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April 29, 2015

Sketches of William Hicks, Abner Hicks, Jasper Hicks, George Harris, James Crews, John Earl – and something of their descendants

By CH Jones

The following is a partial transcription (included content, unedited) of the pamphlet “Sketches of William Hicks, Abner Hicks, Jasper Hicks, George Harris, James Crews, John Earl – and something of their descendants”, written by Thurston Titus Hicks of Henderson, North Carolina, in 1926. I believe the transcription is a near-perfect copy of the original material, however any errors that appear in contradiction with the original text, are unintentional and the fault of myself, not the original author.

This transcription includes pages 1 and 2 and pages 29 – 48. Content transcribed includes:
– Title page and Introduction
– The Crews Family of Salem (from Gideon Crews Sr., through to the early 20^th century generations.)
– The Residences of Our Two Grandfathers (descriptions and mode of living in the 19^th century homeplaces of Abner Hicks and James Crews.)
– Three Daughters of John Earl (Detailed descendants list of of Sara Earl and James Crews, Mary Earl and Robert Jones, and Patsie Earl and William Kittrell.)

Thurston Titus Hicks, who wrote this pamphlet in 1926, was born on October 14, 1847, and died July 28, 1927 – eleven months and one day after he completed writing “Sketches.”

This document was written in an earlier era. The style, vernacular, punctuation, and consistency are clearly of another time. The man himself was a creature from the distant past, already, when he began writing this history of his ancestry. For this reason, the foregoing document may be very difficult for contemporary readers to comprehend. For that reason, I have taken the liberty of adding a section at the end of this document that includes:
– the family lineage in an easier to digest format,
– noting inconsistencies in the prose that might confuse contemporary readers, not familiar with the subject matter,
– noting and correcting errors in the original, where I was able to detect them.
– including editorial notes, where I felt I could clarify or contribute to the content.

In regards to the transcription, I have made as perfect a copy of the original as I was able. My notes and additions follow the transcribed version.

Sketches of William Hicks, Abner Hicks, Jasper Hicks, George Harris, James Crews, John Earl

And Something of Their Descendants, With comparisons of present conditions of living with those of sixty years ago.

By Thurston Titus Hicks

Privately printed, Henderson, North Carolina, September, 1926
(A revised and updated edition was printed in 1954.)
(Edits and comments as noted by Constance Hall Jones, 2013)

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[Pages 1 and 2]

“People will not look forward to posterity who never look backward to their ancestors.”
— Edmund Burke

The facts and incidents herein contained were related to me by my parents in my childhood; and repeated to me by them and by my Uncle Edward N. Crews, reduced to writing and verified by them after I became a man. My brother Archibald A. Hicks found and verified the record references. His and my acquaintance with our large family connection enabled us to gather and preserve the incidents and stories. All the family to whom we applied contributed cheerfully whatever information they possessed of the persons and occurrences of which we write.

The records in the office of the Secretary of State at Raleigh show who were the original grantees of the lands of the Colony. Those in Oxford begin in the year 1742, when Granville County was formed.

I have seen the lists of soldiers of the Revolution from Granville County as published in the (Oxford) Public Ledger lately, and was surprised to read so many family names I have never heard; showing how people have departed and others have come and taken their places. The will of my great grandfather, William Hicks, made May 14^th, 1796 probated at August Court, 1799 of Granville County, names as his devisees and legatees, in addition to his two sons, my grandfather Abner Hicks, to whom the lands were devised, and William Hicks, Jr., the following daughters: Mary Debrula, Anne Mathews, Martha Tatum, Priscilla Duncan, and Susanna Wilkins. None of these daughters or their descendants were known to my father who was born October 15^th, 1828, nor are any of them known to me. This will was attested by Reuben Tally, John Hicks and Samuel Allen, Jr. Who were they?

The Earl of Granville granted to the said William Hicks on March 5^th, 1749, two tracts of land aggregating 502 acres, “Situated on the waters” of Tabbs Creek. In those days all lands that composed a part of a watershed of a stream were described as located on said stream. Said lands were retained by William Hicks fifty years and devised as above stated to his son Abner. Abner retained the same fifty-five years and conveyed them to his youngest son, my father, Benjamin Willis Hicks, who thereafter owned and lived on the place for forty-four years, dying December 30^th, 1899, leaving same to my mother for life and in remainder to his children. The place is now occupied and owned by my double ex-brother-in-law James T. Cozart and his two children, James T. Cozart, Jr., and Helen Cozart.

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[Pages 3- 28 missing in my copy.]
[Pages 29 – 48]

The Crews Family of Salem

There was a Gideon Crews. We have not heard of his antecedents. He married Jemima Wicker. Their children were: Gideon Crews, Jr., Littlebury Crews, James Crews, Elizabeth Crews, wife of Lemuel Currin, Abigail Crews married William Daniel, and Mildred Crews married Hester or Easter and moved to Stokes County.

Gideon Crews, Jr. married Temperance LeMay. Their children were: 1. Franklin Crews, who married first _______ Ellis, sister of John Ellis, who bore him Alex Crews, James B. Crews, _______ wife of Thomas Norwood, William or Buck Crews. She dying, Franklin Crews married Hannah Hunt. Of this marriage were born Robert Crews, Wesley Crews and Eugene T. Crews. Robert and Wesley only died without issue. The other children of Gideon Crews, Jr., were Henry Crews, Patsy Breedlove, Harriet Sears, Lucy, wife of Solomon Cottrell.

Gid, Jr., in those days at times liked a timely dram. Our mother used to tell us that he would come to her father’s in a condition which made him merry and full of fun. The children would surround him when he was thus tipsey and ask him to tell them a story. Then he would tell them the story of the Irishman’s dog, viz.: “One day there was an Irishman in the woods hewing with a broad axe. His dog chased a rabbit. The rabbit came running right by where the man was hewing, and the dog in hot pursuit. The dog passed under the axe just as the man brought it down. It split the dog open from the tip of his nose to the end of his tail. The man was distressed at the accident, but being an Irishman and quick witted, he snatched up both halves of the dog and slapped them back together. The operation was so quick and the dogs blood so hot, that the two parts stuck together and grew, and the dog jumped out of his master’s hand and renewed the chase and soon caught the rabbit. But the man in his haste to save the dog had made the mistake to turn two feet up and two feet down, and the dog found that he could run on two feet until they got tired and then whirl over and run on the other two, and so he could catch anything in the woods, and could run forever.”

John Earl married Zebiah Watts. Their children: 1. Martha or Patsy, wife of William Kittrell. 2. Mary, wife of Robert Jones. 3. Sarah or Sally, wife of James Crews. 4. Jack Earl married Fanny Rice and removed to Tennessee. Sims died young.

John Earl’s sister Keziah married George Harris. Their descendants are listed herein. A little story has come down from the days of John Earl and George Harris. John was asked by George Harris on one occasion to send Jacks and Sims, his two sons, to help him to get up and shock his wheat, “All right,” said John and he sent them over early the next morning. They worked hard and finished just at dinner time, thinking the while what a good dinner they would have in Aunt Kizzie’s kitchen. Just then old man George said: “Boys, my wife always cooks to a mouthful and your mother cooks bountifully. Run home and get your dinners.” Their hearts sank within them, but they started home. After a few steps one said: “Uncle George, may we go by the orchard and get some apples?” Uncle George hesitated a moment and replied: “Eat as many as you want, but pocket none.” The boys went to the orchard, ate all the apples they could, took off their trousers, tied knots in their legs and filled them up with apples which they carried home. This story came to me from the Earle side of the house. Perhaps reading it here will be the first any living Harris ever heard of it.

To go back to the family of James Crews: James Crews, son of Gideon the first, born July, 1785, married Sarah, third daughter of John Earl.

The best impression we can obtain from the deeds is that the Gideon Crews, Sr., lands and the John Earl lands adjoined, around and just east, north and northwest of where Salem Church now is, three miles east and northeast of Oxford; and that grandfather James Crews bought them and more, comprising more than a thousand acres, and lived there until his death in 1875. His wife Sarah, was born in 1791, and died in 1863. Their first child, Allen Spencer, was born February 16, 1811, and died in infancy. Their next child was born May 15^th, 1813, and was James A. Crews. He was called “Little Jimmie” or “Tar River Jimmie.” He married Martha Hunt, not a sister, but of the same family of which two sons, Joseph and George married his two sisters Martha and Susan. “Little Jimmie”, as he was called, was much of a man. He soon bought a fine farm on the south side of the Tar River near Minor’s mill and lived there until he was nearly 90, rearing the following children: 1. David G. Crews married Flemming, reared a large family and lived to be old. 2. Sarah A. Crews married William Lyon. They had three children: Kate who married James T. Cozart and died young, Ira who married James T. Cozart’s sister. Ira Lyon and wife have several children and are both living. 3. Lorena, who married Rogers, and afterwards R.G. Bobbitt, and is now a widow. She has two sons, Ira Rogers and Glenn Bobbitt. Sara A. Crews Lyon later married Rev. Thomas J. Horner of Henderson. They both lived to be nearly 80. He died first. 4. Robert T. Crews married a daughter of Kizaeh Stark. Robert lived to be old. They had no children. 5. Louisa Crews married William D. Mitchell, of Wake. About 1880 they removed to near Middleburg, in Vance County. Mr. Mitchell died at a good old age, about 1920. His wife still lives. They have the following children: Ed. D. Mitchell, W.G. Mitchell, Bunn Mitchell, Marvin Mitchell, and one who went to California and died leaving children there. 6. Edward H. Crews married Laura, daughter of Rev. Thomas J. Horner. She died. He removed to Rocky Mount, N.C. and there married again many years later. He is dead. No children survive him. 7. Caroline Crews, called “Callie”, married John Smith. They had three children: Lonnie Smith, who long lived and does yet, in Oxford, N.C., Lennie Smith of Oxford, Maude married Mr. Jackson. They all have families. 8. Leroy Crews, married, lives at Thelma, in Halifax, members of his family unknown to me. 9. Flora Crews married Best; lived near Goldsboro, died, children unknown to me. 10. Albert A. Crews, youngest son of James A. and Martha Crews, married Miss Stark, no children. Lives in Oxford. 11. Rebecca Crews. Now living, never married.

James A. Crews was a good man, a Christian. He loved the church and worked much in its ranks. I have never heard anyone speak evil of him. He prospered in business. He farmed on a large scale, and made his boys work. Archibald Hicks tells a good story that Uncle Jimmy told him. One night a youngster of the neighborhood went to Uncle Jimmy’s visiting, and stayed and stayed. Probably he wished to look at, if not say something to the handsome girls of the family. Finally his visit became somewhat annoying by its length and bedtime approaching, Uncle Jimmie said: “well Johnnie, I reckon you had better go on home now; it’s getting late.” Johnnie left. The next time Uncle Jimmie saw Johnnie it was at a neighborhood mill. Uncle Jimmie: “Howdy Johnnie.” Johnnie: “I wish I had a bengal of powder; I’d blow you to hell in two minutes.”

The second child of James and Sara Earl Crews was Mary E. Crews, born December 2^nd, 1815. She married William O. Wright, a brother of John W. Wright and uncle of Mr. George W. Wright. They removed to Tennessee and had children there, who, in 1875, received their share of the estate of James Crews.

Rebecca A. Crews, third child of James and Sarah Earl Crews, born April, 1817. She married James Cheatham. They lived about five miles southeast of Oxford, where their grandson, Hamlin Cheatham now lives. James Cheatham died in 1865, heart broken over the result of the war. His wife Rebecca died in August 1888. Their children and descendants were: 1. William A. Cheatham, who married Asenath F., daughter of Lewis Parham. Their children were Elizabeth, who married J.H. Goodrich, of Henderson, and died leaving a son Ben and a daughter Lily. Benjamin H. Cheatham, who died of typoid fever at the age of 22, unmarried, about the year 1880. Ernest Lee Cheatham, who died without issue. Adolphus Whitfield Cheatham, an Episcopal minister of Southern Pines or Pinehurst, N.C.

The second child of James and Rebecca Cheatham was Sarah, who married Albert C. Parham, son of Lewis Parham. She died in August 1875, of typhoid fever, leaving seven small children, Alonzo W., Edwin T., Cornelius H., Percy C., who was shot by accident on Thanksgiving Day, 1906, leaving a wife and several children, Mary Tazwell Parham, who married ________ Watson and died young, leaving children, James, who married Miss Hood and has several children, and Frank Earle, who is a lawyer and lives in New York and has been twice married.

The third child of James and Rebecca Cheatham was David Thomas Cheatham. He went through the Civil War with my father. They were each other’s nearest neighbor many years and were ever good friends. He married Annie, daughter of Thomas Reavis, of near Henderson. He owned the Cheatham Mill for a generation until it was thought gold was found near it. Then he sold it and the farm for a good price and bought the Memucan H. Hester farm near Oxford, and lived there until his death at more than eighty in 1915. His wife survived him several years.

The children and descendants of D.T. and Annie Cheatham were: 1. Claudius Cecil Cheatham, a tobacconist of Youngsville, N.C. He married Cora W. Winston, of Youngsville. Their children are: Claude C., Jr., Winston Thomas, Clarence Burton, Robert E. Susan Caroline and Lurline Cheatham, deceased. Claude C. Cheatham died in July, 1921. 2. Fred A. Cheatham, a tobacconist, of Youngsville, N.C., married Maude Freeman. Their children are: Jessamine, Elizabeth, Maude and two who died in infancy. 3. Thomas Flavius Cheatham, tobacconist, Louisburg, N.C., married Bessie Staley. Their children: William Staley Cheatham, Thomas Harvey Cheatham, deceased, and Florence Cheatham, deceased. 4. Robert Hubert Cheatham married Anne Meeder, deceased, left one child, David Thomas Cheatham. 6. James Amis Cheatham married Rosa Lee Parish, Richmond, Virginia; no children. 7. Joseph Gibbs Cheatham, deceased, unmarried. 8. Lucy Catherine Cheatham, deceased. 9. Eva Rebecca Cheatham married William B. Smoot. They have two children, William B. Smoot, Eva Cheatham Smoot. 10. Annie Belle Cheatham married Thomas Crawford. They have three children, Thomas B. Crawford, Jr., James Walker Crawford, and Annie Caroline Crawford. 11. Mattie Roberta Cheatham married Luther S. Farabow. Two children, Lucy Catherine and Pearl Elizabeth. 12. Pearl Elizabeth Cheatham married Sidney R. Abernathy; two children, Birdie Eloise and Lucy Catherine.

The fourth child of James and Rebecca Crews Cheatham was James Theodore Cheatham. He, as his brothers William and D. T., fought through the War of the Confederacy. He was captured with his two nearest neighbors I.C. Bobbittt and Fred Hamme, near the end of the war and kept a long time in Elmira, N.Y., military prison. James Theodore Cheatham acquired his father’s farm, married Elizabeth Hamlin, of Petersburg, Virginia. Her sister had married Augustine Landis, a merchant of Oxford. “Thee” Cheatham and wife reared a large family as follows: 1. Virginius T. Cheatham married Elizabeth Leach. Their children: Leonard, Grace, Virginius, Bessie, Albert, Lucile, Edna, John and Burton. 2. Clifton B. Cheatham married Lala Rainey Kittrell. Their children: Sallie, Charles, Elizabeth, Lucy Crudup, C.B., Jr., Charles Hamline, George Kittrell, William and Mary Cheatham. 3. Sarah C. Cheatham married Percy Parham. He is dead. Their children: James Theodore, Carroll, deceased, Paul Cullum, deceased, Earl, Dorothy. 4. Charles Hamlin Cheatham married Hettie Osborne, who died; later married Lucy Roberts. Children: Bettie Maie, Hamlin, Jr., Graham and Gordon, twins. 5. Rebecca Cheatham married S.W. Ferebee. Their children: Alice, S.W., Jr., Elizabeth, James Theodore, Rebecca, Willoughby, Hamlin, Emmit, Francis, Billy Edward. 6. Mary Louise Cheatham married R.A. Shirley. No children. 7. Olivia Burton Cheatham married J.H.B. Tomlinson. No children. 8. James Theodore Cheatham married Mary Johns. Their children: Mary Johns, dead, James Theodore, Jr., Mary Eccles, Martha Elizabeth. 9. Bessie Gibbons Cheatham married John R. Allen. One child: John R. Allen Jr., 10. Tazzie Cheatham married L.S. Baker. Their children: Shirley, Samuel, and James Cheatham Baker.

Martha M., the fourth child of James and Sarah Earl Crews, was born June, 1820, and married Joseph Penn Hunt. The name Penn appears often in the Hunt family. The most reliable information on its origin here is: John Hunt came to Granville from Virginia. His son John Hunt married Francis Penn, a sister of the signer of the immortal Declaration of Independence. A son of John and Frances Penn Hunt married Sarah Longmire. Joseph Penn Hunt was one of their sons. He married Martha Crews. David, a brother of John Penn Hunt, had two daughters, Martha, who married Little Jimmie Crews, and Charity, who married Reavis and lived near Henderson.

The children of Joseph Penn Hunt and Martha Crews Hunt were: 1. Sally, wife of James B. Crews, who had several children: Cora Ellis, Mrs. N.W. Hicks, C.F. Crews, Fred Crews. 2. James, who died in the Confederate Army. 3. Susan, wife of John H. Breedlove. Their children: Laurie G., who married Rebecca Rice. They have two children, Mildred and Evelyn; Joseph Penn Breedlove married first Bessie Bassett, and second, Lucile Aiken, and had two children, Joseph and Caroline. He has long been librarian of Duke University. Ethyl Breedlove unmarried. 4. Celestia Hunt married I.H. Breedlove. Their children: Oscar Breedlove married Sadie Harris, Calvin Breedlove, who married Lena Patterson. Their children: Joseph, Roy, Neely. Clarence Breedlove married Maggie Baily. Eula Breedlove who married Robert Hart. He died. Their children: Frank, Robert, Alley, Cooper, Mabel, Selma, James. Ada Breedlove, unmarried. May Breedlove married Samuel Holman. Alene Breedlove married Carl Hester. Their children: Josephine, Carl T., Marion and Dorothy Hester.

The fifth child of Joseph P. and Martha Crews Hunt was John L. Hunt. He was a merchant at Kittrell; married Cora Rainey. Three children were born to them: John Leigh, Cora and Rosa Beverly Hunt. Cora Rainy Hunt died and John L. Hunt married her sister Rosa Raney. John L. Hunt soon died. 6. Ira T. Hunt, son of Joseph P. and Martha Hunt, was a partner of John L. Hunt and married his widow, Rosa Hunt. They had one child, Thomas. 7. Ella was the seventh child of Joseph P. and Martha Hunt. She married Dr. Fuller, of Person County. Their children: Elbert Earl, Cora Lee, Carrie and Willie and W. Fuller. 8. David N. Hunt, the eighth child of Joseph P. and Martha Hunt, married his first cousin Adelaide Hester. They live in Oxford, N.C. He is a great lover of the services of the sanctuary and was a R.F.D carrier on route five from Oxford for about 25 years. Their children: Joseph Penn, William Gibbs, Raymond, Otis Kilgo, Earl F. and Lula Hunt. Joseph P. Hunt’s principal business was farming, but he was an expert carpenter and assisted in building the State Capital at Raleigh. He and his wife lived to be old, dying in 1880 and 1881.
The fifth child of James and Sarah Earl Crews was Elijah Thomas Crews. He married Mary, daughter of Asa Parham, when she was less than fifteen years of age. He died at 55 in the spring of 1881. She lived to be 83. They had many children: 1. Haden W. Crews, who married Elizabeth, daughter of John B. Hicks, and he and his brother Norfleet Crews made more clear money farming than any farmers I know. He died in March, 1924, age 76, leaving one child, Dr. N. H. Crews of High Point, N.C. 2. Herbert E. Crews, who married first Laura Fullerton, who bore him several children. 2. Miss Weaver Wester, no issue. 3. Miss Howell, no issue. 3. Miss Delia A. Crews, unmarried. 4. Rufus T. Crews, who died in 1899, unmarried. He was a graduate of Trinity College under Dr. Craven’s Regime. 5. Mary Crews, called Mollie, who died in her youth, unmarried. 6. Norfleet G. Crews, who was adopted by his uncle Edward N. Crews, married first, Victoria Burroughs, daughter of J.E. Burroughs. She dying, he married Charlotte Marrow, daughter of Drewry Marrow. They had nine children. Norfleet died in 1919. He was sole devisee of his uncle Edward N. Crews and his wife and added largely to the same by thrift and diligence. The children of Norfleet and Charlotte are: Eloise, widow of T.L. Fishel. 2. Edward N. Crews. 3. N. G. Crews. 4. Samuel B. Crews. 5. Mary Delia Crews. 6. Martha Eugenia Crews. 7. Daniel M. Crews. 8. Lottie M. Crews. 9. R.T. Crews. Samuel F. Crews, seventh child of E.T. and Mary Crews, married Elizabeth Burroughs. Children: Fletcher, Elizabeth, wife of Julian Glover, Harold, Dorothy and Geraldine Marguerite.
The sixth child of James and Sarah Earl Crews was Edward N. Crews, born September 19^th, 1824. He married Martha, daughter of Asa Parham, and lived a mile west from Dabney and three quarters of a mile northeast from his father. He bought one of the poorest farms in the country and improved it until it became one of the best. Edward N. Crews was a “hustler”, an enthusiast. He specialized in being a good farmer, a good Democrat, a good churchman, and a good liver. If one went to his house to get something good to eat, “he didn’t miss it.” If he depended on him for a church or a party contribution, he was not disappointed. He was almost sure to attend church or party conventions and notable occasions. Though my father’s man Bill was overpersuaded by his wife to go to E.T. Crewses at once after Lee’s surrender he went to Uncle Ed’s next year and stayed about 25 years. Bill’s son lives there now. E.N. Crews was one of the first of his section to start the making of flue-cured tobacco and one of the first to introduce Jersey cattle. He went to Raleigh when the best fresh about Oxford and Henderson sold for $20.00 and paid $100.00 for a Jersey heifer. When she began to give milk she was the talk of the neighborhood. Uncle Ed invited his Brother Jeems” to come down. That night at the table Uncle Ed said: “Brother Jeems, how do you like that milk?” Uncle Jimmie: “Very good, but I think I’ve drank as good at home many a time. “Uncle Ed was somewhat set back, and next morning at breakfast he had Aunt Martha provide a glass of pure Jersey cream for Brother Jeems. As the breakfast proceeded, Uncle Ed: “Brother Jeems, how do you like that milk?” Little Jimmie: “Very well, but I think I’ve seen it as rich at my house many a time.” Uncle Ed: “It ain’t so! It ain’t so! It’s every bit pure cream!” and then he laughed at having caught “Brother Jeems”. This joke is all the better to those who remember the immense voice of Uncle Ed and the zest with which he talked and laughed. Uncle Ed enjoyed the companionship of his friends. He was well known in Vance and Granville, and many good stories were told of him, by him and some at his expense. He acquired a thousand acres of land, more than thirty-thousand dollars in money and never lost any. His estate he left to his wife with the understanding that she should leave it to their dearly beloved adopted son and nephew, Norfleet G. Crews. This Aunt Martha did soon after. They both died in the fall and winter of 1899. Norfleet more than doubled the estate in value in the following twenty years, dying in middle life in the year 1919. Edward N. Crews was a man of strong prejudices and an emotional nature, but he had the respect of all and was beyond question a fine and notable man.
The seventh child of James and Sarah Earl Crews was Isabella Jane Crews, born August 24^th, 1829, married Benjamin W., youngest son of Abner and Elizabeth Harris Hicks, and died September 4^th, 1913. Her descendants under name of my father. She was on good terms with all her neighbors. Nobody ever heard anything she told or repeated to the discredit of others. She never crossed or quarreled with my father. I never heard of her asking him for money or having a pocketbook. He did the buying and paying of bills. She was entirely loyal to the Crewses, yet she was on the best terms with all of the Hickses. In the establishment and maintenance of a home and rearing a family she did her part nobly and well. She survived my father nearly 14 years. Her body is lying by the side of his. If any one ever had better parents than the children of my parents he was indeed fortunate.
Susan, eighth child of James and Sarah Crews, born January 7^th, 1832, married George W. Hunt, brother of Joseph Penn Hunt. She outlived her parents and all her brothers and sisters, dying in April 1918, aged 86. Her husband was a substantial citizen and was executor of the will of his good friend and neighbor Col. Richard P. Taylor, who died in 1870. George W. Hunt died in the prime of his life in 1876, leaving a large family. His widow survived him 42 years. Their youngest son, Edward A. Hunt, still owns the family home and keeps alive the best traditions of the family.

The children of George W. and Susan Hunt were: 1. Emma, married Joseph B. Parham. They owned and lived at the place from which Robert T. Taylor sold a hundred slaves at one time to Judge Rux of Mississippi. Children of Joseph and Emma: Hattie, who married Thomas V. Rowland and later J.K. Plummer, Thad B. died leaving several children, Mamie, who never married, Cary, who has several children, Mattie married Hobgood. They have several children. Blanche Parham married Junius M. Rowland. [Children:] George W. Parham and Elvin Parham. 2. Walter L. Hunt, second child of George W. and Susan, married Jane Haliburton, of Durham. They moved to Asheville. Both died leaving several children, all deceased. 3. Lelia Hunt married Junius W. Young and died without issue. 4. Junius Penn Hunt married Julia Russell of Virginia. Their children: Florence, Lillian, Helen, wife of Theodore Parham, Dorothy, wife of E.S. Merritt, George Penn, and Elizabeth. Junius Penn Hunt has long been one of the most intelligent men of Granville, a lover of his church, a good citizen. His daughter Lillian lives in the Adirondacks. Dorothy and husband are in the Philippine Islands. George Penn Hunt, a graduate of the State University, is employed in commerce in China. 5. Sarah Hunt, unmarried, lived for some time in Cuba. 6. Florence Hunt married Edwin G. Barnes. They died leaving a daughter, Lottie, wife of Rev. R.J. Parker. She has been a foreign missionary and has lived on the Mexican border. They now live in Memphis and have several children. 7. Carrie Hunt married Charles F. Crews. He died of typhoid fever while Clerk of the Superior Court of Granville County. They have one son Roy, and four daughters. 8. Susan (C.) married Joseph H. Gooch. She died, leaving one child, Janie, who graduated from college in 1926. 9. Edward A. Hunt married Elizabeth Moyer, who died leaving two sons. Edward A Hunt later married Lennie Ward, of Greensboro.

Susan C. Hunt possessed all the striking characteristics of the Crews family. From childhood until death she was a devoted member of Salem Church. She loved her family, and they were drawn to her by the tenderest affection. Hers was a long life of peace and reasonable happiness. Her memory is blessed.

The ninth and last child of James and Sarah Earl Crews was Melissa F. Crews, born January 3^rd, 1835, married Rev. William S. Hester, and died in his arms while alighting from the train at Huntsboro, near Salem Church, November 1897. There were born of this marriage: 1. Nora, who married Rufus J. Aiken. This couple had many children, now living. Both parents are dead. 2. Adelaide, who married her first cousin David. N. Hunt in December, 1883. 3. Lula, who married Rev. J.M. Rhodes. No children. The other children of Rev. W.S. and Melissa F. Crews Hester were: Benjamin Otis Hester, who lives in Texas, and Marvin, a Methodist Episcopal minister. I do not know their descendants. Mrs. Melissa Hester was a merry, happy, laughing woman, a lover of the church and everybody. She was largely influential in inducing her father to buy the organ at Salem Church, and she was for a generation its organist and the church’s principal chorister. She was a whole-souled enthusiast in religious and domestic life. She came from the Methodist Episcopal Annual Conference at Raleigh with her husband. I talked with her on the train from Youngsville to Henderson. An hour later, at Huntsboro, her spirit left the scenes and friends she loved so well for the life eternal.

James Crews, the father and head of his large and honorable family, lived to be 90 years of age, dying in September, 1875. I have heard my mother say he started life in a house with a dirt floor. Grandpa Crews could read the Bible a little and write his name, but he had no education in books. In his long life he became a very well informed man. No one ever thought him conceited or proud, but he enjoyed the prosperity he wrenched from nature. A few acres at a time, he acquired more than a thousand acres. At the time of the Civil War he owned more than fifty slaves. I never heard of his mistreating or abusing one. He was born poor and lived to be rich, but he never spent a quarter without first considering whether what he would get would be worth a quarter. A photo taken some years before his death shows him holding in one hand, barely perceptible, a quid which he intended to chew some more. My mother showed it to me. A good story of his thrift and enthusiasm for work is remembered in the family. The first day of the year he waked Tom and Ed and two of his stoutest slaves, before day, telling them to go over to the “new ground” and cut down that largest oak tree by sunrise and wake up the neighborhood, and start the year right. I can see him standing on the porch as the day dawned listening to the ring of the axes of those stout fellows through the frosty air; and what a thrill he felt as he imagined it would wake up Abner Hickses crowd to the east, Bob Taylor’s to the South and Sam Moss and Cooper’s quarter to the north. Soon the tree fell and such a noise it made! But the four men who felled it just as the sun was rising set up yells that could be heard as far as the fall of the tree. They then went home to breakfast, expecting to receive the congratulations and smiles of a father and master; but he was “mad as a hornet.” “What in the world did you holler for? They will think you were coon hunting or were bragging on what you had done.” His grandson, Hayden Crews told me of selling a fine horse to a prominent citizen, who became dissatisfied and sent for Hayden to come and trade back. Hayden went by Grandpa’s, told him all the treaty and trade and asked him for advice. Grandpa: “Tell him you don’t make children’s bargains.” At his funeral Rev. Lewis K. Willie told of his last words. He had been given some medicine in which some of the sugar, not having dissolved, lodged on his tongue. He wiped it off with his finger and said to a child standing by: “Did you ever see anybody spit out sugar before?” Then he died. Thousands of times since have his children and grandchildren and neighbors thought and talked pleasantly of the things he did and of the long and successful life he lived.

THE RESIDENCES OF OUR TWO GRANDFATHERS

Think of the number of dwellings in Durham and Granville and Vance costing ten thousand dollars or more! My father used to say it wasn’t worth while to build much of a house for the little time we had here, and that “the Father of the Faithful” thought a tent sufficient. As I recollect them, the dwellings in which my two grandfathers, Abner Hicks and James Crews, lived and reared their large familes were much alike. Bouth fronted the southeast. The westerly end of each, a story and a jump, with a second shed room in the rear was built first. As more room was needed for the growing family, lower and upper rooms were added on the northeast ends connected with the attic and shed room in the rear. Then a long porch was built all across the front of the Crews house, but only in front of the old part of the Hicks house. Neither one was ever painted. In my opinion, at prices prevailing from about 1800 until just before the world war, either one of those houses could have been built for about $600.00. There was a current opinion in that day that painted houses were taxed much higher than those unpainted. One wonders if that had anything to do with the unpainted condition of these two ancestral homes. The girls and their guests, if any, were packed away in the shed rooms downstairs, the boys in the attics. One of the big rooms was the parlor and the other the living room occupied by all the old folks. The windows! They were so little! I doubt if they were ever raised. And the doors were seldom closed in the daytime. And such fireplaces! Wood about five or six feet long could be burned in them. In those days people stayed in the house but little in the day. I’ve heard my mother say that many a time on Monday mornings her mother would poke her head in the shed room, quote an old saying: “Get up girls! Get up! Here it is Monday morning, tomorrow Tuesday and next day Wednesday! Half the week gone and nothing done!” My mother said when grandfather saw one of them reading a novel and was told what it was he would say, “A made tale.”

These old houses stood and served large families for near a hundred years. My father pulled his down in 1868 and moved into the oak woods where the soil is gray and the shade is good. He used the shingled on the old house to cover the stables and the outhouses at the new place. They were drawn shingles, of heart pine, put on with wrought nails, the exposed parts worn half in two. We just turned them over and they were better than any we could get, but in about forty years they were worn so on the other side that they had to be discarded. There was a great big cellar under the whole of the Crews house, entered by a door and stone steps from the north end. In that cellar the family eating was done. They had to go there and carry the dishes and food there via out of doors, three times a day. The kitchen was at least 50 yards away. At Grandpa Hicks’s they ate in the west room, which was indeed a roomy room, larger, I suppose, than any two house rooms in Henderson. All the water used at both places for nearly a hundred years, was brought about 250 yards from the springs. Just before the war wells were digged. My brother Archibald said he was at Grandpa Crews’s one morning preparing to wash his face. He put about two small gourds of water in the pan, when Grandpa said: “Boy, you’ve got enough water there to wash a shirt.” Grandfather Abner died in December, 1857, when I was two months old. Grandfather Crews was 72 when I was born and 90 when he died. His speech was all kindly and gentle, but I cannot remember that I ever saw him smile.

THREE DAUGHTERS OF JOHN EARL

Sarah Earl, as we have said, married James Crews. Mary Earl married Robert Jones. Patsie Earl married William Kittrell.

Mary and Patsie have 272 descendants, viz: Children of Mary and Robert Jones: 1. Jane Jones married Robert Gill. 2. Sally Jones married Peter Gill. Children of Jane Jones and Robert Gill: 1. Dr. Robert J. Gill married Annie Fuller. 2. William P. Gill married killed at Battle of Malvern Hill. 3. Emily Gill married E.A. Fuller. Children of Dr. Robert J. Gill: 1. William Francis Gill, professor Trinity College, died. 2. Celestia Gill married I.J. Young, Children of Celestia Gill and I.J. Young: 1. I.J. Young, Jr. 2. Robert G Young. 3. Rebecca Jane Young. 4. Annie Fuller Young. Children of Emily Gill Fuller: Emily Fuller married J.C. Thompson. Their children: 1. Ralph Fuller Thompson married Lois Coghill; children, Jane and Fuller Thompson. 2. Alpheus Thompson married Lucy Hays; no children. 3. Lucy Thompson and Helen Thompson 5. Robert and Jones Thompson.

Children of Sally and Peter Gill: 1. John Gill died of typhoid fever. 2. Ben L. Gill died in army. 3. Pattie Gill married Sam Brummitt. 4. Mary Gill married John H. Rowland. 5. Parmelia J. Gill married D.S. Allen. 6. Robert Frank Gill married Debnam Allen. 7. Joseph Thomas Gill married Bettie Price. 8. David H. Gill married Pattie Hight. 9. James A. Gill married Evelyn O. Allen.

Children of Pattie Gill and Sam Brummitt: 1. Sa Peter Brummitt married. 2. Rosa Gill. 3. Nettied Ellington. 4. Meta Earl Brummitt married Ed. W. Harris. 5. Pettie Brummitt married Ernest L. Fuller. Children of Sam and Peter Brummitt’s first wife: 1. James Russell Brummitt married Blanche Eakes; one child Margaret. 2. Garland married Isabel Ward. 3. S. Brooks Brummitt married Beth Fuller; two children Rosalie and Wallace. 4. Harold Brummitt.
Children of Meta Earl Brummitt and Ed.W. Harris: 1. Talton Harris married Ethel Barbera Neef. 2. Norwood Harris married Mabel Richardson. Their children: Barbera Harris and N.W. Harris, Jr. 3. Cedric Harris killed in World War. 4. Claxton Harris. 5. Frank Harris. 6. Elizabeth Groves Harris.
Children of Pattie Brummitt and Ernest L. Fuller: 1. Thelbert Fuller married Lizzie Hays; one child, Thelbert, Jr. 2. Fletcher B. Fuller married Nora Eaves; one child, Fletcher B., Jr. 3. Clifton Fuller. 4. Edgar Fuller. 5. Lula Fuller. 6. Charlie Fuller. 7. Minnie Fuller. 8. Sam Fuller. 9. Jack Fuller.
Children of Mary Gill and John H. Rowland: 1. Plummer G. Rowland. 2. Hubert L. Rowland. 3. Della married R.K. Young. 4 John L. Rowland married Belle Fuller. 5. Dr. D.S. Rowland married Fanny Fuller; one child, Austin; then married Lily Strange. 6. Emma Rowland married A.K. Rogers. 7. Peter L. Rowland married Hester Kennedy. Plummer G. Rowland never married.

Children of Della Rowland and R.K. Young: 1. Addie Young. 2. Carl Young married Pearl Johnson. Children: Alice, Vesper, Samuel J., and Wesley. 3. Ethel married John Woodlief. Children: Leona, Christine, Viola, Ashby. 4. Clara Young married U.B. Alexander. Children: Waldo, Vernon D., and Vivian.

Children of Hubert Rowland and Geneva Hight, his wife: 1. Joe Rowland married Clara Smith: one child Joe, Jr. 2. Emma Rowland married Lewis W. Huff; one child Myra. 3. Neva Rowland married Festus Fuller; one child Jane. 4. Nannie Rowland married James Ellington. Children: Annie, Margaret, Madeline, Edwin, Kimball, Rowland. 5. Wilber A. Rowland married Nina Bradwell: one child Alba. 6. John P. Rowland married Bessie Harris. Children: Rudolph, Dwight, Elizabeth, Mary, Paul. 7. Pearl Rowland married Allen Harris. Two children: Bella A. and Herbert H. 8. Fannie Rowland, single.

