so john h hawkins, who is the i think he is from philadelphia. yeah some of this where i won't say full assumptions. i am following clues. i spent probably way too much time trying to find this guy in the records not always the easiest person to find but from what i could understand first of all by reading his journal is that he kept talking about his typographical brethren. he talked about printing offices. he talked about newspapers. he was holding newspapers and books in his knapsacks. in fact when you look at that journal over there, they've got it on the page where he's talking about what he lost when he shooked his knapsack when he was running before those british highlanders to get away at brandywine and then part of it when you look in there. he's talking about the papers and the quills and the books and the other things that he all had in his knapsack. so we've got this point that he was affiliated with printing in some form. so when a little further in trying to do research and actually found a runaway ad for an apprentice that ran away

so sergeant major john h. hawkins from what i can see actually enlisted in '76, had served through it, and in early january of '77, was up for reenlistment. so many of the soldiers who had enlisted in '76 were on short-term enlistmented. the army was trying to recreate an army at this point. and john h. hawkins reenlisted in congress's own. as he reenlisted because he also had service time and he was so literate. he was a writer. he was first given a corporal's enlistment and very quickly within weeks was made a sergeant of the regiment. so john h. hawkins, who is he? i think he is from philadelphia. some of this where i won't say full assumptions. i am following clues. i spent probably way too much time trying to find this guy in the records. not always the easiest person to find. but from what i could understand, first of all, by reading his journal is that he kept talking about his typographical brethren. he talked about printing offices. he talked about newspapers. he was holding newspapers and books in his knapsa