Writing to a London correspondent, June 2, 1729, Chief Justice Sewall says--"_Richard put the Letter on board Capt. Thomas Lithered, who saild this day; in who went Madam Hannah Phillips_." In his interleaved almanac is the following entry--"_1729, Sept. 27, Saturday Madam Phillips arrives; mane_." The explanation of these two last entries is at hand. Jean Faneuil of Rochelle had, doubtless, written, either to his brother André, in Boston, or to his nephew, by marriage, Gillam Phillips, giving an account of the wanderer, Gillam's brother. At length, the tidings came hither, that he was sick; and, probably, in May, 1729, intelligence arrived, that he was _dangerously ill_. The mother's heart was stirred within her. By the first vessel she embarked for London, on her way to Rochelle. The eyes of that unhappy young man were not destined to behold again the face of her, whose daylight he had turned into darkness, and whose heart he had broken. He died about the twentieth of May, 1729, as I infer from the documents before me. The first of these is the account, rendered by Jean Faneuil, to Gillam Phillips, in Jean's own hand--"_Deboursement fait par Jean faneuil pour feu Monsieur heny Phillipe de Boston_," &c. He charges in this account, for amount paid the physician, "_pendant sa maladie_." The doctor's bill is sent as a voucher, and is also before me. Dr. "_Girard De Villars, Aggregé au College Royal des Medicins de la Rochelle_" acknowledges to have received payment in full _pour l'honoraire des consultes de mes confreres et moy a Monsieur Henry Phillipe Anglois_, from the fourth of April, to the twentieth of May. The apothecary's bill of Monsieur Guinot, covering three folio pages, is an interesting document, for something of the nature of the malady may be inferred, from the _materia medica_ employed--_potion anodine_--_baume tranquille sant_--_cordial somnifere_. How effectually the visions, the graphic recollections of this miserable young man must have _murdered sleep_! The Rev. Mr. Sewall of Burlington suggests, that Mr. Benjamin Woodbridge, who fell in this duel, was, very probably, the grandson of the Rev. John Woodbridge of Andover, and he adds, that his partner, Jonathan Sewall, to whose house the body was conveyed, was a nephew of the _old_ Chief Justice, and, in 1717, was in business with an elder brother, Major Samuel Sewall, with whom he resided. In 1726, Major Sewall "lived in a house, once occupied by Madam Usher, near the Common;" whither the body of Woodbridge might have been conveyed, without much trouble. The General Court, which assembled, on the 28th of that month, in which this encounter took place, enacted a more stringent law, than had existed before, on the subject of duelling. I shall now present the testimony, as it lies before me, certified by Elisha Cook, J. P., before whom the examination was had, on the morning after the duel:--