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We have no record of the result of his appeal but it must have been fav-
orably received for he returned to America shortly afterward wearing
the tri-colored cockade and his foreign uniform, much to the disgust of
the pro-British element of New York.60 No doubt he was very active in
the agitation against the British which, under the leadership of Genet,
founded a nucleus for the anti-Federalist party.
In September 1795 while he was in New York, he heard of the ill-
ness of his friend Major Charles Tillinghast and in spite of the dangers
of the Yellow Fever plague which was sweeping the city, he hurried to
the bedside of his dying friend. There he contracted the fever and died
on September 30, aged forty, ending while still a comparatively young
man a life of intense activity and usefulness.61 His widow, Elizabeth,
continued to publish the paper until August 17, 1796 when she sold out
to Joseph Gales.62
60 1. Q Leakc, Memoir of ike Lift And Times of General John Lamb, pp. 344-345.
61 I. Q. Leakc, Memoir of the Life And Times of General John Lamb, p. 350.
62 See Evans, 28883 and 30626.
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