To Luci60 et al, In your e-mail message dated 27 July you ask "What John Sasser do you speak of?" I do not have a middle name for you. However this John was working for the British Crown back on Monday, May 6th, 1776. In the Colonial Records for that day the Congress met, this would have been for North Carolina. That would have been two months before Independence. The record shows many pieces of business being done on the day. I will give you one piece of business that day from the book Colonial Records of North Carolial page 565: "Your committee therefore recommend that George Miller, John Sasser and Benjamin Exum, of Dobbs county, and James Council, Thomas Robinson and Joseph Cain, of Bladen county, be empowered to contract with persons to procure and purify, at the public expense such sulphur as may be had or found within this Province, which contract to be obligatory on the Province; and that the said George Miller, John Sasser, Benjamin Exum, James Council, Thomas Robinson and Joseph Cain, or any three of them, draw on the Treasurers, or either of them, for such sums of money as may be necessary for the above purposes, so that the same does not exceed £1000. And as lead ore cannot be procured and purified as soon as it may..." I will send the complete text on another e-mail message. At 05:09 PM 7/27/1998 EDT, you wrote: >What John Sasser do you speak of? I have a John B. and a John S. Sasser. > > >==== SASSER Mailing List ==== >William Pickney Sasser: b. Dec 8th, 1811 d. Jan 11th 1858 may be seen at >http://www.hom.net/~rsasser/ > > > > > > > > > > Cordially, Earl Sasser ewsass@writeme.com