MARRIAGES AND DEATHS. MARRIED, AT PHILADELPHIA, September 26, by the Rev. Philip F. Mayer, Mr. Michael Lentz, to Miss Sarah Davis. On Thursday evening, October 1, by the Rev. Dr. Abercrombie, Mr. John R. Shubert, to Miss Maria E. Richards, both of Philadelphia. On Thursday evening, October 8, by the Rev. Philip F. Mayer, Mr. Samuel Barnet, to Miss Catherine M'Kean. Same evening, by the same, Mr. Casper Goodman, to Miss Martha Smith. Same evening, by the same, Mr. George Green, to Mrs. Margaret Stiller Same day, by the Rev. Dr. Staughton, Mr. Richard Engle, of Germantown, to Miss Thirza Keyser, daughter of Mr. Benjamin Keyser, formerly of Philadelphia. On Saturday evening, October 10, by the Rev. Philip F. Mayer, Mr. Jacob Welsh, merchant, of Baltimore, to Miss Sarah Eckfeldt, daughter of Mr. Jacob Eckfeldt, of Philadelphia. On Sunday evening, October 11, by the Rev. Mr. Turner, Mr. Jacob Wagner, to Miss Ann Schell, both of the Northern Liberties. October 14, by the Rev. Dr. Pilmore, Mr. John Parham, to Miss Catherine Skerrett, daughter of the late Joseph Skerrett, both of Philadelphia. On Thursday evening, October 15, by the Rev. Dr. Rogers, Mr. Emmor Worthington, Miss Sarah White, both of Chester county, Pennsylvania. On Friday evening, October 23, by the Rev. Dr. Rogers, Mr. Aaron Hoiles, to Miss Martha Venable, both of Evesham, Burlington county, New Jersey. On the 29th of October, by the Rev. John Walker, Mr. Joseph Chew, to Miss Priscilla Duel, both of New Jersey. On Saturday evening, October 31, by the Rev. Dr. Joseph Pilmore, Mr. Thomas L. Servoss, merchant, to Miss Eliza Courtney, daughter of Mrs. Sarah Henderson, all of Philadelphia. Same day, by the Rev. Mr. Philip F. Mayer, captain William Sidney Smith, of Philadelphia, to Miss Maria Christianna Steinhauer, daughter of Mr. George W. Steinhauer, of the Northern Liberties. On Sunday evening, November 1, by the Rev. Dr. Abercrombie, Mr. Edward Pennell, of Brandywine, state of Delaware, to Miss Deborah Jones, only daughter of Mr. Isaac Jones, of Philadelphia. On Wednesday, September 14, at Friends' meeting-house, Falsington, Mr. Jeremiah Čumfort, of Middleton, Bucks county, to Mrs. Sarah Cooper, of Falsington, in the same county. At Friends' meeting, Burlington, October 8, Thomas Tucker, of NewYork, to Ann Sykes, of the former place. At Friends' meeting, Moorestown, October 22, Isaac Bunting, to Mary Winn. Near Mount-Holly, October 15, by William H. Burr, Esq., captain Samuel Whitall, of Gloucester county, to Miss Lydia Newbold, daughter of Daniel Newbold, Esq., of Burlington county. At Princeton, on Thursday, October 15, by the Rev. Dr. Samuel S. Smith, Mr. Eli F. Cooley, to the amia ble Miss Hannah Scuder, both of that place. At Trenton, N. J., October 31, by the Rev. Mr. Armstrong, Mr. Robert W. Graham, of Philadelphia, to Miss Mary Applegate, daughter of Mr. George Applegate, of Bordentown. In Paris, the famous Arthur O'Connor, of Ireland, to Mademoiselle Condorcet, daughter of the no less famous marquis Condorcet, of revolutionary memory. Mr. O'Connor, the papers assert, first aspired to a union with a distant relation of the emperor Napoleon, an innkeeper's daughter in Ajaccio, Corsica, but she refused to receive his addresses. Lately, at Fesmere, in England, Mr. John Hughes, an old batchelor of 85 years of age, who had been bellman of the same place for upwards of 60 years, to Mrs. Anna Dulson, of the October 19, Mr. Hezekiah Williams, in the 91st year of his age, born in New Jersey, and 60 years a resident in Philadelphia. On Tuesday morning, October 20, captain W. Watkin, aged 64 years. Lately, at Baltimore, where he then was in the exercise of his Christian ministry, John Parrish, of Philadelphia; one of the oldest ministers of the society of Friends, in that city. The natural talents of this good and faithful servant scarcely exceeded mediocrity; and his gift in the ministry was brief, and unadorned: yet was he an indefatigable labourer in the vineyard of that great and good husbandman, who distributeth to all his household the penny of reward. The peculiar portion of the word of reconciliation, that had been committed unto him, was to open his mouth for the dumb, in the cause of all such as are appointed to destruction.