Just to add a bit to the topic above. I descend from Roger Kirk of Yorkshire who became Quaker and seemed to have joined the encouraged by England migration to the six counties of Northern Ireland. Most of the Scot-Irish appeared to have been the blunt of this migration. The History of Cecil County Maryland details the tension between the Quakers and the other Protestant religions as the Quakers did not believe in war or war taxes and taught more universal literacy than was in vogue in the 1600 and 1700s. Until Mason and Dixon surveyed the Mason Dixon line, the Quakers living on the boundary of PA, DE, and MD called it PA. Others called it for their colonies. The Mennonite Germans were also a religious group that did not believe in war and the book Pennsylvania Colony and Commonwealth which is being uploaded on a website now gives the Quaker version of this conflict as the Cecil County, MD, history gives the other religion's sides. The Revolutionary War created crisis of belief and action for the Quakers. I have two Quakers who are credited with fighting in the Revolutionary War in spite of their faith and both moved into Centre County; later their families traveled onto Clearfield County. The Kirk Family History written by George Calvin Kirk includes reminisces handed down about a skirmish his great grand father Thomas Kirk b. June 04/1744 was in side by side with his neighbors and the internal conflicts they had even firing a rifle. By the way I now live in Wayne County, OH and combined with adjoining Holmes County we have the largest Amish population in the world. We also have a population of Mennonites just about as great. Jean

Jean makes an excellent point. Yes, there was also a Quaker settlement in Centre County, starting in the 1790s/1800s which I neglected to mention, mainly concentrated in the Halfmoon Valley, the Unionville area, and in Bellefonte proper. There were regular Meetings established at Stormstown, Unionville, and Bellefonte. Stormstown and Unionville were on the Hicksite side (I believe) after the famous 1826 split. Bellefonte remained with the Orthodox side. None of these meetings exist today, but the State College Friends Meeting is a descendant and includes many of the old Stormstown families. Elwood Way wrote a good history of the Society of Friends in Centre County. Many of these people moved on to Clearfield County by the mid-1800s, but not all. At 06:30 PM 1/8/2007, you wrote: >Just to add a bit to the topic above. I descend from Roger Kirk of Yorkshire >who became Quaker and seemed to have joined the encouraged by England >migration to the six counties of Northern Ireland. Most of the >Scot-Irish appeared >to have been the blunt of this migration. > >The History of Cecil County Maryland details the tension between the Quakers >and the other Protestant religions as the Quakers did not believe in war or >war taxes and taught more universal literacy than was in vogue in >the 1600 and >1700s. Until Mason and Dixon surveyed the Mason Dixon line, the >Quakers living >on the boundary of PA, DE, and MD called it PA. Others called it for their >colonies. The Mennonite Germans were also a religious group that did not >believe in war and the book Pennsylvania Colony and Commonwealth >which is being >uploaded on a website now gives the Quaker version of this conflict >as the Cecil >County, MD, history gives the other religion's sides. > >The Revolutionary War created crisis of belief and action for the Quakers. I >have two Quakers who are credited with fighting in the Revolutionary War in >spite of their faith and both moved into Centre County; later their families >traveled onto Clearfield County. The Kirk Family History written by George >Calvin Kirk includes reminisces handed down about a skirmish his great grand >father Thomas Kirk b. June 04/1744 was in side by side with his >neighbors and the >internal conflicts they had even firing a rifle. > >By the way I now live in Wayne County, OH and combined with adjoining Holmes >County we have the largest Amish population in the world. We also have a >population of Mennonites just about as great. > >Jean > >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >[email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without >the quotes in the subject and the body of the message