Carol Do you have any information on Hannah Buffington who was the first wife of Benjamin Smedley?He is #47 in the Thomas file.It says that nothing is known of her. Lew ----- Original Message ----- From: "Carol Thompson" <ctgd@mac.com> To: <PA-OLD-CHESTER-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, April 15, 2006 8:39 AM Subject: Re: [PaOldC] Constables.....1702/3 > Thanks for the list. Richard Buffington is an ancestor of mine.He was > born May 30, 1655, Great Marle upon the Thames, > Buckinghamshire, England, and died January 10, 1747 in Chester Co., PA. > He emigrated in 1676 on ship "Griffith," first to West Jersey and later to > Chester Co. > He married (1) ANN PARSONS?. She was born 1652 in (near) Great > Marle upon the Thames, Buckinghamshire, England, and died Bef. 1700 in > Chester Co., PA. >> from early court records; >> >> Chester......Wm Lucas >> Middletown......John Turner >> Ashtown......Thomas Duton >> Chichester......Robert Langum >> Bethel.......John Garratt >> Upper Providence........Thos Jones >> L. Providence........Jos. Sharpless >> Ridley......John Orion >> Springfield........Isaac Taylor >> Marple......Edwd Dawes >> Concord......Robert Chamberlin >> Thornbury.......Jacob Vernon >> Birmingham........Daniel Davis >> Wet town.....Richard Buffingtron >> Edgmont......Joseph Pennell >> Newtown.....Jno Finsher >> Radner........Hugh Williams >> Hartford.......Thos Reese >> Darby........Wm Cook >> > > > > ==== 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 > > please visit the Chester Co rootsweb site...it is full of area photos, > helpful URLs and lots of county information > http://www.pa-roots.com/~chester/ > > 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 > > ============================== > View and search Historical Newspapers. Read about your ancestors, find > marriage announcements and more. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13969/rd.ashx >

I seem to remember that in the past you posted a good bit of data on this family......and, there have been many other submissions that contained the name. So, anyone interested in the Buffingtons needs to visit the list archives and see what's been posted in the past. I'm including the URL for the site with a search engine. http://listsearches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl?list=PA-OLD-CHESTER S, " Thanks for the list. Richard Buffington is an ancestor of mine.He was born May 30, 1655, ..........." -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.385 / Virus Database: 268.4.0/306 - Release Date: 4/9/2006

Thanks for the list. Richard Buffington is an ancestor of mine.He was born May 30, 1655, Great Marle upon the Thames, Buckinghamshire, England, and died January 10, 1747 in Chester Co., PA. He emigrated in 1676 on ship "Griffith," first to West Jersey and later to Chester Co. He married (1) ANN PARSONS?.  She was born 1652 in (near) Great Marle upon the Thames, Buckinghamshire, England, and died Bef. 1700 in Chester Co., PA.  > from early court records; > > Chester......Wm Lucas > Middletown......John Turner > Ashtown......Thomas Duton > Chichester......Robert Langum > Bethel.......John Garratt > Upper Providence........Thos Jones > L. Providence........Jos. Sharpless > Ridley......John Orion > Springfield........Isaac Taylor > Marple......Edwd Dawes > Concord......Robert Chamberlin > Thornbury.......Jacob Vernon > Birmingham........Daniel Davis > Wet town.....Richard Buffingtron > Edgmont......Joseph Pennell > Newtown.....Jno Finsher > Radner........Hugh Williams > Hartford.......Thos Reese > Darby........Wm Cook >

A bit of Easter trivia from our German ancestors! Sandra In the early 1700s, the Pennsylvania "Dutch" began dying Easter eggs as they had in the Old World, and are credited with starting this practice in America . The oval shape of the egg was the same shape for a raindrop and a seed, and both these were symbolic of important life-giving elements. The egg itself promises new life as in spring, birds, and many other animals are hatched from eggs. The eggs were often dyed bright colors, to represent the colors of spring, from blooming flowers to the bright sun. According to an old German story, a poor woman hid some brightly colored eggs in her garden as Easter treats for children. While the children were searching, a hare hopped past. The children thought that the hare had left the eggs. So every Easter, German children would make nests of leaves and branches in their gardens for the hare, and this custom came to Pennsylvania with the German settlers. The hare became a rabbit because there were more rabbits in the United States, and today it is called the Easter bunny. Non-German Christians ignored the rabbit till some time after the Civil War, when the celebration of Easter became more widespread. -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.385 / Virus Database: 268.4.0/306 - Release Date: 4/9/2006

