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In her 49 year.
first wife of William Franklin
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In her 49 year.
first wife of William Franklin
Inscription
Beneath the Altar of this Church are deposited the Remains of
Mrs ELIZABETH FRANKLIN, Wife of His Excellency
WILLIAM FRANKLIN Esq: late Governor under His
Britannick Majesty, of the Province of New Jersey.
Compelled by the adverse Circumstances of the Times, to
part from the Husband she loved, and at length deprived
of the soothing Hope of his speedy Return,
She sunk under accumulated Distresses, and departed this
Life on the 28th Day of July 1778, in the 49th Year of her Age.
SINCERITY and SENSIBILITY,
POLITENESS and AFFABILITY,
GODLINESS and CHARITY,
Were,
With Sense resin'd and Person elegant, in her UNITED.
From a grateful Remembrance of her affection Tenderness
and constant Performance of all the Duties of a GOOD WIFE,
this Monument is erected in the Year 1787,
By Him who knew her Worth, and still laments her Loss.
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