Ohio archæological and historical quarterly . engaged for over forty years. He was chaplain during the CivilWar. After the war he continued his labor with the American SundaySchool Union and traveled throughout the country. He made severalvisits to Wales. He wrote The History of the Welsh Settlement atPaddys Run, The History of the Welsh Settlement at Radnor, TheStory of My Life, and contributed very largely to current has made many valuable contributions to Welsh History in Ohio,He died on the 14th day of July, 1892, in Wales, at Dolgelly, a few milesfrom Bala, his birthplace.
Ohio archæological and historical quarterly . engaged for over forty years. He was chaplain during the CivilWar. After the war he continued his labor with the American SundaySchool Union and traveled throughout the country. He made severalvisits to Wales. He wrote The History of the Welsh Settlement atPaddys Run, The History of the Welsh Settlement at Radnor, TheStory of My Life, and contributed very largely to current has made many valuable contributions to Welsh History in Ohio,He died on the 14th day of July, 1892, in Wales, at Dolgelly, a few milesfrom Bala, his birthplace. Welsh Settlements in Ohio. 211 ware County, Ohio, and lies just east of the Scioto River, nearthe northwest corner of Delaware County, about five miles northof the city of Delaware. The pioneer of this settlement was ayoung Welshman by the name of David Pugh, who purchasedland warrants for 4,000 acres of land, being the southwest quar-ter of Township 6, Range 20, of the United States Survey, fromDr. Samuel Jones, of Philadelphia, in RADNOR. In 1802 Pugh rode from Philadelphia on horseback to visithis purchase. Upon his return to Philadelphia he arranged withHenry Perry, of Angelsea, South Wales, to make a settlementupon the tract. In the fall of 1803 Perry and his two sons, agedfifteen and thirteen, built a cabin on the land and occupied it dur-ing the following winter. In the early summer of 1804 Perry left 20 David Pugh was from Radnorshire, South Wales, and landed atBaltimore in 1801. He is the ancestor of the numerous Pugh family ofColumbus and vicinity. 212 Ohio Arch, and Hist. Society Publications: the boys in possession of the cabin and returned to Baltimoreafter his wife and other children. In 1804 David Pugh again visited the tract and divided hisland into lots of one hundred acres each and sold them to thefollowing: Richard Tibbett, John Watkins, John Jones (fromWales), and Hugh Kyle and David Marks, from 1805 the following families arrived f
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