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| | Welsh in Pennsylvania - Page 2 (Site not responding. Last check: ) |
 | | The mass immigration of Welsh to Pennsylvania before 1700 was due largely to the desire of Welsh Quakers for religious freedom and escape from persecution, and for the creation of a separate colony or “barony” in America. |
 | | In general, its borders covered eleven and one-half townships in Delaware, Chester and Montgomery counties, including Radnor, Haverford, Upper and Lower Merion, West Whiteland, East Westland, Willistown, West and East Goshen, Tredyffrin, part of West Town, and all of East Town. |
 | | Of these, Gwynedd Township, in the present Montgomery County, was the most important early mass settlement. |
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