stations, to the day of his death.
« Soon after his return from England, he became extensively concerned in the fur trade, and other commercial pursuits ; but war with the United States having broken out, all business was suddenly and completely stopped by a hostile invasion. Previous to this, he had experienced very serions losses in his commercial dealings, and also in the erection of mills, on the property still retained with the territories of the United States, and was endeavouring to make such arrangements as would relieve him to attend to his farm and orchard, and his promising family. The sudden war, and the calamities which it occasioned him were not the only evils which befell him. — About the same time, he lost an affectionate wife, leaving five sons and one daughter, all very young.
« To this Lady, a woman of excellent name, unblemished worth, and attentive to every conjugal and domestic duty, he had been married several years, and in her society, had enjoyed the greatest happiness.
