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On the 3rd of April, Matthias Seybold asked to be received
into the communicant Congregation, which was done on the 5th of May,
and he shared in the Lord's Supper for the first time June 3rd.
John Boehner also was confirmed on January 12th of the following year.
On the 11th of November two little girls, Anna and Comfort,
were added to their household. The mother had recently died,
and the father offered to pay the Moravians for taking care of them,
but they preferred to have them bound, so they could not be taken away
just when they had begun to learn, and so it was arranged. On the 28th,
a man from Ebenezer brought his son, and apprenticed him to Tanneberger,
the shoemaker.
The dark side of the picture arose from two causes, ill health,
and matrimonial affairs. There was a great deal of sickness
throughout Georgia that summer, and the second company became acclimated
through the same distressing process that the first had found so hard to bear.
Mrs. Dober, Mrs. Waschke, Mrs. Toeltschig, Gottlieb Demuth, John Boehner
and others were sick at various times, and David Jag cut his foot so severely
that he was unable to use it for four months.
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