Nicholas was born in 1630 in Mount Mellick, Tyrone, Ireland, the son of Nicholas Newlin and Jane Hyde.
He died on 5 AUG 1699 in Concord, Delaware County, Colonial Pennsylvania.
His wife was Elizabeth Paggot, who he married in 1665 in Canterbury, Kent, England. Their five known children were Nicholas (1646-1683), Elizabeth (1659-1699), Nathaniel (1665-1729), John (c1667-c1695) and Rachel (c1674-1742).
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| Birth | 1630 |
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| Death | 5 AUG 1699 |
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| Baptism | 1 MAR 1671 |
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| Emigration | FEB 1683 |
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| Immigration | MAR 1683 |
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| Burial | 7 JUL 1699 |
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| Residence | See Note 2 |
Note 1
!Source: Daniel Shawn Huffman.
<p style="text-align: left;" dir="ltr">[1st Newlin in line to come to American Newland]</p>
<p style="text-align: left;" dir="ltr"><strong><span style="color: #6d4f28;">NICHOLAS NEWLIN</span></strong><span style="white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-transform: none; float: none; color: #6d4f28; font: 16px/24px SourceSansPro-Regular; widows: 1; display: inline !important; letter-spacing: normal; background-color: #ffffff; text-indent: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>[son of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-transform: none; color: #8b7b66; font: bold 16px/24px SourceSansPro-Regular; widows: 1; letter-spacing: normal; background-color: #ffffff; text-indent: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" href="http://www.genealogy.com/ftm/w/o/r/Robert-P-Worst/WEBSITE-0001/UHP-1597.html"><em style="font-style: italic;"><strong style="font-weight: bold;">NICHOLAS NEWLAND</strong></em></a><span style="white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-transform: none; float: none; color: #6d4f28; font: 16px/24px SourceSansPro-Regular; widows: 1; display: inline !important; letter-spacing: normal; background-color: #ffffff; text-indent: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>and<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-transform: none; color: #8b7b66; font: bold 16px/24px SourceSansPro-Regular; widows: 1; letter-spacing: normal; background-color: #ffffff; text-indent: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" href="http://www.genealogy.com/ftm/w/o/r/Robert-P-Worst/WEBSITE-0001/UHP-1598.html"><em style="font-style: italic;"><strong style="font-weight: bold;">Jane Hyde</strong></em></a><span style="white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-transform: none; float: none; color: #6d4f28; font: 16px/24px SourceSansPro-Regular; widows: 1; display: inline !important; letter-spacing: normal; background-color: #ffffff; text-indent: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">] was born 1630 in Mount Mellick, County Tyrone, Ireland, and died 8/5/1699 in Concord, Delaware Co. , PA.He married<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-transform: none; color: #8b7b66; font: bold 16px/24px SourceSansPro-Regular; widows: 1; letter-spacing: normal; background-color: #ffffff; text-indent: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" href="http://www.genealogy.com/ftm/w/o/r/Robert-P-Worst/WEBSITE-0001/UHP-0301.html"><strong style="font-weight: bold;">ELIZABETH PAGGOTT</strong></a><span style="white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-transform: none; float: none; color: #6d4f28; font: 16px/24px SourceSansPro-Regular; widows: 1; display: inline !important; letter-spacing: normal; background-color: #ffffff; text-indent: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">.</span><br style="white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-transform: none; color: #6d4f28; font: 16px/24px SourceSansPro-Regular; widows: 1; letter-spacing: normal; background-color: #ffffff; text-indent: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" /><em style="white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-transform: none; color: #6d4f28; font: italic 16px/24px SourceSansPro-Regular; widows: 1; letter-spacing: normal; background-color: #ffffff; text-indent: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"> <img src="http://www.genealogy.com/hasnotes.gif" alt="Includes Notes" border="0" /></em><span style="white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-transform: none; float: none; color: #6d4f28; font: 16px/24px SourceSansPro-Regular; widows: 1; display: inline !important; letter-spacing: normal; background-color: #ffffff; text-indent: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">Notes for<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><strong style="white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-transform: none; color: #6d4f28; font: bold 16px/24px SourceSansPro-Regular; widows: 1; letter-spacing: normal; background-color: #ffffff; text-indent: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">NICHOLAS NEWLIN</strong><span style="white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-transform: none; float: none; color: #6d4f28; font: 16px/24px SourceSansPro-Regular; widows: 1; display: inline !important; letter-spacing: normal; background-color: #ffffff; text-indent: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">:</span><br