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Kennedy, Thomas (d. 1846)
According to Chambers, Burns had known Kennedy when the poet was a boy. Burns later came upon him when Tam was a pedlar. In his old age, Kennedy knew William Cobbett who printed the following lines, either from manuscript or from recollection. "As Tam the chapman on a day
Wi' Death forgather'd by the way, [had a meeting
Weel pleas'd he greets a wight sae famous,
And Death was nae less pleas'd wi' Thomas.
Wha cheerfully lays down his pack,
And there blaws up a hearty crack;
His social, friendly honest heart
Sae tickled Death, they couldna part;
Sae, after viewing knives and garters,
Death taks him hame to gie him quarters."
Kennedy died in Homor, Courtland County, New York
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