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Morgan John Rhees was born on December 8, 1760 in Glamorganshire, Wales, the son of John and Elizabeth Rhys. After emigrating to America, Morgan changed the spelling of his name to Rhees. The boy grew up on his father's farm, "Graddfa, " Llanfabon.
He received such educational advantages as were at hand.
He united with the Baptist church at Hengoed and almost at once began to preach. For a year, beginning in August 1776, he studied in Bristol College.
On November 17, 1787, he was ordained and assumed the pastorate of the Penygarn Baptist church at Pontypool, Monmouthshire, but continued itinerant preaching. The Revolution in France appealed to his sympathies, and in 1792 he was in Paris, preaching and distributing Bibles. The developing radicalism was not in accord with his democratic ideas, however, and he returned to Wales. Here his influence among the Baptists was increasingly felt. He interested himself in the development of the Sunday school, and some consider his contribution more directly formative of this institution than was the earlier and more famous work of Robert Raikes, with whom Rhys had some contacts.
Before going to France, he had issued tracts against slavery, and in 1793-94 he published a quarterly in Welsh devoted to civil and religious liberty, of which five numbers appeared.
In particular he attacked a state-established church, declaring that the method of supporting it necessarily brought about the deterioration of religion. He was actively sympathetic toward a society called "The Friends of the People, " demanding reform of parliamentary representation. Several members had been arrested and, hearing that a warrant was out against him, he sailed for America, reaching New York on October 12, 1794.
Almost immediately he bought a horse and journeyed as far south as Savannah, arriving there as early as February 1795. His antipathy to slavery was enhanced by what he saw of it. His return journey took him to Kentucky and Ohio, where he had contact with Gen. Anthony Wayne.
He gave a Fourth of July address at Greenville, July 4, 1795, and the following day preached a sermon in connection with a parley with the Indians concerning a treaty. Both were printed - Oration Delivered at Greenville. July 4th 1795 (1795) and The Altar of Peace (1798). In the latter he declared that to insure a durable peace sacrifices must be made, especially the love of conquest and the appropriation of territory.
Soon after Rhees's return he traveled into New England; his journal of this tour, though meager, is the most detailed record of any part of his career.
The records of Rhees's later activities are fragmentary. He became acquainted with Dr. Benjamin Rush, and collaborated with him in some of the great land developments in central Pennsylvania, particularly in the region to which the Welsh name Cambria was given. Here Rhees preached and organized Baptist churches among the Welsh settlers. He formed a society for the benefit of immigrants, and his influence was felt in movements for missions, evangelism, and civil and religious liberty. In 1796 he published The Good Samaritan: An Oration in Behalf of the Philadelphia Society for the Information and Assistance of Persons Emigrating from Foreign Countries. By 1798 he had moved from Beulah to Somerset, the county seat, and he served as justice of the peace, associate judge, 1799, clerk of quarter sessions, and recorder of deeds, 1800. His death was occasioned by an attack of pleurisy.
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Every nation, he insisted, has an indefeasible right to the soil, and the United States should purchase from the Indians and give up deceptive speculations. In his diary David Jones, chaplain to General Wayne in his 1794-98 campaigns, makes the comment that the sermon "was not well suited to our ideas on the foundation of American rights to the soil. Men should avoid speaking on subjects they do not understand or they will give offense to men who know better. "
On Feburary 22, 1796, he married Ann Loxley of Philadelphia, who survived her husband for almost forty-five years. Five children were born of this union of little more than eight years, - John, Benjamin Rush, Mary, Morgan John, and Eliza. William Jones Rhees was a descendant.
