Rowland Ellis

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.

Occupation: politician
Citizenship: United States
Born: 1650
Died: September 1731

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Rowland Ellis (1650 – September 1731) was a Welsh Quaker leader. He was the owner of the farm of Bryn Mawr near Dolgellau. He became a Quaker, along with a number of other inhabitants of Dolgellau, after a visit to the town by George Fox in 1657. As a result of religious persecution, he and others emigrated to Pennsylvania in 1686. The town of Bryn Mawr there is named after Ellis's farm. In 1688 he briefly returned to Wales to set his affairs in order, but went back to Pennsylvania, where in 1700 he was elected to represent Philadelphia in the provincial assembly. In 1969 Marion Eames, a Welsh writer who lived in Dolgellau, published a semi-fictional account of the events leading up to the emigration under the title Y Stafell Ddirgel, since translated into English as "The Secret Room". References

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About Rowland Ellis

About Rowland Ellis

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