Biography of the signers to the Declaration of independence . to matrimony with Miss Ann Justis, of thestate of Delaware : they were blessed with a numerous off-spring, eight of whom, three sons and five , wereliving at the time of their fathers decease. 144 MORTON. In the month of April, 1777, a violent inflammatory feverremoved him from this mortal scene, in the fifty-fourth yearof his age : he was buried in the cemetery of St. Jamesschurch, in Chester, of which he was a member. At the closeof his life, he was abandoned by some who had been his warm-est friends, but whose politica
Biography of the signers to the Declaration of independence . to matrimony with Miss Ann Justis, of thestate of Delaware : they were blessed with a numerous off-spring, eight of whom, three sons and five , wereliving at the time of their fathers decease. 144 MORTON. In the month of April, 1777, a violent inflammatory feverremoved him from this mortal scene, in the fifty-fourth yearof his age : he was buried in the cemetery of St. Jamesschurch, in Chester, of which he was a member. At the closeof his life, he was abandoned by some who had been his warm-est friends, but whose political sentiments differed from hisown, and they eould neither forgive nor forget the vote whichlie had given in favour of independence. It was then that thepatriot shone forth even amid the pangs of dissolution : Tellthem, said he, on his death-bed, and with a prophetic spirit,—**tell them that they will live to see the hour, when theyshall acknowledge it to have been the most glorious servicethat I ever rendered to my country. Ithe new yorkI ASTtm, XZMOX AND. ®:i®iE©ii A^an^Msis T-iVTaved Ly nronian aritTiaialnimiaturcijy Irott, GEORGE CLYMER. The profession of the law is, in this country, the mostcertain path to political distinction, not only from the influ-ence which fluency of speech confers, but from the intimateconnexion existing between law and politics. At the dawn,and during the meridian of the revolution, this distinctionwas less manifest, although, in the aggregate, the gentlemenof the bar maintained and merited a powerful , among the illustrious men who flourished in those peril-ous times, the merchant, the physician, the farmer, the me-chanic, and the sailor, frequently acted a conspicuous spirit of patriotism, like that of religion, is not circum-scribed in its operations ; it honours and elevates the objectin which it appears, whatever may be his situation in society,and imparts a zeal and dignity to his exertions, which,
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