ABSTRACT
My sister had not long left us, when Mr Bradford was seized with a distemper, that threatened to put a speedy end to his life. A physician was called in from the nearest town, and all proper assistance was afforded. But it speedily appeared that the disease was too strong for the power of medicine to baffle; and its virulence was such, that in a few days it put an end to the life of this venerable and innocent being. In one of those intervals which afforded him a comparative degree of composure and ease, he caused me to be called to his bedside. / He desired me to sit near him; and he took one of my hands in his.
