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    1. [PaOldC] Fw: New Garden Quakers
    2. Sandra Ferguson
    3. 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.

    07/17/2009 01:03:30