Bernard was not even close to being age 18 at the time. So we are left with a Barnet Rough who, to this writer's knowledge, has not been identified. Dwayne Wrightsman Lee, NH