My Welsh family sailed to Philadelphia as part of William Penn's English Royal land grant that later became known as Pennsylvania.

He came as an indentured farm worker.

After working off his indentured service(several years), he was given free land down in South Carolina if he agreed to harvest "Naval Stores" for the Penn Plantation Colony up north.

All wooden sailing ships used to need to be caulked with cotton and pine tar pitch to seal the ship hulls.

He and many others would harvest pine tar from Yellow Pines in SC by cutting deep channels in the pine trees to collect the pine sap.

That pine sap was then turned into pitch or pine tar and also distilled into turpentine.

It took him and his family several years to earn the title to the land in SC.