Rash's Surname Index
Notes for Hudson EMLEN
Hudson Emlen, only son of Samuel and Rachel (nee Hudson) Emlen, was a successful merchant in Philadelphia. His name is found among those attached to the historic Non-Importation Agreement of October 25, 1765, the first concrete move in the contest for American Independence. He survived that act less than three years, his death occurring March 26, 1768, when still comparatively a young man, and unmarried. His death is thus referred to in the Pennsylvania Gazette of March 31, 1768:
On the 26th Instant, about 9 o'Clock in the Morning, departed this Life, HUDSON EMLEN, of this City, Merchant, After a tedious and lingering Illness, which he bore with a Christian Fortitude, after expressing, in the Course of that fevere Conflict, and particularly towards his last Moments, a perfect Resignation to the Divine Will, and full Assurance that the Change would be his great Gain. Thus, at the most critical Period, evincing, that as his Life had been virtuously spent, he had an Earnest of that Peace, which is laid up in Store for the Righteous.
[Old Philadelphia Families by Frank Willing Leach]
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