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V. The single Sister <persname>Mary Elisab.<hi rend="superscript">th</hi> Baker</persname>.
She <sic>writs</sic>  <corr>writes</corr> herself: I am born the <date>9</date><hi rend="superscript"><date>th</date></hi><date> of June 1737</date>
at <placename>Berlin</placename>, My Parent did their best to keep me out
of bad <sic>Companie</sic>  <corr>Company</corr>. I often went alone to pray, but
<sic>toock</sic>  <corr>took</corr> myself soon better then other <sic>Poeple</sic>  <corr>People</corr>. A.<hi rend="superscript">o</hi> <date>1743</date>
I came to the Joy of my Heart in the Children Anstalt
at <placename>Hhuth</placename>. <date>1746</date> I was among the Congregation
of the Children received. I loved our Saviour &
was taken for a pretty good Child, but as was
grown older, then I begun to feel the <sic>Coruption</sic>  <corr>Corruption</corr> of
my Heart. A.<hi rend="superscript">o</hi> <date>49</date> I came in the Girls Choir &
by that means in the Choir House. I was the
same <add>year</add> received into the Congregation.
A.<hi rend="superscript">o</hi> <date>52</date> I moved I came to <placename>Berlin</placename> again, where I in the
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