Children of John L. Rowland and Belle Fuller: 1. Roy A. Rowland married Maude Andrews. Children: Phillip, Leroy, Radford. 2. H. Benton Rowland married Roth Conyers. Children: Frances, Louise, and H.B. Jr.

Children of Peter Rowland and Hester Kennedy: Haywood. Bessie, Della and George.

Children of David S. Rowland and Fannie Fuller: Austin Rowland, dead. Lily Strange bore no children.

Children of Emma Rowland and A.K. Rogers: 1. Lowell Rogers. 2. John Willis Rogers. 3. Mary Rogers. 4. Maurice Rogers. 5. Alice Rogers married Rudolph Montgomery and had one child Emma Gray.

Children of Parmelia Gill and D.S. Allen: 1. Olive Allen, dead. 2. Nettie Allen married A.B. Deans. 3. James Bayard Allen married Minnie Kimball. Children: Susan and Francis. 4. Jessie Allen married Rufus M. Person, dead. Children: Alice married E,C. Sparrow, James A Person, Allen Person, R.M. Person, Jr. 5. Dr. Ben G. Allen married Nieta W. Watson. Their children: Virginia, Mary Jane, Nieta, and Ben G., Jr.

Children of Robert Frank Gill and Debnam Allen: 1. Thomas C. Gill married Charlotte Cline. Children: Ruth, Sarah, Thomas Cline Gill. 2. Lois Gill married Henry T. Mitchell. Children: Frank, Donald, Roger, Myrtle, Sallie, Evelyn.

Children of Joseph Thomas Gill and Bettie Price: 1. Lula Gill married K.W. Edwards. Their children: R. Reynolds Edwards married Ella Jefferson. 2. Pauline Edwards. 3. Annie Belle Edwards married A.L. Hobgood; one child A.L. Hobgood, Jr. 4. Sallie Gill Edwards married Lem Wilson. Their children: Ruth Elsie and Thomas Gill Wilson. 5. Janie Gill Edwards married Thomas J. Sykes. Child: Thomas Gill Sykes, Jr. 6. Frank Gill married Donnie Hux. Children: James Thomas Gill, Jr., Gladys, Leon and Russell

Children of David H. Gill and Pattie Hight: 1. Sally died of typhoid fever. 2. Peter H. Gill married Pattie Baker. Two children: John David and Julia. 3. Pattie Baker Gill, died. Peter H. Gill married Willie Montgomery. Their children: Harold A. and Elizabeth Gill. 3. Pattie Gill married Ed. Stone and bore children, Thelma and Julian. 4. Mabel Gill married Harrison B. Williams. Their children: Crayton, Veritas, Hal. B. Jr., and Marshal. 5. Janie Gill married Robert Edwards. Their children: Margaret, Annie, Elsie and Ida. 6. Josie Gill married Sam F. Coghill. Their children: Pattie, Morris, Clarence, Peter, Mabel, Conrad, Dalton. He married Edith Edwards.

Children of James A. Gill and Evelyn O. Allen: 1. Mary Jones Gill, dead. 2. Rosa Gill married S.B. Brummitt. Their children given under his name. 3. John Earl Gill married Mattie Taylor. Their children: Clare, Evelyn, Edward and Earl. 4. Carrie Gill married John Broughton. Their child: Elizabeth. 5. Clarence Lee Gill married __________ Edwards. Their children: James, Allen, Alma, Ora, William.

Children of Patsy Earl and William Kittrell:

John W. Kittrell married Mary Fuller. Their children: 1. Annie married E.O. Perdue. 2. Florence married Hugh M. Hight. Their children: Paul, Marion, Harry, Mary H. and Geneva. Mary H. Hight married Ira Finch. Their children: Reese, Rachel, Alex. Geneva Hight married Melvin S. Fowler and had one child: Sterling. 3. R.L. Kittrell married Fanny Parham. Children: Annie married Bennie Rowland. Their children: Annie, Robert, and Macy. Mary Kittrell married Henry J. Parks. Their children: James and Reynold. Willie A. Kittrell married Ethel Hayes. Their children: Elizabeth and W.A. Kittrell, Jr., Alice Kittrell. Egbert Kittrell married Agnes Woodlief. Their children: James and Asa. Charlie Kittrell. 4. John J. Kittrell married Lizzie Edwards. Their children: Lois, Clyde and Alene. 5. Jessie Kittrell married Lena Duke. Their child: Jessie Bell. Willie Kittrell married Ada Perdue. Their children: Florrie married Clarence E. Page. Children: Clarence and Ada. Mary Kittrell.
Tabita Kittrell, daughter of Patsy and William, married Buck White. Their children: Eugene and Hugh White and Rebecca, who married _______ White and removed to Tennessee. Names of their children I do not know.

III. Mary Kittrell married John Wesley Young. Their children: (a) Junius W. Young, who married twice; _______ Hunt, one child E.O. Young, and Lelia Hunt, no child. (b) Rufus K. Young married Della Rowland, see under her name. (c)Olivia and Ophelia Young, twins, no issue. (d) O.O. Young married Nannie Powell. Children: Thomas, Henry, Mary, Alley Ball, and Eleanor Young.

Martha Kittrell married Willis Rogers. No issue.
Maria Kittrell married Willis Rogers. Their children: Ella married George Davis, Pattie, A.K. (see under Mary Rowland), Cecil, June, Samuel E., children not known. Roberta married James P. Satterwhite. Children: Samuel J. Satterwhite married Madeline Warren, Fletcher, John W., Clyde E., Louise married Will Reavis, Dora married Frank Rose. Their children: Clarice Rose, Frank Rose married Mary Turner, James L. Rose and George W. Rose.
Jennie Kittrell unmarried.

Nearly all the above descendes of Patsy and Mary Earl live and have lived in the Kittrell Twonship, Vance County. For fifty years or more Dr. Robert Gill, an active physician and farmer, has been their guide, physician and friend, to whom they have looked.

Now, for some years, Dr. Benjamin G. Allen has been and is acting in the same capacity. David H. Gill did much to educate and obtain homes for this large family connection.

James A. Gill and D.S. Allen were also men of force and activity.

Just think! When William, Thomas, and Robert Hicks, George Harris, John Earl and Gideon Crews came and settled those places at or before the year 1750, not a brick nor a nail nor a piece of wood had been assembled to build any house in Oxford or Raleigh. It was about 100 years thereafter before anything was done toward building Henderson or Durham. Hillsboro had been started and a road ran through this country from Petersburg to it and from Edenton and Newbern and Halifax to Hillsboro and on to Salisbury. Not a railroad was in North Carolina until the Raleigh and Gaston was built, reaching in 1837, the place “a mile west of Chalk Level” where Henderson now is. I have never heard when either of the country roads from Henderson to Oxford was built, but suppose they were built after 1811 when Oxford was chartered. Williamsboro and that old church were there, the center of Granville’s eighteenth century culture. Williamsboro had fine schools from 1800 to 1850. Some Eatons and Somervilles and Hawkinses and Hendersons began to come about 1750. How people traveled in those days with such roads as they had, we cannot understand. Mostly on horseback, we suppose. Nothing remains to inform us what connection William Hicks and brothers, or George Harris or Gideon Crews or John Earl had with the outside world for fifty years after they settled upon the headwaters of Tabbs and Harrisburg and Flat Creeks. Mr. L. G. Breedlove, a great grandson of John Hunt and James Crews, is of the opinion that John Earl met Zebiah Watts when she landed from the ship and married her and brought her to this section. Another account is that John Harris, the father of George Harris, married Elizabeth, the sister of Isaac Watts, and that their children were George Harris and the first wife of William Hicks and the wife of Valentine Mayfield. I cannot decide which story is true. The reference books say Isaac Watts was born in 1674 and died in 1748. It is, therefore, more likely, that the fiancés of John Earl and John Harris were Isaac’s nieces. If our kinship to him cannot be proven, we can look for the resemblances in his and our mental and spiritual attitudes, by reading his fifty odd hymns still sung in our own churches. His last 37 years were spent in the home of Thomas Abney, a London Alderman. How could they so…

“Mingle and mix, piety and politics?”

[Excluded one paragraph of extraneous content about unsubstantiated connections to the 14^th century Hickses of England.]

These lands, when taken up from John of Carteret, alias Lord Granville, cost our ancestors less than a dollar an acre. In reconstruction days, 1868-70, I heard my father talking about his taxes. He said they were $15.00 that year and was complaining of how they had gone up. Just think of the tax on about 500 acres of land and the ordinary personality being $15.00. My brother Hewitt told me last fall that his school tax alone for 1925 on 120 acres, within a mile of White Oak Villa, and no better land or improvements, was $95.00.

I have my father’s store account from June, 1873, to July, 1874: Amount $174.00. Kerosene was 50c per gallon, nails 10c per pound, Rio coffee 40c, cotton cloth 12 1/2c, with a credit of two bales of cotton and 14 1/2 c per pound. I also have a receipt for the price of a coffin in which the body of my grandfather Abner Hicks was buried: “The estate of Abner Hicks, deceased, to Elba L. Parrish, Dr., December 28^th, 1857. To making one raised top coffin, $5.50. Received the above amount in full of Samuel S. Hicks. Elba L. Parrish.”

Let us now look from the past to the future.

May this pamphlet serve to introduce those of the Hickses and Crewses and Harrises and Earls and their descendants who do not know each other. Let us claim kin and be kin, and be such good and true and friendly men and women as will bring honor to our family name and fit us to associate with our worthy ancestors and all the good when we meet them hereafter.

Henderson, N.C., August 27^th, 1926

[Excluded Appendix. Further information on the unsubstantiated Hicks connections to England, some information on the Hicks original connections to Plymouth, etc.

Excluded “Changes in the Mode of Living”, which was a moderately lengthy section that is essentially out of date, and Mr. Thurston Titus Hicks descriptions of “Modern” conveniences would strike most of today as almost “camping”.

Pages 50 and further are missing in my copy.]

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[The following is a revised and edited version of “Scketches”, for easier reading.]

Sketches of William Hicks, Abner Hicks, Jasper Hicks, George Harris, James Crews, John Earl

And Something of Their Descendants, With comparisons of present conditions of living with those of sixty years ago.

By Thurston Titus Hicks

Privately printed, Henderson, North Carolina, September, 1926
(A revised and updated edition was printed in 1954.)

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[Pages 1 and 2]

“People will not look forward to posterity who never look backward to their ancestors.”
— Edmund Burke

The facts and incidents herein contained were related to me by my parents [Isabella Jane Crews and Benjamin Willis Hicks] in my childhood; and repeated to me by them and by my Uncle Edward N. Crews, reduced to writing and verified by them after I became a man. My brother Archibald A. Hicks found and verified the record references. His and my acquaintance with our large family connection enabled us to gather and preserve the incidents and stories. All the family to whom we applied contributed cheerfully whatever information they possessed of the persons and occurrences of which we write.

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[Pages 3- 28 missing in my copy.]
[Pages 29 – 48]

The Crews Family of Salem

There was a Gideon Crews. We have not heard of his antecedents.

[For antecedents of Gideon Crews, Sr., see The Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy, 1750-1930, Vol VI, Henrico Monthly Meeting, by William Wade Hinshaw, page 164, which shows Joseph Crew, b. 1704 in Charles City, VA (son of John Crew and Sarah Gatley) – married (on June 12, 1725 – Massey Johnson, b. Feb 5, 1703 in Hanover, VA (daughter of John Johnson and Lucretia Massey).]

Gideon Crews, Sr. married Jemima Wicker. Their children were:
1. Gideon Crews, Jr.
2. Littlebury Crews
3. James Crews
4. Elizabeth Crews (married) Lemuel Currin
5. Abigail Crews (married) William Daniel
6. Mildred Crews (married) ________ Hester or Easter. They moved to Stokes County.
Gideon Crews, Jr. married Temperance LeMay. Their children were:
A. Franklin Crews (married first) _______ Ellis, sister of John Ellis. They had the following children:
1. Alex Crews
2. James B. Crews
3. _______ Crews (married) Thomas Norwood
4. William (“Buck”) Crews.
Franklin Crews (married next) Hannah Hunt. Their children were:
1. Robert Crews (died without issue.)
2. Wesley Crews (died without issue.)
3. Eugene T. Crews

B. Henry Crews
C. Patsy Crews (married) Manson Breedlove
D. Harriet Crews (married) John Sears
E. Lucy Crews (married) Solomon Cottrell

Gid, Jr., in those days at times liked a timely dram. Our mother used to tell us that he would come to her father’s in a condition which made him merry and full of fun. The children would surround him when he was thus tipsy and ask him to tell them a story. Then he would tell them the story of the Irishman’s dog, viz.: “One day there was an Irishman in the woods hewing with a broad axe. His dog chased a rabbit. The rabbit came running right by where the man was hewing, and the dog in hot pursuit. The dog passed under the axe just as the man brought it down. It split the dog open from the tip of his nose to the end of his tail. The man was distressed at the accident, but being an Irishman and quick witted, he snatched up both halves of the dog and slapped them back together. The operation was so quick and the dogs blood so hot, that the two parts stuck together and grew, and the dog jumped out of his master’s hand and renewed the chase and soon caught the rabbit. But the man in his haste to save the dog had made the mistake to turn two feet up and two feet down, and the dog found that he could run on two feet until they got tired and then whirl over and run on the other two, and so he could catch anything in the woods, and could run forever.”

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II. John Earl (married) Zebiah Watts. Their children were:
1. Martha Earl (“Patsy”?) (married) William Kittrell
2. Mary Earl (married) Robert Jones
3. Sarah Earl (“Sally”?) (married) James Crews [3^rd son of Gideon Crews, Sr. described above.]
4. Jack Earl married Fanny Rice and removed to Tennessee.
5. Sims died young, with no issue.

John Earl’s sister Keziah Earl married George Harris. Their descendants are listed herein.

A little story has come down from the days of John Earl and George Harris. John was asked by George Harris on one occasion to send Jack and Sims, his two sons, to help him to get up and shock his wheat, “All right,” said John and he sent them over early the next morning. They worked hard and finished just at dinner time [lunch time], thinking the while what a good dinner [lunch]they would have in Aunt Kizzie’s kitchen. Just then old man George said: “Boys, my wife always cooks to a mouthful and your mother cooks bountifully. Run home and get your dinners.” Their hearts sank within them, but they started home. After a few steps one said: “Uncle George, may we go by the orchard and get some apples?” Uncle George hesitated a moment and replied: “Eat as many as you want, but pocket none.” The boys went to the orchard, ate all the apples they could, took off their trousers, tied knots in their legs and filled them up with apples which they carried home. This story came to me from the Earle side of the house. Perhaps reading it here will be the first any living Harris ever heard of it.

To go back to the family of James Crews: James Crews, son of Gideon the first, born July, 1785, married Sarah Earl, third daughter of John Earl.

James Crews, b. July 20, 1785 – d. Sept. 28, 1875 (married) Sarah Earl, b. May 4, 1791 – d. March 3, 1863. Their children are:,
A. Allen Spencer, b. Feb. 16, 1811 – d. 1811. and was
B. James A. Crews, b. May 15^th, 1813 – d. Aug. 10, 1892 (married) Martha Hunt, b. Dec. 5, 1815 – d. Jan. 6, 1892. Their children are:
1. David G. Crews (married) _______ Flemming; reared a large family and lived to be old.
2. Sarah A. Crews (married, first) William Lyon. Their children are:
a. Kate Lyon (married) James T. Cozart
b. Ira Lyon (married) _______ Cozart (James T. Cozart’s, above, sister.)

Sara A. Crews Lyon (married, next) Rev. Thomas J. Horner, of Henderson. They both lived to be
nearly 80. He died first.

Lorena Crews (married, first) _______Rogers. Their child:
a. Ira Rogers

(married next) R.G. Bobbitt. Their child:
a. Glenn Bobbitt.

Robert T. Crews (married)________ Stark ( daughter of Kizaeh Stark.) Robert lived to be old.
They had no children.
Louisa Crews (married) William D. Mitchell, of Wake. Their children are:
a. Ed. D. Mitchell
b. W.G. Mitchell
c. Bunn Mitchell
d. Marvin Mitchell
e. _______ Mitchell (who went to California and died leaving children there.)

About 1880 the Mitchell family removed to near Middleburg, in Vance County. Mr. Mitchell died
at a good old age, about 1920.

Edward H. Crews (married) Laura Horner (daughter of Rev. Thomas J. Horner). She died
without issue.
Caroline Crews (“Callie”) (married) John Smith. Their children are:
a. Lonnie Smith, who long lived in Oxford, N.C.
b. Lennie Smith of Oxford,
c. Maude Smith (married) Mr. Jackson.
They all have families.
Leroy Crews (married) Fanny Evelyn Johnston (See Ed. Notes at end of this piece for
descendants of Leroy Lafayette Crews and Fanny Evelyn Johnston] lives at Thelma, in Halifax,
members of his family unknown to me.
Flora Crews (married) _______ Best; lived near Goldsboro, died, children unknown to me
Albert A. Crews (married) Miss Stark. No issue.
Rebecca Crews. Never married, no issue.

About B. JAMES A. CREWS (son of 3. James Crews, grandson of I. Gideon Crews, Sr.)

James A. Crews was called “Little Jimmie” or “Tar River Jimmie.” He married Martha Hunt, not a sister, but of the same family of which two sons, Joseph and George married his (James A.’s) two sisters Martha and Susan. “Little Jimmie”, as he was called, was much of a man. He soon bought a fine farm on the south side of the Tar River near Minor’s mill and lived there until he was nearly 90.

The third child of James and Sara Earl Crews was:
C. Mary E. Crews, b. Dec. 2, 1815 (married) William O. Wright (a brother of John W. Wright and uncle of Mr. George W. Wright.)
They removed to Tennessee and had children there, who, in 1875, received their share of the estate of James Crews.

The fourth child of James and Sara Earl Crews was:
D. Rebecca A. Crews, b. April, 1817 – d. August, 1888 (married) James Cheatham, d. 1865.

Rebecca A. Crews and James Cheatham lived about five miles southeast of Oxford, where their grandson, Hamlin Cheatham now lives. James Cheatham died in 1865, heart broken over the result of the war. His wife Rebecca died in August 1888.

Their children are:
1. William A. Cheatham (married) Asenath F. Parham ( daughter of Lewis Parham.)
Their children:
a. Elizabeth Cheatham (married) J.H. Goodrich, of Henderson. Their children:
i. Ben(jamin) Goodrich
ii. Lily Goodrich. Died without issue.
b. Benjamin H. Cheathamn; died of typoid fever at the age of 22, unmarried, about
the year 1880.
c. Ernest Lee Cheatham. Died without issue.
d. Adolphus Whitfield Cheatham. Became an Episcopal minister of Southern
Pines or Pinehurst, N.C.

Sarah Cheatham, d. August 1875 (married) Albert C. Parham (son of Lewis Parham.) She died
in August 1875, of typhoid fever. Their children are:
a. Alonzo W. Parham
b. Edwin T. Parham
c. Cornelius H. Parham
d. Percy C. Parham, who was shot by accident on Thanksgiving Day, 1906, leaving a wife
and several children.
e. Mary Tazwell Parham, who married ________ Watson and died young. Their children:
i. James Watson (married) Miss Hood
ii. Frank Earle, who is a lawyer and lives in New York and was twice married.
David Thomas Cheatham (married) Annie Reavis (daughter of Thomas Reavis, of near
Henderson, Vance County, NC. ) Their Children are:
a. Claudius Cecil Cheatham, d. 1921 (married) Cora W. Winston, of Youngsville. Their
children are:
i. Claude C., Cheatham, Jr.
ii. Winston Thomas Cheatham
iii. Clarence Burton Cheatham
iv. Robert E. Cheatham
v. Susan Caroline Cheatham
vi. Lurline Cheatham, deceased.

Claude C. Cheatham was a tobacconist of Youngsville, N.C.

Fred A. Cheatham (married) Maude Freeman. Their children are:
i. Jessamine Cheatham
ii. Elizabeth Cheatham
iii. Maude Cheatham
iv. and v. two who died in infancy.

Fred A. Cheatham was a Tobacconist in Youngsville, NC
Thomas Flavius Cheatham (married) Bessie Staley. Their children:
i. William Staley Cheatham
ii. Thomas Harvey Cheatham, deceased
iii. Florence Cheatham, deceased.

Thomas Flavius Cheatham was a tobacconist, Louisburg, N.C.

Robert Hubert Cheatham (married) Anne Meeder. Their child:
i. David Thomas Cheatham
James Amis Cheatham (married) Rosa Lee Parish, Richmond, Virginia. No issue.
Joseph Gibbs Cheatham, unmarried. No issue

g.. Lucy Catherine Cheatham, deceased. No issue.

Eva Rebecca Cheatham (married) William B. Smoot. Their children:
i. William B. Smoot
ii. Eva Cheatham Smoot
Annie Belle Cheatham (married) Thomas Crawford. Their children:
i. Thomas B. Crawford, Jr.
ii. James Walker Crawford
iii. Annie Caroline Crawford.
Mattie Roberta Cheatham (married) Luther S. Farabow. Their children:
i. Lucy Catherine Farabow
ii. Pearl Elizabeth Farabow (married) Sidney R. Abernathy. Their children:
1. Birdie Eloise Abernathy
2. Lucy Catherine Abernathy
David Thomas Cheatham went through the Civil War with my (Thurston Titus Hicks, b. 1847 –
d. 1927) father (Benjamin Willis Hicks). They were each other’s nearest neighbor many years
and were ever good friends. He owned the Cheatham Mill for a generation until it was thought
gold was found near it. Then he sold it and the farm for a good price and bought the Memucan
H. Hester farm near Oxford, and lived there until his death at more than eighty in 1915. His wife
survived him several years.

The fourth child of James and Rebecca Crews Cheatham was:
4. James Theodore “Thee” Cheatham (married) Elizabeth Hamlin, of Petersburg, Virginia.

He, as his brothers William and D. T., fought through the War of the Confederacy. He was
captured with his two nearest neighbors I.C. Bobbittt and Fred Hamme, near the end of the war
and kept a long time in Elmira, N.Y., military prison. James Theodore Cheatham acquired his
father’s farm.

Elizabeth Hamlin’s sister had married Augustine Landis, a merchant of Oxford.

“Thee” Cheatham and wife reared a large family as follows:
a. Virginius T. Cheatham (married) Elizabeth Leach. Their children:
i. Leonard Cheatham
ii. Grace Cheatham
iii. Virginius Cheatham
iv. Bessie Cheatham
v. Albert Cheatham
vi. Lucile Cheatham
vii. Edna Cheatham
viii. John Cheatham
ix. Burton Cheatham

b. Clifton B. Cheatham (married) Lala Rainey Kittrell. Their children:
i. Sallie Cheatham
ii. Charles Cheatham
iii. Elizabeth Cheatham
iv. Lucy Crudup Cheatham
v. Clifton B. Cheatham, Jr.
vi. Charles Hamlin Cheatham
vii. George Kittrell Cheatham
viii. William Cheatham
ix. Mary Cheatham

c. Sarah C. Cheatham (married) Percy Parham. Their children:
i. James Theodore Parham
ii. Carroll Parham
iii. Paul Cullum Parham
iv. Earl Parham
v. Dorothy Parham

d. Charles Hamlin Cheatham (married, first) Hettie Osborne. No issue.
(married, next) Lucy Roberts. Their children:
i. Bettie Maie Cheatham
ii. Charles Hamlin Cheatham, Jr.
iii. and iv. Graham Cheatham and Gordon Cheatham, twins.

e. Rebecca Cheatham (married) S.W. Ferebee. Their children:
i.Alice Ferebee
ii. S.W. Ferebee, Jr.
iii. Elizabeth Ferebee
iv. James Theodore Ferebee
v. Rebecca Ferebee
vi. Willoughby Ferebee
vii. Hamlin Ferebee
viii. Emmit Ferebee
ix.Francis Ferebee
x. Billy Edward Ferebee.

f. Mary Louise Cheatham (married) R.A. Shirley. No children.

g. Olivia Burton Cheatham (married) J.H.B. Tomlinson. No children.

h. James Theodore Cheatham (married) Mary Johns. Their children:
i. Mary Johns Cheatham
ii. James Theodore Cheatham, Jr.
iii. Mary Eccles Cheatham
iv. Martha Elizabeth Cheatham

i. Bessie Gibbons Cheatham (married) John R. Allen. Their child:
i. John R. Allen Jr.,

j. Tazzie Cheatham (married) L.S. Baker. Their children:
i. Shirley Baker
ii.Samuel Baker
iii. James Cheatham Baker

The fifth child of James and Sarah Earl Crews was:
E. Martha M. Crews , b. June, 1820 (married) Joseph Penn Hunt. Their children:
1. Sally Hunt (married) James B. Crews. Their children:
a. Cora Ellis Crews
b. _______ Crews (married) N.W. Hicks
c. C.F. Crews
d. Fred Crews

The name Penn appears often in the Hunt family. The most reliable information on its origin here is: John Hunt came to Granville from Virginia. His son John Hunt married Francis Penn, a sister of the signer of the immortal Declaration of Independence. A son of John and Frances Penn Hunt married Sarah Longmire. Joseph Penn Hunt was one of their sons. He married Martha Crews. David, a brother of John Penn Hunt, had two daughters, Martha, who married “Little Jimmie Crews”, and Charity, who married Reavis and lived near Henderson.

2. James Hunt, who died in the Confederate Army.

3. Susan Hunt (married) John H. Breedlove. Their children:
a. Laurie G. Breedlove (male), who married Rebecca Rice. Their children:
i. Mildred Breedlove
ii. Evelyn Breedlove
iii. Joseph Penn Breedlove(married first) Bessie Bassett
(married next) Lucile Aiken. Their children:
1. Joseph Breedlove
2. Caroline Breedlove.
Joseph Penn Breedlove has long been librarian of Duke University.
Ethyl Breedlove. Unmarried. No issue.

4. Celestia Hunt (married) I.H. Breedlove. Their children:
a. Oscar Breedlove (married) Sadie Harris
b. Calvin Breedlove (married) Lena Patterson. Their children:
i. Joseph Breedlove
ii. Roy Breedlove
iii. Neely Breedlove
iv. Clarence Breedlove (married) Maggie Baily
v. Eula Breedlove (married) Robert Hart. Their children:
1. Frank Hart
2. Robert Hart
3. Alley Hart
4. Cooper Hart
5. Mabel Hart
6. Selma Hart
7. James Hart
8. Ada Hart, unmarried. No issue.
9. May Hart (married) Samuel Holman
10. Alene Hart (married) Carl Hester. Their children:
a. Josephine Hester
b. Carl T. Hester
c. Marion Hester
d. Dorothy Hester.

John L. Hunt (married, first) Cora Rainey. Their children:
a. John Leigh Hunt
b. Cora Hunt
c. Rosa Beverly Hunt.

John L. Hunt (married, next) Rosa Rainey (sister of Cora Rainey.) John L. Hunt soon died.

John L. Hunt was a merchant at Kittrell;

Ira T. Hunt (married) Rosa Hunt (widow of John L. Hunt, his brother.) Their child:
a. Thomas Hunt

7.Ella Hunt (married) Dr. Fuller, of Person County. Their children:
a. Elbert Earl Fuller
b. Cora Lee Fuller
c. Carrie Fuller
d. Willie Fuller
e. W. Fuller

David N. Hunt (married) Adelaide Hester (his first cousin, daughter of Rev. William Hester and Francis Crews Hester, daughter of James and Sarah J. Crews) . Their children are:
a. Joseph Penn Hunt
b. William Gibbs Hunt
c. Raymond Hunt
d. Otis Kilgo Hunt
e. Earl F. Hunt
f. Lula Hunt

Joseph Penn Hunt’s principal business was farming, but he was an expert carpenter and
assisted in building the State Capital at Raleigh. He and his wife lived to be old, dying in
1880 and 1881.

David N. Hunt lived in Oxford, N.C. He was a great lover of the services of the sanctuary and was
a Rural Free Delivery carrier on route five from Oxford for about 25 years.

The sixth child of James and Sarah Earl Crews was:
F. Elijah Thomas Crews, b. ~1826 – d. 1881 (married) Mary Parham (daughter of Asa Parham), when she was less than fifteen years of age. She lived to be 83. Their children:
1. Haden W. Crews, b. ~1848 – d. March 1924 (married) Elizabeth Hicks (daughter of John B.
Hicks. Their child:
a. Dr. N. H. Crews of High Point, N.C.

Haden W. Crews and his brother Norfleet Crews made more clear money farming than any
farmers I know.

2. Herbert E. Crews (married first) Laura Fullerton, who bore him several children.
(married next) Miss Wester, no issue.
(married next) Miss Howell, no issue.

3.Delia A. Crews, never married. No issue.

Rufus T. Crews, d. 1899, unmarried. No issue.

Rufus T. Crews was a graduate of Trinity College under Dr. Craven’s Regime.

Mary Crews (“Mollie”), who died in her youth, unmarried.
6. Norfleet G. Crews, d. 1919 (married first)Victoria Burroughs (daughter of J.E. Burroughs).
Died. No issue.
(married next) Charlotte Marrow (daughter of Drewry Marrow.) Their children:
a. Eloise Crews (married) T.L. Fishel
b. Edward N. Crews.
c. N. G. Crews.
d. Samuel B. Crews
e. Mary Delia Crews
f. Martha Eugenia Crews
g. Daniel M. Crews
h. Lottie M. Crews
i. R.T. Crews

Norfleet G. Crews was adopted by his uncle Edward N. Crews. He was sole devisee of his uncle
Edward N. Crews and his wife, and in his lifetime added largely to what he inherited by thrift and
diligence.

Samuel F. Crews (married) Elizabeth Burroughs. Their children:
a. Fletcher Crews
b. Elizabeth Crews (married) Julian Glover
c. Harold Crews
d. Dorothy Crews
e. Geraldine Marguerite Crews

The seventh child of James and Sarah Earl Crews was:
G. Edward N. Crews, b. Sept. 19, 1824 (married) Martha Parham (daughter of Asa Parham). This couple had no children of their own. They adopted their nephew, Norfleet G. Crews, son of Elijah Thomas Crews (Edward’s brother) and his wife Mary Parham (Martha’s sister.)

Edward N. Crews and his wife Martha Parham lived a mile west from Dabney and three quarters of a mile northeast from his father. He bought one of the poorest farms in the country and improved it until it became one of the best. Edward N. Crews was a “hustler”, an enthusiast. He specialized in being a good farmer, a good Democrat, a good churchman, and a good liver. If one went to his house to get something good to eat, “he didn’t miss it.” If he depended on him for a church or a party contribution, he was not disappointed. He was almost sure to attend church or party conventions and notable occasions.

Though my father’s man Bill was overpersuaded by his wife to go to E.T. Crewses at once after Lee’s surrender, he went to Uncle Ed’s next year and stayed about 25 years. Bill’s son lives there now.

E.N. Crews was one of the first of his section to start the making of flue-cured tobacco and one of the first to introduce Jersey cattle. He went to Raleigh when the best fresh about Oxford and Henderson sold for $20.00 and paid $100.00 for a Jersey heifer. When she began to give milk she was the talk of the neighborhood.

Uncle Ed invited his “Brother Jeems”(James A. Crews) to come down. That night at the table Uncle Ed said: “Brother Jeems, how do you like that milk?” Uncle Jimmie: “Very good, but I think I’ve drank as good at home many a time.”Uncle Ed was somewhat set back, and next morning at breakfast he had Aunt Martha provide a glass of pure Jersey cream for Brother Jeems. As the breakfast proceeded, Uncle Ed: “Brother Jeems, how do you like that milk?” Little Jimmie: “Very well, but I think I’ve seen it as rich at my house many a time.” Uncle Ed: “It ain’t so! It ain’t so! It’s every bit pure cream!” and then he laughed at having caught “Brother Jeems”.

This joke is all the better to those who remember the immense voice of Uncle Ed and the zest with which he talked and laughed. Uncle Ed enjoyed the companionship of his friends. He was well known in Vance and Granville, and many good stories were told of him, by him and some at his expense.

He acquired a thousand acres of land, more than thirty-thousand dollars in money and never lost any. His estate he left to his wife with the understanding that she should leave it to their dearly beloved adopted son and nephew, Norfleet G. Crews. This Aunt Martha did soon after. They both died in the fall and winter of 1899. Norfleet more than doubled the estate in value in the following twenty years, dying in middle life in the year 1919. Edward N. Crews was a man of strong prejudices and an emotional nature, but he had the respect of all and was beyond question a fine and notable man.

The eighth child of James and Sarah Earl Crews was:
H. Isabella Jane Crews, b. Aug. 24, 1829 – d. Sept. 4, 1913 (married) Benjamin Willis Hicks (youngest son of Abner and Elizabeth Harris Hicks) Their children:
Her descendants under name of my father; Benjamin Willis Hicks.

Isabella Jane Crews, my mother, was on good terms with all her neighbors. Nobody ever heard anything she told or repeated to the discredit of others. She never crossed or quarreled with my father. I never heard of her asking him for money or having a pocketbook. He did the buying and paying of bills. She was entirely loyal to the Crewses, yet she was on the best terms with all of the Hickses. In the establishment and maintenance of a home and rearing a family she did her part nobly and well. She survived my father nearly 14 years. Her body is lying by the side of his. If anyone ever had better parents than the children of my parents, he was indeed fortunate.

Susan, eighth child of James and Sarah Crews, born January 7^th, 1832, married George W. Hunt, brother of Joseph Penn Hunt. She outlived her parents and all her brothers and sisters, dying in April 1918, aged 86. Her husband was a substantial citizen and was executor of the will of his good friend and neighbor Col. Richard P. Taylor, who died in 1870. George W. Hunt died in the prime of his life in 1876, leaving a large family. His widow survived him 42 years. Their youngest son, Edward A. Hunt, still owns the family home and keeps alive the best traditions of the family.

The ninth child of James and Sarah Crews was:
I. Sarah Crews, b. Jan. 7, 1832 – d. April 1918 (married) George W. Hunt, d. 1876 (brother of Joseph Penn Hunt.) Their children were:
1. Emma Hunt (married) Joseph B. Parham. Their children:
a. Hattie Parham (married first) Thomas V. Rowland
(married next) J.K. Plummer
b. Thad B. Parham, died leaving several children
c. Mamie Parham. Never married. No children.
d. Cary Parham, who has several children
e. Mattie (married) _______ Hobgood. Their children:
i. Blanche Hobgood (married) Junius M. Rowland
ii. George W. Hobgood
iii. Elvin Hobgood

2. Walter L. Hunt (married) Jane Haliburton, of Durham. They moved to Asheville. Both died
leaving several children, all deceased.

3. Lelia Hunt (married) Junius W. Young and died without issue.

4. Junius Penn Hunt (married) Julia Russell, of Virginia. Their children:
a. Florence Hunt
b. Lillian Hunt
c. Helen Hunt (married) Theodore Parham
d. Dorothy Hunt (married) E.S. Merritt
e. George Penn Hunt
f. Elizabeth Hunt

Junius Penn Hunt has long been one of the most intelligent men of Granville, a lover of
his church, a good citizen. His daughter Lillian lives in the Adirondacks. Dorothy and
husband are in the Philippine Islands. George Penn Hunt, a graduate of the State
University, is employed in commerce in China.

5. Sarah Hunt, unmarried. She lived for some time in Cuba.

6. Florence Hunt (married) Edwin G. Barnes. Their child:
a. Lottie Barnes (married) Rev. R.J. Parker. She has been a foreign missionary and has
lived on the Mexican border. They now live in Memphis and have several children.

7. Carrie Hunt (married) Charles F. Crews. Their children:
a. Roy Crews
b., c., d., and e. Four daughters, names unknown. Descendants unknown.

Charles F. Crews died of typhoid fever while Clerk of the Superior Court of Granville County.

8. Susan C. Hunt (married) Joseph H. Gooch. Their child:
a. Janie Gooch, who graduated from college in 1926.

Susan C. Hunt possessed all the striking characteristics of the Crews family. From childhood until
death she was a devoted member of Salem Church. She loved her family, and they were drawn
to her by the tenderest affection. Hers was a long life of peace and reasonable happiness. Her
memory is blessed.

