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He was the son of Morgan ap Rhydderch ap Dafydd ap Gruffydd, an elder and later a minister of the Rhydwilym Baptist Church, and in accordance with the custom in Wales at a time when family names were almost unknown he took as a surname his father's Christian name.
Abel began to preach before he was eighteen years old, and settled at Llanwenarth in Monmouthshire near Abergavenny.
He embarked at Bristol on Sept. 28, but the ship was detained by contrary winds and it was not until Feb. 14, 1712, that he arrived in Philadelphia after a stormy passage.
He quickly became one of the leaders among the Baptists of Pennsylvania, and also established churches in Delaware and New Jersey.
He published nothing during his lifetime but is said to have translated into Welsh the Century Confession, adding to it certain articles embodying his own ideas on the subject of singing hymns and the laying on of hands, and a Catechism similarly modified.
Yn Arwain, dan y Cyfryw eiriau, i fuan ganfod pob rhyw ddymunol ran o'r Scrythurau.
A Gyfansoddwyd Drwy Lafurus Boen Abel Morgan, Gwenidog yr Efengyl er lle's y Cymru.
Argraphwyd yn Philadelphia, gan Samuel Keimer, a Dafydd Harry.
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[Morgan Edwards, Materials Towards a Hist.
of the Baptists in Pa. (1770); H. G. Jones, in Pa.
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XIII (1893); William Rowlands, Cambrian Bibliog.
(1869); Charles Ashton, Hanes Llenyddiaeth Gymreig (n. d. ; 1893?)
; Enwogion y Ffydd (1880). ]
Morgan, Abel, , Wales 1673 1722 Male Clergyman Baptist Scholar (Biblical) Baptist clergyman and Biblical scholar, was born at Alltgoch in the parish of Llanwenog, Cardiganshire, South Wales.
When, about 1696, the Blaenau Gwent branch was established as a separate church independent of Llanwenarth, he was called to preach there and four years later he was ordained its first minister.
of Protestant Nonconformity in Wales (1861); articles in the Cambrian, vol.
He soon rose to prominence in the affairs of the Welsh Baptists, but in 1711 he decided to emigrate to Pennsylvania, whither his brother Enoch and other members of the family with many Welsh Baptists had preceded him.
He married in this country Martha Burrows, and, as his third wife, Judith (Griffiths) Gooding (daughter of the Rev. Thomas Griffiths), who, with four children, survived him.
On the voyage his wife, who was Priscilla Powell of Abergavenny, and his infant son died, leaving him with one daughter.
He married in this country Martha Burrows, and, as his third wife, Judith (Griffiths) Gooding (daughter of the Rev. Thomas Griffiths), who, with four children, survived him.
On the voyage his wife, who was Priscilla Powell of Abergavenny, and his infant son died, leaving him with one daughter.
He married in this country Martha Burrows, and, as his third wife, Judith (Griffiths) Gooding (daughter of the Rev. Thomas Griffiths), who, with four children, survived him.
He married in this country Martha Burrows, and, as his third wife, Judith (Griffiths) Gooding (daughter of the Rev. Thomas Griffiths), who, with four children, survived him.
Eight years after his death his brother Enoch and his half-brother Benjamin Griffiths published his Cyd-gordiad Egwyddorawl o'r Scrythurau: neu Daflen Lythyrennol o'r Prif Eiriau Yn y Bibl Sanctaidd.
For a number of generations the family had been prominent for its devotion to literature, the best known member of it being Abel's uncle, Sion Rhydderch ("John Roderick"), who, besides being a printer, an antiquary, and something of a poet, compiled the first English-Welsh dictionary, wrote one of the first Welsh grammars, and translated into Welsh a number of religious works.