style="white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-transform: none; color: #6d4f28; font: 16px/24px SourceSansPro-Regular; widows: 1; letter-spacing: normal; background-color: #ffffff; text-indent: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" /><span style="white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-transform: none; float: none; color: #6d4f28; font: 16px/24px SourceSansPro-Regular; widows: 1; display: inline !important; letter-spacing: normal; background-color: #ffffff; text-indent: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">Thename Newlin is thought to have been derived from the nameNewlandand originated in England as earlyas1150, when some people were named after the Manor of Newlande Hall in Essex England.1</span><br style="white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-transform: none; color: #6d4f28; font: 16px/24px SourceSansPro-Regular; widows: 1; letter-spacing: normal; background-color: #ffffff; text-indent: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" /><span style="white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-transform: none; float: none; color: #6d4f28; font: 16px/24px SourceSansPro-Regular; widows: 1; display: inline !important; letter-spacing: normal; background-color: #ffffff; text-indent: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">The surname may have evolved from an earlier surname...Newland, possibly from County Essex, England.One source cites, at the beginning of the 13th century, a tract known as "Newland" in County Essex was held by a Norman, by the name of Ralf, son of Brien.This particular source posed a query, was the preceding individual the same one otherwise known in the historic record as "Ralph de la Neweland", perhaps the very first individual to employ the early version of the Newlin surname?at this point, one can only hope to resolve the answer to this genealogically important question.Transcending from postulate to proof, our earliest lineally-identified Newlin ancestor was Nicholas Newlin, who was born in 1580 in Canterbury, England.His son was also named Nicholas, was also very likely born in England and possibly migrated during the min-1600's to south-central Ireland, winding up at a community called Rosenallis.The trail of Nicholas, [Jr.] and wife Elizabeth Paggott becomes evident when they were Quakers attending meetings at Mountmellick, near Rosenallis, Ireland.Prompted by by religious persecution, which may have been what brought them to Ireland in the first place, Nicholas, Elizabeth, and most of their children were en route to America in February & March 1683.They evidently went aboard the ship Levee of Liverpool: at Cork in southern Ireland, and likely disembarked at Chester [earlier known as "Upland",] Pennsylvania, ten miles from which they settled in a community named Concord.Nicholas was from the beginning a financially & politically prominent individual in this area, and his Nathaniel eventually became even more so.Nathaniel was born in 1665, and one account cites that his birth was possibly at Lisburn, near Belfast in northern Ireland.That inference obviously conflicts with another concept that his farther, Nicholas migrated directly from England to south-central Ireland, where the family was proven to have resided.Following a track quit similar to that of Nathaniel, his eventual wife, Mary Mendenhall, migrated with her two brothers to Pennsylvania in 1683, from Wiltshire in southern England.[The foregoing synopsis was supplied by Crystal Newlin of Arizona, who in had received it from Bob Mayse]</span><br style="white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-transform: none; color: #6d4f28; font: 16px/24px SourceSansPro-Regular; widows: 1; letter-spacing: normal; background-color: #ffffff; text-indent: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" /><span style="white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-transform: none; float: none; color: #6d4f28; font: 16px/24px SourceSansPro-Regular; widows: 1; display: inline !important; letter-spacing: normal; background-color: #ffffff; text-indent: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">NicholasNewlin hadresided for many years prior to his emigrationwithinthe limitsofMountmellick Meeting*, Queen'sCounty,Ireland.In Ireland Nicholas had awife,Elizabeth Paggott, and at least 5 children, Nicholas, Elizabeth, Nathaniel,John and Rachael. From Stockdale's account of his sufferings for tithes,and for other reasons, itis evident that he was a prosperous farmerwithlargeflocks and herds and several servants. In 1680 there was taken fromhim for tithes,seventeen "truckle-loads of hey,and nine-</span><br style="white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-transform: none; color: #6d4f28; font: 16px/24px SourceSansPro-Regular; widows: 1; letter-spacing: normal; background-color: #ffffff; text-indent: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" /><span style="white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-transform: none; float: none; color: #6d4f28; font: 16px/24px SourceSansPro-Regular; widows: 1; display: inline !important; letter-spacing: normal; background-color: #ffffff; text-indent: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">teensheaves of beans,and thirty-three sheavesofsmall barley, all worth one pound one shilling"; seventeen "fleeces of wool"and fivelambsvaluedat one pound seven shillings. The