Sandra, here is the quote from the Maris website that says there is more info "offline": "The data on my GenCircles and RootsWeb websites is a subset of my off-line genealogy database, limited to 10 generations of non-living descendants of George Maris, their spouses, and spouses' parents. Over 160,000 individuals are included. " http://www.maris.net/gen/index.htm Begin forwarded message: > Resent-From: PA-OLD-CHESTER-L@rootsweb.com > From: Kim Spangrude <kimspangrude@mac.com> > Date: June 28, 2006 11:24:06 AM MDT > To: PA-OLD-CHESTER-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [PaOldC] MARIS Genealogy Home Page > > Would love your off-line info (or online if you have it) on Townsend, > my ancestors, and/or Pearson and Woodward. My woods are thick with > Quakers. > Thanks, Kim Townsend Spangrude > On Jun 27, 2006, at 10:33 PM, Violet Guy wrote: > >> http://www.maris.net/gen/index.htm >> MARIS Genealogy Home Page by Raymond L. Maris. It was last updated >> May 2, 2006 >> >> Violet Moore Guy >> >> >> ==== PA-OLD-CHESTER Mailing List ==== >> Unsubscribing.... To leave PA-old-chester-l, send mail to >> PA-old-chester-l-request@rootsweb.com >> with the single word unsubscribe in the message or subject slot. >> >> NO VIRUS WARNINGS - if you are concerned contact me PERSONALLY >> ferg@ntelos.net >> >> If you have ANY problems, do not send them to the list >> contact me personally....list manager ferg@ntelos.net >> >> ============================== >> Search the US Census Collection. Over 140 million records added in the >> last 12 months. Largest online collection in the world. Learn more: >> http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx >> > > > ==== PA-OLD-CHESTER Mailing List ==== > Unsubscribing..... To leave PA-old-chester-l, send mail to > PA-old-chester-l-request@rootsweb.com with the single word > unsubscribe in the message or subject slot." > > > NO VIRUS WARNINGS - if you are concerned contact me PERSONALLY > ferg@ntelos.net > > Visit the archives for this list to view old postings > http://listsearches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl?list=PA-OLD- > CHESTER > > If you have ANY problems, do not send them to the list > contact me personally....list manager ferg@ntelos.net > > ============================== > Find your ancestors in the Birth, Marriage and Death Records. > New content added every business day. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13964/rd.ashx >

Sandra, my message below WAS sent to the list. That is why the entire list is now reading this, and your message to me (below) to "please" share with the list. When I said I would like the off-line info, I meant any info that the person may have that is not on the web on his website, because, if you had read his message carefully, his website specifically states that he has info that is off-line that may not be on the website. On Jun 28, 2006, at 1:20 PM, Sandra Ferguson wrote: > Please share information with everyone, and not just an > individual...why 'waste' good data giving it to just one person, when > you can post it for use by anyone on the list, and later, too, in the > archives. > I would also suggest you visit the list archives and by the use of > Townsend as your search subject, see what has been posted in the past. > > Sandra > > > " Would love your off-line info (or online if you have it) on > Townsend, my ancestors, and/or Pearson and Woodward. My woods are > thick with Quakers." > > > > -- > No virus found in this outgoing message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.1.394 / Virus Database: 268.9.5/377 - Release Date: > 6/27/2006 > > > ==== PA-OLD-CHESTER Mailing List ==== > Unsubscribing. To leave PA-old-chester-l, send mail to > PA-old-chester-l-request@rootsweb.com > with the single word unsubscribe in the message or subject slot." > > > NO VIRUS WARNINGS - if you are concerned contact me PERSONALLY > ferg@ntelos.net > > Visit the archives for this list to view old postings > http://listsearches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl?list=PA-OLD- > CHESTER > If you have ANY problems, do not send them to the list > contact me personally....list manager ferg@ntelos.net > > ============================== > Jumpstart your genealogy with OneWorldTree. Search not only for > ancestors, but entire generations. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13972/rd.ashx >

http://www.niehs.nih.gov/kids/lyrics/battleof.htm I didn't want to send all the lyrics of The Battle of New Orleans but anyone who wants a fun take on the Battle can go to the above, those of us old enough to remember the hit song <G> don't need to but it is fun to read. eliz

