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He left three fons; the eldeft was a clerk in my office at the Exchequer; the two youngeft, inge - nious painters in miniature.

A catalogue of engravers, who have been born, or resided in England; 1782

Moft of them were youne men, from fixteen to twenty. five; two or three feemed between thirty and five and thirty; one alone, the eldeft of all, was between fifty and five and fifty; he alone wore the fkin of a kangaroo over his fhoulders: the others were perfeftly naked.

Voyages and TRavels in All Parts of the World 1812

* This is the tradition, and the Rev, Mr. Meeks of Wetherf - fteld in his manufcripts fays, Wethersfield is the eldeft town on the river.

A complete history of Connecticut, civil and ecclesiastical, from the emigration of its first planters from England, in MDCXXX, to MDCCXIII 1797

Henry Stephens, the eldeft branch, an eminent French printer, died in

Typographical antiquities. History, origin, and progress, of the art of printing, from its first invention in Germany to the end of the seventeenth century; 1797

It happened that their mother, at their birth, was above a fortnight in labour, and brought forth John the eldeft on Whitfunday,

The poetical works, to which are prefixed, Memoirs of the life of the author Clare, Thomas 1796

While Sir Nicholas Bacon, the Lord Keeper, lived, every* room in Gorhambury was ferved with a pipe of water from the ponds diftant about a mile from thence; foon after, during the habitation of Matter Anthony Bacon, eldeft fon of Sir Nicholas, in the fame houfe, the water ceafed.

Sporting Magazine 1796

A very different Spirit wiought in the Earl of Bnth, when he fucceeded to the power of palatine, and became eldeft proprietary, in 1701: being a zealot for the Church of England, he \yas ambitious of ei -

An historical, geographical, commercial, and philosophical view of the United States of America, and of the European settlements in America and the West-Indies Winterbotham, William, 1763-1829. cn 1796

Lewis Hutin, the eldeft, left at his death one daughter, by Margaret filler to Eudes duke of Burgundy; and as his queen was then pregnant,

The history of England : from the invasion iof Julius Cæsar to the revolution in 1688 ... 1796

That you create your Emperor'* eldeft fon Lord Saturnine; whofe virtues will, 1 hope,

Works 1795

The Indians on the lakes are formed into a fort of empire; and di emperor is eleded from the eldeft tribe, which is that of the Ottowa waws.

An historical, geographical, commercial, and philosophical view of the American United States Winterbotham, William, 1763-1829. [from old catalog] 1795