I know that there were English settlers in what was then West Jersey around the area that became Burlington Co. just on the other side of the river from Chester Co. PA as early as 1684 when one of my ancestors settled there. These settlers bought their land from the West Jersey Proprietors while still in England and then came over to claim their land. My ancestor bought his in 1682 and came over in 1684. Some of these folks may have eventually crossed the river to settle in PA. However, I had Dutch ancestors who came to the Delaware River area and settled in what became Chester Co. PA as well as in New Jersey as early as 1641.... and I had Swedish ancestors who also came to the Gloucester Co. area of NJ much earlier than even Wm Penn.s settlements around the same time period of 1640s. In fact it was the Swedes who showed Wm. Penn how to build a log cabin which was a Swedish structure. Susan Avery On Wed, 24 Jan 2007 15:14:46 EST CGarr34@aol.com writes: > Can anyone offer any insight in my question regarding early (1680's) > > inhabitants of Chester Co. Pa... > > While browsing my Delaware Co. CD, I become aware that along with > the > English that came at the same time as Wm Penn, some other early > English came over > from the Jersey side of the Delaware River to inhabit Chester Co. > My question > is: what were they doing over there? Did they come with the Dutch? > How early > did they go there? Any comments? > > Thanks > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > PACHESTE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > >

>...In fact it was the Swedes who showed Wm. Penn how to build a log cabin which was a Swedish structure... To be more precise, the log cabin was introduced by the *Finns* who were a demographic subgroup of the Swedes. (What is now the country of Finland was then a duchy of the Kingdom of Sweden.) As a sort of economic underclass to the ruling Swedes, the Finns excelled at the rural forest life. Many of our Finns actually came from Sweden where they had been employed as foresters and log cabin builders while many of our Swedes actually came from Finland where, I suppose, they ran things. Jeff Palmer - jap@highstream.net -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.432 / Virus Database: 268.17.4/644 - Release Date: 1/22/2007 7:30 AM

http://www.markedixon.com/log_homes_illustrated.htm A little bit (not too much, I hope) on Finns, log homes and early settlers of Delaware and Chester counties. Mark ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jeff Palmer" <jap@highstream.net> To: "PACHESTE-L" <PACHESTE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2007 6:31 PM Subject: Re: [PACHESTE] Chester Co. Inhabitants from 'Jersey' in 1680's? > >...In fact it was the Swedes who showed Wm. Penn how to build a log cabin > which was a Swedish structure... > > To be more precise, the log cabin was introduced by the *Finns* who were a > demographic subgroup of the Swedes. (What is now the country of Finland was > then a duchy of the Kingdom of Sweden.) As a sort of economic underclass to > the ruling Swedes, the Finns excelled at the rural forest life. Many of our > Finns actually came from Sweden where they had been employed as foresters > and log cabin builders while many of our Swedes actually came from Finland > where, I suppose, they ran things. > > Jeff Palmer - jap@highstream.net > > -- > No virus found in this outgoing message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.5.432 / Virus Database: 268.17.4/644 - Release Date: 1/22/2007 > 7:30 AM > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to PACHESTE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message