I FOUND this very interesting story for ANYONE curious about a servant being refered to being called a 'BATMAN' ************************************************************ NOTE: A BATMAN was a servant for all needs, that traveled to battle with their master. This one kept a Journal on that final mission of Capt. Cholmely who was killed July 1755 serving under Gen. Braddock on the banks of the Monongahela. Story with this statement : JOURNAL OF CAPTAIN CHOLMLEY's BATMAN The following article was posted by Barbara Berry Meger (E-Mail: Megerstch@aol.com) on the Chumbley newsgroup Digest V98 Issue #174. Excerpts from "The Journal of Capt. Cholmley's Batman: January the 8th, 1755, Sir Peeter Halkets Regt & Colonel Dunbars Regt. Imbarked at Cove Near Cork for North America & sailed from thence Jan. the 13th. from Ireland to Alexandria [Virginia]." Ibid: "We arriv'd at Hampton in Virginia the 10th of March (there were 13 transport ships & 3 ordnance ships in the convoy. The first ship arrived at Hampton on march 2, the last on abt. march 15th. The vessels had orders from Braddock to obtain fresh provisions on arrival, then proceed to Alexandria.)." "March ye 13, We left Hampton & sailed up the Portwomack [Potomac] River to Alexandria..." Most every day the "Batman" tells of the problems of the day, as they, he & Capt. Robert C. continued to stay on the march thru Wednesday, July 9th & this appears to be the day he was killed, as the Batman wrote "My Master died before we was ten Minuits Ingaged." The Batman also goes on to state that "I had seven horses in the field & one Cow & they was all lost but two horses." He said he had "My Master Baggage that was saved about two Qts of Rum..." P.S. I am Wilma M.(COWSAR)Brown a Tunnell researcher and a TUNNELL-BALL researcher .