text:  Generous pursuits hospitable liberal and open hearted hating alike poachers and dissenters possessed of many virtues avoiding many a crime discharging the duties as well as exercising the rights of property; exemplary in all the relations of life a good father a tender husband a kind master an indulgent landlord a blessing to himself and those around him he lived and died the _Squire Western_ of his day without that refinement and cultivation of the tastes and mental powers which the more polished inhabitants of the metropolis insensibly contract