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Title:     Immigration of the Irish Quakers into Pennsylvania, 1682-1750 : with their early history in Ireland
Call Number:     974.802 M996I 1998
Author:     Myers, Albert Cook, 1874-1960.
Publisher, Date:     Bowie, Md. : Heritage Books, 1998., 1998
Description:     xxii, 477 p., [4] leaves of plates : ill. ; 21 cm.
ISBN:     0788410210

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From therecords of the Philadelphia Monthly Meeting "Isaiah McNice, widower,with a large family, who hath lived 'within the compass of our meetingthese Twenty years.' From the Meeting in Cootehill, County Cavan, Ireland, dated 2 Mo. 21, 1736. Received 7 Mo. 24, 1736."1 It wasthe custom that Quakers would ask for a Certificate of Removal from aMonthly Meeting prior to leaving an area, and would present it to the Monthly Meeting of their destination upon arrival.

And, 7 Mo. 24,1736 'A Certificate from the Mens Meeting at Coote Hill in Ireland dated the 21st Second Month 1736 on behalf of Isaac [Isaiah} McNiece who intends to settle in this City was read and well received, the Meeting being apprised that he labours under some Difficulty to raise Money to pay his passage Consent to lend four Pounds which Sum John Jones is directed to let him have and take his Obligation payable in twelve Months."3