Welsh Settlement of Pennsylvania

By: Charles H. Browning, Pub. 1912, reprinted 2022, 632 pages, Index, E-BOOK, ISBN #978-1-63914-537-9. The early Welsh immigrants to Pennsylvania were mostly Quakers who had borne the brunt of religious persecution in their English homeland. Given the opportunity to secure relief from their religious oppression, they were among the first to accept William Penn's offer to settle in his new colony of Pennsylvania. The Welsh Tract as it was known as, was approximately 40,000 acres located on the we