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experience Poverty and Reproach of various Kinds. Till <date>1796</date>
we had the Care of the Girls Oeconomy in <placename>Herrnhut</placename>, and assisted in
the Work of the Lord and the Congregation and particularly the married Choir. 
In <date>June</date><date> the same Year</date><date></date> we went to <placename>Ronneburg</placename> in <placename>Wetteravia</placename>, and
from there to <placename>Franefort upon Mayn</placename>, and with these Journies we made
the Beginning of a poor Pilgrim Life, having often at our Nights Lodgings
neither Bed Clothes above nor under us; and in the latter Place,
there arose soon a Persecution against the Brethren, so that we
were obliged to leave the City. We then stayed with the Pilgrim 
Congregation at <placename>Berlin</placename>, and afterwards in <placename>Wetteravia</placename> till in <date>October 1738</date> when
we sat out on our Journey from <placename>Marienborn</placename> to <placename>Livonia</placename> with a Visa
to go, agreable to our Call, through <placename>Russia</placename> to <placename>Persia</placename>. Our Savior
blessed our Adode in <placename>Livonia</placename> to many Souls, and granted us the Grace
to testify with a hearful Heart to People in high and low Rank
what Jesus Blood each do on Sinners <unclear>base</unclear>. I shall never 
forget it, what a powerful Grace ruled at that Time among
the Estonians and Lettonians. 
     In <date>1740</date> we returned to <placename>Marienborn</placename>, where I enjoyed a very
blessed Time. The Year following |:<date>1741</date>:| we resided with the
Pilgrim Congregation at <placename>Genessa</placename> and <placename>Montmirail</placename> and in <date>May 1742</date> we
went with <persname>Count Zinzendorf</persname>s Family the second Time to <placename>Livonia</placename>.
But we found it this time very different from the Time we had
been there before; because a great Enmity had arisen against
the Brethren and which increased more and more, and in <date>April
1747</date> the Beginning was made to put the Brethren in Prison.

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The <persname>Brethren Gutslef </persname>and <persname>Halderhof</persname> were first brought as Pri
soners to <placename>Petersburg</placename>, and in <date>June</date> following also <persname>Brother Fritshe</persname>
and my Husband. Though there was a very strict Prohibition, that
none of the Brethren and Sisters should be suffered either to leave the Country
or come into it; I ventured it however to travel with my Son <unclear>[?]</unclear> 
Years old, whom our Savior had given me in <placename>Livonia</placename>, and a Foster
Daughter <persname>Mary Jacob</persname>, to <placename>Herrnhut</placename>. Having no Passport I could not
travel on the public Roads, and as besides this 6000 Russians
had formed a Line from the <placename>River Dina</placename> to the Boundaries |:it being
then War:| there was according to all human Appearance no Probabi
lity to come through. But our Saviour who was so inexpressibly
near to me at the time when my Husband was taken Prisoner
so that it was as if he spoke personally with me, comforted and sup
ported me powerfully. I simply followed his Leading, and he brought
me at last through many Dangers, round about Ways, Wildernesses
and Morasses to <placename>Angermünde</placename> in <placename>Curland</placename> to the <persname>Reverend M. Laskiell</persname>
where I was richly strengthened and refreshed. They also cared for it
that I safely arrived at <placename>Königsberg</placename>, from whence I was accompanied
to <placename>Herrnhut</placename>, where I arrived in <date>August</date> the same Year |:<date>1747</date>:| For
Joy that I was in my dear <placename>Herrnhut</placename>, I forgot for some Time all
my Griefs and Sorrows, and <persname>Count Zinzendorf</persname> took a fatherly Care
of me, so that I would speak fully with him about all my Circum
stances. However the Grief about my dear Husband, of whom
I would get no Account to be depended upon, returned soon, and
besides this I had many laudy and heavy Hours, so that it was
a Wonder that I was so safely delivered of my Son <persname>John Frederie</persname>