whom res gen- 
o 2p uncancelled debt, whose interest 
they must wig in wor 
Mr. Sheldon Clark was sage in the town of Oxford, fourteen 
miles west of New Haven, January 31, 1785, and died April 10, 
1840, aged 55 years. His parents and friends were of respecta- 
ble standing among the farmers of that region, and he havi 
lost his father when very young, was early adopted by x | 
gtandfather, the late,’ Thomas Clark, Esq. of Oxford, of whose 
family he then became a a member, and with whom he remained 
until the death of. this venerable relative, at the acer April 
5, 1811. 
The grandson, Smeey his minority, manifested a decided incli-, 
nation for a liberal education, but his grandfather, wishing to 
confine his attention to rural labors, and the rudiments of acom- 
mon school education, would not consent to a course whieh ap- « 
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