In a message dated 6/28/2006 8:14:51 AM Eastern Standard Time, trobinson42@comcast.net writes: The southern prong was to go up the Mississippi, take New Orleans and paralyze the west. << Well, we fired our cannon til the barrel melted down, so we grabbed an alligator and we fought another round.>> The best laid plans <G> Thanks for this I had forgotten how good Asimov was. Eliz

You'll need to include some given names......can't look folks up without both given and surnames... S. > Does anyone know how I could find out if the Dawson family living in > Edgemont and West Caln was of the Loyalist persuasion during the > Revolutionary War? They may also have been Quakers and thus did not fight > in the War for religious reasons. -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.394 / Virus Database: 268.9.5/377 - Release Date: 6/27/2006

Would love your off-line info (or online if you have it) on Townsend, my ancestors, and/or Pearson and Woodward. My woods are thick with Quakers. Thanks, Kim Townsend Spangrude On Jun 27, 2006, at 10:33 PM, Violet Guy wrote: > http://www.maris.net/gen/index.htm > MARIS Genealogy Home Page by Raymond L. Maris. It was last updated > May 2, 2006 > > Violet Moore Guy > > > ==== PA-OLD-CHESTER Mailing List ==== > Unsubscribing.... To leave PA-old-chester-l, send mail to > PA-old-chester-l-request@rootsweb.com > with the single word unsubscribe in the message or subject slot. > > NO VIRUS WARNINGS - if you are concerned contact me PERSONALLY > ferg@ntelos.net > > If you have ANY problems, do not send them to the list > contact me personally....list manager ferg@ntelos.net > > ============================== > Search the US Census Collection. Over 140 million records added in the > last 12 months. Largest online collection in the world. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx >

Does anyone know how I could find out if the Dawson family living in Edgemont and West Caln was of the Loyalist persuasion during the Revolutionary War? They may also have been Quakers and thus did not fight in the War for religious reasons. Thanks for any help! Natalie ndburrows@verizon.net

Upon receiving the url for the Swarthmore records collection, http://www.swarthmore.edu/Library/friends/search.htm, I went to the site mainly for info on their large George family collection, since I am a descendant of Richard and Jane George who came from Llangerig, Montgomeryshire, Wales in 1708, their daughter Catherine having married Joseph Eavenson. While looking at the other family names in the collection I noted the Prickett/ Prickitt family who lived in the area of Northampton and Southampton townships in Burlington Co., NJ from 1716. I am interested in knowing where this family came from in England. My ancestor Thomas Eavenson (1653-1726) came to Chester Co., PA in 1687 from Acton Parish, Cheshire. He had two sisters, Mary and Sarah. From the old Eavenson Bible he brought with him there is some indication that Mary or Sarah, or both, were married to a Prickett. This is reinforced by the fact that a 1635 seating chart of St. Mary's Chancel, Acton Parish, where the Eavenson family and those associated with them (Woodward,Orton, Davenport, Mainwaring) attended, shows a John Prickett occupying a pew near them. Does anyone know from where in England the Prickett family of Burlington Co., NJ came? Chandler Eavenson