9. Edward A. Hunt (married) Elizabeth Moyer. Their children:
a. Edward A Hunt (married) Lennie Ward, of Greensboro.

George W. Hunt and Sarah Crews owned and lived at the place from which Robert T. Taylor sold
a hundred slaves at one time to Judge Rux of Mississippi. Sarah Crews outlived her parents and all her brothers and sisters, dying in April 1918, aged 86. Her husband was a substantial citizen and was executor of the will of his good friend and neighbor Col. Richard P. Taylor, who died in 1870. George W. Hunt died in the prime of his life in 1876, leaving a large family. His widow survived him 42 years. Their youngest son, Edward A. Hunt, still owns the family home and keeps alive the best traditions of the family.

The tenth child of James and Sarah Earl Crews was
J. Melissa F. Crews, b. Jan. 3, 1835 – d. November, 1897 (married) Rev. William S. Hester. Their children:
1. Nora Hester (married) Rufus J. Aiken. They had several children. Both parents are dead.

Adelaide Hester (married her first cousin) David. N. Hunt, in December, 1883.
Lula Hester (married) Rev. J.M. Rhodes. No children.
Benjamin Otis Hester, who lives in Texas.
Marvin, a Methodist Episcopal minister.

Mrs. Melissa Hester was a merry, happy, laughing woman, a lover of the church and everybody. She was largely influential in inducing her father to buy the organ at Salem Church, and she was for a generation its organist and the church’s principal chorister. She was a whole-souled enthusiast in religious and domestic life. She came from the Methodist Episcopal Annual Conference at Raleigh with her husband. I talked with her on the train from Youngsville to Henderson. An hour later, at Huntsboro, her spirit left the scenes and friends she loved so well for the life eternal. She died in the arms of her husband while alighting from the train at Huntsboro, near Salem Church, November 1897.

ABOUT 3. JAMES CREWS (son of I. Gideon Crews, Sr.)

He was born poor and lived to be rich, but he never spent a quarter without first considering whether what he would get would be worth a quarter. A photo taken some years before his death shows him holding in one hand, barely perceptible, a quid which he intended to chew some more. My mother showed it to me.

A good story of his thrift and enthusiasm for work is remembered in the family. The first day of the year he waked Tom and Ed and two of his stoutest slaves, before day, telling them to go over to the “new ground” and cut down that largest oak tree by sunrise and wake up the neighborhood, and start the year right. I can see him standing on the porch as the day dawned listening to the ring of the axes of those stout fellows through the frosty air; and what a thrill he felt as he imagined it would wake up Abner Hickses crowd to the east, Bob Taylor’s to the South and Sam Moss and Cooper’s quarter to the north.

Soon the tree fell and such a noise it made! But the four men who felled it just as the sun was rising set up yells that could be heard as far as the fall of the tree. They then went home to breakfast, expecting to receive the congratulations and smiles of a father and master; but he was “mad as a hornet.” “What in the world did you holler for? They will think you were coon hunting or were bragging on what you had done.”

His grandson, Hayden Crews told me of selling a fine horse to a prominent citizen, who became dissatisfied and sent for Hayden to come and trade back. Hayden went by Grandpa’s, told him all the treaty and trade and asked him for advice.

Grandpa: “Tell him you don’t make children’s bargains.”

At his funeral Rev. Lewis K. Willie told of his last words. He had been given some medicine in which some of the sugar, not having dissolved, lodged on his tongue. He wiped it off with his finger and said to a child standing by: “Did you ever see anybody spit out sugar before?” Then he died. Thousands of times since have his children and grandchildren and neighbors thought and talked pleasantly of the things he did and of the long and successful life he lived.

THE RESIDENCES OF OUR TWO GRANDFATHERS

As I recollect them, the dwellings in which my two grandfathers, Abner Hicks and James Crews, lived and reared their large familes were much alike. Both fronted the southeast. The westerly end of each, a story and a jump, with a second shed room in the rear was built first. As more room was needed for the growing family, lower and upper rooms were added on the northeast ends connected with the attic and shed room in the rear. Then a long porch was built all across the front of the Crews house, but only in front of the old part of the Hicks house. Neither one was ever painted. In my opinion, at prices prevailing from about 1800 until just before the world war, either one of those houses could have been built for about $600.00. There was a current opinion in that day that painted houses were taxed much higher than those unpainted. One wonders if that had anything to do with the unpainted condition of these two ancestral homes.*

The girls and their guests, if any, were packed away in the shed rooms downstairs, the boys in the attics. One of the big rooms was the parlor and the other the living room occupied by all the old folks. The windows! They were so little! I doubt if they were ever raised. And the doors were seldom closed in the daytime. And such fireplaces! Wood about five or six feet long could be burned in them. In those days people stayed in the house but little in the day. I’ve heard my mother say that many a time on Monday mornings her mother would poke her head in the shed room, quote an old saying: “Get up girls! Get up! Here it is Monday morning, tomorrow Tuesday and next day Wednesday! Half the week gone and nothing done!” My mother said when grandfather saw one of them reading a novel and was told what it was he would say, “A made tale.”

Editors addition: Photo and captain below.

The Greek Revival style house built about 1845 by James A. Crews, for his new bride Martha Hunt. The architect was almost certainly the famed Jacob Holt of Warren County, North Carolina. In my family the homeplace was affectionately referred to as “Tally Ho Plantation at Tar River”, or “Tar River Plantation”, or just “Tar River.” Shown in the photo is LeRoy Lafayette Crews (on the right, at the gate), the last Crews resident of the old family home, his second wife Ellen Hamill (left, at the gate), Cora (last name unknown), left on the porch, whose ancestors were born into slavery on the farm, and an unknown child (not a Crews, probably a relation of Ellen Hamill.) This photograph was taken prior to 1917. This is probably not the same house described by Hicks on the previous pages. He was almost certainly describing a house built a hundred years earlier than this one.

THREE DAUGHTERS OF JOHN EARL

Sarah Earl, as we have said, married James Crews. Mary Earl, her sister, married Robert Jones. Patsie Earl, their sister, married William Kittrell. To date, Mary and Patsie have 272 identified descendants!

Children of Mary Earl and Robert Jones:
1. Jane Jones (married) Robert Gill Their children:
a. Dr. Robert J. Gill (married) Annie Fuller. Their children:
i. William Francis Gill, professor Trinity College, died.
ii. Celestia Gill (married) I.J. Young. Their children:
1. I.J. Young, Jr.
2. Robert G Young
3. Rebecca Jane Young
4. Annie Fuller Young

b. William P. Gill (married), but killed at Battle of Malvern Hill.

c. Emily Gill (married) E.A. Fuller. Their children:
i. Emily Fuller (married) J.C. Thompson. Their children:
1. Ralph Fuller Thompson (married) Lois Coghill. Their children:
a. Jane Thompson
b. Fuller Thompson

Alpheus Thompson (married) Lucy Hays; no children.
3. Lucy Thompson
4. Helen Thompson
5. Robert Thompson
6.Jones Thompson

Second child of Mary Earl and Robert Jones:
2. Sally Jones married Peter Gill. Their children: of
a. John Gill died of typhoid fever.
b. Ben L. Gill died in army.

c. Pattie Gill (married) Sam Brummitt. Their children:
i. Sam Peter Brummitt (married) (wife’s name unknown.) Their children:
1. James Russell Brummitt (married) Blanche Eakes. Their child:
a. Margaret Brummitt

2. Garland (married) Isabel Ward.

3. S. Brooks Brummitt (married) Beth Fuller. Their children:
a. Rosalie Brummitt
b. Wallace Brummitt
4. Harold Brummitt.

ii. Rosa Gill Brummitt
iii. Nettie Ellington Brummitt
iv. Meta Earl Brummitt (married) Ed. W. Harris . Their children:
1. Talton Harris (married) Ethel Barbera Neef.

2. Norwood Harris (married) Mabel Richardson. Their children:
a. Barbera Harris
b. N.W. Harris, Jr.

3. Cedric Harris. Killed in World War I.
4. Claxton Harris
5. Frank Harris
6. Elizabeth Groves Harris

v. Pettie Brummitt married Ernest L. Fuller. Their children:
1. Thelbert Fuller married Lizzie Hays. Their child:
a. Thelbert Fuller, Jr.

2. Fletcher B. Fuller married Nora Eaves. Their child:
a. Fletcher B. Fuller, Jr.

3. Clifton Fuller
4. Edgar Fuller
5. Lula Fuller
6. Charlie Fuller
7. Minnie Fuller
8. Sam Fuller
9. Jack Fuller

d. Mary Gill married John H. Rowland. Their children:
i. Plummer G. Rowland
ii. Hubert L. Rowland (married) Geneva Hight. Their children:
1. Joe Rowland married Clara Smith. Their child:
a. Joe Rowland, Jr.

2. Emma Rowland married Lewis W. Huff. Their child:
a. Myra Huff

3. Neva Rowland married Festus Fuller. Their child:
a. Jane Fuller

4. Nannie Rowland married James Ellington. Their children:
a. Annie Ellington
b. Margaret Ellington
c. Madeline Ellington
d. Edwin Ellington
e. Kimball Ellington
f. Rowland Ellington

5. Wilber A. Rowland married Nina Bradwell. Their child:
a. Alba Rowland

6. John P. Rowland married Bessie Harris. Their children:
a. Rudolph Rowland
b. Dwight Rowland
c. Elizabeth Rowland
d. Mary Rowland
e. Paul Rowland

7. Pearl Rowland married Allen Harris. Their children:
a. Bella A. Harris
b. Herbert H. Harris

8. Fannie Rowland, single.

iii. Della married R.K. Young. Their children:
1. Addie Young

2. Carl Young married Pearl Johnson. Their children:
a. Alice Young
b. Vesper Young
c. Samuel J. Young
d. Wesley Young

3. Ethel married John Woodlief. Their children:
a. Leona Woodlief
b. Christine Woodlief
c. Viola Woodlief
d. Ashby Woodlief

4. Clara Young married U.B. Alexander. Their children:
a. Waldo Alexander
b. Vernon D. Alexander
c. Vivian Alexander

John L. Rowland married Belle Fuller. Their children:
1. Roy A. Rowland married Maude Andrews. Their children:
a. Phillip Rowland
b. Leroy Rowland
c. Radford Rowland
H. Benton Rowland married Roth Conyers. Their children:
a. Frances Rowland
b. Louise Rowland
c. H.B. Rowland , Jr.

v. Dr. D.S. Rowland (married first) Fanny Fuller. Their child:
1. Austin Rowland
(Married next) Lily Strange. No issue.

vi. Emma Rowland (married) A.K. Rogers. Their children:
1. Lowell Rogers
2. John Willis Rogers
3. Mary Rogers
4. Maurice Rogers
5. Alice Rogers (married) Rudolph Montgomery. Their child:
a. Emma Gray Montgomery

vii. Peter L. Rowland (married) Hester Kennedy. Their children:
1. Haywood Rowland
2. Bessie Rowland
3. Della Rowland
4. George Rowland

viii. Plummer G. Rowland never married.

e. Parmelia J. Gill (married) D.S. Allen. Their children:
i. Olive Allen
ii. Nettie Allen (married) A.B. Dean

iii. James Bayard Allen (married) Minnie Kimball. Their children:
1. Susan Allen
2. Francis Allen

iv. Jessie Allen (married) Rufus M. Person. Their children:
1. Alice Person (married) E. C. Sparrow
2. James A Person
3. Allen Person
4. R.M. Person, Jr.

v. Dr. Ben G. Allen (married) Nieta W. Watson. Their children:
1. Virginia Allen
2. Mary Jane Allen
3. Nieta Allen
4. Ben G. Allen, Jr.
Robert Frank Gill (married) Debnam Allen. Their children:
i. Thomas C. Gill (married) Charlotte Cline. Their children:
1. Ruth Gill
2. Sarah Gill
3. Thomas Cline Gill

ii. Lois Gill (married) Henry T. Mitchell. Their children:
1. Frank Mitchell
2. Donald Mitchell
3. Roger Mitchell
4. Myrtle Mitchell
5. Sallie Mitchell
6. Evelyn Mitchell

g. Joseph Thomas Gill (married) Bettie Price. Their children:
i. Lula Gill (married) K.W. Edwards. Their children:
1. R. Reynolds Edwards (married) Ella Jefferson

ii. Pauline Edwards

iii. Annie Belle Edwards (married) A.L. Hobgood. Their child:
1. A.L. Hobgood, Jr.

iv. Sallie Gill Edwards (married) Lem Wilson. Their children:
1. Ruth Elsie Wilson
2. Thomas Gill Wilson

v. Janie Gill Edwards (married) Thomas J. Sykes. Their child:
1. Thomas Gill Sykes, Jr.

vi. Frank Gill (married) Donnie Hux. Their children:
1. James Thomas Gill, Jr.
2. Gladys Gill
3. Leon Gill
4. Russell Gill

h. David H. Gill married Pattie Hight. Their children:
i. Sally Gill died of typhoid fever.

ii. Peter H. Gill (married first) Pattie Baker. Two children:
1. John David Gill
2. Julia Gill
(married next) Willie Montgomery. Their children:
1. Harold A. Gill
1. Elizabeth Gill

iii. Pattie Baker Gill Pattie Gill (married) Ed. Stone. Their children:
1. Thelma Stone
2. Julian Stone

iv. Mabel Gill (married) Harrison B. Williams. Their children:
1. Crayton Williams
2. Veritas Williams
3. Hal. B. Williams, Jr.
4. Marshal Williams

v. Janie Gill (married) Robert Edwards. Their children:
1. Margaret Edwards
2. Annie Edwards
3. Elsie Edwards
4. Ida Edwards

vi. Josie Gill (married) Sam F. Coghill. Their children:
1. Pattie Coghill
2. Morris Coghill
3. Clarence Coghill
4. Peter Coghill
5. Mabel Coghill
6. Conrad Coghill
7. Dalton Coghill (married) Edith Edwards

i. James A. Gill (married) Evelyn O. Allen. Their children:
1. Mary Jones Gill, dead.
2. Rosa Gill (married) S.B. Brummitt. Their children given under his name.
3. John Earl Gill (married) Mattie Taylor. Their children:
a. Clare Gill
b. Evelyn Gill
c. Edward Gill
d. Earl Gill
4. Carrie Gill (married) John Broughton. Their child:
a. Elizabeth.
5. Clarence Lee Gill (married) __________ Edwards. Their children:
a. James Gill
b. Allen Gill
c. Alma Gill
d. Ora Gill
e. William Gill

Children of Patsy Earl and William Kittrell:
1. John W. Kittrell (married) Mary Fuller. Their children:
a. Annie Kittrell (married) E.O. Perdue
b. Florence Kittrell (married) Hugh M. Hight. Their children:
i. Paul Hight
ii. Marion Hight
iii. Harry Hight

iv. Mary H. Mary H. Hight (married) Ira Finch. Their children:
1. Reese Finch
2. Rachel Finch
3. Alex Finch

v. Geneva Hight (married) Melvin S. Fowler. Their child:
1. Sterling Fowler

c. R.L. Kittrell (married) Fanny Parham. Their children:
i. Annie Kittrell (married) Bennie Rowland. Their children:
1. Annie Rowland
2. Robert Rowland
3. Macy Rowland

Mary Kittrell (married) Henry J. Parks. Their children:
1. James Parks
2. Reynold Parks

iii. Willie A. Kittrell (married) Ethel Hayes. Their children:
1. Elizabeth Kittrell
2. W.A. Kittrell, Jr.
Alice Kittrell.
v. Egbert Kittrell (married) Agnes Woodlief. Their children:
1. James Kittrell
2. Asa Kittrell
3. Charlie Kittrell

d. John J. Kittrell (married) Lizzie Edwards. Their children:
i. Lois Kittrell
ii. Clyde Kittrell
iii. Alene Kittrell

h. Jessie Kittrell (married) Lena Duke. Their child:
i. Jessie Bell Kittrell

i. Willie Kittrell (married) Ada Perdue. Their children:
i. Florrie Kittrell (married) Clarence E. Page. Their children:
1. Clarence Page
2. Ada Page
3. Mary Kittrel Page

Second child of Patsy Earl and William Kittrell:
2. Tabita Kittrell (married) Buck White. Their children:
a. Eugene White
b. Hugh White
c. Rebecca White, who married _______ White and removed to Tennessee. Names of their
children I do not know.

Third child of Patsy Earl and William Kittrell:
3. Mary Kittrell (married) John Wesley Young. Their children:
a. Junius W. Young (married first) _______ Hunt. Their child:
i. E.O. Young
(married next) Lelia Hunt, no child.

b. Rufus K. Young (married) Della Rowland. See children under her name.
c. and d. Olivia and Ophelia Young, twins, no issue.

e. O.O. Young (married) Nannie Powell. Their children:
i. Thomas Young
ii. Henry
iii. Mary
iv. Alley Ball
v. Eleanor Young.

Forth child of Patsy Earl and William Kittrell:
4. Martha Kittrell married Willis Rogers. No issue.

Fifth child of Patsy Earl and William Kittrell:
5. Maria Kittrell married Willis Rogers. Their children:
a. Ella Rogers (married) George Davis
b. Pattie Rogers
c. A.K. Rogers (see under Mary Rowland)
d. Cecil Rogers
e. June Rogers
f. Samuel E. Rogers, children not known.
g. Roberta Rogers (married) James P. Satterwhite. Their children:
i. Samuel J. Satterwhite married Madeline Warren
ii. Fletcher Satterwhite
iii. John W. Satterwhite
iv. Clyde E. Satterwhite
v. Louise Satterwhite (married) Will Reavis
vi. Dora Satterwhite (married) Frank Rose. Their children:
1. Clarice Rose
2. Frank Rose (married) Mary Turner
3. James L. Rose
4. George W. Rose

Sixth child of Patsy Earl and William Kittrell:
6. Jennie Kittrell. Never married.
Nearly all the above descendants of Patsy and Mary Earl live and have lived in the Kittrell Twonship, Vance County. For fifty years or more Dr. Robert Gill, an active physician and farmer, has been their guide, physician and friend, to whom they have looked.

Now, for some years, Dr. Benjamin G. Allen has been and is acting in the same capacity. David H. Gill did much to educate and obtain homes for this large family connection.

James A. Gill and D.S. Allen were also men of force and activity.

Not a railroad was in North Carolina until the Raleigh and Gaston was built, reaching in 1837, the place “a mile west of Chalk Level” where Henderson now is. I have never heard when either of the country roads from Henderson to Oxford was built, but suppose they were built after 1811 when Oxford was chartered.

Williamsboro and that old church (Salem Church) were there, the center of Granville’s eighteenth century culture. Williamsboro had fine schools from 1800 to 1850. Some Eatons and Somervilles and Hawkinses and Hendersons began to come about 1750. How people traveled in those days with such roads as they had, we cannot understand. Mostly on horseback, we suppose. Nothing remains to inform us what connection William Hicks and brothers, or George Harris or Gideon Crews or John Earl had with the outside world for fifty years after they settled upon the headwaters of Tabbs and Harrisburg and Flat Creeks.

Mr. L. G. Breedlove, a great grandson of John Hunt and James Crews, is of the opinion that John Earl met Zebiah Watts when she landed from the ship and married her and brought her to this section. Another account is that John Harris, the father of George Harris, married Elizabeth, the sister of Isaac Watts, and that their children were George Harris and the first wife of William Hicks and the wife of Valentine Mayfield. I cannot decide which story is true. The reference books say Isaac Watts was born in 1674 and died in 1748. It is, therefore, more likely, that the fiancés of John Earl and John Harris were Isaac’s nieces. If our kinship to him cannot be proven, we can look for the resemblances in his and our mental and spiritual attitudes, by reading his fifty odd hymns still sung in our own churches. His last 37 years were spent in the home of Thomas Abney, a London Alderman. How could they so…

“Mingle and mix, piety and politics?”

[Excluded one paragraph of extraneous content about unsubstantiated connections to the 14^th century Hickses of England.]

“The estate of Abner Hicks, deceased, to Elba L. Parrish, Dr., December 28^th, 1857. To making one raised top coffin, $5.50. Received the above amount in full of Samuel S. Hicks. Elba L. Parrish.”

Let us now look from the past to the future.

Henderson, N.C., August 27^th, 1926

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December 20, 2014

Bow Valley Mills — Wynot Nebraska — Edith D. Jones — A Brief Visit to the Past

By CH Jones

The following is a faithful transcription of a photocopied page (partial article) that originally appeared in the Cedar County News, on January 29, 1975. It is one of many documents I received from D. L. Bond, of Raleigh, N.C., as part of a collection of memoirs and papers, as well as genealogical information related to Lewis Evan Jones Jr. (1825 – 1910), his antecedents and descendants, and the “Nebraska line” of the Jones family, originally of Dolgelly (Dolgellau), Wales and Carnarvon, Wales. Mr. Bond is a great-great-grandson of Lewis Evan Jones Jr. The author of this article, Edith D. Jones, is the granddaughter of Lewis Evan Jones Jr. If anyone has any information on Edith D. Jones, please contact me so we can share information and I can document the connection.

“Circle Tour – A Brief Visit to the Past

Lewis E. Jones of St. Louis, Mo., came to the St. Helena area in 1858 and helped establish the town. He brought with him a printing press and a saw mill. He operated the sawmill at that place until 1868 when because of availability of water power from Bow Creek, he built the Bow Valley Mill, approximately 1 ½ miles north of Wynot, Nebraska.

Approximately one and one half miles north of Wynot is the Bow Valley Mills built in 1868 Lewis E. Jones as a flour mill. Oak timber from the Henson Wiseman timber was used in its construction – the frame was mortised and pinned with wood pins, no nails used at any time.

A dam was constructed across Bow Creek, approximately one fourth mile south of the Mill. A mill race was dug and water power was made available for running the mill.

On the west of the structure there was an addition called the “flour house”. On the east side was the saw mill equipment, and a scale house was attached on the south. These additions have been removed through the years. The main structure, which contained the flour milling machinery, is standing today – probably the oldest historical mark left in Cedar County today.

For many years flour milling and sawing of lumber were the main activities. The mill ground flour for half a century to feed the pioneers of Nebraska and Dakota Territory. Thousands of tons of flour and feed were ground by Bow Valley Mills and transmitted to the town. Still later this building was converted into government storage bins for scaled corn. Today it is used for storage of grain and farm machinery.

Bow Valley Mills, late 20th century.

Bad Village

A hill, approximately one-half mile northeast of the Bow Valley Mill, was the location of a major excavation by the University of Nebraska in the 1930’s. It revealed an early Indian village. It was unique among Indian Villages because it had a wall built around it. This led some to believe the Indians were hostile, and therefore some traditions say the village was called “Bad Village”. Lewis and Clark speak of this village as they journeyed up the Missouri River in 1804.

School District #1

Private schools were established by the early settlers in many areas. The first public school – before school districts were formed – was built by farmers in 1867 and the first session of school was held in the summer of 1868. At that time, school was held between the time crops were in (approximately May 1) and held until November when corn picking started.

The first school building was a log school with a dirt roof. It was located south and east of Bow Valley Mill and was called the St. James School. It was taught by Anna Schmidt, who later became Mrs. John Felber.*

She was the first teacher in this section of the state and one of the first north of the Platte River.

She had 35 pupils, some as old as she, and some walked as much as four miles. She taught this school two years.

In 1872, a school house was erected northwest of Bow Valley Mill – (approximately one-half mile) and the first teacher was Mr. J.J. Tullass.
On April 30, 1873, School Districts 1, 2, and 3 were organized. This area being in Disctrict #1.

In 1930, a marker was erected by the Home Culture Club of Wynot, assisted by the school children of Cedar County. Since the site on which the log structure (of 1868) stood was in an area which was flooded nearly every spring and fall, the marker was set on the grounds of the first school erected in 1872.

School District #1 was discontinued several years ago – the building was sold and moved from the area.

The marker, a large boulder weighing about 3300 pounds was found near Wynot and moved to the school grounds. This was set in a cement foundation. On the top is a miniature log school house fashioned out of cement and hand carved to resemble real logs. On the face is a bronze plate with the following inscription:

1868 – 1930
Erected to commemorate the first school in Cedar County
Mrs. Anna Schmidt Felber, first teacher.
Sponsored by the Home Culture Club of Wynot, Nebraska,
Assisted by the school children of Cedar County.

Fort Jackson

During the summer of 1864, “The Great Stampeded” took place. It followed the Wiseman Massacre near St. James and the murder of Dr. Lorenzo Bentz northwest of St. Helena. News of an uprising was brought by refuges that the Sioux and Cheyenne had organized an army of 10,000 to clean out all the white inhabitants from both sides of the Missouri river. Hasty consultations took place and settlers fortified themselves as best they could. The settlers at Old St. James immediately fortified themselves in the “Court House” by throwing up sand embankments and otherwise strengthening their position expecting momentarily to be attacked. They also dug a well inside the embankment.

At St. Helena, the mill house (one mile east of the town) was filled with fleeing settlers from up the river and particularly with many Norwegian families from “The Dakota Bottomlands” (across the river). All were welcome as they helped strengthen and fortify the place. Four families, all that remained in the town, congregated to occupy one four room house, the Felber House, one room for each family. They gathered all the arms and ammunition to be found.

The massacre was never carried out but there was good reason to believe that it had been carefully planned.

In the course of a few days, nothing having occurred, the scared settlers began to return home and everything soon quieted down.

Later, during the year 1864, Company B, 7th Iowa Cavalry was sent to protect the settlers against Indian attacks. A part of this Company was stationed at Niobrara and the remainder garrisoned at Fort Jackson to protect settlers of St. James and St. Helena.

Approximately two miles northwest of Bow Valley Mill is a fork in the road. Fort Jackson, named for its captain, once topped the high hill in the “Y” – on what was later known as the Harder farm.

The soldiers remained about a year and it is said the settlers were not sorry to see them go.

Dakota Bottomlands

As we catch our first glimpse of the spire of the St. Helena Catholic Church, it would be remiss if we did not pause at the top of the hill to view the Dakota Bottomlands.

This land, lying along Missouri River and bounded by the James and Vermillion Rivers, is known as “Strike the Ree” land – (land of the Dakotas).

In the fall, when the summer’s hunting ended, the Dakota usually set up their winter camp along the Missouri, near the James. It is here, that on August 28, 1804, Lewis and Clark made their camp.

Struck by the Ree

There is no historical documentation but it is told that an Indian child, son of a head chief, was born that night. When Captain Clark learned of this he asked that the child be brought to him. He wrapped the baby in a U.S. Flag and declared him to be the first “Yancton” Indian citizen of the U.S. He prophesied that the child would become a great of his people. Strike-the-Ree led a life well in keeping with this prophecy. He became a chief of the Yankton Sioux tribe in his…

(continued on Page 15)”**

* John Felber is probably the son of Henry Felber, who traveled to St. Helena in 1858, with Lewis Evan Jones Jr., on board the steamboat Florence, to first settle in Cedar County.

** I do not have the balance of this article included in the papers passed to me from D. Bond. I have contacted the Cedar County News to determine if copies still exist. I will update this article to include the missing material if my inquiry is successful.

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December 15, 2014

Lewis Evan Jones (1825 – 1910) — Mutiny on the Ocean Waves

By CH Jones

The following document is a transcription from a photocopy of a letterpress set pamphlet style publication with colored paper wraps, measuring approximately 8 1/8” x 4 3/8”. Text pages number 36 pages. There is no date of publication, but the text is dated 1901 at the end of the story. The cover bears the following information; handwritten at the top of the wrap in ink (“No. 1.)”, title is indicated as “MUTINY ON THE OCEAN WAVE”, author is listed as “By LEWIS E. JONES, SR.”*, and imprint is “Herald Printing House, Hartington”.

* Note that Lewis E. Jones Sr. is actually indicated as Lewis Evan Jones Jr. for the sake of this archive, as his father’s name was also Lewis Evan Jones. Once in America, this author had a son, also named Lewis Evan Jones, who for the sake of this archive is denominated as Lewis Evan Jones III.

Note: In handwriting at the end of the editors note (between brackets) in the introduction is written “age 17” to indicate that Lewis Evan Jones was only seventeen years old when he participated in this voyage.

“Mutiny on the Ocean Wave.

[The following story was written by Mr. Lewis E. Jones, from memory, and is vouched by him that every word is true and happened as it is written. This voyage was made by him from Liverpool to New York, from there to Baltimore, from there to Rotterdam, Holland, from there to Liverpool, thence to Charleston, South Carolina, in the ship St. Lawrence of New York, during the years 1842 – 43. – Ed.]

Short stories told now and then.
Relieve the craniums of some men;
Such cumbrous stuff is not to save,
Then why carry them with you to the grave.

291 One day while strolling leisurely along the dockside of Liverpool, I heard two boys converse together, which attracted my attention. One said to his companion that the American ship St. Lawrence, of New York, lying in the Princess Dock, wanted a boy; that he was going to see if he could secure the place. This was near dinner time. After dinner I went down to that ship, and saw the mizzen royal flopping in the wind. This is the loftiest of the fourth sail on the third mast. One of the big boys spoken of was on his way up the rigging to furl this sail. He seemed very clumsy and slow getting up the rigging, and when he got up did not know how to gather the sail together so as to make a neat job of it. I noticed a man whom I learned was the chief mate, watching him from the dock. After he had made several attempts, the mate called him down. The boy walked off crest-fallen. After he had disappeared, I walked up to the mate, thinking that this was his way of finding out what a boy could do, I asked him if I could go up and furl that sail. He asked where I had learned to furl such sails. Answering him that many times a day in the Mediterranean it was my business to furl the royals, while the men were at the heavier sails. He doubted that such a small boy as I was could furl such sails in heavy winds. It was blowing quite stiff at this time. Finally he said I could try. I went aboard, doffed my jacket, and went up the rigging one a trot, getting out on the royal yard, gathering the sail on one side and then the other, passing the gaskets around, gathering the slack of the sail in the center, passing around a netting made for that purpose, I had the bunt in the center like a drum, all in ship shape. I descended the rigging as lively as I went up, picking up my jacket and walked where the mate stood, watching my every movement. He also walked towards me without saying a word, handing me a card which instructed the shipping master who was shipping a crew for this ship, to place me on the list. There were many of these shipping masters in Liverpool, as well as every large seaport. When a ship has taken in all her cargo, the captain a few days previous instructs one of these shipping masters to ship so many men for his ship, to sail on such a day for such a place. Master-riggers with a gang of men having bent all the sails, examined all the rigging, replacing all the defective, you will understand this was an American ship, all hands had abandoned her, when in fact they had no right to leave until she arrived at some designated port in the United States. When men are not properly treated, they abandon their ships at the first opportunity. This was the case with the St. Lawrence. Not one left but the captain, first and second mates.

Mr. Moore I found was the name of the first mate, who had given me the card, instructing the shipping master to ship me at $10 per month, and come aboard next morning. The men received $15 per month. She was bound for New York with a general cargo and 300 Irish passengers.

Captain Brown I found in the morning, a perfect gentleman, looked more like a clergyman than a sea captain. He took me to the cabin and talked very kind with me, inquiring about my nativity, relatives, etc. He seemed to be well pleased with me, instructing me to come to him if I should want anything during the voyage. He asked me to take care of the cabin until he could engage a steward, and gave me perfect liberty to make the cabin my home should he get a rough crew – he knew not what kind of men the crew would turn out to be, for he had never seen one of them. I thanked him very much, but stated that I would like to be with the men as much as possible, that I went to sea not of necessity, but to learn to become a seaman. He commended my resolution and promised to assist me in my endeavors.

In three days after this ship was ready for sea, and the crew came on board as well as the passengers. We went out of the Princess Dock and dropped anchor in the Mersey. Next morning the captain came on board, ordered the anchor to be raised and sails set loose. I loosed the three sails on the royal masts, by order of the mate, for he had learned, he said, I was an expert with these light sails. Most of the men were heaving up the anchor. When I came down the rigging, I took hold of the long leaver, for she had what was then called patent windlass – two long levers working up and by 15 or 20 men. When I took hold of the lever the next man to me was a splendid, fine looking man. His bronzed face indicated he had seen service in the tropics. This was the first time I had ever seen him, but he struck me as an ideal seaman, such as I would like to pattern after. He wore a red flannel shirt, white duck pants and a jaunty straw Manila hat on his head. He smiled on me as I took hold of the leaver by his side. I was glad to be noticed by such a powerful and perfect man as I considered him to be. Whilst I was doting on him the mate came along with loud curses on his lips, telling the men that they were not half heaving; passing along after abusing nearly all the men, he came to where I was. He was rolling up his shirt sleeves, for he had taken off his coat before. He roared out, “you man, with the red shirt, why don’t you heave?” This shipmate, for I was glad to call him such, answered he was doing his duty. At this the mate jumped about with his clenched fist, saying he was the first man he would commence on when we got under way. The man with the red shirt paid no attention to his threats, only he turned to me and thanked the mate for this timely warning, so that he could be on his guard. After the mate had left, he smiled on me and said, “if I am the first he is going to pick on, he will have a tough chicken to pick.” Thus we left Liverpool with fair wind and all sails set.

The first thing when a ship is well underway is to divide the crew into two watches, when all the men are assembled on the quarterdeck. Thus we were all ordered to come aft, and the division was made, by the captain having the first choice, named the man at the wheel. The mate then selected the man whom he called “the man with the red shirt.” Then the captain made another choice, then the mate, and so on until whole crew were selected, and the watches formed. On this particular occasion the men were all selected, the mate had to take me, for I was the last. I was glad that the man with the red shirt was on the same watch with myself. I had taken a great liking to him and he also to me. We were strangers to one another. I had never seen one of them before. However, that night, when on watch, I learned from my newly made friend, the man wearing the red shirt, was a countryman of mine, who lived in a small seaport only twelve miles from my home. He also informed me there were two other men on board from the same place, one of whom was on our watch. He stated they always sailed on the same ship – they had been together in the English and American Navies, and had been together for many years in vessels of both nations. I was glad to learn I had countrymen on board, the first I had since I went to sea. The name of my friend with the red shirt was Jack Thomas, the other in our watch was named Dick Lewis, and the one in the captain’s watch was named John Evans. There was another young man in our watch that I had taken a liking to. He was a native of New York City, named Wm. McFarlane, whom we called Yankee Bill. All this crew were more intelligent than the common run picked up in foreign ports.

After a few days out from Liverpool we had very high winds and disagreeable weather. The sea was very rough. The poor passengers were very sick and suffered much. The captain had appointed me store keeper to deal out water and provisions to the emigrants. At that time steerage passengers in sailing vessels had so much water and provisions dealt out to them daily. At night I had to stand watch like the balance of the crew. It is the custom on all ships to wash the decks every morning at six o’clock, whether they need washing or not. On the third or forth morning out of Liverpool, the weather was very stormy and the sea running high. Buckets, scrubbing brushes, brooms, etc., were brought out for that purpose, when the mate came forward and ordered Yankee Bill to go out on the fore poop deck to wash to pump water to wash decks. We had a small hand pump, such as is used in cisterns, for that purpose, on the larboard bow. The wind was blowing almost a gale on that side, and sea splashing over continuously. The men all wondered at the mate giving such an order, when water was plentiful on deck. Bill told him he could furnish all the water required from lee-scuppers, as the water was almost knee deep as the ship careened over. This would not satisfy the mate. Bill dipped up water in buckets as fast as required. The mate became boiling mad because his orders were disobeyed. He walked back to the stern of the ship and took an iron belaying pin out of the rail. These pins were used where very heavy weight is to be sustained, otherwise wooden pins are to be used. These iron pins are about a foot in length and one and a quarter inches in diameter. With one of these pins in his hand he rushed to where Bill was filling water buckets. He aimed a full blow with this weapon on Bill’s head, but the ship plunged at the moment and he only received a light blow on the side of his head. Bill was bleeding profusely. At that moment Jack Thomas came like a flash of lightening, grasping the iron bolt from the mate’s hand and threw it overboard, telling Bill he was a better man than Mr. Moore, to settle his grievance there and then, and he would see no one should interfere. By this time Bill had the mate more than a foot of water with his foot on his neck. The ship was rolling and plunging, the water rushing backward and forward, so that occasionally Mr. Moore could see about him. He saw and begged me to call the captain, for I was an eye witness to the whole transaction.

The cooks gally was close by. The cook, a large negro hailing from Sierra Leone, a British West African Colony, rushed out of the galley with a large carving knife in his hand, to the assistance of the mate. Dick Lewis, who had come on the scene, saw the negro rushing into the fray, gave him such a blow under the ear, that he also fell in the water by the side of the mate, while Dick Lewis disarmed him of the knife, throwing it overboard.

