500 APPENDIX. 



On Friday, May 30th, died at his seat in Chester county, William Moore, Esq,, 

 of Moore Hall, in the 84th year of his age, and was interred on the Sunday following, 

 in his family burying-ground, at Radnor churchyard. His funeral was attended by a 

 large concourse of his most respectable neighbors, and an excellent sermon was 

 preached by the Rev. William Currie. At an early period of his life Mr. Moore was 

 a member of the Assembly, a Colonel of militia, one of the Justices of the Peace, and 

 President of the County Courts of Chester, which last office he filled with great and 

 acknowledged abilities for about forty years. He has left a numerous family of chil- 

 dren, grandchildren and great-grandchildren to bewail his memory; and more es- 

 pecially a mournful and beloved wife, with whom he lived upwards of sixty-one years 

 in the most perfect and uninterrupted conjugal felicity. 



The following inscription is on a slab at Radnor Church, Delaware 



county, Pennsylvania: 



" To the memory of 



William Moore, Esq., of Moore Hall, in the 



County of Chester, 



and of WiLLlAMlNA his wife. 



He departed this life on the 30th day of 



May, 1783, aged 84 years. 



She died on the 6th day of December, 1784, 



in the 80th year of her age. 



" This venerable pair lived together in perfect love and unremitted 

 harmony and confidence for the long period of sixty-tliree years; dis- 

 pensing the best duties of life in ardent and uninterrupted zeal; beloved 

 by their children and by their friends, respected by the community in 

 which they passed their lengthened days. Benevolence and urbanity 

 beamed on all who sought their hospitable mansion; they administered 

 comfort to the worthy poor, protecting humble honesty though cursed 

 with poverty. 



" He presided in the Common Pleas, Quarter Sessions, and Orphans' 

 Courts in Chester county for a great length of time. As a judge and a 

 magistrate he was indefatigable in executing the solemn charge of these 

 important stations, acquitting himself with intelligence, impartiality and 

 dignity. He was a kind father, a warm friend and an indulgent master. 

 She was one of the brightest patterns of excelling nature. Possessing a 

 bright and cultivated heart and understanding, she was mild, consider- 

 ate, kind and good; she was consequently distinguished by her amiable 

 disposition and unassuming manners. With calmness, but with resigna- 

 tion, she bore the heaviest afflictions, the severest trials of an uncertain 

 world, and placed her firm reliance upon a state of happiness beyond 

 the grave — 



"'That place Celestial, where no storm assails, 

 No ills approach — where bliss alone prevails.'" 



