I apologize, Linda, if this isn't the right list for this query, but so many of you have colonial Pennsylvania ancestors. Am trying to figure out where one Edward Cathey died. Intestate, his estate bond was filed in Lancaster before Thomas Cookson and James Smith in 1745. Anyone else got admin bonds c.1745? I'm curious if that makes it more likely he lived near Lancaster City as opposed to Cumberland County like I'd thought. I just can't see witnesses and widows/widowers making a mournful trail behind their attorneys from way out Cumberland way every spring/summer to the other side of the river. Did Cookson make the rounds regularly or stay in Lancaster? (1745 was the year James Smith finished his studies in Lancaster and began practicing in Shippensburg.) The Lancaster County Historical Society says admin bonds were loose papers so they're not chronologically accessible. Who's got 1745 Pennsylvania estate papers, anyone? Are the only ones that made it to the courthouse from Lancaster-area people? Thoughts? Thanks, Sally Brandon http://www.genealogy.com/users/b/r/a/Sally-A-Brandon/