Sharon, >From your description of the property, I'd say it was pretty close to a place called Old Mill Race Wines. Paste this into Google Maps: Old Mill Race Wines, 1439 Clover Mill Rd, Chester Springs, PA 19425 This business would have had some reason for choosing this name, and the Pickering Creek is not far north of their location. Their "Olde Mill Race" could well be the mill race on the property you seek. I suggest further that you see if Chester County deeds are online, or maybe you already have the metes and bounds of the property. Read this carefully for some definitive boundary feature that can be located on a current map. There might be a clue in this property description, or that of a neighboring property owner, that would exactly locate your property. If you zoom out to about halfway on the Google map in "Map View", you can see some faint gray lines. These are the outlines of the current properties. If you were to use one of the free deed plotting software programs, you could plot your deed to get the shape of the property and compare it with those you can see on the Google map. It's not easy, but I have done this sort of thing with properties in Lancaster County. Email me directly if you wish further advice. Bruce Fosnocht ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sharon Kleinstuber" <snkgenealogy@hotmail.com> To: <smedley.george@att.net>; "mailing list Chester County" <pacheste@rootsweb.com>; "Chester County old" <pa-old-chester@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, February 23, 2013 10:06 AM Subject: Re: [PaOldC] Mosesville > > Thank you George. My grandfather, Harry A. Schmehl (1896-1959), purchased > property in 1918 in "Mosesville, West Pikeland Twp., Chester Co., PA" from > William W. McKinley & wife Mary. This property contained 3 acres, 112 > perches & included "messauges, tenements, store house, wheelwright, & > blacksmith shop". It also included the "right & privilege of the full > enjoyment of the water of Pickering Creek by means of the dam & the mill > race on the land". The deed says this property, owned by McKinley, was > purchased from United Graphite Co., who purchased it from Moses Moses, who > purchased it from Daniel Pennypacker. It also says it was formerly lots 1 > & 2 of the real estate of Harman Pennypacker, deceased. I am somewhat > familiar with West Pikeland Twp., but had not heard of Mosesville. I am > trying to figure out approximately where this property my grandfather once > owned is located. Sharon snkgenealogy@hotmail.com > > From: smedley.george@att.net >> To: snkgenealogy@hotmail.com; pacheste@rootsweb.com; >> pa-old-chester@rootsweb.com >> Subject: Re: [PaOldC] Mosesville >> Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2013 14:13:08 +0000 >> >> It was an actual place >> #2198 ESTHER ANN KING (Hannah,Edith,Esther,Sarah,George),b.Thornton,3- >> 22-1821;m.Goshen Twp.,1840,Nathan Pennypacker,b.West Pikeland Twp.,5- >> 25-1817;d.10-4-1877;buried Lionville Lutheran Cemetery;son of Harmon >> Pennypacker and Anna Showalter,of West Pikeland.He learned the milling >> business and carried on the mill at Mosesville,Chester Co.,a few years; >> then >> bought his father's farm,but afterward sold this to his mother and >> purchased >> one in Upper Uwchlan.His death occurred in a railroad disaster,on the >> Pickering Valley R.R.,when returning from a large gathering of the >> Pennypacker family.His widow's address,Anselma,Pa >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Sharon Kleinstuber" <snkgenealogy@hotmail.com> >> To: "mailing list Chester County" <pacheste@rootsweb.com>; "Chester >> County >> old" <pa-old-chester@rootsweb.com> >> Sent: Friday, February 22, 2013 23:46 PM >> Subject: [PaOldC] Mosesville >> >> >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > Can anyone tell me exactly were Mosesville was located in West Pikeland >> > Twp., Chester Co., PA? >> > >> > ------------------------------- >> > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> > PA-OLD-CHESTER-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without >> > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > PA-OLD-CHESTER-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message