Memoir of the Rev. David Jones A.M. / by his grandson Horatio Gates Jones of Leverington near Philadelphia, Pa. : transcript, 1885.

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Memoir of the Rev. David Jones A.M. / by his grandson Horatio Gates Jones of Leverington near Philadelphia, Pa. : transcript, 1885.

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Copy created in 1885 of a biographical account of the life and career of Baptist minister Rev. David Jones of Delaware and Pennsylvania, originally written by his grandson Horatio Gates Jones in 1859. The biography focuses principally on David Jones's activities as army chaplain of General Anthony Wayne's forces during the Revolution and Indian Wars of the 1790s, and again as chaplain in the Northern Army during the War of 1812. Volume also includes a biographical essay on Rev. Abel Morgan, pastor of the First Baptist Church of Middletown, New Jersey, dated 1874 and written by Baptists Church historian Robert Thomas Middleditch. Middleditch provides a brief account Morgan's clerical career, with a consideration of his theological writings and accomplishments. Included are several excerpts from sermons authored by Morgan.

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