Richard Price and the American Revolution

ON THE EVE of the American War of Independence (1775–83), the population of Britain’s thirteen American colonies was nearly 2.5 million. It has been estimated that this number included at the very least 8,000 Welsh-born immigrants and Americans of predominantly Welsh ancestry. According to this estimate, around 6,000 of the 8,000 lived in Pennsylvania, where the Welsh Barony, the Great Valley and Gwynedd contained extensive settlements, and Lancaster County and Berks County contained some smaller ones. It was said that there were so many people with Welsh connections in the city of Philadelphia that the Welsh language could be