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&amp; happy between Twelve &amp; one o&#39; Clock in [Jesu?]<br />
Arms &amp; Breast with a Blessing of his Choir<br />
&amp; Congregation he was Forty years Two -<br />
Months &amp; Twenty Three Days old. He<br />
was a blessed Messenger to the Negroes in<br />
<placename>St. Croix</placename> &amp; his Walk amongst him was with<br />
&nbsp;Grace &amp; blessing. This remembrance will<br />
remain dear to them.<br />
The Life of <persname>B</persname><hi rend="superscript"><persname>r</persname></hi><persname>&nbsp;Johannes Jorde</persname><br />
&nbsp;Johannes Jorde was born in <date>May 1706</date> in<br />
the so called Hirs [Gremade?] in Upper [Silofia]<br />
of the Lutheran Religion. His Parents dyed<br />
when he was young and he ^was^ put out to live in<br />
Hillersdorff. Here he stay&#39;d till he was 35<br />
years of Age &amp; did very well till such Time<br />
as he got acquainted with the awakening<br />
Souls in that Place. Several of which went to<br />
That, whose Example he follow&#39;d in the year<br />
41. In April the same year he was rec&#39;d in<br />
in the Congregation, &amp; afterwards was sent to<br />
[Flahag?]. here he learn&#39;d the Carpenters Trade<br />
in&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;