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and in the year 1746 we were at Dansbury In the year
1748 we were sent to Shemoko,where I had a hard fitt
of illness, and returned to Bethlehem in November where
the office of servant of the church was committed to my
charge. In the year 1751 we was sent to Long Island
and after a 7 months stay there, was sent 2 time to
Dansbury, there we staid one year, and then retured to
Bethlehem, where my Husband began stire keeping. In the year
1755 we were sent to Gradenhuutten on the mahiny, there we staid
9 months untill the Terrible attack og the Indians of which
I was aprehensive some time before it came to pass, which was
on the 24th of November. Then we retreated to Bethlehem
and after we had strengthened and refreshed ourseoves some
time here, we went to Sichem in New England. Here we
staid 13 years and in that space of time had the comport to
see a little cingregation settled there by out dear Brother
Spangenberg. In the yeat 1759 we received a call to assist
in the work of god among the negros in Jamaica and after
a stay in Bethlehem of 8 weeks we satt out on our journey
hither my Birth Day the 12th of February. I looked apon
it as a peculiar favour to serve the poor Negro Slaves
I loved them and they loved me, but the excessive heat
of the climate weakened my poor Tabernacle greatly
after we had been there near 6 years we received our call
to