Standing on a Quaker Burial Ground in Philadelphia that Contains my 8th Great-Grandmother's Bones
Quakers, Katherine Lightfoot, Arch Street Meeting House, Philadelphia, Northern Ireland Tonya Graham McQuade Quakers, Katherine Lightfoot, Arch Street Meeting House, Philadelphia, Northern Ireland Tonya Graham McQuade

Standing on a Quaker Burial Ground in Philadelphia that Contains my 8th Great-Grandmother's Bones

In which I discuss my recent visit to the Arch Street (Quaker) Meeting House in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where my 8th great-grandmother, Katherine Lightfoot Miller, is buried; and I share some details about the Meeting House as well as Quaker beliefs and history.

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Tracing my "Ulster Presbyterian" Roots from Ireland to Pennsylvania
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Tracing my "Ulster Presbyterian" Roots from Ireland to Pennsylvania

In which I explain how so many English and Scottish Presbyterians (including some of my ancestors) ended up living in various counties in Ulster in Northern Ireland, the reasons they immigrated and reasons the left, and why so many moved to Pennsylvania 

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