This, evidently, was the thought of our first settlers, a group
of Welshmen; purchasers following their countrymen, Howell
James, grantee in the decade before 1700 of one thousand acres;
extending from Tredyffrin, across Easttown, to Newtown. Prior to
1700, James sold off a two hundred fifty acre piece of his
ground, lying along the Tredyffrin line and extending to the
south on both sides of what is now Waterloo Road, to near the
foot of Waters' Hill. This ground lay practically undeveloped in
a number of different ownerships, mainly Welsh, until 1723, when
it was sold to Peter Elliott a Radnor Blacksmith. Elliot sold
fifty acres of his purchase, down the little valley of Darby
Creek, to his son Morris, and left his name to a road opened
northwardly to Conestoga Road. It is probably that he had his
home and blacksmith shop at the spring (now no longer to be
seen) west of the Bronze Works, but it appears that little was
done with the remaining two hundred acres until it came into
Llewellyn family ownership twe