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Mar. 9 (N.S.) OKELY , John, of Bedford, England; scrivener, conveyancer,
  Justice of the Peace; itinerant preacher in eastern Pennsylvania; d May 15, 1792 in Lancaster. He m. secondly in 1745, Elizabeth Hume, b 1690 in Berwick on the Tweed, England, dau. of Dr. Alexander Home; she came to New York in 17389 end d 1775 in Bethlehem.
He m. thirdly, Feb. 8, 1780, Margaret, mn. Moore, widow of Matthias Graff, of Lancaster, who d 1789 in Lancaster.
ROBINS, Johanna, b 1715 in Maryland, of Quaker parentage; d 1745 in Bethlehem.
By Brother Boehler

Mar. 27/ Apr. 7 SHAW, Joseph, b near St. James, London; came to Penn-
  sylvania with the First Sea Congregation; schoolmaster; served in the Minisinks; ordained In 1747; with his-second wife, Mary Heap, of Philadelphia, lost at sea while enroute to St. Thomas, in Oct. 1747.
JONES, Maria, of Philadelphia; d Sep. 29, 1746 in Wal- pach beyond the Blue Mountain and d in Bethlehem.
By Brother Boehler, in Philadelphia

June 12/23 RONNER, Johann Reinhard, b 1698 near Strassburg,
  Alsace; came to Pennsylvania in 1742; button maker; ordained a deacon in 1743; served in various congregations, and in the West India mission 1750-1755; d July 1756 in Bethlehem. FISSLER, Elizabeth, b 1717 in Floex, Switzerland; lately from Philadelphia; served as deaconess; d Feb. 1771 in Bethlehem.
By Brother Anton

Aug. 24/Sep. 4 POST, Christian Friedrich, b 1710 in Conitz, Polish
  Prussia; a joiner by trade; one of The foremost Moravian missionaries to the Indiana; d Apr, 1785 in Germantown, Pa. He m. secondly, Sep. 24, 1748, Agnes, a Dela- ware Indian, who d July 8,1751 near Bethlehem; and m. thirdly,________
  RACHEL, an Indian of the Wampanoag Tribe, from She- komeko, N.Y.; d Dea. 26, 1747 in Bethlehem.

Sept. 25/Oct. 6 GAMBOLD, Hector, b Sep. 4, 1719 in South Wales; came
  to America with the First Sea Congregation in 1742; ordained a deacon in 1755 and served in the ministry in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and New York; d Nov. 10, 1788 in Bethlehem.
GREGG Eleonora, b 1718 in Ireland; d Apr. 6, 1792 in Bethlehem. They had issue, two sons; their son John was a pioneer missionary to the Cherokee Ind- lane.
By Brother Boehler

The two dates represent Old Style and New Style reckonings, a method of recording dates in common use by the Moravians in this country until 1752 when the Gregorian calendar was finally adopted in England.

[The above records are from pages 5-6 of original text]

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