448 LIFE AND CORRESPONDENCE OF THE [1803 



• Dr. Smith to Charles Smith. 



Philadelphia, May 2, 1803. 

 Dear Charles : I write you this to acknowledge the receipt of your 

 letter and check. ... I get weaker every day, and am wholly confined 

 to my bedchamber, and cannot reasonably expect more than a very un- 

 certain and short time to live, and would not wish to give you a 

 moment's unhappiness. . . . My iu>o volumes of sermons, etc., are fin- 

 ished, and printed, but I feel I could not rest in my grave were my 

 wishes not carried out. But to you, my dear son, and your brother 

 William, I trust this matter, which is of so much import to me. . . . 

 Your wife and dear children, whom I never expect to see again, I love*; 

 I leave my blessing upon them. 



Your affectionate father till death, 



William Smith. 

 To Charles Smith, Lancaster. 



The only accounts I have of the funeral of Dr. Smith are from 

 my grandmother and a letter from Mrs. Cadwalader. My grand- 

 mother informed me that Bishop White officiated at the mauso- 

 leum; that she and my father and uncle (Dr. .Smith's two grand- 

 children*) were the only members of the family who followed the 

 body to the vault. His children were all too far away to commu- 

 nicate to them the fact of his dissolution in time for them to be 

 present at the funeral. Mrs. Cadwalader, widow of General John 

 Cadwalader, was at this time residing on the estate at the Falls, 

 near Dr. Smith's dwelling-. 



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Mrs. Williamina Cadwalader to Mrs. Ridgely. 



[Extract.] 



Philadelphia, May 19, 1803. 



I suppose Willey will tell you that Dr. .Smith died on Saturday last, 

 and was buried on Tuesday evening in his mausoleum, at the Falls. 

 He was carried in a hearse from his son William's house, attended by 

 sixteen carriages, six of them filled with clergy. He had none of his 

 children with him, but was attended affectionately by his amiable 

 daughter-in-law, Mrs. "William Moore Smith. 



From your very affectionate 



Williamina Cadwalader. 



* The last official act of Dr. Smith in his position as a clergyman he make,s note 

 of thus : 



"August I, 1802. — Baptized my two grandchildren, viz. : 



" I. Samuel, who will he six years of age 1st September next. 



"2, Richard, who was three years of age 13th March last." 



