The oldest child of Samuel Stennett and his wife was Master Haley Stennett who died about 1757, as I
have said before.
Their other son was Joseph IV. Accordingly to Whitely, Joseph IV at Warwick from 1777 to 1779,
presumably as a Baptist pastor.285 In the letter from Robert Burnside to Samuel Stennett
dated December 23, 1779, Burnside says he has "been enquiring after a boarding-house for Masr. Stennett."286 Burnside was writing from the university town of Aberdeen; the boy referred to is probably
Joseph IV. Joseph would likely be a young man then, so I suggest he was born about 1758. (Haley was the only child of the Stennetts
when he died about 1757.) Later Joseph IV became the assistant to his father at the Little Wild Street Baptist
Church in London. He was received into the Baptist Board (of ministers) on February 22, 1785287 According to the London Times for June 23, 1791, "Rev J. Stennett" was married to a Mrs.
Straphan."288 He was yet his father's assistant in 1794.289 About the time of his father's death, 1795, he was very sick, but recovered. About the same time, he became
the pastor at Coate in Oxfordshire which had once been served by his uncle Joseph III.290 I
have never read that he served the Little Wild Street Church after his father's death. In 1798, there are records that show he was
the minister also at Buckland and Farington in Berkshire, just across the county line from Coate in Oxfordshire.291 These churches he served through 1810, going to the Baptist Church at Calne in 1811 and
remaining there into 1824. Then he vanishes from History. As he would be about sixty-five years old then, I suggest that he died.
Anyway, with him, this Stennett disappeared as far as his branch of the family is concerned.292 Thus a great family of Dissenter ministers come to an end. Whitley credits him with two
small publications: A Social Prayer (circular of the Oxford at Alchester) published in 1806 and The Truths of the gospel, their
influence and practical Effects (Circular of the Western at Taunton) published in 1817.293
Samuel and his wife had a daughter, Miss. Elizabeth Stennett. It is said of her and her brother, Joseph
IV, that Samuel had "inexpressible satisfaction" in them."294 Some time
after her father's death and before the issuing of his Works in a three volume edition in 1824, she married Edward Phillips, Esq.
of Grosvenor Terrace, Bath. (They had in their possession a letter from John Howard to Samuel Stennett.)295
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286 Baptist Quarterly , IX, no. 7 (July 1939), p. 425.
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287 Transactions of the Baptist Historical Society , IV (1918-019), p. 85.
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288 Palmer's Index to the Times Newspaper , 1791, Spring, April 1-June 30, p. 15.
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289 Rippon, Annual Baptist Register , 1794-97, p. 9.
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290 Ibid. , 1798-1801, p. 29; Whitely, A Baptist Bibliography ; Ivimey, op. cit. , IV,
412.
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291 Rippon, Annual Baptist Register , 1798-1801, p. 117; Whitely, A Baptist Bibliography ; Payne,
The Baptists of Berkshire , p. 99; cf. p. 86.
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292 Duffield, op. cit. , p. 35.
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293 Whitley, A Baptist Bibliography .
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294 Rippon, Annual Baptist Register , 1794, p. 389.
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295 Samuel Stennett, Works , III, 459f.
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N1 Samuel Stennett, Works , I (London, 1824), pp. x-xii.
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N2 John Stanley, The church in the hop garden (London: Kingsgate Press, 1935?), p. 166; Stanley
does have some degree of confusion so should be relied only with caution.
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N3 E. J. Tongue, Dr. John Ward's Trust (London: Carey Kingsgate Press, 1951), p. 15.
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N4 Transactions of the Baptist Historical Society , VI (1918-19), p. 85.
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N5 A brief history of the Baptist church in Little Wild Street (London: G. Wightman, 1835), p.
11.
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N6 Stanley, op. cit ., p. 168.
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N7 Deed is at the Baptist Union Corp., Didcot, Oxfordshire; the Stennett residence is noted in Stennett,
op. cit ., p. xvi.
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N8 Gentleman's magazine , June 1791, 583.
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N9 Little Wild Street Church book , 1726-1805; this was at the Baptist Church House (in London as
of 1981) but the book presumably has been moved to Regent's Park College, Oxford.
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N10 John Rippon, The Baptist annual register , [III] (1798-1801), 117.
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N11 BQ, 16 (1955-6), 328.
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N12 John Stanley, The church in the hop garden (London: Kingsgate Press, 1935?), pp. 166-173.
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N13 Transactions of the Baptist Historical Society , VII, no. 3-4 (1921), p. 231.
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N14 Stanley, op. cit. , 127.
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N15 lvan George Sparkes, Introducing Farington Baptist Church. 1657-1957 ... (Tuckaway, Baringon,
Berks., W. G. Berry, 1957) (a typescript), title page verso.
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N16 Church in the Hop Garden , p. 169.
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N17 National Library of Wales, Isaac Mann's letter collection; summarized in Baptist quarterly
, VI (1932-33), p. 223.
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N18 Baptist annual register , ed. by John Rippon, III (1798-1801), pp. 1097-1099.
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N19 National Library of Wales, Isaac Mann letter collection; summarized in the Baptist quarterly ,
VI (1932-33), p. 277.
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N20 Yale University, Osborn Collection, Mann box.
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N21 Church book 1817 of the Zion Strict or Particular Baptist chapel.
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N22 Robert W. Oliver, The chapels of Wiltshire ... (London: Strict Baptist Historical Society,
1968) ( The Strict Baptist chapels of England , v. 5), p. 48.
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N23 1655 to 1955; the Lord hath done great things ... ([Calne] Castle Street Baptist Church,
1955), p. 7; Roger Hayden, Evangelical Calvinism (Ph. D. dissertation, Univ. of Keele), 412.
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N24 Norfolk Record Office, Ms. 4344, "The Baptist Denomination in Norfolk and the Baptist Church at
Ingham Founded in 1653," evidently by W. H. Cooke, f. 9.
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N25 Letter of Robert Burnside to Dr. Samuel Stennett, Dec. 23, 1779, in BQ IX (1938-39), p. 426;
Burnside letter of July 13, 1818 (Seventh Day Baptist Historical Society), to American Seventh Day Baptists.
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