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where he declined the further attendance of a friend, such 

 was his indomitable habit of independence, or rather of 

 self dependence. 



From the Granite Bank he passed upon the south side of 

 the street in front of the Merchants' Exchange, when he was 

 knocked down by a spirited horse moving with the acquired 

 momentum of rapid driving over the slippery pavement not- 

 withstanding a vigorous effort of the driver to rein him in 

 until brought upon his haunches. Deaf and purblind the 

 aged physician was a ready victim to the stunning blow. 

 Senseless and with blood pouring from his ears, a vigilant 

 and humane police officer, stationed there by a good city 

 government to protect the citizens from accident, bore him 

 in his arms to a neighboring apothecary shop, where a re- 

 cumbent posture, rest, and volatiles favored returning circu- 

 lation and respiration. When sufficiently revived he was 

 conveyed in a carriage accompanied by Dr. Kneeland and 

 Dr. Salter to the residence of his lady's brother, Mr. Samuel 

 Kneeland, where the anxious wife met him to witness his 

 death. He revived into a consciousness of his condition and 

 sufferings, and exclaimed, " Help me if you can ! " Soon 

 after an ineffectual effort to puke, he sank into a lethargy, 

 experiencing a death-like one by apoplexy. 



ADAM RICHARDSON. 



Adam Richardson was the sixth son, and eighth child, of 

 Deacon Stephen and Bridget (Richardson) Richardson, and 

 was born at Woburn, on April 10, 1709. He graduated at 

 Harvard College in the Class of 1730; and the given name 

 of his wife was Rebecca. For some years he lived in Groton, 

 where he practised medicine, and where he had three chil- 

 dren, born between December 14, 1737, and July 6, 1743. 

 According to the town treasurer's book he was teaching the 

 Grammar School from January 2, 1 741-2, to August 13, 1745, 

 as at different times payment for teaching was made to him 



