At his place of residence in Stephentown, Rensselaer county, on Wednesday last General Hosea Moffitt, aged about 70 years. Though far advanced in life his constitution having been formed for long endurance, retained much of its original vigor, and he came to his death by accident. On Monday, of last week, as he was assisting one of his sons to take a wagon-body from the running-gears, he made a sudden exertion of strength, and the body yielding more readily than he expected, the corner of a board, or the end of an iron bolt, struck him so violently on the lower rim of the abdomen, as to knock him down. The hurt was severe, and from the internal feeling which he instantly experienced, he immediately said to his son that he had received his death blow. He languished till Wednesday, when he died.
General Moffit was for many years one of the most prominent men in this country. He was one of the earliest settlers of Stephentown, and emigrated from Pomfret, Connecticut, a town made forever memorable from it connection with the name of Putnam. He served in the militia of his native State, during the war of the Revolution, as a private soldier, commencing his patriotic career at about 17 years of age. Among the numerous evidences of the confidence which his fellow-citizen reposed in him early and late, we may mention that he was the first representative of this Country in the Assembly, to which body he was frequently sent afterwards; that he has filled the office of Sheriff, and that not many years before his death, he represented this district in Congress. He was a man of elevated spirit and energetic character; upright in his private intercourse; firm, zealous, and faithful in the performance of whatever public duties were devolved upon him; and the attachment to his country, to the principles of freedom, and republican institutions, of which he gave such unequivocal proof in the morning of his life, continued unabated in him till its close.
Troy (N. Y.) Sentinel.
