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The Inscription made for Mr Remingtons Grave-
Stone

Sacred to the Memory and Virtues of the Honorable Doctor of Divinity Jonathan Remington, Bearer of a coat of arms, one time Student and for nine years Fellow and most faithful Tutor of Harvard College, who leaving there after some years held and outstandingly adorned many different offices in the Republic, and what is more performed with wonderful integrity in all of them, namely Judge in the Courts of Law, at times in all of them, but especially he was most prominent in the Supreme Court and in the Court of Probate and deservedly won himself the name of a Judge of the highest skill and integrity.
Moreover in holding his seat for quite a number of years on the Council of Massachusetts he shone with a serene and easily visible Light.
If, going further, we were to seek out the character and natural abilities of the MAN, and ask in which of these eminent qualities he showed the more strength, whether in perspicuity of intellect, sagacity of mind, quickness of apprehension, in stability of judgment or integrity of heart, it would be hard to answer.
In the end, his conspicuous modesty showed without a doubt that he had been endowed with a spirit both humble and lofty,
which he returned most well prepared to heaven
on September 30th in the year of Christ 1745, the 69th year of his life.

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