church-warden took from him on April 13,6 lambs worth 15 shillings etc..2</span><br style="white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-transform: none; color: #6d4f28; font: 16px/24px SourceSansPro-Regular; widows: 1; letter-spacing: normal; background-color: #ffffff; text-indent: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" /><span style="white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-transform: none; float: none; color: #6d4f28; font: 16px/24px SourceSansPro-Regular; widows: 1; display: inline !important; letter-spacing: normal; background-color: #ffffff; text-indent: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">OnApril 25achurch officer "brought a pair ofsheep shearsand took a sheep and shore it,thensaidNicholas caused the pen to be broken, and the sheep to be driven out, as he haddone before,tohinder their intent;the said</span><br style="white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-transform: none; color: #6d4f28; font: 16px/24px SourceSansPro-Regular; widows: 1; letter-spacing: normal; background-color: #ffffff; text-indent: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" /><span style="white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-transform: none; float: none; color: #6d4f28; font: 16px/24px SourceSansPro-Regular; widows: 1; display: inline !important; letter-spacing: normal; background-color: #ffffff; text-indent: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">person struck many blows with a stick on the back,arms and hands of those that drove out the sheep; afterwards the said persons penned up the sheepagain,and shore andcarried away with them again five fleeces of wool. With the hope of ending these persecutions he made ready to remove his family</span><br style="white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-transform: none; color: #6d4f28; font: 16px/24px SourceSansPro-Regular; widows: 1; letter-spacing: normal; background-color: #ffffff; text-indent: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" /><span style="white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-transform: none; float: none; color: #6d4f28; font: 16px/24px SourceSansPro-Regular; widows: 1; display: inline !important; letter-spacing: normal; background-color: #ffffff; text-indent: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">to Pennsylvania. Mountmellick Meeting signedacertificate on him and his family dated December 25 1682 stating that he had"worked honestly",but thatFriendswere"generally dissatisfied with his so moving,he beingso well settled withhis family,and havingsufficient substance for food and raiment..;but our Godly jealousyis that his chief ground [for removal] is fearfulness of suffering here."He sailedthe early part of 1683 [7/1683],in the Levee of</span><br style="white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-transform: none; color: #6d4f28; font: 16px/24px SourceSansPro-Regular; widows: 1; letter-spacing: normal; background-color: #ffffff; text-indent: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" /><span style="white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-transform: none; float: none; color: #6d4f28; font: 16px/24px SourceSansPro-Regular; widows: 1; display: inline !important; letter-spacing: normal; background-color: #ffffff; text-indent: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">Liverpool, [listed as The Liver] James Kilner,Master,and settled on a large tract of land in Concord, now Delaware County, Pennsylvania.2</span><br style="white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-transform: none; color: #6d4f28; font: 16px/24px SourceSansPro-Regular; widows: 1; letter-spacing: normal; background-color: #ffffff; text-indent: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" /><span style="white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-transform: none; float: none; color: #6d4f28; font: 16px/24px SourceSansPro-Regular; widows: 1; display: inline !important; letter-spacing: normal; background-color: #ffffff; text-indent: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">It is quite likely that Nicholas was able to sell much if not allof his property before leaving Ireland,for he was able to buy large tracts of land in Pennsylvania. Elizabeth, theolderdaughter,remained in IrelandtomarryThomas Burton.This must have added to the heartaches which accom-</span><br style="white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-transform: none; color: #6d4f28; font: 16px/24px SourceSansPro-Regular; widows: 1; letter-spacing: normal; background-color: #ffffff; text-indent: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" /><span style="white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-transform: none; float: none; color: #6d4f28; font: 16px/24px SourceSansPro-Regular; widows: 1; display: inline !important; letter-spacing: normal; background-color: #ffffff; text-indent: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">panied the departure of the five members of the family.The reason for leavingbefore the wedding is not known.Itis possiblethatthe shortage of shipping made itimperative for them to take thefirst space available. Since no member</span><br style="white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-transform: none; color: #6d4f28; font: 16px/24px SourceSansPro-Regular; widows: 1; letter-spacing: normal; background-color: #ffffff; text-indent: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" /><span style="white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-transform: none; float: none; color: #6d4f28; font: 16px/24px SourceSansPro-Regular; widows: 1; display: inline !important; letter-spacing: normal; background-color: #ffffff; text-indent: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">of Elizabeth's family signed her weddingcertificateit is quite safe to assumethat they left Mountmellick before the wedding.3Nicholasobviously had money since he chartered the entire ship that brought his family, hunting dogs, horses and servants to the New World.