Thank you , Mal - Maybe someday I'll get a chance to get myself out there to all these wonderful places... I appreciate your answer , and information , Sally ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mal Humes" <mal3@mal.net> To: <PA-OLD-CHESTER-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, June 28, 2006 4:56 PM Subject: RE: [PaOldC] Re: Rev. War Bounty land grants and war era research > >Thank you for this information, is any of this at The David Library >>on-line to be researched from home ? > > It's a research facility so it requires visiting. I have not been there > yet. > All that is online at www.dlar.org seems to be some lists of some of the > collection materials. That appears useful in and of itself. I had searched > the web fairly extensively for info on Bounty Grant listings and didn't > find > much in the way of any comprehensive resources. This is the closest I > found > yet to what looks like one library with very specialized records like > this. > > Some of the material online also points to sources - the Bounty Grant > microfilms I cited were from the National Archives (2600+ reels!) but > there's a much broader context of info at the David Library that covers a > lot more than that, and also info on Loyalists, Loyalist grants in Canada > and other things. > > I added it to my list of places in PA I'd like to visit when I get a > chance. > The Historical Society of PA in Philadelphia is another. See their website > at www.hsp.org. > > Then there is the Genealogical Society of PA, also in Philadelphia > (www.genpa.org) which has some useful free databases on their web site > (Conscientious Objectors to the Civil War). Many of the surnames recently > discussed are found in the surname records there pointing to bible records > or other info on file there. > > With most locations like this, and the Chester County Historical Society, > or > the Lancaster County Historical Society which also has great records and > good finding aids online (www.lchs.org), it pays off to use the online > resources as much as possible to organize what you hope to find there so > that you can move quickly once you arrive and orient yourself. > > I spent 5 hours at Lancaster recently and for some reason that day some of > the finding aids I had saved to my own PC on the Slaymaker Family White > Chimney manuscript files simply wouldn't come up on their web site and got > a > broken page. I was able to find it on cached on Google, and on my laptop > PC, > but if I hadn't known it was there in advance I would have missed it that > day. > > That Slaymaker family was among the first to receive land grants in 1710 > with Marie Feree in areas that later became Pequea and later the often > joked > about Amish towns of Intecourse, Blue Ball, Bird in Hand and Paradise. The > White Chimneys files have extensive accounting notes and legal papers. One > of the things it covers is the disputes in the Boyd family where two Boyd > parents died and the brother adminsitered the estate for about 20 years > for > his sisters without formally settling it until his sister Margaret Boyd > and > her husband James Hamilton pressed for their share. I haven't had a chance > to read up on this yet but it's of interest to me because that Hamilton > family of Leacock is in my allied lines, as are the Boyds. It seems to > have > been some scandalous affair that I think also ended up involving land > disputes that passed on a generation or two longer than they should have > because of the wills being settled some 20 years after the death of the > Boyd > parents. > > ______________________________