They did not mutilate the two prostrate me, but made them swallow their fill of salt water. At this time I thought it my duty to call up the captain and the second mate, who were asleep in the cabin, informing captain Brown the men were killing Mr. Moore. He hurriedly slipped on his pants, boots, and coat, rushing on deck with a cutlass in his right hand (a short sword about a foot and a half long) and a book containing the riot act in the other. By the time he came on deck the men had released the half drowned bullies. Mr. Moore, like a drowned rat, went to his room to put on dry clothes. The negro went to the gally, where he barricaded himself, swearing he would scald the first man who came there.
The captain instructed me to tell the first watch to come on the quarterdeck. All the men came cheerfully. The first thing the captain did was to read the riot act, from the book he brought with him from the cabin, whilst I held his cutlass. After this reading he commenced to examine witnesses to get at the origin of the riot. Jack Tomas was the first witness to the whole affair. While he was explaining the mate’s actions, gentlemanly and cool, Mr. Moore leaped on deck, passing the captain and myself, who were standing before the men, pulled out a heavy claw hammer from under his coat-tail, and made a desperate attempt to strike Jack Thomas in the head with the hammer. Dick Lewis, who stood by the side of his friend, saw the mate’s movements, jumped to the front of him, receiving quite a cut on his head. In less time than it takes to write this, Jack Thomas knocked him down. Whilst both him and Dick Lewis, who was bleeding, took the cutlass from me and threw it overboard, together with the hammer taken from the mate. After this the men carried Mr. Moore to the cabin and placed him in bed.

Here were men well formed by nature
In deadly combat for their rights;
The elements above and the waters below,
Protesting against these unholy fights.

The men after this went forward to consult the other watch, which was called yup for breakfast, who knew nothing of what had taken place during the morning watch.

After learning all that had taken place, and fully argued among themselves, they came to the conclusion to send word to the captain, through me, for I was the only confidant both sides had, and to tell the truth I had seen the whole trouble, besides hearing Mr. Moore’s threat while hoisting anchor at Liverpool, that the whole affair rested on his shoulders, and that he received nothing more than he deserved.

The decision of the men of both watches was that the mate should be put out of commission, that the captain could find a man among the crew fully as able as Mr. Moore, to take his place until we arrived at New York, and if they violated any law they were willing the courts to decide.

Receiving this message, I went to the cabin, to tell him the decision of both watches. He tried hard to pump out of me if Jack Thomas and Dick Lewis were not the leaders, and that they were bad men. I told him what Mr. Moore had said and threatened the first time he ever saw them when hoisting anchor in the river Mersey. I told him also that the two men he mentioned were gentlemen in every sense of the word, and by what I had seen of them, they had a perfect right to defend themselves as they did, and if they did not, I would consider them craven cowards, that all this unfortunate affair was entirely the work of Mr. Moore.

He sent the second mate on deck to take charge of the ship, and told me after breakfast to come to him, so that I could carry his decision to the men. After breakfast the men waited to know what to do, and I went to find out what the captain had decided on. He inquired of me which of the men I thought the most capable for the position of mate, for he had seen very little of them. I told him that I had never seen a single one of them in my life before they came on board his ship, and it was not right for me, a mere boy, to give advice to a man of his mature age, but if he would allow me to give my opinion, – if it had not been for the unfortunate occurrence that had happened, Jack Thomas or Dick Lewis could have filled the position with honor, but since neither of the two could be considered, there was a man in his watch that I thought well suited to take the place. He is of a mature age, a sailor every inch of him, had the appearance of having seen much service. He is of course in your watch, but you should take one from the mate’s watch, to keep the division even. If you want my advice, I have but formed little friendship with the crew thus far, I would appoint Mr. Mitchell, second mate, to be first mate, in place of Mr. Moore, and take a man from your own watch for the place of second mate, who will always be under your eye. That man, I opine, you already have in your mind – it is old John Evans, the oldest and one of the most able among your crew.

The captain seemed surprised at the able advice given him by a person of my age. He, however, seemed to be pleased with my logic. He considered for a moment and then told me he would like to speak with John Evans. In passing out of the cabin I had to pass Mr. Moore’s room, and saw that he had been listening to our conversation, for the door was partly open. He had partly recovered from the terrible beating he had received. Arriving on deck I saw the men sitting on some spare spars always carried in case of accidents. They were conversing about the output, which they called “Mutiny”.

I told John Evans the captain would like to speak with him. He went down to the cabin. He was down about half an hour and arranged with the captain to work his watch while Mr. Mitchell would take Mr. Moore’s place. When this became known to the crew they were delighted, for everyone on board loved and respected old John Evans, the oldest man on board, and the one who had seen the most service on all the oceans of the world. From this out we had a pleasant voyage, but sometime very rough. We arrived in New York in four weeks, dropping anchor in the river, the captain going ashore in a boat. While in harbor at anchor two men at a time keep watch all. I was on watch from 10 to 12. In the morning it was discovered that six barrels of the cook’s grease (this grease is part of the cook’s emoluments) the brass bell on the poop deck, several ropes and light sails had disappeared during the night. No one seemed to know anything about them. Ten men had been on watch during the night, no one seemed, or pretended to know anything about them. The captain came in a tug-boat which took us to the wharf. A dozen or more boarding house runners with hacks ready to dispatch the crew with their respective baggage to their respective houses were on the dock. In less than ten minutes all the crew had abandoned the ship, and no effort was made to trace the robbery of the night before, as there were several bum-boats visiting vessels at anchor that night, likely it was sold to them more for revenge than depravity. The crew had received as they always do, a month’s wages in advance at Liverpool, therefore they had no pay coming to them. Mr. Moore did not appear on deck after he was deposed. I went ashore with the men, since the voyage was at an end, therefore not wanted. In this way I boarded for about a week, the boarding master promising me he would get a good ship in short time. I was getting tired and did not know how to pass the time away.

One fine morning sitting on a bench in Central Park, Capt. Brown came and sat by my side, asking me what made me leave his ship in the way I had. I told him it was my understanding that all crew leave when the voyage is at an end. He said he did not want me to leave, and asked if I would not like to go with him another voyage. I asked if Mr. Moore was still with him. He said he was, that Mr. Moore was a good man, but once in awhile a little hot-headed, that he would be kind to me. I told him if Mr. Moore would treat me right I would go with him another voyage. He was pleased and gave me ten dollars to pay what I owed my boarding house and bring my clothes on board. Next morning I went down to where the St. Lawrence was. I did not see anyone on board, so I took my clothes down to the forecastle, took off my best clothes and put on a working suit. Coming on deck the first person I saw was Mr. Moore. He asked me what business I had on board. I told him Capt. Brown had hired me, and asked what he had for me to do. It seemed that my presence was not agreeable to him. He walked off without saying another word. I picked up a broom and commenced sweeping the deck, seeing nothing else I could do. I went over several times, thinking that he could see I was only killing time. After some time thus employed, I went down the forecastle, intending to change my clothes and go ashore, for I did not deserve to be treated in this way.

After sitting down a short time thinking of how to act, I heard the voice of Captain Brown on deck giving some orders. I went up and told him I was there according to promise, what work did he want me to do. He asked me to come with him to the cabin, where he told me that he was going to take in ballast and sail for Baltimore, for he had engaged to take a cargo of tobacco to Rotterdam, Holland.. All he had for me to do was to act as watchman and take care of the cabin until the crew were shipped, when he would have a steward employed, or if I wished he would keep me as steward. I thanked him for his kind offer, but declined for the reason I stated to him before, that I went to sea for the purpose of learning to be a seaman, not a steward or sea cook. He saw my point and said I was perfectly right. For the present he hoped I would take care of the ship and gave me the keys of the state room. He said that Mr. Moore was perfectly satisfied that I would take care of the ship, which would give him more time to visit his relatives for he had many in New York. By degrees Mr. Moore and myself became friends, for the reason I never had been his enemy. When he had trouble at sea with the men, he knew it was his own fault and I told him so more than once. Because I lived with the men forward I did not consider I lived with brutes, but with men who knew their rights and were able to maintain them. We lived thus about ten days. I always showed him civilities his position entitled him to receive.

On Sunday morning, the second I had spent in New York, I walked along the wharves on East River, looking on all the large ships lying there, I spied a number of drays bringing provisions to a large, full rigged ship, according to amount, I thought she was destined for a long voyage. By inquiring I found the ship was called Columbia, bound for New Zealand on a trading which might take several years before her return. I was surprised to see my old friend John Evans in full command. He saw me and invited me to come on board. I found by him that through the influence of some captains he had sailed with before, he got the position of chief mate, that Jack Thomas was second mate, Dick Lewis, boatswain, their newly made friend, Yankee Bill, was with them before the mast. In remarking what strange coincidence that they should be together again on the same ship, old John Evans, who had been with them for many years, said he could not go without them, they were as worthy as any men who ever trod a ship’s deck, and as true as steel. I saw the whole four in prime health and spirits. Jack Thomas jokingly remarked to old John Evans that he should share the extra pay he got from the St. Lawrence as mate, with me, for it was me who got him the position. The old man put his hand in his pocket and handed me a ten dollar gold piece, which he insisted on me to take. I was never more glad than to see those men on a good ship, but in all probability, would never see them again. The ship soon after cleared the harbor with fair wind and all sails set. I made up my mind never to mention their names when Mr. Moore was present.

In the course of ten days we shipped a new crew at New York for a run to Baltimore. These men were all foreigners, Sweeds, Danes, Norwegians, and all from the northern part of Europe. There was not an American or Englishman among the crew. The weather was stormy and the passage rough. Mr. Moore as usual finding there was not an Englishman nor an American among the crew, commenced his brutality on them as he had done before. I felt sorry for them but knowing they came from military empires, where a poor man has no right to protest against their superiors. However the poor fellows were glad to reach land, for they had only shipped for the run from New York to Baltimore.

Having discharged ballast and taken on a cargo of tobacco for Rotterdam, Holland, we shipped another crew, a duplicate of the last, Mr. Moore had a lively time kicking and knocking these men to his entire satisfaction. I was treated humanely, and as these men had no spirit to defend themselves I had nothing to do but pity them. It took us two months to reach Rotterdam. As usual the men all deserted, leaving a months wages behind. I was pleased to find that some of the men were acquainted here, who went to an old Jew merchant and made arrangements with him to pawn all their wages, half cash and half clothing, this accomplished they all deserted. In a few days the old merchant came down to the captain with the bills, which he refused t pay because they had deserted. The old fellow did not seem to care much for this refusal, but smiled and took considerable snuff.

This vessel made considerable money by making it untenable for the men to stand the abuse. We had shipped in Baltimore two Chinamen, one for cook the other steward. They were fine, quiet, gentlemanly and remarkably clean, understanding their business thoroughly. The mate found they were packing up to leave, had them put in irons and fastened to the ringbolts below decks, for he did not want them to leave as they were experts at their business. They called me to the cabin to act as steward while we remained at Rotterdam. I had these two men to wait on as well as the officers. The second mate acted as cook. The first opportunity I had, my resolution was put in force. I went straight to the American Consul and told him there were two American citizens, for such they had become on board the American ship St. Lawrence in irons. He told me very surely he would see to it. The next day he came down in his carriage, and arm in arm with Captain Brown, went down to the cabin, drank a bottle of champagne, then both came on deck, the captain taking him to his carriage, and shook hands very cordially. In an hour or two the Chinamen were released. The first opportunity they had (the mate having gone ashore on business) they left the ship, thanking me, for they suspected I had been the cause of their release, and said I could have all their effects left behind, consisting of fine clothing, hair mattress and fine blankets to the value of $200. In a couple of weeks we had unloaded our cargo and taken in ballast for Liverpool. A new crew had been shipped, something of the same character as the last. Just as we were ready to cast off two officers came on board and told us not to touch the cables with which the ship was fastened. They told the captain that the Jew merchant had got a judgment against the ship for the sailors wages which had to be paid before we could leave. Nothing could be done but pay the judgment with costs. Captain Brown told me, for I was the only confidant all hands had, that it was preposterous to make him pay when the men were deserters. I reminded him that when in Venice we had to comply with the laws of Venice. We were delayed a long time in a canal coming out of Rotterdam on account of stormy weather and head winds. We made a long voyage to Liverpool, but when we reached there, the crew, as usual, deserted. I could not leave for I had too much wages coming to me. They treated me kindly, and all I had to do was act as watchman. I was allowed to board with a friend, and night watchman hired. No fires are allowed in Liverpool docks, consequently everyone has to board ashore.

Here we found a cargo of general merchandise for New York, and I made up my mind to leave when we reached there, as my voyage would expire then. The crew we got here were but little better than the last two or three we had run across, for we had few Americans and Englishmen among them. We did not have such men as Jack Thomas, Dick Lewis and John Evans, who dared to do right in any position they were placed. Mr. Moore had many of these men under his thumb. We had a long and stormy voyage. Our masts were sprung, so that we could carry but little canvas. Provisions and water giving out rapidly. Many vessels spoke us and offered. We refused every offer. The mate getting uglier daily. I was determined to make some effort to get better treatment. I spoke with several of the men that we should go boldly and inquire of the captain the reason for refusing assistance when offered, and we on short allowance. I could get no one to go with me, but went alone. Captain Brown had always been my friend, and was not averse to speak with me on the subject. He stated the reason he refused assistance was that we had been long on the passage and the voyage had been disastrous to the owners financially. He asked me to inform the men that if the wind continued in the same direction it was in for two days longer we would be in Charleston, S.C., for we had already passed the stormy Cape Hatteras, that in the condition the masts were in he had to run in the direction the wind blew. We had sailed more than one thousand miles beyond our destination – New York, he begged the sympathy of the men in his unhappy condition. He thanked me for acting as medium between him and the crew.

I went forward where the men were waiting the result of my visit. I passed Mr. Moore on the way. He looked daggers at me but said nothing. I explained to the men what the captain informed me, with a great deal of sympathy in my words. All were glad to know were we were, but were surprised that we were near Charleston in place of New York. They all agreed to take things as they were, for a few days at least, hoping soon to be ashore. That evening when our watch was on deck from eight to twelve o’clock, Mr. Moore came forward and ordered me to fore top sail yard to keep lookout for land. Thinking nothing wrong, as this is always a rule when nearing land at night. I felt very sleepy and fearing to fall asleep I tied myself to the halliards so I could not fall off, finding a gasket on the yard for that purpose. I had been there about two hours and thought it was near twelve o’clock when the watches changed, and a man come to relieve me. All at once the yard went down without notice given, and came down with a thud. It was well I had the foresight to lash myself to the halliards and went down with it, as the sudden jar would sure throw me overboard. When I came down on the deck the bell struck eight bells and the watch relieved. Mr. Moore was jumping about the deck saying he would kill the man who let go of the top sail halyards if he knew who he was. I said nothing, but suspicioned it was him who was guilty.

Next day in the forenoon watch he came to me, said he thought next day we would be in Charleston, all the hands were busy cleaning the paint work as was the custom. He ordered me to get a pail of water and ashes and scrub the martingale. I knew this was a risky job with the swell that was then in the sea. This martingale reached within five or six feet of the water and when the ship plunged it often dipped. The voyage was then so near up that I did not wish to disobey my superior officer, willingly went at it. The vessel often plunging until my feet was in the water, and dozens of dog fishes, a species of shark, trying to get at them. Little scrubbing was done by me and glad to hear the sound of the eight bells, when I came up on deck and the other watch coming on duty. I pretended to be cheerful, but my mind was far from being so. That evening we sighted land, and the next forenoon we landed at one of the wharves of Charleston, S.C. having been ninety days out from Liverpool. The captain soon went ashore.

I was glad this unpleasant voyage was at an end. As soon as the vessel was fastened I went down to the forecastle to change and pack up my clothes and go ashore. Mr. Moore came to the companionway and said that the Captain wanted me to came and take care of the cabin, for the sheriff had taken the cook and steward to jail during the vessel’s stay in port. This was the law then, when slavery was in full force, and half the city’s population being slaves, free negroes talked too much politics to the slaves therefore, would have no access to them. He told me the ship had to have new masts and rigging, which would consume about seven or eight weeks, the captain was going to New York, there would be only him, second mate, and myself in the cabin, and the captain had gone ashore to find a negro woman for cook and my work would be light. I told him this was the opportunity I had been looking for, that I could help and learn to rig a ship and that it would be a school for me. He would not listen to this philosophy, but must come to the cabin. I told him plainly that I could not think of it, as it had come to this my voyage was up, and I was going ashore. He said I could be arrested as a deserter. I then stated I had signed articles in New York to go from there to Baltimore, from there to Rotterdam, from there to Liverpool then to any port in the United States and thought I was now in a port of the United States and my voyage at an end. He went back to the cabin, got the articles, but I discovered and told him that those were the articles signed by the present crew to go from Liverpool to New York. I agreed with him that the voyage of these men was not up until they reached New York. Finding he could do nothing with me he walked off with curses on his lips, I walked ashore.

My first inquiries was for the Mayor’s office, and after walking quite a number of streets found the Mayor at his office in the court house. This was the same Mayor Brown, who a year after, sent to Liverpool for me as witness in a state case which I described in a story written to the News last Christmas. I explained to the Mayor that I wanted to part with my ship, and gave him my reasons for doing so, and whether I could collect the wages due me. He said the St. Lawrence was in the hands of the Underwriters, that the captain or owners had nothing to say until she was thoroughly repaired and ready for sea. I then asked the status of the men who shipped from Liverpool to New York. He answered that their voyages was also up as well as my own.

After I learned this I hired a spring wagon and went down after my clothing. I also informed the men of the result of my inquiry. Every man quit work and followed me up to town. We had not gone more than a quarter of a mile when the second mate overtook us and said the captain had sent him to inform us to come down next morning he would pay us all off. This was a jolly night for the crew of the St. Lawrence. All happy it terminated as it did.

Next morning we all went down on board the ship and settled with the captain satisfactory. I was the last and expected a good lesson for the part I had played, but the captain did not mention a word on what had passed. He had given me money on several occasions. I had kept an account of all sums I had received and told him the amount. He said, “never mind, that was my gift and not charged to you.” We shook hands on parting. He hoped I would prosper as I deserved.

In a few days the hands had scattered on different vessels and different destination. I found employment in a cotton press, where I often met Captain Brown. One day sitting down in the office he told me his ship repairs would soon be completed and asked me if I would go with him to Liverpool, as the ship was loaded with cotton and the riggers had nearly completed their work, another vessel had taken his freight to New York. I told him I would be glad to sail with him, but as long as Mr. Moore was on her I would not set a foot on the deck, not because I feared him physically, but feared his treachery. I told how he tried to throw me overboard from the topsail-yard and the way he sent me to scrub the martingale, hoping no doubt that sharks would get hold of me. Captain Brown was horrified at such villainy. He told me the reason for his being mate that he and his friends in New York were in New York were nine-sixteenths parts of the ship, while he and his friends owned but seven-sixteenths parts (you will understand that a ship is divided into sixteen parts or ounces as they are called, so that one man may own hundreds of ounces in different ships without owning a whole one.) The captain told me that he had tried many times to sell his interest but ship owners were so well acquainted with Mr. Moore, that they would not buy as long as Mr. Moore and his friends owned controlling interest. He also told me that the friends of Mr. Moore did not want to elevate him as captain. After hearing this I told him that as poor as I was I would not change positions with him. With this he left the office, parting as friends.

To finish this story I must tell what happened a few years after, when working on a weekly newspaper in a small town on the west of England – a watering resort. Many of the aristocracy living in the neighborhood, having parks and gardens extending down to the seashore, with sailing yachts anchored before their doors. With these they go on pleasure excursions often during fine weather in summer. They generally keep an old seaman by the year to take care of and the sail the small crafts. In summer they have regattas at the different water resorts, and set time to run at the different circuits. The editor of the paper on which I worked went around to report the incidents of the races. He asked me to go with him in his buggy, there was an exciting race to take place next day about fifteen miles from our town. Arriving there the little town was in its holiday attire, the yachtsmen in uniforms were the lions of the day. The morning turned out fine, but the wind blowed hard and the sea was rough for the small crafts that were there to test their valor. The course to run was about twenty miles. A ship was anchored at both ends which they had to go around. Twenty yachts were booked for the race. The programs were printed and held by most of the excited crowd, naming the yachts and captains of each by the flags displayed. Thousands from the surrounding country lined the shores and housetops and every avenue from which the race could be seen. At the firing of a gun they all started. The friends of each yacht straining every nerve to keep track of his favorite. The wind blew hard. Before the wind we could not judge which was making the best time. In coming back they had to beat against the wind, and here the tug of war was displayed. They had to tack more than twenty times from one side of the narrow straight to the other, for it was not more than a mile wide. One yacht would gain on the other and their positions changed often. The men on shore becoming excited and bets were changed from one craft to the other continually. In the last half hour a yacht called Arvonia and another called Dolphin seemed to gain gradually. It was a grand sight to see these small cutters ploughing through the water, carrying such large sails that they were almost on beam ends, covered literally by foam. On and on they came, changing positions often. Experts could see the Arvonia and Dolphin, though not the fastest, but better handled, stood good chance of winning. The best were high on these two boats. Sometime these boats could not be seen for the foam they made. When the Arvonia once came in sight it was with the topmast carried away. There was excitement, among those who had bet heavy on her, that can hardly be described. Just at this moment the wind freshened to about a gale. The top mast was quickly cut away, and the Arvonia, relieved of too much canvas, rushed forward like a wounded bull. She rounded the ship anchored for mark, the cannon fired as the signal, then the other slow craft Dolphin, in two seconds had the gun fired for her. The other yachts steered away and gave up the contest. That evening the people of the town gave a grand banquet to the yachtsmen. Our editor was presented with two tickets to the banquet, one for him and one for me. The mayor of the town presided at the table, with Capt. Thomas, of the yacht Arvonia, on the right and Capt. Lewis, of the Dolphin, on the left. In a neat speech he presented the first prize, a handsome gold goblet, to the gallant master of the cutter Arvonia. Capt. Thomas in a patriotic speech acknowledged the great honor done them by the hospitality of the little town. The second prize was then presented to Capt. Lewis, of the Dolphin, a miniature ship made of ivory, with rigging of gold thread. He also made a neat little speech in acknowledgment of the kindness they had received during their stay by the kind and happy of the town and surrounding country. Many others made patriotic speeches, commemorating the innocent and recreative pleasures of yachting. After the inner man had been satisfied the meeting broke up, with all present singing “Brittania Rules the Waves”.

In breaking up all the present took the two gallant captains by the hand, with great praise for the manner of handling their crafts.

I was considerably excited and waited till the last, when I took those two gallant tars by the hand, never having given a thought until I heard their voices that they were my shipmates on the ship St. Lawrence. Jack Thomas and Dick Lewis. I spent the next day with them on their yachts, for they were as glad to see me as I was to see them.

To end this story. They told me that when I saw them leaving New York, on the ship Columbia, they went to New Zealand and traded in the Orient about three years: that our old friend John Evans had died with cholera at Calcutta; that Yankee Bill had fell from the yard arm off Cape of Good Hope, and lost: that they were both married and settled down at their old home and lived comfortable and both were happy.

Peace to their ashes is the tribute of an old shipmate who has also retired from the hardships seen at sea.

Dear friends I’ll keep your memory green.
You were men when I was sweet sixteen:
No doubt you’ve paid the debt of nature.
Like gallant chiefs at last surrender.

Yours respectfully,

L. E. Jones, Senior
St. James, Nebraska, January 1, 1901.

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December 22, 2013

More Details on the Franklin Co., NC Records Destruction

By CH Jones

Thanks to friends, I got a hold of some documents posted by the North Carolina Genealogical Society, that are integral to the story of the destroyed records in Franklin County. I am reposting those documents in the timeline I have laid out below, and at the end of this document.

If anyone has anything additional to add, I would certainly appreciate it. I have a feeling this is just the tip of the iceberg.

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TIMELINE

August, 1964 – “Franklin County Records Inventory and Schedules” conducted by the State Department of Archives and History, Raleigh, N.C. This document (available here: FranklinCtyRecordsInventory09-1964) is a 50-year-old document detailing the contents of the Franklin County Court House records, and indications from NC Archives on which materials are to be disposed of, how, and when. This document is crucial in understanding what follows below. In effect, what happened, is that in 1964 the NC Archives gave recommendations for the destruction of materials, but for some reason the folks in Franklin County chose to ignore the instructions, and saved the materials in the basement. This document comes back into play in October 2013, and is used as the basis for the folks in the 21st century NC Archives, strongly urging destruction of what the community in Franklin County deems to be a critical records of their cultural heritage.

May, 2013 – Franklin County Clerk of Superior Court, Alice Faye Hunter resigns. A new Clerk is appointed; Patricia Burnette Chastain.

Mrs. Chastain discovered that the basement of the courthouse has been abandoned for many years. Upon opening the basement she found old documents, books, and records in a state of disarray, some destroyed by mold, some in boxes, some piled and strewn on the floor. Neglect and water damage, repairmen periodically in and out of the room without concern for the arrangement of documents, and failure of some of the boxes, resulted in an unorganized, unhealthful mess.

At some point during May, 2013, Ms. Chastain contacted Diane Taylor Torrent of Franklin County Heritage (a volunteer association of amateur and professional genealogists, historians, and citizens interested in Franklin County history) in order to assist her in assessing the historical significance of the materials, and (ostensibly) to determine what should and could be salvaged.

A cursory examination revealed that there were documents in the room from many Franklin County agencies, including; the court as well as register of deeds, county finance, board of education, sheriff’s office, county jail, elections board and others. Some records dated back as far as 1840.

May 16 – The Heritage Society of Franklin County, NC, presented a program to its membership along with members of the community to discuss the best way to proceed. Present were local historians, genealogists, friends of the library, the arts council, the new Clerk of Court (Ms. Chastain) and County Commissioner Sidney Dunston. All present were shown photos of the basement and the condition of the records.

May 25, 26, & 27 – Ms. Chastain and Ms. Torrent spent three days removing trash, broken furniture, discarded carpet, etc. from the basement, so as to make space to reach and work with the documents.

According to Ms. Torrent, “Mrs. Chastain recognized the value of having a group of genealogist(s) and historians available who were willing and able to ascertain the historic worth of these records to the community and asked the Heritage Society to review, record, digitize and preserve the records. Due to space constraints and conditions in the basement it was decided that only a few would be allowed to begin the work. The Heritage Society provided the appropriate protective gear for the work to begin. Masks, gloves, sanitizers, etc. were bought by the Society and placed in the basement for the use of everyone entering.”

Late May, early June, 2013 – Work began, using a few volunteers, to collect loose documents from the floors and to place them in boxes for later, more thorough examination. A variety of box types were used, including recycled boxes from county agencies with recent dates on the labels. (It has been presumed that the dates on the labels caused some confusion among both County and State workers, later in the review of the room, giving them the impression that the boxes contained very current records which might pose a threat of identity theft or privacy violation. In fact there were no records more recent than 1969 found by workers sorting through the materials.)

The following is a description of the early investigation, accounted by Ms. Torrent of Franklin County Heritage Society; “Immediately we found Chattel Mortgages from the 1890’s, court dockets from post civil war to prohibition, delayed birth certificate applications with original supporting documents (letters from Grandma, bible records, birth certificates, etc), county receipts on original letterhead from businesses long extinct, poll record books, original school, road and bridge bonds denoting the building of the county, law books still in their original paper wrappings, etc., etc. etc. The list goes on and on. Our original feelings of shock that the records were there and in such bad condition led to feelings of joy that they were still there and that someone had thought to retain them for us to discover so many years later.

“Each book or box opened produced a new treasure. A letter, stamped and in the original envelope, from a Franklin County soldier serving in France during the First World War asking the court to be sure his sister and his estate was looked after while he was away. A naturalization paper from the late 1890s for an immigrant from Russia escaping the tyranny of the Czar. A document from County Commissioners in the early years of road building requesting another county repair their road as it entered the county. Lists of county employees and what their wages were in 1900. A court document paying the court reporter who took the depositions in the “Sweat Ward” case, (Ward beheaded a man in the 1930s and later became the last man to be lynched in the county). Postcards, county bills, audits, cancelled checks, newspaper clippings, store ads from long gone businesses. Boxes and boxes of court cases covering the years of prohibition, a docket from an individual accused of running a “baudy house” within the city limits, a photo tucked now and then inside a book, one of the courthouse unseen since the 1920s. Again, nothing was in any order and many of the boxes were combinations of records from many decades.”

June 2013 – Ms. Torrent contacted the County and requested new, durable records boxes, to replace the recycled office boxes and liquor store boxes the team of volunteers working on the project had been using up to that date. She received 40 boxes from the County.

The Heritage Society contacted the North Carolina State Archives for advice on handling old documents and the best archiving method. (Sarah E. Koonts, Director of the North Carolina Archives, records the date of contact as August, 2013 in her October, 2013 letter to Patricia B. Chastain, Franklin County Clerk of Court. See Letter Here: Koontz2Chastain-10-29-2013)

June and July, 2013 – According to Ms. Torrent, the North Carolina State Archives determined that their division should have control over the basements contents. The NC Archives sent “a representative” who looked through the basement and said “they would get back to us with a report on the next steps.”

– According to Sarah Koonts letter of October 29, 2013 (linked above), two representatives were sent on August 21, 2013. These were NC Archives employees Tom Vincent and Carolyn “Carie” Chesarino.

– At some point, Carie Chesarino and Sarah C. West; Safety and Health Specialist, NC Administrative Office of the Courts, also visited the Franklin County Courthouse, as is shown in Ms. Wests’ report of October 21, 2013. See that email to the left.

In the meantime, the Franklin County Heritage Society continued working in the cramped and moldy environment of the basement while waiting for an assessment from the NC Archives. June and July were very wet months and many days workers were unable to enter the basement, due to unhealthful conditions (damp and mold.)

August, 2013 – August 5, 2013 Steve Trubilla, on behalf of the Franklin County Heritage Society, made a request at the County Commissioner’s meeting, to provide adequate space for the preservation to continue.

Within the same time frame, JM Dickens, a local business owner, donated the use of office space across the street from the courthouse. Additionally, Franklin County citizens donated supplies.

The Franklin County Commissioners agreed to provide electric and water to the donated offices for six months.

Holt Kornegay, Franklin County Librarian, attended the August meeting of the Heritage Society and offered to train volunteers to use a computer program designed to archive the records so that they would integrate into the existing system and be accessible to the public.

A request was made to The United Way to supply the Society with computers and Steve Trubilla donated a scanner/copier.

August 13, 2013, Mrs. Chastain, Franklin County Clerk of Court, provided trustees to begin moving the records to the newly donated space. All of the new, clean file boxes, repacked with the old, dusty records from the basement floor, were moved to the upstairs space

August 13 – 16 – Diane Taylor Torrent was out of town on business.

August 15, 2013 – An issue of proper insurance arose, temporarily stopping progress. Superior Court Judge Bob Hobgood offered to pay for the insurance for the 6 months that the offices were in use.

During this general period – The Heritage Society was told to “Stand Down” by County Management (it is unclear who “County Management” refers to, whether it was Chastain, the County Commissioners, Angela Harris, the Franklin County Manager, or just who.) The reasoning for this order was for the need to preserve “chain of custody” for sensitive materials like adoption records, birth records, etc. This concern arose erroneously, according to Ms. Torrent, due to the use of recycled boxes with contemporary labels, which were used to contain much older documents that were not related to the labels on the boxes which contained them. Nevertheless, the order to cease working was given until all the county agencies with documents in the basement could be contacted.

Sometime prior to August 16, 2013 – At some point during Ms. Torrents few days long absence, someone allowed access to the basement and to the donated room. According to Ms. Torrent, “It was now that I discovered that during my absence, access had been obtained (not through chain of command and the Clerk of Court) and county management (eds. note, this statement implicates Franklin County Manager, Angela Harris) had allowed people from the elections board, education, register of deeds and the State Archives and others to go through the basement and the office and remove items that they deemed to be under their control. Items were strewn about the office floor and boxes that had been carefully stacked were opened and askew. ALL of the new white file boxes were gone, taken by the State Archives. There was no way of knowing who took what or what was missing. No one had left a log.

“Our immediate question was how did this action fall within the chain of command? How was it better to have so many hands and eyes on the records searching for what may be theirs rather than a few careful historians organizing and sorting? The time capsule was now compromised and we no longer had control of the integrity of the records.”

After August 16, 2013 – Mrs. Torrent was allowed limited access to the remaining documents in the basement to do a cursory inventory of what remained. According to her reports, she was not given access or time to do more than simply label the remaining boxes with a rough idea of what was in them. None of the many ledger books were opened or reviewed.

At some point it was discovered that North Carolina State Archives personnel removed all the new white boxes containing some of the salvaged documents (these are the boxes that had been requested in June, to replace recycled boxes) to the North Carolina State Archives in Raleigh.

October 10, 2013 – Diane Taylor Torrent provides, at the request (date unknown) of Patricia Burnette Chastain and officials at the North Carolina Archives, a partial inventory of the documents contained in the Franklin County Courthouse basement. Of course the supplied inventory is incomplete, as the work had barely begun when the Heritage Society was ordered to “Stand Down”.

October 21, 2013 – Sarah C. West, Safety and Health Specialist, NC Administrative Office of the Courts, provides to Patricia Barnette Chastain, Franklin County Clerk of Court, her full report on the state of the basement and associated water damage and mold damage throughout the building. The document is available here (West2Chastain10-21-2013), but in essence Ms. West, a health and safety inspector – not a historian – recommends the destruction of all documents in the basement, many in the building’s Law Library, and more in Judge Hobgood’s office – on public health grounds – due to the presence of mold spores, which have contaminated every crevice and article of paper in the building.

October 29, 2013 – Rebecca McGee-Langford, Assistant State Records Administrator, Government Records Section Manager, North Carolina State Archives, sends a letter to Patricia B. Chastain, Franklin County Clerk of Superior Court, Louisburg, N.C. In this letter (found here: Koontz2Chastain-10-29-2013), she states that she provides a “detailed listing of the records stored in the courthouse basement”. However, this statement cannot be true, as no single agency or individual has had access to the basement or the records in order to compile a “detailed list”. The Heritage Society had more time with the materials than any other entity, but they were ordered to “stand down” as soon as their work had begun in earnest.

Following her claim of “a detailed list”, Ms. McGee-Langford restates the destruction schedules detailed in the August 1964 document referenced at the beginning of this post.

Ms. McGee-Langford closes her letter with the following conflicting (given the dire health and safety warning) statements:
“The State Archives of North Carolina has taken possession of 15 boxes of civil and criminal case files, 4 volumes of Justice Dockets, Criminal Court (1960’s), and 1 volume of Records of Magistrates (1880’s). These records were in better condition than the records that remain in the basement. These records will be preserved by the State Archives.

“In conclusion, we urge county officials to take immediate action to destroy these records. No other disposition is advised, including donation of the records to a non-government entity for any reason. The health and safety issue concerning these records outweighs all other considerations.”

Following this letter from Ms. McGee-Langford at the NC Archives, Ms. Torrent inquired, first to the County Commissioners, then to her state representatives, then to the Governor himself, why the documents retained in “pretty” clean boxes were judged safe to be carried off – even though they had originated from the same contaminated environment as all the other records (still contained in recycled boxes), when the inspector’s report clearly stated a contamination risk by mold particles invisible to the naked eye. Ms. Torrent got no response, except that the NC Archives representatives deemed these records “clean”.

November 15, 2013 – In an email from Carolyn (“Carie”) Cherisino, Head of Records Description Unit, Government Records Section, NC Archives, to Becky McGee-Langford, Ms. Cherisono states, “Upon examining the photographs provided, it has been determined that the documents in question are not of historical value and should be destroyed along with the rest of the records that had been stored in the basement of the Franklin County Courthouse.”

She elaborates, “The permanent retention of every government record being an unsustainable enterprise, the Government Records Section of the State Archives of North Carolina carefully analyzes government record-keeping systems and statutory obligations in order to identify record series of enduring value.”

Ms. Cherisino then goes on to cite three examples of records from the basement, which in her opinion are of little historical value, or are redundant to copies that exist in the North Carolina State Archives, as supporting her decision and her logic. Just three documents, from many thousands that were never examined in the basement at the Franklin County Courthouse.

Friday, December 6, 2013, after 5:00 PM – Without prior notice to either the Franklin County Heritage Society or other citizens with an interest in preserving these materials, a crew (unknown exactly who they were, who hired them, or what agency they may have been working for) showed up in full Hazmat suits, in white, state-owned vans, and under the silent, cooperative protection of the Franklin County Sheriff’s Department. They requested and gained access to the Franklin County Courthouse basement. Over the course of a few hours they carried away all the contents (all boxes, papers, and all the ledgers – everything.) They removed these materials to the Franklin County Animal Shelter incinerator and began a many day’s long process of burning the materials.

See photographs of the men in hazmat suits here: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.553905598031235.1073741837.366834443405019&type=3

See photos of some of the destroyed documents here: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.556194484469013.1073741838.366834443405019&type=1

See a WRAL news story, which aired Wednesday, December 18, 2013, here: http://www.wral.com/news/local/video/13230617/#/vid13230617

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DOCUMENTS:

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Torrent2Chastain10-10-2013

West2Chastain10-21-2013

Koontz2Chastain-10-29-2013

Email from Chesarino to McGee-Langford, dated November 15, 2013, see image below.

