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In New-Jersey-At ElizabethTown, Mils Rachel Barnet. The morning of her death fhe entered her 17th year; and the melancholy fcene was further heightened by its being the day appointed for the celebration of her nuptials.

At the Hermitage, near Trenton, Mrs. Mary Dickinfon, wife of the Hon. Philemon Dickinson.

At Woodbridge, Dr. Bloomfield. At Springfield, Mr. Thomas Marr, one of the proprietors of the Thistle paper-mill.

At Brunswick, Mrs. Livingston, of New-York, and her two children. They were croffing the river in a boat, which accidentally up-fet, and they were unfortunately drowned.

In Pennsylvania-In the capital, Mr. Thomas Rois, late of the ifland of Jamaica.-Col. Michael Ryan, late of Virginia.-Mr. James F. Scbor, merchant, of New-York.-Mrs. Fuller. Mrs. Ann Smock.-Plunket Fleefon, Efq; in his 79th year, and many years a juftice of the peace of that city.

At Germantown, Mr. H. Taylor, printer, aged about 35, a native of Berwick-upon-Tweed.

At York, the Rev. John Roth, aged 65, paftor of the Moravian Congregation in that borough.

At Harrisburgh, Mr. John Harris, proprietor of that borough. He was aged about 65 years, and was the first white man born on that part of the Sufquehannah.

In Virginia.-At Martinsburgh, Adam Stephen, Efq; a gentleman highly diftinguished for his medical talents, industry, learning, and mental endowments. At his feat, in Goochland county, Major Powers, aged 64 years.

In Connecticut.-At Warren, Mrs. Abigail Waller, aged 88.

At Somers, Captain Elisha Kibbe, aged 93.

At Danbury, Capt. Thomas Stevens, aged 71.

At New-London, Mrs. Abigail Green, relict of Mr. Samuel Green, printer, aged 87.

By a cafualty, Dr. Silas Holmes, of Stonington.

At Reading, Mifs Sarah Sandford. In Rhod:-Ifland-At Providence, the Rev. James Manning, S. T. D. prefident of Rhode Island college.

In Maachusetts.-At Haverhill, John Thaxter, Efq; an eminent lawyer, good magiftrate, and worthy man, aged 36.

At Charlestown, Mr. Simmonds, of a fwelling over one of his eyes.

At Concord, Captain John Stone, aged 63, the mafter-builder of the famous bridge over Charles-river.

At Menatomy, Mr. Ifaac Munroe, of the bite of an infect, in fhape and venom refembling an afp.

-FOREIGN DEATHS.

At Cape-François, by a fall from his horfe, M. L'Honorey Dubuiffon, printer of the paper entitled, Le Moniteur Colonial. He was a man of letters, and an undaunted patriot. His paper continues to be carried on in his name, out of refpect to his memory. His friend, M. Caftellion, is the prefent editor.

InEngland.-At Cumberland,Mr. David Saul, aged 85 years, and near 66 years of that time a public speaker among the people called Quakers.

In London, the Right Hon. Lady Anne Hamilton, aged 65, relict of the late Lord A. Hamilton, youngeft fon of James IVth. Duke of Hamilton.

At her house in the Spa-fields, near London, in her 84th year, the Right Hon. Selina Countefs-dowager of Huntington. She has left 4000l. to be diftributed in charitable gifts, and a great part of her Ladyfhip's fortune for the fupport of 64 chapels, which The had established throughout GreatBritain and Ireland.

At Binfield, Berks, after a long and painful illness, the celebrated Mrs. Catharine Macaulay Graham.

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With a beautiful Engraving of the Melancholy Effects of a Storm.

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NEW-YORK: PRINTED BY THOMAS AND JAMES SWORDS, No. 27, WILLIAM-STREET.

M.DCC,XCI.

Our respectable correspondent R, is entitled to our thanks. The drawing of the celebrated Indian fortifications on the Muskingum which accompanied his last, is very acceptable, and fhall be duly attended to.

Silo unquestionably means to compliment the different ladies to whom he alludes. How far a lady's having red noftrils, like a race-horse, is a beauty, we leave him to judge. See this couplet

"And the opening nofe befpeaks

"The foft tints that deck her cheeks."

He is also mistaken as to residence of fome of the ladies, two of them refiding in Courtlandt-ftreet.

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The lines under the fignature of T. M. are too perfonal for admiffion. The paraphrafe on the 104th Pfalm is under confideration.

METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS for Auguft, 1791. Degrees of Heat by Prevailing Winds. Change

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