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18 the height of the excise excitement; during the latter years of his life retired from active business, devoting his attention to his estates, which, in the vicinity of Pittsburgh, comprehended surveys called in the original patents, Barry Hall, Bergen op Zoom, Ormsby's Villa, Mount Oliver and many other extensive tracts; died 19 December, 1805, at the townhouse of his son, Oliver Ormsby, corner of Water street and Chancery lane, Pittsburgh, with whom he had resided for some time prior to his decease, having given up his own establishment after the death of his wife. He lies buried with his wife and others of the family in Trinity churchyard. Their epitaphs, fast becoming undecipherable, are given thus in Penna. Maga., 1880, vol. IV, no. 1, p. 124:

"Mr. Ormsby may truly be styled the Patriarch of the Western Ormsbys; he migrated to Fort DuQuesne about the time the British took possession of it; at which time he was Commissary of Provisions, and Paymaster of Disbursements for the erection of Fort Pitt; subsequently he entered largely into the Indian