Wow...Salt Lake has the PA Archive Series on microfilm... Before William Penn (–1682) In the period before the grant to William Penn, Sweden, The Netherlands, and England established settlements along the Delaware River in what is now Chester County, Pennsylvania, and the state of Delaware (called the three lower counties). Land and other records for this area may be in the archives of these countries and in New York (see the New York research outline). Delaware had its own colonial government after 1701 and became a state in 1776. Some records for this time period are in Pennsylvania Archives, series 2. vol. 5 and vol. 7 pp. 485-873. ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com