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# A Dictionary of All Religions and Religious Denominations/Welch Indians

*WELCH INDIANS, (or Padoucas) a colony supposed to have emigrated from Wales in the twelfth century, (three hundred years before Columbus,) under Prince Madoc; and whose descendants still reside on the borders of the Missouri far to the westward of the Missisippi. Several accounts are to be found in Welch and other histories, and various letters have appeared at different times in the Gentleman's and Monthly Magazines. These accounts have been collected with additions and remarks, in three pamphlets, two by the late Dr. E. Williams, and one by the Rev. G. Burder, referred to below. They were much confirmed in conversations with Gen. Bowles, the Indian Chief, when in England; by Mr. Chesholm, from the Creek Indians, also in his visit to Philadelphia; and by Mr. Heckewelder, a Moravian gentleman at Bethlehem; an abstract of these and other accounts was printed in the Weekly Register, for December 26, 1798.
The substance of all the accounts is, that there is a nation of Indians of so much lighter complexion, as to indicate an European origin; that their language is Welch, at least radically so; that they have sacred books in that language, (which have been seen by native Britons,) though they have lost the art of reading; and that there are vestiges of the European arts among them, particularly remnants of earthen ware, &c. Several natives of Wales, and some descendants from that nation in America, have expressed a great desire to go in search of this very distant country, and to commence a mission among them, which indeed was the express object of Mr. Border's pamphlet.

## Original footnotes

* ↑ Mr. W. Owen fixes their situation between 37 and 43 degrees N. lat. and between 97 and 110 W. long. Gentleman's Magazine, 1791, vol. i.p. 329.
* ↑ Burder's Welch Indians, 8vo. 1797. Dr. E. Williams' Enquiry into the truth of the discovery of Amerrica by Prince Madoe, and farther observations on ditto, 1792. Weekly Register, Nos. 4 and 38.
# A Dictionary of All Religions and Religious Denominations/Whitefieldites

*WHITEFIELDITES, a term applied to those of the early Methodists who sided with Mr. Whitefield and the Calvinists. See Methodists.
# A Dictionary of All Religions and Religious Denominations/Wilhelminians

WILHELMINIANS, in the thirteenth century, the disciples of Wilhelmina, a Bohemian woman who resided in the territory of Milan. She persuaded a large number that the Holy Ghost was become incarnate in her person for. the salvation of a great part of mankind. According to her doctrine, none were saved by the blood of Jesus but true and pious christians, while the Jews, Saracens, and unworthy christians were to obtain salvation through the Holy Spirit which dwelt in her and in consequence all which happened to Christ during his abode upon earth was to be repeated in her person.

## Original footnotes

* ↑ Mosheim, vol. iii. p. 131.
# A Dictionary of the Book of Mormon/Gadianton

​GADIANTON. A Nephite apostate; the founder and first leader of the robber bands that bore his name. He is first mentioned in connection with the attempt by Kishkumen to kill Helaman, the Chief Judge, (B. C. 50). At that time, Gadianton had organized his band, and bound its members together by the most horrible and blasphemous oaths and covenants, to stand by and protect each other in all their treasons, villainies, and ​crimes. These oaths and secret compacts had not been searched out of the old records by Gadianton, but that same being who had revealed them to Cain, the first murderer, had whispered them to him. Gadianton was a crafty, capable man, full of strategy and cunning; a flatterer, and expert in the use of many words; and at this time he desired to be elected chief judge of the Nephite commonwealth. To this ambition his followers gave full consent, as he promised them that, when elected, they should fill the offices of honor and profit at his disposal. It was decided in their secret meetings that Helaman should be slain to make way for Gadianton, and Kishkumen, one of his lieutenants, was chosen to do the murderous work. He made the attempt, but failed; Kishkumen himself being slain. Finding their envoy did not return, and learning that the officers of the law were searching for them, the band, under Gadianton's direction, fled into the hills and the wilderness, which became their places of retreat ever afterwards when they were threatened by the more righteous part of the community — Nephite or Lamanite. (See Gadianton Robbers.) Of Gadianton's personal life we have no further record.
# A Dictionary of the Book of Mormon/Ether