NO REFUGE COULD SAVE : BY DR. ISAAC ASIMOV I was once asked to speak at a luncheon. Taking my life in my hands, I announced I was going to sing our national anthem -- all four stanzas. This was greeted with loud groans. One man closed the door to the kitchen, where the noise of dishes and cutlery was loud and distracting. "Thanks, Herb," I said. "That's all right," he said. "It was at the request of the kitchen staff." I explained the background of the anthem and then sang all four stanzas. Let me tell you, those people had never heard it before -- or had never really listened. I got a standing ovation. But it was not me; it was the anthem. More recently, while conducting a seminar, I told my students the story of the anthem and sang all four stanzas. Again there was a wild ovation and prolonged applause. And again, it was the anthem and not me. So now let me tell you how it came to be written. In 1812, the United States went to war with Great Britain, primarily over freedom of the seas. We were in the right. For two years, we held off the British, even though we were still a rather weak country. Great Britain was in a life and death struggle with Napoleon. In fact, just as the United States declared war, Napoleon marched off to invade Russia. If he won, as everyone expected, he would control Europe, and Great Britain would be isolated. It was no time for her to be involved in an American war. At first, our seamen proved better than the British. After we won a battle on Lake Erie in 1813, the American commander, Oliver Hazard Perry, sent the message, "We have met the enemy and they are ours." However, the weight of the British navy beat down our ships eventually. New England, hard-hit by a tightening blockade, threatened secession. Meanwhile, Napoleon was beaten in Russia and in 1814 was forced to abdicate. Great Britain now turned its attention to the United States, launching a three-pronged attack. The northern prong was to come down Lake Champlain toward New York and seize parts of New England. The southern prong was to go up the Mississippi, take New Orleans and paralyze the west. The central prong was to head for the mid-Atlantic states and then attack Baltimore, the greatest port south of New York. If Baltimore was taken, the nation, which still hugged the Atlantic coast, could be split in two. The fate of the United States, then, rested to a large extent on the success or failure of the central prong. The British reached the American coast, and on August 24, 1814, took Washington, D.C. Then they moved up the Chesapeake Bay toward Baltimore. On September 12, they arrived and found 1,000 men in Fort McHenry, whose guns controlled the harbor. If the British wished to take Baltimore, they would have to take the fort. On one of the British ships was an aged physician, William Beanes, who had been arrested in Maryland and brought along as a prisoner. Francis Scott Key, a lawyer and friend of the physician, had come to the ship to negotiate his release. The British captain was willing, but the two Americans would have to wait. It was now the night of September 13, and the bombardment of Fort McHenry was about to start. As twilight deepened, Key and Beanes saw the American flag flying over Fort McHenry. Through the night, they heard bombs bursting and saw the red glare of rockets. They knew the fort was resisting and the American flag was still flying. But toward morning the bombardment ceased, and a dread silence fell. Either Fort McHenry had surrendered and the British flag flew above it, or the bombardment had failed and the American flag still flew. As dawn began to brighten the eastern sky, Key and Beanes stared out at the fort, trying to see which flag flew over it. He and the physician must have asked each other over and over, "Can you see the flag?" After it was all finished, Key wrote a four stanza poem telling the events of the night. Called "The Defense of Fort McHenry," it was published in newspapers and swept the nation. Someone noted that the words fit an old English tune called, "To Anacreon in Heaven" -- a difficult melody with an uncomfortably large vocal range. For obvious reasons, Key's work became known as "The Star Spangled Banner," and in 1931 Congress declared it the official anthem of the United States. Now that you know the story, here are the words. Presumably, the old doctor is speaking. This is what he asks Key: Oh! say, can you see, by the dawn's early light, What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming? Whose broad stripes and bright stars, through the perilous fight, O'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming? And the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting in air, Gave proof thro' the night that our flag was still there. Oh! say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave, O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave? ("Ramparts," in case you don't know, are the protective walls or other elevations that surround a fort.) The first stanza asks a question. The second gives an answer: On the shore, dimly seen thro' the mist of the deep Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes, What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep. As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses? Now it catches the gleam of the morning's first beam, In full glory reflected, now shines on the stream 'Tis the star-spangled banner. Oh! long may it wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave! "The towering steep" is again, the ramparts. The bombardment has failed, and the British can do nothing more but sail away, their mission a failure. In the third stanza I feel Key allows himself to gloat over the American triumph. In the aftermath of the bombardment, Key probably was in no mood to act otherwise? During World War I when the British were our Staunchest allies, this third stanza was not sung. However, I know it, so here it is: And where is that band who so vauntingly swore That the havoc of war and the battle's confusion A home and a country should leave us no more? Their blood has washed out their foul footstep's pollution. No refuge could save the hireling and slave From the terror of flight, or the gloom of the grave, And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave. (The fourth stanza, a pious hope for the future, should be sung more slowly than the other three and with even deeper feeling): Oh! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand Between their loved homes and the war's desolation, Blest with victory and peace, may the Heaven - rescued land Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation. Then conquer we must, for our cause is just, And this be our motto --"In God is our trust." And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave 'er the land of the free and the home of the brave. I hope you will look at the national anthem with new eyes. Listen to it, the next time you have a chance, with new ears. Pay attention to the words. And don't let them ever take it away ... not even one word of it. AND IT'S SUNG IN ENGLISH!!!

