"He went to his grave honored as a skillful legislator, a righteous judge, and able representative, a dignified and upright Governor." - "Lives of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence", Charles A. Goodrich, (New York: William Reed & co., 1829), p. 153
"An affectionate husband, and a tender parent, he was greatly attached to the regular habits of domestic life. Exemplary, quiet, and serene in his family, he governed his children and domestics in an easy and affectionate mannor. ... As in life he had despised the follies, so in death he rose superior to the fears of an ignorant and licentious world; and he expected with patience and met with pious and philosophic intrepidity the stroke of death." - "Biography of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence", John Sanderson, (Philadelphia: R.W. Pomeroy, 1824), Vol. VI, pp. 253, 260
"Through life he had been a constant attendant of the religious meetings of Friends, or Quakers, and was ever distinguished among men as a sincere Christian." - "Eminent Americans", Benson J. Lossing, (New York: American Book Exchange, 1881), p. 320
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