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returned to her Creator and Redeemer in the birth, and
our second daughter Anna was born in Bedford, to which
place we had been called a year before, but soon after
her birth my dear wife went into her Lords joy, which
was a great loss to me, and I felt much pain at parting
with her. Octr 29th 1759, I was married to my second wife
the Sgle Sr Frances Sophia Engelboch which marriage
was blest with 2 Sons and 3 Daughters, one Son and 2
daughters, of whom are gone happily to our Lord in
their infancy, and my Son Ignatius serves in the Childn's
Oeconomy  Economy in Fulneck, my daughter Anna lives in the
Sister's house in Fulneck and my daughter Catharine
Charlotte has lived with me during my being a widower
and served me with great faithfulness as a loving dutiful
Child, which I acknowledge with gratitude and for which
our good Lord will bless and reward her. Our dr Saviour
has been pleased to make use of my poor services in
Bedford, Bristol, London and twice in Fulneck,
and when I survey my whole course, I must on the
one side confess to the praise of my gracious Lord,
that he has been with me, and in mercy owned me,
and blessed my own poor heart abundantly and help
-ed me thro' many difficulties which had at that time
caused me no small distress. But on the other side I
see an endless number of imperfections and failings
that if I did not know the all-sufficiency of his