44^ LIFE AND CORRESPONDENCE OF THE [1S03 



CHAPTER LXI. 



Dr. Smith's last illness one of some length — Reads the proof-sheets of 

 Maxwell's two volumes, at the Falls of Schuylkill, in April, 1803 

 — He is brought to his son's, William Moore Smith's, house, in town — 

 Dies there May 14, 1803 — Is buried in his Mausoleum at the Falls — 

 1 1 is last official act — Mrs. Cadwalader to Mrs. Ridgely— Account of 

 HIS funeral — Bills paid by his Executors — Dr. Smith's estate. 



The commencement of the year 1803 found Dr. Smith in a 

 dying condition. The death of his sister and of his man Primus 

 had left him much dependent upon those whom in some senses 

 were strangers — strangers at least in comparison with those who 

 had been long about him and were acquainted with all his habits 

 and wants. His sons were affectionate; but one of them, William 

 Moore Smith, was about to embark for England, as agent for the 

 British claimants in America, and to take with him his own son, 

 William Rudulph Smith, who up to that time had been constantly 

 with his grandfather, and had been of great assistance to him in 

 the arrangement of his papers. Charles Smith was living in the 

 city of Lancaster, and engaged in public duties, and Richard was 

 in Huntingdon, a town then at a great distance, as respected any 

 ability to get to him readily, from Philadelphia. The only rela- 

 tives he had near him (in the city) were his daughter-in-law (Mrs. 

 Ann Smith), Mrs. Williamina Cadwalader, and his half-brother. 

 Judge Thomas Smith. These, with Bishop White and Benjamin 

 R. Morgan, Esq., were constantly by his side, and Judge Smith, 



Dr. William Smith and Rev. Mr. Jacob Duche, of Philadelphia, and Rev. Mr. 

 Laurence Gerelius, of Wilmington; now, that there may be no future misunderstand- 

 ing relative to the disposition of the said sixth part, which, if the lottery is successful, 

 may clear about ;(^400, it is agreed that £^0 of the same be applied by us towards the 

 use of Trinity Church, in the borough of Wilmington, and the remainder towards the 

 public school now erecting in the borough of Wilmington, or in that proportion if the 

 said sixth part should prove more or less than as above estimated. 

 Witness our hands this llth day of June, 1772. 



Richard Peters, Richard McWilliam, 



William Smith, Jonas Stedham, 



Laurence Gerelius, George Evans, 



J, Stedham. 



