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From: James Stokes <>
Subject: Re: [PA-QUAKERS] Welsh Founders of Pennsylvania
Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 14:06:01 -0700 (PDT)


Hi Elfed,
You should check the online catalogs, the original of the material at the Historical Society of Pa. could be at Swarthmore or Haverford also. Its tough to track down these old documents. I would get a copy of the material from the Historical Society of Pa. since the chances of their being a error in the document are small, and even smaller when we consider that it has to be the exact error that will affect your search. Keep in mind this document is probably undocumented and based on oral history so your probably going to have to try to document it anyway.
Jim




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Subject: [PA-QUAKERS] Welsh Founders of Pennsylvania

Jim and Dan,

Many thanks for your response and for the information about the searchable catalogues, which will come in very useful.
Regarding - Another reference to a document is on page 101 as follows
(b) The geneology here given of the descendants of Evan Robert Lewis
is from supposedly several years older than those by Cadwaladr Evans
(1797) and is in the possession of the Historical Society of
Pennsylvania, bound in a MS. Volume of the Genealogical Society's
"Collections", marked "Some Records Relating to Radnor Meeting."


I have recently been in touch with The Historical Society of Pennsylvania and all they have in their collection is a photocopied transcript of this document with a note attached stating "inserted by persons unknown ". Therefore the original document is in someone else's possession.
I would very much like to track down the original document to check that there have not been any transcription errors or omissions which would help me to solve a few problems which I have tracing my ancestors.

Elfed Owen (U.K)

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