Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Mass.) 1828-1830, 1828-05-06

In Albany, Elizabeth Davis, aged n, formerly o
New Bedford
In Kennebunkport, Martha, wife ofWm Cleaves
aged Sc. Oliver Perkins, aged 90.
In Saco Dr. Richard C. Shannon, aged S. Ro
bert Adams, formerly of Chelmsford, aged 20.
In Portland, Sophia Martin, aged 81. Ezekiel
Sawyer.
In Nobleboro', (Me) Hon. Matthew Cottrell
aged IS.
In Bristol, (Me.) Samuel Boyd, aged go.
In Newport, Susannah daughter of William Ellie.
ry, aged So,
In Canaan, (Ct) Major John Webb aged II, an
officer of the revolution.
In Whitehall, IN. W Mrs. Clark, wife of COL J.
D. Clark, recently of Rutland, Vt.
In Philadelphia, John Morton, for many years
President of the Bank of North America. On the
24th April, Samuel r. Miller of Boston, aged 40.
In Greensborough, (Alabama) Egbert Benson
Smith, aged %, native of Rutland, (Vt.) and re-
Gently residing at Manchester.
In New-Orleans, Jacob johnson, late of Boston,
aged "a.
In Concord, IN. H. on Monday, March 81, DIR.
Peter Green in the SD year of his age. He was
son of Peter Green, Esq. of Lancaster, (Ms.) in
which town he was born, Oct |, old style, agreeing
with Oct Is, present style, 1745. He received his
education at Harvard College, Cambridge. (Ms.)
where he graduated in the year l766, in class con-
tanning forty members, Of whom one fourth were
living at the commencement of the present year.
tied in this town in the year l772, where, for the
long period of 56 years, he practised with much sue
cess and reputation. He one of the early men,
bers, if not one of the founders, of the New-Hamp-
shire Medical Society and his professional skill was
so well known abroad that he was elected an homo
rary member of the Massachusetts, Medical Society
At the commencement of our Revolutionary War,
ne was appointed Surgeon Of one of the Regiments
raised by the Government of this State but we do
not learn how long he continued in service As a
citizen, DIR. Green sustained, through long life a
character unstained by moral defects and in his de-
Ginning years, exhibited that controul of the passions
and purity of mind rarely enjoyed by subjects of
human lntirmity. So in his last days. and hours he
gave ample evidence that he had chosen that good
part which would not be taken from him."
Statesman
In Richmond ,(Va.) William Walker Henning, the
well known author of Hennng's Justice work
which has so long been in high repute among the
magistrates of Virginia, and has through several
editions. He rendered great service to the Com
monwealth by collecting with infinite pains from
different quarters, the various Sessions Acts of the
Legislature of Virginia before, during, and for
raj years since the Revolution, viz. from the year
1919, down to 1892. He published these in Is vo-
Tunes under the title of Statues at Large;' and
they are valuable monument of his industry and
research. He was also the editor of Francis Max
inns of Equity Mr.. Henning has been for many
years the Clerk of the Chancery Court for the Rich
In Westmoreand, Oneida CO. N. W on the LIST
inst, Alexander Parkman, Esq, in the 82d year of
his age. The deceased was son of Rev. Ebenezer
Parkman, formerly of Westboro', Ms. He spent
three years in the military service of his country
during the Revolutionary struggle At the age of
~, after enduring the abours and privations of a
new country for ten years, in New Hampshire, he
came with rising family to Wesmoreland, while it
was dense wilderness. He was one of the first
white men that ever felled tree or marked road
in that town. He was one of the affectonate, hap
Ply few, who sat at the j." first supper of the Lord
that ever was dispensed there and there is but one
of that little band who survives him in the church.
He was the first moderator chosen by the church
and ever after till laid aside by infrmities, he was
one of the small number who sustained the burden
felt the solictude, and enjoyed the pleasure of build
ing up IN the desert this church of Christ. But he
is gone; and in him his country has lost soldier
who exposed his life to give her liberty; his chill
dren father who loved them; his friends sympa-
tfnslng friend; and the church a brother, who re-
Joiced when she rejoiced, and wept when she wept
Utica Recorder.
CASUALTIES. In Lenox, on the 30th ult Eliza
Ann, daughter of Billings and Betsy E. johnson,
aged years. While in her fathers saw-mill, which
was then in full operation, she fell through hatch
way on to the pitn,an crank of the machinery BY
which her limbs were severely fractured and being
also more or less immersed in water, she survived
but about one hour.
We understand that Mr. Clark, whose family
reside in South Leicester, hung himself in Smith
field on Tuesday last. His occupation, we believe,
was that OF an essence pedlar.- Wore. Woman.
Drowned on Wednesday last, at Hunts Falls, in
the Merrimack, Bushrod Richardson, aged o.
Drowned in Boston harbour, on the 22d April,
Isaac Wyman, aged %.
A coroner's inquest was held on Wednesday last,
on the body of male infant child found partly bu-
rled in pasture on Jamaica Plains Verdict of the
Jury, that the child came to his death by the hand
Of some person or persons unknown.
In Meredith, IN. Ill., Seth Albion, son of Seth
Cheney, aged years. His death was occasoned