Delaware Gazette, Delhi, NY, November 6, 1833
Marriages
At Deposit [Delaware Co. NY] on Wednesday evening, 30th ult., by Peter Pine, Esq. Mr. Smith Stringham to Miss Elizabeth Newman both of Starrucca, Pa.
At the same place, on Thursday evening, 31st ult. by Simon Lusk, Esq., Mr. Otis Briggs to Miss Mary Lee Hulce both of Tompkins [Delaware Co. NY].
At Delhi [Delaware Co. NY] on the 24th ult. by the Rev. Mr. Maxwell, Mr. Silas K. Davis of Greene Co. [NY] to Miss Catharine Ann Becker of Delhi.
Death
At Osbornville on the 26th inst. Mrs. Aurelia [Osborne] wife of Bennet Osborne, Esq. aged 48 yrs. The deceased needs no eulogy to tell his worth to those who knew her. Her amiable deportment and exalted virtues had endeared her to a wide circle of highly respectable relatives and friends and formed for her a monument more lasting than marble. The pang that wrung the bosom at her death was softened by the reflection that she had left an example that all might be proud to imitate and had died in the full assurance of a happy and glorious immortality.
Delaware Gazette, Delhi, NY, November 13, 1833
Deaths
At Davenport [Delaware Co. NY] on the 5th inst. after an illness of only three days, Miss Eliza Ann Burget in the 20th year of her age, daughter of widow Huldah Burget.
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Antony Laussat. The following notice of the death of this highly talented young man, is taken from the Philadelphia National Gazette of the 1st inst. Mr. Laussat was the son of the late Anthony Laussat of Middletown in this county [Delaware Co. NY], where Mrs. Laussat now resides.
Died, on Monday afternoon, Antony Laussat. With the best talents and the brightest prospects, he was cut off in the twenty-eighth year of a life that merited longer duration. He was of the profession of the law and distinguished even before his admission to its practice. An Essay on Equity, written by him at the age of twenty years and as a mere school exercise, appeared to the gentlemen who then presided over the Law Academy of Philadelphia, of which he was a student, to be of such unusual desert, they recommended its publication, and his youthful task passed from its original modest pretensions into a little volume which has been publicly quoted in Europe and cited with approbation by the most distinguished jurists of America. He soon after came to the Bar, but without any sort of patronage and no advantages that were not exclusively his own. Since then - now less than seven years - he has given abundant proof that nothing but length of days was wanted to his fulfilment of the loftiest anticipations that his friends had formed for him.
His progress at the Bar was rapid. His career in politics, in which he embarked with characteristic fervor, most flattering. Full of talent, and of untiring industry, it was yet not easy to analyze his character or to appreciate the means of his unusual success. They seemed to lie as much in a combination of various qualities of a temper made for fortune as in the force of his labor and genius. To the quickest talents, and all the aspiring ardor of the country from which his family was derived, there were joined a patience of toil, vexation and detail, a steadiness of purpose, a maturity of character, a philosophy of temper, a simplicity & nobleness of nature, which seemed to mark him for high destinies.
Long subject to the attacks of disease, he saw his health slowly undermined with a resignation that was touching. He never complained but endured his fate with a silence more eloquent than the loudest grief. Conscious how short was to be his career, he yet continued his daily pursuits cheerfully and with the same ambition to excel as if he was destined to reap the soil he was so industriously planting. His sweetness of temper never forsook him. In his last illness, to his latest breath, he bore his sufferings without a murmur. His death has severed the dearest ties that bind men to life. The sorrows of his numerous friends will be cured - of his large circle of his acquaintances and admirers forgotten - but the tears which flow for the husband and the father cannot be wiped away.
Delaware Gazette, Delhi, NY, November 20, 1833
Marriages
At Stamford [Delaware Co. NY] on the 9th inst. by Ebenezer Gilbert, Esq. Mr. Jacob Wallis to Miss Mary Butler all of Stamford.
At Colchester [Delaware Co. NY] on Thursday evening the 14th inst., by the Rev. Caleb Bush, Mr. Jared G. Monfort of Hamden [Delaware Co. NY] to Miss Loretta Fuller, daughter of Mr. Nathan Fuller of Colchester.
At Walton [Delaware Co. NY] on Thursday evening 7th inst., by the Rev. David Terry, Mr. James F. Hitt Jr., to Miss Clarinda Ramsey both of Walton.
At Newburyport [MA] on Monday morning by the Rev. Mr. Dimmick, Benjamin E. Hale Esq. editor of the People's Advocate to Miss Martha Ann Davis.
At Philadelphia [PA], on Wednesday evening, by the Right Rev. William White, William Duane Jr. Esq. son of the late Secretary of the Treasury, to Louisa [Brooks] daughter of Mr. Samuel Brooks.
Delaware Gazette, Delhi, NY, November 27, 1833
Death
At his residence in New York on the 15th inst. after a short but distressing illness, Doct. E.S. Knapp in the 28th year of his age.
He was the son of Deacon Silas Knapp, whose memory is yet fresh in the minds of this community, and until recently, was a resident of this village [Delhi, Delaware Co. NY].
Naturally possessed of an enterprising mind, he became early attached to literary pursuits which he prosecuted with commendable diligence and successfully removing the obstacles that were in his way, he at length attained the object which he sought - the possession of a thorough and useful education. Thus fitted to pursue with profit one of the professions, he made choice of medicine and qualified himself to practice it, under the superintendence of Dr. E. Steele and by lectures at the New York Medical college.
Moved on by the ardor of youth and the spirit of enterprise with which his life had hitherto been characterized, he was prepared to meet and surmount the difficulties and discouragements that attend an introduction into the business of his profession and although a stranger, with nothing to recommend him but his merit, and surrounded by older and more experienced men, he in a short time, gained the confidence and secured the patronage of a respectable portion of the citizens. As a man, he commended himself by the possession of a sound mind, a generous spirit and fixed principles and in a high degree developed those qualities which so effectually secure the good will of those who came within the sphere of their influence.
And to these were added the chastening influence of religion. He adopted its principles when young. Its consolations were his in prosperity in the midst of affliction they gave him support and enabled him to meet death with calmness and resignation. In the midst of his usefulness has he left us - and to the inquiry Why is it so? It is answered from above "I will that they also whom thou hast given me be with me where I am."
