All, At 08:42 PM 9/15/00 -0500, Laurie Skillern wrote: >Dear WRG, > >I found an abscure reference to "Case Whitney" in my research - 1790 Mass. >Census - around Concord I believe. Does anyone know about him or who this >might be? > >Thanks >Laurie Ann Whitney Skillern _Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors in the Revolutionary War_ gives: "Volume 17, page 157: Whiteney, "Case." Descriptive list of men raised in Worcester Co. to serve in the Continental Army, agreeable to resolve of Dec. 2, 1780, as returned by Seth Washburn, Superintendent for said county, June 12 [?], 1781; Capt. Kendall's co., Col. Whitney's regt.; age, 37 yrs.; stature, 5 ft. 5 in.; complexion, black; occupation, farmer; engaged for town of Lancaster; engaged March 5, 1781; term, 3 years." Since his complexion is listed as black, he seems to have been a free negro. Regards, Robert Robert L. Ward WHITNEY Research Group <http://www.whitneygen.org/>