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BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY:
CONTAINING AN ACCOUNT OF THE
LIVES, CHARACTERS, AND WRITINGS
OF THE
tost Eminent &tttm mastfc m
FROM ITS FIKST SETTLEMENT.
BY
WILLIAM ALLEN, D. D.,
LATE PRESIDENT OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE, FELLOW OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES,
MEMBER OF THE AMERICAN ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY, AND OF THE HISTORICAL SOCIETIES OF
MASSACHUSETTS, MAINE, NEW HAMPSHIRE, NEW YORK, AND NEW JERSEY; AUTHOR
OF "ADDRESSES," AND OF THE "VALE OF HOOSATUNNUK."
QUIQUE SUI MEMORES ALIOS FECERE MERENDO.-»YmGlL.
THIBD EDITION.
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PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION.
THE following work presents itself to the public with no claims to attention, but such as
are founded upon the interest which may be felt in the lives of Americans. Finding
himself, a few years ago, in a literary retirement, with no important duties which pressed
immediately upon him, the author conceived the plan of this Dictionary. He was desirous
of bringing to the citizens of the United States more information than was generally
possessed, respecting the illustrious men of former times, the benefactors and ornaments of
this country, who have passed away. He persuaded himself that, if he could collect the
fragments of biography, which were buried in the mass of American history, or scattered
amidst a multitude of tracts of various kinds, and could fashion these materials into a
regular form, so as to place before the eye our great and good men, if not in their full
dimensions, yet in their true sliape, he should render an acceptable service to his country
men. This work, with no little labor, he has now completed ; and the inexperienced artist,
in his first essay, can hope only that his design will be commended. He wishes chiefly,
that, as the images of departed excellence are surveyed, the spirit which animated them
may be caught by the beholder.
As an apology, however, for the deficiencies and errors of various kinds which may be
found in the work, a full exposition of his plan, and some representation of the difficulty of
executing it, seem to be necessary.
It was proposed to give some account of the persons who first discovered the new world;
of those who had a principal agency in laying the foundations of the several colonies ; of
those who have held important offices and discharged the duties of them with ability and
integrity ; of those who have been conspicuous in the learned professions ; of those who
have been remarkable for genius and knowledge, or who have written anything deserving
of remembrance ; of the distinguished friends of literature and science ; of the statesmen,
the patriots, and heroes, who have contended for American liberty, or aided in the estab
lishment of our civil institutions ; and of all, whose lives, bright with Christian virtue,
might furnish examples which should be worthy of imitation. It was determined to enlarge
this wide field by giving as complete a list as could be made of the writings of each
person, and by introducing the first ministers of the principal towns, for the purpose of
illustrating the history of this country. The design included, also, a very compendious
history of the United States, as well as of each separate colony and State, for the satisfac
tion of the reader who might wish to view the subjects of the biographical sketches in
connection with the most prominent facts relating to the country in which they lived. In
addition to all this, it was intended to annex such references as would point out the
sources from which information should be derived, and as might direct to more copious
intelligence than could be contained in this work.
Such were the objects which the author had in view, when he commenced an enterprise,
of whose magnitude and difficulty he was not sufficiently sensible, before he had advanced
too far to be able to retreat. The modern compilers of similar works in Europe have
little else to do but to combine or abridge the labors of their predecessors, and employ the
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materials previously collected to their hands. But in the compilation of this work a new
and untrodden field was to be explored. It became necessary, not only to examine the
whole of American history, in order to know who have taken a conspicuous part in the
transactions of this country, but to supply, from other sources, the imperfect accounts of
general historical writers. By a recurrence to the references, it will be seen that much
toil has been encountered. But, although the authorities may seem to be unnecessarily
multiplied, there has been some moderation in introducing them, for in many instances they
do not, by any means, exhibit the extent of the researches which have been made. It
could not be expected, or wished, that newspapers, pamphlets, and other productions should
be referred to for undisputed dates and single facts which they have afforded, and which
have been embodied with regular accounts. The labor, however, of searching for inform
ation has frequently been less than that of comparing different statements, endeavoring to
reconcile them when they disagreed, adjusting the chronology, combining the independent
facts, and forming a consistent whole of what existed only in disjointed parts* Sometimes
the mind has been overwhelmed by the variety and abundance of intelligence ; and some
times the author has prosecuted his inquiries in every direction, and found only a barren
waste.
For the large space which is sometimes occupied in describing the last hours of the
persons of whom a sketch is given, the following reasons are assigned. In the lives of our
fellow-men, there is no period so important to them, and so interesting to us, as the period
which immediately precedes their dissolution. To see one of our brethren at a point of
his existence, beyond which the next step will either plunge him down a precipice into an
abyss from which he will never rise, or will elevate him to everlasting glory, is a spectacle
which attracts us, not merely by its sublimity, but because we know that the flight of time
is rapidly hastening us to the same crisis. We wish to see men in the terrible situation
which inevitably awaits us; to learn what it is that can support them, and can secure them.
The gratification of this desire to behold what is great and awful, and the communication
of the aids which may be derived from the conduct of dying men, have accordingly been
combined in the objects of this work. After recounting the vicissitudes attending the
affairs of men, the author was irresistibly inclined to turn from the fluctuations of human
life, and to dwell, when his subject would give him an opportunity, upon the calm and firm
hopes of the Christian, and the sure prospects of eternity. While he thus soothed his
own mind, he also believed that he should afford a resting-place to the minds of others,
fatigued with following their brethren amidst their transient occupations, their successes,
their disappointments, and their afflictions.
Some terms are used which relate to local circumstances, and which require those
circumstances to be pointed out. In several of the New England States, when the annual
election of the several branches of the legislature is completed, and the government is
organized, it has been an ancient practice to have a sermon preached in the audience of
the newly-elected rulers, which is called the election sermon. This phrase would not need
an explanation to an inhabitant of New England. The names of pastor and teacher, as
distinct officers in the church, frequently occur. Soon after the first settlement of this
country, when some societies enjoyed the labors of two ministers, they bore the titles of
teacher and pastor, of which it was the duty of the former to attend particularly to doctrine,
and of the latter to exhortation ; the one was to instruct, and the other to persuade. But
the boundary between these two offices was not well defined, and was in fact very little
regarded. The distinction of the name itself did not exist long.
Great care has been taken to render the dates accurate, and to avoid the mistakes which
have been made from inattention to the former method of reckoning time, when March was
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the first month of the year. If any one, ignorant of this circumstance, should look into
Dr. Mather's Magnalia, or ecclesiastical history of New England, he would sometimes
wonder at the absurdity of the writer. He would read, for instance, in the life of President
Chauncy, that he died in February, 1671, and will find it previously said that he attended
the commencement in the same year, which was in July. Thus, too, Peter Hobart is said
to have died in January, and yet to have been infirm in the summer of 1 G78. When it is
remembered that March was the first month, these accounts are easy to be reconciled.
There seems not, however, to have been any uniformity in disposing of the days between
the first and the twenty-fifth of March, for sometimes they are considered as belonging to
the antecedent, and sometimes to the subsequent year. American writers, it is believed,
have generally, if not always, applied them to the latter. When the figures for two years
are written, as in dates before the adoption of the new style in 1752 is found frequently to
be the case, not only for the days above mentioned, but for the days in January and
February, it is the latter year which corresponds with our present mode of reckoning.
Thus, March 1, 1689, was sometimes written March 1, 1688-9, or with the figures placed
one above the other. The months were designated usually by the names of the first, the
second, etc. ; so that February was the twelfth month.
No apology is necessary for the free use which has been made of the labors of others, for
the plan of this book is so essentially different from that of any which has preceded it, that
the author has not encroached upon the objects which others had in view. He has had no
hesitation in using their very language, whenever it suited him. Compilers seem to be
licensed pillagers. Like the youth of Sparta, they may lay their hands upon plunder
without a crime, if they will but seize it with adroitness. The list of American literary
productions, which has been rendered as complete as possible, is, for the sake of method,
placed at the close of each article ; and, in giving the titles of them, it will be perceived
that there has frequently been an economy of words, as far as was consistent with distinct
ness of representation.
The author is aware that he lives in times which are like all other times, when the sym
pathies of parties of different kinds are very strong ; and he believes that he has sought
less to conciliate them than to follow truth, though she might not lead him into any of the
paths along which the many are pressing. Without resolving to be impartial,, it would
indicate no common destitution of upright and honorable principles to attempt a delineation
of the characters of men. He may have- misapprehended, and he may have done what is
worse. All are liable to errors, and he knows enough of the windings of the heart to
remember that errors may proceed from prejudice, or indolence of attention, and be crimi
nal, while they are cherished as honest and well-founded convictions, the result of impartial
inquiry. He trusts, however, that nothing will be found in this book to counteract the
influence of genuine religion, evincing itself in piety and good works, or to weaken the
attachment of Americans to their well-balanced republic, which equally abhors the tyranny
of irresponsible authority, the absurdity of hereditary wisdom, and the anarchy of lawless
liberty.
CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS, August 2, 1809.
PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION.
AFTER a long interval since the first edition of this work, the author now offers this
second edition to the public. During twenty years past he has been repeatedly urged to
accomplish what he has not found leisure to accomplish till the present time. But the
delay, as the death-harvest among the eminent men of our country has been gathered in,
has swelled the catalogue of those who ought to be commemorated in a biography of " the
mighty dead " of America. The first edition was the first general collection of American
biography ever published ; and it is still the largest work of the kind which has appeared.
In the prospectus of this second edition it was proposed to print seven hundred and fifty
pages, and it was thought that the separate biographical notices would amount to about twelve
hundred, being about five hundred more than are contained in the first edition. But the
book has reached the unwieldly size of eight hundred and eight pages, and the biographical
articles exceed eighteen hundred, presenting an account of more than one thousand indi
viduals not mentioned in Lord's edition of Lempriere, and of about sixteen hundred not
found in the first ten volumes of the Encyclopedia Americana. Yet the author has been
obliged to exclude accounts of many persons of whom he would willingly have said some
thing. If he has at times misjudged in his exclusions and admissions, — yet for some
omissions an apology will be found in the difficulty of obtaining intelligence, as well as in
oversight, which could hardly fail to occur in a work of such extent, embracing such a
multitude of facts, and requiring, while in the press, such incessant attention and labor, —
he can only promise, should he live to publish an additional volume, or to prepare another
edition, an earnest effort to render the work more complete, and more free from error. In
the mean time he solicits the communication of intelligence respecting individuals worthy
of being remembered, who have escaped, or who are likely to escape, his unassisted
researches.
To those gentlemen in different parts of our country, who have favored him with notices
of their friends, or of others, he returns his acknowledgments. He has been particularly
indebted to the biographical collections of Mr. Samuel Jennison, Jun., of Worcester,
Mass., and to the accurate antiquarian researches of Mr. John Farmer, of Concord, N. II.,
whose New England Genealogical Register will enable most of the sons of the Pilgrims
of New England to trace their descent from their worthy ancestry. The authorities
referred to, though abridged from the first edition, will show to what books he has been
chiefly indebted.
America is reproached in Europe for deficiency in literature and science ; but if one will
consider that it is not two hundred years since the first press was set up in this country,
and will then look at the list of publications annexed to the articles in this Biography, he
will be astonished at the multitude of works which have been printed. New England was
founded by men of learning, whose first care was to establish schools ; and the descendants
of the fathers have inherited their love of knowledge and mental energy. No race of men
on the face of the earth, it may be safely asserted, are so rational, so intelligent, so
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enlightened, and of such intellectual power, as the descendants of the New England Pil
grims, and the inhabitants generally of our extensive country.
Although the wide diffusion of knowledge is preferable to its convergence into a few
points of splendor, yet America can boast of names of eminence in the arts and in various
departments of science, and can speak of her sons of inventive power, of metaphysical
acuteness, of philosophical discovery, of profound learning, and thrilling eloquence, and
especially of a multitude skilled in the knowledge and the maintenance of the rights of
man. Happy will it be for our country, if ancient wisdom, and patriotism, and piety shall
not, in a future race, dwindle down into the hunger for office, and the violence of party,
and the cheerlessness of infidelity.
This body of American Biography will be found to comprise the first SETTLERS and
FATHERS of our country ; early NAVIGATORS, and adventurous TRAVELLERS ; the
STATESMEN, PATRIOTS, and HEROES, who have contended for American liberty, or
assisted in laying the foundations of our republican iustitutions ; all the SIGNERS of the
Declaration of Independence ; brave and skilful MILITARY and NAVAL COMMANDERS ;
many of the GOVERNORS of the several States, and the deceased PRESIDENTS of our
country ; profound LAWYERS, and skilful PHYSICIANS ; men of GENIUS, LEARNING, and
SCIENCE, and the distinguished FRIENDS and PATRONS of LEARNING; THEOLOGIANS
and HISTORIANS, POETS and ORATORS ; ingenious ARTISTS, and men celebrated for their
INVENTIONS ; together with many eminent PHILANTHROPISTS and CHRISTIANS, whose
examples have diffused a cheering radiance around them.
The author, in conclusion, cannot avoid expressing the wish that, as the reader surveys
the lives of such men, the commendable zeal which animated them may come upon his
own soul, and that he may help to bear up the honors of a country which has been the
abode of a race of enlightened, noble-minded, disinterested, and virtuous men.
BRUNSWICK, MAINE, July 17, 1832.
PREFACE TO THE THIRD EDITION.
THE reprint of the Prefaces to the two former editions — the first dated forty-eight
years ago, and the second twenty-five years — renders unnecessary any new remarks on
the design and importance of such a collection of general American biography, as is fur
nished by this book ; which was, in fact, the first work of the kind ever published, and is
now the only general and exclusively American biography to which the inquirer has access.
The only change in the plan is the omission of the brief histories of the several States,
which histories might have been useful and convenient many years ago, but "which, at the
present day, with the great increase of the number of the States, and the rapid growth of
the various interests of the country, should give way to fuller and more copious and satis
factory historical accounts. This work is therefore now purely biography ; and, instead of
" An American Biographical and Historical Dictionary," the title is now " The American
Biographical Dictionary."
This book of American biography has not been superseded nor approached in value by
any book of the kind which has been published. Without referring again to such books as
were mentioned in the second preface, I may allude to two general biographies which have
been recently printed, namely : Appletons' Cyclopaedia of Biography, and Blake's General
Biography. They each include in one volume both foreign and American, chiefly foreign,
and only in small part American, biography. While they may have each ten or twelve thou
sand foreign names, the former has only about one thousand, and the latter about two
thousand, American names; but my book has, of the distinguished men of our country, the
great number of six thousand seven hundred seventy-five, exceeding the largest of these
two books by about four thousand seven hundred American names. And my whole book
of nine hundred pages, in two columns, royal octavo, is made up, not chiefly of foreigners,
but of ALL AMERICANS. Moreover, I may be permitted to add, my articles are not shallow
abridgments of my second edition, but full and ample accounts, including a list of the
writings of each person. If the Appletons' book gives one page of letter type to Wash
ington, my own book gives to our greatest man twelve pages ; if that book gives to Rev.
Dr. John M. Mason, of New York, eight lines, mine gives to him a page and a half; if
that book gives to John Adams half a page, mine gives to him six pages. Such will often
be found the proportion in the articles, without referring to such a case as Rev. Dr. Morse,
the father of American geography, who has one line, while in my book he has nearly half
a page ; such the abridgment to which my book has been subjected.
I can truly say of my book, that it is my own labor of half a century, during which
period I have been gleaning from the wide field of American history, and from an immense
multitude of journals, papers, and memorials of the dead, aided also by the contribution of
facts from the friends of the deceased. I have introduced many anecdotes, for they often
combine useful and important instruction with amusement. I have attempted truly to
describe all characters ; and, in following the pathway of truth, I have not invested men
with excellencies which do not belong to them, nor regarded with equal favor contradictory
systems of faith and irreconcilable principles of conduct. As an honest man, not deprived
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of intelligence nor void of benevolence, I have, as I think, known how to censure as well
as to praise.
The first edition contained an account of more than seven hundred deceased Americans,
the second of more than eighteen hundred, which large number, in the present edition,
brought down to the present time, is more than trebled ; so that in this book may be
found an account of nearly seven thousand Americans, of some note and worthiness of
being remembered. And how vast must be the number of American citizens, spread
over our wide country, who may find here recorded the names of their own ancestors,
which, elsewhere, they may not be able to find ?
If, as a reviewer regarded this book, when, many years ago, the second edition was pub
lished, it was " one of that class of books which may be reckoned as among the necessaries
of literary life, the implements of study," and if " this work should be in the hands, or at
least within the reach, of every literary and professional man throughout the country ; "
then, at the present time, after the lapse of a quarter of a century, this greatly enlarged
book cannot be less necessary and important.
It must be wanted, if I mistake not, by our statesmen ; it must be wanted by every
minister of the gospel, of whatever denomination ; it must be wanted in every school and
town library. That the print is fair and easy to the eye, every reader will perceive ; and
I rejoice that my publishers present this work to the lovers of American biography in a
form which must be satisfactory to their wishes, associating nothing of meanness or nar
rowness with this memorial of the mighty dead of our country.
Intelligent, patriotic inquirers concerning the lives of their predecessors may here obtain
the information which, unaided by this book, it might be impossible for them to procure ;
and which they certainly will not find in the books, whether called dictionaries or cyclo
paedias, containing abridgments of my condensed biography. The author of one of them had
indeed the grace to ask of me permission to abridge my second edition for his own purposes, —
a request which I could not grant. The use which, without my consent, has been actually
made of my book, by way of abridgment or abstracts, will, I hope, create a thirst for the
more copious biography, to be found in this book. It may be added, that this biographical
book will not — like many other works which have only a temporary interest — be liable
to become antiquated by years ; for the memory of the worthy dead, the memory of the
fathers, will ever be cherished and fresh in the American heart. The Pilgrims who landed
on the rock of Plymouth were never so reverenced as they are now.
It is rare that an author is permitted to superintend the publication of a book, the first
edition of which he published nearly half a century before. To the kind Providence
which has preserved my life, I offer my grateful acknowledgments ; and, as my age and
my labors in this book of record, which speaks of the dead, have rendered my thoughts
familiar with death, I may be allowed, lastly, to utter the prayer for the readers of this
work, that God will give us, at the moment of our departure from the earth, the peace and
triumph often given, as here recorded, to his Christian servants ; and that, when we shall
meet in a great company of hundreds of millions of revivified men of all countries, He will
grant that we may meet as fellow-sharers in the unutterable blessings revealed in the
gospel of his Son, whose death has made atonement for our sins, and by whose teach
ing and resurrection " life and immortality have been brought to light."
NORTHAMPTON, MASSACHUSETTS, May 1, 1857.
THE AMERICAN
BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY.
ABBOT, HULL, a respectable minister of
Charlestown, Mass., was graduated at Harvard
College in the year 1720, and ordained Feb. 5,
1724, as colleague with Mr. Bradstreet. After
continuing fifty years in the ministry, he died
April 19, 1774, aged 80 years. He published
the following sermons : on the artillery election,
1735; on the rebellion in Scotland, 1746; against
cm-sing and swearing, 1747.
ABBOT, SAMUEL, one of the founders of the
Theological Seminary at Andover, died in that
town, of which he was a native, April 30, 1812,
aged 80. He had been a merchant in Boston.
His donation for establishing the Seminary, August
31, 1807, was 20,000 dollars; he also bequeathed
to it more than 100,000 dollars. He was a
humble, conscientious, and pious man, remark
able for prudence, sincerity, and uprightness;
charitable to the poor, and zealous for the inter
ests of religion. He bestowed several thousands
of dollars for the relief of ministers of the gospel
and for other charitable objects. It was a
maxim with him, " to praise no one in his
presence and to dispraise no one in his absence."
In his last sickness he enjoyed a peace, which the
world cannot give. " I desire to live," he said,
" if God has any thing more for me to do or to
suffer." When near his end he said, "there is
enough in God; I want nothing but God." He
left a widow, with whom he had lived more than
fifty years, and one son. — Woods1 Funeral Ser
mon ; Panoplist, Till. 337.
ABBOT, ABIEL, D. 1)., a minister in Beverly,
Mass., was born at Andover Aug. 17, 1770, and
graduated at Harvard College in 1787, having an
unstained character and a high rank as a scholar.
After being an assistant teacher in the Academy
at Andover, and studying theology with Mr.
French, he was settled about 1794 as the minister
of Ilaverhill, where he continued eight years.
An inadequate support for his family induced him
to ask a dismission, though with great reluctance.
He was soon afterwards, about 1802, settled in
Beverly, as the successor of Mr. McKecu, who had
been chosen president of Bowdoin College. The
remainder of his life, about twenty-four years, was
passed in Beverly in his ministerial office, except
Avhen his labors were interrupted by sickness.
He passed the winter of 1827-1828 in and near
Charleston, S. C., for the recovery of his health.
Early in Feb., 1828, he embarked for Cuba,
where he continued three months, exploring
different parts of the island, and making a dili
gent record of Ms observations in letters to his
family and friends. On his return, he sailed from
the pestilential city of Havana, with his health
almost restored. He preached at Charleston,
June 1, and the next day sailed for New York.
But, although able to go on deck in the morning,
he died at noon, June 7th, just as the vessel came
to anchor at the quarantine ground near the city
of New York, and was buried on Statcn Island.
It is probable, that he was a victim to the yellow
fever, the contagion of which he received at Ha
vana. — Dr. Abbot was. very courteous and inter
esting in social intercourse, and was eloquent in
preaching. His religious sentiments are not
particularly explained by his biographer, who
says, that he belonged " to no sect but that of
good men." Happy are all they, who belong to
that sect. He seems to have been, in his last
days, extremely solicitous on the subject of reli
gious controversy. In the love of peace all good
men will agree with him, and doubtless there has
been much controversy concerning unimportant
points, conducted too in an unchristian spirit ; but,
in this world of error, it is not easy to imagine
how controversy is to be avoided. If the truth
is assailed, it would seem, that those who love it,
should engage in its vindication ; for men always
defend against unjust assault what they deem
valuable. Besides, if an intelligent and benevo
lent man thinks his neighbor has fallen into a
dangerous mistake, why should he not, in a
friendly debate, endeavor to set him right ? Es
pecially ought the preachers of truth to recom
mend it to others, with meekness indeed and in
love, but with all the energy which its relation to
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ABERNETHEY.
human happiness demands. When this is done,
the enemies of the truth, by resisting it, will pre
sent to the world the form of religious dissension.
If infidels endeavor to subvert the foundations
of Christianity ; if corrupt heretics deny the plain
doctrines of the gospel ; if bewildered enthusiasts
bring forward their whims and fancies as doc
trines revealed from heaven ; shall the dread of
controversy prevent the exposure of their false
reasonings, their presumptuous comments, and
their delusive and perilous imaginations ? — Since
the death of Dr. Abbot and the settlement of his
Unitarian successor, many of the congregation
have withdrawn and connected themselves with
the Second Church and Society. — His interesting
and valuable letters from Cuba were published
after his death, Svo., Boston, 1829. lie published
also artillery election sermon, 1802; sermons to
mariners, 1812; address on intemperance, 1815;
sermon before the Salem Missionary Society, 1816 ;
before the Bible Society of Salem, 1817; conven
tion sermon, 1827. — Flint's Sermon; Sketch in
Letters from Cuba.
ABBOT, Jonx, died at Andover, the place of
his birth, July 2, 1843, aged 84. He graduated
at Harvard in 1754, was the first professor of
languages at Bowdoin College, and for many years
its librarian and treasurer.
ABBOT, BENJAMIN, LL. I)., brother of the
preceding, graduated at Harvard in 1788, and
died in Exeter Oct. 25, 1849, aged 87. From
1788 to 1838 he was the highly respected prin
cipal of Phillips' Exeter Academy. Many emi
nent men were his pupils ; and, on his retire
ment in 1838, they united in a testimonial to his
merits.
ABBOT, JACOB, died at Farmington, Me., Jan.
25, 1847, aged 70 — a worthy and useful man, the
father of distinguished sons, Jacob, John, Gor-
ham, and Charles. He was a native of Andover :
for many years he lived in Brunswick. His sons
write the family name, Abbott.
ABBOT, SAMUEL, was born in Wilton, X. II.,
in 178G, graduated at Harvard in 1808, and died
in 1839. He invented the process of extracting
and clarifying strach from the potato.
ABBOT, JOHN EMERY, a minister in Salem ;
died in 1819, aged 26. He was a graduate of
Bowdoin in 1810. His sermons, with a memoir
by II. Ware, were published in 1829.
ABEEL, JOHN NELSON, I). IX, an eloquent
preacher, graduated at Princeton College in 1787.
He relinquished the study of the law, Avhich he
had commenced under Judge Patterson, and pur
sued the study of divinity with Dr. Livingston.
He was licensed to preach in April, 1793. After
being for a short time a minister of a Presby
terian church in Philadelphia, he was in 1795
installed as pastor of the Reformed Dutch Church
in the city of New York. He died Jan. 20, 1812,
in the 43d year of his age, deeply lamented on
account of his unassuming, amiable manners, and
his eloquence as a preacher of the gospel. With
a discriminating mind, and a sweet and melo
dious voice, and his soul inflamed with pious zeal,
he was pre-eminent among extemporaneous ora
tors. In performing his various pastoral duties
he was indefatigable. — Gunn's Funeral Sermon.
ABEEL, DAVID, missionary to China, died at
Albany, Sept. 4, 1846, aged about 40. He em
barked at New York, and arrived at Canton Feb.
19, 1830, and at Bankok in 1831. From 1833 to
1839 he was from ill health in the United States,
but returned to Canton in 1839. In 1842 he
commenced a mission at Amoy. Ill health com
pelled his return to America in 1845. He was
first a preacher to seamen at Canton ; then a
useful, respected, and important missionary.
ABEPcCIlOMBIE, JAMES, a British major-gen
eral, took the command of the troops assembled
at Albany in June, 1756, bringing over with him
two regiments. It was proposed to attack Crown
Point, Niagara, and Fort Du Quesne. But some
difficulty as to the rank of the provincial troops
occasioned delay, and in August the Earl of
Loudoun took the command. The capture of
Oswego by Montcalm disarranged the projected
campaign. In 1757 Montcalm took Fort Wil
liam Henry ; and thus the French commanded
all the lakes. The British spirit was now roused.
Mr. Pitt in 1758 placed 50,000 troops under the
command of Abercrombie, determined to recover
the places which had been captured by the
French, and also to capture Louisbourg. Aber
crombie, at the head of 15,000 men, proceeded
against Ticonderoga, which he assaulted injudi
ciously and unsuccessfully, July 8th, with the loss
of nearly 2,000 men, killed, wounded, and missing.
He then retired to his intrenched camp on the
south side of Lake George. An expedition which
he sent out against Fort Frontenac, under Col.
Bradstrect, was successful. He was soon super
seded by Amherst, who the next year recovered
Ticonderoga and Crown Point, and captured
Quebec. — Marshall, I. 4 C 2-3 6 ; Holmes, II. 82.
Manic, 59, 107, 144, 161.
ABEKCKOMBIE, JAMES, I). D., died at Phil
adelphia, June 26, 1841, aged 83, the oldest Epis
copal minister in the city. He had been a teacher
of youth, and was a venerable divine.
ABE11NETIIEY, HOBF.RT, M. D., died in
Woodbury, Conn., Sept. 24, 1851, aged 77. He
was the son of Dr. William A., of Harwinton,
and practised physic in Woodbury for 25 vears.
He was a man of distinction, and the delight of
his friends ; also a man of religion, a worthy pro
fessor for 46 years, loving the house of God and
the assembly of Christians for conference and
prayer. His son, John J. A., is a surgeon in the
navv.
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ACKLAXD, Jonx D., major, a British offi
cer, was at the head of the grenadiers on the
left, in the action near Stillwater, Oct. 7, 1777.
lie bravely sustained the attack ; but, overpow
ered by numbers, the British were obliged to
retreat to their camp, which was instantly stormed
by Arnold. In this action, Major Ackland was
shot through the legs, and taken prisoner. — He
was discovered and protected by Wilkinson. His
devoted wife, in the utmost distress, sought him
in the American cam]), favored with a letter from
Burgoync to Gates. — After his return to England,
Major Ackland, in a dispute with Lieut. Lloyd,
defended the Americans against the charge of
cowardice, and gave him the lie direct. A duel
followed, in which Ackland was shot through the
head. Lady Harriet, his wife, in consequence
lost her senses for two years ; but she afterwards
married Mr. Brudenell, who accompanied her
from the camp at Saratoga in her perilous pursuit
of her husband. When will there cease to be
victims to private combat and public war ? It
will be, when the meek and benevolent spirit of
the gospel shall universally reign in the hearts
of men. — Remembrancer for 1777, p. 461, 465;
Wilkinson's Memoirs, 269, 376.
ADAIIl, JAMES, a trader with the Indians of
the Southern States, resided in their country forty
years. From 1735, he lived almost exclusively in
intercourse with the Indians, cut off from the
society of his civilized brethren, chiefly among
the Chickasaws, with whom he first traded in
1744. His friends persuaded him to publish a
work, which he had prepared with much labor,
entitled, " The History of the American Indians ;
particularly those nations adjoining the Missis
sippi, East and West; Florida, Georgia, South
and North Carolina, and Virginia. London, 4to,
177,3." In this book he points out various cus
toms of the Indians, having a striking resemblance
to those of the Jews. His arguments to prove
them descended from the Jews are founded on
their division into tribes ; their worship of Je
hovah ; their festivals, fasts, and religious rites ;
their daily sacrifice ; their prophets and high
priests ; their cities of refuge ; their marriages
and divorces ; their burial of the dead, and
mourning for them ; their language and choice
of names adapted to circumstances ; their manner
of reckoning time ; and various other particulars.
Some distrust seems to have fallen upon his
statements, although he says that his account is
"neither disfigured by fable nor prejudice." Dr.
Boudinot, in his " Star in the West," has adopted
the opinions of Aclair.
AD AIR, JOHN, general, died May 19, 1840,
aged ,82, at Harrodsburg, Ky. He was a soldier in
the early north-western wars, and commanded the
Kentucky troops at Xew Orleans in 1814. He
was a senator in 180,3, and a representative in
congress in 1831.
ADAMS, WILLIAM, the second minister of
Dedham, was the son of W. A., and born in
16*30, at Ipswich : he died Aug. 17, 1685, aged
35. He graduated in 1671, and was ordained as
Mr. Allen's successor, Dec. 3, 1673. By his first
wife, Mary Manning of Cambridge, he had three
children, one of whom was Rev. Eliphalet A.
His second wife was Alice Bradford, daughter of
William B., and grand-daughter of Gov. Brad
ford, of Plymouth ; by her he had Elizabeth,
who married, at the age of fifteen, Rev. S.
Whiting, of Windham, afterwards Rev. S. Niles ;
Alice, who married Rev. N. Collins, of Enfield ;
William ; and Abial, born after his death, who
married Rev. J. Metcalf, of Falmouth. His
widow married James Fitch. He published a
fast sermon, 1679; an election sermon, 1685.
ADAMS, ELIHIALET, son of the preceding,
an eminent minister of New London, Conn., was
graduated at Harvard College in 1694. He was
ordained Feb. 9, 1709, and died Oct. 4, 1753,
aged 76. Dr. Chauncey speaks of him as a great
Hebrician. — His son William, graduated at Yale
in 1730, and died in 1798, having been a preacher
sixty years, but never settled nor married ; he
published a thanksgiving sermon, 1760. — He pub
lished a sermon, 1706, on the death of Rev. James
Noyes of Stonington ; election sermons, 1710 and
1783 ; a discourse occasioned by a storm, March
3, 1717; a thanksgiving sermon, 1721; a sermon
on the death of Gov. Saltonstall, 1724; at the
ordination of William Gager, Lebanon. May 27,
1725; of Thomas Clap, Windham, 1726; and a
discourse before young men, 1727.
ADAMS, JOHN, a poet, was the only son of
John Adams, of Nova Scotia, and was graduated
at Harvard College in 1721. He was settled in
the ministry at Newport, R. I., April 11, 1728, in
opposition to the wishes of Mr. Clap, who was
pastor. Mr. Clap's friends formed a new society,
and Mr. Adams was dismissed in about two
years. He died at Cambridge in Jan., 1740,
at the age of 36, deeply lamented by his ac
quaintance. He was much distinguished for his
learning, genius, and piety. As a preacher he
was much esteemed. His uncle, Matthew Ad
ams, describes him as " master of nine languages,"
and conversant with the most famous Greek,
Latin, Italian, French, and Spanish authors, as
well as with the noblest English writers. He
also speaks of Ms " great and undissembled piety,
which ran, like a vein of gold, through all his
life and performances." — He published a sermon
on his ordination, 1728, and a poem on the love
of money. A small volume of his poems was
I published at Boston, in 1745, which contains imi-
I tations and paraphrases of several portions of
Scripture, translations from Horace, and the
whole book of Revelation in heroic verse, to
gether with original piece's. The versification is
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remarkably harmonious for the period and the
country. Mr. Adams' productions evince a lively
fancy, and breathe a pious strain. The following
is an extract from his poem on Cotton Mather :
" What numerous volumes scattered from his hand,
Lightened his own, and warmed each foreign land?
What pious breathings of a glowing soul
Live in each page, and animate the whole?
The breath of heaven the savory pages show,
As we Arabia from its spices know.
Ambitious, active, towering was his soul,
But flaming piety inspired the whole."
— Mass. Magazine for April, 1789; Backus'
Hist. Abridged, 158; Preface to his Poems;
Specimens of American Poetry, I. 67.
ADAMS, MATTHEW, a distinguished writer in
Boston, though a mechanic or " tradesman," yet
had a handsome collection of books, and culti
vated literature. Dr. Franklin acknowledges his
obligations for access to his library. He was one
of the writers of the Essays in the New England
Journal. He died poor, but with a reputation
more durable than an estate, in 1733. — His son,
Her. John Adams, a graduate of 1745, was the
minister of Durham, N. II., from 1748 to 1778.
By a grant of 400 acres of land, he was induced
to remove to the small plantation of Washington,
or Xewfield, county of York, Me., having only
five families, in Feb., 1781. Here he passed
the remainder of his life, preaching and prac
tising physic in Newfield, Limington, Parsons-
field, and Limerick, till his death, June 4, 1792,
aged GO. He was .subject, occasionally, to a deep
depression of feeling ; and, at other times, was
borne away by a sudden excitement, which gave
animation to his preaching. A fine letter from
Durham to the town of Boston in 1774, with a
donation, was written by him. — Eliot : Green-
Icuf's Ecclesiastical History of Maine, 113.
ADAMS, AMOS, minister of Itoxbury, Mass.,
was graduated at Harvard College, in 1752. He
was ordained as successor to Mr. Peabody, Sept.
12, 1753, and died at Dorchester, Oct. 5, 1775, aged
47, of the dysentery, which prevailed in the camp
at Cambridge and Roxbury. His son, Thomas
Adams, was ordained in Boston as minister for
Camdcn, S. C., where, after a residence of eight
years, he died Aug. 16, 1797.
Mr. Adams, in early life, devoted himself to
the service of his Redeemer ; and he continued
his benevolent labors as a preacher of the gospel
with unabated vigor till his death. He was fer
vent in devotion ; and his discourses, always ani
mated by a lively and expressive action, were
remarkably calculated to warm the heart. He
was steadfast in his principles, and umvearied in
industry.
lie published the following sermons : On the
death of Lucy Dudley, 1756; at the artillery
election, 1759; on a thanksgiving for the reduc
tion of Quebec, 1759; at the ordination of S.
Kingsbury, Edgartown, Xov. 25, 1761 ; at the
ordination of John "\Vyeth, Gloucester, Feb. 5,
1766; the only hope and refuge of sinners, 1767 ;
two discourses on religious liberty, 1767 ; a view
of New England, in two discourses on the fast,
April 6, 1769; sermons at the ordination of Jon
athan Moore, Rochester, Sept. 25, 1768, and of
Caleb Prentice, Reading, Oct. 25, 1769. He
preached the Dudleian lecture of Harvard Col
lege in 1770, entitled, " Diocesan Episcopacy, as
founded on the supposed Episcopacy of Timothy
and Titus, subverted." This work is a specimen
of the learning of the writer. It is lodged in
manuscript in the library of the college.
ADAMS, JOSEPH, minister of Newington, N.
H., was graduated at Harvard College in 1710,
was ordained in 1715, and died in 1783, aged
almost 95, — a descendant of Henry A., of Quincy.
He preached till just before his death. He pub
lished a sermon on the death of John Fabian,
1757; and a sermon on the necessity of rulers
exerting themselves against the growth of im
piety, 1760.
ADAMS, ZABDIEL, minister of Lunenburg,
Mass., was born in Braintree, now Quincy, Nov. 5,
1739. His father was the uncle of John Adams.
He was graduated at Harvard College in 1759,
having made while in that seminary great profi
ciency in learning, and much improved the vigor
ous powers of mind with which he was endued.
He was ordained Sept. 5, 1764, and died March
1, 1801, in the 62d year of his age, and 37th
of his ministry.
Mr. Adams was eminent as a preacher of the
gospel, often explaining the most important doc
trines in a rational and scriptural manner, and
enforcing them with plainness and pungency.
His language was nervous ; and, while in his
public performances he gave instruction, he also
imparted pleasure. In his addresses to the throne
of grace he was remarkable for pertinency of
thought and readiness of utterance. Though by
bodily constitution he was liable to irritation, yet
he treasured no ill will in his bosom. His heart
was easily touched by the afflictions of others, and
his sympathy and benevolence prompted him to
administer relief, when in his power. About the
year 1774 he wrote a pamphlet, maintaining,
without authority from the platform of 1648, that
a pastor has a negative upon the proceedings of
the Church. Some ministers, who embraced his
principles, lost by consequence their parishes.
He preached the Dudleian lecture on Presbyterian
ordination in 1794. — He published a sermon on
church music, 1771; on Christian unity, 1772;
the election sermon, 1782; on the 19th of April,
1783 ; at the ordination of Enoch Whipplc, 1788.
— Whitney's Funeral Sermon.
ADAMS, ANDREW, LL. D., chief justice of
Connecticut, was appointed to that place in 1793,
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having been upon the bench with reputation as a '
judge from 1789. He was a native of Stratford,
a graduate of Yale College in 1760, and a mem
ber of Congress about the year 1782. He re
sided at Litclificld, and died Nov. 26, 1797, aged
61 years.
ADAMS, SAMUEL, governor of Massachusetts,
and a most distinguished patriot in the American
Revolution, was born in Boston Sept. 16, O. S.,
1722. His father, Samuel, the son of John and
Hannah A., was born in 1689, and died in 1747,
whose wife was Mary Fifield. Mr. S. A. married
in 1749 Elizabeth, daughter of Ilev. S. Checkley ;
and his second wife in 1764, Elizabeth, daughter of
Francis Wells. He was graduated at Harvard
College in 1740. When he commenced master of
arts in 1743, he proposed the following question
for discussion : " Whether it be lawful to resist the
supreme magistrate, if the Commonwealth cannot
otherwise be preserved ? " He maintained the
affirmative, and thus early showed his attachment
to the liberties of the people.
Early distinguished by talents as a writer, his
first attempts were proofs of his filial piety. By
his efforts he preserved the estate of his father,
which had been attached on account of an engage
ment in the land bank bubble. He was known
as a political writer during the administration of
Shirley, to which he was opposed, as he thought
the union of so much civil and military power in
one man was dangerous. His ingenuity, wit, and
profound argument are spoken of with the high
est respect by those, who were contemporary with
him. Ac this early period he laid the founda
tion of public confidence and esteem. His first
office of tax-gatherer made him acquainted with
every shipwright and mechanic in Boston, and
over their minds he ever retained a powerful in
fluence. From this employment the enemies of
liberty styled him Samuel, the Publican.
In 176.5 he was elected a member of the Gen
eral Assembly of Massachusetts, in the place of
Oxenbridge Thachcr, deceased. He was soon
chosen clerk, and he gradually acquired influence
in the Legislature. This was an eventful time.
But Mr. Adams possessed a courage, which no
dangers could shake. He was undismayed by
the prospect, which struck terror into the hearts
of many. He was a member of the Legislature
nearly ten years, and he was the soul, which ani
mated it to the most important resolutions. No
man did so much. He pressed his measures with
ardor; yet he was prudent; he knew how to
bend the passions of others to his purpose. Gov.
Hutchinsou relates that, at a town meeting in
1769, an objection having been made to a motion
because it implied an independency of parlia
ment, Mr. Adams, then a representative, con
cluded his speech with these words : " Independ
ent we arc, and independent we will be." He
represents, too, that Mr. Adams, by a defalcation
as collector, had injured his character ; but he
adds : " The benefit to the town from his defence
of their liberties he supposed an equivalent to
his arrears as their collector." As a political
writer he deemed him the most artful and insin
uating of all men, whom he ever knew, and the
most successful in " robbing men of their char
acters," or "calumniating governors, and other
servants of the crown."
When the charter was dissolved, he was chosen
a member of the Provincial Convention. In 1774
he was elected a member of the General Con
gress. In this station, in which he remained a
number of years, he rendered the most impor
tant services to his country. His eloquence was
adapted to the times, in which he lived. The
energy of his language corresponded with the
firmness and vigor of his mind. His heart
glowed with the feeh'ngs of a patriot, and his
eloquence was simple, majestic, and persuasive.
He was one of the most efficient members of
Congress. He possessed keen penetration, un
shaken fortitude, and permanent decision. Gor
don speaks of him in 1774 as having for a long
time whispered to his confidential friends, that
this country must be independent. Walking in
the fields, the day after the battle of Lexing
ton, he said to a friend : " It is a fine day, — I
mean, this day is a glorious day for America."
He deemed the blow to be struck, which would
lead to independence. In the last official act
of the British government in Massachusetts he
was proscribed with John Hancock, when a gen
eral pardon was offered to all who had rebelled.
This act Avas dated June 12, 1775, and it teaches
Americans what they owe to the denounced
patriot.
In 1776 he united with Franklin, J. Adams,
Hancock, Jefferson, and a host of worthies in
declaring the United States no longer an ap
pendage to a monarchy, but free and independent.
When the constitution of Massachusetts was
adopted, he was chosen a member of the Senate,
of which body he was elected president. He
was soon sent to the western counties to quiet a
disturbance, which was rising, and he was suc
cessful in his mission. He was a member of the
convention for examining the constitution of the
United States. He made objections to several
of its provisions; but his principal objection was
to that article, which rendered the several States
amenable to the courts of the nation. He thought
this reduced them to mere corporations ; that the
sovereignty of each would be dissolved ; and that
a consolidated government, supported by an
army, would be the consequence. The consti
tution was afterwards altered in this point, and
in most other respects according to his wishes.
In 1789 he was chosen lieutenant-governor,
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and was continued in this office till 1794, when
he was elected governor, as successor to Mr.
Hancock. He was annually replaced in the chair
of the first magistrate of Massachusetts till 1797,
when his age and infirmities induced him to retire
from public life. He died Oct. 2, 1803, in the
8l2d year of his age. His only son, of the same
name, was born in 1751, graduated at Harvard
College in 1770, and, after studying under Dr.
Joseph Warren, served his country as a surgeon
during the war. lleturning home with a broken
constitution, he at length died Jan. 17, 1788.
The avails of his claims for services in the army
gave his father a competency in liis declining
years.
The leading traits in the character of Mr. Ad
ams were an unconquerable love of liberty, in
tegrity, firmness, and decision. Some acts of his
administration as chief magistrate were censured,
though all allowed, that his motives were pure.
A division in political sentiments at that time
existed, and afterwards increased. When he dif
fered from the majority, he acted with great inde
pendence. At the close of the Avar he opposed
peace with Great Britain, unless the Northern
States retained their full privileges in the fisheries.
In 1787 he advised the execution of the condign
punishment, to which the leaders of the rebellion
in 1786 had been sentenced. It was his settled
judgment, that in a republic, depending for its
existence upon the intelligence and virtue of the
people, the law should be rigidly enforced. At
tached to the old confederation, he often gave as
a toast — " The States united, and the States
separated." He was opposed to the treaty with
Great Britain, made by Mr. Jay in 1794, and he
put his election to hazard by avowing his dislike
of it. The three topics, on which lie delighted to
dwell, were British thraldom, the manners, laws,
and customs of New England, and the impor
tance of common schools.
Mr. Adams was a man of incorruptible integ
rity. Gov. Hutchinson, in answer to the inquiry
" Why Mr. Adams was not taken off from his
opposition by an office ? " writes to a friend in
1 '.•,!"•! -uid, "Such is the obstinacy and inflexible
disposition of the man, that he never can be con
ciliated by any office or gift whatever."
He was poor. While occupied abroad in the
most important and responsible public duties, the
partner of his cares supported the family at home
by her industry. Though his resources were very
small, yet, such were the economy and dignity of
his house, that those, who visited him, found
nothing mean or unbecoming his station. His
country, to whose interests he devoted his life,
permitted him to remain poor ; but there were
not wanting a few friends, who showed him their
regard. In this honorable poverty he continued
to a. very late period of his life; and had not a
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decent competency fallen into his hands by the
very afflicting event of the death of an only son,
he must have depended for subsistence upon the
kindness of his friends, or the charity of the
public.
To a majestic countenance and dignified man
ners there was added a suavity of temper, which
conciliated the affection of his acquaintance. Some,
Avho disapproved of his political conduct, loved
and revered him as a neighbor and friend. He
could readily relax from severer cares and studies
to enjoy the pleasures of private conversation.
Though somewhat reserved among strangers, yet
with his friends he was cheerful and compan
ionable, a lover of chaste wit, and remarkably
fond of anecdote. He faithfully discharged the
duties arising from the relations of social life.
His house was the seat of domestic peace, regu
larity, and method.
Mr. Adams was a Christian. His mind was
early imbued with piety, as well as cultivated by
science. He early approached the table of the
Lord Jesus, and the purity of his life witnessed
the sincerity of his profession. On the Christian
Sabbath he constantly went to the temple ; and
the morning and evening devotions in his family
proved, that his religion attended him in his sea
sons of retirement from the world. His senti
ments were strictly Calvinistic. The platform of
the New England churches he deemed an ample
guide in all matters of ecclesiastical discipline
and order. The last production of his pen was
in favor of Christian truth. He died in the faith
| of the gospel.
He was a sage and a patriot. The independ
ence of the United States of America is perhaps
to be attributed as much to his exertions, as to
the exertions of any one man. Though he was
called to struggle with adversity, he was never
discouraged. He was consistent and firm under
the cruel neglect of a friend and the malignant
rancor of an enemy; comforting himself in the
darkest seasons with reflections upon the wisdom
and goodness of God.
Mr. John Adams speaks of him in the follow
ing terms : " The talents and virtues of that great
man were of the most exalted, though not of the
most showy land. His love of his country, his
exertions in her service through a long course of
years, through the administrations of the gov
ernors Shirley, Pownall, Bernard, Ilutchinson,
and Gage, under the royal government and
through the whole of the subsequent revolution,
and always in support of the same principles ;
his inflexible integrity, his disinterestedness, his
invariable resolution, his sagacity, his patience,
perseverance, and pure public virtue were not
exceeded by any man's in America. A collection
of his writings would be as curious as voluminous.
It would throw light upon American history for
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fifty years. In it would be found specimens of a
nervous simplicity of reasoning and eloquence,
that have never been rivalled in America."
His writings exist only in the perishable col
umns of a newspaper or pamphlet. In his more
advanced life, in the year 1790, a few letters
passed between him and John Adams, in which
the principles of government are discussed ; and
there seems to have been some difference of sen
timent between those eminent patriots and states
men, who had toiled together through the Revo-
lution. Tlus correspondence was published in
1800. An oration, which Mr. Adams delivered
at the State House in Philadelphia Aug. 1, 177G,
was published. The object is to support Ameri
can Independence, the declaration of which by
Congress had been made a short time before.
He opposes kingly government and hereditary
succession with warmth and energy. Not long
before liis death he addressed a letter to Paine,
expressing his disapprobation of that unbeliever's
attempts to injure the cause of Christianity. —
Thachcr's Sermon; Sullivan's character of him
in public papers ; Polyanthos, in. 73-82 ; Gor
don, I. 347, 410; BYissot, Nouv. Voy., I. 151;
Thacker's Medical Biography ; Ilutchinson's
Last History, 265 ; Eliot's Biographical Dic
tionary ; Encyclopaedia Americana, and liees.
ADAMS, Joiix, president of the United States,
was born at Braintrec, Mass., Oct. 19, 1735, O.S.,
or Oct. 30th, present style. His father, John,
was a deacon of the church, a farmer, and a
mechanic, and died May 25, 1761, aged 69; his
grandfather, Joseph, died Feb. 12, 1737, aged
82 ; his great-grandfather, Joseph, was born in
England, and died at Braintrce Dec. 6, 1697,
aged 03 ; the father of this ancestor was Henry,
who, as the inscription on his monument, erected
by John Adams, says, " took his flight from the
Dragon Persecution, in Devonshire, England, and
alighted with eight sons near Mount Wollaston."
Of these sons four removed to Medfield and the
neighboring towns, and two to Chclmsford. The
year of Henry's arrival at Braintree, now Quincy,
is not known, but is supposed to be 1632 ; he
died Oct. 8, 1646. His ancestry has been traced
up six or seven hundred years to John Ap Adam,
of the Marches of Wales.
John Adams, while a member of Harvard Col
lege, where he was graduated in 1755, Avas dis
tinguished by diligence in his studies, by boldness
of thought, and by the powers of his mind.
While he studied law at Worcester with Col.
James Putnam, an able lawyer in extensive prac
tice, from 1755 to 1758, he instructed pupils in
Latin and Greek, as a means of subsistence.
At this early period he had imbibed a prejudice
against the prevailing religious opinions of New
England, and became attached to speculations
hostile to those opinions. Nor were his views
afterwards changed. Perhaps the religious sen
timents of most men become settled at as early a
period of their lives. If therefore the cherished
views of Christianity have any relation to prac
tice and to one's destiny hereafter; with what
sobriety, candor, and diligence, and with what
earnestness of prayer for light and guidance from
above ought every young man to investigate re
vealed truth ? In April, 1756, he was deliberating
as to his profession. Some friends advised him
to study theology. In a few months afterwards
he fixed upon the profession of law. He had
not " the highest opinion of what is called Or
thodoxy." He had known a young man, worthy
of the best parish, despised for being suspected
of Arminianism. He was more desirous of being
an eminent, honorable lawyer, than of " heading
the whole army of Orthodox preachers." In a
letter to Dr. Morse in 1815 he says : " Sixty-five
years ago my own minister, Rev. Lemuel Bryant ;
Dr. Mayhew, of the West Church in Boston ;
Rev. Mr. Shute, of Hingham ; Rev. John Brown,
of Cohasset ; and perhaps equal to all, if not
above all, Rev. Mr. Gay, of Hingham, were Uni
tarians. Among the laity how many could I
name, lawyers, physicians, tradesmen, and farmers ?
More than fifty-six years ago I read Dr. S.
Clarke, Emlyn, etc."
In Oct., 1758, Mr. Adams presented himself —
a stranger, poor and friendless — to Jeremy
Gridley, of Boston, attorney-general of the
crown, to ask of him the favor to offer him to
the Superior Court of the province, then sitting,
for admission to the bar. Mr. Gridley examined
him in his office, and recommended him to the
court ; and at the same time gave him excellent
paternal advice. For his kindness Mr. Adams
was ever grateful, and was afterwards his intimate
personal and professional friend. As Mr. Gridley
was grand master of the Massachusetts Grand
Lodge of Free Masons, Mr. Adams once asked
his advice, whether it was worth his while to be
come a member of the society ; the reply of the
grand master was, " No " ; adding, that he did
not need the artificial support of the society, and
that there was " nothing in the Masonic Institu
tion worthy of his seeking to be associated with
it." In consequence of this advice he never
sought admission to the lodge.
Mr. Adams commenced the practice of the law
at Quincy, then in the county of Suffolk, and
soon had a sufficiency of lucrative business. In
1761 he was admitted to the degree of barrister-
at-law. In this year a small estate became his
by the decease of his father. At this period his
zeal for the rights of his country was inflamed by
the attempt of the British cabinet to introduce in
Massachusetts writs of assistance — a kind of
general search-^ arrant for the discovery of goods
not discharged from the parliamentary taxes.
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The affair was argued in Boston by Mr. Otis.
Mr. Adams says, " Every man of an immense,
crowded audience appeared to me to go away, as
I did, ready to take arms against writs of as
sistance." — "Then and there the child Inde
pendence was bom."
In 1764, he married Abigail Smith, daughter
of Rev. William Smith of Weymouth, and grand
daughter of Colonel Quincy, a lady of uncommon
endowments and excellent education. — In the
next year he published an essay on Canon and
Feudal Law, reprinted at London in 1768, and at
Philadelphia in 1783. His object was to show
the conspiracy between Church and State for the
purpose of oppressing the people. He wished to
enlighten his fellow-citizens, that they might prize
their liberty, and be ready, if necessary, to assert
their rights by force.
He removed to Boston in 1765, and there had
extensive legal practice. In 1768 Gov. Bernard
offered him, through his friend Mr. Sewall, the
place of advocate-general in the Court of Ad
miralty, a lucrative post; but he decidedly de
clined the offer. He was not a man thus to be
bribed to desert the cause of his country. The
office was the same which Mr. Otis had resigned,
in 1761 in order to oppose the writs of assistance.
Yet Mr. Hutchinson states, that he was at a loss
which side to take, and that the neglect of Ber
nard to make him a justice of the peace roused
his patriotism ! He adds : " His ambition was
without bounds ; and he has acknowledged to his
acquaintance, that he could not look with com
placency upon any man, who was in possession
of move wealth, more honor, or more knowledge
than himself." In 1769, he was chairman of the
committee of the town of Boston for drawing up
instructions to their representatives to resist the
British encroachments. His colleagues were R.
Dana and Joseph Warren. These instructions
were important links in the chain of revolutionary
events. — In consequence of the affray with the
British garrison March 5, 1770, in which several
of the people of Boston were killed, the soldiers
were arraigned before the civil authority. Not
withstanding the strong excitement against them,
Mr. Adams, with J. Quincy and S. S. Blowers,
defended them, and procured the acquittal of all
except two, who were convicted of manslaughter,
and branded in punishment. This triumph of
justice, for the soldiers were first attacked, was
honorable to the cause of America. In May,
1770, he was chosen a member of the Legisla
ture, in which he took a prominent part.
In 1773 he wrote ably in the Boston Gazette
against the regulation, making judges dependent
for their salaries upon the crown. In 1773 and
1774 he was chosen into the council by the as
sembly, but negatived by the governor. To the
struggle, at tin's period, betAvcen the house and
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the governor in respect to the council, his friend
Sewall, pleasantly alludes thus : " We have some
times seen half-a-dozen sail of tory navigation
unable, on an election day, to pass the bar, formed
by the flux and reflux of the tides at the entrance
of the harbor, and as many whiggish ones stranded
the next morning on Governor's Island." — June
17, 1774, he was chosen by the assembly, to
gether with T. Cashing, *S. Adams, and II. T.
Paine, to the first Continental Congress. To
Sewall, who, while they were attending the court
at Portland, endeavored to dissuade him, in a
morning walk on " the great hill," from accepting
this appointment, he said : " The die is now cast ;
I have passed the Rubicon ; swim or sink, live or
die, survive or perish with my country is my un
alterable determination." Thus he parted with
his tory friend, nor did he converse with him
again till 1788.
He took his seat in Congress Sept. 5, 1774, and
was on the committee, which drew up the state
ment of the rights of the colonies, and on that,
which prepared the address to the king. At this
period the members of Congress generally were
not determined on independence. It was thought,
the British would relinquish their claims. — He
returned to Boston in November, and soon wrote
the papers, with the signature of Novanglus, in
answer to those of his friend Sewall, with the
signature of Massachusettensis. The latter are
dated from Dec. 12, 1774, to April 3, 177o; the
former from Jan. 23 to April 17, l"o. These
papers were reprinted in 1819, with a preface by
Mr. Adams, with the addition of letters to W.
Tudor.
A short review of them may be interesting, as
they relate to a period immediately preceding the
commencement of hostilities. In this controversy
Mr. Sewall said : " I saw the small seed of sedi
tion, when it was implanted ; it was as a grain of
mustard. I have watched the plant, until it has
become a great tree ; the vilest reptiles, that
crawl upon the earth, arc concealed at the root ;
the foulest birds of the air rest on its branches.
I now would induce you to go to work immedi
ately with axes and hatchets, and cut it down, for
a twofold reason — because it is a pest to society,
and lest it be felled suddenly by a stronger arm,
and crush its thousands in the fall." In the first
place, he maintained, that resistance to Great
Britain would be unavailing. The militia he con
sidered undisciplined and ungovernable, each man
being a politician, puffed up with his own opinion.
" An experienced British officer would rather take
his chance with five thousand British troops, than
fifty 'thousand such militia." The sea coast he
regarded as totally unprotected. Our trade,
fishery, navigation, and maritime towns were
liable to be lost in a moment. The back settle-
j ments would fall a prey to the Canadians and
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Indians. The British army would sweep all be
fore it like a wliirlwind. Besides, New England
would probably be alone, unsupported by the
other. States, llebellion, therefore, would be the
height of madness. In considering the reasons
for resistance he maintained, that the parliament
had a right to pass a stamp act, in order that the
colonies should bear a part of the national burden.
Similar acts had been before passed. We had
paid postage agreeably to act of parliament, du
ties imposed for regulating trade, and even for
raising a revenue to the crown, without question
ing the right. This right, he says, Avas first
denied by the resolves of the house of burgesses
in Virginia. " We read them with wonder ; they
savored of independence." The three-penny duty
on tea, he thought, should not be regarded as
burdensome ; for the duty of a shilling, laid upon
it for regulating trade, and therefore allowed to
be constitutional, was taken ofl'; so that we were
gainers ninepence in the pound by the new regu
lation, which was designed to prevent smuggling,
and not to raise a revenue. The act declaratory
of the right to tax was of no consequence, so long
as there was no grievous exercise of it, especially
as we had protested against it, and our assemblies
had ten times resolved, that no such right ex
isted. But demagogues were interested in in
flaming the minds of the people. The pulpit
also was a powerful engine in promoting discon
tent. — Though the small duty of three pence
was to be paid by the East India company, or
their factors, on landing the tea, for the purpose
of selling it at auction, and no one was obliged to
purchase ; yet the mob of Boston, in disguise,
forcibly entered the three ships of tea, split open
the chests, and emptied the whole, 10,000 pounds
sterling in value, into the dock, " and perfumed
the town with its fragrance." Yet zealous rebel
merchants were every day importing teas, subject
to the same duty. The act interfered with their
interest, not with the welfare of the people. The
blockade act against Boston was a just retaliatory
measure, because the body-meeting, contrived
merely as a screen to the town, consisting of
thousands, had resolved, that the tea should not pay
the duty. Now sprung up from the brain of a
partizan the " committee of correspondence " —
" the foulest, subtlest, and most venomous ser
pent, that ever issued from the eggs of sedition."
A new doctrine had been advanced, that, as the
Americans are not represented in parliament, they
are exempt from acts of parh'ament. But, if the
colonies are not subject to the authority of par
liament, Great Britain and the colonies must be
distinct States. Two independent authorities can
not co-exist. The colonies have only power to
regulate their internal police, but are necessarily
subject to the control of the supreme power of
the State. Had any person denied, fifteen years
ago, that the colonies were subject to the authority
of parh'ament, he would have been deemed a
fool or a madman. It was curious to trace the
history of rebellion. When the stamp act was
passed, the right of parliament to impose internal
taxes was denied ; but the right to impose ex
ternal ones, to lay duties on goods and mer
chandize, was admitted. On the passage of the
tea act a new distinction was set up ; duties could
be laid for the regulation of trade, but not for
raising a revenue ; parliament could lay the for
mer duty of a shilling a pound, but not the
present duty of three pence. There was but one
more step to independence — the denial of the
right in parliament to make any laws whatever,
which should bind the colonies ; and this step the
pretended patriots had taken. Mr. Otis, the
oracle of the whigs, in 1764 never thought of
this. On the contrary, he maintained in respect
to the colonies, that " the parliament has an un
doubted power and lawful authority to make acts
for the general good." Obedience, in his view,
was a solemn duty. The original charter of the
colony exempted it from taxes for a definite pe
riod, implying the right to tax afterwards. The
grant of all the liberties of natural subjects within
the realm of England affords no immunity from
taxes. If a person, born in England, should
remove to Ireland, or to Jersey, or Guernsey,
whence no member is sent to parliament, he
would be in the same predicament with an emi
grant to America, all having the rights of natural
born subjects. In the charter by King William
the powers of legislation were restricted, so that
nothing should be done contrary to the laws of
the realm of England. Even Dr. Eranklin in
176o admitted, that the British had " a natural
and equitable right to some toll or duty upon
merchandizes," carried through the American
seas. Mr. Otis also, in the same year, admitted
the same equitable right of parliament " to im
pose taxes on the colonies, internal and external,
on lands as well as on trade." Indeed, for more
than a century parliament had exercised the now
controverted right of legislation and taxation.
On the whole, Mr. Sewall was convinced, that
the avarice and ambition of the leading whigs
were the causes of the troubles of America :
" they call themselves the people ; and, when
their own measures are censured, cry out — 'the
people, the people are abused and insulted ! ' "
He deplored the condition of the dupes of the
republican party — the men who, every morning,
" swallowed a chimera for breakfast." By the in
famous methods resorted to, " many of the an
cient, trusty, and skilful pilots, who had steered
the community safely in the most perilous times,
were driven from the helm, and their places occu
pied by different persons, some of whom, bank
rupts in fortune, business, and fame, are now
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striving to run the ship on the rocks, that they
may have an opportunity of plundering the
Vi'reck ! "
To this Mr. Adams replied, that parliament
had authority over America by no law : not by
the law of nature and nations ; nor by common
law, which never extended beyond the four seas ;
nor by statute law, for none existed before the
settlement of the colonies; and that we were
under no religious, moral, or political obligations
to submit to parliament as a supreme executive.
He asked, " Is the three pence upon tea our only
grievance ? Are we not deprived of the privilege
of paying our governors, judges, etc. ? Are not
trials by jury taken from us ? Are we not sent to
England for trial ? Is not a military government
put over us ? Is not our constitution demolished
to the foundation ? " — " Xip the shoots of ar
bitrary power in the bud is the only maxim,
winch can ever preserve the liberties of any
people." He maintained, that the pretence to
tax for revenue, and not merely for the regula
tion of trade, had never been advanced till re
cently; that, in 1754, Dr. Franklin denied such a
right; that, more than a century before, both
Massachusetts and Virginia had protested against
the act of navigation, and refused obedience, be
cause not represented in parliament. He denied,
that there was a whig in the province, who wished
to set up an independent republic. But resistance
to lawless violence, he said, is not rebellion by
the law of God or of the land. And, as to ina
bility to cope with Great Britain, he maintained,
that, " in a land war this continent might defend
itself against all the world." As to old charters,
that of Virginia in 1609 exempted the company
forever from taxes on goods and merchandizes.
The same exemption was given to Maryland in
1 633. The Plymouth colony was settled without
a charter, on the simple principle of nature, and
thus continued an independent government sixty-
eight years. The same was the case with the
colonies in Connecticut. In Massachusetts, the
general court in 1677 declared, that the laws of
England were bounded within the four seas, and
did not reach America. The only power of par
liament, which he would allow, was that arising
from our voluntary cession of regulating trade.
The first charter erected a corporation within the
realm of England ; there the governor and com
pany were to reside, and their agents only were
1') come to America. But they came themselves,
and brought their charter with them, and thus,
being out of the realm, were not subject to par
liament. The king of England could by law
grant nothing out of England, or the realm.
The great seal had no authority out of the realm,
except to mandatory or prcccptory writs; and
such was not the charter. In case of the for
feiture of a charter, the people born here could
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be under no allegiance to the king. — Such
briefly were the opposite views of these distin
guished men. These writings of Mr. Adams,
with those of Otis, Thachcr, and others,, con
tributed much to the emancipation of America
from British thraldom.
Mr. Adams attended the next Congress in
1775. On hearing of the battle of Lexington,
war was determined on. At his suggestion, Gov.
Johnstone nominated Washington as commander-
in-chief, and he was unanimously chosen. "When
he returned to Massachusetts, he declined the
office of chief justice, to which he had been in
vited. In Congress he was among the foremost,
who were in favor of independence. He moved,
May 6, 1776, to recommend to the colonies "to
adopt such a government, as would, in the opinion
of the representatives of the people, best con
duce to the happiness and safety of their con
stituents and of America." This passed, after
earnest debate, on the 15th. H. II. Lee moved,
on the 7th June, and the motion was seconded
by Mr. Adams, " that these united colonies are,
and of right ought to be, free and independent
States." The debate continued to the 10th, and
was then postponed to the 1st of July. A com
mittee of five, consisting of Jefferson, Adams,
Franklin, Sherman, and R. R. Livingston, was
appointed to draw up a declaration of independ
ence. The two first were the sub-committee.
The instrument, at the request of Mr. Adams,
was written by Jefferson. The resolution of Lee
was debated again July 1st, and adopted on the
2d. Then the Declaration was considered and
passed, with a few omissions and changes, July
4th ; but not without vigorous opposition, particu
larly from John Dickinson, one of the ablest men
and finest writers in Congress. The opposing
arguments were met by Mr. Adams in a speech
of unrivalled power. Of him Mr. Jefferson said, —
" the great pillar of support to the declaration of
independence and its ablest advocate and cham
pion on the floor of the house was John Ad
ams." — "He was the colossus of that Congress:
not graceful, not eloquent, not always fluent in
his public addresses, he yet came out with a
power both of thought and expression, which
moved his hearers from their seats."
On the next day Mr. Adams wrote the follow
ing letter to his wife, dated Philadelphia, July 5,
1776:
" Yesterday the greatest question was decided,
which was ever debated in America, and a
greater, perhaps, never was, or will be, decided
among men. A resolution has passed without
one dissenting colony, ' That these colonies are,
and of rigid ought to be, Free and Independent
States.'
" The day is passed. The fourth day of July,
1776, will be a memorable cpocli in the history
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of America. I am apt to believe, it will be cele
brated by succeeding generations as the great
anniversary festival. It ought to be commem
orated, as the day of deliverance, by solemn acts
of devotion to Almighty God. It ought to be
solemnized with pomp, shows, games, sports,
guns, bells, bonfires, and illuminations from one
end of the continent to the other, from this time
forward, forever. You will think me transported
with enthusiasm ; but I am not. I am well aware
of the toil and blood and treasure, that it will
cost us to maintain this declaration, and support
and defend these States ; yet through all the
gloom I can see the rays of light and glory. I
can see, that the end is more than worth all the
means, and that posterity will triumph, although
you and I may rue, which I hope we shall not."
Mr. Silas Deane, commissioner with Franklin
and A. Lee at the French court, having been
recalled, Mr. Adams was appointed in his place
Nov. 28, 1777. — lie was thus released from his
duties as chairman of the board of war, in which
he had been engaged since June 13, 1776. It is
said, that he had been a member of ninety com
mittees, and chairman of twenty-five. — Embark
ing in about two months in the Boston frigate, he
arrived safely ; but the treaties of commerce and
alliance had been signed before his arrival. —
Soon after his return he assisted, in the autumn
of 1779, as a member of the convention, and as
one of the sub-committee in preparing a form of
government for the State of Massachusetts. He
wrote the clause in regard to the patronage of
literature. Sept. 29, 1779, he was appointed min
ister plenipotentiary to negotiate a peace, and
had authority to form a commercial treaty with
Great Britain. He sailed in the French frigate
Sensible, Nov. 17, landed at Ferrol, and after a
toilsome journey arrived at Paris in Feb., 1780.
He was accompanied by Francis Dana as secre
tary of legation, and by John Thaxtcr as private
secretary. Deeming a residence in Holland more
favorable to his country than in Paris, he deter
mined to proceed to Amsterdam as soon as per
mission could be obtained from the French min
ister, Count de Vergcnncs, who was displeased
by the refusal of Mr. Adams to communicate to
him his instructions in regard to the treaty of
commerce. In August he repaired to Amster
dam, having previously been instructed to procure
loans in Holland, and soon afterwards receiving
power to negotiate a treaty of amity and com
merce. Amidst great difficulties, arising from
the hostility of England and the intrigues of
France herself, he toiled incessantly for the in
terest of his country. In a series of twenty-six
letters to Mr. Kalkoen, he gave an account of
the controversy with Great Britain, and of the
resources, determination, and prospects of America.
These papers were reprinted in the Boston Patriot,
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and in a pamphlet form in 1809. They had
much effect in enlightening the people of Hol
land. Yet he could not persuade the States
General to acknowledge him as ambassador of
the United States until April, 1782. Associated
with Franklin, Jay, and Laurens, he formed the
definitive treaty of peace, which was ratified Jar.
14, 1784. — After assisting in other treaties, Mr.
Adams was in 1785 appointed the first minister
to London. In that city he published his " De
fence of the American constitutions" in 1787. —
At this time the constitution of the United States
had not been formed. The object of the work
was to oppose the theories of Turgot, the Abbe
de Mably, and Dr. Price in favor of a single
legislative assembly and the consolidation into
one tribunal of the powers of government. He
maintained the necessity of keeping distinct the
legislative, executive, and judicial departments ;
and, to prevent encroachment by the legislative
branch, he proposed a division of it into two
chambers, each as a check upon the other. He
carried his views into effect in drafting the con
stitution of Massachusetts, — which form has been
copied in its chief features by most of the other
States. — After an absence of nine years, he re
turned to America, and landed at Boston June
17, 1788. Congress had passed a resolution of
thanks for his able and faithful discharge of vari
ous important commissions. His " Discourses on
Davila" were written in 1790.
After his return he was elected the first vice-
president of the United States under the new
constitution, wliich went into operation in March,
1789. Having been re-elected to that office, he
held it, and of course presided in the Senate
during the whole of the administration of Wash
ington, whose confidence he enjoyed in an emi
nent degree. The Senate being nearly balanced
between the two parties of the day, his casting
vote decided some important questions ; in this
way Clarke's resolution to prohibit all intercourse
with Great Britain on account of the capture of
several American vessels was rejected. — On the
resignation of Washington Mr. Adams became
president of the United States March 4, 1797.
He was succeeded by Mr. Jefferson in 1801, who
was elected by a majority of one vote.
After March, 1801, Mr. Adams lived in retire
ment at Quincy, occupied in agricultural pursuits,
though occasionally addressing various communi
cations to the public. — In a letter to the founder
of the peace society of Massachusetts in 1816 he
says : " I have read, almost all the days of my
life, the solemn reasonings and pathetic declama
tions of Erasmus, of Fenelon, of St. Pierre, and
many others, against war and in favor of peace.
My understanding and my heart accorded witli
them at first blush. But, alas ! a longer and
more extensive experience has convinced mo, that
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wars are necessary, and as inevitable in our sys
tem as hurricanes, earthquakes, and volcanoes.
Universal and perpetual peace appears to me no
more nor less than everlasting passive obedience
and non-resistance. The human flock would soon
be fleeced and butchered by one or a few. I
cannot therefore, sir, be a subscriber or a member
of your society. — I do, sir, most humbly suppli
cate the theologians, the philosophers, and the
politicians to let me die in peace. I seek only
repose." Mr. Jefferson expressed his opinions
more calmly on the subject.
In 1816 he was chosen a member of the elec
toral college, which voted for Mr. Monroe as
president. In 1818 he sustained his severest
affliction in the loss, in October, of his wife, with
whom he had lived more than half a century.
His only daughter, Mrs. Smith, died in 1813. In
1820, at the age of eighty-five, he was a member
of the convention for revising the constitution of
Massachusetts. In the last years of his life he
had a friendly correspondence with Mr. Jefferson.
He enjoyed the singular happiness in 182<3 of see
ing his son, John Quincy Adams, elevated to the
office of president of the United States. In this
year he was the only survivor of the first Con
gress, lie died July 4, 1826.
On the morning of the jubilee he was roused
by the ringing of bells and the firing of cannon,
and, when asked by his servant if he knew what
day it was, he replied, " O yes ! it is the glorious
4th of July — God bless it — God bless you all."
In the forenoon the orator of the day, his parish
minister, called to see him, and found him seated
in an arm-chair, and asked him for a sentiment,
to be given at the public table. He replied, " I
will give you — Independence forever ! " In the
course of the day he said, " It is a great and glo
rious day;" and just before he expired, exclaimed,
" Jefferson survives," shewing that his thoughts
were dwelling on the scenes of 17~6. But
Jefferson was then dead, having expired at one
o'clock. He liimself died at twenty minutes be
fore six P. M.
That two such men as Jefferson and Adams,
both of whom had been presidents of the United
States, the two last survivors of those, who had
voted for the Declaration of Independence, the
former having drawn it up, and the latter having
been its most powerful advocate on the floor of
Congress, should have died on the 4th of July,
just fifty years after the "glorious day" of the
Declaration of American Independence, presented
such an extraordinary concurrence of events as to
overwhelm the mind with astonishment. Some
of the eulogists of these illustrious men seemed
to regard the circumstances of their removal from
the earth as a signal proof of the favor of God,
and spoke of their spirits as beyond doubt thus
wonderfully, on the day of their glory, translated
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to heaven. But surely these circumstances ought,
not to be regarded as indications of the eternal
destiny of these men of political eminence. Like
others, they must appear at the bar of Jesus
Christ, to be judged agreeably to the settled prin
ciples of the Divine government, according to
their works and characters. If they believed in
the name of the Son of God and were his follow
ers, they will doubtless, if the Scriptures are true,
be saved ; otherwise they will be lost. It is not
always easy to ascertain the design of Providence.
If some imagine, that the extraordinary deaths
of these men indicate the Divine approbation of
their patriotism ; others may imagine, that their
deaths on the day, in which a kind of idolatry had
often been offered them, and in which the Ameri
can people had been often elated with the emotions
of vanity and pride, instead of rendering due
thanksgivings to the Almighty, were designed to
frown upon the erring people and to teach them,
that their boasted patriots and statesmen, their
incensed demi-gods, were but frail worms of the
dust. A new and similar wonder occurred in
the decease of another president, Monroe, on the
4th day of July, 1830.
Mr. Adams was somewhat irritable in his
temper, and at times was frank in the utterance
of his indignant feelings. In reply to a birth-day
address in 1802, the year after the termination of
his presidency, he said : " Under the continual
provocations, breaking and pouring in upon me,
from unexpected as well as expected quarters,
during the last two years of my administration, he
must have been more of a modern epicurian
philosopher, than ever I was- or ever will be, to
have borne them all without some incautious ex
pressions, at times, of an unutterable indignation..
I have no other apology to make to individuals or
the public." — This confession may teach the am
bitious, that the high station of president may be
a bed of thorns. Mr. Adams added the senti
ment, which is worthy of perpetual remembrance
by our statesmen and citizens : "The union is our
rock of safety, as well as our pledge of grandeur."
— Mr. Adams, it is believed, was a professor of
religion in the church at Quincy. In his views he
accorded with Dr. Bancroft, an Unitarian minister
of Worcester, of whose printed sermons he ex
pressed his high approbation.
In his person, Mr. Adams was of middling
stature. With passions somewhat impetuous, his
manners were courteous. Industry carried him
honorably through his immense public labors ;
temperance procured him the blessing of a
healthful old age. He lived to see but one name
before his imstarrcd in the catalogue of Harvard
College : excepting the venerable Dr. Holyoke,
all before him were numbered with the dead. He
was a scholar, versed in the ancient languages.
In his writings he was perspicuous and energetic.
ADAMS.
ADAMS.
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To his native town he gave his whole library, and
made bequests for the endowment of an academy
and the building of a stone church.
His chief writings are — History of the dispute
with America, 1774; twenty-six letters on the
American llcvolution, written in Holland in 1780;
memorial to the States general, 1782; essay on
canon and feudal law, 1783; defence of the
American Constitution, 3 vols., 1788; answers to
patriotic addresses, 1798; letters on government,
to Sam. Adams, 1802 ; discourses on Davila,
1805; correspondence, 1809; Novanglus, re-pub
lished, 1819; correspondence with W. Cunning
ham, 1823; letters to Jefferson. — Encyclopedia
Amer. ; Amer. Ann. Reg. I. 225-240; Boston
Weekly Messenger, vi. 306 ; /. Q. Adams' letters
in Boston Patriot, Sept. 3, 1831; Holmes, II.
499.
ADAMS, Jonx QONCY, president of the United
States, died at Washington Feb. 23, 1848, aged
80 years, being born, the son of John A., July 11,
1767. At the age of ten he accompanied his
father to France ; at the age of fifteen he was private
secretary of Mr. Dana, minister to Russia. At
Harvard college he was graduated in 1787, and
then studied law with Mr. Parsons at Ncwbury-
port. Living in Boston, he published in 1791
the papers, signed Publicolu, remarking on
Paine's Rights of Man, distrusting the issue of
the French Revolution. From 1794 to 1801 he
was minister in Holland, Fngland, and Prussia.
From 1803 to 1808 he was a senator of the U. S. ;
but resigned from disagreement with lu's own
State Legislature. He was a professor of rhetoric
at Harvard from 1806 to 1809. He assisted in
negotiating the treaty of Ghent in Dec., 1814,
and afterwards assisted in the convention of com
merce with Great Britain. In 1817 he was sec
retary of state in the cabinet of Monroe. In 1825
he was chosen president of the U. S. The elec
toral votes were 99 for Jackson, 84 for Adams,
41 for Crawford, 37 for Clay. The votes of thir
teen States, represented in the house, elected him
president. He served for four years. In Decem
ber, 1831, he became a member of Congress,
and was continued in that post till his death.
While in his seat in the House of Rep
resentatives, Feb. 21st, he fell over on one side,
and was removed to Mr. Speaker Winthrop's
apartment, in which he died. He was only able
to say: "This is the last of earth; I am con
tent." His wife, Louisa, daughter of Joshua
Johnson of Maryland, whom he married in 1797,
survived him ; but died at Washington May
15, 1852, aged 76.
As a member of Congress he in his old age
gained imperishable honor by watching the move
ments and withstanding the progress of the slave-
holding power, which threatened to gain the as
cendency in our general government, over all the
interests of justice and human freedom, and to
render this land of liberty the scorn of the des
potisms of Europe. At the present day the battle
between slavery and freedom rages with increased
vehemence; and, had "the old man eloquent"
lived to see the border-ruffianism of Missouri
tolerated by our rulers, and allowed to create a
government and bear sway in the Territory of
Kansas, and also to see a Southern ruffian striking
down a Massachusetts senator in his seat, and
supported in the act by the whole South, his voice
would have rung like a clarion through the hall
of Congress and through our land.
He published letters on Silesia, 1804; lectures
on rhetoric and oratory, 2 vols., 1810; Dermot
MacMorrogh, a poetic historical tale, 1832 ; poems
of religion and society, and various occasional
addresses.
ADAMS, HANNAH, died Dec. 15, 1831, aged
74, and was the first tenant of the burying-ground
at Mount Auburn. She was born in Medfield,
Mass. ; her father kept a store ; her mother died
when she was ten years old. She was perhaps
the first American lady who devoted her life to
literature ; but the profits of her labors were in
considerable. She was under the middle stature,
very deaf, a great rappee snuff-taker, and very
fond of strong tea. A few noble-minded friends
bestowed upon her the comforts of life. A jour
ney to Chelmsford was the farthest she had been
by land, and a trip from Boston to Nahant, only
ten miles, her only voyage by water. She pub
lished a history of New England, 1799; a view
of religions, 1801; history of the Jews, 1812;
controversy with Dr. Morse, 1814; letters on
the Gospels, 2d ed., 1826. A memoir, written by
herself, with additions by a friend, 1832.
ADAMS, EBENEZER, professor of languages
and of mathematics at Dartmouth college, died
Aug. 15, 1841, aged 77. He was born at Xew
Ipswich, and graduated in 1791 at Dartmouth.
His daughter married Professor Young of the
same college.
ADAMS, BENJAMIN, died at Uxbridge March
28, 1837, aged 72. A graduate of Brown univer
sity in 1788, he was a lawyer, and a member of
Congress from 1816 to 1821; a man of integrity
and worth, and much respected.
ADAMS, JOHN W., presbyterian minister, died
at Syracuse March 4, 1850, aged 54. He was
the son of Rev. Roger A., of Conn., and Avas
settled over the first church Dec. 14, 1824. The
church members were three hundred and sixty-
five in number.
ADAMS, NEWTON, M. D., missionary among
the Zulus in S. Africa, died Sept. 16, 1851, aged
47. Born in East Bloomfield, X. Y., he decided
to become a missionary in 1834, and went out as
a physician ; but was ordained in 1844. He was
one of the six men, who with their wives sailed
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ADAMS.
from Boston in Dec., 1834, to lay the foundation
of the Zulu mission.
ADAMS, CHARLES BAKER, died at St. Thomas
of the fever Jan. 19, 1853, aged 38. He was
professor at Amhcrst college of zoology and as
tronomy from 1847, and had been professor of
chemistry and natural history at Middlcbury.
He published Ileports as State geologist of Ver
mont, and a work with Prof. Gray on geology.
Some of his writings on zoology are in the annals
of the Lyceum of Natural History of Xew York.
ADAMS, ZABDIEL BOYLSTON, M. D., died in
Boston Jan. 25, 185-5, aged 62. Born in Rox-
bury, he graduated in 1813, and was a skilful and
beloved physician.
ADDLXGTOX, ISAAC, secretary of the proA--
incc of Massachusetts, died at Boston March 19,
1715, aged 70 years. His father was Isaac ; his
mother was Anne, daughter of elder Thomas
Leverett, sister of Gov. L. ; his sister Rebecca
married Capt. E. Davenport; his sister Sarah
married Col. Penn Townscnd. He sustained a
high character for talents and learning, and for
integrity and diligence in his public services. He
was secretary more than twenty years, and for
many years a magistrate and member of the
council, elected by the people ; and was also some
times "useful in practicing physic and chirurgery."
lie was singularly meek and humble and disinter
ested. In his family he was a daily worshipper
of God. The religion, which he professed, gave
him peace, as he went down to the dead. —
Wadswortlis Funeral Serm. ; Hutchinson,!. 414;
II. 212.
ADDIS, ASA, chief justice of Vt., died at St.
Albans Oct. 15, 1847, aged 77. He was a grad
uate of Brown university.
ADDISOX, ALEXANDER, a distinguished lawyer,
died at Pittsburg, Pcnn., Nov. 24, 1807, aged 48. \
In the office of a judge for twelve years he was a
luminous expounder of the law, prompt and im
partial, and never was there an appeal from his j
judgment. His various powerful talents and ex
tensive learning were displayed in numerous writ
ings, which evinced not only a cogency in reason
ing, but a classic purity of style, and a uniform
regard to the interests of virtue. He was dis
interested, generous, beneficent. He published
observations on Gallatin's speech, 1798; analysis
of report of committee of Virginia Assembly,
1800; reports in Pcnns. 1800.
ADRAIX, ROBERT, LL. I)., died at Xew |
Brunswick, X. J., Aug. 10, 1843, aged 68. A !
native of Ireland, he came to this country with j
Emmet. He was professor of mathematics at j
Rutgers college, also at Columbia college.
AGATE, FREDERICK S., died at Xew York in
May, 1844, aged 37; an historical painter of con
siderable reputation among American artists.
AHvEX, DANIEL, died at Wcxford, Canada
ALDEX.
West, in Jan., 1847, aged 120. He was seven
times married : his grandchildren Avere 370 boys
and 200 girls.
AITKEX, ROBERT, a printer in Philadelphia,
came to this country in 1769, and died July, 1802,
aged 68. For his attachment to American liberty,
he was thrown into prison by the British. Among
his publications were a magazine, an edition of the
Bible, and the transactions of the Amer. Phil.
Soc. He was the author, it is believed, of an
inquiry concerning the principles of a commercial
system for the United States, 1787. Jane Aitken,
his daughter, continued the business ; she printed
Thompson's Septuagint. — Thomas, II. 77.
AKERLY, SAMUEL, M. D., died at Staten
Island July 6, 1845, aged 60. He studied with his
brother-in-law, Mitchell, and contributed largely
to medical and scientific journals. He was one
of the founders of the institutions for the deaf
and dumb, and the blind.
ALBERT, PIERRE ANTONIE, rector of the
French Protestant Episcopal Church in Xew
York, was the descendant of a highly respectable
family in Lausanne, Switzerland. Being invited
to take the charge of the church in the city
of Xew York, which was founded by the perse
cuted Huguenots after the revocation of the edict
of Xantes, he commenced his labors July 26,
1797, and died July 12, 1806, aged 40. He was
an accomplished gentleman, an erudite scholar, a
profound theologian, and a most eloquent preacher.
A stranger, of unobtrusive manners and invincible
modesty, he led a very retired life. His worth,
however, could not be concealed. He was es
teemed and beloved by all his acquaintance. —
Massachusetts Missionary Magazine, iv. 78.
ALDEX, JOHN, a magistrate of Plymouth
colony, was one of the first company which settled
Xew England. He arrived in 16CO, and his life
was prolonged till Sept. 12, 1687, when he died,
aged about 89 years. When sent by his friend,
Capt. Standish, to make for him proposals of
marriage to Priscilla Mullins, the lady said to
him, — "Prithee, John, why do you not speak for
yourself ? " This intimation of preference from
the lips of one of the Pilgrim beauties was not
to be overlooked. Priscilla became his wife. He
was a very worthy and useful man, of great hu
mility and eminent piety. He was an assistant
in the administration of every governor for many
years. A professed disciple of Jesus Christ, he
lived in accordance with his profession. In his
last illness he was patient and resigned, fully be
lieving that God, who had imparted to him the
love of excellence, would perfect the work, which
he had begun, and would render him completely
holy in heaven.
ALDEX, JOHN, died at Middlcborough, in
1821, aged 102; the great grandson of J. A., of
the Mavflower.
ALDEN.
ALEXANDER
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ALDEX, JUDAII, died at Duxbury March 2,
1845, aged 94. He was a patriot and officer of
the Revolution, and president of the Cincinnati.
ALDEX, SETH, died at Titicut Feb. 22, 1855,
aged 83 ; a descendant of John Alden, the young
est of nineteen children.
ALDEX, TIMOTHY, a descendant of John Al
den, was graduated at Harvard college in 1762,
and settled Dec. 13, 17G9, at Yarmouth, Mass.,
where he died Nov. 13, 1828, aged 91 years.
For more than half a century he was a faithful
laborer in the cause of religion. His people, in
their affection to him, gave him a comfortable
support for years after he had ceased to teach
them. He published a dedication sermon, 1795.
ALDEX, TIMOTHY, I). D., son of the pre
ceding, died at Pittsburg July 5, 1839, aged G8.
He was a graduate of Harvard in 1794, a minis
ter in Portsmouth, and president of Allcghany
college at Meadville. lie published a sermon on
the death of Washington, 1800; account of socie
ties in Portsmouth, 1808 ; a century sermon, 1811 ;
Xcw Jersey Register, 1811 ; collection of epitaphs,
5 vols., 1814; Alleghany Magazine, 1816.
ALDEX, ICHABOD, colonel, was killed by the
Indians at Cherry Valley in Xov., 1778. He
commanded a Massachusetts regiment in the war.
He was the descendant of John Alden ; and a son
of Samuel, of Duxbury, who died in 1780, aged 93.
ALDEX, ROGER, major, an officer of the Revo
lution, died at West Point Xov. 5, 1836, aged 88.
ALEXAXDER, an Indian, was the son and
successor of Massassoit, and brother of King
Philip. His Indian name was Wamsutta. He
received his English name in 1656. Being sus
pected of conspiring with the Xarragansetts
against the English, he was captured by surprise,
by Major Winslowin 1662, and carried to Marsh-
field. The indignant sachem fell sick of a fever ,-
and was allowed to return, under a pledge of ap
pearing at the next court ; but he died on his
way. Judge Davis gives a minute account of
this affair. Dr. Holmes places the occurrence in
1657. — Davis' Morton, 287; Holmes, I. 308.
ALEXAXDER, JAMES, secretary of the prov
ince of Xew York, and many years one of the
council, arrived in the colony in 1715. He was a
Scotch gentleman, who was bred to the law.
Gov. Burnett was particularly attached to him.
Though not distinguished for his talents as a
public speaker, he was at the head of his pro
fession for sagacity and penetration. Eminent
for Iris knowledge, he was also communicative
and easy of access. By honest practice and un
wearied application to business, he acquired a
great estate. He died in the beginning of
1756. — Smith's New York, 152.
ALEXAXDER, WILLIAM, commonly called
Lord Stirling, a major-general in the American
army, was a native of the city of New York, the
son of the secretary, James Alexander, but spent
a considerable part of his life in Xew Jersey.
He was considered by many as the rightful heir
to the title and estate of an earldom in Scotland,
of which country his father was a native ; and
although, when he went to Xorth Britain in pur
suit of this inheritance, he failed of obtaining an
acknowledgment of his claim by government, yet
among his friends and acquaintances he received
by courtesy the title of Lord Stirling. — He dis
covered an early fondness for the study of mathe
matics and astronomy, and attained great emi
nence in these sciences.
In the battle on Long Island Aug. 27, 1776,
he was taken prisoner, after having secured to a
large part of the detachment an opportunity to
escape by a bold attack with four hundred men
upon a corps under Lord Cornwallis. His at
tachment to Washington was proved in the latter
part of 1777, by transmitting to him an account
of the disaffection of Gen. Conway to the com-
mander-in-chief. In the letter he said : " Such
wicked duplicity of conduct I shall always think
it my duty to detect." He died at Albany Jan.
15, 1783, aged 57 years. He was a brave, dis
cerning, and intrepid officer. — He married Sarah,
daughter of Philip Livingston. His eldest daugh
ter, Mary, married John Watts, of a wealthy
family in Xew York. He published a pamphlet,
"The conduct of Maj.-Gen. Shirley briefly stated."
— Miller, II. 390; Holmes, II. 247; Marshall,
in. Note No v.
ALEXAXDER, NATHANIEL, governor of
Xorth Carolina, was graduated at Princeton in
1776, and after studying medicine entered the
army. At the close of the war he resided at the
High Hills of Santee, pursuing his profession,
and afterwards at Mecklenburg. While he held
a seat in Congress, the Legislature elected him
governor in 1806. He died at Salisbury March
8, 1808, aged 52. In all his public stations he
discharged his duty with ability and firmness. —
Charleston Courier, March 23.
ALEXAXDER, CALEB, I). D., a native of
Xorthfield, Mass., and a graduate of Yale in
1777, was ordained at Xew Marlborough, Mass.,
in 1781, and dismissed in 1782. He was again
settled at Mendon,and dismissed in 1803. After
an ineffectual attempt to establish a college at
Fairfield, State of Xew York, he took the charge
of the academy at Onondaga Hollow, where he
died in April, 1828. He published an essay on
the deity of Jesus Christ, with strictures on Em-
lyn, 1791; a Latin grammar, 1794; an English
grammar, and grammar elements. — History of
Berkshire, 293.
ALEXAXDER, ARCHIBALD, D. D., professor
of theology at Princeton, was the descendant of a
Scotch-Irish family, which came over about 1736
and settled in the great valley of Virginia; and
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ALFOHD.
•was the son of William A. lie died Oct. 22,
1851, aged 79. About 1801 lie was president of
Hampdcn Sidney college, and married Janetta,
daughter of Rev." Dr. Waddel, of LotuVa county,
Va. In 1806 he succeeded Dr. Milledoler in Tine
street church in Phila. In 1812 he became the
professor of theology in the new seminary at
Princeton. Dr. Miller came in Dec., 1813. He
remained with honor in this important station
until his death. He left six sons and a daughter;
three were ministers, two lawyers, one a physician.
His brother, Maj. John A., who served in the war
of 1812, died at Lexington in 1853.
He published a sermon at Philadelphia, 1808;
on the burning of the theatre, 1811; missionary,
1813; inaugural; Christian evidences, 1825; canon
of Bible; to young men, 1826; on Sunday schools,
1829; growth in grace; before Amer. Board,
1829; hymns, selected, 1831; on pastoral office;
lives of patriarchs; history of Israel; house of
God; the people of God led, 1842; at Washing
ton college, 1843; sketches in regard to the log
college, 1845; history of colonization ; outlines of
moral science ; introd. to Henry, Bates, Jay, and
Watcrbury; practical sermons; letters to the
aged ; counsels to the young ; against Universal-
ism; compend of Bible truth; on experience;
life of Baxter ; of Melville ; of Knox ; way of
salvation, with various other tracts, as on justifica
tion by faith; the day of judgment; and the
misery of the lost. His life by his son, Dr. J.
W. A., was published in 1854 by C. Scribner, N.
York.
ALFORD, ABIGAIL, died at Northampton Aug.
26, 1756, aged 102.
ALICE, a slave, died in Bristol, Penn., in 1802,
aged 116. She was born in Philadelphia, which
place she remembered as chiefly a wilderness
inhabited by Indians. For forty years she was
employed in ferrying. She retained her hearing,
but was blind at the age of one hundred ; though
her sight was gradually restored. Her hair be
came white. Unable to read, she loved to have
the Bible read to her. A worthy member of the
Episcopal church, she anticipated the happiness of
dwelling in the presence of her Saviour.
ALFORD, JOHN, founder of the professorship
of natural religion, moral philosophy, and civil
polity in Harvard college, died at Charlestown
Sept. 29, 1761, aged 75. He had been a member
of the council. His executors determined the
particular objects, to which his bequest for charit
able uses should be applied, and divided it
equally between Harvard college, Princeton col
lege, and the society for the propagation of the
Gospel among the Indians. To the latter 10,6
dollars were paid in 1787. Levi Frisbie was the
first Alford professor.
ALLEN, Jonx, first minister of Dcdham,
Mass., was born in England in 1596, and was
ALLEN.
driven from his native land during the persecution
of the Puritans. He had been for a number of
years a faithful preacher of the Gospel. Soon
after he arrived in New England, he was settled
pastor of the church in Dedham April 24, 1639.
Here he continued till his death Aug. 26, 1671,
aged 74. He was a man of great meekness and
humility, and of considerable distinction in his
day. Mr. Cotton speaks of him with respect in
his preface to Norton's answer to Apollonius.
He published a defence of the nine positions, in
which, with Mr. Shepard of Cambridge, he dis
cusses the .points of church discipline ; and a
defence of the Synod of 1662, against Mr.
Chauncy, under the title of Animadversions upon
the Antisynodalia, 4to, 1664. This work is pre
served in the New England library. The last
two sermons, which he preached, were printed
after his death. — Magnolia, in. 132; Prenliss'
Funeral Sermon on Haven.
ALLEN, THOMAS, minister of Charlestown, was
born at Norwich in England, in 1608, and was
educated at Cambridge. He was afterwards min
ister of St. Edmond's in Norwich, but was
silenced by bishop Wren, about the year 1636, for
refusing to read the book of sports and conform
to other impositions. In 1638 he fled to New
England, and was the same year installed in
Charlestown, where he was a faithful preacher of
the Gospel till about 1651, when he returned to
Norwich, and continued the exercise of his minis
try till 1662. He afterwards preached to his
church on all occasions, that offered, till his death,
Sept. 21, 1673, aged 65. He was a very pious
man, greatly beloved, and an able, practical
preacher.
He published an imitation to thirsty sinners to
come to their Saviour ; the way of the Spirit in
bringing souls to Christ ; the glory of Christ set
forth, with the necessity of faith, in several ser
mons ; a chain of Scripture chronology from the
creation to the death of Christ, in seven periods.
This was printed in 1658, and was regarded as a
very learned and useful work. It is preserved in
the New England library, established by Mr.
Prince, by whom the authors quoted in the book
arc written in the beginning of it in his own
hand. Mr. Allen wrote also, with Mr. Shepard, in
1645, a preface to a treatise on liturgies, &c. com
posed by the latter. He contends, that only
visible saints and believers should be received to
communion. — Magnal. III. 215 ; Nonconformists'
Memorial,!. 254; in. 11, 12.
ALLEN, MATTHEW, one of the first settlers of
Connecticut, came to this country with Mr. Hooker
in 1632, and become a landholder in Cambridge,
in the records of which town his lands and houses
are described. He accompanied Mr. Hooker to
Hartford in 1636, and was a magistrate. In the
charter of 1662 he is named as one of the com-
ALLEN.
ALLEN.
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pany. His public services were various. In 1664
he is called Mr. Allen, senior. He might have
been the father of John. There was, however, a
Mr. Matthew Allen, a magistrate, in 1710 ; another
of the same name in Windsor, in 1732. Trum-
bell gives the name Allen; but Mather wrote
Allyn.
ALLEN, JOIEV, secretary of the colony of
Connecticut, was chosen a magistrate under the
charter in 1662 and treasurer in 1663. He was
on the committee, with Matthew Allen and John
Talcott, respecting the union with New Haven in
1663. He appears to have been secretary as
early as Dec., 1664 ; Joseph Allen had been sec
retary before him. He was also secretary in 1683
and on the committee respecting the boundary of
New York. The time of his death is not known.
One of his name was magistrate as late as 1709.
The history of the Pequot war, given by Increase
Mather in his Relation in 1677, w7as not written
by Mr. Allen, as Judge Davis erroneously sup
poses, but merely communicated by him to Mr.
Mather. — Davis' Morton, 196; Prince's Introd.
to Mason's Hist.
ALLEN, JAMES, minister in Boston, came to
this country in 1662, recommended by Mr. Good
win. He had been a fellow of New college,
Oxford. He was at this time a young man, and
possessed considerable talents. He was very
pleasing to many of the church in Boston, and an
attempt was made to settle him as assistant to
Mr. Wilson and Mr. Norton. He was ordained
teacher of the first church Dec. 9, 1668, as
colleague with Mr. Davenport, who was at the
same time ordained pastor. After the death of
Mr. Davenport, he had for his colleague Mr.
Oxcnbridge, and after his decease Mr. Wadsworth.
In 1669 seventeen ministers published their
testimony against the conduct of Mr. Allen and
Mr. Davenport in relation to the settlement of
the latter. They were charged with communica
ting parts only of letters from the church of New
Haven to the church of Boston, by which means,
it was said, the church was deceived ; but they in
defence asserted, that the letters retained did not
represent things differently from what had been
stated. The whole colony was interested in the
controversy between the first and the new, or third
church. At length the General Court, in 1670,
declared the conduct of those churches and elders,
who assisted in establishing the third church, to
be illegal and disorderly. At the next session,
however, as there was a change of the members
of the General Court, the censure was taken off.
It seems, the act of censure was expressed in lan
guage very intemperate, and invasion of the rights
of churches and assumption of prelatical power
were declared in it to be among the prevailing
evils of the day. The charge was so general, and
it threatened to operate so unfavorably on religion,
that a number of the very ministers, who had
published their testimony against the elders of
the first church, wrote an address to the court,
representing the intemperate nature of the vote ;
and it was in consequence revoked, and the new
church was exculpated. Mr. Allen died Sept.
22, 1710, aged 78 years. His sons were James,
John, and Jeremiah, born in 1670, 1672, and
1673. The last was chosen treasurer of the prov
ince in 1715.
He published healthful diet, a sermon ; New
England's choicest blessings, an election sermon,
1679 ; serious advice to delivered ones ; man's
self-reflection a means to further his recovery
from his apostasy from God ; and two practical
discourses. — Hutchinson's Hist, of Mass. I. 173,
222, 225, 270 ; Collections of the Hist. Society,
IX. 173 ; Calami/.
ALLEN, SAMUEL, a merchant of London, pro
prietor of a part of New Hampshire, made the
purchase of the heirs of Mason in 1691. The
territory included Portsmouth and Dover, and
extended sixty miles from the sea. The settlers
resisting his claims, a perplexing litigation fol
lowed. In the midst of it Mr. Allen died at
Newcastle May 5, 1705, aged 69. He sustained
an excellent character. Though attached to the
church of England, he attended the Congregational
meeting. His son, Thomas Allen of London,
continued the suit. The final verdict was against
him, in 1707, in the case, Allen vs. Waldron; —
he appealed, yet his death in 1715, before the
appeal was heard, put an end to the suit. The
principal reliance of the defendant w'as on the
Indian deed to Wheelright of 1629. This Mr.
Savage has satisfactorily showrn to be a forgery of
a later date. If so, it would seem, that the
Aliens were wrongfully dispossessed of a valuable
province. — Belknap's N. II. I. ; Savage's Win-
tlirop, I. 405 ; N. H. Coll. II. 137.
ALLEN, JAMES, first minister of Brookline,
Mass., was a native of Roxbury, and was gradua
ted at Harvard college in 1710. He was ordained
Nov. 5, 1718, and after a ministry of twenty-eight
years died of a lingering consumption Feb. 18,
1747, aged 55 years, with the reputation of a
pious and judicious divine. His successors were
Cotton Brown from 1748 to 1751; Nathaniel
Potter from 1755 to 1759; Joseph Jackson from
1760 to 1796 ; and John Pierce from 1797 to 1849.
In July, 1743, he gave his attestation to the revival
of religion, which took place throughout the
country, and made known the success, which had
attended his own exertions in Brookline. Almost
every person in his congregation was impressed
in some degree with the important concerns of
another world, and he could no more doubt, he
said, that there was a remarkable work of God,
than he could, that there was a sun in the
heavens. Afterwards, from peculiar circumstances,
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perhaps from the apostasy of some, who had ap
peared strong in the faith, he was led to speak
of this revival " unadvisedly with his lips." This
produced an alienation among some of his former
friends. In his last hours he had a hope, which
he would not part with, as he said, for a thousand
worlds.
He published a thanksgiving sermon, 1722 ; a
discourse on Providence, 1727 ; the doctrine of
merit exploded, and humility recommended, 1727 ;
a fast sermon, on the earthquake, 1727 ; a sermon
to young men, 1731 ; a sermon on the death of
S. Aspinwall, 1733; an election sermon, 1744.
— Pierce's Cent. Discourse; Christian Hist. I.
394.
ALLEN, JAMES, member of the House of
Representatives of Massachusetts a number of
years, and a councillor, was graduated at Harvard
college in 1717, and died Jan. 8, 1755, aged 57.
In the beginning of 1749 he made a speech in
the House, censuring the conduct of the governor,
for which he was required to make an acknowl
edgment. As he declined doing this, the House
issued a precept for the choice of a new repre
sentative. When re-elected, he was not permitted
to take his seat ; but next year he took it, and
retained it till his death. — Minofs Hist. Mass.
I. 104-107.
ALL EX, WILLIAM, the first minister of Green
land, N. II., died in 1760, aged 84. A graduate
of Harvard in 1703, and settled in 1707, he had
been a minister fifty-three years. Mr.JNIacClin-
tock became his colleague in 17,36. Before his
settlement the people of G., then a part of
Portsmouth, were accustomed to walk six or
eight miles to P. to meeting.
ALLEN, "WILLIAM, chief justice of Pennsyl
vania, was the son of William Allen, an eminent
merchant of Philadelphia, who died in 1725.
On the approach of the Revolution he retired to
England, where he died Sept., 1780. His wife
•was a daughter of Andrew Hamilton, whom he
succeeded as recorder of Philadelphia in 1741.
He was much distinguished as a friend to litera
ture. He patronized Sir Benjamin West, the
painter. By his counsels and exertions Dr.
Franklin was much assisted in establishing the
college in Philadelphia. He published the
American crisis, London, 1774, in which he sug
gests a plan "for restoring the dependence of
America to a state of perfection." His principles
seem to have been not a little arbitrary. On his
resignation of the office of chief justice, to which
he had been appointed in 1750, he was succeeded,
till the Revolution, by Mr. Chew, attorney-general,
and Mr. Chew by his son, Andrew Allen. This
son died in London March 7, 1825, aged 85. At
the close of 177G he put himself under the
protection of Gen. Howe at Trenton, with his
brothers John and William. He had been a
member of Congress and of the Committee of
Safety; and William a lieutenant-colonel in the
continental service, but in 1778 he attempted to
raise a regiment of tories. — Miller's Retrospect,
n. 352; Proud's Hist. of-Pcnnsylvania,ll. 188;
Amer. Remembrancer, 1777, p. 56.
ALLEN, HEXRY, a preacher in Nova Scotia,
was born at Newport, R. I., June 14, 1748, and
began to propagate some very singular sentiments,
about the year 1778. He was a man of good
capacity, though his mind had not been much
cultivated, and though he possessed a warm
imagination. He believed, that the souls of all
men arc emanations or parts of the one great
Spirit, and that they were present Avith our first
parents in Eden and participated in the first
transgression ; that our first parents in innocency
were pure spirits without material bodies ; that
the body will not be raised from the grave ; and
that the ordinances of the Gospel are matters of
indifference. The Scriptures, he contended, have
a spiritual meaning, and are not to be understood
in a literal sense. He died at the house of Rev.
I). M'Clurc, Northampton, N. II., Eel). 2, 1784,
aud since his death his party has much declined.
He published a volume of hymns; and several
treatises and sermons. — Adams' View of Re
ligions , Benedict,!.. 282.
ALLEN, ETHAN, brigadier-general, was born
in 173.8, in Woodbury, Conn. His ancestor,
Nehcmiah, was a brother of Samuel, of North
ampton. His parents removed to Salisbury ; at
an early age he himself emigrated to Vermont.
At the commencement of the disturbances in this
territory about the year 1770 he took a most
active part in favor of the " Green Mountain Boys,"
as the settlers were then called, in opposition to
the government of New York. An act of out
lawry against him was passed by this State, and
50 pounds were offered for his apprehension ; but
his party was too numerous and faithful to permit
him to be disturbed by any apprehensions for his
safety ; in all the struggles of the day he was
successful; and he not only proved a valuable
friend to thore, whose cause he had espoused, but
he was humane and generous towards those, with
whom he had to contend. When called to take
the field, he showed himself an able leader and
an intrepid soldier.
The news of the battle of Lexington deter
mined Col. Allen to engage on the side of his
country, and inspired him with the desire of
demonstrating his attachment to liberty by some
bold exploit. While his mind was in this state, a
plan for taking Ticonderoga and Crown Point by
surprise was formed by Capts. Edward Mott and
Noah Phelps, of Hartford, Conn. They marched
privately April 29th, with sixteen unarmed men.
Arriving at Pittsfield, the residence of Col. James
Easton and John Brown, Esq., they communicated
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the project to them and to Col. Ethan Allen, then
at Pittsfield. These gentlemen immediately en
gaged to co-operate and to raise men for the pur
pose. Of the Berkshire men and the " Green Moun
tain Boys " two hundred and thirty were collected,
under the command of Allen, and proceeded to
Castleton. Here he was unexpectedly joined
by Col. Arnold, who had been commissioned by
the Massachusetts committee to raise four hundred
men and effect the same object, which was now
about to be accomplished. As he had not raised
the men, he was admitted to act as an assistant to
Col. Allen. They reached the lake opposite
Ticonderoga Tuesday evening, May 9, 1775.
With the utmost difficulty boats were procured,
and eighty-three men were landed near the gar
rison. The approach of day rendering it danger
ous to wait for the rear, it was determined imme
diately to proceed. The commander-in-chief now
addressed his men, representing, that they had
been for a number of years a scourge to arbitrary
power, and famed for their valor, and concluded
with saying, " I now propose to advance before
you, and in person conduct you through the
wicket gate, and you, that will go with me volun
tarily in this desperate attempt, poise your fire
locks." At the head of the centre file he marched
instantly to the gate, where a sentry snapped his
gun at him and retreated through the covered
way ; he pressed forward into the fort, and formed
his men on the parade in such a manner as to
face two opposite barracks. Three huzzas awoke
the garrison. A sentry, who asked quarter,
pointed oat the apartments of the commanding
officer ; and Allen, with a drawn sword over the
head of Capt. De la Place, who was undressed,
demanded the surrender of the fort. " By what
authority do you demand it?" inquired the
astonished commander. " I demand it," said
Allen, " in the name of the great Jehovah and of
the Continental Congress." The summons could
not be disobeyed, and the fort, with its very
valuable stores and forty-nine prisoners, was im
mediately surrendered on May 10th. There
were from 112 to 120 iron cannon from 6 to 24
pounders, 2 brass cannon, 50 swivels, 2 mortars,
10 tons of musket balls, 3 cartloads of flints, 10
casks of powder, 30 new carriages, 100 stand of
small arms, 30 barrels of flour, and 18 barrels of
pork. Crown Point was taken the same day, and
the capture of a sloop of war soon afterwards
made Allen and his brave party complete masters
of Lake Champlain. May 18th, Arnold with
thirty-five men surprised the fort of St. John's in
Canada, taking fourteen prisoners, a sloop, and
two brass cannon. Allen, arriving the same day
with ninety men, resolved, against the advice of
Arnold, to attempt to hold the place. But he was
attacked the next day by a larger force from
Montreal, and compelled to retreat. In the fall
of 1775 lie was sent twice into Canada, to observe
the dispositions of the people, and attach them,
if possible, to the American cause. During tin's
last tour Col. Brown met him, and proposed an
attack on Montreal in concert. The proposal was
eagerly embraced, and Col. Allen, with one hun
dred and ten men, nearly eighty of whom were
Canadians, crossed the river in the night of Sept.
24. In the morning he waited with impatience
for the signal from Col. Brown, who agreed to co
operate with him ; but he waited in vain. He
made a resolute defence against an attack of five-
hundred men, and it was not till his own party
was reduced by desertions to the number of
thirty-one, and he had retreated near a mile, that
he surrendered. A moment afterwards a furious
savage rushed towards him, and presented his
firelock with the intent of killing him. It was
only by making use of the body of the officer, to
whom he had given his sword, as a shield, that he
escaped destruction. This rash attempt was made
without authority from Gen. Schuyler. He was
kept for some time in irons, and then sent to
England as a prisoner, being assured that the
halter would be the reward of his rebellion, when
he arrived there. On his passage, handcuffed
and fettered, he was shut up with his fellow
prisoners in the cable tier, a space twelve feet by
ten. After his arrival, about the middle of Decem
ber, he was lodged for a short time in Pcndennis
castle, near Falmouth. On the 8th of Jan., 1776,
he was put on board a frigate and by a circuitous
route carried to Halifax. Here he remained
confined in the gaol from June to October, when
he was removed to New York. During the pas
sage to tin's place, Capt. Burke, a daring prisoner,
proposed to kill the British captain and seize the
frigate ; but Col. Allen refused to engage in the
plot, and was probably the means of preserving
the life of Capt. Smith, who had treated him
very politely. He was kept at New York about a
year and a half, sometimes imprisoned, and some
times permitted to be on parole. While here, he
had an opportunity to observe the inhuman man
ner, in which the American prisoners were treated.
In one of the churches, in which they were
crowded, he saw seven lying dead at one time, and
others biting pieces of chips from hunger. He
calculated, that of the prisoners, taken at Long
Island and Fort Washington, near two thousand
perished by hunger and cold, or in consequence
of diseases occasioned by the impurity of their
prisons.
Col. Allen was exchanged for Col. Campbell
May 6, 1778, and after having repaired to head
quarters and offered his services to Gen. Wash
ington in case his health should be restored, he
returned to Vermont. His arrival, on the evening
of the last of May, gave his friends great joy, and
it was announced by the discharge of cannon.
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As an expression of confidence in his patriotism
and military talents, he was very soon appointed
to the command of the State militia. It does not
appear, however, that his intrepidity was ever
again brought to the test, though his patriotism
was tried by an unsuccessful attempt of the
British to bribe him to effect a union of Vermont
with Canada. Sir II. Clinton wrote to Lord
Germaine, Feb., 1781, "There is every reason to
suppose, that Ethan Allen has quitted the rebel
cause." He died of apoplexy at his estate in
Colchester Feb. 13, 1789, aged 51. His first wife
was Mary Brownson of Itoxbury ; his second wife
was Frances, daughter of Col. Brush of the
British army, whom he met in Boston on his
return from his captivity in England. Her
mother was the daughter of James Calcraft, a
soldier and a schoolmaster, whose name is now
changed to Schoolcraft. After his death she
married Dr. Pcnniman of Colchester. The
names of the other children of Joseph, Ethan's
father, were Ileman, Lydia, Hebcr, Levi, Lucy,
Zimri, and Ira ; their mother's name was Remem
brance Baker. His daughter Pamela married E.
W. Keyes, Esq., in 1803. Another daughter
entered a nunnery in Canada. He had lived for
a time in Sunderland. It was his project to make
a* city, Vergennes, a mile square. His son, Capt.
Ethan A. Allen, formerly of the army, died at
Norfolk Jan. 6, 1855 ; his grandson, Col. Hitch
cock of the army, is said to resemble him. From
this likeness Kinncy's statue of him was framed.
Gen. Allen possessed strong powers of mind,
but they never felt the influence of education.
Though he was brave, humane, and generous, yet
his conduct does not seem to have been much
influenced by considerations respecting that holy
and merciful Being, whose character and whose
commands arc disclosed to us in the Scriptures.
His notions with regard to religion Avere such, as
to prove that they, who rather confide m their
own wisdom than seek instruction from heaven,
may embrace absurdities, which would disgrace the
understanding of a child. He believed, with
Pythagoras, that men after death would trans
migrate into beasts, birds, fishes, reptiles, etc., and
often informed his friends, that he himself ex
pected to live again in the form of a large white
horse.
Besides a number of pamphlets in the contro
versy with New York, he published in 1779 a
narrative of his observations during his captivity,
which was afterwards reprinted ; a vindication of
the opposition of the inhabitants of Vermont to
the government of New York, and their right to
form an independent State, 1779; and Allen's
theology, or the oracles of reason, 1786. Tin's
last work was intended to ridicule the doctrine of
Moses and the prophets. It would be unjust to
bring against it the charge of having effected
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great mischief in the Avorld, for few have had the
patience to read it. — Allen's Narrative; Boston
Weekly Magazine, II. ; Holmes' Annals, n. 207;
Williams' Vermont; Chronicle, March 5, 1789;
Marshall's Wash., II. 203-; III. 24; Gordon, II.
13, 160; Graham's Vermont; Encyc. Amer. ;
Du'ight's Travels, II. 409, 421 ; Amer. Eemenib.,
1778, p. 50.
ALLEN, IRA, first secretary of Vermont, the
brother of Ethan, was born at Cornwall, Conn,
about 1752, and in early life co-operated with his
brother in the controversy between Vermont and
New York, being a lieutenant under him. He
also took an active part on the lakes in the war
of 1775. Being a member of the Legislature in
1776 and 1777, he was zealous in asserting the
independence of Vermont. In Dec., 1777, he
assisted in forming the constitution of Vermont;
and soon afterwards was nominated surveyor-
general and treasurer. He and Bradley and Fay
were commissioners to Congress for Vermont in
1780 and 1781. In the politic negotiations with
Canada in 1781, designed to protect the people
of the " New Hampshire grants " from invasion,
Mr. Allen and Jonas Fay were the principal
agents. In 1789 he drew up a memorial in favor
of the establishment of a college at Burlington.
Having risen to the rank of eldest major-general
of the militia, he proceeded to Europe in
Dec., 1795, to purchase arms, by the advice of the
governor, for the supply of the State, but as a
private speculation by the sale of his lands, of
which he asserted, that he and the heirs of Ethan
held nearly three hundred thousand acres. He
went to France and purchased of the French re
public twenty-four brass cannon and twenty
thousand muskets at twenty-five livres, expecting
to sell them at fifty, a part of which he shipped
at Ostend in the Olive Branch ; but he was cap
tured Nov. 9, 1796, and carried into England. A
litigation of eight years in the court of admiralty
followed. He Avas charged Avith the purpose of
supplying the Irish rebels Avith arms. In 1798
he Avas imprisoned in France. He returned to
America in 1801. At length he procured a
decision in his favor. His residence, when in
Vermont, was at Colchester; but he died at
Philadelphia Jan. 7, 1814, aged 62, leaving seA'eral
children. He published the natural and political
history of Vermont, 1798, and statements appli
cable to the Olive Branch, Phila. 1807. — Pub.
Char., 1802, p. 234-248; Holmes, II. 472; Amer.
Eememb., 1782, p. 351, Part II. 74.
ALLEN, TIMOTHY, died at Chesterfield Jan.
12, 1806, aged 91. He Avas a minister of note in
his day. A graduate of Yale in 1736, he Avas
ordained at West IlaA'en in 1738, and dismissed
in 1742. In the time of Mr. "Whitfield he was a
zealous preacher, as mentioned by Trumbull.
His second settlement was at Ashford ; his last at
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Chesterfield. He published a sermon at his in
stallation, Ashford, 1761; answer to Pilate's ques
tion; the main point, 1166.
ALLEN, MOSES, minister of Midway, Ga., and
a distinguished friend of his country, was born in
Northampton, Mass., Sept. 14, 1748. He was
educated at the college in New Jersey, where he
was graduated in 1772 ; and was licensed by the
Presbytery of New Brunswick Feb. 1, 1774, and
recommended by them as an ingenious, prudent,
pious man. In his journal of this year he speaks
of passing a few days in December, at his earnest
request, with his friend, James Madison, in Vir
ginia, at the house of his father, Col. Madison,
and of preaching repeatedly at the court house,
and of being solicited to pass the winter there.
In March following he preached first at Christ's
church parish, about twenty miles from Charleston,
in South Carolina. Here he was ordained
March 16, 1775, by Mr. Zubly, Mr. Edmonds, and
William Tcnnent. He preached his farewell ser
mon in this place June 8, 1777, and was soon
afterwards established at Midway, to which place
he had been earnestly solicited to remove.
The British army from Florida under Gen.
Prevost dispersed his society in 1778, and burned
the meeting house, almost every dwelling house,
and the crops of rice then in stacks. In Decem
ber, when Savannah was reduced by the British
troops, he was taken prisoner. The continental
officers were sent to Sunbury on parole, but Mr.
Allen, who was chaplain to the Georgia brigade,
was denied that privilege. His warm exhorta
tions from the pulpit and his animated exertions
in the field exposed him to the particular resent
ment of the British. They sent him on board the
prison ships. Wearied with a confinement of a
number of weeks in a loathsome place, and seeing
no prospect of relief, he determined to attempt
the recovery of his liberty by throwing himself
into the river and swimming to an adjacent
point ; but he was drowned in the attempt on the
evening of Feb. 8, 1779, aged 30. His body was
washed on a neighboring island, and was found
by some of his friends. They requested of the
captain of a British vessel some boards to make
a coffin, but could not procure them.
Mr. Allen, notwithstanding his clerical function,
appeared among the foremost in the day of battle,
and on all occasions sought the post of danger as
the post of honor. The friends of independence
admired him for his popular talents, his courage,
and his many virtues. The enemies of indepen
dence could accuse him of nothing more, than a
vigorous exertion of all his powers in defending
the rights of his injured country. He Avas
eminently a pious man. — Ramsay, II. 6; Hist.
Coll. IX. 157 ; Allen's Ser. on M. Allen ; Hart.
ALLEN, THOMAS, brother of the preceding
and first minister of Pittsfield, Mass., was born
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Jan. 17, 1743, at Northampton, of which town
his great-grandfather, Samuel, was one of the first
settlers, receiving a grant of land from the town
Dec. 17, 1657. In the records of the town the
name is written variously, Allen, Allin, Allyn, and
Alyn. His grandfather, Samuel, who died in
1739, was a deacon of the church, of which
Jonathan Edwards was pastor. His father,
Joseph, who died Dec. 30, 1779, and his mother,
Elizabeth Parsons,, who died Jan. 10, 1800, both
eminent for piety, were the steady friends of Mr.
Edwards during the popular commotion, which
caused the removal of that excellent minister.
The church records commend her character, and
say, she assisted at the birth of three thousand
children.
Through the bequest of an uncle of his father,
— Mr. Thomas Allen, who died in 1754, — Mr.
Allen was educated at Harvard college, where he
was graduated in 1762, being ranked among the
best classical scholars of the day.
After studying theology under the direction of
Mr. Hooker of Northampton, Mr. Allen was
ordained April 18, 17G4, the first minister of Pitts-
field, so named in honor of William Pitt, — then
a frontier town, in which a garrison had been
kept during the French war. The Indian name
of the place was Pontoosuc. At the time of his
settlement there were in Pittsfield but half a
dozen houses not made of logs. He lived to see
it a rich and beautiful town, containing nearly
three thousand inhabitants. During a ministry
of forty-six years he was unwearied in dispensing
the glorious Gospel. Besides his stated labors on
the Sabbath, he frequently delivered lectures, and
in the course of his life preached six or seven
hundred funeral sermons. In the early part of
his ministry he also occasionally preached in the
neighboring towns, not then supplied with settled
ministers.
The same benevolence, which awakened his
zeal in guiding men in the way to heaven, made
him desirous of rendering them happy also in
this world. His charities to the poor excited
their gratitude and rendered his religious instruc
tions the more effectual. His house was the seat
of hospitality. Towards other denominations of
Christians, though strict in his own principles, he
was yet exemplarily candid, neither believing that
true piety was confined to his own sect, nor that
gentleness and forbearance were useless in the
attempt to reclaim men from error. At the com
mencement of the American Revolution, like
most of his brethren, he engaged warmly in the
support of the rights and independence of his
country, for he believed, that the security and per
manence of the best of earthly enjoyments, as
well as the progress of genuine religion, were in
timately connected with public liberty. Twice he
went out as a volunteer chaplain for a short
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time; — from Oct. 3 to Nov. 23, 1776, ho was
absent from home, with the army at White
Plains, near New York, and in June and July,
1777, he was at Ticonderoga. On the retreat of
St. Clair before Burgoyne he returned home.
But the next month, when a detachment from
Burgoyne's troops under the command of Col.
Baum had penetrated to the neighborhood of
Bennington, and threatened to desolate the coun
try, he accompanied the volunteer militia of
rittsficld, who marched to repel the invasion.
Previously to the assault of a particular intrench-
ment, which was filled with refugees, he deemed
it his duty to advance towards the enemy and
exhort them to surrender, assuring them of good
treatment, in a voice distinctly heard by them ;
but being fired upon, he rejoined the militia, and
was among the foremost, who entered the breast
work. His exertions and example contributed
somewhat to the triumph of that day, August
16th, which checked the progress of the British
and led to the capture of Burgoyne. After the
battle he found a Hessian surgeon's horse, loaded
with panniers of bottles of wine. The wine he
administered to the wounded and the weary ; but
two large square white glass bottles he carried
home with him, as trophies of his campaign of
three or four days. During the rebellion of
Shays, which extended to the county of Berk
shire, Mr. Allen supported the authority of the
established government of Massachusetts. The
insurgents at one period threatened to seize him
and carry him as a hostage into the State of New
York. But in his intrepidity he was not to be
shaken from his purpose and his duty. He slept
with arms in his bedroom, ready to defend him
self against the violence of lawless men. In the
new political controversy, which sprung up after
the adoption of the federal constitution, Mr. Al
len's principles attached him to what was called
the Democratic or Republican party. Among his
parishioners were some, who were tories in the
revolutionary war and who remembered with no
good will the zeal of their whig minister ; others
were furious politicians, partaking fully of the
malevolent spirit of the times, intent on accom
plishing their object, though with the weapons
of obloquy and outrage. " During the presidency
of Mr. Jefferson," says the history of Berkshire,
" that spirit of political rancor, that infected every
class of citizens in this country, arraying fathers,
brothers, sons, and neighbors against each other,
entered even the sanctuary of the church. A
number of Mr. Allen's church and congregation
withdrew, and were incorporated by the legisla
ture into a separate parish in 1808 ; thus present
ing to the world the ridiculous spectacle of a church
divided on party politics and known by the party
names of the day." This division was, however,
healed in a few years ; though not until after the
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death of him, whose last days were thus em
bittered, as well as by domestic afflictions in the
loss of his eldest son and daughter.
In Mr. Allen the strength of those affections,
which constitute the charm of domestic and social
life, was remarkable ; giving indeed peculiar
poignancy to the arrows of affliction, but also
swelling in a high degree the amount of good,
found in the pilgrimage of the earth.
After the death of his brother Moses Allen in
1779, he took a journey on horseback to Savan
nah, out of regard to the welfare of the widow and
her infant son, whom, while the war was raging at
the south, he placed for a time in a happy refuge
at his house. Mr. Allen's first-born daughter,
who married William P. White of Boston, died
in London, leaving an infant, unprotected by any
relatives, her husband being then in the East
Indies. Though the child was left under the care
of a very respectable gentleman, who was con
nected with its father in large mercantile busi
ness, yet such was his solicitude for its welfare,
that in the year 1799 he encountered the dangers
of a voyage across the Atlantic and brought his
grandchild home to his own family.
He sailed in the ship Argo, Capt. Rich. — On
the voyage many fears were awakened by a vessel
of force, which pursued the Argo, and was sup
posed to be a French ship. The idea of a prison
in France was by no means welcome. In the
expectation of a fight Mr. Allen obtained the
captain's consent to offer a prayer with the men
and to make an encouraging speech to them
before the action. The frigate proved to be
British ; and the deliverance was acknowledged in
a thanksgiving prayer. On his arrival at London
he was received with great kindness by his
friends, Mr. liobert Cowic and Mr. llobert Steel,
and was made acquainted with several of the dis
tinguished evangelical ministers of England ;
with Newton, and Ilawcis, and Rowland Hill, and
Bogue, and others, from whom he caught a pious
zeal for the promotion of foreign missions, which
on his return he diffused around him. He
regarded the London missionary society as the
most wonderful work of Divine Providence in
modern times. It appears from his journal, that
he was absent from Pittsfiekl from July 3d to
Dec. 30, 1799. His return passage was boisterous
and extended to the great length of eighty-five
days. Among other objects of curiosity, which
attracted his attention in London, he went to .see
the king, as he passed from St. James' to the
parliament house in a coach, drawn by six cream-
colored horses. On this sight he recorded the
following reflections : " This is he, who desolated
my country ; who ravaged the American coasts ;
annihilated our trade ; burned our towns ; plun
dered our cities ; sent forth his Indian allies to
scalp our wives and children ; starved our youth
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in his prison ships ; and caused the expenditure
of a hundred millions of money and a hundred
thousand of precious lives. Instead of being the
father of his people, he has been their destroyer.
May God forgive him so great guilt ! And yet he
is the idol of the people, who think, they cannot
live without him." In this journal he also re
corded with much confidence the following pre
diction : " This country will work the subversion
and ruin of the freedom and government of my
country, or my country will work the melioration
if not the renovation of this country." Late
events seem to prove, that the example of Ameri
can liberty has not been without a beneficial effect
in Great Britain.
His health had been declining for several years
before his death, and more than once he was
brought to the brink of the grave. For several
months he was unable to preach. He was fully
aware of his approaching dissolution, and the
prospects of eternity brightened, as he drew near
the close of life. Those precious promises, which
with peculiar tenderness he had often announced
to the sick and dying, were now his support. The
all-sufficient Saviour was his only hope ; and he
rested on him with perfect confidence. He was
desirous of departing, and was chiefly anxious,
lest he should be impatient,
KnoAving his dependence upon God, he contin
ually besought those, who were around his bed,
to pray for him. He took an affecting leave of
lu's family, repeating his pious counsels and be
stowing upon each one his valedictory blessing.
"When he was. reminded by a friend of his great
labors in the ministry, he disclaimed all merit for
what he had done, though he expressed his
belief, that he had plainly and faithfully preached
the Gospel. He forgave and prayed for his
enemies. When one of his children, a day or
two before his death, pressed him to take some
nourishment, or it would be impossible for him to
live, he replied, "Live? I am going to live
forever ! " He frequently exclaimed, " Come,
Lord Jesus ; come quickly." In the morning of
the Lord's day, Feb. 11, 1810, he fell asleep in
Jesus, in the GSth year of his age and the 46th
of his ministry. Among his children, who have
deceased since his departure, was one son, who
was a captain in service during the Avar of 1812.
Another, ])r. Elisha Lee Allen, officiated as sur
geon in the same Avar on the Niagara frontier, and
was retained on the peace establishment May,
1815. His account of the battle of ChippeAva
was published in the Boston Centinel Aug. 10,
1814. He died of the yclloAV fever at Pas
Christian, near New Orleans, Sept. 5, 1817.
Another son, Prof. Solomon M. Allen, died a feAv
days afterwards, Sept, 23, 1817. And Mrs.
Piiplcy, the wife of Maj.-Gcn. llipley, died at the
Bay of St. Louis of the yellow fever Sept. 11,
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1820. Mr. Allen's Avidow, Elizabeth, died March
31, 1830, aged 82 years. She Avas the daughter
of RCA-. J. Lee of Salisbury, and a descendant
from GOAT. Bradford.
He published a sermon on the death of his
daughter, Elizabeth White, 1798; on the death
of Moses Allen, son of Hcv. Moses Allen, 1801 ;
on the death of Anna Collins, 1803 ; on the death
of his son Thomas Allen, Jr., 180G ; election ser
mon, 1808. Several of his letters on the sickness
and death of his daughter Avere published in the"
Edinburgh Missionary Magazine for Oct. Nov. and
Dec., 1199. — Panoplist,- March, 1810; Hist, of
Berkshire, 377; Pittsfidd Sun, Feb. 21.
ALLEN, SOLOMON, a useful minister of the
Gospel, brother of the preceding, Avas born at
Northampton Feb. 23, 1701. He and four of his
brothers entered the army in the ReA-olutionary
Avar. Of these, tAvo, Moses and Thomas, Avhose
lives are here recorded, Avcrc chaplains. Another,
Maj. Jonathan Allen, after escaping the perils of
the sendee, Avas shot by his companion, Mr. Seth
Lyman, Avhile hunting deer in a deep snoAv in the
neighborhood of Northampton, in January, 1780,
aged 42 years. To such families of daring, self-
denying, zealous patriots and soldiers America is
indebted, through the blessing of God on their
sacrifices and toils, for her freedom and inde
pendence.
Mr. Solomon Allen, in the course of the war,
rose to the rank of major. At the time of the
capture of Andre he Avas a lieutenant and adju
tant, on serA'ice near the lines not far from NCAV
York. His account of the removal of Andre to
West Point, received from his OAATI lips, will cor
rect the errors of the other accounts, Avliich have
been given to the world. When the British spy
was brought to the American post, Col. Jameson
ordered Lieut. Allen to select a guard of nine
men out of three hundred, who were detached
from West Point as a covering party to Col. Weld's
(or Sheldon's) light horse on the hues sixty miles
from West Point, and to carry the prisoner to Gen.
Arnold, the commanding officer at West Point,
with a letter from Jameson to Arnold. Just at
night, Sept, 23, 1780, he set out Avith his prisoner,
Avho wore an old, torn crimson coat, nankeen A'est,
and small clothes, old boots and flapped hat.
Andre's arms being bound behind him, one of the
soldiers held the strap, which was around his
arm, and the guard on each side as well as before
and behind Avcre ordered to run him through, if
he attempted to escape. Lieut, Allen, riding
behind, assured Andre of good treatment, and
offered, if he should be tired, to dismount and
give him his horse. HaA'ing thus proceeded
seven miles, AAith much cheerfulness on the part
of the prisoner, an express overtook them Avith a
letter from Jameson of this import, that as the
enemy might have parties landed between them
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and West Point, Lieut. Allen was ordered to leave
the river road and take the prisoner immediately
over east to lower Salem and deliver him to Capt.
Hoogland, commanding there a company of light
horse ; then to take one of the guard and proceed
with Jameson's letter to Arnold at West Point,
sending the eight men back under the command
of the sergeant. The guard were unwilling to
comply, for they wished to get back to West
Point.' They said, there was no danger, and it
would be best to proceed ; and Andre seconded
the proposal. lie thought, the fear of a rescue
was very idle. But Lieut. Allen replied, like a
soldier, I must obey orders. From this moment
Andre appeared downcast. The same night
Allen delivered him to Hoogland, having travelled
twenty miles. In the morning of Sept. 24th he
proceeded with one of the guard to West Point,
it being arranged, that Andre should soon follow
him ; but the man being on foot, and the distance
forty or fifty miles, they did not arrive till the
forenoon of the 25th, at llobinson's house, the
east side of the river, opposite West Point, — the
residence of Arnold and the quarters of the
general officers. Arnold was in the buttery
eating, it being 10 or 11 o'clock ; on receiving the
letter from Jameson he was thrown into great
confusion; he, however, in a short time asked
Lieut. Allen up stairs to sit with Mrs. Arnold,
probably to keep him from an interview with the
other officers, and precipitately left the house and
fled. Such was Mr. Allen's statement. Wash
ington soon arrived, at 12 o'clock on the same
day, from Hartford, and in the afternoon the
treason was discovered by the arrival of the
packet from Jameson for Washington ; Andre
was brought to head-quarters the next day. On
the same day Adj. Allen was invited to dine at
head-quarters ; and at dinner he heard Gen.
Knox remark, "What a \eryfoTtunatc discovery
this was! Without it we should all have been
cut up." To which Gen. Washington very
gravely and emphatically replied, " I do not call
this a fortunate occurrence; but a remarkable
Providence! "
After the war Maj. Allen was a conspicuous
officer in quelling the insurrection of Shays. At
the age of forty his soul was conquered by the
power of the Gospel, which till then he had
resisted ; in a few years afterwards he was chosen
a deacon of the church of Northampton. As his
personal piety increased, he became solicitous to
preach the Gospel to his perishing brethren.
But, at the age of fifty, with no advantages of
education, there were formidable obstacles in his
way. The ministers around him suggested dis
couragements, as he could hardly acquire the
necessary qualifications. But his pious zeal was
irrepressible. There were various branches of
learning, which he could not hope to gain ; but
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" one thing he could do ; — he could bend all the
force of a naturally robust intellect to the work
of searching the Scriptures. This he did, and
while in this way he enriched his understanding
from their abundant treasures, his faith was
strengthened, his hope brightened, and all the
Christian graces were refreshed from that fountain
of living waters." He read also HOAVC'S and
Baxter's works. The former was in his view the
greatest of uninspired writers. From these
sources he drew his theology. He wrote out a
few sermons, and thus commenced the labor of
preaching, at first in a few small towns in
Hampshire county, but for the last years of his
life in the western part of the State of New York,
in Middletown at the head of Canandaigua Lake,
in Puga, Pittsford, Brighton, and other towns near
the Genesee lliver. Without property himself,
he preached the Gospel to the poor, and was per
fectly content with food and clothing, demanding
and receiving no other compensation for his ser
vices. He rejoiced in fatigues and privations in
the service of his blessed Master. Sometimes in
his journeys he reposed himself with nothing but
a blanket to protect him from the inclemency of
the weather. But, though poor, he was the means
of enriching many with the inestimable riches of
religion. Four churches were established by
him, and he numbered about two hundred souls,
as by his preaching reclaimed from perdition.
Though poor himself, there were those connected
with him, who were rich, and by Avhose liberality
he was enabled to accomplish his benevolent pur
poses. When one of his sons presented him
with a hundred dollars, he begged him to receive
again the money, as he had no unsupplicd wants
and knew not what to do with it ; but, as he was
not allowed to return it, he purchased with it
books for the children of his flock, and gave every
child a book. From such sources he expended
about a thousand dollars in books and clothing
for the people in the wilderness, while at the
same time he toiled incessantly in teaching them
the wray to heaven. Such an example of dis
interestedness drew forth from an enemy of the
Gospel the following remark : " This is a thing I
cannot get along with : this old gentleman, who
can be as rich as he pleases, comes here and does
all these things for nothing ; there must be some
thing in his religion."
In the autumn of 1820, after having been nearly
twenty years a preacher in the new settlements
of the west, his- declining health induced him to
bid adieu to his people, in order to visit once
more, before his death, his children and friends
in Massachusetts and in the cities of New York
and Philadelphia. His parting with his church at
Brighton was like the parting of Paul with the
elders of the church of Ephesus. Many of the
members of the church accompanied him to the
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boat, and tears were shed and prayers offered on
the shore of Lake Ontario, as on the seacoast of
Asia Minor. Even the passengers in the boat
could not refrain from weeping at the solemnity
and tenderness of the scene. It was, as it was
apprehended to be, the last interview between the
beloved pastor and his people, until they meet
again in the morning of the resurrection of the
just. The attachment of children to Mr. Allen
was indeed remarkable. Wherever he went,
children, while they venerated his white locks,
would cling around his knees to listen to the
interesting anecdotes, which he would relate, and
to his warnings and instructions.
Mr. Allen revisited his friends, with a presenti
ment, that it was his last visit. lie had come, he
said, " to set his house in order," alluding to his
numerous children and grandchildren, living in
different places. It was his custom to address
them first individually, then collectively, and while
a heavenly serenity beamed upon his countenance,
he pressed upon them the concerns of another
world with plainness and simplicity, with pathos
and energy. He had the happiness to be per
suaded, that all his children, excepting one, were
truly pious ; and concerning that one he had the
strongest faith, that God would have mercy upon
him. After ten years that son espoused a cause,
which he never before loved, and manifested
much pious zeal.
At Pittsfield, where some of his relatives lived
and where his brother had been the minister, Mr.
Allen went through the streets, and, entering each
house, read a chapter in the Bible, exhorting all
the members of the family to serve God, and
praying fervently for their salvation. In like
manner he visited other towns. He felt, that the
time was short, and he was constrained to do all
the good in his power. With his white locks and
the strong impressive tones of his voice, and
having a known character of sanctity, all were
awed at the presence of the man of God. He
went about with the holy zeal and authority of an
apostle. In prayer Mr. Allen displayed a sub
limity and pathos, which good judges have
considered as unequalled by any ministers, whom
they have known. It was the energy of true
faith and strong feeling. In November he arrived
at New York, and there, after a few weeks, he
expired in the arms of his children Jan. 20, 1821,
aged 70 years. At his funeral his pall was borne
by eight clergymen of the city.
As he went down to the grave he enjoyed an
unbroken serenity of soul, and rejoiced and
exulted in the assured hope of eternal life in the
presence of his Redeemer in heaven. Some of
his last memorable sayings have been preserved
by Rev. Mr. Danforth in his sketch of his last
hours. If there are any worldly-minded ministers,
who neglect the sheep and lambs of the flock, —
any, who repose themselves in learned indolence,
— any, who are not bold to reprove and diligent
to instruct, — any, who are not burning with holy
zeal, nor strong in faith, nor fervent and mighty
in prayer ; to them the history of the ministry
and faithfulness of Mr. Allen might show to what
a height of excellence and honor they might
reach, did they but possess his spirit.
Mr. Allen published no writings to keep alive
his name on earth. He did not, like some learned
men, spend his life in laboriously doing nothing.
But he has a record on high ; and his benevolent,
pious, zealous toils have doubtless gained for him
that honor, which cometh from God, and which
will be green and flourishing, when the honors of
science and of heroic exploits and all the honors
of earth shall wither away. In his life there is
presented to the world a memorable example of
the power in doing good, which may be wielded
by one mind, even under the most unfavorable
circumstances, \vhen its energies are wholly
controlled by a spirit of piety. Though found in
deep poverty, such a pious zeal may mould the
characters of those, who by their industry and
enterprise acquire great wealth ; and thus may be
the remote cause of all their extensive charities.
One lesson especially should come home to the
hearts of parents ; teaching them to hope that by
their faithfulness and the constancy and impor
tunity of prayer all their offspring and a multitude
of their descendants will be rendered through the
faithfulness and mercy of God rich in faith, and be
made wise unto salvation. — Sketch of his last
hours, by J. N. Danfortli ; Sparks' Letters of
Washington, VII.
ALLEN, JONATHAN, minister of Bradford, died
in 1827, aged 77. He published a sermon at the
ordination of B. Thurston, 1786.
ALLEN, J:«IES, a poet, was born at Boston
July 24, 1739. It was his misfortune to be the
son of a merchant of considerable wealth.
From youth he was averse to study. He early
adopted free notions on religion. After remaining
three years at college, he afterwards lived at his
ease in Boston, without business and without a
family, displaying much eccentricity, till his death
, Oct., 1808, aged G9 years. Had he been without
property, he might have been impelled to some
useful exertion of his powers. He wrote a few
pieces of poetry — lines on the Boston massacre,
at the request of Dr. Warren, the Retrospect, &c.
— Spec, of Amer. Poetry, I. 160.
ALLEN, WILLIAM HENRY, a naval officer, was
born at Providence, R. I., Oct. 21, 1784. His
father, William Allen, was a major in the Revolu
tionary army, and in 1799 appointed brigadier-
general of the militia of the State. His mother
was the sister of Gov. Jones. Notwithstanding
the remonstrances of his father, who wished him
! to cultivate the arts of peace, he entered the navy
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as a midshipman in 1800 and sailed under Bain-
bridge to Algiers. After his return he again
sailed for the Mediterranean under Barren in the
Philadelphia; the third time, in 1802, under
Rodgers in the frigate John Adams; and the
fourth time, in 1804, as sailing master of the Con
gress. In his voyage, while the ship was lying to
in a gale, he fell from the fore yard into the sea,
and must have been lost, had he not risen close
by the mizzen chains, on which he caught hold.
Thus was he by a kind Providence preserved.
As lieutenant he repaired on board the Constitu
tion, commanded by Ilodgers, in Oct., 1805.
During the cruise he visited the mountains ^Etna
and Vesuvius and the cities Herculaneum and
Pompeii. Returning in 1806, he was the next
year on board the Chesapeake, when, without
fighting, she struck her colors to the British
frigate Leopard, — an event, which filled him with
indignation. He, in consequence, drew up the
letter of the officers to the secretary of the navy,
urging the arrest and trial of Com. Barron for
neglect of duty. During the embargo of 1808
he cruised off Block Island for the enforcement
of the law, but in his delicacy got excused from
boarding in person any vessel from his native
State. In 1809 he joined the frigate United States
as first lieutenant under Decatur. Soon after the
declaration of Avar in 1812 he was distinguished
in the action, Oct. 25th, which issued in the capture
of the Macedonian. The superior skill of the
United States in gunnery was ascribed to the
diligent training and discipline of Lieut. Allen.
lie carried the prize safely into the harbor of
New York amidst the gratulations of thousands.
Promoted to be master commandant, in 1813 he
conveyed Mr. Crawford, the minister, to France
in the brig Argus, and afterwards proceeded to
the Irish Channel, agreeably to orders, for the
purpose of destroying the English commerce.
His success was so great, that the injury inflicted
by him upon the enemy in the capture of twenty
vessels was estimated at 2,000,000 dollars. In
his generosity he never allowed the baggage of
passengers to be molested. On the 14th of Aug.
he fell in with the British brig Pelican, cruising
in the channel for the purpose of capturing the
Argus. Soon after the action commenced, Capt.
Allen was mortally wounded, and carried below ;
Lieut. Watson being also wounded, the command
for a time devolved on Lieut. W. H. Allen, Jr.
After a vigorous resistance of nearly an hour, the
Argus was captured, with the loss of six killed
and seventeen wounded. Capt. Allen was carried
into Plymouth the next day, his leg having been
amputated at sea. He died Aug. 15, 1813, aged
28 years, and was buried with military honors.
Capt. Allen was highly respected and esteemed in
private life, exhibiting a uniform courtesy and
amenity of manners. With great care he
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abstained from all irritating and insulting language.
ile united the milder graces with the stern and
masculine character of tLe sailor. The eager
desire of fame, called " the last infirmity of noble
minds," seemed to reign in his heart. Against
the wishes of all his friends he entered the naval
service, thirsting for honor and distinction, of
which he had his share ; but in early manhood he
died a prisoner in a foreign land. If there must
be victims to war, we could wish the defenders of
their country's rights a higher reward than fame.
Bailey's Naval Biography, 205-226.
ALLEN, SOLOMON METCALF, professor of lan
guages in Micldlebury college, Vermont, was the
son of Rev. T. Allen of Pittsfield, and was born
Feb. 18, 1789. lie received his second name on
account of his being a descendant on his mother's
side of Rev. Joseph Metcalf, first minister of
Falmouth. His father destined him to be a
farmer, as he was athletic and fond of active life ;
but, after he became pious, his friends being
desirous that he should receive a collegial edu
cation, he commenced the study of Latin at the
age of twenty. In 1813 he graduated at Middle-
bury with high reputation as a scholar. During
a year spent at Andover, besides attending to the
customary studies, he read a part of the New
Testament in the Syriac language. After officiat
ing for two years as a tutor, he was chosen in
1816 professor of the ancient languages, having
risen to this honor in seven years after commencing
the study of Latin. He lived to accomplish but
little, but long enough to show what the energy
of pious zeal is capable of accomplishing.
Respected and beloved by all his associates and
acquaintance, his sudden and awful death over
whelmed them with sorrow. Being induced, on
account of a defect in the chimney, to go
imprudently upon the roof of the college building,
he fell from it Sept. 23, 1817, and in consequence
died the same evening, aged 28 years. In his
last hours his numerous friends crowded around
him, " watching with trembling anxiety the flight
of his immortal soul to the kindred spirits of a
better world." Under the extreme anguish of his
dying moments, resigning the loveliness, which he
had hoped would be shortly his own, and all the
fair prospects of this world, he exclaimed : " The
Lord reigneth, let the earth rejoice ! O Father,
thy will be done! So seemcth it good in thy
sight, O Lord." Professor Frederic Hall has
described his frank and noble character and his
many virtues, the tenderness of his heart and his
energy of mind. Another writer speaks of his
unwearied perseverance and unconquerable reso
lution, and says : " His march to eminence was
steady, rapid, and sure. Whether he turned his
attention to the abstruse and profound branches
of mathematical science or to the stores of ancient
classical learning, he solved every problem and
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overcame every obstacle with equal facility and
triumph." Mr. Allen was at Andover one of
" the group of stars," the friends of Carlos Wilcox,
alluded to by him in the following lines. The
others were Sylvester Lamed, Alexander M.
Fisher, Levi Parsons, Pliny Fisk, and Joseph R.
Andrus ; all recorded in this volume. These,
with Mr. Allen and Mr. Wilcox, all young men,
no longer shine on the earth ; but, it is believed,
they make a constellation of seven stars, like the
Pleiades, resplendent in heaven. May there be
in future many such groups in our theological
schools.
" Ye were a group of stars collected here,
Some mildly glowing, others sparkling bright ;
Here, rising in a region calm and clear,
Ye shone awhile with intermingled light ;
Then, parting, each pursuing his own flight
O'er the wide hemisphere, ye singly shone;
But, ere ye climbed to half your promised height,
Ye sunk again with brightening glory round you thrown,
Each left a brilliant track, as each expired alone."
— HalVs Eulogy; Wilcox 's Remains, 90; Na
tional Standard, Oct. 1, 1817.
ALLEN, PAUL, a poet, was born at Providence,
R. I., Feb. 15, 1775 ; his father, Paul Allen, being
a representative in the legislature, and his mother
the daughter of Gov. Cook. He was graduated
at Brown university in 1796 and afterwards
studied, but never practised, law. Devoted to
literature, he removed to Philadelphia and was
engaged as a writer in the Port-Folio and in the
United States Gazette, and was also employed to
prepare for the press the travels of Lewis and
Clark. After this he was for some time one of the
editors of the Federal Republican at Baltimore ;
but on quitting this employment he found him
self in impaired health and extreme indigence,
with a widowed mother dependent on him for
support. In his mental disorder, he believed
that he was to be waylaid and murdered. To
the disgrace of our laws he was thrown into jail
for a debt of 30 dollars. About this time he
wrote for the Portico, a magazine, associated with
Pierpont and Neal. His friends procured for
him the establishment of the Journal of the
Times, and afterwards of the Morning Chronicle,
which was widely circulated. Having long and
frequently advertised a history of the American
Revolution, of which he had written nothing, it
was now determined to publish it, an unequalled
subscription having been obtained. The work
appeared in two vols. in his name, but was written
by Mr. John Neal and Mr. Watkins ; Neal writing
the first vol., beginning with the Declaration of
Independence. His principal poem, called Noah
which has simplicity and feeling, was also sub
mitted to Mr. Neal, and reduced to one-fifth of
its original size, lie died at Baltimore in Aug.
1826, aged 51 years. He published origina
poems, serious and enter taining, 1801. A long
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extract from Noah is in Specimens of American
Poetry. — Spec. American Poetry, II. 185.
ALLEN, RICHARD, first bishop of the Afri-
an Methodist Episcopal church, died at Philadel
phia March 26, 1831, aged 71.
ALLEN, BEXJAMIX, Rector of St. Paul's church,
Philadelphia, died at sea in the brig Edward on
his return from Europe Jan. 27, 1829. He had
been the editor of the Christian Magazine, and
was a disinterested, zealous servant of God.
ALLEN, JEXXIXGS, died in Fail-field district,
S. C., Jan., 1835, aged 114; a soldier of the rev
olutionary army.
ALLEN, EPHRAEVI, died in Salem, N. Y., in
1816; a graduate of Harvard in 1789, and re
spected as a physician. His wife was a daughter
of Gen. Newhall.
ALLEN, HARRISOX, missionary among the
Choctaws, died at Eliot Aug. 19, 1831, aged 39.
Born in Chilmark, he graduated at Bowdoin in
1824, at Andover seminary in 1828. He arrived
at Eliot Jan., 1830.
ALLEN, BEXJAMIX, LL. D., died at Hyde
Park, N. Y., July 22, 1836, aged 65 ; once pro
fessor of mathematics at Union College, and long
the eminent head of a classical school at Hyde
Park.
ALLEN, MYRA, wife of D. O. Allen, mission
ary at Bombay, died suddenly, Feb. 5, 1831, aged
30. She was the daughter of Col. Abel Wood
of Westminster, Mass. ; a devoted and useful mis
sionary for the short period of three years. Her
character is described in the Miss. Herald for
1831 and 1832.
ALLEN, ORPAH, missionary, wife of 1). O.
Allen, died at Bombay June 5, 1842. Her name
was Graves, of Rupert, Vt. She went to Bombay
in 1834 and was married in 1838.
ALLEN, AZUBA, wife of D. O. Allen, mission
ary at Bombay, died June 11, 1843. Her name
was Condit. She left New York with her sister,
Mrs. Nevins, in 1836, and lived some time in
Batavia and Borneo before her marriage in Dec.,
1842. She died in peace and triumph.
ALLEN, SARAH Jonxsox, wife of William
Allen, died at Northampton Feb. 25, 1848, aged
57 ; a daughter of John M. Breed, a merchant
of Norwich, Conn. — While unmarried, she and
Sarah L. Iluntington, afterwards married to Dr.
Eli Smith, established and conducted a Sabbath
school among the Mohegan Indians near Nor
wich. In the result a church was built at their
residence in Montville, at which Gen. William
Williams was accustomed, last year, to visit them
every Sabbath as their teacher.
ALLEN, JOSEPH, died at Worcester Sept. 2,
1827, aged 78. Born in Boston, his mother was
a sister of Samuel Adams. He was a merchant
in Leicester, a benefactor and treasurer of the
academy. In 1776 he removed to Worcester, and
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sustained various public offices, — was clerk of the
courts, a councillor, a member of congress, twice
one of the electors of president. His sons were
Charles and George Allen.
ALLEN, HEMAN, died in Burlington, Vt, Dec.
11, 1844, a brother of Ethan A., and a member
of congress. He was also minister to Chili.
ALLEN, JONATHAN, died at Pittsfield, May 26,
1845, aged 72. He was the son of Ilev. T. Allen,
and had been a senator of Massachusetts. He
greatly promoted the interests of agriculture by
introducing into Berkshire an excellent flock of
Spanish merino sheep, for which sole object he
crossed the ocean.
ALLEN, SAMUEL C., died at Northfield Feb.
8, 1845. A graduate of Dartmouth in 1794, he
was the minister of N. in 1795; but withdrew
from the pulpit and studied law. For twelve
years he was a member of congress. He pub
lished an oration July 4, 180G ; eulogy on
President John Whcelock, delivered at Hanover
Aug. 17, 1817.
ALLERTON, ISAAC, one of the first settlers
of Plymouth, came over in the first ship, the May
flower. His name appears the fifth in the agree
ment of the company, signed at Cape Cod, Nov.
11, 1620. There were six persons in his family.
Mary, his wife, died Feb. 25, 1621. His daugh
ter, Mary, married Elder T. Cushman, son of
Robert C., and died in 1699, aged about 90,
the last survivor of those, who came over in the
Mayflower. — Sarah married Moses Maverick of
Marblehead. In the summer or autumn of 1626
he went to England as agent for the colony ; and
he returned in the spring of 1627, having condi
tionally purchased for his associates the rights of
the adventurers for 1800 pounds, the agreement
being signed Nov. 15, 1626, and also hired for
them 200 pounds, at 30 per cent, interest, and ex
pended it in goods. He took a second voyage as
agent in 1627 and concluded the bargain with the
company at London Nov. 6, accomplishing also
other objects, particularly obtaining a patent for
a trading place in the Kennebec. Judge Davis
erroneously represents, that Mr. Prince dates the
departure of Mr. Allerton in the autumn ; but Mr.
Prince speaks only of his going " with the return
of the ships," probably June or July. The voyage
of the preceding year he regards as made " in the
fall ; " also the third voyage in 1628, for the pur
pose of enlarging the Kennebec patent. After
his return in August, 1629, he proceeded again
to England and with great difficulty obtained the
patent Jan. 29, 1630. A fifth voyage was made
in 1630, and he returned the following year in
the ship White Angel. He was an enterprising
trader at Penobscot and elsewhere. In 1633 he
•was engaged in " a trading wigwam," which was
lost at Machias. A bark of his was lost on Cape
Ann in 1635, and twenty-one persons perished,
among whom were John Avery, a minister, his
wife, and six children. The rock is called " Avery's
fall." From 1643 to 1659 he lived at New Haven,
and probably traded with the Dutch at New York.
In 1653 he received mackerel from Boston to sell
for half profits, and is called J. Allerton, senior. —
Point Alderton in Boston harbor is supposed to
be named from him. — His second wife, whom he
married before 1627, and who died of " the pest
ilent fever " in 1634, was Fear Brcwster, daughter
of Elder Brewster, who had another daughter,
Love, and a son, Wrestling. It seems, that he
was married again ; for coming from New Haven
in 1644, he was cast away with his wife Johanna
at Scituate, but was saved. He died in 1659 ; his
widow in 1684. His son Isaac was graduated in
1650 : — Elizabeth, his daughter, married B. Starr
and S. Eyre. Davis1 Morton, 38, 221, 389, 391 ;
Mass. His. Coll. III. 46 ; Prince, 242 ; Savage's
Winthr. I. 25; II. 210; /. Mathers' Rem. Prov.
ALLISON, FRANCIS, D. D., assistant minister
of the first Presbyterian church in Philadelphia,
was born in Ireland in 1705. After an early
classical education at an academy he completed
his studies at the university of Glasgow. He
came to this country in 1735, and was soon ap
pointed pastor of a Presbyterian church at New
London in Chester county, Penn. Here, about
the year 1741, his solicitude for the interests of
the Redeemer's kingdom and his desire of en
gaging young men in the work of the ministry
and of promoting public happiness by the diffu
sion of religious liberty and learning induced him
to open a public school. There was at this time
scarcely a particle of learning in the middle
States, and he generally instructed all, that came
to him, without fee or reward. — About the year
1747 he was invited to take the charge of an
academy in Philadelphia; in 1755 he was elected
vice provost of the college, which had just been
established, and professor of moral philosophy.
He was also minister in the first Presbyterian
church. In the discharge of the laborious duties,
which devolved upon him, he continued till his
death Nov. 28, 1777, aged 72.
Besides an unusually accurate and profound
acquaintance with the Latin and Greek classics,
he was well informed in moral philosophy, history,
and general literature. To his zeal for the diffu
sion of knowledge Pennsylvania owes much of
that taste for solid learning and classical literature,
for which many of her principal characters have
been so distinguished. The private virtues of Dr.
Allison conciliated the esteem of all that knew
him, and his public usefulness has erected a last
ing monument to his praise. For more than
forty years he supported the ministerial character
with dignity and reputation. In his public ser
vices he was plain, practical, and argumentative ;
warm, animated, and pathetic. He was greatly
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honored by the gracious Redeemer in being
made instrumental, as it is believed, in the salva
tion of many, who heard him. lie was frank and
ingenuous in his natural temper ; warm and zeal
ous in his friendships ; catholic in his sentiments ;
a friend to civil and religious liberty. His benev
olence led him to spare no pains nor trouble in
assisting the poor and distressed by his advice
and influence, or by his own private liberality. It
was he, who planned and was the means of estab
lishing the widows' fund, which was remarkably
useful. He often expressed his hopes in the
mercy of God unto eternal life, and but a few
days before his death said to Dr. Ewing, that he
had no doubt, but that according to the gospel
covenant he should obtain the pardon of his sins
through the great Redeemer of mankind, and
enjoy an eternity of rest and glory in the presence
of God. — He published a sermon delivered be
fore the synods of New York and Pennsylvania
May 24, 1758, entitled, peace and unity recom
mended. — Assembly's Miss. Mag. 1. 457 — 361;
Miller's Retrospect, II. 342; Holmes' Life of
Stiles, 98, 99.
ALLISON, PATRICK, D. D., first minister of the
Presbyterian church in Baltimore, was born in
Lancaster county in 1740, educated at the college
of Philadelphia, and installed in 17G2 at Balti
more, where he remained in eminent usefulness
till his death Aug. 21, 1802, aged 61. His few
publications were in favor of civil and religious
liberty.
ALLSTON, JOSEPH, general, was elected gov
ernor of South Carolina in 1812. He died at
Charleston Sept. 10, 1816, aged 38. His wife,
the daughter of Col. Aaron Burr, was lost at sea
on her passage from Charleston to New York in
1812.
ALLSTON, WILLIAM, colonel, senator in the
first congress, died at Charleston June 26, 1839,
aged 82. One of the largest owners of his fellow
men in the State, his slaves cultivated his paternal
estate near Georgetown. He was an officer
under Marion ; and the father of Gov. A.
ALLSTON, WASHINGTON, a very distinguished
painter, died at Cambridge July 9, 1843, aged 63.
He was born of a respected family in Charleston,
S. C., Nov. 5, 1779. After being in the school
of R. Rogers, Newport, he graduated at Harvard
in 1800. He was early fond of music, painting,
and poetry. In order to cultivate his taste for
painting he sold his patrimonial estate, and
entered in 1801 the Royal Academy in London,
of which Benjamin West, an American, was the
president. In 1804 he passed over to Paris and
thence to Italy. Thus he was eight years in
Europe, studying the works of the great masters,
and enjoying the friendship of poets and painters
in England and Italy. Among his friends were
the poets Wordsworth, Southey, and Coleridge ;
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and among the painters Reynolds, West, and
Fuseli.
In 1809 he returned to America, and the next
year delivered a poem at Cambridge at the annual
meeting of the Phi Beta Kappa society, when the
writer of this had the honor of being his literary
associate, and of delivering the prose address on
that occasion; and after the lapse of forty-six
years I remember well his ample locks, and fine,
interesting, animated, spiritual countenance. At
this period he married the sister of Dr. Channing.
The years from 1811 to 1818 he also spent in
England, where he published in 1813 the sylphs
of the seasons and other poems. God afflicted
him by bereaving him of his wife ; but led him to
seek earnestly the permanent consolations of re
ligion. His faith was strong in the incarnation
of the Son of God ; and he had recourse to the
sacraments of the church.
On his return in 1818 he made Boston his
home ; but soon built him a house and studio in
Cambridge, where he married a daughter of Judge
Dana in 1830. His principal works as a painter
were, " the dead man restored to life by Elijah,"
" the angel liberating Peter from prison," " Jacob's
dream," " Elijah in the desert," " the angel Uriel
in the sun," " Saul and the witch of Endor,"
" Spalatro's vision of the bloody hand," " Gabriel
setting the guard of the heavenly host," " Anna
Page and Slender," " Beatrice," and " Belshazzar's
Feast," — his last work. He died suddenly. He
possessed a powerful and brilliant imagination ;
and as a colorist he was called the American
Titian. His brother, William Moore A., died at
Newrport in 1844, aged 62. Receiving by the will
of his father a young slave, named Diana, he
emancipated her, and she became the mother of
freemen in Charleston. His faith in the atone
ment and his Christian character were commended
in a sermon by Mr. Albro of Cambridge. Besides
his poems, he also published Monaldi, a prose
tale ; lectures on art and poems, with a preface
by Mr. Dana, N. Y., 1850.
ALLYN, MATTHEW, judge, died at Windsor,
Conn., in 1758, aged 97. He was a colonel, a
councillor, a judge of the supreme court.
ALLYN, JOHN, D. D., the minister of Duxbury,
died July 19, 1833, aged 66. He was born in
Barnstable, and was a graduate of 1785 ; ordained
in 1788. Benj. Kent was his colleague in 1826.
A memoir by C. Francis, his son-in-law, is in
Hist. Coll. III., vol. 5.
He published a sermon at the ordination of
A. Bradford, 1793; at thanksgiving, 1798; at
Hanover, 1799; at Plymouth, 1801; at election,
1805 ; at New Year's, 1806 ; Christian Monitor,
1806, being prayers, &c. ; at Sandwich, 1808 ; also
two charges, and obituary notices of Drs. West
and Barnes.
ALSOP, GEORGE, published "a character of
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the province of Maryland," describing the laws,
customs, commodities, usage of slaves, &c. ; also
" a small treatise of the wild and native Indians,
&c." London, 1GG6, pp. 118.
ALSOP, RICHARD, a poet, the son of Richard
A. and Mary Wright, was born in Middletown,
Conn., in 1759, and was a merchant, as was his
father. He died at Flatbush, L. I., Aug. 20,
1815, aged 56 years, with a character of correct
morality. Several of his poetical compositions
are preserved in the volume entitled " American
Poetry." In 1800 he published a monody, in
heroic verse, on the death of Washington, and
in 1808 a translation from the Italian of a part
of Berni's Orlando Inamorato, under the title of
the Fairy of the Enchanted Lake. He published
also several prose translations from the French
and Italian, among which is Molini's history of
Chili, with notes, 4 vols. 8 vo., 1808. This was
republished in London without acknowledgment
of its being an American translation. In 1815 he
published the narrative of the captivity of J. R.
Jewitt at Nootka Sound. The Universal Receipt
Book was compiled also by him. Among numer
ous unpublished works, left by him, is the poem
called The Charms of Fancy. He wrote for
amusement, and made but little effort for literary
distinction ; yet his powers were above the com
mon level. With a luxuriant fancy he had a
facility of expression. In 1791 the Echo was
commenced at Hartford, being a series of bur
lesque, poetic pieces, designed at first to ridicule
the inflated style of Boston editors. The plan
was soon extended, so as to include politics. The
writers were Alsop, Theodore Dwight, Hopkins,
Trumbull, and others, called the "Hartford wits."
This was republished with other poems in 1807.
Alsop wrote more of the Echo than any other
contributor ; also the Political Greenhouse in the
same volume. His mother, who had been a
widow about fifty years, died in Oct., 1829, aged
90. Mr. A.'s widow married Samuel W. Dana,
a member of Congress ; one sister married
Theodore Dwight, and another married Mr.
Ililey of New York. — Spec. Amcr.Poet. n.
AMERICUS VESPUCIUS, or more properly
Amerigo Vespucci, a Florentine gentleman, from
whom America derives its name, was born March
9, 1451, of an ancient family. His father, who
was an Italian merchant, brought him up in this
business, and his profession led him to visit Spain
and other countries. Being eminently skilful in
all the sciences subservient to navigation, and
possessing an enterprising spirit, he became
desirous of seeing the new world, which Columbus
had discovered in 1492. He accordingly entered
as a merchant on board the small fleet of four
ships, equipped by the merchants of Seville and
sent out under the command of Ojeda. The
enterprise was sanctioned by a royal license.
AMERICUS.
According to Amerigo's own account he sailed
from Cadiz May 20, 1497, and returned to the
same port October 15, 1498, having discovered
the coast of Paria and ,passed as far as the Gulf
of Mexico. If this statement is correct, he saw
the continent before Columbus ; but its correct
ness has been disproved ; and the voyage of
Ojeda was not made until 1499, which Amerigo
calls his second voyage, falsely representing that
he himself had the command of six vessels. He
sailed May 20, 1499, under the command of
Ojeda, and proceeded to the Antilla Islands, and
thence to the coast of Guiana and Venezuela, and
returned to Cadiz in Nov., 1500. After his
return Emanuel, king of Portugal, who was
jealous of the success and glory of Spain, invited
him to his kingdom, and gave him the command
of three ships to make a third voyage of discovery.
He sailed from Lisbon May 10, 1501, and ran
down the coasts of Africa as far as Sierra Leone
and the coast of Angola, and then passed over to
Brazil in South America, and continued his dis
coveries to the south as far as Patagonia. He
then returned to Sierra Leone and the coast of
Guinea, and entered again the port of Lisbon
Sept, 7, 1502.
King Emanuel, highly gratified by his success,
equipped for him six ships, with which he sailed
on his fourth and last voyage May 10, 1503. It
was his object to discover a western passage to
the Molucca Islands. He passed the coasts of
Africa, and entered the Bay of All Saints in
Brazil. Having provision for only twenty months,
and being detained on the coast of Brazil by bad
weather and contrary winds five months, he
formed the resolution of returning to Portugal,
where he arrived June 14, 1504. As he carried
home with him considerable quantities of the
Brazil wood, and other articles of value, he was
received with joy. It was soon after this period,
that he wrote an account of his four voyages.
The work was dedicated to Rene II., duke of Lor
raine, who took the title of king of Sicily, and
Avho died Dec. 10, 1508. It was probably pub
lished about the year 1507, for in that year he
went from Lisbon to Seville, and King Ferdinand
appointed him to draw sea charts, with the title
of chief pilot. He died at the island of Tercera
in 1514, aged about 63 years, or, agreeably to
another account, at Seville, in 1512.
As he published the first book and chart
describing the new world, and as he claimed the
honor of first discovering the continent, the new
world has received from him the name of
America. His pretensions, however, to this first
discovery do not seem to be well supported against
the claims of Columbus, to whom the honor is
uniformly ascribed by the Spanish historians, and
who first saw the continent in 1498. Ilerrera,
who compiled his general history of America
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from the most authentic records, says, that
Amerigo never made but two voyages, and those
were with Ojeda in 1499 and 1501, and that his
relation of his other voyages was proved to be a
mere imposition. This charge needs to be con
firmed by strong proof, for Amerigo's book was
published within ten years of the period assigned
for his first voyage, when the facts must have been
fresh in the memories of thousands. Besides the
improbability of his being guilty of falsifying
dates, as he was accused, which arises from this
circumstance, it is very possible, that the Spanish
writers might have felt a national resentment
against him for having deserted the service of
Spain. But the evidence against the honesty of
Amerigo is very convincing. Neither Martyr nor
Bcnzoni, who were Italians, natives of the same
country, and the former of whom was a contem
porary, attribute to him the first discovery of the
continent. Martyr published the first general
history of the new world, and his epistles contain
an account of all the remarkable events of his
time. All the Spanish historians are against
Amerigo. Herrera brings against him the testi
mony of Ojeda as given in a judicial inquiry.
Fonseca, who gave Ojeda the license for his
voyage, was not reinstated in the direction of
Indian affairs until after the time, which Amerigo
assigns for the commencement of his first voyage.
Other circumstances might be mentioned; and
the whole mass of evidence it is difficult to resist.
The book of Amerigo was probably published
about a year after the death of Columbus, when
his pretensions could be advanced without the
fear of refutation from that illustrious navigator.
But however this controversy may be decided, it
is well known, that the honor of first discovering
the continent belongs neither to Columbus nor
to Vespucci, even admitting the relation of the
latter; but to the Cabots, who sailed from
England. A life of Vespucci was published at
Florence by Bandini, 174,3, in which an attempt
is made to support his pretensions.
The relation of his four voyages, which was
first published about the year 1507, was re-
published in the Novus Orbis, fol. 1555. His
letters were published after his death at Florence.
— Moreri, Did. Historique; New and Gen.
Biog. Diet. ; Robertson's 8. America I. Note 22 ;
Holmes' Annals, I. 16; Herrera, I. 221; Prince,
Introd. 80-82 ; Irving's Columbus, III. App. 9.
AMES, NATHANIEL, a physician, died at Ded-
ham, Mass., in 1765, aged 57. He had published
for about forty years an almanac, which was in
high repute. His taste for astronomy he acquired
from his father, Nathaniel Ames, of Bridgewater,
who died in 1736, and who was not, as Dr. Eliot
supposed, a descendant of the famous William
Ames, lie married two wives, each of the name
of Fisher. His most distinguished sou bore that
1 name. His son, Dr. Nathaniel Ames, a graduate
of 1761, died at Dedham in 1822, aged 82 ; an
other son, Dr. Seth Ames, a graduate of 1764,
settled at Amherst, N. II., but removed to Ded
ham, where he died in 1776. His widow, who
married Mr. Woodward, died in 1818, aged 95.
Mass. Hist. Coll. N. S. vn. 154; Hist. Coll. N.
H. n. 79.
AMES, FISHER, LL. D., a distinguished states
man and eloquent orator, was the son of the pre
ceding, and Avas born at Dedham April 9, 1758.
He was graduated at Harvard college in 1774,
I and after a few years commenced the study of the
I law in Boston. lie began the practice of his pro
fession in his native village ; but his expansive mind
could not be confined to the investigation of the
law. Rising into life about the period of the
American Revolution, and taking a most affection
ate interest in the concerns of his country, he felt
himself strongly attracted to politics. His re
searches into the sciences of government were
extensive and profound, and he began to be known
by political discussions, published in the newspa
pers. A theatre soon presented for the display
of his extraordinary talents. He was elected a
member of the convention of his native state,
which considered and ratified the federal consti
tution ; and his speeches in this convention were
indications of his future eminence. The splendor
of his talents burst forth at once upon his coun
try.
When the general government of the United
States commenced its operations in 1789, he ap
peared in the national legislature as the first rep
resentative of his district, and for eight successive
years he took a distinguished part in the national
councils. He was a principal speaker in the de
bates on every important question. Towards the
close of this period his health began to fail, but
his indisposition could not prevent him from en
gaging in the discussion relating to the appropri
ations necessary for carrying into effect the British
treaty. Such was the effect of his speech of
April 28, 1796, that one of the members of the
legislature, who was opposed to Mr. Ames, rose
and objected to taking a vote at that time, as they
had been carried away by the impulse of oratory.
After his return to his family, frail in health and
fond of retirement, he remained a private citizen.
For a few years however he was persuaded to be
come a member of the council. But, though he
continued chiefly in retirement, he operated far
around him by his writings in the public papers.
A few years before his death he was chosen pres
ident of Harvard college, but the infirm state of
his health induced him to decline the appoint
ment. He died on the morning of July 4, 1808.
His wife, Frances Worthington, was the daughter
of John Worthington, of Springfield. He left
seven children ; his only daughter died in 1829.
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AMES.
Mr. Ames possessed a mind of a great and ex
traordinary character. He reasoned, but he did
not reason in the form of logic. By striking allu
sions, more than by regular deductions, he com
pelled assent. The richness of his fancy, the
fertility of his invention, and the abundance of
his thoughts were as remarkable as the justness
and strength of his understanding. His political
character may be known from his writings, and
speeches, and measures. He was not only a man
of distinguished talents, whose public career was
splendid, but he was amiable in private life and
endeared to his acquaintance. To a few friends
he unveiled himself without reserve. They found
him modest and unassuming, untainted with am
bition, simple in manners, correct in morals, and
a model of every social and personal virtue. The
charms of his conversation were unequalled.
He entertained a firm belief in Christianity, and
his belief was founded upon a thorough investi
gation of the subject. He read most of the best
writings in defence of the Christian religion, but
he was satisfied by a view rather of its internal
than its external evidences. He thought it im
possible, that any man of a fair mind could read
the Old Testament and meditate on its contents
without a conviction of its truth and inspiration.
The sublime and correct ideas, which the Jewish
scriptures convey of God, connected with the fact
that all other nations, many of whom were supe
rior to the Jews in civilization and general im
provement, remained in darkness and error on
this great subject, formed in his new a conclusive
argument. After reading the book of Deuter
onomy he expressed his astonishment, that any
man versed in antiquities could have the hardi
hood to say, that it was the production of human
ingenuity. Marks of Divinity, he said, were
stamped upon it. His views of the doctrines of
religion were generally Calvinistic. An enemy
to the metaphysical and controversial theology,
he disliked the use of technical and sectarian
phrases. The term trinity however he frequently
used with reverence, and in a manner, which im
plied his belief of the doctrine. His persuasion
of the divinity of Christ he often declared, and
his belief of this truth seems to have resulted
from a particular investigation of the subject, for
he remarked to a friend, that he once read the
evangelists with the sole purpose of learning what
Christ had said of himself.
He was an admirer of the common translation
of the Bible. He said it was a specimen of pure
English; and though he acknowledged, that a
few phrases had grown obsolete, and that a few
passages might be obscurely translated, yet he
should consider the adoption of any new translation
as an incalculable evil. He lamented the prevail
ing disuse of the Bible in our schools. lie thought,
that children should early be made acquainted
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with the important truths, which it contains, and
he considered it as a principal instrument of mak
ing them acquainted with their own language in
its purity. He said, " I will hazard the assertion,
that no man ever did or ever will become truly
eloquent, without being a constant reader of the
Bible, and an admirer of the purity and sublim
ity of its language." He recommended the teach
ing of the Assembly's Catechism ; not perhaps
because he was perfectly satisfied with every ex
pression, but because, as he remarked, it was a
good thing on the whole, because it had become
venerable by age, because our pious ancestors
taught it to their children with happy effect, and
because he was opposed to innovation, unwilling
to leave an old, experienced path for one new
and uncertain. On the same ground he approved
the use of Watts' version of the Psalms and
Hymns. No uninspired man, in his judgment,
had succeeded so well as Watts in uniting with the
sentiments of piety the embellishments of poetry.
Mr. Ames made a public profession of religion
in the first congregational church in Dedham.
With this church he regularly communed, till pre
cluded by indisposition from attending public
worship. His practice corresponded with his
profession. His life was regular and irreproacha
ble. Pew, who have been placed in similar cir
cumstances, have been less contaminated by inter
course with the world. It is doubted, whether
any one ever heard him utter an expression cal
culated to excite an impious or impure idea. The
most scrutinizing eye discovered in him no dis
guise or hypocrisy. His views of himself however
were humble and abased. He was often observed
to shed tears, while speaking of his closet devo
tions and experiences. He lamented the cold
ness of his heart and the wanderings of his
thoughts while addressing his Maker, or medi
tating on the precious truths, which he had re
vealed. In his last sickness, when near his end,
and when he had just expressed his belief of his
approaching dissolution, he exhibited submission
to the Divine will and the hope of the Divine fa
vor. " I have peace of mind," said he. " It may
arise from stupidity ; but I think it is founded on
a belief of the Gospel." At the same time he
disclaimed every idea of meriting salvation. " My
hope," said he, " is in the mercy of God, through
Jesus Christ."
Mr. Ames' speech in relation to the British
treaty, which was delivered April 28, 179G, is a
fine specimen of eloquence. He published an
oration on the death of Washington in 1800, and
he wrote much for the newspapers. His political
writings Avere published in 1809, in one volume,
8vo., with a notice of his life and character by-
President Kirkland. — Panoplist, July, 1800;
Dexter's Funeral Eulogy; Marshall's Washing
ton, v. 203 ; Ames1 Works.
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AMES, NATHANIEL, son of Fisher Ames, died
Jan. 18, 1835; author of mariner's sketches;
nautical reminiscences ; and old sailors' yarns.
AMES, N. P., died at Cabotville April 23,
1847, aged 44 ; a large manufacturer of firearms,
and a man of sound judgment and practical skill.
AMHERST, JEFFREY, lord, commander-in-
chief of the British army at the conquest of Canada
in 1760, was born in Kent, England, Jan. 29,
1717. Having early discovered a predilection for
the military life, he received his first commission
in the army in 1731, and was aid-de-camp to
Gen. Ligonier in 1741, in which character he was
present at the battles of Dettingen, Fontenoy,
and Rocoux. He was afterward aid-de-camp to
his royal highness, the duke of Cumberland, at
the battle of Laffeldt. In 1758 he received orders
to return to England, being appointed for the
American service. He sailed from Portsmouth
March 16th as major-general, having the command
of the troops destined for the siege of Louisbourg,
On the 26th of July following he captured that
place, and without farther difficulty took entire
possession of the island of Cape Breton. After
this event he succeeded Abercrombie in the com
mand of the army in North America. In 1759
the vast design of the entire conquest of Canada
was formed. Three armies were to attack at
nearly the same time all the strongholds of the
French in that country. They were commanded
by Wolfe, Amherst, and Prideaux. Gen. Am-
herst in the spring transferred his head-quarters
from New York to Albany ; but it was not till
the 22d of July, that h<5 reached Ticonderoga,
against which place he was to act. On the 27th
this place fell into his hands, the enemy having
deserted it. He next took Crown Point, and put
his troops in winter quarters about the last of Oc
tober. In the year 1760 he advanced against
Canada, embarking on lake Ontario and proceed
ing down the St. Lawrence. On the 8th of Sep
tember M. de Vaudreuil capitulated, surrendering
Montreal and all other places within the govern
ment of Canada.
He continued in the command in America till
the latter end of 1763, when he returned to Eng
land. The author of the letters of Junius was
his friend, and in Sept., 1768, wrote in his favor.
In 1771 he was made governor of Guernsey, and
in 1776 he was created Baron Amherst of Holms-
dale in the county of Kent. In 1778 he com
manded the army in England. At this period
Lord Sackville, to whom the letters of Junius
have been ascribed, was one of the king's minis
ters ; and he had been intimate with Amherst
from early life. In 1782 he received the gold
stick from the king ; but on the change of the
administration the command of the army and the
lieutenant-generalship of the ordnance were put
into other hands. In 1787 he received another
patent of peerage, as Baron Amherst of Mont
real. In January, 1793, he was again appointed
to the command of the army in Great Britain ;
but in 1795 this veteran and very deserving offi
cer was superseded by his royal highness, the
Duke of York, the second son of the king, who
was only in the thirty-first year of his age, and
had never seen any actual service. The govern
ment upon this occasion, with a view to soothe the
feelings of the old general, offered him an earldom
and the rank of field marshal, both of which he
at that time rejected. The office of field marshal
however he accepted in July, 1796. He died
without children at his seat in Kent August 3,
1797, aged eighty years. — Watkins; Holmes'
Annals, II. 226-246, 498; Marshall, I. 442-470;
Minot, II. 36.
AMY, a slave, died at Charleston in 1826, said
to be aged 140, and that she came to C. when
there were but six small buildings there.
ANDERSON, RUFUS, minister of Wenhnm,
Mass., was born in Londonderry Mai'ch 5, 1765,
and graduated at Dartmouth college in 1791. In
consequence of a religious education his mind was
early imbued with the truths of the gospel. He
was ordained pastor of the second church in
North Yarmouth Oct. 22, 1794. After a ministry
of ten years he was dismissed, and installed July
10, 1805, at Wenham, where he died Feb., 1814.
Dr. Worcester has described his excellent charac
ter, and spoken of his useful labors and peaceful
death. He published two discourses on the fast,
1802; and seven letters against the close com
munion of the Baptists, 1805. — Worcester's Fu
neral Sermon ; Panoplist, x. 307.
ANDERSON, JAMES, the first Presbyterian
minister in the city of New York, began his
labors in Oct., 1717. He was born in Scotland in
1678; came to Philadelphia in 1710, and became
the pastor of Newcastle. His high notions of
church authority occasioned a division of his
church in N. Y. To the seceders Jonathan
Edwards was the preacher for some months. Mr.
A. accepted in 1727 a call to Donegal, in Penn.,
and was succeeded in N. Y. by Mr. Pemberton.
ANDERSON, JAMKS, M. D.", an eminent phy
sician of Maryland, died at his seat near Chestcr-
town Dec. 8, 1820, in the 69th year of his age.
He studied at Philadelphia and at Edinburgh.
His father was a physician from Scotland. Dr.
Anderson was learned and skilful, and highly
respected in all the relations of life. As a Chris
tian he was distinguished, — in his peculiar views
being a disciple of AVcsley. With exemplary
patience and meekness he submitted to painful
illness, and died in peace. — T/tacher's Msd.
Biography.
ANDERSON, RICHARD, minister of the United
States to Colombia, was a native of Kentucky, and
for some years a member of Congress. Being
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appointed envoy extraordinary to the assembly
of American nations at Panama, while on his way
to that place he died at Carthagena July 24, 1826.
On his former visit to Colombia he lost his excel
lent -wife. His father, Richard C. Anderson, died
Nov. 6. — Mr. Anderson was a very amiable man,
of a discriminating mind, and very discreet and
conciliatory as a politician.
ANDERSON, JOHN WALLACE, M. D., physi
cian to the colony in Liberia, was the son of Col.
Richard Anderson, and born in Ilagerstown, Mary
land, in 1802. His medical education was at
Philadelphia, where he took his degree in 1828,
and afterwards settled as a physician at Hagers-
town. Here, at his home, amidst all the happi
ness of the family circle and of religious institu
tions, he formed the purpose of devoting his life
to the colonists of Liberia. He hoped to benefit
them by his medical skill, and was particularly
anxious to promote the cause of temperance in
Africa. He sailed Jan. 17, 1830, and arrived at
the colony Feb. 17. Dr. Mechlin, the agent, now
returning, the affairs of the colony were commit
ted to Dr. Anderson ; but he died of the African
fever April 12, aged 27 years. In his illness he
was resigned and joyful in the hope of salvation.
He requested, that the following sentence might
be inscribed on his tombstone : — " Jesus, for thee
I live, for thee I die ! " — Afric. Repos. vi. 189—
191.
ANDRE, JOHN, aid-dc-camp to Sir Henry
Clinton, and adjutant-general of the British army
in the Revolutionary war, was born in England in
1749. His father was a native of Geneva, and a
considerable merchantman the Levant trade ; he
died in 1769. Young Andre was destined to
mercantile business, and attended his father's
counting-house, after having spent some years
for his education at Geneva. He first entered
the army in Jan., 1771. At this time he had a
strong attachment to Honoria Sneyd, who after
wards married Mr. Edgcworth. In 1772 he vis
ited the courts of Germany, and returned to
England in 1773. He landed at Philadelphia in
Sept., 1774, as lieutenant of the Royal English
Fusileers ; and soon proceeded, by way of Boston,
to Canada, to join his regiment. In 1775 he was
taken prisoner by Montgomery at St. John's ;
but was afterwards exchanged, and appointed
captain. In the summer of 1777 he was ap
pointed aid to Gen. Grey and was present at the
engagements in New Jersey and Pennsylvania in
1777 and 1778. On the return of Gen. Grey, he
was appointed aid to Gen. Clinton. In 1780 he
was promoted to the rank of major, and made
adjutant-general of the British army.
After Arnold had intimated to the British in
1780 his intention of delivering up West Point to
them, Maj. Andre was selected as the person, to
whom the maturing of Arnold's treason and the
ANDRE.
arrangements for its execution should be commit
ted. A correspondence was for some time car
ried on betAvecn them under a mercantile disguise
and the feigned names of Gustavus and Ander
son ; and at length to facilitate their communica
tions the Vulture sloop-of-war moved up the North
river and took a station convenient for the pur
pose, but not so near as to excite suspicion. An
interview was agreed on, and in the night of Sep
tember 21, 1780, he was taken in a boat, which
was dispatched for the purpose, and carried to
the beach, without the posts of both armies, under
a pass for John Anderson. He met Gen. Arnold
at the house of a Mr. Smith. While the confer
ence was yet unfinished, daylight approached ;
and to avoid the danger of discovery it was pro
posed, that he should remain concealed till the
succeeding night. He is understood to have re
fused to be carried within the American posts, but
the promise made him by Arnold to respect this
objection was not observed. He was carried
I within them contrary to his wishes and against
| his knowledge. He continued with Arnold the
1 succeeding day, and when on the following night
he proposed to return to the Vulture, the boat
man refused to carry him, because she had dur
ing the day shifted her station, in consequence of
a gun having been moved to the shore and
brought to bear upon her. This embarrassing
circumstance reduced him to the necessity of en
deavoring to reach New York by land. Yielding
with reluctance to the urgent representations of
Arnold, he laid aside his regimentals, Avhich he
had hitherto worn under a surtout, and put on a
plain suit of clothes ; and receiving a pass from
the American general, authorizing him, under the
feigned name of John Anderson, to proceed on
the public service to the White Plains, or lower if
he thought proper, he set out on his return in the
evening of the 22d, accompanied by Joshua
Smith, and passed the night at Crompond. The
next morning he crossed the Hudson to King's
ferry on the east side. A little beyond the Cro-
ton, Smith, deeming him safe, bid him adieu. He
had passed all the guards and posts on the road
without suspicion, and was proceeding to New
York in perfect security, when, September 23d,
one of the three militia-men, who were employed
with others in scouting parties between the lines
of the two armies, springing suddenly from his
covert into the road, seized the reins of his bridle
and stopped his horse. Instead of producing his
pass, Andre, with a want of self-possession, which
can be attributed only to a kind Providence,
asked the man hastily where he belonged, and
being answered, " to below," replied immediately,
" and so do I." He then declared himself to be
a British officer, on urgent business, and begged
that he might not be detained. The other two
militia men coming up at this moment, he discov-
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ered his mistake ; but it was too late to repair it.
He offered them his purse and a valuable watch,
to winch he added the most tempting promises
of ample reward and permanent provision from
the government, if they would permit him to
escape ; but his offers were rejected without hesi
tation.
The militia-men, whose names were John Paul-
ding, ] )avid Williams, and Isaac Van Wart, pro
ceeded to search him. They found concealed in
his boots exact returns, in Arnold's handwriting,
of the state of the forces, ordnance, and defences
at West Point and its dependencies, critical re
marks on the works, and an estimate of the men
ordinarily employed in them, with other interest
ing papers. Andre was carried before Lieut.-Col.
Jameson, the officer commanding the scouting
parties on the lines, and regardless of himself and
only anxious for the safety of Arnold, he still
maintained the character, which he had assumed,
and requested Jameson to inform his commanding
officer, that Anderson was taken. A letter was
accordingly sent to Arnold, and the traitor, thus
becoming acquainted with his danger, escaped.
The narrative of the bearer of this letter, Salomon
Allen, is given in the sketch of his life : it differs
in several respects from the account of the affair
in the Encyclopaedia Americana, and throws light
upon circumstances, which have been heretofore
obscure.
A board of general officers, of which Maj.
Gen. Greene was president, and the two foreign
generals, Lafayette and Steuben, were members,
was called to report a precise state of the case of
Andre, who had acknowledged himself Adjutant-
General of the British army, and to determine in
what character he was to be considered, and to
what punishment he was liable. He received
from the board every mark of indulgent atten
tion ; and from a sense of justice, as well as of
delicacy, he was informed on the first opening of
the examination, that he was at perfect liberty
not to answer any interrogatory, which might em
barrass his own feelings. But he disdained every
evasion, and frankly acknowledged every thing,
which was material to his condemnation. The
board, which met Sept. 29th, did not examine a
single witness, but, founding their report entirely
upon his own confession, reported that he came
within the description of a spy and ought to suf
fer death. The execution of this sentence was
ordered on the day succeeding that on which it
was rendered.
The greatest exertions were made by Sir Henry
Clinton, to whom Andre was particularly dear, to
rescue him from his fate. It was first represented,
that he came on shore under the sanction of a
flag; but Washington returned an answer to
Clinton, in which he stated, that Andre had him
self disclaimed the pretext. An interview was
next proposed between Lieut.-Gen. Robertson
and Gen. Greene ; but no facts, which had not
before been considered, Avere made known. When
every other exertion failed, a letter from Arnold,
filled with threats, was presented.
Andre was deeply affected by the mode of
dying, which the laws of war had decreed to per
sons in his situation. He wished to die as a sol
dier, and not as a criminal. To obtain a mitigation
of his sentence in this respect he addressed a let
ter to Gen. Washington, replete with all the feel
ings of a man of sentiment and honor. The
commander-in-chief consulted his officers on the
subject ; but as Andre unquestionably came under
the description of a spy, it was thought, that the
public good required his punishment to be in the
usual way. The decision, however, from tender
ness to Andre, was not divulged. He encoun
tered his fate, Oct. 2d, at Tappan, with a compo
sure and fortitude, which excited the admiration
and interested the feelings of all who were pres
ent. He exhibited some emotion, when he first
beheld the preparations at the fatal spot, and in
quired, " must I die in this manner ? " He soon
afterwards added, " it will be but a momentary
pang ; " and being asked, if he had any request
to make before he left the world, he answered,
" none but that you will witness to the world, that
I die like a brave man." While one weeps at the
ignominious death of a man so much esteemed
and beloved, it would have given some relief to
the pained mind, if he had died more like a
Christian and less like a soldier. The sympathy,
excited among the American officers by his fate,
was as universal, as it is unusual on such occa
sions ; and proclaims the merit of him, who suf
fered, and the humanity of those, who inflicted
the punishment. In 1821 the bones of Andre
were dug up and carried to his native land by
royal mandate. Major Andre wrote the Cow
Chase, in three cantos, 1781. This poem was
originally published in Rivington's Royal Gazette,
New York, in the morning of the day, on which
Andre was taken prisoner. The last stanza, in
tended to ridicule Gen. Wayne for his failure in
an attempt to collect cattle for the army, is this :
" And now I've closed my epic strain,
I tremble, as I show it,
Lest this same Warrior-Drover, Wayne,
Should ever catch the Poet '. "
He wrote also letters to Miss Seward, New
York, 1772. Miss Seward wrote a monody on
Andre, in which she predicted, that Washington
would die miserably for executing the spy. —
Annual Register for 1781, 39-46 ; Marshall, iv.
277-286; Gordon, m. 481-490; Stedman, n.
249-2,33 ; Ramsay, II. 196-201 ; Political May.
II. 171 ; Amer. fiememb. 1781, 1., p. 101 ; Smit/Vs
Narrative ; Thacher's Military Journal.
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ANDREWS.
ANDROS.
ANDREW, SAMUEL, the second rector of
Yale college, was the son of Samuel Andrew, of
Cambridge, Mass., born 1656, graduated 1675,
and ordained the minister of Milford, Conn.,
Nov. 18, 1685. Being appointed, after the death
of Mr. Pierson, temporary rector of the college in
1707, he officiated till 1719, occasionally repair
ing to the college at Saybrook and New Haven,
but residing at Milford. He died Jan. 24, 1738,
aged 82, leaving an excellent reputation. His
predecessors in the ministry were Prudden and
Newton ; Whittlesey succeeded him.
ANDREWS, ROBERT, professor of mathematics
in William and Mary college, Virginia, died in
Jan., 1804, at Williamsburg. In 1779 he was a
commissioner with Dr. Madison to settle the
boundary line with Pennsylvania, — Bryan, Ewing,
and Rittenhouse being the commissioners of Penn.
The talents of Mr. Andrews were actively em
ployed and regulated by reason and religion.
His wife and children were taught by him those
divine principles, which bear the afflicted above
the evils of life.
ANDREWS, JOHN, D. ])., provost of the
university of Penn., was born in Cecil county,
Md., April 4, 1746, and educated at Philadelphia.
After receiving Episcopal ordination in London
Feb., 1767, he was three years a missionary at
Lewiston, Md., and then a missionary at York-
town, and a rector in Queen Ann's county, Md.
Not partaking of the patriotic spirit of the times,
he was induced to quit Maryland for many years.
In 1785 he was placed at the head of the Episco
pal academy in Philadelphia, and in 1789 ap
pointed professor of moral philosophy in the
college. In 1810 he succeeded Dr. M'Dowell as
provost. He died March 29, 1813, aged 67. As
a scholar he was very distinguished. He published
a sermon on the parable of the unjust steward,
1789; and elements of logic.
ANDREWS, LORING, a distinguished editor,
died at Charleston Oct. 19, 1805. He was the
brother of Rev. John Andrews, of Newburyport.
He first published, in Boston, the Herald of
Freedom ; then, at Stockbridge, the Western Star ;
and in 1803 he established the Charleston Courier,
a political paper of high reputation.
ANDREWS, JOIIN, D. D., died in Newbury
port in Aug., 1845, aged 81. A graduate of 1786,
he was settled as a colleague with Mr. Cary in
1788. He published a thanksgiving sermon,
1795; at a dedication, 1801 ; on the death of T.
Cary, 1808; before a humane society, 1812.
ANDREWS, PARNELLY, wife of Dr. S. L.
Andrews, missionary at the Sandwich Islands,
died at Kailua Sept. 29, 1846, aged 39. Her
name was Pierce, of Woodbury, Conn. She em
barked in 1836.
ANDREWS, JOANNA, Mrs., died at Gloucester
Jan. 20, 1847, aged 102.
ANDREWS, EBENEZER T., an extensive printer,
died in Boston Oct. 9, 1851, aged 84. He was
of the firm of Thomas & Andrews.
ANDREWS, ASA, the survivor of all the pre
ceding graduates of Harvard, died at Ipswich
Jan. 13, 1856, aged 93. He was born in Boylston ;
his mother, whose name was Bradstreet, was a
descendant of Gov. B. He graduated in 1783,
and studied law with C. Strong, Northampton.
From 1796 to 1829 he was collector of the port
of Ipswich. He was a man of ability, highly
respected.
ANDROS, EDMUND, governor of New England,
had some command in New York in 1672, and in
1674 was appointed governor of that province.
He continued in this office till 1682, exhibiting in
this government but little of that tyrannical dis
position, which he afterwards displayed. He
arrived at Boston Dec. 20, 1686, with a commis
sion from King James for the government of
New England. He made high professions of
regard to the public good, directed the judges to
administer justice according to the custom of the
place, ordered the established rules with respect
to rates and taxes to be observed, and declared,
that all the colony laws, not inconsistent with his
commission, should remain in full force. By
these professions he calmed the apprehensions,
which had agitated the minds of many; but it
was not long before the monster stood forth in
his proper shape.
His administration was most oppressive and
tyrannical. The press was restrained, exorbitant
taxes were levied, and the Congregational minis
ters were threatened to be deprived of their sup
port for nonconformity. Sir Edmund, knowing
that his royal master was making great progress
towards despotism in England, was very
willing to keep equal pace in his less important
government. It was pretended, that all titles to
land were destroyed; and the farmers were
obliged to take new patents, for which they paid
large fees. He prohibited marriage, unless the
parties entered into bonds with sureties to be
forfeited in case there should afterwards appear
to have been any lawful impediment. There was
at this time but one Episcopal clergyman in the
country ; but Andros wrote to the bishop of Lon
don, intimating, for the encouragement of those
who might be persuaded to come to this country,
that in future no marriage should be deemed
lawful, unless celebrated by ministers of the
church of England. With four or five of his
council he laid what taxes he thought proper.
The fees of office were raised to a most exorbitant
height. In Oct., 1687, he went with troops to
Hartford, and demanded the surrender of the
charter of Connecticut, which was placed in the
evening upon the table of the Assembly, but
instantly the lights were extinguished, and the
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charter disappeared, having been carried off by
Capt. Wadsworth and secreted in a hollow oak,
near the house of Samuel "\Vyllys.
In the spring of 1688 Andros proceeded in the
Rose frigate to Penobscot and plundered the
house and fort of Castine, and thus by his base
rapacity excited an Indian war. In November he
marched against the eastern Indians at the head
of seven or eight hundred men ; but not an
Indian was seen. They had retired to the woods
for hunting. He built two forts, one at Sheepscot,
the other at Pegypscot Falls or Brunswick, and
left garrisons in them. If the old name of
Amarascoggin, on which river he built Pegypscot
Fort, received at this time, in honor of him, the
name of Androscoggin, he was not worthy of
such remembrance. The ancient name is to be
preferred.
At length the capricious and arbitrary proceed
ings of Andros roused the determined spirit of
the people.
Having sought in the wilds of America the
secure enjoyment of that civil and religious
liberty, of which they had been unjustly deprived
in England, they were not disposed to see their
dearest rights wrested from them without a
struggle to retain them. Animated with the love
of liberty, they v/ere also resolute and courageous
in its defence. They had for several years
suffered the impositions of a tyrannical adminis
tration, and the dissatisfaction and indignation,
which had been gathering during this period,
were blown into a flame by the report of an
intended massacre by the governor's guards. On
the morning of April 18, 1689, the inhabitants of
Boston took up arms, the people poured in from
the country, and the governor, with such of the
council as had been most active, and other
obnoxious persons, about fifty in number, were
seized and confined. The old magistrates were
restored, and the next month the joyful news of
the Revolution in England reached this country,
and quieted all apprehension of the consequences
of what had been done. After having been kept
at the castle till February following, Andros was
sent to England for trial. The General Court
about the same time despatched a committee of
several gentlemen to substantiate the charges
against him.
The government was reduced to a most per
plexing dilemma. If they condemned Andros'
administration, the sentence might be drawn into
a precedent, and they might seem to encourage
insurrection and rebellion in future periods, when
circumstances did not render so desperate an ex
pedient necessary. On the other hand, if they
should approve of the administration of Andros
and censure the proceedings of the colonists, it
would imply a reprobation of the very measure,
which had been pursued in bringing about the
Revolution in England. It was therefore deemed
prudent to dismiss the business without coming to
a final decision. The people were accordingly
left to the full enjoyment of their freedom ; and
Andros, in public estimation guilty, escaped with
out censure.
In 1692 he was appointed the governor of
Virginia, in which office his conduct was for the
most part prudent and unimpeached. He was
succeeded by Nicholson in 1698. He died in
London Feb. 24, 1714, at a very advanced age.
His narrative of his proceedings in New England
was published in 1691, and republished in 1773.
— HutcUnson, Douglass, II. 247, 272, 369;
Holmes, I. 421, 425; Bdknap, I. 244; Eliot;
Beverly.
ANDROS, THOMAS, minister of Berkley, was
born in Norwich, Conn., May 1, 1759, the son of
a merchant. His widowed mother removed to
Plainfield, where her friends resided. At the age
of sixteen he joined the army as a soldier at
Cambridge in 1775. Afterwards he was in the
battles of Long Island and White Plains, and
served elsewhere. In 1781 he enlisted in a private
armed vessel at New London ; but, captured in a
prize vessel, he was thrown into prison in the old
Jersey prison-ship at New York, in which, it is
said, eleven thousand died. In a few months he,
by a remarkable Providence, escaped ; and his
lost health was restored. Having studied theology
with Dr. Benedict of Plainfield, he was ordained
at Berkley March 19, 1788, on a salary of 80
pounds. He was dismissed at his request June
15, 1834, having labored with his people forty-
six years. His last sermon he preached October
5, 1845, walking two miles to church, and speaking
with animation and force. He died of apo
plexy Dec. 30, 1845, aged 86. His first wife
Avas Abigail Cutter, of Killingly ; his second,
Sophia Sanford, of Berkley, in 1799. His son,
R. S. S. Andros, wrote an account of him for
Emery's Ministry of Taunton.
He published a sermon on the death of J.
Crane, 1795; of Mrs. Andros, 1798; at thanks
giving, 1808 and 1812; on restraining prayer;
Bible news, &c., against N. "Worcester's book,
1813; on human creeds, 1814; at the ordination
of B. Whittcmore, 1815; against philosophical
mixtures, 1819; an essay against a positive
efficiency in the production of sin, 1820 ; six dis
courses ; on the death of S. Tobey, 1823; a ser
mon vindicating the temperance society, 1830; a
narrative of his imprisonment and escape from
the Jersey prison-ship.
ANDRUS, JOSEHI R., agent of the colonization
society, was graduated at Middlebury college in
1812, and after studying theology at New Haven
and Andover, and also under Bishop Gri.swold at
Bristol, R. L, received Episcopal ordination. It
had been for years his purpose to devote himself
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to promote the welfare of the degraded and
oppressed race of Africans. Being appointed the
agent of the colonization society, he sailed early
in 1821, and proceeded, with his associate,
Ephraim Bacon, in April from Sierra Leone to
the Bassa country to negotiate with King Ben for
a place of settlement. It was well for the pro
posed colony, that the attempt was unsuccessful,
for a more healthful and eligible territory was
afterwards purchased by Dr. Apes at Montserado.
Mr. Andrus died at Sierra Leone, and \vas
buried July 29, 1821. He was the friend of
Carlos Wilcox, and by him honored in his lines,
"The Group of Stars"."— Panoplist, XVIII. ; 25,
400 ; Remains of Wilcox, 90.
ANGE, FRANCIS, a planter of Pennsylvania,
died in 1767, aged 134 years. He remembered
the death of Charles I. ; at the age of 130 was in
good health ; and at the time of his death his
memory was strong, his faculties perfect. He
had lived on simple food. His residence was
between Broad creek and the head of Wicomoco
river. — Mem. of Historical Society, Philad., I.
320.
ANGIER, SAMUEL, minister of Rehoboth, died
in 1719, aged about 66. He was a graduate of
1673, in a class of four, of whom one was John
"Wise. He was ordained in May, 1679, and dis
missed in 1693 ; after which he was the pastor of
Watertown, yet living at Cambridge, where his
house was burnt, with the records of Rehoboth.
His mother was the daughter of the famous Win.
Ames : his wife was the only child of President
Oakes, and he had by her fifteen children.
AXGLIX, HENRY, a soldier of the Revolution
ary army in North Carolina, died at Athens in
Georgia in 1853, aged 105.
ANTES, JOHN, a Moravian missionary, was
born March 4, 1740, and sent from America to
Herrnhut in Germany in 1764. In 1769 he pro
ceeded to Cairo on a proposed mission to Abys
sinia ; but meeting Mr. Bruce, he was induced to
abandon the undertaking. He returned to Ger
many in 1781 ; and in 1808 risked England, and
died at Bristol Dec. 17, 1811. He published a
reply to Lord Valencia, vindicating Bruce's ve
racity ; observations on the manners of the Egyp
tians ; and wrote a memoir of his own life.
ANTHONY, SUSANNA, an eminently pious
woman of Rhode Island, was born in 1726, and
died at Newport June 23, 1791, aged 64 years.
Her parents were Quakers. Dr. Hopkins pub
lished the memoirs of her life, consisting chiefly
of extracts from her writings, of which there was
a second edition in 1810. She devoted herself
chiefly to prayer.
AP'PLETON, NATHANIEL, D. D., minister of
Cambridge, was born at Ipswich Dec. 9, 1693.
His father was John Appleton, one of the king's
council and for twenty years judge of probate
APPLETON.
! in the county of Essex, and his mother was
the eldest daughter of President Rogers. He
• was graduated at Harvard college in 1712.
After completing his education, an opportunity
! presented of entering into commercial business
| on very advantageous terms with an uncle in
Boston, who was an opulent merchant ; but
I he resolved to forego every worldly advantage,
| that he might promote the interest of the
i Redeemer's kingdom. Soon after he began to
! preach, he was invited to succeed Mr. Brattle in
the ministry at Cambridge, and was ordained
Oct. 9, 1717. On this occasion Dr. Increase
Mather preached the sermon and gave the charge,
and Dr. Cotton Mather gave the right hand of
fellowship. He was the same year elected a
fellow of Harvard college, which office he sus
tained above sixty years, faithfully consulting and
essentially promoting the interests of the insti
tution. In 1771 the university conferred on him
the degree of doctor of divinity, an honor, which
had been conferred upon but one person, In
crease Mather, about eighty years before. De
grees have since become more frequent and less
honorable. The usefulness of Dr. Appleton was
diminished for a few of his last years through the
infirmities of age, but did not entirely cease ex
cept with his life. He received Mr. Hilliard as
his colleague in 1783. After a ministry of more
than sixty-six years, he died Feb. 9, 1784, in the
91st year of his age. This country can furnish
few instances of more useful talents, and more
exemplary piety, exhibited for so long a time and
with such great success. During his ministry two
thousand one hundred and thirty-eight persons
were baptized, and seven hundred and eighty-four
admitted members of the church.
Dr. Appleton was as venerable for his piety as
for his years. His whole character was patri
archal. In his dress, in his manners, in his con-
| versation, in his ministry he resembled the Pu
ritan ministers, who first settled New England.
! He lived from the close of one century to near
j the close of another, and he brought down with
j him the habits of former times. His natural
temper was cheerful, but his habitual deportment
was grave. Early consecrated to God, and hav
ing a fixed predilection for the ministry, by the
union of good sense with deep seriousness, of
enlightened zeal with consummate prudence, he
was happily fitted for the pastoral office.
He preached with great plainness and with
primitive simplicity. In order to accommodate
his discourses to the meanest capacity, he fre
quently borrowed similitudes from familiar, some
times from vulgar objects ; but his application of
them was so pertinent and his utterance so sol
emn, as to suppress levity and silence criticism.
Deeply sensible of the fallen state of man, he ad
mired the wisdom, holiness, and mercy, which are
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displayed in the plan of redemption through a
glorious Saviour. From the abundance of his
heart, filled with the love of God, he spake with
such fervor, as was fitted to inspire his hearers
with pious sentiments and affections.
He possessed the learning of his time. The
scriptures he read in the originals. His exposi
tion, preached in course on the Sabbath, com- 1
prchended the whole Xew Testament, the pro
phecy of Isaiah, and some of the other prophets, j
It was chiefly designed to promote practical
piety ; but on the prophetical parts he discovered
a continued attention, extent of reading, and a
depth of research, which come to the share of j
but very few. In his preaching he carefully
availed himself of special occurrences, and his i
discourses on such occasions were peculiarly sol- j
emn and impressive. With the fidelity and j
plainness of a Christian minister he administered
reproofs and admonitions, and maintained with
parental tenderness and pastoral authority the
discipline of the church. By his desire a com
mittee was appointed, and "continued for many
years, for inspecting the manners of professing
Christians. So great was the ascendency, which
he gained over his people by his discretion and j
moderation, by his condescension and benevo- j
lence, by his fidelity and piety, that they regarded
his counsels as oracular.
In controversial and difficult cases he was often
applied to for advice at ecclesiastical councils.
Impartial yet pacific, firm yet conciliatory, he was
peculiarly qualified for a counsellor, and in that
character he materially contributed to the unity,
flic peace, an-1 order of the churches. With the
wisdom of the serpent he happily united the
innocence of the dove. In his religious princi
ples he was a Calvinist, as were all his predeces
sors in the ministry, Hooker, Stone, Shqjard,
Mitchel, Oakes, Gookin, and Brattle. But towards
those of different principles he was candid and
catholic.
His own example enforced the duties, which he
enjoined upon others. He was humble, meek,
and benevolent. He was ready at all times to
relieve the distressed, and through life he de
voted a tenth part of lu's whole income to pious
and charitable uses. He was ever a firm friend
to the civil and religious liberties of mankind,
and was happy in living to see the establishment
of peace and independence in his native land,
lie deserves honorable remembrance for his ex
ertions to send the gospel to the Indians. Under
his many heavy trials he was submissive and pa
tient. When his infirmities had in a great
measure terminated his usefulness, he expressed
his desire to depart and be with Christ. He at
length calmly resigned his spirit into the hands
of its Redeemer. His son, Xathaniel, a mer
chant in Boston, who died in 1798, wrote, with
James Swan and others, against the slave trade
and slavery from 1766 to 1770.
His publications are the following : the wisdom
of God in the redemption of man, 1728 ; a ser
mon at the artillery election, 1733 ; on evan
gelical repentance, 1741 ; discourses on llomans
VIII. 14, 1743; funeral sermons on the death of
President Leverett, 1724; of Francis Foxcroft,
1728; of President Wadsworth, 1737; of Han
cock, 1752; of Spencer Phips, 1757; of Henry
Flynt, 1760; of Dr. Wigglesworth, 1765; of
President Holyoke, 1769; sermons at the or
dination of Josiah Cotton, 1728 ; of John Ser
geant, 1735 ; of John Sparhawk, 1736 ; of
Matthew Bridge, 1746; of O. Peabody, Jr.,
1750 ; of Stephen Badger, 1753 ; a sermon at the
general election, 1742; at the convention, 1743;
two discourses on a fast, 1 748 ; on the difference
between a legal and evangelical righteousness,
1749; Dudleian lecture, 1758; at the Boston lec
ture, 1763; against profane swearing, 1765; a
thanksgiving sermon for the conquest of Can
ada, 1760; for the repeal of the stamp act, 1766;
two discourses on a fast, 1770. — Holmes' History
of Cambridge ; Collections of Historical Society,
vii. 37,9-63; x. 158; American Herald, Feb.
23, 1784.
APPLETOX, JESSE, D. D., the second president
of Bowdoin college, was born at Xew Ipswich
Xov. 17, 1772. He descended from John Apple-
ton of Great Waldingfield, Suffolk, England, who
died in 1436. Samuel, a descendant of John,
came to this country in 1635, and settled at
Ipswich, Mass. Francis, his father, a man of
piety and vigorous intellect, died in 1816, aged 83.
President Appleton was graduated at Dart
mouth college in 1792. It was during his resi
dence at that seminary, that he experienced deep
religious impressions ; yet of any precise period,
when his heart was regenerated by the Spirit of
God, he was not accustomed to speak. The only
safe evidence of piety, he believed, was " the
perception in himself of those qualities, which the
Gospel requires." Having spent two years in the
instruction of youth at Dover and Aniherst, he
studied theology under Dr. Lathrop of West
Springfield. In Feb., 1797, he was ordained as
the pastor of a church at Hampton. His
religious sentiments at this period were Arminian.
Much of his time during his ten years' residence
in that town was devoted to systematic, earnest
study, in consequence of which liis sentiments
assumed a new form. By his faithful, affectionate
services he was very much endeared to his people.
At his suggestion the Piscataqua Evangelical
Magazine was published, to which he contributed
valuable essays, with the signature of Lc'^hton.
Such was his public estimation, that in 1803 he
was one of the two principal candidates for the
professorsliip of theology at Harvard college ; but
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APPLETOX.
Dr. Ware was elected. In 1807 he was chosen
president of Bowdoin college, into which office
he was inducted Dec. 23. After the toils of ten
years in this station, his health hecame much im
paired in consequence of a severe cold, in October,
1817. In May, 1819, his illness became more
alarming, his complaints being a cough, hoarse
ness, and debility. A journey proved of no
essential benefit. A profuse hemorrhage in
October extinguished all hope of recovery. As
the day of his dissolution approached, he re
marked, " Of this I am sure, that salvation is all
of grace. I would make no mention of any
thing, which I have ever thought, or said, or done ;
but only of this, that God so loved the world, as
to give his only begotten Son, that whosoever be-
licvefh on Him should not perish, but have ever
lasting life. The atonement is the only ground
of hope." In health he was sometimes anxious,
in a high degree, in regard to the college ; but in
his sickness he said in cheerful confidence, " God
has taken care of the college, and God will take
care of it." Among his last expressions were
heard the words, " Glory to God in the highest :
the whole earth shall be filled with his glory."
lie died Xov. 12, 1,819, at the age of 47, having
been president nearly twelve years. A discourse
was published, which was delivered at his funeral
by Benjamin Tappan of Augusta, describing the
excellences of his character and his peculiar
qualifications for the station, which he occupied.
His widow, Elizabeth, died in Boston in 1844.
He published a dedication sermon at Hampton,
1797 ; sermons at the ordination of Asa Rand
of Gorham, 1809, and Jonathan Cogswell of Saco,
and Reuben Xason of Freeport, 1810; of Ben
jamin Tappan of Augusta, 1811; discourse on
the death of Frederic Southgate, 1813 ; Massa
chusetts election sermon, 1814 ; a sermon on the
perpetuity of the Sabbath, 1814 ; thanksgiving
sermon, 1815 ; sermon at the ordination of Enos
Merrill, of Freeport; sermon before the Bath
society for the suppression of public vices ; address
before the Mass, society for the suppression of in
temperance, 1816 ; sermon before the American
commissioners for foreign missions, 1817; sermon
at the formation of the Maine education society,
1818 ; also a sermon on the death of Mrs. Buck-
minster ; a sermon before the Portsmouth female
asylum ; and a sermon relating to Dr. Emmons on
unity.
In 1820 a volume of his addresses was pub
lished, containing his inaugural address and
eleven annual addresses, with a sketch of his
character by Dr. Xichols of Portland. In 1822
his lectures and occasional sermons were published
in one volume, witli a memoir of his life by
Benjamin Tappan of Augusta. The subjects of
those lectures, twenty-seven in number, are the ne
cessity of revelation, human depravity, the atone-
APTIIORP.
ment, regeneration, the eternity of future punish
ment, the resurrection of the body, and the
demoniacs of the Xew Testament.
The sermons are on the immortality of the soul,
the influence of religion on the condition of
man, the evils of war and the probability of
universal peace, the truth of Christianity from its
moral effects, conscience, and consequences of
neglecting the great salvation. His works, with
a memoir, were published in two vols., 1837.
APPLETOX, SAMUEL, a distinguished mer
chant, died July 12, 1853, aged 87. He was born
in Xew Ipswich, X. H., June 22, 1766, one of a
family of twelve brothers and sisters. He early
became a country merchant; in 1794 he1 es
tablished himself in business in Boston, in which
his career was one of great honor, success, and
usefulness. His brother, Xathan, became his
partner. He married in 1819 Mrs. Mary Gore.
As early as 1823 he determined to spend
annually the amount of his income. Having no
children, much of his beneficence had respect to
the children of his brothers and sisters ; and
much of his charity went to the poor. He was
accustomed to give away 25,000 dollars a year.
To all great objects of charity he Avas a large con
tributor. He deemed the day lost, in which he
had not done some good. To Dartmouth college
he gave 10,000 dollars. A print of him is in the
Historical Register. His life by E. Peabody may
be found in the lives of American merchants.
APPLETOX, LYDIA, sister of X. Dane, died
in Beverly Aug. 23, 1845, aged 103 years and 8
months. She was married at thirty and was a
widow at ninety.
APTHORP, EAST, an Episcopal minister, was
the son of Charles Apthorp, a merchant of
Boston, Avho died in 1758, aged 61. He was born
in 1733, and studied at Jesus' college, Cambridge,
England. Having taken orders, he was appointed
in 1761 by the society for propagating the Gospel
in foreign parts a missionary at Cambridge, in
which place he continued four or five years. He
engaged in a warm controversy with Dr. Mayhcw
concerning the design and conduct of the society,
of which he was a missionary. The political
feelings of the people were mingled with their
religious attachments ; the cause, which Mr. Ap
thorp espoused, was unpopular, and he returned
to England. He was made vicar of Croydon in
1765, and in 1778 rector of Bow church, London,
to which he was presented by his friend and
fellow collegian, bishop Porteus. In 1790, having
lost his sight, he exchanged these livings for the
prebend of Finsbury, and having an adequate
income, he retired to spend the evening of his
days among the scenes and friends of his youth,
at the university, in a house provided for him by
his patron, Bishop Watson. He died at Cam
bridge, England, April 16, 1816, aged 83 years.
APTHORP.
His wife was the daughter of Foster Hutchinson,
a brother of the governor. His only son was a
clergyman ; of three daughters, one was married
to Dr. Cary and one to Dr. Butler, both heads of
colleges ; the third married a son of Dr. Palcy.
Dr. Thomas Bulfinch of Boston married one of
his sisters, and Robert Bayard of New York
another. He was eminent as a writer. He
published a sermon at the opening of the church
at Cambridge, 17G1; on the peace, 1763; con
siderations respecting the society for the propaga
tion, etc., 1763 ; on the death of Ann Wheelwright,
1764 ; review of Mayhew's remarks on the answer
to his observations, etc., 1765; discourses on
prophecy, at the Warburton lecture, Lincoln's
Inn chapel, 2 vols; and an answer to Gibbon's
statement of the causes of the spread of Christ
ianity. — Jcnnison, MS. ; Holmes, n. 120,481.
APTHORP, GEORGE H., missionary to Ceylon,
died June 8, 1844, aged 46. Born in Quincy, he
graduated at Yale in 1829, and studied theology
at Princeton. He sailed from Boston in 1833.
He lived chiefly at Varany. He said in his sick
ness, " My faith rests firmly on the rock."
Among his last words were, " Precious Saviour,
come, — come quickly." His last prayers, both in
English and Tamul, for all descriptions of men,
were most earnest. His wife, Mary Robertson,
of Albemarle county, Va., died in peace Sept. 3,
1849, aged 41, and was buried by the side of her
husband.
ARBUCKLE, MATTHEW, brigadier-general,
died at Fort Smith, Ark., June 11, 1851, aged 75.
He commanded at New Orleans, Fort Gibson, and
Fort Smith. Thoroughly acquainted with the
Indians, he always preserved their confidence.
ARCH, JOHN, a Cherokee Indian and an
interpreter, died at Brainerd June 8, 1825, aged
27. When taken sick, he was engaged in trans
lating John's Gospel into Cherokee, using the
ingenious alphabet invented by Mr. Guess. He
had been a Christian convert several years ; and
he died in peace, saying, " God is good, and will
do right!" He was buried by the side of Dr.
Worcester.
ARCHDALE, JOHN, governor of Carolina, was
appointed to this office by the proprietors, after
Lord Ashley had declined accepting it. He was
a Quaker and a proprietor, and arrived in the
summer of 1695. The settlers received him with
universal joy. The colony had been in much con
fusion, but order was now restored. The As
sembly was called, and the governor by the
discreet use of his extensive powers settled almost
every public concern to the satisfaction of the
people. The price of lands and the form of con
veyances were settled by law. Magistrates were
appointed for hearing all causes, and determining
all differences between the settlers and the
Indians. Public roads were ordered to be made
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and water passages cut. The planting of rice,
which has since become the great source of the
opulence of Carolina, was introduced. A captain
of a vessel from Madagascar on his way to Great
Britain anchored off' Sullivan's Island and made a
present to the governor of a bag of seed rice,
which he had brought from the east. This rice
the governor divided among some of his friends,
who agreed to make an experiment. The success
equalled their expectation, and from this small
beginning arose the staple commodity of Carolina.
He continued one year in his government.
After his return to London, he published a work
entitled, a new description of that fertile and
pleasant province of Carolina, with a brief ac
count of its discovery, settling, and the govern
ment thereof to this time, with several remark
able passages during my time, 1707. — Holmes;
Ilewatt, I. 119, 129-131 ; Ramsay, I. 47-50.
ARCHER, STEVENSON, chief judge of the court
of appeals in Maryland, died Jan. 25, 1848.
ARGALL, SAMUEL, deputy governor of Vir
ginia, came to that colony in 1609 to trade and
to fish for sturgeon. The trade v\-as in violation
of the laws; but as the wine and provisions,
which he brought, were much wanted, his con
duct was connived at, and he continued to make
voyages for Ins OAvn advantage and in the service
of the colony. In 1612 he carried off Pocahon-
tas to James Town. In 1613 he arrived at the
Island, now called Mount Desert, in Maine, for
the purpose of fishing, and having discovered a
settlement of the French, which was made two
years before, he immediately attacked it, and
took most of the settlers prisoners. Gilbert de
Thet, a Jesuit father, was killed in the engage
ment. This was the commencement of hostili
ties between the French and English colonists in
America. Capt. Argall soon afterwards sailed
from Virginia to Acadie and destroyed the French
settlements of St. Croix and Port Royal. The
pretext for this hostile expedition in time of
peace was the encroachment of -the French on
the rights of the English, which were founded on
the prior discovery of the Cabots. Argall on his
return subdued the Dutch settlement at Hudson's
river. In 1614 he went to England, and returned
in 1617 as deputy governor. On his arrival he
found the public buildings at James Town fallen
to decay, the market place and streets planted
with tobacco, and the people of the colony dis
persed in places, which they thought best adapted
for cultivating that pernicious weed. To restore
prosperity to the colony Capt. Argall introduced
some severe regulations. He prohibited all trade
or familiarity with the Indians. Teaching them
the use of arms Was a crime to be punished by
death. He ordered, that all goods should be
sold at an advance of twenty-five per cent., and
fixed the price of tobacco at three shillings per
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ARMISTEAD.
pound. None could sell or buy at a different
price under the penalty of three years' imprison
ment. No man was permitted to fire a gun, be
fore a new supply of ammunition, except in self-
defence, on pain of a year's slavery. Absence
from church on Sundays or holidays was punished
by confinement for the night, and one week's
slavery to the colony, and on a repetition of the
offence the punishment was increased.
The rigorous execution of these laws rendered
him odious in the colony, and the report of his
tyranny and his depredations upon the revenues
of the company reaching England, it was deter
mined to recall him. Lord Delaware was di
rected to send him home to answer the charges
brought against him ; but as his lordship did not
reach Virginia, being summoned away from life
•while on his passage, the letter to him fell into
the hands of Argall. Perceiving from it that
the fine harvest, which now occupied him, would
be soon ended, he redoubled his industry. He
multiplied his acts of injustice, and before the
arrival of a new governor in 1619 set sail in a
vessel, loaded with his effects. He was the
partner in trade of the Earl of Warwick, and by
this connection was enabled to defraud the com
pany of the restitution, which they had a right to
expect. In 1620 he commanded a ship of war
in an expedition against the Algerines ; in 1623
he was knighted by King James ; in 1625 he
was engaged in the expedition against the Span
ish under Cecil.
His character, like that of most, who were con
cerned in the government of Virginia, is differ
ently drawn ; by some he is represented as a
good mariner, a man of public spirit, active, in
dustrious, careful to provide for the people, and
to keep them constantly employed ; and by others
he is described as negligent of the public busi
ness, selfish, rapacious, passionate, arbitrary, and
cruel, pushing his unrighteous gains in every way
of extortion and oppression. He was, without
question, a man of talents and art, for he so
foiled and perplexed the company, that they were
never able to bring him to any account or pun
ishment. An account of his voyage from James
Town, beginning June 19, 1610, in which, missing
Bermuda, he " put over towards Sagadahoc and
Cape Cod," and his letter respecting his voyage
to Virginia in 1613, are preserved in Purchas. —
Belknap's Biography, II. 51-63; Holmes, 144,
155 ; I. Smith : Stith ; Marshall, I. 56, 107 ;
Beverly.
AllMISTEAD, Gen. W. K., died at Upper-
ville, Va., Oct. 13, 1845, aged about 60. He
was in the army forty years, of correct moral
deportment : for many years he was chief of the
corps of engineers. He commanded in 1840 in
the war against the Florida Indians.
ARMSTRONG, WILLIAM J., D. D., secretary
ARMSTRONG.
of the American Board of Missions, died in the
wreck of the steamer Atlantic Nov. 27, 1846,
aged 50. He was born in 1796 at Mendham,
N. J., where his father, Dr. A. Armstrong, was
the minister. He graduated at Princeton in
1816. When he first began to preach, he sought
an untried field of labor at Charlottesville, in
central Virginia, where there was no church, but
where he gathered one. In 1821 he returned to
New Jersey, and became for three years the
pastor of the church in Trenton. He then was
for ten years pastor of a church in Richmond,
Va., as the successor of Dr. Rice; and here he
faithfully toiled with remarkable success. In
1834 he was chosen a secretary of the American
Board of Missions as successor of Dr. Wisncr,
and removed to Boston ; but in 1838 it was
thought best, that he should reside in New York,
retaining his connection with the Board. Almost
every Sabbath he preached, far and wide, on the
claims of the heathen.
He made his monthly visit to Boston on
Monday Nov. 23, 1846, to attend the meeting of
the Prudential Committee of the Board. A
storm set in on Wednesday, when he proposed
to return to New York : in vain did his associates
advise him not to venture upon the water in such
a tempest ; but he was desirous to reach home,
as the next day was thanksgiving. At five o'clock
he left Boston by railroad for Norwich, and pro
ceeded from Allyn's Point in the steamer Atlantic
to New London ; but when about nine miles out
of the harbor the steam-pipe burst, leaving the
vessel to the north-west wind. The anchors
dragged, and during the whole day and night
of Thursday the vessel was at the mercy of the
storm. As a minister of Christ Dr. A. was busily
employed in teaching, in exhortation, and prayer,
that he might aid others in preparing to die.
About fifty met in the cabin in the afternoon to
read the Bible and to pray. He was calm and
resigned. After four o'clock in the morning of
Friday the 27th the vessel went to pieces, as it
struck the reef, and he and many others died.
His body was recovered, and his funeral was at
tended at New York. — N. Y. Observer, Dec. 5.
ARMSTRONG, ROBERT, general, died at Wash
ington in Feb., 1854, aged about 65. Born in
East Tennessee, he was a general in the Florida
war of 1836; afterwards consul at Liverpool.
Gen. Jackson bequeathed to him his sword.
ARMSTRONG, JOHN, general, died at Red
Hook, N. Y., April 1, 1855, aged 84. He served
as an officer with much credit during the Revolu
tionary war, at the close of which he published
the celebrated Newburgh Letters, written with
great vigor and eloquence. The prudence of
AVashington gave triumph to milder counsels.
After the war he was adjutant-general of Penn
sylvania : he conducted the vigorous movement
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43
against the settlers at Wyoming. From New
York he was sent to the Senate of the United
States : he was also minister in France, after
Chancellor Livingston. Mr. Madison placed him
at the head of the war department. After the
capture of Washington by the British in 1814 he
was dismissed from office and afterwards lived in
retirement. He published a brief history of the
war with England.
ARMSTRONG, SAMUEL T., died in Boston
March 26, 1850, aged 66. He was a bookseller,
in which profession he made a fortune ; mayor
of the city ; and lieutenant-governor. Among
the books he published was a stereotype edition
of Scott's family Bible, which was widely circu
lated. He was a member of the Prudential
Committee of the American Board. It is said,
that it was his purpose, — as he had a fortune of
100 or 150,000 dollars and no children, — to
leave a liberal charitable bequest; but he died
suddenly in his chair. His wife, a descendant
of Edward Johnson, survived him.
ARMSTRONG, JOHN, general, resided in
Pennsylvania and was distinguished in the Indian
wars. In 1 7 76, being appointed brigadier-general,
he assisted in the defence of Fort Moultrie and
in the battle of Germantown. He left the army
in 1777 through dissatisfaction as to rank, and
was afterwards .a member of Congress. He died
at Carlisle March 9, 1795. He was a professor
of religion. — Lempriere.
ARNOLD, BENEDICT, governor of Rhode
Island, succeeded Roger Williams in that office
in 1657 and continued till 1660 ; he was also
governor from 1662 to 1666, from 1669 to 1672,
and from 1677 to 1678, — in which last year
he died. lie had lived in Providence as early
as 1639. Winthrop speaks of him, " as a great
friend of Massachusetts, especially in negotiations
with the Indians." — In 1657 he and Coddington
purchased of the Indian sachems the island of
Quononoquot, afterwards called James Town. —
Massachusetts Historical Collections, \. 217;
Savage's V/inthrop ; Farmer.
ARNOLD, BENEDICT, a major-general in the
American army, and infamous for deserting the
cause of his country, died in England June 14,
1801. He was bred an apothecary with a Dr.
Lathrop, who was so pleased with him, as to give
him 500 pounds sterling. From 1763 to 1767
he combined the business of a druggist with that
of a bookseller, at New Haven, Conn. Being
captain of a volunteer company, after hearing of
the battle of Lexington he immediately marched
with his company 1'or the American head-quar
ters, and reached Cambridge April 29, 1775. He
waited on the Massachusetts committee of safety
and informed them of the defenceless state of
Ticondcroga. The committee appointed him a
colonel, and commissioned him to raise four hun
dred men, and to take that fortress. He pro
ceeded directly to Vermont, and when he arrived
at Castleton was attended by one servant only.
Here he joined Col. Allen, and on May 10th the
fortress was taken.
In the fall of 1775 he was sent by the com-
mander-in-chief to penetrate through the wilder
ness of the District of Maine into Canada. He
commenced his march Sept. 16, with about one
thousand men, consisting of New England in
fantry, some volunteers, a company of artillerv,
and three companies of riflemen. One division,
that of Col. Enos, was obliged to return from
Dead river from the want of provisions ; had it
proceeded, the whole army might have perished.
The greatest hardships were endured and the
most appalling difficulties surmounted in this ex
pedition, of which Ma j. Mcigs kept a journal, and
Mr. Henry also published an account. The army
was in the wilderness, between Fort W estern at
Augusta and the first settlements on the Chaudiere
in Canada, about five weeks. In the want of
provisions Capt. Dearborn's dog was killed, and
eaten, even the feet and skin, with good appe
tite. As the army arrived at the first settle
ments Nov. 4th, the intelligence necessarily
reached Quebec in one or two days ; but a week
or fortnight before this Gov. Cramahe had been
apprized of the approach of this army. Arnold
had imprudently sent a letter to Schuyler, en
closed to a friend in Quebec, by an Indian, dated
Oct. 13, and he was himself convinced, from the
preparations made for his reception, that the In
dian had betrayed him. Nov. 5th the troops
arrived at St. Mary's, ten or twelve miles from
Quebec, and remained there three or four davs.
Nov. 9th or 10th they advanced to Point Levi,
opposite Quebec. Forty birch canoes having
been collected, it was still found necessary to
delay crossing the river for three nights on ac
count of a high wind. On the 14th the wind
moderated ; but this delay was very favorable to
the city, for on the 13th Col. M'Lean, an active
officer, arrived with eighty men to strengthen the
garrison, which already consisted of more than a
thousand men, so as to render an assault hope
less. Indeed Arnold himself placed his chief
dependence on the co-operation of Montgomery.
On the 14th of Nov. he crossed the St. Law
rence in the night ; and, ascending the precipice,
which Wolfe had climbed before him, formed his
small corps on the height near the plains of
Abraham. With only about seven hundred men,
one third of whose muskets had been rendered
useless in the march through the wilderness,
success could not be expected. It is surprising,
that the garrison, consisting Nov. 14th of one
thousand one hundred and twenty-six men, did
not march out and destroy the small force of
Arnold. After parading some days on the
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heights near the town, and sending two flags to
summon the inhabitants, he retired to Point aux
Trembles, twenty miles above Quebec, and there
awaited the arrival of Montgomery, who joined
him on the first of December. The city was im
mediately besieged, but the best measures had
been taken for its defence. The able Gen. Carle-
ton had entered the city with sixty men Nov.
20th. On the morning of the last day of the
year an assault was made on the one side of the
lower town by Montgomery, who was killed. At
the same time Col. Arnold, at the head of about
three hundred and fifty men, made a desperate
attack on the opposite side. Advancing with the
utmost intrepidity along the St. Charles through
a narrow path, exposed to an incessant fire of
grape-shot and musketry, as he approached the
first barrier he received a musket ball in the left
leg, which shattered the bone. He was com
pelled to retire, on foot, dragging " one leg after
him" near a mile to the hospital, having lost
sixty men killed and wounded, and three hun
dred prisoners. Although the attack was unsuc
cessful, the blockade of Quebec was continued
till Mav, 1776, when the army, which was in no
condition to risk an assault, was removed to a
more defensible position. Arnold was compelled
to relinquish one post after another, till the 18th
of June, when he quitted Canada. After this
period he exhibited great bravery in the com
mand of the American fleet on Lake Champlain.
In August, 1777, he relieved Fort Schuyler
under the command of Col. Gansevoort, which
was invested by Col. St. Leger with an army of
from fifteen to eighteen hundred men. In the
battle near Stillwater, Sept. 19th, he was engaged
incessantly for four hours. In the action of Oct.
7th, after the British had been driven into the
lines, Arnold pressed forward and under a tre
mendous fire assaulted the works throughout
their whole extent from right to left. The in-
trenchments were at length forced, and with a
few men he actually entered the works ; but his
horse being killed, and he himself badly wounded
in the leg, he found it necessary to withdraw,
and, as it was now almost dark, to desist from the
attack. Being rendered unfit for active service
in consequence of his wound, after the recovery
of Philadelphia he was appointed to the com
mand of the American garrison. When he en
tered the city, he made the house of Gov. Penn,
the best house in the city, his head-quarters.
This he furnished in a very costly manner, and
lived far beyond his income. He had wasted the
plunder, which he had seized at Montreal in his
retreat from Canada ; and at Philadelphia he was
determined to make new acquisitions. He laid
his hands on every thing in the city, which could
be considered as the property of those, who were
unfriendly to the cause of his country. He was
charged with oppression, extortion, and enormous
charges upon the public in his accounts, and with
I applying the public money and property to his
I own private use. Such was his conduct, that he
drew upon himself the odium of the inhabitants,
not only of the city, but of the province in gen
eral. He was engaged in trading speculations,
and had shares in several privateers, but was un
successful. From the judgment of the commis
sioners appointed to inspect his accounts, who
had rejected above half the amount of his de
mands, he appealed to Congress ; and they ap
pointed a committee of their own body to settle
the business. The committee confirmed the re
port of the commissioners, and thought they had
allowed him more than he had any right to ex
pect. By these disappointments he became irri
tated, and he gave full scope to his resentment.
His invectives against Congress were not less
violent, than those, which he had before thrown
out against the commissioners. He was, however,
soon obliged to abide the judgment of a court
martial upon the charges exhibited against him
by the executive of Pennsylvania; and he was
subjected to the mortification of receiving a repri
mand from Washington. His trial commenced
in June, 1778, but such were the delays occa
sioned by the movements of the army, that it was
not concluded until Jan. 26, 1779. The sentence
of a reprimand was approved by Congress, and
was soon afterwards carried into execution.
Such was the humiliation, to which Gen. Ar
nold was reduced in consequence of yielding to
the temptations of pride and vanity, and indulging
himself in the pleasures of a sumptuous table
and expensive equipage. From this time his
proud spirit revolted from the cause of America.
He turned his eyes to West Point as an acquisi
tion, which would give value to treason, while its
loss would inflict a mortal wound on his former
friends. He addressed himself to the delegation
of New York, in which state his reputation was
peculiarly high, and a member of Congress from
this state recommended him to Washington for
the service, which he desired. The same appli
cation to the commander-in-chief was made not
long afterwards through Gen. Schuyler. Wash
ington observed, that as there was a prospect of
an active campaign he should be gratified with
the aid of Arnold in the field ; but intimated at
the same time, that he should receive the ap
pointment requested, if it should be more pleas
ing to him. Arnold, without discovering much
solicitude, repaired to camp in the beginning of
August, and renewed in person the solicitations,
which had been before indirectly made. He was
now offered the command of the left wing of the
army, which was advancing against New York ;
but he declined it under the pretext, that in con
sequence of his wounds, he was unable to perform
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the active duties of the field. Without a sus
picion of his patriotism he was invested with the
command of \Ycst Point. Previously to his so
liciting this station, he had in a letter to Col.
Beverlcy Robinson signified his change of prin
ciples and his wish to restore himself to the favor
of his prince by some signal proof of his repent
ance. This letter opened to him a correspond
ence with Sir Henry Clinton, the object of which
was to concert the means of putting the im
portant post, which he commanded, into the pos
session of the British general. His plan, it is
believed, was to have drawn the greater part of
his army without the works under the pretext
of fighting the enemy in the defiles, and to have
left unguarded a designated pass, through which
the assailants might securely approach and sur
prise the fortress. His troops he intended to
place, so that they Avould be compelled to sur
render, or be cut in pieces. But just as his
scheme was ripe for execution the wise Disposer
of events, who so often and so remarkably inter
posed in favor of the American cause, blasted his
designs.
Maj. Andre, after his detection, apprized Arnold
of his danger, and the traitor found opportunity
to escape on board the Vulture, Sept. 25, 1780, a
few hours before the return of Washington, who
had been absent on a journey to Hartford, On
the very day of his escape Arnold wrote a letter
to Washington, declaring that the love of his
country had governed him in his late conduct,
and requesting him to protect Mrs. Arnold. She
was conveyed to her husband at New York, and
his clothes and baggage, for which he had
written, were transmitted to him. During the
exertions, which were made to rescue Andre from
the destruction, which threatened him, Arnold
had the hardihood to interpose. He appealed to
the humanity of the commander-in-clu'ef, and
then sought to intimidate him by stating the situ
ation of many of the principal characters of
South Carolina, who had forfeited their lives, but
had hitherto been spared through the clemency
of the British general. This clemency, he said,
could no longer in justice be extended to them,
should Maj. Andre suffer.
Arnold was made a brigadier-general in the
British service ; which rank he preserved through
out the war. Yet he must have been held in
contempt and detestation by the generous and
honorable. It was impossible for men of this
description, even when acting with him, to forget
that he was a traitor : first the slave of his rage,
then purchased with gold, and finally secured by
the blood of one of the most accomplished officers
in the British army. One would suppose, that
his mind could not have been much at ease ; but
he had proceeded so far in vice, that perhaps his
reflections gave him but little trouble. "I am
mistaken," says Washington in a private letter,
"if at this time Arnold is not undergoing the
torments of a mental hell. He wants feeling.
From some traits of his character, which have
lately come to my knowledge, he seems to have
been so hackneyed in crime, so lost to all sense of
honor and shame, that while his faculties still
enable him to continue his sordid pursuits, there
will be no time for remorse."
Arnold found it necessary to make some exer
tions to secure the attachment of his new friends.
With the hope of alluring many of the discon
tented to his standard, he published an address
to the inhabitants of America, in which he en
deavored to justify his conduct. He had encoun
tered the dangers of the field, he said, from ap
prehension that the rights of his country were in
danger. He had acquiesced in the Declaration
of Independence, though he thought it precipitate.
But the rejection of the overtures made by Great
Britain in 1778, and the French alliance, had
opened his eyes to the ambitious views of those,
who would sacrifice the happiness of their country
to their own aggrandizement, and had made him
a confirmed loyalist. He artfully mingled asser
tions, that the principal members of Congress
held the people in sovereign contempt. This
was followed in about a fortnight by a proclama
tion, addressed " to the officers and soldiers of the
continental army, who have the real interest of
their country at heart, and who are determined
to be no longer the tools and dupes of Congress
or of France." To induce the American officers
and soldiers to desert the cause, which they had
embraced, he represented, that the corps of
cavalry and infantry, -which he Avas authorized to
raise, would be upon the same footing Avith other
troops in the British senice ; that he should Avith
pleasure adArance those, Avhose valor he might
Avitness ; that the priA'ate men, who joined him,
should receive a bounty of three guineas each, be
sides payment at the full value for horses, arms,
and accoutrements. His object was the peace,
liberty, and safety of America. " You are
promised liberty," he exclaims, " but is there an
indiAidual in the enjoyment of it, saving your op
pressors ? Who among you dare speak or Avrite
Avhat he thinks against the tyranny, which has
robbed you of your property, imprisons your
persons, drags you to the field of battle, and is
daily deluging your country with your blood ? "
" What," he exclaims again, " is America now,
but a land of AvidoAvs, orphans, and beggars ? As
to you, Avho have been soldiers in the continental
army, can you at this day Avant evidence, that the
funds of your country arc exhausted, or that the
managers have applied them to their private
uses ? In either case you surely can no longer
continue in their sen-ice Avith honor or advantage.
Yet you have hitherto been their supporters in
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that cruelty, which with equal indifference to
yours as well as to the labor and blood of others,
is devouring a country, that from the moment you
quit their colors will be redeemed from their
tyranny." These proclamations did not produce
the effect designed ; and in all the hardships,
sufferings, and irritations of the war Arnold
remains the solitary instance of an American
officer, who abandoned the side first embraced in
the contest, and turned his sword upon his former
companions in arms.
He was soon dispatched by Sir Henry Clinton
to make a diversion in Virginia. With about
seventeen hundred men he arrived in the
Chesapeake in Jan., 1781, and being supported by
such a naval force as was suited to the nature of
the service, he committed extensive ravages on
the rivers and along the unprotected coasts. It
is said that, while on this expedition Arnold
inquired of an American captain, whom he had
taken prisoner, what the Americans would do
with him, if he should fall into their hands. The
officer replied, that they would cut off' his lame
leg and bury it with the honors of war, and hang
the remainder of his body in gibbets. After his
recall from Virginia he conducted an expedition
against his native state, Connecticut. He took
Fort Trumbull Sept. 6th, with inconsiderable loss.
On the other side of the harbor Lieut-Col. Eyre,
who commanded another detachment, made an
assault on Fort Griswold, and with the greatest
difficulty entered the works. An officer of the
conquering troops asked, Avho commanded? "I
did," answered Col. Ledyard, " but you do now,"
and presented him his sword, which was in
stantly plunged into his own bosom. A merci
less slaughter commenced upon the brave garrison,
who had ceased to resist, until the greater part
were either killed or wounded. After burning
the town and the stores, which Avere in it, and
thus thickening the laurels, with which his brow
was adorned, Arnold returned to New York in
eight days.
From the conclusion of the war till his death
Gen. Arnold resided chiefly in England. In
1786 he was at St. John's, New Brunswick,
engaged in trade and navigation, and again in
1790. For some cause he became very unpopular
in 1792 or 1793, was hung in effigy, and the j
mayor found it necessary to read the riot act, and j
a company of troops was called to quell the mob.
Repairing to the West Indies in 1794, a French
fleet anchored at the same island ; he became
alarmed lest he should be detained by the Ameri
can allies, and passed the fleet concealed on a :
raft of lumber. He died in Gloucester place, '
London. He married Margaret, the daughter of
Edward Shippen of Philadelphia, chief justice,
and a loyalist. Gen. Greene, it is said, was his
rival. She combined fascinating manners with
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strength of mind. She died at London Aug. 24,
1804, aged 43. His sons were men of property
in Canada in 1829. He fought bravely for his
country and he bled in her cause ; but his counti-y
owed him no returns of gratitude, for his sub
sequent conduct proved, that he had no honest
regard to her interests, but was governed by
selfish considerations. His progress from self-
indulgence to treason was easy and rapid. He
was vain and luxurious, and to gratify his giddy
desires he must resort to meanness, dishonesty,
and extortion. These vices brought with them
disgrace ; and the contempt, into which he fell,
awakened a spirit of revenge, and left him to the
unrestrained influence of his cupidity and passion.
Thus from the high fame, to which his bravery
had elevated him, he descended into infamy.
Thus too he furnished new evidence of the infatu
ation of the human mind in attaching such value
to the reputation of a soldier, which may be
obtained, while the heart is unsound and every
moral sentiment is entirely depraved. — Marshall's
Washington, IV. 271-290; Warren's Hist. War;
Holmes ; Stedman, I. 138, 336 ; n. 247 ; Smith's
Narrative of the Death of Andre ; Maine Hist.
Coll. I.; Amer. Rememb., 1776, part II. ; 1778,
part n.
ARNOLD, PELEG, chief justice of Rhode
Island, was a delegate to Congress under the
confederation, and then was appointed judge. He
died at Smithfield Feb. 13, 1820, aged 68.
ARNOLD, THOMAS, appointed chief justice in
1809, died at Warwick, It. I., Oct. 8, 1820.
ARNOLD, JOSIAH LYNDON, a poet, was born
at Providence and was graduated at Dartmouth
college in 1788. After superintending for some
time the academy at Plainfield, Conn., he studied
law at Providence and was admitted to the bar;
but he did not pursue the profession, being ap
pointed a tutor in the college. On the death,
March, 1793, of his father, Dr. Jonathan Arnold,
formerly a member of Congress, he settled at St.
Johnsbury, Vt., the place of his father's residence,
where he died June 7, 1796, aged 28 years. His
few hasty effusions in verse were published after
his death. — Specimens of Amer. Poetry, II. 77.
ARNOLD, SETH, died at Westminster, Vt.,
Aug. 6, 1849, aged 101 years, 10 months, — a
Revolutionary, pensioner.
ARNOLD, LKMUEL H., governor, died in
Kingston, R. I., June 27, 18u2, aged 59. Born
in St. Johnsbury, he graduated at Dartmouth
in 1811, and left the bar for mercantile pursuits.
He was governor of Rhode Island in 1831 and
1832, and afterwards a member of Congress.
His father, Jonathan, was of the Continental
Congress from Rhode Island.
ASBURY, FIIANCIS, senior bishop of the
Methodist Episcopal church in the Uniled States,
came to this country in 1771 as a preacher, at the
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age of twenty-six. In 1773 the first annual con
ference of the Methodists was held at Philadelphia,
when it consisted of ten preachers and about
eleven hundred members. He was consecrated
bishop by Dr. Coke in 1784. From this time he
travelled yearly through the United States,
probably ordaining three thousand preachers and
preaching seventeen thousand sermons. He died
suddenly while on a journey, at Spotsylvania, Va.,
March 31, 1S1G, aged 70 years. A letter from J.
W. Bond to Bishop M'Kendree gives an account
of his death.
ASH, JOHN, an agent of Carolina, was sent by
that colony to England to seek redress of
grievances, in 1703. In the same year he pub
lished an account of the affairs in Carolina.
ASHE, THOMAS, published in 1682 a description
of Carolina.
ASHE, SAMUEL, governor of North Carolina,
was appointed chief justice in 1777, and was
governor from 1796 to 1799. He died Jan., 1813,
aged 88 years.
ASHLEY, JONATHAN, minister of Deerfield,
Mass., was graduated at Yale college in 1730, and
was ordained in 1738. He died in 1780, aged
67. He possessed a strong and discerning mind
and lively imagination, and was a pungent and
energetic preacher. He proclaimed the doctrines
of grace with a pathos, which was the effect, not
merely of his assent to their Divine authority, but
of a deep sense of their importance and excellency.
He published a sermon on visible saints, vindicating
Mr. Stoddarcl's sentiments respecting church
membership ; a sermon at the ordination of John
Norton, Deerfield, 1741 ; the great duty of
charity, 1742; a letter to W. Cooper, 174*5.
ASHLEY, JOHN, major-general, was the son
of Col. John Ashley, one of the settlers in 1732
of Iloussatonnoc, afterwards Sheffield, died Nov.
5, 1799, aged 60. He descended from Robert
A. of Springfield, 1630, — and was graduated at
Yale college in 17o8. In the Shays' insurrection
he commanded the force, which dispersed the in
surgents at Sheffield Feb. 26, 1787. His daughter
Lydia, married to II. II. Hinman, died in 18<53,
aged 65. — Hint. Berkshire, 213.
ASHLEY, EDWARD, died at Groton, Conn.,
Jan., 1767, aged 108.
ASHLEY, WILLIAM II., general, of St. Louis,
died March 26, 1838. Born in Powhatan county,
Va., at the age of thirty he emigrated to Missouri,
then upper Louisiana, and settled near the lead
mines. He was lieutenant-governor of Missouri,
and a member of Congress 1831-33. He was
respected for his talents, enterprise, and integrity.
In 1822 he projected the "mountain expedition,"
uniting the Indian trade in the Itocky Mountains
with hunting and trapping, and enlisted in the
scheme three hundred men. After losses by
Indian robbery and river disasters he and his as
sociates acquired a handsome fortune.
ASIIMUN,- ELI P., died at Northampton May
10, 1819, aged 48. Born in Blandford, he studied
law with Judge Sedgwick, and practised in his
native town until 1807. In 1816 he was a Senator
of the U. S. A man once asked him for a writ
against his neighbor, saying, " I will sue him, for
he has sued me. I can prove he had the property."
But Mr. A. pushed his inquiries, and asked, if
the purchaser had paid for the property, and
extorted the answer, " There was nobody present,
when he paid me, and he can't prove it." The
man was sent away from the office with a scorching
rebuke.
ASIIMUN, JOHN HOOKER, son of the preceding,
professor of law in Harvard university, died April
1, 1833, aged 32. He was born July 3, 1800, was
graduated at Cambridge in 1818, and appointed
professor in 1829. Dying early, " he had gathered
about him," said Judge Story, " all the honors,
which are usually the harvest of the ripest life."
ASIIMUN, JEHUDI, agent of the American
Colonization Society, died Aug. 25, 1828, aged
34. He was born of pious parents in Champlain,
on the western shore of the lake of the same
name, New York, in April, 1794. In early life he
was an unbeliever ; but it pleased God to disclose
to him the iniquity of his heart and his need of
mercy and the value and glory of the Gospel.
He graduated at Burlington college in 1816, and
after preparing for the ministry was elected a
professor in the theological seminary at Bangor,
Maine, in which place, however, he continued but
a short time. Removing to the District of Co
lumbia, he became a member of the Episcopal
church, edited the Theological Repertory and
published his memoirs of Samuel Bacon. He
also projected a monthly journal for the American
Colonization Society, and published one number ;
but the work failed for want of patronage.
Being appointed to take charge of a reinforcement
to the colony at Liberia, he embarked for Africa
June 19, 1822, and arrived at Cape Montserado
Aug. 8. He had authority, in case he should
find no agent there, to act as such for the society,
and also for the navy department. In the absence
of the agents, it was at a period of great difficulty,
that he assumed the agency. The settlers were
few and surrounded with numerous enemies. It
was necessary for him to act as a legislator and
also as a soldier and engineer, to lay out the
fortifications, superintending the construction, and
this too in the time of affliction from the loss of
his wife and while suffering himself under a fever,
and to animate the emigrants to the resolute pur
pose of self-defence. About three months after
his arrival, just as he was beginning to recover
strength, and while his whole force was thirty-five
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men and boys, he was attacked at the dawn of
day, Nov. 11, by eight hundred armed savages;
but by the energy and desperate" valor of the
agent the assailants were repulsed, with the loss
of four colonists killed and four wounded, and
again in a few days, when they returned with
redoubled numbers, were utterly defeated. Here
was a memorable display of heroism. The same
energy, diligence, and courage were displayed in
all his' labors for the benefit of the colony. When
ill health compelled him to take a voyage to
America, he was escorted to the place of embarka
tion, March 26, 1828, by three companies of the
militia, and the men, women, and children of
Monrovia parted with him with tears. He left a
community of twelve hundred freemen. The
vessel touched and landed him at St. Bartholo
mew's in very ill health. He arrived at New
Haven Aug. 10th, a fortnight before his death.
In his sickness he was very humble and patient.
He said : " I have come here to die. It is hard to
be broken down by the slow progress of disease.
I wish to be submissive. My sins, my sins ; they
seem to shut me out from that comfort, which I
wish to enjoy. I have been praying for light;
and a little light has come, cheering and refresh
ing beyond expression." An eloquent discourse
was preached by Leonard Bacon at his funeral,
describing his remarkable character, the important
influence on the tribes of Africa of his piety and
regard to justice, and his great services for the
colonists. He was, as Mrs. Sigourney represents,
" Their leader, -when the blast
Of ruthless war swept b}- ; —
Their teacher, when the storm was past,
Their guide to worlds on high."
Mr. Gurlcy, the editor of the African Repository,
is preparing an account of his life. In the Re
pository various communications, written by Mr.
Ashmun, were published ; his memoirs of S.
Bacon have been already mentioned. — African
Repository, IV. 214-224, 286; Christian Spec-
tator, II. 528 ; N. Y. Mercury, I. 13.
ASPINWALL, WILLIAM, M. D., an eminent
physician, was born in Brookline, Mass., in June,
1743, and graduated at Cambridge in 1764. His
ancestor, Peter, was the first settler in Brookline
in 1650. Dr. Aspinwall studied his profession
with Dr. B. Gale of Connecticut, and at Philadel
phia, where he received his medical degree in
1768. In the war of the Revolution he acted as
a surgeon in the army. In the battle of Lexing
ton he served as a volunteer, and bore from the
field the corpse of his townsman, Isaac Gardner,
Esq., whose daughter he afterwards married.
After the death of Dr. Boylston he engaged in
the business of inoculating for the small pox, and
erected hospitals for the purpose. Perhaps no
man in America ever inoculated so many, or had
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such reputation for skill in that disease. Yet,
when the vaccine inoculation was introduced,
after a proper trial he acknowledged its efficacy
and relinquished his own profitable establishment.
For forty-five years he had extensive practice,
frequently riding on horseback forty miles a day.
In his youth he lost the use of one eye ; in his
old age a cataract deprived him of the other.
He died April 16, 1823, in his 80th year, in the
peace of one, who had long professed the religion
of Jesus Christ and practised its duties. At the
bed of sickness he was accustomed to give re
ligious counsel. His testimony in favor of the
gospel he regarded as his best legacy to his chil
dren. In his political views he was decidedly
democratic or republican ; yet he was not a per
secutor, and when in the council, he resisted the
measures of the violent. He was anxious, that
wise and good men should bear sway, and that
all benevolent and religious institutions should be
perpetuated. His son of the same name suc
ceeded him in his profession. Another son, Col.
Thomas Aspinwall, lost an arm in the war of
1812 and was afterwards appointed consul at
London. — Tliaclier's Medical Biography.
ASPLUND, JOHN, died in Maryland in 1807.
Born a Swede, he was a Baptist minister in Caro
lina in 1782. He was drowned from a canoe in
Maryland. With great labor he prepared the
Register of the Baptist churches in 1791 and
1794.
ASTOR, JOHN JACOB, died in New York March
29, 1848, aged 84. He was born in Waldrop,
near Heidelberg, of humble parents, and came to
Baltimore in 1784, commencing business as a
fur-trader. He made frequent voyages up the
Mohawk to trade with the Indians, and exte'ndcd
his business to the Columbia river, founding As
toria. W. Irving has recorded the over-land
journeys projected by him to the Pacific. Pre
vious to the war of 1812 he had ships in the
Canton trade : their safe arrival during the war
gave him enormous wealth. He purchased Amer
ican stocks at sixty to seventy cents, which after
the Avar were worth twenty per cent, above par.
His chief wealth was from the purchase of real
estate.
ATHERTON, HUMPHREY, major-general, came
to this country about the year 1636, succeeded
Robert Sedgwick in his military office in 1654,
and was much employed in negotiations with the
Indians. He died in consequence of a fall from
his horse Sept. 17, 1661. His residence was at
Dorchester. Among his children are the names
of Rest, Increase, Thankful, Hope, Consider,
Watching, and Patience. — Hope, a graduate of
1665, was the first minister of Hatfield. As
chaplain he was at the Indian battle in Montague,
i May 18, 1676. — Farmer's Genealogical Ueyis-
\ ter ; Savage's Wintlirop, II. 137.
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ATHERTdN, CHARLES II., an eminent law
yer, died at Amherst, N. H., Jan. 8, 1853, aged
79, a graduate of Harvard in 1794. He was a
member of Congress 1815-1817, and register of
probate thirty-nine years.
ATHERTON, CHARLES G., son of the pre
ceding, died in Nashua Nov. 15, 1853, aged 53, a
graduate of Harvard in 1822. He was a repre
sentative in Congress 1837-1843, and a senator
from 1843 till his death. lie left a widow, but
no children to inherit an estate of 200,000 or
300.000 dollars.
ATKINS, HEXRY, a navigator, sailed from
Boston in the ship Whale, on a voyage to Davis'
Straits, in 1729. In this and in subsequent voy
ages for the purpose of trade with the Indians,
the last of which was made in 1758, he explored
much of the coast of Labrador. A short account
of his observations was published in the first vol
ume of Mass. Historical Collections.
ATKINS, ELISHA, minister of Killingly, died
June 11, 1839, aged 89, formerly a chaplain in the
army.
ATKINSON, THEODORE, chief justice of New
Hampshire, was born at New Castle, son of Col.
Theodore Atkinson, and graduated at Harvard
college in 1718. He sustained many public offi
ces, civil and military; was secretary in 1741; a
delegate to the congress at Albany in 1754, and
chief justice in the same year. The Revolution
deprived him of the offices of judge and secre
tary. He died in 1779, bequeathing 200 pounds
to the Episcopal church, the interest to be ex
pended in bread for the poor, distributed on the
Sabbath. — Adams' Annals of Portsmouth, 269.
ATKINSON, ISRAEL, an eminent physician,
was a native of Harvard, Mass., and graduated at
Cambridge in 1762. He settled in 1765, at Lan
caster, where he died July 20, 1822, aged 82.
For some years he was the only physician in the
county of Worcester, who had been well edu
cated. — Thaclier's Medical Bioc/rapJty.
ATKINSON, HEXRY, brigadier-general, died
near St. Louis June 20, 1842, aged 60. He en
tered the army in 1808.
ATLEE, SAMUEL JOHN, colonel, commanded
a Pennsylvania company in the French war and a
regiment in the war of the Revolution, and ac
quired great honor in the battle on Long Island,
though taken prisoner and subject to a long cap
tivity. Afterwards he acted as commissioner to
treat with the Indians. In 1780 he was elected
to Congress and was on the committee concern
ing the mutiny of the Pennsylvania troops in
1781. His usual residence was at Lancaster.
He died at Philadelphia in Nov., 1786, aged 48.
ATLEE, WILLIAM AUGUSTUS, a judge of the
supreme court and president of the common pleas
for Lancaster and other counties, died at his scat
on the Susquehanna Sept. 9, 1793. — Jcnnison.
ATWELL, LUCRETIA, Mrs., died at Montville,
Conn., Nov. 1, 1851, aged 102; retaining all her
faculties to the day of her death.
ATWELL, ZACIIARIAH, captain, died at Lynn
in 1847, aged 67. Crossing the Atlantic seventy
times, he never lost a man.
AT WOOD, MARY, the mother of Harriet Newell,
died in Boston July 4, 1853, aged 84. She was
the daughter of Thomas Tenney of East Brad
ford, of an eminent family, and married in 1788
Moses Atwood, a merchant of Haverhill, who
died in 1808. The whole care of her family
now rested upon her ; but she was diligent, pru
dent, prayerful. When her daughter asked her
consent to quit her country in the cause of Christ,
she resigned the beloved one to her work. In
the course of her life her home was with her
children in Medford, Newton, Pittsburg, Granby,
and Philadelphia ; and widely apart did she bury
most of them, to be gathered together in glory
eternal. The Journal of Missions for Sept., 1853,
has a beautiful piece of poetry on her death.
AUCHMUTY, ROBERT, an eminent lawyer,
died in 1750. He was of Scottish descent, and
after his education at Dublin studied law at the
Temple. He came to Boston in early life ; and
on the death of Mr. Menzies was appointed judge
of the court of admiralty in 1703, but held the
place only a few months. In 1740 he was one
of the directors of the Land Bank bubble, or
Manufacturing Company, in which the father of
Samuel Adams was involved. When sent to
England as agent for the colony on the boundary
question with Rhode Island, he projected the
expedition to Cape Breton, publishing a pam
phlet, entitled, " the importance of Cape Breton to
the British nation, and a plan for taking the
place." On the death of Byfield he was again
appointed judge of admiralty in 1733. His daugh
ter married Mr. Pratt. His son Samuel gradu
ated at Harvard college in 1742, was an Episcopal
minister in New York, and received the degree
of doctor in divinity from Oxford. He died
March 3, 1777 ; and his son, Sir Samuel, licut.-
general in the British army, died in 1822. — His
name is introduced in the versification of Hugh
Gaine's petition, Jan. 1, 1783. He is alluded to
also in Trumbull's M'Fingal. His other son,
Robert, a most interesting, persuasive pleader,
defended, with John Adams, Capt. Preston. He
had previously been appointed judge of admiralty
in 1768. His letters, with Ilutchinson's, were
sent to America by Franklin in 1773. Like his
brother, he was a zealous royalist, and left Amer
ica in 1776. He died in England. — Jennison,
Manuscripts ; Thomas, II. 488 ; Hutchinson's Last
History, 401 ; Eliot.
AUDUBON, JOHN JAMES, died at Minniesland,
near New York, Jan. 27, 1851, aged 71. Born
of French parents at New Orleans, he was edu-
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cated at Paris. As early as 1810 he went down
the Ohio in an open boat in search of a forest
home. His life was a life of adventure and ro
mantic interest, hardly a region of the United
States being unvisited by him in his ornithological
pursuits, lie published a splendid work, — Birds
of America, from original drawings, folio ; also
Ornithological biography, 8vo. 1831.
AUSTIN, BENJAMIN, a political writer, died in
Boston May 4, 1820, aged 68. He early espoused
the democratic or republican side in the political
controversy, which raged during the administra
tion of John Adams. He was bold, unflinching,
uncompromising. He assailed others for their
political errors; and he was himself traduced
with the utmost virulence. Perhaps no man ever
met such a tide of obloquy. Yet many, who once
detested his party, have since united themselves
to it. After the triumph of Mr. Jefferson, he
was appointed, without soliciting the place, com
missioner of loans for Mass. In 1806 his son,
Charles Austin, when attempting to chastise Mr.
Selfridge for abuse of his father, was by him shot
and killed in the streets of Boston. Mr. S. was
tried and acquitted. His political writings, with
the signature of " Old South," published in the
Chronicle, were collected into a volume, entitled
" Constitutional Republicanism/' 8vo. 1803.
AUSTIN, JONATHAN LOIUXG, died in Boston
May 10, 1826, aged 78. He rendered important
services in the Revolution. Born in Boston Jan.
2, 1748, he was graduated in 1766 ; was a mer
chant and secretary of the board of war in Mas
sachusetts. He was sent to Paris in 1777 with
news to our commissioners of the capture of Bur-
goyne : presenting a note to Dr. Chauncy's church
for a safe voyage, the Doctor, who was somewhat
unskilful, prayed, that whatever might become of
the young man, the packet might be safe. For
two years in Paris he was Franklin's secretary.
A large cake was once sent to the apartment of
the commissioners, inscribed — " Le digne Frank
lin," — the worthy Franklin. F. immediately re
marked — " The present is for all of us — these
French people cannot write English : they mean
Lee, Deane, Franklin."
As the agent of Franklin he spent two years
in London in the family of the Earl of Shel-
burnc. On his return in May, 1779, he was lib
erally rewarded by Congress. In 1780 in going
to Spain as an agent of the state he was cap
tured and carried to England. lie was secretary
and treasurer of the state, and an exemplary
member of the church. His son, James T. Austin,
was attorney-general in 1832.
AUSTIN, MOSES, an enterprising settler in
upper Louisiana, was a native of Durham, Conn.,
and after residing in Philadelphia and Richmond
emigrated to the west with his family in 1798,
having obtained a considerable grant of land
AUSTIN.
from the Spanish governor. He commenced the
business of mining at Mine au Breton, and cre
ated there a town ; but becoming embarrassed by
his speculations, he sold his estate and purchased
a large tract near the mouth of the river Colorado,
in Mexico. Ere his arrangements for removal
were completed, he died in 1821. Believing the
gospel, he placed his hopes of future happiness
on the atonement of the Saviour. — Schoolcraft's
Travels, 1821, p. 239-250.
AUSTIN, SAMUEL, D. D., president of the uni
versity of Vermont, was born at New Haven,
graduated at Yale college in 1783, and ordained,
as the successor of Allyn Mather, at Fairhaven,
Conn., Nov. 9, 1786, but was dismissed Jan. 19,
1790. He was afterwards for many years pastor
of a church in Worcester, Mass. He was but a
few years at the head of the college in Burling
ton. After his resignation of that place he was
not resettled in the ministry. He died at Glas-
tenbury, Conn., Dec. 4, 1830, aged 70 years.
His wife was a daughter of Dr. Hopkins of Had-
ley. He Avas eminently pious and distinguished
as a minister. With three other ministers he
was the projector of the Massachusetts mission
ary society, and was active in originating the
Mass, general association. Much might be said
of his high intellectual character, of his zeal and
eloquence, his charity, influence, and usefulness.
But for the last three years it pleased God to
cast a thick cloud over his mind, so that he was
in a state of despondence and sometimes in
paroxysms of horror. His last words in prayer
were, " Blessed Jesus ! sanctify me wholly."
He published two important works ; a view of
the church, and theological essays : also letters
on baptism, examining Merrill's seven sermons,
1805 ; reply to Merrill's twelve letters, 1806; and
the following sermons, — on disinterested love,
1790; ordination and installation of S.Worces
ter; on the death of Mrs. Blair, 1792; Mass,
missionary, 1 803 ; dedication at Hadley ; ordina
tion of W. Fay, J. M. Whiton, N. Nelson, G. S.
Olds; at a fast, 1811 : at two fasts, 1812 ; view of
the economy of the church.
AUSTIN, DAYID, died in Norwich, Conn., Feb.
5, 1831, aged 71. His father was collector of the
customs and a merchant in New Haven. — He
graduated in 1779. After travelling abroad he
was ordained at Elizabethtown, N. J., in 1788.
His wife, Lydia Lathrop of Norwich, was the
daughter of a man of wealth. An illness of the
scarlet fever in 1795, it is supposed, affected his
reason. He predicted the second coming of
Christ on the fourth Sunday of May, 1796. As
the event did not cure him of his delusion, the
presbytery dismissed him in 1797. By building
houses for the Jews, who, he thought, were
coming to New Haven, he incurred debts, for
which he was imprisoned. Recovering his reason,
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he was the minister of Bozrah from 1815 till his
death. He published in four vols. the "American
Preacher," by various ministers, and the " Down
fall of Babylon."— Observer, Aug. 11, 1844.
AVERY, JOHX, a minister, came to this coun
try in 1635. While sailing from Xewbury towards
Marblehead, where he proposed to settle, he was
shipwrecked in a violent storm Aug. 14, 1635, on
a rocky island, called Thacher's woe and Avery's
fall, and died with his wife and six children. —
Mr. A. Thacher escaped. — His last words were :
" I can lay no claim to deliverance from this
danger, but through the satisfaction of Christ I
can lay claim to heaven : this, Lord, I entreat of
thee." — Magnal. in. 77 ; Savage, I. 165 ; Eliot.
AVERY, WILLIAM, Dr., died in Dedham about
1687, having lived there as early as 1653. Of
his grandchildren, Joseph was the first minister
of Norton from 1714 to 1770, and John the first
minister of Truro, dying in 1754, aged about 70.
Rev. David A. of Holden and Rev. Daniel A. of
Wrentham were also his descendants.
AXTELL, HENRY, D. D., minister of Geneva,
X. Y., was born at Mendham, X. J., in 1773, and
graduated at Princeton in 1796. He went to
Geneva soon after the settlement of that part of
the state, and was very useful. At the time of
his ordination in 1812 his church consisted of
seventy members : at the time of his death of
about 400. In two revivals his labors had been
particularly blessed. He died Feb. 11, 1829,
aged 55. His eldest daughter was placed in the
same grave.
BACHE, RICHARD, postmaster-general of the
United States, was appointed in the place of Dr.
Franklin in Xov. 1776, and was succeeded by
Mr. Hazard in 1782. A native of England, he
came in early life to this country, and was at the
beginning of the Revolution chairman of the re
publican society in Philadelphia. He married in
1767 Sally, the only daughter of Dr. Franklin,
who died in Oct., 1808; he died at Settle in the
county of Berks, Penn., July 29, 1811, aged 74.
BACHE, BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, a printer, died
in 1799. He was the son of the preceding, and
accompanied Dr. Franklin to Paris, where he
completed his education as a printer and founder
in the printing house of the celebrated Didot.
After his return in 1785 he pursued with honor
his studies at the college of Philadelphia. In
Oct., 1790, he commenced the publication of the
General Advertiser, the name of which was after
wards changed to that of the Aurora, — a paper,
which under the direction of Mr. Bache and his
successor, Mr. I Hume, exerted a powerful influ
ence on the politics of the country in hostility to
the two first administrations. His widow married
Mr. Duanc. — Jennison's Manuscripts.
BACHE, GEORGE M., a lieutenant in the navy,
was swept from the deck of his ship off Cape Ilat-
teras in a hurricane Sept. 8, 1846. He had toiled
for eight years in a scientific coast-survey, being
chief of a hydrographic party. He was a native
of Philadelphia.
BACHI, PIETRO, died in Boston Aug. 22, 1853,
aged 66. Born in Sicily, he came to this country
in 1825 and was teacher of Italian at Harvard
from 1826 to 1846.
BACKUS, ISAAC, a distinguished Baptist min
ister of Massachusetts, died Xov. 20, 1806, aged
82. He was born at Xorwich in Connecticut, in
1724. In 1741, a year memorable for the revival
of religion through this country, his attention
was first arrested by the concerns of another
world, and he was brought, as he believed, to the
knowledge of the truth, as it is in Jesus. In
1746 he commenced preaching the gospel; and
April 13, 1748, he was ordained first minister of
a Congregational church in Titicut precinct, in the
town of Middlcborough, Mass. This society was
formed in Feb., 1743, in consequence of disputes
with regard to the settlement of a minister. The
members of it wished for a minister of different
sentiments from the man, who was settled, and,
as they could not obtain a dismission from the
church by an ecclesiastical council, at the end
of five years they withdrew without this sanction,
and formed a church by themselves in Feb., 1748.
The society, however, was not permitted now to
rest in peace, for they were taxed with the other
inhabitants of the town for the purpose of build
ing a new meeting-house for the first church.
In 1749 a number of the members of Mr.
Backus' church altered their sentiments with re
gard to baptism, and obtained an exemption from
the congregational tax ; and he at length united
with them in opinion. He was baptized by im
mersion in August, 1751. For some years after
wards he held communion with those, who were
baptized in infancy, but he withdrew from this
intercourse with Christians of other denomina
tions. A Baptist church was formed Jan. 16,
1756, and he was installed its pastor June 23 of
the same year by ministers from Boston and Re-
hoboth. In this relation he continued through
the remainder of his life. He had been enabled
to preach nearly sixty years until the spring before
his death, when he experienced a paralytic stroke,
which deprived him of speech, and of the use of
his limbs.
Mr. Backus was a plain, evangelical preacher,
without any pretensions to eloquence. It may be
ascribed to his natural diffidence that, when
preaching or conversing on important subjects,
he was in the habit of shutting his eyes. To his
exertions the Baptist churches in America owe
not a little of their present flourishing condition.
He was ever a zealous friend to the equal rights
of Christians. When the Congress met at Phil
adelphia in 1774, he was sent as an agent from
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the Baptist churches of the Warren association
to support their claims to the same equal liber
ties, wlu'ch ought to be given to every denomina
tion. In October he had a conference with the
Massachusetts delegation and others, at which he
contended only for the same privileges, which
were given to the churches in Boston; and he
received the promise, that the rights of the
Baptists should be regarded. On his return, as a
report had preceded him, that he had been at
tempting to break up the union of the colonies,
he addressed himself to the convention of Mass.
Dec. 9, and a vote was passed, declaring his con
duct to have been correct. When the convention
in 1779 took into consideration the constitution
of the state, the subject of the extent of the civil
power in regard to religion naturally presented
itself, and in the course of debate the perfect
correctness of the Baptist memorial, which was
read at Philadelphia, was called in question. In
consequence of which Mr. Backus published in
the Chronicle of Dec. 2d a narrative of his pro
ceedings as Baptist agent, and brought arguments
against an article in the bill of rights of the con
stitution of Massachusetts. He believed, that the
civil authority had no right to require men to
support a teacher of piety, morality, and religion,
or to attend public worship ; that the church
ought to have no connection with the state ; that
the kingdom of the Lord Jesus was not of this
world, and was not dependent on the kingdoms
of this world; and that the subject of religion
should be left entirely to the consciences of
men.
The publications of Mr. Backus are more
numerous, than those of any other Baptist writer
in America. An abridgement of the whole work
was published in one volume, when the author
was 80 years of age.
Little can be said in commendation of his
three volumes of the history of the Baptists, of
which he published an abridgment, brought
down to 1804. It contains indeed many facts,
for which the public is indebted to the patient in
dustry of the writer, and it must be a very valu
able work to the Baptists, as it presents a minute
account of almost every church of that denom
ination in New England. But these facts are
combined without much attention to the connec
tion, which ought to subsist between them, and
the author shows himself too much under the in
fluence of the zeal of party. — Backus' Church
History, III. 139-141 ; Benedict, n. 267-274.
BACKUS, CHARLES, D. D., an eminent minister,
was born in Norwich, Conn., in 1749. He lost
his parents in his childhood, but, as he early dis
covered a love of science, his friends assisted him
to a liberal education. He was graduated at
Yale college in 1769. His theological education
was directed by Dr. Hart of Preston. In 1774
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he was ordained to the pastoral charge of the
church in Somers, in which town he remained till
his death Dec. 30, 1803, after a faithful ministry
of more than twenty-nine years. In the last
year of his residence at college the mind of Dr.