from early court records; Chester......Wm Lucas Middletown......John Turner Ashtown......Thomas Duton Chichester......Robert Langum Bethel.......John Garratt Upper Providence........Thos Jones L. Providence........Jos. Sharpless Ridley......John Orion Springfield........Isaac Taylor Marple......Edwd Dawes Concord......Robert Chamberlin Thornbury.......Jacob Vernon Birmingham........Daniel Davis Wet town.....Richard Buffingtron Edgmont......Joseph Pennell Newtown.....Jno Finsher Radner........Hugh Williams Hartford.......Thos Reese Darby........Wm Cook -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.385 / Virus Database: 268.4.0/306 - Release Date: 4/9/2006

Hi Anna, Thank you very much for the offer to go to Santa Clara. I really appreciate that. I sent an email to the library there yesterday and haven't heard back yet what their policy is to send me those copies. I will keep you all posted. Thank you, Laura

This is more info on accessing Pa online......thanks, Fran. S. Here is the site for Pennsylvania Online Web Educational Resource ( POWER) Library for more information. http://www.accesspa.state.pa.us It is only available to those with accesspa libraries. You just need a library card to one local library with access. Library cards are relatively inexpensive for most places. With my library card ID I can search the database and through my library request a loan of ...whatever book that may be available from one or more libraries across the state,and access to what may be only regionally held information. -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.385 / Virus Database: 268.4.0/306 - Release Date: 4/9/2006

from a lookup in 1765 Chester County Archives; Peregrin, David, listed as a freeman in Charlestown (here's another, probably a different name spelling) Pergran, Thomas owned 250 acres in Charlestown -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.385 / Virus Database: 268.4.0/306 - Release Date: 4/9/2006

from a lookup in Early Court Records...1697-1710; "John Cloud brought a boy whose name is Andrew Norvill who was adjudged to be 15 years of age and to sarve 6 years and a halfe from the 14th day Sept last past if he be taught to reade or to right or else to sarve but 6 years from said time." -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.385 / Virus Database: 268.4.0/306 - Release Date: 4/9/2006

I have a copy of that Abington MM 7D 9M 1689 where Isaac Taylor and Sarah Brodwell were married and listed as witness are James Pratt and Mary Pratt. But never found the Yeamans/Mary marriage. Thanks for your response> Allan Gillingham ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mal Humes" <mal3@mal.net> To: <PA-OLD-CHESTER-L@rootsweb.com> Cc: "'gillinghamgeneology'" <gillinghamgeneology@cox.net> Sent: Friday, April 14, 2006 2:04 AM Subject: RE: [PaOldC] Yeamans Gillingham/Mary Brodwell I don't have an answer regarding the marriage you're looking for, but I can offer a few suggestions on where to look for more clues. One is a Taylor/Broadwell marriage in 1689 that appears to be the sister of your Mary. Try the list archives, especially with the name Broadwell instead of Brodwell and in the years 2002 and 2005. There is a marriage of an Isaac Taylor of Delaware Co. m. 9-14-1689, Sarah Broadwell, d. 9-14-1748. And there's references in the 2005 archives to your Mary Broadwell having married a Wyatt, noting: Mary Broadwell, the daughter of Richard and Mary, was born 10 December 1767 in Gloucestershire, England. She married twice. 1-4th day 9th mo (November) 1689 to James Wyatt of Philadelphia. 2-Yeoman Gillingham, deceased before Mary Broadwell wrote her will on 8 January 1727/28 . I suspect that Wyatt and Pratt could be the same record misread in transcription but the dates don't seem to match. You could also be looking at more than one Mary Broadwell since we see many marriages and some dates very close that don't match. There is another Broadwell family in the NJ area that appears to have immigrated earlier and has a Mary and a Richard. See http://www.richmondancestry.org/broadwell/wmbroadwell.shtml There is a Taylor surname mentioned in these pages, and a Mary Broadwell widow of William. It seems close enough in date and location to look a little further. http://www.richmondancestry.org/broadwell/wmbroadwell.shtml Unfortunately it seems many of the early meeting records may have occurred from Quaker Meetings in homes and records may be non-existant. I see some other Gillinghams later appear in Falls MM records in mid 1700's. The earliest records there appear to be circa 1703 in that list of marriages. I'd also try asking on the Quaker Roots list if you haven't already as there are some folks there with a pretty good idea of what records exist and where to find them.

