Letter of Thomas Wynne,

A holograph letter, 2 December, 1683, written by Tho. Wynne from Philadelphia in 'pensivanla' to his honoured friend Peirs Pennant, Esqre., at Buchtan, near Mostyn, North Wales. Thomas Wynne, author of The Antiquity of the Quakers, Proved out of the Scriptures of Truth . . . ([London] 1677) and An Anti-Christian Conspiracy Detected and Satan's Champion Defeated . . . ([London] 1679), emigrated to America in 1682, having with John ap John purchased of William Penn 5,000 acres of land to be laid in the Welsh Tract, and he subsequently became Associate Justice of Sussex County and representative of that county in the Legislative Assembly at Philadelphia. The writer refers in a postscript to a 'braue tracke' of land in his possession called Pennant Gwyn ('on a fine descending hill and a fine spring and[e]r it'), but the letter relates otherwise to the writer's Welsh associations and in particular to the security of his Welsh estate (references to the recipient's mother and brother John, to John Salsbury of Bachegrig [Back-y-graig] and his family, to Rich. Blackburn and his family, and to the recipient's mother[-in-law] at Gwysany, the treachery of Roger Hughes and the writer's daughter, a report by daughter Betty Rowdin [Rowden] that the recipient had refused to allow the writer's goods to be removed from the recipient's house at Caerwis, the writer's treatment by Abell Kershaw and his wife, the latter's seizure of the writer's estate at Bronvadog and their refusal to give the writer's two 'litle ones' any food and clothing for the voyage and their stealing of Betty Rowdin's flannel out of John Brigdale's house).

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Title based on contents.

Preferred citation: NLW MS 11594E.

The description is also available in the Handlist of Manuscripts in the National Library of Wales, Volume IV (Aberystwyth, 1971).

November 2009.

Description compiled by Bethan Ifans for the retrospective conversion project of NLW MSS. The following sources were used in the compilation of this description: Handlist of Manuscripts in the National Library of Wales, Volume IV (Aberystwyth, 1971); Y Bywgraffiadur Cymreig on-line site, viewed 10 November 2009;

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