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Welsh history and its sources
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Jones, William

(18091873). From Pontypool, Monmouthshire. A Chartist (see Chartism) who organised the abortive march from Pontypool to Newport during the Newport Rising, 1839. With the other leaders of the Rising, Frost, John and Williams, Zephaniah, he was convicted of treason and sentenced to death but had his punishment commuted to transportation for life. He was sent to Australia, where he spent the remainder of his life.

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