In a message dated 8/8/2000 2:31:12 PM Pacific Daylight Time, SUSANLB@aol.com writes: << As to the Quaker religion, he may well have stayed for a time with a Quaker family, but there is no proof of that. He doesn't appear to have attended meetings anywhere (Henshaw books, etc.) >> If Luther served in the Military, I think you can safely assume that he was not a practicing Quaker. Since Corpsmen and Medics didn't exist and the Colonial Army had few "desks" for clerical work, a person in the military was there to fight, and this the true Quaker abhorred. The Conscientious Objector was not new, having been around for over a century by the start of the American Revolution. Mac