A friend has just sent me a wonderful book, published in 1980, absolutely filled with the names of those who made the fabulous things Chester Co is noted for...and included are the dates these artisans practiced their crafts. Ceramics, furniture of many periods, gunsmiths, metal workers of all sorts....brass, silver, gold, pewter, etc, and some more 'personal' things like needlecrafts, oil and watercolor paintings and folk art. are all included. I'll be glad to use this book for lookups, if you send me the full name of the person you're searching for, some sort of date, and what you believe their art of craft to have been. ferg@ntelos.net ( on a whim I once bought, somewhere in New England, a standing clock's brass pendulum....this was before my interest in genealogy and long before I had any idea that my folks were from Chester Co). The pendulum said Nottingham, so for 20 years or so I 'assumed' it was Nottingham, England.....it was only later, when I became interested in genealogy, and the area as a whole, that I recognized the name on my pendulum was B. Chandlee, Nottingham..... Chester township in PA, NOT the town in England....... Benjamin made his fabulous clocks from 1718 to 1740, and what a 'coincidence' for me to have bought that pendulum...(cue spooky music!!). S. Jane....please put this book on the lookup list on the Chester Co site, too; the author is Margaret B. Schiffer