AmnoJv0.TiP874RM  }    Memoir  of  Prof .  Wm.  frocter,  Jr.  515 
with  perspiration.  i  What  have  you  been  doing  ?  '  was  asked.  4  Giving 
him  cold  water,'  was  the  reply.  4  Well,  you  have  saved  his  life ;  and 
if  he  does  not  die  from  prostration,  may  recover.'  Light  nourishment 
was  ordered,  which  Isaac  Procter  had  to  prepare,  and  slowly  strength 
was  gained  and  health  restored." 
The  fever  still  continuing  in  the  city,  and  business  prostrated, 
Isaac  Procter  sought  employment  in  the  country.  The  following 
winter  he  returned  to  New  York,  and  was  advised  by  John  Murray 
and  other  friends  to  go  to  Baltimore  and  engage  in  the  hardware 
business,  his  knowledge  of  tools  and  acquaintance  with  manufacturers 
in  Manchester  it  was  thought  would  favor  such  an  undertaking.  He 
accordingly  ordered  from  England  a  stock  needful  for  commencing 
business,  and  opened  store  on  Market  street,  Baltimore,  nearly  op- 
posite the  Indian  Queen  Hotel,  at  the  corner  of  Market  and  Hanover 
streets,  a  store  which  for  many  years  was  one  of  the  most  noted  in 
the  place.  On  leaving  New  York,  a  letter  of  introduction  to  Joseph 
Townsend,  merchant  in  Biltimore,  was  given  to  him  by  Edmund 
Prior,  from  which  we  extract  the  following  :  "  I  have  not  known  of 
any  young  man  or  Friend  who  has  left  us  with  whom  Friends  in 
general  have  parted  with  more  affection  and  regret  than  with  him. 
Thou  wilt  find  him,  I  am  persuaded,  very  deserving,  and  one  who  is 
possessed  of  such  a  manly  and  upright  principle  as  will  not  allow  him 
to  take  any  little  or  mean  advantage  of  any  person  whatever.  His 
religious  and  guarded  conduct  has  hitherto  been  very  conspicuous 
with  us,  and  I  feel  no  apprehension  that  his  leaving  us  will  in  any 
degree  lessen  it.  The  sympathy  and  friendly  notice  of  his  friends 
may  strengthen  and  encourage  him,  in  which  I  hope  thine  will  not  be 
wanting." 
During  the  first  year  of  business  he  became  much  discouraged  by 
the  difficulty  of  collecting  his  accounts  ;  he  was  encouraged  by  his 
friends  in  New  York  to  persevere,  and  to  sell  only  for  cash.  Busi- 
ness prospering,  he  sent  to  England  for  his  brother  William  and  sister 
Sarah.  His  sister  resided  in  the  family  of  Edmund  Prior,  in  New 
York,  and  William  was  placed  at  Burlington  Boarding  School,  and 
subsequently  was  taken  into  the  store  of  his  brother. 
On  the  3d  of  Eleventh  month,  1799,  Isaac  Procter  was  married  to 
Bebecca  Farquhar,  at  the  Meeting-house  at  Fallsington,  Pa.,  where 
he  first  met  her  six  years  previously.  The  first  letter  addressed  to 
her  on  the  subject  of  their  union  is  in  possession  of  the  family,  and 
