Rambles about Portsmouth. Sketches of persons, localities, and incidents of two centuries: principally from tradition and unpublished documents. By Charles W. Brewster.

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merits of a Divine Redeemer. May you, long after I shall
be here no more, enjoy happiness in the endearments of an
agreeable companion and pleasant children. You know
that I have appointed you executor of my will, and that
therein I have expressed my desire that the solemnity of
my funeral should be conducted in the manner that is customary at the funerals of my parishioners, without any
parade or sermon which has commonly been the custom at
the funerals of those who have sustained any public character in life. If you should think it proper, about which I
am perfectly indifferent, to erect a head-stone at my grave,
which in that case I wish may be quite a plain one, I would
have you inscribe in it the following epitaph, without an
addition or alteration, except filling up the blanks for the
months and years of my decease and standing in. the
ministry.
To the memory of SAMUEL MOLCLINTOCK, D. D. who died ---- in the - yeai of his
age, and - of his ministry.
His body rests here in the certain hope of a resurrection to life and immortality, when
Christ shall appear the second time to destroy th last enemy, Death, and to consummate
the great design of his mediatorial kingldom.
The annual fast, which was the 19th of April, 1804, was
the last of his preaching; and what was remarkable, on
his return to his family he observed that he hacd done his
preaching. He continued until the morning of the 27th of
April, when he exchanged this world for another, and is,
wve trust, reaping the reward of a faithful servant in the
kingdom of God.
His grave-stone, inscribed as above with the blanks filled,
(died 27th April, 1804, aged 72-48th of his ministry,) may
be seen in the Greenland Cemetery.
Dr. McClintock had two wives, his first wife, Mary Moontgomery, died Aug. 4, 1785, aged 48. For his last wife he
was married to a widow Mrs. Darling. The match was
not very congenial. She was not so strictly the darling of
his heart as his first love. She survived him.
Dr. McClintocl's religious views were strictly calvinistical in the early part of his ministry. Some regarded
them harsh and untempered by the law, of love. This is