Otsego Herald, Cooperstown, NY, May 7, 1807
Death
Died at Norwich (England), Sarah Rickwood aged 49. For the last six years of her existence, this poor woman supported with admirable fortitude the complicated miseries of one of the most enormous cases of dropsy on record. In the course of about 50 months, she was tapped 38 times and discharged 450 gallons of fluid, weighing 466 pounds. The greatest quantity discharged at one operation measured 111 gallons and weighed 153 lbs.
Otsego Herald, Cooperstown, NY, May 14, 1807
Deaths
Died in North Carolina, Mr. Samuel Dalton aged 115 years. He had never lost his appetite by indisposition a single hour. He was but once married and there are now living upwards of six hundred of his offspring. The Dysentery terminated his life suddenly.
At New ork, on the 25th ult. Mr. Hugh Gaine in the 81st year of his age.
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For Sale
A black woman who understands all kinds of work in a country house and kitchen; is capable and willing' has no bad qualities; is about 29 years of age. For terms, which will be reasonable, and other particulars, enquire at the printer. March 4, 1807.
Otsego Herald, Cooperstown, NY, May 21, 1807
Death
Died of a pleurisy at Marcellus [Onondaga Co. NY] on the 24th March, Mrs. Diana Atwater. She died exactly eleven months from the day she was married and it was exactly eighteen years from the day she was born to the day she was buried. An infant, which died a few days before her, was buried with her in the same grave. Her death has disappointed the fondest hopes and most sanguine expectation of her husband, parents, connections and friends. Through life she was remarkably cheerful and her cheerfulness and composure of mind did not in the least forsake her in sickness, nor even in death. The King of Terrors had no terrors for her. Perfectly rational and fully sensible of her approaching dissolution, she comforted her husband, parents, brothers and sisters in their affliction. With a seraphic smile on her countenance and the most endearing expressions on her tongue, she took her ring from her finger and put it on her husband's and bid him keep it in remembrance of her. She then bid her husband, parents, brothers and sisters, an affectionate and final adieu. Soon afterwards with her faltering and dying voice, she sang her following verse and at the conclusion said "Amen."
"Jesus to thy dear, faithful hand / My naked soul I trust, / And my flesh waits for thy command / To drop into my dust."
After having sung this, her strength being nearly exhausted, she said little or nothing, but in peace yielded up her soul into the hands of her "dear Saviour," with whom we hope she will dwell thro' eternity. It so happened that all the neighboring clergymen were absent and her husband had the fortitude to preach her funeral sermon himself. This preaching (as he observed on the mournful occasion) his own funeral sermon to a very large, attentive and deeply affected audience from Job 30th, 23d verse
"Safe on her welfare all my pleasures hung / Her smiles could all my pains control / Her soul was made of softness and her tongue / Was soft and gentle as her soul."
"She was my guide, my friend, my earthly all / Love grew with every waning moon, / Had Heaven a length of years delay'd its call / Still I had thought it call'd too soon."
"But peace my sorrows, nor with murmuring voice/ Dare to accuse Heaven's high decree, / She was first ripe for everlasting joys, / Diana wait above for me."
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Caution: Whereas Prudence [Bowman], my wife, has left my bed and board and has behaved in an unbecoming manner, this is to forbid all persons from harboring or trusting the said Prudence on my account as I will pay no debt of her contracting after this date. Jacob Bowman, Middlefield [Otsego Co. NY] May 16, 1807
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