Person:Samuel Jones (166)

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Rev. Samuel Jones, D.D.
b.14 Jan 1735 Glamorganshire, Wales
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  1. Rev. Samuel Jones, D.D.1735 - 1814
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Name Rev. Samuel Jones, D.D.
Gender Male
Birth[1] 14 Jan 1735 Glamorganshire, WalesCefyn-y-gelli, Bettws Parish
Marriage to Sylvia Spicer
Death[1] 7 Feb 1814 Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
References
  1. 1.0 1.1 MATRICULATES. 1762., in University of Pennsylvania, Biographical Catalogue of the Matriculates of the College: Together with Lists of the Members of the College Faculty and the Trustees, Officers and Recipients of Honorary Degrees, 1749-1893. (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1894)
    9.

    + SAMUEL JONES, A. M. D. D., 17SS. (A. M., gratia causa, 1769, and D. D.,
    1786, Brown Univ.)
    b. Cefyn-y-gelli, Bettws Parish, Glamorganshire, South Wales, Jan. 14, 1735;
    d. Phila., Feb. 7, 1814.
    s. Rev. Thomas Jones and Martha Morris.
    Entered May, 1759.
    Bapt. clergyman, and officiated at Southampton and Pennepek (now Lower Dublin), Penna.
    Bapt. Chs., 1763-1814.
    Conducted during that period a private Theol. Sem.
    One of the Founders, R. I. Coll., (now Brown Univ.)
    Declined the Presidency of Brown Univ. when offered to him on the death of Pres. Manning. Chaplain Penna. Regt. during the Revo.
    Pres. Phila. Bapt. Assn., 1797-18 14.
    Author "The Doctrine of the Covenant," (1783)  ; "A Treatise on Church Discipline" (1797)  ; "A Century Sermon " (1807), etc.
    m. Sylvia Spicer, Cape May, N.J.
    See Sprague, Appleton.