chester county links

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• African-Americans in Chester and Delaware Counties
  "The information on this page concerns African-Americans and non-whites primarily in Chester and Delaware Counties, PA, with a few in Philadelphia and Delaware."  Includes a list of slaveholders and some interesting articles, as well as an African American Surname Registry and a source database.

• The Baptist Church in the Great Valley
  Founded in 1711, this church has a history of anti-slavery involvement.  Follow the links to an interesting article about the pastorate of Rev. Leonard Fletcher (1832-1840) and the establishment of the Wilberforce Society.  A link to cemetery markers includes the photograph of a headstone for Phillis Burr, whose story includes being forced onto a slave ship (see the article, "Remembering the Ganges," by Mark E. Dixon, below).

• Camp Oak Hill History
  Brief history of this first African American owned summer camp for girls in Nottingham.  Nice photographs.

• Chester County Archives Index to Fugitive Slave Records
  Index to records covering the years 1820-1839, and recorded according to Pennsylvania's 1820 Personal Liberty Law.  Contains the name and residence of the person making the claim for a fugitive slave, the enslaved person's name, age, height, sex and alias, and the date of the claim.

• Chester County Genealogy
  This is the Chester County genealogy site for the PA GenWeb Project.  It has been completely redone and offers a wealth of information--in fact much more than your average GenWeb county site.  Recommended!

• Coatesville, Pennsylvania USCT Soldiers in the East Fallowfield Cemetery
  Article by Stanley H. Way and Lee Carter concerning the now abandoned cemetery of the Union Church of Africans, founded in 1820, and the 19 members of the United States Colored Troops buried there.

• Kennett Underground Railroad Center
  The people, places and events relating to the Underground Railroad in and around Kennett Square, which is, according to the site, "possibly the largest concentration of Underground Railroad stations in the nation."  Very well done and enjoyable site.

• Lindley Hill Cemetery
  Transcriptions and photographs of tombstones from this old African American cemetery.

• Roberts-Williams Ancestors
  Well researched genealogy page by Denise Oliver-Velez on her Chester County family tree branch.

• Quaker Accounts of the Underground Railroad in the Region of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting
  A reference site of primary source documents relating to the Underground Railroad in locations including Chester County.  Sources Compiled by Christopher Densmore, Curator, Friends Historical Library, Swarthmore College.

• Registration of Slaves (1780); Chester County, PA
  Transcription of the slave list from Futhey and Cope's The History of Chester County, PA, posted on the USGenWeb site.  This page breaks down the original slave registrations by township, but provides few details.  For a detailed list of slave registrations, see our A-Z listings of slaveholders.