Difference between revisions of "Thomas Davies"

From BiblePortal Wikipedia
 
Line 1: Line 1:


Thomas Davies <ref name="term_36610" />
Thomas Davies <ref name="term_36611" />
<p> 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. </p>
<p> 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. </p>


== References ==
== References ==
<references>
<references>
<ref name="term_36610"> [https://bibleportal.com/encyclopedia/cyclopedia-of-biblical-theological-and-ecclesiastical-literature/davies,+thomas+(1) Thomas Davies from Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature]</ref>
<ref name="term_36611"> [https://bibleportal.com/encyclopedia/cyclopedia-of-biblical-theological-and-ecclesiastical-literature/davies,+thomas+(3) Thomas Davies from Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature]</ref>
</references>
</references>

Latest revision as of 10:10, 15 October 2021

Thomas Davies [1]

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.

References