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The Course of Life of Martha Fawset
Martha Fawset was born in Wike in the year 1751
May ye 27th and Baptized June ye 4th at Scholes by Br Latrobe
She was a Child that from her earlist years took great delight in learning
Verses and this was one great reason why she had such pleasure in
going to the Childrens School which was at that time kept by Sister
Betty Holdaworth she had a perticular love for her insomuch that when
the Sister went away it cost her many Tears, in the time of her going to
School the had two Fitts, but grow better, in the year 1763 March
the 25th she was taken into the great Girls Choir which was a new
School to her she was of a very lively dispossion which when she
began to feel a little of her self she was some times concernd about
it and one night in perticular she wept to her Mother and said
said she wish'd it cou'd be made possable for her to go and live
some were among the Sisters, her Mother comforted her telling her it
wou'd be made possible and that she shou'd only give her Heart to
our Saviour and she wou'd take care about that, and thus for the
present she was made satisfy'd, the first time after that she
came to Fulneck she desird her Labrous to give her leave to go
and live at the little Oeconomy with the Sister Mary Wight
Jany ye 30 1765 soon after she was rejoiced with the News that she had
now leave to go and live with them Sisters where upon she went
with great Satisfaction Jany ye 30 1765 and became soon satis
fy'd and quite at home and was very chearfull among the Sisters
there tho' her uncommon lively turn some times occasiond the Sisters
to reprove her yet not with standing it was very perceptable that
that she had some times very serious reflections, one time in
perticular as the sisters was conversing together in aband like way
she put the question to them if they thought that the Angels had
the same share with in our Saviours redemtion as the human