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That there is now living in the Township a Negro Woman, aged 108.
That Windsor is a small Township, being, on the North Bounds, about five miles wide, from North to South, about fourteen Miles in Length, terminating in a Point on Monmouth Line, in the Whole about seven Miles square. The several Farms occupied contain about 29,000 Acres of Land, great Part of which has been set- tled since the Year 1733.
Mr. Skelton, though one of the most intelligent Men in the County, assured the Governor, that he did not imagine there were so many People, by 500 in the Town- ship, as he found on taking their Numbers. And that about the Year 1733 there were not above 40 Farms in the Township, and now there are near 300.
It is also to be noted, that the New Jersey College is within the Township of Windsor, in which College there are 3 Tutors, I Master of the Grammar School, 85 Students, and 45 Grammar Scholars, Total 134, not in- cluded in the foregoing List.
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A Message from the GOVERNOR to the House of Repre- sentatives.
GENTLEMEN,
I have received a Return from several of the Assessors of the County of Hunterdon, of the Number of Inhabi- tants, &c. in their respective Townships, with a Petition, requesting a recompence for their extraordinary Trouble in taking the Lists, which I now lay before your House. As many of them were not made acquainted with my Request, until after they had been about their Townships to take the Rateables, and therefore had the Trouble of going about a second Time, and as they have executed the Business with Care and Assiduity, I cannot but recom- mend them, and such others, as shall hereafter appear to have acted in the same obliging and public-spirited Man- ner, to your House, for some Compensation, adequate to their Services.
September 15, 1772.
WILLIAM FRANKLIN.
House of Assembly, Wednesday, September 16, 1772.
His Excellency's Messages of the 9th and 15th Instant, respecting the Numbering the Inhabitants, and an Allow- ance to the Assessors, &c. for taking the Lists. were read the second Time, and, after some Debate thereon, on the Question,
Ordered,
That Mr. Mehelm, and Mr. Hewlings, do wait on his Excellency, and inform him, That the House have taken his Excellency's Messages of the 9th and 15th Instant, into Consideration; and, as the Time of Assessing the Inhabitants by Law is passed, and there is now no Probability that a compleat List can be had this Year, that the Members of this House will, in their several Counties,
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countenance the Taking the Lists, proposed by his Excellency, at the Time of next assessing the Inhabitants, when the House hopes the Lists will not only be taken with Accuracy, but with less Expence and Trouble, both to the Assessors and the People, and, that when the Re- turns are completed, that the House will take the Matter into further Consideration.
To be SOLD, by public VENDUE, on the PREMISES, Two good PLANTATIONS or TRACTS of LAND, one con- taining 232 acres, the other about 150 acres; each con- sisting of good wheat land, and meadow. About 100 acres of upland, and 40 acres of meadow, are cleared on the first mentioned place, which will be sold on the 16th of this instant November; and about 60 acres of upland and 30 acres of meadow, cleared on the last mentioned place, which will be sold on the 23d of this instant; the rest good woodland, and swamp for meadow. There are on the said plantations, good dwelling houses, barns, or- chards, fences, and other improvements; lying on the south side of Mill-creek, in Northampton, about 4 miles from Burlington, one mile from a navigable landing on Ancocas-creek, and about 4 miles from Mount-holly. The conditions to be seen at the times and place of sale, and a good title made by
THOMAS ELTON and ABRAHAM LEEDS.
To be SOLD by public VENDUE, on the premises, the 28th day of this instant November (if not before dis- posed of by private sale) for the benefit of the creditors of Christopher Fenigan,
A PLANTATION, containing 93 acres of LAND, where- on said Christopher Fenigan now lives, situate in Chester- field, in the county of Burlington, about one mile above Bordentown, adjoining Cross-wick's creek, on which
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there is a good landing; it commands an agreeable pros- pect of the river Delaware, and of the large meadow in Nottingham; there are on said plantation, a good frame house, barn, &c, about 60 acres of cleared land, of a kind fertile soil, the remainder in good woodland. Also to be sold, at the same time and place, (and with the above, if it suits the purchaser) 40 acres of meadow, nearly ad- joining the above tract, of excellent quality, 30 acres of which are embanked. The titles are indisputable. One half the purchase money will not be wanted for a number of years. Any person, inclining to purchase, may know the terms, by applying to ISAAC PEARSON, ISRAEL WRIGHT, and JACOB LAWRENCE, Assignees.
