Tracing our ancestry back to Nicholas Newland of Mountmellick, Ireland we
fail to find who were his parents or how this family got from England to
Ireland. Nicholas was a Quaker, a man of means in his community. He
disposed of his property in Ireland and bought large tracts of land in
Pennsylvania, upon his arrival on th ship "Levee of Liverpool" from Cork,
Ireland to Pennsylvania. Upon arrival in America, Nicholas Newland's
membership in th Mountmellick Quaker Church in Ireland was transferred to
the Quaker Church in Pennsylvania in 1683. He was not the first Newland
to come to America. The name has been found in Virginia as early as
1639. (See "Newlin Family" by Algie I. Newland, Page 13).
Nicholas Newland, born circa 1630, married Elizabeth Paggott. When
their son, Nathaniel, was eighteen years old he came to America with his
parents and a brother, Hohn and a sister, Rachel, we cannot determine
whether or not any of the children of Nicholas and Elizabeth Newland were
left in Ireland when they came to America with three children in 1683.
Nicholas Newland was a man of wealth and influence in Pennsylvania, a
leader in the church and a member of the Governing Council in his area.