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About Rowland Ellis
Rowland Ellis was a Welsh-born landowner and politician who immigrated to the Province of Pennsylvania, where he spent the rest of his life. Ellis was born c. 1650 in Wales. The owner of the "Bryn Mawr" farm near Dolgellau, Merionethshire, he became a Quaker after English religious leader George Fox visited Dolgellau in 1657. As a result of religious persecution against Quakers in Wales, Ellis and a number of other Welsh Quakers emigrated to Pennsylvania, an English colony in North America, in 1686. A new settlement established in the colony was later named Bryn Mawr after Ellis's farm.
Everything about Rowland Ellis →- Occupation
- politician
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- 1650
- Died
- September 1731