A Collection of Moravian Memoirs from 18th Century English Congregations
Sarah Cennick The Life of the S. Sr Sarah Cennick who went happily home Jany 24th 1770 I was born June the 12th old Style 1712 in Reading Berks. wass baptiz’d in the Church of England and brought up in that Comunion. The first thing I remember is the simple and happy intercourse I…
London Memoir Of Br John Willey, a Servant of the Lord in the Brn’s Church, who departed this life in Gracehill, October 6th 1847. Aged 66 years. Written by his children Not having been able to find any account of our dear father’s life, written by himself, we can merely record some of the principal…
I Sam.l Tippett have thought it might not be amiss to leave the following lines behind me. I was Born in the year of our Lord in 1711 In the Parrish of Bitton, in the Hamlet of Oland My Father died when I was young, my mother kept me to school tho with some difficulty,…
Brief – Memoir of our late happily departed Sister Esther Latrobe drawn up by her Husband and Brother Our late dear Relative was born at Bristol, June the 7th 1802, and being the only daughter among a family of six children, was peculiarly precious to her parents and brothers, and tenderly beloved by them. This…
Here followed the 22nd of March our dear Sister Benigna Briand. She was born the 17th of December 1707 at Lyneham in Wiltshire. Her Parents have been of the Quaker Religion & She was brought up in the same Principles. Anno 1740 the 19th February was she married to our Br. Briand & they followed…
Memorandum of my course of life (widow of Thos Harsley? + Bradford, Wilts) The Lord hath done great things for me what to his precise each blood drop within me were followed always My Maiden name was Craddock I was born in Bristol, April 17 1745 Old Stile and was Baptized in the Church of…