In a message dated 4/25/99 12:19:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: > about the only other family 'tradition' that I can think of is that > Isaac's grandfather supposedly fought with the British in the American > revolution (perhaps a Hessian?). How would that tally in with being > Pennsylvania Dutch? June- That would tally well with being Pennsylvania Dutch--some Hessians were incorporated into the PA Dutch culture after the Revolution as they had a lot in common with the Germanic settlers in PA and some did settle there. However, fighting with the British doesn't necessarily make him a Hessian--he could have merely sympathized with the British--which could easily explain his migration to Canada after the war--that was quite common. You might want to check out John Helmut Merz's Website: http://www.cgo.wave.ca/~hessian Joan