I havae included many tax records on the Chester site, mentioned in your Welcome Email....be sure to check those and also the Lookup list. I have looked and the only Benjamin Ford included in the HISTORY OF CHESTER COUNTY PA, by Futhey and Cope is much too late to be the one you're looking for, nor is there a mention of aReiben Ford. (what records for descentents in Chester Co do you have? That would be a help to know where to look). The only Bloomer is Wm, and too late to be of interest, and no one named Vanaman, any spelling I could think of. The early court records of 1696 have a Reuben Ford on a Birmingham twp inquest. When folks were in Chester this early I figure there is a good chance they were Quakers...as there was no PA till the Quaker's arrival in1682, and most early settlers WERE Quakers. I therefor looked in my early Quaker meeting records and see that on 7-4-1694. Reuben Forde and Mary DRUET announced their intentions to marry in the Kennett MM.....Reuben was a member of the Concord meeting. However, they did not marry in the Concord meeting or the Kennett.....you ought to look for The Birmingham records. FORD, PHILIP. Chester.October 23, 1766. November 3, 1766.Executors to sell tract of land on Tinicum Island bought of Thomas Taylor decd. and lotts of land conveyed to me by Joseph Taylor. Proceed div. as follows: To wife Margaret 1/3, also 1/2 personal estate. All remainder of estate real and personal to 5 children, viz.: William, Ann, Benjamin, Jane and Philip, to be equally divided as they attain the age of 21. John Morton guardian for children.Executors: Wife Margaret and John Morton, Esq.Wit: Benjamin Ford, John Taylor, H. H. Graham. FORD, JOHN. Bethel.April 14, 1777. October 11, 1779.Provides for wife Prudence. To oldest son David 5 shillings. To son Isaac that tract of land where he now lives paying to his oldest sister Prudence £100 at 18 and to his sister Jane £40 at 18. To son Philip after my wife's decease, all that old tract of land of 100 acres that was granted me by my father William Ford, except 4 acres which I give to my daughter Jane, also that plantation in Brandywine Hundred which formerly belonged to Benjamin Ford, deceased, paying to his sister Mary £100 at 18. To son John house and land where I now dwell, paying to his sister Sarah £100 at 18 and to his siter Jane £40 at 18. Executrix: Wife Prudence. Wit: John Burnet, William Baldwin.[Annotation states that Jane married Thomas Collins of Brandywine Hundred prior to August 28, 1789, and refers to Deed Book X-300]. (note that in 1777, Benjamin Ford was dead....there is no will for him. Witnessing a will is no indication of a familial relationship....just as likely to be a friend or neighbor. Sandra I am looking for advice about Benjamin Ford, b. circa 1702 to Reuben Ford and Mary Druet Ford. Benjamin lived in the Brandywine hundred and many records are found in New Castle DE. There are some records for descendants in Chester Co. From what I have learned, Benjamin married three times. First wife was Sarah Rawson, the second wife...who I would love to identify ...is entirely unknown and the third wife is only known by "Mary". I don't know if there are Ford descendants on the list, but Benjamin was listed as administrator for two gentlemen, who apparently left no will. One was a James Bloomer, for whom I can find no information and the other was a John Vanaman, whose family appears to have come from Salem Co. NJ. I am wondering if there could possibly have been familial ties to either of these men. Information is very sketchy. I descend from Benjamin's daughter Jane. She has been listed as one of the children from the unknown second wife. She first married ? Williams and then John Golden in New Castle in 1761. Oddly, the Williams name followed her in our family. My grandmother's aunt was named Jane Williams Marley, about 100 years later. Notes indicate that later descendants didn't realize that Jane had been married prior to her marriage to John Golden.