​ETHER. The last great prophet of the Jaredites, to whom we are indebted for the history of that race, for it is an abridgment of Ether's writings, made by Moroni, that we have in the Book of Mormon, under the title of the Book of Ether. Ether was of the royal race, his father being Coriantor, one of those unfortunate monarchs who lived in captivity all his days. In the reign of Coriantumr, the last king of the Jaredites, Ether came forth and proclaimed the near destruction of ​the entire people, a prophecy which many of his predecessors had also uttered; but he also promised that the king should survive all his subjects, and live to see another race occupy the land. Great and marvelous were the prophecies of Ether. He saw the days of Christ, and the great work of the last dispensation, even to the coming of the New Jerusalem. Indeed, he appears to have had revealed to him a complete history of the dealings of the Lord with the inhabitants of this earth, from his own day to the end of time. But the people heeded not his words, and ultimately grew weary of his threatenings and drove him from their midst. He hid himself in a cavity of a rock, coming forth in the night time to view the course of events, and occasionally appearing and repeating his warnings. While thus hidden, he wrote the history of contemporaneous events, and, year by year, watched the fulfilment of the word of the Lord, as the people gradually destroyed each other in unrelenting warfare. He lived to record the utter destruction of his people at Ramah, (Cumorah,) with the sole exception of Coriantumr, who survived as a witness to the unfailing word of God. We are not told whether Ether died or was translated. We incline, from his own words (Ether, 15:33), to the latter opinion. When he had finished his record, he hid the twenty-four golden plates on which it was engraven, in the place in which they were afterwards found by the people of king Limhi. (B. C. 123).
# A Dictionary of the Book of Mormon/Fruit

​FRUIT. The fruits mentioned in the Book of Mormon are grapes and olives.
# A Dictionary of the Book of Mormon/Gad

​GAD. A city burned with its inhabitants, at the time of the great convulsions that attended the crucifixion of the Savior. These people were extremely wicked, casting out and stoning and slaying the prophets who reproved them for their abominations. Indeed, there were none righteous left among them, so the Lord sent down fire from heaven and destroyed them, that their crimes might be hid from His face; and that the blood of the saints might no longer cry to Him from the ground against them. Gad is nowhere mentioned except in connection with its destruction, (III Nephi, 9:10, 11).
# A Dictionary of the Book of Mormon/Eve

​EVE. The mother of all living. Her name is mentioned three times in the Book of Mormon, (I Nephi, 5:11; II Nephi, 2:18, 19), in connection with the Creation and Fall.
# A Dictionary of the Book of Mormon/Ezias

​EZIAS. An ancient Hebrew prophet, referred to by Nephi. Elder Orson Pratt suggests in a footnote that “Ezias may have been identical with Esaias, who lived cotemporary with Abraham. See Doc. and Cov. 84:11—13.
# A Dictionary of the Book of Mormon/Ethem

​ETHEM. A wicked king of the later Jaredites, living, most probably, in the eighth century before Christ. He was the son and successor of Ahah. In Ethem's days, many prophets came and prophesied that unless the Jaredites repented the Lord would utterly destroy them from the earth. But the people hardened their hearts and repented not; and the prophets mourned over their depravity and withdrew from among them. Ethem was as his people, and did wickedly all his days; and when he died he was succeeded by his son Moron, who was like unto his father.
# A Dictionary of the Book of Mormon/Gadiandi

​GADIANDI. A city which, with all its vile inhabitants, who had persecuted and slain the prophets and people of God, was sunken deep in the earth at the time of the Messiah's crucifixion, and the surface of the land so changed that valleys and hills took its place. This calamity befell them, to use the words of the Savior “to hide their wickedness and abominations from before my face, that the blood of the prophets and the saints should not come up any more unto me against them.” (III Nephi, 9:8.) This is the only mention that is made of Gadiandi in the Book of Mormon; and consequently nothing is known of its situation.
# A Dictionary of the Book of Mormon/Flowers

​FLOWERS. The only flowers mentioned by name in the Book of Mormon are lilies.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Shakespear, Arthur