Email from Chesarino to McGee-Langford on 11/15/2013

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December 7, 2013

A History of Printing and Printers in Wales : Transcribed

By CH Jones

In the very early 19th century, the Jones family of Dolgelly, Wales launched into the printing and publishing business. The family’s reasons for doing so seem to have more to do with religion than commerce.In the late 18th century, Wales was swept over by a spiritual and religious fervor led by John Wesley. The tide was ardently non-conformist, anti-Established Church (Church of England), Welsh-nationalist, and decidedly working and middle class in its congregational focus.

William Jones (b. about 1760 – d. 1830), who was known in his community as “William of Brynterion“, was the first in his neighborhood to convert to Wesleyanism. His passion for the new, non-conformist faith was exceptional, and like many of the early converts, he sought to spread the “Good News”. While some of his Wesleyan peers traveled the Welsh countryside preaching in open air revivals, William – a forward looking man – saw the power of the press as his means of reaching thousands. As one of the principal landowners and citizens of Dolgelley, it is believed that he invited Thomas Williams (discussed below) to Dolgelly, and offered his youngest son, Richard Jones, as an apprentice to learn the trade.

From this office, a dynasty of eminent printers, authors, book publishers and Welsh political activists was launched.

In 1925, Ifano Jones, the Welsh Librarian at Cardiff and respected historian, published a dense, deeply researched book that revealed the history of the printed word in Wales; from it’s first cradle press in the early 18th century, to the early 20th century. The Joneses of Dolgelly figured prominently into that work. The following is a transcription of the chapters that deal principally with this family, their founding of the Dolgelly press, and all the 19th century individuals who started their careers there, then went on to even larger accomplishments.

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The following is a partial transcription of “A History of Printing and Printers in Wales to 1810, successive and related printers to 1923, also, A History of Printing and Printers in Monmouthshire to 1923.”

By Ifano Jones, The Welsh Librarian, Cardiff

William Lewis (Printers), Limited, Cardiff. 1925.

Chapter XXIV

Page 152

DOLLGELLY….

About 1798(1) THOMAS WILLIAMS commenced printing at DOLGELLY, continuing until 1807(2), when he took into partnership RICHARD JONES(3), who had served his apprenticeship with him, and who, soon after – in 1808(4) – upon THOMAS WILLIAM’S retirement, became sole proprietor.

THOMAS WILLIAMS had before commencing to print been in business at DOLGELLY as a bookseller: see his name as ‘Mr. Williams, Bookseller, Dollgellau.’ Among the ‘Subscribers’ Names’ in ‘Drych y Prif Oesoedd’ (ed. Mirror the First Time?)(1794).

THOMAS WILLIAMS, self-taught as he was, and lacking in skill and taste as a printer, was nevertheless better than some of his predecessors. Born in 1757, he was the son of William Jones (1717 – 1783) and Ellen Thomas (1718-1780), of Penardd Wnion Fawr and Y Cae Glâs, in the parish of Llanfachreth, near Dolgelly. His first occupation was that of a cattle-drover, which took him frequently over the Welsh Border; but developing a love of books, and becoming acquainted with booksellers and printers in carrying messages for Rhys Jones of Y Blaenau and Hugh Jones of Maesglasau, he learnt sufficient of the craft of printing to set up as a master-printer, and so inaugurated what for DOLGELLY has since 1798 been an industry of considerable importance. In religion he…

(1)    Owen Rees, Dolgelly, in ‘By-Gones (Dec. 24, 1879) surmises it was about 1795’. ‘Cambrian Bibliography’ records nothing printed by THOMAS WILLIAMS before 1799; but that he was in business before is clear from the fact that on the last page (8) of the ‘Troeadigaeth yr Atheist… Dolgelley, Argraphwyd gan T. Williams.’ He advertises ‘Dolgelley, Mai 3dd. 1798 Heddyw [=to-day] y cyhoeddir. Annerch Ieuengctyd Cymru’, etc.

(2)    Galwad Caredigol ar yr Arminiaid (Call friends for the Arminians?) … Dolgellau. Argraphwyd gan T. Williams.’, signed and dated on the last page (12), ‘John Roberts Llanbrynmair. Chwef. 10, 1807.’

(3)    Yr Ysgerbwd Arminaidd (The Arminian Skeleton?)… Gan Wilym Huntingdon… Dolgellau: Argraphwyd gan Williams, a Jones’ 240pp., cr. 8vo, undated, but printed in 1807, being one of several publications of the like controversial nature issued in that year and the years immediately preceding it.

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…was a zealous Church-of-England man; and to him is attributed the planting of the ivy that adorns the walls of church and churchyard at Dolgelly. He also bequeathed the half-yearly interest of £50 to the poor communicants of the Parish Church of Llanfachreth. He died Aug. 16, 1841, aged 84 years, and was buried in the Llanfachreth churchyard(1) His wife (Barbara, a daughter of squire Pierce, of Pengwern, Ffestiniog, who brought him considerable wealth), had predeceased him Mar. 19, 1830(2)

His apprentice and, in 1807-8, his partner, was besides being better equipped, more ambitious. Becoming sole proprietor in 1808(3), he undertook the printing of ‘Yr Eurgrawn Wesleyaidd’(4), issuing its first number in January, 1809. This periodical he printed from January, 1809, to December, 1811, and again from January, 1819, to May, 1824. He started or printed several other periodicals, such as (a) the second number (1814) of ‘Cylchgrawn Cymru’ (a Church-of-England quarterly), (b) ‘Y Dysgedydd Crefyddol’ (A Congregational monthly) from November, 1821, to December, 1832, (c) ‘Pethau Newydd a Hen’ (a juvenile montly) from 1826 to April, 1829, (d) ‘Trysor I Blentyn’ (a juvenile monthly) in 1826, (e) ‘Yr Athraw’ (a juvenile monthly) from January, 1827, to June, 1829, (f) ‘Trysorfa Rhyfeddodau’ (a monthly) in 1833-4, and (g) ‘Y Dirwestwr’ (a temperance monthly) in 1840-4. But he was better at inaugurating than continuing a project, and was dilatory and frequently careless in execution. This accounts for the taking out of his hands of more than one periodical.

His early printing at DOLGELLY was good and important, including such heavy tomes as the quatros, (a) a reprint of Walter’s Welsh dictionary in 1815, (b) ‘Holl Weithiau Josephus’ in 1819, and (c) a reprint of Dr. William Morgan’s Welsh version of the Bible (1588) in 1821(5). He also published the first 17 parts, comprising nearly 550pp. 4to, of a translation into the Welsh of Matthew Henry’s commentary, the first part appearing May 1^st, 1820, and the 17^th in 1825(5).

But the hearsay statement made by ‘Gwalchmai’ (the Rev. Richard Parry) on pp. 186-7 of ‘Y Dysgedydd’ (1882), that RICHARD JONES was the first to publish a Welsh weekly newspaper, cannot be entertained. The statement (translated) is as follows: –‘It is said that Richard Jones … was the first to venture to publish a Welsh weekly newspaper; it continued one year only; he lost money on the affair, and he gave up the venture. The Rev. Josiah Harris [(‘Gomer’)], of Swansea, afterwards resuscitated it in Seren Gomer.’ – Surely, had such a paper been issued, and especially week by week for a year, some authentic record would have survived by Jan. 1, 1814, when the first number of ‘Seren Gomer’ was issued and universally hailed as the first attempt at a newspaper in Cymraeg. ‘Gwalchmai’ was misled by somebody who evidently believed that the first series of ‘Seren Gomer’ (1814-15) was published by RICHARD JONES instead of by JOSEPH HARRIS (‘GOMER’), who, in 1818, after the suspension of ‘Seren Gomer’ in 1815, resuscitated it under the same title.

In 1824 RICHARD JONES was in trouble over nonpayment of paper tax, and had for a time to keep out of the way of civil authorities.(6) This probably accounts for his selling(6) his press, after printing the June number of ‘Yr Eurgrawn Wesleyaidd’ in 1824, to the Welsh Circuit of the Wesleyan-Methodist Connexion, who had at Dolgelly, in the autumn of 1823, formed its first(6) Welsh Bookroom…

(1)    ‘Cambrian Bibliography’, p 719, on the authority of L. Williams, Dolgelly, and CATHERINE JONES, widow of RICHARD JONES.

(2)    ‘Y Dysgedydd Crefyddol’ (April, 1830, p. 128)

(3)    Rowlands, in ‘Cambrian Bibliography’, p. 336, is in error in stating that RICHARD JONES printed ‘Yr Udgorn Arian’ (undated) ‘about the years 1800-1804’: RICHARD JONES was only an apprentice, aged 17, in 1804.

(4)    The Welsh Wesleyan monthly, still issuing.

(5)    See my (ed. Ifano Jones) notes, description and bibliography in ‘The Bible in Wales’ (1906)

(6)    ‘Yr Eurgrawn Wesleyaidd’ (1890, p. 288, and 1909, pp. 4 and 33)

(Eds. Note: Not to take anything away from Ifano Jones, but given this family’s track record, it isn’t impossible for me to contemplate that RICHARD JONES would have been both ambitious enough and capable enough to attempt the FIRST Welsh language weekly newspaper, regardless of his youth. This family had a penchant for striking off at a very early age at endeavors we would consider today, almost impossible, at any age. I consider the statement of the Rev. Richard Parry, on pp. 186-7 of ‘Y Dysgedydd’ (1882), that RICHARD JONES was the first to publish a Welsh weekly newspaper, in the realm of absolute possibility.)

Page 154

…Committee, and who, in 1824, removed the Bookroom from Dolgelly to Llanfair Caereinion, Montgomeryshire (1). With the press went three journeymen-printers from the Dolgelly office, namely, ROBERT JONES, (‘Bardd Mawddach’), JOHN JONES (‘Idrisyn’), and RICHARD HUMPHREYS – the first to act as managing printer up to October, 1827, and afterwards as a printer in his own up to 1835(2), when he returned to Dolgelly(3).

After October, 1827, the press, Bookroom and workmen were removed from Llanfair Caereinion to Llanidoles, where they remained in operation under the management of JOHN JONES (‘Idrisyn’) until August, 1836, when the Bookroom Committee sold the press and plant to Rev. Edward Jones, Wesleyan Minister at Llantysilio, Montgomeryshire, who gave more than £300 for them, with extra sums for paper, etc. (4), and who made his son, JOHN MENDUS JONES, master-printer(4). The latter was born in 1814(5), and had served his apprenticeship in the office under JOHN JONES (‘Idrisyn’), and from September, 1836, printed ‘Yr Eurgrawn Wesleyaidd’ at Llanidloes up to September 1846. From October, 1846, to April, 1853, Yr Eurgrawn Wesleyaidd’ was printed by JOHN JONES (‘Idrisyn’); but from May, 1853, until his death Feb. 24, 1899(5), the montly was printed by JOHN MENDUS JONES, who, in December, 1859, after issuing the number for that month, had removed his press to Bangor, Carnarvonshire. At his death the press became the property of EVAN THOMAS, who after printing ‘Yr Eurgrawn Wesleyaidd’ for years in 207, High Street, Bangor, prints it now in the Gwalia Printing Works, Sacksville Road, Bangor.

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After disposing of his press to the Wesleyan-Methodist Connexion in 1824, RICAHRD JONES acquired another, and continued to print at DOLGELLY in 1825, 1826, and 1827, as many of the dated examples of his imprint prove. But in 1827 he left Dolgelly for PONTYPOOL, in Monmouthshire, to set up there the first of three branch printing-offices he then and subsequently managed. On the Pontypool publications the same founts of type and the same kinds of ‘flowers’ and borders are found as on those of Dolgelly. But the struggle to keep both presses working simultaneously, at such a distance the one from the other – the one at the foot of Cader Idris and the other at the foot of the Tranch – did not last long; and few and slight are the publications that bear his Pontypool imprint, his most important being three parts out of a projected dozen comprising a volume of Biblical and moral essays, entitled ‘Y Blaguryn’, from the pen of David Owen (‘Brutus’). The first part was issued in October, 1827, the second later in the same year, and the third in 1828. Each part numbers 32pp, demy 8vo, in a wrapper full of notices of forthcoming numbers, apologies for delays and irregularities, and promises of amends in the future. The title of the first part is, ‘Nodded | y | Goron | |i | Ryddid | y | Wasc. | 1. Y Rhifyn Cyntaf, |Pris a chyhoeddwyd, | o’r | Blaguryn, | Gan Brutus. | … | Pontypool : | Argraffawyd a chyhoeddwyd gan Richard Jones ; | Cyhoeddedid hefyd | Gan R. Jones, yn Nolgellau, Meirion : | Hydref 1827.’

RICHARD JONES’s compositor at PONTYPOOL(6) was JEFFREY JONES (‘Ab Cilydd’, ed. Son of mother named Cilydd?) who in 1828 became a master-printer himself at Llandovery, Carmarthenshire, but died August 5, 1830, aged 24 years((6). (For further particulars respecting JEFFERY JONES see Chapter XXVI.)

(1)    ‘Yr Eurgrawn Wesleyaidd’ (1890, p. 288, and 1909, pp. 4 and 33)

(2)    Pigot & Co.’s directory (1835-6).

(3)    ‘Y Dysgedydd’ (1838, p. 220).

(4)    Ibid (1899, p. 200).

(5)    ‘Lleuad yr Oes’ (1830, p. 282).

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Before(1) September, 1828, RICHARD JONES had decided to remove his press from Pontypoll to MERTHYR TYDFIL. There, at first, he printed in partnership with the REV. JOHN JENKINS(2) – a Baptist minister, better known, as well as more endeared to the peoples of Wales, as SHÔN SHINCYN – and THOMAS WILLIAMS (‘GWILYM MORGANWG’) – ‘mine host’ of The New Inn, Pontypridd. Their imprint appears on (a) ‘Pregeth, ar Execiiel X. 13. “O Olwyn”. Gan William Davies, Llantrisant. Merthyr: Argrawffwyd gan Jenkins a’I Gyfeillion. 1828.’, 16pp., foolscap 8 vo.; (b) ‘Ymddiddanion rhwng Thomas y Colier, a Dafydd y Miner… Gan hen Finer. Y Trydydd Argraffiad… Merthyr; argraffwyd dros J. Jones, gan Jenkins a’I Gyf… 1828.’ 34 pp., 12mo, with a two-page advertisement at the end headed ‘Llyfrau Cymraeg, ar werth gan Jenkins, Jones, gan John Jones, cyhoeddwr y llyfr hwn’; (c) ‘Traethawd, … Swper Argraffwyd gan Jenkins a’I Gyfeillion,. 1828.’, 256pp., foolscap 8vo, the colophon and the last page being ‘Merthyr; argraffwyd gan R. Jones.”

Once before, but only for a short time in 1819, SHÔN SHINCYN and GWILYM MORGANWG (THOMAS WILLIAMS) had been in partnership as master ‑printers in Mill Street, MERTHYR TYDFIL; but from, 1819 to May 30, 1827, when the press and type of that office were removed for re-erection at MAESYCWMWR, Monmouthshire, SHÔN SHINCYN was the sole proprietor.

Lacking money and trade connections, RICHARD JONES, in re-erecting his Pontypool press in the High Street (=’Heol Fawr’) at MERTHYR TYDFIL, found the names, if not the actual partnership, of SHÔN SHINCYN and GWILYM MORGANGWG advantageous to him. However, before the end of 1828, he was on his own; and by January, 1829, he had printed there the January number of the juvenile monthy, ‘Yr Athraw’(3), of which he printed five more numbers, the last of them being that for June, 1829. At MERTHYR, in 1829, he printed little else, probably not much more than (a) the objects and rules of ‘Cymdeithas y Dynolwyr yn Nantyglo’… Merthy: Argraffwydd gan Richard Jones. 1829.’ 24pp., cr. 8vo; (b) ‘Traethawd ar Dywyllwch t Cymry, a Bendithion eu Gwlad … Merthyr: Argraffwyd gan R. Jones. 1829.’ 24pp., foolscap 8vo; (c) ‘Twyll Sosiniaeth… gan David Griffiths…Merthyr: Argraffwyd ac ar werth gan Richard Jones… 1830.’ Cr. 8vo, 40pp.; and (d) a foolscap folio poster in Welsh and English announcing ‘The Annual Meeting of Cymmrodorion Society of Merthyr-Tydfil,… at the Bush Inn, on Tuesday, the 14^th of July, 1829…R. Jones, Printer and Auctioneer, Merthyr.’

But RICHARD JONES having sold the Merthyr press and type March 20, 1829(4) two months before he printed the June number of of ‘Yr Athraw’ – to WILLIAM ROWLANDS, who immediately removed them back to Pontypool, and who, despite the delay over the removal, was able to issue in August, 1829, a double number (July-August) of ‘Yr Athraw’, — could not have printed ‘Twyll Sosiniaeth’ (1830) at MERTHYR except on somebody else’s press; and a comparison of the type-founts used in ‘Twyll Sosinaeth with those used by BENJAMIN MORGAN, High Street, MERTHYR, in ‘Traethawd ar Ostyngeiddrwydd… Gan… (Togarma)’ (1830), points to BEJAMIN MORGAN’s being that particular press.

In the beginning of 1831 WILLIAM ROWLANDS disposed of the Pontypool press and type, and retired from business. (For further particulars respecting WILLIAM ROWLANDS see under PONTYPOOL in the second part of this work.)

(1)    On p. 160 of ‘Y Dwsgedydd Crefyddol’ (May, 1829) there was ‘Ynglynion Croesawaid Mr. Richard Jones, Argrawffydd, I Ferthyr, Medi, 1828.

(2)    See Xhapeter XXIII, and under ‘MAESCYCWMWR’ in the second part of this work, for further particulars.

(3)    Printed previously from Merthyr from January, 1827 (the first number) to December, 1828.

(4)    Cofiant… William Rowlands, D.D…. Gan… Howell Powell’ (1873, p. 159)

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Meanwhile RICHARD JONES’s Dolgelly press thrives. Since 1813(1), he had described his press as ‘Gomerian Press’(1) and ‘Gomer-Wasg’(2), which he varied later as ‘Y Wasg Omeraidd’(3). To his activities as a printer, publisher and bookbinder, he added those of auctioneer. He was also as elder in the local Wesleyan-Methodist church, and on the ‘plan’ as a preacher.

Early in 1842(4) he again left his home and office at Dolgelly in charge of his family and employees, and proceeded with his son, ISAAC FRANCIS JONES, to MACHYNLLETH, Montgomeryshire, to set up there his second branch-printing office as ‘Jones Richard, printer, Pentre rhedyn st.’; but later in 1844(5) he had given his son a share in the business of the branch, and in January, 1845(6), he had made him sole proprietor.

ISAAC FRANCIS JONES, like his father, was a Wesleyan-Methodist local preacher. By May, 1849, he had sold his press and the contents of his office to Adam Evans, and had emigrated to the United States. On pp. 124-5 of ‘Yr Eurgrawn Wesleyaidd; (1850) I find “Anerchiad at Mr. Isaac Francis Jones, gynt o Dolgellau, Argraffydd, a Phregethwr yr Efengyl; Yr hwn a Ymfudodd o Fachynlleth I Unol Daleithaiu yr America, en Mehefin, 1849, gyda’I Briod, a Mr. Evan E. Jones ei Frawd-yn-nghyfraith; ac a hwyliasant o Gaerefrog Newydd I fyned I San Francisco, California, Rhagfyr 11, 1849,’ signed and dated ‘Ei Dad, R.J. Dolgellau, Ionawr, 1850.’ Alas! By Nov. 3, 1850 – his birthday – he had died of cholera at San Francisco, at the age of 31(7). He was born Nov. 3, 1819, and was the fourth son of RICAHRD JONES. In his 20^th year (1839), having served his apprenticeship in his father’s office, he had left Dolgelly to work as a compositor in ‘The Carnarvon and Denbeigh Herald’(8) office, Carnarvon. After a brief sojourn there, he returned home. In February, 1840, he left again, this time to work for a London printer named GAUTRESS, in the office of ‘The Watchman’(9) – a Wesleyan-Methodist organ. After a year and a half in London, he returned home once more. No printer having been at MACHYNLLETH for some years, his father, early in 1842, setting up there a branch office, put him in charge. March 20, 1846, he married Mary, the only daughter of Edward Jones, Bryncrug, near Towyn, Marionethshire. Monday morning, May 28, 1849, he left his father’s house for Liverpool, embarking on June 6 in the steamship, ‘Constellation’, for New York, and landing there July 10. Leaving new York, December 6, in the steamship, ‘Pawbattan’, and rounding Cape Horn, he landed in San Francisco July 30, 1850, and on the following morning was engaged as a compositor on an evening newspaper.(10) He was deeply religious and was the first Welsh Wesleyan preacher in San Francisco, initiating in his own house there a Sunday School for the instruction of Welsh people of…

(1)    ‘Casglaid o Bregethau… Gomerian Press: Dolgellau, Argraphydd, gan R. Jones. 1813.’ Xiii, 240pp dy. 8vo.

(2)    Ffydd Eliphaz y Temanaid … Gan… William Williams…Gomer Wasg: Dolgellau, Argraphydd gan Richard Jones. 1824.’

(3)    Pryddestau Gwodrwyol … T.B. Morris (Gwyneddfardd..)…Y Wasg Omeraidd: Dolgellau: Argraphydd gan R. Jones. 1853.

(4)    ‘A Catalog of …Books …Auction Bodtalog House, Near Towyn…July 13^th and 14^th, 1842…Machynlleth: Printed by R. Jones’, 16pp., foolscap 8vo.

(5)    ‘Y Ffordd Dra Rhagorol… Gan Richard Davies… Machynlleth: A Argraphydd gan Richard and Isaac Jones. 1844.’, 12pp., cr., 8vo.

(6)    ‘Anerch at Weinidogion Crist,… 4pp., foolscap 8vo; on p.4 – ‘Griffith Evans. Maes-y-Pandy, Dydd Calan, 1845. I.F. Jones, Argraphydd, Machynlleth.’

(7)    ‘Yr Eurgrawn Wesleyaidd’ (1851, p. 227 et seq.).

(8)    From Jan. 1, 1831 (no. 1) up to and including Jan. 2, 1836, ‘The Carnarvon Herald and North Wales Advertiser’; since Jan 9, 1836, until to-day ‘The Carnarvon Herald and North and South Wales Independent.’

(9)    Jan. 7, 1835 (no. 1) – Dec. 31, 1884 (the last no.)

(10)‘The Evening Picayune’ (‘Welsh People of California… by David Hughs (Afronydd) San Francisco’ (1923), p. 15.

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…the city. When, under pressure of work in the offce, he was asked to work on a Sunday, he resolutely refused to do so, affirming that ‘not all the gold of California could tempt him to desecrate the Lord’s Day.’ But Nov. 3 he died of cholera. Three days after his young widow succumbed to the same scourge. Both lie buried in a cemetery situate near San Francisco.

When ADAM EVANS purchased the MACHYNLLETH press from ISAAC FRANCIS JONES in 1849, the office had been removed from Pentre Rhedyn Street to Maengwyn Street(1) By 1858(2) ADAM EVANS had removed it to Penyrallt Stree: he was there in 1868(3). By 1880(4) he had removed it back to Maengwyn Street Street, where it remained until his death March 3, 1896(5), aged 77 years. He was one of eight children of the Rev. William Evans, Wesleyan minister, and his wife Jane, the daughter of Maurice and Elizabeth Davies of Carnarvon. His father was born at Carnarvon Oct. 25, 1779, and died at Machynlleth July 30, 1854(6). ADAM EVANS’s mother too, was a native of Carnarvon, born in 1784, married June 25, 1811, and like her husband, died at Machynlleth, July 3, 1861(7)

After ADAM EVANS death in 1896, his widow, MARGARET EVANS(8), carried on the business until her death Dec. 26, 1905, aged 73 years.

After her death MR. JOHN EVANS became sole proprietor, and still carries on. Some of his earlier imprints describe his office as ‘The Standard Printing Works’; but his later ones describe it as ‘The Albion Printing Works’. MR. JOHN EVANS, prior to his becoming master-printer, had spent 14 years in the office, and is the last of the apprentices trained by ADAM and MARGARET EVANS.

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In 1849(9) RICHARD JONES set up his second son(10), RICHARD, in business as printer at LLANFYLLIN, Montgomeryshire. The press, described in its imprint as ‘Albion Press’(9), was the third set up by RICHARD JONES, senior. About 1859(11) the son disposed of the business, and migrated to MACHYNLLETH, to work for LEWIS WILLIAMS. Subsequently, he worked at the printing office of THOMAS GEE, Denbeigh, removing thence to RHYL, to work in the printing-office of ‘Y Dywysogaeth’ the Church of England weekly; and here he died aged 64 years. Prior to his settling at LLANFYLLIN, he had worked as a journeyman in South Wales, having been regularly brought up as a printer in his father’s office. In a letter to me Feb. 23, 1908, the son of RICHARD JONES, junior, namely D. LEWIS JONES, Seacombe, Cheshire, also a compositor adds, ‘I have my father’s apprenticeship indentures, binding him to my grandfather as a printer in the year 1828, at Dolgelly.’

RICHARD JONES, senior, had four other sons to whom he taught the craft of printing at Dolgelly. In his elegy to his son ISAAC FRANCIS JONES, in ‘Yr Eurgrawn Wesleyaidd’ (1851, p.375 et seq.), he mentions the names of his eleven children, those of the six sons being WILLIAM, RICHARD, ABRAHAM, ISAAC, FRANCIS, JACOB, and JABEZ, and those of the daughters being Catherine, Ellenor,…

(1)    Slater’s Directory (1850)

(2)    Ibid (1858-9)

(3)    ‘Mynag Blynyddol Cymdeithas Genhadol… Trefynddion Wesleyaidd… Deheudir Cymru… Machynlleth:… Adam Evans, Hoel Penyrallt. 1868.’

(4)    Ibid. (1880) ‘Machynlleth:… Adam Evans, Hoel Penyrallt.

(5)    Information kindly supplied by Mr. Hugh Davies, chemist, Machynlleth, and MR. JOHN EVANS, printer, Machynlleth.

(6)    ‘Yr Eurgrawn Wesleyaidd’ (1856, p.1, et seq.).

(7)    Ibid. (1862, p. 265 et seq.).

(8)    ‘Mynag Blynyddol Cymdeithas Genhadol… Trefnyddion Wesleyaidd, Talaeth Ddeheuol Cymru… Machynleth: Argraffwyd gan M. Evans, Heol Maengwyn. 1899.

(9)    ‘Pregeth… ar Fedydd Dwfr. Gan D. Morgan, Llanfyllin. Albion-Wasg: Llanfyllin, Argraffwyd gan Richard Jones. 1849.

(10)‘Yr Eurgrawn Wesleyaidd’ (1851, p. 229).

(11)He is listed under ‘Llanfyllin’ in Slater’s directory (1858-9).

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…Charlotte, Maryanne, and Margaret. In the elegy the father laments as well the death of four other of his children, namely Ellenor, Charlotte, Jacob, and Catherine. The last mentioned, who had kept house for her brother ISAAC FRANCIS JONES, at Machynlleth, for the four years there prior to his marriage, died Dec. 3, 1850 – a month after her brother – at the age of 41 years(1) Feb. 28, 1856, JABEZ, the youngest passed away, at the age of 25 years, on the Island of Malta(2) JABEZ had always worked at home with his father, while ABRAHAM, like RICHARD, worked for some years as a journeyman in South Wales(3).

Besides his sons, the brother (LEWIS EVAN JONES) and first cousin (WILLIAM ELLIS JONES ‘Gwilym Cawrdaf’) of RICAHRD JONES, senior, were compositors, both, like the sons, serving their apprenticeships in the office at Dolgelly.

LEWIS EVAN JONES left the office in 1814(4) to settle as master-printer at Carnarvon(4), where he died Dec. 28, 1860, aged 66 years, and was buried in Llanbeblg churchyard(5). His office was in Bridge Street(6), in the Pendist, Turf Square, described in his imprint to ‘Cofiant… Peter Williams’ (1817) as Arvonion Press’.

WILLIAM ELLIS JONES (‘GWILYM CAWRDAF’), born at Tyddyn Shôn, Abererch, Carnarvonshire, Oct. 9, 1795, was the eldest son of Ellis Jones, a dyer and fulkler of Y Bontddu, near Dolgelly, who in November 1793, had married Catherine, the daughter of William Hughs, and who, in 1795, turned schoolmaster in Carnarvonshire – first of all at Llanarmon Church. Ellis Jones was the brother of William Jones , Bryntirion, near Dolgelley, who was the father of RICAHRD JONES, the Dolgelly master-printer, to whom – his first cousin – ‘Gwilym Cawrdaf’ was bound as apprentice in 1808, before attaining his 13^th year. In 1815, at the expiration of his seven years’ apprenticeship, he went to Carnarvon as compositor in the office of his cousin and fellow-apprentice, LEWIS EVAN JONES. ‘Gwilym Cawrdaf’ was never a master-printer; but he proved himself an admirable overseer in many printing offices, including those of CARNARVON (L.E. Jones), DOLGELLY (Richard Jones), Carmarthen (John Evans), CARMARTHEN (John Lewis Bridstocke, Lammas Street), Merthyr (Josiah Thomas Jones), Cowbridge (Josiah Thomas Jones), and Carmarthen (Josiah Thomas Jones). Like other members of his family, he was a Wesleyan-Methodist local preacher. He died March 27, 1848, at the age of 53 years, and was buried in St. Peter’s Churchyard, Carmarthen, April 2. As poet, litterateur and landscape painter, ‘GWILYM CAWRDAF’ won much fame in his day. One of his three sons – a namesake – became a compositor, and worked under him for some years at COWBRIDGE; ‘and a fine workman he was’.(7)

‘GWILYM CAWRDAF’s brother ELLIS, born at Dolbenmaen, Carnarvonshire, July 18, 1804, was also a compositor, who, at the age of eleven years, was apprenticed to his first cousin, LEWIS EVAN JONES, at the outset of the latter’s career as master-printer at CARNARVON. In 1826 he worked as a compositor in JOHN A. WILLIAMS’s office at SWANSEA, and subsequently in the ‘Seren Gomer’ office at CARMARTHEN. From Cramarthen he went to CARDIFF, to become overseer of the office of WILLIAM BIRD. From Cardiff he went to London, to work in Eyre & Spottiswoode’s office, returning in about two years to Carnarvon, to work on ‘The Carnarvon and Denbeigh Herald’. In 1845 he became overseer…

(1)    ‘Yr Eurgrawn Wesleyaidd’ (1851, pp. 87-8)

(2)    Ibid. (1856, p. 180), where his name is given as Jabez G. Jones.

(3)    The late Edward Griffith, J.P. Coedcymer, Dolgelly, in a letter to be Feb. 15, 1908.

(4)    See ‘L.E. Jones, Argraffwydd, Caernarfon’, as one of the vendors in the imprint to ‘Casgliad o Bregethau… P. Williams, D.D.’, vol. II., which, although undated, was printed before vol. III, with its dedication dated Nov. 1, 1814. See also the back page of the wrapper of ‘Cylchgrawn Cymru’ (No. 2, 1814 for ‘Caernarfon, Mr. L.E. Jones, Printer and Stationer.’, as one of the vendors.

(5)    ‘Y Traethodydd’ (1901, p. 276).

(6)    Pigot & Co.’s directory (1828, 1830 and 1844) and Slater’s (1844, 1850 and 1858-9)

(7)    ‘Gweithoedd Cawrdaf’ (1851, pp. Xii-xxii.).

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… of HUGH HUMPHREY’s office at Carnarvon – a post he held for 15 years. At the death of his cousin, LEWIS EVAN JONES, in 1860, he bought his office; but after two years and a half as a master-printer, he had a paralytic seizure, which incapacitated him for any work during the remainder of his life. He died May 23, 1870, aged 66 years, and was buried with his parents in Llanbeblig churchyard(1) Like his brother, ‘GWILYM CAWRDAF’, whose life and works (‘Gweithoedd Cawrdaf’… 1851) he compiled and edited, he was a literary man, and compiled, among other things, a Welsh-English pocket dictionary printed by W. POTTER and Co., Carnarvon, in 1840.

‘GWILYM CAWRDAF’ and his brother, ELLIS JONES, were not the only literary men apprenticed to RICHARD JONES, Dolgelly. – ROBERT JONES (‘BARDD MAWDDACH’), born in Barmouth in 1801, was another. He settled at Llanfair, Caereinion in 1824, first as managing printer to the Wesleyan-Methodist Connexion, and afterwards, from October, 1827, as master-printer, describing his press in his earlier imprint as ‘Golden Press’ or ‘Eur-Wasg’(2), and in his later as ‘Albion Press’(3). He printed there until 1835(4), when he sold his plant and type t ROBERT HUMPHREYS(3), a compositor in the office, and returned to DOLGELLY. In 1845 he left for London, undertaking there an important post with CLOWES, LTD., Government Printers(5). In 1886(6) he died at Bermondsey(6), London. – The REV. JOHN JONES (Idrisyn’), born Jan 20, 1804, was another literary man apprenticed to RICAHRD JONES. His apprenticeship dates from 1818, In 1824 he accompanied ‘BARDD MAWDDACH’ to Llanfair Caereinion, to work as compositor on ‘Yr Eurgrawn Wesleyaidd’, becoming, bay January 1827, managing printer for the Wesleyan-Methodist Connexion. In October of the same year he went with the Connexion’s press to LLANIDLOES, to print ‘Yr Eurgrawn Wesleyaidd’ there until the end of 1836, when the press was sold to the Rev. Edward Jones, Wesleyan Minister, Llantysilio, the father of JOHN MENDUS JONES, a compositor of the same town. The Wesleyan Bookroom and printing-office were housed in the ‘Elephant Buildings’, Long Bride Street(7). But JOHN JONES (Idrisyn’) remained at Llanidloes as master-printer on his own. After many years of usefulness as a local preacher in the Wesleyan-Methodist Connexion, he took Holy Orders in the Established Church in 1854, serving as curate at Llandysul, Cardiganshire, until 1858, when he became vicar of Llandysiliogogo, in the same county. He died at New Quay, near by, August 17, 1887, aged 83 years, and lies buried in the Llandysiliogogo churchyard.(8) He compiled and published many works, the most important being ‘Yr Esboniad Berniadol’, 6 volumes (1837-45), and ‘Y Deonglydd Berniadol’, 5 volumes. (1852)(9) During 1852-3 he was Mayor of Llanidloes. – Another of the apprentices of RICAHRD JONES was ROBERT RICHARDS, who set up as master-printer at Dolgelly in 1818, printing in that year Rhys Jones’s “Gwaith Prydyddawl’, and emigrating to the United States sometime after 1821, when he printed Dafydd Ionawr’s ‘Cywydd y Diluw’.

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The late Peter Williams, B.A., Dolgelly, in ‘Yr Eurgrawn Wesleyaidd’ (1909, p. 33), states RICAHRD JONES’s first office at Dolgelly was on the site upon…

(1)    ‘Y Herald Cymraeg’ (May 27, 1870).

(2)    ‘Ychydog o Hanes Enwogion yr Hen Destament… Gan Samuel Roberts… Eur-Wasg; Llanfair-Caer-Einion; Argraffyd gan R. Jones. 1827.’ 22pp.

(3)    See the wrappers of ‘Y Geirlyfr Cymraeg… Gan Owne Williams’ (1825-35), 4to.

(4)    Pigot & Co.’s directory (1835-6)

(5)    ‘Yr Eurgrawn Wesleyaidd’ (1909, p. 64).

(6)    ‘Hanes Dolgellau’ (1872, p 116).

(7)    ‘A Municipal History of Llanidloes. By E.R. Horsfall-Turner, B.A…. 1908’ pp. 118-121.

(8)    See my notes, description and bibliography in ‘The Bible in Wales’ (1906).

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…which stood, in 1909, Mr. Henry Miles’s bakery. This probably means that RICAHRD JONES’s first office was Dolgelly’s first; that is, Thomas Williams’s from 1798 to 1808, which was afterwards demolished, a better one being erected on the site. It is situate in that part of town known as ‘Yr Uffern Fach’ (+ The Little Hell). RICHARD JONES removed the office thence to a building which in time became the dwelling-house and shop for Gruffydd Dafydd, the watchmaker, the press being set up on the upper floor. The building also was demolished, and in 1909 Grenwich House(1) – the shop of the late William Williams, the watchmaker – occupied on the site. All that may be correct; but, to be more definite, RICHARD JONES’s office was on Eldon Row – opposite The Angel Hotel on Eldon Square – up to 1858, when OWEN REES purchased the business from RICHARD JONES’s widow, CATHERINE JONES(2).

