Page 56 Ripon MI Book

"No. 194. To the memory of Matthew Beckwith, Alderman and twice Mayor of Ripon, who died the 5th day of February, 1780, aged 78 years. He married Alice, the youngest daughter of Mr. Richard Austin of this town, Bookseller, by whom he had issue 6 sons & 6 daughters, of which 3 of the former & 4 of the latter lay here inter'd, viz., Matthew, who died in 1759, aged 15; Elizabeth died in 1774, aged 34; the rest died in their infancy; also, Alice, wife of the said Matthew Beckwith, died 29th August, 1783, aged 76 years; also, Richard Beckwith, Alderman and twice Mayor of this Town, son of the above Matthew Beckwith, who departed this life the 25th of May, 1796, aged 63 years; Alice Olroyd, daughter of the above Matthew Beckwith, died Jany. 27th, 1810, aged 66 years."