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spectability at Liftle St . Helen ' s , in the city of London . , By this gentleman she had two sotte . The
eldest , though not trained to the ministry , preached a short titfne in Mr , Whitfield's connection , and died in early iife . The other son was educated under Dr .
Doddridge , at Northampton , and preached successively atWisbeach , Debenham , and Guestwick , where he died in 1772 . This * gentleman was father to the present Mr . Godwin , the celebrated novelist
and political writer . Mrs . God - wiij died at Watford , on the 25 th of January , 1746 ; upwards of twenty-six years after the death of her former husband ^ Mr , Jones . She had two sisters , as intimated above . One was married to Mr *
Price , of Evesham ; the other to Mr . Sedgley , of Biddeford , bath dissenting ministers . After Mr . Jones ' s death , the superintendence of his acaddmy was offered to Mr . Edward
Godwin , above-mentioned . This proposal ^ though extremely- 'flaTtieriitjg to so young a man , Ms great modesty induced him to dealing , Mr . Jones ' s pupils were then removed to Nailswofthy in the same
county , and placed under the care of his nephew , Mr . Jeremtah Jones , a learned dissenting itiinrster , and author of * A new and full Method of settling the Canonical Authority of the New
Testament , " in three volumes , octavo ; 'which work was lately re-printcd by the University of Oxford . Up-% n the dcatfa of this * learned person , in 1744 , the academy was transferred to Carmarthen , fn South- -Wales . Tn the life of Dr . ri
D ^ dtidge we are informed , tfiat wften he entered up « ttr the work of a tuttor . his friend JDr . Clark com *
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mtihicated to him Mr . Jones ' s Lectures upon Jewish Anti quitiesbut * previous to this , they had beeh introduced into the academy at Kibworth , under Mr . Jennings . These Lectures , in two volumes octavo , are preserved in manul
script , in Dr . Williams ' s Library , Red Cross Street : They are written in a very fair hand , and the Hebrew , wfych is intermixed , is ijQ particular , exceedingly beautiful . It appears from I > r . Furneaux ' s preface , that Dr . Jennings bad not seen them when he drew titrhis lectures .
Of Mr . Jones ' s ability as a tutor , we cannot but form a very high opinion , from the merit of his pupils , and the eminence which many of them attained in religion &nd literature . Among them we may enumerate tlie following ; Dr . Samuel Chandler , \ vl *© se nanrc
requires no addition- ; Mr . Ed . tiratfel Godwin , a-bove-mentioned ; I >^ . Ap dtrbiv G iffo rd , an eminent minister of the Anti ^ paedbbaptist dehominafion , aftd a librarian dt flYe British Mia ^ eum ; Mr . Tho . ma's Afoit , a learned dissenting
ftrfnisteiV first at Uxbridge , and after ^ ard ^ at Rotherhithe , and dt Hackney ? Mr . Richard' Pearsall , a » very . valuable tttiiaiister at Tauufloriy Mr . Jeremiah * Jones , 6 f Nailswbrth , and the learned autfror before * mentioned ; M-r .
Henrf Francis ; a * respectable minister of the . RidepeiYdetot deiiominatidri , fir ^ t in-ILondbti r and afterwards at Soiithamptpn ; 3 J ? J ? rl Vavasor Griffifli ^ a -cHssehting ^ minister , and tutor in Wdles mentioned in
, Seeker ' s letter , acn intima'te friend arid correspondent of Mr . Godwiti ; Dr . IDkniel St * ott , well known to the Woritl by his leaded nn& valuable writitffes-, p articularly
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§ 5 tt Some Account of Mr . Samuel Jones .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1809, page 656, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1743/page/6/
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