Good morning Listers: I received Micah Seaman's record yesterday, and talk about an adventurous career! The abstract I read did not cover the whole story. That boy was either very lucky or he was born under a bad star. The army kept drafting him for short periods to march him off here or there and he'd get back home and they'd do it again. Micah was in a tent with others, apparently, when a cannon ball hit it and killed the others, but he escaped with a wound to his arm. From the abstract I thought the worst--loss of arm--but no! He went back home to NJ. The army came and got him again and he suffered a bayonet wound to his side (I thought blood and guts) but the record says he suffered a flesh wound. And went back home to Warren county NJ. (His sojourn in Morris County was long enough to get into court, though.) This is like reading a "who-dunit" and finding the last page gone just as the detective is pointing to the murderer. The archives didn't send the last page, assuming there is one. I'll write again. Meanwhile... Has anyone else got Micah's papers from the archives? It's great reading, and much more interesting than the abstracted version. Marilyn Researching: Sparks of KY; Potter of NY; Oppenborn of FL; Tuphorn of Wisconsin; and Seaman of NJ, WV, KY, and "ye Westward". New Patriot to be added soon to the DAR roll: Willets Seaman of NJ, descendant of Capt. John Seaman of Hempstead, Long Island, NY ---- Marilyn Steber 4464 Castelar Street #104 San Diego, California.