Jarrel - Baptist Church Perpetuity - Landmark Baptist

“In 1663, John Miles came over from Wales, and began the church which has
continued to this day.” f930
Samuel Jones, a Baptist minister of Wales, came to America about 1686,
settling in Pennsylvania. John Phillips, a Welsh Baptist minister came to
America about 1692. Thomas Griffiths, a Baptist minister of Wales, emigrated
to America “in the year 1701, and fifteen of the members of the church in the
same vessel.” f931 Morgan Edwards, a Baptist minister of more than usual
learning “from Wales” “arrived here May 23rd, 1761, and shortly after became
pastor of a Baptist church.” f932
John Thomas, a Baptist minister, came from Wales to America in 1703. f933
David Evans, a Welsh Baptist minister, arrived in America in 1739. f934 Several
of the members of the Rehobeth church in Wales “went to America, and
formed themselves into a church at a place called Montgomery, Pennsylvania,
early in the eighteenth century.” f935 Benjamin Griffiths, a Baptist minister of
Wales, became their pastor. Nathaniel Jenkens, also, was a member and pastor
of this church. f935 Thomas Davis, a Welsh Baptist minister, left Wales for Long
Island, about 1713. Cape May church had its foundation “laid in 1675, when a
company of emigrants, from England, arrived in Delaware.” f936 Abel Morgan,
a Baptist minister, came from Wales early in the eighteenth century. f937 In
1737, thirty members of a Baptist church in Wales with “their minister, came
to Pennsylvania and organized the Welsh Tract church.” f938
“Richard Jones, a native of Wales, arrived in America, and became pastor of
the church at Burley, Virginia, in 1727.” f939 Caleb Evans, a Baptist minister of
finished education, of Wales, “went to America and settled in Charleston,
South Carolina, in 1768.” f940
Here, then, are fourteen Welsh ministers and some churches, in the regular
succession line from Europe. From these, of course, have come hundreds of
American Baptist churches, and thousands of Baptists, and many Baptist
ministers. Yet these are but a few examples of American Baptist churches and
ministers in the Baptist Perpetuity line from Europe. Davis says:
“Wales has been a nursery of Baptists. … Many of the American churches
were founded, either wholly or in part, by Welsh Baptists. There are several
Welsh churches in America. Wales has supplied the American churches with
many useful ministers. … Indeed, most of the Baptists in the State of
Pennsylvania, for a great number of years from the beginning … were either
emigrants from Wales or their descendants.” f941
The late and lamented E.T. Winkler, D.D., of Alabama, said:
“The Baptist church (if that be the name for it) did not commence with Roger
Williams, but with a more illustrious personage, in the beginning of the