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t1_ix4g954 wrote

I'm from northeastern PA but work in nearby Bucks County and am into history.

Not super-familiar with Chester County but as a very large and prosperous county I'm fairly confident that they'd have a sizable historical and/or genealogical society down that way in the West Chester area that would be able to help you out.

Good luck!

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t1_ix4jrs8 wrote

That's great for OP and kudos to Chester County. Good staff in any library or society represent such an underappreciated resource in any community.

I grew up in a very rural PA community with no library whatsoever at a time that the internet wasn't yet in widespread use and from personal experience libraries and historical/genealogical societies matter.

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t1_ix4sg4o wrote

The Chester County archives are also great- I’ve been there so do research and the folks there are incredibly helpful.

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t1_ix5jkki wrote

Your local library may have some old local history books, might not hurt stopping in and asking.

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t1_ix67mix wrote

You're related to the personal physician to William Penn?

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t1_ix7iw20 wrote

Hey man, I just got my MA in History this year and the best place to look for information on local history and specifically people is the local universities libraries. I'm sure they'd be ok letting you read a little bit even if you don't have a student ID, but you couldn't go home with any books most likely. Maybe a librarian could help you do a digital database search as well, you never know what may have been digitized these days.

Another thing you can do is use Familysearch.org to look documents pertinent to their lives. it's like Ancestry but it's free to use.

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