Barbara Heck

Soon after their arrival, Mrs. Heck entered a room in which, according to some accounts, Embury was present, and found the emigrants gambling at cards.[2] She seized the cards and threw them into the fire, expostulated with the players in pathetic language, and then went to Embury and charged him that he should preach to them, or God would require their blood at his hands.[1] The first congregation which gathered to hear the sermon preached by Philip Embury in the parlor of his home on Barrack Street (now Park Place) included Embury's wife, Paul Heck, Barbara Heck, Mr. John Lawrence, and an African American servant named Betty.[2] When the Revolutionary war began, the Hecks moved to Salem, in northern New York, in order to be among loyalists, and founded the first Methodist society in that district.She was honored by the Office of the Manhattan Borough President in March 2008 and was included in a map of historical sites related or dedicated to important women.
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