My 4th Great Grandfather seems to be named, John Mannon. His profile says that he lived in St. George's Hundred in New Castle County, Delaware and he was born in Ireland. This all make sense since many of my relatives came from Pennsylvania. What I am wondering is if he and other Mannon's were Protestants who simply came from Ireland (originally from England) to live in the Delaware Valley at a time when Quakers were doing the same thing (to escape the turmoil of the wars in Ireland between the Celtic Catholics, and the incoming Protestant English and Scots). Or...if the Mannons were some of those Quakers themselves. I read a whole book on Irish Quakers immigrating into the Pennsylvania Province between 1683 and 1750, and not a word of any Mannon's in the certificates of removal (which Quakers had to get from their religious organizations in order to move from one place to another). So I am tending to think that my 4th grandfather just happened to arrive at the tail end of this huge Quaker exodus from Ireland (and Europe), and that his timing was just a coincidence. If anyone knows any better than I, please let me know.