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The single <persname>Sister Martha Ashly</persname>.<br />
She wrote of herself as follows:<br />
I am born the <date>21</date><hi rend="superscript"><date>st</date></hi><date>. <abbr>Sept.</abbr> 1736.</date> at <placename>Stornhill near Wike</placename>.<br />
&amp; brought up in the <abbr>engl.</abbr> Church. In my Childhood I<br />
heard the Brethren <sic>testyfying</sic>&nbsp; <corr>testifying</corr> the tender Love of our<br />
Saviour that I got a deep Impression therefrom in my<br />
Heart; but this, by <sic>myn</sic>&nbsp; <corr>my</corr> unsettled state of Mind, soon<br />
faded away. <abbr>Till</abbr> the Time when <persname><abbr>B</abbr></persname><hi rend="superscript"><persname><abbr>r</abbr></persname></hi><persname><abbr>. &amp; Sist</abbr></persname><hi rend="superscript"><persname><abbr>r</abbr></persname></hi><persname><abbr>.</abbr> Held</persname> a School<br />
for Girls <sic>errected</sic>&nbsp; <corr>erected</corr>, there our <abbr>Sav</abbr><hi rend="superscript"><abbr>r</abbr></hi><abbr>.</abbr> came so powerfully on<br />
my Heart, that I could from the Bottom of my Heart weep<br />
to him, to make me a happy Child. I never shall forget<br />
the blessed Time among us Children, <sic>especialy</sic>&nbsp; <corr>especially</corr> what feelings