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r-Mr. Polloc|f4>as since his arrival here very honorably ond to the entire satisfaction of his creditors in this province, discharged ail his remaining debts here, to o considerable, amount; which he owed on account of the United States, and the State of Virginia. The just integrity evinced by this gentleman in the faithful discharge of his engagements entered into for the service of his country, strongly interests me in his favor, ond induces me to pray you will have the goodness to take him under excellency's protection; and that you will be pleased to give him your aid in obtaining as speedy a reimbursement as may be for the monies now due to him from the United States, and from the State of Virginia, which I shall esteem as a personal favor conferred upon myself.
"I pray God to take you into his holy keeping .
"I have the honor to be, Sir, with the greatest respect, your Excellency's most obedient and humble servant,
?ESTEVAN MIRO."
In 1791 or 1792, Pollock returned to Cumberland county, Pennsylvania, and purchased the property now known as Silver's Spring. Here his wife died and was buried and here his son James was killed. In 1797 Pollock became a candidate for Congress, but was defeated by General John Andrd? Hanna of Dauphin county. In 18 04 he was again an aspirant for Congressional honors in the Congressional district composed of Cumberland, Dauphin, Mifflin, and Huntingdon counties. He ond David Burd of Huntingdon were against General Hanno of Dauphin, and Robert White-hill of Cumberland. Pollock and Whitehill being both from the same county, neither were elected, the vote being as follows: Pollock, 1,700; Whitehill, 1,514; Burd, 3,245; Hanna, 2,931 . The vote of Cumberland county was as follows, showing Pollock's popularity: Pollock, 1,367; Whitehill, 614; Burd, 1,168; Hanna, 462.
In 1806 he was again nominated, but withdrew in favor of Whitehill on the score of friendship, and to ovoid a similar vote and non-election of either candidate.
He is recorded in Philadelphia os having taken the oath of allegiance to the State of Pennsylvania, October 10, 1786, as "Oliver Pollock, of this city, gent., arrived here from Havonna near two years." In 1783 he became a member of the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick, in Philadelphia, and so became one of the original members of the Hibernian Society in 1791 .
He was twice married. Firit in New Orleans or in Hovana about 1765, to MARGARET O'BRIEN, b. Ireland, 1746, and descended by both parents from O'Brien, of C lare , and Kennedy, of Ormond . She wos the mo the r of oil his children. She d. Carlisle, Pa., January 10, 1799.* He wai m. 2d, November 2, 1805, by the Rt. Rev . John Carroll, D. D., ot Baltimore, Maryland, to MRS. WINIFRED DEADY, widow of Daniel Dfcody, of Baltimore .
?In Kline's Carlisle Weekly Gazette for Wednesdoy, January 23, 1799, we find the fo flowing tribute to hor memory:
"On the 10th inst. departed this life, Mrs. Margaret Pollock, a lady of distinguished birth and family, wife of Oliver Pollock, Esq., aged 52 years, and on the 13th her remains were deposited near the present residence of the family at Silver's Springs. She hos left a husband and seven children, who lament in her o loss most dear.
This morriage was neither a suitable nor a happy one. He moved to Baltimore in 1806, and she d. there of billioui fever November 17, 1814, aged sixty years, and was buried in the old Cathedral cemetery, Baltimore, Maryland.
At her death Pollock moved to the home of his son-in-law, Dr. Samuel Robinson, at Pinckneyville, Mississippi, where he died at a very great age, December 17, 1823. Hn his later years Mr. P. had become so embarrassed by his fi none i a I failures that May 30, 1800, he dates one letter from the debtors' prison, Philadelphia.
His New Orleans residence still stands, built of cypress wood, in what wos formerly a whole square of ground, ornamented by some very fine old mulberry trees. It is well-preserved, old fashioned, with wide, low roofs, but spacious rooms and galleries.
By his first marrioge he had issue:
3 .	i.	Procopio J .
4.	ii.	Jaret or Jared; m.	Mary Briggs.
5.	iii.	Mary Serena; b. 1777; m. Samuel
Robinson, M. D .
iv.	Oliver; living 1802.
v.	Christiana; living 18 02.
vi.	Galvez; living 18 02.
6.	vii.	James
7.	viii.	Lucetta Ade laide;	b. 1783.
"Memory will long sustain a cause for tears, and each feeling breast acquainted with the real character of our deceased friend, will long most fondly dwell on the many excellent traits of goodness thot illumined those days she passed on earth.
"In her we saw the faithful, the tender, the offec-tionate wife ? a parent most fond, indulgent, and kind ? a friend, cautious, just, sincere, and warm ? a Christian, engagingly pious, benevolent, and liberal. She sought the tear of misery and relieved it:? her soul melted at the misfortunes of others and made them her own ? her mind was great and happy; and she was blessed with a memory both ? fertile and pleasingly useful to rear the tender thoughts of youth, with a talent peculiarly her own. Endowed with a well cultivated mind, and an excellent understanding, her conversation wOs ever engagingly instructive and desirable . During her long confinement, she discovered much of that true courage which consists in knowing how to bear with misfortune; she never was heard to complain of the Divine will that was about to teor her from the fond embraces of her dearest connections; but with a firmness of mind, which alone proceeds from a conscious rectitude, her soul obeyed the awful mandate, and departed in a smile, amid the sup-plicoting prayers of her weeping disconsolate family.
"Such the Saviour, to his arms receives,
And fullest blessings of his kingdom gives;
Such, the bount'ous God of Nature owns For such his Son gave up his dying groans.
"Friendly Angels for her guidance given Point her way to yonder blooming heaven;
For purest bliss and one eternal day,
Her pious soul hath left its native clay.
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