Backus was impressed by Divine truth, and,
although his conduct had not been immoral, he
was deeply convinced of his sinfulncss in the
sight of God. He was for a time opposed to the
doctrines of the gospel, particularly to the doc
trine of the atonement, and of the dependence
of man upon the special influences of the Holy
Spirit to renew his heart. But at last his pride
was humbled, and he was brought to an acquaint
ance with the way of salvation by a crucified Re
deemer. From this time he indulged the hope
that he was reconciled unto God. A humble and
an exemplary Christian, under the afflictions of
life he quietly submitted to the will of his Father
in heaven. He was a plain, evangelical, impressive
preacher. Knowing the worth of immortal souls,
he taught with the greatest clearness the way of
salvation through faith in the Redeemer, and
enforced upon his hearers that holiness, without
which no man can see the Lord. During his
ministry there were four seasons of peculiar atten
tion to religion among his people. Dr. Backus
was eminent as a theologian. His retired situa
tion and his eminence as an instructor drew
around him many, who were designed for the
Christian ministry. Nearly fifty young men were
members of his theological school, among whom
were Drs. Woods, Church, Hyde, Moore, Davis,
Lovell, and Cooley. He refused invitations to the
theological chair in Dartmouth and Yale. His
only child, a son, a member of college, died in
1794. He was a very fervent, eloquent, extempo
raneous preacher. In his last sickness he had
much of the Divine presence. The last words,
which he was heard to whisper, were, " Glory to
God in the highest, and on earth peace, good
will towards men." He published the following
sermons: at the ordination of A. Backus, 1791;
of F. Reynolds, 1795 ; of J. Russell, Princeton,
and T. M. Cooley, 1796 ; of J. H. Church and T.
Snell, 1798; of Z. S. Moore and V. Gould; on
death of J. Howard, 1785; of M. Chapin, 1794;
of Mrs. Prudden ; of six young persons, drowned
at Wilbraham, 1799; to free masons, 1795; five
on the truth of the Bible, 1797 ; century sermon,
1801; a volume on regeneration.
BACKUS, AZEL, D. D., president of Ham
ilton college, died Dec. 28, 1816, aged 51.
He was the son of Jabez Backus of Norwich,
Conn. His father bequeathed to him a farm in
Franklin, which, he says, " I wisely exchanged for
an education in college." He was graduated at
Yale in 1787. While in college he was a deist;
but his uncle and friend, Charles Backus of
Somers, won him from infidelity through the
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Divine blessing, and reared him up for the minis
try. From the time that he believed the gospel,
he gloried in the cross. In early life he was or
dained as the successor of Dr. Bellamy at Beth-
lorn, where he not only labored faithfully in the
ministry, but also instituted and conducted a school
of considerable celebrity. After the establishment
of Hamilton college, near Utica, he was chosen
the first president, and was succeeded by President
Davis of Middlebury college. He was a man of
an original cast of thought, distinguished by sus
ceptibility and ardor of feeling and by vigorous
and active piety. Of his benevolence and good
ness no one could doubt. In his sermons, though
familiar and not perhaps sufficiently correct and
elevated in style, he was earnest, affectionate, and
faithful. He published a sermon on the death of
Gov. Wolcott, 1797; at the election, 1798; at the
ordination of John Frost, Whitesborough, 1813.
— Belig. Intel. I. 527, 592; Panoplist, XIII. 43.
BACON, NATHANIEL, general, a Virginia rebel,
died Oct. 1, 1G76. He was educated at the Inns
of court in England, and after his arrival in this
country was chosen a member of the council.
He was a young man of fine accomplishments, of
an interesting countenance, and of impressive
eloquence. The treachery of the English in the
murder of six Woerowances or Indian chiefs, who
came out of a beseiged fort in order to negotiate
a treaty, induced the savages to take terrible
vengeance, inhumanly slaughtering sixty for the
six, for they thought that ten for one was a just
atonement for the loss of their great men. Their
incursions caused the frontier plantations to be
abandoned. Thus did the crime of the Virginians,
as is always the case with public crime, draw after
it punishment. The governor, Berkeley, resorted
to the wretched policy of building a few forts on
the frontiers, which could have no effect in pre
venting the incursions of the savages, who quickly
found out, as an old history of the affair expresses
it, " where the mouse-traps were set!" The people,
in their indignation, determined on wiser and
more active measures. Having chosen Bacon as
their general, he sent to their governor for a
commission, but being refused, he marched with
out one at the head of eighty or ninety men, and
in a battle defeated the Indians and destroyed
their magazine. In the mean time the governor,
at the instigation of men who were envious of the
rising popularity of Bacon, proclaimed him a
rebel May 29, 1G7G, and marched a force against
him to " the middle plantation," or Williamsburg,
but in a few days returned to meet the assembly.
Bacon himself soon proceeded in a sloop with
thirty men to Jamestown ; but was taken by sur
prise and put in irons. At his trial before the
governor and council June 10, he was acquitted
and restored to the council, and promised also in
two days a commission as general for the Indian
war, agreeably to the passionate wishes of the
people. Their regard to him will account for his
acquittance. As the governor refused to sign the
promised commission, Bacon soon appeared at the
head of five hundred men and obtained it by
force. Thus was he " crowned the darling of the
people's hopes and desires." Nor did the people
misjudge as to his capacity to serve them. By
sending companies under select officers into the
different counties to scour the thickets, swamps,
and forests, where the Indians might be sheltered,
he restored the dispersed people to their planta
tions. While he was thus honorably employed,
the governor again proclaimed him a rebel. This
measure induced him to countermarch to Wil
liamsburg, whence he issued, Aug. 6, his declara
tion against the governor and soon drove him
across the bay to Accomac. He also exacted of
the people an oath to support him against the
forces employed by the governor. He then
prosecuted the Indian war. In September he
again put the governor to flight and burned
Jamestown, consisting of sixteen or eighteen
houses and a brick church, the first that was built
in Virginia. At this period he adopted a singular
expedient to prevent an attack by the governor,
beseiged by him. He seized the wives of several
of the governor's adherents and brought them
into camp; then sent word to their husbands,
that they would be placed in the fore front of his
men. Entirely successful on the western shore,
Bacon was about to cross the bay to attack the
governor at Accomac, when he was called to sur
render up his life " into the hands of that grim
and all conquering captain, Death." In his sick
ness he implored the assistance of Mr. Wading, a
minister, in preparing for the future world.
After the death of Bacon one Ingram, a Aveak
man, assumed his commission, but was soon won
over by the governor. Among his followers, who
were executed, was Col. Hansford, who, with the
feelings of Maj. Andre, had no favor to ask, but
that " he might be shot like a soldier, and not be
hanged like a dog ; " also Capt. Carver, and Far-
low, and Wilford. Maj. Cheisman died in prison.
Drummond also, formerly governor of Carolina,
and Col. llichard Lawrence were \ictims of this
civil war, which, besides the loss of valuable lives,
cost the colony 100,000 pounds. After reading
; the history of this rebellion, one is ready to per
suade himself, that its existence might have been
prevented, had the governor consulted the wishes
of the people by giving Bacon the command in
the Indian war ; had he been faithful to his own
promise ; had he not yielded to the envious or
malignant counsels of others. Had Bacon lived
and been triumphant, he would probably have
been remembered, not as an insurgent, but as the
deliverer of his country. Yet it is very obvious,
that under an organized government he did not
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prove himself a good citizen, but was an artful
demagogue, and borne away by a reprehensible
and rash ambition. — Death of Bacon; Keith's
Hist, of Virginia, 156-162; Chalmers, I. 332-
335; Beverly, 105; Wynne, II. 222, 223; Mar
shall, I. 198-201.
BACON, THOMAS, an Episcopal minister at
Frederictown, Md., died May 24, 1768. He
compiled " a complete system of the revenue of
Ireland," published in 1737 ; also a complete body
of the laws of Maryland, fol., 1765. He also
wrote other valuable pieces. — Jenn.
BACON, JACOB, first minister of Keene, N. II.,
died at Rowley in 1787, aged 81. A graduate of
Harvard in 1731, he was ordained in 1738. The
settlement was broken up by the Indians in
April, 1747. He afterwards was settled in Ply
mouth. His successors at K. were Carpenter,
Sumner, Hall, Oliphant, and Barstow. The last
was ordained July 1, 1818.
BACON, JOHN, minister, of Boston, died Oct.
25, 1820. He was a native of Canterbury,
Conn., and was graduated at the college of
New Jersey in 1765. After preaching for a time
in Somerset county, Maryland, he and John Hunt
were settled as colleague pastors over the old
south church in Boston, as successors to Mr.
Blair, Sept. 25, 1771. His style of preaching
was argumentative ; his manner approaching the
severe. Difficulties soon sprung up in regard to
the doctrines of the atonement and of imputation
and the administration of baptism on the half
way covenant, which led to the dismission of Mr.
Bacon Feb. 8, 1775. His views seem to have
been such as now prevail in New England, while
his church advocated limited atonement and the
notion of the actual transference of the sins of
believers to Christ and of his obedience to them.
Probably the more popular talents of Mr. Hunt
had some influence in creating the difficulty. Mr.
Bacon removed to Stockbridge, Berkshire county,
where he died. He was a magistrate ; a repre
sentative ; associate and presiding judge of the
common pleas ; a member and president of the
state senate ; and a member of Congress. In his
political views he accorded with the party of Mr.
Jefferson. He married the widow of his prede
cessor, Mr. Gumming. She was the daughter of
Ezekiel Goldthwait, register of deeds. His son,
Ezekiel Bacon, was a distinguished member of
Congress just before the war of 1812. He pub
lished a sermon after his installation, 1772 ; an
answer to Huntington on a case of discipline,
1781 ; a speech on the courts of U. S., 1802 ; con
jectures on the prophecies, 1805. — Wisner's Hist.
0. 8. Church, 33; Hint, of Berkshire, 104, 201.
BACON, MARY, died at Providence July 3,
1848, aged 108 ; born June 10, 1740, the daughter
of John Matthewson.
BACON, SAMUEL, agent of the American gov-
ernment for establishing a colony in Africa, was an
Episcopal clergyman. He proceeded in the
Elizabeth to Sierra Leone with eighty-two colored
people, accompanied by Mr. Bankson, also agent,
and Dr. Crozer ; and arrived March 9, 1820. The
Augusta schooner was purchased and the people
and stores were transhipped, and carried to
Campelar in Sherbro river March 20th. Dr.
Crozer and Mr. Bankson died in a few weeks, and
Mr. Bacon being taken ill on the 17th April
proceeded to Kent, at Cape Shilling, but died two
days after his arrival, on the 3d of May. Many
others died. The circular of the colonization
society, signed by E. B. Caldwell, Oct. 26,
describes this disastrous expedition. — Memoirs
by Ashmun.
BADGER, STEPHEN, minister of Natick, Mass.,
was born in Charlestown in 1725 of humble
parentage, and graduated at Harvard college in
1747, his name being last in the catalogue, when
the names were arranged according to parental
dignity. Employed by the commissioners for
propagating the Gospel in New England, he was
ordained as missionary over the Indians at Natick,
as successor of Mr. Peabody, March 27, 1753,
and died Aug. 28, 1803, aged 78 years. Mr.
Biglow represents him as in reality a Unitarian,
although not avowedly such. He published a
letter from a pastor against the demand of a con
fession of particular sins in order to church fellow
ship ; a letter concerning the Indians in the Mass.
hist, collections, dated 1797 ; and two discourses
on drunkenness, 1774, recently reprinted. In
his letter concerning the Indians he states, that
Deacon Ephraim, a good Christian Indian of his
church, on being asked how it was to be accounted
for, that Indian youths, virtuously educated in
English families, were apt, when losing the re
straints under which they had been brought up,
to become indolent and intemperate like others,
replied : " Ducks will be ducks, notwithstanding
they are hatched by the hen," — or in his own
imperfect English — "Tucks will be tucks, for all
ole hen he hatchum." Another Indian of Natick
once purchased a dram at a shop in Boston, and
the next spring, after drinking rum at the same
shop, found that the price of the poison was
doubled. On inquiring the reason, the dealer
replied, that he had kept the cask over winter,
and it was as expensive as to keep a horse.
" Hah," replied the Indian, " he no eat so much
hay ; but I believe he drink as much water ! "
Of the strength of rum the Naticks were un
happily too good judges. It is deplorable, that in
1797 there were among the Natick Indians, for
whom the apostolic Eliot labored, only two or
three church-members, and not one who could
speak their language, into which he translated the
Bible. Among the many causes of their degene
racy may be mentioned the sale of their lands,
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their intermixture with blacks and whites, leaving
only about twenty clear-blooded Indians, their
unconquerable indolence and propensity to excess,
and perhaps the want of zeal on the part of their
religious teachers. In 1670 there were forty or
fifty church-members. The number of Indians
in 1749 was one hundred and sixty; in 1703 only
thirty-seven. The war of 1759 and a putrid fever
had destroyed many of them. — Si glow's Hist.
Natick, 59^-69, 77 ; Col. Hist. Soc. \. 32-45.
BADGER, WILLIAM, governor of N. H., died
at Gilmanton Sept. 21, 1852, aged 73. He was
governor in 1834 and 1835 and had sustained
many offices.
BADGER, RACHEL, Mrs., died at Lynde-
borough, X. II., 1834, aged 100.
BADGER, JOSEPH, died at Perrysburgh May
5, 184G, aged 87, a soldier of the Revolution, and
chaplain under Harrison at Fort Meigs ; an ex
emplary Christian.
BADLAM, STEPHEN, brigadier-general of the
militia, died in Aug., 1815. He was born in Can
ton, Mass., and joined the American army in
1775. In the next year, as major of artillery, he
took possession, July 4th, of the mount, which
from that circumstance was called Mount Inde
pendence. He did good service with his fieklpiece
in the action at Fort Stanwix, under Willett, in
Aug., 1777. His residence was at Dorchester,
where he was an eminently useful citizen, acting
as a magistrate and a deacon of the church. —
Codman's Funeral Sermon ; Panoplist, XI. 572.
BAILEY, MOUNTJOY, general, died at Wash
ington March 22, 1836, aged 81 ; an officer of the
Revolution.
BAILEY, EBENEZER, died at Lynn Mineral
Springs Aug., 1839, long an eminent teacher of
youth in Boston. A lock-jaw was occasioned by
running a nail into his foot.
BAILEY, MOSES, died in Andover, Mass.,
March 14, 1842, aged 98, leaving one hundred
and thirty-five descendants.
BAILEY, JACOB, a graduate of Harvard in
1755, died in 1808, an Episcopal preacher in
Pownalborough and Xova Scotia. His journal
was published in 1853, with a biography by W. J.
Bartlet.
BAILY, JOHN, an excellent minister in Boston,
died in 1697, aged 53. He was born in 1644 in
Lancashire, England. From his earliest years
his mind seems to have been impressed by the
truths of religion. While he was yet very young,
his mother one day persuaded him to lead the
devotions of the family. When his father, who
was a very dissolute man, heard of it, his heart
was touched with a sense of his sin in the neglect
of this duty, and he became afterwards an
eminent Christian. After having been carefully
instructed in classical learning, he commenced
preaching the gospel about the age of twenty-two.
He soon went to Ireland, where by frequent
labors he much injured his health, which was
never perfectly restored. He spent about fourteen
years of his life at Limerick, and was exceedingly
blessed in his exertions to turn men from dark
ness to light. Yet while in this place as well as
previously, he was persecuted by men, who were
contending for form and ceremony in violation of
the precepts and the spirit of the gospel. While
he was a young man, he often travelled far by
night to enjoy the ordinances of the gospel,
privately administered in dissenting congregations,
and for this presumptuous offence he was some
times thrown into Lancashire jail. As soon as he
began to preach, his fidelity was tried, and he
suffered imprisonment because in his conscience
he could not conform to the established church.
While at Limerick a deanery was offered him, if
he would conform, with the promise of a bishopric
upon the first vacancy. But disdaining worldly
things, when they came in competition with duty
to his Saviour and the purity of Divine worship,
he rejected the offer in true disinterestedness and
elevation of spirit. But neither this proof, that
he was intent on higher objects, than this world
presents, nor the blamelessness of his life, nor the
strong hold, which he had in the affections of his
acquaintance, could preserve him from again
suffering the hardships of imprisonment, while
the papists in the neighborhood enjoyed liberty
and countenance. When he was before the
judges he said to them, "If I had been drinking,
and gaming, and carousing at a tavern with my
company, my lords, I presume, that would not
have procured my being thus treated as an
offender. Must praying to God, and preaching
of Christ with a company of Christians, who are
peaceable and inoffensive and as serviceable to his
majesty and the government as any of his sub
jects; must this be a greater crime?" The
recorder answered, " We will have you to know
it is a greater crime." His flock often fasted and
prayed for his release ; but he was discharged on
this condition only, that he should depart from
the country within a limited time.
He came to New England in 1684, and was
ordained the minister of Watertown, Oct. 6, 1686,
with his brother, Thomas Bailey, as his assistant ;
he removed to Boston in 1692, and became as
sistant minister of the first church July 17, 1693,
succeeding Mr. Moody. In 1696 Mr. Wadsworth
was settled. His brother, Thomas, who died in
Watertown in Jan., 1689, wrote Latin odes at
Lindsay in 1668, which are in manuscript in the
library of the Mass. Historical Society.
He was a man eminent for piety, of great sen
sibility of conscience, and very exemplary in his
life. It was his constant desire to be patient and
resigned under the calamities, which were ap
pointed him, and to fix his heart more upon
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things above. — His ministry was very acceptable
in different places, and he was a warm and ani
mated preacher. Dunton says, " I heard him
upon these words — ' Looking unto Jesus ' — and
I thought he spake like an angel." But with all
his faithfulness he saw many disconsolate hours.
He was distressed with doubts respecting him
self; but his apprehensions only attached him
the more closely to his Redeemer.
In his last sickness he suffered under a com
plication of disorders ; but he did not complain.
His mind was soothed in dwelling upon the suf
ferings of his Saviour. At times he was agitated
with fears, though they had not respect, as he
said, so much to the end, as to what he might
meet in the way. His last words were, speaking
of Christ, " O, what shall I say ? He is altogether
lovely. His glorious angels are come for me ! "
He then closed his eyes, and his spirit passed
into eternity. He published an address to the
people of Limerick ; and man's chief end to
glorify God, a sermon preached at Watertown,
1089. — Middleton's Evang, Biography, iv.
101-105; Nonconformist Memorial, i. 331-335;
Mather's Funeral Sermon ; Magnalia, in. 224-
238; Eliot.
BAIXBRIDGE, WILLIAM, commodore, died at
Philadelphia July 27, 1833, aged 59. He was
born at Princeton, N. J., the son of Dr. Absalom
B. : in 1798 he was a lieutenant in the navy ; in
1800 he commanded a frigate and sailed for
Algiers. In consequence of his vessel's grounding
before Tripoli, he was captured in the Philadel
phia in 1800. In the Constitution he captured
the British frigate Java, Dec. 29, 1812. After the
war he had the command at several naval sta
tions : for several years he was commissioner of
the navy board.
BAIRD, THOMAS D., editor of the Pittsburgh
Christian Herald, died Jan. 7, 1839, aged 65.
BALCH, WILLIAM, minister of Bradford, Mass.,
was born at Beverly in 1704 and graduated in
1724. He was a descendant of John Balch,
who came to this country about 1625 and died at
Salem in 1648. Ordained in 1728 over the sec
ond church in Bradford, he there passed lu's
days, and died Jan. 12, 1792, aged 87 years.
About the year 1742 or 1743 several members,
a minority of his church, dissatisfied with his
preaching, applied to a neighboring church to
admonish their pastor, agreeably to the Platform.
A council was convened, which censured the con
duct of the complainants. But in 1746 Mr. Wig-
glesworth and Mr. Chipman, ministers of Ipswich
and Beverly, accused Mr. Balch of propagating
Arminian tenets. He wrote a reply, mingling
keen satire with solid argument. After this, they,
who were dissatisfied with Mr. Balch, built a
meeting-house for themselves. In his old age he
received a colleague. He lived in. retirement,
BALDWIN.
occupied in agriculture, and raising the best
apples in Essex. His mental powers retained
their vigor in old age. New writings delighted
him; and he engaged freely in theological dis
cussion. — He published the following discourses:
on reconciliation, 1740; faith and Avorks, 1743;
at the election, 1749; at the convention, 1760;
account of the proceedings of the 2d church;
reply to Wigglesworth and Chipman, 1746. —
Eliot ; Mass. Historical Collections, rv. s. s. 145.
BALCH, THOMAS, first minister of the 2d parish
of Dedham, died in 1774, aged about 60. He
graduated in 1733, and was ordained in 1736.
He published a sermon at the ordination of J.
Newman, Edgartown, 1747 ; Christ present, 1748 ;
at election, 1749; ordination of W. Patten, 1757;
at artillery election, 1763.
BALCH, STEPHEN B., D. D., died at George
town, D. C., Sept, 22, 1833, aged 86.
BALCH, JOSEPH, died in Johnstown, N. Y.,
Dec. 5, 1855, aged 95, a soldier of the Revolu
tion, then of Wethcrsfield. At the age of about
80 he made a Christian profession. On the day
of his death he was attending a public fast : the
Bible fell from his hands, and he died.
BALDWIN, EBENEZER, minister of Danbury,
Conn., was graduated at Yale college in 1763, and
was tutor in that seminary from 1766 to 1770.
He was ordained as successor of Mr. Warner and
Mr. White, Sept. 19, 1770, and died Oct. 1, 1776,
aged 31 years. He was a man of great talents
and learning, an unwearied student, grave in
manners, and an able supporter of the sound
doctrines of the gospel. He left a legacy of
about 300 pounds to his society, which is appro
priated to the support of religion. — Bobbins'
Centennial Sermon.
BALDWIN, JONATHAN, died at Brookficld in
1788, aged 57. He was a captain in the French
war ; and was a prominent member of the Mass,
congress in 1774 : a colonel in the Revolutionary
struggle. A soldier, a patriot, a Christian, he was
also a friend of literature, leaving a bequest to
Leicester academy.
BALDWIN, ABRAHAM, a distinguished states
man, was born in Connecticut in 1754 and grad
uated at Yale college in 1772. From 1775 to
1779 he was a tutor in that seminary, being an
eminent classical and mathematical scholar. Hav
ing studied law, he removed to Savannah and was
admitted a counsellor at the Georgia bar, and in
three months was elected a member of the state
legislature. At the first session he originated
the plan of the university of Georgia, drew up
the charter, by which it was endowed with forty
thousand acres of land, and, vanquishing many
prejudices, by the aid of John Milledge persuaded
the assembly to adopt the project. The college
was located at Athens, and Josiah Meigs was ap
pointed its first president. Being elected a dele-
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gate to congress- in 1786, he was an active mem
ber of the convention, which formed the present
constitution of the United States, during its ses
sion from May 25 to Sept. 17, 1787. After its
adoption he was continued a member of congress
until 1799, when he was appointed as colleague
with Mr. Millcdge a senator, in which station he
remained until his death, at Washington city,
March 4, 1807, aged 53 years. His remains were
placed by the side of his friend and former col
league, Gen. J. Jackson, whom he had followed to
the grave just one year before. He was the
brother-in-law of Joel Barlow. Having never
been married, his economy put it in his power to
assist many young men in their education. His
father dying in 1787 with little property, six
orphan children, his half brothers and sisters,
were protected and educated by him, and owed
every tiling to his care and affection. In public
life he was industrious and faithful. Though firm
in his own republican principles during the con
tests of the last ten years of his life, he was yet
moderate, and indulgent towards his opponents.
Until a week before his death his public sen-ices
for twenty-two years had been uninterrupted by
sickness. — National Intelligencer.
BALDWIN, THOMAS, D. D., a Baptist minister
in Boston, was born in Norwich, Conn., Dec. 23,
1753. After he had removed to Canaan, in New
Hampshire, he became pious, and joined the
Baptist church in 1781. It was with pain, that
he thus forsook his connections and early friends,
for he had been educated a pedo-Baptist and his
venerable minister at Norwich was his grand
uncle. Having for some time conducted the re
ligious exercises at public meetings, in Aug., 1782,
he ventured for the first time to take a text and
preach doctrinally and methodically. His ad
vantages for intellectual culture had been few.
At the request of the church he was ordained
June 11, 1783, as an evangelist, and he performed
the duties of pastor for seven years, besides
preaching often during each week in the towns
within a circle of fifty miles, " chiefly at his own
charges," sometimes receiving small presents, but
never having a public contribution. In these jour
neys he was obliged to climb rocky steeps and to
pass through dismal swamps; and as the poor
people had no silver, and the continental cur
rency was good for nothing, sometimes the trav
elling preacher was obliged either to beg or to
starve. For several years he was chosen a mem
ber of the legislature.
In 1790 he was invited to Boston, as the pastor
of the second Baptist church. He now success
fully pursued a course of study, and by his un
wearied exertions acquired a high rank as a
preacher. His church, though small in 1790, be
came under his care numerous and flourishing.
Of his own denomination in New England he
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was the head, and to him all his brethren looked
for advice. Besides being connected with most
of the benevolent institutions of Boston, he was a
member of the convention for revising the con
stitution of the state, and just before his death
was fixed upon, by one party among the people,
as a candidate for an elector of president of the
United States. He died very suddenly at Water-
ville, Me., whither he had gone to attend the
commencement, Aug. 29, 1825, aged 71 years.
The following stanza on his death will apply to a
multitude of others, recorded in this work.
" He was a goorl man. Yet amid onr tears
Sweet, grateful thoughts within our bosoms rise ;
We trace his spirit up to brighter spheres,
And think with what pure, rapturous surprise
He found himself translated to the skies :
From night at once awoke to endless noon.
Oh ! with what transport did his eager eyes
Behold his Lord ia glory ? 'T was the boon
His heart had longed for ! Why deem we it came to soon ? "
He published the following discourses : at the
thanksgiving, 1795 ; quarterly sermon ; at the
concert of prayer ; account of revival of religion,
1799 ; on the death of Lieut-Gov. Phillips ; elec
tion sermon, 1802 ; on the eternal purpose of
God ; at thanksgiving ; before a missionary soci
ety, 1804; at the ordination of D. Merrill, 1805;
installation of J. Winchell, 1814 ; before the fe
male asylum, 1806; on the death of Dr. Still-
man ; at the artillery election, 1807 ; and the bap
tism of believers only, and particular communion
vindicated, 12mo. 1806. Of this work the first
and second parts were originally published in
1789 and 1794.
BALDWIN, CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS, libra
rian of the Antiquarian Society at Worcester, wras
killed by the upsetting of a stage, in which he
was travelling, at Norwich, Ohio, Aug. 20, 1835,
aged 35. He was riding with the driver, and
leaped from the stage for security, but fell back
from the bank.
BALDWIN, LOAMMI, died at Charlestown,
June 30, 1838, of paralysis. He was graduated
in 1800, and educated for the law, but became
one of the most distinguished civil engineers of
our country. The dry docks at the navy yards at
Charlestown and near Norfolk and other public
works attested his skill. He was lamented by
many friends.
BALDWIN, ELILTU W., D. D., president of
Wabash college, Crawfordsville, Ind., died Oct.
15, 1840, aged 50. Born at Durham, N. Y., he
graduated at Yale in 1812, studied at Andover,
and was a minister in New York from 1820 to
1835. He died in peace and joyful hope.
BALDAVIN, ELI, D. D., of the Reformed
Dutch Church at New Brunswick, N. J., died in
1839.
BALDWLN, ASIIBEL, died at Rochester, New
York, Feb. 8, 1846, aged 89. A graduate of
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BANISTER.
Yale, he served in the army, and \vas ordained by
Bishop Seabury in 1785 — the first Episcopal or
dination in the U. S. He was secretary of the
general Episcopal convention many years.
BALDWIN, HENRY, Judge, died in Philadel
phia Apr. 21, 1844, aged Go. A native of New
Haven, he graduated in 1797, and settled in
Pennsylvania. lie was a member of Congress
and judge of the Supreme Court of the U. S. ;
and was highly respected.
BALDWIN, SIMEON, judge, died in New Ha
ven May 26, 1851, aged 89. He was born in
Norwich and graduated 1781. After being a
tutor for several years he commenced the practice
of the law in 1786. He was in congress from
1803 to 1805 ; a judge of the superior court in
1806; in 1822 president of the Farmington canal
board ; and mayor of the city in 1826.
BALDWIN, METHUSELAH, minister of Scotch-
town, N. Y., died in 1847, aged 84.
BALDWIN, CYRUS, Dr., died in Goodrich,
Mich., Aug., 1855, aged 81. Born in Worcester,
he assisted as an earnest Christian in founding
churches in Baldwinsviile, N. Y., and elsewhere.
He lived in Hebron, and in Home, Mich., in
Grand Blanc, in Atlas, and Goodrich.
BALFOUR, WALTER, died in Charlestown,
Jan. 3, 1852, aged 74; a Scotchman, who came
early to this country as a Presbyterian preacher.
After ten years he became a Baptist, and in a few
years more a Universalist. He published inqui
ries, essays, reply and letters to Mr. Stuart, and
letters to Mr. Hudson. He had also a contro
versy with Sabinc and Whitman.
BALL, HEMAN, 1). D., died at Rutland, Vt,
Dec. 17, 1821, aged 57, highly respected and of
extensive influence. He was a native of West
Springfield, and a graduate of Dartmouth in 1791.
He published a sermon on the death of Washing
ton.
BALL, LUCY, missionary to China, died June
6, 1844, aged 37. Her name was Mills of New
Haven ; her husband was Dyer Ball, who em
barked in 1838. Her oldest daughter made a
profession of religion in the presence of all the
missionaries at Hong Kong a few weeks before
her mother's death.
BALLANTLNE, JOHN, minister of Wcstfield,
was the son of John B. of Boston, clerk of court
and register of deeds, and of Mary Winthrop,
daughter of Adam W. ; was graduated in 1735
and was ordained June 17, 1741. He died Feb.
12, 1776, aged 59. His wife was Mary, daughter
of Luther Gay and sister of Dr. Gay of Suflield.
His son, Wm. G., a graduate of 1771, died in
1854 ; he was the minister of Washington, Mass.,
ancestor of Rev. Henry B., missionary to India.
His daughter, Mary, married Gen. Ashley. He
published a sermon on the march of a company
to Crown Point June 2, 1756.
BALLARD, JOHN B., died in New York Jan.
29, 185G, aged 60. A native of Dudley, Mass.,
he was the pastor of several Baptist churches,
then a dozen years the agent of the Sunday
school union in N. C. and Ky. ; last a useful tract
missionary six years in N. Y.
BALLOU, HOSEA, died June 7, 1851, aged 80.
Born in Richmond, N. II., the son of a Baptist
minister, he was a member of the Baptist church ;
but on becoming a Universalist he was excluded
from the church. He was settled in Dana, Barn
ard, Vt., Portsmouth, Salem ; and in the School
street church in Boston from 1817 till his death.
He published two orations ; a dedication and or
dination sermon ; orthodoxy unmasked ; reply to
T. Merritt ; divine benevolence, 1815 ; strictures
on Channing's sermon ; series of lecture sermons,
1818; series of letters; on the atonement, 1828.
BANCROFT, AARON, D. D., died at Worces
ter Aug. 19, 1839, aged 84. Born at Reading in
1735, he graduated at Cambridge in 1778, and
was the minister of a Unitarian church from 1786
till his death. He was the father of Mr. Bancroft,
the historian.
He published eulogy on Washington, 1800;
life of Washington, 1807 ; election sermon, 1801 ;
on conversion, 1818; convention sermon, 1820;
sermons on the doctrines of the gospel, 1822 ; on
the death of John Adams; at the end of fifty
years of his ministry ; and about twenty-five other
single sermons and controversial pieces.
BANISTER, JOHN, an eminent botanist, was
a native of England. After passing some time
in the West Indies he came to Virginia and set
tled on James River, near James Town. Rees
I speaks of him as a clergyman. In 1680 he trans
mitted to Mr. Ray a catalogue of plants, observed
by him in Virginia, which was published by Ray
in the second volume of his history of plants, in
the preface to the supplement of which work,
published in 1704, he speaks of Banister as an
illustrious man, who had long resided in Virginia,
devoted to botanical pursuits, and as drawing with
his own hand the figures of the rarer species. He
mentions a!ro, thnt he had fallen a victim to his
favorite pursuit before he had completed a work,
in which he was engaged, on the natural history
of Virginia. In one of his botanical excursions,
while clambering the rocks, Banister fell and was
killed. This event occurred after 1687 and prob
ably before the end of the century. Many of his
descendants arc living in Virginia and are very
respectable. In honor of him Dr. Houston
named a plant Banisteria, of which twenty-four
species are enumerated. Lawson says, he " was
the greatest virtuoso we ever had on the conti
nent." Besides his " catalogue of plants," his prin
cipal work in the philosophical transactions 1693,
other communications on natural history were
published ; observations on the natural produc-
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tions of Jamaica; the insects of Virginia, 1700;
curiosities in Virginia ; observations on the musca
lupus ; on several sorts of snails ; a description
of the pistolochia or serpentaria Virginiana, the
snake root. — Barton's Med. Jour. II. 134-139 ;
Hay's Sup.; Lau'son, 136.
BANNEKER, BENJAMIN, a negro astronomer,
died in Baltimore county, Md., in Oct., 1806, aged
70. His parents obtained their freedom, and sent
him to a common school, where he acquired a
great readiness in calculation. He assisted Ellicott
in laying out the city of Washington. Procuring
Mayer's tables, Ferguson's astronomy, and some
instruments, he made sets of observations for an
almanac for the years 1792 and 1793. He pub
lished a letter to the secretary of state, 1792.
BANNISTER, WILLIAM B., died at Newbury-
port July 1, 1853, aged 79. Born in Brookfield,
he was a graduate of Dartmouth in 1797 ; he was
a man of wealth, pious, and benevolent. In his
age he married Miss Grant, the eminent teacher
at Ipswich, \vho survived him. For some years
he was a member of the senate, and a trustee of
Amherst college and a visitor of the theological
seminary at Andover, and a worthy member of
various charitable institutions, to which he be
queathed about 40,000 dollars, most of his prop
erty.
BARBOUR, THOMAS, colonel, was a whig of
the Revolution and in 1769 was a member of the
house of burgesses of Virginia, which made the
first protest against the stamp act. He died at
Barboursville May 16, 1825, aged 90. For 60
years he had discharged the duties of a civil mag
istrate, and was many years the sheriff of the
county, enjoying in a high degree the confidence
of his fellow citizens. He was the father of
James Barbour, the secretary of war.
BARBOUR, PHILIP P., a judge of the Su
preme court, and a member of congress 1814-25,
and speaker, died at Washington Feb. 25, 1841,
aged about 60. He was a man of talents and
eloquence, and successful. His disease was ossi
fication of the heart.
BARBOUR, JOHN S., died in Ciilpepper co.,
Va., Jan. 12, 1855, aged 65 ; from 1823 to 1833 a
member of Congress, a man of ability and influ
ence.
BARCLAY, ROBERT, governor of East Jer
sey, the author of the " Apology for the Quakers,"
died in 1690, aged 41. lie was born in 1648 in
Scotland, and receiving his education at Paris he
at first imbibed the Catholic tenets, but afterwards
with his father embraced the principles of the
Quakers. His book was published in Latin in
1676, and translated by himself. He travelled
with William Penn in England and on the conti
nent. In 1682, when East Jersey was transferred
to Penn and eleven associates, he was appointed
the governor, though he never came to this coun
try; in which office lord Neil Campbell succeeded
him in 1685. His brother, John, a useful citizen
of Jersey, died at Amboy in 1731, leaving two
sons. His grandson, Alexander, was comptroller
of the customs in Philadelphia, and died in 1771.
— Jennison.
BARCLAY, HENRY, D. D., an Episcopal cler
gyman in New York, was a native of Albany,
and graduated at Yale college in 1734. In
England he received orders in the church, and
was appointed missionary to the Mohawk Indians.
Having served in this capacity for some years
with but little success, he was called to the city of
New York and appointed rector of Trinity church.
In this respectable station he continued till his
death, in 1765. The translation of the liturgy
into the Mohawk language, made under his di
rection and that of Rev. W. Andrews and J.
Ogilvic, was printed in 1769. Mr. Ogilvie suc
ceeded him both among the Indians and at New
York. — Life of Ritten. 245 ; Miller's Retros
pect, n. 356.
BARD, JOHN, a learned physician, died March
30, 1799, aged 83. He was born in Burlington,
N. J., Feb. 1, 1716. His father, Peter Bard, an
exile from France in consequence of the revoca
tion of the edict of Nantes, came to this country
in 1703 as a merchant ; he soon married the
daughter of Dr. Marmion, and was for many
years a member of the council and a judge of the
supreme court.
Mr. Bard received his early education under
the care of Mr. Annan of Philadelphia, a very
eminent teacher. About the age of fifteen he
was bound an apprentice for seven years to Dr.
Kearsly, a surgeon of unhappy temper and rigor
ous in the treatment of his pupils. Under his
thraldom the kindness of Mrs. Kearsly and the
friendship of Dr. Franklin beguiled his sorrows.
He engaged in business in 1737 and soon ac
quired a large share of practice and became much
respected. In 1743 he was induced by urgent ap
plications from New York to remove to that city
to supply the loss of several eminent physicians.
Here he continued till within a few months of his
death. In the year 1795, when the yellow fever
had put to flight a number of physicians, who
were in the meridian of life, the veteran Dr. Bard,
though verging towards his eightieth year, re
mained at his post. In May, 1798, he removed
to his estate at Hyde Park, near Poughkecpsie.
Here he continued in the enjoyment of perfect
health, till he felt a paralytic stroke, which in a
few days occasioned his death. He was a firm be
liever in the truth and excellency of the Christian
religion. In a letter to his son, Dr. Samuel Bard,
he said, " above all things suffer not yourself by
any company or example to depart, either in your
conversation or practice, from the highest rever
ence to God and your religion." In liis old age
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he was cheerful and remarkable for his gratitude
to his heavenly Father.
Dr. Bard was eminent in his profession, and his
practice was very extensive. Soon after the close
of the war with Great Britain, on the re-establish
ment of the medical society of the state of NCAV
York, he was elected its president, and he was
placed in the chair for six or seven successive
years. He possessed a singular ingenuity and
quickness in discriminating diseases ; yet he did
not presumptuously confide in his penetration,
but was remarkably particular in his inquiries into
the circumstances of the sick. Ever desirous of
removing the disorders, to which the human frame
is subject, his anxiety and attention were not
diminished, when called to visit the indigent, from
whom he could not expect compensation. His
conduct through his whole life was marked by the
strictest honor and integrity. In conversation he
was polite, affable, cheerful, and entertaining. To
his pupils he was not only an instructor, but a
father. In the early part of his life he devoted
much attention to polite learning, in which he
made great proficiency. He possessed a correct
and elegant taste, and wrote with uncommon ac
curacy and precision. He drew up an essay on
the pleurisy of Long Island in 1749, which paper
was not published ; a paper, inserted in the Lon
don Medical Observations; and several. papers on
the yellow fever and the evidence of its importa
tion, inserted in the American Medical Register.
In 1750 he assisted Dr. Middleton in the first re
corded dissection in America, that of Hcrmannus
Carroll, executed for murder. — Thacher's Med.
Biog. 96-103 ; M'Vickar's life of S. Sard.
BAUD, 'SAMUEL, M. D., son of the preceding,
died May 24, 1821, aged 79. He was born in
Philadelphia April 1, 1742. When a boy, in order
to screen a servant, who had broken his father's
cane, he falsely took the blame to himself. His
father praised his generosity, but severely pun
ished his falsehood, thus giving him a lesson on
the value of truth, which he was careful to trans
mit to his children. From his mother he received
early impressions in favor of religion. Residing
one summer, on account of ill health, in the fam
ily of Lieut.-Gov. Golden, his father's friend, he
acquired a taste for botany under the teaching of
Miss Golden. His skill in painting enabled him
to perpetuate the beauty of plants. While a stu
dent at Columbia college he formed the habit of
early rising, at daylight in summer and an hour
previous to it in winter, which he continued
through life. In Sept., 1761, he embarked for
England in order to obtain a thorough medical
education, and was absent, in France, England,
and Scotland, five years. His professional studies
were pursued with undiminished zeal, and espe
cially under the illustrious teachers in the school
of Edinburgh. Such was his skill in botany, that
he obtained the annual medal, given by Dr. Hope,
the professor, for the best collection of plants.
He received his degree at Edinburgh in May,
1765. On his return he found his father in debt
for his education, which had cost more than a
thousand pounds; he entered into partnership
with him and for three years drew notliing beyond
his expenses from the profits of the business,
amounting to £1500 a year. Having thus hon
orably discharged this debt, he married liis cousin
Mary Bard, a lady of beauty and accomplish
ments, to whom he had long been attached. He
formed this connection on a stock of £100, ob
serving, that " his wife's economy would double his
earnings."
Dr. Bard formed the plan of the medical school
of New York, which was established within a year
after his return. He was appointed professor of
the practice of physic. Medical degrees were
first conferred in 1769. In the same year the
hospital was founded by his exertions ; but the
building was burnt, causing a delay of the estab
lishment until 1791. In 1774 he delivered a
course of chemical lectures. In the time of the
war he left the city, placing his family in the'
house of his father at Hyde Park ; but, anxious to
provide for his wife and children, and to secure
his property, he the next year by permission
returned to New York, while the enemy had
possession of it, and engaged anew in his pro
fessional business, after being a considerable time
without a call and reduced to his last guinea.
After the return of peace Washington selected
him as his family physician. At this period he
lost four out of his six children by the scarlatina,
which prevailed in a virulent form, attended with
delirium. In consequence of the illness of Mrs.
Bard he withdrew from business for a year,
devoting himself to her. A prayer for her
recovery was found among his papers. In 1784
he returned to the city. At this period he devoted
5000 guineas to enable his father to free himself
from debt. At another time, when he had ac
cumulated 1500 guineas, he sent that sum to
England, but lost it by the failure of the banker.
On receiving the intelligence, he said to his wife,
" We are ruined ; " but she replied, " Never mind
the loss, we will soon make it up again." Having
formed the purpose to retire from business, he in
1795 took Dr. Hosack into partnership, and in
1798 removed to his seat in the neighborhood of
his father at Hyde Park. But, when the yellow
fever appeared, he resolutely returned to his post.
By his fearless exposure of himself he took the
disease, but nursed by his faithful wife he recovered.
The remaining twenty-three years of his life were
spent in happy retirement, surrounded by his
children and grandchildren, delighted with their
society, and finding much enjoyment also in
agricultural improvements, in contemplating the
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beauties of nature, and in the gratification of his
continued thirst for knowledge. For the benefit
of those, who with himself had engaged in rearing
merino sheep, he published "The Shepherd's
Guide." In 1813 he was appointed president of
the college of physicians and surgeons. His
discourses, on conferring degrees, were very im
pressive. He died of the pleurisy, and his wife
of the same disorder the preceding day; they
•were buried in one grave. It had long been
their wish to be thus united in death, and a re
markable dream of Mrs. Bard to tin's effect was
remembered.
Dr. Bard was attached to the Episcopal mode
of religious worship. The church at Hyde Park
was chiefly founded by him in 1811, and to
provide for the absence of its rector he procured
a license to act as lay reader at the age of seventy.
He regularly devoted a part of the morning to
religious reading and reflection. Of religion he
said to his son, William Bard, Esq., " This is our
stronghold, our castle and rock of defence, our
refuge in times of adversity, our comforter under
misfortune, our cheerful companion and friendly
monitor in the hours of gladness and prosperity."
The following is an extract from the form of
dailv devotion, used by himself and wife : " O
God! enlighten our understanding, that we may
comprehend thy will, strengthen our resolution to
obey thy commands, endow us with resignation
under thy dispensations, and fill our hearts with
love and gratitude for all thy benefits. Give unto
us, O Lord, whose lives thou hast continued to so
late a day, sincere and true repentance, and grant,
that as age advances upon us, our minds may be
more and more enlightened by the knowledge of
thy will, more resigned to thy dispensations, and
more invigorated with the resolution to obey thy
commands. Calm all our thoughts and fears;
give peace and quiet to our latter days ; and so
support us by thy grace through the weakness
and infirmities of age, that we may die in humble
hope and confidence of thy merciful pardon
through the merits of our Redeemer." He pub
lished a treatise de viribus opii, 17 Go; on angina
sufiocativa, repub. in vol. I. Amer. Phil. Soc. ; on
the use of cold in hemorrhage ; compendium of
midwifery, 1807, and subsequent editions; many
occasional addresses to public bodies ; and anni
versary discourses to medical students. — Life by
McVickar; Thaclier's Med. Diog. 103-143.
BARKER, JOHN, general, an officer of the
Revolution, died at Philadelphia April 3, 1818,
aged 72; he was sheriff, mayor, and a popular
orator.
BARLOW, JOEL, an eminent statesman and
poet, died in Poland Dec. 22, 1812, aged 08. He
was born at Reading, Conn., March 24, 1754,
and was the youngest of ten children. His
father, Samuel, a respectable fanner, died while he
was yet at school, leaving him property sufficient
only to defray the expenses of his education. In
1775 he was placed at Dartmouth college ; but he
very soon removed to Yale college, where he was
graduated in 1778, being ranked among the first
cf his class, for talents and learning, and particu
larly conspicuous for his skill in poetry. During
the vacations of the college he more than once
seized his musket, and repaired as a volunteer to
the camp, where four of his brothers were on duty.
He was present at several skirmishes, and is said
to have fought bravely in the battle of the Wlu'te
Plains.
After leaving college he engaged for a short
time in the study of the law ; but, being urged to
qualify himself for the office of chaplain, he
applied himself diligently to the study of theology,
and at the end of six weeks was licensed to
preach. He immediately joined the army and
discharged the duties of his new station until the
return of peace. As a preacher he was much
respected. But in the camp he continued to
cultivate his taste for poetry, writing patriotic
songs, and composing, in part, his Vision of Co
lumbus. He also published in 1780 an elegy on
the death of his early friend and patron, Titus
Hosmcr, and in 1781 a poem entitled "The
Prospect of Peace," which he had pronounced at
Commencement. About this time he married
Ruth Baldwin of New Haven, sister of Abraham
Baldwin.
In 1783, after the army was disbanded, he
returned to the study of the law at Hartford,
where for his immediate support he established a
weekly newspaper. The original articles, which
he inserted, gave it celebrity and a wide circula
tion. In 17 80 he was admitted to the bar and
in the same year published a corrected and
enlarged edition of Watts' version of the Psalms
with a collection of hymns. It was printed at
Hartford by "Barlow & Babcock." This work
was undertaken at the request of the General
.Association of the ministers of Connecticut, and
published by their recommendation. Many of
the psalms were altered so as to be adapted to
the American churches, several were Avritten
almost anew, and several, which had been
omitted by Dr. Watts, were supplied. Barlow
inserted also some original hymns. In 1787 he
published the Vision of Columbus, a large poem,
with flattering success. It was dedicated to Louis
XVI. Some of its interesting passages are said
to be imitations or copies of descriptions in the
Incas of Marmontel.
About this time he gave up his concern in the
weekly paper, and opened a book-shop, chiefly
with a view to the sale of his poem and of the
new edition of the psalms.. Having accomplished
these objects, he quitted the business and engaged
in the practice of the law. But in this profession
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he was not successful. lie was concerned in
several occasional publications at Hartford, par
ticularly in the Anarchiad, a very singular poem,
which was projected by Dr. Hopkins, and which
had considerable political influence. In an oration
July 4, 1787, he earnestly recommended an
efficient general government, the new Constitution
being then under consideration of the convention
at Philadelphia. Urged by the necessity of pro
viding for his subsistence, he went to Europe in
1788 as the agent of the Scioto land company,
but ignorant of their fraudulent designs. From
England he crossed over to France, where he
made sale of some of the lands ; but in the
result he was left without any resource for his
maintenance, excepting his own talents and repu
tation. At this period his zeal for republicanism
induced him to take an active part in the French
Revolution, being particularly connected with the
Girondists, or the moderate party. In 1791 he
went to England, where he published the first
part of his " Advice to the Privileged Orders," a
work in which he reprobates the feudal system,
the national church establishments, the military
system, the administration of justice, and the
system of revenue and finance, as they exist in
the royal and aristocratical governments of Eu
rope. In Feb., 1792, he published the " Conspiracy
of Kings," a poem of about four hundred lines,
occasioned by the first coalition of the continental
sovereigns against France ; and in the autumn of
the same year a letter to the national convention
of France, in which he recommends among other
measures the abolition of the connection between
the government and the national church. These
publications brought him some profit as well as
fame. At the close of this year he was deputed
by the London constitutional society to present
their address to the French national convention,
which conferred upon him the rights of a French
citizen. Feari'ul of the resentment of the English
government, he now fixed his residence in France.
A deputation being soon sent to Savoy to organize
it as a department of the Republic, he accompanied
it with his friend, Gregoire, to Chamberry, the
capital, where he resided several months, and at
the request of his legislative friends wrote an
address to the people of Piedmont, inciting them
to throw off their allegiance to their king. At
this time he also composed " Hasty Pudding," a
mock didactic poem, the most popular of his
poetical productions. After his return to Paris he
translated Volney's Ruins, but his time was prin
cipally occupied by commercial speculations, in
which he acquired a large property. Shocked by
the atrocities of the Revolution, he took little
part in politics.
About the year 179o he went to the north of
Europe to accomplish some private business,
entrusted to him, and on lus return was appointed
by President Washington as consul at Algiers,
with powers to negotiate a treaty of peace with
the l)ey and redeem the American captives on the
coast of Barbary. He immediately left Paris, and
passing through Spain crossed over to Algiers.
He soon concluded a treaty and negotiated also a
treaty with Tripoli, rescuing many American
citizens from slavery. His humane exertions were
attended with great danger. In 1797 he resigned
his consulship and returned to Paris, where he
purchased the splendid hotel of the Count Cler-
mont de Tonnerc, in which he lived for some years
in a sumptuous manner.
On the occurrence of the rupture between his
native country and France, he published a letter
to the people of the United States on the meas
ures of Mr. Adams' administration. Tin's was
soon followed by a second part, containing specu
lations on various political subjects. At this
period he presented a memoir to the French
government, denouncing the whole system of
privateering, and contending for the right of
neutrals to trade in articles contraband of war.
In the spring of 180.3, having sold his real
estate in France, he returned to America after an
absence of nearly seventeen years. He purchased
a beautiful situation and house near Georgetown,
but within the limits of the city of Washington.
This place he called " Kalorama." He printed in
180G a prospectus of a national institution at
Washington, which should combine a university
with a learned society, together with a military
and naval academy and a school of fine arts. In
compliance with this project a bill was introduced
into the Senate, but it was not passed into a law.
In 1808 he published the Columbiad, a poem,
which had been the labor of half his life, in the
most splendid volume, which had ever issued from
the American press. It was adorned by excellent
engravings, executed in London, and was inscribed
to Robert Fulton, with whom he had long lived in
friendship and whom he regarded as his adopted
son. This work, though soon published in a
cheaper form, has never acquired much popularity.
As an epic poem it has great faults both in the
plan and the execution. It is justly exposed to
severe criticism for some extravagant and absurd
flights of fancy and for the many new-coined and
uncouth words which it contains. Its sentiments
also have been thought hostile to Christianity.
Gregoire addressed a letter to the author, re
proving him for placing the cross among the
symbols of fraud, folly, and error. Mr. Barlow in
his reply declared, that he was not an unbeliever,
or that he had not renounced Christianity, and
justified the description, which had offended
Gregoire, on the ground that he had been ac
customed to regard the cross not as the emblem
of Christianity itself but of its corruptions by
popery.
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In 1811 he was nominated a minister plenipo
tentiary to the French government, but in his
attempt to negotiate a treaty of commerce and
indemnification for spoliations he was not success
ful. At length, in October, 1812, he was invited
to a conference with the emperor at Wilna. He
immediately set off, travelling day and night.
Overcome by fatigue, and exposed to sudden
changes from extreme cold to the excessive heat
o
of the small cottages of the Jews, which are the
only taverns in Poland, he was seized by a violent
inflammation of the lungs, which terminated his
life at Zarnowica, or Zarnowitch, an obscure
village near Cracow. His widow died in Wash
ington May 30, 1818, aged 62.
He was of an amiable disposition and domestic
habits, generally silent in mixed company, and
often absent in mind. His manners were grave
and dignified. If, as there is reason to conclude,
though once a preacher of the gospel he had
ceased to regard it as of Divine authority, and
died without the support of its glorious promises ;
there is no wise man, who will envy him the
possession of his worldly prosperity and distinc
tion acquired at the price of the abandonment
of the religion, which he once preached. As a
poet Mr. Barlow will hardly live in the memory
of future ages. His vision of Columbus, replete
with the scenes of the Revolution, acquired, not
withstanding its imperfections, great popularity as
a national, patriotic poem. But, when cast anew
into an epic form, with the attempt to give, by
means of a vision, an epic unity to a long scries of
unconnected actions, presenting philosophical spec
ulation rather than interesting narrative, the Co-
lumbiad sunk into neglect. Besides intellectual
power a poet must have a rich fancy, a refined
taste, and a heart of feeling. Mr. Barlow had
meditated a general history of the United States,
and made large collections of the necessary docu
ments.
He published several pieces in American Poems ;
prospect of peace, 1781 ; vision of Columbus, 1787 ;
the conspiracy of kings, London, 1796; advice to
privileged orders, in tw o parts ; a letter to the
national convention ; address to the people of
Piedmont; hasty pudding, a poem, 12mo. 1796;
the Columbiad, 4to. 1808, and 12mo. 1809; ora
tion on the fourth July, 1809. — London Monthly
Mag. 1798; Public 'Characters, 1806, p. 152-
180; Monthly Mag. and American Revieiv, I.
465-468; Analectic Mag. IV. 130-158; Speci
mens of American Poetry, II. 1-13.
BARNARD, JOHN, minister of Marblchead,
died Jan. 24, 1770, aged 88 years. He was born
in Boston Nov. 6, 1681. His parents were re
markable for their piety, and they took particular
care of his education. He was graduated at Har
vard college in 1700. In the former part of his
collemal course the sudden death of two of his
acquaintance impressed his mind and led him to
think of his own departure from this world; but
the impression was soon effaced. However, be
fore he left that institution he was brought to
repentance, and he resolved to yield himself to
the commands of God. In 1702 he united him
self to the north church in Boston under the
pastoral care of the Mathers. In 1705 he was
invited to settle at Yarmouth, but he declined
accepting the invitation. He was employed for
some time as an assistant to Dr. Colman. Being
fond of active life, he was appointed by Gov.
Dudley one of the chaplains, who accompanied
the army to Port Royal in 1707 to reduce that
fortress. In an attempt to take a plan of the
fort, a cannon ball was fired at him, that covered
him with dirt without doing him any injury. At
the solicitation of Capt. John Wentworth, he
sailed with him to Barbadoes and London. While
he was in this city the affair of Dr. Sachcverel
took place, of which he would often speak. He
became acquainted with some of the famous dis
senting ministers, and received some advantageous
offers of settlement if he would remain in Eng
land. He might have accompanied Lord Whar-
ton to Ireland as his chaplain, but he refused to
conform to the articles of the national church.
Soon after this he returned to seek a settlement
in his own country. The north church in Boston
was built for him and he preached the dedication
sermon May 23, 1714, expecting soon to be or
dained according to mutual agreement; but a
more popular candidate, a Mr. Webb, being in
vited at the request of Dr. Cotton Mather, the
people chose him for their pastor. Of this trans
action he could not speak with calmness to the
day of his. death. He was ordained minister of
Marblehead July 18, 1716, as colleague with Mr.
Cheever. In 1762 he received Mr. Whitwell as
his assistant. The last sermon, which he preached,
was delivered Jan. 8, 1769.
Mr. Barnard was eminent for his learning and
piety, and was famous among the divines of
America. During the latter part of his life, Avhen
he retained a vigor of mind and zeal uncommon
at so advanced an age, he was regarded as the
father of the churches. His form was remark
ably erect, and he never bent under the infirmi
ties of years. His countenance was grand, his
mien majestic, and there was a dignity in his
whole deportment. His presence restrained the
imprudence and folly of youth, and when the
aged saw him, they arose and stood up. He
added a knowledge of the Hebrew to his other
theological attainments ; he was well acquainted
Avith the mathematics; and he excelled in skill
for naval architecture. Several draughts of his,
the amusement of leisure hours, were commended
by master ship-builders. When he first went to
Marblehead and for some years afterwards, there
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was not one trading vessel belonging to the town.
It was through his exertions, that a commercial
improvement soon took place. Having taken
great pains to learn " the mystery of the fish
trade," he directed the people to the best use,
•which they could make of the advantages of their
situation. A young man was first persuaded to
send a small cargo to Barbadoes, and his success
was so encouraging, that the people were soon
able in their own vessels to transport their fish to
the West Indies and Europe. In 1767 there
were thirty or forty vessels, belonging to the
town, employed in the foreign trade. When Mr.
Barnard first went to Marblehead, there was not
in the place so much as one proper carpenter,
nor mason, nor tailor, nor butcher.
By prudence in the management of his affairs
he acquired considerable property; but he gave
tithes of all he possessed. His charity was of a
kind, which is Avorthy of imitation. He was not
disposed to give much encouragement to common
beggars, but he sought out those objects of be
nevolent attention, who modestly hid their wants.
The poor were often fed by him, and the widow's
heart was gladdened, while they knew not where
to return thanks, except to the merciful Father
of the wretched. In one kind of charity he was
somewhat peculiar. He generally supported at
school two boys, whose parents were unable to
meet this expense. By his last will he gave 200
pounds to Harvard college. He left no children.
In his sickness, which terminated in his death, he
said with tears flowing from his eyes, " My very
soul bleeds, when I remember my sins ; but 1
trust I have sincerely repented, and that God will
accept me for Christ's sake. His righteousness is
my only dependence."
The publications of Mr. Barnard are numerous
and valuable. They show his theological knowl
edge, and his talents as a writer. His style is
plain, warm, and energetic. The doctrines, which
he enforces, are the same, which were embraced
by the fathers of New England. His autobiog
raphy is in Historical Collections, in. vol. v. He
published a sermon on the death of G. Cur-
win of Salem, 1717; on the death of his col
league, S. Cheever, 1724; history of the strange
adventures of Philip Ashton, 1725 ; two discourses
addressed to young persons, with one on the
earthquake, 1727 ; a volume of sermons on the
confirmation of the Christian religion, on com
pelling men to come in, and the saints' victory
and rewards, 1727 ; judgment, mercy, and faith,
1729; on the certainty of the birth of Christ,
1731 ; election sermon, 1734; call to parents and
children, 1737 ; convention sermon, 1738 ; zeal
for good works, 1742; election sermon, 174G;
the imperfection of the creature and the excel
lency of the divine commandment, in nine ser
mons, 1747; the mystery of the gospel in the
salvation of a sinner, in several discourses, 1750;
a version of the psalms, 1752 ; a proof of Jesus
Christ's being the Messiah, a Dudleian lecture,
the first that was published, 1756; the true di
vinity of Jesus Christ, 1761; a discourse at the
ordination of Mr. Whitwcll, a charge, and an ad
dress to the people, annexed to Mr. T. Barnard's
ordination sermon, 1762. A letter from Mr. Bar
nard to President Stiles, written in 1767, giving a
sketch of the eminent ministers of New England,
is published in the Mass. Hist. Coll. — WhitvielVs
Funeral Sermon ; Collections of Historical So
ciety, VIII. 66-69; X. 157, 167 ; Holmes, II. 525.
BARNARD, JOHN, minister of Andover, Mass.,
was the grandson of P'rancis Barnard of Hadley,
and the son of Thomas Barnard, the third min
ister of Andover, who was ordained colleague
with Francis Dane in 1682 and died Oct. 13, 1718.
The first minister of Andover was J. Woodbridge.
— Mr. Barnard was graduated in 1709 and suc
ceeding his father in the ministry died June 14,
1758, aged 68. During liis ministry Mr. Phillips
was the minister of the south parish. He was
succeeded by Mr. Symmes. His sons were min
isters of Salem and Haverhill. He published a
discourse on the earthquake ; to a society of
young men; on sinful mirth, 1728; on death of
A. Abbot, 1739 ; at ordination of T. Walker,
1731 ; election sermon, 1746.
BARNAHI), THOMAS, minister of Salem, the
son of the preceding, died Aug. 15, 1776, aged 62.
He was graduated at Harvard college in 1732
and ordained at Newbury Jan. 31, 1739. Dis
turbed by those, who called in question the cor
rectness of his sentiments, he was dismissed at his
own request, and afterwards studied law. He was
installed Sept. 17, 1755, as the minister of the
first church at Salem, and received Asa Dunbar
as his colleague in 1772 ; Dr. Prince succeeded
Mr. Dunbar in 1779. A paralytic affection im
paired his mental powers. He was regarded as a
semi-arian of Dr. Clarke's school, and as rather an
Arminian, than a Calvinist. As a preacher he
was destitute of animation and he was deficient
in perspicuity of style. He published discourses
at the ordination of E. Barnard, 1743; of Mr.
Bailey of Portsmouth, 1757; of W. Whitvell,
1762; before the society for encouraging industry,
1757 ; at the artillery election, 1758; at the elec
tion, 1763; Dudleian lecture, 1768; at the funeral
of P. Clarke, 1768. — Muss. Historical Collec
tions, vi. 273.
BARNARD, EDWARD, minister of Haverhill,
the brother of the preceding, was graduated in
1736, and ordained April 27, 1743, as the suc
cessor of John Brown. He died Jan. 26, 1774,
aged 53, and was succeeded by John Shaw. In
his last days a division sprung up in his society.
There were those, who accused him of not preach
ing the gospel. He was regarded as an Ar-
BARNARD.
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minian. Yet he was accustomed to preach, as he
said, " the fallen state of man, which gave rise to
the gospel dispensation, the fulness and freeness
of divine grace in Christ as the foundation of all
our hopes, the influence of the Spirit, the necessity
of regeneration, implying repentance towards
God and faith towards onr Lord Jesus Christ, the
necessity of practical religion, originating from
evangelical principles." He was an excellent
scholar and a highly esteemed preacher and min
ister. He published a poem on the death of
Abiel Abbot ; sermon at the ordination of II.
True, 1754; of G. Merrill, 1765; of T. Cary; at
the fast, 1764; at the election, 1766; at the con
vention, 1773. — SaltonstalVs Sketch of Haver-
hill in Historical Collections, n. s. IV. 143-146.
BARNARD, THOMAS, D. D., minister in Salem,
the son of T. Barnard, graduated at Harvard col
lege in 1766, and was ordained over the north
church Jan. 13, 1773. He died of the apoplexy
Oct. 1, 1814, aged 66. He published the follow
ing discourses : at the ordination of A. Bancroft,
1786; of I. Nichols, 1809; at the election, 1789;
at the convention, 1793 ; before the humane so
ciety, 1794; at the thanksgiving; Dudleian lec
ture, 1795; at thanksgiving, 1796; before a char
itable society, 1803 ; before the society for propa
gating the gospel among the Indians, 1806 ; be
fore the Bible society of Salem, 1814.
BARNARD, JEREMIAH, minister of Amherst,
N. H., died Jan. 15, 1834, aged 84.
BARNES, DAVID, D. D., minister of Scituate,
Mass., was born at Marlborough, graduated in
1752, and ordained Dec. 4, 1754. His predeces
sors in the second society since 1645 were Weth-
erell, Mighill, Lawson, Eelles, and Dorby. He
died April 27, 1811, aged 80 years. His wife was
the daughter of Col. G. Leonard. David L.
Barnes, a lawyer of Providence, appointed dis
trict judge of Rhode Island in 1801, and who
died Nov. 3, 1812, was lu's only son. — Dr. Barnes
is represented as remarkable for meekness. A
volume of his sermons was published with a bio
graphical sketch. He published an ordination
sermon, 1756 ; on the love of life and fear of
death, 1795 ; on the death of "Washington, 1800;
on the death of James Hawley, 1801 ; ordination
sermon, 1802; discourse on education, 1803. —
Mass. Historical Collections, s. s. iv. 237.
BARNES, DANIEL II., a distinguished con-
chologist, died in the meridian of life Oct. 27,
1818. He and Dr. Grificom originated and con
ducted with great reputation the high school of
New York. He was also a Baptist preacher.
Invited by Gen. Van Rcnsselacr to attend the
first public examination of the school established
by him at Troy, he proceeded to New Lebanon
and there preached on Sunday, the day before his
death, from the text, " Ye know not what shall
be on the morrow. For what is your life," &c.
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On Monday, while riding between Nassau and
Troy, the driver being thrown from his seat as
the stage was rapidly descending a hill, Mr.
Barnes in his alarm jumped from the carriage and
fractured his skull. He died in a short time
after. Of the New York Lyceum of natural lu's-
tory he was an active member. He was a clas
sical scholar of high attainments, and of a most
estimable character as a man. He had presided
over several seminaries, and refused the presi
dency of the college at Washington city. He
was probably the first conchologist in the United
States. His learned communications on con-
chology were published in Silliman's journal, with
explanatory plates. Of his writings in that jour
nal the following is a catalogue : geological sec
tion of the Canaan mountain, v. 8-21 ; memoir
on the genera unio and alasmodonta, with nu
merous figures, VI. 107-127, 258-280 ; five species
of chiton, with figures, VII. 69-72 ; memoir on
batrachian animals and doubtful reptiles, XI. 269-
297, XIII. 66-70 ; on magnetic polarity, XIII. 70-
73 ; reclamation of unios, XIII. 358-364. — Silli
man's Journal, XV. 401.
BARNES, JOHN, died in Dudley in 1813, aged
92, a Revolutionary soldier.
BARNES, JOHN, a distinguished engineer, died
at Marseilles Sept, 24, 1852.
BARNES, LEWIS, a worthy, respected citizen
of Portsmouth, died June 27, 1856, aged 79. A
native of Gottenburg, with ancestors of rank, his
name was Ludwig Baarnhiclm. On coming to
this country at the age of 14, he lived at Salem
under the patronage of Hasket Derby, and changed
his name to Barnes. For more than fifty years
he lived in Portsmouth. At first he commanded
a ship, and then became a merchant ; and was
intelligent, charitable, and a blessing to the com
munity. His last hours were peaceful, full of
faith and hope. — His daughter married C. S.
Franklin of New York.
BARNEY, JOSHUA, commodore, a distinguished
commander, died Dec. 1, 1818, aged 59. He was
born in Baltimore July 6, 1759. In early life he
made several voyages. At the beginning of the
war he entered as master's mate in the sloop-of-
war Hornet, in which vessel he accompanied the
fleet of Commodore Hopkins, who in 1775 cap
tured New Providence. Promoted to the rank
of lieutenant for his bravery, he was captured in
the Sachem, but was soon exchanged. He was
twice afterwards captured. But in Oct., 1779, he
and his friend Capt. Robinson brought a valuable
prize into Philadelphia. In 1780 he married the
daughter of Alderman Bedford. In a lew weeks
afterwards, having all his fortune with him in
paper money, he was robbed of it, wliilc going to
Baltimore. Without mentioning his loss he soon
went to sea, but was captured and sent to Ply
mouth, England. From the Mill prison he es-
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BARON.
capcd, and returning to Pennsylvania, the state in
March, 1782, gave him the command of the
Ilyder Ally, a small ship of sixteen guns. In
this vessel, carrying four nine and twelve six
pounders, he captured, April 26th, after an action
of twenty-six minutes, the Gen. Monk of eighteen
guns, nine pounders, with the loss of four killed
and eleven wounded. The Gen. Monk lost thirty
killed and fifty-three wounded. In Sept., 1782,
he sailed in the command of the Gen. Monk,
which was bought by the United States, with
dispatches for Dr. Franklin at Paris ; he brought
back a valuable loan from the king of France in
chests of gold and barrels of silver. In 17% he
went to France with Mr. Monroe, deputed the
bearer of the American flag to the national con
vention, lie was induced to take the command
of a squadron in the French service, but resigned
in 1800 and returned to America. In 1813 he
was appointed to the command of the flotilla for
the defence of the Chesapeake. He participated
in the battle of Bladensburg Aug. 24, 1814, and
was wounded in the thigh by a ball, which was
never extracted. In May, 1815, he was sent on
a mission to Europe, and returned in Oct., and
resided on his farm at Elkridge. He visited the
western country in 1817. Having resolved to em
igrate to Kentucky, while on his journey he was
taken ill at Fittsburg and died there. He had
been forty-one years in public service and engaged
in twenty-six battles and one duel. He fought
with Lemuel Tailor in private combat Sept. 3,
1813, — observing the laws of honor but con
temning the laws of liis country and of God.
The want of moral courage, the courage to do
right in disregard of the opinion of those, who
judge wrong, the want of fixed virtuous principle,
is a great deficiency in any character. — Encyclo
paedia Americana.
BARON, ALEXANDER, M. D., was born in
Scotland in 1745, and received his medical educa
tion at Edinburgh. He arrived at Charleston,
S. C., and soon obtained extensive practice in part
nership successively with Drs. Milligan, Oliphant,
and S. and R. Wilson. He died Jan. 9, 1819,
aged 74. He had great reputation as a physi
cian. Possessing extensive knowledge and en
dowed with almost every attribute of genius, he
was a most agreeable and instructive companion.
His affability and kindness made him a favorite
with the younger members of the profession. —
Thaclier's Med. Biog. 144-146.
BARRES, JOSEPH FREDERIC WALLET, DES,
had the title of colonel, and was lieut.-gov. of
Cape Breton, and afterwards of Prince Edward
Island. He died at Halifax, Nova Scotia, Oct. 22,
1804, aged 102 years. During the revolutionary
war he published in 1780, by order of Admiral
Howe, for the use of the British navy, valuable
charts of the coasts and harbors in the gulf of
BARRY.
St. Lawrence, of Nova Scotia, of New England,
of New York and southerly, compiled from sur
veys by Maj. Samuel Holland, surveyor-general.
These charts of DCS Barres were authentic and
useful surveys of these extensive coasts. All
the numerous islands in Casco bay and along the
whole coast of Maine are here described. A copy,
with the title of Atlantic Neptune, Vol. IL, is in
the library of Bowdoin college and another in
that of the American philosophical society at
Philadelphia.
BARRON, SAMUEL, a commodore in the navy,
commanded about the year 1798 the brig Au
gusta, equipped by the citizens of Norfolk in con
sequence of aggressions by the French. When a
fleet was sent to the Mediterranean in 1805 to
co-operate with Gen. Eaton in his operations
against Tripoli, Com. Barron had the command
of it ; but ill health induced him to transfer the
command to Capt. Rodgers. Eaton was indig
nant at the negotiation for peace conmmcnced by
Barron. On his return Barron felt keenly the
neglect of the government in not continuing him
in service. A few months before his death he
was made superintendent of the naval arsenal at
Gosport. He died of the apoplexy at Hampton,
Va., Oct. 29, 1810. In the private walks of life
he was greatly esteemed. — Norfolk Ledger;
Life of Eaton, 368.
BARRON, JAMES, commodore, died in Norfolk,
Apr. 21, 1851, aged 82. His father was commo
dore of the vessels of Virginia. He was lieuten
ant in 1798; in 1799 he went to the Mediterra
nean under the command of his brother Samuel.
In the ship Chesapeake he was compelled to
strike to the British frigate Leopard, after winch
he was not on sea duty.
BARRY, JOHN, first commodore in the Amer
ican navy, died Sept. 13, 1803, aged 58. He was
born in the county of Wcxford, Ireland, in 1745.
With an education adapted to his proposed ac
tive life upon the sea, he came to this country
about 1760, and was for years employed by the
most respectable merchants in the command of
vessels, having their unreserved confidence. In
Feb., 1776, congress appointed him to the com
mand of the brig Lexington of sixteen guns, and
he sailed on a successful cruise from Philadelphia.
From this vessel he was transferred to the Effing-
ham, a large frigate. Shut up by the ice in the
winter he joined the army as aid to Gen. Cadwal-
lader in the operations near Trenton. When
Philadelphia was in the hands of the enemy and
the American frigates were up the river, at White-
hill, Barry formed and executed the project of de
scending the river in boats to cut off the supplies of
the enemy. For this enterprise he received the
thanks of Washington. After his vessel was de
stroyed, he was appointed to the command of
the Raleigh of thirty-two guns, which a British
BARRY.
squadron compelled him to run on shore at Fox's
island in Penobscot bay. He next made several
voyages to the West Indies. In Feb., 1781, he
sailed in the frigate Alliance of thirty-six guns
from Boston for L'Orient, carrying Col. Laurens
on an embassy to the French court. On his re
turn, May 29, 1781, he fought the ship of war
Atlanta, of between twenty and thirty guns, and
her consort the brig Trepasa. After a severe ac
tion both struck their colors. Com. Barry was
dangerously wounded in the shoulder by a grape-
shot. He sailed again from Boston in the Alli
ance, and carried La Fayette and Count de
Noailles to France, and proceeded on a cruise.
Returning from Havana he fought a vessel of the
enemy of equal size, which escaped only by the
aid of her consorts. It is related, that Gen.
Howe at one period attempted to bribe him to
desert the cause of America by the promise of
fifteen thousand guineas and the command of a
British frigate, and that the offer was rejected
with disdain. Under the administration of Mr.
Adams he superintended the building at Philadel
phia of the frigate United States, of which he
retained the command, until she was laid up in
ordinary after the accession of Mr. Jefferson to
the executive chair. He died at Philadelphia of
an asthmatic affection. His person, above the
ordinary stature, was graceful and commanding.
His strongly marked countenance expressed the
qualities of his mind and virtues of lu's heart.
He possessed all the important qualities, requisite
in a naval commander. Though a rigid discipli
narian, his kindness and generosity secured the
attachment of his men. There was no desertion
from his ship. To the moral deportment of his
crew he scrupulously attended, and he enforced on
board a strict observance of divine worship. Ed
ucated in the habits of religion, he experienced
its comforts ; and he died in the faith of the gos
pel. — Portfolio ; American Naval Biography,
156-106.
BARRY, WILLIAM T., died at Liverpool, Aug.
30, 1835. A native of Kentucky, he had been a
senator, and postmaster-general, and minister to
Spain.
BARSTOW, JOHN, deacon, died in Canterbury,
Conn., Dec. 9, 1838, aged 85. A soldier, he -was
present at the surrender of Burgoync. In the
army he kept a journal. His services to the town
and church were very great. Many years super
intendent of the Sabbath school, in lu's old age he
taught the aged. In his sickness he sent word to
his friends to prepare to meet him in heaven. lie
was the father of Rev. Dr. B. of Keene.
BARTLETT, Josun, M. D., governor of New
Hampshire, died suddenly of a paralytic affection,
May 19, 1795, aged 65. He was the son of Ste
phen Bartlctt, and born in Amcsbury, Mass., in
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Nov., 1729. After an imperfect medical education
he commenced the practice of physic at Kings
ton in 1750. During the prevalence of the angi
na maligna in 1754, lu's successful antiseptic prac
tice in the use of the Peruvian bark established
lu's fame. He also acted as a magistrate, and
Gov. Wrentworth gave him the command of a reg
iment, but at last deprived him of his commis
sions in Feb., 1775, in consequence of his being a
zealous whig. Being appointed a delegate to con
gress, his name was first called as representing
the most easterly province, on the vote of the de
claration of independence, and he boldly an
swered in the affirmative. In 1777, as medical
agent, he accompanied Stark to Bennington. In
1778 he withdrew from congress. He was ap
pointed chief justice of the court of common
pleas in 1779, a justice of the superior court in
1784, and chief justice in 1788. In 1790 he was
President of New Hampshire, chosen by the leg
islature, though Pickering and Joshua Wentwor th
received each many more of the votes of the peo
ple. In 1791 and 1792 he was chosen by the
people. He had nominated his rival, J. Picker
ing, chief justice. In 1793 he was elected the
first governor under the new form of government.
Of the medical society, established by his efforts
in 1791, he was the president. The duties of his
various offices were faithfully discharged. He
was a good physician, devoting most of his time
to his profession. His patriotism induced him to
make great sacrifices for the public good. By the
force of his talents, without much education, he
rose to his various high offices. His mind was
discriminating, his judgment sound, and in all
his dealings he was scrupulously just. In his last
years his health was impaired and after the loss
of his wife in 1789 his spirits greatly depressed.
His son, Dr. Ezra B., died at Ilaverhill, N. II.,
Dec. 6, 1848, aged 78. — ThacJier's Med. Biog.,
147-150 ; Eliot ; Goodrich's Lives.
BARTLETT, Josun, M. I)., was born in
jCharlestown in 1759, and studied physic with Dr.
I. Foster, who was chief surgeon of the military
hospital in the war of 1775, under whom he served
as surgeon's mate till 1780. He then went two
voyages as surgeon to ships of war. He settled
in Charlestown, where for many years he had
extensive practice. At length misfortune broke
down liis spirits and health, and life ceased to be
desired. After two years the apoplexy terminated
his life March 5, 1820. He had been a represen
tative, senator, and councillor. He delivered
many orations, medical, political and literary ; and
published various papers in the works of the
medical society and in the N. E. medical journal ;
address to free masons, 1797; discourse before
the Middlesex medical association ; progress of
medical science in Mass., 1810; history of
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BARTLETT.
BAKTON.
Charlestown, 1814; oration on the death of Dr.
John Warren, 1815. — Thacher's Med. Biog., 150,
151.
BARTLETT, JOSIAH, M. D., died at Stratham
April 14, 1838, aged 70. The son of Governor
Josiah B., he Avas a member of Congress in 1811-
13.
BARTLETT, JOHN, died at Marblehead in
Feb., 1840, aged GO, having been the pastor of the
Unitarian church thirty-seven years. He published
two discourses.
BARTLETT, ELISHA, M. D., died in Smith-
field, R. I., July 19, 1855, aged about 40. For
some years he had been unable to practice.
When residing at Lowell, he was its first mayor;
afterwards he was at the head of a medical college
at the West, whence in failing health he went back
to the old homestead in R. I.
BARTLETT, SHUBAEL, minister of Scantic,
descended from the little company, which landed
at Plymouth in 1620, and his character corres
ponded with that of his puritan ancestry. At the
age of twenty-two he entered Yale college, in
which he and one other were the only professors
of religion. lie graduated in 1800, and having
studied theology with Dr. Dwight was ordained at
East Windsor Feb. 12, 1804; and there he died
June 6, 1854, aged 76. A half-century sermon,
which he prepared, was read to his people by his
son-in-law, Rev. S. B. Brown, late a missionary to
Cliina. He was a faithful preacher, endowed
with a spirit of prayer. During his ministry five
hundred and twenty-four members were added to
his church. His descent was from several of the
Pilgrims at Plymouth.
BARTLETT, WILLIAM, a generous benefactor
of theological literature, was born in Newbury
Jan. 31, 1748, and died Feb. 8, 1841, aged 93.
He was one of the founders of the theological
seminary in Andover. He gave 25,000 dollars to
endow a professorship of sacred rhetoric; built
two professors' houses, one of the large halls, and
the chapel; paid the president's salary for five or
six years ; contributed largely to another professor
ship ; and bequeathed 50,000 dollars in his Mill.
BARTLETT, ZACCIIEUS, M. D., died at Ply
mouth in Dec., 1835, aged 70. A graduate of
Harvard in 1780, he was a member of the state
convention in 1820, and president of the pilgrim
society.
BARTLETT, ICIIABOD, a lawyer of distinction
in N. II., died at Portsmouth Oct. 19, 1853, aged
67. Born in Salisbury, he graduated at Dart
mouth in 1808, and lived first in Durham, then in
P. He Avas a member of Congress from 1823 to
1829.
BARTLETT, RICILUID, secretary of state of
IST. II., died at New York Oct. 23, 1837, aged 45.
BARTLETT, ELISIIA, died in Georgia, Vt., in
1855, aged 100, a soldier of the Revolution. His
father was Moses B., the minister of Chatham,
Conn., who graduated in 1730, and died in 1766.
BARTON, THOMAS, an Episcopal minister, M'as
a native of Ireland and educated at the university
of Dublin. In 1753 he married at Philadelphia
the sister of Mr. Rittenhouse, and the next year
Avas ordained in England. His talents and learn
ing M'ere of great service to his friend Mr. Ritten
house, who enjoyed few advantages of early edu
cation. From 1755 to 1759 he M'as a missionary
of a society in England and resided in Redding
township, York county. In 1758 he M'as a chap
lain in the expedition against Fort Du Qucsne,
and became acquainted M'ith Washington and
Mercer and other distinguished officers. He
resided in Lancaster as rector nearly twenty years.
Adhering to the royal government in the Revolu
tion and refusing to take a required oath, he M'cnt
in 1778 to New York, M'here he died May 25,
1780, aged 50 years. His eldest son, William
Barton of Lancaster, M-rote the memoirs of Ritten
house and a tract on free commerce ; he left seven
other children, one of M'hom was Prof. Barton.
His M'idow passed her last years in the house of
her nephew and niece, Dr. Samuel Bard and -wife.
Within a few days of their decease she also died,
aged 90. He published a sermon on Braddock's
defeat, 1755. — Mem. of Rittenhouse, 100, 112,
287, 441 ; Thacher's Med. Biog., 139.
BARTON, BENJAMIN SMITH, M. D., professor
in the university of Pennsylvania, died Dec. 19,
1815, aged 49. lie was the son of the Rev.
Mr. Barton of Lancaster, Penn., and was born
Feb. 10, 1766. His mother was the sister of
Rittenhouse, M'hose life M'as written by his brother,
William Barton. After spending several years in
study in Philadelphia, he went to Edinburgh and
London in 1786 to pursue his medical studies.
His medical degree he obtained at Gottingen. In
1789 he returned to Pliiladelphia and commenced
the practice of physic. In the same year he was
appointed professor of natural history and botany
in the college. He succeeded Dr. Griffiths as
professor of materia medica and Dr. Rush as
professor of the theory and practice of medicine.
Dr. Barton was distinguished by his talents and
professional attainments. He contributed much
to the progress of natural science, and his various
works evince a closeness of observation, an extent
of learning, and a comprehensiveness of mind,
honorable to his character. He was the first
American M'ho gave to his country an elementary
M'ork on botany. His publications are the folloAV-
ing: On the fascinating quality ascribed to the
rattlesnake, 1796; new vieAvs of the origin of the
tribes of America, 1797 ; collections toM-ards a
materia medica of the U. S., 1798; remarks on
the speech attributed by Jefferson to Logan, 1798;
medical physical journal, begun 1804, continued
several years ; eulogy on Dr. Priestley ; elements
BARTON.
of botany with thirty plates, 1804; also in two
vols. 40 plates, 1812; flora Virginica, 1812; an
tdition of Cullen's materia medica, 1808 ; account
of the Syren laccrtina ; observations on the oppos-
sum, 1813; collections on extinct animals, &c.,
1814; fragments of the natural history of Penn. ;
remedy for the bite of the rattlesnake ; on the
honey bee ; on the native country of the potato,
and other papers in the Am. Philos. Transactions.
— W. P. C. Barton's Biog. Sketch; Thacher's
Med. Biog., 151-153.
BARTON, WILLIAM, lieutenant-colonel, a patriot
of the Revolution, planned the capture of Maj.-
Gen. Prescott on Rhode Island, and executed the
project July 10, 1777. Information had been
received at Providence, that the general was to
sleep at Overing's house, four miles from Newport.
Barton went with a party of forty men, including
Capts. Adams and Phillips, in four whale-boats
from Warwick neck ten miles by water, landed
about half way from Newport to Bristol ferry, then
marched one mile to the general's quarters. On
reaching the chamber, at midnight, the sentry was
secured ; then a negro, called Prince, who accom
panied Barton, and who died at Plymouth 1821,
aged 78, dashed his head against the door and
knocked out a panel, so that Col. Barton rushed
in and surprised Prescott in bed, and carried him
off with his aid, Maj. William Barrington, who
jumped from the window in his shirt. He escaped
the guard boats and no alarm was given to the
enemy, until the party on their return had nearly
reached the main, when the firing of rockets was
in vain. For this exploit Congress presented him
with a sword and with a grant of land in Ver
mont. By the transfer of some of this land he
became entangled in the toils of the law and was
imprisoned in Vermont for years, until the visit to
this country in 1825 of La Fayette, who in his
munificence liberated his fellow soldier and re
stored the hoary veteran to his family. Col. Bar
ton was wounded in an action at Bristol ferry in
May, 1778. He died at Providence in Oct., 1831,
aged 84 years. — Amer. Rememb., 1777, 271, 361;
Mass. Hist. Coll., n., 107, 138; Heath, 122.
BARTON, CYRUS, editor of the Concord Re
porter, died Feb. 17, 1855. At the close of a
political speech near C. he fell and expired. He
was an associate with Isaac Hill in business.
BARTON, ROGER, died in Mississippi March
4, 1855, aged about 55; for fifteen years a Senator
of the U. S.
BARTRAM, Jonx, an eminent botanist, died
in Sept., 1777, aged 75. He was born at Marpole,
Chester county, Penn., in the year 1701. His
grandfather, Richard, accompanied William Penn
to this country in 1682. His father, John, re
moved to North Carolina and was killed by the
Whitoc Indians. He himself inherited the estate
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of his uncle, Isaac, at Derby, a few miles from
Philadelphia.
This self-taught genius early discovered an
ardent desire for the acquisition of knowledge,
especially of botanical knowledge ; but the infant
state of the colony placed great obstacles in his
way. He however surmounted them by intense
application and the resources of his own mind.
By the assistance of respectable characters he
obtained the rudiments of the learned languages,
Avhich he studied with extraordinary success. So
earnest was he in the pursuit of learning, that he
could hardly spare time to eat ; and he might
often have been found with his victuals in one
hand and his book in the other. He acquired so
much knowledge of medicine and surgery, as to
administer great assistance to the indigent and
distressed in his neighborhood. He cultivated
the ground as the means of supporting a large
family ; but while ploughing or sowing his fields,
or mowing his meadows, he was still puslmig his
inquiries into the operations of nature.
He was the first American who conceived and
carried into effect the design of a botanic garden,
for the cultivation of American plants, as well as
of exotics. He purchased a fine situation on the
west bank of the Schuylkill about four miles below
Philadelphia, where he laid out with his own
hands a garden of five or six acres. He furnished
it with a variety of the most curious and beautiful
vegetables, collected in his excursions from Canada
to Florida. These excursions were made princi
pally in autumn, when his presence at home was
least demanded by his agricultural avocations.
His ardor in these pursuits was such, that at the
age of seventy he made a journey into East
Florida to explore its natural productions. His
travels among the Indians were frequently at
tended with danger and difficulty. By his means
the gardens of Europe were enriched with elegant
flowering shrubs, with plants and trees, collected
in different parts of our country from the shore
of Lake Ontario to the source of the River St.
Juan. He made such proficiency in his favorite
pursuit, that Linnaeus pronounced him " the
greatest natural botanist in the world." His
eminence in natural history attracted the esteem
of the most distinguished men in America and
Europe, and he corresponded with many of them.
He was a fellow of the Royal Society. By means
of the friendship of Sir Hans Sloane, Mr. Catesby,
Dr. Hill, Linnccus, and others, he was furnished
with books and apparatus, which he much needed,
and which greatly lessened the difficulties of his
situation. He in return sent them what was new
and curious in the productions of America. He
was elected a member of several of the most
eminent societies and academies abroad, and was
at length appointed American botanist to his
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Britannic majesty, George III., in which appoint
ment he continued till his death.
Mr. Bartram was an ingenious mechanic. The
stone house in which he lived, he built himself,
and several monuments of his skill remain in it.
He was often his own mason, carpenter, and black
smith, and generally made his own farming uten
sils. His stature was rather above the middle
size ; his body was erect and slender ; his com
plexion was sandy ; his countenance was cheerful,
though there was a solemnity in his air. His gen
tle manners corresponded with his amiable dispo
sition. He was modest and charitable ; a friend
to social order ; and an advocate for the abolition
of slavery. He gave freedom to a young African,
whom he had brought up ; but he in gratitude to
his master continued in his service. Though tem
perate, he kept a plentiful table ; and annually on
new year's day he made an entertainment, conse
crated to friendship and philosophy. Born and
educated in the society of Quakers, he professed
to be a worshipper of " God alone, the Almighty
Lord." He often read the scriptures, particularly
on Sundays. Of his children, John, his youngest
son, who succeeded him in his botanic garden,
died at Philadelphia Nov., 1812. In addition to
his other attainments he acquired some knowledge
of medicine and surgery, which rendered him use
ful to his neighbors. In his first efforts to make
a collection of American plants he was aided by
a liberal subscription of some scientific gentlemen
in Pliiladclphia. In 1737, Mr. Collinson wrote to
Col. Custis of Virginia, that Bartram was em
ployed by " a set of noblemen" at his recommen
dation ; and he added, " Be so kind as to give him
a little entertainment, and recommendation to a
friend or two of yours in the country, for he does
not value riding 50 or 100 miles to see a new
plant."
Mr. Bartram's communications in the British
Philosophical Transactions, vols. 41, 43, 46, 62,
are these : on the teeth of a rattlesnake ; on the
muscles and oyster banks of Perm. ; on clay wasp
nests ; on the great black wasp ; on the libella ;
account of an aurora borealis, observed Nov. 12,
1757. He published also observations on the
inhabitants, climate, soil, &c., in his travels to
lake Ontario, 4lh cd. 4to. Loud. 1751; descrip
tion of East Florida, with a journal, 4to. 1774.
— Miller, I. 515 ; II. 367 ; Life of Eittenlwuse,
375 ; Mem. Penns. Hist. Soc. I. 134 ; Barton's
Med. and Phys. Jour. I. 115-124.
BARTRAM, WILLIAM, a botanist, son of the
preceding, died July 22, 1823, aged 84. He was
born at the Botanic Garden, Kingsessing, Penns.,
in 1739. After living with a merchant in Phila
delphia six years, he went to North Carolina, en
gaged in mercantile pursuits ; but, attached to
the study of botany, he accompanied his father in
his journey to E. Florida. After residing for a
time on the river St. John's in Florida, he re
turned to Ins father's residence in 177 1. In April,
1773, at the request of Dr. Fothergill he pro
ceeded to Charleston in order to examine the nat
ural productions of Carolina, Georgia, and the
Floridas, and was thus employed nearly five years.
His collections and drawings were forwarded to
Dr. Fothergill. His account of his travels was
published in 1791. It is a delightful specimen of
the enthusiasm with which the lover of nature,
and particularly the botanist, surveys the beautiful
and wonderful productions which are scattered
over the face of the earth. Of himself Mr. Bar-
tram said, — " continually impelled by a restless
spirit of curiosity in pursuit of new productions
of nature, my chief happiness consisted in tracing
and admiring the infinite power, majesty, and per
fection of the great Almighty Creator, and in the
contemplation, that through divine aid and per
mission I might be instrumental in discovering
and introducing into my native country some orig
inal productions of nature, which might be useful
to society." Ilcposing in a grove of oranges,
palms, live oaks, and magnolias, in the midst of
beautiful flowers and singing birds, he cried out,
— " ye vigilant and most faithful servants of the
Most High ; ye, who worship the Creator morning,
noon, and eve, in simplicity of heart ! I haste to
join the universal anthem. My voice and heart
unite with yours in sincere homage to the great
Creator, the universal sovereign."
In 1782 he was elected professor of botany in
the university of Penns., but from ill health de
clined the appointment. Besides his discoveries
in botany, he prepared the most complete table of
American ornithology before the appearance of
the book of Wilson, whom he assisted in the com
mencement of that work. Such was his continued
love for botany, that he wrote a description of a
plant a few minutes before his death, which oc
curred suddenly by the rupture of a blood-vessel
in the lungs. He published Travels through N.
and S. Carolina, Georgia, East and West Florida,
the Cherokee country, with observations on the
manners of the Indians, with plates, 8vo. Phil.,
1731; the same, London, 1792; and translated
into French by Benoist, entitled Voyage, &c., 2
vols.; Paris, 1801; an account of J. Bartram ;
anecdotes of a crow ; description of Ccrthia ; on
the site of Bristol. — Enc. Amer. ; Barton's Med.
Jour. I. i. 89-95 ; I. ii. 103.
BASCOM, II. B., D. I)., bishop of the Meth
odist church, died in Louisville on liis return from
St. Louis to Kentucky Sept. 9, 1850, aged about
56. He was born in Western New York ; in
1828 was president of Madison college, the sec
ond Methodist college in the U. S. In 1842, he
was chosen president of Transylvania university,
Ky. In 1849 he was elected bishop. He was a
pulpit orator of great power, though not of good
BASS.
taste. He delighted in strong epithets and high
flown metaphors. A volume of his sermons was
published in 1849. He published inaugural ad
dress, 1828.
BASS, EDWARD, D. D., first bishop of Massa
chusetts, was born at Dorchester Nov. 23, 172G,
and graduated at Harvard college in 1744. For
several years he was the teacher of a school.
From 1747 to 17*51 he resided at Cambridge, pur
suing In's theological studies, and occasionally
preaching. In 1752, at the request of the Episco
pal society in Newburyport, he went to England
for orders, and was ordained May 24, by bishop
Sherlock. In 1796 he was elected by the conven
tion of the Protestant Episcopal Church of Mas
sachusetts to the office of bishop, and was conse
crated May 7, 1797, by the bishops of Pennsylva
nia, New York, and Maryland. Afterwards the
Episcopal churches in Rhode Island elected him
their bishop, and in 1803 a convention of the
churches in NCAV Hampshire put themselves under
his jurisdiction. He died Sept. 10, 1803, humble
and resigned. He was a sound divine, a critical
scholar, an accomplished gentleman, and an exem
plary Christian. — Mass. Hist. Coll., IX. 188.
BASSETT, RICHARD, governor of Delaware,
was a member of the old congress in 1787, and
was appointed a senator under the new constitu
tion. He was governor, after Mr. Bedford, from
1798 to 1801, when he was placed by Mr. Adams
on the bench of the federal judiciary. The repeal
of the act, constituting the courts, displaced him
from his office in 1802. He had practised law
for many years with reputation and was a gentle
man of fortune. His daughter married Mr. Bay
ard. He died in Sept., 1815.
BASSETT, AMOS, D. D., died in Cornwall in
1828, aged 44. A native of Derby, he graduated
in 1784, and was the minister of Hebron from
about 1793 to 1820, and was then the head of the
Mission school at Cornwall. His voice and man
ner in preaching were extremely solemn. He
was perhaps gloom}- and hypochondriacal ; some
times keen and severe. Seeing some men of in
fluence, whom he deemed anti-patriotic and anti-
christian, following in the funeral procession of a
very wicked man, he said, — "if it had been the
devil liimsclf, they would have followed him, only
they would have chosen to follow him alive." He
published election sermon, 1807 ; and before a
missionary society ; he wrote a reply of the con
sociation to A. Abbot.
BATES, BARNABAS, died at Boston Oct. 11,
1853, aged 66. A native of England, he was a
Baptist minister in R. I., then a Unitarian. He
was collector of Bristol, and connected with the
post office. As a zealous advocate of cheap post
age he deserves public remembrance.
BATES, ISAAC C., died in Washington, a sen
ator, March 10, 1845, aged 65. Born in Cran-
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villc, he graduated at Yale in 1802, and settled as
a lawyer in Northampton. For eight years he
was a member of the house of representatives,
and afterwards of the senate, rendering important
public services. At his funeral in Washington,
Mr. Tuston delivered an eloquent sermon on the
happiness of heaven, described as " light." He
delivered an able speech, costing much effort,
against the admission of Texas into the Union ;
and in a few days afterwards died. His printed
addresses and speeches are specimens of logical
and beautiful writing.
BATES, JOSHUA, D. D., president of Middle-
bury college, died in Dudley Jan. 14, 1854, aged
77. Born at Cohasset, he graduated at Cam
bridge in 1800 ; was settled as a minister in Ded-
ham in 1803; was chosen president in 1818 and
continued at Middlebury twenty-one years, till
1840, when he resigned. In 1843 he was settled
at Dudley, where he toiled during ten years of a
green old age. He was distinguished as a scholar,
was open-hearted and of a manly character,
highly esteemed and useful. Dr. Sprague preached
a sermon on his death.
He published Reminiscences of Rev. John Cod-
man, making a volume with W. Allen's life of
J. C. ; two sermons on intemperance, 1813 ; a
volume of sermons ; on the death of T. Prentiss,
1814 ; at ordination of J. Thompson, 1804 ; R.
Hurlburt and F. Burt, 1817 ; Ira Ingraham, 1821;
J. Steel, 1828 ; inaugural address, 1818 ; two
sermons to missionary societies.
BATTELL, SARAII, the widow of Joseph B.,
died at Norfolk, Conn., Sept. 23, 1854, aged 75,
the daughter of Rev. A. Robbins. She was one
of the women of excellent Christian character
and well-known benevolence, who by their virtues
adorn our community.
BAXTER, JOSEPH, minister of Medford, Mass.,
was the son of Lieut. John Baxter, of Braintrce,
who died in 1719, aged 80, and grandson of
Gregory Baxter, a settler of B. in 1632, who was
a, relative of Richard Baxter, of England. lie
was born in 1676, graduated in 1693, and or
dained April 21, 1697. When Gov. Shute had a
conference with the Indians at Georgetown, on
Arrousic Island, in Aug., 1717, he presented to
them a Mr. Baxter as a protestant missionary,
who was probably Mr. Joseph B. ; but through
the influence of the Jesuit Halle he was rejected.
He had a correspondence in Latin with Ralle, and
the Jesuit accused him of the want of scholarship.
Gov. Shute in his letter replied, that the main
qualification in a missionary to the barbarous In
dians was not " to be an exact scholar as to the
Latin tongue," but to bring them from darkness
to the light of the gospel, and, " under the influ
ence of the divine Spirit to translate them from
the power of Satan, who has had an usurped pos
session of these parts of the world for so many
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ages, to the kingdom of the Son of God." Mr.
Baxter died May 2, 1745. His son, Joseph, a
physician, died of the small pox. He published
the election sermon, 1727 ; sermons to two socie
ties of young men ; and sermons on the danger
of security, 1729. — Mass. Hist. Coll. v. 115;
Coll. N. II. Hist. Soc. II. 245 ; Farmer.
BAXTER, GEORGE A., 1). I)., died in Vir
ginia March 16, 1841, aged 77; professor of the
ology in Union theological seminary, Prince
Edward county. He was previously president of
Washington college, Lexington. He was one of
the most eminent and respected of the Presbyte
rian ministers of Virginia.
BAY, ELIHU H., died at Charleston in 1839,
aged 85. He published law reports.
BAYARD, JOHN, a friend to his country, and
an eminent Christian, was born Aug. 11, 1738, on
Bohemia manor in Cecil county, Maryland. His
father died without a will, and being the eldest
son, he became entitled by the laws of Maryland
to the whole real estate. Such, however, was his
affection for his twin brother, younger than him
self, that no sooner had he reached the age of
manhood, than he conveyed to him half the estate.
After receiving an academical education under Dr.
Fin ley, he was put into the counting-house of
Mr. John Rhea, a merchant of Philadelphia. It
was here, that the seeds of grace began first to
take root, and to give promise of those fruits of
righteousness, which afterwards abounded. He
early became a communicant of the Presbyterian
church under the charge of Gilbert Tennent.
Some years after his marriage he was chosen a
ruling elder, and he filled this place with zeal and
reputation. Mr. Whitfield, while on his visits
to America, became intimately acquainted with
Mr. Bayard, and was much attached to him.
They made several tours together. In 1770, Mr.
Bayard lost his only brother, Dr. James A. Bay
ard, a man of promising talents, of prudence and
skill, of a most amiable disposition and growing
reputation. The violence of his sorrow at first
produced an illness, which confined him to his bed
for several days. By degrees it subsided into a
tender melancholy, which for years after would
steal across his mind, and tinge his hours of do
mestic intercourse and solitary devotion with
pensive sadness. When his brother's widow died,
he adopted the children, and educated them as his
own. One of them was an eminent statesman.
At the commencement of the Revolutionary
war he took a decided part in favor of his country.
At the head of the second battalion of the Phila
delphia militia he marched to the assistance of
Washington, and was present at the battle of
Trenton. He was a member of the council of
safety, and for many years speaker of the legisla
ture. In 1777, when there was a report that
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Col. Bayard's house had been destroyed by the
British army, and that his servant, who had been
intrusted with his personal property, had gone off
with it to the enemy, Mr. William Bell, who had
served his apprenticeship with Col. Bayard, and
accumulated several thousand pounds, insisted
that his patron should receive one half of his
estate. This generous offer was not accepted, as
the report was without foundation. Reiterated
afflictions induced a deep depression of mind,
and for some time he was no longer relieved by
the avocations of business. In 1785, however, he
was appointed a member of the old congress, then
sitting in New York, but in the following year he
was left out of the delegation. In 1788 he re
moved to New Brunswick, where he was mayor
of the city, judge of the court of common pleas,
and a ruling elder of the church. Here he died
Jan. 7, 1807, aged 68.
At his last hour he was not left in darkness.
That Redeemer, whom he had served with zeal,
was with him to support him and give him the
victory. During his last illness he spoke much
of his brother, and one night, awaking from sleep,
exclaimed, "My dear brother, I shall soon be
with you." He addressed his two sons, " My dear
children, you see me just at the close of life.
Death has no terrors to me. What now is all
the world to me ? I would not exchange my hope
in Christ for ten thousand worlds. I once enter
tained some doubts of his Divinity ; but, blessed
be God, these doubts were soon removed by in
quiry and reflection. From that time my hope
of acceptance with God has rested on his merits
and atonement. Out of Christ, God is a consum
ing fire." As he approached nearer the grave,
he said, " I shall soon be at rest ; I shall soon be
with my God. O glorious hope ! Blessed rest !
HOAV precious are the promises of the gospel ! It
is the support of my soul in my last moments."
While sitting up, supported by his two daughters,
holding one of his sons by the hand, and looking
intently in his face, he said, " My Christian brother !''
Then turning to his daughters he continued, " You
are my Christian sisters. Soon will our present
ties be dissolved, but more glorious bonds
lie could say no more, but his looks and arms,
directed towards heaven, expressed everything.
He frequently commended himself to the blessed
Redeemer, confident of his love; and the last
words, which escaped from his dying lips, were,
" Lord Jesus, Lord Jesus, Lord Jesus ! " — Evang.
Litclliyencer, I. 1-7, 49-57.
BAYARD, JAMES A., a distinguished states
man, died Aug. 6, 1815, aged 48. lie was the
son of Dr. J. A. Bayard, and was born in Phila
delphia in 1767. On the death of his father he
was received into the family of his uncle, John
Bayard, and was graduated at Princeton college
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in 1784. After studying law at Philadelphia with
Gen. Reed and Mr. Ingcrsoll, he commenced the
practice in Delaware. In Oct., 1796, he was
elected a member, of Congress. In the party con
tests of the day he was a distinguished supporter
of the federal administration. In the memorable
contest in the house concerning the election of
president in 1801, Jefferson and Burr having an
equal number of the electoral votes, he directed
the course, which issued in the election of Mr.
Jefferson. Among the debaters on the repeal of
the judiciary bill in March, 1802, he was the
ablest advocate of the system, which was over
thrown. From the house he was transferred to
the senate in 1804, and was again elected for six
years from March, 1805, and also from March,
1811. He opposed the declaration of war in
1812. After the commencement of the war, the
mediation of Russia being offered, he was selected
by Mr. Madison as a commissioner with Mr. Gal-
latin to negotiate a peace with Great Britain, and
sailed from Philadelphia for St. Petersburg May
9, 1813. The absence of the emperor preventing
the transaction of any business, he proceeded to
Holland by land in Jan., 1814. He lent his able
assistance in the negotiation of the peace at
Ghent in this year, and afterwards made a jour
ney to Paris, where he was apprized of his ap
pointment as envoy to the court of St. Petersburg.
This he declined, stating, " that he had no wish
to serve the administration, except when his ser
vices were necessary for the good of his country."
Yet he proposed to co-operate in forming a com
mercial treaty with Great Britain. An alarming
illness, however, constrained him to return to the
United States. He arrived in June and died at
Wilmington. His wife, the daughter of Gov.
Basset, and several children, survived him. Mr.
Bavard was an ingenious reasoner and an accom
plished orator. His fine countenance and manly
person recommended his eloquent words. There
were few of his contemporaries of higher political
distinction. But his race of worldly eminence
was soon run. — His speech on the foreign inter
course bill was published 1798; and his speech
on the repeal of the judiciary in a vol. of the
speeches, 1802. — Biog' Amer. 50; Encyc.Amer.
BAYARD, SAMUEL, judge, died at Princeton
N. J., May 12, 1840, aged 75. He was a judge
of the common pleas, a most upright, respected,
and esteemed man.
BAYLEY, MATTHIAS, died about the year 1789
at Jones' creek, a branch of the Pedee, in North
Carolina, aged 136 years. He was baptized at
the age of 134. His eyesight remained good,
and his strength was very remarkable, till his
death. — American Museum, vil. 206.
BAYLEY, RICHARD, an eminent physician of
New York, died Aug. 17, 1801, aged 56. He
was bom at Fairfield, Conn., in the year 1745.
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From his mother's being of French descent and
his parents' residence among the French Protes
tant emigrants at New Rochclle, N. Y., he became
early familiar with the French language. He
studied physic with Dr. Charlton, whose sister he
married. In 1769 or 1770 he attended the Lon
don lectures and hospitals. Returning in 1772
he commenced practice with Dr. Charlton in New
York. His attention in 1774 was drawn to the
croup, which prevailed, and which men of high
character, as Dr. Bard, had fatally treated as the
putrid sore throat. He had seen a child perish
in thirty-six hours under the use of stimulants and
antiseptics. His dissections confirmed him in his
views ; and they were adopted afterwards by his
friend, Michaelis, the chief of the Hessian medical
staff in New York, the author of a treatise " De
angina polyposa."
In the autumn of 1775 he revisited England in
order to make further improvement under Hunter,
and spent the winter in dissections and study. In
the spring of 1776 he returned in the capacity of
surgeon in the English army under Howe. This
was a measure of mistaken prudence, in order to
provide for his wife and children. In the fall he
proceeded with the fleet to Newport ; but incapable
of enduring this separation from his wife, he
resigned and returned to New York in the spring
of 1777 just before her death. His influence was
now beneficially exerted in saving the property of
Ms absent fellow-citizens. In 1781 his letter to
Hunter on the croup was published, in which he
recommended bleeding, blisters to the throat,
antimony, calomel, and enemata. He said, there
was no fear of putresccncy, unless there were
ulcers. To Baylcy the public is indebted for the
present active treatment of the croup. In 1787
he delivered lectures on surgery, and his son-in-law,
Dr. Wright Post, lectured on anatomy, in the
edifice since converted into the New York hospital.
In 1788 " the doctors' mob," in consequence of
the imprudence of some students, broke into the
building and destroyed Bayley's valuable anatomi-
"cal cabinet. In 1792 he was elected professor of
anatomy at Columbia college; but in 1793 he
took the department of surgery, in which he was
very skilful. About 1795 he was appointed health
officer to the port. During the prevalence of the
yellow fever he fearlessly attended upon the sick
and investigated the disease. In 1797 he pub
lished his essay on that fever, maintaining that it
had a local origin and was not contagious, lie
also published in 1798 a series of letters on the
subject. By contagion he meant a specific poison,
as in small pox. He allowed, that the fever in
certain circumstances was infectious. No nurse
or attendant in the hospitals had t alien the
disease, yet it might be conveyed in clothing and
in other ways. Hence the importance of cleanli
ness and ventilation. The state quarantine laws
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originated with him; the total interdiction of
commerce with the West Indies had by some been
contemplated. In Aug., 1821, an Irish emigrant
ship, with ship fever, arrived. lie found the crew
and passengers and baggage huddled in one un-
ventilated apartment, contrary to his orders.
Entering it only a moment, a deadly sickness at
the stomach and intense pain in the head seized
him, and on the seventh day he expired. He is
represented as in temper fiery, invincible in his
dislikes, inflexible in attachment, of perfect integ
rity, gentlemanly, and chivalrously honorable.
He married in 1778 Charlotte Amelia, daughter
of Andrew Barclay, a merchant of New York.
His writings have been mentioned : on the croup,
1781; essay on the yellow fever, 1797; letters on
the same, 1798. — Thacher's Med. Biog., 156-
168.
BAYLIES, WILLIAM, M. D., died at Dighton,
Mass., June 17, 1826, aged 82. lie was gradu
ated at Harvard college in 1760, and was a member
of the provincial congress in 1775, and often a
member of the council of the State.
BAYLIES, HODIJAII, judge, died at Dighton
April 26, 1843, aged 86. A graduate of Harvard
in 1777, he was aid to Gen. Lincoln, also to
Washington. He was collector of customs, and
judge of probate from 1810 until he was 81. He
possessed a Christian character, and shared largely
in the public confidence.
BAYLIES, FREDERIC, died in Edgartown Oct.,
1836, for twenty years a useful teacher of the
Ladians on Martha's Vineyard and in 11. I. ; an
exemplary, worthy man, doing much for Sunday
schools and the cause of temperance.
BAYLIES, NICHOLAS, judge, died at Lyndon,
Vt, Aug. 17, 1847, aged 75. He was a graduate
of Dartmouth in 1794, and practised law in
Woodstock and Montpelier. His wife was Mary
Itipley, daughter of Prof. Riplcy and grand
daughter of President E. Whcclock. He pub
lished some law books.
BAYLIES, FRANCIS, died at Taunton, Oct. 28,
1852, aged 68. For several terms he was a mem
ber of congress. The only electoral vote for Jack
son as president, from New England, Avas given
by him. Soon afterwards he was appointed min
ister to Brazil, but was quickly recalled. He
published a history of the old colony of Plymouth
in 2 vols., 1828.
BAYNAM, WILLIAM, a surgeon, the son of
Dr. John Baynham of Caroline county, Va., was
born in 1749, and after studying with Dr. Walker
was sent to London in 1769, where he made great
proficiency in anatomy and surgery. He was for
years an assistant demonstrator to Mr. Else,
professor in St. Thomas' hospital. After residing
sixteen years in England, he returned to this coun
try, and settled in Essex about 1785. He died
Dec. 8, 1814, aged 66 years. He performed
BEACH.
many remarkable surgical operations. As an
anatomist he had no superior. The best prepara
tions in the museum of Clinc and Cooper at Lon
don were made by him. Various papers by Mr.
B. were published in the medical journals. —
TJiacJier's Mcd. Biog., 168-173; JV. Y. Med.
Journal, I.; Phil. Journal, IV.
BEACH, JOHN, an Episcopal clergyman and
writer, was probably a descendant of Ilichard
Beach, who lived in New Haven and had a son,
John, born in 1639. He was graduated at Yale
college in 1721, and was for several years a Con
gregational minister at Newtown. Through his
acquaintance with Dr. Johnson, he was induced to
embrace the Episcopal form of worship. In 1732
he went to England for orders, and on his return
was employed as an Episcopalian missionary at
Heading and Newtown. After the Declaration of
Independence, Congress ordered the ministers to
pray for the commonwealth and not for the king.
Mr. Beach, who retained his loyalty, chose to pray
as usual for his majesty, and was in consequence
handled roughly by the wliigs. He died March
19, 1782.
He published an appeal to the unprejudiced, in
answer to a sermon of Dickinson, 1737 ; also,
about the year 1745, a sermon on Itomans 6 : 23,
entitled, a sermon shewing that eternal life is
God's free gift, bestowed upon men according to
their moral behavior. In this he opposed with
much zeal some of the Calvinistic doctrines,
contained in the articles of the church which he
had joined. Jonathan Dickinson wrote remarks
upon it the following year, in his vindication of
God's sovereignty and His universal love to the
souls of men reconciled, in the form of a dialogue,
1747. He wrote also a reply to Dickinson's
second vindication. Mr. Beach was a bold and
distinguished advocate of those doctrines, which
are denominated Arminian. Whatever may be
said of his argument in his dispute with Dickinson,
he evidently yields to his antagonist in gentleness
and civility of manner. Another controversy, in
which he engaged, had respect to Episcopacy.
He published in 17-19, in answer to Hobart's first
address, a calm and dispassionate vindication of
the professors of the church of England, to which
Dr. Johnson wrote a preface and Mr. Caner an
appendix. He seems to have had high notions
of the necessity of Episcopal ordination. His
other publications are, the duty of loving our
enemies, 1738; an inquiry into the state of the
dead, 1755; a continuation of the vindication of
the professors, &c., 1756 ; the inquiry of the young
man in the gospel ; a sermon on the death of
Dr. Johnson, 1772. — Chandler's Life of John
son, 62, 126.
BEACH, ABRAHAM, D. D., an Episcopal min
ister, was born at Cheshire, Conn., Sept. 9, 1740,
and graduated at Yale college in 1757. The
BEACH.
bishop of London ordained him in June, 1767, as
a priest for New Jersey. During seventeen years,
including the period of the Revolution, he tran
quilly discharged the duties of his office at Xe\v
Brunswick. Alter the peace, he was called to
New York as an assistant minister of Trinity
church, where he remained about thirty years,
and then retired in 1813 to his farm on the Rari-
tan to pass the evening of his life. He died Sept.
11, 1828, aged 88 years. His daughter, Maria,
and his son-in-law, Abiel Carter, an Episcopal
minister, died at Savannah, Oct. 28, and Nov. 1,
1827. His dignified person, expressive counte
nance, and lively feelings rendered his old age
interesting to his acquaintance. He was respected
and honored in his failing years. A sermon of
his, on the hearing of the word, is in American
Preacher, in. He published a funeral sermon on
Dr. Chandler, 1790. — Episcopal Watchman.
BEACH, EBEXEZER S., died at Rochester, N. Y.,
March 14, 1850, aged 65. He was educated and
very successful in business. In furnishing stores
for the army he made much money ; for his flour
milling operations he was extensively known.
BEACH, SAMUEL, M. D., of Bridgeport, died,
killed by the railroad disaster at Norwalk bridge
May 6, 1853. He was among the forty-five per
sons killed. He received his medical degree at
Yale in 1826; — besides being an eminent physi
cian he was an excellent Christian.
BEADLE, WILLIAM, a deist, was born near
London, and came to this country with a small
quantity of goods. After residing at New York,
Stratford, and Derby, he removed to Fairfield,
where he married a Miss Lathrop of Plymouth,
Mass. In 1772 he transplanted himself to
Wethersfield, where he sustained the character of
a fair dealer. In the depreciation of the paper
currency, he, through some error of judgment,
thought he was still bound to sell his goods at
the old prices, as though the continental money
had retained its nominal value. In the decay of
his property he became melancholy. For years
he meditated the destruction of his family. At
last, Dec. 11, 1782, he murdered with an axe and
a knife his wife and children and then shot him
self with a pistol. He was aged 52 ; his wife 32 ;
and the eldest child 15 years. The jury of in
quest pronounced him to be of a sound mind ;
and the indignant inhabitants dragged his body,
uncollined, with the bloody knife tied to it, on a
sled to the river, and " buried it, as they would
have buried the carcase of a beast," and as the
masonic oaths speak of burying a mason, mur
dered for his faithlessness to masonry, " between
high and low water mark." He was a man of
good sense, of gentlemanly conduct, and a hospi
table disposition. His wife was very pleasing in
person, mind, and manners. — It appears from his
writings, that he was a deist, and that pride was
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the cause of his crimes. He was unwilling to
submit to the evils of poverty or to receive aid
from others, and unwilling to leave his family
without the means of distinction. Yet was he
worth 300 pounds sterling. He endeavored to
convince himself, that he had a right to kill his
children, because they were his ; as for his wife,
he relied on the authority of a dream for a right
to murder her. His wife, in consequence of his
carrying the implements of death into his bed
chamber, had dreamed, that she and the children
were exposed in cofiins in the street. This solved
his doubts. As to killing himself he had no
qualms. From such horrible crimes what is there
to restrain that class of men, who reject the
scriptures, or who, while professing to believe
them, deny that there will be a future judgment,
and maintain, that death will translate the blood
stained wretch to heaven? — Dwiylifs Travels,
I. 229.
BEAN, JOSEPH, minister of Wrentham, died
Dec. 12, 1784, aged 66. He was born in Boston
March 7, 1718, of pious parents, who devoted him
to God. Having learned a trade, he commenced
business at Cambridge ; but in 1741 the preach
ing of Whitefield and Tennent and of his own
minister, Appleton, was the means of subduing
his love of the world and of rendering him wise
unto salvation. He now made a profession of
religion and commenced a consistent course of
piety and beneficence, in which he continued
through life. He joined a religious society of
young men, who met once a week ; and seized
every opportunity for conversing with others, es
pecially with the young on their spiritual concerns.
In 1742 he deemed it his duty to abandon his
trade and to seek an education, that he might
preach the gospel. The study of the languages
was wearisome ; but he persevered, and was
gi'aduated at Harvard College in 1748, and or
dained the third minister of Wrentham Nov. 24,
1750. Mr. Bean was an eminently pious and
faithful minister, and is worthy of honorable re
membrance. From his diary it appears, that he
usually spent one or two hours, morning and
evening, in reading the Bible and secret devotion ;
also the afternoons of Saturday, when his dis
courses were prepared for the Sabbath ; and the
days of the birth of himself and children, as well
as other days. He was truly humble, and watch
ful against all the excitements of pride. His
conscience was peculiarly susceptible. His heart
wras tender and benevolent. Such was his con
stant intercourse with heaven, that hundreds of
times, when riding in the performance of paro
chial duty, he had dismounted in a retired place
to pour out his heart to God. When he had pre
pared a sermon, he would take it in his hand and
kneel down to implore a blessing on it. Nothing
was permitted to divert him from preaching faith-
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fully the solemn truths of the gospel. He loved
his work and his people, and they loved and
honored him. Such a life will doubtless obtain
the honor, which cometh from God ; and in the
day of judgment many such obscure men, whom
the world knew not, will be exalted far above a
multitude of learned doctors in divinity, and cele
brated orators, and lofty dignitaries, whose names
once resounded through the earth. He published
a century sermon Oct. 26, 1773. — Panoplist, v.
481-188.
BEASLEY, NATHANIEL, general, died in Knox
co., Ohio, in 1835, aged 84. He was an early
settler, intelligent and useful.
BEASLEY, FREDERICK, D. D., died in Eliza-
bethtown, N. J., Nov. 2, 1845, aged 68, formerly
provost of the university of Pennsylvania. lie
wrote on Episcopacy and on moral and meta
physical subjects.
BEATTY, CHARLES, a missionary for many
years at Neshaminy, Penns., was appointed about
1761 an agent to procure contributions to a fund
for the benefit of the Presbyterian clergy, their
widows, and children. He died at Barbadoes,
whither he had gone to obtain benefactions for
the college of New Jersey, Aug. 13, 1772. He
was highly respected for his private virtues and
for his public toils in the cause of learning, charity,
and religion. He was a missionary from the
Presbvterian church to the Indians, from about
1740 to 1765. In one of his tours Mr. Duffield
accompanied him. He published a journal of a
tour of two months to promote religion among
the frontier inhabitants of Pennsylvania, 8vo.
London, 1768. — Jennison ; Brainerd's Life,
149-155.
BEATTY, JOHN, M. D., general, the son of
the preceding, was a native of Bucks county,
Penn., and was graduated at Princeton in 1769.
After studying medicine with Dr. Rush, he en
tered the army as a soldier. Reaching the rank
of Lieut.-Col. he in 1776 fell into the hands of
the enemy at the capture of fort Washington, and
suffered a long and rigorous imprisonment. In
1779 he succeeded Elias Boudinot as commissary
general of prisoners. After the war he settled at
Princeton as a physician, and was also a member
of the State legislature, and in 1793 of congress.
For ten years he was secretary of the state of
New Jersey, succeeding in 1795 Samuel W. Stock
ton. For eleven years he was president of the
bank of Trenton, where he died April 30, 1826,
aged 77. For many years he was a ruling elder
in the church. — Thacher's Med. Biog. 173,174.
BEAUMONT, WILLIAM, doctor, died in St.
Louis April 25, 1853, aged 57. His account of
experiments with St. Martin, the Canadian, were
published in 1833 and 1847.
BECK, GEORGE, a painter, was a native of Eng
land, and appointed professor of mathematics hi
the royal academy at Woolwich in 1776, but
missed the office by his neglect. After coming
to this country in 1795, he was employed in paint
ing by Mr. Hamilton of the Woodlands, near
Philadelphia. His last days were spent in Lex
ington, Ky., where he died Dec. 14, 1812, aged
63. Besides his skill in mathematics and paint
ing, he had a taste for poetry, and wrote original
pieces, besides translating Anacrcon, and much
of Homer, Virgil, and Horace. He published
observations on the comet, 1812. — Jennison.
BECK, JOHN BRODHEAD, M. D., died at
Rhinebeck, April 9, 1851, aged 57. He was em
inent as a physician in New York ; professor of
materia medica and botany in 1826, and then of
medical jurisprudence.
BECK, T. ROMEYN, M. D., died at Albany
Nov., 1855, aged 64. He was born at Schenec-
tady Aug. 11, 1791, the grandson of Rev. Derick
Romeyn, a professor of theology in the Dutch
church ; graduated at Union in 1807, and received
the degree of M. D. from the New York college
of physicians in 1811, delivering a dissertation on
insanity, which was published. He practised
physic in Albany; in 1815 he was professor of
the institutes and lecturer on medical jurispru
dence in the western district. In 1817 he was
appointed principal of the Albany academy ; in
1829 president of the medical society, his ad
dresses in which station were published in the
society's transactions. In 1854 he was president
of the lunatic asylum. For many years he
edited the American journal of insanity. He
published in 1853 his medical jurisprudence, a
work unequalled in that branch.
BECK, LEWIS C., professor, died in Albany
April 21, 1853, aged 53. lie was born and edu
cated at Schencctady. For many years he was
the professor of chemistry and natural science at
Rutgers college, and subsequently professor of
chemistry in the Albany medical college. He
published an account of the salt springs at Salina,
1826; manual of chemistry, 1831.
BEDELL, GREGORY T., D. D., an Episcopal
minister, died at Philadelphia Aug. 30, 1834; a
man of learning. He published Cause of the
Greeks, 1827.
BEDFORD, GUNNING, governor of Delaware,
was a patriot of the Revolution. He was chosen
governor in 1796. He was afterwards appointed
the district judge of the court of the United
States; and died at Wilmington, in March, 1812.
BEECIIER, PHILEMON, general, an early set
tler of Ohio, emigrated from Litchficld, Conn.,
and died at Lancaster, Ohio, Nov. 30, 1839, aged
63. He was a member of congress in 1817-1821
and in 1823-1829; in his politics a federalist.
He was an able lawyer and advocate, respected
for his talents and his exemplary Christian virtues.
BEECIIER, GEORGE, died July 1, 1843, aged
BEEKMAN.
about 3~), a graduate of Yale in 1828. He was a
son of Dr. L. Beecher, and a minister, first at
Batavia, and then three years at Chillicothe. He
went into his garden with a double-barrelled gun
to shoot birds : after one shot he put his mouth
to the barrel, to blow into it, as was supposed,
and the gun went off and killed him.
BEEKMAN, CORNELIA, an admirable woman,
a patriot of the Ilcvolution, died in Christian peace
near Tarrytown March 14, 1847, aged 94 : her
husband, Gerard G. B., died in 1822, aged 7G.
She was the daughter of Pierre Van Cortlandt
and Joanna Livingston. Married at 17, she lived
in Bcekman street, N. Y. ; then, during the war,
at Peekskill ; afterwards at the manor house of
Philipsburgh, or castle Philipse, near Tarrytown,
watered by the Pocanteco or Mill river. Her
brother, Gen. P. Van Cortlandt, and her sister,
Mrs. Van llensselaer, survived her ; also her
daughter, Mrs. De Peyster, and her son, Dr. S. D.
Bcekman.
BEERS, NATHAN, died at New Haven Feb. 10,
1849, aged 96. After serving in the Ilevolutionary
war, he engaged in mercantile business, and was
long the steward of Yale college. He was a
deacon of the north church, distinguished for
courtesy, integrity, and piety.
BELCHER, SAMUEL, first minister of that
parish in Xcwbury, Mass., which is called New-
bury Xewtown, was graduated at Harvard college
in 16.39. After preaching some time at the Isle
of Shoals, he was ordained at Ncwbury Nov. 30,
1698; and died at Ipswich, in 1714, aged 74.
He was a good scholar, a judicious divine, and a
holy and humble man. lie published an election
sermon, 1707. — Coll. Hist. Soc. x. 168 ; Farmer.
BELCHER, JONATHAN, governor of Massachu
setts and New Jersey, was the son of Andrew
Belcher of Cambridge, one of the council of the
province, and a gentleman of large estate, who
died in 1717, and grandson of Andrew B., who
lived in Cambridge in 1646, and who received in
1652 a license for an inn, granting him liberty
" to sell beer and bread for entertainment of
strangers and the good of the town." He was
born in Jan., 1681. As the hopes of the family
rested on him, his father carefully superintended
his education. He was graduated at Harvard
college in 1699. While a member of this insti
tution his open and pleasant conversation, joined
with his manly and generous conduct, conciliated
the esteem of all his acquaintance. Not long
after the termination of his collegiate course he
visited Europe, that he might enrich his mind
by his observations upon the various manners and
characters of men, and might return, furnished
with that useful knowledge, which is gained by
intercourse with the world.
During an absence of six years from his native
country, he was preserved from those follies into
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which inexperienced youth are frequently drawn,
and he even maintained a constant regard to that
holy religion, of which he had early made a pro
fession. He was every where treated with the
greatest respect. The acquaintance, which he
formed with the princess Sophia and her son, af
terwards king George II., laid the foundation of
his future honors. After his return from his
travels, he lived in Boston as a merchant with
great reputation. He was chosen a member of
the council, and the general assembly sent him as
an agent of the province to the British court in
the year 1729. Hutchinson relates, that just be
fore he obtained tlu's appointment, he suddenly
abandoned the party of Gov. Shute and his meas
ures, to which he had been attached, and went
over to the other side. This sudden change of
sides is no rare occurrence among politicians.
After the death of Gov. Burnet, he was ap
pointed by his majesty to the government of Mas
sachusetts and New Hampshire, in 1730. In this
station he continued eleven years. His style of
living was elegant and splendid, and he was dis
tinguished for hospitality. By the depreciation of
the currency his salary was much diminished in
value, but he disdained any unwarrantable means
of enriching himself, though apparently just and
sanctioned by his predecessors in office. He had
been one of the principal merchants of New Eng
land ; but he quitted his business on his accession
to the chair of the first magistrate. Having a
high sense of the digniiy of his commission, he
was determined to support it even at the expense
of his private fortune. Frank and sincere, he
was extremely liberal in his censures, both in con
versation and letters. This imprudence in a pub
lic officer gained him enemies, who were deter
mined on revenge. He also assumed some
authority, which had not been exercised before,
though he did not exceed his commission. These
causes of complaint, together with a controversy
respecting a fixed salary, which had been trans
mitted to him from his predecessors, and his
opposition to the land bank company, finally occa
sioned his removal. His enemies were so inveter
ate, and so regardless of justice and truth, that,
as they were unable to find real grounds for im
peaching his integrity, they forged letters for the
purpose of his ruin. They accused him of being
a friend of the land bank, when he was its deter
mined enemy. The leading men of New Hamp
shire, who wished for a distinct government, were
hostile to him ; and his resistance to a proposed
new emission of paper bills also created him ene
mies. On being superseded, he repaired to court,
where he vindicated his character and conduct,
and exposed the base designs of his enemies. He
was restored to the royal favor, and was prom
ised the first vacant government in America.
This vacancy occurred in the province of New
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Jersey, where he arrived in 1747, and where he
spent the remaining years of his life. In this
province his memory has been held in deserved
respect.
When he first arrived in this province, he found
it in the utmost confusion by tumults and riotous
disorders, which had for some time prevailed.
This circumstance, joined to the unhappy contro
versy between the two branches of the legislature,
rendered the first part of his administration pe
culiarly difficult ; but l;y bis firm and prudent j
measures he surmounted the difficulties of his sit
uation, lie steadily pursued the interest of the
province, endeavoring to distinguish and promote
men of worth without partiality. lie enlarged
the charter of Princeton college, and was its
chief patron and benefactor. Even under the
growing infirmities of age, he applied himself
with his accustomed assiduity and diligence to the
high duties of his office. lie died at Elizabeth-
town, Aug. 31, 1757, aged 70 years; His body
was brought to Cambridge, Mass., where it was
entombed. His eldest son, Andrew, a member of
the council, died at Milton before the Revolution.
In the opinion of Dr. Elliot he did not inherit the
spirit of his father.
Gov. Belcher possessed uncommon gracefulness
of person and dignity of deportment. He obeyed
the royal instructions on the one hand and exhib
ited a real regard to the liberties and happiness
of the people on the other. He was distin
guished by his unshaken, integrity, by his zeal for
justice, and care to have it equally distributed.
Neither the claims of interest nor the solicitations
of friends could move him from what appeared to
be lu's duty. He seems to have possessed, in ad
dition to his other accomplishments, that piety,
whose lustre is eternal. His religion was not a
mere formal thing, which he received from tra
dition, or professed in conformity to the custom
of the country, in which he lived; but it im
pressed his heart, and governed his life. He had
such views of the majesty and holiness of God,
of the strictness and purity of the divine law, and
of his own unworthiness and iniquity, as made
him disclaim all dependence on his own right
eousness, and led him to place his whole hope for
salvation on the merits of the Lord Jesus Christ,
who appeared to liim an all-sufficient and glori
ous Saviour. He expressed the humblest sense
of his own character and the most exalted views
of the rich, free, and glorious grace offered in the
gospel to sinners. His faith worked by love, and
produced the genuine fruits of obedience. It ex
hibited itself in a life of piety and devotion, of
meekness and humility, of justice, '.ruth, and be
nevolence. He searched the holy scriptures with
the greatest diligence and delight. In his family
he maintained the worship of God, liimself read
ing the volume of truth, and addressing in prayer
the Majesty of heaven and of earth, as long as
his health and strength would possibly admit.
In the hours of retirement he held intercourse
with heaven, carefully redeeming time from the
business of this world to attend to the more im
portant concerns of another. Though there was
nothing ostentatious in his religion, yet he was
not ashamed to avow his attachment to the gospel
of Christ, even when he exposed himself to
ridicule and censure. When Mr. Whitfield was
at Boston in the year 1740, he treated that elo
quent itinerant with the greatest respect. He
even followed him as far as Worcester, and re
quested him to continue his faithful instructions
and pungent addresses to the conscience, desiring
him to spare neither ministers nor rulers. He
was indeed deeply interested in the progress of
holiness and religion. As he approached the
termination of his life, he often expressed his
desire to depart and to enter the world of glory.
— Burr's Funeral Sermon; Hutchinson, II. 367-
397; Holmes, II. 78; Smith's N. J., 437-438;
Belknap's N. H.; Whitfield's Jour, for 1743;
Marshall, I. 299; Minot, I. 61; Elliot.
BELCIIER, JONATHAN, chief justice of Xova
Scotia, was the second son of the preceding, and
was graduated at Harvard college in 1728. He
studied law at the temple in London and gained
some distinction at the bar in England. At the
settlement of Chebucto, afterwards called Hali
fax, in honor of one of the king's ministers, he
proceeded to that place, and being in 1760 senior
councillor, on the death of Gov. Lawrence he
was appointed lieutenant-governor, in which office
he was succeeded by Col. Wilmot in 1763. In
1761 he received his appointment of chief justice ;
in the same year, as commander in chief, he made
a treaty with the Mirhnichi, Jcdiuk, and I'ogi-
nouch, Mickmack tribes of Indians. He died at
Halifax March, 1776, aged 60. He was a man
of prudence and integrity, and a friend of New
England. In 17^6 he married at Boston the sis
ter of Jcrem. Allen, sheriff of Suffolk ; on her
death in 1771 Mr. Secomb published a discourse,
and her kinsman, Dr. Byles, a monody. Andrew
Belcher, his son, was a distinguished citizen of
Halifax and a member of the council in 1801.
A daughter married Dr. Timothy L. Jennison of
Cambridge, Mass. — Mass. Hist. Coll. V. 102 ;
Jennison ; Eliot.
BELDEX, JOSHUA, physician of Weathersfield,
was the son of Rev. Joshua Belden of that town,
who reached the age of 90 years. After graduating
at Yale college in 1787, he studied physic with
Dr. L. Hopkins. Besides his useful toils as a
physician, he was employed in various offices of
public trust. He was a zealous supporter of all
charitable and religious institutions. At the acre
BELKXAP.
of 50 lie fell a victim suddenly to the spotted
fever, June 6,1818. — Thacher's Medical Bioy-
raphy,
BELKXAP, JEREMY, 1). D., minister in Bos
ton, and eminent as a writer, died June 20, 1798,
aired 54. He was born June 4, 1744, and was a
descendant of Joseph Belknap, who lived in Bos
ton in 10,38. He received the rudiments of learn
ing in the grammar school of the celebrated Mr.
Lovel, and was graduated at Harvard college in
1762. He exhibited, at this early period, such
marks of genius and taste, and such talents in
•writing and conversation, as to excite the most
pleasing hopes of his future usefulness and dis
tinction. Having upon his mind deep impressions
of the truths of religion, he now applied himself
to the study of theology, and he was ordained
pastor of the church in Dover, N. H., Feb. 18.
1707. Here he passed near twenty years of his
life, with the esteem and affection of his flock, and
respected by the first characters of the state. He
was persuaded by them to compile his history of
New Hampshire, which gained liim a high repu
tation. In 1786 he Avas dismissed from his peo
ple. The Presbyterian church in Boston becom
ing vacant by the removal of Mr. Annan, and
having changed its establishment from the Pres-
bvterian to the Congregational form, soon invited
him to become its pastor. He was accordingly
installed April 4, 1787. Here he passed the re
mainder of his days, discharging the duties of
his pastoral office, exploring various fields of liter
ature, and giving his efficient support to every
useful and benevolent institution. After being
subject to frequent returns of ill health he was
suddenly seized by a fatal paralytic affection.
Dr. Belknap in his preaching did not possess
the graces of elocution, nor did he aim at splen
did diction ; but presented his thoughts in plain
and perspicuous language, that all might under
stand him. While he lived in Boston, he avoided
controversial subjects, dwelling chiefly upon the
practical views of the gospel. His sermons were
filled with a rich variety of observations on human
life and manners, lie was peculiarly careful in
giving religious instruction to young children, that
their feet might be early guided in the way of
Hie. In the afternoon preceding his death, he
was engaged in catechizing the youth of his soci
ety. In the various relations of life his conduct
was exemplary. He was a member of many lit
erary and humane societies, whose interests he
essentially promoted. Wherever he could be of
any service, he freely devoted his time and talents.
He was one of the founders of the Massachusetts
historical society. He had been taught the value
of an association, whose duty it should be to col
lect and preserve manuscripts and bring together
the materials for illustrating the history of our
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country; and he had the happiness of seeing
such an institution incorporated in 1794.
Dr. Belknap gained a high reputation as a wri
ter ; but he is more remarkable for the patience
and accuracy of his historical researches, than for
elegance of style. His deficiency in natural sci
ence, as manifested in his history of New Hamp
shire, is rendered more prominent by the rapid
progress of natural history since his death. His
Foresters is not only a description of American
manners, but a work of humor and wit, which
went into a second edition. Before the llevolu-
tion he wrote much in lavor of freedom and his
country, and he afterwards gave to the public
many fruits of his labors and researches. His
last and most interesting work, his American Biog
raphy, he did not live to complete. He was a
decided advocate of our republican forms of gov
ernment, and ever was a warm friend of the con
stitution of the United States, which he consid
ered the bulwark of our national security and
happiness. He was earnest in his wishes and
prayers for the government of his country, and in
critical periods took an open and unequivocal,
and, as far as professional and private duties al
lowed, an active part.
The following extract from some lines, found
among his papers, expresses his choice with regard
to the manner of his death ; and the event corre
sponded with his wishes.
When faith and patience, hope and love
Have made us meet for heaveu above,
How blest the privilege to rise,
Snatched in a moment to the skies !
Unconscious, to resign our breath.
Nor taste the bitterness of death.
Dr. Belknap published a sermon on military
duty, 1772 ; a serious address to a parishioner
upon the neglect of public worship ; a sermon on
Jesus Christ, the only foundation ; election ser
mon, 1784; history of New Hampshire, the first
volume in 1784, the second in 1791, and the third
in 1792 ; a sermon at the ordination of Jedediah
Morse, 1789; a discourse in 1792, on the com
pletion of the third century from Columbus' dis
covery of America ; dissertations upon the char
acter and resurrection of Christ, 12mo. ; collec
tion of psalms and hymns, 1795; convention
sermon, 1796 ; a sermon on the national fast,
May 9, 1793 ; American biography, first volume
in 1794, the second in 1798; the foresters, an
American tale, being a sequel to the history of
John Bull, the clothier, 12mo. He published
also several essays upon the African trade, upon
civil and religious liberty, upon the state and set
tlement of this country, in periodical papers ; in
the Columbian magazine printed in Philadelphia ;
in the Boston magazine, 1784; in the historical
collections; and in newspapers. Two of his
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sermons on the institution and observation of the
Sabbath were published in 1801. — Mass. Hist.
Coll. VI. X.-XVlll. ; Columbian Cent., June 25,
1798; Polyantlws,l. 1-13.
BELKNAP, EZEKIEL, died in Atkinson, N. II.,
Jan. 5, 1836, aged 100 years and 40 days; an
officer in the Revolutionary army. He was the
son of Moses, who died in 1813, aged 99, and
grandson of Hannah B., who died aged 107.
BELL, JOHN, a distinguished citizen of New
Hampshire, of great judgment, decision, and in
tegrity, died at Londonderry, Nov. 30, 1825, aged
95 years. His father, John, was an early settler
of that town. During the llevolutionary war he
was a leading member of the senate. From an
early age he was a professor of religion. Two of
his sons, Samuel and John, were governors of
New Hampshire ; the former was a senator of
the United States. His grandson, John Bell, son
of Samuel, a physician of great promise, died at
Grand Caillon, La., Nov. 27, 1830 aged 30.
BELL, SAMUEL, governor, died in Chester,
N. II., Dec. 23, 1850, aged 81 ; a graduate of Dart
mouth, a judge of the superior court from 1816
to 1819, governor from 1819 to 1823, and a sen
ator in congress from 1823 to 1835.
BELL, JOHN, governor of N. II. in 1828, died
at Chester, March 22, 1836.
BELLAMONT, RICHARD, earl of, governor
of New York, Massachusetts, and New Hamp
shire, was appointed to these offices early in May,
1095, but did not arrive at New York until May,
1698. He had to struggle with many difficulties,
for the people were divided, the treasury was un-
supplicd, and the fortifications were out of repair.
Notwithstanding the care of government, the
pirates, who in time of peace made great depre
dations upon Spanish ships and settlements in
America, were frequently in the sound, and were
supplied with provisions by the inhabitants of
Long Island. The belief, that large quantities of
money were hid by these pirates along the coast,
led to many a fruitless search ; and thus the nat
ural credulity of the human mind and the desire
of sudden wealth were suitably punished. The
Earl of Bellamont remained in the province of
New York about a year. He arrived at Boston
May 26, 1699, and in Massachusetts he was re
ceived with the greatest respect, as it was a new
thing to sec a nobleman at the head of the gov
ernment. Twenty companies of soldiers and a
vast concourse of people met " his lordship and
countess " on his arrival. " There were all man
ner of expressions of joy, and, to end all, firework
and good drink at night." He in return took ev
ery method to ingratiate himself with the people.
He was condescending, affable, and courteous
upon all occasions. Though a churchman, he at
tended the weekly lecUre in Boston with the gen
eral court, who always adjourned for the purpose.
For the preachers he professed the greatest
regard. By his wise conduct he obtained a lar
ger sum as a salary and as a gratuity, than any of
his predecessors or successors. Though he re
mained but fourteen months, the grants made to
him were one thousand eight hundred and sev
enty-five pounds sterling. His time was much
taken up in securing the pirates and their effects,
to accomplish which was a principal reason of his
appointment. During his administration Capt.
Kidd was seized, and sent to England for trial.
Soon after the session of the general court in
May, 1700, he returned to New York, where he
died March 5, 1701. He had made himself very
popular in his governments. He was a nobleman
of polite manners, a friend to the revolution,
which excited so much joy in New England, and
a favorite of king William. Hutchinson, who
was himself not unskilled in the arts of popu
larity, seems to consider his regard to religion as
pretended, and represents him as preferring for
his associates in private the less precise part of
the country. As the earl was once going from
the lecture to his house with a great crowd around
him, he passed by one Bullivant, an apothecary,
and a man of the liberal cast, who was standing
at his shop-door loitering. " Doctor," said the
earl with an audible voice, " you have lost a pre
cious sermon to-day." Bullivant whispered to one
of his companions, who stood by him, " if I could
have got as much by being there, as his lordship
will, I would have been there too." However,
there seems to be no reason to distrust the sin
cerity of Bellamont. The dissipation of his early
years caused afterwards a deep regret. It is said,
that while residing at fort George, N. Y., he
once a week retired privately to the chapel to
meditate humbly upon his juvenile folly. Such
a man might deem a sermon on the method of
salvation " precious," without meriting from the
scoffer the charge of hypocrisy. — Hutchinson, II.
87, 108, 112-16, 121. '
BELLAMY, JOSEPH, D. D., an eminent min
ister, died March 6, 1790, aged 71, in the fiftieth
year of his ministry. lie was born at New Che
shire in 1719, and was graduated at Yale college
in 1735. It was not long after his removal from
New Haven, that he became the subject of those
serious impressions, which, it is believed, issued
in renovation of heart. From this period he
consecrated his talents to the evangelical ministry.
At the age of eighteen he began to preach with
acceptance and success. An uncommon blessing
attended his ministry at Bethlem in the town of
Woodbury ; a large proportion of the society ap
peared to be awakened to a sense of religion, and
they were unwilling to part with the man, by
whose ministry they had been conducted to a
knowledge of the truth. He was ordained to the
pastoral office over this church in 1740. In this
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retirement he devoted himself with uncommon
ardor to his studies and the duties of his office
till the memorable revival, which was most con
spicuous in 1742. His spirit of piety was then
blown into a flame ; he could not be contented to
confine his labors to his small society. Taking
care that his own pulpit should be vacant as little
as possible, he devoted a considerable part of his
time for several years to itinerating in different
parts of Connecticut and the neighboring colonies,
preaching the gospel daily to multitudes, who
flocked to hear him. He was instrumental in the
conversion of many. When the awakening de
clined, he returned to a more constant attention
to his own charge. He now began the task of
writing an excellent treatise, entitled true religion
delineated, which was published in 1750. His
abilities, his ardent piety, his theological knowl
edge, his acquaintance with persons under all
kinds of religious impressions qualified him pecu
liarly for a work of this kind. From this time
he became more conspicuous, and young men,
who were preparing for the gospel ministry, ap
plied to him as a teacher. In tliis branch of his
work he was eminently useful till the decline of
life, when he relinquished it. His method of in
struction was the following. After ascertaining the
abilities and genius of those, who applied to him,
he gave them a number of questions on the lead
ing and most essential subjects of religion, in the
form of a system. He then directed them to
such books as treat these subjects with the great
est perspicuity and force of argument, and usually
spent his evenings in inquiring into their improve
ments and solving difficulties, till they had ob
tained a good degree of understanding in the
general system. After this, he directed them to
write on each of the questions before given
them, reviewing those parts of the authors which
treated on the subject proposed. These disserta
tions were submitted to his examination. As they
advanced in ability to make proper distinctions, he
led them to read the most learned and acute op-
posers of the truth, the deistical, arian, and socin-
ian writers, and laid open the fallacy of their
most specious reasonings. When the system
was completed, he directed them to write on sev
eral of the most important points systematicallv,
in the form of sermons. He next led them to
peruse the best experimental and practical dis
courses, and to compose sermons on Hive subjects.
He revised and corrected their compositions, in
culcating the necessity of a heart truly devoted
to Christ, and a life of watching and prayer ; dis
coursing occasionally on the various duties, trials,
comforts, and motives of the evangelical work ;
that his pupils might be, as far as possible,
" scribes well instructed in the kingdom of God."
In 1786 Dr. Bellamy was seized by a paralytic
affection, from which he never recovered. His
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first wife, Frances Sherman of New Haven, whom
he married about 1744, died in 1785, the mother
of seven children. Of these Jonathan Bellamy,
a lawyer, took an active part in the war, and died
of the small pox in 1777 ; and Rebecca married
Rev. Mr. Hart. His eldest son, David, died at
Bethlem May, 1826, aged 75. His second wife
was the relict of Rev. Andrew Storrs of Water-
town.
Dr. Bellamy " was a large and well-built man,
of a commanding appearance." As a preacher,
he had perhaps no superior, and very few equals.
His voice was manly, his manner engaging and
most impressive. He had a peculiar faculty of
arresting the attention ; he was master of his
subject and could adapt himself to the meanest
capacity. When the law was his theme, he was
awful and terrifying; on the contrary, in the
most melting strains would he describe the suffer
ings of Christ and his love to sinners, and with
most persuasive eloquence invite them to be rec
onciled to God.
He was a man of wit and humor. He and
Mr. Sanford married sisters. B. said to S. in
reference to their different manner of preaching,
— " When I go a fishing, I have a suitable pole,
and black line, and, creeping along, keeping my
self out of sight, throw my hook gently into the
water ; but you, with a white-peeled pole, and
white line, march up boldly to the bank, and
splash in your hook and line, crying out, ' Bite,
you dogs ! ' "
In his declining years he did not retain his pop
ularity as a preacher. As a pastor he was dili
gent and faithful. He taught not only publicly
but from house to house. He was particularly
attentive to the rising generation. Besides the
stated labors of the Lord's day, he frequently
spent an hour in the intervals of public worship
in catechising the children of the congregation.
In a variety of respects Dr. Bellamy shone with
distinguished lustre. Extensive science and ease
of communicating his ideas rendered him one of
the best of instructors. His writings procured
him the esteem of the pious and learned at home
and abroad, with many of whom he maintained an
epistolary correspondence. In his preaching, a
mind rich in thought, a great command of lan
guage, and a powerful voice rendered his extem
porary discourses peculiarly acceptable. He was
one of the most able divines of this country. In
his sentiments he accorded mainly with President
Edwards, with whom he was intimately acquainted.
From comparing the first chapter of John with
the first of Genesis he was led to believe, and he
maintained, that the God, mentioned in the latter
as the Creator, was Jesus Christ.
He published a sermon entitled, early piety
recommended; true religion delineated, 1750;
sermons on the Divinity of Christ, the millennium,
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and the wisdom of God in the permission of sin,
1758 ; letters and dialogues on the nature of love
to God, faith in Christ, and assurance, 1759 ; essay
on the glory of the gospel ; a vindication of his
sermon on the wisdom of God in the permission
of sin ; the law a schoolmaster ; the great evil of
sin ; election sermon, 1762. Besides these, he
published several small pieces on creeds and con
fessions ; on the covenant of grace ; on church
covenanting; and in answer to objections made
against his writings. The following are the titles
of some of these : the half-way covenant, 1768 ;
the inconsistency of renouncing the half-way
covenant and retaining the halt-way practice ; that
there is but one covenant, against Moses Mather.
His works, in 2 vols., with memoir by Dr. T.
Edwards, were published by Doct. Tract. Soc.,
Boston, 1830. — Brainerd's Life, 22, 41, 43, 55;
Trumbull, II. 159; Theol. Mag., I. 5.
BELLAMY, SAMUEL, a noted pirate, in his
ship, the "VVhidah, of twenty-three guns and one
hundred and thirty men, captured several vessels
on the coast of New England; but in April, 1717,
he was wrecked on Cape Cod. The inhabitants
of Wellfleet still point out the place of the
disaster. More than one hundred bodies were
found on the shore. Only one Englishman and
one Indian escaped. A few days before, the
master of a captured vessel, while seven pirates on
board were drunk, ran her on shore on the back
of the cape. Six of the pirates were executed at
Boston in November.
BELLINGIIAM, RICHARD, governor of Massa
chusetts, was a native of England, where he was
bred a lawyer. He came to this country in 1634,
and August 3d was received into the church, with
his wife Elizabeth, and in the following year was
chosen deputy governor. In 1641 he was elected
governor, in opposition to Mr. Winthrop, by a
majority of six votes; but the election did not
seem to be agreeable to the general court. He
was re-chosen to this office in 1654, and after the
death of Gov. Endicot was again elected in May,
1665. He continued chief magistrate of Massa
chusetts during the remainder of his life. He
was deputy governor thirteen years, and governor
ten. In 1664 he was chosen major-general. In
this year the king scut four commissioners, Nich
ols, Cartwright, Carr, and Maverick, to regulate
the affairs of the colonies. A long account of
their transactions is given by Hutchinson. Bell-
ingham and others, obnoxious to the king, were
required to go to England to answer for them
selves ; but the general court, by the advice of
the ministers, refused compliance and maintained
the charter rights. But they appeased his majesty
by sending lu'm "a ship load of masts." He
died Dec. 7, 1672, aged 80 years, leaving several
children. Of his singular second marriage in
1641 the following is a brief history: A young
gentlewoman was about to be contracted to a
friend of his, with his consent, "when on the
sudden the governor treated with her and
obtained her for himself." He failed to publish
the contract where he dwelt, and he performed
the marriage ceremony himself. The great in
quest presented him for breach of the order of
court; but at the appointed time of trial, not
choosing to go off from the bench and answer as
an offender, and but few magistrates being present,
he escaped any censure.
His excuse for this marriage was " the strength
of his affection." In his last will he gave certain
farms, after his wife's decease, and his whole
estate at Winisimet, after the decease of his son
and his son's daughter, for the annual encourage
ment of " godly ministers and preachers," at
tached to the principles of the first church, " a
main o'ne whereof is, that all ecclesiastical juris
diction is committed by Christ to each particular
organical church, from which there is no appeal."
The general court, thinking the rights of his
family were impaired, set aside the will. His
sister, Anne Hibbins, widow of William Hibbins,
an assistant, was executed as a witch in June,
1656. Hubbard speaks of Bellingham as " a very
ancient gentleman, having spun a long thread of
above eighty years;" "he was a great justiciary, a
notable hater of bribes, firm and fixed in any
resolution he entertained, of larger comprehension
than expression, like a vessel, whose vent holdeth
no good proportion with its capacity to contain, a
disadvantage to a public person." He did not
harmonize with the other assistants ; yet they
respected his character and motives.
Gov. Bellingham lived to be the only surviving
patentee named in the charter. He was severe
against those who were called sectaries ; but he
was a man of incorruptible integrity, and of ac
knowledged piety. In the ecclesiastical contro
versy, which was occasioned in Boston by the
settlement of Mr. Davenport, he was an advocate
of the first church. — Hutchinson, I. 41, 43, 97,
211, 269 ; Neal's Hist., I. 390 ; Mather's Mag., n.
18; Holmes, I. 414; Savaye's Winthrop, n. 43.
BENEDICT, NOAII, minister of Woodbury,
Conn., was graduated at Princeton college in
1757, and was ordained as the successor of
Anthony Stoddard, Oct. 22, 1760. He died in
Sept., 1813, aged 75. He published a sermon on
the death of Dr. Bellamy, 1790, and memoirs of
B., 1811.
BENEDICT, JOEL, D. I)., minister of Plain-
field, Conn., was graduated at Princeton college
in 1765, settled at Plainfield in 1782, and died in
1816, aged 71. He was a distinguished Hebrew
scholar; and for his excellent character he was
held in high respect. One of his daughters
BENEZET.
married Dr. Nott, president of Union college.
He published a sermon on the death of Dr. Hart,
1809.
BENEZET, ANTHONT, a philanthropist of
Philadelphia, died May 3, 1784, aged 71. He
was born at St. Quintals, a town in the province
of Picardy, France, Jan. 31, 1713. About the
time of lu's birth the persecution against the
Protestants was carried on with relentless se
verity, in consequence of which many thousands
found it necessary to leave their native country,
and seek a shelter in a foreign land. Among
these were his parents, who removed to London
in Feb., 1715, and, after remaining there upwards of
sixteen years, came to Philadelphia in Nov., 1731.
During their residence in Great Britain they had
imbibed the religious opinions of the Quakers,
and were received into that body immediately
after their arrival in this country.
In the early part of his life Benezet was put an
apprentice to a merchant ; but soon after his mar
riage in 1722, when his affairs were in a prosperous
situation, he left the mercantile business, that he
might engage in some pursuit, which would afford
him more leisure for the duties of religion and for
the exercise of that benevolent spirit, for which
during the course of a long life he was so con
spicuous. But no employment, which accorded
perfectly with his inclination, presented itself till
the year 1742, when he accepted the appointment
of instructor in the Friends' English school of
Philadelphia. The duties of the honorable, though
not very lucrative, office of a teacher of youth he
from this period continued to fulfil with unremit
ting assiduity and delight and with very little
intermission till his death. During the two last
years of his life his zeal to do good induced him
to resign the school, which he had long super
intended, and to engage in the instruction of the
blacks. In doing this he did not consult his
worldly interest, but was influenced by a regard
to the welfare of men, whose minds had been
debased by servitude. He wished to contribute
something towards rendering them fit for the
enjoyment of that freedom, to which many of
them had been restored. So great was his
sympathy with every being capable of feeling
pain, that he resolved towards the close of his life
to eat no animal food. His active mind did not
yield to the debility of his body. He persevered
in his attendance upon his school till within a few
days of his decease.
Such was the general esteem in which he was
held, that his funeral was attended by persons of
all religious denominations. Many hundred ne
groes followed their friend and benefactor to the
grave, and by their tears they proved that they
possessed the sensibilities of men. An officer,
who had served in the army during the war with
Britain, observed at this time, " I would rather
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be Anthony Benezet in that coffin, than George
Washington with all his fame." He exhibited
uncommon activity and industry in every thing
which he undertook. He used to say, that the
highest act of charity was to bear with the un
reasonableness of mankind. He generally wore
plush clothes, and gave as a reason for it, that,
after he had worn them for two or three years,
they made comfortable and decent garments for
the poor. So disposed was he to malic himself
contented in every situation, that when his mem
ory began to fail him, instead of lamenting the
decay of his powers, he said to a young friend,
"This gives me one great advantage over you, for
you can find entertainment in reading a good
book only once ; but I enjoy that pleasure as often
as I read it, for it is always new to me." Few
men, since the days of the apostles, ever lived a
more disinterested life ; yet upon his death-bed
he expressed a desire to live a little longer, " that
he might bring down self." The last time he ever
walked across his room was to take from his desk
six dollars, which he gave to a poor widow, whom
he had long assisted to maintain. In his conver
sation he was affable and unreserved ; in his
manners gentle and conciliating. For the acqui
sition of wealth he wanted neither abilities nor
opportunity; but he made himself contented with
a little ; and with a competency he was liberal be
yond most of those, whom a bountiful Providence
had encumbered with riches. By his will he de
vised lu's estate, after the decease of his wife, to
certain trustees for the use of the African school.
While the British army was in possession of Phila
delphia, he was indefatigable in his endeavors to
render the situation of the persons who suffered
from captivity, as easy as possible. He knew no
fear in the presence of a fellow man, however
dignified by titles or station ; and such was the
propriety and gentleness of his manners in his
intercourse with the gentlemen, who commanded
the British and German troops, that, when he
could not obtain the object of his requests, he
•never failed to secure their civilities and esteem.
Although the life of Mr. Benezet was passed in
the instruction of youth, yet his expansive benevo
lence extended itself to a wider sphere of useful
ness. Giving but a small portion of his time to
sleep, he employed his pen both day and night in
writing books on religious subjects, composed
chiefly with a view to inculcate the peaceable
temper and doctrines of the gospel, in opposition
to the spirit of war, and to expose the flagrant
injustice of slavery, and fix the stamp of infamy
on the traffic in human blood. His writings con
tributed much towards meliorating the condition
of slaves, and undoubtedly had influence on the
public mind in effecting the complete prohibition
of that trade, which until the year 1808 was a
blot on the American national character. In order
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to disseminate his publications and increase his
usefulness, he held a correspondence with such
persons in various parts of Europe and America,
as united with him in the same benevolent design,
or would be likely to promote the objects, which
he was pursuing. No ambitious or covetous views
impelled liim to his exertions. Regarding all
mankind as children of one common Father and
members of one great family, he was anxious, that
oppression and tyranny should cease, and that
men should live together in mutual kindness and
affection, lie himself respected and he wished
others to respect the sacred injunction of doing
unto others as they would that others should do
unto them. On the return of peace in 1783, ap
prehending that the revival of commerce would be
likely to renew the African slave trade, which
during the war had been in some measure ob
structed, he addressed a letter to the queen of
Great Britain, to solicit her influence on the side
of humanity. At the close of this letter he says,
" I hope thou wilt kindly excuse the freedom used
on this occasion by an ancient man, whose mind
for more than forty years past has been much
separated from the common course of the world,
long painfully exercised in the consideration of
the miseries under which so large a part of man
kind, equally with us the objects of redeeming
love, are suffering the most unjust and grievous
oppression, and who sincerely desires the tem
poral and eternal felicity of the queen and her
royal consort." lie published, among other tracts,
an account of that part of Africa inhabited by
negroes, 1762 ; a caution to Great Britain and
her colonies, in a short representation of the ca
lamitous state of the enslaved negroes in the
British dominions, 1707 ; some historical account
of Guinea, with an inquiry into the slave trade,
1771; a short account of the society of Friends,
1780; a dissertation on the Christian religion,
1782; tracts against the use of ardent spirits;
observations on the Indian natives, 1784. — Rusk's
Essays, 311-314; Vaux's Memoir; New and
Gen. Biog. Diet. ; Am. Museum, ix. 192-194.
BENJAMIN, NATHAN, missionary, died at Con
stantinople Jan. 27, 1855, aged 43 ; one month
after the death of Mrs. Grant. Born in Catskill,
he lived in Williamstown, where he graduated in
1831, and at Andover in 1834. He married Mary
G. Wheeler of New York, and proceeded to
Argos in 1836, and to Athens in 1838, where he
labored six years, chiefly in connection with the
press. In 1844 he entered upon the Armenian
mission at Trebizond ; but the ill health of his
wife brought him to America in 1845.
Being summoned to a new mission, he arrived
at Smyrna Dec. 7, 1847 ; and there he toiled in
the printing of the Bible and tracts in the Arme
nian. The printing operations were transferred
to Constantinople in 1852 ; and there he also
preached statedly in Greek and English. Living
at Pera, and being the treasurer of the mission,
a great amount of business fell upon him. He
died of the typhus fever ; his last words were,
"Come, Lord Jesus; come quickly." — Mr. B.
had a large share of common sense, a sound
judgment, a knowledge of books and of men.
By printed truth he will preach for ages to thou
sands of Armenians.
BENNET, DAVID, a physician, was born in
England Dec. 1, 1615, and died at Rowley, Mass.,
Feb. 4, 1719, aged 103 years. He never lost a
tooth. His senses were good to the last. His
wife was the sister of William Phipps. His son,
Spencer, who took the name of Phipps, was
graduated in 1703, was lieut. governor of Mass.,
and died April 4, 1757, aged 72. — Farmer.
BENNETT, BARTLETT, a Baptist minister, died
at Cincinnati Oct. 12, 1842, aged 99. He was
born in Albemarle county, Va., in 1743 ; was a
preacher at the age of 25, a pioneer of Kentucky.
BENSON, EGBERT, LL. I)., judge, died at
Jamaica, N. Y., in Aug., 1833, aged 86 ; a man
of learning and eminent virtues. He was a grad
uate of Columbia college in 1765, a member of
congress, a judge of the supreme court of New
York, and of the circuit court of the United States.
He wrote remarks on " The Wife " of Irving.
BENTLEY, WILLIAM, D. D., born in Bos
ton, graduated at Harvard in 1777, and was
ordained over the second church of Salem Sept.,
1783. He died suddenly Dec. 29, 1819, aged
61. In his theological notions he was regarded
as a Socinian. Some of his sermons were re
markably deficient in perspicuity of style. For
nearly twenty years he edited the Essex Register,
a newspaper, which espoused the democratic side
in politics. He was a great collector of books,
and much conversant with ancient branches of
learning, admitting of little practical application.
His valuable library and cabinet he bequeathed
cliiefly to the college at Meadville, Pennsylvania,
and to the American Antiquarian society at Wor
cester. An eulogy was pronounced by Prof. E.
Everett. — He published a sermon on Matt. 7:
21, 1790; on the death of J. Gardiner, 1791 ; of
Gen. Fiske, 1797 ; of B. Hodges, 1804 ; collec
tion of psalms and hymns, 1795 ; three masonic
addresses and a masonic charge, 1797-1799; at
the artillery election, 1796 ; at ordination of J.
Richardson, 1806 ; before the female charitable
society ; at the election, 1807 ; a history of Salem
in Historical Collections, vol. vn.
BENTLEY, WILLIAM, an eminent Baptist
minister, died at Weathersfield in Jan., 1856, aged
81.
BERKELEY, CARTER, M. D., died in Hano
ver, Va., Nov. 3, 1739, aged 71, — while feeling
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the pulse of a dying patient. He was a descend
ant of Sir William B. ; a distinguished physician,
a benevolent man and a Christian.
BERKELEY, AVlLLlAM, governor of Virginia,
was born of an ancient family near London and
was educated at Merton college, in Oxford, of
which he was afterwards a fellow. He was ad
mitted master of arts in 1629. In 1630 he
travelled in different parts of Europe. He is
described as being in early life the perfect model
of an elegant courtier and a high-minded cavalier.
He succeeded Sir Francis Wyatt in the govern
ment of Virginia in 1641. Some years after his
arrival the Indians, irritated by encroachments
on their territory, massacred about five hundred
of the colonists. This massacre occurred about
April 18, 1644, soon after, as Winthrop says, an
act of persecution. Sir William with a company
of horse surprised the aged Oppecancanough, and
brought him prisoner to Jamestown. The Indian
emperor was a man of dignified sentiments. One
day, when there was a large crowd in his room
gazing at him, he called for the governor, and
said to him, " If it had been my fortune to have
taken Sir William Berkeley prisoner, I should
have disdained to have made a show of him to
my people." About a fortnight after he was taken,
a brutal soldier shot him through the back, of
which wound the old man soon died. A firm
peace was soon afterwards made with the Indians.
During the civil Avar in England Gov. Berkeley
took the side of the king, and Virginia was the
last of the possessions of England, which ac
knowledged the authority of Cromwell. Severe
laws were made against the Puritans, though there
were none in the colony; commerce was inter
rupted; and the people were unable to supply
themselves even with tools for agriculture. It
was not till 1651, that Virginia was subdued.
The parliament had sent a fleet to reduce Barba-
does, and from this place a small squadron was
detached under the command of Capt. Denm's.
The Virginians, by the help of some Dutch vessels
which were then in the port, made such resistance,
that he was obliged to have recourse to other
means besides force. He sent word to two of the
members of the council, that he had on board a
valuable cargo belonging to them, which they must
lose, if the protector's authority was not imme
diately acknowledged. Such dissensions now
took place in the colony, that Sir William and his
friends were obliged to submit on the terms of a
general pardon. He however remained in the
country, passing his time in retirement at his own
plantation, and observing with satisfaction, that the
parliament made a moderate use of its success,
and that none of the Virginia royalists were per
secuted for their resistance.
After the death of Gov. Matthews, who was
appointed by Cromwell, the people applied to Sir
William to resume the government ; but he de
clined complying with their request, unless they
would submit themselves again to the authority
of the king. Upon their consenting to do this,
he resumed his former authority in January, 1659 ;
i and King Charles II. was proclaimed in Virginia
before his restoration to the throne of England.
I The death of Cromwell, in the mean time,
dissipated from the minds of the colonists the fear
of the consequences of their boldness. After the
restoration Gov. Berkeley received a new com
mission and was permitted to go to England to
pay his respects to his majesty. During his
absence the deputy governor, whom he had ap
pointed, in obedience to his orders collected the
laws into one body. The church of England was
made the established religion, parishes were regu
lated, and, besides a parsonage house and glebe, a
, yearly stipend in tobacco, to the value of eighty
I pounds, was settled on the minister. In 1662
! Gov. Berkeley returned to Virginia, and in the
following year the laws were enforced against the
dissenters from the establishment, by which a
number of them were driven from the colony.
In 1667, in consequence of his attempt to extend
the influence of the council over certain measures
of the assembly, he awakened the fears and in
dignation of the latter body. From this period
the governor's popularity declined. A change
also was observed in his deportment, which lost
its accustomed urbanity. His faithlessness and
obstinacy may be regarded as the causes of
Bacon's rebellion in 1076. The people earnestly
desired, that Bacon might be appointed general in
the Indian war ; and the governor promised to
give him a commission, but broke his promise,
and thus occasioned the rebellion. As his obsti
nacy caused the rebellion, so his revengeful spirit,
after it was suppressed, aggravated the evils of it
by the severity of the punishments inflicted on
Bacon's adherents. Though he had promised
pardon and indemnity, " nothing was heard of
but fines, executions, and confiscations." When
the juries refused to aid his projects of vengeance,
he resorted to the summary proceedings of
martial law. The assembly at length restrained
him by their remonstrances. Charles II. is said
to have remarked concerning him, "The old fool
has taken away more lives in that naked country,
than I have taken for the murder of my father."
After the rebellion, peace was preserved not so
much by the removal of the grievances, which
i awakened discontent, as by the arrival of a regi
ment from England, which remained a long time
in the country.
In 1677 Sir William was induced, on account
of his ill state of health, to return to England,
leaving Col. Jeffreys deputy governor. He died
soon after his arrival, and before he had seen the
lung, after an administration of nearly forty
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years. He was buried at Twickenham July 13,
1677. The following extract from his answer in
June, 1671, to inquiries of the committee for the
colonies, is a curious specimen of his loyalty :
" We have forty-eight parishes and our ministers
are well paid, and by my consent should be
better, if they would pray oftener and preach less ;
but, as of all other commodities, so of this, the
worst are sent us, and we have few, that we can
boast of, since the persecution in Cromwell's
tyranny drove divers worthy men hither. Yet I
thank God, there are no free schools, nor printing ;
and I hope we shall not have these hundred
years. For learning has brought disobedience,
and heresy, and sects into the world, and printing
has divulged them and libels against the best
government." Thus Sir William, of a very differ
ent spirit from the early governors of New Eng
land, seems to have had much the same notion of
education as the African governor, mentioned by
Robert Southey in his colloquies. The black
prince said, he would send his son to England,
that he might learn " to read book and be rogue.''
More recently Mr. Giles of Virginia expressed
his belief, that learning was become too general.
He published the lost lady, a tragi-comedy,
1639; a discourse and view of Virginia, pp. 12.
1663. — Keith's Hist. Virginia, 144-162 ; Wynne,
II. 216-224; Holmes, I. 293, 311; Chalmers, I.
336, 337; Wood's Athence Oxonienses, II. 5865
Sav. Wintlirop, n. 159, 165.
BERKELEY, GEOIIGE, bishop of Cloyne in
Ireland, and a distinguished benefactor of Yale
College, was born March 12, 1684, at Kilcrin in
the county of Kilkenny, and was educated at
Trinity college, Dublin. After publishing a num
ber of his works, which gained him a high reputa
tion, particularly liis theory of vision, he travelled
four or five years upon the continent. He re
turned in 1721, and a fortune was soon bequeathed
him by Mrs. Vanhomrigh, a lady of Dublin, the
"Vanessa" of Swift. In 1724 he was promoted
to the deanery of Derry, worth 1 100 pounds per
annum. Having for some time conceived the
benevolent project of converting the savages of
America to Christianity by means of a college to
be erected in one of the isles of Bermuda, he
published a proposal for this purpose at London
in 1725. and offered to resign his own opulent
preferment, and to dedicate the remainder of his
life to the instruction of youth in America on the
subsistence of 100 pounds a year. He obtained
a grant of 10,000 pounds from the government
of Great Britain, and immediately set sail for the
field of his labors. He arrived at Newport, R. I.,
in Feb., 1729, with a view of settling a correspon
dence there for supplying his college with such
provisions as might be wanted from the northern
colonies. Here he purchased a country seat and
farm in the neighborhood of Newport, and
resided about two years and a half. His house,
which he called Whitehall, still remains, situated
half a mile north-east from the state house. To
the Episcopal church he gave an organ and a
small library. His usual place of study was a
cliff or crag near his dwelling. His residence in
this country had some influence on the progress
of Literature, particularly in Rhode Island and
Connecticut. The presence and conversation of a
man so illustrious for talents, learning, virtue,
and social attractions could not fail of giving a
spring to the literary diligence and ambition of
many, who enjoyed his acquaintance. Finding,
at length, that the promised aid of the ministry
towards his new college would fail him, Dean
Berkeley returned to England. At his departure
he distributed the books, which he had brought
with him, among the clergy of Rhode Island.
He embarked at Boston in Sept., 1731. In the
following year he published his minute philosopher,
a work of great ingenuity and merit, which he
wrote while at Newport. It was not long before
he sent, as a gift to Yale college, a deed of the
farm, which he held in Rhode Island ; the rents
of which he directed to be appropriated to the
maintenance of the three best classical scholars,
who should reside at college at least nine months
in a year in each of three years between their
first and second degrees. All surplusages of
money, arising from accidental vacancies, were to
be distributed in Greek and Latin books to such
undergraduates, as should make the best compo
sition in the Latin tongue upon such a moral
theme as should be given them. lie also made
a present to the library of Yale college of nearly
one thousand volumes. AVhcn it is considered,
that he was warmly attached to the Episcopal
church, and that he came to America for the
express purpose of founding an Episcopal college,
his munificence to an institution, under the exclu
sive direction of a different denomination, must
be thought worthy of high praise. It was in the
year 1733 that he was made bishop of Cloyne ;
and from this period he discharged with exemplary
faithfulness the episcopal duties, and prosecuted
his studies with unabating diligence. On the
14th of January, 1753, he was suddenly seized at
Oxford, whither he had removed in 1752, by a
disorder called the palsy of the heart, and
instantly expired, being nearly sixty-nine years of
age. Pope ascribes
" To Berkeley every virtue under heaven."
His fine portrait by Smibert, with his family and
the artist himself, will be contemplated with de
light by all, who visit Yale college. Bishop
Berkeley, while at Cloyne, constantly rose between
three and four in the morning. His favorite
author was Plato. His character, though marked
by enthusiasm, was singularly excellent and amia-
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ble. lie was held by his acquaintance in the
highest estimation. Bishop Atterbury, after be
ing introduced to him, exclaimed, " so much un
derstanding, so much knowledge, so much inno
cence, and such humility I did not think had been
the portion of any but angels, till I saw this gen
tleman." It is well known, that Bishop Berkeley
rejected the commonly received notion of the ex
istence of matter, and contended, that what arc
called sensible material objects are not external
but exist in the mind, and are merely impressions
made upon our mind by the immediate act of
God. These peculiar sentiments he supported in
his work, entitled, the principles of human knowl
edge, 1710, and in the dialogues between Ily-
las and Philonous, 1713. Besides these works,
and the minute philosopher, in which he attacks
the free thinker with great ingenuity and effect,
he published, also, arithmetica absque algebra
aut Euclide demonstrata, 1707; theory of vision,
1709; de motu, 1721; an essay towards prevent
ing the ruin of Great Britain, 1721 ; the analyst,
1734 ; a defence of free thinking in mathematics,
1735 ; the querist, 1735 ; discourse addressed to
magistrates, 1736; on the virtues of tar water,
1741; maxims concerning patriotism, 1750. —
Chandler's Life of Johnson, 47-60 ; Miller, II.
349 ; fiees' Cycl. ; Holmes, n. 53.
BERKLEY, ALEXANDER, died at Lynchburg,
Va., Oct. 25, 1825, aged 114: his wife died Jan.
9, 1825, aged 111.
BERKLEY, NORBORNE, baron de Botetourt,
one of the last governors of Virginia while a
British colony, obtained the peerage of Botetourt
in 1764. In July, 1768, he was appointed gov
ernor of Virginia in the place of Gen. Amherst.
He died at Williamsburg Oct 15, 1770, aged 52.
At his death the government, in consequence of
tire resignation of John Blair, devolved upon
William Nelson, until the appointment in Decem
ber of Lord Dunmore, then governor of New
York. Lord Botetourt seems to have been highly
respected in Virginia. His exertions to promote
the interests of William and Mary college were
zealous and unremittcd. He instituted an annual
contest among the students for two golden med- \
als of the value of five guineas ; one for the best
Latin oration on a given subject, and the other for
superiority in mathematical science. For a long
time he sanctioned by his presence morning and
evening prayers in the college. No company
nor avocation prevented his attendance on this
service. He was extremely fond of literary char
acters. No one of this class, who had the least
claims to respect, was ever presented to him
without receiving his encouragement. — Miller,
II. 378; Boston Gazette, Nov. 12, 1770; Mar
shall, IT. 130.
BERNARD, FRANCIS, governor of Massachu
setts, was the governor of New Jersey, after Gov.
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Belcher, in 1758. He succeeded Gov. Fownall
of Massachusetts, in 1760. Arriving at Boston
Aug. 2d, he continued at the head of the govern
ment nine years. His administration was during
one of the most interesting periods in American
history. He had governed New Jersey two years
in a manner very acceptable to that province, and
the first part of his administration in Massachu
setts was very agreeable to the general court.
Soon after his arrival Canada was surrendered to
Amherst. Besides voting a salary of 1300 pounds,
they made to him at the first session a grant of Mt.
Desert Island, which was confirmed by the king.
Much harmony prevailed for two or three years ;
but this prosperous and happy commencement
did not continue. There had long been two par
ties in the State, the advocates for the crown, and
the defenders of the rights of the people. Gov.
Bernard was soon classed with those, who were
desirous of strengthening the royal authority in
America ; the sons of liberty therefore stood
forth uniformly in opposition to him. His indis
cretion in appointing Mr. Ilutchinson chief jus
tice, instead of giving that office to Col. Otis of
Barnstable, to whom it had been promised by
Shirley, proved very injurious to his cause. In
consequence of this appointment he lost the influ
ence of Col. Otis, and by yielding himself to Mr.
Ilutchinson he drew upon him the hostility of
James Otis, the son, a man of great talents, who
soon became the leader on the popular side. The
laws for the regulation of trade and the severities
of the officers of customs were the first things
which greatly agitated the public mind ; and af
terwards the stamp act increased the energy of
resistance to the schemes of tyranny. Gov. Ber
nard possessed no talent for conciliating ; he was
for accomplishing ministerial purposes by force ;
and the spirit of freedom gathered strength from
the open manner in which he attempted to crush
it. His speech to the general court after the re
peal of the stamp act was by no means calculated
to assuage the angry passions which had lately
been excited. He was the principal means of
bringing the troops to Boston, that he might
overawe the people ; and it was owing to him,
that they were continued in the town. This
measure had been proposed by him and Mr.
Ilutchinson long before it was executed. While
he professed himself a friend to the province, he
was endeavoring to undermine its constitution,
and to obtain an essential alteration in the char
ter, by transferring from the general court to the
crown the right of electing the council. His
conduct, though it drew upon him the indigna
tion of the province, was so pleasing to the min
istry, that he was created a baronet March 20,
1769. Sir Francis had too little command of his
temper. He could not conceal his resentments,
and he could not restrain his censures. One of
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his last public measures was to prorogue the gen
eral court in July, in consequence of their refusing
to make provision for the support of the troops.
The general court, however, before they were pro
rogued, embraced the opportunity of drawing up
a petition to his majesty for the removal of the
governor. It was found necessary to recall him,
and he embarked Aug. 1, 1769, leaving Mr.
Hutchinson, the lieutenant-governor, commander
in chief. There were few who lamented his de
parture. He died in England in June, 1779.
His second son, Sir John B., who held public offi
ces in Barbadoes and St. Vincent's, died in 1809;
his third son, Sir Thomas B., was graduated at
Harvard college in 1767, and marrying in Eng
land a lady of fortune, the daughter of Patrick
Adair, devoted much of his time to various benev
olent institutions in London, so as to gain the
reputation of a philanthropist ; he died July 1,
1818 : his publications, chiefly designed to im
prove the common people, were numerous.
The newspapers were very free in the ridicule
of the parsimony and domestic habits of Bernard.
But he was temperate, a friend to literature, and
a benefactor of Harvard college, exerting himself
for its relief after the destruction of the library
by fire. He was himself a man of erudition, be
ing conversant with books, and retaining the
striking passages in his strong memory. He
said, that he could repeat the whole of Shak-
speare. Believing the Christian religion, he
attended habitually public worship. Though
attached to the English church, when he resided
at Roxbury, he often repaired to the nearest Con
gregational meeting, that of Brookline.
If a man of great address and wisdom had
occupied the place of Sir Francis, it is very prob
able, that the American Revolution would not
have occurred so soon. But his arbitrary princi
ples and his zeal for the authority of the crown
enkindled the spirit of the people, while his rep
resentations to the ministry excited them to those
measures, which hastened the separation of the
colonies from the mother country.
From the letters of Gov. Bernard, which were
obtained and transmitted to this country by Mr.
Bollan, it appears, that he had very little regard
to the interests of liberty. His select letters on
the trade and government of America, written in
Boston from 1763 to 1768, were published in
London in 1774. His other letters, written home
in confidence, were published in 1768 and 1769.
He wrote several pieces in Greek and Latin in
the collection made at Cambridge, styled, " Pietas
et Gratulatio," 1761. — Minofs Hist. Mass. i. 73-
222; Gordon, I. 139, 272-274; Marshall, II.
96, 114; Eliot.
BERRIEN, JOHN MACTHERSON, attorney-gen
eral of U. S., died at Savannah Jan. 1, 1856 : he
had been a senator. A speech of his is in Willis-
ton's " Eloquence."
BERRY, JOHN, died on Peterson's Creek, Va.,
in 1845, aged 101 : he was a soldier in various
battles.
BETHUXE, DIVIE, an eminent philanthropist
and Christian, was born at Dingwall, Rosshire,
Scotland, in 1771. In early life he resided at
Tobago, where his only brother was a physician.
At the command of his pious mother he left the
irreligious island and removed to the United
States in 1792, and settled as a merchant in New
York. He soon joined the church of Dr.' Mason ;
in 1802 became one of its elders. He died Sept.
18, 1824. His wife was the daughter of Isabella
Graham. Before a tract society was formed in
this country Mr. Bethune printed ten thousand
tracts at his own expense, and himself distributed
many of them. He also imported Bibles for dis
tribution. From 1803 to 1816 he was at the sole
expense of one or more Sunday schools. The
tenth of his gains he devoted to the service of
his heavenly Master. In his last sickness he said :
" I wish my friends to help me through the val
ley by reading to me the word of God. I have
not read much lately but the Bible : the Bible !
the Bible ! I want nothing but the Bible ! O,
the light, that has shined into my soul through
the Bible !" His end was peace. Such a bene
factor of the human family is incomparably more
worthy of remembrance, than the selfish philoso
phers and the great warriors of the earth. —
N. Y. Observer ; Boston Recorder, Oct. 16.
BETTS, THADDEUS, died at Norwalk, Conn.,
April 7, 1840. He was a graduate of Yale of
1807, a lawyer of eminence, lieutenant-governor,
and senator of the U. S.
BEVERIDGE, JOHN, a poet, was a native of
Scotland. In 1758 he was appointed professor of
languages in the college and academy of Phila
delphia. He published in 1765 a volume of
Latin poems, entitled, " Epistokc familiares et
alia quaedam miscellanea." In an address to John
Pcnn he suggests, that a conveyance to him of
some few acres of good land would be a proper
return for the poetic mention of the Pcnn family.
The Latin hint was lost upon the Englishman.
The unrewarded poet continued to ply the birch
in the vain attempt to govern seventy or eighty
ungovernable boys. — Mem. Hist. Soc. of Penn.,
I. 145.
BEVERLY, ROBERT, a native of Virginia,
died in 1716. He was clerk of the council about
1697, when Andros was governor, with a salary of
50 pounds and perquisites. Intimately associated
with the government, his views of public measures
were influenced by his situation. His book was
written by a man in office. Peter Beverly was at
the same time clerk of the house of burgesses.
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Mr. Beverly published a history of that colony,
London, 1705, in .four parts, embracing the first
settlement of Virginia and the government there
of to the time when it was written ; the natural
productions and conveniences of the country,
suited to trade and improvement ; the native In
dians, their religion, laws, and customs ; and the
state of the country as to the policy of the gov
ernment and the improvements of the land.
Another edition was published with Gnbelin'a
cuts, Svo. 1722 ; and a French translation, with
plates, Amsterd., 1707. This work in the histor
ical narration is as concise and unsatisfactory, as
the history of Stith is prolix and tedious.
BEVERLY, CARTER, a distinguished Virgin
ian, died at Fredericksburg Feb. 10, 1844, aged
72.
BIART, PIERRE, a Jesuit missionary, came
from France to Port 1 loyal in June, 1611. Of
his voyage and events at Acadia he made a rela
tion, in which Charlcvoix confides more than in
the memoirs used by De Laet to decry the
Jesuits. Biart gave the name of Souriquois to
the Indians afterwards called Micmacks. In 1G12
he ascended the Kim'bequi or Kennebec, and was
well received by the Canibas, formerly called the
Canibequi, a nation of the Abenaquis, from whom
the name of the river is derived. This visit was
soon after the attempted establishment of the
English under Popham at the mouth of the Ken
nebec. He was followed by Dreuillettes in 1640.
Biart obtained provisions for Port Royal. In
1613 he repaired to the Penobscot, to the settle
ment called S. Sauveur. According to Charlcvoix
he performed a miracle in healing by baptism a
sick Malecite Indian child. But the miraculous
powers of the Jesuit failed him on the arrival of
Argall, who took him prisoner and carried him
to Virginia and England. — Ckarlec. l. 131;
Maine Hist. Coll., I. 325.
BIBB, WILLIAM W., governor of Alabama,
was a representative from Georgia from 1813 to
1815. He was appointed in 1817 governor of
the territory of Alabama, and under the consti
tution of the State was elected the first governor
in 1819. He died at his residence near fort
Jackson July 9, 1820, aged 39 years, and was suc
ceeded by Israel Pickens. He was highly re
spected for his talents and dignity as a states
man ; and in private life was condescending, affa
ble and kind.
BIDDLE, NICHOLAS, a naval commander, was
born in Philadelphia Sept. 10, 1750. In sailing
to the West Indies in 1765 he was cast away.
The long boat being lost and the yawl not being
large enough to carry away all the crew, he and
three others were left by lot two months in mis
ery on an island, which was uninhabited. His
many voyages made him a thorough seaman. In
1770 he went to London and entered the British
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navy. When Capt. Phipps, afterwards Lord Mul-
grave, was about to sail on his exploring expedi
tion, Biddle, then a midshipman, absconded from
his own ship and entered on board the Carcass
before the mast. Horatio Nelson was on board
the same vessel. After the commencement of the
Revolution he returned to Philadelphia. Being
appointed commander of the Andrew Doria, a
brig of 14 guns and 130 men, he sailed under
Com. Hopkins in the successful expedition against
Xew Providence. After refitting at New London,
he was ordered to proceed off the banks of New
foundland. He captured in 1776, among other
prizes, two ships from Scotland with four hundred
Highland troops. Being appointed to the com
mand of the Randolph, a frigate of thirty-two
guns, he sailed from Philadelphia in Feb., 1777.
lie soon carried into Charleston four valuable pri
zes, one of them the True Briton of twenty guns.
A little fleet was now fitted out under his com
mand, with which he cruised in the West Indies.
In an action with the British ship Yarmouth of
sixty-four guns March 7, 1778, Capt. Biddle was
wounded, and a few minutes afterwards, while he
was under the hands of the surgeon, the Ran
dolph with a crew of three hundred and fifteen
blew up, and he and all his men, but four, per
ished. The four men were tossed about four
days on a piece of the wreck, before they were
taken up. The other vessels escaped, from the
disabled condition of the Yarmouth. Capt. Bid-
die was but 27 years of age. He had displayed the
qualities requisite for a naval commander, —
skill, coolness, self-possession, courage, together
with humanity and magnanimity. His temper
was cheerful. Believing the gospel, his religious
impressions had a powerful influence upon his con
duct. He was a brother of the late Judge Biddle.
— Rogers ; Biog. Americana.
BIDDLE, THOMAS, was a captain of artillery
in the campaigns on the Niagara in 1813 and 1814.
He served under Gen. Scott at the capture of
Fort George. In the battle of Lundy's lane he
brought off a piece of the enemy's artillery.
After the Avar, with the brevet rank of major, he
removed to St. Louis, Missouri, and was paymas
ter in the army. He was shot in a duel with
Spencer Pettis, a member of congress, and died
Aug. 29, 1831, at the age of 41. The history of
this affair is the history of consummate folly, dis
creditable pusillanimity, and hardened depravity.
Political controversy was the origin of the duel.
Biddle had anonymously abused Pettis in the
newspapers ; tin's led to a retort of hard words.
Next, Biddle assaulted Pettis when he was asleep,
with a cowskiii. Bonds were imposed on Biddle
for the preservation of the peace. At last the
friends of Mr. Pettis urged him and constrained
him to challenge his chastiser and to hazard his
life and soul in the attempt of mutual murder.
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BIDDLE.
The distance chosen by Biddle, who was near
sighted, was five feet, so that the pistols would
overlap each other, making death apparently cer
tain to both : accordingly both fell, Friday, Aug.
26th, and soon their spirits went into eternity
with the guilt of blood. Pettis died on Saturday
and Biddle on [Monday. The promoters of this
duel must be regarded as sharers in the guilt.
Dean Swift remarked, "None but fools fight
duels, and the sooner the world is rid of such
folks, the better." It will be well for those, who
call themselves men of honor, and well for their
miserable families, if they shall learn to fear the
judgment of God rather than the sneers of un
principled men, and if they shall learn to abstain
from calumny, to forgive injuries, and to love a
brother. — N. Y. Mercury, iv. 9.
BIDDLE, NICHOLAS, died at Andalusia, near
Philadelphia, Feb. 27, 1844, aged 58. He was
the son of Charles Biddle of Philadelphia, a whig
of the Revolution. At the age of 19 he was
secretary to Armstrong in his mission to Paris.
On his return he studied law and devoted himself
much to literature, for a time editing the Port-
Folio. In 1819 he was one of the directors of
the bank of the United States, and in 1823 suc
ceeded Mr. Cheves as president, — a post which
he filled sixteen years. Under his management
and the hostility of Gen. Jackson the bank broke
down. He wrote the commercial digest.
BIDDLE, WILLIAM P., died at Newbern,
N. C., Aug. 8, 1853, after a ministry cf nearly
hah0 a century. Born in Virginia, he was a pion
eer of the Baptists in North Carolina.
BIDDLE, JAMES, commodore, died at Phila
delphia Oct. 1, 1848, aged 65. Educated at the
Pennsylvania university, he entered the navy in
1800, and was engaged in various actions. He
captured the Penguin. He signed the commer
cial treaty with Turkey in 1832, and commanded
a squadron in China in 1847.
BIENVILLE, LE MOYNE De, governor of Lou
isiana and founder of New Orleans, took the name
of his brother, who was killed by the Iroquois in
1691. While in command at Mobile, he mani
fested his humanity by liberating the prisoners,
which were brought from Carolina by the Indians,
in the Indian war of 1715. In 17 14 he constructed
a fort at Natchez, and in 1717, on a visit to the
governor of Mobile, he obtained permission to
lay the foundation of the city of New Orleans.
In 1726, M. Perrier being nominated commandant
of Louisiana in his place, he went to France;
but in 1733 he returned with a new commission
as governor. In 1740, with a large army of
French, Indians, and negroes, he made a second
expedition against the Chickasaws ; proceeding
up the Mississippi, he encamped near their towns,
and brought them to terms of peace. — Ckarle-
voix ; Holmes, I. 513; II. 16.
BIGELOW.
BIGELOW, TIMOTHY, colonel, died at Wor
cester March 31, 1790, aged 50. He was the son
of Daniel ; and he had an eminent son of his own
name. A blacksmith, he was the associate of the
leading patriots of his day. On hearing of the
battle of Lexington he marched at the head of
minute-men ; he marched up the Kennebcc against
Quebec, and was taken prisoner ; at the head of
the fifteenth Mass, regiment he was at Saratoga,
Rhode Island, Valley Forge, and West Point.
He was an original grantor of Montpclier. As
a benefactor of Leicester academy he is honored
by its friends. With an ardent temperament he
was dignified and graceful. — Lincoln's Hist.
Worcester.
BIGELOW, TIMOTHY, a lawyer, was born at
Worcester, Ms., April 30, 1767, the son of Col.
Timothy B., who served in Arnold's expedition to
Quebec, and commanded the 16th regiment in
the Revolutionary Avar, and probably a descendant
of John Bigelow, who lived in Watertown in
1642. After graduating at Harvard college in
1786, he studied law, and in 1789 commenced
the practice at Groton. For more than twenty
years from 1790 he was a distinguished member
of the legislature ; for eleven years he was the
speaker of the house of representatives. In his
politics he was ardently attached to the federal
party. Of the Hartford convention in 1814 he
was a member ; and grand master of masons. In
1807 he removed to Mcdford and kept an office
in Boston. He died May 18, 1821, aged 54.
His wife was the daughter of Oliver Prescott ;
one of his daughters married Abbott Lawrence.
Mr. Bigelow was a learned, eloquent, and popular
lawyer. It has been computed, that during a
practice of thirty-two years he argued not less
than fifteen thousand causes. His usual antag
onist was Samuel Dana. Over the multitudinous
assembly of six or seven hundred legislators of
Massachusetts he presided with great dignity and
energy. Of many literary and benevolent socie
ties he was an active member ; and in private Hie
was respected and beloved. He published an
oraiion before the Phi Beta Kappa society, 1797.
An extract of his eulogy on S. Dana is in the
historical collections. — Jennison; Maine Hist.
Coll. I. 363, 388, 409 ; Mass. Hist. Coll S. S. II.
235, 252.
BIGELOW, LEWIS, died in Peoria, Illinois,
Oct. 3, 1838, aged 53. He was a member of
congress from Massachusetts in 1821, and the
author of Digest of twelve vols. of Massachusetts
Reports.
BIGELOW, JONATHAN, died Jan. 26, 1854,
aged 90. Born in Boylston, he graduated at
Brown university in 1816, and was successively a
minister at Lubec in 1821; at Rochester, Mass.,
for twenty years from 1828 ; at Euclid, Oliio, in
1850, where his labors were greatly blessed. He
BIGELOW.
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was regarded as a scholar, and a faithful min
ister.
BIGELOW, WILLIAM, died in Boston, Jan.
12, 1844, aged 70, a graduate of Harvard in
1794. He was a teacher, a wit, writer of po
etry, editor of several periodicals, and author of a
history of his native town, Natick, and of Sher-
burne. Unhappily he did not hold the mastery
over the appetites, which lead to a disregard of
the laws of temperance.
BIGOT, VINCENT, a Jesuit missionary, was em
ployed in 1697 by Gen. De Denonville to collect
a village of the Penobscot Indians, who had been
dispersed, in order to counteract the designs of
Gov. Andros. It would seem, that he had been
a missionary among these Indians near Penta-
goet, or Penobscot, for some years before, but
had been driven off by the disputes with a com
pany of fishermen. Bigot returned, says Den
onville, " at my request, in order to keep the
savages in our interest, which they had aban
doned." Such was the worldly policy, which
produced the Jesuit missions in Maine ; and the
Jesuits, by their vows of obedience being subject
to their superiors, were convenient instruments
of politic governors and adventurous generals.
Denonville, in a memoir which he prepared after
his return to France, ascribes much of the good
understanding which had been preserved with
the Abenaki Indians, to the influence of the two
father Bigots : the name of the younger was
James. Vincent chiefly resided at St. Francois,
among the Indians there assembled by the
governor of Canada. In an expedition of the
Abenakis against New England, Bigot accompa
nied them, as is related by Charlevoix under the
year 1721, from the lips of the missionary him
self, and witnessed their heroism in a battle, in
which at the odds of twenty English for one In
dian they fought a whole day, and without the
loss of a man strewed the field of battle with the
dead and put the English to flight. In this
story there is as much truth, as in father Biart's
miracle on the Penobscot. There was no such
battle in 1721, nor in any other year; though it
is true, that in 1724 many Indians with father
Rallc fell in battle at Norridgewock, Avithout the
loss of one of the English. Mr. Southey says :
" Let any person compare the relations of our Pro
testant missionaries with those of the Jesuits, Dom-
incians, Franciscans, or any other Ilomish order,
and the difference, which he cannot fail to per
ceive, between the plain truth of the one and the
audacious and elaborate mendacity of the other,
may lead him to a just inference concerning the
two churches." — Charlevoix, I. 531, 559; ill. 308;
Southey's Coll. II. 374 ; Maine Hist. Col. I. 328.
BIG WARRIOR, the principal chief of the
Creek nation, died Feb. 9, 1825. With a colos
sal body, he had a mind of great power. In
November, 1824, he and Little Prince and other
chiefs, signed the declaration of a council of the
tribe, asserting their reluctance to sell any more
land, and their claims to justice, and describing
the progress made in the arts of civil life. They,
who think the Indians incapable of civilization,
may be surprised to learn, that the upper Creeks
alone had manufactured thirty thousand yards of
' homespun.' He had always been a friend of the
whites, and fought for them in many a battle.
BILLINGS, ASAIIEL, died at Hardwick July
16, 1838, aged 100 ; an officer at the capture of
Burgoyne.
BILLINGS, BENJAMIN, M. D., died at Mans
field, Mass., Oct. 9, 1842, aged 82. He was a
surgeon in the Revolutionary army.
BINGHAM, WILLIAM, a senator of the United
States, was graduated at the college of Philadel
phia in 1768 ; he was agent for his country at
Martinique in the period of the Revolution ; in
1786 he was a delegate to congress from Pennsyl
vania; in 1795 he succeeded Mr. Morris as sena
tor. Of the measures of Mr. Adams' adminis
tration, he was a decided advocate. He died at
Bath, England, Feb. 7, 1804, aged 52. He mar
ried in 1780 Miss Willing of Philadelphia ; his
son, William, married in Montreal in 1822 ; a
daughter was married to a son of Sir Francis
Baring. He purchased about the year 1793 more
than two millions of acres of land in Maine, at an
eighth of a dollar per acre, or for more than
$250,000. In 1715 Mr. Greenleaf calculated the
cost to have amounted to forty-nine cents per
acre, when perhaps the average value might not
exceed seventeen cents. Mr. B. published " a
letter from an American on the subject of the re
straining proclamation," with strictures on Lord
Sheffield's pamphlets, 1784; description of cer
tain tracts of land in the district of Maine, 1793.
BINGHAM, CALEB, a bookseller of Boston,
died April 6, 1817, aged 60. A native of Salis
bury, Conn., he was the son of Daniel, and a de
scendant of Thomas of Norwich. By his mother
lie descended from R. Conant. He was gradu
ated at Dartmouth in 1782. He was the preceptor
of Moor's academy and afterwards for many years
a teacher in one of the principal schools of Boston.
Quitting the toils of instruction, he kept a large
book shop in Cornhill, Boston, and compiled for
the benefit of youth various books, some of which
went through many editions. For several years
he was a director of the State prison, in which
capacity he made great efforts for the mental im
provement of the younger criminals. In his pol
itics he belonged to the school of Mr. Jefferson.
He had a character of strict integrity and up
rightness, and he was an exemplary professor of
religion. A daughter, Sophia, married Col. Tow-
son of the army. He published an interesting
narrative, entitled, " the hunters ; " young lady's
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BIXGIIAM.
BISSELL.
accidence, 1789; epistolary correspondence; the
Columbian Orator, 1797; Atala, a translation from
Chateaubriand. The sale of his school books in
editions and copies was as follows : young lady's
accidence, 20 eds., 100,000 : child's companion,
20 eds., 180,000; American preceptor, 04 eds.,
640,000 ; Geographical catechism, 22 eds., 100,000 ;
Columbian orator, 23 eds., 190,000 ; Juvenile let
ters, 7 eds., 25,000.
BIXGIIAM, JEREMIAH, died in Cornwall, Vt,
in 1842, aged 94. Born in Norwich, Conn., he
was a useful schoolmaster in Mass, and X. II. lie
was the first settler in C. : through his efforts a
church of eight persons was formed in 1785.
BIXGIIAM, SIBYL M., wife of Rev. Hiram
Bingham, died at Easthampton, Mass., in March,
1848, aged 55. She was a missionary at the
Sandwich Islands twenty years.
BLXKLEY, ADAM, colonel, died in David
son co., Tenn., Eeb. 28, 1837, aged 136. He
served during the Revolutionary war ; then mar
ried and had eleven children.
BIXXEY, AMOS, colonel, died in Boston Jan.
10, 1833, aged 60. Born at Hull, he never went
to school one day ; yet was intelligent and capa
ble. He was navy agent in Boston ; a Methodist,
and a man of charity.
BIKDSEYE, NATHAN, died Jan. 28, 1818,
aged 103. He graduated at Yale college in 1736,
and was ordained the fourth pastor of West Ha
ven, Oct., 1742. His predecessors were Samuel
Johnson, Jonathan Arnold, and Timothy Allen ;
his successor was Xoah "VVilliston. After being
in the ministry sixteen years, he was dismissed in
June, 1758, and retired to his patrimonial estate
at Oronoake in Stratford, where he resided sixty
years, till his death. About a hundred of his pos
terity were present at his funeral. The whole
number of his descendants \vas two hundred and
fifty-eight, of whom two hundred and six were
living. His wife, with whom he had lived sixty-
nine years, died at the age of 88. By her he had
twelve children, alternately a boy and a girl ; he
had seventy-six grandchildren ; one hundred and
sixty-three great-grandchildren ; and seven of the
fifth generation. Of all the branches of his numer
ous family, scattered into various parts of the United
States, not one of them had been reduced to
want. Most of them were in prosperous, all in
comfortable circumstances. In his last years he
occasionally preached, and once at Stratford to
great acceptance, after he was one hundred years
old. At last he became blind and deaf; yet his
retentive memory and sound judgment and excel
lent temper gave an interest to liis conversation
with his friends. He died without an enemy, in
the hope of a happy immortality. According to
his account of the Indians near Stratford, about
the year 1700 there were sixty or eighty fighting
men; in 1761 but three or four men were left.
However, the race was not exterminated ; for of
the emigrants there lived at Kent on the " Ous-
tonnoc river" one hundred and twenty-seven souls.
— Mass. Hist. Coll. x. 111.
BIRCH, THOMAS, died in Philadelphia Jan.
14, 1851, aged 72 ; an artist. He was distin
guished for landscape and marine painting, de
lighting in coast and river scenes.
BHICHARD, SOLOMON, M. D., an eminent
physician, died at Baltimore Xov. 30, 1836, aged
77.
BIRD, ROBERT M., M. D., died at Philadel
phia Jan. 23, 1854, aged 50. He was one of the
editors and proprietors of the North American ;
also a novel writer, author of Nick of the Woods
and Peter Pilgrim.
BISHOP, GEORGE, a Quaker, published " New
England judged, not by man's but by the Spirit
of the Lord, and the summe sealed up of New
England's persecutions, being a brief relation of
the sufferings of the Quakers in that part of
America from the beginning of the 5th m. 1656,
to the end of the 10th m. 1660 : wherein the
cruel whippings and scourgings, bonds and im
prisonments, &c., burning in the hand and cutting
off of ears, banishment upon pain of death, and
putting to death, &c., are shortly touched, 1661."
He gives an account of the execution of Wm.
Robinson, Marmaduke Stephcnson, Mary Dyer,
and William Ledea, for returning after being
banished as Quakers ; such was the bloody spirit
of persecution in men, who sought liberty of con
science in a wilderness. Among the banished
was Mary Fisher, who travelled as far as Adrian-
ople, and in the camp of the grand vizier delivered
her message " from the great God to the great
Turk." Ilutchinson remarks, " she fared better
among the Turks, than among the Christians." —
Hutch, i. 180.
BISHOP, ABRAHAM, died at New Haven April
28, 1844, aged 81. He graduated in 1778. He
was a zealous political writer on the democratic or
republican side, and for twenty years collector of
the port of New Haven. He published an oration,
1800 ; proofs of a conspiracy, 1802.
BISHOP, ROBERT II., D. D., died at College
Hill, Ohio, April 29, 1855, aged 78. Boru in
Scotland, he graduated at Edinburgh in 1794.
Coming to this country in 1801, he was a teacher
and professor in various seminaries, and president
of Miami university. At his death he was a pro
fessor in Farmer's college.
BISSELL, JOSIAII, a generous philanthropist,
died in April, 1831, aged 40. He was the son of
Deacon Josiah Bissell. About the year 1814 or
1815 he was one of a number of young men, who
removed from Pittsfield, Mass., to the new town
of Rochester, N. Y. The increase in the value of
the land, which he had purchased, made him rich ;
but his wealth he very liberally employed in pro-
BISSELL,
BLACKSTOXE.
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moting the various benevolent operations of the
day. He expended many thousands of dollars.
Were his example followed by the rich, the face
of the world would soon be renewed. At great
expense he was the principal promoter of the
" Pioneer " line of stages, so called, which did not
run on Sunday, and which was established for the
sole purpose of preventing the desecration of the
holy day. His piety was ardent ; his courage un
shaken by the calumnies and rcvilings of men
•who preferred gain to godliness. As he had lived
for Christ, he died in the triumphs of faith.
When told that he would soon die, he said, " Why
should I be afraid to die ? The Lord knows I
have loved lu's cause more than all things eke ; I
have wronged no man ; I possess no man's goods ;
I am at peace with all men ; I have peace, and
trust, and confidence ; I am ready, willing, yea
anxious to depart." When told the next day that
he was better, he said, " I desire to go : my face
is set." " Tell my children to choose the Lord
Jesus Christ for their portion, and to serve him
better than I have done. Say to the church, — go
on gloriously. Say to impenitent sinners, — if
they wish to know the value of religion, look at a
dying bed."
BISSELL, EMERY, Dr., died in Xorwalk in
1849, aged GO ; a highly respectable physician.
BIXBY, SUSAX, the wife of M. II. Bixby, a
Baptist missionary in Maulmain, Burmah, died at
Burlington, Vt,, Aug. 18, 18,30, aged 26. She
went out to Burmah in 1833. She believed, that
more than one soul was won by her to God's ser
vice.
BLACK, JOHN, D. D., died in Pittsburgh,
Xov., 1849, aged 82 ; one of the early settlers of P.
BLACKBU11X, SAMUEL, general, died in Bath
county, Va., March 2, 1835, aged 77 ; an eminent
lawyer and legislator. By his Mill he liberated
forty-six slaves and provided for their transporta
tion to Liberia. Did he misjudge in thinking it
an act, required by humanity and justice, to re
store freedom to his slaves ?
BLACKBUHX, GIDEOX, D. D., died at Car-
linvllle, 111., Aug. 23, 1838, an eloquent preacher
for forty years. He organized some of the first
churches in the west. From 1803 to 1809 he
was for part of each year a missionary to the
Cherokces, establishing a school at Ilywassee, un
der the general assembly. He also set up a
school in Tennessee in 1806.
BLACK DOG, chief of the Osages,died March
24, 1848.
BLACK HAWK, an Indian chief, died Oct.
3, 1838, at his camp on the river DCS Moincs,
aged 73. His Indian name was Muck-ker-ta-me-
scheck-ker-kcrk.
BLACK HOOF, a chief of the Shawanese
tribe of Indians, died at Wapaghkonnetta in Sept.,
1831, aged 114 years. In war he had been a
formidable enemy, though the latter part of his
warfaring life had been devoted to the American
cause. He was at St. Clair's, Harmer's, and
Crawford's defeats, and perhaps was the last sur
vivor of those who were concerned in Braddock's
defeat.
BLACKMAX, ADAM, first minister of Strat
ford, Conn., was a preacher in Liecestershire and
Derbyshire, England. Mr. Goodwin writes the
name Blakeman. After he came to this country,
he preached a short time at Scituate, and then at
Guilford ; in 1640 he was settled at Stratford,
where he died in 1665. His successors were
Israel Chauncey, Timothy Cutler, Ilczekiah Gould,
Israliiah Wetmore, and Mr. Dutton, afterwards
professor at Yale. Xotwithstanding his name,
Mather represents him as for his holiness " purer
than snow, whiter than milk." With almost the
same name as Melancthon, he was a Melancthon
among the reformers of Xew Haven, but with less
occasion than the German, to complain, that " old
Adam was too hard for his young namesake."
Mr. Hooker so much admired the plainness and
simplicity of his preaching, that he said, if he
could have his choice, he should choose to live
and die under his ministry. His son, Benjamin,
a graduate of Harvard college in 1663, preached
for a time at Maiden, but left that place in 1678;
and afterwards at Scarborough : in 1683 he was a
representative of Saco, in which town he was a
large landholder, and owner of all the mill privi
leges on the east side of the river. His wife died
in 1715, in Boston. — Magnalia, in. 94; Fol-
sorri's Hist. Saco, 164.
BLACKMAX, ELEAZER, died at Hanover, Pa.,
Xov. 4, 1845, aged 85 ; a respected citizen, the
last survivor of the massacre of Wyoming.
BLACKSTOXE, WILLIAM, an Episcopal min
ister, and the first inhabitant of Boston, settled
there as early as 1625 or 1626 ; and there he
lived, when Gov. Winthrop arrived in the summer
of 1630 at Charlestown, the records of which
place say : " Mr. Blackstone, dwelling on the
other side of Charles river, alone, at a place by
the Indians called Shawmut, where he only had
a cottage, at or not far off the place, called Black-
stone's point, he came and acquainted the gover
nor of an excellent spring there, withal inviting
him and soliciting him thither ; whereupon, after
the death of Mr. Johnson and divers others, the
governor, with Mr. Wilson, and the greatest part
of the church, removed thither." Though Mr.
Blackstone had first occupied the peninsula, or
Trimountain ; yet all the right of soil, which the
charter could give, was held by the governor and
company. In their regard to equity they at a
court, April 1, 1633, agreed to give him fifty acres
near his house in Boston to enjoy forever. In
1634 he sold the company this estate, probably
for thirty pounds, which was raised by an assess-
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ment of six shillings or more on each inhabitant.
With the proceeds he purchased cattle, and re
moved, probably in 1635, to Pawtucket river, now
bearing his name, Blackstone river, a few miles
north of Providence, near the southern part of
the town of Cumberland. He was married July
4, 1659, to widow Sarah Stephenson, who died
June, 1673. He died May 26, 1675, having lived
in New England fifty years. His residence was
about two miles north of Pawtucket, on the east
ern bank of the Blackstone river, and within a
few rods of Whipple's bridge. From his house
a long extent of the river could be seen to the
south. The cellar and well are at this day recog
nized. A small round eminence west of his house
is called Study Hill, from its being his place of re
tirement for study. His grave near his house was
marked by a large round white stone. — Holmes,
I. 377; 2 Coll. Hist. Soc., x. 171; ix. 174;
Savage's Winthrop, I. 44; Everett's Address,
Second Cent., 29.
BLAIR, JAMES, first president of William and
Mary college, Virginia, and a learned divine, died
Aug. 1, 1743, in a good old age. He was born
and educated in Scotland, where he obtained a
benefice in the Episcopal church. On account of
the unsettled state of religion, which then existed
in that kingdom, he quitted his preferments and
went into England near the end of the reign of
Charles II. The bishop of London prevailed on
him to go to Virginia, as a missionary, about the
year 1685 ; and in that colony by his exemplary
conduct and unwearied labors in the work of the
ministry he much promoted religion, and gained
to himself esteem and reputation. In 1689 he
was appointed by the bishop, ecclesiastical commis
sary, the lu'ghest office in the church which could
be given him in the province. This appointment,
however, did not induce him to relinquish the pas
toral office, for it was his delight to preach the
gospel of salvation.
Perceiving that the want of schools and semi
naries for literary and religious instruction would
in a great degree defeat the exertions, which were
making in order to propagate the gospel, he
formed the design of establishing a college at
Williamsburg. For this purpose he solicited
benefactions in tin's country, and by direction of
the assembly made a voyage to England in 1691
to obtain the patronage of the government. A
charter was procured in this year with liberal en
dowments, and he was named in it as the first
president ; but it does not appear that he entered
on the duties of his office before the year 1729,
from which period till 1742 he discharged them
with faithfulness. The college however did not
flourish very greatly during his presidency, nor
for many years afterwards. The wealthy farmers
were in the habit of sending their sons to Europe
for their education. After a life of near sixty
BLAIR.
years in the ministry, he died, and went to enjoy
;he glory for which he was destined. Mr. Blair
was for some time president of the council of the
:olony, and rector of Wiiliamsburg. He was a
faithful laborer in the vineyard of his Master, and
an ornament to his profession and to the several
offices, which he sustained. He published : our
Saviour's divine sermon on the mount, in divers
sermons and discourses, 4 vol. 8vo., London,
1742. Tlu's work is spoken of with high appro
bation by Dr. Doddridge, and by Dr. Williams in
his Christian preacher. — Introduction to the
above work ; Miller's Heir., II. 335, 336 ; New
and Gen. Biog. Diet. ; Burnefs Hist, own limes,
II. 129, 120.
BLAIR, SAMUEL, a learned minister in Penn
sylvania, died about 1751. He was a native of
Ireland. He came to America very early in life,
and was one of Mr. Tennent's pupils in his acad
emy at Neshaminy. About the year 1745 he
himself opened an academy at Fog's manor,
Chester county, with particular reference to the
study of theology as a science. He also took
the pastoral charge of the church in that place;
but such was his zeal to do good, that he did not
confine himself to his own society, but often dis
pensed the precious truths of heaven to destitute
congregations. His brother succeeded him in the
care of the church.
Mr. Blair was one of the most learned and able,
as well as pious, excellent, and venerable men of
his day. He was a profound divine and a most
solemn and impressive preacher. To his pupils
he was himself an excellent model of pulpit elo
quence. In his life he gave them an admirable
example of Christian meekness, of ministerial
diligence, of candor, and Catholicism, without a
dereliction of principle. He was eminently ser
viceable to the part of the country where he lived,
not only as a minister of the gospel, but as a
teacher of human knowledge. From his acad
emy, that school of the prophets, as it was fre
quently called, there issued forth many excellent
pupils, who did honor to their instructor, both as
scholars and Christian ministers. Among the
distinguished characters, who received their classi
cal and theological education at this seminary,
were his nephew, Alexander Gumming, Samuel
Davies, Dr. Rodgers of ' New York, and James
Finley, Hugh Henry, and a number of other re
spectable clergymen. Mr. Davies, after being
informed of his sickness, wrote respecting him
to a friend the following lines :
" 0, had you not the mournful news divulg'd,
My mind had still the pleasing drc;im indulg'd,
Still fancied Blair with health and vigor biess'd,
With some grand purpose lab'ring in his breast,
In studious thought pursuing truth divine;
Till the full demonstration round him shine;
Or from the sacred desk proclaiming loud
His master's message to the attentive crowd,
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While heavenly truth with bright conviction glares.
And coward error shrinks and disappears,
While quick remorse the hardy sinner feels,
And Calvary's balm the bleeding conscience heals.''
lie published animadversions on the reasons of
A. Creaghead for quitting the Presbyterian church,
1742; a narrative of a revival of religion in sev
eral parts of Pennsylvania, 1744. — Miller's Rctr.
n. 343 ; Mass. Miss. Magazine, in. 363 ; JJa-
vics' Life.
BLAIR, JOHN, an eminent minister in Penn
sylvania, was ordained to the pastoral charge of
three congregations in Cumberland county as
early as 1742. These were frontier settlements
and exposed to depredations in the Indian wars,
and he was obliged to remove. He accepted a
call from Fog's manor in Chester county, in 1757.
This congregation had been favored with the
ministry of his brother, Samuel Blair ; and here
he continued about nine years, besides discharging
the duties of the ministry, superintending also a
flourishing grammar school, and preparing many
young men for the ministry. "When the presi
dency of New Jersey college became vacant, he
was chosen professor of divinity and had for some
time the charge of that seminary before the arri
val of Dr. Witherspoon. After this event he set
tled at "Walkill in the State of New York. Here
he labored a while with his usual faithfulness, and
finished his earthly course Dec. 8, 1771, aged
about 5 1 years.
He was a judicious and persuasive preacher,
and through his exertions sinners were converted
and the children of God edified. Fully convinced
of the doctrines of grace, he addressed immortal
souls with that warmth and power, which left a
witness in every bosom. Though he sometimes
wrote his sermons in full, yet his common mode
of preaching was by short notes, comprising the
general outlines. His labors were too abundant
to admit of more ; and no more was necessary to
a mind so richly stored, and so constantly im
pressed with the great truths of religion. For
his large family he had amassed no fortune, but
he left them what was infinitely better, a religious
education, a holy example, and prayers, which
have been remarkably answered. — His disposition
was uncommonly patient, placid, benevolent, dis
interested, and cheerful. He was too mild to
indulge bitterness or severity, and he thought that
truth required little else than to be fairly stated
and properly understood. Those, who could not
relish the savor of his piety, loved lu'm as an
amiable, and revered him as a great man. In his
last sickness he imparted his advice to the con
gregation, and represented to his family the
necessity of an interest in Christ. A few nights
before he died he said, "Directly I am going
to glory. My Master calls me ; I must be gone."
He published a few occasional sermons and tracts
in defence of important, truths. — Evang. Intellig.
I. 241-244.
BLAIR, SAMUEL, minister of Boston, the son
of Rev. Samuel Blair, died Sept. 24, 1818, aged
77. He was born at Fog's manor in 1741.
After being graduated at the college of New
Jersey in 1760, he was a tutor in that seminary.
He was settled as colleague with ] )r. Sewall over
the old south church in Boston Nov. 26, 1766.
He had been previously ordained as a Presbyte
rian. In the next year he was chosen president
of the college in New Jersey, as successor of
Finlcy, but he declined the appointment, in con
sequence of the ascertained willingness of Dr.
Withcrspoon to accept the place, which at first
he had rejected. By reason of ill health and
some difficulty respecting the half-way covenant,
Mr. Blair was dismissed Oct. 10, 1769. He never
resumed a pastoral charge. During the last
years of his life he resided at Germantown, where
he died suddenly. lie was succeeded by Mr.
Bacon and Mr. Hunt. Distinguished for talents
and learning, he was in preaching, with a feeble
voice, a master of the touching and pathetic. He
married in 1769 a daughter of Dr. Shippcn, the
elder, of Philadelphia : his daughter married
Charles Pierce. He published an oration on the
death of George II., 1761.— Wisner's Hist. 0. S.
CJntrcJi, 31 ; Green's Discourses, 392, 396.
BLAIR, JOHN, one of the associate judges of
the supreme court of the United States, died at
Williamsburg in Virginia August 31, 1800, aged
68. He was a judge of the court of appeals in
Virginia in 1787, at which time the legislature
of that State, finding the judiciary system incon
venient, established circuit courts, the duties of
which they directed the judges of the court of
appeals to perform. These judges, among whose
names are those of Blair, Pendleton, and Wythe,
remonstrated and declared the act unconstitu
tional. In the same year, he was a member of
the general convention, which formed the con
stitution of the United States. To that instrument
the names of Blair and Madison arc affixed as
the deputies from Virginia. In September, 1789,
when the government, which he had assisted in
establishing, had commenced its operation, he
was appointed by Washington an associate judge
of the supreme court, of which John Jay was
chief justice. He was an amiable, accomplished,
and truly virtuous man. He discharged with
ability and integrity the duties of a number of
the highest and most important public trusts;
and in these, as well as in the relations of private
life, his conduct was upright, and so blameless,
that he seldom or never lost a friend or made
an enemy. Through life he in a remarkable
manner experienced the truth of our Saviour's
declaration, "Blessed are the meek, for they shall
inherit the earth ; " and at death lie illustrated
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the force of the exclamation, " Let me die the ! Lexington with the militia from Wrentham, and
death of the righteous, and let my last end be i served in the war.
like his."— Claypoole's Adv., Sept. 12, 1800;; BLAKE, JAMES, died at Dorchester May 22,
MarshaU,\. 216.
BLAKE, JOSEPH, governor of South Carolina,
1753, aged 65 ; the author of annals of Dor
chester.
BLAKE, THOMAS DAWES, doctor, died in Farm-
was a proprietary and a nephew of the famous
Admiral Blake. He succeeded Gov. Thomas Smith ington, Me., Nov. 20, 1849, aged 81, an eminent
in 1694, and Archdale in 1696, and was himself physician. He was a native of Boston,
succeeded by James Moore in 1700. During j BLAKELEY, JOHXSTOX, a captain in the navy,
Blake's administration a set of forty-one articles, [ ^-as born in Ireland in 1781. After lu's father's
called " the last fundamental constitutions," was j removal to Wilmington, N. C., he passed a few
sent from England by the Earl of Bath, the pala- j years in the university of that State. In the year
tine, and other patentees ; but the change in the j igQO he obtained a midshipman's warrant. Ap-
government was never confirmed by the Carolina | pointed to the command of the Wasp, in 1814
assembly. Mr. Blake died in 1700. Although j he captured and burnt the Reindeer, after an
a dissenter, yet with a highly honorable spirit of action of nineteen minutes, with the loss of twenty-
liberality he prevailed on the assembly to settle one men ; the enemy lost sixty-seven. In an
on the Episcopal minister of Charleston 150
pounds a year, and to furnish him with a house,
glebe, and two servants. A very different, an in
tolerant and persecuting spirit was manifested
action Sept. 1, 1814, the Avon struck to him,
though the approach of other vessels prevented
his taking possession of her. The last account
of the Wasp is, that she was spoken off the West-
towards the dissenters in the subsequent admin- ] ern Isles. In what manner Blakeley died is,
istration of Johnson. — Univ. Hist. XL. 427. j therefore, not known. His Avife and an infant
BLAKE, JAMKS, a preacher, died Nov. 17, i daughter survived. The legislature of North
1771, aged 21. He was a native of Dorchester,
and was graduated at Harvard in 1769. In col
lege he was distinguished by the sweetness of
his temper and the purity of his morals. He
conciliated the love of his fellow students, and
the high approbation of his instructors. After
pursuing for some time his theological studies
under the care of Mr. Smith of Weymouth, he
began with reluctance at a very early period the
Carolina passed the resolution that this child " be
educated at the expense of the State."
BLAKEMAX, ADAM, first minister of Strat
ford, died in 1665. His son Benjamin, a graduate
of Harvard in 1663, was a preacher at Maiden.
The catalogue has the name Blackman.
BLANC, VIXCEXT LE, a traveller in Asia, Af
rica, and America, from the age of twelve to sixty,
gives an account of Canada in his book, entitled,
important work of the ministry. A small volume « Les Voyages fameux, &c.," 1648. Though his
of his sermons, which was published by his friends j narrative is in some respects valuable, yet it is
after his death, displays a strength of mind and j confused, with little regard to dates, and tolerant
a knowledge of theoretical and practical divinity j towards fables. The author speaks of the giant
very uncommon in a person so young. His ser- j stature of the Indians. — Charlevoix, I. 4.
mons also indicate a warmth of pious feeling, j BLANC, JEAX LE, chief of the Outaouais, or
honorable to his character. — P>'ff- to his Serm. Ottaway Indians, — called Lc Blanc, because his
Coll. Hist. Soc. ix. 189.
mother was as white as a French woman, — was
BLAKE, GEOUGE, died at Boston Oct. 6, 1841, a chief of talents, and difficult to be won by the
aged 73. A graduate of 1789, he was a lawyer ! governor. He rescued the Father Constantin,
of eminence, and United States attorney for Mas- -who had fallen into the hands of the Indians,
sachusetts. He published an oration at Boston | In 1707 he appeared before the governor at Mont-
July 4, 1795 ; masonic eulogy on Washington, real and excused his tribe for some disorders.
1800. j This chief, whom Charlevoix denominates a bad
BLAKE, FRAXCIS, brother of the preceding, I Christian and a great drunkard, was asked by
a graduate of 1789, died at Worcester in 1817. j Frontenac, of what he supposed the water of
He published orations, 1796 and 1812, and exam- j life, or rum, for which he was so greedy, was
ination of embargo laws, 1808.
composed; he replied, — "It is an extract of
BLAKE, JOHN, general, died in Bangor Jan. tongues and hearts ; for Avhen I have been drink-
21, 1842, aged 89; — a soldier of the Revolution. • ing it, I fear nothing and talk marvellously."
BLAKE, CALEB, minister of Westford forty- ! Hc might have added, — " It is the essence of folly
five years, died May 11, 1847, aged 85. He was ! and madness; for when I have swallowed it, I
a graduate of Harvard in 1784. He published j play the part of a fool and a madman." Yet the
a sermon before a charitable socictv, 1815.
governor, De Callieres, was very careful never to
BLAKE, ELEAZAR, deacon, died in Ilindgc in j send away a chief until after " regaling " him.
Oct., 1852, aged 95. He was in the battle of j Thus, from policy and covetousness, have drunk-
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ards had the poison dealt out to them from age
to age. — Charlei-oix, II. 274, 311; m. 30G.
BLAND, RICHARD, a political writer, died in
1778. He was for some years a principal mem
ber of the house of burgesses in Virginia. In
17G8 he was one of the committee to remonstrate
with parliament on the subject of taxation; in
177.3 one of the committee of correspondence;
in 1774 a delegate to Congress. He was again
chosen a deputy to Congress Aug. 12, 1775 ; in
returning thanks for this appointment he spoke
of himself as " an old man, almost deprived of
sight, whose great ambition had ever been to
receive the plaudit of his country, whenever he
should retire from the public stage of life." The
honor, which cometh from God, would have been
a higher aim. Though he declined the appoint
ment from old age, he declared he should ever
be animated " to support the glorious cause, in
which America was engaged." Francis L. Lee
was appointed in his place. Mr. Wirt speaks
of him as " one of the most enlightened men in
the colony ; a man of finished education and of
the most unbending habits of application. His
perfect mastery of every fact connected with the
settlement and progress of the colony had given
him the name of the Virginia antiquary. He was
a politician of the first class, a profound logician,
and was also considered as the first writer in the
colony." He published in 1766 an inquiry into
the rights of the British colonies, in answer to a
pamphlet published in London in the preceding
year, entitled, regulations lately made concerning
the colonies, and taxes imposed on them, consid
ered. This was one of the three productions of
Virginia during the controversy with Great Britain ;
the other writers were Arthur Lee and Jefferson.
Rewrote also in 1758 on the controversy between
the clergy and the assembly concerning the to
bacco tax for the support of the clergy. — Jeffer
son's Notes, qu. 23 ; Wirt's Life of Henry, 46.
BLAND, THEODORIC, a worthy patriot and
statesman, died at New York while attending con
gress, June 1, 1790, aged 48. He was a native
of Virginia, and descended from an ancient and
respectable family. He was bred to the science
of physic; but upon the commencement of the
American war he quitted the practice, and took
an active part in the cause of his country. He
soon rose to the rank of colonel, and had the
command of a regiment of dragoons. While in
the army he frequently signalized himself by bril
liant actions. In the year 1780 he was elected
to a seat in congress. He continued in that body
three years, .the time allowed by the confedera
tion. After the expiration of this term he again
returned to Virginia, and was chosen a member
of the State legislature. He opposed the adop
tion of the constitution, believing it to be repugnant
to the interests of his country, and was in the
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minority that voted against its ratification. But,
when it was at length adopted, he submitted to
the voice of the majority. He was chosen to rep
resent the district in which he lived, in the first
congress under the constitution. When the sub
ject of the assumption of the State debts was
debated in March, 1790, he made a speech in
favor of the assumption, differing in respect to
this measure from all his colleagues. In this
speech he expressed his attachment to the con
stitution as amended, though he wished for more
amendments, and declared his dread of silent
majorities on questions of great and general con
cern. He was honest, open, candid; and his
conduct was such in his intercourse with mankind,
as to secure universal respect. Though a legis
lator, he was not destitute of a genius for poetry.
— Gazette of the U. S., April 17 and June 5,
1790.
BLAND, THEODORIC, died at Annapolis Nov.
16, 1846, aged 69. For twenty-two years he was
chancellor of Maryland.
BLATCHFORD, SAMUEL, D. D., minister of
Lansingburg, N. Y., died March 17, 1828, aged
60. He was a native of Plymouth, England,
wrhere he was educated and became a dissenting
minister. In 1795 he emigrated to the United
States : after a residence of one year at Bedford,
Westchester county, he succeeded Dr. Dwight
at Greenfield ; subsequently he was the minister
at Bridgeport, whence he was invited to Lansing-
burg in 1804. — His son, Henry Blatchford, who
had been pastor of the Branch church, Salem,
Mass., and thence removed to Lansingburg, died
in Maryland Sept., 1822, aged 34. — Dr. Blatch
ford was a sound scholar and theologian, and as
a pastor kind, persuasive, and often eloquent in
his manner. He was endeared to his acquaint
ance by his estimable virtues and his Christian
graces.
BLATCHFORD, JOHN, D. D., the son of the
preceding, died at the house of his son-in-law, M.
Collins, in St. Louis, April 8, 1855, aged 56. He
was for some years the minister of the Presbyte
rian church in Chicago. His last residence was
at Quincy, Illinois.
BLAUVELT, ISAAC, a minister, died in New
Rochelle April, 1841, aged 90, in the peace and
hope of the gospel.
BLEDSOE, JESSE, died in Kentucky June 30,
1837. He may be held up as a beacon and a
warning to others. A lawyer, a senator of the
United States in 1813, professor of law in the
university, chief justice of the supreme court of
Kentucky ; of talents, eloquence, and unequalled
influence for a time, he yet in consequence of
intemperance became a miserable outcast and
wanderer.
BLEECKER, ANN ELIZA, a lady of some liter
ary celebrity in New York, died Nov. 23, 1783,
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BLISS.
aged 31. She was the daughter of Mr. Brandt
Schuylcr, and was born in October, 1 752. From
early life she was passionately fond of books. In
1769 she was married to John I. Bleecker, Esq.,
of New Ilochelle, and removed to Poughkeepsie,
and shortly afterwards to Tomhanic, a beautiful,
solitary village, eighteen miles above Albany,
where she lived a number of years in great tran
quillity and happiness. But the approach of Bur-
goync's army in 1777 drove her from her retreat
in circumstances of terror. She fled on foot with
her two little daughters, and obtained shelter for
the night at Stone Arabia. In a few days she
lost the youngest of her children. This affliction
cast a gloom over her mind ; and possessing an
excessive sensibility, though not unacquainted
with religious consolations, she was unable to sup
port the Aveight of her troubles. After the peace
she revisited New York to awaken afresh the
scenes of her childhood ; but the dispersion of
her friends, and the desolation, which everywhere
presented itself to her sight, overwhelmed her.
She returned to her cottage, where she died. She
was the friend of the aged and infirm, and her
kindness and benevolence to the poor of the vil
lage, where she lived, caused her death to be deeply
lamented. After her death, some of her writings
were collected and published, in 1793, under
the title of the posthumous works of Ann Eliza
Bleecker, in prose and verse. To this work are
prefixed memoirs of her life, written by her
daughter, Margaretta V. Faugeres. There is
also added to the volume a collection of Mrs.
Faugeres' essays. — Hardies Biog. Diet. ; Spec.
Amer. Poetry, I. 211-220.
BLEECKER, ANTHONY, a poet, was born about
the year 1778 and educated at Columbia college
in the city of New York. The circumstances of
his family constrained him to study law, though
he never succeeded as an advocate in consequence
of an unconquerable diffidence, a somewhat rare
failing in a lawyer. Yet was he respected in his
profession for his learning and integrity. After
a short illness he died in the spring of 1827,
aged 49 years. For tlu'rty years the periodical
literature of New York and Philadelphia was
constantly indebted to his fancy and good taste.
— Spec. Amer. Poetry, n. 381-386.
BLEECKER, HARMANUS, died in Albany in
July, 1849, aged 70. lie was the son of Jacob
B., a respected merchant, and a descendant of
John Jansen B. As a lawyer he was associated
with Theodore Sedgwick. As a member of con
gress he opposed the war of 1812. Mr. Van
Buren appointed him minister to Holland. With
the Dutch language he was perfectly acquainted ;
in Holland he married a Dutch lady of beauty
and accomplishments. He was himself of pleas
ing manners and great dignity : and he had a
deep sense of justice and an unfailing regard to it.
BLENNERHASSETT, HARMAN, died in the
island of Guernsey, in 1831, aged 63. His widow,
Margaret, died in New York in utter poverty in
1842. He was an Englishman of wealth and
well educated, who came to Marietta in 1797.
He bought a plantation of one hundred and seventy
acres on a beautiful island in. the Ohio, fourteen
miles below the Muskingum, in Virginia, now
known by his name. His mansion and improve
ments cost 40,000 dollars. He was a man of
science and taste, and his wife was most beautiful
and accomplished, skilled in French and Italian.
His home was a scene of enchantment. But now,
in 1806, came the destroyer, Aaron Burr, and
persuaded him to engage in his projects. In con
sequence he fled from the island; was tried for
treason; and had heavy debts to pay, contracted
for Burr. He next lived ten years in Mississippi,
and thence removed to Montreal and England.
Dr. Hildreth has published the Deserted Isle,
being verses written by his wife. He thinks the
unhappy man was an Infidel, and " lacked one thing,
without which no man can be happy : a firm be
lief in the overruling providence of God." —
Hildreth's Biog. Memoirs.
BLINMAN, RICHARD, first minister of New
London, Connecticut, was a native of Great Britain,
and was minister at Chepstow in Monmouthshire.
On his arrival in this country in 1642 it was his
intention to settle with his friends, who accom
panied him, at Green's harbor, or Marshfield, near
Plymouth. But some difficulty arising in that
place, he removed to Cape Ann, which the general
court in the year above mentioned established a
plantation and called Gloucester. He removed
to New London in 1648. Here he continued in
the ministry about ten years, and was then suc
ceeded by GershomBulklcy. In 1658 he removed
to New Haven, and after a short stay in that
town returned to England. On his way he stop
ped in 1659 at Newfoundland, where he declined
to settle. Johnson wrote his name Blindman;
Trumbull, Blynman. — Having lived to a good
old age, he happily concluded at the city of Bris
tol a life spent in doing good. A short time be
fore his death he published in answer to Mr.
Danvers a book entitled, an essay tending to issue
the controversy about infant baptism, 18mo., 1674.
— Nonconform. Memor. in. 177; Coll. Hist. Soc.
ix. 39 ; Savage's Wintlirop, II. 64 ; TrumbulVs
Conn. I. 293/310, 314, 522.
BLISS, JAMES C., M. D., died in New York
July 31, 1855, aged 64. Born in Bennington, he
graduated at the college of physicians in New
York in 1815, and then commenced his practice
of forty years. As a physician and Christian he
was eminent ; in the families of ministers and of
the poor his services were gratuitous. He was a
member of the south Dutch church, then an elder
in the Bleecker street church. He joined the
BLISS.
young men's missionary society ; was correspond
ing secretary of the New York religious tract
society, for which he prepared in one year seventy-
five religious tracts ; and was one of the founders
of the American tract society, and one of the
executive committee, most diligent for thirty years.
His last tear fell in hearing his daughter repeat
the text, " Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard,"
&C. — N. T. Observer, Aug. 16, 1855.
BLISS, JOHX, colonel, an officer of the Revo
lution, died in Springfield in 1804, descended from
Thomas Bliss of Hartford, who died in 1640, and
from Nathaniel of Springfield. — He was a sen
ator and a judge of the court of common pleas.
His daughter was the mother of Judge Oliver B.
Morris of Springfield.
BLISS, GEORGE, LL. D., died at Springfield
March 8, 1830, aged 65. He was a son of Moses
B. of S. and Abigail Mctcalf, a daughter of Wil
liam M. of Lebanon. His father died July 4,
1814, aged 78. G. Bliss's three wives were Han
nah, daughter of Dr. John Clark of Lebanon;
Mary Lathrop of New Haven, and Abigail, daugh
ter of Rev. David S. Rowland. He had four
children by his first wife and four by his third.
His brother Moses died in S. in 1849, aged 75.
He had ten children.
BLISS, JOHN, colonel, died at St. Augustine Nov.
22, 1854, aged G6. A graduate of Cambridge in
1808, he was an officer, wounded at Niagara falls
in 1814 ; he was an instructor and commander of
cadets at West Point from 1813 to 1819. His
military office he resigned in 1837 ; he lived at
Buffalo.
BLODGET, SAMUEL, remarkable for enter
prise, died in Aug., 1807, aged 84. He was born
at Woburn, Mass., and resided many years at
Haverhill. Before the Revolution he was a judge
of the court of common pleas for the county of
Hillsborough, N. II. He was engaged in the ex
pedition against Louisbourg in 1745. Having
raised in 1783, by a machine of his invention, a
valuable cargo from a ship sunk near Plymouth,
he was induced to go to Europe for the purpose
of recovering from the deep the treasures buried
therein. In Spain he met with discouragement.
His project for raising the Royal George was no
better received in England. After his return he
set up a duck manufactory in 1791 ; and in 1793
he removed to N. II. and commenced the canal,
which bears his name, around Amoskcag falls.
He expended much money without completing the
work, became embarrassed, and for a time suf
fered imprisonment for debt. Judge B. was rig
idly temperate. At all seasons he slept in a
large room, with open windows. He intended to
live, in consequence of the course he pursued,
until he was ajt least 100 years old ; but he died
of a consumption, occasioned by his exposure in
travelling from Boston to Haverhill in a cold
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night. His projects for public improvements un
happily involved him in great pecuniary losses.
He wanted more skill. — Mass. Hist. Coll., n. s.
IV. 158.
BLOOMFIELI), JOSEPH, governor of New
Jersey, was probably a descendant of Thomas
Bloomfield, who lived at Ncwbury, Mass., in
1638 and afterwards removed to New Jersey.
He was a soldier of the Revolution. He suc
ceeded Richard Howell as governor in 1801, and
was succeeded in that office by Aaron Ogdcn in
1812. In the war, which commenced in this year,
he was a brigadier-general. He died at Burling
ton Oct. 3, 1823. Gen. Bloomfield was a firm
republican in politics ; in congress a sound legis
lator ; a brave soldier in the field ; and in private
life an excellent man. — Farmer's Collect., n.
App. 91.
BLOUNT, WILLIAM, governor of the territory
south of the Ohio, was appointed to that office
in 1790. The first governor of Tennessee under
the constitution in 1796 was John Sevier. While
a member of the senate of the U. S. from Ten
nessee, Mr. Blount was expelled from that body
in July, 1797, for being concerned in a project of
the British to conquer the Spanish territories, and
instigating the Creeks and Cherokees to lend their
aid. He died at Knoxvillc March 26, 1800,
aged 56.
BLOUNT, WILLIE, governor of Tenn. from
1809 to 1815, died at Nashville Sept. 10, 1835,
aged 68.
BLOWERS, THOMAS, minister in Beverly,
Massachusetts, died June 17, 1729, aged 51. He
was bom at Cambridge Aug. 1, 1677. His
mother was the sister of Andrew Belcher. He
was graduated at Harvard college in 1695, and
was ordained pastor of the first church in Beverly
Oct. 29, 1701. He was a good scholar, and an
excellent minister ; of sincere and ardent piety ;
of great meekness and sweetness of temper ; of
uncommon stability in his principles and steadi
ness in his conduct. He was a vigilant, prudent
pastor, and a close, pathetic preacher. He pub
lished a sermon on the death of Rev. Joseph Green
of Salem village, 1715. — A7. E. Weekly Journal,
June 23, 1729 ; Foxcrqft's Funeral Sermon.
BLOWERS, SAMPSON SALTER, died at Hali
fax, N. S., Oct. 25, 1842, aged 100 years and 6
months. A graduate of Harvard in 1763, he
survived all who graduated before him. Born in
Boston, he studied law under Gov. Hutchinson.
In 1770 he was counsel with Adams and Quincy
in the trial of the British soldiers. As a tory he
was sent to Halifax. He was raised to the su
preme bench in 1795, and was presiding judge
from 1801 to 1833. His name was in the pro
scribing act of Mass, in 1778.
BOARDMAX, GEORGE D., an eminent Bap
tist missionary to Burmah, died Feb. 11, 1831.
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BOGARDUS.
BOLLMAX.
BOGARDUS, EYERARDUS, the first minister
of the Reformed Dutch church in New York,
came early to this country, though the exact time
of his arrival is not known. The records of this
church begin with the year 1639. He was or
dained and sent forth, it is believed, by the classis
of Amsterdam, which had for a number of years
the superintendence of the Dutch churches in
New Netherlands, or the province of New York.
The tradition is, that Mr. Bogardus became blind
and returned to Holland some time before the sur
render of the colony to the British in 1664. lie
was succeeded by John and Samuel Megapolen-
sis. — Christian's Mag. N. Y. I. 368.
BOGARDUS, ROBERT, general, nearly fifty
years at the bar of New York, died Sept. 12,
1841, aged 70. He was a State senator.
BOGART, ABRAHAM, died in the poor-house
in Maury county, Tenn., June 14, 1833, aged 118
years, — a native of Delaware. He never drank
spirits and he never was sick.
BOLLAN, WILLIAM, agent of Massachusetts
in Great Britain, died in England in 1776. He
was born in England, and came to this country
about the year 1740. In 1743 he married a most
amiable and accomplished lady, the daughter of
Gov. Shirley, who died at the age of 25. Mr.
Bollan was a lawyer of eminence, in profitable
business, was advocate general, and had just re
ceived the appointment of collector of customs
for Salem and Marblehead, Avhen he was sent to
England in 1745 as agent to solicit a reimburse
ment of the expenses in the expedition against
Cape Breton. It was a difficult, toilsome agency
of three years ; but he conducted it with great
skill and fidelity, and obtained at last a full repay
ment of the expenditure, being 183,649 pounds
sterling. He arrived at Boston Sept. 19, 1748,
with 653,000 ounces of silver and ten tons of cop
per, reckoned at 175,000 pounds sterling, or
nearly 800,000 dollars. He was again sent to
England as the agent : but it appears from a let
ter, which he wrote in 1752 to the secretary of
Massachusetts, that for his three years' services
the colony, after seven years from his appoint
ment, voted him the sum of only 1500 pounds
sterling. He had supported his family, and ad
vanced of his money in the agency business as
much as fifteen hundred pounds ; he had aban
doned a profitable business, which would have
yielded him double the amount voted him ; and
besides this he had passed his years in the degra
dation of " a continual state of attendance and
dependence on the motions and pleasures of the
great," standing alone too without any support or
assistance. After Gov. Shirley was superseded,
attempts were made to displace Mr. Bollan, not
withstanding his address and talents, and his
long, faithful, and important services. His con
nection with Shirley and his attachment to the
Episcopal form of worship awakened prejudices.
Dissatisfaction had also been occasioned by his
making some deductions from the money, granted
in 1759, as a reimbursement to the province, and
his neglecting to correspond with the general
court. He was dismissed in 1762, and Jasper
Mauduit, whose learning; and talents were not ad
equate to the office, was appointed in his place.
i In 1768 or 1769 he obtained from Alderman
Bcckford copies of thirty-three letters of Gov.
Bernard, which he sent to Massachusetts, being
employed as agent by the council, though not by
the general court. For this act Lord North ex
claimed against him in parliament ; but it restored
his lost popularity. Mr. Hancock declared in
the house of representatives, that there Avas no
man, to whom the colonies were more indebted.
In 1775 he exerted himself in recommending to
the mother country conciliatory measures. Sev
eral of his letters and writings are in the Mass.
Historical Collections, vols. I. and Yl. In one of
them he maintains, that the boundary of Nova
Scotia to the north is the river of Canada. He
published a number of political tracts, among
which are the following : importance of Cape Bre
ton truly illustrated, Lond., 1746; colonioc Angli-
canaB illustratae, 1762 ; the ancient right of the
English nation to the American fishery examined
and stated, 1764 ; the : .utual interests of Great
Britain and the American colonies considered,
1765 ; freedom of speech and writing upon public
affairs considered, 1766 ; the importance of the
colonies in North America and the interests of
Great Britain with regard to them considered,
1766 ; epistle from Timoleon, 1768 ; continued
corruption of standing armies, 1768 ; the free
Briton's memorial, in defence of the right of elec
tion, 1769 ; a supplemental memorial, on the ori
gin of parliaments, &c., 1770 ; a petition to the
king in council Jan. 26, 1774, with illustrations
intended to promote the harmony of Great Brit-
ian and her colonies. This petition he offered as
agent for the council of the province of Massa
chusetts. — Ilutchinson's Mass. II. 436 ; Minofs
Contin. II. 109, 110; Eliot.
BOLLES, Lucius, D. D., died in Boston Jan.
5, 1844, aged 64. He had been pastor of the
first Baptist church, Salem, and was many years
secretary of the Baptist board of foreign missions.
He published a sermon before the association,
1822.
BOLLMAN, ERICH, M. D., was born at Hoya,
in Hanover, in Europe, and was well educated,
receiving his medical degree at Gottingen. He
settled as a physician at Paris. In 1794 he engaged
in the project of releasing La Fayette from the prison
of Olmutz. His coadjutor was Francis Iluger,
an American, son of Col. Hugcr of South Caro-
BOMFORD.
BONYTIIOX.
'I'O'l
lina. He found means through the surgeon to
communicate with the prisoner. As La Fayctte
was riding out for his health, Nov. 8, the guard
was attacked and overcome : the prisoner and his
deliverers galloped off, but missing the way, were
soon captured. Dr. Bollman was confined twelve
months and then banished. After ho came to the
United States, he was implicated in the conspir
acy of Burr. On his return from South America
he died at Jamaica of the yellow fever Dec. 9,
1821. He published paragraphs on banks, 1810 ;
improved system of the money concerns of the
union, 1816 ; strictures on the theories of Mr.
Kicardo. — Jennison.
BOMFORD, GEORGE, colonel, died in Boston,
March 25, 1828. He was distinguished in the
war with Great Britain. He perfected the ord
nance department.
BOMMASEEN, an Indian chief, signed the
treaty of Pcmaquid in Maine Aug. 11, 1693, with
Madockawondo and other sagamores. It was one
part of the agreement that, as the French had
instigated wars, the Indians should abandon the
French interest. The treaty is given at length
by Mather. The next year, after various barbari
ties at Kittery and elsewhere, in which he was
suspected to have been concerned, Bommaseen
presented himself with two other Indians at
Pcmaquid, " as loving as bears and as harmless
as tigers," pretending to have just come from
Canada ; when Capt. March made him prisoner
Nov. 19, and sent him to Boston, where he was
kept a year or two in gaol. In 1696 one of the
ministers of Boston visited Bommaseen at his re
quest in prison, when the savage inquired, whether
it was true, as the French had taught him, that
the Virgin Mary was a French lady, and that it
was the English who murdered Jesus Christ, and
whether he required his disciples " to revenge
Ins quarrel upon the English ? " The minister
gave him suitable religious instruction, and taught
him how to obtain the pardon of sins from God,
Avithout paying beaver skins for it to a priest ;
which instruction was received with strong ex
pressions of gratitude. This is the serious nar
rative of Cotton Mather. Unless the Indian
invented the story, what a proof is here furnished
of the depravity of the French teachers of the
savages ! After his liberation Bommaseen mani
fested his humanity by saving the life of Rebecca
Taylor, a captive, whom her master was endeav
oring to hang with his belt near Montreal in
1696. — Ilulchinson, II. 149 ; Magnal. VII. 22.
BOND, THOMAS, M. D., a distinguished physi
cian and surgeon, died March 26, 1784, aged 72.
He was born in Maryland in 1712. After study
ing with Dr. Hamilton, he spent a considerable
time in Paris. On his return he commenced the
practice of medicine at Philadelphia about the
year 1734. With his brother, Dr. Phineas Bond,
he attended the Pennsylvania hospital, in which
the first clinical lectures were delivered by him.
He assisted in founding the college and academy.
Of a literary society, composed of Franklin, Bar-
tram, Godfrey, and others, he was a member in
1743, and an officer of the philosophical society
from its establishment. The annual address be
fore the society was delivered by him in 1782, on
the rank of man in the scale of being. For half
a century he had the first practice in Philadel
phia. Though disposed to pulmonary consumption,
by attention to diet, and guarding against the
changes of the weather, and the obstruction of
blood when his lungs were affected, he lived to a
good old age. His daughter, married to Thomas
Lawrence, died in 177 1. His brother, Dr. Phineas
Bond, who studied at Leyden, Paris, Edinburgh,
and London, and was an eminent practitioner in
Philadelphia, died in June, 1773, aged 56. lie
published in the London Medical Inquiries and
Observations, vol. I., an account of a worm in the
liver, 1754; on the use of Peruvian bark in
scrofula, vol. II. — Thacher's Med. Biog. ; Ham-
say's Rev. Med. 37 ; Miller I. 312.
BOND, THOMAS F,, I). D., editor of the New
York Christian Advocate and Journal, died March
19, 1856, aged 74. A native of Maryland, he
joined the Methodist church in Baltimore in 1805 ;
and there he lived many years in various offices
of trust. He was respected and beloved.
BONNYCASTLE, CHARLES, died in Oct., 1840,
aged 48, the son of John B. of England, He was
the author of algebra ; professor of mathematics
in the university of Virginia ; and published a
work on inductive geometry.
BONYTHON, RICHARD, captain, died before
1653. He was one of the first settlers of Saco,
had a grant of one hundred and twenty acres in
Saco, 1629. He was one of the commissioners
under Gorges for the government of the province
of Maine, then called New Somersetshire, in 1636.
The first meeting was held at Saco March 25,
which was the first day of the year. When
Gorges had obtained from the king a new charter
of the province, Bonython was named one of the
council, with Vines, Jocelyn, and others, in 1640.
The last court under under this authority was
held at Wells in 1646. He lived in a house on
the left bank of the Saco, just below the falls.
His name is written Benython by Sullivan and
Bonighton by Farmer and Willis. He was an
upright and worthy magistrate ; even against his
own son he once entered a complaint. This son
was John Bonython, who was outlawed for con
temning the summons of court and was guilty of
various outrages ; he died in 1684. — His ungov
ernable temper procured him the title of the
sagamore of Saco in the couplet proposed for his
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gravestone, which represents him as having gone
to the evil spirit of the Indians :
" Here lies Bonython, the sagamore of Saco ;
He lived a rogue and died a knave and went to Ilobomocko."
Although he left many children, yet his name is
extinct in Maine and probably in New England.
— Folsom's Hist. Saco, 113, 115; Sullivan, 368.
BOOGE, PUBLICS V., died in Oneida co., Xew
York, Sept. 28, 1836, aged 72 ; the oldest minister
in the presbytery of O. A graduate of Yale in
1787, he preached much in New England.
BOONE, DAXIEL, colonel, one of the first set
tlers of Kentucky, died in Missouri Sept. 26, 1820,
aged nearly 90. While he was young, his parents,
who came from Bridgeworth, Eng., removed from
Pennsylvania or Virginia to the Yadkin river in
North Carolina. He was early addicted to hunt
ing in the woods ; in the militia he attained to
the rank of colonel. In 1769, in consequence of
the representation of John Finley, who had pen
etrated into the wilderness of Kentucky, he was
induced to accompany him in a journey to that
country. He had four other companions, John
Stuart, Joseph Holden, James Money, and William
Cool, with whom he set out May 1. On the 7th
of June they arrived at the Red river, a branch
of the Kentucky ; and here from the top of a
hill they had a view of the fertile plains, of which
they were in pursuit. They encamped and re
mained in this place till Dec. 22, when Boone
and Stuart were captured by the Indians near
Kentucky river. In about a week they made
their escape ; but on returning to their camp, they
found it plundered, and deserted by their com
panions, who had gone back to Carolina. Stuart
was soon killed by the Indians ; but Boone was
joined by his brother, and they remained and
prosecuted the business of hunting during the
winter, without further molestation. His brother
going home for supplies in May 1770, he re
mained alone in the deep solitude of the western
wilderness until his return with ammunition and
horses July 27th. During this period this wild
man of the woods, though greeted every night
with the howlings of wolves, was delighted in
his excursions with the survey of the beauties of
the country, and found greater pleasure in the
solitude of wild nature, than he could have found
amid the hum of the most elegant city. With
his brother he traversed the country to Cumber
land river. It was not until March, 1771, that
he returned to his family, resolved to conduct
them to the paradise which he had explored.
Having sold his farm, he set out with his own
and five other families Sept. 25, 1773, and was
joined in Powell's valley by forty men. After
passing over two mountains, called Powell's and
Walden's, through which, as they ranged from
the northeast to the southwest, passes were found,
BOONE.
and approaching the Cumberland, the rear of the
company was attacked by the Indians on the 10th
of October, when six men Avere killed, among
whom was the eldest son of Col. Boone. One
man was also wounded, and the cattle were scat
tered. This disaster induced them to retreat
about forty miles to the settlement on Clinch
river, where he remained with his family, until
June 6, 1774, when, at the request of governor
Dunmore, he conducted a number of surveyors to
the falls of Ohio. On this tour of eight hundred
miles he was absent two months. After this he
was intrusted by the governor, during the cam
paign against the Shawanese, with the command
of three forts. Early in 1775, at the request of
a company in North Carolina, he attended a treaty
with the Cherokee Indians at Wataga, in order
to make of them the purchase of lands on the
south side of the Tennessee river. After perform
ing this service, he was employed to mark out a
road from the settlements on the Holston to the
Kentucky river. While thus employed, at the
distance of about fifteen miles from what is now
Boonesborough, the party was attacked by the
Indians, who killed four and wounded five. In
April, at a salt-lick, on the southern bank of the
Kentucky, in what is now Boonesborough, a few
miles from Lexington, he began to erect a fort, con
sisting of a block house and several cabins, enclosed
with palisades. On the 14th of June he returned
to his family in order to remove them to the fort.
His wife and daughters were the first white wo
men who stood on the banks of the Kentucky
river. July 14, 1776, when all the settlements
were attacked, two of Col. Calway's daughters
and one of his own were taken prisoners ; Boone
pursued with eighteen men, and in two days
overtook the Indians, killed two of them, and re
covered the captives. The Indians made repeated
attacks upon Boonesborough ; Nov. 15, 1777,
with one hundred men, and July 4, with two
hundred men. On both sides several were killed
and wounded ; but the enemy were repulsed ; as
they were also July 19, from Logan's Fort of
fifteen men, which was besieged by two hundred.
The arrival of twenty-five men from Carolina and
in August of one hundred from Virginia gave a
new aspect to affairs, and taught the savages the
superiority of " the long knives," as they called
the Virginians. Jan. 1, 1778, he went with thirty
men to the blue licks on the Licking river to
make salt for the garrison. Feb. 7, being alone,
he was captured by a party of one hundred and
two Indians and two Frenchmen ; he capitulated
for his men, and they were all carried to Chilli-
cothe on the Little Miami, whence he and ten men
were conducted to Detroit, where he arrived March
30. The governor, Hamilton, treated him with
much humanity, and offered 100 pounds for his
redemption. But the savages refused the offer
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from affection to their captive. Being carried
back to Chillicothe in April, he was adopted as a
son in an Indian family. He assumed the appear
ance of cheerfulness ; but his thoughts were on
his wife and children. Aware of the envy of the
Indians, he was careful not to exhibit his skill in
shooting. In June he went to the salt springs on
the Scioto. On his return to Chillicothe he ascer
tained that four hundred and fifty warriors were
preparing to proceed against Boonesborough. lie
escaped June 16, and arrived at the fort June 20th,
having travelled one hundred and sixty miles in
four days, with but one meal. His wife had re
turned to her father's. Great efforts were made
to repair the fort in order to meet the expected
attack. August 1, he went out with nineteen men
to surprise Point Creek town on the Scioto ;
meeting with thirty Indians, he put them to flight,
and captured their baggage. At last, Aug. 8,
the Indian army of four hundred and forty-four
men, led by Captain Dugnesne and eleven other
Frenchmen, and their own chiefs, with British
colors flying, summoned the fort to surrender.
The next day Boone, having a garrison of only
fifty men, announced his resolution to defend the
fort, while a man was alive. They then proposed
that nine men should be sent out sixty yards from
the fort to enter into a treaty ; and when the
articles were agreed upon and signed, they said
it was customary on such occasions, as a token
of sincere friendship, for two Indians to shake
every white man by the hand. Accordingly two
Indians approached each of the nine white men,
and grappled with the intent of making him a
prisoner ; but the object being perceived, the men
broke away and re-entered the fort. An attempt
was now made to undermine it ; but a counter
trench defeated that purpose. At last, on the
20th, the enemy raised the siege, having lost
thirty-seven men. Of Boone's men two were
killed and four wounded. " We picked up," said
he, " one hundred and twenty-five pounds of bul
lets, besides what stuck in the logs of our fort,
which certainly is a great proof of their industry."
In 1779, when Boone was absent, revisiting his
family in Carolina, Col. Bowman with one hundred
and sixty men fought the Shawanese Indians at
old Chillicothe. In his retreat the Indians pur
sued him for thirty miles, when in another
engagement Col. Ilarrod suggested the successful
project of mounting a number of horses and
breaking the Indian line. Of the Kentuckians
nine were killed. June 22, 1780, about six hun
dred Indians and Canadians under Col. Bird
attacked Kiddie's and Martin's stations and the
forks of Licking river with six pieces of artillery,
and carried away all as captives. Gen. Clarke,
commanding at the falls of Ohio, marched with
his regiment and troops against Keccaway, the
principal Shawanese town, on a branch of the
Miami, and burned the town, with the loss of
seventeen on each side. About this time Boone
returned to Kentucky with his family. In Oct.,
1780, soon after he was settled again at Boones
borough, he went with his brother to the Blue
Licks, and as they were returning the latter was
slain by a party of Indians, and he was pursued
by them by the aid of a dog. By shooting him
Boone escaped. The severity of the ensuing
winter was attended with great distress, the enemy
having destroyed most of the corn. The people
subsisted chiefly on buffalo's flesh. In May, 1782,
the Indians having killed a man at Ashton's sta
tion, Captain A. pursued with twenty-five men,
but in an attack upon the enemy he was killed
with twelve of his men. August 10 two boys
were carried off from Maj. Hay's station. Capt.
llolden pursued with seventeen men ; but he also
was defeated, with the loss of four men. In a
field near Lexington an Indian shot a man, and
running to scalp him, was himself shot from the
fort and fell dead upon his victim. On the 15th
August five hundred Indians attacked Briant's
station, five miles from Lexington, and destroyed
all the cattle; but they were repulsed on the
third day, having about thirty killed, Avhile of the
garrison four were killed and three wounded.
Boone, with Cols. Todd and Trigg and Maj. liar-
land, collected one hundred and seventy-six men
and pursued on the 18th. They overtook the
enemy the next day a mile beyond the Blue Licks,
about forty miles from Lexington, at a remarka
ble bend of a branch of Licking river. A battle
ensued, the enemy having a line formed across
from one bend to the other, but the Kentuckians
were defeated with the great loss of sixty killed,
among whom were Cols. Todd and Trigg, and
Maj. Ilarland, and Boone's second son. Many-
were the widows made in Lexington on that fatal
day. The Indians having four more killed, four
of the prisoners were given up to the young war
riors to be put to death in the most barbarous
manner. Gen. Clarke, accompanied by Boone,
immediately marched into the Indian country and
desolated it, burning old Chillicothe, Peccaway,
new Chillicothe, Willis Town, and Chillicothe.
With the loss of four men he took seven prison
ers and five scalps, or killed five Indians. In Oc
tober the Indians attacked Crab Orchard. One
of the Indians having entered a house, in which
were a woman and a negro, and being thrown to
the ground by the negro, the woman cut off his
head. From this period to the peace with Great
Britain the Indians did no harm. " Two darling
sons and a brother," said Boone, " have I lost by
savage hands, which have also taken from me forty
valuable horses and abundance of cattle. Many
dark and sleepless nights have I spent, separated
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from the cheerful society of men, scorched by the
summer's sun and pinched by the Avinter's cold,
an instrument ordained to settle the wilderness."
From this period he resided in Kentucky and
Virginia till 1798, when in consequence of an im
perfect legal title to the lands, which he had settled,
he found himself dispossessed of his property.
In his indignation he fled from the delightful re
gion, which he had explored, when a wilderness,
and which now had a population of half a million.
With his rifle he crossed the Ohio and plunged
into the immense country of the Missouri. In
1799 he settled on the Fcmme Osage river with
numerous followers. In 1800 he discovered the
Boone's Lick country, now a fine settlement : in
the same year he visited the head waters of the
Grand Osage river and spent the winter upon the
head waters of the Arkansas. At the age of 80,
in company with a white man and a black man,
laid under strict injunctions to carry him back to
his family, dead or alive, he made a hunting trip
to the head waters of the Great Osage, and was
successful in trapping beaver and other game. In
Jan., 1812, he addressed a memorial to the legis
lature of Kentucky, stating that he owned not an
acre of land in the region, which he first settled ;
that in 1794 he passed over into the Spanish
province of Louisiana, under an assurance from
the governor, who resided at St. Louis, that land
should be given him ; that accordingly ten thou
sand acres were given him on the Missouri and he
became Sjudic or chief of the district of St.
Charles ; but that on the acquisition of Louisiana
by the United States his claims were rejected by
the commissioners of land, because he did not ac
tually reside ; and that thus at the age of 80 he was
a wanderer, having no spot of his own whereon to
lay his bones. The legislature instructed their del
egates to congress to solicit a confirmation of this
grant. He retained, it is believed, 2,000 acres.
In his old age he pursued his accustomed course
of life, trapping bears and hunting with his rifle.
He died at the house of his son, Maj. A. Boone,
at Charette. He left sons and daughters in Mis
souri. In consequence of his death the legisla
ture of Missouri voted to wear a badge of mourn
ing for twenty days. A brother died in Missis
sippi, Oct., 1808, aged 81. Col. Boone was of
common stature, of amiable disposition, and hon
orable integrity. In lu's last years he might have
been seen by the traveller at the door of his house,
with his rifle on his knee and his faithful dog at
his side, lamenting the departed \igor of his
limbs, and meditating on the scenes of his past
life. Whether he also meditated on the approach
ing scenes of eternity, and his dim eyes ever kindled
up with the glorious hopes of the Christian is not
mentioned in the accounts of him, which have
been examined. But of all objects an irreligious
old man, dead as to worldly joy and dead as to
celestial hope, is the most pitiable. An account
of his adventures, drawn up by himself, was pub
lished in Filson's supplement to Imlay's descrip
tion of the western territory, 1793. — Riles'
Weekly Register, March 13, 1813.
BOOTH, CHAUNCEY, minister of Coventry,
Conn., died May 24, 1851, aged 68. He was set
tled in 1815 and dismissed in 1844: he toiled in
six revivals.
BOOTT, KIRK, died at Lowell, April 11, 1837,
aged 46. Born in Boston, educated in England,
he served as an officer in Spain under the Duke
of Wellington. During tAvo years at Woolwich,
he acquired skill as a draftsman and engineer.
He superintended the erection of the Lowell
manufacturing establishments, and was a man of
energy, and generous and liberal.
BORDLEY, JOHN BEALE, a writer on agri
culture, died at Philadelphia Jan. 25, 1804, aged
76. In the former part of his life he was an in
habitant of Md. He was of the profession of the
law, and before the Itevolution was a judge of
the superior court and court of appeals of Mary
land. He had also a seat at the executive council
of the province. But he was not allured by this
office from his duty to his country. He found
our Revolution necessary to our freedom, and he
rejoiced in its accomplishment. His habitual and
most pleasing employment was husbandry ; which
he practised extensively upon his own estate on
Wye Island in the bay of Chesapeake. As he
readily tried every suggested improvement, and
adopted such as were confirmed by lu's experi
ments, and as he added to his example frequent
essays upon agricultural subjects, he was greatly
instrumental in diffusing the best knowledge of
the best of all arts. He was cheerful in his tem
per, and was respected and beloved. In religion
he was of the most liberal or free system within
the pale of revelation. In his political principles
he was attached to that republican form of gov
ernment, in which the public authority is founded
on the people, but guarded against the sudden
fluctuations of their will. He published Forsyth's
treatise on fruit trees with notes ; sketches on ro
tations of crops, 1792; essays and notes on hus
bandry and rural affairs, with plates, 1799 and
1801 ; a view of the courses of crops in England
and Maryland, 1804. — U. S. Gazette, Feb. 1.
BORK, CHRISTIAN, minister of the Dutch Re
formed church in Franklin street, N. Y., died
about 1825 or 1830, at an advanced age, and was
succeeded by George Dubois. In the Revolution
ary war he was a soldier in the British army, lie
studied with Dr. Livingston, and was first settled
near Albany. Once in ministering, by way of
exchange at Stcphcntown to an English congrega
tion, he made a part of the prayer in Dutch and
German, lie preached without notes and was
fervent and eminently useful. If it be true, as
BOSTWICK.
reported, that, having a yoke-fellow not of the
sweetest temper, she once locked him in his
study at the moment for going to the church ; it
is altogether probable, from his own energy of
character, that this little obstacle was instantly re
moved.
BOSTWICK, DAVID, an eminent minister in
New York, was of Scotch extraction, and was
born about the year 1720. He was first settled
at Jamaica on Long Island, where he continued
till 1756, when the synod translated him to the
Presbyterian society of New York. In this
charge he continued till Nov. 12, 1703, when he
died, aged 43. He was of a mild, catholic dispo
sition, of great piety and zeal ; and he confined
himself entirely to the proper business of his of
fice. He abhorred the frequent mixture of divin
ity and politics, and much more the turpitude of
making the former subservient to the latter. His
thoughts were occupied by things, which are above,
and he wished to withdraw the minds of his peo
ple more from the concerns of this world. He
was deeply grieved, when some of his flock be
came, not fervent Christians, but furious politi
cians. He preached the gospel, and as liis life
corresponded with his preaching, he Avas respected
by good men of all denominations. His doctrines
he derived from the scriptures, and he understood
them in accordance with the public confessions of
the reformed churches. His discourses were me
thodical, sound, and pathetic, rich in sentiment,
and ornamented in diction. With a strong, com
manding voice, his pronunciation was clear, dis
tinct, and deliberate. He preached without notes,
with great ease and fluency ; but he always studied
his sermons with great care. With a lively imag
ination and a heart deeply affected by the truths
of religion, he was enabled to address his hearers
with solemnity and energy. Few men described
the hideous deformity of sin, the misery of man's
apostasy from God, the wonders of redeeming
love, and the glory and riches of divine grace in
so distinct and affecting a manner. He knew the !
worth of the soul and the deceitfulness of the hu- j
man heart ; and he preached with plainness, more
intent to impress sinners with their guilt and to
teach them the truths of God, than to attract
their attention to himself. Though he was re
markable for his gentleness and prudence, yet in
preaching the gospel he feared no man. He
knew whose servant he was, and with all boldness
and impartiality he deliveied his message, pro
claiming the terrors of the divine law to every
transgressor, however elevated, and displaying the
mild glories of the gospel for the comfort and re
freshment of every penitent believer. A few
months before his death his mind was greatly dis
tressed by apprehensions respecting the interests
of his family, when he should be taken from them.
But God was pleased to give him such views of
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his power and goodness, and such cheerful reli
ance upon the wisdom and rectitude of his gov
ernment, as restored to him peace and calmness.
He was willing to cast himself and all that was
dear to him, upon the providence of his heavenly
Father. In this temper he continued to his last
moment, when he placidly resigned his soul into
the hands of his Saviour. Such is the serenity,
frequently imparted to Christians in the solemn
hour of dissolution.
He published a sermon, preached May 25,
1758, entitled, self disclaimed and Christ exalted.
It received the warm recommendation of Gilbert
Tennent. He published also an account of the
life, character, and death of Pres. Davies, pre
fixed to Davies' sermon on the death of George
II., 1761. After his decease there was published
from his manuscripts a vindication of the right of
infants to the ordinance of baptism, being the
substance of several discourses from Acts II. 39.
— Middleton's Biog. Evan. iv. 414-418; New
and Gen. Biog. Diet. ; Smith's New York, 193 ;
Pref. to Bostwick's Vindication.
BOUCHER, PIERRE, governor of Trois Riv-
ieres in Canada, died at the age of nearly 100
years, having lived to see numerous descendants,
some of the fifth generation. He was sent to
France to represent the temporal and spiritual
wants of the colony ; and published in 1664 an
account of Canada, entitled, Histoire veritable et
naturelle des moeurs et productions, &c.
BOUCHER, JONATHAN, a learned archaeolo
gist, was a native of Cumberland, — the northern
county of England, the country of lakes, the abode
of the poets Wordsworth and Southey, and the
resort of " the lakers," — but came to America
at the age of 16. After receiving Episcopal or
dination, he was appointed rector of Hanover and
then of St. Mary, Va. Gov. Eden gave him also
the rectory of St. Anne, Annapolis, and of
Queen Anne, in Prince George's county. These
are indeed saintly and princely names for a Pro
testant, republican country. However, Mr. Bou
cher was a loyalist, unshaken by the mighty dem
ocratic movements around him. In his farewell
sermon, at the beginning of the Revolution in
1775, he declared that, as long as he lived, he
would say with Zadock, the priest, and Nathan,
the prophet, " God save the king ! " Returning to
England, he Avas appointed vicar of Epsom ; and
there he spent the remainder of his life. He
died April 27, 1804, aged 67. He was esteemed
one of the best preachers of his time. During
the last fourteen years of his life he was em
ployed in preparing a glossary of provincial and
archaeological words, intended as a supplement
to Dr. Johnson's Dictionary. The manuscripts
of Mr. Boucher were purchased of his family in
1831 by the proprietors of the English edition of
Dr. Webster's Dictionary, who proposed to pub-
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lish them as a supplement to Webster. He pub
lished in 1799 a view of the causes and conse
quences of the American Revolution in fifteen
discourses, preached in N. America between 1703
and 1775, dedicated to Washington, containing
many anecdotes illustrative of political events ;
— also, two sermons before the grand juries of
Surrey and Cumberland, 1799.
BOUCHER, CHARLES, died at Berthier, Can
ada East, May, 1852, aged 106.
BOUCIIETTE, JOSEPH, colonel, surveyor-gen
eral of Lower Canada, died April 8, 1841, aged
67, with only a few minutes' illness. He pub
lished a description of Lower Canada, 4to., 1815.
BOUDIXOT, ELIAS, L.L. D., first president
of the American Bible society, died in Burling
ton, N. J., Oct. 24, 1821, aged 81. He was born
in Philadelphia May 2, 1740. His great-grand
father, Elias, was a Protestant in France, who
fled from his country on the revocation of the
edict of Nantes ; his father, Elias, died in 1770 ;
his mother, Catherine Williams, was of a Welsh
family. After a classical education he studied
law under Richard Stockton, whose eldest sister
he married. Soon after commencing the prac
tice of law in New Jersey, he rose to distinction.
He early espoused the cause of his country. In
1777 congress appointed him commissary-general
of prisoners ; and in the same year he was elected
a delegate to congress, of which body he was
elected the president in Nov., 1782. In that ca
pacity he put his signature to the treaty of peace.
He returned to the profession of the law ; but
was again elected to congress under the new con
stitution, in 1789, and was continued a member
of the house six years. In 1796 Washington ap
pointed him the director of the mint of the
United States, as the successor of Rittenhouse :
in this office he continued till 1805, when he re
signed it, and retiring from Philadelphia passed
the remainder of his life at Burlington, N. J.
He lost his wife about the year 1808. His
daughter married Wm. Bradford. His brother,
Elisha Boudinot, died at Newark Oct. 17, 1819,
aged 71. After the establishment in 1816 of the
Bible society which he assisted in creating, he
was elected its first president; and he made
to it the munificent donation of 10,000 dollars.
He afterwards contributed liberally towards the
erection of its depository. In 1812 he was
elected a member of the American board of com
missioners for foreign missions, to which he pre
sented the next year a donation of 100 pounds ster
ling. When three Cherokee youth were brought
to the foreign mission school in 1818, one of
them by his permission took his name, for he was
deeply interested in every attempt to meliorate
the condition of the American Indians. His
house was the seat of hospitality and his days
were spent in the pursuits of biblical literature,
in the exercise of the loveliest charities of life,
and the performance of the highest Christian du
ties. He was a trustee of Princeton college, in
which he founded in 1805 the cabinet of natural
history, which cost 3,000 dollars. He was a
member of a Presbyterian church. By the relig
ion which he professed he was supported and
cheered as he went down to the grave. His pa
tience was unexhausted ; his faith was strong and
triumphant. Exhorting those around him to rest
in Jesus Christ as the only ground of trust, and
commending his daughter and only child to the
care of his friends, he expressed his desire to de
part in peace to the bosom of his Father in
heaven, and his last prayer was, " Lord Jesus, re
ceive my spirit."
By his last will Dr. Boudinot bequeathed his
large estate principally to charitable uses ; 200
dollars for ten poor widows ; 200 to the New
Jersey Bible society to purchase spectacles for the
aged poor, to enable them to read the Bible ;
2,000 dollars to the Moravians at Bethlehem for
the instruction of the Indians ; 4,000 acres of
land to the society for the benefit of the Jews ;
to the Magdalen societies of New York and Phil
adelphia 500 dollars each ; three houses in Phil
adelphia to the trustees of the general assembly
for the purchase of books for ministers ; also,
5,000 dollars to the general assembly for the sup
port of a missionary in Philadelphia and New
York; 4,080 acres of land for theological stu
dents at Princeton ; 4,000 acres to the college of
New Jersey for the establishment of fellowships ;
4,542 acres to the American board of commis
sioners for foreign missions, with special reference
to the benefit of the Indians ; 3,270 acres to the
hospital at Philadelphia, for the benefit of for
eigners ; 4,589 acres to the American Bible soci
ety ; 13,000 acres to the mayor and corporation
of Philadelphia, to supply the poor with wood on
low terms ; also, after the decease of his daughter,
5,000 dollars to the college and 5,000 to the the
ological seminary of Princeton, and 5,000 to the
A. B. of commissioners for foreign missions, and
the remainder of his estate to the general assem
bly of the Presbyterian church. How benevo
lent, honorable, and useful is such a charitable
disposition of the property, which God intrusts
to a Christian, compared with the selfish and nar
row appropriation of it to the enrichment of
family relatives, without any reference to the dif
fusion of truth and holiness in the earth ? For
such deeds of charity the names of Boudinot, and
Burr, and Abbot, and Norris, and Phillips will be
held in lasting, most honorable remembrance.
Dr. Boudinot published the age of revelation, or
the age of reason an age of infidelity, 1790, also
1801 ; an oration before the society of the Cin
cinnati, 1793 ; second advent of the Messiah,
1815; star in the west, or an attempt to discover
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the long lost tribes of Israel, preparatory to their
return to their beloved city, Jerusalem, 8vo. 1816.
Like Mr. Adair, he regards the Indians as the
lost tribes. — Panoplist 17: 399; 18: 25; Green's
Disc. UTS.
BOUDINOT, ELIAS, a Cherokee Indian, died
June 10, 1839, being murdered by Indians west
of the Mississippi. lie was a man of education,
talent^, and inlluence.
BOUDINOT, ADRIANA, died at Hanover, N. H.,
in Sept., 1855, aged 78, the widow of Tobias B.
of New Jersey, the nephew of Elias B. Born in
the West Indies, she was of Huguenot descent
from Mr. Lasalle of St. Thomas, whose daughter
married Mr. Malleville : their son Thomas, gov
ernor of the Danish Islands, was the father of
Maria Malleville. She first married Gov. Suhm,
who was the father of Maria Wheelock, and next
Mr. Von Beverhoudt, who removed to N. J., to
Beverwyck, in Parsippany, and was the father of
Mrs. Boudinot. She died in Christian peace.