Thank you for this information, is any of this at The David Library on-line to be researched from home ? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mal Humes" <mal3@mal.net> To: <PA-OLD-CHESTER-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, June 27, 2006 6:55 PM Subject: Rev. War Bounty land grants and war era research >I stumbled across The David Library, http://www.dlar.org/, by accident > yesterday and it looks like one of the best places to research Rev. War > era > and French Indian war records, especially bounty land grants. Since we > had > some discussion of bounty grants a while back I wanted to share this. > > Many of the research materials are found at other resources but you'd be > hard pressed to find as comprehensive and specific a library with all > these > records in one place, and they also have commissioned microfilm of many > rare > and otherwise hard to access archives. It's one of few specialized private > history libraries that doesn't charge a daily fee just to use the > facilities. I'd add it to lists of research sites to visit in the greater > Philadelphia area if you have Colonial ancestors. > > "The David Library, a specialized research institution, is open to the > public upon completion of a simple registration form. Admission is free. > The > Library is open Tuesdays through Saturdays, 10 am to 5 pm. It is closed > Sundays, Mondays, and holidays. The Library's street address is 1201 > River > Road, Washington Crossing, PA." (Reservations are recommended to ensure > Microfilm reader access) > ... > "The David Library is primarily a microform archive of approximately > 10,000 > reels that contain an estimated 8 million pages of documentation. The > collection is supported by a reference collection of 40,000 books and > pamphlets in both bound volumes and microcards. Although the main focus is > on the American Revolution, in recent years the library has been > augmenting > its materials on the French and Indian War and the early national periods. > Microfilm holdings currently include over 200 collections from domestic > and > foreign repositories. " > ... > "..containing original American, British, Loyalist, French and German > records. The collections also hold a wealth of material on women, > families, > African Americans, and Indians. Facilities include the research library, a > conference center, and a residence facility for visiting fellows." > > http://www.dlar.org/guide.html details some of the holdings > > > The Bounty Land records include much more than just this below, but this > set > seemed worth mentioning: > > United States. National Archives. Revolutionary War Pension and > Bounty-Land-Warrant Application Files.2670 reels. Accompanied by guide and > Index of Revolutionary War Pension Applications in the National Archives > (Washington, D.C., 1976). Abstracted in Virgil D. White, Genealogical > Abstracts of Revolutionary War Pension Files 4 vols. (Waynesboro, Tenn., > 1990).Contains an estimated 80,000 applications to the Federal government > for survivor's disability and service pensions, widow's pensions, and > bounty-land-warrants. Also includes rejected applications. In addition to > the application, the file may contain supporting documentation: > affidavits, > marriage and family records, property schedules, correspondence, > commissions, discharge papers, muster rolls, diaries, journals, orderly > books, and account books. Originals are in the National Archives. [FILM > 27] > > ______________________________

