Photograph: Unidentified clergymen, Uticia, New York

PHOTOGRAPH: Unidentified clergymen, Uticia, New York.

Welshmen began immigrating to other countries including the United States as early as the 1600s. One of the earliest groups of Welsh emigrants was the John Miles congregation of Baptists who settled in Rehoboth, Massachusetts. The most significant early Welsh emigrants to America settled in the "Welsh Tract" of Pennsylvania. They came at the invitation of William Penn, and the first group arrived in the early 1680s. For several decades after this, many Welsh nonconformists immigrated to Pennsylvania. Emigration to America declined sharply during the eighteenth century but picked up again during the nineteenth century. It increased after 1815, when it became a means of poor relief. In the first half of the nineteenth century, the Welsh established communities in Pennsylvania, Vermont, Ohio, and up-state New York. These early settlements became the nucleus for later migration into Wisconsin, Minnesota, Illinois, Missouri, and Iowa. Beginning in the 1840s, many skilled iron workers and coal miners emigrated from Wales. Over 250,000 Welshmen have immigrated to America over the last 300 years.

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Compiled by Amanda Sweet for Archifau Ynys Môn / Anglesey Archives

https://www.familysearch.org/wiki/en/Wales_Emigration

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