Philadelphia Goal, November 3, 1772.
Whereas the following persons were taken up and put in this goal, on suspicion of being runaway servants; viz. George Peters and Daniel Montgom- ery, who says he is servant to Johnson, Esq; justice of the peace, in West New-Jersey. This is to give notice to their masters, that unless they come, within 15 days from the date hereof, pay the charges for said ser- vants, and take them away, they will be set at liberty.
JOHN JONES, Goaler.
Hunterdon County, West New-Jersey, October 29, 1772.
PUBLIC notice is hereby given to the creditors of JOHN PARLOA, now confined in the county goal of the county of Hunterdon, that, pursuant to an Act of Insolvency of this province of New-Jersey, the Court of Common Pleas, in and for the said county of Hunterdon, have appointed the first day of December next for the creditors of the said John Parloa, to appear before WILLIAM CLAYTON, and MICAJAH How, Esquires, two of the Judges of the same Court, at the Court-house, in Trenton, in the county
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aforesaid, to show cause, if any they have, why an assign- ment of his estate and effects should not be then made, pursuant to the said Act of Insolvency, and his body dis- charged from confinement, he having complied with all other things required by the said Act.
A LIST of LETTERS remaining in the POST-OFFICE at TRENTON.
A. James Anderson, Colesnake;1 John Anderson, Tren- ton; William Anderson, David Adair, Hopewell.
B. Henry Bailie.
C. James Carroll, Pitts-Town; Hugh Cooper, Johan- na Council, Andrew Cunningham, Arney's-Town; Wil- liam Clark, Freehold; Hugh Camble.
D. Thomas Doughty, Newtown.
E. William Eagan, Bordentown; Jacob Earwine, Merchant.
H. William Hays, William Harknee, Jedediah Hol- moak, Barnstable; Charles Hurst, Esq; John Hinchman, Esq; Haddonfield; David Helem, Somerset County; John Hudnut, Amwell; Joseph Hickman, Hanover; Thomas Hamilton.
J. Mary Jordan, James Jennings, Allen-Town; Ben- jamin Jones, Kingwood; James Johnson, Maidenhead.
K. Samuel Ketchem, Amwell Mills.
L. Peter Lecont, John Eaton Lecont, Monmouth County; Ralph Lapells, John Lowry.
M. Thomas M'Caughry, William McClellan, Mine- brook; Robert M'Gailiard, George M'Kicham, John M'Dowel, Lomington; William Mills, Arney's-Town; James Milliken.
N. Patrick Neal; Doctor Norton, Trenton; James Nealen, Reckless-Town.
O. James Alexander Owen.
Query: Colt's Neck. In the Pennsylvania Journal it is Colestrake.
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P. James Parker, Peter Perrine.
R. John Ross, Ringwood Furnace; Mary Reed, Freehold; Daniel Richardson, Trenton.
S. Elizabeth Sharp, Dougald Smith, James Smith, Somerset Court-house; Robert Shaw, John Steil, Somer- set County.
T. Andrew Todd, Daniel Turner, Samuel Tuttell, Morris-Town.
V. Court Voorhees.
W. John Carlos White, William Brown Wilson, Mercy Whitehead, James Whalen, Lomington; John Wilson .- The Pennsylvania Gazette, No. 2289, Novem- ber 4, 1772.
Prince-Town, November 2, 1772. FIFTEEN POUNDS REWARD.
