I am researching British Friends who are my ancestors who came to the area of Philadelphia Pennsylvania. I have a lot of information about some of them, no information about others, and sometimes lack an important piece of information about the former. For example: FLOUNDERS - Family memory, but no documentation, says they originally came from Yorkshire. Our first finding of a possible Flounders ancestor in the Philadelphia area was F. Edward Flounders. He arrived in about 1760. He attended Philadelphia Monthly Meeting, but because he had neglected to bring a Certificate of Removal from his Meeting in England, he was not recognized as a Friend by Philadelphia Friends. Wnen, about three years before he died in 1770, he applied for membership, he was refused for having not fully lived "according to Discipline". He was a raiser of livestck and had acquired a lot of land. I do not know for sure whether he was or wasn't the father of Edward Flounders, to whom I do trace my ancestry. Edward Flounders was born in 1761, whether in England or in Pennsylvania I cannot be sure. He narried Judith Shipley and had at least ten children He died 20 July 1819 and was buried in Shandy Banks Cemetery, in Media, Chester County, adjacent to Philadelphia, PA. This is the old burying ground of Providence Meeting, which was in the borough of Madia, and at the time of Edward's death only in use for attenders and friends of the Meeting. His wife and several of his children were also buried there. It seems that, although Edward was not in the active circles of the Meeting and, in fact, served in the Chester County Militia from 1780 - 1783, he did not join any other denomination. Some of his children are identied, mainly by marriage, as no longer being Friends. However, his oldest son, James, it is documented, had a son who married a Quaker, Margaret Russell. A younger son of Edward, Nathaniel, my great, great grandfather, married a non-Friend. I would be very grateful if any of you could clarify this hazy picture of this area of my family's past, specifically, was Edward the son of F. Edward and of what Meeting or Meetings had they been members in Ebgland? With this problem identified, I will next time write to fill in my known active Quaker ancestors. With thanks and best wishes, Mary Hall Flounders Arnett