By 1863 the house on Eldon Row was again the home of a printing press, that of DAVID HUMPHREY JONES, of whom later on.

RICHARD JONES was of good yeoman stock, being the namesake and grandson of Richard Jones, heir of Y Tyddyn Du, Y Bont Ddu and Ty’n-y-buarth, near Dolgelly. The grandfather was a well-to-do Church of England man, who saw to the proper education of his sons, William and Ellis. William married Catherine, daughter of Lewis Evans, of Ty’n-yr-eithin in the parish of of Towyn, Merionethshire, and became the father of nine children, the third born being RICHARD JONES, the Dolgelly printer, and the fifth LEWIS EVAN JONES, the Carnarvon printer. William Jones lived at Bryntirion, Y Bont Du, and died Feb. 2, 1830(3) He contributed much to ‘Yr Eurgrawn Wesleyaidd’ above his pseudonym, ‘Pererin Pen Nebo’(4). In a family Bible in the possession of Mrs. John Jones, daughter of RICHARD JONES, the printer, the late Charles Ashton, in 1892, found the following record –‘RICHARD JONES, Printer, Dolgelly, was born May 26^th, 1787, at Brunterion, Bontddu, Dolgelly. His wife Catherine Evans was born March 18^th., 1786; and they were married at Dolgelley Parish Church on Saturday the 7^th day of January, 1807(5). The date of RICHARD JONES death is not known; but that he died in in 1855 is pretty clear from the fact that the obituary notice of his son Jabez, in ‘Yr Eurgrawn Wesleyaidd’ (June, 1856), he is referred to to as ‘y diweddar [= the late] Mr. Richard Jones.’

After his death, his widow, CATHERINE JONES, carried on the business until 1858(6), when OWEN REES, the son of Rees Owen,, the mason, and a printer who had learnt his craft in EVAN JONES’s office, succeeded by purchase to the sole proprietorship of the business. He printed in Bridge Street, describing his establishment as ‘Caxton House’, and dying June 9, 1887, aged 60, was buried June 11 in the burial-ground of Zion Chapel, Dolgelly(7).

His widow, ELIZABETH REES – a sister of EVAN JONES, master-printer, Dolgelly (of whom later) – carried on the business until January, 1891, when she sold it to MR. EDWARD WILLIAMS (‘Llew MEIRION’) Dolgelly, in whose hands it has continued ever since, the office known as ‘The Victorian Printing Works’, being situate in Well Street, whither he removed in 1887(8) from Eldon Square, where he had commenced printing in 1886. He spent his apprenticeship with…

(1)    The one of the two houses constituting the block on Eldon Square known as ‘Y Plâs Newydd’, Grenwich House today is occupied by Mr. R.P. Owen, jeweler, etc., while Mr. Rowland Ellis, draper, etc., occupies the other house known as ‘Y Plâs Newydd’.

(2)    Pigot & Co.’s directory (1830 and 1844) and Slater’s (1844, 1850 and 1858-9).

(3)    ‘Yr Eurgrawn Wesleyaidd’ (1831, pp. 65, 97 and 129).

(4)    ‘Yr Eurgrawn Wesleyaidd’ (1830, p. 90).

(5)    ‘Y Geninen’ (1892, p. 23).

(6)    Not ‘1859’ as stated in OWEN REES in ‘By-Gones’ (1878-9, p. 347), because although her imprint appears on the titlepage of ‘Y Gwrthryfel yn India… Dolgellau: A Argraffwyd gan Catherine Jones’, preface dated ‘Mai, 1858.’, the imprint of OWEN REES appears on ‘Y Seraph … Dolgellau: Argraffwyd … gan Owen Rees, Heol y Bont. 1858’

(7)    ‘Y Goleuad’ (June 11, 1887).

(8)    The year of the late Queen Victoria’s Jubilee; hence the name of the office.

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… DAVID HUMPHREY JONES in ‘Y Goleuad’ office, Dolgelly. DAVID HUMPHREY JONES commenced as master-printer in a house opposite The Ship Hotel.

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RICAHRD JONES was not the only apprentice trained in THOMAS WILLIAMS’s office at Dolgelly during 1798-1807; JOHN PUGH (‘IEUAN AWST’) was another, born August 26, 1783(1), at Melin Ddraenen, in the parish of Celynin, Merionethshire, his parents being David and Catherine Pugh. JOHN PUGH became at the age of 13 a junior clerck in a solictor’s office at Dolgelly; but after spending some years there, he apprenticed himself to THOMAS WILLIAMS. He afterwards articled himself to a solicitor in the town, eventually practicing there as such, and from 1815(2) as master-printer, his office at first being at Ivy House, in which previously resided William Williams, and in which to-day resides MR. EDWARD WILLIAMS (‘LLEW MEIRION’); later the office was in Finsbury Street. JOHN PUGH died Feb. 16, 1839, in his 56^th year and was buried in the churchyard of Llanfair Bryn Meurig, Dolgelly(1). His name (‘John Pugh, Heol Finsbury’) appears in the imprint to ‘Y Dysgedydd’ from January, 1833, to December, 1840; but from his death, Feb. 16, 1839, to December, 1840, his successor,

EVAN JONES, traded under his name. EVAN JONES, a native of Llanegryn, Merionethshire, had spent his apprenticeship with RICHARD JONES(3). From March, 1839, to December, 1841, his office was in Finsbury Street; from January, 1842, to August, 1848, in Meurig Street: and from September, 1848 to November, 1863, in Mount Pleasant (+’Brynteg’). During 1839-63 he printed the monthly ‘Y Dysgedydd’, and during 1843-63 another monthly, ‘Cronicl y Cymdeithasau Crefyddol’ (the first number appearing May, 1843,and the last, December, 1910). In November 1863, he retired, disposing of the business to JOHN WILLIAMS, timber merchant, the father of MARGARET OGWEN JONES, wife of WILLIAM OGWAN JONES (‘GWILYM OGWEN’), whom JOHN WILLIAMS intended to set up in the business at Dolgelly. EVAN JONES, after retiring, lived at Rhydwen(3), about a mile from Dolgelly on the old road to Towyn, there to cultivate a small farm.(3) Thursday, Mar. 31, 1881(3), in a fit of insanity from which he had occasionally suffered during the previous 15 years, he killed his wife by splitting open her skull with a hatchet, and then committed suicide by cutting his own throat with a razor. At the time he was 75 years of age. The following Monday, April 4, 1881, both bodies were buried at Llanegryn(3)

WILLIAM OGWEN JONES (‘GWILYM OGWAN’) had commenced business as master-printer in the preceding summer at BETHESDA, Bangor, Carnarvonshire; but at Y Ganllwyd, on his way to Dolgelly, he fell ill, and died at Dolgelly Dec. 18, aged 25(4). During his brief business career at Bethesda he had printed the monthly ‘Yr Ardd’ (the first number appearing Aug. 15, 1863). The office at Dolgelly was in Mervinian House, Meurig Street, where he was succeeded by his widow,

MARGARET OGWEN JONES, whose imprint appears on the ensuing January and February numbers respectively of ‘Y Dysgedydd’, ‘Cronicl y Cymdeithasau Crefyddol’, and ‘Yr Ardd’. The imprint for the M. OGWEN JONES & CO.’, ‘&Co.’ representing JOHN WILLIAMS, MARGARET OGWEN JONES’s father, GORONWY JONES acting as superintendent. Later, to…

(1) ‘Y Dysgedydd’ (March, 1839, p. 100) and ‘Cantref Meirionyth… Gan… Robert Prys Morris’ (1899, p. 396).

(2) Barddoniaeth Gristionogawl: Gan DD. Ionwr… Dolgellau: Argraphyd gan John Pugh. 1815.’ Viii, 232pp., foolscap 8vo.

(3) ‘Y Goleuad’ (Apr. 9, 1881), ‘Y Tyst a’r Dydd’ (April 8, 1881), and ‘Baner ac Amserau Cymru’ (Apr. 6, 1881).

(4) ‘Yr Ardd’ (Jan. 15, 1864, p. 96).

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…superintend the office of WILLIAM HUGHE from the office of THOMAS GEE at Debeigh. In January, 1865(1), he married MARAGRET OGWEN JONES, and from May, 1866, to December, 1866, the office and its contents were the property of WILLIAM HUGHES & CO.’, ‘&Co.’ still representing JOHN WILLIAMS. By January, 1867, the business had become solely

WILLIAM HUGHES’s. The business (carried on until the end of 1899 in the name of WILLIAM HUGHES; from January, 1900, to 1910 in that of WILLIAM HUGHES & Sons; from 1910, when WILLIAM HUGHES retired, to 1912, by his two sons, trading as HUGHES BROS.; and since 1912, when the younger son, JOHN HUGHES, retired, by the elder son, ALFRED ERNEST HUGHES, trading as HUGHES BROS.) still thrives in Dolgell, but now at Y Felin Uchaf (=Upper Mill), whither, in 1911, it was removed from Mervinian House. Since June 5, 1868 (the date of the first number) the firm has printed and published the weekly, ‘Y Dydd’, and since January, 1871 (the date of the first number), the monthly, ‘Dysgedydd y Plant’.

WILLIAM HUGHES was born at Mold, Flintshire, January 27, 1838, and learnt his craft at the office of THOMAS GEE, at Denbeigh. He was J.P. for Merionethshire, and ex-Chairman of the Marionethshire County Council, when he died at Dolgelly Feb 23, 1921, aged 83; he was buried Feb. 25 at Brithdir. His widow survived until April 16, 1923, aged 84. In ‘Y Dysgedydd’ (Nov. 1921, p. 327) there is a portrait of both.

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One of EVAN JONES’s apprentices was DAVID HUMPHREY JONES(2), the eldest son of Humphrey Jones, of Dolgelly, locally well known and highly respected as ‘Hwmffra Jones y Blaenor’(3). DAVID HUMPHREY JONES was apprenticed to EVAN JONES about 1854(3), in 1862(3) he left Dolgelly for London, to work there, for a short period, as compositor for CLOWES & SONS’ offices(3) whence he left to work in RICHARD HUGHES & SONS’s office at Wrexham(3); but in 1863(3) he returned to Dolgelly, opening business there as master-printer in Eldon Row(4), — in the very house(3) in which successively RICHARD JONES and his widow, CATHERINE JONES, had printed up to 1858. By 1872 he had removed his press and plant to Parliament(5) Street(6), and in 1875 from Parliament Street to Waterloo Street (7). Since January, 1879, the office has been in Smithfield Lane. From Nov. 2, 1872, until June 26, 1884, he printed for the North and South Wales Newspaper Company, the Calvanist-Methodist weekly, ‘Y Goleuad’, which had since Oct. 30, 1869 (the date of the first number) been printed for the same company by HOHN DAVIES (‘Gwyneddon’) in Bridge Street, Carnarvon. At first, for some time, owing to the limited space at his disposal in the Parliament Street office, DAVID HUMPHREY JONES printed ‘Y Goleuad’ in a loft near the premises of David Jones, the bark merchant, in Upper Smithfield(4)(=’Pen-ucha’r-dre’). From January, 1875, until December, 1878 (the date of the last number), he printed the Good-Templar monthly, ‘Y Temlydd Cymreig’, the previous numbers (March, 1873 – the first – to December, 1874) having been printed by JOHN DAVIES (‘Gwyneddon’) at…

(1)    ‘Y Dysgedydd’ (Nov., 1921, p. 372).

(2)    He must be distinguished from his uncle, David Jones, the china and earthenware dealer in Eldon Square at the time.

(3)    ‘Y Goleuad’ (Feb. 19, 1904).

(4)    Slater’s directory (1868)

(5)    So named owing to the ancient structure used by Owen Glyn Dwr during his insurrection (1400-1415) being situated in it until it was removed in 1882 and re-erected in the park of the late Sir Pryce –Jones at Dolerw, Newtown, Mont.

(6)    Imprint to ‘Y Goleuad’ (Nov. 2, 1872)

(7)    Imprint to ‘Y Temlydd Cymreig’

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…Carnarvon. From January, 1878 (the day of the first number), until February, 1884 (the date of the last), DAVID HUMPHREY JONES printed the Sunday School monthly, ‘Cronicl yr Ysgol Sabbothol’. In 1884, after printing the number of ‘Y Goleuad’ for June 28, 1884, he disposed of his business and office to MR. EVAN WILLIAM EVANS, who had served a seven-years’ apprenticeship with him. Subsequently, DAVID HUMPHREY JONES became a commercial traveler. Feb. 11, 1904, he died at his home, Lawn House, Dolgelly, aged 62(1), and was buried Feb. 15 in the Nonconformist burial-ground.

His successor in the printing and publishing business in Smithfield Lane, Mr. EVAN WILLIAM EVANS, born at Cae Einion, Dolgelly, Oct. 7 1860(2), continued to print ‘Y Goleuad’ from July 5, 1884, until June 26, 1914(3). July 1, 1914, he printed and issued the first number of his ably edited weekly, ‘Y Cymro’, still issuing from the office in Smithfield Lane. In 1888 (the first number, Jan. 6; the last March 29) he printed the weekly, ‘The Merionethshire News’, incorporated April 5, 1888, in ‘The Merioneth News and Herald’ – a localized edition of ‘The Carnarvon and Denbeigh Herald’ (Carnarvon). In January, 1885, he printed the first number of the Sunday-School monthly, ‘Y Lladmerydd’, still issuing. In January, 1888, he printed and partly edited the first number of the national monthly, ‘Cymru Fydd’, which ended its course with the April number of 1891. In January, 1896, he printed the first number of another monthly – this one for the women of Wales – entitled ‘Y Gymraes’, still issuing. At the beginning of 1917 the business was converted into a liability company, trading since as E. W. EVANS, LTD., with MR. EVANS as managing director. Since April 2, 1920, the firm has printed the weekly of the Church in Wales, entitled up to January 19, 1923, ‘Y Llan and Church News’,and since ‘Y Llan a’r Dywysogaeth’, while since January, 1920, the firm has printed the monthly of the same Church, entitled ‘Yr Haul’. This office, like that of MESSRS. HUGHES BROS., has also well maintained the reputation of the town of Dolgelly, since the days of RICHARD JONES, for the production of a large number of books of importance and merit. Mr. EVAN WILLIAM EVANS is a Justice of the Peace for the County of Merioneth.

(1)    ‘Y Goleuad’ (Feb. 19, 1904).

(2)    Who’s Who in Wales (1921).

(3)    Since July 3, 1914, ‘Y Goleuad’ has been printed at Carnarvon.

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Chapter XXII
1796-1856

Page 146

Mold (W. Codington) ; Holywell (Edward Carnes) ; Carnarvon (Thomas Roberts, Mary Roberts, [Mary] Roberts & [R] Williams, R. Williams, R. & W. Williams, Peter Evans.)

… (Introduction content includes the first two master printers who are the focus of this chapter; W. Codington at mold, and Edward Carnes at Holywell)…

The third of the 1796 new master-printer was THOMAS ROBERTS, at CARNARVON – the printer so egregiously confused with both ‘MR. HUGHES’ and EVAN ROBERTS of the TREVECCA press in the contribution by Mr. John Ballinger in ‘The Library’ (1907). THOMAS ROBERTS’s was Carnarvon’s first press. HUGH HUMPHREYS(3), printer and publisher, Paternoster Buildings …

(3) Born at Carnarvon Sept. 17,1817, apprenticed to PETER EVANS, Carnarvon: commenced as master-printer in Bangor Street, Carnarvon, in 1837: Mayor of Carnarvon in 1876-7; died May 2, 1896, in his 79^th year (‘Y Traethodydd’, 1901, p. 279).

Page 147

…14, Castle Square, Carnarvon, in a letter printed on pp. 704-5 of ‘Cambrian Bibliography’, state (in Welsh) that THOMAS ROBERTS

‘…was supposed to be a son of William Roberts, of Plas Bach, near Conway, at which house John Wesley had been welcomed on one occasion. Thomas Roberts was born in 1760, either at Llanrhos or at Eglwys Bach, in Denbeighshire. His parents migrated when he was young to Trevecca, as members of the Howell Harris’s “Family”. At Trevecca Thomas Roberts was brought up to the craft of printing. It appears he was 36 years old when he went from Trevecca to Carnarvon. At the latter place he married a widow of some means. He, too, possessed property, being the owner of the Bryn Eisteddfod estate, in the parish of Llansantffraid Glyn Conway, which property, for some reason or another, remained in Chancery until about the year 1860, when it was publicaly sold, the poster advertising it as the property of the late Thomas Roberts, of Carnarvon, printer. He went to Carnarvon sometime before 1797. It is said that he was one of the persons who built the Pendist houses there in 1800. Pending, probably, the completion of the new houses, he set up his first press in the High Street, or rather, in the street leading out of it. There was at that time, at the farthest end of that street, an upper room to which access was gained by climbing exterior stairs; in that upper room was lodged the first Carnarvon press, which was a wooden one, of good make, and which worked easily. This press was in existence up to the year 1858, when the son of Peter Evans, while selling his father’s belongings, broke it up for firewood. It had come into the possession of Peter Evans by his purchasing the greater portion of Thomas Roberts’s belongings; and it was with it that Peter Evans worked for many years after settling as master-printer at Carnarvon. Thomas Roberts set up in the Pendist as soon as the new houses were completed. He published a considerable number of small books. He was a skilled, careful, and correct printer. It appears that Thomas Roberts was a Churchman; in any case, he regularly attended the Sunday-morning service at Llanbeblig Church, taking with him his little French Common-Prayer Book, with which he used to follow the service. He was a good Welsh scholar, and a proficient English one. He died April 30, 1811, at the age of 51 years, and was buried in Llanbeblig churchyard, where a memorial stone marks his last resting place. For some time after his death his widow carried on the business, several booklets bearing her imprint (“M. Roberts, Argraffydd, Caernarfon”) … In 1816, a nephew of Thomas Roberts was in partnership with the widow, their imprint (“Caernarfon: Argraphydd gan Roberts and Williams”) being found on the elegy of ‘y meddyg esgyrn hynod hwnw, Evan Thomas o Faes y Meddwyn Crych:. Subsequently, for a short time, Williams himself carried on the business, after which Lewis Evan Jones took it over, he in turn being succeeded by Peter Evans in 1816. The latter died in 1859.

Full and circumstantial as the foregoing appears to be, it nevertheless contains several errors that need correcting here. (a) THOMAS ROBERTS dying Apr. 30,1811(1), and his widow dying July 20, 1814(2), PETER EVANS, whose known earliest imprint is that on ‘Peroraieth Awen … Gan Richard Jones… Caernarfon : Argraphwyd a Chyhoeddwyd gan P. Evans. 1818.’, could not have purchased ‘the greater portion of Thomas Roberts’s belongings of THOMAS ROBERTS or his widow. (b) MRS. ROBERTS dying July 20, 1814(2), no ‘nephew of Thomas Roberts’ could be ‘in partnership with her in 1816’; neither could she be in business two years after her death. (c) LEWIS EVAN JONES did not succeed any ‘Williams’ or anybody else in 1816, because he had commenced business of his own at Carnarvon by the autumn of 1814; see L.E. Jones, Argraphydd, Caernarfon’ (as one of the vendors) in the imprint to ‘Casgliad o Bregethau… P. Williams, D.D.’, vol. II., which, although undated, was printed well before vol. III. with its dedication dated Nov. 1, 1814 ; see also his imprint to “Haul yn codi, neu Ychydig Hanes am Lwyddiant Cymdeithas y Biblau… Caernarfon; Argraphwyd gan L. E. Jones. 1815.’ (d) PETER EVANS did not succeed LEWIS EVAN JONES, both printers continued to print each in his own office for many years after 1818. € PETER EVANS died – not in ‘1859’, but March 14, 1856, aged 69(3). (f) The ‘elegy of “y meddyg esgyrn hynod hwnw, Evan Thomas o Faes y Meddwyn Crych”, was not printed in ‘1816’, but in 1814, and ‘Maes y Meddwyn Crych’ is an error for ‘Maes-y-Merddyn’: note the title is on a…

(1)    ‘The Cambrian’ (May 10, 1811).

(2)    ‘Mrs. Roberts, relict of the late Mr. Roberts, bookseller and printer, Carnarvon’ (Obituary notice in ‘The Cambrian’, July 29, 1814).

(3)    ‘Y Traethodydd’ (1901, p. 277).

Page 148

It is to be regretted that Edward Jones, in ‘Y Traethodydd’ (1901, p. 275), in repeating HUGH HUMPHREYS’s statement, makes the latter ones elegy in ‘1816’ [sic 1814] into a ‘number of books’, and this without giving the title or the date of a single publication.

THOMAS ROBERTS’s nephew, R. Williams – the partner of THOMAS ROBERTS’s widow in 1814 – was in business at Carnarvon as a master-printer on his own as early as 1810(1). After the death of his aunt, MARY ROBERTS, he became sole proprietor; but by 1817(2) he had taken into partnership his brother(2)(?) W. Williams, for to a ballad printed in 1817(2) the imprint is, ‘Caernarfon: Argraphwd gan R. a W. Williams.’(2) But Charles Ashton, accepting HUGH HUMPHREYS’s statement, and unmindful of MARY ROBERTS’s death July 20, 1814, conjectures that the ‘Williams’ of Roberts a Williams’ in ‘1816’ [sic 1814] was ‘W. Williams’ instead of R. WILLIAMS.

If, according to HUGH HUMPREYS, PETER EVANS purchased the press and the ‘greater portion of THOMAS ROBERTS’s belongings (and there is no reason for not accepting the statement), he did so of R. and W. WILLIAMS about 1818…

…(Content continues with details of THOMAS ROBERTS printing career, R. Williams, career, and a final note about PETER EVANS. Chapter ends on page 148.)

(1) ‘Can Newydd, yn dangos Bradwriaeth are droed… Caernarfon; Argraphwyd gan R. Williams. 1810.’ 4pp., foolscap 8vo.

(2) Cerdd, am y galarus ddigwyddiad a fu ar Draeth y Lafan, Ebrill 21, 1817,… (Richard Jones [‘Gwyndaf Eryi’], Erw, Llanwyndaf, a’I cant, Ebrill 29, 1817.) Caernarfon: Argraphyd gan R. a W. Williams.’ 4pp.

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March 12, 2013

Josiah Thomas Jones (1831 – 1848) – Bibliography

By CH Jones

Josiah Thomas Jones (1831 – 1848), printer of Merthyr-Tydfill and Carmarthen

Catalogue at the National Library of Wales, during the tenure of William Ellis Jones, from 1830 to 1848:

1830
1] Author: Josiah Thomas Jones (1799-1873), editor, Edward Parry, editor.
Title: Y wawr-ddydd (The Sunrise)
Subject Matter: A monthly Welsh language religious periodical for children that mainly published articles on religion, the natural world and temperance. The periodical’s editors were the minister and publisher, Josiah Thomas Jones (1799-1873) and Edward Parry.
Description: 13 cm, Illustrated
Imprint: Not indicated

2] Author: Robert Thompson Crawshay (1817-1879), , Daniel J. Evans, Pennsylvania, (c.1840), Lewis Hopkin, (c.1708-1771), Goch Iolo (1345-1397), John Miles, Merthyr Tydfil, (1838), Rowland Thomas (1789-1856), William Walters (c.1837), Gwir Iforiaid
Title: Idris Ddu’: Cerddi a thraethodau (Idris Black: Poems and Essays)
Subject Matter: A volume containing poetry and essays mostly in Welsh, 1830-1856, by Rowland Thomas (‘Idris Ddu’, 1789-1856) of Merthyr Tudful, co. Glamorgan, and transcripts by him of poetry by contemporary local poets. Many of the compositions were entered for competition at eisteddfodau held in Merthyr Tudful, Aberdâr, Hirwaun and elsewhere and reflect the culture and radicalism which flourished in the area during the mid-nineteenth century.
Description: 437 pages
Imprint: Not indicated

1832
1] Author: Uncredited
Title: Diddanwch i deulu Seion (Consolation to the family of Zion)
Subject Matter: Hymns
Description: 112 pages
Imprint: Argraffwyd yn ‘Swyddfa Stanhope’ gan J. T. Jones

1] Author: James Jones
Title: Swp o ffigys addfed (A Batch of Ripe Figs)
Subject matter: Religion, Catechisms, Religious education of children,
Description: 32 pages
Imprint: Argraffwyd gan Josiah Thomas Jones, 1832

1833
1] Author: William Burkitt, 1650-1703
Title: Drych anffaeledig, neu, Fywyd santaidd a rhinweddol yr Arglwydd Iesu Grist (Infallible Mirror, or, holy and virtuous Life of the Lord Jesus Christ)
Subject Matter: Religious
Description: 8 pages
Imprint: Argraffwyd gan Josiah Thomas Jones, 1833

2] Author: William Ellis Jones (Cawrdaf) (1795-1848), editor
Title: Trysorfa yr ieuenctid (The Treasury of Youth)
Subject Matter: Religion, Sunday Schools, Periodical
Description: 15 cm
Imprint: Josiah Thomas Jones, 1833

3] Author: John Elias (1774 – 1841)
Title: Copi o lythyr a ddafonodd y Parch. John Elias at olygwr y papyr newydd a elwir y ‘Record,’ ail argraffiad o’r hwn a ymddangosodd yn newyddiadur Bangor, Mawrth 12, 1833 (Copy of a letter to the editor of the ACPC called the ‘Record’, which appeared in this newspaper Bangor, March 12, 1833, from Rev. John Elias)
Subject Matter: Church of England, Church of Wales, Establishment and Disestablishment, Religion, Letters
Description: 8 pages
Imprint: Argraffwyd gan Josiah Thomas Jones, 1833

1834
1] Author: Caledfryn (1801-1869)
Title: Darlith ar droddodiadau yr hynafiaid (Lecture on our Druidic Ancestors?)
Subject Matter: No remarks
Description: 40 pages
Imprint: Josiah Thomas Jones, Printer, 1834

2] Author: Owen Owen Roberts (1793 – 1866)
Title: Y bugail, neu, Flaidd yn rhith dafad (The Shepard, or the Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing)
Subject Matter: Tithes, Church and state, Imaginary conversations, Church of England
Description: 16 pages
Imprint: Argraffwyd gan Josiah Thomas Jones, 1834

3] Author: J. Griffiths (Tyddewi), E. Evans (Abermaw)
Title: Dau bwnc a gyfansoddwyd i’r Ysgol Sabbathol (Two Subjects for Sunday School)
Subject Matter: Religion
Description: 12 pages
Imprint: Argraffwyd gan Josiah Thomas Jones, 1834

1835
1] Author: William Burkitt, (1650-1703), Josiah Thomas Jones, of Caernarfon, translator.
Title: Nodau eglurhaol, gyda sylwadau ymarferol ar destament newydd ein Harglwydd Iesu Grist (Expository notes with practical observations on the New Testament of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.)
Subject Matter: Religion
Description: 882 pages
Imprint: Josiah Thomas Jones, 1835

2] Author: Uncredited
Title: Y Seren ogleddol (The Northern Star)
Subject Matter: Religion, Periodical
Description: 22 cm
Imprint: Josiah Thomas Jones, 1835

3] Author: Peter Williams (1723-1796)
Title: Sylwadau ar y Bibl Sanctaidd (Commentary on the Holy Bible)
Subject matter: Religion
Description: 628 pages
Imprint: Josiah T. Jones, Printer, 1835

4] Author: Caledfryn, 1801-1869, Eisteddfod Frenhinol Beaumaris (1832)
Title: Awdl ar ddrylliad yr agerddlong Rothsay Castle, gerllaw Beaumaris, Awst 17, 1831 (Ode on the wreck of the Rothsay Castle, near Beaumaris, August 17, 1831)
Subject Matter: Shipwrecks, Seafaring life, Rothsay Castle (Steam packet), Eisteddfod Beaumaris
Description: 24 pages
Imprint: Argraffwyd gan Josiah Thomas Jones, 1835

5] Author: James Silk Buckingham (1786 – 1855)
Title: Areithiau J. S. Buckingham, Ysw., aelod o’r Senedd tros Sheffield (Speeches J. S. Buckingham, Esq., Member of Parliament over Sheffield)
Subject matter: Temperence
Description: 12 pages
Imprint: Argraffwyd gan Josiah Thomas Jones, 1835

6] Author: Satan
Title: Yr araith satanaidd ar eglwysi sefydledig a degymau (The Satanic Speeches at Established Churches Regarding Tithes)
Subject Matter: Religion, Tithes, Church of England, Church of Wales, Establishment and disestablishment
Description: 14 pages
Imprint: Argraffwyd gan Josiah Thomas Jones, 1835

7] Author: Publicus
Title: Traethawd (An Essay)
Subject Matter: Religion, Tithes, Church of England, Church of Wales, Establishment and disestablishment
Description: 32 pages
Imprint: Argraffwyd gan Josiah Thomas Jones, 1835

8] Author: Publicus
Title: Traethawd ar hanes y degwm pabyddol a phrotestanaidd (An Essay on the History of the Protestant and Catholic Tithe)
Subject Matter:
Description: 32 pages
Imprint: Argraffwyd gan Josiah Thomas Jones, 1835

9] Author: Owen Owen Roberts (1793 – 1866)
Title: Y parchedig gecryn penchwiban (The Wayward Reverend)
Subject Matter: Church of England, Satire, Welsh, Controversial works, Religion
Description: 16 pages
Imprint: Argraffwyd dros yr awdwr gan Josiah Thomas Jones, 1835

1837
1] Author: Harry Jenkins
Title: Cwynfan y galarus (Lament of the Bereaved)
Subject Matter: Welsh Poetry
Description: 8 pages
Imprint: Argraffwyd gan Josiah Thomas Jones, 1837

2] Author: Baptist Wriothesley Noel (1798-1873), J. Thomas (Myfyriwr), (fl.1837)
Title: Undeb yr Eglwys (Church Union)
Subject Matter: Religion
Description: 24 pages
Imprint: Argraffwyd gan Josiah Thomas Jones, 1837

1838
1] Author: William Ellis Jones (Cawrdaf) (1795-1848), editor., Josiah Thomas Jones (1799-1873) editor.
Title: Y gwron Cymreig (The Welsh Hero)
Subject Matter: A monthly Welsh language politically radical newspaper circulating in South Wales. The newspaper’s main contents was Welsh, British and foreign news. Amongst the newspaper’s editors were the poet William Ellis Jones (Cawrdaf, 1795-1848) and its proprietor Josiah Thomas Jones (1799-1873). Associated titles: Y Gwron Cymreig (1852)
Description: 60 cm (one sheet), Illustrated
Imprint: Josiah Thomas Jones, 1838

2] Author: William Ellis Jones (Cawrdaf) (1795-1848)
Title: Y gan fuddugol, ar arwyddeir yr odyddion, sef cyfeillgarwch, cariad a gwirionedd (Oddfellows – friendship, love and truth)
Subject Matter: Ballads, Songs, Friendly societies, Independent Order of Odd Fellows
Description: 8 pages, Illustrated
Imprint: Argraffwyd gan Josiah Thomas Jones, 1838

3] Author: Uncredited
Title: Cân o hanes hen wr y coed (Song of the Old Man in the Tree)
Subject Matter: Welsh Ballads
Description: 4 pages, Illustrated
Imprint: J.T. Jones, Argraffydd, 1838

4] Author: David Jones, of Llanybydder (1803-1868)
Title: Cân newydd (New Songs or New Poems)
Subject Matter: Welsh Ballads
Description: 4 pages
Imprint: Argraffwyd gan Josiah Thomas Jones, 1838

5] Author: Evan Williams (1808 – 1860)
Title: Cân o folawd am ymdrechu i ddysgu’r Beibl (Song in Praise of Learning the Bible)
Subject Matter: Religion, Welsh Ballads
Description: 4 pages
Imprint: J.T. Jones, Argraffydd, 1838

6] Author: Fardd Eben (1802-1863), William Williams (1717-1791)
Title: Y Cyfamod Disigl : o Blodeu’r gan / Y farn a fydd / gan Ebenezer Thomas (The unshakeable Covenant: by Ebenezer Thomas)
Subject Matter: Welsh Ballads
Description: 4 pages
Imprint: J.T. Jones, Argraffydd, 1838

7] Author: Richard Jones, of Wern, Llanfrothen, (c.1771-1833), Evan Evans
Title: Esponiad cyfeiriadol, beirniadol ac ymarferol ar bum llyfr Moses (Subject matter has to do with the five books of Moses)
Subject Matter: Religion
Description: 308 pages
Imprint: Josiah Thomas Jones, 1838

8] Author: William Ellis Jones (Cawrdaf) (1795 -1848)
Title: Trysorfa grefyddol Gwent a Morganwg (The Religious Treasury of Gwent and Glanmorgan)
Subject matter: Religion, Gwent, Glanmorgan, Periodical
Description: 18 cm
Imprint: Josiah Thomas Jones, 1838

9] Author: Evan Evans (1804 – 1886)
Title: A duoglott guide for making temperance drinks
Subject matter: Temperence, Beverage Recipes
Description: 95 pages
Imprint: Josiah Thomas Jones, Printer, 1838

1839
1] Author: Ann Saville
Title: Cofiant am Henry Jenkins, o Ellerton ar Swale, Sir Gaerefrog, yr hwn a fu byw dros 169 mlynedd (Memoir of Henry Jenkins, of Ellerton on Swale, Yorkshire, who lived over 169 years)
Subject Matter: Longevity, Traditional medicine, Physicians, Henry Jenkins
Description: 110 pages
Imprint: Argraffwyd gan Josiah Thomas Jones, 1839

2] Author: William Ellis Jones (Cawrdaf) (1795-1848)
Title: Cân o goffadwriaeth am y Parch. John Williams, Cenadwr Cymdeithas Genadol Llundain, i Fôr y Deau, yr hwn a laddwyd yn Ynys Erromanga, Tachwedd 20fed, 1839 (Story of remembrance for the Rev. John Williams, Cenhadwr Genadol Society of London, the Sea Beau, who was killed in Erromanga Island, November 20, 1839)
Subject Matter:
Description: 8 pages
Imprint: Argraffwyd gan Josiah Thomas Jones, 1839

3] Author: William Ellis Jones (Cawrdaf) (1795-1848), editor
Title: Trysorfa grefyddol Gymreig (Welsh Religious Treasury)
Subject Matter: An irregular Welsh language religious periodical circulating among the Congregationalists of south east Wales. The periodical’s main contents were religious articles and poetry. The periodical was edited by William Jones. Associated titles: Trysorfa Grefyddol Gwent a Morganwg (1838)
Description: 18 cm
Imprint: Josiah Thomas Jones, 1839

4] Author: Edward Williams (“Bardd” Glas Morganwg) (1770-1854)
Title: Perllan Gwent (Gwent Orchard)
Subject Matter: Welsh Poetry
Description: 72 pages
Imprint: Argraffwyd, gan J.T. Jones, 1839

1840
1] Author: Thomas Harris (Thomas Ddu), d. 1855
Title: Can ar enedigaeth, marwolaeth, ac adgyfodiad Crist (The birth, death, and resurrection of Christ)
Subject Matter: Religion, Welsh Ballads
Description: 4 pages, Illustrated
Imprint: J.T. Jones, Argraffydd, Caerfyrddin, 1840

2] Author: Edward Jones
Title: Can newydd, yn rhoddi hanes y modd y llofruddiodd Frances Bennet, a Thos. Yapp (A New Story; giving the account of the murdered Frances Bennet, and Thos. Yapp)
Subject Matter: Murder, Women, Infanticide, Frances Bennet, Thomas Yapp, Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, Welsh Ballads
Description: 4 pages
Imprint: Argraffwyd, gan J.T. Jones, Caerfyrddin, 1840

3] Author: John Evans, of Merthyr
Title: Can alarus am lofruddiaeth dybiedig Ruth Jones (Mourning for the presumed murder of Ruth Jones)
Subject Matter: Women, Murder, Ruth Jones, Carmarthenshire, Welsh Ballads
Description: 4 pages, Illustrated
Imprint: J.T. Jones, Argraffydd, Caerfyrddin, 1840

4] Author: Evan Breeze (1798 – 1855)
Title: Can newydd, yn gosod allan ymdaith y saint i Galifornia yn nghyd a’u dymuniad am ddychwelyd yn ol i wlad eu genedigaeth sef Cymru (A New Story of an expedition that set out with the guidance of the Saints to California, and the immigrants desire to return to their country of birth, Wales)
Subject Matter: Mormonism, Immigration, Colonization, California, Daniel, United States, Welsh Ballads
Description: 4 pages
Imprint: J.T. Jones, Argraffydd, Caerfyrddin, 1840

