RESOLUTIONS SPREAD UPON THE MINUTES OF THE NEW YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY AT A MEETING HELD DECEMBER 1, 1863 Mr. George H. Moore announced the death of Mr. John M. Macdonald, a Resident Member of the Society,1 with the following remarks:-- The father and mother of Mr. John MacLean Macdonald were of Scottish birth and parentage, and both emigrated to America in early childhood. They both descended…

Macdonald was elected a member of the New York Historical Society, January 2, 1844. RESOLUTIONS 79 ernor. Dr. Archibald Macdonald was educated to the medi-cal profession, and in the earlier part of his career held a commission as Surgeon in the British Army.1 He afterwards became a citizen of the United States, married his wife in Dutchess County, New York, and settled in White Plains, Westchest…

He continued to hold this office until October 1, 1834, when he resigned (it is stated) in consequence of ill health. In the autumn of 1835, at the age of 45, Judge Macdonald was prostrated by a severe paralytic attack from the effects of which he never recovered. But he failed not, nor faltered in spirit. His work, after such a stroke of disease as would have discouraged and de-stroyed most men, …

"The Life and Character of the Marquis de la Rouërie (Col. Armand) including an account of his services during the American Revolutionary War." Read May 6th, 1851. 2. On the Lives, Exploits and Characters of Cornelius Oakley, John Odell, and Abraham Dyckman, the three principal American Guides for the Neutral Ground during the Revolutionary War"--Read May 4th, 1852. This paper, as subsequently re…

It has been my good fortune to read to the Society this series of papers of which it is not too much to say that none have RESOLUTIONS 81 ever been received with more interest or satisfaction. It is certainly to be hoped that they will hereafter be preserved in a permanent form--at once a valuable contribution to the his-torical literature of the State, and an enduring memorial of his peculiar se…

Who shall write hereafter the record of those days in the Society, and the distinguished men who met around it, and by their personal voice and presence and active co-operation honored and cheered the Society in their honorable work--Gallatin and Adams, and Clay and Webster --and our late honored and lamented President.1 Truly, "There were giants in those days." At that old table Judge Macdonald …

And so patiently he waited for the end of his long imprison-ment. He died on the morning of Sunday, the eighth of November 1863, not having quite completed his seventy-third year. I have often thought, as I saw him thus confined by the walls and fetters of physical infirmity, still cheerful and genial and happy in intellectual exercises and resources--of those lines of the old poet, "My mind to m…