Saturday Night Genealogy Fun
Remembering John Foster and the Maryland Flying Camp Calling all Genea-Musings Fans: It's Saturday Night again – Time for some more Genealogy Fun!! Here is your assignment if you choose to play along (cue the Mission Impossible music, please!): We all have ancestors who were alive in 1776, and some of them may have celebrated the signing of the Declaration of Independence or even served in the military during the War. Describe one or more of your ancestors who lived in that time or served in the military. With Independence Day just around the corner, this week's challenge seemed like the perfect opportunity to highlight one of my Revolutionary War patriots. Rather than write about all of them (I'll be doing that in a separate Fourth of July post), I decided to focus on John Foster , whose military service is documented in the records of the Maryland Archives. John Foster's Revolutionary War Service John Foster served as a ...