Gals and Gents, I am embarrassed to ask this question, as I am sure it has been answered here and on the former RIO list, but I am desperate. So at the risk of redundancy, My father and I have been searching for many years of the parents of John Randall, Revolutionary Soldier with no success. We have the family from John, but not his vitals and particularly parentage. I am not sure NARA would have that information and it is expensive to get his service record and time consuming. The following is information from his service record provided by the Adjutant General of the State of Connecticut: /Reference: Record of Connecticut Men who Served in THE WAR OF THE REVOLUTION Pages 86, 100, & 320 Enlisted 13 July 1775 as a Private in 2d Company, 8th Regiment. Discharged 10 December 1775. Re-enlisted in 1776 and served in Captain Gallup's Company commanded by Colonel Parsons. Re-enlisted 1 January 1781 in the 1st Regiment "Connecticut Line" as a member of Captain Buell's Company. Discharged 31 December 1781./ As you can see, their information comes from a secondary source and does not answer any of my questions about the man. If you should be very interested in this query, additional information can be found on my Web site (below) Thank you in advance. PS: I am within hours of being a grandfather (again) so keep Linda in your prayers and thought. wrr ======================================================================== Researching the Beebe, Cranmer, Hale, Lamb, Oviatt, RANDALL, Roberts and Wightman families in Connecticut, New Jersey, New York, Ohio and Rhode Island Web Page: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~randall --- avast! Antivirus: Outbound message clean. Virus Database (VPS): 080715-0, 07/15/2008 Tested on: 7/15/2008 12:55:54 PM avast! - copyright (c) 1988-2008 ALWIL Software. http://www.avast.com