-PROVERBS XXXI, 8. apostle. Having lived to see the pious exercise on behalf of the blacks crowned, at length, with the voluntary abolition of the slave trade, and the late attempts for the civilization of the Indians blessed with an unlooked-for degree of success, he could exclaim, with good old Simeon, the man just and devout, who had long waited for the consolation of Israel: "Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace." At Washington village, near Charleston, September 1, Charlotte, daughter of Mr. William R. Payne, aged 21 months; and on Tuesday, September 22, in the 24th year of her age, of a nervous fever, Mrs. Jane Payne, wife of Mr. William R. Payne. At CHARLESTON, same day, in the 25th year of her age, Mrs. Catharine Douglass, a native of Greenock, Scotland. September 24, after an illness of four days, Mr. Jacob Corre, a native of Amsterdam, Same day, master James P. Coy, in the 15th year of his age, a youth of promising talents, and a native of Providence, Rhode Island. September 9, Mr. J. B. Daquet, one of the first performers on the violin in South Carolina. September 2, in St. James, Santee, Mrs. Mary Steed Michaw, consort of captain Abraham Michaw. September 25, Mr. Samuel Denny, aged 22 years, a native of Middletown (C.). September 23, Mr. Hugh Duncan, aged 19 years, recently from New York, a native of Glasgow. September 18, Mrs. Mary Snell, consort of Adam Snell, Esq., of St. Mathew's parish, Orangeburgh district, in the 47th year of her age. September 28, Mr. William Carver, aged 73 years, a native of England. In Prince William's parish, on the 27th September, Mr. Charles Love, in the 20th year of his age. He succeeded the late Anthony Benezet, in that memorable series of advocates for the oppressed, which it hath pleased the Universal Father to raise up, among the philanthropists of Philadelphia, to plead the cause of the African race. And such was his. regard for our native Indians, and September 26, Mr. Philip Millar, such had been his labours among a native of Pennsylvania, and for them, that he was habitually denominated, among his brethren, the Indian September 25, John Ladson Freazer Bee, nine years and four months old. some years past a respectable inhabitant of Charleston. September 26, Mr. John Comly, aged 28 years, a native of Philadelphia, and mate of the sloop Friendship, George Binder, master. Beaufort (S. C.), September 16. Departed this life, on Monday afternoon, Mr Arthur Smith; and on Tuesday morning, Mr. Thomas Hutson; and yesterday the remains of these young gentlemen were deposited in the tomb. On Monday morn ing, they arose in all the vigour of youth and health; in a few hours both were bleeding on the field of honour. A challenge had been given and accepted; a duel was fought; and both were mortally wounded. Such, Honour, are thy triumphs! Come hither, duellist, and regale thy senses! See two young men, the joy of their parents, levelling the deadly tube at each other: they fire; they fall. See them groaning on a death-bed; and now they breathe their last. Hear the distracted outcries of a fond and doating parent; the heart-piercing lamentations of affectionate sisters, and the more silent, though equally deep grief of loving brothers are these pleasing to thy eyes, or music to thy ears? Yet these, oh duellists, are the fruits of Honour, so called. Oh thou idol, who delightest in human sacrifice who snuffest up blood as sweet-smelling incense; when will thy reign cease? O you votaries of this Moloch, ye abettors of murder and bloodshed! remember that the day will assuredly come, when you will know whether you are to frame your actions by the laws of honour or the laws of God. At Savannah, on Saturday, September 19, in the sixty-eighth year of his age, the honourable Edward Telfair, Esq., one of the justices of the inferior court in Georgia. He arrived in America in his youth, from Scotland, his native country, and was engaged in merchandize until the dispute which brought about the American revolution. On this occasion, he took the side of freedom, and supported America through the contest with all the energy of his calents. His intelligence, zeal, and inflexible integrity were so perfectly understood, and so highly valued, that the people of Georgia repeatedly elected him to serve them in congress, during the revolutionary war, and since that period. He has frequently served as governor of that state; and upon all occasions demanding the exertion of ta lents, patriotism, zeal, and integrity, has been looked up to as a leading character. On Friday, October 9, at Burlington, New Jersey, Mr. Robert Coe, sen., formerly of Philadelphia. On Thursday, October 22, at