West-Hartford, May 1.
"On the 29th of April departed this life Mr. DANIEL HOSMER, of Kingsborough, State of New-York, formerly of this town. He was on a journey returning from the State of Rhode-Island. He put up at the house of a friend, spent the evening preceding at a neighbors—went to bed in health—and was found dead in the morning in his bed. A jury of inquest was empaneled who were unanimously agreed that he died of a fit. His funeral was this day attended by a large concourse of people, and a Sermon adapted to the affecting occasion was delivered from Rev. xvi. 15 by the Rev. Nathan Perkins.
"The deceased was in the 52d year of his age, the son of the late Thomas Hosmer, Esq. of this town. A few years since he removed to Kingsborough, State of New-York, where he has a wife and six children to mourn the loss of a kind husband and tender father; to them the news of his sudden death will be overwhelming; but it will be some alleviation of their grief that he reached his native place, to close his days among his friends."
—Hartford Courant (Hartford, Connecticut), Monday, May 5, 1800, p. 3
West-Hartford, May 1.
"On the 29th of April departed this life Mr. DANIEL HOSMER, of Kingsborough, State of New-York, formerly of this town. He was on a journey returning from the State of Rhode-Island. He put up at the house of a friend, spent the evening preceding at a neighbors—went to bed in health—and was found dead in the morning in his bed. A jury of inquest was empaneled who were unanimously agreed that he died of a fit. His funeral was this day attended by a large concourse of people, and a Sermon adapted to the affecting occasion was delivered from Rev. xvi. 15 by the Rev. Nathan Perkins.
"The deceased was in the 52d year of his age, the son of the late Thomas Hosmer, Esq. of this town. A few years since he removed to Kingsborough, State of New-York, where he has a wife and six children to mourn the loss of a kind husband and tender father; to them the news of his sudden death will be overwhelming; but it will be some alleviation of their grief that he reached his native place, to close his days among his friends."
—Hartford Courant (Hartford, Connecticut), Monday, May 5, 1800, p. 3
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