The finding aids links on this Swarthmore page are where I've found some of the material of most use to some of my family research. Somehow it's easy to miss this and even when I go back I end up poking around the site missing it even when I know it's there. These don't seem to show in the Tripod search, or didn't last time I tried. See: http://www.swarthmore.edu/Library/friends/search.htm From there follow: http://www.swarthmore.edu/Library/friends/rg5.htm and you find a summary of the manuscripts collection. That gives you a summary, but the links from there to finding aids on the individual collections. For example, the Eyre family papers are from a surname I know is of interest to some folks on this list. The summary page of all collections gives some info, but the finding aid offers much more detail: http://www.swarthmore.edu/Library/friends/ead/5179eyre.htm " Background note: Isaac Eyre (1778-1843) was a prominent Philadelphia shipbuilder. In 1801 he married Eleanor Cooper (1778-1851) of Camden, N.J. In 1828, he removed to a farm in Bucks County, Pa. Isaac and Eleanor had ten children, six of whom survived to maturity. William Eyre (1804-1885) was their oldest son, a Philadelphia architect and builder. At the time of his death, he was president of the Carpenters' Company in Philadelphia which owns and maintains Carpenters' Hall. He married Elizabeth Ann Davies of New York in 1827, and they had three children. Late in life he married a second time, to Keziah R. Bunting. His brother, Isaac (1819-1904) remained on the family farm and eventually removed to a farm near Newtown. He was a promoter and builder of the railroad between Philadelphia and Newtown and other rail projects. He was also one of the founders of the George School, Newtown, Pa., and active in Quaker concerns. He corresponded regularly with Isaac Hicks (1815-1900) of Westbury Monthly Meeting. Isaac Hicks established the Hicks Nursery on Long Island, NY, and was a Quaker minister. Scope and content The collection contains extensive correspondence of Isaac Eyre to Isaac Hicks and other prominent Quakers about Quaker interests, farming, and railroad projects; also eighteen diaries of William Eyre (1840-1880 with gaps, microfilmed) and some miscellaneous family material. The letters are useful as a social commentary of Quaker life of the era and mention many prominent Friends. The diaries include information on topical events as well as work related notes." This is exactly the kind of resource that I think gets easily overlooked but holds much promise for solving long hidden mysteries and anecdotal records of our ancestors via their family and friends. It's where you may find the kind of details that didn't make it into books, or that were overlooked by previous researchers who had specific focus when they referenced these archives in the past. I would imagine this would be of interest to some of the Sharpless researchers: "Joshua Sharpless (1746/7-1826) was a Quaker minister, and included in the collection is a journal of a visit to the Indians in 1798." Here's another that seems of interest, covering account records of Malin and Miller families: "John M. George (1802-1887) was a birthright Quaker and member of Radnor Monthly Meeting. The George family came to Pennsylvania from Wales in 1708 and settled in Blockley Township, Pennsylvania. The George family papers include correspondence (1705-1864), other personal papers (1681-1887), business and financial accounts (1734-1887), and estate papers (1714-1883). Of particular note are the estate accounts of many family members and other individuals for whom John M. and Joseph W. George acted as conveyancers and administrators, including Joseph George (1773- 1846 ?), Jesse George (b. 1785), James Malin (d. ca 1859), John Malin Jr. (ca. 1778-1868?), and other members of the Malin family, Miller family, Price family and many others who lived in the Blockley area." Buried in the finding aid are clues pointing to things like a list of marriages in the Roberts family from 1684-1764, wills and deeds of Price, David, Evans and many others that you might easily miss if you didn't browse the finding aid for the George family records. I know someone was looking to identify a particular Price line and I suspect this might help: Price, Elizabeth, Will 1734. Box 2: 90 Price, Hannah, Receipt of distribution from her will 1797 Box 2: 91 Price, John (d. 1792) Book of accounts for his estate 1792-1801 Box 5: 209 Price, John (d. 1792), various papers If you use Google Desktop you can browse all these finding aid pages once and the next time you search on a name in Google Desktop it will find matches in these results. It's a great way to index and keep rare resources like this at your fingertips.

Laura Anderson wrote: > In the 1840 Wood County, Virginia U.S. Census: > William Pennybacker > Hiram Pennybacker > Both men are 30 but under 40, married and have children. > > Do these two match any of our Pennypacker families in Chester Co.? > > Laura There is a William Byrd Pennybacker [1803] with brother Hiram [1805] Wm married Susan Abigail Duncan of Loudoun Co, VA Hiram married Susan Ann Mitchell MANY siblings. [research of Ron Mitchell] The Pennybecker parents are John Pennyb and Phoebe Fugate married 1793 in VA John'a Parents - Dirck Pennybacker and Hannah "Nancy" DeHaven.