I don't have an answer regarding the marriage you're looking for, but I can offer a few suggestions on where to look for more clues. One is a Taylor/Broadwell marriage in 1689 that appears to be the sister of your Mary. Try the list archives, especially with the name Broadwell instead of Brodwell and in the years 2002 and 2005. There is a marriage of an Isaac Taylor of Delaware Co. m. 9-14-1689, Sarah Broadwell, d. 9-14-1748. And there's references in the 2005 archives to your Mary Broadwell having married a Wyatt, noting: Mary Broadwell, the daughter of Richard and Mary, was born 10 December 1767 in Gloucestershire, England. She married twice. 1-4th day 9th mo (November) 1689 to James Wyatt of Philadelphia. 2-Yeoman Gillingham, deceased before Mary Broadwell wrote her will on 8 January 1727/28 . I suspect that Wyatt and Pratt could be the same record misread in transcription but the dates don't seem to match. You could also be looking at more than one Mary Broadwell since we see many marriages and some dates very close that don't match. There is another Broadwell family in the NJ area that appears to have immigrated earlier and has a Mary and a Richard. See http://www.richmondancestry.org/broadwell/wmbroadwell.shtml There is a Taylor surname mentioned in these pages, and a Mary Broadwell widow of William. It seems close enough in date and location to look a little further. http://www.richmondancestry.org/broadwell/wmbroadwell.shtml Unfortunately it seems many of the early meeting records may have occurred from Quaker Meetings in homes and records may be non-existant. I see some other Gillinghams later appear in Falls MM records in mid 1700's. The earliest records there appear to be circa 1703 in that list of marriages. I'd also try asking on the Quaker Roots list if you haven't already as there are some folks there with a pretty good idea of what records exist and where to find them.

the Santa Clara County Historical &Genealogical Society houses its library within the county library; it's a 45 minute each way drive for me -- but, if it would just stop raining, I'd be happy to make the trip and make copies for you -for copy cost plus gas which is pushing extremely close to $3/gallon here They have: Pennsylvania Traveler Post Vol. 15 - Vol. 18, 1977 - 1982 Anna B. > [Original Message] > From: Sandra Ferguson <ferg@ntelos.net> > To: <PA-OLD-CHESTER-L@rootsweb.com> > Date: 4/13/06 10:43:32 AM > Subject: Re: [PaOldC] "Pennsylvania Traveler-Post" as a resource > > I did a google and found this location that has the volumes you seek...., a > library in Ca...(there may well be other, better ones....) . > http://www.rootsweb.com/~cascchgs/main/united_states.html#PENNSYLVANIA > I didn't go further, but you might want to explore the possibility of > having copies of articles made and sent to you. > S. > > > " Does anyone have access to the "Pennsylvania Traveler-Post"? I found > the following articles about the Andersons listed there. I'd be > interested paying for copies, if possible." > > > > -- > No virus found in this outgoing message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.1.385 / Virus Database: 268.4.0/306 - Release Date: 4/9/2006 > > ______________________________

I spent this past Monday in the Chester County Archives and driving around Avondale and Kennett Square, and located the William Miller house on Ellicott Road. I took a few nice photos of the house, and if anyone is interested in seeing them -- please email me. Still no definitive identification of any remaining home of James Lindley (d. 1726) in London Grove Twp and New Garden Twp, though the two I found last fall are still likely suspects. James Lindley's London Grove Twp plantation was originally 400 acres, and adjoined Mary Miller's plantation (Mary Ignew Miller was the mother of the above William Miller, and wife of John Miller of Ireland). Anyone with info on the exact location of the Lindley plantation boundaries (one in each township), please contact me! Eleanor Rayl Mal Humes wrote: <<Avondale was named after John and Mary Miller's farm and various Avondale sites suggest William and Ann Emlen as from that line: http://www.avondaleboro.net/history.htm "As Avondale is part of two townships, we are also at the juncture of four major land holdings whose buildings stand today to mark the centers of those farm industries. In the south was the property of John and Mary Miller whose descendants hold portions of this property at the present time. A part of the tract held by William Miller, John and Mary's son, was called "Avondale Farms" and gave the developing village its name. Mary Miller, after John's death, purchased a parcel of land in adjoining London Grove which extended her western boundary and gave control of water power for the family milling industry. To the northeast was the Joseph Sharp property of which the bounty of its fruit trees gives introduction to the grace and beauty of its manor house.">>

