America Discovered by the Welsh in 1170 A.D.
Y Gwir yn erbyn y Byd.
The Truth against the World.
Philadelphia:
J. B. LIPPINCOTT & CO.
1876.
Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1876, by
BENJAMIN F. BOWEN,
In the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington.
Some time since, J. Sabin, the well-known book antiquarian of New York, related a very amusing story to me of a clergyman from Rhode Island coming into his store and inquiring whether he wished to purchase an Indian Bible. At once Mr. Sabin replied that he did, and that he would pay him five hundred dollars for it. The clergyman was delighted, returned to his home in Rhode Island, and, fearing to intrust so costly a relic to the express, determined to carry it himself to the city. With great eagerness he opened the book in Mr. Sabin's presence, when the latter, equally surprised and amused, exclaimed,—
Benjamin Franklin Bowen
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PREFACE.
CONTENTS.
CHAPTER I. THE MIGRATIONS OF THE WELSH.
CHAPTER II. BY WHOM WAS AMERICA FIRST PEOPLED?
CHAPTER III. THE VOYAGES OF PRINCE MADOC.
CHAPTER IV. SUPPORTED BY WELSH AND OTHER HISTORIANS.
CHAPTER V. THE NARRATIVE OF REV. MORGAN JONES.
CHAPTER VI. THE NARRATIVE OF REV. CHARLES BEATTY.
CHAPTER VII. THE WELSH INDIANS MOVING WEST.
CHAPTER VIII. THE DISPERSION OF THE WELSH INDIANS.
CHAPTER IX. MAURICE GRIFFITH'S AND HIS COMPANIONS' EXPERIENCE.
CHAPTER X. CAPTAIN ISAAC STUART—GOVERNORS SEVIER AND DINWIDDIE—GENERAL MORGAN LEWIS—THEIR KNOWLEDGE OF THE WELSH INDIANS.
CHAPTER XI. THE MANDAN INDIANS: WHO ARE THEY?
CHAPTER XII. WELSH BLOOD IN THE AZTECS.
CHAPTER XIII. THE MOQUIS, MOHAVES, AND MODOCS.
CHAPTER XIV. SIGNS OF FREEMASONRY AMONG INDIANS.
CHAPTER XV. THE WELSH LANGUAGE AMONG AMERICAN INDIANS.
CHAPTER XVI. THE WELSH OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION.
CHAPTER XVII. ADDRESS OF REV. DAVID JONES TO GENERAL ST. CLAIR'S BRIGADE, AT TICONDEROGA, WHEN THE ENEMY WERE HOURLY EXPECTED, OCTOBER 20, 1776.