My manytimes great grandfather, Nicholas Newlin, lived for many years prior to his emigration, within the bounds of the Mountmellick Meeting, in Queen's County, Ireland, and it is probable that this was where he married Elizabeth Paggott. They emigrated to the Quaker colony, Pennsylvania, in the New World, aboard the "Levee of Liverpool", with James Kilner, ships master, and Cork their probably port of embarkation. The year was 1683. He took with him a certificate signed by the the Mountmellick Meeting dated December 25, 1682, stating that he had "worked honestly", but that Friends were "generally dissatisfied with his moving, he being so well settled with his family, and having sufficient substance for food and rainment; but our Godly jealousy is that his chief grounds for removal is fearfulness of suffering here. " I know nothing more, really, of their life in Ireland or of the Mountmellick meeting, other than reports of their persecution because of their faith, and I would be interested in any actual records that contain info on the family, or anything about the area where they lived. Nicholas was, in all probability, an Englishman who either came to Ireland with parents, or as an adult - to escape the problems Quakers had in England. It is unknown who his parents were or when he actually came to Ireland....there are theories, but no documentation.....his parents, etc are, of course, the 'holy grail' of his descendants. Thanks. Sandra Ferguson -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.375 / Virus Database: 267.14.23/240 - Release Date: 1/25/2006