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    Mr * Abraham Follett . On Sunday , July 17 th , 1814 , died at Sidmouth , in the 69 th year f his age , Aihaham Fouett , Gent , one of the most respectable and useful members of the old

    dissenting congregation in that place . Sidmonth was not only the place of bis birth , but of his constant residence , and few persons were better known , especially to its natives and older inhabitants , than

    k was , The eldest lineal , and cwaly resident , descendant of a very ancient family , his acquaintance \^ ( bt th « genealogies , estates , customs ,: and other localities of the

    town and neighbourhood , was very extensive—it is no wonder , there * for ^ s that his advice was often asked , and that he frequently had it in -his power to render essential $ pr . vices to those who would follow it .

    His judgment was sound , his prudence and discernment exemplary , and his word , when once given , always to be depended on . He was cautious in forming and giving bis opinions , but he was always

    firm in what appeared to him to fea right : he was always the advocate # f order and peace , and as he came , at an early period , into active life , sustained , for a long time , an honourable and upright

    character in the community . At ati ; age comparatively early , he married Anne the second daughter of Tljomas Pearce , Esq . of SaL combe , also a dissenter , and who

    for many years discharged the dutiea of a county magistrate with uniform ability * activity , and in . fegrity ^ Ta this valuable woman , wild ww eminently distinguished

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    by the possession of the more amiable and domestic virtues , of whom he was deprived within a few years of their union , and to whom \\ t was greatly attached , he w ^ s a faithful and tender husband * To

    his children , nine of whom survive to feel and to lament his removal , he was an affectionate father , a wise and able counsellor , arid a * experienced , judicious and steady friend * His advices and example were not lost upon his-children , " for his house \ vats the abocle of

    order and hospitality : his friends will long remember the kindmsi they uniformly experienced uiidfer his roof . He had thotigbt itluch ,

    tjarHcUlarly in the latter yean of bis life , on religious matters , and wds , from conviction > a Unitarian ; biitit wa ^ without a grain of bigotry or ilk will to those who differed ever so

    widely from him * His Motions of religion were at all times too just to permit him in any ciase to separate it from morality , or tb place mere faith in thfe robiri of g 6 iad dispositions and good wdrlrs ; It must have been their own

    faults if hi * fellowjChnstianswete not edified with the constancy and seriousness with which he united in the solemnities of public worship . If health permitted , he was always ht

    in his place ; and it was ho slig indisposition that could keep him from the house of Gtfd , In another branch of religions 'ditfy his example was also Worthy of universal imitation —he wis " a

    instant observer of tlfrif ^ aaiy-rt ^ g- * lecf ^ d duty , fafnil ^ priltyeri He did not p * $ v&th& porti' hht ( His

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1814, page 502, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2443/page/54/