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OBITUARY.
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Every where improvements are go . ing on ; agriculture is gaining daily new victories over uncultivated plains and deserts ; manufactures increase ; and efforts are made
for the improvement of literature , arts and science . The president has delivered a message or annual expo $£ to the senate , which is full of consolation to humanitv . We regret , however , that the disagree-
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Dicd April 14 , 1810 , at New York , in theUnitcd States , Mrs . ALICE MARGARET T ^ ITFQRD , wife of Mr * Isaac Tltford , surgeon , Cranbrook , Kent . Her comptaint was a dropsy in the chest , and shejiad reached only the 47 th year of
her age * She bore her illness , which continued for upwards of six weeks , with Christian composure and resignation . Upheld bv the consolations of the Gospel ot Jesus Christ , amidst the troubles and vicissitudes of life , she felt
its cheering influence in her last moments , ana was favoured with an easy dismissal to her filial reward * Also , 00 the X ^ th of August , 1810 , of a tap | d decline , the eldest daughter $ Aiss tRANCES ELIZABETH TITFORD , in the eighteenth year of her * ge . Tall and elegant in her person , she was of a peculiarly delicate make and constitution . Her health was
impaired by an assiduous attendance on mer mother in her last illness . Thus were the seeds of dissolution imperceptibly quickened , and brought to maturity . She expired rather unexpectedly at Ryetown in the province of New ; York , w&ither she had been removed on
account of her indisposition . Her piety , which Was conspicuous , and her filial affection , which was exemplary , mil not beacon forgotten by those who had the happiness of knowing her , Also , on the 8 th of September ; i 8 ro , ( only a fortnight afterwards ) were drowned at Mamaraoncck , in the
county of West Chester , New York , her two sisters , Miss ELIZA and Miss ANN TITFQRD , the former sixteen , and die latter Uuelve years of age ( They were on a visit at a friend ' s house , when the filial disaster took place * With ttro
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other little girls younger than themselves , they had gone to a mill-pond about half a mile from the main road to amuse themselves with angling . It seems that they had ventured on a small rock which projected a few feet into the pool . By some means the youngest sli into the waterwhen the elder
pped , endeavouring to help her sister was drawn in herself . Their companions perceiving from the steepness of the rock the extreme perilousness of their situation , and that it was utterly out of their power to assist them , ran with all possible speed to the nearest house which was at some distance . On their return
with help the Miss Titfords were , alas ! exhausted and sunk . They were however instantly raised , when every effort of medical skill was employed to rekindle the vital spark , but in vain . The awful event produced among the relatives and friends of the deceased a scene
of distress which the heart of sensibility may conceive , but which language cannot ^ describe . An appropriate and pa * thetio discourse was delivered by the Rev . Mr . Asgill , to a vast concourse of people , who had assembled at the house of Peter Jay , esq . at Rye , in whose
family burial ground the remains of these three young and beloved sisters were interred . J- E . Nov , 19 , at Royston , aged 63 , m consequence of a paralytic affection , which she survived only twodays , Mrs . NASH , wife of William Nash , Esq . She was a Christian whose religion appeared in all the virtues of social and domestic life .
Her children arise up and caliber ble » ud bgr busbandalio , andbepraitetb her . AMIGU&
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merit between this country and our transatlantic brethren conti . nues , and is likely to be attended with the breaking off of mutual intercourse . We will hope ,
however , that the Americans will abstain from , war , and continue to shew to mankind , that into that state a nation should never enter but through absolute necessity .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1811, page 59, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2412/page/59/
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