WILLIAMS
,
DAVID
(
1702
-
1779
),
early Welsh Moravian
;
b. in
Llandwrog parish (Caerns.)
,
2 Aug. 1702
. In
1728
at latest, he was a
bookbinder
in
London
. He and his wife joined the
Moravian society
in
1739
. She d.
5 Dec. 1766
, and at the end of
1767
he decided to return to his native region. It was he who brought
Mrs.
Alice
Griffith
(see
Griffith
,
William
,
1719
-
1782
) into contact with
Moravianism
, and got
David
Mathias
(q.v.)
sent to
north-west Wales
. He d. between March and June
1779
.
Bibliography:
-
Y Cymmrodor
, xlv,
1938
, chap. vii (and index).
Author:
Emeritus Professor Robert Thomas Jenkins, C.B.E., D.Litt., Ll.D.,
F.S.A., (1881-1969), Bangor