</span><br style="white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-transform: none; color: #6d4f28; font: 16px/24px SourceSansPro-Regular; widows: 1; letter-spacing: normal; background-color: #ffffff; text-indent: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" /><span style="white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-transform: none; float: none; color: #6d4f28; font: 16px/24px SourceSansPro-Regular; widows: 1; display: inline !important; letter-spacing: normal; background-color: #ffffff; text-indent: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">We must be contentwithfollowingthe family in imagination only,as they disposed of their property, take leave of Elizabeth and their friends in Queens County,and making their way,dayby day,and week by week,along the three thousand milecourseby land and sea from the Old World to theNew.The three children known to have been withtheir parents were old enoughtowithstand the disease and hardship of the sea voyage. Nathaniel was eighteen years of age, Rachel was nine, and John was somewhere between them.3</span><br style="white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-transform: none; color: #6d4f28; font: 16px/24px SourceSansPro-Regular; widows: 1; letter-spacing: normal; background-color: #ffffff; text-indent: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" /><span style="white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-transform: none; float: none; color: #6d4f28; font: 16px/24px SourceSansPro-Regular; widows: 1; display: inline !important; letter-spacing: normal; background-color: #ffffff; text-indent: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">Not a word is available to give a glimpse of thisNewlin family as it tossed, pitched and rolled on its way from Ireland in a littleseventeenth century sailing boat. However, history shows thatitwasmost likely a hazardous experi-</span><br style="white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-transform: none; color: #6d4f28; font: 16px/24px SourceSansPro-Regular; widows: 1; letter-spacing: normal; background-color: #ffffff; text-indent: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" /><span style="white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-transform: none; float: none; color: #6d4f28; font: 16px/24px SourceSansPro-Regular; widows: 1; display: inline !important; letter-spacing: normal; background-color: #ffffff; text-indent: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">ence;an ordeal which only the strong couldsurvive.The mortality rate on these immigrant boats wasextremely high; sometimesnearly half of the passengersdied en routeand were buried at sea.In 1680the survivorof a voyage just completed to Virginia describedthe journey as, "... a most</span><br style="white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-transform: none; color: #6d4f28; font: 16px/24px SourceSansPro-Regular; widows: 1; letter-spacing: normal; background-color: #ffffff; text-indent: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" /><span style="white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-transform: none; float: none; color: #6d4f28; font: 16px/24px SourceSansPro-Regular; widows: 1; display: inline !important; letter-spacing: normal; background-color: #ffffff; text-indent: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">tedious passage of eleven weeks and two days, full of death, scurvy and all sorts of fevers.""...Children from 1 to 7 rarely survive the passage."3</span><br style="white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-transform: none; color: #6d4f28; font: 16px/24px SourceSansPro-Regular; widows: 1; letter-spacing: normal; background-color: #ffffff; text-indent: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" /><span style="white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-transform: none; float: none; color: #6d4f28; font: 16px/24px SourceSansPro-Regular; widows: 1; display: inline !important; letter-spacing: normal; background-color: #ffffff; text-indent: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">It seems quite likely that the Levee of Liverpool stopped at Chester,Pennsylvania. This port was fifteen miles below Philadelphia and only ten miles from Concord. The town, then knownas Upland,wasolder andlargerthan the emerging Philadelphia.William Penn is said to have changed the name to Chester during his stop here a year earlier.Atract of land was surveyed for Nicholas Newlin on February 241683, this should have been before their arrival.Then on July 24 1683 Nicholas Newlin acquires a second tract of 500 acres of land in Concord.Itis quite evident that one of his first concernswasto purchase sufficient land to enable himto supporthisfamilyand carry on a sizeableagricultural operation.4</span><br style="white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-transform: