Born on xx, Died on Sunday
Aged 28 years, xx months, xx days.
1784, 18 January
Josey Fox went out this morning for Frankford on a Skittish Horse, who threw him over his Head against a Post, at ye upper end of Third St. He was taken home on a Couch, suffered great pain 'till some time in ye afternoon, when he died. [Joseph Mickle Fox, aged about 28.]
~ Source: Genealogical Gleanings from the Journal of Elizabeth Drinker, 1759 to 1807, Page 599 in Pennsylvania Vital Records, Vol. I, by the Genealogical Publishing Company, Incorporated in 1983.
"On Sunday the 18th istant Mr. JOSEPH MICKLE FOX, son of the late Joseph Fox, esq. formerly speaker of the assembly, &c. was thrown from his horse near the corner of Third and Vine Streets: by which unfortunate accident he received several contusions, that in a few hours put an end to his life. - He died in the twenty seventh year of his age, and his funeral on Tuesday was attended by a large number of respectable citizens.
Mr. Fox possessed a tenacious memory, sound judgment and correct taste. He was sagacious in disquisition, and assiduous in enquiry, and his knowledge of course was accurate and extensive. He was skilled in the Latin, French and German languages.
Of his mind the merits were more large and exalted than could be justly described by an indifferent and industrious writer. This short account is the less perfect, because it proceeds from one who long knew and affectionately loved him. A faithful portrait cannot be expected from the hand which trembles while it writes, and from the eye, which while it revises, dissolves in tears.
He was a man of a delicate and judicious sense of honor, of strict and scrupulous principles of integrity, early and permanent habits of sincerity, disinterested and generosity of ardent and unalterable adherence to virtue, constant and many setestation of vice, excited general confidence and respect; natural goodness of temple and modesty of disposition, created universal esteem and attachment. - There were few persons of such eminent merit, to whom detraction was so little known to assail.
To survey his character in every civil relation is to find subject for praised in all.
The filial and paternal affections to those who knew him only as a son or a brother, seemed his whole study and occupation. To his friends he appeared exclusively employed in promoting their interests and felicity; and the sufferer, whose sorrows reached his ear, could not imagine that his attentions were ever otherwise directed than to his relief. To relieve the distressed he was not indeed more led by principle, than impelled by sensibility, and the impatience of others were perhaps contributed as much as his high sense of the social duties to excited his beneficence. To those who were so happy as to be numbered among his friends, his talents and his time were assiduously devoted - their interests were promoted when his own were forgotten - their errors were repaired or their miscarriages retrieved, through his prudence and penetration, when themselves had despaired of or submitted to them, where his power was insufficient, his sympathy was bestowed; and those who could derive no advantage fro his assistance, were sure to be soothed by his compassion. In his family, his invariable tenderness and affection will be as long remembered as they were gratefully felt and warmly admired.
There were some of the virtues of this excellent young man, whose death has diffused more than a common portion of sorrow, and whose memory among the objects of his duty, his friendship and his charity, will not soon expire."
-The Freeman's Journal, Philadelphia PA, February 4, 1784
Aged 28 years, xx months, xx days.
1784, 18 January
Josey Fox went out this morning for Frankford on a Skittish Horse, who threw him over his Head against a Post, at ye upper end of Third St. He was taken home on a Couch, suffered great pain 'till some time in ye afternoon, when he died. [Joseph Mickle Fox, aged about 28.]
~ Source: Genealogical Gleanings from the Journal of Elizabeth Drinker, 1759 to 1807, Page 599 in Pennsylvania Vital Records, Vol. I, by the Genealogical Publishing Company, Incorporated in 1983.
"On Sunday the 18th istant Mr. JOSEPH MICKLE FOX, son of the late Joseph Fox, esq. formerly speaker of the assembly, &c. was thrown from his horse near the corner of Third and Vine Streets: by which unfortunate accident he received several contusions, that in a few hours put an end to his life. - He died in the twenty seventh year of his age, and his funeral on Tuesday was attended by a large number of respectable citizens.