RUN AWAY from us the subscribers, near Prince-Town East New-Jersey, three High Dutch servant men, viz : Henry Berragar; Yerry, alias George Wortman, and Nicholas Henry is about 5 feet 9 or 10 inches high, middling well set, he wears his own hair, bushy, and of a sandy color ; is about 27 years of age, can speak mid- dling good English, and talk High and Low Dutch. Had on an oldish brown jacket, an old homespun shirt, a felt hat about half worn, leather breeches, grey yarn stockings, he chews tobacco, and will get drunk when he can get liquor. George is about 20 years of age, 5 feet 6 or 7 inches high, slim built, can speak very little English, wears his own hair of a sandy colour; has a half worn felt hat with a very large brim, wears a brown coat with buttons all the way down, a large brown waist-coat with him, two red jackets, two pairs of black leather breeches, one pair of grey yarn stockings, a pair of calf-skin shoes, with yellow square buckles, and a small tea kettle. Nicholas is about 21 years of age, 5 feet 6 or 7 inches high, wears
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his own brown bushy hair platted behind; he is slim built, has a new felt hat, two new tow and linen shirts, a pair of half worn leather breeches, one pair of white trousers, a brown linsey jacket, one bluish mixt jacket, one pair of grey stockings, and another pair not fellows, a pair of thick shoes much run to one side, and tied with strings; he talks' very quick, and broken English.
Whoever takes up and secures said runaways, so that their masters may have them again, shall receive the above reward, and reasonable charges, or Five Pounds for each of them, paid by us,
WILLIAM CLARK, AND ISAAC CLARK.
N. B. All masters of vessels are forewarned not to carry them off at their peril.
-The New-York Journal; or The General Adver- tiser, No. 1557, November 5, 1772.
To be sold at public Vendue, on the Premises, on Wed- nesday the 9th Day of December next, at 2 o'clock in the Afternoon, or at private Sale any Time before.
A Plantation in the Township of Mendem, in the County of Morris, and Province of East New-Jer- sey, containing 400 Acres, and Allowances for Highways, whereof about twenty Acres is Meadow, and will produce in a common year upwards of 30 Tons of good Hay, and 40 Acres more (as good) may be made; the Remainder is good Land for tilling or Grain, and 100 Acres of it al- ready cleared : The Whole is well wooded, watered, and timbered, there being a Stream of Water running through the Plantation sufficient for any Kind of Water Works. There is on the Plantation a Dwelling-House, and a good Well of Water at the Door, a good new Barn 40 Feet by twenty eight Feet, a young bearing Orchard of 350 Apple Trees, all grafted with choice Fruit, and a Number of
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other good Fruit Trees. It is within one Mile of a Quaker Meeting-House, and three Miles of the Presby- terian Meeting-House at Rockaway, and but seven Miles from Morris-Town; the House stands where four publick Roads meet, and is a good Situation for a Tavern or Store. At the same Time will be sold sundry farming Utensils. Any Person inclining to purchase before the Day of Sale, may know the Conditions by applying to Matthias Hal- sted, Merchant, in Elizabeth-Town, or to the Subscriber, on the Premises.
NATHANIEL MITCHEL.
T HE Owners of running Horses, Three Quarters Blood and under, are desired to take Notice, That there will be a Purse to be run for at Morris-Town this Month. The Particulars will be inserted more fully in next Paper .- The New-York Gazette; and the Weekly Mercury, No. 1098, November 9, 1772.
Woolwich Township, Glouster County, October. 22, 1772.
To be SOLD, by way of PUBLIC VENDUE, on the 19th of November next.
A VALUABLE plantation and tract of land, situate on the North Branch or Raccoon-Creek, containing 353 Acres, about 100 cleared, of which near 30 acres are mowable meadow, and about 40 more may be made; on the premises is a small orchard of good fruit, also a good new dwelling-house and kitchen, a new barn, hay-house, stable, cow-house, &c. The conditions will be made known at the time and place of sale, on the premises, by
ROBERT TAYLOR.
THREE POUNDS Reward.
ABSCONDED from his usual place of abode, a certain
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ANTHONY SNYDER, a Dutchman, and served his time at Alloway's Creek, is of a fresh complexion, light brown hair, and about 5 feet 5 inches high; had on when he went away, light coloured homespun cloth jacket with cuffs, a light coloured calimancoe ditto under it, white stockings, coarse shoes, white metal buckles and a new castor hat. Said Snyder did, on the 24th day of October, assign a note of hand to the subscriber, in payment of a debt, which has since appeared to have been forged, in order to defraud me; I therefore offer the above reward to any person, that will apprehend and secure the said Snyder in any goal, so that he may be brought to justice, and the subscriber have an opportunity to recover his right, to- gether with reasonable charges, paid by
THOMAS FOLWELL.
