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79 If I read correctly the genealogy given in The Private Letter Books of Joseph Collet, this Joseph Collett no relative of Joseph Collett, Esq., who is a friend of Joseph Stennett I. back 80 Joseph Stennett III, The Happiness and Glory of Heaven, Considered as the House of God. and Prepared by his Son (London: 1742), p. 1. back 81 Ibid., p. 10. back 82 Ibid., p. 14. back 83 Joseph Collett, The Unsearchable Depths of God's Judgments Considered: (London 1742), "To the Reader." This hard to obtain publication is in microfilm (Reel - 3 #13, SR 127) at the Starr King School for the Ministry, here in Berkley, California. back 84 Daniel Turner, Sermon Occasioned by the death of the Mr. Joseph Stennett (Abingdon: 1769), pp. 31f.; Transactions of the British Baptist Historical Society VI (1918-19), 142; Armatage, op. cit., p. 563; Rippon, op. cit., 1794-7, p. 380; Whitley, A Baptist Bibliography, I, 163; Payne, Baptists of Berkshire, p. 73. I do not know if Joseph III was married or not. Turner, op. cit., p. 33 says "The earthly husband, father, brother, friend, is dead." However, he fails to mention otherwise a wife or family and says that his brother, Samuel Stennett of London, attended him on his death-bed (p. 29). As to whether or not Joseph III was a Seventh Day Baptist, SDBs in EA says he was "a faithful keeper and defender of the Sabbath" (I, 101), but there are no source materials to verify the statement and I have found none; lacking source materials, I must doubt that he observed the seventh-day Sabbath. back 85 Ivimey, op. cit., III, 588. According to The London Gazette (no. 138338, Nov. 17-21, 1795, p. 1234), in 1795 a John Stennett completed bankruptcy proceedings. He was a butcher, dealer, and chapman (merchant) in Long-Alley, Moorfield, in the county of Middlesex, which is just northwest of London. Could this be another son of Joseph III Other than these Stennetts about whom this thesis is written, most of the Stennetts listed in various records live in Lincolnshire. back N1 Miscellanea qenealegica et heraldica, ed. by Joseph Jackson Howard, ser. 3, III (London: Milchell and Hughes, 1900), p. 87. back N2 Daniel Turner, Sermon occasioned by the death of the Rev. Mr. Joseph Stennett ... (Abingdon, 1769), title page. back N3 Little Wild Street, London, Baptist record book which was at the Baptist Church House, London, but presumably has been moved to Regent's Park College Library, Oxford. back N4 John Stanley, The church in the hop garden (London: Kingsgate Press [1935]), p. 122. back N5 Upton Church record book. back N6 ctd Tho. Crosby, The history of the English Baptists, IV (London, 1740), p. 322; John Gill, The mutual gain of Christ ... a sermon occasioned by the decease of the Revd. Joseph Stennett ... (London, 1758), pp. 46-47. back N7 Gentleman's magazine, XV (March 1745), p. 164. back N8 Chapel registers in The records of the honorable Society of Lincoln's Inn, II ([London] : Lincoln's Inn, 1896), p. 626. back N9 Joseph Stennett, Christ's care . . . (London, 1754), p. 36. back N10 Stanley, op. cit., pp. 124-125; Bunhill Fields Registers (Public Record Office, Chancery Lane, London), buried May 29, 1769, from "Hatton Garden." back N11 Turner, A sermon occasioned by the death of the Rev. Mr. Joseph Stennett, late Minister of the Gospel, at Coat ... (Abingdon, 1769) , title page. back N12 Stanley, op. cit., p. 127. back N13 Bunhill Fields Registers, XIV, pp. 94, 144. back N14 A charge and sermon delivered at the ordination of the Rev. Thomas Dunscombe ... (Bristol [1773] ) , pp. 8, 39. back |