none; color: #6d4f28; font: 16px/24px SourceSansPro-Regular; widows: 1; letter-spacing: normal; background-color: #ffffff; text-indent: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" /><span style="white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-transform: none; float: none; color: #6d4f28; font: 16px/24px SourceSansPro-Regular; widows: 1; display: inline !important; letter-spacing: normal; background-color: #ffffff; text-indent: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">FromNicholas Newlin's earliest recorded act in Pennsylvania,the attendance at a meeting of Friends [Quakers]in Chichester,through the remainder of his life,he seems to have been a faithful attender of Friends meetings.For sev-</span><br style="white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-transform: none; color: #6d4f28; font: 16px/24px SourceSansPro-Regular; widows: 1; letter-spacing: normal; background-color: #ffffff; text-indent: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" /><span style="white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-transform: none; float: none; color: #6d4f28; font: 16px/24px SourceSansPro-Regular; widows: 1; display: inline !important; letter-spacing: normal; background-color: #ffffff; text-indent: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">eral yearsbefore the construction of Concord Meeting House the meetings for worship were held at his home.This may be taken as an indication of the esteemwithwhich members of the meeting held him,and it could have been partly because his house was large enough for the meeting.5</span><br style="white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-transform: none; color: #6d4f28; font: 16px/24px SourceSansPro-Regular; widows: 1; letter-spacing: normal; background-color: #ffffff; text-indent: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" /><span style="white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-transform: none; float: none; color: #6d4f28; font: 16px/24px SourceSansPro-Regular; widows: 1; display: inline !important; letter-spacing: normal; background-color: #ffffff; text-indent: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">NicholasNewlinforges into political leadershipalong with his leadership in otherphases of the colonial societyin Pennsylvania. In 1685,two years after settling in America, hewaselected to represent Chester Countyonthe</span><br style="white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-transform: none; color: #6d4f28; font: 16px/24px SourceSansPro-Regular; widows: 1; letter-spacing: normal; background-color: #ffffff; text-indent: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" /><span style="white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-transform: none; float: none; color: #6d4f28; font: 16px/24px SourceSansPro-Regular; widows: 1; display: inline !important; letter-spacing: normal; background-color: #ffffff; text-indent: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">ProvincialCouncil of Pennsylvania.This body served ina dual capacity; it was the advisory body for the Governor and itservedas the upper chamberof the legislature ofthe colony.Members ofthe Council were picked as persons "... ofbest repute for wisdom,virtue,and ability."In 1684 WilliamPenn commissioned Nicholas Newlin as ajusticein thecolonialcourt alongwith eight othersfromChester County.This commission was renewed four times and it seems quite clear that he served in this capacity for at least six years.5</span><br style="white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-transform: none; color: #6d4f28; font: 16px/24px SourceSansPro-Regular; widows: 1; letter-spacing: normal; background-color: #ffffff; text-indent: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" /><span style="white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-transform: none; float: none; color: #6d4f28; font: 16px/24px SourceSansPro-Regular; widows: 1; display: inline !important; letter-spacing: normal; background-color: #ffffff; text-indent: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">On January 30 1685Nicholas Newlin and two other members of the Provincial Council were ".... attested to keep secret the debates of the Council." This was the first reference to him as member of the Council;the last was July 9 1687.On May 31 1686the Council appointed Nicholas Newlin as a member of a committee tostudy the laws of Pennsylvania and to recommend changes as needed.At different times he directed the construction of roads,served as constable, tax collector, and as the guardian of children of one family.6</span><br style="white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-transform: none; color: #6d4f28; font: 16px/24px SourceSansPro-Regular; widows: 1; letter-spacing: normal; background-color: #ffffff; text-indent: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" /><span style="white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-transform: none; float: none; color: #6d4f28; font: 16px/24px SourceSansPro-Regular; widows: 1; display: inline !important; letter-spacing: normal; background-color: #ffffff; text-indent: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">In addition to the 1045acres that Nicholas farmed,he built amill in Concord in the very early times.He had at least one indentured servant, John Fox, and was given another boy whose name was William MacDonald, who was adjudged to be