You might be interested in these 2-URLs: 1) http://www.swarthmore.edu/Library/friends/ appears to be a brand new one -- Swathmore, Bryn Mawr & Haverford Colleges --TRIPTYCH (new) -- must be an update. 2) http://www.swarthmore.edu/Library/friends/, (from my "favorites"!) Swathmore, Bryn Mahr & Haverford College Libraries -- TRIPOD - I recently found this in looking for the "old Tripod, consortium of Swathmore, Bryn Mawr, & Haverford College Libraries", which I used in about 1998/1999. Violet Moore Guy 06/28/2006

http://www.maris.net/gen/index.htm MARIS Genealogy Home Page by Raymond L. Maris. It was last updated May 2, 2006 Violet Moore Guy

> Aug 22, 1683, Otto Ernest Cock agreed to surrender Tinicum Island to > Arnoldus de la Grange, who claimed title through purchase of the island by > his father, from Armegot Printz. Yes. There's a rather complicated story about how that happened. There had been some question of Armegard's inheritance (back in Sweden with other family members), also some question about the title to Tinicum Island, so the title couldn''t be transferred for some time. Meanwhile Cock had been granted that land by (I think) the English. That boils it down probably further than it should, but details of this are available online. (probably available in my hard drive, which is harder to google lately) <g> > I looked for the name Matiniconk, and can't find it anywhere. Just play with the spelling. Googling | Matiniconck | will bring up a couple of NJ colonial records and will also bring up E. A. Louhi's article: "The Delaware Finns..." The page that comes up also has mention of the Captain John Carr I mentioned earlier. Also, googling | Mattinacunck | will bring results. **Note It's important to determine which Matiniconck is meant in each instance. One was located at Burlington NJ, one may have been farther down along the Delaware coast a ways; one had been the "real" Tinicum at Philadelphia, of which there was also "Little Tinicum." The one at Burlington was owned in part by Henry Jacobs, aka Henry Jacobs Valckenburg, who also owned some land in the lower Delaware (maybe New Castle County, I forget) and at Little Egg Harbor, NJ. The mysterious Peter Jegou also owned part of the island at Burlington. I find the history of the pre-English settlements along the Delaware fascinating. Thanks Liz On 6/27/06, Sandra Ferguson <ferg@ntelos.net> wrote: > I looked for the name Matiniconk, and can't find it anywhere. Did find the > following, though. > Aug 22, 1683, Otto Ernest Cock agreed to surrender Tinicum Island to > Arnoldus de la Grange, who claimed title through purchase of the island by > his father, from Armegot Printz. De la Grange then sold the island on 2 Feb > 1683/4, to Christopher Taylor. > Sandra >

In the 1840 Wood County, Virginia U.S. Census: William Pennybacker Hiram Pennybacker Both men are 30 but under 40, married and have children. Do these two match any of our Pennypacker families in Chester Co.? Laura

I stumbled across The David Library, http://www.dlar.org/, by accident yesterday and it looks like one of the best places to research Rev. War era and French Indian war records, especially bounty land grants. Since we had some discussion of bounty grants a while back I wanted to share this. Many of the research materials are found at other resources but you'd be hard pressed to find as comprehensive and specific a library with all these records in one place, and they also have commissioned microfilm of many rare and otherwise hard to access archives. It's one of few specialized private history libraries that doesn't charge a daily fee just to use the facilities. I'd add it to lists of research sites to visit in the greater Philadelphia area if you have Colonial ancestors. "The David Library, a specialized research institution, is open to the public upon completion of a simple registration form. Admission is free. The Library is open Tuesdays through Saturdays, 10 am to 5 pm. It is closed Sundays, Mondays, and holidays. The Library's street address is 1201 River Road, Washington Crossing, PA." (Reservations are recommended to ensure Microfilm reader access) ... "The David Library is primarily a microform archive of approximately 10,000 reels that contain an estimated 8 million pages of documentation. The collection is supported by a reference collection of 40,000 books and pamphlets in both bound volumes and microcards. Although the main focus is on the American Revolution, in recent years the library has been augmenting its materials on the French and Indian War and the early national periods. Microfilm holdings currently include over 200 collections from domestic and foreign repositories. " ... "..containing original American, British, Loyalist, French and German records. The collections also hold a wealth of material on women, families, African Americans, and Indians. Facilities include the research library, a conference center, and a residence facility for visiting fellows." http://www.dlar.org/guide.html details some of the holdings The Bounty Land records include much more than just this below, but this set seemed worth mentioning: United States. National Archives. Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty-Land-Warrant Application Files.2670 reels. Accompanied by guide and Index of Revolutionary War Pension Applications in the National Archives (Washington, D.C., 1976). Abstracted in Virgil D. White, Genealogical Abstracts of Revolutionary War Pension Files 4 vols. (Waynesboro, Tenn., 1990).Contains an estimated 80,000 applications to the Federal government for survivor's disability and service pensions, widow's pensions, and bounty-land-warrants. Also includes rejected applications. In addition to the application, the file may contain supporting documentation: affidavits, marriage and family records, property schedules, correspondence, commissions, discharge papers, muster rolls, diaries, journals, orderly books, and account books. Originals are in the National Archives. [FILM 27]

