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 EPITAPHS. 473 Doctor Samuel Allen, a physician of the town, has his life's record summed up as follows : " His life was devoted to virtue and in the line of his profession, for the benefit of mankind, served his generation with skillful attention." " Sleep then, blest man, till this thy body be Raised from the dust to immortality, That soul and body, may rejoined again, With Christ in perfect bliss forever reign," SAMUEL ALLEN "Who having passed a life of useful labors both in public and private vocations yielded his breath to the inexorable enemy of mankind on the 22nd day of October, A. D. 1808, in the 70th year'of his age." It is recorded of Joseph Viall Allen, fifer in the Revolu- tion that he was "lost in ye Hurricane that prevailed in ye West Indies, 1780, aged 18 years." " Think not to find me by this stone. Hard fate decreed I should have none." Peleg Barnes's stone preserves these truthful lines : " His sleep is sweet who sinks to rest With Heaven's approving sentence blest." Samuel Barnes's tombstone preserves a noble thought : " What need the pen rehearse a life well spent, A man's good deeds are his best monument." Samuel Barnes, who died 18 16, age 29, consoles his family as follows : •' Dear wife and children do not weep, I am not dead but here do sleep." Mrs. Rachel Bicknell, d. 1786, age 75 : " Thrice happy change It is for me From earth to heaven Removed to be."