CERTIFICATE OF THE DEATH OF PRESIDENT HARRISON.
[From official records, written on parchment, in the State Department.]
WASHINGTON, April 4, A.D. 1841.
William Henry Harrison, President of the United States, departed this life at the President's house, in this city, this morning, being Sunday, the 4th day of April, A.D. 1841, at thirty minutes before 1 o'clock in the morning; we whose names are hereunto subscribed being in the house, and some of us in his immediate presence, at the time of his decease.
W.W. SEATON,
Mayor of Washington.
DANL. WEBSTER,
Secretary of State.
THOMAS MILDER, M.D.,
Attending Physician.
THOMAS EWING,
Secretary of the Treasury.
ASHTON ALEXANDER, M.D.,
Consulting Physician.
JNO. BELL,
Secretary of War.
WM. HAWLEY,
Rector of St. John's Church.
J.J. CRITTENDEN,
Attorney-General.
A. HUNTER,
Marshal of the District of Columbia.
FR. GRANGER,
Postmaster-General.
WM. THOS. CARROLL,
Clerk of Supreme Court U.S.
FLETCHER WEBSTER,
Chief Clerk in the State Dept.
JOHN CHAMBERS,
C.S. TODD
DAVID O. COUPLAND,
Of the President's Family.
Let this be duly recorded and placed among the rolls.
DANL. WEBSTER,
Secretary of State.
Recorded in Domestic Letter Book by—
A.T. McCORMICK.