In a nutshell, this is my problem: An ancestor of mine inherited land from his father abt 1774-5 and no deed transfer was filed in Berks County. After the son died in 1828, the Estate sold the property and a Deed transfer WAS filed which explained the earlier transfer from father to son according to the terms of the fathers Will. No record exists in Berks for where the father got the land. It was probably transfered BEFORE Berks County was formed in 1752. I checked with the Lancaster Co. Deeds Office & found no record there. The land would have been part of Lancaster before 1752. I checked at the State Archives to see if my ancestor received a Land Warrant from the state. No luck there for the earliest ancestor I have documented, but found two others with similar surnames who got land in "Tulpehocken" & "Heidelberg" as early as 1734. One of them has the same first name as the son of my earliest known ancestor. Could be the grandfather. I need to find some documentation of this early Deed transfer to hopefully make the family connection. I was told at the Lancaster Deed Office that it may not exist because it was not required to record it back then or it may have been recorded in Philadelphia. My question is where in Philadelphia would records of early deed transfers be found? Jim Freeman