Back in January of this year, Georgette Ochs sent the story of The Rose Inn to the PANORTHA-L taken from "Frontier Forts of Pennsylvania." The story mentioned that a group of people taking shelter from the Indians at The Rose were all from Contented Valley--my "Sylvases" being one of the surnames mentioned. Around that time I asked if anyone knew where Contented Valley actually was. Thanks to one of Candace E. Anderson's books, "Miscellaneous Public Records, 1758 to 1767" p. 30, I learned from an abstract of a 1754 petition she has in her book, that Contented Valley was likely what was shortly to become Chesnuthill Township. >From Candy's book with her permission: The Petitioners were "inhabitants of Contented Valley." The Petition: For the formation of Chestnuthill Township; the present township was too large and they were obliged "to work at makeing the Roads near Twenty Miles from some of their Habitations." Borders: New township would go from Henry FRANCE Settlement then along the Blue Mountains down far enough to take in Weaver MICKEL's old settlement, then over the second mountain called Second Blue Mountain, then to include Larence KUNKEL, then back to the beginning "wich we Recken it will be Nine or Then Miles Broad and Twelve Miles Long." On the back of this record it said "allowed if the township joined Lower Smithfield and Dry Gap (now called Wind Gap) or near it; Fred-k HOET and Philip SERFASS were to assess and report back to court." This is one of the many wonderful facts I've found in Candace Anderson's books--she has five! They can be seen at Closson Press: http://www.clossonpress.com/index.jsp Keyword search: Candace I just can't recommend them enough. Marie.