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CC-H.773.030
20-27 Apr 1773:31 (435)
New-York, April 22. On Monday evening last, as Mr. John
Dewit, a very pious young adult man, was officiating as a
member of a religious society, in a house on Cowfoot Hill he
expired in the following melancholy manner. After praying
he gave out an hymn, in singing which he accompanied the
society read a chapter, too a seat and seemed very solemn;
and as he and another member was about concluding the
devotion with a prayer, Mr. Dewit was heard to make a noise
with his feet, and on looking at him they perceived he had
dropped from his knees; water was immediately fetched and
every method take to recover him, but in vain, for he seemed
to be intirely dead; however, as no signs of putrifaction
have yet appeared, by advice of the physicians, he is still
kept unburied.
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