Looking for information on the parents of Francis Campbell in Chester County, He is a nephew of Samuel and Margaret Boyd, migrates to York County and dies there in 1752. He is the brother in law of Robert Maxwell who dies in Lancaster County in 1752. Josette Maxwell Boone NC

I don't suppose he could he have been Goran Keen (that would be TOO easy, right?)....who is from the line of Jonas Jurgensson Keen.... J J K was in the Upland militia in 1675........the last reference to him was in march of 1694/5 when the inventory of his estate, under the name of Jonas Skeen was filed...widow was Katherine Skeen, who administered his estate... of the children of Jonas and Catharine Keen, only 3 have been identified - Mans (Mounce), Goran (George) and Catharine. Goran Keen, married Ella Mullica in NOv of 1706, and was described as a widower, aged 64, when he married the widow Margaret Justis, June 8, 1745, suggesting he was born in 1681. S. '' I, too, continue to be interested in my Swedish ancestors, or those who came with the earliest Swedes. I am most interested in Joran KYN, who was actually recruited in Saxony but probably married a Swede in New Sweden. It's hard to find the names of spouses. Any suggestions?'' -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.394 / Virus Database: 268.9.4/375 - Release Date: 6/25/2006

Thank you very much. :) Cathy Parkinson Beatty >From: "Mal Humes" <mal3@mal.net> >To: PA-OLD-CHESTER-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: RE: [PaOldC] Kerr family >Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2006 13:20:36 -0400 > > >Did the name Kerr ever evolve into Kern? > >Yes. I just mentioned this is another post, but I'll include this here: > >Pennsylvania Wills, 1682-1834 > >Page 407. J. Daniel Kerns, at Falls Twp., Pennsbury Manor, August 20, >1814. Proved August 26, 1814. >To be interred at German Lutheran Church, Phila. John Gier, Mayor of >Phila. and Adolph Aaronhoes, exrs. Jacob Lut $100 Anne Jean Newman, >$500. "Everything here and in the South to be divided equally between >my heirs in Europe and America." Blacks in Carolinas to choose their >masters, under their Guardian Reuben Flanagan. "Back Lands to be >settled with I. F. Kerin." Watch at Balie's watch store on 2d St., >Phila., to namesake John D. Kerr at Charlestown. Wits: Thomas Crozer >and Alex. Quinton. (Heirs in Europe were Theodore Lazzani, in right of >his wife and Dorothea Maria Cattarina Lagan). Letters to John Geyer and >Adolph Ehrinhaus. > >I initially thouhgt maybe this was just a curious nod to a friend with a >similar name, but the book on Walter Kerr's descendants seems to list a >chapter on some Kern or Kerns line, which made this all the more memorable >when I saw it. I wasn't really sure what to make of this as this Kerns >seems >likely to be German, but I would look at Kern as an alternate based on the >book reference also. > >Other alterates appear to be Ker, Carr, Karr. > > > >==== PA-OLD-CHESTER Mailing List ==== > Unsubscribing.... To leave PA-old-chester-l, send mail to >PA-old-chester-l-request@rootsweb.com >with the single word unsubscribe in the message or subject slot. > >NO VIRUS WARNINGS - if you are concerned contact me PERSONALLY >ferg@ntelos.net > >If you have ANY problems, do not send them to the list >contact me personally....list manager ferg@ntelos.net > >============================== >New! Family Tree Maker 2005. Build your tree and search for your ancestors >at the same time. Share your tree with family and friends. Learn more: >http://landing.ancestry.com/familytreemaker/2005/tour.aspx?sourceid=14599&targetid=5429 >