Background
Barbara Heck was born in 1734, in Ballingrane, Ireland, where German refugees from the Palatinate had been permitted to settle in 1709. Her father was Sebastian Ruckle.
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Barbara Heck was born in 1734, in Ballingrane, Ireland, where German refugees from the Palatinate had been permitted to settle in 1709. Her father was Sebastian Ruckle.
With her husband, Paul Heck, she came to New York in 1760 on the ship Perry, which also brought Philip Embury and his wife, and other Ballingrane people. The most of the company had been converted to Methodism in Ireland, but, divorced from former associations, their fervor seems to have waned.
Barbara Heck was greatly distressed by their backsliding, and one day in 1766 a card game which she found going on set her on fire with indignation, and she became a flaming angel of rebuke and exhortation. Sweeping the cards from the table, she denounced the players in no uncertain terms, and then went across the street to the home of Embury, who had been a local preacher in Ireland, and startled that individual from his spiritual lethargy by declaring: "Philip, you must preach to us, or we shall all go to Hell, and God will require our blood at your hands!" When he objected on the ground that he had no place in which to preach, she retorted, "Preach in your own house! And at once! The Lord will protect you!" From this incident most Methodists date the beginning of the Wesleyan movement in America.
Embury preached, Heck was there to encourage him and was a vitalizing agency in subsequent activities which, in 1768, resulted in the erection of the first Wesleyan chapel in this country. She decided the plan of it, divinely inspired, as she believed, and is said to have helped raise the necessary funds.
The Hecks moved to Salem, in what is now Washington County, New York, in 1770, where again they helped Embury found a Wesleyan Society. Being Loyalists, just before the Revolution they removed to Montreal and Paul Heck served in the English army. Later they made their home in Augusta, Canada. Barbara died there on a summer day, sitting outdoors by the St. Lawrence River, her Bible in her lap.
Heck went down in history as a prominent female methodist and founder of the first Methodist society in Salem. She is considered as the "mother of American Methodism. " 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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Heck was a devout member of the Methodist church.
Barbara Heck was married to Paul Heck, a member of a colony of Germans who came from the Rhine Palatinate.
