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daughter of Mr , John Weaver , the ejected minister of Knell , near Radnor . Mr . Job Orton , upon whose testimony this appears to be related , is good authority in most cases ; but . that he was
mistaken as to this particular , is evident by an attention to the ages of the persons concerned . Mr . Jones , when he married , must have been under * forty years of age ; but the daughter of this Mr . Weaver , if she was then living , could not well have been less than
sixty . Now it is not within the range of probability , that Mr . Jones should marry a lady so far advanced in life ; and still less so ,
that Mr . Godwin , who was just entering uport the public stage , should espouse the same lady . But it is least of all probable , that the latter should have child .
ren by her at that advanced peri - od . Another corroborating circumstance is , that the two sisters © f Mr . Jones ' s widow both married dissenting ministers , who were
contemporary with Mr . Godwin , and both flourished at a period when it was scarcely possible that they could have married the slaughters of an ejected minister . But besides these natural
deductions , there is an evident mistake upon the face of the narrative Mr . Weaver died in 1712 ; but he was living at the time of his daughter ' s marriage , which , is said to have taken place thirty-three
years after his ejectment . This brings it to 1695 , morW than twenty years before the marriage of Mr . Jones , who was then a youth ,. and scarcely entered upon his . academical studies . These
circumstances seem to prove , that Mr . Jones must have married a Jady at least oae gcacratiou later
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than the foregoing account represents . : Another error respecting Mr . Jones * which we may here notice
is , that he is said to have been a irich man . Now , that this was far from being the case , I have convincing proof , from a letter written to his father in America , after his decease : in whitfh there
is some allusion to the disposal of his property , which must have been very inconsiderable . These mistakes in Mr . Jones ' s history originated , - most probably , in the following way . The
daughter of Mr . Weaver , the ejected minister , certainly married a Mr . Jones , who was a man of property , but a private gentleman , and no way connected , as far as appears
with Mr . Jones of Iewkt > sburyo It is also equally true , that the latter married the daughter of a Mr . Weaver , but a / different person from ttie above ; nor is there
any evidence that she was of the same family , though this is by * no means improbable . If that was the case , she must have been at least one generation farther removed than the account of Mr . Orton specifies .
I cannot ascertain exactly the time of Mr . Jones ' s death * but suppose it to have happened about the year 1719 or 1720 . ft seems
pretty certain that he could not have been married long before that period , as his father , in America , did not hear of the circumstance till a month after his son ' s
death . Mr . Jones never had an ^ children to Jierpetuate his name and family . Some time after his decease , his widow re-married to Mr . Edward Godwin , formerly one of his pupils ,- and afterward * a dissenting- minister of great re-
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Some Account cf Mr . Samuel Jones . < J 55
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1809, page 655, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1743/page/5/
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