This project hopes to find information and collect data on some of the primary groups of colonial Pennsylvanian settlers: English Quakers, Welsh Quakers, Germans, and Scotch-Irish families. In some areas, this project may overlap with The Tapestry project. The focus here will (for the time being) be on 17th and 18th century colonial settlers in the southeastern counties surrounding the Philadelphia area.

Philadelphia (circa 1755)

Families

English Quaker Families

• Sellers
• Townsend
• Way -- Edward and Robert Way
• Norris

Welsh Quaker Families

• Griffith
• Wynne
• Lloyd

Scotch-Irish Families

• Logan

German Families

• Matz
• Reinhold
• Schonauer (includes related Schoennauer, Schonouer, Schonour spellings)
• Schupp
• Tritsch

Other Places

Like the Tapestry, this project will track migrations out of colonial Pennsylvania. Migrations to Cambria, Indiana, and Centre counties may be of interest.

References

Primary Sources

• Collection of Upwards of Thirty Thousand Names of German, Swiss, Dutch, French and Other Immigrants in Pennsylvania from 1727-1776 by Prof. I. Daniel Rupp
• Book: Historic Background and Annals of the Swiss and German Pioneer Settlers of Southeastern Pennsylvania, and of Their Remote Ancestors, from the Middle of the Dark Ages, Down to the Time of the Revolutionary War by H. Frank Eshleman (1917)
• Pennsylvania Archives: Volume 6, Part 1, edited by Thomas Lynch Montgomery (1907)
• Immigrant Servants Database

Finding Aids

Historical Resources

• Pennsylvania Roots: A Historical Overview of Pennsylvania
• UShistory: Pennsylvania 1630-1700
• CelebrateBoston: William Penn & Quakers Arrive - English Settlement of Pennsylvania
• Pennsylvania Historical & Museum Commission: Our First Friends, The Early Quakers
• Wikipedia: History of Pennsylvania
• ExplorePAhistory: Stories from PA History - The Settlement of Western Pennsylvania
• The English Settlers in Colonial Pennsylvania
• Historical Society of Pennsylvania: German Settlement in Pennsylvania - An Overview
• WikiTree Project: William Penn and Early Pennsylvania Settlers
• United States History: Exploration and Settlement of Pennsylvania
• Living Places: 17th Century Pennsylvania
• Social Studies for Kids: The Making of the 50 States - Pennsylvania
• Pennsylvania History: Pennsylvania on the Eve of Colonization
• Colonial America: Pennsylvania Colony
• 13 Colonies: Pennsylvania Colony and the Quakers
• Pennsylvania Research Guide

Immigration

• FamilySearch: Pennsylvania Emigration and Immigration
• RootsWeb: Early Immigrants to Pennsylvania 1680s-1726
• Internet Sacred Text Archive: Immigration Trends are Divided into Three General Periods
• Immigration and Migration (Colonial Era)

Regional Genealogy Societies

• Beaver County Genealogy & History Center, Beaver, PA
• Berks County Genealogical Society, Reading, PA
• Blair County Genealogical Society, Hollidaysburg, PA
• Bucks County Genealogical Society, Washington Crossing, PA
• Butler County Genealogical Society, Butler, PA
• Columbia County Historical and Genealogical Society, Bloomsburg, PA
• Erie Society for Genealogical Research, Erie, PA
• Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania
• Genealogical Society of Southwestern Pennsylvania, Washington, PA
• Northeast Pennsylvania Genealogical Society, Hanover Township, PA
• Western Pennsylvania Genealogical Society, Pittsburgh, PA