Elizabethtown, in the 71st year of his age, gen. Elias Dayton, late president of the society of Cincinnati of the state of New Jersey. On the 15th October, at NewPort, state of Delaware, in the 88th year of his age, James Latimer, Esq. At New York, in the 24th year of his age, Charles Fenno, Esq., lieutenant in the navy of his Britannic majesty. In the county of Gloucester, October 13, Benjamin Matlack, aged 85. At Adams, Berkshire county, Massachusetts, on the 10th September, Mr John Peters, aged 107 years. He had enjoyed an uncommon share of health, strength, and activity, and was in possession of all his faculties entire until the very moment that terminated his existence. At Schenectady, (N. J.) Mrs. Elizabeth Cowans, in the 14th year of her age. In her we have an instance of a person not more remarkable for longevity, than for the retention of her faculties. She read without spectacles until her death, and but two years ago she entered the field, and mowed grass with a scythe. At Carlisle, Pennsylvania, on Wednesday the 30th of September, Mr. Hugh Boden, supposed to be about 84 years of age. At Nassau, (N. P.) on Thursday September 27, in the 26th year of his age, Mr. Christopher H. Gilfert, a native of Hesse Cassell, but for these eight years past a resident in the United States of America. In Burlington, Connecticut, Mrs. Elizabeth Hitchcock, aged 103, a pious good old lady; she left ten living children, the youngest in her 59th year. In Adams, Berkshire county, Massachusetts, Mr. J. Peters, aged 107: he had enjoyed an uncommon share of health, strength, and activity, and was in possession of all his faculties entire until the very moment of his decease. At Marietta, Ohio, captain Nathaniel Saltonstall, late of New London, Connecticut, in the 80th year of his age; a firm friend to his country, and an old revolutionary officer. At Charlestown, Richard Devens, Esq., 86. At Ipswich, widow Hannah Shats well, 76. At Epsom, N. H., major Joseph Sherburne, 62. At Danvers, Mr. Stephen Proctock, 82. Also, the widow Cross, his sister, aged 79. At New London, captain Elisha Hinman, 74. This venerable gentleman was one of the ablest marine officers who shone in the struggle for our independence. At Norfolk, on Friday, October 2, Mr. James Burns, late of Philadelphia. In Knoxville, Kentucky, last month, Doublehead, one of the chiefs of the Cherokee tribe of Indians; shot through the head by a party of Indians. Circumstances fixed suspicion on a conspicuous settler in the nation, as the contriver of his death. At Haverhill, in Massachusetts, Mr. John Kendrick, aged 43. Mr. Kendrick was an eminent ship-builder in that town, and on Saturday morning intended launching a vessel he was then building. On Friday evening, the owner with his lady went on board for the purpose of viewing her; when Mr. Kendrick was conducting them to different parts of the vessel, his foot struck againt the comeing, and he fell into the hold, and by the fall fractured his skull, which occasioned his death in 32 hours. He has left a wife and 7 children to mourn his fate. In Newbury, Massachusetts, on Saturday morning, September 12, Mrs. Lydia Smith, in the 91st year of her age. At Thompson, Connecticut, in the 87th year of his age, Simon Larned, Esq., venerable from age, but much more so for his unaffected piety and truly christian deportment in every station, whether as a civil officer, a christian, a husband, or a parent. His exit bore a striking resemblance to that calm serenity which so strongly characterized his whole life. He re VOL. VIII. NO. XLIX. tired to bed in apparent health, and was found dead the next morning. At Newburyport, the noted Timothy Dexter, in the 60th year of his age; self-styled "lord Dexter, first in the east." He lived, perhaps, one of the most eccentric men of his time. His singularities and peculiar notions Born were universally proverbial. and bred to a low condition in life, and his intellectual endowments not being of the most exalted stamp, it is no wonder that a splendid fortune, which he acquired (though perhaps honestly) by dint of speculation and good fortune, should have rendered him, in many respects, truly ridicu lous. The qualities of his mind were of that indefinite cast, which forms an exception to every other character recorded in history, or known in the present age, and "none but himself could be his parallel." But among the motley groupe of his qualities, it would be injustice to say he possess ed no good ones: he certainly did. No one will impeach his honesty, and his numerous acts of liberality, both public and private, are in the recollection of all, and one of the items in his last will will always be gratefully remembered. His ruling passion appeared to be popularity, and one would suppose he rather chose to render his name "infamously famous than not famous at all."