...Britons, who had been driven into a corner of England by the Saxon and Norman invaders, they felt that they were still a separate people, and, like the Germans,...country of their own in Pennsylvania. For the first half-century of the colony's existence it afforded the rather unusual spectacle of an English province...

...entered Pennsylvania in very large numbers. Fisher in his "Making of Pennsylvania" informs us that "For the first fifteen or twenty years after the founding...immigrants, and they have left many traces of themselves for many miles around Philadelphia in the names of places." 1 See "The Cradle of the Republic, James Town...

...the best in American industry. The Welsh. A number of Welsh came to America in early colonial days. For the first fifteen or twenty years after the founding of Pennsylvania many Welsh Quakers came to that colony. Few came, however, after 1700. Most of the Welsh who came to...