Jaskievicius Daniel

Jaskievicius Daniel, Polon. Jaskiewicki), is not mentioned by Sandius. In the Manuscript Acts, his father is called a Racovian, to whom the Assembly at Siedliski, in 1643, promised, that, as he had not the means of giving his son a suitable education for the ministry, they would support him out of the general fund, if he would consent to part with him, and entrust him to the care of the Church. In 1645, he was appointed, by the Assembly of Zulienien, amanuensis to Ruarus, and tutor to his children; but in the year following a sum was voted, for the purpose of sending him to Elbing, to study the German language. After some time, he went into France, and thence, in 1650, by a resolution of the Synod of Raszcow, into Holland. A little after this, he returned to his native country, and preached first to a Congregation at Krassow, and afterwards to one at Iwanitz. He removed to the latter of these places in 1653; and in the following year was appointed to cooperate with John Demianovicius, in superintending the Churches of Volhynia, for which purpose he received ministerial ordination in 1655. At the Assembly of 1662, he was nominated to a mission into Transylvania, with Andrew Lachovius for his assistant ; and this appointment was confirmed by the Assembly at Kreutzburg in 1663. Some time after this, however, he appears to have gone into Prussia; for we find the name of Daniel Jaskievicius, a Pole, inserted among the numher of students in a manuscript register of the members of the University of Konigsberg, May 13th, 1665, during the Rectorship of Wolder; and there is no doubt that it was he, who, availing himself of his academical privilege, laboured to promote the Socinian cause in Prussia, and, in order to avoid suspicion, took the customary oath, as appears from the forementioned register. This conjecture seems the more probable, as we learn from the Manuscript Acts, that Daniel Jaskievicius had the charge of the foreign Socinians, residing in and near the Prussian metropolis. Bock, in his "History of Socinianism in Prussia," gives the following as the succession of Ministers, who presided over the Church of Rutow: — James Rynievicius, (who assumed the name of John Trembecius,) Daniel Jaskievicius, Samuel Stano, Samuel Kontzki, Tobias Wilkovius, Andrew Labenski, and — Tassytius. Of Daniel Jaskievicius, who undertook this office in 1678, he says that he had been able to learn but little, except that he was skilled in Medicine and the Oriental Languages.

(Vidend. Bock, Hist . Ant. T. I. pp. 418,419.428. Hist. Soc. Pruss. § six. pp. 86, 87.)

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