Glad to have you and your husband back home, Sandra! We will all keep prayers for quick recovery in our hearts for your husband. I am reading about my Moore family this morning, and as part of my studies I am trying to look at old saved e-mails, maps, websites. I found Sandra's e-mail from Dec to be very helpful. I looked up the early PA counties and that the counties are formed in 1682....and there are only three counties: Chester, Philadelphia, and Bucks. Since Sandra was kind enough to offer a bit of help I thought that I would ask a few "newbie" kinds of questions this morning. My Moore family was in Radnor Township and then in Merion Township in the years before and after 1700. Is this Chester or Philadelphia? And does anyone have URLS for particularly good early maps that show these areas? I spent some time looking and will get back to it after lunch, but I was just hoping someone had wonderful maps already bookmarked. marsha moses On Dec 31, 2011, at 9:20 PM, Sandra Ferguson wrote: > I wasn't referring to just Chester Co, but to Pa as a whole. Germantown > was established the year AFTER Penn's arrival, in 1682.... there WAS no Pa > before William Penn received the land from the King of England and > established all of PA as a Quaker commonwealth. As I said earlier, the > Swedes established their colony called New Sweden, and were there before > the Quakers, by around 40 years if memory serves, but they lived only along > the Delaware River, which they used as their 'road'...a heck of a lot easier > to travel this way than fight the mud, etc. So, they had few roads and > settled up and down the river rather than further away from it. > Philadelphia was established by Penn after his arrival in 1682....it had > originally been Swedish.... and Germantown, the first Mennonite settlement > was just a few miles away from Philly, in around 1683. > .... > Sandra