Author: Thomas Allen Glenn

Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com

Published: 2013-09

Total Pages: 134

ISBN-13: 9781230078199

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1896 edition. Excerpt: ... now and then something in Welsh. Edward Rees possessed several Bibles in Welsh and English, and also a " Concordance." The Merion Meeting, in conjunction with those of Radnor and Haverford, early took in hand the formation of a circulating library, but of the books issued to members nearly all were upon theology. In 1699 John Humphrey left a sum of money to print the "Twelve Patriarchs," in Welsh, "if convenience be had " in these parts, but that this was never done appears from a subsequent memorandum in the minutes concerning the bequest. A very old and valuable work, formerly a part of the library of John Humphrey, and afterwards bequeathed by him to Rowland Ellis, is now in the possession of the Friends' Library on Sixteenth Street, Philadelphia. It is a large folio edition of Percy Enciibie's History of the Ancient Britains, and has written in it the names of Rowland Ellis, Rowland Ellis, r., Herbert Rees, Eleanor Ellis and others. Most of the Velsh colonists, as we have observed, wrote excellent hands at a time when most people were satisfied to make their mark. If the Cymry erected substantial buildings in their native country, they certainly were careful to do so in Merion. We have seen that their first shelter was in caves dug in the banks of streams, or temporary log huts. Such makeshifts were soon abandoned for more substantial log houses, which were later supplanted by stone structures. The dwellings of john Roberts, of Pencoyd, commenced in 1684; of Rowland Ellis, at Bryn Mawr (Harriton); that built by Edward Rees, 1693; by Robert Owen, 1695; the houses of John Roberts (Wayne Mill) and Rees Thomas (now Rosemont), and the mansion erected by Jonathan Wynne in 1700 or I 701 (now near the...

Download or read book Merion in the Welsh Tract; with Sketches of the Townships of Haverford and Radnor. Historical and Genealogical Collections Concerning the Welsh Barony written by Thomas Allen Glenn and published by Rarebooksclub.com. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1896 edition. Excerpt: ... now and then something in Welsh. Edward Rees possessed several Bibles in Welsh and English, and also a " Concordance." The Merion Meeting, in conjunction with those of Radnor and Haverford, early took in hand the formation of a circulating library, but of the books issued to members nearly all were upon theology. In 1699 John Humphrey left a sum of money to print the "Twelve Patriarchs," in Welsh, "if convenience be had " in these parts, but that this was never done appears from a subsequent memorandum in the minutes concerning the bequest. A very old and valuable work, formerly a part of the library of John Humphrey, and afterwards bequeathed by him to Rowland Ellis, is now in the possession of the Friends' Library on Sixteenth Street, Philadelphia. It is a large folio edition of Percy Enciibie's History of the Ancient Britains, and has written in it the names of Rowland Ellis, Rowland Ellis, r., Herbert Rees, Eleanor Ellis and others. Most of the Velsh colonists, as we have observed, wrote excellent hands at a time when most people were satisfied to make their mark. If the Cymry erected substantial buildings in their native country, they certainly were careful to do so in Merion. We have seen that their first shelter was in caves dug in the banks of streams, or temporary log huts. Such makeshifts were soon abandoned for more substantial log houses, which were later supplanted by stone structures. The dwellings of john Roberts, of Pencoyd, commenced in 1684; of Rowland Ellis, at Bryn Mawr (Harriton); that built by Edward Rees, 1693; by Robert Owen, 1695; the houses of John Roberts (Wayne Mill) and Rees Thomas (now Rosemont), and the mansion erected by Jonathan Wynne in 1700 or I 701 (now near the...