-His writings stand as a monument of the truth of this remark; for those who have read his "Pickle for the Knowing Ones," a jumble of letters promiscuously thrown together, find it difficult to determine whether most to laugh at the consummate folly, or despise the vulgarity and profanity of the writer. His manner of life was equally extravagant and singular. A few years since he erected in front of his house a great number of images of distinguished persons in Europe and America, together with beasts, &c.; so that his seat exhibted more the appearance of a museum of artificial curiosities, than the dwelling of a family. By his or ders, a tomb was several years since dug, under the summer-house in his garden, where he desired his remains might be deposited (but this singular request could not consistently be complied with), and his coffin made and kept in the hall of his house, in which 7 he is to be buried. The fortunate and singular manner of his speculations, by which he became possessed of a handsome property, are well known; and his sending a cargo of warming-pans to the West Indies, where they were converted into molasses-ladles, and sold to good profit, is but one of the most peculiar. His principles of religion (if they could be called principles) were equally odd; a blind philosophy, peculiar to himself, led him to believe in the system of transmigration at some times; at others he expressed those closely connected with deism; but it is not a matter of surprise that one so totally illiterate should have no settled or rational principles. His reason left him two days before his death. At Salem, Massachusetts, Mr. Jack Daland, a very worthy black man, aged 65. He was brought from Africa to the West Indies at about 11 years of age; but, instead of being eaten, as he expected, by the white men, he was transferred by purchase to a happy asylum in this place, where he has spent upwards of 50 years of his life, respected by the whole town, as a faithful, industrious, pleasant-tempered, intelligent man. His honest industry was rewarded by the acquisition of a comfortable property, which he has left for the enjoyment of his family. The long train of white people who followed his remains to the grave testify to the esteem in which he was held. In England, the right honourable Thomas lord Batton, lord lieutenant of Southampton, and governor and vice-admiral of the Isle of Wight, aged 61. In London, Mr. John Walker, author of the Pronouncing Dictionary of the English Language, aged 76. He had been honoured with the patronage and friendship of Dr. Johnson, Mr. Edmund Burke, and many other of the most distinguished literary and professional characters of the David Smith, of Portland, is a striking proof of the truth of the above quotation: in the year 1738, his son, Moses Smith, died at the West-Indies, aged 22; in 1789, his daughter, Mary Smith, died at Portland, aged 19; in 1797 and 98, he lost one ship, one schooner, and part of a brig, with with all the trading stock he then possessed; October 15, 1803, his son, Godfrey Smith, died on his passage from Liverpool to Portland, aged 20; February 14, 1804, his son, David, died at Jamaica, aged 30; at the same time and place, the schr. Friendship was wrecked, being all the vessel he then had at sea; March 13, 1894, his son, Lendal Smith, died at Portland, aged 32; July 10, 1805, his store took fire, and was consumed with the property that was in it, valued at 3000 dollars; August 11, 1805, his wife died, aged 58; at the same time, his daughter, Ruthy Boyd, died, aged 36; October 15, 1806, his daughter, Hannah Day, died, aged 30; September 29, 1807, his daughter, Dolly Taylor, died, aged 25. Within the above nineteen years, he has also experienced a variety of other smaller losses. How fading, how transient is human felicity! Happy is the man whose treasure is in Hea ven! For the Literary Magazine. WEEKLY REGISTER OF MORTALITY IN THE CITIES OF PHILADELPHIA, NEW YORK, AND BALTIMORE. Health-office, Oct. 3, 1807. Decay, Ad. Childr 1 0 2 1 1 8210 remittent or bilious, 2 typhus, |