Robert Goodbody Journal

that I am very far from returning him the thanks that I ought. I often feel as if I was totally unworthy of the multiplied blessings showered down upon me, an unworthy erring creature.

27th of 4th mo. I now revert to sundry deaths in my near connexions. The first after my father's death in our family circle, was my dear Aunt Sarah Pim, who was found by my mother on the morning of the 27th of 4th month 1813, dead on her bed. She evidently had a struggle with death, as she had raised herself in the bed, and a pillow raising her head with the usual marks of a death struggle on her, but quite warm, and seemed to have very recently died. She was a sensible, prudent woman, whom I much loved. Her body was opened as she had symptoms of heart disease, but nothing found on her death bed. She was buried at Lenneel the 1st day following. She died on the 4th day morning. My Uncle Richard Goodbody was in poor health yet got better I the summer of 1814. The last week in the tenth month he went to Monastreven to see his cousin E.White who had recently lost a daughter, I think her name was Eliza. He spent a few days there my Aunt Goodbody being with him. I think it was on the 3rd of 11th mo. he came home, driving the gig himself. He did not complain of being ill or particularly fatigued, and eat his dinner as usual. After the cloth was removed he took some warm negus, and soon after was seized with a parralitick stroke all on one side. His intellects were also very much affected, so as that instead of being conscious of his ailment he fancied that it was the persons about him that were ill-using him, which was a severe trial to my Aunt and her sister Margaret, who hard set to hold him on the sofa with the assistance of the servants. My Aunt sent

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