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fetreat, after the general was made prifoner. 
Jn this hattle, the general, then colonel, re- 
ceived a flefh-wound in his-leg. In the cam- 
- paign of 1776, he ferved under general Gates, 
at Ticonderoga. ‘Generali Gates efieemed him 
highly, not only fof his courage, and other 
military talents, but for his knowledge as an 
engineer, It was faid of him, that his éye was 
nearly equal to a mealure, in judging of heights 
and diftances ; a talent of incalculable 
confequencgin an officer. At the clote of this 
campaign, he was created a brigadier-general — 
He bore an active part in the campaign of 1777. 
He fought at Brandywine, and, for a long time 
retarded the progrefs of the Britifh army, in 
crofling Chad’s ford. He fought at German- 
‘town, and’ at the Paoli, on Lancafter road: in 
the laft of thefe battles (where he had a feparate 
command, and in which he was defeated) his 
coolnefs and intrepidi:y, in the midft of a bloody 
{cene; finally fuftained his character above cen- 
fure, and added credit to the American arms.— 
In 1778, he fhared in the honour of the vic- 
tory over the Britifh army at Monmouth. In 
the fame year, he diftinguifhed himielf by a 
bold attack upon a block-houfe, on the North | 
River; it was rendered unficcefsful, according 
to the account given of it by general Wafhing- 
ton, in his letter to congrefs, only by the 
intemperate valour of. his troops—In 1779, he 
diftinguifhed himfelf by furprifing and forming 
Stony Point. In effecting this bufinefs, he 
marched feveral miles through a deep morals, ’ 
in the middle of the night. In theattack upon 
the fort, he was ftruck down by a bail, which 
grazed his head. ‘It was expeéted that he was 
killed; but he foon rofe, fo as to reft upon one 
knee: feeling his fituation, and believing his 
Wound to be mortal, he cried out to one of his 
aids, “ carry me forward, and let me die in the 
fort? When he entered it, he gave orders to 
ftop the effufion of blood by the fword, and to 
make the garrifon prifoners of war. “This hu- 
mane command was the more generous, as the 
' garrifon confifted of fome of the troops who 
had ufed the bayonet withous mercy at the 
Paoli.—In the year 1721, he bore an active 
part in the campaign, which reduced the army of 
Lord Cornwallis to the neceffity uf furrender- 
ing prifoners of war. After this event, he was 
fent by general Wathington to conduct the war 
in the ftate of Georgia. Here, his prudence, 
courage, and military fkill, were amply tried: 
he contended, with equal fuccefs, with Britith 
foldiers, Indian favages, and American traitors. 
In a fhort time, he eftablifhed peace and liberty, 
_inthat once diftraéted flate. As a reward for 
his emirient fervices, the legiflature of Georgia 
prefented him with a valuable farm,~-U pon the 
return of peace, he retired to private purfuits. 
In 1737, he fubfcribed, as a member of the 
’ Pennfylyvania convention, the inftrument which 
declared the prefent federal conftitution of the 
United States to be part of the fupreme law of 
the land.—In'the year 1792, he accepted of 
the command of the American army to be em- 
% oyed againft the Indians, who, for feveral 
“years, had carried on a fuccefsful and defolating 
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Deaths Abroad General Wayne, Sc. ye. 
war upon the frontiers of the United States. In 
this fituarion, his military genius broke forth 
with accumulated luftre. He difciplined and 
created an army, and, by uniting in his fyftem > 
of tatics Indian ftratagems with civilized bra-_ 
very, he led on his troops to viftory, over 
nuinerous and confederated tribes, and thereb 
gave peace in a fingle day to the United States. 
—He died in a hut in the wildernefs, remote 
from his friends, that his countrymen might 
enjoy in fafety, beneath domeftic fhades, and in 
cultivated fociety, the peaceable fruits ‘of their 
labours. Traveller, whoever thou art, that 
fhalt vifit the fhores of the lake on which his 
body is interred, ftop, and. drop a tear, in behalf 
of his country, over his grave. Plant near it 
a willuw, which fhall convey to it the dew of 
heaven, and cut upon its bark, in letters that 
fhall grow with time, the name of Wayne, 
with the precious epithets of Patriot, Hero, 
and Friend !—New Yurk Magazine. 
At Salem, Mrs, Lydia Woodbury, widow, in 
her $4th year | The extraordinary circum- 
ftances which attended her death, were the 
following :—-She had been bowed down for 
nearly forty years, without being able to raife 
herfelf to an ere& pofture, through rheumatifm 
and great weaknefs in her back and reins; and, 
at times, for many years, fhe had been afli®ted 
with fevere paroxyfiis of pain in her back, reins, 
hips, knees, &c. which increafed. her defor- 
mity till fhe became almoft double. One day, 
fitting by the fire-fide, in a low chair, in her 
ufual fiate, without any new or previous come 
plaint, fhe was fuddenly feized with a fit of the 
fhaking palfy; the whole frame foon became 
tremulous to a great degree—-fhe immediately 
loft the power of fpeech, fo as not to be able 
to articulate one word, uttering, at the fame 
time, an uncouth novife, expreffive of great 
diftrefS : her hearing, which had been*for many 
years very imperfeét, became clear and full. 
Her friends laid her afide on the bed, fuppofing 
her to be dying; fhe foon, however, began to 
ftraighten herfelf; and, at length, the turned 
herfelf fuddenly on her back, extended ‘her 
limbs, and Became at once perfeCtly ftraight. The 
joints of her back, which before appeared diflo~ ‘ 
cated, were reduced to their natural pofition, 
and thére fixed, with every joint downwards to 
the end of her toes ; her hearing now became 
as dull as ever;-——her appetite returned with . 
her f{peech and intellectual powers; and the 
continued in this motionlefs ftate, with great 
patience and little pain, for near eight weeks, 
when fhe died —Ditto. 
At New-Haven, Conneticut, Mr. Stephen 
Johnfon, aged 94. His defcendants, 11 chil- 
dren, 92 grand-children, 260 gre&t-grand- 
children, and one of the fifth generation, 
At Ballftown, April 6, the Rev. Eliphalet 
Ball, in his 76th year. He was the founder 
of that fettlement, and had been in the miniftry, 
as is fuppofed, upwards of 50 years. 
At Hartford, April 18th, after a long and 
diftrefling illnefs, the Rev. E. Winchefter, 
preacher of the doctrige of yniverfal reftoration, 
aged forty-fix yeats, 
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