ple, when, by the mouldering hand of time, every other impression of their beloved minister shall be effaced.

"His publications, though not numerous, bore such strong features of the divine, the gentleman, and the scholar, as procured him, unsolicited, a doctorate of divinity from Dartmouth college, in NewHampshire, in the year, 1792, and, in the year following, another from the university of Edinburgh in Scotland.

"In private and social life, doctor Robbins was equally amiable and exemplary; the instructive companion, the unfeigned friend, the tender and endearing husband, the faithful and indulgent parent.

"Nor was doctor Robbins less assiduous in the performance of his civil duties. Attached from principle to the federal government, and persuaded of the rectitude of its administration, he advocated both with that unfettered freedom, which became the servant of a prince, whose kingdom is not of this world.

"Amidst this extensive usefulness, amidst the unbounded affections of his church and congregation, it pleased the almighty Governour of the universe to arrest him by the stroke of death, and to remove him from these transitory and chequered scenes to those permanent and blessed abodes, where they, who have turned many to righteousness, shall shine as the stars forever and ever.

"The chamber where the good man meets his fate Is privileged above the common walk

Of virtuous life, quite on the verge of heaven.

The

"The funeral solemnities of doctor Robbins were attended by the whole society from hoary age to lisping childhood. The procession was arrang ed with great judgment, and genuine sympathy and silent regret marked its very movement. corpse was placed in the broad aisle of the meeting house, which had so often resounded with the solemn counsels and earnest expostulations of the deceased, when the throne of grace was addressed in an impressive and appropriate manner, by the rev. mr. Shaw, and an ingenious discourse was delivered by the rev. mr. Sanger, from these words of the apostle, which, with strong propriety, were applied to the present occasion, for me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.

"The obsequies of but few celebrated ministers have been visited by a larger concourse of people, and, in no instance, have greater order, decency, and seriousness been preserved."

PLYMOUTH, MASS.

618. This stone consecrated to the memo

ry of madam JANE ROBBINS, consort of the late rev. doc. Robbins, who languished from his death, 30 June, 1799, till 12 Sept. anno Domini 1800, when, in the 60 year of her age, she commenced her inseparable union with her much beloved consort and her tombstone is erected by the piety of her afflicted children.

Note.--The rev. James Kendall, successor to the rev. doc. Robbins, delivered a sermon, on the sabbath after the interment of mrs. Robbins, from Rev. 14. 13, which is before the publick, and from which the following extract is offered, as respectful to the memory of a precious follower of the Lamb.

"During the frail life of her beloved companion, by happily blending the feelings of sympathy with the fortitude of the christian and the cheerfulness of the friend, she often lifted up the hands, that hung down, cheered the desponding spirits and thus prolonged a life not more dear to herself and children, than interesting to his friends and useful and desirable to his charge. But when the silver cord was loosed and the weary soul returned to its rest, the sister spirit, bereft of the object of her fondest care and tenderest sympathy, mourned in solitude the joy of her heart; till, at length, wasting disease, proud of its victim too ready to yield, drank up the current of life, and deprived the world of a christian, but gave to heaven a saint."

PLYMOUTH, MASS.

619. Consecrated to the memory of mrs. SARAH KENDALL, amiable consort of rev. James Kendall, who died, 13 February, 1809, in the 33 year of her age, leaving to her surviving friends the best consolation, the remembrance of her virtues in life; her pious calmness, christian resignation, and tri

umphant hope in death. Blessed are the dead, who die in the Lord; yea, saith the Spirit, for they rest from their labours, and their works do follow them.

Note. Mrs. Kendall was a daughter of deacon Daniel Poor of Andover. She was the mother of six children, four of whom survived her. A distinguished character in Plymouth prepared an obituary notice of this amiable lady, from which the following extract is here preserved.

"Possessed of a high degree of discretionary intelligence and educated in the sublime and practical principles of our holy religion, eminently calculated to teach us to form a just estimate of human life, mrs. Kendall, in all the situations, in which Providence placed her, sought rather to be useful, than splendid. Piety to God and benevolence to the family of man predominated in her mind. The unaffected modesty, the placid unassuming demeanour, and the amiable graces, that embellish the female character, were uniformly conspicuous in her intercourse with her numerous friends and acquaintances, In the social and endearing relations of life, filial obedience marked her as a child, the most affectionate tenderness as a wife, and the fondest attention as a mother. Bitter experience, indeed, almost daily admonishes us, that no assemblage of christian graces and virtues can secure their exalted votaries, from the fatal arrest of death; but the example of the deceased furnishes

the most consolatory proof, that a well grounded hope in the salvation of the gospel can calm the tumults of nature, in the agonizing scene of dissolution, and disarm the ghastly monarch of all his terrors. In the meridian of life and amidst all those domestick endearments, that fortify our attachment to it, mrs. Kendall received the awful mandate with a triumphant faith in the redemption of the great Saviour of the world, of which she made an early profession, and bid a tender and interesting adieu to her worthy consort, lovely children, and other beloved relatives and friends, who surrounded the bed of death."

DUXBOROUGH, MASS.

620. Note.The hon. JOHN ALDEN was one of the pilgrims of Leyden, who came, in the May Flower, to Plymouth, in 1620. He was about twenty-two years of age, when he arrived, and was one of those, who signed the original civil compact, formed and solemnly adopted by the first adventurers at Cape Cod harbour, on the 15 of November. This was a few days previous to their finding and selecting a place for the commencement of their settlement in this western world. He was a single man and appears to have been an inmate in the family of captain Myles Standish. He was the stripling, who first leaped upon the rock, as mentioned by president Adams in a certain communication.

It is well known, that, of the first company consisting of one hundred and one, about one half died