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John Myles, also known as John Miles, (c. 1621–1683) was the founder of Swansea, Massachusetts, and the founder of the earliest recorded Baptist churches in Wales (UK) and Massachusetts (US). John Myles was born in Wales around 1621 and was educated at Brasenose College at Oxford University.
The town was renamed after James Lawrence Wales, a local benefactor. [2] Initial settlers included Anthony Needham, John Bullen, and Samuel and Dorothy Munger. The next generation of Mungers became prominent in the town. Samuel (Jr.) served as a selectman and was deacon of the Baptist Church for many years. Nathaniel was one of 12 men of the ...
The Ilston Book : earliest register of Welsh Baptists / transcribed and edited by B.G. Owens (1996) Aberystwyth : National Library of Wales.ISBN 0-907158-87-0.; Henry Melville King, Rev. John Myles and the Founding of the First Baptist Church in Massachusetts (Providence, RI: Preston & Rounds, Co. 1905).
The congregation, founded in 1663, is the oldest Baptist congregation in Massachusetts and one of the oldest in the United States. The congregation was founded in 1663 by John Myles as the first Baptist congregation in Massachusetts, and Myles brought the Ilston Book with him from Swansea in Wales.
The Baptist Union of Wales (Undeb Bedyddwyr Cymru) is a Baptist denomination Wales. It is affiliated with the Free Church Council, Cytûn (Churches Together in Wales), the European Baptist Federation, and the Baptist World Alliance. The headquarters is in Carmarthen.
First Baptist Church (Lake Wales, Florida) 1990 NRHP-listed 27°54′2″N 81°35′1″W / 27.90056°N 81.58361°W / 27.90056; -81.58361 ( First Baptist Church (Lake Wales,
The Church of England was the established church until 1920 when the disestablished Church in Wales, was set up as a self-governing, though still Anglican, church. Most adherents to organised religion in Wales follow one of the Christian denominations such as the Presbyterian Church of Wales , Baptist and Methodist churches, the Church in Wales ...
Church in Wales: Cedewain Mission Area St Gwynog, Llanwnog Caersws: Gwynog Church in Wales: Bro Arwystli Caersws Baptist Church Caersws: Baptist Union: Caersws Methodist Church Caersws: Methodist: Welshpool & Bro Hafren Circuit St John the Baptist, Carno Carno: John the Baptist: Church in Wales: Bro Arwystli St Garmon, Castle Caereinion Castle ...