Dear Cousins, I have just discovered some much needed Pennsylvania records are to be found in the ARIAS system of the PA Archives. http://www.digitalarchives.state.pa.us/index.asp The only ones interesting to me were the Revolutionary War records, but more are planned!! Yay team ARIAS! Get Going!! At first blush these records may seem clumsy, but if you use digitized records as much as I do, you will quickly realize this is nevertheless a good system. Instead of the standard search engine, which means you have to search for every individual variant you can conceive of, they have indexed the records in manageable clumps, and then you simply scroll within 10 names in each clump. That means you can find every name listed, however bizarrely the transcriber (or somebody) spelled it. It is still a lot of trouble, but the thing is, you know if everyone is there -- or not. Revolutionary War Military Abstract Card File Indexes (I have not entered all the data for those shown here, only those I was most intrested in.) Ephraim Pennington of York County is also mentioned in the Library of Congress' American Memory George Washington Papers. Paynten, James Payton, John I am pretty sure the first is Pennington, but who knowns on the second??!! Items Between Pelegar, John and Penington, Thos. include 89 AND 90 -- Charles Penington of Chester County and Capt. Ephraim of York. Item 91 is 1st Lt. Ephraim of York 1778 Item 92 is George, a drummer 93. Gill from Chester 94. Gill from Chester 95. Isaac from Bucks, 3rd BN 96. Pvt. Isaac from Chester, 6BN 97. Jacob, 1st Phila BN 98. Paul, 4th BN Chester 99. Thomas, 1st BN, 5th Co 100. Thomas Items Between Penney, Hugh and Penrose, Isaac 6. Amos Penniger, Chester 6BN 8. Pennington, Barthrow. (?) 2nd PA Regt. 9. Sgt. Charles, Chester, 1st Regt of Foot, Col. Hannum, Capt. Mordecai Morgan 1777 10. Charles, Chester, 4BN 11. Edward, City of Phila (seems to owe him money) 12. Ephraim York (1787 Camp Security) 13. Capt. Ephraim York 1781 14 Ephraim (certificate) 15. Isaac Pvt. Chester 5th BN Capt. Rowland's 4th Co. 16. Isaac Chester 1781 17. Isaac Chester 6th BN 18. Isaac, Pvt. 3rd BN Phila City; called 1778 "lives in Reading" 19. John, Bucks, Capt Pugh's 4th BN ; appeal (of fines?) 20. John, Bucks, New Brittain twp, Col. Wm. Roberts; 4th BN nonattend. fines; fine bk of George Wall sub. Lt. 21. John, Bucks, Col Henry Derrach, 3rd BN, inability of body, muster fines 22. Paul, Chester, 4th BN, appeal bk 23. Thos. Chester, 4th BN appeal 1781 24. Thomas Chester, Capt. Rowland 4th BN, 1780 fines book Although this is not much when one considers the fine, excellent, outstanding !! online collections at the Library of Virginia, and Maryland's slower, but getting-there efforts at the Maryland Archives. However! It is a beginning! We are happy they've started. Love, Your Cousin, Carolyn Carolyn McDaniel cmacdee@centurytel.net ========================================= --- Visit American Crossroads --- http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~amxroads Carolyn McDaniel cmacdee@centurytel.net ========================================= --- Visit American Crossroads --- http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~amxroads