I will copy from the pamphlet: (obtained in Dolgellau)
"Between the dispossessing of their land and the continual threat of
imprisonment, so great was their hardship that they must have felt a great sense of
relief in 1681 when William Penn acquired land in America, which later became
Pennsylvania. The Welsh Quakers bought 40,000 acres between them. The first to
emigrate was Dr. Edward Jones of Bala and his company in 1682, sailing from
Liverpool in the ship "Lyon" and reaching Delaware some eleven weeks later.
They were followed by hundreds of other Welsh Quakers, including Rowland Ellis,
who named his new farm there Bryn-mawr, after his old home in Dolgellau. The
name was later given to the famous women's college there, though it is not on
the site of the original Bryn=
Mawr.
William Penn had promised the Welsh that they might live together in one
"free" Tract, speaking their own language and administering their own laws. But
on reaching Pennsylvania, a great disappointment awaited them when they
discovered that their dream was not to be honoured. After a long struggle to
persuade the Founder to keep his promise to them, their hopes were dashed when the
authorities changed the boundaries, splitting the Welsh tract in two. Although
Welsh names such as Merion, Radnor, Haverford and Gwynedd still survived, and
although Welsh was the language of worship in both Merion and Gwynedd Meeting
Houses until about the middle of the 18th century, the Tract soon lost its
Welsh identity. Disillusioned many of the Welsh Quakers returned to Wales, but
it was too late. The fire had been dimmed and Quakers gradually disappeared
from Meirionnydd."