Oxford Gazette, Oxford, NY, June 14, 1814
Marriage
Mons. Serrurier the French minister resident in the United States, who lately applied to his government for liberty to marry in this country, and has since married the daughter of Mr. Patterson, late wife of the late king of Westphalia [Jerome Bonaparte] is now on a visit at New York. Bost. D. Adv.
Oxford Gazette, Oxford, NY, August 2, 1814
Marriage
On Wednesday evening last in this town [Oxford, Chenango Co. NY], by Ransom Rathbun, Esq., Mr. Lyman C. Beebe to Miss Persis Hacket.
Deaths
In Albany [Albany Co. NY] of a short but severe illness, Ebenezer Foote, Esq, aged 41 years, an eminent Attorney and Counsellor at Law.
On the 13th ult at the house of Spencer Coleman, Esq. in East Broomfield, Ontario Co. [NY], Polydore B. Wisner, Esq. of Geneva in the 49th year of his age.
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Death of Gen. Swift
Ontario Repository, July 19, 1814
We have received the orders of Major General Brown and Brigadier General P.B. Porter dated Queenston Heights, July 13, announcing that on Tuesday evening, July 12, Brig. General John Swift of Palmyra, in this county [Wayne Co. NY], was killed in a most perfidious manner by one of the enemy. The General had volunteered to reconnoitrer the enemy's positions and works at Fort George and took with him 120 men. In proceeding, he captured without firing a gun, and outpost, with a corporal and 5 men, one of whom after begging and receiving quarters, wounded the General by shooting him through the breast. The alarm occasioned by the discharge of the gun, brought to the spot 50 or 60 of the enemy, whom Gen. Swift, tho' mortally wounded, instantly attacked with fierceness; but he soon fell exhausted. His officers, however, animated by his example led on the troops, beat and drove the enemy into Fort George, which they approached to within half a mile, and then returned, bearing their expiring Gen. who died before morning.
The General's body was taken to the American side of the Niagara and on Wednesday last at 6 o'clock, interred with the honors due to his rank.
Gen. Swift served his country 7 years in the war of the revolution and "never was his country called on to lament the loss of a firmer patriot or a braver man."
Oxford Gazette, Oxford, NY, September 17, 1814
Deaths
Died on the debtors' limits in the village of Norwich [Chenango Co. NY], at 6 o'clock in the afternoon of the 7th inst, Henry William Ludlow, Esq. AEt. 38 years.
There is in the delicacy of honor, a kind of feather edge, which bristles from the soul like that on a new honed razer, unnoted by the eye, yet felt in the beard of the sentiment. It is this feather edge of honor playing against the current of every vice with its wakeful vibrations like a pike's fin in the stream, which guards the moral flock from all impurities. Mr. Ludlow possessed it, and with it a lofty and steadfast integrity united to the most clear and intuitive view of social duty and manly obligation. Aut mors, aut vita decora [either death or a beautiful life] being his maxim, as it was the motto on the breech of his pistols. Mr. Ludlow possessed not the thrifty talents of the ardent and enterprising money lover. Neither did his early habits lie in the path of accumulation. It is not therefore a matter of much surprise that when he was incarcerated for the sum of 280 dollars, his mental or practical expedients should fail him. He lay 18 months confined for this debt and finally perished in despondency. Every ligament and fiber which knit him to life, having been stressed and rasped, and chafed to a gossamer by pride, long abused, and hope sickening in pursuit of the fair picture of youthful promise and florid expectation, snapped at last and left him in eternity, buoyant on his virtues. His eyes were closed by strangers, strangers mourned him and he lies buried in a stranger's field.
Mr. Ludlow, the deceased, was the eldest son of that Mr. Thomas Ludlow of the city of New York, who can boast a fortune of 250,000 dollars, with two surviving children only to share it. A man with an unbending heathenish stoicism, which leaves him unjaded by the officiousness of parental affection, domestic attachment or social obligation. A man who having outstaid the defined period on earth stands careening to eternity, with his heels to the sill, striving for a noisome foot more to his "ropy chain of rheums," like a tared boor in a ropewalk, at the end of his tether. A man whom Persious has described as one.
Oxford Times, Oxford, NY, August 21, 1878
Deaths
FORD: In Norwich [Chenango Co. NY], Aug. 11th, Gertrude P. [Ford] daughter of Charles E. and Helen ford, aged 6 months.
SMITH: In North Norwich [Chenango Co. NY] on Aug. 10th, Mr. Wm. G. Smith, aged 63 years.
MATHEWSON: In McDonough [Chenango Co. NY], Aug. 12th, of strangulated hernia, Mr. Daniel P. Mathewson, aged 61 years.
Daniel Matthewson, a well to do farmer, died on the 12th inst., from strangulated hernia. An operation failed to relieve him.
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