• There are some real descrepancies in this record ... many of the his sons also have records of serving in the revolutionary wars, but based on Gershom & Mary’s birth dates, the boy would have been just that, mere boys (less than 10 years old).
• A possible answer maybe the boys are not Gershom & Mary’s because there are notes that two of the boys birth names were recorded as “BIGLO.” The record may have assumed that they were the sons of Gershom.