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​SHAKESPEAR. (Lieut., 1810. f-p., 11; h-p., 32.)
Arthur Shakespear was born 18 May, 1788, and died in 1847.
This officer entered the Navy, 14 March, 1804, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Leviathan 74, Capt Henry Wm. Bayntun; and in Dec. 1805, after having served in the Mediterranean and fought at Trafalgar, was received as Supernumerary Midshipman on board the Royal William, bearing the flag of Admiral Montagu at Portsmouth. He was next from Jan. 1806 until March, 1808, employed in the North Sea and Channel in the Thetis 38, Capt. Wm. Hall Gage; and from the latter date until ​Dec. 1810, on the Jamaica station, in the Melpomène 38 and Shark sloop, bearing each the flag of Vice-Admiral Bartholomew Sam. Rowley, Fleur-de-la-Mer schooner, Lieut.-Commander Thos. Huskisson, Franchise 36, Capt. Chas. Dashwood, Avon 18, Capt. Henry Tillieux Fraser, Shark again, Capt. Wm. Barnham Rider, Hebe frigate, Capt. John Fyffe, and, a second time, in the Avon. While with Capt. Rider in the Shark he was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant by a commission bearing date 3 April, 1810. He had received two sabre-cuts in the head, when in the Thetis, in boarding a French privateer; and in the Avon he had been again severely wounded, in the left arm, in a long and destructive action fought (the Rainbow 22 in company) with the French 40-gun frigate La Nériéde 14 Feb. 1810. His last appointment was, 23 March, 1812, to the Leonidas 38, Capts. Anselm John Griffiths, Hon. Fred. Wm. Aylmer, Geo. Fras. Seymour, and Wm. King, in which ship he served on the Cork station until June, 1815.
He married, 21 July, 1821, Miss Louisa Sage. Agents – Messrs. Stilwell.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Shapcote, Thomas

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​SHAPCOTE. (Lieut., 1811. f-p., 19; h-p., 33.)
Thomas Shapcote entered the Navy, in Jan. 1795, as Ordinary, on board the Nautilus sloop, Capt. Wm. Geo. Rutherford, in which vessel and the Repulse 64, Capt. Wm. Geo. Fairfax, he was for nine months employed in the West Indies and North Sea. He next, in Sept. 1798, joined La Tourterelle, Capt. John West; and from the following Nov. until Feb. 1805 he served, with activity, as A.B., in the Channel and Mediterranean, and off the port of Cadiz, in the Renown 74, Capts. Albemarle Bertie, John Chambers White, Pulteney Malcolm, and Thos. Eyles, flag-ship, part of the time, of Sir John Borlase Warren, under whom he was in frequent pursuit of the French fleet. We subsequently, during two years and a half, find him cruizing in the Channel, Downs, and Baltic, as Midshipman, in the Bellona 74, Capt. Chas. Dudley Pater, and Arrow 12, Lieut.-Commander Rich. Hawkes. He then, in Jan. 1808, became Sub-Lieutenant of the Bloodhound gun-brig, commanded in succession by Lieut. Sam. Ward Flinders, by himself, and by Lieut. Thos. Warrand, on the Home station; where, from Feb. 1809 until Dec. 1810, he served, in the same capacity, in the Rapid 10, Capt. Wm. Mather. On 19 March, 1811, he was made full Lieutenant into the Reynard 10; in which vessel, commanded by Capts. Hew Steuart, Geo. Brine, and David Latimer St. Clair, he continued employed in the Baltic until Jan. 1814. His next and last appointment was, 26 Oct. 1841, to the San Josef 110, Capts. Fred. Wm. Burgoyne and Manley Hall Dixon, guard-ship at Devonport, where he remained until the early part of 1845.
Lieut. Shapcote is married and has issue.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Shaw, Charles (a)

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​SHAW. (Lieutenant, 1815. f-p., 34; h-p., 9.)
Charles Shaw (a) entered the Navy, 17 July, 1804, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Loire of 46 guns, Capt. Fred. Lewis Maitland, whom he followed into the Volontaire 38 and Emerald 36. In the Loire he was under fire, 4 June, 1805, of the batteries in Muros Bay, when they were gallantly stormed and carried, and the privateers Confiance and Bélier taken, by the boats under the late Sir Jas. Lucas Yeo. He assisted also, 25 of the same month, in capturing Le Vaillant of 30 guns; was in company with L’Egyptienne frigate at the taking, after an obstinate resistance, of La Libre of 40 guns; and conveyed in July, 1806, to Sir Rich. Keats, off L’Orient, intelligence which led to the capture of Le Rhin of 44 guns. From Aug. 1807 until Jan. 1814 he served, in the Mediterranean and on the coast of Africa, as Midshipman and Master’s Mate, in the Volage 22, Capt. Philip L. J. Rosenhagen, and Thais 20, Capts. Isaac Ferrieres and Edw. Scobell; and from March, 1814, until Oct. 1816, in the Channel and West Indies in the Sybille 44, Capt. Thos. Forrest, Venerable 74, flag-ship of Sir Philip Chas. Durham, and Barrosa 36, Capt. John Maxwell. He contributed, in the Volage, to the capture, 28 July, 1808, of the French brig-corvette Le Requin of 16 guns and 110 men; and was presented, while serving in the Venerable, with a commission bearing date 1 Feb. 1815. He has been in charge, since 14 Dec. 1825, of a station in the Coast Guard.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Sharpe, Benjamin

