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William Tong (24 Jun 1662 - 21 Mar 1727)

Nonconformist minster and tutor. In 1702, after posts in Coventry and Chester, Tong was named pastor of a large presbyterian congregation in Salters' Hall Court, Cannon Street, London. Other biography: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Tong_(minister) Other Links: https://gemms.usask.ca/node/759794
Notes: Relevant locations: Lived at or near London, England
Lived at or near Chester, Cheshire
Lived at or near Coventry, West Midlands
Workplace or place of business Cannon Street, London
 Relationships: William Tong was a educated by Richard Frankland (1630-1698)
William Tong was a educated by Frankland's Academy (8 March 1670-)

 References in Documents:
Thoresby, Musaeum Thoresbyanum (1713)

44. Mr. Sampson Erdeswick's History of Staffordshire writ towards the later End of Q. Elizabeth's Reign, containing the Antiquities of the same: With a Postscript added 1673, shewing that in little more than sixty Years, one half of the Estates had changed their Owners, &c. Don. Rev. Gul. Tong. Coventr.

Thoresby, Musaeum Thoresbyanum (1713)

236. The Diary of Mr. Yardley Vicar of Astley, An. 1668. Don. Rev. Gul. Tong V. D. M.

Thoresby, Musaeum Thoresbyanum (1713) His Autograph. Don. D. Gul. Tong.
Ralph Thoresby's guestbook of visitors to his museum (Yorkshire Archaeological Society MS27)
Gaudium verum est res severa.[*] Seneca the Younger, Epistulae morales, 23, 4: "True joy is a serious thing." S.n:Seneca W.William Tong (of London VDM.)*