Orange-Cumberland County NcArchives Obituaries.....Cochran, Richard, Col. December 25, 1800
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Thurs. Jan. 1, 1801   Wilmington Gazette
   DIED, At his brother's house in Fayetteville, on the morning of Christmas 
Day, of an inflammation upon the lungs, after about 48 hours illness, COL. 
RICHARD COCHRAN of Orange County. His manners were mild, gentle and 
unassuming, his habits, sober, temperate. Christianity, Virtue and Patriotism 
were his principles.
   His tenderness for his only Daughter, could only be exceeded by his Wife. 
He received his Education at the College of Philadelphia, and qualified 
himself for the Practice of the Law; but never pursued it as a profession; he 
was fond of Retirement and experimental Philosophy, his Erudition was general 
and extensive, but as a Mathematician and Astronomer, he was believed to be 
among the first in America. His death is a particular loss to all his friends 
and acquaintances, a general and public loss to his Country, but an 
irreparable one to his family. He was about 32 years of age, and it is 
somewhat remarkable that his first and last breath were in the same apartment 
of the same house.

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