Her father's house was honored with the visits
of Washington and his wife while the army was
at Morris.
BOUGHTON, BENJAMIN, died in Fredericks-
burgh, Va., in 1842, bequeathing 2,000 dollars
to the Bible society, the same to the tract society,
with a legacy to Sunday schools.
BOULDIN, THOMAS T., judge, died in Wash
ington Feb. 11, 1834, a member of congress from
Va. Having been blamed for not speaking of
the death of his predecessor, Randolph, he rose
to reply, sank down into a chair, and died.
BOUND, EPHRAIM, first minister of the sec
ond Baptist church in Boston, was ordained in
1743 and died in 1765 : he was useful and re
spected.
BOUQUET, HENRY, a brave officer, was ap
pointed lieutenant colonel in the British army in
1756. In the year 1763 he was sent by General
Amherst from Canada with military stores and
provisions for the relief of Fort Pitt. While on
his way he was attacked by a powerful body of
Indians on the 5th and 6th of August, but by a
skilful manipuvre, supported by the determined
bravery of his troops, he defeated them, and
reached the fort in four days from the action. In
the following year he was sent from Canada on an
expedition against the Ohio Indians, and in Octo
ber he reduced a body of the Shawanese, Dcla-
wares, and other Indians to the necessity of making
terms of peace at Tuscarawas. I Ic died at Pen-
sacola in February, 1766, being then a brigadier
general. Thomas Ilutchins published at Phila
delphia in 1765 an historical account of the
expedition against the Ohio Indians in 1764, with
a maj> and plates. — Annual Iteyister for 1763,
p. 27-31 ; for 1764, p. 181; for 1766, p. 62.
BOURNE, RICHARD, a missionary among the
Indi-.ns at Marshree, died at Sandwich about the
year 1685. He was one of the first emigrants
from England, who settled at Sandwich. Being a
religious man, he officiated publicly on the Lord's
day, until a minister, Mr. Smith, was settled ; he
then turned his attention to the Indians at the
southward and eastward, and resolved to bring
them to an acquaintance with the gospel. He
went to Marshpee, not many miles to the south.
The first account of him is in 1658, when he was
in that town, assisting in the settlement of a boun
dary between the Indians and the proprietors of
Barn stable. Having obtained a competent knowl
edge of the Indian language he entered on the
missionary service with activity and ardor. On
the 17th of August, 1670, he was ordained pastor
of an Indian church at Marshpee, constituted by
his own disciples and converts ; which solemnity
was performed by the famous Eliot and Cotton.
He left no successor in the ministry but an Indian,
named Simon Popmonet. Mr. Bourne is deserv
ing of honorable remembrance not only for his
zealous exertions to make known to the Indians
the glad tidings of salvation, but for his regard to
their temporal interests. He wisely considered
that it would be hi vain to attempt to propagate
Christian knowledge among them, unless they had
a territory, where they might remain in peace, and
have a fixed habitation. He therefore, at his own
expense, not long after the year 1660, obtained a
deed of Marshpee from Quachatisset and others
to the South Sea Indians, as his people were
called. This territory, in the opinion of Mr.
Hawley, was perfectly adapted for an Indian town,
being situated on the Sound, in sight of Martha's
Vineyard, cut into necks of land, and well watered.
After the death of Mr. Bourne, his son, Shcarja-
shub Bourne, Esq., succeeded him in the Marshpee
inheritance, where he lived till his death in 1719.
He procured from the court at Plymouth a ratifica
tion of the Indian deeds, so that no parcel of the
lands could be bought by any white person or per
sons without the consent of all the said Indians,
not even with the consent of the general court.
Thus did the son promote the designs of the
father, watching over the interests of the aborig
ines. A letter of Mr. Bourne, giving an account
of the Indians in Plymouth* county and upon the
j Cape, is preserved in Gookin.— Mather's Mag.
I ill. 199; Coll. Hist. Soc. I. 172, 196-199, 218:
| in. 188-190 ; VIII. 170.
BOURNE, EZRA, chief justice of the court of
common pleas for Barnstable county, died at
Marshpee in Sept., 1764, aged 87. lie was the
youngest son of Shearjashub Bourne, who died at
Sandwich, March 7, 1719, aged 75. lie succeeded
his father in the superintendence of the Indians,
over whom he had great influence. He married
a sister of Rev. Thomas Prince. His son, Shear-
ijashub, a graduate of Harvard college in 1743,
died at Bristol, R. I., Feb. 9, 1781. His grandson,
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Shearjashub, a graduate of 1764, a representative
in congress and chief justice of the common pleas
for Suffolk, died in 1806. His grandson, Benja
min, L.L. 1)., a graduate of 1775, a member of
congress, and appointed a judge of the circuit
court of Rhode Island in 1801, died Sept. 17,
1808.— Coll. Hist. Soc. III. 190.
BOURNE, JOSEPH, missionary to the Indians,
was the son of the preceding and graduated in
1722 at Harvard college, in the catalogue of which
his name is erroneously given Bourn. He was
ordained at Marshpee as successor to Simon Pop-
monet Nov. 26, 1729. He resigned his mission in
1742, complaining much of the ill treatment
which the Indians received, and of the neglect of
the commissioners with regard to his support.
He was succeeded by an Indian, named Solomon
Briant ; but he still took an interest in the cause,
in which he was once particularly engaged, and
much encouraged and assisted the missionary,
Mr. Hawley. Mr. Bourne died in 1767. — Coll.
Hist. Soc. in. 190-191.
BOURS, PETER, Episcopal minister in Marble-
head, died in 1762, aged 36. He was a native of
Newport, and was graduated at Harvard college
in 1747. After his settlement at Marblehead, he
discharged with faithfulness the duties of his
office nine years, enforcing the doctrines of the
gospel with fervency, and illustrating the truth of
what he taught by his life. His predecessors
were Mousam, Pigot, Malcolm ; his successors,
Weeks, Harris, Bowers. His dying words were
" O Lamb of God, receive my spirit." — Whit-
welVs Ser. on Death of Barnard ; Coll. Hist. Soc.
vin. 77.
BOUTELLE, TIMOTHY, L.L. I)., diedinWater-
ville, Me., Nov. 12, 1855, aged 77. Born in
Leominster, he graduated at Harvard in 1800.
He devoted his life to the legal profession in
Watervillc, but sometimes occupied public sta
tions. The cause of internal improvement and of
education was dear to him. — Boston Advertiser,
July 16, 1856.
BOWDEN, JOHN, D. D., professor of belles-
lettres and moral philosophy in Columbia college,
N. Y., was an Episcopal clergyman more than forty
years. In 1787 he was rector of Norwalk. He
was elected bishop of Connecticut, but, as he de
clined, Mr. Jarvis was appointed. He died at
Ballston July 31, 1817, aged 65. He published a
letter to E. Stiles, occasioned by his ordination
sermon at New London, 1787 ; the apostolic ori
gin of episcopacy, in a series of letters to Dr.
Miller, 2 vols. 8vo. 1808. — Jennison.
BOWD1TCH, NATHANIEL, L.L. D., F. R. S.,
president of the American academy, died at Bos
ton March 16, 1838, aged nearly 65, being born
at Salem March 26, 1773. The son of a ship
master, he had little education. From 1795 he
spent nine years in a seafaring life. He was
president of a marine insurance company from
1804 to 1823, Avhen he became actuary for the
rest of his life of the Massachusetts Hospital
Life Insurance Co. By his extraordinary genius
and industry he became acquainted with Latin,
Greek, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, and
German, and was one of the most eminent of
mathematicians and astronomers. About to die,
with his children arranged in the order of age at
his bedside, he said, " Lord, now lettest thou thy
servant depart in peace, according to thy word."
He published Practical Navigator in 1802, and
various communications in the Memoirs of the
American Academy ; and at his own expense, a
translation of the Mecanique Celeste of La Place,
with a commentary in four large quarto vols.
BOWDOIN, JAMES, L.L. I)., Governor of
Massachusetts, and a philosopher and statesman,
died Nov. 6, 1790, aged 63. He was born in
Boston August 8, 1727, and was the son of
James Bowdoin, an eminent merchant. His
grandfather, Peter Bowdoin, or Pierre Baudouin,
was a physician of Rochelle, in France. On the
revocation of the edict of Nantes in 1685, he fled
with a multitude of Protestants, and went first to
Ireland, and came to Falmouth, noAv Portland, in
Casco Bay, Maine, as early as April, 1687. He
owned several tracts of land, one tract of twenty-
three acres extending across the Neck,where South
street now is. In about three years he removed
to Boston. The day after his departure the In
dians attacked, May 15, 1690, and in a few days
destroyed Casco. The time of his death is not
ascertained; his will is dated in 1704, but was not
proved till 1719. He had two sons and two
daughters. His eldest son, James, the father of
Gov. B., by his industry, enterprise and economy
having acquired a great estate and laid the foun
dation of the eminence of his family, died Sept.
4, 1747, aged 71; he also left two sons, James
and William, the latter by his second wife.
Mr. Bowdoin was graduated at Harvard college
in 1745. During his residence at the university
he was distinguished by his genius and umvearied
application to his studies, while his modesty, po
liteness, and benevolence gave his friends assurance
that liis talents would not be prostituted, nor his
future eminence employed for the promotion of
unworthy ends. When he arrived at the age of
twenty-one years, he came in possession of an
ample fortune, left him by his father, who died
Sept. 4, 1747. He was now in a situation the
most threatening to his literary and moral im
provement, for one great motive, which impels
men to exertion, could have no influence upon
him, and his great wealth put it completely in his
power to gratify the giddy desires of youth. But
his h'fe had hitherto been regular, and he now
with the maturity of wisdom adopted a system
which was most rational, pleasing, and useful. He
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determined to combine with the enjoyments of
domestic and social life a course of study which
should enlarge and perfect the powers of his
mind. At the age of twenty-two years he mar
ried a daughter of John Erving, and commenced
a system of literary and scientific research, to
which he adhered through life.
In the year 1753 the citizens of Boston elected
him one of their representatives in the general
court, where his learning and eloquence soon ren
dered him conspicuous. He continued in this
station until 1736, when he was chosen into the
council, in which body he was long known and
respected. With uniform ability and patriotism
he advocated the cause of his country. In the
disputes which laid the foundation of the Ameri
can revolution, his writings and exertions were
eminently useful. Governors Bernard and Hutch-
inson were constrained to confess, in their confi
dential letters to the British ministry, the weight
of his opposition to their measures. In 1769
Bernard negatived him, when he was chosen a
member of the council, in consequence of which
the inhabitants of Boston again elected him their
representative in 1770. Hutchinson, who in this
year succeeded to the governor's chair, permitted
him to take a seat at the council board, because,
said he, " his opposition to our measures will be
less injurious in the council, than in the house of
representatives." He wras chosen a delegate to
the first congress, but the illness of Mrs. Bowdoin
prevented him from attending with the other del
egates. In the year 1775, a year most critical
and important to America, he was chosen pres
ident of the council of Massachusetts, and he
continued in that office the greater part of the
time till the adoption of the State constitution in
1780. lie was president of the convention which
formed it ; and some of its important articles are
the result of his knowledge of government.
In the year 1785, after the resignation of Han
cock, he was chosen governor of Massachusetts,
and was re-elected the following year. In this
office his wisdom, firmness, and inflexible integrity
were conspicuous. He was placed at the head
of the government at the most unfortunate period
after the revolution. The sudden influx of foreign
luxuries had exhausted the country of its specie,
while the heavy taxes of the war yet burthened
the people. This state of suffering awakened
discontent, and the spirit of disorder was cher
ished by unlicensed conventions, wliich were arrayed
against the legislature. One great subject of
complaint was the administration of justice.
Against lawyers and courts the strongest resent
ments were manifested. In many instances the
judges were restrained by mobs from proceeding
in the execution of their duty. As the insurgents
became more audacious from the lenient measures
of the government and were organizing them
selves for the subversion of the constitution, it be
came necessary to suppress by force the spirit of
insurrection. Gov. Bowdoin accordingly ordered
into service upwards of four thousand of the
militia, who were placed under the command of
the veteran Lincoln. As the public treasury did
not afford the means of putting the troops in
motion, some of the citizens of Boston with the
governor at the head of the list subscribed in a
few hours a sufficient sum to carry on the proposed
expedition. This decisive step rescued the gov
ernment from the contempt into which it was
sinking, and was the means of saving the com
monwealth. The dangerous insurrection of Shays
was thus completely quelled.
In the year 1787 Gov. Bowdoin was succeeded
by Hancock, in consequence of the exertions of
the discontented, who might hope for greater
clemency from another chief magistrate. He
died in Boston, after a distressing sickness of
three months. His wife, Elizabeth Erving, died
in May, 1803, aged 72. He left two children,
James, and a daughter who married Sir John
Temple, consul-general of Great Britain in the
United States, and died Oct. 26, 1809.
Gov. Bowdoin was a learned man, and a con
stant and generous friend of literature. He
subscribed liberally for the restoration of the
library of Harvard college in the year 1764, when
it was consumed by fire, lie was chosen a fellow
of the corporation in the year 1779; but the
pressure of more important duties induced him
to resign this office in 1784. lie ever felt, how
ever, an affectionate regard for the interests of
the college, and bequeathed to it four hundred
pounds, the interest of which was to be applied
to the distribution of premiums among the stu
dents for the encouragement of useful and polite
literature. The American academy of arts and
sciences, incorporated at Boston May 4, 1780, at
a time when our country was in the deepest dis
tress, was formed under his influence, and was an
object of his constant attention. He was chosen
its first president, and he continued in that office
till his death. He was regarded by its members
as the pride and ornament of their institution.
To this body he bequeathed one hundred pounds
and his valuable library, consisting of upwards of
twelve hundred volumes upon every branch of
science. He was also one of the founders and
the president of the Massachusetts bank, and of
the humane society of Massachusetts. The lit
erary character of Gov. Bowdoin gained him
those honors, which are usually conferred on men
distinguished for their literary attainments. He
was constituted doctor of IBAVS by the university
of Edinburgh, and was elected a member of the
royal societies of London and Dublin.
He was deeply convinced of the truth and ex
cellence of Christianity, and it had a constant
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effect upon his life. He was for more than thirty
years an exemplary member of the church in
Brattle street, to the poor of which congregation
he bequeathed a hundred pounds. His charities
•were abundant. He respected the injunctions of
the gospel of Jesus Christ, which he professed.
He knew the pleasures and advantages of family
devotion, and he conscientiously observed the
Christian sabbath, presenting himself habitually
in the holy temple, that he might be instructed
in religious duty, and might unite with the wor
shippers of God. In his dying addresses to his
family and servants he recommended the Chris
tian religion to them as of transcendent importance,
and assured them, that it was the only founda
tion of peace and happiness in life and death.
As the hour of his departure approached, he
expressed his satisfaction in the thought of
going to the full enjoyment of God and his Re
deemer.
Gov. Bowdoin was the author of a poetic "Par
aphrase of the Economy of Human Life," dated
March 28, 1759. He also published a philo
sophical discourse, publicly addressed to the
American academy of arts and sciences in Boston
Nov. 8, 1780, when he was inducted into the office
of president. This is prefixed to the first volume
of the society's memoirs. In this work he pub
lished several other productions, which manifest
no common taste and talents in astronomical in
quiries. The following are the titles of them :
Observations upon an hypothesis for solving the
phenomena of light, with incidental observations
tending to show the hcterogeneousness of light,
and of the electric fluid, by their union with each
other ; Observations on light and the waste of
matter in the sun and fixed stars occasioned by
the constant efflux of light from them; Obser
vations tending to prove by phenomena and
scripture the existence of an orb, which surrounds
the whole material system, and which may be
necessary to preserve it from the ruin, to which,
without such a counterbalance, it seems liable by
that universal principle in matter, gravitation.
He supposes, that the blue expanse of the sky is
a real concave body encompassing all visible na
ture ; that the milky way and the lucid spots in
the heavens are gaps in this orb, through which
the light of exterior orbs reaches us; and that
thus an intimation may be given of orbs on orbs
and systems on systems innumerable and incon
ceivably grand. — Thacher's Fun. Ser. ; Lowell's
Eulogy ; Mass. Mag. III. 5-8, 304, 305, 372 ;
Univer. Asyl. I. 73-70 ; Miller, II. ; Minofs Hist.
Insur. ; Rldrsltall, v. 121; Amer. Quar. Rev., II.
505 ; Maine Hist. Coll. 184 ; Eliot.
BOWDOIX, JAMES, the son of the preceding,
died Oct. 11, 1811, aged 58. He was born
Sept. 22, 1752. After he graduated at Harvard
college in 1771, he proceeded to England, where
BOWDOIN.
he prosecuted the study of the law nearly a
year at the university of Oxford. After revis
iting his native country he sailed again for Eu
rope, and travelled in Italy, Holland, and Eng
land. On hearing ot the battle of Lexington he
returned home. The anxieties of his father pre
vented him from engaging in military service, to
which he was inclined. Before the close of the
war he married the daughter of Mr. William
Bowdoin, the half brother of his father. Devoting
much of his time to literary pursuits at his resi
dence in Dorchester, he yet sustained succes
sively the public offices of representative, senator,
and councillor.
Soon after the incorporation of the college,
which bears the name of Bowdoin, he made to it
a donation of one thousand acres of land and
more than eleven hundred pounds. About this
time he was chosen a fellow, or elected into the
corporation of Harvard college, and retained the
office seven years. Having received a commission
from Mr. Jefferson, the President of the United
States, as minister plenipotentiary to the court of
Madrid, he sailed May 10, 1805, and was abroad
until April 18, 1808. The objects of his mission,
which related to the settlement of the limits of
Louisiana, the purchase of Florida, and the pro
curing of compensation for repeated spoliations of
American commerce, were not accomplished.
During his absence he spent two years in Paris,
where he purchased many books, a collection of
well arranged minerals, and fine models of crys
tallography, which he afterwards presented to
Bowdoin college. After his return much of his
time was spent upon his family estate, the valuable
island of Naushaun, near Martha's Vineyard.
At this time his translation of Danbenton's "Ad
vice to Shepherds " was published for the benefit
of the owners of sheep. lie had previously pub
lished, anonymously, " Opinions respecting the
commercial intercourse between the United States
and Great Britain." In July, 1811, he executed
a deed to Bowdoin college of six thousand acres
in the town of Lisbon. By his last will he be
queathed to the college several articles of philo
sophical apparatus, a costly collection of seventy
fine paintings, and the reversion of Naushaun
island on the failure of issue male of the dcvis:ecs.
The college claims are now settled.
After a long period of infirmity and of painful
attacks of disease he died without children. His
widow married Gen. Henry Dearborn. At her
decease she left a sum of money and a number of
valuable family portraits to the college. The
name of James Bowdoin was borne by one of the
heirs of his estate, — the son of his niece who
married Thomas L. Winthrop, the lieutenant gov
ernor of Massachusetts. — Jcnk.J Eulogy.
BOWDOIN, JAMES, of Boston, died in Havana
March 6, 1833, aged 38; a graduate of Bowdoin
BOWEN.
BOWIE.
college in 1814. He was the son of Lieut. Gov.
Winthrop. He took the name of his grandfather
Bowdoin and received a competent fortune. Re
linquishing the practice of the law, he devoted
himself to literature, especially to history. The
chronological index of the ten vols. of second
series of the Historical Society was made out by
him, and he performed other useful labors for the
society. A brief memoir is in Hist. Cull. 3d series,
vol. IX.
BOWEX, JAEEZ, L'.L. D., lieut. governor of
Rhode Island, was born in Providence, graduated
at Yale college in 17.57, and died May 7, 1815,
aged 75 years. For thirty years he was the chan
cellor of the college at Providence as the successor
of Gov. Hopkins. During the Pie volution ary war
he was devoted to the cause of his country, and
was a member of the board of war, judge of the
supreme court, and lieut. governor. Of the na
tional convention at Annapolis and of the State
convention to consider the constitution he was a
member. During the administration of Wash
ington he was commissioner of loans for Rhode
Island. Of the Bible society of It. I. he was the
president. In the maturity of his years he be
came a member of the first Congregational church.
His great capacity for public business, joined to his
unquestioned integrity, gave him an elevated char
acter and great influence in society. A gentleman
of the same name was a judge of the superior
court in Georgia ; having in an elegant charge,
delivered at Savannah, made some imprudent
remarks concerning the colored population, the
grand jury presented his charge, in consequence
of which he sent them all to prison, lie was
removed from office, and, it is said, died insane at
Philadelphia.
BOWEX, PARDON, M. I)., a distinguished phy
sician, died Oct. 25, 1826, aged G9. He was born
in Providence March 22, 1757. Richard Bowcn
is said to have been his ancestor ; perhaps it was
Griffeth Bowcn, who lived in Boston in 1639. His
father was Dr. Ephraim Bowen, an eminent phy
sician of Providence, who died Oct. 21, 1812,
aged 96 years. After graduating at the college
of Rhode Island in 1775, he studied Avith his
brother, Dr. William Bowcn, and embarked as
surgeon in a privateer in 1779. Though captured
and imprisoned seven months at Halifax, he was
not deterred from engaging repeatedly in similar
enterprises, resulting in new imprisonments. In
1782 he reached home and Avas content to remain
on shore. In 1783 he repaired to Philadelphia
for his improvement in his profession at the med
ical school. After his return it was but gradually
that he obtained practice. At length his success
was ample ; his eminence in medicine and surgery
were undisputed. During the prevalence of the
yellow fever he shrank not from the peril ; more
than once was he attacked by that disease. For
much of his success he was indebted to his study
of idiosyncrasy, or of the peculiarities, moral, in
tellectual and physical, of his patients. In 1820
he experienced an attack of the palsy, which ter
minated his professional labors, in consequence of
which he retired to the residence of his son-in-law,
Franklin Greene, at Potowomut (Warwick), where
he passed years of suffering, sometimes amount
ing to agony. In the life-giving energy of the
doctrines, precepts, and promises of the Bible he
found the only adequate support and solace.
His wife, who survived him, was the daughter of
Henry Ward, secretary of Rhode Island. Dr.
Bowen sustained an excellent character ; he was
modest, upright, afTable ; free from covetousness
and ambition ; beneficent ; and in his last days an
example of Christian holiness. He published an
elaborate account of the yellow fever of Provi
dence in 1805 in Hosack's medical register, vol.
IV. — Tit uclicr's Med. Ling.
BOWEX, WILLIAM C., M. D., professor of
chemistry in Brown university, received this ap
pointment in 1812, and died April 23, 1815, aged
29. He was the only son of Dr. AYilliam Bowen,
who was an eminent practitioner at the age of
80 years, and was born June 2, 1785. After
graduating at Union college in 1703, he studied
medicine with Dr. Pardon Bowen ; also at Edin
burgh and Paris, and at London as the private
pupil of Sir Astley Cooper. lie did not return
till Aug. 1811. Experiments to discover the
composition of the bleaching liquor, just brought
into use in England, laid the foundation of the
disease which terminated his life. He married a
daughter of Col. Olney. Though his labors on
chlorine impaired his property and destroyed his
life, they led to the creation of the valuable
bleaching establishments of Rhode Island. —
ThacJter's Med. Biog.
BOWEX, NATHANIEL, D. D., bishop of South
Carolina, died Aug. 25., 1839, aged 59.
BOWEX, CHARLES, died Dec. 19, 1845, aged
38, drowned with his wife and oldest child by the
sinking of the steamer Belle Zane in the M'issis-
sippi, by striking a snag, five hundred miles above
Xew Orleans. He lived in Zanesville, Ohio, but
was a native of Charlestown, and in Boston pub
lished for several years the Xorth American Re
view, Amer. Almanac, Token, and other works.
BOWIE, ROBEKT, general, governor of Mary
land, succeeded John F. Mercer as governor in
1803, and was succeeded by Robert Wright in
1805. He was again governor in 1811, but the
next year was succeeded by Levin Winder. He
died at Xottingham in Jan., 1818, aged 64. He
was an officer of the Revolution, and presents one
of the multitude of instances in America of the
success of patriotism, integrity, and benevolence,
unassisted by the advantages of wealth or of a
learned education.
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BOYD.
BOWLES, WILLIAM A., an Indian agent, died
Dec. 23, 1805. He was born in Frederic county,
the son of a schoolmaster in Maryland, who Avas
an Englishman and brother of Carington B.,
keeper of the famous print-shop, Ludgate hill,
London. At the age of thirteen Bowles privately
left his parents and joined the British army at
Philadelphia. Afterwards he entered the service
of the Creek Indians and married an Indian wo
man. Ferocious like the savages, he instigated
them to many of their excesses. The British re
warded him for his exertions. After the peace he
went to England. On his return his influence
with the Indians was so disastrous, that the Span
iards offered six thousand dollars for his appre
hension. He was entrapped in Feb., 1792, and
sent a prisoner to Madrid and thence to Manilla
in 179,3. Having leave to go to Europe, he re
paired to the Creeks and commenced his depre
dations anew ; but being again betrayed in 1804
into the hands of the Spaniards, he was confined
in the Moro castle, Havana, where he died. Such
is the miserable end of most of the unprincipled
adventurers, of whom there is any account. A
memoir of him was published in London, 1791, in
which he is called ambassador from the united
nations of Creeks and Cherokees. — Jennison.
BOYD, THOMAS, a soldier, who perished by the
hands of the Indians, was a private soldier be
longing to Capt. Matthew Smith's Pennsylvania
rifle company, in Arnold's expedition through the
wilderness of Maine to Quebec in 1775. lie was
the largest and strongest man in the company.
He was taken prisoner in the assault, Dec. 31.
After being exchanged he was a lieutenant in the
first Pennsylvania regiment, and accompanied Gen.
Sullivan in his expedition against the Indians in
the Seneca country, New York, in Aug. and
Sept., 1779. When the army had marched be
yond Canandaigua, and was near the Gcnesee
town on the Genesee river, Boyd was sent out in
the evening of Sept. 12 to reconnoitre the town
six miles distant. He took twenty-six men, with
an Oneida chief, named Han-Jost. The guides
mistook the road, and led him to a castle six
miles higher up the river than Genesee. Here a
few Indians were discovered, of whom two were
killed and scalped. On his return Boyd was in
tercepted by several hundred Indians and rangers
under Butler. His flanking parties escaped; but
he and fourteen men with the Oneida chief were
encircled. Itesorting to a small grove of trees,
surrounded with a cleared space, he fought des
perately till all his men but one were killed and
he himself was shot through the body. The next
day his body and that of his companion, Michael
Parker, were found at Genesee, barbarously muti
lated. The Indians had cruelly whipped him;
stabbed him with spears ; pulled out his nails ;
plucked out an eye, and cut out his tongue. His
head was cut off. Simpson, afterwards general,
his companion at Quebec, decently buried him.
His scalp, hooped and painted, found in one of
the wigwams, was recognized by Simpson by its
long, brown, silky hair. — Maine Hist. Coll. I.
416 ; American Remembrancer, 1780, 1G2.
BOYD, WILLIAM, minister of Lamington in
New Jersey, died May 15, 1808. He was de
scended from Scottish ancestors, who emigrated
to Pennsylvania. He was born in Franklin county,
1758. At the age of fifteen he lost his father, but
about the same time it pleased the Father of
mercies to turn him from darkness to light. His
collegial education was completed at Princeton in
1778, under the presidency of Dr. Witherspoon.
After pursuing the study of theology with Dr.
Allison, of Baltimore, he commenced preaching
the gospel. His popularity and talents would
have procured him a conspicuous situation ; but
he was destitute of ambition. He preferred a
retired situation, and accepted the call of Laming
ton. Here he continued till his death. A lively
faith in the Iledccmer gave him hope and triumph.
He was a man of unfeigned humility, amiable in
the various relations of life, and remarkable for
prudence and moderation in all his deportment.
He was a preacher of peculiar excellence. Deeply
penetrated himself with a sense of the total de
pravity of the human heart, and of the inability
of man to perform anything acceptable to God
without the influence of the Holy Spirit, he en
deavored to impress these truths on others. He
dwelt upon the necessity of a Divine atonement,
and of faith in the Piedeemer, in order to justifica
tion ; upon the riches of Divine grace and the
encouragements of the gospel to the humble and
contrite ; upon the dangers of self-deception and
the false refuges of the wicked. He was remark
able for a natural facility and perspicuity of
expression. For a few years he wrote his ser
mons and committed them to memory; but for
the remainder of his life he depended, after hav
ing digested his subject, upon the vigor of his
powers. A penetrating eye, natural gestures, a
sweet and commanding voice, and an irreproacha
ble character, gave weight and authority to his
words. But his labors, like those of many other
good men, were attended with only a gradual in
crease of the church committed to his care.
He was formed no less for society than for the
pulpit, having a friendly disposition, being ani
mated in conversation, accommodating himself to
the tempers of others, and mingling condescen
sion with dignity. — Evany. Intellig. May, 1808.
BOYD, JOHN P., brigadier-general in the army
of the United States, died at Boston Oct. 4, 1830,
aged 02. He commanded the detachment of
fifteen hundred men of Wilh'amson's army, which
fought the battle of Williamsburg, Upper Canada,
with eighteen hundred of the enemy, the garri-
BOYD.
BOYLSTON.
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sons of Kingston and Prescott, Nov. 11, 1813. j the year 1692, it had proved destructive to the
In this severe action brigadier-general Covington I lives of many, though it was much less mortal
was killed ; the American loss was three hundred than when it appeared in the year 1678. On its
thirty-nine ; the British one hundred eighty-one, re-appearance, Dr. Cotton Mather, who had read
This British force being in the rear, and the co- I in a volume of the philosophical transactions, put
operation of Hampton having failed, the proposed
descent to Montreal was abandoned, and the
American army recrossed the St. Lawrence and
went into winter quarters at French Mills. Gen.
Boyd was a good officer ; his early military career
was in India. But this service was of a peculiar
into his hands by Dr. Douglass, two communica
tions from the east, the one from Timoni at
Constantinople, and the other from Pylarini, the
Venetian consul at Smyrna, giving an account of
the practice of inoculation for the small pox, con
ceived the idea of introducing this practice in
kind. He organized three battalions, each of I Boston. He accordingly, June 6, addressed a
about five hundred men, and had also a small ir
regular force. He had six cannon, three or four
elephants, and as many English officers, lie
hired his men and his officers at a certain number
of rupees a month. This corps, as regarded arms
and equipments, was his sole property ; and in
the command of it he entered the service of any
of the Indian princes who would give him the
best pay. Once he was in the pay of Holkar ;
afterwards in the Peshwas service ; then, quitting
the Mahratta territory, he was hired for the ser
vice of Nizam Ally Khan. Then he marched to
Poona, and, having no eligible offer of employ
ment, he sold out his elephants, guns, arms, and
equipments, to Col. Felose, a Neapolitan partisan,
who acquired the implements, elephantine and
human, for carrying on the same trade of hired
ruffianship. In 1808 he was in Paris. After the
war he received the appointment of naval officer
for the port of Boston, lie published documents
and facts relative to military events during the late
war, 1816. — Boston Weekly Messenger, vm. 774.
BOYD, WILLIAM, died in 1800, a graduate of
Harvard in 1796. He wrote a poem on Woman,
and other pieces.
BOYLE, JOHN, chief justice of Kentucky, died
Jan. 28, 1834. He had been a judge of the cir-
letter to the physicians of Boston, inclosing an
abridgment of those communications, and re
questing them to meet and take the subject into
consideration. As this request was treated with
neglect, he wrote to Dr. Boylston separately, June
24, and sent him all the information which he
had collected, in the hope that he would be per
suaded to embrace a new and favorable means for
the preservation of human life. Dr. Boylston
happily was a man of benevolence and courage.
When there was before him a promising opportu
nity for diminishing the evils of human life, he
was not afraid to struggle with prejudice, nor
unwilling to encounter abuse. The practice would
be entirely new in America, and it was not known
that it had been introduced into Europe. Yet
he determined to venture upon it. He first in
oculated, June 26th, his son Thomas, of the age
of six years, and two of his servants. Encour
aged by the success of this experiment, he began
to enlarge his practice. The other physicians
gave their unanimous opinion against inoculation,
as it would infuse a malignity into the blood ;
and the selectmen of Boston forbade it in July.
But these discouragements did not quench the
zeal and benevolence, which were now excited;
though prejudice might have triumphed over an
cuit court of the United States, and Avas able and | enlightened practice, if the clergy had not step-
distinguished, i ped in to aid the project. Six venerable ministers
BOYLSTON, ZABDIEL, F. R. S., an eminent
physician, who first introduced the inoculation of
the small pox in America, died at Boston March
1, 1766, aged 86. He was born of respectable
parents at Brookline, Mass., in 1680. His father
was Peter B., the son of Doctor Thomas B., who
received his medical degree at Oxford, and came
to tin's country and settled in Brookline in 1635.
After a good private education, he studied physic
under the care of Dr. John Cutler, an eminent
physician and surgeon of Boston, and in a few
years arrived at great distinction in his profession,
and accumulated a handsome fortune. He was
remarkable for his skill, his humanity, and his
close attention to his patients. In the year 1721
the small pox prevailed in Boston, and being
fatal, like the plague, it carried with it the utmost
terror. This calamity had not visited the town
since the year 1702, in winch year, as well as in
of Boston gave their whole influence in its favor;
and the weight of their character, the confidence
which was reposed in their wisdom, and the deep
reverence inspired by their piety, were hardly
sufficient to preserve the growing light from ex
tinction. They were abused, but they triumphed.
July 17, Dr. Boylston inoculated his son John,
who was older than Thomas, and Aug. 23, his
son Zabdiel, aged 14. During the year* 1721
and the beginning of 1722 he inoculated two
hundred and forty-seven persons in Boston and
the neighboring towns. Thirty-nine were inocu
lated by other physicians, making in the whole
two hundred and eighty-six, of whom only six
died. During the same period, of five thousand
seven hundred and fifty-nine persons, who had
the small pox in the natural way, eight hundred
and forty-four died. The utility of the practice
was now established beyond dispute, and its sue-
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BOYLSTON.
cess encouraged its more general introduction in
England, in which country it had been tried upon
a few persons, most or all of whom were convicts.
In the prosecution of his good work Dr. Boylston
was obliged to meet not only the most virulent,
but the most dangerous opposition. Dr. Law
rence Dalhonde, a French physician in Boston,
gave his deposition concerning the pernicious
effects of inoculation, which he had witnessed in
Europe. The deposition, dated July 22, was pub
lished by the selectmen, the rulers of the town,
in their zeal against the practice. Dr. Douglass,
a Scotchman, violent in his prejudices, and bitter
and outrageous in his conduct, bent his whole
force to annihilate the practice, which had been
introduced. One argument, which he brought
against it, was that it was a crime, which came
under the description of poisoning and spreading
infection, which were made penal by the laws of
England. In the pamphlets, which were pub
lished in 1721 and 1722, various kinds of reason
ing are found. The following extracts will give
some idea of the spirit of them. " To spread
abroad a moral contagion, what is it but to cast
abroad arrows and death ? If a man should wil
fully throw a bomb into a town, burn a house, or
kill a man, ought he not to die ? I do not see
how we can be excused from great impiety
herein, when ministers and people, with loud and
strong cries, made supplications to almighty God
to avert the judgment of the small pox, and at
the same time some have been carrying about
instruments of inoculation and bottles of the
poisonous humor, to infect all who were willing
to submit to it, whereby we might as naturally
expect the infection to spread, as a man to break
his bones by casting himself headlong from the
highest pinnacle. Can any man infect a family
in the town in the morning, and pray to God in
the evening, that the distemper may not spread?"
It was contended, that, as the small pox was a
judgment from God for the sins of the people,
to endeavor to avert the stroke would but provoke
him the more ; that inoculation was an encroach
ment upon the prerogatives of Jehovah, whose
right it was to wound and to smite ; and that, as
there was an appointed time to man upon earth,
it would be useless to attempt to stay the ap
proach of death.
The people became so exasperated, that it was
unsafe for Dr. Boylston to travel in the evening.
They even paraded the streets with halters and
threatened to hang liim. But his cool and deter
mined spirit, supported by his trust in God,
enabled him to persevere. As he believed him
self to be in the way of his duty, he did not trem
ble at the apprehension of the evils which might
come upon him. "NVhen his family were alarmed
for his safety, he expressed to them his resigna
tion to the will of heaven. To such a height was
the popular fury raised, that a lighted gran ado
was thrown in the night into the chamber of Mr.
Walter, minister of lloxbury, who had been pri
vately inoculated in the house of his uncle, Dr.
Mather of Boston. The shell, however, was not
filled with powder, but with a mixture of brim
stone and bituminous matter.
Had Dr. Boylston gone at this time to Eng
land, he might have accumulated a fortune by
his skill in treating the small pox. lie did not
however visit that country till 1725, when inocu
lation was common. He was then received with
the most flattering attention. He was chosen a
member of the royal society, though he was not,
as Dr. Thacher supposes, the first American thus
honored, for Dr. Cotton Mather was elected in
1713. He enjoyed the friendship of some of the
most distinguished characters of the nation. Of
these he used to mention with great respect and
affection Dr. Watts, with whom he corresponded.
After his return to his native country he continued
at the head of his profession, and engaged in a
number of literary pursuits. His communications
to the royal society were ingenious and useful.
After a long period of eminence and skill in his
profession, his age and infirmities induced him to
retire to his patrimonial estate in Brookline, where
he passed the remainder of his days. He had
the pleasure of seeing inoculation universally
practised, and of knowing, that he was himself
considered as one of the benefactors of mankind.
Occupied in his last days in agricultural pursuits,
he bestowed much care on the improvement of
the breed of horses. Those of his own farm
were celebrated. It seems that he had a vigor
ous old age, notwithstanding the asthma, which
afflicted him forty years, for he was seen at the
age of 84, in the streets of Boston, riding a colt,
which, as an excellent horseman, he was breaking
to the bit. He died saying to his friends, " my
work in this world is done, and my hopes of futu
rity are brightening." His wife, who died before
him, was Jerusha Minot of Boston. His second
son, John, a merchant, died at Bath, England,
Jan. 17, 1795, aged 80, bequeathing much to his
•native town. The inscription upon his tomb rep
resents, that through a life of extensive benefi
cence he was always faithful to his word, just in
his dealings, afl'able in his manners, and that after
a long sickness, in which he was exemplary for
his patience and resignation to his Maker, he
quitted this mortal life in a just expectation of
a blessed immortality.
Dr. Boylston published some account of what
is said of inoculating or transplanting the small
pox by the learned Dr. Emanucl Timonius and
Jacobus Pylarinus, 1721; an historical account of
the small pox inoculated in New England, with
some account of the nature of the infection, and
some short directions to the inexperienced, dedi-
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catcd to the princess of Wales, London, 1726,
and Boston, 1730; and several communications
in the philosophical transactions. — Muss. Mag.,
Dec., 1789, 177G-1779; Pierce's Cen. Discourse ;
Holmes, II. 148 ; Boylston's Hist. Account ;
HiiMtin.wu, II. 273-270 ; Thacher's Med. Bioy.
BOYLSTOX, NICHOLAS, a benefactor of Har
vard college, died in Boston Aug. 18, 1771, aged
5,3. His portrait, which is an admirable paint
ing, is in the philosophy chamber of the college.
He had been an eminent merchant, and was
about to retire from business to enjoy the fruit
of his industry, when he was removed from the
earth. He was honest in his dealings, and re
markable for his sincerity, having a peculiar
abhorrence of all dissimulation. He bequeathed
to the university at Cambridge 1500 pounds for
laying the foundation of a professorship of rhet-
eric and oratory. This sum was paid into the
college treasury by his executors Feb. 11, 1772;
and the fund became accumulated to 23,200 dol
lars before any appropriation was made. John
Quincy Adams, then a senator of the United
States, was installed the first professor, June 12,
1806, with the title of "The Boylston professor
of rhetoric and oratory in Harvard college." —
Holmes, II. 179.
BOYLSTOX, WARD NICHOLAS, a patron of
medical science, was the son of the preceding,
and died at his seat in Roxbury, Mass., Jan.
7, 1828, aged 78 years. In the year 1800 he gave
to the medical school of Harvard college a valu
able collection of medical and anatomical books
and engravings, making also an arrangement for
its perpetual enlargement. — Bartleifs Prog.
Med. Science.
BORMAX, JOHN L., died near Oxford, Mary
land, April 20, 1823, aged 64, a profound lawyer.
He published a sketch of the history of Maryland
during the three first years, 1811.
Bit ACE, JONATHAN, judge, died at Hartford
Aug. 26, 1837, aged 83. He was a member of
Congress in 1798, judge of county court and of
probate, and a highly respected citizen.
BRACE, LUCY COLLINS, wife of Rev. Dr. J.
Brace, died at Xewington, Conn., Nov. 16, 1854,
aged 72. It had been proposed to celebrate in a
few weeks, the fiftieth year of her husband's set
tlement and of their marriage. For many years
she met every Sunday a Bible class of her own
age and a missionary society ; she was an example
of the various excellences exhibited in the lives
of a multitude of pastor's wives in our countrv.
BRACKEN, JOHN, bishop in Virginia, died at
Williamsburg July 15, 1818. He had been for
many years not only a bishop, but president of
William and Mary college.
BRACKEXRIDGE, HUGH HENRY, a judge
of the supreme court of Pennsylvania, died at
Carlisle June 25, 1816, aged 67. He was born
about 1749, and graduated at Princeton in 1771,
in the class with James Madison. He was the
master of an academy in Maryland before the
Revolution. In 1781 he settled at Piltsburg,
which he deemed favorably situated for becoming
a large town ; and in its improvement he en
gaged with zeal. He wrote for the newspapers
many essays in prose and poetry. His pieces
were generally satirical; one of them ridiculed
the society of the Cincinnati. In 1789 he was
appointed judge. In 1798 political partisans re
proached him for his partiality to Mr. Gallatin.
A few years before his death he removed to Car
lisle. His wife, whom he married in 1790, was
Sabina Wolf, a young lady of German origin,
whose parents lived on the banks of the Ohio
river. He published a poem on the rising
glory of America, 1774; eulogium of the brave
men who fell in the contest with Great Britain,
1779 ; modern chivalry, the adventures of Capt.
Farrago, etc., 1792 ; 2d edit. 2 vols., 1808 ; ora
tion July 4, 1793 ; incidents of the insurrection
in 1794 in Pennsylvania, 1795; gazette publica
tions, collected, 1806 ; law of miscellanies, con
taining instructions for the study of the law, 1814.
BRACKETT, ANTHONY, captain, an early set
tler at Casco, or Falmouth, as Portland, Maine,
was at first called, was lulled by the Indians Sept.
21, 1689. He was the son of Anthony B., of
Greenland, N. II., then a. part of Portsmouth.
He lived at Casco as early as 1662, and was one
of the settlers around the back cove. His farm
consisted of four hundred acres. The Indians,
led by Simon, whp escaped from prison at Dover,
and was familiar at Brackett's, took him, his wife,
and five children, and a negro servant prisoners
Aug. 11, 1676. Michael Mitton, the brother of
his wife, was killed. At Presumpscot also the
party killed and captured several persons. Thomas
Brackett, his brother, who lived at Clark's point,
on the neck, was shot down and his wife and three
children taken ; Megunnaway, an Indian, " a no
torious rogue," being concerned in his murder.
In all thirty-four persons were killed and carried
into captivity. The prisoners were conveyed to
Arrousic Island, of which the Indians had recently
gained possession, killing Capt, Lake and wound
ing Davis. Being left there in Xovember while
the Indians proceeded on an expedition, Brackett
escaped in an old leaky birch canoe, which his
wife had repaired with a needle and thread, found
in a deserted house; and crossed over to Black
point with his family, and got on board a vessel
bound to Piscataqua. After the peace of Casco,
April 12, 1678, he returned, and in 1682 was in
trusted with the command of fort Loyall at Port
land. In 1688 he was put in command of the
three forts, erected by Andros. In 1679 lie mar
ried for his second wife Susannah Drake of Hamp
ton, covenanting with her father, that one half
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of his estate should be her jointure and descend
to her male children. A dispute between the
children of the two marriages respecting this
property was adjusted by an amicable division.
His sons were Anthony and Scth : the latter was
killed at the capture of Saco, May 20, 1G90, and
the former taken prisoner. His posterity still
remain at Casco. Thomas Brackett's wife, the
sister of M. Mitton, died in captivity; his son
Joshua afterwards lived in Greenland, where he
died, being the father of Anthony and Joshua of
Portland. — Willis' Hist, of Portland, in Maine
Hist. Coll., I. 94, 200, 207,^143-156.
BRACKET!, JOSHUA, M. 1)., a distinguished
physician, died July 17, 1802, aged 09. He was
born in Greenland, New Hampshire, in May, 1733,
and after graduating at Harvard college in 1752,
studied theology at the request of his parents,
and became a preacher ; but the science of medi
cine had for him greater attractions. He studied
with Dr. Clement Jackson, then the principal
physician in Portsmouth, and established himself
in that town, in which he continued during the
remainder of his life. His wife, Hannah Whip-
pie of Kittery, died in May, 1805, aged 70, be
queathing to the Xew Hampshire medical society,
of which her husband had been president, 500
dollars. She was skilful in botany, having a
garden of rare plants.
Dr. Brackett was a skilful, faithful, benevolent
physician, particularly successful in obstetrical
practice ; mild, amiable, unassuming, affable ;
warm in friendship, an enemy to flattery, a despiser
of popular applause. It is stated that he never
made a charge for his professional services to the
poor, with whom he thought the payment would
occasion any embarrassment. In his religious
sentiments he was a Universalist. He took a deep
interest in the promotion of natural history at
Cambridge, and requested his wife to appropriate
1500 dollars towards the professorship of that
science in Harvard college. She complied with
his request and added to the amount. Dr. Brack
ett was a zealous whig in the Revolution ; during
which he was appointed judge of the maritime
court of Xewr Hampshire, and honorably sustained
the office, till its duties were transferred to the
district court. He was a benefactor of the New
Hampshire medical society, of which he was presi
dent from 1793 to 1799, presenting to it, at its
establishment, one hundred and forty-three vols.
of valuable medical books. — Adams' Ann. Ports
mouth, 321 ; Thacher's Med. Bioy. ; Med. Repos.
s. h., I. 211.
BRACKETT, JAMES, died at Rock Island, 111.,
May 19, 1852, aged 70. A graduate of Dart
mouth in 1805, he was a lawyer of Otsego. He
was a literary man and published several ad
dresses.
BRADBURY, TiiEomiLUS, a judge of the
superior court of Massachusetts, died Sept. 6,
1803, aged 03. He was a graduate at Harvard
college in 1757. His early days were devoted
with diligence and success to the profession of
the law. He resigned the emoluments arising
from his practice for the appointment of a judge,
in which station he was intelligent and faithful in
executing the laws. A sudden attack of disease
at length rendered him incapable of discharging
the duties of his office. — Columb. Centinel,Sc\)t.
11, 1803.
BRADDOCK, EDWARD, major-general, and
commander in chief of the British forces in
America, died July 13, 1775. He arrived in Vir
ginia with two regiments from Ireland in Feb
ruary, 1755. The plan of military operations
having been settled in April, by a convention of
the several governors at Alexandria, he undertook
to conduct in person the expedition against
Fort I)u Qucsne, now Pittsburg. Meeting with
much delay from the necessity of opening roads,
the general determined to advance with rapidity
at the head of twelve hundred men, leaving the
heavy baggage to the care of Colonel Dunbar,
who was to follow by slow and easy marches.
He reached the Monongahela July 8th. The
succeeding day he expected to invest the fort.
He accordingly made his dispositions in the morn
ing. He was advised to advance the provincial
companies in the front for the purpose of scouring
the woods, and discovering any ambuscade, which
might be formed for him. But he held both his
enemy and the provincials in too much contempt
to follow this salutary counsel. Three hundred
British regulars composed his van, which was sud
denly attacked, at the distance of about seven
miles from the fort, by an invisible enemy, con
cealed by the high grass. The whole army was
soon thrown into confusion. The brave general
exerted his utmost powers to form his broken
troops under a galling fire upon the very ground
where they were first attacked; but his efforts
were fruitless. With such an enemy, in such a
situation, it was necessary either to advance or
retreat. All his officers on horseback, excepting
his aid, the late General Washington, were killed
or wounded; and after losing three horses he
received a mortal wound through his right arm
into his lungs. The defeated army fled precipi
tately to the camp of Dunbar, near forty miles
distant, where Braddock, who was brought off the
ground in a tumbril, expired of his wounds.
Sixty-four out of eighty-five officers, and about
half his privates were killed and wounded, making
in the whole a loss of about seven hundred men.
Of the killed were William Shirley of the staff,
and Col. Sir Peter Halket ; and among the
wounded, Robert Orme, Roger Morris, Sir John
St. Clair and others of the staff; and Lieut.-Cols.
Gage and Burton. Though Mante defends the
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conduct of Bradclock, yet this disaster obviously
resulted from the contempt of good advice. —
Marshall, I. 384, 390-393 ; II. 14-19 ; Holmes,
II. GO ; Coll. Hist. Soc. vil. 89-94 ; s. s. Till.
153; Wynne, II. 37-42; Mante, 17, 21,26.
BRADFORD, WILLIAM, governor of Ply
mouth, died May 9, 1657, aged G7. The names
of Bradford and Brewster, who were driven from
England into exile by ecclesiastical bigotry and
intolerance, are names among the most honorable
and memorable in the history of the world. lie
was governor in 1621, and in all thirty-one years.
lie was a first settler, one of the hundred Pilgrims
in the Mayflower in 1620. He was born in March,
1590, in Austerfield, a little village in the southern
border of Yorkshire, in England. His grand
father, William B., and John Hanson lived in Aus
terfield in 1575, and were the only persons of prop
erty in the townlet. Alice, the daughter of Mr.
Hanson and Mary Gresham, was his mother.
His father, William, died in 1591 ; his grandfather,
William, in 1596. He had a good patrimony.
He was left to the care of his uncle Robert.
Scrooby, in Nottinghamshire, the residence of
Brewster, was only four or five miles distant from
Austerfield, to the south. At Brewster's house,
the manor, was formed a new church in 1606 or
1607, most of the members of which had proba
bly belonged to the church of Mr. Clifton at Bab-
worth, only a mile or two south of Scrooby :
Clifton was the minister, Brewster the elder. Mr.
Bradford was one of the founders of this church.
At the age of 12 or 13 years his mind was seri
ously impressed by divine truth in reading the
Scriptures, and an illness of long continuance
conspired to preserve him from the follies of
youth. His good impressions were confirmed by
attending upon the ministry of Mr. Richard Clif
ton, and by his union with the Puritan company,
which met at Mr. Brewster's in Scrooby. As he
advanced in years he was stigmatized as a Separ
atist ; but such was his firmness, that he cheerfully
bore the frowns of his relatives and the scoff's of
his neighbors, and connected himself with the
church over which Mr. Clifton and Mr. Robinson
presided, fearless of the persecution, which he
foresaw this act would draw upon him. Believing
that many practices of the established church of
England were repugnant to the directions of the
word of God, he was fully resolved to prefer the
purity of Christian worship to any temporal ad
vantages, which might arise from bending his
conscience to the opinions of others.
In the autumn of 1607, when he was seventeen
years of age, he was one of the company of Dis
senters who made an attempt to go over to
Holland, where a commercial spirit had estab
lished a free toleration of religious opinions ; but
the master of the vessel betrayed them, and they
were thrown into prison at Boston in Lincoln
shire. In the spring of the next year he made
another unsuccessful attempt. At length he
effected his favorite object and joined his brethren
at Amsterdam. Here he put himself an appren
tice to a French Protestant, who taught him the
art of silk-dying. When he reached the age of
twenty-one years, and came in possession of his
estate in England, he converted it into money,
and engaged in commerce, in which he was not
successful.
Mr. Bradford, after a residence of about ten
years in Holland, engaged with zeal in the plan
of removal to America, which was formed by the
English church at Leyden under the care of Mr.
Robinson. He accordingly embarked for England,
July 22, 1620, and on the sixth of September set
sail from Plymouth with the first company.
While the ship in November lay in the harbor of
Cape Cod, he was one of the foremost in the sev
eral hazardous attempts to find a proper place for
the seat of the colony. Before a suitable spot was
agreed upon, his wife fell into the sea and was
drowned. Soon after the death of Governor
Carver at Plymouth, April 5, 1621, Mr. Bradford
was elected governor in his place. He was at
this time in the thirty-third year of his age, and
was most conspicuous for wisdom, fortitude, piety,
and benevolence. The people appointed Isaac
Allerton his assistant, not 'because they could re
pose less confidence in him than in Carver, who
had been alone in the command, but chiefly on
account of his precarious health. One of the first
acts of his administration was to send an embassy
to Massasoit, for the purpose of confirming the
league with the Indian sachem, of procuring seed
corn for the next season, and of exploring the
country. It was well for the colony that the
friendship of Massasoit was thus secured, for his
influence was extensive. In consequence of his
regard for the new settlers, nine sachems in Sep
tember went to Plymouth, and acknowledged
themselves loyal subjects of King James. In the
same month a party was sent out to explore the
Bay of Massachusetts. They landed under a cliff,
supposed to be Copp's Hill, in Boston, where they
were received with kindness by Obbatinewa, who
gave them a promise of his assistance against the
squaw sachem. On their return they carried with
them so good a report of the country, that the
people lamented that they had established them
selves at Plymouth ; but it was not now in their
power to remove.
In the beginning of 1622 the colony began to
experience a distressing famine, occasioned by the
arrival of new settlers, who came unfurnished with
provisions. In the height of their distress a
threatening message was received from Canonicus,
sachem of Narragansett, expressed by the present
of a bundle of arrows, bound with the skin of a
serpent. The governor sent back the skin filled
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with powder and ball. This prompt and ingenious
reply terminated the correspondence. The Xarra-
gansetts were so terrified, that they even returned
the serpent's skin without inspecting its contents.
It was however judged necessary to fortify the
town ; and this work was performed by the people
•while they were suffering the extremity of famine.
For some time they subsisted entirely upon fish.
In this exigency Governor Bradford found the
advantage of his friendly intercourse with the In
dians. He made several excursions among them,
and procured corn and beans, making a fair pur
chase by means of goods which were brought by
two ships in August, and received by the planters
in exchange for beaver. The whole quantity of
corn and beans thus purchased amounted to
twenty-eight hogsheads. But still more important
benefits soon resulted from the disposition of
Governor Bradford to preserve the friendship of
the natives. During the illness of Massasoit in
the spring of 1623, Mr. "Winslow was sent to him
•with cordials, which contributed to his recovery.
In return for this benevolent attention the grateful
sachem disclosed a dangerous conspiracy, then in
agitation among the Indians, for the purpose of
totally extirpating the English. This plot did not
originate in savage malignity, but was occasioned
by the injustice and indiscretion of some settlers
in the Bay of Massachusetts. As the most effect
ual means of suppressing the conspiracy, Massasoit
advised that the chief conspirators, whom he
named, should be seized and put to death. This
melancholy work was accordingly performed by
Captain Standish, and the colony was relieved
from apprehension. When the report of this
transaction was carried to Holland, Mr. Robinson,
in his next letter to the governor, expressed his
deep concern at the event. "O that you had
converted some," said he, " before you had killed
any!"
The scarcity, which had been experienced by
the planters, was in part owing to the impolicy of
laboring in common and putting the fruit of their
labor into the public store. To stimulate industry
by the prospect of individual acquisition, and thus
to promote the general good by removing the re
straints upon selfishness, it was agreed, in the
spring of 1G23, that every family should plant for
themselves, on such ground as should be assigned
them by lot. After this agreement the governor
was not again obliged to traffic with the Indians
in order to procure the means of subsistence for
the colony. Thus have failed the common-stock
projects of various enthusiasts.
The original government of Plymouth was
founded entirely upon mutual compact, entered
into by the planters before they landed, and was
intended to continue no longer than till they
could obtain legal authority from their sovereign.
The first patent was obtained for the colony in the
name of John Pierce ; but another patent of
larger extent was obtained of the council for New
England, January 13, 1630, in the name of Wil
liam Bradford, his heirs, associates, and assigns,
which confirmed the title of the colonists to a
large tract of land, and gave them power to make
all laws, not repugnant to the laws of England.
In the year 1640, when the number of people was
increased, and new townships were erected, the
general court requested Governor Bradford to
surrender the patent into their hands. With this
request he cheerfully complied, reserving for him
self no more than his proportion, as settled by a
previous agreement. After this surrender the
patent was immediately delivered again into his
custody. For several of the first years after the
first settlement of Plymouth, the legislative, ex
ecutive, and judicial business was performed by
the whole body of freemen in assembly. In 1634
the governor's assistants, the number of whom, at
the request of Mr. Bradford, had been increased
to five in 1624, and to seven in 1633, were con
stituted a judicial court, and afterwards the
supreme judicature. Petty offences were tried by
the selectmen of each town, with liberty of appeal
to the next court of assistants. The first assembly
of representatives was held in 1639, when two
deputies were sent from each town, excepting
Plymouth, which sent four. In 1649 this ine
quality Avas done away.
Such was the reputation of Mr. Bradford,
acquired by his piety, wisdom, and integrity, that
he was annually chosen governor, as long as he
lived, excepting in the years 1633, 1636, and 1644,
when Mr. Winslow was appointed, and the years
1634 and 1638, when Mr. Prince was elected chief
magistrate. At these times it was by his own
request that the people did not re-elect him.
Governor Winthrop mentions the election of Mr.
Winslow in 1633, and adds, " Mr. Bradford hav
ing been governor about ten years, and now by
importunity got off." What a lesson for the am
bitious, who bend their whole influence to gain and
secure the high offices of State ! Mr. Bradford
strongly recommended a rotation in the election
of governor. " If this appointment," he pleaded,
" was any honor or benefit, others beside himself
should partake of it ; if it was a burden, others
beside himself should help to bear it." But the
people were so much attached to him, that for
thirty years they placed him at the head of the
government, and in the five years when others
were chosen, he was first in the list of assistants,
which gave him the rank of deputy governor.
After an infirm and declining state of health for a
number of months, he was suddenly seized by an
acute disease in May, 16(37. In the night, his mind
was so enraptured by contemplations upon relig
ious truth and the hopes of futurity, that he said
to his friends in the morning, " the good Spirit of
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God has given me a pledge of my happiness in
another world, and the first fruits of eternal
glory." The next day, May 9, 1657, he was re
moved from the present state of existence, greatly
lamented by the people not only in Plymouth, but
in the neighboring colonies. Ilubbard makes the
day of his death June o ; but the lines given by
Morton are doubtless good, at least for the date :
" The ninth of May, about nine of the clock,
A precious one God out of Plymouth took :
Governor Bradford then expired his breath."
His sister, Alice, married to George Morton,
who died in 1624, survived her brother.
The seal which Gov. B. used was a double eagle.
His wife, Dorothy May, was drowned at Cape Cod,
Dec. 7, 1620, so that she never reached Plymouth.
llis second wife was Alice Southworth, the widow
of Edward Southworth, whom he married in 1623.
His son, John, was born of his first wife ; William,
Mercy, and Joseph were his cliildren by Alice
Southworth. John died without children. Wil
liam had fifteen children, and Joseph had seven ;
from these have descended the Bradfords of New
England and many beyond its bounds.
In the X. E. Register of Jan. and July, 1850, is
published a genealogy, containing the names of
four hundred and fourteen of his descendants, be
sides many of their cliildren, living chiefly in Mas
sachusetts. Besides the bearers of the name of
Bradford, there are families bearing other names,
whose children are his descendants, some of which
names are the following : Adams, Allen, Allyn,
Baker, Barnes, Brewster, Chandler, Child, Chip-
man, Church, Collins, Cook, Delano, Drew, I) wight,
Elliot, Ensign, Fessenden, Finney, Fitch, Fowler,
Frazer, Freeman, Gay, Gilbert, Gridley, Ham
mond, llobart, Holmes, Hopkins, Hunt, Lane,
Lawrence, Le Baron, Lee, Loring, Metcalf, Mitch
ell, Paddock, Partridge, Prince, Riplcy, Robbins,
Rockwell, Sampson, Skinner, Smith, Soule, Spoon-
er, Stanford, Steel, Stirling, Sylvester, Wadsworth,
Waring, Weston, Whiting, Wiswall. The sup
posed honor of descent from such a man as Brad
ford will be only disgrace, unless there be caught
from the record of his life something of his inde
pendence of thought, something of his unswerving
adherence to the right, something of his self-sac
rificing spirit, something of his zealous toils, his
benevolence, and his piety.
Governor Bradford, though not favored with a
learned education, possessed a strong mind, a
sound judgment, and a good memory. In the
office of chief magistrate he was prudent, tem
perate, and firm. He would sufier no person to
trample on the laws or to disturb the peace of
the colony. Some young men, who were unwil
ling to comply with the order for laboring on the
public account, excused themselves on a Christmas
day, under pretence that it was against their con
science to work. But not long afterwards, finding
them at play in the street, he commanded the
instruments of their game to be taken from them,
and told them that it was against his conscience
to suffer them to play, while others were at work,
and that, if they had any religious regard to the
day, they should show it in the exercise of devo
tion at home. This gentle reproof had the desired
effect. On other occasions his conduct was equally
moderate and determined. Suspecting John Ly-
ford, who had imposed himself upon the colony
as a minister, of factious designs, and observing
that he had put a great number of letters on board
a ship for England, the governor in a boat fol
lowed the ship to sea, and examined the letters.
As satisfactory evidence against Lyford was thus
obtained, a convenient time was afterwards taken
for bringing him to trial, and he was banished.
Though he never enjoyed great literary advan
tages, Governor Bradford was much inclined to
literary pursuits. He was familiar with the
French and Dutch languages, and attained con
siderable knowledge of the Latin and Greek;
but he more assiduously studied the Hebrew, be
cause, as he said, " he would see with his own
eyes the ancient oracles of God in their native
beauty." He had read much of history and phi
losophy ; but theology was his favorite study.
Dr. Mather represents him as an irrefragable dis
putant, especially against the Anabaptists. Yet
he was by no means severe or intolerant. He
wished rather to convince the erroneous, than to
suppress their opinions by violence. His dispo
sition was gentle and condescending. Though he
was attached to the discipline of the Congrega
tional churches, yet he was not a rigid Separatist.
He perceived that the reformed churches differed
among themselves in the modes of discipline, and
he did not look for a perfect uniformity. His life
was exemplary and useful. He was watchful
against sin, a man of prayer, and conspicuous for
holiness. His son, William Bradford, was deputy
governor of the colony after his father's death,
and died at Plymouth at the age of seventy-nine.
Several of his descendants were members of the
council of Massachusetts, and one of them was a
deputy governor of Rhode Island and a senator
in the congress of the United States.
Governor Bradford wrote a history of Plymouth
people and colony, beginning with the first for
mation of the church in 1602 and ending with
1647. It was contained in a folio volume of two
hundred seventy pages. Morton's memorial is an
abridgment of it. Prince and Hutchinson had
the use of it, and the manuscript was deposited
with Mr. Prince's valuable collection of papers in
the library of the old south church in Boston. In
the year I77o it shared the fate of many other
manuscripts in that place. It was carried away
by the barbarians of the British army, who con-
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verted the old south church into a riding school.
This invaluable work, after having been lost eighty
years, has just been recovered and printed entire.
For this recovery the American public is indebted
to Rev. John S. Barry, who, in writing his History
of Massachusetts, had occasion, in 1855, to con
sult an English book, in which he noticed a refer
ence to a manuscript history of Plymouth in the
Fulham library, with quotations, which satisfied
him that it was Bradford's lost MS. This was
found to be the case by Mr. Charles Deane,
through the agency of Rev. Joseph Hunter of
London. An exact copy was obtained, retaining
the ancient spelling, and was printed by the Mass.
Historical Society in 1856, with a preface and
notes by Mr. Deane, chairman of the publishing
committee of the society.
This manuscript was used in their historical
writings by Morton, Prince, and Hutchinson. A
portion of the work, taken from the church records
of Plymouth, but not recorded as Bradford's writ
ing, was published by Dr. Young in his chronicles
of the pilgrims in 1841, most of which had been
previously printed by Hazard as a Avork of Mor
ton. Of the way, by which the manuscript reached
the Fulham library, no information has been ob
tained. In this primitive book Mr. Deane has
inserted a page of a fac simile of the handwriting
of Bradford ; and he has annexed Gov. B.'slist of
the passengers in the Mayflower, from which he
concludes that the number of passengers was one
hundred and two, instead of one hundred, the usu
ally-reckoned number. But in this perhaps he falls
into an error, for two, whom he counts, were hired
seamen for one year, when they returned, and
could not be considered among " the first begin
ners," who laid the foundation of all the colonies,
any more than any other seamen. Mr. D. also
mistakes in making Gov. B. sixty-eight years old.
Gov. B. had a large book of copies of letters
relative to the affairs of the colony, which is lost.
A fragment of it, however, found in a grocer's
shop at Halifax, was published by the Massachu
setts Historical Society, to which is subjoined a
descriptive and historical account of New England
in verse. If this production is somewhat deficient
in the beauties of poetry, it has the more sub
stantial graces of piety and truth. He published
some pieces for the confutation of the errors of
the times, particularly of the Anabaptists. — Bel-
knap's Amer. Biog. II. 217-251; Mather's Ma g-
nalia, n. 2-5 ; Davis1 Morton, 269 ; NeaVs New
England, I. 99, 316 ; Prince's Annals, Pref. VI,
IX. 196 ; Coll. Hist. Soc. III. 27, 77 ; VI. s. s. 555 ;
X. 67 ; Bradford's Hist. ; Thacher's Plymouth ;
N. E. Memorial, I. 81 ; N. E. Register, 1850.
BRADFORD, ALICE, the wife of Gov. B., died
at Plymouth March 27, 1670, aged 80, having
survived her husband nearly thirteen years. Born
in England, she first married Edward Southworth,
living with him seven years in Nottinghamshire,
near the residence of Mr. Bradford, who well
knew her, and, as report says, had early sought
her hand. Her name was Alice Carpenter.
Being left a widow, Gov. Bradford renewed his
offer to her two years after the death of his first
wife, Dorothy May. She was now of the age of
thirty-three. Waiving her riyht to demand a
personal visit, which would call away the governor
from his important duties to the colony in the
wilderness, she generously listened to his request,
and came over in the ship Ann, which arrived
Aug. 1, 1623. She was accompanied by the gov
ernor's brother-in-law, George Morton, by her
sister, Bridget Fuller, and by two daughters of
Elder Brewster. Her two sons, Thomas and Con
stant Southworth, were brought over in 1629 or
1630. She was married Aug. 14, and lived with
her husband nearly thirty years. She brought
with her considerable property. She was well
educated, and of extraordinary capacity and great
worth. She incessantly toiled for the literary
improvement and the refinement of the youth at
Plymouth. If she ever felt honored in being
married to Mr. Southworth, who was descended
in the tenth generation from Sir Gilbert S.,
knight of Lancaster, yet she must have felt more
happy in being the companion of him who laid
the foundation of civil and religious freedom in a
new world, and whose name would be held illus
trious by the generations to come of their de
scendants and others, down to the end of time.
Her sister, Mary Carpenter, an old maid, a mem
ber of the church of Duxbury, died at Plymouth
March 20, 1667, aged ninety. Other sisters were
Bridget, who married Samuel Fuller, and gave to
the church the lot of ground on which the par
sonage stood ; Priscilla, the wife of William
Wright ; and the wives of John Cooper and Rev.
Mr. Reyner. At the end of Bradford's History
are published two pages of memorial lines by N.
Morton, " Upon the life and death of that godly
matron, Mistris Alice Bradford," from which it
appears that she and her father belonged to the
Puritan Separatists of the north of England, who
fled to Holland when she was seventeen years
old. He is called a confessor ; and it is added :
" And shee with him and other in her youth
Left tlieire own native country for the truth,
And in successe of time she marryed was
To one whose grace and vertue did surpusse,
I mean good Edward Southworth, vrhoe not long
Continued in this world the saints ainouge."
After mentioning the death of her last husband,
the writer says :
" E'r since that time in widdowhood shee hath
Lived a life in holynes and faith
In reading of Gods word and contemplation,
Which healped her to assurance of salvation
Through Gods good sperit workeing with the same,
Forever praised be his holy name."
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" Tis sad to see our houses disposessd
Of holy saints whose memory is blessd;
When they decease and closed are in tombe,
Thercs few or none that rises in their rome,
Thats like to them in holines and grace."
The same writer says of her husband :
" It is enough to name
The name of Bradford fresh in memory,
Which smcles with odoriforus fragrancye."
— TJiacher's Pli/m.116', Bradford's Hist. 460.
BRADFORD, JOHN, the eldest son of the
preceding by his first wife, was born in England,
and came over with Alice Southworth in 1623.
He lived in Duxbury in 1615, and in 1652 was
deputy to the general court. He married Martha
Bourne, of Marshfield. In 1653 he removed to
Norwich, Conn., where he died without offspring
in 1678, aged about 61. His widow married
Thomas Tracy.
BRADFORD, WILLIAM, major, son of the
preceding, deputy governor of Plymouth colony,
was born June 17, 1624, and died Feb. 20, 1704,
aged 79. He was buried at his request by the
side of his father. These homely lines are on Ins
monument :
" He lived long but still was doing good,
And in his country's service lost much blood.
After a life well spent he's now at rest ;
His very name and memory is blest."
In King Philip's war he commanded the Ply
mouth troops, and in the Xarragansett fort fight,
Dec. 19, 1675, at East Kingston, when the fort
was taken, he received a ball in his body, which
he bore during the remainder of his life. In his
last will he provided for fifteen children, nine sons
and six daughters ; and then- very numerous de
scendants in New England can of course all trace
their ancestry to Gov. Bradford. His descendants
are of the oldest line of the Bradfords, for his
elder brother John had no children. His resi
dence was on the north side of Jones' river, in
what is now Kingston. His first Avife Avas Alice,
daughter of Thomas Richards, of Weymouth ;
his second Avas AvidoAV WisAvall ; his third Avas
Mary, the widoAV of ReAr. J. Holmes, of Dux-
bury.
BRADFORD, JOSEPH, the third son of Gov
ernor Bradford, Avas born in 1630, and died in
1715, aged 84. His Avife was Jacl, the daughter
of Rev. Peter Hobart, of Hingham. His sons
were John, Samuel, and William ; his daughters
Alice or Olive, Abigail, Mercy, and Priscilla,
Avhose husbands were as folloAvs : Alice or Olive
married Edward Mitchell and Joshua Hersey ;
Abigail married Gideon Sampson ; Mercy mar
ried Jonathan Freeman and Isaac Cushman ;
and Priscilla married Seth Chipman. Farmer
says he left a son Elisha.
BRADFORD, GAMALIEL, colonel, died at Dux-
bury, Jan. 9, 1807, aged 75. He Avas an officer
16
in the French Avars and in the army of the RCATO-
lution, and a judge. His father, Gamaliel, died
in 1778, aged 73, the son of Samuel, the son of
Major William. His daughter, Sophia, died Feb.
2, 1855, aged 93. Alden B. Avas his son ; and
Dr. Gamaliel B., of Boston, his grandson.
BRADFORD, WILLIAM, a senator of the Unit
ed States, the son of Samuel B., and a descendant
in the fourth generation from Gov. Bradford, died
July 6, 1808, aged 78. He Avas born at Plymp-
ton, Mass., in Nov., 1729. Having studied physic
Avith Dr. E. Ilerscy, he commenced the practice
in Warren, R. I., and Avas skilful and successful.
In a few years he removed to Bristol, and built a
house on that romantic and A'enerable spot, Mount
Hope, Avhich is associated Avith the name of King
Philip. Here he studied laAv and became eminent
in civil life in Rhode Island. In the Revolution
ary contest he took a decided part in favor of the
rights of the colonies. In the cannonade of
Bristol, in the evening of Oct. 7, 1775, by the
British vessels of Avar, the Rose, Glasgow, and
Siren, he Avent on board the Rose, and negotiated
for the inhabitants. About this time his OAvn
house Avas destroyed by the enemy. In 1792 he
Avas elected a senator in congress, but soon re
signed his place for the shades of his delightful
retreat. He Avas many years speaker of the as
sembly of Rhode Island, and deputy governor.
He had lived a AvidoAver thirty-three years ; his
Avife, Mary Le Baron, of Plymouth, Avhom he
married in 1751, died Oct. 2, 1775. His eldest
son, Major William Biadford, was aid to Gen.
Charles Lee, of the Revolutionary army. By in
dustry and rigid economy, Mr. Bradford acquired
an independent fortune, in the use of Avhich he
Avas hospitable and liberal. For many years he
Avas accustomed to deposit AA'ith his minister a
generous sum, to be expended in charity to the
poor. In his habits he Avas temperate, seeking
his bed at an early hour of the evening, and rising
early and Avalking over his extensive farm. Thus
he attained nearly to the age of fourscore. —
TJtachcr's Med. Biog. ; Grisioold's Fun. Serm.
BRADFORD, WILLIAM, the first printer in
Pennsyh-ania, died May 23,- 1752, aged 93. He
Avas born in Leicester, England, and, being a Qua
ker, emigrated to this country in 1682 or 1683,
and landed Avhere Philadelphia Avas aftenvards
laid out, before a house Avas built. In 1687 he
printed an almanac. The Avritings of George
Keith, Avhich he printed, having caused a quarrel
among the Quakers, for one of them, represented
as seditious, he Avas arrested Avith Keith and im
prisoned in 1692. It is remarkable, that in his
trial, Avhen the justice charged the jury to find
only the fact as to printing, Bradford maintained
that the jury Avere also to find Avhethcr the paper
Avas really seditious, and maintained that " the
jury are judges in laAv, as well as the matter of
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fact." This is the very point which awakened !
such interest in England in the time of Wilkes.
Bradford was not convicted ; but, having incurred
the displeasure of the dominant party in Phila
delphia, he removed to New York in 1693. In
that year he printed the laws of the colony. Oct.
16, 1725, he began the first newspaper in New
York, called the N. Y. Gazette. In 1728 he
established a paper-mill at Elizabethtown, N. Y.,
which, perhaps, was the first in this country.
Being temperate and active, he reached a great
age, a stranger to sickness. In the morning of
the day of his death he walked about the city.
By his first wife, a daughter of Andrew Sowles, a
printer in London, he had two sons, Andrew and
William. For more than fifty years he was
printer to the New York government, and for
thirty years the only printer in the province. He
was kind and affable, and a friend to the poor. —
Thomas, II. 91; Pcnn. Gaz., May 28, 1752.
BRADFORD, ANDREW, a printer, the son of
the preceding, died Nov. 23, 1742, aged about 56.
He was the only printer in Pennsylvania from
1712 to 1723. lie published the first newspaper
in Philadelphia Dec, 22, 1719, called the Ameri
can Weekly Mercury. In 1732 he was post
master ; in 1735 he kept a bookshop, at the sign
of the Bible, in Second street. In 1738 he re
moved, having purchased a house, No. 8 South
Front street, which in 1810 was occupied as a
printing house by his descendant, Thomas Brad
ford, the publisher of the True American, a daily
paper. His second wife, with whom he failed to
find happiness, was Cornelia Smith, of New York;
she continued the Mercury till the end of 1746,
and died in 1755. — Thomas, II. 30, 325.
BRADFORD, WILLIAM, colonel, a printer, and
a soldier of the Revolution, died Sept. 25, 1791,
aged 72. He was the grandson of the first
printer in Philadelphia. His father, William, was
a seaman. Adopted by his uncle, Andrew Brad
ford, he became his partner in business ; but his
foster mother, Mrs. Cornelia B., wishing him to
fall in love with her adopted niece, and he choos
ing to fall in love with some other lady, caused
the partnership to be- dissolved. In 1741 he went
to England, and returned in 1742 with printing
materials and books. At this period he married
a daughter of Thomas Budd, who was imprisoned
with his ancestor in 1692. He published Dec. 2,
1742, the Pennsylvania Journal, which was con
tinued till the present century, when it was super
seded by the True American. In 1754 he opened,
at the corner of Market and Front streets, the
London coffee-house; in 1762 he opened a marine
insurance office with Mr. Kydd. He opposed the
stamp act in 1765, and in the early stage of the
war he took up arms for his country. As a major
and colonel in the militia he fought in the battle
of Trenton, in the action at Princeton, and in sev
eral other engagements. He was at Fort Mifflin
when it was attacked. After the British army
left Philadelphia, he returned with a broken con
stitution and a shattered fortune. Business had
found new channels. Soon he experienced the
loss of his beloved Avife ; age advanced upon him ;
a paralytic shock warned him of approaching
death. To his children he said, " Though I be
queath you no estate, I leave you in the enjoyment
of liberty." Such patriots deserve to be held in
perpetual remembrance. He left three sons :
Thomas, his partner in business, William, attorney-
general, and Schuyler, who died in the East
Indies; also three daughters. — Thomas, II. 48,
330; U. 8. Gaz.
BRADFORD, WILLIAM, attorney-general of
the United States, died Aug. 23t 1795. He was
the son of the preceding, born in Philadelphia
Sept. 14, 1755, and was early placed under the
care of a respectable clergyman a few miles from
the city. His father had formed the plan of
bringing him up in the insurance office, which he
then conducted ; but so strong was the love of
learning implanted in the mind of his son, that
neither persuasions, nor offers of pecuniary ad
vantage, could prevail with him to abandon the
hopes of a liberal education. He was graduated
at Princeton college in 1772. During his resi
dence at this seminary he was greatly beloved by
his fellow students, while he confirmed the ex
pectations of his friends and the faculty of the
college by giving repeated evidence of genius and
taste. At the public commencement he had one
of the highest honors of the class conferred upon
him. He continued at Princeton till the year fol
lowing, during which time he had an opportunity
of attending the lectures on theology of Dr.
Witherspoon.
He now commenced the study of the law under
Edward Shippen, and he prosecuted his studies
with unwearied application. In the spring of
1776 he was called upon by the peculiar circum
stances of the times to exert himself in defence
of the dearest rights of human nature, and to
join the standard of his country in opposition to
the oppressive exactions of Great Britain. When
the militia were called out to form the flying camp,
he was chosen major of brigade to Gen. llober-
deau, and on the expiration of his term accepted
a company in Col. Hampton's regiment of regu
lar troops. He was soon promoted to the station
of deputy muster-master-general, with the rank
of licut.-colonel, in which office he continued about
two years, till his want of health obliged him to
resign his commission and return home. He now
recommenced the study of the law, and in Sept.,
1779, was admitted to the bar of the supreme
court. In Aug., 1780, he was appointed attorney-
general of Pennsylvania.
In 1784 he married the daughter of Elias
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Boudinot, of New Jersey, with whom he lived till
his death in the exercise of every domestic virtue
that adorns human nature. On the reformation
of the courts of justice under the new constitution
of Pennsylvania, he was solicited to accept the
office of a judge of the supreme court, and was
commissioned byGov. Mifflin, Aug. 22, 1791. In
this station his indefatigable industry, unshaken
integrity and correct judgment enabled liim to
give general satisfaction. Here he had deter
mined to spend a considerable part of his life ;
but on the promotion of Edmund Randolph to
the office of secretary of State, as successor of
Mr. Jefferson, he was urged to accept the office
of attorney-general of the United States, now left
vacant. He accordingly received the appointment
Jan. 28, 1794. But he continued only a short
time in this station, to which he was elevated by
Washington. He was succeeded by Mr. Lee, of
Virginia. According to his express desire, he was
buried by the side of his parents in the burial
ground of the second Presbyterian church in
Philadelphia.
Mr. Bradford possessed a mild and amiable
temper, and his genteel and unassuming manners
were united with genius, eloquence, and taste.
As a public speaker he was persuasive and con
vincing. He understood mankind well, and knew
how to place his arguments in the most striking
point of light. His language was pure and sen
tentious ; and he so managed most of his forensic
disputes, as scarcely ever to displease his oppo
nents, while he gave the utmost satisfaction to his
clients. He possessed great firmness of opinion,
yet was remarkable for his modesty and caution
in delivering his sentiments. Combining a quick
and retentive memory and an excellent judgment
with great equanimity and steadiness in his con
duct, and a pleasing deportment, he conciliated
respect and affection. Towards his country he
felt the sincerest attachment, and her interests
he preferred to every selfish consideration. His
charities were secret, but extensive ; and none in
distress were ever known to leave him with dis
content. It is mentioned as a proof of his benev
olence, that he adopted and educated as his own
son an orphan child of Joseph Reed. His friend
ships were few, but very affectionate, and those
who aided him in his first setting out in life were
never ungratefully forgotten. Though engaged
constantly in public business, yet the concerns of
this world did not make him regardless of the
more important concerns of religion. He firmly
believed the Christian system, for he had given it
a thorough examination. By its incomparable
rules he regulated his whole conduct, and on its
promises he founded all his hopes of future hap
piness.
In the earlier periods of his life he was not un
acquainted with the walks of poetry, and some of
his poetical productions, in imitation of the pasto
rals of Shenstone, were published in the Phila
delphia magazines. They were at the time held
in high estimation. He published in 1793 an
inquiry how far the punishment of death is nec
essary in Pennsylvania, with notes and illustra
tions, to which is added an account of the gaol
and penitentiary house of Philadelphia, by Caleb
Lownes. This Avork was written at the request
of Gov. Mifflin, and was intended for the use of
the legislature, in the nature of a report, they
having the subject at large under their considera
tion. Furnishing a proof of the good sense and
philanthropy of the author, it gained him great
credit. It had much influence in meliorating the
criminal laws, and hastening the almost entire ab
olition of capital punishments, not only in Penn
sylvania, but in many other States, where the
interests of humanity have at last prevailed over
ancient and inveterate prejudices. — Rees1 Cycl. ;
Hardie's Biog. Did. ; Marshall, V. 489, 639 ;
Gaz. U. S., Aug. 24, 1795.
BRADFORD, SUSAN, wife of the preceding,
died in Burlington, X. J., Nov. 30, 1854, nearly
90. Susan Vergereau was the eldest daughter of
Elias Boudinot, born Dec. 21, 1764: her mother
was Hannah Stockton, of Princeton, a daughter of
John, a signer of the declaration of independence.
Her father's great-grandfather was a Huguenot,
who fled to England. She was married in 1784
to Wm. Bradford, who died in 1795. A widow
for the rest of her life, she lived in Burlington
from 1805 till her death. Bishop Doane visited
her daily the last twenty years. She was opulent
and benevolent, and eminently pious.
BRADFORD, THOMAS, died at Philadelphia in
May, 1838, aged 94. He was an eminent printer,
editor, and publisher, succeeding Franklin in
1763 as printer to the continental congress.
BRADFORD, ROBERT, major, died in Belpre,
Ohio, in 1823, aged 73. He was born in 1750,
the son of Robert, of Kingston ; and was a de
scendant of the sixth generation from Gov. B.
In the war of the Revolution he was a brave offi
cer. The sword given him by Lafayette is in
the hands of his only surviving son, O. L. Brad
ford, of Wood county, Va. As an associate of
the Ohio company, he removed to Marietta in
1788. The next year he and other officers set
tled Belpre, where he encountered the perils of
the Indian scalping-knife. He was a worthy,
cheerful, warm-hearted pioneer of the west. —
Hildreth's Bior/. Mem. relating to Ohio.
BRADFORD, AXDKKW, died at Duxbury in
Jan., 1837, aged 91 ; a descendant of Gov. B. He
was a quartermaster in the Revolutionary army,
a twin brother of Peter B., who died two years
before.
BRADFORD, JOHN, died Jan. 27, 1825, aged
68. He was born in Boston Aug., 1750, gradu-
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ated at Harvard in 1774, and \vas ordained at
Roxbury in May, 11 So. T. Gray wrote an obitu
ary notice, with a sketch of the Roxbury churches,
1825.
BRADFORD, ALDEN, died in Boston Oct. 26,
1843, aged 78. He was born in Duxbury, the
son of Gamaliel, was graduated in 1756, and a
minister in Pownalborough, now Wiscasset, eight
years. From 1812 to 1824 he was secretary of
State of Massachusetts. He published a history
of Mass, from 1764 to 1789, 2vols. ; from 1790 to
1820; also two sermons on the doctrines of Christ,
1794, at Hallowell ; eulogy on Washington ; ordi
nation of N. Tilton, 1801 ; sermon at Plymouth ;
oration, 1804; on death of Knox, 1806; biogra
phy of C. Strong, 1820; on State rights, 1824;
discourse, 1830 ; and account of Wiscasset and
Duxbury in historical collections.
BRADFORD, EBENKZER, minister of Rowley,
a brother of Moses, died Jan. 3, 1801, aged 55.
A graduate of Princeton in 1773, he was settled
at R. in 1782, after living a few y ears in D anbury.
His son, John Melancthon B., D. D., was a grad
uate at Providence in 1800. His wife was a sister
of Dr. Green, of Philadelphia. He published a
sermon at the ordination of N.Howe, 1791;
strictures on Dr. Langdon's remarks on Hopkins'
system, 1794 ; at a thanksgiving, also at a fast,
1795 ; at the installation of J. 11. Stevens, 1795.
BRADFORD, MOSES, died in Montague June
13, 1838, aged 73. A descendant of Gov. Brad
ford by his son AVilliam, he was born in Canter
bury, Conn., the brother of Rev. E. B., of
Rowley. He graduated at Dartmouth in 1785,
and was from 1790 the minister of Francestown
thirty-seven years, eminently useful, the church
growing from fifty members to three or four hun
dred. He had three sons, who were preachers.
BRADFORD, EPHRAIM P., minister of New
Boston, N. II. nearly forty years, died Dec. 14,
1845 : a graduate of Harvard in 1803, and a dili
gent laborer.
BRADFORD, GAMALIEL, M. D., superintend
ent of the Mass, general hospital, died in Boston
Oct. 22, 1839, aged nearly 44; a descendant of
"William B., and a graduate of 1814. He was an
adversary of phrenology, and of slavery. He
wrote eighty miscellaneous pieces ; among them
an address on temperance ; a letter on slavery,
and various reviews. A Memoir by Dr. Francis
is in Hist. Coll. 3d series, vol ix.
BRADLEY, SAMUEL, killed in the " Bradley
massacre," was an early settler at Concord, N. H.,
then Rumford. On the llth Aug., 1746, as he
was proceeding with six others to Hopkinton, the
party was attacked by a hundred Indians a mile
and a half from Concord village. Samuel Brad
ley was killed and scaljx-d near the brook. To
his brother, Jonathan Bradley, a lieutenant in
Capt. Ladd's company, quarter was offered; but
he refused it, and fought till he was hewed down
with the tomahawk. Three others were killed :
Alexander Roberts and William Stickney were
made prisoners. Mr. Bradley was a young man ;
his widow, who married Richard Calfe, of Ches-
'ter, died Aug. 10, 1817, aged 98. His son, John,
who was two years old at the time of the mas
sacre, was a very respectable citizen of Concord,
and served in both branches of the legislature.
He died July 5, 1815, aged 71, leaving sons,
among whom was Samuel A. Bradley, of Frye-
burg. Seven persons of the name of Bradley
were killed by the Indians in Haverhill, Mass., in
March, 1697 ; in 1704 a Mrs. Bradley, after kill
ing an Indian by pouring boiling soap on him,
was taken prisoner. — Boutoris Cent. Disc.;
Moore's Ann. of Concord ; Coll. Hist. Soc. s. s.
IV. 129.
BRADLEY, STEPHEN R., a senator of the
United States, was born Oct. 20, 1754, in Wral-
lingford, now Cheshire, Conn., and graduated
at Yale college in 1775. He was the aid of
Gen. Wooster, when that officer fell in a skirmish
with the enemy. Removing to Vermont, he con
tributed much to the establishment of that State.
He was one of its first senators to congress, in
which body he continued, with one intermission,
until he retired from public life in 1812. He
died at Walpole, N. H., Dec. 16, 1830, aged 76.
He published Vermont's appeal, 1779, which has
been sometimes ascribed to Ira Allen.
BRADLEY, WILLIAM II., a poet, was born in
Providence, R. I. After being educated as a phy
sician, he went to Cuba, where he died in 1825.
He published Giuseppino, an occidental story,
1822 ; besides many fugitive pieces. — Spec. Amer.
Poet. II. 394, 398.
BRADLEY, ABRAHAM, assistant postmaster
general, died at Washington May 7, 1838.
BRADLEY, PHL\EHAS, Dr., died at Washing
ton Feb. 28, 1845, aged 75. Born at Litchfield,
he practised physic at Painted Post, N. Y. ; but
about 1800 accepted an appointment in the post
office at Washington ; he was second assistant
postmaster-general.
BRADLEY, JOSHUA, a Baptist minister, died
at St. Paul, Minnesota, Nov. 22, 1855, aged 85.
From his 20th year he was engaged in education
and the ministry, rendering great services to the
cause of religion.
BRADLEY, EMILIE, wife of Dr. D. B. Brad
ley, missionary to Siam, died at Bangkok Aug. 2,
1845, aged 34. Her name was Emilie Royce, of
Clinton, N. Y. She embarked July 2>, 1834, and
had been ten years a missionary. Her end was
remarkably peaceful, like that of many other
missionaries. She was glad the Siamese could
see how a Christian could die ; she wished them
to judge which religion makes the soul most
happy in the hour of death.
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BRADSTREET, SIMON, governor of Mass.,
the son of a nonconformist minister in England,
died at Salem, March 27, 1697, aged 94. He
was born at Ilorbling in Lincolnshire in March,
1603. His father died when he was at the age of
fourteen. But he was soon afterwards taken into
the religious family of the Earl of Lincoln, in
which he continued about eight years under the
direction of Thomas Dudley, and among other
offices sustained that of steward. He lived a
year at Emanucl college, Cambridge, pursuing
his studies amidst many interruptions. He then
returned to the earl's; but soon accepted the
place of steward in the family of the Countess of
Warwick. Here he continued till he married a
daughter of Mr. Dudley, and was persuaded to
engage in the project of making a settlement in
Massachusetts. He was in March, 1630, chosen
assistant of the colony, which was about to be es
tablished, and arrived at Salem in the summer of
the same year. lie was at the first court, which
was held at Charlestown Aug. 23. He was after-
wards secretary and agent of Massachusetts, and
commissioner of the united colonies. He was
sent with Mr. Norton in 1662 to congratulate
King Charles on liis restoration, and as agent of
the colony to promote its interests. From 1673
to 1679 he was deputy governor. In this last
year he succeeded Mr. Leverett as governor,
and remained in this office till, May, 1686, when
the charter was dissolved, and Joseph Dudley
commenced his administration as president of
New England. In May, 1689, after the imprison
ment of Andros, he was replaced in the oilice of
governor, which station he held till the arrival of
Sir William Phipps in May, 1692, with a charter
which deprived the people of the right of elect
ing their chief magistrate, lie had been fifty
years an assistant of the colony. He had lived at
Cambridge, Ipswich, Andover, Boston, and Salem.
Gov. Bradstreet, though he possessed no splendid
talents, yet by his integrity, prudence, moderation,
and piety acquired the confidence of all classes of
people. When King Charles demanded a sur
render of the charter, he was in favor of comply
ing ; and the event proved the correctness of his
opinion. He thought it would be more prudent
for the colonists to submit to a power which they
could not resist, than to have judgment given
against the charter, and thus their privileges be
entirely cut off. If his moderation in regard to
religious affairs, particularly towards the Anabap
tists and the Quakers, was not so conspicuous, it
was not a fault peculiar to him. Yet he had the
good sense to oppose the witchcraft delusion. lie
had eight children by his first wife, the daughter
of governor Thomas Dudley, who wrote a volume
of poems. His second wife, a sister of Sir George
Downing, was the widow of Joseph Gardner, of
Salem. His son, Simon, the minister of New
London, graduated 1660, was ordained Oct. 5,
1670, and died 168o. Another son, Major Dud
ley B., was taken prisoner by the Indians with
his wife at Andover in 1698. — Mather's Magna-
lia, II. 19, 20; Hutckinson, I. 18,219, 323; II.
13, 105; Holmes, I. 466.
BRADSTREET, ANNE, a poetess, was the
daughter of Governor Dudley, and was born in
1612 at Northampton, England. At the age of
sixteen she married Mr. Bradstreet, afterwards
governor of Massachusetts, and accompanied him
to America in 1630. After being the mother of
eight children, she died Sept. 16, 1672, aged 60.
Her volume of poems was dedicated to her
father, in a copy of verses dated March 20, 1642,
and is probably the earliest poetic volume written
in America. The title is : " Several Poems, com
piled with great variety of wit and learning, full
of delight ; wherein especially is contained a com
plete discourse and description of the four ele
ments, constitutions, ages of man, seasons of the
year, together with an exact epitome of the three
first monarchies, viz : the Assyrian, Persian, Gre
cian, and Roman commonwealth, from the begin
ning to the end of their last king, with divers
other pleasant and serious poems. By a gentle
woman of New England." A third edition was
published in I7o8. — Spec. Amer. Poet. Intr. XX.;
American Quar. Rev. n. 494-496.
BRADSTREET, SIMOX, minister of Charles-
town, Mass., was graduated at Harvard college
in 1693, and was ordained as successor of Mr.
Morton, Oct. 26, 1698. He received J. Stephens
as colleague in 1721, and Mr. Abbot as his col
league in 1724. After a ministry of more than
forty years, he died Dec. 31, 1741, aged 72. His
successors were Abbot, Prentice, Paine, and
Dr. Morse. He was a very learned man, of a
strong mind, tenacious memory, and lively imagi
nation. Lieut-Governor Taller introduced him to
Governor Burnet, who was himself a fine scholar,
by saying, here is a man who can whistle Greek ;
and the governor afterwards spoke of him as one
of the first literary characters and best preachers
whom he had met with in America. Mr. Brad-
street was subject to hypochondriacal complaints,
which made him afraid to preach in the pulpit
some years before he died. He delivered his ser
mons in the deacon's seat, without notes, and they
were in general melancholy effusions upon the
wretched state of mankind and the vanity of the
world. He possessed such a catholic spirit, that
some of the more zealous brethren accused him
of Arminianism ; but the only evidence of this
was his fondness for Tillotson's sermons, and his
being rather a practical than a doctrinal preacher.
He seldom appeared with a coat, but always wore
a plaid gown, and was generally seen with a pipe
in his mouth. His Latin epitaph upon his prede
cessor, Mr. Morton, has been preserved by the
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Mass. Hist. Society. — Hist. Coll. VIII. 75 ; Bud-
ington.
BRADSTREET, SIMON, minister of Marble-
head, was the son of the preceding, and was
graduated at Harvard college in 1728. He was
ordained successor of Mr. Ilolyoke Jan. 4, 1738,
and died Oct. 5, 1771; Isaac Story, who married
his daughter, having been his colleague four or
five months. lie was an excellent scholar, a most
worthy and pious Christian, and faithful pastor ;
laboring to bring his hearers to the love of God,
the reception of the Saviour, and the practice of
holiness. He published a sermon on the death
of his brother Samuel, of Chaiiestown, 1755.
BRADSTREET, JOHN, a major-general in
America, appointed by the king of Great Britain,
was in 1740 lieutenant-governor of St. John's,
Newfoundland. lie was afterwards distinguished
for his military services. It was thought of the
highest importance in the year 1756 to keep open
the communication with Fort Oswego on Lake
Ontario. Gen. Shirley accordingly enlisted forty
companies of boatmen, each consisting of fifty
men, for transporting stores to the fort from
Schenectady, and placed them under the command
of Bradstrect, who was an active and vigilant
officer, and inured to the hardships to which that
service exposed him. In the beginning of the
spring of this year a small stockaded post with
twenty-five men, at the carrying place, was cut off.
It became necessary to pass through the country
with large squadrons of boats, as the enemy
infested the passage through the Onondaga river.
On his return from Oswego, July 3, 1756, Col.
Bradstreet, who was apprehensive of being am
bushed, ordered the several divisions to proceed as
near each other as possible. He was at the head
of about three hundred boatmen in the first
division, when at the distance of nine miles from
the fort the enemy rose from their ambuscade and
attacked him. He instantly landed upon a small
island and with but six men maintained his
position, till he was reinforced. A general en
gagement ensued, in which Bradstrect with
gallantry rushed upon a more numerous enemy,
and entirely routed them, killing and wounding
about two hundred men. His own loss was
about thirty. In the year 1758 he was intrusted
with the command of three thousand men on an
expedition against Fort Frontenac, which was
planned by himself. He embarked at Oswego on
Lake Ontario, and on the evening of Aug. 25th
landed within a mile of the fort. On the 27th it
was surrendered to him. Forty pieces of cannon
and a vast quantity of provisions and merchandize,
with one hundred and ten prisoners, fell into his
hands. The fort and nine armed vessels and such
stores as could not be removed, were destroyed.
In August, 17G4, he advanced with a considerable
force toward the Indian country, and at Presquc
Isle compelled the Delawares, Shawanese, and
other Indians to terms of peace. He was ap
pointed major-general in May, 1772. After
rendering important services to his country, he
died at New York Oct. 21, 1774. — Wynne, n.
,59-61, 86-88; Ann. Beg. for 1764, 181 ; Holmes,
II. 198; Marshall,!. 137,438; Coll. Hist. Soc.,
VII. 150, 155; Mante.
BRADSTREET, STEPHEN I., died in Cleveland
June 9, 1837, aged 42 ; pastor of the first church,
then editor of the Ohio Observer and of the Cleve
land Messenger; a graduate of Dartmouth, 1819.
BRADY, HUGH, major-general, died in Detroit
April 15, 1851, aged 83. Born in Pennsylvania,
he entered the army in 1792, and served under
Wayne against the Indians. At the battle of
Chippewa he headed his regiment. From 1825
he was stationed at Detroit. A life of rigid
temperance and regular activity gave him an
elastic step in old age. lie had a pure and
upright character.
BRAIN ARD, JOHN GARDINER CALKINS, a poet,
was the son of Judge Jeremiah G. Brainard of
Xew London, Conn., died Sept. 26, 1828, aged
32. He was born about the year 1797. He was
graduated in 1815 at Yale college. Though his
name differs in one letter from that of the
celebrated missionary, yet probably they had a
common ancestor. Indeed his name, in a catalogue
of the college, is given Urainerd, while that of
John, a brother of David, is printed Brainard.
These are probably both mistakes. Autograph
letters of David and John in my possession
present the form of Braincrd ; the other form of
the name being adopted by the poet and his
father, I do not feel authorized to change it for the
sake of uniformity. Brainard studied law and
commenced the practice at Midclletown ; but not
finding the success which he desired, in 1822 he
undertook the editorial charge of the Connecticut
Mirror at Hartford. Thus he was occupied about
seven years, until, being marked as a victim for the
consumption, he returned about a year before his
death to his father's house.
He was an excellent editor of the paper, which
he conducted, enriching it with his poetical pro
ductions, which have originality, force, and paLhos,
and with many beautiful prose compositions, and
refraining from that personal abuse, which many
editors seem to think essential to their vocation.
In this respect his gentlemanly example is worthy
of being followed by the editorial corps. He,
who addresses himself every week or every day to
thousands of readers, sustains a high responsibility.
If, destitute of good breeding and good principles,
he is determined to attract notice by the person
alities, for which there is a greedy appetite in the
community ; if he yields himself a slave to the
party which he espouses, and toils for it by con
tumelies upon his opponents ; if, catching the
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spirit of an infuriated zealot, and regardless of
truth and honor, he scatters abroad his malignant
slanders and inflammatory traducements ; then,
instead of a wise and benevolent teacher and
guide, he presents himself as a sower of discord
and a minister of evil.
When he was a member of Yale college in'
1815, during a revival of religion, he was deeply
impressed with his sin and danger; but his
religious sensibility soon diminished, and the world
occupied again his thoughts, though spcculatively
he assented to the truths of the gospel. Thus he
lived twelve or thirteen years, till a few months
before his death. Then, at his father's house,
during his decay by the consumption, he spent his
days and evenings in reading religious books and
in pious meditations. To his minister, Mr.
McEwen, he said, " This plan of salvation in the
gospel is all that I want ; it lills me with wonder
and gratitude, and makes the prospect of death
not only peaceful, but joyous." Pale and feeble,
he went to the house of God, and made a pro
fession of religion and was baptized. The next
Sabbath, as he could not attend meeting, the
Lord's supper was administered at his room. His
last remark to his minister was, " I am willing to
die ; I have no righteousness, but Christ and his
atonement are enough. God is a God of truth,
and I think I am reconciled to him." The change
experienced by the renovated, pardoned sinner, is
described by him in the following lines :
" All sights are fair to the recovered blind ;
All sounds are music to tho deaf restored ;
The lame, made whole, leaps like the sportive hind ;
And the sad, bow'd down sinner, with his loud
Of shame and sorrow, when he cuts the cord,
And leaves his pack behind, is free again
In the light yoke and burden of his Lord."
He published Occasional pieces of poetry, 12mo.,
1825. — Specimens Amer. Poetry, ill. 198-212;
Ilawes1 Sermon.
BllAIXERD, DAVID, an eminent preacher and
missionary to the Indians, died at Northampton
Oct. 9, 1747, aged 29; his gravestone by mistake
says Oct. 10. lie was born at Iladdam, Conn.,
April 20, 1718. His grandfather was Deac'on
Daniel B., who was born in Braintree, Essex,
England, and who settled in Iladdam about 1GGO,
and died in 1715. He came to this country at
the age of eight, in the Wyllys family, about
1649 ; bis wife was Hannah, daughter of Jared
Spencer. His father, Ilezekiah Brainerd, was au
assistant of the colony, or a member of the
council, who died when his son was about nine
years of age ; his mother, Dorothy, the daughter
of Ilev. Jeremiah llobart, and widow of D.
Mason, died when he was fourteen years of age.
His elder brother, Ilezekiah, was a representative
of Iladdam ; and his brother Xehcmiah, who
died in 1742, was a minister in Glastenbury. His
sister, Martha, married Gen. Joseph Spencer, of
East Iladdam. As his mind was early impressed
by the truths of religion, he took delight in read
ing those books which communicate religious
instruction ; he called upon the name of God in
secret prayer ; he studied the Scriptures with
great diligence ; and he associated with several
young persons for mutual encouragement and
assistance in the paths of wisdom. But in all this
he aftenvards considered himself as self-righteous,
as completely destitute of true piety, as governed
by the fear of future punishment and not by the
love of God, as depending for salvation upon his
good feelings and his strict life, without a per
ception of the necessity and the value of the
mediation of Christ. At this time he indeed
acknowledged, that he deserved nothing for his
best works, for the theory of salvation was
familiar to him ; but while he made the acknowl
edgment, he did not feel what it implied. lie
still secretly relied upon the warmth of his affec
tions, upon his sincerity, upon some quality in
himself, as the ground of acceptance with God ;
instead of relying upon the Lord Jesus, through
whom alone there is access to the Father. At
length lie was brought under a deep sense of his
sinfulncss, and he perceived, that there was
nothing <:ood in himself. This conviction was not
a sudden perturbation of mind ; it was a perma
nent impression, made by the view of his own
character, when compared with that holy law of
God, which he was bound to obey. But the
discovery was unwelcome and irritating. He
could not readily abandon the hope, which rested
upon his religious exercises. He was reluctant to
admit, that the principle, whence all his actions
proceeded, was entirely corrupt. He was opposed
to the strictness of the Divine law, which extended
to the heart as well as to the life. He murmured
against the doctrines, that faith was indispensably
necessary to salvation, and that faith was com
pletely the gift of God. He was irritated in not
finding any way pointed out, which would lead
him to the Saviour; in not finding any means
prescribed, by which an unrenewcd man could of
his own strength obtain that, which the highest
angel could not give. He was unwilling to
j believe, that he was dead in trespasses and in
sins. But these unpleasant truths were fastened
I upon his mind, and they could not be shaken oft'.
It pleased God to disclose to him his true character
and condition, and to quell the tumult of his soul,
lie saw that lus schemes to save himself were
entirely vain, and must forever be ineffectual ; he
perceived that it was self-interest which had
before led him to pray, and that he had never
once .prayed from any respect to the glory of
God; he felt that he was lost. In this state of
mind, while he was walking in a solitary, place in
the evening of July 12, 1739, meditating upon
religious subjects, his mind was illuminated with
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completely new views of the Divine perfections ;
he perceived a glory in the character of God and
in the way of salvation by the crucified Son of the
Most High, which he never before discerned ;
and he was led to depend upon Jesus Christ for
righteousness, and to seek the glory of God as
his principal object.
In September, 1739, he was admitted a mem
ber of Yale college, but he was expelled in Feb
ruary, 1742. The circumstances which led to this
expulsion were these : There had been great
attention to religion in the college, and Mr.
Braincrd, whose feelings were naturally warm,
and whose soul was interested in the progress of
the gospel, was misled by an intemperate zeal,
and was guilty of indiscretions, which at that
time were not unfrequcnt. In a conversation
with some of his associates he expressed his be
lief, that one of the tutors was destitute of
religion. Being in part overheard, his associates
were compelled by the rector to declare, respect
ing whom he was speaking ; and he was required
to make a public confession in the hall. Braincrd
thought, that it was unjust to extort from his
friends what he had uttered in conversation, and
that the punishment was too severe. As he re
fused to make the confession, and as he had been
guilty of going to a separate meeting after pro
hibition by the authority of college, he was
expelled. In the circumstances, which led to this
result, there appears a strong disposition to hunt
up offences against the " New Lights," as those
who were attached to the preaching of Mr. Whit-
field and Tcnnent, were then called. It was not so
strange that a young man should have been in
discreet, as that he should confess himself to have
been so. Mr. Brainerd afterwards perceived that
he had been uncharitable and had done wrong,
and with sincerity and humility he acknowledged
his error and exhibited a truly Christian spirit ;
but he never obtained his degree. Though he
felt no resentment, and ever lamented his own
conduct ; yet he always considered himself as
abused in the management of this affair.
In the spring of 1742 he went to llipton, to
pursue the study of divinity under the care of
Mr. Mills ; and at the end of July was licensed to
preach, by the association of ministers which met
at Danbury, after they had made inquiries re
specting his learning, and his acquaintance with
experimental religion. Soon after he began his
theological studies, he was desirous of preaching
the gospel to the heathen, and frequently prayed
for them. In November, after he was licensed,
he was invited to go to New York, and was ex
amined by the correspondents of the society for
propagating Christian knowledge, and was ap
pointed by them a missionary to the Indians.
He arrived on the first of April, 1743, at Kau-
nameek, an Indian village in the woods between
Stockbridge, in the State of Massachusetts, and
Albany, at the distance of about twenty miles
from the former place and fifteen miles from
Kinderhook. lie now began his labors at the
age of twenty-five, and continued in this place
about a year. At first he lived in a wigwam
among the Indians ; but he afterwards built him
self a cabin, that he might be alone, when not
employed in preaching and instructing the savages.
lie lodged upon a bundle of straw, and his food
was principally boiled corn, hasty pudding, and
samp. With a feeble body, and frequent illness,
and great depression of mind, he was obliged to
encounter many discouragements, and to submit
to hardships, which would be almost insupporta
ble by a much stronger constitution. But he
persisted in his benevolent labors, animated by
the hope that he should prove the means of
illuminating some darkened mind with the truth
as it is in Jesus. Besides his exertions, which
had immediate reference to the instruction of the
savages, he studied much, and employed much
time in the delightful employment of communing
in the wilderness with that merciful Being, who
is present in all places, and who is the support
and joy of all Christians. When the Indians at
Kaunamcek had agreed to remove to Stockbridge
and place themselves under the instruction of
Mr. Sergeant, Mr. Brainerd left them and bent
his attention towards the Delaware Indians.
He was ordained at Newark in New Jersey by
a Presbytery, June 12, 1744, on which occasion
Mr. Pemberton of New York preached a sermon.
He soon afterwards went to the new field of his
labors, near the forks of the Delaware in Penn
sylvania, and continued there a year, making two
visits to the Indians on Susquehannah river. He
again built him a cabin for retirement ; but here
he had the happiness to find some white people,
with whom he maintained family prayer. After
the hardships of his abode in this place, with but
little encouragement from the effect of his exer
tions, he visited the Indians at Crosweeksung,
near Freehold in New Jersey. In this village he
was favored with remarkable success. The Spirit
of God seemed to bring home effectually to the
hearts of the ignorant heathens the truths, which
he delivered to them with affection and zeal.
His Indian interpreter, who had been converted
by his preaching, cooperated cheerfully in the
good work. It was not uncommon for the whole
congregation to be in tears, or to be crying out
under a sense of sin. In less than a year Mr.
Brainerd baptized seventy-seven persons, of whom
thirty-eight were adults, that gave satisfactory
evidence of having been renovated by. the power
of God ; and he beheld with unspeakable pleasure
between twenty and thirty of his converts seated
around the table of the Lord. The Indians were
at the time entirely reformed in their lives. They
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were very humble and devout, and united in Chris
tian affection. In a letter, dated Dec. 30, 1745, he
says : " The good work which you will find largely
treated of in my journal, still continues among
the Indians ; though the astonishing Divine influ
ence, that has been among them, is in a consider
able measure abated. Yet there are several in
stances of persons newly awakened. When I
consider the doings of the Lord among these
Indians, and then take a view of my journal, I
must say, 't is a faint representation I have given
of them." Nor is there any evidence, that he
misjudged. The lives of these Indian converts
in subsequent years, under John Brainerd and
William Tennent, were, in general, holy and ex
emplary, furnishing evidence of the sincerity of
their faith in the gospel.
In the summer of 1746 Mr. Brainerd visited
the Indians on the Susquehannah, and on his
return in September found himself worn out by
the hardships of his journey. His health was
so much impaired, that he was able to preach
but Kttle more. Being advised in the spring of
1747 to travel in New England, he went as far
as Boston, and returned in July to Northampton,
where, in the family of Jonathan Edwards, he
passed the remainder of his days. He gradually
declined till Tuesday, Oct. 9, 1747, when, after
suffering inexpressible agony, he entered upon
that rest which remaineth for the faithful ser
vants of God.
Mr. Brainerd was a man of vigorous powers
of mind. While he was favored with a quick
discernment and ready invention, with a strong
memory and natural eloquence, he also possessed
in an uncommon degree the penetration, the
closeness and force of thought, and the sound
ness of judgment which distinguish the man of
talents from him who subsists entirely upon the
learning of others. His knowledge was exten
sive, and he added to his other attainments an
intimate acquaintance with human nature, gained
not only by observing others, but by carefully
noticing the operations of his own mind. As he
was of a sociable disposition, and could adapt
himself with great ease to the different capacities,
tempers, and circumstances of men, he was re
markably fitted to communicate instruction. He
was very free, and entertaining, and useful in his
ordinary discourse; and he was also an able
disputant. As a preacher he was perspicuous
and instructive, forcible, close, and pathetic. He
abhorred an affected boistcrousness in the pulpit,
and yet he could not tolerate a cold delivery,
when the subject of discourse was such as should
warm the heart, and produce an earnestness of
manner.
His knowledge of theology was uncommonly
extensive and accurate. President Edwards,
whose opinion of Mr. Brainerd was founded upon
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an intimate acquaintance with him, says, that
" He never knew his equal, of his age and stand
ing, for clear, accurate notions of the nature and
essence of true religion, and its distinctions from
its various false appearances." Mr. Brainerd had
no charity for the religion of those, who, indulging
the hope that they were interested in the Divine
mercy, settled down in a state of security and
negligence. He believed that the good man
would be continually making progress towards
perfection, and that conversion was not merely a
great change in the views of the mind and the
affections of the heart, produced by the Spirit of
God ; but that it was the beginning of a course
of holiness, which through the Divine agency
would be pursued through life. From the ardor
with which he engaged in missionary labors, some
may be led to conclude, that his mind was open
to the influence of fanaticism. During his resi
dence at college, his spirit was indeed somewhat
tinged with the zeal of bitterness ; but it was not
long before he was restored to true benevolence
and the pure love of the truth. From this time
he detested enthusiasm in all its forms. He rep
robated all dependence upon impulses, or im
pressions on the imagination, or the sudden sug
gestion of texts of Scripture. He withstood every
doctrine which seemed to verge towards antino-
mianism, particularly the sentiments of those who
thought that faith consists in believing, that Christ
died for them in particular, and who founded their
love of God, not upon the excellence of his char
acter, but upon the previous impression that they
were the objects of his favor, and should assuredly
be saved. He rebuffed the pride and presumption
of laymen, who thrust themselves forth as public
teachers and decried human learning and a learned
ministry ; he detested the spirit, Avhich generally
influenced the Separatists through the country;
and he was entirely opposed to that religion,
which was fond of noise and show, and delighted
to publish its experiences and privileges. Very
different from the above was the religion which
Mr. Brainerd approved, and which he displayed
in his own life. In his character were combined
the most ardent and pure love to God and the
most unaffected benevolence to man, an alienation
from the vain and perishable pursuits of the world,
the most humbling and constant sense of lu's own
iniquity, which was a greater burden to him than
all his afflictions, great brokenness of heart before
God for the coldness of his love and the imper
fection of his Christian virtues, the most earnest
breathings of soul after holiness, real delight in
the gospel of Jesus Christ, sweet complacence in
all his disciples, incessant desires and importunate
prayers that men might be brought to the knowl
edge and the obedience of the truth, and that
thus God might be glorified and the kingdom of
Christ advanced, great resignation to the will of
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his heavenly Father, an entire distrust of his own
heart and a universal dependence upon God, the
absolute renunciation of everything for his Re
deemer, the most clear and abiding views of the
things of the eternal world, a continual warfare
against sin, and the most unwearied exertion of
all his powers in the service and in obedience to
the commands of the Most High. He believed that
the essence of true religion consists in the confor
mity of the soul to God, in acting above all selfish
\iews, for his glory, desiring to please and honor
him in all things, and that from a view of his excel
lency, and worthiness in himself to be loved, adored,
and obeyed by all intelligent creatures. When
this divine temper is wrought in the soul by the
special influences of the Holy Spirit, discovering
the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ, he
believed that the Author of all good could not
but delight in his own image, and would most
certainly complete his own work, which he had
begun in the human heart. His religion did not
consist in speculation ; but he carried his own
principles into practice. Resisting the solicita
tions of selfishness, he consecrated his powers to
the high and benevolent objects, enjoined in the
Sci-iptures. It was his whole aim to promote in
the most effectual manner the glory of his Re
deemer. After the termination of a year's fruit
less mission at Kaunamcek, where he had suffered
the greatest hardships, he was invited to become
the minister of East Hampton, one of the best
parishes on Long Island ; but though he was not
insensible to the pleasures of a quiet and fixed
abode, among Christian friends, in the midst of
abundance ; yet, without the desire of fame, he
preferred the dangers and sufferings of a new
mission among savages. He loved his Saviour,
and wished to make known his precious name
among the heathen.
In his last illness and during the approaches of
death he was remarkably resigned and composed.
He spoke of that willingness to die, which origi
nates in the desire of escaping pain, and in the
hope of obtaining pleasure or distinction in
heaven, as very ignoble. The heaven, which he
seemed to anticipate, consisted in the love and
sendee of God. " It is impossible," said he, " for
any rational creature to be happy without acting
all for God. I long to be in heaven, praising and
glorifying him with the angels. There is nothing
in the world worth living for, but doing good and
finishing God's work; doing the work, which
Christ did. I see nothing else in the world, that
can yield any satisfaction, besides living to God,
pleasing him, and doing his whole will. My
greatest comfort and joy has been to do some
thing for promoting the interests of religion, and
for the salvation of the souls of particular per
sons." When he was about to be separated for
ever from the earth, his desires seemed to be as
eager as ever for the progress of the gospel. He
spoke much of the prosperity of Zion, of the in
finite importance of the work which was committed
to the ministers of Jesus Christ, and of the ne
cessity, which was imposed upon them, to be
constant and earnest in prayer to God for the
success of their exertions. A little while before
his death he said to Mr. Edwards : " My thoughts
have been much employed on the old, dear theme,
the prosperity of God's church on earth. As I
waked out of sleep, I was led to cry for the pour
ing out of God's Spirit and the advancement of
Christ's kingdom, which the dear Redeemer did
and suffered so much for ; it is tin's especially
which makes me long for it." He felt at this time
a peculiar concern for his own congregation of
Christian Indians. Eternity was before him with
all its interests. " T is sweet to me," said he, "to
think of eternity. But O, what shall I say to
the eternity of the wicked ! I cannot mention it,
nor think of it. The thought is too dreadful ! "
In answer to the inquiry, how he did, he said : " I
am almost in eternity ; I long to be there. My
work is done. I have done with all my friends.
All the world is now nothing to me. O, to be
in heaven, to praise and glorify God with his holy
angels ! " At length, after the trial of his pa
tience by the most excruciating sufferings, his
spirit was released from its tabernacle of clay, and
entered those mansions which the Lord Jesus
hath prepared for all his faithful disciples.
The exertions of Mr. Brainerd in the Chris
tian cause were of short continuance, but they
were intense, and incessant, and effectual. One
must be either a very good or a very bad man,
who can read his life without blushing for himself.
If ardent piety and enlarged benevolence, if the
supreme love of God and the inextinguishable
desire of promoting his glory in the salvation of
immortal souls, if persevering resolution in the
midst of the most pressing discouragements, if
cheerful self-denial and unremitted labor, if hu
mility and zeal for godliness, united with conspic
uous talents, render a man worthy of remem
brance; the name of Brainerd will not soon be
forgotten.
He published a narrative of his labors at Kaun-
ameek, annexed to Mr. Pembcrton's sermon at
his ordination; and his journal, or an account of
the rise and progress of a remarkable work of
grace amongst a number of Indians in New Jer
sey and Pennsylvania, with some general remarks,
1746. This work, which is very interesting, and
which displays the piety and talents of the author,
was published by the commissioners of the soci
ety in Scotland, with a preface by them, and an
attestation by W. Tennent and Mr. McKnight.
His life, written by President Edwards, is com
piled chiefly from his own diary. Annexed to it
are some of his letters and other writings. It is a
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book which is well calculated to enkindle a flame
of benevolence and piety in the breast. A new
edition of his memoirs was published in 1822 by
Sereno Edwards Dwight, including his journal.
Mr. Edwards had omitted the already printed
journals, which had been published in two parts:
the first, from June 19 to Nov. 4, 1745, entitled
Mirabilia Dei inter Indices ; the second, from Nov.
24, 1745, to June 19, 1746, with the title, Divine
grace displayed, &c. These journals Mr. Dwight
has incorporated in a regular chronological series
with the rest of the diary, as alone given by Ed
wards. — Brainerd's Life; his Journal; Ed
wards'1 Fun. Sermon ; Middleton's Bio(j. Evang.
IV. 262-264 ; Assembly Miss. Mag. n. 449-452 ;
Boston Recorder, 1824, p. 196.
BRAINERD, JOHN, a missionary, brother of
the preceding, died about 1780. He was graduated
at Yale college in 1746, and was a trustee of
Princeton college from 1754 to 1780. The Indian
congregation of his brother being removed from
Crosweeksung or Crosweeks to Cranberry, not
far distant, he succeeded his brother in the mis
sion about the year 1748. His efforts were inces
sant for their good ; but he had to encounter
great difficulties. A drunken Indian sold their
lands ; the greedy government of New Jersey
was hostile to the tribe ; and Mr. Brainerd, unable
to support a schoolmaster, endeavored himself,
amidst numerous avocations, to teach them the
elements of learning as well as the truths of re
ligion. The place of his residence in 1754 was
Bethel, whence he wrote to Dr. Wheelock : " It
belongs to thousands to endeavor to Christianize
the Indians, as well as to us. It is as really their
duty, and would be every way as much to their
advantage, as ours. If the country in general
were but sensible of their obligation, how would
they exert themselves, how freely would they dis
burse of their substance, and what pains would
they take to accomplish this great and good
work?" About 1755 Wm. Tennent succeeded
him. In 1763 he lived at Great Egg Harbor.
In 1772 he lived at Brotherton, N. J.
BRAXT, JOSEPH, a famous Indian chief, was at
the head of the sk nations, so called, in the State
of XTew York. Each of these was divided into
three or more tribes, called the turtle tribe, the
wolf tribe, the bear tribe. He was a Mohawk of
pure Indian blood. His father, Brant, a chief,
was denominated an Onondaga Indian, and about
the year 1756 had three sons in Sir Wm. John
son's army. Young Brant was sent by Sir Wil
liam to Dr. Wheelock's Indian charity school at
Lebanon Crank, now the town of Columbia, Con
necticut ; and after he had been there educated,
employed him in public business. His Indian
name was Thayendancga. About the year 1762
Rev. Charles J. Smith, a missionary to the Mo
hawks, took Brant as his interpreter ; but the Avar
obliging him to return, Brant remained and went
out with a company against the Indians, behaving
"so much like the Christian and the soldier, that
he gained great esteem." In 1765 his house was
an asylum for the missionaries in the wilderness,
and he exerted himself for the religious instruc
tion of his poor Indian brethren. In 1775 he
visited England ; and it was there perceived, of
course, after the education he had received, that
he spoke and wrote the English language with
tolerable accuracy. In the war, which commenced
in that year, he attached himself to the British
cause. The barbarities attending the memorable
destruction of the beautiful settlement of Wyo
ming, in July, 1778, have been ascribed to him by
the writers of American history and by Camp
bell in his poem, Gertrude of Wyoming ; but
Brant was not present in that massacre ; the In
dians were commanded by Col. John Butler, a
tory and refugee, whose heart was more ferocious
than that of any savage. Col. Brant, however,
was the undisputed leader of the band, which in
July, 1779, destroyed the settlement of Minisink
in Orange county, New York, a few miles from
West Point. In June he left Niagara with about
three hundred warriors of the six nations and a
number of tories, for the purpose of destroying
the settlements upon the Delaware river. On the
20th of July he appeared on the west of Mini-
sink and sent down a party, which, after destroy
ing the settlement, returned with their booty to
the main body at Grassy-swamp brook. The next
day one hundred and twenty men assembled under
the command of a physician, Col. Tusten, and
marched seventeen miles toward the enemy. In
the morning of July 22d, Col. Hathorn arrived
and took the command, and in a short time the
battle commenced and lasted the whole day.
The fire was irregular, from behind trees and
rocks, both by the Indians and Americans, every
man fighting in his own way. Brant and his whole
force were engaged. About sunset our troops, hav
ing expended their ammunition, retreated and were
pursued by the savages. Dr. Tusten, in a nook
of rocks, had dressed the wounds of seventeen
men, whose cries for protection and mercy, when
they heard the retreat ordered, were piercing to
the soul ; but they all perished, with Dr. Tusten,
under the Indian tomahawk. On this day forty-
four Americans fell, some of whom were the pride
and flower of the village of Goshen. Among
them were Jones, Little, Duncan, Wisner, Vail,
Townsend, and Knapp. Major Poppino, who
escaped, lived to nearly one hundred years, and
was present with an assemblage of ten or twelve
thousand people, when their bones were buried
July 22, 1822. After the peace of 1783 Brant
visited England, and passed the remainder of his
life in Upper Canada. In 1785 he in self-de
fence killed one of his sons, who in a fit of
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drunkenness had attempted his life; in conse
quence of this act he resigned his commission of
captain in the British service, and surrendered
himself to justice ; but Lord Dorchester, the gov
ernor, would not accept his resignation. He sent
his two sons, Joseph and Jacob, in 1801, to the
care of President Wheelock, of Dartmouth col
lege, to be educated in Moor's school. He died
at his seat in Upper Canada, at the head of Lake
Ontario, Nov. 24, 1807, aged 65. His daughter
married Win. J. Kerr, Esq., of Niagara, in 1824.
His son, John, an Indian chief, was in England
in 1822, and placed before the poet, Campbell,
documents to prove that his father was not pres
ent at the massacre at Wyoming, and that he was
in fact a man of humanity. After reading them
Campbell published a letter, in which he recanted
the charges of ferocity, advanced in his Gertrude ;
but he assigns rather an inadequate reason for
this change in the estimate of his character,
namely, that Brant enjoyed the friendship of
some high-minded British officers, which would
not have been the case, had he been ferocious,
and destitute of amiable qualities. In the war of
the Revolution he was doubtless the leader of
savages, who took delight in scalps ; he was un
deniably in command, when the wounded of Min-
isink were butchered ; yet the slaughter may have
occurred entirely without his orders. Probably
his subsequent intercourse with civilized men and
reading the New Testament may have softened
his character. I am able to state, on the author
ity of his son Joseph, that as he lay in his bed
and looked at the sword hanging up in his bed
room, with which he had killed his son, he was
accustomed to cry in the sorrow of his heart. He
once proposed to write a history of the six na
tions. He published the book of common prayer
and the gospel of Mark, in the Mohawk and
English languages, 8vo. London, 1787. The
gospel according to St. John, in Mohawk, entitled
Nene Karighwiysoston tsinihorighhote-n ne Saint
John, which is ascribed to him in the Cambridge
catalogue, was the w~ork of the chief, John Norton ;
it is without date, but was printed at London in
1807 or 1808 by the British and foreign Bible so
ciety, in an edition of two thousand copies. —
Holmes, II. 292, 302; Mass. Hist. Coll. X. 154;
Phil. Trans. LXXVI. 231; Panoplist, m. 323,
324 ; Weld's Trav. II. 297 ; Wheelock's Narra
tive ; Eastern Argus, May 7, 1822.
BRATTLE, THOMAS, a respectable merchant
of Boston, was born Sept. 5, 1657, and was grad
uated at Harvard college in 1676, and was after
wards treasurer of that institution. He was a
principal founder of the church in Brattle street,
of which Dr. Colman was the first minister. His
death occurred May 18, 1713, in the fifty-sixth
year of his age. He was brother-in-law of Mr.
Pemberton. Seyeral of his communications on
BRATTLE.
astronomical subjects were published in the philo
sophical transactions. He wrote an excellent let
ter, giving an account of the witchcraft delusion
in 1692, which is preserved in the Hist. Collec-
lections. — Holmes, I. 511; Colman's Life, 42;
Coll. Hist. Soc. v. 61-79.
BRATTLE, WILLIAM, minister of Cambridge,
Mass., brother of the preceding, died Feb. 15,
1717, aged 54. He was born in Boston about the
year 1662, and was graduated at Harvard college
in 1680. lie was afterwards for several years a
tutor and fellow of that seminary. He exerted
himself to form his pupils to virtue and the fear
of God, punishing vice with the authority of a
master, and cherishing every virtuous disposition
with parental goodness. When the small pox
prevailed in the college, he was not driven away
in terror ; but with benevolent courage remained
at his post, and visited the sick, both that he might
administer to them relief, and might impress
upon them those truths which were necessary to
their salvation. As he had never experienced
the disease, he now took it in the natural way ;
for the practice of inoculation had not been intro
duced into America. But the course of the dis
order was mild, and he was soon restored to his
usual health. He was ordained pastor of the
church in Cambridge, as successor of Mr. Gookin,
Nov. 25, 1696, and after a useful ministry of
twenty years was succeeded by Dr. Appleton.
His funeral was attended Feb. 20, a day memora
ble for the great snow which then commenced,
and which detained for several days at Cambridge
the magistrates and ministers, who were assem
bled on the occasion. The snow was six feet
deep in some parts of the streets of Boston.
Mr. Brattle was a very religious, good man, an
able divine, and an excellent scholar. Such was
his reputation for science, that he was elected a
fellow of the royal society. He was polite and
affable, compassionate and charitable. Having a
large estate, he distributed of his abundance with
a liberal hand ; but his charities were secret and
silent. His pacific spirit and his moderation were
so conspicuous, as to secure to him the respect of
all denominations. So remarkable was his pa
tience under injuries, and such a use did he make
of the troubles of life, that he was heard to ob
serve, that he knew not how he could have spared
any of his trials. Uniting courage with his hu
mility, he was neither bribed by the favor, nor
overawed by the displeasure of any man. He
was a man of great learning and abilities, and at
once a philosopher and a divine. But he placed
neither learning nor religion in unprofitable spec
ulations, but in such solid and substantial truth,
as improves the mind and is beneficial to the
world. The promotion of religion, learning, vir
tue, and peace was the great object, in which he
was constantly employed. As he possessed pen-
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etration and a sound judgment, his counsel was
often sought and highly respected. Such was his
regard to the interests of literature, that he be
queathed to Harvard college 250 pounds, besides
a much greater sum in other charitable and pious
legacies. With regard to his manner of preach
ing, Dr. Colman, comparing him and Mr. Pember-
ton, who died about the same time, observes :
" They performed the public exercises in the
house of God with a great deal of solemnity,
though in a manner somewhat different ; for Mr.
Brattle was all calm, and soft, and melting; but
Mr. Pemberton was all flame, zeal, and earnest
ness." The death of this good man, after a lan
guishing disease, was peaceful and serene.
He published a system of logic, entitled, " com
pendium logicte secundum principia D. Renati
Cartesii plerumque efformatum et catechistice pro-
positum." It was held in high estimation, and
long recited at Harvard college. An edition of
it was published in the year 1758. — Holmes Hist.
Cambridge; Coll. Hist. Soc. VII. 32, 5.3-59 ; X.
168; Holmes, II. 94; Boston News-Letter, No.
671.
BRATTLE, WILLIAM, a man of extraordinary
talents and character, the son of the preceding,
died in Oct., 1776, aged about 75. He was grad
uated at Harvard college in 1722. He was a
representative of Cambridge in the general court,
and was long a member of the council. He
studied theology and preached with acceptance.
His eminence as a lawyer drew around him an
abundance of clients. As a physician his practice
was extensive and celebrated. He was also a
military man, and obtained the appointment of
major-general of the militia. While he secured
the favor of the governor of the State, he also in
gratiated himself with the people. In his conduct
there were many eccentricities. He was attached
to the pleasures of the table. At the commence
ment of the American Revolution an unhappy
sympathy in the plans of General Gage induced
him to retire to Boston, from which place he ac
companied the troops to Halifax, where he died.
His first wife was the daughter of Gov. Salton-
stall ; his second was the widow of James Allen,
and daughter of Col. Fitch. His son, Thomas
Brattle, of Cambridge, died Feb. 7, 1801.—
Coll. Hist. Soc. VII. 58; vm. 82.
BRAXTON, CARTER, a member of congress in
1776, died October 10, 1797, aged 61. He
was the son of George Braxton, a rich plan
ter of Newington, King and Queen's county,
Virginia, born Sept. 10, 1736. His mother was
the daughter of Robert Carter of the council.
After being educated at William and Mary col
lege, he married and settled down as an inde
pendent planter. On the death of his wife he
visited England, and returned in 1760. By lu's
second wile, the daughter of Richard Corbin of
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Lanneville, he had sixteen children : she died in
1814, and all the children but one were dead before
1829. In 1765 he became a member of the house
of burgesses, and was distinguished for his pat
riotic zeal. In November, 1775, he was elected
the successor of Peyton Randolph in congress,
but continued a member of that body only till
the signing of the declaration of independence.
During the remainder of his life he was often
a member of the legislature and council of Vir
ginia. His talents were respectable ; his oratory
easy ; lu's manners peculiarly agreeable. His last
days were embittered by unfortunate commercial
speculations, and vexatious lawsuits : some of his
friends, his sureties, suffered with him. Though
in early life a gentleman of large fortune, he
found himself, in his old age, by his own impru
dence, involved in inextricable embarrassments.
Happy arc they, who are wisely content with
their lot, and who use liberally their wealth, not
for display, but for the purposes of a noble char
ity. — GoodriclCs Lives.
BRAY, THOMAS, D. D., ecclesiastical commis
sary for Maryland and Virginia, died Feb. 15,
1730, aged 73. He was sent out by the bishop of
London, in 1699, and was indefatigable in his
efforts to promote religion in the colonies, and
among the Indians and Negroes. Libraries were
instituted by him, both for missionaries and
parishes. He crossed the Atlantic several times, _
and spent the greater part of his life in these
labors. Soliciting the charities of others, he
in his disinterested zeal contributed the whole
of his small fortune to the support of his
plans. Through lu's exertions parish libraries
were established in England, and various benevo
lent societies in London were instituted, particu
larly the society for the propagation of the gospel
in foreign parts. He published a memorial on
the state of religion in North America with pro
posals for the propagation of religion in the sev
eral provinces ; circular letters to the clergy of
Maryland; cursus catecheticus Americanus, 1700;
apostolic charity ; bibliotheca parochialis ; dis
course on the baptismal covenant.
BRAZER, JOHN, D. I)., died at Charleston, S.
C., Feb. 26, 1846, aged 56. Born in Worcester,
he graduated in Cambridge, in 1813 ; he was
afterwards a professor. He was ordained over
the north society in Salem, Nov. 14, 1820, suc
cessor of J. E. Abbott. Many of his writings ap
peared in the north American Review. He pub
lished a sermon at the ordination of J. Cole ; on
the death of Dr. Holyoke ; at the installation of
A. Bigelow ; Memoir of Dr. Holyoke ; before
society for education; several in the Christian
preacher ; use of affliction ; on prayer ; power of
unitarianism over the affections.
BREARLEY, DAVID, chief justice of New
Jersey, died Aug. 23, 1790, aged, it is said, only
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26. He was born in that State in 1763, and
received the degree of A. M. at Princeton, in
1781. He attained to great eminence at the bar.
Soon after he received the appointment of judge,
he died at his seat near Trenton. He Avas ap
pointed by Washington in 1789, district judge for
New Jersey, and was succeeded by Robert Morris.
BREARLEY, JOSEPH, general, died at Mor-
ristown, in 1805, aged 93.
BREBEUF, JEAN DE, a Jesuit missionary
among the Indians in Canada, arrived at Quebec
in 1625. According to Charlevoix, he twice, when
among the Hurons, in a time of drought, obtained
rain in answer to his prayers. However, taken
prisoner by the Iroquois in 1649, he was cruelly
put to death by them, with his associate, father
Lallemant. Amidst their barbarities, the savages
said to him, " You have assured us, that the
more one suffers on earth the greater will be his
happiness in heaven ; out of kindness to you, we
therefore torture you." At least Charlevoix re
ports that they said so. Brebeuf was 55 years of
age. He was the uncle of the poet of Normandy,
George de B. He translated into Huron an
abridgment of the Christian doctrine by Ledes-
ma. This is annexed to Champlaiu's relation du
voyage, 1632. — Charlevoix, I. 294.
BRECK, ROBERT, a minister of Marlborough,
died Jan. 6, 1731, aged 48. He was born in
Dorchester in 1682, the son of Captain John
Breck, a very ingenious and worthy man, and
grandson of Edward Breck, a settler of Dorches
ter in 1636. After his father's death he was sent
to Harvard college, where he graduated in 1700.
He was ordained Oct. 25, 1704, as successor of
Mr. Brimsmead. His successors were Kent,
Smith, and Packard. He left a wife and four
children. His wife was Elizabeth Waimvright
of Haverhill. A daughter married Rev. Mr,
Parkman, of Westborough. He was a man of
vigorous talents, of quick perception, and tena
cious memory, of solid judgment, and exten
sive learning. So great was his skill in the He
brew, that he read the Bible out of it to his
family. He was also well versed in philosophy,
mathematics, antiquities, and history ; and his
extensive knowledge he was always ready to com
municate for the instruction of others. As a pas
tor he was prudent and faithful ; he Avas an ortho
dox, close, methodical preacher. He Avas a strong
disputant ; a strenuous asserter of the privileges of
the churches ; and an opponent of Episcopal claims.
United Avith his piety, he possessed a singular cour
age and resolution. Before his settlement he
preached some time on Long Island, during the
administration of Gov. Cornbury, \vhen, though a
young man, he boldly asserted the principles of the
nonconformists, notwithstanding the threatening
and other ill-treatment, Avhich he experienced.
In temper, he was grave and meditative, yet at
times cheerful, and in comrersation entertaining.
A perfect stranger to coA'etousness, he was ever
hospitable and charitable. In severe pain he Avas
resigned ; and his end was peace. So great AA'as
the esteem, in Avhich he was held, that in his
sickness a day of fasting was kept for him Oct.
15, 1730, Avhen scA-eral ministers were present;
and on his death, sermons Avere preached by SAvift
of Framingham, Prentice of Lancaster, and Lor-
ing of Sudbury. He published an election ser
mon, 1728 ; the danger of falling aAvay after a
profession; a sacramental sermon, 1728. — Bos
ton Weekly News-Letter, Jan. 21; Weekly Jour
nal, Jan. 18, 1731 ; Loring's Sermon.
BRECK, ROBERT, minister of Springfield, died
April 23, 1784, aged 70. He was the son of the
preceding, and Avas graduated at Hansard college,
in 1730. He was ordained Jan. 27, 1736. His
settlement occasioned an unhappy controversy.
It Avas alleged against him, that he did not deem
a knoAvledge of Jesus Christ necessary to the sal
vation of the heathen, and that he treated lightly
of the atonement. A narrative relating to his or
dination Avas published ; folloAved by " an ansAver
to the Hampshire narrative ; " and this by " a
letter " to the author of the narrative, 1737. His
superior intellectual poAvers Avcre enlarged by an
extensive acquaintance with men and books. He
accustomed himself to a close manner of thinking
and reasoning. By diligent application, he ac
quired a rich fund of the most usel'ul knowledge.
His disposition was remarkably cheerful and
pleasant, and his conversation Avas entertaining
and instructive, sometimes enlivened by humor,
but ahvays consistent with the sobriety of the
Christian and the dignity of the minister. He
Avas easy of access, hospitable, compassionate, and
beneA-olent. His sense of human weakness and
depravity led him to admire the gracious provis
ion of the gospel, and he delighted to dAvell upon
it in his public discourses. His religious senti
ments he formed on a careful examination of the
Scriptures. Steady to his oAvn principles, he was
yet candid towards those who diii'cred from him.
In his last illness, he spoke in the humblest terms
of himself, but professed an entire reliance on
divine mercy through the Mediator, ar.d he
resigned himself to death with the dignity of a
Christian.
His first Avife was Eunice, daughter of his prede
cessor, Rev. D. BreAver ; his second wile was
Helena, the widow of RCA-. E. Dorr. His suc
cessor Avas Mr. HoAvard. His son, Robert, who
died at Northampton, in 1799, aged 63, Avas
clerk of the court of common pleas. The son of
the latter, Colonel John, died in N.,in 1827, aged
55 ; leaving sons, Dr. EdAvard, Robert, and Theo
dore, now citizens of Brecksvillc, Ohio.
He published a sermon, 1748; on the death
of Rev. D. Parsons, 1781 ; of Rev. S. Williams,
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1782; at the ordination of D. Parsons, 1783;
also a century sermon Oct. 16, 1775, on the burn
ing of the town by the Indians. — Lathrop's Fu
neral Sermon; Holland's History of Western
Massachusetts, i. 201.
BRECK, SAMUEL, a merchant, removed from
Boston to Philadelphia, where he died May 7,
1809. His daughter married James Lloyd.
BRECK, DANIEL, died in Hartland, Vt., Dec.,
1845, aged 97. Born in Boston, he was reli
giously educated at Princeton, where he gradu
ated in 1774. As a chaplain he accompanied
Porter's regiment to Canada, and was in the
attack upon Quebec. He preached the first ser
mon at Marietta, on the text, " Of his kingdom
there shall be no end ; " having \isions of the
progress of the gospel in the vast western coun
try, lie was a man of high character and excel
lence, the father of Judge Breck of Kentucky.
BRECKENRIDGE, JOHN, attorney-general of
the United States, died at Lexington, Kentucky,
Dec. 14, 1806. He was elected a member of the
senate in the place of Humphrey Marshall, and
took his seat in 1801. In Jan., 1802, he submit
ted in the senate a resolution to repeal an act of
the preceding session respecting the judiciary
establishment of the United States, by which six
teen new circuit judges had been created. It
was this resolution, which called forth the most
astonishing powers of argument and eloquence.
In 1803 Mr. Breckenridge distinguished himself
by supporting resolutions in relation to Spanish
affairs of a milder complexion, than those advo
cated by Mr. Ross. After the resignation of Mr.
Lincoln of Mass., he was appointed attorney-
general in his place.
BRECKENRIDGE, JOHN, D.D., died near
Lexington, Ky., Aug. 4, 1841, aged 44. His
parents were John B. and Mary Hopkins Cabell,
of a Virginia family. He was one of nine chil
dren, born at Cabell's Dale, near Lexington,
where he died. He was a devoted preacher, and
wore himself out by his labors.
BRECKENRIDGE, ROBERT, general, died in
Lexington, Ky., in Sept., 1833, aged 78.
BREED, ALLEN, one of the first settlers of
Lynn, died March 17, 1692, aged 91. lie was
born in England in 1601 and arrived in this coun
try in 1630, probably in the Arabella at Salem,
June 12. He was a farmer and lived in the
western part of Summer street, Lynn, possess
ing two hundred acres of land. The village,
in which he resided, derived from him the
name of " Breed's End." He is one of the gran
tees, named in 1640 in the Indian deed of South
Hampton, Long Island, which was settled from
Lynn, by Rev. Mr. Fitch, and others. The name
of his wife was Elizabeth ; and his children were
Allen, Timothy, Joseph, and John. Of these,
Allen was living in 1692, when it was voted by
the town, that Allen Breed, senior, " should sit in
the pulpit." The descendants in Lynn and other
towns in Massachusetts, are numerous ; from one
of them was derived the name of Breed's Hill, in
Charlestown, celebrated for the battle of 1775,
called by mistake the battle of Bunker's Hill, for
the battle was fought on Breed's not Bunker's
Hill. One of his descendants at Lynn was Col.
Fred. B., an officer of the Revolution, who died
July, 1820, aged 68. Among the descendants in
Connecticut were Gershom Breed, an eminent
merchant of Norwich, and his sons, John M.
Breed, mayor of the city, a graduate of Yale,
1768; Shubael Breed, a graduate of 1778; and
Simeon Breed, a graduate of 1781. The widow
of the last is still living, aged 89, the sister of E.
Perkins, who died, aged above 100 years. —
Lewis' History of Lynn, 25 ; farmer's Register ;
I) wi (jlit's Travels, III. 313.
BREESE, SAMUEL SIDNEY, died in Sconondoa,
Oneida county, N. Y., Oct. 15, 1848, aged 80.
Born in Philadelphia, a descendant of the Hu
guenots, he was one of the first settlers of
Cazcnovia ; then was the law partner of Judge
Platt of Whitestown. In 1813, he became a far
mer for the rest of his life. He was a member of
the convention to form a new constitution. He
was an excellent citizen, and a sincere Christian.
His end was peace, through hope in the atoning
blood.
BRENTON, WILLIAM, Governor of Rhode
Island, was a representative of Boston for several
years from 1635. Of Rhode Island he was presi
dent between 1660 and 1661, and governor under
the charter from 1666 to 1669; in both which
offices he succceeded Arnold, and was succeeded
by him. He died in Newport, 1674. Several of
his descendants held important offices in the col
ony : they adhered to the royal government at the
Revolution. An admiral in the British navy was
a native of Newport. — Farmer's Keg.
. BRESSANI, FRANCISCO GIUSEPPE, a Jesuit
missionary, was a Roman by birth. He toiled
with much zeal in his mission among the Hurons
in Canada, until it was broken up. Having been
taken captive and tortured, he bore in his mutilated
hands for the rest of his life, the proofs of his suf
ferings. He died in Italy. In 1643 there was
published an account of his mission in Italian, en
titled, Breve relatione d' ulcune missioni, &c. —
Charlevoix.
BREWER, DANIEL, died at Springfield, Nov.
5, 1733, aged 65, in the 4()th year of his ministry.
He succeeded Mr. Glover, and was followed by
Mr. Breck. Born in Roxbury, he graduated at
Harvard in 1697, and was ordained in 1694. His
wife was Catharine, daughter of Rev. N. Chaun-
cey of Hatfield ; her sister, Sarah, married Rev.
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BREWSTER.
S. Whittelsey of Wallingford. lie left six chil
dren, lie published : God's help to be sought in
time of war, 1724.
BREWER, CHAUXCEY, doctor, died at Spring
field, in 1830, aged 87, a graduate of Yale, 1762.
BREWSTER, WILLIAM, one of the Pilgrims
at Plymouth, the Elder and only teacher for some
years, died about April 16, 1644, aged 83. This
is the date given by Bradford ; but Morton says,
about April 18. He was born, probably, at
Scrooby, in 1560. As there was a William B. in
that town in 1571, he was probably the father
of Elder Brewster of Plymouth, who himseh0
passed the last years of his residence in England
at Scrooby, as a public officer. This place, which
is of great interest in American history, is a small
town in Nottinghamshire, only two miles south of
Bawtry, in Yorkshire, and ten miles west of Gains
borough, in Lincolnshire. It was a post town, and
had a small well-built church, and an Episcopal
manor, which was an occasional residence of the
Archbishop of York. The manor was built in
two courts, of timber, except the front, which was
of brick, with a moat around it. This, it will be
found, became the residence of Brewster. Noth
ing now remains of it, but the stone gateway.
On the wood-work of the church is seen a vine
bearing clusters of grapes. His family was one of
some eminence. The coat-armor of one of the
name, bore " a chevron ermine between three
silver etoiles on a sable field." Our Brewster
derives, in our view, no honor from his family ;
but the device of stars breaking through the dark
ness of night is a very suitable device for the
American Brewster. He was the chief light of
the Plymouth colony, in a dark wilderness.
Mr. Brewster was educated at the university of
Cambridge, where his mind was impressed with
religious truth, and he was renewed by the Spirit
of God. After completing his education he en
tered into the service of William Davison, am
bassador of Queen Elizabeth in Holland. This
gentleman, who was friendly to religion, possessed
the highest regard for Mr. Brewster, and reposed
in him the utmost confidence. He esteemed him
as a son. Mr. Brewster in return proved himself
not unworthy of the friendship, which he had ex
perienced ; for when Davison, who had been
appointed secretary of state, incurred the affected
displeasure of the queen for drawing, in com
pliance with her orders, the warrant for the exe
cution of Mary, he did not forsake his patron. He
remained with him, and gave him what assistance
it was in his power to afford, under the troubles,
with which it was the policy of Elizabeth to over
whelm the innocent secretary in the year 1587.
When he could no longer serve him, he retired to
the north of England among his old friends.
It was now, that he resided at Scrooby, where
he was post, or postmaster, from 1594 to Sept.
30, 1607. The recorded payments to him
amounted in that period to 456 pounds. He was
also inn-keeper to the travellers by post. As
there were no cross-posts he had to provide for
distant deliveries. If he had a good income, it
enabled him to exercise a generous hospitality ;
and his abode in the Archbishop's manor fur
nished a convenient place of meeting for the new
Puritan Separatist church.
His attention was now chiefly occupied by the
interests of religion. His life was exemplary, and
it seemed to be his great object to promote the
highest good of those around him. He endeavored
to excite their zeal for holiness, and to encourage
them in the practice of the Christian virtues. As
he possessed considerable property, he readily
and abundantly contributed towards the support
of the gospel. He exerted himself to procure
faithful preachers for the parishes in the neigh
borhood. By degrees he became disgusted with
the impositions of the prelatical party, and their
severity towards men of a moderate and peace
able disposition. As he discovered much corrup
tion in the constitution, forms, ceremonies, and
discipline of the established church, he thought
it his duty to withdraw from its communion, and
to establish with others a separate society. This
new church, under the pastoral care of the aged
Mr. Clifton and Mr. Robinson, met on the Lord's
days at Mr. Brewster's house, where they were
entertained at his expense, as long as they could
assemble without interruption. When at length
the resentment of the hierarchy obliged them to
seek refuge in a foreign country, he was the most
forward to assist in the removal. He was seized
with Mr. Bradford, in the attempt to go over to
Holland in 1607, and was imprisoned at Boston,
in Lincolnshire. He was the greatest sufferer of
the company, because he had the most property.
Having, with much difficulty and expense, obtained
his liberty, he first assisted the poor of the society
in their embarkation, and then followed them to
Holland.
He had a large family and numerous depend
ents; and his estate was exhausted. As his edu
cation had not fitted him for mechanical or mer
cantile employments, he was now pressed with
hardships. In this exigency he found a resource
in his learning and abilities. He opened a school
at Leyden, for instructing the youth of the city
and of the university in the English tongue ; and
being familiar with the Latin, with which they
were also acquainted, he found no impediment
from the want of a language common to both.
By means of a grammar, which he formed him
self, he soon assisted them to a correct knowledge
of the English. By the help of some friends
he also set up a printing-press, and published
several books against the hierarchy, which could
not obtain a license for pubh'cation in England.
BREWSTER.
Such was his reputation in the church at Ley-
den, that he was chosen a ruling elder, and he
accompanied the members of it, who came to New
England in 1620. He suffered with them all the
hardships attending their settlement in the wil
derness. He partook with them of labor, hunger,
and watching ; and his Bible and his sword were
equally familiar to him. As the church at Ply
mouth was for several years destitute of a minister,
Mr. BreAvster, who was venerable for his character
and years, officiated as a preacher, though he
could never be persuaded to administer the sacra
ments. According to the principles of the church,
the ruling elder, in the absence of the teaching
elder or pastor, was permitted to dispense the
word. No regular minister was procured before
the year 1629, when Ralph Smith was settled.
Previously to this period the principal care of the
church rested upon Mr. Brewster, who preached
twice every Lord's day ; and afterwards he occa
sionally exercised for the good of the church his
talents in teaching. He died in the peace and
hope of the Christian. His children were Pa
tience, Fear, Love (a son), Wrestling, Jonathan,
Lucretia, William, Mary. Jonathan removed to
New London, thence to Norwich, Conn., and died
1659. His estate and residence, to which he
early removed, were in Duxbury ; his son, Love,
succeeded him in his house. His three hundred
books were valued at 43 pounds ; his whole estate
at 150 pounds.
Through his whole life he was remarkably tem
perate. He drank nothing but water, until
within the last five or six years. During the
famine, which was experienced in the colony, he
was resigned and cheerful. When nothing but
oysters and clams were set on lu's table, he would
give thanks that his family were permitted " to
suck of the abundance of the seas, and of the
treasures hid in the sand." He was social and
pleasant in conversation, of a humble and modest
spirit ; yet, when occasion required, courageous in
administering reproof, though with such tender
ness as usually to give no oft'ence. lie was con
spicuous for his compassion towards the distressed;
and if they were suffering for conscience sake, he
judged them, of all others, most deserving of
pity and relief. He had a peculiar abhorrence of
pride. In the government of the church he was
careful to preserve order and the purity of doc
trine and communion, and to suppress contention.
He was eminent for piety. In his public prayers
he was full and comprehensive, making confession
of sin with deep humility, and supplicating with
fervor the Divine mercy through the merits of
Jesus Christ. Yet he avoided a tedious prolixity,
lest he should damp the spirit of devotion. In
his discourses he was clear and distinguishing, as
well as pathetic ; and it pleased God to give him
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uncommon success, so that many were converted
by his ministry. At his death he left what was
called an excellent library. It was valued at 43
pounds in silver, and a catalogue of the books is
preserved in the colony records.
The church at Plymouth, of which Mr. Brew
ster was ruling elder, was peculiar for the lib
erty of "prophesying" or preaching, which was
allowed even to such private members as were
"gifted." When Governor Winthrop visited Ply
mouth in 1632, in the afternoon's exercise of the
Lord's day, a question, according to custom, was
propounded, upon which a number of the congre
gation expressed their opinions, and the Governor
of Massachusetts, being requested, " spoke to it"
with the rest. " The preachments of the gifted
brethren," says Dr. Mather, "produced those
discouragements to the ministers, that almost all
left the colony, apprehending themselves driven
away by the neglect and contempt with which the
people on this occasion treated them." This
church admitted none to its communion without
either a written or oral declaration of their faith
and religious experience. The Scriptures were
not read in public, nor was the psalm before sing
ing, till in compassion to a brother, Avho could not
read, one of the elders or deacons was permitted
to read it line by line, after it had been previously
expounded by the minister. No children were
baptized unless one of the parents was in full
communion, and baptized children were considered
as subjects of ecclesiastical discipline. While in
Holland the Lord's supper was administered every
Sabbath ; but it was omitted in America till a
minister was obtained, and then it was adminis
tered only once in a month. — Bell-nap's Amer.
Biog.u. 252-256 ; Coll. Hist. Soc. IV. 108, 113-
117; Morton, 153; Need's N. E. I. 231; Sav
age's Winthrop,!. 91; Magnalia,!. 14 ; Prince,
89.
BREWSTER, JONATHAN, son of the preceding,
lived in Duxbury in 1632, and was deputy and
attorney. He removed to New London in 1638.
He expressed in a letter dated at " Mohcken,"
Sept., 1656 — probably New London — an inten
tion of going to England. He died 1659. His
son Benjamin removed to Norwich soon after
1648. By his wife, Anna Dart, of New London,
he had sons Jonathan, Daniel, William, and Ben
jamin ; and his descendants are to be found now
in the vicinity. Scabury Brewster, of Norwich,
the father of the dentist, Christopher Brewster,
who was knighted 4>y the Emperor of Russia, was
descended from Wrestling, the brother of Jona
than, and was born in Plymouth in 1755. In
1779 there were eleven Brewster families in the
east society of Norwich.
BREWSTER, RUTH, daughter of the preced
ing, married first John Picket, and next, in 1668,
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BRIGIIAM.
Charles Hill, of New London, -who, after her
death, married a daughter of Major John Mason.
BREWSTER, NATHANIEL, minister of Brook-
haven, Long Island, was a graduate of the first
class of Harvard college in 1642. At first he
was settled in the ministry at Norfolk, England ;
on his return to America he was settled at Brook-
haven in 1665, and died in 1690, leaving sons,
John, Timothy, and Daniel, whose descendants of
respectable standing remain on Long Island. —
Farmer's Register.
BREWSTER, EBEXEZER, general, a descend
ant of Elder Brewster, died at Hanover, N. H.,
Jan. 4, 1814, aged 74. He emigrated from Nor
wich, Conn. The following was his son.
BREWSTER, AMOS AVERT, colonel, died at
Hanover, N. H., April 24, 1845, aged 68. He
was many years sheriff of the county. His wife
was a daughter of Adriana Boudinot. He suf
fered the unhappiness of burying six young chil
dren within a period of five years.
BREWSTER, LYMAN D., died in Hennepin,
Oct. 22, 1835, aged 51; from Connecticut he re
moved to the west, to Tennessee and Illinois.
He bequeathed 20,000 dollars to the African colo
nization society, and 2,500 dollars to schools.
BRICKETT, JOHN, published a work, entitled
Natural history of North Carolina, with cuts, Dub
lin, 1737.
BRIDGE, THOMAS, minister of the first church
in Boston, was born at Hackney, England, and
was graduated at Harvard college in 1675. After
visiting Europe as a merchant, he became a min
ister. He first preached at Jamaica ; then at
New Providence and Bermuda, and at West Jer
sey. He was ordained at Boston as colleague
with Mr. Wadsworth, May 10, 1705. He died
suddenly of an apoplexy, Sept. 26, 1715, aged 58.
He was eminent for his Christian virtues. While
he was upright in his dealings, he was also meek
and mild ; his heart was kind ; and he was hum
ble and devout. He was habitually serious.
Thongh his talents were not conspicuous, yet his
thoughts were always expressed in suitable and
manly language. In prayer he was eminent.
His intimate acquaintance with the Scriptures and
the devotional frame of his mind rendered his
supplications to the throne of grace very interest
ing. While he was himself exceedingly desirous
of doing good, free from every particle of envy,
he sincerely rejoiced in the usefulness and re
spectability of others. He was not desirous of
honor, and so humble was the opinion which he
had formed of himself, that the expression of his
humility sometimes put to the blush those who
were younger and more desirous of distinction.
He was diligent in study, but his Bible was his
library. To this book he devoted his attention,
and became well acquainted with its important
truths. Such was his moderation, so greatly was
he desirous of peace, that it Avas thought he was
sometimes silent when he ought to have spoken,
and that he yielded too much to others. He pub
lished the following sermons : at the artillery
election, 1705 ; on the choice of the town officers,
1710; on faith, 1713. — Caiman's Fun. Serm. ;
Hist. Coll. ill. 257.
BRIDGE, JCSIAH, second minister of East
Sudbury, Mass., was graduated at Harvard col
lege in 1758, and ordained Nov. 4, 1761, the suc
cessor of Wm. Cook, who died Nov. 12, 1760,
aged 63, in the thirty-seventh year of his minis
try. Mr. Bridge died June 20, 1801, aged 61, in
the fortieth year of his ministry, and was suc
ceeded by Joel Foster, who died in 1812. Before
the division of the church the ministers of Sud
bury were E. Brown, Sherman, and I. Loring.
He was a popular preacher, with a clear, loud
voice. His convention sermon in 1792 and Dud-
leian lecture in 1797 were not printed. He pub
lished a sermon at the ordination of J. Damon ;
the election sermon, 1789. — Coll. Hist. Soc. s.s.
IV. 61 ; Palladium, June 26th, 1801.
BRIDGE, EBENEZER, died Oct. 1, 1792, aged
77. Born in Boston, he was graduated in 1736,
and ordained at Chclmsford in 1741, and was in
office fifty years. He published the artillery elec
tion sermon, 1752; the election sermon, 1767.
BRIDGE, MATTHEW, minister of Framingham,
died in 1775, a graduate of 1741. He published
a sermon at the ordination of E. Stone, Reading,
1761.
BRIDGE, EDMUND, died at Dresden, Maine,
Sept., 1825, aged 86. He was born in Lexington,
and was a patriot of the Revolution. From 1781
to 1815 he was sheriff of Lincoln. He was an
advocate of the Christian ministry and of public
schools, held in esteem for his integrity and be
nevolence. He was the father of Judge Bridge,
of Augusta.
BRIDGHAM, SAMUEL W-, general, chancellor
of Brown university, died in Dec., 1840, at Provi
dence, aged 67. He was mayor, and attorney-
general.
BRIDGMAN, JAMES G., a missionary, went to
China in 1844, and was ordained at Canton. He
died Dec. 6, 1850, in a fit of insanity inflicting a
fatal wound.
BRIGGS, JAMES, the first minister of Cum-
mington, died in 1825, aged about 70. A gradu
ate of Yale in 1775, he was settled in 1779, the
town giving him two hundred acres of land and
sixty pounds for a settlement, lie was a very
respectable and useful minister.
BRIGGS, ELIAKIM, died at Dighton, Sept. 27,
1852, aged 86, the last of seven children, whose
ages amounted to 588 years. Five brothers
reached the ages of 72, 86, 87, 88, 96. The ages
of two sisters amounted to 15!) years.
BRIGIIAM, PAUL, lieut.-gov. of Vermont,
BRIGHAM.
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died at Norwich, June 16, 1824, aged 79. For
four years he was a captain in the war of inde
pendence ; five years high sheriff of Windsor
county; five years chief judge of the county
court ; and twenty-two years lieut.-governor. His
various duties he discharged to the acceptance of
his fellow citizens, till the infirmities of age ad
monished him to retire from the public service. —
Farmer's Coll. in. Appendix, 64.
BllIGHAM, ELIJAH, judge, a member of con
gress, died of the croup at Washington, April 22,
1816. A native of Northborough and graduate
of Dartmouth in 1778, he settled as a merchant
in Westborough, and sustained various public
offices.
BllIGHAM, AMARIAH, Dr., died in Utica, Sept.
8, 1849, aged 51, formerly principal of the Re
treat at Hartford, and from 1842 superintendent
of the State asylum for the insane at Utica. He
was a brother of Dr. B., secretary of the Ameri
can Bible society.
BRIGHT, FRANCIS, first minister in Charles-
town, Mass., was a pupil of the famous Mr. Dav
enport. He arrived at Naumkeag, or Salem, in
June, 1629, in company with Mr. Skelton and
Mr. Higginson. Disagreeing in judgment with
his two brethren, he removed to Charlestown.
After tarrying here a little more than a year, and
finding that the people were disposed to carry the
reformation to a greater length than he thought
was necessary, he returned to England in 1630.
He was succeeded by Mr. Wilson. — Morse and
Parish's N. E., 74; Morton, 82; Prince, 184,
188.
BRIMMER, GEORGE W., died at Florence in
Sept., 1838. A graduate of Harvard in 1803, he
was skilled in painting and architecture.
BRIMMER, MARTIN, mayor of Boston, died
April 25, 1847. A graduate of 1814, he was dis
tinguished for his liberality and zeal in promoting
the interests of public education.
BRIMSMEAD, WILLIAM, first minister of Marl-
borough, died July 3, 1701. He was a native of
Dorchester, and probably the son of John Brims-
mead,who lived in Dorchester in 1638, and who had
a son, John, born 1640. The name is the same as
Brinsmcad, as it was written in 17.32 in the last will
of John Brinsmead, of Milford, one of whose
daughters married Dr. Whcelock ; and the same
as Brinsmade, as it was written by Daniel Nathan
iel B., of Woodbury, in 1777, and as it is written at
the present day. He was educated at Harvard col
lege, but never received a degree. lie, with
others of his class, being displeased with a vote
of the corporation, requiring the students to reside
four years at Cambridge instead of three, left the
institution in 1647. He was employed as a
preacher at Plymouth in 166,5. At Marlborough
he preached as early as Sept., 1660, though he
was not ordained till Oct. 3, 1666. As he was
preaching, Sunday, March 20, 1676, the assembly
was dispersed by an outcry of " Indians at the
door." All reached the fort safely, except one
man, who wras wounded. The meeting-house and
many dwelling-houses were burnt. lie was suc
ceeded by Mr. Breck. He was never married.
He is represented as a well accomplished servant
of Christ. He published the election sermon,
1681. Among the papers made use of by Prince
in compiling his annals, was a journal in Latin
kept by Mr. B. from 1665 to 1695 inclusively. —
Coll Hist. Soc.v. 47, 122; ix. 179; x. 89.
BRESTSMADE, DANIEL, minister of Washing
ton, Conn., died April 23, 1793, aged 74. He
was a graduate of 1745. Dr. Porter succeeded
him. His son, Judge Daniel, a graduate of 1772,
died in 1826, aged 75. The son of the latter is
Gen. Daniel B. Brinsmade, of Washington.
BRISTED, JOHN, died at Providence, Feb. 23,
1855, aged 76. He was a native of England,
who arrived at New York in 1806, and in 1820
married a daughter of J. J. Astor, by whom he
had a son, Charles Astor Bristcd. He was many
years a useful Episcopal minister ; his liberality
was experienced by students in theology.
BRISTOL, WILLIAM, U. S. judge for the dis
trict of Conn., died at New Haven, March 7,
1836, aged 57. Born in Hamden, he graduated
in 1798. He was a judge of the State court in
1819 ; an upright judge and an able lawyer.
BRIT, TUOMAS, died on Sampit, near George
town, Aug., 1825, aged 115, a soldier in the
Cherokee, French, and Revolutionary wars. He
rode on horseback in one day thirty-eight miles,
three weeks before his death.
BROCK, JOHN, minister of Reading, died June
18, 1688, aged 67. He was born in England in
1620, and was distinguished for early piety. He
came to this country about the year 1637. He
was graduated at Harvard college in 1646, and,
after residing there two years longer, engaged in
preaching the Gospel, first at Rowley and then at
the Isle of Shoals. He continued at this last
place till 1662, when he removed to Reading, as
successor of Samuel Hough, being ordained Nov.
13, 1662. Here he ministered in holy things till
his death. He was succeeded by Mr. Pierpont.
His wife was the widow of Mr. Hough.
Mr. Brock was an eminent Christian, and a
laborious, faithful minister, preaching not only on
the Sabbath, but frequently on other days. He
established lectures for young persons, and for the
members of the church. He often made pastoral
visits, and they Avere rendered very useful by his
happy talents in conversation. lie was so re
markable for holiness and devotion, that it was
said of him by the celebrated Mitchell : " He
dwells as near heaven as any man upon earth."
He was full of faith and of the Holy Ghost.
Several remarkable stories are related of the effi-
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cacy of his prayers, in which he frequently had a
particular faith, or an assurance of being heard.
When he lived at the Isle of Shoals, he per
suaded the people to enter into an agreement to
spend one day in every month, besides the Sab
baths, in religious worship. On one of these
days the fishermen, who composed his society,
desired him to put off the meeting, as the rough
ness of the weather had for a number of days
prevented them from attending to their usual em
ployment. He endeavored in vain to convince
them of the impropriety of their request. As
most of them were determined to seize the oppor
tunity for making up their lost time, and were
more interested in their worldly than in their
spiritual concerns, he addressed them thus : " If
you are resolved to neglect your duty to God, and
will go away, I say unto you, catch fish if you
can ; but as for you, who will tarry and worship
the Lord Jesus Christ, I will pray unto him for
you, that you may catch fish until you are weary."
Of thirty-five men, only five remained with the min
ister. The thirty, who went from the meeting, with
all their skill caught through the whole day but four
fishes ; while the five, who attended divine service,
afterwards went out and caught five hundred.
From this time the fishermen readily attended all
the meetings which Mr. Brock appointed. A poor
man, who had been very useful with his boat in
carrying persons, who attended public worship,
over a river, lost his boat in a storm, and lamented
his loss to his minister. Mr. Brock said to him :
" Go home, honest man ; I will mention the mat
ter to the Lord ; you will have your boat again
to-morrow." The next day, in answer to earnest
prayer, the poor man recovered his boat, which
was brought up from the bottom by the anchor of
a vessel, cast upon it without design. A number
of such remarkable correspondences between the
events of Providence and the prayers of Mr.
Brock, caused Mr. John Allen, of Dedham, to say
of him : " I scarce ever knew any man so famil
iar with the great God, as his dear servant Brock."
— Mather's Magnalia, IV. 141-143; Coll. Hist.
Soc.vn. 251-254; Stone's Fun. Serm. onPren-
tiss ; Fitch's Sermon at the ordination of TucJce.
BROCK, ISAAC, major-general in the British
army, captured Gen. Hull and his whole army at
Detroit, Aug. 16, 1812. He afterwards proceeded
to the Niagara frontier, and was killed in the bat
tle of Queenstown, Oct. 13th. He was rallying
his troops, which had been put to flight by a des
perate charge of Col. Chrystie, when he was
pierced by three balls. He was a brave and gen
erous officer. During his funeral the guns of the
American fort were fired as a token of respect. —
Brackenridcjds Hist. War, 73.
BROECK, ABRAHAM TEN, a patriot of the
Revolution, was the president of the convention
of the State of New York in 1776, and signed
BRODHEAD.
their eloquent address, dated at Fishkill, Dec. 21,
which was written by John Jay. In Oct., 1781,
he was the mayor of the city of Albany, and com
municated to Gen. Heath a vote of thanks for the
protection he had afforded the city. He died at
Albany, Jan., 1810, aged 76.
BROECK, JOHN TEN, died at Albany in Dec.,
1822. He was a patriot of the Revolution, and
held various public offices, while he adorned in
private life his Christian profession. — Amer. Ee-
memb. 1777, p. 53 ; Heath, 320.
BROCKWAY, THOMAS, minister of Columbia,
died in 1808, aged about GO. He graduated in
1768 at Yale, in the first class, whose names are
alphabetically arranged. They had been previ
ously put down according to supposed family
rank or dignity. A native of Lyme, he succcded
Dr. Wheelock at Lebanon crank, now Columbia.
BROCKWAY, DEODATE, died in Ellington,
Conn., Feb., 1849, aged 73, the son of the pre
ceding, a graduate of 1797. Soon after his set
tlement he fell from the steeple of his new meet
ing-house, sixty-five feet, and was well nigh crip
pled for life. He was a man of sense and of high
moral and Christian worth ; in private life urbane
and a model of hospitality. His son, John H.,
a graduate of 1820, was a member of congress
1839-1843. Among a few sermons, which he
published, was an election sermon.
BRODHEAD, JOHN, died at New Market, N.
H., April 7, 1838, aged 67, a respected Methodist
minister and member of congress.
BRODHEAD, JACOB, D. D., died in Spring
field, Mass., June 6, 1855, aged 73. The synod
of the reformed Dutch church in session in New
Brunswick, being on that day apprised by tele
graph of his death, appointed a committee to
attend in New Y7ork the funeral of this father in
their church. Of this committee was Dr. Bethune,
who had succeeded Dr. Brodhead in three of his
pastoral charges — at Rhuiebeck, Philadelphia,
and Brooklyn — and who delivered a discourse on
his decease, which was published.
It appears, by the address of Dr. De Witt, that
Dr. B. was born May 14, 1782, at Marblctown,
Ulster county, and was the son of Charles, a pat
riot and soldier, who commanded a company —
chiefly raised at his own expense — at the surren
der of Burgoyne. An early ancestor, Capt. Dan
iel, came from Yorkshire, and settled with the
Hollanders and Huguenots of Ulster. Dr. B.
was a graduate of Union college in 1801. In
1804 he succeeded his cousin, John Brodhead
Romeyn, as pastor of the Dutch church at Rhine-
beck flats. In 1809 he was installed as a colleague
with Drs. Livingston, Kuypers, and Abeel over the
collegiate Dutch church in New York ; — this
sense of collegiate — as indicating a common
church, composed of several churches having col
league pastors — not being given in our diction a-
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ries. In 1813 he took the charge of the first
Dutch church in Crown street, Philadelphia.
After twelve years he returned to New York, and
was the pastor of Broome-street Dutch church;
afterwards of Flatbush church, and from 1841 to
18-16 of the central church of Brooklyn. He was
an eminently pious and most useful man, a faithful
servant of God in all his fields of labor, and he died
in great peace in the family of his only daughter.
In his sickness the Supper was administered to
him by Dr. Osgood, assisted by his brethren
in Springfield, Buckingham, Parsons, and Seeley.
His first wife was Anna, daughter of John N.
Bleecker, Albany. His son, John Romeyn B.,
naval officer of New York, is known as a histo
rian ; his daughter is the wife of George M. At-
water,of Springfield. A memorial was published,
with a fine portrait, containing Dr. Bcthune's ser
mon and other pieces. lie published the follow
ing discourses : at Philadelphia, 1813; a plea for
the poor, 1814; new year's memorial, 1826; at
thanksgiving, 1826 ; on education, 1831 ; on death
of Dr. Kuypers, 1833; preached in central church,
1851.
BllODNAX, WILLIAM H., general, died in
Virginia, of the cholera, in Oct., 1834, aged 48.
He was a lawyer, a member of the house of dele
gates, and deserves honorable remembrance as an
advocate of the gradual abolition of slavery.
BROMFIELD, EDWARD, an eminent merchant
in Boston, died April 10, 1756, aged 60. He was
born in Nov., 1695. His father, Edward, was a
member of the council ; his mother was the eldest
daughter of Rev. Mr. Danforth, of Roxbury. By
means of her instructions and the instructions of
his grandmother, a daughter of Mr. Wilson, of
Boston, his mind in early h'fe was deeply im
pressed by religious truth. His whole life was
conscientious, upright, and holy. He sustained
several important trusts, and with incorruptible
integrity sought the public good. He was a rep
resentative of his native town in the general court,
from the year 1739 to 1743 ; and he would have
been continued, as colleague with his brother-in-
law, Thomas Gushing, but he preferred the hum
bler station of overseer of the poor, in which
office he remained twenty-one years successively-.
His daughter, Sarah, married Jeremiah Powell, a
member of the council. His son, Col. Henry
Bromfield, a merchant in Boston, passed his last
days at Harvard, where he died, Feb. 9, 1820,
aged 92. His daughter married Daniel D. Rog
ers, of Boston. Mr. Bromfield was eminent for
his Christian virtues. In his intercourse with
others he was open, friendly, pleasant, and re
markable for candor. Attached to the ancient
principles of New England, he loved the most
zealous and awakening ministers ; he worshipped
the Most High in his family ; he partook of the
supper of his Lord and Master with the humblest
reverence and the most ardent gratitude and
love. In his last sickness, so deep was the sense
of his unworthiness and guilt, that he enjoyed
little composure till just before his death, when
his apprehensions were in a great measure re
moved. In his most desponding moments he
ever justified the ways of God. — Prince's Fun.
Serm.; Boston Gaz., April 19, 1756.
BROMFIELD, EDWARD, a young man of un
common genius, the son of the preceding, was
born in Boston in 1723. He was graduated at
Harvard college in 1742. He lived but a short
time to display his virtues and his talents, for
he died August 18, 1746, aged 23 years.
From his childhood he was very amiable and
modest. As he grew up, the poAvers of his mind
were unfolded, and he discovered remarkable
ingenuity and penetration, which were strength
ened and increased as he became acquainted with
mathematical science. His genius first appeared
in the use of the pen, by which with admirable
exactness he sketched the objects of nature. He
made himself so familiar with Weston's short
hand, that he was able to take down every word
of the professor's lectures at the college, and the
sermons which were delivered from the pulpit.
He was skilful in projecting maps. As he was
well skilled in music, he made with his own
hands an excellent organ, with two rows of keys
and several hundred pipes. The workmanship
exceeded anything of the kind which had been
imported from England. He took peculiar pleas
ure in pursuits which related to natural philosophy,
for he wished to behold the wisdom of God in
his works. He made great improvement in the
microscopes, which were then used, most ac
curately grinding the finest glasses, and multiply
ing the powers of optical instruments. He met
with no mechanism which he did not readily im
prove. But these were only the amusements of
Mr. Bromfield. He was engaged in the pursuits
of higher and more interesting objects than those
which had reference only to the earth and could
occupy the mind but a few days. Though from
childhood he possessed the virtues, which endeared
him to his acquaintance, yet it was not before he
reached the age of seventeen that he was converted
by the influence of the Divine Spirit from his
natural state of selfishness and iniquity to the
supreme love of his Maker. From this period
the truths of revelation claimed his intense study,
and it was his constant aim to conform his life to
the requisitions of the gospel. Nothing interested
him so much as the character of Jesus Christ and
the wonders of redemption, which he hoped
would excite his admiration in the future world,
and constitute his everlasting blessedness. He
left behind him a number of manuscripts, which
contained his pious meditations, and marked his
progress towards perfection. Though his body
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was feeble, his whole soul was indefatigable. In
his eyes there was an expression of intellect,
which could not be mistaken. Had his life been
spared, his name might have been an honor to
his country, and philosophy might have been
dignified by a connection with genuine religion. —
Prince's Account of Bromfield ; Panoplist, II.
193-197.
BROOKE, FRANCIS J., judge of the court of
appeals in Virginia, died March 3, 1851, aged 87.
He was a soldier of the Revolution, a Mend of
Washington. His first campaign, with his twin
brother John, was under Lafayette in 1781. He
was often in the legislature. In 1811 he was
judge of appeals, and was re-elected in 1831 till
the time of his death.
BROOKE, GEORGE M., major-general, died in
San Antonio March 9, 1851. He entered the
army in 1808; and he received various brevets for
his defence of Fort Erie, for his sortie, and for
his conduct in the war with Mexico. Fort Brooke
at Tampa Bay, where he was stationed, received
his name.
BROOKS, ELEAZER, a brigadier-general, died
at Lincoln Nov. 9, 1806, aged 80 years. He was
born in Concord, Mass., in 1726, and was a
descendant of Capt. Thomas Brooks, a settler of
Concord in 1636, who died May 22, 1667. With
out the advantages of education he acquired a
valuable fund of knowledge. It was his practice
in early life to read the most approved books, and
then to converse with the most intelligent men
respecting them. In 1774 he was chosen a repre
sentative to the general court, and continued
thirty-seven years in public life, being successively
a representative, a member of the senate, and of
the council. lie took a decided part in the
American Revolution. At the head of a regiment
he was engaged in the battle at White Plains in
1776, and distinguished himself by his cool,
determined bravery. From the year 1801 he
secluded himself in the tranquil scenes of domestic
life. Gen. Brooks possessed an uncommonly
strong and penetrating mind, and his judgment'
as a statesman was treated with respect. He was
diligent and industrious, slow in concerting, but
expeditious in performing his plans. He was a
firm believer in the doctrines of Christianity, and
in his advanced years accepted the office of
deacon in the church at Lincoln. This office he
ranked above all others which he bad -sustained in
life. — Steams' Fun. Serm.; Columb. Centinel,
Nov. 22, 1806.
BROOKS, Jonx, LL. D., governor of Mass.,
died March 1, 18125, aged 72. His residence was
at Medford, where he was born in 1752. His
father was Capt. Caleb B., a farmer; and his early
years were spent in the toils of a farm, with no
advantages of education but those of a town
school. At the age of fourteen by a written in
denture as an apprentice for seven years he was
placed under the tuition of Dr. Simon Tufts. At
this period he formed a friendship with his fellow
student, Count Rumford. While studying medi
cine he also exhibited a fondness for military
exercises, forming the village boys into companies
and training them. Commencing the practice of
physic at Reading, he took the command of a
company of minute-men, for the drilling of whom
he acquired some skill by observing the trainings
of the British soldiers in Boston. On the news
of the expedition to Lexington, April 19, 1775, he
instantly marched ; and, meeting the British force
returning from Concord, he ordered his men to
place themselves behind the barns and fences,
and to fire continually upon the enemy. He soon
received the commission of major in the army.
He entered the service of his country with an
excellent character and a high sense of moral
rectitude. On the evening of June 16th he
assisted in throwing up the fortifications at Breed's
hill; but next morning being dispatched by Col.
Prescott with a message to Gen. Ward at Cam
bridge, and being obliged for the MTant of a horse
to go on foot, he did not participate in the
memorable battle of the 17th June. In 1777 he
was appointed lieutenant-colonel. He accompa
nied Arnold in August, 1777, against Col. St.
Leger on the Mohawk, and suggested to Arnold
the successful project of dispersing the Indians by
sending out one Cuyler to spread an exaggerated
account of our forces. In the battle of Saratoga,
Oct. 7, at the head of his regiment he stormed
and carried the intrenchments of the German
troops. In the battle of Monmouth he was
acting adjutant-general. When the conspiracy at
Xewburg in March, 1783, had well nigh disgraced
the army, Washington rode up to Brooks and
requested him to keep his officers within quarters
to prevent their attending the insurgent meeting ;
the reply was, " Sir, I have anticipated your
wishes, and my orders are given." With tears in
his eyes, Washington took him by the hand and
said, " Col. Brooks, this is just what I expected
from you."
From the army Brooks returned to private life,
free from the vices incident to soldiership, rich in
honor, esteem, and affection, but without property
and without the means of providing for his family,
except, by resuming his profession. His aged
and infirm teacher, Dr. Tufts, resigned his business
into the hands of his pupil. For many year? he
was major-gcnercl of the militia of his county,
and he established excellent discipline, for which
during the whole war he had been distinguished.
As a member of the convention he advocated the
adoption of the constitution of the United States.
By Washington he was appointed marshal of the
district and inspector of the revenue ; in the war
of 1812 he was appointed adjutant-general of
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Massachusetts by Gov. Strong, whom he succeeded
as chief magistrate in 18 16. For seven years
successively he was re-elected ; and with great
dignity and faithfulness he presided over the
affairs of the commonwealth. In 1823 he retired
to private life, being succeeded by "William Eustis.
His wife died many years before. His only
daughter, Lucy, the wife of Rev. George O.
Stuart of Kingston, Upper Canada, died Dec.,
1814; and his son, John, a lieutenant in the navy,
of youthful beauty and generous enterprise, fell in
the battle of Lake Erie Sept. 10, 1813, on board
Perry's flag-ship Lawrence. One son survived
him.
Gov. Brooks held a high rank as a physician.
He was scientific and skilful. His manners were
dignified, courteous, and benign; and his kind
offices were doubled in value by the manner
in which he performed them. In the office of
chief magistrate, he labored incessantly for the
public good. His addresses to the legislature
manifested large and liberal views. No one could
doubt his integrity and devoted patriotism. He
was the governor of the people ; not of a party.
In his native town, of which he was the pride, the
citizens were accustomed to refer their disputes to
his arbitrament, so that lawyers could not thrive in
Medford. In private life he was most amiable
and highly esteemed, the protector and friend of
his numerous relatives, and the delight of all his
acquaintance. The sweetness of his temper was
evinced by the composure and complacency of his
countenance. Towards the close of his life, he
connected himself with the church in Medford,
under the pastoral care of Dr. Osgood. A short
time before he died, he said : " I see nothing ter
rible in death. In looking to the future I have
no fears. I know in whom I have believed ; and
I feel a persuasion, that all the trials appointed
me, past or present, will result in my future and
eternal happiness. I look back upon my past life
with humility. I am sensible of many imperfec
tions that cleave to me. I know, that the pres
ent is neither the season nor the place in which
to begin the preparation for death. Our whole
life is given us for this great object, and the work
of preparation should be early commenced, and
be never relaxed till the end of our days. To
God I can appeal, that it has been my humble
endeavor to serve him in sincerity, and wherein
I have failed, I trust in his grace to forgive. I
now rest my soul on the mercy of my adorable
Creator, through the only mediation of his Son,
our Lord. O, what a ground of hope is there in
that saying of an apostle, that God is in Christ
reconciling a guilty world to himself, not imput
ing their trespasses unto them ? In God I have
placed my eternal all ; and into his hands I com
mit my Spirit ! " To the medical society he be
queathed his library. Besides liis valuable official
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communications as chief magistrate, he published
an oration to Cincinnati society, 1787 ; discourse
before the humane society, 1795 ; eulogy on Wash
ington, 1800; discourse on pneumonia, before the
medical society, 1808. — Thaclter's Med. Biog.,
192-207 ; DixwelVs Memoir ; Columb. Centinel,
May 18, 1825.
BROOKS, PETER CHARDOX, died in Boston,
Jan. 1, 1849, aged 82. A native of Medford, he
opened an Insurance office in Boston, in 1789 ;
he was very successful, and retired from business
in 1803, in early life, a man of great wealth; yet
he was afterwards, for a few years, the president
of the New England Insurance Company, the
first company of the kind in the State. For the
remainder of his long life, he lived in summer in
Medford, and in winter in Boston. The principal
merchants with whom he was associated in busi
ness, were Thomas Russell, John Hancock, the
Amorys, Joseph Burrell, S. Breck, S. Brown, C.
Bulfinch, John Codman, S. Elliot, Gardner
Green, Stephen Higginson, Tuthill Hubbart, John
C. Jones, Theodore Lyman, Jonathan Mason,
Samuel Parkman, the Perkins', the Phillips', W.
Powell, David Sears, and Joseph Russell, of
whom only the last was living in 1854. As a
member of the senate and chairman of a com
mittee, he did great service to the cause of public
virtue, by his report on the Plymouth Beach
Lottery. It put an end to all grants of lotteries
in Massachusetts. It appears that the lottery,
granted in 1812, had been conducted by the man
agers in eleven classes ; the result was, that from
118,000 tickets, amounting to 883,000 dollars, the
managers paid the town of Plymouth less than
10,000 dollars. The following were his principles
in business : To abstain from all speculative in
vestments ; to take no more than the legal inter
est; and never to borrow money. As a man he
was highly respected and esteemed. His three
daughters were married to Edward Everett,
Charles F. Adams, and Dr. N. L. Frothingham.
His life, by E. Everett, is in " Lives of American
Merchants."
BROOKS, ALEXANDER S., lieut.-colonel, was
killed in Florida, Dec. 19, 1836, by the bursting
of the boiler of a steam packet. A son of Gov.
B., a graduate of 1802, he was in the army of his
country nearly thirty years.
BROOKS, MARIA, MRS., died at Matanzas,
Nov. 11, 1845, aged about 50 years. She was
born in Medford; lived some years in Boston,
and at last in Mantanzas. About 1828 she visited
Europe, and shared the friendship of Wordsworth
and Southey, who superintended the publication
of her poem, Zophiel, and pronounced her " the
most impassioned and imaginative of all poet
esses." The refinement of her taste has been
questioned ; but the reputation of her poems was
high.
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BROOKS, JAMES G., poet and editor, died at
Albany, Feb. 20, 1841, aged 39. Born at Claver-
ack, he graduated at Union college in 1819. He
edited various papers in New York, Winchester,
Rochester, and Albany. He published The
Rivals of Este, and other poems, by J. G. and
Mary E. Brooks, 1829.
BROOME, JOHN, lieutenant-governor of New
York and president of the Senate, was an emi
nent merchant, and for many years at the head of
various commercial, charitable, and religious insti
tutions. In 1777 he was a member of the con
vention, which framed the constitution of New
York. In 1804 he was elected lieutenant-gov
ernor; and he died Aug 8, 1810, aged 82.
BROUWERE, JOHN II. J., a sculptor and
painter, died in Newport, R. I., Sept. 5, 1834.
BROWN, CHADD, minister of Providence, 11. L,
fled thither from persecution in Massachusetts,
in 1636, and became in 1639 one of the members
of the Baptist church, then formed by Roger
Williams, when Wm. Wickenden was appointed
first elder. With him Mr. Brown was associated
in the pastoral care of the church, in 1642. lie
died about 1665, and his colleague in 1669. In
1792 the town of Providence voted to erect a
monument to his memory. His descendants for
nearly two centuries have been among the most
distinguished citizens of Rhode Island. His
grandson, James Brown, was a minister of the
same church ; and four of the grandsons of James
have been patrons of Brown university ; — Nicho
las ; Joseph, L.L. D., who died Dec., 1785 ; John,
an eminent merchant, who died Sept. 20, 1803,
aged 67 ; and Moses. — Coll. Hist. Soc. s. s. ix.
197.
BROWN, EDMUJTD, the first minister of Sud-
bury, Mass., came from England in 1637, was or
dained Aug., 1640, over the 18th church in Mass.,
and died June 22, 1677. He sustained a good char
acter, and was a man of distinction in his day.
His successors were James Sherman, who was
dismissed in 1705 ; Israel Loring, who died
March 9, 1772, aged 89; and Jacob Bigelow, and
Timothy Ililliard.
BROWN, JOHN, minister of Haverhill, Mass.,
was born in Brighton, and was graduated in 1714,
and ordained the successor of Joseph Gardner,
May 13, 1719. He died Dec. 2, 1742, aged 46,
being greatly esteemed for his learning, piety,
and prudence, and was succeeded by Edward
Barnard. By his wife, Joanna, daughter of Rev.
Roland Cotton, he had four sons, educated at
Cambridge, three of whom were ministers ;
viz., John of Cohasset, who graduated in 1741,
and died Sept. 21, 1791 ; Cotton of Brookline,
who graduated in 1743, and died April 13, 1751 ;
and Thomas of Stroudwater, who graduated in
1752, and died in 1797. Of his three daughters,
one married John Chipman of Marblehead, and
another Rev. Edward Brooks of North Yarmouth
and Medford, father of Peter C. Brooks. He
published a sermon on the death of Thomas
Symmes, 1726. — Mass. Hist. Coll. s.s. iv. 142.
BROWN, Jonx, colonel, a distinguished officer
in the Revolutionary war, was born in Sandisfield,
Berkshire county, Mass., Oct. 19, 1744. His
parents removed from Woodstock, Conn., first to
Brimfield, then to Granville, and to Sandisfield,
and last to Rutland, Vt. After graduating at
Yale college in 1771, he studied law with Oliver
Arnold in Providence, and commenced the prac
tice at Caghnawaga, now Johnstown, New Y'ork,
and was appointed king's attorney. However, in
a short time, about the year 1773, he removed to
Pittsfield, where there was then but one lawyer,
Woodbridge Little. But these two men of the
law had very different notions of patriotism. Mr.
Brown was resolved to hazard every thing in
resistance of oppression. Bold and prudent and
having a fine personal appearance, he was selected
by the state committee of correspondence in
1774 for the hazardous enterprise of going to
Canada to excite the people to revolt. He went
in the spring of 1774, and returned in the autumn,
and went again in 1775. His pretence was the
purchase of horses ; but the Canadians remarked
that he was a singular jockey, for the horses never
suited him. Once, indeed, the house in which
he lodged was assailed ; but he made his escape.
He was a delegate to the provincial congress,
Feb. 15, 1775. Immediately after the battle of
Lexington, some gentlemen in Connecticut formed
the project of taking Ticondcroga by surprise.
Captains Edward Mott and Noah Phelps of
Hartford marched April 29th, privately, with
sixteen unarmed men. Arriving at Pittsfield,
they communicated the project to Mr. Brown and
Col. James Easton; also to Arnold, who was
(hen at Pittsfield. These gentlemen instantly
engaged in the affair, and led by Arnold, they
captured the fort of Ticonderoga, May 10th.
Mr. Brown was intrusted with the business
of conveying away the prisoners, amounting to
100, and was also sent as express to the general
congress at Philadelphia, where he arrived May
17th. In July, he and Allen were dispatched
through the woods into Canada, to assure the
Canadians that their religion and liberties should
not be impaired by the approaching army. On
the 24th of Sept., he took fort Chamblee. The
next day, Allen, who expected the co-operation of
Brown, marched upon Montreal, but was attacked
by a superior force, and was taken prisoner. As
this was an expedition unauthorized by any higher
authority, Allen was treated with great severity.
While Arnold was before Quebec, Maj. Brown
arrived from Sorel and joined him ; Montgom
ery had arrived two days before. In the attack
on Quebec, Dec. 31st, Maj. Brown, with a part of
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a regiment of Boston troops, was directed to co
operate, by making a false attack upon the walls
to the south of St. John's gate, and to set fire to
the gate with combustibles, prepared for the pur
pose. He executed his part in the enterprise ;
Col. Livingston, owing to the depth of the snow,
failed in liis. In this assault, Montgomery fell.
The congress, Aug. 1, 1776, voted him a commis
sion of lieutenant-colonel, with rank and pay in
the continental army from Nov., 1775. In Dec.,
1776, he conducted a regiment of militia to fort
Independence. After the defeat of Col. Baum at
Bennington, in 1777, he was dispatched by Gen.
Lincoln, from Pawlet to the north end of Lake
George with 500 men, to relieve our prisoners. By
marching all night, he attacked the enemy at
break of day, Sept. 17th, at the landing, three
miles from Ticouderoga ; set at liberty 100 of our
men ; made prisoners of 293 ; took the landing,
Mount Defiance, Mount Hope, the French lines,
and the block house; 400 batteaux, an armed
sloop, several gun-boats, a few cannon, and a vast
quantity of plunder. His letter to Gates, Sept.
18, described his success, which tended to raise
the spirit of the troops, and to excite the militia
to join their brethren. After this exploit, he
joined the main army. In the next month Bur-
goyne was captured.
Soon after this event, Col. Brown retired from
the service, on account of his detestation of
Arnold. In the campaign in Canada, in 1776,
he had become acquainted with his character ;
and it is remarkable, that at this period, three
years before the treason of Arnold, Col. Brown
published a handbill of thirteen or fourteen arti
cles against him, in the height of his fame, charg
ing lu'm with levying contributions on the Cana
dians for hk- own private use and benefit. He
said that Arnold would prove a traitor, for he
had sold many a life for money. The people of
La Prairie had submitted on the promise of good
quarters ; but their village was plundered and
burnt, and lives were destroyed. After this, Col.
Brown was employed occasionally in the Massa
chusetts service. He was chosen a member of
the general court, in 1778.
In the fall of 1780, he marched up the Mohawk,
for the relief of Gen. Schuyler, but was led by a
traitor into an ambuscade of Canadians, torics,
and Indians at Stone Arabia, in Palatine, and was
slain on his birth-day, Oct. 19, 1780, aged 36
years. Forty-five of his men, many of whom
marched from Berkshire the week before, were
also killed. The same day, at Fox's Mills, Gen.
Van Rensselaer defeated the same party under
Sir John Johnson. This force had destroyed
Schoharie. Col. Brown's daughters married
Wm. Butler, printer, Northampton ; and Dr.
Hooker of Rutland, Vt. ; the former is still living
at Northampton, at an advanced age. His son,
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Henry C. Brown, was for several years the sheriff
of Berkshire. When he was in Albany, on his way
to Stone Arabia, Col. Brown had the curiosity to
call upon Ann Lee, then in prison, the mother of
the Shakers ; and he assured her, by way of
pleasantry, that on his return he should join her
society. About a fortnight after his death, two
grave-looking Shakers proceeded from Albany to
Pittsfield, and presented themselves before the
widow of Col. Brown, saying, that they came from
mother Ann with this message to her, that her
husband in spirit, since his death, had come and
joined mother Ann's company, and had given
express orders that his widow should also join
the society. But mother Ann, with all her art,
did not in this case find a dupe. Mrs. BroAvn,
who became the wife of Capt. Jared Inger-
soll, and who gave me this narrative, bid the
stupid messengers go about their business. Yet
this mother Ann is now by multitudes regarded
as a divinely commissioned teacher of true reli
gion and the way to heaven. When will rational
men cease to yield up their understandings to
gross and palpable imposture, like that of Ann
Lee and Emanuel Swedenborg ? It will never be,
until they are willing to receive the truth of God
from his Word, and to obey his commands. —
Hist. Berkshire, 119, 122, 378; Amer. Remcmb.
1776. p. 458 ; Coll. Hist. Soc. II. 56, 117, 197 ; s. s.
II. 240, 243 ; III. 236.
BIIOWN, JOSEPH, professor of experimental
philosophy, in the college of II. I., died Dec. 3,
1785, aged 52. He was distinguished for skill in
mechanical science ; being the first in this coun
try to construct and apply the British invention of
the steam engine.
BROWN, NICHOLAS, an eminent merchant of
Rhode Island, died at Providence, May 29, 1791,
aged 61. He was the grandson of James Brown,
minister of the Baptist church, in Providence ;
and James was the grandson of Chadd Brown, a
minister of the same church, after Roger Wil
liams, in 1642. From early youth his attention
had been directed to mercantile pursuits, and by
the divine blessing upon liis diligence and upright
ness he acquired a very ample fortune. But
although he was rich, he did not make an idol of
his wealth. His heart was liberal, and he listened
to every call of humanity or science. The inter
ests of government, of learning, of religion were
dear to lu'm. He loved his country, and rejoiced
in her freedom. The public buildings in Provi
dence, sacred to religion and science, are monu
ments of his liberality. He was an early and
constant patron of the college. In lu's religious
principles he was a Baptist, and he was a lover of
good men of all denominations. He was not
ashamed of the gospel, nor of the poorest of the
true disciples of the Redeemer. His general
knowledge, and the fruitfulness of his invention,
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furnished him with an inexhaustible fund of enter
taining conversation. — Stillman's Funeral Ser
mon ; Providence Gaz.
BROWN, ANDREW, editor of the Philadelphia
Gazette, was born in Ireland, about the year 1744.
He came to America in 1773, as a soldier in the
British regiment ; but he quitted the service, and
settled in Massachusetts. He engaged in the
American cause at the commencement of the war,
and displayed great courage^in the battles of Lex
ington and Bunker's Hill. He was also a useful
officer in the northern army under General Gates.
At the close of the war he established an academy
for young ladies in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, on a
very liberal and extensive plan. He afterwards
removed to Philadelphia, where he pursued the
same object; but as his employment did not well
accord with a very irritable temper, he relin
quished it. He now established the Federal
Gazette, the first number of which was published
Oct. 1, 1788. The present government of the
United States had not then commenced, and his
paper was the channel through which some of
the most intelligent friends of the constitution ad
dressed the public. He pursued his task with in
defatigable industry ; but difficulties pressed upon
him, and he seemed to have little prospect of
deriving much pecuniary advantage from his
paper, before the city was visited with yellow fe
ver in 1793. As he remained in Philadelphia
during the ravages of the pestilence, and contin
ued his Gazette, when the other daily papers
were suspended, he derived from the circumstance
an increase of patronage, which at length re
warded his labors. His exertions were not relaxed
through his success ; but changing the name of
his paper to that of the Philadelphia Gazette, and
resolving, that it should not be devoted exclu
sively to any political sect, but should be open to
discussions from every side, he made it a correct
vehicle of important intelligence. The profits of
his establishment were noAv great, and he was in
the midst of prosperity, when it pleased God to
overwhelm him with ruin. His house took fire
by means of his office, which was one part of it,
Jan. 27, 1797, and in an unsuccessful attempt to
rescue his family from the flames, he was so much
burned, that he survived but a few days. His
wife and three children were next day committed
to a common grave, and the next Saturday, Feb.
4, 1797, his spirit followed them into another
world. The only survivor of the family was a son,
born in Ireland of a former wife, who became one
of the proprietors of the Gazette, after the death
of his father. — Hardies Biog. Diet.; Monthly
Mag., 1191, p. 71, 72.
BROWN, JOHN, died Sept. 21, 1701, aged G6,
the minister of Cohasset for forty-four years. He
was the son of Rev. J. B., of Haverhill, and a
graduate of 1711. AVhen, settled, he called to
see an opposer, who said he liked his person, l;ut
disapproved his preaching. " I agree with you,"
said Mr. B., " my preaching I do not like very
well myself; but how great a folly, that you and
I should set up our opinion against that of the
whole parish ! " This stroke of humor reconciled
the opponent. He published a sermon on the
death of Dr. Mayhew, 1706; also on the deceit-
fulness of the heart, and a thanksgiving discourse.
BROWN, MOSES, a brave officer in the navy of
the United States, died of an apoplectic fit, Jan.
1, 1804, aged 62 years. During the last 48 years
of his life he followed the profession of a mariner.
In the Revolutionary war his reputation gained
him the command of several of the largest private
armed ships from New England. In these sta
tions he was zealous, brave, and successful. He
was engaged in several severe battles with the
enemy. When the small American navy was
establishing, a number of years after the war, the
merchants of Ncwburyport built a ship by sub
scription for the government, and obtained the
command of her for Capt. Brown. His advanced
age had not impaired his skill, nor deprived him
of his zeal and activity. While he commanded
the Merrimac, he was as enterprising and success
ful as formerly. When the reduction of the navy
took place, he was dismissed from office ; but his
finances did not allow him to retire from business,
and he followed till his death his accustomed avo
cation. — N. E. Repertory, Jan. 14, 1804.
BROWN, WILLIAM HILL, a poet, died at Mur-
frcesborough, North Carolina, where he was
studying law, Sept. 2, 1793, aged 27. He wrote
a tragedy, founded on the death of Andre, and a
comedy. His Ira and Isabella was published in
1807.
BROWN, SAMUEL, M. B., a physician in Bos
ton, was the son of an innkeeper of the same
name, and was born at Worcester in 1768. lie
graduated at Harvard college in 1793 ; obtained
the degree of M. B. in 1797 ; and died at Bolton
in Jan., 1805, aged 36. His wife was a daughter
of Dr. Jeffries. He lost a brother by the yellow
fever of 1798. Dr. Brown was very much re
spected, and promised to be distinguished in his
profession. He published a dissertation on bilious
malignant fever, 1797, and a valuable dissertation
on yellow fever, which received the premium of
the humane society, 8vo., 1800; on mercury, in
Medical Repository, vol. vi.
BROWN, CHARLES BROCKDEX, a distinguished
writer, died Feb. 22, 1810, aged 39. He was
born in Philadelphia Jan. 17, 1771. After a
classical education under Robert Proud, author of
the history of Pennsylvania, he was at the age of
eighteen apprenticed to a lawyer, Alexander
Wilcox ; but his time Avas chiefly employed, not
in the study of the law, but in various literary
pursuits. Timidity and an invincible dislike to
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the legal profession prevented him from becoming
a member of the bar. He published in 1798 his
first novel, Wicland, which gained for him reputa
tion ; and in 1799 Ormond, or the secret witness,
which was less successful. Next followed Arthur
Mervyn, in which the ravages of the yellow fever,
witnessed by the author in Philadelphia and New
York, are faithfully described. He wrote also
Edgar Huntley ; and in 1801 Clara Howard, in an
epistolary form, and then Jane Talbot in 1804, —
the two last being much inferior to his preceding
productions. He conducted two periodical works ;
in 1799 and 1800 the Monthly Magazine and
American Review, and in 1805 the Literary
Magazine and American Register. He also wrote
three political pamphlets. In 1806 he commenced
the semi-annual American Register, five volumes
of which he lived to publish.
Of a delicate constitution, his lungs in 1809
gave clear indications that he was in a consumption.
lie travelled in New Jersey and New York, but
without benefit. His wife, whom he married in
1804, was the sister of John B. Linn. His son,
Eugene L., a youth of great promise, died of the
consumption in 1824.
His novels, which were admired while he lived,
fell into oblivion after his death ; but after a few
years they began to be read in England, and they
were republished in Boston. They present, in
rich language, varied incidents and powerful
emotions, and the author has a wonderful invention;
but his scenes are terrific, and the horrors of
crime are oppressive to the heart. As his novels
were produced with great rapidity, they are all
deficient in unity, and apparently unfinished.
There is no moral in them ; no useful end was
proposed. Mr. Brown wrote for amusement, and
for the indulgence of his diseased imagination;
and his writings, like much of modern literature,
are not tinged with the spirit of that holy religion,
which will at a future day pervade the productions
of all the learned of the earth. He was an
admirer of Godwin; and by Godwin, who ac
knowledged that he was indebted to him, he was
regarded as a writer of distinguished genius.
His style is free from affectation, simple and
nervous. " For a large part of his short life he
appears as a sad enthusiast, a sceptical inquirer, a
dissatisfied observer, a whimsical projector of
better things for society than he could ever bring
to pass, or in a calm moment wish to realize ;
turning his mind to various pursuits with rash
eagerness ; planning epics, studying architecture,
forming literary associations, discussing legal
questions with his fellow students, and abandoning
the profession of his choice before he had felt
either its vexations or excitements, or even framed
a tolerable excuse for his conscience, or an answer
to the persuasions of his friends. Such was his
hurried, mingled, undirected life." The latter
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part of his literary career was more beneficial to
himself and useful to the world. With a fixed
and important object before him, and a course of
study, directed in its subjects and manner of
prosecution by a sober judgment, his days might
have been prolonged, and have been passed in
comparative happiness.
In 1815 William Dunlap published a short
account of his life, with selections from his letters,
manuscripts, and printed works. Besides the
magazines already mentioned, and the novels,
which were reprinted at Boston, 6 vols., 1827,
Mr. Brown translated Volney's travels in the U.
S., 1804; and wrote a memoir of J. B. Linn,
prefixed to Valerian, 1805; address to the gov
ernment of the U. S. on the cession of Louisiana
to the French, etc., 1803; the British treaty,
1808; address to congress on the restrictions of
foreign commerce, etc., 1809. — North American
Review, June, 1819; Encyclopedia Americana.
BROWN, SAMUEL II., author of several books,
in the war of 1812 was a volunteer in the corps
of mounted riflemen, commanded by Col. It. M.
Johnson. He afterwards edited a newspaper at
Cayuga, N. Y., called the Patriot, which on account
of pecuniary embarrassment he relinquished in
1815. He died at Cherry Valley, Sept. 15, 1817,
aged 42. He published view of the campaigns of
the northwestern army, 1814; history of the war
of 1812, in two vols.; western gazetteer, or
emigrant's directory, 1817.
BROWN, CHARLES. M. D., died at Harper's
Ferry Sept., 1824, leaving a large estate to the
Philadelphia medical hospital.
BROWN, RICHARD, colonel, a Cherokee Indian,
died in Tennessee Jan. 26, 1818, aged 45, when
Gen. Jackson was proceeding against the Seminole
Indians. lie was one of the Cherokee delegation,
appointed to proceed to Washington in order to
carry into effect the objects of a treaty, which the
nation had made with the United States. The
American government had not in 1818 renounced
and cast away the obligations of sacred treaties
with the Cherokces, pledging the faith of the
country for their protection within defined bounda
ries. Col. Brown was regarded by his countrymen
as a leader in war and a wise counsellor in peace.
In every battle during the Creek war he was at
the head of the Cherokees under Gen. Jackson,
whose personal friendship he enjoyed. He was
severely wounded in the action at the Horse
Shoe. His blood and that of his countrymen was
shed for ungrateful and faithless whites, determined
for the sake of their lands to drive them from
their beautiful hills and valleys into the wide
plains of the wilderness beyond the Mississippi.
Possibly a returning sense of right will yet spare
the remains of the red men, the original occupants
of our country, and allow them to lie down in the
dust by the graves of their fathers. An old
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English charter will be found a poor justification
of injustice and inhumanity towards a weak and
defenceless people. — Boston Patriot, Feb. 18,
1818.
BROWN, CLARK, died in William and Mary
parish, Maryland, where he was an Episcopal
minister, Jan. 12, 1817. He had been a Congre
gational minister in Machias in 1795, and at
Brimfield in 1798. He published a sermon on
Noah's prophecy as to Japheth, 1805; a Masonic
sermon, 1814; a volume of select sermons was
published after his death.
BROWN, FRANCIS, D. D., president of Dart
mouth college, died July 27, 1820, aged 36. He
was born at Chester, N. II., Jan. 11, 1784, and
graduated in 1805 at Dartmouth, where he was a
tutor from 1806 to 1809. In January, 1810, he
was ordained the minister of North Yarmouth,
Maine, as the successor of Tristram Oilman,
whose daughter he married. Of Bowdoin college
he was an overseer and trustee. In 1815 he was
appointed president of Dartmouth college. He
died of the consumption. His predecessor was
Dr. Wheelock; his successor Dr. Dana. "His
talents and learning, amiablencss and piety
eminently qualified him for the several stations
which he filled, and rendered him highly useful
and popular." He published several sermons,
among which are the following : at the ordination
of Allen Greely, 1810 ; at a fast on account of the
war, 1812; on the evils of war, 1814; before the
Maine missionary society, 1814. — Lord's Lempr.
BROWN, BENJAMIN, captain, a pioneer of the
West, died in Athens, O., in Oct., 1821, aged 76.
He was a professor of religion, much respected.
He was born in Leicester, Mass., the son of Cap
tain John, and grandson of William, a first settler
of Hatfield. He was a soldier in the war, after
living in various places. He died at his son's,
Gen. John Brown's. His descendants are numer
ous. — ITildreih.
BROWN, CATHARINE, a Cherokee, died July
18, 1823, aged 23. She was born about the year
1800, at a place now called Wills-valley, in a beau
tiful plain of tall forest trees, within the chartered
limits of Alabama, a few miles west of the Geor
gia line and twenty-five miles southeast of the
Tennessee river. On each side of the valley rose
the Raccoon and Lookout mountains. Her pa
rents were half-breeds ; their mothers only being
full-blooded Cherokees. Her father's name was
Yaunugungyahski, which means, " the drowned
by a bear ;" he had also the name of John Brown,
from his father. Her mother's name was Tsaluh ;
she was called by the whites, Sarah ; and before
she married Brown, she was the wife of Webber,
by whom she had a son, a man of property, now
called Col. Webber. Catharine's parents were
ignorant of the English language, and the amount
of their religion was, that there was a Creator of
the world, and also a future state of rewards and
punishments.
In 1801 the Moravians commenced a mission at
Spring-place in the Cherokee country, about forty
or fifty miles east of Wills-valley ; soon afterwards
Rev. Gideon Blackburn made efforts for several
years to establish a school among the Cherokees.
In 1816 Rev. Cyrus Kingsbury, employed by the
American board for foreign missions, appeared at
a Cherokee council and obtained permission to
establish schools. He selected, as the place for
the first school, Chickamaugah, now called Brain-
erd, twenty or thirty miles north of Spring-
place, within the limits of Tennessee. Catharine
heard of this school, and though living at a dis
tance of one hundred miles, she became a member
of it in July, 1817, being then seventeen years of
age. She had learned to speak English by re
siding at the house of a Cherokee friend, and
could read in words of one syllable. Although
an Indian girl of comely features and blooming,
and although she had been placed amidst many
temptations, yet her moral deportment had been
always correct. She was modest and gentle, but
withal somewhat fond of displaying the ornaments
of her dress. In three months she learned to
read and write. In Dec., 1817, she cherished the
hope that she had experienced the power of the
gospel in her heart. She was baptized Jan. 25,
1818, and admitted as a member of the church
March 29th. In June, 1820, she undertook to
teach a school at Creek-path, near her father's.
For sweetness of temper, meekness, and gentle
ness she was unsurpassed. To her parents she
Avas very dutiful and affectionate. A weekly
prayer meeting was instituted by her, and she
was zealous to instruct her ignorant neighbors in
the great truths of the Gospel. She formed the
purpose of perfecting her education, that her use
fulness might be increased. But in the spring of
1823 her health declined, she had a settled con
sumption, and it became evident that her death
was near. She said : " I feel perfectly resigned
to the will of God. I know he will do right with
his children. I thank God that I am entirely in
his hands. I feel willing to live, or die, as he
thinks best. My only wish is, that He may be
glorified." Having been conveyed about fifty
miles, to the house of her friend, Dr. Campbell,
she there died. She was buried at Creek-path,
by the side of her brother, John, who had died
the preceding year in the triumphs of the same
faith. Dr. Campbell remarks : " The Saviour
seemed to be continually the anchor of her hope,
the source of her constant and greatest happi
ness, and the object of her most ardent love." A
pure flame of benevolence burned within her.
" My heart," she says, " bleeds for my poor peo
ple ; I am determined to pray for them while God
lends me breath." If it be asked :
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" F:iir spirit, mirsed in forest wild,
Where caught thy breast those sacred flames? "
Tho answer must be : from the beams of that Sun
of Righteousness, which is the light of the world ;
from that glorious Gospel, which it is the duty of
Christians to communicate to all the heathen
tribes of the earth. Her conversion was the
means of the establishment of a mission at Creek-
path, and of the conversion to the faith and hopes
of Christianity of her father and of most of her
family. Let any scoffer at missions contemplate
this lovely child of the wilderness, won from the
gloom of paganism to the joyous, lofty hopes of
Christianity, and triumphing over the king of ter
rors, and then say, if he can, that the missionary
enterprise is idle, and useless, and a waste of
money. An interesting memoir of Catharine
Brown was compiled by Ilufus Anderson, assist
ant secretary of the American board for foreign
missions, and published in 1825. — Anderson's
Memoir.
BROWX, DAVID, a Cherokee, a brother of the
preceding, died at Creek-path, Sept. 14, 1829.
He followed his sister to the school at Brainerd.
In Nov., 1819, he assisted John Arch in preparing
a Cherokee spelling-book, which was printed. At
the school he became convinced of his sinfulness,
and embraced the salvation offered in the Gospel.
In 1820, on going home to visit his sick father,
he immediately took his Bible and began to read
and interpret it to his parents, exhorting them
and others to repent of their many sins and to
become the followers of Jesus Christ. With his
father's consent he maintained the worship of God
in the family. This visit induced Mr. Brown and
other chiefs co solicit the establishment of a mis
sion at Creek-path town ; the school was opened
by Rev. Mr. Butrick, in March, 1820. May 1 1th,
David Brown, soon after he was admitted to the
church, set out for New England, to attend the
foreign mission school at Cornwall, Conn., that
he might be prepared to preach the gospel. His
visits to Boston and other towns had a favorable
effect in exciting a missionary zeal. After passing
two years at the school, with Elias Boudinot and
six other Cherokees, he remained a year at Ando-
ver, enjoying many advantages for improvement.
In the mean time his brother, John, had become a
convert and made a profession and died in peace ;
his parents also and other members of his family
had become pious. He returned to them in 1824,
having first delivered in many of the principal
cities and towns an address on the wrongs, claims,
and prospects of the American Indians. His
father had removed to the Arkansas, west of the
Mississippi ; and there, on his arrival at Dwight,
July 12, he immediately engaged in efforts to en
lighten and convert his countrymen. " On the
Sabbath," said he, " I interpret English sermons,
and sometimes preach myself in the sweet lan
guage of Tsallakce," (the Cherokee.) He attended
Indian councils and was appointed the secretary
of the Indian government. But he soon revisited
his people on the east of the Mississippi. His
father died in Arkansas in the autumn of 1826,
aged 65, having been a worthy member of the
church about five years, and having the satisfac
tion of seeing two sons and four daughters also
members of the church. In the spring of 1829,
David Brown was taken ill and bled at the lungs.
lie wrote, June 1st : " On the bed of sickness I
have enjoyed sweet communion with my Saviour."
He died at the house of Rev. Mr. Potter, giv
ing evidence that he died in the faith of the
gospel.
In Sept., 1825, he wrote a letter, giving some
account of the Cherokees, from which it appears
that there were then about 14,000 on the east of
the Mississippi, among whom were 1,277 African
slaves. The northern part of the Cherokee coun
try was mountainous ; at the south were extensive,
fertile plains, watered with beautiful streams.
" These plains," said he, " furnish immense pas
turage, and numberless herds of cattle are dis
persed over them. Horses are plenty. Numerous
flocks of sheep, goats, and swine cover the valleys
and hills. On Tennessee, Ustanala, and Ganasagi
rivers Cherokee commerce floats. The climate is
delicious and healthy ; the summers are mild.
The spring clothes the ground with its richest
scenery. Cherokee flowers of exquisite beauty
and variegated hues meet and fascinate the eye in
every direction. In the plains and valleys the
soil is generally rich, producing Indian corn, cot
ton, tobacco, wheat, oats, indigo, sweet and Irish
potatoes. Apple and peach orchards are quite
common. Butter and cheese are seen on Chero
kee tables. Cotton and woollen cloths are manu
factured here. Schools are increasing every year;
learning is encouraged and rewarded. Our native
language, in its philosophy, genius, and symphony,
is inferior to few, if any, in the world. Our sys
tem of government, founded on republican prin
ciples, by which justice is equally distributed,
secures the respect of the people. The legisla
tive power is vested in what is denominated Tsal-
agi Tinilawigi, consisting of a national committee
and council. Members of both branches are chosen
by and from the people for a limited period. The
Christian religion is the religion of the nation."
The meaning of the last assertion is, that Chris
tianity was approved, and the propagation of it
encouraged by the national council, although
thousands yet remained in the darkness of pagan
ism. Such and still greater was the progress of
the Cherokees toward civilization, under the sanc
tion of sacred treaties with the United States,
when the Georgians, greedy for the Cherokee
lands and the Cherokee gold mines, determined
to annoy them and compel them to sell their little
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remaining nook of territory, and, abandoning the
graves of their fathers, to seek a new abode, of
fered them by the United States government in
the wilderness, west of the Mississippi. We, as a
nation, are chargeable with enormous injustice
towards our Indian brethren. One thing is cer
tain, that public oppression always cries to Hea
ven for vengeance upon the guilty nation. Nor
does the bolt ever fail to strike the guilty. —
Anderson's Memoir of C. Brown; Missionary
Herald.
BHOWN, JACOB, major-general, died in Wash
ington, Feb. 24, 1828, aged 52. He was born in
1775, in Bucks county, Pennsylvania, where he
resided until twenty years of age. Afterwards
he lived two years in Ohio, engaged in surveying
public lands. Settling in the city of New York,
he superintended a large school and commenced
the study of the law; but he soon relin
quished these pursuits, and emigrated to unculti
vated lands, which he had purchased on the
borders of Lake Ontario. He built in the Avilder-
ness the first house at Brownville, which is now,
in consequence of his adventurous spirit, a flour
ishing, beautiful village. In 1812 he was called
into service as a militia general. His arrange
ments were judicious, and he repulsed an attempt
of the enemy against Ogdensburg. In the spring
of 1813 he was invited by Col. Backus, then in
command at Sackett's harbor, when it was in
vested and menaced by the enemy, to assume the
defence. Gen. Brown was successful, and soon
afterwards received an appointment of brigadier-
general in the regular army ; early in 1814 he
was appointed, with the rank of major-general, to
the command of the army of Niagara. The four
principal incidents in the Niagara campaign were
the battles of Chippewa and Niagara, and the
defence and sortie of fort Eric. In the two first
and the last he commanded in person. The army
crossed into Canada the morning of July 3d, the
two brigades of regulars being commanded by
Generals Scott and Ripley, and the volunteers by
Gen. Porter. Fort Erie was surprised and taken.
The battle of Chippewa was fought July 5th, by
Scott's brigade, and the enemy were driven to
their intrenchments ; the American loss being
338 ; the British 500. On the 10th, Gen. Brown
marched to Quccnstown. Here, at a conference
of officers, it was debated, whether the army
should proceed to invest fort George or to attack
Gen. Riall at Twelve-mile creek, ten or twelve
miles from Quecnstown. Gen. Scott was in favor
of investing the fort. Gen. Ripley proposed to
march in the night with his brigade and the artil
lery of Towson, and attack Riall in the morning,
so as to break him up before he should be rein
forced, lie deemed it idle to invest the fort with
inadequate artillery. Gen. Porter and Cols. Mc-
Ree and Wood concurred with him in opinion.
But the contrary opinion of Gens. Brown and
Scott and Col. Gardner prevailed. From the
16th to the 23d of July the army lay before fort
George, and retrograded to Chippewa on the
24th. The battle of Bridgewater or Niagara was
fought with the reinforced enemy July 25th. It
was commenced by Scott's brigade. Gen. Ripley
advanced to his support, and arriving on the
ground instantly ordered Col. Miller with the
21st regiment to carry the enemy's artillery by an
attack in front, while he should lead the other
regiment upon the flank of the enemy. The bat
tery was taken, and was held by Ripley against
repeated attempts to recover it. In the mean time
Generals Brown and Scott were wounded; and
late at night, after a murderous contest with a
much superior force, Gen. Brown ordered a re
treat, and gave up the command to Ripley,
who returned to fort Erie and fortified it.
The British loss was upwards of 1,000 ; the
American from 600 to 700. He recovered suf
ficiently to be in command at the sortie from fort
Erie Sept. 17th, when Gen. Ripley was danger
ously wounded. Fort Erie was evacuated Nov.
5th, and our army returned to the American side
of the river, whence it had proceeded three
months before, having gained nothing but the
honor of unavailing victories.
In his official account of the battle of Niagara,
Gen. Brown forgot to give any praise to Gen.
Ripley, and also censured him for not attacking
the enemy the next day, to have done which with
a greatly inferior force after the retreat, ordered
by Gen. Brown the preceding night, would have
hazarded the safety of the army. Gen. Ripley in
consequence demanded a court of inquiry, which
was sitting at Troy March 15, 1815, when it was
dissolved by an order from the department of
war, which stated as reasons : " The congress of
the United States having approved his conduct by
a highly complimentary resolve, and the President
being pleased to express his favorable opinion of
the military character of Gen. Ripley." A gold
medal was voted by Congress to Gen. Brown, and
also to Generals Ripley, Miller, Porter, Scott,
Gaincs, Macomb, Jackson, Harrison, and Shelby.
At the close of the war he and Gen. Jackson
were retained in the service as the major-generals
of the army ; and in 1821 he was left in the sole
command. From that time he resided in the city
of Washington, where he died, leaving a large
family. — Urackenridge's Hist. War; Holmes, II.
464; ">. Y. Statesman, Feb. 28, 1828; Bait. Pat
riot, June 17, 1815; Facts relative to the Cam
paign of the Niagara.
BROWN, DAVID L., a teacher in painting and
drawing, died in Boston Dec. 18, 1836, aged 85,
formerly of London.
BROWN.
BROWN, SYTHAX, a slave, died March 5, 1846,
aged 1 15 years and 4 months. lie was long the
personal servant of John Randolph, of Mattoax,
the father of J. R. of Roanoke.
BROWN, OLIVER, died at Iladdam Feb. 8,
1853, aged 74, a graduate of Harvard in 1804.
He was chaplain to the State prison of Massachu
setts ; then missionary to Rhode Island, sent by
the society for the diffusion of knowledge. He
organized a church in South Kingston, and was
the minister of it fifteen years, and was at last the
minister of Grassy-hill, in Lymc.
BROWN, JOHN, 1). 1).,' minister of Hadley,
died March 22, 1840, aged 53. Bom in Brook
lyn, Conn., he graduated in 1809 at Dartmouth,
and was seventeen years a minister in Cazenovia,
N. Y., and two years in Pine street, Boston, and
eight years in Hadley. — Boston Recorder, July
10 ; Observer, July 18, 1840..
BROAVN, BARTHOLOMEW, died in Boston April
14, 1854, aged 81. He was born in Sterling Sept.
8, 1772, and graduated in 1799. He was a law
yer in Sterling and East Bridgewater, and had
lived in Boston ten years. Having great skill in
music, he edited, about twenty years, with Judge
Mitchell, the Bridgewater collection of church
music, which was highly esteemed, in which were
many pieces of his composition. For fifty-nine
years he wrote the calendars in Thomas' Farmer's
almanac.
BROWN, MOSES, died at Providence Sept, 6,
1836, aged nearly 98. He was born Sept. 23,
1738, and was the youngest of four brothers:
Nicholas, Joseph, and John were also enterprising,
remarkable men. They founded Brown univer
sity. His early years were spent in the family of
his uncle Obadiah, a wealthy merchant, whose
daughter he married in 1764. In 1763 he en
gaged in commercial pursuits with his brothers,
but retired from business in ten years. Losing
his three children, he was taught to seek his hap
piness more entirely in God. He was a Baptist
till 1773, when he became a Friend. In that year
he liberated his slaves, and was one of the found
ers of the abolition society of Rhode Island ; he
was also a supporter of the Bible and peace socie
ties. His will, made at the age of 96, evinced his
desire to promote the cause of education, philan
thropy, and religion.
BROWN, NICHOLAS, was born in Providence,
April 4, 1769, was educated at the college, and
died Sept. 27, 1841, aged 72. His ancestor,
Chad. B., was the assistant of R. Williams in
founding the colony of Rhode Island. His father,
Nicholas, and his father's three brothers were the
benefactors of the college, as was also N. B., and
also his only son, John Carter Brown. Hence
may be seen the propriety of the name of Brown
University. He founded a professorship of ora
tory and erected Hope college, so called from his
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sister Hope, and is to be honored for other acts
of munificence. His life, by C. King, is in the
Lives of American merchants.
BROWN, James, died in Philadelphia April 7,
1835, aged 73. Born in Virginia, he settled as a
lawyer in Tennessee, then in Natchez and New
Orleans. He was U. S. attorney, a member of
the senate in 1812, minister to France in 1823.
He had lived a few years in Philadelphia.
BROWN, MATTHEW, D.D., died July 29, 1853,
at the house of his son-in-law, Dr. Riddle, of
Pittsburgh, aged 77. He was long president of
Jefferson college, Pennsylvania, extensively known
and esteemed.
BROWN, OBADIAH B., died in Washington
May 2, 1852, aged 72, pastor of the first Baptist
church from 1807 till 1850.
BROWN, JAMES, died in Watcrtown, Mass.,
March 10, 1855, aged 55 ; a distinguished book
seller of the house of Little, Brown 8: Co. in
Boston. He was skilled in bibliography, and was
a student in various sciences. He was at the head
of American publishers. A part of his library
he bequeathed to the Boston natural history so
ciety. Of large property, he was a man of
becoming hospitality.
BROWN, T. S., major, died in Naples, Italy,
June 30, 1855. A nephew of Gen. J. Brown, he
graduated at West Point. The New York and
Erie Railroad was constructed mainly under his
direction as engineer-in-chief. In Dec., 1849, he
went to Russia as consulting engineer of the St.
Petersburg and Moscow railroad.
BROWNE, AHTHUR, an Episcopal clergyman
at Portsmouth, died at Cambridge June 10, 1773,
aged 73. He was a native of Drogheda in Ire
land, and was the son of Rev. John Browne,
lie was educated at Trinity college in Dublin, and
received the degree of master of arts in 1729.
Being ordained by the Bishop of London for a
society in Providence, Rhode Island, he went to
that place, and remained there till the year 1736,
when he removed to Portsmouth. He was the
first incumbent of the church, consecrated in
1734. He received a salary of 75 pounds as a
missionary from the society for propagating the
gospel in foreign parts, and continued in this
station till his death. His wife, Mary, was the
daughter of Thomas Cox, D. D., of Drogheda.
Of his children, Marmaduke, a clergyman, died
at Newport about 1771; Jane married Samuel
Livermore ; Ann married Mr. Saint Loc, a Brit
ish officer. His church ascribed to him " good
conduct, a most noble and benevolent disposition,
excellent preaching, sound doctrines, and good
oratory." He published a sermon on the excel
lency of the Christian religion, 1738; at the
execution of Penelope Kenny, 1739; on the re
bellion in Scotland, 1746 ; to the free masons,
1748; on the fast; on the doctrine of election,
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BRUEN.
1757 ; remarks on Mayhew's reflections on the
church of England, 1763. — Alden's account of
Portsmouth ; Coll. Hist. Soc. x. 57, 58, 70.
BROWNE, ARTHUR, LL. D., king's professor
of Greek in Trinity college, Dublin, died in
1805. He was the son of Marmaduke Browne,
rector of Trinity Church, Newport, Rhode
Island. He enjoyed in early life the advan
tages of a school, established in Newport by
Dean Berkeley, and was distinguished by his
talents, industry, and strong desire of improving
his education in some European university. To
gratify this desire, his father went to Ireland to
make provision for entering his son at Trinity
college; but, after having effected his object, he
died soon after his return, in consequence of his
sufferings during a tedious voyage of three
months. His son, who went to Ireland in 1771
or 1772, continued during the remainder of his
life connected with Trinity college, and was the
idol of the students. He was professor of civil
law in the university, and its representative in the
Irish house of commons. His great powers of
mind he improved by incessant study and by
intercourse with the most distinguished scholars
and the most able and virtuous statesmen of his
day. He was always a champion of the people.
He published a compendious view of civil law,
being the substance of a course of lectures read
in the university of Dublin, together with a sketch
of the practice of the ecclesiastical courts, and
some useful directions for the clergy; Hussen
O'Dil* or beauty and the heart, an allegorical
poem, translated from the Persian language ; and
miscellaneous sketches, in 2 vols., 8vo. This
last work is written after the manner of Mon
taigne. — Monthly Anthology, II. 559-562.
BROWNE, JOHN, died at Frankfort, Ky., Aug.
28, 1837, aged 80, — a senator 1792-1805.
BRUCE, DAVID, a Moravian missionary, died in
Litchfield county, Ct., in 1749. The Indians of the
Mohegan stock, with whom he was sent to reside
in the same year, had received some instruction
from Buttner, Rauch, and other missionaries at
the neighboring station of Shacomaco in the State
of New York. He lived in the house belonging
to the brethren, called Gnadensee, in the village
of Wachquatnach, on the River Iloussatonnoc in
Cornwall or Sharon. Mr. Sergeant, ten years
before, had been visited for instruction in religion
by a company of Indians from the same place,
which he writes Wukhquautenauk, distant from
Stockbridge about twenty-eight miles. Bruce
also lived occasionally amongst the Indians at
Pachgatgach, which perhaps was Pauquaunuch at
Stratfield, or with greater probability a settlement
on the Iloussatonnoc in the interior of Connec
ticut, either at Derby, or New Milford, or Kent.
Mr. Brainerd in 1743 visited some Indians, living
at Scaticoke, five or six miles from New Milford,
and preached to them. There was still another
village, which the Moravians visited, called Potatik,
probably the same as Poodatook, on the river at
Newtown. As Bruce was dying, he called the
Indian brethren, and, pressing their hands to his
breast, entreated them to remain faithful to the
end. He was succeeded by Buninger. — LoslcieVs
History, II. 115; Brainerd's Life, 65; Hopkins'
Houssatonnic Indians, 75.
BRUCE, ARCHIBALD, M. D., a physician of
New York, died Feb. 22, 1818, aged 40. He was
born in that city in Feb., 1777. His mother, the
daughter of Nicholas Bayard, was the widow of
Jeremiah Van Rensselaer. His father, William
Bruce, the head of the medical department in the
British army at New York, was very solicitous
that he should not become a physician. After
the death of his father he was educated at
Columbia college, where he was graduated in
1795. The medical lectures of Dr. Nicholas
Romayne gave him a taste for the study of
physic. He afterwards became the pupil of Dr.
Hosack. In 1798 he repaired to Europe, and in
1800 obtained a medical degree at Edinburgh.
During a tour of two years in France, Switzerland,
and Italy, he collected a valuable mineralogical
cabinet, — his taste for the science of mineralogy
having been acquired Avhile he was a pupil of Dr.
Hosack, who brought to this country the first
cabinet of minerals, and in arranging it called for
the assistance of his pupil, Bruce. He married
in London, and came out to New York in 1803.
About the year 1807 he was appointed professor
of materia mcdica and mineralogy in the college
of physicians and surgeons of New York. Upon
the re-organization of the college in 1811 he was
superseded by the appointment of others. Intes
tine feuds were alleged as the cause of the
changes made. Dr. Bruce, in connection with his
friend Romayne and other gentlemen, established
{'or a while a rival medical faculty. In 1810 he
commenced the journal of American mineralogy;
but he published only one volume. His work
was followed by Silliman's journal. After repeated
attacks of severe indisposition he died of the
apoplexy. — Thacher's Med. Hiog. ; Sillimarfs
Journal, I. II.
BRUEN, MATTHIAS, a minister in New York,
died Sept. 6, 1829, aged 36 years. He was a
descendant of an early settler of New England,
and was born at Newark, N. J., April 11, 1793.
He dated his renovation of mind by the Divine
Spirit at the age of eighteen. After graduating
at Columbia college in 1812, he studied theology
with Dr. Mason. In 1816 he travelled in Europe
with his distinguished preceptor. About the
beginning of 1819, being invited to preach in the
American chapel of the oratory at Paris, he was
ordained in London, and then passed six months
at Paris. In 1822 he was employed as a mission-
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ary in the city of New York, but refused to
receive any compensation. During his labors he
collected the Bleecker street congregation. Of
this people he became the stated pastor, and con
tinued such till his death by inflammation of the
bowels.
Mr. Bruen engaged earnestly in various benevo
lent institutions. He was agent and correspond
ing secretary of the domestic missionary society ;
and when it was changed into the American
home missionary society, he still assisted by his
counsels. Bible, Sunday school, tract, and foreign
mission societies engaged his efforts ; and in the
Greek cause he cheerfully co-operated. He was
accomplished in manners, in literature, and in the
knowledge of mankind. Though he had high
and honorable feelings, abhorring everything mean,
yet he had humble views of his own acquisitions,
intellectual and moral. All his distinctions he
laid at his Master's feet. In the last week of his
life he suffered extreme pain. It was a sudden
summons to depart ; yet he was calm and resigned.
" I die," said he, " in peace and love with all men."
Thus, after embracing his wife and two babes, and
most impressively addressing liis relatives, he fell
asleep in Jesus.
" lie lay, and a smile was on his face;
Affection over him bent, to trace
The token Mercy had left, to tell
That with the spirit all was well.
It was the smile that marks the blest ;
It told, that in hope he had sunk to rest
Of a joyful rising, after his sleep.
No more to suffer, no more to weep."
He published a sermon at Paris on the death of a
lady of New York ; and sketches of Italy. —
Cox's and Skinner's Sermon; Home Missionary
Mugazine; Boston Recorder, Nov. 11, 1829.
BRY, THEODORE DE, published collectiones
perigrinantium in Indiam orientalem ct occiden-
talem. America, partes 13, years 1590-1599.
BRYAN, GEORGE, a judge of the supreme
court of Pennsylvania, died Jan. 28, 1791, aged
GO. He was the eldest son of an ancient and
respectable family in Dublin, Ireland, in his ode
on which country, Southey exclaims with some
reason :
" 0 land, profuse of genius and of worth."
He came to this country in early life, and lived
forty years in Philadelphia. At first he engaged
extensively in commercial business ; but it pleased
the wise Disposer of events to defeat his plans,
and reduce him to a state of comparative poverty.
He afterwards lived more in accordance with
ancient simplicity. He was an active and intelli
gent man. Previously to the Revolution he was
introduced into public employments. He was a
delegate to the congress which met in 1765 for
the purpose of remonstrating against the arbitrary
measures of Great Britain. In the war, which !
followed, he took an open and active part. '
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After the Declaration of Independence he was
vice-president of the supreme executive council
of Pennsylvania, and on the death of President
Wharton in May, 1778, he was placed at the
head of the government. When his office, by
the limitation of the constitution, expired in the
autumn of 1779, he was elected a member of the
legislature. Here, amidst the tumult of war and
invasion, when every one was trembling for him
self, his mind was occupied by the claims of hu
manity and charity. lie at this time planned and
completed an act for the gradual abolition of
slavery, which is an imperishable monument to his
memory. He thus furnished evidence, that in
opposing the exactions of a foreign power he was
opposing tyranny, and was really attached to the
cause of liberty. In 1780 he was appointed a
judge of the supreme court, in which station he
continued during the remainder of his life. In
1784 he was elected one of the council of censors,
and was one of its principal members till his
death. When the subject of the constitution of
the United States was discussed, he was conspic
uous in the ranks of the opposition. He died at
Philadelphia in the year 1791.
Besides the offices already mentioned, Judge
Bryan engaged in various of public, literary, and
charitable employments. Formed for a close ap
plication to study, animated with an ardent thirst
for knowledge, and blessed with a memory of
wonderful tenacity, and a clear, penetrating, and
decisive judgment, he availed himself of the la
bors and acquisitions of others, and brought honor
to the stations which he occupied. To his other
attainments he added the virtues of the Christian.
He was distinguished by his benevolence and sym
pathy with the distressed ; by an unaffected hu
mility and modesty ; by his readiness to forgive
injuries ; and by the inflexible integrity of his
conduct. He was superior to the frowns and
blandishments of the world. Thus eminently
qualified for the various public offices, in which
he was placed ; he was faithful and humble in
discharging their duties, and he filled them with
dignity and reputation in the worst of times, and
in the midst of a torrent of unmerited obloquy
and opposition. Such was his disinterestedness
and his zeal for the good of others, that his own
interest seemed to be overlooked. In the admin
istration of justice he was impartial and incor
ruptible. He was an ornament to the profession
of Christianity, which he made, the delight of his
connections, and a public blessing to the State.
By his death religion lost an amiable example,
and science a steady friend. — Ewing's Funeral
Sermon; American Museum, ix. 81-83; Dun-
lap 's Amer. Advertiser.
BRYANT, LEMUEL, minister of Braintree, was
graduated at Harvard college in 1739. He died
at Hingham in 1754, and was buried at Scituate,
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BRYANT.
BUCKMLNSTER.
probably because he was a native of that place.
John Adams speaks of a controversy between
Mr. B. and Miles, Porter, Bass, &c., "which
broke out like the eruption of a volcano and
blazed with portentous aspect for many years."
He published a sermon on moral virtue, 1747 ;
remarks on Mr. Porter's sermon, 1750.
BRYANT, SOLOMON, an Indian minister, died
May 8, 1775, aged 80. He was ordained at
Marshpee, Mass., soon after the resignation of Mr.
Bourne in 1742, and he preached to his red
brethren in the Indian dialect. He was a sensi
ble man and a good minister, but not sufficiently
prudent in the admission of members and rather
deficient in economy. After his dismission, occa
sioned by some dissatisfaction on the part of the
Indians, he was succeeded by Mr. Hawley in
1758. It seems, however, that his labors were
not entirely interrupted, for Mr. Hawley wrote
concerning him in 1760: "He grows better as
he grows older. He is near 66 years of age,
has been a preacher more than forty, and con
tinues in his usefulness to tin's day." Joseph
Bryant, also an Indian minister at Marshpee, or in
that neighborhood, died April 25, 1759. In 1698
John Bryant had been Indian teacher at Acush-
net five or six years. — Mass. Hist. Coll., ill.
191 ; X. 180 ; s. s. III. 16.
BRYANT, PETER, M. D., a respected physi
cian of Cummington, died in 1820, aged 52. His
•widow, Sarah, the sister of Rev. Dr. Snell of
Brookfield, died in 1847. In the poems of his
son, William C. Bryant, there is an allusion to
him — in the hymn to death.
BRYANT, JAMES C., missionary to South
Africa, died at Inanda Dec. 23, 1850. From
1840 to 1846 he was the minister of Littleton,
Mass. He sailed for Africa in April, 1846. He
died in great peace. Mrs. B. survived him. He
had made various translations into the Zulu lan
guage. His character is described in the Miss.
Herald of 1851.
BRYSON, JOHN, died in 1855, aged 98, in
Northumberland co., Penn. He studied theology
with the blind Dr. Waddcll. lie was the pastor
of Warrior's run and Chillisquaqua, from 1790 to
1841.
BUCHANAN, THOMAS, governor of Liberia,
died at Bassa Sept. 3, 1841, in the prime of
life. He was a man of high character and use
fulness.
BUCHANAN, JOHN, died near Williamsport,
Md., Nov. 4, 1844, aged 70, chief judge of the
court of appeals.
BUCHANAN, JAMES, died near Montreal Oct.
1851, aged 80. He was British consul at New
York. He published sketches of North Ameri
can Indians, 2 vols., 1824.
BUCKINGHAM, THOMAS, minister of the
second church in Hartford, died Nov. 19, 1731,
aged 62. He was probably the son of Thomas
Buckingham, the minister of Saybrook in 1C69,
and a descendant of Thomas B., who lived in
New Haven in 1639. Stephen B., minister of
Norwalk from 1697 to 1727, was probably his
brother. He was graduated at Harvard college
in 1690. The time of his settlement has not
been ascertained. He was succeeded by Elnathan
Whitman. He was one, of the most eminent
ministers in Connecticut, and was regarded as
one of the pillars of the church. His superior
abilities were under the direction of good princi
ples. His conversation was such, as was becom
ing a minister of Christ. In his life he imitated
his blessed Master, and, being exemplary in piety,
having a pleasant temper, obliging and engaging
manners, and many amiable virtues, he conciliated
respect and esteem.
He published a sermon preached at the elec
tion, in 1728, entitled Moses and Aaron. The
following passages from it will give some view of
his sentiments, and of the times. " By the Spirit
the elect are brought to possess the good which
Jesus Christ hath purchased for them. By him
they are convinced, awakened, humbled, con
verted, sanctified, led, and comforted." " If we
look back upon the last year, how many appear
ances and indications of his anger were there to
be observed therein ; the unusual illuminations of
the heavens by repeated and almost discontinued
ilashes of lightning, with dreadful peals of thun
der attending, the scorching heat and drought of
the summer, the pinching cold and length of the
winter, stormy winds and tempests, the death of
useful men, and the groaning and trembling of
the earth under our feet." " Have you not heard
some, who have risen from among you, speaking
perverse tilings, blaspheming the constitution and
order of your churches, denying the validity of
your ordinations, and condemning your ministerial
acts as so many usurpations, who unchurch the
best and greatest part of Christians, and leave
you with the best of your flocks to uncovenanted
mercies, that is, in a state of heathenism, without
God and Christ and hope in the world ; and this
merely for the sake of a non-agreement wii.li
them in a few unscriptural rites and notions ? " —
Echvards' Elect. Serm. in 1732 ; Trumlntll, I.
498, 519.
BUCKMLNSTER, JOSEPH, minister of Rut
land, Mass., died Nov. 27, 1792, aged 72. lie
was the son of Col. Joseph Buckminster of Fra-
mingham, who died in 1780, aged 83, and whose
father, Joseph, one of the earliest settlers of
Framingham, died in 1740, also aged 83. The
last named was a grandson of Thomas Buck-
minster, written in the colony records Buckmas-
ter, who came from Wales and lived as early
as 1645 in Boston, where he died Sept. 28, 1658,
leaving several sons.
BUCKMINSTER.
BUCKMIXSTER.
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Mr. Buckminster was graduated at Harvard
college in 1739, ordained in 1742, and was in the
ministry 53 years. lie was highly respected and
useful. In his theological sentiments he was a
sublapsarian Calvinist. Mr. Foster of Strafford
having published a sermon, in which he asserted
a two-fold justification, and "a remedial law, or
law of grace, whose precepts are brought down
to a level with the fallen sinner's abilities," Mr.
Buckminster published a reply, being a para
phrase on Rom. x. 4, for which he received the
thanks of an association of ministers. Other
pamphlets followed by the same writers in this
controversy. In his dissertations on gospel salva
tion Mr. Buckminster asserts, on the one hand,
the doctrine of election against the Armimans,
and on the other hand, against the supralapsa-
rians, he says, " the decrees have no direct, posi
tive influence upon us. We are determined by
motives, but act freely and voluntarily. They lie
in the foundation of the Divine proceedings, and
compose his plans of operation. They infer the
certain futurition of things, but have no influence
ab extra to bring them to pass." These seem
not very incorrect views on the subjects of the
divine decrees and of free agency. Indeed, it is
not easy to imagine how it is possible to recon
cile the doctrine of Divine efficiency, or positive
influence in the production of sinful volitions, with
the respomibleness of man or with the truth and
holiness of God. The views of Mr. B. seem to
accord well with those of Robert Southey, who
says : " Impossible as it may be for us to reconcile
the free will of man with the foreknowledge of
God, I nevertheless believe in both with the most
full conviction. When the human mind plunges
into time and space in its speculations, it adven
tures beyond its sphere ; no wonder, therefore,
that its powers fail, and it is lost. But that my
will is free, I know feelingly : it is proved to me
by my conscience. And that God provideth all
things, I know by his own word, and by that in
stinct which he hath implanted in me to assure
me of his being."
Mr. B. published two discourses on family re
ligion, 1759 ; ordination of E. Sparhawk ; para
phrase on Rom. X. 4. ; dissertations on Eph. II.
9-1 1 ; a sermon on the covenant with Abraham.
Farmer's Register ; Eliot.
BUCKMIXSTER, JOSEPH, D. D. minister of
Portsmouth, N. H., the son of the preceding,
died June 10, 1812, aged 60. He was born Oct.
14, 1751. Being the delight and hope of his
parents, they were desirous that he should become
a minister of the gospel. He was graduated at
Yale college in 1770, and from 1774 to 1778 was a
tutor in that seminary, associated in that employ
ment with Abraham Baldwin. At this period he
became temporarily attached to a lady, then of
reputation and celebrity, whose character is the
bains of one of the productions of Mrs. Foster.
lie was ordained over the north church in Ports
mouth, Jan. 27, 1779, as successor of Dr. Lang-
don, after whose death Dr. Stiles had supplied
the pulpit one or two years. After a ministry of
thirty-three years, his health became greatly im
paired ; a depression of spirits, to which he had
been subject, came upon him with new violence ;
spasmodic affections caused at times a suspension
of reason ; under these distressing complaints a
long journey was thought necessary to his relief.
He left home June 2, 1812, accompanied by his
wife and two friends ; but on the Green moun
tains of Vermont he was arrested by the messen
ger of death. He died at a solitary tavern in
Reedsborough, and his remains were interred at
Bennington, and a sermon preached on the oc
casion by Mr. Marsh. It is remarkable, that on
the preceding day his eldest son, a minister in
Boston, died after a week's illness. Although
Dr. B. had not heard of his sickness, yet he said
to his wife repeatedly a few hours before his own
death, Joseph is dead! His first wife, the only
daughter of Rev. Dr. Stevens of Kittery, died
July 19, 1790, aged 36, leaving one son and two
daughters ; his second wife, the daughter of Rev.
Isaac Lyman of York, died June 8, 1805, aged
39 ; his third wife, who survived him, was the
widow of Col. Eliphalet Ladd. One of his daugh
ters, who married Prof. Farrar of Cambridge,
died in Sept., 1824. He was succeeded in the
ministry by Mr. Putnam.
Dr. Buckminster was an eminently pious man.
He left an unsullied reputation, and was greatly
beloved and deeply lamented. His mind had been
well cultivated. A brilliant imagination, his most
distinguishing faculty, gave a richness to his style.
He had a heart of sensibility. His voice, strong
and musical, expressed the various emotions of
his soul. His attitude and gestures were un-
afi'ected and impressive, while lu's countenance
itself was eloquent. But lu's popularity as a
preacher is to be ascribed also to the boldness
and the energy with which he proclaimed the
great and all-important truths of the gospel.
Even the hostility of the erroneous and the
wicked, which he aroused, proved that he had
found a way to their conscience, for in his great
meekness, humility, and benevolence they could
not think that he was their enemy. They could
hardly hate the man, except on account of his
doctrine and the faithfulness of his warnings.
Though his sermons were not systematic, they
were luminous and instructive. Breaking from
the confinement of a few favorite topics, he expa
tiated in the wide field of religious truth. Thc-
varying events of Providence were always no
ticed by him, and employed to some pious pur
pose. The tenderness of his heart, made him
peculiarly welcome in the house of affliction.
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BUCKMINSTER.
In the gift of prayer, on all the occasions of
prayer, he particularly excelled. As a pastor
he was a bright example to his brethren; in
cessant in labor and delighting in his work ;
cherishing always most sedulously the seriousness
witnessed amongst his people, and devising new
plans for gaining access to their hearts ; and in
meetings for social prayer seeking the Divine
blessing upon the means of instruction. In his
preaching he dwelt much on the iniquity of the
human heart, on the character and value of the
atonement by the crucified Son of God, and on
the necessity of regeneration by the Holy Spirit,
of faith and repentance, and the holiness without
which there is no admission into heaven. In his
own opinion, he began to preach before he was
truly a servant of God ; and afterwards he ceased
to preach for a time, in the persuasion that his
motives were selfish and unworthy. But after a
long period of distress light broke in upon his
mind. A few years after his settlement, on the
anniversary of his ordination, he wrote as follows :
" Blush, O my soul, and be ashamed, that thou
hast felt no more of thy own worth and the worth
of thy fellow immortals, the infinite love and com
passion of God, of thy dear Redeemer, and the
excellency of the gospel. Shall God call me, who
have been so great and aggravated an offender,
to the high and honorable office of publishing the
glad tidings of salvation, and of an ambassador
for him, to woo and beseech men to be reconciled
to him ; and shall I be lukewarm and indiffer
ent?" But notwithstanding the talents, the
piety, the faithfulness, and the fervent zeal of
Dr. Buckminster, no very remarkable effects at
tended his preaching ; showing that, after all the
skilful and diligent toil of the planter, it is God
only, who, according to his sovereign pleasure,
giveth the increase. On account of his catholic
disposition, Dr. Buckminster possessed the regard
of other denominations of Christians besides his
own. In the private relations of life he was
faithful, affectionate, and interesting. He pub
lished the following sermons : at the New Hamp
shire election, 1787 ; on the death of Washing
ton, 1800 ; on the death of Mrs. Rowland, and
Mrs. Porter ; on choosing rulers, two sermons,
1796; on the fire, 1803; on baptism, 1803;
at the ordination of his son, 1805 ; on the
death of Rev. S. Haven and his wife, 1806;
at the installation of J. Miltimore, 1808; of J.
Thurston, 1809 ; three discourses, Boston, on the
death of Dr. Hemminway, 1811 ; and a short
sketch of Dr. McClintock. — Panoplist, vm. 105-
111 ; Adams' Ann. of Portsmouth, 353-345 ;
Parker's Funeral Sermon ; Farmer's Coll. in.
121.
BUCKMINSTER, JOSEPH STEVENS, a minis
ter in Boston, died June 9, 1810, aged 28. He
was the son of the preceding, and was born May
26, 1784. Under the cultivation of his devoted
parents his talents were early developed. At the
age of four years he began to study Latin gram
mar ; at the age of twelve he was ready for ad
mission into college. He graduated at Harvard
with distinguished honor in 1800. The next four
years were spent partly in the family of his rela
tive, Theodore Lyman of Waltham, partly as an
assistant in the academy at Exeter, and in the
prosecution of theological studies. In Oct., 1804,
he began to preach at Brattle street, Boston,
where he was ordained as the successor of Dr.
Thacher, Jan. 30, 1805. A severe illness imme
diately followed, which interrupted liis labors un
til March. In the course of this year, the return
of the epilepsy, which he had previously expe
rienced, excited his apprehensions that his men
tal faculties would be destroyed. He wrote in
Oct. : " The repetition of these fits must at length
reduce me to idiocy. Can I resign myself to the
loss of memory, and of that knowledge, I may
have vainly prided myself upon ? O God ! enable
me to bear this thought." A voyage to Europe
being recommended, he sailed in May, 1806, and
visited England, Holland, Switzerland and France.
In Paris he spent five months ; and there and in
London he collected a valuable library of nearly
3,000 vols. After his return in Sept., 1807, he
was occupied in the ministry about five years with
occasional attacks of epilepsy, till his death.
His last illness continued a week. His father
died the next day.
Mr. Buckminster was a very interesting and
eloquent preacher. Though of scarcely the mid
dle size, yet a fine countenance, combining sweet
ness and intelligence, appropriate, and occasionally
animated gestures, a brilliant imagination, and a
style of winning elegance caused his hearers to
hang with delight upon his lips. His power,
however, would have been increased by more of
fervor and passion. Deeply interested in biblical
criticism, he superintended the publication of
Griesbach's New Testament. In his religious sen
timents, as appears from the volume of his sermons,
published since his death, he differed in some im
portant respects from his father. He did not
believe the doctrine of the trinity. He did not
regard the human race as originally corrupt, and
utterly lost in their depravity ; he did not admit
that the death of Christ had any relation to the
justice of God in the pardon of sin, nor did he
suppose that there was any special influence of
the Holy Spirit in the renewal of the heart. He
quoted with approbation Paley's sermon, written
when a young man, on caution in the use of
Scripture language, in which he denies any agency
of the Spirit of God on the human heart ; yet in
his latter sermons Paley expressly declares his
belief, that the Scripture does teach such an
agency. He imagined that men were not able to
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obey the Divine law, and that Christ came to re
deem and has actually redeemed all men from its
curse, or has disclosed a new dispensation, in
which repentance is accepted instead of obedience.
Justifying faith he considered as only a principle
of holiness, and not as a trust in Jesus Christ for
salvation. Yet his views seem utterly opposed to
the doctrine of the Socinians, for he speaks of
" the incarnation " of the Son of God, " the vice
gerent of Jehovah," and he saw in his life a
" wonderful contrast of powers — Divine greatness
and mortal debility, ignominy, and glory, suffering
and triumph, the servant of all and the Lord of
all."
In 1808 Mr. Buckminster published a collection
of hymns, in which those of Watts and others
were mutilated without notice. In a review of
tliis collection in the Panoplist, this mutilation was
justly reprehended, as apparently designed to lend
the authority of Watts to the suppression of im
portant doctrines. Mr. B. suffered under the
charge, for he was unwilling to confess what he
recorded in his private journal, that he took the
altered hymns from Ivippis' collection without
being aware of the alterations. He published a
number of reviews in the monthly anthology and
other periodicals ; the right hand of fellowship at
the ordination of C. Lowell, 1806 ; a sermon on
the death of Gov. Sullivan, 1809 ; on the death
of W. Emerson, 1811; an address to the Phi
Beta Kappa society, 1809. After his death a vol
ume of twenty-four sermons was published, with
a memoir of his life and character by S. C.
Thacher. — Memoir ; Mass. Hist. Coll. s. s. n.
271 ; Christian Spectator, v. 145.
BUCKNAM, NATHAN, died Feb. 6, 1795, aged
91 ; minister of Medway seventy years. He was
born in Maiden, graduated in 1721, ordained Dec.
29, 1724. He published a sermon at the ordina
tion of E. Morse, 1743 ; at ordination of E.
Harding, 1749.
BUEL, MARY, wife of Dr. John B., of Litch-
field, died Nov. 4, 1768, aged 90. She had thir
teen children, one hundred and one grandchildren,
two hundred and seventy-four great-grandchil
dren, and twenty-two of the next generation;
total, four hundred and ten ; of winch three hun
dred and thirty-six survived her.
BUEL, JESSE, editor, removed in 1813 from the
county of Ulster to Albany and established the
Albany Argus, which he edited till 1821. He died
at Danbury, Conn., Oct. 6, 1839, aged 62 ; he was
on a journey to New Haven in order to deliver a
lecture on agriculture, to wlu'ch subject he had
devoted the last years of his life. About 1833
he established the Cultivator, a monthly paper,
which obtained a vast circulation. He Avas re
spected for his talents and worth.
BUEL, WILLIAM, M. D., died at Litchficld
Oct. 15, 1851, aged 83.
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BUELL, SAMUEL, D. D., an eminent minister
on Long Island, died at East Hampton, July 19,
1798, aged 81. lie was born at Coventry in
Connecticut, Sept. 1, 17 1G. In the seventeenth
year of his age it pleased his merciful Father in
heaven to renew his heart and teach him those
truths, which are necessary to salvation. He was
impressed with a sense of his entire destitution of
love to God, of the incompctency of any works,
which he could perform, to justify him, of the
necessity of a Saviour, and of his dependence
on Divine mercy and influence. From the depres
sion of mind, occasioned by a full conviction of
sin and a clear perception of his danger, he was
relieved by a view of the wonderful plan of re
demption by Jesus Christ, and the gladness of
his heart now was proportionate to the thickness
of the gloom which before hung over his mind.
This change in his character produced a change
in his plans of life. His father was a rich farmer,
and he had been destined to agricultural pursuits ;
but the belief, that it was his duty to engage in
labors which would most advance the interest of
religion, and to extend his usefulness as much as
possible, induced him to relinquish the employ
ments of husbandry, and to attend to the cultiva
tion of his mind. He was graduated at Yale
college in 1741. While in this seminary his
application to his studies was intense, and his
proficiency was such as rewarded his toils. It
was here that he first became acquainted with
David Brainerd with whom he was very intimate,
till death separated them. Their friendship was
the union of hearts attached to the same Ite-
decmer, having the same exalted views and
animated by the same spirit.
It was his intention to spend a number of years
with Mr. Edwards, of Northampton, in theologi
cal studies ; but the extensive revival of religion
at this period rendering the zealous preaching of
the truth peculiarly important, he immediately
commenced those benevolent labors, which occu
pied and delighted him through the remainder of
his life. After being licensed, he preached about
two years in different parts of New England ; and
such was the pathos and energy of his manner
that almost every assembly was melted into tears.
In November, 1743, he was ordained as an itiner
ant preacher, in which capacity he was indefatiga
ble and very successful. He was the instrument
of doing much good, of impressing the thought
less, of reforming the vicious, and of imparting to
the selfish and worldly the genuine principles of
benevolence and godliness. Carrying with him
testimonials from respectable ministers, he was
admitted into many pulpits, from which other
itinerants were excluded. While he disapproved
of the imprudence of some in those days, when
religious truth was brought home remarkably to
the heart, he no less reprehended the unreason-
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able opposition of others to the work of God.
During this period his health was much impaired,
and a severe fit of sickness brought him to the very
entrance of the grave ; but it pleased God, \vho
holds the lives of all in His hand, to restore his
health, and prolong his usefulness for many }~ears.
He was led to East Hampton, by a direction of
Providence in some respects extraordinary, and
was installed pastor of the church in that place,
Sept. 19, 1746. His predecessors were Thomas
James, the first minister ; then Nathaniel Hunt
ing, ordained Sept. 13, 1699, and dismissed in
his old age at the settlement of Mr. Buell. In
this retirement he devoted himself with great
ardor to his studies. Though he always felt the
necessity of the special aid of the Spirit of God in
preaching, yet he duly estimated the importance
of diligent application of mind to the duties of the
ministry. For a number of years he wrote all his
sermons and preached them without notes. He
was long engaged in writing a work on the prophe
cies, but the publication of Newton's dissertations
induced him to relinquish it. He sought the
acquisition of knowledge, not that he might have
the honor of being reputed a learned man, but
that he might increase his power of usefulness ;
and keeping his great object, that of doing good,
constantly in view, he never suffered the pleasures
of literary and theological research to detain him
from the field of more active exertion. He could
not shut himself up in his study, while immortal
souls in his own congregation or in the neighbor
hood were destitute of instruction and were ready
to hear the words of eternal life. He frequently
preached two or three times in the course of the
•week, in addition to his stated labors on the Sab
bath. For a number of the first years of his
ministry he seemed to labor without effect. His
people paid but little attention to the concerns of
religion. But in 1764 he witnessed an astonishing
change. Almost every individual in the town was
deeply impressed, and the interests of eternity
received that attention which their transcendent
importance demands. He had the happiness at
one time of admitting into his church ninety-nine
persons, who, he believed, had been renewed,
and enlightened with correct views of the gospel,
and inspired with benevolent principles of conduct.
In the years 17 80 and 1791 also, he was favored,
through the influence of the Holy Spirit on the
hearts of his hearers, with great success.
Dr. Buell presents a remarkable instance of
disinterested exertion for the good of others.
When Long Island fell into the hands of the
British in 1776, he remained with his people, and
did much towards relieving their distresses. As
there was at this period but one minister within
forty miles able to preach, the care of all the
churches fell upon him. His natural disposition
inclined him to do with his might whatever his
hand found to do. He was an example of all the
Christian virtues. He was attached to literature
and science, and was the father and patron of
Clinton academy in East .Hampton. His house
was the mansion of hospitality. Possessing a
large fund of instructive and entertaining anec
dote, his company was pleasing to persons of
every age. In no respect was he more distin-*
guished, than for a spirit of devotion. He was
fully convinced of the necessity and efficacy of
prayer, and amid the prosperous and afflictive
scenes, through which he passed, it was his delight
to hold intercourse with his Father in heaven.
He followed two wives and eight children to the
grave. On these solemn and affecting occasions,
such was the resignation and support imparted to
him, that he usually preached himself. To his
uncommon and long continued health, the strict
rules of temperance, which he observed, without
doubt much contributed. On the day, in which
he was 80 years old, he rode fourteen miles to
preach the gospel, and returned in the evening.
In his last hours his mind was in perfect peace.
He had no desire to remain any longer absent
from his Saviour. He observed, as the hour of
his departure approached, that he felt all his
earthly connections to be dissolved. The world,
into which he was just entering, absorbed all his
thoughts ; so that he was unwilling to suffer any
interruption of his most cheering contemplations
from the last attention of his friends. While
they were endeavoring to prolong the dying flame,
he would put them aside with one hand, while
the other was raised towards heaven, where his
eyes and soul were fixed. In this happy state of
mind he welcomed the moment of his departure
from life. His daughter Jerusha was the mother
of J. L. Gardner of Gardner's Island ; another
daughter married Rev. A. Wentworth.
He published a narrative of the revival of
religion among his people in 1764, and fourteen
occasional discourses, which evince the vigor of
his mind and the ardor of his piety; among
which are a sermon at the ordination of Samson
Occum, Aug. 29, 1759, to which is added a letter
giving an account of Occum, 1761 ; on the death
of C. J. Smith, 1770 ; at the ordination of Aaron
Woolworth, Bridgehampton, 1788.; funeral ser
mons on his daughter, Mrs. Conkling, 1782, and
on an only son, Samuel, who died of the small
pox in 1787. — Conn. Evan. Mag. II. 147-151, 179-
182; Daggetfs Funeral Sermon.
BUELL, ABEL, of Killingworth, Conn., began,
unaided, a type foundry in 1769, and completed
several fonts of long primer. He was a skilful
goldsmith and jeweller. John Baine, a Scotch
man, who died at Philadelphia in 1790, was the
first successful type founder; and he came to this
country after the war. — Thomas, I. 214 ; II. 547 ;
Holmes, II. 165.
BUELL.
BUELL, WILLIAM, a missionary in Siam, died
in Newcastle, Tenn., in 1856, aged about 40. An
afflictive event recalled him from Siam.
BUFF, MICHAEL, died in Georgia in 1839,
aged 101, a soldier in 1758.
BUIST, GEORGE, D. D., minister in Charleston,
S. C., was born in 1770 in Fif'eshire, Scotland. In
the college of Edinburgh, which he entered in
1787, he became very distinguished. In classical
learning he excelled, having a predilection for
Grecian literature. With the Hebrew also he was
familiar. In French and Italian he was skilled.
The elders of the Presbyterian church in Charles
ton, established in 1731, sent for Mr. Buist, on
the recommendation of Dr. llobertson and Dr-
Blair. He arrived in June, 1793. Being ap
pointed in 1805 principal of the college of Charles
ton, the seminary soon became more respectable
than ever. He died Aug. 31, 1808, after an illness
of a few days, aged 38 years. His predecessors in
the Presbyterian church were Stuart, Grant, Lori-
mer, Morison, Hewatt, Graham, and Wilson. As
a preacher he was impressive, oratorical, and pop
ular, while he was also instructive and faithful. In
the censure of vice he was bold and animated.
A friend of benevolent institutions, his warm and
eloquent appeals aroused the public feeling. lie
wrote various articles for the British encyclopedia.
He published an abridgment of Hume for schools,
1792; a version of the psalms, 1790; a sermon
on the death of Rev. Mr. Malcomson, 1805. His
sermons in two vols. 8vo, were published in 1809.
— Sketch prefixed to Sermons.
BULFINCH, THOMAS, M. D., a physician in
Boston, died in Feb., 1802. He was the only son
of Dr. Thomas B., an eminent and pious physi
cian, who died Dec., 1757, aged 62, and whose
father, Adino B., came from England in 1680.
He was born in 1728, and after attending the Latin
school of John Lovell, was graduated at Harvard
college in 1746. He spent four years in England
and Scotland in the prosecution of his medical
studies, and, obtaining his medical degree in 1757,
returned immediately to Boston. During the
prevalence of the small-pox in 1763, his antiphlo
gistic treatment was eminently successful. With
Drs. Warren, Gardiner, and Perkins he attempted
the establishment of a small-pox hospital at Point
Shirley ; but prejudice defeated lu's efforts. Dur
ing the occupation of Boston by the British troops
he remained in the town and suil'ered many priva
tions and losses. He continued in practice till
two years before his death, which occurred in
Feb., 1802. His mother was the daughter of John
Colman, brother of Rev. Benjamin C. His wife
was the daughter of Charles Apthorp. He left a
son, the architect and superintendent of the pub
lic buildings at Washington, who married the
daughter of John Apthorp ; and two daughters,
married to George Storer and Joseph Coolidge.
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Dr. Bulfinch was distinguished for his personal
appearance and elegance of manners. Like his
father, he was mild and unobtrusive, cheerful, be
nevolent, and pious. He published a treatise on
the treatment of the scarlet fever ; another on the
yellow fever. — Thaclier'x Med. Biog.
BULFIXCH, CHARLES, died in Boston April
15, 1844, aged 81. He graduated at Harvard,
1781, and pursued his architectural studies in
Europe, and on his return devoted himself to
arclu'tecture. He drew the plan for the State-
house in Boston, and for the capitol at Wasliing-
ton.
BULKLEY, PETER, first minister of Concord,
Mass., died March 9, 1659, aged 76. He was
born at Woodhill in Bedfordshire, Eng., Jan. 31,
1583. He was educated at St. John's in Camb.
and was fellow of the college. lie had a gentle
man's estate left him by his father, Dr. Edward
Bulkley of Woodhill, whom he succeeded in the
ministry- For twenty-one years he continued his
faitliful labors without interruption; but at length,
being silenced for nonconformity to some of the
ceremonies of the English church, he came to
New England in 1635, that he might enjoy lib
erty of conscience. After residing some time at
Cambridge, he began the settlement of Concord
in 1636 with a number of planters, who had
accompanied him from England. He formed,
July 5, 1636, the twelfth church which had been
established in the colony, and in 1637 was consti
tuted its teacher and John Jones its pastor. He
died in Concord. His first wife was a daughter
of Thomas Allen of Coldington ; his second, a
daughter of Sir Richard Chitwood. By these he
had fourteen children, three of whom were edu
cated for the ministry. Edward, who succeeded
him about 1659, had been the first minister
of Marshficld, died at Chelmsford Jan. 2, 1696,
and was buried at Concord ; his son, Peter, a
graduate of 1660, was agent in England in 1676,
was speaker of the house and assistant from 1677
to- 1684, and died May 24, 1688.
Mr. Bulkley was remarkable for his benevo
lence. He expended a large estate by giving
farms to his servants, whom he employed in hus
bandry. It was his custom, when a servant had
lived with him a certain number of years, to dis
miss him, giving him a piece of land for a farm,
and to take another in his place. He was famil
iar and pleasant in his manners, though while
subject to bodily pains he was somewhat irritable,
and in preaching was at times considered as
severe. So strict was his own virtue, that he
could not spare some follies, which were thought
too inconsiderable to be noticed. In consequence
of his pressing importunately some charitable
work, contrary to the wishes of the ruling elder,
an unhappy division was produced in the church ;
but it was healed by the advice of a council and the
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abdication of the elder. By means of this troub
lesome affair, Mr. Bulkley said he knew more of
God, more of himself, and more of men. He was
an excellent scholar, and was distinguished for the
holiness of his life and his diligent attention to
the duties of the ministry. He gave a considera
ble part of his library to Harvard college. He
was very conscientious in his observance of the
Sabbath. He was averse to novelty of apparel,
and his hair was always cut close. Such was his
zeal to do good, that he seldom left any company,
without making some serious remark, calculated
to impress the mind. When, through infirmity,
he was unable to teach from house to house, he
added to his usual labor on the Lord's day that
of catechizing and exhorting the youth, in the
presence of the whole assembly. Such was his
reputation among the ministers of New England,
that he was appointed one of the moderators of
the synod of 1737. Mr. Hooker was the other.
He published a work entitled, the gospel cove
nant, or the covenant of grace opened, etc., Lon
don, 1646, 4to. pp. 383. This book was so much
esteemed, that it passed through several editions.
It is composed of sermons preached at Concord
upon Zechariah IX. 11, "the blood of the cove
nant." Speaking of this work, Mr. Shepard of
Cambridge says, " The church of God is bound to
bless God for the holy, judicious, and learned
labors of this aged, and experienced, and precious
servant of Jesus Christ." Mr. Bulkley also wrote
Latin poetry, some specimens of which are
preserved by Dr. Mather in his history of New
England. — Mather's Magnolia, in. 96, 98;
Neal, I. 321; Nonconformists' Memorial, last
edition, n. 200; Holmes, I. 314; Coll. Hist.
Soc., x. 168 ; Bipley's Dedication Sermon.
BULKLEY, JOHX, one of the first graduates
of Harvard college, died in 1689, aged 69. He
was the son of the preceding. He took his
degree of A. M. in 1642. He afterwards went to
England, and settled at Fordham, where he
continued for several years with good acceptance
and usefulness. After his ejectment in 1662 he
went to Wapping, in the suburbs of London,
where he practised physic several years with
success. He was eminent in learning and equally
so in piety. Though he was not often in his
pulpit after his ejectment, he might truly be said
to preach every day in the week. His whole life
was a continued sermon. He seldom visited his
patients without reading a lecture of divinity to
them, and praying with them. He was remarkable
for the sweetness of his temper, and his integrity
and charitableness ; but what gave a lustre to all
his other virtues was his deep humility. He died
near the tower in London. — Nonconformists'
Memorial, last edition, II. 200 ; James' Funeral
Sermon.
BULKLEY, GERSHOM, an eminent minister,
BULKLEY.
the brother of the preceding, died Dec. 2, 1713,
aged 77. He was born in Dec., 1636, and gradu
ated at Harvard college in 1655. About the year
1658 he succeeded Mr. Blinman as minister of
New London. Here he continued till about the
year 1666, when he became pastor of the church
in Wethersfield, in the place of Mr. Russell, who
had removed to Hadley. He was succeeded at
New London by Mr. Bradstreet. Many years
before his death he resigned the ministry at
Wethersfield on account of his infirmities, and
Mr. Rowlandson of Lancaster was received aa
minister. His wife was Sarah, the daughter of
President Chauncy. He was a man of distinction
in his day, and was particularly eminent for hia
skill in chemistry. From an inscription upon his
gravestone, it appears that he was regarded as a
man of rare abilities and extraordinary industry,
excellent in learning, master of many languages,
exquisite in his skill in divinity, physic, and law,
and of a most exemplary and Christian life. —
Trumbull, I. 319, 324, 483, 519; Mass. Hist. Coll.,
X. 155.
BULKLEY, JOHN, first minister of Colchester,
Avas the son of Gershom Bulkley. He was gradu
ated at Harvard college in 1699, was ordained
Dec. 20, 1703, and died in June, 1731. His son,
John Bulkley, a graduate at Yale college in 1756,
eminent for learning, possessed a high reputation
as a physician and lawyer, and when very young
was appointed a judge of the superior court of
Connecticut.
Mr. Bulkley was very distinguished as a scholar.
While a member of college, he and Mr. Dummer,
who was a member of the same class, were con
sidered as pre-eminent in genius and talents.
The palm was given to the latter for quickness,
brilliancy, and wit ; but Mr. Bulkley was regarded
as his superior in solidity of judgment and
strength of argument. He carried his researches
into the various departments of the law, of medi
cine, and theology. He was classed by Dr.
Chauncy in 1788 among the three most eminent
for strength of genius and powers of mind,
which New England had produced. The other
two were Jeremiah Dummer and Thomas Walter.
He wrote a preface to R. Wolcott's meditations,
and published an election sermon in 1713, entitled,
the necessity of religion in societies. In 1724 he
published an inquiry into the right of the aborig
inal natives to the lands in America. This curi
ous treatise has within a few years been reprinted
in the collections of the lu'storical society of Mas
sachusetts. The author contends, that the Indians
had no just claims to any lands but such as they
had subdued and improved by their own labor,
and that the English had a perfect right to occupy
all other lands without compensation to the na
tives. He published a sermon at ordination of J.
Lewis, 1730 ; and one other tract, entitled, an im-
BULL.
partial account of a late debate at Lyme, upon the
following points : whether it be the will of God,
that the infants of visible believers should be bap
tized ; whether sprinkling be lawful and sufficient ;
and whether the present way of maintaining
ministers by a public rate or tax be lawful, 1729.
In this he gives some account of the rise of
the anti-pedo-baptists. — Trumbull, I. 520 ; Mass.
Hist. Coll. IV. 159 ; Gen. Hist, of Conn. 173.
BULL, HENRY, governor of Rhode Island, died
in 1693, aged 84. Born in Wales, he was one of
the early purchasers of the Island of Aquidneck,
now Rhode Island. He settled with seventeen
others at Newport in 1638, and was governor in
1685, and again in 1689, when Andros was im
prisoned.
BULL, WILLIAM, M. D., a physician, eminent
for literature and medical science, died July 4,
1791, aged 81. He was the son of Win. Bull,
lieut.-gov. of South Carolina, who died March
1755, aged 72. He was the first native of South
Carolina, and probably the first American, who
obtained a degree in medicine. S. L. Knapp, in
his stereotype lecture on American literature,
mistakes in representing Dr. Bull as a graduate
of Harvard college, and also in giving his name
Ball. He was a pupil of Boerhaave, and in 1735
defended a thesis de colica pictonum before the
university of Leyden. He is quoted by Van
Swieten, as his fellow student, with the title of
the learned Dr. Bull. After his return to this
country, lu's services in civil life were reqmred by
his fellow-citizens. In 1751 he was a member of
the council; in 1763 he was speaker of the house
of representatives, and in 1764 he was lieut.-gov.
of South Carolina. He was many years in this
office, and commander-in-chief. When the Brit
ish troops left South Carolina in 1782 he accom
panied them to England, where he resided the
remainder of his life. He died in London. —
Ramsay's Rev. of Med. 42,43; Miller, I. 317, II.
363 ; (rentleman's Mag. xxv. 236 ; Ramsay's
Hist. S. C. II. 113.
BULL, JOHN, general, a soldier of the Revolu
tion, died at Northumberland, Penn., in Aug.
1824, aged 94. In the French wars his services
were important, especially in making treaties with
the Indians for the safety of the frontiers. In the
war for independence he engaged with zeal. In
1776 he was a member of the assembly from the
county of Philadelphia. At the age of 75 he was
also a useful member of the legislature. lie died
with composure, trusting in the atonement of the
Saviour, with assured hope of a glorious resurrec
tion.
BULL, NORMS, D. I).-, died in Lewiston,
N. Y., in 1848, aged about 58. Bom in Har-
winton, he graduated at Yale in 1813, and com
menced bis labors as a teacher at Lansingburg.
He was then a minister at Warsaw, and eleven
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161
years at Geneseo. He was afterwards both pas
tor and teacher at Wyoming and at Clarkson.
In 1846 he removed to Lewiston. He published
an address to the Wilson Collegiate Institute. —
N. Y. Observer, Feb. 26, 1848.
BULLARI), ARTEMAS, Dr., died at Sutton May
6, 1842, aged 73. His ten children were pro
fessors of religion.
BULLARI), ARTEMAS, D. D., son of the pre
ceding, minister of the 1st Presbyterian church in
St. Louis, was killed on the railroad at Gasconade
river, Nov. 1, 1855, aged 53. He had two broth
ers, who were ministers, and two sisters, who
married ministers — Henry W. Beecher, and Lot
Jones. He graduated at Amherst in 1826. He
married Ann Jones, a teacher in Boston. For
ten years he was the general agent of the Ameri-
ican board of missions, residing at Cincinnati, and
for eighteen years he had been a minister in St.