sixteen years of age,to serve five years and a half and tobe taught to read and write.NicholasNewlindiedin 1699,and bequeathed to hisdaughter,Elizabeth [Newlin] [Burton]Paggott, 245 acres of land in Birmingham,and the rest to his son Nathaniel Newlin.7</span><br style="white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-transform: none; color: #6d4f28; font: 16px/24px SourceSansPro-Regular; widows: 1; letter-spacing: normal; background-color: #ffffff; text-indent: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" /><span style="white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-transform: none; float: none; color: #6d4f28; font: 16px/24px SourceSansPro-Regular; widows: 1; display: inline !important; letter-spacing: normal; background-color: #ffffff; text-indent: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">Contemporaryandlater evaluations ofNicholasNewlin invariablycharacterizehim as a man of integrityandan ablepublic servant.John Hill Martin's character study of thejusticeswho served in the earlyPennsylvania courts covers those of the days of Nicholas Newlin. "These Justices werenot only Justices of the Courts but of the Peace also; andthey were gentlemen of large intelligence andofmore weight and influence in the community,and of moredignity ofcharacter,than the majority of the menwhoarenow</span><br style="white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-transform: none; color: #6d4f28; font: 16px/24px SourceSansPro-Regular; widows: 1; letter-spacing: normal; background-color: #ffffff; text-indent: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" /><span style="white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-transform: none; float: none; color: #6d4f28; font: 16px/24px SourceSansPro-Regular; widows: 1; display: inline !important; letter-spacing: normal; background-color: #ffffff; text-indent: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">elected Justices of the Peace."He goes on to say that they were among "the leading men in the country." Nicholas Newlin wasclassedasoneof the most eminentpersonsinthe Society of Friends of Pennsylvania of that day.8</span><br style="white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-transform: none; color: #6d4f28; font: 16px/24px SourceSansPro-Regular; widows: 1; letter-spacing: normal; background-color: #ffffff; text-indent: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" /><span style="white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-transform: none; float: none; color: #6d4f28; font: 16px/24px SourceSansPro-Regular; widows: 1; display: inline !important; letter-spacing: normal; background-color: #ffffff; text-indent: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">Notes</span><br style="white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-transform: none; color: #6d4f28; font: 16px/24px SourceSansPro-Regular; widows: 1; letter-spacing: normal; background-color: #ffffff; text-indent: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" /><span style="white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-transform: none; float: none; color: #6d4f28; font: 16px/24px SourceSansPro-Regular; widows: 1; display: inline !important; letter-spacing: normal; background-color: #ffffff; text-indent: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">1. The History of Alamance County of North Carolina, by Sallie Walker Stackard, 1900, page 138.</span><br style="white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-transform: none; color: #6d4f28; font: 16px/24px SourceSansPro-Regular; widows: 1; letter-spacing: normal; background-color: #ffffff; text-indent: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" /><span style="white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-transform: none; float: none; color: #6d4f28; font: 16px/24px SourceSansPro-Regular; widows: 1; display: inline !important; letter-spacing: normal; background-color: #ffffff; text-indent: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">The Newlin Family, by Algie I. Newlin, Greensboro, North Carolina, 1965, pages 1-8.</span><br style="white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-transform: none; color: #6d4f28; font: 16px/24px SourceSansPro-Regular; widows: 1; letter-spacing: normal; background-color: #ffffff; text-indent: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" /><span style="white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-transform: none; float: none; color: #6d4f28; font: 16px/24px SourceSansPro-Regular; widows: 1; display: inline !important; letter-spacing: normal; background-color: #ffffff; text-indent: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">2. Immigration of the Irish Quakers into Pennsylvania 1682-1750, by Albert Cook Myers,Swarthmore, Pa., 1902, pages 271.</span><br style="white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-transform: none; color: #6d4f28; font: 16px/24px SourceSansPro-Regular; widows: 1; letter-spacing: normal; background-color: #ffffff; text-indent: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" /><span style="white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-transform: none; float: none; color: #6d4f28; font: 16px/24px SourceSansPro-Regular; widows: 1; display: inline !important; letter-spacing: normal; background-color: #ffffff; text-indent: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">3. The Newlin Family, by Algie I. Newlin, Greensboro, North Carolina, 1965, page 11.