In a message dated 10/24/2004 4:08:38 PM Mountain Standard Time, mjbatt@mindspring.com writes: > Michelle, > Yes, I have a Sara Chalfant and I had written (in pencil--meaning "no > proof") that she married an Isaac Pyle. This Sara was the sister of my > ancestor, Chads Chalfant, and therefore would have been the daughter of > Robert Chalfant II and Sara Chadds Cloud. > However, her birth dates don't seem quite right if he was born in 1777. > Certainly the Pyles intermarried with our Clouds and Chadds--all in Chester > Co. ie a William Pyle married Betty (Elizabeth) Chadds, sister to the above > Sarah Chadds Cloud. Helpful? or more confusing? > mary jane This Sarah Chadds mentioned above, according to the "History of Chester County Pennsylvania by Futhey and Cope", married on Feb 12, 1714, Mordecai Cloud and her sister Bettym. William Pyle. Her father waas Francis Chads who died abt 1713 and his widow married on July 16, 1714 Gayen Stevenson. Chads is supposedly the correct spelling of the last name. Francis came from Wiltshire, England and settled in Chichester in 1684. The name of his first wife is believed to have been Hester, but it is not know if she left children. In 1695 he married Grace, daughter of Francis Stanfield, of Marple and probably settled soon after on the Brandywine at the ford which bears the family name. There he built a mill, pherpahs in 1707, as there was difficulty between him and his neighbors at that time, presumably about the dam or water-right. The mill was there in 1710, but it appears in after-years to have gone down and the site was forgotten.When the foundations of the present mill were dug some timbers were found which were pronounced to be a part of the old structure.