Thank you, Sandra. I really wish I could make another trip back there soon. I really need to find some good OLD maps and there are lots of deeds to copy. It looks like a little bit more digging may turn up both the location of the Hayes farm my mother remembers visiting as a small child and the farm where her ggg-grandmother Ann [Hayes] Keepers was born. I really went into this because she tried to find the Mordecai/Jacob/J. Carroll Hayes farm two years ago when we were in Chester County and she couldn't find it. I would like to locate it for her as she has fond childhood memories of it. If I can also find her ggg-grandmother's birthplace while I'm researching Hayes property transactions, then all the better. She had given up on that line of research. Thank you to everyone who has responded. Ginni >>> Sandra Ferguson <[email protected]> 7/29/09 4:25 AM >>> I've been looking at wills, in an attempt to discover some that might help, but in several cases there are more than one possibility. I'll include some, but wills aren't necessarily any good in 'location' specific pieces of land....they can be, but no promises. HAYES, JOHN. West Marlborough.August 30, 1762. December 10, 1762.To 4 sons David, William, Jesse, and Abram Hayes all my lands to be divided allowing David 2 shares. Provides for wife Hannah. To eldest daughter Ann £50. To youngest daughter Hannah £50 at 18. Remainder equally divided. Executors: Henry Chalfant and Mordecai Hayes, my brother. Letters to Hayes, the other renouncing.Witnesses: Andrew McCoy, Mary Pusey, William Hayes. David died in 1827 and left no will, but there are adm. papers on file, along with an inventory of his possessions...so, that could will contain more land info...no way to know unless you get a copy of these papers from Archives and Records. This is the earliest area will for a Mordecai Hayes; HAYES, MORDECAI. Newlin.July 5, 1824. August 16, 1824.Provides for wife, who is not named.To son Eli the privileges reserved in the deed I made to him; also two small lots of land as an addition thereto.To son Mordecai, during life, the messuage & remainder of land whereon we now live, which at his death shall descend to his son Jacob, paying to my son Eli $375.Executors: Sons Eli and Mordecai Hayes.Wits: Joshua Speakman, John Speakman. No Jacob Hayes left will or adm papers through 1876. CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This communication with its contents may contain confidential and/or legally privileged information. It is solely for the use of the intended recipient(s). Unauthorized interception, review, use or disclosure is prohibited and may violate applicable laws including the Electronic Communications Privacy Act. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender and destroy all copies of the communication.