ISOI] KEV. WILLIAM SMITH, D. D. 415 



of 1 80 1 met in St. Michael's Church, Trenton, on Tuesday, Sep- 

 tember 8th. Dr. Smith was at first disincHned to go to it; but 

 Dr. Biackvvell, his kind friend of ancient date, offering to take him 

 in his own carriage, he accompanied this excellent gentleman. 

 He was, however, in a feeble condition, and declined to act as 

 president. The Rev. Abraham Beach, D. D., of New Brunswick, 

 in New Jersey, was accordingly elected in his stead. While ob- 

 serving them intelligently. Dr. Smith took but little active part in 

 the proceedings, and his last act, in this the last convention in 

 which he ever assisted, was to propose a canon making an addition 

 to the first canon of 1795, on the subject of Episcopal Visitations. 

 The addition was read and adopted, and sent to the House of 

 Bishops, who immediately concurred in it. He was brought back 

 to Philadelphia by Dr. Blackwell, assisted by a Maryland friend, 

 the Rev. John Coleman,* at that time rector of St. Thomas 

 Church, Baltimore. 



During the latter part of this year Dr. Smith prepared a mauso- 

 leum on his estate, at the Falls of Schuylkill, with the following 

 inscription over the door: 



Anno Christi 1 801 Gulielmus Smith, S. T. P. 



Tunc aetat. 75. 



Hoc Parvulum Mausoleum Ixstituit 



M. S. 



Sui et conjugis cars Rebeccae. 



Sobolisque Eorum. 



Ouotquot hie jacent, Ouotquot alibi 



Cognoscere Velles 



Intra disces Lector. 



Among Dr. Smith's papers I find the following inscription in 

 his handwriting directed to Mr. Latrobe, the architect, which I 

 suppose he had intended to use: 



""John Coleman, a native of Virginia — ordained by Bishop White in 1787. He 

 became rector of St. John's, Baltimore and Harford counties; in 1799 of St. Thomas, 

 Baltimore county; in 1806 of St. James, Baltimore county, and of Christ Church, Har- 

 ford, also, which he erected. He was convention preacher in 1 795, member of the 

 Standing Committee seventeen times, and five times delegate to the General Conven- 

 tion. He published the autobiography and letters of Devcreaux Jarratt. Died 1S16, 

 'igcd 53- 



