41 6 LIFE AND CORRESPONDENCE OF THE [180I 



M. S. 



GuLiELMi Smith, S. T. P. 



Conjugis quoque ejus dilectae Rebeccae, 



Scbolisque eorum quotquot hie inhumabuntur 



Nomina intus discas. 



Hanc domum Sept., 1800. 



Ego G. S. tunc vivus aetat. 74 mihi et meis paravi 



In qua mortui, spe Resurrectionis in Christo quiescamus 



Ossibus nostris quisquis es Viator 



Obsecro. 



The new structure was not long without an occupant. On the 

 1st of February, iSoi, Isabella Smith, the much-loved sister of the 

 Doctor, died at the Falls, and on the following evening her body- 

 was deposited in the mausoleum. 



The Falls soon had another visitation from "the grisly mon- 

 arch." On the loth of May, 1801, Pninus, the faithful body-ser- 

 vant of Dr. Smith, died. He was buried outside the mausoleum. 

 Dr. Smith had a great regard for Prijiius, whom he had bought as 

 a child in Maryland, in 1783, and who had been constantly by his 

 side for nearly twenty years. When he died, the Doctor remarked 

 that he had been so long Prinius in this world that he was not 

 likely to be Sccnndus, he thought, in the world to come. 



These various deaths, which in different ways were so near to 

 him, were calculated to bring forcibly before the venerable subject 

 of our biography a likelihood that the great change would soon 

 overtake himself To one so deeply reflective, however, no such 

 warnings were necessary. His mind was always and fully awake 

 to the necessity both of spiritual and temporal preparation for the 

 "inevitable hour." He now made his will, a document which is 

 so interesting, and which reveals so much of his character, that I 

 venture to transcribe it entire: 



The last will and testament of William Smith, D. D., of the North- 

 ern Liberties of the city of Philadelphia, and Commonwealth of 

 Pennsylvania. 



In the name of God. — Amen. I, William Smith, D. D. , formerly 

 and for many years Provost of the College Academy and charitable 

 schools of the city of Philadelphia, now resident on my farm at the 

 Falls of Schuylkill, in the Northern I-iberties of said city, and Com- 

 monwealth of Pennsylvania, being devoutly thankful to Almighty God, 



