This pertains to a mailing dated 6/10/2008 from Jane. There is a question of where Jacob and Elizabeth/Ann Taylor Chandler may have come from before becoming members of Hopewell MM in Virginia. The Quakers first began settling in southern New Jersey in 1675 and by 1682 they were becoming well established in eastern Pennsylvania and in Delaware. Their families were large, and by 1720 or 1725 they were beginning to run out of space for their primarily agricultural economy. The Mennonites and Germans were taking up the territory to the west and north of Chester, Montgomery, and Bucks Couinties outside of Philadelphia, and the Scot-Irish were settling in middle Pennsylvania, and the Indians had control of the country farther west. Therefore, young Quaker families were relocating in northern Virginia, including Louden County, Frederick County, and in what is now Berkeley County, West Virginia. Those coming into Frederick and Berkely Counties tended to come down from southwestern Chester County through the Monoquesy Valley of western Maryland. It would appear to me that the Quakers who moved from Virginia to the Bush River area of South Carolina following the French and Indian War came primarily from the vicinity of Hopewll MM, which included a number of worship groups in Frederick and Berkeley Counties. This area had been disturbed by Inidan raids ca. 1756-1757. There was a Chandler family who were early settlers in Christiana Hundred, New Castle County, Delaware, near the boundary of Chester County in Pennsylvania. Jacob Chandler could well have been a member of this family. There is a large genealogy book, _ Record of the Descendants of George and Jane Chandler_, by the noted Quaker genealogist Gilbert Cope, which may trace this family. The book can often be found in large genealogical and Quaker libraries. ------ Herbert Standing, Earlham, Iowa. **************Vote for your city's best dining and nightlife. City's Best 2008. (http://citysbest.aol.com?ncid=aolacg00050000000102)