Deaths from the Philadelphia Repertory, May 5th, 1810 to April 13th, 1811
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DEATHS FROM THE PHILADELPHIA REPERTORY. MAY 5TH, 1810 TO APRIL 13TH, 1811.* Hut*N.— On Sunday morning, 22d, at the seat of Caesar A. Kodney, Esq., near Wilmington, Delaware, Captain John Hunn, distinguished by his activity in naval service during the struggle for American inde¬ pendence; under all the fluctuations and trials of party a uniform and inflexible supporter of those principles upon which the declaration of independence was made and the nation established. He has closed hia career in a good old age, surrounded by a numerous circle of his descendants and connexions, who, while they deplore their loss, must derive solace from the recollection of his virtues, and that he has only gone before but a short stage on the journey of mortality.! BROOM.— On Wednesday evening, 25th, in this city, Jacob Broom, Esq., of Wilmington, Delaware, in the 58th year of his age. He filled many public offices of honor and confidence in the state of Delaware, and was a delegate from that state to the federal convention which formed the present constitution of the United States.*— May 5, 1810. LINCOLN. At his seat in Hingham, Massachusetts, on Wednesday last, Major General Benjamin Lincoln, late collector of the port of Boston full of years and and Charlestown.— The death of General Lincoln, full of honor is no common misfortune.* May 19, 1810. JACK.— On the 20th, at the plantation of George Calvert, Esq., Prince George County, negro Jack, in the 120th year of his age. He retained every faculty in a remarkable degree to the last. June 2, 1810. BALL.— ON Wednesday the 30th May, in the 81st year of his age, William Ball, Esq., of Philadelphia. He was an attending member of the Society of Free Masons upwards of 59 years, and was the first grand master of the grand lodge of Pennsylvania.* LATIMER. On Saturday, the 2nd, in the fortieth year of his age, Mr. William G. Latimer, merchant, of this city.— June 16, 1810. WEBBER.— In Cambridge, very suddenly the Rev. Samuel Webber, D.D., president of Harvard University. D’EON. In England, 10th May, the celebrated chevalier Charles Genevieve Louis Andre Timothe D ’Eon, aged 83.— July 28, 1810. ROGERS. On Tuesday afternoon, the 17th, departed this life, at Providence, Rhode Island, Mr. John Rogers, merchant, in the 54th year of his age, brother to the Rev. Dr. Rogers of Philadelphia. He was a native of Newport, Rhode Island, but had resided in the town of Provi¬ dence upwards of thiry years.* August 4, 1810. BROOME.— AT New York, on the 9th, John Broome, lieutenant governor of that state, aged 72 years.— August 18, 1810. — “ — ” — — — — — * The Philadelphia Repertory was issued only between these date*. t Further obituation. (160) Deaths from the Philadelphia Repertory. 161 — TRIPP. At sea on his passage from the Havanas to this port, Lieutenant Tripp, of the United States navy. He had the command of the brig Vixen and was ordered (as we are informed) to cruze in our waters for the protection of our trade. Lieutenant Tripp was a brave, active officer, and had signalized himself in the Tripolitan war, in the Mediterranean.— August 25, 1810, from New Orleans paper. CUSHING.— At Scituate, Massachusetts, on Thursday, the 13th, honor¬ able William Cushing, aged 77, one of the associate justices of the United States Court.— September 22, 1810. DEARBORN.— AT Roxbury, Mass., on the 17th, Mrs. Dorcus Dearborn, consort of the Hon. Henry Dearborn, late secretary of war. CAMPBELL.— In this city, on Thursday last, George Campbell, Esq., attorney at law.— October 27, 1810. CARRINGTON. At Richmond, 28th, Colonel Edward Carrington, a Revolutionary worthy and a man of sterling integrity. MOORE.— In North Carolina, on the 11th, Alfred Moore, Esq., late an associate judge of the Supreme Court of the United States. BARRON, At Norfolk, on the 28th, Commodore Samuel Barron. In the enjoyment of perfect health he was seized, while at dinner on Sun¬ day, with a fit of apoplexy, and expired at one o’clock on Monday — — morning. VOYGE.— On the 3d, at the house of George Ege, Esq., in Tulpehocken Township, Berks County, Colonel Michael Voyge, a native of Germany, and an officer in the American Revolutionary war, in the 80th year of his age.— November 10, 1810. SCOOT. At Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, on 21st ult., Mrs. Mary Scott, aged seventy-four.*— November 24, 1810. — ** Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord.” STAUGHTON.— May 6, 1810, at Longbuckby, England, in the 90th year of her age, Mrs. Anne Staughton, the grandmother of Dr. W. Staughton, pastor of the First Baptist Church in Philadelphia.* She was buried in the Baptist burial ground at Longbuckby, by the side of her husband, who died in the month of April, 1780.*— Decetober 8, 1810. KER.— On Tuesday evening, Mr. Joseph Ker, in the 62d year of his age. — SMITH.— At Rutland, Vermont, on Sunday the 2d, the Hon. Israel Smith, late governor of that state, an the 52d year of his age. December 22, 1810. GRIFFIN.— ON Friday the 14th, at Yorktown, the Hon. Cyrus Griffin, judge of the United States Court for the district of Virginia.— December 29, 1810. SMITH.— At Arneystown, New Jersey, on the 7th, Mrs. Margaret Smith, in the 80th year of her age.— January 12, 1811. HOPE.— In England, Henry Hope, Esq., principal of the house of Hope and Oo. of Amsterdam, a native of Boston, born in 1786, and died worth twenty-seven millions of guilders.— April 13, 1811. * Puller obltuation- 162 Deaths from the Philadelphia Repertory. THUM.— Died on Friday morning, the 19th, Mr. George Thum, aged seventy years three months. Mr. Thum was a native of Darmstadt, in Germany, and emigrated to this country in the year 1763. In that glorious and ever-memorable revolution, which established our independ¬ ence, and raised America to a level with the other nations of the globe, he bore an early and distinguished part. His adherence to the principles which gave rise to that great event, drew upon him the resentment of his anti-republican neighbours, from whose rapacity and cruelty, himself and family suffered materially. He served with distinguished gallantry in many of the severe cam¬ paigns of the Revolution.* April 27, 1811. * puller obituafcl-oc. —