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Newspaper Clippings by Township

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Tredyffrin Easttown Historical Society

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Recent Additions and Updates

2024

• Maps and Atlases

2023

• Joseph D. Valentine and his descendants
• Abel Lewis and his descendants
• William and Samuel Nixon and families
• Roberts timeline
• Martha Jane Bean tax returns
• Local Quaker records: Certificates of Marriage from Radnor Quarterly Meeting
• Cox and Smedley families in Willistown
• Chester County Sheriff's Deeds
• Chester County Wills and Administrations
• Valley Forge Commissioner's Minutes, 1893 - 1900
• Robert T. Evans
• Currency tables
• Chesterbrook Stock Farm
• Berwyn Fire Company History

2022

• Fulling
• Valley Forge Park land purchases
• Historic Newspaper Clippings
• A brief Biography of the Peart family
• The Will of John Lewis (1861)
• The Estate of James Davis (1718 - 1802)
• A Biography of John Henry (c. 1750 - 1823)
• A History of Greenwood Farm
• Dr. John Davis (1744 - 1816)
• History Club celebrates 50th Year
• Paoli Coal and Lumber Merchants

2021

• Valley Forge - a sunny centennial celebration
• The Development of Daylesford
• The Stop at Daylesford
• The Langenheim Photograph of Valley Forge
• Connecting the History in New Centerville
• Finding Aid for the Garber-Pyle Family Papers
• Valley Forge General Orders, 12/22/1777
• Weeds in Valley Forge Dam
• Paoli Memorial Association, 1896
• The Berwyn Curve