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Near this place lies interred
Sr EDWARD SMYTH Baronet
of Hill Hall in this Parish
Son of Sr EDWARD SMYTH and JANE
Daughter of PETER VANDEPUT Esqr
Whom
His Contemporaries well knew
to be a man of Integrity,
strict Justice and good Morals,
to be a lover of Virtue and Religion
and to have resolution enough to practice them:
And
Whose true character
posterity may from this Inscription
understand and learn to Imitate.
He had two Wives.
The first ANN, Daughter of the Right Honourable
Sr CHARLES HEDGES Secretary of State,
by whom he had five Sons,
four of which and an only Daughter
are now living:
This Lady dying Octbr 18th 1719,
He afterward Married ELIZABETH
Daugther of JOHN WOOD of LONDON Esqr.,
who having survivied him,
As a testimony of her great and constant Affection,
has caused this Monument to be Erected
to the Memory of her dear and worthy Husband,
who died on the 16th of August
1744
in the 59th Year of his Age
ELIZth, his Second LADY Died 23 of May 1748 Aged 57