He sometimes goes by the name of Taylor.1 Elsenborough, November 2, 1772.
-The Pennsylvania Gazette, No. 2290, November II, 1772.
NEW-YORK, November 12. The first Battalion of the 60th, or Royal American Regiment, under the command of Colonel Prevost, sailed from Amboy for Jamacia, on Friday last.
Pursuant to an Order of the Inferior Court of Com- mon Pleas, of the County of Bergen .- Notice is hereby given to all the Creditors of Samuel Moore, an insolvent Debtor, to show Cause, if any they have, on Monday the seventh Day of December next, at 12 o'Clock, at the House of Mr. Vootson,2 Inn-Keeper at Hackinsack, in the County of Bergen, before Rynear Vongein3 and Peter Zabriskie Esquires, two of his Majesty's Judges of said
1 A translation from the Dutch or Holland, Snyder, a tailor.
2 Watson.
3 Van Giesen.
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Court, why an Assignment of the said Debtor's Estate should not be made, and he the said debtor discharged, agreeable to the Directions of a late Act of the Governor, Council and General Assembly of the Province of New- Jersey, entitled "an Act for the Relief of insolvent Debtors."
Hackensack, October 29, 1772. -The New-York Journal; or The General Adver- tiser, No. 1558, November 12, 1772.
Salem County, West New Jersey, November 2, 1772.
I AM very sorry for advertising my Wife, it being done through the Heat of Passion and Inconsideration; which I now retract.
JOHN ELWELL.
Salem, West New Jersey, November 6, 1772.
THIS day was committed to my custody, a certain WILLIAM RICHARDSON, a Chimney-sweeper, who says he belongs to one CURTIS GRUBB. He was advertised in the Pennsylvania Gazette, No. 2289.1 These are to de- sire the said master to come, pay charges, and take him away, or he will be sold for the same, in five weeks from the date hereof, by
BATEMAN LLOYD, Sheriff.
Whereas James Hunter, and Henry Glass, opened a shop in Ridley township, Chester county, in the year 1768, and in the year 1769, removed to the Upper Precinct, on Cape May, and in the year 1771, opened a shop in Goshen, Chester county; and as there are out-standing debts long due, this may inform them that stand indebted to those shops, that the books, bonds, notes and accounts, are all in the possession of the subscriber, in Philadelphia, and
1 In that advertisement it is said he ran away from Cornwall Fur- nace, otherwise Grubb's Furnace.
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unless they discharge their respective debts, before the first of December next, the whole bonds, notes, and ac- counts, will be put into attornies hands to recover, &c. As the partnership in the above shops dissolved the first of June last, there is an absolute necessity of closing those accounts. Any person, or persons, having any demands for goods sold for those stores, or any demands on the late partnership, are desired to bring in their accounts, to be adjusted by
JAMES HUNTER.
N. B. James Hunter has imported, in the last vessels from London, Bristol and Liverpool, a neat Assortment of MERCHANDISE, which he will sell on the lowest terms; all those that are indebted above nine months, are desired to pay .- The Pennsylvania Gazette, No. 2291, November 18, 1772.
WHEREAS Mr. William Taylor, in the town of Lees- burg, Loudoun county, in Virginia, advertises a Grey Mare stolen from him: The subscriber informs Mr. Taylor, he has purchased a certain Grey Mare. which he supposes to be the same. Upon proving property, and complying with the terms of this advertisement. the Mare will be delivered by
Trenton, N .- Jersey, Nov. 16. CHARLES HARRISON. -The Pennsylvania Journal, and the Weekly Adver- tiser, No. 1563, November 18, 1772.
TO BE SOLD at private Sale.