Mr. Fox possessed a tenacious memory, sound judgment and correct taste. He was sagacious in disquisition, and assiduous in enquiry, and his knowledge of course was accurate and extensive. He was skilled in the Latin, French and German languages.
Of his mind the merits were more large and exalted than could be justly described by an indifferent and industrious writer. This short account is the less perfect, because it proceeds from one who long knew and affectionately loved him. A faithful portrait cannot be expected from the hand which trembles while it writes, and from the eye, which while it revises, dissolves in tears.
He was a man of a delicate and judicious sense of honor, of strict and scrupulous principles of integrity, early and permanent habits of sincerity, disinterested and generosity of ardent and unalterable adherence to virtue, constant and many setestation of vice, excited general confidence and respect; natural goodness of temple and modesty of disposition, created universal esteem and attachment. - There were few persons of such eminent merit, to whom detraction was so little known to assail.
To survey his character in every civil relation is to find subject for praised in all.
The filial and paternal affections to those who knew him only as a son or a brother, seemed his whole study and occupation. To his friends he appeared exclusively employed in promoting their interests and felicity; and the sufferer, whose sorrows reached his ear, could not imagine that his attentions were ever otherwise directed than to his relief. To relieve the distressed he was not indeed more led by principle, than impelled by sensibility, and the impatience of others were perhaps contributed as much as his high sense of the social duties to excited his beneficence. To those who were so happy as to be numbered among his friends, his talents and his time were assiduously devoted - their interests were promoted when his own were forgotten - their errors were repaired or their miscarriages retrieved, through his prudence and penetration, when themselves had despaired of or submitted to them, where his power was insufficient, his sympathy was bestowed; and those who could derive no advantage fro his assistance, were sure to be soothed by his compassion. In his family, his invariable tenderness and affection will be as long remembered as they were gratefully felt and warmly admired.
There were some of the virtues of this excellent young man, whose death has diffused more than a common portion of sorrow, and whose memory among the objects of his duty, his friendship and his charity, will not soon expire."
-The Freeman's Journal, Philadelphia PA, February 4, 1784
Born on xx, Died on Sunday
Aged 28 years, xx months, xx days.
1784, 18 January
Josey Fox went out this morning for Frankford on a Skittish Horse, who threw him over his Head against a Post, at ye upper end of Third St. He was taken home on a Couch, suffered great pain 'till some time in ye afternoon, when he died. [Joseph Mickle Fox, aged about 28.]
~ Source: Genealogical Gleanings from the Journal of Elizabeth Drinker, 1759 to 1807, Page 599 in Pennsylvania Vital Records, Vol. I, by the Genealogical Publishing Company, Incorporated in 1983.
"On Sunday the 18th istant Mr. JOSEPH MICKLE FOX, son of the late Joseph Fox, esq. formerly speaker of the assembly, &c. was thrown from his horse near the corner of Third and Vine Streets: by which unfortunate accident he received several contusions, that in a few hours put an end to his life. - He died in the twenty seventh year of his age, and his funeral on Tuesday was attended by a large number of respectable citizens.
Mr. Fox possessed a tenacious memory, sound judgment and correct taste. He was sagacious in disquisition, and assiduous in enquiry, and his knowledge of course was accurate and extensive. He was skilled in the Latin, French and German languages.
Of his mind the merits were more large and exalted than could be justly described by an indifferent and industrious writer. This short account is the less perfect, because it proceeds from one who long knew and affectionately loved him. A faithful portrait cannot be expected from the hand which trembles while it writes, and from the eye, which while it revises, dissolves in tears.
He was a man of a delicate and judicious sense of honor, of strict and scrupulous principles of integrity, early and permanent habits of sincerity, disinterested and generosity of ardent and unalterable adherence to virtue, constant and many setestation of vice, excited general confidence and respect; natural goodness of temple and modesty of disposition, created universal esteem and attachment. - There were few persons of such eminent merit, to whom detraction was so little known to assail.
To survey his character in every civil relation is to find subject for praised in all.
