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€ ttk ir fety "tp ^^^ ftfkpk TS ^ onforft ^^ as ejected ^ m Wiml ^ di ^ mkj ml& ^ h&tsh&dSf ¦* thoti gh Hfe * had a ^ time rous fafctfity ^ ShtMreiv sintl Katd cmi y £ &O ^ pjer amvUm of lift divtt jfropeky &r tlieir 4 ttp ^ i > rt $ atad in sucih strait <* ir (}{ itat&ne £ s £ itisr pleasing td fiiid ^ lfc ^ ebrded otf him , that he was
^¦' a ** > veiry cheerful * iaSa ^ ^ as well as strictly conseientid ^ afid pibus . * Mf Mli ^ being a yoiittger feta ri cti of the family , tid t ^ m&ttifc of * ttiy excellent attestor e ^ r i caine td toy llanel ,
excfcjrt oifljp ** A . few short Cotibsels and Biredtf otls ^* almost entirely ftraetical , chrawn u £ * fer two of his fcottsjon their leaving h&ttoe , in order tid be appreritided and trained up for thei ^ future comfortable subsistence and useful ^
ness . - ' v : - ; - ' - ¦ - ' r ^ . / : Of my ancestor ' s family . I ^ ccitild iiever learn any particulars but th ^ following : One of the * daughters ; named Esther Stephens , was married
and settled , at Culinstock , Devon ; another daughter was married to Mr . Cbokej of Wiveiiscombei Somerset , Whose grandson went to Jamaica , sixty or seventy years ago , whose descendants , I believe , now rank among
the principal inhabitants of that island . Of the sons , James and John , to whom the Counsels ''• were given , I never Aeard any thing farther . Another son , Thomas , was my grandfather , ! a Dissenting minister , resident in Tautitou many years * who kept a large
grammar-school there , under whom many respectable men among the Dissenters were educated , prepafatory to their academical studies , and amongst others , the late venerable Mr . Towgood , * of Exeter , who expressed himself to me , concerning him , in
terms of high respect arid esteem , seventy years after he hftd left the house of his eayly instructorj ( in 1715 ) . My grandfather died about the beginning of the year l ?^ , leaving two sons : 1 . Thomas , a respectable tradesman in Taunton , in the woollen
ma-Hufkctory , who had an only son , Joseph , who died a bachelor at Ti ~ verton > about twenty years since , and fou * daughters , all unmarried , and all , I believe , now deceased . ^ . Joseph , Jday fatheir , edacated for the ministry under Mr . Grove , as - mentioned in ypur * Ii « t ; t * ut tie I wm ; tie w . settled # ith atiy congregation , having been
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necessitated , on account pf ill heaftfi , iil ^ rl ^ 1 % to decline the pastoral offifc ^; thou gh lie lived to m * t 1 | t fewr i very iSetired life , and died , at
Tiamntoiii bfis native place , Feb . % 5 f T 7 S 5 . ' * Thi ^ oMy remaining male descendant is , it is highly probable , the j > r £ &etft writer , bbrn , at Trull , a small v $ 0 ge , about ^ mife fibxii Taunton , S ^ pt . m CK & 1751 ; sb tftat ; ifr * % fiir
V ^ fy jshort time ^ as a& appears , vij H k ^^ pXliyeedme quite extinct , though , it is hoped , that a name will remaih , 4 h celestial estimatiott , ** ¦ ' bettei * fft | n of &b ^ siiid daughters . " v /¦' ¦ Of the collateral branches of bur
family 1 could n ^ er / giifainy iiiformation . All thkt is iertairily known iis ; that ttiy gr ^ -grartdfetneiV tlie melted minister , ^ am ^ diit of
lLiandishk ^ e ; and Si ^^ i ^ w Chsidwick , c £ liOndott ; wh& dfed in H 76 & 1 came but of the fcame ^ H int y ( or hi | ancestors ) . Sir Andtdfa would liavie |) uriqhasedoa Tcommissioii'in thci Middl ^ ses ? Militia
for my cbusin Joseph , abdut 1760 , but hfe mother , fearing it would be injurious to his morals , prevailed on her ^ 6 to & decline it ; After th ati Sir Andriew' took no -moi ^ iioticfe of the family , thatigh h ^ had no children of his b ^ ii , airid di ^ d possessed of very
great wealth , all which went to the government , no legal heir being found . It is very remarkable , that the family coat of arms were the same ; and a getitleman of Taunton , Who had seen Sir Andrew , declaried there could be
no doubt of the consanguinity , the family Resemblance ? was so striking 1 * Sir Andrew s ^ id / not long before his death , that he did not know he had stny t-felatibris in the world , but if he had any , they we ^ refin ' the West of
England . * ' Now , bur family Were (• hb ' oniy persoris remaining of the name in the West . WKat a pty , it s ^ ems ,. that tieh ibten' wbo liave no families do not themselves make the
proper inquiries , seeing their meana are so ample , ai * tto enable them , if within the sphere of possibility ; to ¦ obtain totwfactory dnd benefici *! Tesults . ''< * ? : - ThelVtSi of « Connfeeli ^ ' wt > uld
bfceu py but three or feur *» f youir pages , if you might thinkrSt prop « r 4 or itlse ^ tion in the Hepository , i I am willing to believe it- will nbt bfe excluded j for though tny worthy ancestor fecomraencK in th ^ t fi rst place , » the attenUon of hi 5 children to the Bible ¦ '" - . ' » : f * , ¦ = ¦ ' ¦ , ' * ' * ,
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234 My : Chadwi ^ k on , his Ancestor and hu Pamih
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1818, page 234, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2475/page/10/
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