He began holding fortnightly services in private houses, including that of William Davis in the area known as Radnor, in the southern part of the Welsh Tract, starting November, 1700.

[6] In 1708, John Oldmixon in his book The British Empire in America noted that Within land lies Radnor or Welshtown, finely situate and well watered, containing about fifty families; in this place is a congregation of Church of England-Men, but no settled minister[7]After Rev.

A complete response was apparently slow in coming; ten years later, upon meeting their new leader, the parishioners "heartily engaged themselves to build a handsome stone church to be named after the Patron Saint of Wales".

[8][9] In an unusual expression of solidarity between denominations, several other clergymen assisted with the laying of the foundation, including Pastor Andreas Sandel of Old Swedes Church in Philadelphia.

Robert Weyman, who served during the 1720s, were paid by the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts and shared duties between St. David's and Old Trinity Church, located about 20 miles to the east in Oxford.

[13] With the coming of the American Revolution in the colonies, a wave of resentment against the Church of England (which professed loyalty to the king) arose among the congregation.

A leader of this opposition was Anthony Wayne, a lifelong member of St. David's who was later appointed major general of the American forces.

William Currie, bound by his oath of duty to the king, resigned his position, which remained officially vacant for 12 years (Rev.

Further growth of the congregation led to heated discussion over whether the parish should accommodate a burgeoning membership or retain its early character; this was resolved by the 1956 construction of a new worship building, several times the size of the original church.

[1] A separate building was built for Sunday school classes in 1965, the year the parish celebrated its 250th anniversary at a service attended by the Bishop of St David's in Wales.

Struck by the peace and quiet of "this little church among its graves", he composed a poem about it: "Old St. David's at Radnor", which was published later that same year in the collection Ultima Thule.

The remaining flesh was reburied at Fort Presque Isle and the bones were placed into two saddlebags and relocated to the family plot in the St. David's graveyard.

On June 5, 1811, The Pennsylvania State Society of the Cincinnati placed a monument in the cemetery to the memory of Anthony Wayne over the grave containing his bones.