</span><br style="white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-transform: none; color: #6d4f28; font: 16px/24px SourceSansPro-Regular; widows: 1; letter-spacing: normal; background-color: #ffffff; text-indent: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" /><span style="white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-transform: none; float: none; color: #6d4f28; font: 16px/24px SourceSansPro-Regular; widows: 1; display: inline !important; letter-spacing: normal; background-color: #ffffff; text-indent: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">4. ibid, pages 13, 14.</span><br style="white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-transform: none; color: #6d4f28; font: 16px/24px SourceSansPro-Regular; widows: 1; letter-spacing: normal; background-color: #ffffff; text-indent: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" /><span style="white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-transform: none; float: none; color: #6d4f28; font: 16px/24px SourceSansPro-Regular; widows: 1; display: inline !important; letter-spacing: normal; background-color: #ffffff; text-indent: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">5. ibid, page 14.</span><br style="white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-transform: none; color: #6d4f28; font: 16px/24px SourceSansPro-Regular; widows: 1; letter-spacing: normal; background-color: #ffffff; text-indent: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" /><span style="white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-transform: none; float: none; color: #6d4f28; font: 16px/24px SourceSansPro-Regular; widows: 1; display: inline !important; letter-spacing: normal; background-color: #ffffff; text-indent: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">6. ibid, page 15.</span><br style="white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-transform: none; color: #6d4f28; font: 16px/24px SourceSansPro-Regular; widows: 1; letter-spacing: normal; background-color: #ffffff; text-indent: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" /><span style="white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-transform: none; float: none; color: #6d4f28; font: 16px/24px SourceSansPro-Regular; widows: 1; display: inline !important; letter-spacing: normal; background-color: #ffffff; text-indent: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">7. ibid, pages 15-17.</span><br style="white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-transform: none; color: #6d4f28; font: 16px/24px SourceSansPro-Regular; widows: 1; letter-spacing: normal; background-color: #ffffff; text-indent: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" /><span style="white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-transform: none; float: none; color: #6d4f28; font: 16px/24px SourceSansPro-Regular; widows: 1; display: inline !important; letter-spacing: normal; background-color: #ffffff; text-indent: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">8. ibid, page 17.</span><br style="white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-transform: none; color: #6d4f28; font: 16px/24px SourceSansPro-Regular; widows: 1; letter-spacing: normal; background-color: #ffffff; text-indent: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" /><span style="white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-transform: none; float: none; color: #6d4f28; font: 16px/24px SourceSansPro-Regular; widows: 1; display: inline !important; letter-spacing: normal; background-color: #ffffff; text-indent: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">*Mountmellick is a market town in County Laois [formerly known as Queens</span><br style="white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-transform: none; color: #6d4f28; font: 16px/24px SourceSansPro-Regular; widows: 1; letter-spacing: normal; background-color: #ffffff; text-indent: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" /><span style="white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-transform: none; float: none; color: #6d4f28; font: 16px/24px SourceSansPro-Regular; widows: 1; display: inline !important; letter-spacing: normal; background-color: #ffffff; text-indent: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">County], half way between Tullamore and Port Laoise.</span><br style="white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-transform: none; color: #6d4f28; font: 16px/24px SourceSansPro-Regular; widows: 1; letter-spacing: normal; background-color: #ffffff; text-indent: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" /><span style="white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-transform: none; float: none; color: #6d4f28; font: 16px/24px SourceSansPro-Regular; widows: 1; display: inline !important; letter-spacing: normal; background-color: #ffffff; text-indent: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">More About<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><strong style="white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-transform: none; color: #6d4f28; font: bold 16px/24px SourceSansPro-Regular; widows: 1; letter-spacing: normal; background-color: #ffffff; text-indent: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">NICHOLAS NEWLIN</strong><span style="white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-transform: none; float: none; color: #6d4f28; font: 16px/24px SourceSansPro-Regular; widows: 1; display: inline !important; letter-spacing: normal; background-color: #ffffff; text-indent: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">:</span><br style="white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-transform: none; color: #6d4f28; font: 16px/24px SourceSansPro-Regular; widows: 1; letter-spacing: normal; background-color: #ffffff; text-indent: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" /><span style="white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-transform: none; float: none; color: #6d4f28; font: 16px/24px SourceSansPro-Regular; widows: 1; display: inline !important; letter-spacing: normal; background-color: #ffffff; text-indent: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">Baptism: 3/1/1571-72, Fareham Parrish, Hampshire.