Reader, prepare; remember death is near! This speaking marble loud doth warn you all, Youth, manhood, age, to each a powerful call. Note. This inscription is from a monument erected in the cemetery appertaining to the Dutch church in Garden street. HYDE PARK, N. Y. 850. This tablet recalls to the affectionate recollection of his family, friends, and neighbours, doctor JOHN BARD. Pious, just, and benevolent, the longer he lived the more he was beloved, and through the varied events of 83 years was always more esteemed the better he was known. Ob. 30 March, 1799. Note-Doctor Bard was the first president of the Medical Society of New York, which was instituted in 1788. An interesting memoir of this emiment physician and philanthrophist, attributed to David Hossack, M. D. enriches the first volume of the Am. Med. Phil. Reg. published under the editorial superintendence of doc. Hossack and John W. Francis, M. D. The epitaph at the head of this article is from a tablet fixed on the wall of St. James's church in Hyde Park in Dutchess county, which was built by the son of doctor Bard, the present Samuel Bard, M. D. president of the college of physicians and surgeons established in the city of N. York. UNITED STATES. 851. Note.-An elegant medal was struck in honour of a distinguished exploit of commodore Truxtun with a fine likeness of that commander, on one side, and these words; PATRIE. PATRES. FILIO. DIGNO. THOMAS TRUXTUN. on the reverse are the following inscriptions with a view of the ships in action. U. S. FRIGATE CONSTELLATION OF XXXVIII GUNS PURSUES, ATTACKS, AND VANQUISHES THE FRENCH SHIP, LA VENGEANCE, OF LIIII GUNS, I FEB. MDCCC. BY VOTE OF CONGRESS TO THOMAS TRUXTUN, XXVIIII MARCH, MDCCC. "And it is further resolved that the conduct of James Jarvis a midshipman in said frigate, who gloriously preferred certain death to an abandonment of his post, is deserving of the highest praise and that the loss of so promising an officer is a subject of national regret. [Resolve of the S. and H. R. U. S.] ERRATA. Page 126, line 8, for apply, read reply. 216, last line, for honour, read horrour. INDEX. Abeel, John Nelson, New York, N. Y. Alden, Dorothy Coffin, Montville, Con. Asylum for the insane, New York, N. Y. Article. 845 742 751 749 812 719 790 657 717 811 818 665 Barry, Thomas, Albany, N. Y. 820 Beadle, Lydia and children, Wethersfield, Con. 761 Beekman, William, New York, N. Y. 849 Berkeley, George, Oxford, Gr. Brit. 766 Bragelongne, L. C. De, New London, Con. 741 1 Campbell, John, New York, N. Y. Champlin, Christopher, Newport, R.I. 645 738 839 Charters, John, New York, N. Y. 791 Cheesborough, Elizabeth, New London, Con. 735 Chester, Leonard, Wethersfield, Con.. 754 Chester, John, Wethersfield, Con. 755 Clap, Nathaniel, Newport, R. I. 658 Clarke, Stephen H. Providence, R. I. 720 Coe, John, Hampsted, N. Y. 804 Coe, Hanah, Hampsted, N. Y. 805 Coe, Elizabeth H. Troy, N. Y. 808 Collins, Elizabeth and husband, Bristol, R. I. 683 Grant, Temperance, Newport, R. I. 642 715 716 Greene, Esther Ward, Providence, R. I. 700 Greene, Nathaniel, Hudson, N. Y. 828 Griswold, Eunice, Bristol, R. I. 681 Griswold, Harriet, Bristol, R. I. 682 Griswold, Viets, Bristol, R. I. 684 Hall, Levi, Providence, R. I. 690 Harper, John, Newport, R. I. 663 Harris, Oceana, Providence, R. I. 710 Harris, Cyrus, Johnson, R. I. 721 Hays, Moses Michael, Newport, R. I. 667 Hazard, George, Newport, R. I. 650 Helyer, Jonathan, Newport, R. I. Hillhouse, John G. Montville, Con. 744 745 How, Perley, three sons of, Bristol, R. I. 679 Hubbard, Bela, New Haven, Con. Kemp, John, New York, N. Y. 838 775 |