Death is justly lamented as a public Loss to his country, as well as an almost irretrievable Loss to his Family and Friends.
In the Character of a Magistrate, he was patient, indefatigable, and actuated by a Steady Zeal for Justice. As a Merchant, it was thought that no Person amongst us understood Commerce in General, and the trading Interests of this Province in particular, better than he, and his Success in Business was proportionably Great. As a Friend, he was faithful, candid and sincere. As a Husband and Parent few ever exceeded him in Tenderness and Affection. Being himself a sincere Christian, he was strictly attentive to the Education of his children in every virtuous Qualification, and in a particular Manner he was remarkable in the Discharge of that essential part of a Parent's Duty, so little considered,—a regular attendance, together with his numerous Family, on the public Worship of God. And for this accordingly, they will now have Reason to bless his Memory; since the Impression, thereby received, will go farther to teach them how to bear their present heavy Affliction, and recommend them to the Favor of the World (degenerate as it is) than all the external Advantages—all the Fortune, Graces, and Good Nature he has left them possessed of.
Mr. Smith also supplied an "Ode to the Memory of Charles Willing, Esq.," of which the first Stanza is
Once more I seek the cypress shade,
To weave a garland for the dead,
Alone, dejected, wan!
Shall Willing quit this mortal strife,
And not a verse show him, in life
And death—an honest Man?
Mr. Willing gave much attendance to the meetings of the Trustees, with only an interval from July 1750 to November, 1751. The last he attended was on 17 September 1754. At the meeting of 11 February, 1755, Mr. Alexander Stedman was elected to fill the vacancy made by his death.
Doctor Phineas Bond was born in Maryland in 1717, the younger brother of Dr. Thomas Bond, also a Trustee. He was, as well as his brother educated in his native state, and pursued his studies during foreign travel, visiting at length Leyden, Paris, Edinburgh and London for this purpose. He did not devote himself to surgery as did his brother; but Dr. Thacher says of him "no medical man of his time in this country left behind him a brighter character for professional sagacity, or the
