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How we all got here... Before his death in 1724 John Roberts wrote this note," An account of John Roberts left
to my Posterity- A short account of John Roberts, formerly of Llyn, being son of Richard Roberts and the grandson of Robert
Thomas Morris, who lived at Cowyns in the parish of Llanergan and County of Carnarvon; my mother being Margaret Evans, daughter
of Richard Evans in the parish of Llangian and county aforesaid and being convinced of God's everlasting truth about the year
1677, not by man nor through man, but by the Revelation of Jesus Christ in my own heart, being about thirty miles from any
Friends or Meeting, in that time when I was convinced, but coming into acquaintance with Friends near Dollgelle and near Bala
and Merionethshire I frequented their meetings while I abode in those parts, but by the Providence of God in 1683 I transported
myself with many of my Friends for Pennsylvania where I and they arrived the 16th day of the ninth month (November) 1683,
being then 35 years old and settled myself in the place where afterwards I called Pencoid in the Township of Merion in Montgomery
County which was afterwards called so by them, being the first settlers of it, having brought with me one man servant
from my native land and settling here I took to wife Gainor Roberts, daughter of Robert Pugh from Llyndedwydd near Bala in
Merionethshire, her mother being Elizabeth William Owen, one of the first that was convinced of the Truth in that neighborhood.
So leaving this account for our offspring and others that desire to know from whence we came and who we were descended
from and when we came to settle unto this place where we now abide, being then a wilderness, but now by God's blessing upon
our endeavors has become a fruitful field. To God's name be the Praise, Honor and Glory, who is worthy of it for ever and
for ever more." And so the adventure in the new world began for the Roberts family.
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