Ballad: Portraying the excellencies of Parys Mountain by Joseph Jones

BALLAD: Portraying the excellencies of Parys Mountain by Joseph Jones.

On dorse newspaper cuttings of articles written by Joseph Jones.

From 1764, when Charles Macclesfield was granted a 21 year lease to work the area, some desultory attempts to find copper were made but it was all very low key and half hearted. A large vein was discovered on 2nd March 1768 by miner Rowland Pugh. Henry Pagent who was Earl of Uxbridge and then The Marquis of Anglesey developed Mona Mine at the end of the Roe lease in 1785. He entered a partnership with the Vivian in 1811 which lead to the arrival of Cornish deep mining techniques. Joseph Jones was Parys mine agent. In 1819 he reported to John Sanderson [Lord Uxbridge's Estate Manager] "some miners only earned 12 1/2d per day and had to repay loans from this money". He took over the control of smelting operations at both the Mona and Parys smelters in March 1828. His methods were a failure and he was replaced by Treweek in Dec 1828. In 1829 he organized a petition against Treweek and brought false charges against Lemin which helped to create bad feeling between the Cornish native Welsh.

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Compiled by Hayden Burns for Archifau Ynys Môn / Anglesey Archives.

http://www.amlwchhistory.co.uk/parys/managers.htm

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