Because of its unique immigration
policy--a policy that encouraged Quaker and foreign immigration, in
particular--Pennsylvania led the way in colonial America in the ethnic diversity
of its early settlers, among whom we find English, Irish, and Dutch Quakers;
German and Swiss Mennonites, Anabaptists, and Pietists; and Ulster
Presbyterians, the Scotch-Irish frontiersmen of folklore and legend.
From the original settlers of Penn's Colony in the 1680s, to the indentured
Irish and German servants bound out as apprentices in the 1770s, to the
thousands of passengers arriving at the port of Philadelphia from the 1680s to
the 1800s, when that city was the chief port of arrival and gateway to the U.S.,
this Family Archive CD provides information on the earliest settlers of the
Keystone State. Based on books published by the Genealogical Publishing
Company--deriving for the most part from ships' passenger lists, oaths of
allegiance, records of indenture, and Quaker meeting records--this CD contains
data on places of origin, dates of arrival, places of residence, ages,
occupations, names of wives and children (with details of births, marriages, and
deaths), and a host of other details, most of which can be inferred or
understood from the following list of the books included on this CD:
* William Penn and the Dutch Quaker Migration to Pennsylvania, by William I.
Hull
* Immigration of the Irish Quakers into Pennsylvania, 1682-1750, with Their
Early History in Ireland, by Albert C. Myers
* Quaker Arrivals at Philadelphia, 1682-1750. Being a List of Certificates of
Removal Received at Philadelphia Monthly Meeting of Friends, by Albert C. Myers
* Emigrants to Pennsylvania, 1641-1819. A Consolidation of Ship Passenger
Lists from The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, ed. Michael
Tepper
* Pennsylvania German Pioneers. A Publication of the Original Lists of
Arrivals in the Port of Philadelphia from 1727 to 1808, by Ralph B. Strassburger
and William J. Hinke
* Names of Foreigners Who Took the Oath of Allegiance to the Province and
State of Pennsylvania, 1727-1775, with the Foreign Arrivals, 1786-1808, by
William Henry Egle
* A Collection of Upwards of Thirty Thousand Names of German, Swiss, Dutch,
French, and Other Immigrants in Pennsylvania from 1727 to 1776, by Israel D.
Rupp
* Record of Indentures of Individuals Bound Out as Apprentices, Servants,
Etc. and of German and Other Redemptioners in the Office of the Mayor of
Philadelphia . . . 1771 to . . . 1773
* Passenger Arrivals at the Port of Philadelphia 1800-1819, ed. Michael
Tepper and Elizabeth P. Bentley
Consisting of images of the pages of the books named above, this CD contains
a single electronic name index of 200,000 entries which allows you to search all
the volumes quickly and effortlessly. Thus a search on a single name will turn
up all references to that name found in any of the volumes.
