Chester County Maps and Web Sites
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Current Township Boundaries in Chester County |
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Survey of Chester County - 1683 |
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Map Showing Courses of Various Streams and Fords on the Brandywine - unfortunately undated but it was after the 1673 survey setting off Delaware County |
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1701 Survey of Chichester Town (aka Marcus Hook), Chester County, by John Taylor |
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Draught of Wm. Penn Jr Manor, New Garden, Chester Co. Property owners shown include James Starr and Abram Marshall (undated) |
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1780 Township Map |
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Location of Friends Meetings in Chester County in the Eighteenth Century (courtesy M. D. Monk)(Sorry - best copy. Try printing it for better results) |
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Newlin Township Ownership Map - this township was named after the Newlin Family and Abraham Marshall owned land in the far upper right corner of the township |
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London Grove (later New Garden) Township Ownership Map - Abraham Marshall and James Starr owned property in this township - see Lot 14 and 25 (from Irish Quakers in Pennsylvania) |
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Link to modern road map of the Chester County area. (Warning - this is not a current version but will give someone an idea of where things are located if they are planning a visit.) |
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Sandy Ferguson is owner of the Old Chester County Mailing List. She has also created a Web Site where listers have submitted helpful research tools for Chester and Delaware Counties (Delaware County was offset from Chester 1789) |
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Old Chester County Mailing List Archives - much Chester County data has been submitted on this mailing list. Archives are available beginning with the year 2000 |
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Chester County Mailing List Archives (Judy Ardine owner) Predates the Old Chester County Mailing List |
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American Local History Network Chester County Web Site |
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Web Site with interesting historical information on Chester County |
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And of course if you have ancestors from Chester County you must not miss the Chester County Genealogical Site (a combination of prior Rootsweb and USGenWeb pages) |
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Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Chester County |
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Some Chester County Residents - 1696The following bit of history contains the names of many Chester County residents in 1696, including many that are documented on this Web Site. We hope to obtain a map of the location of this proposed settlement. In the meantime the general location can be seen on the Map of the Delaware Valley at the extreme left of the map.This from Papers of William Penn, Vol 3, 1685-1700: "Virtually from the beginning of his propriertorship, WP had focused on the Susquehanna Valley as a major area of development. Strategically situated near a vital northern fur trade route, this region had great potential to augment WP's economic base. He was aware of the Great Mingas Path, also known as the Conestoga Path, which crossed the fork of the Brandywine Creek and continued southeast to Manayunk, and which had been used by the Susquehannocks and Contestogas to bring beaver skins to trading posts on the lower Schuylkill and Delaware rivers. WP was hoping to expand this trade by taking over the Susquehanna region and diverting the principal Indian fur trade route, then terminating at Albany, to an allwater route down the Susquehanna, Schuylkill, and Delaware rivers. Unfortunately, this effort was blocked by the Iroquois, who controlled the region, and also by Governor Dongan of New York, who in 1683 claimed to have privately purchased the land WP wanted from the Iroquois. ...Despite this setback, WP in 1690 published a