Louis, exerting a very important influence. ' His
new and costly church had just been finished.
He was on the first railroad excursion to Jeffer
son city, when he and nearly thirty others were
killed.
Dr. Bullard, when the Presbyterian church was
split into two parts, attached himself to the New
School division. He was a man of action and
energy. His great and very important labors in
Missouri in the formation of new churches, the
providing of ministers, and the promotion of
learning, and his excellent character, are described
in the N. Y. Evangelist for Jan. 3, 1856. By his
efforts chiefly was Webster College founded.
BULLARD, HENRY A., judge, died in New
Orleans, April 17, 1851, aged 62. The son of the
minister of Pepperell, he was graduated at Cam
bridge in 1807 ; having studied law, he accompa
nied Gen. Toledo in an expedition against Texas,
but in the defeat escaped, although with difficulty,
and opened an office in Natchitoches. He was
district judge, and a member of congress, and
judge of the supreme court ; afterwards he prac
tised law in New Orleans, and gave lectures in
the law school. The fatigue of his return from
Washington occasioned his death.
BULLARD, AMOS, minister of Barre, died
Aug. 21, 1850, aged 43. Born in Medway, he
graduated at Amherst college in 1833, was for
some years assistant teacher in Leicester academy,
and ordained Oct. 26, 1843. He was a good
scholar and writer, and greatly excelled in meta
physics. His early death was greatly lamented.
His widow became an assistant in the academy of
Leicester.
BULLOCK, WILLIAM, published a work en
titled, Virginia impartially examined, 1649.
BULLOCK, LYDIA, died at Rehoboth, April
26, 1853, aged 81, relict of E. Bullock, daughter
of Roger Rogcrson, minister of Rehoboth from
1759 to 1799. She had a cultivated mind, was
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intelligent, refined, dignified, affable, of rich con
versation, and much-valued correspondence. Her
writings gratified her friends, but were not made
public. She was a specimen of the domestic in
telligence and refinement, which, unknown to the
world, hath blessed many a habitation of New
England. For fifty years she was a devoted dis
ciple of Christ. She was a member of a female
charitable society, raising for many years an an
nual sum for the cause of missions.
BUNKER, BENJAMIN, minister of Maiden, died
Feb. 3, 1670, aged about 30. He was the son of
George Bunker, who lived in Charlestown in
1634, and in 1637 was disarmed, with many
others, by order of the general court, for being a
follower of Wheelwright and Mrs. Hutchinson,
lest in some revelation they should make an
assault upon the government ; from whom, or
from some descendant, the name of Bunker's Hill
is doubtless derived. The celebrated battle was
fought on Breed's Hill, distant 120 rods S. E.
from Bunker's, which is a loftier hill. Mr.
Bunker was graduated at Harvard college in
1658. — Savage's Wintlirop, \. 248.
BURBANK, CALEB, general, died at Millbury,
Dec. 9, 1849, aged 83; extensively known as a
paper manufacturer.
BURBECK, HENRY, general, died at New
London, Oct. 2, 1848, aged 94, being born in
Boston, June 8, 1754. His father was an officer
at Castle William before the Revolution. He
joined his father's company in the American army
in 1775, and shared in the battles and sufferings
of the war, at the close of which he held the office
of major. He afterwards was engaged in the
Indian wars along the western frontier ; for years
he commanded at Mackinaw. In the war of
1812 he served as a brigadier-general; but in
1815 retired to private life, and lived at New
London till his death.
BURCH, STEPHEN B., D. D., died at George
town, in Sept., 1833, aged 87.
BURD, BENJAMIN, general, died Oct. 5, 1822,
aged 69. He was a soldier of the Revolution. At
the age of twenty-one he joined Col. Thompson's
regiment of Pennsylvania riflemen, and marched
as a volunteer to Boston, where he arrived Aug.,
1775. He was afterwards in the battle of Long
Island. In 1777, as captain in the 4th Pennsyl
vania regiment, he was in the battles of Trenton
arid Princeton, and afterwards at the battle of
Brandywine. In the capacity of major he was
engaged in the battles of Germantown and Mon-
mouth. In 1779 he accompanied Sullivan in his
expedition against the Indians. In all his ser
vices he was brave and active. After the war he
settled down on his paternal farm at fort Little
ton, where he was long known for his hospitable
and gentlemanly deportment. For the ten last
years of his life he resided at Bedford, Penn. ;
where he died of the dropsy in the chest. His
wife died on the preceding day. — Farmer's
Coll. n. App. 99.
. BURGESS, TRISTAM, judge, died at Watchem-
oket farm, Providence, Oct. 13, 1853, aged 83.
He was born in Rochester, Mass., Feb. 26, 1770,
the son of a soldier, Lieut. John B., who died in
1791. The father and three sons were farmers
and coopers. He had attended school but a few
weeks before he was twenty-one ; he afterwards
graduated at Brown university in 1796. While
teaching school and studying law, he was per
suaded to buy a ticket on credit, costing 5 dollars,
which drew a prize of 2000, and gave him relief in
his poverty. He married the daughter of Wel
come Arnold, a merchant of Providence. He had
great business as a lawyer, associated with such
men as Howell, Burrill, Robbins, Hunter, Bridg-
ham, and Hazard. After being chief justice a short
time, he was appointed professor of oratory in
Brown university. He entered congress in 1825.
From him Mr. Randolph received such a retort as
from no one else, — a rebuke that silenced him :
" Moral monsters cannot propagate ; — we rejoice
that the father of lies can never become the father
of liars." In 1835 he retired to private life. He
was a diligent student of the Bible. His memoirs
were by II. L. Bowen. He published five ora
tions at different times, and several speeches in
congress.
BURGESS, BENJAMIN, died in Wayne, Me.,
June 13, 1853, aged 102, leaving 170 descendants.
BURGESS, Mrs. N. M. HALL, missionary to
the Indians on the Alleghany reservation, died
Dec. 30, 1851. For sixteen years she had labored
with her brother, Rev. W. Hall, devoted to her
work. Her end was peaceful, saying, "Dear Sav
iour, come quickly ! " She had been married but a
few weeks.
BURGESS, Mrs., missionary at Satara in
India, died April 26, 1853, the wife of E. Burgess.
She was at Ahmednuggur in 1849. From the
time of her arrival at S., in 1851, she was devoted
to her work, in the schools, with the native wo
men, and in the church.
BURGOYNE, JOHN, a British lieutenant-gen
eral in America, died Aug. 4, 1792. He was the
natural son of Lord Bingley. He entered early
into the army, arid in 1762 had the command of a
body of troops, sent to Portugal for the defence
of that kingdom against the Spaniards. After
his return to England he became a privy council
lor, and was chosen a member of parliament. In
the American war he was with the British army
in Boston, at the battle of Bunker's Hill in 1775,
and in the same year was sent to Canada. In
the year 1777 he was intrusted with the command
of the northern army, which should rather have
been given to Sir Guy Carlton, who was much
better acquainted with the situation of the couu-
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try. It was the object of the campaign of 1777
to open a communication between New York and
Canada, and thus to sever New England from
the other States. Burgoyne first proposed to pos
sess himself of the fortress of Ticonderoga. With
an army of about 4,000 chosen British troops and
Germans, he left St. John's June 6, and, proceed
ing up lake Champlain, landed near Crown Point,
where he met the Indians and gave them a war
feast. lie made a speech to them, calculated to
secure their friendly co-operation, but designed
also to mitigate their native ferocity. He en
deavored to impress on them the distinction
between enemies in the field and helpless, un
armed inhabitants, and promised rewards for
prisoners, but none for scalps. The attempt to
lay some restraint upon the mode of warfare,
adopted by the savages, is honorable to the
humanity of Burgoyne ; but it may not be easy to
justify the connection with an ally, upon whom it
was well known no effectual restraints could be
laid. He also published on June 29th, a mani
festo, intended to alarm the people of the coun
try, through which he was to march, and con
cluded it with saying : " I trust I shall stand
acquitted in the eyes of God and man in denounc
ing and executing the vengeance of the State
against the wilful outcasts. The messengers of
justice and of wrath await them in the field, and
devastation, famine, and every concomitant hor
ror, that a reluctant but indispensable prosecution
of military duty must occasion, will bar the way
to their return."
On the first of July he proceeded to Ticonder
oga, where Gen. St. Clair was stationed with
about o,000 effective rank and file, many of whom
were without bayonets. The works were exten
sive and incomplete, and required 10,000 men for
their defence. The British army was larger than
had been expected. When the investment was
almost complete, Gen. St. Clair called a council
of war, and the immediate evacuation of the fort
was unanimously advised. Preparations for the
retreat were accordingly made in the night of July
5th. Burgoyne the next morning engaged in the
pursuit, and with the grand division of the army in
gun-boats and two frigates proceeded to the falls of
Skeensborough ; but, meeting with opposition in
this place from the works wlu'ch had been con
structed, he returned to South Bay, where he
landed. He followed the Americans, however,
from Skeensborough to fort Edward on the Hud
son river, where, after conducting his army with
incredible labor and fatigue through the wilder
ness, he arrived July 30. Had he returned to
Ticonderoga, and embarked on lake George, he
might easily have proceeded to fort George,
whence there was a wagon road to fort Edward.
But he disliked the appearance of a retrograde
motion, though it would have brought him to the
place of his destination much roor.cr r.nd wilh
much less difficulty. On his approach Gen.
Schuylcr, who had been joined by St. Clair, passed
over to the west bank of the Hudson, and
retreated to Saratoga. Col. St. Leger had been
destined to reach Albany from Canada by a differ
ent route. He was to ascend the St. Lawrence
to Lake Ontario; and thence to proceed down
the Mohawk. He had accordingly reached the
head of this river, and was investing fort Schuyler,
formerly called fort Stanwix, when intelligence of
his operations was brought to Burgoyne, who per
ceived the importance of a rapid movement down
the Hudson in order to aid him in his project, and
to effect the junction of the troops. But this inten
tion could not be executed without the aid of ox
teams, carriages, and provisions. In order to pro
cure them he detached Lieut. Col. Baum with about
six hundred men to Bennington, a place about
twenty-four miles to the eastAvard of Hudson's river,
where large supplies were deposited for the north-
em American army. But Baum was defeated at
Walloon creek, about seven miles from Benning
ton, Aug. IGth, and Col. Breyman, who had ad
vanced to his assistance with about five hundred
men, was obliged to retreat. This was the first
check which the northern army received. This
disaster was followed in a few days by another ;
for St. Legcr, being deserted by his Indian allies,
who were alarmed by the approach of Gen. Arnold
and by a report of the defeat of Burgoyne, was
obliged to raise the siege of fort Schuyler in such
haste, that the artillery, with a great part of the
baggage, ammunition, and provisions fell into the
hands of the Americans. As he returned imme
diately to Canada, Burgoyne was cut off from the
hope of being strengthened by a junction, and
the American forces were enabled to concentrate
themselves in order to oppose him. Gen. Gates
arrived, to supersede Schuyler and to take the
command of the northern American army, Aug.
19th ; and his presence, with the recent events,
procured a vast accession of militia, and inspired
them with the hope of capturing the whole Brit
ish army. Burgoyne was prevented from com
mencing his march by the necessity of transport
ing provisions from fort George, and every
moment's delay increased the difficulty of pro
ceeding. Having thrown a bridge of boats over
the Hudson, he crossed that river Sept. 13th and
14th, and encamped on the heights and plains of
Saratoga. Gates immediately advanced towards
him, and encamped three miles above Stillwater.
Burgoyne was not averse to battle. He accord
ingly approached, and on the 19th the action
commenced at about three o'clock and lasted till
night, when the Americans under the command
of Arnold retired to their camp. The loss on the
part of the Americans in killed and wounded was
between three and four hundred. The loss of
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the British was about six hundred. Burgoyne
now found that the enemy, which he had to meet,
was able to sustain an attack in open plains with
the intrepidity and the spirit of veterans. As he
had given up all communication with the lakes,
he now felt the necessity of a diversion in his favor
by the British army. lie accordingly wrote upon
this subject in the most pressing manner to Sir
William Howe and Gen. Clinton ; but no effectual
aid was afforded. lie was also at this time de
serted by his Indian allies, who had been disap
pointed in their hopes of plunder, and whose
enthusiasm Avas chilled. These hordes of the
wilderness, of whom in his proclamation he
boasted, that " he had but to lift his arm and
beckon by a stretch thereof," and they would
execute his vengeance, were now " deaf to every
consideration of honor, and unmoved by any rep
resentation made to them of the distress, in which
their secession would involve him." Difficulties
thickened around him. His army was reduced to
about five thousand men, and they were limited
to half the usual allowance of provision. As the
stock of forage was entirely exhausted, his horses
were perishing in great numbers. The American
army was so much augmented, as to render him
diffident of making good his retreat.
In this exigency he resolved to examine the
possibility of advancing, or of dislodging the
Americans, and of removing them to a greater
distance, so as to favor his retreat, if he should be
under the necessity of resorting to that melan
choly expedient. For this purpose he detached
a body of 1500 men, which he led, attended by
Generals Philips, Ileidesel, and Frazer. This de
tachment, on the seventh of October, had scarcely
formed within less than half a mile of the Amer
ican intrenchments, when a furious attack was
made on its left, by the direction of Gates, who
had perceived the movements of the British.
Arnold soon pressed hard on the right under
Burgoyne, which with the loss of the field pieces
and great part of the artillery corps retreated to
the camp. The Americans followed, and assaulted
the works throughout their whole extent from
right to left. The works were actually forced
towards the close of the day, and Col. John
Brooks, who had dislodged the German reserve,
occupied the ground, which he had gained. In
this action Burgoyne lost a number of his best
officers, among whom were Gen. Frazer and Col.
Breyman, many privates killed, and two hundred
taken prisoners, with nine pieces of brass artillery
and the encampment and equipage of the German
brigade. After the disasters of the day he took
advantage of the night to change his position,
and to secure himself in the strong camp on the
heights. But apprehensive of being inclosed on
all sides, he the next evening commenced his
retreat to Saratoga, where he arrived on the morn
ing of the tenth. In his march all the dwelling-
houses on his route were reduced to ashes. This
movement had been foreseen, and a force was
already stationed in his rear to be ready to cut
off his retreat. No means of extricating himself
from difficulty was now left him, but to abandon
his baggage and artillery, and by fording the
Hudson to escape to fort George through roads
impassable by wagons. "Of this last resource he
was deprived by the precaution of Gates, who
had posted strong parties at the fords, so that
they could not be passed without artillery. In
this dilemma, when his army was reduced to about
3,500 fighting men, and there was no means of
procuring a supply of provisions, which were
almost exhausted, he called a council of war, and
it was unanimously agreed to enter into a conven
tion with Gen. Gates. The troops of Burgoyne
were at first required to ground their arms in their
encampments and yield themselves prisoners of
war; but this demand was immediately rejected,
and the American general did not think it neces
sary to insist upon the rigorous terms proposed.
The convention was signed Oct. 17th, and the
British army on the same day marched out of
their encampment with all the honors of war. It
was stipulated, that they should be permitted to
embark for England, and should not serve against
the United States during the war. The whole
number of prisoners was 5,752. Burgoyne's army
in July had consisted of upwards of 9,000 men.
The army of Gates, including 2500 sick, amounted
to 13,200.
The army of Burgoyne was escorted to Cam
bridge, where it was kept till Nov. of the follow
ing year, when congress directed its removal to
Charlotteville in Virginia. This detention of the
troops was through fear, that the convention
would be broken, and until a ratification of it by
the court of Great Britain. Burgoyne himself
had obtained permission to repair to England on
parole, where he arrived in May, 1778. He met
a very cool reception, and was denied admission
to the presence of his sovereign. He was even
ordered immediately to repair to America as a
prisoner ; but the ill state of lu's health prevented
his compliance. At length he was permitted to
vindicate his character; soon after which he
resigned his emoluments from government to the
amount of upwards of 15,000 dollars a year. In
1777 there was published at London " a reply to
his letter to his constituents," doubtless written by
Lord Sackville, the secretary of the American
department, on whom Burgoyne had thrown the
blame of the failure of the .expedition. This pam
phlet exhibits some of the peculiarities of the
style of Junius, and furnishes one of the reasons
for the belief, that Lord Sackville was the author
of the letters of Junius.
Towards the close of the year 1781, when a
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majority of parliament seemed resolved to persist
in the war, he joined the opposition, and advocated
a motion for the discontinuance of the fruitless
contest. He knew, that it was impossible to
conquer America. "Passion, prejudice, and inter
est," said he, " may operate suddenly and par
tially ; but when we see one principle pervading
the whole continent, the Americans resolutely
encountering difficulty and death for a course of
years, it must be a strong vanity and presumption
in our own minds, which can only lead us to im
agine that they are not in the right." From the
peace till his death he lived as a private gentle
man, devoted to pleasure and the muses. His
death was occasioned by a fit of the gout. He
published a letter to his constituents, 5th ed.,
1779 ; state of the expedition from Canada, 1780;
the maid of the oaks, an entertainment; bon ton,
and the heiress, a comedy, which were once very
popular, and are considered as respectable dra
matic compositions. — Stedman, I. 318-357; Mar
shall, III. 231-291, 393; Warren, II. 1-58;
Holmes, n. 269-275 ; Ramsay, II. 27-56 ; Gor
don, II. 476-490, 238-578; Annual Reg. for
1777, 141-176; for 1778-195-200; Coll. Hist.
Soc. II. 104-124 ; Junius Unmasked.
BURHANS, DANIEL, D. 1)., died at Pough-
keepsie Dec. 30, 1853, aged 90. He was at an
early period of his life an Episcopal minister in
Lanesborough.
BURKE, AEDA>TLTS, a judge of the court of
chancery in South Carolina, died March 30, 1802,
aged 59. He was a native of Galway in Ireland.
At the beginning of the Revolution he came as
a volunteer to fight for American liberty. In
1778, he was appointed a judge of the supreme
court. In 1789 he was a delegate to congress.
The establish .11 ent of the society of the Cincinnati
was opposed by him with great zeal. He died at
Charleston. He was an earnest republican ;
honest, yet eccentric; in the administration of
justice inflexibly upright. He published an ad
dress to the freemen of the State of South Caro
lina by Cassius, 1783, in which he recommended a
general amnesty ; considerations upon the order
of the Cincinnati, 1783. — Gordon, IV. 396;
Warren, ill. 288; Ramsay's S. C. l. 477.
BURKE, JOIIN DOLY, author of a history of
Virginia, was a native of Ireland and educated at
Trinity college. Coming to America in 1797, he
conducted for a short time a paper at Boston and
afterwards at New York, where he was arrested
under the sedition law. At the Boston theatre
he was made the master of ceremonies. He was
killed in a duel with Felix Coquebert, a French
man, in consequence of a political dispute, April
12, 1808. He published a history of Virginia
from its first settlement to 1804, in 3 vols. An
additional volume, the joint production of Mr.
Jones and Mr. Girardin, was published in 1816.
He published also Bunker Hill, a tragedy ;
Bethlem Gabor, an historical drama, 1803; an
oration, delivered March 4, 180«S.
BURXABY, ANDREW, a clergyman, published
Travels through the middle settlements of North
America in 1759 and 1760, 4to. 1776.
BURNAP, JACOB, D. D., first minister of Mer-
rimac, N. II., died Dec. 26, 1821, aged 73. He
was born in Reading, Mass., Nov. 2, 1748, and
was a descendant of Isaac, who died 1667. After
graduating at Harvard college in 1770, he studied
theology with Thomas Haven, of Reading, a man
of profound erudition, of great mildness and gen
tleness, and of remarkable patience under severe
trials, whose example taught his pupils much of
the spirit of religion. The church of Merrimac
was constituted Sept. 5, 1772, and Mr. Burnap,
was ordained Oct. 14th. After a ministry of
nearly fifty years he died. By his second wife,
Elizabeth, sister of Gov. John Brooks, who died
in 1810, he had thirteen cliildren. Two of his
sons graduated at Harvard college. "With a sound
judgment and vigorous powers, he diligently stud
ied the Scriptures in the original languages. In
his sentiments he escaped the extremes of ortho
doxy and liberality. In his disposition he was
kind and catholic. He published an oration on
independence, 1808, and the following sermons:
at a fast, 1799; at the election, 1801; on the
death of S. Chandler, 1806; of II. M. Davidson,
1808 ; of R. Parker, 1809 ; of Sarah, Samuel, and
Joanna Spaulding, 1815; of J. Kidder, 1818; at
the thanksgiving, 1811; at Merrimac, 1819, and
Dec. 20, 1820, two centuries from the settlement
of N. E.— Farmer's Collect. II. 76-79.
BURNET, WILLIAM, governor of several of
the American colonies, died Sept. 7, 1729. He
was the eldest son of the celebrated Bishop
Burnet, and was born at the Hague in March,
1688. He was named William after the Prince
of Orange, who stood his godfather. Previously
to his coming to this country, he possessed a con
siderable fortune ; but it had been wrecked in the
South Sea scheme, which reduced many opulent
families to indigence. In the year 1720 he was
appointed governor of New York and New Jersey
in the place of Robert Hunter, who succeeded
Mr. Burnet as comptroller-general of the accounts
of the customs, a place worth 1200 hundred
pounds per annum. He arrived at New York
and took upon him the government of that
province Sept. 17, 1720. lie continued in this
station till his removal in 1728. None of his pre
decessors had such extensive and just views of the
Indian affairs, and of the dangerous neighborhood
of the French, whose advances he was fully de
termined to check. He penetrated into their
policy, being convinced from their possessing the
main passes, from their care to conciliate the
natives, and from the increase of their settlements
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in Lousiana, that the British colonies had much
to fear from their arts and power. In his first
speech to the assembly he expressed his appre
hensions and endeavored to awaken the suspicion
of the members. Agreeably to his desire, an act
was passed at the first session, prohibiting the sale
of such goods to the French, as were suitable for
the Indian trade. This was a wise and necessary
measure ; for, by means of goods, procured from
Albany and transported to Canada by the Mo
hawk and lake Ontario, the French were enabled
to divert the fur trade from the Hudson to the St.
Lawrence, and to corrupt the fidelity of the Indian
allies. But, wise and necessary as this measure
was, a clamor was raised against it by those, whose
interests were affected. The governor, however,
was not prevented from pursuing his plans for the
public welfare. He perceived the importance of
obtaining the command of lake Ontario, in order
to frustrate the project of the French for establish
ing a chain of forts from Canada to Louisiana, so
as to confine the English colonies to narrow limits
along the seacoast. For this purpose he began
the erection of a trading-house at Oswego, in the
country of the Seneca Indians, in 1722. In this
year there was a congress at Albany of the sev
eral governors and commissioners on the renewal
of the ancient friendship with the Indians; and
Governor Burnet persuaded them to send a mes
sage to the eastern Indians, threatening them with
war, unless they concluded a peace with the Eng
lish, who had been much harassed by their fre
quent irruptions.
Another circumstance, in addition to the act
above mentioned, increased the disaffection of the
people to the governor. As he sustained the office
of chancellor, he paid great attention to its duties.
Though he was not a lawyer, he in general trans
acted the business, which was brought before
him, with correctness and ability. He had, how
ever, one failing, which disqualified him for a
station, that sometimes required a patient appli
cation of mind. His decisions were precipitate.
He used to say of himself, " I act first, and think
afterwards." As some cases were brought before
him, in which the path of justice was not so plain
as to be instantly seen, and as the establishment
of the court itself without the consent of the
assembly was considered as a grievance, Mr.
Burnet saw a strong party rise against him. His
services were overlooked and his removal became
necessary. Such was his disinterested zeal in
prosecuting his plan of opposition to the French,
that after they had built a large storehouse and
repaired the fort at Niagara in 1726, he in the
following year, at his own expense, built a fort at
Oswego for the protection of the post and trade.
This was a measure of the highest importance to
the colonies. In the government of New Jersey,
wliich he enjoyed at the same time with that of
New York, no event of interest took place. In
the session of the assembly, in the year 1721, a
bill was introduced, which was supposed to have
originated with the governor, entitled, " an act
against denying the divinity of our Saviour Jesus
Christ, the doctrine of the blessed Trinity, the
truth of the holy Scripture, and spreading atheis
tical books;" but it was rejected.
Mr. Burnet was succeeded in his governments
by John Montgomerie, to whom he delivered the
great seal of the province of New York, April 15,
1728. He left New York with reluctance, for by
his marriage with the daughter of Vanhorne he
had become connected with a numerous family,
and he had formed a strict intimacy and friendship
with several gentlemen of learning and worth.
Being appointed governor of Massachusetts and
New Hampshire, he reached Boston July 13, 1728,
and was received with unusual pomp. In his speech
to the assembly, July 24, he made known his in
structions to insist upon a fixed salary, and ex
pressed his intention firmly to adhere to them.
Thus the controversy, which had been agitated
during the administration of his predecessor,
Shute, was revived. On the one hand it was
contended, that if the support of the governor
depended upon an annual grant, he would be laid
under constraint, and would not act with the
necessary independence and regard to the rights
of the king. On the other hand it was asserted,
that the charter gave the assembly a full right to
raise and appropriate all moneys for the support
of government, and that an honorable support
would always be afforded to a worthy chief magis
trate, without rendering him completely inde
pendent of the people, whose interests he is
bound to promote. The governor pursued the
controversy with zeal, but without success ; and
opposition had an evident effect upon his spirits.
A violent cold, occasioned by the oversetting of his
carriage upon the causeway at Cambridge, when
the tide was high, was followed by a fever, which
terminated his life. He left two sons and a
daughter. He was succeeded by Mr. Belcher.
Gov. Burnet was a man of superior talents, and
in many respects of an amiable character. His
acquaintance with books and his free and easy
manner of communicating his sentiments made
him the delight of men of letters. His library
was one of the richest private collections in
America. His right of precedence in all com
panies rendered him the more excusable in indulg
ing his natural disposition by occupying a large
share in the conversation. To the ladies he made
himself peculiarly agreeable. In his conduct as a
governor he discovered nothing of an avaricious
spirit, though in order to procure supplies for his
family he exceeded the bounds of the law in de
manding fees of masters of vessels. His contro
versy with the assembly respected not the amount
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of his salary, but only the manner in which it
should be secured to him. In his disposal of pub
lic offices he was sometimes generous, though he
usually preferred those who would favor his
cause, and displaced some who opposed him. He
removed from his posts Mr. Lynde, a member of
the house, whose integrity and talents were un
questioned, merely because he would not vote for
a compliance with the instructions given to the
governor. By this measure he lost many of his
friends. It is, however, highly to the honor of
Mr. Burnet, that an immoral or unfair character
was in his view a complete exclusion from office ;
and upon this principle only he once gave his
negative to the election of a member of the
council.
With regard to his religion, he firmly believed
the truth of Christianity, but he seems not to have
possessed all the seriousness, which would have
been honorable to his character, nor that constant
sense of obligation to the Giver of all good, which
the Christian should feel. Being invited to dine
with an aged gentleman, who had been a senator
under the old charter, and who retained the cus
tom of saying grace sitting, he was asked, Avhcther
it would be more agreeable to his excellency, that
grace should be said sitting or standing. The
governor replied, " Standing or sitting, any way
or no way, just as you please." Another anec
dote is the following. One of the committee, who
went from Boston to meet him on the bordei's of
Rhode Island, was the facetious Col. Tailer. Bur-
net complained of the long graces which were
said by clergymen on the road, and asked when
they would shorten. Tailer answered, " The
graces will increase in length till you come to
Boston; after that they will shorten till you come
to your government of New Hampsliire, where
your excellency will find no grace at all." The
governor, though the son of a bishop, was not
remarkable for his exact attendance upon public
worship. Mr. Ilutchinson, one of his successors,
who had a keener sense of what was discreet, if
not of what was right, thinks, that he should have
conformed more to the customs and prejudices of
New England. But he had no talent at dissimu
lation, and his character presented itself fully to
view. He did not appear better than he really
was. He sometimes wore a cloth coat lined with
velvet ; it was said to be expressive of lus char
acter. By a clause in his last will he ordered his
body to be buried in the nearest churchyard or
burying-ground, as he had no attachment to par
ticular modes and forms.
He published some astronomical observations
in the transactions of the royal society, and an
essay on Scripture prophecy, wherein he endeav
ored to explain the three periods contained in
the twelfth chapter of Daniel, with arguments
to prove, that the first period expired in 1715.
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This was published 1724, 4to., pp. 1G7. — Smith
Hist, N. Y. 151-173, ed. in 4to. ; Ilutcldnson, n.
332-366 ; Belknap, II. 93-95 ; Marshall, I. 290-
299, 306; Caiman's Life, 196; Johnson's Life,
41, 42; Minot, I. 6lj 2F. E. Weekly Journal,
Sept. 15, 1729.
BURNET, MATTHIAS, D. D., Episcopal minis
ter at Norwalk, Conn., graduated at Princeton in
1764 and died in 1806, aged about 55. He pub
lished reflections upon the season of harvest, and
evidences of a general judgment, two sermons in
American preacher, II, III.
BURNET, JACOB, Judge, died at Cincinnati,
May 10, 1853, aged 84. A native of Newark,
N. J., he graduated at Princeton in 1791, visited
Ohio in 1795, and settled at Cincinnati in 1796.
He was a senator of the U. S., and a judge of the
supreme court of Ohio. One of the founders of
Ohio, he lived to see the few early settlers of Cin
cinnati increased to one hundred and tliirty
thousand. At the age of 80 he walked the
streets erect, and he was yet interesting by his
colloquial powers. Washington was a guest in
his father's house. He retired from the practice
of law in 1816, but was a judge of the supreme
court of Ohio, 1821-1828; then a senator of the
U. S. By the early purchase of lands he acquired
a fortune of a half a million or more. He pub
lished, in 1847, Notes on the Northwestern Ter
ritory, instructive and very interesting.
BURNETT, WALDO J., M. D., died in Boston
July 1, 1854, aged 25, a physician and naturalist,
author of several tracts on medical subjects.
BURNHAM, JOHN, major, died in Derry, N. H.
in 1843, aged 96 : he fought at Bunker Hill.
BURNHAM, LYDIA, Mrs., died in Groton, Vt.,
Feb. 12, 1852, aged 104 years and 9 months. Her
third husband died in 1804.
BURNHAM, ABRAHAM, D. I)., died at Pem
broke, N. H., Sept. 20, 1852, aged 77. He was
a graduate of Dartmouth in 1804. His character
is described in the Recorder, Oct. 7. He published
a .sermon at ordination of A. W. Burnham, 1821.
BURNSIDE, SAMUEL M., died at Worcester
July 29, 1850, aged 67. A native of Northum
berland, and a graduate of Dartmouth of 1805, he
studied law, and was a literacy man and a friend
of learning^ and a useful citizen. He married a
daughter of Dwight Foster. He published an
oration 1813, and a memoir of J. Thomas in
Archncol. Am., n.
BURR, JONATHAN, minister of Dorchester,
died Aug. 9, 1641, aged 37. He was born at
Redgrave in Suffolk, England, about the year
1604. He gave early indications of an inquisi
tive, studious, and pious mind. While he was
much attached to books, the Bible was peculiarly
his delight, and by means of its instructions,
which were familiar to him from childhood, he
was made wise to salvation. Hence he was con-
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scientious in secret prayer; his whole deportment
was guarded and serious; and his Sabbaths were
entirely occupied in the exercises becoming a day
of holy rest. His pious parents observed with
satisfaction the promising disposition of their son;
and being desirous to consecrate him to the ser
vice of God and his church, determined to bestow
upon him a learned education. He was accord
ingly sent to the university, where he continued
three or four years, when the course of his aca
demical studies was interrupted by the death of
his father. Being compelled by this melancholy
event to retire into the country, he undertook the
instruction of a school ; but he still pursued with
unabating ardor his design of accomplishing him
self in the various branches of knowledge. The
awful providence of God, he would remark, by
which he was precluded from those employments
and honors in the university, of which he was
very fond, produced an effect, for which he had
reason to admire the Divine wisdom. It promoted
in him a humility and seriousness, which rendered
him more fit for the great work of turning many
to righteousness.
After having preached for some time at Horn
ing, near Bury in Suffolk, he was called to take
the charge of a congregation at Rcckingshal in
the same county. Here he approved himself a
faithful minister of the gospel. By an explicit
and solemn covenant he obligated himself to the
most conscientious discharge of the high duties,
devolved upon him. He often and earnestly
prayed, that whatever he preached to others, he
might preach from his own experience. Yet he
not unfrequently lamented to his friends, " alas ! I
preach not what I am, but what I ought to be."
Being silenced in England, with many others, for
resisting the impositions of the prclatical party,
and apprehending that calamities were in store
for the nation, he came to New England in 1639,
with his wife and three children, willing to forego
all worldly advantages, that he might enjoy the
ordinances of the gospel in their purity. He was
admitted a member of the church in Dorchester
under the pastoral care of Richard Mather, Dec.
21. He was in a short time invited to settle as a
colleague with Mr. Mather in the ministry ; but
before accepting the invitation a misunderstand
ing arose, which made it necessary to ask the
advice of the neighboring churches. A council
was accordingly called Feb. 2, 1G40, consisting of
Governor Winthrop and another magistrate and
ten ministers. Four days were spent in examin
ing and discussing the affair. It appeared, that
Mr. Burr had been suspected of some errors, and,
being directed to give his opinion in writing to
Mr. Mather, the latter had reported the excep
tionable expressions and the erroneous sentiments
to the church, without alluding to the qualifica
tions which they might receive from other parts
of the writing. These errors Mr. Burr disclaimed.
The council declared, that both these good men
had cause to be humbled for their failings, and
advised them to set apart a day for reconciliation.
This was accordingly done. The spirit of meek
ness and love triumphed, the mutual affection of
the ministers was restored, and the peace of the
church was happily re-established. Mr. Burr,
whose faith had been somewhat shaken, by means
of the discussion was confirmed in the truth, and
he humbled himself with many tears. He and
his family were in this year taken sick with the
small pox, which, as inoculation was not practised,
was a very dangerous disorder; but he happily
recovered. On this occasion he renewed the ded
ication of himself to God, resolving to act only for
liis glory and the good of his brethren, and not
to be governed by selfishness ; to live in humility
and with a sense of his complete dependence upon
Divine grace ; to be watchful over his own heart
lest his reliance should be transferred from the
Creator to the creature ; to be mindful, that God
heareth prayer ; and to bend his exertions with
more diligence for the promotion of pious affec
tions in himself and in his family. He lived after
wards answerably to these holy resolutions. The
most experienced Christians in the country found
his ministry and his whole deportment breathing
much of the spirit of a better world. The emi
nent Mr. Hooker, once hearing him preach, re
marked, " Surely this man will not be long out of
heaven, for he preaches as if he were there
already."
Mr. Burr was esteemed both in England and in
this country for his piety and learning. His mod
esty and self-diffidence were uncommonly great.
He could with difficulty imagine, that perform
ances such as his could be productive of any
good. Yet he was sometimes most happily dis
appointed. Having been by much importunity
prevailed on to preach at a distance from home,
he returned, making the most humiliating reflec
tions on his sermon. " It must surely be of
God," said he, " if any good is done by so un
worthy an instrument." Yet this sermon was
instrumental in the conversion of a person of
eminence, who heard it, and whose future life
manifested that he was a Christian indeed. It
was his custom on the Sabbath, after his public
labors, to retire to his closet, where he suppli
cated forgiveness of the sins which had attended
his performances, and implored the Divine blessing
upon them. He then spent some hours in praying
with his family and instructing them in the great
truths of religion. When he was desired to relax
his excessive exertions to do good, lest he should
be exhausted, he replied : " It is better to be worn
out with the work, than to be eaten out with
rust." lie began each day with secret prayer.
He then careildly meditated on a chapter of the
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Bible, which he afterwards, at the time of domes
tic worship, expounded to his family and such
neighbors as wished to be present. A similar
course he pursued at evening. lie generally
spent some time after dinner in praying with his
wife. Immediately before retiring to rest, he
employed half an hour in recollecting and con
fessing the sins of the day, in grateful acknowl
edgments of Divine mercies, and in supplications
to be prepared for sudden death. Previously to
each celebration of the Lord's supper he kept
with his wife a day of fasting and prayer, not
merely as a preparative for that sacred ordinance,
but as a season for imploring the blessing of God
on his family and neighborhood. Absence from
home was irksome to him, particularly as it de
prived him of those opportunities of holding
intercourse with Heaven on which he placed so
great a value. But when he journeyed with his
friends, he did not fail to edify them by profitable
conversation ; especially by instructive remarks on
such objects and occurrences as presented them
selves to his attention. In the recollection of
these scenes he was accustomed to inquire, what
good had been done or gained, what useful exam
ples seen, and what valuable instructions heard.
While he was indefatigable in his ministerial
work, he was not anxious for any other reward
than what he found in the service itself. If any,
who hoped that they had received spiritual benefit
through his exertions, sent him expressions of
their gratitude, he would pray that he might
not have his portion in these things. Nor was
he backward to remind his grateful friends, that
whatever good they had received through him,
the glory should be ascribed to God alone. It
was in preaching the gospel that he found his
highest enjoyment in life. In proportion to the
ardor of his piety was the extent of his charity.
He sincerely loved his fellow men, and while their
eternal interests pressed with weight on his heart,
he entered with lively sympathy into their tempo
ral afflictions. Rarely did he visit the poor with
out communicating what was comfortable to the
body, as well as what was instructive and salutary
to the soul. When he was reminded of the im
portance of having a greater regard to his own
interest, he replied : " I often think of those words :
' lie that soweth sparingly shall reap sparingly.' "
For the general interests of religion in the world
he felt so lively a concern, that his personal joys
and sorrows seemed inconsiderable in comparison.
He was bold and zealous in withstanding every
thing which brought dishonor on the name of
God ; but under personal injuries he was exem-
plarily meek and patient. When informed that
any thought meanly of him, his reply was : " I
think meanly of myself, and therefore may well be
content that others think meanly of me." When
charged with what was faulty, he remarked : " If
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men see so much evil in me, what does God
see?"
In his last sickness he exhibited uncommon
patience and submission. He was perfectly re
signed to the will of God. Just before his death,
as his faith was greatly tried, and he endured a
sharp conflict, a person who was standing by re
marked : " This is one of Satan's last assaults ;
he is a subtle enemy, and would, if it were possi
ble, deceive the very elect." Mr. Burr repeated
the expression, " If it were possible ; " and added,
" but, blessed be God, there is no possibility."
He then requested to be left alone for prayer.
But seeing the company reluctant to depart, he
prayed in Latin as long as he had strength. He
then called for his wife, and steadfastly fixing his
eyes upon her, said, " Cast thy care upon God,
• for he careth for thce." He soon afterwards ex-
! pired. He left four children. His sons were
Jonathan, John, and Simon ; the former gradu
ated at Harvard college in 1651, was a physician
in Hingham, and died in Canada in 1690. His
widow, Frances, married Richard Dummer, with
whom she lived happily nearly forty years. — Ma
ther's Magn., m. 78-81; Panoplist, Sept. 1808;
Savage's Winthrop, II. 22; Harris' Hist, of Dor
chester in Coll. Hist. Soc. IX. 173-175.
BURR, PETER, chief justice of Connecticut, died
in 1724, aged about 54. He was the grandson of
Jonathan, and graduated at Harvard in 1690.
He was appointed judge in 1711, and chief jus
tice in 1723. His son, Rev. Isaac B., was a grad
uate of Yale in 1717, and died in 1751.
BURR, AAROX, president of New Jersey col
lege, died Sept. 24, 1757, aged 41. He was a
native of Fairfield, in Connecticut, and was born
Jan. 4, 1716. His ancestors for a number of
generations had lived in that colony, and were
persons of great respectability. His father was
Daniel, of Fairfield, a descendant of John, of
Springfield and Fairfield. He was graduated at
Yale college in 1735. In 1742 he was invited to
take the pastoral charge of the Presbyterian
church at Newark in New Jersey. Here he be
came so eminent as an able and learned divine
and an accomplished scholar, that in 1748 he was
unanimously elected president of the college,
which he was instrumental in founding, as suc
cessor to Mr. Dickinson. The college was re
moved about this time from Elizabethtown to
Newark, and in 1757, a short time before the
death of Mr. Burr, to Princeton. In 1754 he
accompanied Mr. Whitefield to Boston, having a
high esteem for the character of that eloquent
itinerant preacher, and greatly rejoicing in the
success of his labors. After a life of usefulness
and honor, devoted to his Master in heaven, he
was called into the eternal world at a compara
tively early age.
President Burr had a slender and delicate
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frame ; yet to encounter fatigue he had a heart
of steel. To amazing talents for the dispatch of
business, he joined a constancy of mind that com
monly secured to him success. As long as an
enterprise appeared possible, he yielded to no
discouragement. The flourishing state of the
college of New Jersey was much owing to his
great and assiduous exertion. It was in a great
degree owing to his influence with the legislature,
and to his intimacy and friendship with Governor
Belcher, that the charter was enlarged in 1746.
The first class was graduated in 1748, the first
year of his presidency. When his services were
requested by the trustees of the college in soli
citing donations for the purchase of a library and
philosophical apparatus, and for erecting a build
ing for the accommodation of the students, he
engaged with his usual zeal in the undertaking,
and everywhere met with the encouragement
which the design so fully deserved. A place
being fixed upon at Princeton for the site of the
new building, the superintendence of the work
was solely committed to him. Until the spring
of 1757, when the college was removed to New
ark, he discharged the duties both of president
and pastor of a church. Few were more perfect
in the art of rendering themselves agreeable in
company. He knew the avenues to the human
heart, and he possessed the rare power of pleas
ing without betraying a design to please. As he
was free from ostentation and parade, no one
would have suspected his learning, unless his sub
ject required him to display it, and then every
one was surprised that a person so well acquaint
ed with books should yet possess such ease in
conversation and such freedom of behavior. He
inspired all around him with cheerfulness. His
arms were open to good men of every denomina
tion. A sweetness of temper, obliging courtesy,
and mildness of manners, joined to an engaging
candor of sentiment, spread a glory over his rep
utation, and endeared his person to all his ac
quaintance. Though steady to his own principles,
he was free from all bigotry. In the pulpit he
shone with superior lustre. He was fluent, co
pious, sublime, and persuasive. Having a clear
and harmonious voice, which was capable of ex
pressing the various passions ; and taking a deep
interest in his subject, he could not fail to reach
the heart. His invention was exhaustless, and
his elocution was equal to his ideas. He was not
one of those preachers who soothe their hearers
with a delusive hope of safety, who substitute
morality in the place of holiness, and yield the
important doctrines of the gospel through fear of
displeasing the more reputable sinners. He in
sisted upon the great and universal duty of repent
ance, as all were guilty and condemned by the
Divine law. He never wished to administer con
volution (III the heart was renewed and consecrated
unto God. When he saw the soul humbled, he
then dwelt upon the riches of redeeming mercy,
and expatiated upon the glories of him who was
God manifest in the flesh. It was his endeavor to
alarm the thoughtless, to fix upon the conscience
a sense of sin, to revive the disconsolate, to. ani
mate the penitent, to reclaim the relapsing, to
confirm the irresolute, and to establish the faith
ful. He wished to restore to man the beautiful
image of God, disfigured by the apostasy. His
life and example were a comment on his sermons ;
and by his engaging deportment he rendered the
amiable character of a Christian still more attrac
tive and lovely. He was distinguished for his
public spirit. Amidst his other cares he studied,
and planned, and toiled for the good of his coun
try. He had a high sense of English liberty, and
detested despotic power as the bane of human
happiness. He considered the heresy of Arius
as not more fatal to the purity of the gospel, than
the positions of Filmer were to the dignity of
man and the repose of States. But though he
had much of that patriotic spirit which is orna
mental even to a Christian minister, he cautiously
intermeddled with any matters of a political na
ture, being aware of the invidious constructions
which are commonly put upon the most unexcep
tionable attempts made by men of his profession to
promote the public welfare. He was a corre
spondent of the Scotch society for propagating the
gospel ; and he thought no labor too great in the
prosecution of an enterprise which promised to
illuminate the gloomy wilderness with the beams
of evangelical truth. Over the college he presided
with dignity and reputation. He had the most
engaging method of instruction and a singular
talent in communicating his sentiments. While
he stripped learning of its mysteries, and pre
sented the most intricate subjects in the clearest
light, and thus enriched his pupils with the treas
ures of learning, he wished also to implant in
their minds the seeds of virtue and religion. He
took indefatigable pains in regard to their reli
gious instruction ; and with zeal, solicitude, and
parental affection pressed upon them the care of
their souls, and with melting tenderness urged
the importance of their becoming the true disci
ples of the holy Jesus. In some instances his
pious exertions were attended with success. In
the government of the college he exhibited the
greatest impartiality and wisdom. Though in
judgment and temper inclined to mild measures,
when these failed, he would resort to a necessary
severity, and no connections could prevent the
equal distribution of justice. In no college were
the students more narrowly inspected and pru
dently guarded, or vice of every kind more
effectually searched out and discountenanced and
suppressed. He secured with the same ease lh-3
obedience and love of his pupils.
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The year after he took his first degree he re
sided at New Haven, and this is the period when
his mind was first enlightened with the knowledge
of the way of salvation. In his private papers he
•wrote as follows : " This year God saw fit to open
my eyes, and show me what a miserahle creature
I was. Till then I had spent my life in a dream ;
and as to the great design of my being had lived
in vain. Though, before, I had been under frequent
convictions, and was driven to a form of religion,
yet I knew nothing as I ought to know. But,
then, I was brought to the footstool of sovereign
grace ; saw myself polluted by nature and prac
tice ; had affecting views of the Divine wrath I
deserved ; was made to despair of help in myself,
and almost concluded that my day of grace was
past. It pleased God, at length, to reveal his Son
to me in the gospel, an all-sufficient and willing
Saviour, and I hope inclined me to receive him on
the terms of the gospel. I received some conso
lation, and found a great change in myself. Before
this I was strongly attached to the Arminian
scheme, but then I was made to see those things
in a different light, and seemingly felt the truth
of the Calvinian doctrines." He was unfluctu
ating in principle and ardent in devotion, raising
his heart continually to the Father of mercies in
adoration and praise. He kept his eye fixed upon
the high destiny of man, and lived a spiritual life.
The efficacy of his religious principles was evinced
by his benevolence and charity. From the grace
of God he received a liberal and generous dispo
sition, and from his bounty the power of gratifying
the desire of doing good. At the approach of
death that gospel, which he had preached to
others, and which discloses a crucified Redeemer,
gave him support. He was patient and resigned,
cheered with the liveliest hope. The king of ter
rors was disarmed of his sting.
Mr. Burr married in 1752 a daughter of Jona
than Edwards, his successor in the presidency of
the college. She died in 1758, the year after the
death of her husband, in the twenty-seventh year
of her age, leaving two children, one of whom
was Aaron Burr, afterwards vice-president of the
United States, and the other a daughter, de
ceased, who was married to Judge Reeve. Mrs.
Burr was in every respect an ornament to her
sex, being equally distinguished for the suavity of
her temper, the gracefulness of her manners, her
literary accomplishments, and her unfeigned re
gard to religion. She combined a lively imagina
tion, a penetrating mind, and correct judgment.
AVhcn only seven or eight years of age she was
brought to the knowledge of the truth as it is in
Jesus, and her conduct through life was becoming
the gospel. Her religion did not cast a gloom
over her mind, but made her cheerful and happy,
and rendered the thought of death transporting.
She left a number of manuscripts upon interesting
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subjects, and it was hoped they would Lave been
made public ; but they are now lost.
Mr. Burr published a treatise, entitled, the su
preme deity of our Lord Jesus Christ, maintained
in a letter to the dedicator of Mr. Emlyn's
inquiry; reprinted at Boston in 1791. He pub
lished a sermon at ordination of 1). Bostwick,
1745 ; a fast sermon on account of the encroach
ments of the French, Jan. 1, 1755 ; the watch
man's answer to the question, what of the night ?
a sermon, 1756; a funeral sermon on Governor
Belcher, 1757. This was preached but a few days
before his own death, and his exertions in a very
feeble state of health to honor the memory of a
highly respected friend, it is thought, accelerated
his end. — Livingston's Fun. Eulogy; Smith's
Serm. and Pref. to Burr's Serm. on Belcher;
Miller, II. 345 ; Edward's Life, app. ; Green's
Disc. 300-313; Savage's Winthrop, 11, 22.
BURR, HENRY, of N. J., died about the year
1772, making provision for the emancipation of
all lu's slaves, the eldest at his death, and the
younger as they reached a suitable age. Peter
AVhite of Haddonfield, who married a daughter of
Burr, and died about 1744, also emancipated his
slaves. These were the two earliest instances of
emancipation. — Mass. Hist. Coll. s. s. VIII. 187.
BURR, AARON, vice-president of the United
States, died at Staten Island Sept. 14, 1836, aged
80. He was born at Newark Feb. 6, 1756, the
son of President Burr, and grandson of President
Edwards. His father died in 1757, and his mother
in 1758. His sister, Sarah, married Judge Reeve
of Litchfield. He was graduated at Princeton
in 1773. In 1775, at the age of nineteen, he
joined the army at Cambridge, and accompanied
Arnold in his expedition against Quebec. In
1776 he was invited to join the family of AVashing-
ton, but soon lost his confidence. In 1779, bear
ing the rank of lieutenant-colonel, he retired from
military life. He commenced the practice of law
at Albany in 1782, but soon removed to New York.
From 1791 to 1797 he was a member of the sen
ate of the United States, attached to the demo
cratic party. He and Mr. Jefferson had each
seventy-three votes for president in 1 800 ; con
gress on the thirty-sixth ballot elected Jefferson
president, and Burr vice-president. July 12,
1804, he mortally wounded Hamilton in a duel.
Arrested for treason, he was tried at Richmond in
Aug., 1807, and acquitted. For the rest of his
life he resided chieffy in New York, living in ob
scurity and neglect. Left in infancy without a
father or mother, he never imitated their virtues,
but was a most unprincipled, licentious, profligate
man. His biographer, Mr. Davis, has stamped
his character with infamy.
BURR, JOSEPH, a philanthropist, died at Man
chester, Vt., without a family, April 14, 1S28,
aged 56, bequeathing more than 90,000 dollars tp
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various objects of charity. He bequeathed for
foreign missions 17,000 dollars, 15,000 to the
Bible society, 12,000 to Middlebury college, 10,-
000 to the American home missionary society,
5,000 to the tract, colonization, and Vermont mis
sionary societies each, 5,000 to the parish in
Manchester, 3,000 to an education society, 1,000
to Dartmouth and "Williams colleges each, 10,000
for a public seminary of learning in Manchester.
He bequeathed these thousands of dollars, be
sides bestowing a large amount of property upon
his relatives. With a small patrimony he had
acquired his estate by his unfailing judgment and
prudence. He was the banker of his region. He
was honorable and conscientious. With correct
religious views and a moral deportment, he yet
avowed no hope of a spiritual renovation, until a
short time before his death. On his last morning
he said, " I think I am waiting for the coming of
my Lord." — Missionary Herald, xxiv. 226.
BURR, JONATHAN, minister of Sandwich, died
Aug. 2, 1842, aged 85. A graduate of Harvard
in 1784, he succeeded A. Williams in 1787, and
was dismissed Dec. 25, 1818. He was a faithful
minister, receiving three hundred and thirty-five
members into his church ; in one year one hundred
and fourteen. He was also a useful teacher of
youth ; respected and beloved. He may be re
garded as the founder of Sandwich academy.
BURR, MARY, the last of the Punkapaug In
dians, died at Canton, Mass., Nov. 1, 1852, aged
101 years. There are many half and quarter
bloods left of the tribe ; not one full blood.
She married a colored man, Semore Burr, and
had many children. She had a pension for her
husband's services in the Revolutionary Avar.
Eliza Williams, her sister, died in 1848 at Stough-
ton, also aged 101 years. Another sister, Han
nah Nuff, died at Canton, aged 99.
BURRILL, JOHN, speaker of the house of rep
resentatives of Mass., sustained this office for
many years during the administration of Gov.
Shute, and acquitted himself in it with great rep
utation. He was distinguished for lu's great in
tegrity, his acquaintance with the forms of par
liamentary proceedings, the dignity and authority
with which he filled the chair, and for the order
and decorum, which he maintained in the debates
of the house. In the year 1720 he was chosen a
member of the council. He died of the small
pox at Lynn, Dec. 10, 1721, aged 63. Besides
sustaining the offices above mentioned, he was
also one of the judges of the county of Essex.
To his other accomplishments there was added
an exemplary piety. The morning and evening
incense of prayer to God ascended from his family
altar. — Henchman's Funeral Sermon ; Ilutcli-
insori's Hist, of Mass. II. 234.
BURRILL, JACOB, major, died at Newbury in
1821, aged 83, a soldier in the French and Revo
lutionary wars. In the battle of Bunker Hill he
cautioned his fellows to take good aim.
BURRILL, JAMES, a senator, was the son of
James B., of Providence, R. I., died Dec. 25,
1820, aged 49. He was born about 1771. lie
was the descendant of George Burrill, an early
settler and wealthy farmer of Lynn, Mass., who
died in 1653. The genealogy is traced by Mr.
Farmer in his register. He was graduated at
Brown university, 1788. Having studied law, he
was for many years attorney-general of the State,
a member and speaker of the assembly, and chief
justice. He succeeded Mr. Howell in the senate
of the United States in 1816, and died at Wash
ington. He entered earnestly into the debate
concerning the admission of Missouri into the
Union, vindicating the cause of freedom, only a
few days before his death. His wife, Sarah, sister
of J. L. Arnold, died in 1814. Two daughters
were married in 1821 to Geo. Curtis and Win. R.
Greene. — Farmer's Genealogical Register.
BURROUGHS, GEORGE, one of the victims of
the witchcraft delusion in 1692, was executed
Aug. 19. He was graduated at Harvard college
in 1670, and in 1676 was a preacher at Falmouth,
now Portland, Maine. When the place was at
tacked by the Indians Aug. 11, he escaped to
Bang's Island. He succeeded Mr. Bayley as a
preacher at Salem village, in Nov., 1680. In
1683, in consequence of some dispute, he returned
to Portland, where he held two hundred acres of
land, which the people had some years before
given to him as their minister ; of this he relin
quished at their request one hundred and seventy
acres, and in a very disinterested spirit offered to
give them twenty acres more, if they wished,
without receiving, what they had offered, one
hundred acres " further off." His character stood
unimpeached. After the town was destroyed by
the Indians in 1690, he returned to Salem village,
or Danvers. In 1692 he was accused of witch
craft, and was brought to trial Aug. 5th. In his
indictment it was stated, that by his wicked arts,
one Mary Wolcott " was tortured, afflicted, pined,
consumed, wasted, and tormented." The evidence
against him was derived principally from the tes
timony of the afflicted persons, as those were
called who were supposed to be bewitched, and
from that of the confessing witches. The spectre
of a little, black-haired man, it was testified, had
inflicted cruel pains, and appeared as a head con
juror. Two of his wives had appeared to the
witnesses, saying that he was the cause of their
death, and threatening, if he denied it, that they
would appear in court. Accordingly, during his
trial the afflicted persons were thrown into a par
oxysm of horror by the spectres of his wives, who
were mindful of their engagement. The confess
ing witches affirmed, that he had attended witch
meetings with them, and compelled them to the
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snares of witchcraft. lie was also accused of|
performing such feats of extraordinary strength, '
as could not be performed without diabolical as
sistance, such as carrying a barrel of molasses
through a difficult place, from a canoe to the
shore, and putting his fore-finger into the muzzle
of a large gun, and holding it out straight. He
pleaded his innocence ; but it was in vain. lie
had excited prejudices against him, while he lived
in Salem, and he was now doomed to suffer with
many others through the infatuation which pre
vailed. At his execution he made a speech, as
serting his innocence, and concluded his dying
prayer with the Lord's prayer, probably to vindi
cate his character, as it was a received opinion,
that a witch could not repeat the Lord's prayer,
without mistake. This last address to heaven
•was uttered with such composure and fervency of
spirit, as drew tears from the spectators. — Need's
N. E. n. 130-134, 144 ; Hutchinson, II. 37, 56 ;
Coll. Hist. Soc. VI. 265, 268; Sullivan's Hist.
Maine, 209-212; CaleJ's more Wonders of Inv is.
World, Pref., and 103, 104 ; Maine Hist. Coll.
I. 141, 174.
BURROUGHS, EDEN, died of the spotted
fever at Hartford, Vt., May 22, 1813, aged 75.
Born at Stratford, Conn., he graduated in 1757
at Yale, was settled over the third church in
Killingsly in 1760. and at E. Hanover, N. II.,
in 1775, where his labors were greatly blessed.
For forty years he was a trustee of Dartmouth.
BURROUGHS, STEPHEN, son of the preceding,
died at Three Rivers in Canada, Jan. 28, 1840.
His strange course of villainy made him notorious
through the country. He pubh'shcd lu's own
memoirs.
BURROWS, WILLIAM, a naval officer, died
Sept. 5, 1813. He was born at Kenderton, near
Philadelphia, Oct. 6, 1785. To the grief of his
father, Col. Burrows of the marine corps, he
early indicated a passion for the naval service.
A midshipman's warrant was obtained in 1799.
In subsequent years he served on board of dif
ferent ships ; in 1803 he was under Preble in
the Tripolitan war; in 1807 he enforced the
embargo in the Delaware. In 1812 he made
" a voyage to India on his private affairs. Ap
pointed to the command of the sloop-of-war, En
terprise, he sailed from Portsmouth, and on Sun
day Sept. 5, 1813, fell in with lu's Britannic
majesty's brig, the Boxer, off Portland, between
Seguin and cape Elizabeth. After an action of
forty-five minutes the Boxer was captured, her
commander, Blyth, being killed by a cannon-ball.
At the first fire, Lieut. Burrows was wounded by
a musket-ball, but refused to be carried below.
When the sword ®f his enemy was presented to
him, he exclaimed, clasping his hands, " I am
satisfied — I die contented." He died at twelve
o'clock at night. For his gallantry, congress
voted a gold medal to his nearest male relative.
The two commanders were honorably buried in
Portland on the 9th. Lieut. Burrows was cold
and reserved in his manners ; yet he had an irre
sistible vein of wit and humor. His master pas
sion was the love of glory ; and a momentary
flush of triumph soothed the anguish of his last
hours. He lived hot to hear the applauses of his
countrymen. Happy are they, who seek and ob
tain the unwithering glory, the everlasting honor
of heaven. — Amer. Xav. Biog. 231-242.
BUItT, JOHN, minister of Bristol, R. I., was
graduated at Harvard college, in 1736, and was
ordained May 13, 1741. He died Oct. 7, 1775,
aged 58 years. His death was very singular.
Capt. Wallace, a British commander, had com
menced a heavy cannonade upon the town at a
time when an epidemical sickness Avas prevailing.
Those, who were able fled from the town. Mr.
Burt, though weak and sick, endeavored to escape
the impending destruction. He was afterwards
found dead in an adjacent field, supposed to have
been overcome by fatigue. No other person was
injured in the attack. His wife was the daughter
of Lieut. Gov. Wm. Ellery. His father was
Benjamin Burt, and his mother the daughter of
Rev. Mr. Cheever of Chelsea. He was a sound
divine and a venerable servant of Jesus Christ,
preaching the true doctrines of grace. — Account
of Bristol; Warren, I. 244.
BURT, FEDERAL, minister of Durham, N. H.,
died Feb. 2, 1828, aged 38. He was probably a
descendant of David Burt, an early settler of
Northampton, Mass., who had fifteen children,
lie was born at Southampton March 4, 1789.
As the new government under the federal con
stitution commenced at that time, his Christian
name is to be ascribed to that circumstance.
There are names in our country originating in
greater caprice, — as Mr. Perserved Fish, a sound
merchant of New York, and Mr. Adam Eve, who
died lately in Penn., at a great age, and Mr.
Pickled Ham of Maine, who has not yet turned
to corruption. Mr. B. was graduated at Williams
college in 1812, was ordained June 18, 1817.
Settled over a small church, his faithful labors
caused it to be greatly increased. He was an
active and intelligent minister, and his usefulness
extended to the neighboring towns. He endured
with the utmost patience a most painful disease,
obliging him to submit to the amputation, first of
a finger, and then of an arm. In this condition
he undertook to conduct the N. II. Observer,
a religious paper. Many of the editorial articles
he wrote when in extreme pain : he was exerting
an extensive, beneficial influence in the commu
nity, when he was called away from his labors. —
Chris. Mirror, Feb. 15, 1828.
BURTON, ASA, I). D., was born in Preston,
now Grisworld, Conn., in 1752, was graduated at
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Dartmouth in 1777, ordained at Thetford in 1779,
and died April 23, 1836, aged 83. In 1825 Rev.
Charles White, I). D., became his colleague, and
continued till 1831. The next year Rev. Elisha
G. Babcock became his colleague : he died in
1848, and was succeeded by Itev. Timothy F.
Clary in 1849. When Dr. B. was settled, there
were only sixteen church members. In half a
century he had admitted four hundred and ninety
members. The village is called Thetford Hill,
two miles west of a railway station on the Con
necticut Itiver. The academy has three hundred
youth of both sexes. In 1824 Dr. B.'s essays
were published, on the Taste Scheme, in opposi
tion to Emmons' Exercise Scheme. He pub
lished a sermon at the ordination of T. Clark,
1800; of C. J. Tenney, 1804; of B. White, 1811;
before the Phi Beta Kappa Soc., 1800.
BUSHE, BENJAMIN, died in Greensborough,
Vt., March 21, 1845, aged 115. He was a native
of Swanzea, Mass.
BUSHXELL, DAVID, inventor of submarine
navigation, died in 1824, aged about 70. He was
a native of Saybrook, Conn., and probably a
descendant of Henry B. of Guilford, in 1650.
He was graduated at Yale college in 1775. In
the Revolutionary war he invented a machine for
submarine navigation, by which a magazine was
to be carried to the bottom of ships, for blowing
them up, when the conductor was at a safe dis
tance. He attempted to put it in operation in
the harbor of New York, but with little success.
Great alarm however was excited among the
British ; which occasioned the humorous poetical
narrative of " the battle of the kegs," by Francis
Hopkinson. Dr. Dwight, in his " Greenfield Hill,"
speaks of Bushnell's genius, and alludes to
"His mystic vessel, plung'd beneath the wares,
Gliding through dark retreats and coral caves."
An account of this machine is contained in Sil-
liman's journal, 1820. It was under the manage
ment of Capt. Ezra Lee, a good officer, of daring
enterprise, who died at Lyme in 1821, aged 72.
At the close of the war Bushnell himself was a
captain in the army. Gen. Heath relates that,
Oct. 9, 1776, the enemy captured a sloop in the
Hudson with the machine on board, and sunk it
to the bottom, and he remarks, " its fate was
truly a contrast to its design." — Heath, 69.
BUSHNELL, MRS., wife of A. Bushnell, mis
sionary in West Africa, died Feb. 25, 1850, aged
39. She was a native of Salem, West Chester
Co., N. Y. As a teacher of the Methodist Board,
she sailed for Africa in 1837, and in 1839 married
W. Stocker, of the Methodist Mission in Liberia.
After his death she joined the Mission of the
American Board at Gaboon, and in 1845 married
Mr. Bushnell. She had gladly toiled thirteen
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years for Africa, and met death in perfect peace,
saying, " Jesus is precious, O how precious ! "
BUSHNELL, BENJAMIN, died in Saybrook,
April 28, 1855, aged 89. His brothers died,
Daniel, aged 90; Ethan, 86; Eber, 82: his
grandfather died aged 100.
BUSHNELL, CAMPBELL, a lawyer of Hudson,
and New York, died in Dec., 1839. aged 47. He
was a native of Salisbury, the son of Gideon B.
He was a member of the Mercer-street church.
His death was peaceful. To his son he said, " I
bequeath you my Bible ; take it, study it, love it."
Being asked, if he feared death, he replied —
"Death! I shall not die: I shall live the life
everlasting!" — Observer, Jan 4, 1840.
BUSHNELL, JEDEDIAII, died in Cornwall,
Vt., about 1846. He was an early and very useful
missionary in our new settlements.
BUSHYHEAD, JESSE, chief justice of the
Cherokees, received some English education, and
became a good speaker in English, an orator in
Cherokee. He was a correct interpreter and
translator.
BUSS, JOHN, a physician, officiated for many
years as a preacher of the gospel. In Sept., 1672,
a contract was made with him by the people of
Wells, Me. He preached there at least ten years.
The preachers before him were Joseph Emerson,
Jeremiah Hubbard, and Robert Payne. His suc
cessors were Percival Green, Richard Marten, Sam
uel Emery Samuel Jefferds, Gideon Richardson,
Benjamin White, and Jonathan Grecnleaf. Until
1701, no church was formed. Probably Mr. Buss
was not ordained. About 1682 he removed to
Oyster River, now Durham, N. II., where he
preached thirty-three years, and was also a prac
titioner of physic. His house and valuable library
were burnt by the Indians in 1694. He ceased
preaching about 1715, and was succeeded by
Hugh Adams, the first minister: a late minister
of Durham was Federal Burt. Mr. Buss died
in 1736, aged 95. Mr. Belknap and others erro
neously make his age 108, for in a petition to the
governor and legislature in 1718 he stated his
age as then 78. — Farmer's Reg. ; Hist. Coll., II.
291; Maine Hist. Coll I, 264; tielknap's N.H.
in. 250.
BUSSEY, BENJAMIN, died in Roxbury Jan. 13,
1842, aged 84, a soldier of the Revolution.
With a capital of ten dollars he commenced busi
ness as a silversmith in Dcdham : he became a
rich merchant in Boston, worth about 350,000
dollars, which he bequeathed after the death of
three persons to Harvard college for agricultural,
law, and divinity schools.
BUTLER, RICHARD, major-general, an officer
of the Revolutionary army, in the latter part of
the war had the rank of colonel and was distin
guished on several occasions. About 1787 he
was agent for Indian affairs in Ohio. In the
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expedition against the Indians in 1791 he accom
panied St. Clair and commanded the right wing.
Our troops, encamped a few miles from the Miami
villages, were attacked in the morning of Nov.
4th. The militia, who were in advance, were
thrown into confusion, and rushed through the
first line, commanded by Gen. Butler. The action
was now severe; the Indians lying on the ground,
and pouring a deadly fire upon the whites.
Gen. Butler, in an heroic charge with the bay
onet, drove them back three or four hundred
yards. But resistance was ineffectual. In a
short time six hundred, of the army of twelve
hundred, were killed and wounded, and the
rest at nine o'clock fled with precipitation. Gen.
Butler was wounded and carried to a convenient
place to have his wounds dressed ; but an Indian
broke in upon him and tomahawked and scalped
him, ere he himself was killed by our troops.
Major Ferguson was another victim. In one of
the charges Maj. Butler was dangerously wounded.
A son of Gen. B. distinguished himself at fort
Meigs, under Harrison, in April 1813. — Holmes,
II. 388 ; Marshall, v. 329-334.
BUTLER, THOMAS, colonel, a brave officer
during the Revolutionary war, died Sept. 7, 1805,
aged 51. He was a brother of the preceding.
Three other brothers fought in the service of their
country. In the year 1776 he was a student at
law with judge Wilson of Philadelphia ; but early
in that year he quitted his studies, and joined the
army as a subaltern. He soon obtained the com
mand of a company, in which he continued till
the close of the Revolutionary contest. He was
in almost every action, that was fought in the
middle states during the war. At the battle of
Brandywine, Sept. 11, 1777, he received the
thanks of Washington on the field of battle,
through liis aid de camp, Gen. Hamilton, for his
intrepid conduct in rallying a detachment of
retreating troops, and giving the enemy a severe
fire. At the battle of Monmouth, June 28, 1778,
he received the thanks of Wayne for defending a
defile in the face of a heavy fire from the enemy,
while Col. Richard Butler's regiment made good
their retreat. At the close of the war he retired
into private life as a farmer, and continued in the
enjoyment of rural and domestic happiness till
the year 1791, when he again took the field
against the savages, who menaced our western
frontier. He commanded a battalion in the dis
astrous battle of Nov. 4, in which his brother fell.
Orders were given by Gen. St. Clair to charge
with the bayonet, and Maj. Butler, though liis
leg had been broken by a ball, yet on horseback
led his battalion to the charge. It was with diffi
culty, that his surviving brother, Capt. Edward
Butler, removed him from the field. In 1792 he
•was continued on the establishment as major, and
in 1794 he was promoted to the rank of licut.
colonel commandant of the fourth sub-legion.
He commanded in this year fort Fayette at Pitts-
burg, and prevented the deluded insurgents from
taking it, more by his name than by his forces, for
he had but few troops. In 1797 he was named
by Washington as the officer best calculated to
command in the State of Tennessee, when it was
necessary to dispossess some citizens, who had
imprudently settled on the Indian lands. Accor
dingly, in May he marched with his regiment from
the Miami on the Ohio, and by that prudence and
good sense, which marked his character through
life, he in a short time removed all difficulties.
While in Tennessee he made several treaties with
the Indians. In 1802, at the reduction of the
army, he was continued as colonel of a regiment
on the peace establishment. The close of his life
was embittered. In 1803 he was arrested by the
commanding general at fort Adams on the Mis
sissippi, and sent to Maryland, where he was tried
by a court martial, and acquitted of all the
charges, except that of wearing his hair. He was
then ordered to New Orleans, where he arrived to
take the command of the troops Oct. 20. He
was again arrested the next month. — Louisiana
Oaz. ; Polyantlios, I. 13—17 ; Marshall, V. 332.
BUTLER, JOHN, colonel, a tory infamous for
the massacre at Wyoming, for which the name of
Brant has been unjustly branded with infamy,
removed from Connecticut and settled at Wyo
ming under a grant from that colony, though
within the bounds of Pennsylvania. Early after
the beginning of the war he espoused the cause of
the enemy. In Aug., 1777, he and Daniel Claus
signed an address to the inhabitants of Tryou
county, exhorting the people to lay down their
arms, and sent it by Walter Butler and a party
of white and red men to the German Flats. The
messenger was imprisoned for his pains. Gen.
Arnold issued a counter proclamation at German
Flats, Aug. 20th.
In 1778 there were eight townships on the
Susquehannah in the vale of Wyoming, each five
miles square, namely : Lackawana, Exeter, Kings
ton, Wilkesbarre, Plymouth, Nanticoak, Hunt-
ington, and Salem. There were one thousand
families, from which one thousand soldiers had
been furnished to the army, besides the garrisons
of four forts at Lackewana, Exeter, Kingston, and
Wilkesbarre. July 1, 1778, Col. Butler, with
about sixteen hundred men, three hundred of
whom were Indians and the rest tories painted
like Indians, approached the upper fort; and a
skirmish ensued, in which ten of the inhabitants
were killed. July 2, Exeter fort, garrisoned by to-
rics, was given up to them, and Lackawna fort was
taken. Mr. Jenkins and his family were barbar
ously killed ; and most of the women and children
were captured. July 3 he defeated Col. Zebulon
Butler and destroyed most of liis men, amounting
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to four hundred by one account and three hun
dred by another. July 4, he in vested fort Kings
ton, commanded by Col. Nathan Dennison, who
went to fort Exeter with a flag, to learn the terms
which would be granted,
plied, — " the hatchet ! "
Col. John Butler re-
The next morning,
Sunday, July 5th, Col. Dennison, his men being
nearly all killed or wounded, surrendered at dis
cretion. He was seen surrounded by the enemy,
and was doubtless murdered. Some of the pris
oners were taken away ; the rest were shut up in j
the houses, and consumed with them. The enemy
immediately crossed the river to fort Wilksbarrc,
which surrendered. About seventy of the sol
diers were inhumanly butchered ; and the rest,
with the women and children, were shut up in
the houses, which were set on fire and all per
ished. Every building, except what belonged to
lories, in all thc^e settlements was destroyed.
Capt. James Bedlock, his body stuck full of splin
ters of pine knots, was burned, and Capts. Robert
Durgce and Samuel Ranson were held down in
the fire with pitchforks. There were other hor
rors, which cannot be described. The fugitives
who escaped were many of them two or three
days without provisions.
In Sept. about one hundred houses were dcs-
troved by the enemy at German Flats. Dec. 11,
office was worth 500 pounds sterling a year ; he
had also a pension of 200 or 300 ; and had re
ceived five thousand acres of land for himself and
the same for his children. Thus was he rewarded
for his barbarities. Marshall, III. 557 ;
Trav. III. 204 ; Mass. Hist. Coll. n. 220 ; Grif
fin's Remains ; Almon's Amer. Remembrancer,
1777, p. 395; TTiaclier's Mil. Journ. 141, 294.
BUTLER, ZEBVLON, a soldier of the Revolu
tion, was one of the early settlers at Wyoming,
said to be the cousin of Col. John Butler, but this
has been recently denied by his grandson. He
fought bravely in the old Erench war. In the
war of the Revolution he was the second in com
mand at Wyoming, when that beautiful vale was
desolated by the ferocious John Butler ; he
marched July 3, 1778, from Wilkesbarre, where a
small guard was left, to the neighboring fort of
Kingston with four hundred men. On being
summoned to surrender in two hours he de
manded a parley, and a place in Kingston was
appointed for the meeting ; he proceeded thither
with his troops, and on approaching a flag, seen
at the foot of a mountain, he was drawn thus
treacherously into an ambush, and the enemy rose
upon him in great numbers. He fought bravely
three quarters of an hour, when one of his men
cried out, that he had ordered a retreat. This in-
1778, Cherry Valley was destroyed and women I terrupted their fire, and a total route ensued.
ar,d children massacred. Dr. Dwight rcpre- 1 Many were lost in the river, when endeavoring to
sents, that the party of five hundred Indians and cross it, the enemy pursuing them with fury,
whites was commanded by a son of Butler, and by | Only seventy escaped to Wilkesbarre. On this
Brant ; but the anecdote, he gives, of the death of I day two hundred women were made widoAvs.
Butler needs correction, for he was not killed till July 4, the enemy, with a summons to surrender,
a subsequent year. At this time Col. Ichabod sent one hundred and ninety-six scalps into fort
Alden, who had two hundred and fifty men in the | Kingston, where Col. Dennison commanded. In
fort, was surprised, when imprudently out of it, I the evening Col. Butler left the fort with his fam-
and killed. Of the inhabitants, one hundred and | ily and proceeded down the river in safety. Such
eighty were left without a house. Dr. Dwight j is the account, written or published at rough-
relates, that Butler on entering a house ordered keepsie July 20th, and published in Almon's Re-
a woman in bed with her infant child to be killed ;
but Brant said, " What, kill a woman and child ?
membrancer, and which was followed by Gordon,
Marshall, and others, excepting, that Marshall
No, that child is not an enemy to the king, nor a ' reduces the number escaping July 3d to twenty,
friend to the congress. Long before he will be instead of seventy. But this account of the affair
big enough to do any mischief, the dispute will be I has been recently contradicted by E. D. Griffin,
settled." Thus Brant, the red man, was the man j whose mother was the daughter of Col. Butler,
of humanity ; and the white man was the savage, j According to his statement, his grandfather was
About the middle of Oct., 1781, Capt. Walter j compelled to fight prematurely by the rash vehe-
Butler, a son of Col. Butler, Avas killed in an ac- j mence of his men, who could not brook the delay
tion on the Mohawk, when Maj. Ross and his j requisite for obtaining information concerning the
party of six hundred, of Avhom one hundred and enemy ; but, ambushed, he rode amongst his
thirty were Indians, Avere routed by Col. Willett i ranks, exposing himself with the utmost coolness
and driven into the Avildcrness. Willett had in I to the whole fire of the enemy, in the vain hope
liis army sixty Oneida Indians. On being shot ! of sustaining the courage of his men ; and of
by one of them, Butler asked for quarter ; the | three hundred only four escaped, of which num-
Indian cried out with a terrible voice, Sherry \ ber he was one. Such an incautious, rash attack
Valley ! and tomahaAvked lu'm. Thus the Avhite | of the enemy under Brant, by the troops of
savage had his retribution. Col. Butler about i Goshen, issued the next year in a similar defeat at
the year 1796 was English agent Avith reference to i Minisink ; Col. Tusten being compelled to march
the six nations, and lived in Upper Canada. This ! by the brave flourish of a subordinate officer.
BUTLER.
Col. Butler received marks of confidence from
Washington. Mr. Griffin, about the year 1816,
visited the grave of his grandfather, the patriarch
of Wyoming, and found some uncouth rhymes
chiselled on his monument. Had Thomas Camp
bell resided one winter at Wyoming, ere he wrote
his Gertrude, a beautiful poem, he never would
have associated the objects of tropical scenery
with the vale of the Susquehannah ; he never
would have made the crocodile to swim in that
river ; nor caused the red flamingo and the huge
condor of the rock to spread their wings there ;
nor planted on its banks the aloes, the high
magnolia, and the palm tree. — Almon's Amer.
Rememb. 1779, p. 51-55. Gordon, m. 188;
Thacher's Mil. Jour. 141; Marshall, ill. 557;
Griffin's Remains.
BUTLER, WILLIAM, colonel, an officer of the
Revolution, after the destruction of AVyoming by
John Butler and the Indians July 5, 1778 was
immediately detached in command, as lieut.-col.
of the fourth Pennsylvania regiment, for the as
sistance of the frontiers. He marched from
Schoharie and penetrated into the Indian country
in October with great difficulty, crossing high
mountains and deep waters, and destroyed the
towns Unadilla and Anaguaga, the latter being
the head quarters of Brant, lying on both sides
the Susquehannah, where it is two hundred and
fifty yards wide. Many farm houses and about
four thousand bushels of grain were destroyed.
His account of the expedition was published. It
is believed that he is the Col. Butler who was dis
tinguished in the expedition of Sullivan against
the Indians in 1779. — Marshall, ill. 562; Al
mon's Remem., 1779, 253.
BUTLER, WILLIAM, major-general, an officer
of the Revolution, was the son of James Butler,
who in the command of a party of whigs was
surprised and taken prisoner near Cloud's creek,
South Carolina, by a party of Cunningham's
horse, and after his surrender perished Avith the
other prisoners, who were marched out one by
one and cut to pieces. This treacherous murder,
by the hand of the royalist leader, gave a keen
edge to the spirit of the son. At the head of a
body of cavalry he, with Capt. Michael Watson of
the mounted rangers, attacked with great gal
lantry and dispersed double the number of the
enemy in Dean's swamp, though Watson fell in
the action. In 1800 he was a representative in
congress. In the war of 1812 he commanded
the forces of South Carolina, employed in the
defence of the State. He died in Edgcfield dis
trict Nov. 15, 1821, aged 67. His wife, who
survived him many years, was a remarkable wo
man. Her name was Behethland Moore. In
the necessary absence of her husband from home
the care of the family and of the plantation fell
upon her, with the chief moral training of her
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children; of whom Col. James died in 1821 ;
Maj. George at the age of 33 ; William was a
surgeon in the navy; Judge A. P. Butler was a
senator of the United States ; Col. P. M. Butler
was the governor of the State, and fell at the
head of the South Carolina troops in Mexico, one
of the many \ictims to a needless and therefore
wicked Avar. The only daughter, Emmala, mar
ried Waddy Thompson.
BUTLER, PERCIVAL, general, a soldier of the
Revolution, was Avith the army at the siege and
capture of York, Oct. 19, 1781. He died at Port
William, Kentucky, Sept. 11, 1821, aged 61.
BUTLER, PEIRCE, a senator, was of the family
of the Dukes of Ormond in Ireland. Before the
Revolution he was a major in a British regiment
in Boston. He afterwards attached himself to
the republican institutions of America. In 1787
he Avas a delegate from South Carolina to con
gress ; in 1788 a member of the convention,
Avhich framed the constitution of the United
States. Under the constitution he was one of
the first senators from South Carolina, and re
mained in congress till 1796. On the death of
Mr. Calhoun in 1802, he was again appointed ;
but resigned in 1804. In his political vieAvs he
Avas opposed to some of the measures of Wash
ington's administration. Jay's treaty he disap
proved, while he approved of the war of 1812.
He died at Philadelphia Feb. 15, 1822, aged 77.
His AAife, a daughter of Col. Middleton of Charles
ton, Avhom he married in 1768, died in 1790.
BUTLER, WILLIAM, died in Philadelphia in
June, 1838, aged 108.
BUTLER, EZRA, governor of Vermont, died
at Waterbury July 19, 1838, aged 77.
BUTLER, JAMES D., died in Rutland, Vt., in
1842, aged 76, an early settler. He served in
various offices, Avas an efficient officer of temper
ance and other charitable societies, and an emi
nent Christian.
' BUTLER, DAVID, D. D., died at Troy July
10, 1842, aged 80, the oldest Episcopal clergy
man in the State of NBAV York.
BUTLER, WILLL\M, died at Northampton
March 9, 1831, aged 68. He established one of
the earliest papers in western Massachusetts, —
the Hampshire Gazette, at Northampton Sept.
6, 1786, and conducted it nearly thirty years. It
is now the oldest paper in the AA'estern part of
the State. There Avas a paper four years sooner
in Springfield ; but it Avas soon discontinued.
There being no post-office in Northampton, he
Avas obliged to send to Springfield every week for
his neAvs. He married Huldah, a daughter of
Col. John BroAvn, distinguished in the war of the
Revolution ; and she yet sunives in venerated
old age. — Holland's West. Mass. I. 453.
BUTLER SIMEOX, an enterprising bookseller
and publisher, died in Northampton Nov. 7, 1847,
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aged 77. A native of Hartford, he had lived in
Northampton more than fifty years. He pub
lished the first volume of the Massachusetts
Reports and two or three hundred thousand other
volumes of valuable books. With his brother
Asa he established in Suffield a manufactory of
paper, and made, it is believed, the first American
letter paper used in the senate of the United
States.
BUTLER, JOSIAH, judge, died at Deerfield,
N. H., Oct. 29, 1854, aged 74. A graduate of
Harvard in 1803, he was in congress in 1817-1823,
and judge of the supreme court of New Hamp
shire in 1725.
BUTLER, CALEB, died at Lowell Oct. 7, 1854,
aged 78. A native of Pelham, N. H., he gradu
ated at Dartmouth in 1800, and was eleven years
preceptor of Groton academy, and twenty years
post-master. He published a history of Groton,
8vo. ; also a masonic oration, 1816 ; facts, etc.,
as to affairs in Groton, 1827; review reviewed,
1850. — Nightingale's Sermon,
BUTLER, CYRUS, died at Providence Aug. 22,
1849, aged 82 years. He was worth from three
to four millions of dollars. He gave some years
before his death 40,000 dollars to the Butler hos
pital for the insane in Providence. His father,
Samuel, a shoemaker from Edgartown, became
a large ship owner at Providence, and left his
son a large fortune, which he increased by fru
gality and wide commercial operations.
BUTLER, MANN, the historian of Kentucky,
was killed in Nov., 1855, by the railroad disaster
in Missouri, with Dr. Bullard and others.
BUTRICK, DANIEL, died June 8, 1851. He
was thirty years a missionary to the Cherokees.
BUTTERWORTH, CATHAKINE, Mrs., died at
Dubuque Aug. 30, 1748, aged 114, a native of
Ireland.
BUTTNER, GOTTLIEB, a Moravian missionary
to the Mohegan Indians in New York, died Feb.
23, 1745, aged 28. He arrived in this country
Oct., 1741. In the preceding year C. H. Rauch
had commenced the mission at Shekomeko, or
Shacomaco, a village of a few Mohegan . Indians,
thirty miles from Poughkeepsie, about twenty-five
miles east of the Hudson river, near the borders
of Connecticut, and close by the Stissik mountain.
In Feb., 1742, Count Zinzendorf, at Oly in Penn
sylvania, ordained Butler a deacon. The count,
with his daughter Benigny, visited Shacomaco in
August, and constituted the first Moravian con
gregation of Indians, consisting of ten persons,
among whom were Shabash, Seim, Kiop, Tschoop,
and Kermelok. Buttner, with his wife, arrived
at Shacomaco in October and entered upon his
labors, preaching in Dutch or English, and hav
ing an interpreter for the Indians. In 1742 the
number of the baptized was thirty-one. The
Lord's supper was first administered March 13,
1743, and again July 27. A monthly prayer
meeting was established, at which accounts were
read concerning the progress of the gospel in
the world. During the year 1743 Buttner expe
rienced much persecution, being summoned
several times to Poughkeepsie to answer to
charges brought against him. He was accused
of teaching without authority, and of refusing to
take the oath of allegiance, deeming an oath
unlawful. The other missionaries were soon
withdrawn from Shacomaco on account of the
persecution, and in 1746 ten families of the In
dians, in all forty-four persons, emigrated to
Pennsylvania. For them two hundred acres of
land were purchased at the junction of the rivers
Mahony and Lecha, beyond the blue mountains,
and the new town was called Gnadenhutten or
tents of grace. Other Mohegan emigrants from
Shacomaco and Connecticut soon followed. The
mission of Sergeant at Stockbridge was earlier
than this. — LoskieVs Hist. Morav. Miss., II.
58, 63.
BUTTRICK, ELIZABETH, missionary among
the Cherokees, died at Dwight Aug. 3, 1847, aged
67. She was the daughter of Jonathan Proctor
of Ipswich, Mass. Having been a teacher in
New England, she went among the Cherokees in
Georgia, as a teacher, in 1823 ; in 1827 she mar
ried Daniel S. Buttrick, who had been a mis
sionary nine years. Their labors were among
the Indians on the east side of the Mississippi
till 1838, and afterwards on the west, at Fail-field
and Mount Zion. In her last hours " all was
peaceful and joyful." She had toiled faithfully
twenty-four years among a dark-minded people.
BYFIELD, NATHANIEL, judge of the vice ad
miralty, and member of the council of Massachu
setts, died June 6, 1733, aged 79. He was the
son of Richard Byfield, pastor of Long Ditton in
Sussex, England, wrho was one of the divines in
the Westminster assembly. His mother was the
sister of Bishop Juxon. He was bom in the
year 1653, and was the youngest of twenty-one
children, sixteen of whom sometimes accompa
nied at the same time their pious father to the
house of worship. He arrived at Boston in the
year 1674. Being an eminent merchant, whose
property was very considerable, soon after Philip's
war he was one of the four proprietors and the
principal settler of the town of Bristol in Rhode
Island. He lived in this place till the year 1724,
when on account of his advanced age he returned
to Boston, where he died. He possessed very
considerable abilities, which fitted him for the
stations which he occupied. He held a variety
of offices both civil and military. He was speaker
of the house 6*f representatives ; was for thirty-
eight years chief justice of the court of common
pleas for Bristol county, and two years for Suf
folk ; was many years a member of the council ;
BYLES.
and was judge of the vice-admiralty from the
year 1703. His spirit was active and vigorous,
his courage unshaken by any danger, and his
constancy such as was not easily discouraged by
difficulties. He was well formed for the exercise
of authority, his very looks inspiring respect.
He possessed a happy elocution. He loved order,
and in his family the nicest economy was visible.
He was conspicuous for piety, having a liberal,
catholic spirit, and loving all good men, however
they differed from him in matters of small impor
tance. For forty years he constantly devoted a
certain proportion of his estate to charitable pur
poses. In one year he was known to give away
several hundreds of pounds. He had a steady
and unshaken faith in the truths of the gospel ;
and he died in the lively hope of the mercy of
God through the glorious Redeemer. He pub
lished a tract, entitled an account of the late
revolution in New England, with the declaration
of the gentlemen, merchants, and inhabitants of
Boston, £c., 1689. — Chauncy's Fun. Sermon ;
Weekly News Letter, No. 1533 ; Hutchinson, n.
211.
BYLES, JAMES, died at Oysterbay Jan., 1839,
aged about 118 ; a native of France and a soldier
under AYolfe.
BYLES, MATHER, D. D., minister of Boston,
died July 5, 1788, aged 82. He was descended
from a respectable family, and was born in that
town March 26, 1706. His father was a native
of England, and died within a year after the birth
of his son. By his mother's side he descended
from llichard Mather, of Dorchester, and John
Cotton, of Boston. In early life he discovered a
taste for literature, and he was graduated at Har
vard college in 1725. After pursuing his literary
and theological studies for some time, he com
menced preaching. He was ordained the first
pastor of the church in Hollis street, Boston,
Dec. 20, 1733. It was not long before he attained
considerable eminence in his profession, and he
became known by his publication of several pieces
in prose and verse. His poetical talents he con
sidered only as instruments of innocent amuse
ment, and never permitted them to withdraw his
attention from more serious and profitable objects.
He never attempted any great production in
verse, but sounded his lyre only in compliance
with occasional inclination. He continued to live
happily with his parish in the useful discharge of
ministerial duties until the late revolution began
to create distrust and animosity between the dif
ferent parties that existed in the country prior to
the war. Falling under the imputation of being
a tory, he was in 17 70 separated from his people
by the jealousy and violence of the times, and he
was never afterwards re-united to them. He was
accused of attachment to Great Britain. The
substance of the charges against him was, that
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he continued in Boston with his family during the
siege ; that he prayed for the king and the safety
of the town ; and that he received the visits of
the British officers. In May 1777 he was de
nounced in town meeting as a person inimical to
America ; after which he was obliged to enter
into bonds for his appearance at a public trial
before a special court on the second of June fol
lowing. He was pronounced guilty, and sentenced
to confinement on board a guard-ship, and in forty
days to be sent with his family to England. When
brought before the board of war, by whom he
was treated respectfully, his sentence seems to
have been altered, and it was directed that he
should be confined to his own house, and a guard
placed over him there. This was accordingly
done for a few weeks, and then the guard was
removed. A short time afterwards a guard was
again placed over him, and again dismissed.
Upon this occasion he observed in his own man
ner, that he was guarded, regarded, and disre
garded. He was not again connected with any
parish. In the year 1783 he was seized with a
paralytic disorder, and he died at the great age of
eighty-two years. He was twice married. His
first wife was the niece of Gov. Belcher, and his
second the daughter of Lieut.-Gov. Tailer. His
son, Mather Byles, D. D., was a minister of New
London, in Connecticut, but was dismissed in
1768, and was then an Episcopal minister several
years in Boston till the Revolution, and afterwards
at St. John's, New Brunswick, where he died
March 12, 1814. His grandson, Mather Brown,
historical and portrait painter, artist to George
IV., died at London May 25, 1831.
Dr. Byles was in person tall and well propor
tioned. He possessed a commanding presence,
and was a graceful speaker. His voice was strong,
clear, harmonious, and susceptible of various
modulations, adapted to the subject of his dis
course. He was remarkable for the abundance
-of his wit in common conversation, and for the
smartness of his repartees. He possessed an
uncommon talent in making puns, some of wliich
are at the present day frequently repeated in
social circles. His imagination was fertile, and
his satire keen. His wit was a dangerous instru
ment, in the use of which he was not always
prudent, and it is thought that he was not suffi
ciently regardful of the consequences of the severe
remarks in which he sometimes indulged himself.
His literary merit introduced him to the ac
quaintance of many men of genius in England ;
and the names of Pope, Lansdowne, and Watts
', are found among his correspondents. From the
former he received a copy of an elegant edition
of the Odyssey in quarto. Dr. Watts sent him
copies of his works, as he published them. His
poetry evinces a rich fancy, and the versification
is polished. The following extract from " the
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Conflagration " relates to the effect on the earth
of the flames of the last day :
" Yet shall ye, Flames, the wasting globe refine,
And bid the skies with purer splendor shine,
The earth, which the prolific fires consume,
To beauty burns, and withers into bloom;
Improving in the fertile flame it lies,
Fades into form and into vigor dies ;
Fresh-dawning glories blush amidst the blaze,
And nature all renews her flowery face."
In his preaching he -was generally solemn and
interesting, though sometimes his sermons gave
indications of the peculiar turn of his mind. On
being asked why he did not preach politics, he
replied : " I have thrown up four breastworks,
behind which I have intrenched myself, neither
of which can be forced. In the first place I do
not understand politics ; in the second place you
all do, every man and mother's son of you ; in
the third place, you have politics all the week,
pray let one day out of seven be devoted to re
ligion ; in the fourth place, I am engaged in a
work of infinitely greater importance. Give me
any subject to preach on of more consequence
than the truths I bring to you, and I will preach
on it the next Sabbath."
The following extracts from one of his sermons
will show what were the religious sentiments
which he embraced and enforced upon his hearers.
" We perceive," said he, " that conversion is out
of our own power. It is impossible for us to
convert ourselves, or for all the angels in heaven
to do it for us. To convince you of this, let the
natural man make the experiment. Try this
moment. Try and see whether you can bring
your hearts to this, to renounce all happiness in
everything but the favor of God ; to let God order
for you ; to have no will of your own ; to be swal
lowed up and ravished with his will, whatever it
is. Can you renounce every mortal idol ? Can
you leave this world and all the low delights of
it, and go to a world where you will have none
of them ; but the love of God will swallow you
up? These things are so far distant from an
unrenewed heart, that they look like wild para
doxes to it." "The enmity between God and
us is irreconcilable, but by Christ. Out of him
God is a consuming fire. False notions of the
Divine justice and mercy could never bring us
truly to him ; and true ones would only drive us
farther from him. So that set Christ aside, and
there can be no conversion. We learn also the
honors of the Holy Ghost. He is the agent who
performs this work. One reason, that men fall
short of this saving change, is the not acknowl
edging him as they ought. Did men regard the
operation of the Holy Spirit more, there would
be more frequent converts. Men are apt to trust
to their own strength when they set about the
work of conversion. They rob the Spirit of God
CABELL.
of his glory, and so it all comes to nothing. He
it is who makes this great change in men. He
must be the Almighty God then ; and we should
honor him as so."
He published a number of essays in the New
England weekly journal, which are marked by
one of the letters composing the word CELOIZA ;
a poem on the death of George L, and the acces
sion of George II., 1727 ; a poetical epistle to
Gov. Belcher, on the death of his lady, 173(3. A
number of his miscellaneous poems were collected
and printed in a volume, in 1744. Among the
sermons, which he published, are the following :
the character of the upright man, 1729 ; on the
nature and necessity of conversion, 1732 ; flourish
of the annual spring, 1739 ; at the artillery elec
tion, 1740 ; on setting our affections on things
above, 1740 ; before an execution, 1751 ; on Mrs.
Dummer, 1752; on William Dummer, 1761; on
J. Gould, 1772; at the lecture, 1751; on the
earthquake, 1755 ; at the thanksgiving for the
success of the British arms, 1760 ; on the present
vileness of the body and its future glorious
change, second edition, 1771. — Polyantlws, IV.
1-10 ; Spec. Amer. Poetry, I. 124-133.
BYRI), WILLIAM, colonel, a distinguished citi
zen of Virginia, died about 1743, at an advanced
age. He was a member of the council about
1682. When in 1699 about three hundred of the
persecuted French protestants arrived in the col
ony, he received them with the affection of a
father and gave them the most liberal assistance.
His generous charity to the poor foreigners is
particularly described by Beverly. He had re
ceived a liberal education in England, and was
distinguished for his h'terary taste and his patron
age of science. He had one of the largest libra
ries on the continent. In 1723 he was one of the
commissioners for establishing the line between
North Carolina and Virginia. He was a fellow
of the royal society, as were also Mather, Boyl-
ston, Dudley, Silas Taylor of Virginia, and others.
Having a large property, his munificence and his
style of living were unrivalled in the colony. He
Avrote, it is believed, the anonymous wrork, the
history of the dividing line between Virgima and
North Carolina, 1728 ; also, for the philosophical
transactions, an account of a negro boy, dappled
with white spots. A colonel Wm. Byrd, prob
ably his son, was a commissioner to treat with the
Indians in 1756, and accompanied Forbes in the
expedition against fort du Quesne in 17-58. He
was a member of the council at the beginning of
the Revolution ; but he was deceased before Jan.
5, 1781, when Arnold debarked at Westover, the
residence of his widow. — Beverly, IV. 13; Mil
ler, II. 61; Burk.
CABELL, SAMUEL J., colonel, a Revolutionary
soldier, died at his seat in Nelson county, Va.,
Sept. 4, 1818, aged 61. Being in college at the
CABELL.
beginning of the war, he joined the first armed
corps, raised in Virginia, and soon attained the
rank of lieut-colonel in the continental army,
serving with reputation in all the northern cam
paigns, till the fall of Charleston, May 12, 1780,
when he became a prisoner. The close of the
war restored liim to liberty. For many years he
was a member of the assembly, also a member
of congress.
CABELL, WILLIAM H., governor of Virginia,
died at Richmond Jan. 17, 1853. He was presi
dent of the court of appeals.
CABOT, JOHN, a Venetian, who first discov
ered the continent of America, was perfectly
skilled in all the sciences requisite to form an ac
complished mariner. He had three sons, Lewis,
Sebastian, and Sanctius, all of whom he educated
in a manner best calculated to make them able
seamen. Encouraged by the success of Colum
bus, who returned in 1493 from his first voyage,
he was determined to attempt the discovery of
unknown lands, particularly of a northwest pas
sage to the East Indies. Having obtained a
commission from King Henry VII., empowering
him and his three sons to discover unknown lands,
and to conquer and settle them, and giving him
jurisdiction over the countries which he should
subdue, on condition of paying the king one fifth
part of all the gains, he sailed from Bristol with
two vessels, freighted by the merchants of Lon
don and Bristol Avith articles of traffic, and with
about three hundred men, in May, 1497. He
sailed towards the northwest till he reached the
latitude of 58 degrees, when the floating ice and
the seventy of the weather induced him to alter
his course to the southwest. He discovered land
June 24, which, as it was the first that he had
seen, he called Prim a Vista. This is generally
supposed to be a part of the island of New
foundland, though in the opinion of some it is a
place on the peninsula of Nova Scotia, in the
latitude of 45 degrees. A few days after
ward a smaller island was discovered, to whish
he gave the name of St. John, on account of
its being discovered on the day of John the
the Baptist. Continuing his course westerly, he
soon reached the continent, and then sailed along
the coast northwardly to the latitude of 67 1-2
degrees. As the coast stretched toward the
east, he turned back and sailed toward the equa
tor, till he came to Florida. His provisions now
failing, and a mutiny breaking out among the
mariners, he returned to England Avithout at
tempting a settlement or conquest in any part of
the new world. In this voyage Cabot was accom
panied by his son Sebastian, and to them is
attributed the honor of first beholding the conti
nent of North America ; for it was not till the
following year, 1498, that the continent was seen
by Columbus. But this circumstance is of lit-
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tic importance ; for, as Irving remarks, " when
Columbus first touched the shore of the western
hemisphere, he had achieved his enterprise, he
had accomplished all that was necessary to his
fame ; the great problem was solved ; the New
World was discovered. — Relknap's Amer. Biog.
I. 149-154 ; Holmes ; 2}urcJtas, I. 737, 738 ; Rob
ertson, Book ix. 16, 17; Prince Introd. 80; Ir-
ving's Columbus.
CABOT, SEBASTIAN, an eminent navigator, the
son of the preceding, died about 1557, aged 80.
lie was born at Bristol. When about twenty
years of age he accompanied his father in the
voyage of 1497, in which the continent of the
new world was discovered. About the year 1517
he sailed on another voyage of discovery, and
went to the Brazils, and thence to Ilispaniola and
Porto Itico. Failing in his object of finding a
way to the East Indies, he returned to England.
Having been invited to Spain, where he was re
ceived in the most respectful manner by King
Ferdinand and Queen Isabella, he sailed in their
service on a voyage of discovery in April, 1525.
He visited the coast of Brazil, and entered a
great river, to which he gave the name of Rio de
la Plata. He sailed up this river one hundred
and twenty leagues. After being absent on this
expedition a number of years, he returned to
Spain in the spring of 1531. But he was not
well received. He made other voyages, of which
no particular memorials remain. His residence
was at the city of Seville. His employment in
the office of chief pilot was the drawing of
charts, on which he delineated all the new dis
coveries made by himself and others ; and, by
his office, he was entrusted with the reviewing of
all projects for discovery. His character is said
to have been gentle, friendly, and social, though
in his voyages some instances of injustice towards
the natives and of severity towards his mariners
are recorded. In his advanced age he returned
to England and resided at Bristol. He received
a pension from Edward VI., and was appointed
governor of a company of merchants, associated
for the purpose of making discoveries. He had
a strong persuasion that a passage might be found
to China by the northeast. By his means a trade
was commenced with Russia, which gave rise to
the Russian company. The last account of him
is, that in 1556, when the company were sending
out a vessel for discovery, he made a visit on
board. "The good old gentleman, master Ca-
bota," says the journal of the voyage in Hakluyt,
" gave to the poor most liberal alms, wishing
them to pray for the good fortune and prosperous
success of our pinnace. And then at the sign of
St. Christopher, he and his friends banqueted, and
for very joy, that he had to see the towardness
of our intended discover)', he entered into the
dance himself among the rest of the young and
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lusty company ; which being ended, he and his
friends departed, most gently commending us to
the governance of Almighty God." He was one
of the most extraordinary men of the age in
which he lived. There is preserved in Hakluyt
a complete set of instructions, drawn and signed
by Cabot, for the direction of the voyage to
Cathay in China, which affords the clearest proof
of his sagacity. It is supposed that he was the
first who noticed the variation of the magnetic
needle, and he published " Navigationc nelle parte
settentrionale," Venice, 1583, folio. lie published
also a large map, which was engraved by Clement
Adams, and hung up in the gallery at Whitehall ;
and on this map was inscribed a Latin account of
the discovery of Newfoundland. — Bclknap'sAmer.
Biocj. 1. 149-158 ; Mass. Mag. II. 467-471 ; Hak
luyt, I. 226, 268, 274 ; Campbell's Admirals, I.
419; Bees' Cyclopedia.
CABOT, GEORGE, a senator, was born in Salem,
Mass., in 1752; the name was perhaps originally
Cobbett. His early employment was that of a
shipmaster; but his visits to foreign countries
were made subservient to the enlargement of his
knowledge. At the age of twenty-five he was a
member of the provincial congress at Concord, in
which body he opposed the project of establishing
by laAV a maximum of prices, and contended for
entire freedom of commerce. He was also a
member of the State convention for considering
the constitution of the United States. Being ap
pointed, a few years afterwards, a senator of the
United States, he co-operated in the financial
views of Hamilton and assisted him by his ex
tensive commercial knowledge. May 3, 1798, he
was appointed the first secretary of the navy, but
declining it, B. Stoddart received the appoint
ment. Of the eastern convention, assembled at
Hartford in 1814, during the war, Mr. Cabot was
the president. He died at Boston April 18, 1823,
aged 71. Destitute of the advantages of a pub-
He education, Mr. Cabot was yet distinguished
for his intelligence and almost unequalled for the
eloquence of his conversation, especially on the
topic of the French Itevolution. He was master
of the science of political economy. In the party
divisions of his day he was a decided federalist,
the friend of Ames and Hamilton. He had en
joyed also the confidence of Washington. His
fellow citizens entrusted him with various offices,
evincing their reliance on his wisdom and integ
rity. In private life he was most amiable, cour
teous, and benevolent. He was a professor of
religion in the church, of which the minister was
Dr. Kirkland, who, after his death, married his
daughter. — Lord's Lempr. ; Encycl. Americana.
CADWALLADER, THOMAS, M. D., a physician
of Philadelphia, died Nov. 14, 1779, aged 72. He
was the son of John C.. and completed his medi
cal education in Europe. From 1702 till his
1 death he was one of the physicians of the Penn
sylvania Hospital. His dissections for Dr. Ship-
pen were among the earliest made in this country.
Dr. John Jones was his pupil. In his disposition
he was equable and benevolent ; in his manners
courteous. His life was once saved by his cour-
teousness. A provincial officer, weary of his life,
had determined to shoot the first person, whom
he should meet, in order that justice might bring
him to the gallows. An easier method of reach
ing his end would have been to shoot himself.
However, with his resolution and his gun he
sallied forth. He met first a pretty girl; but
her beauty vanquished his intent. He next met
Dr. C., whose courteous " Good morning, sir ;
what sport ? " also conquered him. He then
went to a tavern, and shot a Mr. Scull, for which
he was hung. He published an essay on the
Iliac passion, entitled, an Essay on the West
India Dry Gripes, 1745, in which he recom
mended the use of opiates and mild cathartics, in
stead of quicksilver, then employed. This was
one of the earliest American medical treatises.
Boylston had written before on the small pox,
and Harwood a treatise on pharmacy, and, at a
far earlier period, Thacher on the small pox and
measles. — Ramsay's Rev. 36 ; Thacher's Med.
Biog.
CADWALLADER, JOHN, general, a soldier
of the Itevolution, died Feb. 10, 1786, aged 43.
He was born in Philadelphia, and was a member
of the Pennsylvania convention in 1775. He was
appointed by congress a brigadier-general, Feb.
1777. In the battles of Princeton, Brandywine,
Germantown, and Monmouth he participated;
and in the attack on the enemy at Trenton
Washington intrusted him with one of the divis
ions of the army; but he could not cross the
river, on account of the ice, until the day after the
battle. He fought a duel with Gen. Conway, in
consequence of the intrigue of the latter against
Washington. After the war he was a member
of the assembly of Maryland. He was a relative
of John Dickenson, and a gentleman of great for
tune. He published a reply to Gen. J. Reed's
remarks, etc., 1783. — Marshall, HI. 139.
CADWALLADER, THOMAS, major-general,
died in Philadelphia Oct. 26, 1841, aged 61 ; a
lawyer, and an officer in the war of 1812.
CAINES, GEORGE, reporter of the supreme
court of New York, died at Catskill July 10, 1825,
aged 54. He published Lex mercatoria, Ameri
cana, 1802 ; cases in the court for trial of impeach
ment and correction of errors, 2 vols. 1805-7;
forms of the supreme court of New York, 1808.
CALDWELL, JAMES, minister in Elizabeth-
town, N. J., descended of a Huguenot family,
and born in Virginia, was graduated at Prince
ton in 1759. He was killed at Elizabethtown
Point by an American soldier, named Morgan,
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183
Nov. 24, 1781, aged about 40. The man was
tried and executed for murder. It was thought,
he was bribed to the deed by British gold. Mr.
C. had gone to the Point to conduct to his house
a Miss Murray, who came from New York under
a flag-of-truce. Her bundle of clothing the Ameri
can sentinel challenged as " contraband ; " and at
the same moment Morgan, who was not then act
ing as sentinel, shot him. It is a memorable event,
that Mrs. Caldwell, daughter of John Ogden of
New York, married to Mr. C., in 1763, had been
previously deliberately shot, June 7, 1780, by a
renegade British soldier. The parsonage and
church had been burnt Jan. 25, 1780; for Mr. C.
was an earnest and zealous patriot of the day.
He acted as chaplain in New Jersey ; his power
ful eloquence was employed in the cause of free
dom. He was popular, and high in the confi
dence of Washington. A price being set on his
head, he sometimes preached with his pistols by
his side. A monument was raised to the mem
ory of Mr. and Mrs. C., in 1846, with addresses
by J)r. Miller and Wm. L. Dayton.
God raised up friends to the nine bereaved
children, the principal of whom was Mrs. Noel
of Elizabethtown. Lafayette took the son, John
E. C., with him to France, where he was educated,
and who edited in New York one of the first re
ligious periodicals of our country. Elias Boudi-
not C., was another son. A daughter, Esther, a
most pious woman, married llev. Itobert Finley,
and died at Lebanon, 111., in 1844, aged 71.
CALDWELL, RACHEL, wife of llev. D. C.,
died in 1825, was the daughter, of llev. Alexander
Craighcad, of the Sugar Creek congregation in
North Carolina. She married Dr. C. in 1766.
In the war the British offered 200 pounds for the
apprehension of her husband. Once the enemy
turned her out of her house, and burnt her hus
band's books and valuable manuscripts. When
her husband was taken prisoner, and the enemy
were about to lead him away with a pile of plun
der, a woman's wit saved him : Mrs. Dunlap
stepped behind him, and whispered in his ear —
just loud enough for a soldier to hear her — " Is
it not time for Gillespie and his men to be here ? "
As the name of Gillespie was the terror of the
loyalists, this caused the torics to flee in confu
sion, leaving their prisoner behind them. Once,
as the enemy was plundering her house, she
wished to save a valuable article, and made the
eloquent appeal : " Have none of you a wife or
daughter, for whose sake you will do me this
favor ? " A small man immediately stepped up and
said, " he had a wife, and a fine little wife she was
too ! and for her sake he would protect her. —
Caruthei*'s Life of Dr. C.
CALDWEL, DAVID, D. D., a minister, died at
Guilford court-house, North Carolina, Aug. 19,
1824, aged 99 years and 5 months. He was born
in March 1725, in Lancaster county, Penn. He
was a patriot of the Revolution ; also an eminent
teacher. His widow, an admirable woman, llachel,
daughter of llev. A. Craighead, died in 1825,
aged 86.
CALDWELL, ELIAS BOUDIXOT, clerk of the
supreme court of the United States, son of llev.
James C., graduated at Princeton in 1796, and
died at Washington, in May 1825, gladdened by
the promises of the religion which he professed.
He zealously assisted in forming and conducting
the American colonization society, of which he
was the corresponding secretary. In honor of
him the managers of the society gave the name
of Caldwell to a town in their African colony.
Mr. C., in order to bring religious instruction to
the untaught in the country near Washington, ob
tained a license to preach from the presbytery,
and was accustomed to preach on the Sabbath. —
African Repos. I. 126; Mis. Her. 22 : 81.
CALDWELL, JOSEPH, D. D., president of the
university of North Carolina, died at Chapel
Hill Jan. 27, 1835.
CALDWELL, CHARLES, M. D., died in Louis
ville, Ky., July 9, 1853, aged 90, celebrated as a
medical teacher and writer. In 1818 he was in
vited to the Transylvania school of medicine, and
more recently was a professor at Louisville. He
was very temperate. He wrote on physical edu
cation, phrenology, the unity of the human race,
and on the theory of animal heat ; also on ma
laria, quarantines, the yellow fever, and cholera ;
and the life of Ames, in llecs' Encyclopedia.
CALDWELL, MERBJTT, professor of meta
physics and political economy in Dickinson col
lege, Carlisle, died at Portland June 6, 1848, aged
41 ; he was a graduate of Bowdoin in 1828.
CALEF, ROBERT, a merchant of Boston, died
at Roxbury, April 13, 1719. He was distin
guished about the time of the witchcraft delusion
by his resistance to the infatuation. After Cot
ton Mather had published Wonders of the Invisi
ble World, from which it appears that he was by no
means incredulous with regard to the stories then
in circulation, Mr. Calef published a book on the
opposite side, entitled, More wonders of the In
visible World, London, 1700. This was reprinted
at Salem in 1796, Dr. Increase Mather, presi
dent of Harvard college, in 1700, ordered the
book to be burned in the college yard. The
members of the old north church published a de
fence of their pastors, the Mathers, in a pamphlet
entitled, " Remarks upon a scandalous book, etc.,"
with the motto, " Truth will come off' conqueror."
And so it was, for the witchcraft sorcery was soon
vanquished. The judges and jury confessed their
error, and the deluded people opened their eyes.
As he censured the proceedings of the courts
respecting the witches at a time, when the peo
ple of the country in general did not see their
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error, he gave great offence. But he is thought
to be faithful in his narration of facts. — Ilutch-
inson, n. 54 ; Mas. Hist. Coll.; ill. 300 ; Eliot.
CALEF, JONATHAN, minister of Lyman, Me.,
died April 24, 1845, aged 83.
CALHOUN, PATKICK, a patriot of the Revo
lution, died in 1796. He was born in Ireland in
the year 1727. His father emigrated in 1733 to
Pennsylvania, where he resided many years, and
afterwards to the western part of Virginia. The
settlement, after the defeat of Braddock, was bro
ken up by the Indians, and Mr. C., with his three
older brothers and a sister, emigrated in 1756 to
Long Cane, Abbeville, in the interior of South
Carolina, then an uninhabited wilderness, and
settled on the immediate confines of the Chero
kee Indians. The settlement was shortly after,
in the war, which commenced in 1759, attacked
and destroyed by the Cherokces, and half of the
males were lulled in the desperate engagement.
The remnant retired to the older settlements be
low, where they remained till the peace of 1763,
when they returned and re-occupied their former
settlement. After the destruction of the settle
ment, Mr. Calhoun was appointed by the provin
cial government to take command of a body of
rangers, raised for the defence of the frontiers, in
which service he encountered great danger, and
displayed much enterprise and intrepidity. Short
ly after the peace, he was elected a member of
the provincial legislature, being the first individual
ever elected from the upper county of the State.
He continued a member of that, and afterwards of
the State legislature, till his death, with the inter
mission of a single term. In the war of the Rev
olution he took an early, decided, and active part
in favor of his country. He was self-taught, hav
ing never been at school more than six months ;
yet, though being continually on the frontiers he
was without opportunity to acquire knowledge,
such was his thirst for information, that he made
himself a good English scholar, and an accurate
land-surveyor. He acquired also a competent
knowledge of the lower branches of mathematics,
and an extensive knowledge of history. His
moral character well harmonized with his love of
knowledge and strength of intellect. He passed
a long and active life without a blemish; a sin
cere Christian, a good citizen, an upright magis
trate, a kind neighbor, and an affectionate hus
band and father. His son was vice president, J.
C. Calhoun.
CALIIOUN, JOHN Ewrxo, a senator, the
nephew of Patrick, died Nov. 26, 1802, aged
52. He was born in 1749. His father died
while he was young; and his mother marry
ing again shortly after, his uncle, then a wid
ower, took John under his care. Such was the
anxiety of his uncle to give him every advantage
to acquire an education, which the country
afforded, that, shortly after the restoration of
the settlement in the year 1763, he sent him to a
grammar school in North Carolina, more than
one hundred miles from home, and afterwards to
Piinceton college, where he graduated in 1774.
He afterwards studied law, in which profession he
became distinguished. After being for many
years in the State legislature of South Carolina, he
was elected in 1801 as successor of Mr. Read,
a senator in congress, in which body he took his
seat the year, which brought Mr. Jefferson into
power. Though a decided republican and sup
porter of Mr. Jefferson, he proved his independ
ence in resisting strenuously the passage of the
bill, introduced by Mr. Breckenridge, to abolish the
office of the judges who had been appointed, when
Mr. Adams went out of power. He stood alone
among the republicans on the occasion, delivering
a speech, which did credit not only to his talents,
but more especially to his independence of
thought and resolution. In the political divisions
of our country, when many seem willingly to
surrender their own intelligence and conscience
to the leaders of their party, or to be merely the
dupes and slaves of those, who reap the profit
of the delusion and the conflict, it is refreshing
to fix the eye upon a man of clear views, and
strong powers of elocution, and great firmness
and integrity of character, who dared to secede
alone from his party, and to oppose singly a pop
ular measure, because it appeared to him to be
unconstitutional and perilous in its consequences.
He was on the select committee, to whom the
bill was referred, with instructions to report a
modification of the judiciary system of the United
States. But the committee were, on motion of
Mr. Breckenridge, Feb. 3, 1802, discharged from
that service. On the same day the final question
was taken, sixteen to fifteen. Mr. Calhoun voted
with Hillhouse, Morris, Tracy, and other political
opponents. Before the next session of congress,
he died in Pendleton district.
CALHOUN, JOHN CALDAVELL, LL. D., died in
Washington March, 31, 1850, aged 68. His
father, Patrick, came from Ireland : his mother
was a Miss Caldwcll of Charlotte county, Va.
Born in Abbeville district, S. C., March 18,
1782, at the age of 13 he was put under the
care of his brother-in-law, Dr. "Waddell in Co
lumbia county, Geo. He entered Yale college in
1802, and graduated in 1804; then prosecuted
his law studies at Litchfield law school. He was
in congress from 1811 to 1817, when he became
Secretary of war and continued in office seven
years. In 1825 and 1829 he was chosen vice-
president, while Jackson was president ; and then
a senator. In 1843 he was secretary of State.
From 1845 he was a senator until his death.
His eloquence, as described by Webster, " was
plain, strong, terse, condensed, concise; some-
CALHOUN.
times impassioned, still always severe." His
power consisted "in the closeness of his logic
and in the earnestness and energy of his man
ner." " His colloquial talents were singular and
eminent." Although educated at the North, he
seems never to have breathed the air of freedom,
and not to have caught a particle of the abhor
rence of slavery, wlu'ch was felt and expressed by
such illustrious southern men as Washington,
Jefferson, Henry, and Randolph. Perhaps no
man ever did more to extend and strengthen the
inhuman slavery of his fellow men. His politi
cal doctrines he unfolds in his book, published
since his death, called a discourse on the consti
tution and government of the United States, as
he had previously briefly stated them in his
speeches. His teaching is briefly this. Our gen
eral government is not National but Federal ; fed
eral because constituted by a league or compact
between sovereign States, written out in the con
stitution of the United States. Each State is the
judge whether the compact is at any time broken
by any act of the general government, and may nul
lify such act. The same general doctrines were set
forth by him in his Resolutions in the Senate Jan.
22, 1833, and in his speech Feb. 16th. His theory
and scheme were opposed by Mr. Webster Feb. 16th
ina speech of unanswerable argument and invincible
power, denying that our political system is a com
pact, of which the States as sovereign communi
ties are parties, and that they have any right to
judge of the violation of the constitution and
to change the mode and measure of redress ; he
set himself with all the energies of his mighty
mind against the doctrines of Nullification and
Secession. "What is a constitution ?" asked he.
" Certainly not a league, compact, or confederacy,
but a fundamental law" ordained and established
by the people, — " the Government of the United
States." In his discussion no thought seems to
have entered the mind of Mr. Calhoun that
slavery is an evil, much less an immorality and
sin. He complains of the ordinance of 1787, by
which the Northwestern Territory, now consti
tuting the States of Ohio &c., was devoted to
freedom, as an encroachment on the rights of
southern slaveholders. He speaks of the diffi
culties and dangers which have sprung up from
the Missouri compromise, excluding slavery from
north of thirty-six degrees and thirty minutes of
north latitude; and doubtless it has been through
the influence of his teaching, that the slaveholders
have repealed that compromise, and that the
border ruffians of Missouri have attempted to
drive off by fire and sword the free settlers from
New England, who had planted themselves in the
territory of Kansas. Mr. C. represents the
South as the weaker section of the country;
whereas in fact it has had almost the entire con
trol of the government by union among them-
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selves and by the aid of office seekers and parti-
zans of the North: as in the case of the Missouri
compromise itself, allowing Missouri to be a slave
State, and granting all the territories south of
thirty-six degrees and thirty minutes to slavery,
by the votes of three Eastern members of con
gress. Mr. C. proposes as a remedy for the evils
the grant of a negative to the weaker section, the
south, and the abolition of a single presidency,
and the creation of two presidents, one for the
North, and one for the South, in office at the
same time. His disciples in this year, 1856, are
proceeding a little further, and propose or threaten
a division of the Union, taking for the South all
the tiers of new States west of Missouri to the
Pacific, and in good time including Mexico and
Cuba, in which case the slave property of the
South will be doubled in value. This plan is
indignantly exposed by Francis P. Blair, himself
a slaveholder, in his ample and patriotic letter of
Sept. 17, 1856. A new claim is now set up by
the South, that every slaveholder may carry his
slave with him into any territory, the slave being
a part of " the institutions " of the South. In
the present state of things, the great question
comes to the intellect and conscience of every
Northern freeman, whether as all compromises
are now broken up — compromises wlu'ch ought
never to have been made — he is not bound to
adopt the fixed and right principle, that there
shall never be another Slave State in the American
Union ? As to existing slavery, its removal must
be by the respective States, in which it exists. As
Mr. Blair says, " Nature's code, written in the
heart, will, with the progress of Christianity and
civilization, work out a happy result." His
speeches, including his discourse already referred
to, were published in four vols. in 1853 and 1854.
CALL, DANIEL D., died at Richmond May 20,
1840, aged about 75, a brother-in-law of judge
Marshall. He published six vols. of law reports.
CALLENDER, ELISHA, minister of the first
Baptist church in Boston, died March 31, 1738.
He was the son of Ellis Callender, who was a
member as early as 1669, and minister of the
same church from 1708 till 1726. In early life
the blessings of Divine grace were imparted to
him. He was graduated at Harvard college in
the year 1710. At his ordination, May 21, 1718,
Increase and Cotton Mather and Mr. Webb,
though of a different denomination, gave their
assistance. He was very faithful and successful in
the pastoral office. He was succeeded by Mr.
Condy. A few days before his death he said;
" When I look on one hand, I see nothing but sin,
guilt, and discouragement ; but when I look on
the other, I see my glorious Saviour, and the mer
its of his precious blood, which cleanseth from all
sin. I cannot say, that I have such transports of
joy as some have had; but through grace I can
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say, I have gotten the victory over death and the
grave." The last words, which fell from his lips,
were, " I shall sleep in Jesus." His life was un
spotted; his conversation was always affable,
religious, and dignified ; and his end was peace
ful and serene. — Baclcus1 Hist, of N. E. m.
124; Boston Evening Post April 3, 1738.
CALLENDER,, JOHN, an eminent Baptist
minister and writer in Rhode Island, died Jan.
26, 1748, aged 41. He was a nephew of Elisha
Callender, and was graduated at Harvard college
in 1723. He was ordained colleague with elder
Peckum as pastor of the church at Newport Oct.
13, 1731. This was the second Baptist church in
America. It was founded in the year 1644. He
was a man of very considerable powers of mind,
and was distinguished for his candor and piety.
He collected many papers relating to the history
of the Baptists in this country, which were used
by Mr. Backus. A century after the deed of
Rhode Island was obtained of the Narragansett
Indians, he delivered at Newport, March 24, 1738,
a sermon on the history of the colony, which was
published in 1739, with additions. This historical
discourse brings down the history of Rhode
Island and Providence plantations from 1637 to
the end of the first century. This is but a small
work ; yet it is the only history of Rhode Island,
which has been written, and it is honorable to its
author. He published also a sermon at the ordi
nation of Jeremiah Condy, 1739, and a sermon
on the death of Mr. Clap of Newport, 1745. —
Backus' Hist, of N. E. m. 229.
CALLENDER, JAMES THOMPSON, editor of
the Recorder, died at Richmond, Va., in July
1803, being drowned in James River, in which he
was accustomed to bathe. He was the author of
the Prospect before us, and of other assaults on
the administration of Washington and Adams.
Mr. Jefferson paid him repeatedly 50 and 100
dollars : the circumstances are explained in
Jefferson's letters. Afterwards Callender pro
claimed to the world, in hostility to Mr. Jeffer
son, the patronage or charity, which he had
enjoyed. He was a man of talents, with an
energetic style, and in severity of invective une
qualled. He published political progress of
Britain, 3d. ed. 1795 ; political register, 1795 ;
sketches of the history of America, 1798. — Coll.
Cent. July 30, 1803.
CALLIERES, CHEVTALIER. DE, governor cf
Canada, died May 26, 1703. He was appointed
governor of Montreal in 1684. He enclosed the
town with palisades. In 1689 he went to France
to suggest the project of the conquest of New
York. In the enterprise he was to have been
commander in chief; but it failed. After the
death of count de Frontenac in 1698, he acted as
goA'ernor till his appointment in 1699. Without
the birth and rank of his predecessor, he was free
CALVERT.
also from his haughtiness, prejudice, and violence.
His known abilities and valor made him accepta
ble to the colony. He had various negotiations
with the Indians. In signing a treaty Sept. 8,
1700, the Onnontaguese and Tsonnonthouana
delineated a spider ; the Goyagouins a calumet ;
the Onneyouths a piece of cleft wood with a stone
in it; the Agniers a bear^ the Hurons a beaver ;
the Abenaquis a kid ; and the Outaouais a hare.
In endeavoring to unite all the Indian tribes in a
permanent peace, and to attach them to the
French interest, he had enlarged views and
adopted wise measures; but in the midst of his
toils he died, and was succeeded by Vaudreuil. —
Charlevoix ; Univ. Hist. XL. 127-144.
CALVERT, GEOBGE, Baron of Baltimore,
founder of the province of Maryland, died at
London April 15, 1632, aged 50. He was de
scended from a noble family in Flanders, and was
born at Kipling, in Yorkshire, England, in 1582.
After taking his bachelor's degree at Trinity col
lege, Oxford, in 1597, he travelled over the con
tinent of Europe. At his return to England in
the beginning of the reign of James I., he was
taken into the office of Sir Robert Cecil, secre
tary of State, by whose favor he was made clerk
of the privy council, and received the honor of
knighthood. In 1619 he was appointed one of
the principal secretaries of State, in the place of
Sir Thomas Lake. His great knowledge of pub
lic business, and his diligence and fidelity, concili
ated the regard of the king, who gave him a
pension of a thousand pounds out of the customs.
In 1624 he became a Roman Catholic, and hav
ing disclosed his new principles to the king, re
signed his office. He was continued, however, a
member of the privy council, and was created
Baron of Baltimore in the kingdom of Ireland, in
1625, at which time he represented the university
of Oxford in Parliament.
While he was secretary of the State he was
constituted, by patent, proprietor of the southeast
ern peninsula of Newfoundland, which he named
the province of Avalon. He spent 25,000 pounds
in advancing his plantation, and visited it twice
in person ; but it was so annoyed by the French,
that, though he once repulsed and pursued their
ships and took sixty prisoners, lie was obliged to
abandon it. Being still inclined to form a settle
ment in America, whither he might retire with
his family and friends of the same religious prin
ciples, he made a visit to Virginia, the fertility and
advantages of which province had been highly
celebrated, and in which he had been interested
as one of the adventurers. But meeting with an
unwelcome reception on account of his religion,
and observing that the Virginians had not ex
tended their plantations beyond the Patowmac,
he fixed his attention upon the territory north
ward of this river, and, as soon as he returned to
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England, obtained a grant of it from Charles I.
But owing to the tedious forms of public business,
before a patent was completed he died. After
his death the patent was again drawn in the
name of his eldest son, Cecil, who succeeded to
his honors, and it passed the seals June 20, 1G32.
The country was called Maryland, in honor of
Henrietta Maria, the queen consort of Charles I.
From the great precision of this charter, the
powers which it confers upon the proprietor, and
the privileges and exemptions which it grants to
the people, it is evident that it was written by
Sir George himself. The liberal code of relig
ious toleration, which is established, is very hon
orable to him, and was respected by his son, who
carried his design into execution. Sir George
was conspicuous for his good sense and modera
tion. All parties were pleased with him. Not
being obstinate in his opinions, he took as much
pleasure in hearing the sentiments of others, as in
delivering his own. In his views of establishing
foreign plantations, he thought that the original
inhabitants, instead of being exterminated, should
be civilized and converted ; that the governors
should not be interested merchants, but gentle
men not concerned in trade ; and that every one
should be left to provide for himself by his own
industry, without dependence on a common inter
est. He published carmen funebre in D. Hen.
Untonum, 1596 ; parliamentary speeches ; va
rious letters of state ; the answer of Tom Tell
Troth, the practice of princes and the lamentation
of the kirk, 1642. — Belknap's Amer. Biog. II.
363-368; Biog. Brit.; Bees; Wood's Atlience
Oxon. I. 566 ; Keith, 142.
CALVERT, LEONARD, first governor of Mary
land, died in 1676. He was the brother of Ce-
ciiius Calvcrt, the proprietor, who sent him to
America as the head of the colony in 1633. After
a circuitous voyage he arrived, accompanied by
his brother, George Calvert, and about two hun
dred persons of good families and of the Roman
Catholic persuasion, at Point Comfort, in Virginia,
Feb. 24, 1634. On the third of March he pro
ceeded in the bay of Chesapeak to the northward,
and entered the Patowmac, up which he sailed
twelve leagues, and came to an anchor under an
island, which he named St. Clement's. Here he
fired his cannon, erected a cross, and took pos
session "in the name of the Saviour of the
world and of the King of England." Thence he
went fifteen leagues higher to the Indian town of
Patowmac, on the Virginia side of the river, now
called New Marlborough, where he was received
in a friendly manner by the guardian regent, the
prince of the country being a minor. Thence he
sailed twelve leagues higher to the town of Pis-
cataway, on the Maryland side, where he found
Henry Fleet, an Englishman, who had resided
several years among the natives, and was held by
them in great esteem. This man was very ser
viceable as an interpreter. An interview having
been procured with the Wcrowance, or prince,
Calvert asked him whether he was willing that a
settlement should be made in his own country.
He replied : " I will not bid you go, neither will
I bid you stay ; but you may use your own dis
cretion." Having convinced the natives that his
designs were honorable and pacific, the governor
now sought a more suitable station for com
mencing his colony. He visited a creek on the
northern side of the Patowmac, about four
leagues from its mouth, where was an Indian vil
lage. Here he acquainted the prince of the
place, with his intentions, and by presents to him
and his principal men, conciliated his friendship
so much, as to obtain permission to reside in one
part of the town until the next harvest, when, it
was stipulated, the natives should entirely quit
the place. Both parties entered into a contract
to live in a friendly manner. After Calvert had
given a satisfactory consideration, the Indians
readily yielded a number of their houses, and re
tired to the others. As the season for planting
corn had now arrived, both parties went to work.
Thus, March 27, 1634, the governor took peace
able possession of the country of Maryland, and
gave to the town the name of St. Mary's, and to
the creek on which it was situated the name of
St. George's. The desire of rendering justice to
the natives by giving them a reasonable compen
sation for their lands, is a trait in the character
of the first planters, which will always do honor
to their memory. The colony had brought with
them meal from England ; but they found Indian
corn in great plenty, both at Barbadoes and Vir
ginia, and by the next spring they were able to
export one thousand bushels to New England
and Newfoundland, for which they received in re
turn dried fish and other provisions. The Indians
also killed many deer and turkies, which they
sold to the English for knives, beads, and other
small articles of traffic. Cattle, swine, and poul
try were procured from Virginia. The province
was established on the broad foundation of secur
ity to property, and of freedom in religion. Fifty
acres of land were granted in absolute fee to
every emigrant, and Christianity was established
without allowing pre-eminence to any particular
sect. This liberal policy rendered a Roman Cath
olic colony an asylum for those who were driven
from New England by the persecutions which
were there experienced from Protestants. The
same toleration, or rather perfect freedom, was
also established by R. Williams in Rhode Island.
The governor built him a house at St. Mary's, for
himself and his successors, and superintended
the affairs of the country till the civil war in Eng
land, when the name of a papist became so
obnoxious, that the parliament assumed the
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government of the province, and appointed a
new governor. Cecilius Calvert, the proprietor,
recovered his right to the province upon the res
toration of King Charles H, in 1660, and in the
same year appointed his son, Philip, the governor,
and his son, Charles, in 1662. He died far in
years and high in reputation, and was succeeded
by his son, Charles, by whom an assembly was
called, which passed a law prohibiting the impor
tation of convicts. In 1676 there were in the
colony only three clergymen of the church of
England. — Belknap's Amer. Biog II. 372-380 ;
Holmes, II. 386 ; Univ. Hist. XL. 468 ; Brit. Emp.
in America, I. 324-330.
CALVERT, BENEDICT, governor of Maryland,
died June 1, 1732. He was succeeded in 1727
by Charles C., who had been governor from 1720.
lie was induced to resign from ill health in 1732,
and died on his passage to England. His brother,
Edward Henry Calvert, president of the council,
died at Annapolis April 24, 1730, aged 28. His
wife was the daughter of the Earl of Litchfield,
and sister of the wife of Edward Younjr. —
O
Lord's Lempr. ; Savage's Winth. I. 139.
CALVERT, FREDERIC, Baron of Baltimore,
and proprietor of Maryland, succeeded Charles,
Lord Baltimore, in 1751, and died at Naples Sept.
30, 1771, leaving lu's property in Maryland to his
son, Henry Harford. He published a tour in the
east, 1764; and Gaudia Poetica, Latina, Anglica,
et Gallica, &c.
CAMERON, JAMES, M. D., died at New York,
Dec. 12, 1851, aged 60, a physician of eminence,
a native of Scotland, for thirty years in practice
in New York. He was a worthy member of a
Presbyterian church.
CAMMERHOF, FREDERIC, a Moravian bishop,
came to this country in 1746 to assist Bishop
Spangenberg. In 1748 he visited the establish
ment at Shomokin, on the Susquehannah j in
1750 he repaired to Onondago to promote the
introduction of the gospel amongst the Iroquois.
He died at Bethlehem, his usual place of resi
dence, April 28, 1751, greatly deplored. During
four years he had baptized eighty-nine Indians.
There was so much sweetness and benevolence in
his character, as to impress even the savages with
respect for him. His mild and friendly beha
viour once turned the heart of an Indian, enraged
by his reproofs, who had resolved to kill him. —
Loskiel.
CAMMOCK, THOMAS, proprietor of Black
Point, obtained a patent Nov. 1, 1631, from the
Plymouth company of fifteen thousand acres in
Scarborough, in Maine, extending from Black
Point river to the Spurwink and back one mile
from the sea. He was a nephew of the earl of
Warwick, and as early as 1631 resided atPiscata-
qua. In 1633 he was at Black Point. March
21, 1636, he was one of Georges' commissioners,
or a member of the court of New Somersetshire,
at Saco, with Jocelyn and others ; but not being
in commission Sept. 2, 1639, he may have died
before that time. He died in the West Indies. —
Sullivan, 128 ; Maine Hist. Coll. I. 18, 41 ; Sav
age, I. 90.
CAMPBELL, JOHN, first minister of Oxford,
Mass., was born in Scotland and educated at
Edinburgh. He came to this country in 1717.
He was ordained pastor of Oxford, a town settled
by French protestants, March 11, 1721. He
faithfully discharged the duties of his office, until
his death, March 25, 1761, aged 70, and was suc
ceeded by Joseph Bowman, who had been a mis
sionary among the Mohawk Indians. — Whitney's
Hist, of Worcester, 84.
CAMPBELL, lieutenant-colonel, in the battle
of Eutaw, Sept. 8, 1781, was ordered to charge
the enemy at the head of the Virginia troops,
with Col. Williams, commanding the Maryland
continentals. In this successful exploit, which
broke the British line, he received a ball in lu's
breast and dropped speechless on the pommel of
his saddle. Being borne in the rear, he expired
the moment he was taken from his horse. Dr.
Holmes relates, that on being told, that the Bri
tish were flying, he said, " I die contented ; " but
Lee, who was present, says, he uttered not a
word. — Lee, II. 292; Holmes, n. 327.
CAMPBELL, ALEXANDER, attorney of the
United States for the district of Virginia, received
his appointment from Washington, and was a
man of eloquence. He died in July, 1796. His
father resided in Virginia ; and his uncle, Archi
bald Campbell, — a Scotch gentleman, the father
of Thomas Campbell, the poet, — also resided
there in his youth.
CAMPBELL, JOHN P., a minister at Chilli-
cothe, Ohio, died about Dec., 1814, aged 46. He
was the author of a manuscript history of the
western country. He published the doctrine of
justification considered; strictures on Stone's
letters, 1805 ; Vindex, in answer to Stone's reply,
1806.
CAMPBELL, SAMUEL, colonel, an officer of
the Revolution, died Sept. 12, 1824, aged 86.
He was born in Londonderry, N. II., in 1738,
and in 1745 removed with his father to Cherry
Valley, then a wilderness. In the French war his
services were useful ; he was a brave officer of the
militia in the Avar of the Revolution, and fought in
most of the actions on the frontier. He was par
ticularly distinguished at the battle of Oriskany,
under Gen. Herkimer. He was engaged also in
Nov., 1778, in the conflict at Cherry Valley, when
the village was destroyed and many of the people
massacred by the enemy under Butler and Brant,
At this time his buildings were burnt, his personal
property carried off, and his wife and all his chil
dren, but his eldest son, led into captivity. The
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captives were marched down the Susquehnnnah
river to its junction with the Tioga ; thence up
that river, and to Geneva and Niagara; and
thence to the neighborhood of Montreal. At
length, owing to the exertions of Gov. Clinton,
Mrs. Campbell was exchanged for the wife of
Col. Butler, and the children were with difficulty,
at the same time rescued from captivity. In 1783,
when Gen. Washington and Gov. Clinton were
on their exploring tour, they honored liim with
a visit for one night, and commended warmly his
patriotic zeal. After the war he was a member
of the legislature and an earnest republican. So
firm had been his health, that he was engaged in
personal labor the day before he died. His
widow, Jane Cannon, died in 1836, aged 93, a
happy Christian. Of her sons, William was sur
veyor-general of New York, James S. was a
judge, and Robert a lawyer of Cooperstown.
Among his numerous descendants were some of
the chief citizens of Cherry Valley. His charac
ter through life was irreproachable ; and for many
years he had been a consistent professor of reli
gion. — Cherry Valley Gaz. Sept. 14, 1824.
CAMPBELL, JENNY, Miss, died in Orange
county, Va., Dec. 6, 1855, aged 115.
CAMPBELL, GEORGE W., died at Nashville,
Feb. 17, 1848, aged 80. He was minister of
United States to Itussia. He had been represen
tative in 1803-9, senator 1811-14, 1815-18, and
secretary of the treasury.
CAMPBELL, ALEXANDER, D. D.,diecl at New
Orleans May 6, 1855, aged G3. He was a re
former among the Baptists, abjuring religious
creeds, and forming a new sect, which prevailed
in Virginia, Kentucky, and Tennessee. In a de
bate with Dr. Rice, he boasted of having two
hundred thousand followers, not all in this coun
try. He published the Millennial Harbinger, a
monthly work. — N. Y. Observer, March 16,
1850.
CAMPBELL, WILLIAM, surveyor-general of
New York, died at Cherry Valley Oct. 27, 1844,
aged 77. He was the son of Colonel C., and the
only member of a family, who escaped captivity or
death in the massacre of Nov., 1778.
CAMPBELL, JOHN M., missionary to western
Africa, sailed from Boston Jan. 1, 1844, and died
at Cape Palmas of the acclimating fever, April
19, 1844, saying : " Though one instrument
should be taken away, the cause of Christ would
go forward."
CAMPBELL, MARIA, a daughter of Gen.
Hull, the wife of Edward F. C., died in Augusta,
Geo., in 1845. She had talents, cultivated by
study, and a heart benevolent and pious. Many
feeble hours she devoted to teaching her slaves
the principles of the gospel. She finished before
her death a work on the Revolutionary services
of her father.
CAMPBELL, DANIEL, minister of Orford, N.
II., died Oct. 1, 1849, aged 70, bequeathing 20,-
000 dollars to the American board of missions,
and to the home missionary, bible, and tract so
cieties. Born in Lebanon, he graduated at Dart
mouth in 1801, and was settled in Kennebunk,
then in Orford. He died suddenly in bed, hav
ing retired in usual health.
CAMPBELL, ILvRVEY M., a missionary, died
in Arracan, where he had been only two years,
Feb. 22, 1852. He was a graduate of Hamilton
college.
CANER, HENRY, D. D., minister of king's
chapel in Boston, died in 1792, aged 92. He
was graduated at Yale college in 1724. In the
following year he began to read prayers in an
Episcopal church at Fairfield. In 1727, he went
to England for ordination, and was appointed
missionary for that town. His occasional ser
vices at Norwalk promoted the interest of the
church ; and it was not long before he had a re
spectable congregation there, as well as at Fair-
field. He was a man of talents and agreeable
manners, highly esteemed by his people. Having
been chosen rector of the first Episcopal church
in Boston, he was inducted into this office April
11, 1747. Here he continued, till the commence
ment of the American Revolution obliged him to
retire from Boston. He left the church March
17, 1775. From this period he resided in Eng
land till his death in Long Ashton. A daughter
married Mr. Gore of Boston. He published a
sermon on Matthew vil, 28, 29, entitled : " The
true nature and method of Christian preaching."
Jonathan Dickinson, in his vindication of God's
sovereign, free grace, replies to some sentiments
in the sermon. Mr. Caner published also funeral
sermons on the death of Charles Apthorp, 1758 ;
of Frederic, Prince of Wales, 1751; of Rev. Dr.
Cutler, 1765; of George II., 1761; of Timothy
Cutler, 1765 ; a thanksgiving sermon for the
peace, 1763 ; perhaps also a vindication of the
society for propagating the gospel, 1764. — Chan
dler's Life of Johnson, 62 ; Coll. Hist Soc. in.
260; Columb. Centinel, Feb. 13, 1793.
CANNON, JAMES SPENCER, D. D., died in New
Brunswick July 25, 1852, aged 76, of the Dutch
reformed church. For 26 years he was pro
fessor of metaphysics in Rutgers college, and of
theology and ecclesiastical history in the theologi
cal seminary. For strong powers of mind, ur
banity, and fervent piety he was distinguished.
CANONICUS, an Indian chief of Narragansett,
died June 4, 1647, aged about 85. He was the
eldest of three brothers and his father's heir.
Miantunnomu, son of his youngest brother, was
" his marshal and executioner," but did nothing
without his uncle's consent. Ninncgrad was
the other uncle of Miantunnomu. In 1622, the
second year after the landing of the pilgrims at
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CAPEX.
Plymouth, Canonicus, having about five thousand
fighting men, sent as a challenge a bundle of ar
rows tied with a snake-skin; this skin was re
turned filled with poAvder and ball. Peace was
preserved by this defiance and by a discreet ne
gotiation.
When Roger Williams, driven from Massachu
setts, sought a retreat at Narragansett, the king,
Canonicus, generously made him and his compan
ions a present of all the neck of land between
Pawtucket and Moshasuck rivers, that they might
own it forever. On this neck they settled. Here
was an act of kindness, which even at the present
day demands a requital from the whites toward
the remains of the Indian tribes. About fifty
years afterwards, Williams gave a deposition, in
which he says : " I declare to posterity, that were
it not for the favor that God gave me with Can
onicus, none of these parts, no, not Rhode Island,
had been purchased or obtained, for I never got
anything of Canonicus but by gift." " And I desire
pos'terity to see the gracious hand of the Most
High, that when the hearts of my countrymen
and friends and brethren failed me, his infinite
wisdom and merits stirred up the barbarous heart
of Canonicus, to love me as his own son, to his
last gasp." Once, in a solemn oration, the sa
chem said to Williams " I have never suffered any
wrong to be offered to the English since they
landed, nor never will. Wunnaumwagean Eng
lishman (that is, If the. English speak true, if he
mean truly), then shall I go to my grave in
peace." When Williams replied that he had no
cause to distrust the Englishman's Wunnaum-
wauonck, faithfulness, the old Indian took a stick
and broke it into ten pieces, and related ten in
stances, laying down a stick to every instance,
which awakened his fears. He proved himself at
all times the friend of the English. The Indian
deed of Rhode Island bears date March 24, 1638.
The deed of Providence is dated the same day.
In 1632 there was a war between the Narragan-
setts and Pequots concerning the territory be
tween Paucatuck river and Wecapaug brook on
the east, ten miles wide, and fifteen or twenty in
length, which was claimed by Canonicus, as hav
ing conquered it many years before. After three
years' war the land was obtained, and given to
Sossoa or Sochso, a renegade Pequot, who had
fought valorously for Canonicus. However, the
Pequots very soon recovered it. On losing his
son, Canonicus, after burying him, burned his own
palace and all his goods in it.
When an embassy was sent to him in 1637
from Massachusetts, he received the ambassadors
in his best style. In the royal entertainment
which he provided, he gave them boiled chest
nuts for white bread ; also boiled puddings, made
of pounded Indian corn, well filled with a " great
store of black berries, somewhat like currants."
His audience chamber was a house fifty feet wide,
made of long poles stuck in the ground, covered
with mats, save a hole in the roof to let out the
smoke. Seated on a mat, his nobility were
around him, with their legs doubled under them,
their knees touching their clu'ns. He agreed to
favor the English rather than the Pequots, and
to the latter he gave his faithful advice, designed
to hush the tempest of war, which was ready to
break out. But in a short time the Pequots for
got his wise counsels, and plunged into a fatal
war with the English, and were destroyed by
Mason. In the war with Uncas, in 1643, Mian-
tunnomu was taken prisoner and killed. April
19, 1644, Pessacus and Canonicus by deed sub
mitted to the English king for protection. In
1645, the sons of Canonicus having excited a war
with some neighboring Indians, troops were sent
from Massachusetts under Gibbons, who quelled
the disturbance. After Miantunnomu, a sachem,
called Mecumeh, was associated with Canonicuc.
Pessacus, also, was a powerful sachem. Roger
Williams calls him " A wise and peaceable prince."
Wise he must have been, compared with most
princes, since he was peaceable. In about thirty
years Philip and his race fell victims to war, which
he enkindled. — Prince, 392 ; Mass. Hist. Coll.
III. 215, 238; V. 237; s. s. IV. 42; VII. 75; IX.
169; Holmes, I. 177, 286; Savage's Winthrop,
II. 308.
CAOXABO, a Carib chief, called by the Span
iards the lord of the golden house, in 1493 cap
tured the fortress of La Xavidad in Hispaniola,
and massacred the Spaniards. The next year he
unsuccessfully besieged Ojeda, though he had
with him ten thousand warriors. Soon afterwards
Ojeda made him prisoner by strategem, pretend
ing to honor him by putting on him a pair of
manacles of burnished steel, resembling silver,
and mounting him in state on his own horse.
Thus he galloped off with his prize, the victim of
vanity. In 1496 he was put on board a vessel to
be conveyed to Spain ; but he died in the pas
sage. His death is ascribed to the deep melan
choly of his proud spirit. At first a simple Carib
warrior, he became the most powerful cacique in
the populous island of Hayti. But being made a
prisoner, he died in obscurity. Thus sinks away
all the glory of human greatness. — Irving's Co
lumbus, II.
CAPEX, JOSEPH, a poet and minister of Tops-
field, Mass., was the son of John C., who lived in
Dorchester in 1634, and died in 1692, aged 79.
He was graduated at Harvard college in 1677,
ordained June 4, 1684, and died June 30, 1725,
aged 66. He published, about 1682, an elegy on
the ingenious mathematician and printer, John
Foster, which concludes with the following lines,
doubtless suggested by Woodbridge's elegy on
John Cotton :
CAPERS.
" Thy body, which no activencss did lack,
Now's laid aside, like an old almanac;
But for the present only 's out of date :
'Twill have, at length, a far more active state.
Yea, though with dust thy body soiled be,
Yet, at the resurrection, we shall see
A fair edition, and of matchless worth.
Free from erratas. new in heaven set forth;
'Tis but a word from God, the great Creator,
It shall be done, when he saith ' Imprimatur.' "
CAPERS, WILLIAM, I). D., Methodist bishop,
died in South Carolina Jan. 29, 1855, aged 65.
CARDELL, AVILLIAM S., a useful writer, died
at Lancaster, Pa., Aug. 10, 1828; his usual resi
dence had been in the city of New York. He
was a man of talents and active benevolence.
He projected an American academy of belles
lettrcs, which had a momentary existence, b'ut
soon expired. He published a new system of
grammar, and other useful books for youth.
CAREY, JOHN L., died at New Orleans Dec.
14, 1838. He was editor of the Daily Crescent
four years, and previously of the Baltimore Amer
ican, and the author of popular works on political
economy.
CAREY, MATTHEW, died at Philadelphia Sept.
17, 1839, aged 79. He was born in Ireland Jan.
28, 1760, and was early apprenticed to a printer
and bookseller. In 1783 he set up " The Free
man's Journal." After being prosecuted for a
libel, he came to Philadelphia in 1784 with scarce
a dozen guineas in his pocket. He established
the Pennsylvania Herald in 1785, and afterwards,
the Columbian Magazine and the American Mu
seum. By printing and bookselling he amassed
an ample fortune. He wrote and published the
Olive Branch, 1814, of which he sold ten thou
sand copies ; Vindicia? Hibcrnicac, 1829 ; and fifty-
nine pieces in favor of the Protective System of
American Industry. His last publication was the
Philosophy of Common Sense. He promoted
the interests of education and the charities of the
day. To the young and deserving he took pleas
ure in lending a helping hand. His life was
written by G. A. Ward, in Lives of American
merchants.
CARHEIL, ETIENXE DE, a Jesuit missionary,
visited the Iroquois in 1668. For more than
sixty years he toiled amongst the Indians in Can
ada, with little success ; in 1721 Charlevoix left
him in Canada, still full of vigor and vivacity.
Though he spoke the Huron and Iroquois lan
guages better than his own, and was regarded by
the savages as a saint and a genius of the first
order, yet he made but few converts, and for his
little success he humbled himself before God.
Charlevoix remarks, that the history of Carhcil
may well teach missionaries that it is the prerog
ative of God to renew the heart, and that their
toils are never in vain, if they themselves become
saints.
CARLETON, GUY, Lord Dorchester, a distin-
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guished British officer in America, died in 1808,
in England, aged 83. He was appointed a brig
adier-general in this country in 1776. He was
made major-general in 1772. At the close of
the year 1774 a commission passed the seals,
constituting him captain-general and governor of
Quebec. When Canada was invaded by Mont
gomery in 1775, Carleton was in the most immi
nent danger of being taken prisoner upon the St.
Lawrence after the capture of Montreal ; but he
escaped in a boat with muffled paddles, and ar
rived safely at Quebec, which he found threatened
by an unexpected enemy. Arnold, though he
had been repulsed by Col. Maclean, was yet in
the neighborhood of the city, waiting for the ar
rival of Montgomery previously to another attack.
General Carleton, with the skill of an experienced
officer, took the necessary measures for the se
curity of the city. His first act was to oblige all
to leave Quebec, who would not take up arms in
its defence. When Montgomery approached, his
summons was treated with contempt by the gov
ernor, 'whose intrepidity was not to be shaken.
By his industry and bravery Carleton saved the
city. After the unsuccessful assault of the last
of December, in which Montgomery was killed,
he had nothing more immediately to apprehend.
In May, 1776, he obliged the Americans to raise
the siege, and it was not long before he compelled
them to withdraw entirely from Canada. In Oc
tober he recaptured Crown Point; but, as the
winter was advancing, he did not attempt the
reduction of Ticonderoga, but returned to St.
John's. In the beginning of the next year he
was superseded in his command by Burgoyne,
who was intrusted with the northern British
army. Carleton's experience, and abilities, and
services were such as rendered him worthy of the
command, which was given to another. Though
he immediately asked leave to resign his govern
ment, he yet contributed all in his power to secure
the success of the campaign. In the year 1782
he was appointed, as successor of Sir Henry
Clinton, commander-in-chief of all his majesty's
forces in America. He arrived at New York with
his commission in the beginning of May. After
the treaty was signed, he delayed for some time
the evacuation of the city from regard to the
safety of the loyalists ; but Nov. 25, 1783, he
embarked, and withdrew the British ships from
the shores of America. He was a brave and
able officer, and he rendered important services
to his country. Though he was not conciliating
in his manners, and possessed the severity of the
oldier, yet his humanity to the American prison-
TS, whom he took in Canada, has been much
praised. In excuse for the little attention which
ic paid to the honorable burial of Montgomery,
it can only be said that he regarded him as a
rebel. — Stedman, I. ; Annual Reg. xvil. 1S9,
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CARLTON.
CARE.
XIX. 2-16 ; XX. 2 ; Warren's Hist. Rev. II. 2, 3 ;
m. 217, 252, 311.
CARLTON, OSGOOD, a teacher of mathemat
ics and navigation, resided chiefly in Mass., but
died in Litchfield, N. II., in June 1816. He pub
lished valuable maps of Mass., and of the district
of Maine ; also the American navigator, 1801 ; the
South American pilot, 1804 ; a map of the U. S.,
1806 ; practice of arithmetic, 1810.
CARMAN, captain, a brave seaman, sailed
from New Haven Dec., 1642, in a vessel of 180
tons with clapboards for the Canaries, being ear
nestly commended by the church at New Haven
to the Lord's protection. Near the Island of
Palma he was attacked by a Turkish pirate of
three hundred tons, with two hundred men and
twenty-six cannon, he having only twenty men
and seven serviceable cannon. The battle lasted
three hours, the Turk lying across his hawse, so
that he had to fire through his own " hoodings."
At last he was boarded by 100 men ; but a shot
killing the Turkish captain, and the tiller of his
ship being broken, the Turk took in his ensign
and fell off, leaving behind fifty men. These
Carman and his crew assaulted hand to hand and
compelled all, who were not killed, to leap over
board. He had many wounds on his head and
body, and several of his men were wounded ; but
only one was killed. At the island he was cour
teously entertained. He arrived at Boston July
2, 1643. In Nov. 1645 he sailed from Boston for
Malaga, in company with a new ship of four
hundred tons ; but both vessels ran aground in
the night on the coast of Spain, and Carman, Dr.
Pratt, and seventeen others were drowned.
There were on board the large vessel several
ship masters as passengers : but, says Hubbard,
" according to the old proverb, the more cooks
the worse broth, and the more masters the worse
mariners." The lights in the castle of Cadiz had
been seen ; but were mistaken for lights in ene
mies' vessels. — 2. Hist. Coll. VI. 525 ; Savage's
Winth. II. 124, 239.
CARMICHAEL, WILLIAM, charge d' affaires
at the court of Spain, died early in 1795. He
was a native of Maryland. At the beginning of
the Revolution he was in London, and thence he
proceeded to Paris on his way to America with
despatches from A. Lee. At Paris he was de
tained by sickness. On the arrival of Mr. Dcane
in June 1776, he aided him in his correspondence
and the transaction of business. In Oct., at the
suggestion of the Prussian minister he went to
Berlin, by way of Amsterdam, to communicate to
the king intelligence concerning American com
merce. Returning to Paris, he was employed
more than a year by the American commissioners.
He arrived at Boston in May, 1778; in Nov., he
took his seat in congress as a delegate from Mary
land, though he had been appointed secretary to
the commissioners in France. The next year he
was appointed secretary of legation to Mr. Jay
in his mission to Spain, and accompanied him and
remained with him during his residence in Mad
rid. When Mr. Jay went to Paris in June 1782,
Mr. Carmichacl was left as charge d' affaires, and
after the peace was commissioned in that charac
ter by congress, and continued as such at the
court of Spain about fifteen years. In March 1792
William Short M'as joined with him in a commis
sion to negotiate a treaty with Spain. The
attempt was unsuccessful. Soon afterwards Mr.
Carmichael returned to the United States. His
correspondence makes a part of the 9th vol. of
diplomatic correspondence, edited by J. Sparks.
— Dipl. Cor. IX. 3, 4.
CARNES, THOMAS P., a judge of Georgia,
was born and educated at Maryland ; removing
to Georgia, he there attained to a high rank as a
lawyer. He was successively solicitor-general,
attorney-general, and judge of the supreme
court; and he was also a member of congress.
He died at Milledgeville May 8, 1822, aged 60.
CARNEY, DANIEL L., died in Campbell coun
ty, Ky., Aug. 1, 1856, aged 76; one of the early
settlers of Cincinnati, and editor of the Western
Spy-
CARPENTER, REBECCA, widow, died at Re-
hoboth June 23, 1837, aged 67, bequeathing 1000
dollars to be divided among five of the leading
charitable societies.
CARR, ROBERT, Sir, died June 1, 1667. He
was appointed by Charles II., in 1664, a commis
sioner, with Col. Nicolls, Cartwright, and Maver
ick, with extensive powers in New England. It
was designed to repress the spirit of liberty.
Clarendon said, " they are already hardened into
republics." In the summer he and Maverick
arrived at Piscataqua. Aug. 27, 1664, Nicolls
and Carr, with four frigates, and three hundred
men, captured from the Dutch New Amsterdam,
and called it New York in honor of the Duke of
York and Albany, the brother of the king. Sept.
24th the garrison at fort Orange capitulated, and
the place was called Albany. Carr forced the
Dutch and Swedes on Delaware bay to capitu
late Oct. 1. Thus New Netherlands, including
New Jersey, was subjected. The commissioners,
excepting Nicolls, repaired to Boston in Feb.,
1665. Their proceedings arc narrated by Ilutch-
inson. When they arrived in Maine in June,
1665, they assumed all the powers of government,
so that the authority of Massachusetts there was
suspended. By special commission from them a
court was held at Casco by Jocelyn and others in
July 1666. The government, thus created by the
commissioners, expired in 1668, the people look
ing to Massachusetts for a firmer administration
of affairs. In the mean time Carr had returned
to England, where he died at Bristol, the day
CARR.
after he landed. — Holmes, I. 333; Ilutcliins, I.
211-229.
CARR, DABNEY, a distinguished member of
the assembly of Virginia, moved and eloquently
supported the resolution for appointing a com
mittee of correspondence in consequence of the
British encroachments, which was adopted March
12, 1773. But he died in about two months, at
Charlottesvillc, May 16th, aged 30. He married
Martha, the sister of Mr. Jefferson, who in his
works has delineated his character, as marked by
a sound judgment and inflexible firmness, com
bined with fancy and eloquence, softness and
kindness. His eldest son, Peter Carr, died about
1808. — Jefferson's Works.
CARR, DABNEY, died Jan. 8, 1837, at Culpeppcr,
Va., aged 63. He was a man of distinction; a
judge of the court of appeals ; a man of talents,
industry, learning, and of colloquial powers.
CARR,DABXEY S., died in Charlottesville, Va.,
March 24, 1854, aged 51; naval officer at Balti
more, and minister of U. S. at Constantinople six
years.
CARRIER, THOMAS, remarkable for longevity,
died at Colchester, Conn., May 16, 1735, aged
109 years. He was born in the west of England
and removed thence to Andover, Mass. He mar
ried in 16G4 Martha Allen, who fell a victim to
the witchcraft infatuation at Salem village, with
Mr. Burroughs, Aug. 19, 1692, — one of her own
daughters, aged 7, being allowed to testify against
her, as making her a witch, and appearing like a
black cat, the cat saying, she was her mother.
Ilutchinson has preserved her testimony. He
lived at Colchester about twenty years, and was a
member of the church in that town. His head
in his last yoars was not bald, nor his hair gray.
Not many days before his death he travelled on
foot six miles, to see a sick man and the very day
before he died he was visiting his neighbors. —
New Eng. Week. Jour. June 9, 1735; HutcJiin-
soii, II. 47; Farmer's Coll. n. 69.
CARRIGAIX, PHILIP, a distinguished physi
cian, died in Aug. 1806. He was born in New
York in 1746, and was the son of a Scotch phy
sician, who died in that city. After studying with
Dr. Bricket of Haverhill, Mass., he settled in 1768
at Concord, N. II., where he rose to eminence as
a physician and surgeon. His practice was for
years more extensive than that of any other phy
sician in the State. His son of the same name, a
lawyer, and secretary of State, published in 1816
a large and beautiful map of New Hampshire.
— Moore's Annals of Concord, 62; Bouton's
Cent. Disc. 94.
CARRIXGTON, PAUL, a patriot of the Revo
lution, died at his seat in Charlotte county, Va.,
June 22, 1818,* aged 85. He was probably older
than any surviving Virginian patriot who took an
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active part in the councils of the country in the
first struggles for liberty and independence.
CARRINGTON, EDWARD, an officer of the
Revolution, died Oct. 28, 1810, aged 61. He was
an active quartcr-master-general under Greene,
in the campaign at the south ; and served also in
the north. lie was a representative in congress
from Virginia after the peace. When Aaron
Burr was tried for high treason, he was foreman
of the jury. — Lord's Lempr.; Lee, I. 296.
CARllixGTON, PAUL, judge of the general
court of Virginia, died at his scat in Charlotte
county, Virginia, Jan. 8, 1816, aged 52. In his
youth he was distinguished as a soldier in the ac
tions at Guilford court-house and Green Spring.
On the return of peace he completed his studies
at William and Mary college. At the age of
twenty-two he was a member of the house of dele
gates, afterwards of the senate ; from which body
he was transferred to the bench of the superior
court. He died, expressing the hope of a happy
immortality through the merits of the Saviour. —
Christian Visitant.
CARROLL, JOHN, D. D., L L. D., first Catho
lic bishop in the United States, died Dec. 3, 1815,
aged 80. He was born at Upper Marlborough
in Maryland, in 1734, and sent for education at
the age of thirteen to Flanders. From St.
Omcr's, where he remained six years, he was
transferred to the colleges of Liege and Bruges.
Having been ordained a priest and become a
Jesuit, in 1770 he accompanied the son of an
English Catholic nobleman on a tour through Eu
rope. In 1773 he was appointed a professor in
the college of Bruges. On the suppression of
the Jesuits by the pope, he retired to England,
and acted as secretary of the fathers ; in 1775 he
returned to America, and engaged in the duties
of a parish priest. By request of congress he
accompanied Franklin, C. Carroll, and S. Chase
in their mission to Canada, in order to recommend
neutrality to the Canadians. Appointed Catholic
vicar-general in 1786, he settled at Baltimore.
In 1790 he was consecrated in England Catholic
bishop of the United States, and he returned with
the title of the bishop of Baltimore. A few years
before his death he was created archbishop. He
was the brother of Charles Carroll, the last sur
viving signer of the Declaration of Independence.
Bishop C. was venerable, dignified, and learned.
In Latin, Italian, and French he conversed with
ease. He was mild, and courteous, and free from
intolerance, living in friendly intercourse with
persons of other sects. His end was peaceful.
In his last illness he said to a Protestant minister,
who alluded to his approaching death : " My
hopes have always been on the cross of Christ."
Encycl. Americana; American Quar. Rev. I.
19-24.
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CARROLL.
CARTER.
CARROLL, CHARLES, last surviving signer of
the Declaration of Independence, died at Bald-
more Nov. 14, 1832, aged 95. He was born at
Annapolis, of an Irish family, Sept. 20, 1737, and
inherited a very large estate. Of the Catholic re
ligion, he was educated, at St. Omer's ; and studied
the civil and common law in France and in London.
In 1766 he was a delegate to congress from Mary
land ; in 1789 he was a senator. He signed the
Declaration of Independence, though not present
when the vote was taken, on account of his mis
sion to Canada. In 1810 he retired to private
life. He was learned and refined, of great viva
city and courtesy, made happy in domestic and
social intercourse. His grand-daughter, Miss
Caton, married Mr. Patterson; afterwards, in 1825,
Richard, the marquis of Wellesley.
CARROLL, DANIEL L., D. D., died in Phila
delphia Nov. 23, 1851, aged 53. He graduated
at Jefferson college, and succeeded Dr. Beecher
for two years as the minister of Litchfield ; and
then was pastor seven years in Brooklyn. For
three years he was president of Hampden Sidney
college. Then was five years pastor in Philadel
phia ; afterwards secretary of the New York col
onization society. He was buried at Greenwood,
near New York. In his last hours he referred to
man's sinfulness and the power of Christ to save.
N. Y. Observer, Dec. 4.
CARTER, THOMAS, first minister of Woburn,
Mass., died in 1684, aged 73. He came to this
country in 1635, and lived several years at Ded-
ham and Watertown. He was ordained at Wo
burn Nov. 12, 1642 ; the church had been gath
ered Aug. 14th. This was a lay ordination. The
church having no elder, or minister, to impose
hands, and apprehending a precedent, leading to
the " dependence of churches and a presbytery,"
two of its members performed that solemnity, al
though several ministers were present. When
they had imposed hands for the church, and said,
we ordain thee pastor of this church, a prayer
was made by an elder of a neighboring church.
There are a few undoubted instances of such
ordinations, recorded in the early history of this
country. — Savage's Winllirop, II. 91, 253; 2
Hist. Coll. VII. 42 ; Chickeritig's Hist. Woburn.
CARTER, ROBERT, president of the council of
Virginia in 1726, was succeeded next year as the
head of the State by Gov. Wm. Gouch. He died
Aug. 4, 1732, aged 69. Of great wealth, he was
the proprietor of three hundred thousand acres
of land and one thousand and one hundred slaves.
CARTER, ROBERT, of Nominy, Virginia, a
member of the executive council, probably a de
scendant of the preceding, died before 1813.
He was rich, having seven or eight hundred slaves.
Believing that the toleration of slavery indicates
very great depravity, he gradually emancipated
the whole. Another account mentions, that he
emancipated four hundred and forty-two slaves,
at a sacrifice of 100,000 dollars. He was fourteen
years a regular Baptist ; then became an Armin-
ian ; and afterwards a follower of the bewildered
enthusiast, Swedenborg. He removed to Balti
more to find a society of the same faith. — Bene
dict, II. 278 ; Nippon's lieg.
CARTER, EZRA, a respectable and benevolent
physician, was born in South Hampton, N. H.,
and settled about 1740 in Concord, where he died
Sept. 17, 1767, aged 48. He several times nar
rowly escaped being killed by the Indians. In»
one of his visits to a sick and poor family in Bow,
something was said concerning the payment of his
bill. The man and his wife plead their deep pov
erty ; but the doctor replied : "You have property
enough to satisfy me, and I will have my pay be
fore I leave your house." Then, seizing a kitten
from the floor, he said : " I told you I should have
my pay ; I have got it. Good-by, and God bless
you." Just before his death he signed receipts to
the bills against all poor persons, with directions
to his executors to deliver them. — Moore's Ann.
of Concord, 35.
CARTER, NATHANIEL HAZELTINE, a scholar
and traveller, died Jan 2, 1830, aged 42. He
was the son of Joseph Carter, and was born in
Concord, N. II., about the year 1788. In 1811
he was graduated at Dartmouth college, and
afterwards studied law. When the charter of
the college was amended by the legislature in
1817, he was appointed professor of languages in
Dartmouth university, and officiated in that capac
ity two or three years. In 1820 he became the
proprietor and editor of the Albany Register, the
name of which he changed, May 16, to that of the
New York Statesman. He removed to the city
of New York Jan. 1822, and united his paper
with another, entering into partnership with Mr.
G. W. Prentiss. He zealously espoused the inter
ests of Dewitt Clinton. From 1825 to 1827 he
was abroad, travelling upon the continent of Eu
rope as the companion and guide of a young gen
tleman of New York, whose father confided in
his good judgment. During this absence he en
riched his paper with letters from Europe, which
on his return he collected and published in two
large 8vo. volumes, entitled, Letters from Eu
rope, comprising the journal of a tour through
Ireland, England, Scotland, France, Italy, and
Switzerland, 1827. These writings, the produc
tion of a classical scholar and a zealous friend of
the republican institutions of America, as well as
of a believer in the simple and pure religion of
the gospel, are well calculated to promote in the
reader the love of country. The exposure of the
civil and religious tyranny, under which the
greater part of Europe groans, is doing good ser
vice to the cause of liberty. Mr. Carter's health
becoming impaired, he spent the winters of 1827
CARTER.
and 1828 in Cuba. When he visited Concord in
Nov., 1828, he addressed a few lines to his "Na
tive Stream," in Avhich he alludes to his wander
ings by other streams :
" Along the Shannon, Doon, and Tay,
I 've sauntered many a happy day,
And sought beside the Cam and Thames
Memorials of immortal names ;
Or mingled in the polished train
Of fashion on the banks of Seine.
And I have seen the azure Rhone
Hush headlong from his Alpine throne ;
Green Mincius and the silver Po
Through vine-clad vales mcand'ring flow;
•Sweet Arno, wreath'd in summer flowers,
Linger amidst Etrurian bowers;
And the old Tiber's yellow tide
Koll to the sea in sullen pride.
In climes beneath the burning zone,
'Mid tangled forests, deep and lone,
Where fervid skies forever glow,
And the soft trade-winds whispering blow,
My roving footsteps too have prest
The loveliest island of the west.
There Yumuri winds deep and calm,
Through groves of citron and of palm;
There on the sluggish wave of Juan
My little boat hath borne me on ;
Or up Canimar's silent floods,
Strewn with the blossoms of its woods."
His partner, Mr. Prentiss, died in March, 1829.
In the same year he relinquished his interest in
the Statesman, and for the benefit of his very
enfeebled health proceeded again to France.
But a fatal consumption terminated his life a few
days after his arrival at Marseilles. His funeral
was attended by many Americans and British.
Mr. Carter was a very upright and amiable man,
and an accomplished scholar. He was a poet, as
well as a writer of prose ; his longest poetical
piece is entitled the Pains of Imagination, deliv
ered at Dartmouth college. His hymn for Christ
mas is preserved in Specimens of American
Poetry. — Bouton's Cent. Disc. 95 ; Spec. ill. 113.
CARTER, SAMUEL, M. D., died in Brooklyn,
N. Y., Nov. 22, 1853, aged 74, for many years a
physician in old Saybrook, Conn. He was an
eminent Christian, and died in the triumphs of
faith.
CARTER, JAMES G., died at Chicago in July,
1849, a graduate of Harvard in 1820. He live'd
in Lancaster, and had the confidence of his fel
low citizens in public life. He did much in the
cause of education. While on a tour at the
west he was seized with a fatal bih'ous fever.
CARTERET, GEORGE, Sir, one of the propri
etors of New Jersey, died in Nov., 1682. He
obtained with Lord Berkeley from the Duke of
York a grant of New Jersey, June 23, 1G64, the
duke having received from the king a larger pat
ent, March 12. The name of New Jersey was
given, because Carteret's family were from the
Isle of Jersey. Elizabethtown is said to have
been named from his wife. Philip Carteret was
governor of New Jersey, with some interruption,
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195
from 1665 till his death. After 1676, when the
division of the country was made by Berkeley
and Carteret, he governed East Jersey. — Holmes,
II. 333.
CARTIER, JACQUES, a French navigator, who
made important discoveries in Canada, was a na
tive of St. Malo. After the voyage of the Cabots
the French learned the value of their discoveries,
and in a few years began the cod-fishery upon
the banks of Newfoundland. The Baron de Levi
is said to have discovered a part of Canada about
1518. In 1524 John Verazzana, a Florentine, in
the service of France, ranged the coast of the
new continent from Florida to Newfoundland.
From a subsequent voyage in 1525 he never re
turned, and it is supposed that he was cut to
pieces and devoured by the savages. His fate
discouraged other attempts to discover the new
world, till the importance of having a colony in
the neighborhood of the fishing banks induced
Francis I. to send out Cartier in 1534. The king
said: "The kings of Spain and Portugal are
taking possession of the new world, without giv
ing me a part ; I should be glad to see the article
in Adam's last will, which gives them America."
Cartier sailed from St. Malo April 20, with two
ships of sixty tons and one hundred and twenty-
two men. On the tenth of May he came in sight
of Bonavista, on the Island of Newfoundland ;
but the ice obliged him to go to the south, and
he entered a harbor at the distance of five
leagues, to which he gave the name of St. Cath
erine. As soon as the season would permit, he
sailed northward and entered the straits of Bell-
isle. In this voyage he \isited the greater part
of the coast which surrounds the gulf of St.
Lawrence, and took possession of the country in
the name of the king ; he discovered a bay, which
he called Baye des Chaleurs, on account of the
sultry weather which he experienced in it; he
sailed so far into the great river, afterwards called
the St. Lawrence, as to discover land on the op
posite side. August 15, he set sail on his return,
and arrived at St. Malo on the fifth of September.
When his discoveries were known in France, it
was determined to make a settlement in that part
of America which he had visited. Accordingly,
in the following year he received a more ample
commission and was equipped with three vessels.
When he was ready to depart, he went to the
cathedral church with his whole company, and
the bishop gave them his benediction. He sailed
May 19, 1535. He experienced a severe storm
on his passage, but in July he reached the des
tined port. He entered the gulf, as in the pre
ceding year, being accompanied by a number of
young men of distinction. He sailed up the St.
Lawrence and discovered an island, which he
named Bacchus, but which is now called Orleans,
in the neighborhood of Quebec. This island was
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CARVER.
full of inhabitants, who subsisted by fishing. lie
went on shore and the natives brought him Indian
com for his refreshment. With his pinnace and
two boats he proceeded up the river as far as Iloch-
elaga, a settlement upon an island, which he
called Mont-royal, but which is now called Mon
treal. In this Indian town were about fifty long
huts, built with stakes, and covered with bark.
The people lived mostly by fishing and tillage.
They had corn, beans, squashes, and pumpkins.
In two or three days he set out on his return, and
arrived Oct. 4 at St. Croix, not far from Quebec,
now called Jacques Cartier's river. Here he
passed the winter. In Dec., the scurvy began to
make its appearance among the natives, and in a
short time Cartier's company were seized by the
disorder. By the middle of Feb., of one hun
dred and ten persons, fifty were sick at once, and
eight or ten had died. In this extremity he ap
pointed a day of humiliation. A crucifix was
placed on a tree, a procession of those who were
able to walk was formed, and at the close of the
devotional exercises Cartier made a vow, that
"if it should please God to permit him to return
to France, he would go in pilgrimage to our lady
of Roquemado." The sick were all healed by
using a medicine which was employed with suc
cess by the natives. This was a decoction of the
leaves and bark of a tree. The liquor was drank
ever other day, and an external application was
made to the legs. Charlevoix says the tree was
that which yielded turpentine, and Dr. Belknap
thinks it was the spruce pine. In I»Iay he set
sail on his return to France, carrying off with
him Donnaconna, the Indian king of the country,
and nine other natives, all of whom, but a little
girl, died in France. He arrived at St. Malo
July 6, 1536.
At the end of four years a third expedition was
projected. Frangois de la Roque, Lord of Ro
berval, was commissioned by the king as his
lieutenant governor in Canada ; and Cartier was
appointed his pilot, with the command of five
ships, his commission, which may be seen in Haz
ard's collections, being dated Oct. 17, 1540. He
sailed, however, May 23, 1540, to Newfoundland
and Canada. Aug. 23, he arrived at the haven
of St. Croix, in the river St. Lawrence ; about
four leagues above that place, on a cliff, at the
east side of the mouth of a small river, he built
a fort, which he called Charlesbourg. This was
near Quebec. In the spring of 1542 he deter
mined to return to France, and accordingly in June
arrived at Saint John's, in Newfoundland, on his
way home. Here he met Roberval, who did not
accompany him in his voyage, and who had been
detained till this time. He was ordered to return
to Canada, but he chose to pursue his voyage to
France, and sailed out of the harbor privately in
the night. 'Roberval attempted to establish a
colony, but it was soon broken up, and the
French did not establish themselves permanently
in Canada till after the expiration of half a
century.
Cartier published memoirs of Canada after his
second voyage. The names which he gave to
islands, rivers, &c., are now entirely changed. In
this work he shows that he possessed a good
share of the credulity or the exaggeration of
travellers. Being one day in the chase, he says
that he pursued a beast which had but two legs,
and which ran with astonishing rapidity. This
strange animal was probably an Indian, clothed
with the skin of some wild beast. He speaks
also of human monsters of different kinds, of
which accounts had been given him. Some of
them lived without eating. — IJelknap's Amer.
Biog. I. 159-184; Charlevoix, Introd. xx. ; I.
8-22. edition 4to ; Ilakluyt, m. 186,201-240;
Holmes, I. ; Prince, Introd. 89, 90, 93 ; Purchas.
I. 931, 932; V. 1605; Forster's Vogacje, 337,
440 ; Universal History, xxxix. 407.
CARTWRIGHT, GEORGE, colonel, was one of
King Charles' commissioners to New England,
with Nicolls, Carr, and Maverick, in 1664. When
the commissioners, on their arrival at Boston,
informed the general court that they should next
day sit and hear a cause against the governor and
company, the court published "by sound of
trumpet" its disapprobation of this proceeding,
and prohibited all persons from abetting it. Thus
early and boldly was the note of liberty sounded.
The commissioners, finding that they had to do
with stiff-necked men, soon went away in dis
pleasure. In Cartwright's voyage to England in
1665, he was taken by the Dutch, and lost his
papers, and hardly escaped with his life. Hub-
bard says they put into his mouth a gag, which
he had " threatened to some in New England,
that pleased him not." The loss of his papers
was deemed a benefit to the colonies, as his prej
udices were strong against them, and as the
papers would have been employed for purposes
of mischief. — Holmes, I. 338 ; Hist. Coll. vi. 579.
CARVER, JOHN, first governor of Plymouth
colony, died in April, 1621, only about four months
after the landing of the pilgrims. He was a na
tive of England, and was among the emigrants to
Leyden, who composed Mr. Robinson's church in
that place. When a removal to America was
contemplated, he was appointed one of the agents
to negotiate with the Virginia company in Eng
land for a suitable territory. He obtained a pat
ent in 1619, and in the following year came to
New England with the first company. Two ves
sels had been procured, the one called the Speed
well and the other the Mayflower, which sailed
from Southampton, carrying one hundred and
twenty passengers, Aug. 5, 1620. As one of the
vessels proved leaky, they both put into Dart-
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mouth for repairs. They put to sea again Aug.
21 ; but the same cause, after they had sailed
about one hundred leagues, obliged them to put
back to Plymouth. The Speedwell was there
pronounced unfit for the voyage. About twenty
of the passengers went on shore. The others
were received on board the Mayflower, which
sailed with one hundred passengers, besides the
ship's officers and crew, Sept. G. During the
voyage the weather was unfavorable, and the ship
being leaky, the people were almost continually
wet. One young man died at sea, and a child
was born, the son of Stephen Hopkins, which was
called Oceanus. Nov. 9, they discovered the
white, sandy shores of Cape Cod. As this land
was northward of Hudson's river, to which they
were destined, the ship was immediately put
about to the southward; but the appearance of
breakers and the danger from shoals, together
with the eagerness of the women and children to
be set on shore, induced them to shift their course
again to the north. The next day the northern
extremity of the cape wras doubled ; and, on the
second clay after the discovery of land the ship
was safely anchored in the harbor of Cape Cod.
As they were without the territory of the south
Virginia company, from whom they had received
the charter, which was thus rendered useless, and
as they perceived the absolute necessity of gov
ernment, it was thought proper, before they
landed, that a political association should be
formed, intrusting all powers in the hands of the
majority. Accordingly, after solemn prayers and
thanksgiving, a written instrument was subscribed,
Nov. 1 1, 1620, by forty-one persons out of the whole
number of passengers of all descriptions on board.
Mr. Carver's name stood first, and he was unani
mously elected governor for one year. Among the
other names were those of Bradford, AArinslow,
Brewster, Allerton, Standish, Alden, Fuller, War
ren, Hopkins, White, Rogers, and Cook. Govern
ment being thus regularly established on a truly re
publican principle, sixteen armed men were sent on
shore the same day to procure wood and make
discoveries. They returned at night, having seen
no house nor a human being. The next dav,
Sunday, was observed as a day of rest. While
they lay in this harbor, during the space of five
weeks, several excursions were made by the
direction of the governor. In one of them Mr.
Bradford's foot was caught in a deer-trap, which
was made by bending a young tree to the earth,
with a noose under ground, covered with acorns.
But lu's companions disengaged him from his
unpleasant situation. An Indian burying-ground
•was discovered, and in one of the graves were
found a mortar, an earthen pot, a bow and
arrows, and other implements, all of which were
carefully replaced. A more important discovery
was a cellar, filled with seed-corn in ears, of which
they took as much as they could carry away,
after reasoning for some time upon the morality
of the action, and resolving to satisfy the owners
when they should find them. In other expedi
tions a number of bushels of corn were obtained,
the acquisition of which, at a time when it was
much needed, they regarded as a peculiar favor
of Divine providence. In six months the owners
were remunerated to their entire satisfaction.
On Wednesday, Dec. G, governor Carver him
self, with nine of the principal men, well armed,
and the same number of seamen, set sail in the
shallop to make further discoveries. The weather
was so cold, that the spray of the sea froze on
their coats, till they were cased with ice, like
coats of iron. They coasted along the cape, and
occasionally a party was set on shore. At the
dawn of day on Friday, Dec. 8, those who were
on the land were surprised by the sudden war-
cry of the natives, and a flight of arrows. They
immediately seized their arms, and on the first
discharge of musketry the Indians fled. Eighteen
arrows were taken up, headed either with brass,
deer's horns, or bird's claws, which they sent as a
present to their friends in England. As they
sailed along the shore, they were overtaken by a
storm, and the rudder being broken, and the shal
lop driven into a cove full of breakers, they all
expected to perish. By much exertion, however,
they came to anchor in a fair sound under a point
of land. While they were divided in opinion
with respect to landing at this place, the severity
of the weather compelled them to go on shore.
In the morning of Saturday they found them
selves on a small uninhabited island, which has
ever since borne the name of Clarke's island,
from the mate of the ship, the first man who
stepped upon it. As the next day was the Chris
tian Sabbath, they appropriated it to those relig
ious purposes for which it was set apart. On
Monday, Dec. 11, they surveyed the bay, and
went ashore upon the main land, at the place
which they call Plymouth ; and a part of the very
rock, on which they first set their feet, is now in
the public square of the town, and is distinguished
by the name of the " Forefathers' rock." The day
of their landing, Dec. llth, in the old style, was
many years ago by mistake adjudged to be Dec.
22d, in our new style, by the addition of eleven
days instead of ten : and Dec. 22d has been cel
ebrated as an annual festival. But probably here
after the true day, Dec. 21st, will be celebrated.
As they marched into the country they found
cornfields, and brooks, and an excellent situation
for building. With the news of their success
they returned to their company, and, Dec. 16, the
ship came to anchor in the harbor. The high
ground on the southwest side of the bay was
pitched upon as the site of the contemplated
town, and a street and house lots were immedi-
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ately laid out. It was also resolved to plant their
ordinance upon a commanding eminence, that
overlooked the plain. Before the end of Dec.,
they had erected a storehouse with a thatched
roof, in which their goods were deposited under
a guard. Two rows of houses were begun, and
as fast as they could be covered, the people, who
were classed into nineteen families, came ashore,
and lodged in them. On the last of Dec., the
public services of religion were attended for the
first time on the shore, and the place was named
Plymouth, both because it was so called in Capt.
Smith's map, published a few years before, and in
remembrance of the kind treatment which they
had received from the inhabitants of Plymouth,
the last port of their native country from which
they sailed. The severe hardships to which this
company were exposed in so rigorous a climate,
and the scorbutic habits, contracted by living so
long on board the ship, caused a great mortality
among them, so that before the month of April
near one half of them died. Gov. Carver was
himself dangerously ill in January. On the 14th
of that month, as he lay sick at the storehouse,
the building took fire by means of the thatched
roof, and it was with difficulty that the stock of
ammunition was preserved. By the beginning
of March he was so far recovered of his first
illness, that he was able to walk three miles to
visit a large pond, which had been discovered
from the top of a tree by Francis Billington,
whose name it has since borne. None of the
natives were seen before the sickness among the
planters had abated. The pestilence, which
raged in the country four years before, had
almost depopulated it. March 16th, a savage
came boldly into the town alone, and to the
astonishment of the emigrants addressed them in
these words, "Welcome, Englishmen! Welcome,
Englishmen ! " His name was Samoset, and he
was lord, or sagamore of Moratiggon, distant five
days' journey to the eastward. He had learned
broken English of the fishermen in his country.
By him the governor was informed, that the
place where they now were was called Patuxet,
and, though it was formerly populous, that every
human being had died of the late pestilence.
This account was confirmed by the extent of the
deserted fields, the number of graves, and the
remnants of skeletons lying on the ground.
Being dismissed with a present, he returned the
next day with five of the Indians, who lived in
the neighborhood, and who brought a few skins
for trade. He was sent out again in a few days,
and, March 22d, returned with Squanto, the only
native of Patuxet then living. Having been car
ried off in 1614 by a Captain Hunt of Smith's
fleet, who in his voyage from Virginia to Malaga
visited Plymouth and treacherously seized him
and twenty-six others of the natives, he escaped
the pestilence, which desolated the country.
They were sold at Malaga at 20 pounds a man.
As several of these Indians were rescued from
slavery by some benevolent monks at Malaga,
Squanto was probably thus set at liberty. He
had learned the English language at London, and
came back to his native country with the fisher
men. They informed the planters, that Massas-
soit, the sachem of the neighboring Indians, was
near with his brother and a number of his peo
ple; and within an hour he appeared on the top
of a hill over against the English town wnh a
train of sixty men. Mutual distrust prevented
for some time any advances upon either side; but
Mr. Winslow being sent to the Indian king with
a copper chain and two knives, with a friendly
message from the governor, the sachem was
pleased to descend from the hill, accompanied
by twenty men unarmed. Capt. Standish met
him at the brook at the head of six men with
muskets, and escorted him to one of the best
houses, where three or four cushions were placed
on a green rug, spread over the floor. The gov
ernor came in, preceded by a drum and trumpet,
the sound of which greatly delighted the Indians.
After mutual salutations, the governor kissing his
majesty's hand, refreshments were ordered. A
league of friendship was then agreed on, which
was inviolably observed for above fifty years.
The articles of the treaty were the following,
" that neither he nor his should injure .any of
ours ; that, if they did, he should send the of
fender, that Ave might punish him ; that if our
tools were taken away, he should restore them ;
and if ours did any harm to any of his, we would
do the like to them ; that if any unjustly warred
against him, M~e would aid him, and if any warred
against us he should aid us ; that he should cer
tify his neighbor confederates of this, that they
might not wrong us, but be comprised in the con
ditions of peace ; that, when their men came to
us, they should leave their bows and arrows
behind them, as we should leave our pieces, when
we came to them ; that in doing thus king James
would esteem him as his friend and ally." After
the treaty, the governor conducted Massassoit to
the brook, where they embraced each other and
parted.
The next day, March 23, a few laws were en
acted, and Mr. Carver was confirmed as governor
for the following year. In the beginning of April,
twenty acres of land were prepared for the re
ception of Indian corn, and Samoset and Squanto
taught the emigrants how to plant, and dress
it with herrings, of which an immense quan
tity came into the brooks. Six acres were sowed
with barley and peas. While they were engaged
in this labor in April, the governor came out of the
field at noon, complaining of a pain in his head,
caused by the heat of the sun. In a few hours it
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deprived him of his senses, and in a few days
put an end to his life, to the great grief of the in
fant plantation. lie was buried with all the hon
ors which could be paid to his memory. The
men were under arms, and fired several volleys
over his grave. His feeble wife, Catherine, over
come by her loss, survived him but six weeks. In
one of his letters to Gov. C., Robinson says, con
cerning her, " Your good wife, my loving sister."
Whether he meant only a Christian sister is not
known. When he arrived, there were eight per
sons in his family ; but he left no son nor daughter ;
and consequently there are no descendants. The
Mr. C., who died in Mansfield, aged 102, might
have been the grandson of a brother.
Governor Carver was distinguished for his pru
dence, integrity, and firmness. He had a good
estate in England, which he spent in the emigra
tion to Holland and America. He exerted liim-
sclf to promote the interests of the colony ; he
bore a large share of its sufferings ; and the people
confided in him as their friend and father. Piety,
humility, and benevolence were eminent traits in
his character. In the time of the general sick
ness which befell the colony, after he had him
self recovered, he was assiduous in attending the
sick and performing the most humiliating services
for them, without any distinction of persons or
characters. He was succeeded in the office of gov
ernor by Mr. Bradford. The broadsword of Gov.
Carver is deposited in the cabinet of the Massa
chusetts historical society in Boston. A town in
the county of Plymouth is named Carver. Other
pilgrim fathers have been thus honored, as Brad
ford and Brewster. — Belknap's American Biog.
II. 179-216; Prince, GG-HM; Holmes, I. 1G1,
1G8; Purclias, V. 1843-18,30; Univers. Hist.,
xxxix. 272; iVeaZ'siV. E.I. 99; Davis' Morton,
38-68.
CARVER, JONATHAN, an enterprising traveller,
died in 1780, aged 48. He was a native of Con
necticut and was born in 1732. He lost his father,
who was a justice of the peace, when he was only
five years of age. He was intended for the pro
fession of medicine, which he quitted for a military
life. In the French war he commanded an inde
pendent company of provincials in the expedition,
carried on across the lakes against Canada. He
served with reputation till the peace of 17G3.
After this he formed the resolution of exploring
the most interior parts of North America and of
even penetrating to the Pacific ocean, over that
broad part of the continent which lies between
the forty-third and the forty-sixth degrees of north
latitude. As the English had come in possession
of a vast territory by the conquest of Canada, he
wished to render this acquisition profitable to his
country, while he gratified his taste for adven
tures. He believed, that the French had inten
tionally kept other nations ignorant of the interior
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parts of North America. lie hoped to facilitate
the discovery of a northwest passage, or of a
communication between Hudson's bay and the
Pacific ocean. If he could effect the establishment
of a post on the straits of Annian, he supposed he
should thus open a channel for conveying intelli
gence to China and the English settlements in
the East Indies with greater expedition than by
a tedious voyage by the cape of Good Hope, or
the straits of Magellan.
With these views he set out from Boston in
1766, and in September of that year arrived at
Michillimackinac, the most interior English post.
He applied to the governor, Mr. Rogers, to fur
nish him with a proper assortment of goods, as a
present for the Indians living on the track which
he intended to pursue. Receiving a supply in
part, it was promised, that the remainder should
be sent to him, when he reached the falls of St.
Anthony in the river Mississippi. In consequence
of the failure of the goods he found it necessary to
return to la Prairie du Chien in the spring of 1767,
having spent the preceding winter among the
Naudoussee of the plains, on the river St. Pierre,
fourteen hundred miles west of Michillimackinac.
Being thus retarded in his progress westward, he
determined to direct his course northward, that,
by finding a communication between the Missis
sippi and lake Superior, he might meet the tra
ders at the grand portage on the north-west side
of the lake. Of them he intended to purchase
the goods which he needed, and then to pursue
his journey by the way of the lakes la Pluye, Du-
bois, and Ouinipique to the heads of the river of
the west. He reached lake Superior, before the
traders had returned to Michillimackinac, but they
could not furnish him with goods. Thus disap
pointed a second time, he continued some months
on the north and east borders of lake Superior,
exploring the bays and rivers, which empty them
selves into that large body of water, and carefully
observing the natural productions of the country,
and the customs and manners of the inhabitants.
He arrived at Boston in Oct., 1768, having been
absent on this expedition two years and five
months, and during that time travelled near
seven thousand miles.
As soon as he had properly digested his jour
nal and charts, he went to England to publish
them. On his arrival he presented a petition to
his majesty in council, fora reimbursement of the
sums which he had expended in the service of
government. This was referred to the lords
commissioners of trade and plantations, by Avhom
he was examined in regard to his discoveries.
Having obtained permission to publish his papers,
he disposed of them to a bookseller. When
they were almost ready for the press, an order
was issued from the council board, requiring him
to deliver into the plantation office all his charts
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and journals, with every paper relating to the
discoveries which he had made. In order to obey
this command he was obliged to repurchase them
from the bookseller. It was not until ten years
after, that he published an account of his travels.
Being disappointed in his hopes of preferment,
he became clerk of the lottery. As he sold his
name to a historical compilation, which was pub
lished in 1779, in folio, entitled the New Universal
Traveller, containing an account of all the em
pires, kingdoms, and States in the known world,
he was abandoned by those whose duty it was to
support him, and he died in want of the common
necessaries of life. His wife lived at Montague
in 1767. He published a tract on the culture of
tobacco, and travels through the interior parts of
North America in the years 1766, 1767, and 1768,
London, 8vo. 1778. An edition of this work was
published at Boston in 1797. — Introduction to
his Travels; Neio and General Biographical
Dictionary ; Watkins.
CARY, THOMAS, minister in Newburyport,
Mass., died Nov. 24, 1808, aged 63. He was the
son of Samuel Gary, of Charlestown, and was
born Oct. 18, 1645, and graduated at Harvard
college in 1761. While preparing for the sacred
office, he resided in Ilaverhill, where he enjoyed
the instructions of Mr. Barnard, whom he re
spected and loved. He was ordained as successor
of Mr. Lowell, pastor of the first church in New
buryport, May 11, 1768. One third of the
church and congregation, being dissatisfied with
the choice of Mr. Gary, were formed into a sep
arate society. For nearly twenty years he was
enabled to perform all the duties of the minis
terial office ; but in the forty-third year of his age
it pleased God, by a paralytic stroke, to remove
him from liis public labors. After this event
Mr. Andrews was ordained as his colleague, Dec.
10, 1788. From this period until about two years
before his death, Mr. Gary was so far restored to
health, as to be able occasionally to perform the
public offices of religion. He possessed a strong
and comprehensive mind, which was highly culti
vated by reading, observation, reflection, and
prayer. His sermons were plain, forcible, senten
tious, and altogether practical. He was not
ashamed to be called a rational Christian. Though
he read writers on all sides of theological ques
tions, yet those were his favorite authors, who
treated the doctrines and duties of Christianity in
a rational manner. Candid toward those who
differed from him in opinion, he sincerely re
spected the free and honest inquirer after truth.
His feelings were keen and his passions strong ;
but it was the great business of his life, and the
subject of his earnest prayers, to reduce them to
the government of reason and the gospel. In
the various relations of life he conciliated respect
and esteem. To his brethren in the ministry he
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was a generous friend, a wise counsellor, and a
most pleasant and improving associate. He ex
celled in the charms of conversation. He was
held in very high esteem for his public labors, for
sound and fervent devotion, for judicious, im
pressive, pathetic, and edifying discourses. Be
tween him and his people there subsisted an
uncommon harmony and affection. During his
long debility the religion which he preached was
his support and solace. In the leisure which was
now afforded him, he took a peculiar interest in
attending to the ecclesiastical history of his coun
try ; and the fruits of his studies were conspicuous
in his conversation. As his disorder increased
upon him, he sunk into a state of insensibility,
and without a struggle his spirit returned to God,
who gave it. He published two sermons on the
importance of salvation ; a sermon from Matthew
XII. 20 ; at the funeral of S. Webster, 1796 ; the
right hand of fellowship at the ordination of J.
Beattie ; the charge at the ordination of A.
Moore ; a sermon on the last day of assembling
in the old meeting-house, Sept. 27, 1801. — An
drews1 Funeral Sermon ; Panoplist, Dec. 1808.
CARY, SAMUEL, minister in Boston, the son
of the preceding, was graduated at Harvard col
lege in 1804, and was settled as the colleague of
Dr. Freeman at the stone chapel, Jan. 1, 1809.
He died in England Oct. 22, 1815, aged 30. He
published a review of English's " Grounds of
Christianity examined," 1813 ; also the following
sermons : before Merrimac humane society, 1806;
at his ordination, 1809; on the fast, 1813; at
Thursday lecture, 1814 ; on death of S. Bulfinch,
1815.
CARY, LOTT, an African minister, died Nov.
10, 1828. He was born a slave about thirty
miles below Richmond, Va., on the estate of Wm.
A. Christian. In 1804 he was hired out in Rich
mond as a common laborer. He was profane
and much addicted to intoxication. But about
the year 1807 it pleased God to bring him to re
pentance, and he became a member of the Bap
tist church, of which his father was a pious
member. As yet he was not able to read. But
having a strong desire to read the third chapter
of John, on which he had heard a sermon, rfe
procured a New Testament, and commenced
learning his letters in that chapter. He learned
to read and write. Being employed in a tobacco
warehouse, and for his singularly faithful and use
ful services receiving a liberal reward, and being
also assisted by a subscription, he was able, soon
after the death of his first wife in 1813, to ransom
himself and two children for 850 dollars. He
soon became a preacher, and was employed every
Sabbath among the colored people on plantations
near Richmond. His desire to promote the
cause of religion in Africa induced him to accom
pany the first band of emigrants to Africa, sent
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out by the colonization society in 1821. lie
made sacrifices for this object, for in 1820 he re
ceived a salary for his services in Itichmond of
800 dollars ; and this would have been continued
to him. It was probably his resolution, that at an
early period prevented the abandonment of the
colony of Montserado. In the battles of Nov.
and Dec., 1822, he bravely participated. He
said : " There never has been a minute, no, not
when the balls were flying around my head, when
I could wish myself again in America." He was
health officer and general inspector. During the
prevalence of the disease of the climate he acted
as a physician, the only one at the time, having
obtained some medical information from Dr.
Ayres, and made liberal sacrifices of his property
for the poor, the sick, and afflicted. In March,
1824, he had one hundred patients. About 1815
he had assisted in forming in llichmond an Afri
can missionary society. In Africa he did not
forget its objects, but most solicitously sought
access to the native tribes, that he might instruct
them in the Christian religion. Through his
agency a school was established about seventy
miles from Monrovia. Before he sailed for Africa
a church was formed at Itichmond of eight or
nine persons, of which he became the pastor. In
Sept., 1826, he was elected vice-agent of the col
ony. Mr. Ashmun, who had perfect confidence
in his integrity, good sense, public spirit, decision,
and courage, cheerfully committed the affairs of
the colony to his hands, when ill health compelled
him to withdraw. For six months he was the
able and faithful chief of Liberia.
The following were the melancholy circum
stances of liis death : The natives robbed a
neighboring factory of the colony, and, refusing
redress, Mr. Gary called out the militia to enforce
his claim or to prevent such encroachments. In
the evening of Nov. 8, 1828, as he and others
were engaged in making cartridges in the old
agency house, a candle was upset, which set the
powder on lire. This explosion caused the death
of Mr. Gary and seven others, though he survived
till the 10th. Perhaps Mr. G. did wrong, when
he was so ready to light up the torch of war. In
resolute self-defence against unprovoked attack,
the heroism of 1822 is to be commended; but
the resolution to march an army against the na
tives, because they had plundered a small factory,
was a purpose of questionable wisdom and pro
priety. The accomplishment of the purpose
might have issued in the destruction of the colony.
It needed the calm of peace, that its roots might
strike deep and its branches spread out wide on
the African coasts. Besides, the spirit of war is
in every respect hostile to the religion of Christ,
which, it is hoped, the Libcrian colony will rec
ommend to all the natives, with whom they have
intercourse. If this last act was an error of
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judgment on the part of Mr. Gary, yet will he
deserve a perpetual remembrance in the colony,
whose foundation he assisted in laying.
" Thy meed shall be a nation's love'
Thy praise the freeman's song !
And in thy star-wreathed home above
Thou mayst the theme prolong;
For hymns of praise from Afric's plains
Shall mingle with seraphic strains."
Some of the letters of Mr. Gary are published in
the African llepository for Sept., 1828. — African
Repos. I. 233 ; IV. 162, 209 ; V. 10, 64.
CAHY, J. ADDISOX, died in Columbus in 1852,
aged 39, principal of the deaf and dumb asylum.
GARY, JOHN, a colored man, died at Washing
ton June 2, 1843, aged 113 years. He was born
in Virginia in Aug., 1729, and was Washington's
servant at Braddock's defeat, and also during the
war of the Revolution. He lived for the last
twenty-eight years in Washington, where he was
a member of the first Baptist church.
CASAS, BARTHOLOMEW LAS, bishop of Chiapa,
died in 15GG at the age of 92. He was born at
Seville in 1474, and was of French extraction.
His father, Antonio, who went to Hispaniola with
Columbus in 1493, and returned rich to Seville in
1498, made him a present of an Indian slave,
while he was pursuing his studies at Salamanca.
All the slaves being sent back to their country by
the command of Isabella, Las Casas became
deeply interested in their favor. In 1502 he ac
companied Ovando to Hispaniola, and, witnessing
the cruel treatment experienced by the natives,
he devoted his whole subsequent life, a period of
more than sixty years, to the vindication of their
cause and the melioration of their sufferings. As
a missionary he traversed the wilderness of the
new world. As the champion of the natives
he made voyages to the court of Spain, and
vindicated their cause with his lips and his pen.
He was made bishop of Chiapa in 1544, and
-returned to Spain in 1551. After a life of
apostolic intrepidity and zeal he died, and was
buried at Madrid at the church of the Dominican
convent of Atocha, of which fraternity he was a
member. He has been justly reproached for
lending his encouragement to the slavery of the
Africans in 1517. The traffic existed before that
period; in 1511 Ferdinand had ordered many
Africans to be transported from Guinea to His
paniola, since one negro could perform the work
of four Indians. It was to spare the Indians,
undoubtedly, that Las Casas recommended to
Cardinal Ximenes the introduction of negro
slaves, the number being limited to four thousand.
In this he trespassed on the grand rule, never to
do evil for the sake of supposed good. He pub
lished " a brief relation of the destruction of the
Indians," about 1542. There was published at
London, in 1656, Tears of the Indians, being a
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translation from Las Casas. A French version
of his Voyages of the Spaniards appeared in
1697. J. A. Llorente has published a memoir
of Las Casas, prefixed to the collection of his
works. The most important work of Las Casas
is a general history of the Indies, from their dis
covery in 1520, in 3 vols., in manuscript. It was
commenced in 1527 at fifty-three years of age, and
finished in 1559, at eighty-five. This work, which
was consulted by Ilerrera and Mr. Irving, exists
only in manuscript, the publication of it never
having been permitted in Spain, on account of its
too faithful delineation of Spanish cruelty. —
Irviny's Columbus, iv.
CASE, MARY, died at Chatham, N. Y., in
1852. She was the daughter of Cornelius C., a
Quaker. She had extraordinary talents and a
poetic mind. She wrote for several periodicals.
Mr. Woodbridge, in his autobiography, has delin
eated her character and published several of her
letters.
CASS, JONATHAN, major, a soldier of the Rev
olution, died in August, 1830, aged 77. He was
born in Salisbury, Mass., and was a descendant
of Joseph Cass, who lived in Exeter in 1680.
He removed to New Hampshire in early life.
He was living at Exeter at the period of the
battle of Lexington, and entered the army the
day after as a private soldier. He served during
the whole Revolution, and attained the rank of
captain. He was in the battles of Bunker Hill,
of Saratoga, of Trenton, of Brandywine, of Mon-
mouth, of Ge'rmantown, and was engaged in the
most active and trying scenes of the Revolution
ary struggle. In the memorable winter when
the British occupied Philadelphia, he held a com
mand upon the lines, under Col. Allen McLane,
of Delaware, and fully participated in all the
dangers and sufferings of that critical period.
He was also with Sullivan in his Indian expe
dition. At the termination of the war, he estab
lished himself at Exeter, where he married and
resided, till his appointment in 1790 as captain in
the army then organizing for the defence of the
western frontier. lie joined the army, and con
tinued to serve with it till 1800, when he resigned,
having the rank of major, and settled upon the
bank of the Muskingum, in Ohio, about fifteen
miles from Zanesville. Here he resided till his
death. He was a man of strong natural powers,
and of great purity of purpose ; one of that band
of patriots who were born for the times in which
they lived. He met death in his chamber, as he
had faced it in the field, and observed upon its
approach, " this, then, is death." He died with
the faith of a Christian, and with those hopes and
assurances which Christianity only can impart.
Lewis Cass is his son.
CASTILLO, BERNAL DIAZ DEL, published
Historia verdadera do la conquista de la Nueva
Espana, 1692. His True history of Mexico was
republishcd in Salem, 2 vols. 1803.
CASTLE, ANGELINA, wife of S. N. Castle,
missionary at Honolulu, died in Feb., 1841, aged
30. She was the daughter of Levi Tenney, of
Plainficld, N. Y., and entered upon her mission
ary labors in 1836. She said on her sick bed,
" Tell my parents I do not regret having devoted
myself to the missionary work."
CASTIX, SAIXT, a French baron, was a cap
tain in the regiment of Carignan, which was sent
from Hungary to Canada in 1665. He lived at
Penobscot, at what is now the town of Castine, in
1687. The next year his trading-house was pil
laged by the English in his absence. He married
one of the Abenaquis Indians. In 1696 he led
two hundred savages, which Charlevoix calls Cani-
bas and Malecites, against Pemaquid, associated
with Iberville, the French commander, and was
successful in the capture of the fort. Capt.
Chubb, who had fifteen cannon and ninety men,
did not make a brave defence. In 1706 Castin
assisted in the defence of Port Royal, and again
1707, when he was wounded. His son, the baron
de St. Castin, who succeeded him in the command
of the Penobscot Indians, was taken by surprise
in Dec. 1721, and carried a prisoner to Boston,
but soon released. His last days were spent in
France, where he had an estate. — Charlevoix ;
Hutcldnson; Hist. Coll.
CASTNER, JACOB R., minister of Mansfield,
N. J., died March 19, 1848, aged 62 years. A
graduate of Princeton, he was ordained at Ger
man Valley in 1813, but soon removed to M.
He was a man of influence and usefulness. In
one year, 1836, eighty persons were added to his
church. He was meek and humble, yet bold and
resolute for the truth and the right.
CASWELL, RICHARD, governor of North
Carolina, died at Fayetteville Nov. 20, 1789. He
received an education suitable for the bar, and
was distinguished as a friend to the rights of
mankind. Whenever oppressed indigence called
for his professional assistance, he afforded it
without the hope of any other reward than the
consciousness of having exerted himself to pro
mote the happiness of a fellow man. Warmly
attached to the liberties of his country, he was
appointed a member of the first congress in 1774,
and he early took arms in resistance to the arbi
trary claims of Great Britain. He was at the
head of a regiment in 1776, when it became ne
cessary to oppose a body of loyalists, composed of
a number of the ignorant and disorderly inhabi
tants of the frontiers styling themselves regulators,
and of emigrants from the highlands of Scotland.
This party of about fifteen hundred men was col
lected in the middle of Feb., under Gen. M'Don-
ald. He was pursued by Gen. Moore, and on
the 27th he found himself under the necessity of
CATESBY.
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203
engaging Col. Caswcll, who Avas intrenched
about one thousand minute-men and militia di
rectly in his front, at a place called Moore's creek
bridge. This was about sixteen miles distant
from Wilmington, where M'Donald hoped to
join Gen. Clinton. But he was defeated and
taken prisoner by Caswcll, with the loss of sev
enty men in killed and wounded, and fifteen hun
dred excellent rifles. This victory was of eminent
service to the American cause in North Carolina.
Col. Caswell was president of the convention
which formed the constitution of North Carolina
in Dec., 1776, under which constitution he Avas
governor from 1777 to the year 1780, and from
1785 to 1787. At the time of his death he was
president of the senate, and for a number of
years he had held the commission of major-gen
eral. In his character the public and domestic
virtues were united. Ever honored with some I
marks of the approbation of his fellow citizens, I
he watched with unremitted attention over the '
welfare of the community, and anxiously en
deavored also to promote the felicity of its mem
bers in their separate interests. While the
complacency of his disposition and his equal
temper peculiarly endeared him to his friends,
they commanded respect even from his enemies.
Of the society of freemasons he had been grand
master. — Martin's Funeral Oration; Gaz. of
the U. S. I. 307, 340 ; Marshall, I. 380 ; Gordon,
II. 209 ; Ramsay, I. 254.
CATESBY, MARK, F. R. S., an eminent nat
uralist, died in London, Dec. 24, 1749, aged 70.
He was born in England in 1679. Having an
early and a strong propensity to the study of
nature, he determined to gratify his taste by ex
ploring a part of the new world. As some of his
relations lived in Virginia, he was induced first to
visit that province, where he arrived April 23,
1712. Here he remained seven years, observing
and admiring the various productions of the coun
try, and occasionally sending dried specimens of
plants to his correspondents in Great Britain, and
particularly to Dr. Sherard. His collections,
however, as yet had no reference to the work,
which he afterwards published. On his return to
England in 1719, he was encouraged by the assis
tance of several of the nobility, and of some dis
tinguished naturalists, to revisit America with the
professed design of describing, delineating, and
painting the most curious objects of nature. He
arrived at South Carolina, which was selected as
the place of his residence, May 23, 1722 ; and,
having first examined the lower parts of the coun
try in occasional excursions from Charleston, he
afterwards went into the interior and resided for
some time at fort Moore upon Savannah river,
three hundred miles from the sea. From this
place he made several visits to the Indians, who
lived still higher up the river in the more moun
tainous regions ; and he also extended his re
searches through Georgia and Florida. In his
travels he generally engaged one of the savages
to be his companion, who carried for him his box,
containing conveniences for painting, and the
specimens of plants which he collected. Having
spent near three years upon the continent, he
visited the Bahama Islands at the invitation of
the governor, and, residing in the isle of Provi
dence, prosecuted his plan, and made various col
lections of fishes and submarine productions.
Returning to England in 1726, he was well re
ceived by his patrons ; but the great expense of
procuring engravings induced him to learn from
Joseph Goupy the art of etching. He then re
tired to Hoxton, where he devoted his time to
the completion of his great work, which he pub
lished in numbers of twenty plants each. The
figures were etched by himself from his own
paintings, and the colored copies were done under
his own inspection. Although his attention was
principally devoted to plants, yet most of his
plates exhibit some subject of the animal king
dom. The first number appeared in 1730, and
the first volume, consisting of one hundred plates,
was finished in 1732 ; the second in 1743 ; and
the appendix of twenty plates in 1748. Of each
number a regular account, written by Dr. Crom
well Mortimer, secretary of the royal society, was
laid before the society, as it appeared, and printed
in the philosophical transactions. The whole work
is entitled, the natural history of Carolina, Florida,
and the Bahama Islands, in French and English,
containing the figures of birds, beasts, fishes, etc.,
colored after the life, and a map of the countries.
It contains descriptions of many curious and im
portant articles of food, medicine, domestic econ
omy, and ornamental culture ; and was one of
the most splendid works of the kind, which had
ever been published. The principal defect of the
work is the want of a separate delineation of all
the parts of the flower. For the Latin names,
Mr. Catesby was indebted to Dr. Sherard. He
did not live to see a second impression. He died
leaving a widow and two children, whose depend
ence for support was entirely upon the profits of
his work. He was esteemed by the most respect
able members of the royal society, of which he
Avas a fellow, for his modesty, ingenuity, and up
right behavior. His name has been perpetuated
by Dr. Gronovius, in the plant, called Catesbaea.
The second edition of Catesby's natural history
was published in 1754, and the third, 1771, to
which a Linna>an index was annexed. The color
ings, however, of this edition are wretchedly exe
cuted ; those which passed under the inspection
of Catesby himself have most of life and beauty,
though even these cannot vie with the splendid
figures, which are now presented to the lovers of
natural history. He was the author of a paper,
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CHAMBERLAIN.
printed in the forty-fourth volume of the philo
sophical transactions, on birds of passage; in
which he proves, that they emigrate in search of
proper food, from a variety of observations which
he had an opportunity of making during his
voyages across the Atlantic. In 1767 there
was published under his name, hortus Amcri-
canus, a collection of eighty-five curious trees and
shrubs from North America, adapted to the soil
of Great Britain, colored, folio. — Preface to his
Nat. Hist. ; Bees' Cyd. ; Miller, II. 365 ; Pulte-
ney's Sketches of the Prog, of Botany in Eng
land, II. ch. 44.
CATHCART, JAMES LEAXDER, died at Wash
ington Oct. 6, 1843, aged 76.
CATHRALL, ISAAC, M. D., a physician in
Philadelphia, studied in that city and in London,
Edinburgh, and Paris, and returned home in
1793. During the prevalence of the yellow fever
in that year, and in 1797, 1798, and 1799, he re
mained at his post, and even dissected those who
died of the disease. In 1816 he was seized with
a paralytic affection. He died of the apoplexy
Feb. 22, 1819, aged 55. He was a judicious
physician ; a skillful anatomist and surgeon ; a
man of rigid morality and inflexible integrity ;
and truly estimable in the relations of a son, hus
band, and father. In his religious views he was a
Quaker. He published remarks on the yellow
fever, 1794; Buchan's domestic medicine, with
notes, 1797 ; memoir on the analysis of the black
vomit, showing that it might be safely tasted,
1800, in fifth volume of the transactions of the
American philosophical society ; and a pamphlet
on the yellow fever, in conjunction with Dr. Cur-
rie, in 1802. — Thacher's Med. Biog.
CATLLN, JACOB, D. D., minister of New Marl-
borough, Mass., a native of Harwinton, Conn.,
was graduated at Yale college in 1784, and or
dained July 3d or 4th, 1787. His predecessors
were Thomas Strong, who was ordained in 1744,
and died in 1777, and Caleb Alexander. After
a ministry of nearly forty years, he died April 12,
1826, aged 68. Industry, patience, frankness,
and meekness were his characteristics. He was
a plain, faithful preacher. During his ministry
about two hundred and fifty persons were added
to the church. He published a compendium of
the system of the divine truth, 12mo. 2d ed. 1825.
— Hist, of Berkshire, 298.
CATON, RICHARD, died in Baltimore May 19,
1845, aged 83. A native of Lancashire, England,
he married a daughter of Charles Carroll, and
was the father of the Marchioness of "Wellesley,
the Duchess of Leeds, and Lady Stafford. He
was a man of wealth, having large landed estates ;
and was a zealous Catholic.
CAZNEAU, MARGARET, Mrs., died in "Wren-
tham, in April, 1769, aged 97, a Huguenot, born
in Itochellc. Her daughter, Elizabeth, who mar
ried Col. John Boyle of Boston, died Oct. 22,
1846, aged 90.
CHABERT, M. DE, published Voyage dans
1'Amerique Septent., 1750 et 1751, 4to. 1753.
CHALKLEY, THOMAS, died in 1741. He was
a preacher among the Quakers of Pennsylvania ;
removed from England to that colony about the
year 1701, and lived there upwards of forty years,
excepting when the necessary affairs of trade, or
his duties as a preacher, called him away. In
1705 he visited the Indians at Conestoga, near the
river Susquehannah, in company with some of his
brethren, to secure their friendship and impart to
them religious instruction. He died at the Island
of Tortola, while on a visit there for the purpose
of promoting what he believed to be the truth.
He was a man of many virtues, and was endeared
to his acquaintance by the gentleness of his man
ners. The library of the Quakers in Philadel
phia was commenced by him. His journal and a
collection of his writings was published at Phila
delphia, 1749, and New York, 1808. — Proud, I.
463.
CHALMERS, LIONEL, M. D., a physician of
South Carolina, died in 1777, aged 62. He was
born about the year 1715 at Cambleton in the
west of Scotland, and came when very young to
Carolina, where he practised physic more than
forty years. He first practised in Christ church,
but soon removed to Charleston. Affecting no
mystery in his practice, he employed the knowl
edge, which he had acquired, for the good of
mankind. He left behind him the character of a
skilful, humane physician, and of a worthy, hon
est man. He wrote in 1754 useful remarks on
opisthotonos and tetanus, which were published in
the first volume of the medical society of Lon
don. His work on fevers was published at
Charleston, 1767, in which he gave the outlines
of the spasmodic theory, which had been taught
by Hoffman, and which was afterwards more
fully illustrated by Cullen. Besides several
smaller productions he also published a valuable
work on the weather and diseases of South Car
olina, 2 vols. London, 1776. — Miller, I. 319; n.
364; Ramsay's Rev. of Med. 42, 44; Hist, of
South Carolina, II. 112, 451.
CHALMERS, GEORGE, died in London in
June, 1825, aged 82. In early life he practised
law in Maryland. He published, with other
works, political annals of the United Colonies,
4to. 1780; estimate of strength of Britain, 1782;
opinions on subjects of law and policy, arising
from American independence, 1784; opinions of
lawyers on English jurisprudence, 2 vols. 1814;
life of Mary, queen of Scots, 1822.
CHAMBERLAIN, LEVI, for twenty years the
secular superintendent of the mission at the
Sandwich Islands, died at Honolulu July 29, 1849,
aged nearly 57. Born in Dover, Vt., he was
CHAMBERS.
trained as a merchant in Boston and acquired a
good property; but his prosperous business he
relinquished, in his zeal to aid the mission, with
which he became connected in 1823. His various
toils were incessant and most important, as he had
judgment, caution, prudence, economy, and self-
denial. Once in ill health he revisited Boston,
making a voyage around the world. His end,
peaceful and triumphant, is described in the Mis
sionary Herald, Dec., 1849. His wife was Maria
Patten of Pequea, Pa.
CHAMBERS, Jonx, chief justice of New
York, was a member of the executive council in
1754, when he attended, as one of the commis
sioners, the congress at Albany June 14th. He
was soon afterwards appointed judge, and died at
New York April 10, 1765.
CHAMBERS, WILLIAM, a physician of New
York, died in that city July 23, 1827. A short
time before his death he acquired considerable
celebrity by the invention of a medicine for the
cure of intemperance. The effect was produced
by the strong association of what is nauseous and
insufferable with the taste of ardent spirits.
CHAMBERS, DAVID, colonel, died in Cran
berry, N. J., Sept., 1842, aged 94, a soldier of the
Revolution, highly respected through life.
CHAMBERS, JOHN, died at Newburgh Sept.
26, 18<54, aged 77. He was an estimable citizen,
president of the bank, and treasurer of the city.
He loved the Bible, and the house of God, and
lived in daily prayer ; but he never ventured to
come to the Lord's table. — N. Y. Observer, Oct.
12.
CHAMBERS, Joiix, governor of Iowa about
1841, died near Paris, Kentucky, Sept. 21, 1852,
aged 73. Born in New Jersey, he emigrated to
Kentucky. He was a lawyer and soldier, and a
friend of Harrison. As superintendent of Indian
affairs and governor of Iowa, he manifested great
prudence and ability. At several times he was
a member of congress.
CHAMBLY, DE, captain, gave his name to the
fort in Canada, which he built of wood, in 1665,
but which was afterwards constructed of stone,
with four bastions. The fort of Sorel was built
at the same time by Capt. De Sorel. Both
Chambly and Sorel were officers in the regiment
of Carignan-Salieres, which, after fighting in
Hungary against the Turks, was sent to Canada
in 1665 to fight against the Iroquois. Chambly
owned the land in the neighborhood of the fort.
About the year 1673 he was appointed as succes
sor of Orandfontaine, to the command of the fort
at Penobscot; but, Aug. 10, 1674, he was taken
prisoner by an Englishman ; and at the same
period the fort at St. John's was also surprised.
In 1680 he was nominated governor of Acadia;
but in a short time was promoted to the govern
ment of Grenada. — Charlevoix, I. 381, 462.
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CHAMPE, JOHN, sergeant-major of Lee's
legion cavalry in the Revolutionary war, was born
in Loudon county, Virginia. In 1776 he entered
the army, at the age of 20. Immediately after the
treason of Arnold, he was sent by Lee, at the
request of Washington, as a spy to New York,
for two purposes : to ascertain whether another
American general was also a traitor, as has been
suggested in some papers in the hands of Wash
ington ; and, if possible, to bring off Arnold to the
American head-quarters, that he might be tried
and punished, and thus Andre be saved. It was
with a daring spirit of patriotism, that Champe
undertook this enterprise. He feared not the
danger ; but the ignominy of desertion and of
enlisting in the army of the enemy, he appre
hended, would destroy his hope of promotion,
should he live to return. He was assured, that
his character should be protected at a proper
time. At eleven o'clock the same night Champe
took his cloak, valise, and orderly book, drew his
horse from the picket, and fled, as a deserter,
from the American camp near Tappan. In half
an hour the desertion was reported to Lee, who
made all the delay in his power, and then
ordered a pursuit about twelve. At about day
break, a few miles north of the village of Bergen,
the pursuing party beheld from the summit of a
hill the deserter half a mile in front. Champe
now put spurs to his horse, and the pursuit was
hot; he passed through Bergen, to reach the
British galleys a few miles west, at Elizabeth-
town point. Getting abreast of the galleys, hav
ing lashed his valise on his shoulders, with his
drawn sword in his hand, he dismounted, and
running through the marsh plunged into the river
and called to the galleys for help. This was
afforded, for a boat was sent to take him up.
The horse was carried back to the camp. To
Washington the success of Champe was very
acceptable intelligence. Champe was taken to
New York and examined by Sir Henry Clinton,
and by him sent to Arnold, who offered him the
place of sergeant-major in a legion he was rais
ing. On the last day of Sept., he was appointed
one of Arnold's recruiting sergeants. He en
listed, because that step was necessary, in order
that he might gain access to the traitor. Two
days afterwards Andre was tried, and, the intelli
gence from Champe not promising any immediate
success in carrying off Arnold, the sentence was
executed Oct. 3d. In a few days Champe sent
ample evidence of the innocence of the accused
general, who probably was Gates, so that Gen.
Washington dismissed all his suspicions. Oct.
20, the general expressed his approbation of
Champe's plan for taking Arnold, of whom he
wished to " make a public example," and pledged
himself to bestow the promised rewards on
Champe and his associate. The plan was this :
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CHAMPLAIN.
to seize Arnold, when in his garden, whither he
went at a late hour every night; to gag him ; and
to drag him between two men, as a drunken
soldier, to a boat on the Hudson, and to deliver
him to a party of horse on the Jersey shore.
The night was fixed, and the intelligence com
municated to Lee, who repaired to lloboken with
a party of dragoons and three led horses for
Champe, his associate, and the prisoner; but after
waiting in vain for hours near the river shore, he
retired, as the day broke, and returned to the
army with deep chagrin. It appeared, that on
the eventful day Arnold removed his quarters, in
order to superintend the embarkation of troops ;
and the American legion, to which Champe be
longed, was transferred to the fleet of transports,
and landed in Virginia. After the junction of
Cornwallis with Arnold at Petersburg, Champe
escaped and rejoined the American army in
North Carolina. When his story was known, he
secured the respect and love of every officer and
soldier. Greene furnished him with a horse and
money, and sent him to Washington, who granted
him a discharge, lest, falling into the enemy's
hands, he should die on a gibbet. When Wash
ington was called by President Adams, in July
1798, to the command of the army then raised,
he sent to Lieut.-Col. Lee to inquire for Champe,
determined to place him at the head of a com
pany of infantry ; but he had removed to Ken
tucky, where he soon afterwards died. — Lee's
Memoir's, II. 159-187.
CHAMPION, GEORGE, missionary to Africa,
died at Santa Cruz Dec. 17, 1841. Born in Col
chester, Conn., June 3, 1810, he graduated at
Yale in 1831, at Andovcr 1834. He embarked
for Cape Town in Dec., 1834, and commenced a
mission among the Zulus. He returned in 1839
in consequence of the illness of his wife, Susan
Larned of Webster, but was hoping to go again
to Africa. He devoted his strength and his
property, with which providence had liberally
supplied him, to the African mission.
CHAMPLAIN, SAMUEL DE, the founder and
Governor of Quebec, died in Dec., 1635. He
was of a noble family of Brouage, in the prov
ince of Saintonge, in France. He commanded a
vessel, in which he made a voyage to the East
Indies about the year 1600, and acquired a high
reputation as an able and experienced officer.
After an absence of two years and a half he re
turned to France, at a time when it was resolved
to prosecute the discoveries which had been com
menced in Canada by Cartier. The Marquis de
la Itoche, and Chauvin, governors of Canada, had
endeavored to establish a colony, and the latter
was succeeded by I)e Chatte, who engaged Cham-
plain in his service in 1603. Champlain sailed
March 16, accompanied by Pontgravc, who had
made many voyages to Tadoussac, at the entrance
of the Saguenay into the St. Lawrence. After
their arrival at this place, May 25th, he left his
vessel, and in a light batteau ascended the St.
Lawrence to the falls of St. Louis, which bounded
the discoveries of Cartier in 1535. This was in
the neighborhood of Hochclaga ; but that Indian
settlement was not now in existence. After
making many inquiries of the natives, and ex
ploring much of the country along the St. Law
rence, he sailed for France in August. On his
arrival in Sept., he found that De Chatte was
dead, and his commission as lieutenant-general
of Canada given to the Sieur DC Monts. This
gentleman engaged him as his pilot in another
voyage to the new world.
Champlain sailed on his second voyage March
7, 1604, and arrived at Acadie May 6. After
being employed about a month in the long boat,
visiting the coast in order to find a proper situa
tion for a settlement, he pitched upon a small
island about twenty leagues to the westward of
St John's river, and about half a league in cir
cumference. To this island De Monts, after his
arrival at the place, gave the name of St. Croix.
It lies in the river of the same name, which
divides the United States from the British prov
ince of New Brunswick. During the winter,
Champlain Avas occupied in exploring the country,
and he went as far as Cape Cod, where he gave
the name of Malebarre to a point of land, on
account of the imminent danger of running
aground near it with his bark. In the next year
he pursued his discoveries, though he did not
pass more than ten or twelve leagues beyond
Malebarre.
In 1607 he was sent out on another voyage to
Tadoussac, accompanied by Pontgrave. In July,
1608, he laid the foundation of Quebec. He
was a man who did not embarrass himself with
commerce, and who felt no interest in the traffic
with the Indians, which proved so profitable to
many that were engaged in it. Being intrusted
with the charge of establishing a permanent col
ony, he examined the most eligible places for
settlement, and selected a spot upon the St. Law
rence, at the confluence of this river and the
small river of St. Charles, about three hundred
and twenty miles from the sea. The river in this
place was very much contracted, and it was on
this account that the natives called it Quebec.
Here he arrived July 3. He erected barracks,
cleared the ground, sowed wheat and rye, and
laid the foundation of the capital of Canada.
The toil of subduing the wilderness was not very
acceptable to all his company, for some of them
conspired to put their leader to death, and to
embark at Tadoussac for France. The attempt
to destroy him was to be made by poison and by
a train of gunpowder; but, the apothecary having
discovered the scheme, one of the conspirators
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was hanged, and others condemned to the gal
leys. During the winter his people were afflicted
with the scurvy. Champlain sought after the
medicine which had been so successfully used by
Cartier ; but the tree, which was called Annedda,
was not now to be found. From this circum
stance it was concluded that the tribe of Indians
with which Cartier was acquainted, had been ex
terminated by their enemies.
In the summer of the year 1G09, when the
Hurons, Algonquins, and others were about to
march against their common enemy, the Iroquois,
Champlain very readily joined them, for he had
a keen taste for adventures, and he hoped by a
conquest to impress all the Indian tribes with the
power of the French, and to secure an alliance with
them. He did not foresee, that he should force
the Iroquois who lived in what is now the State
of New York, to seek the protection of the Eng
lish and Dutch. He embarked on the river Sorel,
which was then called the Iroquois, because these
savages usually descended by this stream into
Canada. At the falls of Chambly he was stopped,
and was obliged to send back his boat. Only two
Frenchmen remained with him. He ascended
with his allies in the Indian canoes to the lake,
to which he gave his own name, which it retains
at the present day. The savages, whom he ac
companied, hoped to surprise the Iroquois in
their villages, but they met them unexpectedly
upon the lake. After gaining the land, it was
agreed to defer the battle till the next day, as
the night was now approaching. In the morning
of July 30 Champlain placed a party with his
two Frenchmen in a neighboring wood, so as to
come upon the enemy in flank. The Iroquois,
who were about two hundred in number, seeing
but a handful of men, were sure of victory. But
as soon as the battle began, Champlain killed two
of their chiefs, who were conspicuous by their
plumes, by the first discharge of his firelock,
loaded with four balls. The report and execution
of fire-arms filled the Iroquois with inexpressible
consternation. They were quickly put to flight,
and the victorious allies returned to Quebec with
fifty scalps.
In Sept., 1609, Champlain embarked with Pont-
grave for France, leaving the colony under the
care of a brave man, named Peter Chavin. But
he was soon sent out again to the new world.
He sailed from Honfleur April 8, 1610, and ar
rived at Tadoussac on the 26th. He encouraged
the Montagnez Indians, who lived at this place,
to engage in a second expedition against the Iro
quois. Accordingly, soon after his arrival at
Quebec, they sent to him about sixty warriors.
At the head of these and others of the allies he
proceeded up the river Sorel. The enemy were
soon met, and after a severe engagement, in
which Champlain was wounded by an arrow, were
entirely defeated. He arrived at Quebec from
Montreal June 19, and landed at Ilochclle Aug.
11. After the death of Henry IV. the interest
of De Monts, in whose service Champlain had
been engaged, was entirely ruined, and the latter
was obliged to leave a settlement which he was
commencing at Mont Iloyal, or Montreal, and
to go again to France in 1611. Charles de Bour
bon, being commissioned by the queen regent
governor of New France, appointed Champlain
his lieutenant, with very extensive powers. He
returned to Canada in 1612, was engaged again
in war with the Iroquois, and made new discov
eries. His voyages across the Atlantic were fre
quent. He was continued lieutenant under the
prince of Conde and Montmorenci. In 1615 his
zeal for the spiritual interests of the Indians in
duced him to bring with him a number of Jesuit
fathers, some of whom assisted him in his war
fare. He penetrated to Lake Ontario, and, being
wounded while assisting the Hurons against their
enemies, was obliged to pass a whole winter
among them. "When he returned to Quebec in
July, 1616, he was received as one risen from the
dead. In July, 1629, he was obliged to capitulate
to an English armament under Sir David Kertk,
or Kirk. He was carried to France in an English
ship ; and there he found the public sentiment
much divided with regard to Canada ; some think
ing it not worth regaining, as it had cost the
government vast sums without bringing any re
turns, others deeming the fishery and fur trade
great national objects, especially as a nursery for
seamen. Champlain exerted himself to effect the
recovery of this country, and Canada was restored
by the treaty of St. Germain's in 1632, with Aca-
die and Cape Breton.
In 1633 the company of New France resumed
all their rights, and appointed Champlain the
governor. In a short time he was at the head of
a new armament, furnished with a fresh recruit
of Jesuits, inhabitants, and all kinds of necessaries
for the welfare of the revived colony. His atten
tion was now engrossed by the spiritual interests
of the savages, whom it was his principal object
to bring to the knowledge of the Christian relig
ion. The number of ecclesiastical missionaries,
exclusive of lay brothers, was now fifteen, the
chief of whom were Le Jeune, De Noue, and
Masse, and Brebeuf. A mission was established
among the Hurons ; the colony was gaining an
accession of numbers and strength; and an at
tempt was just commencing to establish a college
in Quebec, when the governor died, and was suc
ceeded the next year by De Montmagny.
Champlain merited the title of the father of
New France. Though he was credulous, he pos
sessed an uncommon share of penetration. His
views were upright, and in circumstances of diffi
culty no man could make a better choice of
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CHANDLER.
measures. He prosecuted his enterprises with
constancy, and no clangers could shake lu's firm
ness. His zeal for the interests of his country
was ardent and disinterested ; his heart was ten
der and compassionate towards the unhappy;
and he was more attentive to the concerns of his
friends, than to his own. He was a faithful his
torian, a voyager who observed everything with
attention, skilful in geometry, and an experienced
seaman. He appears to have been fond of good
cheer, for in the early period of his residence in
Canada he established with his associates an order
" de bon temps," which contributed not a little to
the gratification of the palate. By this order
every one of the same table was in his turn to be
both steward and caterer for a day. He was care
ful by hunting to make a suitable provision, and
at supper, when the cook had made everything
ready, he marched at the head of the company
with a napkin over his shoulder, having also the
staff of office, and wearing the collar of his order,
and was followed by his associates, each of whom
bore a dish. At the close of the banquet he
pledged his successor in a bumper of wine and
resigned to him the collar and staff. It may not
be easy to justify Champlain in taking an active
part in the Avar against the Iroquois. It is even
supposed by some, that his love of adventures led
him to arouse the spirit of the Hurons and to
excite them to war. His zeal for the propagation
of religion among the savages was so great, that
he used to say, " that the salvation of one soul
was of more value than the conquest of an em
pire ; and that kings ought not to think of ex
tending their authority over idolatrous nations,
except for the purpose of subjecting them to Jesus
Christ,"
He published an account of his first voyages in
1613, in 4to., and a continuation in 1620, in 8vo.
He published an edition of these in 1632, in one
volume, entitled, Les voyages de la Nouvelle
France occidentalc, dicte Canada, 4to. This work
comprises a history of New France from the first
discoveries of Verazzani to the year 1631. There
is added to it a treatise on navigation and the
duty of a good mariner, and an abridgment of
the Christian doctrine in Huron and French. —
Champlain's Voyages ; Charlcvoix, Fastes Chro-
nol., xxvm-xxx; I. Ill, 141-198; Bdknap's
American Biography, I. 322-345 ; Universal
History, xxxix. 410-426; Purchas, I. 933; v.
1605-1645 ; Harris' Voyages; I. 811-815 ; Holmes,
I.; Chalmers, I. 586 ; Churchill, ill. 798-815.
CHAMPLIN, CHRISTOPHER, a senator of the
United States, died at Newport, 11. I., March 18,
1840, aged 74; a graduate of Harvard in 1786.
He was in congress 1797-1801, and senator
1809-11.
CHANDLER, THOMAS BRADBURY, D. D., an
eminent Episcopalian minister and writer, died
June 17, 1790, aged 64. He was a native of
Woodstock, Conn., and was graduated at Yale
college, in 1745. There was with many, in the
year 1748, an expectation of an Episcopal estab
lishment in this country, when men of talents
could indulge the hope of becoming dignitaries in
the church. The bait of preferment was at this
time offered to Dr. Stiles. Whether the circum
stances of the times had an insensible influence
over the mind of Mr. Chandler or not, it was in
the year 1748, that he was proselyted to Episco
pacy. He went to England in 1751, and took
orders in the established church. On his return
to this country he became rector of St. John's
church at Elkabethtown, N. J., where he long
maintained a high character both for erudition
and talents. During the last ten years of his life
he was afflicted with a disorder, which made trial
of all his patience. But he was resigned to the
will of God. His hope of final deliverance from
sin, and from the evils connected with it, rested
upon the incarnation and sufferings of the eternal
Son of the Father, lie was even cheerful under
the heavy troubles which were laid upon him.
He was a zealous friend of the Episcopal church,
and he wrote much in favor of it. He was en
gaged in a controversy on the subject with Dr.
Chauncey of Boston. He published an appeal
to the public in behalf of the church of England
in America, 1767 ; a defence of his appeal, 1769 ;
a further defence of his appeal, 1771 ; a sermon,
preached before the corporation for the relief of
the widows and children of Episcopal clergymen,
1771 ; an examination of the critical commentary
on Seeker's letter to Walpole, concerning bishops
in America, 1774. He also prepared for the
press a life of Dr. Johnson ; but the Revolution
j arrested its publication. It was printed at New
York in the year 1805. — Miller, II. 356 ; Beach's
Funeral Sermon ; Gen. Hist, of Conn., 158 ;
Memoirs of T. Hollis, I. 435, 436.
CHANDLER, PETER, died in Mexico, N. Y.,
in 1848. He bequeathed 5,000 dollars to each
of five societies, namely: the education, foreign
mission, home mission, bible, and tract.
CHANDLER, JOHN, general, died while on a
visit in New York, Sept., 1846, aged 75. His
residence was Augusta, Me. He took part in the
war of 1812, a friend of Dearborn. For some
years he was the collector of Portland.
CHANDLER, ABIEL, died in Walpole, N. H.,
March 22, 1851, aged 73. A native of Concord,
N. H., he graduated at Cambridge in 1806, and
became a merchant in Boston. He bequeathed
50,000 dollars to Dartmouth college for a scien
tific school, and provided for the gratuitous in
struction of worthy students. To the asylum for
the insane in New Hampshire he bequeathed
1,600 dollars and the surplus of his estate. He
was a widower without children.
CIIAXLER.
CHANNLNG.
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CHANLER, ISAAC, a Baptist minister, was
born in Bristol, England, in 1701, and came to
South Carolina in 1733. He settled as pastor of
a Baptist church on Ashley river in 1730, where
he continued till his death, Nov. 30, 1749, aged
48. He was succeeded by Oliver Hart, who re
mained till 1780, when he removed to New Jer
sey. Mr. Chanlcr published a sermon on estab
lishment in grace, preached at Charleston in
1740, by the desire of Mr. Whitefield, at the com
mencement of a course of lectures by ministers of
different denominations ; also, the doctrines of glo
rious grace unfolded, and practically improved ;
a treatise on original sin; and a sermon on the
death of Rev. Win. Tilly, 1744. — Miller, n. 364;
Backus' Abridgment, 248 ; Benedict, II. 12G.
CHANNING, HENRY, died of apoplexy in
N. Y., Aug. 27, 1840, aged 81, formerly a minis
ter in New London, the uncle of Dr. W. E. Chan-
ning.
CHANNING, WILLIAM ELLERY, D. D., minis
ter in Boston, died in Bennington, Vt., Oct. 2,
1842, aged G2. He was born at Newport, R. L,
April 7, 1780, and was the son of William Chan-
ning, an eminent lawyer. His mother was the
daughter of William Ellery, one of the signers of
the Declaration of Independence. After graduat
ing at Harvard in 1798, he resided a year as a
teacher in the family of David M. Randolph, of
Richmond, Va. He was ordained the pastor of
the church in Federal street, Boston, June 1,
1803, as the successor of Mr. Popkin. In 1822
he visited Europe. The winter of 1830 he spent
in St. Croix. His colleague, Mr. Gannett, was
settled in 1824. In 1840 he was released from
his pastoral services. In 1842 he passed some
weeks in Berkshire county, chiefly at Lenox.
While on his journey, in his proposed return to
Boston, he died at Bennington. One, who lived
half a century ago in the neighborhood of Boston,
must remember the amazing interest created by
the two young, eloquent, and unequalled preach
ers, Buckminster and Channing ; of whom the
latter, not less scholarly, had less of polished ora
tory and display, and more of unction and heart-
touching address, than the former. Both always
attracted hearers, and were heard with deep in
terest. No ministers did more in promoting the
Unitarian doctrines in this country. Mr. Buck-
minster soon died, and Mr. Channing was left as
the acknowledged head of Unitarianism ; and, as
such, it is an inquiry of much interest, what
were his prominent religious doctrines ? In his
last address, which was made at Lenox, were
these words : " The doctrine of the Word made
flesh shows us God uniting himself intimately
with our nature, manifesting himself in a human
form, for the very end of making us partakers of
his own perfection." He says also, elsewhere :
" In Jesus Christ our nature has been intimately
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united with the Divine." Was he, then, a Swe-
denborgian, who believed that God assumed a
human form in Christ ? Probably not, for in hia
other writings, he asserts explicitly that " Christ
is one mind, one being, — distinct from the one
God ; " and that he was sent of God, and received
all his powers from God. He also says : " We
believe that God dwelt in him, manifested him
self through him, taught men by him, and com
municated to him his spirit without measure ; "
" so that when Christ came, God visited the world
and dwelt with men more conspicuously, than at
any former period." If he was not a Swedenbor-
gian, was he a Socinian ? In answer to this in
quiry, let the following words be considered:
" We say that he, who was sent into the world to
save it, cannot be the living God, who sent him."
" He is first of the Sons of God." " First of all
the ministers of God's mercy and beneficence."
" Who came into the world, not to claim supreme
homage for himself," &c. " God sent his Son."
Some may construe these words as meaning only,
that Christ was miraculously born of the Virgin
Mary ; and it is remarkable that Dr. Channing.
in his writings, nowhere speaks of the pre-exist-
ence of Christ, or of God's creating the world by
him, or uses any expression which proves that he
was not a Socinian. Therefore, some may be
disposed to ask, if he believed in a doctrine of
such vast importance as the pre-existence and
glorious attributes of the Son of God, possessed
by him before the creation, why did he not teach
it clearly and unequivocally ? Was he not then
a Socinian, or one unsettled on the subject of
Socinianism ? As to his views on the great doc
trine of an atoning sacrifice for sin, they seem ob
scure or adverse to any such doctrine. He is
clear enough in denying the notion of an infinite
atonement : " I see in it no impression of majesty,
or wisdom, or love, nothing worthy of God ; and,
when I compare it with that nobler faith, which
-directs our eyes and hearts to God's essential
mercy as our only hope, I am amazed, that any
should ascribe to it superior efficacy as a religion
for sinners, as a means of filling the soul with
pious trust and love." He nowhere in his writ
ings dwells upon Christ's propitiatory offering up
of himself for the sins of the world ; nowhere ex
plains the relation of the Jewish sacrifices to
Christ's sacrifice ; nowhere alludes to Isaiah's
prediction of his atoning death ; nor to Paul's
teaching of j ustification through faith in his blood,
nor to the song of the heavenly host — " Worthy
is the Lamb that was slain, and hath redeemed
us to God by his blood." Instead of teaching,
that God sent his Son from heaven to die on the
cross to atone for sin, that "he might be just and
the justificr of him who believcth," he seems to
regard the death of Christ as having no relation
to God's justice, or holy government, or God's
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CHARLEVOIX.
universe of moral beings, but only as in
some way influencing the character of the sinner ;
for in his last address he says, "Come, Friend
and Saviour of the race, who didst shed thy blood
upon the cross to reconcile man to man, and
earth to heaven." His vehement assaults on
Trinitarianism and Calvinism are chiefly contained
in his sermons at the ordination of J. Sparks,
1819, and at the dedication of a Unitarian church
in New York, in 1826. His monument at Mount
Auburn was designed by his brother-in-law, Mr.
Allston. He published a volume of his discourses,
reviews, etc., in 1830. His works have been pub
lished in six volumes, and in several editions.
CHANNIXG, EDWARD T., L.L. D., the brother
of the preceding, died in Boston, Feb. 7, 1856,
aged 65. He was appointed professor of rhetoric
at Harvard college in 1819.
CHAPES", SETH, deacon, an officer in the Rev
olutionary war, died at Mendon, Nov. 15, 1833,
aged 79. His grandfather, Joshua, came from
Lancashire with a brother Gershom, who settled
at Springfield. From these have sprung many
ministers.
CHAPES", WALTER, minister of Woodstock,
Vermont, died July 22, 1827, aged 48. He was
an efficient friend of various benevolent societies.
For several years he was the editor of a small
religious paper, which was discontinued in 1824.
He published a valuable compilation, the Mission
ary Gazetteer.
CHAPIN, JOEL, died in Bainbridge, N. Y., in
1845, aged 84. A soldier of the Revolution, then
a graduate of Dartmouth in 1791, he settled as a
minister in the wilderness on the Susquehannah,
and was faithful as a preacher of the gospel.
CHAPLN, STEPHEN, D. D., died at Washing
ton, Oct. 1, 1845, aged 67. He published two ser
mons at Mount Vernon, N. II., 1809; at an ordi
nation, 1825.
CHAPIN, CALVIN, D. I)., born in Springfield,
died at Rocky Hill in Wethersfield, March 17,
1851, aged 87. lie died in his chair. He often
said of Christ : " I desire to see him as he is."
He lived contented on a salary of 333 dollars,
was a most faithful and excellent minister, a good
scholar, a wise man of incessant industry, a good
farmer, a good mechanic, a skilful bookbinder,
of never-failing cheerfulness and good humor, en
joying great happiness even in his old age, never
leaving his beloved home except at the call of
public duty. Interesting recollections of him are
in the Recorder of July 17, 1856, probably by Dr.
Brace. His wife, whom he loved, Jcrusha, daugh
ter of Dr. Edwards, died Dec. 4, 1847, aged 71.
Of his college class of 1788 only two are alive;
one is Daniel Waldo, aged 94, now chaplain of
congress. He was a founder and promoter of mis
sionary and other important societies ; for thirty-
two years secretary of the American board. I [e
published an extraordinary essay, recommend
ing, — in his zeal for temperance, — the substitu
tion of water for wine in the Lord's Supper.
Probably his mistaken advice was never followed.
He published sermons at the ordination of S.
Whittlesey, 1807 ; of II. Beckley, 1808 ; on the
death of President Dwight, 181?"; of Dr. Marsh,
1821; on Christian morals. — N. Y. Observer,
March 27, 1851.
CHAPLIN, EBENEZER, minister of Millbury,
Mass., was ordained Nov. 14, 1764, and after
about thirty years dismissed, and was succeeded
by Mr. Goffe! He died at Hardwick, Dec. 13,
1822, aged 89. lie published a sermon on the
death of Mr. Webb, Uxbridge, 1772 ; discourse
on political affairs, 1773 ; result of a council,
1793 ; a treatise on the sacraments, 12mo. 1802.
CHAPLLN, DANIEL, D. D., minister of Groton,
Mass., was a descendant of Hugh Chaplin of Row
ley, who came to this country as early as 1638.
He was graduated at Harvard college in 1772,
and died in May, 1831, aged 87. His son, Dr.
James P. Chaplin, a very respectable and useful
physician of Cambridgcport, died Oct. 12, 1S28,
aged 46. He published the character of Rev.
Mr. Wright, 1802; convention sermon, 1808;
before a charitable society, 1814 ; before another,
1815.
CHAPLIN, JEREMIAH, D. D., president of
Waterville college, Maine, died in May, 1841.
Born in Rowley, Jan. 2, 1776, a descendant of
Hugh C., one of the first settlers, he graduated at
Brown in 1799; preached as a Baptist minister in
Danvers till 1818; was then President of Water
ville college till 1833, when he resigned, preaching
afterwards in Rowley, and in Hamilton, N. Y.
CHAPMAN, ASA, judge of the supreme court
of Conn., was graduated at Yale college in 1792,
and in a few years commenced the practice of the
law at Newtown, rising to the first rank in his
profession. In 1818 he was appointed to the
bench of the supreme court, in which station he
was upright and impartial, while he was profound
and learned as a jurist. He died at New Haven
Sept. 24, 1825, aged 54.
CHARDON, PETER, a Jesuit missionary, was
employed for many years among the Indians upon
lake Michigan. He began his labors as early as
1697, and continued them for twenty-five or
thirty years. He presided over the mission at
the village of Poutcautamis, upon the river St.
Joseph, and he labored also among the Sakis at
the southern extremity of Green Bay, or baye des
Puans, as it was called by the French. He was
acquainted with almost all the languages of the
Indians, who lived on the lakes. — Charlevoix,
in, 392, 295; Lettres tdif. et Curieuses,xi. 372-
378.
CHARLEVOIX, PETER FRANCIS XAVIER DE,
a historical writer, who lived a number of years
('II ASK
CHASE.
in Canada, died in 1761, aged 78. He was born
at St. Quintin in France in 1684, and, entering
into the society of Jesuits, taught the languages
and philosophy with great reputation. Before
the year 1720 he had resided some time in Que
bec, and was connected, it is believed, with the
college in that place. By order of the king he
made a voyage to Canada hi 1720, where he ar
rived in September. From Quebec he passed up
the St. Lawrence, and through the lakes to Mich-
illimackinac; thence down lake Michigan, and
the Illinois and Mississippi rivers to New Orleans,
from which place he returned, touching at St.
Domingo, to France in 1722. During this period
he collected facts for his history of Canada, and
kept a journal, which he afterwards published,
annexed to his history. After his arrival in his
native country, he had a principal concern for
twenty-four years in the journal des Trevoux.
He published in French the history of Christian
ity in Japan, 8 vols. 1715, 8vo. ; the life of Mary,
1624, 12mo. ; the history of St. Domingo, 2 vols.
1731, 4to. ; the history and general description of
Japan, 2 vols. 1736, 4tc., and 9 vols. 12mo., com
prising all that is valuable in Koempfer's history
of that country ; a general history of New France,
3 vols. 1744, 4to., and 6 vols. 12mo. ; and a history
of Paraguay, 3 vols. 1756, 4to. His works were
well received ; but the history of New France, or
Canada, is deemed peculiarly valuable, as he him
self visited the country which he described, and
paid particular attention to the manners and cus
toms of the Indians. He has added something
upon botany and other parts of natural history ;
but on these subjects a perfect confidence is not
placed in his accuracy. His style is deficient in
precision. — Nouv. Diet, Ilistorique, edit. 1804;
Aikirfs and Nicholson's General Biography.
CHASE, SAMUEL, a judge of the supreme
court of the United States, died June 19, 1811,
aged 70. He was the son of Thomas Chase, an
Episcopal minister, who came from England, and
was born in Somerset county, Maryland. Under
his father, who removed to Baltimore in 1743, he
received his early education. He studied law at
Annapolis and there settled in the practice, and
" his talents, industry, intrepidity, imposing stat
ure, sonorous voice, fluent and energetic elocution
raised him to distinction." In the colonial legis
lature he vehemently resisted the stamp act. He
was a delegate to the general congress at Phila
delphia in Sept., 1774, and served in that body
several years. It was he who denounced Mr.
Zubly, the delegate from Georgia, as a traitor,
and compelled him to flee. By the congress he
was early in 1776 sent with Franklin and Carroll
on a mission to Canada, with the design of con
ciliating the good will of the inhabitants. When
the proposition for independence was before con
gress, as he had been prohibited from voting for
it by the convention of Maryland, he immediately
traversed the province and summoned county
meetings, which should address the convention.
In this way that body was induced to vote for in
dependence ; and with this authority Mr. Chase
returned again to congress in season to vote for
the declaration. In 1783, being invited, at Balti
more, to attend a debating club of young men,
the indication of talents by Wm. Pinckncy, then
clerk to an apothecary, induced him to patronize
the young man, who afterwards rose to great em
inence. In the same year he went to England as
the agent of the State of Maryland, to reclaim a
large amount of property, which had been in
trusted to the bank of England. At a subsequent
period the State recovered 650,000 dollars. In
England he became acquainted with Pitt, Fox,
and Burke. In 1786 he removed to Baltimore at
the request of Col. Howard, who presented him
with a square of ten lots of land, on which he
built a house. In Annapolis he had been the re
corder of the city, and performed his duties highly
to the acceptance of his fellow-citizens. In 1788
he was appointed the presiding judge of a court
for the county of Baltimore. In 1790 he was a
member of the convention in Maryland for con
sidering the constitution of the United States,
which he did not deem sufficiently democratical.
In 1791 he was appointed chief justice of the
general court of Maryland. His characteristic
firmness was manifested in 1794, when, on occa
sion of a riot and the tarring and feathering of
some obnoxious persons, he caused two popular
men to be arrested as ring-leaders. Refusing to
give bail, he directed the sheriff to take them to
prison ; but the sheriff was apprehensive of re
sistance. " Call out the posse comitatus, then,"
exclaimed the judge. " Sir," said the sheriff,
" no one will serve." " Summon me, then," cried
the judge ; " I will be the posse comitatus, and I
will take them to jail." This occurred on Satur-
-day. He demanded assistance from the governor
and council. On Monday the security was given ;
but on that day the grand jury, instead of finding
a bill against the offender, presented the judge
himself for holding what they deemed two incomr
patiblc offices, those of judge in the criminal and
general courts. But the judge calmly informed
them that they touched upon topics beyond their
province.
In 1796 he was appointed an associate judge
of the supreme court of the United States, in
which station he continued fifteen years. Yet in
1804, at the instigation of John Randolph, he
was impeached by the house of representatives,
accused of various misdemeanors in some politi
cal trials, as of Fries, Callender, &c. His trial
before the senate ended in his acquittal March 5,
1805. On five of the eight charges a majority
acquitted him; on the others a majority was
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CHAUMONOT.
against him, but not the required numher of two-
thirds. His health failed in 1811, and he clearly
saw that he was approaching the grave. A short
time before his death he partook of the sacra
ment, and declared himself to be in peace with
all mankind. In his will he prohibited any
mourning dress on his account, and requested a
plain inscription on his tomb of only lu's name
and the date of his birth and death. His widow,
Hannah Kitty, died in Baltimore in 1848, aged
93. Judge Chase was a man of eminent talents
and of great courage and firmness. But, unhap
pily, he was irascible and vehement. More of
humility and more of mildness would have pre
served liim from much trouble. Yet was he a
zealous patriot and a sincere and affectionate
friend, and notwithstanding some of the imper
fections of man, his name deserves to be held in
honor. A report of his trial was published. —
Goodrick's Lives ; Encyc. Americana.
CHASE, HANNAH, widow of Stephen Chase, a
Quaker, died in Unity, Me., June 21, 1845, aged
106 years. She was born in Swanzey. She left
ten children, sixty-six grandchildren, one hun
dred and sixty great-grandchildren, and twelve
of the fifth generation. At her funeral one hun
dred and fifty descendants were present; one
hundred and thirty walked in the funeral train.
CHASE, DUDLEY, died in Randolph, Vt., in
1846, a graduate of Dartmouth in 1799. He was
many years a senator of the United States. In
1817 he was chief justice of Vermont.
CHASE, PHILANDER, D. D., bishop of Illinois,
died at Peoria Sept. 20, 1852, aged 76. Born in
Cornish, N. II., he graduated at Dartmouth in
1796, and was ordained in 1799, being rector at
Poughkeepsie, New Orleans, and Hartford, lie
was bishop of Ohio twelve years, of Illinois sev
enteen years ; and he also was president of Jubi
lee college. He previously, in 1S27, laid the
corner stone of Kenyon college and seminary in
Ohio, of which he Avas president. He published
Plea for the West, 1826 ; Star of Kenyon col
lege, 1828 ; Defence of Kenyon college, 1831.
CHASE, HENRY, pastor of the Mariner's
church, New York, died July 8, 1853, and was
buried at Middletown. On the preceding Sab
bath he preached from the text, " I would not
live alway."
CHASE, STEPHEN, professor, died at Hano
ver Jan. 7, 1851, aged 37. A graduate in 1832,
he was chosen professor of mathematics in 1838.
CHASSE, PIERRE DE LA, a Jesuit missionary,
in 1710 conducted to Quebec a party of A'oena-
quis Indians from Maine. Their presence was
acceptable to Vaudrcuil, the governor. For many
years before this he had been a missionary.
About 1720 he was superior-general of missions.
In July, 1721, he wrote a letter to the governor
of Massachusetts concerning the detention of
some Indians as prisoners in Boston, threatening
reprisals. After the death of liale, La Chasse
requested of the superior of the seminary, that
prayers might be made for the repose of his soul ;
the old man replied, in the words of Augustin,
that a martyr did not need prayers. With the
characteristic policy of the Jesuits, he represented
to the governor that some measures were requisite
to attach the Indians in Maine to the French —
that grace often needed the co-operation of men,
and that temporal interest often served as the
vehicle of faith. — Charlevoix, II.
CHASTELLUX, F. J. MARQUIS DE, was a
member of the French academy, and field mar
shal of France. He served in America in the
Revolutionary war. His travels in North Amer
ica in 1780-1782 were published at Paris in 1786,
and translated, in two vols, 1787. He published
also a work on public happiness, and a translation
of a poem by Humphreys.
CHAUMONOT, JOSEPH, a Jesuit missionary
among the Indians of North America, was an
Italian. He labored with indefatigable zeal for
more than half a century among the natives of
Canada. He was among the Ilurons, who lived
north of Lake Erie, as early as 1642, and in the
following year spent some time with a tribe to the
southeast, which was called the neutral nation,
because they did not then engage in the war be
tween the Iroquois and the Ilurons. From the
latter they derived their origin. In the year
1655, when he was the oldest missionary in New
France, he visited the Onondagas at their request,
and made a number of converts, some of whom
were the principal men of the tribe. This mis
sion, however, was soon abandoned, though it was
afterwards resumed. About the year 1670 he
established the mission of Loretto, three leagues
northeast from Quebec, where he collected a
number of Indians of the Huron tribe. The
Ilurons resided originally northward of lake
Erie, and it was in consequence of the wars, in
which they were engaged with other tribes, that
they were induced to go down the St. Lawrence.
The name of Ilurons was given them on account
of the manner in which they dressed their hair.
As they cut it for the most part very short, and
turned it up in a fantastical way, so as to give
themselves a frightful appearance, the French
cried out, when they first saw them, " quclles
hures ! " What wild boars' heads ! They were
afterwards called Ilurons. Champlain calls them
Ochasteguins ; but their true name is Ycndats,
with the French pronunciation. Their descend
ants, the Wyandots, on the southwestern side of
Lake Erie, were in 1809 under the care of Joseph
Badger, a missionary from New England, who
had been with them two or three years with the
most flattering prospects of rescuing them from
barbarism. Chaumonot composed a grammar of
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the Huron language. — Charlevoix, I. ; Univer
sal History ; xxxix. 457 ; Lettres edif. Et cur.
xxni. 213-216.
CIIAUXCEY, ISAAC, commodore, died at
Washington June 27, 1840. He was one of the
senior officers of the navy ; president of the board
of navy commissioners.
CHAUXCEY, CHARLES, LL. D., died at Burling
ton, X. J., Aug. 30, 1849, aged 73. A graduate
of Yale in 1792, he was an eminent lawyer in
Philadelphia. In his age he retired to B.
CIIAUXCY, CHARLES, the second president of
Harvard college, died Feb. 19, 1672, aged 81.
He was born in Hertfordshire, England, in 1589,
and was the son of Gco. Chauncy. He was at
Westminster school, which adjoined to the par
liament house, at the time of the gunpowder plot,
and must have perished, if the scheme had been
executed. After leaving Westminster, he was
admitted a student of Trinity college, Cambridge,
and attained the degree of bachelor of divinity.
He was soon chosen professor of Hebrew ; but
the vice chancellor, Dr. Williams, wishing to
bestow this office upon a kinsman, Mr. Chauncy
•was chosen professor of Greek. He went from
the university an eminent preacher of the gospel.
He was first settled in the ministry at Marstow,
but afterwards became vicar of Ware in the
beginning of 1627, in which place his success in
the conversion and edification of souls was
remarkably great. He had at this time serious
objections to the discipline, and to some of the
articles of the established church, and in about
two years he began to suffer for his nonconform
ity to the inventions of man in the worship of
God. In 1629 he was charged with asserting in
a sermon, that idolatry was admitted into the
church ; that the preaching of the gospel would
be suppressed; and that much atheism, popery,
arminianism, and heresy had crept into the
church ; and, after being questioned in the high
commission court, his cause was referred to Dr.
AVilliam Laud, the bishop of London, his ordi
nary, who required him to make a submission in
Latin. He was again brought before the same
court in 1635, when Laud was archbishop of Can
terbury. The crime, of which he was now ac
cused, was opposing the making of a rail around
the communion-table of his church, as an innova
tion and a snare to men's consciences. lie was
pronounced guilty of contempt of ecclesiastical
government and of raising a schism, and was sus
pended from his ministry till he should make in
open court a recantation, acknowledging his
great offence, and protesting that he was per
suaded in his conscience, that kneeling at the
sacrament was lawful and commendable, and that
the rail set up in the chancel, with the bench for
kneeling, was a decent and convenient ornament,
and promising never to oppose either that or any-
other laudable rite or ceremony prescribed in the
church of England. He was sentenced to pay
the costs of suit, which were great, and to im
prisonment till he complied with the order of
court. His fortitude failed him in the midst of
his sufferings, and contrary to his conscience he
made the recantation Feb. 11. For lu's weakness
and folly he ever reproached himself. He soon
repented of his submission, and before he came to
Xew England made a solemn retractation, which
was afterwards printed in London. In the pre
face of his last will he particularly laments, as
" still fresh before him, his many sinful compli
ances with and conformity unto vile human inven
tions, will-worship, superstition, and patcheries
stitched into the service of the Lord, which the
English mass book, the book of common prayer,
and the ordination of priests, etc., are fully
fraught withal." He proceeds to charge his pos
terity with the greatest warmth of zeal and
solemnity of language, as they would answer for
their conduct at the tribunal of Christ, " not to
conform, as he had done, to rites and ceremonies
in religious worship of man's devising and not of
God's appointment." Being silenced for refusing
to read the book of sports, he determined to
seek the peaceable enjoyment of the rights of
conscience in Xew England. He accordingly
came to this country, and arrived at Plymouth a
few days before the great earthquake of June 1,
1638. He continued in that town about three
years, assisting Mr. lleyner in his public labors ;
but, being invited to take the pastoral charge of
the church at Scituate, he was again ordained, and
continued in that place about twelve years, faith
fully performing the duties of the sacred office.
The ecclesiastical state of England had now
assumed a new appearance, and, as his mainten-
nance at Scituate was so disproportionate to the
necessities of his family that he was sometimes
unable to procure bread, he resolved to accept the
invitation, which he received from his people in
Ware, to return to them. One cause of his diffi
culties was the opposing influence of Mr. Vassall,
which issued in the establishment of the second
church. At this period Mr. Chauncy's worldly
wealth consisted of a house and about sixty
acres of land. His predecessor at Scituate was
John Lathrop. He went to Boston to embark
for Great Britain, but the presidentship of Har
vard college being at that time vacant by the
resignation of Mr. Dunster, he was requested,
Xov. 2, 1654, to accept that office. As he was of
opinion that the baptism of infants and adults
should be by immersion, and that the Lord's
supper should be celebrated in the evening, the
overseers of the college desired him to forbear
disseminating his peculiar sentiments. He had
no difficulty in yielding to their wishes. He was
inducted into the office of president Nov. 27, 1654,
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and continued in this station till his death. He
left behind him six sons, all of whom were grad
uated at Harvard college, and were preachers.
They were, Isaac, a graduate of 1651, who was
pastor of Berry Street church, London, and had
for his assistant Dr. Watts in 1698, and by him
was succeeded in 1701 ; Ichabod, a graduate of
1651, who was chaplain of a regiment at Dun
kirk ; Barnabas, a graduate of 1657 ; Nathaniel,
a graduate of 1661, minister of Windsor, who
removed to Hatfield 1672 and died Nov. 4, 1685;
Elnathan, a graduate of 1661, a physician in
Boston ; and Israel. His daughter, Sarah, mar
ried G. Bulklcy. All, who bear the name of
Chauncy in America, are probably his descend
ants.
President Chauncy was a distinguished
scholar, being intimately acquainted with the
Hebrew, Greek, and Latin languages. lie en
joyed an opportunity of perfecting his knowledge
of the former by living one year in the same
house with a Jew. He was well versed also in
the sciences, especially in theology, which was his
favorite study. To his other acquisitions he
added some skill in physic, and thus he was
enabled to prescribe for bodily diseases, as well
as to cure those of the mind. He presided over
the college with dignity and reputation, and some
of the most eminent men in the country, as In
crease Mather, Willard, Stoddard, and Judge
Sewall, were educated under his care. To those
students, who were destined for the ministry, he
addressed these words : " When you are your
selves interested in the Lord Jesus Christ and his
righteousness, you will be fit to teach others."
When he attended prayers in the college hall in
the morning, he usually expounded a chapter of
the old testament, which was first read from the
Hebrew by one of his pupils, and in the evening
a chapter of the new testament, read from the
Greek. On the nioruings of the Lord's day,
instead of an exposition, he preached a sermon
of about three quarters of an hour in length.
Once a fortnight in the forenoon his labors were
enjoyed by the congregation of Cambridge. As
a preacher he was animated and learned, yet
remarkably plain, being mindful of the impor
tance of accommodating himself to the under
standings of all his hearers. In a letter to a
brother in the ministry he advised him not to use
any dark, Latin words, or any derived from Latin,
lest he should not be understood; and enjoined
it upon him to be much in prayer to God, as the
surest way to success in his labors. The subjects,
which he thought important to be preached, are
the misery of the natural state of man, the neces
sity of union with Christ, and the fruits of j usti-
fying faith in love and good works. He believed
that Jesus Christ, by suffering the full punishment
due to the sins of the elect, made satisfaction to
divine justice, and that faith justifies by receiving
the righteousness of the Saviour, which is imputed
to believers. He was exceedingly solicitous to
exclude works from any share in the antecedent
condition of justification ; yet few insisted more
upon their necessity in all the justified.
He was an indefatigable student, making it his
constant practice to rise at four o'clock in the
morning ; but his studies did not interrupt his in
tercourse with heaven, for he usually devoted sev
eral hours in the course of the day to secret
prayer. Immediately after he rose from bed, at
eleven o'clock, at four in the afternoon, and at
nine, he retired from the world to commune with
the Father of mercies. He kept a diary, in which,
under the heads of sins and mercies, he recorded
his imperfections, and the blessings which were
imparted to him. His temper was passionate,
but he endeavored to subdue it; and, such was his
conscientiousness and self-inspection, that, when
his better resolutions were overcome by the
warmth of his feelings, he would immediately re
tire to humble himself before God and to seek his
mercy. He kept many days of fasting and
prayer, sometimes alone, and sometimes with his
family and a few of his pious neighbors. Such was
his attention to tliosa whose religious instruction
was more peculiarly his duty, that, every morning
and evening, after he had expounded a chapter of
the Bible in his family, he would endeavor by
suitable questions to impress the truths presented,
upon the minds of his cliildren and servants.
This venerable man, when he had travelled be
yond the boundaries of fourscore, was yet able to
preach and to superintend the concerns of the col
lege. His friends at this period observed to him,
as he was going to preach on a winter's day, that
he would certainly die in the pulpit ; but he
pressed more vigorously through the snow-drift,
replying, " How glad should I be if this should
prove true ! " He was induced, on account of the
infirmities of age, to address to his friends a fare
well oration on the day of commencement in
1671, after which he sent for his children and
blessed them. He now waited for his departure.
When he was stretched on the bed of death, and
the flame of life was almost extinct, he was de
sired by Mr. Oakes to give a sign of his hope
and assurance of future glory. The speechless
old man accordingly lifted up his hands towards
heaven, and his spirit soon rushed forth, and en
tered eternity.
He published a sermon on Amos II. 11,
preached in the college hall in 1655, entitled,
God's mercy showed his people in giving them a
faithful ministry, and schools of learning for the
continuance thereof. In this sermon he speaks
of the wearing of long hair, particularly by stu
dents and ministers, with the utmost detestation,
and represents it as a heathenish practice, and as
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one of the crying sins of the land. In this senti
ment he was supported by some of the most dis
tinguished men of that day. He takes occasion
at the same time to reprehend the criminal neglect
of the people with regard to the suitable mainten
ance of ministers. lie published also the election
sermon, 1656; and a volume of twenty-six ser
mons on justification, 1659, 4to. He published in
1662 the Antisynodalia Americana, in opposition
to the result of the Synod of 1662, which made a
perilous innovation by admitting to baptism the
children of those who did not partake of the
Lord's supper. In his resistance he had the aid
of Mr. Davenport and Increase Mather. On the
other side were Mr. Allen of Dedham, who
answered the Antisynodalia, Itichard Mather, and
Mr. Mitchell. President Chauncy's manuscripts
fell into the hands of the widow of his son, Na
thaniel Chauncy of Hatfield ; and, as she married a
Northampton deacon, who subsisted principally
by making and selling pies, these learned and
pious writings were not suffered to decay. Being
put to the bottom of the pies, they rendered good
service by shielding them from the scorching of
the oven ! By reason of this sad fate of his an
cestor's manuscripts Dr. Chauncy resolved to burn
his own ; but he failed to do it. — Mather's May-
nalia,Ill. 133-141; IV. 128; Coll. Hist. Soc. IV.
111.; X. 31, 171-180; s. s. IV. 246. Eushioortk's
Hist. Coll. II. 34, 316; Neal's N. E., I. 387-390;
HwtcUnson, I. 259; Holmes, I. 363, 364.
CHAUNCY, NATHANIEL, minister of Hatfield,
died Nov. 4, 1686. He was the son of President
Chauncy, a graduate of 1661. After being for
some time the minister of Windsor, he removed
to II. in 1672. His widow married Mr. Pomeroy
of Northampton.
CHAUNCY, CHARLES, died June 13, 1695. A
grandson of President C., he graduated in 1686,
and was settled in 1695 at Poquannock, made up
partly of Stratford and Fail-field, the society being
called Stratficld.
CHAUNCY, Israel, minister of Stratford, Conn.,
the son of President Chauncy, was graduated at
Harvard college in 1661, and ordained at Strat
ford in 1665. At his ordination, Elder Brinsmead,
one of the lay brethren, assisted in imposing
hands, and wore his mittens ; on which account
the Episcopalians called the induction " the
leather-mitten ordination." It is probable, that
elders or ministers also imposed their hands on
him, and that this was not, as in the case of Mr.
Carter, a purely lay ordination. He died March
14, 1703, aged 58, leaving two sons, Charles and
Isaac, whose posterity are in England.
CHAUNCY, ISAAC, minister of Hadley, Mass.,
son of the preceding, was graduated at Harvard
college in 1693, ordained Sept. 9, 1696, and died
May 2, 1745, aged 74. His second wife was the
widow of Itev. Joseph Metcalf of Falmouth,
Mass. His daughter married Rev. Mr. Graham
of Southbury, of whom Itev. Dr. Chauncy Lee
was a grandson. Two other daughters married
ministers, Estabrook and G. Itawson. His suc
cessor was C. Williams. He published a sermon
on the death of John Williams of Dcerfield, June
12, 1729, which displays very considerable learn
ing and taste, uncommon for the time.
CHAUNCY, NATHANIEL, minister of Durham,
Conn., died Feb. 10, 1787, aged 82, in the 60th
year of his ministry. He was the son of Nathaniel
Chauncy, minister of Windsor and Ilatfield. He
was in the first class at Yale college, all of whom
were ministers, and graduated in 1702. He was
ordained Feb. 7, 1711, and died Feb. 1, 1756.
His successor was Eliznr Goodrich. From 1746
to 1752 he was a trustee of the college. He pub
lished the election sermon in 1719, also in 1734.
— Tmmlidl, I. 520.
CHAUNCY, CHARLES, D. D., minister in Bos
ton, was born in that town Jan. 1, 1705, and was
a descendant of President Chauncy. He was the
son of Mr. Charles C., a merchant of Boston, who
died about 1712. His father was the eldest son
of Itev. Isaac Chauncy of London. Entering
Harvard college at twelve years of age, he received
his first degree in 1721. He was ordained pastor
of the first church in Boston, as colleague with
Mr. Foxcroft, Oct. 25, 1727, and enjoyed for a
few years the assistance of Dr. Clarke. He was
eminent for his learning, and for the spirit of in
dependence, which marked his inquiries. Being
placed by Divine Providence in a situation which
afforded him much leisure, he was diligent in his
search after truth. He formed the resolution to
see for himself, to understand, if possible, all the
articles of his creed, and not to teach for the doc
trines of Christ the commandments of men. The
result of his inquiries in some instances did not
correspond with the opinions embraced generally
by Ins brethren in the ministry ; but he adopted
them after patient investigation, and he believed
them himself to be founded on the Scriptures,
His favorite authors were Tillotson and Baxter.
Soon after Mr. Whitefield came to this country,
when his preaching was attended with very re
markable effects, and many disorders accompanied
the reformation produced, Dr. Chauncy stood
forth in opposition to him. He could not easily
admit, that any good could be done by an itiner
ant preacher, " who played the bishop in another
man's parish," as he rendered I. Peter, iv. 12,
"and who went out of his proper line of things."
Believing that the welfare of the churches was
endangered, he travelled several hundred miles to
collect facts, and published in 1743 his seasonable
thoughts on the state of religion in New England,
in which he gives a faithful picture of the un-
charitablencss, enthusiasm, and confusion, which
prevailed in different parts of the country. He
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attacked what was worthy of reprehension ; but,
like most men of strong passions, by dwelling con
stantly upon the picture which he was drawing,
he almost forgot that different and more pleasant
objects might be presented to the eye. Such men
as Colman, Sewall, Prince, Cooper, Foxcroft, and
Eliot, agreed with him in reprehending and op
posing the extravagances which he had wit
nessed ; but they had different views of the gen
eral religious state of the country, and thought it
their duty to express "their full persuasion, that
there had been a happy and remarkable revival
of religion in many parts of the land through an
uncommon Divine influence." Dr. Chauncyin his
work endeavors to distinguish the nature of true
religion. lie represents the new creation as
wrought in the minds of sinners by the Spirit, of
God in different ways ; sometimes as accompanied
by terror, and sometimes as exciting little agita
tion ; but as always evincing itself by the fruits
of holiness. As a remedy for the evils which he
recorded, he enforces it upon his brethren as their
most sacred duty, to discourage and oppose all itin-
erent preaching in places where ministers were
settled. lie recommends also a more strict ex
amination of candidates for the ministry, and the
revival of discipline in the churches. In regard to
Mr. "Whitcficld, than whom there was never a more
disinterested man, it was suggested, that vanity
might have been the cause of his incessant travels
in Great Britain and America, and that in solicit
ing subscriptions he might have had " a fellow
feeling with the orphans in Georgia."
Dr. Chauncy was ardently attached to the
civil and religious liberties of his country. After
the death of Dr. Mayhew he followed in his steps
in withstanding the schemes of Episcopalians.
He published in 1767 remarks upon a sermon of
the bishop of Landaff; in which pamphlet he
expressed his fears, that the appointment of
bishops of America, as was projected, would be
followed by attempts to promote Episcopacy by
force. He then adds, " It may be relied on, our
people would not be easy if restrained in the
exercise of that liberty wherewith Christ hath
made them free ; yea, they would hazard every
thing dear to them, — their estates, their very lives,
— rather than suffer their necks to be put under
that yoke of bondage, which was so sadly galling to
their fathers, and occasioned their retreat into
this distant land, that they might enjoy the free
dom of men and Christians." A controversy on
the subject with Dr. Chandler succeeded, and in
his reply to him he observes, " it is with me past
all doubt, that the religion of Jesus will never be
restored to its primitive purity, simplicity, and
glory, until religious establishments are so brought
down, as to be no more." In 1771 he published
his complete view of Episcopacy from the fathers,
a work, which does him great honor, and which
in the opinion of many has settled the contro
versy.
