Moravian Lives

A Collection of Moravian Memoirs from 18th Century English Congregations

Category: Married Brethren

Moravian Archives Bethlehem, PA

  • Benigna Briand (1707-1763)

    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 (1714-1763)

    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…

  • Susanna Burgher (1696-1772) (fragment)

    Sr. Susanna Burgher’s Account of Her Life. Awakening etc. See a further Account of her Course in the Journal of the Year 1772 under the 3d. of November, when she ended her Life, aged 76 Years 7 Months and 29 Days. I, Susanna Burger was Born in the year 1696 the 24 day of March…

  • Nicholas Eberhard (1723-1770)

    New York. Memoirs of Br. Nicholas Henry Eberhard, so as He himself penn’d them down in the Beginning of this Year, in a probable Expectation of being soon calld home. I was born in Copenhagen, March 20th. 1723. where my Father was Doctor and Surgeon to a Grenadier Regiment, and educated in the Lutheran Religion.…

  • Margarethe Edmonds (1721-1773)

    Personalien der seln Schwr Margaretha Edmonds geborene Antonin wie sie die selbige von ihrem lieben Mann in die Feder dictirt hat Ich Margaretha Edmonds, eine Tochter Henrichs und Eva Antonin, bin in New-York 1721 d. 7ten Marz geboren, in der Nieder-teutschen Reformirten Kirch daselbst getauft, und {in} nach  meiner l. Eltern Religion erzogen.  Meiner Mutter Anführung in den dem…

  • Martha Büninger (1723-1812)

    {Den 2. Jan.}  1752 kam ich {Abrah. Büninger} mit meiner lieben Martha{m.n. Mariner}  nach Gnadenhütt, Ich zum Schule halten, und zum diener des Gemeinleins Meine liebe Martha zur Dienerin, und Köchin. Folgendes ist von meiner lieben Martha Ich bin gebohren in Rhod Eyland, Meines Vaters Name war Jhon Marriner, meiner Mutter Elisabeth, gebohren in New Engeland, der Vater…