Chowan County NcArchives Obituaries.....Tredwell, Samuel  July 1827
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The Edenton Gazette   July 31, 1827
   Seldom have we been called to perform so melancholy a duty as that which 
now devolves upon us, the recording the death of SAMUEL TREDWELL, ESQ., 
Collector of the Customs for the District and Port of Edenton, who died on 
Sunday evening last at his residence in Edenton after a tedious and severe 
indisposition. MR. TREDWELL had attained to the 84th year of his age, was a 
native of North Homestead, Long Island, emigrated to this town in the year 
1785-86, was appointed Collector by GEN. WASHINGTON in 1791, and was the 
oldest collector in the United States.
   No newspaper can do justice to the merits of the deceased: he was a 
polished and accomplshed Gentleman, a kind and affectionate husband and 
father, a sincere friend, an indulgent master and a pious Christian and it 
will be long ere the chasm produced in society by this event can be filled.
   The writer witnessed the last moments of MR. TREDWELL and was let to 
exclaim: 
    "Let me die the death of the righteous and let my last end be like his."

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