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Immigration of the Irish Quakers
into Pennsylvania
1682 - 1750
With Their Early History in Ireland
by
Albert Cook Myers, M. L.
Member of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania
"There is not one of the family but what likes the country very well
and wod. If we were in Ireland again come here Directly
it being the best country for working folk & tradesmen of any in the
world, but for Drunkards and Idlers, they cannot live well any
where." - Letter of an
Irish Quaker, 1725
The Author
Swarthmore, Pennsylvania
1902
PART 2
CHAPTER IV.
WAVES OF MIGRATION
Page 83
THE migration may be considered in three
waves. The first wave, beginning in 1682 and continuing to
1710, was caused largely by the severe religious persecutions
carried on against the Friends before the Act of Toleration of
1683 was passed. The wave was the heaviest in 1682 and
1683, thirty-two adult colonists coming over in these two years.
After this the wars of James and William coming
on, there was little migration until 1780.
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- First Wave, 1682 -1710 |
From 1710 the stream continued to flow steadily, reaching the
highest point of the whole migration in the great famine year of
1729, when sixty-four adults came over. After 1710, the
economic causes of migration were probably more potent than the
religious
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- Second Wave, 1710 - 1730 |
The third wave reached its highest point
in 1736, when thirty-three adult settlers arrived. From
1741, the movement declined, and after 1750 very few Friends
came over to settle.
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- Third Wave, 1730 - 1750 |
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