He was an honest patriot, and at the commence
ment of the Revolution he entered warmly into
those measures which were considered necessary
to vindicate our rights, and which were founded
in justice and dictated by wisdom. During the
war he was a most incurable whig. So firmly
was he convinced of the justice of our cause, that
he used to say, he had no doubt, if human exer
tions were ineffectual, that a host of angels would
be sent to assist us. When a smile was excited,
and some doubts were expressed respecting the
possibility of such an ally, he persisted in his
assertion, adding, that he knew it. His mind
was indeed of a peculiar stamp. In conversation
he was apt to be vehement and extravagant ; a
little opposition would easily kindle a flame ; but
in his writings he appears more calm and col
lected. He was respected for the excellence of
his character, being honest and sincere in his
intercourse with his fellow men, kind, and char
itable, and pious. I )iw:imulation, which was of
all things most foreign to his nature, was the
object of his severest invective. His language
was remarkably plain and pointed, when he spoke
against fraud, either in public bodies or individ
uals. Paper money, tender acts, and every spe
cies of knavery met his severest reprehension,
both in his public discourses and in private con
versation. No company could restrain him from
the honest expression of his sentiments. In the
latter part of his life he appeared to those, who
were near him, to be almost wholly engaged in
devotional exercises.
Dr. Chauncy's publications are numerous.
The following is a list of them: Funeral sermons
from 1731 to 1769, on Sarah Byfield, Elizabeth
Price, Nathaniel Byfield, Jonathan Williams, Lucy
Waldo, Cornelius Thaycr, Anna Foxcroft, Edward
Gray, Dr. Mayhew, Mr. Foxcroft, and Dr. Sewall;
sermons at the ordination of Thomas Frink,
Joseph Bowman, Penuel Bowen, and Simeon
Howard : a sermon before the artillery company,
1734; on religious compulsion, 1739; on the new
creature ; on an unbridled tongue ; on the gifts
of the Spirit to ministers, 1742 ; on the outpour
ing of the Holy Ghost ; against enthusiasm ;
account of the French prophets in a letter to a
friend, 1742; seasonable thoughts on the state of
religion in New England, 8vo., 1743; a conven
tion sermon, 1744 ; a thanksgiving sermon on the
reduction of Cape Breton, 1745; a letter to
George Whitcfield ; a second letter to the same ;
a sermon on the rebellion in favor of the pre
tender, 1746; election sermon, 1747; a sermon
for encouraging industry, 1752; on murder, 1754;
on the earthquake, 1755; an account of the Ohio
defeat, 1755; a particular narrative of the defeat
of the French army at lake George, 1755 ; ser-
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mon on the earthquakes in Spain, etc., 1756 ; the
opinion of one, who has perused Clark's summer
morning's conversation, 1758; a Dudleian lecture
on the validity of Presbyterian ordination, 17G2;
twelve sermons on seasonable and important sub
jects, particularly referring to the Sandcmanian
doctrines, 8vo., 1765; a thanksgiving sermon on
the repeal of the stamp act, 17G6; on trust in
God the duty of a people, etc. ; on all things in
common 1773; on the accursed thing, 1778; re
marks on the bishop of Landaff's sermon, 1767;
answer to Dr. Chandler's appeal, 1768; reply
to Dr. Chandler's appeal defended, 1770; a
complete view of Episcopacy from the fathers,
8vo., 1771; five sermons on the Lord's supper,
1772; a just representation of the sufferings
and hardships of the town of Boston, 1774 ; the
mystery hid from ages, or the salvation of all
men, 8vo., 1784 ; this has been answered by Dr.
Edwards ; the benevolence of the Deity consid
ered, 8vo., 1785 ; five dissertations on the fall and
its consequences, 8vo., 1785; a sermon on the
return of his society to their house of worship,
after it had undergone repairs. — Clarke's Fun.
Serm. ; Miller, n. 368.
CHAUNCY, CHARLES, LL. D., a judge of the
supreme court of Connecticut, died at New Haven
April 18, 1823, aged 75. He was a descend
ant of President Chauncy, and was born in Dur
ham, Conn., June 11, 1747. Without the advan
tages of a public education he studied law with
J. A. Hillhouse, and was admitted to the bar in
1768. In 1789 he was appointed judge; but in
1793 he resigned his seat on the t>ench, and
retired from the business of the courts, though he
afterwards gave lectures to a class of students at
law. He was also delightfully employed in edu
cating his children. His thirst for knowledge
was unquenchable. In legal science his investiga
tions were profound, and he was well skilled in
various departments of literature, history, civil
policy, and theology. Having thoroughly studied
the evidences of Christianity, he obtained a set
tled conviction, that the Bible is the word of God.
In searching the Scriptures he was led to embrace
the tenets, in which most of the Protestant
churches are agreed. He early made a profes
sion of religion. As he advanced in years, he
had serene anticipations of the future, commingled
with grateful recollections of the past. His was not
a querulous old age. With deep emotion, as he
approached the grave, he reviewed and acknowl
edged the divine goodness to himself and his
family, and then sunk to rest with the hope of
awakening to the ineffable glories of heaven. —
ChriNf. Spectator, V. 335, 336.
CHECKLEY, JOHN, Episcopal minister at
Providence, died in 1753, aged 73. lie was bora
in Boston in 1680. His parents came from Eng
land. At the supreme court, held in Boston Nov.
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27, 1724, he was fined 50 pounds for publishing a
libel; this was a reprint in 1723 of Leslie's
" Short and easy method with the deists," with
the addition written by himself, of a " Discourse
concerning Episcopacy, in defence of Christianity
and the church of England against the deists and
dissenters, London, 1723." In this he rudely
attacked the clergy and people of New England,
with some unloyal allusions to the family on the
throne. In 1727 he went to England for orders,
intending to settle at Marblehead ; but the Bishop
of London refused to ordain liim, in consequence
of letters from Mr. Barnard and Mr. Holyoke,
describing him as without a liberal education, a
non-juror, and a bitter enemy to Christians of
other persuasions. Bishop Gibson said, he would
never ordain an uncathoiic, unloyal man, so ob
noxious to the people of New England. After
wards the Bishop of Exeter ordained him and
sent him to Narragausett. He went to Provi
dence in 1739, and preached also once a month at
Warwick and Attleborough. He was a wit, a
classical scholar, skilful also in Hebrew and Nar-
ragansett Indian ; but he was more remarkable
for the eccentricities of his temper and conduct,
than for piety and learning. He published
choice dialogues about predestination, 1715; this
was answered by Tho. Walter, who defended the
Calvinistic doctrine; it was republished, "with
an answer by a stripling," 1720. The modest
proof of the order of the churches, 1727, which
introduced the Episcopal controversy in Massa
chusetts, and which was answered by Wiggles-
worth and Martin Mar Prelate, is supposed to
have been written by him. He published his
speech upon his trial, etc., 2d. edit. 1728, and the
same in London, 1738, probably to promote his
views as to ordination. — Hist. Coll. Mil. 77 j
Eliot.
CHECKLEY, SAMUEL, minister in Boston,
was graduated at Harvard college in 1715. He
was ordained the first minister of the new south
church in Summer street, Nov. 22, 1719, and died
Dec. 1, 1769, in the fifty-first year of his min
istry, aged 73. His colleague, Mr. Bowen, who
was settled in 1766, survived him, but was dis
missed in 1772. In the following year Mr. Howe
was ordained his successor. Mr. Checkley's son,
Samuel, was minister of the old north church
from 1747 to 1768. In his preacliing he was
plain and evangelical. The great subject of his
discourses was Jesus Christ, as a Divine person,
and as the end of the law for righteousness to
all that believe. He frequently dwelt upon the
fall of man, the necessity of the influences of the
Spirit of God, the frceness and richness of Divine
grace, the necessity of regeneration, justification
by faith, and faith as the gift of God. He was
careful also to insist upon the importance of the
Christian virtues. These he exhibited in his own
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life. Discountenancing all parade in religion, it
gave him pleasure to encourage the humble and
diffident. As he did not consider it of little im
portance what principles were embraced, he was
tenacious of his sentiments. During his last
sickness he enjoyed the supports of religion, and
anticipated the blessedness of dwelling with, his
Saviour, and with his pious friends, who had been
called before him into eternity. Renouncing his
own righteousness, he trusted only in the merits
of Christ. He published a sermon on the death
of King George I., 1727 ; of Wm. Waldron,
1727; of Lydia Hutchinson, 1748; at the elec
tion, 1755. — Bowen's Funeral Sermon; Coll.
Hist. Soc. in. 361.
CHEESBOROUGH, WILLIAM, died at Flem
ing, near Auburn, N. Y., in 1840, aged 95, a na
tive of Stonington, Conn., a venerable Christian.
CHEESHAHTEAUMUCK, CALEB, the only
Indian who ever graduated at Harvard college,
received his degree in 1665, and died at Charles-
town in 1666, aged 20.
CHEETHAM, JAMES, editor of the American
Citizen at New York, died Sept. 19, 1810, aged
37. He published a reply to Aristides, 1804 ;
the life of Thomas Paine, 1809.
CHEEVER, EZEKIEL, an eminent instructor,
died Aug. 21, 1708, aged 93. He was born in
London Jan. 25, 1615, and came to this country
in June, 1637, for the sake of the peaceable en
joyment of Christian worship in its purity. He
was first employed as a schoolmaster at New
Haven for twelve years ; then at Ipswich, Mass.,
eleven years ; and afterwards at Charlestown nine
years. He removed to Boston Jan. 6, 1671,
where he continued his labors during the re
mainder of his life. Most of the principal gen
tlemen in Boston had been his pupils, and took
pleasure in acknowledging their obligations and
honoring their old master. He was not only an
excellent teacher, but a pious Christian. He con
stantly prayed with his pupils every day, and
catechized them every week. He also took fre
quent occasions to address them upon religiou
subjects. Being well acquainted with divinity,
he was an able defender of the faith and order oi
the gospel. In his old age his intellectual pow
ers were very little impaired. The following ex
tracts from an elegy upon him by Cotton Mather,
one of his pupils, will show the esteem in which
he was held, and may serve also as a specimen o:
the poetry of the age.
• A mighty tribe of well-instructed youth
Tell what they owe to him, and tell with truth.
All the eight parts of speech, he taught to them,
They now employ to trumpet his esteem.
Magister pleased them well because 'twas he;
They say that bonus did with it agree.
While they said amo, they the hiut improve
Him for to make the object of their love.
CHESTER.
No concord so inviolate they knew,
As to pay honors to their master due.
With interjections they break off at last,
But, ah is all they use, wo, and alas ! "
He published an essay on the millennium, and
a Latin accidence, which passed through twenty
ditions. — Mather's Funeral Sermon and Elegy ;
Huicltinson, II. 175 ; Hist. Coll. Till. 66.
CIIEEVER, SAMUEL, the first minister of Mar-
blehead, died in 1724, aged 85. He was the son
of the preceding, and Avas graduated at Harvard
college in 1659. In Nov., 1668, he first visited
the town, in which he was afterwards settled,
when the people were few. He continued preach
ing with them sixteen years before his ordination.
Higginson, Hubbard, and Hale assisted in or
daining him, Aug. 13, 1684. He received Mr.
Barnard as his colleague in 1716. He possessed
good abilities, and was a constant and zealous
preacher, a man of peace and of a catholic mind.
Never was he sick. For fifty years he was not taken
off from his labors one Sabbath. When he died, the
lamp of life fairly burned out. He felt no pain in his
expiring moments. He published the election ser
mon, 1712. — Coll. Hist. Soc. vill. 65, 66 ; x. 168.
CIIEEVER, ABIJAH, M. D., died at Saugus,
April 21, 1843, aged 84 ; a graduate of 1779. He
studied with Dr. Warren, served several years in
the army and navy, then had extensive practice
and high reputation in Boston. He was a man
of integrity and honor, frank, and social.
CIIEEVER, CHARLOTTE, Mrs., died at her
son's, Rev. Henry T. C., at Greenport, L. I., Jan.
17, 1854, aged 76, formerly of Hallowell, mother
of Rev. George B. C. of New York. She was an
eminent Christian. — Observer, April 13.
CHENEY, SETII, a skilful artist, died at Man
chester, Conn., Sept. 10, 1856, aged about 55.
He had retired to M., where, with his brother
John, the eminent engineer, he had built a
studio, and proposed to devote himself to painting.
His crayon drawings are chiefly portraits of the
size of life, and of rare excellence. There are
great dignity and beauty and purity in his ideal
pieces. It is remarkable that he never would take
the likeness of one, whom he did not respect. Were
all artists of this character, they would find very
little employment among a host of the great men
of the earth.
CHENEY, MOSES, a Baptist minister, died in
Sheffield, Vt, Aug. 9, 1856, aged 79. He was
long known as an earnest and faithful preacher
in Vermont and New Hampshire. He suffered
long in sickness, but held an unshaken faith in
the gospel.
CHERRY, CHARLOTTE, missionary, died at
Chavagacherry, Ceylon, Nov. 4, 1837, aged 26.
Her husband was Henry Cherry; her name,
Charlotte II. Lathrop of Norwich.
CHESTER, LEONARD, the head of the Ches-
CHESTER.
tcr family in New England, died Dec. 11, 1648,
aged 39. lie was the son of John, of Leicester
county, England, and of Dorothy Hooker, the
sister of the famous Thomas Hooker. He was
one of the first settlers of Wethersficld ; but his
eldest son, John, was born in Watertown in 1635.
CHESTER, JOHN, colonel, died at Wethers-
field Sept. 11, 1771, aged 68, a soldier of the
Revolution. His father and grandfather each
bore the name of John ; the preceding ancestor
was Leonard. He had four sons and two daugh-
ers. His son Leonard married Sarah, daughter
of Col. William Williams of Pittsfield, also Miss
Welles, and had sons and daughters.
CHESTER, JOHN, colonel, an officer in the
army of the Revolution, died Nov. 4, 1809, aged
60. He was graduated at Yale college in 1766.
He was among the brave men who fought in the
battle of Bunker Hill in 1775. In August, 1801,
after the accession of Mr. Jefferson to the presi
dency, he was removed from the office of super
visor of Connecticut. He lived at Wethersfield,
the residence of Ins ancestors. His sons were
Rev. John C. of Albany, Henry, a lawyer of Phil
adelphia, and William, a minister, — and his
daughters married as follows : Elizabeth to Elea-
zer F. Backus of Albany, Mary to Ebenezer
Welles of Brattleborough, Hannah to Charles
Chauncey of Philadelphia, and Julia to Matthew
C. Ralston of Philadelphia.
CHESTER, JOHN, D. D., died at Philadelphia
Jan. 12, 1829, aged about 43. Son of the preced
ing, he graduated in 1804, and became the minis
ter of the 2d Presbyterian church in Albany, in
Nov., 1815. His wife was the daughter of Robert
Ralston of Philadelphia. He was an earnest
preacher ; and published several single sermons.
CHEVERUS, LEFEBURE DE, cardinal, died at
Bourdeaux July 19, 1836, aged 68. He was born
at Mayenne Jan. 28, 1768, came to this country
in 1796, and was the first Catholic bishop in Bos
ton in 1810. Returning to France, he was bishop
of Montauban in 1832, archbishop of Bordeaux in
1826, and cardinal in 1835. He spoke Latin,
and was well versed in Greek and Hebrew. In
Boston he was held in great affection and respect.
Few preachers were equal to him in pulpit elo
quence.
CHEW, SAMUEL, chief justice of Newcastle,
etc., in Pennsylvania, was a Quaker and a physi
cian, and died June 16, 1744. Of great influence
over the Quakers, his death was deemed a great
loss to the province. His speech to the grand
jury of Newcastle, on the lawfulness of defence
against an armed enemy, was published in 1741,
and republished in 1775. For this he was re
proached in a Philadelphia paper as an apostate
and a time-server, and as having been " hired by
Balak to curse Israel." He replied with becom
ing dignity and spirit.
CHILD.
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CHEW, BENJAMIN, chief justice of Pennsylva
nia, died Jan. 20, 1810, aged 87. He was the
son of the preceding, and born in Maryland Nov.
29, 1722. He studied law with Andrew Hamil
ton ; also in London. On his return he settled
on the Delaware, and in 1754 removed to Phila
delphia. Of this city he was recorder from 1755
to 1772 ; also register of wills. The office of
attorney-general he resigned in 1766. In 1774
he succeeded William Allen as chief justice ;
but, being opposed to the Revolution, he retired
from public life in 1776. Appointed in 1790
president of the high court of errors and appeals,
he continued in that station till the abolition of
the court in 1806. His first wife was Mary,
daughter of Samuel Galloway of Maryland ; his
second was a daughter of Mr. Oswald ; she died
about 1809, aged 85. One of his daughters mar
ried in 1768 Alexander Wilcox. — Jennison.
CIIICKERLNG, JOSEPH, minister of Woburn,
died Jan. 27, 1844, aged 63. He was the son of
Rev. Jabez C. of Dedham, who died in 1812.
A graduate of 1799, he was ordained in 1804,
having studied theology with Prof. Tappan at
Cambridge. He was a zealous, faithful minis
ter, the earnest supporter of various charitable
societies, making to them bequests. He was the
father of Rev. Dr. C. of Portland. He published
a dedication sermon, 1809; before education
society, 1817. — Christian Mirror, Feb. 29.
CIIICKERING, JONAS, died at Boston Dec. 8,
1853, aged 56. He was so much respected as a
citizen, that his funeral was the largest ever known
in Boston. He descended from Dr. John C. of
Charlestown, who was the son of Henry of Ded
ham as early as 1635. One act of his beneficence
is gratefully recorded by Richard Storrs Willis,
who, after his graduation at college, meeting with
Mr. C. and explaining, at his request, his projects
in life and his wish to study music, Mr. C. instantly
offered him 500 dollars a year for four years to
support him in his studies abroad. Mr. W. was
in 1854 editor of " The N. Y. Musical World."
Mr. C.'s life, by J. L. Blake, is in Lives of Ameri
can Merchants.
CHICKERING, JESSE, a physician, was born
in Dover, graduated in 1818, and practiced ten
years in Boston. He died at Jamaica Plain May
29, 1855, aged 57. He published in 1846 a work
on the population of Mass., from 1765 to 1840 ;
a work on immigration, 1846 ; reports on the
census of Boston, 1851; and a letter on slavery,
1855.
CHILD, ROBERT, a physician, was educated at
Padua, and came to Massachusetts as early as
.1644. His object was to explore the mines of
this country. In 1646 he and others caused dis
turbance in the colony by a petition, supposed to
have originated with William Vassall, in which
he complained, that the fundamental laws of Eng-
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land -were disregarded, and that free-born Eng-
Hshmen, if not members of one of the churches,
were denied civil privileges, and debarred from
Christian ordinances. He prayed for redress, and
threatened to apply to parliament. He was sum
moned before the court, accused of " false and
scandalous passages," etc., and fined 50 pounds.
His trial is related by Winthrop. When he was
about to proceed to England with his complaints,
he was apprehended, and suffered a long impris
onment. His brother, Maj. John Child of Eng
land, in his indignation, published a pamphlet,
entitled, New England's Jonas cast up at London,
containing Child's petition to the court, etc., 1647.
This, which is reprinted in 2 Hist. Coll. iv.,
was answered by Winslow, in the " Salamander,"
alluding to Vassall, " a man never at rest, but
when he was in the fire of contention." The rea
son of the title of " Jonas " was this, as we learn
from the paper : when the ship, in which Vassall
proceeded to England in 1G46, was about to sail,
Cotton in his Thursday lecture said, that writings,
carried to England against this country, would be
as Jonas in the ship, and advised the ship-master,
in case of a storm, to search the chests and
throw over any such Jonas. There was a storm :
a good woman at midnight entreated Thomas
Fowle, if he had a petition, to give it to her. He
accordingly gave her, not the petition to parlia
ment, but a copy of the petition to the general
court. This was thrown overboard ; yet a copy
of the same and a petition to parliament were
safely cast up at London. — Winthrop ; 2 Hist.
Coll. iv. 107-120.
CHILDS, TIMOTHY, M. D., a physician of Pitts-
field, Mass., and a patriot of the Revolution, died
Feb. 25, 1821, aged 73. He was born at Deer-
field in Feb., 1748, and passed several years at
Harvard college. Having studied physic under
Dr. Williams, he commenced the practice at
Pittsfield in 1771. In the political controversy
with Great Britain he engaged with zeal. In
1774 he was chairman of a committee of the
town to petition the justice of the court of
common pleas, to stay all proceedings till cer
tain oppressive acts of parliament should be
repealed. When the news of the battle of Lex
ington was received, he marched to Boston with
a company of minute-men, in which he was en
rolled in the preceding year. Being soon ap
pointed surgeon of Col. Patterson's regiment, he
accompanied the army to New York and thence
to Montreal. In 1777 he returned to his practice
in Pittsfield, in which he continued till his death.
For several years he was a representative in the
general court, and also a senator. In his politics
he warmly supported the republican party, which
came into power with the accession of Mr. Jeffer
son to the presidency in 1801. Till within a few
days of his death he attended to the active duties
of his profession, in which he was eminent. Great
and general confidence was reposed in his skill.
He had always been the supporter of religious in
stitutions, though not a professor of religion ; in
his last sickness he earnestly besought the Divine
mercy, and spoke of the blood and righteousness
of Christ as the only hope of a sinner. His son,
Henry H. Childs, succeeded him as a physician.
— Thacher's Med. Bioy. ; Hist. Berkshire, 380.
CHILDS, THOMAS, brigadier-general, died of
the yellow fever at Tampa Bay, Oct. 8, 1853.
He was the son of Dr. Timothy Childs, one of the
first settlers of Pittsfield, Mass. His mother, a
daughter of Col. Easton of P., died in 1852, aged
92. In the Mexican Avar he commanded under
Taylor the artillery battalion in several battles.
Afterwards he was with the army of Scott, who
spoke of his " often-distinguished" Col. Childs.
He commanded at Puebla, where he was en
deared to his soldiers by his humane conduct in
all circumstances.
CHIPMAN, JOHN, colonel, a soldier of the
Revolution, was an officer in the regiment of Col.
Seth Warner ; was engaged in the battles of Ben-
nington and Ilubbardton, and subsequently com
manded fort George, which he wj>° compelled to
surrender to a superior force of Tories, Indians,
and British. He felled the first tree in Middlcbury,
Vt., in 1767 ; and there he died in Sept., 1829,
aged 87.
CHH'MAN, NATHANIEL, LL. D., died at Tin-
mouth, Vt., Feb. 15, 1843, aged 90. He was born
in Salisbury, Conn., in 1752 ; was graduated at
Yale in 1777 ; in 1786 was judge of the supreme
court of Vermont,, and chief justice in 1789. In
1791 he was appointed judge of the district court
of the United States. He was senator from 1797
to 1803. ; and again chief justice in 1813 and
1814 ; in 1815 professor of law in Middlebury
college. He revised the laws of Vermont in 1 826.
lie enjoyed a high reputation for literature and
science ; and was a man of faithfulness and in
tegrity. He published reports of judicial decis
ions and dissertations in 1 vol.; principles of gov
ernment, and 2d edit, in 1833.
CHIPMAN, WARD, judge of the supreme court
of New Brunswick, and president of the province,
was a native of Mass., and graduated at Harvard
college in 1770. He died at Frederickton Feb.
9, 1824. Mrs. Gray of Boston was his sister.
CHIPMAN, DAMEL, died in Itipton, Vt., April
23, 1850, aged 85. He graduated at Dartmouth
in 1788, and studied law with his brother, Na
thaniel. He was a member of congress ; the first
reporter of the decisions of the supreme court ;
the author of a work on the law of contracts,
which is highly commended.
CHIPMAN, WAHD, chief justice of New Brims-
CHEPMAN.
CHITTENDEN.
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wick from 1834 to 1851, died at St. John Nov.
26, 1851, aged 65. A native of X. B., he grad
uated at Harvard 1805, and was the son of Ward
C., a graduate of 1770.
CIIISIIOLM, JAMES, died of the yellow fever
in Portsmouth, Va., Sept. 15, 1855, aged 39, a
graduate at Harvard in 1836. He was a useful
Episcopal minister. A memoir by Rev. Mr.
Conrad has been published. — Boston Advertiser,
July 16, 1856.
CHITTENDEN, THOMAS, first governor of
Vermont, died Aug. 24, 1797, aged 67. He was
born at East Guilford, Conn., in 1730. His
mother was sister of llev. Dr. Johnson. He re
ceived a common school education, which at that
period contributed but little to the improvement
of the mind. Agreeably to the custom of New
England, he married early in life, \vhen in his
twentieth year, and soon removed to Salisbury.
Here he commanded a regiment. He many
years represented the town in the general assem
bly, and thus acquired that knowledge of public
business, which afterward rendered him eminently
useful in Vermont. The office of a justice of
peace for the county of Litchfield made him ac
quainted with the laws of the State, and the
manner of carrying them into effect. Though
destitute of learning, his good sense, affability,
kindness, and integrity gained him the confidence
of his fellow-citizens ; and the highest honors,
which a retired town could bestow, were given
him. His attention was principally directed to
agriculture, and he labored personally, in the field.
With a numerous and growing family, a mind
formed for adventures, and a firmness which noth
ing could subdue, he determined to lay a founda
tion for the future prosperity of his children by
emigrating to the New Hampshire grants, as
Vermont was then called. lie accordingly in
1774 removed to Williston, on Onion river. An
almost trackless wilderness now separated him
from his former residence. Here he settled on
fine lands, which opened a wide field for industry,
and encouraged many new settlers. In the year
1776, the troubles occasioned by the war render
ing it necessary for him to remove, he purchased
an estate in Arlington, and continued in that town
until 1787, when he returned to Williston. In
the controversy with New York he was a faithful
adviser and a strong supporter of the feeble set
tlers. During the war of the Revolution, while
AVarner, Allen, and many others were in the field,
he was assiduously engaged in the council at
home, where he rendered essential service to his
country. He was a member of the convention
which, January 16, 1777, declared Vermont an
independent State, and was appointed one of the
committee to communicate to Congress the pro
ceedings of the inhabitants, and to solicit for their
district an admission into the union of the Amer
ican States. When the powers of government
were assumed by this State, and a constitution
was established in 1778, the eyes of the freemen
were immediately fixed on him as their governor,
and in that arduous and difficult office he con
tinued, one year only excepted, until his death.
From the year 1780 till the conclusion of the
war, during a period in which the situation of
Vermont was peculiarly perplexing, he displayed
a consummate policy. The State was not ac
knowledged by the congress, and they were con
tending on the one hand for independence, and
on the other hand they were threatened by the
British forces from Canada. A little manage
ment was necessary to promote the interests of
this district. A correspordence was opened with
the enemy, who were flattered for several years
with the belief that the people of Vermont were
about to subject themselves to the- king of Eng
land ; and thus a meditated invasion of the terri
tory was averted, and the prisoners were restored.
At the same time, the possibility that Vermont
would desert the cause of America was held up
to congress, and by this means probably the set
tlers were not required to submit to the claims of
New York. Such was the politic course which he
thought it necessary to pursue. He enjoyed very
good health until about a year before his death.
In Oct., 1796, he took an affecting leave of his
compatriots in the general assembly, imploring
the benediction of Heaven on them and their
constituents.
Governor Chittenden, though an illiterate man,
possessed great talents. His discernment was
keen, and no person knew better how to effect
great designs than himself. Though his open
frankness was sometimes abused, yet when secrecy
was required in order to accomplish his purposes,
no misplaced confidence made them liable to be
defeated. His negotiations during the war were
•master-strokes of policy. He possessed a pecu
liar talent in reconciling the jarring interests
among the people. The important services which
he rendered to his country, and especially to
Vermont, make his name worthy of honorable
remembrance. He lived to see astonishing
changes in the district, which was almost a wilder
ness when he first removed to it. Instead of a
little band of associates, he could enumerate one
hundred thousand persons whose interests were
intrusted to his care. He saw them rising supe
rior to oppression, braving the horrors of a for
eign war, and finally obtaining a recognition of
their independence, and an admission into the
United States of America. He was conspicuous
for his private virtues. In times of scarcity and
distress, which are not unfrequent in new settle
ments, he displayed a noble liberality of spirit.
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His granary was open to all the needy. He was
a professor of religion, believing in the Son, to
the glory of God the Father. Several of his let
ters to congress and to General Washington were
published. — Monthly Anthology, I. 490-492;
Williams'' Vermont, 233-277 ; Graham's Sketch
of Vermont, 135-137.
CHITTEXDEX, MARTTX, governor of Ver
mont, died Sept. 5, 1840. A graduate of Dart
mouth in 1789, he was in congress 1803-13 and
governor 1813-14.
CHOULES, JOHN O., D. 1)., Baptist minister
in Newport, died at New York Jan. 5, 1806,
aged 55. He edited Xeal's Puritans.
CHOUTEAU, PIERRE, died at St. Louis July
2, 1849, aged 90. He was one of the founders
of the city.
CIIOVET, ABRAHAM, M. D., died at Philadel
phia March 24, 1790, aged 86. He came from Ja
maica in 1770. He was an eminent physician and
anatomist, and was a professor in the college of
Philadelphia, for the aid of which he procured sev
eral thousand pounds in Jamaica. Good imitations
in wax of all parts of the body were made by him.
CHRISTMAS, JOSEPH S., minister at Mont
real, died March 14, 1830, aged 27. When he
was in college, he had a passion for painting, to
which art he intended to devote his life ; but, be
coming religious, he resolved to -be occupied in
more important and useful toils. His father was
very solicitous that he should be a physician, and
made all the arrangements for his entering upon
the study of physic. The son was constrained
by a sense of religious duty to disappoint the pa
ternal hopes. lie studied theology at Princeton.
In 1824 he went to Canada and was ordained as
the first minister of the American Presbyterian
society in Montreal. Here he labored amidst
many difficulties with considerable success for
upwards of three years, when his ill health com
pelled him in 1828 to ask a dismission. In that
year he addressed to his people a farewell letter,
affectionate, faithful, and able, dated at Danbury,
Conn. In 1829 he was called to drink deep in
the cup of affliction; for first he lost both his
children, and then, Aug. 9th, his wife, Louisa
Jones, also died, leaving him singularly desolate
in respect to the world, yet joyful in God, his Sav
iour. He had the consolation of knowing, that
his wife, though through much tribulation, as is
usually the lot of the righteous, departed in
Christian peace. " O, beware of the world ! "
was her counsel. " How deeply am I convinced
that the worldly intercourse of professing Chris
tians is utterly wrong! It cuts out the very
heart of piety. Seek not the things which are
your own, but things which are Jesus Christ's."
This bereavement was perhaps the means of pre
paring him for heavenly bliss. October 14, 1829,
he was installed the pastor of Bowery church in
the city of New York. But here he was allowed
to toil in the cause of his Master only a few
months ; for after an illness of only three or four
days he died. He was a faithful and able preacher
of the gospel. Two revivals of religion occurred
during his ministry at Montreal. His vigorous
intellect and cultivated taste were controlled and
directed by ardent piety. While rising high in
the public esteem, he was snatched away from his
toils. Of his wife an interesting sketch appeared
in the New York Observer. His own life was
written by Eleazer Lord. lie published Valedic
tory admonitions, or a farewell letter to his so
ciety in Montreal, 1828. — Boston Recorder, Sept.
16, 1829.
CHURCH, BEXJAMIX, distinguished by his ex
ploits in the Indian wars of New England, died
Jan. 17, 1718, aged 77, at Little Compton. He
was born at Duxbury, Mass., in 1639, and was
the son of Richard, who came over in 1630 and
married Elizabeth, daughter of Richard Warren,
who was a carpenter, and with J. Tomson built
the first church in Plymouth, dying at Dedhamin
1668. Benjamin Church commenced the settle
ment at Saconct or Sckonit, since called Little
Compton. His life, which was frequently exposed
to the greatest dangers, was by Divine Providence
remarkably preserved. In the year 1676, when
in pursuit of King Philip, he was engaged with
the Indians in a swamp. With two men by his
side, who were his guard, he met three of the
enemy. Each of his men took a prisoner, but
the other Indian, who was a stout fellow, with his
two locks tied up with red and a great rattle
snake's skin hanging from his hair behind, ran
into the swamp. Church pursued, and as he ap
proached him presented his gun, but it missed
fire. The Indian, being equally unsuccessful in
his attempt to discharge his gun, turned himself
to continue his flight, but his loot was caught in a
small grape vine, and he fell on his face. Church
instantly struck him with the muzzle of his gun,
and dispatched him. Looking about he saw an
other Indian rushing towards him with inexpress
ible fury; but the fire of his guards preserved
him from the danger. After the skirmish his
party found they had killed and taken one hun
dred and seventy-three men. At night they
drove their prisoners into Bridgewater pound,
where, having a plenty of provisions, they passed
a merry night. Col. Church commanded the
party which killed Philip in August, 1676. When
it was known that the savage monarch was shot,
the whole company gave three loud huzzas.
Church ordered him to be beheaded and quar
tered, and gave one of his hands to the friendly In
dian, who shot him. The government of Plymouth
paid thirty shillings a head for the enemies killed
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or taken, and Philip's head went at the same
price.
In Sept., 1689, he was commissioned by Hink-
ley, president of the Plymouth colony, as com-
mander-in-chief of an expedition against the
Eastern Indians ; and commissioned also by Dan-
forth, president of the province of Maine, and by
Bradstreet, governor of Massachusetts. He soon
embarked and proceeded to Casco with two hun
dred and fifty men, partly Saconet and Cape
Indians. He arrived at a critical moment, for
several hundred French and Indians were then on
an island, having come in eighty canoes. The
next day he repulsed their attack on the town,
with the loss of ten or twelve men. He after
wards visited all the garrisons at Black Point,
Spurwink, and Blue Point, and went up the Ken-
nebec. On the approach of winter he returned
to Boston. In May following Casco fell into the
hands of the enemy, one hundred persons being
captured. The whole country was desolated.
He proceeded on a second expedition in Sept.,
1690, and, landing at Maquoit, went to Pegypscot
fort, in Brunswick, and thence up the river forty
or fifty miles to Amerascogen fort, near the great
falls, where he took a few prisoners, and destroyed
much corn. He put to death several of the pris
oners, women and children, strange as it may
seem in the present age, " for an example ! "
The wives of Ilakins of Pennacook and of Wor-
umbo were spared. He returned to Winter Har
bor, and thence went again to Pegypscot plain
to obtain a quantity of beaver, hid there. At
Perpodack he had an engagement with the Indi
ans. In his third expedition in 1692 he accom
panied Phipps to Pemaquid. He also went up
the Kennebec and destroyed the Indian fort and
the corn at Taconoc. In his fourth, in 1696, he
went to the Penobscot and to Passamaquoddy.
The French houses at Chignecto were burnt; for
which he was blamed. He was soon superseded
by Col. Hawthorne of Salem. His fifth and last
expedition was early in 1704. The burning of
Deerfield in Feb., awakened the spirit of this
veteran warrior ; and he took his horse and rode
seventy miles to offer his services to Gov. Dudley
in behalf of his country. He did much damage,
in this expedition, to the French and Indians at
Penobscot and Passamaquoddy. After Philip's
war he lived first at Bristol ; and then at Fall
Kiver, now Troy ; and lastly at Saconet. In his
old age he was corpulent. A fall from his horse
was the cause of his death. lie was buried with
military honors. He was a man of integrity and
piety. At the gathering of the church in Bristol
by Mr. Lee he was a member, and his life was
exemplary. His wife, Alice, daughter of Con
stant Southworth and Elizabeth Collier, died in
1719, aged 71. He had sons Thomas, Constant,
Benjamin, and Edward ; and of his descendants,
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some lived in Little Compton and Boston. His
son Thomas compiled from his minutes and under
his direction a history of Philip's war, which waa
published in 1716; a 2d edition, 1772; a 4th,
with notes, by S. G. Drake, 1827. — Church's
Narrative ; Account of Chw'ch annexed to it ;
Holmes.
CHURCH, BENJAMIN, a physician in Boston,
regarded as a traitor to his country, was grad
uated at Harvard college in 1754, and having
studied with Dr. Pynchon, rose to considerable
eminence as a physician and particularly as a sur
geon. He had talents, genius, and a poetic fancy.
About the year 1768 he built him an elegant
house at Raynham, on the side of Nippahonsit
pond, allured perhaps by the pleasures of fishing.
Perhaps it was thus that he created a pecuniary
embarrassment, which led to his defection from
the cause of his country. In the earnest discus
sions, which preceded the war of the Revolution,
he was a zealous whig and the associate of the
principal whigs in Boston. In 1774 he was a
member of the provincial congress, and was sus
pected of communicating intelligence to Gov.
Gage and of receiving a reward of his treachery.
One of his students, who kept his books, and
knew his embarrassment, could not otherwise
account for his sudden acquisition of some hun
dreds of " new British guineas." In Boston he
was in frequent intercourse with Capt. Price, a
half-pay British officer, and with Robinson, one
of the commissioners. A few days after the
battle of Lexington in April, 1775, when he was
at Cambridge with the committee of safety, he
•suddenly declared his resolution to go into Bos
ton the next day: he went to the house of Gen.
Gage. At length his treachery was detected. A
letter, written in cipher, to his brother in Boston,
was intrusted by him to a young woman, with
whom he was living in crime. The mysterious
letter was found upon her; but, the doctor having
opportunity to speak to her, it was only by the
force of threats that the name of the writer was
extorted from her. When Gen. Washington
charged him with his baseness, he never at
tempted to vindicate himself. He was convicted
by court martial Oct. 3, of which Washington
was president, " of holding a criminal corres
pondence with the enemy." He was imprisoned
at Cambridge. Oct. 27, he was called to the bar
of the house of representatives and examined.
His defence was very ingenious and able : that
the letter was designed for his brother, but that,
not being sent, he had communicated no intelli
gence ; that there was nothing in the letter but
notorious facts ; that his exaggerations of the
American force could only be designed to favor
the cause of his country; and that his object was
purely patriotic. He added : " The warmest
bosom here does not flame with a brighter zeal
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for the security, happiness, and liberties of Amer
ica, than mine." His eloquent professions did
not avail him. He was expelled from the house ;
and congress afterwards resolved, that he should
be confined in jail in Connecticut and " debarred
the use of pen, ink, and paper." In 1776 he
was released and allowed to sail for the West
Indies ; but the vessel was never again heard of.
His own well-written account of his examination
and defence is in the first vol. of Historical Col
lections. It is very possible, that his sole motive
was the supply of his pecuniary wants, occa
sioned by his extravagance, and that he communi
cated nothing very injurious to his country ; but,
that he held correspondence with the enemy,
there can hardly be a doubt, Nor is the patriot
ism of any man to be trusted, who lives in the
flagrant violation of the rules of morality.
He was the best of the poetic contributors to
the " Pietas et Gratulatio Cantabrigiensis apud
Novanglos," on the accession of George III., 4to.,
106 pages. Among the other writers were Sam.
Cooper, Judge Lowell, and Stephen Sewall. He
published also an elegy on the times, 1765 ; elegy
on Dr. Mayhew, 1766; elegy on the death of
Whitefield, 1770; oration on the 5th March, 1773.
— Gordon, II. 134; Hist. Coll. I. 84; V. 106;
Eliot ; Thacher's Med. Biog.
CHURCH, JOHN II., D. D., died at Pelham,
N. H., June 13, 1840, aged 68. Born in Rut
land, he was a graduate of Harvard in 1797,
and was for forty years a useful minister and an
able counsellor in the churches. Out of a salary
of 100 pounds he gave annually 50 dollars to
charitable objects. He published a sermon on the
settlement of N. E., 1810; one before the pasto
ral association, 1829. — Boston Recorder, July
10, Aug. 28.
CHURCH, EDWARD, died in Lexington, Ivy.,
April 22, 1845, of inflammation of the lungs, aged
66 ; a native of Boston and descendant of Capt.
Church of the war with King Philip. He left Bos
ton when a child, was educated in England, and
was the first to establish steamboats in France,
Germany, and Italy. He lived during some of
his last years in Northampton.
CHURCH, SAMUEL, chief justice of Conn., was
born in Salisbury in Feb., 1785, graduated at
Yale in 1803, and died at Newtown Sept. 12,
1854, aged 69. A lawyer in his native town, he
was a representative, senator, and judge of pro
bate ; in 1833 a judge of the superior court; in
1847 chief justice. He had removed to Litch-
field in 1845. He was distinguished as a jurist,
and honored as a Christian. H. Waite was his
successor. He died at the house of his son-in-
law, Rev. Mr. Stone. He published an address
at Salisbury centennial jubilee, 1841.
CHURCHILL, SILAS, minister of New Leb
anon, N. Y., died March 1, 1854, aged 84. He
was an excellent pastor from 1776 for forty-two
years.
CHURCHMAN, JOHN, a Quaker and a native
of Maryland, published a magnetic atlas and ex
planation, Philadelphia, 1790 ; also, at London,
magnetic atlas, or variation charts of the globe.
He died at sea July 24, 1805. — Lord's Lemp.
CILLEY, JOSEPH, general, an officer of the
Revolution, died in Aug., 1799, aged 64. He
was born at Nottingham, N. II., in 1745, of which
place his father, Capt. Joseph C., was one of the
first settlers in 1727. With but little education
he became a self-taught lawyer, in consequence
of living amongst a litigious people. Early in
1775, before the war, he with other patriots dis
mantled the fort at Portsmouth and removed the
cannon. Immediately after the battle of Lexing
ton he marched at the head of one hundred vol
unteers. Congress nominated him a major in the
army in May, 1775, and afterwards colonel. At
Ticonderoga he commanded a regiment in July,
1777. He fought at the storming of Stony Point
under Wayne, and at Monmouth. After the war
he was appointed first major-general of the mili
tia, June 22, 1786; and he served the State in
various departments of the government. From
this time he advised the people to compromise
their law-suits. He was a man of temperance,
economy, and great industry. His judgment was
sound. With strong passions he was yet frank
and humane. In politics he was a decided repub
lican, a supporter of the administration of Mr.
Jefferson. — Belknap, I. 370.
CLAGETT, HENRY, l)r., died in Leesburg, Va.,
May 20, 1842, aged 70, a distinguished physician.
CLAIBORNE, WILLIAM C. C., governor of
Mississippi and Louisiana, died at New Orleans
Nov. 23, 1817. He was born in Virginia in 1773,
and was probably a descendant of Wm. C., an
early settler in Virginia and distinguished in the
history of that colony from about 1630 to 1651.
Being bred a lawyer, he settled in Tennessee,
He assisted in forming the constitution of the
State in 1796, and was afterwards a member of
congress. His appointment of governor of the
Mississippi Territory he received from Mr. Jeffer
son in 1802, in the place of Sargeant. After the
purchase of Louisiana he was appointed in 1804
its governor ; and to that office, under the consti
tution, he was also chosen by the people from
1812 to 1816. James Villere succeeded him.
Elected a senator of the U. S., he did not live to
take his seat. As chief magistrate he was up
right and popular, and esteemed in private life. —
Salem Reg. ; Lord's Lempr.
CLAIR, ARTHUR ST., general, died at Laurel
Hill, Pennsylvania, Aug. 31, 1818, aged 84. He
was born at Edinburgh, and came to this country
with Admiral Boscawen in 1755. He served as a
lieutenant under Wolfe. After the peace he was
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intrusted with the command of fort Ligonier in
Pennsylvania. Here he settled as a citizen. In
t!\c Revolutionary war he espoused the American
cause. In 177G he accompanied the troops to
Canada, and afterwards was in the battle of Tren
ton. He was appointed by congress brigadier-
general in Aug., 1776, and major-general Feb.
19, 1777. Commanding at Ticonderoga, when
Burgoyne approached, he evacuated that post
July 6, 1777. A court of inquiry honorably ac
quitted him of charges of cowardice and treachery.
He had not troops enough to man the lines. Had
he listened to the counsels of rash heroes, his
army would have been sacrificed. He afterwards
joined the army of Greene at the south. On the
occurrence of peace he returned to Pennsylvania,
from which State he was sent a delegate to con
gress in 1784. In 1787 he was chosen president
of congress. Of the territory northwest of the
Ohio he was appointed governor in Oct., 1789,
and held the place till 1802. In 1791 he was
appointed commander-in-chief of the forces, to
be employed against the Indians. lie proceeded
to the neighborhood of the Miami villages and en
camped, Nov. 3, with fourteen hundred men. The
next morning, soon after the men were dismissed
from the parade, the Indians commenced the attack
and instantly put to flight the militia, who were
encamped a little in advance. The regular troops
fought bravely several hours, repeatedly charging
with the bayonet ; but the Indians still poured in
a deadly fire. Several officers had fallen, among
whom was Gen. Butler and Maj. Ferguson; half
the army had been killed or wounded ; and the
terror became so great, that St. Clair found it
necessary to retreat. They were pursued only
four miles, -when the Indians returned to plunder
the camp ; but the troops fled precipitately thirty
miles, and then continued the retreat to fort
Washington. The loss was thirty-eight officers
killed and five hundred and ninety-three men,
twenty-one officers wounded and two hundred and
forty-two men. The Indian force was supposed
to be from one thousand to fifteen hundred. The
Indians said they had four thousand men and lost
fifty-six. There was no ground of censure on St.
Clair for this defeat. He was ready for the at
tack. Eight balls passed through his clothes.
The next year he resigned his military commis
sion, and Gen. Wayne succeeded him.
Ohio was erected into an independent State in
1802. As the election of governor approached,
in an address to the people, Dec. 8, 1802, St.
Clair declined being a candidate for governor.
He said that for fourteen years, since the first in
stitution of the territorial government, in which
lived only thirty men, he had endeavored to ex
tend the liberty and promote the happiness of
the people, neglecting his own private affairs. He
reprobated the act of congress, imposing certain
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conditions, as allowing but one member of con
gress, and called upon the people to make a con
stitution in their own way, and to imitate the
spirit of Vermont. This address was probably
offensive to Mr. Jefferson, who removed him from
his office of territorial governor.
By a statement made in 1820, it appears that
St. Clair advanced in Oct., 1776, to Maj. Wm.
Butler, of the Pennsylvania troops, 1800 dollars,
to aid in the re-enlistment of soldiers. This
claim was barred by the statute ; but it was ad
justed in 1817 by the payment only of 2000 dol
lars, on condition of releasing congress from all
claims. The penniless general submitted. There
was granted him also the half-pay of a major-
general, or 60 dollars per month, which he en
joyed but a short time, being then eighty-three
years old. The annuity of 2500 dollars for life to
Baron Steubcn, and the payments to the daughters
of Count de Grasse and to Lady Stirling, were
honorable to congress. An obelisk monument
was erected to his memory by the masonic society,
in 1832, at Greensburg, Penn., over his remains. —
New York Spectator, Jan. 26, 1803; Lord's
Lcmpr.
CLAP, ROGER, one of the first settlers of Dor
chester, Mass., died in Boston Feb. 2, 1691, aged
81. He was born in England April G, 1609, and
came to this country with Warham and Maverick
in 1630. At this time there were only a few set
tlers at Plymouth, Salem, andCharlestown. Mr.
Clap, with others of the company, began a plan
tation at Dorchester. The hardships endured at
first were very considerable, as there was a great
want of the necessaries of life; the Indians, how
ever, who brought baskets of corn for traffic,
afforded great assistance. The people were glad
to procure clams, and muscles, and fish ; and often
they had nothing but samp, or hominy. Mr.
Clap sustained several civil and military offices.
He was a representative of the town, and in August,
1665, he was appointed by the general court the
captain of castle William. This trust he dis
charged with great fidelity, and continued in
command till 1686, when he resigned. During
his residence at the castle he officiated as chap
lain, always calling in the soldiers to family
prayer. He constantly attended the lectures in
Boston. While he was remarkably pious, very
meek and humble, and of a quiet and peaceable
spirit, there was a dignity in liis deportment
which commanded respect. He possessed also a
pleasant and cheerful disposition. In 1686 he
removed from the castle into Boston. Among
his sons are the names of Preserved, Hopestill,
and Desire, and one of his daughters was named
Wait. Mr. Preserved Clap was one of the c-arlv
settlers of Northampton, and died Sept. 20, 1720,
aged about 77 years. Capt. Clap wrote memoirs
of himself, in which he gives a sketch of the early
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history of New England, and leaves some excel
lent advice to his descendants. These memoirs
were published in a small pamphlet by Mr.
Prince in 1731, and they were republished in
1807, Avith an appendix by James Blake. — Clap's
Memoirs; Coll. Hist. Soc. IX. 149, 150.
CLAP, NATHANIEL, minister of Newport, JL I.,
died Oct. 30, 17-45, aged 77. He was the son
of Nathaniel Clap and grandson of Deacon Nich
olas C., a settler of Dorchester in 1G36. He was
born Jan., 1GG8, and was graduated at Harvard
college in 1690. In 1695 he began to preach at
Newport ; and he continued his labors under
many discouragements till a church was formed,
of which he was ordained pastor Nov. 3, 1720.
In a few years, however, a popular young man,
whom he disapproved, drew away a majority of
his people ; in consequence of which a new church
was formed, of which Mr. Clap was the pastor
for the remainder of his life. He preached in
Newport nearly fifty years. In 1740, when Mr.
Whitefield arrived at Newport from Charleston,
he called upon Mr. Clap, and he speaks of him
as the most venerable man he ever saw. " He
looked like a good old Puritan, and gave me an
idea of what stamp those men were who first set
tled New England. His countenance was very
heavenly, and he prayed most affectionately for
a blessing on my coming to Rhode Island. I
could not but think that I was sitting with one of
the patriarchs. He is full of days, a bachelor,
and has been a minister of a congregation in
Ilhode Island upwards of forty years." Dean
Berkley, who esteemed him highly for his good
deeds, said : "Before I saw father Clap, I thought
the bishop of Home had the gravest aspect of
any man I ever saw ; but really the minister of
Newport has the most venerable appearance."
His colleague, Jonathan Helyer, who was or
dained June 20, 1744, died a few months before
him, May 27, 1745.
Mr. Clap was eminent for sanctity, piety, and
an ardent desire to promote true godliness in
others. The powers of his mind and his learning
were above the common level, but he made no
attempt to display himself and attract attention.
Though he had some singularities, yet his zeal to
promote the knowledge of Jesus Christ and the
interests of his gospel spread a lustre over all his
character. He was zealously attached to what he
considered the true doctrines of grace, and to
the forms of worship which he believed to be of
Divine institution ; but his charity embraced good
men of all denominations. lie had little value
for merely speculative, local, nominal Christianity,
and a form of godliness without its power. He
insisted chiefly upon that faith by which we are
justified and have peace with God through our
Lord Jesus, and that repentance toward God and
new obedience, which are the necessary effect and
evidence of regeneration, and the proper exercise
of Christianity. In his preaching he dwelt much
upon the evil of sin and the worth of the soul,
the influence of the Divine Spirit in restoring us
to the image of God, and the necessity of constant
piety and devotion. He addressed his brethren
with the affectionate earnestness which a regard
to their welfare and a full conviction of the great
truths of the gospel could not but inspire. He
abounded in acts of charity, being the father and
guardian of the poor and necessitous, and giving
away all his h'ving. He scattered many little
books of piety and virtue, and put himself to
very considerable expense, that he might in this
way awaken the careless, instruct the ignorant,
encourage the servants of Christ, and save the
sinner from death. He was remarkable for his
care with regard to the education of children, and
his concern for the instruction of servants. He
knew by experience the advantages of a pious
education, and, fully aware of the consequences
of suffering the youthful mind to be undirected to
what is good, he gave much of his attention to
the lambs of his flock. His benevolent labors
also extended to the humble and numerous class
of slaves, to whom he endeavored with unwearied
care to impart the knowledge of the gospel.
Thus evincing the reality of his religion by the
purity and benevolence of his life, he was an
honor to the cause of the Redeemer, in which
he was engaged. He departed this life in peace,
without those raptures which some express, but
with perfect resignation to the will of God and
with confidence in Jesus Christ, who was the sum
of his doctrine and the end of his conversation.
He published advice to children, 1691 ; a sermon
on the Lord's voice crying to the people in some
extraordinary dispensations, 1715. — Cullender's
Funeral Sermon; Hist. Coll. IX. 182, 183 ; Baclc-
us' Abridym. 157, 168; Whitefield's Journal of
1749; 39-45; Eliot.
CLAP, THOMAS, president of Yale college, died
at New Haven Jan. 7, 1767, aged 63. He was
born at Scituate, Mass., June 26, 1703, the son of
Stephen, and was graduated at Harvard college
in 1722. He was the descendant of Thomas
Clap, the brother of Nicholas Clap of Dorchester,
who died at Scituate in 1684 ; the early impres
sions, made upon his mind by Divine grace, in
clined him to the study of divinity. He was set
tled in the ministry at Windham, Conn., Aug. 3,
1726, the successor of Samuel Whiting, whose
daughter he married. His second wife was
Mary, daughter of John Haynes, and widow of
Itosewell Saltonstall ; he married her in 1741.
From this place he was removed in 1739 to the
presidentship of Yale college, as successor of E.
Williams. This office he resigned Sept. 10, 1766.
He was succeeded by Dr. Daggctt, In his last
years a clamor was raised against him : it was
CLAP.
represented that he was attached to antiquated
notions and averse to improvements in education.
Men less evangelical than he in their religious
views were his enemies. He possessed strong
powers of mind, a clear perception, and solid
judgment. Though not very eminent for classi
cal learning, he had a competent knowledge of
Latin, Greek, and Hebrew. In the higher
branches of mathematics, in astronomy, and in
the various departments of natural philosophy he
had probably no equal in America, excepting
Prof. Winthrop of Cambridge. He appears to
have been extensively and profoundly acquainted
with history, theology, moral pliilosophy, the can
on and civil law, and with most of the objects of
study in his time. The labors of his office left a
most contemplative mind only a few hours for
reading; but he employed what time he could
devote to study, in a most advantageous method.
He always pursued his researches systematically,
with an arrangement which had respect to some
whole. A large library before him he treated as
a collection of reports, books delivering the
knowledge and reasonings of the learned world
on all subjects of literature. He seldom read a
volume through in course. Having previously
settled in his mind the particular subjects to be
examined, he had recourse directly to the book,
or the parts of a book, which would give him the
desired information, generally passing by what did
not relate to the object of his inquiry, however at
tracting and interesting. He thus amassed and
digested a valuable treasure of erudition, having
investigated almost all the principal subjects in the
whole circle of literature. He was indefatigable
in labors both secular and scientific for the insti
tution over which he presided. He was the
means of building a college edifice and chapel ;
and he gave frequent public dissertations in the
various departments of learning.
As a preacher he was solid, grave, and powerful ;
not so much delighting by a ilorid manner, as im
pressing by the weight of his matter. His reli
gious sentiments accorded with the Calvinism of
the Westminister Assembly. He had thoroughly
studied the Scriptures, and had read the most
eminent divines of the two preceding centuries.
Though in his person he was not tall, he yet ap
peared rather bulky. His aspect was light, placid,
and contemplative; andhewas acalm andjudicious
man, who had the entire command of his passions.
Intent on being useful, he was economical and
lived by rule, and was a rare pattern of industry.
He had no fondness for parade. As he was ex
emplary for piety in life, so he was resigned and
peaceful at the hour of death. When some one
in his last illness observed to him, that he was
dangerously sick, he replied that a person was
not in a dangerous situation who was approaching
the end of his toils. By some means he acquired
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a prejudice against Mr. Whitefield. He was ap
prehensive, that it was the design of that eloquent
preacher to break down our churches, and to in
troduce ministers from Scotland and Ireland. He
therefore opposed him, though it is believed that
they did not differ much in their religious senti
ments. He had a controversy with Mr. Edwards
of Northampton respecting a conversation which
passed between them in reference to Mr.Whiteneld.
lie seems to have misapprehended Mr. Edwards.
Mr. Clap constructed the first orrery, or planet
arium, made in America. His manuscripts were
plundered in the expedition against New Haven
under Gen. Tyron. He had made collections of
materials for a history of Connecticut. He pub
lished a sermon at the ordination of Ephraim
Little, Colchester, Sept. 20, 1732; letter to Mr.
Edwards, respecting Mr. Whitefield's design, 1745 ;
the religious constitution of colleges, 1754; a brief
history and vindication of the doctrines, received
and established in the churches of New England,
with a specimen of the new scheme of religion,
beginning to prevail, 1755; this scheme he col
lects from the writings of Chubb, Taylor, Foster,
Hutcheson, Campbell, and Ramsay ; and in op
posing it he vindicates the use of creeds, and con
tends for the doctrines of the Divinity and satis
faction of Christ, original sin, the necessity of
special grace in regeneration, and justification by
faith. He published also an essay on the nature
and foundation of moral virtue and obligation,
1765 ; a history of Yale college, 1766 ; and con
jectures upon the nature and motion of meteors
which are above the atmosphere, 1781. — Holmes'
Life of Stiles, 263, 393-396; Annals, II. 151;
Miller, n. 360 ; Daygett's Funeral Sermon ;
Hist. Tale Coll
CLAPP, ASA, died in Portland May 17, 1848,
aged 86 ; a successful merchant, regarded as the
richest man in Maine. Judge Woodbury married
his daughter. His life, by J. A. Lowell, is in
Lives of American merchants.
CLAPP, PIIEBE, widow of Benjamin, died in
Easthampton May 30, 1847, aged 97. There fol
lowed her to the grave, fifteen children, of whom
thirteen were heads of families, one a daughter
79 years old. She had seventy grand-children
and seventy grcat-grand-children. She was one
of the seventy-three original members of the
church sixty-three years before.
CLARK, Joiix, a physician, died in Boston in
1664, aged 66. He was born in England, came
to Newbury in 1638, and lived there till 1651,
when he removed to Boston. His picture, with
appropriate symbols of his profession, is in the
Massachusetts historical society library ; a print
in Coffin's history of Newbury.
CLARK, Joiix, a physician in Boston, was the
eldest son of John C., a physician, who died in
1690, and the grandson of John C., also a physi-
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clan, who arrived in this country about 1650. He
was graduated at Harvard college in 1687. For
several years he was the speaker of the house of
representatives, and a member of the council. In
the controversy with Shute he was a strong oppo
nent. He died Dec. 6, 1728, aged 59. His third
wife, Sarah Leverett, survived him and married
Dr. Colman. His son John, a physician in Bos
ton, died April 6, 1768, aged 69, being the father
of Elizabeth, the wife of Dr. Mayhew, and the
father of John Clark, also a physician, who died
in 1788. This last was the father of John, a phy
sician, who died at Weston, April, 1805, aged 27,
leaving no male issue. — Thacher's Med. Biog.
CLARK, DANIEL, the head of the families of
Clarks, died at Windsor, Ct., of which he was an
early settler, Aug. 12, 17 10, aged 87. His wife, by
whom he had ten children, was Mary Newberry,
daughter of Thomas of Dorchester. He was an
attorney and a magistrate. As the town of
Windsor had a " great pew," which was wain-
scotted, for the sitting of the magistrates, the town
appointed him to sit in that pew. Goodwin
gives the names of two hundred and twenty-
three of his descendants.
CLARK, PETER, minister of Danvers, Mass.,
was graduated at Harvard college in 1712, and was
ordained pastor of the first church in Salem village,
now Danvers, June 5, 1717. Here he continued
more than half a century. He died June 10,
1768, aged 75. He was highly respected as a
minister of the gospel, and there were few who
were more universally venerated. He was very
plain and faithful in his admonitions, and he ap
plied himself diligently to sacred studies. Pos
sessing an inquisitive genius, he read all the
modern books of any note which came in his
way. By conversing much with some of the best
and most celebrated, he had formed a style some
what superior to that of most of his contempo
raries. He was warmly attached to the senti
ments generally embraced in the New England
churches. He published a sermon at the ordina
tion of W. Jennison, Salem, 1728; two letters on
baptism, 1732; the necessity and efficacy of the
grace of God in the conversion of the sinner,
1734; at the artillery election, 1736; at the
election, 1739; at a fast, occasioned by the war,
Feb. 26, 1741 ; before the annual convention of
ministers, 1745 ; a defence of the divine right
of infant baptism, 8vo. 1752; spiritual fortitude
recommended to young men, 1757 ; the Scripture
doctrine of original sin stated and defended in
a summer morning's conversation, 1758; this was
in answer to the "winter evening's conversa
tion ; " a defence of the principles of the sum
mer morning's conversation, 1760; a Dudleian
lecture, 1763. — Barnard's Fun. Serm.
CLARK, ABRAHAM, a patriot of the Revolu
tion, was born Feb. 5, 1726, at Elizabethtown,
New Jersey, and was bred a farmer, but gave his
chief attention to surveying, conveyancing, and
the imparting of gratuitous legal advice to his
neighbors. Being appointed a member of con
gress, he voted for the Declaiation of Independ
ence and affixed his name to that instrument. After
the adoption of the constitution he was chosen a
member of the second congress. He died in con
sequence of a stroke of the sun, in Sept., 1794,
aged 67, and was buried at Rahway. During the
war several of his sons, officers in the army, fell
into the hands of the enemy and were shut up in
the memorable prison-ship Jersey. The suffer
ings of one of them were such, that congress
ordered a retaliation. — Goodrich's Lives ; Biog.
Signers of Dec. Independence.
CLARK, JONAS, minister of Lexington, Mass.,
was born at Newton, Dec. 25, 1730, was graduated
at Harvard college in 1752, and ordained as suc
cessor of Mr. Hancock Nov. 5, 1755. Having
through the course of half a century approved
himself an able and faithful minister of the gos
pel, he died in much peace Nov. 15, 1805, aged
74. His daughter, Lydia, wife of Benjamin
Greene of Berwick, died in 1830. He was wholly
devoted to the duties of his sacred calling. His
public discourses consisted not of learned discus
sions on speculative or metaphysical subjects, nor
yet of dry lectures on heathen morality ; but of
the most interesting truths of the gospel, deliv
ered with uncommon energy and zeal. In the
times preceding the American Revolution he was
not behind any of his brethren in giving his influ
ence on the side of his country, in opposition to
its oppressors. It was but a few rods from his
own door, that the first blood was shed in the
war. On the morning of April 19, 1775, he saw
his parishioners most wantonly murdered. Dur
ing the struggle, which then commenced, the
anniversary of this outrage was religiously ob
served by him and his people. He published a
sermon and narrative on Lexington battle, 1776.
This was the first anniversary. Successive preach
ers on the occasion, whose sermons were pub
lished, were S. Cooke, J. Gushing, S. Woodward,
J. Morrill, II. Cumings, P. Payson, and Z. Adams.
He published also a sermon at the artillery elec
tion, 1768; at the election, 1781. — Panopl. I.
324; Columbian Cent. Dec. 31, 1805.
CLARK, JAMES, colonel, a descendant of Dan
iel, died in Lebanon in 1826, aged 96. An officer
in the army, he fought at Bunker Hill.
CLARK, DANIEL, died in Brooklyn, Conn.,
April 14, 1854, aged 101. He was born at Chat
ham. His father lived to the age of 94; his
grandfather to that of 99. The three were dea
cons.
CLARK, JOHN, Dr., died at Utica in 1822,
aged nearly 94, a graduate of Yale in 1749. His
widow, who died in 1823, aged 92, was Jcrusha,
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daughter of Jabcz Huntington, of Windham, and
of Elizabeth Edwards, who was the daughter
of Rev. Timothy E. They had twelve children.
CLARK, JABEZ, judge, died at Windham in
1836, aged S3. He served in the Revolutionary
war in the quartermaster's department, and was
judge of the county court. He had ten children.
CLARK, WILLIAM, governor, died at the resi
dence of lu's son, Meriwether L. Clark, in St.
Louis, Sept. 1, 1838, aged G8. He arrived at St.
Louis in 1803, and with Meriwether Lewis per
formed the first journey across the continent to the
mouth of the Columbia. After being governor
of Missouri he was superintendent of Indian
affairs for the' west till his death. Well under
standing the Indian character, he had their entire
confidence. Lewis and Clark's expedition was
published in 2 vols., 1814.
CLARK, DANIEL A., died of apoplexy in New
York March 3, 1840, aged CO ; he was buried in
New Haven. A native of Rahway, N. J., and a
graduate of Princeton in 1808, he was first set
tled as a minister near Boston ; afterwards at
Bennington, Southbury, and Amherst ; and was
known as an able preacher and writer. He pub
lished a sermon July 4, 1814; at Amherst, 1820 ;
a tract, the rich believer bountiful ; a sermon, the
church safe ; and 3 vols. of sermons. — Holland's
Hist. n. 1G8.
CLARK, WILLIS GAYLORD, died at Philadel
phia in June, 1841, aged 32, editor of the Phila
delphia Gazette. He was a poet, and a man of
talents, of an amiable and exemplary character.
He was born in Otisco, N. Y., to which place his
father, Capt. Eliakim Clark, a native of North
ampton, Mass., and brother of Bohan C., emi
grated. His sister is the wife of Gen. Pomeroy,
one of the leaders of the free settlers of Kansas
in their struggle against the Missouri ruffians in
Nov., 1855.
CLARK, JOHN A., 1). I)., died Nov. 27, 1843,
editor of the Episcopal Recorder. A successful
preacher, he toiled in New York, Providence,
and Philadelphia.
CLARK, JOSIAII, minister of Rutland, Mass.,
died in 184,3, aged GO. A native of Northampton,
he graduated at Williams college in 1809, and
was for a few years principal of Leicester acad
emy, in which station he was highly respected,
for he was a scholar, and had ready sympathies
and kind feelings, which gained the attachment
of his pupils. His son was afterwards preceptor
in the English and Latin departments. He was
a popular preacher, and in his parish a willing
counsellor and faithful friend. — Waskburn's
Sketch of Leicester Academy.
CLARK, JOHN, major, died in Powhatan Co.,
Va., May 17, 1844, aged 78, a Revolutionary sol
dier, and a distinguished mechanic, who built the
Virginia armory.
CLARK, EBENEZER, died at Rye, N. Y., Sept.
11, 1847, aged 78. In his town he built two
churches at his own expense, and liberally con
tributed for the continued preaching of the gos
pel in both. At his death he manifested a deep
humility united with a strong faith and hope.
CLARK, MARSTON G., general, died in Indi
ana July 25, 184G, aged 74, and was one of
twenty-nine brothers and two sisters by the same
father and mother. He was born in Luncnburgh
county in Va. He held various civil and military
offices, lie was aid to Harrison in the battle of
Tippecanoe, also Indian agent.
CLARK, JAMES, governor of Iowa, died near
Burlington July 28, 1850, aged 38. He pub
lished in 1837 the Territorial now State Gazette.
He was territorial governor in 1845 and 1846.
CLARK, ENOCH W., died at Philadelphia in
Aug., 1856, leaving 15,000 dollars to several
charities. He was formerly of Northampton,
and since 1841 had acquired in money and ex
change brokerage a million of dollars.
CLARKE, JOHN, one of the first founders of
Rhode Island, died at Newport April 20, 1G7G,
aged about 5G. He was a physician in London,
before he came to this country. Soon after the
first settlement of Massachusetts he was driven
from that colony with a number of others, and,
March 7, 1638, they formed themselves into a
body politic and purchased Aquetncck of the In
dian sachems, calling it the Isle of Rhodes, or
Rhode Island. The settlement commenced at
Pocasset, or Portsmouth. The Indian deed is
dated March 24, 1638. Mr. Clarke was soon
employed as a preacher, and in 1644 he formed a
church at Newport and became its pastor. This
was the second Baptist church which was estab
lished in America. In 1649 he was an assistant
and treasurer of Rhode Island colony. In 1651
he went to visit one of his brethren at Lynn, near
Boston, and he preached on Sunday, July 20 ;
but, before he had completed the services of the
forenoon, he was seized, with his friends, by an
officer of the government. In the afternoon he
was compelled to attend the parish meeting, at
the close of which he spoke a few words. July
31, he was tried before the court of assistants and
fined twenty pounds, in case of failure in the pay
ment of which sum he was to be whipped. In
passing the sentence Judge Endicot observed :
" You secretly insinuate things into those who are
weak, which you cannot maintain before our min
isters ; you may try and dispute with them."
Mr. Clarke accordingly wrote from prison, pro
posing a dispute upon the principles which he
professed. He represented his principles to be
that Jesus Christ had the sole right of prescribing
any laws respecting the worship of God, which it
was necessary to obey ; that baptism, or dipping
in water, was an ordinance to be administered
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only to those who gave some evidence of repent
ance towards God and faith in Jesus Christ ; that
such visible believers only constituted the church ;
that each of them had a right to speak in the
congregation, according^ as the Lord had given
him talents, cither to make inquiries for his own
instruction, or to prophesy for the edification of
others, and that at all times and in all places they
ought to reprove folly and open their lips to jus
tify wisdom ; and that no servant of Jesus Christ
had any authority to restrain any fellow servant
in his worship, where injury was not offered to
others. No dispute, however, occurred, and Mr.
Clarke, after paying his fine, was soon released
from prison and directed to leave the colony.
His companion, Obadiah Holmes, shared a se
verer fate ; for, on declining to pay his fine of
thirty pounds, which his friends offered to do for
him, he was publicly whipped in Boston.
In 1651 Mr. Clarke was sent to England with
Mr. Williams to promote the interests of Rhode
Island, and particularly to procure a revocation
of Mr. Coddington's commission as governor.
Soon after his arrival he published a book,
giving an account of the persecutions in New
England. In Oct., 1652, the commission of Mr.
Coddington was annulled. After the return of
Mr. Williams, Mr. Clarke was left behind, and
continued in England as agent for the colony, till
he obtained the second charter, July 8, 1663, to
procure which he mortgaged Iris estate in New
port. He returned in 1664, and continued the
pastor of his church till his death. Some years
passed before he obtained from the assembly a
repayment of his expenses during his absence,
though a considerable reward was voted him.
The Quakers about this time occasioned much
trouble in New England, and Mr. Clark and his
church were obliged in Oct., 1673, to exclude five
persons from their communion for asserting,
" that the man Christ Jesus was not now in
heaven, nor on earth, nor anywhere else; but
that his body was entirely lost." Mr. Clarke died,
resigning his soul to his merciful Redeemer,
through faith in whose name he enjoyed the hope
of a resurrection to eternal life.
His life was so pure, that he was never accused
of any vice which has left a blot on his memory.
His sentiments respecting religious toleration did
not indeed accord with the sentiments of the age
in which he lived, and exposed him to some
trouble ; but at the present time they are almost
universally embraced. His exertions to promote
the civil prosperity of Rhode Island must endear
his name to those who are now enjoying the
fruits of his labors. He possessed the singular
honor of contributing much towards establishing
the first government upon the earth which gave
equal liberty, civil and religious, to all men living
under it. In Maryland, too, during the adminis
tration of Charles Calvert, appointed governor in
1662, an act was passed allowing all Christians to
settle in the province.
He left behind him a writing, which expressed
his religious opinions. He believed, that all
things, with their causes, effects, circumstances,
and manner of being, are decreed by God ; that
tin's decree is the determination from eternity of
what shall come to pass in time ; that it is most
wise, just, necessary, and unchangable, the cause
of all good, but not of any sin ; that election is
the decree of God, choosing, of his free love,
grace, and mercy, some men to faith, holiness,
and eternal life; that sin is the effect of man's
free will, and condemnation an effect of justice,
inflicted upon man for sin and disobedience. It
was not in these opinions, but in his sentiments
respecting baptism, that he differed from the min
isters of Massachusetts.
In his last will he left his farm in Newport to
charitable purposes ; the income of it to be given
to the poor and to be employed for the support
of learning and religion. It has produced about
200 dollars a year, and has thus been promoting
the public interests ever since his death.
The title of the book, which he published in
London in 1652, is: 111 news from New England,
or a narrative of New England's persecution ;
wherein it is declared, that while Old England is
becoming New, New England is becoming Old ;
also four proposals to parliament and four con
clusions, touching the faith and order of the gos
pel of Christ, out of his last will and testament,
4to., pp. 76. This work was answered by Thomas
Cobbett of Lynn. — Backus' Church Hist, of N.
E. in. 227, 228 ; Backus' Abridg. 84, 86, 109-
116.
CLARKE, RICHARD, an elegant classical
scholar, came to this country from England
before the middle of the last century. He was
for some time rector of St. Philip's church in
Charleston. He returned to England in the year
1759, and in 1768 was curate of Cheshunt in
Hertfordshire. He published several pieces on
the prophecies, and on universal redemption.
The following are the titles of them : An essay
on the number seven, wherein the duration of
the church of Rome and of the Mahometan im
posture, the time of the conversion of the Jews,
and the year of the world for the millennium and
for the first resurrection are attempted to be set
tled, 1769; a warning to the world, or the pro
phetical numbers of Daniel and John calculated;
a second warning to the world, 1762 ; glad tidings
to the Jews and Gentiles, 1763 ; the gospel of the
daily service of the law preached to the Jew and
Gentile, 1768. He seems to have been tinctured
with the mystical doctrines of William Law and
Jacob Behmen. — Miller's Retrospect, II. 365 ;
Ramsay's Hist. S. C. II. 452-454.
CLARKE.
CLARKE, GEORGE ROGERS, general, a Revo
lutionary officer, died Feb. 13, 1808, aged 66.
lie resided on the western border of Virginia,
and had all the hardihood and energy necessary
for a soldier. After the massacre at Wyoming in
1778 he took the command of a body of troops,
designed to operate against the Indians, for the
protection of the frontiers. He descended the
Monongahela with between two and three
hundred men for the purpose of capturing the
British post at Kaskaskias, on the Mississippi,
whither the Indians were accustomed to resort
for the reward of their barbarities. So secret
was the approach of Clarke, that the fort and
town were taken without the escape of a man to
spread the alarm. In this expedition his scanty
provisions were consumed, and his men for one or
two days subsisted on roots found in the woods.
He now mounted a detachment on horses, and
reduced three other towns higher up the river,
and sent the principal agent of the enemy
a prisoner to Virginia. At this period the
county of Illinois was organized ; and new troops
ordered to be raised for the protection of the
west. In the mean time Col. Clarke was in
formed that Hamilton, the governor of Detroit,
was about to attack him in the spring of 1779
and to lay waste the settlements of Kentucky.
He resolved therefore to anticipate this move
ment, and to surprise the British commander.
Having garrisoned Kaskaskias, he proceeded
across the country with one hundred and fifty
brave companions. When within a few miles
of the enemy, he was five days wading, frequently
breast-high in water, through the drowned lands
of the Wabash. Feb. 23d he came in sight of
Vincenncs. The attack was commenced in the
evening, and the next day Clarke was in possession
of the fort, with Hamilton and the garrison pris
oners. He also intercepted a convoy of goods
and provisions, coming from Detroit, valued at
10,000 pounds, and took forty prisoners at the
same time. Hamilton and his officers were sent
to Wiiliamsburg. In this year he built fort Jef
ferson on the western bank of the Mississippi,
below the Ohio. An expedition against Detroit
was projected, but not executed. When Arnold
invaded Virginia in 1780, Col. Clarke, then at
Richmond, joined Baron Stcuben in an expedi
tion against the traitor. Being detached with
two hundred and forty men, he drew a party of
the enemy into an ambuscade, killing and wound
ing thirty men. In 1781 he was promoted to
the rank of brigadier-general. Being com
mander of the post at Kaskaskias, he was re
strained to defensive measures, and was obliged
to abandon the long meditated project of captur
ing Detroit. In Aug., 1782, he was in command
at the falls of Ohio. After the war he settled
in Kentucky with a small band of associates, and
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was regarded by his fellow-citizens as the protec
tor and father of the western country. John
Randolph called him the American Hannibal,
who, by the reduction of Vincenncs, obtained the
lakes for the northern boundary at the peace of
Paris. He died at Locust Grove, near Louisville.
It is related in the Notes of an old officer, that
at the treaty of fort Washington, where the
troops were only seventy men, all the Indians in
council appeared peaceable, excepting three
hundred iShawahanees, whose chief made a
boisterous speech, and then placed on the table
his belt of black and white wampum, to intimate
that he was prepared for either peace or war,
while his three hundred savages applauded him
by a whoop. At the table sat Commissary-gen
eral Clarke and Gen. Richard Butler. Clarke
with his cane coolly pushed the wampum from
the table ; then rising, as the savages muttered
their indignation, he trampled on the belt, and
with a voice of authority bid them instantly quit
the hall. The next day they sued for peace. —
Marshall, m. 565 ; Jennison, Enc. Amer.
CLARKE, JOHN, I). I)., minister in Boston,
died April 2, 1798, aged 42. He was born at
Portsmouth, New Hampshire, April 13, 1755.
While a member of Harvard college, at which he
was graduated in 1774, he was distinguished by
his improvements in literature and science, by a
strict obedience to the laws, and by irreproacha
ble morals. He afterwards engaged in the
instruction of youth ; but in his leisure hours he
pursued with assiduity his theological studies. In
the office of preceptor he was gentle and persua
sive, beloved by his pupils, and esteemed by their
friends. He was ordained pastor of the first
c'hurch in Boston, as colleague with Dr. Chauncy,
July 8, 1778. With him he lived in the most
intimate and respectful friendship about nine
years, and afterwards labored alone in the service
of the church, until April 1, 1798, when, as he
was addressing his hearers, he was seized by
apoplexy and fell down in his pulpit. He expired
the next morning. He was of a mild and cheer
ful temper, easy and polite in his manners, and
endeared to all his acquaintance. Though fond
of literary and philosophical researches, he yet
considered theology as the proper science of a
minister of the gospel. To this object he princi
pally devoted his time and studies, and was ear
nestly desirous of investigating every branch of
it, not merely to gratify curiosity, but that he
might be able to impart instruction. He was
habitually a close student. His public discourses
bore the marks of penetration, judgment, perspi
cuity, and elegance. In the private offices of pas
toral friendship he was truly exemplary and
engaging. In the various relations of life his
deportment was marked with carefulness, fidelity,
and affection. His successor was W. Emerson.
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He published the following sermons : on the
death of S. Cooper, 1784 ; of C. Chauncy, 1787 ;
of X. W. Appleton, 1796; before the humane
society, 1793 ; also, an answer to the question,
why are you a Christian ? 8vo. 170.3, and several
other editions; letters to a student at college,
12mo. 1796. After his death a vol. of sermons
•was published, 1799; and discourses to young
persons, 1804. — Thaclier's Fun. Ser. ; Hist. Coll.
VI. I-IX.
CLARKE, JABEZ, judge, died at Windham,
Conn., Nov. 11, 1836, aged 83; chief justice of
the county court. In the Revolutionary war he
was quartermaster-general. He was an excel
lent citizen and an exemplary Christian.
CLARKE, JAMES D., died in Newcastle, Penn.,
Dec. 2, 1854, aged 40, worthy of honorable re
membrance for his labors for years as a tract dis
tributor. He was qualified for his work, being
fluent, entertaining, affectionate, earnest, fervent
in his addresses, — going into ignorant families
and melting the occupants into tears.
CLARKE, JAMES, died at Burlington, Iowa,
July 28, 1850, editor of the Iowa Gazette. He
had been governor of the State.
CLARKE, MATTHEW ST. CLAIR, died at Wash
ington May 6, 1852, aged 59 ; many years clerk
of the house of representatives, and auditor of the
treasury ; highly respected.
CLARKE, Dr. TIIADDEUS, died at New Brigh
ton, Pa., Feb. 15, 1854, aged 83. He was a de
scendant of President Edwards, and imbibed his
faith, and was a man of piety and benevolence.
He lived in Lebanon till 1821; then removed to
Pompcy, N. Y.; and thence in 1843 to New
Brighton for the sake of a more favorable climate-:
o
in all these places he was an eminent physician.
In his last hours the songs of Zion as sung by his
daughter-in-law refreshed him : " Jerusalem, my
happy home," etc. For more than fifty years he
was a Christian professor. He had eleven chil
dren. His daughter, Sarah Jane, born in 1823,
in Pompey, N. Y., known as a writer with the
signature of " Grace Greenwood," married Mr.
Lippincott, of Philadelphia.
CLARKSON, GERARDUS, M. D., an eminent
physician of Philadelphia, was the son of Matthew
C., a merchant of New York, who died in 1770,
and a descendant of David C., an English non-
conforming minister of distinction, who died in
1686. Dr. Clarkson was a practitioner as early
as 1774, and he died Sept. 19, 1790, aged 53.
Rev. Dr. Finley married his sister in 1761.
John Swanwick wrote a poem on his death.
CLARKSON, MATTHEW, general, a soldier of
the Revolution, was distinguished in the war of
Independence for his courage, talents, and integ
rity. He acted as aid-de-camp to Gen. Gates in
the battle of Stillwater, in which, as he was car-
CLAY.
rying an order to the officer of the left wing, by
passing in front of the American line when en
gaged, he received a severe wound in his neck.
In his last years he was vice-president of the
American bible society, and much of his time
was devoted to the meetings of the managers.
He died at New York, after an illness of five days,
April 22, 1825, aged 66 years. Amiable, frank,
affectionate, pure, and beneficent, his character
was crowned by an exalted piety.
CLAVIGERO, ABBE, was the author of a his
tory of Mexico, which was published in 2 vols.
4to. London, 1787.
CLAY, JOSEPH, a judge and a minister, was
born at Savannah in 1764, and graduated at
Princeton in 1784. His father, Joseph Clay, a
Revolutionary patriot and soldier, judge of the
county court, and an exemplary Christian, died
at Savannah, Dec., 1804, aged 63. He was ap
pointed the judge of the district court of Georgia
in 1796, and resigned the office in 1801. Becom
ing in 1803 a member of the Baptist church in
Savannah, he was ordained the next year as col
league with Mr. Ilolcombe, the pastor. Having
visited New England, he was invited to settle as
colleague with Dr. Stillman, a Baptist minister in
Boston, and was installed Aug. 19, 1807. In
Nov., 1808, he visited Savannah, and, finding his
health declining, he asked a dismission from his
people. But, anxious to be in the bosom of his
family, he returned in 1810 to Boston, where he
died Jan. 11, 1811. His daughter married Wil
liam R. Gray of Boston. Mr. Clay was highly re
spected for his learning, talents, piety, and benevo
lence. In college he was the most distinguished of
his class. With an ample fortune he yet determined
to live a life of toil in the best of causes. The
circumstance of his relinquishing the office of a
judge for that of a minister probably drew after
him some hearers of the legal profession. After
hearing him at Providence, Mr. Burrill, a lawyer,
exclaimed to a friend, " See what a lawyer can do."
The reply was, " See what the grace of God can
do with a lawyer." He published his installation
sermon, 1807. — Benedict, I. 403.
CLAY, ELIZABETH, mother of Henry, was the
daughter of George Hudson of Hanover, Va.,
born in 1750. In her fifteenth year she married
John Clay, a Baptist preacher, and became the
mother of eight children. Her second husband
was Henry Watkins, by whom also she had eight
children. She was a faithful mother, with her
hands full. In 1792, Mr. W. removed to Wood-
ford county, Ky. She died in 1827, a Baptist
professor. In 1848 only two children by each
husband survived. Her son, Rev. Porter Clay of
Camden, Ark., died 1850, aged 70.
CLAY, HENRY, died at Washington, June 29,
1852, aged 75. He was born April 12, 1777, in
Hancock county, Va., the seventh son of Rev.
CLAYl'OLE.
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John Clay, a Baptist minister. Admitted to the
bar at twenty, he removed to Lexington and soon
had extensive practice. In 1808 he was guilty
of the folly and wickedness of engaging in a duel
with Humphrey Marshall. He was in the senate
of the United States in 1806, and again in 1809.
In 1811 he was in the house and was chosen
speaker. In 1814 he was a commissioner at
Ghent. In 1825 lie was secretary of State under
Mr. Adams. Again he was chargeable with the
madness of fighting a duel; it was with John
Randolph. He was re-elected to the senate in
1831, also in 1836; but he resigned his seat in
1842. He was re-chosen in 1849. Although a
slaveholder himself, he said in debate in the
senate : "I never can, and never will vote, and no
earthly power will ever make me vote, to spread
slavery over territory, where it does not exist."
The passage of the Missouri compromise was
much owing to his efforts ; but he did not live to
see its repeal, for the purpose of opening to
slavery the immense territory west of Missouri,
and this sacrifice of freedom to the slave-power
introduced and supported in the senate by a
northern aspirant to the presidency, yet a slave
holder, as a means of securing to himself the votes
of the south. For the office of president, he was
a candidate in 1832, and again in 1844; doubt
less to such a man it was a deep-felt grief to be
defeated. But the race is not to the swift. In ill
health he \isited Havana in 1850-51, but with
no relief; he returned to Washington, but only to
die. The death of three such aspirants to the
presidency as Calhoun, Webster, and Clay may
well teach the men of like claims what vanities
they pursue. He was an earnest supporter of
the colonization society. His wife, and three sons
of his twelve children, survived him. In person
he was tall and slender, and he stooped some
what. His countemmce expressed great placidity
and suavity ; his manners were somewhat elabo
rate ; his eloquence was most varied, energetic,
and persuasive. His life and times, in 2 vols. 8vo.,
second edition, was published by Calvin Colton in
1816.
CLAYFOOLE, David C., an editor, died at
Philadelphia in 1849, aged 92, one of the proprie
tors of the Pennsylvania Packet and Daily Adver-
vertiser, the first daily newspaper, set up in 1775.
The firm was Dunlap and C. The paper after
wards passed into the hands of Poulson. The
records of the debates of congress from 1783 to
17!/J are found in his paper.
CLAYTON, JOHN, an eminent botanist and
physician of Virginia, died Dec. 15, 1773, aged
87. He was born at Fulham, in Great Bri
tain, and came to Virginia with his father in 1705,
aged about twenty years. His father was an emi
nent lawyer, and was appointed attorney-general
of Virginia. Young Clayton was put into the
30
office of Peter Beverly, who was clerk or protho-
notary for Gloucester county, and, succeeding him
in this office, filled it fifty-one years. During the
year preceding his decease, such was the vigor of
his constitution, even at his advanced period, and
such his zeal in botanical researches, that he
made a botanical tour through Orange county ;
and it is believed that he had visited most of the
settled parts of Virginia. His residence was about
twenty miles from the city of Williamsburg. His
character stands high as a man of integrity, and
as a citizen. He was a strict, though not osten
tatious, observer of the worship of the church of
England, and he seemed constantly piously dis
posed. He was heard to say, while examining a
flower, that he could not look into one, without
seeing the display of infinite power and contriv
ance, and that he thought it impossible for a
botanist to be an atheist. He was a member of
some of the most learned literary societies of Eu
rope, and corresponded with Gronovius, Linnaeus,
and other able botanists. As a practical bota
nist he was perhaps inferior to no botanist of his
time.
He left behind him two volumes of manuscripts,
nearly prepared for the press, and a hortus siccus
of folio size, with marginal notes and directions
for the engraver in preparing the plates for his
proposed work. This work, which was in the
possession of his son, when the Revolutionary
war commenced, was sent to William Clayton,
clerk of New Kent, as to a place of security from
the invading enemy. It was lodged in the office
with the records of the county. An incendiary
put a torch to the building; and thus perished
not only the records of the county but the labors
of Clayton.
Several of his communications, treating of the
culture and different species of tobacco, were
published in numbers 201, 204, 205, and 206, of
the philosophical transactions; and in number
454 is an ample account of medicinal plants,
which he had discovered growing in Virginia.
He is chiefly known to the learned, especially in
Europe, by his Flora Virginica, a work pub
lished by Gronovius at Leyden, in Svo., 1739 —
1743, and again in 4to., in 1762. This is fre
quently referred to by Linnaeus, and by all the
succeeding botanists, who have had occasion to
treat of the plants of North America. It is to be
regretted, however, that they so frequently refer
to the flora as the work of Gronovious, though
its greatest value is derived from the masterly
descriptions, communicated to the Leyden pro
fessor by Mr. Clayton. — Barton's Med. and
Phys. Journal, II. 139-145 ; Ilces1 CycL Ameri
can edit.; Miller,!. 142; II. 368.
CLAYTON, JOSHUA, a physician, was the presi
dent of Delaware from 1729 to 1793, and gov-
j ernor under the present constitution from 1793 to
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CLAYTON.
CLEAYELAND.
1796, when he was succeeded by G. Bedford. In
1793 he was elected to the senate of the United
States. He died in 1799. During the war. when
the Peruvian bark was scarce, he substituted for
it successfully in his practice the poplar, lirioden-
dron tulipifera, combined with nearly an equal
quantity of the bark of the root of the dogwood,
cornus florida, and half the quantity of the inside
bark of the white oak tree. — ThacJier's Jfed.
Biog.
CLAYTON, THOMAS, judge, died at Newcastle,
Aug. 21, 1854, aged 76. He was a senator of.
the United States from 1823 to 1826, and from
1837 to 1847 ; and chief justice of the Delaware
superior court.
CLEAYELAND, MOSES, the founder of a large
family, came from Ispwich. England, a carpenter's
apprentice ; became a freeholder in Woburn,
Mass., in 1643 : married Ann Winn, 1648, and
died in 1702. They had seven sons and three
daughters. These all married and all had chil
dren. From them are doubtless descended all
in this country, who bear the name of Cleaveland
and Cleveland, as the name is variously written.
CLEAYELAND, AARON, a minister, died in
Philadelphia in 1757, aged 42. Born at Cam
bridge, Mass., he was a grandson of Aaron, the
third child of Moses of Woburn. He graduated
at Harvard in 1735. He was a prodigy of physi
cal strength and agility. In 1739 he was ordained
over the Congregational church in Haddam.
Conn., where he stayed seven years. From 1747
to 1750 he was pastor in Maiden, Mass. His :
next move was to Halifax, N. S., where he be
came an Episcopalian. In 1755 he went to Eng
land, and returned as an Episcopal missionary to
certain parts of Delaware. Two years aft erwaid.
while on a journey to visit his family in New
England, he was taken sick in Philadelphia, and
died in the house of his friend, Dr. Franklin. In ;
early life, he was an admirer of Whitefield, and a
zealous as well as able preacher. There is no
reason to think that his denominational change
impaired his ardor or efficiency. It is much, that ,
the great Franklin honored and praised him. It I
is more and better, that the people of his
charge loved him and mourned for him. He !
married Susanna, daughter of Rev. Aaron Foster
of Medford, and left a large family. Of these, his
daughter, Susanna Cleaveland, married Stephen
Higginson, a distinguished Boston merchant.
Rev. Thomas W. Higginson of Worcester, and
Rev. Dr. Stephen H. Tyng of New York, are her
grandsons.
CLEAYELAND, JOHN, minister of Ispwich,
Mass., died April 22, 1799, aged 77. He was '
born in Canterbury, Conn., April 22, 1722. He '
was graduated at Yale college in 1745, and while '
a member of that institution he exhibited that
independence and courage in the cause of truth, '
for which he was ever distinguished. While at
home during a vacation in 1744. he attended a sep
arate meeting, for which, on his return to college,
he was required to make a confession. He justi
fied himself on the ground, that he was a member
of the church, and attended the meeting with his
father and a majority of the church. The same
defence was made by Ebenezer Cleaveland, also
of Canterbury, who was involved in the same dif
ficulty. They were both expelled from college.
This act of persecution, especially as Episcopalians
were tolerated in their own worship, awakened
the public indignation. Distinguished men,
among whom was Dr. E. Wheelock, advised him
to petition the Connecticut assembly for redress,
and assured him of their aid. About twenty
years afterwards Rector Clap sent him his degree,
and the catalogue dates it in 1745, with his class,
— with whom he spent three years in successful
study. He was a descendant of Moses ; his
grandfather, Josiah, was a pioneer settler of Can
terbury; his parents were Josiah and Abigail.
Having obtained a license to preach, he minis
tered to a Separatist society in Boston, in that
Huguenot church in School street, where Daille
and Le Mercier had before preached to the ex
patriated Bowdoins and Amorys. Declining an
invitation to settle there, he accepted a call from
the parish of Chebacco in Ipswich, now the
town of Essex. Here his earnest ministry of
fifty-two years ended only with his life, after a
short and painful illness. In 1758 he went as
the chaplain of Col. Bagley's regiment, in Aber-
crombie's ill-starred expedition. His journal,
kept daily on the spot, and letters to his " dear
and loving wife," present a lively image of the
scenes through which he passed. His brother
chaplains of the provincial forces were all respect
able clergymen, good and faithful ministers, as
well as true patriots. During their long encamp
ment at fort George, it was their custom to meet
twice a week, under some tent or booth, to
strengthen each other by mutual converse, prayer,
and exhortation. To these scenes of Christian
labor, as depicted by Mr. C.,Mr. Bancroft alludes
in the narration of the time. In the following
year, he went in the same capacity and the same
regiment to Loui&burg, already in British hands.
The year 1763 was made joyful to him by a great
revival of piety among his people. In the contro
versies, which about this time sprung up with his
mother country, he took a warm interest. Es
pousing heartily the American side, he devoted to
it a ready tongue and a ready pen. With the
first sound of war he was again in the field. He
served as chaplain at Cambridge — while in the
same camp were two of his brothers, and all four
of his sons. In 1776 he was with the army, for a
time, in Connecticut and New York. These occa
sional absences from his flock seem but to have
CLEAVELAXD.
endeared him to them the more. An enlarged
acquaintance with men and things undoubtedly
widened and liberalized his views, without abating
the fervor of his piety. It appears that after a
few unhappy years of religious dissension, the two
congregations in Chebaeco re-united under him
and went on in harmony. He was a man of
strong constitution and ardent temperament. An
earnest spirit, an unpolished energy, and a sin
cerity, which none could question, characterized
him in the pulpit. His familiarity with the Scrip
tures was proverbial. His general learning was
respectable. His writings, though often forcible
and fervid, could lay no claim to elegance. He
was not afraid of controversy, and more than
once ventured into the camps of polemic, as well
as those of natural war. In his dispute with Dr.
Mayhew, several ponderous pamphlets appeared
on both sides. Mr. C. had blue eyes, and a florid
complexion, was nearly six feet high, erect and
muscular ; his voice was heavy and of great com
pass, and his gestures were appropriate. In his
preaching he was not confined to written sermons.
Dr. Emmons said of him, that he was " a pattern
of piety and an ornament to the Christian and
clerical profession." His faithful labors were
crowned with great success ; at one period, in
about six months, one hundred persons were ad
ded to his church. He died in peace and hope on
his seventy-seventh birth-day. His first wife was
Mary, daughter of Parker Dodge, and great-grand
daughter of John Choate of Ipswich. They reared
four sons and three daughters. She died in 1768.
He next married Mary Xeale Foster, widow of
Capt. John F. She survived him eleven years.
In both connections he was eminently happy. It
was his custom to devote particular days to pri
vate fasting and prayer.
He published a narrative of the work of God
at Chebaeco in 1763 and 1764; an essay to defend
some of the most important principles in the
protestant reformed system of Christianity, more
especially Christ's sacrifice and atonement, against
the injurious aspersions cast on the same by Dr.
Mayhew in a thanksgiving sermon, 1763 ; a reply
to Dr. Mayhew's letter of reproof, 1765 ; a trea
tise on infant baptism, 1784. — Parish's Fun.
Ser.; Mass. Miss. Mag. n. 129-133; Backus,
III. 241; Pan. XII. 49.
CLE AVELAXD, EBENEZER. brother of the pre
ceding, the minister of Gloucester, now Rockport,
Mass., died July 4, 1805, aged 79. His parents
were Josiah and Abigail. Expelled from Yale
college with his brother John in 1744 and for the
same reasons, he yet after some years obtained
his degree, and is mentioned in the catalogue as a
graduate of 174S, which was the time of the
graduation of his class. He went to Rockport.
then called Sandy Bay. in 1751, and was settled
in 1755 in a new church, remaining the minister
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235
for twenty years. He was chaplain in the French
war of 1758, and hi the triumphant Canada ex
pedition in 1759. In the Revolutionary war, he
I also served as a chaplain. After being some
years in Landaf£ Randolph, and Amesbury, he
returned to Rockport, His lot was cast in hard
• places and in hard times ; and he had a large
family and domestic causes of uneasiness, so that
I his fife was that of a worthy man struggling with
adversity. His son Ebenezer was a captain in
the continental service. His daughter Mary
married professor John Smith of Dartmouth col-
' lege. She was the mother of two daughters,
still living in 1856 ; Abby Smith, widow of Dr.
Cyrus Perkins, of Xew York, formerly professor
in the Medical School at Dartmouth, and Mary
] Cleaveland Smith, married to John Bryant, a
prosperous merchant of Boston, one of the eight
or ten wealthiest men of that tity.
CLEAVELAXD, PARKER, a physician and
patriot of the Revolution, the son of John, died
in Feb., 1826, aged 74. He was born in Ips-
1 wich in 1751, and settled as a physician at By-
field, a parish of Rowley, at the age of 19.
During the first year of the war he was the sur
geon of a regiment. He was frequently a repre
sentative of Rowley in the legislature. As a
phvsician he was intelligent and skilfiil. But the
, glory of his character was his religion. He read
j much in theology. After much investigation he
; embraced and earnestly supported the orthodox
doctrines : and he exhibited also " the best affec
tions and graces of the Christian character. He
', was benevolent, humble, and devout. Emphati-
I cally might he be called a man of prayer.'' At
different periods of revivals of religion he exerted
a pious and useful influence. In affliction and
] adverse circumstances he was resigned and cheer-
• ful ; and from every earthly care he found a relief
: in the love of his Redeemer. His sons, who have
i long been men of distinction, are Professor Par-
; ker C., of Bowdoin college, and Rev. Dr. John
P. C.. of LowelL — Boston Recorder, March 3,
; 1S26.
CLEAVELAXD, BENJAMIN-, colonel, removed
j before the Revolution from Culpepper co., Va.,
j to Wilkes co., X. C. During the war he was
: commander of a Tniliria regiment in \Vilkes, and
• he was one of the five partisan colonels who
achieved the victory of King's Mountain. His
: sons, Absalom and John, were officers in the same
service. The latter as capt. of dragoons was in
the battle of Camden. CoL Cleaveland removed
afterwards to South Carolina, His descendants
; are numerous and respectable.
CLEAVELAXD. STEPHEN, captain, son of Rev.
Aaron C., died in Salem in 1801, aged 61. Born
in East Haddam, he was left destitute by his
father's death, and went to sea at the age of four-
j teen. In the French war of 1756 he was seized
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CLEAVELAND.
CLEAVELAND.
by a British press-gang in Boston and detained
in sen-ice until the peace of 1763. Soon after
the Declaration of Independence he received a
commission as captain from congress, bearing the
names of Benjamin Franklin, Benjamin Harrison,
and Robert Morris, which is still preserved. This
is believed to have been the first naval commission
issued by our government, after we became an
independent people. Capt. C. sailed soon after
from Salem in the small brig Despatch, laden
with sperm oil, fish, potash, &c., for Bordeaux.
After a long delay in that port, during which he
carried on a correspondence with Silas Deane,
Arthur Lee, and Dr. Franklin, he obtained the
material of war, for which he had been sent, and
brought the welcome freight safely into Boston.
Before he sailed he had been promised the com
mand of one of the three frigates, then in the
process of construction. But in consequence of
his long delay in France, others got the appoint
ments, and his ambitious spirit would not suffer
him to accept an inferior post. His wife was
Margaret, daughter of James Jeffrey. Their
eldest child, Richard Jeffrey, still living in Salem,
has also been a man of various adventure. His
well written narrative of his own " Voyages and
commercial enterprises," published in two volumes,
has been read by thousands. It is a work full of
interest, and one which leaves on the mind a most
agreeable impression of its author. From 1829
to 1834, Capt. R. J. Cleveland was U. S. vice
consul at Havana.
CLEAVELAND, AARON, minister of Royalton,
Vt., and missionary, died in New Haven Sept. 21,
1815, aged 71. He was the son of Rev. Aaron
C., of Haddam. He was preparing for college,
when his father died. This event compelled him
to learn a trade. He became a hatter, and fol
lowed the business for many years in Norwich
and in Guilford, Conn. During this period he was
more than once an active and intelligent member
of the State legislature. At this time he held
the doctrine of the Universalists, and was a leader
among them. Other views at length took pos
session of his mind. He became a decided Cal-
vinist, and soon resolved to preach the faith
which he had so long derided. He was settled
for a year or two in Royalton, Vt., and labored
as a missionary. His last days were spent in
New Haven, Conn. He was a man of more than
ordinary powers. To plain good sense, he added
a fine poetic taste and ready wit. He was twice
married. By his first wife, Abiah Hyde of Nor
wich, he had ten children. By the second wife,
Mrs. Elizabeth Clement Breed, he had five more
children. The venerable Rev. Charles Cleveland,
as he writes his name, for many years past a
faithful missionary among the poor of Boston,
traversing its streets at the age of 83 or 84,
was his third child. Mrs. Abiah Hyde Cox, wife
of Rev. Dr. Samuel H. Cox, was the thirteenth
on the h'st. In the third generation may be enu
merated the late Rev. Richard F. Cleveland, son
of William, Rev. A. Cleveland Coxe of Baltimore,
and Professor Charles Dexter Cleveland, son of
Charles, of Philadelphia. A host of Clevelands,
Pratts, Smiths, Dodges, and Coxes, who trace
their descent from Aaron Clcaveland, have no rea
son to be ashamed of their ancestor. He pub
lished some political poetic satires, also a poem
in blank verse on slavery, 1775.
CLEVELAND, JOHX, minister of Stoneham,
Mass., died at North "VVrentham in 1818, aged
68. He was the eldest son of Rev. John C., of
Ipswich. He was fitted for college, but was pre
vented from entering by ill health. When the
war began he enlisted in the Revolutionary army.
He soon obtained a lieutenant's commission, and
remained in the service during the war. His
thoughts had long been turned towards the
ministry. In 1785, he settled at Stoneham, near
Boston, where he remained about ten years. He
was subsequently settled at North Wrcntham.
He was a man of respectable talents and of rare
piety. At Wrentham, Dr. Emmons of Franklin
was his near neighbor and intimate friend. To
his fidelity as a pastor, Dr. E., in the funeral dis
course, paid a just and affectionate tribute. lie
was twice married. His first wife was his cousin,
Abigail Adams of Canterbury, Conn. The second
wife was Elizabeth Evans of Stoneham, who sur
vived him, and became the wife of Rev. Dr. Har
ris of Dunbarton, N. II. He had no children.
CLEAVELAND, MOSES, general, died in Can
terbury, Conn., in 1806, aged 52. He was the son
of Col. Aaron C.,the brother of John and Ebene-
zer, who died after sixty fits of the palsy and apo
plexy, April 14, 1785, aged 57, descended from
either Josiah or Samuel C., who were settlers of
C., about 1690. He entered Yale college, but
soon left to take part in the great struggle for
liberty, and served, for a time, as captain of a
company of sappers and miners. lie subse
quently returned to New Haven and took his
degree in 1777. He became a lawyer, and soon
made himself known as a man of talent and
energy. He was repeatedly in the legislature,
and held high command in the militia. In 1796
he went to Ohio, as a commissioner to treat with
the Indians and make purchases in the western
reserve. The site of Cleveland now a fair and
fast growing city, was his selection, and from him
the place received its name. He was brave,
ardent, and patriotic : a man of cheerful temper,
of ready humor, and the most free-hearted hos
pitality. His wife was Esther Champion of Col
chester. Their daughter, Mary Esther, was mar
ried to Prof. Andrew Harris of the New Haven
medical school. Another daughter, Frances A.,
is the wife of Samuel Morgan of Norwich. His
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237
brother, Judge William Pitt Clcavcland, died in
New London in 1845, aged about 70, a graduate
of Yale in 1793. There was a graduate of the
same name in 1816, who died in 1841.
CLEAVELAND, NEHEMIAH, M. D., died at
Topsfield, Mass., Feb. 26, 1837, aged 76, the
youngest son of Rev. John C., of Ipswich. At
the age of 16 he attended his father during the
siege of Boston in 1775 ; in 1777 he enlisted in
the army for about a year. Then he toiled on
his father's little farm. Having studied physic
with his brother, and with Dr. Manning of Ips
wich, he entered on the practice at Topsfield in
1783. Together with his employment as a phy
sician, his services were often required in various
public offices. A zealous federalist in politics, he
was for years a useful member of the senate.
From 1823 to 1828 he was chief justice of the
court of sessions. His form was well-propor
tioned, and he was of large stature and com
manding aspect. A print of him from a picture
by Cole may be seen in the address at Topsfield
celebration in 1850 by his son, Nehemiah Cleave-
land. His constitution was vigorous and his
health unbroken until his fiftieth year : from that
period he suffered much from one of the most
painful of maladies. In other respects he had a
happy old age, employed in his profession, impart
ing sound advice to his neighbors, seeking the
welfare of the church and the general interests
of Zion. Then he had the consolation of books
and the pleasures of home. " His setting sun
went gently down, while the brightness of a better
day seemed to glow in the departing orb, and
left its consoling radiance behind." His first wife,
who died childless in four years, in 1791, was
Lucy, the daughter of Dr. Manning. His second
wife, the mother of nine children, was Experi
ence, the daughter of Dr. Elisha Lord of Pom-
fret, Conn. ; she died in 1845 at the house of her
son-in-law, Rev. O. A. Taylor, aged 81. Five of
her children were living in 1856, William, at Tops-
field, Nehemiah C., at Brooklyn, N. Y., a distin
guished teacher and scholar, a graduate of Bowdoin
college in 1813, John C., a lawyer in the city of
New York, a graduate of Bowdoin in 1826, and
llev. Dr. Elisha Lord C., a minister in New Ha
ven, a graduate of 1829. His daughter, Mary,
married llev. O. A. Taylor. The following are
some of the verses of the hymn, written by Ne
hemiah Clcavcland and sung at the two hundredth
anniversary of the incorporation of the town.
"Then came the pious task to rear
Meet shrines, Benignant Power, for Thee :
Schools free as air were founded here,
And law, and sacred liberty.
" 0 Thou, whose arm. all-powerful, bore
Those pilgrims o'er the storm-swept sea,
And help'd them plant along this shore
These homesteads of the brave and free, —
" Here, where our fathers hymn'd thy name,
List to their grateful children's praise,
And still be ours the heavenly flame
That warm'd their hearts in olden days."
CLEAVELAND, NEHEMIAII, deacon, a Revo
lutionary pensioner, died at Skaneateles, New
York, Oct. 25, 1843, aged 90. A native of Mans
field, Conn., he lived for a period in Williamsburg,
Mass.
CLEVELAND, JOSIAH, captain, of Owcgo,
died at Charlestown, Mass., June 30, 1843, aged
89, and was buried at Mount Auburn in Cam
bridge. Born in Canterbury, Conn., he was an
officer, and served in the war of the Revolution,
and fought in various battles, first at Bunker Hill.
It was to attend the commemoration on finishing
the monument at Bunker Hill, that he came five-
hundred miles, which he witnessed, and died.
CLEEVES, GEORGE, an early settler and dis
tinguished magistrate of Maine, lived at Spur-
wink, Cape Elizabeth, in 1630, associated in
business with Richard Tucker. In 1632 they
commenced the settlement at Casco and erected
the first house on the Neck, called Machi-
gonne by the Indians, then Cleeves' Neck and
Munjoy's Neck, now Portland. In 1643 he was
appointed by Rigby his deputy in the govern
ment of Ligonia, and was a large land-owner
under grants from Gorges and Rigby. He died
at Portland between Nov., 1666, and Jan., 1671,
at an advanced age, probably more than 90. The
Brackctts are his descendants. An ample ac
count of him is given in Willis' history of Port
land.— Ma ine Hist. Coll. I. 124.
CLEVELAND, HENRY RUSSELL, of Boston,
died at St. Louis June 12, 1843, aged 34. He
graduated at Harvard in 1827. The life of Hud
son in Sparks' Biography was written by him :
he was also the editor of an edition of Sallust
much approved, and the author of a volume on
classical studies.
CLEVENGER, SHOBAL L. VAI, an eminent
sculptor, died at sea Sept. 28, 1843. He was
born in Middletown, Ohio, in 1812 : his father
was a weaver, who removed to Indian Creek.
At the age of 15 he went to Centreville to learn
stone-cutting with his brother, who was employed
on the canal. He was soon afflicted with the
ague and fever and returned home. Next he
went to Cincinnati and was employed by Mr.
Guino, a stone-cutter. Here he married Eliza
beth Wright. At length he went into partner
ship with Mr. Bassett. His chiselling of a cherub
on a tomb-stone attracted the notice of Mr.
Thomas, editor of the Evening Post. He soon,
without a clay model, cut from the stone an ex
cellent bust of Mr. Thomas. Going to Boston,
he made a bust of Mr. Webster; and also of Mr.
Biddle, Mr. Clay, and Mr. Van Buren. He then
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CLINTON.
•went to Italy, where he spent several years. His
great work was an Indian, bold and wild, which
was much admired by the Italians. Returning
with his family, he sailed from Leghorn, but in ten
days he died of the consumption on his passage.
CLIFFORD, JOIIN D., a man of science, died
at Lexington, Ky., May 8, 1820, aged 42. He
formed a valuable cabinet of natural history, and
published essays on the antiquities of the west
ern country, in the Western Review, 1819 and
1820.
CLIFTON, WILLIAM, a poet, the son of a rich
mechanic in Philadelphia, was born in 1772, and
was educated as a Quaker, but in the latter part
of his life threw off the Quaker dress and man
ners. He died of the consumption in Dec., 1799,
aged 26. He published an epistle to Mr. Gifford,
in an edition of Gifford's poems, evincing much
poetical power. He also commenced, but did not
finish, a poem called the Chimeriad, in which,
under the character of the witch, Chimeria, the
genius of false philosophy is portrayed. His
poems -were printed at New York, 12mo., 1800.
Much of his poetry is of a satirical, political cast,
containing vituperations of the French revolu
tionists and of the party to which he was op
posed. — Encyclopedia Amer. ; Knapp's Led.
179; Specimens American Poetry, II. 86.
CLINTON, GKORGE, governor of the colony of
New York before the Revolution, was the young
est son of Francis Clinton, the earl of Lincoln.
He was appointed governor in 1743. His admin
istration of ten years was turbulent. He was
engaged in a violent controversy with the general
assembly, instigated by chief justice James Dc-
lancy, the ruling demagogue of that period. Mr.
Horsemandcr wrote against the governor; Mr.
Golden in his favor. The governor was the friend
of Sir William Johnson. Mr. Clinton was suc
ceeded in Oct., 1753, by Sir D. O:;borne, who in
two days, in consequence of political troubles,
committed suicide. He was afterwards governor
of Greenwich hospital. — Hint. Coll., VII. 79;
Lempriere.
CLINTON, CHARLES, the ancestor of the fam
ily of Clintons in New York, died in Ulster, after
wards Orange county, Nov. 19, 1773. He was a
descendant of Wm. C., who, after being an adhe
rent of Charles I., took refuge in the north of
Ireland. James, the son of Wm., married Eliza
beth Smith, the daughter of a captain in Crom
well's army, and was the father of Charles, who
was born in the county of Longford, Ireland, in
1690. Having induced a number of his friends
to join him in the project of emigrating to Amer
ica, he chartered a ship for Philadelphia in 1729
and sailed May 20th. On the passage it was
ascertained, that the captain had formed the
design to starve the passengers in order to seize
their property. Among those, who died, were a
son and daughter of Mr. Clinton. It was now
proposed to wrest the command from the captain ;
but there was not energy enough in the passen
gers to make the attempt. At length they were
landed at Cape Cod, Oct. 4th. It was not till
the spring of 1731, that they removed and formed
a settlement in the county of Ulster, State of New
York, about sixty miles from the city and eight
miles west of the river. Mr. Clinton was a far
mer and land surveyor. His house was sur
rounded by a palisade, against the Indians. He
was made judge of the county court ; and in 1756
was appointed lieut.-colonel under Col. Oliver De-
lancy. He served under Bradstreet at the cap
ture of fort Frontenac. Of his four sons in
America, Alexander, a graduate in the third class
at Princeton, in 1750, was a physician ; Charles
was a surgeon in the army, which took Havana
in 1762, and died in April, 1791 ; James was ma
jor-general; and George vice president of the
United States. With an uncommon genius and
a fund of useful kno\vledge, he was affable and
interesting in conversation. He was tall, graceful,
and dignified. The duties of the various relations
of private life were regarded by him ; and he was
a patriot and a sincere Christian. — Lord's Lem
priere ; Rogers' Biog. Dictionary ; N. Y. States
man, Aug. 23, 1828.
CLINTON, JAMES, brigadier-general, the fourth
son of the preceding, died Dec. 22, 1812, aged
75. He was born in Ulster county, N. Y., Aug.
9, 1736. He received a good education. In
1756 he was a captain under Bradstreet at fort
Frontenac, and captured a French sloop of war
on Lake Ontario. In 1763 he was appointed
captain commandant of four companies, raised for
the defence of Ulster and Orange, whose western
frontiers were exposed to the inroads of the sava
ges. In the beginning of the Revolutionary war
he was appointed colonel June 30, 1775, and ac
companied Montgomery to Canada. He was
made brigadier-general Aug. 9, 1776. In Oct.,
1777, he commanded, under Gov. Clinton, at fort
Clinton, which, with fort Montgomery, separated
from each other by a creek, defended the Hudson
against the ascent of the enemy below West
Point. Sir Henry Clinton, in order to favor the
designs of Burgoyne, attacked these forts Oct.
6th, with three thousand men, and carried them
by storm, as they were defended by only about
five hundred militia. A brave resistance was
made from four o'clock until it was dark, when
the garrison were overpowered. Gen. Clinton was
severely wounded by a bayonet, but escaped.
After riding a little distance he dismounted, that
he might escape the pursuing enemy, and taking
the bridle from his horse slid down a precipice
one hundred feet to the creek, which separated
the forts. Thus he reached the mountain at a
secure distance. In the morning he found a horse,
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•which conveyed him, covered with blood, about
sixteen miles from the fort to his house.
In 1779 he joined with sixteen hundred men
General Sullivan in his expedition against the In
dians. Proceeding up the Mohawk in batteaux
about fifty-four miles above Schcnectady, he con-
veved them from Canajoharie to the head of the
Otsego lake, one of the sources of the Susque-
hannah, down which he was to join Sullivan. As
the water in the outlet of the lake was too low to
float his batteaux, he constructed a dam across it,
and thus accumulated the water in the lake. By
letting out this water his boats and troops were
rapidly conveyed to Tioga, where he joined Sul
livan, who had ascended the Susquehannah.
During most of the war General Clinton was
stationed in command of the northern depart
ment at Albany. But he was afterwards present
at the capture of Cornwallis. On the evacuation
of New York, bidding the commander-in-chief an
affectionate farewell, he retired to his estate.
Yet was he afterwards called by his fellow-citizens
to various public services, being a commissioner to
adjust the boundary line with Pennsylvania, rep
resentative, delegate to the convention of 1801
for amending the constitution, and senator ; and
in all his labors manifesting integrity and ability.
lie was buried at Little Britain, in Orange county.
His temper was affectionate and mild, but capable
of being roused to vehemence by injuries and in
sults. His wife, Mary I)e Witt, was of a family
which emigrated from Holland. — Rogers' Biog.
Diet. ; Encyc. Amer. ; Lord's Lempriere.
CLINTON, GEORGE, governor of New York
and vice president of the United States, died at
Washington April 20, 1812, aged 72. He was
named after the colonial governor, a friend of his
father. lie was the youngest son of Col. Charles
Clinton, and was born in Ulster county, now Or
ange, July 26, 1739. In his education his father
was assisted by Daniel Thain, a minister from
Scotland. In early life he evinced the enterprise
which distinguished him afterwards. He once
left his father's house and sailed in a privateer.
On his return he accompanied as a lieutenant his
brother, James, in the expedition against fort
Frontcnac, now Kingston. He afterwards stud
ied law under William Smith, and rose to some
distinction in his native country. As a member
of the colonial assembly in 1775 and afterwards,
he was a zealous whig. May 15, 1775, he took
his seat as a member of congress. He voted for
the declaration of independence, July 4, 1776;
but, being called away by his appointment as
brigadier-general before the instrument was ready
for the signature of the members, his name is not
attached to it. March 25, 1777, he was appointed
brigadier-general of the United States. At the
first election under the constitution of New York,
he was chosen, April 20, 1777, both governor and
lieutenant-governor. Accepting the former office,
the latter was filled by Mr. Van Cortlandt. lie
was thus elected chief magistrate six successive
periods, or for eighteen years, till 1795, when he
was succeeded by Mr. Jay. Being at the head
of a powerful State, and in the command of the
militia, his patriotic services were of the highest
importance to his country. On the advance of
the enemy up the Hudson in Oct., 1777, he pro
rogued the assembly and proceeded to take com
mand of fort Montgomery, where he and his
brother James made a most gallant defence Oct.
6th. He escaped under cover of the night. The
next day forts Independence and Constitution
were evacuated. He presided in the convention
at Poughkeepsie, June 17, 1788, for deliberating
on the federal constitution, which he deemed not
sufficiently guarded in favor of the sovereignty of
each State. After being five years in private life,
he was elected to the legislature. Again in 1801
was he chosen governor, but in 1804 was suc
ceeded by Mr. Lewis. In that year he was ele
vated to the vice presidency of the United States,
in which station he continued till his death. It
was by his casting vote that the bill for renewing
the bank charter was negatived. In private life
he was frank, amiable, and warm in friendship.
By his wife, Cornelia Tappan, of Kingston, he
had one son and five daughters, of whom but one
daughter was living in 1832. His daughter, Maria,
wife of Dr. S. D. Beekman, died in April, 1829 ;
his second daughter, Cornelia, wife of E. C.
Genet, died March, 1810, aged 35 ; his third
daughter, Elizabeth, widow of Matthias Tal-
maclge, died April, 1825, aged 45. Another
daughter married Col. Van Cortlandt, and died
in 1811. An oration on his death was delivered
by Gouverneur Morris.
Of his energy and decision the following are
instances. At the conclusion of the war, when a
British officer was placed on a cart in the city of
New York, to be tarred and feathered, he rushed
in among the mob with a drawn sword and res
cued the sufferer. During the raging of what
was called the doctor's mob, when, in consequence
of the disintcrment of some bodies for dissection,
the houses of the physicians were in danger of
being pulled down, he called out the militia and
quelled the turbulence. The following is an in
stance of the skill with which he diverted atten
tion from his growing infirmities. On a visit to
Pittsfield, as he was rising from a dinner table in
his old age, he fell, but was caught by a lady sit
ting next to him. " Thus," said he, " should I
ever wish to fall — into the hands of the ladies.''
For many years he suffered much by the rheu
matism. — Delaplaine's Repository ; Encyclope
dia Americana ; Lord's Lempriere ; Rogers ;
Marshall, \. 396; Almon's Remembrancer, 1780,
160.
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CLINTON.
CLINTON, HENRY, Sir, an English general,
son of the colonial governor C., was the grandson
of the earl of Lincoln. After distinguishing him
self in the battle of Bunker Hill in 1775, he was
sent unsuccessfully against New York and Charles
ton. He afterwards, in Sept., 1776, occupied
the city of New York. Oct. 6, 1777, he assaulted
and took forts Clinton and Montgomery. In
1778 he succeeded Howe in the command at
Philadelphia, whence Washington compelled him
to retire. In May, 1780, he took Charleston. It
was he who negotiated with Arnold in his treason.
He returned to England in 1782, and died Dec.
22, 1795. A few months before his death he was
made governor of Gibraltar. lie published a
narrative of his conduct in America, 1782 ; obser
vations on Cornwallis' answer, 1783 ; observations
on Stedman, 1784.
CLINTON, DE Wrrr,LL. D., governor of New
York, died at Albany Feb. 11, 1828, aged 59.
He was the son of Gen. James Clinton, and was
born at Little Britain, in Orange county, March
2, 17G9. He was graduated at Columbia college,
with the highest honors of his class, in 1786. Al
though he studied law under Samuel Jones, he
was never much engaged in the practice. After
having been private secretary of his uncle Gov.
George Clinton, he was elected to the senate
of New York in 1799. He was two years
before in the house. It was a time of violent
party excitement; he entered into the struggle
with all his energy, and was one of the champions
of democracy. At this period, as afterwards, he
was the friend of education, the sciences, and the
arts, and advocated liberal grants to Union col
lege and the common schools. He exerted him
self also to procure the abolition of slavery in
New York. As a member of the council of ap
pointment, he claimed a co-ordinate right of
nomination, in which claim he and a majority of
the council were resisted by Gov. Jay. By rea
son of this controversy all the officers of the State
held over for one year. In 1801 the constitution
was amended, allowing the co-ordinate nomina
tion. In July, 1802, he betrayed a want of
moral and religious principle by fighting a duel
with John Swartwout, arising from political con
troversy concerning Mr. Burr. In the same year
he was appointed a senator of the United States,
in which station he voted for the treaty with the
Creek Indians, guaranteeing to them the peaceful
possession of their own territory in Georgia. In
the difficulty with Spain concerning the navigation
of the Mississippi, he successfully, in a powerful
speech, resisted the attempt of the federal party
to plunge the country into war. His last vote in
the senate was to confirm the treaty for the pur
chase of Louisiana. He was chosen mayor of
New York, an office of great emolument and pat
ronage, in 1803, and annually, — excepting in
1807 and 1810, — until 1815, exerting himself to
promote in every way the prosperity of the city.
Under his auspices the historical society and the
academy of arts were incorporated ; the city hall
was founded ; the orphan asylum established ;
and the city fortified. While he was mayor,
he was also, during several years, a senator
and the lieutenant-governor, engaging with zeal
and with strong ambition in the political move
ments of the day. He could not be content
without being a prominent leader. In respect
to the war of 1812, he was opposed to its decla
ration, as inexpedient and injurious; yet, after
it was commenced, he made every effort to call
forth the energies of the country against the ene
my. In 1812, he consented to become the candi
date of the peace party for the presidency of the
United States, and received eighty-nine votes,
Mr. Madison obtaining one hundred and twenty-
eight and being re-elected. By thus arraying
himself against Madison, Clinton alienated from
himself many of his former friends.
In 1815 he became a private citizen. In 1816
he was appointed a canal commissioner and pres
ident of the board ; he had been a member of
the first board, with Gov. Morris, Stephen Van
Ilensselaer, and others, in 1810 ; but nothing was
effected until April, 1817, when, in consequence of
the exertions of Mr. Clinton, a law was passed,
authorizing the Erie canal, three hundred and
sixty-three miles in length, at an estimated ex
pense of five millions of dollars. Being in the
next month elected governor, in his able message
to the legislature he called then- attention, among
other subjects, to the great interests of education
and of internal improvement, particularly to the
proposed most important canal. During his ad
ministration of three years, a strong party was ar
rayed against him. He was however re-elected
in 1820 against Mr. Tompkins. But his oppo
nents obtained majorities in both branches of the
legislature, so that, when under the amended con
stitution, limiting the term of office to two years,
a new election came on in 1822, Mr. Clinton, in
order to avoid certain defeat, withdrew from the
contest. Yet the various measures of his admin
istration had all been wisely directed to promote
the public welfare. In regard to education he re
marked to the legislature : " It cannot be too
forcibly inculcated, nor too generally understood,
that in promoting the great interests of moral and
intellectual cultivation, there can be no prodigality
in the application of the public treasure."
He acted as a president of the board of canal
commissioners in 1823 and 1824; but in this last
year the legislature, without accusation, removed
him from this place. This flagrant act of in-
| justice towards the father of the great system of
internal improvement roused the indignation of
the people. He was immediately nominated for
CLINTON.
governor, and was elected by a majority of sixteen j
thousand votes over his antagonist. During his
administration, the Eric canal was in 1825 fin
ished, and the completion of the work was cele
brated throughout the State. He-elected in 1826,
he in that year declined the embassy to England,
winch Mr. Adams offered him. At this period,
the most important measure which he recom
mended was an amendment of the constitution,
making the right of suffrage universal. The
change was made by the people ; but there were
those who regarded the recommendation as arising
from the desire of gaining popularity. He died
suddenly from a disease of the heart, in conse
quence of a catarrhal affection of the throat and
chest. His first wife was Maria Franklin, the
daughter of an eminent merchant of New York, j
by whom he had seven sons and three daughters, j
of whom four sons and two daughters survived
him. His second wife was Catherine Jones, the
daughter of Dr. Thomas Jones.
Mr. Clinton was a member, and the president
of various learned societies, before which he was
frequently invited to deliver discourses, in all
which, as well as in his official communications,
he displayed the energies of an enlightened and
comprehensive intellect. His title as the head
of the freemasons was sufficiently ridiculous :
" Most Excellent General Grand High Priest of
the General Grand Royal Arch Chapter of the
United States! " In his person he was tall and of
a commanding aspect. His manners were distant
and reserved ; yet was he cheerful, and kind, and
sincere in friendship. He rose early and toiled
incessantly for the enlargement of his knowledge.
There is no doubt that he was ambitious, and that
he was looking higher than the office of governor.
But his political measures deserve to be com
mended, as subservient to the prosperity and honor
of the State. His failure to reach the height to
which he aimed in the national government, and
his sudden removal from the world, present a new
and striking instance of the vanity of earthly pur
suits. They who fix their aim upon any object
beneath the sky will be disappointed ; even the
man of ambition, who gains the desired and giddy
eminence, will not there be happy. In Hosack's
life of Clinton, there is published a letter, ad
dressed to him by one of the ministers of New
York, deploring his neglect of an important re
ligious duty, and pointing out a path, which leads
to the unwithering honors of a future life. He
published a discourse before the New York his
torical society, 1811 ; discourse before the liter
ary and philosophical society of New York,
1815 ; and in the transactions of that society, re
marks on the fishes of the western waters of New-
York ; discourse before the American academy of
the arts, 1816 ; a discourse before the Phi Beta
Kappa society, 1823; address before the Amen-
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can Bible society, 1823 and 1825 5 address to the
freemasons on resigning a high office, 1825. —
Hosack's Memoirs ; American Ann. Reg. 1827-
29, p. 151-166 ; Proud/it's Sermon ; Renwick's
Life of C.
CLINTON, ISAAC, minister of Southwick,
Mass., died at Lowville, N. Y., March 18, 1840,
aged 82. A graduate of Yale in 1786, he was
pastor from 1788 to 1807. He published a trea
tise on baptism. — Holland, II. 1 14.
CLYMER, GEORGE, a patriot of the Revolu
tion, died at Morrisville, Penn., Jan. 23, 1813,
aged 73. He was born in Philadelphia in 1739.
He received a good education and acquired a
taste for books ; but engaged in mercantile pur
suits. He early espoused the cause of his coun
try. In 1773 he resolutely opposed the sale of
tea, sent out by the British government. Not a
pound was sold in Philadelphia. In 1775 he was
one of the first continental treasurers. As a
member of congress, he the next year signed the
Declaration of Independence. In 1774 the furni
ture of his house in Chester county, twenty-five
miles from Philadelphia, was destroyed by the en
emy. In this year he was commissioner to the In
dians to preserve peace and enlist warriors from the
Shawanesc and Delaware tribes. In this capacity
he resided for a while at Pittsburg. In 1780 he
co-operated with Robert Morris in the establish
ment of a bank for the relief of the country.
Again v>-as he a member of congress in 1780; but
in 1782 he removed to Princeton for the educa
tion of his children. After the adoption of the
constitution he was again a member of congress.
On the passage of the bill for imposing a duty on
distilled spirits in 1791, he was placed at the head
of the excise department in Pennsylvania. The
insurrection made the duties sufficiently disagree
able; and he resigned the office. In 1796 he was
sent to Georgia, to negotiate, together with
Hawkins and Pickens, a treaty with the Cherokee
and Creek Indians. He Avas afterwards president
of the Philadelphia bank and of the academy of
fine arts. His wife was the daughter of Mr.
Meredith. Joseph Ilopkinson pronounced an
eulogy upon his character. In his various sta
tions he was remarkable for the punctual and
conscientious discharge of duty. He had a deli
cacy of taste, and was attached to the refined pur
suits of a cultivated genius. The improvement of
his country awakened his constant solicitude. —
Goodrich 's Lives.
CLYMER, GEORGE, inventor of a printing-
press, lived in Philadelphia ; he died in London
Sept. 4, 1834, aged 80.
COBB, EBENEZER, remarkable for longevity,
died at Kingston, Mass., Dec. 8, 1801, aged 107.
He was born in Plymouth March 22, 1694, and
was ten years contemporary with Peregrine White,
of Marshfiekl, the first son of New England, who
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COCHRAN.
was born on board the Mayflower in Cape Cod
harbor, in Nov., 1620. His days were passed in
cultivating the earth. His mode of living was
simple. Only twice in his life, and then it was to
gratify his brethren on a jury, did he substitute
an enervating cup of tea in place of the invigo
rating bowl of broth, or the nutritive porringer
of milk. He never used glasses, but for several
years could not see to read. He was of a mod
erate stature, stooping in attitude, having an ex
panded chest, and of a fair and florid countenance.
He enjoyed life in his old age, and in his last
year declared that he had the same attachment
to life as ever. He was a professed Christian.
As he approached the close of his days, he
shrewdly replied to some one, who made a remark
upon his expected dissolution, " It is very rare
that persons of my age die." His posterity were
not numerous, being only one hundred and
eighty-five. — Columbian Centinel, Dec. 16, 1801 ;
N. Y. Spect., Dec. 23.
COBB, THOMAS, captain, died in Jersey City
Feb. 17, 1845, aged 85. A native of Parsippany,
he was engaged in thirteen battles of the war,
and not wounded, though he saw eleven men fall
at his side.
COBB, OLIVER, D. D., died at Sippican, Roch
ester, Mass., June 23, 1849, aged 79. Born in
Kingston, he graduated at Brown university, and
was ordained at It. Feb. 6, 1799, and was for
more than fifty years the pastor of the church.
He had prepared, but did not preach a half-cen
tury sermon. His earnestness and success were
evinced in three revivals, in which more than two
hundred persons were added to his church. His
son was at last his colleague.
COBB, SYLVANUS R., a merchant, died in Bos
ton May 22, 1834, aged 35. As he began business
he wrote a solemn covenant, that he Avould give a
quarter of his profits to charitable uses ; and one-
half if he should be worth 20,000 dollars ; three-
quarters if worth 30,000; the whole if worth
50,000. He was faithful. Being a Baptist, he
gave the surplus, 7,500 dollars, to found Newton
institution, and as much more at other times.
COBBETT, THOMAS, an eminent minister and
writer, died Nov. 5, 1685, aged 77. He was born
at Newbury, in England, in 1608. He entered the
university of Oxford, and was for some time a
student there ; but in the time of the plague he
was induced to remove, and to become a pupil of
the celebrated Dr. Twiss of Newbury. In conse
quence of his nonconformity to the established
church, he experienced a storm of persecution
which drove him to this country in 1637. He
came in the same vessel with Mr. Davenport. He
was soon chosen as a colleague to his old friend
Mr. Whiting, of Lynn, with whom he labored in
his benevolent work nearly twenty years. In the
year in which their salary was reduced to 30
pounds each, the town suffered a loss by disease
among the cattle of 300 pounds, which may be
regarded, in the opinion of Cotton Mather, as a
punishment of their parsimony. After the re
moval of Mr. Norton of Ipswich, to Boston, and
the death of Mr. Rogers, he became the pastor
of the first church in Ipswich. During his min
istry there was a powerful and extensive revival
of religion in the town. Here he continued in
the faithful discharge of the duties of the sacred
office till his death. From the records of the
town it appears, that the expenses of the funeral
were about £18, including 32 galls, of wine at 4s.,
62 Ibs. of sugar, cider, and ginger, and some dozen
pairs of gloves. His predecessors were Ward,
Norton, and Rogers ; his successors Hubbard,
Dennison, J. Rogers, Fitch, N. Rogers, Frisbie,
and Kimball.
Mr. Cobbett was remarkable not only for a
constant spirit of devotion and for the frequency
of his addresses to heaven, but for a particular
faith, or assurance in prayer. During the wars
with the Indians one of his sons was taken pris
oner by the savages. The aged parent called to
gether a number of his neighbors, and they
mingled their prayers for the deliverance of the
captive. He was impressed with the belief that
the Father of mercies had heard the supplications
addressed to him, and his heart was no more sad.
In a few days his son, who had been redeemed of
a sachem at Penobscot for a red coat, actually
returned. He published a work on infant bap
tism, 1648, which is much commended by Cotton,
and described by Mather as " a large, nervous,
golden discourse ; " the civil magistrate's power
in matters of religion modestly debated, etc., with
an answer to a pamphlet called, ill news from
England, by John Clarke, of R. L, 1653 ; a prac
tical discourse of prayer, 8vo., 1654 ; on the
honor due from children to their parents, 1656. —
Magnalia, in. 165 — 167.
COCHRAN, JOHX, M. D., a physician, was
born in 1730 in Chester county, Penn. His
father, a farmer, came from the north of Ireland.
He studied physic with Dr. Thompson, of Lan
caster. In the French war, which began in 1755,
he served as surgeon's mate in the hospital de
partment. At the close of the war he settled in
Albany, and married Gertrude Schuyler, the only
sister of Gen. Schuyler. But he soon removed to
New Brunswick. April 10, 1777, on the recom
mendation of Washington, he was appointed
physician and surgeon-general in the middle de
partment, and in Oct., 1781, director-general of
the hospitals of the United States. After the
peace he removed to New York, where Washing
ton nominated him the commissioner of loans.
He died at Palatine, Montgomery county, April
COCIIRAX.
CODMAN.
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6, 1807, aged 76. The impressions in early life
derived from a religious father were never oblit
erated. — Thacher's Med. Biog.
COCIIItAX, JAMES, died in Batavia, N. Y.,
Dec. 31, 1846, aged 83. lie was a brass-founder
in Philadelphia. Although the inventor of the
method of making cut nails, he died poor.
COCKE, JOHN, general, died in Grainger Co.,
Tenn., in 1854, aged 72 ; another account makes
his age 82. The eldest son of Col. Wm. Cockc,
of Nottoway county, Va., he early emigrated to
Tennessee. He sustained various offices, and
was many years speaker of the house ; from 1819
to 1827 a member of congress.
CODDIXGTOX, WILLIAM, the father of Rhode
Island, died Xov. 1, 1678, aged 77. He was
a native of Lincolnshire, England. He came to
this country as an assistant, or one of the magis
trates, of Massachusetts, and arrived at Salem in
the Arabella June 12, 1630. He was several
times rechosen to that office ; but in 1637, when
Governor Vane, to whose interests he was at
tached, was superseded by Mr. Winthrop, he
also was left out of the magistracy. The freemen
of Boston, however, the next day chose him and
Mr. Vane their deputies to the court. Mr. Cod
dington expressed his dissatisfaction in losing the
office wliich he had sustained, by sitting with the
deacons at public worship, instead of placing him
self as usual in the magistrates' seat, and by going
to Mount Wollaston on the day of the general
fast, to hear Mr. Wheelwright. AVhen the reli
gious contentions ran high in 1637, he defended
Mrs. Hutchinson at her trial, in opposition to
Governor Winthrop and the ministers ; he op
posed the proceedings of the court against Mr.
Wheelwright and others ; and, when he found
that his exertions were unavailing, he relinquished
his advantageous situation as a merchant at Bos
ton, and his large property and improvements in
Braintree, and accompanied the emigrants, who
at that time left the colony. He removed to
Ilhode Island April 26, 1638, and was the princi
pal instrument in effecting the original settlement
of that place. His name stands first on the cove
nant, signed by eighteen persons at Aquetneck, or
Ithode Island, March 7, 1638, forming themselves
into a body politic, to be governed by the laws of
the Lord Jesus Christ, the King of kings. It
was soon found necessary to have something more
definite. Mr. Coddington was appointed judge,
and three elders were joined with him. These
were directed by a vote of the freemen, Jan. 2,
1639, to be governed by the general rules of the
word of God, when no particular rule was known.
But this plan was changed March 12, 1640, when
a governor, lieutenant-governor, and four assist
ants were appointed.
Mr. Coddington was chosen governor seven
years, until the charter was obtained, and the
island was incorporated with Providence planta
tions. In 1647 he assisted in forming the body
of laws, which has been the basis of the govern
ment of Ilhode Island ever since. The next
year, May 16, 1648, he was elected governor ;
but he declined the office on account of a contro
versy in which he was engaged respecting some
lands. In September he made an unsuccessful
attempt to procure the reception of Rhode Island
into the confederacy of the united colonies. In
16,31 he went to England, and was commissioned
governor of Aquetneck island, separate from the
rest of the colony ; but, as the people were jeal
ous lest his commission should affect their laws
and liberties, he resigned it. He now retired
from public business ; btlt toward the close of
his life he was prevailed on to accept the chief-
magistracy. He was governor in the years 1674
and 1675.
He appears to have been prudent in his ad
ministration, and active in promoting the welfare
of the little commonwealth which he had assisted
in founding. While he lived in Rhode Island, he
embraced the sentiments of the Quakers. He
was a warm advocate for liberty of conscience. A
letter, which he wrote in 1674 to the governor of
Xew England, is preserved in Besse's Sufferings
of the Quakers, II. 265-270. — Dedication of
Callender's Hist. Disc.; Holmes; Winthrop;
Ilutchinson, I. 18.
CODMAX, Jonx, a member of the senate of
Mass., died in Boston May 17, 1803, aged 48.
He filled the public stations, in which he was
placed, with integrity and honor. As a merchant,
he sustained a character of the first respectability.
Endeared to his friends by a natural disposition
which rendered him warm in his attachments, he
also possessed, by the gift of Divine grace, a prin
ciple of benevolence, which drew upon him the
blessings of the poor. In his last moments,
more anxious for the safety of others than for his
own, he resigned himself to death with the forti
tude, calmness, and triumph, becoming the reli
gion which he professed. — N. Y. Herald, May
25, 1803.
CODMAX, CATHERINE, the second wife and
widow of the preceding, died in Boston Dec.,
1831, aged 62. She was of the family of Amory
of Boston. Her minister in her widowhood was
Dr. Channing, for whom she had the highest
regard. Her house was the seat of hospitality.
Her life was a life of active benevolence and emi
nent usefulness : no one could doubt her sincere
and ardent piety. She went down to the grave
in Christian peace, rejoicing in the hope of a
blessed immortality.
CODMAX, Jonx, D. D., a minister in Dorches
ter, died Dec. 23, 1847, aged 65. Born in Boston
Aug. 3, 1782, the son of John Codman above men
tioned and Mary Russell, he graduated at Harvard
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COFFIN.
in the large class of 1802, and studied theology
at Cambridge and in Edinburgh. He spent
nearly three years abroad, from 1805 to 1808, the
last of which he was employed as the preacher to
the Scotch church in Swallow street, London.
Among the eminent ministers, whom he knew in
England, were George Burder, David Bayne,
Ilobert Hall, Andrew Fuller, and William Jay,
the last of whom with two others gave him a
license to preach in April, 1807. Of the minis
ters of Edinburgh, Dr. David Dickson was espe
cially his friend. During his residence abroad he
made a visit of six weeks to Paris. Returning to
America in May, 1808, he was soon invited to
become the minister of the second church and so
ciety, newly established in Dorchester. Before
accepting the invitation, he sent a letter to the
people, declaring, that in his faith he was opposed
to certain doctrines, which he named, then prev
alent, and accorded in general with the old Mas
sachusetts confession of 1680. The people voted
to accept his letter, and said, " We venerate the
principles of our forefathers." He was ordained
Dec. 7, 1808, so that he was thirty-nine years the
minister of his church. His ordination sermon
was preached by his friend and his mother's
pastor, Mr. Charming. For a year he labored in
quietude; but the three following years were
years of controversy, arising from the loose reli
gious principles and customs of a portion of his
people, and because he would not exchange with
all the ministers they wished to hear. So great
was their folly, that on the Sabbath they planted
eight men on the pulpit-stairs, who prevented the
minister from entering his pulpit, into which they
placed an intruder, and compelled Mr. Codman to
preach on the floor below. But this outrage was
so frowned upon, even by the men of accordant
sentiments in Boston, that the offenders were
compelled to sell out their pews, and they left the
society in peace. Dr. Codmari was a very faithful,
acceptable, and successful minister, and had the
pleasure of seeing a great increase of his church
and society. Inheriting wealth from his father,
he was able to do much for the religious interests
of Dorchester, and for the general objects of
Christian benevolence. To Princeton theological
seminary he gave a considerable sum of money ;
to Andover theological seminary he gave his ex
cellent library of several thousand volumes. His
wife, Mary Wheelwright of Newburyport, whom
he married Jan. 19, 1813, survived the compan
ion of her youth, the father of her children, and
still lives. His father's sister, Parnell, widow of
Ezekiel Savage of Salem, died at his house in
1846, aged 85 ; her sister, Abigail, died in 1843.
A memoir of Dr. Codman, by his early friend, the
author of this Dictionary, was published, together
with reminiscences by another friend, Dr. Joshua
Bates, with six select sermons, 8vo., 1853, with a
portrait: one of the most beautifully printed
books of the day. He published sermons on
various occasions, 1 834 ; a narrative of a visit to
England, 1836 ; and many separate sermons.
COFFEE, JOHN, general, died near Florence,
Alabama, July 7, 1833, aged 61. He fought in
various Indian battles, serving under Jackson.
At Emuchfaw he was shot through the body ; yet
afterwards he rose from his litter and mounted
his horse to repel an assault on our retiring army.
His death was caused by disease of the lungs,
contracted at Washington in the preceding win
ter. — A Gen. John Coffee died in 1836, a member
of congress from Georgia.
COFFEE, JOHN, a slave, born in Africa, died
in Norfolk, Va., Jan. 2, 1836, aged about 120.
COFFIN, PAUL, D. D., a minister in Maine,
was graduated at Harvard college in 1759, and
was settled the first minister of Buxton, then
called " Narragansctt, No. 1," in March, 1763.
Having preached fifty-four years, he received Levi
Loring as his colleague in Nov., 1817, and died
June, 1821, aged 85. lie published Mass, elec
tion sermon, 1799.
COFFIN, CHARLES, Dr., died at Ncwburyport
May, 1821, aged 80.
COFFIN, NATHANIEL, M. D., a physician in
Portland, died Oct. 18, 1826, aged 82. " He was
the son of Dr. Nathaniel Coffin, who came from
Newburyport to Portland in 1738, and died of
the palsy in Jan., 1766, aged 50, and a descendant
of Tristram Coffin, who came to this country in
1642. and after living at Newbury, died at Nan-
tucket in 1681. He was born May 3, 1744. His
medical studies were completed in the hospitals
of London. His long life of professional services
was spent in Portland. By his wife, the daughter
of Isaac Foster of Charlestown, he had eleven
children. He was the first president of the Maine
medical society. As a surgeon he was particu
larly skilful and eminent. As to his religion, he
united forty years before his death in the Unita
rian faith of Dr. Freeman of Boston, and was
afterwards a member of the church of the first
parish in Portland. — Thacher's Medical liiog.
COFFIN, ALEXANDER, mayor of Hudson, died
Jan. 11, 1839, aged 98. Born in Nantucket in
1740, he was the last of the original settlers of
Hudson, N. Y., in 1784 : a man of talents and
usefulness.
COFFIN, JOHN GORHAM, M. D., a physician
in Boston, died at Brookfield in Jan., 1829, aged
59. He published a treatise on cold and warm
bathing, 12mo., 1818; on medical education, 1822.
COFFLN, ISAAC, judge, died at Nantucket Dec.
24, 1841, aged 77. He was judge of probate ;
and a man of benevolence and urbanity.
COFFIN, ROBERT S., a poet, died May 7, 1827,
aged about 30. He was the sin of Ebenezer
Coffin, minister of Brunswick, Maine, and born
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about the year 1797. As his father soon removed
to Newburyport, he was there apprenticed to a
printer. lie began to indite poetry at an early
age. In the war he was a sailor, and found him
self a prisoner on board a British frigate. After
the war he pursued his business as a printer at
Boston, New York, and Philadelphia, sending
forth also occasional pieces of poetry under the
name of "the Boston Bard." In March, 1826, he
was in New York, in sickness and poverty, and
with the wretchedness of self-reproach for his
misconduct. He had been in habits of intem
perance. Some benevolent ladies and others
assisted him to return to his destitute, widowed
mother and sister in Massachusetts. In Boston
some sympathy was awakened by his distresses.
After many months of extreme suffering he died
at Rowley, and was buried at Newbury Old Town,
as the place is contradictiously called by the
inhabitants. He was buried by the side of his
father, whose example unhappily was of no ben
efit to the son. His poetical pieces were collected
and published in a volume in 1826. His last pro
duction breathed the wish, that he might die the
death of the righteous. — Specimens American
Poetry, II. 159.
COFFIN, CHARLES, D. D., died at Greenville,
East Tennessee, in June, 1853, aged nearly 78.
Born in Newburyport, he graduated at Cambridge
in 1793; was president of Greenville, then of
Knoxville college ; and had lived in Tennessee
fifty years. He published a sermon on obedience
to God.
COGGESHALL, JOHN, first president of Rhode
Island, was a representative of Boston in the first
court in May, 1634, and in various courts after
wards. Hie name was written Coxeall. Being
exiled from Mass, in March, 1638, he joined his
companions in persecution at Rhode Island, and
was chosen governor in 1647. Jer. Clarke suc
ceeded him the next year. His descendants
remain to the present day. — Savage's Winllirop,
I. 130.
COGSWELL, JAMES, D. D., minister of Wind-
ham, Conn., died Jan. 2, 1807, aged 87. He was
born in Saybrook, Jan. 6, 1720. In his childhood
his parents removed to Lebanon, where they
remained till, in their old age, he with filial affec
tion took them to his own house. lie was grad
uated at Yale college in 1742, and, while a mem
ber of that institution, at the time of the general
revival of religion through America, he became
experimentally acquainted with the truth as it is
in Jesus. Forming the resolution to devote his
life to the service of the Redeemer, he was
ordained in 1744 pastor of the first church in
Canterbury. In 1771 he was removed from this
charge. But early in the following year he was
installed minister of Scotland, a parish in the
town of Windham, where he continued until Dec.,
I 1804. The infirmities of age now rendering him
incapable of public service, he found a retreat for
the remainder of his life in the family of his son,
Dr. Mason Fitch Cogswell of Hartford. His
own filial piety was now repaid him. His wife's
name was Fitch. His father was Samuel; his
mother was Anne, daughter of Capt. Mason
of Lebanon or Norwich. He was in early life dis
tinguished for his learning, and he retained it in
his old age. His temper was cheerful and social,
and benevolence shone in his countenance.
Under heavy afflictions he was submissive, ador
ing the sovereignty of God. His preaching was
generally plain and practical, addressed to the
understandings and consciences of his hearers.
On the great doctrines of the gospel, which he
inculcated, he built his own hope of a blessed im
mortality. He published a sermon preached at
the funeral of Solomon Williams, 1776, 2d edi
tion, 1806. — Panoplist, II. 581-583; Piscataqua
Evangelical Magazine, III. 196.
COGSWELL, MASON FITCH, M. D., son of the
preceding, was graduated at Yale college in 1780,
and, after studying physic, settled at Hartford.
In 1812 he was chosen president of the Connec
ticut medical society, and held the office ten years.
He died Dec., 1830, aged 69. As a physician he
was distinguished, and as a surgeon he had few
equals. Dr. Cogswell first formed the design of
an establishment for the education of the deaf
and dumb in this country. His sympathy for
them had been awakened by the unfortunate con
dition of his own daughter. The asylum for the
deaf and dumb, at Hartford, commenced by Mr.
Gallaudet, is to be ascribed in a considerable de
gree to the exertions of Dr. Cogswell. It is
remarkable, that his own deaf and dumb daughter
survived her father only a few weeks, her heart
being broken by the event of his removal. Mrs.
Sigourney, in a piece upon her death, supposes
Alice Cogswell to say to some of her relatives :
"Sisters! there 's music here ;
From countless harps it flows
Throughout this wide, celestial sphere,
Nor pause nor discord knows.
The seal is melted from my ear
By love divine ;
And what through life I pined to hear
Is mine! is mine!
The warbling of an ever tuneful choir,
And the full, deep response of David's golden lyre.
Did the kind earth hide from me
Her broken harmony,
That thus the melodies of Heaven might roll
And whelm in deeper tides of bliss my wondering soul? "
COGSWELL, WILLIAM, I). D., died in Gil-
manton, N. H., April 18, 1850, aged 62. He was
the son of Dr. William C., of Atkinson, and
graduated at Dartmouth in 1811. He was de
scended from John, of London, who came to Ips
wich about 1635. His grandfather was Nathan
iel, who, by his wife Judith Badger, had eighteen
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COLBURN.
or nineteen children, and died at Atkinson March
23, 1783, aged 76. His father died Jan. 1, 1831,
aged 70. For fourteen years he was pastor of the
south church in Dedham. In 1832 he was secre
tary of the American education society ; for
three years he was professor of history at Dart
mouth ; and then professor of theology at Gil-
manton. His wife was a daughter of Ilev. J.
Strong of Randolph. His only son, Wm. Strong
Cogswell, died while a member of college. He
published a manual of theology and devotion;
the Christian philanthropist ; the theological class-
book ; and was editor of the American quarterly
register, the X. H. repository, and the N. E. histor
ical register.
COIT, JOSEPH, the first minister of Plainfield,
Conn., died July 1, 1750, aged 76, in the forty-
fifth year of his ministry. He was a graduate of
Harvard in 1697, and he had an honorary degree
at Yale in its first year, 1702.
COIT, JONATHAN, died in New London in Dec.,
1855, leaving property to the amount of 300,000
dollars, of which he bequeathed about 50,000 to
charitable uses. He gave 30,000 dollars to be
divided among eight Congregational, Episcopal,
Baptist, and Methodist churches in New London
for the support of their ministers ; 10,000 dollars
for the poor in the alms-house ; and 2500 to the
N. L. seamen's friend society.
COKE, THOMAS, LL. D., a Methodist bishop in
the United States, was born in Wales in 1747,
and educated at Oxford. At the university he
was a deist. He afterwards was a curate in Som
ersetshire. By reading Witherspoon on regen
eration, he was convinced that he needed a new
heart. His first interview with Mr. Wesley was
in 1776 ; he became his assistant in 1780. In
Sept., 1784, he sailed for New York, and com
municated in America the new plan of govern
ment and discipline, which Mr. W. had drawn,
and which still binds the great body of Metho
dists. In 1786 he established missions in the
West Indies. In the subsequent year he repeat
edly visited the United States ; for the last time
in 1804. He sailed for Ceylon with six preachers
Dec. 31, 1813, but died suddenly on his passage,
May 3, 1814, aged 66 years, being in the morning
found dead in his cabin. On his passage he
wrote several sermons in Portuguese, that his
usefulness might be increased in Asia. His pious
zeal may well shame the slothfulness of Chris
tians, if such they can be called, who do nothing
for the diffusion of the gospel in the world. He
published a history of the West Indies ; a com
mentary on the Scriptures. — Christian Visitant.
COLBERT, PITMAN, major, a Chickasaw In
dian, died near fort Towson Feb. 24, 1853, aged
96, wealthy, and of influence in his tribe, an ad
vocate of Christian education.
COLBURN, LEWIS, captain, died at Dedham
in 1843, aged 91, a soldier of the Revolution; he
fought at the first battle, April 19, 1775.
COLBURN, WARREN, died at Lowell Sept. 15,
1833, aged 40, superintendent of the Merrimack
manufacturing company. He graduated at Har
vard in 1820, and was a man of talents and ex
cellent character. He published treatises on
arithmetic and algebra, and other valuable books
of education.
COLBURN, ZERAH, died at Norwich, Vt.,
March 2, 1839, aged 34. He was born at Cabot,
Vt., Sept 1, 1804. When nearly six years old, in
Aug., 1810, he began to manifest wonderful pow
ers of arithmetical computation. His father,
Abia, exhibited him at Boston in Nov., and in
1812 in London. Being asked the number of
seconds since the Christian era, in 1813 years, 7
months, 27 days, he answered correctly, 57,234,-
384,000. Being asked the square root of 106,929,
he immediately answered 327. Asked the cube
root of 268,336,125, he readily answered 645.
After proceeding to Ireland, and Scotland, and
Paris, he returned to London in 1816. For three
years he was at Westminster school ; afterwards
he was a teacher. His father dying in London in
1824, he returned to this country. In July, 1825,
he joined the Congregational church in Burling
ton, but soon became a Methodist minister, and
was for several years an itinerant preacher. He
lost his power of calculation before he left Eng
land. As a preacher he displayed no uncommon
talent. He published his own memoir in 1833.
Some other results of his remarkable faculty
when a boy of eight or nine years and afterwards
are the following : Being asked the factors which
produce 247,483, he answered 941 and 263;
which are indeed its only two factors. Being
asked for the factors of 36,083, he immediately
replied that it had none. Now the dark mystery
is, how the boy could reach these true conclusions
by the rapid action of his mind ? Being asked
the factors of 171,395, he mentioned the seven
pairs of factors wliich will produce that number,
as 5 X 34,279, etc. The French mathematicians
had said, that 4,294,967,297 (= 232 + 1) was a
prime number having no factors. But Colburn
announced the factors 641 x 6,700,417. Being
asked to give the square of 999,999, he said he
could not directly, but he accomplished it by
multiplying 37,037 by itself, and that product
twice by 27; the answer being 999,99S,COO,001.
How could the child discover all this ? He added
that he could multiply this twice by 49 and once
by 25, giving the final product, 60,024,879,950,-
060,025. It was not by inspiration that he did
tin's, but by wonderful mental processes and as
tonishing powers of memory as to figures, as was
judged by the motion of his lips and by his ner
vous indications. So rapid was his process, that,
when less than seven years old, when asked how
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many days and hours in 1811 years, he answered
in twenty seconds, 661,015 days, 15,864,360 hours.
How many seconds in 11 years? He answered
in four seconds, 346,896,000. In some of his
easier labors he was able, after two or three
years, to explain the process. For instance, in
extracting roots ; if the square consisted of five
figures, as 92,416, he first sought a number
squared, which would produce the two last fig
ures, and that is 04. Next he sought a number,
which, when squared, would give the first figure
of the square, or come nearest under it ; and
that is 3. Putting them together, 304 is the
number sought. But how did the boy discover
this rule ? His more arduous processes he could
not explain. At the age of twelve he was able to
explain the rapid mental process by which he
multiplied two numbers, as 4791 and 238, and
obtained the result 1,140,258. It was by twelve
distinct multiplications and eleven additions and
some other mental acts, his memory retaining
the sum as it grew, until it reached the result.
He first multiplied 4000 by 200, then 700 and 90
and 1 by the same, adding the results as he pro
ceeded ; then he multiplied them by 30 and
by 8, adding the results. For this, what a won
derful faculty of memory must have been pos
sessed !
COLBY, PHILIP, died in North Middleborough
Feb. 27, 1851, aged 72, having been the minister
thirty-four years, highly respected and useful.
COLBY," MARIA OTIS, died at Middleborough
May 20, 1821, aged 33, wife of the preceding.
She was the daughter of Gen. Joseph Otis, of
Barnstable, and at the age of eighteen became a
member -of the church under Hev. O. Shaw. She
was married Jan. 1, 1818. She was distinguished
by her intellectual character, her temper, beauty,
and manners, and was faithful in her new sphere.
The gospel, which she zealously endeavored to
send out to the dark-minded, cheered her, as she
went down to the grave. She addressed earnestly
each member of her house, and left messages for
her aged mother, for her sister and four brothers.
COLBY, 11. G. O., judge, died at New Bedford
Feb. 22, 1853, aged 44. He was judge of the
court of common pleas from 1845 to 1847, then
district attorney ; author of a work on Practice.
COLDEN, CADWALLADEK, a physician, bota
nist, and astronomer, died at New York Sept. 28,
1776, aged 88. He was the son of Ilev. Alex.
Colden of Dunse, in Scotland, and was born
Feb. 17, 1688. After having received a liberal
education under the immediate inspection of his
father, he went to the university of Edinburgh,
where he graduated in 1705. He then applied
himself to medicine and mathematics, and was
eminently distinguished by his proficiency in both.
Allured by the fame of Wm. Penn's colony, he
came over to this country about the year 1708;
and, having practised physic for some years with
considerable reputation, he returned to England,
which he found greatly distracted in consequence
I of the troubles of 1715. While in London he
I was introduced to Dr. Halley, who was so well
pleased with a paper of his on animal secretions,
that he read it before the royal society, the notice
of which it greatly attracted. At this time he
formed an acquaintance with some of the most
distinguished literary characters of England, with
whom he afterwards corresponded, giving them
curious and useful intelligence respecting a part
of the world then but little known.
Governor Hunter, of New York, conceived so
favorable an opinion of him, after a short ac
quaintance, that he became his warm friend, and
offered his patronage, if he would remove to New
York. In 1718 he therefore settled in that city.
He was the first who filled the office of surveyor-
general in the colony. He received also the ap
pointment of master in chancery. In 1720, on
the arrival of Gov. Burnet, he was honored with
a seat in the king's council of the province. He
afterwards rose to the head of this board, and in
that station succeded to the administration of the
government in 1760. He had previously obtained
a patent for a tract of land about nine miles from
Newburgh, on Hudson's river ; and to this place,
which in his patent is called Coldingham, or Cold-
enham, he retired with his family about the year
1755. There he undertook to clear and cultivate
a small part of the tract as a farm, and his atten
tion was divided between agricultural and philo
sophical pursuits, and the duties of his office of
surveyor-general. The spot which he had se
lected for his retirement was entirely inland, and
the grounds were rough. At the time he chose
it for a residence it was solitary, uncultivated, and
the country around it absolutely a wilderness,
without roads, or such only as were almost im
passable. It was, besides, a frontier to the In
dians, who committed frequent barbarities. Yet
no entreaties of lu's friends, when they thought
him in danger from his savage neighbors, could
entice him from his favorite home. He chose
rather to guard and fortify his house ; and, amidst
dangers which would have disturbed the minds of
most men, he appears to have been occupied
without any interruption in the pursuit of knowl
edge.
In 1761 he was appointed lieutenant-governor
of New York, and he held this commission during
the remainder of his life, being repeatedly at the
head of the government in consequence of the
death or absence of several governors. His po
litical character was rendered very conspicuous
by the firmness of his conduct in the violent
commotions which preceded the late Revolution.
He possessed the supreme authority when the
paper to be distributed in New York under the
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British stamp act arrived ; and it was put under
his care in the fortification called fort George,
which was then standing on Battery point. The
attempt of the British parliament to raise a reve
nue, by taxing the colonies, had in every stage
excited a spirit of indignation and resentment,
which had long before this risen above the control
of government. At length a multitude, consist
ing of several thousand people, assembled under
leaders who were afterwards conspicuous revolu
tionary characters, and determined to make the
lieutenant-governor deliver up the stamp paper to
be destroyed. Mr. Golden had received intimation
of their design, and prepared to defend with fidel
ity the trust which had devolved upon him. The
fort was surrounded on the evening of Feb. 15,
17G6, by a vast concourse of people, who thrcat-
enen to massacre him and his adherents, if the
paper was not delivered to them ; and, though the
engineers within assured him that the place was
untenable, and a terrified family implored him to
regard his safety, he yet preserved a firmness of
mind, and succeeded finally in securing the pa
pers on board a British man-of-war, then in the
port. The populace, in the mean time, unwilling
to proceed to extremities, gratified their resent
ment by burning his effigy and destroying his
carriages under his view. His administration is
rendered memorable, amongst other things, by
several charters of incorporation for useful and
benevolent purposes. The corporation for the
relief of distressed seamen, called the marine so
ciety ; that of the chamber of commerce ; and
one for the relief of widows and children of cler
gymen, will transmit his name with honor to pos
terity. After the return of Mr. Tryon, the
governor, in 1775, he was relieved from the cares
of government. lie then retired to a seat on
Long Island, where a recollection of his former
studies and a few select friends, ever welcomed by
a sociable and hospitable disposition, cheered him
in his last days. lie died a few hours before New
York was wrapped in flames, which laid nearly one-
fourth part of the city in ashes. He complained
neither of pain of body nor anguish of mind,
except on account of the political troubles which
he had long predicted, and which he then saw
overwhelming the country. His wife, Alice Chris
tie, daughter of the minister of Kelso in Scot
land, died in 1762. His son, Alexander, who
succeeded him as surveyor-general and was also
postmaster, died Dec., 1774, aged 58. His son
David, also surveyor-general, a physician and man
of letters, died in England July, 1784, aged 51.
His grandson, Thomas Golden, died at Coldenham
March, 182G, aged 72.
Mr. Golden early began to notice the plants in
America, classing and distinguishing them ac
cording to the method of botany, then in use.
He was attentive to the climate, and left a long
course of diurnal observations on the thermom
eter, barometer, and winds. lie cultivated an
acquaintance with the natives of the country, and
often entertained his correspondents with obser
vations on their customs and manners. He wrote
also a history of the prevalent diseases of the
climate ; and, if he was not the first to recommend
the cooling regimen in the cure of fevers, he was
one of its earliest and warmest advocates, and he
opposed with great earnestness the shutting up in
warm and confined rooms of patients in the
small pox. Though he quitted the practice of
medicine at an early day, yet he never lost sight
of his favorite study, being ever ready to give his
assistance to his neighborhood, and to those who,
from his reputation for knowledge and experience,
applied to him from more distant quarters. His
principal attention, after the year 1760, was di
rected from philosophical to political matters ;
yet he maintained with great punctuality his lit
erary correspondence, particularly with Linnaeus,
Gronovius of Leyden, Dr. Pottersfield and Dr.
Whittle of Edinburgh, and Mr. Peter Collinson,
who was a most usei'ul and affectionate friend, and
to whom Mr. Golden, though he never saw him,
owed an introduction to many of the most dis
tinguished literary characters of Europe. He
was the correspondent of Dr. Franklin, and they
regularly communicated to each other their phi
losophical and physical discoveries, particularly on
electricity, which at that time began to excite the
attention of philosophers. In their letters are to
be observed the first dawnings of many of those
discoveries which Dr. Franklin has communicated
to the world, and which have excited so much as
tonishment, and contributed so much to human
happiness. Of the American philosophical so
ciety he first suggested the plan. It was estab
lished at Philadelphia on account of the central
and convenient situation of that city.
About the year 1743 a malignant fever, then
called the yellow fever, had raged for two sum
mers in the city of New York ; and it appears to
have been in all respects similar to that disorder
which of late years has proved so very fatal. He
communicated his thoughts to the public on the
most probable cure of the calamity in a little
treatise, in which he enlarged on the bad effects
of stagnating waters, moist air, damp cellars,
filthy stores, and dirty streets ; showed how much
these nuisances prevailed in many parts of the
city ; and pointed out the remedies. The corpo
ration of the city gave him their thanks, and estab
lished a plan for draining and cleaning the city,
which was attended with the most happy effects.
He also wrote and published a treatise on the cure
of the cancer. Another essay of his on the virtues
of the bortanice, or great water dock, a species of
rumex, introduced him to an acquaintance with
Linnaeus. In 1753 he published some observations
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on exidcmical sore throat, which appeared first at
Kingston, Mass., in 1735, and had spread over a
great part of North America. These observations
are republished in the American Museum.
When he became acquainted with Linnaeus'
system of botany, he applied himself with new
delight to that study. His description of between
three and four hundred American plants was pub
lished in the acta upsaliensia. He also published
the history of the five Indian nations, and dedi
cated it to Gov. Burnet, who had distinguished
himself by his wisdom and success in the manage
ment of the Indians. The book was printed at
London, 1747, with the original dedication, in
tended for Gov. Burnet, directed to Gen. Ogle-
thorpe. Mr. Colderi justly complained of this as
an unpardonable absurdity of the printer, who
took the further liberty of adding several Indian
treaties without his knowledge or approbation.
But the subject, which drew Mr. Golden at one
time of his life from every other pursuit, was what
lie first published under the title of the cause of
gravitation ; wliich, being much enlarged, ap
peared in 1751 under the title of the principles
of action in matter, to which is added a treatise on
fluxions. lie died in the firm persuasion, that,
however he might have erred in the deductions,
the grand fundamental principles of his system
were true ; and that they would at length be re
ceived as such in the world. Tlu's book cost him
many years of close and severe study. He pre
pared a new edition of it, with elucidations of such
parts as had been subjected to objections, and
with large additions. At the time it was prepared
for the press, he was so far advanced in years
that he despaired of living to see it published.
He therefore transmitted the manuscripts to Dr.
Whittle, professor of medicine in the university of
Edinburgh. The fate of the work since that time
is not known. Of his other manuscripts, many,
through the variety of hands into which they have
fallen, have become mutilated, and a great part of
some of them is entirely lost. Among these are
an inquiry into the operation of intellect in ani
mals, a piece of great orginality ; another on the
essential properties of light, interspersed with ob
servations on electricity, heat, matter, etc.; an in
troduction to the study of physic, in the form of
instructions to one of his grandsons, and dated in
the eighty-first year of his age ; an inquiry into
the causes, producing the phenomenon of metal
medley swimming in water ; an essay on vital
motion ; and, lastly, observations on Mr. Smith's
history of New York, comprehending memoirs of
the public transactions, in which he was conver
sant. He complains of the partiality of Mr.
Smith, and supposes that he is incorrect in many
particulars. — Bees ; American Museum, Hi.
53-59.
GOLDEN, CADWALLADER D., died in Jersey
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city Jan. 7, 1834, aged 65. He was long an emi
nent lawyer in New York ; mayor of the city ;
and a member of congress, lie published a
memoir of Robert Fulton.
COLE, JAMES L., a poet, died at Canandaigua,
N. Y., in Feb., 1823, aged 24. His repugnance
to mercantile business induced him to engage in
the study of the law, in the practice of which he
established himself at Detroit in 1821. A pulmo
nary affection induced him to return to his father's
roof. About three years before his death he made
a public profession of his attachment to the Sav
iour of the world. For several of his last years
he devoted much time to poetical composition.
His productions appeared in the New York
Statesman, and in the Ontario Repository, with
the signature of " Adrian." He had fancy, genius,
and taste, and was virtuous and pious, though he
had occasion to lament the predominance of his
imagination and his propensity to satire.
COLE, COLETTA, a colored woman, died at
New London alms-house in 1844, aged 110.
COLE, THOMAS, an eminent painter, died at
Catskill Feb. 11, 1847, aged 46. He was born in
England, although his parents had previously
lived in America ; and in his childhood thev re
turned hither, residing in Philadelphia and Ohio.
He early indicated a taste for painting, but had no
instruction, until at length a travelling painter,
Stein, gave him some aid and guidance in his art.
In his rambling life he reached Philadelphia,
where he painted transparencies on occasion of
Lafayette's visit. Thence he went to New York.
In the course of time his friends enabled him to
visit Italy. On his return he fixed his residence
amid the magnificent scenery of the Hudson. He
was a landscape painter. He painted the " Course
of Empire," the " Voyage of Life," and " Past
and Present." His view of the falls was pur
chased by Col. Trumbull ; Dunlap and Durand
were also his friends. He wrote much poetry.
Some of his prose pieces were published in the
Literary World. Bryant wrote a sonnet on his
going to Europe. — Noble's Life of Cole; Cyc
lopedia of American Lit., II. 318.
COLE, N. W., M. D., died in Burlington, N. J.,
July 18, 1848, aged 73 years. He was the prin
cipal physician for half a century.
COLE, THOMAS, a teacher in Amherst, N. H.,
and afterwards, for many years, of a celebrated
female school in Salem, Mass. He died in
Salem June 24, 1852, aged 72. He was a grad
uate of Harvard in 1798.
COLEMAN, SETII, a physician in Amherst,
Mass., died Sept. 9, 1815, aged 75. Born in
Hatfield, he graduated at Yale in 1765. He was
long a useful physician, and also a deacon in the
church, eminent for piety. His first wife was
Sarah Beecher of New Haven, by whom he had
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eight children ; his second was Mrs. Eunice War
ner of Hadley. His memoirs were published in
1817.
COLEMAX, WILLIAM, editor of the New York
Evening Post, died July 13, 1829, aged 63. He was
for many years the able editor of a paper, first in
Hampshire county, Mass., and then in New York.
In his politics he was a zealous federalist of the
school of Hamilton, and violent in his warfare.
His only son, William Henry, died at New York
July, 1830, aged 33.
COLEMAX, WILLIAM A., died in Xew York
Jan 27, 1850, aged GO. He was a bookseller, and
for thirty years connected with literature and art.
COLEMAX, OBED M., inventor of the a?olian
attachment to the piano-forte, died at Saratoga
April 5, 1845, aged 28. He was a member of
the Presbyterian church. On his marble monu
ment is this passage : " As well the singers as the
players on instruments shall be there." He died
of the measles, caught in Xew York, after intense
suffering but uncomplaining, saying he was per
fectly willing to leave all for Christ. He was
born at Barnstahle Jan. 23, 1817, of German and
English parents. At the age of sixteen he lived
at Xew Bedford. By selling his invention of the
automaton lady minstrel and singing bird for 800
dollars, he was relieved from extreme poverty.
About 1842 he removed to Saratoga, and invented
his attachment, which he sold for more than 100,-
000 dollars here, and for 10,000 in England, from
which country he returned in Jan., 1845.
COLLAMORE, JOHN, died in Kensington,
N. H., Dec. 29, 1825, aged 110 years and four
months. He was a native of Ireland. His hair,
which had been silvery white, became before his
death nearly black.
COLLETOX, JAMES, governor of South Caro
lina from 1G86 to 1690, came from Barbadoes,
and was proprietary and landgrave. He built a
fine house on Cooper river. His government was
very unpopular. There were disputes concerning
tenures of land and quit-rents. In 1687 he called
a parliament and procured alterations in the funda
mental laws. He offended the high church party,
who were inflamed with zeal against the Puritans.
In the end he was driven from the government
and the province. — Univ. Hist. XL. 426.
COLLIXS, JOHN, governor of Rhode Island
from 1786 to 1789, succeeded Wm. Greene, and
was succeeded by A. Fenner. He was a patriot
of the Revolution ; a delegate to congress in
1789. He died at Xewport in March, 1795, aged
78. Dr. John Warren, of Boston, married his
daughter.
COLLIXS, XATHANIEL, minister of Middle-
town, Conn., died in 1684, aged 42 ; a graduate
of Harvard in 1660. He was the son of Deacon
Edward C. of Cambridge. He married Mary,
daughter of William Whiting, the first settler of
Hartford ; she died in 1709. His son John
married Mary, daughter of the regicide, Judge
Dixwcll.
COLLIXS, XATHANIEL, the first minister of
Enfield, Conn., died Feb. 6, 1758, aged 79. He
was the son of the preceding. lie graduated at
Cambridge in 1697. His wife was Alice, daugh
ter of Rev. William Adams of Dcdham ; she died
Feb. 19, 1735. His daughter, Ann, married
Ephraim Terry of Enfield, and was the grand
mother of Seth Terry of Hartford. His brother-
in-law, Rev. Mr. Whiting of Windham, died at
his house.
COLLIXS, TIMOTHY, the first minister of
Litchficld, died in 1777, aged about 80. Born in
Guilford, he graduated at Yale in 1718, and
preached at L. from 1721 to 1752, when he was
dismissed at his own request. He afterwards
practised physic.
COLLIXS, DANIEL, the first minister of Lanes-
borough, Mass., died Aug. 26, 1822, aged 83.
Born in Guilford, Conn., he graduated at Yale in
1760, and was ordained April 17, 1764; the same
council ordained the next day Rev. T. Allen, in
the adjoining town of Pittsfield. Rev. J. De
Witt was a colleague in 1812.
COLLIXS, AARON COOKE, minister of Williston,
Vt,, and of Bloomfield, X. Y., died 1830, aged
about 65. He graduated at Yale in 1786. His
wife was Love Lee, daughter of Rev. Jonathan Lee
of Salisbury by his second wife, Love Graham
Brinkerhoff.
COLMAX, BENJAMIN, D. D., first minister
of the church in Brattle street, Boston, died Aug.
29, 1747, aged 73. Born in Boston in 1673, he
was distinguished by early piety and zeal in liter
ary pursuits, and in 1692 was graduated at Har
vard college. Beginning to preach soon after
wards, his benevolent labors were enjoyed for half
a year by the town of Medford. In July, 1695, he
embarked for London. During the voyage the
ship, in which he sailed, was attacked by a French
privateer, and Mr. Colman, though he had none
of the presumptuous fearlessness of some of his
companions, yet remained upon the quarter-deck,
and fought bravely with the rest. Being taken
prisoner, he was dressed in rags, and put into the
hold among the sailors. When he arrived in
France, by means of a little money, which he had
preserved, he was enabled to make some improve
ment in his appearance. In a few weeks he was
exchanged, and he soon reached London. Among
the eminent ministers, with whom he here became
acquainted, were Howe, Calamy, and Burkitt.
Being called to preach in different places, he sup
plied a small congregation at Cambridge for a
few weeks, and was succeeded by the learned
James Pierce, who by his mathematical knowl
edge attracted the notice of Mr. Whiston, and,
becoming his friend, imbibed his Arian sentiments.
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Tic afterwards preached about two years at Bath,
where he became intimately acquainted with Mrs.
Howe, then Miss Singer, and admired her sublime
devotion as well as ingenuity and wit, and after
wards corresponded with her.
A new society having been formed in Brattle
street, Boston, the principal gentlemen who com
posed it sent him an invitation to return to his
native country, and to be their minister. The
peculiar constitution of this church, differing from
that of the other churches in New England, ren
dered the founders desirous that he should be
ordained in London. They approved of the con
fession of faith composed by the Westminster As
sembly ; but they were averse to the public rela
tion of experiences then practised previously to
admission into the churches, and they wished the
Scriptures to be read on the Sabbath, and the
Lord's prayer to be used. These innovations, the
founders believed, would excite alarm ; and, to
avoid difficulty, Mr. Colman was ordained by
some dissenting ministers in London Aug. 4,
1699. He arrived at Boston Nov. 1 ; and Dec.
24th the new house of worship was opened, and
Mr. Colman preached in it for the first time.
From the year 1701 he had for his assistant about
two years and a half Eliphalet Adams, afterwards
minister of New London. William Cooper was
ordained his colleague May 23, 1716, and after
his death in 1743, his son, Dr. Cooper, was* set
tled in his place. His three wives were Jane
Clark, widow Sarah Clark, and widow Mary
Frost, sister of Sir Wm. PepperelL lie left no
son. One daughter married Mr. Turell, another
Mr. Dennie.
He was an eminently useful and good man, and
was universally respected for his learning and
talents. lie was distinguished as a preacher.
Tall and erect in stature, of a benign aspect, pre
senting in his whole appearance something
amiable and venerable, and having a peculiar ex
pression in his eye, he was enabled to interest his
hearers. His voice was harmonious, and his ac
tion inimitable. He was ranked among the first
ministers of New England. Jesus Christ was the
great subject of his preaching. He dwelt upon
the Redeemer in his person, natures, offices, and
benefits, and upon the duties of natural religion
as performed only by strength derived from the
Saviour, and as acceptable only for his sake. He
had a happy way of introducing large paragraphs
of Scripture to enrich his discourses, and he fre
quently embellished them by allusions to the
historical parts of the sacred volume. He could
delight by the gracefulness of his manner, and
never by boisterousness and violence transgressed
the decorum of the pulpit; yet he knew how to
preach with pungency, and could array the ter
rors of the Lord before the children of iniquity.
It may excite surprise at the present day, that the
practice of reading the Scripture and repeating
the Lord's prayer, as a part of the services of the
Sabbath, should have excited opposition ; but
many were offended, though it was not long be
fore a number of other churches followed in the
steps of Brattle-street. The ground of opposition
to this new church was the strong features of
Episcopacy which it was imagined were to be
discerned in it.
In the various duties of the pastoral office Dr.
Colman was diligent and faithful. He catechized
the children of his congregation, addressed them
upon the concerns of their souls, and as they ad
vanced in years was urgent in his persuasions to
induce them to approach the table of the Lord.
His church had intrusted him with authority to
judge of the qualifications of communicants, and
it was thought by many that he was too free in
his admissions to the supper. But he was far
from thinking that a competent knowledge of
Christianity and a moral life were sufficient quali
fications. He thought that there should be a
profession of repentance and faith, with the purpose
and promise of obedience through the influence
of the Divine Spirit; and believed that the purity
of the churches would be corrupted, if there was
an indiscriminate and general admission to the
sacrament. While he entertained the highest
veneration for the fathers of New England, and
was very friendly to confessions of faith and to
the publication of them on particular occasions,
he used to say that the Bible was his platform.
In his sentiments upon church government he in
clined towards the Presbyterians. He was op
posed to the practice, adopted by the churches, of
sending for a council wherever they pleased, be
lieving the neighboring churches to be the proper
counsellors. As he conceived that all baptized
persons who made a credible profession of the
religion of Christ were the members of the
church, he thought that they should not be pro
hibited in voting for the choice of a minister. At
the same time, he considered them as very repre
hensible, if they neglected to approach the table
of the Lord.
Such was the estimation in which he was held,
that, after the death of Mr. Leverett in 1724, he
was chosen his successor as president of Harvard
college ; but he declined the appointment. He
however rendered great service to the institution.
lie procured benefactions for it, and took inde
fatigable pains in forming rules and orders relat
ing to the settlement of the Hollis professor of
divinity in Cambridge. His care also extended
to Yale college, for which he procured many val
uable books. In 1732 he addressed a letter to
Mr. Adams, of New London, one of its trustees,
desiring him to vindicate that college from the
charge of Arminianism. By his acquaintance in
England his usefulness was much increased. He
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received from Samuel Holden, of London, thirty-
nine sets of the practical works of Mr. Baxter, in
four massive volumes, folio, to distribute among
our churches. He procured also benefactions for
the Indians at Iloussatonnoc, and engaged with
earnestness in promoting the objects of that mis
sion, which was intrusted to the care of Mr. Ser
geant. But his labors were not confined to what
particularly related to his profession. He was
employed, in his younger as well as in his latter
years, on weighty affairs by the general court.
No minister has since possessed so great influ
ence. His attention to civil concerns drew upon
him censure, and at times insult ; but he thought
himself justified in embracing every opportunity
for doing good. He knew the interest of his
country and was able to promote it ; and he could
not admit that the circumstance of his being a
minister ought to prevent his exertions. Still
there were few men more zealous and unwearied
in the labors of his sacred office. His character
was singularly excellent. Having imbibed the
true spirit of the gospel, he was catholic, mod
erate, benevolent, ever anxious to promote the
gospel of salvation. He was willing to sacrifice
everything but truth, to peace. After a life con
spicuous for sanctity and usefulness, he met the
king of terrors without fear. In the early part
of his life his health was very infirm ; sickness
frequently reminded him of his mortality, and he
made it his constant care to live in readiness for
death. With a feeble constitution, he yet was
able to preach on the very Sabbath before he
died. His life was written by Mr. Turell, who
married his daughter; and was published in 1749.
He published an artillery sermon in 1702; the
government and improvement of mirth, in three
sermons, 1707 ; imprecation against the enemies
of God lawful ; practical discourses on the para
ble of the ten virgins, 8vo., 1707; a poem on the
death of Mr. Willard ; the ruler's piety and duty ;
a sermon on the union of England and Scotland,
1708; on seeking God early, 1713; the heinous
nature of the sin of murder ; on the incompre-
hensibleness of God, in four sermons, 1715; the
precious gifts of the ascended Saviour ; the bless
ing and honor of fruitful mothers ; divine com
passions magnified ; funeral sermons on Abigail
Foster, 1711 ; Elizabeth Waimvright, 1714 ; Isaac
Addington and Thomas Bridge, 1714; Elizabeth
Hirst, 1716; Messrs. Brattle and Pcmberton, and
Grove Hirst, 1717 ; Governor Dudley, 1720 ; Wil
liam Harris, 1721 ; Madam Steel, David Stoddard,
and Increase Mather, 1723 ; President Leverett,
1724; Cotton Mather, 1728; Solomon Stoddard
and William Welsted, 1729 ; Simeon Stoddard,
1730; Thomas Hollis, 1731; on his eldest daugh
ter, 1735; Thomas Steel, 1736; Peter Thacher,
1739; Samuel Holden, 1740; William Cooper,
1743 ; Francis Shirley, 1746 : the warnings of
God unto young people, 1716; a sermon for the
reformation of manners ; our fathers' sins con
fessed with our own ; a thanksgiving sermon for
the suppression of the rebellion in Great Britain ;
at the ordination of William Cooper, 1717; the
rending of the vail of the temple ; five sermons
on the strong man armed ; the pleasure of reli
gious worship in our public assemblies; an elec
tion sermon, 1718; the blessing of Zebulon and
Issachar; reasons for a market in Boston, 1719;
early piety inculcated, 1720; early piety towards
men, 1721; some observations on inoculation;
Jacob's vow, 1722 ; Moses a witness to Christ, a
sermon at the baptism of Mr. Monis, 1722; an
election sermon, 1723 ; God deals with us as ra
tional creatures ; the duty of parents to pray for
their children ; the doctrine and law of the holy
Sabbath, 1725 ; a sermon to pirates, 1726 ; a sac
ramental discourse, 1727 ; at the ordination of
Mr. Pemberton, of New York ; on the accession
of George II. ; five sermons on the great earth
quake ; twenty sacramental sermons on the glo
ries of Christ, 8vo. 1728 ; the duty of young
people to give their hearts to God, four sermons ;
death and the grave without any order; a treatise
on family worship ; on Gov. Belcher's accession,
1730; the grace given us in the preached gospel,
1732; God is a great king, 1733 ; the fast which
God hath chosen, 1734; a dissertation on the
three first chapters of Genesis, 1735 ; a disserta
tion on the image of God, wherein man was
created, 1736; merchandise and hire, holiness to
the Lord ; righteousness and compassion the
ruler's duty and character ; the Divine compas
sion new every morning, 1737; waiting on God
in our straits and difficulties, 1737 ; at the artillery
election, 1738; the unspeakable gift, 1739; the
withered hand restored ; pleasant to see souls
flying to Christ, 1740; on Gov. Shirley's ac
cession, 1741 ; the word of God magnified by
him, 1742 ; the glory of God's power in the fir
mament ; Satan's fiery darts in hellish sugges
tions, in several sermons, 1744; at the ordination
of Samuel Cooper, 1746. — TurelVs Life and
Character of Colman ; Thacher's Centrnary
Sermon; Hopkins' History of Iloussatonnoc
Indians.
COLMAN, HENRY, died at Islington, London,
Aug. 17, 1849. He was a graduate of Dart
mouth in 1805, and was many years a Unitarian
minister in Salem. He afterwards devoted him
self to agricultural inquiries, and had a commis
sion for that object under the authority of the
State; in this capacity he went abroad in 1842,
and was received with distinction in various parts
of England. It was on his return from Ireland,
visited for the same object, that by his exposure
on deck he took a violent and fatal cold. He
had engaged his passage home to America. His
daughter, Anna S., wife of Pickering Dodge, died
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in North Salem Sept. 16, 1849. He published a
volume of sermons, 1820 ; a half-century sermon,
1826; six or seven other sermons; and various
agricultural reports and works, among them, ag
riculture and rural economy of France, etc. ;
European agriculture, etc., 2 vols. ; also, European
life and manners, 2 vols., 1848.
COLTOX, GEORGE, died in Springfield, now
Longmeadow, in 1699, the ancestor of all in Xew
England who bear the name of Colton. He came
from near Birmingham, was at Springfield as
early as 1644, and was representative in 1669.
His wife was Deborah Gardner. He left five
sons and four daughters.
COLTOX, GEORGE, died at Bolton, Conn., in
1812, aged 56. He was the son of Rev. Benja
min C., of West Hartford, a graduate of 1756.
With eccentricities, he was yet a devout, godly
man. He was a few inches less than seven feet
in height, and lank, and wore a cocked hat and
an enormous wig ; he was called " the high priest
of Bolton." A child cried at meeting, being
afraid of " that big man with a sheep on his
back." He once preached a sermon of reproof
to his people, and the same by way of exchange
at Andover, some miles distant, uttering these
words from it, much to the astonishment of the
people : " I hear the sound of your axes at my
house every Saturday night, long after sundown."
In his last years his church declined ; but his suc
cessor, Philander Parmelee, who died in 1822, by
his most faithful and zealous labors in various re
vivals, greatly promoted the interests of religion
in Bolton.
COLTOX, JOHN O., a minister in New Haven,
died April 20, 1840, aged 30. He was a grad
uate of 1802, the son of Rev. George C., of
Westford, X. Y., and great-grandson of Rev.
Benj. C., of West Hartford. He was a scholar
of promise ; he edited a Greek reader.
COLTOX, WALTER, died in Philadelphia Jan.
22, 1851, aged 53. He was born in Rutland, Vt,
the brother of Calvin C., was graduated at
Yale in 1822, and early became a preacher, and
taught an academy at Middletown. In 1828 he
edited the American Spectator, a political paper
at Washington. He was the friend of Jackson,
who in 1830 appointed him a chaplain in the
navy. He was three years in the Constellation
in the Mediterranean. He was then chaplain of
the navy-yard at Philadelphia, and edited the
Xorth American. Going with the squadron to
the Pacific, about 1846, he was alcalde of Mon
terey in California, and judge of admiralty, and
established the California!!, the first paper, and
built the first school-house, and first announced to
our country the discovery of gold. He returned
in 1850. A cold, terminating in dropsy, occasioned
his death. He wrote much : ship and shore, 1835 ;
visit to Constantinople and Athens, 1836; deck
and port ; three years in California ; land and
lee ; the sea and the sailor ; notes on France and
Italy, with a memoir by Henry T. Checver.
COLTOX, GEORGE H., died Dec. 1, 1847, aged
29. The son of Rev. George C., of Westford,
X. Y., he was graduated at Yale in 1840. He
was a teacher in Hartford, delivered lectures on
the Indians, and commenced in 1845 the editor
ship of the American Whig Review. He pub
lished Tecumseh, a poem in nine cantos. — CycL
of American Literature, II. 658.
COLUMBUS, CHRISTOPHER, the first discov
erer of the Xew World, died May 20, 1506, aged
about 70. He was born at Colognette, near Ge
noa, about the year 1436. His father, Domenico
Colombo, was a manufacturer of woollen stuffs in
Genoa, and rather poor. When the son went to
reside in Spain he changed the name of Colombo
to Colon, as more conformable to the Spanish
idiom, writing his name Cristoval Colon. He
was educated in the sciences of geometry and as
tronomy, which form the basis of navigation, and
was well versed in cosmography, history, and phi
losophy, having studied some time at Pavia. To
equip himself more completely for making dis
coveries, he learned to draw. He entered upon
a seafaring life at the age of fourteen. During
one of his voyages the ship in which he sailed
took fire in an engagement with a Venetian gal
ley, and, by the help of an oar, he swam two
leagues to the coast of Portugal, near Lisbon.
He married at Lisbon Dona Felipa Monis de
Palestrello, the daughter of an old Italian seaman,
from whose journals and charts he received the
highest entertainment. The Portuguese were at
this time endeavoring to find a way to India
around Africa ; they had been pursuing this ob
ject for half a century without attaining it, and
had advanced no farther along the coast of Africa
than just to cross the equator, when Columbus
conceived his great design of finding India in the
Vest. He knew from observing lunar eclipses
that the earth was a sphere, and concluded that
it might be travelled over from east to west, or
from west to east. He also hoped, that between
Spain and India some islands would be found,
which would be resting-places in his voyage.
Some learned writers had asserted that it was
possible to effect what he was now resolved to
accomplish. So early as the year 1474 he had
communicated his ideas in writing to Paul Fosca-
nelli, a learned physician of Florence, who en
couraged his design, sending him a chart, in
which he had laid down the supposed capital of
China, but little more than two thousand leagues
westward from Lisbon. The stories of mariners,
that carved wood, a covered canoe, and human
bodies of a singular complexion had been found
after westerly winds, also contributed to settle his
judgment. Having established his theory and
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formed his design, he now began to think of the
means of carrying it into execution. Deeming
the enterprise too great to be undertaken by any
but a sovereign State, he applied first, according
to Herrera, to the republic of Genoa, by whom
his project was treated as visionary. Ferdinando
Columbus, in his life of his father, says nothing
of this application, but represents that the plan
was first proposed to John II., king of Portugal,
because his father lived under him. This king
had encountered such vast expense in fruitless at
tempts to find a way to India around the African
continent, that he was entirely indisposed to give
to Columbus the encouragement which he wished
to obtain. By the advice, however, of a favorite
courtier, he privately gave orders to" a ship bound
to the island of Cape de Verd, to attempt a dis
covery in the west ; but the navigators, through
ignorance and want of enterprise, effected noth
ing, and on reaching their destined port turned
the project of Columbus into ridicule. When he
became acquainted with this dishonorable conduct
of the king, he quitted Portugal in disgust, and
repaired to Ferdinand, king of Spain. He had
previously sent his brother, Bartholomew, to Eng
land, to solicit the patronage of Henry VII. ; but
on his passage he was taken by pirates, and he
was detained a number of years in captivity.
The proposal of Columbus was referred to the
consideration of the most learned men in Spain,
who rejected it for various reasons, one of which
was, that, if a ship should sail westward on a
globe, she would necessarily go down on the op
posite side, and then it would be impossible to
return, for it would be like climbing up a hill,
which no ship could do with the strongest wind.
But, by the influence of Juan Perez, a Spanish
priest, and Lewis Santangel, an officer of the
king's household, Queen Isabella was persuaded
to listen to his request, and, after he had been
twice repulsed, recalled him to court. She offered
to pawn her jewels to defray the expense of the
equipment, amounting to more than 2,500 crowns ;
but the money was advanced by Santangel.
Thus, after seven years' painful solicitation, he
obtained the patronage which he thought of the
highest importance in executing his plan.
By an agreement with their Catholic majesties,
of April 17, 1492, he was to be viceroy and admi
ral of all the countries which he should discover,
and was to receive one-tenth part of the profits
accruing from their productions and commerce.
He sailed from Palos in Spain, Friday, Aug. 3,
1492, with three vessels, two of which were called
caravels, being small vessels, without decks, ex
cept perhaps at the ends, having on board in the
whole ninety men. He might have deemed
small vessels better fitted for the purposes of
navigation in unknown seas. He himself com
manded the largest vessel, called Santa Maria.
He left the Canaries Sept. 6, and, when he was
about two hundred leagues to the west, the mag
netic needle was observed, Sept. 14th, to vary
from the pole-star. This phenomenon filled the
seamen with terror, but his fertile genius, by sug
gesting a plausible reason, in some degree quieted
their apprehensions. After being twenty days at
sea without the sight of land, some of them
talked of throwing their commander into the
ocean. All his talents were required to stimulate
their hopes. At length, when he was almost re
duced to the necessity of abandoning the enter
prise, at ten o'clock in the night of Oct. llth, he
saw a light, which was supposed to be on shore,
and early the next morning, Friday, Oct. 12th,
land was distinctly seen, which proved to be
Guanahana, one of the Bahama islands. Thus
he effected an object which he had been twenty
years in projecting and executing. At sunrise
the boats were manned and the adventurers
rowed towards the shore with music and with
martial pomp. The coast was covered with peo
ple, who were overwhelmed with astonishment.
Columbus went first on shore, and was followed
by his men. They all, kneeling down, kissed the
ground with tears of joy, and returned thanks for
their successful voyage. This island, which is in
north latitude 25°, and is sometimes called Cat
island, was named by Columbus San Salvador.
Having discovered a number of other islands, and
among them Cuba, Oct. 27th, and Hispaniola,
Dec. 6th, he began to think of returning. His
large ship having been wrecked on the shoals of
Hispaniola, he built a fort with her timber, and
left behind him a colony of thirty-nine men at
the port, which he called Xavidad, the nativity,
because he entered it on Christmas day. From
this place he sailed Jan. 4, 1493. During his
passage, when threatened with destruction by a
violent storm, he wrote an account of his discov
eries on parchment, which he wrapped in a piece
of oiled cloth and inclosed in a cake of wax.
This he put into a tight cask and threw it into
the sea, with the hope that it might be driven
ashore, and that his discoveries might not be lost,
if the vessel should sink. But he was providen
tially saved from destruction, and arrived safe at
Lisbon March 4th. On the 15th he reached
Palos, and was received with the highest tokens
of honor by the king and queen, who now made
him admiral of Spain.
He sailed on his second voyage to the New
World Sept. 25, 1493, having a fleet of three
ships of war, and fourteen caravels, and about
one thousand and five hundred people, some of
whom were of the first families in Spain. The
pope had granted, by bull, dated May 3, 1493, in
full right to Ferdinand and Isabella, all the coun
tries from pole to pole beyond a line drawn one
hundred leagues west of the Azores ; and their
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Catholic majesties had confirmed to Columbus his
privileges, making the office of viceroy and gov
ernor of the Indies hereditary in his family. On
the Lord's day, Nov. 3, he discovered an island,
which in honor of the day he called Dominica.
After discovering Marigalante, so called in honor
of his ship, Guadaloupe, Montserrat, Antigua, and
other islands, he entered the port of Navidad, on
the north side of Ilispaniola, where he had left
his colony ; but not a Spaniard was to be seen, and
the fort was entirely demolished. The men, whom
he had left in this place, had seized the provisions
of the natives and their women, and exhibited
such rapacity as to excite the indignation of the
Indians, who had in consequence burned the fort
and cut them off. Dec. 8th, he landed at another
part of the same island, near a rock which was a
convenient situation for a fort ; and here he built
a town, which he called Isabella, and which was
the first town founded by Europeans in the New
World, lie discovered Jamaica May 5, 1494,
Avhere he found water and other refreshments for
his men, of which they were in the greatest want.
On his return to Ilispaniola, Sept. 29, he met his
brother, Bartholomew, from whom he had been
separated for thirteen years, and whom he sup
posed to be dead. His brother had brought sup
plies from Spain in three ships, which he com
manded, and arrived at a time when his prudence,
experience, and bravery were peculiarly needed ;
for Columbus on his return found the colony in
the utmost confusion. Their licentiousness had
provoked the natives, who had united against
their invaders, and had actually killed a number of
the Spaniards. He collected his people, and pre
vented the destruction which threatened them.
In the spring of 1495, he carried on a war
against the natives, and with two hundred men,
twenty horses, and as many dogs, he defeated an
army of Indians wliich has been estimated at one
hundred thousand. In about a year he reduced
the natives to submission. But while Columbus
was faithfully employing his talents to promote
the interests of his sovereign, his enemies were
endeavoring to ruin his character. He was a for
eigner, and the proud Spaniards could not pa
tiently see him elevated to such honors. He did
not require so enormous a tribute of the Indians
as some of his rapacious adventurers would im
pose, and complaints against him were entered
with the king's ministers. The discipline, which
he maintained was represented as severity, and
the punishments which he inflicted, as cruelty ;
and it was suggested, that he was aiming to
make himself independent. These whispers ex
cited suspicion in the jealous mind of Ferdi
nand, and Columbus was reduced to the neces
sity of returning to the Spanish court, that
he might vindicate himself from these false
charges. After placing the affairs of the colony
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in the best possible condition, and leaving the su
preme power in the hands of his brother Barthol
omew, he sailed from Isabella March 10, 1496,
having with him thirty Indians. He first visited
several islands, and, leaving the West Indies April
20, he arrived at Cadiz, after a dangerous and tedi
ous voyage, June 1 1th. His presence at court, with
the influence of the gold and other valuable arti
cles which he carried with him, removed in some
degree the suspicions which had been gathering
in the mind of the king. But his enemies,
though silent, were not idle. They threw such
obstructions in his way, that it was nearly two years
before he could again set sail to continue his dis
coveries. Fonseca. Bishop of Badajos, who in
Sept., 1497, was reinstated in the direction of In
dian affairs, was his principal enemy. It was he
who patronized Amerigo.
May 30, 1498, he sailed from Spain on his
third voyage with six ships. At the Canary Is
lands he dispatched three of his ships with pro
visions to Ilispaniola, and with the other three he
kept a course more to the south. He discovered
Trinidad July 31, and the continent of Terra
Firma on the first of August. Having made
many other discoveries he entered the port of St.
Domingo, in Ilispaniola, Aug. 30. By the direc
tion of Columbus, his brother had begun a settle
ment in this place, and it was now made the
capital. Its name was given to it in honor of
Dominic, the father of Columbus. lie found the
colony in a state which awakened his most seri
ous apprehensions. Francis Iloldan, whom he
had left chief justice, had excited a considerable
number of the Spaniards to mutiny. He had
attempted to seize the magazine and fort, but, fail
ing of success, retired to a distant part of the
island. Columbus had not a force sufficient to sub
due him, and he dreaded the effects of a civil war,
which might put it in the power of the Indians to
destroy the whole colony. He had recourse
therefore to address. By promising pardon to
such as should submit, by offering the liberty of
return to Spain, and by offering to re-establish
Iloldan in his office, he in Xov. dissolved this
dangerous combination. Some of the refractory
were tried and put to death.
As soon as his affairs would permit, he sent
some of his ships to Spain, with a journal of his
voyage, a chart of the coast which he had dis
covered, specimens of the gold and pearls, and an
account of the insurrection. Iloldan at the same
time sent home his accusations against Columbus.
The suspicions of Ferdinand were revived, and
they were fomented by Fonseca and others. It
was resolved to send to Ilispaniola a judge, who
should examine facts upon the spot. Francis de
Bovadilla was appointed for this purpose, with full
powers to supersede Columbus, if he found him
guilty. When he arrived at St. Domingo, all dis-
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sensions were composed in the island, effectual
provisions were made for working the mines, and
the authority of Columbus over the Spaniards and
Indians was well established. But Bovadilla
was determined to treat him as a criminal. He
accordingly took possession of his house and
seized his effects, and, assuming the government,
ordered Columbus to be arrested in Oct., 1500,
and loaded with irons. He was thus sent home
as a prisoner. The captain of the vessel, as soon
as he was clear of the island, offered to release
him from his fetters. " No," said Columbus, " I
wear these irons in consequence of an order of
my sovereigns, and their command alone shall set
me at liberty." He arrived at Cadiz Nov. 5, and
Dec. 17 was set at liberty by the command of
Ferdinand and invited to court. He vindicated
his conduct and brought the most satisfying
proofs of the malevolence of his enemies. But,
though his sovereigns promised to recall Bova
dilla, they did not restore Columbus to his gov
ernment. Their jealousy was not yet entirely re
moved. In the beginning of 1502, Ovando was
sent out governor of Ilispaniola, and thus a new
proof was given of the suspicion and injustice of
the Spanish king.
Columbus, still intent on discovering a passage to
India, sailed on his fourth voyage from Cadiz May
9, 1502, with four small vessels, the largest of
which was but of seventy tons. He arrived off
St. Domingo June 29, but Ovando refused him
admission into the port. A fleet of eighteen sail
was at this time about setting sail for Spain.
Columbus advised Ovando to stop them for a few
days, as he perceived the prognostics of an
approaching storm ; but his salutary warning
was disregarded. The fleet sailed, and of the
eighteen vessels, but two or three escaped the
hurricane. In this general wreck perished Bova
dilla, Iloldan, and the other enemies of Columbus,
together with the immense wealth which they
had unjustly acquired. Columbus under the lee
of the shore rode out the tempest with great diffi
culty. He soon left Hispaniola, and discovered
the bay of Honduras. He then proceeded to Cape
Gracias a, Dios and thence along the coast to the
Isthmus of Darien, where he hoped but in vain
to find a passage to the great sea beyond the con
tinent, which he believed would conduct him to
India. Nov. 2, he found a harbor, which on
account of its beauty he called Porto Bello. He
afterwards met with such violent storms as threat
ened his leaky vessels with destruction. One of
them he lost and the other he was obliged to
abandon. With the two remaining ships he with
the utmost difficulty reached the island of Ja
maica in 1503, being obliged to run them aground
to prevent them from sinking. His ships were
ruined beyond the possibility of being repaired,
and to convey an account of his situation to Ilis
paniola seemed impracticable. But his fertile
genius discovered the only expedient which was
left him. He obtained from the natives two of
their canoes, each formed out of a single tree.
In these, two of his most faithful friends offered
to set out on a voyage of above thirty leagues.
They reached Ilispaniola in ten days, but they
solicited relief for their companions eight months
in vain. Ovando was governed by a mean jeal
ousy of Columbus, and he was willing that he
should perish. In the mean time Columbus had
to struggle with the greatest difficulties. His
seamen threatened his life for bringing them into
such trouble ; they mutinied, seized a number of
boats, and went to a distant part of the island ;
the natives murmured at the long residence of
the Spaniards among them, and began to bring
in their provisions with reluctance. But the inge
nuity and foresight of Columbus again relieved
him from his difficulties. He knew that a total
eclipse of the moon was near. On the day before
it occurred, he assembled the principal Indians,
and told them that the Great Spirit in heaven
was angry with them for withdrawing their assis
tance from his servants, the Spaniards ; that he
was about to punish them ; and that as a sign of
his wrath the moon would be obscured that very
night. As the eclipse came on, they ran to Co
lumbus, loaded with provisions, and entreated his
intercession with the Great Spirit to avert the
destruction which threatened them. From this
time the natives were very ready to bring their
provisions, and they treated the Spaniards with
the greatest respect.
At the end of eight months Ovando sent a
small vessel to Jamaica to spy out the condition
of Columbus. Its approach inspired the greatest
joy; but the officer, after delivering a cask of
wine, two flitches of bacon, and a letter of com
pliment, immediately set sail on his return. To
quiet the murmurs, which were rising, Columbus
told his companions, that he himself had refused
to return in the caravel, because it was too small
to take the whole of them ; but that another ves
sel would soon arrive to take them off. The mu
tineers from a distant part of the island were
approaching and it was necessary to oppose them
with force. Columbus, being afflicted with the
gout, sent his brother, Bartholomew, against
them, who on their refusing to submit attacked
them, and took their leader prisoner. At length
a vessel, which was purchased by one of his
friends, who went to Ilispaniola for his relief,
came to Jamaica and released him from his un
pleasant 'situation. On his arrival at St. Domingo
Aug. 13, 1504, Ovando received him with the
most studied respect, but, as he soon gave new
proofs of malevolence, Columbus prepared for his
return to Spain. In Sept., he set sail, accompa
nied by his brother and son, and after a long
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voyage, in which he encountered violent storms,
and after sailing seven hundred leagues with jury
masts, he reached the port of St. Lucar in Dec.
lie now was informed of the death of his patron
ess, Isabella. He soon repaired to court, and
after spending about a year in fruitless solicitation
for his violated rights, and after calling in vain
upon a sovereign to respect his engagements, he
died at Valladolid, leaving two sons, Don Diego
and Ferdinand. His body was deposited in the
convent of St. Francisco; and in 1513 removed to
the monastery of the Carthusians at Seville, and
thence in Io36 to the city of St. Domingo in
Hispaniola, where it was placed in the chancel of
the cathedral. In 179,5, when the Spanish part
of Hispaniola was ceded to France, the bones of
Columbus were transported to the Havana,
where they now lie, in the wall of the cathedral.
At this city a eulogy was pronounced on the occa
sion by an aged priest, Jan. 17, 179G, in the pres
ence of nearly a hundred thousand people. A
white marble tablet was inserted in the wall in
1832, having on it a medallion profile, and an
inscription, wishing his remains might remain a
thousand years in the urn and in the remem
brance of the nation.
In the character of Columbus were combined
the qualities which constitute greatness. He
possessed a strong and penetrating mind. He
knew the sciences, as they were taught at the
period in which he lived. He was fond of great
enterprises, and capable of prosecuting them with
the most unwearied patience. He surmounted
difficulties wliich would have entirely discouraged
persons of less firmness and constancy of spirit.
Ilis invention extricated him from many perplex
ities, and his prudence enabled him to conceal or
subdue his own infirmities, whilst he took advan
tage of the passions of others, adjusting his be
havior to his circumstances, temporizing, or acting
with vigor, as the occasion required. He was a
man of undaunted courage and high thoughts.
The following instance of the ingenuity of
Columbus, in vindicating his claim to respect for
his discoveries, is related by Peter Martyr. Not
' long before his death, at a public dinner, the
nobility insinuated that his discoveries were rather
the result of accident than of well-concerted meas
ures. Columbus heard them decry his services
for some time, but at length called for an egg,
and asked them to set it upright on its smaller
end. When they confessed it to be impossible,
he flatted its shell by striking it gently upon the
table till it stood upright. The company imme
diately exclaimed, with a sneer, " Anybody might
have done it." — " Yes," said Columbus, " but none
of you thought of it. So I discovered the Indies,
and now every pilot can steer the same course.
Remember the scoffs which were thrown at me
before I put my design in execution. Then it
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was a dream, a chimera, a delusion; now it is
what anybody might have done as well as I."
The signature to his will is as follows :
S.
8. A. S.
X. M. Y.
EL ALMIRANTE.
Instead of the last line, the Admiral, he some
times put the words, —
XPO FERENS,
Or Christo Ferens. The other letters have not
been explained. They are supposed to be the
ciphers of a pious ejaculation to Christ and Mary
and Joscphus, as Sancta Maria, Salva me, etc.
Mr. Irving has not accounted for the disposition
of the letters in the form of a pyramid. It was
probably with reference to the name Colon, Col-
onna in Italian, a column.
Columbus was tall of stature, large and muscu
lar, long visaged, of a majestic aspect, his nose
hooked, his eyes gray, of a clear complexion, and
somewhat ruddy. He was witty and elegant.
His conversation was discreet, which gained him
the affections of those with whom he had to deal,
and his presence attracted respect, having an air
of authority and grandeur. He was always tem
perate in eating and drinking, and modest in his
dress. He understood Latin and composed ver
ses. In religion he was a very zealous and devout
Catholic. He left two sons, Diego and Ferdinand.
The latter entered the church : he collected the
richest library in Spain, consisting of twelve thou
sand volumes, which he bequeathed to the cathedral
church of Seville, where he resided. Diego was
for a time admiral and governor of Hispaniola.
Columbus was ever faithful to his prince. How
far the artifices, to which he had recourse in the
dangerous circumstances in which he was placed,
can be justified, it might not be easy to decide.
He is represented as a person who always enter
tained a reverence for the Deity, and confidence
in his protection. His last words were, " Into
thy hands, O Lord, I commend my spirit." His
life was written by his son Ferdinand. His per
sonal narrative, translated by Samuel Kettell,
was published at Boston, 8vo., 1827 ; his life by
Irving, 4 vols., 12mo., Paris, 1829. — Robertson's
Hist. America, book II. ; Belknap's Biog. I. 86-
148 ; Holmes ; Ilerrera's Hist. America, I. ; Ir
ving' s Life of Columbus.
COMFORT, DAVID, died in Kingston, N. J.,
Dec. 28, 1853, aged 89. He was fifty years pas
tor of his flock.
COMLY, JOHN, a Friend, died in Byberry,
Perm., Aug. 17, 18,30, aged 7G, author of a pop
ular spelling-book and grammar.
COMSTOCK, DANIEL, Dr., died in Danbury,
Conn., Aug. 27, 1848, aged 82. For forty years
he had been a member of the church. The gos
pel sustained him in affliction and infirmity.
COMSTOCK, CYRUS, died in Lewis, N. Y.,
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Jan. 8, 1853, aged 86. He planted nearly every
Congregational church in Essex county, where he
labored nearly forty years, employed by the Berk
shire missionary association.
COXANT, ROGER, an early settler in Mass.,
born in 1591, came to Plymouth in 1G23, and
removed to Xantasket in 1G25, and thence in the
autumn to Cape Ann, intrusted with the care of
the plantation by the adventurers in England.
He discovered Xaumkcak or Salem, and proposed
that as a better place of settlement, and built the
first house there in 1G2G. He was representative
at the first court in 1634, and died at Beverly
Nov. 19, 1679, aged 88. His son, Roger, was the
first white child born in Salem, and from that cir
cumstance had a grant of twenty acres in 1640. —
Farmer's New England Register.
COXAXT, SYLVANUS, minister of Middlebor-
ough, Mass., was graduated at Harvard college in
1740, and was ordained as the successor of Peter
Thacher March 28, 1745; but a minority, opposed
to him, soon settled Thomas "Weld as their minis
ter. He died of the small-pox Dec. 7, 1777, and
was succeeded by Joseph Barker. He published
a letter on the death of his wife, with a poem to
her memory by Judge Peter Oliver, 1756 ; a dis
course at Plymouth, 1776.
COXDEE, MRS., wife of Daniel T. Conclee, mis
sionary at the Sandwich Islands, died in March or
April, 1855, at "Wailuku, aged 44. Her name
was Andelucia Lee of Jericho, Vt. She em
barked in 1836. In her last hours she had the
consolation of knowing, that her two daughters
were sharers in the great salvation of the gospel.
Though about to leave husband and children,
she hoped to meet them on the shores of immor
tality.
COXDIT, AARON, died in Morristown, X. J.,
in April, 1852, aged 87, nearly forty years pastor at
Hanover. He preached ten thousand sermons,
had nine or ten revivals, received six hundred and
forty-four persons into his church, eleven of whom
became preachers, and baptized one thousand and
fifty-five. Four of his sons were ministers, one
of whom, Rev. Joseph C., of South Hadley, died
Sept. 19, 1847, aged 43. — Magic's Fun. Serm.
COXE, SPENCER H., D. D., a Baptist minister,
died in Xew York Aug. 28, 1855, aged 70. At
first he was an actor, and was last on the stage in
1811, when many perished in the burning of the
Richmond theatre. He afterwards was an editor
at R., and a clerk in the treasury. In 1823 he
became a pastor in Xew York, and was one of
the most distinguished among the Baptist min
isters.
COXGDOX, BENJAMIN T., died in Xew Bed
ford April 6, 1851. He published the Xew Bed
ford Courier, an anti-masonic paper, and was
register of deeds.
COXKLIX, BENJAMIN, minister of Leicester,
COOKE.
died Jan. 30, 1798, aged 65. A native of South-
hold, and a graduate of Princeton, he was settled
as the successor of Mr. Roberts in Xov., 1763 :
from ill health he was dismissed in 1794, and was
succeeded by Mr. Moore. He was sagacious, and
energetic, and patriotic. In the Shays rebellion
he lent effectual aid to the cause of good order.
As a trustee of the academy he was also useful.
— Wasliburn's Sketch of Leicester Academy.
COXWAY, HENRY, general, a hero of the
Revolution, died in East Tennessee in Sept., 1812,
of the sting of bees.
COXWAY, THOMAS, major-general, a native
of Ireland, came from France in 1777, on the
recommendation of Silas Dcane. After intrigu
ing against Washington, and fighting Gen. Cad-
wallader, he returned to France in 1778. It was
while suffering under the wound, received in the
duel, that he repented and wrote to Washington,
" You are in my eyes the great and good man."
COXWAY, ROBERT, general, a hero of the
Revolution, died at Georgetown, South Carolina,
in Dec., 1823, aged 70. He had previously lived
at Charleston.
COX WELL, HENRY, D. D., Roman Catholic
bishop, died at Philadelphia April 22, 1842, aged
91. He was consecrated in London in 1820.
COOKE, AARON, captain, died at Xorthamp-
ton Sept. 5, 1690, aged 80, the head of the fami
lies of Cookc. He came from England to Dor
chester in 1630, and lived in Windsor and
Xorthampton. He had four wives ; among them
the daughter of Thomas Ford of Windsor. His
second wife, of the name of Dcnslow, was the
mother of Aaron Cooke.
COOKE, ELISIIA, a physician of Boston, the
son of Richard C., died Oct. 31, 1715, aged 78.
He was born Sept. 16, 1637, and was graduated
at Harvard college 1657. After having been an
assistant under the old government, he was sent
to England in 1689 as an agent of Mass, to pro
cure the restoration of the charter. He was de
cided in his opinion, that if the old charter could
not be obtained, it would be better to meet the
consequences, than to submit to a charter which
abridged the liberties of the people. When the
new charter was procured in 169 1, he refused to
accept it, and did what he could to prevent its
acceptance. Increase Mather, who was agent at
the same time, pursued a different course, think
ing it wise to submit to a necessary evil. Though
he was not placed in the list of councillors, nom
inated by Dr. Mather in 1692, from apprehen
sions that he would oppose the new charter ; yet
in the following year he was elected in Massa
chusetts. He was, however, rejected by Gov.
Phips, because he opposed his appointment in
England. In lG94,he was re-elected, and contin
ued in the council till 1703, when Gov. Dudley
negatived his election, as he did for a number of
COOKE.
years successively. Though esteemed as a physi
cian, he was most remarkable in his political char
acter, having been more than forty years in places
of public trust, and being always firm and steady
to his principles. He married a daughter of
Gov. Levcrett. — Ilutchinson, I. 393, 408; II. 70,
130,211.
COOKE, ELISIIA, distinguished in the history
of Mass., was the son of the preceding and was
graduated at Harvard college in 1697. He was
a representative of Boston in the general court in
1713, and was in favor of a private bank, rather
than of the public bank, the plan of which was
adopted to remedy the evils of the bills of credit.
He was elected into the council in 1717, and im
mediately commenced his opposition to Gov.
Shutc, engaging on the popular side. This was
the commencement of the dispute. The different
parties became more hostile ; new subjects of con
troversy arose ; and Shute was at length obliged
to leave the colony. Mr. Cooke was elected a
councillor in 1718; but the governor in a man
ner not very civil informed him, that his attend
ance at the board would be excused. In 1720 he
was chosen speaker of the house of representa
tives ; but the governor negatived the choice, and
as the house refused to make a new election, con
testing his right to control them, he dissolved the
assembly. At the next session a different person
was elected, not because the pretension of Shute
was admitted, but that there might be no obstruc
tion to the progress of the regular business of the
court. In 1723 he was appointed agent for
Massachusetts, and sailed for London in January.
Soon after his return he was chosen, in May, 172G,
a member of the council. On the accession of
Gov. Belcher, he was appointed in 1730 a jus
tice of the common pleas for Suffolk. He had
hitherto retained the attachment of the people by
endeavoring to support their liberties ; but being
desirous of securing his interest both with the
governor and the town of Boston, a jealousy was
excited, and he was in danger of losing the regard
of both parties. In 1733 or 1734 he was elected
representative by a majority of only one or two
- votes in six or seven hundred. He died in Aug.,
1737, worn out with his labors, having been many
years the head of the popular party. He pub
lished political tracts. — IIutcliinson,ll. 221, 233,
302, 348, 391 ; Collect. Hist. Soc. in. 300.
COOKE, WILLIAM, the first minister of East
Sudbury, died Nov. 12, 17GO, aged 63, having
been a useful pastor for tlu'rty-six years. lie
graduated at Harvard in 1716, and was the libra
rian. He was succeeded at S. by Mr. Bridge.
He published a sermon at ordination of Elisha
Marsh, 1742; of Samuel Baldwin, 1757.
COOKE, SAMUEL, first minister of the second
parish in Cambridge, was graduated at Harvard
college in 1735, and ordained Sept. 12, 1739.
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He died June 4, 1783, aged 74, and was succeeded
by Mr. Fiske. He was a man of science, of a
social disposition, distinguished by his good sense
and prudence, and a faithful servant of the Lord
Jesus. He published a sermon at the ordination
of C. Brown, 1748 ; of W. Symmes, 1759 ; the
election sermon, 1770; a sermon for a memorial
of the battle of Lexington, 1777. — Hist. Coll.
VII. 33.
COOKE, GEORGE FREDERIC, a theatrical per
former, was born in Westminster, April 17, 1756.
He became distinguished as a player in London,
in 1800. He came to America in Nov., 1810,
and was much admired. He was intemperate,
and died at New York as a drunkard, Sept. 26,
1812. Mr. Dunlap published his memoirs, 2
vols., 1813.
COOKE, PHILIP P., died Jan. 20, 1850, aged
33. The son of John It. C., he graduated at
Princeton, and studied law with his father at
Winchester in Va., and settled on the Shcnandoah,
near the Blue Ridge, lie wrote tales for the
periodicals. He published the Froissart ballads,
1847. — Cyc. of American Lit. II. 635.
COOLIDGE, JOSEPH, died in Boston, Nov.
19, 1840, aged 67. He was educated in Boston,
and in a military academy in the south of France.
He had an ample fortune. He contributed and
toiled for the establishment of the McLean asylum.
For railroads he subscribed largely, — not for
gain, but for the public good. He was of a pub
lic spirit and energetic.
COOPER, JOHN, was of Scituate in 1634, but
removed to Barnstable. As he calls Alice Brad
ford his sister, his wife was probably of the name
of Carpenter. At his death he left one third of
his large estate to the church.
COOPER, WILLIAM, minister in Boston, died
Dec. 13, 1743, aged 49. He was a native of that
town, and, being early impressed by the truths of
religion and delighting in the study of the Scrip
tures, passed through the temptations of youth
without a blemish upon his character. He was
grave, but not gloomy nor austere ; discreet, but
not precise ; and cheerful, with innocence. While
a member of Harvard college, where he was grad
uated in 1712, he ardently cultivated those
branches of science which were most useful and
important. Every literary pursuit was sanctified
by prayer, and every human acquisition rendered
subservient to the knowledge of God and religion.
Soon after he began to preach, the eminence of
his qualifications as a minister attracted the at
tention of the church in Brattle street, Boston,
and he was invited to be colleague pastor with
Mr. Colman. At his own request his ordination
was delayed for a year, until May 23, 1716, when
he was inducted into the sa.cred office. From
this period to that of his death his ministerial
gifts, graces, and usefulness seemed constantly to
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increase, and the more he was known, the more
lie was esteemed, loved, and honored. In the
year 1737 he was chosen president of Harvard
college, but he declined the honorable trust.
lie was an eminent preacher, being an able and
zealous advocate of the distinguishing doctrines of
the gospel. Jesus Christ was ever the prominent
object in his discourses. lie insisted much on the
doctrines of grace ; considering them as not only
constituting the sole foundation of a sinner's hope,
but as exhibiting the capital aids and incentives
to holiness of heart and life. Hence his preach
ing was practical as well as evangelical. He in
culcated obedience upon Christian principles and
by Christian arguments. His sermons were easy
and natural in method ; rich in important truth ;
plain but not grovelling in style ; solid and argu
mentative, yet animated with the spirit of devo
tion; calculated at once to enlighten the mind,
to impress the conscience, and to warm the heart.
In explaining the profound and sublime truths of
the gospel, he had the singular felicity to be intel
ligible to the ignorant, instructive to the well-
informed, and edifying to the serious. In prayer
he remarkably excelled. He had a voice at once
strong and pleasant, and elocution grave and dig
nified; while a deep impression of God, whose
mercy he implored and whose messages he de
livered, was visible in his countenance and de
meanor, and added an indescribable solemnity to
all his performances. His benevolent labors were
not in vain. He was an eminent instrument and
promoter of the great revival of religion, which
occurred toward the close of his life. With a
heart overflowing with joy he declared that, " Since
the year 1740, more people had sometimes come to
him in concern about their souls in one week,
than in the preceding twenty-four years of his
ministry." To these applicants he was a most
judicious and affectionate counsellor and guide.
Though the general attention to the things of
another world was pronounced by many to be en
thusiasm and fanaticism; yet, Mr. Cooper, while
he withstood the irregularities which prevailed,
was persuaded that there was a remarkable work
of Divine grace. The numerous instances in his
own parish, of persons affected either with pun
gent and distressing convictions of sin, with deep
humiliation and self-abhorrence, with ardent love
to God and man, or with inexpressible consola
tion in religion, perfectly satisfied him that the
power of the Divine Reprover, Sanctifier, and
Comforter was among them. In the private walks
of life he displayed the combined excellencies of
the gentleman and Christian. He had but little
warning of the approach of death, but in the lucid
intervals of his disease, he was enabled to declare
that he rejoiced in God his Saviour.
He published a sermon on the incomprehen-
Biblcness of God, 1714; how and why young
people should cleanse their way, 1716; a sermon
to young people, 1723; a funeral sermon on J.
Corey, 1726; on the earthquake, 1727; a dis
course on early piety, 1728 ; a discourse on the
reality, extremity, and absolute certainty of hell
torments, 1732; on the death of Lieut.-Gov.
Tailer, 1732 ; at the ordination of R. Breck,
1736 ; concio hyemalis, or a winter sermon, 1737 ;
on the death of P. Thacher, 1739 ; the doctrine
of predestination unto life explained and vindi
cated in four sermons, 1740, which were repub-
lishcd in 1804; election sermon, 1740; a preface
to Edwards' sermon on the trial of the spirits,
1741 ; two sermons preached at Portsmouth in
the time of the revival, 1741. — Caiman's Fu
neral Sermon ; Panoplist, II. 537-540 ; Coll. Hist.
Soc. x. 157.
COOPER, SAMUEL, D. D., minister in Boston,
son of the preceding, died Dec. 29, 1783, aged
58. He was born March 28, 1725. He exhib
ited early marks of a masterly genius. As his
mind was deeply impressed by religious truth,
soon after lie was graduated at Harvard college,
in 1743, he devoted himself to the study of divin
ity, preferring the office of a minister of the
gospel to the temporal advantages which his tal
ents might have procured him. When he first
appeared in the pulpit, his performances were so
acceptable, and raised such expectations, that at
the age of twenty years he was invited by the
congregation in Brattle street, Boston, to succeed
his father as colleague with Dr. Colman. In this
office he was ordained May 21, 1746, thirty years
after the ordination of his father. He did not
disappoint the hopes of his friends. His reputa
tion increased, and he soon became one of the
most popular preachers in the country. After a
ministry of thirty-seven years he died of the
apoplexy.
Dr. Cooper was very distinguished in the sacred
office which he sustained. His sermons were
evangelical and perspicuous, and unequalled in
America for elegance and taste. Delivering
them with energy and pathos, his eloquence ar
rested attention and warmed the heart. In his
prayers, which were uttered with humility and
reverence, there was a grateful variety ; and, as
they were pertinent, scriptural, and animated
with the spirit of devotion, they were admirably
calculated to raise the souls of his fellow wor
shippers to God. His presence in the chambers
of the sick was peculiarly acceptable, for he knew
how to address the conscience without offence, to
impart instruction, to soothe, and to comfort.
His attention was not confined to theology ; but
he made himself acquainted with other branches
of science, and was one of the most finished clas
sical scholars of his day. His friendship to liter
ature induced him, after the destruction of the
library of Harvard college by fire, to exert him-
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self to procure subscriptions to repair the loss.
In 1767 he was elected a member of the corpora
tion, in which office he continued until his death.
lie was an active member of the society for prop
agating the gospel among the aborigines of
America. To his other acquisitions he added a
just knowledge of the nature and design of gov
ernment, and the rights of mankind. Most sin
cerely attached to the cause of civil and religious
liberty, he was among the first of those patriots
who took a decided part in opposition to the arbi
trary exactions of Great Britain. In his inter
course with his fellow-citizens, and by his pen, he
endeavored to arouse and strengthen the spirit of
resistance. Such were his abilities and firmness,
that he was esteemed and consulted by some of
the principal men who were the means of effect
ing our Revolution, lie did much toward pro
curing foreign alliances. His letters were read
with great satisfaction in the court of Versailles,
while men of the most distinguished characters in
Europe became his correspondents. The friend
ship which he maintained with Dr. Franklin and
Mr. Adams was the means of introducing to his
acquaintance many gentlemen from France, to
whom he rendered himself peculiarly agreeable
by his literary attainments, by an engaging ad
dress, and by the ease and politeness of his man
ners. Receiving from Dr. Franklin the letters
of Ilutchinson, procured by Mr. Williamson, with
a strict injunction not to allow them to be pub
lished, he put them into the hands of a gentleman
under the same injunction; but his confidence
was misplaced. When his country had asserted
her right to independence, believing that knowl
edge is necessary to the support of a free govern
ment, he was anxious to render our liberties
perpetual by promoting literary establishments.
He was therefore one of the foremost in laying
the foundation of the American academy of arts
and sciences, and was chosen its first vice presi
dent in the year 1780. In his last illness he ex
pressed his great satisfaction in seeing his country
in peace, and in possession of freedom and inde
pendence, and his hopes that the virtue and the
public spirit of his countrymen would prove to
the world that they were not unworthy of these
inestimable blessings. In the intervals of reason,
he informed his friends that he was perfectly re
signed to the will of Heaven ; that his hopes and
consolations sprang from a firm belief of those
truths which he had preached to others; and
that he wished not to be detained any longer
from that state of perfection and felicity which
the gospel had opened to his view.
Besides his political writings, which appeared
in the journals of the day, he published the fol
lowing discourses: on the artillery election, 1751 ;
before the society for encouraging industry, 1753; i
at the general election, 1756 ; on the reduction
of Quebec, 1759 ; at the ordination of J. Jack
son, 17GO; on the death of George II., 1761; at
the Dudleian lecture, 1773; on the commencement
of the new constitution of Massachusetts, Oct. 25,
1780. This last discourse and others of his pro
ductions have been published in several languages,
and, being written in a polished and elegant man
ner, were well calculated for the lips of an elo
quent speaker, such as he himself was. He was
also one of the poetic contributors to the " Pietas
et Gratulatio," with Dr. Church and others, 1760.
— Clarke's Funeral Sermon ; American Herald,
Jan. 19, 1784; Continental Journal, Jan. 22;
Holmes ; TJiacher's Cent. Disc.
COOPER, MYLES, D. D., president of King's
college, New York, died in Edinburgh May 1,
1785, aged about 50. He was educated in the
university of Oxford, where he took the degree
of master of arts in 1760. He arrived at New
York in the autumn of 1762, being recommended
by the archbishop of Canterbury as a person well
qualified to assist in the management of the col
lege, and to succeed the president. He was re
ceived by Dr. Johnson with the affection of a
father, and was immediately appointed professor
of moral philosophy. After the resignation of
Dr. Johnson in Feb., 1763, he was chosen prert-
dent, previously to the Commencement in May.
It was not long before Dr. Clossey, a gentleman
who had been educated in Trinity college, Dublin,
and had taken the degree of doctor of physic,
was appointed professor of natural philosophy.
A grammar school was also established and con
nected with the college, under the care of Mr.
Gushing, from Boston. The classes were now
taught by Mr. Cooper, Mr. Harper, and Dr.
Clossey ; and under such able instructors they
had peculiar advantages. In the year 1775 Dr.
Cooper, as his politics leaned toward the British,
was reduced to the necessity of withdrawing from
the college and returning to England. He was
afterward one of the ministers of the Episcopal
chapel of Edinburgh. After the Revolution Wil
liam Samuel Johnson, son of Dr. Johnson, was
president of the college.
Dr. Cooper, though he had long expected
death, waiting patiently for its approach, yet died
in rather a sudden manner. The following epi
taph was written by himself.
" Here lies a priest of English blood,
AVho, living, liked whate'er was good ;
Good company, good wine, good name,
Yet never hunted after fame ;
But, as the first he still preferred,
So here he chose to be interred,
And, unobscured, from crowds withdrew,
To rest among a chosen few,
In humble hopes that sovereign love
Will raise him to be blest above-"
He published a volume of poems in 1758, and
a sermon on civil government, preached before
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the university of Oxford on a fast, 1777. While
in this country he maintained a literary character
of considerable eminence. He wrote on the sub
ject of an American episcopate, and sometimes
used his pen on political subjects. It is said he
narrowly escaped the fury of the whigs. — New
and General Biographical Dictionary; Miller,
II. 369; Pennsylvania Packet, July 29, 1785;
Chandler's Life of Jolmson, 106-109.
COOPER, 'WILLIAM, town clerk of Boston
forty-nine years, died Nov. 28, 1809, aged 89.
He was, it is believed, the brother of Dr. Samuel
C., and he was, for his excellent and faithful ser
vices, held in high estimation in Boston.
COOPER, JOSEPH, a distinguished farmer of
Cooper's Point, N. J., died at Philadelphia in
Nov., 1818.
COOPER, THOMAS, M. D., president of South
Carolina college, died in Columbia May 11, 1839,
aged 79. He was born in England about 1760,
and followed to this country Priestley, who came
in 1794. In his politics he was a zealous dem
ocrat ; as a lecturer he was learned and interest
ing. He was unhappily an Infidel. He published
works on law, medical jurisprudence, and polit
ical economy. He digested the statutes of South
Carolina in 4 vols. He translated Justinian and
Broussais. In Pennsylvania he was a judge of com
mon law, and a professor of chemistry at Carlisle.
COOPER, JAMES B., commander in the U. S.
navy, died Feb. 5, 1854, at Haddonfield, N. J.,
aged 93. He was a captain in Lee's celebrated
legion in the Revolution ; assisted in the capture
of Stony Point and Paulus Hook ; and was en
gaged in the battles of Guilford court-house and
of Eutaw Springs. He entered the navy in
July, 1812, as sailing-master ; he was made a
commander in 1841.
COOPER, JAMES FENIMORE, died in Coop-
erstown, N. Y., Sept. 14, 1851, aged 62. He was
the son of Judge William C.,of Burlington, N. J.,
an English immigrant. He graduated at Yale in
1805. After serving in the navy six years, in
1811 he married Miss De Lancey, sister of the
bishop of western New York. She died Jan. 20,
1852. In 1826 he visited Europe.
He published various works of fiction : Precau
tion, the Spy, the Pioneers, the Leather-stocking
tales, the Prairie, the last of the Mohicans, the
Path-finder, the Deer-slayer, the Pilot ; the Red
rover, the Water-witch, the two Admirals, and
Wing and wing ; the Bravo, the Heidenmaur, the
Headsman, the Homeward bound, the Home as
found. lie wrote also a history of the Navy, and
6 vols. of Gleanings in Europe and Sketches of
Switzerland.
COPELAND, LAWRENCE, died at Braintree
Jan. 14, 1700, aged 110.
COPLEY, JOHN SINGLETON, an eminent painter,
died suddenly in England Sept. 25, 1815, aged
about 76. He was born in 1738 in Boston. He
had a natural talent for painting, and was the
pupil and successor of Smibert. Many full-
length portraits painted by him remain in Mas
sachusetts. In coloring and drapery he excelled ;
and his likenesses were faithful. He went to
England before the war. In 1770 he was admit
ted a member of the royal academy of painting
in London. He was patronized by Mr. West.
In 1774 he went to Italy, and in 1776 returned to
England, where he met his wife and children,
whom he had left in Boston. He now devoted
himself to portrait painting. His first historical
picture was the Youth rescued from a shark.
His picture of the death of Lord Chatham estab
lished his fame. Afterwards he painted the
siege of Gibraltar ; Major Pearson's death on the
island of Jersey ; Charles I. in the house of com
mons; the surrender of De Winter to Duncan,
besides many portraits. His mother was Sarah
Winslow, of the Plymouth family. Col. Henry
Bromfield married his sister. His wife was the
daughter of Richard Clarke, a merchant in Bos
ton, one of the consignees of the India company's
tea ; a connection which may account for his at
tachment to the royal interest. His daughter
married Gardiner Greene, who in 1818 presented
to Harvard college a collection of all the proof
engravings of Copley's historical paintings. —
Knapp's Lectures, 191 ; Encyc. Amer.
CORBITANT, an Indian sachem, living at
Mattapoiset, a neck of land in Swanzey, was an
enemy of the Plymouth plantation at the first
settlement. He was a sachem under Massassoit.
Indignant at the peace made with the English, he
in 1621 seized Squanto at Namasket, or Middle-
borough, and put his knife to the breast of Hob-
bamoc, another Indian, friendly to the English,
who, being stout, broke away and fled to Ply
mouth. Capt. Standish and ten men were im
mediately sent to Namasket to take Corbitant
prisoner ; but he escaped. Some time after, Cor
bitant, through the mediation of Massassoit, made
peace, and ventured to show himself at Plymouth.
In March, 1623, he was visited by E. Winslow
and John Ilampden, celebrated in English history,
with Hobbamoc for their guide. The Indian " was
a notable politician, yet full of merry jests and
squibs, and never better pleased than when the
like were returned again upon him." He in
quired why it was, that, Avhen he visited the
English, the guns were pointed towards him ;
and on being told it was out of respect and honor,
he said, shaking his head, he " liked not such sal
utations." On seeing his visitors ask a blessing
on their food, he inquired the meaning, and on
being told the reason, said it was well ; he, too,
believed in an Almighty power, called Kichtan. —
Hist. Coll. vni. 263 ; Mourfs Relat. in 2 Hist.
Coll. IX. 54 ; Belknap's Biography, H. 229.
CORLET.
COIILET, ELIJAH, an eminent instructor, com
menced his labors at Cambridge not long after
the first settlement of the town. He was master
of the grammar school between forty and fifty
years, and many of the most worthy men in the
country enjoyed the benefit of his instructions
previously to their entrance into college. The
society for propagating the gospel compensated
him for his attention to the Indian scholars, who
were designed for the university. He died in
1687, aged 76. lie was a man of learning, piety,
and respectability. N. Walter published an elegy
on his death in blank verse. He wrote a Latin
epitaph on Mr. Hooker, which is inserted in
Mather's Magnalia. — Hist. Coll. I. 243 ; vii. 22 ;
Life of Walter; Mather's Magnalia, m. 68.
CORNBURY, EDWARD HYDE, lord, governor
of New York, died at Chelsea April 1, 1723. He
was the son of the Earl of Clarendon, and being
one of the first officers who deserted the army of
King James, King William, in gratitude for his
services, appointed him to an American govern
ment. Hunted out of England by a host of
hungry creditors, bent upon accumulating as
much wealth as he could squeeze from the purses
of an impoverished people, and animated with
unequalled zeal for the church, he commenced
his administration, as successor of Lord Bella-
mont, May 3, 1702. His sense of justice was as
weak as his bigotry was uncontrollable. The
following act of outrage will exhibit his character.
A great sickness, which was probably the yellow
fever, prevailing in New York in 1703, Lord Corn-
bury retired to Jamaica, on Long Island ; and, as
Mr. llubbard, the Presbyterian minister, lived in
the best house in the town, his lordship requested
the use of it during his short residence there.
Mr. llubbard put himself to great inconvenience
to oblige the governor, and the governor in re
turn delivered the parsonage house into the
hands of the Episcopal party, and seized upon the
glebe. In the year 1707 he imprisoned without
law two Presbyterian ministers for presuming to
preach in Xcw York without his license. They
were sent out by some dissenters in London as
itinerant preachers, for the benefit of the middle
and southern colonies. He had a conference
with them, and made himself conspicuous as
a savage bigot and an ungentlemanly tyrant.
The cries of the oppressed reaching the ears of
the queen in 1708, she appointed Lord Lovelace
governor in his stead. As soon as Cornbury was
superseded, his creditors threw him into the cus
tody of the sheriff of New York ; but after the
death of his father he was permitted to return to
England, and succeeded to the earldom of Clar
endon. Never was there a governor of New
York so universally detested, or so deserving of
abhorrence. His behavior was trifling, mean, and
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extravagant. It was not uncommon for him to
dress himself in a woman's habit, and then to
patrol the fort, in which he resided. By such
freaks he drew upon himself universal contempt ;
while his despotism, bigotry, injustice, and insa
tiable avarice aroused the indignation of the
people. — Smith's New York, 101-116; Jlu/t-Jt-
inson, II. 123 ; Marshall, I. 272.
CORNELIUS, ELIAS, a physician and a patriot
of the Revolution, died at Somers, N. Y., June
13, 1823, aged Go. lie was a n live of Long
Island. At the age of nineteen, in opposition to
the advice of his relatives, who were then at
tached to the British cause, he repaired to New
York early in 1777, and, being recommended by
his instructor, Dr. Samuel Latham, was appointed
surgeon's mate in the second Rhode Island regi
ment, commanded by Col. Israel Angcll. On
reconnoitring near the lines above New York, he
Avas soon taken prisoner and carried to the " old
Provost " jail in the city, where he suffered in
credible hardships, till with great courage and
presence of mind he made his escape in March,
1778. He immediately rejoined the army and
continued in it till the close of 1781. He left a
widow, three daughters, and a son. As a phy
sician he had extensive and successful practice. It
was while he was in the army that he received
those religious impressions which issued in an
established Christian hope. A warm friend to
charitable institutions, he left 100 dollars to each
of the following societies : the American bible,
education, foreign mission, and the united for
eign mission. — Boston Recorder, July 5, 1823.
CORNELIUS, ELIAS, 1). 1)., secretary of the
American education society, son of the preceding,
died Feb. 12, 1832, aged 37. He graduated at
Yale college in 1813 ; and, after studying theol
ogy, engaged in 1816 as an agent of the Ameri
can board of commissioners for foreign missions,
in which capacity he was for one or two years
very active and successful. In Sept. and Oct.,
1817, he visited the missions in the Cherokee na
tion. On his way thence to the Chickasaw nation
he met a party of Indians from the Arkansas,
and redeemed from them a little Osagc orphan
captive, five years of age, and sent the girl to the
mission family. The subsequent winter he spent
! at New Orleans, in the employment of the Mis
sionary society cf Connecticut. He arrived in
the city Dec. 30, 1817, and commenced preaching
and gathering a congregation. Jan. 22, 1818, he
was joined by Sylvester Larned, and they labored
together till the congregation was organized and
Mr. Larned invited to become the minister; after
which he turned his attention to the poor and
sick and others of the destitute. In the spring
he returned to Andover; and, July 21, 1819, was
installed as colleague with Dr. Worcester at Sa-
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lem. In Sept., 1826, he was dismissed by the
advice of a mutual council, having been appointed
secretary of the American education society. In
the service of this institution he devised the plan
of permanent scholarships, and met with unex
ampled success in soliciting subscriptions. lie
established also the quarterly register and jour
nal of the American education society, which he
conducted for some years, assisted by Mr. B. B.
Edwards. In Oct., 1831, he was chosen secretary
of the American board of commissioners for for
eign missions, in the place of Mr. Evarts, deceased.
But he had signified his acceptance of this office
only a few weeks, and had just entered the
new and wide field of toil for the enlargement of
the kingdom of Jesus Christ, when he was re
moved from the world. Exhausted by a journey
from Boston, he was taken sick at Hartford, Conn.,
Feb. 7, and died in that city of a fever on the
brain. His wife, the daughter of Rev. Asahel
Hooker, arrived a few hours after his decease.
Dr. Cornelius was enterprising, bold, and elo
quent; though resolute, yet considerate and pru
dent. Of a vigorous frame and determined spirit,
he was capable of meeting and surmounting great
difficulties. He fell in the fulness of his strength ;
and the American churches are again taught not
to trust in man. Besides his labors in the quar
terly journal and the annual reports of the edu
cation society, he published a discourse on the
doctrine of the trinity, reprinted as No. 185 of
the tract society. His memoirs, by B. B. Ed
wards, was published 1833.
CORNPLANTER, or GARYAX, an Indian
chief, died at Seneca reservation, N. Y., Feb. 17,
1836, aged about 100 years. He early espoused
the American side. His associate was lied Jacket.
CORNWALLIS, CHARLES, marquis, com
mander of the British army in America, surren
dered at Yorktown, Oct. 19, 1781, an event
which brought the war to a close. In 1790 he
was governor-general of India, and by his victo
ries in the war with Tippoo Saib acquired high
reputation. Again was he appointed, in 1805,
governor of India, where he died, at Ghazepore,
Oct. 5. He married in 1768 Miss Jones, a lady
of large fortune, said to have died of a broken
heart in consequence of his engaging in the Amer
ican war. He published an answer to the narra
tive of Sir Henry Clinton, 1783.
CORREA DE SERRA, JOSEPH FRANCIS, min
ister plenipotentiary from Portugal to this coun
try, was born in 1750, and studied at Rome and
Naples. Botany early engaged his attention.
After the peace of Amiens he resided eleven
years in Paris. He came to this country in 1813,
in order to prosecute his researches in natural
history ; and, while here, received his appoint
ment as minister from Portugal. He died at Lis
bon in Sept., 1823, aged 74. He was an eminent
botanist. He published dissertations on subjects
of natural history in the English philosophical
transactions ; note sur la valeur du perisperme ;
vues carpologiques ; collcccao de livros incditos
de historian Portugal, 3 vol., 1790; soil of Ken
tucky in American phil. trans. I. new series.
CORTEZ, HERXANDO, the conqueror of Mex
ico, died in Spain Dec. 2, 1547, aged 62. He
was born in Estremadura, in Spain, in 1485. At
the age of 33 he sailed from Cuba Nov. 18, 1518,
with eleven small vessels, six hundred and seven
teen men, soldiers and sailors, ten field-pieces, and
only thirteen firelocks. He landed at Tabasco,
and captured it. At Vera Cruz he built a small
fort ; then, burning his ships, he advanced against
Mexico, with five hundred men and fifteen horses.
The emperor, Montezuma, received him into the
city with great pomp ; but he was seized and
confined by the Spaniard. In a tumult of the
people, Montezuma was brought forward, in order
to quell it ; but in the attack the emperor was
mortally wounded and the invaders driven from
the city. But Cortez, after obtaining recruits,
marched again to Mexico in Dec., 1520, and after
a siege of three months took it, and seized Gua-
temozin. The sovereign was placed on burning
coals, in order to extort from him a confession of
the place where his riches were concealed. Thus
the empire was subdued by a small band of ad
venturers, and hundreds of the natives for refus
ing to become Christians were cruelly put to death
by men of less religion than they. The name
of Cortez is made memorable on the earth for
bravery, avarice, and cruelty.
CORTLANDT, PIERRE VAX, lieutenant-gover
nor of New York, died at his seat at Croton river
May 1, 1819, aged 94. He was appointed to
that office at the commencement of the new gov
ernment in 1777, and was continued in it eighteen
years in succession till 1795, his friend and confi
dant, George Clinton, being during the same
period governor. He early took an active part
against the oppressive acts of the British govern
ment. Of the first provincial congress he was a
member; also of the convention which framed
the constitution of New York. His residence
being forty or fifty miles from the city, during
the war his family was driven from their dwelling
in the manor of Cortlandt; but he confided in
the justice of the American cause, and, putting
his trust in God, he was undismayed by danger.
His Avife was the daughter of Gilbert Livingston.
Col. Van Cortlandt, probably his son, married a
daughter of Gov. Clinton. — Augustus Van Cort-
landt, perhaps his brother, died in Youkers,
N. Y.,in 1823, aged 96. — He was a man of exem
plary virtues, upright, benevolent, the friend of
the poor, and died a sincere Christian, with full
assurance of salvation by the redeeming love of
Jesus Christ, upon whom in his last moments he
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called to receive him to endless life and glory. —
Wcstchcster Gazette.
COltY, GILES, accused of witchcraft, was
brought into court at Salem in Sept., 1G92; but,
observing the fate of those, who had been tried,
fifteen at that court having been convicted, he
refused to plead, and agreeably to law he had
judgment for standing mute and was pressed to
death. This is the only instance of the kind in
the history of this country. Eight of the fifteen
were executed Sept. 22, among whom was Mar
tha Cory. — Hutckinson, II. 60.
COSTER, JOHN G., died in New York, Aug.
8, 1844, aged 62. Born in Holland, he was an
honorable and successful merchant in New York
for fifty years.
DOTTING, URIAH, died at Boston May 9,
1819, aged 53 ; a mechanist and projector, doing
perhaps more than any other man for the im
provement of the city.
COTTON, JOHN, one of the most distinguished
of the early ministers of New England, died Dec.
23, 1652, aged 67. He was born in Derby, Eng.,
Dec. 4, 1585. At the age of 13 he was admitted
a member of Trinity college, Cambridge, and
afterwards removed to Emanuel college, where
he obtained a fellowship. He was soon chosen
the head lecturer in the college, being also em
ployed as tutor to many scholars, who afterwards
became distinguished. For this office he was
peculiarly well qualified, as his knowledge was
extensive, his manners gentle and accommodat
ing, and he possessed an uncommon ease and
facility in communicating his ideas. His occa
sional orations and discourses were so accurate
and elegant, and displayed such invention and
taste, that he acquired a high reputation in the
university. Hitherto he had been seeking the
gratification of a literary taste, or yielding to the
claims of ambition; but at length a complete
change in his character, which he attributed to
the grace of God, induced him to engage with
earnestness in the pursuit of new and more
exalted objects. While a member of the college
his conscience had been impressed by the faithful
preaching of William Perkins ; but he resisted
his convictions ; and such was his enmity to the
truths, which had disturbed his peace, that when
he heard the bell toll for the funeral of that emi
nent servant of God, it was a joyful sound to him.
It announced his release from a ministry, hostile
to his self-righteous and unhumbled spirit. It
was not long, however, before he was again awa
kened from his security by a sermon of Dr. Sibs
on the misery of those who have no righteous
ness except the moral virtues. After a distress
ing anxiety of three years, it pleased God to give
him joy in believing. lie was soon called upon
to preach again in his turn before the university,
and, more anxious to do good than to attract ap-
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plause, he did not array his discourse* in the orna
ments of language, but preached with plainness
and pungency upon the duty of repentance. The
vain wits of the university, disappointed in their
expectations of a splendid harangue, and reproved
by the fidelity of liim who was now a Christian
minister, did not hum their applauses as usual,
and one of them, Mr. Preston, who afterwards
became famous in the religious world, received
such deep impressions upon his mind as were
never effaced. Such was the collegial life of Mr.
Cotton.
About the year 1612, when in the twenty-
eighth year of his age, he became the minister of
Boston in Lincolnshire. Soon after his establish
ment in this place, the zeal of a physician in the
town in promoting Arminian sentiments, induced
him to dwell much and principally for some time
upon what he believed to be the truths of Scrip
ture ; upon the doctrine of God's eternal election
before all foresight of good or evil, and the re
demption only of the elect ; upon the effectual in
fluence of the Holy Spirit in the conversion of the
sinner, without any regard to the previous exer
tions of free will ; and upon the certain per
severance of every true believer. Such was his
success, that he soon silenced lu's antagonist, and
afterwards the doctrine of predestination was not
brought into controversy. He soon entertained
doubts respecting the lawfulness of complying
with some of the ceremonies of the church, and
was subjected to inconveniences on this account;
but as his people coincided with him in his senti
ments he kept his place for twenty years, and was
during this time remarkably useful, not only by
the effect of his faithful preaching, but as an in
structor of young men who were designed for the
ministry, some of whom were from Germany and
Holland. His labors were immense, for in addi
tion to his other avocations he generally preached
four lectures in the course of a week. His benev
olent exertions were not in vain. It pleased God,
that a general reformation should take place in
the town. The voice of profaneness was no
longer heard, and the infinitely important truths
of the gospel arrested the attention of almost all
the inhabitants. He was much admired and
much applauded, but he ever remained humble.
At length, after the government of the English
church fell into the hands of Bishop Laud, divi
sions arose among the parishioners of M*r. Cot
ton ; a dissolute fellow, who had been punished
for his immoralities, informed against the magis
trates and the ministers for not kneeling at the
sacrament ; and Mr. Cotton, being cited before
the high commission court, was obliged to fiee.
After being concealed for some time in London,
he embarked for this country, anxious to secure
to himself the peaceable enjoyment of the rights
of conscience, though in a wilderness. He Bailed
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in the same vessel with Mr. Hooker and Mr.
Stone, and the circumstance of their names caused
the people to say, on their arrival, Sept. 4, 1633,
that their three great necessities would now be
supplied, for they had Cotton for their clothing,
Hooker for their fishing, and Stone for their
building. This was an age of conceits. During
the voyage three sermons or expositions were de
livered almost every day, and Mr. Cotton was
blessed in the birth of his eldest son, whom at his
baptism in Boston, he called Seaborn. In Oct.,
1633, he was established the teacher of the
church in Boston, as colleague with Mr. Wilson,
who was pastor. He was set apart to this office,
on a day of fasting, by imposition of the hands of
Mr. Wilson and his two elders. He remained in
this town, connected with this church, more than
nineteen years ; and such was his influence in es
tablishing the order of our churches, and so ex
tensive was his usefulness, that he has been called
the patriarch of New England. The prevalence
of those erroneous doctrines, which occasioned
the synod of 1637, so much disturbed his peace,
that he was almost induced to remove to New
Haven. Mrs. Hutchinson endeavored to promote
her wild sentiments by shielding them under the
name of Mr. Cotton ; but, though he was im
posed upon for some time by the artifices of those
of her party, yet, when he discovered their real
opinions, he was bold and decided in his opposi
tion to them. Though he did not sign the result
of the synod of 1637, on account of his differing
from it in one or two points ; he yet approved of
it in general, and his peaceable intercourse with
his brethren in the ministry was not afterwards
interrupted on account of his supposed errors. In
1642 he was invited to England, with Mr. Hooker
and Mr. Davenport, to assist in the assembly of
divines at Westminister, and he was in favor of
accepting the invitation, but Mr. Hooker was op
posed to it, as he was at that time forming a sys
tem of church government for New England. His
death was occasioned by an inflammation of the
lungs, brought on by exposure in crossing the
ferry to Cambridge, where he went to preach.
So universally was he venerated, that many ser
mons were preached on his decease in different
parts of the country.
Mr. Cotton sustained a high reputation for
learning. He was a critic in Greek, and with
Hebrew he was so well acquainted that he could
discourse in it. He also wrote Latin with ele
gance, as a specimen of which, his preface to
Norton's answer to the inquiries of Appollonius
has often been mentioned. In the pulpit he im
pressed his hearers with admiration. Uniting to
conspicuous talents and a profound judgment, the
candor and mildness enjoined in the gospel, and
the warmth of pious feeling, his instructions did
not meet the resistance which is often expe
rienced, but fell with the gentleness of the dew,
and insinuated themselves imperceptibly into the
mind. His labors, soon after he came to Boston,
were more effectual than those of any of the min
isters in the country ; he was the means of excit
ing great attention to religious subjects ; and
some of the most profligate were brought to re
nounce their iniquities, and to engage in a course
of conduct more honorable and more satisfactory,
and which would terminate in everlasting felicity.
His discourses were generally written with the
rcatest attention, though he sometimes preached
without any preparation. His intimate and accu
rate knowledge of the Scriptures and the extent
of his learning enabled him to do this without
difficulty. His written sermons, which he had
composed with ca/e, were yet remarkable for
their simplicity and plainness, for he was desirous
that all should understand him, and less anxious
to acquire fame than to do good. His voice was
not loud, but it was so clear and distinct, that it
was heard with ease by the largest auditory ; and
his utterance was accompanied by a natural and
becoming motion of his right hand. The Lord
was in the still, small voice. He preached with
such life, dignity, and majesty, that Mr. Wilson
said, one almost thinks that he hears the very
prophet speak, upon whose works he is dwelling.
His library was large, and he had well studied
the fathers and schoolmen, but he preferred Cal
vin to them all. Being asked, in the latter part
of his life, why he indulged in nocturnal studies,
he answered, that he loved to sweeten his mouth
with a piece of Calvin before he went to sleep.
Twelve hours in a day were generally occupied by
his studies ; and such was his zeal in theological
pursuits, that he frequently lamented the useless
visits with which he was oppressed, though he
was incapable of incivility to persons, who thus
obtruded upon him. He gave himself chiefly to
reading and preparation for the duties of public
instruction, depending much on the ruling elders
for intelligence respecting his flock. He was an
excellent casuist, and, besides resolving many cases
which were brought him, he was also deeply
though not violently engaged in controversies
respecting church government. In his contro
versy with Mr. Williams he found an antagonist,
whose weapons were powerful and whose cause
was good ; while he himself unhappily advocated a
cause which he had once opposed, when suffering
persecution in England. He contended for the
interference of the civil power in support of the
truth, and to the objection of Mr. Williams, that
this was infringing the rights of conscience, the
only reply that could be made was, that when a
person, after repeated admonitions, persisted in
rejecting and opposing fundamental points of doc
trine or worship, it could not 'be from conscience,
but against conscience, and therefore that it was
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not persecution for cause of conscience for the
civil power to drive such persons away, but it was
a wise regard to the good of the church ; it was
putting away evil from the people.
To his intellectual powers and improvements
he added the virtues which render the Christian
character amiable and interesting. Even Mr.
Williams, his great antagonist, with very extra
ordinary candor speaks of him with esteem and
respect, commending him for his goodness and
for his attachment to so many of the truths of
the gospel, lie was modest, humble, gentle,
peaceable, patient, and forbearing. Sometimes
he almost lamented that he carried his meekness
to such an extent. " Angry men," said he, " have
an advantage over me ; the people will not oppose
them, for they will rage ; but some are encour
aged to do me injury, because they know I shall
not be angry with them again." It will not be
questioned, however, that his temper contributed
more to his peace, and enjoyment, and usefulness,
than a different temper would have done. When
he was once told that his preaching was very dark
and comfortless, he replied, " Let me have your
prayers, brother, that it may be otherwise."
Having observed to a person, who boasted of his
knowledge of the book of Itevelation, that he
wanted light in those mysteries, the man went
home and sent him a pound of candles ; which
insolence only excited a smile. " Mr. Cotton,"
says Dr. Mather, " would not set the beacon of
his great soul on fire at the landing of such a
little cock-boat." A drunken fellow, to make
merriment for his companions, approached him
in the street, and whispered in his ear, " Thou art
an old tool." Mr. Cotton replied, " I confess I
am so ; the Lord make both me and thee wiser
than we arc, even wise to salvation." Though he
asserted the right of the civil power to banish
heretics, he yet had a great aversion to engaging
in any civil affairs, and with reluctance yielded his
attention to any concern not immediately con
nected with his holy calling. In his family he
was very careful to impart instruction, and wisely
and calmly to exercise his authority in restraining
vice. He read a chapter in the Bible, with an ex
position, before and after which he made a
prayer, remembering, however, to avoid a te
dious prolixity. He observed the Sabbath from
evening to evening, and by him this practice
was rendered general in New England. On
Saturday evening, after expounding the Scrip
tures, he catechized his children and servants,
prayed with them, and sung a psalm. On the
Sabbath evening the sermons of the day were re
peated, and, after .singing, with uplifted hands and
eyes he uttered the doxology, " Blessed be God
in Christ our Saviour." In his study he prayed
much. He would rarely engage in any theolog
ical research, or sit down to prosecute his studies,
without first imploring the Divine blessing. He
kept many days of private fasting and thanks
giving. While he was thus distinguished for his
piety, he was also kind and benevolent. He
knew that the efficacy of religious principles must
be evinced by good works, and he was therefore
hospitable and charitable. The stranger and the
needy were ever welcomed to his table. Such
was his beneficence, that, when Mr. White was
driven with his church from Bermuda into the
American wilderness, he collected 700 pounds for
their relief, towards which he himself contributed
very liberally. Two hundred pounds were given
by the church in Boston.
After a life of eminent sanctity and usefulness,
he was not left destitute of support in his dying
moments. In his sickness President Dunster
went to see him, and with tears begged his bless
ing, saying, " I know in my heart, that he whom
you bless shall be blessed." lie sent for the
elders of the church, and exhorted them to guard
against declensions, expressing to them the pleas
ure which he had found in the service of the Lord
Jesus Christ. After he had addressed his chil
dren, he desired to be left alone, that his thoughts
might be occupied by heavenly things without in
terruption ; and thus he died in peace. He was
of a clear, fair complexion, and, like David, of a
ruddy countenance. His stature was rather short
than tall. In early life his hair was brown, but
in his latter days it was white as the driven snow.
In his countenance there was an inexpressible
majesty, which commanded reverence from every
one not hardened against good impressions, who
approached him. In an epitaph on Mr. Cotton
by Mr. Woodbridge are the following lines, \vhich
probably led Dr. Franklin to write the famous
epitaph on himself.
" A living, breathing Bible ; tables, where
Both covenants at large engraven were;
Gospel and law in 's heart had each its column,
His head an index to the sacred volume j
His very name a title page ; and next,
His life a commentary on the text.
0, what a monument of glorious worth,
When in a new edition he comes forth,
Without errata may we think he '11 be,
In leaves and covers of eternity ! "
lie left two sons, who were ministers of Hamp
ton and of Plymouth. His youngest daughter
married Increase Mather.
Mr. Cotton's publications were numerous ; the
most celebrated are the works which he published
in the controversy with Mr. Williams, and his
power of the keys, on the subject of church gov
ernment. In this latter work he contends, that the
constituent members of a church are elders and
brethren ; that the ciders are intrusted with gov
ernment, so that without them there can be no
elections, admissions, or excommunications ; that
they have a negative upon the acts of the frater-
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nity, yet that the brethren have so much liberty,
that nothing of common concernment can be im
posed upon them without their consent. He
asserts the necessary communion of churches in
sjiiods, who have authority to enjoin such things
as may rectify disorders, dissensions, and con
fusion of congregations, and, upon an obstinate
refusal to comply, may withdraw communion.
The following is a catalogue of his writings :
God's promise to his plantation, an election ser
mon, 1634 ; a letter in answer to objections made
against the New England churches, with the
questions proposed to such as are admitted to
church fellowship, 1611; the way of life, 4to;
God's mercy mixed with his justice ; an abstract
of the laws of New England, 1641, and a second
edition in 1655 ; this abstract of such laws of the
Jews as were supposed to be of perpetual obliga
tion was drawn up in 1636, when Vane was gov
ernor, though it was never accepted ; it is pre
served in vol. v. of the historical collections ; the
church's resurrection, on the fifth and sixth verses
of revelation, xx. 1642 ; a modest and clear an
swer to Mr. Ball's discourse on set forms of
prayer ; exposition of revelation, XVI. ; the true
constitution of a particular, visible church, 1643 ;
the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and power
thereof, 1644 ; the doctrine of the church, to
which is committed the keys of the kingdom of
heaven ; the covenant of God's free grace most
sweetly unfolded, to which is added a profession
of faith by Mr. Davenport, 1645 ; 3d edit., 1671 ;
the way of the churches of Christ in New Eng
land, or the way of churches walking in brotherly
eqxiality, etc. ; this was published from an imper
fect copy, and represents Mr. Cotton as less
friendly to the authority of the elders than he
really was ; the pouring out of the seven vials ;
the controversy concerning liberty of conscience
truly stated, 1646; a treatise showing that singing
of psalms is a gospel ordinance, 1647 ; the
grounds and ends of the baptism of the children
of the faithful, 1647 ; a letter to Mr. Williams,
the bloody tenet washed and made white in the
blood of the Lamb, being discussed and discharged
of blood-guiltiness by just defence, in answer to
Mr. Williams, to which is added, a reply to Mr.
Williams' answer to Mr. Cotton's letter, 1647 ;
questions propounded to him by the teaching
elders, with his answer to each question ; the way
of congregational churches cleared, in two trea
tises, against Mr. Baylie and Mr. Rutherford,
1648; of the holiness of church members, prov
ing that visible saints are the matter of the
church, 1650; Chrirst the fountain of life, 1651;
a brief exposition of Ecclesiastes, 1654; his cen
sure upon the way of Mr. Ilenden, of Kent, 1656 ;
sermons on the first epistle of John, folio ; a
discourse on things indifferent, proving that no
church governors have power to impose indiffer
ent things upon the consciences of men ; expo
sition of Canticles ; milk for babes, a catechism ;
meat for strong men ; a discourse about civil gov
ernment in a plantation, whose design is religion,
1663. — Norton's and Mather's Life of Cotton ;
Mather's Magnalia, III. 14-31; Neal's New Eng
land,!. 305-307'; Hist. Coll. \. 171; IX. 41-44;
Hutcliinson, I. 34, 55-76, 115, 179; Winthrop,
52-153.
COTTON, SEABORX, minister of Hampton,
N. H., was the son of the preceding, and was
born at sea in Aug., 1633, while his parents were
on their voyage to New England. His name is
put Marigena in the catalogue of Harvard college,
where he was graduated in 1651. He was or
dained at Hampton in 1660, as successor of Mr.
Wheelright, and died April 19, 1686, aged 52
years. His first wife was Dorothy, daughter of
Gov. Bradstreet. His son John, his successor in
the ministry at Hampton, was ordained in 1696,
and died March 27, 1710, aged 52 years. During
Gov. Cranfield's administration Mr. Moody was
imprisoned for refusing to administer the sacra
ment to him ; the next week the governor sent
word to Mr. Cotton, that, " when he had prepared
his soul, he would come and demand the sacra
ment of him, as he had done at Portsmouth."
This threat induced Mr. Cotton to withdraw for
some time to Boston. He was esteemed a thor
ough scholar and an able preacher. The here
sies of his namesake, Pelagius, which had been
revived in the world, he regarded with abhor
rence. — Magnalia, ill. 20, 31; Farmer's Bel-
knap, I.
COTTON, JOHN, minister of Plymouth, Mass.,
and of Charleston, S.C., brother of the preceding,
died Sept., 1699, aged 59. He was the son of
John Cotton, of Boston, and was born March 13,
1640. He was graduated at Harvard college in
1657. From 1664 to 1667 he preached on Mar
tha's Vineyard to a congregation of white people
and also to the Indians, having acquired a good
knowledge of their language ; and thus he af
forded great assistance to Thomas Mayhew, who
was laboring to make the heathen acquainted
with the glad tidings of salvation. In Nov.,
1667, he removed to Plymouth on the invitation
of the people in that town, but was not. ordained
until June 30, 1669. He continued there about
thirty years. He was a very faithful minister,
and his exertions were extensively useful. He was
completely occupied in doing good by visiting the
families in his parish with the ruling elders, cate
chizing the children, and attending church meet
ings, and by his public preaching on the Sabbath.
Before his admission of any person into the
church he required a relation, either public or
private, of the experience of a work of Divine
grace. He usually expounded the psalm, which
was sung, and the psalms were sung in course.
COTTON.
In 1681 the practice of reading the psalm line
by line was introduced from regard to a brother,
who was unable to read. Some difference of
opinion between him and his church respecting
the settlement of a neighboring minister having
arisen, and there being no prospect of a recon
ciliation, he was induced to ask a dismission,
which was granted Oct. 5, 1697. Being soon in
vited to South Carolina, he set sail for Charleston
Nov. 16, 1698. After his arrival he gathered a
church and labored with great diligence and
much success till his death. In the short space
of time that he lived here, twenty-five were added
to the number of which the church consisted
when it was first organized, and many baptized.
His church erected a handsome monument over
his grave. Among his sons were the following
ministers : John of Yarmouth, Roland of Sand
wich, and Theophilus of Hampton Falls.
Mr. Cotton was eminent for his acquaintance
with the Indian language. When he began to
learn it, he hired an Indian for his instructor at
the rate of twelve pence a day for fifty days ; but
his knavish tutor, having received his whole pay
in advance, ran away before twenty days had ex
pired. Mr. Cotton, however, found means to
perfect his acquaintance with the barbarous dia
lect. While at Plymouth he frequently preached
to the Indians, who lived in several congregations
in the neighborhood. The whole care of revising
and correcting Eliot's Indian Bible, which was
printed at Cambridge in 168 3, fell on him. —
Hist. Coll. iv. 122-128, 137 ; Magnolia, in. 194,
199, 200 ; Mayhem's Indian Converts ; Holmes.
COTTON, ROLAND, first minister of Sandwich,
Mass., the son of Rev. JohnC., of Plymouth, was
graduated at Harvard college in 1685, ordained
Nov. 28, 1694, and died March 29, 1722. His
successors were B. Fessenden, A. Williams, and
J. Burr. His wife was the sister of Gov. Salton-
stall, and widow of Rev. J. Denison, of Ipswich.
One daughter married Rev. J. Brown, of Haverhill,
and another married Rev. S. Bourne, of Scituate.
He is worthy of honorable remembrance for his
benevolent regard to the spiritual interests of the
Indians at Marshpee, of which two hundred and
fourteen were under his care in 1693, while five
hundred of other tribes were under the care of
his father.— Hist. Coll. 1.201; x. 133.
COTTON, JOSIAII, judge, a preacher to the In
dians, the son of Rev. John C., of Plymouth, was
born Jan. 8, 1680, and graduated at Harvard col
lege in 1698. Sustaining the office of clerk of
court, register of deeds, and judge of the com
mon pleas, he also preached to the Indians at
Manomct and Herring ponds, Plymouth, and
Mattakeeset pond, Pembroke, with a salary of
20 pounds from the commissioners for propagat
ing the gospel. His engagement closed Nov.
15, 1744, having preached nearly forty years both
COUDRAY.
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in Indian and English. He died Aug. 19, 1756,
aged 75. He had four brothers who were minis
ters. Of his fourteen children, his son John was
minister of Halifax. His daughter Mary was the
mother of Judge Wm. Gushing. He compiled a
copious English and Indian vocabulary, published
in Mass. Hist. Coll. 3d scries, n. 147-257.
COTTON, JOHN, minister of Newton, Mass.,
son of Rev. Roland C. of Sandwich, was gradu
ated at Harvard college in 1710. Having been
ordained as successor of Mr. Hobart, Nov. 3,
1714, he continued in this place till his death,
May 17, 1757, in the sixty-fourth year of his age.
He was faithful, fervent, and successful in his la
bors, and was particularly happy in seeing the
attention of his people to religious truths in 1729
and 1740. He published a sermon after the earth
quakes, 1728; on the death of Nathaniel Cotton,
of Bristol, 1729 ; at the ordination of his brother,
Ward Cotton, 1734 ; four sermons addressed
to youth, 1739 ; at the election, 1753. — Homer's
History of Newton ; Hist. Soc. \. 273-276.
COTTON, JOHN, first minister of Halifax, Mass.,
a native of Plymouth, son of Josiah C., was grad
uated at Harvard college in 1730 and ordained in
1735. The failure of his voice induced him to
resign in 1756, and he was succeeded by William
Patten, afterwards a minister of Hartford, Conn.
He was a useful citizen at Plymouth, county
treasurer, and register of deeds, and died in 1789,
aged 77. He published two sermons on a day of
humiliation for the drought and war, 1757 ; prac
tice of the churches as to baptism vindicated ;
history of Plymouth church. — 2 Hist. Coll.
iv. 282.
COTTON, JOHN, M. D., died at Marietta, Ohio,
April 2, 1847, aged 85. He was a descendant of
J. C., of Boston; a man of piety, of literature,
and science.
COUCH, PAUL, an unequalled sufferer, died at
Newburyport March 19, 1842, aged 64. As a
preacher he was in 1804 a missionary on the
Kenncbec in Maine. By exposure to the cold
air after the fatigue of preaching, he became ill,
and soon was helpless by rheumatism. For
thirty-eight years he was a sufferer, and for twenty-
eight never left his small chamber, unable to rise
from his bed or to dress himself without help.
Every day was a day of pain, which required
daily anodynes. For twenty years he was
nearly blind ; he was also dependent on charity.
Yet was he a cheerful, happy Christian, respected
and esteemed. — Dimmick's Address.
COUDRAY, Du, general, was engaged by the
American commissioners at Paris to enter our
service as the head of the American artillery.
He was at Boston in May, 1777. But Sopt. 16th
he was drowned in the Schuylkill. He rode into
a ferry-boat, and was unable to control his horse,
which plunged into the river. Had he lived, prob-
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CRAIG.
ably great dissatisfaction would have been felt in
consequence of the rank assigned him. — Ilealh,
128.
COVINGTOX, LEONARD, brigadier-general, was
the son of Levin C., of Maryland. lie served
with reputation under Wayne in the Indian Avar.
At fort Recovery his horse was shot under him.
lie participated in the battle on the Miami. He-
turning to his family, he settled as a planter. For
many years he was a member of the Maryland
senate ; he was also elected a member of con
gress. In 1809 Mr. Jefferson appointed him licut.-
colonel in the regiment of dragoons. Appointed
Aug. 1, 1813, brigadier-general, he repaired to
the north. At the battle of Williamsburg, Nov.
llth, when Boyd commanded, while gallantly
leading his brigade to the charge, he was mor
tally wounded, and died on the 13th, aged 45,
leaving a wife and six children. He was buried
at French Mills, now called Mount Covington.
COVIXGTOX, ALEXANDER, judge, died in
Washington city, Mississippi, Oct. 16, 1848, aged
71. A native of Virginia, he had lived in Mis
sissippi forty years. He Avas a Christian professor,
charitable and hospitable, of rare colloquial pow
ers.
COWLES, GILES II., D. D., died at Austin-
burgh, Ohio, July 5, 1835, aged 68.
COWLES, SOLOMON, general, died in Far-
mington, Conn., Nov. 25, 1846, aged 89, an officer
in the Revolutionary army.
COWLES, EZEKIEL, died at Farmington, Conn.,
in Aug., 1850, aged 91. He fought at Bunker's
Hill and served in the war, being quartermaster
and paymaster.
COX, WILLIAM, died in England about 1851.
He came to this country early in life as a printer,
and was employed in the Mirror office, XTew York ;
and he wrote much for the Mirror. He pub
lished Crayon sketches, 2 vols., 1833. — Cycl.
American Literature, II. 415.
COXE, DANIEL, an author, claimed the terri
tory of Georgia, Florida, and Louisiana under
his father, who purchased of Sir Robert Heath,
to whom it was originally granted in 1630 ; but
the claim was declared void, as the conditions had
not been fulfilled. He lived" fourteen years in
this country ; and published a description of the
English province of Carolina, by the Spaniards
called Florida, etc. 8vo., London, 1722 ; the same,
1741.
COKE, TENCH, a writer on public economy,
died at Philadelphia July 16, 1824, aged 68. He
published an address on American manufactures ;
an inquiry on the principles of a commercial sys
tem for the United States, 1787; examination of
Lord Sheffield's observations, 1792 ; view of the
United States, 1794; thoughts on naval power
and the encouragement of commerce and manu
factures, 1806 ; memoir on the cultivation, trade,
and manufacture of cotton, 1807 ; memoir on a
navigation act, 1809 ; statement of the arts and
manufactures of the United States, 1814.
CRADOCK, MATTHEW, first governor of Mas
sachusetts, was an opulent merchant in London.
Of the London company, which in 1628 pur
chased the patent of the territory of Massachu
setts, he was chosen governor. He never came
to this country; but Endicott was sent out to
make a plantation. He proposed the important
measure of transferring the government to the
actual settlers ; accordingly Winthrop was chosen
governor. — Winthrop,!. 2; 2. Hist. Coll.v. 190.
CRADOCK, THOMAS, rector of St. Thomas,
Baltimore county, Maryland, died in 1760. He
delivered a sermon in 1753, before the governor
and assembly, on the irregularities of some of the
clergy. He also published in 1756 a version of the
psalms of David in heroic measure, which, though
not destitute of merit, will hardly attract many
readers at the present day.
CRAFTS, EBENEZER, colonel, died in Crafts-
bury, Vt., in 1810, aged 70. Born in Pomfrct, he
graduated at Yale in 1759, and became a mer
chant in Sturbridgc. In the Shays rebellion he
served under Lincoln, at the head of a regiment.
He was a founder of Leicester academy. In 1790,
he removed to the wilderness of Vermont, to a
place, which took his name : in the removal of
his family, there being no road for twenty miles,
the women were carried on hand sleds on the
snow. He was generous, firm, energetic, and led
a pure, Christian life, inflexible in principle. —
WasKburn's Sketch of Leicester Academy.
CRAFTS, SAMUEL CHANDLER, son of the pre
ceding, governor of Vermont, was born in Wood
stock, Conn., Oct. 6, 1768, and graduated at
Cambridge in 1790. He soon removed with his
father to Craftsbury, Vt. ; and there he died Nov. 19,
1853, aged 85. Various offices were sustained by
him, as chief judge of the county court, a mem
ber of congress eight years from 1816, governor
in 1828-1830, and senator of the United States in
1842. He was a man of simplicity of manners,
of sound learning, of great moral worth.
CRAFTS, WILLIAM, a poet, was born in
Charleston, S. C., Jan. 24, 1787, and, having,
graduated at Harvard college in 1805, soon set
tled in his native city as a lawyer of ability. He
was a member of the legislature, and for some
time the editor of the Charleston Courier. lie
died at New Lebanon springs, New York, Sept.
