JAMES, JOHN (died 1705), Congregational minister

He was educated at Ystrad Wallter or at Swansea and ordained at Llan-y-bri, 1688. He was given £2 by the Presbyterian Board, 16 January 1690, to encourage him in his work at Crug-glas (Pantêg); it is confirmed, in the minutes of the ' Common Fund ' or the Presbyterian Fund Board, 1690-2, that he was at Crug-glas, that he was a freeholder, and that he had received £1 from his congregation in acknowledgement of his services. He was present at Tirdoncyn, 17 November 1697, on the day that Llewelyn Bevan was instituted to Cwmllynfell and Gellionnen. According to a report by the churchwardens of Henllan Amgoed, 4 September 1705, he used to preach to Lewis Thomas's congregation, a body of Calvinists [see under Jeremy Owen ]. He died during that year.

Author

• Reverend John Dyfnallt Owen, (1873 - 1956)

Sources

• D. Peter, Hanes Crefydd yng Nghymru, o'r amser y daeth y Cymry i Ynys Brydain hyd yr amser presennol (Carmarthen 1816), 594
• Manuscript (the property of the Presbyterian Board) published by Alexander Gordon under the title Freedom after Ejection. A Review (1690–1692) of Presbyterian and Congregational Nonconformity in England and Wales, 1917, 291
• Hanes Eglwysi Annibynnol Cymru, iii, 384
• Tirdoncyn Church Book at the National Library of Wales, 17 November 1697
• minutes of the Presb. Board, 16 January 1690
• Henllan Amgoed churchwardens' accounts, 4 September 1705

Published date: 1959

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