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150 [Doc. 10.
SWEDENBORG’S ANCESTRY.
what follows. In the year 1699, whilst I was at Starbo, one
of my servant-girls injured herself very much in the elbow.
The arm swelled, and she had excruciating pain. Nothing
that was done to her had any effect. For many days and
nights she had been without rest and without sleep ; in
this condition she came to me about midnight, while I and
my dear wife were lying asleep, and begged me for Christ’s
sake to relieve her of this torture, or she would go and
destroy herself. She believed that I could do so, if I was
willing to take her pains in hand here in this room , as soon
as possible.” Swedberg did in this case almost the same as he
had done in that of the first distressed servant-girl. “ Dictum ,
· ,
factum, i. e., it was said, and done;" he added, “ in a moment
the paroxysms of pain were stilled, and she soon became sound
and healthy again. To God alone be the glory !"
Swedberg was married three times. His statements about
his marriages are by no means the least characteristic portions
of his autobiography. We shall quote some of them .
His first wife was Sara, daughter of Assessor Albrecht
Behm, of the Royal College of Mines. They celebrated their
wedding on Dec. 16, 1683, and she brought him considerable
means, by which he was.enabled to undertake his journey
abroad. Of her he relates, “ Although she was the daughter
of an Assessor, and had been the wife of the Dean of Upsal,
and possessed great riches, she did not at any time dress
in accordance with her wealth . When all in those times
wore that sinful and scandalous headgear called a fontange,
she and her children followed the multitude. But when she
heard that in Gothland a cow had with much pain and tor
ture, and amid pitiful wailings, borne a calf with a fontange,
she took her own and her daughters’ fontanges, and cast
them into the fire, making a vow that neither she nor her
children, as long as they were under her power, should ever
wear them again." By her Swedberg had eight children . She
died June 17, 1696.
His second wife was Sara, daughter of Anders Bergius,
the Dean (prosten ) of Norrberke. She had been married
before to a merchant in Köping called Michel Hising, and
afterwards to J. Nordlind, the magistrate (häradshöfding).
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