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<hi rend="underline">Life  of B<hi rend="superscript">r</hi> <persname>John Christopher Pyrlaeus </persname>
who went home in <placename>Herrnhut</placename> the <date>28</date><hi rend="superscript"><date>th </date></hi><date>of
May 1785</date>.</hi>
He has left the following Account of himself:
I am <add>was</add> born at <placename>Pausa in Voetland</placename> the <date>25</date><hi rend="superscript"><date>th</date></hi><date>
of Apr. 1713 </date>& well 3 Months after the Death 
of my Father. He has been there Superinten-
dent as also his Father & Grand-Father
& died in his 33<hi rend="superscript">d</hi> Year. My Mother was
then 26 Years old, & had besides me yet
3 minor <add>younger</add> Children. She was very pious & reli-
gious, & put their her  Hope & Confidence on God,
she loved her Children very tenderly, & out
of Care for them she refused all <add>Proposals of</add> Marriages
offered to her, & remained a Widow, till she left 
this World in Confidence upon the Merits
of Jesus <date>1764</date> in the 78<hi rend="superscript">th</hi> Year of her Age.
She educated us with much Love & Care.
When we had grieved her with <add>by</add> Disobedience,
then she wept & this had chastised us. She kept
Every Morning & Evening she sang an Hymn,
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