This may be a little long. All the early Gillingham Geneology books had Yeamans Gillingham married to Mary Taylor. He was in fact married to Mary Brodwell the daughter of Mary Freeman Brodwell. This is proven by looking at the book "Descendants of Robert Taylor" and the will of Mary Freeman Brodwell in that book. Here is what I am still searching for: A Quaker researcher turned up a MM that shows that Mary Brodwell married a James Pratt prior to marrying Yeamans. The first document Philadelphia MM 30D 6M 1689, James Pratt ask for permission to marry. The second document Abington MM 8D 8M 1689 James Pratt asks for permission to marry Mary Brodwell and the third document Abington MM 7D 9M 1689 they are married. I am assuming that James Pratt died and Mary Brodwell Pratt then married Yeamans. I have never been able to find a Monthly Meeting notice of that marriage. I would assume she would have been identified as widow Mary Pratt. The first record of Yeamans is from a Middletown MM where he was a witness to a marriage 12D 9M 1690. Yeamans and Mary's first child Ann ( b. May 1694) and all the old books say she was born Oxford TWP, Adams. So I am hopeful that someone might have found the information on Yeamans and Mary's marriage at a Quaker MM. Any help appreciated. Allan Gillingham

This came from a kind list member..... "thanks" S. "Many Pennsylvania libraries are now connected by the PAAccess system. Through your library card you can request a interlibrary loan or perhaps photo copies. You can search to find which libraries in PA have access to the documents you want and either visit it or request them sent to your regional library. It has worked for me. Your library must have a connection and you use your bar code as an ID." -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.385 / Virus Database: 268.4.0/306 - Release Date: 4/9/2006

I did a google and found this location that has the volumes you seek...., a library in Ca...(there may well be other, better ones....) . http://www.rootsweb.com/~cascchgs/main/united_states.html#PENNSYLVANIA I didn't go further, but you might want to explore the possibility of having copies of articles made and sent to you. S. " Does anyone have access to the "Pennsylvania Traveler-Post"? I found the following articles about the Andersons listed there. I'd be interested paying for copies, if possible." -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.385 / Virus Database: 268.4.0/306 - Release Date: 4/9/2006

Handwriting back then makes our work that much more difficult because in order to find something you have to try variables on the spelling. Example one of my surnames is Crosnoe. I've seen it Crosno, Crossno, Crossnoe, Crossnow, Crossnour.... and in one instance Crophnow all because of the double SS http://www.usgennet.org/family/smoot/oldhand/ especially check out this link within the above http://www.usgennet.org/family/smoot/oldhand/long-s.html This is the Long "S" a.k.a. the Leading "S" ----- Original Message ----- From: "E Johnson" <iris.gates@gmail.com> To: <PA-OLD-CHESTER-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, April 12, 2006 11:57 AM Subject: [PaOldC] Re: old records > > Our courthouse burned theirs, after they 'transcribed' them to computers! > > I wish they wouldn't do that. > > Records need to be filmed, not just transcribed. Only transcribing > them before destroying the originals allows too much chance for error. > > I often find myself wishing that I could see the original record, on > the chance the transcription was in error. I've seen enough > 400-year-old handwriting to know how easy it is to misinterpret some > of the words or letters. > > If records are filmed, it means we still virtually have the primary > document. If they're only transcribed, we've lost that advantage. > > Liz J > > > ==== 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." > > If you have ANY problems, do not send them to the list > contact me personally....list manager ferg@ntelos.net > > NO VIRUS WARNINGS...contact me personally ferg@ntelos.net if posted you will be unsubscribed > > please visit the Chester Co rootsweb site...it is full of area photos, helpful URLs and lots of county information > http://www.pa-roots.com/~chester/ > > ============================== > 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 have access to the "Pennsylvania Traveler-Post"? I found the following articles about the Andersons listed there. I'd be interested paying for copies, if possible. 1. Anderson family cem., Chester co., PA Pennsylvania Traveler-post . Newtown, PA: Feb 1979. Vol. 15 Iss. 2 2. Anderson marriages, Philadelphia, PA Pennsylvania Traveler-post . Newtown, PA: Feb 1979. Vol. 15 Iss. 2   