23, 1826, aged 39. A collection of his poems
and prose essays, with a memoir, was published
in 1828. — Specimens of Amer. Poetry, II. 144.
CRAIG, THOMAS, major, died at Windsor, Vt.,
in Aug., 1840, aged 87, a Revolutionary soldier.
He was born in Charlestown, Mass.
CRAIG, NATHAN, died in Leicester, 1852, aged
98, a soldier of the Revolution.
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CRANE.
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CRAIK, JAMES, M. P., a physician, a native of
Scotland, accompanied "Washington in the expe
dition against the French and Indians in 17.34,
and in 1755 attended Braddock and assisted in
dressing his wounds. During the Revolutionary
Avar he served in the medical department. As
director- general of the hospital at Yorktown, he
was present at the surrender of Cormvallis, Oct.
19, 1781. After the war, at the request of Wash
ington, he settled in the neighborhood of Mount
Vernon. He died in Fairfax county Feb. 6, 1814,
aged 83. lie was estimable in the various rela
tions of private life. As a physician he had great
skill and success. Washington designated him
in these terms : " My compatriot in arms, my old
and intimate friend." — Thacher'a Med. Biog.
CRAM, JACOB, died Dec. 21, 1833, at Exeter,
aged 71, a graduate of 1782, and minister of
Hopkinton from 1789 to 1792, then a missionary
in New York, and among the Indians. lie stud
ied with Dr. Emmons.
CRANCII, RICHARD, judge of the common
pleas for Suffolk, was born in England of Puritan
parents in Oct., 172G. He resided for a while in
Boston, and became a member of Dr. Mayhew's
church. In 17*50 he removed to Braintree, now
Quincy, where he died Oct. 16, 1811, aged 85.
His wife, Mary, died the next day, aged 70.
They had lived together nearly fifty years. She
was the daughter of Rev. W. Smith, and the sis
ter of Mrs. Adams. Judge Craach had three
children. One daughter married Rev. Jacob
Norton of Wcymouth, and died Jan. 25, 1811;
another married John Greenlcaf. The son was
Wm. Cranch, late chief justice of the district court
of Columbia and reporter of the supreme court
of the United States. His grandson, Richard, of
the topographical engineers, was drowned in lake
Erie in 182<3. Judge Cranch was very much re
spected for his intelligence and learning and for
his moral and religious character. Theological
investigations occupied much of his time. He
published his views of the prophecies concerning
antichrist. — Whitney's Funeral Sermon; Nor
ton's Discourse.
CRANCII, WILLIAM, judge, LL. P., died at
Washington Sept. 1, 1855, aged 8G. A graduate
of Harvard in 1787, he removed to Washington
in 1794, and was appointed in 1801 a judge of
the circuit court; he was afterwards chief justice
till his death. He was highly respected for his
talents, learning, and principles. His father was
Richard C., of Weymouth, and his mother, Mary
Smith, was the sister of Abigail Smith, wife of
John Adams. He published nine volumes of
reports of cases in the supreme court, a memoir
of J. Adams, and an address on temperance. —
Boston Advertiser, July 1C, 1856.
CRANE, Jonx, I). I)., died at Northbridge
Sept. 1, 1830, aged 80. Born at Norton, he
graduated at Harvard in 1780, and was ordained
June 25, 1783, toiling in the ministry fifty years,
during the same period being a teacher thirty
years, preparing one hundred young men for col
lege, and writing four thousand sermons. In
the last revival about seventy were added to the
church, but only two hundred and twelve in his
whole ministry. He published several occasional
discourses. — Ilolman's Sermon.
CRANE, JAMES C., secretary of the united
foreign mission society, died Jan. 12, 1826, aged
32. He was born in Morrisfown, N. J., Jan. 11,
1794. His parents were pious. The faithful
instructions of his mother deeply impressed him
at the age of six years. His father having re
moved in 1805 to New York, he there served as
an apprentice. Amidst temptations he fell into
vicious habits ; but in consequence of the lessons
of his deceased mother he experienced severe
rebukes of conscience. The approach of night
terrified him, and compelled him to pray ; but the
return of morning re-assured liim in his irrelig
ious life. At last, in 1813, his anguish constrained
him to seek mercy as a miserable sinner; and he
found it. From this time he felt the strongest
desires for the conversion of the heathen. By
conversing with his fellow apprentices, in a short
time a majority of them became pious. Deter
mined to become a missionary, he, while yet an
apprentice, attended the lectures of Dr. Mason,
and was directed in his studies by Rev. J. M.
Matthews. He was ordained in April, 1817. In
a few days he repaired as a missionary to the
Indians in Tuscarora village, where he continued
till Sept., 1823, when he was appointed general
agent of the united foreign mission society ;
and in May, 1825, secretary for domestic corres
pondence, as successor to Mr. Lewis. In the
same year he visited the Indians in the western
part of New York and in Ohio, and returned with
impaired health. The society being now about to
be merged in another, he was chosen assistant
secretary of the American bible society. lie
left a wife and three children without property.
His anxiety for the Indians was strong in his
sickness. He said : " O, how mysterious the
providence ! The fields are white, the laborers
few. I have done little — just beginning — and
now I am going. The Lord's will be done." —
Ptnwplixt, April, 1826.
CRANE, ELIAS W., died suddenly, Nov. 10,
1840, aged 44. A native of Elizabclhtown, a
graduate of Princeton in 1814, he was a teacher
at Morristown, and the minister of Springfield,
N. J., six years. In 1825, in a remarkable re
vival, eighty persons were added to the church.
From 1826 till his death he was the minister of
Jamaica, L. T. ; and here were two revivals in
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CROMWELL.
1831 and 1839, in which seventy-four and seventy-
six persons became church members. — Observer,
Nov. 28, 1840.
CRANE, JOANNA, Mrs., died in Berkeley in
1846, aged 100.
CRANE, WILLIAM M., commodore, died at
Washington March 18, 1846, aged 61, by self-
murder from an unknown cause, the son of Gen.
AA'illiam C., who served before Quebec. Capt.
Crane was the sixth in the line of captains, after
Barrow, Stewart, Jones, Morris, and Warrington.
He was distinguished before Tripoli. He was
chief of the bureau of ordnance.
CRANE, JOHN R., D. D., died in Middletown,
Conn., Aug. 17, 1853, aged 66, having been pas
tor of the first church nearly thirty-five years.
He published some tracts.
CRANE, EDWIN, missionary to the Nestorians
at Gawar, died Aug. 27, 1854, of the typhus
fever, in great calmness and peace. In a few days
Mrs. Crane also witnessed the death of her little
son. Mr. C. was a native of Utica ; his father
was the agent of the home missionary society.
CRANFIELD, EDWARD, president of New
Hampshire, succeeded Waldron in 1682, and was
succeeded by Barefoote in 1685. He was after
wards collector of Barbadoes, and died about
1700. The tyrannical acts of his administration
are narrated by Belknap. In his disp'easure
toward Rev. Mr. Moody, he endeavored to
enforce the uniformity act. He ventured to tax
the people without their consent. He came to
this country to make his fortune : his injustice
drove him away in dishonor. — Farmer's Belknap,
I. 113; Hist. Coll. x. 44.
CRAVEN, CHARLES, governor of South Caro
lina from 1712 to 1716, had been previously sec
retary to the proprietors. They ordered him in
1712 to sound Port Royal river, and probably he
built Beaufort soon afterwards. In 1715, on the
occurrence of an Indian war, he displayed great
vigor and talents, and expelled from the province
the invading savages. — Holmes, I. 513.
CRAWFORD, MARY, died at Castine, Me.,
Feb. 20, 1836, aged 100 years and 5 months. She
was the widow of Dr. William C., chaplain and
surgeon at fort Point in the Revolutionary war.
CRAWFORD, WILLLUI H., secretary of the
treasury, died near Elberton, Geo., in Sept., 1834,
aged 62. He was born in Virginia in 1772, and
followed the plough till twenty-one ; then became a
distinguished lawyer and was appointed with others
in 1800 to revise the laws of Georgia. He zeal
ously supported the election of Mr. Jefferson. In
1802 he was challenged by Peter L. Van Alen,
a lawyer, and murdered him in a duel ; he also
fought another duel with Gov. Clark, and was
severely wounded. It is deplorable and dishonor
able to our country, that we have had public men
of eminence, who, in violation of human and
Divine laws, have engaged in private combat, and
who yet have afterwards received the votes of the
people.
CRAWFORD, JOHN, died at West Camp,
N. Y., March 7, 1851, aged 90. He entered the
I ministry of the Methodist church in 1789.
CRESSON, ELLIOTT, died in Philadelphia Feb.
20, 1854, president of the Pennsylvania coloniza
tion society. lie bequeathed 122,000 dollars to
various charitable institutions, and to his pastor,
Dr. Stevens, 5,000 dollars. To Sunday schools
the sum given was 50,000 ; to the historical
society, to buy Penn's mansion, to the Episcopal
mission to Liberia, for a monument to Penn, 10,-
000 each ; to the hospital for the insane, 5,000 ;
to the university, to the agricultural society, to an
Episcopal seminary at Alexandria, 5,000 each.
CROCKETT, DAVID, colonel, fell at Bexar in
Texas, March 6, 1836. He had been a member
of congress from Tennessee.
CROES, JOHN, D. D., bishop of New Jersey,
died in New Brunswick July 31, 1832, aged 69. "
CROGHAN, WILLIAM, major, died in Locust
Grove, Ky., in 1822, aged 69. An emigrant from
Ireland, he entered the American army in 1776,
as a captain, and soon was a major in the Vir
ginia line. He fought at Brandywinc, German-
town, and Monmouth. He was captured with
Lincoln at Charleston. In 1756 he went to
Kentucky. His wife was a sister of Gen. George
R. Clark. His house was the seat of plenty and
hospitality.
CROGHAN, GEORGE, colonel, son of the pre
ceding, died at New Orleans, Jan 8, 1849, aged
58. He was inspector-general of the army. At
the age of nineteen he made the brave defence
of fort Sandusky.
CROIX, JOHN BAPTIST DE LA, second bishop
of Quebec, was of a noble family in Grenoble, and
was appointed first almoner to Louis XIV. He
came to Canada about the year 1685, as successor
to Laval, the first bishop. He died Dec. 28,
1727, aged 74, having been forty-two years in
Quebec. Such was his benevolence, that he
founded three hospitals, and distributed among
the poor more than a million of livres. — Wynne's
Brit. Emp. in America, II. 138-141.
CROMBIE, JAMES, M. D., died at Derry,N. II.,
in March, 1853, aged 83. His parents were
Scotch-Irish. For more than twenty years he
was a physician at Temple, for thirty years in
Francestown. In 1831 he became a member of
the church. He was an excellent physician and
was respected in all the relations of life.
CROMWELL, THOMAS, captain, was a com
mon seaman in Massachusetts, about 1636.
While serving under Capt. Jackson in a man-of-
war in the West Indies, he was intrusted with the
command of a vessel, and captured four or five
Spanish vessels. Dec. 4, 1646, he arrived at
CROPPER.
Boston with three ships and eight) men, having
previously put into Plymouth. To the governor
he presented a curious sedan, designed by the
viceroy of Mexico as a present for his sister. He
and his men had much money, plate, and jewels
of great value. In Boston he lodged with a poor
man, in a thatched house, because " in his mean
estate that poor man had entertained him when
others would not." He died in Boston, 1649.
His widow was soon married. — Wtnthrop, II.
-264.
CROPPER, JOHN, general, an officer of the
Revolution, entered the army in 1776, as captain
in a Virginia regiment, at the age of nineteen or
twenty. He was soon promoted. He fought in
the battle of Brandy wine, when the regiment, in
which he was a major, was nearly cut to pieces.
His colonel and lieutenant-colonel having run off,
he commanded the regiment in the retreat. He
was also in the battles of Germantown and Mon-
mouth court-house. He died at Bowman's Folly
in Accomac county, Virginia, Jan. 15, 1821,
aged 65.
CROSBY, JOHN, general, died at Hampden,
Me., May 26, 1843, aged nearly 90, a man of en
terprise and perseverance. He once did the
largest commercial business of any man on the
Penobscot.
CROSBY, WILLIAM, judge, died in Belfast,
Me., March 31, 1852, aged 82. Born in Billerica,
he graduated at Harvard in 1794. In 1802 he
went to Belfast. He was representative, senator,
judge of the common pleas for ten years; after
the new State was formed, he resumed his pro
fession. In 1831 he withdrew from active life.
CROSWELL, ANDREW, minister in Boston,
died April 12, 1785, aged 76. He was graduated
at Harvard college in 1728. After having been
settled in Groton, Conn., as successor of Ebenezer
Punderson for two years, he was installed over a
society in Boston, which was formed by persons
from other churches, Oct. 6, 1738. The house
of meeting was formerly possessed by Mr. Le
Mercier's society, and, after Mr. Croswell's death,
it was converted into a Roman Catholic chapel.
It was his fate to be engaged much in controversy,
lie published a narrative of the new congrega
tional church : what is Christ to me if he is not
mine, or a seasonable Defence of the old protest-
ant doctrine of justifying faith, 1746 ; an answer
to Giles Firmin's eight arguments in relation to
this subject ; several sermons against Arminians ;
controversial writings with Turell, Gumming, and
others ; part of an exposition of Paul's journey to
Damascus, showing that giving more than forty
stripes is breaking the moral law, 1768 ; remarks
on Bishop Warburton's sermon before the societv
for propagating the gospel, 1768; remarks on
commencement drollery, 1771. — Collect. Hist.
Soc. III. 264.
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CROSWELL, WILLIAM, D. D., died in Bos
ton, Nov. 9, 1851, aged 47. Born in Hudson, he
graduated at Yale in 1822. lie was rector of
ihrist's church, Boston, in 1829; then he labored
pur years at Auburn, N. Y.; at last he was rector
of the church of the Advent in Boston. His poeti
cal writings have been commended. A memoir
of him, with his poems, was published by his
iather, Dr. Croswell of New Haven, almost eighty
years of age.
CROWELL, ROBERT, D. D., died in Essex,
Mass., Nov. 10, 1855, aged 68. He graduated at
Dartmouth in 1811, studied theology at Andover,
and had been in Essex forty-one years. His dis
ease was consumption ; in his illness he was sus
tained by that faith in Christ, which he had so
long commended to others. His wife was a sister
of Rufus Choate, and his residence was the old
Choate mansion.
CROWNINSHIELD, BENJAMIN W., secretary
of the navy, died at Boston Feb. 3, 1851, aged
77. He was secretary under Madison and
Monroe.
CRUIKSHANK, JOSEPH, died in Philadelphia
Aug. 9, 1836, aged 89. He was a printer, an
extensive publisher and bookseller.
CRULL, PHILIP, died on his farm in Fairfax
county, Va., Nov. 16, 1813, aged 115. A native
of Germany, he came to this country in 1721.
He was active to the day of his death. His wife
died aged 101.
CUFFEE, PAUL, a native Indian preacher to
the Shinnecock tribe on Long Island, died at
Montauk March 7, 1812, aged 55. He was thir
teen years employed by the New York mission
ary society. A marble slab denotes his grave at
Canoe place. The earliest missionary to the In
dians was Rev. Azariah Hortonin 1741, followed
by Samson Occum, Peter John, and Paul Cuffee.
All the Indian churches are extinct except one at
Poosepatuck, in the southern part of Brookhaven,
and one at Shinnecock, two miles west of the vil
lage at Southampton : the former having twenty,
the latter seventy members. Deacon Oby, the
brother of Cuifee, was living in 1845, aged 81;
and Deacon Vincent, the son of Cuffee, was 53.
CULLEN, JOHN, M. I)., professor of the the
ory and practice in Hampden Sidney college,
died in Richmond Jan. 25, 1851, aged 53.
CULPEPER, THOMAS, lord, governor of Vir
ginia from 1680 to 1683, died in 1719. On his
arrival the assembly passed an act of oblivion in
reference to persons concerned in the rebellion
under Gov. Berkeley. They also, in order to en
courage immigration, authorized the governor to
naturalize any person by instrument under seal.
An act was also passed to prevent the frequent
meetings of the slaves. Of his associates in the
grant of the territory between the Potomac and
Rappahannock in 1649, he purchased their rights
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in 1669. His estate descended to his daughter,
married to Lord Fairfax. — Holmes, I. 397 ;
Lord's Lempriere.
CUMING, Joux, a physician, was the son of
Robert C., a Scotchman, who emigrated after the
rebellion, and died in Concord, Mass. In the
French war of 1755, he was a lieutenant and was
taken prisoner. He afterwards became an emi
nent physician in Concord, and died July 3, 1788,
aged 60. He was a Christian, who early devoted
himself to the service of his Maker, and he died
in peace. He was a friend to learning, charitable
to the poor, and constantly exerting himself to
promote the good of society. His generous do
nations for the benefit of the poor, for the main
tenance of schools, for a library in Concord, and
to the college in Cambridge toward the support
of a medical professor, are evidences of his en
lightened benevolence. — Independent Chronicle,
July 24, 1788.
CUMINGS, HEXRY, D. D., minister of Billcr-
ica, Mass., was born in Hollis, N. H., Sept. 28,
1739, and graduated at Harvard college 1760.
He was ordained Jan. 26, 1763. After toiling
fifty-one years, he received Nathaniel Whitman as
his colleague, Jan. 26, 1814. He died Sept. 5,
1823, aged nearly 84. He was frequently called
to preach on public occasions. His occasional
discourses published are fourteen, of which are
the following; at the election, 1783; Dudleian
lecture, 1791; at a thanksgiving, 1798; before a
charitable society, 1802 ; half-century discourse,
1813. — Farmer's Coll. n. app. 86.
CUMMING, ALEXANDER, minister in Boston,
died Aug. 25, 1763, aged 36. He was the son of
Robert C., a native of Montrose, Scotland, a mer
chant, highly respected, who died at Freehold in
1769. In 1750 he was chosen a colleague of Mr.
Pemberton of New York, but was dismissed in 1753
on account of his ill health. Feb. 25, 1761, he
was installed as colleague with Dr. Sewall at Bos
ton. Dr. Macwhorter married his sister. His
mind readily comprehended points, which to
others were intricate and abstruse, and his public
discourses were frequently on such subjects. He
was zealous against the errors of the day. The
sermon which he preached at his own instalment
was published, and it is a specimen of his talents,
and of his regard to the truths of the gospel. —
SewaWs Funeral Sermon.
CUMMING, JOHN NOBLE, general, a hero of
the Revolution, was a relative of the preceding,
probably his son. He early espoused the cause
of his country, and participated in some of the
battles of the war. He died at Newark, N. J.,
July 6, 1821, aged 70. His wife was the daugh
ter of Gen. Forman. His son, Hooper Gumming,
D. D., minister of Newark for a few years, died
at Charleston, S. C., in Dec., 1825. Gen. C.
was a man of integrity and honor, a patron of
civil order, and a supporter of religious institu
tions. Though not a professor of religion, yet at
the period of a revival of religion in 1817 his
mind experienced a great change, and from that
time he regularly attended family prayer. Ilia
minister regarded him as a true believer in the
gospel. — Griffin's Sermon.
CUMMING, ROBERT, general, a Revolutionary
hero, died at his residence in Liberty-town, in
Maryland, 'Feb. 14, 1826, aged 71 years. He
commanded at the time of his death the second
division of the militia.
CUMMING, SARAH, widow of Gen. John N.
C., died in Newark Sept. 28, 1841, aged 79, — a
Christian ripe in years and piety.
CUMMINGS, ARCHIBALD, Episcopal commis
sary for Pennsylvania, and rector of Christ church,
succeeded Dr. Welton in 1726, and died at Phil
adelphia, April 19, 1741. He published an ex
hortation to the clergy, 1729 ; a sermon on the
death of Gov. Gordon, 1736 ; two sermons on
unity, 1737 ; two sermons on faith, occasioned by
Mr. Whitefield's reflections, 1740.
CUMMINGS, ABRAHAM, a missionary, gradu
ated at Providence college in 1776, and died at
Phipsburgh, Me., Aug. 31, 1827, aged 72. He
had never any pastoral charge, but was strictly
an itinerant preacher or missionary. He \vas
known and respected in almost all the towns
along the coast from Rhode Island to Passama-
quoddy, especially in the islands, which had no
settled minister. In his little boat he often
traversed alone the waters along the whole coast
of Maine, and preached the gospel of Jesus
Christ in the islands. For these toils in the
cause of benevolence the world will not honor him,
as it honors the blood-stained hero ; but such toils
will not be unrewarded. He published a few
treatises.
CUMMINGS, JACOB A., author of several ele
mentary Avorks, was graduated at Harvard col
lege in 1801, and after being a useful teacher and
bookseller in Boston, died Feb. 24, 1820, aged
47. His publications for schools were highly es
teemed, and his industry, useful labors, and
amiable qualities procured him much respect.
He published New Testament questions, 1817 ;
geography, ancient and modern, 1825.
CUMMINGS, ASA, I). D., died at sea two days
out from Aspinwall, June 5 or 6, 1856, aged 60,
and was buried in the deep. He had been at
Panama, spending a few months with his daugh
ter, the wife of Mr. Rowell, seamen's chaplain.
After a partial recovery from the prevailing
disease of the climate, he set out on his return,
by the advice of his physician, accompanied by
his son-in-law and daughter. He was on board
the steamer George Law. He was the sixth of
sixteen children, born in Andover, Mass., but his
father, Asa, died in Albany, Me., in 1845, aged
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85. Such was the pious zeal of his father, that,
although a plain farmer, he read sermons on the
Sabbath twenty-eight years, in the want of a min
ister. His great-grandfather was 102 years old.
He graduated at Harvard in 1817, was ordained
at North Yarmouth in Maine, in 1821, and was
dismissed in 1829. He became the editor of the
Christian Mirror at Portland, as early as 1826 ;
after some years he purchased the establishment.
A year or two before his death, his wife received
by bequest a large estate. He was a wise,
learned, excellent, venerable man ; hard-working
for thirty years as an editor. He published
memoirs of Dr. Payson. — Boston Advertiser,
July 16, 1856.
CUMMINGS, SENECA, missionary to China,
died suddenly at New Ipswich, N. H., Aug. 12,
1856, aged 39 ; he died at the house of Mr.
Stearns, his father-in-law. He and his wife
sailed in Nov., 1847 ; he returned on account of
her health in 1855. His field of preparation for
his work was the valley of Min in China, — con
nected with the Fuhchau mission. He was hop
ing to return.
CUMMINS, FRANCIS, D. D., died at Greens-
borough, Geo., March, 1832, aged 80. For fifty-
three years he was the pastor of different
churches ; and he was a whig of the Revolution.
CURRIE, WILLIAM, died in Great Valley,
Chester county, Pa., Oct. 25, 1803, aged 93. lie
was formerly a missionary to the churches of
Radnor and Perquiomen.
CURRIER, JOSEPH, minister of Corinth, Vt,
died in Aug., 1829, aged 86, a graduate of Har
vard in 1765, and a classmate of President Wil-
lard.
CURRIER, MEHETABEL, died in Danbury,
N. H., in 1852, aged 103 years and 9 months. She
survived her husband forty-six years, and all her
seven children.
CUSIIING, THOMAS, speaker of the house of
representatives of Mass., was the son of Thomas
C., a member of the council, and a descendant of
Matthew C. of Hingham. He was born in Bos
ton Jan. 30, 1694, graduated at Harvard college
in 1711, and died April 11, 1746, aged 52. His
wife, was Mary, the daughter of Edward Brom-
field. He left one son and two daughters. He
was distinguished by his wealth, his abilities, his
zeal for his country's service, his integrity, and, in
a peculiar manner, for his piety. Mr. Prince says
of him, " I found that in a small, relaxed, and
feeble body there dwelt a great, a lively, a strong,
and well-composed soul." About the age of
twenty his soul was renewed by the Spirit of
God. He daily read the Scriptures and prayed
in his family ; and he died in joyful hope. The
revival of religion in Boston, a few years before his
death, gave him great delight. In regard to
public men in days of difficulty, he said : " Men
may be a long while great patriots from moral or
political principles ; or party or worldly interests ;
or the applause or esteem of others. But there
is nothing like the special grace of God, a believ
ing view of his present eye and future judgment,
and an interest and conscience wholly subjected
to him, to keep men steady to the public interest
in times of trial." — Prince's Funeral Sermon.
GUSHING, CALEB, minister of Salisbury, son of
John C. of Scituate, was born Jan. 6, 1672, grad
uated at Harvard 1692, and ordained 1697. He
died Jan. 25, 1752, aged 80. His wife was a
daughter of Rev. John Cotton. His sons were
Caleb, James, and John. His daughter, Mary,
married John Appleton of Ipswich, and Elizabeth
married Rev. Joshua Moody, of the Isle of
Shoals.
CUSIIING, CALEB, judge of the common pleas
of Essex, died in Jan., 1798, aged 93.
GUSHING, JOB, minister of Shrewsbury, the
son of Matthew C. of Hingham, wras born in
1694, and graduated at Harvard in 1714. He was
ordained the first minister of S., Dec. 4, 1723.
He died suddenly Aug. 6, 1760. Of his sons,
Jacob was the minister of Waltham, and John of
Ashburnham. His widow, Mary, daughter of
Rev. John Prentice, of Lancaster, died in 1798,
aged 90.
CUSHING, THOMAS, LL. D., lieutenant-gov
ernor of Mass., the son of the preceding, died
Feb. 28, 1788, aged 62. He was born in the year
1725, and graduated at Harvard college in 1744.
In early life he was called to respectable public
offices. Having been chosen representative of
Boston in the general court, his patriotism
and talents soon procured him the appointment
of speaker. While in the chair, it was resolved,
in the controversy with England, to make an ap
peal to arms, and he bent all his exertions to
promote the cause of his country. He was a
judicious and active member of the first and sec
ond congress, the friend and counsellor of Han
cock, and the correspondent of Franklin. On
his return to his own State he was elected into
the council, which then constituted the supreme
executive. He was also appointed judge of the
courts of common pleas and of probate in Suffolk,
which stations he held till the adoption of the
State constitution. Being then appointed lieuten
ant-governor, he remained in that office till his
death. A few days before his death, he had the
satisfaction of seeing the new federal constitution
ratified in Massachusetts. One of his daughters
married John Avery, secretary of State, who died
June, 1806. He was from youth a professor of
religion ; the motives of the gospel governed him
through life ; and, at the hour of his departure
from the world, its sublime doctrines and its
promises gave him support. He was a man of
abilities; a distinguished patriot; a friend of
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learning ; charitable to the poor ; and amiable in
all the relations of life. His days were passed in
constant exertion for the public good. James S.
Loring wrote in 1856 a sketch of his life, which
was published in the Advertiser. — American
Museum, vil. 163, 164; Centinel, March 1, 1788;
Princes Funeral Sermon; Boston Advertiser,
Oct. 4, 1856.
CUSHIXG, JACOB, D. D., minister of Waltham,
Mass., was the son of Rev. Job Gushing of
Shrewsbury, and was born Feb. 28, 1730. He
was graduated at Harvard college in 1748, and
ordained Nov. 22, 1752. After continuing fifty-
six years in the ministry, he died Jan. 18, 1809,
aged 78. He was mild and benevolent in his
temper, and in the discharge of the duties of the
pastoral office was conspicuous for discretion and
prudence. In his preaching, however, he was not
so fond of dwelling upon those doctrines of the
sacred volume, which are controverted, as upon
the practical views of the gospel. He published
the following sermons : at the ordination of Sam
uel Williams, 1766; of Elijah Brown, 1771; of
Jacob Biglow, 1772; of N. Underwood, 1793; a
sermon at Lexington, April 20, 1778; on the
death of Joseph Jackson, 1796. — Columb. Cen
tinel, Feb. 8, 1809.
GUSHING, JONATHAN, minister of Dover, N. H.,
died March 25, 1769, aged 78, in the fifty-second
year of his ministry. Dr. Belknap was his col
league. He was a sound preacher, a judicious
pastor, a wise and faithful friend.
GUSHING, WILLIAM, LL. D., judge of the
supreme court of the United States, died at Scit-
uate, Sept. 13, 1810, aged 75. He was the de
scendant of Matthew C., who arrived at Boston
in 1638. John C., his grandfather, the grandson
of Matthew, was appointed a judge of the supreme
court in 1728, and died at Scituate Jan. 19, 1737,
aged 75. His father, John, also a judge of the
supreme court, died in 1772. He was born in
Scituate in March, 1733, and graduated at Har
vard college in 1751. He studied law with
Gridley. Appointed judge of probate for the
county of Lincoln, he lived in 1769 at Pownal-
borough or Wiscasset. In 1772, as successor of his
father, he received a commission asjustice of the su
perior court, and in Nov., 1777, that of chief justice.
At the beginning of the Revolution, among the
high in office, he alone supported the rights of his
country. At the organization of the federal gov
ernment he was placed by Washington, in 1789,
on the bench of the supreme court of the United
States, in which office he continued till his death,
although for some time, by reason of ill health,
unable to attend to its duties. He united patience
of inquiry with quickness of perception, and the
learning of the scholar with the science of the
lawyer. Convinced of the truth of Christianity,
he •vyas careful in the performance of its duties,
and was eminent for his public and private vir
tues.
CUSHLNG, NATHANIEL, colonel, died in Ohio
Aug., 1814, aged 61, an early settler. Born in
Pembroke, Mass., he was an officer in the war, in
R. Putnam's regiment. He was one of the Bel-
pre colony in 1789, most intelligent and useful.
In his children he was rewarded for his care in
their education. Thomas H. C. was his brother.
— Hildreth's Biog. Mem.
GUSHING, JOHN, D. D., minister of Ashburn-
ham, Mass., was born in Shrewsbury ; graduated
at Harvard in 1764 ; was ordained Nov. 2, 1768 ;
and died April 27, 1823, aged 78. He was re
spected for his attainments and virtues. He pub
lished several occasional discourses, among them
one on the completion of the fiftieth year of his
ministry.
GUSHING, THOMAS H., brigadier-general, a
native of Mass., entered the army in 1776, and
served during the war. He was appointed a
captain under St. Clair in 1790 ; adjutant-general
in 1812; and brigadier-general in 1813. After
the war he was appointed, in 1815, collector of
New London, in the place of Gen. Huntington,
and died Oct. 19, 1822, aged 67. He had not
strength of moral principle to restrain him from
a duel with Mr. Lewis, member of congress from
Virginia. His life was saved by his watch, which
was struck by his adversary's ball. Some one re
marked, it must be a good watch, that kept time
from eternity. An account of his trial before a
court martial was published in 1812.
GUSHING, JONATHAN P., died April 25, 1835.
A native of Rochester, N. H., and a graduate of
Dartmouth in 1817, he was fourteen years the
president of Hampden Sidney college in Virginia.
GUSHING, LUTHER STEARNS, died in Boston
June 22, 1856, aged 53 on the day of his death.
Born in Lunenburg, he graduated at the Cam
bridge law school in 1826, and in Boston con
ducted a law periodical. In 1832, he was clerk
of the house, and held the office for years, and
was a judge of the court of common pleas from
1844 to 1848 ; and afterwards reporter to the
supreme court. Of reports he published 8 or 10
vols. ; also, rules of proceeding and debate in de
liberative assemblies, 1845 ; also, elements of the
law and practice of legislative assemblies.
GUSHING, THOMAS P., a merchant in Boston,
died Nov. 23, 1854, aged 67. He had been re
tired from business for some years.
CUSHMAN, ROBERT, distinguished in the his
tory of Plymouth colony, was one of those wor
thies, who quitted England for the sake of liberty
of conscience, and settled at Leyden. In 1617
he was sent to England with Mr. Carver, to pro
cure a grant of lands in America, and in 1619 he
was sent again with Mr. Brewster, and obtained a
patent. He set sail with the first company in
CUSIIMAN.
1620, but, the vessel proving leaky, he was obliged
to relinquish the voyage. He did not arrive at
Plymouth till Nov. 10, 1621, and tarried only a
month, being under the necessity of returning to
give an account of the plantation to the merchant
adventurers, by whose assistance the first settlers
were transported. While preparing to rejoin his
friends in America, he was removed to another
and better country in 1626. He was a man of
activity and enterprise ; respectable for his tal
ents and virtues ; well acquainted with the Scrip
tures ; and a professed disciple of Jesus Christ.
After his death, his family came to New England,
and his son, Thomas Cushman, succeeded Mr.
Brewster, as ruling elder of the church of Ply
mouth, and died in 1691, aged 83. Mr. Cush
man, during his short residence at Plymouth,
though not a minister, delivered a discourse on the
sin and danger of self-love, which Avas printed at
London in 1622, at Boston in 1724, and at Ply
mouth in 1785, with an appendix by John Davis,
containing an account of Mr. Cushman. The de
sign of the discourse was to repress the desire of
personal property, which was beginning to exhibit
itself, and to persuade our fathers to continue that
entire community of interests, which they at first
established. Extracts from this valuable and
curious relic of antiquity are preserved in Bclknap.
II. AAr. Cushman, of Bcrnardston, has prepared a
genealogy of all the Cushmans. All are de
scended from Elder Thomas C., and his wife,
Mary, the daughter of Mary Allerton. — Ap
pendix to Cushman's Discourse; Bclknap^s Amer
ican Biography, n. 267-280.
CUSHMAN, THOMAS, died at Plymouth, Dec.
11, 1691, aged'83. He was the son of Ilobert C.;
a ruling elder after Brewster, from April 6, 1649,
nearly forty-three years. He was capable as a
teacher, and possessed all the virtues required for
his office.
CUSIIMAN, GIDEON, died in Hebron, Me.,
May, 1845, aged 95, a first settler; leaving ten
children, eighty grandchildren, one hundred
great-grandchildren.
CUSTIS, JOHN PARKE, only son of Mrs. Custis,
who married AVashington ; his father was Daniel
Parke Custis. His daughter, Eleanor, married
Lawrence Lewis of AVindham, Va. He was the
son of Gen. Washington's only sister. Mrs.
Lewis died in 1852, aged 73, — leaving a brother,
George AVashington Parke Custis, of Arlington
house. Martha AArashington was of the old Cal-
vert family, a descendant of Lord Baltimore.
CUTBUSII, JAMES, professor of chemistry in
the military academy at West Point, died there
Dec. 15, 1823. He was profoundly skilled in
chemistry, and was also a man of great independ
ence of opinion, the promoter of objects which he
deemed conducive to the happiness and honor of
his country. He published the useful cabinet,
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monthly, 1 vol. 1808 ; philosophy of experi
mental chemistry, 2 vols. 1813. After his death
a treatise, which lie prepared on pyrotcchny, was
published by his widow.
CUTLER, EPHRAIM, judge, died at AArarren,
Ohio, in July, 1853, aged 86. The son of Rev.
Manasseh Cutler, he removed to Ohio as early as
1795. In 1802, as a member of the State con
vention, he drafted the article against slavery.
In 1819, he framed the bill for the present school
system. His piety was manifested in his family
and in all the relations of life. He and Judge
Burnet went to Ohio in the same year, and after
a residence of nearly sixty years each died in
1853. Prof. Andrews published a discourse on
his death.
CUTLER, JOHN, long 'an eminent physician
and surgeon in Boston, died Sept. 23, 1761, aged
85. Dr. Boylston was his pupil.
CUTLER, TIMOTHY, D. D., president of Yale
college, died in Boston Aug. 17, 1765, aged 82.
He was the son of Maj. John Cutler of Charles-
town, Mass., and was graduated at Harvard col
lege in 1701. He was ordained Jan. 11, 1709,
minister of Stratford, Conn., where he continued
ten years in high esteem, being the most cele
brated preacher in the colony. In 1719 he was
chosen president of Yale college, and entered
upon the duties of the office in the same year.
His predecessor was Mr. Pierson, in the interval
between whose death and his accession the college
had been removed to New Haven. The removal
was in 1716; the first commencement at New
Haven was in 1717. The appointment of Mr.
Cutler was considered as an auspicious event to
the institution, for he was a man of profound and
general learning, particularly distinguished for
his acquaintance with oriental literature, and he
presided over the college with dignity and reputa
tion. In 1722 he was induced, in consequence of
reading the works of a number of late writers in
England, to renounce the communion of the Con
gregational churches, and the trustees therefore
passed a vote " excusing him from all further ser
vice, as rector of Yale college," and requiring of
future rectors satisfactory evidence of " the sound
ness of their faith in opposition to Arminian and
prelatical corruptions." He was succeeded by Mr.
Williams. He Avent to Boston in Oct., Avhere a
neAV church Avas offered to him, and embarked
Avith Mr. Johnson for England No\'. 5th. Ir
the latter end of March, 1723, he Avas ordained,
first a deacon and then a priest. From Oxford
he received his degree of doctor in divinity. He
set sail on his return to America July 26th, and
soon after became rector of Christ church in Bos
ton, where he continued till his death.
He Avas a man of strong poAvers of mind. Dr.
Eliot describes him as haughty and overbearing
in his manners, and incapable of winning the
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hearts of the young. Mr. Whiteficld gives an
account of a debate with him on Presbyterian
ordination and instantaneous conversion. He
spoke Latin Avith great fluency and dignity, and
he was one of the best oriental scholars ever
educated in this country. President Stiles repre
sents him as having more knowledge of the Ara
bic than any man in New England before him,
except President Chauncy, and his disciple, Mr.
Thacher. He was also well skilled in logic, met
aphysics, moral philosophy, theology, and ecclesi
astical history. He published a sermon delivered
before the general court at New Haven, 1717;
and a sermon on the death of Thomas Greaves,
1757. — Caner's Fun. Serm. ; Miller, II. 359 ;
Clap's Hist, of Yale College, 31 ; Whitefield's
Jour, in N. E. 1740,48; Chandler's Life of
Johnson, 17, 27-39; Holmes' Life of Stiles, 387;
and Annals, n. 143.
CUTLER, MANNASSEH, LL. D., a botanist,
minister of Hamilton, Mass., graduated at Yale
college in 1765, and died July 28, 1823, aged 81,
in the fifty-second year of his ministry. He was
a member of various learned societies, and was
one of the earliest cultivators in New England of
the science of botany. Besides being a minister,
he was also elected a member of congress in 1800
and 1802. He published a century discourse,
1815 ; and an account of American plants in
memoirs of American academy, vol. I. 396-493.
CUTLER, JERVIS, major, died in Evansville,
Ind., June 25, 1844, aged 76. He Avas born in
Edgartown, the son of RCA^. Manasseh Cutler,
Avho as a member of congress was a negotiator
for the purchase of a million and a half of acres
by the Ohio company. He Avent Avith Rums
Putnam to settle Marietta, cutting doAvn the first
tree for a clearing in Ohio in 1788. He was
esteemed for his integrity and kind-heartedness.
He had a taste for the fine arts. His adventures
are related by Hildreth. — Ilildreth's Biog. Mem.
CUTT, JOHN, president of the province of
NCAV Hampshire, came from Wales before 1646,
and Avas a distinguished merchant, of great prob
ity, in Portsmouth. He Avas appointed president
in 1679, and commenced the duties of his office
in 1680. He died March 27, 1681, and Avas suc
ceeded by Richard Waldron. lie left sons, John
and Samuel. His AvidoAV, a second AA'ife, Avas
killed by the Indians. His brother, John, carried
on the fishery at the Isle of Shoals, and Robert
the business of ship-building at Kittery. The
descendants Avrite the name Cutts. Of these,
EdAvard died at Kittery in Jan. or Feb., 1818,
aged 89 ; and Col. Thomas at Saco, Jan., 1821,
aged 87. — Annals of Portsmouth 70 ; Farmer.
CUTTER, AMMI It., M. 1)., a physician, died
Dec. 8, 1820, aged 85. He Avas born in North
Yarmouth, Maine, in 1735, the son of Ammi R.
C., the first minister of that toAvn. He Avas grad
uated at HarA'ard college in 1752. In 1755 he
served as a surgeon in the company of rangers
under Robert Rogers in a very hazardous expe
dition, and in 1758 in the expedition against
Louisbourg. He settled at Portsmouth. Early
in 1777 he AA'as appointed physician-general of
the eastern department, and stationed at Fishkill,
N. J. During his absence his eldest son, at col
lege, died. He returned to his large family in
the beginning of 1778. After being in practice
about fifty years he received his son, William, into
partnership, and soon relinquished business. —
Thatcher's Mcd. Biog ; Ann. of Portsmouth.
CUTTER, LEVI, an eminently useful and
pious man, died at Portland March 2, 1856,
aged about 83. He had been a merchant, and
as mayor of the city he had done much for its
improvement and ornament, especially in its pub
lic Avalks at the east and west parts of the toAvn.
His son, Rev. EdAvard Cutter, succeeded Mr.
Cummings in 1856 as the editor of the Christian
Mirror.
CUTTS, CHARLES, secretary of the senate of
the United States, died at Washington Jan. 25,
1846, aged about 78. He was a graduate of
Harvard in 1789.
CUTTS, RICHARD, died at Washington April
7, 1845, aged 73. He was the son of Thomas
Cutts of Saco, and Avas graduated at Harvard in
1790. He AA'as in congress from 1801 to 1813;
and then comptroller of the treasury. His Avife,
Anna Paine, a sister of Mrs. Madison, died in
1832. He left six children.
CUYLER, CORNELIUS C., D.D., died in Phil
adelphia Aug. 31, 1850, aged 66. He Avas many
years pastor of the Dutch church in Poughkcep-
sie, and seventeen years pastor of the second
Presbyterian church in Philadelphia. He was
also president of Jefferson medical college.
DABALL, NATHAN, died at Groton, N. Y.,
March 9, 1818, aged 68. He was an able teacher
of mathematics ; and one thousand and five hun
dred persons Avere instructed by him in naviga
tion. He published a valuable system of arith
metic, and a system of navigation.
DAGGETT, NAPIITALI, D. D., president of
Yale college, died Nov. 25, 1780, aged about 52.
He Avas a native of Attleborough, Mass., and in 1748
graduated at the institution Avhich Avas aftenvards
intrusted to his care. In the year 1751 he Avas
settled in the ministry at Smith ToAvn on Long
Island, from Avhence he removed in 1756 to NCAV
Haven, and accepted the appointment of profes
sor of divinity in the college. This office he filled
during the remainder of his life. After the death
of Mr. Clap in 1766, he officiated as president
till April 1, 1777, Avhen he resigned the chair.
Dr. Stiles Avas appointed his successor. In July,
1779, he distinguished himself by his bravery,
Avhen the British attacked NCAV Haven. He Avas
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succeeded in his professorship by Samuel Wales.
He was a good classical scholar, and a learned
divine. lie published a sermon on the death of
President Clap, 1767 ; at the ordination of Eben-
ezer Baldwin, 1770 ; of J. Howe, 1773. — Holmes'
Life of Stiles, 392, 396; Gen. Hist, of Conn.,
412.
DAGGETT, HENUY, an officer of the Revolu
tionary army, died at Xew Haven June 20, 1843,
aged 85, the oldest of the graduates. He was
the son of President D'aggett.
DAGGETT, DAVID, LL. D., judge, died at
New Haven April 10, 1851, aged 86. He was
born at Attleborough Dec. 31, 1764, descended
from John D. of Watertown in 1630, from
Thomas D. of Edgartown, who married Hannah
Mayhew, and from John and Ebenezer of Attle
borough. A graduate of 1783 at Yale, in a dis
tinguished class, he practised law and sustained
various offices. From 1813 IK; was a senator of
the United States for six years; in 1824 he was
an instructor in the law school; in 1826, Kent
professor in Yale college ; from 1832 to 1834,
chief justice of the supreme court of Conn., retir
ing by limitation at the age of 70. His widow,
Mary L., died in Dec., 1854, aged 65. His son,
Dr. O. E. Daggett, is minister of Canandaigua.
He published an oration July 4, 1787 ; another,
entitled sunbeams from cucumbers, 1799; an ar
gument before general assembly of Conn., 1804;
eulogium on R. Griswold, 1812.
DAILLE, PETER, minister of the French Pro
testant church in Boston, came to Xew England
in 1686, and died May 21, 1715, aged 65, and was
succeeded by Le Mercier. He was buried in the
centre of the Granary burying-yard : around him
are French names. He was of great piety, char
itable, courteous, exemplary. He required by his
will that there should be no wine at his funeral;
though a scarf and gloves were given to each
minister. His library he gave to the church, and
to the minister of the same church one hundred
pounds. — Hist. Coll. 3d series, vol. II. p. 52.
DALE, THOMAS, Sir, governor of Va., died in
the East Indies in 1616. He was high marshal
in 1609 and 1611; again governor after Gates
in 1614.
DALE, RICHARD, commodore in the navy,
was born in Virginia about 1757. In the war of
the Revolution he served in the brig. Lexington
as midshipman. Captured in 1776, by a British
frigate, he and his crew retook the brig in the fol
lowing night, lie was again captured Sept. 19,
1777, and thrown into Mill prison, from winch he
made his escape in Feb., 1779, and joined Paul
Jones in the Bon Ilomme Richard at L'Orient.
In the action witli the Scrapis, Sept. 23, he was
badly wounded in the leg. On board the Trum-
bull of twenty-eight guns, Capt. J. Nicholson, he
was again captured in 1781, but in Nov. was ex
changed. In May, 1798, he commanded the
sloop-of-war Ganges. April 28, 1801, he was
appointed to the command of the American
squadron in the Mediterranean; but resigned
his commission Dec. 17, 1802. His residence was
at Philadelphia, where, in the midst of an amiable
family and respected as a citizen and a Christian,
he died Feb. 24, 1826, aged 69. — Life of Jones,
126, 361.
DALE, SAMUEL, general, died in Mississippi
May 23, 1841, a pioneer in the settlement of the
southwest. In the last war, his canoe fight with
Indians in the middle of the Alabama is well
attested, although almost incredible. He fought
seven warriors with clubbed rifles, and rowed
ashore with the corpse of the last under his feet.
DALLAS, ALEXANDER JAMES, secretary of the
treasury of the United States, died Jan. 16, 1817,
aged 57. He was of Scotch descent and was
born in the island of Jamaica in 1759. His
father, Robert I)., was an eminent physician.
After receiving an early educational Edinburgh and
Westminster, he came to this country, after the
death of his father, in 1783, and studied law at
Philadelphia. He also engaged in various literary
enterprises, writing much for the periodicals and
being at one time the editor of the Columbian
Magazine. In Jan., 1791, he was appointed sec
retary of State, and again in 1793 and 1796. In
1801 he was appointed by Jefferson attorney of
the United States for the eastern district of Penn
sylvania. About this time he recovered against
Fenno 2500 dollars for a libel. In Oct., 1814, he
was appointed by Mr. Madison secretary of the
treasury of the United States as the successor of
G. W. Campbell ; and in March, 1815, he under
took the additional trust of secretary at war, and
performed the task, on the return of peace, of
reducing the army. He resigned his honorable
office and returned to the practice of the law at
Philadelphia in Nov., 1816; but in a few weeks
his earthly career was closed. While at Trenton,
he was attacked with the gout in the stomach, of
which he died soon after he reached home. His
wife, whom he married in 1780, was of Devon
shire, England. Mr. Dallas had great decision
and energy, and was eminent as a lawyer. He
excelled in conversation, and his manners were
highly polished. While in office he promoted
the establishment of a tariff and of the national
bank. He published : features of Jay's treaty,
1795 ; speeches on the trial of Blount and the
impeachment of the judges ; the laws of Penn
sylvania, with notes ; address to the society of
constitutional republicans, 1805; reports of cases
in the courts of the United States and Pennsylvania,
4 vols., 1806-7 ; treasury reports ; exposition of
the causes and character of the late war, 1815.
George M. Dallas proposed, in 1817, to publish
his works in 3 vols. lie left unfinished sketches
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>f a history of Pennsylvania. — National Intel-
igencer, March 15th, 1817.
DALLAS, ALEXANDER J., commodore, died in
Callao Bay June 3, 1844, aged 55. He bore the
name of his father, and was in the naval service
thirty-nine years.
DALTON, TIMOTHY, first minister of Hamp
ton, N. H., died Dec. 28, 1661. He was the
brother of Philemon, of Dedham, 1836, and died
without issue. By a liberal donation he consti
tuted the ministerial fund in Hampton and North
Hampton.
DALTON, TRISTRAM, died at Boston May 30,
1817, aged 79. Born at Newburyport, he was
graduated in 1755. He studied law, married the
daughter of Robert Hooper, and engaged with
him in commercial pursuits, and was appointed
with Mr. Strong a senator in the first congress in
1789. He was induced to remove to Washington
and to invest in real estate his fortune, nearly all
of which he lost after living in affluence sixty
years. As a man of philosophy and religion, he
was sustained. In 1815 he was surveyor of the
port of Boston. He had lived in intimacy with
the first four presidents.
DAMON, JUDE, minister of Truro, died in
1828, aged about 70. He was a graduate of
Harvard in 1776. His predecessors were John
Avery and Caleb Upham.
DAMON, DAVID, D. D., died in 1843, aged
about 62. He was graduated at Harvard in 1811,
and settled at Lunenburg as successor of T.
.Flint in 1815. He published a sermon before a
bible society, 1826 ; a farewell sermon, 1827 ;
address at Amesbury on temperance, 1829.
DANA, RICHARD, of Cambridge, who died in
1695, had four sons, who were the ancestors of
the numerous families of Danas in this country ;
Jacob, born in 1655, who settled in Pomfret,
Conn., Joseph, Benjamin, and Daniel born in
1663 who lived in Cambridge.
DANA, WILLIAM, captain, died in 1809, aged
64. He was born in Little Cambridge, now
Brighton. He was an officer in the Revolution ;
in 1789 he joined the Belpre associates in Ohio.
He left many descendants. — ITddrctli's Biog.
Memoirs.
DANA, FRANCIS, LL. D., chief justice of Mas
sachusetts, died at Cambridge April 25, 1811,
aged 68. lie was a descendant of Richard Dana,
who died at Cambridge about 1695. His father
was Richard Dana, an eminent magistrate. He
was born at Charlestown in Aug., 1742, and, after
graduating at Harvard college in 1762, studied law
with Judge Trowbridge. He passed the year
1775 in England, where he had a brother, Ed
mund, a minister at Wroxeter, who died in 1823.
In 1776 he was appointed a delegate to congress,
and, taking his seat in Nov., 1777, continued in
that body until, in Nov., 1779, he accompanied
Mr. Adams to Paris as secretary of legation.
He was elected Dec. 19, 1780, as minister to
Russia, where he remained, though not publicly
received, from Aug., 1781, till the close of the
war, returning in Dec., 1783. He was chosen a
delegate to congress in 1784. A member of the
Massachusetts convention, he advocated the con
stitution. The office of envoy extraordinary to
France in 1797 he declined, and Mr. Gerry was
deputed in his stead, with Marshall and Pinckney.
Appointed chief justice of Massachusetts in 1792,
he discharged very impartially and ably the duties
of that office until his resignation in 1806. Judge
Dana was a learned lawyer and presided in court
with great dignity. His opinions on the bench
were remarkable for their clearness and perspi
cuity. In his politics, during the days of violent
excitement, he was strongly attached to the fed
eralists. His correspondence while in Europe is
contained in Sparks' diplomatic correspondence,
vol. YIII.
DANA, SAMUEL, judge, died in Amherst, N. H.,
April 2, 1798, aged 58. Born in Cambridge, now
Brighton, he graduated in 1755 in the class of
John Adams, and was settled as the minister of
Groton June 3, 1761, the successor of Caleb
Trowbridge. Not having the whig zeal of his
parishioners, he relinquished, voluntarily, his
charge in 1775, and lived on a small farm, which
he cultivated. In 1780 he preached to a small,
separate society. Being the executor of the will
of John Bulkley, he removed Mr. B.'s law library
to his own house, and was led to read it and
to become a lawyer ; he commenced the practice
in Amherst in 1781. He was judge of probate.
His son Samuel was a lawyer in Groton ; James
G. a lawyer and editor in Frankfort, Ky. ; his
daughter Mehetabel married Gov. Samuel Bell ;
his son Luther was the father of Professor J. F.
Dana. His earliest ancestor was Richard, of
Cambridge, from 1648 to 1695, who left four sons,
from whom descended the numerous families of
Dana in New England.
DANA, SAMUEL, judge, son of the preceding,
died in Charlestown, Mass., in Nov., 1835, aged
60. His residence during the active period of
his life was at Groton. He and Mr. Bigelow
were eminent rival laAvyers, and opposed also in
politics, Judge D. being of the democratic or Jef-
fersonian party. % In Ids speeches at the bar he
was as smooth, gentle, and insinuating as Mr.
Bigelow was bold, rapid, vehement. He pub
lished an oration, July 4, 1807.
DANA, JAMES, D. I)., a minister of New
Haven, died Aug. 18, 1812, aged 77. He was a
native of Massachusetts, and graduated at Har
vard college in 1753. Some years afterwards he
was a resident at Cambridge. He was ordained
as the successor of Samuel Whittelsey, at Wal-
lingf'ord, Conn., Oct. 12, 1758. The history of
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the difficulties, occasioned by his settlement, oc
cupies forty or fifty pages in Trumbull's history
of Connecticut; he was accused of heterodoxy,
and an interesting question also arose concerning
the construction of the Saybrook platform. The
writers called forth on the occasion were Eells,
Todd, Hurt, and Ilobart. It is plain that the or
dination was a departure from the Saybrook plat
form, because the ordaining council was not
limited to the consociation ; it amounted to an
assertion of the independence of the church, in
disregard of the platform. The members of the
council were considered as inclining to Armin-
ianism. After remaining at Wallingford thirty
years, Dr. Dana was installed the pastor of the
first church at New Haven, April 29, 1789, as
the successor of Chauncy Whittlcsey. In the
autumn of 1805 he was dismissed ; after which
he occasionally preached in the pulpits of his
brethren in the vicinity. Samuel W. Dana, sen
ator of the United States, was his only surviving
child. Dr. Dana published anonymously an
examination of Edwards' inquiry on the freedom
of the will, 8vo. Boston, 1770 ; and, with his
name, the examination continued, New Haven,
1773; in all more than three hundred pages.
Some of his views are the following, which are
similar to those of Samuel West, of New Bed
ford, published at a later period: For the actions
of men there must be an efficient cause. Mo
tives are not that cause ; abstract notions, and
such are all reasons and motives, are not agents ;
and if they were, they must themselves, according
to Edwards, be determined by motives. As mo
tives are not the efficient cause of the actions of
men, so neither is God that cause ; for the scheme
of Stephen West, of Stockbridge, making God
the sole efficient in the universe, is fraught with
the impiety of making God the author of sin,
and annihilates the responsibleness of man, ren
dering him a mere machine, or binding upon him
the chains of a dreadful fatalism. Men them
selves, then, arc the only efficient causes of their
own volitions ; nor do they always determine ac
cording to the greatest apparent good ; the affec
tions do not follow the judgment; men sin
against light, with the wiser choice, the greater
good, full in their view. Through the impetu
osity of their passions they determine against
the greatest apparent good. This is the case
with every sinner who resolves to delay repent
ance to a future time. Self-determination is the
characteristic of every moral agent. Such was
the opinion of Dr. Watts, who maintained that
every intelligent spirit is the cause of its own
volitions. Even according to Edwards, it is evi
dently improper to speak of the mind as being
determined by motives ; for he expressly allows,
that " an appearing most agreeable or pleasing to
the mind, and the mind's preferring and choosing,
36
seem hardly to be properly and perfectly distinct."
But, if not distinct, then the choice is not caused
by the appearance of the greatest good. Motive
is not the determiner of volition and at the same
time the act of volition. And if the highest mo
tive is the same as volition, then, to say that a
man chooses as he pleases, is to say that he
chooses as he chooses. The absence of liberty
he deemed inconsistent with moral agency ; and
by liberty he meant, not merely liberty in regard
to the external action, but liberty of volition ; an
exemption from all circumstances and causes hav
ing a controlling influence over the will ; a self-
determining power of man, as a real agent, in
respect to his own volitions. On the whole, he
regarded the scheme of Edwards as acquitting the
creature of blame, and impeaching the truth and
justice of the Creator. He published also three
sermons in American preacher, vols. I. and in. ;
on death of John Hall, 1763 ; of Chauncy Whittle-
sey, 1764 ; two sermons on faith and inscrutable
providence, 1767 ; a century discourse, April 9,
1770; on prayer, 1774; election sermon, 1779;
on death of W. Beadle, etc., 1782; on capital
punishments, 1790; on African slave trade, 1791 ;
at the installation of himself, 1789 ; of A. Holmes,
1792; practical atheism, 1794; ordination of E.
Gay, 1793 ; A. Waterman, 1794 ; of Dan Hun-
tington, 1799 ; on the death of Dr. Styles, 1795 ;
two sermons on new year and completion of
eighteenth century, 1801 ; on death of E. G.
Marsh, 1803 ; character of scoffers, 1805 ; sermons
to young people, 1806.
DANA, JOSEPH, D. D., minister of Ipswich,
Mass., died Nov. 16, 1827, aged 85. He was
born at Pomfret, Conn., Nov. 13, 1742, and grad
uated at Yale college in 1760. He was a de
scendant of Jacob Dana, of Pomfret, the son of
Richard D., of Cambridge. Having early de
voted himself to God, he studied theology, and
was ordained as the minister of the south society
in Ipswich Nov. 7, 1765. On the sixtieth anni
versary of his ordination, at the age of 83, he
preached in 1825 a discourse, in which he stated,
that all who were heads of families at the time
of his settlement were deceased, excepting five ;
that he had followed about nine hundred of his
parishioners to the grave, and had received into
the church the small number of one hundred and
twenty-one, being the average of two in a year.
Of these, fifty were received in a revival from
1798 to 1801. He left two sons, Daniel and
Samuel, ministers of Newburyport and Marble-
head. Dr. Dana was a firm believer in the great
doctrines of Calvinism, a faithful preacher, emi
nently a man of prayer, and deeply interested in
all the events which relate to the kingdom of
Jesus Christ. He was a diligent student and la
borious pastor. A fortnight before his death he
preached a discourse, recently written. An iinaf-
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fected humility marked his character, and his end
was peace. He published two discourses on
Proverbs, xvi : 8, 1782 ; at the ordination of I).
Dana, 1795 ; of D. Smith, 1795 ; of his son Samuel,
1801 ; of Joshua Dodge, 1809 ; at a fast, 1799 ; a dis
course on the death of Washington, 1800 ; at the
convention, 1801 ; observations on baptism, 1806 ;
on integrity; on the worth of the soul, 1807;
two discourses, 1810; at Boston, 1812; on the
death of J. M'Kean, 1818. — CrowelVs Funeral
Sermon.
DANA, JAMES FREEMAN, M. D., the grandson
of Judge Samuel Dana and the son of Luther
Dana, was born in Amherst, N. H., Sept. 23,
1793. His mother, Lucy Giddings, was a de
scendant in the seventh generation from John
Robinson. He graduated at Harvard college in
1813, and in a few years was appointed assistant
to Dr. Gorham, professor of chemistry. In 1820
he was appointed professor of chemistry and
mineralogy at Dartmouth college ; but resigned
this office in 1826, on being chosen professor of
chemistry in the college of physicians and sur
geons at New York. In November he removed
to that city. He soon lost his only child, and in
April, 1827, after an illness of five days, he died
of the erysipelas, at the age of 33. His wife was
the daughter of President Webber. He was a
distinguished chemist, and highly esteemed by his
acquaintance. He published, with his brother,
outlines of the geology and mineralogy of Bos
ton, with a map, 1818 ; an epitome of chemical
philosophy as a text-book, 8vo., 1825. He wrote
also for various journals many communications, a
list of which is given by Dr. Thacher. — TJiacli-
er's Med. Biog.; Coll. N. H. Hist. Soc. II. 290.
DANA, SAMUEL W., a senator of the United
States from Connecticut, died in 1830, aged about
73. He was the son of Dr. James D., and grad
uated at Yale in 1775.
DANA, JUDAH, died at Fryeburg, Me., Dec.
27, 1845, aged 73, a senator of the United States.
He graduated at Dartmouth in 1795 ; his wife
was a daughter of Prof. Ripley, and granddaugh
ter of the first President Wheelock. He sustained
various offices, as county attorney, judge of pro
bate twenty years, and of the common pleas, and
a member of the convention that formed the
constitution of Maine. He was a man of ability
and conscientiously faithful to the public.
DANA, SYLVESTER, a descendant of Richard
D., of Cambridge, now Brighton, in 1640, died at
Concord, N. H., June 9, 1849, aged nearly 80.
He was born at Ashford, Conn., July 4, 1769.
His father, Anderson D., a lawyer, who removed
to Wilkesbarre, was killed by the Indians in Wy
oming Valley. The family, the widow and seven
children, fled on foot to Connecticut. S. D. was
graduated in 1797. At Orford, N. H., he was or
dained in May, 1801, and continued there thirty-
| three years. His last words were, " There is rest
j in heaven." His house was burnt at Concord in
I 1844, and he lost his library, and a manuscript
I system of theology, and history of Wyoming,
; which he had prepared. His mother was Susanna
Huntington, of Lebanon. His brother Anderson
held the old property in Wilkesbarre, which made
him rich. Dana's academy is a witness to his
liberality. He is now in years, if yet alive. His
brother, Judge Daniel, lived in the State of New
York, and died in Ohio in 1841, aged 80.
DANA, NATHANIEL, died at Brookline Jan. 18,
1856, aged 68. Born in South Natick, he passed
most of his life in business in Portland. He
was a worthy member of Dr. Payson's church.
In 1830 he removed to Boston. He was a
man of good sense, of counsel, judgment, and de
cision ; an eminent Christian, fervent in prayer.
DANE, FRANCIS, the second minister of Ando-
ver, died Feb. 17, 1697, aged 81. He came from
England in 1636, and was ordained about 1648.
His brother John, of Ipswich, born in 1618, was
the ancestor of Nathan Dane.
DANE, NATHAN, LL. I)., died at Beverly in
Feb., 1835, aged 82, an eminent jurist and states
man. Born at Ipswich, he was of the sixth gen
eration from John, of Ipswich and Roxbury, who
died in 1658. He was graduated at Harvard in
1778. In congress he framed the celebrated or
dinance of 1787, for the government of the
Northwestern territory, by Avhich slavery was
shut out. He founded at Cambridge the Dane
professorship of law, and the law hall. lie pub
lished a general abridgment and digest of Ameri
can law in 9 vols. 8vo.
DANFORTH, THOMAS, president of the dis
trict of Maine, died Nov. 5, 1699, aged 77. He
was born in England in 1622, and was the son of
Nicholas Danforth, who died at Cambridge in 1637.
He had great influence in the management of pub
lic affairs in difficult times. He was an assistant
from 1659 to 1678. In 1679 he was elected dep
uty-governor. In the same year the inhabitants of
the district of Maine, being no longer attached to
Massachusetts as a county, elected him president of
j the province. He accordingly opened his court at
York, and granted several parcels of land. He
continued in this office, and in that of deputy-gov
ernor, till the arrival of Andros at the end of the
year 1686, and during this tine resided chiefly in
Cambridge. He was also a judge of the superior
court. In 1681 he united with Gookin, Cooke,
and others, in opposing the acts of trade and vin
dicating the chartered rights of his country. He
was a man of great integrity and wisdom. In the
time of the witchcraft delusion, in 1692, he evinced
his correctness of judgment and his firmness by
condemning the proceedings of the courts. —
HutcUnson, I. 189, 323, 329, 331, 380, 404;
Sullivan, 385, 386 ; Hist. Coll. v. 75.
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DAXFORTH, SAMUEL, minister of Roxbury,
Mass., brother of the preceding, was born in Eng
land in Sept., 1626, and came to this country
with his father in 1634. After he was graduated
at Harvard college in 1643, he was a tutor and
fellow. When Mr. Wclde returned to England,
he was invited to become the colleague of Mr.
Eliot of Roxbury, and he was accordingly or
dained Sept. 24, i650. He died Nov. 19, 1674,
aged 48 years. He had twelve children. Two
of his sons were ministers. His sermons were
elaborate, judicious, and methodical ; he wrote
them twice over in a fair, large hand, and in each
discourse usually quoted forty or fifty passages of
Scripture. Notwithstanding this care and labor,
he was so affectionate and pathetic, that he rarely
finished the delivery of a sermon without weep
ing. In the forenoon he usually expounded the
Old Testament, and in the afternoon discoursed
on the body of divinity. His wife, whom he mar
ried in 1651, was the daughter of Mr. Wilson,
and, when he was contracted to her, before his
marriage, a sermon was preached by Mr. Cotton,
according to the old usage of New England.
Such was his peace in his last moments, that Mr.
Eliot used to say, " My brother Danforth made
the most glorious end that I ever saw." Mr.
Welde wrote a poem on his death. He published
a number of almanacs, and an astronomical de
scription of the comet, which appeared in 1664,
with a brief theological application. He contends
that a comet is a heavenly body, moving accord
ing to Divine laws, and that its appearance is
portentous. He published, also, the cry of Sodom
inquired into, or a testimony against the sin of
unclcanness ; and the election sermon, 1670, en
titled, a recognition of New England's errand
into the wilderness. — Mather's Magnolia, IV.
153-157.
DANFORTH, JOHN, 7th minister of Dorchester,
Mass., was the son of the preceding, born Nov.
5, 1660, and was graduated at Harvard college in
1677. He was ordained as successor of Mr.
Flint, June 28, 1682. From this period he con
tinued in the ministry till his death, May 26, 1730,
aged 70 years. Dr. Samuel Danforth, of Boston,
was his grandson. Jonathan Bowman, who sur
vived him, was ordained his colleague Nov. 5,
1729. Mr. Danforth was a man of great learn
ing. While he possessed an uncommon acquain
tance with mathematics, he had also a taste for
poetry. He wrote many epitaphs upon the good
Christians of his flock. He was an eminent ser
vant of Jesus Christ, being sound in his princi
ples, zealous to promote the salvation of his
brethren, upright, holy, and devout. The follow
ing lines, which are a version of Mr. Eliot's hints
on the proper method of .teaching the Indians the
Christian religion, may serve as a specimen of
lu's poetry.
" Till agriculture and cohabitation
Come under full restraint and regulation,
Much you would do you '11 find impracticable,
And much you do will prove unprofitable.
The common lands, that lie unfenc'd, you know,
The husbandman in vain doth plough and sow;
We hope iu vain the plant of grace will thrive
In forests, where civility can't live."
He published a sermon at the departure of Mr.
Lord and his church for Carolina, 1697 ; kneel
ing at parting, a sermon, and a poem on J. Eliot,
1697 ; the blackness of sinning against the light,
1710 ; funeral sermon on E. Bromfield; judgment
begun at the house of God, 1716; two sermons
on the earthquake, to which is added, a poem on
the death of P. Thacher of Milton, and S. Dan
forth of Taunton, 1727; a fast sermon; a poem
on the death of Ami Eliot, and verses to the
memory of her husband, John Eliot. — Coll.
Hist. Soc. ix. 176, 177; New England Weekly
Journal, June 1, 1730.
DANFORTH, SAMUEL, minister of Taunton,
Mass., was the son of Mr. Danforth of Roxbury,
and was born Dec. 18, 1666. He was graduated
at Harvard college in 1683, and married the
daughter of Rev. J. Allen of Boston. He died
Nov. 14, 1727. He was one of the most learned
and eminent ministers of his day. In the begin
ning of the year 1705, by means of his benevolent
labors, a deep impression was made upon the minds
of the people, and a most pleasing reformation
occurred. The youth, who formerly assembled
for amusement and folly, now met for the exalted
purpose of improving in Christian knowledge and
virtue, and of becoming fitted for the joys of the
heavenly and eternal world, in the presence of
Jesus, the Saviour. Several letters of Mr. Dan
forth, giving an account of this reformation, are
preserved in Mr. Prince's Christian history. He
published an eulogy on Thomas Leonard, 1713,
and the election sermon, 1714. He left behind him
a manuscript Indian dictionary, a part of which is
now in the library of the Massachusetts histori
cal society. It seems to have been formed from
Eliot's Indian bible, as there is a reference under
every word to a passage of Scripture. — Hist.
Coll. III. 173; IX. 176 ; Christian Hist. I. 108.
DANFORTH, JONATHAN, captain, died in
Billerica in 1712. He was an eminent surveyor,
frequently employed in locating new towns, and
a man of piety.
DANFORTII, SAMUEL, a member of the
Massachusetts medical society, died in 1817, aged
about 45. He published an oration at Boston
July 4, 1804 ; discourse before the humane soci
ety, 1808.
DANFORTH, SAMUEL, M. D., a physician in
Boston, died Nov. 16, 1827, aged 87. He was
born in 1740, and was the son of Samuel I).,
judge of probate for Middlesex, and the descend
ant of men distinguished in New England. He
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was graduated in 1758, and studied with Dr.
Rand. At this period he became acquainted
with a German physician, probably Dr. Kast, who
exerted an unhappy influence on his religious
opinions. He practised first at Newport; then
settled at Boston. Being a loyalist, he remained
in the town, while it was occupied by the British ;
for which he was afterwards treated harshly.
From 1795 to 1798 he was president of the medi
cal society. Neglecting surgery, he devoted him
self to medicine, and had full practice till he was
nearly eighty years old. For about four years he
was confined to his family. He died of a para
lytic affection. He was tall, thin, erect, with an
aquiline nose and a prominent chin, and a coun
tenance expressive of great sagacity. He em
ployed only a few and powerful remedies, relying
chiefly on calomel, opium, ipecacuanha, and bark.
He rarely caused a patient to be bled. — Tliacli-
er's Med. Biog.
DANFORTH, JOSHUA, colonel, died at Pitts-
field, Mass., Jan. 30, 1837, aged about 78; an
officer in the Revolution, and the oldest post
master in the country. His son, Rev. Joshua N.,
of the neighborhood of Washington, has long
been an acceptable correspondent of religious
papers.
DANIEL, WILLIAM, judge, died at Lynchburg,
Va., Nov. 20, 1839, aged 68. He wa's for the
last twenty-three years a judge of the general
and circuit courts of Virginia, and much respected
foivhis talents and legal knowledge.
DANIELSON, DANIEL, general, died in Brim-
field Sept. 19, 1791, aged 58. His widow mar
ried Gen. Eaton. He was a graduate of Yale in
1756, and a patriot of the Revolution ; a member
of the provincial congress in 1774, a delegate to
Connecticut in 1775 on the subject of raising an
army, and appointed to command a regiment ;
afterwards chief justice of Hampshire county.
Large in person, finely formed, bold and able, he
always had a commanding influence.
DAPONTE, LORENZO, died at New York in
1838, aged 92. He was an Italian ; and he pub
lished several operas.
DARBY, WILLIAM, engineer and geographer,
died in Frederic county, Maryland, in Aug., 1827.
He was an officer under Gen. Jackson in Louis
iana, and was one of the surveyors of the bound
ary between the United States and Canada. He
published a geographical description of Louisiana,
8vo., 1816 ; a map of the same; plan of Pittsburg
and adjacent country, 1817; emigrant's guide to
the western country, 8vo., 1818; tour from New
York to Detroit, 1819 ; memoir on the geography
and history of Florida, with a map, 1821; 3d
edition of Brooke's universal gazetteer, 1823.
DARBY, WILLLUI, died at Washington Oct.
9, 1854, aged 79; a geographer and statistician,
a native of Pennsylvania.
DARKE, WILLIAM, a brave officer during the
American war, died in Jefferson county, Va., Nov.
26, 1801, aged 65. He was born in Philadelphia
county in 1736, and when a boy accompanied his
parents to Virginia. In the nineteenth year of
his age he joined the army under Gen. Braddock,
and shared in the dangers of his defeat in 1755.
In the beginning of the war with Great Britain he
accepted a captain's commission, and served with
great reputation till the close of the war, at
which time he held the rank of major. In 1791
he received from congress the command of a regi
ment in the army under St. Clair, and bore a
distinguished part in the unfortunate battle with
the Indians, Nov. 4th. In this battle he lost a
favorite son, and narrowly escaped with his own
life. In his retirement during his remaining
years, he enjoyed the confidence of the State
which had adopted him, and was honored with
the rank of major-general of the militia. — New
York Spectator, Dec. 18, 1801.
DARLLNG, JOSHUA, judge, died at Ilenniker,
N. H., in 1812. A graduate of Dartmouth in
1794, he was appointed a judge of the common
pleas in 1817. Eleven years before his death he
became a Christian. — BoiitoiiS Funeral Sermon.
DARLING, No YES, judge, died at New Haven
Sept. 17, 1846, aged 64. Born at Woodbridge,
he graduated at Yale in 1801, and Avas mayor of
the city. He was a man of science, and wrote
papers on insects and agriculture.
DARLING, JOSEPH, Dr., died at New Haven
Nov. 15, 1850, aged 91. He graduated at Yale
in 1777.
DAROY, ETIENNE, died at Thibadeauxville,
La., in Nov., 1833, aged 110.
D'ARUSMONT, FANNY WRIGHT, Mrs., died at
Cincinnati Dec. 14, 1852, aged 57. She was born
in Dundee, Scotland, and acquired by her writings
an unenvied notoriety.
D'AULNAY, DE CIIARNISE, or D'Aunai, D'Au-
nay, D'Aulney, as his name is variously written,
governor of Acadia, had a fort at Penobscot as
early as Nov., 1636, and claimed as far as Pema-
quid. About the year 1632 Acadia was divided
into three provinces, and the propriety and gov
ernment assigned to De Razilly, La Tour, and
Denys. The first had the territory from Port
Royal, in the west of Nova Scotia, to New Eng
land; the second had Acadia proper, or Nova
Scotia ; yet La Tour had a fort at the river St.
John, in the province of the first. The rights of
Razilly were, after his death, purchased by
D'Aulnay, who built a fort at Port Royal. His
claims conflicting with those of La Tour, a war
fare was carried on between them. Of these
difficulties a long account is given by Hubbard.
In 1643 and 1644 D'Aulnay still had a fort at
Penobscot. He made a treaty with Gov. Ende-
cott Oct. 8, 1644. Some advantages were de-
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rived from the trade with him. His secretary
afterwards visited Boston to confer with the gov
ernor on certain grievances, and the governor
sent D'Aulnay, as a conciliatory present, the " fair
new sedan," which Capt. Cromwell had given
him. Early in 1645 he captured La Tour's fort
at St. John river, after it had been resolutely de
fended by his wife ; he lost twelve men in the
assault, and in violation of his faith lie put to
deatli all the men in the fort, except one, whom
he made the hangman of the others. The jew
els, plate, etc., were estimated at 10,000 pounds.
La Tour's wife died with grief in three weeks.
After D'Aulnay's death La Tour married his
widow. Such was the termination of the quarrel.
— 2 Hist. Coll. vi. 478-499; Charlevoix, I. 411.
DAVENPORT, JOHN, first minister of New
Haven, and one of the founders of the colony of
that name, died March 15, 1670, aged 72. He
•was born in the city of Coventry in England. In
1613 he was sent to Merton college, Oxford,
where he continued about two years. He was
then removed to Magdalen hall, which he left
without a degree. Retiring to London, he be
came an eminent preacher among the Puritans,
and at length minister of St. Stephen's church in
Coleman street. In 1625 he went to Magdalen
hall, and, performing the exercise required, took
the degree of bachelor of divinity. By his great
industry he became a universal scholar, and as a
preacher he held the first rank. There was in
his delivery a gravity, an energy, and an engaging
eloquence, which were seldom witnessed. About
the year 1630 he united with Dr. Gouge, Dr.
Sibs, and others, in a design of purchasing im-
propriations, and with the profits of them to pro
vide ministers for poor and destitute congregations.
Such progress was made in the execution of the
plan, that all the church lands in the possession
of laymen would soon have been obtained ; but
Bishop Laud, who was apprehensive that the
project would promote the interests of noncon
formity, caused the company to be dissolved, and
the money to be confiscated to the use of his
majesty. As Mr. Davenport soon became a con
scientious nonconformist, the persecutions to
which he was exposed obliged him to resign his
pastoral charge in Coleman street, and to retire
into Holland at the close of the year 1633. He
was invited to become the colleague of the aged
Mr. Paget, pastor of the English church in Am
sterdam ; but, as he soon withstood the promis
cuous baptism of children, which was practised in
Holland, he became engaged in a controversy,
which, in about two years, obliged him to desist
from his public ministry. He now contented
himself with giving private instruction ; but, his
situation becoming uncomfortable, he returned to
London. A letter from Mr. Cotton, giving a
favorable account of the colony of Massachusetts,
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induced Mr. Davenport to come to Boston, where
he arrived June 26, 1637, in company with Mr.
Eaton and Mr. Hopkins. He was received with
great respect, and in August was a prudent and
useful member of the synod, which was occa
sioned by the errors of the day. He sailed with
his company March 30, 1638, for Quinnipiack, or
New Haven, to found a new colony. He preached
under an oak April 18th, the first Sabbath after
their arrival, and he was minister there near
thirty years. His successors were Street, Pier-
pont, Noyes, Whittlesey, Dana, Stuart, Taylor,
and Bacon. He endeavored to establish a civil
and religious order more strictly in conformity to
the word of God than he had seen exhibited in
any part of the world. In the government which
was established, it was ordained that none but
members of the church should enjoy the privi
leges of freemen. He was anxious to promote
the purity of the church, and he therefore wrote
against the result of the synod of 1662, which
met in Massachusetts, and recommended a more
general baptism of children than had before that
time been practised. He was scrupulously careful
in admitting persons to church communion, it
being a fixed principle with him, that no person
should be received into the church, who did not
exhibit satisfactory evidence that he was truly
penitent and believing. He did not think it pos
sible to render the church perfectly pure, as men
could not search into the heart ; but he was per
suaded that there should be a discrimination.
After the death of Mr. Wilson, pastor of the
first church in Boston, in 1667, Mr. Davenport was
invited to succeed him ; and at the close of the
year he accordingly removed to that town. He
was now almost seventy years of age, and his
church and people were unwilling to be separated
from him; but his colony of New Haven had
been blended with Connecticut, and he hoped to
be more useful in Boston, where the strictness of
former times in relation to ecclesiastical discipline
had been somewhat relaxed. lie was ordained
pastor Dec. 9, 1668, and James Allen at the
same time teacher. But his labors in this place
were of short continuance, for he soon died of an
apoplexy. He was a distinguished scholar, an
admirable preacher, and a man of exemplary
piety and virtue. Yet his philosophy was so im
perfect, that, in his letter to Gov. Winthrop, ac
knowledging an almanac, which predicts four
eclipses in these words, " Twice shall this planet,
whereon we live, and its concomitant, the moon,
widow each other of their sun-derived lustre," he
remarks, "The place whereon we live is the
earth, — the place, I say, not the planet." Such
was his reputation, that he was invited with Mr.
Cotton and Mr. Hooker to take a seat among
the Westminster divines. Knowing- the efficacy
of prayer, he recommended with earnestness cjac
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ulatory addresses to Heaven. His intrepidity
saved Whalley and Goffe, the judges of King
Charles, who fled to New Haven in 1661. He
concealed them in his own house, and, when the
pursuers were coming to New Haven, preached
publicly from Isaiah xvi. 3, 4, believing it to be a
duty to afford them protection. His portrait is
in the museum of Yale college. He owned a
servant boy, worth 10 pounds ; his books were
appraised at 233 pounds. His letters to Wmthrop
are annexed to Bacon's historical discourses. lie
published a sermon on 2 Samuel, I. 18, 1629; a
letter to the Dutch classis, wherein is declared the
miserable slavery and bondage that the English
church at Amsterdam is now in by reason of the
tyrannical government and corrupt doctrines of
Mr. John Paget, 1634; instructions to the elders
of the English church, to be propounded to the
pastors of the Dutch church ; a report of some
proceedings about his calling to the English
church, against John Paget; allegations of Scrip
ture against the baptizing of some kind of in
fants; protestation about the publication of his
writings, all in 1634 ; an apologetical reply to the
answer of W. Best, 1636 ; a discourse about civil
government in a new plantation, whose design is
religion ; a profession of his faith made at his
admission into one of the churches of New Eng
land, 1642 ; the knowledge of Christ, wherein
the types, prophecies, etc., relating to him, are
opened ; the Messiah is already come, a sermon,
1653 ; saint's anchor holds in all storms and tem
pests, 1661 ; essay for investigation of the truth,
1663 ; election sermon, 1669 ; God's call to his
people to turn unto him, in two fast sermons,
1670 ; the power of congregational churches as
serted and vindicated, in answer to a treatise of
Mr. Paget, 1672. He also wrote in Latin a let
ter to John Dury, which was subscribed by the
rest of the ministers of New Haven colony, and
he gave his aid to Mr. Norton, in his life of Cot
ton. He left behind him an exposition on the
Canticles, in a hundred sheets of small hand
writing, but it was never published. — Wood's
Ath. Oxon, n. 460-462, 650 ; Mather's Magnolia,
III. 51-57; Trumbull's Connecticut, I. 89, 490-
492 ; HutcJtinson, I. 84, 226 ; Winthrop ; Holmes ;
Stiles' History of three of the Judges, 32, 69 ;
Bacon's Historical Discourses, 390.
DAVENPORT, JOHN, minister of Stamford,
Conn., grandson of the preceding, was the son of
John D.,of New Haven; his mother was Abigail,
daughter of Rev. A. Pierson. He was graduated
at Harvard college in 1687, ordained in 1694, and
died Feb. 5, 1731, aged 61. His daughter, Sarah,
married first Mr. Maltby of New Haven, and then
Rev. E. Wheelock ; another daughter was the
first wife of Rev. Wm. Gaylord. Courageous in
the reprehension of prevalent vices, particularly
drunkenness, and pungent in his addresses to
the conscience, he was eminently faithful as a
minister, and, being devout and exemplary in his
life, he was revered by all good men. The origi
nal languages in which the Scriptures are written
were almost as familiar to him as his mother
tongue. When he read the Bible in his family,
he did not make use of the English translation,
but of the Greek and Hebrew original. — Cook's
Funeral Sermon.
DAVENPORT, ADDIXGTOX, judge of the su
preme court of Massachusetts, was graduated at
Harvard college in 1689, and was afterwards
clerk of the courts. In 1715 he was appointed
a judge. He died April 2, 1736, aged 66.
DAVENPORT, ADDINGTON, Episcopal minis
ter in Boston, died in 1746, aged about 45. He
graduated at Harvard in 1719; was a minister at
Scituate from 1730 to 1737; then at King's chapel,
Boston, from 1737 to 1740 ; and then was the
first rector of Trinity church. His wife was a
daughter of Grove Hirst, a merchant of Boston ;
her sister, Maria, married Sir William Pepperell.
DAVENPORT, JAMES, minister of Southhokl,
Long Island, son of Rev. John D., died in 1757,
aged about 45. He was graduated at Yale college
in 1732. lie had been esteemed for some years
a sound, pious, and faithful minister at Southhokl,
when, in the religious excitement of 1740 and
1741, he was borne away by a strange enthusi
asm. He preached in New Haven and other
towns, and encouraged the outcries and agita
tions by which religion was disgraced. His voice
he raised to the highest pitch, and gave it a tune,
which was characteristic of the separate preachers.
In his zeal he examined ministers as to the
reality of their religion, and warned the people
against unconverted ministers. In 1742 the
assembly of Connecticut, deeming him under the
influence of enthusiastic impulses, directed the
governor and council to transport him out of the
colony to the place whence he came. Without
doubt he was enthusiastic ; but the assembly was
equally bewildered, being arbitrary and tyranni
cal. At last, through the influence of Mr. Whee-
lock and Mr. Williams, he was convinced of his
error, and published an ample confession and
retractation in 1744. His brother, Abraham,
colonel and judge, of Stamford, died in 1789.
His son, John, born at Ercchold, Aug. 11, 1752,
was graduated at Princeton in 1769, and after
studying with Drs. Bellamy and Buell was min
ister of Bedford, N. Y., and Deerfield, N. J. In
1809, he returned to the State of New York and
died at Lysander, July 13, 1821. — Trumbull,ll.
167, 189.
DAVENPORT, JAMES, judge, died at Stam
ford Aug. 3, 1797, aged 37. He was the son of
the preceding, a graduate of 1777 ; and was a
judge of the common pleas and a member of
congress. His four daughters married as follows :
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Elizabeth married Charles Apthorp of Boston,
and their daughter married Ilev. Dr. Bushncll of
Hartford ; Abigail married Rev. Mr. Whelpley of
New York ; Mary Ann married Rev. Mr. Bruen
of New York ; and Frances married Rev. Dr. T.
II. Skinner of New York.
DAVENPORT, ABRAHAM, colonel, died sud
denly at Danbury, where he was attending a court
as judge of the common pleas, in Nov., 1789, aged
about 75. He was the son of Rev. John D. of
Stamford: his mother was a daughter of Jabcz
Huntington of "VVindham. He was graduated in
1732, and lived at Stamford. A patriot of the
Revolution, he was of stern integrity, and yet
generous beneficence. In a time of scarcity and
high prices he sold the produce of his farms to
the poor at the old prices. He was an exemplary
Christian. Being a member of the council at
Hartford on the dark day, May 19, 1780, when it
was proposed to adjourn, as some thought the
day of judgment was at hand, he objected, say
ing, "That day is either at hand, or it is not : if it is
not, there is no cause of adjournment ; if it is, I
choose to be found doing my duty. I wish, there
fore, candles may be brought."
DAVENPORT, MARY, died in Brooklyn June
25, 1847, aged 92, an eminent Christian. She
was the widow of John D., of Stamford, a mem
ber of congress, who died in 1830, aged 78. Her
father was Rev. Noah Welles of Stamford.
DAVEZAC, AUGUSTE, charge to Holland, died
Feb. 15, 1851, aged about 74. Born in St. Do
mingo, he emigrated to North Carolina, and set
tled as a lawyer in New Orleans. In the war
of 1812 he was aid to Gen. Jackson, by whom he
was appointed secretary of legation to the Neth
erlands. He was also appointed to Holland.
DAVIDSON, WILLIAM, brigadier-general, a
soldier of the Revolution, was born in 1740, the
son of George D., who removed in 1750 from
Pennsylvania to Rowan county, North Carolina.
He was a major in one of the first regiments of
North Carolina, and served in New Jersey. In
Nov., 1779, he was detached to reinforce Lin
coln at the South. On his march he visited his
family, from which he had been absent nearly
three years ; such were the sacrifices of the heroes
who fought for American liberty. In an action
with a party of the loyalists near Gallon's mill, at
the West, a ball passed through his body near the
kidneys; but from this wound he recovered in
two months, and instantly rejoined the army,
being appointed brigadier in the place of Ruther
ford, taken prisoner at Camden. Jan. 31, 1781,
he was ordered by Greene to guard the ford of
the Catawba, which Cornwallis might attempt to
pass. In the action with the superior force of
the enemy, Feb. 1, Gen. Davidson was shot
through the breast and instantly fell dead. The
British lieut.-colonel Hall was also killed; and
Cornwallis had a horse shot under him. Con
gress ordered a monument to his memory, not
exceeding 500 dollars in value. He was a man
of pleasing address, active and indefatigable, and
devoted to the cause of his country. — Lee's
Memoirs, I. 271, 397.
DAVIDSON, JAMES, professor of languages in
the university of Pennsylvania, died June 28,
1809, aged 77. He published an introduction to
the Latin, 1798.
DAVIDSON, LUCRETIA MARIA, a youthful
poetess, died Aug. 27, 1825, aged nearly 17.
She was born at Plattsburg, on lake Champlain,
Sept. 27, 1808, being the second daughter of Dr.
Oliver Davidson and Margaret his wife. Her
parents being in straitened circumstances, much
of her time was devoted to the cares of home ;
yet she read much, and wrote poetry at a very
early age. When her productions were discov
ered by her mother in a dark closet, she in her
sensitiveness and modesty burned them. After
wards she wrote an epitaph upon a robin in her
9th year, which is the earliest remaining specimen
of her verse. Before she was 12 years old, she
had read much history, the dramatic works of
Shakspearc, Kotzebue, and Goldsmith, together
with popular novels and romances. She was fre
quently seen watching the storm, the clouds, the
rainbow, the setting sun, for hours. At the1 age
of 12, a gentleman, who was pleased with her
verses, sent her a bank-bill for 20 dollars. She
wished to buy books ; but, her mother being at
this time sick, she instantly carried the money to
her father, saying, " Take it, father ; it will buy
many comforts for mother ; I can do without the
books." Knowing that some people had coun
selled her parents to deprive her of pen, ink, and
paper, and confine her to domestic toils, she re
linquished her books and her pen entirely for sev
eral months, though with tears ; till her mother
advised her to alternate her studies and the busi
ness of the world. She composed with great
rapidity ; yet her thoughts so outstripped her pen,
that she often wished that she had two pair of
hands, that she might employ them in writing.
She was often, when walking, in danger from car
riages, in consequence of her absence of mind.
Often did she forget her meals. She had a burn
ing thirst for knowledge. In Oct., 1824, a gen
tleman, on a visit to Plattsburg, saw some of her
verses, and was made acquainted with her char
acter and circumstances. He determined to give
her the best education. On knowing his purpose,
her joy was almost greater than she could bear.
She was placed in Mrs. Willard's school at Troy;
but her incessant application was perilous to her
health. After returning home and recovering
from illness, she was sent to Miss Gilbert's school
at Albany. But soon she was again very ill. On
her return, the hectic flush of her check indicated
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her approaching fate. She awaited the event
with a reliance on the divine promises, hoping for
salvation through the Lord Jesus Christ, The
last name she pronounced was that of her pa
tron. In her 15th year she wrote the following
verses.
"TO A STAR.
" How calmly, brightly, dost tliou shine,
Like the pure lamp in Virtue's shrine?
Sure, the fair world, which thou may'st boast,
AVas never ransomed, never lost.
There, beings pure as Heaven's own air,
Their hopes, their joys together share ;
While hovering angels touch the string,
And seraphs spread the sheltering wing.
There, cloudless days and brilliant nights,
Illumed by Heaven's refulgent lights,
There, seasons, years unnoticed roll,
And unregretted by the soul.
Thou little, sparkling Star of Even —
Thou gem upon an azure Heaven!
How swiftly will I soar to thee,
When this imprisoned soul is free! "
Her person was singularly beautiful. She had
" a high, open forehead, a soft black eye, perfect
symmetry of features, a fair complexion, and lux
uriant dark hair. The prevailing expression of
her face was melancholy."
Her poetical writings, besides many which were
burnt, amount to two hundred and seventy-eight
pieces, among which were five poems of several
cantos each. She also wrote some romances, and
a tragedy. A biographical sketch, with a collec
tion of her poems, was published by Mr. Samuel
F. B. Morse, in 1829, with the title ot " Amir
Khan, and other Poems : the remains of L. M.
Davidson." Of this work a very interesting re
view, which may be imagined, by those conver
sant with his writings, to have come from the pen
of Ilobert Southey, is contained in the London
quarterly review for 1829. The writer says, " Ir
our own language, except in the cases of Chatter-
ton and Kirke White, we can call to mind no
instance of so early, so ardent, and so fatal t
pursuit of intellectual advancement." By the
early death of a person of such growing powei
and unequalled promise we may well be taught the
vanity of earthly hopes, and be led to estimate
more highly and to seek more earnestly a lasting
dwelling-place in the world of unclouded light
and perfect holiness, and purest joy. Her life bj
Miss Sedgwick has been published.
DAVIE, MARY, died at Newton, Mass., ii
1752, aged 116 years. Her portrait, drawn bj
Smibcrt, is in the museum of the historical so
ciety. — Holmes.
DAVIE, WILLIAM RICHARDSON, brigadier-gen
eral, governor of North Carolina, died Nov. 8
1820, aged 04. He was born at the village o:'
E°Temont, near AVhite Haven, England, came ti
this country in 1763, and was graduated a
Princeton college in 1776. He soon afterward
entered the army as an officer in the cavalry of
DAVIES.
?ount Pulaski's legion. By his talents and zeal
soon rose to the rank of colonel. He fought
at Stono, where he was severely wounded; at
langing Ilock and Rocky Mount. Having great
trength and activity, it was his delight to lead a
;harge and to engage in personal conflict. At
he period of Gates' defeat he expended the last
hilling of an estate, bequeathed him by his
incle, Ilev. Wm. Richardson, in equipping the
ionary corps, which he commanded. Greene
appointed him a commissary. During the whole
struggle he displayed great zeal and energy.
After the war he devoted himself to the profes-
ion of the law at Halifax, on the P.oanoke, and
rose to eminence. He was a member of the
onvention which framed the constitution of the
United States, though his absence prevented his
name from being affixed to it ; and in the con
vention of North Carolina he was an able advo-
ate for its acceptance. Through his efforts the
university of North Carolina was established. In
1799 he was elected governor ; but he was soon
appointed by President Adams envoy to France,
with Ellsworth and Murray. His residence after
his return was at Tivoli, a beautiful estate on the
Catawba river, in South Carolina. He died at
Camden. His wife, Sarah, was the daughter of
Gen. Allen Jones. Of a commanding figure, he
was dignified in his manners, and distinguished
for his patriotic spirit and soldierly qualities, for
manly eloquence, and for the virtues of private
life. — Lee, I. 381.
DAVIES, SAMUEL, president of Princeton col
lege in New Jersey, died Feb. 4, 1761, aged 36.
He was of Welsh descent, and born Nov. 3, 1724.
His father was a planter in the county of New
castle on the Delaware, of great simplicity of man
ners and reputed piety. He was an only son ; a
daughter was born five years before. His mother,
an eminent Christian, had earnestly besought him
of Heaven, and, believing him to be given in answer
to prayer, she named him Samuel. This excellent
woman took upon herself the task of teaching
her son to read, as there was no school in the
neighborhood ; and her efforts were rewarded by
the uncommon proficiency of her pupil. At the
age of ten he was sent to a school at some dis
tance from home, and continued in it two years.
His mind was at this period very little impressed
by religious truth, though he was not inattentive
to secret prayer, especially in the evening ; but it
was not long before that God, to whom he had
been dedicated, and who designed him for emi
nent service in the gospel of his Son, was pleased
to enlighten and renew him. Perceiving himself
to be a sinner, exposed to the awful displeasure
of God, he was filled with anxiety and terror. In
this distress he was enabled to discern the value
of the salvation revealed in the gospel. This
divine system of mercy now appeared in a new
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light. It satisfied his anxious inquiries, and made
provision for all his wants. In the blood and
righteousness of the Redeemer he found an un
failing source of consolation. His comforts, how
ever, were long intermingled with doubts ; but,
after repeated and impartial self-examination, he
attained a confidence respecting his state, which
continued to the close of life. From this period
his mind seemed almost entirely absorbed by
heavenly things, and it was his great concern that
every thought, word, and action should correspond
with the divine law. Having tasted the joys and
made a profession of religion at the age of fifteen,
he became eagerly desirous of imparting to his
fellow sinners the knowledge of the truth. With
this object before him, he engaged with new ardor
in literary and theological pursuits, under Samuel
Blair. Every obstacle was surmounted ; and,
after the previous trials, which he passed with
distinguished approbation, he was licensed to
preach the gospel at the age of twenty-two. He
was also ordained Feb. 19, 1747, that he might
be qualified to perform pastoral duties.
He now applied himself to unfold and enforce
those precious truths, whose power he had expe
rienced on his own heart. His fervent zeal and
undissembled piety, his popular talents and en
gaging methods of address, soon excited general
admiration. At this time an uncommon regard
to religion existed in Hanover county, Virginia,
produced by the benevolent exertions of Mr.
Morris, a layman. The event was so remakable,
and the Virginians in general were so ignorant of
the true doctrines of the gospel, that the presby
tery of Newcastle thought it incumbent upon
them to send thither a faithful preacher. Mr.
Davies was accordingly chosen. He went to
Hanover in April, 1747, and soon obtained of the
general court a license to officiate in four meeting
houses. After preaching assiduously for some
time, and not without effect, he returned from
Virginia, though earnestly invited to continue his
labors. A call for him to settle at Hanover was
immediately sent to the presbytery ; but he was
about this time seized by complaints which ap
peared consumptive, and which brought him to
the borders of the grave. In this enfeebled state
he determined to spend the remainder of his life
in unremitting endeavors to advance the interests
of religion. Being among a people who were
destitute of a minister, his indisposition did not
repress his exertions. lie still preached in the
day, while by night his hectic was so severe as
sometimes to render him delirious. In the spring
of 1748 a messenger from Hanover visited him,
and he thought it his duty to accept the invita
tion of the people in that place. He hoped that
he might live to organize the congregation. His
health, however, gradually improved. In Oct.,
1748, three more meeting-houses were licensed,
37
and among his seven assemblies, which were in
different counties, Hanover, Hcnrico, Caroline,
Louisa, and Goochland, some of them forty miles
distant from each other, he divided his labors.
His home was in Hanover, about twelve miles
from Richmond. His preaching encountered all
the obstacles which could arise from blindness,
prejudice, and bigotry, from profaneness and im
morality. He, and those who attended upon his
preaching, were denominated new lights by the
more zealous Episcopalians. But by his patience
and perseverance, his magnanimity and piety, in
conjunction with his evangelical and powerful
ministry, he triumphed over opposition. Con
tempt and aversion were gradually turned into
reverence. Many were attracted by curiosity to
hear a man of such distinguished talents, and he
proclaimed to them the most solemn and impres
sive truths with an energy which they could not
resist. It pleased God to accompany these exer
tions with the efficacy of his Spirit. In about
three years Mr. Davies beheld three hundred
communicants in his congregation, whom he con
sidered as real Christians. He had also in this
period baptized about forty adult negroes, who
made such a profession of saving faith as he
judged credible. He had a long controversy
with the Episcopalians, who denied, while he
maintained, that the " act of toleration" extended
to Virginia. On this point he contended with the
attorney-general, Peyton Randolph, and once ad
dressed the court with great learning and elo
quence. When he afterwards went to England,
he obtained from Sir Dudley Rider, attorney-
general, a declaration, that the act did extend to
Virginia. In 1753 the synod of New York, by
request of the trustees of New Jersey college,
chose him to accompany Gilbert Tennent to Great
Britain to solicit benefactions for the college.
This service he cheerfully undertook, and he ex
ecuted it with singular spirit and success. He
arrived in London Dec. 25. He preached before
the king by his command. As his majesty spoke
aloud to some around him, remarking on the
sermon, Dr. D. looked at him and repeated Amos
III., 8, which silenced him ; he afterward said of
him, " An honest man, an honest man ! " The
liberal benefactions, obtained from the patrons of
religion and learning, placed the college in a re
spectable condition. After his return to America
he entered anew, in 1754 or early in 1755, on his
beloved task of preaching the gospel in Hanover.
Here he continued till 1759, when he was chosen
president of the college, as successor of Mr. Ed
wards. He hesitated in his acceptance of the
appointment, for his people were endeared to
him, and he loved to be occupied in the various
duties of the ministerial office. But repeated ap
plications and the unanimous opinion of the synod
of New York and Philadelphia at length deter-
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mined him. He was dismissed May 13, and
entered upon his new office July 6, 1759. Here
the vigor and versatility of his genius were strik
ingly displayed. The ample opportunities and
demands which he found for the exercise of his
talents gave a new spring to his diligence ; and,
while his active labors were multiplied and ar
duous, his studies were intense. He left the
college at his death in as high a state of literary
excellence as it had ever known since its institu
tion. In the short space of eighteen months he
made some considerable improvements in the
seminary, and was particularly happy in inspiring
his pupils with a taste for writing and oratory, in
which he himself so much excelled.
His habit of body being plethoric, the exercise
of riding, to which he Avas much habituated in
Virginia, was probably the means of preserving his
health. At Princeton his life was sedentary, and
his application to study incessant from morning
till midnight. At the close of Jan., 1761, he was
bled for a bad cold, and the next day transcribed
for the press his sermon on the death of George
II. The day following he preached twice in the
chapel. His arm became inflamed, and a violent
fever succeeded, to which he fell a victim in ten
days. His new year's sermon, in the preceding
month, was from the text, " This year thou shall
die," as was also President's Burr's on the first
day of the year in which he died. Dr. Wither-
spoon avoided preaching on that occasion from
that text. President Davies was succeeded by
Dr. Finley. His venerable mother, Martha
Davies, survived him. When he was laid in the
coffin, she gazed at him a few minutes, and said,
" There is the son of my prayers and my hopes —
my only son — my only earthly support. But
there is the will of God, and I am satisfied." She
afterwards lived in the family of her son's friend,
llev. Dr. Rodgers of New York, till her death.
His widow, Jean Davies, returned to her friends
in Virginia. His son, Col. William Davies, now
deceased, studied law and settled at Norfolk ; was
an officer of merit in the Revolution ; and en
joyed in a high degree the esteem of Washington.
His son, John Rodgers Davies, also studied law,
and settled in Sussex, Va. Samuel Davies, the
third son, died at Petersburgh. An only daugh
ter, unmarried, was living in 1822.
The Father of Spirits had endued Mr. Davies
with the richest intellectual gifts ; with a vigorous
understanding, a glowing imagination, a fertile
invention, united with a correct judgment, and a
retentive memory. He was bold and enterpris
ing, and destined to excel in whatever he under
took. Yet was he divested of the pride of talents
and of science, and, being moulded into the tem
per of the gospel, he consecrated all his powers
to the promotion of religion. " O, my dear
brother," says he in a letter to his friend, Dr.
Gibbons, " could we spend our lives in painful,
disinterested, indefatigable service for God and
the world, how serene and bright would it render
the swift approaching eve of life ! I am laboring
to do a little to save my country, and, which is of
much more consequence, to save souls from death ;
from that tremendous kind of death which a soul
can die. I have but little success, of late ; but,
blessed be God, it surpasses my expectation, and
much more my desert." His religion was purely
evangelical. It brought him to the foot of the
cross to receive salvation as a free gift. It ren
dered him humble and dissatisfied with himself
amidst his highest attainments. While he con
tended earnestly for the great and distinguishing
doctrines of the gospel, he did not attach any un
due importance to points respecting which Chris
tians may differ. It was the power of religion,
and not any particular form, that he was desirous
of promoting, and real worth ever engaged his es
teem and affection. Having sought the truth
with diligence, he avowed his sentiments with the
greatest simplicity and courage. Though decided
in his conduct, he was yet remarkable for the
gentleness and suavity of his disposition. A
friend, who was very intimate with him for a
number of years, never observed him once angry
during that period. His ardent benevolence ren
dered him the delight of his friends and the ad
miration of all who knew him. In his generous
eagerness to supply the wants of the poor he often
exceeded his ability. As a parent he felt all the
solicitude which nature and grace could inspire.
" There is nothing," he writes, " that can wound
a parent's heart so deeply, as the thought, that he
should bring up children to dishonor his God
here, and be miserable hereafter. I beg your
prayers for mine, and you may expect a return in
the same kind. We have now three sons and
two daughters. My dear little creatures sob and
drop a tear now and then, under my instructions ;
but I am not so happy as to see them under deep
and lasting impressions of religion ; and this is
the greatest grief they afford me." As president
of the college he possessed an admirable mode of
government and instruction. He watched over
his pupils with the tender solicitude of a father,
and secured equally their reverence and love. He
seized every opportunity to inculcate on them
the worth of their souls, and the pressing neces
sity of securing immediately the blessings of
salvation.
Dr. Davies was a model of the most striking
oratoiy. It is probable, that the eloquent spirit
of Patrick Henry, who lived in his neighborhood
from his eleventh to his twenty-second year, was
kindled by listening to his impassioned addresses ;
such as his .patriotic sermons of July 20, 1755,
after the defeat of Braddock ; and of August, on
religion and patriotism the constituents of a good
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soldier ; in a note to which, he says : " I may
point out to the public that heroic youth, Col.
Washington, whom I cannot but hope Provi
dence has hitherto preserved, in so signal a man
ner, /br some important service to his country."
A similar sermon was preached to the militia
May 8, 1759, a few days before he left his peo
ple, in order to raise a company for Capt. Mere
dith. It was raised on the spot. When he went
to the tavern to order his horse, the whole regi
ment followed, and from the porch he again ad
dressed them, till he was exhausted. As his per
sonal appearance was august and venerable, yet
benevolent and mild, he could address his auditory
either with the most commanding authority, or
with the most melting tenderness. When he
spoke, he seemed to have the glories and terrors
of the unseen world in his eye. He seldom
preached without producing some visible emotions
in great numbers present, and without making an
impression on one or more, which was never
effaced. His favorite themes were the utter de
pravity and impotence of man ; the sovereignty
and free grace of Jehovah ; the divinity of Christ ;
the atonement in his blood; justification through
his righteousness ; and regeneration and sanctifi-
cation by the Holy Spirit. He viewed these
doctrines as constituting the essence of the Chris
tian scheme, and he considered those, who at
tempted to subvert and explain them away, as
equally hostile to the truth of God and the best
interests of men. His printed sermons, which
exhibit his sentiments, abound with striking
thoughts, with the beauties and elegancies of
expression, and with the richest imagery. His
highly ornamented style is the more pardonable,
as he was by nature a poet, and forms of express
ion were familiar to him, which to others may
seem unnatural and alFected.
He published a sermon on man's primitive
state, 1748; the state of religion among the pro-
testant dissenters of Virginia, in a letter to Joseph
Bellamy, 17<51; religion and patriotism the con
stituents of a good soldier, a sermon before a com
pany of volunteers, 1755; Virginia's danger and
remedy, two discourses occasioned by the severe
drought, and the defeat of Gen. Braddock, 1756 ;
curse of cowardice, a sermon before the militia of
Virginia, 17.37 ; letters from 1751 to 1757, show
ing the state of religion in Virginia, particularly
among the negroes; the vessels of mercy and the
vessels of wrath ; little children invited to Jesus
Christ, 1758; sixth edit, has an account of a re
vival at Princeton college ; valedictory address to
the senior class, 1760 ; a sermon on the death of
George II., 1761 ; sermons on the most useful and
important subjects, 3 vols. 8vo., 1765 ; which have
passed through a number of editions ; the third
in 5 vols. 1772-4; and sermons, 2 vols. 8vo. —
Preface to his Sermons ; Finley's and Gibbon's
Funeral Sermon ; Gibbon's Eleg. Poem ; Pano-
plist, II. 155-160, 249-256, 302-307 ; Middle-
ton's Biog. Evany., IV. 341-350; Assembly's
Miss. Mag., I. 371, 425, 536, 578; II. 341-350;
State of Relig. in Virginia ; Bosticick's Ace.
Prefixed to Davies' Sermon on George II. ;
Green's Discourses, 333-356 ; liice's Memoirs
of Davies ; Quar. Register, May, 1837.
DAVIESS, JOSEPH HAMILTON, colonel, attor
ney of the United States for Kentucky, volun
teered in the expedition against the savages in
1811, and fell Nov. 7th, as did also Col. Owen, in
the battle of Tippccanoe, in which Gen. Harrison
defeated the Indians. When they suddenly at
tacked the American encampment at four o'clock
in the morning, Col. Daviess asked permission to
charge the enemy, and, making the charge with
only sixteen dragoons, he was killed. Though it
was yet dark, his white blanket coat enabled the
savages to distinguish him. He was a man of
talents, honored in his profession, and beloved in
social life. His wife was Nancy, the sister of chief
justice Marshall. He published in 1807 a view
of the president's conduct concerning the conspi
racy of 1806. — Schoolcraft's Trav., 1821, p. 135.
DAVIS, SYLVAXUS, captain, an early settler of
Falmouth, or Portland, Me., died in Boston in
1703. He purchased land of the Indians at
Damariscotta, June, 1659, also other tracts. For
some time he resided at Sheepscott. In Aug.,
1676, when the Indians captured the fort on
Arousic island, he fled and crosced to the west
side of the Kennebec in a boat with Capt. Lake.
Lake was shot and killed as he landed, while Davis
escaped with a severe wound. Early in 1677 he
accompanied the expedition under Maj. Wal-
dron, and was left by him with forty men in com
mand of a fort on Arousic island ; but the garri
son was soon recalled. He became an inhabitant
of Falmouth, where he owned land in 1680. In
1686 the ferry was granted to him at Xonsuch
point, near Vaughan's bridge. Early in 1690, he
took the command of fort Loyal in Falmouth, in
which he was besieged, May 16th, by four or five
hundred French and Indians. He fought the
enemy five days, and then was obliged to surren
der, May 20, after requiring Portneuf, the French
leader, to lift up his hand and swear by the great
God to protect all in the fort and allow them to
march to the next English town ; but the treach
erous commander forgot his oath, and conducted
the prisoners to Canada, being twenty-four days
on the road. After remaining four months in Que
bec he was exchanged. He was named a coun
cillor in 1691, in the charter of William and Mary ;
and Gov. Phipps appointed him to the same office
in 1692. — Maine Hist. Coll. I. 168, 203, 209.
DAVIS, It., published hymns on various sub
jects, Boston, 6th edit., 1741.
DAVIS, JOHN A. G.f professor of law in the
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university of Va., was shot by a student and died
Nov. 14, 1840, aged 39. He had been ten years
in office ; and was amiable, industrious, of high
intelligence, a member of the Episcopal church.
He published a treatise on criminal law, and a
guide to justices of the peace, 1838.
DAVIS, DANIEL, died at Barnstable April 28,
1799, aged 85. Born in B., he was judge of pro
bate, and of the common pleas. Of excellent
temper and character, a pillar of the church, he
left the world blessing those around him, and ex
pressing the assured hope of everlasting glory.
Mr. Mellen's sermon on his death was published.
DAVIS, RICHARD B., died at his father's in New
Brunswick in 1799, aged 28, of the yellow fever,
taken in New York. In 1796 he edited " The
Diary." His poems with a sketch of his life were
published in 1807.
DAVIS, AUGUSTINE, postmaster at Richmond,
Va., died in that city in 1825. He was the
oldest editor and printer of Virginia. For many
years he conducted the Virginia Gazette. A
zealous politician, he differed from the dominant
party in Virginia.
DAVIS, JOHN, LL. D., judge, died in Boston
Jan. 14, 1847, aged nearly 86 ; a graduate of 1781.
Born in Plymouth, his father was Thomas Davis,
a merchant ; his mother, Mercy Hedge, a descend
ant of Bradford and Brewster. After being a
teacher in the family of Gen. Joseph Otis, of
Barnstable, he studied law and settled in Ply
mouth. In 1795 Washington appointed him
comptroller of the treasury of the United States,
which office after one year he resigned. Being
next appointed United States attorney, he re
moved to Boston. In 1801 he became judge of
the district court, and served for forty years, re
signing at the age of eighty. He was a learned
man in various departments, but he had a special
relish for the history and antiquities of New Eng
land. His labors for the historical society, of
which he was the president, were very important.
He published an address to Massachusetts chari
table society, 1799 ; eulogy on Washington, 1800 ;
discourse before the historical society, in Mass,
historical collections, 2d series, vol. I. ; Morton's
memorial, with notes, 1826. A memoir of him, by
Dr. C. Francis, is in historical collections, 3d
series, vol. x.
DAVIS, MATTHEW L., died in Manhattanville
June 21, 1850, aged 84, a printer and a man of
cultivated mind. He wrote the spy in Washing
ton for the New York Courier, and memoirs of
the life of Aaron Burr.
DAVIS, HENRY, D. D., president of two col
leges, died in Clinton, N. Y., March 7, 1852, aged
about 78. Born in East Hampton, New York,
he graduated at Yale in 1796, and was tutor in
Williams and Yale seven years. From 1805 to
1810, he was professor of Greek at Union college;
then president of Middlcbury until 1817, when he
was chosen president of Hamilton, in which office
he continued until 1833. He published inaugural
oration, 1810 ; sermon before American board of
missions, 1816.
DAVIS, HANNAH, died at Clinton, N. Y., April
16, 1856, aged 85, the widow of President H.
Davis. She was the daughter of Thomas Tread-
well of Smithtown, L. I., who removed to New
York, — a man of worth. She married in 1801,
her husband being then a teacher in Yale college.
With him she lived in New Haven, and also at
Schenectady, Middlebury, and Clinton. At the
last place she was the president of the female
missionary society of western New York. Her
education, temper, talents, and character made
her useful wherever she lived. Her end was
peace, her hope being " in the precious blood of
Christ."
DAVIS, ISAAC P., died in Boston Jan. 13, 1855,
aged 83 ; brother of Judge John D. His mind
was filled with historical and antiquarian lore;
and he was a member of various societies. To
him, as L's friend, Daniel Webster dedicated the
2d vol. of his works.
DAVIS, JOHN, governor, died in Worcester
April 19, 1854, aged 67, sick only a few hours of
the bilious colic. He graduated at Yale in 1812 ;
was many years in Congress, first chosen in 1825;
was chosen governor by the national republicans
of the legislature in 1833, and by the people in
1834, and in other years; and he was also a sen
ator of the United States, at different periods from
1845 to 1853. lie published an obituary of C.
C. Baldwin, in Arch. Americana, II.
DAVY, JOHN, died in Hampshire county, Va.,
Jan., 1839, aged 103. He came to America with
Gen. Wolfe, and was in the battle of Quebec, and
served also in the Avar of the Revolution.
DAWES, THOMAS, judge of the supreme court
of Massachusetts, died July 22, 1825, aged 68.
He was the son of Thomas Dawes, eminent as an
architect, long a member of the senate and coun
cil and deacon of the old south church, Boston,
who died Jan. 2, 1809, aged 77. He was born
in 1757, and graduated at Harvard college in
1777. In the Revolutionary war he espoused
with zeal the cause of his country. After a suc
cessful course of practice at the bar, he was ap
pointed judge of the supreme court in 1792, but
resigned in 1802, and was made judge of probate
for Suffolk. On the decease of Judge Minot he
also received in 1802 the appointment of judge of
the municipal court of Boston, which he held
twenty years. The office of judge of probate he
retained till his death. He was an impartial,
faithful, humane magistrate. In early life he
wrote a feAv pieces of poetry. He published an
oration on the Boston massacre, 1781 ; oration
July 4th, 1787.
DAWSON.
DAWSON, MARTIN, died in May, 1835, in
Albemarlc county, Va., aged 55. By his will he
set free sixty slaves, and removed them to Libe
ria ; and he also gave 40,000 dollars for schools
in Virginia.
DAWSON, WILLIAM C., governor of Georgia,
died at Greensborough in May, 1856. He had
been a senator of the United States.
DAY, STEPHEN, the first printer in New Eng
land, died at Cambridge Dec. 22, 1668, aged 57.
He came to this country in 1638, or early in
1639, for he commenced printing at Cambridge,
by direction of the magistrates and elders, in
March, 1639. Day was employed by Mr. Glover,
who died on his passage. The first thing printed
was the freeman's oath ; next an almanac, made
by Wm. Pierce, mariner ; then the psalms,
" newly turned into metre." He was unskilled in
the art of the compositor, and was an ignorant
printer. The printing-house about 1648 was
taken from him and put into the hands of Sam.
Green. Mr. Farmer, who once had in his pos
session an almanac of 1647, with the imprint of
Matthew Day, regards Matthew as the first
printer ; but Mr. Thomas quotes from the colony
records, which in 1641 speak of" SteevenDay —
the first that sett upon printing." Matthew was
admitted freeman in 1646. The oath and almanac
were printed in 1639 ; the psalms in 1640. Alma
nacs in subsequent years, some of them by S.
Danforth, were printed. Mr. Day also printed a
catechism ; body of liberties, one hundred laws,
1641 ; the psalms, 2d edition, 1647 ; they were
afterwards improved by Dunster. — Thomas, I.
227-234.
DAY, ROBERT, of Hartford, died in 1648, aged
44. He was the ancestor of descendants, two
thousand four hundred in number of persons in
the male line, bearing the name of Day, and
whose names have been published in a register
edited by llev. George E. Day, Northampton,
1848. It is supposed the family lived in Wales,
where the name is Dee, pronounced Day, proba
bly taken from the river Dee, the word signify ing
dark, not light. He was about 30 years old,
when he arrived with his wife Mary in April, 1634,
in the bark Elizabeth, and lived at Cambridge.
The next year, or soon after, he removed to Hart
ford. His second wife was Editha Stebbins. He
had two sons : Thomas, the ancestor of the
Springfield branch, and John of the Hartford ;
and two daughters, Sarah, who married S. Kel
logg of Ilatficld, and was slain by the Indians
Sept. 19, 1677, and Mary, who married S. Ely of
Springfield, then T. Stebbins, and next John Cole-
man of Hatfield. His widow married J. May-
nard, and then Elizur Holyoke of Springfield.
Besides Robert, there were seven others of the
name of Day, who lived in New England, within
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thirty years after its first settlement. Of the sons
of Robert, Thomas is regarded as the head of the
Springfield branch, and John of the Hartford.
DAY, THOMAS, son of Robert, the first of the
Springfield branch, died Dec. 27, 1711. He was
probably about 80 years old, as he was married to
Sarah Cooper fifty-two years before.
DAY, JOHN, son of Robert, the first of the
Hartford branch of Days, died in 1730, aged
probably about 80. His wife was Sarah Maynard.
DAY, DAVID, a descendant of Robert, died in
Colchester, Conn., Sept. 5, 1775, aged 76. He left
a large estate for the support of the gospel in Col
chester, and in Hartland and Rumney, N. II., and
for a high school in C.
DAY, JEREMIAH, minister of New Preston, in
Washington, Conn., died Sept. 12, 1806, aged 69.
He was born in Colchester, the son of Thomas, a
descendant of Robert, lie graduated in 1756.
He was the father of President Day. — Evangel
ical Magazine, VII. p. 217.
DAY, ASA, a useful teacher, died in 1819, aged
58. He was the descendant of John. A grad
uate of Dartmouth in 1783, he taught school in
Pittsficld, for some years, then settled in Stock-
bridge, Mass., where he died.
DAY, ORIN, a descendant of Robert, died at
Catskill Dec. 26, 1846, aged 70 : a Christian, and a
respected and useful citizen. He was a merchant
and banker. Of the bible, tract, education, and
American home missionary societies, he was one
of the founders. He encouraged also the cause
of temperance. — N. Y. Observer, Jan.
DAY, THOMAS, LL. I)., son of Rev. Jeremiah
D., died in Hartford March 1, 1855, aged 77. He
was a graduate of 1797. For twenty-five years
from 1810 he was secretary of State; he was also
judge of the county court. He was a reporter
from 1814 till 1853, preparing and publishing
twenty-six volumes of reports, besides a digest.
He edited also several English law-books ; in all
sixty volumes. He was president of the Conn.,
historical society, and of the Wadsworth athe
naeum. His brother, Col. Noble Day, died in
Hudson, Ohio, Feb. 13, 1855, aged 75.
DAYTON, ELIAS, major-general of the militia
of New Jersey, at the commencement of the
American Revolution, though in the enjoyment of
every domestic blessing, took an active part, and
never quitted the tented field till the consumma
tion of independence. In Feb., 1778, congress
appointed him colonel. He died at Philadelphia
in July, 1807, aged 70. He was open, generous,
and sincere ; ardent in his friendships ; scrupu
lously upright; in manners easy, unassuming, and
pleasant; prompt and diffusive in his charities;
and also a warm supporter of the gospel. At
the time of his death he held the office of major-
general. — Broion's American Register, n. 76.
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DAYTON.
DAYTON, ELIAS B., brigadier-general, died at
Elizabethtown, N, J., Jan. 17, 1846, aged 82, a
much respected citizen. He might have descended
from Ralph D., of Easthampton, L. I., in 1650.
DAYTON, JONATHAN, LL. D., a distinguished
statesman of New Jersey, died at Elizabethtown
Oct. 9, 1824, aged about 68. He was the son of
Gen. Elias ; graduated at Princeton in 1776, and
•was a member of the convention in 1787, and
speaker of the house of representatives of the
United States in 1797. As a member of the
senate he opposed the repeal of the judiciary act
in 1802. He was in the house from 1790 to 1799,
and a senator from 1799 to 180,3. William Lewis
Dayton, one of the candidates for the vice-presi
dency of the United States in 1856, was his
nephew, the son of Joel.
DEAN, BARZILLAI, captain, died at Easton in
a remarkable manner June 29, 1848. He had
erected a new tomb for himself and family, and at
its completion, as he entered it to examine it, the
roof fell and crushed him to death.
DEAN, JAMES, LL. D., died at Burlington
Jan. 20, 1849, aged 73 ; professor of mathemat
ics and natural philosophy in Vermont university.
He was a graduate of Dartmouth in 1800.
DEANE, SILAS, minister of the United States
to the court of France, died Aug. 23, 1789. He
was a native of Groton, Conn., and was gradu
ated at Yale college in 1758. He was a member
of the first congress, which met in 1774. In 1776,
he was deputed to France as a political and com
mercial agent, and he arrived at Paris in June
with instructions to sound the disposition of the
cabinet on the controversy with Great Britain,
and to endeavor to obtain supplies of military
stores. In Sept., it was agreed to appoint minis
ters to negotiate treaties with foreign powers, and
Dr. Franklin and Mr. Jefferson were elected to
join Mr. Deane in France. But Mr. Jefferson
declining the appointment, Arthur Lee, then in
London, was chosen in his place. It is remark
able, that the delegates of Connecticut did not
vote for Mr. Deanc. In Dec., the three commis
sioners met at Paris. Though Mr. Deane assisted
in negotiating the treaty with his most Christian
majesty, yet he had very little to recommend him
to the high station in which he was placed. He
was instructed to engage not exceeding four engin
eers, and he was most profuse in his promises of
offices of rank to induce French gentlemen to
come to America. Congress, being embarrassed
by his contracts, was under the necessity of recall
ing him Nov. 21, 1777, and John Adams was
appointed in his place. He left Paris April 1,
1778. After his arrival in this country, he was
desired to give an account of his transactions on
the floor of congress, but he did not remove al
suspicions of having misapplied the public mon
eys. He evaded the scrutiny by pleading that
DEAIlBOPcN.
liis papers were in Europe. To divert the public
attention from himself, he in Dec. published a
manifesto, in which he arraigned before the bar
of the public, the conduct, not only of those con-
crned in foreign negotiations, but of the mem
bers of congress themselves. In 1784, he pub
lished an address to the citizens of the United
States, complaining, of the manner in which he
had been treated. He went soon afterwards to
Europe, and at last, reduced to extreme poverty,
died in a miserable condition at Deal, in England.
His intercepted letters to his brothers and others
were published in 1782. — Warren's American
Rev., u. 130-137; Marshall, in. 155, 411; iv.
5; Gordon, III. 216.
DEANE, SAMUEL, D. D., minister of Portland,
Me., was graduated at Harvard college in 1760,
and was ordained a colleague with Thomas Smith,
the first minister, Oct. 17, 1764. After preaching
forty-five years, he received as a colleague Icha-
bod Nichols, in June, 1809. He died Nov. 12,
1814, aged about 73. He published election ser
mon, 1794 ; sermon on the death of T. Smith,
1795 ; at thanksgiving ; New England farmer, or
Georgical dictionary, 2d edition, 8vo. 1797.
DEANE, SAMUEL, minister of Scituate, died in
1834, aged 56. He was a graduate of Brown, in
1795. He published a discourse on Christian lib
erty, 1825; the populous village, a poem, 1826;
on human nature, 1827 ; a history of Scituate, in
1831.
DEANE, CHRISTOPHER C., died at Charlestown
June 17, 1854. He had been for twenty years
treasurer and agent of the Massachusetts Sabbath
school society.
DEARBORN, HENRY, major-general, a soldier
of the Revolution, died June 6, 1829, aged 78.
He was a descendant of Godfrey D., who came
from Exeter, England, with his r;on Henry, and
settled at Exeter, N. II., in 1639, but afterwards
removed to Hampton, where many descendants
still live. In this town Gen. Dearborn was born
in March, 1751. He studied physic with Dr. Hall
Jackson of Portsmouth, and had been settled
three years at Nottingham-square, when, on the
20th of April, 1775, an express announced the
battle of Lexington on the preceding day. He
marched on the same day with sixty volunteers,
and early in the next day reached Cambridge,
a distance of sixty-five miles. On his return he
was appointed a captain in the regiment of Stark;
and, having enlisted his men, he presented him
self again at Cambridge with a full company, May
15th. He participated June 17th in the battle of
Breed's hill. Having marched on that day across
Charlestown neck under a galling fire, he took
post behind the rail fence which stretched from
Prcscott's redoubt to Mystic river. During the
bloody action he regularly fired with his men.
In Sept. he accompanied Arnold in the expedition
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through the wilderness of Maine to Quebec. The
army was more than a month in the wilderness,
before they reached, Nov. 4th, the first house in
Canada, on the Chaudiere. The hardships and
sufferings of the troops were incredible. The
provisions were exhausted. " My dog," said Gen.
D., in a letter to the author of this work, " was
very large and a great favorite. I gave him up to
several men of Capt. Goodrich's company at their
earnest solicitation. They carried him to their
company and killed and divided him among those
who were suffering most severely with hunger.
They ate every part of him, not excepting his
entrails ; and after finishing their meal they col
lected the bones and carried them to be pounded
up, and to make broth for another meal. There
was but one other dog with the detachment. It
was small, and had been privately killed and eaten.
Old mooschide breeches were boiled and then
broiled on the coals and eaten. A barber's pow
der-bag made a soup in the course of the last
three or four days before we reached the first set
tlements in Canada. Many men died with fatigue
and hunger, frequently four or five minutes after
making their last effort and sitting down." Being
seized with a fever, he was left in a cottage on the
banks of the Chaudiere without a physician. Dur
ing ten days his life was despaired of. A good
Catholic woman even sprinkled him with holy
water. Yet he gradually recovered ; and, procur
ing a conveyance sixty miles to point Levi, he
crossed over to "Wolfe's cove, and rejoined his
company early in Dec. The assault on the city
was made in the morning of Dec. 31st. Mont
gomery fell on the bank of the St. Lawrence, in
attacking the lower town on thai side. Arnold's
division made the attack on the other side of the
city, along the St. Charles. In the action Capt.
Dearborn, who had been quartered on the north
side of the river St. Charles, marched to join the
main body, but in the attempt was captured with
his company by Capt. Law, who issued from Pal
ace gate with two hundred men and some can
non. He was put into close confinement ; but in
May, 1776, was permitted to return on parole with
Maj. Meigs. They were carried to Halifax in the
frigate Niger, and then transferred to another
frigate, which after a cruise of thirty days landed
them at Penobscot bay. In March, 1777, he was
exchanged. Being appointed a major in Scam-
mel's regiment, he proceeded in May to Ticonde-
roga. He fought in the conflict of Sept. 19th,
and on the 7th Oct. he shared in the honor of
carrying the German fortified camp. On the 17th
the British army surrendered. Gen. Gates in his
dispatch particularly noticed Morgan and Dear
born. At the battle of Monmouth, in 1778, after
Lee's retreat, Washington ordered Cilley's regi
ment, in which Dearborn was lieut.-col., to attack
a body of the enemy. A gallant charge com
pelled the British to retreat. Dearborn being
sent to ask for further orders, Washington in
quired, by way of commendation, " What troops
are those? " — " Full-blooded Yankees from New
Hampshire, sir," was the reply.
In 1779 he accompanied Sullivan in his expe
dition against the Indians; in 1780 he was with
the army in New Jersey ; in 1781 he was at York-
town at the .surrender of Cornwallis. On the
death of Scammel he succeeded to the command
of the regiment. During 1782 he was on garri
son duty at the frontier post at Saratoga. After
the peace, he emigrated, in June, 1784, to the
banks of the Kennebec, and engaged in agricul
tural pursuits. In 1789 Washington appointed
him marshal of Maine. Twice he was elected a
member of congress. On the accession of Mr.
Jefferson to the presidency, in 1801, he was ap
pointed secretary of war, as the successor of
Roger Griswold ; and the laborious duties of the
office he faithfully discharged for eight years, till
1809, when he was succeeded by Wm. Eustis, and
was appointed to the lucrative office of collector
of Boston. In Feb., 1812, he received a com
mission as senior major-general in the army of
the United States. In the spring of the next
year he captured York, in Upper Canada, April
27th, and soon afterwards fort George, at the
mouth of the Niagara. But, his health being
somewhat impaired, Mr. Madison was induced,
very unnecessarily, to recall him July 6, 1813, on
the ground of ill health. A court of inquiry was
immediately solicited, but not granted. He was
soon ordered to assume the command of the
military district of New York city. After the
peace of 1815 he retired to private life. In July,
1822, he sailed from Boston for Lisbon, having
been appointed by President Monroe the minister
plenipotentiary to Portugal. After two years he
solicited permission to return home. Though he
usually resided at Boston, he annually repaired to
the scene of his agricultural labors in Maine. In
1829 an imprudent exposure brought on a violent
bilious attack, which caused some fatal organic
disarrangements. During the agonies of his last
illness he never complained ; he trusted in the
mercy of the Supreme Intelligence. He died at
the residence of his son, Gen. II. A. S. Dear
born, in Roxbury. He was thrice married. His
last wife, the widow of James Bowdoin, died in
May, 1826. Gen. Dearbon was large and manly
in his person, of great frankness and unimpeached
integrity, and, as a commanding officer, notwith
standing his recall from the frontier, he had the
confidence and the warm attachment of the brave
officers and men who served under him. He
published an account of Bunker Hill battle.
DEARBORN, BEKJAMIX, inventor of the pat
ent balance, died at Boston Feb. 22, 1838, aged
82. He was a man of science, and much re-
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spected. His father was Dr. Benj. D., of Ports
mouth, who died in 1755. His mother was Ruth,
daughter of Rev. Benjamin Rogers, of P.
DEARBORN, EDWARD, Dr., died at Seabrook,
N. II., March 6, 1851, aged 75, bequeathing
3,000 dollars for a female seminary, and 4,000 for
the Congregational society.
DEARBORN, HENRY A. S., general, died in
Portland July 29, 1851, aged 67. The son of
Gen. Henry S., he was born in Exeter, and edu
cated in Virginia, lie practised law in Salem and
Portland. Mr. Madison appointed him collector
of Boston, as successor of his father; he was also
adjutant-general, a member of congress, and
mayor of Roxbury, which office he held till his
death. He published an oration July 4, 1811;
address to horticultural society, 1823 ; a life of
Eliot ; three volumes on the Black Sea ; a biog
raphy of Commodore Bainbridge, also of his own
father. He left a volume of his writings on archi
tecture, another on flowers, and one for his wife,
on Christ, with the passages of Scripture relating
to him quoted and harmonized.
DEARBORN, NATHANIEL, died at South Read
ing, Nov. 7, 1852, aged 66, son of Benjamin D.
He was one of the first to introduce wood engrav
ings. He published text-book of letters ; book
of Boston notions and guide ; guide to Mount
Auburn.
DE BRAHM, WILLIAM G., surveyor-general
of the southern distinct of North America in
1765, published the Atlantic pilot.
DECATUR, STEPHEN, commodore, died March
22, 1820, aged 40, being killed in a duel with
Commodore Barren. He was born on the east
ern shore of Maryland. His grandfather, a
native of France, married a lady of Newport,
R. I., where he resided. His father, Stephen
Decatur, after the establishment of the navy, was
appointed to command the DclaAvare sloop-of-war,
and afterwards the frigate Philadelphia. On the
occurrence of peace with France he resigned his
commission, and died at Frankford, near Phila
delphia, Nov. 14, 1808, aged 57. The son, Ste
phen, was educated in that city. In March, 1798,
at the age of nineteen, he entered as midshipman
the American navy under Barry. Thrice he pro
ceeded to the Mediterranean under Commodores
Dale, Morris, and Preble. He arrived the third
time just after the frigate Philadelphia, which
had run aground on the Barbary coast, had fallen
into the hands of the Tripolitans. He imme
diately formed the project of recapturing or de
stroying her, and, having obtained the consent of
Com. Preble, he sailed for Syracuse Feb. 3, 1804,
in the ketch Intrepid, with seventy volunteers,
accompanied by the United States brig Syren,
Lieut. Stewart. In a few days he arrived at the
• harbor of Tripoli, which he entered about eight
o'glock in the evening, alone, as he was unwilling
to wait for the boats of the Syren, which was sev
eral miles distant. The enterprise was extremely
hazardous, for the Philadelphia M~as moored within
half-gunshot of the bashaw's castle, and of the
principal battery. Two cruisers and several gun
boats lay near, and the guns of the frigate were
mounted and loaded. The attack was to be
made by a single ketch. About eleven o'clock he
approached within two hundred yards, when he
was hailed and ordered to anchor, lie directed
a Maltese pilot to answer that the anchors had
been lost in a gale of wind. His object was not
suspected, until he was almost alongside the frig
ate, when the Turks were thrown into the utmost
confusion. Decatur sprang aboard, followed by
midshipman Charles Morris, and they were nearly
a minute on deck before their companions could
join them, the enemy in the mean while not offer
ing to assail them, being crowded together in
astonishment on the quarter-deck. The Turks
were soon assaulted and overpowered. About
twenty men were killed on the spot; many
jumped overboard, and the rest were driven to
the hold. After setting fire to the ship in differ
ent parts, Decatur retreated to his ketch, and, a
breeze springing up, he soon got beyond the
reach of the enemy's guns, which had opened a
fire upon him from the batteries, and castle, and
two corsairs. In this daring exploit not a single
man was killed, and only four were wounded.
For this achievement he was immediately pro
moted to the rank of post captain.
At an attack on Tripoli, Aug. 3d, he command
ed a division of gun-boats, which he led to action,
covered by the frigate Constitution and some
smaller vessels.. Disregarding the fire of the
batteries, he with twenty-seven men boarded one
of the enemy's gun-boats, which contained forty
men ; and, in ten minutes, with but three wounded,
he cleared the deck and made it a prize. At this
moment he was informed that his brother, Lieut.
James Decatur, who commanded another boat,
had captured- a boat of the enemy, but was
treacherously shot by her commander, who im
mediately pushed off, and was then stretching
toward the harbor. Decatur instantly pursued
him, entering the enemy's line with his single boat,
and, overtaking the foe, boarded her with eleven
men, being all the Americans he had left. He
singled out the Turkish commander, who was
armed with a spear, in attempting to cut off the
head of which he struck the iron and broke his
sword close to the hilt. The Turk now making
a push, and wounding him slightly, he seized the
spear and closed with him. In the struggle both
fell. Decatur, being uppermost, caught the arm
of the Turk, who was on the point of stabbing
him with a dagger, and with a pocket pistol shot
him. The crews at the same time were fighting
around them, and it was with difficulty that, after
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killing his adversary, he could extricate himself
from the slain and wounded. His life in this
struggle with the Turk was preserved by a noble-
minded common sailor, who, when a blow was
aimed at his captain from behind with an uplifted
sabre, having lost the use of his hands, rushed
forward and received the blow on his own head,
by which his skull was fractured. He however
survived, and received a pension from govern
ment. Decatur returned to the squadron with
both of his prizes, and the next day received the
highest commendation in a general order from
Commodore Preble. After a peace was concluded
with Tripoli he returned home in the Congress
and after his return was employed in superin
tending gun-boats, until he was ordered to super
sede Commodore Barron in the command of the
Chesapeake frigate. He afterwards was removed
to the United States, in which ship, Oct. 25, 1812,
in lat. 29° X., long. 29° 30' W., he fell in with his
Britannic majesty's ship Macedonian, one of the
finest frigates in the British navy, which he cap
tured after an action of an hour and a half. His
loss was four killed and seven wounded ; that of
the enemy thirty-six killed and sixty-eight wound
ed. When Capt. Garden came on board the
United States and presented his sword, Decatur
observed, that he could not think of taking the
sword of so brave an officer, but would be happy
to take him by the hand. The prize was safely
brought into Xewport by Lieut. W. H. Allen, and
the command of her given to Capt. Jones.
In May, 1813, in command of the United
States, with his prize, the Macedonian, refitted as
an American frigate, he attempted to get to sea,
but was compelled to enter the harbor of Xew
London, where, for a long time, the enemy closely
blockaded him. In Jan., 1815, he was appointed
to the command of the President, and attempted
to get to sea, but, after first fighting the Endy-
mion, was captured on the loth by the Pomone,
and Tenedos, and Majestic, and carried into Ber
muda. He returned to Xew London Feb. 22d.
Being soon dispatched with a squadron to the
Mediterranean, he captured, off Cape dc Gatt, an
Algerine frigate of forty-nine guns, in which the
celebrated admiral, Rais Hammida, was killed ;
and on the 19th an Algerine brig of twenty-two
guns. He arrived before Algiers June 28, and
the next day compelled the proud regency to a
treaty most honorable to our country, according
to which no tribute was ever again demanded of
the United States ; all enslaved Americans were
to be released without ransom, and no American
should ever again be held as a slave. These
terms shamed the great powers of Europe, who
had long been tributary to a band of corsairs.
He proceeded also to Tunis and Tripoli, and ob
tained redress for outrages. After his return,
Nov. 12th, he was appointed one of the board of
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navy commissioners, and resided at Washington,
at the former seat of Joel Barlow, called Kalo-
rama. During a part of the year 1819 he had a
long correspondence with Commodore Barron,
who some years before had been punished for
yielding up the Chesapeake, by a court martial,
of which Decatur was a member. The corre
spondence issued in a challenge from Barron,
though he considered duelling "as a barbarous
practice, which ought to be exploded from civil
ized society;" and the challenge was accepted by
Decatur, though he " had long since discovered
that fighting duels is not even an unerring crite
rion of personal courage." He was persuaded
that it was the intention of Barron " to fight up
his character." They fought at Bladensburgh,
and at the first fire he was mortally wounded,
and, being conveyed to his home, and to his dis
tracted wife, died the same night. His wife,
whom he married in 1806, was Susan, daughter
of Luke Wheeler, mayor of Xorfolk. Thus the
brave officer died, " as a fool dieth." It has been
stated, that, before he died, he renounced the
principle of duelling, and cast himself upon the
mercy of God. He was murdered under the
eyes of congress, which, in consequence of his
having " died in the violation of the laws of God
and his country," refused to bestow the official
marks of respect customary on the decease at
Washington of men in high public stations. Yet,
with strange inconsistency, notwithstanding the
laws of the country, his murderer afterwards re
ceived some appointment from the government.
— Analect. Mag. I. 502 ; American Naval Biog
raphy, 75-93.
DEEMS, ADAN, died at Parkersburg, Va.,
Sept. 21, 1856, aged 102 years.
DE FOREST, BENJAMIN, died in Xew York
Sept. 27, 1850. He was of Huguenot descent, an
eminent merchant for fifty years. His temper
was equable, his death peaceful.
DE GERSTXER, FRANCIS A. C., died at Phil
adelphia April 12, 1846, aged 44, a distinguished
Austrian engineer. He was born at Prague
April 17, 1796, and was for six years professor of
practical geometry at Vienna. lie obtained a
charter for the first railroad on the continent,
from Budweis to Lintz, one hundred and thirty
miles long, completed in 1832. In 1834 he pro
posed to the Russian emperor a railroad from St.
Petersburg to Moscow. Having visited various
countries, he came to the United States in 1838,
examining our railroads. He wrote a piece on
American and Belgian railroads in the American
almanac, 1840. He published practical mechan
ics, 3 vols.
DEGRAXD, PETER P. F., a broker, died in
Boston Dec. 23, 1855, aged about 75. A native
of Marseilles, in order to escape conscription in
j the army he came to Boston in 1803. He com-
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menced business as a merchant in 1809. From
1819 to 1830 he published a useful commercial
paper, the Weekly Report. In 1835 he devoted
himself to the business of a stock-broker. Though
an adherent of Jefferson and Madison, he aided
the election of J. Q. Adams, and from that time
was a whig. As a man of business he was skil
ful, energetic, decisive, upright, and honorable.
He acquired much property. The railroad and
other enterprises he earnestly promoted. Once,
in 1810, he in liis folly was engaged in a duel, in
which no life was lost, but he was wounded. He
was never married.
DEHON, THEODORE, D. D., bishop of South
Carolina, of French descent, was born at Boston
in 1776, and graduated at Harvard college in
1795. After being a rector at Newport, II. I., he
removed to Charleston, where he was elected
bishop in 1812. He married in 1813 Sarah,
daughter of Nathaniel Ilussell, and died suddenly
of a malignant fever, Aug. G, 1817, aged 41. He
was respected as a man of talents, and beloved
for his amiable qualities and many virtues. He
published a discourse on the death of Washington ;
before a charitable society, 1804 ; a thanksgiving
sermon, 1805; a discourse to the Phi Beta Kappa
society, 1807 ; a sermon before the Episcopal
convention of the United States ; sermons on con
firmation, 1818 ; ninety sermons on various sub
jects, 2 vols. 8vo., 1821.
DE KAY, JAMES E., Dr., died in Oyster Bay
Nov. 21, 1851, aged 59. Devoted to natural
history, he wrote the zoology published in the
State survey of New York.
DE LANCEY, JAMES, chief justice and lieuten
ant-governor of New York, died Aug. 2, 1760,
aged 57. He was the son of a Protestant emi
grant from Caen, in Normandy, who fled from
persecution in France. Being sent to England
for education, he entered the university of Cam
bridge about 1725. He returned to this country
in 1729, and was soon, while ignorant of the law,
appointed a judge of the supreme court, and
chief justice in 1733. His industry made him a
profound lawyer. During the greater part of
the administration of Clinton, from 1743 to 1753,
Mr. De Lancey exerted a powerful influence on
the legislature in opposition to the governor.
After the removal of Clinton and the death of
Osborn, he, as lieut.-governor, was at the head of
the government from 1753 to 1755, and also a
successor to Hardy from 1757 to 1760. His
daughter, the wife of the celebrated Sir W. Dra
per, died in 1778. His brother Oliver, a loyalist
in the war, was appointed a brigadier-general in
1777 and adjutant-general in 1783, and was after-
Avards a member of parliament. The character
of De Lancey is described by the author of the
review of military operations from 1753 to 1756,
who represents him as a man of learning and tal
ents, yet as an unprincipled demagogue and fin
ished intriguer. " His uncommon vivacity, with
the semblance of affability and ease, his adroit
ness at jest, with a show of condescension to his
inferiors, wonderfully facilitated his progress.
These plausible arts, together with his influence
as chief justice, and a vast personal estate at use,
all conspired to secure his 'popular triumph." —
Hist. Coll. VII. 78 ; Miller, II. 256.
DELANO, PHILIP, was an early settler at
Plymouth, in 1623. His name was sometimes
written De la Noye ; probably he was a French
Protestant, who joined the church at Leyclen.
DENISON, DANIEL, major-general, the son of
Wm. D., of Cambridge, was born in England in
1613, and removed from Cambridge to Ipswich in
1634. He sustained various civil and military
offices ; for many years he was an assistant ; in
1649 and 1651 the speaker of the house, and
major-general in 1662. He died Sept. 20, 1682,
aged 69. His wife was Patience, the daughter of
Gov. Dudley. His grandson, John, the sixth
minister of Ipswich, was ordained colleague with
Mr. Hubbard in 1687, and died in Sept., 1689,
leaving a widow, Elizabeth, who married Roland
Cotton. Gen. D. was a man of eminence and
religion. He wrote a treatise, which is annexed
to Hubbard's funeral sermon, called Irenicon, or
a salve for New England's sore, which considers
the public calamities, the occasion, danger, blam-
able causes, and cure of them. — Hubbard ; Far
mer.
DENISON, GEORGE, captain, of Stonington,
Conn., in March, 1676, made an incursion into
the Narragansett country, and seized Nanuntcnoo,
the son of Miantunnomu, and the chief sachem.
The savage, when offered his life upon condition
of living in peace, said, that he chose to die, before
his heart became soft. In the year 1676 Denison
and his volunteers killed and took two hundred and
thirty of the enemy, without having one man
either killed or wounded.
DENISON, Jonx, the sixth minister of Ips
wich, died in Sept., 1689. He was the son of
John, and grandson of major-general I). ; grad
uated in 1684, and was ordained in 1687. By
his wife, Elizabeth, daughter of N. Saltonstall, he
had one son, Col. John D.
DENNIE, JOSEPH, editor of the Portfolio, the
son of Joseph, a merchant in Boston, died Jan.
7, 1812, aged 43. He was born Aug. 30, 1768,
and graduated at Harvard college in 1790. He
studied law at Charlestown, N. II., but was not
successful in the practice at Walpole, where he
opened an office. For four months he read
prayers in a church at Dartmouth. In 1795 he
published in Boston the Tablet, a weekly paper ;
and the Farmer's Museum at Walpole, in which
he inserted essays of some celebrity, entitled the
Lay preacher. Mr. Pickering, secretary of State,
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having appointed him one of his clerks, he re
moved to Philadelphia in 1799. On the dismissal
of his patron he conducted the Portfolio, a liter
ary journal, commenced in 1800. Being de
ficient in industry and discretion, he destroyed
his bodily constitution and his hopes of fortune.
His father, who was deranged twenty-five years,
died in 1811. With genius, taste, a fine style,
and a fund of literature ; with colloquial powers
and other interesting qualities, he yet stands only
as a warning to others against indolence and im
prudence.
DENNISON, NATHAN, colonel, died in July,
1778, at fort Kingston, in the vale of Wyoming,
of which he had the command at the defeat of
Col. Z. Butler. After the investment and as
sault, July 4th, he went the next day with a flag
of truce to John Butler, at fort Exeter, and asked
the terms of surrender ; the reply was, " The
hatchet." Such was doubtless his fate, as he was
compelled to surrender at discretion.
DEXXY, SAMUEL, colonel, died in Leicester,
1817, aged 86. He served as an officer in the
war. lie was a benefactor of Leicester academy.
DEXXY, THOMAS, colonel, died at Leicester
very suddenly, Dec. 5, 1814, aged 57. He was
the son of Thomas Denny, a patriot of 1774, in
which year he died, who was the son of Daniel
1)., an early settler of Leicester, whose sister
married T. Prince, the annalist. Col. D., having
been long engaged in mercantile and manufac
turing business, was the wealthiest man in Lei
cester. One of his daughters married J. Smith,
a benefactor of Leicester academy.
DENTON, RICHARD, a minister, who came
from England, died at Ilempstead about 1663.
He had been a minister at Halifax in Yorkshire.
He first preached at Wethcrsfield ; from 1641 to
1614 he was at Stamford. He wrote what was
not published, a system of divinity, considering
man in four states, that of created purity, con
trasted deformity, restored beauty, and celestial
glory. — Farmer's Register.
DEPUTY, JACOB, a black man, died near Mil-
ford, Delaware, June 5, 1848, aged 117 years
and 9 months, being born Aug. 20, 1730, in
Sussex county, where he lived.
DERBIGNY, PETER, governor of Louisiana,
died Oct. 6, 1829.
DERBY, EZEKIEL HEKSEY, died in Salem Oct.
31, 1852, aged 80. The son of Ilasket D., he
graduated at Harvard in 1791, and was in early
life a merchant, then for thirty-five years an
active, well-known agriculturist.
DESAUSSURE, HENRY W., chancellor of
South Carolina, died at Charleston March 29,
1839, aged 13. He bore arms in defence of
Charleston in the Revolutionary war, and suc
ceeded Rittenhouse as director of the mint at
Philadelphia. Returning to Charleston, he rose
to eminence as a lawyer. Elected one of the
chancellors in 1808, he filled the office with high
reputation for twenty-nine years, during which
time he lived in Columbia. For his talents,
learning, moral virtues, and religion he was held
in great regard. His equity reports were pub
lished in 4 vols.
DE SCHWELXITZ, LEWIS D., the secular
head of the Moravian society, died at Bethlehem,
Pa., in Feb., 1834, aged about 52. He was the
author of several valuable works on botany.
DESHA, ROBERT, general, died in Mobile Feb.,
1849, a hero in the war of 1812.
DEVEXS, RICHARD, was a graduate of Prince
ton in 1767, a tutor in 1770, but lost the powers
of his mind in 1770. His talents were indicated
by a paraphrase of some parts of the book of
Job in poetry.
DEVOL, JONATHAN, an early settler in Ohio,
died near Marietta in 1824, aged 68, a native of
Tiverton, R. I. He was a brave soldier in the
war, and an associate of the Ohio company hi
1789. His wife was Nancy, daughter of Capt.
Isaac Barker, shipmaster at Newport, R. I. Mr.
D. built in 1801 a ship at Marietta of 400 tons
for Mr. Oilman.
DEVOTION, EBENEZER, minister of Suffield,
died in 1741, aged about 54. He graduated at
Harvard in 1707. B. Ruggles preceded him; E.
Gay was his successor.
DEVOTIOX, EBENEZER, minister in Windham,
Scotland society, died in 1771, aged about 62.
He graduated at Yale in 1732. He published
election sermons, 1753 and 1777 ; and sermon at
ordination of N. Huntington, 1750; and of E.
Iluntington, 1762.
DEVOTION, JOHN, minister in Saybrook,
Westbrook society, died in 1802, aged about 64.
He graduated at Yale in 1754, and was settled
in 1758.
DEWEY, DANIEL, a judge of the supreme
court of Massachusetts, died at Washington May
26, 1815, aged 49. A native of Sheffield, he
settled in Williamstown in 1790, and was a mem
ber of the thirteenth congress. He was appointed
a judge in 1814. His son, Charles A. Dewey, is
now a judge of the same court. His wife, Maria,
the daughter of Judge David Noble, died in
1813. —Holland's History, n. 613.
DEWEES, WILLIAM P., M. D., died at Phil
adelphia May 18, 1841, aged 74; formerly pro
fessor of obstetrics in the university. He pub
lished a book on obstetrics; also, practice of
medicine.
DE WITT, BENJAMIN, M. D., a physician of
New York, was appointed professor of medicine
in Columbia college in 1807, and professor of
chemistry in 1808. He was also health officer of
the city, and died of the yellow fever at the
quarantine ground, Staten Island, Sept. 11, 1819,
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aged 45. lie published a dissertation on the
effect of oxygen, 1797 ; an oration commemora
tive of the prisoners who died in the prison-ships
at Wallabout, 1808 ; account of minerals in New
York in Mem. of A. A. S., vol. n.
DE WITT, SUSAN, died at Philadelphia, while
on a visit, May 5, 1824. She was the wife of
Simeon De Witt, of Albany, and the second
daughter of Rev. Dr. Linn. She was a woman
of strong intellectual powers, and of elevated
piety. She published a poem, which has been
much read and admired, — The pleasures of reli
gion.
DE WITT, JOHN, D. D., professor of biblical
history in the theological seminary of the Dutch
Reformed church at New Brunswick, N. J., a na
tive of Catskill, X. Y., was ordained as colleague
with Daniel Collins, of Lanesborough, Mass.,
July 8, 1812, and was dismissed Dec. 8, 1813, and
afterwards settled as the minister of the second
Reformed Dutch church in Albany. lie was after
wards professor in the theological seminary, and
also one of the professors of Rutgers college in
New Brunswick, where he died Oct. 12, 1831,
aged about 42. — History of Berkshire, 389.
DE WITT, SIMEON, died at Ithaca Dec. 3, 1834,
aged 79. He was surveyor-general of New York,
skilled in astronomy and engineering.
DEXTER, .GREGORY, a minister in Providence,
died at the age of 90. A native of London, he
was at first a stationer. He settled at Providence,
as pastor of the Baptist church, in 1643.
DEXTER, SAMUEL, minister of Dedham,
died in 1755, aged 54. He was the son of cap
tain and deacon John, of Maiden, who was the
grandson of Richard, of Maiden and Boston.
He had brothers, John of M., and Dr. Richard,
of Topsfield, who died in 1783, aged 70. He
graduated at Harvard in 1720. His predecessor
was Joseph Belcher, a graduate of 1G90, who
died in 1723. His daughter married Rev. J.
Haven. There was published, in 1840, "Ded
ham pulpit," containing the sermons of six min
isters : J. Allin, W. Adams, J. Belcher, S. Dexter,
J. Haven, J. Bates, and a centennial by E. Bur
gess. This book has two sermons by Mr. Dex
ter. He published a century discourse, 1738.
DEXTER, SAMUEL, a benefactor of Harvard
college, was the son of the preceding, and a mer
chant in Boston. In the political struggles just
before the Revolution he was repeatedly elected
to the council, and negatived for his patriotic zeal
by the royal governor. In his last years he was
deeply engaged in investigating the doctrines of
theology. He died at Mendon June 10, 1810,
aged 84. For the encouragement of biblical
criticism he bequeathed a legacy of 5,000 dollars to
Harvard college. He also bequeathed 40 dollars
to a minister, whom he wished to preach a funeral
sermon, without making any mention of him in
the discourse, from the words, " The things which
are seen, are temporal ; but the things which are
not seen, are eternal." He said in his last will:
" I wish the preacher to expostulate with his au
ditory on the absurdity of their being extremely
assiduous to ' lay up treasures on earth,' while
they are indolent with respect to their well-being
hereafter. To those of so blamable a character,
and to such as are of a still worse, and from
their vicious lives appear to be totally regardless
of the doctrine of a future existence, let him ad
dress himself with pious ardor. Let him entreat
them to pay a serious attention to their most val
uable interests. Let him represent ' the summit
of earthly glory as ineffably despicable, when
comparatively estimated with an exemption from
the punishment denounced, and the possession of
the perfect and never-ending felicity promised in
the Scriptures.'" — KendaVs Funeral Sermon.
DEXTER, SAMUEL, LL. D., secretary of Avar
of the United States, son of the preceding, died
May 4, 1816, aged 54. He was born in 1761, and
graduated at Harvard college in 1781. Having
studied law at Worcester with Levi Lincoln, he
soon rose to professional eminence. After being
for some time a member of the house of repre
sentatives in congress, he was elected to the sen
ate. During the administration of John Adams,
he was appointed secretary of war in 1800, and
secretary of the treasury in Jan., 1801, and for a
short time also had the charge of the department
of State. lie was offered a foreign embassy, but
declined it. On the accession of Mr. Jefferson to
the presidency he returned to the practice of law.
In the progress of events he thought he ob
served that political parties were changing their
policy and principles. From his old friends he
separated, and lent the aid of his powerful mind
in support of the war of 1812, while they were
throwing obstacles in the way of its prosecution.
He maintained that they had changed, and that
he was unchangeable. In the practice of law be
fore the supreme court at Washington, lie stood
in the first rank of advocates. He always at
tracted an audience, consisting of the beauty,
taste, and learning of the city. He was requested
by Mr. Madison in 1815 to accept of a mission to
Spain, but declined the appointment. On his re
turn from Washington, at the close of April,
1816, he went to Athens, N. Y., to attend the
nuptials of his son. Some\vhat unwell with the
epidemic prevailing at Washington, he called for
medical aid on Tuesday, and died of the scarlet
fever Saturday. His wife was a sister of Wm.
Gordon, of N. H. He was tall and muscular,
with strong features. His enunciation was very
slow and distinct, and his tones monotonous ; but
at times his eloquence was thrilling. He drafted
the eloquent answer of the senate to President
Adams' address on the death of Washington.
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He was established in the belief of Christianity.
A few weeks before his death Mr. Dexter had
been the republican candidate for governor in
Massachusetts, in opposition to Dr. Brooks, and
received about 47,000 and his rival about 49,000
votes. He had also been the candidate in 1815.
The republicans had selected him, as they said,
because " he had broken forth from the legions of
rebellion," referring to his manly resistance to
the Hartford convention, a favorite project of the
party with which he had before been associated.
In his letter expressing his acceptance of the in
vitation to be a candidate, he said : " Every com
bination for general opposition is an offence
against the community." The party struggles
for office are not worthy of remembrance ; but
the principles, which have a bearing on the public
•welfare hereafter, ought not to be forgotton. In
the preceding year he expressed in his letter
from Washington his entire opposition to the sys
tem of restriction on commerce, as unconstitu
tional, oppressive, ineffectual, and impracticable ;
and at the same time declared that he was unable
to reconcile some of the leading measures of the
federalists in regard to the war with the funda
mental principles of civilized society, and the
duty of American citizens to support the union
of their country. He published a letter on free
masonry ; progress of science, a poem, 1780. —
Story's Sketch of Dexter.
DEXTER, J. S., judge, died in Cumberland,
R. I., June 20, 1844, aged 90. He served during
the war and was a major. He was appointed by
Washington supervisor of the revenue in Rhode
Island. In his age he lived in Providence, his
native place.
DIBBLE, SHELDON, missionary at the Sand
wich Islands, died at Lahainaluna Jan. 22, 1845.
He graduated at Hamilton college in 1827, at
Auburn seminary in 1830, and embarked in Dec.
He visited the United States in 1837-1840. His
wife, Maria M. Tomlinson, died Feb. 20, 1837.
DICKERSON, MAIILON, governor, died in
Morris county, N. J., Oct. 5, 1853, aged more
than 80. In 1815, he was elected governor by a
democratic or republican legislature ; and a sena
tor of the United States from 1817, for sixteen
years. In 1834, he was secretary of the navy ;
but resigned and retired to private life in 1838.
He was largely concerned in the mining and man
ufacture of iron in Morris county. He was kind,
amiable, and much esteemed, and was regarded
as a man of sound judgment and a safe legis
lator.
DICKINSON, JONATHAN, first president of New
Jersey college, died Oct. 7, 1747, aged 59. He was
born in Ilatfield, Mass., April 22, 1688. His
father was Hezekiah D. ; his mother, being left a
widow, married again and removed to Spring
field, and carefully educated her children. His
grandfather was Nathaniel, one of the first set
tlers of Wethersfield, who removed to Iladlcy. He
was graduated at Yale college in 1706, and within
one or two years afterwards he was settled the
minister of the first Presbyterian church in Eliza-
bethtown, New Jersey. Of this church he was
for near forty years the joy and glory. As a
friend of literature he was also eminently useful.
The charter of the college of New Jersey, which
had never yet been carried into operation, was
enlarged by Governor Belcher, Oct. 22, 1746 ;
and Mr. Dickinson was appointed president. The
institution commenced at Elizabethtown, but it
did not long enjoy the advantages of his superin
tendence, for it pleased God soon to call him
away from life. The first commencement was in
1748, when six young men graduated, five of
whom became ministers. He left three daugh
ters, married to Jonathan Sergeant of Princeton,
to John Cooper, and to Rev. Caleb Smith of
Orange.
Mr. Dickinson, besides his other employments,
was a practising physician, of considerable medi
cal reputation. He was a man of learning, of
distinguished talents, and much celebrated as a
preacher; and he was succeeded in the college
by men, who hold a high reputation in our coun
try ; by Burr, Edwards, Davies, Finley, and
Witherspoon. lie had a mind formed for in
quiry ; he possessed a quick perception and an
accurate judgment; and to a keen penetration he
united a disinterested attachment to truth. With
a natural turn for controversy he had a happy
government of his passions, and abhorred the
perverse disputings, so common to men of cor
rupt minds. The eagerness of contention did
not extinguish in him the fervors of devotion and
brotherly love. By his good works and exem
plary life he adorned the doctrines of grace,
which he advocated with zeal. He boldly ap
peared in defence of the great truths of our most
holy religion, confronting what he considered as
error, and resisting every attack on the Christian
faith. He wished to promote the interests of
practical godliness, of holy living ; and there
fore he withstood error in every shape, knowing
that it poisons the heart and thus destroys the
very principles of virtue. He was an enemy to
that blind charity, that politic silence, that tem
porizing moderation, which sacrifices the truths
of God to human friendships, and under color of
peace and candor gives up important points of
gospel doctrine to every opposcr. He knew, that
this temper was inconsistent with the love of
truth, and was usually connected with the hatred
of those who engaged warmly in its support.
He expected to be opposed and ridiculed, if he
followed lus Saviour, and preached with plain
ness and earnestness the doctrines which are so
obnoxious to the corrupt heart and perverted
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understanding. Still, under pretence of zeal for
truth he concealed no party animosity, no big
otry, no malevolence. He had generous senti
ments with regard to freedom of inquiry and the
rights of private judgment in matters of con
science, not approving subscription to human tests
of orthodoxy. As he lived a devout and useful
life and was a bright ornament to his profession,
he died universally lamented.
His writings possess very considerable merit.
They are designed to unfold the wonderful method
of redemption, and to excite men to that cheerful
consecration of all their talents to their Maker, to
that careful avoidance of sin and practice of god
liness, which will exalt them to glory. He pub
lished the reasonableness of Christianity, in four
sermons, Boston, 1732; a funeral sermon on
Ruth Picrson, wife of Ilev. John P. of Wood-
bridge, 1733; a sermon on the witness of the
Spirit, 1740; the true Scripture doctrine concern
ing eternal election, original sin, grace in conver
sion, justification by faith, and the saint's perse
verance, in five discourses, 1741, in answer to Mr.
Whitby ; a display of God's special grace, in a
familiar dialogue, 1742; on the nature and neces
sity of regeneration, with remarks on Dr. Water-
land's regeneration stated and explained, 1743,
against baptismal regeneration ; reflections upon
Mr. Wetmorc's letter in defence of Dr. Water-
land's discourse on regeneration, 1745. The
above works were published in an octavo volume
at Edinburgh in 1793. President Dickinson pub
lished also a defence of Presbyterian ordination,
in answer to a pamphlet, entitled a modest proof,
etc., 1724 ; the vanity of human institutions in
the worship of God, a sermon, 1733; a defence
of it afterwards; a second defence of it against
the exceptions of John Beach in his appeal to
the unprejudiced, 1738; this work is entitled, the
reasonableness of nonconformity to the church of
England in point of worship; familiar letters
upon various important subjects in religion, 1745 ;
a pamphlet in favor of infant baptism, 1746 ; a
vindication of God's sovereign free grace ; a
second vindication, etc., against John Beach, to
which are added brief reflections on Dr. John
son's defence of Aristocles' letter to Authadcs,
1748; an account of the deliverance of Robert
Barrow, shipwrecked among the cannibals of
Florida. — Pierson's Serm. on his death ; Preface
to his Serm. Edin. edit. ; Miller, II. 345 ; Dong-
lass, II. 284; Brainerd's Life, 129, 161 ; Chand
ler's Life of Johnson, 69 ; Green, 297.
DICKINSON, JONATHAN, chief justice of Penn
sylvania, a Quaker, came from Jamaica, with his
family, in 1696, and wa;j shipwrecked in the gulf
of Florida. He died in 1722. He published an
account of his shipwreck, entitled, God's protect
ing providence, man's surest help and defence.
DICKINSON, MO.-SES, brother of Rev. Jona
than D., died in 1778, aged 82, in the fifty-first
year of his ministry. He was graduated at Yale
college in 1717, and in 1727 succeeded Stephen
Buckingham as the minister of Norwalk. He
was succeeded by William Tennent. The minis
ters of Norwalk were Presbyterian during 112
years out of 202. He was a man of a vigorous
mind, cheerful, prudent. ,His widow, Hannah,
died at Plymouth, Conn., in 1803, aged 98. He
published an inquiry into the consequences of
Calvinistic and Arminian principles, in which is
considered Beach's reply to J. Dickinson's second
vindication, 1750; election sermon, 1755 ; answer
to Wetmore ; on the death of T. Fitch, 1774.
DICKINSON, JOHN, president of Delaware
and of Pennsylvania, died Feb. 15, 1808, aged
75. He was born in Maryland in Dec., 1732.
His father, Samuel D., who soon after the birth
of his son removed to Delaware, was chief justice
of the county of Kent, and died July 6, 1760,
aged 71. He studied law in Philadelphia, and
then three years at the Temple in London, and
on his return engaged successfully in the practice
at Philadelphia. Of the assembly of Pennsylva
nia he was a member in 1764, and of the general
congress in 1765. In the same year he began to
write against the measures of the British govern
ment. In Nov., 1767, he began to publish his
celebrated letters against the acts for taxation of
the colonies ; in which writings he supported the
liberties of his country and contributed much
toward the American Revolution. He was a
member of the first Revolutionary congress in
1774, and a member in subsequent years. Of
the eloquent and important state papers of that
period he wrote the principal : the address to the
inhabitants of Quebec; the first petition to the
king ; the address to the armies ; the second peti
tion to the king ; and the address to the several
States. He wrote also, in 1774, the resolves and
instructions of the committee of Pennsylvania.
In June, 1776, he opposed the Declaration of In
dependence, when the motion was considered by
congress, because he doubted of the policy at that
particular period, "without some prclusory trials of
our strength," and before the terms of confedera
tion were settled, and foreign assistance made
certain. He had occasion afterwards, in order to
prove the sincerity of his attachment to his coun
try's liberty, to appeal to the fact, that within a
few days after the declaration he was the only
member of congress who marched to face the
enemy. He accompanied his regiment to Eliza-
bcthtown in July to repel the invading enemy,
and remained there till the end of the term of
service. In Sept., he resigned, because two brig
adiers had been raised over him, through the
same hostility, as he supposed, which effected his
removal from congress. He now retired to Del
aware, and there, in the summer of 1777, in
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Capt. Lewis' company he served as a private with
his musket upon his shoulder in the militia move
ments against the British, who had landed at the
head of Elk. In Oct., Mr. M'Kean gave him a
commission of brigadier-general. In 1779, by
unanimous vote of the assembly, he was elected a
member of congress, and in May wrote the ad
dress to the States. In 1780, he was elected by
the county of New Castle a member of the assem
bly; in 1781, he was chosen president of Dela
ware, as successor of Caesar Ilodney, by unani
mous vote of the two houses. On commencing
his duties he published, Nov. 19, 1781, an excellent
proclamation, recommending piety and virtue and
the enforcement of the laws in favor of morality.
In 1782 he was chosen president of Pennsylva
nia, and remained in office from Nov., 1782, till
Oct., 1785, when he was succeeded by Franklin.
In 1788, he wrote nine letters with the signature
of Fabius, in order to promote the adoption of
the constitution ; and with the same signature, in
1797, he wrote fourteen letters in order to pro
mote a favorable feeling toward France. His
last days were spent in private life at Wilmington,
Delaware. His wife, whom he married in 1770,
was Mary Xorris of Philadelphia. His daughter,
Maria, married in 1808 Albinus C. Logan. His
countenance and person were fine. He filled
with ability the various high stations in which he
Avas placed. He was distinguished by his strength
of mind, miscellaneous knowledge, and cultivated
taste, which were united with an habitual elo
quence, with an elegance of manners, and a benig
nity, which made him the delight and ornament
of society. The infirmities of declining years had
detached him long before his death from the busy
scenes of life ; but in retirement his patriotism
felt no abatement. The welfare of his country
was ever dear to him, and he was ready to make
any sacrifices for its promotion. Unequivocal in
his attachment to a republican government, he
invariably supported, as far as his voice could have
influence, those men and those measures which
he believed most friendly to republican principles.
He was esteemed for his uprightness and the
purity of his morals. From a letter, which he
wrote to Mrs. Warren of Plymouth, dated the
2.3th of the first month, 1805, it seems that he
was a member of the society of Friends. He
published a speech delivered in the house of
assembly of Pennsylvania, 1764; a reply to a
speech of Joseph Galloway, 1765 ; late regula
tions respecting the colonies considered, 1765;
letters from a farmer in Pennsylvania to the
inhabitants of the British colonies, 1767-1768.
Mr. Dickinson's political writings were collected
and published in two volumes, 8vo. 1801. — Gor
don, I. 220; Ramsay, II. 319; Warren, 1.412;
Adams' Letter to Dr. Calkoen ; Monthly AnlhoL
v. 226; Nat. Intellig. Feb. 22, 1808; Marshall,
IT. note at end ; v. 97.
DICKINSON, PHILEMON, general, a brave
officer in the llcvolutionary war, died at his scat
near Trenton, N. J., Feb. 4, 1809, aged 68. He
took an early and an active part in the struggle
with Great Britain, and hazarded his ample for
tune and his life in establishing our independence.
In the memorable battle of Monmouth, at the
head of the Jersey militia, he exhibited the spirit
and gallantry of a soldier of liberty. After the
establishment of the present national government
he was a member of congress. In the various
stations, civil and military, with which he was hon
ored, he discharged his duty with zeal and ability.
The last twelve or fifteen years of his life were
spent in retirement from public concerns. — Phil-
adelpliia Gazette, Feb. 7, 1809.
DICKINSON, SAMUEL, general, a patriot of
the Itevolution, died in Middletown, Ky., in 1817.
DICKINSON, TIMOTHY, minister of Ilolliston,
Mass., died July 6, 1813, aged 52. Born in Am-
herst, Mass., he graduated at Dartmouth in 1785.
In 1789 he was ordained the successor of Joshua
Prentiss, the second pastor of II., in whose day
occurred the fatal sickness of 1754, occasioning
the death of fifty-three persons in six weeks, out
of the small population of four hundred. Dr.
Emmons' funeral discourse was founded on the
words, " I am now ready to be offered," etc. Mr.
D. was one of the founders of the Massachusetts
missionary society. He published a sermon to
the missionary society, 1811. — Panoplist, III. 335.
DICKINSON, JOHN, senior, died in Amhcrst
Jan. 4, 1850, aged 92, a soldier at Bunker Hill.
DICKINSON, PLINY, minister at Walpole,
N. II., died in 1834, aged 57. He was born in
Granby, and graduated at Dartmouth in 1798, and
succeeded T. Fessenden.
DICKINSON, AUSTIN, died in New York,
Aug. 15, 1849, aged 58, formerly minister of Am-
herst, Mass. Born in Amherst, he graduated at
Dartmouth in 1813. His life was one of Christian
enterprise and usefulness. He established the
Family Visitor in llichmond, and the National
Preacher in New York, in 1826. For several
years he furnished the secular papers with reli
gious intelligence with the signature A. D. He
was poor, but liberal and generous. — N. Y. Ob
server, Aug. 18.
DICKINSON, S. N., an accomplished printer,
died at Itoxbury Jan. 16, 1849, aged 47.
DICKINSON, E,. S. STORKS, a minister in
New York and Philadelphia, died suddenly in
Edinburgh, Scotland, Aug. 18, 1856, aged 32.
He was born in Longmeadow, Mass., the son of
Baxter Dickinson, 1). D., and graduated at Am
herst college in 1844, and at Union Theological
seminary, N. Y., in 1848. He was four years
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DICKMAN.
DODGE.
pastor of the Houston street church in N. Y., and
between two and three years assistant minister
with llev. Albert Barnes of Philadelphia. lie
was a youthful preacher of noble Christian aspira
tions, high culture, and rare accomplishments.
DICKMAX, THOMAS, died in Greenfield Dec. 9,
1841, aged 41. He was a printer. He began the
"Intelligencer" at G., in 179,3, anfl published it
fourteen years, then the " Federalist " in Spring
field from 1806 to 1819. He established a read
ing-room in S.
DIESKAU, JOHN HARMAND, baron, lieutenant-
general in the French army, proceeded in 1755
from Montreal with two thousand men against
fort Edward, intending to penetrate to Albany.
Gen. Johnson was at this time encamped at the
south end of lake George. After defeating the
detachment of Col. E. Williams, he attacked
Johnson's camp, Sept. 8 ; but the roar of the artil
lery frightened away his Indians ; Ins troops were
routed ; and he himself taken prisoner. A soldier
found him alone, leaning on a stump, being
wounded in the leg ; and, while he was feeling for
his watch to surrender it, supposing he was
searching for a pistol, poured a charge through
his hips. He was conveyed to New York, where
Dr. Jones attended him. Marshall says he was
mortally wounded ; but he lived some years. He
died at Surene in France, Sept. 8, 1767. —
Thacher's Med. Biog. 327 ; Dwight, in. 374.
DIGGES, EDWARD, was governor of Virginia
in 1655. During his short administration, the
Indians defeated the Virginians near the falls of
Jamestown. Solicitous to promote the culture of
silk, he sent to Armenia for persons to teach the
art of raising it.
DINSMOOR, ROBERT, " the rustic bard," died
at Windham in 1836, aged 79. His poems and
letters, with his life, were published in 1828.
DINSMOOR, SAMUEL, governor of New Hamp
shire, died at Keene March 15, 1835, aged 69.
Born in Londonderry, he was major-general of
the militia, judge of probate, and governor in
1831-1833.
DINWIDDIE, ROBERT, governor of Virginia
from 1752 to 1758, died in England Aug. 1,
1770, aged 80. He was clerk to a collector of
customs in the West Indies, whose enormous
fraud he detected and exposed to the government.
For this disclosure he was rewarded by his ap
pointment in Virginia. But while he was gov
ernor he did not forget what he had learned when
a clerk, for he trod in the steps of his principal ;
at least, he was charged with applying to his
own use 20,000 pounds, sent to defray the ex
penses of Virginia for the public service. It was
during his administration, that Braddock pro
ceeded on his expedition against the Indians.
DIX, SAMUEL, minister of Townsend, died
Nov. 12, 1797, aged 61. He graduated at Har
vard in 1758, and was ordained March 4, 1761.—
Farrar's Funeral Sermon.
DIXON, ALEXANDER, died in North Carolina,
in 1814, leaving 12,000 dollars for the education
of poor children in Dublin county.
DIXON, NATHAN F., died at Washington Jan.
29, 1842, aged 67, a senator from Rhode Island.
He was born in Plainfield, Conn., and graduated
at Providence in 1799, and practised law in R. I.
DIXWELL, JOHN, colonel, one of the judges
of lung Charles I., fled to this country for safety.
In 1664 he visited Whalley and Goffe at Had-
ley, and afterwards resided at New Haven, with
the name of John Davids, till his death, March
18, 1689, aged 81. He married at New Haven, and
left children. A descendant by the female line, a
respectable physician of Boston, assumed the
name of John Dixwell. Mr. D., of Boston,
erected a monument to his memory over his
grave in 1849. It is copied in Boston Advertiser,
Jan. 9, 1850.
DIXWELL, JOHN, M. D., died at Boston in
1834, aged 60. He graduated at Harvard in
1796, and was vice-president of the Massachusetts
medical society.
DOANE, GEORGE B., M. D., died in Boston
April 13, 1842, aged 49, a man of skill, integrity,
and kindness.
DOANE, AUGUSTUS SIDNEY, M. D., died on
Staten Island Jan. 27, 1852, aged 44. He was
quarantine physician at New York. Born in Bos
ton, he was graduated at Harvard in 1825. He
was the author and editor of various professional
works.
DOBSON, THOMAS, a bookseller of Philadel
phia, of the Caledonian society, republished the
Encyclopedia Britannica, 18 vols., 4to., 1790. He
died March 8, 1823. He was the author of let
ters on the character of the deity, and the moral
state of man, 2 vols., 12mo., 1807, written with
irreligious freedom.
DOD, ALBERT D., D. D., died at Princeton,
N. J., Nov. 20, 1845, aged 40, professor of math
ematics. Born in Mendham, N. J., he graduated
at Princeton in 1822, and was chosen professor in
1829. He was a good teacher and writer, and an
eloquent preacher.
DODD, STEPHEN, pastor of East Haven, died
Feb. 5, 1856, aged 78. Born in Bloomfield,
N. J., he graduated at Union college. He was
successively a minister in Carmel, N. Y., Water-
bury, Conn., and in East Haven from 1817 to
1847. He published a history of E. II. in 1826.
DODDRIDGE, PHILIP, a member of congress
from Virginia, died at Washington Nov. 19, 1832,
aged 60. He was a man of great ability, and an
eminent lawyer.
DODGE, JAMES, Dr., died at Tunis Oct. 10,
DODGE.
DORSET.
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1SOG, aged 34. "\Vhilc a skilful physician in New
York, ill health induced him to accept a station
in the navy. While in the Mediterranean the
office of consul at Tunis became vacant, and he
was appointed charge cles affaires. He had a
brilliant poetical genius, and a heart of humanity
and generosity, as was manifested toward the
unhappy prisoners at Algiers.
DODGE, XEIIEMIAII, minister in New London,
died Jan. 3, 1843, aged 73.
DODGE, DAVID L., died in New York April
23, 1852, aged 77 ; an eminent merchant, to be
honorably remembered for his aid to the religious
and benevolent movements of his day. He aided
in forming bible and tract societies. He was one
of the founders of the peace society, the first
meeting being held in his parlor forty years be
fore his death. On the morning of his last day,
he said, " I shall go home to-day." He himself
joined in a final song. — A. D. Smith's Sermon,
DODGE, ASA, M. D., missionary in Syria, died
at Jerusalem Jan. 28, 1835, of the typhus fever,
aged 33. Born in Newcastle, a graduate of
Bowdoin college in 1827, he arrived at Beirut in
1833, and went to Jerusalem in 1834. His wife
was Martha W. Merrill of Portland.
DAGGETT, SIMEON, minister of Raynham,
died March 20, 1852, aged 87. He published a,
sermon on the way to eternal life, 1796 ; at funeral
of R. George, 1827.
DOLE, AUNT BETTY, a black, died in Troy
Jan. 22, 1842, supposed to be 135 years old. She
was kidnapped in Africa at the age of fifteen.
DOLE, NATHAN, died at Brewer, Me., in July,
1855. A graduate of Bowdoin in 1836, he was
some years a minister in Brewer. He had edited
the Journal of Missions and Youth's Dayspring,
a few years, at the rooms of the American board
in Boston.
DONALDSON, WILLIAM, M. D., died at Bal
timore Jan. 13, 1835, aged 58 ; a distinguished
physician.
DONGAN, THOMAS, governor of New York
from 1683 to 1688, afterwards earl of Limerick,
succeeded Brockholst, and was succeeded by
Nicholson. He was highly respected as a gov
ernor, being upright, discreet, and accomplished
in manners. He ordered an assembly to be con
vened by election, a privilege which the people
had not before enjoyed. Yet he unjustly fell
under the displeasure of his sovereign.
DONNISON, WILLIAM, died at Boston Jan.
24, 1834. He was adjutant in the Revolutionary
war, and adjutant and inspector-general from 1788
to 1813 ; also, judge of the common pleas.
DOOLITTLE, Rev. BENJAMIN, first minister of
Northfield, Mass., was the grandson of Abraham
D., who died at Wallingford Aug. 11, 1690, aged
70. He was born Ju^y 10, 1695, graduated at
39
Yale in 1716, was ordained in 1718, and died very
suddenly Jan. 9, 1749. At the time of his set
tlement there were thirty-five families. He prac
tised as a physician. His successor was J. IJub-
bard. His funeral sermon was by J. Ashley, of
Deerfield. He published an inquiry into enthu
siasm, and a narrative of the mischief by the
French and Indians from 1744 to 1748. — Hol
land, 408.
DOOLITTLE, JOEL, a judge of the supreme
court of Vermont, descended from Abraham D.,
was the son of Titus D., of Westfield, and gradu
ated at Yale in 1799. He settled in Middlebury,
Vt., and was a member of the corporation of the
college. He died March 9, 1841, aged 67.
DOOLITTLE, MARK, brother of the preceding,
died at Belchertown, Mass., Nov. 7, 1855, aged
73 years. He was a graduate of Yale in 1804,
and settled in 1812 as a lawyer at B. He
was a senator; and for many years an active
and consistent member of the church, highly
respected. He published a history of the Congre
gational church of B ; and address to agricultural
society, 1826.
DORR, EDWARD, minister of Hartford, died in
1772. A graduate of Yale in 1742, he published
a sermon on the death of D. Edwards, 1765.
DORR, SAMUEL C., of Lyme, Conn., died in
London in 1794. He invented shearing ma
chines.
DORR, THOMAS W., famous as a rebel in the
history of Rhode Island, was born in Providence,
graduated at Harvard in 1823, and died Dec. 27,
1854, aged 49. He studied law with Chancellor
Kent, and was a literary man. His political life
began in 1834. For his daring insurrectionary
movements in reference to a new constitution of
the State, he was tried for treason and sentenced
to imprisonment for life. After one year he was
released : his sentence was annulled by act of
the legislature in 1853. In his illness he joined
the Episcopal church.
DORRANCE, BENJAMIN, colonel, died in
Kingston, Wyoming Valley, in Aug., 1837, aged
70. His father, Col. George D., who emigrated
from Windham county, was slain in an Indian
battle, aged 45. He left sons, Col. Charles, and
Rev. John D., pastor of Wilkesbarre.
DORRANCE, GORDON, minister nearly forty
years of Windsor, Mass., died in Attica, N. Y.,
at the house of his son Dr. Gardiner D., May 18,
1846, aged 80. Born in Sterling, Conn., he grad
uated at Dartmouth in 1786.
DORSEY, JOHN SYNG, M. D., professor of
anatomy, was the son of Leonard D., and grand
son of Edmund Physick. He was born in Phila
delphia Dec. 23, 1783. He early studied physic
with his relative, Dr. Physick, and was doctor of
medicine at the age of eighteen. He afterwards
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D'OSSOLI.
DOW.
visited England and France, for his improvement
in medical science, returning home in Dec., 1804.
In 1807 he was elected adjunct professor of sur
gery with Dr. Physick at Philadelphia, and on the
death of Dr. Wistar, was chosen professor of
anatomy. He now had attained a height most
gratifying to his ambition ; but Providence had
selected him to teach a salutary lesson on the
precarious tenure of life, and the importance of
being always prepared for death. On the eve
ning of the day in which he pronounced his
eloquent introductory lecture he was attacked
with a fever, and in a week died, Nov. 12, 1818,
aged 35. When by his express command he was
informed of his state, and apprised of his certain
death, he Avas resigned to the will of heaven. As
a Christian he had practised the duties of reli
gion. With fervor he reiterated his confidence
in the atonement of his Saviour. He was thus
sustained in an hour when, on the bed of death,
the proud warrior would shudder in thinking of
the destinies of eternity. As a surgeon he was al
most unrivalled. Besides papers for the periodical
journals and an edition of Cooper's surgery with
notes, he published elements of surgery, 2 vols.,
1813, deemed the best work extant on the sub
ject. — Thacher's Med. Biog.
D'OSSOLI, SARAH MARGARET FULLER, died
July 22, 1850, aged 40, drowned off Fire Island
with her husband and child in the wreck of the
bark, in which she was sailing for New York.
She was the sister of Timothy F., of Massachu
setts, and married in Italy the Count D'Ossoli.
She was a literary lady, and wrote for the Dial
and published a summer on the lakes, woman in
the nineteenth century, papers on literature and
art. She was the foreign correspondent of the
Tribune. Her memoirs have been published.
DOTY, MRS., wife of Elihu D., missionary at
Amoy in China, died Oct. 5, 1845, aged 38, five
days after Mrs. Pohlman. Her name Avas Clar
issa Ackley of Washington, Conn. She embarked
for BataA'ia in 1836. The faith, which she pro
fessed at the age of 13, Avas her support in the
hour of death.
DOUGHERTY, MICIIJEL, remarkable for lon
gevity, died at his plantation on Horse Creek, in
Scriven county, Georgia, May 29, 1808, aged 135
years. He was one of the first settlers of that
State. The day before he died he Avalked tAvo
miles.
DOUGLASS, WILLIAM, M. D., a physician in
Boston, died Oct. 21, 1752. He Avas a native of
East Lothian in Scotland, of no mean parentage.
After being educated for his profession, partly at
Paris and partly at Leyden, he came to this country
in 1 7 1G, and, after visiting Gen. Douglass, governor
of St. Kitts, settled at Boston in 1718. Having
letters to Cotton Mather, he put into his hands
those numbers of the philosopliical transactions
which gave an account of the inoculation for the
small pox ; and this benevolent minister commu
nicated the intelligence to Dr. Boylston, and per
suaded him to introduce the practice, Avishing him
to communicate the project to other physicians.
As Dr. Douglass received no notice, he indig
nantly opposed the practice. Dr. Thachcr
erroneously states, that Mather communicated
the Avork of Timoni to Douglas. In the epidemic
sore throat he made a free use of mercury. lie
Avas a skilful physician. His prejudices Avere A'cry
strong, and in his language he Avas frequently
intemperate. His notions of religion were very
loose. In his history of the American colonies,
he is often incorrect, and it Avas his foible to meas
ure the Avorth of men by 'his personal friendship
for them. A tOAvn of Massachusetts, of which he
Avas a proprietor and benefactor, bears his name.
He published the inoculation of the small pox,
as practised in Boston, 1722; the abuses and
scandals of some late pamphlets in favor of inoc
ulation, 1722 ; a practical essay concerning the
small pox, containing the history, etc., 1730 ; a
practical history of a neAV eruptive, miliary fever,
Avith an angina ulcusculosa, Avhich prevailed in
Boston in 1735 and 1736, 12mo. 1736; a sum
mary, historical and political, of the first planting,
progressiA'C improvements, and present state of
the British settlements in North America, the first
volume 1749, the second 1753; an edit. 1755. —
Summary, II. 409; Ilutcliinson, II. 80; Hist.
Coll. IX. 40 ; Whitney's Hist. Worcester, 203 ;
American Museum, ill. 53 ; Holmes.
DOUGLASS, DAVID B., LL. D., died in Ge
neva, N. Y., Oct. 28, 1849, aged 56, professor of
mathematics. Graduating at Yale in 1813, he
joined the army and fought in various battles.
After the Avar he Avas connected Avith West Point
until 1830, and then Avas often consulted as a civil
engineer. He prepared the plans of the Croton
aqueduct. In 1840 Major D. AA'as president of
Kenyon college in Ohio. He Avas a man of Avorth
and piety.
DOAV, LOHEXZO, an eccentric and celebrated
Methodist minister, died at GcorgetoAvn, Feb. 2,
1834. He Avas a native of Coventry, Conn., born
in 1777. In his course of thirty years' preaching
he travelled over England and Ireland and visited
many parts of the United States. FCAV ministers
have preached oftener than he.
DOW, DANIEL, D. D., died in Thompson,
Conn., July 19, 1849, aged about 78, in thcfifty-
eiglith of his ministry. A graduate of Yale in
1793, he Avas ordained in 1796. A pond in his
tOAvn — the residence of the Nipmuck Indians —
they called Chargoggagoggmanchogaggogg. His
death Avas sudden. After preaching a funeral ser
mon he returned home, and in a feAv minutes Avas
dead. Hiram Kctchum of Nv Y. married his
daughter. He preached tAventy years Avithout
DOWNING.
DRAKE.
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notes. He published letters to John Sherman,
1806; on the covenants, 1811; on freemasonry,
1829 ; several on funeral and ordination occa
sions.
DOWNING, A. J., died July 28, 1852, aged
37, lost in the steamer Henry Clay. He lived
in Newburgh. He was a landscape gardener, and
was very skilled in rural architecture. As a wri
ter on horticulture he was unequalled. He nobly
lost his life in saving others. Three times he
swam from the wreck to the shore, bearing a
friend with him ; in the fourth attempt he was
dragged down by many seeking his aid.
DOWNER, AVERT, Dr., died at Preston July
15, 1854, aged 91, the last survivor of the battle
of fort Griswold. His father, Dr. Joshua I).,
was also present, and assisted in dressing the
wounded.
DOWNES, JOHN, commodore, died in Charles-
town Aug. 11, 1854, aged 69. He had been in
sea service twenty-four years. A native of Can
ton, Mass., he entered the navy in 1802. In the
frigate Potomac he bombarded the piratical town
of Quallah Battoo on the coast of Sumatra. His
senior post-captains were Steward and Morris at
the time of his death.
DOWNING, GEORGE, of the first class of Har
vard college, died in 1684, aged about 62. He
graduated in 1642. T. Woodbridge, whose name
is the only one in the catalogue standing before
his, died in the same year. He went to England,
and was a preacher among the Independents and a
chaplain in the army of Cromwell, who sent him
as his agent to Holland. Eliot says, he was ready
to serve any master and to commit any act of
treachery. Charles II. continued him as his agent
and made him a knight. About 1672 he was
imprisoned ; but was again received into favor.
Hutchinson regarded him as a friend of New
England. Sir George D. corresponded with
his brother-in-law, Gov. Bradstreet. — Eliot.
DOWSE, THOMAS, died in Cambridge, Mass.,
November 4, 1856, aged 84 years, lie had no
education except in a common town school, and
he toiled during his life in a mechanical trade;
yet he acquired a literary taste, and the means of
gratifying it by the purchase of books, with the
contents of which he made himself acquainted.
Instead of wasting the fruits of his daily industry
in low and degrading indulgence, he laid up
money, and spent much of it in forming a library,
rich in the treasures of science and literature. It
amounted at last to five thousand volumes, all of
which were in beautiful and some in superb bind
ing. For years strangers were accustomed to
resort to his house in order to see his fine library.
At last, in his old age, he determined to place it
in a public institution, where it would be pre
served with care, and be useful for ages ; he,
therefore, three months before his death, presented
it to the Massachusetts historical society. The
insurance upon it of 20,000 dollars shows that
the estimated value of the books was beyond that
sum. The remarks of Robert C. Winthrop, the
president of the society, and of Edward Everett,
on the occasion of this unparalleled donation,
were printed in the Boston Advertiser of Aug. 6,
1856. It was resolved by the society, that the
library be placed in a room by itself, to be known
as the Dowse library of the Massachusetts
historical society. A spacious apartment was
immediately prepared for the purpose, in the
society's valuable building, adjoining the Chapel
cemetery in Boston. The purchase of this build
ing, the acquisition of these books, and the be
quest by Samuel Applcton of 10,000 dollars for
a publication fund, are memorable events in the
recent history of this society. Already the vol
umes of its collections which have been published
are thirty-one in number. Hereafter, it is to be
hoped, new volumes of historical research will be
issued still more rapidly. And, so long as this
important institution of Massachusetts shall exist,
so long will the name of Mr. Dowse be remem
bered with honor. All young men, who set out
in poverty, and who, by God's blessing on their
industry and prudence, acquire comparative wealth,
may not be able to do a work of such prominent
and memorable service to the public ; but they
may all do what is still more praiseworthy, if
they have as many years in which to do their
work : they may daily supply the wants of the
poor and suffering ; they may cause the widow's
heart to sing for joy ; they may aid the numerous
societies of charity around them ; and they may
promote the diffusion of God's heavenly light, by
helping to send the Book of books to the yet un
taught millions of the human family.
DRAKE, JOSEPH, colonel, died in New Haven
Sept. 11, 1836, aged 99.
DRAKE, JOSEPH R., M. D., died in New York
in 1820, aged only 25. He wrote a poem, the
culprit fay.
DRAKE, DANIEL, M. D., died Nov. 5, 1852,
at Cincinnati, aged 67. He was born at Plain-
field, N. J., Oct. 20, 1785 : in his early life his
father, Isaac, the son of Nathaniel, removed to
Kentucky. At the age of 15 he went to Cincin
nati to study medicine, a few cabins then consti
tuting the queen city of the west. Through a
wilderness of nearly a thousand miles he went to
Philadelphia in order to attend the medical lectures
of Dr. Rush ; at the end of one course, though
an attendance on two courses was required, he
asked for a rigid examination, and obtained his
degree. He was one of the founders of the medi
cal college of Ohio in 1819, and one of its pro
fessors, also a professor in the Lexington and
Louisville schools. In 1827 he advocated the
temperance principle. The first Episcopal church
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DRAPER.
DRINKER.
at C. was organized afc his house in 1815, though
he did not. become a communicant until 1840,
being a low churchman. He married, in 1806,
Harriet Lisson, a niece of Gen. Mansfield, and
lived with her in perfect connubial happiness
twenty years. He left three children with fami
lies. Benjamin D., of Cincinnati, an author, was
his brother. He died of a congestion of the
brain. He published sketches of Cincinnati, 1810;
account of Cincinnati, and the Miami country,
1815. The Western journal of medical and
physical sciences was edited by him. His last
work was a treatise on the diseases and climat
ology of the Mississippi valley.
DRAPER, RICHARD, died in June, 1775, aged
47. His father, John D., succeeded B. Green in
publishing the Boston Weekly News-Letter, the
first publication of the kind in this country. This
paper was continued by Richard Draper, who also
published the Massachusetts Gazetteer.
DRAYTON, WILLIAM, LL. D., judge of the
federal court for the district of South Carolina,
died in June, 1790, aged 57. He was a native of
that province. About the year 1747 he was
placed under Thomas Corbett, an eminent lawyer.
In 1750 he accompanied that gentleman to Lon
don, and entered into the Middle Temple, where
he continued till 1754, at which time he returned
to his native country. Though his abilities were
confessedly great, he soon quitted the bar, from
disinclination to the practice of the law ; but
about the year 1768 he was appointed chief jus
tice in the province of East Florida. AYhen the
Revolution commenced in 1775, he fell under the
suspicion of the governor, and was suspended by
him. He however went to England, and was
reinstated ; but on his return to St. Augustine
was again suspended by Governor Tonyn. In
consequence of this he took his family with him
to England in 1778 or 1779, in the hope of ob
taining redress, but the distracted situation of
affairs in America prevented him from effecting
his purpose. Soon after his return to America he
was appointed judge of the admiralty court of
{South Carolina. In March, 1789, he was ap
pointed associate justice of the State, but he
resigned this office in Oct. following, when lie was
made a judge under the federal government. —
Ilardie's Biog. Diet. ; American Museum,\m. 82.
DRAYTON, WILLIAM HENRY, a political wri
ter, died in Sept., 1779, aged 36. He vas a native
of South Carolina. From 1753 to 1764 he studied
at Westminster and Oxford. In 1771 he was
appointed a judge. He was one of his majesty's
justices when they made thoir last circuit in the
spring of 1775, and the only one born in Amer
ica. In his charge to the grand jury he inculcated
the same sentiments in favor of liberty which
were patroni2ed by the popular leaders. Soon
afterwards he was elected president of the pro
vincial congress, and devoted his great abilities
with uncommon zeal for the support of the meas
ures adopted by his native country. Before the
next circuit his colleagues were advertised as
inimical to the liberties of America; and March,
1776, he was appointed chief justice by the
voice of his country. He died suddenly in Phil
adelphia, while attending his duty in congress.
He was a statesman of great decision and energy,
and one of the ablest political writers of Carolina.
In 1774 he wrote a pamphlet, addressed to the
American congress, under the signature of a free
man, in which he stated the grievances of Amer
ica, and drew up a bill of American rights. He
published his charge to the grand jury in April,
1776, which breathes all the spirit and energy of
the mind, which knows the value of freedom and
is determined to support it. Ramsay in his history
has published this charge entire. His speech in
the general assembly of South Carolina, on the
articles of the confederation, was published in
1778. Several other productions of his pen
appeared, explaining the injured rights of his
country, and encouraging his fellow citizens to
vindicate them. He also wrote a history of the
American Revolution, brought down to the end
of the year 1778, in three large volumes, which
he intended to correct and publish, but was pre
vented by his death. It was published by his son
in 1821. He was once challenged by Gen. Lee,
in consequence of his censure in congress on the
general's conduct at the battle of Monmouth ;
but he had the courage and the conscience to
decline the combat, and assigned his reasons. —
Miller, II. 380 ; Ramsay's Rev. South Carolina
I. 57, 91, 103; Hist. South Carolina, II. 454;
Encyc. Americana.
DRAYTON, JOHN, only son of the preceding,
governor of South Carolina from 1800 to 1802,
and from 1808 to 1810, succeeded in that office E.
Rutledge and C. Pinckney, and was succeeded by
J. B. Richardson and II. Middleton. At the time
of his death he was district judge of the United
States. He died at Charleston Nov. 27, 1822,
aged 60. The historical materials, collected by
his father, were by him revised and published
with the title of memoirs of the American Revo
lution from its commencement to the year 1776,
inclusive, as relating to the State of South Caro
lina, etc., 2 vols. 8vo. 1821. He had previously
published view of South Carolina, 8vo. 1802.
DRAYTON, WILLIAM, a distinguished member
of congress from South Carolina, died at Phila
delphia May 24, 1846. He had lived at Phila
delphia twelve or more years.
DRINKER, EDWARD, remarkable for longev
ity, died Nov. 17, 1782, aged nearly 102. He
was born Dec. 24, 1680, in a cabin near the pres
ent corner of Walnut and Second streets in Phil
adelphia. His parents had removed to this place
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from Beverly in Mass. The banks of the Dela
ware were inhabited at the time of his birth by
the Indians and a few Swedes and Hollanders.
At the age of twelve years he went to Boston,
where he served an apprenticeship to a cabinet
maker. In the year 1745, he returned to Phila
delphia, where he lived till the time of his death.
He was four times married, and had eighteen
children, all of whom were by his first wife. In
his old age the powers of his mind were very little
impaired. He enjoyed so uncommon a share of
health, that he was never confined more than
three days to his bed. He was a man of an amia
ble character, and he continued to the last uni
formly cheerful and kind. His religious principles
were as steady as his morals were pure. He
attended public worship about thirty years in the
Presbyterian church under Dr. Sproat, and died
in the fullest assurance of a happy immortality.
He witnessed the most astonishing changes. He
lived to see the spot, where he had picked black
berries and hunted rabbits, become the seat of a
great city, the first in wealth in America. He
saw ships of every size in those streams where
he had been used to see nothing larger than an
Indian canoe. He saw the first treaty between
France and the independent States of America
ratified upon the very spot, where he had seen
Williim Penn ratify his first and last treaties with
the Indians. He had been the subject of seven
crowned heads. — New and Gen. Biocj. Diet.;
Hardie ; Rial's Essays, 295 — 300 ; Universal
Asylum, II. 88; American Museum, II. 73-75.
DROMGOOLE, EDWARD, Rev., died in Bruns
wick Co., Va., May 13, 1835, aged 83 ; a minister
of the gospel sixty-three years.
DUAXE, JAMES, judge of the district court
for New York, was a member of the first con
gress from this State in 1774, and received his
appointment of judge in Oct., 1789. He was the
first mayor of New York after its recovery from
the British. His death occurred at Albany in"
Feb., 1797. He published a law case.
DUAXE, WILLIAM, colonel, died Nov. 24,
1835, aged 75. He was the editor of the Phila
delphia Aurora for many years, and the supporter
of Jefferson in the political divisions of the day.
lie published a military dictionary.
DUBOIS, GEORGE, a minister in the Dutch
church, New York, from 1699 to 1756, the suc
cessor of Henricus Selyns. His colleagues were
llcnricus Boel, from 1713 to 1754; Johannes
Ritzenia, in 1744, died 1796; and Lambertius De
llonde, in 1751, died 1795. All these preached
entirely in Dutch. The first preacher in English
was A. Laidlie.
DUBOIS, GEORGE, died at Tarrytown April
20, 1844, aged about 44, a minister in the Dutch
church. He was first settled at Bloomingburgh ;
then fourteen years in New York, as successor of
C. Bork, in Franklin street ; then in Tarrytown
a brief period. lie was a most faithful and suc
cessful minister. At one time he admitted to his
church in New York eighty persons, and in Tar
rytown more persons than constituted the whole
church when he was settled.
DUBOIS, JOHN, Catholic bishop of New York,
died Dec. 20, 1842, aged 78 ; a native of Paris.
DUCIIE, JACOB, D. D., an Episcopal minister
of Philadelphia, died in Jan., 1798, aged about
60. He was a native of that city and a graduate
of the college in 1757. For some years he was
an assistant minister of two churches; in 1775 he
succeeded Dr. Peters as rector. At the opening
of the first congress he, by the nomination of S.
Adams, made a most fervent and sublime prayer.
Mr. A. said, " It was enough to melt a heart of
stone." While chaplain to congress he gave
his salary for the relief of the families of Penn-
sylvanians killed in battle. Yet he was opposed
to independence ; and, in order to persuade
Washington to adopt his own views, he sent him
a letter by Mrs. Ferguson. Washington trans
mitted the letter to congress. Thus losing the
public confidence, he went to England in 1776,
and was chaplain to an asylum for orphans. His
daughter, Sophia, married John Henry, the agent
of the Canadian governor in 1810. Dr. Duche
was a man of brilliant talents; a most impres
sive orator, with much action ; and he had also a
fine poetical taste. He published a sermon on
the death of E. Morgan, 1763; of Richard Penn,
1771 ; a fast sermon before congress, July 20 ; a
sermon to the militia, 1775 ; observations moral,
etc., by Caspapina, 1773 ; sermons, 2 vols., Lon
don, 1780; a sermon before the humane society,
1781.— Wirfs Old Bachelor, No. 31.
DUDLEY, THOMAS, governor of Massachu
setts died in Roxbury July 31, 1652, aged 76. He
was the son of Roger, and was born in North
ampton, England, in 1576. After having been
for some time in the army, his mind was im
pressed by religious truth, and he attached him
self to the Nonconformists. He came to Massa
chusetts in 1630, as deputy-governor, and was one
of the founders and pillars of the colony. He
was chosen governor in the years 1634, 1640,
1645, and 1650. His zeal against heretics did
not content itself with arguments, addressed to
the understanding, and reproofs, aimed at the
conscience ; but his intolerance was not singular
in an age when the principles of religious liberty
were not understood. The following lines are a
part of a piece found in his pocket after his
death.
" Let men of God in courts and churches watch
O'er such as do a toleration hatch,
Lest that i.l egg bring forth a cockatrice,
To poisou all with heresy and vice.
If men be left, and otherwise combine,
My epitaph 's, / died no libertine."
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DUDLEY.
His -widow married Rev. J. Allen, of Dedham.
His daughters married Gov. Bradstreet, Gen.
Denison, and Rev. J. Woodbridge. He was a
man of sound judgment, of inflexible integrity,
of public spirit, and of strict and exemplary piety.
— Morton, 150; Mather's Magnolia, li. 15-17;
NeaVs New England, l. 308; Hist. Coll. vil. 11 ;
X. 39; Hutchinson, I. 183; Winthrop ; Holmes.
DUDLEY, SAMUEL, the minister of Exeter,
died in 1G83, aged 76. He was the son of Gov.
Thomas I)., and, after he came to New England,
resided for a time in Cambridge, Boston, and Sal
isbury. His first wife was Mary, the daughter of j
Gov. Winthrop. He had fifteen children, and
his descendants are numerous in New Hampshire.
He was a man of capacity and learning.
DUDLEY, JOSEPH, governor of Massachusetts,
the son of Gov. Thomas, died at Roxbury April
2, 1720, aged 72. He was born Sept. 23, 1647,
when his father was 70 years of age. In his
childhood, after his father's death, he was under
the care of Mr. Allen, of Dedham, who married
his mother. He was graduated at Harvard col
lege in 16G5. He afterwards entered into the
service of his country in the Indian war of 1675.
In 1682 he went to England as an agent for the
province. When the government was changed
in 1686 he was appointed president of Massa
chusetts and New Hampshire. His commission
was received in May, 1686. His authority was of
short continuance, for Andros arrived at the close
of the same year". He, however, was continued
in the council, and was appointed chief justice.
In 1689 he went again to England, and in 1690
returned with a commission of chief justice of
New York, and continued in this country three
years. He was then eight years lieutenant-gov
ernor of the Isle of Wight. He was appointed
governor of Massachusetts by Queen Anne, and,
arriving at Boston June 11, 1702, continued in
the government till Nov., 1715, being succeeded
by Shutc. He possessed rare endowments, and
Avas a singular honor to his country, being a man
of learning and an accomplished gentleman. He
was a scholar, a divine, a philosopher, and a law
yer. As governor of Massachusetts he was in
structed to procure an act rendering his salary
and that of the lieutenant-governor permanent ;
the object was to secure the dependence of the
governors on the crown. These instructions oc
casioned a controversy with the legislature, which
lasted during the administration of Shute and
others of his successors. He loved much cere
mony in the government, and but little ceremony
in the church, being attached to the Congrega
tional order. He was a sincere Christian, whose
virtues attracted general esteem, though in the
conflict of political parties his character was fre
quently assailed. While in his family he devoutly
addressed himself to the Supreme Being; he
DUDLEY.
also frequently prayed with his children separately
for their everlasting welfare, and did not think it
humbling to impart religious instruction to his
servants. He was economical and dignified, and
he applied himself with great diligence to the
duties of his station. — Caiman's Funeral Ser
mon ; Boston News-Letter, April 4, 1720 ; Hutch
inson, I. 287, 340-345; II. 213; Belknap's New
Hampshire, I. 361; Holmes; Minofs Contin.
1.59.
DUDLEY, THOMAS, son of Governor Joseph
D., was born Feb. 26, 1670, and graduated at
Harvard college in 1685. He published Massa
chusetts, or the first planters of New England.
DUDLEY, PAUL, F. R. S., chief justice of
Massachusetts, the son of Gov. Joseph, died at
Roxbury Jan. 21, 1751, aged 75. He was born
Sept. 3, 1675, and graduated at Harvard college
in 1690. He finished his law studies at the Tem
ple in London. He returned in 1702 with the
commission of attorney-general, which he held
until he was appointed judge in 1718. He suc
ceeded Lynde as chief justice, and was succeeded
by Sewall. On the bench he was impartial ; the
stern enemy of vice ; of quick apprehension, ex
tensive knowledge, and powerful eloquence. He
was a learned and pious man. From his regard
to the interests of religion, and as a proof of
his attachment to the institution in which he was
educated, in his last will he bequeathed to Har
vard college 100 pounds, the interest of which
was to be apph'ed to the support of an annual
lecture to be preached in that college ; the first
lecture to be for proving and explaining, and for
the proper use and improvement of the princi
ples of natural religion ; the second for the confirm
ation, illustration, and improvement of the great
articles of the Christian religion ; the third for de
tecting, convicting, and exposing the idolatry and
tyranny, the damnable heresies, and abominable
superstitions, and fatal and various errors of the
Romish church; the fourth for maintaining, ex
plaining, and proving the validity of the ordina
tion of ministers, as the same has been practised
in New England from the first beginning of it.
These subjects were successively to occupy the
lecture, and he who should be chosen for the last
was directed to be a sound, grave, experienced
divine, of at least forty years of age. A copy of
each discourse is required to be left with the
treasurer. The trustees are the president and
senior tutor, the professor of divinity, the pastor
of the first church in Cambridge, and the pastor
of the first church in Roxbury. The first sermon
on this foundation was preached by President
Holyoke in May, 1755. The second, and the
first that was published, was delivered by Mr.
Barnard in 1756. Mr. Dudley published twelve
articles in the transactions of the royal society in
vols. 31, 34, and 39 ; among them an account of
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the making of maple sugar ; of discovering the
hive of boos in the woods ; of the earthquake of
New England ; of the poison-wood tree ; of the
rattlesnake ; of the Indian hot-houses and cures
by sweating in hot turf; description of the moose
deer ; essay upon the natural history of whales,
lie published also an essay on the merchandise
of slaves and souls of men, mentioned in Revela
tion xvill. 13, with an application to the church
of Rome. — Holmes ; Appendix to Barnard's
Dudleian Lecture.
DUDLEY, WILLIAM, colonel, the son of Gov.
D., died in Roxbury Aug. 10, 1743, aged about
50. He graduated in 1704. His father sent him
to Canada to negotiate an exchange of prisoners.
His mission was well executed and successful.
He brought back Rev. Mr. Williams, of Deerfield.
He was the speaker of the house of represent
atives, and a fine orator. He was distinguished
as an officer in the expedition against Port Royal.
His wife was the daughter of Judge Davenport ;
his sons, Thomas and William, were graduates. —
Eliot.
DUFFIELD, GEORGE, D. D., minister in Phil
adelphia, died Feb. 2, 1790, aged 57. After he
became a preacher, he was first settled in the
town of Carlisle, where his zealous and incessant
labors, through the influence of the Divine Spirit,
were made effectual to the conversion of many.
So conspicuous was his benevolent activity, that
the synod appointed him as a missionary, and he
accordingly, in company with Mr. Beatty, visited
the frontiers. His talents at length drew him
into a more public sphere, and placed him as a
pastor of the second Presbyterian church in Phil
adelphia. His zeal to do good exposed him to
the disease of which he died. He possessed a
vigorous mind, and was considerably distinguished
as a scholar. As his readiness of utterance was
seldom equalled, he was enabled to preach with
uncommon frequency. As he possessed an un
conquerable firmness, he always adhered steadily
to the opinions which he had formed. In the
struggle with Great Britain he was an early and
zealous friend of his country. But it was as a
Christian that he was most conspicuous, for the
religion which he preached was exhibited in his
own life. The spirit of the gospel tinctured his
whole mind. It rendered him the advocate of
the poor, and the friend of the friendless. He
sought occasions of advancing the interests of re
ligion and humanity. As a preacher, he was in
early life remarkably animated and popular, and
his manner was always warm and forcible, and
his instructions always practical. Dwelling much
on the great and essential doctrines of the gospel,
he had a peculiar talent of touching the con
science, and impressing the heart. lie published
an account of his tour with M. Beatty along the
frontiers of Pennsylvania ; a thanksgiving sermon
for the restoration of peace, Dec. 11, 1783. —
(.!rcen\f Funeral Sermon; Assembly Mis*. Mag.
I. 553-556; American Museum, vu. GG-68.
DULANEY, DANIEL, an eminent counsellor of
Maryland, resided at Annapolis, and died at an
early stage of the Revolutionary war. He was
considered as one of the most learned and ac
complished men in his profession that our country
ever produced. He made some publications on
the controversy between America and Great
Britain. The title of one of them is, Considera
tions on the propriety of imposing taxes in the
British colonies in North America for the purpose
of a revenue, 1766. — Miller's Retrospect, n. 379.
DULANEY, THOMAS, died at Franklin, Miss.,
June 25, 1845, aged 36, a man of fine talents and
an almost unequalled sufferer. For years he
was confined to his bed, or his room, and his
room was kept dark by reason of a neuralgic af
fection, which made a ray of light most painful.
He was a member of the Episcopal church, and
full of spiritual enjoyment. His case may well
teach a lesson of gratitude to men who can bear
to see the light, and may show also the power of
religion in alleviating misery and triumphing over
pain.
DUMMER, RICHARD, one of the first settlers
of Newbury, died Dec. 14, 1679, aged 87. He
came to this country in 1635. His lot consisted
of three hundred acres near the falls. When in
1640 Gov. Winthrop suffered great loss by the
misconduct of his bailiff, and the various towns
sent in a contribution of 500 pounds, Mr. Dum-
mer, in a more private way, with unequalled lib
erality, sent to him 100 pounds. The site of
Dummer's academy formerly belonged to his plan
tation. — Eliot ; Coffin's History of Newbury.
DUMMER, SllUBAEL, minister of York, Maine,
was the son of Richard Dummer. lie was born
Feb. 17, 1636, graduated at Harvard college in
1656, and began to preach at York in 1662. He
was not ordained, probably because a church was
not organized, until Dec. 3, 1672. The town of
York was surprised Monday, Feb. 5, 1692, by a
party of French and Indians, who came on snow-
shoes, and burnt most of the houses, excepting
the four garrison houses of Alcock, Preble, liar-
man, and Norton, and killed about seventy-five of
the inhabitants, and carried as many into captiv
ity. Mr. Dummer was shot down dead near his
own door, aged 55. His wife was taken captive.
His successor was S. Moody.
DUMMER, JEREMIAH, an agent of Massachu
setts in England, and a distinguished scholar, died
May 19, 1739, aged about 60. He was a native
of Boston, the son of Jeremiah, and was the
grandson of Richard Dummer. He was gradu
ated at Harvard college in 1699. While a mem
ber of this seminary, he was pre-eminent for the
brilliancy of his genius. His only competitor
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DUXBAR.
was Mr. John Bulklcy, who surpassed him for
solidity of judgment, but not in sprightliness of
thought and wit. lie soon afterwards went to
Europe, and spent a number of years at the uni
versity of Utrecht, where he received a doctor's
degree. He then returned to New England, but,
finding no prospect of employment in this coun
try that would be agreeable to him, he went to
England, where he arrived a little before the
change of Queen Anne's ministry. In 1710 he
was appointed agent of Massachusetts, and his
services were important till his dismission in 1721.
Contrary to the expectation of his countrymen,
he devoted himself to the persons in power, and
was an advocate of their measures. lie was em
ployed by Lord Bolingbroke in some secret nego
tiations, and had assurances of promotion to a
place of honor and profit ; but the death of the
queen blasted all his hopes. If he had espoused
a different side, it is thought that his great tal
ents might have elevated him to some of the
highest offices. His acquaintance with Boling
broke perverted his religious sentiments and cor
rupted his manners ; so that he, who had studied
divinity, and who in youth, as appears by his
diary, had a susceptible conscience, and was ac
customed to the language of fervent prayer,
through the contaminating influence of profli
gate great men became licentious in manners and
a sceptic in religion. Yet he was miserable in
his depravity, and confessed to a friend, that he
wished to 1'eel again the pure joys which he ex
perienced when he breathed the air of New Eng
land. Though upon the change of times he de
serted his patron, Lord Bolingbroke, in regard to
politics, it is said that he adhered to his senti
ments upon religion to the close of life. Few
men exceeded him in quickness of thought, and
in case, delicacy, and fluency in speaking and
writing. He published disputatio theologica de
Christi ad inferos descensu, quam, indulgente
Triuno Numinc, sub prrcsidio clar. and celeber.
viri, 1). D. Ilcrm. Witsii, ctc.,4to., 1702; de jure
Judiuorum sabbati brevis disquisitio, 4to., 1703;
dissertatio theologico-philologica, 4to., 1703;
disputatio philosophica inaug., 4to., 1703; a de
fence of the Xcw England charters, 1721 ; a let
ter to a noble lord concerning the expedition to
Canada, 1712. — Hist. Coll. X. 155; Ilutcliinson,
II. 187, 255; Eliot.
DUMMER, WILLIAM, governor of Massachu
setts, died at Boston Oct. 10, 1761, aged 82. He
received a commission as lieutenant-governor at
the time that Shute was appointed governor in
1716. At the departure of Shute, Jan. 1, 1723,
he was left at the head of the province, and he
continued commander-in-chicf till the arrival of
Burnet, in 1728. lie was also commandcr-in-
chicf in the interval between his death and the
arrival of Belcher. His administration is spoken
of with great respect, and he is represented as
governed by a pure regard to the public good.
The war with the Indians was conducted with
great skill, the Xorridgewocks being cut off' in
1724. From the year 1730 Gov. Dummer lived
chiefly in retirement for the remainder of his life,
selecting for his acquaintance and friends men of
sense, virtue, and religion, and receiving the
blessings and applauses of his country. He was
sincerely and firmly attached to the religion of
Jesus, and in the midst of human grandeur he
was preparing for death. He attended with rev
erence upon the institutions of the gospel ; he was
constant in his family devotions ; he applied him
self to the perusal of pious books ; and at stated
times he retired to his closet for prayer. He
was the brother of Jeremiah, or Jeremy, as usually
called. By his last will he gave his valuable farm,
and his mansion-house, which is yet standing, for
the endowment of Dummer academy, which is in
Byfield parish in the town of Xewbury. It was
opened Feb. 27, 1763, with 28 pupils, Samuel
Moody the preceptor. On the occasion Moses
Parsons preached a sermon from the words, "The
liberal soul deviseth liberal things." It was the
earliest academy in Massachusetts, and has been
of great public benefit, and still flourishes. — Cof-
Jin's Hist. Neicbury; Byles1 Funeral Sermon;
Boston Gazette, Oct. 26, 1761; Ilutcldnson, II.
291,322,368; Holmes.
DUXBAR, SAMUEL, minister in Stoughton,
now Canton, died in 1783. He was graduated at
Harvard college in 1723, and ordained Xov. 15,
1727, as the successor of Joseph Morse. He was
a patriot. In 1755 he was a chaplain in the ex
pedition against Crown Point ; and he supported
the rights of his country in the war for indepen
dence. He published a sermon at the artillery
election, 1748; on brotherly love, 1749; right
eousness by the law subversive of Christianity,
1751 ; at the election, 1760 ; at the ordination of
E. Grosvenor, 1763.
DUXBAR, WILLIAM, a planter, died at his
scat at Natchez Xov. 15, 1810. He was an as
tronomer, and distinguished for his researches in
natural science. To the philosophical society of
Philadelphia, of which he was a member, he
made several communications, which are pub
lished in transact, vol. vi. ; account of the lan
guage of signs among the Indians; meteor,
observ., 1800; description of the Mississippi.
DUXBAR, ELIJAH, a lawyer, died at Keene,
X. II., May 18, 1847, aged 88; a graduate of
Dartmouth in 1783.
DUXBAR, ELIJAH, died in Milford, X. H.,
Sept. 3, 1850, aged about 80. Born in Stoughton,
he graduated at Harvard in 1794, and was the
minister of Peterborough, X. II., from 1799 to
1826. He published sermons at ordination of
W. Ritchie, 1809; of J. Porter, 1814.
DUNCAN,
DUNTON.
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DUNCAN, JOHN M., died at Glasgow Oct. 3,
1825, aged 31 years. He published travels
through parts of the United States and of Canada
in 1818 and 1819, 2 vols. 12mo., 1823 ; also, Sab
bath among the Tuscaroras.
DUNCAN, LUCIA, wife of Rev. A. G. Duncan,
of Hanover, Mass., died in 1851, aged 56. By
her father, Ellis Harlow, of Plymouth, she was
descended from Gov. Carver, and by her mother,
from Gov. Bradford ; and she remarkably mani
fested in her life the piety of old Plymouth.
DUNCAN, JOSEPH, governor of Illinois, died
at Jacksonville Jan. 15, 1844. He was in the
army in the war of 1812.
DUNHAM, JOSIAII, died in Kentucky in 1844,
aged about 75. He was the son of Deacon Dan
iel D., of Lebanon Crank, now Columbia, Conn.,
and grandson of llev. Samuel Moseley, of Hamp
ton. His wife was a sister of Levi Hedge. His
sister Nancy married Dr. Deodatus Clark, who
died in Oswego in 1848, aged 85. A graduate of
Dartmouth in 1789, he was preceptor of Moor's
school from 1789 to 1793. He then edited the
Waslungtonian at Windsor, Vt., four years. In
the controversy at Dartmouth he was the firm
friend of President Whcelock. He once held
some public office at Michillimackinac. He
published a masonic oration, 1796 ; on death of
Washington, 1800; oration at Windsor, 1814;
answer to the vindication of the trustees, 1816.
DUNKLLN, DANIEL, governor of Missouri,
died in Jefferson county Aug. 25, 1844, aged 54.
DUNLAP, HUGH, died in Brunswick, Me.,
Dec. 13, 1850, aged 100.
DUNLAP, DAVID, a merchant, died in Bruns
wick in Feb., 1843, aged 65; a man highly re
spected and esteemed.
DUNLAP, ANDREW, a lawyer in Boston, died
in 1835, aged about 40. He graduated at Har
vard in 1813, and was district attorney. His
spcecli in defence of A. Kneeland was published
in 1834.
DUNLAP, WILLIAM, a portrait and historical
painter, died in New York Sept. 28, 1839, aged
74. He was born in Perth Amboy, and studied
under 15. West. He published history of the
American theatre ; history of New York ; history
of the arts of design in America, and several
dramas ; also, memoirs of Charles B. Brown, and
of George F. Cooke.
DUNLAVY, FRANCIS, judge, died at Lebanon,
O., Nov. 5, 1839, aged 78, a native of Virginia.
lie was a soldier of the Revolution, one of the
founders in 1791 at Columbia of the first Baptist
church in the Northwest Territory, and a member
of the Ohio convention. He loved books : he
abhorred the slavery of his fellow-men.
DUNMORE, JOHN MURRAY, earl of, the last
royal governor of Virginia, was the governor of
New York from 1770 to 1771, and governor of
40
Virginia from 1772 to 1775. In his zeal for his
royal master he removed the public stores from
Williamsburg on board of armed vessels, in April,
1775, and afterwards abdicated the government
and retired for safety on board the Fowcy man-
of-war, at Yorktown. He landed in different
places, acting the part of a corsair and plunderer.
He burnt Norfolk, Jan. 1, 1776; but famine and
disease obliged him to quit the coast. He was
appointed in 1786 governor of Bermuda, and
died in England in 1809. His wife was Lady
Charlotte Stewart, daughter of the Earl of Gallo
way. — Holmes, n. 219, 256.
DUNSTER, HENRY, first president of Har
vard college, died Feb. 27, 1659. He was in
ducted into his office Aug. 27, 1640. He
succeeded Nathaniel Eaton, who was the first
master of the seminary, being chosen in 1637 or
1638, and who had been removed on account of
the severity of his discipline. He was highly re
spected for his learning, piety, and spirit of gov
ernment ; but, having at length imbibed the
principles of anti-pedobaptism,and publicly advo
cated them, he was induced to resign the presi
dentship Oct. 24, 1654, and was succeeded by
Mr. Chauncy. He now retired to Scituatc, where
he spent the remainder of his days in peace.
His wife was the widow of Rev. Jesse Glover,
who died at sea, on his passage to New England,
in 1639. He was buried at Cambridge. He
was a modest, humble, charitable man. By his
last will he ordered his body to be buried at
Cambridge, and bequeathed legacies to the very
persons who had occasioned his removal from the
college. He was a great master of the oriental
languages, and, vdien a new version of the psalms
had been made by Eliot, Welde, and Mather, and
printed in 1640, it was put into his hands to be
revised. He accordingly, with the assistance of
Richard Lyon, improved the version, and brought
it into that state in which the churches of New
England used it for many subsequent years. —
Mather's Magnolia, m. 99-101; iv. 128; NeaVs
New England, l. 308 ; //. Adams' New England,
73; Ilutchinson, I. 174; Ilist. Coll. VII. 20, 48,
49 ; Holmes ; Morton.
DUNSTER, ISAIAH, minister in Harwich, now
Browster, died in 1791, aged about 70. He
graduated at Harvard in 1741, and succeeded the
first minister, Nathaniel Stone, who was pastor
from 1700 to 1755. He published a sermon at
the instalment of J. Green, Jr., 1763.
DUNTON, JOHN, a bookseller in Boston, died
about 1725. He had conducted his business ex
tensively in London, but in a time of embarrass
ment came to this country in Marcl), 1680, with
a stock of books, and for the purpose of collect
ing his debts, amounting to 500 pounds. He
remained here eight months, and became ac
quainted with all the clergymen and the principal
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citizens. On his return to London he resumed
his business there. He published in 1705 the
life and errors of John Dunton, in which he gives
an account of his voyage to Boston, a very amus
ing extract from which is in historical collections.
He describes the ministers, booksellers, and other
citizens of Boston and Salem. In his will he
directed his burial to be " the seventh day after
his death, and not before, lest he should come to
life, as his mother had done, on the day appointed
for her funeral."— Thomas, II. 415-420 ; 2 Hist.
Coll. II. 97-124.
DUPONCEAU, PETER STEPHEN, died at Phil
adelphia April 2, 1844, aged nearly 84. A native
of France, he came to this country as the aid of
Steuben in 1778. After the war he was a distin
guished lawyer in Philadelphia, and president
of several learned societies. His researches in
jurisprudence and philology were profound. He
published a treatise on the structure of the In
dian languages ; a dissertation on the Chinese
laws ; on the early history of Pennsylvania ; Eng
lish phonology ; eulogium on Tilghman ; on the
one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of Penn's
landing, and other writings.
DUPONT, E. I. DE NEMOURS, died of a disease
of the heart at Philadelphia Oct. 31, 1834, aged
62. He came from France in 1800, and settled
on the Brandywine, four miles from Wilmington.
"While at the head of an extensive and profitable
business, indefatigably engaged, he did not fail to
indulge the benevolent and generous feelings of
his heart, and was abundant in his charities. His
father, Peter S. Dupont De Nemours, after the
return of Napoleon from Elba, came to Dela-ware,
and died near Wilmington Aug. 6, 1817, aged 77.
He was a distinguished and learned man, and
published various articles in the American philo
sophical transactions, on vegetables, on the winds,
on national education in America, and on the life
of Barlow. His oldest son, Alfred Victor, died
at Nemours, on the Brandywine, Oct. 4, 1856,
aged 57.
DURELL, DANIEL M., judge, died in Dover,
N. H., April 29, 1841, aged 71. He graduated
at Dartmouth in 1794.
. DURFEE, JOB, chief justice of Rhode Island,
died at Tiverton July 26, 1847, aged 57. A grad
uate of Brown university in 1813. He was in
congress in 1823, and chief justice in 1835. He
published What cheer; or Roger Williams in
exile; and Panidea.
DUSTON, HANNAH, the wife of Thomas D.,
of Haverhill, Mass., was married Dec. 3, 1677,
and was the mother of thirteen children. When
the Indians attacked Haverhill, March 15, 1698,
her husband flew to his house and ordered his
children to flee without delay. Before his wife
with an infant only a week old, could escape, the
Indians approached. Mounting his horse anc
DUTTON.
rearing his musket, he followed his seven young
hilclren as their defender. A party of the sav
ages pursued and fired upon him, but he returned
he fire, and by the favor of Providence con
ducted his little flock to a neighboring garrison.
Mrs. Duston, with her infant, and her nurse,
>vidow Mary Neff, was captured. At this time nine
:iouses were burnt, and forty persons killed and
;arricd into captivity. After proceeding a short
distance the savages took the infant from the
nurse and killed it. Mrs. I)., after a fatiguing
journey, was brought to an island just above Con
or d, N. II., formed at the junction of the Con-
tocook river with the Merrimac, between Concord
and Boscawen, now called Duston's Island. The
Indian family, to which she had been assigned,
consisted of twelve persons : two men, three
women, and seven children. The prisoners in
this family were three : Mrs. D., Mary NefF, and
Samuel Lennardson, a boy, who had been taken
at Worcester. Early in the morning of April 5,
Mrs. D. awoke her confederates, and, seizing the
hatchets of the Indians, who were asleep, dis
patched ten of the twelve, a favorite boy being
spared, and a wounded woman making her escape
with him. Mrs. D. arrived safe at Haverhill, and
for the scalps received 50 pounds from the general
court, besides many valuable presents. In 1816
her house was standing, owned by Thomas Dus
ton, a descendant, — 2 Hist. Coll. IV. 128;
Dwir/lit, I. 411; Drake's Indian Wars, 316;
Ma(/nalia,\ll. 90; Ilutchinson, n. 101.
DUTTON, MATTHEW RICE, professor of math
ematics and natural philosophy at Yale college,
died July 17, 1825, aged 42. He was born in
Watertown, Conn., June 30, 1783, and graduated
at Yale college in 1808. He was a tutor from
1810 to 1814. In this last year he was ordained
the minister of Stratford, where he remained
about eight years. After the death of Professor
Fisher in 1822, he was chosen as his successor,
and discharged the duties of his office, till his
failing health, which had long been feeble, com
pelled him to desist from his labors. He died of
a pulmonary complaint With great scientific at
tainments he combined the most amiable man
ners, and the piety which sustained him in the
hour of death. lie published a work on conic
sections, 1824. — N. II. Religious Intelligencer.
DUTTON, AARON, minister of Guilford, Conn.,
died in 1849, aged about 66. He was born in
Watertown, graduated at Yale in 1803, and was
settled in 1807 as successor of Israel Brainard.
The first pastor was H.Whitfield in 1643. He
published a sermon at the ordination of T. Rug-
gles, 1809.
DUTTON, NATHANIEL, a pioneer in the wil
derness, the first settled minister in Jefferson
county, died in Champion, N. Y., Sept. 9, 1852,
aged 73. A native of Hartford, Vt., he was a
DUVAL.
graduate of Dartmouth in 1802, and was sent in
1805 by the Hampshire missionary society to
preach in the Black Itiver country. He was
installed at C. in 1807. His labors were vast;
the benefits of them incalculable. In one revival
in 1817 there were added to his church one hun
dred and sixty-eight persons.
DUVAL, WILLIAM P., governor of Florida
and of Texas, died at Washington March 19,
18,34, aged 70. Born in Virginia, he removed to
Kentucky, from which State he was a member of
congress.
DUVALL, GABRIEL, died in Prince George's
Co., Md., March 6, 1844, aged 93. He was a
judge of the supreme court of the United States.
He was of Huguenot descent ; was comptroller
of the treasury in 1802, and appointed judge in
1811, holding the office twenty years.
DWIGHT, TIMOTHY, died at Dedham Jan. 31,
1718, aged 88, the son of John, a first settler in
1635. He had six wives and fifteen children.
His son by his wife, Anna Flint of Braintree, was
Nathaniel, who lived in Northampton ; as were
also Josiah of Woodstock, and Henry of Hatfield,
the ancestor of the Dwights of Springfield.
DWIGHT, TIMOTHY, colonel, of Northampton,
the son of Nathaniel, died April 30, 1771, aged
76. lie was surveyor, magistrate, and judge of
probate. His daughter Eleanor married Gen.
Phineas Lyman, of Suffield.
DWIGHT, TIMOTHY, the son of Col. Timothy
D., died at Natchez June 10, 1772, aged 52. He
lived at Northampton, and built the ancient house
in King street. His wife was Mary, the daugh
ter of President Edwards : she died in 1807, aged
72. His children were thirteen, among whom
was President Dwight.
DWIGHT, JOSEPH, brigadier-general, died in
Great Barrington June 9, 1765, aged 62. He
was the son of Henry, who died in Hatfield,
and grandson of the first Timothy. He was
born in Dedham in 1703, and graduated at Har
vard college in 1722. While residing in Brook-
field, he was admitted to the bar in 1733 ; in
1739 he was appointed a judge of the court of
common pleas for the county of Worcester; in
1745, at the reduction of Louisburg, he and
Waldo were the brigadiers. He commanded the
artillery of Massachusetts, and was distinguished
for his exertions and services and commended by
Pepperell. In 1756, at the head of a brigade of
militia, he repaired to Lake Champlain, in the
second French war. Soon after his return he
purchasod land in Great Barrington, and there
passed the remainder of his life. In 1761, when
the county of Berkshire was formed, he was ap
pointed judge of the county court and judge of
probate. By his second wife, the widow of llev.
J. Sergeant, he had two children, Henry W.
Dwight of Stockbridge, and the second wife of
DWIGHT.
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Judge Scdgwick. His personal appearance was
fine. He was dignified in his manners, an up
right judge, and an exemplary professor of the
religion of the gospel. — Hist. Berkshire, 233.
DWIGHT, TIMOTHY, D. D., LL. D., president
of Yale college, died Jan. 11, 1817, aged 64. He
was a descendant, in the fifth generation, from
Timothy Dwight, who died in Dedham, Mass.,
Jan 31, 1718, aged 83, and whose father, John,
settled at Dedham in 1635, and died in 1G53.
The names of his ancestors are John, Timothy,
Nathaniel, Col. Timothy, Major Timothy. Three
successive Timothys raked hay together. His
father was Major or Col. Timothy Dwight, a grad
uate of Yale college in 1744, and a respectable,
pious merchant of Northampton, where he lived
many years until, in 1776, in order to provide for
the settlement of two of his sons, he repaired to
the territory of the Natchez, of which he was one
of the original purchasers with Gen. Lyman, his
brother-in-law, and died there in 1776. His
mother was Mary, the third daughter of Jona
than Edwards. He was born at Northampton
May 14, 1752. The religious impressions, made
upon his mind by the instructions of his intelli
gent and excellent mother, were never effaced ;
she also very successfully directed his early
studies. In his fourth year he could read the
Bible with correctness. While in Yale college,
where he was graduated in 1769, for the two first
years, through the folly of youth, much of hia
time was misspent ; but during the two last years
he was diligent, devoting fourteen hours each day
to study, and made great acquisitions. From
1769 to 1771, he taught a grammar school at
New Haven, and during this period appropriated
eight hours every day to severe study. In 1771,
at the age of nineteen, he was chosen a tutor in
the college, and continued in that office with high
reputation six years. While he was eminent as a
teacher of mathematics, guiding his pupils in
fluxions and in the principia of Newton, he awak
ened a new zeal in the cultivation of rhetoric and
oratory. On taking his second degree in 1772, he
delivered a dissertation on the history, eloquence,
and poetry of the Bible, which was immediately
published, and procured him great honor. At
this period, in his economy of time, he endeavored
to remove the necessity of bodily exercise by
diminishing greatly the quantity of food ; but in a
few months his health began to decline. He was
emaciated, and had suffered severely by the
bilious colic. With difficulty was he removed to
Northampton. But, by advice of a physician, he
commenced a daily course of vigorous bodily exer
cise, walking and riding ; and, persevering in it,
enjoyed uninterrupted health for forty years. In
1774, at the age of twenty-two, he finished his
epic poem, " The Conquest of Canaan," which he
had begun three years before. On recovering
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from the small pox, his incautious return to his
study injured his eyes, which caused him for the
remainder of his life great pain. In March,
1777, he married the daughter of Benjamin
Woolscy, of Long Island, by whom he had eight
sons, six of whom survived him. In June he was
licensed as a preacher ; and in September he
withdrew from the college, and was appointed
chaplain to Gen. Parsons' brigade in Putnam's
division, in which capacity he continued about a
year. He joined the army at West Point in Oct.
While he discharged his appropriate duties, he
also employed his poetical powers for the good of
his country. Of his poetical songs at that period,
his " Columbia " is still remembered. On receiv
ing, in Oct., 1778, the news of the death of his
father in the preceding year, he was induced to
leave the army and to remove his family to
Northampton, that he might console his mother
and provide for her numerous family. For five
years he here discharged with the utmost fidelity
and cheerfulness the duties of a son and a brother,
laboring personally on a farm, preaching occa
sionally in the neighboring towns of Westfield,
Deerfield, and South Iladlcy, superintending also
a school. His income he expended in the sup
port of the common family. In 1781 and 1786
he was a member of the legislature. With many
and strong motives to devote himself to civil em
ployments, he yet resolved to spend his days in
the clerical profession. He was ordained, Nov.
5, 1783, the minister of Greenfield, a parish of
Fairfield, and continued in this station for the
next twelve years. His method of preaching was
to write the heads of his discourse and the lead
ing thoughts, and to fill up the plan at the time
of delivery. With a small salary of 500 dol
lars he found it necessary to make other pro
vision for his family. He opened an academy,
which was filled with pupils of both sexes, and
which was highly celebrated during the whole
period of his residence in Greenfield. In 1785 he
published his " Conquest of Canaan," which had
been written eleven years before, and for which
three thousand subscribers had been obtained.
In 1794 he published his poem, in seven parts,
called " Greenfield Hill." After the death of Dr.
Stiles he was chosen president of Yale college,
and inaugurated in Sept., 1795. For ten years he
was annually appointed professor of theology.
In 1805 the appointment was made permanent.
Having, while at Greenfield, written in short notes
and preached over twice a course of lectures on
systematic theology in about one hundred ser
mons, he went through with them twice in the
same state at New Haven, frequently adding to
their number. In 1805 he began, by the aid of
an amanuensis, to write out these sermons, and
finished them in 1809. After his death they were
published in 5 vols., being one hundred and
DWIGHT.
seventy-three sermons. In 1800 was completed
his revision of Watts' psalms, to which he added
thirty-three psalms, which he had composed.
In 1796 he commenced journeying in the col
lege vacations of May and September, in New
England and New York, and continued this prac
tice till the last year of his life, taking notes,
which he afterwards wrote- out. This was the
origin of his book of travels, published in 4 vols.
The last journey which he made was in Septem
ber, 1815, when he proceeded as far west as
Hamilton college, near Utica. In February,
1816, he was seized with a most threatening dis
ease, an affection of the bladder ; in April he was
deemed beyond recovery. Under all his suffer
ing he was patient and resigned. But in June he
was able again to preach in the chapel, and in his
first sermon he alluded to his impression in his sick
ness of the vanity of all earthly things. He said, " I
have coveted reputation and influence to a degree
which I am unable to justify;" and he earnestly
warned his pupils against the pursuit of earthly
enjoyments. Though he resumed his labors,
yet his disease was only mitigated, not removed.
During the last few months of his life, he wrote
on the evidences of revelation and other subjects,
— the whole forming matter for a volume. He
wrote also the latter half of a poem of fifteen hun
dred lines, in the measure of Spenser, the subject
of which is a contest between genius and common
sense on their comparative merits, the question
being decided by truth. At the close of No
vember, he became too unwell to continue his
labors as an instructor in college. His widow,
Mary, died Oct. 5, 1845, aged 91.
A full account of the character and labors of
Dr. Dwight may be found in his life, prefixed to
his system of theology. Besides his printed
works, he wrote also discourses, preached on the
Sabbath before commencement to the senior class,
and many miscellaneous sermons, which, it is
hoped, may be given to the public. The following
is a catalogue of his publications : the history,
eloquence, and poetry of the Bible, 1772; the
conquest of Canaan, a poem, 1785; election ser
mon, 1791; the genuineness and authenticity of
the New Testament, 1793; Greenfield Hill, &
poem, 1794; the triumph of infidelity, a poem,
occasioned by Chauncy's work on universal salva
tion ; two discourses on the nature and danger of
infidel philosophy ; a sermon on the death of Elizur
Goodrich, 1797 ; the duty of Americans at the
present crisis, 1798 ; on the character of Wash
ington, 1800; on some events of the last century,
1801; on the death of E. G. Marsh, 1804; on
duelling, 1805 ; at the theological institution at
Andover, and ordination of E. Pearson, 1808 ; on
the death of Gov. Trumbull, 1809 ; a charity ser
mon, 1810 ; at the ordination of N. W. Taylor ;
on the fast; on the national fast, 1812 ; a sermon
DWIGTIT.
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before the American board of commissioners for
foreign missions, 1813; remarks on the review of
Inchiquin's letters, 1815; observations on lan
guage, and an essay on light, in memoirs of Conn,
academy of sciences, 181G; theology explained
and defended in a series of sermons, 4 vols., sev
eral editions, American and English ; travels in
New England and New York, 4 vols., 8vo., 1801.
— Life; Preface to his Theology ; Spec. Ameri
can Poetry, 1, 223.
D WIGHT, THEODORE, died in New York June
11, 1840, aged 81, the brother of President D.,
and born in Northampton. He studied law with
his uncle, Pierpont Edwards. After having been
a member of congress, he conducted the Hartford
Mirror, encouraged by Pickering, Cabot, and Hill-
house, lie published a history of the Hartford
convention, of which he was the secretary. After
editing the Albany Daily Advertiser, he estab
lished, in 1817, the New York Daily Advertiser.
He was a true patriot and Christian, and was one
of the founders and directors of the American
bible society. He published orations 1798, 1801 ;
history of the Hartford convention, 1833. — Sig-
ourney's P. Meridian, 188.
DWIGHT, ELIZABETH, wife of the missionary,
II. G. O. Dwight, died of the plague at Constan
tinople, July 8, 1836, aged 30. Her name was
Elizabeth Barker, of Andover. Her memoir was
published in 1840, with a sketch of the life of
Mrs. Grant.
DWIGHT, TIMOTHY, died in New Haven June
13, 1844, aged 66. He was the eldest son of Dr.
Dwight, for forty years a merchant, and a man of
integrity and benevolence. His wife, Clarissa,
daughter of Gov. C. Strong, died Feb. 25, 1855,
aged 71.
DWIGHT, SARAH HOOKER, died In New Ha
ven May 8, 1838, aged 15, daughter of Timothy
Dwight, a member of the Free church. She de
parted, like a multitude of other subjects of God's j
grace and objects of his love, in the early hour-
of life, —
" As acts the morning star, which goes
Not down behind the dnrken'd west, nor hides
Obscur'd among the tempests of the sky,
But melts away into the light of heaven."
DWIGHT, EDWIN W., minister of Richmond,
Mass., died at Stockbridge Feb., or March 26,
1841, aged 50. He was the son of Henry W.
Dwight of Stockbridge, who died in 1804, and the
grandson of Gen. Joseph D. A graduate of Yale
in 1809, he was ordained in 1819, and was a faith
ful and useful minister. His brother, Henry W.
I)., a member of congress from Berkshire from
1821 to 1831, died in New York, Feb. 21, 1845.
D WIGHT, THEODORE SEUGWICK, pastor of a
colored Presbyterian church in New York, died
in that city March 25, 1847, aged 49.
DWIGHT, EDMUND, died in Boston April 1,
1849, aged 69, a patron of learning. Born in
Springfield, a graduate of Yale in 1799, he was a
merchant and manufacturer in Springfield ; after
wards a resident in Boston and a senator. He
was president of the Western railroad. He made
the liberal donation of 10,000 dollars for normal
schools in Massachusetts.
DWIGHT, BENJAMIN WOOLSEY, M. D., died
at Clinton, N. Y., May 18, 1850, aged 70, the son
of President D. A graduate of Yale in 1799, he
studied physic and practised some years in Cats-
kill. Ill health led him to other employments :
he was a hardware merchant in New York, then
fourteen years a merchant in Catskill. In 1831
he removed to Clinton and was treasurer of Ham
ilton college. He was a man of eminent Chris
tian character. — Impendent, June 27.
DWIGIIT, WILLIAM, Dr., son of Cecil D. of
Northampton and nephew of Ilev. Dr. D. of
New Haven, was killed at Norwalk, with forty-
four others, May 6, 1853, by the railroad train
plunging into the river, in consequence of the
draw of the bridge being carelessly left open.
His brother, Timothy, died at New York, prepar
ing to be a missionary.
DWIGHT, NATHANIEL, a preacher, died at
Oswego June 11, 1831, aged 68. He was born
in Northampton ; had an honorary degree at
Yale in 1815; was settled in West Chester in
Colchester, in 1812; and removed to Oswego.
He published a school geography, 1796; 5th
edition, 1811.
DWIGHT, HENRY E., son of President D.,
died in New Haven Aug. 11, 1831, aged 35. A
graduate of Yale in 1815, he published travels in
the north of Germany in 1825-6.
DWIGHT, ABIGAIL, widow of Henry W. D.,
died in Stockbridge May 31, 1840, aged 77. She
was of eminent character and usefulness. Her
name was Wells of West Hartford. Her sons
were men of eminence. — Boston Recorder, Nov.
20, 1840.
DWIGHT, ROBERT O., missionary, died at
Madura Jan. 7, 1844. A native of Northampton,
a descendant of President Edwards, he graduated
at Andover seminary in 1834, and arrived at Ma
dura in 1836. His wife Avas Mary Billings of
Conway.
DWIGHT, MARGARETTE, died at Northampton
Sept. 5, 1845, aged 41. She was many years the
excellent teacher of the female Gothic seminary
in Northampton. She was the daughter of Josiah
and Rhoda Dwight, and a descendant of Presi
dent Ed\vards.
DWIGHT, SERENO EDWARDS, D. D., minister
in Boston, died in Philadelphia Nov. 30, 1850,
aged 65. He was the son of President Dwight,
born at Greenfield Hill ; was graduated in 1803,
was a tutor from 1806 to 1810, then a lawyer for
nearly ten years. Afterwards he was pastor of
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Park street church in Boston for several years, suc
ceeding Dr. Griffin. In 1823, in ill health, he
made a voyage to Europe. Having resigned his
place in Boston, he opened in New Haven a high
school in 1828, with his brother Henry. From
1833 to 1836 he was the president of Hamilton
college. His wife, Susan Edwards Daggett, died
in Aug., 1839. After great bodily and mental
suffering he followed her to the grave. He pub
lished Hebrew wife ; a single sermon ; a life of
Brainerd ; and a life of Edwards, in his works,
which he edited.
DWIGHT, ELIHU, Dr., died at South Hadley,
Mass., June 1, 18.34, aged 91. He commenced
practice at South Hadley in 1793.
DWIGHT, JOSIAH, Dr., died at Portsmouth
May 25, 1855, aged 72.
DWIGHT, JOHN BREED, died at New Haven
Oct. 20, 1843. aged 21, a tutor in Yale college.
He was stabbed by a student three weeks before
his death. He was the son of John Dwight and
Susan Breed, and grandson of President Dwight;
a graduate of Yale in 1840, of the first distinction
as a scholar, a man of piety and high promise.
While discharging his duty in suppressing a dis
turbance at half-past nine in the evening of Sept.
30th, a student Avounded him dangerously three
times with a knife ; the wound was followed by a
fatal fever. The student, Lewis Fassctt, the son
of a rich man in Philadelphia, was admitted to
bail in the sum of 5000 dollars ; and, instead of
being punished for manslaughter or murder, was,
to the dishonor of justice, allowed to escape with
out a trial.
DWIGHT, Louis, secretary of the prison dis
cipline society, died in Boston July 12, 1854, aged
61. Born in Stockbridge, he was graduated at
Yale in 1813. He was the secretary of the prison
discipline society, and the agent of various benev
olent societies. His wife, Louisa, daughter of
Nathaniel Willis, died in 1849.
DYCKMAN, JACOB, M. D., was born at Yon-
kers, Westchester county, N. Y., Dec. 1, 1788.
After graduating at Columbia college in 1810, he
studied physic with Dr. Hosack. For some years
he was physician of the city dispensary, and sur
geon of the alms-house at New York; in 1821 he
Avas appointed health commissioner. He died of
the consumption at the residence of his father at
King's Bridge, Dec. 5, 1822, in Christian compos
ure. In the days of his health he had regarded
morality as all that religion demanded; but in
his sickness he perceived, that the divine com
mands in the Scripture are the measure of duty,
and that God demands the homage of the heart.
He published a dissertation on the pathology of the
human fluids ; an improved edition of Duncan's
dispensatory, 1818; an essay on adipocire, in
trans. N. Y. Lyceum. He also had made pro
gress in collecting materials for a work on the
EARLY.
vegetable matcria medica of the United States. —
Thaclier's Med. Hiog.
DYER, MARY, a victim of persecution, was
the wife of William Dyer, who removed from
Massachusetts to Ilhode Island in 1638. Having
been sentenced to execution for " rebellious sedi
tion and obtruding herself after banishment upon
pain of death," she was reprieved at the request
of her son, on condition that she departed in
forty-eight hours and did not return. She re
turned, and was executed June 1, 1660.
DYER, ELIPHALET, chief justice of the supreme
court of Conn., died at Windham May 13, 1807,
aged 86. He was the son of Thomas I), of
Windham, and grandson of Thomas D. of Wey-
mouth in 1632, and graduated at Yale college in
1740. He was colonel of a regiment raised in
1758 for the expedition against Crown Point. He
was a delegate to the congress of 1765 and to
that of 1774 ; was appointed judge in 1766, and
chief justice in 1789, in which office he continued
till 1797. He contributed his efforts with other
patriots to promote and support the independence
of his country.
EAMES, THOMAS, a Baptist minister, died in
Applcton, Mass., in 1826, aged 85. lie formerly
preached in Isleborough, Me., and was an excel
lent man and an acceptable preacher.
EAIILE, JAMES, a portrait painter, was born
at Paxton, or Leicester, Mass., the son of Capt.
Ralph Earle, and went to London, where he
gained some distinction as a painter, and where
lie married. He died at Charleston of the yel
low fever in Aug., 1796, leaving in London a wife
and three children. At the time of his death
there was perhaps no painter in this country of
superior skill.
EARLE, RALPH, a portrait painter, brother of
the preceding, was born at Leicester, and was
employed in Rhode Island in making fans before
he went to England. He was with Stewart at
the royal institution in London. He painted the
king. By Stewart he was regarded as one of the
best of painters. In this country he painted in
Bennington and Albany. He died at Bolton,
Conn., Aug. 16, 1801, aged 50. A son of his
afterwards lived at New Orleans, also a distin
guished painter.
EARLE, PLINY, died at Leicester in Dec., 1832,
aged 70. He belonged to the society of Friends ;
and was an ingenious cardmaker.
EARLE, RICHARD T., chief judge of the
second district, Maryland, died in Centreville
Nov. 22, 1843, aged 76. He practised law from
1787 to 1810, and then was judge till his resigna
tion in 1834. He was an eminent man. Rever
encing the Christian religion, he experienced its
consolations in his last hours.
EARLY, PETER, governor of Georgia, died
Aug. 15, 1817. He was a distinguished lawyer.
EASTBURN.
In 1802, he was a member of congress and a
decided republican ; in 1807 he was appointed a
judge of the supreme court of Georgia. From
1813 to 1815 he was governor, in which capacity
he prevented the enactment of a law to obstruct
the collection of debts, and thus placed a good
example before those governors, who from love
of popularity or office shrink from the honest
discharge of duty, which requires them to resist,
as far as they have power, all pernicious, oppres
sive, iniquitous legislation.
EASTBURN, JOSEPH, a preacher to seamen
in Philadelphia, died Jan. 30, 1828, aged 79.
Many thousands attended liis funeral. His coffin
was carried by twelve sailors. At the grave Dr.
Green delivered an address. When he began to
preach to seamen, about 1820, "we procured,"
he said, " a sail-loft, and on the Sabbath hung
out a flag. As the sailors came by, they hailed
us, ' Ship ahoy ! ' We answered them. They
asked us, 'Where we were bound?' We told
them, to the port of New Jerusalem ; and that
they would do well to go in the fleet. ' Well,'
said they, ' we will come in and hear your terms.'"
This was the beginning of the mariner's church.
Mr. E. was eminently pious, and devoted to this
work.
EASTBURN, JAMES WALLIS, a poet, tho son
of James Eastburn, New York, at an early period
was settled or about to be settled as the pastor
of St. George's church, Accomac county, Virginia,
and died at sea on a voyage to the West Indies
for his health, Dec. 2, 1819, aged 22. After his
death the poem, which he wrote in conjunction
with his friend, Robert C. Sands, was published,
entitled, Yamoyden, a tale of the wars of king
Philip, in six cantos, 12mo., 1820. -— Specimens
American Poetry, II. 228.
EASTMAN, JOB, died in Norway, Me., 1845,
aged 95. He held three hundred justice's courts.
EASTON, NICHOLAS, governor of Rhode Island,
came to this country with two sons in 1636, and
removed in 1639 to Newport, where he built the
first house. He exerted himself to secure civil
and religious liberty with Coddington, and was
governor from 1650 to 1655, when he was suc
ceeded by R. Williams. In 1672 he succcceded
B. Arnold and was succeeded in 1674 by W. Cod
dington. He died in 1675, aged 83. His son,
John, governor from 1690 to 1695, died in 1705,
aged 85.
EASTON, JAMES, colonel, a soldier of the Rev
olution, died at Pittsfichl after the war. He was
a representative and a deacon of the church.
With Arnold and Brown he was engaged in the
capture of Ticondcroga May 10, 1775, and was
sent with the intelligence to the provincial assem
bly of Massachusetts at Watertown. Jan. 9, 1776,
congress voted their approbation of his good con
duct. Dr. Timothy Cliilds married his daughter.
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EASTON, VIOLETTE, a colored woman, died at
Providence, R. I., March 6, 1838, aged, as was
supposed, 110.
EATON, TIIEOPIIILUS, first governor of New
Haven colony, died Jan. 7, 1657, aged 66. He
was born at Stony-Stratford in Oxfordshire, his
father being the minister of that place. He was
bred a merchant, and was for several years agent
for the king of England at the court of Denmark ;
and after his return prosecuted his business in
London with high reputation. He accompanied
Mr. Davenport to New England in 1637, and
soon after his arrival was chosen one of the mag
istrates of Massachusetts. He was one of the
founders of New Haven in 1638, and was annu
ally elected governor till his death. His brother,
Samuel, was assistant minister to Mr. Davenport
from 1640 to 1644, and died in England in 1665.
The wisdom and integrity of his administration
attracted universal respect. As a magistrate, he
was impartial in the distribution of justice, and
was invested with an indescribable dignity and
majesty. He was amiable in all the relations of
life. In conversation he was affable, courteous,
and pleasant, but always cautious, and grave on
proper occasions. Though his family were some
times very numerous, it was under the most per
fect government. All the members of it were
assembled morning and evening, and the gover
nor, after reading the Scriptures, and making
useful observations upon them, addressed himself
to heaven with the greatest reverence and perti
nency. On the Sabbath and on other days of
public devotion he spent an hour or two with his
family, giving them instruction in religious truth
and duty, recommending to them the study of the
Scriptures, and the practice of secret prayer. He
was beloved by his domestics, and ever preserved
the esteem of the commonwealth. His monu
ment, erected at the public expense, and which
remains to the present day, has upon it the fol
lowing lines :
" Eaton, so meek, so fam'd, so just,
The phoenix of our world, here hides his dust ;
This name forget New England never must."
— NeaVs N. E. I. 318; TrumlulVs Conn. I. 90,
240; Holmes; Douglass, n. 160. Bacon's Hist.
Discourses.
EATON, SAMUEL, minister of Harpswell,
Maine, was the son of Elisha Eaton, minister
of Quincy, and afterwards of Harpswell from
1753 till his death, April 22, 1764. He was born
April 3, 1737; graduated at Harvard college in
1763 ; was ordained Oct. 24, 1764; and died Nov.
5, 1822, aged 85, in the fifty-ninth year of his
ministry. Probably no minister in Maine had
preached so many years. Mr. Eaton was the
only physician of the town ; as a magistrate he
was also very useful. He was the last of the
ministers of Maine who wore a large white wig.
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He one Sabbath morning preached at Brunswick,
when the judges of the supreme court of Massa
chusetts, then including the district of Maine,
were present, whose custom, he knew, was to
prosecute their journey in the afternoon, in order
to open the court at Wiscasset on Monday. In
his prayer, therefore, he gave thanks to the Lord,
that the judges of the supreme court, those em
inent men, had set such a good example to all
the people, as to stop travelling and come up to
the house of God to worship, etc. They found
themselves obliged to rest in the afternoon as
well as the forenoon. He was one of the first
overseers of Bowdoin college, and president of
the Maine missionary society from 1809 to 1815.
The evangelical doctrines, which he preached,
sustained him as he approached the grave. He
published a sermon on the death of Jacob Abbot,
1820. — Allen's Funeral Sermon.
EATON, WILLIAM, general, died at Brimfield,
Mass., June 1, 1811, aged 47. He was born in
Woodstock, Conn., Feb. 23, 1764. His father, a
farmer and schoolmaster, removed to Mansfield
about 1774. At the age of sixteen he eloped
from home and enlisted in the army, from which
he was discharged in 1783. He aftenvards
studied with the ministers of Franklin, Windham,
and Mansfield, and was graduated at Dartmouth
college in 1790. By keeping school he provided
for the expenses of his education. In 1792 he
was appointed a captain in the army, and soon
repaired to Ohio. He continued in service until
July 11, 1797, when he was appointed consul at
Tunis, though he did not sail till Dec., 1798, in
company with Mr. Cathcart, consul to Tripoli.
When the efforts of Com. Preble proved unavail
ing to humble the bashaw of Tripoli, Mr. Eaton
projected an alliance with his brother, Hamet,
the rightful sovereign, then in exile at Tunis, the
object of which was to recover for him the sov
ereignty and with him to establish a permanent
peace. The plan was approved ; and, as he had
returned to the United States in May, 1803, he
was appointed navy agent March 30, 1804, and
authorized to proceed again to the Mediterranean
and to execute the project against Tripoli. He
sailed in the squadron of Com. Barren. In Nov.
he proceeded in the Argus to Alexandria, in
search of llamet, whom at last he found in Feb.,
1805. By their united exertions a little army of
five hundred men was raised. March Gth he
entered the desert of Lybia at their head, it
being arranged that the American fleet should
co-operate in the expedition. In his army were
men of twelve different nations, among whom
were eleven Americans, and seventy or eighty
Greeks and Frenchmen. After surmounting
great obstacles, and marching fifty days over a
space of six hundred miles in the desert, he en
camped, April 26, in the rear of Derne. This
town was the capital of the richest province of
Tripoli. It contained fifteen thousand souls, and
was defended by a fort and batteries, and strong
garrison. Eaton, with an army now increased by
the addition of Arabs to twenty-five hundred
men, commenced the attack on the 27th, with the
important aid of three frigates. In two hours the
town was captured. He was wounded in the left
wrist by a pistol-ball. A large army, collected by
Jussuf or Joseph Bashaw, soon appeared before
the town, and was defeated in a battle May 13;
and met with a complete repulse June 10, and
thus a way was opened to the gates of Tripoli.
At this moment, when the intrepid soldier was
anticipating the accomplishment of his project, a
peace was concluded by Tobias Lear, who had
authority for the purpose, and he agreed to pay
60,000 dollars for the redemption of three hun
dred Americans in slavery. The indignant feel
ings of Eaton at being thus arrested in his career
of triumph were unutterable. After his return
he was invited by Burr to engage in his conspir
acy, which he disclosed, and was a witness against
the conspirator. From the United States govern
ment he failed to obtnin the compensation he ex
pected. In 1807 he was a representative from
Brimfield. In reward of his heroism, the legisla
ture of Massachusetts presented him with ten
thousand acres of land, half of which was sold at
fifty cents per acre. The last years of his life
Avere passed amidst the pains of disease and the
distresses of poverty, to which his own impru
dence had reduced him. He was intemperate.
Of the consolations of religion he was ignorant.
He left five children. His wife, Eliza, whom he
married in 1792, was the widow of Gen. Timothy
Danielson of Brimfield. A daughter, now de
ceased, married in 1820 Itev. Mr. Sprag'ue of
West Springfield. His eldest son, Lieut. Wil
liam, died in 1828. His life, written by Prentice,
was published, 8vo., 1813.
EATON, SAMUEL, died in Dcnton, Lancashire,
England, in 1664, aged 68. He was a colleague
minister with Mr. Davenport at New Haven, in
1638, and was the brother of Gov. Eaton. He
was more democratic in his notions than Mr. ]).,
and wished to retain in the hands of the free plant
ers the power of choosing magistrates, instead of
intrusting it to others. In 1640 he went to Eng
land in order to gather a company for the settle
ment of Branford. But he was settled in Cheshire,
until ousted by the act of uniformity in 1662. He
published various treatises in defence of Congre
gationalism, and against the Quakers. — Calamy ;
Bacon's Hist. Discourses, 61.
EATON, JOSHUA, first minister of Spencer,
Mass., graduated at Harvard college in 1735;
studied law with Judge Trowbridge, and settled in
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the practice at "Worcester ; was ordained Nov. 7,
1744 ; and died April 2, 1772. A son and grand
son were physicians. A volume of seven ser
mons was published, with a memoir by Mr.
Forbes, 8vo., 1773.
EATON, ABIGAIL, widow, died at Prospect,
Me., Sept., 1823, aged 102 years and 9 months.
EATON, AMOS, professor in the liensselacr
institute, died at Troy, N. Y., May 10, 1842, aged
G<5. In 1791 he was an apprenticed blacksmith;
in 1799 he was graduated at Williams college, and
afterwards studied law under Hamilton, and was
admitted to the bar. Then he became a land-
surveyor and agent for the Livingston estates on
the Hudson. A period of affliction followed, oc
casioned by his own misconduct. He then
studied botany, chemistry, and mineralogy, at
Yale college. In 1817 he lectured at Williams
college on the national sciences. In 1818 De Witt
Clinton invited him to deliver public lectures at
Albany. In 1820 Gen. S. Van Itensselaer em
ployed him to make a geological survey of the
country adjoining the great western canal; the
result was published in 1824, in 160 pages. By
the munificence of Mr. Van R.,the school at Troy
was established and Mr. E. was appointed senior
professor. He made the classes experimenters.
Hundreds from various States were educated by
him. He published a manual of botany, which, in
8th edit., is called North American botany. His
index to the geology of the northern States, 1818,
and 2d edition, 1820 ; philosophical instructor,
1824 ; and various papers in Silliman's journal.
EATON, PETER, D. D., died at Boxford, Mass.,
April 14, 1848, aged 82. Born in Haverhill, he
graduated at Harvard in 1787, and was fifty-seven
years a pastor. He published thanksgiving ser
mon, 1799; at election, 1819; at installation of
II. C. Perley; at ordination of P. S.Eaton, 1826;
address to agricultural society, 1823.
ECCLESTON, SAMUEL, Catholic archbishop,
died in Georgetown, D. C., April 8, 1851, aged 50.
He was of Protestant birth and was sent to St.
Mary's college, Baltimore. He succeeded Arch
bishop Whitfield in 1834.
ECKFOPvD, HENRY, died at Constantinople
Nov. 11, 1832. He was an enterprising and dis
tinguished citizen of New York.
ECKLEY, JOSEPH, D. D., minister of Boston,
died April 30, 1811, aged 60. He was born in Lon
don Oct. 22, 1750. His father removing to New
Jersey about 1767, he was graduated at Prince
ton college in 1772. He was ordained at Boston,
as the successor of Mr. Hunt, over the old South
congregation, Oct. 27, 1779. The society at this
time made use of the King's chapel, as the old
south meeting-house, after being occupied by the
British troops, was not repaired and re-occupied
till March 2, 1783. Itcv. Joshua Iluutington was
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ordained as colleague pastor May 18, 1808. Dr.
Eckley died after a short illness. His wife, a
daughter of John Jeffries, survived him, and died
in 1825. During twenty-four years, he admitted,
on an average, only about five persons a year into
the church; but in 1803 and 1804 he made new
efforts to promote a revival of religion among his
people ; the Tuesday evening meeting, amidst
much opposition, was established, exerting a most
important, beneficial influence. In his religious
sentiments, while Dr. Eckley held fast to all the
other doctrines of the evangelical system, he be
came a semi-Arian or Worcesterian in his views
of the person or Christ. He wrote as follows :
" My plan respecting the Son of God was very
similar to what your brother (Dr. N. Worcester)
has now adopted. The common plan of three
self-existent persons, forming one essence or in
finite being, and one of these persons being united
to a man, but not in the least humbling himself
or suffering, leads to, and ends in, Socinianism;
and, though it claims the form of orthodoxy, it is
as a shadow without the substance ; it eludes in
spection ; and I sometimes say to those, who are
strenuous for this doctrine, that they take away
my Lord and I know not where they place him."
" The orthodoxy, so called, of Waterland, is as
repugnant to my reason and views of religion, as
the heterodoxy of Lardner ; and I am at a loss to
see, that any solid satisfaction, for a person, who
wishes to find salvation through the death of the
Son of God, can be found in either." " I seek for
a plan, which exalts the personal character of the
Son of God in the highest possible degree." He
supposed the Son to be derived from the Father,
God of God, Light of Light, having a real Divine
nature, yet being derived, not self-existent and
independent. He published an essay on the
Divine glory in the condemnation of the ungodly,
1782; at the artillery election, 1792; at the in
stallation of Mr. Evans ; at the thanksgiving,
1797 ; before the Asylum, 1802 ; before the
society for propagating the gospel, 1805 ; at in
stallation of H. Holly, in 1809; Dudleian lecture
of 1806, 1810. — Wisner's Hist, of the Old South
CJiurch, 45.
EDDY, JOHN II., died Dec. 22, 1817, aged 35.
He published a circular map of thirty miles around
New York, 1814; a map of the western part of
New York; a map to illustrate the communica
tion between lake Erie and the Hudson ; and a
map of the State of New York.
EDDY, JOSHUA, a soldier of the Revolution,
died at Middleborough, Mass., May 1, 1833, aged
85. He was the son of Zachariah E. and Mercy
Morton, a descendant of George M., the brother-
in-law of Gov. Bradford. He was a descendant
of William E., a nonconformist minister in Cran-
j brook, Ky. His wife, Lydia Paddock, was a
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descendant of Gov. B. In 1777 he raised and
commanded a company, and he fought in several
battles. As an eminent Christian he was as bold
against the enemies of God, as he had been
against the enemies of his country.
EDDY, SAMUEL, LL. D., died at Providence
Feb. 2, 1839, aged 68. He was a member of
congress ; secretary of State twenty-one years ;
chief justice of Rhode Island eight years. He
published antiquities, etc.
EDDY, JOANNA, Mrs., died at New Salem,
Mass., Nov. 6, 1839, aged 100.
EDES, BENJAMIN, a printer in Boston, died in
Dec., 1803, aged 80. He was a native of Charles-
town, and began business in 1755 with John Gill.
He published the Boston Gazette and Country
Journal. During the controversy with Great
Britain this paper was devoted to the cause of
freedom, and had a wide circulation and great
influence. No newspaper did more to promote
independence. Afterwards, other papers in a
great measure superseded it. By the deprecia
tion of paper money, Mr. Edes lost his property ;
and the aged patriot died in poverty. — Thomas,
I. 341-345.
EDMOND, WILLIAM, a judge of the supreme
court of Connecticut, died at Newton, Conn., Aug.
1, 1838, aged 80. He graduated at Yale in 1777,
and had been a member of congress.
ED SON, CALVIN, " a living skeleton," died at
Randolph, Vt., Sept., 1833 ; his weight was forty-
five pounds. There was a constriction of his
thoracic duct.
EDWARDS, RICHARD, a merchant, the only
child of William and Agnes Edwards, was born
in May, 1647, at Hartford, Conn., where he re
sided during his life. His grandfather was Rich
ard Edwards, of London, who, it is supposed by
Dr. Tryon Edwards, was the son of Rev. It. E.,
of Oxford. He was a man of wealth, of intelli
gence, and of great respectability. At an early
age he became a communicant in the Congrega
tional church, and adorned his profession by a
long life of integrity and unusual devotedness to
the cause of religion. During his last sickness
he exhibited a bright example of Christian resig
nation and triumphant faith. He died April 20,
1718, aged 70. By his first wife, Elizabeth,
daughter of Wm. Tuthill, merchant, of New Ha
ven, he had seven children, the eldest of whom
was Rev. Timothy E., the father of Jonathan Ed
wards. By his second wife, the sister of John
Talcott of Hartford, he had six children. — Sereno
E. Dwiglifs Life of Edwards.
EDWARDS, TIMOTHY, first minister of East
Windsor, Conn., the son of the preceding, was
graduated at Harvard college in 1691. He was
ordained in May, 1694. In the year 1755 he
received Joseph Perry as his colleague. After a
ministry of sixty-three years he died Jan. 27,
1758, aged 88. He married a daughter of Mr.
Stoddard of Northampton, and he lived to see his
son, Jonathan Edwards, the most distinguished
divine in America. He Avas universally esteemed,
and was an upright, pious, and exemplary man,
and a faithful and successful preacher of the gos
pel. At one period there was such a contention
in his church, that for three years the Lord's Sup
per was not administered. It seems that he
was a poet, for II. Wolcott, in dedicating his poems
to him in 1723, says :
" Yet, where you censure, sir, don't make the verse,
You pinned to Glover's venerable hearse,
The standard for thtir trial ; nor enact,
You never will acquit what 's less exact.
Sir, that will never do ; rules so severe
Would ever leave Apollo's altar bare,
His priests no service ; all must starve together,
And fair Parnassus' verdant tops must wither."
He published an election sermon, 1732. — Life
of Jonathan Edwards.
EDWARDS, JONATHAN, president of the col
lege in New Jersey, and a most acute metaphysi
cian and distinguished divine, died March 22,
1758, aged 54. He was the son of the preceding,
and was born at Windsor, Conn., Oct. 5, 1703.
lie was graduated at Yale college in 1720, before
he was seventeen years of age. His uncommon
genius discovered itself early, and while yet a
boy he read Locke on the luiman understanding
with a keen relish. Though he took much pleas
ure in examining the kingdom of nature, yet
moral and theological researches yielded him the
highest satisfaction. He lived in college nearly
two years after taking his first degree, preparing
himself for the office of a minister of the gospel.
In 1722 he went to New York, at the request of
a small society of Presbyterians, and preached a
number of months. In 1724 he was appointed a
tutor in Yale college, and he continued in that
office till he was invited in 1726 to preach at
Northampton, Mass. Here he was ordained as
colleague with his grandfather, Mr. Stoddard,
Feb. 15, 1727. In 1735 his benevolent labors
were attended with very uncommon success ; a
general impression was made upon the minds of
his people by the truths which he proclaimed ;
and the church was much enlarged. He con
tinued in this place more than twenty-three years,
till he was dismissed in 1750. The circumstances
which led to his dismission were the following :
Mr. Edwards, being informed of immoralities in
which some young persons who were connected
with the church indulged themselves, thought
that an inquiry should be made into their con
duct. The .church readily acknowledged the
importance of strict discipline, and entered into
the plan ; but when the names of the persons
accused were known, and it was found that mem-
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hers of the principal families in the town were
implicated, it was impossible to proceed. There
were few in his church who continued their zeal
for discipline, when they perceived that it would
enter their own houses ; and the hands of the
immoral were strengthened by this defeat of an
attempt to correct their errors and to bring them
to repentance. After this occurrence in 1744
Mr. Edwards' usefulness in Northampton was
almost destroyed. A secret dislike was excited in
the minds of many, and it was soon blown into a
flame. When he was settled in this town, he
was not perfectly convinced of the correctness of
the principle, which was supported by his col
league, Mr. Stoddard, that unconverted persons
had a right in the sight of God to the sacrament
of the Lord's supper. After diligent inquiry he
was convinced that the principle was erroneous
and dangerous. His investigations led him to
believe that the supper was instituted for the true
disciples of Jesus Christ ; that none but such
could have a right to it ; and that none but • those
who were considered as such should be permitted
to partake of it. Adopting these sentiments, he
had the courage to avow them. He considered
it as an inviolable duty ever to vindicate the
truth. He knew the zeal of his people for their
loose principles, and expected to see that zeal
bursting upon him, if he should dare to stand
forward in opposition to their long-continued
practice. ' He anticipated a dismission from North
ampton, and a deprivation of the means of sup
port. But, in the full view of these consequences,
he openly avowed his change of sentiments, cheer
fully sacrificing every worldly interest to promote
the purity of the church and the glory of the
Redeemer. The evils which he anticipated came
upon him. He was driven away in disgrace from
a people who once would almost have plucked
out their eyes and given them to him. They
would not even hear him in his vindication. He
had been instrumental in cheering many hearts
with the joys of religion, and not a few had re
garded him with all that affectionate attachment
which is excited by the love of excellence, and
the sense of obligations which can never be repaid.
But a spirit of detraction had gone forth, and a
few leading men of outrageous zeal pushed for
ward men of less determined hostility; and in
the hopeless prospect of conciliation he was dis
missed by an ecclesiastical council, June 22, 1750.
In this scene of trouble and abuse, when the
mistakes and the bigotry of the multitude had
stopped their ears, and their passions were with
out control, Mr. Edwards exhibited the truly
Christian spirit. His calmness, and meekness,
and humility, and yet firmness and resolution,
were the subjects of admiration to his friends.
More anxious for his people than for himself, he
preached a most solemn and affecting farewell
discourse. He afterwards occasionally supplied
the pulpit, at times when no preacher had been
procured; but this proof of his superiority to
resentment or pride, and this readiness to do
good to those who had injured him, met with no
return, except a vote of the inhabitants, prohib
iting him from ever again preaching for them.
Still he was not left without excellent friends in
Northampton ; and his correspondents in Scot
land, having been informed of his dismission,
contributed a considerable sum for the mainten
ance of his family.
In Aug., 1751, he succeeded Mr. Sergeant as
missionary to the Houssatonnoc Indians, at Stock-
bridge, in Berkshire county. Here he continued
six years, preaching to the Indians and the white
people ; and, as he found much leisure, he pros
ecuted his theological and metaphysical studies,
and produced works which rendered his name
famous throughout Europe. Thus was his ca
lamitous removal from Northampton the occasion,
under the wise providence of God, of his impart
ing to the world the most important instructions,
whose influence has been extending to the present
time, and whose good effects may still be felt for
ages. In Jan., 1758, he reluctantly accepted the
office of president of the college in New Jersey,
as successor of his son-in-law, Mr. Burr ; but he
had not entered fully upon the duties of this sta
tion, before the prevalence of the small pox in
duced him to be inoculated, and this disease was
the cause of his death. A short time before he
died, as some of his friends, who surrounded his
bed to see him breathe his last, were lamenting
the loss which the college would sustain, he said,
to their astonishment. " Trust in God, and ye need
not fear." These were his last words. He after
wards expired with as much composure as if he
had only fallen asleep. He was succeeded by
Mr. Davies. His wife, Sarah, daughter of Rev.
J. Pierpont, of New Haven, whom he married in
-1727 in her eighteenth year, died in 1758. She
became pious at the age of five. The following
beautiful account of her, when in her thirteenth
year, was written on a blank leaf by Mr. Ed
wards, in 1723, when he was twenty: " They say
there is a young lady in New Haven who is be
loved of that Great Being, who made and rules
the world, and that there are certain seasons in
which this Great Being, in some way or other,
comes to her and fills her mind with exceeding
sweet delight, and that she hardly cares for any
thing, except to meditate on Him ; that she ex
pects after a while to be received up where he is,
to be raised up out of the world and caught up
into heaven ; being assured that he loves her too
well to let her remain at a distance from him
always. There she is to dwell with him and to
be ravished with his love and delight forever.
