Chester Co PA records. ( original spelling) Indentured Servants Records Records of the Courts Chester County, PA. 1697-1710 Vol. 2 by D.B.Lapp & F.B.Dunlap p. 9 Dec. 1797 John Pennell brought a boy whose name is JOHN DAVIDSON who was ajudged to be eleven years of age and to sarve ten years from this Court one the consideration that the said John Pennell doe taech or cause to be taught the said boy to read and to write or else the said boy to sarve but nine years to the said Pennell or his Assigns. (This would suggest that John Davidson was born in 1686.)