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by which Dr. Smith seems to have been much gratified ; as he 

 may well have been by the credit wnth which this brother filled, 

 as he long continued to fill, this responsible and then, at least 

 when the tenure was for life, dignified position. 



On the 9th of February he notes the death of his friend, the 

 Hon. John Penn,* at Pennsbury, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, 

 aged sixty-seven. Mr. Penn was buried in Christ Church, Phila- 

 delphia. Among the persons present at the funeral was the Prince 

 de Talleyrand ; at that time an exile in our country from France. 



On the 6th of April, in the year 1795, Dr. Smith preached in 

 Christ Church, Philadelphia, a sermon from St. Mark, vi. 34, as 

 an introduction to a plan for the encouragement of itinerant 

 preachers or missionaries on the frontier settlements of the United 

 States, as agreed upon at a convention held in New York, in 

 September, 1792. 



On the 7th of April he preached at the funeral of Colonel Joseph 

 Rudulph, at the Swedish church at Kingsessing. 



This Joseph Rudulph was the father of Mrs. Ann Smith, wife 

 of William Moore Smith, Esq. He entered the army at the out- 

 break of the Revolution, took an active part in the South with 

 Lee, spent the winter of 1778 at Valley Forge, reached the rank 

 of colonel, and resigned his commission at the end of the war. 

 The account of the RudulpJi family, in the note below, is taken 

 from an old Bible belonging to the family.f 



*This was not the Hon. John Penn, who had taken such an interest in Dr. Smith 

 and the college, in the years 1762-4. He was the eldest son of the Hon. Richard 

 Penn, and was born in England in 172S. He visited America in 1753 and also in 

 1773, and was the last proprietary governor. He married Ann Allen, daughter of the 

 Hon. William Allen, Chief-Justice of the Province. After the Revolution he retired 

 10 his seat at Pennsbury. His remains were subsequently transferred for interment to- 

 England. — Ed. 



■\yokn Riichdp/i, born August 25th, 1719; died December loth, 1768. 



Mary Rudulph, born August 13th, 1719; died March l6th, 1795. 



The above were married January 20th, 1740, and had the following issue: 



Joseph Rudulph (afterwards Colonel), born December 23d, 1741; died April 4th, 



1795- 



Jacob Rudulph, born May 28th, 1744; died March 14th, 1795. 

 Ann Rudulph, born November 12th, 1746. 

 John Rudu/ph, born June 3d, 1749; died September 3d, 1789. 

 Hannah Rudulph, iiorn June 6th, 1752. 



Benjamin Rudulph, born May nth, 1762; died September 23d, 1762. 

 Colonel Joseph Rudulph married a Swedish lady liy the name Yocuin, and had issue: 

 Joseph. 



