The old merchants of New York City / by Walter Barrett.

OF NEIW YORK CITY.

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was pious and benevolent; as an acquaintance, affable
and friendly; and in spirit, her whole conduct and deportment through life in the different capacities of child,
wife, mistress, parent, neiglhbor, friend and acquaintance,
was such as endeared her to all who knew her.
Her remains were interred in the family vault, Trinity
church yard. The Weekly Journal contained the fobl
lowing poetic tribute:
As near her grave in silent grief we stood,
And o'er her coffin poured the pious flood,
Whilst every bosom heaved the tender sigh
And plenteous sorrow flowed from every eye,
Musing, I said, " Why all this idle woe?
Why mourn for her, who, freed fromcaresbelow,
Pities the weakness of our well meant love,
And shares the raptures of the Saints above?
But when I thought on all her actions past,
How each succeeding day excelled the last;
Viewed the fair series of a well-spent life,
Each debt discharged of mother, friend and wife,
(Her warm benevolence her hours endeared,
Her charity each drooping object cheered; )
Sorrow, I cried, should every heart engross,
We trust she's blest; yet mourn the public loss.
No more, my soul, this tender grief upbraid,
'Tis the soft tribute to the worthy paid.
Pour then, ye friends, your sorrows o'er her bier,
Your grief is generous, for it flows sincere;
You show your virtue in each tear you shed,
Who knew her living must lament her dead.
This amiable lady left two children, Henry (hereinafter referred to), and Ann, wlo married tile Honorable
Lucas Elmendorf, a prominent member of tlhe bar, of
Kingston, Ulster county, New York. He represented
that district in Congress from 1797 to 1803. He was in
the Assembly from 1804 to 1805, and he was in the
State Senate from 1814 to 1817. He was also a member of the famous Council of Appointment, which had
the dealing out of the loaves anmd fishes of that day. I