tract entitled Some Proposals for a Second Settlement in the Province of Pennsylvania, announcing his intention to build a city in the Susquehanna Valley and offering land for sale along the Susquehanna River... . Any investors would receive, in addition to land on the river, a proportionate share in the proposed city 'to build a House or Houses upon.' ...WP was in no position in 1690 to push his Susquehanna project, but apparently in 1695 he revived the plan, claiming that he would come to Pennsylvania within two years to negotiate the treaties necessary to establish his right to the region. ...In the spring of 1696, approximately 450 persons from Pennsylvania and the Lower Counties pledged to pay WP in the neighborhood of 4000 pounds for land on the Susquehanna. The following lists identify 332 subscribers who pledged him 2970 pounds. ...Enthusiasm for this new settlement may have been dampened in June 1696 when Indians from the Ohio Valley raided the Susquehanna region..., and WP's failure to come to America by May 1698 voided the proposed subscriptions."[There follows a copy of the agreement which the subscribers signed] Among the names appended to the list (with pounds pledged): In Chester County (Chester Twp): John Symcock, 20; Randall Vernon, 20; Bartho: Coppock, 20; Jonathan Hays, 20; Geo: Maris, 15; Tho: Warrillow, 10; Jacob Symcock, 5; Tho: Vernon, 20; Joseph Baker, 10; Walter Faucet, 5; Caleb Pusey, 20; John Worrall, 10; Robert Pennell, 5; John Redman, 5; John Sharples, 5; John Hoskins, 12; Robert Barber, 6; James Swafer, 5; James Lownes, 5; Geo: Lowns, 5; Henry Worley, 10; Jane Sharples, 5; Geo: Churchman, 6; Isaac Few, 10; Phillip Yarnll, 5; Isaac Tayler, 5; Thomas Taylor of Springfield, 5; Willm Swafer, 5; Andrew Job, 7; Joseph Edge, 5; Robert Vernon, 15; Joseph Cowburn, 5; Tho: Pearson, 5; Samll Jerrom, 5; John Stidman, 2; Joseph Stidman, 5; Geo: Marris Junior, 5; Barth: Coppock of Springfield, 5; Peter Lester, 5; John Edge, 5; Geo: James, 5; Mary Taylor, 5; Geo: Woodyer, 6; Richard Woodward, 5; Tho: Calvert, 5; Tho:Masey, 5; John Fincher, 5; Ralph Drakert, 10; Robert Wade, 20; David Ogdon, 5; John Addington, 10; Joseph Baker nephew to Henry Baker of Bucks, 10; Tho: Caudery, 5; James Sorrill, 5; Roger Jackson, 5; Richard Crossby, 20; John Crossby his Sonn, 10; John Churchman, 5; Thomas England, 5; Tho: Cartwright, 5; John Dutton, 5; Wm Simpson, 5; Charles Whitaker, 5; Tho: Taylor of middletown, 5; Joseph Cookson, 5; Thomas Minshall, 10; Randall Mellen, 5; John Martin, 5; Tho: Woodward, 5; John Worilow, 5; Ephraim Jackson, 5; Jonathan Tayler, 5; Josiah Tayler, 5; Joseph Phipps Junior, 5; John Musgrave, 5; Abraham Beakes, 10; Wm Cowburn, 10; Wm Coules, 10; Subscribers from "In and About Chechester Concord &C": Nicholas Newlin, 10; Natha Newlin, 10; John Newlin, 10; John Mendinhall, 5; Natha Parke, 5; Henry oborne or ogborne, 5; Evan Jones, 5; Geo: Strode, 5; Benja Mendinhall, 5; Nicho Pyle, 5; William Clows, 5; Robert Carter, 10; Wm Brown 10; Nathanll Richards, 10; John Baldwin, 5; John Beales, 10; Joseph Bushell, 5; Robert Pyle, 10; Wm Brainton Senior, 10; Wm Brainton Junior, 5; Fra: Chadsey, 5; John Bennet, 5; Samll Scot, 5; Richard Thatcher, 5; Jonathan Thatcher, 5; Peter Dix, 5; Robert Hay, 5; Geo: Pearce, 5; Edward Bennett, 5; Richard Woodward, 5; Isaac Tayler of Thornbury, 5; Joseph Hickman, 5; Tho: Evanson, 5; John Bezar, 5; Edward Kenisson, 5; William Clayton, 5; Phillip Roman, 10; Henry Hastings, 5; Wm Hues Senior, 10; Wm Flower, 5; Robert Langham, 5; Jerremiah Collet, 10; James Brown, 10; James Whitaker, 5; Jacob Chandler, 5; William Cloude, 20; James Hendriks, 5; Thomas Bright, 5; William Markam, 50; Subscribers from Haverford and Radnor Townships: William Lewis, 10; David Lewis, 5; William Jenkin, 10; John Lewis, 5; David Lawrence, 5; Morrice Llewellen, 10; Ellis Ellis, 5; Tho: John Evan, 5; Henry Rees, 2.10; John Evan Edwa (sic), 2.1; Thomas Parry, 2.10; Evan Prothero, 8; Hugh Samll, 2.10; Wm Evan, 2.10; William Howell, 6; Danll Humphreys, 10; Richard Hays, 10; Henry Lewis, 5; Samll Lewis, 5; William Row, 5; Lewis David, 5; John Evans, 6; David Meridith, 10; John Jarman, 2.10; David Evan, 8; Richard Orms, 10; David Morice, 5; Danll Chivers, ? ; Rees Henton, 10; William David, 2.10; Richard Moore, 2.10; Samll Miles, 6; William Davies, 5; John Morgan, 2.10; John Moore, 2.10; Tho: Owen, 3; David James, 5; Wm Thomas, 2.10; Eliza Jones, 2.10 |
