LANTZ GENEALOGY George Lantz who came to America in 1748 is the father of Hans George Lantz who came in 1747 and he stands at the head of this George Lantz family of Virginia. Hans George Lantz and Nicolaus Lantz came from Leith, Scotland, October 20, 1747. OUR MILITARY RECORD The French and Indian War The French and Indian War of North America, 1752 to 1763 was caused by boundary dispute between the English colonists and the French. The dispute began to assume threatening from 1749 and culminated in war in 1754. The war cost the Colonists 30,000 men and sixteen mil- lions of dollars. The British government reimbursed the Colonists with five million dollars. Paltzer Lantz twenty-eight years old, born in the state of New Jersey enlisted in Pennsylvania March 6, 1756. Mus- ter roll of Major James Budd's first regiment of foot sol- diers in the pay of Pennsylvania. The War of the Revolution made it a little hard on the Lantz family as they had sworn allegiance to the British crown just a short time before that war began. The Revolutionary War This War was a struggle of the English Colonies in America for their freedom from Great Britain, the Mother Country. Dissatisfaction arose due to the fact that Great Gritain passed in Parliament many acts that were wholly unsatisfactory to the Colonists and acts which were very oppressive and burdensome. This was done without the consent of the Colonists, so they cried, "Taxation without representation is tyranny." Morton's History of Highland County, Virginia, says that Peter Hull in the Yorktown Campaign commanded the second Battalion Augusta Melitia which was a cavalry troop. Officers of his troop, Peter Hull, Captain, Nicolous Sebert First Lieutenant, Henry Fisher and Lieutenant Jacob Hover, ensign, Jacob Lantz and Conrad Lantz privates. In Pennsylvania they enrolled the men from eighteen to fifty years of age and the following Lantzs' were enrolled in her militia: Jacob Lance, sixth class, fourth company, fifth bat- talion. Lancaster Militia 1782, Joseph Jenkins, Capt. 11
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