Thanks, E.W., for that wonderful summary. Folks on this list might also want to know that there is an extant list for a company of the Albemarle militia that went to Yorktown for the seige and battle. A partial version of the list was published many years ago in the DAR magazine, but the person who extracted it apparently copied it on paper that was too short! So, the names at the bottom of the page in both columns are missing from the published version. The original is in the Library of Virginia, and has been preserved so it can be examined and copied. To request it, when visiting the archives in Richmond, look for Virginia Records Auditor's Office (or look in records of the Second Auditor's Office, if you don't find it at first) Militia Lists Albemarle Why was the list made? It was submitted by the captain to the state auditor to collect the pay for the men. It's interesting to look at the additional notations. They all got screwed out of two weeks pay for their travel time (one week each way from Albemarle to Williamsburg, so I'm guessing they traveled on foot). The auditor notes the dates the unit was sworn in at Williamsburg, and sworn out at Williamsburg, to calculate the maximum days service for the unit, and then reduces the total days given by the captain by 14 for each man (the difference between the top number of days listed by the captain, and the auditor's calculation). The advantage to looking at the original is that you can clearly see that the different notations were in different colors of ink, and can easily distinguish the later marks from the captain's original. There are only a few militia lists extant among the auditor's records. We're lucky that one of them is for Albemarle, and for such a momentous event. (I used it in my DAR proof of service, and the number of days the captain said my ancestor was in service exactly matched the entries in Jefferson's account book noting when he left Monticello ("with the militia") and returned! BTW, the amount Mr. Jefferson (his employer) lent him for the trip was considerably more than the state eventually paid him. These men weren't "in it for the money.") I'll try to find my copy and extract the full list here. Will be awhile before I can get to it. Rosanna Bencoach