Religious Life
Newcomen is purported to have been more than a lay preacher as he was a teaching elder in the local Baptist church. He continued to business as a lay preacher, due almost certainly to the fact that the church could not afford to pay him as a full-time elder. His father had been one of a group who brought the well-known Puritan John Flavel to Dartmouth. Later one of Newcomen's business contacts in London, Edward Wallin, was another Baptist minister who had connections with the well known Dr. John Gill of Horsleydown, Southwark. Newcomen's connection with the Baptist church at Bromsgrove materially aided the spread of his steam engine.
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