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He was assassinated in tlie street, a few paces from his 

 own dwelling, in the open day, by a maniac, who shot 

 him with a pistol loaded with three balls. One of his 

 wounds proved mortal the second day. " Death had for 

 him no terrors." The publications of Dr. Ramsay, 

 which have met with a very favorable reception in 

 Europe as well as in America, are, " The History of the 

 Revolution, in S. Car. pub. 1784 — His. Am. Rev. pub. 

 1790— Life of Washington, 1801— The History of S. 

 Car. — being the extension of an interesting work, pub- 

 lished in 1795, entitled "A Sketch of the Soil, Chniate, 

 Weather, Diseases, of S. C. — Memoirs of the Life of 

 Martha Laurens Ramsay, 1810. Among his manu- 

 scripts were, "A History of the U. S. from the first set- 

 tlement to English Colonies," and a series of historical 

 volumes to be entitled " Universal History Americanised, 

 or. An Historical Vievr of the World, fi'om the earliest 

 records to the nineteenth century, with a particular 

 reference to the state of society, literature^ religion, and 

 form of government in the U. S. of America." This 

 Universal History, has been published in 12 volumes, 

 Phila. 1818.* 



The citizens of Sadsbury having petitioned for a divi- 

 sion of the township, the court, at the November Session 

 of 1743, appointed Calvin Cooper, George Leonard, sen. 

 James Wilson, Samuel Ramsay, Robert Wilson and 

 James Miller, to divide the same— ."they met the 20th 

 of March, and considered the most proper place. The 

 line is to begin in a road called Aaron Musgrove's road, 

 near the coppermines, at Strasburg township line, where 

 it divides from Sadsbury, and down the several courses 

 thereof to the east side of said road to a new road 

 branching therefrom, leading to John Taylor's mill, 



*Thatchers Med. Diet. Vol. I. Art. Uamsay, 



