Marj, Thanks for the info. I think you may be right about more than one Blue Ball Inn. In fact there may have been three or four. I wonder if we can find out about that. Blue Ball Road in Cecil County MD could have originally lead to one. Was there ever a place called Blue Ball, PA? The John Rudolph who was said to have been owner (or maybe it was Innkeeper?) at one time, was called "John of Darby" in family notes, so one would think that THAT Blue Ball Inn was somewhere near DARBY Pa, wouldn't one? Also mentioned in some family notes is "Chester Road." Carole In a message dated 9/1/00 11:38:16 PM Eastern Daylight Time, PACHESTE-D-request@rootsweb.com writes: << "marjw" <marjw@pamlico.net> To: PACHESTE-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <000101c01437$6735a6a0$a366f5cd@pamlico.net> Subject: [PACHESTE] BLUE BALL INN Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit There must have been more than one Blue Ball Inn. The one at Daylesford, E. of Paoli, is still standing, is a lovely home, and has been there since early days. I have a copy of Brief of Title to the Ball Farm which included the Inn. Also, recent photos of the Inn. It is on Russell Road, Tredyffrin Twp, just behind Daylesford Station on the Paoli Local, not far West of Irish Road and Conestoga High School. Picture and details available if anyone wants them.