In a message dated 4/27/00 12:15:54 AM Eastern Daylight Time, audiana@webtv.net writes: > I have come across an unrecorded deed of 1712 for my ancestors: John > SAVAGE and his wife Mary of Maidenhead in the Province of West Jersey, > George SAVAGE and his wife Mary of Milburye in the County of Phila and > Samuel SAVAGE from Whitemarsh township in the County of Philadelphia. > Could anyone please tell me where these towns are now and any background > on the West Jersey Province. Is it part of PA now or did it become part > of NJ? Thank you for a history lesson on early PA/NJ! > Diana- I never heard of the town of Maidenhead but West Jersey is what is now pretty much the Southern half of New Jersey--just across the Delaware River from Philadelphia. Joan