A Plantation in Woodbridge, East New-Jersey, con- taining between seventy and eighty acres of Land, laying on the main country road that leads from Philadelphia to New York, and within less than half a mile of Capt. Nathaniel Heard's, well situated for a merchant, tavern- keeper or tradesman; with a good dwelling house, barn,
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orchard, and an extraordinary well of water at the kitchen door, and the greatest part of said land is covered with fine young timber. Any person inclining to purchase may apply to the subscriber, and agree on terms.
RICHARD WRIGHT. Woodbridge, November 19, 1772.
Whereas Phebe, the Wife of me the Subscriber, has eloped from my Bed and Board, and has threatened to run me in Debt, and even to use her Endeavours to ruin me. This is therefore to forewarn all Persons from crediting her on my Account, as I will not pay any Debt or Debts of her contracting from the Date thereof.
JONATHAN HIGGINS.
Borough of Elizabeth, Nov. 4, 1772.
-The New-York Gazette, or The Weekly Post-Boy, No. 1545, November 23, 1772.
FOUR DOLLARS REWARD.
RAN AWAY from the subscriber, living in Tinicum township, Bucks county, on the 10th instant (Novem- ber ), a negro man named JACK, born in the West-Indies, speaks the German language, is about thirty years of age, and five feet six or seven inches high; a thick well-set- fellow, and has remarkable lumps and scars on his legs; Had on when he went away a brown cloth lapelled jacket with linsey lining, a thickset under jacket, tow shirt and trowsers, and old boot feet for shoes. He is addicted to such elopements, and thereby is acquainted in the Jerseys, betwixt Trenton and Philadelphia, where it is supposed he will lurk. Whoever will take up and secure him, so that I may get him again, shall receive the above reward, and reasonable charges, paid by
ARTHUR ERWIN.
-The Pennsylvania Packet, and the General Adver- tiser, No. 57, November 23, 1772.
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POWLES- HOOK
RACE.
T O be run for at Powles-Hook on Friday 27, Inst. A PURSE OF FIFTY DOLLARS, (to give and take Weight for Age, Size, and Blood,) by any Horse, Mare, or Gelding, except full bloods for a Purse of Twenty Pounds or upwards. An aged Horse, three Quarters Blood, 14 Hands, to carry 9 Stone, and for every year to be allowed 7 Pounds; and for every Inch under or over, 7 Pounds; and for every Quarter Blood, 6 Pounds. To run the best two of three two Mile Heats. Horses to be entered the Day before running, paying Twenty Shillings Entrance, or double at the Post. The entrance to be run for the Day following.
A Purse of £.20.
T O be Run for, on the Course, on Morris Town Green, the best of three Two-Mile Heats, on Tuesday the 24th of November, instant, by any Horse, Mare, or Gelding, not exceeding three Quarters Blood, (Richmond and Auctioneer excepted).
Half Blood to carry a Feather, and any thing above Half Blood 8 st. 7 1b. Not less than three reputed Run- ning Horses to start. * Entrance 20 s. or Double at the Post.
To be SOLD,
A Neat convenient Stone House, strong and well built; it has an Entry and three Rooms, with Fire-places below and one above Stairs, a good Cellar under the whole, and a Stone Kitchen. It is in a pleasant Part of the Town of Newark, and the best Place for Business .- Also 12 Acres of good Land, adjoining two publick Roads, within a Mile of said House. The Titles are in- disputable, and will be sold together or separate .- Any
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Person inclining to purchase, are desired to apply to Susannah Hurtin, or to Garret Thibon, Store-keeper near the Church in Newark.
N. B .- A likely, healthy young Negro Wench, that can do all Manner of House-work, to be sold. Enquire as above.
S TRAYED away from the Subscriber, at Elizabeth- Town, a Bay Mare 6 Years old, with a Slit in the left Ear; she is a natural Pacer, and about 13 Hands and a half high .- Also a black yearling Mare Colt, with a Blaze in the Forehead, and four white Feet, has a small Slit in the left Ear, and trots and paces. Whoever takes up the said Creatures, so that the Owner may get them again, shall have Fourteen Shillings Reward, and all reasonable Charges, paid by
PETER TUNIS.
SIX DOLLARS REWARD.
