4IO LIFE AND CORRESPONDENCE OF THE [^799 



cration of the Right Rev. Edward Bass, D.D., as Bishop of Massa- 

 chusetts and New Hampshire. The reader will notice that this 

 was the third consecration of a Bishop in America, and Dr. Smith 

 preached on each occasion. 



The latter part of the year found the hitherto healthy and vig- 

 orous subject of our memoir considerably broken in health. I 

 discover in it none of his correspondence and little of his manu- 

 script. He bemoans the loss of his friend Rittcnhouse, who had 

 died the 26th of June ; records the birth of a grandson (Samuel 

 Wemyss Smith, son of William Moore Smith), on the ist of Sep- 

 tember ; mentions the fact of his son William being elected Grand 

 Master of the Masons; and that the roof was burnt off the old 

 academy on Fourth street below Arch, on the night of Decem- 

 ber 30th. 



I here, to some extent, lose sight of him for three years, during 

 which time he remained chiefly at the Falls of Schuylkill ; en- 

 gaged, I presume, in putting into order the title papers and maps 

 of his extensive landed estates in different parts of the Common- 

 wealth, and in making clear and intelligible accounts of what was 

 due him on the sales of them. During the year 1790 he gave to 

 the public a work in 8vo., entitled, 



"An account of the Proceedings of the Illinois and Ouabache Land 

 Companies, in pursuance of their purchases made of the Independent 

 Natives, July 5th, 1773, and October i8th, 1775, with map of New 

 Jersey. ' ' 



This volume was printed in Philadelphia. He was also much 

 occupied with the subject of introducing water of the Schuylkill 

 river into Pliiladelphia, and in January, 1799, by request of the 

 Council of Philadelphia, he prepared and published a pamphlet on 

 this subject, entitled, 



" Remarks on a Second Publication of B. Henry Latrobe, Engineer." 

 This was for distribution among the members of the Legislature. 



In the same month of January, 1799, he presented a bell to the 

 borough of Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, for the court-house. It 

 was one of some size, weighing two hundred and fifty-four pounds, 

 and had inscribed upon it : 



Cast by Samuel Parker, Philadelphia, 179S. William Smith, D.D., 

 to the borough of Huntingdon, Juniata. 



