Fran, Thanks for the transcription. Rick Saunders pointed us to the original Chester County will (estate #4675) at https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-89SM-F7M9?i=205&cc=1999196 which also has other estate papers including the inventory and account of the estate. They are very readable on the website. In the will and in the account, it talks about the sale of real estate. I would try to find a grantor deed for Joseph Powell (Est.) to someone about 1799-1800 and see who signed off on it. That deed should list all the heirs. I understand that you are looking for John Powell's children (presumably Joseph Powell's grandchildren). The deed and any and all records like that may help but they have to be correlated together. Also family histories may give you clues to what you seek. As a Powell researcher I know that it is a very common name. Our own line is also in Chester County about the same time. However my Isaac Powell left there in the late 1770s along with some of his siblings. One reference is this book: _Powells and Griffiths with Extracts from the Writings of John Powell,_ by his granddaughter Rachel Powell. (Philadelphia: D. A. Wigense___, 1886) page 7: "...But James, Isaac, Nathan, Benjamin and Abigail removed to the western part of Pennsylvania, and settled in Washington county. Isaac afterwards settled in Virginia, and Nathan in the State of Indiana, but all near to the Pennsylvania line. They all married and had families. Isaac was married twice. Abigail married Jacob Devoll, and settled in the town of Monongahela. But it is of John the second son that I must speak more particularly. He was born on the 24th of February, 1741. ..." My Isaac Powell was born 1749 and the above John (his brother) was born 1741. However this John would not be a son of Joseph of the 1799 will but a cousin or other relationship (if any relationship at all!). The book is available from the Family History Library on microfilm: https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/95274?availability=Family%20History% 20Library Best wishes, Elissa Elissa Scalise Powell, CG , CGL www.PowellGenealogy.com www.GRIPitt.org 25-30 June 2017 and 16-21 July 2017 in Pittsburgh, PA CG, CGL, and Certified Genealogical Lecturer are service marks of the Board for Certification of Genealogists, used under license by board certificants after periodic evaluations. Certified Genealogist and the board name are trademarks registered in the US Patent and Trademark Office. -----Original Message----- From: On Behalf Of Fran West-Powe Sent: Friday, April 21, 2017 9:57 AM Thanks to the admin of this group! What a helpful group of people. I need to know how to learn the names/identities of the children of John POWEL, the son mentioned in this will of Joseph POWELL. Mr. Rick SAUNDERS has provided some tips, but I know not how to do those kinds of searches. Thanks, sincere thanks to all. I, Joseph Powell, of the Township of Sadsbury, County of Chester in Pennsylvania, being in a tolerable state of health and of sound mind and memory, but calling to mind the mortality of my body, do make and ordain this my last will and testament in the following manner & to wit- first I order all my just debts and expences be paid. I order & my will is that my wife Mary, if she survive me- shall have the profits of my Plantation during her life & live in my house & enjoy in the same part of said house we now live in / for her support I order & my will is that my Executor hereafter named as soon as convenient after the decease of me and my wife , sell and convey on fee simple all my plantation estate on a branch of Octoraro Creek in Chester County for the best price that can be had for the same either at publick or private sale and the money arising from the same after reasonable expenses is paid shall be equally divided amongst all my children except the widow & children of my son William who shall have a double share that is as much as any one of my other children to be equally divided amongst them. I give and decree to my son John's children all my personal estate to be equally divided ( hard to read, I think it says "amongst them" ) after my just ( debts, expenses, all taxes as is ---) & other lawful expenses, as well as their share arising from the sale of my plantation, except forty pounds which I give & bequeath to my four grandchildren, Joseph Chamberlin, Joseph Farr, Joseph Simons and Elijah Chamberlin which is to come out of my (unreadable) . Lastly I ordain & appoint my friends James Clemson, Sr. & Joseph Dickinson the sole Executors of this my last will and testament. Hereby revoking & dismissing all other wills heretofore by me made ratifying and confirming this and no other & be my last will & testament witness my hand and seal Eleventh of April in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred & eighty seven. Signed, sealed, published, pronounced and declared by the testator to be his last will and testament in the sight of us William Downing, Decd. 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