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my dear sir, of those feelings wh. nature has implanted and education 
improved, a family of such extent as ours, must necessarily feel the 
privation with peculiar severity— I am obliged to you for the concern 
you expressed for his illness and lament that it must extend to his 
death—at present I scarcely know my own feelings for the last and 
highest duty I can perform to so valuable a friend, is to check my own 
feelings and direct my exertion for the comforting a disconsolate mother 
and to protect those in the crisis about to happen who are unable to 
protect themselves— My father seemd quite unconscious of his ap- 
proaching dissolution. He expired on the sofa and sunk as he thought 
into sleep. It is I assure you not a trifling consolation to me that 
he died with so much ease and without those distressing reflections wh. 
a Father must experience when about to leave such a retinue behind. 
Had he lived his life wd. Have been very unhappy during the trouble- 
some times we shall probably witness. He is now much happier, and 
I even sometimes hope He may occasionally glance upon us from Heaven 
and smile upon a more fortunate issue than the aspect of affairs will 
allow us to anticipate. 
The inclosed letter is the last He wrote and was omitted in the 
last dispatch to you. J have kept it sacred and send you a Relic wh. 
I wd. willingly have preserved myself. 
Excuse me, my dear sir, from sendg. you the particulars you 
requested when the awful ceremonies of tomorrow are over, I shall 
be better able to attend to such duties. 
With great Respect, believe me, Dr. Sir, 
Yrs obliged & truly 
J. RoLrx. 
My Brother just arrived from York to follow my Father with me 
to the Grave. He desires his respects to you. 

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To 
The Hon. Thomas Talbot 
&e. &c. &e. 
Port Talbot. 
Lieutenant Colonel Mahlon Burwell to Talbot. 
My Dear Colonel. Oyster Creek, 5th April 1814. 
On my way to Port Talbot I last evening met Geo. Coltman at 
this place who has informed me that you have gone to Long Point— 