The filial and paternal affections to those who knew him only as a son or a brother, seemed his whole study and occupation. To his friends he appeared exclusively employed in promoting their interests and felicity; and the sufferer, whose sorrows reached his ear, could not imagine that his attentions were ever otherwise directed than to his relief. To relieve the distressed he was not indeed more led by principle, than impelled by sensibility, and the impatience of others were perhaps contributed as much as his high sense of the social duties to excited his beneficence. To those who were so happy as to be numbered among his friends, his talents and his time were assiduously devoted - their interests were promoted when his own were forgotten - their errors were repaired or their miscarriages retrieved, through his prudence and penetration, when themselves had despaired of or submitted to them, where his power was insufficient, his sympathy was bestowed; and those who could derive no advantage fro his assistance, were sure to be soothed by his compassion. In his family, his invariable tenderness and affection will be as long remembered as they were gratefully felt and warmly admired.
There were some of the virtues of this excellent young man, whose death has diffused more than a common portion of sorrow, and whose memory among the objects of his duty, his friendship and his charity, will not soon expire."
-The Freeman's Journal, Philadelphia PA, February 4, 1784
Aged 28 years, xx months, xx days.
1784, 18 January
Josey Fox went out this morning for Frankford on a Skittish Horse, who threw him over his Head against a Post, at ye upper end of Third St. He was taken home on a Couch, suffered great pain 'till some time in ye afternoon, when he died. [Joseph Mickle Fox, aged about 28.]
~ Source: Genealogical Gleanings from the Journal of Elizabeth Drinker, 1759 to 1807, Page 599 in Pennsylvania Vital Records, Vol. I, by the Genealogical Publishing Company, Incorporated in 1983.
"On Sunday the 18th istant Mr. JOSEPH MICKLE FOX, son of the late Joseph Fox, esq. formerly speaker of the assembly, &c. was thrown from his horse near the corner of Third and Vine Streets: by which unfortunate accident he received several contusions, that in a few hours put an end to his life. - He died in the twenty seventh year of his age, and his funeral on Tuesday was attended by a large number of respectable citizens.
Mr. Fox possessed a tenacious memory, sound judgment and correct taste. He was sagacious in disquisition, and assiduous in enquiry, and his knowledge of course was accurate and extensive. He was skilled in the Latin, French and German languages.
Of his mind the merits were more large and exalted than could be justly described by an indifferent and industrious writer. This short account is the less perfect, because it proceeds from one who long knew and affectionately loved him. A faithful portrait cannot be expected from the hand which trembles while it writes, and from the eye, which while it revises, dissolves in tears.
He was a man of a delicate and judicious sense of honor, of strict and scrupulous principles of integrity, early and permanent habits of sincerity, disinterested and generosity of ardent and unalterable adherence to virtue, constant and many setestation of vice, excited general confidence and respect; natural goodness of temple and modesty of disposition, created universal esteem and attachment. - There were few persons of such eminent merit, to whom detraction was so little known to assail.
To survey his character in every civil relation is to find subject for praised in all.
The filial and paternal affections to those who knew him only as a son or a brother, seemed his whole study and occupation. To his friends he appeared exclusively employed in promoting their interests and felicity; and the sufferer, whose sorrows reached his ear, could not imagine that his attentions were ever otherwise directed than to his relief. To relieve the distressed he was not indeed more led by principle, than impelled by sensibility, and the impatience of others were perhaps contributed as much as his high sense of the social duties to excited his beneficence. To those who were so happy as to be numbered among his friends, his talents and his time were assiduously devoted - their interests were promoted when his own were forgotten - their errors were repaired or their miscarriages retrieved, through his prudence and penetration, when themselves had despaired of or submitted to them, where his power was insufficient, his sympathy was bestowed; and those who could derive no advantage fro his assistance, were sure to be soothed by his compassion. In his family, his invariable tenderness and affection will be as long remembered as they were gratefully felt and warmly admired.
There were some of the virtues of this excellent young man, whose death has diffused more than a common portion of sorrow, and whose memory among the objects of his duty, his friendship and his charity, will not soon expire."
-The Freeman's Journal, Philadelphia PA, February 4, 1784
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