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68 presented, with his advice as well as from his purse. Though he had many enemies in consequence of his opposition to slave-keeping, yet it was universally acknowledged that he was an upright and honest man. The disease which had begun its operation upon his system, previously to his retirement to the country, so far from being subdued, as was expected, by change of situation, gradually increased, and ultimately confined him to his bed, toward the close of the year 1732. Perceiving that there was no prospect of his recovery, he calmly waited the awful moment which would forever terminate his sorrows and his sufferings.

Being possessed of considerable property, and having no wife or children on whom it might devolve, he made a particular disposition of it by a will, which was executed on the 7th. day of the 3d. month (March) 1733.

In order to show what were the feelings of Sandiford at this interesting crisis, some