In a message dated 3/22/2006 10:43:20 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, PhilaResearch@aol.com writes: Unless we are talking about the oaths the non-English citizens (males age 16 and over) had to take between 1727 and the Revolution upon arriving in the Port of Philadelphia. Those are listed in the Pennsylvania German Pioneers book. Joan English citizens who came to America did not have to take an Oath of Allegiance to the King. They were already English subjects. Only non-English citizens took an oath. These oaths were shipped to London. Philadelphia Research