Cumberland Pacquet, 16 Sep 1777 - BMD

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Tuesday 16 Sep 1777   (p. 3, col. 1)

 

MARRIED.

 

Tuesday last, the Rev. Mr. FISHER Rector of Corney in this County, to Miss DIXON of the same place.

[According to FamilySearch, John FISHER and Frances DIXON married on 09 Sep 1777 at Corney. The Copeland Registers Index has two marriages for John FISHER on the same day - to Tamar DIXON and to Mary F. DIXON.]

 

DIED.

 

Suddenly on Wednesday last, at sea, Capt. HAYTON of the Jane belonging to this port; his corpse were brought here on Thursday: he has left a widow and seven children.

[According to the Copeland Registers Index, William HAYTON was buried on 12 Sep 1777 at St. Nicholas, Whitehaven.]

 

Last week, Mr. NIXON, printer in York.

 

At Carlisle, Mrs. Julian ROOK, aged 82.

[According to FamilySearch, she was buried on 08 Sep 1777 at Carlisle.]

 

On Monday the 1st instant died, lamented by the learned, esteemed by the wise, and revered by the good (a character how sacred!) the Rev. THOMAS HUNTER, M. A. Vicar of Weaverham in the county of Chester, a native of Kendal in Westmorland, and author of "Observations upon Tacitus, Sermons upon Providence, a Sketch of the Philosophical Character of Lord Viscount Bolingbroke, Reflections on Lord Chesterfield's Letters," with many other ingenious and moral pieces heretofore, and hereafter to be, published.---The Scholar may lament the extinction of a Scholar, and the religious may bewail the decease of a steady and able Apologist for the Truth of God.---But their concern is partial, and their loss elsewhere abundantly supplied.---Religion will never want its Advocates, nor the Sciences their Professors. Those only who were benefited by the sanctity of his private Example, and blessed by his endearing Domestic Virtues, can form a just estimate of his merit, and pay to his memory that profuse tribute of unaffected mourning, which it claims, and even exacts, from all who knew him.

[According to the Parish Register, Revd. Mr. Thomas HUNTER, A. M. Vicar of this Parish, aged 66, died 01 Sep 1777, and was buried 04 Sep 1777 at Weaverham, Cheshire.]