It is a very good book. I may not have noticed the wider coverage because I'm only descended from New Garden Quakers. Yours, Dora Smith Austin, TX [email protected] ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sandra Ferguson" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Cc: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, July 17, 2009 6:03 AM Subject: Fw: [PaOldC] New Garden Quakers > Dora, The book on the Immigration of Irish Quakers into PA 1682-1750 > covers much more than just the Quakers that established the New Garden > meeting.....it is, as the subject says, about ALL the Quakers that came > into the Commonwealth of Pa during the years of 1682 through 1750 and > gives a wonderful 'picture' of so many of our earliest arrivals to Chester > Co, New Garden being only one of the many. It's one of my favorite > books. The New Garden meeting is only one of the early meetings, and not > even the earliest If memory serves the Chester, Cirencester, Concord, > Middletown, Springfield, Providence, Newtown and perhaps others that I'm > forgetting, were established well before the New Garden meeting. > I really think, according to this book, that the Miller that helped > establish the New Garden Meeting, was John, SON of John and Ann Clibborn. > It says that the John who moved to PA was married to a Mary, NOT an Ann. > I'm including his will, below, which clearly shows that his wife is named > Mary, and that she served as his executor....it also include his > children....who are not the same as those included in the Immigration of > the Irish Quakers book......(William, Margatet, John, Thomas, Abraham, > Isaac)....... Also, her will mentions her brother, Andrew Ignews, so it > would seem that her maiden name had been Mary Ignews. > . > MILLER, JOHN. New Garden. Joyner.August 17, 1714/5. December 8, 1714/15, > A. 10.To wife not named 1/3 of real and personal estate. To son Joseph, > the plantation I now live upon containing 300 acres. Paying to son in law > Joseph Hutton £20 and to daughters Martha and Sarah Miller £20 each when > 16. To son James 300 acres of land lying on south side of above mentioned > plantation extending to James Starrs line. To son William, 400 acres of > land with mill, he paying £60 as follows. To daughters Elizabeth, Susanna > and Elinor, £20 each when 16. Executors: wife Mary and son Joseph. > Witnesses: Joel Baily, Gayen Miller, John Wily. > > This is the will of his wife, Mary.....as Myers book indicates John, son > of John and Ann, married a Mary, and he died in 1714, and she in 1730, it > would seem he was right. > MILLER, MARY. Widow. New Garden.May 12, 1730. August 10, 1730. A. 320.To > son William Miller all my real estate lying upon White ClayCreek paying > £80 towards legacies. To son James a colt. Todaughter Martha Jordan £20. > To daughter Susanna Miller £15. To granddaughter Mary Jordan £12 at 18 or > married. To kinsman JohnTos a colt. Remainder to 6 daughters, viz Mary > Hutton, Martha Jordan, Sarah Hutton, Elizabeth Chambers, Susanna Miller > and Elinor Chambers, they paying £30 in my executor's hands to pay the > passage of 3 of my brother Andrew Ignews children coming to this country > provided they come within 2 years of my decease. Executor: son > William.Witnesses: James Miller, Nathl. Richards, Michael Lightfoot. > > > Sandra > > > "There is a comprehensive book on the New Garden Quakers at Ancestry.com; > Immigration of the Irish Quakers to Pennsylvania. > > That will tell you if your ancestors were among them or not. It does take > time to go through the index entries for common names, online. It's a > subscription database, but you need only subscribe for one month. > > Everyone who is descended from teh New Garden Quakers knows who founding > emigrants John Miller and Ann Clibborn were, especially Sandra Ferguson, > but > I need more advanced knowledge about them than that found on p 327, which > is > just one of several tales about William Clibborn's origins and doesn't > give > the documentation that this book usually gives. Usually if the book > claims > that someone was from such and such a place, it tells you how we know > that, > but not in this case. I believe the family were in Moate, Ireland; it's > where they were before that that matters. > > This book doesn't necessarily cover every Quaker in Chester County, nor > every late comer in the area. > > >