Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1814. Excerpt: ... nral decay, and through a disease in the region of his heart, as to the nature of which he could never be fully satisfied. At length he determined to try the efficacy of the Saratoga waters, for which purpose he set out from Portsmouth, on the 23 of June, 1802. Having arrived at the springs, he continued there hut a few days, for he found that his disorder must bring him to the grave; and, feeling a consciousness that the time of his departure was at hand, lie hastened to return, that he might he among hii friends before the closing scene. He reached home on friday, the 9 of July, visited several patients, and continued to walk out till the tuesday following. From that time he was confined till his death, which took place, on Saturday, the 17 of July, at two in the morning, 1802. On the ensuing monday, the remains of this philanthropist and physician were interred with great respect, and the tears of the widow and the orphan watered his grave. Mrs. IJrackett, whose literary and poetick taste, talents, and domestick virtues deserve a better eulogium, than the author of this work rs, at present, able to give, departed this life, on the 23 day of April, 1805, having entered on her seventieth year. PHILADELPHIA, PEN. 229. Christian, beneath this marble are deposited, in the assured hope of the resurrection of the just, the remains of the reVerend John Blair Smith, D. D. a faithful, able, zealous, and successful minister of the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ, born, on the 12 of June, A. D. 1756, at Pequea, in the county of Lancaster, in this state. He was there, under the care of his father, initiated in the elements of literature. His course of liberal studies he completed in the college of New Jersey; ordained to preach the gospel, A. D. 1778; called in the...
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