John James

John James joined the Baptist church in Olney on April 1782 and became a deacon on 23 March 1809. He died on 12 October 1814, aged 56. He was buried near Sutcliff on the church cemetery. He was also a subscriber to the BMS in 1800-1801 (£1.1) and 1804-1805, submitting £2.2 to Sutcliff’s collection that year. See “List of Persons Dead Among the Congregation of Dissenting Baptists in Olney, Bucks 1775-1835”  (MS., Angus Library, Regent’s Park College, Oxford) f. 27; Olney Church Book, 1752-1854 (MS., Angus Library, Regent’s Park College, Oxford) ff. 43, 101; BMS Periodical Accounts, 2:205; 3:139.