R UN-away from the Subscriber, living in Princeton, on Sunday Morning the 15th Instant, a Servant Man named JOHN WARREN, about 21 Years old, 5 Feet 8 Inches high, light-colored Hair, a well set genteel looking young Man, left handed, and is supposed to be in New-York : Had on when he went away, a short brown Coat, a Cotton and Worsted double-breasted Jacket, a good Beaver Hat, a Pair of light blue home made Stock- ings, Pinchbeck Buckles, and a Pair of Shoes half worn. Whoever takes up the said Run-away, and secures him in any Goal, shall have the above Reward, paid by Robert Norris, at Elizabeth-Town; or in Princeton, with all law- ful Charges, by
GEORGE NORRIS.
N. B .- Masters of Vessels and others are forbid to carry him off, or harbour him at their Peril.
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Ringwood Iron-Works, Nov. 16, 1772.
S TOLEN out of Ringwood Stables about three Weeks ago, an Iron Roan Horse, about nine or ten Years old, a natural Pacer, fifteen Hands and half high, has a large Head, and carries it much out from his Chest, his Brands or Marks, if he has any, are not known, but as he has been work'd in the Waggon all Summer, the Marks of the Gears are visible. Whoever secures the Thief, shall be paid all Charges of Commitment and Prosecution, together with TEN DOLLARS Reward, and all reasonable Charges for the Horse, by
ROBERT ERSKINE.
L OST at CHARLOTTEBURGH IRON WORKS, about the 15th of July last, two Orders, drawn by Mr. John Jacob Faesh,1 on Messrs. READE and YATES, Merchants, in New-York; one in Favour of Conrod Frank, dated the sixth of April, for 130 1. York Money, payable three Months after Sight; and the other in Favour of Peter Westerman, dated the 14th of April, for Fifty Pounds like Money; also payable in three Months after Sight; and both Orders were accepted the 20th of April : THEREFORE, Notice is hereby given that the Payment of said Orders is stoped, consequently they can be of no Ser- vice to any other Person but the Owners, who have given the Printers Directions to pay Three Pounds Reward, to any Person that should deliver said Orders to him, and no further Questions shall be asked.
The Bound-Brook TAVERN.
W ILLIAM KELLEY, Tavern-keeper, removed from the North and South Branches of Raritan, has now open'd Tavern at the Sign of the Buck in Bound-
1 For a sketch of John Jacob Faesch, a noted ironmaster of Northern New Jersey, see N. J. Archives, XXV., 163.
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Brook, the House wherein Capt. Dunham lately lived: The House is large and sufficient to entertain several Companies at the same Time. He has laid in a Stock of Spirits with other Liquors; has a constant Supply of fresh Provisions, with every other necesssary Accommo- dation, and will be at all Times prepared to receive and entertain Company in the neatest and in the most com- fortable Manner. He takes this Method to return Thanks to those Gentlemen and Ladies who have favoured him with their Company, and begs leave to assure them he will take particular Care to regulate and conduct the House in a Manner to give general Satisfaction. He is also provided with the best English Hay, and other Accom- modations for Horses .- The New-York Gazette, and the Weekly Mercury, No. 1100, November 23, 1772.
PHILADELPHIA. [On Monday se' night were interred in the Presbyterian church yard, in West Nottingham, Ches- ter county, the remains of Mr. JOHN KIRPATRICK, who departed this life in the 85th year of his age, sixty-two years of which time he lived with one wife. He was father to the late Rev. WILLIAM KIRKPATRICK Minister of the Gospel at Amwell, in New-Jersey. He possessed a strong masculine understanding, and discovered, both in his life and conversation, genuine marks of a most singular and original character. The primitive simpli- city and order with which he conducted the affairs of his house, revived, in the minds of all who beheld them, the ideas of those partriarchal times, when the offices of Prophet, Priest, and King were united in the head of a family. He enjoyed, in the close of his life, so much of the constant sunshine of Heaven, which showed itself in numberless acts of piety and benevolence, and an habitual chearfulness of temper, that when he died, he might rather be said to have changed his place, than his company .-
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