5] Author: James Thomas
Title: Can newydd er coffadwriaeth am ferch i ffarmwr enwog o King’s Court plwyf Headland yn swydd Gaerwrangon (A New Story in memory of the famous farmer’s daughter of King’s Court, Headland Parish, in Worcestershire)
Subject Matter: Pregnancy, Illegitimacy, Infanticide, Female Domestic Servants, Hanging, Thomas Morton Williams, Elizabeth Morton Williams
Description: 4 pages
Imprint: J.T. Jones, Argraffydd, Caerfyrddin, 1840

6] Author: Oliver Howell (Mynydd Triphlwyf)
Title: Caniad newydd o ddiolch am flwyddyn ffrwythlon a chynhauaf da (A New Story of Thanksgiving for a good harvest and fruitful year)
Subject Matter: Harvesting, Religion, Welsh Ballads
Description: 4 pages
Imprint: J.T. Jones, Argraffydd, Caerfyrddin

7] Author: Josiah. T. Jones (1799 – 1873)
Title: Can alarus (The Mournful)
Subject Matter: Cholera, Religion, Welsh Ballads
Description: 4 pages, Illustrated
Imprint: J.T. Jones, Argraffydd, Caerfyrddin, 1840

8] Author: Thomas Harris (Thomas Ddu), d. 1855
Title: Carol nadolig (Christmas Carols)
Subject Matter: Christmas, Religion, Welsh Ballads
Description: 4 pages, Illustrated
Imprint: J.T. Jones, Argraffydd, Caerfyrddin, 1840

9] Author: Dafydd Owen (1751 – 1814)
Title: Can yn dangos fod Crist yn Dduw yn gystal ag yn ddyn (Proof that Christ was God as well as Man)
Subject Matter: Socinianism, Trinity, Unitarianism, Jesus Christ, Religion
Description: 4 pages
Imprint: J.T. Jones, Argraffydd, Caerfyrddin, 1840

10] Author: Levi Gibbon (Dryw Dall) (c.1807-1870)
Title: Can newydd, am werthfawrogrwydd golwg naturiol (A New Story of Natural Value and Prominence)
Subject Matter: Blindness, Religio, Welsh Ballads
Description: 4 pages
Imprint: J.T. Jones, Argraffydd, Caerfyrddin, 1840

11] Author: Evan Williams (1808 – 1860)
Title: Can o folawd am ymdrechiad i ddysgu y Bibl, ynghyd a pharch iddo, ac enwau y rhai a’i hysgrifenodd trwy ysbryd Duw (A song of praise: To learn about the Bible, together and to respect Him, and the names of those, who by the spirit of God…)
Subject Matter: Religion, Welsh Ballads
Description: 4 pages, Illustrated
Imprint: J.T. Jones, Argraffydd, Caerfyrddin, 1840

12] Author: Levi Gibbon (Dryw Dall) (c.1807-1870)
Title: Can alarus am y golled sydd ar y tato trwy’r wlad yn gyffredinol (The mourning for the loss of the potatoes and the loss of the country as a whole)
Subject Matter: Potato Famine, Religion, Welsh Ballads
Description: 4 pages
Imprint: J.T. Jones, Argraffydd, Caerfyrddin, 1840

13] Author: Josiah. T. Jones (1799 – 1873)
Title: Can newydd, yn gosod allan llwyddiant gweddi a’r angenrheidrwydd o’i harferyd (A New Story of How to Use Prayer to Fight for Success)
Subject Matter: Religion, Welsh Ballads
Description: 4 pages, Illustrated
Imprint: J.T. Jones, Argraffydd, Caerfyrddin, 1840

14] Author: Josiah. T. Jones (1799 – 1873)
Title: Can newydd, gwr ar ei daith (The new husband on his journey)
Subject Matter: Religion, Fall of Man, Joy, Welsh Ballads
Description: 8 pages, Illustrated
Imprint: J.T. Jones, Argraffydd, Caerfyrddin, 1840

15] Author: Richard R. Williams (1790 – 1862)
Title: Can newydd, yn gosod allan hanes George Martin, yr hwn a lofruddiodd chwech o ferched, gerllaw Paris, yn Ffrainc, a’r hwn yn y diwedd a amcanodd ladd ei wraig ei hun, yn seithfed (A New Story that sets out the tale of George Martin, who murdered six women, near Paris, France, and then he killed his own wife, his seventh victim)
Subject Matter: Murder, Paris, France, George Martin, Welsh Ballads
Description: 4 pages, disbound
Imprint: J.T. Jones, Argraffydd, Caerfyrddin, 1840

16] Author: Jenkin Davies
Title: Can newydd, yn gosod allan, drueni’r annuwiol, a dedwyddwch y cyfiawn yn y byd a ddaw (A New Story that Describes the Shame of the Wicked and the Happiness of the Righteous in the Afterlife)
Subject Matter: Religion, Heaven & Hell, Welsh Ballads
Description: 4 pages, disbound
Imprint: Argraffwyd, gan J.T. Jones, Caerfyrddin, 1840

17] Author: Azariah Shadrach (1774-1844)
Title: Myfyrdod ar y cloc yn taro (Reflection on the Clock Strike / Reflection on the Passage of Time?)
Subject Matter: Meditation, Welsh Ballads
Description: 4 pages, disbound
Imprint: Argraffwyd, gan J.T. Jones, Caerfyrddin, 1840

18] Author: John, I. Myhefin Davis
Title: Y tamaid chwerw (The Bitter Bite)
Subject Matter: Bars and Drinking Establishments, Temperence, Welsh Ballads
Description: 2 pages
Imprint: Caerfyrddin, Argraffwyd, gan J.T. Jones, 1840

19] Author: Dafydd Evans, of Penryn
Title: Can newydd o hanes Dafydd Williams, Swydd Benfro (Story of David Williams, of Pembrokeshire)
Subject Matter: Death, Superstitions, Religion, Dafydd Williams, Pembrokeshire
Description: 4 pages
Imprint: Argraffwyd, gan J.T. Jones, 1840

20] Author: Josiah. T. Jones (1799 – 1873)
Title: A new song, composed for the commendation of Maesgwynne Kennel, and their owner, W.R.H.Powell, Esquire
Subject Matter: Dogs, Hunting, Foxes, Rural life, W. R. H Powell, Carmarthenshire, Llanboidy
Description: 4 pages
Imprint: J.T. Jones, Printer, Carmarthen, 1840

21] Author: H. Harries of Penpompren, fl.184
Title: Am Angau
Subject Matter: Death, Welsh Ballads
Description: 4 pages
Imprint: J. T. Jones, argraffydd, 1840

22] Author: Richard Williams (c.1790 – c.1862)
Title: Can newydd, yn rhoddi hanes am garwriaeth a phriodas Henry J. Wilcott, a Harriet Williams, gerllaw Taunton, yn Ngwlad yr Haf, Somersetshire, pa rai a briodasant yn Nghaerodor, fis Gorphenhaf diweddaf (A New Song, giving the story of courtship and marriage of Henry J. Wilcott, and Harriet Williams, near Taunton, Somerset, Somersetshire, which occurred in Bristol, last month )
Subject Matter: Welsh Ballade, Marriage
Description: 4 pages
Imprint: Argraffwyd, J.T. Jones, Caerfyrddin, 1840

23] Author: Uncredited
Title: Can y blotyn du (Song of the Black Pauper)
Subject Matter: Welsh Ballads
Description: 4 pages, Illustrated
Imprint: Argraffwyd, gan J.T. Jones, 1840

24] Author: Levi Gibbon (Dryw Dall) (c.1807-1870)
Title: Can newydd, am y diwygiad a gymer le ar drigolion y byd, trwy waith y railroad newydd (A New Song, for the revival taking place on the inhabitants of the world, through the work of the new railroad)
Subject Matter: Railroads, Welsh Ballads
Description: 4 pages
Imprint: J.T. Jones, Argraffydd, Caerfyrddin, 1840

25] Author: Uncredited
Title: Hymnau (Hymns)
Subject Matter: Religion, Hymns
Description: 112 pages
Imprint: Josiah Thomas Jones, argraffydd, 1840

1841
1] Author: John Williams (1796 – 1839)
Title: Hanes rhyfedd anturiaethau cenadol yn Ynysoedd Mor y Deau (The Strange Story and Adventures of the South Sea Islands)
Subject Matter: Missions, Oceania, Polynesia, Religious life and customs, Social life and customs
Description: 272 pages
Imprint: Argraffwyd yn Swyddfa y Gwron gan J. T. Jones, 1841

1842
1] Author: Josiah. T. Jones (1799 – 1873)
Title: Y bywyd tragwyddol (The eternal life)
Subject Matter: Religion, Sermons
Description: 48 pages
Imprint: Argraffwyd gan Josiah Thomas Jones, 1842

2] Author: Josiah. T. Jones (1799 – 1873)
Title: Almanac, am y flwyddyn 1842 (Almanac for the Year 1842)
Subject Matter: Almanac
Description: 24 pages, Illustrated
Imprint: Argraffwyd, gan J.T. Jones, 1842

3] Author: David Evans
Title: Marwnad er coffadwriaeth am y diweddar Barch. John Breese, gweinidog yr efengyl, yn heol Awst, Caerfyrddin, yr hwn, ar ol cystudd trwm am saith mis, a hunodd yn yr Arglwydd, ar ddydd Llun, Awst 8fed, 1842, yn 51ain mlwydd oed (Elegy in memorial of the late Rev. John Breese, minister of the gospel in the streets of Carmarthen, whom, after heavy tribulation for seven months, slept in the Lord on Monday, August 8, 1842, at the age 51years)
Subject Matter: Welsh elegiac poetry
Description: 8 pages
Imprint: Argraffwyd gan Josiah Thomas Jones, 1842

4] Author: Uncredited
Title: Erthyglau a rheolau i’w cadw gan aelodau y Drysorfa Gynnorthwyol, perthynol i Eglwys Heol Awst, Caerfyrddin, a sefydlwyd Ionawr y 3ydd, 1842 (Articles and rules to be observed by members of the Treasury, related to the Church on Lammas Street, Carmarthen, established January 3rd, 1842)
Subject matter: Friendly societies, Eglwys Heol Awst (Carmarthen), Carmarthen, Benevolent and moral institutions and societies
Description: 7 pages
Imprint: Argraffwyd gan Josiah Thomas Jones, 1842

1843
1] Author: Josiah. T. Jones (1799 – 1873)
Title: Almanac, am y flwyddyn 1843 (Almanac for the Year 1843)
Subject Matter: Almanac
Description: 24 pages, Illustrated
Imprint: Argraffwyd, gan J.T. Jones, 1843

2] Author: Josiah. T. Jones (1799 – 1873)
Title: Rebeccayddiaeth (The Rebecca Riots)
Subject Matter: Rebecca Riots, 1839-1844, Protest movements, Toll roads,
Description: 4 pages, Illustrated
Imprint: Caerfyrddin, Argraffwyd, gan J.T. Jones, 1843

3] Author: Prout, Ebenezer (c.1802-1871)
Title: Hanes bywyd y Parchedig John Williams, cenadwr Cymdeithas Genadol Llundain, i ynysoedd Môr y Deau (The life story of the Rev. John Williams, Cenhadwr Association, Genadol London, Sea Islands to the UAE)
Subject Matter: Missionaries, Missions, John Williams, London Missionary Society, Oceania, Religious life and customs
Description: 140 pages
Imprint: Argraffwyd a chyhoeddwyd gan Josiah Thomas Jones, 1843

4] Author: John Jones of Llangollen and Rhyd-y-bont, 1801-1856.
Title: Catecism plant (Children’s Catechism)
Subject Matter: Religion, Religious education for Children
Description: 16 pages
Imprint: Argraffwyd, gan J.T. Jones, 1843

1844
1] Author: Josiah. T. Jones (1799 – 1873)
Title: Almanac, am y flwyddyn 1844 (Almanac for the Year 1844)
Subject Matter: Almanac
Description: 24 pages
Imprint: Argraffwyd…gan J.T. Jones, 1844

2] Author: John Evans
Title: Marwnad i’r diweddar Barch. John Edwards, Gweinidog yr Efengyl yn Peniel, Caerfyrddin yr hwn a fu farw ar yr 29fed o Dachwedd, 1844, yn 33ain oed (An Elegy to the late Rev. John Edwards, Minister of the Gospel at Peniel, Carmarthen, whom died on the 29th of November, 1844, in his 33rd year)
Subject Matter: Welsh Poetry, John Edwards
Description: 4 pages
Imprint: J.T. Jones, Argraffydd, Caerfyrddin, 1844

1845
1] Author: Josiah. T. Jones (1799 – 1873)
Title: Almanac, am y flwyddyn 1845 (Almanac for the Year 1845)
Subject Matter: Almanac
Description: 24 pages
Imprint: Argraffwyd…gan J.T. Jones, 1845

1846
1] Author: Rhys, Dafydd, of Cardigan.
Title: Ystyriaethau ar y swydd weinidogaethol, yn ei sefydliad a’i dirywiad (Considerations on the ministerial office of the Church, in its organization and its decline)
Subject Matter: Clergy, Religion
Description: 24 pages
Imprint: Argraffwyd gan J.T. Jones, 1846

2] Author: John Williams of Merthyr Tydfil
Title: Dau draethawd (Two Essays)
Subject Matter: Religion
Description: 8 pages
Imprint: Argraffwyd gan J.T. Jones, 1846

1847
1] Author: David Gravell (1787-1872), Hugh Jones (1800-1872)
Title: Caniadau Sion, neu, Gasgliad o hymnau at wasanaeth cynnulleidfaoedd crefyddol a dyngarol (Songs of Sion – A collection of hymns for use at the service of religious congregations and humanitarian events)
Subject Matter: Religion, Hymns
Description: 408 pages
Imprint: Josiah T. Jones, Printer, 1847

1848
1] Author: Josiah. T. Jones (1799 – 1873)
Title: Hanes y nef a’r ddaear (The Story of Heaven and Earth)
Subject Matter: Geography, Astronomy, Solar System, History
Description: 784 pages, 7 folded leaves of plates (maps), Illustrated
Imprint: Argraffwyd gan J.T. Jones, 1848

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March 12, 2013

J. L. Brigstocke (1828 – 1830) – Bibliography

By CH Jones

J. L. Brigstocke (1828 – 1830), printer of Carmarthen

Catalogue at the National Library of Wales, during the tenure of William Ellis Jones, from 1828 to 1830

1829
1] Author: Peter Williams (1723-1796)
Title: Y Bibl sanctaidd sef yr hen destament, a’r newydd, gyda nodau a sylwadau ar bob pennod gan y diweddar Barch. Peter Williams. (The holy Bible’s old and new testament, with remarks on each chapter by the late Rev.. Peter Williams.)
Description: 1078 pages
Imprint: Argraffwyd, ac ar werth gan J. L. Brigstocke. 1829

2] Author:
Title: Nifer gau-grefyddwyr, creulondeb paganiaeth mewn llosgi gwragedd yn India (The Cruelty of Pagan Religions; Wife-burning in India)
Description: 12 pages
Imprint: J.L. Brigstocke, printer, 1829

3] Author: James, Thomas, ca. 1795-1844., Peter, David, 1765-1837.
Title: Trueni y byd paganaidd, a helaethrwydd gras Duw (Pity the pagan world. The abundance of God’s grace)
Description: 22 pages
Imprint: Argraffwyd gan J.L. Brigstocke, 1829

1830
1] Author: Maurice Evans, 1765-1831
Title: Marwnad Mrs. Lloyd (Elegy to Mrs. Lloyd)
Description: 4 pages
Imprint: J. L. Brigstocke, Argraffydd, 1830

2] Author: Dafydd Lewis
Title: Marwnad, neu alarus goffadwriaeth am farwolaeth y Parchedig David Lewis Jones, addysgwr yr Athrofa, yn Nghaerfyrddin, a gweinidog Efengyl Crist yn nghapel Sion, yn mhlwyf Llanddarog yr hwn a ymadawodd a’r bywyd hwn, Medi yr 8fed, 1830 yn 42 mlwydd (An elegy, mourning or remembrance of the death of the Reverend David Lewis Jones)
Description: 8 pages
Imprint: J. L. Brigstocke, Argraffydd, 1830

3] Author: Davies, William, 1785-1851
Title: Pregeth ar farwolaeth Sior y pedwarydd, a dyfodiad William y pedwarydd i orsedd Brydain Fawr (Sermon on the death of George the Fourth, and the arrival of William the Fourth to the throne of Great Britain)
Description: 16 pages
Imprint: argraffwyd gan J.L. Brigstocke, 1830

4] Author: W. Lewis of Trelech.
Title: Drws gobaith i blant, yn cael ei agoryd yn nyffryn achor (Door of hope will be opened to children, in the valley of Achor)
Description: 16 pages
Imprint: Arg. gan J.L. Brigstocke, 1830

5] Author: William Ellis Jones (1795 – 1848)
Title: Y bardd, neu, Y meudwy Cymreig (The Bard, or, The Welsh Hermit)
Description: 264 pages
Imprint: Argraffwyd gan J.L. Brigstocke, 1830

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March 12, 2013

John Evans (1824 – 1828) – Bibliography

By CH Jones

John Evans (1824 – 1828), Printer of Carmarthen

Catalogue at the National Library of Wales, for the period of William Ellis Jones employment, from 1824 to 1828

1824
1] Author: Uncredited
Title: Brut y Cymry (Chronicle of the Welsh)
Description 24 pages, illustrated
Imprint: Caerfyrddin [Carmarthen] : Argraffedig gan J. Evans, 1824

2] Author: Uncredited
Title: Llythyr oddiwrth ddwy gymmanfa o weinidogion yr Anymddibynwyr, at yr amrywiol eglwysi a berthynant iddynt (Subject is a letter to various churches)
Description: 8 pages
Imprint: Caerfyrddin [Carmarthen] : J. Evans, Argraffydd, 1824

3] Author: Alfred Thomas.
Title: On the management of farm-yard manure, to which are prefixed, some observations on the nature and qualities of soils
Description: 30 pages
Imprint: Carmarthen : Printed at the Carmarthen Journal-Office, by John Evans, 1824

4] Author: D.E.
Title: Swp o ffigys, neu, Gasgliad o hymnau : Yr ail ran Mynydd Bach (Batch of figs, or, Collection of hymns , including the second part from Mynydd Bach)
Description: 242 pages
Imprint: Caerfyrddin [Carmarthen] : J. Evans, 1824

5] Author: Howell, John, 1774-1830
Title: Blodau Dyfed : sef, awdlau, cywyddau, englynion, a chaniadau, moesol a diddanol a gyfansoddwyd gan feirdd Dyfed, yn y ganrif ddiweddaraf a’r bresennol / o gynnulliad John Howell (The Flowers from Dyfed namely, odes, poems, poetry and songs, moral and entertaining composed by poets Dyfed, in the present century / edited by John Howell of Assembly government
Description: 420 pages, illustrated
Imprint : Caerfyrddin : Argraffwyd ac ar werth gan J. Evans, 1824.

6] Author: Hughes, Hugh, 1790-1863.
Title: Brut y Cymry : yn cynwys hefyd hanes darluniol o’r dywysogaeth (Chronicle of the Welsh in history with illustrations of the principalities)
Description: 24 pages, illustrated
Imprint: Caerfyrddin [Carmarthen] : Argraffedig gan J. Evans, 1824

7] Author: Roberts, John, 1767-1834
Title: Dyscyblaeth plant bychain : neu ychydig o ofyniadau ac attebion yn nghylch deiliaid, dull, a dybenion bedydd; er addysg i blant Ysgolion Sabbothol (Subjects having to do with the education and Baptism of children)
Description: 36 pages
Imprint: Caerfyrddin : argraffwyd gan J. Evans, 1824

8] Author: Cymanfa Anymddibynwyr (1824 : Penygroes, Wales)
Title: Llythyr oddiwrth ddwy gymmanfa o weinidogion yr Anymddibynwyr, at yr amrywiol eglwysi a berthynant iddynt : y gyntaf a gyfarfu yn Mhenygroes, swydd Benfro, ar y Mawrth a’r Mercher cyntaf o Fehefin, 1824; a’r ail yn Aberhonddu, ddydd Mercher a dydd Iau, y 23ain a’r 24ain o Fehefin, 1824 (Subject is a letter to various churches)
Description: 8 pages
Imprint: Caerfyrddin [Carmarthen] : J. Evans, Argraffydd, 1824

9] Author: Thomas, Alfred of Carmarthen
Title: On the management of farm-yard manure, to which are prefixed, some observations on the nature and qualities of soils : also remarks on the nature and properties of peat, and its qualities as manure
Description: 6 pages, In English
Imprint: Carmarthen : Printed at the Carmarthen Journal-Office, by John Evans, 1824

10] Author: Evans, Daniel, 1774-1835
Title: Swp o ffigys, neu, Gasgliad o hymnau : o waith yr awdwyr canlynol, sef, y Parch. W. Jones, Penybont, S. Efans, Soar, I. Phillips, Bethlehem, Dr. Young, Esgob Cen, W. Wiliams, Pant-y-Celyn, I. Watts, D.D., E. Prys, B. Ffransis, T. Jencins (Siencyn ab Tydfil), A. Shadrach, D. Griffiths, Castellnedd, D. Efans, (athraw ysgol), Mr. I. Efans, Treforys, I.M., I.D., I.D., D.D., D.J., Llanwrda, Parch. M. Rhys, anadnabyddus. Yr ail ran / gan D.E. Mynydd Bach (Batch of figs, or, Collection of hymns of the following writers…)
Description: 242 pages
Imprint : Caerfyrddin [Carmarthen] : J. Evans, 1824

1825
1] Author: T. Horton, comedian
Title An elegy, descriptive of the beautiful & romantic churchyard of Laugharne, in the county of Carmarthen
Description: 16 pages – In English
Imprint: Carmarthen : printed by J. Evans, Jun., 1825

3] Author: Baptist Missionary Society
Title: Hanes byr o lafur a llwyddiant cenhadau y Bedyddwyr : yn cynnwys hefyd gofrestr o’r casgliadau a’r tansgrifiadau : a wnawd gan y Bedyddwyr a’u cyfeillion, o fewn i Gymmanfa Orllewinol Deheubarth Cymru, at achos y genadwriaeth, yn y flwyddyn 1824 (A short history of labor and success Baptist messengers; also includes a register ‘s accounting of collections which had been made by the Baptist ‘s friends, within Gymmanfa West South Wales, in the year 1824)
Description: 12 pages
Imprint: Caerfyrddin [Carmarthen] : Argraffwyd gan J. Evans, 1825

4] Author: Griffith, James, of Clydey
Title: Parottoad i dderbyn y sacrament o Swpper yr Arglwydd … : at yr hyn yr ychwanegwyd Y Ffordd i fod yn ddedwydd … / a gyfieithwyd i’r (Subject is the Sacrament of the Last Supper.)
Description:
Imprint : Caerfyrddin [Carmarthen] : J. Evans, 1825

5] Author: Evans, Daniel, 1774-1835
Title: Swp o ffigys, neu, Gasgliad o hymnau : o waith yr awdwyr goreu yn eu hoes : ynghyd ag ugeiniau o hymnau newyddion, na buont argraffedig o’r blaen : wedi eu casglu gyda golwg i leshau y cyffredin : ond yn benaf yr ysgolion sabbothol yn y Mynydd-Bach, Treforys, Clydach, Bethel, Glandwr, Felindref, a Chadle, swydd Forganwg / gan D. Evans, Mynydd-Bach. Y rhan gyntaf (Batch of Figs; New Hyms and Collections)
Description: 72 pages
Imprint: Caerfyrddin [Carmarthen]: Argraffwyd gan J. Evans, 1825.

1827
1] Author: S. Griffiths
Title: Traethawd ar grefydd deuluaidd (An essay on the religion of Teuluaidd)
Description: 108 pages
Imprint: Caerfyrddin [Carmarthen] : Argraffwyd gan J. Evans, 1827

2] Author: William Augustus.
Title: Erra Pater, neu, Ddaroganydd yr amserau
Description: 60 pages / Edition 3ydd arg.
Imprint: Caerfyrddin [Carmarthen] : Argraffwyd ac ar werth gan J. Evans, 1827

3] Author: Baptist Missionary Society
Title: Hanes byr o lafur a llwyddiant cenhadau y Bedyddwyr (A short history of the labor and success of the Baptist messengers)
Description: 12 pages
Imprint: John Evans, Argraffydd, 1827

1828
1] Author: Thomas Griffiths.
Title: Cofiant am y Parch. David Davies, gynt o Gastell-Hywel, ganwyd (Memoir of the Revd. David Davies, formerly of Castle-Hywel)
Description: 60 pages, 1 leaf of plates
Imprint: Caerfyrddin [Carmarthen] : Argraffwyd ac ar werth gan J. Evans, 1828

2] Author: Ellis Wyn. At ba un yr
Title: Gweledigaethau y Bardd Cwsg ychwanegwyd mynegiad o’r geiriau mwyaf annealladwy trwy gorff y gwaith (Visions of the Sleeping Bard)
Description: 88 pages
Imprint: Caerfyrddin [Carmarthen] : Argraffwyd gan J. Evans, 1828.

3] Author: Evan Lewis
Title: Rhifyddiaeth yn rhwyddach : Rhan 1
Description: 60 pages, illustrated
Imprint: Caerfyrddin [Carmarthen] : Argraffwyd gan J. Evans, 1828.

4] Author: S. Griffiths
Title: Traethawd ar grefydd deuluaidd (An essay on the religion of Teuluaidd)
Description: 107 pages
Imprint: Caerfyrddin [Carmarthen] : Argraffwyd gan J. Evans, 1828

5] Author: John Thomas
Title: The Welsh Interpreter; or, an English and Welsh vocabulary, with familiar dialogues…
Description: 48 pages / 3rd edition – In English
Imprint: Carmarthen : J. Evans, pr., 1828

6] Author:
Title: Ymddiddan rhwng hen wr dall a’r angeu (Discussions on Death with an Old Blind Man)
Description: 12 pages
Imprint: Caerfyrddin [Carmarthen] : Argraffwyd gan Evan Jones, yn Heol-y-prior, 1828

1829
1] Author: Translations, by T. Edwards, “Caerfallwch” and William Saunders of Aberystwyth, of Goldsmith’s ‘Deserted village’
Title: Y dref amddifad (The Town Orphan)
Description: 7 pages
Imprint: Argraffwyd ac ar werth gan J. Evans, 1829

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March 6, 2013

William Ellis Jones (1838 – 1910), Printer of Richmond, VA | Bibliography

By CH Jones

William Ellis Jones, Printer of Richmond, Virginia, USA

Catalog of surviving works at the Library of Congress, as well as other titles known to have been produced under his various imprints.

1869
1] Author: Monroe, Thomas M.
Title: Remarks of Thomas M. Monroe, of Dubuque, Iowa, before the National Board of Trade, at its meeting in December, 1868, in the city of Cincinnati, on the subject of continuous water communication between the valley of Mississippi and the Atlantic seaboard.
Description: 24 p.
Imprint: Richmond : Gary, Clemmitt & Jones, printers

2] Author: National Board of Trade.
Title: Report of the committee of the National Board of Trade on a continuous water line of transportation through Virginia.
Description: 37 p.
Imprint: Richmond, Gary, Clemmitt & Jones, printers, 1869.

3] Author: Hollywood Memorial Association of Richmond (Va.)
Title: Register of the Confederate dead, interred in Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, Va.
Description: 116 p. : ill., map
Imprint: Richmond : Gary, Clemmitt & Jones, printers, 1869.

4] Author: Rives, William Cabell, 1825-1889.
Title: An address delivered before the Society of alumni of the University of Virginia, July 1, 1869,
Description:
Imprint: Richmond, Gary, Clemitt & Jones, printers, 1869.

5] Author: Hollywood Memorial Association
Title: Register of the Confederate Dead, interred in Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, Va.
Imprint: Gary, Clemmitt & Jones, Printers, 1869,

1870
1] Author: Virginia. General Assembly.
Title: Memorial relating to water communication between the Atlantic and Mississippi / the General Assembly of the State of Virginia to the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States.
Description: 7 p.
Imprint: Richmond : Clemmitt & Jones, 1870

2] Author: Cabell, James Lawrence, 1813-1889
Title: An account of the medicinal properties of the Healing springs, Bath county, Va.,
Description:
Imprint: Richmond, Clemmitt & Jones, steam book and job printers, 1875.
Richmond, Clemmitt & Jones, printers, 1870.
Richmond, Clemmitt & Jones, printers, 1871.
Richmond, Va., Clemmitt & Jones, printers, 1873.

3] Author: Thompson, John R.
Title: Poem Read Before The Society of Alumni of the University of Virginia
Description:
Clemmitt & Jones, 1870

4] Author:
Title: Journal of the Seventy-Fifth Annual Council of the Protestant Episcopal Church in Virginia, Held in St. Mathew’s Church
Description:
Imprint: Clemmitt & Jones (Printer), Richmond, 1870,

1871
1] Author: Van Lew, John N.
Title: Natural force. A new view, by John N. Van Lew …
Description: 36 p.
Imprint: Richmond, Clemmitt & Jones, Printers, 1871

2] Author: Uncredited (Probably the Diocese of Virginia)
Title: Journal of the Seventy-Sixth Annual Council of the Protestant Episcopal Church in Virginia, Held in Grace Church, Petersburg ,
Description: Clemmitt & Jones (Printer), Richmond, 1871,

1872
1] Author: Imboden, John Daniel, 1823-1895.
Title: The coal and iron resources of Virginia; their extent, commercial value and early development considered. A paper read before a meeting of members of the Legislature and prominent citizens in the Capitol at Richmond, February 19th, 1872.
Description: 28 p.
Imprint: Richmond, Clemmitt & Jones, printers, 1872.

1873
1] Author:
Title: Continuous water line communications between the Mississippi and the Atlantic.
Description: 42 p.
Imprint: Richmond, Clemmitt & Jones, printers, 1873.

2] Author: Mayo, Joseph.
Title: Virginia abstractions. An address before the society of alumni of the Virginia Military Institute. Delivered July 3, 1873.
Description: 20 p.
Imprint: Richmond, Clemmitt & Jones, book and job printers, 1873.

3] Author: Craighill, Wm. P. (William Price), 1833-1909.
Title: The James River and Kanawha canal or central water line of Virginia. Report of the examination and survey of the Kanawha River, from the falls to the Ohio River. By William P. Craighill … to the third session of the Forty-second Congress of the United States.
Description: 12 p.
Imprint: Richmond, Clemmitt & Jones, book and job printers, 1873.
Richmond, Gary, Clemmitt & Jones, printers, 1869. 2d ed.
Richmond, Clemmitt & Jones, book and job printers, 1874.

1874
1] Author: Published by order of the president and directors of the James River and kanawha company.
Title: Transportation to the seaboard – The central route, from the Mississippi River to the Atlantic Ocean, by the Ohio, Kanawha and James rivers.
Description: 55 p.
Imprint: Richmond, Clemmitt & Jones, book and job printers, 1874.

2] Author: McDonald, Angus W.
Title: Reports relative to the boundary line between Maryland and Virginia.
Description: 47 p.
Title: Richmond, Clemmitt & Jones, Printers, 1874

1875
1] Author: Ainslie, Peter
Title: Life and Writings of George W. Abell
Description:
Imprint: Clemmitt and Jones, Richmond Virginia, 1875

2] Author: Ainslie, Peter, 1816-1887.
Title: Life and writings of George W. Abell1818-1874: by Peter Ainslie.
Description: xi, 227 p. front. (mounted photo.)
Imprint: Richmond, Clemmitt & Jones, 1875.

3] Author: Virginia.
Title: Boundary line between the states of Maryland and Virginia,
Description: 21 p.
Imprint: Richmond, Clemmitt & Jones, printers, 1875.

4] Author: Southern fertilizing company, Richmond, Va.
Title: Cotton
Description: 20 p. incl. tables.
Imprint: Richmond, Va., Clemmitt & Jones, printers, 1875

5] Author: Southern Fertilizing Company (Richmond, Va.)
Title: Tobacco: the outlook in America for 1875; production, consumption and movement in the United States, the German Empire, Hungary, Turkey, Cuba, Brazil, Japan, and the other tobacco-growing countries; with some observations on farm labor in the South, and a general statement of the agriculture of the United States. Presented by the Southern Fertilizing Comp’y, Richmond, Va.
Description:
Imprint: Richmond, Clemmitt & Jones, printers, 1875

6] Author: Southern Fertilizing Company (Richmond, Va.)
Title: Grain: a comparison between the cereal production of the United States and other countries, with some observations on the drift of the grain question in this country, and the ability of Virginia to continue a wheat grower with profit. The Southern Fertilizing Company, Richmond, Va.
Description: 28 p. incl. tables.
Imprint: Richmond, Clemmitt & Jones, printers, 1875

7] Author: Southall, James Cocke
Title: Cheap transportation.
Description: 39 p.
Imprint: Richmond, Clemmitt & Jones, 1875.

1876
1] Author: Corey, Charles H. (Charles Henry), 1834-1899.
Title: Historical sketch of the Richmond Institute : founded at Richmond, Va., in 1867, one of the seven institutions sustained by the American Baptist Home Mission Society for the education of teachers and preachers among the freedmen of the South / by Charles Henry Corey.
Description: 31 p. : ill.
Imprint: Richmond : Clemmitt & Jones, 1876.

2] Author: Southern Historical Society, Richmond
Title: Southern Historical Society Papers Volume I,1876, Confederate View of the Treatment of Prisoners
Description:
Imprint:

1877
1] Author: Puryear, Bennet, 1826-1914.
Title: The public school in its relations to the negro. By Civis. Republished by request, from the Southern planter and farmer.
Description: 39 p.
Imprint: Richmond, Clemmitt & Jones, Printers, 1877.

2] Author: Southern fertilizing company, Richmond, Va.
Title: Tobacco in Virginia and North Carolina. Some observations in connection with the several types of tobacco now produced in these two states (including Dr. Voelker’s examination of our fine yellow tobacco), and on the introduction of a new type, namely, cigar tobacco. Presented by the Southern fertilizing company, Richmond, Va.
Description: 39, [1] p. illus., fold. map.
Imprint: Richmond, Va., Clemmitt & Jones, printers, 1877

3] Author: Southern Fertilizing Company (Richmond, Va.)
Title: The grain movement : some observations bearing on the production of the several countries entering into the grain market of the world / presented by the Southern Fertilizing Company, Richmond, Va.
Description: 26 p. : tables
Imprint: Richmond : Clemmitt & Jones, 1877.

4] Author: Southern Fertilizing Company (Richmond, Va.)
Title: 1877 Cotton prospects. An examination of the points of advantage peculiar to the cotton-growing interest in the Southern states. Presented by the Southern Feritlizing Company, Richmond, Va.
Imprint: 29 p.
Imprint: Richmond, Va., Clemmitt & Jones, printers, l877

5] Author: Puryear, Bennett
Title: The Public School in the Relations to the Negro. By Civis. Republished by Request of the Southern Planter and Farmer.
Description:
Imprint: Clemmitt & Jones, Steam Printers, 1877,

6] Author:
Title: Proceedings of the Senate Committee on Roads and Navigation, 2 vols. ,
Description:
Imprint: Clemmitt and Jones, Steam Printer, 1877

7] Author: Southern Historical Society, Richmond
Title: Southern Historical Society Papers, Vol III, 1877
Description:
Inprint: Clemmitt and Jones, Steam Printer, 1877

1878
1] Author: Bagby, George William, 1828-1883.
Title: Original letters of Mozis Addums to Billy Ivvins (New and rev. ed.)
Description: 118 p. 17 x 14 cm.
Imprint: Richmond, Printed for the author by Clemmitt & Jones, 1878.

2] Author: Bouldin, Powhatan, 1830-1907.
Title: Home reminiscences of John Randolph : of Roanoke / By Powhatan Bouldin.
Description: ix, 320 p. : ill.
Imprint: Danville, Va. : The author ; Richmond, Va. : Clemmitt & Jones, printers, 1878.

3] Author: Buffalo Lithia Springs, Va.
Title: Buffalo Lithia Springs, Mecklemburg County, Virginia.
Description: 54 p.
Imprint: Richmond, Clemmitt & Jones, steam printers, 1878.

1879
1] Author: Danforth, John B. & Claiborne, Herbert A.
Title: Historical sketch of the Mutual Assurance Society of Virginia, Richmond, VA., From Its Organization in 1794 to 1879.
Description:
Imprint: Wm. Ellis Jones, 1879

Author:
2] Title: Record of the Richmond City and Henrico County Virginia Troops, Confederate States Army
Description:
Imprint: Wm. Ellis Jones Steam Book and Job Printer. 1879

3] Author: Jones, Rev. J. William
Title: Southern Historical Society Papers, Vol. VII
Description:
Imprint: 1879

1880
1] Author: Craighill, Robert Templeman, 1843-
Title: The Virginia “peerage”; or Sketches of Virginians distinguished in Virginia’s history.
Description:
Imprint: Richmond, W. E. Jones, printer, 1880.

