"He appeared to have the uninterrupted use of his reason to the last, & died with an unaltered calmness & composure, to all appearance as that with which one goes to sleep. The physician who inoculated & centently attended him in his sickness, addressed the following letter to Mrs Edwards on this occasion:

[Here, in this letter to Mrs Edwards of March 22, 1758]

son and a daughter.

Mrs Burr exceeded most of her sex in the beauty of her person, as well as in her behaviour and conversation; she discovered an unaffected, natural freedom towards persons of all ranks, with whom she conversed. Her genius was much more than common. She had a lively, sprightly imagination, a quick and penetrating thought, and a good judgment. She had a peculiar smartness in her make and temper, which yet was consistent with pleasantness and good nature; and she knew how to be pleasant and facetious without trespassing on the bounds of gravity, or strict and serious religion. In short, she seemed formed to please, and especially to please one of

* though the physician bore this testimony, yet perhaps, the greater probability is, on cool reflection, that some noxious humours had still remained in her

public state of health, to her sixties. Mrs Hope, there, Mrs Edwards of Mr Edwards's father, was suspected &ly, under this overhanging then described.

[Here, in this letter to Mrs Burr, April 13, 1758]

It was Mrs Burr & her children who were inoculated at the same time that her father was, & had recovered when he died. But after she was perfectly recovered to all appearance, she was suddenly seized with a violent disorder, which carried her off in a few days; & which the physician said her case could call by no name but that of a moping, sent suddenly to call her out of the world.

He died April 7, 1758, sixteen days after her father, in the 27th year of her age. She was married to Mr Burr, June 29, 1752. They had two children a son & a daughter.

"Mrs Burr exceeded most of her sex in the beauty of her person, as well as in her behaviour & conversation; she discovered an unfeeling & natural freedom towards persons of all ranks, with whom she conversed. Her genius was much more than common. He had a lively, sprightly imagination, a quick & penetrating discrimination,