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33 cares which she bad been long engaged with, influenced him to leave the mansion they had lived in for more than nine years, and remove a few miles, to the farm of John Phipps, near Abington meeting house, in whose family they boarded. Soon after this change of residence, the interesting and endeared connection which had subsisted between this affectionate pair, through the many vicissitudes of their lives, was dissolved by the death of his wife. This event, which involved him in great affliction, was rendered more acute by the circumstance that he had no children, or other relative, to participate in his sorrow—to share his loss—to yield the sympathy which such privation demanded—or afford the consolation and aid that a bereavement so severe required.