2] Author: Ragland, Robert L. (Robert Lipscomb)
Title: Tobacco, from the seed to the salesroom / by Robert L. Ragland.
Description: 22 p.
Imprint: Richmond : Wm. Ellis Jones, Steam Book & Job Printer, 1880.

3] Author: Paine, William G.
Title: Catalogue of a valuable collection of books,
Description: 48 p.
Imprint: Richmond, W. E. Jones, printer, 1880.

4] Author: Green, William, 1806-1880.
Brock, R. A. (Robert Alonzo), 1839-1914.
Title: Catalogue of the … law and miscellaneous library of the late Hon. William Green … To be sold by auction, January 18th, 1881, at Richmond, Va. … John E. Laughton, Jr., auctioneer … Richmond.
Description: 210 p.
Imprint: Richmond, W.E. Jones, Printer, 1880

5] Author: William Green
Title: Catalogue of the … law and miscellaneous library of the late Hon. William Green
Description:
Imprint: W.E. Jones, Printer, 1880

6] Author: McClellan, H. B
Title: Life, character and campaigns of Major-Gen. J. E. B. Stuart : address of Major H. B. McClellan before the Virginia Division of the Army of Northern Va., at their annual meeting, held in the Capitol in Richmond, Va., Oct. 27th, 1880.
Description:
Imprint: W. E. Jones, Steam Book and Job Printer, 1880

7] Author: Southern Historical Society, Richmond,
Title: Southern Historical Society Papers Vol. VIII May, 1880
Description:
Imprint: Wm. Ellis Jones, Printer, 1880

1881
1] Author: Southern Historical Society, Richmond,
Title: Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume IX
Description:
Imprint: Wm. Ellis Jones, Printer. 1881

2] Author: Archer Anderson
Title: The campaign and battle of Chickamauga: An address delivered before the Virginia Division of the Army of Northern Virginia Association, at their annual … capitol at Richmond, Va., October 25, 1881
Description:
Imprint: W.E. Jones, Steam Book and Job Printer, 1881

1882
1] Author: Grantham, Thomas, Sir / Knight 1684 ; with an Introduction By R. A. Brock, Esquire, Secretary Virginia Historical Society
Title: An Historical Account of Some Memorable Actions Particularly in Virginia : Also Against the Admiral of Algier and in the East Indies : Performed for the Service of His Prince and Country
Description: A Bound / Flex Cover / Reprint
Imprint: Wm. Ellis Jones Printers, 1882

2] Author: James Grammer
Title: Pomps and vanities: A sermon preached before the Council of the diocese of Virginia, May 17, 1882
Description:
Imprint: W.E. Jones, book and job printer, 1882

3] Author: Jones, Rev. J. William Jones
Title: Southern Historical Society Papers, Vol. X
Description:
Imprint: Wm. Ellis Jones, Printer, 1882

4] Author: Trade Committees
Title: The Advantages of Richmond, Virginia as a Manufacturing and Trading Centre
Description:
Imprint: Wm Ellis Jones Printer, 1882

1883
1] Author: Dashiell, Thomas Grayson, 1830-1893.
Title: A digest of the proceedings of the conventions and councils in the diocese of Virginia, by T. Grayson Dashiell.
Description: vii, 431 p.
Imprint: Richmond, W. E. Jones, 1883.

2] Author: Slaughter, Philip, 1808-1890.
Title: A brief sketch of the life of William Green,
Description:
Imprint: Richmond, W. E. Jones. 1883

3] Author: Jones, Rev. J. William; Secretary
Title: Southern Historical Society Papers, Vol. XI, February and March, 1883, Nos. 2-3
Description:
Imprint: Wm. Ellis Jones, Printer, 1883

1884
1] Author: Richmond. University.
Thomas, Jesse B. (Jesse Burgess), 1832-1915.
Title: Dedication of Jeter memorial hall.
Description: 30 p
Imprint: Richmond, W.E. Jones, printer, 1884.

2] Author: Loehr, Charles T.
Title: War history of the old First Virginia infantry regiment, Army of Northern Virginia.
Description: 87 p.
Imprint: Richmond, W.E. Jones, printer, 1884.

3] Author: John Peyton McGuire
Title: A chapter on factoring with applications to cubic and quartic equations
Description:
Imprint: W.E. Jones, book and job printer, 1884

4] Author: English, Sir W. O.
Title: An Address Delivered Whitsuntide Before the Commandery of St. Andrew, No. 13, K. T. At St. Albans Hall…June 5, 1884
Description:
Imprint: Wm. Ellis Jones Book and Job Printer, 1884

5] Author: Bradley Tyler Johnson
Title: The first Maryland campaign
Description:
Imprint: W.E. Jones, book and job printer,1884

1885
1] Author: McCrady, Edward, 1833-1903.
Title: “Gregg’s brigade of South Carolinians in the Second Battle of Manassas” : an address before the survivors of the Twelfth Regiment, South Carolina Volunteers, at Walhalla, South Carolina, August 21, 1884 / by Edward McCrady, Jr.
Description: 40 p.
Imprint: Richmond: W. E. Jones, 1885

1886
1] Author: Waddell, Jos. A. (Joseph Addison), 1825-1914.
Title: Annals of Augusta County, Virginia, with reminiscences illustrative of the vicissitudes of its pioneer settlers, biographical sketches of citizens locally prominent, and of those who have founded families in the southern and western states : a diary of the war, 1861-‘5, and a chapter on reconstruction / by Jos. A. Waddell.
Description: 374 p., [2] leaves of plates (some folded) : maps
Imprint: Richmond : W.E. Jones, 1886.

2] Author: McCrady, Edward, 1833-1903.
Title: Formation, organization, discipline and characteristics of the Army of northern Virginia.
Description: 41 p.
Imprint: Richmond, W. E. Jones, printer, 1886.

3] Author: Waddell, Joseph A.
Title: Annals of Augusta County, Virginia with Reminiscences Illustrativeof the Vicissitudes of its Pioneer Settlers: Biographical Sketchesof Citizens Locally Prominent, and of Those Who Have Founded Familiesin the Southern and Western States ….
Description:
Imprint: William Ellis Jones, 1886

4] Author: McCrady, Edward, Jr., Lt.-Col.
Title: Formation, organization, discipline & characteristics of the Army of Northern Virginia.” An address delivered in the Hall of the House of Delegates, Richmond, Va., Thurs. Oct. 21, 1886. Published by order of the Association
Description:
Imprint: Wm. Ellis Jones, Book and Job Printer, 1886

1887
1] Author: Robertson, Wyndham
Title: Pocahontas
Description:
Imprint: From the Press of Wm. Ellis Jones, 1887

1888
1] Author: Chesterman, William Dallas, 1845-1904.
Title: Richmond, Va.: an outline of its attractions and industries, by W. D. Chesterman.
Description: 24 p.
Imprint: Richmond, W. E. Jones, printer, 1888.

2] Author: Waddell, Alfred M. (Alfred Moore), 1834-1912.
Title: The last year of the war in North Carolina, including Plymouth, Fort Fisher and Bentonsville : an address before the Association Army of Northern Virginia, delivered in the Hall of the House of Delegates, Richmond, Va., October 28, 1887 / by A.M. Waddell.
Description: 31 p.
Imprint: Richmond : W.E. Jones, printer, 1888.

3] Author: Stuart, Alexander H. H. (Alexander Hugh Holmes), 1807-1891.
Title: A narrative of the leading incidents of the organization of the first popular movement in Virginia in 1865 to re-establish peaceful relations between the northern and southern states, and the subsequent efforts of the “Committee of nine,” in 1869, to secure the restoration of Virginia to the Union, by Alex. H.H. Stuart.
Description: 72 p.
Imprint: Richmond, Va., W. E. Jones, printer, 1888.

4] Author: Slaughter, Philip 1808-1890.
Title: Address at the annual meeting of the Historical society of Virginia
Description:
Imprint: Richmond, W. E. Jones, printer, 1888.

5] Author: Uncredited Editor
Title: Catalogue of the Exhibit of Relics and Antiquities at the Virginia Exposition oct. 3-Nov.21 1888
Description:
Imprint: Wm. Ellis Jones, 1888

6] Author: Edward McCrady
Title: Heroes of the old Camden district, South Carolina, 1776-1861: An address to the survivors of Fairfield County, delivered at Winnsboro, S.C., September 1st, 1888
Description: b/w Illustration
Imprint: Wm. Ellis Jones, printer, 1888

7] Author: William Dallas Chesterman
Title: Richmond, Va.: an outline of its attractions and industries
Description:
Imprint: W.E. Jones, Printer, 1888

8] Author: William M. Burwell
Title: The last words from the pen of Hon. William M. Burwell,: An eminent Virginia journalist, who died March 4th, 1888
Description:
Imprint: W.E. Jones, Printer, 1888

9] Author: Alfred M Waddell
Title: The last year of the war in North Carolina, including Plymouth, Fort Fisher and Bentonsville: An address before the Association Army of Northern Virginia, … Delegates, Richmond, Va., October 28, 1887
Description:
Imprint: W.E. Jones, Printer, 1888

1889
1] Author: Wise, George D. [from old catalog]
Title: George D. Wise ads. Edmund Waddill, … Contested Election from the Third congressional District of Virginia Brief for Contestee.
Description: 64 p.
Imprint: Richmond, Wm. Ellis Jones, 1889.

2] Author: Wright, Marcus J. (Marcus Joseph), 1831-1922.
Title: Trial of John Brown. A review of the trial of “Ossawatomie” Brown, the insurrectionist, in reply to the criticism of Dr. Herman von Holst … in his work entitled “The Constitution and democracy of the United States,” by Gen. Marcus J. Wright.
Description: 8 p.
Imprint: Richmond, Va., W. E. Jones, printer, 1889
“Reprinted from Southern historical society Papers, Richmond.”

3] Author: Wright, Marcus J. (Marcus Joseph), 1831-1922.
Title: Sketch of Edward Augustus, Duke of Kent,
Description:
Imprint: Richmond, Va., W. E. Jones, printer, 1889.

4] Author: Wise, George D.
Title: George D. Wise ads. Edmund Waddill, … Contested Election from the Third congressional District of Virginia Brief for Contestee.
Description: 64 p.
Imprint: Richmond, Wm. Ellis Jones, 1889.

5] Author: Andrew Morrison
Title: Richmond, Virginia and the new South (Engelhardt series)
Description:
Imprint: W.E. Jones, Printer, 1889

6] Author: Kinloch Nelson
Title: The world’s conversion the church’s work: A sermon preached before the Council of the Diocese of Virginia, May 15, 1889
Description:
Imprint: W.E. Jones, book and job printer, 1889

7] Author: Marcus Joseph Wright
Title: Trial of John Brown: A review of the trial of “Ossawatomie” Brown, the insurrectionist, in reply to the criticism of Dr. Herman von Holst … in his work … and democracy of the United States
Description:
Imprint: W. E. Jones, printer, 1889

8] Author: Virginia and Alabama Coal Company.
Title: Virginia and Alabama Coal Company. Organization, Report on the Property, Testimonials of Customers, and Mortgage Deed of the Company
Description:
Imprint: William Ellis Jones, Book and Job Printer, 1889

9] Author: Allan, Edgar
Title: Edmund Waddill, Jr., Contestant, Vs. George D. Wise, Contestee. Contested Election from the Third Congressional District of Virginia, Before the House Committee on Elections of the Fifty-First Congress Reply Brief for Contestant
Description:
Imprint: Wm. Ellis Jones, Richmond, 1889

10] Author: Alexander H. H. Stuart
Title: A Narrative of the Leading Incidents to Secure the Restoration of Virginia to the Union
Description:
Imprint: 1889

1890
1] Author: Virginia
Title: Charter, constitution, and organization of the Prison Association of Virginia, with an address.
Description: 16 p.
Imprint: Richmond : Wm. Ellis Jones, 1890.

2] Author: Anderson, Archer, 1838-1918.
Title: Robert Edward Lee. An address delivered at the dedication of the monument to General Robert Edward Lee at Richmond, Virginia, May 29, 1890, by Archer Anderson.
Description: 45 p.
Imprint: Richmond, W.E. Jones, printer, 1890.
Pub. by the Lee Monument Association.

3] Author: Willis, Edward, 1840-1864.
Title: Memorials of Gen. Edward Willis, C. S. army, commandant of the 12th Georgia infantry who fell at the head of his regiment in the battle of Mechanicsville, May 31, 1864
Description: 31 p.
Imprint: Richmond, W. E. Jones, steam book and job printer, 1890.

4] Author: Evander McIver Law
Title: “The Confederate revolution”: An address delivered before the Association of the Army of Northern Virginia at the meeting held in Richmond, Va., May 28th, 1890
Description:
Imprint: Wm. Ellis Jones, Steam Book and Job Printer, 1890

5] Author: Hartley Carmichael
Title: Christianity the best working theory of life
Description:
Imprint: W.E. Jones, book and job printer, 1890

6] Author: George D Fisher
Title: Descendants of Jaquelin Ambler: With letters from his daughter, Mrs. Col. Ed. Carrington, and extract from his funeral sermon delivered by Rev. John Buchanan
Description:
Imprint: Wm. Ellis Jones, Steam Book and Job Printer, 1890

7] Author: Annie Jennings Wise Hobson
Title: Memorial of the unveiling of Lee’s statue,: Richmond, Virginia, May 29th, 1890
Description:
Imprint: W.E. Jones, book and job printer, 1890

8] Author: Archer Anderson
Title: Robert Edward Lee: An address delivered at the dedication of the monument to General Robert Edward Lee at Richmond, Virginia, May 29, 1890
Description:
Imprint: W.E. Jones, Printer, 1890

1891
1] Author: Brock, Robert Alonzo, 1839-1914.
Title: The Colonial Virginian.
Description: 22 p.
Imprint: Richmond, Va., W. E. Jones, printer, 1891.

2] Author: Pendleton, Stephen Taylor.
Title: Diagrams for grammar analysis.
Description: 12 p.
Imprint: Richmond, W.E. Jones, printer, 1891.

3] Author: Brooke, John Mercer, 1826-1906.
Title: The Virginia, or Merrimac; her real projector.
Description: 34 p. incl. diagrs.
Imprint: Richmond, Va., W. E. Jones, book and job printer, 1891.

1892
1] Author: Williams, John Skelton, 1865-1926.
Title: The credit of the South: viewed from a state, municipal and general standpoint. Address delivered before the Commercial club of Nashville, Tenn., May 24th, 1892. By John Skelton Williams.
Description: 64 p.
Imprint: Published/Created: Richmond, Va. W. E. Jones, printer, 1892.

2] Author: Brock, R.A.
Title: Colonial Virginian: An Address delivered before the Geographical and Historical Society of Richmond College.
Description:
Imprint: Wm. Ellis Jones, 1891

3] Author: John M. Brooke
Title: The Virginia, or Merrimac: Her Real Projector
Description:
Imprint: Wm. Ellis Jones, Book and Job Printer, 1891

4] Author: Unattributed
Title: Report of the Adjutant-General of the State of Virginia, for the Year 1892
Description:
Imprint: Wm. Ellis Jones, 1892

5] Author: Newton, Virginius
Title: The Confederate states ram Merrimac or Virginia : the history of her plan and construction and her engagements with the United States fleet, March 8-9, 1862
Description:
Imprint: Wm. Ellis Jones, book and job printer, 1892

6] Author: John Skelton Williams
Title: The credit of the South: Viewed from a state, municipal and general standpoint. Address delivered before the Commercial club of Nashville, Tenn., May 24th, 1892
Description:
Imprint: W.E. Jones, Printer, 1892

1893
1] Author: Virginia historical society, Richmond.
Title: Proceedings of the Virginia historical society for the six months ending July 1st, 1893.
Description:
Imprint: Richmond, Va., W. E. Jones, 1893.

2] Author: Stanard, William Glover, 1859-1933.
Title: A chart of some of the descendants of Captain Thomas Harris of Henrico county,
Description: 29 p. front. (fold. geneal. tab.)
Imprint: Richmond, Va., W.E. Jones, printer, 1893.

3] Author: William Wirt Henry
Title: Address on the hundredth anniversary of the laying of the corner stone of the Capitol, Washington, D.C., September 18th, 1893
Description:
Imprint: W.E. Jones, book and job printer, 1893

1894
1] Author: Samuel B Wallace
Title: What the national government is doing for our colored boys: The new system of slavery in the South
Description:
Imprint: Jones, printer, 1894

1895
1] Author: Stanard, William Glover, 1859-1933.
Title: A chart of the ancestors and descendants of Rev. Robert Rose, born at Wester Alves, Scotland, February 12, 1704, came to Virginia in 1725, died June 30, 1751, prepared by W. G. Stanard, for Miss Annie Fitzhugh Rose Walker.
Description: 1 p. l., fold. geneal. tab.
Imprint: Richmond, W. E. Jones, 1895.

2] Author: Clement Anselm Evans
Title: Contributions of the South to the greatness of the American union.
Description:
Imprint: W.E. Jones, book and job printer, 1895

3] Author: Robert W Hughes
Title: Sound money: Bimetalism; a necessity of the world. The existing ratio of parity, 16, 15 1/2, 15 to 1, unalterable. The United States competent to re-establish … to silver, without foreign co-operation
Description:
Imprint: W.E. Jones, Printer, 1895

1896
1] Author: Barnwell, Joseph W[alker] 1846-
Title: Address delivered before the South Carolina historical society, May 18th, 1880.
Description:
Imprint: Richmond, W. E. Jones, printer, 1896.

2] Author: Weeks, Stephen Beauregard, 1865-1918.
Title: “The University of North Carolina in the Civil War.” An address delivered at the centennial celebration of the opening of the institution, June 5th, 1895, by Stephen Beauregard Weeks.
Description: 38 p. – Reprinted from the Southern Historical Society Papers, vol. XXIV.
Imprint: Published/Created: Richmond, W. E. Jones, 1896.

3] Author: Society of the Cincinnati in the State of Virginia.
Title: Proceedings of the Virginia state society of the Cincinnati from the 6th of October, 1783, to the disbanding of the society on October 13th, 1824.
Description: 118 p.
Imprint: Richmond, Va., W. E. Jones, printer, 1896.

4] Author:
Title: An address delivered at the dedication of the Confederate Memorial Hall, Richmond, Va., February 22, 1896
Description:
Imprint: W.E. Jones, Printer, 1896

1897
1] Author: Christchurch, Va. Christ church. [from old catalog]
Title: The parish register of Christ church, Middlesex county, Va., from 1653 to 1812, published by the National society of the colonial dames of America in the state of Virginia.
Description: 341 p.
Imprint: Richmond, W. E. Jones, printer, 1897.

1] Author: South Carolina Historical Society.
Cheves, Langdon, 1776-1857, ed.
Title: The Shaftesbury papers and other records relating to Carolina and the first settlement on Ashley river prior to the year 1676. Pub. by the South Carolina historical society, prepared for publication by Langdon Cheves, esq.
Description: 523 p. fold. map.
Imprint: Charleston, Richmond, Printed by W.E. Jones, 1897

2] Author: Hughes, Robert W. (Robert William), 1821-1901.
Title: “Editors of the past.” Lecture of Judge Robert W. Hughes, delivered before the Virginia Press Association, at their annual meeting at Charlottesville, Va., on the 22d of June, 1897.
Description: 30 p.
Imprint: Richmond, W.E. Jones, 1897.

3] Author:
Title: Comp The National Society of the Colonial Dames of America in the State of Virginia from 1653 to 1812
Description:
Imprint: Wm. Ellis Jones, Steam Book and Job Printer, 1897

4] Author:
Title: The Parish Register of Christ Church, Middlesex County, Virginia from 1653-1812.
Description:
Imprint: William Ellis Jones, Steam Book and Job Printer, 1897

1898
1] Author: Bristol Parish, Va.
Title: The vestry book and register of Bristol Parish, Virginia. 1720-1789.
Description: 419 p.
Imprint: Richmond, Va., Privately printed by W. E. Jones, 1898.

2] Author:
Title: The Confederate cause and its defenders: An address delivered before the Grand Camp of Confederate Veterans of Virginia, at the annual meeting held at Culpeper C.H., Va., October 4, 1898
Description:
Imprint: W.E. Jones, book and job printer, 1898

1899
1] Author: Green, Bennett Wood, 1835-1913.
Title: Word-book of Virginia folk-speech, by B. W. Green.
Description: 435 p.
Imprint: Richmond, W. E. Jones, 1899

1901
1] Author: Association for the preservation of Virginia antiquities.
Title: Charter, constitution and by-laws of the Association for the preservation of Virginia antiquities…
Description: 16 p.
Imprint: Richmond, W. E. Jones, printer, 1901.

2] Author: Virginia Historical Society.
Title: Catalogue of the manuscripts in the collection of the Virginia Historical Society, and also of some printed papers. Comp. by order of the Executive Committee.
Description: 120 p.
Imprint: Richmond, W.E. Jones, 1901.

3] Author: Lamb, William, 1835-1909.
National Society of the Colonial Dames of America in the Commonwealth of Virginia
Title: The unveiling of a tablet, erected by the Colonial dames of America in the state of Virginia, to the founders of the college of William and Mary. October 22, 1901.
Description: 47 p.
Imprint: Richmond, I. N. Jones & son print, 1901

4] Author: Uncredited
Title: Virginia School Laws, Codified for the Use of School Teachers and Officers
Description:
Imprint: Wm. Ellis Jones, Book & Job Printer, 1901

1903
1] Author: Stanard, Mary Newton, 1865-1929.
Association for the preservation of Virginia antiquities.
Title: Jamestown and the Association for the preservation of Virginia antiquities.
Description: 8 p. pl.
Imprint: Richmond, Va., Printed for the Society by W. E. Jones, 1903

2] Author: Rev. Robert Gray
Title: The McGavock family. A genealogical history of James McGavock and his descendants from 1760 to 1903, by Robert Gray.
Description: 175 p.
Imprint: Richmond, W. E. Jones, 1903.

3] Author: Delia B. Page
Title: Recollection od Home for My Brothers and Children
Description:
Imprint: Wm Ellis Jones, Richmond, 1903

1904
1] Author: Young, Charles P.
Title: A history of Crenshaw battery of Pegram’s battalion, Third corps, A. N. V., enlisted at Richmond, Va., March 14, 1862
Description: 26 p.
Imprint: Richmond, W. E. Jones, printer, 1904.

2] Author: St. Peter’s Parish (New Kent County, Va.)
Title: The parish register of Saint Peter’s, New Kent county, Virginia from 1680 to 1787, published by the National society of the colonial dames of American in the state of Virginia.
Description: 206 p.
Imprint: Richmond, W. E. Jones, Printer, 1904.

3] Author: Halsey, Don P. (Don Peters), 1870-1938.
Title: The speech of Hon. Don P. Halsey on the bill to provide a statue of Robert Edward Lee to be placed in Statuary Hall in the Capitol at Washington, D. C., delivered in the Senate of Virginia, Feb’y 6, 1903.
Description: 21 p.
Imprint: Published/Created: Richmond, W. E. Jones, printer, 1904.

4] Author: Don P. Halsey
Title: A sketch of the life of Capt. Don P. Halsey of the Confederate States Army: Patriot, scholar, and counselor at law
Description:
Imprint: W.E. Jones, Printer, 1904
5] Author: Gaston Lichtenstein
Title: Early Social Life in Edgecombe; Also Early History of Edgecombe, and A Tarborean’s Experience Abroad
Description:
Imprint: Wm. Ellis Jones, Book and Job Printer, 1904

1905
1] Author: St. Peter’s Parish (New Kent County, Va.)
Title: The vestry book of Saint Peter’s, New Kent County, Va. From 1682-1758. Pub. by the National Society of the Colonial Dames of America in the State of Virginia …
Description: 242 p.
Imprint: Richmond, W. E. Jones, book and job printer, 1905

2] Author: John Lamb
Title: Presentation of the portrait of Gen. Thomas T. Munford, to R.E. Lee Camp, No. 1, C.V.,: At Richmond, Va., March 24, 1899
Description:
Imprint: W.E. Jones, book and job printer, 1905

3] Author: Virginia Historical Society
Title: The Virginia Historical Society – Vol. XII
Description:
Imprint: William Ellis Jones, Printer Richmond, Virginia, 1905

1906
1] Author: Park, Robert Emory, 1844-
Title: Sketch of the Twelfth Alabama Infantry of Battle’s Brigade, Rodes Division, Early’s Corps, of the Army of Northern Virginia, by Robert Emory Park.
Description: 106 p.
Imprint: Richmond, W. E. Jones, book and job printer, 1906.

2] Author:
Title: General Lee’s strategy at the Battle of Chancellorsville: A paper read by request before R.E. Lee Camp no. 1, Confederate Veterans
Description:
Imprint: Wm. Ellis Jones, Book and Job printer, 1906

1907
1] Author: Thomas, R. S. (Richard Samuel), 1837-1914.
Title: The loyalty of the clergy of the Church of England in Virginia to the colony in 1776 and their conduct / by R.S. Thomas.
Description: 22 p.
Imprint: Richmond : W.E. Jones, 1907.

2] Author: Green, Bennett Wood, 1835-1913.
Title: How Newport’s News got its name. [By] B. W. Green.
Description: 142 p.
Imprint: Richmond, W. E. Jones, book and job printer, 1907.

3] Author: Uncredited
Title: Richmond, Fredericksburg & Potomac RR and Washington Southern Railway between Richmond and Washington and Intermediate Stations
Description:
Imprint: Wm. Ellis Jones, printer, 1907

4] Author: Harry C Townsend
Title: Townsend’s diary: Last months of the war, January-May, 1865. A diary from Petersburg to Appomattox; thence to North Carolina to join Johnston’s army
Description:
Imprint: W.E. Jones, book and job printer, 1907

1908
1] Author: Protestant Episcopal church in the U. S. A. Virginia (Diocese)
Title: Journal of the special council of the Protestant Episcopal church in the diocese of Virginia, held in St. Paul’s church, Alexandria, on Wednesday, December 16th, 1908.
Description: 18 p.
Imprint: Richmond, W. E. Jones, printer, 1908.

2] Author: Lichtenstein, Gaston, 1879-1954.
Title: A visit to Young’s pier at Atlantic City, N.J.; also, When Edgecombe was a-borning, The word sheriff, and Products of colonial North Carolina. By Gaston Lichtenstein …
Description: 15 p.
Imprint: Richmond, Va., W.E. Jones, printer, 1908.

3] Author: Lichtenstein, Gaston, 1879-1954.
Title: Early history of Tarboro, North Carolina : also collated colonial public claims of Edgecombe County : and Easter Sunday in Savannah, Ga. / by Gaston Lichtenstein.
Description: 16 p.
Imprint: Richmond : W. E. Jones, book and job printer, 1908.

4] Author: Protestant Episcopal Church, Diocese of Virginia
Title: Journal of the 113th Annual Council of the Protestant Episcopal Church.Diocese of Virginia the 20th, 21st, and 22nd of May,1908
Description:
Imprint:William Ellis Jones, 1908

1909
1] Author: Christian, George Llewellyn, 1841- [from old catalog]
Title: Abraham Lincoln. An Address Delivered Before R. E.lee Camp, No. 1, Confederate Veterans At Richmond, Va. On October 29th, 1909
Description:
Imprint: Richmond, W. E. Jones, printer, 1909.

2] Author: Talcott, Thomas Mann Randolph, 1838-
Title: Stuart’s cavalry in the Gettysburg campaign.
Description: 19 p.
Imprint: Richmond, W. E. Jones, printer, 1909.

3] Author: Robinson, Leigh.
Title: Address delivered before R.E. Lee camp, C.V. at Richmond, Va., December 18th, 1908,: In the acceptance of the portrait of General William H. Payne
Description:
Imprint: Richmond, W. E. Jones, printer, 1909.

4] Author: McCabe, William Gordon
Title: Brief Sketch of Andrew Reid Venable, Jr.
Description:
Imprint: Wm. Ellis Jones, 1909

5] Author: Bryan, Joseph
Title: Christian Stewardship an Address Delivered Before the Y.M.C.A. Of Richmond College on February 20, 1908
Description:
Imprint: Wm. Ellis Jones, Book and Job Printer, 1909

6] Author: Randolph H McKim
Title: Gen. J.E.B. Stuart in the Gettysburg campaign: A reply to Col. John S. Mosby (Southern Historical Society Papers)
Description:
Imprint: Wm. Ellis Jones, Book and Job printer, 1909

7] Author: McCabe, W. Gordon
Title: Joseph Bryan a Brief Memoir
Description:
Imprint: Virginia Historical Society/Wm. Ellis Jones, Printer to the Society, Richmond, Virginia, 1909

8] Author: Thomas Mann Randolph Talcott
Title: Stuart’s cavalry in the Gettysburg campaign: By Colonel John S. Mosby
Description:
Imprint: W.E. Jones, Printer, 1909

1910
1] Author: Goodwin, Edward Lewis, 1855-1924.
Title: The first convention of the diocese of Virginia; an address delivered before the council of the diocese in St. John’s Church, Richmond, May 18, 1910, by Edward L. Goodwin.
Description: 35 p.
Imprint: Richmond, W. E. Jones, printer, 1910

2] Author: Lewis, Samuel E., Dr.
Title: The Treatment of Prisoners-of-War 1861-1865
Description:
Imprint: Wm. Ellis Jones The Confederate memorial Literary Society, Richmond, Va., 1910

3] Author: Samuel E Lewis
Title: The treatment of prisoners-of-war, 1861-1865
Description:
Imprint: W.E. Jones, Printer, 1910

1911
1] Author: Stanard, William Glover, 1859-1933.
Title: Some emigrants to Virginia : memoranda in regard to several hundred emigrants to Virginia during the colonial period whose parentage is shown or former residence indicated by authentic records / compiled by W.G. Stanard.
Description: 79 p.
Imprint: Richmond, Va. : For sale by the Bell Book & Stationery Co., Wm. Ellis Jones’ Sons, Inc., 1911

2] Author: Cabell, James Branch, 1879-1958.
Title: Branch of Abingdon, being a partial account of the ancestry of Christopher Branch of “Arrowhattocks” and “Kingsland” in Henrico County, and the founder of the Branch family in Virginia, by James Branch Cabell.
Description: 126 p., plates.
Imprint: Richmond, Va., Printed by Wm. E. Jones’ Sons, 1911

3] Author: Freight claim association.
Title: Constitution, rules and ruling of the Freight claim association as ammended at twenty-sixth annual session
Description: 150 p.
Imprint: Richmond, Va., William Ellis Jones sons, printers, 1911.
Richmond, Va., Wm. Ellis Jones’ sons, inc., 1913.
Richmond, Va., Wm. Ellis Jones sons printers, 1914.
Richmond, Va., Wm. Ellis Jones sons printers, 1915.
Richmond, Va., Wm. Ellis Jones sons printers, 1916.
Richmond, Printed by Wm. Ellis Jones’ sons, inc., 1917.

1912
1] Author: Green, Bennett Wood, 1835-1913.
Title: Word-book of Virginia folk-speech, by B. W. Green.
Description: 530 p.
Imprint: Richmond, Wm. Ellis Jones’ sons, inc., 1912.

2] Author: Baskervill, P. Hamilton (Patrick Hamilton), 1848-
Title: Genealogy of the Baskerville family and some allied families, including the English descent from 1266 A.D. By Patrick Hamilton Baskervill.
Description: 214 p.
Imprint: Richmond, W. E. Jones’ sons, 1912.

1913
1] Author: Stanard, Mary Newton, 1865-1929.
Title: John Marshall; an address by Mary Newton Stanard read before the Association for the preservation of Virginia antiquities at the opening of the John Marshall house, March 27, 1913, together with a description of the house and its contents.
Description: 39 p. plates,
Imprint: Richmond : Wm. Ellis Jones’ Sons, Inc., printers, 1913.

2] Author: Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities
Title:Yeare Booke of the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities for 1911-1912
Description:
Imprint: Wm. Ellis Jones’ Sons, Inc., 1913

1915
1] Author: McIntosh, David Gregg, 1836-1916.
Title: The campaign of Chancellorsville, by David Gregg McIntosh.
Description: 59 p.
Imprint: W. E. Jones’ sons, inc., printers, 1915

2] Author: McIntosh, David Gregg
Title: The Campaign of Chancellorsville
Description:
Imprint: Wm. Ellis Jones’ Sons, Inc., Printers, 1915

3] Author: Cabell, James Branch
Title: THE MAJORS AND THEIR MARRIAGES
Description:
Imprint: Wm. Ellis Jones’ Sons, Inc.,1915

1916
1] Author: Baskervill, P. Hamilton (Patrick Hamilton), 1848-
Title: The Hamiltons of Burnside, North Carolina, and their ancestors and descendants … By Patrick Hamilton Baskervill.
Description: xii, 158 p. front., plates, ports., double map.
Richmond, Va., W. E. Jones’ sons incorporated, 1916.

1917
1] Author: Baskervill, Patrick Hamilton, 1848-
Title: Additional Baskerville genealogy;
Description:
Imprint: Richmond, Va., W. E. Jones’ sons, Inc., 1917

1919
1] Author: Virginia War History Commission
Title:Virginia War History Commission Plans and Personnel ….: A Message from the Chairman to the Members,Associate Members nd Especially to the Local Members of Each Cityand County in Virginia… to deal with World War I, plus message from Chairman A.K. Davis with notes on how to proceed ; No. 1, Publications of Virginia War History Commission Series; 23 pages Very Good
Description:
Imprint: William Ellis Jones, 1919

NO DATE
1] Author: Richmond. Chamber of Commerce.
Title: Reports.
Description:
Imprint: Richmond, W. E. Jones, book and job printer. [no date]

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March 6, 2013

John Ellis Jones (1807 – 1875) – Catalog / Bibliography

By CH Jones

John Ellis Jones (1807 – 1875), Printer of Caernarvon

To view the biography of John Ellis Jones (1807 – 1875), follow this link.

Selected Catalog of surviving work contained at the National Library of Wales

John Ellis Jones (1807 – 1875), brother of William Ellis Jones (1795 – 1848.) He took over Lewis Evan Jones’s (1786 – 1860) shop upon his retirement about 1840.

John Ellis Jones was considered a radical and therefore much of his work has not survived.

1846
Authors: Unaccredited
Title: Addysgydd yr ysgol Sabbothol (Sunday School Teacher)
Description: 16 p
Imprint: Cyhoeddwyd ac ar werth gan John Jones, 1846

1849
Authors: Jones, John, of Llangollen and Rhyd-y-bont, 1801-1856.
Title: Testament yr athraw (The Testement Teacher)
Description: 393 pages, maps
Imprint: Cyhoeddwyd, argraffwyd ac ar werth gan J. Jones, 1849

1850
Authors: Jones, John, Ioan Glan Cledr, 1812-1870
Title: Y blaguryn dirwestol (The Bloom of Temperence)
Description: 80 p.
Imprint: argraffwyd gan H. Humphreys, cyhoeddwyd ac ar werth gan John Jones, 1850

1851
Authors: Jones, John Ellis
Title: Gweithoedd Cawrdaf (Biography of Cawrdaf)
Description: 2 v. in 1, 208 pages
Imprint: Argraffwyd gn H. Humphreys, cyhoeddedig gan Ellis Jones, 1851
Annotation: Two parts in one vol.

1856
Authors: Lewis, Titus, 1773-1811., Jones, John Emlyn, 1818-1873 (rev. & enl. by J. E. Jones. Caerfyrddin)
Title: Hanes Prydain Fawr (History of Great Britain)
Description: 15p
Imprint: Cyhoeddwyd ac ar werth gan Wm. M. Evans, 1856

1860
Authors: Jones, John, Ioan Glan Cledr, 1812-1870.
Title: Marwnad er coffadwriaeth am y Parch. John Jones, Runcorn, yr hwn a fu farw Gorphenaf 25ain yn y flwyddyn 1860, yn 73ain oed, a’r Parch. John Hughes, Liverpool, yr hwn a fu farw Awst 8ed yn yr un flwyddyn, yn 64ain oed (Elegy in memorial for the Rev. John Jones, Runcorn, who died on July 25th in 1860, at 73 years old, and an elegy in memorial of Rev. John Hughes, Liverpool, who died August 8t, 1860, at 64 years old)
Description: 8 p.
Imprint: Cyhoeddwyd gan John Jones,1860

1861
Authors: Jones, John, Ioan Glan Cledr, 1812-1870.
Title: Tuchan-gerdd i’r drwg-dalwr, gan Gelyn Twyll (Silent prayer to Evil Money, by Enemy Fraud)
Description: 8 p.
Imprint: Caernarfon, Cyhoeddwyd gan John Jones (I. Glan Cledr) 1861

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