The new experiment in America attracted many adventurous and patriotic souls who were thrilled with the attempt of Europeans to colonize America. not for purposes of aggrandizement for European nations. but in the endeavor to set up a nation eventually which would have for it� ultimate object the expression of free peoples who wanted to build a government which would derive its powers from the consent of the governed. The early Welsh people in America and their activities can be traced to a time preceding the landing of the Mayflo4ver. They divided themselves into three great waves of immigration. The first. or New England- wave started in July. 1621. under the leadership of Stephen Hopkins.- an ancestor of a signer of the Declaration of Independence by one of the same name. Thd second wave began with the landing of time ship Lyon. in 1632.
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