Moravian Lives

& we found a good Livelihood by it. June 10th. 1743
we got a Call to go to America, this was an unex-
pected Proposal to me, we considered it together
& having once for all given ourselves up to live for 
our Savr. & his Matter in the World, we could not de-
cline it, & Aug. 20th. we set out from Herrnhuth
with many other Brn. & Srs. Our little Child of half
a Year old we took with us, & 2 Children a little
Boy of 9 Years & a Girl of 6 Years we left in 
Herrnhuth in the Oeconomies. Dec. 8th. 1743 we arri-
ved save & well in Bethlehem with 120 Brn. & Srs.
Various Things have showed themselves to me on
this long Journey, but they turned out for my Good.
Here we were soon received Acolytes, I became
also Hall Servant which was particularly weighty
& blessed to me. My Wife served in the Childrens
Oeconomy, & I for some Years in the Distillery.
1747 we got a Call to Lancaster to keep School there. 
Br. Nyberg who was Minister there, received us
with much Joy; & presented us still the same
Day to his People who all rejoiced very much, that
somebody from the Congrn would take Care of
their Children. They had already prepared a House

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for it, & Apr. 1st. 47 we begun the School with 65
Children, but in a short Time their Number increased
to 80. 6 Weeks after I grew very sick, & the Brn.
sent Br. Gottshalk who kept the School several
Months, till I was recovered. The Year following Br.
Nyberg moved to Bethlehem, & Br. & Sr. Abraham
Reineckes came to us as Labourers, with whom 
we lived a Year in Love & Peace. 1749 we were
called to Bethlehem for some time, where my Wife
should keep her lying in. On our Journey we
found, that the Waters had risen very much, & the
Middle Creek was so high, that the Horses had to
swim, & in the Middle of the Creek my Wife fell
from her Horse. Br. Franz Thomas was with us,
& we dragged her with great Danger of our Lives
out of the Water for dead, & having brought her into
a warm Room she soon came to herself again, &
neither she nor her Child has received any Hurt by it.
Within the Space of a Year we came again to Lancastor.
& then for some Years to Warwick, & from thence to
Christians Spring afterwards to Swatara where a 
new Meeting House was built, which we moved into