It appears that the unfortunate old gentleman and his more unfortunate old lady had, upon some necessary occasion the evening before, agreed to lay separate ; and the doctor, taking his leave, went to bed, leaving his wife sitting before the fire, where, it is imagined, the poor old gentlewoman must either have been seized with a fit, or, in rising from her chair had fallen into the fire, and, being undoubtedly rendered unable to move herself she became the most moving spectacle imaginable to the most affectionate and tender husband, who first discovered her in the morning."

The same journal, on the 14th of March, 1765, announces that " last week was killed at Morrisania, at the farm of Lewis Morris, Esq., in the county of Westchester, where it was reared, an ox of six years old that weighed nineteen hundred and forty-seven pounds."

The following advertisement-*, of an earlier date, are given :

" stolen, ou Suuilay niglit, the Stli of JIarcli, out of the Stable of John Eyiier, at Philipseborongh, in the County of West Chester, a large

1 jVeio York Mercury, Oct. 27, 1760.

- Supplement to the A'eiu York G<i:elle and IVeelli/ Merairii, .^pril 10, l77.->.

3 This occurred in the house of Pr. Standard, opposite the church.

brown horse, about fifteen hands high, has a small star on his Forehead and goes narrow with his Hams behind, he is branded in several Places, but not vei^ plain, on his Foreshoulder with I H, and on his Left Thigh with I R. Whosoever takes up the said Horse and brings him to his said owner shall have Five Pounds reward and all reasonable charges paid by