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instance, to see his plan in some measure realized by
the establishment of the Colonization Society of which he
was an active & useful member, (shewing that he was steady
in the pursuit of great Schemes of beneficence & humanity,)
as their honorable Testimony at his decease will shew. -
(insert the resolution). - He thought this Scheme so
benevolent & laudable, that during his last illness, when
the Revd. Mr. Hawley was conversing with him, he said play-
fully, that he did not think that any person concerned
in or aiding that Society need to dread an hereafter - or
words to that effect. - Mr. H- laughed & said he hoped
it might be so. -

On his return he fixed in Philadelphia, where his
Mother-in-law had engaged & furnished a house ready
for his reception & where he intended & indeed commenced
the practice of physic*, but it was so disagreeable to
him, & he thought the fees so small (having been ac=

*Wou'd to God had he remained there, where he might have become
an eminent Physician & professor, & not been a Seeker of Office
from [inhabitual?] & selfish proliterations! I often wished he had had more of my excellent & respectable mother's independence of Spirit
but the honorable appointment first offered to him by Genl. Washington