Davies, John (9)
Davies, John (3)
an English Congregational minister, was born in Piccadilly, London, March 4, 1792. He studied at Hoxton College; was first settled at Bath, but soon accepted an invitation to Rodborough, Gloucestershire, where he remained a considerable period; was for many years pastor of the Reverend George Whitefield’s chapel in Bristol; resigned on account of ill-health; remained some years without a charge, and then accepted a co-pastorate at Taunton. He afterwards settled at Oswestry, where he remained six or seven years, and then became pastor of the Independent chapel at Welshpool, where he died in March 1851. See (Lond.) Cong. Year-book, 1851, page 213.
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Davies, John (4)
an English Congregational minister, was born at Llangyfni, Carmarthenshire, Wales, August 30, 1769. He joined the Calvinistic Methodists in 1786; studied at Trevecca and Cheshunt colleges; was ordained at Spa Fields in 1796; settled first at Handsworth, and subsequently at Tetbury, Ludgershall, and Whitstable; in 1829 retired to Reading, but was soon after urged to accept the pastorate at Bracknell; Berkshire; thither he removed, and, after fourteen years of earnest labor, was disabled by paralysis, and died March 2, 1861. See (Lond.) Cong. Yearbook, 1862, page 227.
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Davies, John (5)
an English Congregational missionary, was born in 1771. He left England, May 5, 1800, and arrived at Tahiti, Polynesia, July 10, 1801, when the island was sunken in barbarism and idolatry. On account of the fierce war that broke out in Tahiti in 1808, he was obliged to retire to Huaheine, after remaining there a year, went to Port Jackson, which he reached February 17, 1810; returned to Tahiti in September 1811; but in 1818 again removed to Huaheine, and thence to Papara in 1820, where he labored till his death in 1856. See (Lond.) Cong. Year-book, 1857, page 175.
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Davies, John (6)
a Welsh Wesleyan minister, was born in Flintshire in 1784. He joined the Methodist society at the age of sixteen; entered the ministry in 1806, and died December 21, 1845. See Minutes of the British Conference, 1846.
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Davies, John (7)
a Welsh Congregational minister, was born at Esgerfynwent, Carmarthenshire, in 1799. He was converted at the age of ten; studied six years at Carmarthen College, beginning in 1819, suppling, meanwhile, several vacant churches; was ordained in 1826, at Summerfield Chapel, Neath, Glamorganshire; resigned in 1838, but continued to preach at various places to the time of his death, August 3, 1862. See (Lond.) Cong. Year-book, 1864, page 206.
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Davies, John (8)
a Methodist Episcopal minister, was born in Liverpool, England, March 5, 1799. He was converted at the age of nine; became a local preacher nine years later; emigrated to New York city in 1827, where for years he did valiant work as a city missionary; and in 1836 entered the New York Conference, wherein he labored until his death, July 2, 1876. See Minutes of Annual Conferences, 1877, page 42.
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Davies, John (9)
a Congregational minister, was born September 9, 1800, near Aberystwith, Cardiganshire, Wales. He was converted at fourteen years of age; soon after joined the Church at Woolwich; at the age of sixteen entered the college at Llanfyllin; was pastor at New Cross, Deptford, four years; and in October 1826, became pastor at Daventry, where he remained till his death, June 27, 1857. See (Lond.) Cong. Yearbook, 1858, page 197.