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Sr Mary Oates dictated the following Ap 8th 1812
Thy blood, thy blood the deed hath wrought ye
I was born June 26th 1747 in Great Horton, in the Parish
of Bradford. My father being one of the first Brn there
he was called home to our Saviour when I was only 2 yrs
old, and my Mother was left with five children of whom
I was the youngest, I can remember when very young being
sent to the Children's meetings and liked them very much
and hearing of our Saviours love to children, made an
imprewssion on my heart and that verse; Dearest childn
hark and see, what a Saviour now have we prove'd a bles
sing to me. But yet I sport the years of my youth
without knowing or experiencing much, untill I was
anout 18 years. I had a great desire to live in a Congn but
as I was the only daughter, I could not leave my mother,
It was at that time the custom, that those who lived
in the Country might not have the priveledge to be
re'd into the Congn and to partake of the H Comn. On this
account I felt very unhappy, as it appeared to me that I
could neither enjoy the Congn nor the World. I now fully,
experienced the truth of that text. The carnal mind is
enmity with God. I felt my sinful inclinations, and the
desire to enjoy the World, so strong that I sometimes
thought; I did not care what became of me, I said once in
my grief, I will never be in the Congn yet my heart condemnd
me. One night when I had fully determined to drop all
connection with the Brns people. I recd a hurt on my