</span><br style="white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-transform: none; color: #6d4f28; font: 16px/24px SourceSansPro-Regular; widows: 1; letter-spacing: normal; background-color: #ffffff; text-indent: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" /><span style="white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-transform: none; float: none; color: #6d4f28; font: 16px/24px SourceSansPro-Regular; widows: 1; display: inline !important; letter-spacing: normal; background-color: #ffffff; text-indent: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">Fact 7 1: Settled in Concord Township, Chester County [now Delaware Co.].</span><br style="white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-transform: none; color: #6d4f28; font: 16px/24px SourceSansPro-Regular; widows: 1; letter-spacing: normal; background-color: #ffffff; text-indent: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" /><span style="white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-transform: none; float: none; color: #6d4f28; font: 16px/24px SourceSansPro-Regular; widows: 1; display: inline !important; letter-spacing: normal; background-color: #ffffff; text-indent: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">Fact 7 2: 1685, Called to Council of the Governor & the Proprietary, Wm Penn.</span><br style="white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-transform: none; color: #6d4f28; font: 16px/24px SourceSansPro-Regular; widows: 1; letter-spacing: normal; background-color: #ffffff; text-indent: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" /><span style="white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-transform: none; float: none; color: #6d4f28; font: 16px/24px SourceSansPro-Regular; widows: 1; display: inline !important; letter-spacing: normal; background-color: #ffffff; text-indent: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">Immigration: 1683, Emigrated from Ireland.</span><br style="white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-transform: none; color: #6d4f28; font: 16px/24px SourceSansPro-Regular; widows: 1; letter-spacing: normal; background-color: #ffffff; text-indent: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" /><span style="white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-transform: none; float: none; color: #6d4f28; font: 16px/24px SourceSansPro-Regular; widows: 1; display: inline !important; letter-spacing: normal; background-color: #ffffff; text-indent: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">Children of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><strong style="white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-transform: none; color: #6d4f28; font: bold 16px/24px SourceSansPro-Regular; widows: 1; letter-spacing: normal; background-color: #ffffff; text-indent: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">NICHOLAS NEWLIN</strong><span style="white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-transform: none; float: none; color: #6d4f28; font: 16px/24px SourceSansPro-Regular; widows: 1; display: inline !important; letter-spacing: normal; background-color: #ffffff; text-indent: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>and<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><strong style="white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-transform: none; color: #6d4f28; font: bold 16px/24px SourceSansPro-Regular; widows: 1; letter-spacing: normal; background-color: #ffffff; text-indent: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">ELIZABETH PAGGOTT</strong><span style="white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-transform: none; float: none; color: #6d4f28; font: 16px/24px SourceSansPro-Regular; widows: 1; display: inline !important; letter-spacing: normal; background-color: #ffffff; text-indent: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>are:</span></p>
<ol style="list-style-type: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-transform: none; color: #9e8f7c; font: 16px/24px SourceSansPro-Regular; widows: 1; margin: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; background-color: #ffffff; text-indent: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; padding: 0px;" type="i" compact="compact">px; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: #8b7b66;" href="http://www.genealogy.com/ftm/w/o/r/Robert-P-Worst/WEBSITE-0001/UHP-0298.html"><strong style="font-weight: bold;">NATHANIEL NEWLIN</strong></a>, b. 2/18/1664-65, Mountmellick, Queens, Ireland, d. 5/1729, New London, Chester Co., PA.</li>
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