Davies, Thomas (4)
Davies, Thomas (1)
a missionary of the Church of England, was born at Kington, Herefordshire, December 21 (O.S.), 1736. His father settled in the town of Litchfield, Connecticut, and the son graduated from Yale College in 1758; and, after three years of theological study, was ordained in England in August 1761; returned to America under the auspices of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, and preached at New Milford, Roxbury, Sharon, New Preston, and New Fairfield to which Litchfield was soon added. He also held occasional services in Washington, Kent, Cornwall, Salisbury, Great Barrington, and Woodbury. He died in New Milford, Connecticut, May 12, 1766. See Sprague, Annals of the Amer. Pulpit, 5:265.
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Davies, Thomas (2)
an English Baptist minister, was brought up a stone-mason; delivered a lecture on Monday evenings, in Angel Alley, London; was minister at Petticoat Lane about fourteen years, and died very suddenly, June 15, 1763. See Wilson, Dissenting Churches, 4:426.
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Davies, Thomas (3)
a Welsh Congregational minister, was born in the parish of Llangeler, Carmarthenshire. He joined the Church at the age of nineteen, and, after preaching some years in his own neighborhood, was ordained at Pentreath, Isle of Anglesey, in 1825; afterwards ministered at Festeniog, Aberdaron, and Moelfro, and retired to Bodfford, where he died, April 26, 1865. See (Lond.) Cong. Year-book, 1866, page 246.
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Davies, Thomas (4)
a Welsh Congregational minister, was born in the parish of Trelech, Carmarthenshire, in 1820. He joined the Church at the age of sixteen; in his twenty-first year began to preach; entered Brecon College in 1843, and in 1847 was ordained at Llandilo, Carmarthenshire, where he labored until his sudden death, October 28, 1873. See (Lond.) Cong. Year-book, 1874, page 321.