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​SHARPE. (Lieutenant, 1839.)
Benjamin Sharpe entered the Navy 19 Jan. 1827; passed his examination in 1833; obtained his commission 18 Oct. 1839; was appointed 1 Feb. 1840, to the Excellent gunnery-ship at Portsmouth, Capt. Sir Thos. Hastings; and, from 1 Oct. following until paid off in 1843, was employed in the Mediterranean in the Howe 120, Capts. Sir Watkin Owen Pell, Robt. Smart, and Thos. Forrest. He has not been since afloat.
He married, in March, 1843, at Malta, Mary Anne Fanny, daughter of the Rev. Geo. Montagu, of Swaffham (by Emily, fourth daughter of the Rev. Wm. Tonge, Chancellor of the diocese of Norwich), and niece of Lieut. Edw. Proudfoot Montagu, R.N. Agents – Messrs. Chard.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Shaw, Charles (b)

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​SHAW. (Lieutenant, 1827.)
Charles Shaw (b) entered the Navy 8 May, 1808; passed his examination in 1816; obtained his commission 12 March, 1827; and from 23 April, 1828, until 1847, was employed in the Coast Guard. Agents – Hallett and Robinson.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Shapland, Henry

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​SHAPLAND. (Lieut., 1823. f-p., 14; h-p., 24.)
Henry Shapland was born 9 July, 1793.
This officer entered the Navy, 5 Nov. 1809, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Tonnant 80, Capts. Sir Chas. Hamilton and Sir John Gore. After serving for two years off Brest, at the defence of Cadiz, and off Lisbon, where he was frequently sent up the Tagus for the purpose of conveying troops and despatches, he became, in Dec. 1811, Midshipman (a rating he had attained in the preceding Jan.) of the Teazer gun-brig, stationed off L’Orient. He next, from Nov. 1812 until Nov. 1815, served off Lisbon and in the Mediterranean, in the Andromeda 22, Capt. Rich. Arthur; and, from May, 1816, until April, 1823, he was employed, in the West Indies, at Newfoundland, in the East Indies, at Plymouth, in the Mediterranean, and again in the West Indies, in the Fly 18, Capt. John Baldwin, Curlew 16, Capt. Wm. Walpole, Minden 74, Capt. Wm. Paterson, Impregnable 104, flag-ship of Lord Exmouth, Windsor Castle 98, Capt. Caulfeild, Seringapatam 46, Capt. Sam. Warren, and Thracian 18, Capt. John Walter Roberts. He often during that period performed the duties of Lieutenant. In 1815 he passed a distinguished examination; in 1816, during his passage in the Fly from Halifax to Newfoundland, he jumped overboard in a heavy sea and saved the life of a man; in 1820, having in the Curlew accompanied an expedition against the pirates of the Persian Gulf, he landed and assisted in storming the enemy’s fortifications; and, on 31 March, 1823, being then in the Thracian and in company with the Tyne 26, he aided in boarding, in a harbour of the island of Cuba, the piratical schooner Zaragozana. For the gallantry he displayed on the latter occasion he was nominated, 26 April following, Acting-Lieutenant of the Hyperion 42, Capts. Jas. Lillicrap and Geo. Fred. Rich, and presented by the Admiralty with a commission dated 29 May in the same year. He went on half-pay 14 Sept. 1823; and was lastly, from 26 July, 1828, until 25 April, 1829, employed in the Coast Blockade as Supernumerary-Lieutenant of his former ship the Hyperion, Capt. Wm. Jas. Mingaye.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Sharpe, Robert

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​SHARPE, K.T.S. (Captain, 1848. f-p., 16; h-p., 24.)
Robert Sharpe entered the Navy, 5 Nov. 1807, as A.B., on board the Mars 74, Capts. Wm. Lukin, John Surman Garden, and Henry Raper, in which ship he attained the rating of Midshipman, 1 July, 1808; and was for upwards of four years employed on the Baltic, Home, and Lisbon stations. After serving for 15 months, the chief part of the time as Master’s Mate, in the Vigo 74, bearing the flags of Rear-Admirals Jas. Nicoll Morris and Graham Moore, and Comet 20, Capt. Geo. Wm. Blamey, he joined, in March, 1814, the Prince Regent, Commodore Sir Jas. Lucas Yeo, on the Canadian Lakes; where and on the river St. Lawrence he continued employed on gun-boat and other services, the last nine months in the capacity of Acting-Lieutenant, until Aug. 1815. He was then presented with a commission bearing date 13 of the preceding March. His next appointments were – 11 Aug. 1823 and 4 Feb. 1825, to the Windsor Castle 74, Capts. Chas. Dashwood and Hugh Downman, and Tribune 42, Capt. Gardiner Henry Guion, both on the Lisbon station. He attained the rank of Commander 24 Nov. 1826; served from 26 Jan. 1842, until the close of 1845, in the Scylla 16, on the North America and West India station; and was advanced to his present rank 31 Jan. 1848. In the spring of 1845 he conveyed the King of the Mosquito Shore from Blanfield to Belize to be crowned. In commemoration of Don John VI. having taken shelter on board the Windsor Castle off Lisbon in May, 1824, the order of the Tower and Sword was conferred upon Capt. Sharpe in common with the other officers of the ship. Agents – Messrs. Chard.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Shaw, George

