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 >

Graphite mines?? Look for Mosesville on Horseshoe Trail Road where it crosses 113, the Graphite mines are south of 113. There were many hits for Mosesville in the 1861census when I went looking but I couldn't find the online Gazetteers at Ancestry - the old landowners maps from 1873 and 188?. GNIS didn't have Mosesville Eliz On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 10:06 AM, Sharon Kleinstuber <snkgenealogy@hotmail.com> wrote: > > 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 -- Eliz Not Today and Not without a Fight (unknown to me) For all that has been, thanks. For all that will be, yes. (Dag Hammarskjold)