Lease, for 99 years, for £50, rent 5s. yearly, Gabriel Powell of Swansea, gent., to Griffith Davies of Swansea, minister, and Daniel Davies of Swansea, weaver; The Baptist meeting house, being part of the dwelling house owned by William Jones, hatmaker, on E. side of the Higher Town Street, Swansea, for the purpose of performing divine service, with rights of access, provided that the meeting house is rebuilt within two years. 1 Aug. 1758

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Swansea General Baptist Church DeedsD/D Bap 40

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Lease, for 99 years, for £50, rent 5s. yearly, Gabriel Powell of Swansea, gent., to Griffith Davies of Swansea, minister, and Daniel Davies of Swansea, weaver; The Baptist meeting house, being part of the dwelling house owned by William Jones, hatmaker, on E. side of the Higher Town Street, Swansea, for the purpose of performing divine service, with rights of access, provided that the meeting house is rebuilt within two years. 1 Aug. 1758D/D Bap 40/1

Deed of Trust and Assignment (and Counterpart), for residue of term of 99 years, for 5s. a piece, The Reverend Griffith Davies, minister of the Baptist congregation at Higher Town Street, Swansea, and Daniel Davies of Swansea, weaver, to John Evan of Swansea town, yeoman, Morgan Bowen of Swansea town, yeoman, William Rees of Swansea town, corvisor, John Thomas of the franchise of Swansea town, William Philip of Swansea, yeoman, John Morgan jun. of Swansea, yeoman, David Richard of Swansea town, mason, John Bevan of Swansea town, yeoman, Thomas Rees of Llangyfelach, farmer, Mathew Morgan of Llangyfelach, yeoman, John David of Oystermouth, and John Llewelin of Llamsamlet; The rebuilt Baptist meeting house in the Higher Town Street, Swansea. 24 June 1760D/D Bap 40/2/1-2

Deed of Trust and Assignment, for residue of term of 99 years, for 5s. apiece, William Rees of Swansea town, cordwainer, and Thomas Rees of Llangyfelach, farmer, surviving trustees, to Thomas Jenkins of Swansea town, minister, Philip Richard of Llangyfelach, yeo., William Morris of Swansea town, gent., Richard Jenkins of Llansamlet, gent., Elias Jenkins of Llansamlet, gent., Richard Richard of Llangyfelach, copperman, James Jenkins of Llangyfelach, yeo., John Thomas of Llangyfelach, copperman, The Reverend Thomas Rees of Gellygron in Llangyfelach, clerk, Roger Hopkins of Swansea town, engineer, and Charles Maliphant of Llansamlet, mason; the Baptist meeting house; in Swansea. 29 Nov. 1806D/D Bap 40/3

Memorandum Of Appointment of new Trustees of the Baptist Meeting House at Baptist Court, Swansea, under the Titles of Religious Congregations Act, 1850, appointing the following: Thomas Rees of London, gent. [former trustee], John Briggs, messenger of Dover (co. Kent), Joseph Calrow Means, messenger of Chatham (co. Kent), William Henry Black, General Baptist minister of Mill Yard, London, Titus Lloyd, General Baptist minister of Newton Nottage, William David of Newton Nottage, cordwainer, Thomas Thomas of Wick, and John Atkinson Briggs, General Baptist minister of Bessel's Green (co. Kent) Witnesses: David Morgan of Morriston and James Joyce of College Street, Swansea. 6 Oct. 1852D/D Bap 40/4