commander of a vessel, after having been shipwrecked on the Cape Breton shore, was surprised, and barbarously murdered by the Indians, about the twenty-fourth of April, 1753: he was in the nineteenth year of his age.-Simon, the fourth son, died between the age of seven and eight years.— George, the seventh and last child, was the fourth sea-captain of the family: the ship in which he sailed as commander, never again returned, nor were any tidings of her fate ever received.

On the second of January, 1755, governor Hopkins found a second wife in the person of Anna Smith, widow of Benjamin Smith. She was a pious and amiable woman, and a member of the society of friends, according to whose regulations the marriage ceremony was performed.-In person, he was of the middle size, well formed and proportioned; his manners were mild and unostentatious; and his features, manly, comely, and prepossessing.

This great and good man closed his long, honourable, and useful life, on the thirteenth of July, 1785, in the seventy-ninth year of his age. His last illness was a lingering fever, slow in its advances, and mild in its features; and he retained full possession of his faculties and tranquillity, to the period of his dissolution. A full persuasion of the unbounded goodness of the Deity, brightened the prospect of

his future happiness. As in life he had despised the follies, so in death he rose superior to the fears, of an ignorant and licentious world; and he expected with patience, and met with pious and philosophic intrepidity, the stroke of death.-The judges of the courts; the president, corporation, and students, of the college; a great number of distinguished characters from different parts of the state; a prodigious concourse of respectable citizens; and a numerous train of mourning relatives; composed the funeral procession, which, on the fifteenth of July, 1785, followed the remains of Stephen Hopkins to the tomb. "Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord;"" they rest from their labours, and their works do follow them."

the historical pencil, because their example may prove useful to others.

Few of the splendid luminaries which have adorned the political firmament of the republic, possess stronger claims to this distinction than THOMAS M'KEAN. Living in turbulent and tempestuous times, beset with trials and difficulties, frequently assailed by the ambition, the envy, and the malice,

his future happiness. As in life he had despised the follies, so in death he rose superior to the fears, of an ignorant and licentious world; and he expected with r

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THE lives of most men pass away unobserved, unheeded and unknown, out of the particular family circle to which they are attached. They spring into existence, and sink into the grave, amid the general mass of perishable matter, without seeking to separate themselves from it, or be distinguished, by a distinct course, from the cradle to the tomb. Those who emerge from this general obscurity, and become eminent for their talents and virtues, are characters peculiarly adapted for the delineation of the historical pencil, because their example may prove useful to others.

Few of the splendid luminaries which have adorned the political firmament of the republic, possess stronger claims to this distinction than THOMAS M'KEAN. Living in turbulent and tempestuous times, beset with trials and difficulties, frequently assailed by the ambition, the envy, and the malice,