Focus on Fulneck: A Collection of Moravian Memoirs from 18th Century Yorkshire Congregation
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Samuel Benade 1 Narrative of my pilgrimage thro’ the vale of tears. They that sow in tears, shall reap in joy. He that goeth forth and reap weepeth bearing precious seed, shall doubtless come again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with him. All they, who weeping now go forth And bear the precious seed, May…
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The Girl Agnes Bönish. She was 1752. the 7th. of July at New Herrnhuth in Groenland born, & baptized by Br. Johanes who was just there, the same time, In her Childhood she made her Parents as well as the Brn. & Sisters there many happy Hours. Ao. 57. the 25th. of Nov. Br. &…
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departed May 12, 1754 Lewis William Thorn was born the 2d of febr. 1746: His Father who is at present in Wales in the Service of our Saviour: gave him in the Childrens Economy then at Buttermere in the month of March 1749, from whence he came with the rest of the Children to Yorkshire…
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Born: 9 August, 1727 at BerthelsdorfDied: 20 February, 1803 at Fulneck Original version 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 the…
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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,…