>From the Dumfries Weekly Journal 28th October, 1828 Sourced by Robert Wells At Newton-Stewart, on the 21st instant, in the 82d year of his age, Mr William Thomson, merchant there, much and deservedly regretted by an extensive circle of friends and acquaintances. Having returned to his native country soon after the commencement of the American war of independence, it is now upwards of half a century since he commenced business in Newton-Stewart. In the discharge of all the relative duties of life, as a husband, father, neighbour, and friend, his conduct was most exemplary; and in him was happily blended the utmost strength of understanding with the very kindliest feelings, and hence the deserving poor, in proportion to his circumstances, ever found in him a ready support; yet so single-minded was he, and so unostentatious in the dispensation of his charities, that it might be truly said of him, that his left hand was never permitted once to recognize what his right hand had done. To the sufferings attending a long course of complicated disease, he submitted without a murmur; and, in fine, it may be not inappropriately remarked, that, although never invested with the pride or pomp of high worldly circumstances, such was the tenor of his whole life, that “Tak him for all in all, We scarce shall look upon his like again.”