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8 and took the last farewell of his sister and other acquaintances that were standing by the tree, he mounted the ladder with great courage, till he came to the top, then he turned his face to the spectators, who were mostly in a weeping condition, and said, Sirs, do not mourn for my body but pray for my soul, for now is the fatal moment to go to well or woe.

Then he caused the 180th Psalm to be sung, and after that he prayed a little with great fervency and many tears. He looked down on his sister who wept bitterly at the bottom of the ladder and lifted up his head and said, The Lord will be thy comforter and my mother also, whose heart will be broken for what has happened me this day. He then loosed the napkin from his neck; the Executioner was ordered to feel his neck if any thing was about it; when he understood that, he opened the neck of his shirt, and put the rope on his naked neck, then saying, Since time is no more here, farewell world and all that is therein, then pulling the cap over his face, he went over with these words in his mouth, Into thy hands I commit my soul Almighty God. June 14th, 1754, between the hours of 2 and 3 o’clock afternoon.

The like was never known in the Annals of History. And for it Dumbarton lost its Circuit rights since that time.