Chuck Are you saying there is a Harleysville in Chester County? I think Spring City is still a borough government. The name was changed from Springville to Spring City so that the town and post office could have the same name. Apparently there was already a Springville post office in the state so the new post office in Springville had to have another name and Spring City was chosen as the new name to represent both post office and town. Steve ----- Original Message ----- From: Chuck Wolfram Sent: Monday, December 08, 2003 3:21 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [PACHESTE] Vincent Reformed Church, Chester Co., PA --- Douglas Garber <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi List, > On the LDS site I found Isaac GARBER m. HILTEBEITEL > ( a surname I had never heard of) in the Vincent > Reformed Church, Chester Co., PA. Where was Vincent > or E. Vincent Twp? Were there other GARBERs at this > church? > There's East Vincent Reformed and St. Vincent Reformed. Both are now United Church of Christ (UCC). East Vincent (the older of the two) was in East Vincent Township, but now (since 1867) in Spring City. St. Vincent is in East Vincent, although the mailing address is Phoexiville. Actually, it's probably in Kimberton.<g> As to St. Vincent, those church records begin in 1854 and are incomplete--at least those before the 1920s are. (The microfilmed records go up to a few years before they were microfilmed.) I think I saw other GERBERs listed, but I wasn't looking for them (just finished looking at the church records at my FHC). You might want East Vincent Reformed (records of both were microfilmed). It was Vincent Township until it was divided into East Vincent and West Vincent Townships in 1832; and it's not "was" but "is". East Vincent is bordered by West Vincent (of course), South Coventry, Montgomery County, and by Spring City (which was part of East Vincent until 1867), and Spring City is a small city, former borough (until 1872), on the border with Montgomery County. Kimberton is part of the township as is Harleysville (which had a newspaper and publishing house--where certain family histories were published). Chuck Wolfram ==== PACHESTE Mailing List ==== Stop by our associated website for Chester County Genealogy at http://www.pa-roots.com/~chester/