Helen Burr Smith On my homeward bound trip, I made a written account for my personal records of all I had seen and heard on that visit with this celebrated artist who, at the beginning of his long career, had illustrated for the first and only time Cornwallis's knee buckles and who, not long before the end of his life, made known to the owners of the buckles the long-sought name of the author of the first published story on the buckles. The author had died in the year 1895;° the illustrator died January 18, 1950, two months before his ninety-second birthday.10 Anne Johns Cox's story of the buckles in St. Nicholas errs in claiming Captains Michael and John Rudolph as brothers of Ann Rudolph. They were related to her but the exact relationship has not been determined. Ann did have brothers, but they were too young to have been officers in the Revolutionary War. Also in error is the army rank of Ann's father, who was a captain, not a major, in the Continental Army. It is true, however, that her father was a prisoner in 1777, as Ann told General Cornwallis when she went to get her cow. It is also true that her relatives, Captain Michael Rudolph and Captain Rudolph (probably John), were with "Light Horse Harry" Lee and General Gates, respectively. Ann's father, Captain Jacob Rudolph (1744-1795), was a son of John Rudolph (1710-1768) and Mary Bonsall (1719-1795), daughter of Jacob and Martha (Hood) Bonsall. An officer in the American Army during the Revolution (Captain of the 2nd Company of Colonel Caleb Davis's Battalion of Chester County Associates), Jacob Rudolph was captured at the Battle of Brandy- wine, September 11/12, 1777, and exchanged June 1778 on the British evacuation of Philadelphia. He was a brother of Lieutenant John Rudolph of the 5 th Pennsylvania Battalion and afterwards of the 6th Pennsylvania Regiment, Continental Establishment, who was captured at Fort Washington, N. Y., November 16, 1776; and he was also related in some way to Captain John Rudolph and Lieutenant (later Captain) Michael Rudolph (or • Information courtesy the late George Wharton Edwards, her son-in-law. 10 Obituaries in New York Times and New York Herald Tribune, January 19, 1950. 189