Title: Transatlantic brethren : Rev. Samuel Jones (1735-1814) and his friends : Baptists in Wales, Pennsylvania, and beyond /
Authors: Davies, Hywel M., 1956-
Publisher: Lehigh University Press,
Year: 1995
Subjects: Jones, Samuel,; Baptists United States Biography; Baptists Wales Biography.; Baptists United States History; Baptists Wales History.; Welsh United States History; Welsh Pennsylvania History
Abstract: Transatlantic Brethren recreates the Atlantic community of Baptists in Britain and America by focusing on the correspondence and connections of the Rev. Samuel Jones of Pennepek, near Philadelphia. Themes such as shared news of gospel success, the development of Baptist associations, and a learned ministry made for meaningful, if not always harmonious, communication between Baptists on both sides of the Atlantic during the eighteenth century.
Contents: Of Wales, the Welsh, and the Welsh in America -- Atlantic faiths and British culture: the Welsh in the Delaware Valley 1682-1750 -- The formative years of Samuel Jones -- A Baptist Atlantic -- Remembrancers of a common past -- Radicalism, dissent, and gospel success -- Emigration and the transatlantic Baptist network -- Welsh Baptists in Pennsylvania and beyond during the 1790s -- "A peculiar regard" -- Transatlantic brethren.