From the Frederick-Town Herald of Mar 18. 1809:
"Died on Saturday last aged seventeen, Miss ANN POTTS, daughter of the late Richard Potts, esq. deceased. A lingering and cruel illness, which she bore with exemplary fortitude, prepared the way for a melancholy event.
-'Many an evening sun shine sweetly on her grave!'
Alas! what avails it now, that she was ? among ten thousand, and lovelier than all her sex? The grace of youth, the charm of innocence, the loveliness of beauty, could not avert the meditated blow.
Her character was distinguished by a ? truly feminine, a temper sweet and gentle, a mind, susceptible and delicate, a heart, feeling and tender. The artless simplicity of her manners, and the amiable frankness of her conversation, endeared her to all who knew her. Would to heaven! the prayers of many could have saved her! O! that she could have lived, to soothe and to comfort the afflicted friends who lament her! But it hath pleased the dispenser of all good to take her to his blessed mansion! Peace, to her modest, gentle spirit! Her friends, her acquaintance, the society she lived in and adorned ? long as virtuous sympathy shall inhabit their bosoms, will remember and regret her.
The religion she loved is as a glorious panoply - it enabled her to leave this world with complacence - it will cover her with a veil of brightness in the world to come.
---"The wintry blast of death
Kills not the buds of virtue: no, they spread,
Beneath the heavenly beam of brighter suns,
Thro' endless ages into higher powers."
"Died on Saturday last aged seventeen, Miss ANN POTTS, daughter of the late Richard Potts, esq. deceased. A lingering and cruel illness, which she bore with exemplary fortitude, prepared the way for a melancholy event.
-'Many an evening sun shine sweetly on her grave!'
Alas! what avails it now, that she was ? among ten thousand, and lovelier than all her sex? The grace of youth, the charm of innocence, the loveliness of beauty, could not avert the meditated blow.
Her character was distinguished by a ? truly feminine, a temper sweet and gentle, a mind, susceptible and delicate, a heart, feeling and tender. The artless simplicity of her manners, and the amiable frankness of her conversation, endeared her to all who knew her. Would to heaven! the prayers of many could have saved her! O! that she could have lived, to soothe and to comfort the afflicted friends who lament her! But it hath pleased the dispenser of all good to take her to his blessed mansion! Peace, to her modest, gentle spirit! Her friends, her acquaintance, the society she lived in and adorned ? long as virtuous sympathy shall inhabit their bosoms, will remember and regret her.
The religion she loved is as a glorious panoply - it enabled her to leave this world with complacence - it will cover her with a veil of brightness in the world to come.
---"The wintry blast of death
Kills not the buds of virtue: no, they spread,
Beneath the heavenly beam of brighter suns,
Thro' endless ages into higher powers."
From the Frederick-Town Herald of Mar 18. 1809:
"Died on Saturday last aged seventeen, Miss ANN POTTS, daughter of the late Richard Potts, esq. deceased. A lingering and cruel illness, which she bore with exemplary fortitude, prepared the way for a melancholy event.
-'Many an evening sun shine sweetly on her grave!'
Alas! what avails it now, that she was ? among ten thousand, and lovelier than all her sex? The grace of youth, the charm of innocence, the loveliness of beauty, could not avert the meditated blow.
Her character was distinguished by a ? truly feminine, a temper sweet and gentle, a mind, susceptible and delicate, a heart, feeling and tender. The artless simplicity of her manners, and the amiable frankness of her conversation, endeared her to all who knew her. Would to heaven! the prayers of many could have saved her! O! that she could have lived, to soothe and to comfort the afflicted friends who lament her! But it hath pleased the dispenser of all good to take her to his blessed mansion! Peace, to her modest, gentle spirit! Her friends, her acquaintance, the society she lived in and adorned ? long as virtuous sympathy shall inhabit their bosoms, will remember and regret her.
The religion she loved is as a glorious panoply - it enabled her to leave this world with complacence - it will cover her with a veil of brightness in the world to come.
---"The wintry blast of death
Kills not the buds of virtue: no, they spread,
Beneath the heavenly beam of brighter suns,
Thro' endless ages into higher powers."
"Died on Saturday last aged seventeen, Miss ANN POTTS, daughter of the late Richard Potts, esq. deceased. A lingering and cruel illness, which she bore with exemplary fortitude, prepared the way for a melancholy event.
-'Many an evening sun shine sweetly on her grave!'
Alas! what avails it now, that she was ? among ten thousand, and lovelier than all her sex? The grace of youth, the charm of innocence, the loveliness of beauty, could not avert the meditated blow.
Her character was distinguished by a ? truly feminine, a temper sweet and gentle, a mind, susceptible and delicate, a heart, feeling and tender. The artless simplicity of her manners, and the amiable frankness of her conversation, endeared her to all who knew her. Would to heaven! the prayers of many could have saved her! O! that she could have lived, to soothe and to comfort the afflicted friends who lament her! But it hath pleased the dispenser of all good to take her to his blessed mansion! Peace, to her modest, gentle spirit! Her friends, her acquaintance, the society she lived in and adorned ? long as virtuous sympathy shall inhabit their bosoms, will remember and regret her.
The religion she loved is as a glorious panoply - it enabled her to leave this world with complacence - it will cover her with a veil of brightness in the world to come.
---"The wintry blast of death
Kills not the buds of virtue: no, they spread,
Beneath the heavenly beam of brighter suns,
Thro' endless ages into higher powers."
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