Can anybody help me sort out whether two different National Archives records for Rev. War veteran William HUDELSON (or HEDLESTON) are in fact for two different citizens of Mifflin County, or if they might refer to a single person? My 3ggrandfather William HUDELSON (or HEDDLESTON) is the subject of Army File No. R5323, an application by his widow for a pension. It claims that William served six months in a unit called the "Jersey Blues," and more than six more years in the Pennsylvania Line, ending at Yorktown. It also claims that William died 11 May 1823 in Nicholas County, KY, where he had moved in 1796 from Mifflin County. His widow Ann HUDDLESTON (who was both William's wife and his cousin) was refused her pension because she had no proof of this service, and the Army couldn't independently confirm it. One HUDELSON researcher has claimed that William didn't die in 1823, but abandoned his family, married again in 1829 in Mason County, KY, and died in Ohio in Nov 1845. A William HUDDLESTON did marry that year in Mason County, but was it Ann's spouse? A separate Army file, No. W5107, records that a William HEDDLESTON and his wife Elizabeth C. received a bounty land warrant for service in the Rev. War. The National Archives has informed me that the original records for this file were destroyed in a War Department fire in 1800. The researcher mentioned above has claimed that the service record for this William HEDDLESTON was identical to that in File No. R5323, but no supporting evidence is known to have survived the fire. To confuse the issue further, there was another William HUDDLESON (or HEDDLESON) who lived in Mifflin County in the late 18th Century, and moved to Mason County, KY by 1803. On 03 Aug 1803 he and his wife Tamar (widow to John Beale), relinquished to her son her claim to land owned by her first husband in Milford Township, Mifflin County. That township now is in Juniata County. This might have been the man, not Ann's spouse, that married in 1829 in Mason County. I've been fascinated for years by this mystery, but I'm no closer to solving it. Any help would be most welcome. Dave