Merrimack County NH Archives Obituaries.....Wadleigh, Thomas February 26, 1827
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(New Hampshire) Patriot & State Gazetteer, March 5, 1827
In Sutton, Feb. 26, Thomas Wadleigh, Esq. aged 72. In the death of Mr. Wadleigh 
his relatives and friends have met with an irreparable loss. In his family he 
was kind and affectionate; throughout the whole circle of his friends and 
acquaintance, liberal and obliging, he had the faculty of gaining the esteem of 
all. The early part of his life was devoted to the cause of his country. He 
served between four and five years in the army of the revolution, was in the 
Battle at Bunker Hill, and shared in common with his fellow soldiers, the 
fatigues, distress, and privations of that ever memorable struggle for 
independence. On leaving the army he went to the town of Sutton, then a 
wilderness, and become one of the first settlers of that town. Being in a great 
measure destitute of funds, he was obliged by his own hard labour to level the 
forest, and cultivate the soil, experiencing all those inconveniences usually 
attending new settlements. By persevering industry, attended by that economy 
which is always requisite to prosperity, he acquired a decent property, and was 
enabled to bring up a large and respectable family. His whole life was 
remarkable for patriotism love of his country: he was ever a firm and 
undeviating republican, and in the various offices to which he was called by the 
suffrages of his fellow citizens, he was uniformly governed by, and acted from 
the principles of republicanism. He was twelve or thirteen years a member of the 
State legislature. In 1799, he was one of four, who were the only republicans in 
the legislature at that time, among whom also was Gen. Benjamin Pierce. He 
sustained the office of Town clerk for more than twenty years--that of a 
Selectman, for a number of years, the duties of which he executed with 
promptness and fidelty. In the general character of this man we behold a pattern 
worthy of imitation: for moral honesty his conduct is impeached by none. His 
liberality and tender feelings towards the poor and needy were apparent at all 
times—in him they found a constant friend and benefactor, and although his life 
was spared as a blessing to his friends, to a good old age, yet they sincerely 
lament his loss. His religious sentiments correspond to his practice; for as his 
charity extended to all, and he endeavored to do good unto all as far as lay in 
his power, so he believed in the Universal Benevolence of the Deity, that "the  
Lord is good unto all and his tender mercies are over all the works of his 
hands.” During his last sickness, while racked with pain and bodily infirmity, 
his mind remained unimpaired, and he breathed out his last in humble resignation 
to the will of his Maker.-Com.

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