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Departed Oct 11,1756
Hannah Clark was born the second of December 1727 in a North Durham near Halifax. In the Year 1743 she  heard the Gospel preached for the first Time by the Brethren, by which means our dear Savior drew near her Heart and Seized her in Such a Manner that She could not rest till She was joined to that People, who make Him their all in all,tho She thought herself almost unworthy of that Favour, and had scarcely the Courage to desire Such a Thing, She being naturally of a bashful Disposition;however being encouraged by her Sisters, who also had attended Preaching at the Same Time, She was Soon after received into Halifax Society.. In the Year 1748 She came to live in the Single Sisters Aeconomy, which  was then at Cleckheaton, where in the Beginning She seemed to be pretty much unsettled; however in Process of Time, her Heart becoming more and more aequainted with our Saviour, She was quite at home.In the Year 50 She moved with the Rest of the Sisters there to Tiresal-hall,where she enjoyed a still greater Blessing for her Heart and got a great Desire and longling to be received into the Congregation which was granted her on the 12th of January 1752;in going to Gracehall on that Day she made great haste,contrary to her custom,(for she used always to be one of the last;)the Sisters taking Notice thereof, asked her the Day following, why she had beenin Such a great Hurry, O! say'd she ,I had some Intimation in my mind,as if I should be received,tho I would tell nobbody of it,therefore I had a mind not to be too late.
When the Sisters moved out the aeconomies into the Choir House, she together with some others was ordered to live in  Pudsey Town, which grieved her very much; she always said she could never be Satisfied till she came to live in the Choir House. on the 6th of December in the Year 1793 she had the Grace to partake of her Bridegroom's Corpse and Blood in holy Sacrament for the first time,which had a blessed effect upon her Heart,thence forward she grew more cheerful and lively than ever before:
Once when she was going to the Meeting, she fell and hurt her Knee, for which Reason, she went to live a While with her Father He being aSurgeon, but being very uneasy there, she wanted to be at home again;in the mean time the Pudsey aeconomy removed into the Choir House;when her sister once came to see her, she ask'd her whether her Bed