Is anyone researching VANDERSLICE? I am looking for ancestors of John VANDERSLICE, Jr. and wife Elizabeth CUSTER, dau of Nicholas CUSTER, who are buried in Morris Cemetery. When I was in Chester Co last summer at Morris Cemetery, I took a picture of their stones because they were so beautiful. They are posted on the tombstone images section of the Chester Co genweb archive board. Little did I know that a granddaughter of theirs would have ties to my SAVAGE and BOYER and BERRY lines! A younger sister of my gr3grandfather (Zenas Savage) Sarah SAVAGE (1800-1887) m Nicholas BOYER (1798-1876), Phoenixville. Their dau Eliza Ann BOYER (1838-1923) m John BERRY, also of Phoenixville. And their dau Mary Elizabeth BERRY(1860 - ?) m Horace F VANDERSLICE (1857 - ?), grandson of John and Elizabeth thru their son Englebert VANDERSLICE ( c1828-1891) and Mary S MOSES (c1835-?). 1850 Census, Phoenixville Chester Co PA John Vanderslice, age 48, PA, farmer Elizabeth, age 46, PA Englebert age 21, PA student, resources $12,000. ????? An inheritance? Addison, age 19, PA, school Anjilina age 16, PA, school Nehemiah, age 12, PA, school John A. age 9, PA school Mary E age 6 PA, school Mary Ann Grubb age 22, PA According to a BIO in Futhery and Copes, John was a son of a John VANDERSLICE of Pikeland: Futhey and Cope, History of Chester County, 1881. pp.725-782. BIOGRAPHICAL AND GENEALOGICAL (F). VANDERSLICE, JOHN, a retired merchant, was born two and a half miles from Phoenixville, Pa., May 27, 1801. His father, also named John, was a prominent and prosperous farmer in Pikeland township, of which he was an early settler, and where his son, the subject of this notice, passed his youth and received his education. In 1826, after his marriage, for four years he worked on his father's farm upon shares. Two years subsequently he was engaged in butchering, after which he purchased a farm of eighty acres, for three thousand dollars, near Kimberton. During the ensuing seven years he cut some twelve hundred dollars' worth of wood upon this land, and disposed of most of the tract for nine thousand four hundred dollars, reserving about one acre, upon which he erected a house, which was his home but a short time, for nine months later he sold it for fifteen hundred dollars. He then purchased a seventy-five-acre farm in Phoenixville. In January, 1840, he established his home upon! this land,- a piece of real estate which eventually realized him a fortune, inasmuch as one-half of Phoenixville has been built upon the lots sold by him since 1840. He erected upon these lots one hundred and twenty houses, thereby greatly advancing the growth and prosperity of the place. He now owns twenty-six houses, also built by himself, and which he leases to tenants. In looking for his father and at the early census, I find John Vanderslice in Pikeland in 1800 and 1810 with a bunch of children: 1810 Census Pikeland, Chester Co PA John Vanderslice 4 males under 10, 1 male 10-15, 1 male 16-25, 1 male 45 and over 1 fem under 10, 1 fem 10-15, 3 females 16-25, 1 fem 26-44 Based on his age, he was born bef 1765, and wife bet. 1766-1784. In 1800 Census in Pikeland, Chester Co his age is bet 1756-1774 John Vanderslice | 1 0 1 1 0 | 4 0 0 1 0 So narrowing down this John - his age is bet 1756-1764. There are several VANDERSLICE families that were in Montgomery Co PA. One includes a John Vanderslice b 7/16/1764 who married an Elizabeth CUSTER of a different CUSTER lineage. BUT .........there is a will for Rebecca VANDERSLICE, Pikeland, dated 1/15/1821, with court dates of 5/3/1821 and 9/11/1821. Her will states: to my son John all my household goods. To dau Hannah RAUN all wearing apparel. To son William, $2.65. Also to son John, my messuage and tenement in Trappe Village, Montgomery Co. Exec: - no letters granted. Wits: James BODLEY, Robert HUGHES and William BAUM. Also a John VANDERSLICE was admin for the estate of John McWILLIAMS, Pikeland on 5/9/1825. Does anyone know if this Rebecca could be the widow of John Sr and mother of John Jr buried at Morris Cem.? Unfortunately, the Vanderslice Genealogy book, does not contain information on the Pikeland, Chester co Vanderslice line. Does anyone have a Rebecca, widow of a VANDERSLICE? Thanks Diana in AL