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��and were destroying his trees, and he started immediate]}' for the place. When he arrived, he was ver^- much fatigued ; being quite ad- vanced in years, the journey, performed without intermission, exhausted his strength. He lay

��down that night never to rise again. A fever settled upon him, and, in a day or two after taking sick, he passed away. " We buried him." says 3Ir. Worth, " in David Archer's gi'aveyard, two and a half miles north of Fort Wayne."

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