Excerpt from Quaker Arrivals at Philadelphia 1682-1750: Being a List of Certificates of Removal, Received at Philadelphia Monthly, Meeting or Friends The following list of certificates Of removal, now printed for the first time, will be of value, it is believed, not only to genealogists but to historians, in the broader sense, interested in investigating the early migratory movement to Penn's Colony. As the metropolis of the new Province on the Delaware, Philadelphia became better known abroad than any other part of Penn sylvania, and a large proportion of the steady stream Of Quaker colonists which poured into the Province made this city its Objective point. Of the nineteen monthly meetings established in Pennsylvania prior to 1750, as the writer's investigation Of the manuscript records has shown, Philadelphia Monthly Meeting easily ranks first as to the number of certificates received. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.