Therefore, if you present all the world before her,
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with the richest of its treasures, she disregards
it, and cares not for it, and is unmindful of any
path of affliction. She has a strange sweetness
in her mind and singular purity in her affections ;
is most just and conscientious in all her conduct,
and you could not persuade her to do anything
wrong or sinful, if you would give her all this
world, lest she should offend this Great Being.
She is of a wonderful sweetness, calmness, and
universal benevolence of mind, especially after
this Great God has manifested himself to her
mind. She will sometimes go about from place
to place, singing sweetly, and seems to be always
full of joy and pleasure, and no one knows for
what. She loves to be alone, walking in the
fields and groves, and seems to have some one
invisible always conversing with her." Mr. Ed
wards had three sons and seven daughters. Two
of lu's daughters died unmarried ; Sarah married
E. Parsons, and Lucy, J. Woodbridge, of Stock-
bridge ; Esther married Pres. Burr ; Mary mar
ried Col. Dwight, of Northampton ; Susanna
married E. Porter, of Hadley ; Eunice married
T. Pollock, of North Carolina.
President Edwards was distinguished not only
for the astonishing vigor and penetration of his
mind, but for his Christian virtues. At a very
early period of his life he was much affected by
the truths of religion, and used several times in
a day to address himself to Heaven in secret
prayer, and to meet for religious conversation and
devotion with boys of his own age. But at
length he returned to a state of negligence and
forgetfulness of God. He no longer addressed
his prayer to the Lord, his Maker. The pleasure
which he had enjoyed in religious duties, he
afterwards believed to have originated in selfish
views and hopes, and not to have been founded in
a correct knowledge of the truth. Soon after he
left college, however, a deep sense of his sin was
imparted to him ; he beheld a new glory in the
character of God, and in the doctrines of the
gospel ; and a view of the way of salvation by a
crucified Redeemer, filled him with inexpressible
joy. Those doetrines which he had formerly op
posed and regarded with horror, now inspired
him with delight. Such were his conceptions of
the wisdom and excellence of the Most High,
that he found a real pleasure in ascribing to him
an absolute sovereignty in the disposal of his
creatures ; in choosing whom he would to eternal
life, and rejecting whom he pleased, for the dis
play of his glory. Of the certainty of this doc
trine he felt as much assured as of the existence
of any object which was presented to his sight.
The excellence, upon which he fixed his thoughts,
was communicated to him ; and he was moulded
into the glorious image which was so constantly
in his eye. His life of integrity, of humility, of
meekness, of benevolence, of piety, of Chris-
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tian courage, and of zeal directed by the meek
ness of wisdom, gives full evidence that his
religion was the religion of Christ. His highest
and sweetest joys, he remarked, did not spring
from the hope that he was in a state of salvation,
nor from the consciousness of any excellence in
himself, but from a direct view of the precious
truths of the gospel. No one could be more
deeply humbled under a sense of the iniquity of
his heart, and of his impotence to what is good.
This conviction led him to distrust himself, to
rely only upon the grace of God, and to ascribe
everything to infinite mercy.
In the various relations of life his character
was unimpeached. The benevolent principles
which he had embraced taught him to do good,
and, while he inculcated charity upon others, he
himself gave much to the poor. lie seldom vis
ited his people, except in sickness or affliction, not
having remarkable talents in conversation, and
believing that he should be more useful in his
study. Yet he was not austere and unsociable,
but easy of access, kind and condescending. To
his friends he opened himself without reserve.
He gave no encouragement in his conversation to
evil-speaking and folly ; nor was he fond of
disputes, though, when called upon, he would
express his opinion, and calmly vindicate his sen
timents. He preferred managing a controversy
with his pen in his hand. Though his constitu
tion was delicate, he commonly spent thirteen
hours every day in his study. He usually rose
between four and five in the morning, and was
abstemious, living completely by rule. For exer
cise, he would in the winter take an axe and chop
wood for half an hour ; and in the summer would
walk or ride on horseback two or three miles, to
some retired grove. Here his active mind was
still occupied in religious meditation and devotion,
or in study. Having his pen and ink with him,
he recorded every striking thought that occurred.
All his researches were indeed pursued with his
pen in lu's hand, and the number of his miscella
neous writings, which he left behind him, was above
fourteen hundred. They were all numbered and
paged, and an index was formed for the whole.
He was peculiarly happy in his domestic connec
tions. Mrs. Edwards, by taking the entire care
of his temporal concerns, gave him an opportunity
of consecrating all his powers, without interrup
tion, to the labors and studies of the sacred office.
It ought, perhaps, to be mentioned, that in the
account of the " Quick stock," of which he died
possessed, is tin's item : " A negro boy, named
Titus, 30 pounds." Had he lived through the
American struggle for freedom, he doubtless
would have accorded with his son, Dr. Jonathan,
in his views of the injustice and gross wrong of
slavery.
As a preacher he was not oratorical in his man-
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ner, and his voice was rather feeble, though he
spoke with distinctness ; but his discourses were
rich in thought; and, being deeply impressed
himself with the truths which he uttered, his
preaching came home to the hearts of his hear
ers. Though he usually wrote his sermons with
great care, and read his notes, yet, when in the
delivery a new thought struck him, he was not so
shackled but that he would express it, and his
extemporary effusions were frequently the most
interesting and useful parts of his discourses.
Toward the close of life he was inclined to think
that it would have been better if he had never
used his notes at all. He advised the young
preacher to commit his sermons to memory.
Mr. Edwards was uncommonly zealous and
persevering in his search after truth. lie spared
no pains in procuring the necessary aids, and he
read all the books which he could procure that
promised to afford him assistance in his inquiries.
lie confined himself to no particular sect or de
nomination, but studied the writings of men whose
sentiments were the most opposite to his own.
But the Bible claimed his peculiar attention.
From that book he derived his religious principles,
and not from any human system. The doctrines
which he supported were Calvinistic, and when
these doctrines were in any degree relinquished,
or were not embraced in their whole length and
breadth, he did not see where a man could set
his foot down, with consistency and safety, short
of deism or atheism itself. Yet, with all his strict
adherence to what he believed to be the truths of
heaven, his heart was kind and tender. When
Mr. Whitefielcl preached for him on the Sabbath,
the acute divine, whose mighty intellect has sel
dom been equalled, wept as a child during the
whole sermon.
His essay on the freedom of the will is consid
ered as one of the greatest efforts of the human
mind. Those who embrace the Calvinistic senti
ments have been accustomed to say, that he has-
forever settled the controversy with the Armin-
ians, by demonstrating the absurdity of their
principles. On the other hand, there are those
attached to the general theological doctrines em
braced by Ed wards, who think that the unavoid
able consequences of his metaphysical argument
are so contradictory to the common judgment of
mankind, as to authorize any one " boldly to cut
asunder the knot which he is unable to unloose."
However, if the argument of Edwards be a fal
lacy, " there must be some way to unravel the
puzzle." The following is a brief exhibition of
his supposed sophistry. 1. He uses the word
cause perpetually in various senses : in the sense
of efficiency, or real cause ; of reason, or induce
ment ; and of antecedent circumstance, the ground,
" in whole or in part," of an event. When he
lays down the maxim, " nothing ever comes to
pass without a cause," and says, "if the will be
determined, there is a determiner;" he means an
efficient cause. But when he asserts that motive
is the cause of volition, he departs from the
meaning of efficiency. The true meaning in the
latter case is nothing more, than that motives or
views of the mind precede or accompany the ac
tions of men ; or, in other words, that rational
men, who exert their efficiency in volition, do it
for some purpose, or with some design ; for mo
tives are mere views of the mind, and it were
absurd to ascribe to them an agency, or to make
them efficient causes. As Mr. Edwards asserts,
" actions are to be ascribed to agents." Men
must cause their own volitions ; or some other
agent must cause them, in which case men are
machines. 2. He assumes the great point of
controversy; that is, he takes for granted, that
because the mind of man had a beginning of ex
istence, and because its actions have a beginning,
therefore it cannot originate a volition. But, if
the eternal Spirit originaies volition, it should
have been proved that he could not give the
same power to a human spirit, made in his like
ness. In ascribing to God in perfection the es
sential qualities of a moral agent, he enumerates
" a capacity of choice, and choice guided by
understanding, and a power of acting according
to his choice or pleasure ; " but in considering
man as a moral agent he ascribes to him only " a
power of acting according to choice," and omits
the essential quality of a moral agent, — " the
power of choice." 3. The term motive is em
ployed at one time to express the antecedent
reason or ground, or previous view or circum
stance, supposed to determine the choice, as when
he says, the strongest motive governs the will ;
and at another time he represents the strongest
motive and the mind's choosing as very much the
same thing ; so that the motive cannot be ante
cedent or previous to the volition. He says, " an
appearing most agreeable or pleasing to the
mind, and the mind's preferring and choosing,
seem hardly to be properly and perfectly dis
tinct." If the view of the greatest good and the
preference or act of choice itself are very much
the same thing, then to say that volition is the
effect of the strongest motive, is very much the
same thing as to say that volition is the effect of
volition ; and a " previous tendency of the motive
to move the will " is but a previous tendency of
the choice to determine the choice. 4. The dis
tinction between natural and moral necessity can
make no difference as to excusableness from
blame, unless there be employed in the case of
moral necessity the power of choosing differently,
which yet he denies ; for, if men are excusable
when necessity prevents them from doing what
they will to do, then surely they must be excusable
when necessity absolutely controls their choice,
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or governs their will. Man cannot be a moral
agent, if his mind is completely enslaved, and his
volitions all influenced by causes beyond his con
trol, whether the necessity be called moral or
not. Luther said, " I truly wish that in this con
troversy some more appropriate term were em
ployed than the usual one, necessity, which is
applicable neither to the will of God nor man.
It is of so harsh and incongruous a signification,
suggesting a sort of co-action, and what is alto
gether contrary to the nature of volition."
This is a very imperfect view of the objections
to the argument of Edwards. Should a new
school of metaphysical theology spring up, it
will doubtless discard some old and revered no
tions. The following may be some of its elemen
tary principles. Man is constituted an agent ;
he is the cause, the originator of his own volitions,
else he would not be accountable. The mere
liberty of doing what he wills is not enough ; he
must be free to will, or have power to choose,
or must originate his own volitions. Right views
of free-agency are of high importance, for uni-
versalism and infidelity will be the result, when
man is regarded as a machine, governed by exte
rior efficiency. By the faculty of the will is
meant the power of the mind to choose, the self-
determining power. To say, that motives govern
the will, is to say that motives govern the self-
determining power, and this is to deny such a
power. If, as Edwards asserts, " the being of a
good will is the most proper subject of com
mand," ii must be, because man has the power to
choose aright, for responsiblencss is bounded by
power. If man has no power but that of doing
what he chooses, then he could not be required
to have a good will, or to make a wise choice, for
God never demands impossibilities. The mind
does not always choose according to the greatest
apparent good, though required to choose the
greatest good ; for frequently men choose against
clear light and full conviction. They always pre
fer, indeed, what they choose, for choosing is but
preferring ; but they often choose from unholy
appetite and passion against understanding and
conscience. The mind arbitrates between differ
ent motives, but is not determined by them. It
determines its own course in the view of motives,
or with some design or purpose. Men are real
agents, and not thinking machines, irresponsible,
destined to no future judgment, incapable of pun
ishment. In the midst of a world of motives,
they are the authors of their own volitions ; cer
tainly of that class of volitions, for which they
may be held to a retribution of evil. Yet, it can
never be proved, that all this impairs the fore
knowledge of the infinite Spirit, or is inconsistent
with his eternal purpose, and his influence in giv
ing a new heart, or securing a right direction to
the choice. At least, such an interposition of
divine grace and mercy, if it should even destroy
in that respect human freedom, by efficiently caus
ing a holy choice, is to bf deemed an immeas
urable benefit toward those who experience the
new-creating energy, while yet the choosers of
evil are left free to their own agency, and the
character of God remains unsullied, and his gov
ernment unimpeached. Remarks were made on
the essay on the freedom of the will by James
Dana and Samuel West; the latter was answered
by Dr. Edwards. His other works, which are most
celebrated, are : his book on original sin, in an
swer to Taylor ; his treatise on the affections ; his
dissertation on the nature of true virtue, and that
on the end for which God created the world. A
splendid edition of his works was published in
England, and an edition, in 8 volumes, intended
to be a complete collection of his writings, edited
by Dr. Austin, was published in 1809. Another
edition, with an ample account of his life, edited
by his descendant, Sereno Edwards Dwight, was
published in ten volumes, 8vo., in 1830.
The following is a catalogue of his publica
tions : a sermon preached at Boston on I Cor
inthians, I. 29, 30, 1731 ; a sermon preached
at Northampton, on Matthew xvi. 17, 1734 ; a
narrative of the work of God in the conversion
of many hundred of souls in Northampton, 173G ;
five discourses on justification by faith alone, press
ing into the kingdom of God, Ruth's resolution,
the justice of God in the damnation of sinners,
and the excellency of Jesus Christ, 1738 ; sin
ners in the hands of an angry God, a sermon
preached at Enfield, 1741 ; a sermon on the dis
tinguishing marks of a work of the Spirit of God,
1741 ; thoughts on the revival of religion, 1742 ;
a sermon at the ordination of R. Abercrombie,
1744 ; at the instalment of S. Buell, 1746 ; a trea
tise on religious affections, 1746 ; an attempt to
promote agreement in prayer for the revival of
religion, 1746 ; life of 1). Brainerd, 1749 ; an in
quiry into the qualifications for full communion in
the church, 1749; a reply to S. Williams' answer
to the inquiry, 1752 ; a sermon preached at New
ark, 1752; an inquiry into the modern prevailing
notions of that freedom of Avill which is supposed
to be essential to moral agency, etc., 1754; the
great doctrine of original sin defended, 1758.
Since his death, the following works have been
published from his manuscripts : eighteen ser
mons, with his life written by Dr. Hopkins, 1765 ;
the history of redemption, 1774; on the nature
of true virtue, 1788 ; God's last end in the cre
ation ; thirty-three sermons ; twenty sermons,
1789 ; miscellaneous observations, 1793 ; miscel
laneous remarks, 1796. — Hopkins' Life of Ed
wards; Life prefixed to Itis Works ; Middleton's
Biog. Evany. IV. 294-317.
EDAVARDS, JONATHAN, D. D., president of
Union college at Schenectady, in the State of
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New York, son of the preceding, died Aug. 1,
1801, aged 5G. He was born at Northampton,
June 6, 1745. In childhood an inflammation in
his eyes prevented him from learning to read till
an uncommonly late period. He was but six
years old when he was removed to Stockbridgc;
and here there was no school but one, which was
common to the Indian children and the children
of white parents. Of the latter there were so
few that he was in danger of forgetting the
English tongue. Here, whilst at school, he
learned the language of the Mohekaneew, or
Stockbridge Indians, so perfectly, that the natives
frequently observed, that " he spoke exactly like
an Indian." This language he retained in a good
degree through life, and he published interesting
remarks upon it some years before his death.
Ilis father intended him for a missionary among
the aborigines, and in accordance with this plan
sent him in Oct., 1755, when he was ten years of
age, with Gideon Ilawley, to Oughquauga, on the
Susquehannah river, to learn the language of the
Oneicla Indians. This place was in the wilderness
about one hundred miles from any English set
tlement. He remained at Oughquauga but four
months, in consequence of the war between Eng-
and and France, which now extended to the col
onies. During this short time he made rapid
progress in acquiring the language of the natives,
and in engaging their affections. They were so
much attached to him, that when they thought
their settlement was exposed to inroads from the
French, they took him upon their shoulders and
carried him many miles through the wilderness
to a place of security.
lie was graduated at the college in New Jersey
in 1705. Two years before, at a time when the
students of the college were generally impressed
by the truths of religion, he was blessed with the
hope of his reconciliation to God through Christ.
This was during the presidentship and under the
impressive preaching of Dr. Finley. He after
wards pursued the study of divinity under the
instruction of Dr. Bellamy, and in Oct., 17G6, was
licensed to preach the gospel by the association
of ministers in the county of Litchfield, Conn. In
1767 he was appointed tutor of Princeton college,
and in this office he remained two years. He
was ordained pastor of the church at White
Haven in the town of New Haven, Jan. 5, 1769,
and continued there till May 19, 1795, when he
was dismissed by an ecclesiastical council at his
own request and the request of his society. Some
of the leading men of his parish had embraced
religious sentiments of a different stamp from
those which were formerly professed, and which
Dr. Edwards believed to be true; and this cir
cumstance was the principal cause of dismission,
though an inability on the part of the society to
give him support was the most prominent reason
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assigned for this event. In Jan., 1796, he was
installed pastor of the church at Colebrook in
Litchfield county. In this retired situation, where
lie was enabled to pursue his theological studies
with little interruption, he hoped to spend the
remainder of his days. But in June, 1799, he
was elected president of the college which had
been recently established at Schenectady, as suc
cessor of Mr. Smith. In July he commenced the
duties of the office. From this time his atten
tion and talents were devoted to the concerns
of the seminary, which was committed to his
charge.
There were several remarkable coincidences in
the lives of Dr. Edwards and his father. Both
were tutors in the seminaries in winch they were
educated; were dismissed on account of their
religious opinions ; were settled again in retired
situations ; were elected to the presidentship of a
college; and, in a short time after they were in
augurated, died at nearly the same age. They
were also remarkably similar in person and char
acter.
Dr. Edwards was a man of uncommon powers
of mind. He has seldom been surpassed in
acuteness and penetration. His answer to Dr.
Chauncy, his dissertation on the liberty of the
will in reply to Dr. West, and his sermons on the
atonement of Christ, are considered as works of
great and peculiar merit. His early discourse
against slavery was recently reprinted. As a
preacher, in his manner of delivery he was bold
and animated ; but he addressed the understand
ing and conscience rather than the passions of
his audience. A mind like his could not in the
progress of discussion lose sight of its subject.
His thoughts were well arranged and his argu
ments strong and convincing. lie was by nature
of an irritable disposition ; but, conscious of his
infirmity, he made it the business of his life to
subdue it, and he was successful. Under many
trying circumstances his equanimity was conspicu
ous. In prosperity and adversity lie was the same,
always sensible of his dependence upon God,
always acquiescing in his will and confiding in
his mercy. In his habits he was very regular.
His exercise, his studies, and all his concerns
were as systematic as possible. He generally
rose early, and his first thoughts were directed
towards his Almighty Creator and Friend, to
whom in early life he had consecrated the powers
of his mind, his improvements, his possessions,
his time, his influence, and all the means of doing
good which should be put into his hands. At
the age of eighteen he began a diary of his reli
gious life. This he continued for a few months,
and then abruptly relinquished it, but for what
reason it is not known. In the early stages of
his last illness, when he retained his reason and
the power of speech, he expressed his entire
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resignation to the pleasure of God. In his death
an extensive acquaintance lamented the fall of one
of the firmest pillars of the church.
He published a work entitled, the salvation of
all men strictly examined, etc., in answer to Dr.
Chauncy; a dissertation on liberty and necessity;
observations on the language of the Mohekaneew,
or Stockbridge Indians, communicated to the
Connecticut society of arts and sciences, and re-
published in Massachusetts historical collections,
with notes by J. Pickering ; brief observations on
the doctrine of universal salvation ; three sermons
on the atonement; sermons at the ordination of
Timothy Dwight, Greenfield, 1783; of Dan Brad
ley, Hamden, 1792; of W. Brown, Glastenbury,
1792; of Edward Dorr Griffin, New Hartford,
1795 ; a sermon on the injustice and impolicy of
the slave trade, 1791; human depravity the source
of infidelity, a sermon in the American preacher,
II. ; marriage of a wife's sister considered in the
anniversary concio ad clerum in the chapel of
Yale college, 1792 ; on the death of Roger Sher
man, 1793; at the election, 1794; on a future
state of existence and the immortality of the soul,
printed in a volume, entitled, sermons collected,
etc. ; a farewell sermon to the people of Cole-
brook; and a number of excellent pieces, with
the signatures I and O,in the New York theolog
ical magazine, lie also edited, from the manu
scripts of his father, the history of the work of
redemption, two volumes of sermons, and two
volumes of observations on important theological
subjects. — Conn. Evang. Mag., II. 377-383;
Miller, 11. 453; 2 Hist. Coll.x. 81-160; Holmes,
II. 321.
EDWARDS, MORGAN, a Baptist minister, died
Jan. 28, 1795, aged 72. lie was born in Wales
in 1722, and began to preach in his sixteenth
year. He came to America in May, 1761, and
became the pastor of a church in Philadelphia, in
which office he was succeeded by Dr. Rogers. He
removed in 1772 to a plantation in Newark, New
castle county. Being opposed to the Revolution,
he ceased preaching during the war. Afterwards
he read lectures in different parts of the country.
He had been intemperate ; it was his own opin
ion, that a minister should not preach again after
such a fall. He once persuaded liimself, about
the year 1770, that he should die on a particular
day, and preached his own funeral sermon; but
he lived a quarter of a century afterwards. He
published a farewell discourse, 1761 ; at the ordi
nation of S. Jones; customs of primitive churches ;
on new year, 1770 ; materials toward a history
of Baptists of Pennsylvania and New Jersey, 2
vols., 12mo., 1792; on the millennium; on the
new heaven and new earth ; res sacra, a transla
tion. He left many vols. of sermons, and 12 vols.
of manuscripts on various subjects. — Benedict,
II. 294-301.
EDWARDS, SARAH, widow of President Ed
wards, died six months after her husband, Oct. 2,
1758, aged 48. She was the daughter of Rev.
James Pierrepont of New Haven, born in 1710 ;
and was the mother of eleven children. She ap
parently became pious at the age of five years ;
and her whole life was a life of eminent piety,
benevolence, and usefulness. With great intelli
gence and skill, she educated her children and
conducted all the domestic affairs ; to her hus
band she was one " whose price was above
rubies."
EDWARDS, WILLIAM, a Moravian missionary,
died at Goshen on the Muskingum in 1801, aged
about 70.
EDWARDS, TIMOTHY, judge, the eldest son
of President Edwards, died at Stockbridge, Mass.,
Oct. 27, 1813, aged 15. After graduating at
Princeton, 1757, he was a merchant in Elizabeth-
town, N. J., and removed to S. about 1770, and
was a leading citizen for forty-three years, and
judge of probate for Berkshire. He was also a
venerated officer of the church. His widow,
Rhoda Ogden, died at Litchfield in 1822, aged
80. Of his fifteen children, one, if not more,
still lives, — Madame Rhoda Dwight of North
ampton, aged now nearly 80.
EDWARDS, NINIAX, governor of Illinois, died
of the cholera at Belleville July 20, 1833. He
was appointed governor in 1809, and in 1818
was chosen a senator of the United States. He
was also, at the time of his death, governor and
superintendent of Indian afl'airs.
EDWARDS, PIERREPOXT, died at Bridgeport
April 14, 1826, aged 76. He was born at North
ampton in 1750, a few weeks before the dismission
of his father, President Edwards. For many
years he was a distinguished lawyer; he was a
patriot, and under the old confederation a member
of congress. His sons were John S., Henry W.,
Ogden, and Alfred. His daughter Susan married
Samuel W. Johnson, and Henrietta Frances
married Eli Whitney.
EDWARDS, WILLIAM, colonel, died in Brook
lyn, N. Y., Dec. 29, 1851, aged 81, the son of
Timothy, and grandson of Jonathan E. He was
early apprenticed to his uncle, Col. M. Ogden, of
Elizabcthtown, in the tanning business, which he
carried on himself many years extensively at
Northampton, and at Hunter, Greene county,
N. Y. At the latter place, employing fifty or
one hundred laborers, he promoted among them
the interests of temperance, and conducted reli
gious services until a church was formed, of which
he was twenty-five years an elder. Even in his
old age, in Dr. Mason's church in New York, and
in Brooklyn, he was a Sunday-school teacher and
a tract distributor. As he failed once in business
he honestly paid up the old debts, from which he
was legally discharged, to the amount of 25,000
EDWAIIDS.
dollars. He gave in his vote as a citizen sixty-
one years His wife was Rebecca, a daughter of
B. Tappan; eight children survived him.
EDWARDS, JONATHAN W., an eminent law
yer, the only son of Rev. Dr. Jonathan E., died at
Hartford April 3, 1831, aged 59. He graduated
at Yale with high honor, at the age of seventeen,
in 1789, and afterwards was tutor. In taking his
second degree he delivered an oration, in which he
attacked the existing law, by which the eldest son
received a double portion of the estate of a father,
dying without a will. This excited attention ; the
next year, 1792, the obnoxious law was repealed.
Having studied law at Litchfield, he settled at
Hartford, and rose rapidly in his profession, and
became one of the most distinguished advocates.
He had a very uncommon genius, quick percep
tions, great acuteness in reasoning, and a quick,
beautiful, unfailing flow of language. Ill health
compelled him to intermingle with his studies
agricultural pursuits. The religion of the gospel
gave him peace and hope in his closing hours.
He was deemed a model as a man, a father, a
lawyer, a citizen, and a Christian. One of his two
sisters married Rev. Dr. Chapin. His wife was
Elizabeth Tryon. Rev. Dr. Tryon Edwards, of
New London, is his son. If an honored ancestry
furnishes an excitement to noble effort, he had such
an ancestry to excite him. His father and grand
father were eminent theologians and presidents of
colleges ; and then he could go back, as among
his ancestors, to Tuthill, Winthrop, Downing,
Stoddard, Warham, Pierpont, Hooker, Willett,
Brown, Porter, Walcott, Pitkin, Goodwin, and
Standley. A notice of Mr. E. was written by
Chief Justice Williams, and is contained in the
appendix to a volume of the Connecticut reports.
EDWARDS, HENRY W., governor of Con
necticut, died at New Haven July 22, 1847, aged
67. Born in N. H., the son of Pierrepont E., he
graduated at Princeton in 1797 ; was a senator
of the United States; and governor in 1833,
1835-7.
EDWARDS, HENRY PIERREPONT, a judge of
the supreme court of New York seven or eight
years, died in New York Feb. 24, 1855, aged 46.
He was the son of Gov. H. W. Edwards. He
was learned, dignified, upright, and independent.
EDWARDS, JUSTIN, D. D., died at the Bath
Alum Spring, Va., July 23, 1853, aged 66. Born
in Westhampton April 25, 1787, he was the de
scendant of Alexander E., who came from Wales
in 1640, and lived in Springfield and Northamp
ton, lie graduated at Williams college in 1810.
In about two years he was settled as the minister
of Andover ; after fifteen years he was removed
to the north church in Boston, but in two years
resigned his charge and became secretary of the
American temperance society. During his seven
years' devotion to this cause, he prepared the "per-
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manent temperance documents.'' After this he was
six years president of Andover theological sem
inary, and then seven years engaged in promoting
the observance of the Sabbath, writing the " Sab
bath manual." Four years he spent in preparing
comments on the New Testament, and the Old,
as far as the 90th Psalm, when he ceased to write.
He went to Virginia on account of his health.
When, in great suffering, he was asked if he had
any fear of death, he replied : " None. It is
nothing fearful to die and go to heaven." It
seemed to be his fixed determination to do all
the good possible, while he lived in the world.
He had deep, unbending principle, indomitable
energy, earnest piety. The beginning of his re
ligious course was in 1805, at the age of eighteen,
owing to the impression made upon him at the
deathbed of an eminent Christian. At the house
of his neighbor, Noah Parsons, Jr., died Mr. P.'s
mother, the wife of Noah P., of Northampton,
who was there on a visit. The Christian conver
sation, peace, and supports of both, as he saw
her from day to day, taught him the value of reli
gion, of which till then he was destitute. She
was the Phebe Bartlett, mentioned by Jonathan
Edwards, as becoming pious at five years of age.
His wife and companion in life, who survived him,
and the mother of his children, was Lydia, daugh
ter of Asa Bigelow of Colchester. He assisted in
founding the tract society of Boston, and was
secretary ; and when it was united to the society
at New York he was placed on the publishing
committee. He wrote " The way to be saved,"
" Joy in heaven over the penitent," " Well-con
ducted form," and " The traffic in ardent spirits."
Of these, 750,000 were printed, — parts of his
Sabbath manual, 535,000 ; temperance manual,
143,000 ; comment on the New Testament,
70,000. A sketch of his life and labors, by Rev.
Wm. A. Hallock, was published, with a portrait,
by the American tract society in 1855.
' EDWARDS, BELA BATES, D.. D., professor in
Andover theological school, died in Georgia April
20, 1852, aged 49. He was born at Southamp
ton, Mass., July 4, 1802. He descended from
Alexander Edwards, who came from Wales, and
lived in Northampton from 1655 to 1690, and
whose grandson, Samuel, wno died in 1749, was
the great-grandfather of Mr. Edwards, as well as
of Dr. Justin Edwards. Mr. E.'s grandfather,
also named Samuel, who was a soldier in the
expedition to cape Breton in 1745, removed
to Southampton in 1753, where he was a deacon
many years, till his death in 1784. Mr. E.'s
father, Elisha, born in 1758, was also a deacon
from 1790 till his death in 1832. His mother,
a woman of intellect and great worth, died in
1826.
Mr. E. graduated at Amherst college in 1 824.
Wliilc in college he became a Christian. In 1825
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he entered the seminary at Andover. For two
years from 1820 lie was a tutor at Amhcrst. In
May, 1828, he was chosen assistant secretary of
the American education society, and performed
the duties of this office, at the same time living at
Andover and pursuing his theological studies.
From 1830 to 183G he lived in Boston, but re
signed his office of secretary in 1833.
His literary and editorial labors were very great
and important. From 1828 to 1842 he edited
the American Quarterly Register, which was
called first, in 1827, the Quarterly Journal of the
American education society. lie established in
1833 the American Quarterly Observer, which,
after three volumes, was united with the Biblical
Repository of Prof. Robinson. He edited it from
183,3 to 1838. Of the Bibliotheca Sacra he was
the editor from 184-1 to 1852. For the long
period of twenty-three years, he superintended a
part of our periodical literature, and with the aid
of others, produced thirty-one octavo volumes, —
monuments of his great industry, talents, learn
ing, and taste.
He lived in Andover from 1836 till his death.
In 1837 he was appointed professor of Hebrew
in the seminary, and in 1848 successor of Prof.
Stuart in the chair of professor of biblical litera
ture. In 1846 and 1847 he made the tour of
Europe with his wife and one of his children. A
pulmonary disease compelled him to repair to
Athens in Ga., in the autumn of 1851, and there
he died in peace. He was buried at Andover
April 30th. His wife was Jerusha W. Billings of
Conway, a grand-daughter of Rev. R. S. Storrs of
Longmeadow.
His memoir was published by Prof. Park in
two volumes, in 1853, containing seven sermons
and various essays, addresses, and lectures. A
more interesting memoir of a literary, pious, and
most excellent man is not to be found. Mr. E.
wrote, besides the works mentioned already, the
eclectic reader ; biography of self-taught men, in
1832 ; and the missionary gazetteer.
EELLES, NATHANIEL, minister of Scituate,
died Aug. 25, 1750, aged about 73. He gradu
ated at Harvard college in 1G99 ; was ordained in
1704. He was a man of eminence. Among his
successors was Dr. Barnes. He published a ser
mon at the ordination of F. Clapp, 1729; rea
sons for inviting Mr. Whitefield to preach; elec
tion sermon, 1743.
EELLES, NATHANIEL, minister of Stonington,
Conn., son of the preceding, graduated at Har
vard college in 1728. He died in 1786, aged
about 80. He published the election sermon,
1748.
EELLES, EDWARD, minister of Middletown,
son of Nathaniel E., of Scituate, died in 1776.
He was graduated at Harvard college in 1733.
He published the election sermon, 1767.
EELLES, SAMUEL, minister of North Bran-
ford, Conn., died April 23, 1808, aged 63. He
was a graduate of Yale in 1765, and was a useful
pastor, and physician without charge, thirty-nine
years.
EGBERT, THOMAS, major, died in New Bruns
wick, N. J., in July, 1835, aged 84, an officer of
the Revolution.
ELBERT, SAMUEL, major-general, and gov
ernor of Georgia, in 1785 succeeded John Hous
ton, and was succeeded in 1786 by Edward
Telfair. He was a soldier of the Revolution,
entering the army in 1776 as a lieutenant-colonel.
In 1778 he was engaged in the expedition against
East Florida ; and conducted with gallantry in
command of a brigade in the action at Brier
Creek March 2, 1779, in which he was taken pris
oner. He died at Savannah Nov. 3, 1788,
aged 45.
ELDRIDGE, CHARLES, M. D., died at East
Greenwich, R. I., Sept. 15, 1838, aged 56, for
merly president of the medical society.
ELIOT, JOHN, minister of Roxbury, Mass.,
usually called the Apostle of the Indians, was born
at Nasing, Essex, England, in 1604 ; died May
20, 1690, aged 86. His pious parents early im
parted to him religious instruction, and it Avas not
without effect. After receiving his education at
the university of Cambridge, he was for some time
the instructor of youth. In 1631 he came to this
country, and, arriving at Boston harbor Nov. 3,
immediately joined the church in that town, and
preached to them, as Mr. Wilson their minister
was then in England. Here he was earnestly
requested to remain ; but he was settled as
teacher of the church in Roxbury, Nov. 5, 1632.
In the folloAving year Mr. Wclde was ordained as
his colleague, with the title of pastor. These two
ministers lived together in much harmony. In
1737 they opposed the wild notions of Mrs.
Hutchinson, and were both witnesses against her
at her trial. In 1639 they were appointed, Avith
Richard Mather, of Dorchester, to make a neAV
version of the psalms, Avhich Avas printed in the
folloAving year. For tuneful poetry it Avould not
perhaps yield the palm even to that of Sternhold
and Hopkins ; but it did not give perfect satisfac
tion. Mr. Shepherd, of Cambridge, thus ad
dressed the translators :
" Ye Roxbury poets, keep clear of the crime
Of missing to give us very good rhyme ;
And you of Dorchester, your verses lengthen,
But with the text's own words you will them strengthen."
The New England psalms were aftenvards re
vised and improA'ed by President Dunster, and
they have passed through tAventy editions. In
1641 Mr. Welde returned to England. Mr.
Eliot's other colleagues in the ministry Avere Mr.
Danforth and Mr. Walter.
His benevolent labors Avere not confined to his
ELIOT.
own people. Having imbibed the true spirit of
the gospel, his heart was touched with the
wretched condition of the Indians, and he became
eagerly desirous of making them acquainted with
the glad tidings of salvation. There were, at the
time, when he began his missionary exertions,
nearly twenty tribes of Indians within the limits
of the English planters. But they were very
similar in manners, language, and religion. Hav
ing learned the barbarous dialect, he first preached
to an assembly of Indians at Nonantum, in the
present town of Newton, Oct. 28, 1646. After a
short prayer he explained the commandments,
described the character and sufferings of Christ,
the judgment day and its consequences, and ex
horted them to receive Christ as their Saviour,
and to pray to God. After the sermon was
finished, he desired them to ask any questions
which might have occurred. One immediately
inquired, whether Jesus Christ could understand
prayers in the Indian language ? Another asked
how all the world became full of people, if they
were all once drowned ? A third question was,
how there could be the image of God, since
it was forbidden in the commandment? He
preached to them a second time Nov. 11, and
some of them wept while he was addressing them.
An old man asked, with tears in his eyes, whether
it was not too late for him to repent and turn
unto God ? Among the other inquiries were
these, — how it came to pass that sea water was
salt and river water fresh ; how the English came
to differ so much from the Indians in the knowl
edge of God and Jesus Christ, since they all at
first had but one father ; and why, if the water is
larger than the earth, it does not overflow the
earth ? He was violently opposed by the sachems,
and pawaws or priests, who were apprehensive of
losing their authority if a new religion was intro
duced. When he was alone with them in the
wilderness, they threatened him with every evil,
if he did not desist from his labors ; but he was
a man not to be shaken in his purpose by the fear
of danger. He said to them : " I am about the
work of the great God, and my God is with me ;
so that I neither fear you, nor all the sachems in
the country. I will go on, — do you touch me, if
you dare." With a body capable of enduring
fatigue, and a mind firm as the mountain oaks
which surrounded his path, he went from place to
place, relying for protection upon the great Head
of the Church, and declaring the salvation of the
gospel to the children of darkness. His benevo
lent zeal prompted him to encounter with cheer
fulness the most terrifying dangers, and to submit
to the most incredible hardships. He says in a
letter : " I have not been dry, night or day, from
the third day of the week unto the sixth ; but so
travelled, and at night pull off my boots and
wring my stockings, and on with them again, and
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331
so continue. But God steps in and helps. I
have considered the word of God, 1 Tim. II. 3,
endure hardship as a good soldier of Jesus
Christ." lie made a missionary tour every fort
night, planted a number of churches, and visited
all the Indians in Massachusetts and Plymouth
colonies, pursuing his way as far as cape Cod.
In 1651 an Indian town was built on a pleasant
spot on Charles river, called Natick. A house of
worship was erected, and a form of government
was established similar to that which is mentioned
in Exodus xvm. 21. He was convinced, that in
order to the most permanent success, it was neces
sary to introduce with Christianity the arts of
civilized life. He accordingly made every exer
tion to persuade the Indians to renounce their
savage customs and habits ; but he never could
civilize those who went out in hunting parties ;
and those who lived near ponds and rivers, and
were occupied in fishing or cultivating the ground,
though their condition was much improved, could
never be made equally industrious with the Eng
lish. The first Indian church, established by the
labors of Protestants in America, was formed at
Natick in 1660, after the manner of the Congre
gational churches in New England. Those, who
wished to be organized into a Christian body,
were strictly examined as to their faith and expe
rience by a number of the neighboring ministers,
and Mr. Eliot afterwards administered to them
baptism and the Lord's supper. Other Indian
churches were planted in various parts of Massa
chusetts, and he frequently visited them ; but his
pastoral care was more particularly over that,
which he first established. He made every exer
tion to promote the welfare of the Indian tribes ;
he stimulated many servants of Jesus to engage
in the missionary work ; and, although he
mourned over the stupidity of many, who pre
ferred darkness to light, yet he lived to see
twenty-four of the copper-colored aborigines fel-
"low preachers of the precious gospel of Christ.
In 1661 he published the New Testament in the
Indian language, and in a few years the whole
Bible, and several other books, best adapted for
the instruction of the natives. He possessed an
influence over the Indians, which no other mission
ary could obtain. He was their shield in 1675,
during Philip's war, when some of the people of
Massachusetts, actuated by the most infuriate
spirit, had resolved to destroy them. He suffered
every abuse for his friendship to them, but noth
ing could quench the Divine charity which glowed
in his heart. His firmness, his zeal, his benevo
lence at this period increased the pure lustre of
his character. When he reached the age of fore-
score years, he offered to give up his salary, and
desired to be liberated from the labors of his
office as a teacher of the church at Iloxbury. It
was with joy, that he received Mr. Walter as his
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colleague in 1688. When he was bending under
his infirmities and could no longer visit the In
dians, he persuaded a number of families to send
their negro servants to him once a Avcek, that he
might instruct them in the truths of God. He
died, saying, that all his labors were poor and
small, and exhorting those, who surrounded his
bed, to pray. His last words were, " Welcome
joy." Four sons, educated at Harvard college,
were preachers ; John, of Newton, a preacher also
to the Indians ; Joseph, of Guilford ; Samuel died
in early life unsettled; Benjamin, a graduate of
1665, was a colleague with his father, but died
before him.
Mr. Eliot was one of the most useful preachers
in New England. No minister saw his exertions
attended with greater effects. He spoke from
the abundance of his heart, and his sermons, be
ing free from that labored display of learning,
from the quibbles and quaint turns with which
most discourses were at that time infected, were
acceptable in all the churches. So much was he
endeared to his own people, that they continued
his salary after he had offered to resign it, and
when he was unable to preach ; and the youth
were in the habit of visiting him, calling him their
father and friend. Such attentions chased away
the gloom which usually hangs over the head of
the aged, and cheered the evening of his life.
His moral and religious character was as excel
lent as his ministerial qualifications were great.
He carried his good principles with him in every
situation, viewing all things in reference to God.
He habitually lifted up his heart for a blessing
upon every person, whom he met ; and when he
went into a family, he would sometimes call the
youth to him, that he might lay his hands upon
them, and give them his benediction. Such was
his charity, that he gave to the poor Indians most
of his salary of fifty pounds, which he received
annually from the society for propagating the
gospel. In his manner of living, he was very
simple. One plain dish was his repast at home,
and, when he dined abroad, he seldom tasted any
of the luxuries before him. He drank water ;
and said of wine, " It is a noble, generous liquor,
and we should be humbly thankful for it, but, as
I remember, water \vas made before it." Clothing
himself with humility, he actually wore a leathern
girdle about his loins. In domestic life he was
peculiarly happy. By the prudent management
of his wife, who looked well to the ways of her
household, he was enabled to be generous to his
friends, and hospitable to strangers, and with a
small salary to educate four sons at Cambridge,
of whom John and Joseph, ministers of Newton
and Guilford, were the best preachers of that age.
In his principles of church government, he was
attached to the Congregational order. Yet he
contended earnestly for frequent synods or
councils, as necessary for the preservation of
union, for the suppression of dangerous opinions
and heresies, for the correction of abuses, and the
healing of divisions. In one of his treatises, he
proposed four orders of councils, the congrega
tional, provincial, national, and u%cumenical. lie
thought that every particular church should have
ruling elders, to assist the minister in the duties
of government and instruction. In his admissions
to the church, he required of the candidates some
evidence that they were truly Christians, renewed
in their hearts by the Spirit of God. He with
stood the attempts, which were made, to change
the old practice of giving a relation of the work
of divine grace, which practice, in liis view, hon
ored the Saviour, and produced an intimate union
among his disciples. He could not, in conscience,
give the cup of the Lord to any one who did not
give some evidence of being a sincere Christian.
With all his excellencies, he had some singu
larities and strange notions. He had. a most
deep-rooted prejudice against wigs. He preached
against the custom of wearing them ; he prayed
against it ; he attributed to it the evils which over
whelmed the country. He thought, as Dr. Cot
ton Mather, who himself wore a wig, informs us,
" that for men to wear their hair with a luxurious,
delicate, feminine prolixity, or to disfigure them
selves with hair, which was none of their own,
but above all, for ministers of the gospel to ruffle
it in excesses of this kind," was an enormous sin.
But fashion would bear sway, notwithstanding his
remonstrances, and he finally ceased to complain,
saying, " the lust is become insuperable." His
prejudice against tobacco was as strong as his
aversion to wigs ; but, in contempt of all his ad
monitions, the hairless head would be adorned
with curls of foreign growth, and the pipe would
send up volumes of smoke. In his old age, not
long before his death, he used to say that he was
shortly going to heaven, and would carry a deal
of good news with him ; he would carry tidings
to the old founders of New England, that our
churches still remained, and that their number
was continually increasing. So remarkable was
he for his charities, that the parish treasurer,
when he once paid him the money due for his sal
ary, tied the ends of a handkerchief, into which
he put it, in as many hard knots as he could, to
prevent him from giving away the money before
he should reach home. The good man immedi
ately went to the house of a sick and necessitous
family, and told them that God had sent them
some relief. Being welcomed by the sufferers
with tears of gratitude, he began to untie the
knots. After many fruitless efforts, and impatient
of the perplexity and delay, he gave the handker
chief and all the money to the mother of the
family, saying, " Here, my dear, take it ; I believe
the Lord designs it all for you."
ELIOT.
Mr. Eliot published several letters, in a work
entitled, the glorious progress of the gospel among
the Indians, etc., 1049 ; tears of repentance, in
conjunction with Mr. Mayhcw, 1653 ; a late and
further manifestation of the progress of the gos
pel among the Indians, etc., 1655 ; of the gospel
amongst the Indians, etc., 1659; a brief narrative
of the progress of the gospel, etc., 1670. A
work of his, entitled the Christian commonwealth,
etc., was published in England about the year
1660, written nine or ten years before. When it
was received in Massachusetts, the governor and
council, viewing it as full of seditious principles
against all established governments, especially
against the monarchy of their native country, re
quired Mr. Eliot to make a recantation, which he
accordingly did, acknowledging, that government
by kings, lords, and commons was not anti-Chris
tian. The book was suppressed. A copy is in
Col. AspinwalPs collection of books relating to
America. In 1661, he published his translation
of the New Testament into the Indian tongue ;
2d edit., 1680 ; and, in 1663, his immense work,
the translation of the whole Bible, in 4to., en
titled, Mamusse Wunneetupanatamwe Up-Biblum
God nanecswe Nukkone Testament kah wonk
"Wnsku Testament. A second edition was printed
in 168,5, revised by Mr. Cotton, and both of them
were printed at Cambridge. The longest word
is in Mark I. 40 : Wutappesittukqussunnoohweh-
tunkquoh, " kneeling down to him." Mr. Eliot
also published, Jews in America, 1660, intended
to prove,, that the Indians were descendants of
the Jews ; an Indian grammar, 1666 ; a new edi
tion, with notes by Du Ponceau, and introduction
by J. Pickering, 8vo., 1822 ; also in 2 historical
collections, 9th volume ; the logic primer, for the
use of the Indians, 1672 ; the psalms, translated
into Indian metre, and a catechism, annexed to
the edition of the New Testament, in 1680 ; a
translation of the practice of piety, of Baxter's
call to the unconverted, and of several of Shcp-
ard's works ; the harmony of the gospels, in Eng
lish, 4to., 1678; the Divine management of gospel
churches by the ordinance of councils, designed
for the reconciliation of the Presbyterians and
Congregationalists. Nine of his letters to Sir
Itobert Boyle are in the 3d volume of the histori
cal collections, and his account of Indian churches
in the 9th volume. His Christian commonwealth
is in historical collections, 3d series, vol. 9. —
Mather's Magnal.,iu. 170-211 ; Eliot's Life and
Death ; Neal's N. E. 1. 151, 242, 258 ; II. 98 ; Hist.
Coll., l. 176; ill. 177-188; Douglass, II. 113;
HutcJtinson, I. 162-169, 212; Holmes, I. 434;
Life by C. Francis.
ELIOT, JOHN, minister of Newton, the son of
the preceding, was graduated at Harvard college
in 1656. He was ordained at Cambridge village,
or Nonantum, now Newton, in 1664, and in this
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place he died Oct. 11, 1668, aged 32. His abili
ties as a preacher were pre-eminent. He gave
his father much assistance in his missionary em
ployment. During his ministry at Newton he
usually preached once a fortnight to the Indians
at Pequimmit, or Stoughton, and sometimes at
Natick. — Gookin, V. ; Homer's History of New
ton in Hist. Coll. V. 266.
ELIOT, JARED, minister of Killingworth, Conn.,
was grandson of the apostolic John Eliot, and the
son of Joseph Eliot, minister of Guilford, who
died in 1694. He was born Nov. 7, 1685 ; grad
uated at Yale college in 1706 ; was ordained Oct.
26, 1709, and died April 22, 1763, aged 78. In
the year 1722 he was strongly inclined to adopt
the Episcopalian sentiments ; but in a conference
with the trustees of the college his doubts were
removed. lie was a botanist and a scientific and
practical agriculturist. The white mulberry tree
was introduced by him into Conn. He discovered
a process of extracting iron from black sand. He
was the first physician of his day in the colony.
Such was his fame for the treatment of chronic
complaints, that he was sometimes called to Bos
ton and Newport, and was more extensively con
sulted than any physician in New England.
Maniacs were managed by him with great skill.
In the multitude of his pursuits his judgment
seemed to be unfailing. His farms in different
parts of the colony were well managed. Living
on the main road from Boston to New York, he
was visited by many gentlemen of distinction.
Dr. Franklin always called upon him when jour
neying to his native town. His house was the
scat of hospitality. He was a pious, faithful
preacher. For forty years he never omitted
preaching on the Lord's day. He published ag
ricultural essays, several editions ; religion sup
ported by reason and revelation, 1735; election
sermon, 1738 ; sermon on the taking of Louis-
bourg, 1745. — Thaclier ; Eliot; 2 Hist. Coll. I.
ELIOT, ANDREW, D. D., minister in Boston,
died Sept. 13, 1778, aged 59. He was a descen
dant of Andrew Elliott, as he wrote his name,
from Somersetshire, who settled at Be .Terly about
1683. His father, Andrew, was a. merchant in
Boston. lie was born about the year 1719, and
in 1737 was graduated at Harvard college. He
early felt the impressions of religion, and was
induced to devote himself to the service of the
Lord Jesus. He was ordained pastor of the new
church in Boston, as colleague with Mr. Webb,
April 14, 1742. Here he continued in high rep
utation till his death. He left eleven children,
two of them ministers, — Andrew, of Fail-field,
and John, of Boston. His last surviving child,
Susanna, wife of Dr. David Hull of Fairfield,
died in 1832.
He was highly respected for his talents and
virtue. While he preached the distinguishing
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doctrines of the gospel, his sermons were not
filled with invectives against those who differed
from him. He was anxious to promote the inter
ests of practical godliness, and, destitute of big
otry, he embraced all who appeared to have an
honest regard to religious truth. His discourses
were written in a style perspicuous and correct,
and he delivered them with dignity, gracefulness,
and unaffected fervor. His audience was never
inattentive. The various duties of the pastoral
office he ever discharged with fidelity. He re
vered the constitution of the churches of New
England, and delighted in their prosperity. In
1743 he united with many other excellent minis
ters in giving his testimony in favor of the very
remarkable revival of religion in this country.
When the British took possession of Boston,
he sent his family out of the town with the inten
tion of following them ; but a number of the
people belonging to his society and to other
societies, being obliged to remain, requested him
not to leave them. After seeking Divine direc
tion, he thought it his duty to comply with their
request, and in no period of his life was he more
eminently useful. He was a friend to the free
dom, peace, and independence of America. By
his benevolent offices he contributed much toward
alleviating the sufferings of the inhabitants ; he
ministered to his sick and wounded countrymen
in prison ; he went about doing good, and he ap
peared to be more than ever disengaged from the
world, and attached to things heavenly and Di
vine. He was a friend of literature and science,
and he rendered important services to Harvard
college, both as an individual benefactor, and as a
member of the board of overseers and of the
corporation. So highly were his literary acquire
ments and general character estimated, that he
was once elected president of the university ; but
his attachment to his people was such, that he
declined the appointment. In his last sickness
he expressed unshaken faith in those doctrines of
the grace of God which he had preached to
others, and would frequently breathe out the
pious ejaculation, "Come, Lord Jesus, come
quickly."
He wrote a long account of the effects of the
dispute between Great Britain and America in
1768, which he sent to a friend in England. It
is spoken of with high respect, both on account
of its style, and of the candor and moderation
with which it was written. The following is a
catalogue of his publications : A sermon at his
own ordination, 1742 ; inordinate love of the
world inconsistent with the love of God, 1744;
on the death of John Webb, 1750; a fast sermon,
1753 ; at the ordination of Joseph Hoberts, 1754 ;
of Eben Thayer, 1766 ; of Joseph Willard, 1773 ;
of his son, Andrew Eliot, 1774 ; of his brother
John, 1779; a thanksgiving sermon for the con
quest of Quebec, 1759; election sermon, 1765;
Dudleian lecture, 1771 ; at the execution of Levi
Ames, 1773 ; a volume of twenty sermons, 8vo.,
1774. — Thacker's Funeral Sermon ; Memoirs
of Thomas Ilollis ; Hist. Coll. X. 188; Farmer.
ELIOT, SAMUEL, a benefactor of Harvard col
lege, was the son of Samuel E., a bookseller of
Boston, who was the brother of Dr. A. Eliot.
As a merchant he acquired a large estate. He
died Jan. 18, 1820, aged 81. Three of his
daughters were married to E. Dwight and Pro
fessors A. Norton and G. Ticknor. Some time
before his death he presented to Harvard college
20,000 dollars to found a professorship of Greek
literature. He left an estate of little less than a
million of dollars.
ELIOT, JOHN, D. D., minister in Boston, the
son of Dr. Andrew E., was born May 31, 1754,
and graduated at Harvard college in 1772. After
preaching a few years in different places, he was
ordained as the successor of his father, Nov. 3,
1779, pastor of the new north church in Boston.
He died of an affection of the heart, or pericar
dium, Feb. 14, 1813, aged 58. His wife, Ann
Treadwell, daughter of Jacob T., of Portsmouth,
survived him. During his ministry of thirty-four
years he baptized 1454 persons ; performed the
ceremony of marriage 811 times; and admitted
161 to full communion in the church. Dr. Eliot
was very mild, courteous, and benevolent ; as a
preacher he was plain, familiar, and practical,
avoiding disputed topics, and always recommend
ing charity and peace. For nine years he was
one of the corporation of Harvard college. With
his friend, Dr. Belknap, he co-operated in estab
lishing and sustaining the Massachusetts histor
ical society, to the publications of which he
contributed many writings. His attention was
much devoted to biographical and historical re
searches, lie published a sermon to freemasons,
1782; a charge to the same, 1783; a thanksgiv
ing sermon, 1794 ; at the ordination of J. Mc-
Kean, 1797 ; of H. Edcs, 1805 ; on public worship,
1800 ; on the completion of a house of worship,
1804; a New England biographical dictionary,
8vo., 1809; and in the historical collections the
following articles : account of burials in Boston ;
description of New Bedford, iv. ; notice of AV.
Whittingham, and narrative of newspapers, V. ;
sketch of Dr. Belknap, VI. ; ecclesiastical history
of Massachusetts and Plymouth, VII. IX. X. and
two sermons, I. ; account of John Eliot ; account
of Marblehead; memoirs of Dr. Thacher, viil. ;
memoirs of A. Eliot and T. Pemberton, X. — 2
Hist. Coll. 1.211-248.
ELIOT, JOSEPH, minister of Guilford, Conn.,
the son of Rev. John E., died May 24, 1694, aged
about 60. He was graduated at Harvard in 1653.
About the year 1664 he succeeded Mr. Higgin-
son at Guilford. After a ministry of thirty years
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he died, greatly lamented. His successors were
Thomas Ilugglcs, who died in 1728; Thomas
Iluggles, the son, who died in 1770; Amos Fow
ler, who died Feb., 1800, aged 72; and John
Eliot.
ELIOT, JACOB, minister of Lebanon, Conn.,
died April 12, 1766, aged Go. Born in Boston,
he graduated at Cambridge in 1720, and was or
dained over the third church in Lebanon in
1729. His wife was Betty, a daughter of Rev. J.
Robinson, of Duxbury.
ELIOT, ANDREW, minister of Fail-field, Conn.,
died Oct. 26, 180,3, aged 62. He was the son of
Dr. A. Eliot, of Boston, was graduated at Har
vard in 1762, and was afterwards librarian and
tutor, and was ordained June 22, 1774. When
Fairfield was burnt by the British in 1779, his
house and library were consumed. His wife was
Mary, daughter of Joseph Pynchon; his son,
Andrew, was the minister of NewMilford. — Coll.
Hist. Soc. x. 188.
ELIOT, CHARLES, a graduate of Harvard in
1809, died in 1813. His brother-in-law, Prof.
Norton, edited his miscellaneous writings, 1814.
ELLERY, WILLIAM, a member of congress,
died Feb. 15, 1820, aged 92. He was the son of
Wm. E., a merchant of Newport, 11. I., who died
in 1836, aged 75; and was graduated in 1747,
at Harvard college, of which his father was a
graduate in 1722. Having studied law, he for
many years successfully prosecuted his profession
at Newport. At the commencement of the Rev
olution he espoused the cause of his country. Of
the congress of 1776 he was an active and influ
ential member. His name was affixed to the
Declaration of Independence. Placing himself
by the side of secretary Thompson, he watched
the looks of the noble-minded patriots, as they
signed the instrument. The plan of fireships,
recommended by the marine committee, to be
sent out from Rhode Island, is supposed to have
been suggested by him. When the British occu
pied Newport, his dwelling-house was burnt. On
his retiring from congress in 1786, he was ap
pointed commissioner of loans ; he was also
elected chief justice of Rhode Island. When the
new government was organized, Washington ap
pointed him in 1789 collector of Newport ; an
office which he held till his death. He died as
he was reading Tully's offices, in Latin. It was
often his consolation in life, that " the Lord
reigneth." Disregarding human applause, he
was accustomed to say, " humility rather than
pride becomes such creatures as we arc." — Good-
rich's Lives.
ELLICOTT, ANDREW, professor of mathemat
ics at West Point, was a native of Pennsylvania,
and was employed in surveying and planning the
city of AVashington. lie was also employed in
ascertainm-* the boundarv between the United
States and Spain, which labor he commenced in
1796. He died at West Point Aug. 28, 1820,
aged 67. He published a journal, with a map of
Ohio, Mississippi, and a part of Florida, 1806;
astronomical and other papers in the transactions
of A. P. society.
ELLIOT, OLIVER, died at Mason, N. II., March
5, 1837, aged 102. He was a soldier in the
French and Revolutionary wars.
ELLIOT, JAMES, died at Newfane, Vt., Nov. 10,
1839. He was a member of congress in 1803-9.
ELLIOT, JONATHAN, died in Washington
March 12, 1846, aged 61. Born in England, he
came to New York and was a book printer.
From 1814 he edited with much ability the
Washington Gazette for thirteen years. His
character was excellent. He wrote the American
diplomatic code, debates on the adoption of the
constitution, the comparative tariffs, funding sys
tem, and statistics.
ELLIOTT, THOMAS, a patriot of the Revolution,
died in South Carolina Feb. 5, 1824, aged 73. In
the battle of Sullivan's island he was stationed at
fort Johnson; he fought at Stono; during the
siege of Charleston he performed the duties of a
soldier, and with unyielding firmness preferred the
miseries of the prison-ship to the terms offered
by the enemy.
ELLIOTT, CHARLES, of South Carolina, a pat
riot, equipped at his own expense a considerable
body of troops ; but died before the close of the
war. His daughter Jane, married to Col. Wash
ington in 1782, died in 1830, aged 66, at the
family seat at Sandy Hill, South Carolina.
ELLIOTT, AXXA, wife of Charles E., the
daughter of Thomas Ferguson of South Carolina,
was a patriot of the Revolution. She received
under her roof the sick and wounded, and was to
them an angel of mercy.
ELLIOTT, JOHN, 1). D., died in 1824, aged
about 70. He graduated at Yale in 1776, and
"was minister in Guilford, Conn., now Madison.
He published a sermon at the ordination of D. E.
Field, 1805; of E. T. Fitch, 1818.
ELLIOTT, ROBERT, captain, died in Montgom
ery county, Va., Jan. 4, 1838, aged 105, an officer
of the Revolution.
ELLIOTT, JACOB, lieutenant, died in Chester,
N. II., Dec. 6, 1841, aged 86. He was in the
Lexington battle, and in that of Bennington was
severely M'oundcd.
ELLIOTT, JESSE D., commodore, died in Phil
adelphia Dec. 10, 1845, aged 62. lie was second
in command under Perry on lake Erie.
ELLIOTT, STEPHEN, LL. 1)., a botanist, died
at Charleston, South Carolina, March 28, 1830,
aged 58. He was born at Beaufort, Nov. 11,
1771, and graduated at Yale college in 1791.
Afterwards he devoted his attention chiefly to
the improvement of his estate. At an early age
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he becam, a member of the legislature, in which
capacity he introduced the project of the State
bank, of which he was chosen president and at
the head of which he remained until his death.
He was also president of several literary and
scientific societies, and professor of natural history
and botany in the medical college. The South
ern review was principally conducted by him. He
died of the gout in the stomach. His temper was
mild, and his manners interesting. He had made
a large and valuable collection in natural history.
With the literature of France and Spain he was
well acquainted. He published sketch of the
botany of South Carolina and Georgia, 2 vols.
8vo. 1821.
ELLIS, BENJAMIN, Dr., died at Franklin,
Conn., in 1824, aged 73. He was a surgeon
during the whole Revolutionary war.
ELLIS, JOHN M., died at Nashua Aug. 6, 1855,
aged 62. Born in Keenc, he graduated at Dart
mouth in 1822, and studied theology at Andover.
In the service of the home missionary society he
went to the west, and there was a pastor ten
years : then he took a prominent part in the
founding of the colleges of Jacksonville and
Wabash. Subsequently he toiled in the cause of
ministerial education. He was a man of judg
ment, of energy, and of benevolence. For years
he supported three scholarships in reference to
the ministry. By his offer of prizes of 200 dol
lars each he brought out three essays, — the edu
cational systems of the Puritans and Jesuits by
Prof. Porter, prayer for colleges by Prof. Tylerj
and primitive piety revived by II. C. Fish. How
much good may be the results of the efforts of
this one humble man ! He was a man of sor
rows. While at the west his whole family, in his
absence from home, was swept avay by sickness,
his wife and two children. As he was dying,
when asked if Christ was precious, he said, "All
in all, all in all, all in all!"
ELLIS, CALEB, judge of the superior court of
New Hampshire, was born at Walpolc, Mass., and
graduated at Harvard college in 1793. He
practised law in Claremont, N. II. In 1804 he
»vas elected a member of congress. In 1813 he
was appointed a judge of the superior court, in
which office he continued till his death, May 9,
1816, aged 49. He was a man of candor and
moderation, disinterested, and faithful in the offi
ces intrusted to him. He sought no popularity
except that which follows the pursuit of noble
ends by honest means. As a judge he was
enlightened, independent, impartial, and inflex
ible ; yet mild and courteous. He had a delicate
and scrupulous sense of honor and honesty. His
regard to the institutions of religion and morality
was evinced by the bequest of 5000 dollars for
the support of a minister in Claremont. — Smith's
Sketch ; Farmer's Collect. II. 225-232.
ELLMAKER, AMOS, judge, died in Lancaster,
Pa., in Dec., 1851. He was an officer in the army
of 1812, a member of congress, judge, and attor
ney-general ; in 1832 he was a candidate for the
vice-presidency.
ELLSWORTH, OLIVER, LL. D., chief justice
of the United States, died Nov. 26, 1807, aged
65. He was born at Windsor, Conn., April 29,
1745, and was graduated at the college in New
Jersey in 1766. He soon afterwards commenced
the practice of the law, in which profession he
became eminent. His perceptions were unusually
rapid, his reasoning clear and conclusive, and his
eloquence powerful. In the year 1777 he was
chosen a delegate to the continental congress.
In 1780 he was elected into the council of his
native State, and he continued a member of that
body till 1784, when he was appointed a judge of
the superior court. In 1687 he was elected a
member of the convention which framed the fed
eral constitution. In an assembly, illustrious for
talents, erudition, and patriotism, he held a dis
tinguished place. His exertions essentially aided
in the production of an instrument, which, under
the divine blessing, has been the main pillar of
American prosperity and glory. He was imme
diately afterwards a member of the State conven
tion, and contributed his efforts towards procuring
the ratification of that instrument. When the
federal government was organized in 1789, he
was chosen a member of the senate. This ele
vated station, which he filled with his accustomed
dignity, he occupied till in March, 1796, he was
nominated by AVashington chief justice of the
supreme court of the United States as the succes
sor of Mr. Jay. Though his attention had been
for many years abstracted from the study of the
law, yet he presided in that high court with the
greatest reputation. His charges to the jury
were rich not only in legal principles but in moral
sentiments, expressed in a simple, concise style.
Toward the close of the year 1799 he was ap
pointed by president Adams envoy extraordinary
to France for the purpose of settling a treaty with
that nation. AVith much reluctance he accepted
the appointment. In conjunction with Governor
Davie and Mr. Murray, his associates, he negoti
ated a treaty. Having accomplished the business
of his embassy, he repaired to England for the
benefit of the mineral waters, as his health had
suffered much in his voyage to Europe. Con
vinced that his infirmities must incapacitate him
for the future discharge of his duties on the
bench, he transmitted a resignation of his office
of chief justice at the close of the year 1800.
On his return to Connecticut, his fellow citizens,
desirous of still enjoying the benefit of his extra
ordinary talents, elected him into the council ;
and in May, 1807, he was appointed chief justice
of the State. This office, however, he declined,
ELLSWORTH.
from apprehension that he could not long survive
under the pressure of his distressing malady, the
gravel, and of domestic afflictions.
Mr. Ellsworth was an accomplished advocate, an
upright legislator, an able and impartial judge, a
wise and incorruptible ambassador, and an ardent,
uniform, and indefatigable patriot. He moved for
more than thirty years in a most conspicuous sphere
unassailed by the shafts of slander. His integrity
was not only unimpeached, but unsuspected. In
his debates in legislative bodies he was some
times ardent, but his ardor illuminated the sub
ject. His purposes he pursued with firmness,
independence, and intrepidity. In private life he
was a model of social and personal virtue. He
was just in his dealings, frank in his communica
tions, kind and obliging in his deportment, easy
of access to all, beloved and respected by his
neighbors and acquaintance. Amid the varied
honors, accumulated upon him by his country, he
was unassuming and humble. His dress, liis
equipage, and mode of living were regulated by a
principle of republican economy ; but for the pro
motion of useful and benevolent designs he com
municated with readiness and liberality. The
purity and excellence of his character are rare in
any station, and in the higher walks of life are
almost unknown.
If it be asked, To what cause is the uniformity
of his virtue to be attributed P the answer is at
hand, — He was a Christian. He firmly believed
in the great doctrines of the gospel. Having its
spirit transfused into his own heart, and being di
rected by its maxims and impelled by its motives,
he at all times pursued a course of upright con
duct. The principles which governed him were
not of a kind which are liable to be weakened or
destroyed by the opportunity of concealment, the
security from dishonor, the authority of numbers,
or the prospects of interest. He made an ex
plicit confession of Christianity in his youth ; and,
in all his intercourse with the polite and learned
world, he was not ashamed of the gospel of
Christ. In the midst of multiplied engagements
he made theology a study, and attended with un
varying punctuality on the worship of the sanctu
ary. The sage, whose eloquence had charmed
the senate, and whose decisions from the bench
were regarded as almost oracular, sat with the
simplicity of a child at the feet of Jesus, devoutly
absorbed in the mysteries of redemption. His
religion was not cold and heartless, but practical
and vital. Meetings for social worship and pious
conference he countenanced by his presence. He
•was one of the trustees of the missionary society
of Connecticut, and engaged with ardor in the
benevolent design of disseminating the truths of
the gospel. In his last illness he was humble and
tranquil. He expressed the submission, the views,
and the consolations of a Christian. His speech
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in the convention of Connecticut, in favor of the
constitution, is preserved in the American mu
seum. - Panoplist and Missionary Magazine, I.
193-197 ; Srotcn's American Register, II. 95- 98 ;
Dwiglifs Travels, I. 301-304,
ELMER, EBEXEZER, died at Bridgeton, N. J.,
Oct. 18, 1843, aged 91. He was an officer in the
army of the Revolution, a member of congress,
president of the society of the Cincinnati.
ELWELL, MEHETABEL, Mrs., died in Saco,
Me., Jan. 19, 1835, aged 100.
ELY, RICHARD, minister of North Bristol, in
Guilford, and of Saybrook second church, Conn.,
died in 1814, aged 80, having been a minister 56
years. He was the son of Rev. David Ely, the son
of Richard, of North Lyme. He graduated at Y ale
in 1754. He had a son, Dr. Richard, of Say-
brook, whose son, Rev. William, of Vernon and
North Mansfield, died at Easthampton Nov. 2,
1850, aged 62, a successful preacher, and an ex
ample of liberal charity. Richard Ely published
a sermon at the ordination of D. Ely, at Ripton,
1774.
ELY, ZEBULOX, died at Lebanon, Conn., Nov.
18, 1824, aged 65. Born in Lyme, he graduated
in 1779, a distinguished scholar. In the same
year he fought the British at an advanced post,
but lost his coat and hat, glad to escape an un
looked-for scouting party with his life. In 1783
he was ordained. In a few of his last years he
suffered from the palsy. He once said to Mr.
Stone, a neighboring minister, regarded as a Hop-
kinsian, " Your system runs into extremes." He
replied, " Well, well ; do not cut Truth's legs off,
let her run where she will." He once exchanged
with Mr. Williams, of East Hartford, riding thirty
miles in a storm, to preach to a dozen people,
much to his grief. Twenty years after he met
with a pious man, who asked him if he remem
bered that Sunday, for his sermons, he said, were
the means of his conversion. He was the father
of Rev. Dr. E. Stiles Ely, of Philadelphia.
ELY, DAVID, D. D., minister of Huntington,
Conn., was born in Lyme, in 1749; graduated at
Yale college in 1769 ; and was ordained as a col
league minister in 1773. For nearly thirty years
he was an efficient member of the corporation of
Yale college. He died Feb. 16, 1816, aged 66.
He and his colleague, who was settled at the or
ganization of the church in 1721, preached nearly
a century. His successor was Thomas Puuder-
son. With a vivid fancy and warm heart, he
usually preached extemporaneously. His charac
ter was described by his friend, Dr. Dwight. —
Panoplist, xn. 487-489.
ELY, ZEBULOX, minister of Lebanon, Conn.,
died in 1824, aged about 65. He was graduated
at Yale college in 1779, and was a tutor from 1781
to 1782. As a minister, he was highly respected,
and devoted to his work. For a few last years
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his powers of mind failed him. His memoirs
were written by his son, Dr. E. S. Ely, of Phila
delphia. He published a sermon at the election,
1804 ; at the ordination of S. Bartlett, 1804 ; on
the death of Governor Trumbull, 1785, and of his
son, also governor, 1809 ; of W. Huntington's wife,
1799; of W. Williams, 1812; before the county
foreign mission society, 1815.
ELY, JOHN, minister of North Bristol, in Mad
ison, Conn., died in 1827, by a fall from his horse,
aged about 62. He was born in Lyme, and grad
uated at Yale in 1786. He was first settled in
Danbury.
ELY, JUSTIN, died at West Springfield, July
24, 1850, aged 78. A graduate of Harvard in
1792, he spent his business life as a merchant.
He was an eminent Christian, kind, social, hospi
table. — N. Y. Observer, Sept. 7.
ELY, ELIHU, Dr., died at Binghamton, N. Y.,
March 17, 1851, aged 70, an early settler and
prominent citizen.
ELY, HEMAX, judge, died Feb. 2, 1852, aged
76, at Elyria, in Ohio, a town named after him.
He was an early settler of Ohio. The son of
Justin Ely, of Springfield, Mass., he was one of
the firm of T. and II. Ely, of New York ; and had
occasion to visit foreign countries.
EMERSON, JOSEPH, the first minister of Men-
don, Mass., died at Concord Jan. 3, 1680. He
•was ordained in 1667. His wife was Elizabeth,
daughter of Rev. E. Bulkley.
EMERSON, JOHN, minister of Gloucester,
Mass., died in 1700, aged about 64. He was the
son of Thomas, of Ipswich, and graduated at
Harvard in 1656, and was ordained in 1663.
His son John, a graduate of 1689, and minister in
Portsmouth, died in 1732, aged 61.
EMERSON, JOHN, minister of Portsmouth,
died June 21, 1732, aged 61. Born in Ipswich,
he graduated at Harvard in 1689. On the night
of the murder of Major Waldron by the Indians,
he was invited to sleep at his house, but declined.
He was settled at Newcastle in 1704 : in 1708 he
•went to England and resided for a period in Lon
don. In 1715 he was installed at Portsmouth.
Of the one hundred and twenty-four persons added
to his church in seventeen years, forty were
added in the year following the earthquake of
1727, by which event many minds were awakened
to the subject of religion. He was an agreeable
companion and faithful minister.
EMERSON, WILLIAM, died in Rutland, Vt.,
in Oct., 1776, aged 33. Graduated at Harvard in
1761, he was ordained the minister of Concord,
the successor of Mr. Bliss, in 1766. His patriotic
and Christian zeal induced him to be a chaplain
at Ticonderoga in Aug., 1776.
EMERSON, JOSEPH, minister of Maiden,
Mass., the son of Edward E., and the grandson
of Rev. Joseph E., of Mendon, was born at
Chelmsford, April 20, 1700; was graduated at
Harvard college in 1717; and ordained, Oct. 31,
1721. For nearly hajf a century he continued
his benevolent labors without being detained from
his pulpit but two Sabbaths. He died suddenly,
July 13, 1767, aged 67. His wife was Mary,
daughter of Rev. S. Moody, of York. He had
nine sons and four daughters. Three of his sons
Avere ministers : Joseph, of Pepperell ; William,
of Concord ; and John, of Comvay. He was
pious in early life, and his parents witnessed the
effect of their instruction and prayers. As a
teacher of religion to his fellow men, and their
guide to heaven, he searched the Scriptures with
great diligence, that he might draw his doctrines
from the pure fountains of truth. In the various
relations which he sustained, he was just, amiable,
kind, and benevolent. One-tenth of his income
was devoted to charitable uses. He, at stated
times every day, addressed himself to Heaven,
and never engaged in any important affair with
out first seeking the Divine blessing. Such was
his humility, that, when unguarded words fell from
his lips, he would ask forgiveness of his children
and servants. He published the importance and
duty of a timely seeking of God, 1727 ; meat out
of the eater and sweetness out of the strong,
1735 ; early piety encouraged, 1738; at the ordi
nation of his son, Joseph, at Groton, now Pepper-
ell, 1747. — Funeral Sermon, by his son.
EMERSON, DANIEL, first minister of Hollis,
N. H., was a descendant of Joseph E., minister
of Mendon. He was graduated at Harvard col
lege in 1739; was ordained April 20, 1743; re
ceived Eli Smith as his colleague Nov. 27, 1793 ;
and died, Sept. 30, 1801, aged 85, in the 59th of
his ministry. His praise was in all the churches.
In 1743 there were only thirty families in the
town. During his ministry, many died in the
faith which he had taught them ; and, at the time
of his death, the church consisted of about two
hundred members. Such men, the successful
teachers of morality and religion, of whom the
world knows nothing, are its benefactors, while the
men of fame are usually the scourges of the earth.
— Massachusetts Missionary Mag., I. 57-59.
EMERSON, WILLIAM, minister in Boston,
died May 11, 1811, aged 42. He was the grand
son of Rev. Joseph E., of Maiden, and the son
of Rev. Win. E., of Concord, who died a chaplain
in the army in 1776. He was born May 6, 1769,
and graduated at Harvard college in 1789. He
became first the minister of Harvard in 1792 ;
but, in Oct., 1799, he was installed the pastor of
the first church in Boston. In the year 1804 he
engaged in the labor of conducting the Monthly
Anthology, a literary journal, which opposed
the orthodox Calvinistic views of the Chris
tian religion. He published a sermon, preached
July 4, 1794; at the artillery election, 1799; be-
EMERSON.
fore a charitable society, 1800 ; at the ordination
of S. Clark, 1800; of K. Smiley, 1801; of T.
Beede, 1803; on the death of Dr. Thachcr, 1802;
of Madame Bowdoin, 1803 ; of C. Austin, 1806 ;
before the female asylum, 1805 ; before the hu
mane society, 1807 ; oration, July 4, 1802 ; four
discourses in the Christian monitor, numbered 1,
2, 3, 7 ; a collection of psalms and hymns, 1808.
After his death, there was published his sketch of
the history of the first church in Boston, with two
sermons annexed, 8vo., 1812. — 2 Historical Col
lections, I. 254-258.
EMERSON, JOHN, first minister of Conway,
died June 26, 1826, aged 80. A graduate of Har
vard in 1764, he was settled in 1769; he used to
say, he was " John preaching in the wilderness."
He lived to see his flock of four hundred increased
to two thousand. He admitted 580 to his church,
buried 1,037, and baptized 1,219. He wrote
3,500 sermons. E. Hitchcock was settled as his
colleague in 1821. — Holland, n. 347.
EMERSON, JOSEPH, died at Wethersfield in
Mav, 1833, aged 54. A graduate of Harvard in
1798, he was a tutor ; then settled as a minister
many years at Beverly ; and last devoted himself
to the business of teaching female pupils, for
whom he established a school at Wethersfield.
He was a zealous Christian, and an excellent
teacher. His life, by his brother, Prof. Ralph
Emerson, was published in 1834.
EMERSON, JOSEPH, Dr., died in Heath, Mass.,
Aug. 13, 1841, aged 60; a very successful and
much beloved physician.
EMERSON, SAMUEL, M. D., died at Kenne-
bunk Aug. 7, 1851, aged nearly 87. A graduate
of Harvard in 1785, he was a surgeon in the
Revolutionary war, and long an able practitioner.
EMERY, JOHN, D. D., bishop of the Metho
dist church, died in Baltimore co., Md., Dec. 16,
1835, respected and lamented. In riding, he was
thrown from his carriage, and his skull was
fractured.
EMMET, THOMAS ADDIS, an eminent lawyer,
died in New York Nov. 14, 1827, aged 63. "lie
was born in Cork, Ireland, in 1764, the son of a
physician. Educated at Trinity college, Dublin,
he studied medicine at Edinburgh, and took the
degree of M.]). in 1784. His thesis was pub
lished in Smellie's thesaurus. At this time he
was inclined to forensic pursuits, presiding over
five debating societies. He afterwards made the
tour of Italy and Germany, visiting the most cele
brated schools of the continent. On his return
to Ireland, the death of his brother, Christopher
Temple Emmet, a lawyer of surpassing talents,
induced him to engage in the same profession.
After studying at the Temple in London two
years, he was admitted to the Irish bar at Dublin
in 1791. He soon rose to distinction, and was
deemed superior in legal and general science and
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in talents to Curran. At this period the events
of the French revolution awakened in the op
pressed Irish the hope of national freedom. The
association of " United Irishmen " was constituted,
embracing both Catholics and Protestants, bound
together by a secret oath. Each society was lim
ited to thirty-six persons, but the whole kingdom
was organized into departments, and at the head
of the whole was a committee, of which Mr. Em
met was a leading member. It was determined
to seek aid from France, and to take up arms.
May 23, 1798, was appointed for the general ris
ing. But previously to that time a traitor dis
closed the conspiracy, and Emmet and others were
arrested and thrown into prison. The rebellion,
notwithstanding, broke out on the fixed day; but
it was soon crushed before the arrival of Hum
bert and his French army of twelve hundred men,
which surrendered in August. An agreement
was soon made by the government with the State
prisoners, that if they would make certain dis
closures, not implicating individuals, they should
be released. The disclosures were made ; yet
Mr. Emmet was long detained in prison. After
the peace of Amiens he was set free and conveyed
to the river Elbe. The winter of 1802 he spent
in Brussels, where he saw his brother about to
embark in the enterprise which ended in his ex
ecution. From France Mr. Emmet proceeded to
New York, where he arrived Nov. 11, 1804. The
death of Hamilton had left an opening for such a
man in the bar ; he was soon admitted to the
supreme court of the State and of the United
States, and stood among the first in his profession.
lie identified himself with the democratic party.
In 1812 he was appointed attorney-general of the
State. As an advocate he was unrivalled. With
a prolific fancy, his figures were bold ; yet was he
logical and profound, and his manner was most
earnest and impressive. He was incessant in
labor, devoting more than thirteen hours in each
day to study and business. Of course he mixed
but little with the fashionable world. He had
often amused himself with mathematical calcula
tions. In the circuit court of 1827 he was en
gaged in the important Astor cause, and on
Monday, Nov. 12th, replied in an elaborate argu
ment to Webster and Van Buren. On Wednesday,
while occupied in another cause, he was seized
with the apoplexy in court, and died the same
day. While in prison in Scotland he wrote part
of an essay toward the history of Ireland, which
was published at New York in 1807. — American
Annual Register, 1827-9, 139-149.
EMMETT, JOHN P., professor of chemistry in
the university of Virginia, died at New York Aug.
13, 1842, aged 47 ; the son of Thomas Addis
Emmett.
EMMONS, NATHANIEL, D. D., minister of
Franklin, Mass., died Sept. 23, 1840, aged 95
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years and five months. His father was Samuel
E., of East Haddam, Conn. ; his mother, lluth
Cone. He was graduated at Yale college in
1767 ; studied theology with Dr. Smaller, and
imbibed his docirincs ; was licensed to preach in
1769, and ordained over the second church of
Wrentham, now Franklin, in April, 1773. The
duties of a pastor he performed fifty-four years,
till 1827. He also instructed many students in
theology. His wife and her two children died in
1778. lie afterwards married a daughter of llev.
Chester Williams, of Hadley. She was a daugh
ter-in-law of llev. Samuel Hopkins, who, when
she was young, married her widowed mother.
By her he had six children, of whom he buried
three. llev. Elam Smalley was settled at Frank
lin as colleague minister in 1829.
A memoir of Dr. E. is found in the first volume
of his works, published in 1842. First there is
given an autobiography ; then a memoir by Dr.
Jacob Ide, his son-in-law; then an additional
notice by Prof. E. A. Park. He professed to be
warmly attached to genuine Calvinism ; but he
thought Calvinism had lost much of its original
purity, and had acquired absurdities which must
be rejected in order to make it consistent with
reason and Scripture ; and among these " wens "
to be pared off, he reckoned the doctrines, that
the sin of Adam is imputed to his posterity ; that
the righteousness of Christ is imputed to be
lievers ; that sinners lie under a natural inability
to become holy ; and that Christ made atonement
only for the elect. These he called " gross ab
surdities." But whether so or not, the character
of Calvinism must be determined by the faith of
Calvin himself, and not by what may be deemed
later improvements, and a supposed right view of
"the essential principles of pure Christianity."
His editor admits that he differed from Calvin in
many important respects. The great question is,
did he teach the great fundamental principles of
the gospel, and did he spread abroad no gross
and perilous errors ? His whole long life was
spent in his study in unslackcd industry, in un
wearied mental toil. v He studied seventy years in
one room, usually ten hours a day. His famous
political sermon, called his "Jeroboam sermon,"
was preached after Mr. Jefferson became pres
ident, from the text relating to Jeroboam, the
son of Nebat, " who made Israel to sin."
He was a plain, argumentative preacher, with
no oratorical powers, but simple, direct, and ear
nest in his address. He was an independent
thinker, but some of his speculations are so pe
culiar, and so revolting to the general Christian
sentiment of our country, as to render it proper
to advert to them. The most prominent and re
markable doctrine which he advanced, is the doc
trine that God is the producing cause of every
act of the human mind, and therefore of all
wickedness as well as of all goodness. It may
seem incredible, that a worthy minister in a
country town of New England, a teacher of the
ology to nearly ninety theological students, should
inculcate a doctrine so abhorrent, so contradictory
to Scripture ; and therefore it may be expedient
to quote a few sentences from his own writings.
God, he says, must " create evil, when, and where,
and to what degree the good of the universe re
quires, because he is the owner and rightful sov
ereign of the universe."
He includes in evil moral as well as natural
evil ; that is, he thus makes God the author of
sin. " God's acting on their hearts and producing
all their free, voluntary, moral exercises, is so far
from preventing them from being moral agents,
that it necessarily makes them moral agents "
He goes so far as to assert, .that they who deny
this " universal agency," in the production of sin
as well as holiness, do " virtually deny God's ex
istence." In reference to the origin of Adam's
sin he says, " Satan placed certain motives before
his mind, which, by a certain divine energy, took
hold of his heart and led him into sin." Thus he
ascribes to God the efficiency in the production of
Adam's sin, to which the devil was only a tempter.
Satan tempts men to sin ; God produces sin. If
this is not blasphemy, what can be ? There is
not the least doubt as to his doctrine, Avhich he
has much more fully asserted. He makes God
the efficient cause, the actual producer of every
sinful volition in his creature ; he makes God the
author of sin. Is not God then responsible for
sin ? And how can he punish man for sin ? Is
not he, who intelligently and voluntarily performs
an act, responsible for that act ? The man who
lays a living child upon the ground, and with an
axe chops off its head, is guilty of murder. If
God creates a human mind, and then by his al
mighty and irresistible power moves that mind to
sin and produces sin, God is the author of sin.
If we embrace this doctrine, we make God the
author of sin, which the Bible ascribes to the
devil. We give to the infinitely pure and holy
Being the very character of Satan. But Dr. E.
ascribes to God holy motives, — his own glory and
the highest possible good of the universe, —
whereas the Devil is influenced by the contrary
evil motives; yet the acts and effects are the
same, — the production of sin, which God abhors.
In communicating such a doctrine to the world,
by what argument does the teacher justify him
self? He teaches that all freedom consists in
volition and its effects, and not in its cause. The
man who acts voluntarily — whatever may cause
his volition — is a free, voluntary agent. So
that, although God causes, produces his sinful ve-
litions, man is yet a perfectly free moral agent.
But this contradicts the teaching of the great
body of ethical and theological writers, and con-
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tradicts the general consciousness and common
sense of man. It is deceptive language — " what
God makes free must be free." But man is not
free, if his volition is made, created, produced by
almighty power.
Dr. Stephen West, in his book on agency, was
the first teacher in this country of this doctrine,
that God is the only agent, the producer of all
the volitions of his creatures. It was doubtless
to his book, published in 1772, that Dr. Emmons
was indebted for his theory. It is probable that
on this point there are now in the Christian world
very few followers of these bold theorists. Their
doctrine, which was the doctrine of Epicurus,
Gassendi, Condillac, Hobbes, and Priestley, may
be acceptable to infidels and universalists ; but it
will make little progress with intelligent, pious
readers of the Bible, who can easily understand,
with a host of commentators, that when God is
said to harden Pharaoh's heart, the meaning is,
not a producing efficiency, but a prediction, of a
certain event in Providence, that he would harden
his own heart, as it is afterwards declared that he
did. And it may be added ; let it be that the
origin of sin is a mystery. '1 hen let it remain a
mystery, and not be attempted to be cleared up
by charging it blasphemously upon God. But if
God is a free agent, then he might make man in
his own image a free moral agent, whose choice
is free, and is not caused, produced, made by
another. Do we not all know intuitively, by com
mon sense, by reason and conscience, that we are
such free agents, therefore justly accountable to a
holy, sin-hating God? Even Berkeley, though
he denied the existence of matter, did not deny
the existence of created minds, having wills of
their own and volitions not produced by another.
lie says : "It is true, I have denied there are any
other agents beside spirits ; but this is very con
sistent with allowing to thinking, rational beings
in the production of motions the use of limited
powers, ultimately indeed derived from God, but
immediately under the direction of their own
wills, which is sufficient to entitle them to all the
guilt of their actions." Our innate sense of jus
tice teaches us, that if God creates, produces our
wicked affections, volitions, and actions, it would
be injustice in him to punish us for them, or to
charge upon us guilt.
As to Emmons' other doctrines, he differed
little from a multitude of New England theolo
gians. He believed that Christ came from heaven
to be an atoning sacrifice for sin, a substitute for
sinners, to vindicate God's justice, and that men
are justified by faith in him ; that men arc active,
not passive, in regeneration ; that men are not
guilty of Adam's sin, but that their hearts are, in
consequence of his sin, totally depraved ; that
holiness and sin consist in voluntary exercises.
As to the success of his ministry, during fifty-four
years three hundred and eight were added to the
church, less than six a year on an average. He
was one of the founders of the Massachusetts
missionary society, and was its first president for
twelve years. lie was zealously attached to the
system of Congregationalism, maintaining in his
" platform of ecclesiastical government," that all
ecclesiastical power is vested in each church. He
was a man of wit and quickness of retort. Some
1 anecdotes are the following : As a Universalist
had answered one of his sermons, some one sug
gested to him the plan of printing the sermon
and the answer in one pamphlet ; he replied, " It
is against the laws : — thou shalt not plow with
an ox and an ass together." The secret of pop
ular preaching, he said, was not to meddle with
the hearers' consciences ; also, " let your sermons
be without beginning, middle, or end." He said,
" let your eloquence flow from your heart to your
hands, and never attempt to force it the other
way." " It is a great blessing to be able to talk
an hour about nothing. The most important
requisites for an extemporaneous preacher are
ignorance, impudence, and presumption." When
a tippler asked him " to tell what he was to un
derstand by the soul of man," he replied, " Xo,
I can't tell a man that has n't got any." When a
' minister wrote to him — " I have read your sermon
on the atonement and wept over it," he imme
diately sent back this answer : " I have read your
letter and laughed at it." He said to a candidate,
I " Your sermon was too much like Seekonk plain,
j long and level." He asked a young preacher,
" Do you ever mean to preach another sermon ?
' You 've preached about everything this morning."
! When a young man said, " I hope you were not
wearied with the length of my sermon," he re-
| plied, " Xo, nor with the depth cither." lie
j published sixty or more single sermons and tracts.
: He published sermons at the ordinations of E.
| Dudley, C. Chaddock, E. Smith, C. Alexander,
I D. A very, W. Harris, J. Tufts, J. Emerson, T.
Williams, E. Whipple, G. Conant, Z. Whitmore,
and C. Park ; a sermon on the death of Wash
ington and of many other persons ; on receiving
from Dr. Franklin books for Franklin library,
1787 ; election sermon, 1798; on the second cen
tury from the landing at Plymouth, 1820 ; ser
mons, 8vo., 1812 ; collection of sermons, 8vo.,
1813; sermons, 8vo., 1815; sermons, 3 vols.,
8vo., 1823. His works were published, edited by
Dr. Ide, in G vols., 8vo., 1842. — Memoir Pre
fixed to Works; PitncJiard on Conyrcyational-
ism, 276; Review of E.'s Theory.
EMOTT, JAMES, died at Poughkeepsie April 7,
1850, aged 80; a distinguished lawyer at Xew
| York, and a member of Congress from 1809 to
] 1813. lie was judge of the common pleas and
of the circuit court.
EXDECOTT, Jonx, the first governor of Mas-
ENGLAND.
EPHRAIM.
sachusetts, died March 15, 1665, aged 75. He
was born in Dorchester, England, in 1589, and
married a relation of M. Cradock, the governor
of the Massachusetts company in England, and
brother-in-law of II. Ludlow, deputy governor.
He Avas sent to this country by that company as
their agent, to carry on the plantation at Naum-
keag, or Salem, and arrived Sept. 6, 1628. It
was here that he laid the foundation of the first
permanent town within the limits of the Massa
chusetts patent. lie was a suitable person to be
intrusted with the care of a new settlement in
the wilderness, for he was bold, undaunted, so
ciable, and cheerful, familiar, or austere and dis
tant, as occasion required. The company, in
April, 1629, chose him the governor of" London's
plantation ; " but in August it was determined to
transfer the charter and the government of the
colony to New England, and John Winthrop, who
arrived in the following year, was appointed gov
ernor. In 1636 Mr. Endecott was sent out on
an expedition against the Indians on Block Island,
and in the Pequot country. He continued at
Salem till 1644, when he was elected governor of
Massachusetts, and removed to Boston. He was
also governor from 1649 to 1654, excepting in
1650, when Mr. Dudley was governor, and from
1655 to 1665. He was succeeded by Bellingham.
He left two sons. He was a sincere and zealous
Puritan, rigid in his principles, and severe in the
execution of the laws against sectaries, or those
who differed from the religion of Massachusetts.
Two Episcjpalians, who accused the members of
the church of Salem of being Separatists, were
sent back to England by his orders. He was de
termined to establish a reformed and a pure
church. The Quakers and the Baptists had no
occasion to remember him with affection. So
opposed was he to everything which looked like
Popery, that, through the influence of Itoger
Williams, he cut out the cross from the military
standard. He insisted at Salem, that the women
should wear veils at church. In 1649, when he
was governor, he entered into an association with
the other magistrates against long hair. As the
practice of wearing it, " after the manner of ruf
fians and barbarous Indians, had begun to invade
New England," they declared their detestation of
the custom, " as a thing uncivil and unmanly,
whereby men do deform themselves, and offend
sober and modest men, and do corrupt good man
ners." In 1659, during his administration, four
Quakers were put to death in Boston. — Neal's
New England, I. 139, 364 ; Ilutcliinson, I. 8-17,
38, 235 ; Winthrop ; Hist. Coll. vi. 245, 261 ; ix.
5; Holmes; Morton, 81, 188; Maynalia, li. 18;
N. E. Historical Register, July, 1847.
ENGLAND, JOHN, Catholic bishop of North
and South Carolina and Georgia, died at Charles
ton April 11, 1842, aged 55. He was born in
Cork, and, being made bishop by the pope, arrived
at Charleston the last day of 1820. He estab
lished a theological seminary, and aided in the
anti-duelling society. Returning from a visit to
Rome, he contracted on the voyage the dysentery,
of which he died. His works were published in
5 vols., 8vo., 1849. — Cud. of Amer. Lit. n. 84.
ENGLISH, GEORGE B., an adventurer, the son
of Thomas English, of Boston, was graduated at
Harvard college in 1807, and afterwards for a
while studied theology. He then became an offi
cer of marine in the navy. Embracing, as is said,
Islamism, he entered the service of the Pasha of
Egypt, and accompanied an expedition under Is-
mael to Upper Egypt. He died at Washington in
Sept., 1828, aged 39. He published Grounds of
Christianity examined, 12mo., 1813, which was
answered by E. Everett and S. Gary ; letter to
Mr. Gary on his review ; letter to Mr. Channing
on his two sermons on infidelity, 1813 ; expedition
to Dongola and Sennaar, 8vo., 1823.
ENGLISH, PHILIP, a wealthy merchant of
Salem, died in 1734, aged 84. He came near to
being a victim to the witchcraft delusion in 1692.
Both he and his wife were accused and imprisoned,
and from Salem prison were, by their friends, on
some pretence, removed to Boston. On the day
before that appointed for trial, they, being under
bail, attended public worship, and heard Mr.
Moody preach from the text, " If they persecute
you in one city, flee to another," justifying a
flight from outrage under the forms of justice.
He visited them, and through his persuasion they
fled at midnight to New York, and thus perhaps
saved their lives. He ever acknowledged his ob
ligations to the manly courage of Mr. Moody.
ENOS, IlOGER, lieut.-colonel, accompanied Ar
nold in his expedition to Quebec, as far as fifty
miles up Dead river in Maine, when, by decision
of a council of war, he returned with his division
in consequence of the want of provisions ; and
thus, perhaps, the whole army was saved from
destruction. — American Remembrancer, 1776.
EPENOWE, an Indian of Martha's Vineyard,
was a victim, with twenty-five others, to the
treachery of Capt. Thomas Hunt in 1614, who
carried them to Malaga with the purpose of sell
ing them as slaves. This villainy was retaliated.
Epenowe was taken to England, and there con
trived a method of regaining his native land.
He invented the story of a mine of gold at Capa-
poick, or Capawock, now Martha's Vineyard, to
which he was conveyed by Capt. Harley. When
twenty canoes were around the ship, he plunged
into the water, and, by the aid of his friends and
their flight of arrows, he escaped. Epenowe, in
1619, with his countrymen, assaulted Capt. l)cr-
men, and inflicted many wounds, killing several
of his men.
EPIIIIAIM, was an Indian preacher in 1698 at
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Gayhead, Martha's Vineyard. With Abel, another
preacher, he had the charge of two hundred and
sixty souls or more, who were taught to read.
These Indians were well clothed. They had a
framed meeting-house. At the same time Japhct
was a preacher at Chilmark to two hundred and
thirty-one Indians, of whom sixty-four were in
full communion ; and there were preachers at
Tisbury to seventy-two Indians ; Job Russel
preached at Edgartown to one hundred and
thirty-six, and there were yet other congregations
on the Vineyard.
EPPES, JOHN W., died near Richmond in
Virginia in Sept., 1823, aged 50. His wife, Maria,
the daughter of Mr. Jefferson, died at Monti-
cello in April, 1804. He was appointed senator
of the United States in 1815, but he resigned
from ill health.
ERVING, WILLIAM, a benefactor of Harvard
college, was graduated in 1753, and quitted the
British army, in which he was an officer, at the
commencement of the American Revolution. lie
died at Roxbury May 27, 1791, aged 56, bequeath
ing to the college, in which he was educated,
1000 pounds toward establishing a professorship
of chemistry and matcria mcdica.
ERVIXG, JOHN, a merchant of Boston, died
Aug. 20, 1786, aged 94. He came from Scotland.
lie was twenty years a member of the council.
Being opposed to independence, he retired from
public Hie at the Revolution. One daughter mar
ried Gov. Bowdoin, another Gov. Scott, of Domin
ica, and a third Duncan Stewart, who was collector
of Xew London before the Revolution.
ERVING, SHIRLEY, Dr., died in Boston July
8, 1813, aged 54. He was the grandson of Gov.
Shirley, the son of John E., of Boston. He set
tled as a physician in Portland, and was highly
esteemed. In declining health he removed to
Boston. — American Quarterly Register, 1840.
ERVIXG, GEORGE W., consul, died in Xew
York in July, 1850. A native of Boston, the
son of George E., a loyalist, he was educated at
Oxford. Mr. Jefferson appointed him consul to
London ; thence he was sent to Denmark and
Berlin, and then ambassador to Madrid.
ESCARBOT, MARC L', published Xova Fran-
cia, or an account of Xew France, as described in
late voyages into the countries called by the
Frenchmen La Cadie, 4to., London, 1G54; trans
lated from the French edition of 1612 ; the same
in Purchas and Churchill.
ESTAIXG, CHARLES II., count de, commanded
the French fleet sent to our aid in the Revolution
ary war. He made an unsuccessful assault on
Savannah Oct. 9, 1779, when Pulaski was mortally
wounded. He afterwards captured Grenada.
Being one of the assembly of notables in France,
and incurring the suspicion of the dominant fac
tion, he was guillotined at Paris April 29, 1793.
ESTABROOK, JOSEPH, minister of Concord,
Mass., died in 1711, aged about 68. Born in
Enfickl, Middlesex, England, he came to this
country in 1660, and graduated at Harvard in
1664. He was ordained colleague with Mr.
Bulklcy in 1667. His son Benjamin, first minis
ter of Lexington, a graduate of 1690, died in
1697, leaving a widow Abigail, daughter of Rev.
S. Willard. His son Samuel, minister of Canter
bury, Conn., a graduate of Harvard of 1696,
ordained 1711, died in 1727, aged 52.
ESTABROOK, JOSEPH, minister of Athol,
Mass., died May 18, 1830, aged 71. A descend
ant of Rev. Joseph E. of Concord, he was born in
Lexington, and he fought in the battle of Lex
ington. He was graduated at Harvard in 1782.
In 1787 he was ordained.
ESTEX, JOSEPH, died in Burrillville, R.I., Sept.
20, 1851, aged 99 years and 9 months. His
brother John, of B., died Sept. 1, 1851, aged 90.
EUSTACE, JOHN SKEY, a brave officer in the
American war, died at Xewburgh Aug. 25, 1805,
aged 45. He entered into the service of his
country not long after the commencement of the
Revolution, and continued one of her active de
fenders till the conclusion of the contest. He
served for some time as aid-de-camp to General
Lee, and afterwards as an aid-de-camp to General
Greene. When the war was ended, he retired to
Georgia, and was there admitted to the bar, as an
advocate. In that State he received the appoint
ment of adjutant-general. In the year 1794, as
he was fond of military life, he went to France,
and there received the appointment of a briga
dier-general, and was afterwards promoted and
made a major-general. In that capacity he served
the French nation for some lime. He commanded
in 1797 a division of the French army in Flan
ders. In 1800 he returned again to his native
country, and resided in Orange county, Xew York,
where he led a retired, studious life till his death.
He devoted to literature all the time which the
state of his health would permit. — New York
Spectator, Sept. 4, 1805.
EUSTIS, ABRAHAM, brigadier-general, died at
Portland Jan. 27, 1843, aged 57. He studied
law, but early entered the army, and served hon
orably thirty-five years.
EUSTIS, WILLIAM, M. D., governor of Massa-
sachusetts, died in Boston Feb. 6, 1825, aged 71.
He was the son of Benjamin Eustis and was born
at Cambridge June 10, 1753. After graduating
at Harvard college in 1772, he studied physic
with Dr. Joseph Warren. At the beginning of
the war he was appointed surgeon of a regiment,
and afterwards hospital surgeon. In 1777 and
during most of the war he occupied as a hospital
the spacious house of Col. Robinson, a royalist,
on the east side of the Hudson, opposite to West
Point. In the same house Arnold had his head-
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EVAIITS.
quarters. At the termination of the war he com
menced the practice of his profession in Boston.
In 1800 he was elected a member of congress.
By Mr. Madison in 1809 he was appointed secre
tary of war, and continued in office until in the
late war the army of Hull was surrender eel, when
he resigned. In 1815 he was sent ambassador to
Holland. After his return he Mras a member of
congress in 1821, and for four successive sessions.
After the resignation of Gov. Brooks, he was
chosen governor in 1823, and died after a short
illness. His wife, who survived him, was Caroline,
the daughter of Woodbury Langdon of New
Hampshire. By his direction he was buried by
the side of his mother. His successor was Levi
Lincoln. — Holmes, II. 515; Thacher.
EVANS, NATHANIEL, a minister in New Jersey,
and a poet, was born in Philadelphia June 8,
1742, and was graduated at the college in that
city in 17 Go, having gained a high reputation for
his genius. He immediately afterwards embarked
for England, recommended to the society for
propagating the gospel, and was ordained by the
bishop of London. He arrived at Philadelphia
on *his return, Dec. 26, 1765, and entered soon
upon the business oi' his mission at Gloucester
county in New Jersey. His season of labor was
short, for it pleased God to remove him from this
present life Oct. 29, 1767, aged 25. He was
remarkable for the excellence of his temper, the
correctness of his morals, and the soundness of
his doctrines. He published a short account of
T. Godfrey, prefixed to Godfrey's poems, and an
elegy to his memory. After his death a selection
of his writings was published, entitled, poems on
several occasions, with some other compositions,
1772. Annexed to this volume is one of his ser
mons. — American Museum, VII. 405 ; Preface to
the above Poems.
EVANS, LEWIS, eminent for his acquaintance
with American geography, was a surveyor in Penn
sylvania, and died in June, 1756. He made many
journeys into the neighboring colonies, and had
been frequently employed in surveying lands,
purchased of the natives. He had collected a
great store of materials from other sources.
From these he compiled a map of the middle
colonies, and of the adjacent country of the Indi
ans, lying northward and westward. The first
ediiion of it was published in 1749, and a second
in 1755, accompanied with an explanatory pam
phlet. Some expressions, countenancing the title
of France to fort Frontenac, brought him into a
controversy with a writer in Gaines' New York
Mercury in 1756. In the course of the same year
he wrote a full and elaborate reply to this and
other charges against him, and caused the pam
phlet to be published in London. They were both
offered to the public under the title of geographi
cal, historical, political, philosophical, and mechan
ical essays ; Nos. 1, and 2. The first edition of
this map was chiefly limited to New York, New
Jersey, and Delaware; the second was much
enlarged, being made a general map of the mid
dle British colonies, Virginia, Maryland, Delaware,
Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, Connecti
cut, and lUiode Island, and the country of the
confederate Indians. It was inscribed to Mr.
Pownall, in consideration, as a writer of that
period asserts, of being promised by him the
office of surveyor-general of New Jersey, and to
gratify whom he published also in 1755 a pam
phlet against Gov. Shirley. He belonged to the
cabal in favor of W. Johnson. He was impris
oned for a libel on Gov. Morris. Aftenvards in
1776, on the breaking out of the war between
Great Britain and her colonies, Mr. Pownall him
self gave a new edition of Evans' map, with large
additions, entitled a map of the British colonies
in North America. It comprehended all New
England and the bordering parts of Canada.
EVANS, ISRAEL, minister of Concord, N. II.,
died March 9, 180*7, aged 59. He was of Welsh
descent, born in Pennsylvania, where his father
and grandfather were ministers. He graduated
at Princeton college in 1772, in a class of twenty-
two, of whom fifteen were ministers. Being
ordained in 1776 at Philadelphia as a chaplain, he
served during the war in the New Hampshire
brigade. He accompanied Sullivan against the
Indians ; and was at the capture of Burgoyne
and surrender of Cornwallis. July 1, 1789, he
was installed as the successor of Mr. Walker at
Concord ; but was dismissed at his request July
1797. His feelings and habits, brought from the
army, were not adapted to make him useful as a
minister. Humility was no trait in his character.
His patriotic sermons during the war were accep
table to the army ; he published a sermon after
the Indian expedition ; oration on the death of
Gen. Poor, 1780; on the surrender of the British
army at York ; on the thanksgiving for indepen
dence, Dec. 11, 1783; at the election, 1791. —
Bouton's Centen. Disc. 33; Moore's Ann. Con
cord, 63.
EVANS, OLIVER, a mechanic, was a descend
ant of Evan Evans, D. D., the first Episcopal
minister of Philadelphia, who died in 1728. He
made various improvements in the arts. His iron
foundry, steam factory, and steam-mill were lo
cated at Philadelphia. He died at New York
April 15, 1819, aged 64. He published the young
engineer's guide, 1805 ; miller's and millwright's
guide, twenty-five plates, 1807; first edit. 1795.
EVANS, CADWALLADER, Dr., died at Philadel
phia in 1773, aged 57. He Avas born in Philadel
phia, of Welch descent, and studied under Dr.
Bond and in Edinburgh. He was long a physi-
EVARTS.
EVE.
cian of the hospital. — TliacJter's Medical Biog-
raplnj.
EVANS, Jonx, colonel, died near Monongalia,
Va., in 1835, aged 97. He commanded a regi
ment in the war of the Revolution, and was a
member of the convention to form a constitution
for Virginia.
EVANS, MORRIS, died at Raleigh, N. C., Aug.
25, 1834, aged 10.3.
EVARTS, JEREMIAH, secretary of the Ameri
can board of commissioners for foreign missions,
died in Charleston, South Carolina, May 10, 1831,
aged 50. lie was probably a descendant of John
Evarts, who lived in 'Guilford, Conn., in 1650,
and was born in Sundoiiand, Vermont, Feb. 3,
1781. In a few years his parents removed to the
town of Georgia in the northern part of Vermont.
In 1798 he was placed under the instruction of
Rev. John Eliot of E. Guilford, and was gradu
ated at Yale college in 1802. During a revival
of religion in the college in the beginning of this
year, he cherished the hope, that his soul was
renewed by the Spirit of God, and became a
member of the college church. From 1803 to
1804 he was the instructor of the academy at
Peacham, and afterwards studied law with Judge
Chauncy of Xe\v Haven, in which city he com
menced the practice of the law in July, 1806. In
May, 1810, he removed to Charlestown, near Bos
ton, in order to edit the Panoplist, a religious
and literary monthly publication, which had been
conducted by Dr. Morse and others four or five
years ; and he superintended that work, writing
for it a large proportion of the original articles,
till the close of 1820, when it was discontinued,
and the Missionary Herald was published in its
stead, under the authority of the American Board.
This work was also committed to him. He had
been chosen treasurer of the Board in 1812 and
the next year one of the prudential committee.
He served as treasurer till 1822. In 1821 he
succeeded Dr. Worcester as corresponding secre
tary, in which office he continued nearly ten
years till his death. Thus he toiled ten years as
the editor of the Panoplist, ten years as the treas
urer of the Board of missions, and ten years as
corresponding secretary. In feeble health he
took a voyage to the island of Cuba in Feb., 1831,
and thence in April to Charleston, where in the
house of Rev. Dr. Palmer he died. He left sev
eral children : his widow, Mehitable, the daughter
of Roger Sherman of New Haven, died in 1851.
While Mr. Evarts was on his voyage to Cuba,
fully aware of the uncertain continuance of his
life, he wrote as follows : " Here, in this sea, I
consecrate myself to God as my chief good : to
him, as my heavenly Father, infinitely kind and
tender of his children ; to him, as my kind and
merciful Redeemer, by whose blood and merits
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alone I do hope for salvation ; to himras the be
neficent renewcr and sanctificr of the saved. I
implore the forgiveness of my numerous and ag
gravated transgressions ; and I ask, that my
remaining time and strength may be employed
for the glory of God, my portion, and for the
good of his creatures." In his last hours his
hope of forgiveness and salvation was undimin-
ished and unshaken. lie said, " I wish in these
dying words to recognize the great Redeemer as
the Saviour from sin and hell. And I recognize
the Great Spirit of God as the renovator of God's
elect." When it was said to him, (i You will soon
see Jesus ; " he exclaimed, " Wonderful, wonder
ful, wonderful glory ! We cannot understand —
we cannot comprehend — wonderful glory! I
will praise, I will praise him ! Jesus reigns." This
was no feverish excitement, nor dream of enthu
siasm ; but the vision of a dying believer. Mr.
Evarts' character has been delineated in printed
discourses by Dr. Woods and Dr. Spring. In
the management of the important interests, with
which he was intrusted, he manifested a scrupu
lous integrity. He combined with a sound judg
ment the ardor requisite for the accomplishment
of great designs. His piety and extensive knowl
edge of theology and his accordance with the
settled orthodoxy of New England secured to him
the confidence of the churches in a degree seldom
obtained by one, not especially trained for the
ministry of the gospel. Free from self-sufficiency
and pi'ide, he sought the counsel of his associates;
and especially he with habitual devotion sought
the guidance and blessing of God. Though
humble, he was yet resolute and determined and
persevering. Having enlarged views and a vig
orous mind, he was not disheartened by difficul
ties and opposition. Feeble in health, with a thin,
slender frame, and destitute of oratorical action,
he yet in his public addresses arrested attention
and produced effect, for his conceptions were
clear and his language perspicuous and forcible.
His industry was untiring. Besides his labors in
editing the Panoplist, he wrote the ten annual
reports of the American Board from 1821 to
1 830, the last of which contains a most weighty
and valuable discussion on the future growth of
this country and the means of preserving it from
ruin. His essays, twenty-four in number, on the
rights and claims of the Indians, under the signa
ture of William Penn, were published in 1829;
and he subsequently wrote various other pieces on
the same subject, one of which is an article in the
North American Review. He edited the volume
of speeches on the Indian bill and wrote the intro
duction. — Woods' and Spring's Sermons; Atiss.
Herald, Oct. Nov. 1831.
EVE, ADAM, died in Pennsylvania Oct. 27,
1821, aged 104.
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EVEREST.
EWING.
EVEREST, SOLOMON, a physician, died at
Canton, Conn., in July, 1822. He bequeathed
10,000 dollars to religious and missionary pur
poses.
EVERETT, OLIVER, minister in Boston, died
at Dorchester Nov. 19, 1802, aged 49. He was
graduated at Harvard college in 1779, and was
ordained pastor of the church in Summer street,
as successor of Mr. Howe, Jan. 2, 1782. After
a ministry of ten years, and after having acquired
a high reputation for the extraordinary powers of
his mind, the state of his health induced him to
ask a dismission from his people in 1792. He
was succeeded in 1794 by Mr. Kirkland. After
wards he was appointed a judge of the court of
common pleas for the county of Norfolk. He
was the father of Alex. H. and Edward Everett.
EVERETT, DAVID, editor of the Boston Pat
riot, died Dec. 21, 1813, aged 44. He was born
at Princeton, Mass., and graduated at Dartmouth
college in 1795, and engaged in the profession of
the law in Boston. In 1809 he commenced the
Patriot, in which John Adams in a series of let
ters gave a history of his political career. In
1811 he was appointed register of probate ; but a
revolution in politics deprived him of his office.
In Sept., 1812, he commenced the Pilot, a paper
devoted to De Witt Clinton. Removing soon to
Marietta to edit a paper, he died there. He
published common sense in dishabille, or the
farmer's monitor, 1799; Daranzel, a tragedy,
1800 ; essay on the rights and duties of nations ;
three orations and addresses ; Junius Americanus
in Boston Gazette in defence of J. Adams. —
Specimens American Poetry, II. 1 13.
EVERETT, MOSES, minister of Dorchester,
died March 25, 1813, aged 62. Born in Ded-
ham, he graduated at Harvard in 1771, and in
1774 was ordained the minister of Dedham, in
which office he continued eighteen years till 1792.
He was appointed in 1808 a judge of the court of
common pleas in the place of his brother Oliver.
He published a sermon to young men, 1778; one
at the ordination of his brother.
EVERETT, NOBLE, minister of Wareham,
Mass., died Dec., 30, 1819, aged 72, in the 38th
year of his ministry. Born in Woodbury, Conn.,
he graduated at Yale in 1775. He was a labori
ous, faithful, successful pastor. In revivals he
was unwearied in his toils. His predecessors
were R. Thacher and J. Cotton.
EVERETT, ALEXANDER H., died at Canton,
China, June 28, 1847, aged 57. He was the son
of Rev. Oliver E., and graduated in 1806. After
being a teacher in Exeter academy, he went to
Russia with Mr. Adams as secretary of legation,
by whom he was appointed minister to Spain
in 1825. After his return he was the editor of
the North American Review. Connecting him
self with the democratic party, Mr. Polk sent him
as commissioner to China. He published Europe,
1822; America, 1827; oration, 1830; address to
horticultural society, 1833.
EVERETT, HORACE, LL. D.,died at Windsor,
Vt., Jan. 30, 1851, aged 72. He was a member
of congress fourteen years from 1829 to 1843,
and honorably distinguished himself by his zeal
to do justice to the Indians.
EVERETT, SERAPHINA SARAH, wife of Joel S.
Everett, missionary at Constantinople, died in
great peace Dec. 27, 1854 ; she said, " I wish to
be near and like Jesus." She had the charge of
the female boarding school of thirty-five pupils ;
and was one of the most accomplished of the
ladies in the eastern mission. The hymn, " Asleep
in Jesus," was sung, when she was dying; her
husband, when dying, was asked by those
around his bed, what they should sing, and he
replied, " Asleep in Jesus."
EVERETT, JOEL S., a missionary, died at
Bebek, near Constantinople, March 7, 1856, aged
42. He was a graduate of Amherst college in
1840. To Dr. Hamlin he said, that for a year
past he had " a strong desire to depart to the
blessed company on high ; also, we have travelled
together for eleven years, and now we must part
for a little time. Get many souls to Christ. O,
glorious God ! O, glorious Redeemer ! O,
blessed company! and I am going to join it!"
He was an excellent, faithful missionary. He had
the charge of the boarding school for girls, and
of the colporteur and Bible distribution work. He
left four children.
EWING, JOHN, D. D., minister in Philadel
phia, and provost of the college in that city, died
Sept. 8, 1802, aged 70. He was born in East
Nottingham, Md., June 22, 1732. His classical
studies were begun under Dr. Allison, with
whom, after finishing the usual studies, he re
mained three years as a tutor. He was gradu
ated at Princeton college, 1752, and afterward
accepted the appointment of tutor. Having re
solved by Divine permission to become a minister
of the gospel, he pursued his theological studies
under the direction of Dr. Allison. At the age
of twenty-six he was employed as the instructor
of the philosophical classes in the college of
Philadelphia, during the absence of Dr. Smith,
who was then provost. In 1758 he accepted an
unanimous call from the first Presbyterian church
in Philadelphia, of which he continued a minister
till his death. In 1773 he was sent to Great
Britain to solicit benefactions for the academy of
Newark in Delaware. He was everywhere re
ceived with respect. Among his acquaintances
and friends were Dr. Robertston, Dr. Webster,
Mr. Balfour, and Dr. Blacklock. In 1775 he
returned to America, as the Revolution was com
mencing, notwithstanding the most tempting
offers which were made to induce him to remain
EWING.
in England. In 1779 he was elected provost of
the university of Pennsylvania. To this station,
which he held till his death, he brought large
stores of information, and a paternal tenderness
toward the youth who were committed to his
care. He had been a minister more than forty
years. During his last sickness no murmur es
caped his lips, and he was patient and resigned
to the will of his heavenly Father. His colleague,
Dr. Linn, survived him. In all the branches of
science and literature, usually taught in colleges,
he was uncommonly accurate, and in his mode of
communicating information on the most abstruse
and intricate subjects, he was seldom surpassed.
His qualifications as a minister of the gospel were
many and eminent. Science was with him a
handmaid to religion. He was mighty in the
Scriptures. His own investigation confirmed him
in his belief of the doctrines of grace, which he
endeavored to impress upon the hearts of his peo
ple. His sermons were written with great accu
racy and care, in a style always perspicuous, and
generally sober and temperate, though sometimes
ornamented. Mere declamation was never heard
from his lips. His deportment was easy and
affable. lie had a frecness of salutation, which
sometimes surprised the stranger ; but which was
admired by those who knew him, as it proceeded
from an open and honest heart. His talents in
conversation were remarkably entertaining. He
could unbend from severer studies and become
the companion of innocent mirth, and of happy
gayety. Perfectly free from pedantry, he could
accommodate himself to the most unlettered.
His talent of narration was universally admired.
An extract of his sermon on the death of Dr.
Allison, is in the assembly's magazine. He pub
lished also a sermon on the death of George
Bryan, 1791 ; the design of Christ coming into
the world, in the American preacher, II. ; and
several communications in the transactions of the
American philosophical society. His lectures on
natural philosophy were published, 1809. — Linn's
Funeral Sermon ; Assembly's Miss. Mag. I. 409,
414, 458 ; Miller, II. 372 ; Holmes, n. 424.
EWIXG, GEORGE, died in Indiana about the
year 1830, the father of Thomas Ewing. He was
a native of Salem county, N. J. ; an officer in the
war : a pioneer in the west, one of the founders
of Amestown, Ohio, a rich town, so named by It.
Putnam in honor of Fisher Ames. — Ilildreth.
EWIXG, CHARLES, LL. I)., chief justice of
New Jersey, died Aug. 5, 1832, aged about 54.
He graduated at Princeton in 1798.
FAIRBANKS, DRURY, minister of Littleton,
N. II., died in Jan., 1853, aged 80. He gradu
ated at Brown university in 1797.
FAIRBANKS, JASON, the murderer of Eliza
beth Fales at Dedham, Mass., was executed Sept.
10, 1801. He was a young man, and died with-
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out manifesting any repentance. At the gallows
fifteen minutes were allowed him to seek finally,
if he pleased, the Divine mercy. At the end of
one minute he dropped his handkerchief as a
signal, and was swung off, and justice was admin
istered. No blind and falsely alleged humanity
then rose up against God's law, — " The murderer
shall surely be put to death." — Numbers 35 : 16.
No deluded legislator then thought of enacting,
that the murderer should be imprisoned for life, or
imprisoned for a year under the pretence that he
might have time to repent. God's justice is the
only safety of human society.
FAIRFAX, THOMAS, baron of Cameron, pro
prietor of the northern neck, between the Poto
mac and Rappahannock, in Virginia, died at
Greenway court-house, Frederic county, Dec. 12,
1781, aged 98. His wife was the daughter of
Gov. Culpeper, and heir of the Virginia estate.
FAIRFAX, BRIAN, minister of the Episcopal
church in Alexandria, Va., died at Mount Eagle,
neat Cameron, Aug. 7, 1852, aged 70. He was
a man of upright principles, of unfeigned piety,
and of simple manners. His long illness he bore
with resignation. He published a sermon on the
jbrgetfulness of our sins, in American Preacher,
vol. I.
FAIRFIELD, JOHN, governor of Maine, died
at Washington Dec. 24, 1847, aged 49. He lived
in Saco. lie was governor in 1842 ; senator of
the United States in 1843, and re-elected in 1845.
FAIRMAN, GIDEON, colonel, an engraver, died
at Philadelphia March 18, 1827, aged 51. He
and the late George Murray contributed more
than any other persons to elevate the beautiful
art of engraving in this country. Richard Fair-
man, also an engraver, died at Philadelphia in
Dec., 1821, aged 34.
FAIRMAN, DAVID, an engraver, died suddenly
at Philadelphia Aug. 19, 1815, aged 33. He was
amiable and much respected.
FA1TOUTE, GEORGE, minister of Jamaica, L. I.,
died in 1815, aged about 60. He was a graduate
of Princeton in 1776, and was respected for his
learning and piety.
FALES, DAVID, died at Thomaston, Me., April
4, 1822, aged 89. He was a native of Bradford,
Mass., and lived in Dedham before he removed to
Maine, where he was employed as a surveyor by
the proprietors of the Waldo patent. He was
also useful as a physician. By each of two wives
he had twelve children ; seventeen survived him.
FALES, STEPHEN, a lawyer in Cincinnati, died
in 1854, aged 64. Born in Boston, he was a grad
uate of Harvard in 1810, and a tutor at Bowdoin
in 1811. He had the reputation of a scholar.
FAXEUIL, PETER, founder of Faneuil Hall in
Boston, died March 3, 1743. He possessed a
large estate, and employed it in doing good.
While his charities were extensive, his liberal
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FARRAR.
spirit induced him to present to the town of Bos
ton a stately edifice called Faneuil Hall, for the
accommodation of the inhabitants at their public
meetings.
FANNING, EDMUND, LL. D., died in London
in 1818, aged about 80. lie was a native of Con
necticut, and graduated at Yale college in 1757.
Settled as a lawyer at Hillsborough, N. C., he was
a tory in the Revolution, and was afterwards
lieutenant-governor of Nova Scotia and Prince
Edward's Island.
FANNING, A. C. W., colonel, died at Cincin
nati Aug. 18, 1846, aged 58 ; a native of Massa
chusetts. He was of the artillery. Entering the
army in 1812, he was in various battles, and
served in the Seminole wars.
FARLEY, MICHAEL, general, died at Ipswich
in 1789, aged 70. He sustained various public
offices, was sheriff and treasurer of Essex, and
delegate to the State convention for adopting the
constitution.
FARMER, Jonx, died at Concord, N. IL,
Aug. 13, 1838, aged 49. Born at Chelmsford, he
was in 1821 an apothecary at Concord, after hav
ing been ten years a teacher at Amherst, N. H.
He was a most industrious laborer in researches
relating to American history and biography, and
his publications were numerous and useful. He
published historical sketches of Amherst, 1820;
memoir of Billerica ; new military guide, 1822 ;
a gazetteer of New Hampshire, with Jacob B.
Moore, 1823 ; genealogical register of the first
settlers of New England, 1829; an enlarged
edition of which is preparing by James Savage ;
communications to several historical societies, and
to the American quarterly register. He compiled
also, for sixteen years, the New Hampshire reg
ister, and published memorial of the graduates
of Harvard ; collections with Mr. Moore in 3 vols.,
1822-1824 ; and also an edition with notes of
Belknap's New Hampshire.
FARNSWORTH, RUTH, Mrs., died at Con-
way, Mass., in 1815, aged 100.
FARNSWORTII, JAMES D., minister of Bridge-
water, Mass., died Nov. 5, 1855, aged 62. He
graduated at Harvard in 1818.
FARQHUAR, JANE, died March 20, 1760,
aged 36. She was the daughter of lieut.-govcrnor
Golden, of New York, and married Dr. William
F. Skilful in botany, she was the correspondent
of Linneus, who, in compliment to her, named a
plant Coldenia.
FARR, JONATHAN, Unitarian minister of Har
vard, Mass., died June 12, 1845, aged about 47.
He graduated at Harvard college in 1818, and
was the author of several little works on practical
religion.
FARRAN1), DANIEL, minister of Canaan, Conn.,
died in 1803, aged 83. Born in New Milford, and
becoming pious in the revivals after 1740, several
ministers assisted in his education. He was grad
uated at Princeton in 1750, and ordained Aug.
12, .1752, as the successor of Elijah Webster.
He was a man of science, and of a vigorous
mind; a zealous preacher. He attended mere
than one hundred ecclesiastical councils. In his
death he had an exulting hope of eternal life.
His son, Judge F., lived in Burlington, Vt. He
published a sermon on the death of Elizabeth,
wife of Rev. Jonathan Lee, 1762.
FARRAR, STEPHEN, first minister of New
Ipswich, N. IL, died June 23, 1809, aged 70.
Born in Lincoln, Mass., he was the son of Deacon
Samuel, who died in 1783, aged 75. He was the
brother of Judge Timothy, and brother of Dea
con Samuel the second, of Lincoln, who died in
1829, aged 94. His daughter, Lydia, married
Rev. Warren Pierce. He graduated at Harvard
in 1755, and was ordained in 1760. He was a
devoted and faithful minister. — Payson's Fu
neral Sermon.
FARRAR, TIMOTHY, judge, the oldest grad
uate of Harvard, died at Hollis, N. II. , Feb. 21,
1849, aged 101 years and nearly eight months.
He was the son of Deacon Samuel F., was born
at Lincoln June 28, 1747, and graduated at Har
vard 1767. He lived in New Ipswich, N. II.
From 1775 to 1816 he was judge of the courts,
his appointment to the office of chief justice of
the superior court being dated Feb. 22, 1802.
His portrait is in the historical register for Octo
ber, 1852. He was buried at Mount Auburn.
FARRAR, PHEBE, wife of Samuel Farrar, died
at Andover, Mass., Jan. 22, 1848, aged 79. Born
in Elizabethtown, N. J., the daughter of Timothy
Edwards, her first husband was Rev. A. Hooker.
She married in 1814 Mr. F., the treasurer of the
theological seminary at Andover, who still lives
at a very advanced age. Her views of religious
doctrine accorded with those of her grandfather,
President Edwards ; and she died in Christian
peace. Her three children were Dr. E. W.
Hooker, and the wives of Dr. Cornelius and of
Rev. Solomon Peck. — Wood's Sermon.
FARRAR, JOHN, LL. D., professor of natural
philosophy and mathematics in Harvard college,
died March 8, 1853, aged 73. He was the son of
Samuel Farrar, of Lincoln, and graduated in
1803. His father died Sept. 19, 1829, aged 92,
and his grandfather, Samuel, died April 17, 1783,
aged 74 ; both were deacons of the church. The
father of the latter was George, who first settled
on the farm at Lincoln, being the son of Jacob f
who came from England to Lancaster about 1642,
and was killed in Philip's war in 1675. Mr. Far
rar was chosen professor in 1807, and remained
in office till 1836. He was a most amiable, social,
and excellent man, endeared to his friends. He
had years of sickness and severe suffering, with
all the alleviation which could be ministered by
FARRAJL
affection. His first wife was Lucy Maria, the
daughter of Rev. Dr. Buckminster; his second
wife, who survived him, was Eliza, the daughter
of Benjamin Roach, of New Bedford. His sister
Rebecca' married Rev. Dr. Jonathan French, of
North Hampton, N. II. Timothy Farrar, who
died aged 101, was his uncle. He published va
rious papers in the memoirs of the American
academy, of which he was secretary ; also a series
of learned works in his departments of science,
for the classes in college.
FARRAR, MARY, widow of Rev. Joseph F.,
died in Petersham, Mass., July 24, 1855, aged 100.
FASSITT, THOMAS, Mrs., of Philadelphia, died
in 1853, bequeathing many thousands of dollars
to various benevolent institutions.
FAUXCE, THOMAS, an elder of the Plymouth
church in 1623, died Feb. 27, 1746, aged 99.
His daughter, Patience Kempton, died in 1779,
aged 105 years and six months.
FAUGERES, MARGARETTA V., distinguished
for her literary accomplishments, died Jan. 9,
1801, aged 29. She was the daughter of Ann
Eliza Bleecker, and was born about the year,
1771. The first years of her life were spent with
her parents, in the retired village of Tomhanic,
about eighteen miles above Albany. Here through
the instructions of her mother, her mind was
much cultivated, but the loss of this excellent
parent at an age, when her counsels were of the
utmost importance, was irreparable. Mr. Bleecker
after the termination of the Avar removed to New
York, and as his daughter grew up, saw her en
gaging in her manners, lively and witty, of an
equal and sweet temper, and diffusing cheerful
ness around her. Of her admirers she placed
her affections upon one of a dissipated character,
and, notwithstanding the most earnest remon
strances of her father, she in 1792 married Peter
Faugeres, a physician in Xew York. It was not
long, before she perceived the folly of having
been governed by passion rather than by reason ;
and her disregard of paternal advice, and prefer
ence of external accomplishments to correct
morals and the virtues of the heart, overwhelmed
her with trouble. In three or four years the
ample fortune, which she had brought to her
husband, was entirely expended. Before the
death of her father in 1795 his affections shielded
her from many evils ; but in the summer of 1796
she was glad to procure a residence in a garret
with the author of her woes and one child. Mr.
Faugeres fell a victim to the yellow fever in the
autumn of 1798, and she soon afterwards engaged
as an assistant in an academy for young ladies at
New Brunswick. For this station she was peculi
arly qualified by the variety of her talents and
the sweetness of her temper. In about a year
she removed to Brooklyn, where she undertook
the education of the children of several families.
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Her declining health having rendered her incapa
ble of this employment, she was received by a
friend in New York, whose attentions were pecu
liarly grateful, as she was sinking into the grave.
She was resigned to the will of God, and, cheered
by the truths of religion, she died in peace. She
had a taste for poetry, and many of the produc
tions of her pen were published in the New York
magazine and the American museum. In 1793
she published, prefixed to the works of Mrs.
Bleecker, her mother, memoirs of her life ; and
several of her own essays were annexed to the
volume. She published in 1795 or 1796 Belisa-
rius, a tragedy.
FAUQUIER, FRAXCIS, governor of Virginia
from 1758 to 1767, succeeded Dinwiddie, and was
succeeded by Botctourt. He was well educated ;
had fine talents; sustained an excellent character;
and proved himself a friend of religion, science,
and liberty. His administration was very popu
lar. He died March 3, 1768. — Lempr.
FAY, DAVID, judge, died at Bennington in
June, 1827, aged 66. He was engaged in the
battle of Bennington and was among the first to
mount the Hessian breastwork. He had been
adjutant-general, attorney for the United States,
and judge of the supreme court of Vermont, and
judge of probate.
FAY, SAMUEL P. P., judge, died at Cambridge
May 18, 1856, aged 78, a graduate of 1798. He
was a captain in the army in 1799 ; then a law
yer ; and the judge of probate nearly thirty-five
years. — Boston Advertiser, July 16, 1856.
FEARING, PAUL, judge, died Aug. 21, 1822,
aged 59, of an epidemic fever : his wife died the
same day. Born in Wareham, Mass., he gradu
ated in 1785 at Cambridge. In danger of losing
his degree, Joseph Barrell lent him money to pay
the fee. He studied law with Mr. Swift of Wind-
ham. In 1788 he emigrated to Ohio. He cele
brated the fourth of July at the mouth of the
Muskingum : Gen. Varnum delivered the oration ;
guns were fired from fort Harmer. He heard the
first sermon in the Northwest Territory, July 20,
by Mr. Breck from Massachusetts. He and Mr.
Meigs were the first lawyers. In 1801 he was a
delegate to congress. In 1810 he was judge of
the common pleas. On his farm below the Mus
kingum he raised the Merino sheep. — Ilildreth's
Bio. Memoirs.
FELLOWS, JOHN, brigadier-general, a soldier
of the Revolution, died Aug. 1, 1808, aged 73.
He was born at Pomfret, Conn., and resided at
Sheffield, Mass. lie commanded, in 1775, one of
the two regiments of minute-men, constituted by
the patriotic citizens of Berkshire, and after the
battle of Lexington marched to the neighborhood
of Boston : John Patterson commanded the other
regiment. He was for several years high sheriff
of Berkshire.
FELLOWS.
FIELD.
FELLOWS, JOHN, colonel, died in New York
Jan. 3, 184-1, aged 84. He was born in Sheffield,
Mass., and was reputed to be a follower of
Thomas Paine. He published works on the
authorship of Junius, on free-masonry, and on
the life of Putnam.
FEXXELL, JAMES, a theatrical performer,
was born in London in 17(36, and destined for
the church. In 1793 he came to this country,
and acquired -fame as an actor. At Boston he
taught reading and elocution. Like Cooke, he
died a drunkard, at Philadelphia, in June, 1816.
He published an apology for his life, 2 vols. 1814.
FEXXER, ARTHUR, governor of Rhode Island,
succeeded Mr. Collins in 1789 and was succeeded
by James Former in 1807. lie was the son of
Arthur Fenncr, and died at Providence Oct. 15,
ISOo, aged GO.
FEXXER, JAMES, LL. D., died in Providence
April 17, 1846, aged 76. He was a graduate of
Brown university in 1789. lie was a senator of
the United States ; also, governor fourteen years,
and for fifty connected with the public affairs of
Rhode Island. He was firm, indomitable, patri
otic, and faithful.
FEXWICK, GEORGE, proprietor of a part of
Connecticut, died in 1657. lie came to this
country in 1636, having purchased the plantation
of Saybrook fort, and was " a good encourager to
the church of Christ at Hartford." He returned
to England ; but came again to this country and
arrived at Xew Haven July 15, 1639, with his lady
and family, and commenced the settlement at
Saybrook, so called in remembrance of Lords Say
and Brook, who with others claimed the territory
by grant of Robert, Earl of Warwick. Mr. Fen-
wick was their agent. He sold his rights to the
Connecticut government Dec. 5, 1644, and it was
stipulated, that he should receive for ten years a
certain duty on exports from the mouth of the
river. The colony paid him 1600 pounds for the
old patent. His wife died at Saybrook, where
her monument remains to the present day near
the fort, but, it being of sandstone, the inscription
is effaced. — Dwiyld, II. 519.
FEN WICK, E., D. D., Catholic bishop, died
at Cincinnati Sept. 25, 1832.
FEXWICK, BENEDICT, a Catholic bishop, died
in Boston Aug. 1 1, 1846, aged 64. A Jesuit, he
became president of Georgetown college ; thence
he went to Boston, where he was bishop twenty-
one years. At first there were only two churches
and two priests under his care : he left over fifty
churches and sixty priests. He was regarded as
a learned man and powerful preacher.
FERGUSOX, ELIZABETH, died Feb. 23, 1801,
aged 61. She was the daughter of Dr. Thomas
Graham or Graeme of Philadelphia, by Anne,
daughter of Gov. Keith. She was well educated,
and married II. II. Ferguson, a Scotchman, who
joined the British in the war and never returned
to his wife. She enjoyed the friendship of many
eminent men. Through her Dr. Duche sent his
letter to Washington, proposing his resignation
of the command of the army. She lived on a
farm of hers in Montgomery county. Her liter
ary reputation was high. The whole of the
Bible was by her transcribed. She translated
Telemachus into verse.
FEllillS, DAVID, minister of Xewburgh, Ohio,
died Aug. 19, 1849, aged 73.
FERRY, RACHEL, Mrs., died in Norfolk,
Conn., in 1810, aged 101. She died in the Chris
tian faith. At the age of 100 she heard a cen
tury sermon, then retaining her faculties.
FESSEXDEX, THOMAS, minister of Walpole,
N. II., a descendant, as others of the name are,
of Nicholas F. of Cambridge, graduated in 1758
and died May, 1813, aged 74, in the forty-seventh
of his ministry. He published two sermons ; a
theoretic explanation of the science of sanctity,
8vo. 1804 ; and the Boston self-styled gentlemen
reviewers reviewed, 1806.
, FESSEXDEX, THOMAS GREEN, died at Boston
Nov. 11, 1837, of apoplexy, aged about 60. Born
in Walpole, N. H., he graduated at Dartmouth
in 1796, and devoted himself to various literary
labors. He published a satirical poem entitled
terrible tractoration, or democracy unveiled, 1805;
original poems, 1806; register of arts, 1808;
the New England Farmer, 1822; essay on the
law of patents; address on temperance, 1831;
new American gardener, 1832.
FEW, WILLIAM, colonel, a patriot of the Rev
olution, died in July, 1828, aged 81. He was
| born in Maryland in 1748, and, residing in Geor-
' gia, was in 1796 a member of the convention
which framed the constitution of the State. He
, soon distinguished himself in several actions with
the British and Indians. Augusta being recov
ered, he in 1780 was sent a delegate to congress,
and remained in that body till the peace ; and was
again appointed in 1786. The next year he as
sisted in forming the national constitution. He
; resided in his last years in the city of New York,
and died at Fishkill.
FIELD, RICHARD, a physician and senior ed
itor of the Petersburg Intelligencer, studied at
Edinburgh. He died in Brunswick County, Va.,
May 23, 1829, aged 61. As a physician he was
skilful, and as a botanist none exceeded him in
the knowledge of the plants of Virginia. He was
a member of three electoral colleges, and voted
for Jefferson, and Madison as president.
| FIELD, MARTIN, general, died in Fayettevillc,
Vt., Oct. 26, 1833, aged 60. He was early dis
tinguished as a lawyer, but deafness compelled
him to relinquish the profession. He then be
came skilled in mineralogy and natural history,
to which he was devoted.
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FIELD, TIMOTHY, minister of Westminster,
Vt., died Feb. 22, 1845, aged 69. Born in East
Guilford, Conn., he graduated at Yale in 1797,
and studied theology with Dr. Dwight. He was
ordained at Canand'aigua, X. Y., Feb. 27, 1800,
and dismissed in 1807. lie was then the minister
of Westminster from 1807 till 1835, twenty-eight
years. He afterwards was useful as a preacher,
but died in the insane hospital at Brattleborough.
FIELD, BAIIXUM, principal of the Franklin
school, Boston, died May 7, 1851, aged 55.
FIXDLEY, WILLIAM, a member of congress,
came in carl}- life from Ireland. In the He volu
tion he engaged with zeal in the cause of his
adopted country; at the close of the war he
removed to the western part of Pennsylvania.
lie was a member of the convention which in
1789 framed the new constitution of Pennsylva
nia, and a member of congress in 1812. He died
at Unity township, Greensburg, April 5, 1821, aged
upwards of 70. In his politics he opposed the
administration of J. Adams and supported Mr.
Jefferson. In his religion he belonged to the
class of " old. dissenters " of the Scotch reforma
tion. He published a review of the funding sys
tem, 1794 ; a history of the insurrection of the
four western counties of Pennsylvania, etc., 1796;
observations on the two sons of oil, vindicating
religious liberty against Ilev. Samuel B. Wylie,
1812.
FIXDLEY, WILLIAM, governor of Pennsylva
nia, died at Ilarrisburg Xov. 14, 1846, aged 78.
He published a history of the insurrection in
Pennsylvania, 1796.
FIXLEY, SAMUEL, D. D., president of the col
lege of Xew Jersey, died July 17, 1766, aged 50.
He was born of pious parents in the county of
Armagh in Ireland in the year 1715, and was one
of seven sons, who were all pious. Very early in I
life it pleased God to awaken and convert him. I
He first heard a sermon, when he was six years I
old, and from that time resolved to be a minister. ;
He left his native country at the age of eighteen,
and arrived at Philadelphia Sept. 28, 1734. After
his arrival he spent several years in completing
his studies. Having been licensed to preach in
Aug., 1740, he was ordained Oct. 13th by the
Presbytery of Xew Brunswick. The first part of
his ministry was spent in fatiguing itinerant
labors. He contributed his efforts with Gilbert
Tennent and Mr. Whitefield in promoting the I
revival of religion, which was at that period so |
remarkable throughout this country. His benev- I
olent zeal sometimes brought him into unpleasant !
circumstances. The legislature of Connecticut i
had made a law, prohibiting itinerants from enter- j
ing parishes, in which a minister was settled, un- '
less by his consent. For preaching to a Presby- j
terian congregation in Xew Haven, Mr. Finley !
was in consequence of this law seized by the civil i
authority, and carried as a vagrant out of the
colony. But persecution could not shake him
from his purpose of being occupied in preaching
the everlasting gospel. His exertions were greatly
blessed in a number of towns in Xew Jersey, and
he preached for six months with great acceptance
in Philadelphia. In June, 1744, he accepted an
invitation from Nottingham, Maryland, where he
continued near seven years faithfully and success
fully discharging the duties of his office. Here
he established an academy, which acquired great
reputation. Under his instruction many youths
received the rudiments of learning, and correct
moral sentiments, which have since contributed
much toward rendering them the most useful
members of society. Upon the death of Presi
dent Davies, Mr. Finley was chosen his successor.
It was with reluctance that he left a people so
much endeared to him, and with whom he had so
long lived in friendship. He removed to Prince
ton in July, 1761, and entered upon the duties of
his new office. The college flourished under his
care ; but it enjoyed the benefit of his superin
tendence for but a few years. He died of an
affection of the liver at Philadelphia, whither he
had gone for medical assistance, and was buried
by the side of his friend, Gilbert Tennent. His
first wife, who died in 1760, was Sarah Hall, by
whom he had eight children ; his second wife was
Ann Clarkson, daughter of Matthew Clarkson,
merchant of Xew York. She survived him forty-
one years. His son, Ebenezer Finley, was a
physician in Charleston, South Carolina. His
daughter married Samuel Breeze of Xew Jersey,
and was the mother of the wife of Rev. Dr.
Morse.
In his religious opinions he was a Calvinist.
His sermons were not hasty productions, but the
result of study, and filled with good sense and
well digested sentiment, expressed in a style
pleasing to the man of science yet perfectly in
telligible by the illiterate. He was remarkable
for sweetness of temper and polite behavior, hos
pitable, charitable, and diligent in the perform
ance of the various duties of life. During his last
sickness he was perfectly resigned to the Divine
will; he had a strong faith in his Saviour ; and he
frequently expressed an earnest desire of departing,
that he might dwell with the Lord Jesus. A
short time before his death he sat up, and prayed
earnestly, that God would enable him to endure
patiently to the end, and keep him from dishonor
ing the ministry. lie then said, " blessed be God,
eternal rest is at hand. Eternity is but long enough
to enjoy my God. This, this has animated me in my
severest studies ; I was ashamed to take rest here.
O, that I might be filled with the fulness of God ! "
He then addressed himself to all his friends in the
room, " O that each of you may experience what,
blessed be God, I do, when you come to die;
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FISH.
may you have the pleasure in a dying hour to
reflect, that, with faith and patience, zeal and sin
cerity, you have endeavored to serve the Lord ;
and may each of you be impressed, as I have
been, with God's word, looking upon it as sub
stantial, and not only fearing, but being unwilling
to ofi'er.d against it," On being asked how he
felt, he replied : " Full of triumph ! I triumph
through Christ ! Nothing clips my wings, but
the thoughts of my dissolution being delayed.
O, that it were to-night ! My very soul thirsts
for eternal rest." When he was asked, what he
saw in eternity to excite such vehement desires, he
said : " I see the eternal love and goodness of
God ; I see the fulness of the mediator ; I see
the love of Jesus. O, to be dissolved and to be
with him ! I long to be clothed with the com
plete righteousness of Christ." Thus this excel
lent man died, in the full assurance of salvation.
He published a sermon on Matthew xu. 28,
entitled, Christ triumphing and Satan raging,
preached at Nottingham, 1741 ; a refutation of
Mr. Thomson's sermon on the doctrine of con
victions, 1743 ; Satan stripped of his evangelical
robe, against the Moravians, 1743 ; a charitable
plea for the speechless in answer to Abel Mor
gan's anti-pedo-rantism, 1747; a vindication of
the preceding, 1748 ; a sermon at the ordination
of John Ilodgers at St. George's, March 16, 1749;
a sermon on the death of President Davies, prefixed
to his works ; the curse of Meroz, or the danger
of neutrality in the cause of God and our coun
try, 1757. — Assembly Miss. Mag. I. 71-77;
Panoplist, I. 281-286 ; and new series, I. 241-
257 ; Christian Mag. I. 301-307,419-436 ; Mass.
Miss. Mag. iv. 241-247 ; Green's Discourse,
306-386.
FINLEY, ROBERT, D. D., president of the
university of Georgia, died Oct. 3, 1817, aged
45. He was born at Princeton in 1772, and
graduated at Princeton college in 1787. From
1792 to 1795 he was a tutor, and a trustee from
1807 till 1817, when he resigned. He was the
minister of Basking-Bridge, N. J., from June,
1795, until 1817. Deeply interested in the welfare
of the free blacks, he formed a plan of sending
them to Africa, and may be considered as the father
of the colonization society. In Dec., 1816, he
went to Washington, and succeeded in calling a
meeting of gentlemen, Dec. 21, at which addresses
were made by Mr. Clay and Mr. Randolph. The
next week a constitution was adopted and Judge
Washington chosen president. On his return, Dr.
Finlcy caused the establishment of an auxiliary so
ciety at Trenton. Being at this period chosen pres
ident of Franklin college, at Athens, Ga., he re
paired to that place in 1817, and in a few months
died there, leaving a wife and nine children. He
published several sermons. — Memoirs of Finley.
FINN, HEXRY J., died Jan. 13, 1840, aged
58, lost with one hundred and thirty-nine others
in the burning of the steamboat Lexington.
Born in Boston, when a boy on his passage to
England the vessel sunk, but the passengers es
caped in small boats and were taken up after sev
eral days. He went upon the stage in London,
and then in New York, and Boston. lie was
the owner of an elegant residence in Newport, to
which he was returning from New York on the
day of his death. . He published a comic annual,
and a drama called Montgomery. — Cycl. Amer
ican Literature, n. 28.
FIRMIN, GILES, a physician, was born in Suf
folk, and educated at Cambridge, England. His
father of the same name was chosen deacon in
Boston in 1633. He came himself to this coun
try as early as 1634. He settled at Ipswich,
where in 1638 he had a grant of one hundred
and twenty acres of land. He married the
daughter of Ilev. Nathaniel Ward. About the
end of the civil wars he returned to England, and
his family followed him. Ordained as the minis
ter of Shalford, he there faithfully preached the
gospel, until he was ejected in 1662. Retiring
to the village of Redgwell, seven or eight miles
distant, he practised physic and continued to
preach, having a vigorous constitution, to the last
Sabbath of his life. He died in April, 1697, aged
upwards of 80. He was a man of learning, of
peace, and of a public spirit. Calamy gives a cat
alogue of his writings, among which are the schism
of the parochial congregations in England and or
dination, with an examination of Owen, and of
Noyes' argument against imposing hands, 1658, and
the real Christian, 1670. — Calamy 's Acct. II. 295.
FISH, JOSEPH, died in 1780, aged about 72.
He graduated at Harvard in 1728; and was set
tled the pastor of the north society of Stonington,
Conn., Dec. 27, 1732. He published a sermon at
the ordination of W. Vinal, Newport, 1746 ; a
fast sermon, 1755; election sermon, 1760; nine
sermons on Matthew 16 : 18, concerning separa
tion, about 1767 ; also, the examiner examined, or
remarks on Isaac Backus' examination of nine
sermons, 1771.
FISH, ELISIIA, minister of Upton, Mass., died
in 1795, aged about 66. He graduated at Har
vard in 1750. He published a thanksgiving ser
mon on the repeal of the stamp act, 1767 ; the
art of war lawful and necessary, 1773; discourse
on infant baptism ; at Worcester, 1775.
FISH, PRESERVED, died at Portsmouth, R. I.,
May 17, 1844. He was a worthy and respected
citizen. A Mr. Fish with the same Christian
name died at New York July 23, 1846, aged 81.
FISH, PIIIXEAS, died June 16, 1854, aged 69.
He was born at Sandwich Jan. 30, 1785, gradu
ated at Harvard in 1807, and \vas ordained at
Marshpee Sept. 18, 1812, at which place he was
for more than forty years a faithful missionary to
FISHER.
the Indians, as the successor of G. Hawley. He
published a sermon at the ordination of S. Mun-
son, Barnstable, 1832.
FISIIEIt, HUGH, minister of Midway, Geo.,
died in 1734. He succeeded Mr. Lord, and was
succeeded by John Osgood. He published a ser
mon, a preservative from damnable error ; and a
reply to Smith's answer, 1731.
FISHER, NATHANIEL, first minister of Dighton,
died in 1777, aged 91. The son of Daniel, of
Dedham, he was graduated in 170G ; and or
dained in 1712.
FISHER, JABEZ, a patriot of the Revolution,
died in Franklin, Mass., Oct. 15, 1806, aged 88.
He was a member of the provincial congress at
Salem in 1774, and of that at Cambridge in 1775,
and for many years a representative, councillor,
and senator. He was the associate of Adams,
Cushing, Paine, and Hancock. He was also an
eminent Christian. — Emmons' Funeral Sermon.
FISHER, NATHANIEL, Episcopal minister of
Salem, was born at Dedham in 1742 ; graduated
in 17(53; and ordained in 177G fora church in
Nova Scotia. He went to Salem in 1781, and
died Dec. 22, 1812, on the Sabbath, after preach
ing from the text, " How long have I to live ? "
A volume of his sermons was published, Svo.,
1818.
FISHER, MYERS, a lawyer at Philadelphia,
and a Quaker, died March 12, 1819, aged 71.
He was a man of science and an eloquent orator.
He published an answer to Paine's age of reason.
FISHER, ALEXANDER M., a professor of math
ematics in Yale college, died April 22, 1822, aged
28. He was born in Franklin, Mass., in 1794,
and graduated at Yale college in 1813. For a
while he studied theology at Andover. He was
appointed professor in 1817 as successor of Mr.
Day, elected president. Anxious to enlarge
his knowledge of the science to which he was
devoted, he determined to make a voyage to
Europe. lie accordingly sailed in the packet
ship Albion, which was wrecked on the coast of
Ireland ; and he was among those who were lost,
lie was succeeded by Mr. Dutton. With a
genius for mathematical inquiry, he had made
great advances in the higher branches of mathe
matics. Some of his investigations were pub
lished in Silliman's journal.
FISHER, ELIAS, minister of Lempster, N. II.,
died in 1831, aged about 82. He was a gradu
ate of Harvard in 1769; and was ordained at L.
in 17S7. He had been a preacher fifty-two years.
FISHER, JOSHUA, M. 1)., president of the
Massachusetts medical society, died in Beverly
March 21, 1833, aged 84. He was a graduate of
Harvard in 1766. He published a discourse on
narcotics, 1806.
FISHER, JONATHAN, minister of Bluehill, Me.,
died Sept. 22, 1848, aged nearly 80. A native
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of New Braintrce, Mass., he was a graduate of
Harvard in 1792, and, having studied theology
with Dr. Tappan, was ordained in 1796. His
ministry in a beautiful town on the seaboard was
for nearly half a century. He survived all the
members, constituting his church at his settle
ment. The whole place was shaped and moulded
by his character and efforts. His various labors
ought to be remembered. He was a good far
mer, working on his own farm. He toiled in the
structure of his house. He made his own clock,
which kept note of the whole period of his life.
lie was a portrait painter and copied some an
cient pieces. He engraved on wood, with his
penknife, most of the animals mentioned in
Scripture, and published them with a description
in a book. He was a prolific poet. He learned
Hebrew, and proceeded far in writing a lexicon.
He wrote out three thousand sermons. He was
so good a walker as sometimes to walk to Ban-
gor, seventy miles, and home again. In all his
habits he was regular. A severe Calvinist, his
whole life " was a pre-constructed, fore-ordained
system ; " so much so, that, rising at the call of
his alarm clock, it was his rule that his feet should
strike the floor before the weight reached the bot
tom. He was stern, severe, most faithful. With
the young he ever conversed most faithfully ; all
his children were pious. In his preaching he had .
no gentleness, no emotion; it was cold, hard
reading. What he had determined to preach, he
would preach, no matter what unexpected change
of circumstances might have occurred. Under
him the town was remarkable for industry and
thrift, for good morals, for the prevalence of sound
religious principle. Such was his known charac
ter, that when a scoffer was calling all Christians
hypocrites, and asked for the name of one who
was not, in which case he would yield the argu
ment, and the name of " father Fisher " was ut
tered, he said : "I refuse to accept him ; he is
mid in every thing ! " He published a sermon
at the ordination of M. Steele, 1801. — New
York Independent, Oct. 2, 1856.
FISHER, REDWOOD, died at Philadelphia May
17, 1856, aged 74. He was an editor and author
and statistician of large acquirements.
FISK, PHINEIIAS, the minister of Haddam,
Conn., died Oct. 17, 1738, aged 55. He was the
son of Dr. John Fisk of Milford, and grandson of
Rev. John Fiske, — as the name was formerly
written, — of Chelmsford. His name is the fourth
in the catalogue of Yale college; but he never
studied at New Haven. It was while the infant
seminary was at Killingworth that he pursued his
studies in it, and was graduated in 1704 in a class
of three persons. When the college was removed
to Saybrook, in 1706, he was appointed a tutor,
and remained such till 1713, and had for years
the almost sole care of the college, as Mr. An •
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drew, the rector, resided at Milford. About forty
students were educated under him. In 1714 he
was settled at Haddam. He was a scholar, an^
spoke Latin fluently ; he was also a physician,
skilled in the treatment of insanity and epilepsy.
His daughter married a brother of D. Brainerd.
He published an election sermon.
FISK, PLINY, a missionary, died Oct. 23, 1825
aged 33. He was born at Shelburne, Mass., June
24, 1792. His father, Ebenezer, died in 1841,
aged 92 : he came to S. when it was a wilder
ness. At the age of sixteen he became pious.
He was graduated at Middlebury college in 1814.
In his indigence he lived two years on bread and
milk ; nor was he ashamed to carry his corn to
mill upon his shoulders. A good woman baked
his loaf for him. Having studied theology at
Andover, where he was one of the " group of
stars," commemorated by Wilcox, he was em
ployed as an agent for the board of foreign mis
sions one year, and then sailed for Palestine
with Mr. Parsons, Nov. 3, 1819. On arriving at
Smyrna Jan. 15, 1820, they engaged in the study
of the eastern languages ; but in a few months re
moved to Scio, in order to study modern Greek
under professor Bambas. The college at Scio
then had seven or eight hundred students. But
in 1821 the island was desolated by the barbar
ous Turks. In 1822 he accompanied to Egypt
his fellow laborer, Mr. Parsons, and witnessed his
death and buried him in the Greek convent.
From Egypt he proceeded in April, 1823, through
the desert to Judea, accompanied by Mr. King
and Mr. Wolff. Having visited Jerusalem, he
went to Beyroot, Baalbec, Damascus, Aleppo, and
Antioch. He made a third visit to Jerusalem
with Mr. King. When he withdrew from Jeru
salem in the spring of 1825, he retired to the
mission family of Mr. Goodell and Mr. Bird at
Beyroot, where he died of a prevailing fever. He
was eminently qualified to be a missionary in the
east. He was a preacher in Italian, French,
modern Greek, and Arabic. He had been em
ployed in preparing a dictionary in English and
Arabic, and on the day of his seizure by his sick
ness, he had put down against the last letter of
the English alphabet the last word which he
knew in Arabic. His various communications are
found in several volumes of the Missionary
Herald. — Hand's Memoir of Fisk.
FISK, ISAAC, an assistant missionary, died at
Elliot among the Choctaws in 1820, after a faith
ful service of one year. He went from Holden,
Mass., in April, 1819.
FISK, JOSEPH, physician in Lexington, Mass.,
died in 1837, aged 85.
FISK, EZRA, D. D., professor of ecclesiastical
history in Western theological seminary, died in
Philadelphia Dec., 1833, aged about 45. He
graduated at Williams college in 1809.
FISKE.
FISK, WILBUR, D. D., president of the Wes-
lyan university in Middletown, Conn., died there
Feb. 22, 1839, aged 46. He was graduated at
Brown university in 1815, and was appointed
president in 1831. He was much respected and
deeply lamented. He published inaugural ad
dress, 1831; travels in Europe.
FISK, ELISHA, minister of Wrentham, died
Jan. 11, 1851, aged 81. A graduate of Brown
university in 1795, he was ordained in 1799, and
was in active, useful service during his whole life.
His predecessors were Mann, Messinger, and
Bean. He published a sermon at Boston, 1793;
two anniversary sermons, 1846 ; a half-century
sermon in June, 1850.
FISKE, JOHN, first minister of Wenham and
Chelmsford, Mass., died Jan. 14, 1677, aged 76.
He was born in England in 1601, and was edu
cated at Cambridge. He came to this country in
1637, and, being in the same ship with John Allen,
they preached two sermons almost every day
during the voyage. He was for some time the
teacher of a school at Cambridge. As his prop
erty was large, he made considerable loans to the
province. He lived almost three years at Salem,
preaching to the church, and instructing a num
ber of young persons. When a church was
gathered in Enon, or Wenham, Oct. 8, 1644, he
was settled the minister, and here he continued
till about the year 1656, when he removed to
Chelmsford, then a new town, with the majority
of his church, and was there an able and useful
preacher twenty years. He was a skilful physician,
as well as an excellent minister. His son, Moses,
was minister of Braintree. Among the severest
afflictions to which he was called, says Dr. Mather,
was the loss of his concordance ; that is, of his
wife, who was so expert in the Scriptures as to
render any other concordance unnecessary. He
published a catechism, entitled, the olive-branch
watered. — Magnalia, ill. 141-143; Hist. Coll.
VI. 239-249.
FISKE, MOSES, minister of Braintree, Mass.,
died Aug. 10, 1708, aged 65, in the thirty-sixth
year of his ministry. He graduated at Harvard
in 1662, in the class of S. Stoddard. He suc
ceeded Mr. Flint, and was ordained Sept. 11, 1672.
FISKE, JOHN, minister of Killingly, Conn.,
died in 1773, aged 89. He was a graduate of
Harvard in 1702.
FISKE, NATHAN, D. D., minister of Brookfield,
Mass., was born in Weston in 1733. He was
graduated at Harvard in 1754, and ordained
pastor of the church in the third parish in Brook-
field, May 28, 1758. Here he continued more
than forty years. After preaching on the Lord's
day, Nov. 24, 1799, he retired to his bed at his
usual hour in apparent health, and in a short timo
died without a struggle, aged 66. By incessant
study he gradually perfected lu's talents, and
FISKE.
gained the public esteem. In prosperity and^ad-
veraty he por.ficr.scd the same serenity of mind.
With'a small salary he found means to practise a
generous hospitality, and to give three sons a col-
le"ial education. He published a sermon on the
settlement and growth of Brookfield, delivered
Dec. 31, 1773; at a fast, 1776; on the death of
Joshua Spooner, 1778; of Judge Foster, 1779;
of J. Ilobbs, 178-1; an oration on the capture of
Cormvallis, Oct., 1781; sermons on various sub
ject0, 8vo. 1794; Dudleian lecture, 1796; the
moral monitor, 2 vols. 12mo. 1801. — Preface to
Monitor; Monthly Anthol. I. 639.
FISKE, CALEB, M. D., died at Scituate, R. I.,
Dec. 30, 1834, aged 82.
FISKE, OLIVER, M. D., died at Boston, Jan.
25, 1837, aged about 70. A son of Rev. Mr. F.
of Brookfield, he was a graduate of 1787, and
long a physician in Worcester. He filled with
honor various offices. He published oration, 1797 ;
addresses to agricultural society, 1823 and 1831.
FISKE, CATHARINE, Miss, for thirty-eight years
a distinguished teacher, died in Keene, N. II., in
July or August, 1837, aged 63. Born in Wor
cester, her mother removed to Newfane, Vt. At
fifteen she began to teach; she instituted the
female seminary in Keene in 1814, in which she
spent the remainder of her life. More than
2,500 pupils from various States were under her
care. She had remarkable powers, superintend
ing her household and farm, and teaching various
sciences, and maintaining discipline, and retaining
affection. She was pious. After various bequests,
the whole of her property, all acquired by herself,
she gave for an insane hospital. — Barstow's Biog-
rapln/, in Recorder, Sept. 1.
FISKE, MOSES, died in 1843, aged 83, brother
of Rev. Dr. John F. He was the son of Peter,
of Sherburne, and a descendant of David, of
Watertown in 1638. He was an able tutor at
Dartmouth from 1788 to 1795; he began to
preach, but was never ordained. About 1799 he
emigrated to Hilham, in Tennessee, where he
spent the remaining period of his life, more than
forty years. After the age of fifty he married
and had nine children. He was a farmer and an
excellent scholar, an encourager of learning, a
friend of the needy and desponding. He ab
horred slavery, and would never own a slave.
lie edited the " Eagle " at Dartmouth, and pub
lished an English grammar, 1772; a sermon on
slavery, in 1795, from Eccl. 4: I. — American
Quarterly Register, 1840, p. 382.
FISKE, NATHAN W., professor of Greek at
Amhcrst college, died May 27, 1847. A grad
uate of Dartmouth in 1817, he was appointed
professor in 1825, and professor of moral philos
ophy and metaphysics in 1836. An account of
his life and writings was written by Dr. Hum
phrey. He published a valuable work, - — a manual
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of classical literature, from the German of Esch-
enburg, wilh additions, 3d edit., 1841.
FISKE, JOHN, D. I)., died at New Braintree,
Mass., March 15, 1855, aged 84. He was the
)rother of Moses, of Tennessee. A graduate of
Dartmouth in 1791, and a member of the college
church, he was ordained as a missionary to the
Seneca Indians in 1794 ; and he preached twenty
sermons at Geneva, which then had five log
louses and two framed ones. He was settled
fifty-seven years. Of Amherst college he was a
trustee. He was a highly respected and very
useful man, and he died, as he wished, in a sound
and happy old age, with
" That which should accompany old age,
As honor, love, obedience, troops of friends."
He published a fast sermon, 1812, — Snell's Fu
neral Sermon.
FISKE, THADDEUS, D. D., the oldest minister
in Massachusetts, died in Charlestown Nov. 14,
1855, aged 93. He was born in Weston June 22,
1762, graduated in 1785, and at his death there
was only one living graduate older, Asa Andrews,
of Ipswich, of the class of 1783. He was minis
ter of West Cambridge forty years, from 1788 to
1828, and survived three of his successors in the
ministry, D. Damon, W. Ware, and J. F. Brown.
He published a thanksgiving sermon, 1795.
FITCH, JAMES, first minister of Saybrook, and
of Norwich, Conn., died Nov. 18, 1702, aged 79.
He was born in the county of Essex, England,
Dec. 24, 1622, and came to this country in 1638.
He had already acquired a correct knowledge of
the learned languages ; but he spent seven years
under the instruction of Mr. Hooker and Mr.
Stone. In 1646 he was ordained over a church,
which was at that time gathered at Saybrook, and
it is said that the brethren's hands only were im
posed. In 1660 he removed with the greater
part of his church to Norwich, and in that town
passed the remaining active days of his life.
When the infirmities of age obliged him to cease
from his public labors, he retired to his children
at Lebanon. By his first wife, Abigail, daughter
of Rev. Henry Whitefield, he had two sons, James
and Samuel, and four daughters ; by his second
wife, Priscilla, daughter of Maj. John Mason, of
Norwich, he had seven sons, Daniel, John, Jere
miah, and Jabez, Nathaniel, Joseph, and Eleazer,
and one daughter ; and all lived to have families,
excepting Eleazer.
His brother Thomas, of Norwalk, was the father
of Gov. Thomas Fitch. He was distinguished
for the penetration of his mind, the energy of his
preaching, and the sanctity of his life. He was
acquainted with the Mohegan language, and
preached the gospel of salvation to the Indians in
the neighborhood of Norwich. He even gave
some of his own lands to induce them to renounce
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their savage manner of living. The descendants
of those Indians at Mohegan, for whose benefit
he toiled, have been carefully instructed in relig
ion by some self-denying Christians, have had a
meeting-house built for them by the liberality of
the citizens of Norwich and other towns, and have
received an appropriation from the war depart
ment of a few hundred dollars. A letter of his
on the subject of his missionary labors is pub
lished in Gookin. He published a sermon on the
death of Anne, wife of Maj. Mason, 1672 ; the
advice of council explained, 1683. — Matter's
Magnalia, ill. 200 ; TrumbulVs Connecticut, I.
107, 299, 502, 503; Hist. Coll. I. 208 ; IX. 86; Al-
den's Account of Portsmouth.
FITCH, JABEZ, minister of Portsmouth, N. II.,
was the son of the preceding, and was born at
Norwich in April, 1672. He was graduated at
Harvard in 1694. In 1703 he was ordained at
Ipswich as colleague of John Rogers. On ac
count of the incompctency of his maintenance, he
withdrew from his pastoral office in Dec., 1723,
and about the year 1725 Avas established at Ports
mouth. After continuing here more than twenty
years, he died Nov. 22, 1746, aged 74. He had a
taste for historical researches, and began in 1728 to
make a collection of facts relative to N. H. Dr.
Bclknap had access to his papers. He published a
sermon on the death of MaryMartyn; one occa
sioned by the great earthquake, Oct. 29, 1727; at
the ordination of John Tucker, at Gosport, Isle of
Shoals, in 1732, from these words : " I will make you
fishers of men ; " two sermons designed to make
a religious improvement of the throat distemper,
which prevailed in 1735 and 1736; and an ac
count of that disease, as it appeared in New
Hampshire. — Alden's Account of Society in
Portsmouth; Hist. Coll. VII. 251, 257; X. 50.
FITCH, ELIJAH, minister of Hopkinton, Mass.,
died in 1788, aged 42. He was a graduate of
Yale in 1765. He published a poem in blank
verse, entitled the beauties of religion.
FITCH, JOHX, inventor of steamboats, died of
a broken heart at Bardstown, Ky., in 1798, aged
55. Born in Windsor, Conn., he was first an ap
prentice to a clock-maker, and was then a silver
smith in Trenton. Being plundered by the Brit
ish, he was next a soldier. He purchased land in
Kentucky, and was there detained a prisoner some
years by the Indians. In 1782 he regained his
liberty. In 1786, after various experiments, he
ran his boat at the rate of eight miles an hour,
and obtained a patent ; but the want of funds in
terrupted the prosecution of his designs. In
1798 his privilege in New York was withdrawn
and given to Livingston. — Scientific American,
1848, p. 25.
FITCH, EBENEZER, D. D., died at West Bloom-
field, N. Y., March 21, 1833, aged 77. He was
a graduate of Yale in 1777 ; the first president of
Williams college, from 1793 to 1815, when he re
signed, and Avas succeeded by Dr. Moore. The
rest of his life was spent in* the ministry in
Bloomfield. lie was a benevolent man and an
excellent Christian. The following anecdote has
bsen heard, — which ought to be true, and prob
ably is, — that in his poverty as a poor minister at
the west, a friend presented him with one or two
thousand dollars ; and that friend was W. F.
Backus, a graduate of 1802, whom he had as
sisted in his struggles to obtain an education. Dr.
F. had a wife as good and benevolent as himself.
FITZIIUGII, WILLIAM HENRY, vice-president
of the colonization society, the son of William F.,
a patriot of the Revolution, was born at Chatham,
Stafford county, Va., March 8, 1792, and gradu
ated at Princeton in 1808. He afterwards settled
on the patrimonial domain of Ravensworth, Fair
fax county, devoting himself to agricultural pur
suits, and receiving with generous hospitality his
numerous friends. He dkd at Cambridge, Md.,
of the apoplexy, May 21, 1830, aged 38. His
wife was the daughter of Charles Goldsborough,
of Dorset, Md. He published in favor of the
colonization society the essays of Opimius in the
Richmond Inquirer of 1826 ; a speech at the
ninth anniversary, and a review of TazeweU's re
port in African Repository, Aug. and Nov., 1828.
In one of his writings he represents, " that the
labor of the slave is a curse on the land on
which it is expended." — African Repository, IV.
91-96.
FLAGG, JOHN, a physician and patriot, died at
Lynn in 1793, aged 49. He was the son of Rev.
Ebenezcr F., of Chester, N. H., and graduated at
Harvard in 1761. He belonged to the medical
society, and had full practice. — Thacltcr.
FLAGG, EBENEZER, died Nov. 14, 1796, aged
92. The son of Ebenezer, of Woburn, he grad
uated at Harvard in 1725, and was ordained in
1736 at Chester, N. II.
FLAGG, THOMAS COLLLNS, an eminent physi
cian of Charleston, S. C., died in 1801. He was
of the order of the Cincinnati.
FLEET, THOMAS, an eminent printer in Bos
ton, died July 21, 1758, aged 72. He was a man
of a fine understanding and knowledge of the
world, and of great industry, just and benev
olent. — N. E. Journal, July 24, 1758.
FLETCHER, BRIDGET, wife of Timothy F.,
of Westford, died about 1770, aged about 44.
Her hymns and spiritual songs, a small volume,
was published by her son, Rev. Elijah F., in
1773.
FLETCHER, ELIJAH, minister of Hopkinton,
N. II., was born in Westford, and graduated at
Harvard in 1769. He was ordained Jan. 27,
1772, and died April 8, 1786, aged 39. Five
ministers had been settled before him in II. He
was the worthy patron of students; and one
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\vhom he prepared for college and assisted, was
President Webber, who ever acknowledged his
obligations. His three daughters married Josiah
White, of Pittsfield, N. H., Israel W. Kelley, of
Salisbury, N. H., and Daniel Webster. His son
Timothy was a merchant in Portland. His widow
married Rev. Christopher Paige, of Salisbury.
FLETCHER, THOMAS, died in Southwick Dec.
4, 1846, aged 55, in the twenty-third year of his
ministry. He was one of those unobtrusive men
of wide usefulness, who will be held by wise and
good beings in eternal honor. Born in New
Ipswich in 1790, he took charge of the academy
at Kinderhook Landing in Ihl8. Remote from a
place of public worship, he organized a Sabbath
school and conducted the worship ; through
God's blessing one hundred and twenty-five per
sons were soon his converts and admitted to the
church. He now studied divinity three years
with Dr. Livingston, of Coxsackie, and was then
ordained at Schaghticoke Point in 1824. In six
years there were two special revivals of the
power of religion. Afterwards he was settled at
Northeast and New Marlborough, and then at
Southwick for ten years. He died in great peace.
FLIXN, ANDREW, D. D., minister of Charles
ton, S. C., had been previously the minister of
Camden seven or eight years, and removed to
Charleston about 1808. He died Feb. 25, 1820,
rejoicing in the hope of eternal h'fe. As a minis
ter he Avas faithful and zealous. He published a
sermon on the death of Judge Wilds, 1810; a
dedication sermon, 1811.
FLINT, HENRY, one of the first ministers of
Braintree, Mass., died April 27, 1668, aged 68.
He was ordained as teacher March 17, 1640.
When the church was first organized Sept. 16,
1639, he was chosen colleague with Mr. Thomp
son, who was ordained pastor Sept. 24th ; but his
settlement was delayed for a few months. He
was a man of piety and integrity, and well quali
fied for the work of the ministry. His wife was
Margery, sister of President Hoar. His son,
Josiah Flint, was settled at Dorchester in 1671
and died in 1680. — Magnolia, III. 122; Han
cock's Cent. Serm. ; Morton, 200; Winthrop, 188;
Holmes.
FLINT, HENRY, tutor and fellow of Harvard
college, was the son of Josiah Flint of Dorches
ter, and received his degree of bachelor of arts in
1693. He was chosen a fellow of the college in
1700, and in 1705 was appointed tutor. This
office he sustained till his resignation Sept. 25,
1754. He died Feb. 13, 1760, aged 84. Many
of the most eminent men in the country were
educated under his care. Dr. Chauncy pro
nounces him a solid, judicious man, and one of
the best of preachers. The few foibles, which he
exhibited, were ascribed to his living in a single
state. In his last illness he viewed the approach
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of death with perfect calmness, for he trusted in
the mercy of God through the merits of Christ.
He published two sermons on the last judgment,
1814 ; an appeal to the consciences of a degener
ate people, a sermon preached at the Thursday
lecture in Boston, 1729; a sermon to the students
in the college hall, 1736 ; oratio funcbris in obi-
tum B. Wadsworth, 1738; twenty sermons, 8vo.
1739. — Applet on1 s Fun. Serm. ; LovelVs Oratio
Funeb. ; Hist. Coll. ix. 183 ; x. 165.
FLINT, ABEL, 1). D., minister of the second
church in Hartford, was born in Windham Aug.
6, 1765; graduated at Yale college in 1785; and
died March 7, 1825, aged 59. He published a
sermon on the death of the wife of Rev. A.
Yates, 1806; of John M'Curdy Strong, 1806; a
system of geometry and trigonometry, with a
treatise on surveying, 1806 ; and a translation of
some of Massillon's and Bourdaloue's sermons.
FLINT, JACOB, minister of Cohasset, died in
1835, aged about 60. Born in Reading, he grad
uated at Harvard in 1794, and was ordained Jan.
10, 1798. He published a history of Cohasset in
the historical collections, 3d series, vol. II. ; two
discourses on the history of Cohasset, 1821 ; a
discourse on the doctrine of the trinity, 1824.
FLINT, TIMOTHY, died at Reading, Mass.,
Aug. 18, 1840, aged 60. lie was born in Read
ing, was graduated at Harvard in 1800, and was
the minister of Lunenburg, then a missionary in
the Mississippi valley. Afterwards he lived in
Cincinnati, and was a resident on Red River, La.
His writings are interesting and valuable. He
published recollections of the last ten years in the
valley of the Mississippi; history and geography
of the Mississippi valley, 2 vols. 1832 ; Francis
Berrian, or the Mexican patriot; George Mason,
or the young backwoodsman, 1829; Western
Review, 1830.
FLINT, AUSTIN, doctor, died at Leicester Aug.
29, 1850, aged 90. Born in Shrewsbury Jan. 4,
" 1760, he was the son of Dr. Edward Flint ; both
father and son were eminent patriots, surgeons
and physicians in the army. Dr. Austin F. was
at the age of twenty-one in Drury's regiment at
West Point in 1781. He married the daughter
of Col. William Ilenshaw of L., a distinguished
officer in the Revolution. He was a man of
judgment, of independence, of principle, and fear
less in the expression of his principles and senti
ments; cheerful and good-humored, the sick and
the well were glad to see him. His son, Dr.
Joseph H. F., died before him. — Wasliburn.
FLLNT, JAMES,D. D., died in Salem March 4,
1855, aged 73. He was born in Reading Dec.
10, 1781, was graduated in 1802, studied divinity
with J. Bates, and was ordained at East Bridge-
water Oct. 29, 1806. With a poetic taste and a
taste for horticulture, he greatly embellished the
grounds about his house. At his reques' he was
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dismissed April 6, 1821 ; and was installed over
the east church in Salem Sept. 20, 1821, as the
successor of William Bentlcy. He had a col
league, Dexter Clapp, Dec. 17, 1851. He had
" ready humor, lively sympathy, and rare conver
sational powers." He published some poetical
productions ; also, at ordination of N. Whitman,
1814; election sermon, 1815 ; anniversary dis
course at Plymouth, 1815 ; at ordination of
S. Alden, 1820; on the death of Dr. Abbott, 1828.
FLORA, a black woman, died at Harbor island,
1808, aged 150. Born in Africa in 1658, she was
carried to Jamaica, then to Nassau, and sold to
W. Thompson. She was free forty-eight years
before her death.
FLOYD, WILLIAM, general, died Aug. 4, 1821,
aged 86. He was the son of Nicoll F., an opulent
landholder, whose ancestors came from Wales
and settled on Long Island. He was born Dec.
17, 1734. His education was imperfect; but he
acquired much knowledge by intercourse with the
intelligent. He was a delegate to the congress of
1774, and continued a member till after the Dec
laration of Independence. When the British
took possession of Long Island, his family fled
for safety to Connecticut ; his house was occupied
by troops ; and for nearly seven years he was an
exile from his dwelling and derived no benefit
from his landed estate. In Oct., 1778, he was
again a member of congress, and was frequently
a member of the legislature of the State. In
1784 he purchased a tract of land at Western,
Oneida county, on the Mohawk ; and this, by the
labor of several summers, he converted into a
good farm, to which he removed his family in
1803. He left a widow and children. Three of
the signers of the Declaration of Independence
survived him. His manners were not familiar,
nor was his disposition afl'ablc ; yet in public life
he was patriotic and independent, and for more
than fifty years was honored with the confidence
of his fellow citizens. — Goodrich's Lives.
FLOYD, JOHN, governor, died at Sweet
Springs, Va., Aug. 16, 1837. He was a member
of congress from 1817 to 1829, and governor of
Va. from 1829 to 1834.
FLOYD, Jonx, general, died in Camden
county, Geo., June 24, 1839, aged 70.
FOBES, PEREZ, LL. D., professor of mathe
matics, was graduated at Harvard in 1762, and
ordained minister of Raynham Nov. 19, 1766.
In 1786 he was elected professor of the college
in Rhode Island. He died Feb. 23, 1812, aged
70. His wife was the daughter of John Wales,
minister of Raynham. He published a history of
Raynham ; sermon on death of President Man
ning, 1791; election sermon, 1795.
FOGG, DANIEL, a physician in Braintree, died
in 1830, aged 71.
FOLGER, PETER, was the son of John F. of
Norwich, England ; was born in 1618; and came
to this country in 1635. He settled at Martha's
Vineyard in 1635, and removed to Nantucket in
1662. He married Mary Morrill. He is de
scribed as an " able, godly Englishman, who
was employed in teaching the youth in reading,
writing, and the principles of religion, by cate
chizing." His daughter, .Abiah, was the mother
of Benjamin Franklin. The time of his death
has not been ascertained. His small poem was
finished April 23, 1676, and bears the title of
A Looking-glass for the Times." According to
Franklin, " the author addresses himself to the
governors for the time being; speaks for liberty
of conscience, and in favor of the Anabaptists,
Quakers, and other sectaries, who had suffered
persecution. To this persecution he attributes
the war with the natives, and other calamities,
which afflicted the country, regarding them as
the judgments of God in punishment of so odious
an offence ; and he exhorts the government to
the repeal of laws so contrary to charity. The
poem appeared to be written with a manly free
dom and a pleasing simplicity."
Of the simplicity the following is a specimen ;
the four last lines are quoted erroneously by Dr.
Franklin :
" I am for peace and not for war,
And that 's the reason why
I write more plain than some men do,
That use to daub and lie.
But I shall cease, and set my name
To what I here insert ;
Because, to be a libeller,
I hate it with my heart.
From Sherbontown, where now I dwell,
My name do I put here,
Without offence, your real friend,
It is Peter Folger."
FOLLEN, CHARLES T. C., LL. D., died with
one hundred and thirty-nine others in conse
quence of the burning of the steamboat Lexing
ton in Long Island Sound, Jan. 13, 1840, aged 44.
He was professor of the German language and
literature at Cambridge. Born in Germany in
1796, he was educated at the university of Gies-
sen. He was compelled to leave Germany by the
Prussian government, being wrongfully suspected
of being privy to Sand's assassin ation of Kotzebue
in 1819. In 1824 he was appointed German
instructor at Cambridge, and professor from 1830
to 1835. He engaged in the clerical profession.
He was simple, modest, courteous, firm, and
benevolent. His wife was Elizabeth Lee Cabot of
Boston. His works were published in 5 vols. in
1841, with his life, by his widow. — Cyclop, of
American Lit. II. 242.
FOLLOW, PETER, died in Harrison, N. Y., in
1809, aged about 120. Ho retained his hearing
and memory. He was a native of Flanders, and
was in the battle of Ramilies in 1706. He had
lived in Harrison sixty years.
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FOLSOM, NATHANIEL, general, a member of
the first congress of 1774, died at Exeter, N. II.
in June, 1790. In the French war of 1755 he
distinguished himself at the capture of Dicskau.
He was a general of the militia. His earliest
ancestors in this country wrote the name Foul-
shame.
FOLSOM, DAVID, colonel, chief of the Choc-
taw Indians, died Sept. 24, 1847.
FONTAINE, WILLIAM, died in Florida Oct.
16, 1851, aged 105; a Revolutionary soldier.
FOOT, JOHN, minister of Cheshire, Conn., was
ordained colleague with Samuel Hall in March,
1767, and died Aug. 30, 1813, aged 71, having
been a pastor forty-five years.
FOOT, SAMUEL AUGUSTUS, LL. D., governor
of Conn., died at Cheshire, Sept. 15, 1846, aged
65. He was the son of Rev. John F. of Cheshire,
and graduated at Yale in 1797. lie was for
years a democratic representative and senator in
congress, and governor in 1834. His son, John
A., was a lawyer in Cleveland, and Augustus II.,
a lieutenant in the navy.
FOOT, JOSEPH I., D.D., president of Wash
ington college, Tennessee, died April 21, 1840,
aged 43. Born in Connecticut, he was a gradu
ate of Union college, and of Andover theological
seminary in 1824. He was a pastor in Brook-
field, Mass., and in Cortland, N. Y. He pub
lished a historical discourse at Brookfield, 1829;
at ordination, 1830 ; prominent trait in false
teachers.
FOOTE, ROXANA, wife of Horace Foot, mission
ary to Tripoli in Syria, died in 1855, lamented by
her associates.
FOOTE, ISAAC, judge, died at Smyrna, N. Y.,
Feb. 27, 1842, aged 96. A native of Colchester,
he removed to Stafford, Conn., and in 1795 to
Smyrna. He was a Christian and an exemplary
church member seventy-five years.
FORBES, JOSEPH, brigadier-general, was in
trusted with the expedition against fort du Quesne
in 1758. With an army of eight thousand men
he occupied the fortress, which the enemy had
abandoned, Nov. 25, and called it Pittsburg.
Having concluded treaties with the Indians, he
died, exhausted by fatigue, at Philadelphia, aged
48. — Mante, 158.
FORBES, ELI, D. D., minister of Brookfield
and of Gloucester, Mass., died Dec. 15, 1804, aged
77. He was born in Westborough in Oct., 1726,
and entered Harvard college in 1744. In the
month of July of the following year he was de
manded as a soldier, and he cheerfully shouldered
his musket and marched more than a hundred
miles to oppose the French and Indians. Having
been released by the interposition of his friends,
he returned to his studies with a sharpened appe
tite, and was graduated in 1751. He was or
dained minister of the second parish in Brook-
field June 3, 1752. In the years 1758 and 1759
he was a chaplain in one of the regimi nts. In
1762 he went as a missionary to the Oneidas, one
of the six nations of Indians, and planted the
first Christian church at Onaqnagie, on the river
Susquehannah. Having established in this place
a school for children and another for adults, he
returned, bringing with him four Indian children,
whom he sent back again in a few years, after
furnishing them with such knowledge as would
be useful to them. He also brought with him a
white lad, who had become a complete savage ;
but he was civilized, and being educated at Dart
mouth college, where he received a degree, was
the agent of congress during the Revolutionary
war, and was very useful. Dr. Forbes, falling
under the groundless suspicion of being a tory,
requested a dismission from his people in March,
1776, and on the fifth of June was installed at
Gloucester. He published a family book, and a
number of single sermons, among which are a
thanksgiving sermon on the conquest of Canada,
1761; an artillery election sermon, 1771; an
account of Joshua Eaton of Spencer, prefixed to
seven sermons of Mr. Eaton, and a funeral ser
mon on his death, 1772 ; a sermon on repairing
his meeting-house, 1792; on the death of J. Low,
1797; convention sermon, 1799. — Month. An
thology, I. 669; Whitney's Hist. Worcester, 75,
Chauncy's Serm. at Ordin. of J. Boicman; Pis-
cataqua Evan. Mag. II. 169-173 ; Assemb. Miss.
Mag. I. 53, 54.
FORBES, DUNCAN, died in Cumberland, Mo.,
Jan., 1856, aged 110.
FORD, GABRIEL II., judge, died at Morris-
town, N. J., his native town, Aug. 27, 1849, aged
85. He was a graduate of Princeton in 1784.
Of the lawyers of New Jersey he was regarded
as the most efficient and eloquent. He was a
judge of the supreme court twenty-one years.
His family residence was the head-quarters of
Washington in 1777. His son is Henry A. F., a
member of the same bar, at which his father was
distinguished.
FORD, HENRY, died at Elmira, N. Y., Nov. 6,
1848, aged 64. Born in Morristown, a graduate
of Yale in 1803, he was settled in the ministry at
Bethlehem, N. Y., at Lisle, Elmira, New York
city, and Wells, Pa. — Observer, Nov. 25.
FORD, THOMAS, governor of Illinois from
1843 to 1846, died in Jan., 1851. He left in man
uscript a history of Illinois.
FORD, AUGUSTUS, captain, died at Sackett's
Harbor Aug. 4, 1855, aged 83. Born in Rhode
Island in 1772, he was early impressed as a sea
man in the British service. In 1800 he removed
to Oswego ; in 1810 he was made a master of
the navy and removed to Sackett's Harbor. His
chart of the lake and of the river St. Lawrence
was regarded as of great value. He was the
FORMAN.
FOSTER.
father of fourteen children. His end was peace
ful ; his hope that of the earnest Christian.
FORMAN, WILLIAM, a physician, served as a
surgeon's mate in the old French war under Am-
herst ; he was also a surgeon during the Revolu
tionary contest, and was patriotic and skilful. lie
died at Fishkill, New York, in July, 1816, aged 78.
FORMAX, JOSHUA, judge, one of the projec
tors of the Erie canal, died Aug. 4, 1849, in Ruth-
erfordton, N. C., aged 71. He lived in Onondaga
Hollow, was a man of intelligence and enterprise,
the founder of Syracuse, New York.
FORNARO, ADOLPII, died in Washington in
1851, aged 37. He was a draughtsman in the
office of the United States coast survey. In Swit
zerland he was major in the corps of topographi
cal engineers.
FORREST, URIAH, general, died at his seat
near Georgetown, Maryland, in 1805. In the
battle of Germantown he was severely wounded,
and ever afterwards was supported by crutches.
His life was marked by honorable and useful
enterprise.
FORREST, THOMAS, a distinguished officer of
the Revolution, died at Philadelphia in 1825, aged
78. He had been a member of congress.
FORSTER, ANTHONY, Unitarian minister in
Charleston, S. C., was a native of North Carolina,
and was settled in 1815 as a Calvinist in connec
tion with Dr. Hollingshead, after whose death he
established the second Independent church. In
1816 he withdrew from the Presbyter}-. He died
Jan. 18, 1820. lie published a discourse on the
doctrine of election. A volume of his sermons
was published in 1821.
FORSYTH, JOHN, governor of Georgia, died
at Washington Oct. 22, 1841, aged 61. lie was
born at Fredericksburg, Va., in 1780; was grad
uated at Princeton in 1799 ; was representative
from Georgia 1813-1$, and 1827-29; senator
1818-19, and 1829-35; governor of Georgia
1827-29; minister to Spain 1819-22; secretary
of State in 1835, remaining in office till 1841. lie
added to his talents elegance and dignity of
manners.
FORWARD, JUSTUS, minister of Belchertown,
Mass., died March 8, 1814, aged 83, in the fifty-
ninth year of his ministry. Born in Suffield,
Conn., he graduated at Yale in 1754, and was
settled Feb. 25, 1756, over three hundred inhabi
tants. In the course of his ministry there were
seven hundred and ninety-eight deaths, of whom
fifty died of the consumption. He succeeded Mr.
Billings and was succeeded by E. Porter.
FORWARD, WALTKR, judge, died in Pitts-
burg Nov. 24, 1852, aged 65. He was a native
of Connecticut, and early removed to the west.
He was a lawyer and a member of congress, first
comptroller of the treasury, and secretary of the
treasury, appointed by Mr. Tyler. For several
years he was charge to Denmark ; he was also
judge of a district court. Taken ill in court, he
died in forty-eight hours. He was a member of
the Methodist church ; and there was no stain on
his character.
FOSTER, JKDEDIAII, justice of the superior
court of Massachusetts, died Oct. 17, 1779, aged
53. He was born in Andover, Oct. 10, 1726, the
son of Ephraim F., and graduated at Harvard in
1744. He soon established himself in the town
of Brookfield, and married a daughter of Gen.
Dwight. His character for integrity and talents
procured him a number of civil and military offi
ces. He received his appointment of judge in
1776. He was a member of the convention
which framed the constitution of Massachusetts.
His sons, Theodore and Dwight, were members
of congress. He was early and firmly attached
to the interest and freedom of his country, in
opposition to the despotic measures of Great
Britain, and never once, in the most gloomy pe
riods, was heard to express a doubt of the ulti
mate success of America. In early life he made
a profession of Christianity, and his conduct was
uniformly exemplary. — Fiskds Fun. Serin.;
Chronicle, Oct. 28, 1779.
FOSTER, BENJAMIN, D. I)., minister in New
York, died Aug. 26, 1798, aged 48. He was born
in Danvers, Mass., June 12, 1750. Although
early inspired with the love of excellence, it was
not until after many conflicts that he obtained
that peace, which the world can neither give nor
takeaway. He was graduated at Yale in 1774.
While a member of this institution a controversy
respecting baptism occupied much of the public
attention, and, this being thought a proper sub
ject of discussion, Mr. Foster was appointed to
defend infant baptism by sprinkling. In prepar
ing himself for this disputation he became con
vinced that his former sentiments were erroneous,
and he was afterwards a conscientious Baptist.
After pursuing for some time the study of divinity
under the care of Dr. Stillman of Boston, he was
ordained minister of a Baptist church in Leices
ter, Oct. 23, 1776. The want of a suitable main
tenance induced him in 1782 to ask a dismission
from his people ; after which he preached about
two years in Danvers. In Jan., 1785, he was
called to the first church in Newport ; and in the
autumn of 1788, removed to New York, where he
was minister of the First Baptist church till his
death. During the prevalence of the yellow fever
he did not shrink from his duties as a faithful min
ister of Jesus Christ. I [e visited the sick and the
dying, and endeavored to impart to them the
hopes of religion, lie fell a victim to his benev
olence. He was distinguished for his acquaint
ance with the Greek, Hebrew, and Chaldean
languages. As a divine he advocated with zeal
the doctrine of salvation by free grace, and as a
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preacher was indefatigable. His life was pure
and amiable, upright and benevolent. He pub
lished, while he lived at Leicester, the washing of
regeneration, or the Divine rite of immersion,
in answer to a treatise of Mr. Fish, and primitive
baptism defended, in a letter to John Clcaveland.
He also published a dissertation on the seventy
weeks of Daniel. — Mass. Miss. Mag. l. 30;
Backus, m. 174, 230; Benedict, II. 301-4.
FOSTER, JOEL, minister of Sudbury, Mass.,
died Sept. 25, 1812, aged 57. A graduate of
Dartmouth in 1777, he was the minister of New
Salem from 1779 to 1802, and then of East Sud
bury from 1803 till his death. He had excellent
pulpit talents, and was specially gifted in prayer.
FOSTER, DWIGIIT, died at Brookfield in
April, 1823, aged 68. He was the son of Jede-
diahF., ot'B., a judge of the supreme court, and
a brother of Theodore F., a senator from Rhode
Island from 1790 to 1803. A graduate of Brown
university in 1774, he was a lawyer in Brookfield,
sheriff, chief justice of the common pleas, and a
representative and a senator in congress from 1800
to 1803. Of a large and commanding figure,
he was mild and urbane. He was the father of
Alfred D. Foster, of Worcester. His daughter
Sophia married S. M. Burnside.
FOSTER, JOHN, D. D., minister of Brighton,
Mass., was graduated at Dartmouth in 1783, and
died in Sept., 1829, aged about 66. His wife
wrote the Coquette, a novel. He published a
sermon before a charitable society ; on the death
of Washington, 1799; of C. Winship, 1802; a
sermon on infidelity, 1802 ; on the installation of
his brother, 1803 ; at a fast, 1805 ; at artillery
election; at a dedication, 1809; before the society
for propagating the gospel, 1817.
FOSTER, GIDEON, general, died at Danvers in
Nov., 1845, aged 96. He was in the battle of
Bunker Hill, and was faithful in various public
offices. Mr. G. Peabody contributed 50 dollars
toward erecting a monument to his memory.
FOSTER, STEPHEN, president of East Tennes
see college, died Jan. 11, 1835, aged 37. Born in
Mass., he graduated at Dartmouth in 1821, and
was of Andover theological seminary in 1824.
FOSTER, HANNAH, the widow of Rev. John
F., of Brighton, died in Montreal in 1840. She
published the Coquette.
FOSTER, WILLIAM, died in Andover Aug.
30, 1843, aged 85. For many years he was a
respected teacher.
FOSTER, ALFIIED DWIGIIT, died in Worces
ter Aug. 15, 1852, aged 52. The son of Dwight
Foster, he graduated in 1819, and studied law
Avith Mr. Burnside, who married his sister. He
soon withdrew from the bar ; for years he was
a representative, senator, and councillor; also
treasurer of the lunatic hospital, a trustee of Am-
herst college, and a member of the American
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board for foreign missions. Though modest and
self-distrustful, he had fixed and stern principle,
and at the. call of duty could despise popular
favor and expose falsehood and evil doings in
terms of indignant eloquence. — Wasltburn.
FOWLE, DANIEL, a printer in Boston, was
arrested in Oct., 1754, by order of the house of
representatives, on suspicion of having printed
" the monster of monsters," a pamphlet reflect
ing on some of its members, and by the same au
thority was committed to prison amongst thieves.
After a few days he was liberated. Disgusted
with such tyranny, he removed to Portsmouth,
and in 1756, commenced the New Hampshire
Gazette. He died June, 1787, aged 72. — Thomas,
L 332, 434.
FOWLER, AARON, minister of Guilford, Conn.,
died in 1800, aged 72, in the 43d year of his
ministry.
FOWLER, DAVID, an Indian, died at Oneida
in 1812. He was one of the Indian chiefs, and
was employed by Kirkland in 1766 as a school
master ; he sustained a Christian character, good
to the last.
FOWLER, ORIN, minister of Fall River, died
Sept. 3, 1853, aged 62. He was born at Lebanon,
Conn., July 29, 1791, one of twelve children, and
was a descendant of the seventh generation from
William, a magistrate of New Haven colony. He
was graduated in 1815; studied theology with
Dr. Dwight ; and was soon settled in Plainfield,
Conn. Thence he removed to Fall River, where
he was a minister twenty years, when he was
chosen a member of congress in 1848. He made
an able reply to Webster's speech of March 7,
1850. He died suddenly at Washington. He
was a useful pastor. In the first year of his min
istry, ninety persons were added to the church.
In 1836 there were added to his church at Fall
River one hundred and nine persons. He was
decided in his support of the temperance cause,
and in opposition to slavery. He published a
treatise on baptism, 1835; an historical sketch of
Fall River, 1841. — Boston Recorder, Oct. 28,
1853.
FOWLER, BANCROFT, died at Stockbridge of
pneumonia, April 5, 1856, aged 80. He was a
native of Pittsfield, a graduate of Yale in 1796,
then tutor, many years the minister of Windsor,
Vt., and Northficld, Mass., and a professor in the
theological seminary at Bangor. He was a man
of more than ordinary talents and attainments,
courteous and gentlemanly, and of uniform piety.
He published an oration at New Haven, on the
death of E. G. Marsh, 1804.
FOX, JOHN, minister of Woburn, died Dec.
12, 1756, aged 78. He was the son of Rev.
Jabez, his predecessor at Woburn, who graduated
in 1665, and succeeded Thomas Carter, the first
minister, Sept. 5, 1679, and died of the small
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pox Feb. 28, 1702; he is supposed to be a de
scendant of the famous John Fox. His widow,
Judith, reached her 99th year. He graduated at
Harvard in 1698. His son, John, succeeded him.
He published a sermon on the earthquake Oct.
29, 1727; time and the end of time, 1729; the
door of heaven opened and shut, 1731.
FOX, JUSTUS, a type founder and printer, died
in Germantown, N. J., Jan. 26, 1805, aged 69.
A native of Germany, he came to this country in
his youth. He was respected and lamented.
FOXCROFT, THOMAS, minister in Boston,
died June 18, 1769, aged 72. He was the son of
Francis Foxcroft, of Cambridge, and was gradu
ated at Harvard college in 1714. His father,
who was a member of the church of England, was
desirous that his son should be an Episcopal
clergyman. This was also his intention, till by
diligent study and free conversation with Nehe-
miah Walter of Roxbury, a great reasoner and an
eminently pious man, he became convinced, that
the Congregational mode of worship was most
agreeable to the Scriptures. He was ordained
pastor of the first church in Boston, as colleague
with Mr. Wadsworth, Nov. 20, 1717. No minis
ter was more universally admired. None was
accounted cither a more polite and elegant, or a
more devout and edifying preacher. His high
reputation continued till in his later years the
vigor of his constitution and of his mind was im
paired by repeated sickness. Dr. Chauncy was
settled as his colleague in 1727. He was a pas
tor more than half a century. His son, Samuel,
minister of New Gloucester, died in March, 1807,
aged 72. — He was a learned divine. His poAvers
of reasoning were strong, and few had a greater
command of words. His religious sentiments
were strictly Calvinistic, and they were the chief
subjects of his preaching. He never concealed
or yielded them from the fear of man, as he al
ways sought the approbation of God. His ad
dresses to the consciences of his hearers were
pungent. He was, says Dr. Chauncy, a real,
good Christian ; a partaker of the Holy Ghost ;
uniform in his Avalk with God in the way of his
commandments, though, instead of trusting that
he was righteous in the eye of strict law, he ac
counted himself an unprofitable servant; fixing
his dependence, not on his own worthiness, not on
any works of righteousness, which he had done,
but on the mercy of God and the atoning blood
and perfect rightousness of Jesus Christ. His
writings evince a clearness of perception, copious
ness of invention, liveliness of imagination, and
soundness of judgment. They bear testimony
also to his unfeigned piety. He published a ser
mon at his own ordination, 1718; on kindness,
1720; on the death of his mother, 1721; of
John Coney, 1722 ; of Dame Bridget Usher, 1723 ;
of George I.; of Penn Townsend; of W. Wal-
dron, 1727 ; of John Williams and Thomas
Blowers, 1729; of Benjamin Wadsworth, 1737 ;
an essay on the state of the dead, 1722 ; the day
of a godly man's death better than that of his
birth ; duty of the godly to be intercessors and
reformers ; two sermons showing how to begin
and end the year after a godly sort; God's face
set against an incorrigible people, 1724; at the
ordination of John Lowell, 1726; a discourse pre
paratory to the choice of a minister, 1727; on
death ; on the earthquake ; at the ordination of
John Taylor, 1728; an answer to T. Barclay's
persuasive, a defence of Presbyterian ordination,
1729; observations historical and practical on
the rise and primitive state of New England, with
special reference to the first church in Boston, a
century sermon, Aug. 23, 1730; pleas of gospel
impenitents refuted in two sermons, 1730 ; the
Divine right of deacons, 1731 ; to a young woman
under sentence of death, 1733 ; a sermon, occa
sioned by the visits and labors of Mr. Whitcficld,
1740; at a private family meeting, 1742 ; a pre
face to Fleming's fulfilling of the Scripture, 1743 ;
an apology for Mr. Whitefield, 1745; saints'
united confession in disparagement of their own
righteousness, 1750; like precious faith obtained
by all the true servants of Christ, 1756; a
thanksgiving sermon for the conquest of Canada,
1760. — Chauncy's Funeral Sermon ; Massachu
setts Gazette, June 22, 1769 ; Chandler's Life
of Johnson, 70 ; Hist. Coll. X. 164.
FOXCROFT, SAMUEL, first minister of New
Gloucester, Maine, died March 2, 1807, aged
about 73. He graduated at Harvard college in
1754. His name stands the second in the class,
the names being at that time arranged according
to the dignity of the family. The name of John
Hancock comes a little lower, and still lower the
names of Rev. Drs. Payson, Fiske, and West.
The church of N. G., was gathered, and he was
ordained in Jan., 1765. He was pastor twenty-
eight years. He had a strong understanding and
sound judgment. The atonement of Christ filled
his soul with joy. He knew nothing of the ter
rors and struggles of death, for he fell asleep sud
denly. — Scott's and Moseley's Sermons.
FOXCROFT, FRANCIS, a physician in Brook-
field, died in 1814, aged 69. He graduated at
Harvard in 1764.
FRANCISCO, HENRY, died near Whitehall,
State of New York, Nov., 1820, aged 134. A
native of England, he was present at the corona
tion of Queen Anne. He had lived in this coun
try eighty or ninety years, and served in the
French and Revolutionary wars.
FRANKLIN, BEXJAMIN,LL. D., a philosopher
and statesman, died April 17, 1790, aged 84.
He was born in Boston Jan. 17, 1706. His
father, Josias, who was a native of England, was
a soap-boiler and tallow-chandler in that town.
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His mother was a daughter of Peter Folger, the
poet. At the age of eight years he was sent to a
grammar school, but at the age of ten his father
required his services to assist him in his business.
Two years afterwards he was bound as an appren
tice to his brother, James, who was a printer. In
this employment he made great proficiency, and,
having a taste for books, he devoted much of his
leisure time to reading. So eager was he in the
pursuit of knowledge, that he frequently passed
the greater part of the night in his studies. He
became expert in the Socratic mode of reasoning
by asking questions, and thus he sometimes em
barrassed persons of understanding superior to
his own. In 1721 his brother began to print the
New Fngland Courant, which was the third news
paper published in America. The two preceding
papers were the Boston News-Letter and Boston
Gazette. Young Franklin wrote a number of
essays for the Courant, which were so well re
ceived as to encourage him to continue his literary
labors. To improve his style he resolved to imi
tate Addison's Spectator. The method, which he
took, was to make a summary of a paper, after
he had read it, and, in a few days, when he had
forgotten the expressions of the author, to en
deavor to restore it to its original form. By this
means he was taught his errors, and perceived the
necessity of being more fully acquainted with the
synonymous words of the language. He was
much assisted also in acquiring a facility and va
riety of expressions by writing poetry.
At this early period the perusal of Shaftesbury
and Collins made him completely a sceptic, and
he was fond of disputing upon the subject of re
ligion. This circumstance caused him to be
regarded by pious men with abhorrence ; and on
this account, as well as on account of the ill-
treatment which he received from his brother, he
determined to leave Boston. His departure was
facilitated by the possession of his indenture,
which his brother had given him about the year
17-3, not from friendship, but because the general
court prohibited him from publishing the New
England Courant, and in order that it might be
conducted under the name of Benjamin Franklin.
He privately went on board a sloop, and soon ar
rived at New York. Finding no employment
here, he pursued his way to Philadelphia, and en
tered the city without a friend and with only a
dollar in his pocket. Purchasing some rolls at a
baker's shop, he put one under each arm, and,
eating a third, walked through several streets in
search of a lodging. There were at this time
two printers in Philadelphia, Andrew Bradford
and Mr. Kcimer, by the latter of whom he was
employed. Sir William Keith, the governor,
having been informed that Franklin was a young
man of promising talents, invited him to his
house, and treated him in the most friendly man
ner. He advised him to enter into business for
himself, and, in order to accomplish this object, to
make a visit to London, that he might purchase
the necessary articles for a printing-office. Re
ceiving the promise of assistance, Franklin pre
pared himself for the voyage, and, on applying for
letters of recommendation previously to sailing,
he was told that they would be sent on board.
When the letter-bag was opened there was no
packet for Franklin ; and he now discovered that
the governor was one of those men who love to
oblige everybody, and who substitute the most
liberal professions and offers in the place of ac
tive, substantial kindness. Arriving in London
in 1724, he was obliged to seek employment as a
journeyman printer. He lived so economically
that he saved a great part of his wages. Instead
of drinking six pints of beer in a day, like some
of his fellow-laborers, he drank only water, and
he persuaded some of them to renounce the ex
travagance of eating bread and cheese for break
fast and to procure a cheap soup. As his principles
at this time were very loose, his zeal to enlighten
the world induced him to publish his dissertation
on liberty and necessity, in which he contended
that virtue and vice were nothing more than vain
distinctions. This work procured him the ac
quaintance of Mandeville and others of that
licentious class.
He returned to Philadelphia in Oct., 1726, as
a clerk to Mr. Denham, a merchant ; but the
death of that gentleman in the following year in
duced him to return to Mr. Keimer in the capa
city of foreman in his office. He was very useful
to his employer, for he gave him assistance as a
letter-founder; he also engraved various orna
ments, and made printer's ink. He soon began
business in partnership with Mr. Meredith, but in
1729 he dissolved the connection with him. Hav
ing purchased of Keimer a paper, which had
been conducted in a wretched manner, he now
conducted it in a style which attracted much at
tention. At this time, though destitute of those
religious principles which give stability and eleva
tion to virtue, he yet had discernment enough to
be convinced that truth, probity, and sincerity
would promote his interests and be useful to him
in tlie world, and he resolved to respect them in
his conduct. Sept. 1, 1730, he married a widow,
whose maiden name was Read, and to whom six
years before he had pledged his fidelity, but had
neglected her when he was in London. The ex
penses of his establishment in business, notwith
standing his industry and economy, brought him
in a short time into embarrassments, from which
he was relieved by the generous assistance of
William Coleman and Robert Grace. In addi
tion to his other employments, he now opened a
small stationer's shop. But the claims of busi
ness did not extinguish his taste for literature and
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science. He formed a club, which he called the
junto, composed of the most intelligent of his
acquaintance. Questions of morality, politics, or
philosophy were discussed every Friday evening,
and the institution was continued almost forty
years. As books were frequently quoted in the
club, and as the members had brought their books
together for mutual advantage, he was led to form
the plan of a public library, which was carried
into effect in 1731, and became the foundation of
that noble institution, the library company of
Philadelphia. In 1732 he began to publish Poor
Richard's almanac, which was enriched with max
ims of frugality, temperance, industry, and integ
rity. So great was its reputation, that he sold
ten thousand annually, and it was continued by
him about twenty-five years. The maxims were
collected in the last almanac in the form of an
address, called the way to wealth, which has ap
peared in various publications. In 173G he was
appointed clerk of the general assembly of Penn
sylvania, and in 1737 postmaster of Philadelphia.
The first fire company was formed by him in
1738. When the frontiers of Pennsylvania were
endangered in 1744, and an ineffectual attempt
was made to procure a militia law, he proposed a
voluntary association for the defence of the prov
ince, and in a short time obtained ten thousand
names. In 1747 he was chosen a member of the
assembly, and continued in this station ten years.
In all important discussions his presence was con
sidered as indispensable. He seldom spoke, and
never exhibited any oratory ; but by a single ob
servation he sometimes determined the fate of a
question. In the long controversies with the
proprietaries or their governors, he took the most
active part, and displayed a firm spirit of liberty.
He was now engaged for a number of years in
a course of electrical experiments, of which he
published an account. His great discovery was
the identity of the electric fluid and lightning.
This discovery he made in the summer of 1752.
To the upright stick of a kite he attached an iron
point; the string was of hemp, excepting the
part hold in his hand, which was of silk ; and a
key was fastened where the hempen string termi
nated. With this apparatus, on the approach of
a thunder-storm, he raised his kite. A cloud
passed over it, and, no signs of electricity appear
ing, he began to despair ; but observing the loose
fibres of his string to move suddenly toward an
erect position, he presented his knuckle to the
key, and received a strong spark. The success
of this experiment completely established his
theory. The practical use of this discovery, in
securing houses from lightning by pointed con
ductors, is well known in America and Europe.
In 1753 he was appointed deputy postmaster-
general of the British colonies, and in the same
year the academy of Philadelphia, projected by
him, was established. In 1754 he was one of the
commissioners who attended the congress at Al
bany, to devise the best means of defending the
country against the French. He drew up a plan
of union for defence and general government,
which was adopted by the congress. It was how
ever rejected by the board of trade in England,
because it gave too much power to the repre
sentatives of the people, and it was rejected by
the assemblies of the colonies, because it gave too
much power to the president-general. After the
defeat of Braddock he was appointed colonel of
a regiment, and he repaired to the frontiers and
built a fort. In 1757 he was sent to England as
the agent of Pennsylvania, and, while residing
there, was appointed agent of Massachusetts,
Maryland, and Georgia. He now received the
reward of his philosophical merit. He was cho
sen a fellow of the royal society, and was honored
with the degree of doctor of laws by the univer
sities of St. Andrews, Edinburgh, and Oxford,
and his correspondence was sought by the most
eminent philosophers of Europe. During his
residence in England he published a pamphlet,
showing the advantages which would spring from
the conquest of Canada, and he formed that ele
gant instrument, which he called the harmonica.
He returned in 1762, and resumed his seat in the
assembly ; but in 1764 was again sent to London
as an agent for the province to procure a change
of the proprietary government. In 1766 he was
examined at the bar of the house of commons
respecting the repeal of the stamp act ; and there
he evinced the utmost possession and an aston
ishing accuracy and extent of information. Dur
ing the same and the following year, by visiting
Holland, Germany, and France, he became ac
quainted with most of the literary characters of
Europe. In 1773 some letters of Hutchinson,
Oliver, and others in Massachusetts falling into
his hands, he sent them to the legislature of that
State ; but he ever refused to tell how he pro
cured them. It is now known that he received
them from Dr. Williamson. He returned to
America in 1775, and the day after his arrival
was elected a member of congress. He was sent
to the camp before Boston to confirm the army in
their decisive measures, and to Canada to per
suade the citizens to join in the common cause.
In this mission, however, he was not successful.
He was in 1776 appointed a committee with John
Adams and Edward Ilutledge to inquire into the
powers with which Lord Howe was invested in
regard to the adjustment of our differences with
Great Britiain. When his lordship expressed his
concern at being obliged to distress those whom
he so much regarded, Dr. Franklin assured him
that the Americans, out of reciprocal regard,
would endeavor to lessen, as much as possible, the
pain which he might feel on their account, by
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taking the utmost care of themselves. In the
discussion of the great question of independence,
he was decidedly in favor of the measure. He
•was in the same year chosen president of the
convention, which met in Philadelphia to form a
new constitution for Pennsylvania. The single
legislature and the plural executive seem to have
been his favorite principles. In the latter end of
the year 177G he was sent to France to assist in
negotiation with Mr. Arthur Lee and Silas Deane.
He had much influence in forming the treaty of
alliance and commerce, which was signed Feb. 6,
1778, and he afterwards completed a treaty of
amity and commerce with Sweden. In conjunc
tion with Mr. Adams, Mr. Jay, and Mr. Laurens,
he signed the provisional articles of peace Nov.
30, 1782, and the definitive treaty Sept. 30, 1783.
While he was in France he was appointed one of
the commissioners to examine Mesmer's animal
magnetism, in 1784. Being desirous of returning
to his native country, he requested that an ambas
sador might be appointed in his place, and on
the arrival of his successor, Mr. Jefferson, he im
mediately sailed for Philadelphia, where he ar
rived in Sept., 1785. He was received with
universal applause, and was soon appointed pres
ident of the supreme executive council. In 1787
he was a delegate to the grand convention which
formed the constitution of the United States.
Some of the articles which composed it did not
altogether please him, but for the sake of union
he signed it. In the same year he was appointed
the first president of two excellent societies which
were established in Philadelphia, for alleviating
the miseries of public prisons, and for promoting
the abolition of slavery. A memorial of the lat
ter society to congress gave occasion to a debate
in which an attempt was made to justify the
slave trade. In consequence of this, Dr. Franklii
published in the Federal Gazette, March 25, 1789
an essay, signed Historicus, communicating a pre
tended speech, delivered in the divan of Algiers
in 1G87, against the petition of a sect callec1
Erika, or Purists, for the abolition of piracy anc
slavery. The arguments urged in favor of the
African trade, by Mr. Jackson, of Georgia, are
here applied with equal force to justify the plun
dcring and enslaving of Europeans. In 1788 he
retired wholly from public life, and he now ap
proachcd the end of his days. lie had beei
afflicted for a number of years with a complica
tion of disorders. For the last twelve month
he was confined almost entirely to his bed. Ii
the severity of his pains he would observe, tha
he was afraid he did not bear them as he ought
and he expressed a grateful sense of the manj
blessings received from the Supreme Being, wh
had raised him from Ins humble origin to sue!
consideration among men. He had only tw<
children : William Franklin, who was governor o
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'few Jersey, and a daughter, who married Wm.
5achc. The following epitaph was written by
imself many years previously to his death ;
robably suggested by Woodbridge's lines on
ohn Cotton :
" The both- of
Benjamin Franklin, printer,
Like the cover of an old book,
Its contents torn out.
And stript of its lettering and gilding,
Lies here, food for worms ;
Yet the work itself shall not be lost,
For it will, (as he believe,) appear once more
In a new
And more beautiful edition,
Corrected and amended
by
The Author."
But although he thus expressed his hope of
uturc happiness, yet from his memoirs it does
not appear whether this hope was founded upon
he mediation of Jesus Christ. Some have even
considered him as not unfriendly to Infidelity;
mt the following anecdote seems to prove that in
lis old age he did not absolutely reject the Scrip-
ures. As a young gentleman was one day ridi-
uling religion as a vulgar prejudice, he appealed
to Dr. Franklin, expecting his approbation.
Young man," said the philosopher emphatically,
it is best to believe." President Stiles addressed
letter to him, dated Jan. 28, 1790, in which he
expressed a desire to be made acquainted with
liis sentiments on Christianity. The following i<<
an extract from it : " You know, sir, I am a
Christian ; and would to Heaven all others were
as I am, except my imperfections. As much as I
know of Dr. Franklin, I have not an idea of his
religious sentiments. I wish to know the opinion
of my venerable friend concerning Jesus of Naz
areth. He will not impute this to impertinence
or improper curiosity in one who for many years
has continued to love, estimate, and reverence
his abilities and literary character with an ardor
of affection. If I have said too much, let the re
quest be blotted out and be no more." To this
Dr. Franklin replied, March 9, but a few weeks
before his death: "I do not take your curiosity
amiss, and shall endeavor, in a few words, to
gratify it. As to Jesus of Nazareth, my opinion
of whom you particularly desire, I think the sys
tem of morals, and his religion, as he left them to
us, the best the world ever saw, or is likely to
see ; but I apprehend it has received various cor
rupting changes ; and I have, with most of the
present dissenters in England, some doubts as to
his divinity." It may not be unnecessary to re
mark, that, if we may credit Dr. Priestley, Dr.
Franklin was not correct in estimating the senti
ments of a majority of the dissenters in England.
To Thomas Paine, concerning the proposed pub
lication of his age of reason, Dr. F. wrote : " I
would advise you not to attempt unchaining the
tiger, but to burn this piece before it is seen by
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any other person. If men are so wicked with
religion, what would they be, if without it ? "
Dr. Franklin acquired a high and deserved
reputation as a philosopher, for his philosophy
was of a practical and useful kind, and he seemed
to be continually desirous of advancing the wel
fare of society. In company he was sententious
and not fluent, and he chose rather to listen to
others than to talk himself. Impatient of inter
ruption, he often mentioned the custom of the
Indians, who always remain silent for some time,
before they give an answer to a question. When
he resided in France as a minister from this
country, it has been thought that he was some
what intoxicated by the unbounded applauses
which he received, and was too much disposed to
adopt the manners of the French. One of his
colleagues was immersed in the pleasures of a
voluptuous city, and between himself and the
other, Mr. Lee, there was some collision.
He published experiments and observations
on electricity, made at Philadelphia, in two parts,
4to., 1153; new experiments, 1754; a historical
view of the constitution and government of Penn
sylvania, 1759 ; the interest of Great Britain con
sidered with respect to her colonies, 1760 ; his
experiments, with the addition of explanatory
notes, and letters and papers on philosophical
subjects, 17G9; political, miscellaneous, and phi
losophical pieces, 1779; and several papers in the
transactions of the American philosophical soci
ety. Two volumes of his essays, with his life,
brought down by himself to the year 1730, were
published in England in 1792. A collection
of his works was first published in London in
1806, entitled, the complete works, in philos
ophy, politics, and morals, of Dr. Franklin,
first collected and arranged, with a memoir of
him, 3 vols., 8vo. — Franklin's Life; Holmes'1
Life of Stiles, 309, 310.
FRANKLIN, JAMES, a brother of Benjamin,
published a newspaper in Boston in 1721, and the
Rhode Island Gazette in 1732, the first paper in
that State.
FRANKLIN, WILLIAM, the last royal governor
of New Jersey, the son of Dr. Franklin, died in
England Nov. 17, 1813, aged 82. He was born
about 1731. He was a captain in the French
war, and served at Ticonderoga. After the peace
of Paris he accompanied his father to England.
Going to Scotland, he became acquainted with
the Earl of Bute, who recommended him to Lord
Halifax, and by the latter he was appointed gov
ernor of New Jersey in 1763. He continued in
office, firm in loyalty, till the beginning of the
Revolution, when the whigs, in July, 1776, sent
him to Connecticut. On his release he sailed to
England, and obtained a pension for his losses.
His first wife was a West Indian, by whom he
had a son ; his second wife was a native of Ire
land. His son, William Temple Franklin, editor
of the works of Dr. F., died at Paris May 25,
1823. —Pub. Char: IV. 189-203.
FRANKLIN, WILLIAM, a botanist, died at
Franklin Sept. 1, 1819. He was born near Wil
mington, Delaware ; was a surgeon in the navy
before 1812, and during the war was stationed at
St. Mary's. He explored Florida, Georgia, and
South Carolina. He was surgeon in the frigate
Congress, sent to South America in 1818 ; and
one of the scientific men of the expedition to
Red Stone river in 1819, but illness compelled
him to leave his companions in Missouri.
FRAZAR, REBECCA, Miss, died in Duxbury in
1840, aged 72, much esteemed. She left 500 dol
lars to the church for the communion service, and
the same sum to the Pilgrim society at Plymouth.
FREEMAN, NATHANIEL, a physician and brig
adier-general, died Sept. 27, 1820, aged 66. He
was a descendant of Edmund F., an early settler
of Sandwich, Mass., and whose sons, John and
Edmund, married the daughters of Gov. Prince.
He was born at Dennis in April, 1741, and soon
afterwards his father removed to Mansfield, Conn.
Having studied medicine with Dr. Cobb, of
Thompson, he settled in Sandwich. Being a pat
riot of the Revolution, he performed various im
portant services for his country as a member of
the legislature and as colonel of the militia. He
was also register of probate forty-seven years, and
judge of the common pleas thirty years. At the
age of sixty-three he retired from the practice of
physic. By two marriages he had twenty chil
dren, eighteen of whom lived to adult age. He
was a brother of Jonathan F., of Hanover, N. H.
He had collected a large library in medicine and
theology. In early life he joined a Calvinistic
church ; in his meridian he became a follower of
Priestley ; at a later period he returned to his first
faith, in which he lived many years and died. —
Thacher's Medical Biography,
FREEMAN, SAMUEL, judge, died at Portland
in June, 1831, aged 88. He was a descendant of
Samuel F., of Watertown in 1630, and was the
son of Enoch Freeman, judge of the court of
common pleas and of probate, who died at Port
land Sept. 2, 1788, aged 81. He was judge of
probate many years. He published the town
officer, 6th edit. ; American clerk's magazine,
6th edit., 1805.
FREEMAN, JAMES, D.D., pastor of the stone
chapel society, Boston, died Nov. 14, 1835, aged
76. He was born in Charlcstown in 1759, was
graduated at Harvard college in 1777, and in
1782 became pastor of his church. The liturgy
he altered so as to conform to the Unitarian or
Socinian doctrine ; and as Bishop Provost declined
to ordain him, he was ordained by his society
alone Nov. 18, 1787. This chapel was formerly
called King's chapel. The first Episcopal church
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in New England thus became the first Unitarian.
He had two colleagues, Mr. Cary and Mr. Green
wood, lie was one of the founders of the Mas
sachusetts historical society, and a memoir of him
by Mr. Greenwood is in historical collections, 3d
series, vol. V. He published two volumes of ser
mons in 1812 and 1829; and in 1832 he pub
lished both, with a sermon on necessity, in one
volume.
FltEEMAX, SARAH, the widow of Jonathan
F., one of the first settlers of Hanover, N. H.,
died in Oct., 1846, aged 97. She was a woman
of eminent piety; her husband was long a re
spected magistrate and judge. Of their sons,
Peyton It. is an aged lawyer in Portsmouth, and
Asa a lawyer in Dover, and another son a physi
cian in Ballston, N. Y.
FREEMAN, CHARLES, minister of Limerick,
Me., died in 1853, aged about Gl. He was the
son of Judge F., of Portland, was graduated at
Bowdoin college in 1812, and ordained in 1820.
He was one of the oldest of ministers in Maine,
one of seven who had never changed their par
ish. He published an account of Limerick in the
Maine historical collections, vol. I.
FREEMAN, NATHANIEL, died at Easton, Conn.,
June 23, 1854, aged 76, long the minister of
Easton and Greenfield, an earnest and efficient
preacher. In the view of death he had peace.
FRELINGHUYSEN, THEODORE JAMES, min
ister of the Reformed Dutch church at Raritan,
New Jersey, died in 1754. He came from Hol
land in the year 1720. His zealous labors in
preaching the pure doctrines of the gospel, es
pecially in inculcating the necessity of an entire
renovation of the corrupt heart, were eminently
useful in a number of towns. He was a member
of the assembly of Dutch ministers in 1738,
which formed the plan of a coetus, or assembly of
ministers and elders in this country, though sub
ordinate to the classis of Amsterdam. This prop
osition convulsed the Dutch churches in America,
for it was apprehended, and the apprehension
was verified, that these churches would be led in
time to throw off entirely their subjection to a
distant ecclesiastical body. Mr. Frelinghuysen
was an able, evangelical, and eminently successful
preacher, lie left five sons, all ministers, and two
(laughters, married to ministers. Among his
sons were Rev. Theodore F., minister of Albany,
eloquent, active, and pious, succeeded by Wes-
terlo, and Rev. JohnF., who preached at Raritan.
— Christian's Magazine, II. 4, 5 ; Prince's Chris
tian History for 1744.
FRELINGHUYSEN, FREDERIC, general, a
senator of the United States, died April 13, 1804,
aged 51 on the day of his death. He was the
son of Rev. John F., of Raritan, and grandson of
the preceding, lie graduated at Princeton in
1770. In the war of the Revolution he fought
for his country. As a captain, it is said that in
the battle of Trenton, Dec., 1776, he shot Rhalle,
the Hessian commander. He was a member of
the old congress, before the adoption of the con
stitution, in 1789, and was afterwards, under the
administration of Washington, a senator from
New Jersey. Of Princeton college he was one
of the trustees. lie was buried near Millstone.
His son, Theodore Frelinghuysen, is president of
New Brunswick college.
FRELINGIIUYSEN, CHARLOTTE, the wife of
President Theodore Frelinghuysen, died at New
Brunswick, N. J., April 11, 1854. She was the
chosen and suitable companion of a man of emi
nence and worth ; adorned with every excellence ;
the delight of her many friends. Her maiden
name was Mercer, and she was a native of
Newark.
FRENCH, JONATHAN, minister of Andover,
Mass., a descendant of John F., who lived in
Dorchester in 1639, was born at Braintree Jan.
30, 1740, graduated at Harvard college in 1771,
was ordained Sept. 22, 1772, as successor of Sam
uel Phillips, and died July 28, 1809, aged 69.
His daughter married Rev. Samuel Stearns, of
Bedford ; his son, Dr. Jonathan, is the minister
of North Hampton, N. II. At the age of six
teen Mr. French was a soldier, a drummer in the
French war, and afterwards was stationed as a ser
geant at castle William, near Boston. His desire
to obtain an education, although at an uncommon
age, was encouraged by several literary gentle
men, with whom he became acquainted at the
castle. Gov. Bowdoin liberally assisted him. In
the Revolutionary war he partook of the patriotic
spirit of that period. On hearing of the battle
of Breed's hill, he took his musket and his sur
gical instruments and repaired to the army. He
was a faithful, useful preacher. During his minis
try five hundred and six were added to the
church. He published a sermon against extor
tion, 1777; at the ordination of Daniel Oliver,
1787 ; of Abicl Abbot, 1795 ; of James Kendall,
1800; of Jonathan French, 1801; at the elec
tion, 1796; at a thanksgiving, 1798; at a lecture,
1805. — Alden's Memoirs of F.
FRENCH, HENRY S. G., missionary at Siam
died Feb. 14, 1842, aged 35. Born in Boscawen,
N. H., he graduated at Yale in 1834, and at An
dover theological seminary in 1837 ; and sailed
for Siam in 1839. Though he looked for years of
labor for the benefit of the heathen, they were
but few. He said to his alarmed Siamese attend
ants, " I am not afraid to die."
FRENEAU, PHILIP, a poet, died at Freehold,
N. J., Dec. 18, 1832, aged about 80; inconse
quence of losing his way and getting mired in a
bog in the evening. He was born in New Jersey,
and graduated at Princeton in 1771. His poems
were written between 1768 and 1793. The first
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edition was in 1786; the third was published in
1809, in 2 vols.
FRENEAU, PETER, brother of the preceding,
died in Charleston, S. C., in Oct., 1814, aged 56.
Before 1795 he edited and published the Charles
ton City Gazette, which he sold out in 1810. Mr.
Jefferson appointed him commissioner of the loan
office in South Carolina. He was a forcible
writer and a man of great learning. lie knew
the Greek, Latin, French, Spanish, Portuguese,
and Italian languages. By residing a few days in
his cottage out the city he imbibed a fatal
miasma.
FREY, JOSEPH S. C. F., died in Pontiac, Mich.,
June 5, 1800, aged 78, known in England as
" The converted Jew." He was active in forming
the London Jews' society ; he came to this coun
try in 1816. He was a Baptist minister. He
published several works ; among them, " Joseph
and Benjamin," examining the argument of the
Jews.
FRINK, JOHN, a distinguished physician, died
at Rutland, Worcester county, Mass., in 1807.
FRISBIE, LEVI, minister of Ipswich, Mass.,
died Feb. 25, 1806, aged 57. He was the son of
Elisha F. of Branford, Conn., and was born in
April, 1748. In 1767, having the character of a
pious youth of promising talents, he was placed
under the patronage of Dr. Whcelock, with a
special view to the missionary service. He en
tered Yale college, whe^e he continued more than
three years ; but his collegial studies were com
pleted at Dartmouth college, where he was grad
uated, in the first class, in 1771. In June, 1772,
he and David Macclure set out on a mission to
the Delaware Indians west of the Ohio, and he
returned in Oct., 1773. He was ordained in
1775, and then continued his missionary career.
After extending his labors to different parts of
the country and into Canada, the convulsed state
of America obstructed his progress. He was set
tled the minister of the first church in Ipswich, as
successor of Nathaniel Rogers, Feb. 7, 1776.
His widow died April, 1828, aged 77. He was
a faithful, evangelical preacher, whose labors at
different periods it pleased God to render emi
nently useful. His discerning mind was strength
ened by a close application to study, and furnished
with the most useful knowledge ; and all his ac
quisitions were consecrated to moral and religious
purposes. His life displayed the humility, meek
ness, and benevolence of the Christian. Inter
esting and instructive in conversation, remarkably
tender of the character of others, upright, sin
cere, and affectionate in all the relations of life,
he was respected and beloved. His distrust of
himself led him to place his entire dependence
upon God, and to ascribe all hope to the riches
of Divine mercy in Jesus, the Redeemer. lie
published an oration on the peace, 1783 ; on the
death of Moses Parsons, 1784 ; two sermons on a
day of public fasting ; at a thanksgiving ; an
eulogy on Washington, 1800; before the society
for propagating the gospel among the American
Indians, 1804. — Himtiiigton's Funeral Sermon ;
Panoplist, I. 471, 572; Wheclock's Narratives.
FRISBIE, LEVI, professor of moral philosophy
at Harvard college, died at Cambridge July 9,
1822, aged 38. He was the son of the preceding,
and was born at Ipswich in 1784. After gradu
ating in 1802, he engaged in the study of the law ;
but an affection of his eyes, Avhich proved to be a
permanent evil, obliged him to desist. In 1805
he was appointed Latin tutor, and professor of
moral philosophy in 1817. He was an admirable
teacher and lecturer. His inaugural address was
published in 1817, and after his death Prof.
Norton published his miscellaneous writings, with
notices of his life and character, 8vo., 1823.
FRCELIGH, SOLOMON, I). 1)., minister of
Scranenburg, N. J., died Oct. 8, 1827, aged 78.
He was a pastor forty years, lie had an honor
ary degree at Princeton in 1774.
FROMENTIN, ELIGIUS, senator of the United
States from Louisiana, died Oct. 6, 1822. He
was elected in 1813, and was succeeded by James
Brown in 1819. In 1821 he succeeded Mr. Win
ston as judge of the criminal court of Orleans;
and was appointed judge of the western district
of Florida. Gen. Jackson, the governor, having
demanded in vain certain documents of Col.
Callava, the late Spanish governor, threw him
into prison, from which he was relieved by a writ
of habeas corpus, granted by Judge Fromentin.
This act of judicial authority occasioned a long
and bitter altercation with the general, who
claimed the supreme power. For the sake of
quietness, Judge F. resigned his office and re
turned to the practice of the law at New Orleans,
where he died of the yellow fever. His wife died
the preceding day. They had no children. He
is a remarkable instance of the instability of hu
man affairs. He published observations on a bill
respecting land titles in Orleans.
FRONTENAC, Louis, count, governor-gen
eral of Canada, succeeded Courcelles in 1678, and
in the spring of the following year built upon
lake Ontario the fort which bore his name. He
was recalled in 1682, but was reinstated in his
office in 1689. He died Nov. 28, 1698, aged 77.
His exertions conduced in a great degree to the
protection and prosperity of Canada ; but he was
a man of haughty feelings, suspicious, revengeful,
and outrageous. Notwithstanding his professions
of regard to religion, it was very evident, that he
was almost completely under the influence of am
bition. — Charltvoix, I. 444-469, 543-570; II.
43, 237 ; Jlolmcs.
FROST, JOHN, brigadier-general, died in Kit-
tery, Me., in 1810, aged 72. Born in that town,
FROST.
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he served as an officer in the French and Revo
lutionary wars, and fought in various battles, lie
was present with his regiment at the surrender of
Burgoync. After the close of the war he sus
tained various civil offices.
FROST, EDMUND, missionary to Bombay, was
a native of Brattleborough, Vt, and, after gradu
ating at Middlebury college, studied theology at
Andover. He was ordained at Salem Sept. 25,
1823, and embarked with his wife, a native of
Chester, N. H., on the 27th, for Calcutta. June
28, 1824, he arrived at Bombay, and joined the
missionaries, Mr. Hall and Mr. Graves. But he
died of a pulmonary complaint Oct. 18, 1825.
FROST, JOHN, an early preacher in Oneida
county, X. Y., was a graduate of Williams college
in 1806; was of the theological seminary, at An
dover, in 1810 ; and died at Waterville, N. Y., in
1842, aged about 56. For nearly twenty years
he was pastor of the church in Whitesborough.
He was a preacher at Waterville, at the time of
his death.
FROTIIIXGHAM, JOHN, judge, died at Port
land in 1826, aged 76. lie was a graduate of
Harvard in 1771. He discharged well the duties
of various offices. lie was judge of probate from
1804 to 1811, when that court was dissolved.
FROTIIIXGHAM, WILLIAM, minister of Bel
fast, Me., died June 24, 1852, aged 77. Born in
Cambridge, Mass., he graduated in 1799; was
minister of the third church in Lynn from 1804
to 1817 ; and was settled at Belfast in 1819.
FRYE, JONATHAN, chaplain to Capt. Love-
well's company, was a native of Andover, and
graduated at Harvard college in 1723. In Love-
Avell's fight with the Indians at Piclv\vacket, or
Fryeburg, in May, 1725, he was killed.
FRYE, JOSEPH, general, died in 1794, aged 68.
He was born in Andover, Mass., in April, 1711,
and was colonel at the capture of fort William
Henry in 1757. In 1775, he was provincial
major-general. He removed to Fryeburg among
the early settlers ; and from him the town re
ceived its name.
FRYE, JAMKS, colonel, was born at Andover,
and died Jan. 8, 1776, aged 66. He was a
colonel in the battle of Bunker Hill, and animated
his soldiers, saying : " This day, thirty years ago,
I was at the taking of Louisburg, when it was
surrendered to us. It is a fortunate day for
America. We shall certainly beat the enemy."
His mistake is no reproach to his bravery.
FRYE, PETER, died in Camberwcll, near Lon
don, on his birth-day, Feb. 1, 1820, aged 97.
Born in Andover, he graduated at Harvard in
1744, and was schoolmaster in Salem seven
years, justice of the common pleas, and register
of probate for Essex. He was a loyalist.
FRYE, SIMON, judge, was among the first set
tlers of the town of Fryeburg, Me., where he
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died in Nov., 1822, aged 82. He was a patriot
of the Revolution, and sustained various impor
tant offices ; was a member of the council, and
judge of the common pleas for York, and chief
justice of Oxford. He reared up a numerous
family.
FULLER, SAMUEL, a physician, one of the
settlers of Plymouth in 1620, was a regularly ed
ucated physician. . His practice extended to Mas
sachusetts. A prevailing sickness called him to
Salem in 1628 and 1629. Besides being a sur
geon and physician, he was also a useful deacon
of the church. He died of a fever at Plymouth
in 1633. He bequeathed to his "sister," Alice
Bradford, 12 shillings to buy a pair of gloves.
His wife then was her sister. — Thacher.
FULLER, SAMUEL, first minister of Middlebo-
rough, Mass., died Aug. 17, 1695, aged 70. He
was a deacon at Plymouth, and emigrated to Mid-
dleborough, and occasionally preached and was
very useful for sixteen years, until a church was
formed and he was ordained in 1694.
FULLER, ABRAHAM, judge, died in Newton,
Mass., in 1794. He was a patriot of the Revo
lution, and held various public offices. As head of
the committee of the provincial congress at Con
cord, he took charge of the military papers and
removed them safely, so that they escaped the
hands of the British troops. He left 1 ,000 dol
lars toward founding an academy in Newton.
FULLER, TIMOTHY, died at Groton, Mass.,
Oct. 1, 1835, aged 57. He was a graduate of
Harvard in 1801, a lawyer, and a member of
congress from 1817 to 1825. Madame D'Ossoli
was his sister.
FULLER, HENRY H., died at Concord, Mass.,
Sept. 15, 1852, aged 62. Born in Princeton, he
graduated at Harvard in 1811. His practice as a
lawyer was at the Suffolk bar : he was thirty years
in the profession.
FULTON, ROBERT, a celebrated engineer, died
-Feb. 14, 1815, aged 50. He was of Irish descent,
and was born in Little Britain, Lancaster county,
Penn.,in 1765. His genius disclosed itself at an
early period. He was attracted to the shops of
mechanics; and at the age of seventeen he
painted landscapes and portraits in Philadelphia.
Thus he was enabled in part to purchase a small
farm for lu's widowed mother. At the age of
twenty-one he, by the advice of his friends, re
paired to London to place himself under the
guidance of Mr. West, the painter, and by him
i was kindly received and admitted as an inmate
of his house for several years. Prosecuting his
; business as a painter, he spent two years in I)ev-
! onshire, where he became acquainted with the
Duke of Bridgcwater and with Lord Stanhope,
well known for his attachment to the mechanic
arts. In 1793 he engaged in the project of im
proving inland navigation, and in 1794 obtained
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FULTON.
patents for a double inclined plane, and for ma
chines for spinning flax and making ropes. The
subject of canals now chiefly occupied his atten
tion, and at this period, in 1796, his work on
canals was published. In his profession of a civil
engineer he was greatly benefited by his skill in
drawing and painting. lie went to Paris in 1797,
and, being received into the family of Joel Bar
low, he there spent seven years, studying chemis
try, physics, and mathematics, and acquiring a
knowledge of the French, Italian, and German
languages. To him Barlow dedicated his Colum-
biad. In Dec., 1797, he made his first experiment
on submarine explosion in the Seine, but without
success. His plan for a submarine boat was af
terwards perfected. In 1801, while he was resid
ing with his friend, Mr. Barlow, he met in Paris
Chpacellor Livingston, the American minister,
wh< explained to him the importance in America
of i avigating boats by steam. Mr. Fulton had
alre-dy conceived the project as early as 1793, as
appears by his letter to Lord Stanhope, Sept. 30.
He -iow engaged anew in the affair, and at the
con.'-aon expense of himself and Mr. Livingston
buiir a boat on the Seine in 1803, and successfully
navigated the river. The principles of the steam
engi.ie he did not invent; he claimed only the
app':cation of water-wheels for propelling vessels.
In ] 'ec., 1806, he returned to this country ; and he
and Mr. Livingston built in 1807 the first boat,
the Clermont, one hundred and thirty feet in
length, which navigated the Hudson at the rate
of five miles an hour. In Feb., 1809, he took out
his first patent. In 1810 he published his tor
pedo war. In 1811 and 1812 he built two steam
ferry-boats for crossing the Hudson ; he contrived
also very ingenious floating docks for the recep
tion of these boats. In 1813 he obtained a pat
ent for a submarine battery. Conceiving the
plan of a steam man-of-war, the government in
March, 1814, appropriated 320,000 dollars for
constructing it, and appointed him the engineer.
In about four months she was launched, with the
name of Fulton, the first. He was employed in
improving his submarine boat, when he died sud-
denlv. His wife, whom he married in 1808, was
Harriet, daughter of Walter Livingston. His
features were strong and interesting ; his man
ners easy ; his temper mild ; in his domestic and
social relations he was affectionate, kind, and gen
erous. The two inventions of the cotton gin by
Whitney and of steam navigation by Fulton have
an incalculable effect on the prosperity of this
country, and may show the bearing of genius,
invention, science, and skill on national wealth.
The following is a brief explanation of some of
his inventions, besides the steamboat : 1. By the
machine for making ropes, which can stand in a
^oom forty feet square, the ropeyarns are put on
spools, and any sized cordage made by one man.
GADSDEN.
2. The submarine boat had a main-sail and jib
like a sloop ; the mast and sails could be taken in
and the boat dive under water in one minute, and
be rowed and steered by a compass. Thus a tor
pedo could be fixed to the bottom of ships of
war. Mr. F. and three others continued under
water one hour. He supposed, that five men
might continue under water six hours and rise
fifteen miles from the place, where they went
down. 3. The torpedo is a copper case, contain
ing fifty or one hundred pounds of powder, dis
charged by a gun lock, which strikes by means of
clockwork, set to any short time. lie proposed
to attach it to a rope of sixty or eighty feet, and
to fasten it by a gun harpoon to the bow of a ves
sel, whose motion would draw it under her bot
tom, and thus she would be blown up. A few
row-boats, each with a torpedo, might attack a
ship of war, and be pretty sure to succeed. —
Colden's Life of Fulton ; Encyc. American.
FUIIMAN, lliciuiiD, ].). I)., an eminent Bap
tist minister of Charleston, S. C., died Aug. 25,
1825. He had been nearly forty years the pastor
of a church in Charleston, having previously been
the minister of Statesburgh from 1774 to 1787.
He furnished llamsay with a statistical account of
Camden, and published a sermon on the death of
Oliver Hart, 1796.
GADSDEN, CiiiusToriiER, lieutenant-gover
nor of South Carolina, and a distinguished friend
of his country, died Aug. 28, 1805, aged 81. He
was born in Charleston in 1724. He was ap
pointed one of the delegates to the congress,
which met at New York in Oct., 1765, to petition
against the stamp act. He was also chosen a
member of the congress which met in 1774. He
was among the first, who openly advocated repub
lican principles, and wished to make his country
independent of the monarchical government of
Great Britain. " The decisive genius," says ] lam-
say, " of Christopher Gadsdcn in the south and
of John Adams in the north at a much earlier
day might have desired a complete separation of
America from Great Britain ; but till the year
1776, the rejection of the second petition of con
gress, and the appearance of Paine's pamphlet,
common sense, a reconciliation with the mother
country was the unanimous wish of almost every
other American." During the siege of Charles
ton in 1780 he remained within the lines with five
of the council, while Governor Ilutledge, with the
other three, left the city, at the earnest request of
Gen. Lincoln. Several months after the capitu
lation he was taken out of his bed, Aug. 27th,
and with most of the civil and military officers
transported in a guard ship to St. Augustine.
This was done by the order of Lord Cornwallis,
and it was in violation of the rights of prisoners
on parole. Guards were left at their houses, and
the private papers of some of them were exam-
GADSDEX.
incd. A parole was offered at St. Augustine; but
such was his indignation at the ungenerous treat
ment which he had received, that he refused to
accept it, and bore a close confinement in the
castle for forty-two weeks with the greatest forti
tude. In 1782, when it became necessary, by the
rotation established, to choose a new governor, he
was elected to this office ; but he declined it on
account of his age. lie continued, however, his
exertions for the good of his country, both in the
assembly and council, and notwithstanding the
injuries he had suffered and the immense loss of
his property he zealously opposed the law for con
fiscating the estates of the adherents to the Brit
ish government, and contended, that sound policy
required us to forgive and forget. — Boiccn's
Fun. Ser. ; Ramsay's Rev. of Car. I. 35, 55,
61, 164; II. 125, 349.
GADSDEN, CHRISTOPHER, D.D., bishop of
South Carolina, died at Charleston June 25, 1852,
aged 67. He was a grandson of Gen. Christo
pher G., and was graduated at Yale in 1804.
After having the charge of several churches he
was elected bishop in 1840, as successor of Bishop
Bowen. lie was a man of learning, eloquence,
and piety. He published a sermon on the death
of Bishop Dehon, 1817.
GAFFIELD, BI-XJAMIX, was drowned in at
tempting to cross the river in order to escape the
Indians, who attacked Hinsdale, N. H., in 1755.
His wife, Eunice, was carried a prisoner to Can
ada and sold to the French. She was sent to
France, and thence to England ; and at last was
liberated. She married a Mr. Pratt, and died at
Dana, Mass., in 1830, aged 97.
GAGE, THOMAS, or Friar Thomas of St. Mary,
a Catholic missionary, was an Irishman educated
at St. Omer's, and joined the Dominicans. In
1625 he went out from Spain to Mexico with a
band of missionaries, destined for the Philippine
islands ; but, not relishing so distant a mission, he
fled to Gautimala, where and in other neighbor
ing places he lived as a missionary to the Indians
ten or eleven years. In 1637 he escaped to Eng
land and became a Protestant minister at Deal.
He published a new survey of the West Indies,
giving an account of his mission to New Spain
and of his travels ; second edit. 1655 ; 4th edit.
1699 ; 4th edit, in French, 1720. It is a curious
and interesting book; though Clavigero, an Ital
ian, might well after the laspe of one hundred
years decry it and represent it as full of falsehood,
for it unveils much of the secrets of Catholicism
and describes the pope as antichrist.
GAG E, THOMAS, the last governor of Massa
chusetts appointed by the king, died in England
in April, 1787. After the conquest of Canada
in 1700, lie was appointed governor of Montreal.
At the departure of Gen. Amherst in 1763, he
succeeded him as commander in chief of his
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majesty's forces in America ; he was appointed
governor of Massachusetts, and arrived at Bos
ton May 13, 1774. He was a suitable instrument
for executing the purposes of a tyrannical minis
try and parliament. Several regiments soon fol
lowed him, and he began to repair the fortifica
tions upon Boston neck. The powder in the
arsenal in Charlestown was seized ; detatchmcnts
were sent out to take possession of the stores in
Salem and Concord ; and the battle of Lexington
became the signal of war. In May, 1775, the pro
vincial congress declared Gage to be an inveterate
enemy of the country, disqualified from serving
the colony as governor, and unworthy of obedi
ence. From this time the exercise of his func
tions was confined to Boston. In June he issued
a proclamation, offering pardon to all the rebels,
excepting Samuel Adams and John Hancock, and
ordered the use of the martial law. But the
affair of Breed's hill a few days afterwards proved
to him that he had mistaken the character of the
Americans. In Oct. he embarked for England,
and was succeeded in the command by Sir Wil
liam Howe. His conduct toward the inhabitants
of Boston, in promising them liberty to leave the
town on the delivery of their arms, and then
detaining many of them, has been reprobated for
its treachery. — Stcdman, I. 95-110; Gordon;
Holmes; Marshall, I. 391,446; n. 163, 185, 276;
in. 21; Warren, I. 127-132, 241.
GAGElt, WILLIAM, an eminent surgeon and
physician, came to Charlestown, Mass., in 1630,
but soon fell a victim to the spotted fever. He
died Sept. 20, 1630.
GAGElt, WILLIAM, minister of Lebanon,
Conn., died in 1739, aged about 39. He gradu
ated at Yale in 1721, and was the predecessor of
E. Whcelock.
GAILLAHD, Joiix, senator of the United
States from South Carolina, was a native of St.
Stephen's district. He voted for the war of 1812.
•Called repeatedly to preside over the senate in the
absence of the vice president, he presided with great
impartiality. He died at Washington Feb. 26,
1826. He was a man of a vigorous understand
ing and inflexible integrity ; firm in friendship ;
fixed in his political principles ; yet in all the
conflicts of parties maintaining the courtesy,
which is too often forgotten.
GAINE, HUGH, a bookseller in New York,
was born in Ireland. In 1752 he published the
New York Mercury, and soon opened a book-shop
in Hanover square, and continued in his profitable
business forty years. He died April 25, 1807,
aged 81. In a poetical version of his petition at
the close of the war, he is made to express the
principle by which many others have been found
to be governed :
" And I always adhere to the sword that is longest,
And stick to the party that 's like to be strongest."
TJiomas, II. 103, 301, 483.
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GAINES.
GALLISOX.
GAIXES, EDMUND PENDLETON, major-general,
died at New Orleans June 6, 1849, aged 72.
Born in Culpepper county, Va., he was named
after his grand-uncle. His father removed to
East Tennessee, where the son was a lieutenant
in Indian warfare at the age of eighteen. In
1801 he was appointed military collector at
Mobile. In 1806 he arrested Aaron Burr.
Afterwards he became a lawyer ; but in the war
of 1812 he resumed his position of captain. He
commanded a regiment at the battle of Chryst-
ler's Field in 1813. The next year he was a brig
adier-general, and made a successful defence at
fort Erie; but, being wounded by a shell, he re
signed the command to Gen. Ripley. Under
Jackson he was engaged in the Creek and Semi-
nole wars. He was a man of great simplicity of
character, and of integrity. A short time before
his death his wife came in possession of a large
property.
GAIR, THOMAS, pastor of the second Baptist
church in Boston, died April 27, 1790, aged 35.
Born in Boston, he graduated at Providence in
1777, and was for ten years a minister at Med-
field. He succeeded Mr. Skillman in B. in 1787 ;
and Dr. Baldwin was his successor. He pub
lished a sermon at the ordination of T. Green,
1783.
GALATZLN, DEMETRIUS AUGUSTINE, died at
Loretto, Cambria Co., Pa., May 6, 1840, aged 70.
He was born at Munster in Germany in 1770.
His father was Prince de Galitzin, of Itussia. He
arrived at Baltimore in 1792 ; having studied the
ology, he took up his abode in the wilderness of
Cambria county, and gathered around him a Cath
olic population of three or four thousand. It is
said he expended a princely fortune. In a rude
log cabin he spent thirty years.
GALE, BENJAMIN, a physician, was born on
Long Island in 1715, but his parents soon re
moved to Goshen, N. Y. He graduated at Yale
college in 1733. Having studied with Jared
Eliot, of Killingsworth, he married his daughter,
and settled in that town, where he died in 1790,
aged 75. He was an eminent physician and ag
riculturist, and was deeply concerned also in
politics. He invented a drill plough ; he wrote a
dissertation on the prophecies ; he published a
treatise on the inoculation for the small pox,
about 1750. His method of a preparatory course
of mercury was commended in England. The
same was employed in 1745 by Dr. Thompson, of
Pennsylvania, and Dr. Morison, of Long Island.
In the transactions of the royal society, vol. LV.,
he published historical memoirs on inoculation,
and account of the cure by salt of the bite of the
rattlesnake. — Thachcr.
GALES, JOSEPH, died at Raleigh, N. C., Aug.
24, 1841, aged 80. He was the father of Joseph
G., of Washington. Born in England, he was a
printer and bookseller in Sheffield ; he emigrated
to Philadelphia in 1794, and in 1799 to Raleigh.
For forty years he published the Raleigh Regis
ter. He was blameless, benevolent, pious.
GALLATIN, ALBERT, died at the house of his
son-in-law in Astoria, L. I., Aug. 12, 1849, aged
88. He was born in Switzerland Jan. 29, 1761.
His ancestor, John G., secretary to the Duke of
Savoy, emigrated to Geneva. Graduating in
1779, he came to America in 1780. He com
manded a fort at Machias ; then became a tutor
in French at Cambridge ; thence he proceeded to
Virginia. Receiving now his patrimony, he made
the purchase of new lands. He settled in Fav-
ette county, on the Monongahela, and became
soon a prominent member of the legislature of
Pennsylvania, and then a member of congress.
In 1793 he was a senator of the United States
for a short time. Mr. Jefferson called him in
1801 to be secretary of the treasury. In 1813 he
was sent with others to negotiate with Great
Britain under the mediation of Russia; and he
afterwards assisted at Ghent in the treaty of
peace. From 1816 to 1823 he was minister at
Paris. After 1828 he became a citizen of New
York. He was president of the national bank
from 1831 till he was succeeded by his son James
in 1839; he was also president of the New York
historical society. His wife, Hannah, daughter of
James Nicholson, of New York, whom he mar
ried about 1794, died May 14, 1849, aged 82;
amidst the varied scenes of her life she was
never unmindful of Ircr religious duties. He
wrote against war and on the currency, and pub
lished elaborate essays on the Indian languages.
— Evening Post ; Boston Advertiser, Aug. 15.
GALLAUDET, PETER W., died at Washing
ton May 17, 1843, aged 88. He was a soldier of
the Revolution. He toiled untiringly in estab
lishing the Washington manual labor school, and
the Howard institution was acquainted with his
devotion to the cause of Christian charity.
GALLAUDET, THOMAS HOPKINS, LL. D.,
died in Hartford Sept. 10, 1851, aged 63. Born
in Philadelphia Dec. 10, 1787, he graduated at
Yale in 1805. After serving some years as a
tutor, he studied theology, and was licensed to
preach in 1814. But now he turned his atten
tion to the instruction of deaf mutes. After vis
iting Europe, he opened the asylum for the deaf
and dumb at Hartford in 1817, but from ill
health resigned his place in 1830, and engaged in
other philanthropic labors. In 1838 he was chap
lain at the insane hospital. II. Barnard delivered
a discourse on his character in 1852. His monu
ment was erected by the deaf and dumb Sept. 6,
1854. He published various discourses in 1818,
1821, 1824; 6 vols. of annals of the deaf and
dumb.
GALLISON, JOHN, a lawyer, was born at Mar-
GALLOWAY.
blchead in Oct., 1788. His mother was sister of [
Judge Scwall. After practising law for a short
time in Marblehead, he removed to Boston,
where, for a year or two, he was the editor of the
Weekly Messenger. He died Dec. 25, 1820,
aged 32. He published reports of cases decided
in the circuit court, 2 vols., 1817 ; address to the
peace society, 1820.
GALLOWAY, JOSEPH, an eminent lawyer in
Pennsylvania, died in England in Sept., 1803.
He was a member of the assembly of that prov
ince in May, 1764, when the subject of a petition
in favor of a change of the government from that
of a proprietary to a royal government was dis
cussed. John Dickinson was opposed to the
petition, and Mr. Galloway answered his speech
with much warmth. Both speeches were printed,
and Mr. Dickinson, after an ineffectual challenge,
wrote his " Answer to a piece, called the speech
of Joseph Galloway." After having been for
some time speaker of the house of assembly, he
was appointed a member of the first congress in
1774. He afterwards deserted the American
cause, joining the British at New York in Dec.,
1776, and remained with the army till June,
1778. His counsels and exertions were of little
avail against the resolute spirit of millions, deter
mined to be free. By his own account he aban
doned an estate of the value of 40,000 pounds.
In 1779 he was examined before the house of
commons on the transactions in America, and his
representation did not do much credit to the
British commanders. The preface to his speech,
which was published in 1764, was written by Dr.
Franklin, who supported the same cause. It
presents a history of the proprietary government.
Mr. Galloway published also observations on the
conduct of Sir William Howe, in which, notwith
standing his attachments, he discloses and repre
hends the shocking brutality of the British troops,
especially in New Jersey. The following work, it
is believed, is the production of his pen : brief
commentaries upon such parts of the revelation
and other prophecies as immediately refer to the
present times, London, 1802. He published a
letter to Howe on his naval conduct ; letters to a
nobleman on the conduct of war in the middle
colonies, 1779; reply to the observations of Gen.
Howe; cool thoughts on the consequences of
American independence ; candid examination of
the claims of Great Britain and her colonies ; re-
flectiona on the American rebellion, London, 1780.
— Hist. Coll. II. 93; Monthly Review, XXXII.
67 ; LXI. 71; Franklin's Works, ill. 163.
GALLUP, JOSEPH A., M. I)., founder of the
medical institution in Woodstock, Vt., died Oct.
12, 1849, aged 80.
GALUS11A, JONAS, governor of Vermont, died
at Shaftsbury in Oct., 1834.
GAM AGE, WILLIAM, M. D., a physician in
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Boston, was the son of Dr. Wm G., of Cam
bridge, who died Jan. 1, 1821, aged 76. He
graduated at Harvard college in 1802, and died
Oct. o, 1818, aged 37. lie published several arti
cles in the New England journal of medicine, and
some account of the fever of 1817 and 1818, with
remarks on typhus.
GAMAGE, JONATHAN', died at Fryeburg in
\ug., 1843, aged 90, in consequence of the ex
citement of attending the Bunker Hill celebration
at Charlestown, occasioning the loss of reason.
A fellow soldier of the same age, Josiah Cleavc-
land, died from the same cause.
GAMBOLD, JOHN, Moravian missionary, re
sided at Spring Place among the Cherokees in
1817, when he was visited by Mr. Cornelius. By
his labors Mr. Ilicks became a Christian convert.
In 1827 he resided within thirty miles of Spring
Place, at Oochelogy, and in that year he died,
Nov. 6th, after a long period of weakness and
suffering. He was a faithful servant of his
Master.
GANNETT, CALEB, minister of Amherst and
Cumberland, N. S., died at Cambridge April 25,
1818, aged 72. He was born in Bridgewater,
Mass., Aug. 22, 1745, graduated at Harvard col
lege in 1763, and was ordained Oct. 12, 1767 ;
but from inadequate support returned to New
England in 1771. For some years he was a tutor
in the college, and steward from 1780 till his
death. He married a daughter of President
Stiles. In the transactions of the American
academy, vols. I. and II., he published observa
tions of an eclipse, and two papers on the aurora
borealis. — 2 Hist. Coll. viil. 277-285.
GANO, JOILN, minister in New York, died Aug.
10, 1804, aged 77. He collected the first Baptist
society in that city, and was ordained its pastor in
1762. Early espousing the cause of his country
in the contest with Great Britain, at the com
mencement of the war he joined the standard of
freedom in the capacity of chaplain. His preach
ing contributed to impart a determined spirit to
the soldiers, and he continued in the army till the
conclusion of the war. When a lieutenant, after
uttering some profane expressions, accosted him,
saying, " Good morning, Dr. Good Man," he re
plied, " You pray early this morning." The
reproved man said, "I beg your pardon." — "O,"
retorted Mr. G., " I cannot pardon you ; carry
your case to God." He left his society in New
York in 1788, and removed to Kentucky. He
died at Frankfort, resigned to the Divine will,
and in the hope of everlasting blessedness in the
presence of his Redeemer. Memoirs of his life,
written principally by himself, were published in
12mo., 1806. — ftano's Memoirs.
GANO, STEPHEN, D. D., son of the preceding,
died at Providence Aug. 28, 1818, aged 65, in the
thirty-sixth year of his ministry. Besides editing
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the memoirs of his father, he published a sermon
at the ordination of J. Bradley, 1801.
GANSEVOORT, PETER, JR., brigadier-general,
died July 2, 1812, aged 62. He was born in Al
bany July 17, 1749. With the -rank of major he
accompanied Montgomery to Canada in 1775.
He commanded at fort Stamvix, as colonel, when
it was besieged by St. Leger in 1777. He reso
lutely defended the post from Aug. 2 to 22, until
the approach of Arnold dispersed the Indians and
gave him relief. For his gallant defence he re
ceived the thanks of congress. In 1781 he was
appointed brigadier-general by the State. After
the war he was military agent and intrusted with
other offices. He was brave, intelligent, and
faithful, and highly respected.
GARDEN, ALEXANDER, an Episcopal minister,
was born in Scotland in 1685, came to Charleston
about 1720, and died in 1756, aged 70. He was
the faithful commissary of the bishop of London
for the Carolinas, Georgia, and the Bahama islands.
He was a man of learning and of charity. A
tenth of his income he gave to the poor. He
published six letters to Mr. Whitefield, 1740 ;
doctrine of justification vindicated ; two sermons,
1742. — Ramsay, II. 10,466.
GARDEN, ALEXANDER, D. D., F. R. S., a
physician, was the son of Rev. A. G., of Birse,
Aberdeen, who died about 1784. Having studied
physic at Edinburgh, he came to Charleston, S. C.,
about 1750, and by his practice of thirty years
acquired a fortune. In 1783 he returned to
Europe, and died in London April 15, 1791, aged
63. He was much devoted to the study of natural
history, particularly of botany, and made a num
ber of communications on those subjects to his
philosophical friends in Europe. In compliment
to him the greatest botanist of the age gave tbe
name of Gardenia to one of the most beautiful
flowering shrubs in the world. He introduced
into medical use the Virginia pink root as a ver
mifuge, and published in 1764 an account of its
medical properties, with a botanical description ;
a second edition, 1772. — Tltaclter ; Ramsay's
Review of Medicine, 42, 44 ; Miller's Retrospect,
I. 319.
GARDINER, CHRISTOPHER, an adventurer, to
be remembered for nothing good, came to Mas
sachusetts in 1630 with pretensions to piety, but
bringing with him " a comely young woman,
whom he called his cousin." He would have been
better received in such a new colony as that of
the Mormons in Utah, where there is no scruple
about allowing seven wives. But in the old Bay
State Gardiner was arrested in 1631 on the
charge of having two wives in England. In re
venge, he, in 1632, with Morton, presented a pe
tition to the king against the colony, accusing the
colonists of intended rebellion.
GARDINER, LION, an early settler in Connec
ticut and New York, and a man of character and
influence, died in 1663 at East Hampton, Long
Island. A native of England, bred to the pro
fession of arms, an engineer, he engaged in the
wars of Holland, where he became connected with
Peters, Davenport, and other Puritans, and was
induced to proceed to Saybrook in the service of
the patentees, in making -a city, towns, and forts.
He embarked with his Avife, Mary "Wilemson, an
excellent Hollander lady, in 1635, and crossed
the ocean in a small craft of twenty-five tons, and
arriving at Saybrook Nov. 28, commenced its set
tlement. The next year he built tbe fort. His
policy was to live in peace with the Indians. His
son David, born April 29, 1636, was the first
white child born in Connecticut. He purchased
of the sachem Wyandanch the island now called
Gardiner's Island, of three thousand acres. Here
he settled as a farmer in 1639, the first English
settlement in New York. In 1648 he became a
proprietor of East Hampton, to which place he
removed in 1653, and lived there ten years. His
influence over the Montaukett Indians was great
and important. All his large estate he bequeathed
to his wife, who survived him two years ; and,
dying, Gardiner's Island was entailed upon her son
David, and it has descended through eight pro
prietors, from David to John, and from John to
David, to the present generation, the descent
from father to son not having been broken.
President Tyler married into this family. A me
moir" is in historical collections, 3d series, vol. X.
GARDINER, SYLVESTER, a physician, was
born in Rhode Island in 1717. His grandfather
emigrated from England. Having studied his
profession several years in France and England,
he practised physic very successfully in Boston ; he
also established a very profitable drug-shop. Ac
quiring great wealth, he connected himself with the
Plymouth land company, and purchased exten
sive tracts of land in Maine. At the commence
ment of the Revolution he was a tory re
fugee, and of his large estate was able to take
with him only 400 pounds. His lands, about
one hundred thousand acres, were confiscated and
sold at auction ; but his heirs, through some in
formality, were re-invested with the property.
After the war he returned to Newport, where
he died of a malignant fever, Aug. 8, 1786, aged
68. He displayed in his life the moral virtues
and a regard to the duties of religion. In his
will he bequeathed ten acres and a small sum of
money for the Episcopal society in Gardiner, and
directed the small house of worship to be finished ;
but it was soon burnt by an insane man, McCaus-
land, in 1773. — Tkaclier; Greenleaf's Eccles.
Sketches, 227.
GARDINER, JOHN SYLVESTER JOHN, D. D..
Episcopal minister in Boston, became assistant to
Dr. Parker April 12, 1792, and died at Harrow-
GARDNER.
gate Springs, England, July 2G, 1830, aged 65.
lie was distinguished for his literary attainments,
and zealous for what he regarded as the Armin-
ian and Trinitarian tenets of the Episcopal
church, and no less zealous in politics. He pub
lished a sermon at the ordination of J. Bowers,
1802; before the humane society; before the
charitable fire society, 1803; on the death of
Bishop Parker, 1804; of Dr. Lloyd, and D.
Sears ; of Geo. Higginson, and Thomas C. Amory, [
1812; at a fast, 1808, and 1812 ; before a female
asylum, 1809; on the Divinity of Jesus Christ,
1810; preservative against Unitarianism, 1811;
before the society of donations, 1813.
GARDNER, NATHANIEL, died in Boston in
1760, aged about 41. He graduated in 1739,
and was many years usher in the Latin school
under the celebrated Lovell. He was honored
for his classical taste and acquirements. He
published some English poems, and a Latin
translation of "Watts' ode on the nativity of
Christ. — Monthly Anthology, iv. 38.
GARDNER, JOHN, minister of Stow, died Jan.
10, 1775, aged 79. lie was born in Charlcstown ;
graduated at Harvard in 1715; and Avas settled
in 1718. His predecessor, the first minister, was
John Evelcth ; his successors, Jonathan Newell in
1774, and John L. Sibley in 1829.
GARDNER, GEORGE, a benefactor of Harvard
college, died at Salem in 1773. He Avas gradu
ated in 1762, and was a merchant. He bequeathed
to the college 4,867 dollars, for the education of
poor scholars ; 1,466 to the poor of Salem ; and
7,333 to the marine society for superannuated sea
men. The legacies became due on the death of
his brother, Weld G., in Nov., 1801.
GARDNER, HENRY, first treasurer of Massa
chusetts, in the time of the Revolution, died in 1782,
aged about 52. He was the son of Rev. Mr. G., of
Stow, and graduated at Harvard in 1750. From
1757 he was a member of the general court until
the Revolution ; and then was the faithful, patri
otic treasurer, till his death. He was also coun
cillor, and judge of the court of common pleas
for Middlesex. In every office he manifested in
tegrity, prudence, firmness. He was also a pious
man and humble Christian ; and in the faith and
hopes of the gospel he died in peace.
GARDNER, JOSEPH, died at Boston April 3,
1806, aged 92. A graduate of Cambridge in
1732, he was settled May 15, 1740, as colleague
with Rev. N. Clap of Newport ; but was dismissed
in 1743. He was justice of the common pleas
for Suffolk.
GARDNER, FRANCIS, minister of Leominster
more than half a century, died in 1814, aged 76.
Born in Stow, he graduated at Harvard in 1755.
His son, John, died in Aug., 1856, aged 89. He
published a thanksgiving sermon, 1795 ; half-cen
tury, 1812.
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GARDNER, PEREGRINE, colonel, died in Wt-st
Bloomficld, N. Y., April 13, 1838, aged 72. He
Avas a native of Nonvich, Conn. He and his Avife
were the first inhabitants of W. B., in 1789, from
Utica to Buffalo being almost an entire Avilderness.
In the Avar of 1812 he Avas Avounded and taken pris
oner. He Avas a good citizen, a benevolent man, an
eminent Christian. He Avas accustomed to do
Avhat to some would be harder than to meet the
face of an enemy in Avar ; he Avas accustomed to
ask of a stranger, Avith a spirit of affection, " Do
you love the Saviour ? "
GARDNER, HENRY, Dr., died in Charles-
tOAvn, Mass., Aug. 22, 1854, aged 81. Born in
C., he graduated at Harvard in 1797.
GARLAND, HUGH A., died in St. Louis Oct.
14, 1854, an eminent laAvyer, a native of Virginia.
He Avas clerk of the house at Washington from
1836 to 1841. He published a life of John Ran
dolph.
GARNETT, JAMES MERCER, died in ElmAvood,
Essex county, Va., May, 1843, aged 62. He Avas
a member of Congress, from 1805 to 1809. His
life Avas much and honorably deA-oted to the
cause of education and agriculture; his public
addresses Avere A'ery acceptable.
GARRARD, JAMES, goA-ernor of Kentucky
from 1796 to 1804, Avas a native of Virginia, and
an officer of the Revolution. He Avas among the
first adventurous settlers of Kentucky, and died
at Mount Lebanon, Bourbon county, Jan. 19,
1822, aged 73.
GARRETSON, CATHERINE, died at Red Hook
in 1749, aged 96 years and 9 months. She Avas
the sister of Chancellor LiA'ingston, and the
AvidoAV of F. Garretson, a Methodist minister.
GARRETT, JAMES, missionary printer for
tAvelve years, died at Bombay July 17, 1831.
The day before his death he summoned his tAvcnty
Avorkmen to his bedside, and addressed them in
Mahratta, and exhorted them to repent and to
believe in Christ as their only Saviour ; with tears
they heard the last counsels of a dying Christian.
Mr. G. lived in Utica, Avhen he entered the mis
sionary service. An account of his death is in
the Missionary Herald, 1832.
GASSETT, HENRY, a merchant, died in Bos
ton Aug. 15, 1855, aged 81. He Avas a graduate
of 1795. He Avas of Huguenot descent, from
Henri Gachet, Avho came from Rochelle to Taun-
ton. In time the name Avas Anglicised. Three of
his sons Avere also graduates of Hanrard. His
pen and Avealth Avere in his zeal for truth and vir-
tue employed in opposing the masonic society.
GASTON, WILLIAM, LL. D., a judge of North
Carolina, died at Raleigh Jan. 23, 1844, aged 66.
His father, Dr. Alexander G., born in Ireland of
Huguenot ancestry, lived at NeAvbern, and Avas
shot by the tories Aug. 20, 1781, William being
then only three years old. His mother, Margaret
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Sharpc, born in England, ever afterwards a widow,
devoted herself to the education of her son.
"When he returned with honor from Princeton
college in 1790, the first thing she did was to lay
her hands on his head, as he knelt before her,
exclaiming, " My God, I thank thee ! " Her
pious spirit survived the withering influence of
popery. She lived thirty-one years after the
death of- her husband; but never made a visit
except to the sufl'ering poor. He graduated at
Princeton in 179G; and was a senator of North
Carolina, and a representative in congress in 1813.
GATES, HORATIO, a major-general in the army
of the United States, died April 10, 1806, aged
77. He was a native of England. In early life
he entered the British army, and laid the founda
tion of his future military excellence. He was aid
to Gen. Monkton at the capture of Martinico ;
and after the peace of Aix la Chapelle, he was
among the first troops which landed at Halifax
under Gen. Cornwallis. He was with Braddock
at the time of his defeat in 1755, and was shot
through the body. When peace was concluded,
he purchased an estate in Virginia, where he re
sided until the commencement of the American
Avar in 1775, when he was appointed by congress
adjutant-general, with the rank of brigadier-gen
eral. He accompanied Washington to Cambridge,
when he went to take command of the army in
that place. In June, 1776, Gates was appointed
to the command of the army of Canada. He was
superseded by Gen. Schuyler in May, 1777, but
in August following he took the place of this offi
cer in the northern department. The success,
which attended his arms in the capture of Bur-
goyne in October, filled America with joy. Con
gress passed a vote of thanks, and ordered a medal
of gold to be presented to him by the president.
His conduct towards his conquered enemy was
marked by delicacy, which does him the highest
honor. He did not permit his own troops to wit
ness the mortification of the British in depositing
their arms. After Gen. Lincoln was taken pris
oner, he was appointed, June 13, 1780, to the
command of the southern department. Aug.
16, he was defeated by Cornwallis at Camden.
He was superseded Dec. 3, by Gen. Greene ; but
was in 1782 restored to his command.
After the peace he retired to his farm in Berke
ley county, Va., where he remained until the year
1790, when he went to reside at New York, hav
ing first emancipated his slaves, and made a pe
cuniary provision for such as Avere not able to
provide for themselves. Some of them would not
leave him, but continued in his family. On his
arrival at New York the freedom of the city was
presented to him. In 1800 he accepted a seat in
the legislature, but he retained it no longer than
he conceived his services might be useful to the
cause of liberty, which he never abandoned. His
political opinions did not separate him from many
respectable citizens, whose views differed widely
from his own. A few weeks before his death he
wrote to his friend, Dr. Mitchill, then at Wash
ington, on some business, and closing his letter,
dated Feb. 27, 1806, with the following words:
" I am very Aveak and have evident signs of an
approaching dissolution. But I have lived long
enough, since I have lived to see a mighty peo
ple animated Avith a spirit to be free, and goA'-
crned by transcendent abilities and honor." He
retained his faculties to the last. He took pleas
ure in professing his attachment to religion, and
his firm belief in the doctrines of Christianity.
The will, Avhich Avas made not long before his
death, exhibited the humility of his faith. In an
article, dictated by himself, he expressed a sense
of his own umvorthiness, and his reliance solely
on the intercession and sufferings of the Re
deemer. In another paragraph he directed that
his body should be privately buried, Avhich was
accordingly done. His AvicloAV died in 1810.
Gen. Gates was a Avhig in England, and a repub
lican in America. He Avas a scholar, Avell versed
in history and the Latin classics. While he Avas
just, hospitable, and generous, and possessed a
feeling heart, his manners and deportment yet
indicated his military character. — Marshall, II.
237 ; III. 3, 226, 273, 336 ; IV. 169-182, 324, 596 ;
Brissot, Nouv. Voy. II. 50; Sicdman, l. 336,
342; II. 200, 233 ; Gordon, II. 276, 572 ; III. 391,
439, 472 ; IV. 26.
GAY, EBENEZF.R, D. D., minister of Hingham,
Mass., Avas born Aug. 26, 1696. He Avas graduated
at Harvard college in 1714, and ordained June
11, 1718, as successor of John Norton. The first
minister Avas P. Hobart. These three ministers
preached about one hundred and fifty years. Dr.
Gay died March 18, 1787, aged 90, in the sixty-
ninth year of his ministry. He Avas succeeded by
Dr. Ware. lie died unmarried. His mental
pOAvers Avere continued to him in an uncommon
degree till his death. On the day Avhich com
pleted the eighty-fifth year of his age, he preached
a sermon, Avhich Avas much celebrated and Avas
reprinted in England. Dr. Chauncy pronounces
him to have been one of the greatest and most
valuable men in the country. His sentiments Avere
not so rigid as those of some of his brethren in
the ministry ; but he Avas zealous for the interests
of practical goodness, lie published a sermon at
the ordination of Joseph Green, 1725; of Eb.
Gay, Jr., 1742 ; of J. Mayhew, 1747; of J. Dorby,
1752; of E. Carpenter, 1753; of G. liaAvson,
1755 ; of Bunker Gay, 1763 ; of C. Gannett, 1768 ;
at the artillery election ; on the transcendent
glory of the gospel, to which is added a pillar of
salt to season a corrupt age, 1728; on the death
of John Hancock, 1744; at the election, 17!.;;
at the convention, 1746 ; Dudlcian lecture, 1759 ;
GAY.
two sermons on the death of Dr Mayhew, 17GG;
thanksgiving sermon, 1771; the old man's calen
dar, 1781. — Shute's Funeral Sermon; Hist.
Coll. x. 159; Mass. Centinel, March 30, 1787.
GAY, EBENEZER, D. D., died at Suffield, Conn.,
March or April, 1796, aged 77, having been in
the ministry fifty-three years. Born in Dcdham, !
he graduated at Harvard in 1737. Of six brothers,
O '
four were above 70. lie was a nephew of E. G.,
of Ilingham. Bunker Gay, minister of Ilinsdale,
N. II., who died in 1814, was his brother. His
son, Ebenezer, a graduate of Yale in 1757, was
settled as his colleague or successor in 1793, and
died in 1837. He had a strong mind and was
respectable for learning.
GAY, BUNKER, brother of Dr. E. G., and min
ister of Ilinsdale, N. H., died in Feb., 1815, aged
80. He graduated at Harvard in 1760, and was
ordained in 1763. He was born in Ilingham, Mass.;
and his father, Nathaniel, was the son of John,
whose father was also John, of Dedham in 1635,
the ancestor of the Gays of Massachusetts and
Connecticut. He published the accomplished
judge, a sermon at Keene; also, on the death of
llev. L. Hedge at Warwick.
GAY, SETH, a useful and venerable citizen of
Gardiner, Me., died Jan. 30, 1851, aged 89.
GAY, SAMUEL, minister in Hubbardston, died
Oct. 16, 1848, aged 64. He was born in South
Dedham, and a graduate of Harvard in 1805.
Ordained Oct. 16, 1810, in 1827 in consequence
of a division among his people a new Calvinistic
church was formed, of which he was the pastor
till 1841, when he resigned and lived respected in
retirement. He preached on the Sabbath but
one before his death. He died suddenly. While
at work in his field, he fell and expired.
