Brunswick County NcArchives Obituaries.....Field, Richard, Dr.  May 23, 1829
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 Wed. June 3, 1829, North Carolina Journal
   DIED, on the 23rd inst., at his residence in Brunswick County, DR. RICHARD 
FIELD, the Senior Editor of the North Carolina Journal, in the 63rd yer of his 
age. He was a distinguished physician and an accomplished citizen. In the 
knowledge of Botanical Plants of Virginia he was surpassed only by Gronovius, 
while he was fully equal to Greenway. In the other branches of science, 
particularly astronomy, he was a great proficient. In his profession, his mind 
was of superior order,, which enabled him to discard the shackles of the 
schools, and to devise a new practice, which was not only worthy of the 
enlightened principles of medicine, but especially adapted to the diseases of 
this country. Ardent in his desire for information, constant in his 
investigation, alive to the claims of the community, anxious to relieve the 
distress of his fellow creatures, and perhaps solicitous of fame, he soon 
attained the first rank as a practioner of medicine and during his usefulness, 
it was his highest gratification to gain a victory over the arch enemy, Death, 
in the doubtful conflicts of disease. His medical skill and attainments are 
recorded in the hearts of many of our citizens, who will never forget the 
intelligence which animated his interesting coutenance. His chilvary was early 
tested while a student in Edinburg, and his patriotism was every ready in the 
cause of his country. He was a member of three electoral colleges, who 
assisted to alleviate MR. JEFFERSON,and elect MR. MADISON to the Presidency,

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