Issachar Bates Autobiography

              [corresponds to page 67 of Issacher Bates Autobiography] 
not withstanding my distress I was frequently in great labor I lost no 
time I was striving to gather a people into to a joint interest and 
and altho they seemed zealous to effect it yet I could not get them 
to touch it in its order at the end of the day good brother Calvin 
Moral and good brother Charles Hampton came from Union Village 
sent by Father Davids advise to see what had become of me having 
just received the news then I found that I had a living sould that 
was full of joy and everlasting love and Father Davids love that 
they brought to me was better than all worlds that I knew any 
thing about and no matter about my body there was not much 
of it left any how but home was what I was after and after I 
had embr[carrot mark] a [above carrot mark]ced them in love and joy they went to talking with the 
dutch people about me how that it would not do to move [carrot mark] me [above carrot mark] for I 
would not live to go five miles this grieved me and I begged them 
to quit their naural stuff for I did not for I did not deal in natural 
things I dealt in phenomenon then they saw my grief and felt 
my faith they said he will go this way joy to me then the monday 
following good brother Mather Houston came on with a carriage 
and on Wednesday I was put into the carriage on a straw bed and 
settled [carrot mark] with [above carrot mark] these kind people for their care and trouble with me which 
was nothing but our kind thank this was all they [erased] we could purswade 
them to tak we started homeward and the kind brethren nursed 
me like and infant all the way carring me in and out to my