A Collection of Moravian Memoirs from 18th Century English Congregations
Sarah Cennick 1 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…
Born: 9 August, 1727 at BerthelsdorfDied: 20 February, 1803 at Fulneck Original version Ful/SS/8 Our dear happily departed sister Anna Rosina Anderson, has left the following account of herself: I was born the 9th of Aug 1727 at Berthelsdorf. My Parents belonging to the Cong endeavoured to bring me up in the same connection with…
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,…
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…
Heinrich Friedrich Cossart Our dear Brother Henry Friedr. Cossart. As he did not write the full Account of his Life himself, then we only can acquaint the Congregation with the following, viz: I am born (he writes on a Place of himself) the 20 th of Apr. 1714 at Frankfurt on the Oder, where my…