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NYGWPB.764.086
23 Aug 1764:31 (1129)
[August 23.] Last Monday morning, between three and four
o'clock, departed this life, in the 53d year of his age, the
reverend Henry Barclay, D.D. Rector of Trinity Church; in
this city, and on the Tuesday following, his remains,
attended by the clergy of the several denominations, the
gentlemen and chief inhabitants of the city, preceeded by
the charity scholars, who sung a psalm, suitable to the
melancholly occasion, during the procession, were carried
into Trinity Church, where and excellent funeral sermon,
from Rev. 14, 13, was preached, by the Rev. Mr. Achmuty, to
a prodigious large audience. . . [3 more lines, followed by
27 lines describing his character and contribution.]
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