I have meant for a couple days to add to the PENNYPACKER info... Thanks to all for adding their info and the will extracts. I appreciate it. Matthias PENNYPACKER (I have seen it originally as PENNEBAKER) who married Mary KUSTER, had a son Matthias, mentioned in the will. The Matthias Jr. was married to Sarah ANDERSON, great-granddaughter of James Anderson and Elizabeth Jerman, granddaughter of Capt. Patrick Anderson & Ann BEATON, daughter of Lt. Isaac Anderson and Mary LANE. I don't have the marriage date for Sarah Anderson and Matthias Pennypacker, Jr. If anyone has that, I'd really like to be able to document it. Interestingly, the Pennypacker children of Matthias Jr. and Sarah Anderson were: James Anderson Pennypacker, 1808-1857 Mary Ann Pennypacker, 1810-1887 Isaac Anderson Pennypacker, 1812-1856 Washington Pennypacker, 1814-1867 Mathias Pennypacker (I I I), 1819-1899 Also, in 1777 when the home & mill of Matthias Sr. were ransacked and destroyed, so was the land and home of Capt. Patrick Anderson. As I have studied the Andersons' movement into the Cumberland Valley, Fort Cumberland and later Washington Co., PA, then down the Ohio River to Fort Belleville in Wood Co. (now WV) I have seen the Pennypacker and Pennybacker names several times. I haven't been able to make the connections yet as to who went & when, but I do think the Pennypackers of Chester moved to several of the same places as my Andersons. If anyone has info, I'd love to share what I have and learn more. Happy hunting, Laura > PENNYPACKER, MATHIAS. Charlestown. > August 21, 1807: February 29, 1808. > Provides for wife Mary according to terms of marriage contract dated > 18th April 1796, and deposited in hands of our friend David > Longenecker > of Montgomery County. > To son James all my land in Upper Providence Township, Montgomery > County, containing 144 acres, 93 perches, subject to payment of £15 > per > acre; also certain lotts of woodland. > To son Joseph tract of land, described, containing 136 acres, subject > to payment of £15 per acre; also 2 tracts of woodland in Charlestown, > containing 28 acres 94 perches. > To son Mathias plantation on which I live, with mills &c., as > described, > containing 72-1/2 acres; also part of a tract purchased of John > Steinmetz, containing 20 acres 120 perches, & 2/3 of a tract of > woodland, at a valuation of £3000. > from Futhey and Cope, Hx of Chester co: > Matthias, born Oct. 14, 1742, died Feb. 13, 1808, was a wealthy > farmer and miller, and a bishop in the Mennonite Church. He was the > first preacher in the old church at Phoenixville, and used the > German, English, and Dutch languages. While the army was at Valley > Forge a number of officers were quartered at his house, and in 1777 > the British committed a great deal of destruction at his mill. In > 1784 he was appointed by the Assembly one of the commissioners to > provide for the navigation of the river Schuylkill, and in 1793, > when Philadelphia was ravaged by the yellow fever, he sent $240 for > the relief of the poor in that city.