possible spellings of last name. Gabel/Gobel

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Again the names are listed as Gabel/Gobel/Goble/ Here is some interesting

information:

Christian Goble was of German ancestry. His father was Johann Friedrich, Sr.

who was born April 14,1701 in Germany. His mother was Christiana Henerietta Hornberger

Johann and Christiana were married in Pennsylvania in 1751.

Christian enlisted on July 20, 1776 and served as a private in Captain Jacob Good's

company, Colonel Griffen's Marhland regiment of the "Flying Camp" during the

Revolutionary War. He was in the battles of White Plains and Fort Washington where

he was taken prisoner and taken to New York. He was held in the Sugar House about

three months before being released on parole.

This is from Military Records, National Archives, W.2931,letter dated Aug. 17, 1936 to

Edgar A. Goble.