Tobias Pleadwell, Quaker of Mountmellick

"My grandfather, William Pleadwell, and his wife came into Ireland in 1655,they being baptists, and settled near Killaloe. He had by his first wife Tobias Pleadwell, and by a second wife John Pleadwell, and by a third wife Thomas Pleadwell and my mother and two other daughters, one of whom was married to William Neale; and some time after my grandfather settled near Killaloe he was convinced by the ministry of Edward Burroughs and died not long after; and as his son Tobias Pleadwell was convinced some time before his father and settled at Mount Melick, my grandmother and her children came to dwell at Mountmelick, and in the year 1663 my father & mother married and settled at Mountmelick; but in the year 1665 my father & several other friends were sent prisoners for Tythe! to Maryborough Gaol, where they continued prisoners for several years, though he had nothing titheable but a garden; so he got a house in Maryborough for my mother to dwell in and by favour of the Gaoler or Gaolers followed some business in his trade at Maryborough, and after they were discharged from the prison he took a farm at Coalnecart, part of the lands thy father now holds, and in 1678 or 1679 he went to live at Mountrath. As to the time and place of the births of my brothers & sisters I refer thee to the abstract of the monthly meeting records of births and burials of Mount Melick Monthly Meeting, which abstract, so far as relates to Mountrath meeting is mostly in my handwriting. I suppose it is in the hands of John Clendenon. {signed} Thomas Pim "