May 13, 2021
Powys Archives has recently bought a rare manuscript which documents land bought in Pennsylvania in the seventeenth century by families who emigrated to America to escape persecution providing a fascinating insight into the connection between mid Wales and the USA.
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Historian Phil Jones looks at the manuscript
The indenture dated 1682 records a sale by Richard Davies, the prominent Quaker of Cloddiau, Welshpool, to Margaret James a spinster of the parish of Newchurch, Radnorshire, of two hundred acres of land in Pennsylvania.
The document was purchased with the help of the Powysland Club, the historical society for the county of Montgomeryshire and Powys Family History Society.
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