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*Dunaway, Wayland F. ''The Scotch-Irish of Colonial Pennsylvania.'' Chapel Hill, N.C.: The University of North Carolina Press, 1944. Free digital version at [http://collection1.libraries.psu.edu/u?/digitalbks2,18370 PA's Past: Digital Bookshelf at Penn State]. Includes chapters on their Ulster background in Ireland, immigration, places of settlement in Pennsylvania, military involvement, economic, social, religious, educational, and cultural contributions. | *Dunaway, Wayland F. ''The Scotch-Irish of Colonial Pennsylvania.'' Chapel Hill, N.C.: The University of North Carolina Press, 1944. Free digital version at [http://collection1.libraries.psu.edu/u?/digitalbks2,18370 PA's Past: Digital Bookshelf at Penn State]. Includes chapters on their Ulster background in Ireland, immigration, places of settlement in Pennsylvania, military involvement, economic, social, religious, educational, and cultural contributions. | ||
Irish Quakers came to Pennsylvania as early as the 17th Century. An outstanding historical study with brief biographies and names of extended family members remaining in Ireland, and which provides a summary of Irish Quaker emigration and migration to the state, is: [http://books.google.com/books?id=7ZedLPs2fj0C&printsec=frontcover&dq=Immigration+of+Irish+Quakers+to+Pennsylvania,+1682-1750&cd=1#v=onepage&q=&f=false ''Immigration of Irish Quakers to Pennsylvania, 1682-1750'' ]. | '''Irish''' Quakers came to Pennsylvania as early as the 17th Century. An outstanding historical study with brief biographies and names of extended family members remaining in Ireland, and which provides a summary of Irish Quaker emigration and migration to the state, is: [http://books.google.com/books?id=7ZedLPs2fj0C&printsec=frontcover&dq=Immigration+of+Irish+Quakers+to+Pennsylvania,+1682-1750&cd=1#v=onepage&q=&f=false ''Immigration of Irish Quakers to Pennsylvania, 1682-1750'' ]. | ||
'''Welsh''' Quakers also came to Pennsylvania as early as the 17th century. Many more came in the nineteenth-century to work in the coal industry. An excellent history identifying many of the original Welsh settlers is: | |||
*Glenn, Thomas Allen. ''Welsh Founders of Pennsylvania''. Oxford: Fox, Jones and Company, 1911. Digital version of Vol. 1 at {{FSbook|93167}} - free. | |||
There are many online resources for finding Irish emigrant ancestry to the United States and Pennsylvania in particular. Visit a significant website containing several Irish immigration website links for Pennsylvania: [http://www.genealogybranches.com/irishpassengerlists/#immigration http://www.genealogybranches.com/irishpassengerlists/#immigration]. | There are many online resources for finding Irish emigrant ancestry to the United States and Pennsylvania in particular. Visit a significant website containing several Irish immigration website links for Pennsylvania: [http://www.genealogybranches.com/irishpassengerlists/#immigration http://www.genealogybranches.com/irishpassengerlists/#immigration]. | ||