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