In a message dated 3/22/2006 10:52:35 PM Eastern Standard Time, PhilaResearch@aol.com writes: 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. That is exactly what I wrote: "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. " Don't know how to make it any clearer than that. Joan