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​SHAW. (Lieutenant, 1815. f-p., 7; h-p., 33.)
George Shaw entered the Navy, 18 Aug. 1807, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Prince of Wales 98, Capt. Adam Mackenzie; previously to accompanying whom, in the ensuing Dec, into the President 50, he took part, under the flag of Admiral Gambier, in the attack upon Copenhagen. He continued employed, as Midshipman, in the President on the Brazilian station, latterly under the orders of Capt. Chas. Marsh Schomberg, until Aug. 1810. He then joined the Armada 74, commanded at first by Capt. Mackenzie and next by Capt. John Ferris Devonshire; and, in April, 1812, with the officer last-mentioned, the St. Albans 64. In those ships he served on the Home station and at the defence of Cadiz. He left the St. Albans in Oct. 1812; and was afterwards, until 26 June, 1816, employed on the coast of Brazil and in the South Seas in the Indefatigable 44, Capt. John Fyffe. His commission bears date 20 March, 1815.
He married, 20 Feb. 1826, Miss E. Anning, of Kilmington, co. Devon, a lady by whom he has issue four sons and three daughters.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Dixon, Matthew

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​DIXON. (Commander, 1835.)
Matthew Dixon passed his examination in 1820; obtained his first commission 6 Oct. 1827; was appointed, 15 Aug. 1833, to the Ocean 80, Capts. Edw. Barnard and Alex. Ellice, bearing the flag, latterly, of Hon. Chas. Elphinstone Fleeming, Commander-in-Chief at the Nore; and attained his present rank 3 Aug. 1835. He has not since been employed.
Commander Dixon married, 24 March, 1845, Wilhelmina, relict of the late Henry Cheape, Esq., of Rossie, co. Fife, and sister of Capt. Geo. Hathom, R.N.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Dobbs, Conway Richard

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​DOBBS. (Lieutenant, 1821. f-p., 12; h-p., 25.)
Conway Richard Dobbs, born in 1798, is eldest son of the late Rich. Dobbs, Esq., of Castle Dobbs, co. Antrim, by Nicolini, eldest daughter of Michael Obyns, of Portsdown; and great grandson, maternally, of the first Viscount Gosford.
This officer entered the Navy, 4 Sept. 1810, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board La Nymphe 36, Capt. Edw. Sneyd Clay, under whom he was wrecked, at the entrance of the Frith of Forth, 18 Dec. following. In Jan. 1811, he next joined the Abdent 64, Capt. Robt. Honyman, stationed in the Baltic, where he attained the rating of Midshipman, 2 Aug. in the same year. On afterwards proceeding to the Mediterranean, as an officer of the Volontaire 38, Capt. Hon. Granville Geo. Waldegrave, he served in that frigate at the capture of Port d’Anzo in Oct. 1813, and was employed in the boats at the destruction of some of the enemy’s batteries, near Marseilles. He continued in the Mediterranean, on board the Resistance 38, Capt. Hon. Fleetwood Broughton Reynolds Pellew, and Philomel 10, Capt. Jas. Hanway Plumridge, until Dec. 1814, when he sailed for the East Indies, and there officiated for many months in the Cornwallis 74, flag-ship of Sir Geo. Burlton, and Theban 36, Capt. Sam. Leslie. We subsequently find him enacting a part, in the Superb 74, Capt. Chas. Ekins, at the battle of Algiers, 27 Aug. 1816. He rejoined Capt. Pellew, in Oct. 1818, on board the Revolutionnaire 38, of which frigate he appears to have been created a Lieutenant 16 Oct. 1821. He returned home from the Mediterranean in 1822, and has since been on half-pay.
Lieut. Dobbs married, in Aug. 1826, Miss Charlotte Maria Sinclair; and has issue two sons and seven daughters. Agents – Hallett and Robinson.