AMERICAN REVOLUTION DESERTER?
Source: Bing clip art If you have been doing family research for more than a few days, you have found interesting, funny, or ironic things. I recently ran across the "Graff" name in a book titled: He Loves a Good Deal of Rum...Military Desertions during the American revolution 1775-1783...Volume One 1775 - June 30, 1777 by Joseph Lee Boyle. The title alone caught my attention. Um...I had ancestors in the American Revolution. Would this book have anything about any of them? I flipped to the index and started looking for any familiar name: Bowman/Bauman, Groff/Graff, Boehm/Beam, Stover, Wolf, Metzler, Musselman, Ressler. Some of the names I had to look for alternate spellings. Um....Graff, Jacob. Maybe a possibility? The below had been published in the Pennsylvania Evening Post on May 13, 1777: This is to certify that Frederick Shinkle and Jacob Graff, two militia men of this city, brought me a man named John M'Cartney, the 21st ult. 1777, as s substitute for th