The Portland gazette. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1818-1824, 1822-08-13

DIED.
- this town, Is. Abraham Beeaan agcd o.
capt "iliam ihomas. aged 53.-Alr Thomas Ca
pen, aged 39an enterprising and respectable citizen
Being member OF the Board OF Trustees of the Maine
Chanble Mechanic Associations the society testified
Their respect Tor us memory by accompanying his re-
mains 20 the grave.
In TINS town. I2ii. inst Mr. Joseph Libby aeed 90
Faerai this aftsraoon al O'clock from. he House 81
Capt .4Jaer Ls1get IN LocuSt-Strest RsLrt y.s and
fr;snts limited 70 attend.
ia Westbrook, Mr. Zaciisriah Small aged so.
la Winthrop village, Of Cholera. July 18th. Olivia
A. Benjamin, aged years and n,oaths and on the
3lst, Caroline E>iSenamin. aged year and months.
daughters Of Capt. Benjamin. They were lovely
AID pleasant III their lives aud ia their deaths they
were not long divided
At Falmouth on the morning Of the 9th inst Mr..
DIqiel b. Csabtrse, sou u Wm Crabtree, Esq aeed
-.
Notwithstanding our general dislike Of obituary no
tees because, oo Often when they are not gross viola
OF the truth they consist mere common place
remark, without definite me anng ;-ot they are an ex-
preston OF the misguided feelings Of noment-which
may be the most proptous the writers sensibiity
hat perhaps. the moment ofa Others when he shonld
not write a; All yet we know not how orbear pass
ing observation upon the subject of this article.
Ills whole life had beea, apparently, free from re-
prOach Few parents can look back upon the first nine
years of a child. with more happy recolections
aud fewer causes OF SORROW than the parents of the de-
ceased Amlabe and eachabe in his disposition han.
p1 VI u!idl anu ldittnd DUTY, and
ia toe discharge Of friendly aud neighboy Offices TO all
ne extensively beloved and is extensively lament
ed.
For several months past be, who had always been
modest and rather sedate in his department. became
gradually and evidently more deeply serious than be-
fore. IL was apparent to many-knoicn 10 a fea-that
his mind was deeply exercised with enquiry VIII
he was sent into the world-to what end-what were
his dies-and what would be his destination after the
short period ot human life should be nun bered with the
years beyond the food. Reflections upon these sub
jects were more deeply-were indelby fixed bv the
recent death of brother about years his elder
Since which, while he performed his earthly duties with
cheerful Industry, bis search after the thing needfL
AS master principle evidently appeared the great sub
ect of his anxiety and pursuit He had made no pro-
fesson-and not forward talk. Il seemed to
iii his heart while humility checked his utterance
lie eagerly sough; religious instruction all the means
within his reach.-HiS common acquainta noes
perhaps might perceive the deep exercises of his
mind ; vet when circumstances called for anv act
which would manifest his love and awful reverence for
his maker and redeemer, he would exhibit il with
sngleness of heart which appeared unconscious of any
earthly being around him.
HIS sickness attended with great pain but sub
mission and resignation enabled him TO bear il without
a murmur and il is hoped and believed that through
real penitence and living active faith in an Almighty
Saviour he has obtained glorious triumph over the
last enemy.--His career short. but.
That Ire is long which ansVsrs lies greaf end
In HAVANA Mr.. Samuel Berry. aged % formerly
OF this town.
In Baltimore, Mr.. Solomon W. Winchester former
'ly OF this town, aged 3d.