Mr. Jones of Plymouth

A Mr. Jones was at one time an assistant to Andrew Kinsman at the Plymouth Tabernacle, a congregation organized by Whitefield in the 1740s and finally established by Kinsman c. 1750. In 1763 Kinsman established a similar tabernacle in Dock, and was finally set apart to the pastoral office at Broadmead in Bristol on 4 August 1763, with Hugh Evans taking part in the service. Kinsman’s obituary in the Evangelical Magazine (1793) notes that his most distinguished assistants in the early 1770s were Dunn and Padden at Plymouth, and Jones and Lake at Dock, “each of whom continued for some time in the exercise of his talents, with success, until invited to the pastoral office at other places.” See Evangelical Magazine 1 (1793), 55.