Inscription
Samuel Hill, Esquire, Merchant.
Who was distinguished in early life for his industry
and close application to business, and who always
sustained the reputation of the strictest honesty and
punctuality. These habits early commenced and
uniformly followed, with discretion in the management
of his affairs, terminated in the acquisition of a large
estate. After having acquired what he himself said was a
sufficiency of wealth,he quitter the active persists of
commerce and attended chiefly to agricultural improvements.
In the doctrines of the gospel his faith was firm and
lively, and his virtues were operative in all the duties
of life. Of that charity which vaunteth not itself and
which never faileth, of that simplicity so seldom
combined with maturity of the understanding; of that
sympathy that fulfills the gospel precept. To weep
with them, and to rejoice with them that
rejoice: he exhibited a striking example, his religion was
not a barren speculation, but an operating sentiment.
Sacred is the memory of the just and hallowed
the place where the ashes of the good man repose.
He was born February 12th, 1745.
He died March 19th, 1812.
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