GAY, MARTIN, M. D., died in Boston Jan. 12,
1850, aged 46 ; son of Ebenezer Gay, of Ilingham.
GAYLOIiD, WILLIAM, minister in Norwalk,
died Jan. 3, 1767, aged 57, in the thirty-fourth
year of his ministry. His parish was called
Wilton. lie graduated at Yale in 1730.
GAYLORD, NATHANIEL, died at West Hart-
land, Conn., May 8, 1841, aged 90, the oldest
pastor in the State. He graduated at Yale in
1774. His end was peace.
GAYLORD, LEVI, major, died in Geneva,
Ohio, in 1846, aged 83. He was a Revolutionary
soldier, born in Farmington, Conn.
GEDNEY, RACHAEL, died in New York, Nov.
26, 1848, aged 107, the last of the Mohegans.
Born at Mamaroneck, her father belonged to the
T appaii tribe ; her mother was a Mohcgan. She
married a Malay.
GEE, JOSHUA, minister in Boston, the son of
Joshua, was graduated at Harvard college in
1717, and ordained pastor of the second or old
north church, as colleague with Cotton Mather.
Dec. 18, 1723. In 1732 he received for his col-
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league Samuel Mather, but a separation occurred,
and a new church was built for Mr. Mather. He
died May 22, 1748, aged 50. His wife, the
daughter of Rev. Mr. Rogers, of Portsmouth, an
accomplished woman, died in 1730, aged 29. A
sermon on her death was published by P. Thacher.
lie possessed a strong and penetrating mind.
His powers of reasoning were very uncommon.
Few were more discerning, or could more com
pletely develop a subject. He possessed also a
considerable share of learning. His foible was a
strange indolence of temper. lie preferred talking
with his friends to every thing else. He pub
lished in 1743 a letter to Nathaniel Eells, moder
ator of a convention of pastors in Boston, contain
ing some remarks on their printed testimony
against disorders in the land. From this pam
phlet it appears, that there was present in the
convention not one-third of the pastors in Massa
chusetts, and that of these, seventy in number,
but a small majority voted for the last paragraph
of the testimony, which caused such debates re
specting an attestation to the work of God's grace
in a remarkable revival of religion among the
churches. Mr. Gee complains of the testimony,
that it is partial ; that it speaks of the prevalence
of antinomian but not of Arminian errors ; that it
holds up to view the disorders consequent upon the
revival, and not the great and beneficial effects of
the revival itself. He was one of the assembly of
ministers, who met in Boston, July 7, 1743, and
gave their attestation to the progress of religion in
this country. lie published also a sermon on
the death of Cotton Mather, 1728; two sermons,
entitled, the strait gate and the narrow way infi
nitely preferable to the wide gate and broad way,
1729. — Histor. Coll.x. 157; Prince's Christian
Hist. I. 164.
GEISSENHAMER, FREDERICK W., D. D.,
a German Lutheran minister in New York city,
died in 1838, aged 66.
- GELSTON, DAVID, collector of New York,
died at Greenwich in Sept., 1828, aged 85. He
was a member of the assembly in 1775 and a
Revolutionary patriot. He was collector from
1801 to Dec., 1820.
GEMMIL, JOHN, died in Pennsylvania in 1815.
He' was principal of the academy in Westchester,
and had been the minister of the united church in
New Haven, Conn., over which he was installed
Nov. 7, 1798.
GENET, EDMOND CHARLES, died at Jamaica,
L. I., July 14, 1834, aged 71, formerly minister
from France in 1793. He married a daughter of
George Clinton ; and in 1814 a daughter of Sam
uel Osgood. He took an interest in promoting
improvement in agriculture and in the arts and
sciences. On his arrival at Charleston as minis
ter, he authorized the arming of vessels in that
port against nations with whom we were at peace ;
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for which offensive conduct Washington asked his
recall. .&•
GERRISII, JOSEPH, minister of Wcnham,
Mass., the sou of Capt. Win. G., of Newbury,
was born March 23, 1650 ; graduated in 1GG9;
was ordained as successor, of A. Newman in 1673;
and died Jan. 6, 1720, aged 69. His wife was a
daughter of Maj. Waldrou of Dover : his son,
Joseph, was a minister. His brothers, Benjamin
of Salem, John of Dover, and Moses of Newbury,
with many of their descendants, were distin
guished men. John Dunton calls him Mr. Geery :
his description of him is thus given : " the phi
losopher is acute, ingenious, and subtle. The
dicine curious, orthodox, and profound. The
man of majestic air, without austerity or sour
ness ; his aspect is masterly and great, yet not
imperious or haughty. The Christian is devout
without moroseness or starts of holy frenzy and
enthusiasm. The preacher is primitive, without
the accessional colors of whining or cant ; and
methodical, without intricacy, or affectation, and,
which crowns his character, he is a man of a public
spirit, zealous for the conversion of the Indians,
and of great hospitality to strangers. He gave
us a noble dinner, and entertained us with such
pleasant fruits, as, I must own, Old England is a
stranger to." — 2. Hist. Coll. n. 120.
GEIIRISH, JACOB, colonel, a Revolutionary
patriot, died at Newbury in 1817, aged 77.
GERRY, ELBRIDGE, vice-president of the
United States, died suddenly at "Washington
Nov. 13, 1814, aged 70. He was born in Mar-
blehead, Mass., July 17, 1744. His father, a
merchant, came to this country in 1730 and died
in 1774. After graduating at Harvard college in
1762, he devoted himself for several years to
commercial pursuits, and acquired a competent
estate. Being a member of the legislature in
1773, he was appointed on the important commit
tee of inquiry and correspondence. In his patri
otic labors he was the associate of Adams, Han
cock, and Warren. The provincial congress of
1775 appointed him on the committee of pub
lic safety and supplies. The committee had
been in session at Menotomy, then a part of
Cambridge. Mr. Gerry and Col. Orne were in
bed, when the approach of the British troops
induced them to flee half-dressed to a neighbor
ing corn-field, where they remained, while the
troops searched every apartment of the house in
order to find them. To the provincial congress
he proposed the very important measure of pass
ing laws for the encouragement of privateers and
for the establishment of a court of admiralty ;
and he and Mr. Sullivan were the committee to
draw up the act for that purpose. Elected to the
continental congress, he took his seat Feb. 9,
1776, and continued in that body with some inter
vals until Sept., 1785. He served on various im
portant committees. His skill in finance rendered
him particularly useful. In 1787 he was deputed
to the convention which framed the constitution
of the United States. He was opposed to the
plan adopted, deeming the executive and judicial
powers perilous, and some of the legislative pow
ers ambiguous and dangerous, and thinking that
the constitution had few federal features and was
rather a system of national government. He re
tained his objections. In 1809, the writer of this
heard him express his opinion, that the president
had powers which few were aware of, and which
he hoped would never be exerted. Under the
constitution he served four years as a member of
congress. In 1797 he was appointed by Mr.
Adams minister to the French republic, with Mr.
Marshall and Gen. Pinckney. When, in 1798,
his colleagues were sent away from France, he
was invited to remain. His services were useful
in preserving peace. In 1810 he was elected
governor as successor of Mr. Gore, and was suc
ceeded in 1812 by Mr. Strong. March 4, 1813,
he was inaugurated the vice president of the
United States, Mr. Madison being president. His
daughter married James T. Austin of Boston,
the author of memoirs of his Life. — Goodrich's
Lives; Austin's Life of Gerry.
GIBBON, JAMES, major, died at Richmond, Va.,
July 1, 1835, at an advanced age. He was the
collector of customs. Under Gen. Wayne he was
the hero of Stony Point, when out of twenty men
seventeen were killed or wounded. He was
greatly respected.
GIBBONS, EDWARD, general, died Dec. 9,
1654. He came to this country as early as 1629 ;
in a few years he was a representative of Boston ;
from 1649 to 1651 he was major-general, in which
office, elective by the people annually like that of
governor, he was succeeded by Robert Sedgwick.
He was a worthy member of Mr. Wilson's church.
Having advanced to La Tour more than 2500
pounds, secured by mortgage of his fort and lands
in Acadia, when D'Aulnay captured La Tour's
fort, Maj. Gibbons was by the loss "quite undone."
— 2 Hist. Coll. vi. 498.
GIBBS, HENRY, minister of Watertown,Mass.,
died Oct. 21, 1723, aged 55. The son of Robert,
an eminent merchant of Boston, he graduated at
Harvard in 1685, and was ordained in 1697. His
wife was Mercy, daughter of William Grecnough ;
and of his daughters, Mercy married Rev. Benja
min Prescott, of Danvers, and Margaret married
Rev. Dr. Applcton, of Cambridge; and among
his descendants is Professor Josiah W. Gibbs.
GIBBS, WILLIAM, minister of Simsbury, Conn.,
died in 1777, aged about 63. He graduated at
Harvard in 1734.
GIBBS, GEORGE, colonel, died at Newtown,
near New York, Aug. 5, 1833, aged 57. He was
a patron of science, especially of mineralogy.
GIBSON.
GILBERT.
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lie was the original proprietor of the cabinet at
Yale college.
GIBSON, RICHARD, a scholar, came from Eng
land about 1G33, and was a minister to a fishing
plantation at Richman's Island, then at Piscata-
quack and the Isle of Shoals. Being " addicted
to the hierarchy," and writing an offensive letter,
he was summoned before the court at Boston;
but as he purposed to return to England he
escaped any punishment. — Wintlirop,ll. 66.
GIBSON, JOHN, general, a soldier of the
French and Revolutionary wars, died in May,
1822, aged 81. He was born in Lancaster, Pcnn.,
in May, 1740, and was well educated. lie early
served under Gen. Eorbcs in the expedition to fort
du Quesnc, which was occupied Nov. 25, 1758,
and called Pittsburg. Here he remained as an
Indian trader. In 1763 he was captured by the
Indians, and adopted by a squaw, whose son he
had slain in battle. He had thus opportunity to
acquire a knowledge of several Indian languages.
On being released, he again settled at Pittsburg.
In 1774 he was an important agent in making the
Indian treaty, entered into by Gov. Dunmore.
On this occasion Logan's celebrated speech was
delivered, of which Col. Gibson was the interpre
ter. On the commencement of the Revolutionary
war he was appointed the colonel of a Virginia
regiment, of which he was in command at the
close of the war. Residing at Pittsburg, he was
in 1788 a member of the Pennsylvania conven
tion ; he was also associate judge and major-gen
eral of the militia. In 1800 he was appointed
secretary of the territory of Indiana, Gen. Harri
son being governor; an office which he held till
the territory became a State in 1810. Being
afflicted with an incurable cataract, he removed
to " Braddock's fields," near Vincenncs, the resi
dence of his son-in-law, George Wallace, where
he died.
GIBSON, SAMUEL, a slave, lived in the West
Indies and in Guilfbrd, Conn. After being liber
ated he opened, about the beginning of this cen
tury, a grocery shop at Hartford, and acquired
property, and was held in respect for his integ
rity. The son of his last master was his clerk,
and to him he left his property. Let it not be
said that the blacks, incapable of taking care of
themselves, must have masters.
GILBERT, HUMPHREY, Sir, a distinguished
navigator to America, was born at Dartmouth, in
Devonshire, England, in 1539. His mother be
coming a widow, married Mr. Raleigh, by whom
she had the celebrated Sir Walter Raleigh. Gil
bert was educated at Eton and Oxford ; but he
forsook an academical life for a military, and was
knighted in reward of his services in Ireland. On
the llth of June, 1578, he obtained of Queen
Elizabeth letters patent, authorizing him to take
possession of all remote lands, unocupicd by any
Christian prince or people, conferring upon him
certain rights and privileges, and prohibiting all
persons from attempting to settle within two
hundred leagues of any place -which he should
occupy. This was the first charter for a colony
granted by the crown of England. A violent
storm, obliging him to return, frustrated his
hopes in his first voyage. He sailed a second
time June 11, 1583, with five ships. On his arri
val at St. John's harbor, Newfoundland, he found
there thirty-six fishing vessels of various nations,
which refused him entrance ; but on producing his
commission no further opposition Avas made to
him. lie entered the harbor on the 3d of August,
and on the fifth took possession of the country
for the crown of England, in consequence of the
discovery of the Cabots. This transaction is the
foundation of the right and title of the crown of
England to the territory of Newfoundland, and to
the fishery on its banks. The vessel, in which he
sailed, foundered on the 9th of September, and
all on board perished. A short time before, the
people in another vessel in company heard him
say, as he was sitting in the stern, " We are as near
heaven by sea as by land."
GILBERT, RALEIGH, a patentee of New Eng
land, nephew of Sir Walter Raleigh, commanded
a vessel in the expedition of one hundred men,
who attempted a settlement at the mouth of the
Sagadahoc or Kennebec in 1607. They sailed
from Plymouth the last of May ; arrived at Mon-
hcgan Island Aug. 11; and soon landed on the
west shore of Kennebec at Cape Small Point, now
in Phipsburg. They built a fort and called it St.
George. Dec. 5th the two ships returned, leaving
forty-five persons. George Popham was chosen
president and Gilbert the admiral. In the spring,
when supplies were brought, intelligence was
received of the death of Sir John Gilbert, to
whom Raleigh Gilbert was the heir: he there
fore determined to return, and, Mr. Popham hav
ing died, and the store-house being burnt, the
whole colony went back with him to England, to
the great discouragement of " the first under
takers."
GILBERT, THOMAS, minister of Topsfield,
Mass., died in 1673, aged 63. He came from
Ealing in England, where he had been pastor,
and was among the first of ministers who were
deprived of office for nonconformity. — Noncon
formists'1 Memorial, II. 446.
GILBERT, BENJAMIN, published an account of
his captivity and that of his family by the Indi
ans, Philadelphia, 1784.
GILBERT, JAMES, a physician, was born in
New Haven, Oct. 25, 1779, and graduated at Yale
college in 1800. After practising eight years in
New Haven, he in 1814 visited Paris and London
for his improvement, and returned in 1815. He
died of a pulmonary complaint at sea, Feb, 11,
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GILBERT.
OILMAN.
1818, aged 39. As a surgeon he had few supe
riors. His religious views gave him peace in
death. — Thachcr, II. 247-249.
GILBERT, a slave, died near Stanton, Va., Feb.
19, 1844, aged 112. He was a servant of Wash
ington at Braddock's defeat.
GILBERT, ELIPIIALET, W., D. 1)., died at
Philadelphia July 31, 1853, aged about GO, for
merly president of the Delaware college. He was
clerk of the General Assembly, new school.
GILDERSLEEVE, HENRY, died in Kingston,
Canada, in 1851, aged 66. Once an extensive
ship-builder in Chatham, Conn., he removed in
1816 to K., where he launched the first steam
boat on lake Ontario.
GILE, SAMUEL, D. D., minister of Milton,
died Oct. 16, 1836, aged 56. He was born in
Plaistow, N. II., July 23, 1780, son of Maj. Eze-
kiel Gile, a soldier of the Revolution ; and grad
uated at Dartmouth college in 1804. His theo
logical studies he began with Rev. J. French,
Andover; he was ordained as the successor of
Dr. McKeen at Milton, Feb. 18, 1807. He was
an eminent preacher and excellent man ; but, ow
ing to parochical difficulties arising from a diver
sity of religious opinions, he was dismissed Jan.
6, 1834, by an exparte council, whose authority he
never acknowledged, lie believed the evangeli
cal or orthodox doctrines of New England ; and
his church adhered to him. On the day of his
death he assisted in the public services in the fore
noon ; but as the people were assembling for the
afternoon worship he died, after an illness of one
hour, with which he was seized as he sat down to
his table at dinner. Dr. Gile had extraordinary
gifts in prayer, having freedom, richness, power,
and sublimity ; few were so appropriate and copi
ous in the use of scriptural passages. Prudence,
tenderness, benevolence, humility, meekness, pa
tience were traits in his character. Many were
his domestic afflictions in the loss of children ;
severe were his trials as a minister ; but his Chris
tian virtues were always resplendent.
GILES, JOHN, died in Newburyport Sept. 28,
1824, aged 69, the senior pastor of the second
Presbyterian church. He was born in England,
and settled July 20, 1803. He published oration
July 4, 1809; two sermons on the fast, 1812.
GILES, WILLIAM BRANCH, governor of Vir
ginia, was for many years a member of congress.
He was a representative as early as 1796. In
1802 he voted for the repeal of the judiciary law,
and in 1812 he voted for the war. He was
elected to the senate in Jan., 1811, and resigned
his office in Oct., 1815. He was again a candi
date for election to the senate in 1825, but his
rival, Mr. Randolph, was chosen. In 1826 he was
chosen governor and continued in office till 1829.
He died at his residence, the Wigwam, Amelia
county, Dec. 8, 1830, at an advanced age. He
published a speech on the embargo laws, 1808;
in Nov., 1813, political letters to the people of
Virginia; a series of letters, signed a Constituent,
in the Richmond Enquirer of Jan., 1818, against
the plan for a general education ; in April, 1824,
a singular letter of invective against President
Monroe and Mr. Clay for their " hobbies," " the
South America cause, the Greek cause, Inter
nal Improvements, and the Tariff." In Nov.,
1825, he addressed a letter to Judge Marshall,
disclaiming the expressions, not the general senti
ments, in regard to Washington, ascribed to him
in debate of 1796 in the life of Washington, V.
722.
GILL, MOSES, died in Boston May 20, 1800,
aged 66. He was several years lieutenant-gover
nor, and acting governor on the death of Sumner,
from June, 1799, to his death. He was an early
benefactor of Leicester academy, giving 150
pounds. He was a Boston merchant of wealth.
As he married a daughter of Thomas Prince, the
annalist, he acquired a large landed estate in
Princeton, of which Dr. P. was one of the proprie
tors ; and there he built him a mansion. lie was
a patriot of 1775, and was ever after in public office.
— Washburn's Sketch of Leicester Academy.
GILLET, ALEXANDER, minister of Farming-
ton, Conn., died in Jan., 1826, aged 76. He
graduated at Yale in 1770.
GILLET, ELIPIIALET, D. D., died at Hallowell,
Me., Oct. 19, 1848, aged about 80. A graduate
of Dartmouth in 1791, he was long the minister
of Hallowell. In his last years he was the secre
tary and agent of the Maine missionary society.
He published a sermon at the ordination of II.
Wallis, 1795; of J. Dane, 1803; of II. Loomis,
1812; before missionary society, 1810; fast ser
mon, 1811.
GILLEY, JOHN, died at Augusta, Maine, July
9, 1813, aged 124. He was a native of Ireland.
When he came to fort Western, about 1755, to
enlist as a soldier, Capt. Howard deemed him too
old. He had enjoyed fine health, and was singu
larly active and vigorous. In 1811 he could walk
four miles to the bridge.
GILMAN, JOSEPH, judge, died at Marietta in
1806, aged 70. He was born in Exeter, N. H.,
a grandson of John, who emigrated from Norfolk,
Eng., in 1637. He was a patriot of the Revolu
tion, then an associate of the Ohio company in
1789. He was a United States judge for the
Northwest Territory. His wife, Rebecca Ives,
was an accomplished woman. — Hildrdli.
GILMAN, TRISTRAM, minister of North Yar
mouth, Me., died April 1, 1809, aged 74. He
was the son of Rev. Nicholas G., of Durham,
N. H., who died April 13, 1748, aged 41, and a
descendant of Edward G., of Exeter. He was
born in 1735, graduated at Harvard college in
1757, and was ordained Dec. 8, 1769, as sue-
OILMAN.
cessor of Edward Brooks. Ills successor, Fran
cis Brown, married his daughter. He was a
faithful, useful, highly respected minister. A re
vival of religion attended his labors in 1791 and
1792, when 132 members were added to the
church. During the whole period of his minis
try 293 were admitted and 1344 baptized. He
was the first president of the Maine missionary
society. He published a sermon on the death of
D. Mitchell, 1796. — Panoplist, v. 1-4.
OILMAN, JOIIN TAYLOR, governor of New
Hampshire, died at Exeter Aug. 31, 1828, aged
74. He was the son of Nicholas Oilman and
Ann Taylor, daughter of Ilev. John Taylor, of
Milton, Mass., born at Exeter Dec. 19, 1753.
Older ancestors were Daniel, Nicholas, and John.
He received the usual education of those who
were not designed for the learned professions.
The morning after the news of the battle of Lex
ington he marched as a volunteer with a hundred
others, to Cambridge. He was also employed to
assist his father, the treasurer of the State. In
Oct., 1780, he was the delegate from New Hamp
shire to the convention at Hartford, to provide
for the common defence. After being a member
of congress in 1782, he succeeded his father as
treasurer in 1783. When the confederated gov
ernment appointed three commissioners to settle
the accounts of the different States, he was joined
with Irvine and Kean. On resigning this place
in 1791 he was re-chosen treasurer of New Hamp
shire, and was very faithful and useful. In 1794
he was chosen governor, as successor to Bartlett,
and was annually re-elected until 1805, when he
was succeeded by Langdon. He was again
elected in 1813, and the two next years, but de
clined, and was succeeded in 1816 by Plumer,
•whom he had succeeded in 1813. The legislature
in a farewell address acknowledged his long and
important services. In the political divisions of
the times he was known as a decided federalist. —
American Annual Register, 1827-9, r>. 182-194.
OILMAN, NICHOLAS, a senator of the United
States from New Hampshire, died at Philadelphia
May 3, 1814. He was a member of congress
from 1789 to 1797, and a senator from 1805 to
1814.
OILMAN, NATHANIEL, died Jan. 26, 1847,
aged 88. He was State treasurer of New Hamp
shire.
OILMAN, BENJAMIN IVES, a merchant, died at
his son's, in Alton, 111., in 1833, aged 68. Born in
Exeter, N. II., in 1765, he accompanied his pa
rents to Marietta in 1789. His wife was Hannah,
daughter of Rev. Dr. Robbins, of Plymouth ; his
journey with her to the west in 1790 was on
horseback, twenty-five or thirty days in crossing
the mountains. He became a rich merchant in
Marietta. Such were the perils of those times,
that while at work on his lot with liis man Rob-
GIRARD.
381
ert, the latter was shot by the Indians, while he
escaped. From 1801 to 1808 he was engaged in
shipbuilding. In 1813 he removed to Philadel
phia. His wife became a most useful member of
the church at Marietta in 1811. She died in
1836. — Ilildretlis Biographical Memoirs.
OILMAN, JOSEPH, Dr., died at Wells, Me.,
Jan. 4, 1847, aged 75. He was son of Ilev. T.
Oilman. He was president of the medical society
of Maine. His religious character commenced in
1791, in a revival under his father's preaching.
He listened to every call of the poor. — N. Y. Ob
server, Jan. 23.
GILMER, THOMAS W., secretary of the navy,
died on board the U. S. steamer Princeton by the
bursting of a large gun, Feb. 28, 1844. He was
of Charlottesville, Va.
GILMORE, ADDISON, died at Watertown,
Mass., Jan 10, 1851, aged about 47. Born in
Windsor Co., Vt, he came to Boston, and by in
dustry, energy, and judgment, was successful in
various business. He was president of the West
ern railroad.
GIRARD, STEPHEN, a man of wealth, died at
Philadelphia Dec. 26, 1831, aged 81, leaving an
estate of ten or fifteen millions of dollars. He
was a native of Bordeaux in France, came to this
country before the Revolution, and had lived in
Philadelphia about fifty years. He was first a
cabin-boy, then the mate of a ship, then the
keeper of a tap-shop, afterwards a merchant down
to the year 1811, and for the remainder of his
life a banker. The notes of his bank were deemed
as good as those of any incorporated institution.
In 1811 he purchased the banking-house and
1,200,000 dollars worth of the stock of the old
bank of the United States, and commenced bank
ing in 1812. At last his bank capital was in
creased to five millions. His other property was
in real estate in the city, stock in the Schuylkill
navigation and Chesapeake canal companies, lands
in Mississippi, shipping, etc. He owned the great
square between Eleventh and Twelfth and Chest
nut streets. His particular bequests amount to
upwards of three millions; the residue of his es
tate is given to Philadelphia, for improvements in
the city. The following are some of the thou
sands of dollars bequeathed : two to a brother,
ten to several nephews and nieces, ten to the or
phans' asylum, ten to purchase wood for the poor,
ten to the society of shipmasters, twenty to the
asylum for the deaf and dumb, twenty to the free
mason's lodge, thirty to the Pennsylvania hospital,
one hundred and ten to the city, one hundred and
twenty in various legacies to individuals, three
hundred to the State for internal improvements,
and two millions for a college for poor white
children. The building was to be of three stories,
110 feet by 160, to be erected at Peel Hall, on
the Ridge Road, Perm Township, to be inclosed
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by a -wall ten feet high, capped with marble, " and
guarded with irons on the top." The scholars
are to be orphans from Pennsylvania, New York
(the first port at which he arrived), and New Or
leans (the first port at which he traded as first
officer), and must be between six and ten years
old ; when between fourteen and eighteen years
old they are to be bound out by the corporation
of the city to mechanical trades, agriculture, etc.
There is also the following provision : "I enjoin
and require, that no ecclesiastic, missionary, or
minister of any sect whatever, shall ever hold or
exercise any station jr duty whatever in the said
college, nor shall any such person ever be admit
ted for any purpose, or as visitor, within the
premises appropriated to the purposes of said
college." He wished that the orphans, after they
left the college, might adopt " such religious ten
ets as their matured reason may enable them to
prefer." He thus wished to carry into effect the
exploded project of Itousseau, not considering
that the religious sentiments and character are
necessarily settled, for the most part, before a
young man is sixteen or eighteen years of age;
not considering that, whether for learning or re
ligion, an early training of children and youth is
important. However, while ecclesiastics may not
see the inside of Mr. Girard's iron-capped college
walls, his -teachers are to inculcate " the purest
principles of morality." Those teachers will be
either Infidels or Christians; if Christians, they
will teach their pupils the only pure morality
from the revealed code of moral instruction in
the New Testament of Jesus Christ, including
that fear and love of God, which constitute the
sole basis of moral virtue. His bequests were
large, but true liberality may be seen in the life of
Solomon Goodell.
GIST, MOIIDECAI, a brigadier-general in the
American war, commanded one of the Maryland
brigades in the battle of Camden, Aug. 1C, 1780.
In Aug., 1782, he defeated a party of the British
at Combakee ferry. He died at Charleston, S. C.,
in Sept., 1792. — Marshall, IV. 178; Holmes.
GIUSTINIANI, Louis, D. D., died July 17,
1855, aged 58. A native of Rome, he became a
Protestant by reading Father Clement, a discus
sion between a Jesuit and a Protestant, and left
the church of Rome in 1828. He was a member
of the old school Presbytery of Cincinnati.
GLADWIN, major-general, died at Stebbing,
England, in Sept., 1791. He was an officer in
Braddock's defeat, and was wounded. In July,
1763, he commanded at Detroit, and defended it
with great bravery and vigilance against Pontiac,
a Miami chief, the boldest leader among the
Indians.
GLEASON, CHAKLES, minister of Dudley,
died in 1790, aged about 72. He graduated at
Harvard in 1738.
GODDARD.
GLEASON, BENJAMIN, a public orator early in
this century, graduated at Brown university in
1802. He published address at Providence, 1802 ;
masonic addresses at Reading, Boston, and Mon
treal, in 1803, 1807, and 1812; oration July 4, at
Charlcstown 1805 and 1809; at Hingham, 1807;
on the death of Washington, 1800 ; geography,
1814.
GLEN, HENRY, died at Schcnectady in 1814,
aged 73. He took an active part in the Revolu
tionary war, and was a member of congress eight
years.
GLENN, JAMES, governor of South Carolina,
entered on this office Jan., 1744, and was suc
ceeded by Lylleton in 1755. Toward the close of
his peaceable administration he concluded a treaty
with the Cherokee warriors in their own country,
and acquired a cession of territory, which con
duced much to the prosperity of the colony. He
published a description of South Carolina, 8vo.,
London, 1701.
GLEZEN, LEVI, preceptor of the academy at
Lenox, Mass., died in 1842, aged 68. He grad
uated at Williams college in 1798.
GLOVER, THOMAS, published in vol. xi. of
transactions of the royal society, an account of
Virginia, its situation, temperature, productions,
etc. He relates, that when alone in a sloop in
the Rappahannock, three leagues from the mouth,
he heard " a great rushing and flashing of the
water," and that looking, he saw near him " a
most prodigious creature, much resembling a
man, standing right up in the water, with his
head, neck, shoulders, breast, and waist to the
cubits of his arms above water. His skin was
tawny, much like that of an Indian ; his head
pyramidal and sleek, without hair ; his eyes
large and black, and so were his eyebrows ; his
mouth very wide, with a broad, black streak on
the upper lip, turning upwards at each end like
mustaches ; his countenance grim and terrible."
After gazing a sufficient time at Mr. Glover, the
animal plunged down, and cast his tail above
water, like the tail of a fish. He speaks also of
a dreadful storm in Aug., 1CG7, which lasted
three days, destroying the tobacco, etc.
GLOVER, PELATIAH, second minister of Spring
field, preached first in that town July 3, 1659.
He succeeded Mr. Moxon in 1661, and died
March 29, 1692, aged 55, being succeeded by Mr.
Brewer. He was born in Dorchester, and was of
distinguished talents and piety. Mr. Hubbard
says he was a great student, and much given to
books.
GLOVER, ANNA, widow, died at Pelham, N. Y.,
in 1767, aged 106.
GODDARD, WILLIAM, a printer, the son of
Dr. Giles G., postmaster at New London, Conn.,
was born in 1740. In 1762 he commenced the
j Providence Gazette ; in 1766 he went to Phila-
GODDARD.
delphia and commenced the Pennsylvania Chron
icle, under the patronage of Joseph Galloway ;
in 1773 he commenced the Maryland Journal at
Baltimore, where he formed an intimate acquain
tance with Gen. Charles Lee, who bequeathed him
a part of his estate in Berkeley county. In 1775
Franklin appointed him comptroller of the post-
office. In 1792 he relinquished the Journal, and
afterwards resided in Rhode Island. He died at
Providence Dec. 23, 1817, aged 77. He married
a Miss Angcll, of Providence, taking, as his
friends said, " an angel for his wife." He pub
lished a history of the Pennsylvania Chronicle,
1770.— Thomas, I. 427 ; n. 63, 134-140.
GODDARD, CALVIN, judge, died in Norwich,
Conn., April 2, 1842, aged 73. His father, Dan
iel, of Shrewsbury, Mass., was the son of Edward,
and he the son of William, who came from Nor
folk, England, in 1666. He graduated at Dart
mouth in 1786. He practised law in Plainfield,
Conn., and thence removed to Norwich. He was
a member of congress in 1801, and a judge of
the supreme court from 1815 for three years. He
was an excellent man, a lover of truth, benevo
lent, of strong attachments. Near his dwelling
is the cemetery of the old Mohegan tribe of In
dians. His wife was Alice, daughter of Rev.
Lcvi Hart, and grand-daughter of Dr. Bellamy.
They had six children, of whom three were of the
profession of the law, in Ohio and New York city.
GODDARD, WILLIAM G., died suddenly at
Providence Feb. 16, 1846, aged 52. He was pro
fessor of belles-lettres in Brown university.
GODDAItD, JOSIAII, Baptist translator of the
New Testament into Chinese, died in China in
1854. He was a graduate at Providence in
1835, and studied theology at Newton. He at
first spent some years at Bankok, in Siam, where
he studied the Chinese language. About 1844 he
went to Ningpo and commenced the work of
translation. About 1853 he finished the revision
of the New Testament in Chinese, and saw it rap
idly printed. In one day he gave away a thousand
copies to the learned assembled at Shanghai from
different cities.
GGDFHEY, THOMAS, the inventor of Hadley's
quadrant, died in Dec., 1749. He was by trade a
glazier in the city of Philadelphia. The extent
of his education was only to read and write, and
apply the common rules of arithmetic. Having
met with a mathematical book, he was so de
lighted with the study, that, without an instructor,
he soon made himself master of it, and of every
book of the kind which he could procure in Eng
lish. Finding that the knowledge of the Latin
would open to him new treasures of mathematical
science, he applied himself to the study of that
language, till he was enabled to read a Latin
author on his favorite subject. He then borrowed
Newton's principia of Mr. Logan, to whom, about
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the year 1730, he communicated his invention of
the quadrant. The royal society of London,
being made acquainted with it in 1732, by means
of Mr. Logan, sent Mr. Godfrey, as a reward,
household furniture to the value of 200 pounds.
Money was not sent on account of a habit of in
temperance, to which the artist was subject. The
following is an account of the invention, and of
the method by which he was deprived of the
honor of the invention. While replacing a pane
of glass on the north side of Arch street, opposite
a pump, a girl, after filling her pail, placed it on
the pathway. Turning round, Godfrey observed
the rays of the sun reflected from his window into
the bucket of water. He was thus led to con
ceive, that if by reflection he could draw the sun
down to the horizon, he should have an instru
ment incomparably superior to the pig-yoke, then
in use. He formed his model in wood, and car
ried pieces to Charles Hamm, who completed for
him an instrument in brass. This was committed
to Godfrey's brother, a captain in the West India
trade, who, on arriving at Jamaica, and exhibiting
the quadrant to some officers of the British navy,
was tempted by a Captain Iladley to sell it to
him for a large sum of money. Iladley carried
the instrument to London and placed it in the
hands of his brother, a mathematical instrument
maker in the Strand, and obtained a patent. Ac
cording to another account, John Iladley, com
manding a vessel in the Delaware, was allowed to
see the instrument, and took a description of it.
The American Encyclopedia states that, May 13,
1731, John Iladley, vice-president of the royal
society, presented a paper, describing the quad
rant, and that the society decided that both Ilad
ley and Godfrey were entitled to the honor of the
j invention. He was a member of a literary club,
| established by Dr. Franklin, and having confined
his attention to mathematical pursuits, he was
almost insufferable in conversation, requiring an
r unusual precision in everything which was said,
continually contradicting, and making trifling dis
tinctions. — Miller's Retrospect, I. 468 ; American
I Mag. for July and August, 1758 ; Franklin's
\Life; Preface to Godfrey's Poems; Boston
\ Chronicle, Aug. 1, 1821 ; National Register, iv.
155.
GODFREY, THOMAS, a poet, the son of the
preceding, died near Wilmington, N. C., Aug. 3,
1763, aged 26. lie was born in Philadelphia in
1736. The only advantages of education which
he enjoyed were found in a common English
school. Such, however, was his desire of knowl
edge, that he prosecuted his studies with unwea
ried diligence ; and, having perused the best of
the English poets, he soon exhibited proofs of
poetical talents. He had a fine ear for music, and
a taste for painting. After the death of his father
he was put an apprentice to an ingenious watch-
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maker ; but the muses and graces, poetry and
painting, stole his attention. He devoted all his
hours of release from mechanical labor to writing
the poetical pieces, which were published in the
American Magazine. At length he was recom
mended to a lieutenant's commission in the Penn
sylvania forces, raised in 1758 for an expedition
against fort du Qucsne. In this station he con
tinued till the troops were disbanded, lie was
settled in the succeeding spring as a factor in
North Carolina, where he continued upwards of
three years. He died of a fever, occasioned by
violent exercise in a very warm day. With an
amiable disposition and an engaging diffidence
and modesty of manners, he united an integrity
of character which procured him esteem and re
spect. The productions of his pen were collected
by his friend, Mr. Evans, and published in 1765,
entitled, Juvenile poems on various subjects, with
the prince of Parthia, a tragedy. — Account Pre
fixed to Poems; American Museum, VI. 471,472.
GODMAN, JOHN D., an eminent anatomist
and naturalist, died April 17, 1830, aged 31. He
was born at Annapolis, in Maryland. His parents
died while he was yet young. Being without
property, he was indented an apprentice to a
printer in Baltimore ; but, disgusted with the
employment, he entered as a sailor, in 1813, in
the flotilla, then stationed in the Chesapeake. At
the close of the war, being allowed to follow his
own inclinations, he commenced the study of
medicine at the age of fifteen, at first under Dr.
Lucket, of Lancaster, but soon under Dr. Da-
vidge, of Baltimore, professor of anatomy. He
was indefatigable in his toils to acquire learning.
Before he graduated, he was called to supply the
place of his preceptor in the anatomical chair ;
and he lectured for several weeks with such en
thusiasm and eloquence as to gain high applause.
Soon after he obtained his degree, he settled in a
small village in Anne- Arundel county, and entered
with energy upon the active duties of his profes
sion. At this period he commenced the study of
natural history, for which he ever afterwards had
a strong passion. He removed to Baltimore, and,
after his marriage, to Philadelphia. Being invited
to the professorship of anatomy in the college of
Ohio, he spent a year at the west, and then re
turned to Philadelphia, where he willingly retired
from the field of practice and devoted himself to
scientific pursuits. Determined to be a thorough
teacher of anatomy, he opened a room for private
demonstrations, and in the first winter had a class
of seventy students. His incessant toils and ex
posure to the foul atmosphere of the dissecting-
room, laid the foundation of the disease of which
he died. After prosecuting his anatomical labors
four or five years, he was chosen professor of
anatomy in llutgers medical college in New York.
"With a broken constitution, he was compelled,
before the completion of his second course of lec
tures, to retire from the school and to seek a
milder climate. After passing the winter in Santa
Cruz, he settled in Germantown, near Philadel
phia. His disease was still advancing ; yet, with
unabated ardor, he prosecuted his literary and
scientific employments, not for fame, but for the
support of his family and the welfare of his fel
low-men.
Dr. Godman, like many other young physi
cians, adopted the Infidelity and Atheism of the
French naturalists of the last century. For a
time he not only rejected revelation, but was
blind to the strong proofs of the existence of
God, which are presented continually to the eye
of the anatomist and the student of nature. A
depraved, unrenewed heart extinguished the light
of reason. But, while lecturing at New York in
the winter of 1827, he visited the death-bed of a
student of medicine, in whose joyous anticipations
of heaven and triumph over death, he saw a phe
nomenon which philosophy could not comprehend.
This event led him to read the Bible, and the
secret was unfolded. From this time he studied
the Scriptures. He obtained the Christian hope ;
and he died in peace, in his last hour commend
ing his family to the Father of the fatherless and
the widow's God, — then, with uplifted eyes and
hands, and a beaming countenance, resigning his
spirit to his Redeemer. In the last sickness of
his friend, Dr. Judson, an Infidel, the brother of
the missionary, he addressed to him a letter, which
was the means of his conversion, pointing out the
way of conquering the fear of death. " Philos
ophy is a fool, and pride a madman. Many per
sons die with what is called manly firmness ; they
put on as smooth a face as they can, to impose on
the spectators, and die firmly. But this is all de
ception ; the true state of their minds at the very
time, nine times out of ten, is worse than the
most horrible imaginings even of hell itself. But
the man who dies as a man ought to die, is the
humble-minded, believing Christian. He does
not die manfully, but he rests in Jesus."
Dr. Godman was a distinguished scholar. With
a limited education, he yet acquired a knowledge
of the Latin, Greek, French, Spanish, and Italian
languages. His industry was astonishing. It
was his purpose to accomplish thoroughly what
ever he undertook. He concentrated all his pow
ers upon the pursuit in which he was engaged.
The most striking character of his mind was a
fertile fancy, yet controlled by a sound judgment.
His talent at description is exhibited in his history
of American quadrupeds and his rambles of a
naturalist. His addresses are compositions of
highly-wrought eloquence. At one time he was
the principal editor of the Philadelphia journal
of the medical and physical sciences. He wrote
the articles on natural history for the American
GOEIUNG.
Encjcrjpedia to the end of letter CM bcddes nu
merous papers in the periodical journals of the
day. lie published the western quarterly re
porter of medical science, etc., Cincinnati, 1822 ;
account of irregularities of structure and morbid
anatomy ; contributions to physiological and pa
thological anatomy ; Bell's anatomy, with notes ;
anatomical investigations, comprising descriptions
of various fascia? of the body, 1824 ; American
natural history, with engravings, 3 vols., 1828;
addresses on various public occasions, 1829 ;
rambles of a naturalist. — Prof. SewalVs Eu
logy.
GOERIXG, JACOB, minister of the German
Lutheran church in York, Penn., commenced the
labors of the sacred office when only twenty years
of age, and it pleased God to give such success to
his faithful exertions at this early period of life,
that a revival of religion always attended his
preaching. He died in 1807, aged 52. He was
a president of the synod of the German Lutheran
church in the States of Pennsylvania, Maryland,
and Virginia. He was a man of profound eru
dition, and among the languages with which he
was acquainted, the Hebrew and Arabic were his
favorites. Though warmly interested in his coun
try's welfare, he yet declined a civil station, in
which his fellow-citizens would gladly have placed
him, dedicating himself wholly to the ministry.
He died in the full assurance of obtaining and
enjoying a perpetual happiness through the mer
its of lu's Redeemer. — Brown's American Regis
ter, n. 84, 85.
GOFFE, WILLIAM, one of the judges of King
Charles I., and a major-general under Cromwell,
died about 1679. He left London before Charles
II. was proclaimed, and arrived at Boston with
General AVhalley in July, 1G60. Governor Ende-
cott gave them a friendly reception. But when
the act of indemnity arrived in Nov., and their
names were not found among those to whom par
don was offered, the government of Massachu
setts was alarmed. Perceiving their danger, they
left Cambridge, where they had resided, Feb. 26,
1661, and arrived at New Haven March 7th.
They were here concealed by Deputy-governor
Leet and Mr. Davenport. From New Haven
they went to West Rock, a mountain three hun
dred feet in height, at the distance of two or
three miles from the town, where they were hid in
a cave. They afterwards lived in concealment at
Milford, Derby, and Branford, and in Oct., 1664,
removed to Hadley, in Mass., and were concealed
for fifteen or sixteen years in the house of Mr.
Russcl, the minister. On the 1st of Sept., 1675,
the town of Hadley was alarmed by the Indians
in the time of public worship, and the people
were thrown into the utmost confusion. But sud
denly an aged, venerable man, in uncommon
dress, appeared in the midst of them, revived
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their courage, and, putting himself at their head,
led them to the attack and repulsed the enemy.
The deliverer of Hadley immediately disappeared,
and the inhabitants, overwhelmed with astonish
ment, supposed that an angel had been sent for
their protection. He died in Hadley. Under
the oppression of constant fear during his resi
dence in this country, his mind seems to have
found some relief in the consolations of religion.
— Stiles' History of the Judges ; Ilulcldnson,
I. 215-219,532; Holmes.
GOLD, HEZEKEAH, minister of Cornwall, Conn.,
died May 31, 1790, aged 59. He graduated at
Yale in 1751. His wife was Sarah, the sister of
Judge Sedgwick ; she died in 1766, aged 27.
Among their children were Thomas Gold, a law
yer of Pittsfield, whose daughter, Maria, married
Nathan Appleton, of Boston, and was the mother
of Mrs. Longfellow ; and Thomas Ruggles Gold,
a lawyer at Whitesborough, N. Y.
GOLDSBOROUGII, ROBERT, a patriot of the
Revolution, was graduated at Philadelphia college
in 1760, and was afterwards attorney-general of
Maryland, which office he resigned in 1768. In
Aug., 1775, he was elected to congress, and em
barked his large fortune in the cause of his coun
try. He died at Cambridge, Md., Dec. 31, 1788.
"GOLDSBOROUGH, CHARLES W., died in
Washington Dec. 14, 1843, one of the oldest and
most respected inhabitants of the city. He was
chief of the bureau of provisions and clothing of
the navy department. He published a naval his
tory of the United States.
GOLDSMITH, JOHN, D. D., died at Newton,
L. I., April 6, 1854, aged nearly 60, pastor of the
church thirty-four years, president of the L. I.
bible society. He was the son of Benjamin G.
Goldsmith, who was forty-six years minister at
Riverhead. He graduated at Nassau Hall in
1815. Dr. Spring preached his funeral sermon,
as he did that of his predecessor.
GOLDTRAP, THOMAS W., died in Philadelphia
in 1846, bequeathing to the widows' society and
to the orphans' each 2,OOC dollars ; to the associ
ation for colored orphans the same ; to Wills' hos
pital and to the apprentices' library 1,000 dollars
each.
GOOCH, WILLIAM, Sir, major-general, and
governor of Virginia from 1727 to 1749, sustained
an excellent character, and was popular in his ad
ministration. He had superior military talents,
and commanded the forces in the unsuccessful
attack on Carthagena in 1740. When a slave in
Williamsburg bowed to him in the street, he
bowed in return. He said, " I cannot suffer a
slave to exceed me in good manners."
GOODALE, NATHAN, major, died in the spring
of 1793 at Sandusky, aged 50. He had been
captured by the Indians, and died of sickness. A
native of Brookfield, he was an officer in the war,
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GOODRICH.
and was wounded, lie emigrated to Ohio in
1788, and the next year settled at Belpre. — Ilil-
dretli.
GOODALL, HEKVEY, died in Africa in 1850.
He was a Baptist missionary, sent out to explore
Central Africa and to pstablish missions in Soudan.
GOODELL, SOLOMON, a man of liberality,
died at Jamaica, Vt., in Sept., 1815, aged 70. At
no time was his property worth 5,000 dollars.
He was a farmer, living in a rude spot in the
neighborhood of the Green Mountains. All his
property was gained by severe personal labor, and
saved by strict frugality ; yet his liberality was
such as might shame Mr. Girard, the possessor of
millions of dollars. About the year 1800 he
gave 100 dollars to the Congregational missionary
society, and the same sum for several successive
years. When the American board of foreign
missions was established, he sent notice that he
wished to subscribe 500 dollars for immediate use,
and 1,000 for the fund, while yet it was in his
power to forward only 50 dollars as earnest
money. He fulfilled his engagement, and paid
interest on the proposed 1,000 until he made pro
vision for its payment just before his death, add
ing to it another 1,000. The amount of his
donations for missions to the heathen, besides
other charities, was 3,686 dollars. He had also
provided for his children and his wife. He was a
Baptist, yet most of his donations were intrusted
to the hands of his fellow Christians, not Bap
tists. In this way he proved that he was no sec
tarian ; not, like Mr. Girard, by condemning all
religions alike. The power that moved him to
his self-denying distributions in his life, — not, like
Mr. Girard, when he could hold and accumulate
no longer, — was a settled religious principle ; a
conviction that all his property was the gift of
God, and that it was his duty to employ it for the
highest and noblest of all purposes, that of pro
moting the knowledge of the gospel of his Re-
deemer and the ineffable blessedness of eternal
salvation through that knowledge among his fel
low-men, whom he was bound to love, as he loved
himself.
GOODHUE, JOSIAH, minister of Dunstable,
Mass., died in 1797, aged about 62. He gradu
ated at Harvard in 1755.
GOODHUE, BEXJAMIX, formerly a senator
of the United States, died at Salem in 1814,
aged 66.
GOODRICH, WILLIAM, one of the first set
tlers of Hartford, died in 1676. He came from
Watertown in 1636 with his brother John.
Goodwin gives the names of hundreds of his de
scendants.
GOODRICH, DAVID, colonel, son of the pre
ceding, died in Wethersfield, Conn., in 1755,
aged 87. He was a lieutenant-colonel in the old
French war. Among his many children were
Col. Elizur, who died in 1774, aged 81; and
Hezekiah, whose daughter, Honor, married Rev.
Joshua Belden, of W., who lived to a venerable
age as pastor of Newington society, dying in
1813, aged 89.
GOODRICH, ELIZUR, 1). D., minister of Dur
ham, Conn., was born in Wethersfield, 1734, and
was graduated at Yale college in 1752. He was
ordained to the work of the ministry Nov. 24,
1756. After his character as an excellent minister
and a friend of literature was established, he was
chosen in 1776 a member of the corporation of Yale
college. He died at Norfolk Nov. 21, 1797, aged
63. He was the son of ] )eacon David G., of Weth-
crsfield, Conn., who died in 1785, aged 90 ; and
he was the son of Col. David G., of W., who died
in 1655, aged 87. The father of the latter was
Ensign William G., one of the first settlers of
Wethersfield, who came from Watertown, Mass.,
about 1636, and died in 1676. His wife was
Katharine, daughter of Elihu Chaunccy. Dr. D.
Smith married his daughter. Dr. Goodrich con
ciliated the esteem of his acquaintance, and was
faithful in all the relations of life. He was dis
tinguished for his literary arid scientific acquire
ments, as well as for his piety and patriotism. As
a preacher, he followed the examples of the
apostles, preaching repentance and faith. He
taught his hearers that man was depraved, and
guilty, and lost, condemned by the law, and hav
ing no hope but in Christ, and that salvation was
of grace and not of works. He published a ser
mon at the ordination of R. Newton, 1761 ; of S.
Goodrich, 1787 ; at the installation of B. Board-
man, 1784. — Diviglifs Funeral Sermon.
GOODRICH, CIIAUNCEY, lieutenant-governor
of Connecticut, the son of the preceding, was
born at Durham, Oct. 20, 1759 ; was graduated
in 1776 at Yale college, where he was a tutor
from 1779 to 1781. Engaging in the practice of
the law at Hartford, he soon rose to eminence.
From 1794 to 1800 he was a representative in
congress, and senator from 1807 until his resigna
tion in 1813, when he was chosen lieutenant-gov
ernor, lie was also mayor of Hartford. He
died suddenly of a dropsy in the heart, Aug. 18,
1815, aged 55. He survived two wives, but left
no children. He was a man of energy of mind,
of integrity, moderation, and amenity of manners.
Several months before his death he applied for
admission to the church, but, in consequence of
his infirmity of body, had not been received. He
remarked : " A moral life of itself is nothing for
the salvation of the soul. I have lived a moral
life in the estimation of the world ; but I am a
bundle of iniquity in the sight of a holy God. If
there were not an atonement, I must be con
demned and miserable forever." — Strong's Fu
neral Sermon.
GOODRICH, CHARLES, a first settler of Pitts-
GOODRICH.
field, Mass., died Nov. 15, 1816, aged 96. He
was the son and sixteenth child of David, and
grandson of William, the first settler of Wethers-
field; and born April 6, Old Style, 1720. Good
win is mistaken in his account of him, p. 79. He
•was one of the converts under Whitefield, and
removed to Pontoosuck, now Pittsficld, in 1753,
when there was but one building in the place, the
house of Solomon Deming ; and he introduced
and held the first plough. He was in the battle
of Bcnnington. He was a member of the provin
cial congress in 1774 ; he was also a judge of
the common pleas. His son Charles, a graduate
of Yale in 1797, is a preacher at Havana, Che-
mung county, N. Y. ; his grandson, Charles S. J.,
is a physician in Brooklyn.
GOODRICH, HANNAH, died unmarried atVer-
non, Conn., in July, 1820, aged 100 on the day
of her death.
GOODRICH, SAMUEL, son of Dr. Elizur G.,
and the minister of Ridgefield and Berlin, died
April 19, 1835, aged 72. His wife was Elizabeth,
a daughter of Col. John Ely. Of his daughters,
Elizabeth married Rev. Xoah Coe ; Abigail mar
ried Rev. Samuel Whittlesey ; Emily Chaunccy
married Rev. Darius Mead. Rev. Charles Au
gustus Goodrich, a graduate of 1812, is his son.
He published a sermon at the ordination of C. A.
Goodrich at Worcester. 1816.
GOODRICH, ELIZUR, LL. D., died at New
Haven, Nov. 1, 1849, aged 88. Jefferson re
moved him from the office of collector of customs,
and avowed in a letter his purpose and principle of
removals. He was born in Durham, the son of
Dr. E. G. : graduated at Yale in 1779 ; and was a
member of congress and judge of probate. Prof.
Chauncey Allen Goodrich is his son. He was also
mayor of the city, and nine years professor of law
in Yale college. His life was one of temperance,
integrity, and virtue.
GOODWIN, EZRA S., minister of Sandwich,
died Feb. 5, 1833, aged 45. He was a native of
Plymouth, a graduate of 1807. He published a
sermon in the liberal preacher, III. 9 ; address to
peace society, 1830; ancient and modern ortho
doxy, 1831; Alice Bradford, a present ; a piece in
tracts of Unitarian association, No. 66. A memoir
of him is in Historical Collections, 3d series,
vol. v.
GOODWIN, GEORGE, died in Hartford in May,
1844, aged 87, formerly publisher of the Hartford
Courant.
GOODWIN, NATHANIEL, died at Hartford,
May 29, 1855, aged 73, the son of Nathaniel G.
and Anne Sheldon. His other ancestors, ascend
ing, were Daniel, Nathaniel, Nathaniel, and
Osias, who was one of the first settlers of
Hartford, and died in 1683, aged 87. After serv
ing for years creditably as an apprentice to the
Websters, printers in Albany, he became a
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teacher and aland surveyor. At Hartford he held
many important public trusts. He was treasurer
many years, judge of probate, and clerk. He was
much employed in settling intestate estates, and
was held in high respect as a man of probity.
He died worth about 150,000 dollars, about half
of which he bequeathed to his nephew, Daniel.
Though never married, the subject of genealogy
engaged much of his attention. He published an
account of the " descendants of Thomas Olcott,"
and then of the " Foote Family.'' He only com
menced, before he died, the publication of his
" genealogical notes, or contributions to the family
history of some of the first settlers of Connecticut
and Massachusetts," which was published in 1856,
pp. 362. A memoir of Mr. G. is prefixed.
GOOKIN, DANIEL, author of the Historical
Collections of the Indians in New England, and
major-general of Massachusetts, died March 19,
1687, aged 75. He was born in the county of
Kent, in England. He came to Virginia in
1621 with his father, who brought cattle to the
colony from Ireland, and who established himself
at a plantation, called Newport's News. In the
year 1642, Mr. Thomson and other ministers from
Massachusetts were sent to Virginia, to preach the
gospel to a people but little acquainted with the
truth. Wrhen they were forced to withdraw from
this colony, because they would not conform with
the church of England, such was the attachment
of Mr. Gookin to their preaching, that he soon
followed them. In 1644 he removed with his
family to New England, and settled in Cambridge,
that he might enjoy the ordinances of the gospel
in their purity. Soon after his arrival he was ap
pointed captain of the military company in Cam
bridge, and a member of the house of deputies.
In 1652 he was elected assistant or magistrate,
and four years after was appointed by the general
court superintendent of all the Indians, who had
submitted to the government of Massachusetts.
He executed this office with such fidelity, that he
was continued in it till his death. In 1656 he
visited England, and had an interview with Crom
well, who commissioned him to invite the people
of Massachusetts to transport themselves to Ja
maica, which had been conquered from the Span
iards. In 1662 he was appointed, with Mr.
Mitchell, one of the licensers of the printing
press in Cambridge. When Philip's war com
menced in 1675, several severe laws were passed
against the friendly Indians, to whom religious in
struction had been imparted, through apprehen
sion that they would join the enemy, and the rage
of the people against their red-colored brethren
was violent and alarming. Mr. Eliot stood forth
as the friend and protector of the Indians, and
Mr. Gookin, who had zealously co-operated with
Mr. Eliot in his benevolent exertions, and who fre
quently accompanied him in his missionary tours,
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was equally their friend. He was the only magis
trate who endeavored to prevent the outrages of
the populace. He was in consequence much
abused, and even insulted as he passed the streets ;
but he had too much of the elevation of Christian
virtue to feel any resentment, and the effects of
licentiousness did not inspire him with the desire
of abridging the liberties of the people. He soon,
however, recovered the esteem and confidence
which he had lost, by firmly resisting the attempts
which were made to destroy the charter of Mas
sachusetts. In 1681 he was appointed major-gen
eral of the colony, and he continued in the magis
tracy till the dissolution of the charter in 1686.
In the inscription upon his monument in the
burying-ground in Cambridge, his name is written
Cookings. Such was his poverty, that Mr. Eliot,
in a letter to Mr. Boyle, not long after his decease,
solicits that charitable gentleman to bestow ten
pounds upon his widow. He was a man of good
understanding, rigid in his religious and political
opinions, zealous and active, of inflexible integrity
and exemplary piety, disinterested and benevo
lent, a firm patriot, and uniformly and peculiarly
the friend of the Indians, who lamented his death
with unfeigned sorrow. His two sons, Daniel
and Nathaniel, were ministers; the former of
Sherburne, whose care extended also to the In
dians at Natick, and the latter of Cambridge, who
was ordained Nov. 15, 1682, and died Aug. 7,
1692, aged 33. He was succeeded by Mr.
Brattle.
Mr. Gookin wrote in 1674 historical collections
of the Indians in New England, which remained
in manuscript, till it was published by the Massa
chusetts historical society in 1792, In this work
he gives many interesting particulars of the vari
ous tribes of Indians, of their customs, manners,
religion, and government, and of the exertions
which were made to civilize them, and to bring
them to an acquaintance with the Christian reli
gion. He also wrote a history of New England ;
but it is not known that the manuscript is now in
existence.—//^. Coll. I. 228, 226; YII. 23;
Holmes' Hist, of Cambridge; Hutcliinson; Mag-
nalia, II. 21 ; Johnson's Wond.-Work. Prov. 109,
192 ; Stith, 205.
GOOKIN, NATHANIEL, minister of Hampton,
N. II., was the son of Ilcv. N. Gookin, of Cam
bridge, and was graduated in 1703. He was or
dained in 1710 as successor of John Cotton.
After a prudent and faithful ministry of about
twenty-four years, he died in 1734, aged 46. His
son, Nathaniel, was settled in North Hampton,
N. II., in 1739, and died in 1766. His grandson,
Judge Daniel, died at Saco in 1831, aged 75.
Mr. Gookin published three sermons, occasioned
by the earthquake in Oct., 1727, to which is
added an account of the earthquake, and some-
tiling remarkable of thunder and lightning in
Hampton. — Hist. Coll. YII. 55 ; Slmrtleff's Ser
mon at Ordination of Mr. Gookin, 1739.
GORDON, WILLIAM, 1). 1)., minister of Rox-
bury, Mass., and a historian of the American
war, died at Ipswich, England, Oct. 19, 1807,
aged 77. He was a native of Hitchin. He was
early settled as a pastor of a large Indepen
dent church at Ipswich, but after many years he
removed in consequence of some uneasiness occa
sioned by his reprehension of the conduct of one
of his principal hearers in employing his work
men on public business on the Lord's day. After
the death of Dr. David Jennings, he was chosen
to be his successor in the church at Old Gravel
lane, Wapping. Here he might have continued
much respected, but in the year 1770, his par
tiality to America induced him to force himself
away, in order to settle in this country. After
having preached about a year to the third church
in Itoxbury, he was ordained its minister July 6,
1772. He took an active part in public measures
during the war with Great Britain, and was
chosen chaplain to the provincial congress of
Massachusetts. While in this office he preached
a fast sermon, which strongly expressed his politi
cal sentiments. In 1776 he formed the design of
writing a history of the great events in America.
Besides other sources of information, he had re
course to the records of congress, and to those of
New England, and was indulged with the perusal
of the papers of Washington, Gates, Greene,
Lincoln, and Otho Williams. After the conclu
sion of the war he returned to his native country
in 1786, and in 1788 published the work, which
had for several years occupied his attention.
It produced him 300 pounds. After spending
some time in London, where he had many friends,
he obtained a settlement at St. Neots in Hunting
donshire. This situation was much inferior to
either of the former settlements which he had en
joyed. The congregation gradually declined, in
consequence of his want of that popular address,
to which they had been accustomed, and of the
failure of his mental powers. The infirmity of
his mind was at length so visible, that his friends
advised his resignation, and raised a subscription
for him. He afterwards returned to Ipswich,
England, where he had some agreeable con
nections left. Here he preached a few occasional
sermons ; but his memory soon failed him to such
a degree as to render him unfit for all public ser
vice. After living to experience the melancholy
extinction of the powers of his mind, he died at
Ipswich.
In his religious sentiments Dr. Gordon was a
strict Calvinist ; yet he possessed a liberal mind,
and a very sociable disposition. He was even
sometimes facetious. Though his temper was
warm, he was yet friendly and benevolent. His
sermons were composed with care; but, as they
GORDON.
GORGES.
were •written in a very systematical form, and
were read with slavish adherence to his notes, he
was not interesting as a preacher. lie published
a plan of a society for making provision for wid
ows, by annuities for life, 1772 ; a sermon at a
fast; at two thanksgivings, 1775; before the
house of representatives, 1775; at the election
1775; before the general court on the anniver
sary of Independence, 1777; doctrine of univer
sal salvation examined and shown to be unscrip-
tural, 1783. His history of the rise, progress,
and establishment of the Independence of the
United States of America, in 4 vols. 8vo. 1788,
though not written with elegance, is allowed to
have considerable merit as a minute and in gen
eral a faithful narrative of facts. Before he came
to this country he published an abridgment of
President Edward's treatise on the affections. —
Prcf. to his Hist, of American War; Monthly
Ilepos., London, for Nov. 1807.
GORDON, WILLIAM, attorney-general of the
State of New Hampshire, died at Boston in May,
1802, aged 39. He was graduated at Harvard
college in 1779. His residence was at Amherst.
He was a senator in the State legislature and a
member of congress.
GORE, CHRISTOPHER, governor of Massachu
setts, died March 1, 1827, aged 68. He was
born in Boston in 1758, and was the son of a re
spectable mechanic, who at the beginning of the
Revolution, as he adhered to the royal govern
ment, went to Halifax, but afterwards returned to
Boston. He was graduated in 1776, and after
studying law with Judge Lowell, engaged in ex- I
tensive and lucrative practice. In 1789 he was!
appointed first United States attorney for the dis- |
trict of Massachusetts, in the execution of which j
office he met with difficulties, but he resolutely
pursued the course of duty. In 1796 he was
appointed colleague with AViliiam Pinkney, a
commissioner under the fourth article of Jay's
treaty, to settle our claims for spoliations. By
his efforts, when in England, he recovered sums
to a vast amount for our citizens ; his argument
on that class of captures, which were made under
the rule of 1756, was elaborate and powerful.
As his commission lasted nearly eight years, he
remained abroad till 1804. In the preceding year
he had been left by his intimate friend, Rufus
King, minister to England, chargt'- d'affaires.
After his return he was chosen, in 1809, governor
of Massachusetts, as successor of Sullivan ; but
the next year the people chose Mr. Gerry in his
place. In 1814 he was appointed senator to con
gress, in which capacity he served about three
years, and then withdrew into final retirement.
His residence was a beautiful seat, about nine
miles from Boston, at Waltham, whence he was
accustomed frequently to walk into town. An
excruciating disorder embittered his last years.
Having no children, Mr. Gore left valuable be
quests to the American academy and the histori
cal society, of which he was a member ; and he
made Harvard college, of which he had been a
fellow or trustee, his residuary legatee. With
the literature of the day he had kept himself
familiarly acquainted, and he was an excellent
classical scholar. His mind was acute and dis
criminating; his morals pure ; his manners digni
fied and elegant. He published a masonic oration,
1783. — American Ann. Pcy. 1826-7, p. 339-341.
GORGES, FERDINANDO, Sir, proprietor of the
province of Maine, died in 1647. He was the
governor of Plymouth and an early member of
the Plymouth company in England. In 1606 he
and Chief-justice Popham sent out Challons in a
ship of fifty tons for discovery, but the vessel was
captured by the Spaniards. In the next year
George Popham and Raleigh Gilbert were sent
out to the Ivennebec. In 1619 he sent Capt.
Dcrmer to Monhegan. Desirous of engaging the
Scotch in the settlement of New England, he
promoted the patent of Nova Scotia to Sir Wm.
Alexander, Sept. 10, 1621. In 1622 the council
of Plymouth, established by new charter in 1620,
made to him and J. Mason a grant of the lands
between the Merrimac and Sagadahoc, reaching
back to the lakes, called Laconia. The next
year a settlement was commenced at Pascataqua.
In 1639 he obtained from the crown a confirma
tory grant of the land fcom Pascataqua to Saga
dahoc, called the province of Maine, in compli
ment to Queen Henrietta, who held as her estate
the province of Maine in France. He was made
lord palatine. He incorporated the village of
Agamenticus, or York, into a city, called Gorge-
ana; but the colony did not prosper. This estate
fell to his son, John Gorges, who neglected the
province, so that in 1652 they placed themselves
under Massachusetts. He expended 20,000
pounds in his American enterprises. He pub
lished narrative of his proceedings relative to the
settlement of New England, contained in the
work of his grandson, Ferdmando, 1659. In
closing his narrative he asks, " What can be more
pleasing to a generous nature, than to be exer
cised in doing public good ; and what monument
so durable as erecting of houses, villages, and
towns ; and what more pious, than advancing of
Christian religion amongst people, who have not
known the excellency thereof? " In this work
Dr. Belknap found materials for his history of
Gorges. — Belknap's Biog. l. 346-393.
GORGES, FEKDIXANDO, grandso'n of the pre
ceding, succeeded to the rights of his father,
John. On the restoration he petitioned the king
against the usurpation of Massachusetts. Com
missioners, Carr, etc., were sent over to adjust
the affairs of government. But in 1677 he was
induced to sell his rights to Massachusetts for
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GORTON.
1250 pounds. The territory, thus acquired, was
first formed into the two counties of York and
Cumberland. He published a description of New
England, entitled " America painted to the life,"
London, 16,39, containing the narrative by his
grandfather, as well as descriptions of his own.
In some editions, Johnson's wonder-working
providence is also annexed.
GORIIAM, JOHN, colonel, died at Barnstable,
in 1717, aged Go. He was distinguished in the
war against the French and Indians.
GORIIAM, NATHANIEL, president of congress,
was born in Charlestown, Mass., in 1738, and
died June 11, 1796, aged 58. He was often a
member of the legislature, and in 1784 was elected
to congress, and was chosen president June 6,
1786. He was also a judge of the court of com
mon pleas for several years. As a member of the
convention he assisted in forming the constitution
of the United States. — Eliot ; Welsh's Eulogy.
GORIIAM, NATHANIEL, son of the preceding,
one of the first settlers of the " Genesee country,"
died at Canandaigua Oct. 22, 1826, with the char
acter of a worthy citizen. Massachusetts having
received of New York the right of pre-emption
of about six millions of acres, sold their right of
the eastern one-third, or two millions, to Nathaniel
Gorham and Oliver Phelps, in 1788, for 300,000
pounds. In July they held a treaty with the
five nations of Indians and obtained their release.
Mr. Phelps began the .settlement in 1789. In
1790 one million of " Phelps and Gorham's pur
chase " was sold to 11. Morris, and he, in 1792,
sold to C. Williamson.
GORIIAM, WILLIAM, judge, died in Gorham,
Me., in 1804. A native of Massachusetts, he
went early on public business to Nova Scotia, and
in 1772 removed to Gorham. In 1782 he was
judge of probate ; in 1789, judge of common
pleas. He was a man of solid talents, and good
judgment, and a Christian.
GORIIAM, JOHN, M. D., physician in Boston,
graduated at Harvard college in 1801, and studied
his profession at Edinburgh. In 1809 he was
appointed adjunct professor of chemistry and
materia medica at Cambridge; and in 1818, pro
fessor of chemistry and mineralogy. He died
suddenly March 29, 1829, aged 46. He published
inaugural address, 1817 ; elements of chemical
science, 2 vols. 8vo. 1819.
GORHAM, BENJAMIN, died in Boston Sept.
27, 1855, aged 80; a graduate of 1795. His
father, Nathaniel G., of Charlestown, was presi
dent of the continental congress ; his brother was
a pioneer of western New York. Studying law,
he was the associate of Prescott, Jackson, Par
sons, Gore, Dexter, Sullivan, Cabot, Ames, Otis,
Parker, and Lowell. He was also a faithful rep
resentative and senator in congress. By marriage
he was connected with Judge Lowell and J. C.
Jones. In private life he loved to talk, and he
talked well. — Boston Advertiser, July 16, 1856.
GORHAM, MARY, died in Stratford, Conn.,
Jan. 2, 1837, aged 74, widow of Capt. Nehemiah
G., an officer of the Revolution. She was a
memorable example of humility, of submission
and patience, of peace and hope, in a long-con
tinued sickness.
GORTON, SAMUEL, the first settler of War
wick, R. I., died after 1676, at an advanced age.
He came to this country in 1636, and in a few
years occasioned much disturbance in the church
of Boston by the wild sentiments on religion
which he advanced. He soon went to Plymouth,
in which colony he was subjected to corporal pun
ishment for his errors, and whence he removed in
June, 1638, to Rhode Island. At Newport he
received the same discipline, on account of his
contempt of the civil authority. He purchased
some land near Pawtuxet river, in the south part
of Providence, in Jan., 1641. Under the cover
of this purchase he encroached upon the lands of
others, and, complaints having been entered
against him in the court of Massachusetts, he
was required to submit himself to the jurisdiction
of that colony, and to answer for his conduct.
This summons he treated with contempt ; but,
being apprehensive that he was not in a place of
safety, he crossed the river at the close of 1642,
and with eleven others purchased of Miantun-
nomu, the Narragansett sachem, a tract of land
at Mishawomet, for which he paid 144 fathoms of
wampum. The deed was signed Jan. 17, 1643.
The town, of which he now laid the foundation,
was afterwards called Warwick. In May follow
ing, he and his party were seized by order of the
general court of Massachusetts, and carried to
Boston, where he was required to answer to the
charge of being a blasphemous enemy of the
gospel and its ordinances, and of all civil gov
ernment. His ingenuity embarrassed the judges,
for, while he adhered to his own expressions,
which plainly contradicted the opinions which
were embraced in Massachusetts, he yet, when ex
amined by the ministers, professed a coincidence
with them generally in their religious sentiments.
The letter which he wrote to the governor, before
his seizure, was addressed " to the great, honored,
idol gentleman of Massachusetts," and was filled
with reproaches of the magistrates and ministers;
but in his examination he declared that he had
reference only to the corrupt state of mankind in
general. He had asserted that Christ suffered
actually before he suffered under Pilate ; but his
meaning was, as he said, that the death of Christ
was actual to the faith of the fathers. The ordi
nances, he thought, were abolished after the rev
elation was written, and thus he could admit that
they were the ordinances of Christ, because they
were established for a short time by him. But
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this equivocation did not avail him. His opinions
were undoubtedly erroneous. All the magis
trates but three were of opinion that he should
be put to death, but the deputies were in favor of
milder measures. Gorton, with a number of his
companions, was sentenced to imprisonment and
hard labor, and prohibited from passing the limits
of the town to which he was sent, and from prop
agating his heresies, under pain of death. After
a few months, the dissatisfaction of many people
with his imprisonment, and other causes, induced
the court to substitute banishment in its place. In
1644 he went to England with a deed from the
Xarragansctt Indians, transferring their territory
to the king ; and he obtained an order from par
liament, securing to him the peaceable possession
of his. lands, lie arrived at Boston in 1G-48, and
thence proceeded to Shawomet, which he called
"Warwick, in honor of the Earl of Warwick, who
had given him much assistance in effecting his
object. Here he officiated as a minister, and dis
seminated his doctrines, in consequence of which
a large part of the descendants of his followers
have neglected all religion to the present day.
Without the advantages of education, he made
himself acquainted with the Hebrew and Greek
languages, that he might better understand the
Scriptures, though he had affected to despise
human learning. He violently opposed the Qua
kers, as their principles were hostile to his anti-
nomian sentiments. He believed that the suffer
ings of Christ were within his children, and that
he was as much in this world at one time as at
another ; that all which is related of him is to be
taken in a spiritual sense ; that he was incarnate
in Adam, and was the image of God, wherein he
was created. He published simplicity's defence
against the seven-headed policy, which was an
swered by Mr. Winsknv ; antidote against Phari
saical teachers ; saltmarsh returned from the dead,
1605; a glass for the people of New England. —
Winthrop, 309-318, 325; Morton, 117, 120;
Hntddnson,l. 72, 117-124, 549; Coll. II int. SOL:
IX. 35-38 ; Holmes ; Cullender, 36, 37 ; Mayna-
lia. Ml. 11.
GOSXOLD, BARTHOLOMEW, an intrepid mari
ner of the west of England, sailed fron: Falmouth
for the coast of America March 26, 1602. In
stead of approaching this country by the way of
the West Indies, he was the first Englishman who
directly crossed the ocean. He discovered land
May 14th, and a cape on the 15th, near which he
caught a great number of cod. from which cir
cumstance lie named the land Cape Cod. The
Indians, whom he met at different places, wore
ornaments of copper, and used the pipe and to
bacco. He passed Sandy Point, and in a few days
came to an island, which he named Martha's
Vineyard, as there were many vines upon it.
This is supposed to have been, not the island
which now bears that name, but the small island,
which is called Xo man's land. He resided three
weeks on the most western of the Elizabeth
islands, on which he built a fort and store-house.
But, finding that he had not a supply of provis
ions, he gave up the design of making a settle
ment. The cellar of his store-house was discov
ered by Dr. Belknap in 1797. After his return
to England he embarked in an expedition to Vir
ginia, where he was a member of the council.
But he died soon after his arrival, Aug. 22, 1007.
— Belknap, II. 100-122; Holmes; Purcltas, IV.
1690; v. 1646-1653; Stith, 30, 35, 45; British
Empire, I. 353 ; Harris1 Voyages, \. 816; Uni
versal History, xxxix. 269, 270.
GOSS, THOMAS, minister of Bolton, died in
1780, aged about 63. He graduated at Harvard
in 1737.
GOSS, EBEXEZER, Dr., died in Paris, Me., in
1825, aged 84. He came from Concord, X. II.,
and had lived fifty years in Maine.
GOUGH, HANNAH, widow of Joseph G., died
in Xew York Oct. 19, 1845, aged 109 years, 11
months, in full possession of her faculties.
GOULD, THOMAS, a Baptist minister, came
from England to Boston before 1687. — Snow's
History of Boston.
GOULD, EBEXEZER, a minister in Middletown,
Conn., died in 1778, aged about 75. He gradu
ated at Yale in 1723.
GOULD, JAMES, LL. ])., died at Litchfieid,
I Conn., May 11, 1838, aged 67. A native of
Branford, he graduated at Yale in 1791, became
a distinguished lawyer and judge cf the supreme
court of Connecticut, and for many years was the
j associate of Mr. Reeve, as a professor in the law
| school at Litchfieid, after whose death he con-
j ducted it for a few years, lie was learned, ac-
I complished, amiable and affectionate. He pub
lished principles of pleading in civil actions, 1832.
— Jlullister's History of Connecticut.
GOULD, JOHN W., son of Judge J. Gould, died
at sea Oct. 1, 1838, aged 23. His writings were
published in a volume, with a sketch of his life,
1839. The forecastle yarns were published sep
arately in 1854. — Cyclopedia of Amer. Lit.
GOULD, M. WOODBKIDGE, died in Southamp
ton in 1838. She was born in Nov., 1787, the
only daughter of Dr. S. Woodbridge, of South
ampton, the minister of which place, Rev. V.
Gould, she married. She was a scholar. In his
absence his many pupils in Greek and Latin re
cited to her; and she had great piety as well as
talents. Her character is described at length in
the Recorder of July 20, 1838.
GOULD, ALEXANDER, died at Elliot April 19,
1844, aged 93 : he was in Bunker Hill battle. — A
Captain Benjamin Gould was wounded in the bat
tle of Lexington, who died about 1846, aged 90 :
his residence, it is supposed, was Boston.
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GOULD.
GRAHAM.
GOULD, Vccsox, died in 1841, aged 67. Born
in Sharon, Conn., he graduated at Williams col
lege in 1797. lie succeeded Mr. Judd as minis
ter of Southampton, Mass., and was minister from
1801 to 1832, when he resigned. From 1833 to
1836 he was a minister in Bernardston. lie
published a sermon at the ordination of S. Clark,
1808.
GOULD, DAXIEL, minister of Rumford, Me.,
died May 21, 1842, aged 90. He was two years
in the war ; then a graduate of Harvard in 1782,
and a much respected minister.
GOULD, WILLIAM M., died in New York June
16, 1852, aged 36; author of zephyrs from Italy,
a book of travelling sketches.
GOULD, WILLIAM, general, died in Caldwell,
N. J., Feb. 12, 1847, aged 89. He was in the bat
tle of Monmouth. In 1784 he and others formed
the church, of which he was a worthy officer.
His death was that of a humble, penitent man,
yet full of faith in Christ, in whom was his " only
hope."
GOULD, BULAII II., wife of Maj. D. Gould, of
Sharon, Conn., died May 22, 1856, aged 66. She
was a woman of eminent piety, of unwearied in
dustry, of rare benevolence. For many years as
a milliner she toiled to gain property for good
uses. Her gains of 350 dollars a year for ten
years she devoted to charity, giving about 1700
dollars to the American board, and 900 to the
home missions, and 300 to the Bible society. —
N. Y. Observer, June 29.
GOULD1NG, THOMAS, D. D., minister of Co
lumbus, Ga., died in July, 1848, aged 62. After
preaching he died within an hour from an affec
tion of the heart.
GRAEME, THOMAS, Dr., a distinguished phy
sician in Philadelphia for near half a century,
died about 1774. He was collector of the port.
He was a native of Scotland, a graduate in med
icine. His residence was Graeme park, about
twenty miles from the city. His wife was the
daughter of Sir Wm. Keith ; his daughter was
Mrs. Ferguson. — Portfolio, new series, I. 520.
GRAFTOX, JOSEPH, a useful pastor, died at
Newton Dec. 16, 1836, aged 77. He was for
nearly half a century the Baptist minister of
Newton. He was born at Newport, R. I. He
published a piece on baptism and a funeral sermon.
GRAHAM, JOHN, first minister of Southbury,
Conn., died in Dec., 1774, aged 80. He was a
descendant of one of the marquises of Montrose,
born in Edinburgh in 1694, and educated at Glas
gow. He studied physic. Emigrating to this
country with the Londonderry people in 1718, he
lived at first in Exeter, N. H. ; but, after he be
came a preacher, he was ordained as the first
minister of Stafford, Conn., May 25, 1723. The
settlement of the town began in 1719. Suffering
with his family from want of the necessaries of
life, he was dismissed in 1731 for inadequate sup
port. After living a short time in Lebanon, he
was settled Jan. 17, 1733, as the first minister of
the second church in Woodbury, in a village which
is now the town of Southbury. Here he passed
more than forty years, useful and respected. He
had a colleague, Mr. Wildman, in 1766. In the
revival of religion in New England about 1740,
he zealously engaged in promoting it by his labors.
He married, in Exeter, Love Sanborn ; and there
his son John was born in 1722. His second wife
was Abigail, the daughter of Rev. Isaac Chauncy
of Hadley. His daughter, Love Graham, married
first Mr. Brinkerhoft, who lived on the Hudson
river, and next Rev. Jonathan Lee of Salisbury ;
she was the mother of Rev. Dr. Chauncy Lee.
Three of his sons, graduates of 1740, 1747, and
1760, were ministers: John of Suffield, Chauncy
of Fishkill, and Richard C. of Pelham, Mass.
His sons, Andrew and Robert, were physicians.
Robert lived at White Plains, and was judge of
the common pleas and the admiralty courts. Rev.
John G. died in West Suffield in 1796, aged 74.
Mr. Graham wrote, in 1732, a ballad against the
church of England. It exists in manuscript. He
published also a tract on the same subject, and a
rejoinder to Johnson's answer. They call him
Dr. Graham, perhaps because he was once a phy
sician.
GRAHAM, ANDREW, an eminent physician, and
patriot of the Revolution, was the son of the pre
ceding, and was for many years the representa
tive of Woodbury. lie was the surgeon of the
troops in the action at Danbury ; and in the battle
of the White Plains was taken prisoner, and not
released till the surrender of Cornwallis. lie
died in 1785. — Graham's Vermont, 6, 7.
GRAHAM, ISABELLA, a pious and benevolent
lady of New York, was born in Scotland July 29,
1742; in 1765 she married Dr. John Graham,
and accompanied him with his regiment to Niag
ara, and thence to Antigua, where he died in
1774. She came in 1789 to New York, where
for many years she superintended a school for the
instruction of young ladies. By her efforts the
widow's society, the orphan asylum society, and
the society for the promotion of industry were in
stituted. She died July 27, 1814. Mr. Bethune
married her daughter. Dr. Mason published in
teresting memoirs of her life.
GRAHAM, JOHN AXDKEW, LL. D., died at
New York Aug. 29, 1841, aged 77. He was the
son of Dr. Andrew Graham, of Woodbury, the
sixth of his nine children. Born in 1764, in the
early part of his life he resided at Burlington,
Vt, and about 1795 he went to London as agent
to the Episcopal church of Vermont, and resided
there several years. On his return he lived at
GRAHAM.
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Now York. Ho published sketch of Vermont,
London, 1797 ; speeches in the New York courts,
1812.
GRAHAM, WILLIAM M., colonel, fell in battle
in Mexico Sept. 8, 1847. He was born in Vir
ginia, and had fought the Indians in Florida in
various battles.
GRAHAM, JOSEPH, general, died Nov. 12,
1836, aged 77, in Lincoln county, N. C. He was
born in Chester, Penn., in 1759, and in the State
to which he emigrated sustained various public
offices. For forty years he was a member of the
Presbyterian church. He was frugal and liberal ;
he lived to see his children rise to eminence, and
he died in the assurance of a happy immortality.
GRAHAM, ISAAC GILBERT, M. 1)., died Sept.
1, 1848, aged 88. He was born in Southbury,
Conn., son of Dr. Andrew G.,and was surgeon in
army at West Point. At the close of the war he
settled at Unionville, N. Y., and there lived more
than sixty years, — a benevolent physician, a sin
cere and humble believer in the Christian faith.
GRAHAM, ALEXANDER J., died at New Leba
non, N. Y., July 23, 1850, aged 24; a missionary
to the Choctaws. The son of Charles I. Graham,
of Newark, he was educated at Princeton college
and seminary; then took charge of the Spencer
academy, Arkansas, devoting himself to the ser
vice of forty Indian boys. But he soon died. —
N. Y. Observer, Aug. 3.
GRAHAM, SYLVESTER, died at Northampton,
Mass., Sept. 11, 1851, aged 56. He was the son
of Rev. John G., of Suffield. For some years
he was a preacher ; then for the rest of his life a
public lecturer on total abstinence from animal
food, which he recommended ; on temperance, and
on other subjects. lie published lectures on the
science of human life, 2 vols., and other lectures.
Dr. Titus Cornwell, a resident in Illinois, died in
1855, bequeathing four-fifths of an estate of from
7,000 to 10,000 dollars, the interest to be em
ployed for the benefit of schools in Greene county,
in the distribution annually of Graham's and Al-
cott's lectures.
GRAHAM, DAVID, an eminent lawyer in New
York, died of the consumption at Nice, in Italy,
May 27, 1852, aged 46. He was skilled in argu
ing criminal and other jury cases. He was one
of the commissioners for framing the new code of
procedure in New York.
GRAHAM, AUGUSTUS, died in 1851. By his
will, dated April and Oct., 1851, he bequeathed
about 100,000 dollars to a multitude of institu
tions. Among the largest of his bequests were
27,000 to the Brooklyn institute; 12,000 for lec
tures on the attributes of God seen in his works ;
10,000 to the colonization society, and the same
to the Unitarian association in Boston. — N. Y.
Observer, Dec. 11.
GRAHAM, JOHN B., died of apoplexy in
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Brooklyn, N. Y., in March, 1853. He and his
brother Augustus, who died in 1852, were natives
of Scotland, and lived in B. about forty years ;
they were rich and generous, the founders of the
Brooklyn institute, home for aged females, and
the city hospital.
GRAHAM. MARGARET, Mrs., died in Lexing
ton, Va., Sept. 25, 1853, aged 83 ; the daughter
of William Alexander, and the sister of Dr. Ar
chibald A. When young she rode forty miles to
attend a remarkable religious meeting at the
Peaks of Otter, and became soon religious, and
made her profession with her brother under a
large tent, as there was no church at Lexington.
She lived as a Christian more than fifty years.
GRAHAM, JOILV, minister plenipotentiary to
the court of Brazil, died at Washington August
6, 1820, aged 46. His ill health had induced
him to return. While a member of the legisla
ture of Virginia, he was appointed secretary to
the American legation in Spain; afterwards sec
retary for the territory of Louisiana ; then chief
clerk in the department of State. In 1818 he
went on a mission with Rodney and Bland for
political information to Buenos Ayres. His long
and valuable report was made Nov. 5, 1818, and
is among the printed State papers. His worth
was attested by letters of Madison and Monroe,
published in Nat. Intell., Aug. 29, 1820.
GRANGER, GIDEON, postmaster-general of
the United States, died Dec. 31, 1822. He
was born at Suffield, Conn., July 19, 1767, the
son of Gideon Granger, and graduated at Yale
college in 1787. He soon became eminent as a
lawyer. Through his exertions in the legislature
Connecticut is chiefly indebted for its large school
fund. In 1801 Mr. Jefferson appointed him post
master-general in the place of J. Habersham, in
which office he continued till 1814, when, being
displaced and succeeded by Meigs, he removed to
Canandaigua, N. Y. As a member of the senate
of New York in 1819, he promoted internal im
provements. He gave one thousand acres of land
for the benefit of the canal. His wife was the
sister of Mr. Pease, assistant postmaster-gen
eral. He was tall, dignified, and commanding,
yet affable ; a man of integrity and distinguished
talents. His political writings were under the
signature of Senectus, on the school fund, and of
Algernon Sidney in 1809, and Epaminondas in
1820, in favor of the administrations of Jefferson
and of Gov. Clinton.
GRANGER, DANIEL T., died at Eastport, Me.,
Dec. 27, 1854, aged about 48. He graduated at
Bowdoin in 1826, and was a lawyer of eminence
and integrity.
GRANT, ANNA, a widow, died at Rowley in
1801, aged 105.
GRANT, Mrs., a colored woman, died at Pitts-
field in 1845, aged more than 100 ; and another
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GRAYSON.
colored woman, Dinah, Avife of Thomas Brown,
died at P. in the same year, aged 92.
GRANT, ASAHEL, M. D., missionary, died at
Mosul of typhus fever April 24, 1844, aged 36.
He was born in Marshall, N. Y., and embarked
May, 1835. His wife, Judith Campbell of Cherry
Valley, died at Ooroomiah in 1839. A memoir
of him by A. C. Lathrop was published 1846, and
one by Mr. Laurie in 1853. A memoir of his
wife was published with that of Mrs. E. Dwight.
GRASSE, FRANCOIS JOSEPH PAUL, count de,
commander of the French fleet in the American
service in the Revolutionary war, died in France
Jan. 15, 1788, aged 65. His family were exiles
in the Revolution of France. His son in 1795
commanded a man-of-war in the British service.
GRATIOT, CHARLES, general, died in May,
1855, formerly chief of the engineer corps.
GRAUPNER, GOTTLIEB, professor of music,
died in Boston April 15, 1836, aged 70.
GRAVES, THOMAS, judge of the supreme
court of Massachusetts, died in 1747, aged about
65. He graduated at Harvard in 1703.
GRAVES, ALLEN, missionary at Bombay, died
Dec. 30, 1843, aged 51. Born at Rupert, Vt., he
graduated at Middlebury in 1812, at Andover sem
inary in 1816, and embarked for Bombay in 1817.
He visited the United States in 1832. His wife
was Mary Lee of Rupert.
GRAY, ELLIS, minister in Boston, died Jan. 7,
1753, aged 36. lie graduated at Harvard in
1734, and was ordained in 1738. As a preacher
he was earnest and pathetic. He published a
sermon at the ordination of T. Maccarty, 1742.
— Mather's Fun. Sermon.
GRAY, JAMES, colonel, died in Stockbridge,
Mass., in 1782. He was commissary-general
for the northern department during the war ; but
ill health compelled him to resign. His daughter,
Mrs. Hunt, died in 1788, and his daughter, Mrs.
Bidwell, died in 1808. Mrs. Gray died in 1809.
She was an eminent Christian, a member of Dr.
West's church forty years.
GRAY, WILLIAM, lieutenant-governor of Mas
sachusetts, an eminent merchant, died Nov. 4,
1825, aged 74. He was born in Lynn, of hum
ble parentage, about 1751. He was early an ap
prentice to Samuel Gardner, and then to Richard
Derby, merchants of Salem. Entering upon
commercial pursuits at a favorable period, he
conducted his business with sound judgment and
unwearied industry. Though he acquired a very
large fortune, his simple habits remained unal
tered. In the period of the embargo in 1808,
he abandoned the party to Avhich he had been
attached, and espoused the side of the govern
ment, and it is said that the political excitement,
awakened against him, induced him to remove to
Boston. In 1810 he was elected lieutenant-gov
ernor, Mr. Gerry being chosen governor. Mrs.
Gray died in 1823. His sons were William II.
and Henry.
GRAY, HARRISON, died at Boston in Aug.,
1846, aged 54. lie was a bookseller, formerly
of the firm of Hilliard, Gray & Co. He was
zealous in the temperance cause, and a member
of various charitable societies.
GRAY, THOMAS, D. I)., died at Jamaica Plain,
near Boston, June 1, 1847, aged 75. A graduate
of 1790, he was long the minister of a parish in
Roxbury. He published a sermon before the
humane society ; on abolition of slave trade,
1818; artillery election sermon, 1819; on opin
ions of the day, 1822 ; the death of Gov. Eustis ;
notice of Rev. John Bradford and sketch of
Roxbury churches, 1825 ; on industry, fervor, and
religion.
GRAY, JOSEPH B. MONTAGUE, M. D., died in
South Berwick, Me., Nov. 1, 1856, aged 38. He
was principal of Berwick academy, late of Essex,
England, an accomplished scholar and successful
teacher. He contributed to the reviews learned
writings upon subjects of classical literature. He
edited a Greek classic, now in use at Cambridge.
GRAY", FREDERIC T., died in Boston March 9,
1855, aged 51. He was for some time an asso
ciate with Dr. Tuckerman as a city missionary ;
then a colleague of Mr. Dean and his successor
for fifteen years. In ill health, he went in 1853
to San Francisco and had the charge of the Uni
tarian society.
GRAYDON, ALEXANDER, naval captain in
the Revolutionary war, after the peace entered on
the profession of the law, and lived in Dauphin
county, Penn. He died at Philadelphia May 2,
1818, aged 66. He published authentic memoirs
of a life chiefly passed in Pennsylvania, etc., 1811.
GRAYTSON, WILLIAM, a senator of the United
States, died March 12, 1790. He was a native
of Virginia, and was appointed a representative
to congress from that State in 1784, and contin
ued a number of years. In June, 1788, he was
a member of the Virginia convention, which was
called for the purpose of considering the present
constitution of the United States. In that assem
bly, rendered illustrious by men of the first tal
ents, he was very conspicuous. His genius united
with the eloquence of Henry in opposing the
adoption of the constitution. While he acknowl
edged the evils of the old government, he was
afraid that the proposed government would
destroy the liberty of the States. His principal
objections to it were, that it took from the States
the sole right to direct taxation, which was the
highest act of sovereignty; that the limits be
tween the national and State authorities were not
sufficiently defined ; that they might clash, in
which case the general government would prevail ;
that there was no provision against raising such
a navy as was more than sufficient to protect
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our trade, and thus would excite the jealousy of
European powers and lead to Avar; and that
there Avere no adequate checks against the abuse
of power, especially by the president, who Avas
responsible only to his counsellors and partners
in crime, the members of the senate. After the
constitution Avas adopted, Colonel Grayson Avas
appointed one of the senators from Virginia in
1789. His colleague Avas Richard Henry Lee.
His great abilities were united with unimpcached
integrity. — Gazette of United States, I. 395 ;
Debates in Virginia Convention.
GREELEY, ZACCHEUS, died in Londonderry,
N. H., June 16, 1846, aged 93. His widow,
Mary Woodburn, died in Wayne, Erie county,
Penn., July 27, 1855, aged 68, a Avoman amiable,
and of a strong mind. These were the parents of
Horace Grecley of NCAV York.
GREEN, SAMUEL, a printer, the son of Bar-
tholomeAV Green of Cambridge, Avas fifteen years
old when he arrived in 1630. He succeeded to
the business of Daye in printing at Cambridge
about 1649, and died Jan. 1, 1702, aged 86. He
was a pious and benevolent man. He had nine
teen children. His descendants were a race of
printers ; living in Boston, NCAV London, Nor-
Avich, Hartford, New Haven, and also in Vermont
and Maryland. He printed the laAvs in 1660;
and also, at the expense of about 1200 pounds,
paid by the commissioners in NCAV England, the
folloAving in the Indian language ; the psalter,
Eliot's catechism, Baxter's call, the New Testa
ment, and one thousand copies of the Bible,
1683- The psalter Avas first printed by Daye in
1639, the first printed book in NCAV England : the
Cambridge Platform Avas by Green in 1649.
George Biinlcy is preparing a history of printing
in America, in the century ending 1700. A
second edition of the Bible, begun in 1680, Avas
completed in 1686. Thomas gives a long list of
the books printed by him. — Thomas, l. 235-264.
GREEN, HENRY, the first minister of Reading,-
Mass., died in 1648. He came from England.
The church was gathered in 1644; and he Avas
probably then ordained.
GREEN, BARTHOLOMEW, a printer, the son
of Samuel, died Dec. 28, 1732. He began busi
ness in Boston in 1690 ; and commenced a weekly
paper, the Boston News-Letter, April, 1704, for
John Campbell, postmaster, and after eighteen
years published it on his oAvn account. This Avas
the first newspaper in the British colonies. Like
his father he Avas distinguished for piety and be
nevolence, and Avas a deacon of the old south
church. His son, Bartholomew, a printer in
Boston, was the grandfather of Joseph Dennie.
- Th«wax,\. 283, 321.
GREKX, JOSEPH, pastor of Salem village, died
Nov. 2(>, 1715, aged 39. He Avas the son of John J
Green, marshal general of the colony, and a i
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grandson of PcrciA'al Green, who lived in Cam
bridge from 1636 till his death in 1640. He
graduated in 1695, and was ordained in 1697.
He healed the difficulties, which sprung up under
Mr. Parris. The church record declares him
"The choicest floAver and goodliest tree in the
garden of our God." His Avife Avas Elizabeth,
daughter of Rev. Joseph Gerrish ; he Avas the
father of Joseph Green, a merchant of Boston,
Avho died in 1765. J. Barnard placed him
among "worthy and learned divines." A sermon
on his death by T. Blowers, and a poem by
N. Noyes, were published.
GREEN, TIMOTHY, a printer, the son of Sam
uel, and grandson of Samuel G. of Cambridge,
after conducting a press thirteen years in Boston,
removed to NCAV London in 1714, by encourage
ment of the government of Conn., having a
salary of 50 pounds a year. He Avas pious and
benevolent, cheerful and facetious. Of the church
at NeAv London he Avas a deacon. He died May
5, 1757, aged 78. Three of his sons were print
ers.
GREEN, JOSEPH, a poet, Avas born in Boston
in 1706; graduated at Harvard college in 1726;
and afterwards devoted himself to commercial
pursuits. He had a vein of humor and satire,
Avhich he freely indulged, associated with a club
of Avits, not sparing the measures of the govern
ment ; but at the beginning of the Revolution he
Avent to England, and died in 1780, aged 74. He
wrote a burlesque on a psalm of Mather Byles ;
he ridiculed the freemasons in the entertainment
for a winter's CA'ening in 1750; he wrote also the
land bank ; account of the celebration of St.
John ; and lamentation on Mr. Old Tenor. —
Spec. Amer. Poet. i. 133-139.
GREEN, JOHX, an excellent portrait painter
of Philadelphia, was the friend of Godfrey the
poet who died in 1763, and Avrote an elegy to his
memory, Avhich is prefixed to his poems.
GREEN, JONAS, died at Annapolis, Maryland,
April 10, 1767. He had published the Maryland
Gazette nearly thirty years.
GREEN, JOSEPH, minister of the east parish
of Barnstable, died Oct. 4, 1770, aged 79. He
Avas born in Boston ; graduated at Harvard in
1720; and was ordained May 12, 1725. He
published a sermon at the ordination of his son
Joseph, at Marshfield, 1753.
GREEN, JACOB, minister of Hanover, N. J.,
died in May, 1790, aged 68. He Avas a native of
Massachusetts, and graduated at Harvard in 1744.
He accompanied Mr. Whitefield to N. J. in
1745, and studied theology Avith Jonathan Dick
inson and Mr. Burr. His Avife Avas the daughter
of Rev. John Pierson, of Woodbridge. Mr.
Green Avas one of the original trustees of the col
lege, of which his son, Ashbel Green, Avas ftftcr-
Avards the president.
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GREEN.
GREENE.
GREEN, ROLAND, minister of Marshfield,
Mass., died July 4, 1808, aged 70, in the forty-
seventh year of his ministry. lie graduated at
Harvard in 17*38, and was ordained at Norton in
1761, as successor of Ebenezer White, deceased.
GREEN, FRANCIS, a merchant in Boston, son
of Benjamin G., of Halifax, and grandson of
Rev. Joseph G., was graduated at Harvard college
in 1760. At the beginning of the Revolution he j
repaired to England. On his return in 1799, he j
resided at Medford, where he died April 21, 1809, j
aged 67. Having two children who were deaf
and dumb, he placed them at Edinburgh under
the skilful care of the Braid woods. He published
a dissertation on the art of imparting speech to
the deaf and dumb, London, 1783. After his re
turn he wrote essays on the same subject in the
newspapers, and translated the letters of the
Abbe L'Epee.
GREEN, JOHN, a physician, died at Worcester
Nov. 29, 1799, aged 63. He was the son of Dr.
Thomas G., who was a native of Maiden, Mass.,
and one of the first settlers of Leicester, having
his first lodging in the cave of a rock. Born in
1736, lie studied with his self-taught father; set
tled at Worcester ; and was extensively employed.
His wife was the daughter of Brigadier Ruggles
of Hard wick ; he had many children. His son,
John, a physician, more distinguished than him
self, was born in 1763, and died at Worcester Aug.
11, 1808, aged 45. Never in his practice was he
known to accept the proffer of strong drink for
his refreshment. — Thacher.
GREEN, JAMES, major-general, died at Long
Branch, N. J., Sept., 1811. He was an officer in
the Revolutionary war.
GREEN, LEMUEL, died in Philadelphia in
1831, aged 79, a Methodist minister.
GREEN, SAMUEL, a minister in Boston, died in
Nov., 1834, aged 41. He was born in Stoneham,
and was a graduate of Harvard in 1816. Me
moirs of him by R. H. Storrs were published in
1836. He published a tract, called More than a
hundred arguments for the Divinity of Christ.
GREEN, JOSHUA, judge, died in Wendell in
1847. A native of Boston, he graduated at Har
vard in 1784 ; his father, Joshua, was a graduate
of 1749. For more than fifty years he was a
most useful and respected citizen. He was the
father of Dr. Joshua Green, of Groton.
GREEN, JACOB, M. D., died Feb. 1, 1841, at
Philadelphia ; professor of chemistry in Jefferson
college, the author of a monogram of the trilo-
bites.
GREEN, ASHBEL, D. D., died in Philadelphia
May 19, 1848, aged nearly 86. He was the son
of Jacob Green, who was forty years the minister
of Hanover, N. J., and who was a native of his
ancestral town of Maiden. He graduated at
Nassua Hall at the age of twenty-one ; the con
gress then sitting at Princeton, Washington at
tended at commencement. He was then four
years a tutor and professor. Next settled as a col
league with Dr. Sprout, at Philadelphia, he was
a very acceptable preacher for twenty-five years,
till in 1812 he was chosen president of Princeton
college, from which he withdrew in 1823, when
past sixty. In Philadelphia he now lived again
and preached to the poor, and edited the monthly
Christian Advocate. He died in great peace. He
was regarded as a man of an indomitable will, of
self-control, and skilful in business. He was the
father of Princeton seminary. His autobiography
was published in a large volume in 1849, com
menced when eighty-one years old, and finished
by Drs. Jones, Plumer, and Murray.
GREEN, Dr. EZRA, died in Dover, N. H., July
25, 1847, aged 101 years and about a month.
Born in Maiden, Mass., he graduated in 1765 ; at
his death he was the oldest graduate of Harvard.
In 1775 he joined the army, and was a surgeon in
the Ranger, commanded by Paul Jones, continu
ing in the navy till 1781. He was afterwards a
merchant in Dover, and a member of the conven
tion for adopting the constitution of the United
States. After passing the age of eighty he assisted
in forming a Unitarian society. At his death he
was in the full possession of his faculties.
GREEN, AARON, minister of Maiden, died at
AndoverDec. 23, 1853, aged 89. A graduate of
1789, he was ordained Sept. 30, 1795, and re
signed his office in 1827, and soon removed to
Andover. He survived all his class. He pub
lished a discourse on the death of Washington,
1800.
GREENE, CHRISTOPHER, lieutenant-colonel,
a Revolutionary officer, died in 1781, aged 44.
He was born in Warwick, R. I., in 1737. In
1775 he was a major under his relative, Gen. N.
Greene. He accompanied Arnold through the
wilderness. At the seige of Quebec, being in the
command of a company, he was taken prisoner.
After being exchanged, Washington intrusted
him with the command of fort Mercer on the
Delaware, commonly called Red Bank, where he
was attacked by Col. Donop and his Hessians,
whom he repulsed. Donop was slain. For this
service congress voted him a s\vord, which was
presented to his eldest son in 1786. In 1778 he
was with the army under Sullivan. In the spring
of 1781, having been posted on Croton river, he
was surprised by a corps of refugees and barbar
ously murdered.
GREENE, CALEB, chief justice of R. I., died
at Coventry in Jan., 1794, at an advanced age.
GREENE, NATHANIEL, a major-general of the
army of the United States, died June 19, 1786,
aged 46. He was born in Warwick, R. I., about
the year 1740. His parents were Quakers. His
father was an anchorsmith, who was concerned in
GREENE.
some valuable iron works, and transacted much
business. While he was a boy, he learned the
Latin language chiefly by his own unassisted in
dustry. Having procured a small library, his
mind was much improved, though the perusal of
military history occupied a considerable share of
his attention. Such was the estimation in which
his character was held, that he was at an early
period of his life chosen a member of the assem
bly of 11. I. After the battle of Lexington had
enkindled at once the spirit of Americans through
out the whole continent, Mr. Greene, though edu
cated in the peaceful principles of the Friends,
could not extinguish the martial ardor which had
been excited in his own breast. Receiving the
command of three regiments with the title of
brigadier-general, he led them to Cambridge; in
consequence of which the Quakers renounced all
connection with him as a member of their reli
gious body. On the arrival of Washington at
Cambridge, he was the first who expressed to the
commamler-in-chief his satisfaction in his ap
pointment, and he soon gained his entire confi
dence, lie was appointed by congress major-
general in Aug., 1776. In the battles of Trenton
Dec. 2Gth, and of Princeton Jan. 3, 1777, he was
much distinguished. He commanded the left
wing of t'he American army at the battle of Ger-
mantcwn, Oct. 4th. In March, 1778, he was
appointed quartermaster-general, which office he
accepted, on condition that his rank in the army
should not be aft'ected, and that he should retain
his command in the time of action. This right he
exercised June 28th, at the battle of Monmouth.
His courage and skill were again displayed Aug.
29th, in Rhode Island. He resigned in this year
the office of quartermaster-general, and was suc
ceeded by Col. Pickering. After the disasters,
which attended the American arms in South
Carolina, he was appointed to supersede Gates,
and he took the command in the southern depart
ment Dec. 3, 1780. Having recruited the army,
which had been exceedingly reduced by defeat
and desertion, he sent out a detachment under
the brave Gen. Morgan, who gained the impor
tant victory at the Cowpens Jan. 17, 1781. Greene
effected a junction with him Feb. 7, but on ac
count of the superior numbers of Cornwallis, he
retreated with great skill to Virginia. Ilavin
received an accession to his forces, he returned to
North Carolina, and in the battle of Guilford,
March loth, was defeated. The victory, however,
was dearly bought by the British, for their loss
was greater than that of the Americans, and no
advantages were derived from it. In a few days
Cornwallis began to march toward Wilmington,
leaving many of his wounded behind him, which
had the appearance of a retreat, and Greene fol
lowed him for some time. But, altering his plan,
he resolved to recommence offensive operations in
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South Carolina. He accordingly marched directly
to Camden, where, April 2<3th, he was engaged
with Lord Rawdon. Victory inclined for some
time to the Americans ; but the retreat of two
companies occasioned the defeat of the whole
army. Greene retreated in good order, and took
such measures as effectually prevented Lord
Rawdon from improving his success, and obliged
him, in the beginning of May, to retire beyond the
Santce. While he was in the neighborhood of San-
tee, Greene hung in one day eight soldiers, who
had deserted from his army. For three months
afterwards there was no instance of desertion. A
number of forts and garrisons in South Carolina
now fell into his hands. He commenced the siege
of Ninety-six May 22, but he was obliged, on the
approach of Lord Rawdon in June, to raise the
siege. The army, which had been highly en
couraged by the late success, was now reduced to
the melancholy necessity of retreating to the ex
tremity of the State. The American commander
was advised to retire to Virginia ; but to sugges
tions of this kind, he replied : " I will recover
South Carolina, or die in the attempt." Waiting
till the British forces were divided, he faced about,
and Lord Rawdon was pursued in his turn, and
was offered battle after he reached his encamp
ment at Orangeburgh, but he declined it. Sept.
8th, Greene covered himself with glory by the
victory at the Eutaw Springs, in which the Bri
tish, who fought with the utmost bravery, lost
one thousand and one hundred men, and the
Americans about half that number. For his good
conduct in this action, congress presented him
with a British standard and a golden medal. This
engagement may be considered as closing the
Revolutionary war in South Carolina. During the
remainder of his command he had to struggle
with the greatest difficulties from the want of sup
plies for his troops. Strong symptoms of mutiny
appeared, but his firmness and decision completely
quelled it.
After the conclusion of the war he returned to
Rhode Island, where the greatest dissensions pre
vailed, and his endeavors to restore harmony were
attended with success. In Oct., 1785, he sailed
to Georgia, where he had a considerable estate not
far distant from Savannah. Here he passed his
time as a private citizen, occupied by domestic
concerns. While walking without an umbrella,
the intense rays of the sun overpowered him,
and occasioned an inflammation of the brain, of
which he died. Congress ordered a monument
to be erected to his memory at the seat of the
federal government. His widow married Phineas
Miller, the co-partner of Eli Whitney, inventor
of the cotton gin. His youngest daughter, Mrs.
Louisa C. Shaw, died at Cumberland Island in
April, 1831. His eldest surviving brother, Wil
liam, died at East Greenwich in Oct., 182G, aged
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GREEXOUGH.
83. — He possessed a humane and benevolent dis
position, and, abhorring the cruelties and ex
cesses of which partisans on both sides were
guilty, uniformly inculcated a spirit of moderation.
Yet he was resolutely severe, when the preserva
tion of discipline rendered severity necessary. In
the campaign of 1781 he displayed the prudence,
the military skill, the unshaken firmness, and the
daring courage which are seldom combined, and
which place him in the first rank of American offi
cers. His judgment was correct, and his self-
possession never once forsook him. In one of
his letters he says, that he was seven months in
the field without taking off his clothes for a single
night. It is thought that he was the most en
deared to the commander-in-chief of all his asso
ciates in arms. Washington often lamented his
death with the keenest sorrow. Sketches of his
life were published by Mr. Johnson, also by Dr.
C. Cakhvell. — Hill/louse's Oral, on his death;
American Mus. II. ill. VIL; Mass. Mag. IV. 616,
671; Gordon; Marshall ; Ramsay's S. C. ii.;
Holmes; Stedman, 11.376; Warren, III. 56-59.
GREENE, WILLIAM, governor of R. I, died
at Warwick in ])ec., 1809.
GREENE, GRIFFIN, died at Marietta June,
1804, aged 55, one of the ablest of the Ohio
company's settlers. He was born in Warwick,
R. I., and was a cousin of Gen. N. Greene, with
whom he Avorked at the same forge in the manu
facture of anchors. In 1794 he led the expedi
tion to discover the Salt springs near the Scioto.
He was postmaster at M. — Ilildreth's Biog.
Memoirs.
GREENE, PETER, Dr., died at Concord, N. II.,
April, 1828, aged 83.
GREENE, GARDINER, president of the Branch
Bank of the United States, died in Boston Dec.
19, 1832, aged 79. He was a man of great
wealth.
GREENE, ASA, M. D., a bookseller in New
York, died in 1839, aged 49. He graduated at
Williams college in 1813, and went to New York
about 1830. lie published various humorous
pieces, as the life of Dr. Duckworth ; the perils of
Pearl street ; a glance at New York, 1837. —
Cycl. of Lit.
GREENE, THOMAS, Dr., of Providence, died
at Hartford in 1840, aged 76.
GREENE, ALPHEUS S., Dr., died in Utica
Jan. 25, 1851, aged 64. He had held many
offices of trust.
GREENHOW, ROBERT, M. D., died in Cali
fornia in 1854, aged 54. He was born in Rich
mond, Va. His father was Robert, mayor of the
city ; his mother perished in the burning of the
theatre, lie studied physic in New York ; in
1828 he was appointed translator in the depart
ment of State at Washington ; in 1850 he went
to California. He died in consequence of falling
in the night into a pit in the streets of California.
He published a history of Oregon and California.
— Cycl. of Lit.
GREENLEAF, STKPIIKX, sheriff of Suffolk,
died Jan. 26, 1797, aged 92. The son of Rev.
Daniel of Yarmouth, he graduated at Harvard in
1723.
GREENLEAF, DANIEL, minister of North
Yarmouth, Me., died in Boston in 1763, aged 88.
He graduated at Harvard in 1699.
GREENLEAF, Moras, died at Williamsburg,
Me., March 20, 1834, aged 55. He was the son
of Moses, of Newburyport, who removed to New
Gloucester, where he died, leaving other sons,
Simon and Jonathan. He published statistical
view of Maine, 1816 ; a survey of Maine, 1829.
GREENLEAF, SIMON, LL. D., an eminent
lawyer, died at Cambridge Oct. 6, 1853, aged 69.
He was born in Newburyport Dec. 5, 1783, and
practised law in Maine. In 1854 he succeeded
Mr. Ashmun as Royall professor of law in Har
vard, and removed to Cambridge. On the death
of Judge Story he took the chair of the Dane
professorship, which he resigned in 1848. Never
educated at a college, he was yet worthy of the
honors he received from Harvard. A Christian
of the Episcopal church, he M-as distinguished for
his virtues. For years he was president of the
Massachusetts bible society. The fugitive slave
law he abhorred, notwithstanding the opinion of
his friend, Mr. Webster. He published reports
in 9 vols. ; a volume of over-ruled cases ; on evi
dence, 3 vols., 1842-1853; Cruise's digest of real
law, with annotations, 1846; an examination of
the testimony of the four evangelists by the rides
of evidence, with the trial of Jesus: rcpublished
in England.
GREENOUGH, THOMAS, the last of the tribe
of Nobscussett Indians, died in the alms-house at
Yarmouth, Jan., 1837, aged 90.
GREENOUGH, WILLIAM, minister of Newton,
Mass., died Nov. 10, 1831, aged 75. The son of
Deacon Thomas G. of Boston, he was born June
29, 1756 ; his mother was Sarah Stoddard, the
daughter of David, the son of Simon, who was the
brother of Rev. Solomon Stoddard. He graduated
at Yale in 1774; and was ordained in 1781. He
was a faithful and useful minister. Of his chil
dren by his wife Abigail, the daughter of Rev. S.
Badger, were Sarah, married to Josiah Fuller;
and Abigail, married to Robert H. Thayer ; and
William, the father of William W. Greenough.
He published charges at the installation of Mr.
Fay and Dr. Griffin ; also, a sermon before the
society for foreign missions, 1814.
GREENOUGH, HORATIO, a sculptor, died in
Somcrville, Mass., in Dec., 1852, aged 47. Born
in Boston Sept. 6, 1805, he graduated in 1825;
and proceeded soon to Italy, where he spent most
of his remaining life. He principally lived in
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Florence. He was a very eminent sculptor,
and a kindly, generous man. His brother,
John, a painter, died in Paris Nov. 16, 1852
aged 51 ; he was a graduate of 1824. On
hearing of his death, the American artists at
Home held a meeting, which was addressed by
Thomas Crawford and William W. Story ; and
where among other resolutions, it was resolved in
respect to him : " He is fairly entitled to be con
sidered as the pioneer of American sculpture.
His works are marked by purity of conception,
correctness of taste, graceful design, and rare deli
cacy of sentiment. He also won the friendship
and regard of all who knew him." Among his
early productions are the Medora, the Chanting
Cherubs, the Angel Abdiel. His last great work,
at Washington, is a group symbolizing the triumph
of civilization, received from Florence since his
death. His writings are contained in a memorial
published in 1853.
GREENSMITH, Mrs., . a witch, was executed
as a witch at Hartford, Conn., in 1652. Peters
says, she was " the first witch."
GREENUP, CHRISTOPHER, governor of Ken
tucky, died at Frankfort in May, 1818. He suc
ceeded Garrand from 1804 to 1808, when he was
succeeded by Charles Scott. He was a brave
patriot of the Revolution, and participated in the
perils of war. He was for years a faithful and
able member of the state and national legislature.
In the public estimation he was the most useful
man in Kentucky.
GREEN WOO]), THOMAS, minister of Seekonk,
Mass., died in 1720, aged 50. He was born at
Plymouth, and graduated at Harvard in 1690.
He was succeeded by John Greenwood, who died
in 1766, ciged about 70. He was born at See
konk, and graduated at Harvard in 1717.
GREENWOOD, ISAAC, first professor of math
ematics at Harvard college, was graduated in
1721; was elected professor in 1728, and after
ten years was dismissed. He afterwards went to
Carolina, where he died in 1745. lie published
an arithmetic, 1729; and a philosophical discourse
on mutability, etc., occasioned by the death of
Mr. llollis, the founder of the professorship, in
1731.
GREENWOOD, JOHN, minister of Rehoboth,
died in 1766, aged about 69. He graduated at
Harvard in 1717.
GREENWOOD, MARY LANGDON, died in Bos
ton in July, 1855, aged 80, the mother of Rev.
F. W. P. Greenwood. Her mind Deceived the
finest culture, and she had great excellencies of
character. She early wrote a dialogue on female
education, published in Bingham's American Pre
ceptor.
GREENWOOD, FRANCIS W. P., D. ])., min
ister of King's chapel, Boston, died Aug. 2, 1843,
aged about 50. He graduated at Harvard in
1814, and was first settled in Baltimore. He
lived in Boston from 1823, about twenty years.
He was an accomplished scholar and naturalist.
He published sermons at the ordination of W. P,
Lunt, 1828; of W. Newell, 1830; of J. W.
Thompson, 1832; and of S. May, 1834; history
of king's chapel, 1833 ; sermon to the female
asylum; artillery election sermon, 1826; on the
Lord's supper ; on death of C. Gore ; collection
of psalms and hymns ; the theology of the Cam
bridge divinity school, 1830 ; on fast day. A
volume of his sermons was published. — Boston
Advertiser, Aug. 19, 1843.
GREENWOOD, ETHAN A., died in Hubbards-
ton May 3, 1856, aged nearly 80. He was long
a proprietor of the New England Museum in
Boston, and a painter.
GREGG, Captain, was scalped by the Indians
near fort Stamvix, N. Y., in the summer of 1777,
and left for dead. But his life was preserved l>y
! the affection and good offices of his dog. He
I went out with a corporal to shoot pigeons, when
I some Indians, unseen, fired upon him and wounded
I him, so that he fell, and killed his companion.
Seeing an Indian approaching him, and unable to
resist him, he feigned to be dead ; but received
several blows on his head from the tomahawk of
the savage, and was then scalped. As he revived
and could move a little, his dog yelped and
whined ; but soon ran off to some men, who were
fishing at the distance of a mile, and whined, and
then moved in a certain direction repeatedly, so
that they concluded to follow him, — and he led
them to his master, whom they conveyed to the
fort ; and he survived his perilous wounds. —
Du'itjld's Travels, vol. ill.
GREGG, "WILLIAM, colonel, an officer of the
Revolution, died Sept. 16, 1824, aged nearly 94.
He was born at Londonderry, N. II., Oct. 21,
1730, being the son of Capt. John G., and the
grandson of Capt. James G., one of the first set
tlers of that town. He was engaged in the battle
of Bennington under Stark. After the war he
retired to his farm.
GREGG, JARVIS, professor of rhetoric in West
ern Reserve college, died in Hudson, Ohio, June
28, 1836 ; a graduate of Dartmouth in 1828. He
died suddenly of the scarlet fever ; he had been
married but a short time. For piety, scholarship,
and manners he was highly esteemed.
GRENNELL, GEORGE, died in Greenfield,
Mass., in 1844, aged 93, the oldest inhabitant of
G. lie was the father of George Grennell.
GREW, THEOPHILUS, professor of mathemat
ics in the college of Philadelphia, died in 1759.
lie had been a teacher in Kent county, and in an
academy at Philadelphia. For his scientific at
tainments and skill as an. instructor he was dis
tinguished. Nathaniel Evans honored his memory
by some poetic lines. He was supposed to be a
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grandson of the English botanist, who, in 1676,
first suggested the sexual doctrine of vegetables
to the royal society of London.
GRIDLEY, JEREMY, attorney-general of the
province of Massachusetts, died Sept. 10, 1767,
aged about 62. He was graduated at Harvard
college in 1725. He was editor of the Weekly
Rehearsal, a newspaper, which commenced in
Boston Sept. 27, 1731, and continued only for
one year. He soon became pre-eminent as a
lawyer, and was appointed king's attorney. In
this capacity he in 1761 defended the writs of as
sistance, which the custom-house officers had ap
plied for to the superior court, and by which they
would be authorized to enter at their discretion
suspected houses. He was opposed with great
force of argument by his former pupil, Mr. Otis.
Pie was colonel of the first regiment of militia,
and grand master of the free-masons. His
strength of understanding, and his extensive
knowledge, particularly his intimate acquaintance
with classical literature, gave him the first rank
among men of intellect and learning, while his
thorough knowledge of the canon and civil law
placed him at the head of his profession. He
possessed at the same time a sensibility of heart,
which endeared him to all who were connected
with him in social and domestic life. His forti
tude in his last moments resulted from the princi
ples of religion. — Hist. Coll. III. 301; V. 212;
Boston Post-Boy, Sept, 14, 1767 ; Minot, 1.88-90 ;
Gordon, I. 141.
GRIDLEY, RICHARD, major-general, brothei
of the preceding, died at Stoughton June 20,
1796, aged 84. He Avas born in Boston in 1711.
In 1746 he was engineer in the reduction of
Louisbourg. In 1755 he again entered the army
as chief engineer and colonel of infantry. Under
Winslow he was concerned in the expedition to
Crown Point in 1756, and constructed the fortifi
cations on Lake George. He served under Am-
herst in 1758, and was with Wolfe on the plains
of Abraham. For his services Magdalen Island
was given him, with half pay. At the commence
ment of the Revolution he was appointed chief
engineer. He skilfully laid out the works in for
tification of Breed's hill, the day before the battle
of June 17th, in which he was wounded. His
daughter, Jane, who married Elijah Hunt, of
Northampton, died in 1818, aged 80.
GRIDLEY, ELXATHAN, a missionary at Smyrna,
was boru in Farmington, Conn. ; was graduated
at Yale college in 1820, and studied theology at
Andovcr. He also studied physic. He was or
dained as a missionary Aug. 25, 1825, and sailed
•with Mr. Brewer Aug. 16, 1826. After his arri
val at Smyrna, he studied modern Greek and
Turkish. In June, 1827, he accompanied a friend
to Endurouk, a Greek village, six miles from Cai-
saria, in the interior of Asia Minor. There he
died Sept. 27, 1827, aged 31. Proposing to as
cend Mount Argeus, which is about thirteen thou
sand feet high, covered with perpetual snows, he
with much fatigue, Sept. 13th, approached Avithin
three or four hundred feet of the summit, when
he was prevented from advancing by perpendic
ular rocks. The next day he suffered from the
headache and soon fell a victim to a malignant
fever, occasioned, probably, by his imprudence. —
Missionary Herald, April, 1828.
GRIDLEY, ELIJAH, died at Granby June 10,
1834, aged 74. Born in Berlin, a graduate of
Yale in 1788, he was first the minister of Mans
field, then of Granby. He was the father of R.
W. Gridley.
GRIDLEY, RALPH W., died at Ottawa, 111.,
Feb. 2, 1840, aged 46 ; a graduate of Yale in
1814. Before he removed to the west he was the
minister of Williamstown, and eminently suc
cessful.
GRIFFIN, CYRUS, president of congress, was
a native of England; in 1778 he was elected a
delegate to congress from Virginia, and again in
1787. Under the constitution he was a judge of
the district court from Dec., 1789, for twenty-one
years. At his first court John Marshall was ad
mitted as counsel. He died at Yorktown Dec.
10, 1810, aged 62.
GRIFFIN, EDMUND D., a distinguished writer,
died Sept. 1, 1830, aged 26. He was the second
son of George Griffin, and was born at Wyoming,
Penn., Sept. 10, 1804. His mother was the
daughter of Col. Zebulon Butler, who commanded
in the defence of Wyoming, when it was deso
lated by the British and Indians in 1778. His
parents removing to New York, he was at the age
of twelve placed under the instruction of David
Graham, of that city. With unequalled ardor he
now pursued the various branches of study, gain
ing the highest rank in the school. In this
school it was an excellent arrangement, which re
quired frequent exercises in composition. \ oting
Griffin wrote nine little volumes of essays, and
thus acquired a rich flow of language and remark
able copiousness and energy of thought. At the
age of fourteen Mr. Graham's school being
discontinued, he was transferred to that of Mr.
Nelson, a celebrated blind teacher. In 1823, at
the age of eighteen, he was graduated at Colum
bia college with the highest honors of his class.
After prosecuting the study of law about two
months in the office of his father, he determined
to prepare for the ministry, and entered on his
studies in the seminary of the Episcopal church,
although none of his family were then Episcopa
lians. One motive which influenced him in his
choice was his repugnance to the doctrines of
Calvinism. In Aug., 1826, he was admitted to
deacon's orders, and soon became an assistant
preacher in the church in Hamilton square, and
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also associate with Dr. Lycll. In the hope of
promoting his ultimate usefulness, he visited
Europe in 1828. Arriving in November at Paris,
he there passed two months, and crossed the
Alps into Italy. He set sail on his return April
1, 1830, and in the short passage of sixteen days
reached New York. Being immediately invited,
in the absence of the professor, to deliver in the
college a course of lectures on the history of lit
erature, he performed this service in May and
June. The lectures, which are published, related
to Roman and Italian and English literature, and
are " a noble monument of promptitude, dili
gence, and knowledge." From a journey of re
creation he returned to New York Aug. 25th, and
three days after was seized with an acute disease,
an inflammation of the bowels, which terminated
his life. lie died in meek submission and joyful
trust in the Redeemer, admonishing others to
pursue the course to a blessed immortality. On
reviving, after a spasm which seemed to be fatal,
he said, with a smile of inexpressible sweetness,
" I did not get off that time ; " but, checking him
self, he added, " That was a rebellious thought ;
I must wait God's time to die." He was buried
by the side of his beloved sister. Language can
not depict the desolation which must have come
over the heart of a father enthusiastically attached
to a son of such promise. Such a blow, however
alleviated by the memorials of the genius and by
the virtuous fame of the departed youth, would
seem to be insufferable without the hope of a re
union in the world of holiness and joy. Probably
America cannot boast of any young man, who, at
so early a period, reached such a height of learn
ing and eloquence. He had taste, and feeling,
and enthusiasm, and his powers of description
are unrivalled. His poetical talents were of a
high order. Two volumes of his works have
been published, with the title, Remains of Ed
mund D. Griffin, compiled by Francis Griffin;
with a biographical memoir of the deceased, by
John McVickar, 1). D., 2 vols. 8vo. 1831. Among
the pieces in his Remains are his lectures and a
journal of his travels.
GRIFFIN, EDWARD DOER, D. D., died at
Newark Nov. 8, 1837, aged 67, being born in
East Haddam Jan. 6, 1770. His mother was Eve
Dorr, of Lyme ; her mother a sister of Gov.
Griswold. His uncle was Rev. E. Dorr, of Hart
ford. One of his brothers was George G., of
New York. Graduating at Yale .in 1790, he was
installed as colleague pastor with Dr. McWhorter
at Newark in 1801. He became professor of sa
cred rhetoric at Andovcr in 1808; minister of
Park-street church in Boston in 1811. He re
turned to Newark in 1815, and was president of
Williams college from 1821 to 1836. His wife,
Frances, a daughter of Rev. Joseph Huntington,
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of Coventry, died July 25, 1837. He himself died
in the family of his son-in-law, Dr. L. A. Smith.
When Dr. Griffin was a minister in Boston, he
delivered a course of evening lectures, which
excited much attention, and drew multitudes to
hear him from among those whose views he con
troverted. He was bold and eloquent in his
discourses. They were afterwards published as
his Park-street lectures. His memoirs, compiled
from his own writings by Rev. W. B. Sprague,
were published, 8vo., 1839. He published a ser
mon on the death of Dr. Macwhorter, 1807 ;
farewell at Newark ; inaugural oration at Andover,
1809 ; at the dedication of Park-street church,
1810; Park-street lectures, 8vo., 1813; dedica
tion sermon at Sandwich ; plea for Africa, a ser
mon, 1817; before the foreign missionary society,
New York ; on the extent of the atonement,
12mo., 1819 ; before American education society,
1825; letter on open communion, 1829; address
to Bible class society. — Griffin's Memoirs, by
Sprague.
GRIFFITH, DAVID, D. D., of Virginia, died at
Philadelphia in Aug., 1789.
GRIFFITTS, SAMUEL POWELL, M. D., a phy
sician in Philadelphia, was born in that city July
21, 1759. His medical education was completed
during his residence of three years in Europe.
After his return he practised more than forty
years, till his death, May 12, 1826, aged 67. He
was a Quaker. Every morning he read the New
Testament in Greek or Latin. He was seldom
absent from religious meetings. During the
prevalence of the yellow fever in various years he
never deserted his post. Yet he believed the
fever to be contagious. The establishment of the
dispensary and other charitable societies were
promoted by his efforts. Of the eclectic reper
tory he was one of the editors. — Thaclier, I.
275-285.
GRIMKE, JOHN F., judge of the supreme
court of South Carolina, was a colonel in the war
of the Revolution. He died in 1819. He pub
lished a revised edition of the laws of South Car
olina to 1789; on the duty of justices of the
peace ; a probate directory.
GRIMKE, THOMAS SMITH, LL. D., son of the
preceding, died near Columbus, Ohio, Oct. 12,
1834, aged 48. A native of Charleston, he was a
graduate of Yale in 1807, and by profession a
lawyer. He died of the cholera, being on his way
to Columbus. He wrote much on peace and war.
His notions were the extreme notions of the Qua
kers, that even a defensive war is wicked ; that a
ruler may not protect his people by the sword ;
that the people may not protect themselves from
an enemy. Although he thus misconstrued the
precept, " Resist not evil," yet he was not likely
to misconstrue the other precept, " Give to him
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that asketh of thee," by yielding his estate to a
robber, who should demand it. Being asked
•what he would do if he was the mayor of Charles
ton, and a pirate ship should approach the harbor,
whether he should think it wrong to fire a gun
upon that ship ? he replied in writing that he
should call together the Sabbath-school children
and lead them in procession to meet the pirates,
who, by such a sight, would be subdued into for
bearance ; and the city would be unharmed. His
literary views were rather peculiar. He would
exclude the classics and the mathematics from
making a part of the general education; and as
to English orthography, he would write in the
following forms the words which they designate,
namely: disciplin, respit, believ, creativ, excel-
ent, ilustrious, efectual, iresistible ; burys, buryd,
varys, varyd, hurrys, hurryd, etc. But he has
not gained any followers. He published ad
dresses on science and education ; on the Bible as
a class-book, 1830; on Sunday schools in the
Mississippi valley ; at the Sunday-school jubilee,
1831; on the truth and beauty of the principles
of peace ; oration before the Cincinnati, 1809 ;
before the Phi Beta Kappa society, 1830 ; report
on a code of law, 1827.
GRIMSHAW, WILLIAM, died at Philadelphia
in 1852, in ad ranced years. He was a grammarian
and historian. He published a history of the
United States, 12mo., 1826.
GRISCOM, JOHN, LL. D., died at Burlington,
N. J., Feb. 26, 1852, aged 77. He was a distin
guished physician and learned man. He was
professor of chemistry and natural philosophy
in New York institute. He published a year in
Europe in 1818 and 1819, 2 vols., 1823 ; a dis
course on character and education, 1823.
GRISWOLD, GEORGE, minister in Lyme, Conn.,
died in 1761, aged about 64. He graduated at
Yale in 1717.
GRISWOLD, MATTHEW, LL. D., governor of
Connecticut, died at Lyme in April or May, 1799,
aged 83. He had been a judge of the supreme
court and lieutenant-governor before he was gov
ernor.
GRISWOLD, ROGER, governor of Connecticut,
was the son of Matthew Griswold, who was chief
justice, and the governor after Trumbull from
1784 to 1785, when he was succeeded by Hunting-
ton. He was born at Lyme May 21, 1762. His
mother was the daughter of Gov. R. Wolcott.
Having graduated at Yale college in 1780, he
studied law. In 1794 he was elected a member
of congress, and was for many years a distin
guished member of the federal party. In 1801
he declined the appointment offered him by Mr.
Adams, of secretary of war ; probably because
the accession of Mr. Jefferson would in a few days
remove him. In 1807 he was appointed a judge
of the supreme court of the State. He was also
lieut.-governor from 1809 till May, 1811, when he
was elected governor in opposition to Mr. Tread-
well. He refused to place four companies under
Gen. Dearborn, at the requisition of the presi
dent, for garrison purposes, deeming the requi
sition unconstitutional, as they were not wanted
to " repel invasion, etc." For four or five years
he was afflicted with paroxysms of suffering. An
eulogium on him was pronounced at New Haven
by D. Daggett, before the general assembly. His
successor was John Cotton Smith.
GRISWOLD, STANLEY, judge of Illinois terri
tory, died at Shawneetown Aug. 21, 1815. He
was born at Torrington, Conn. ; was graduated at
Yale college in 1786 ; was for some years the
minister of New Milford,but relinquished theology
for secular pursuits. He edited in 1803 a paper
at Walpole, N. H. Removing to Ohio, he was
chosen a senator of the United States in 1809,
and afterwards was appointed judge. He pub
lished a discourse, 1800 ; a sermon at Walling-
ford March 11, 1801, to the friends of Mr. Jef
ferson, who had become president ; the good land
we live in, a sermon, 1802.
GRISWOLD, SOLOMON, died in Windsor, O.,
in June, 1834, aged 80; an early settler and an
officer of the Revolution.
GRISWOLD, SIMEON, died at Nassau, N. Y.,
Dec. 17, 1843, aged 90. He was a soldier of the
Revolution, and lived most of his days in Pitts-
field, Mass.
GRISWOLD, BENJAMIN, missionary to Africa,
died on the Gaboon river July 14, 1844. Born in
Randolph, Vt., in 1811, he graduated at Dart
mouth in 1837, and studied theology at Andover
and New Haven. He embarked for Cape Palmas
in Dec., 1841. The fatigue of an exploring tour
and of surgical labors was perhaps the cause of
his death. Mrs. Mary II. Griswold, his widow,
died in Africa in Feb., 1849; she was cheerful,
energetic, and useful; converts mourned her
death.
GRISWOLD, DARIUS O., a minister at Sar
atoga Springs, died Dec. 27, 1841, aged 54. He
had been laid aside by paralysis for two years.
He graduated at Williams college in 1808. He
was social, generous ; of high attainments as a
scholar; as a preacher "solemn, and an un dissem
bled Christian. He was first settled in Bloom-
field; then in Saratoga in 1817; in Watertown,
Conn., from 1823 to 1833 ; then again in Saratoga
six years.
GRIS WOLD,' ALEXANDER V., D. D., bishop of
the eastern diocese, died very suddenly at Boston,
Feb. 15, 1843, aged 76. He published conven
tion sermon, 1811; also, 1817; addresses and
charges and pastoral letters, 1816-1821.
GRISWOLD, JOHN, minister in Pawlet, Vt.,
died May 4, 1852, aged 87. He was a native of
Lebanon and a graduate of Dartmouth in 1789.
GROS.
In his labors he was very useful ; but he was for
years laid up by his infirmities.
GROS, JOHN DANIEL, D. D., a professor of
moral philosophy in Columbia college, and minis
ter in the city of Xew York, was a German.
During the Revolutionary conflict he was a min
ister of a Dutch Reformed church on the frontier
of the State, and was exposed to many perils.
After the war he removed to New York. Ik-
died at Canojoharic May 25, 1812, aged 75. lie
published natural principles of rectitude, etc., a
systematic treatise on moral philosophy, Svo.,
1795.
GROSVEXOR, THOMAS, colonel, a patriot of
the Revolution, died in Pomfret, Conn., in 1825,
aged about 80. He graduated at Yale college in
1765 ; was an officer and was wounded in the
battle of Bunker Hill ; and at the termination of
the war held the rank of colonel. For about
twenty years he was the judge of probate, and
also chief justice of the court of common pleas
until he was seventy.
GROSVEXOR, DANIEL, minister of Grafton,
Mass., and Paxton, died July 22, 1834, aged 85,
a patriot of the Revolution. After the battle of
Lexington he marched with a company of minute
men, carrying his musket, to Cambridge. Born
in Pomfrct, lie graduated at Yale in 1769; from
1774 to 1788 was in Grafton; from 1794 to 1802
was minister of Paxton. Ebenezer G. preached
the sermon at 1m ordination in 1774. Rev.
Cyrus P. G. was his son. lie published a ser
mon at the ordination of J. Bailey, 1784. —
Washbum's Leicester Academy.
GROSVEXOR, DEBORAH, widow of the pre
ceding, died in Petersham Sept. 11, 1841, aged
85. The daughter of Dr. Hall of Sutton, at the
age of fifteen she joined the church; and she
adorned her profession seventy years. Religion
controlled her life; to every good work she was
ready. Of ten children she saw three die in the
triumphs of faith, and the other seven were pro
fessors of religion. The bible was ever her daily
companion.
GROSVEXOR, THOMAS PEABODY, a member
of the fourteenth congress, died April 25, 1817,
aged 37. He was born in Pomfret, Conn. ; grad
uated at Yale college in 1800 ; and was a distin
guished lawyer at Hudson, X. Y., when he was
elected a member of congress, in which body his
eloquence was very powerful. He died of the
consumption, at Judge Hanson's near Baltimore.
His wife was Mary Jane Hanson, of Maryland,
of whose life he published memoirs a short time
before his own death. Elisha Williams married
his sister.
GROTZ, PHILIP T., died at Stone Arabia,
N. Y., Dec. 1, 1809, having been in the Lutheran
ministry more than tliirty years. He was a native
GUESS.
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of "Wurtcmbcrg, highly esteemed for classical
learning and zeal for religion.
GROUT, Mrs., wife of Alden G., missionary
to Africa, died at Port Elizabeth Feb. 24, 1836,
aged 31. Her name was Hannah Davis, of
Ilolden. She went to Cape Town in 1834.
GROVER, STEPHEN, first minister of Caldwell,
X. J., died June 22, 1836, aged 77, having been
the pastor forty-nine years. He was the son of
Joseph, of'Tolland, Conn., and graduated at Dart
mouth in 1786. His widow died at Newark
July 13, 1847, aged 87 ; she was early pious, and
read the Bible through once a year for forty
years. An aged minister of the same name, who
was from Xew Jersey, was pastor of Pittstown
near Canandaigua in 1804. His brother, Joseph,
a minister, graduated at Dartmouth in 1773, and
died in 1826.
GRUBE, BERNIIARD ADAM, a Moravian mis
sionary, the first who was sent among the Dela-
wares, died at Bethlehem March 20, 1808, aged
93 years. He was well acquainted with the Del
aware language. It is remarkable that he, and
his brethren, Youngman and Zeisberger, after
suffering so many hardships, should reach so great
an age. Some years before 1765 he preached to
the Indians in Pennsylvania. He afterwards was
a minister at Lititz in the same State. — Ilecke-
ivdder.
GRUXDY, FELIX, a senator, died at Xash-
A-ille, Tenn., Dec. 19, 1840, aged 63. After being
a member of the legislature of Kentucky, he was
elected a judge of the supreme court in 1806. He
afterwards practised law in Tennessee. In 1811
he was elected a member of congress, and re
mained till 1814 or 1815 ; in 1829 he was a sen
ator of the United States, and again in 1840 ; in
1838 he was appointed U. S. attorney-general.
He had a good character as a Christian. He pub
lished an eulogy on Adams and Jefferson.
GRYMES, JOHN It., an eminent lawyer, died
in Xew Orleans in 1854, aged 68. Born in Vir
ginia, he emigrated to Louisiana in 1808 ; and
after the close of the war of 1812, was district
attorney of the United States, and attorney-
general.
GUESS, GEORGE, or SEQUOYAH, the inventor
of the Cherokee alphabet, died in the town of San
Fernando, in Aug., 1843, aged about 70. In 1842
he with a few other Indians roved into the Mexi
can territory and suffered much by sickness. His
residence was near "Willstown, perhaps fifty miles
from Brainerd. He invented and* first wrote the
Cherokee language about 1824, comprising it in
eighty-five characters, each of which expresses an
English syllable. The characters have been
learned in one day, so that the language could
be expressed in speech. But to understand the
import of all words and combinations would re-
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GUNN.
HAKLUYT.
quire a long time, as in the case of other languages.
Into this language, Rev. Samuel A. Worcester,
the missionary, has translated and printed a part
of the New Testament, and some portions of the
Old Testament. In 1856, after a residence of
thirty-one years among the Cherokecs as their
faithful teacher, Mr. W. made a visit for the first
time to his relatives and friends in New England.
Mr. Guess was an ingenious silversmith and small
farmer. Unreclaimed from the Cherokee hea
thenism, it is said, that when he saw the use made
of his characters in translating the bible into
Cherokee, he lamented his invention.
GUNN, JAMES, general, died suddenly in Louis
ville, Geo., July 30, 1801. He was a member of
congress from 1789 to 1801.
GUNN, ALEXANDER, 1). D., minister of the
Reformed Dutch church at Bloomingdale, N. Y.,
died Sept. 18, 1829. His widow died in 1831.
He published memoirs of the late Dr. Livingston.
GUNNISON, J. W., captain, was killed by the
Utah Indians Nov. 25, 1853. He Avas a topo
graphical engineer ; his useful services were em
ployed along the coast of Florida, and ten years
in a survey of the northwestern lakes, in the Salt
lake region, and on a railroad route to the
Pacific.
GURLEY, JOHN, minister in Lebanon, Conn.,
died Feb. 27, 1812, aged 63, in the thirty-seventh
year of his ministry. He graduated at Yale in
1773, and succeeded E. Wheelock. His widow,
Mary, married Gen. A. Peters, and died in 1837,
aged 80. His son John W. G., attorney-general of
Louisiana, died, killed in a duel, in 1807. His
daughter Mary married Rev. Dr. Gillett, of
Maine. His son, Rev. Ralph R. Gurley, lives in
Washington. His daughter, Abby, is the widow
of Prof. Hinckley of Mississippi.
GUTCH, ROBERT, Episcopal minister at Bath,
Me., came from England, and died about 1675.
GWINNETT, BUTTON, a member of congress,
died May 27, 1777, aged 44. He was born in
England about 1732, and after he came to this
country purchased a large tract of land in Geor
gia, and devoted himself to agricultural pursuits.
Elected to congress in 1776, he signed the Decla
ration of Independence. At this period he was a
competitor with Col. Lackland MTntosh for the
office of brigadier-general, and formed a settled hos
tility to his successful rival. Being afterwards pres
ident of the council, he nominated a subordinate
officer to the command of an expedition against
Florida. The -expedition failed, and by conse
quence Mr. Gwinnett failed to be elected governor
in May, 1777. In the mortification of his adver
sary, MTntosh exulted. In the result Mr. G.
challenged him. Fighting at the distance of
twelve feet, both were wounded, and Mr. G. died
of his wounds. In his miserable death may be
seen the effects of envy, rivalry, and hatred. Had
he possessed the spirit of the gospel he would not
thus have perished. Had he been governed by
moral and religious principles, he might have been
the ornament of his State. — GoodriclCs Lives.
HABERSIIAM, JOSEPH, postmaster-general
of the United States, died in Nov., 1815, aged 65.
He was the son of James II., a merchant of
Savannah, who died at Brunswick, X. J., Aug.
29, 1775. He served with reputation in the Rev
olutionary war, and had the rank of lieutenant-
colonel. In 1785 he was a member of congress;
in 1795 he was appointed postmaster-general, but
resigned the place in 1800. In 1802 he was
president of the branch bank in Savannah, where
he died.
HAG AN, JAMES, a physician and editor, was
an Irishman, who lived in Virginia and Philadel
phia, and who established the Vicksburg Senti
nel, Miss. His fate may well be a warning to
editors, who make intemperate and abusive at
tacks upon their fellow-men. He fell in a street
fight in Vicksburg, June 7, 1843, aged 38.
HAGNER, PETER, auditor of the treasury,
died in Washington July 16, 1850, aged 79.
Born and educated in Philadelphia, he was ap
pointed in 1793 an accountant of war. He served
faithfully under every president from Washington
to Taylor, fifty-seven years, modest, laborious,
patriotic, of unwavering integrity. He was often
intrusted Avith the settlement of large claims.
No public officer had a higher character in the
estimation of congress.
HAINES, CHARLES G., adjutant-general of
New York, was born in Canterbury, N. II., and
was early thrown upon the resources of his own
mind. He graduated at Middlebury in 1816. In
1818 he removed to the city of New York. As a
lawyer he was respectable; but his talents were
of a popular kind, and he gave himself to politics.
He supported Mr. Clinton. No young man, per
haps, ever acquired so much influence. He died
of the consumption at Bloomingdale July 3, 1825,
aged 32. His writings were numerous. He pub
lished considerations on the canal, 1818; memoir
of T. A. Emmet, 1829. — New York Statesman,
July 8.
HAINES, JESSE, died in Lycoming county,
Penn.,in Sept., 1856, quite aged. He was known
and esteemed as a minister of the society of
Friends over seventy years.
IIAKLUYT, RICHARD, a geographer, was born
in 1553, and died in 1616. He was buried at
Westminster Abbey. To him Sir Walter Raleigh
assigned his patent for discoveries in America,
and he was appointed one of the company. Pur-
chas made use of his manuscripts. He published
voyages, navigations, traffiques, and discoveries of
the English nation, fol., 3 vols., 1589-1600 ; Vir-
HALE.
ginia richly valued, by the description of Florida,
1G09. An edition of his works was published, 5
vols., 4to., 1809-1812.
HALE, JOHN, first minister of Beverly, Mass.,
the son of Robert II., was born at Charlestown
June 3, 1G36; graduated in 10,37; was ordained
Sept. 20, 1GG7, and was chaplain in the expedi
tion to Canada in 1G90. lie died May 15, 1700,
aged G3. In the witchcraft delusion of 1G92, be
ginning in the family of Mr. Parris, he was de
luded, and approved of the judicial measures.
His modest inquiry into the nature of witchcraft
was published in 1702, indicating a wise change
of his views. His account of the witchcraft was
made use of by C. Mather, in Magnalia, vi. 79.
A memoir of him is in Hist. Coll., 3d series, vol.
vii. — Sprague's Annals.
HALE, JAMES, the first minister of Ashford,
Conn., died Nov. 22, 1742, aged 57. Born in
Beverly, the son of Rev. John II., he graduated
at Harvard in 1703, and was a tutor at Yale in
1707, and was ordained in 1718. His mother,
for his father was three times married, was Mrs.
Sarah Noyes of Xewbury. His younger brother
Samuel, who lived in Xewbury, was the father of
Richard, and grandfather of Nathan, of Coventry,
of Revolutionary memory. — Sprague's Annals.
HALE, MOSES, minister of Byfield parish, in
Ncwbury, Mass., died Jan. 1G, 1743-4, aged 65.
He was the son of John, and grandson of Thomas
of Xewbury, born July 10, 1678; was graduated
at Harvard in 1699 ; and was ordained Nov. 17,
170G. His successor was Moses Parsons.
HALE, NATHAN, captain, a Revolutionary offi
cer, was a descendant of the preceding. He was
the son of Richard II., of Coventry, Conn., and
graduated at Yale college in 1773, with high
reputation. In the war he commanded a com
pany in Col. Knowlton's regiment, and was with
the army in the retreat from Long Island in
1776. Washington having applied to Knowltoa
for a discreet and enterprising officer to penetrate
the enemy's camp and procure intelligence, Hale
passed in disguise to the British camp, but on his
return was apprehended and carried before Lord
Wm. Howe, by whom he was ordered for execu
tion the next morning. He was denied a bible
and the aid of a clergyman. The letters, full of
fortitude and resignation, which he had written to
his mother and sister, were destroyed. He was
hung, regretting that he had but one life to lose
for his country ; though executed in a brutal man
ner as a spy, he was firm and composed. In edu
cation and talents he was superior perhaps to
Andre, who died also as a spy; in patriotic devo
tion to his country, hazarding in her sacred cause
not only life but honor and home, no one was
superior to him. Ihvight honored him by some
lines on his death. His life by I. W. Stuart was
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published in 1856. — American Eemcmb. 1782,
p. 285 ; Knapp's Led. 254-255.
HALE, NATHAN, died in Goshcn, Conn., Sept.
6, 1813, at an advanced age. He graduated at
Yale in 1769. lie was judge of the county-
court, much respected as a man of integrity and
piety. His son, Jonathan Lee Hale, minister of
Windham, Me., died at Skidaway, Geo., Jan. 15,
1835, aged 43 ; a graduate of Middlebury in 1819,
of Andover, 1822.
HALE, DAVID, minister of South Coventry,
Conn., died in 1822, aged about 57. He gradu
ated at Yale in 1785. His widow1, Lydia, re
markable for piety and for mental and physical
vigor, died at Rockville in 1849, aged 85. These
were the parents of David Hale, editor of the
Journal of Commerce at New York.
HALE, ENOCH, the first minister of West-
hampton, Mass., died in Jan., 1837, aged 83.
Born in Coventry, Conn., the son of Richard, he
was the brother of Capt. Nathan Hale, of Revo
lutionary memory. lie graduated at Yale in
1773, and was settled in 1779. His widow, Oc-
tavia, died in 1839, aged 85. He was a faithful,
respected, and useful minister. Mr. Hale was
the father of Nathan Hale, the editor of the Bos
ton Advertiser. He published a fast sermon,
1804.
HALE, ENOCH, M. D., died in Boston in 1848,
aged 60 years or more. He was the son of Rev.
Enoch Hale, of "Westhampton. His grandfather
was Deacon Richard, of Newburyport, and Cov
entry, Conn. ; and lie was the son of Samuel, of
Newbury, Mass. ; and Samuel was the son of Rev.
John Hale of Beverly, and of Sarah Noycs. He
published Dr. Holyoke's journal, with a memoir,
in the memoirs of American academy; on animal
heat by respiration, 1813 ; Boylston prize disserta
tions, 1821.
HALE, WILLIAM, Dr., died at Hollis, N. H.,
Oct. 10, 1854, aged 91. He was the son of Dr.
John Hale, a surgeon in Col. Cilley's regiment in
the Revolutionary war.
HALE, DAVID, editor of the Journal of Com
merce, New York, died at Frcdericksburg, Va.,
whither he went in ill health, Jan. 20, 1849. lie
was the son of Rev. David Hale, of South Cov
entry, now called Lisbon, Conn. At first he was
a merchant in Boston, but unsuccessful ; then an
auctioneer. As proprietor and distinguished ed
itor of the Journal of Commerce, he prospered
and had a wide influence. He was an efficient
member of the Congregational church in New
York.
HALL, TiiEOPHlLL'S, first minister of Meriden,
Conn., died March 25, 1767, aged 59. lie was a
graduate of Yale in 1727, and ordained Oct. 29,
1729. One of his sons was Avery Hall, minister
of Rochester, N. H. ; a daughter married Rev.
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HALE.
HALL.
A. Lee, of Norwich. He had strong intellectual
powers, was a strong advocate of civil and relig
ious liberty, and was much esteemed as a preacher.
He published two discourses on the death of Rev.
Isaac Stiles ; two on faith ; and a sermon at the
ordination of Rev. M. Meriam.
HALL, PRINCE, a negro, master of a masonic
lodge in Boston, was born about 1738. After the
peace a masonic charter was obtained from Eng
land; but it seems that white masons, out of
pride, would not acknowledge the African lodge.
Mr. Hall said, " There are to be seen the weeds
of pride, envy, tyranny, and scorn, in this garden
of peace, liberty, and equality." .He published
two masonic charges, 1792, 1797.
HALL, SAMUEL, minister of Cheshire, Conn.,
died in 1776, aged 80, in the forty-second year of
his ministry. He graduated at Yale in 1716, and
was a tutor two years. His daughter, Ann, mar
ried Rev. "VVarham Williams. He published a
sermon on the small pox, 1732 ; an election ser
mon, 1746.
HALL, DAVID, D. D., minister of Sutton,
Mass., died May 8, 1789, aged 84, in the sixtieth
year of his ministry. He was the son of Joseph,
of Yarmouth, and graduated at Harvard in 1724,
and was ordained in 1729. In five years eighty-
one were added to the church ; in 1743 there were
added ninety-eight persons. He experienced
trouble from the Separatists. He was the friend
of Jonathan Edwards, and as a member of the
council resisted his dismission from Northampton.
Of his twelve children, one daughter married Rev.
Aaron Putnam, of Pomfret, and another Rev.
Daniel Grosvenor, of Grafton. He published a
thanksgiving sermon on the reduction of Canada,
1760; a half-century sermon, 1779. — Sprague's
Annals.
HALL, LYMAN, governor of Georgia, was a
native of Conn., and graduated at Yale college in
1747. Having studied medicine, he established
himself at Sudbury, Ga. He early and zealously
espoused the cause of his country. His efforts
were particularly useful in inducing the Georgians
to join the American confederacy. In May,
1775, he Avas a member of congress, and signed
the Declaration of Independence, and continued
in that body to the close of 1780. While the
British had possession of Georgia, they confiscated
his property. In 1783 he was elected governor;
the next year he was succeeded by J. Houston.
He died in Feb., 1791, aged 66. Though warm
and enthusiastic, he had the guidance of a sound
judgment. — Goodrich's Lives.
HALL, SAMUEL, a printer in Boston, died Oct.
30, 1807, aged 67. He was a correct printer.
From the beginning to the end of the war he
conducted a firm, republican paper. He did
good service to his country. He was a patriot of
integrity and equanimity.
HALL, AAEON, minister of Keene, N. II., died
in 1815, aged 62, having been pastor thirty-six
years. He was zealous for the truth, but candid
and pacific. He died in Christian hope and joy.
— Panoplist, XI. 95.
HALL, WILLIAM, first minister of Grafton, Vt.,
died in 1823, aged 78. Born in Woburn, he
graduated at Harvard in 1776, and was settled in
1788.
HALL, GORDON, first American missionary at
Bombay, died March 20, 1826, aged 42. He
was born in West Granville, now Tolland, Mass.,
and was graduated at Williams college in 1808,
the first scholar in his class. Having studied the
ology, he refused an invitation to settle in Con
necticut, saying, " Wo is me if I preach not the
gospel to the heathen." Offering himself as a
missionary to the American board of commis
sioners for missions, he was ordained at Salem,
with Newell, Judson, Nott, and Rice, Feb. 6, 1812,
and in the same month sailed for Calcutta. An
other band of missionaries, consisting of Bard-
well, Meigs, Poor, Richards, and Warren, sailed
for Ceylon in Oct., 1812, followed by Graves and
Nichols in 1817, and by Winslow, Spaulding,
Woodward, and Dr. Scudder in 1819. Mr. Hall
arrived at Bombay in Feb., 1813, and there spent
thirteen years in his benevolent toils, with a pur
pose unaltered and zeal unquenched. He had
just revised the New Testament in Mahratta,
when, as he was on a journey in the interior, he
was seized with the cholera, which proved fatal in
eight or nine hours. His widow, a native of Eng
land, is still living, 1856, with her son, Gordon
Hall, one of the ministers of Northampton. His
mother, Elizabeth, died in 1834, aged 91. He
was a man of great force of mind and decision of
character, of ardent piety, and of entire devoted-
ness to the work of a missionary. His vigorous
frame and habits of life fitted him to endure
the hardships of a missionary. His qualifica
tions of every kind for 'the work to which he
devoted his life, were very uncommon. He pub
lished a sermon on foreign missions, 1812. His
appeal to the American Christians in behalf of
the twelve millions speaking the Mahratta lan
guage, was published in the Missionary Herald,
Oct., 1826. He wrote, also, with Newell, the con
version of the world, or the claims of six hundred
millions, etc., 2d edit., 1818. The New Testa
ment in Mahratta was printed at the mission press
in Bombay in 1826. — Missionary Herald, Oct.,
1826; Sprague's Annals.
HALL, JOHN E., editor of the Portfolio, died
at Philadelphia June, 1829, aged 44. He pub
lished American law journal, 6 vols.. 1808-1817.
HALL, ELIJAH, captain, died at Portsmouth,
N. 1L, in 1830, aged 87. In the Revolutionary
war he was a lieutenant in the navy, and sailed
under John Paul Jones.
HALL.
HALL, ALANSON C., missionary, died in Pu-
laski, Tcnn., April 13, 1840. He left Auburn
theological school in 1834, and embarked for Cey
lon. His wife died there. Disease soon com
pelled him to return. He died of the consumption.
His last words were, " I triumph."
HALL, FREDERIC, M. I)., LL. D., of Wash
ington city, died in Peru, 111., July 27, 1843, aged
64. He was born in Vermont, graduated at
Dartmouth College in 1803, and was professor of
natural philosophy in Middlcbury college ; after
wards president of Mt. Hope college, near Balti
more. At the time of his death he was professor
of chemistry in Columbia college, Washington.
He was a benefactor of Dartmouth college, giving
to it a cabinet of minerals and some thousands of
dollars in money. lie published a eulogy on
Solomon Metcalf Allen, at Middlebury college,
1818 ; statistics of Middlebury in Mass, historical
collections, 2d series, vol. IX.
HALL, CHARLES, D. D., died at Newark, X. J.,
Oct. 31, 1853, aged 55. A native of the State of
New York, he graduated at Hamilton college in
1825. He was for years secretary of the Amer
ican home missionary society, associated with Dr.
Badger. He was principal editor of the Home
Missionary. He was a scholar, and had sound
judgment and a devoted piety; in a mysterious
providence he was taken away in the midst of ex
tensive usefulness.
HALL, CHAUXCET A., M. D., died at Madison,
Wisconsin, May 8, 1856, of congestion of the
lungs, aged 43. He was the son of Dr. Eli Hall,
of Blandford, Mass., a graduate of Amherst in
1833. He was many years an excellent physi
cian in Northampton, connected with the water-
cure establishment on Hound Hill ; then two
years in Hartford. His wife, in going out to him,
met his remains at Detroit. He was buried at
Brattleborough, Vt., his native place.
HALL, WILLIAM, general, died in SumnerCo.,
Tenn., in Oct., 1856, aged 82. lie had been a
member of congress.
HALL AD AY, ALBERT R., a missionary to
Persia, died in Albemarle, Va., Oct. 18, 1856.
He had, since his return from P., been recently
chosen president of Hampden Sydney college.
HALLOCK, JEREMIAH, minister of West Sims-
bury, near Canton, Conn., died June 23, 1826,
aged 68, in the forty-first year of his ministry.
He was the son of William, of Brookhaven, Long
Island, who removed, when Iris son was young, to
Goshen, Mass. Here he toiled on his father's
farm until twenty-one years old, twice being callcc
out as a soldier in the war. He studied theology
four years with T. Dwight, of Northampton, and
with others, and was ordained in 1785. He went
on an early mission to Vermont about 1801. As
a diligent and faithful preacher God often blesset
his labors with remarkable 'revivals, in the vcars
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1798,1799, 1805, 1812,1813, 1816,and 1821. With
mt little education, he preached with a warm
icart and with wonderful power. With little ac-
ion, and none of the graces of oratory, he found
a way to the souls of his hearers ; it was by his
sincerity, simplicity, affection, and earnestness.
Some one called him the apostle John. In
irayer, which was his element, he was humble,
solemn, fervent. His intellect was not of an in
ferior order. He was original ; he had a graphic
)ower ; his imagery was vivid. His only daugh
ter died of the spotted typhus fever in 1813, aged
14. His son, Jeremiah Humphrey Ilallock, was
raduatcd at Williams in 1810, was a judge in
Ohio, and died in 1847. His widow died in the
year of his own death, 1826. The godly pastor,
is the title of a memoir of his life, by C. Yale,
with a sketch of his brother Moses. His only
printed sermon was preached at the dedication of
his meeting-house in 1815. — Sprayuc's Annals.
HALLOCK, MOSES, the first minister of Plain-
Held, Mass., died July 17, 1837, aged 77. He
had been settled nearly forty-five years. He was
the brother of Jeremiah II. His father removed
to Goshen, near Northampton, when he was
young. He graduated at Yale in 1788, and was
ordained July 11, 1792. During his ministry
there were several remarkable revivals of religion.
lie had received 35 1 members of the church previ
ously to 1831, when his colleague was settled. Ac
customed to receive students into his family and to
teach them, the whole number was 304, of whom
thirty were females, fifty became ministers, and
seven missionaries to the heathen. Of these last
were James and William Richards, Parsons, and
Fisk, Jonas King, Ferry, and II. Ilallock. lie
was meek, humble, kind, holy, exhibiting all the
excellencies of the Christian character. Three
weeks before his death Mr. Richards, the mission
ary from the Sandwich Islands, introduced to him
a native, and said, "This is my teacher." The
boy exclaimed in the language of his country,
" Day most gone ; sun most down ; most supper
time." Then Mr. II. offered a most fervent
prayer. When he was buried, his old blind dea
con, James Richards, the father of the missionary,
the last of his original church, was led up to his
coffin, and, as he felt the face of his pastor, he
burst into a flood of tears, saying, " Farewell for
time!" Of his three sons, Gerard is the editor
of the New York Journal of Commerce ; William
Allen is secretary of the American tract society ;
Iloman was missionary printer thirteen years at
Malta and Smyrna. His wife, Margaret Allen,
of Chilmark, Martha's Vineyard, died in 1835.
His father died in 1815, aged 85, leaving one
word for future generations, received from his
father, — " Remember, there is a long eternity ! "
The deacon of his church was Joseph Beals, who
died in 1813, the original of " The Mountain
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HALLOCK.
HAMILTON.
Miller," referred to in the popular tract of that
name. — C. Yale's Sketch of his Life; Holland,
II. 265 ; Spragne's Annals.
HALLOCk, MARTHA, died at Plainfield, Mass.,
in 1852, aged 56, the daughter of Ilev. Moses II.
She was poor. She gave five dollars to each of
five benevolent societies, and her spectacles to a
friend, and said, "Nothing but the soul now!"
IIALSKY, JOHN T., died in Elizabethtown
July 2, 1842, aged 45. He was a preacher, and
also a public benefactor as long the excellent
teacher of a flourishing school.
HALSEY, WILLIAM, mayor of Newark, N. J.,
died Aug. 16, 1843, aged 78. He was a judge of
the common pleas. He had lived half a century
in Newark, and was active and enterprising.
HALSTED, ROBERT, Dr., died at Elizabeth-
town, N. J., in 1825, aged 79.
HAMILTON, ANDREW, an eminent lawyer of
Philadelphia, died Aug. 4, 1741. He had been
speaker of the house of assembly, but he re
signed this office in 1739 on account of his age
and infirmities. lie filled several stations with
honor, integrity, and ability. In Zenger's trial at
New York he acquired much reputation as a law
yer. His son, James Hamilton, was repeat
edly governor of Pennsylvania between the years
1748 and 1771. — Fraud's History of Pennsyl
vania, n. 216-219.
HAMILTON, ALEXANDER, first secretary of
the treasury of the United States, of Scotch or
English descent, died July 12, 1804, aged about
47. He was born in the island of Nevis in 1757.
At the age of sixteen he accompanied his mother
to New York, and entered a student of Columbia
college, in which he continued about three years.
While a member of this institution the first bud
dings of his intellect gave presages of his future
eminence. The contest with Great Britain called
forth the first talents on each side, and his juve
nile pen asserted the claims of the colonies
against very respectable writers. His papers ex
hibited such evidences of intellect and wisdom,
that they were ascribed to Mr. Jay. At the age
of eighteen he entered the army as an officer of
artillery. The first sound of war awakened his
martial spirit, and as a soldier he soon conciliated
the regard of his brethren in arms. It was not
long before he attracted the notice of Washing
ton, who in 1777 selected him as an aid, with the
rank of lieutenant-colonel. Throughout the cam
paign, which terminated in the capture of Lord
Cornwallis, he commanded a battalion of light
infantry. At the siege of York in 1781, when the
second parallel was openod, two redoubts, which
flanked it and were advanced three hundred yards
in front of the British works, very much annoyed
the men in the trenches. It was resolved to pos
sess them, and, to prevent jealousies, the attack
of the one was committed to the Americans, and
of the other to the French. The detachment of
the Americans was commanded by iho Marquis de
Lafayette, and Col. Hamilton, at his own earnest
request, led the advanced corps, consisting of two
battalions. Towards the close of the day, Oct.
14th, the troops rushed to the charge without
firing a single gun. The works were carried with
but little loss.
Soon after the capture of Cornwallis, Hamilton
sheathed his sword, and, being encumbered with
a family destitute of funds, at the age of twenty-
five applied to the study of the law in New York.
In this profession he soon rose to distinction.
But his private pursuits could not detach him
from a regard to the public welfare. The vio
lence which was meditated against the property
and persons of all who remained in the city dur
ing the war, called forth his generous exertions,
and, by the aid of Governor Clinton, the faithless
and revengeful scheme was defeated. In July,
1782, he Avas chosen a member of congress. He
was chairman of the committee which reported a
resolution to provide a sinking fund to pay the
national debt. In 1786 he was chosen a member
of the assembly of New York, and he introduced
and ably supported the bill for acceding to the as
sumed independence of Vermont. A more im
portant affair now demanded his talents. After
witnessing the debility of the confederation he
was fully impressed with the necessity of an ef
ficient general government, and he was appointed,
with two others, in 1787, a member of the federal
convention for New York. He assisted in form
ing the constitution of our country. It did not
indeed completely meet his wishes. He was
afraid that it did not contain sufficient means of
strength for its own preservation, and that in con
sequence we should share the fate of many other
republics, and pass through anarchy to despotism.
He was in favor of a more permanent executive
and senate. He wished for a strong government,
which would not be shaken by the conflict of dif
ferent interests through an extensive territory,
and which should be adequate to all the forms of
national exigency. He was apprehensive that the
increased wealth and population of the States
would lead to encroachments on the union, and
he anticipated the day when the general govern
ment, unable to support itself, would fall. But,
believing the constitution to be incomparably su
perior to the old confederation,. he exerted all his
talents in its support, though it did not rise to
his conception of a perfect system. By his pen,
in the papers signed Publius, and by his voice in
the convention of New York in the summer of
1788, he contributed much to its adoption. When
the government was organized in 1789, Washing
ton placed him at the head of the treasury. In
his reports he proposed plans for funding the
debt of the union and for assuming the debts of
HAMILTON.
the respective States, for establishing a bank and
mint, and for procuring a revenue. He wished
to redeem the reputation of his country by satis
fying her creditors, and combine with the govern
ment such a monied interest as might facilitate
its operations. But, while he opened sources of
wealth to thousands by establishing public credit,
and thus restoring the public paper to its original
value, he did not enrich himself. He did not take
advantage of his situation, nor improve the oppor
tunity he enjoyed for acquiring a fortune. Though
accused of amassing wealth, he did not vest a dol
lar in the public funds.
In the early stage of the administration, a dis
agreement existed between Mr. Hamilton and the
secretary of State, Mr. Jefferson, which increased
till it issued in such open hostility, and introduced
such confusion in the cabinet, that Washington
found it necessary to address a letter to each,
recommending forbearance and moderation. Mr.
Hamilton was apprehensive of danger from the
encroachment of the States, and wished to add
new strength to the general government; while
Mr. Jefferson entertained little jealousy of the
State sovereignties, and was rather desirous of
checking and limiting the exercise of the national
authorities, particularly the power of the execu
tive. Other points of difference existed, and
reconciliation could not be effected. In the begin
ning of 1793, after intelligence of the rupture
between France and Great Britain had been
received, Hamilton, as one of the cabinet of the
president, supported the opinion, that the treaty
with France was no longer binding, and that a
nation might absolve itself from the obligations
of real treaties, when such a change takes place
in the internal situation of the other contracting
party, as renders the continuance of 'the connec
tion disadvantageous or dangerous. He advised
therefore, that the expected French minister
should not be received in an unqualified manner.
The secretary of State on the other hand was of
opinion, that the Revolution in France had pro
duced no change in the relations between the two
countries, and could not weaken the obligation of
treaties ; and this opinion was embraced by
Washington. The advice of Hamilton was fol
lowed in regard to the insurrection in Pennsylva
nia in 1794, and such a detachment was sent out
under his own command, that it was suppressed
without effusion of blood. He remained but a
short time afterwards in office. As his property
had been wasted in the public service, the care of
a rising family made it his duty to retire, that by
renewed exertions in his profession he might
provide for their support. He accordingly re
signed his office on the last of Jan., 1795, and
was succeeded by Mr. Wolcott. Not long after
this period, as he was accused of peculation, he
was induced to repel the charge, and in doing this
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rie thought it necessary to disclose a circumstance
which it would have been more honorable to his
character to have left in oblivion. This was an
adulterous connection with a Mrs. Reynolds, while
he was secretary of the treasury. When a pro
visional army was raised in 1798, in consequence
of the injuries and demands of France, Washing
ton suspended his acceptance of the command of
it on the condition, that Hamilton should be his
associate and the second in command. This
arrangement was accordingly made. After the
adjustment of our dispute with the French repub
lic, and the discharge of the army in the summer
of 1800, he returned again to his profession in
the city of New York. In this place he passed
the remainder of his days.
In June, 1804, Col. Burr, vice president of the
United States, addressed a letter to Hamilton,
requiring his acknowledgment or denial of the use
of any expression derogatory to the honor of the
former. This demand was deemed inadmissible,
and a duel was the consequence. After the close
of the circuit court, the parties met at Hoboken,
July llth, and Hamilton fell on the same spot,
where his son Philip, aged 19, three years before
had fallen, in obedience to the same principle of
honor, and in the same violation of the laws of
God and of man. He was carried into the city,
and, being desirous of receiving the sacrament of
the Lord's supper, he immediately sent for Dr. Ma
son. As the principles of his church prohibited
him from administering the ordinance in private,
this minister of the gospel informed Hamilton, that
the sacrament was an exhibition and pledge of the
mercies, which the Son of God has purchased,
and that the absence of the sign did not exclude
from the mercies signified, which were accessible
to him by faith in their gracious Author. He
replied, " I am aware of that. It is only as a
sign that I wanted it." In the conversation
which ensued, he disavowed all intention of tak
ing the life of Col. Burr, and declared his abhor
rence of the whole transaction. When the sin,
of which he had been guilty, was intimated to
him, he assented \vith strong emotion ; and when
the infinite merit of the Redeemer, as the propi
tiation for sin, the sole ground of our acceptance
with God, was suggested, he said with emphasis,
"I liare a tender reliance on the mercy of the
Almighty through the merits of the Lord Jesus
Christ." Bishop Moor was afterwards sent for,
and, after making suitable inquiries of the peni
tence and faith of Gen. Hamilton, and receiving
his assurance, that he would never again, if re
stored to health, be engaged in a similar transac
tion, but would employ all his influence in society
to discountenance the barbarous custom, admin
istered to him the communion. After this his
mind was composed. Like his antagonist, Mr.
Burr, he was small in person and short in stature.
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HAMLIN.
His widow, Elizabeth, a daughter of Gen. Schuy-
ler, died at Washington Nov. 9, 1854, aged 97.
In assigning the reasons for accepting the chal
lenge of Col. Burr, while he seems to intimate his
apprehensions that the debility of the general
government would be followed by convulsions, he
also alludes to the demand, which, in such an
event, might be made upon his military talents.
His words are, "the ability to be in future useful,
whether in resisting mischief or effecting good, in
those crises of our public affairs, which seem
likely to happen, would probably be inseparable
from a conformity with public prejudice in this
particular." With all his pre-eminence of talents
he is yet a melancholy proof of the influence,
wliich intercourse with a depraved world has in
perverting the judgment. In principle he was
opposed to duelling, his conscience was not hard
ened, and he was not in different to the happiness
of his wife and children ; but no consideration
was strong enough to prevent him from exposing
his h'fe in single combat. His own views of use
fulness were followed, in contrariety to the injunc
tions of his Maker and Judge. lie had been for
some time convinced of the truth of Christianity,
and it was his intention, if his life had been
spared, to have written a work upon its evidences.
He published the letters of Phocion, which
were in favor of the loyalists after the peace, in
two pamphlets, 1784. The Federalist, a series
of essays, which, under the signature of Publius,
appeared in the public papers in the interval be
tween the publication and the adoption of the
constitution of the United States, and which was
designed to elucidate and support its principles,
•was written by him in conjunction with Mr. Jay
and Mr. Madison. The Washington City Gazette,
Dec. 22, 1817, states indirectly on the authority
of Mr. Madison himself, that Hamilton wrote all
the numbers excepting Numbers 2, 3, 4, 5, and 64,
which were written by Mr. Jay ; and Numbers
10, 14, 17, 18, 19, 21, 37 to 58 'inclusive, 62 and
63, which were written by Mr. Madison. This
work has been published in two volumes, and is
held in the highest estimation. His reports while
secretary of the treasury are very long, and dis
play great powers of mind. Some of them are
preserved in the American museum. In the re
port upon the manufactures he controverts the
principles of Adam Smith. In the papers signed
Pacificus, written in 1793, while he justified the
proclamation of neutrality, he also supported his
opinion, that we were absolved from the obliga
tion of our treaties with France, and that justice
was on the side of the coalition of the European
powers for the re-establishment of the French
monarchy. A series of essays in defence of the
British treaty, under the signature of Camillus,
was written by him in the summer of 1795. He
published also observations on certain documents,
etc., being a defence of himself against the charge
of peculation, 1797 ; the stand, or essays signed
Titus Manlius, designed to awaken this country
to a sense of its danger from France, 1798; and
a letter concerning the public conduct and char
acter of his excellency John Adams, president of
the United States, 1800. In this letter he en
deavors to show, that the Venerable patriot, who
was more disposed than himself to maintain peace
with France, was unworthy of being replaced in
the high station, which he occupied. His writ
ings were collected and published in three vols.
1810. — Mason's Oral, on Ms death; Notfs Dis
course ; Morris1 Fun. Oration ; Otis' Eulogy ;
Ames' Sketch; Marshall, v. 131, 350-360, 607-
611 ; Life by Eenwick, and his Son.
HAMILTON, PAUL, secretary of the navy of
the United States, was the governor of South
Carolina from 1804 to 1806, when he was suc
ceeded by Charles Pinckney. He was secretary
of the navy in the administration of Mr. Madison
from 1809 to 1813; and he died at Beaufort
June 30, 1816. He was a patriot of the Ilevolu-
tion.
HAMILTON, ANDREW, major, died in Abbe
ville district, South Carolina, Jan. 17, 1835, aged
94.
HAMILTON, SAMUEL R, a prominent lawyer
in New Jersey died at Trenton Aug. 14, 1856,
aged 66.
HAMILTON, ELIZABETH, widow of Gen Alex
ander H., died in Washington Nov. 9, 1854, aged
97, the daughter of Gen. Philip S. Schuyler of
Albany. She survived her husband more than
half a century.
HAMLIN, HENRIETTA AXNA LORAINE, a mis
sionary in Turkey, was the daughter of the Itev.
Dr. Jackson of Dorset, Vermont, and was born
May 9, 1811. Her little dying sister bequeathed to
her, when an infant, her own name, Anna Loraine,
saying, " I shall not want it any longer." Among
the schools she attended were the academy of
Haverhill, Mass., and the female academy at An-
dover. At this last place she formed a friendship
with Margarette, daughter of Professor Woods,
now Mrs. Lawrence, \vho has published the me
morials of her friend. She was married Sept.
3, 1838, to Key. Cyrus Hamlin, and with him
sailed for Smyrna from Boston Dec. 3. In a few
weeks they reached Constantinople, where she
spent the remainder of her days, till near the
close, the helpmeet of her husband in ceaseless,
toils and cares and prayers for the advancement
of the kingdom of Christ. In her failing health
her husband sailed with her, Oct. 5, 1850, for the
beautiful island of llhodes. There she died Nov.
14, aged 39, leaving five daughters. For a knowl
edge of the high excellence of her character, of
her intelligence and loveliness and eminent useful
ness, the reader is referred to Mrs. Lawrence's
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" memorials," a book of unequalled interest and
value, wlu'ch can hardly be read without admira
tion, and tears of sympathy, and spiritual profit.
After ten months her remains were removed to
Pera, at Constantinople. On her monument are
the words, — "Peace, perfect peace!" Her
youngest child sleeps with her ; Mary Van Len-
nep is also buried there. From the height of
this cemetery the city is seen and the waters of
Marmora.
Dr. Hamlin, after an absence of eighteen
years, made a short visit to this country in 1856,
and failed not to repair to the village, where he
was united with his beloved early companion, now
sleeping in the dust in the far distant Pera. But
O, how changed ! The old mansion-house, and
its tenants, and the beautiful grove, where he
held conferences with lu's beloved, were gone, as
he said to the writer, his old friend ; but the high
elm before the door, and the fields, and the moun
tains, and the heavens above remained. In those
heavens he by faith cherished the hope of meeting
again the departed. Without this hope how-
wretched were human life ? Has he not then
chosen a good work, to communicate the gospel
to the misguided millions of the east? As to our
country villages, who can enumerate the excellent
women they have nurtured for the world's benefit?
HAMMOND, WILLIAM, an early settler of
Massachusetts in 1636, died Oct. 8, 1662, aged
94. Elizabeth, probably his widow, died at
Watertown 1669, aged 90 ; she is regarded as
the sister of William Penn.
HAMMOND, LAWRENCE, died at Boston in
1699. lie was a freeman in 1666 ; a representa
tive of Charlestown for six years from 1672.
Others of the name of Hammond lived early at
Sandwich. ^Rochester, and Hingham.
HAMMOND, JOHN, a Baptist minister, died at
Coventry, II. I., in 1840, aged 84.
HAMMOND, CIIAIILES, died in Cincinnati
April 3, 1840, aged 60. He was a lawyer of
eminence, and reporter of the superior court of
Oliio. As editor of the Cincinnati Gazette he
was very distinguished.
HAMMOND, JALEZ, D., died in Cherry Val
ley Aug. 18, 1855 ; a member of congress. He
published Julius Mclbourn, the political history
of N. Y., and the life and times of Silas Wright.
HAMPTON, WADE, brigadier-general, died
Feb. 4, 1835, aged 80, at Columbia, S. C. lie
served in the Revolutionary war ; he commanded
at Plattsburg in Nov., 1813, and made an unsuc
cessful expedition into Canada, co-operating with
Wilkinson. He had a plantation at Orima point,
seventy miles from New Orleans, and in 1820 was
the owner of four-hundred slaves, and by their
labor obtained at one crop five hundred hogs
heads of sugar and one thousand bales of cotton,
said to be worth 150,000 dollars. His slaves, in
all about three thousand in number, the engines
of his wealth, says Schoolcraft, were scarcely fed
or clothed in any way bordering on humanity, the
common allowance for food being one quart of
corn a day. Is it possible, that any man of com
mon reason could, on reflection, think, because he
had bought or inherited slaves, that he had a
right to the unrequited toils of his fellow men,
living in luxury on their toils, and not even teach
ing them the gospel of salvation, that after the
extorted labors and miseries of the present life
they might cherish the hope of justice, and kind
ness, and happiness beyond the grave ?
HANCOCK, JOHX, minister of Lexington,
Mass., was born in Cambridge, the son of Nathan
iel, in 1671, and was graduated at Harvard col
lege in 1689. He was ordained Nov. 2, 1698.
After a ministry of more than half a century, he
died very suddenly Dec. 6, 1752, aged 81. Two
of his sons were ministers, one of whom, Eben-
ezer, was settled as his colleague Jan. 2, 1733,
and died Jan. 28, 1740. Mr. Hancock possessed
a facetious temper, and in general his wit was
used with discretion. Being a friend to peace he
exerted himself, and with success, to preserve
harmony in his parish. By his brethren in the
ministry he was highly respected and beloved,
and as he was for many years senior minister in
the county, his services were frequently requested
in ecclesiastical councils. He had given the
charge to twenty-one ministers. He retained
uncommon vigor to the last. Some interesting
anecdotes are in Sprague's annals of the American
pulpit. He published the election sermon, 1722 ;
a sermon preached in Boston, 1724 ; at the ordi
nation of his son, 1726 ; at the installation of
T. Harrington, 1748. — Appleton's Fun. Sermon.
HANCOCK, JOHN, minister of Braintree,
now Quincy, Mass., was the son of the preceding,
and was graduated at Harvard college in 1719.
He was ordained as successor of Joseph Marsh,
Nov. 2, 1726. He died May 7, 1744, aged 41.
Possessing good talents, he applied with diligence
to the studies of the ministerial office. During
the revival of religion in America a short time
before his death, it was his wish to guard his peo
ple against what he considered as enthusiasm on
the one hand, and against infidelity and indiffer
ence to religion on the other. After a life of up
rightness and sobriety, he expressed in his last
moments the satisfaction which he felt in the tes
timony of a good conscience, and looked for the
mercy of the Lord Jesus to eternal life. He
published a sermon on the death of E. Quincy,
1738 ; a century sermon, Sept. 16, 1739 ; on the
good work of grace, 1743 ; unqualified ministry;
an expostulatory and pacific letter in reply to Mr.
Gee, 1743; the examiner, or Gilbert against Ten-
nent, 1748. — Gay's Funeral Sermon.
HANCOCK, TIIOJUS, a benefactor of Harvard
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HANCOCK.
college, was the son of Mr. Hancock, of Lexing
ton, and died in Boston Aug. 1, 1764. His por
trait at full length is in the philosophy chamber
of the college. His nephew, Gov. Hancock, in
herited most of his property ; but he bequeathed
1,000 pounds sterling for founding a professorship
of the Hebrew and other oriental languages in
Harvard college; 1,000 pounds to the society for
propagating the gospel among the Indians in
North America ; and GOO pounds to the town of
Boston toward erecting a hospital for the recep
tion of such persons as are deprived of their rea
son. Stephen Scwall, the first Hancock professor
of Hebrew in the university of Cambridge, was
inducted into his office in 1765. — Ann. Reg. for
17G4, 116; Holmes.
HANCOCK, JOHN, LL. D., governor of
Mass., the son of llev. John Hancock, of Brain-
tree, Quincy parish, died Oct. 8, 1793, aged 56.
He was born Jan. 12, 1737. He was graduated
at Harvard college in 1754. On the death of his
uncle, Thomas Hancock, he received a very con
siderable fortune, and soon became an eminent
merchant. In 17G6 he was chosen a member of
the house of representatives for Boston, with
James Otis, Thomas Cushing, and Samuel Adams.
The seizure of his sloop, Liberty, in 1768, for
evading the laws of trade, occasioned a riot, and
several of the commissioners of customs narrowly
escaped with their lives. As the controversy with
Great Britain assumed a more serious shape and
affairs were hastening to a crisis, he evinced his
attachment to the rights of his country. He and
John Adams spent the night before the battle of
Lexington at the house of Rev. Mr. Clark. He
employed himself in cleaning his gun ; but Adams
said to him, clapping him on the back, " That is
not our business, we belong to the cabinet." He
was president of the provincial congress in 1774.
June 12th of the following year, Gen. Gage issued
his proclamation, offering pardon to all the rebels,
excepting Samuel Adams and John Hancock,
" whose offences," it is declared, " are of too flagi
tious a nature to admit of any other consideration
than that of condign punishment." Mr. Hancock
was at this time a member of the continental con
gress, of which he was chosen president May 24th,
in the place of Peyton Randolph, who was under
the necessity of returning home. In this office,
as the head of the illustrious congress of 1776, he
signed the Declaration of Independence. In
consequence of the ill state of his health, he took
his leave of congress in Oct., 1777, and received
their thanks for his unremitted attention and
steady impartially in discharging the duties of his
office. Henry Laurens was his successor.
On the adoption of the present constitution of
Massachusetts, he was chosen the first governor
in Oct., 1780, and was annually re-elected and
continued in that office till Feb., 1785, when he
resigned. In 1787 he was again chosen in the
place of Mr. Bowdoin, and remained in the chair
till his death. His administration was very pop
ular. It was apprehended by some, that on his
accession the dignity of government would not
be sufficiently maintained; but his language on
assuming the chair was manly and decisive, and by
his moderation and lenity the civil convulsion was
completely quieted without the shedding of blood
by the hand of the civil magistrate. Fourteen
persons, who received sentence of death, were
pardoned. In his public speeches to the legisla
ture he acquitted himself with a degree of popu
lar eloquence, which is seldom equalled. In one
of his last acts as governor he supported in a dig
nified manner the sovereignty of the individual
States. By a process commenced against Mas
sachusetts in favor of William Vassal, he was
summoned by a writ to answer to the prosecution
in the court of the United States. But he de
clined the smallest concession which might lessen
the independence of the State, whose interests
were intrusted to his care, and he supported his
opinion with firmness and dignity. Litigations of
this nature were soon afterwards precluded by an
amendment of the constitution of the United
States. Mr. Hancock is represented as not pos
sessing extraordinary powers of mind, and as not
honoring the sciences very much by his personal
attentions. But he was easy in his address, pol
ished in his manners, affable and liberal ; and as
president of congress he exhibited a dignity,
impartiality, quickness of conception, and con
stant attention to business, which secured him
respect. As the chairman of a deliberative body,
few could preside with such reputation. In the
early periods of his public career, it has been said
that he was somewhat inconstant in his attach
ment to the cause of his country. Though this
representation should be true ; yet from the com
mencement of the war, the part which he took
was decided and uniform, and his patriotic exer
tions are worthy of honorable remembrance. By
the suavity of his manners and his insinuating ad
dress he secured an almost unequalled popularity.
He could speak with ease and propriety on every
subject. Being considered a republican in prin
ciple and a firm supporter of the cause of freedom,
whenever he consented to be a candidate for gov
ernor, he Avas chosen to that office by an undisputed
majority. In private life he was charitable and
generous. With a large fortune he had also a
disposition to employ it for useful and benevolent
purposes. The poor shared liberally in his
bounty. He was also a generous benefactor of
Harvard college. His widow, Dorothy, the
daughter of Edmund Quincy, married Capt. Scott,
and died in 1830, aged 83. He published an
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HARPER.
413
oration, which he delivered on the Boston massa
cre, 1774. — Thacher's Sermon on his death;
Gordon, I. 508, 231; II. 31; III. 18-21, 498;
Warren, I. 212-215, 430; Minot's Hist. Insur.
179, 184; Holmes.
HANCOCK, MARTHA M., wife of Rev. J. W.
IL, missionary among the Sioux Indians, died in
lied Wing, Minnesota, 1851. She was daughter
of Wm. Iloughton, of Dana, Mass.
IIANFOKD, THOMAS, the first minister of
Norwalk, Conn., was ordained in 1654, and offi
ciated nearly forty years. S. Buckingham suc
ceeded him in 1097.
HANNA, JOHN ANDRE, general, died at Har-
risburg, Pa., in 1805, aged 43. He was a mem
ber of congress, repeatedly elected, firmly at
tached to the principles of the Revolution.
HANSON, JOHN, president of congress from
1781 to 1783, was a delegate from Maryland, and
a distinguished friend of his country. He died in
Prince George county Nov. 13, 1783.
HANSON, ALEXANDER CONTEE, a senator of
the United States, died at Belmont April 23,
1819, aged 33. He was the grandson of the pre
ceding, and the son of Alex. F. II., chancellor of
Maryland, who died in 1806. He edited with
Mr. Wagner the Federal Republican at Balti
more. The printing establishment, after the
declaration of war in 1812, was attacked by a
mob, on which occasion Mr. Hanson's friends,
Gens. Lingan and Lee, were wounded. Elected
to congress in the same year, he was a distin
guished opposer of the administration. In 1816
he was appointed a senator in the place of Gen.
Harper. At the age of twenty-four, in Jan.,
1810, he was guilty of the folly and crime of
fighting a duel, occasioned by political contro
versy, with Capt. Gordon of the navy.
HARBY, ISAAC, died in New York in 1828,
aged 40. He was a literary man ; was born and
educated in Charleston, S. C. A selection from
his writings was published in 1829. It contains
Alberti, a play, discourses, and essays. — Cijcl.
American Lit.
HARDENBERGH, JACOBUS R., D. D., first
president of Queen's college in New Jersey, died
in Nov., 1790. He was a native of this country.
He was not favored with many advantages in the
early part of his education, yet with a powerful
mind and habits of persevering application he
made great progress in knowledge. He was or
dained by that party in the Dutch churches,
which was denominated the Cuetus, and was its
most distinguished and able supporter. He cheer
fully exerted himself with Dr. Livingston in 1771,
when he was minister of Raritan, to heal the
division of the Dutch churches, and a union was
completed in the following year. After the char
ter of Queen's college at New Brunswick was ob
tained in 1770, he was the first president, and
died in that office. This institution was designed
for educating young men for the ministry. Dr.
Ilardenbergh's piety was ardent ; his labors inde
fatigable ; and his ministry greatly blessed. —
Christian's Mag. II. 13, 270.
HARDLN, BENJAMIN, a member of congress
from Kentucky, from 1815 to 1837, died in 1852.
HARIOT, THOMAS, born in Oxford, England,
died in 1621. He accompanied Raleigh to Amer
ica, and published an account of the discovery of
Virginia. It is in Ilakluyt, vol. 3.
IIARKER, SAMUEL, pastor of a church at
Blackriver, East Jersey, was settled about 1752.
He published in 1761, "Predestination consistent
with general liberty ; " in consequence of which
the synod of New York and Philadelphia exclud
ed him from their body and voted him to be dis
qualified to preach. He then published an " ap
peal from the synod to the Christian world," in
1763.
IIARLOW, LYDIA, widow, died in Minot, Me.,
Aug. 30, 1846, aged 103 years, 8 months. She
was born in Plymouth, near Monument pond, the
daughter of Isaac Harlow; she married Ebenezer
Harlow.
HARMAR, JOSIAH, brigadier-general, died in
Aug., 1813. He in 1784 conveyed to France the
ratification of the definitive treaty. In 1785 he
was appointed colonel and commander of the
forces on the northwestern frontier. In the war
against the Indians he marched Sept. 30, 1790,
from fort Washington, and had an army of 1453
men. His detachment had several engagements
with Indians. In the last Col. Harding was
defeated, near Chillicothe, with the loss of Maj.
Fontaine, aid to the general, and Maj. Wyllys,
and upwards of 180 men. The Indians lost 120
warriors and 300 wigwams burnt. After this
defeat, called Harmar's defeat, he returned to fort
Washington: St. Clair was in command the next
year, lie died on the Schuylkill, near Philadel
phia.
HARMON, JOHNSON, colonel, a commander
against the Indians in Maine, was a native of York,
and served under Col. Wcstbrook in his expedi
tion to the upper falls of the Androscoggin in
Feb., 1723; and in Sept. was at Arousic, under
Col. Walton. In Aug., 1724, he and Col. Moul-
ton proceeded against the Indian village of Nor-
ridgewock, and killed father Ralle, and dispersed
the Indians. He resided in his last days at Harps-
well, where he died and where his descendants
remain.
HARPER, ROBERT GOODLOE, major-general,
a senator of the United States, died Jan. 15, 1825,
aged 60. He was bom near Frcdericksburg,
Virginia, in 1765. His parents, who were poor,
emigrated when he was young to Granville, North
Carolina. At the age of fifteen hejoined a troop
of horse and served for a short time under Greene,
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While a member of Princeton college, where he
graduated in 1785, he was a teacher of one or
two of the lower classes. He soon afterwards
embarked for Charleston, S. C., where he arrived
a stranger, with but a dollar or two in his pocket.
A gentleman, of whose son he had been the
teacher, offered him his assistance and friendship,
and introduced him to a lawyer, with whom he
studied the profession of the law. In a year he
began the practice. He settled in the interior,
and soon entered upon public life and was chosen
a member of congress. In that body he became
very distinguished. He was an earnest supporter
of the measures of Washington, and was known
as a decided federalist. After the accession of
Mr. Jefferson in 1801, he retired from congress,
and, having married the daughter of Charles Car
roll, he entered upon the practice of the law at
Baltimore. He was employed in the defence of
Judge Chase, when he was impeached. It was
by Maryland, that he was elected a member of
the senate. In 1819 and 1820 he visited Eng
land, France, and Italy with his family. After his
return he engaged with zeal in promoting the
interests of the American colonization society.
After being engaged on the preceding day in a cause
before the circuit court, he died suddenly. He
had been subject to the angina pectoris : having
breakfasted, he arose from the table and was
standing with a newspaper in his hand, when he
suddenly fell, and died before medical aid could
be procured. It is worthy of remark, that he
had just offered himself as a candidate for elec
tion to congress in the autumn of the next year ;
so uncertain and vain are the hopes of men in
regard to the future. One of the reports of the
colonization society contains an able and long
discussion, which he wrote. He published also
address on the British treaty, 1796; observations
on the dispute between the United States and
France, 1797 ; letter on the proceedings of con
gress ; letters to his constituents, March, 1801 ;
correspondence with Robert Walsh respecting
Germany ; address on the Russian victories, 1813 ;
on the triumphs in Germany; select works, 1814.
— Encycl. Americana.
HARPER, WILLIAM, died Oct. 10, 1847. He
was chancellor of South Carolina, appointed in
1835; an eminent jurist.
HARRINGTON, TIMOTHY, minister of Lancas
ter, Mass., died Dec. 18, 1795, aged 80. He was
born in Waltham ; graduated at Harvard in 1737,
and was settled in 1741, pastor of the church
in the lower Ashuelot, now Swanzey, N. II., from
which place he was driven by the savages in 1747.
In the following year he was settled at Lancaster,
where he continued till his death. Mr. Thayer
was settled as his colleague in 1793. He was
uncommonly mild, affable, and benevolent. To
the poor he was very liberal. He relinquished to
Ashuelot the property which he received as the
first minister of the town. As a minister he was
faithful and useful. He published a century ser
mon, 1753; a discourse on the ill-boding symp
toms of a stupid people, 1756.
HARRINGTON, TiiEomiLUs, a judge of the
supreme court of Vt., died in Clarendon in 1813.
HARRINGTON, LEWIS, commodore, died at
Washington Oct. 12, 1851, aged 69. At the
blockade of the Tripoli he was in the President ;
in 1813 he commanded the Peacock, and, April
19, captured the Epervier. In the war he took
nineteen vessels.
HARRIS, SAMUEL, a Baptist minister, called
the apostle of Virginia, was born in Hanover
county Jan. 12, 1724. Removing to Pittsylvania
co., he there sustained various offices, was colonel
of the militia, captain of Mayo fort, and commis
sioner for the fort and army. He was baptized
about 1758. He soon preached diligently, but
was not ordained until 1769. His pious zeal met
the usual return of persecution. He was once
pulled clown from his stand, as he was preaching,
and dragged by the hair, and once knocked
down. Having much property, he devoted the
greater part to charitable purposes. In his
power over the affections of his hearers he was
thought to be equal to Whitefield. The Virgin
ians say, he seemed to pour fourth streams of
lightning from his eyes. His worldly offices he
resigned, as he ascribed to them the diminution
of his religious enjoyments. In 1774 the general
association of separate Baptists, wishing to re
establish the primitive order, as mentioned Ephes.
4: 11., chose Mr. Harris apostle, and ordained
him by the hands of every minister in that body.
No other instance of such an extraordinary ap
pointment is recollected. The following anec
dotes may illustrate his character. Meeting a
pardoned criminal, who showed him his pardon
received at the gallows, he asked, " Have you
shown it to Jesus Christ ? " " No, Mr. H., I want
you to do it for me." Accordingly the old man
dismounted and kneeled, and, Avith the pardon in
one hand and the other on the offender's head,
rendered thanks and prayed for God's pardon.
lie once requested a debtor to pay him in wheat,
as he had a good crop ; but the man replied that
he did not intend to pay until he was sued. Un
willing to leave preaching to attend a vexatious
suit, he wrote a receipt in full and presented it to
the man, saying, he had sued him in the court of
heaven ; he should leave the affair with the head
of church, with whom he might settle another
day. The man soon loaded his wagon and sent
the wheat, — Benedict, n. 330-339.
HARRIS, TUCKER, M. D., a physician of
Charleston, S. C., was born in that city in 1747;
studied at Edinburgh ; served his country as a
physician in the Revolutionary war; and died
HARRIS.
July 6, 1821, aged 73. He sustained an excellent
character and was known as a friend of religion.
lie published some essays in the medical journal
of Philadelphia. — Thaclier's Mcd. Biog.
HARRIS, WILLIAM, D. IX, president of Co
lumbia college, died in 1829, aged about 43. lie
was born in Springfield, Mass. He was first a
preacher in Marblehead. He published a sermon
on the death of Mrs. Roads ; a sermon at the
Episcopal convention, 1799.
HARRIS, ANDREW, M. D., died at Canterbury,
Conn., May 28, 1840, aged 52, a distinguished
physician. Dying of the consumption, his last
days were devoted to religion, to the study of
truth, and the exercises of faith.
HARRIS, WALTER, D. D., minister of Dun-
barton, N. II., died Dec. 25, 1843, aged 82. lie
was the son of Nathaniel of Lebanon, Conn., and
served three years in the war before he was
nineteen years old. His only brother fell in bat
tle. He bought him a farm in Lebanon, X. II.,
intending to be a farmer ; but, becoming religious
in a revival there, he determined to be a minister.
He graduated at Dartmouth in 1786; studied
theology with Dr. Emmons; and was ordained at
Dunbarton Aug. 26, 1789. He was an excellent
preacher and pastor. He had three wives, one of
whom, the mother of his children, was of the
name of Fisher of Franklin, Mass., and the next
was the widow of Rev. John Cleveland of
Wrentham. He published sermons on the death
of the wife of Rev. A. Burnham ; of Samuel
Burnham; of the third wife of Rev. A. Burnham,
1815; of Mrs. Morrill ; a fast sermon, 1799; at
thanksgiving, 1812; at the ordination of A. Burn-
ham ; of E. Corser ; doctrine of decrees encour
agement to the use of means, 1814; on false
teachers ; to a cent society ; at Reading ; on the
Sabbath; to freemasons, 1823 ; before the pasto
ral convention, 1834. — Sprague's Annals.
HARRIS, JOHN, judge of the supreme court
of X. II., died at Hopkinton April 23, 1845, aged
74; a graduate of Harvard in 1791.
HARRIS, WILLIAM COFFIN, a teacher, was
born in Portsmouth March 17, 1788, was gradu
ated at Harvard in 1807, and died at Portsmouth
Nov. 22, 1853, aged 65. At Portsmouth and at
Xewington he was a distinguished teacher be
tween thirty and forty years. He fell down in
a fit in his school-room, and lived but ten minutes.
HARRIS, THADDEUS M., D. D.,died in Dor
chester April 3, 1842, aged 72. He was a grad
uate of 1787, of Harvard, of which he was for
years the librarian. When he was a junior
in college, he needed some new clothing, and his
mother, in her poverty, asked him to procure in
some way a little money for the purpose. Goin
to meet her with a small sum, he gave it away to
a crippled, hungry soldier, who asked his aid.
As he went on, in great distress from having
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nothing to put into his mother's hands, he thought
something adhered to the end of his rough cane,
cut on the road ; and lo ! it was a gold ring, hav
ing engraved on it, " God speed thee, friend."
This sold for the money wanted ; the moral lesson
was invaluable. The titles of his discourses,
books, and various writings, contained in a manu-
cript in my hands, occupy eight folio pages.
Some of them are the masonic constitution, 4to.,
1792; the natural history of the Bible, 1 vol.,
1793; minor encyclopedia, 4 vols. 1803; account
of Dorchester, 1804 ; journal of a tour to the
northwest, 8vo., 1805; volume of masonic dis
courses ; beauties of nature delineated ; hymns
for the Lord's supper ; discourse at Plymouth,
1808; to the memory of James Bowcloin, 1811;
memoir of father Rasles, in the historical collec
tions ; memorials of the first church in Dorches
ter, 1830; memorials of James Oglethorpe, 1841.
His ordination at Dorchester was Oct. 23, 1793 ;
and there he spent the remainder of his h'fe.
There have been in this country few so industri
ous scholars and such voluminous writers.
HARRIS, THADDEUS WILLIAM, M. D., libra
rian of Harvard college, died at Cambridge of
dropsy of the chest Jan. 16, 1856, aged 60; the
son of T. M. Harris of Dorchester. He gradu
ated in 1815, and acquired reputation as a physi
cian in Dorchester. In 1831 he was chosen libra
rian as the successor of Mr. Pierce, and remained
in office till his death, an assiduous, faithful libra
rian. He was succeeded by Rev. John L. Sib-
Icy. He was highly skilled in natural history ;
as an entomologist he had no equal. By his writ
ings he contributed to the dissemination of
knowledge. His tract on insects injurious to
vegetation was published by the legislature. He
published a discourse to horticultural society, 1832.
— Boston Advertiser, July 16, 1856.
HARRIS, WILLIAM THADDEUS, LL. D., died
Oct. 19, 1854, aged 28. The son of Dr. T. W.
Harris, he graduated in 1846. An early ancestor
was Thomas of Boston, who died 1680; next
Benjamin, Capt. William, a teacher in Boston and
officer of the Revolution, the father of Rev. Dr.
T. M. Harris of Dorchester, who was the grand
father of the subject of this article. He pub
lished Cambridge epitaphs, 1845.
HARRISOX, ROBERT HANSON, a patriot of
the Revolution, sustained the office of chief jus
tice of the general court of Maryland. He de
clined in 1789 the appointment of judge of the
supreme court of the United States, and died at
his residence on the Potomac, in Charles county,
April 2, 1790, aged 45. His talents were dis
tinguished, and he enjoyed in a high degree the
confidence of his fellow citizens.
HARRISOX, BENJAMIN, governor of Virginia,
died in April, 1791. He was a patriot of the
Revolution. His father and grandfather, having
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the name of Benjamin, lived at Berkeley, on the
banks -of James river, in view of the seaports of
Petersburg and Richmond. His father, who mar
ried the daughter of Mr. Carter, surveyor-general,
was killed with two of his daughters by lightning.
About 1761 he became a member of the legisla
ture, and in 1774 a member of congress, in which
body for several years he rendered important ser
vices. On signing the Declaration of Indepen
dence, being quite corpulent, he said to Mr. Gerry,
who was slender and thin, after putting his
name to the instrument, " When the time of hang
ing shall come, I shall have the advantage of
you ; it will be over with me in a minute, but you
will be kicking in the air half an hour after I am
gone." In 1777 he resigned his seat in congress.
From 1782 to 1784 he was the popular governor
of Virginia, and was succeeded by Henry. He
was afterwards a member of the convention for
adopting the constitution of the United States.
He died of the gout. His health had been im
paired by his free manner of living. His wife
was Elizabeth, daughter of Col. William Bassett.
His third son was Gen. William Henry Harrison.
— Goodrich's Lives.
HARRISON, BENJAMIN, a tall man, Avas a na
tive of Virginia, and died in Georgia in April,
1818, aged 44. He was, by accurate measure
ment, seven feet, two inches and a half in height.
HARRISON, RICHARD, an eminent lawyer,
died at New York Dec. 6, 1829, aged 81.
HARRISON, RICHARD, auditor and treasurer
of the United States, died at Washington July
10, 1841, aged 91. He was five years consul at
Cadiz ; auditor fifty-five years, appointed by
Washington. He was highly esteemed as a man
of abilities and integrity.
HARRISON, WILLIAM HENRY, president of
the United States, died April 4, 1841, aged 68.
He was born in Charles City Co., Va., Feb. 9,
1773, being the son of Benjamin II., governor of
Virginia, lie was educated at Hampden Sydney
college. He received from Washington a mili
tary commission in 1791. He fought under
Wayne. After the battle of Miami Rapids he
was made captain, and placed in command of fort
Washington. In 1797 he was appointed secre
tary of the Northwest Territory. In 1799 he
was a delegate to congress. Being appointed
governor of Indiana, he was also superintendent
of Indian affairs, and negotiated thirteen treaties.
He gained a great victory in the battle of Tippe-
canoe, Nov. 7, 1811. In the war with Great
Britain he was commander of the northwest
army, and was distinguished in the defence of fort
Meigs and the victory of the Thames. In 1816
he was in congress, and in 1828 minister to the
republic of Colombia. On his return he resided
at North Bend, in Ohio, upon his farm. He was
elected president by 234 votes out of 294. In
ducted into his office March 4, 1841, he died in
one month. Among the last utterances of his
lips he expressed a desire for the perpetuity of
the constitution and the preservation of its prin
ciples. For many months he never omitted
reading the Scriptures every night before retiring
to rest. On the third day of his illness he spoke
of his long persuasion of the Christian truth, and
his regret that he was not a member and a com
municant in a church.
HARRISON, ROGER, minister of Tolland,
Mass., died in 1853, aged 84. Born in Branford,
Conn., he graduated at Yale in 1792; was or
dained in 1798, and dismissed in 1822. He had
great skill and power in music with his voice. —
Spr ague's Annals.
HART, WILLIAM, minister of Saybrook, Conn.,
died July 11, 1784, aged 71, in the forty-eighth
year of his ministry. He was the son of Rev.
John II., of East Guilford, and was graduated
at Yale college in 1732 and ordained Nov. 17,
1736. Mr. Hotchkiss was his colleague. He
first gave the name of llopkintonian to certain
doctrines which he opposed. Dr. Hopkins re
plied to his dialogue. He published nature of
regeneration, 1742; with Jonathan Todd, narra
tive of proceedings at Wallingfbrd, in regard to
the settlement of J. Dana, 1759 ; remarks on
dangerous errors, against the Hopkinsians, 1770 ;
a dialogue, and a sermon, which was never
preached and never will be, against the same ;
remarks on Edwards' dissertation on the nature
of virtue, 1771, which was answered by Dr. Hop
kins ; a treatise of qualifications for the sacra
ments, 1772. — Devotion's Funeral Sermon',
Sprague's Annals.
HART, JOHN, first minister of East Guilford,
now Madison, Conn., died March 4, 1732, aged
48, in the twenty-fifth year of his ministry.
Bora in Farmington, he graduated at Yale in
1703 ; he made the whole second class, as N.
Chauncey did the first. The college was then at
Killingworth. He was ordained in 1707. In
1722 he was associated for a time with Cutler and
others, who doubted the validity of Presbyterian
ordination. In his last years he had distressing
bodily infirmities. His wives, by all of whom he
had children, were Ilcbekah Hubbard of Boston,
Sarah Bull of Hartford, and Mary Hooker of
Farmington. He was an eminent preacher and
a humble Christian. — Spraguc's Annals.
HART, OLIVER, minister of Charleston, S. C.,
died Dec. 31, 1795, aged 72. He was born at
Warminster, Bucks county, Pcnn., July 5, 1723.
At the age of eighteen he was impressed with the
importance of religion, and was baptized. He
was ordained at Southampton Oct. 18, 1749, and
in the same year went to Charleston, where he
succeeded Mr. Chanler, and was minister of the
Baptist church in that city for thirty years. In
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such estimation was his character for patriotism
and talents held by the council of safety of Caro
lina, that at the beginning of the Revolution he
was appointed by them, with William Tennent, to
visit the frontiers, in order to reconcile some of
the disaffected inhabitants to the change which
occurred in public affairs. In Feb., 1780, the
warm interest which he took in promoting the
American Revolution, induced him to leave
Charleston, lest he should fall into the hands of
the British, who were about to besiege the city.
In Dec. following he was settled at Hopewell in
New Jersey, where he remained till his death.
Mr. Hart possessed strong powers of mind.
His imagination was lively and his judgment
sound. Though not favored with a liberal educa
tion, by diligent study and habitual reflection he be
came very respectable for his knowledge of Chris
tian truth. He was a uniform advocate of the
doctrines of free and sovereign grace. As a
preacher his manner was pleasing and his de
livery animated. As a citizen he was a firm and
decided patriot. He possessed a liberal spirit,
and exhibited the beneficence which he recom
mended. In his last moments he enjoyed the
consolations of the gospel, resting his hopes upon
the righteousness of Christ. He published sev
eral sermons and tracts, namely: dancing ex
ploded ; a discourse on the death of William Ten
nent ; the Christian temple ; a circular letter on
Christ's mediatorial character ; America's remem
brancer ; a gospel church portrayed, and a thanks
giving sermon, 1789. He had a turn for poetry,
and wrote much, though none of his productions
were published. Many of his papers and of his
best books were destroyed by the British army. —
Holers' and Furman's Discourses on Ms death.
HART, JOHN, a patriot of the Revolution, died
in 1780. He was the son of Edward Hart, of
Hopewell, X. J. He was a member of the con
gress of 1774, and in 1776 signed the Declaration
of Independence. In the latter part of this year
his farm was pillaged by the enemy and his fam
ily dispersed. The alarm and distress of these
occurrences caused the death of his wife, whose
name was Scudder. After the evacuation of New
Jersey he again collected his family; but his
health was now failing him. He in his religious
profession was a Baptist, and sustained an excel
lent character. Great confidence was reposed in
the wisdom and judgment of " honest John
Hart." — Goodrich's Lives.
HART, LEVI, D. I)., minister of Preston, Conn.,
now Griswold, died Oct. 27, 1808, aged 69. He
was the son of Thomas II., of Southington, and
was graduated at Yale college in 1760. While a
member of college he made a public profession of
that religion which regulated his whole life. Hav
ing pursued the study of divinity for some time
with Dr. Bellamy, whose daughter, Rebecca, he
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afterwards married, he was settled Nov. 4, 1762,
as the minister of the second church in Preston.
Here he continued to perform the various duties
of the sacred office until a short time before his
death. Receiving as the gift of God a sound
and vigorous mind, it was much improved by his
scientific and literary acquisitions. Many young
men were trained up by him for the ministry. As
he united a keen discernment of character to a
social and communicative turn of mind, and was
always governed by the desire of promoting the
interests of religion, he was very useful in his
private intercourse with his people, as well as in
his public labors. He sought out the abodes of
affliction, of poverty, and of distress ; and, while
he soothed the poor by his conversation, he was
enabled, also, by an exact economy, to contribute
something from a small salary for the relief of
their wants. His disposition Avas placid ; his
manners amiable and unassuming; and in the
various relations of life he was faithful and affec
tionate. He engaged in the support of mission
ary institutions, and the progress of the gospel
was the theme of his correspondence with a num
ber of respectable friends of religion in Europe.
He preached and published a funeral sermon for
Dr. Hopkins, in 1803. He published also a ser
mon at ordination of J.Benedict, 1771; of J.
Smith, 1772; of A. Holmes, 1785; of W. Pat
ten, 1786 ; of A. Chase, 1787 ; of J. Wilder,
1790; a sermon on liberty, 1774; on the death
of Mrs. Woodbridge, 1775 ; of J. Huntington,
1786; of N. Eells, 1786; of his wife, 1789; of
Mrs.King, 1791; of Washington, 1799; of Dr.
Hopkins, 1803 ; at election, 1786. — Panoplist
and Missionary Magazine, I. 287 ; Sprayue's
Annals.
HART, IRA, minister of Stonington, Conn.,
died in 1829. He graduated at Yale in 1792.
HART, THOMAS, colonel, died in Kentucky.
His widow, Susannah, died at Lexington in 1832,
aged 86 ; she was the mother of Mrs. Henry
Clay, Mrs. Dr. Prindle, Mrs. James Brown, and
of Capt. Hart, who fell on the river Raisin.
HART, LUTHER, minister of Plymouth, Conn.,
died April 25, 1834, aged 50. Born in Goshen,
the son of David, he became early pious in a re
vival in the region where he lived, in 1799. He
graduated with honor at Yale in 1807, and was
ordained in 1810. More than four hundred were
added to his church during his ministry, especially
in 1812, 1824, 1827, and 1831. He was a princi
pal writer for the Christian Spectator. He wrote
an able tract on Presbyterian ordination. He pub
lished, also, a Christmas sermon, salvation for lost
men, 1818 ; at installation of I). O. Griswold; on
the death of A. Gillet, with a memoir, 1826 ; a
memoir of A. Pettingill, 1834. — Sprague's An
nals.
HART, JOHN, Dr., died at South Reading
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April 27, 1836, aged 84. Born in Ipswich in
1752, the son of John, a lawyer and noted musi
cian, he joined Prescott's regiment in the be
ginning of the war, and afterwards, till its close,
•was surgeon of the 2d Massachusetts regiment.
He settled at Reading in 1782. He was five
years in the senate, and was a venerable patriot
and a Christian. When chosen to a public office,
instead of making a treat, as was customary, he
gave the money to buy books for schools.
HART, LUTHER W., Dr., died in Marshall,
Mich., Sept, 10, 1842, aged 64. A native of
Berlin, and a graduate of Williams college, he
was thirty years a physician in Durham, N. Y. ;
then, as a pioneer, he removed to Marshall. He
was a scholar and a patron of education ; a sup
porter of the institutions of the gospel ; a man
of virtue and worth.
HART, RUTH, widow of Gen. Selah II., died
in Kensington, Conn., Jan. 15, 1844, aged 101;
a woman of great excellence. She gave to her
own Congregational church 1000 dollars, and 500
dollars to Yale college for a scholarship for pious
students.
HART, JOSEPH C., died in Santa Cruz July 23,
1855, American consul at S. C. ; author of Marian
Coffin, and other works.
HARTWELL, BENJAMIN, Dr., died April 17,
1844, aged 85, in Shirley ; the first physician set
tled in the town, and the only one for thirty-five
years. He was a Revolutionary pensioner.
HARVARD, JOHN, the founder of Harvard
college, died in Chaiiestown Sept. 14, 1638, aged
about 30. He graduated at Emanuel college in
Cambridge, England, in 1631, and was received
into the church at Charlestown in 1637. He had
been a minister in England, and he preached
a short time in Charlestown. He left a legacy
of 779 pounds to the school at Newton, or Cam
bridge. The next year the general court con
stituted it a college. The first president was
Mr. Dunster. Precisely one hundred and ninety
years after his death a granite monument was
erected to his memory, Sept. 26, 1828, on die top
of the burying-hill in Charlestown. On this oc
casion Edward Everett delivered an address to a
large company, including the officers and students
of the college. The expense was provided for by
the payment of one dollar each by many gradu
ates. The monument is a solid obelisk, fifteen
feet high, four feet square at the bottom, two at
the top, weighing twelve or thirteen tons, brought
from the quarry at Quincy. On the eastern face
is the name of Harvard in high relief; beneath it
is an inscription in English on a white marble
tablet, and on the tablet of the west side, looking
tovv'ard the college, an inscription in Latin. —
Magnalia, iv. 126; Everett's Address; Nisi.
Coll. I. 242; Neal, I. 199; Holmes, I. 247;
Hutckinson,!. 90.
HARVEY, BENJAMIN, died at Frankfort, Her-
kimer Co., N. Y., March 18, 1847, aged 112
years. He was seventy years a Baptist minister ;
and he preached only a short time before his
death. His voice was strong, and his manner
animated.
HASEY, ISAAC, first minister of Lebanon, Me.,
died in 1812, aged about 70. He graduated at
Harvard in 1762, and was settled in 1765.
HASKELL, JONATHAN, major, died at Belpre
in Dec., 1814, aged 39. He was born in Roches
ter, Mass., was an officer in the army, and emi
grated to Ohio in 1788. — Ilildrctli.
HASKELL, SAMUEL, died at New Rochclle
Aug. 24, 1845, aged about 75. He graduated at
Yale in 1790, and was the oldest Episcopal min
ister in the State of New York, having preached
his first sermon in Trinity church, New York,
fifty years before his death. He was a soldier in
the battle of Bunker Hill.
HASKELL, DANIEL, president of Burlington
college, Vt., died at Brooklyn, N. Y., Aug. 9,
1848, aged 64. Born in Preston, Conn., he was
a graduate of Yale in 1802, then a teacher at
Norwich. He had a good pupil in Mrs. Sigour-
ney. He was pastor at Middletown and Litch-
field, Conn., and at St. Albans and Burlington, Vt.
He was then from 1821 to 1824 the president
of the Vermont university ; but during the last
ten or fifteen years of his life he resided in
Brooklyn, N. Y. Dr. Cox, his minister, describes
him as a man of theological erudition, of high
attainments in science and literature, of deep rev
erence toward God, and of great strength and
soundness of mind, with one exception, that he
was subject to a strange monomania. He imag
ined that he had died in some other world, in
which he proved a rebel against God, and for his
rebellion he was placed in his present abode and
was no longer a probationer for eternity. Hence
he would never pray. On all other subjects he
was sane, learned, and instructive. What cause
of thankfulness we have to God for preserving
our faculties unimpaired? He edited McCul-
loch's geographical dictionary. He published a
sermon at the ordination of H. S. Johnson, 1814 ;
of R. A. Avery, 1824; a gazetteer of the United
States, with J. C. Smith, 1843 ; a chronology of
the world, 1845. — Sprague's Annals.
HASSELTINE, JOHN, deacon, died at West
Bradford in June, 1837, aged 80, — the father of
Mrs. Judson.
HASSLER, FERDINAND R., director of the
United States coast-survey, died in Philadelphia
Nov. 20, 1843, aged 74. A native of Geneva, he
came to this country about 1810, introduced by
Mr. Gallatin, and was superintendent as early as
1816. His high attainments as a mathematician
and man of science, and his faithfulness were
universally acknowledged. His survey of the
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coast commenced in 1832. He was succeeded
by Professor Bache. His mathematical and as
tronomical writings are valuable, especially his
papers in the American philosophical transactions,
relating to the coast survey.
HASTINGS, GEORGE, died at Chatanooga, in
Tennessee, whither he had gone on account of
his health, Sept. 2, 1854. He was late pastor of
the American Protestant chapel in the city of
Home, Italy. When past speaking he wrote with
a pencil, — " The peace of this last hour of suf
fering is worth a life of great privation in the
gospel ministry." He opened his eyes in assent,
as they read this to him, and then closed them in
death.
HATCH, ELISIIA, died in Bristol, Me., in 18-13,
aged 100.
HATCH, NYMPHAS, died at Leominster in
Aug., 1850, aged 79. He graduated at Harvard
in 1797, and was a minister at Tisbury, Martha's
Vineyard, from 1801 to 1820.
HATCIICOCK, THOMAS, died in Richmond
Co., N. C., April 13, 1818, aged 125. He left
sons, aged 93, 87, and 1G.
HATHORN, WILLIAM, died at Salem after
1651, described by Johnson as " a godly captain of
rhetorical volubility of speech, much used in pub-
He service."
HAVEN, ELIAS, minister in Wrentham, Mass.,
died in 1754, aged 40. He graduated at Har
vard in 1733, and was ordained in 1738.
HAVEN, SAMUEL, D. D., minister of Ports
mouth, N. II., died March 3, 1806, aged 78. He
was born in Framingham, Mass., Aug. 16, 1727,
the son of Joseph, and was graduated at Harvard
college in 1749. During a revival of religion his
mind was impressed by the truths of God, and
he was a great admirer of the preachers, whose
labors appeared to be blessed by the Holy Spirit.
He was ordained May 6, 1752. His first wife
was the daughter of Dr. Appleton, of Cambridge.
His second wife, who closed his eyes, died herself
in a few hours afterwards. They were both
buried at the same time, and twelve children fol
lowed them to the grave. Dr. Haven possessed
respectable talents, and was acquainted with va
rious departments of science. His mind was
rather sprightly, than inclined to abstruse re
searches and deep investigation. Having paid
considerable attention to the study of physic, his
usefulness was thus increased among his people.
In his theological sentiments he was moderately
Calvinistic, though in the latter part of his life he
possessed a spirit of Catholicism and charity so
excessive, as led him privately to speculate with
] )r. Chauncy on the sentiment of universal resti
tution. But he never proclaimed this sentiment
from the pulpit, and he declared that he never
meant to risk his salvation on that ground. He
excelled in the tender and sympathetic. In
scenes of affliction and sorrow he was a son of
consolation. On funeral occasions, for variety,
copiousness, tenderness, and pertinency of ad
dress he was rarely equalled ; and he was often
instrumental in awakening the careless and con-
thc unconvinced. Bv his first marriage
to Mchetabel Appleton he had eleven children ;
by his second he had six children. His sons, Sam
uel, Nathaniel Appleton, and Charles Chauncy,
graduated at Harvard in 1772, 1779, and 1804.
He published the following sermons : at the
request of ministers of N. II., 1760; on the
death of George II. and the accession of George
III., 1761 ; on the conclusion of the war and the
declaration of peace, 1763 ; at the ordination of
Jeremy Belknap, 1767 ; on the death of Henry
Sherburne, 1767 ; of B. Stevens, 1791 ; the ever-
living redeemer, 1768; at Cambridge, 1771; at
Medfield, 1771; at the election, 1786; on the
reasonableness and importance of practical reli
gion, 1794; the Dudleian lecture, 1798; after the
ordination of T. Alden as his colleague, 1800. —
Buckminstcr's sermon on his deatli ; Sprague's
Annals.
HAVEN, JASOX, minister of Dedham, Mass.,
died May 17, 1803, aged 70. He was born at
Framingham March 13, 1733, the son of Moses,
and was graduated at Harvard college in 1754.
He was ordained pastor of the first church in
Dedham Feb. 5, 1756. In his old age, his im
paired health rendering a colleague necessary,
Joshua Bates was ordained March 16, 1803. He
was furnished with talents for the acceptable dis
charge of the various duties of the sacred office.
His discourses were very evangelical ; he was
eminent in prayer ; and his appearance and man
ners uniformly accorded with his station. Be
sides several smaller works, he published the fol
lowing sermons : on the thanksgiving, 1758 ; at
the artillery election, 1761 ; at a private meeting,
1761 ; at the ordination of -Edward Brooks, 1764 ;
of E. Ward, 1771 ; of M. Everett, 1774 ; of S.
Palmer, 1792 ; election sermon, 1769 ; on the
death of Hannah Richards, 1770; of Samuel
I) unbar, 1783 ; a sermon to his own people forty
years after his ordination, Feb. 7, 1796. — Pren-
tiss' Sermon on his death ; Sprague's Annals.
HAVEN, NATHANIEL APPLETOX, editor of the
Portsmouth Journal, died of the scarlet fever
June 3, 1826, aged 36. He was the grandson of
Dr. S. Haven of Portsmouth, was the son of
Nathaniel A. II., who was a member of congress
in 1809, and died March, 1831, aged 69. He was
graduated at Harvard college in 1807, and set
tled as a lawyer at Portsmouth. His wife, the
daughter of John Haven, survived with five chil
dren. He wrote some pieces of poetry, and many
valuable articles for the Journal, which he edited
from 1821 to 1825. lie wrote also for the N. A.
Review. He was a member of one of the
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churches in Portsmouth, and for six years super
intended a Sabbath school. His remains, with a
memoir by Gco. Ticknor, were published, 1827. —
N. II. Hist. Coll. II. 229-235.
HAVEN, SAMUEL, died in Roxbury Sept. 1,
1847, aged 76. He graduated at Harvard in
1789, and was a judge of the county court, and
register of probate.
HAVEN, JOSEPH, died in Amherst, Mass.,
Oct. 15, 1851, aged 65. Born in Holden, he grad
uated at Harvard in 1810, and was minister of
Dennis from 1814 till 1826, when from ill health
he was dismissed. He became the minister of
Billerica in 1836, but in five or six years was con
strained by the state of his health to terminate
his labors as a pastor. He was the father of
Prof. Haven, of Amherst.
HAVILAND, JOHN, a distinguished architect,
died in Philadelphia March 28, 1852, aged 60.
The tombs by him constructed were praised for
their execution.
HAWES, AYLETT, Dr., died in Culpepper
county, Va., April, 1834. He liberated one hun
dred and ten slaves, and removed them to
Liberia.
HAWKINS, JOHN, an Indian chief, sagamore
of Pennacook, had the name of Kancamagus, but
the English called him Hawkins, Hakins, or
Hogkins. He killed Maj. Waldron and his
family. By Church his wife was taken prisoner
in 1690. The following letter to the governor of
New Hampshire, May 15, 1685, is a specimen of
his English learning : " Honor governor, my
friend, — You my friend I desire your worship
and your power, because I hope you can do som
great matters this one. I am poor and naked
and I have no men at my place because I afraid
allwayes Mohogs he will kill me every day and
night. If your worship when please pray help me
you no let Mohogs kill me at my place at Mala-
make river called Paunkkog, and Nuttukkog, ]
will submit your worship and your power. And
now I want pouder and such alminishon, shatt
and guns, because I have forth at my horn and 1
plant theare. This all Indian hand, but pray you
do consider your humble servant JOHN 1IOG-
KINS." In another letter he said : " If my Indian
he do you long pray you no put your law because
som my Indians fooll, som men much love drunk
then he no know what he do, may be he do mis
chief when he drunk if so pray you must let me
know what be done because I will ponis him what
he have done." He called himself " Indian sog-
mon." — Farmer's Belknap, I. 508.
HAWKINS, BENJAMIN, colonel, long a usefu
agent for Indian affairs, died at the Creek agency
in May, 1816. On the settlement of his account;
by his brother, there was found a balance due
from the government of 200,000 dollars. His
HAWLEY.
larrative of the Creeks was published among the
mblic documents in Dec., 1801.
HAWK S, JOHN, an officer in the Indian wars,
lommanded fort Massachusetts in Hoosac, when
t was captured in 1746. After his return from
captivity he was sent with a flag to Canada, to
n'ocure the release of Samuel Allen of Deerficld,
of Nathan Blake of Kcenc, and of others. He set
out in Feb., 1748. It Avas with reluctance, that Al-
en, who had resided among the Indians only eigh-
:ccn months, left them ; nor did his Indian attach
ments cease in old, age. He rose to the rank of
lieut.-colonel, in the war of 1756.
HAWLEY, THOMAS, minister of Ridgcficld,
Conn., died Nov. 8, 1738, aged about 50. He
was born in Northampton, Mass. ; graduated at
Harvard in 1709; was ordained in 1713, and was
also town clerk from 1714 till his death. His
daughter married Hev. N. Birdseye, who lived
103 years.
HAWLEY, JOSEPH, distinguished as a states
man and patriot, died March 10, 1788, aged 64.
He was born in Northampton, Mass., and was
graduated at Yale college in 1742. He engaged
in the practice of the law in his native town. In
this science he became a great proficient, and was
one of the most distinguished counsellors in the
province. Among his other studies he attained
to such an eminence of knowledge in political his
tory and the principles of free government, that
during the disputes between Great Britain and
the colonies, he was regarded as one of the ablest
advocates of American liberty. His integrity
both in public and in private life was inflexible,
and was not even questioned by his political op
ponents. He was repeatedly elected a member
of the council, but refused in every instance to
accept the office, as he preferred a seat in the
house of representatives, where his character for
disinterested patriotism, and his bold and manly
eloquence gave him an ascendancy which has sel
dom been equalled. He was first elected a mem-
of the legislature 1764. In the latter part of
1776, Maj. Hawlsy was afflicted with hypochon-
driacal disorders, to which he had been frequently
subject in former periods of his life ; and after
this he declined public business. A letter, which
he wrote in 1760, preserved in the life of Ed
wards, does him the highest honor, for it proves
him not incapable of humbling himself for his
failings. He had been active in effecting the re
moval of Mr. Edwards from Northampton, and
he deplores the part which he took in that affair.
HAWLEY, GIDEON, many years a missionary
to the Indians, died Oct. 3, 1807, aged 80. He
was born at Stratfield, now Bridgeport, Conn.,
and was graduated at Yale college in 1749. He
commenced his missionary labors in Feb., 1752,
at Stockbridge. In this year he preached at
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Pittsfield the first sermon ever preached there,
in the bark-covered house of Mr. Willard. In
September he made an excursion to Schoharic,
in the country of the Mohawk Indians, and after
his return to Stockbridgc, he opened his school
again at the beginning of winter under the patron
age of Mr. Edwards. Here he was the instruc
tor of the children of a number of Mohawk,
Oncida, and Tuscarora families, and preached to
them on the Sabbath. It being determined by
the commissioners for Indian affairs in Boston, to
establish a mission in the country of the Iroquois,
or Indians of the Six Nations, he engaged in the
plan. In May, 1753, he commenced his journey
towards the wilderness, accompanied by Timothy
Woodbridge, a gentleman of abilities, and of
great influence among the Indians. Having
visited Sir William Johnson at his seat upon the
Mohawk river, and secured his patronage, they
proceeded toward the head of the Susquehannah,
adoring every night and morning that kind Provi
dence, which attended and preserved them in the
recesses of the forest. On the fourth of June
they reached the place of their destination, Ou-
ohoghgwage, or, as it is sometimes called, Otigh-
quauga, upon the Susquehannah river. Here an
interview was held with the Indians, who gave
them a good reception. July 31, 1754, Mr. Haw-
ley was ordained at Boston, that his usefulness
might be increased by being authorized to admin
ister the ordinances of the gospel. He soon re
turned to Onohoghgwage, and was there till
May, 1756, when the French war obliged him to
withdraw from that country. He went to Boston
in June, and, entering as chaplain in the regi
ment of Col. Gridley, he soon joined the army
above Albany, which was destined against Crown
Point. After the campaign he made an attempt
to return to the place of his mission, but was de
terred by the dangers of the enterprise. A
church was established here by Dr. Forbes in
1762. In December, Mr. Hawley went to Stock-
bridge, where he spent the winter. In 1757 the
commissioners of the society for propagating the
gospel persuaded him to visit the tribe of Indians
at Marshpee, whose pastor, Mr. Briant, had been
dismissed, and who were dissatisfied with the
labors of Mr. Smith. Here he was installed
April 10, 1758, and passed the remainder of his
life, being occupied in this place more than half a
century in benevolent exertions to enlighten the
darkened mind, and to promote the salvation of
his Indian brethren. In his last sickness he ob
served : " I have hope of acceptance with God,
but it is founded wholly on free and sovereign
grace, and not at all on my own works. It is
true, my labors have been many ; but they have
been so very imperfect, attended with so great a
want of charity and humility, that I have no hope
in them as the ground of my acceptance." An
extensive correspondence Avas the source of much
satisfaction to him. As a missionary he was
peculiarly well qualified, for there was a dignity
in his manner and an authority in his voice
which had great influence with the Indians. He
published in the collections of the historical so
ciety biographical and topographical anecdotes
respecting Sandwich and Marshpee, and an inter
esting letter, giving a narrative of his journey to
Onohoghgwage. — Fanoplist, III. 431; Hist.
Coll. ill. 188-193 ; IV. 50-67 ; Sprayue's An
nals.
HAWLEY, JAMES, son of Rev. Gideon II.,
minister of Pembroke, Mass., died in early life,
Oct. 8, 1800, aged 27. He was graduated at
Harvard in 1792 ; was a tutor there in 1797-98,
and ordained in May, 1798. President Dwight
was at his father's house when the son was there
on his dying bed. — Dwiylifs Travels, vol. II. ;
Sprayue's Annals.
HAAVLEY, STEPHEN, first minister of Bethany,
in Woodbury, Conn., died in 1804, aged about 65.
lie graduated at Yale in 1759, and was settled in
1762.
HAWLEY, RUFUS, Rev., died at Farmington,
Conn., in Jan., 1826, aged 85. He graduated at
Yale in 1767.
IIAWLEY, WILLIAM AGUR, minister of Plain-
field, Mass., died May 20, 1854, aged 66. He
was born in Huntington, Conn., and graduated at
Williams college in 1815. He studied theology
with Dr. Catlin, and was ordained at Hinsdale in
July, 1817. Dismissed in 1841, he was in the
same year installed at Plainfield, and dismissed
in 1847. He died in peace at the house of his
son-in-law, Braincrd Smith, in Sundcrland. He
was a faithful and useful and successful preacher
and pastor.
HAY, GEORGE, judge of the United States
court for the eastern district of Virginia, was for
many years attorney of the United States, in
which capacity he was the prosecutor of Aaron
Burr. As a Virginia legislator he was distin
guished. On his return from the Springs, whither
he was induced to repair by ill health, he died in
Albemarle county Sept. 18, 1830. His wife was
the daughter of President Monroe. His political
writings, signed " Ilortensius," gave him some
celebrity. He wrote also a treatise against the
usury laws; the life of John Thompson; and a
treatise on emigration, 1814, of which a review
was ascribed to J. Lowell.
HAYES, JOEL, minister of South Iladlcy,
Mass., died July 29, 1827, aged 74, having been
pastor forty-five years. He graduated at Yale in
1773. His predecessors were Grindall Rawson
and John Woodbridge.
HAYES, AViLLiAM A., judge, died of a disease
of the heart in South Berwick, Me., April 15,
1851, aged 67. Born in North Yarmouth, he
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graduated at Dartmouth in 1805, and for a year
taught Moor's school. For forty years he prac
tised law in Berwick. He was judge of probate.
HAYNE, ISAAC, a patriot of the llevolution,
died Aug. 4, 1781. He was a native of South
Carolina. In the beginning of the war he lived
on his plantation, with an ample fortune ; yet he
served as a captain of artillery, being also a sen
ator in the legislature. Disgusted with the pro
motion of a younger officer over him, he resigned
his commission and served as a private soldier at
the siege of Charleston. At its capitulation May
12, 1780, he was taken prisoner, but was allowed
to return home on parole, under an engagement
not to bear arms. In 1781 he was required by
the British commander to bear arms or to return
to Charleston; he refused to do cither, but at
length was induced to repair to the city on the
assurance of being allowed to return when he
should engage to demean himself as a British
subject so long as a British army occupied the
country. At Charleston he was threatened with
close confinement, unless he subscribed a declara
tion of his allegiance to the British king, with an
engagement to bear arms in support of the royal
government. He subscribed the declaration, but
expressly objected to the clause requiring him to
bear arms, and was assured that this would not
be required. Thus he was able to return to his
family, sick with the small pox. One of his chil
dren was dead, and his wife soon expired. After
a time he was summoned to repair to the British
standard, in disregard of the assurance he had
received. Deeming himself, in consequence, ab
solved from his engagement, he joined the Amer
ican army in command of a regiment, and in July,
1781, sent out a detachment, which captured Gen.
Williamson. For his recovery the whole British
cavalry was ordered out, and Col. Hayne fell into
their hands. He was thrown into prison in
Charleston, and soon ordered by Lord llawdon
and Col. Balfour to be hanged for taking arms
against the British government, after he had be
come a subject. The sentence, notwithstanding
various petitions and the entreaties of his chil
dren on their knees, was executed. On the
morning of his execution he delivered to his son
of thirteen years some papers to be sent to con
gress, and added, " Go, then, to the place of
my execution, and receive my body." Thus fell,
in the bloom of life, a brave officer and good cit
izen. Gen. Greene issued a proclamation Aug.
20th, saying he should make reprisals. Lord
liawdon's pamphlet in justification of his conduct
was examined in the first number of the Southern
Review. The minute history of this affair, given
by Lee, particularly the letter of Col. Hayne to
Lord llawdon and Col. Balfour, cannot fail to
awaken strong feelings of indignation at the con
duct of those officers who ordered his execution.
HAYNES.
Col. Hayne was not a spy, who might be forthwith
executed. He was either a prisoner of war or a
British subject. If a prisoner of war, he could
not be executed for his lawful conduct in the ex
ercise of arms; if a British subject, he had a
right to a formal trial. The court of inquiry was
not a court of trial. Besides, as he returned to
his home in the character of a British subject,
when the country west of the Edisto, in which he
lived, fell under the protection of the American
arms, he could no longer be considered as a Brit
ish subject. The effect of his execution was .to
sharpen by pity and revenge the swords of the
Americans. — Lee's Memoirs, II. 252-274; Earn-
say, I. 453-400; Remembrancer for 1782, p. 121.
HAYNE, ROBERT Y., major-general, died
Sept. 24, 1839, aged 47. He was born near
Charleston, S. C., Nov. 10, 1791. His early ad
vantages were limited to a school education. He
studied law with Langdon Cheves, and soon took
a high rank as a lawyer. In 1814 he was in the
legislature ; in 1818 he was speaker ; and he was
a senator of the United States from 1822 to 1832.
In the " Union and State rights convention," as
chairman of the committee in 1832 he reported
the ordinance of nullification. He was governor
from 1832 to 1834, and in 1837 was chosen pres
ident of the Charleston, etc., railroad company.
He died at Asheville, N. C. He was clear in
judgment, fluent in speech, and endowed with a
persuasive eloquence. Few men enjoyed a higher
degree of public confidence ; and he was of spot
less integrity in private life. His debate with
Mr. Webster in the senate in 1830 gave impres
sion of his talents.
HAYNES, JOHN, governor of Massachusetts
and of Connecticut, died March 1, 1654. He was
a native of Essex, in England, and arrived at
Boston in company with Mr. Hooker in 1033.
He was soon chosen an assistant, and in 1G35 gov
ernor. The next year he was succeeded by Mr.
Vane. In 1636 he removed to Connecticut, of
which colony he was one of the principal founders.
He was elected its first governor in April, 1639,
and was replaced in this office every second year,
which was as often as the constitution would per
mit, till his death. He was distinguished for his
abilities, prudence, piety, and public spirit, being
considered as in no respect inferior to Governor
Winthrop. His estate and talents were devoted
to the interests of the colony of Connecticut. He
paid strict attention to family worship, and the
religious instruction of his children. His son,
Joseph Haynes, was the minister of the first
church in Hartford ; but the name is not new
borne up by his descendants. Joseph's daughter,
Sarah, married licv. Mr. Picrpont, of New Haven,
and died young, leaving a daughter, Abigail, who
married Itev. Joseph Noyes. The governor's son,
John, lived also in Hartford, and his daughter
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Mary married, 1. E. Lord ; 2. Capt. Roswell Sal-
tonstall ; 3. President Clap. Her daughter, Mary
Saltonstall, married Col. Whiting, of New Haven,
in 1769, or before. Gov. Haynes' daughter Ruth
married Samuel Wyllis, of Hartford, and Mabel
married James Russell, of Charlestons, Mass. —
TrumbulCs Connecticut, I. 34, 223, 224; Mag
nolia, II. 17 ; Hutchinson, I. 34, 43, 53 ; Holmes.
HAYXES, LEMUEL, a colored and faithful and
useful minister, died Sept. 28, 1833, aged 79, at
Granville, N. Y. . He was born at Granville,
Mass., and was brought up by Deacon D. Rose.
He pursued his studies by the light of pine knots.
After preaching five years in Granville, Mass., and
three in Torringford, he was for many years the
much respected Congregational minister of West
Rutland, Vt. ; afterwards he preached three or
four years in Manchester and eleven in Granville,
N. Y. His wife was a white woman. After
hearing Mr. Ballou, the Universalist, preach, he
followed him with his famous, unequalled sermon
on the words of Satan, " Thou shalt not surely
die," which has been widely read. Being once
introduced to a Universalist preacher, he took him
by the hand, saying, "Well, you are the per
son who preaches that a man may He, steal, and
murder, and after all go to heaven ; are you not ? "
" No," replied he, " I preach no such thing."
" But you believe so, do you not ? " was the final
question. When the young men of another par
ish rallied his friends on their having a " colored
minister," the reply was :
" His soul is pure,
All white! Snow white!"
He published, besides his famous sermon, one
at the ordination of R. Parmelee, 1791. Dr. Coo-
ley published his memoirs. — Sprague's Annals.
HAYS, JACOB, died in New York June 21, 1850,
aged 79 ; high constable for nearly fifty years. As
a detector of rogues he had unparalleled skill and
success. Such was his memory of persons, that he
never forgot one on whom he fixed his attention.
HAY WARD, LEMUEL, M. D., physician in Bos
ton, died March 20, 1821, aged 72. He was born
in Braintree, and graduated at Harvard college in
1708. lie was a fellow student with Eustis, under
Warren. He commenced the practice at Jamaica
Plain ; was appointed surgeon in the general hos
pital of the army in 1775; and removed in 1783
to Boston. He was an excellent physician, and
from early life a professor of the Christian reli
gion. — Thachcr's Medical Biography.
HAYWARD, NATHAN, Dr., died at Plymouth,
Mass., June 16, 1848, aged 84; long an active
physician.
HAYWOOD, HENRY, a minister in South Car
olina, arrived in Charleston from England in
1739, from which time till his death, in 1755, he
was minister to the Socinian Baptists in that city.
lie translated into English Dr. Whitby's treatise
on original sin, and had prepared for the press a
large volume in defence of Dr. Whitby against
Dr. Gill, and also a catechism. — Miller, n. 365.
HAZARD, EBENEZER, postmaster-general of
the United States, was a native of Philadelphia,
and graduated at Princeton college in 1762. In
1782 he succeeded Mr. Bache as postmaster, and
continued in office until the adoption of the con
stitution in 1789. He died June 13, 1817, aged
72. His daughter married Ebenezer Rockwood,
of Boston. He published a valuable work in ref
erence to American history, which is often quoted,
namely : Historical collections, 2 vols., 4to., 1792,
1794; also, remarks on a report concerning the
western Indians, in 2 historical collections, iv.
HAZARD, ENOCH, Dr., died at Newport May
7, 1844, aged 72. For more than forty years he
attended to his profession with faculties unim
paired.
HAZEN, MOSES, brigadier-general, a soldier
of the Revolution, commanded a corps, called
"congress' own regiment." He died at Troy,
N. Y., Jan. 30, 1802, aged 69.
1IEALY, JOHN, died at Baltimore June 19,
1848, aged 83, for fifty years the minister of the
first Baptist church in B., and the originator of
the first Sunday school in the United States.
HEARD, JOHN, died at Ipswich Aug. 11,
1834, aged 90, a man of benevolence and eminent
piety, a senator, and one of the electors of presi
dent.
HEATH, WILLIAM, major-general in the army
of the Revolution, died at Roxbury, Mass., Jan.
24, 1814, aged 77. He was born March 2, 1737,
at Roxbury, of which town one of his ancestors
was a settler in 1636, and was bred a farmer. In
1775 he was appointed provincial brigadier, and
also brigadier of the United States, June 22, and
Aug 9, 1776. major-general. When the army re
moved to New York, he commanded near King's
bridge. In 1777 he was intrusted with the com
mand of the eastern department near Boston, and
the prisoners of Saratoga fell under his care. In
June, 1779, he returned to the main army, and
commanded the troops on the Hudson, and in
that station, for the most part, he remained until
the close of the war. In 1793 he was appointed
judge of probate for the county of Norfolk. He
was several times one of the electors of president.
He pubh'shed memoirs of Maj-Gen. Heath, con
taining anecdotes, details of skirmishes, battles,
etc., during the American war, 8vo., 1798. Not
withstanding the indications of an excusable
vanity and simplicity, it exhibits him as an honest,
faithful patriot, and presents many interesting
occurrences of the war. He says of himself,
" he is of middling stature, light complexion,
very corpulent, and bald-headed." He was the
last surviving maj. -general of the Avar. — HcallCs
Memoirs.
IIEBARD.
HENDREN.
HEBARD, STORY, teacher of the mission sem
inary at Beyroot, died at Malta in June, 1841,
aged 38. His health had been poor for a year :
he was on his way to England. Born in Leb
anon, N. II., he graduated at Amherst college
in 1828, and at Andover seminary in 1834, and
embarked for his field of labor Dec. 3, 1835.
HEBARD, REBECCA, missionary, wife of Story
Hebard, died at Beyroot, Feb., 1840. Her name
was Rebecca W. Williams, of East Hartford.
She embarked for B. in 1835, and was married in
1836. The scenes of her death-bed were strik
ing, — her exhortation to the Bishops Carabet
and Jacob Aga, and their prayer for her; and
her address of half an hour to the boys of the
seminary, pointing them to the Lamb of God,
directing their weeping eyes to the mansions of
glory, she was about to enter.
HECKEWELDER, JOHN, a Moravian mission
ary, died at Bethlehem, Penn., Jan. 21, 1823,
aged nearly 80. He was born in Bedford, Eng
land, March 12, 1743, and came with his father to
Pennsylvania in 1754. He was bred a cooper
and joiner. In 1771 he commenced his benevo
lent labors amongst the Indians, and was devoted
to their instruction for many years, amidst many
perils and hardships. Such men, and not blood
stained warriors, are deserving of honor, though
they seek it not. In 1786 he returned to Beth
lehem. As he had acquired a perfect knowledge
of the Delaware language, and was well acquainted
with Indian affairs, he was repeatedly requested
by Washington to accompany missions to the In
dians for pacific purposes. In 1797 he went to
Ohio in order to superintend the remnants of his
Indian congregation, to whom congress had
granted lands on the Muskingum. In 1810 he
returned to Bethlehem. Dr. Wistar persuaded
him to communicate to the world the result of
his observations. He published correspondence
with Mr. Du Ponceau concerning the languages
of the Indians, 1819; account of the history,
manners, etc., of the Indian nations, etc., in tran
sact, of hist, committee of American phil. soc.,
vol. I.; this was translated into French, 1822 ; com
munications on the .same subjects, 1822; some
papers for Barton's med. journal; a paper on the
bird Nine-Killer, and the big naked bear, Ameri
can phil. tr. vol. iv.; on the beaver, vol. VI.; narra
tive of the missions among the Delaware and
Mohegan Indians, 1821 ; words and dialogues of
Delaware Indians in Philadelphia historical trans.,
vol. I. He wrote also books and pamphlets in
the German language, and left many manuscripts.
— Encyc. Amer.
HEDDING, ELIJAH, D. D., a Methodist
bishop, died April 9, 1852, at Poughkeepsie, aged
72. lie was the respected senior of the five
Methodist bishops.
HEDGE, LEVI, LL. D., died at Cambridge in
1854, aged about 74. A graduate of 1792, he was
a tutor and professor at Harvard thirty-seven
years ; professor of logic and metaphysics from
1810 to 1827, and Alford professor of theol
ogy from 1827 to 1832. He published elements
of logic, 1816 ; eulogy on Joseph McKean, 1818;
Brown's philosophy abridged, 2 vols., 1827.
IIEIIL, MATTHEW, bishop of the church of the
United Brethren, died in Lancaster, Pa., in 1787,
aged 82.
HEISTER, JOSEPH, general and governor,
died at Reading, Pa., June 10, 1832, aged 81.
He was a soldier of the Revolution.
HELYER, JONATHAN, minister of Newport,
R. I., died May 27, 1745, aged about 27. Born
in Boston, he graduated at Harvard in 1738, and
was ordained as colleague to T. Clap, June 20,
1744. He was a man of great worth and high
promise. — Sprague's Annals.
HEMINGWAY, JACOB, first minister of East
Haven, Conn., died in 1754, aged about 70. He
graduated at Yale in 1704, was settled in 1711,
and was succeeded by N. Street. He published
the election sermon, 1740.
HEMMENWAY, PHINEAS, minister of Town-
send, Mass., died May 20, 1760, aged 55. A
brother of Ralph II., of Framingham, he was
graduated at Harvard in 1730, and was ordained
in 1734. M. Hemmenway, D. D., was bis
nephew. — Sprat/tie's Annals.
HEMMENWAY, MOSES, D. D., minister of
Wells, Me., a descendant of Ralph II., who lived
in 1034 at Roxbury, was born in Framingham,
and graduated at Harvard college in 1755 ; was
ordained Aug. 8, 1759; and died April 5, 1811,
aged about 76, having been a minister fifty-one
years. His wife, the daughter of Mr. Jefi'erds,
one of his predecessors, died Nov., 1824, aged
84. He was a faithful preacher and a learned the
ologian. His controversies were conducted with
fairness and candor. He published seven ser
mons on the obligation of the unregeneratc to
strive for eternal life, 1767; a pamphlet on the
same subject, against Dr. Hopkins, pp. 127,
1772 ; remarks on Hopkins' answer, pp. 166,
1774; on baptism, 1781; at the election, 1784;
discourse concerning the church, 1792 ; at the
ordination of M. Calef, 1795. — Oreenleafs
Sketches, app. 4-9 ; Spr ague's Annals.
HENCHMAN, NATHANIEL, minister of Lynn,
Mass., died Dec. 23, 1761, aged about 63. Born
in Boston, he graduated at Harvard in 1717, and
was ordained in 1721. He published sermon on
the death of John Burrill, 1721; at the ordina
tion of J. Varney, 1733 ; reasons for not admit
ting Mr. Whitcfield into his pulpit, 1745 ; letter
to Mr. Hobby concerning Mr. Whitefield.
HENDREN, JOHN, D. D., an aged minister of
Churchville, Va., died in Nov., 1856, during a
session of the Synod, of Avhich he was a member.
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To his brethren, as he was about to die, he sent a
most touching message. He was highly respected.
HENDRICK, a Mohawk chief, was the son of
a Mohegan chief, called the Wolf, by a Mohawk
woman. He married Hunnis, daughter of a Mo
hawk chief. He was consulted in 1751, by the
commissioners of Massachusetts, on the project
of removing the Mohawks to Stockbridge, to be
instructed by Mr. Edwards. There were then
about thirteen chiefs of the tribe of the Caunee-
yenkees or proper Mohawks ; seven living at
Caunaujohhaury, and six at Tewauntaurogo. The
other tribes were the Oneiyutas, of which the vil
lage Onohquauga was two hundred miles from
Albany, the Tuscaroroes, the Quiuquuhs, the
Onoontaugas, the Chonuntoowaunees or Senecas,
the three last being chiefly in the French interest.
He attended the congress at Albany for a treaty
with the Six Nations in June, 1754. In the next
year he joined Sir AVilliam Johnson with a body
of two hundred Mohawks and marched to meet
Baron Dieskau. When it was ascertained that
the enemy, after marching from the South Bay
to the Hudson, four miles from fort Edward, were
now advancing to attack Johnson at fort Wm.
Henry or fort George, a council of war was called
Sept. 8. It was proposed to send a detachment
to meet the enemy ; when the number was men
tioned to Hendrick, he replied : " If they are to
fight, they are too few ; if they are to be killed,
they are too many." When it was proposed to
send out the detachment in three parties, Hen
drick took three sticks, and said : " Put these to
gether, and you can't break them ; take them one
by one, and you will break them easily." From
respect to his judgment, twelve hundred men
were sent out, commanded by Col. Williams.
At Rocky Brook, four miles from fort George,
they fell into an ambuscade, because Hendrick
had been too late sent out as a flank guard ; and
in the action the old and valiant warrior and
faithful friend of the English was mortally
wounded. — Holmes, H. 63 ; Dwiglit, ill. 363 ;
Manic, 35, 37.
HENDRICKS, WILLIAM, governor of Indiana,
died in Madison May 16, 1850, aged 67. He
was the first representative of the State in con
gress, governor from 1822 to 1825, and senator
of the United States. He had a strong mind
and strong attachments ; he had long been a pro
fessor of religion.
1IENLNG, WILLIAM, presiding judge of the
court of appeals of Virginia, died at his seat in
Chesterfield, Va., in Feb., 1824, aged 89. He
was a Revolutionary patriot and an upright judge.
HENING, WILLIAM WALKER, clerk of the
chancery court for the Richmond district, Va.,
died March 31, 1828. With great industry and
research he collected the statutes of Virginia
do mi to 1792. He published the New Virginia
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justice, called Hening's justice, 3d ed., 1820 ;
statutes at large, being a collection of all the laws
of Virginia from the first session in 1619, 13 vols.,
8vo., 1823 ; and with Wm. Munford, reports in
the supreme court of appeals, 4 vols., 1809-1811.
He was also the editor of Francis' maxims of
equity.
HENNEPIN, Louis, a French missionary,
was born in 1640 ; embarked for Quebec in 1675 ;
and during six or seven years explored Canada
and Louisiana. In 1680 he was taken prisoner
one hundred and fifty leagues from the mouth of
the Illinois, and carried in to the country of the
Naudowessies and Issati. He gave the name of
the falls of St. Anthony, and the river St. Fran
cis. He published description de la Louisiane,
12mo., 1683 ; the same in Dutch, 1688 ; new
discovery of a vast country in America, with a con
tinuation, London, 1698 ; Nouveau voyage dans
1'Amerique, Sept., 12mo., 1711 et 1720. — School-
craffs Trav. Intr.
HENRY, PATRICK, governor of Virginia, and
a most eloquent orator, died June 6, 1799, aged
nearly 63. He took an early and decided part in
support of the rights of his country against the
tyranny of Great Britain. In the year 1765, he
was a member of the assembly of Virginia, and
he introduced some resolutions, Avhich breathed a
spirit of liberty, and which were accepted by a
small majority May 29. These were the first res
olutions of any assembly occasioned by the stamp
act. One of the resolutions declared, that the
general assembly had the exclusive right and
power to lay taxes and impositions upon the in
habitants of the colony. Such was the warmth,
excited in the debate, that Mr. Henry, after de
claiming against the arbitrary measures of Great
Britain, added, " Caesar had his Brutus, Charles
the first his Cromwell, and George the third "
when the speaker of the house cried out " Trea
son ! " and the cry was echoed from every part of
the house. Mr. Henry finished the sentence with
firm emphasis — " may profit by the example.
If this be treason, make the most of it." Mr.
Henry left a paper for his executors, in which he
speaks of the resolutions of 1765, which closes
with these words : " If they [the people] are
wise, they will be great and happy. If they are
of a contrary character, they will be miserable.
Righteousness alone can exalt them as a nation.
Reader, whoever thou art, remember this ; and
in thy sphere practice virtue thyself and encour
age it in others." He was elected in 1774 one
of the deputies from Virginia to the first congress,
and was in this year one of the committee which
drew up the petition to the king. In May, 1775,
after Lord Dunmore had conveyed on board a ship
a part of the powder from the magazine of Wil-
liamsburg, Mr. Henry distinguished himself by
assembling the independent companies of Han-
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over and King William counties, and directing
them towards Williamsburg with the avowed
design of obtaining payment for the powder, or
of compelling to its restitution. The object was
effected, for the king's receiver-general gave a bill
for the value of the property. The governor im
mediately fortified his palace, and issued a proc
lamation, charging those, who had procured the
bill, with rebellious practices. This only occa
sioned a number of county meetings, which ap
plauded the conduct of Mr. Henry, and expressed
a determination to protect him. In Aug., 1775,
when a new choice of deputies to congress was
made, he was not re-elected, for his services were
now demanded more exclusively in his own State.
After the departure of Lord Dunmore he was
chosen the first governor in June, 1776, and he
held this office several succeeding years, bending
all his exertions to promote the freedom and
independence of his country. In the beginning
of 1778 an anonymous letter was addressed to
him with the design of alienating his affections
from the commander-in-chief. He inclosed it to
Washington, both to evince his friendship and to
put him on his guard. In another letter, written
a few days afterwards, when he had heard of a
plan to effect the removal of Washington, he says
to him, " While you face the armed enemies of
our liberty in the field, and, by the favor of God,
have been kept unhurt, I trust your country will
never harbor in her bosom the miscreant, who
would ruin her best supporter ; but when arts,
unworthy of honest men, are used to defame and
traduce you, I think it not amiss, but a duty, to
assure you of that estimation in which the public
hold you."
In June, 1788, he was a member, with other
illustrious citizens of Virginia, of the convention
which was appointed to consider the constitution
of the United States ; and he exerted all the force
of his masterly eloquence, day after day, to pre
vent its adoption. He contended that changes
were dangerous to liberty ; that the old confed
eration had carried us through the war, and se
cured our independence, and needed only amend
ment; that the proposed government was a
consolidated government, in which the sovereignty
of the States would be lost, and all pretensions
to rights and privileges would be rendered inse
cure ; that the want of a bill of rights was an
essential defect; that general warrants should
have been prohibited ; and that to adopt the con
stitution with a view to subsequent amendments
was only submitting to tyranny in the hope of
being liberated from it at some future time. He
therefore offered a resolution, containing a bill of
rights and amendment for the greater security of
liberty and property, to be referred to the other
States before the ratification of the proposed
form of government. His resolution, however,
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was not accepted. The arguments of Pendleton,
Randolph, Madison, and Marshall prevailed
against the eloquence of Henry, and the consti
tution was adopted, though by a small majority.
Mr. Henry's bill of rights and his amendments
were then accepted and directed to be transmitted
to the several States. Some of these amend
ments have been ingrafted into the federal constitu
tion, on which account, as well as on account of
the lessons of experience, Mr. Henry in a few
years lost in a degree his repugnance to it. As
he had opposed the constitution with all the force
of his eloquence, because endangering the sover
eignty of the States, his support of the constitu
tion afterwards presents a memorable example to
all the nullifiers of the constitution, — to all who
would resist the supreme law of the land and en
danger the union. He offered himself a short
time before his death a candidate for the hovse
of delegates, and in his address said to the peo
ple, — in consequence of some proceedings of the
assembly, — " The State has quitted the sphere
in which she has been placed by the constitution.
What authority has the County of Charlotte to
dispute obedience to the laws of Virginia? And
is not Virginia to the Union what the County of
Charlotte is to her? Opposition on the part of
Virginia to the acts of the Federal Government
must beget their enforcement by military power.
This will produce civil war ; civil war, foreign alli
ances; and foreign alliances must end in subjuga
tion to the powers called in. Pause and consider.
Rush not, I conjure you, into a condition, from
which there is no retreat." " You can never ex
change the present government but for a mon
archy. If the Administration have done wrong,
let us all go wrong together, rather than split
into factions, which must destroy that union, on
which our existence hangs." After the resigna
tion of Mr. Randolph in Aug., 179o, he was nom
inated by President Washington as secretary of
State, but considerations of a private nature in
duced him to decline the honorable trust. In
Nov., 1796, he was again elected governor of Vir
ginia, and this office also he almost immediately
resigned. In the beginning of the year 1799, he
was appointed by President Adams as an envoy
to France, with Messrs. Ellsworth and Murray.
His letter in reply to the secretary of State is
dated in Charlotte county, April 16th, and in it ha
speaks of a severe indisposition, to which he was
then subject, and of his advanced age and increas
ing debility, and adds, " Nothing short of absolute
necessity could induce me to withhold my little
aid from an administration, whose abilities, patri
otism, and virtue deserve the gratitude and rever
ence of all their fellow citizens." Governor
Davie of North Carolina was in consequence ap
pointed in his place. He lived but a short time
after this testimony of the respect in which his
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talents and patriotism were held. He died at
lied Hill in Charlotte county. By his first wife
he had six children, of whom two survived him ;
by his second wife he had six sons and three
daughters, who survived him. By judicious pur
chases of lands he left his family rich. His
widow married the late Judge Winston, and died
in Halifax county, Feb. 15, 1831.
He was a man of eminent talents, of ardent
attachment to liberty, and of most commanding
eloquence. The Virginians boast of him as an
orator of nature. His general appearance and
manners were those of a plain farmer. In this
character he always entered on the exordium of
an oration. His unassuming looks and expres
sions of humility induced his hearers to listen to
him with the same easy openness, with which they
would converse with an honest neighbor. After
he had thus disarmed prejudice and pride and
opened a way to the heart, the inspiration of his
eloquence, when little expected, would invest him
with the authority of a prophet. With a mind
of great powers and a heart of keen sensibility,
he would sometimes rise in the majesty of his
genius, and, while he filled the audience with ad
miration, would with almost irresistible influence
bear along the passions of others with him.
In private life he was as amiable and virtuous
as he was conspicuous in his public career. He
was temperate. He never uttered a profane ex
pression, dishonoring the name of God. He was
kind and hospitable, friendly to his neighbors,
punctual, and faithful to his promise. Yet it was
thought, that the love of money was too strong a
passion in his heart, rendering him exorbitant in
his fees, and leading him to partake in the profit
of the Yazoo speculation ; and that he was also
too vain of his wealth. If this be true, it will
detract from his excellence of character. He said
to a friend, just before his death, who found him
reading the Bible, — " Here," said he, " is a book
worth more than all the other books that were
ever printed; yet it is my misfortune never to
have found time to read it, with the proper atten
tion and feeling, till lately. I trust in the mercy
of heaven that it is not yet too late." He was
not a member of any church. His principles of
liberty and regard to Christianity led him to de
plore the practice of slavery. On this subject, in
a letter written in 1773, he inquires : " Is it not
amazing, that at a time when the rights of hu
manity are defined and understood with precision,
in a country above all others fond of liberty ; that
in such an age and such a country we find men,
professing a religion, the most humane, mild,
gentle, and generous, adopting a principle as re
pugnant to humanity as it is inconsistent with the
Bible, and destructive to liberty ? Would any one
believe, that I am master of slaves of my own
purchase ? I am drawn along by the general in-
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convenience of living here without them. I will
not — I cannot justify it. I believe a time will
come, when an opportunity will be offered to
abolish this lamentable evil. Every thing we can
do is to improve it, if it happens in our day ; if not,
let us transmit to our descendants, together with
our slaves, a pity for their unhappy lot, and an
abhorrence of slavery." With what astonishment
and indignation, had he lived till 1856, would he
have seen a sober recommendation, by unprincipled
southern editors and one governor, of the revival
of the slave trade ? In another letter to Archi
bald Blair, written a few months before his death,
after lamenting the violence of parties in Vir
ginia, and reprobating French infidelity, and
manners, and politics, he adds : " I am too old and
infirm ever again to undertake public concerns.
I live much retired, amidst a multiplicity of bles
sings from that gracious Ilulcr of all things, to
whom I owe unceasing acknowledgments for his
unremitted goodness to me. And if I were per
mitted to add to the catalogue one other blessing,
it should be, that my countrymen should learn
wisdom and virtue, and in this their day to know
the things that pertain to their peace." Mr.
Wirt's very interesting life of Henry was pub
lished, 3d edit., 8vo., 1818.
HEXltY, ALEXANDER, a traveller, died at
Montreal April 4, 1824, aged 84. He was born
in New Jersey in Aug., 1739. In 1760 he ac
companied the expedition of Amherst, and was
present at the reduction of fort de Levi, near
Ontario, and the surrender of Montreal. In de
scending the river he lost three boats of merchan
dize, and saved his life by clinging to the bottom
of one of them. Immediately after the conquest
of Canada, in his enterprising spirit he engaged
in the fur trade. He visited the upper lakes in
1760, and during sixteen years travelled in the
northwestern parts of America, and was in many
scenes of hardship and peril. He was a man of
warm affections, domestic habits, and a generous
mind. lie published an interesting book, written
with simplicity : Travels in Canada and the In
dian territories, between the years 1760 and 1776,
8vo., New York, 1809.
HEXltY, JOHN JOSEPH, presiding judge of
the second district of Pennsylvania, was the son
of Wm. II., of Lancaster, a skilful mechanic, in
ventor of the screw auger, and commissary of the
troops at the beginning of the war. He was
born Nov. 4, 1758. At the age of seventeen he
entered the army in 1775, and accompanied Ar
nold through the wilderness of Maine to Quebec.
In the attack on the city he was wounded and
taken prisoner. Having afterwards studied law,
he practised from 1785 till 1793, when he was
appointed judge. He died about the year 1810
at Paxton, Dauphin county, aged 52. His wife
was the sister of Stephen Chambers. His inter-
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esting account of the expedition across the wil
derness to Quebec was published at Lancaster,
12mo., 1812.
HEXIIY, WILLIAM, general, a soldier of the
Revolution, died in Christian county, Ky., in 1824,
aged G3. At an early age he entered the army,
and fought at the battles of Guilford and the
Cowpens. Removing to Kentucky, he was much
engaged in the Indian warfares, so harassing to
the early settlers. He participated in the hard
ships of Scott's and Wilkinson's campaigns.
HENRY, T. CHARLTON, D. D., minister of
Charleston, S. C., was the son of Alexander
Henry, of Philadelphia, president of the Sabbath
school union, and was graduated at Middlebury
college in 1814. He was the pastor of the 2d
Presbyterian church at C., and died Oct. 5, 1827,
aged 37. For talents, acquisitions, holy zeal, and
usefulness in the ministry, few are superior to him.
He published an inquiry into the consistency of
popular amusements with a profession of Chris
tianity, 1825 ; letters to a friend to relieve an
anxious inquirer, with memoirs by Th. Lewis,
London.
HENRY, ALEXANDER, a merchant, died at
Philadelphia, Aug. 13, 1847, aged 81. Born in
Scotland, in his eighteenth year he arrived at
Philadelphia in 1783. He first was a clerk at
250 dollars a year. As he entered upon business
on his own account, he was highly prosperous, and
acquired a large estate, in the use of which he
was charitable and generous. An elder in the
Presbyterian church, he performed important ser
vices in the cause of Christ. Before a tract soci
ety was formed, he distributed tracts ; he was
president of the board of education and of other
societies, which, on account of his death, passed
commendatory resolutions. A notice of him is in
the Merchant's Magazine, Jan., 1856. Dr. Mc
Dowell published a sermon on his death.
HENRY, ROBERT, D. D., died at Columbia,
S. C., Feb. 6, 1856 ; for many years professor of
Greek literature in South Carolina college.
HENSHAW, DAVID, died at Leicester, Mass.,
Nov. 11, 1852, aged 62. He w'as the son of
David, and grandson of Daniel, who went from
Boston to Leicester in 1748. His earlier ancestor
was Joshua, of Dorchester, in 1668. He was
successful in commerce, and was collector of the
port of Boston for eight years from 1830. He
was appointed secretary of the navy in 1843, but
was rejected by the senate.
HENSHAW, JOHN P. K., D. D., bishop of
Rhode Island, died July 20, 1852, aged about 62.
Born in Middletown, Conn., he graduated at Mid
dlebury in 1808, and, after being a rector at Bal
timore many years, was consecrated bishop in
1843.
HENTZ, N. M., professor, died at Marianna,
Florida, Nov. 4, 1856. He was the husband of
Caroline Lee Hcntz. Born in France, after he
came to this country he was associated with
George Bancroft in his school at Round Hill,
Northampton. He was a man of varied accom
plishments. He published papers on the alligator
and on new species of insects in the American
philosophical transactions ; Tadenskund, the last
king of the Lenape, 12mo., 1825.
HENTZ, CAROLINE LEE, died at Marianna,
Florida, Feb. 11, 1856. She was the daughter or
Gen. John Whiting, and sister of Gen. Henry W.
She at the age of twelve wrote a novel and a
tragedy. Married to Prof. Hentz, she lived at
Chapel Hill, N. C. ; then near Cincinnati ; then at
Florence, Ala., and at Tuscaloosa. She was an
excellent teacher, pleasing in appearance, and her
conversational powers were of a high order. She
published De Lara, or the Moorish bride ; the
mob cap, Aunt Mercy, the blind girl, the peddler,
the Village anthem ; Lovell's folly, a novel ; and
Ernest Linwood, 1856. — Cycl. Arner. Lit.
HERKIMER, general, of the militia of New
York, was of German descent. When St. Leger,
in 1777, invested fort Stanwix, afterwards called
fort Schuyler, at the head of Mohawk river, Hcr-
kimer, with the militia of Tryon county, hastened
to the relief of Col. Gansevoort. On his ap
proach he was ambuscaded in August, about six
miles from the fort, near Oneida creek. Though
mortally wounded in his legs, he seated himself
upon a stump and heroically encouraged his men
to the fight ; but his party was defeated with the
loss of four hundred men. Congress ordered a
monument to his memory. — Holmes, II. 270 ;
Ilist. Coll. II. 108.
HERRERA, ANTONIO DE, a Spanish historian,
was born in 1559, and died in 1625. He pub
lished in Spanish a general history of the West
Indies, 1601 ; also, 1615. The same has been
published in various editions and languages. It
gives an account of discoveries from 1492 to 1553.
The history of America, translated by J. Stevens,
was published at London, 2d edit, 6 vols., 1740.
HERSEY, EZEKIEL, an eminent physician of
Ilingham, Mass., and a benefactor of Harvard
college, was graduated at that seminary in 1728,
and died Dec. 9, 1770, aged 62. His widow mar
ried Capt. Derby, of Salem, and, in fulfilment of
his wishes, established an academy at Ilingham,
calling it Derby instead of Hersey academy. Dr.
II. was remarkably humane and benevolent, and
had extensive practice as a surgeon. He be
queathed to the college 1000 pounds towards
founding a professorship of anatomy and surgery.
His widow also gave the same sum for the same
purpose. Dr. AVarren was the first who was es
tablished on this foundation. — Holmes.
HERSEY, ABNER, an eminent physician of
Barnstable, Mass., died Jan. 9, 1787, aged 65.
He was the brother of the preceding, the son of
HERVEY.
James Hersey. He studied physic with his
brother James, of Barnstable, and on his decease
succeeded to his practice. Dr. Thacher was his
pupil. He had many singularities. His dress
was loose, lined throughout with baize. He had
a great coat made of seven calf-skins, to protect
him from the rain. He was hypochondriacal, ca
pricious, whimsical, and churlish ; and domestic
peace was a stranger to his family. He had no
children. He bequeathed to Harvard college
500 pounds toward the establishment of a pro
fessorship of the theory and practice of physic.
The first professor in this department was Dr.
"VVaterhouse. Dr. Hersey also bequeathed about
500 pounds, the interest of which he directed to
be applied annually to the purchase of religious
publications, which should be distributed in all
the towns on Cape Cod. He directed what books
should be selected for a hundred years ; after the
expiration of which time the ministers and dea
cons of the thirteen parishes, to whose care his do
nation is intrusted, are authorized to select any
religious books at their pleasure, excepting on
every fourth year. On the petition of the parties
the legislature authorized the division of the prop
erty among the churches interested. — Thacher.
HERVEY, WILLIAM, missionary to Bombay,
died May 13, 1832, aged 33. He was born at
Kingsbury, N. Y., and graduated at Williams
college in 1824, where he was a tutor; studied
theology at Princeton ; was ordained as a mis
sionary in 1829. His disease was the cholera.
Mr. Read's letter on his death is in the Mission
ary Herald for 1832. He toiled in the East only
one year ; but his example might do good for
many a year after his departure from life.
HERVEY, ELIZABETH, wife of William Her-
vey, missionary to Bombay, died May 2, 1831,
aged 33. She was the daughter of Deacon Jacob
Smith, of Hadley, Mass. Her grandmother, who
died at the age of 101, could count among her
descendants twenty-one ministers. She died
peacefully soon after her arrival. Her character
is described in Missionary Herald for 1831 and
1832. Her husband died the next year.
HERWIG, LEOPOLD, a musical teacher, died
in Boston, suddenly, of an affection of the heart,
Nov. 1, 1845, aged 34. He led the orchestra at
a concert the same evening.
HEULET, J., died in Groton, Conn., in 1821,
aged 95, father by one wife of 27 children.
HEWARD, JOSEPH, died in Broomfield, Me.,
Nov. 11, 1851, aged 93. He served in the war,
and was in Morgan's rifle regiment.
HEWITT, ALEXANDER, published an historical
account of South Carolina and Georgia, 2 vols.,
London, 1779.
HEWES, JOSEPH, a patriot of the Revolution,
was born in 1730 in New Jersey. His parents
were Quakers. At the age of thirty he settled
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as a merchant at Edenton, N. C. In 1774 he
was a member of congress, and was appointed on
the committee to state the grievances of congress.
Although a merchant, he entered heartily into
the plan of non-importation. He signed the
Declaration of Independence in 1776, and re
mained in congress, with the exception of a year,
till his death at Philadelphia, Nov. 10, 1779, aged
49. He left a large fortune, but no children. It
is said that when, in 1775, the Quakers put forth
a " testimony " against the proceedings of con
gress, he withdrew from the sect. — Goodrich's
Lives; Encyclopedia Americana.
IIEWES, ROBERT, Dr., died in Boston in 1830,
aged 79. He was long a celebrated fencing-mas
ter and bone-setter. He published rules for
sword-exercise of cavalry, 12mo., 1813.
HEYWARD, THOMAS, judge, a patriot of the
Revolution, died in March, 1809, aged 63. He
was born at St. Luke's, S. C., in 1746, the son of
Col. Daniel H., a wealthy planter. Having stud
ied law at the temple in London, he spent some
years in a tour on the continent of Europe. On
his return he practised law. In 1775 he was ap
pointed a member of congress in the place of
Mr. Rutledge, and in 1776 signed the Declaration
of Independence. In 1778 he was appointed
judge of the civil and criminal courts. At the
capture of Charleston, May 12, 1780, he bore
arms and fell into the hands of the enemy, and
was sent to St. Augustine. His plantation was
plundered, and he lost one hundred and thirty
slaves, who were probably transported to Jamaica.
Having at last permission to sail to Philadelphia,
he narrowly escaped drowning, having fallen over
board. In 1798 he relinquished his judicial
duties. By his two wives, whose names were
Matthews and Savage, he had children. With
an ardent disposition he yet had a sound judg
ment, and was honest, firm, and fearless. — Jjiog.
Amer. ; Goodrich.
HIACOOMES, the first Indian in New Eng
land who was converted to Christianity, and a
minister at Martha's Vineyard, lived upon this
island when a few English families first settled
there in 1642. Under the instruction of Thomas
Mayhew he eagerly received the truths of the
gospel. Having learned to read, he in 1645
began to teach his copper-colored brethren the
Christian doctrines, and he did not labor in vain.
A number of them were soon impressed with a
sense of their guilt in living as they had lived
and sought for pardon from him who is the pro
pitiation for the sins of the world. The sachems
and pawaws, or priests, did not observe this pro
gress of Christianity with indifference. While
the latter threatened to destroy all the praying
Indians with witchcraft, their menaces were par
ticularly directed against Iliacoomes ; but he said
to them, "I believe in God, and put my trust in
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him; therefore all the pawaws can do me no
hurt." In 1650, when he lost a young child, the
funeral was performed in the English manner.
The mourners did not discolor their faces, nor
deposit any utensils or goods in the grave, nor
howl over the dead. After the death of Mr.
Mayhew in 1657, he continued his benevolent
labors, though he greatly lamented the loss of
that good man, by whom he had been enlightened
in the knowledge of the truth, and whose in
structions gave him the power of instructing
others. August 22, 1670, an Indian church was
regularly formed on Martha's Vineyard, and Ilia-
coomcs and Tackanash were ordained its pastor
and teacher by Eliot and Cotton. Hiacoomes
survived his colleague, and died about the year
1690, aged near 80. In 1698 his son, John Hia
coomes, was a preacher and schoolmaster at
Assawampsit, or Middleborough. He was a
faithful and successful minister, slow in speech,
grave in manners, and blameless in his life. He
•was courageous in reprehending the Indians for
worshipping their false gods and adhering to
their pawaws. He was not elated by the high
office which he sustained, but ever continued
humble. At the ordination of Mr. Japhet, who
succeeded Tackanash, as Ins colleague, he prayed,
imposed hands, and gave the charge with much
propriety. In his last sickness he expressed the
hopes of a Christian, and gave good exhortations
to those around ; and at his death he without
doubt entered into that rest from which many of
the learned and refined, who love not the Lord
Jesus Christ, will be excluded. — Mayhew's In
dian Converts; Mather's Magnolia, III. 199.
HICKS, ELIAS, a Quaker, died at Jericho, Long
Island, Feb. 27, 1830, aged 81. His wife, Jemima,
with whom he had lived in harmony fifty-eight
years, died in 1829. In the last years of his life
he was the cause, by some new doctrines which
he advanced, of a great discord and division
among the Friends.
HICHBO11N, BENJAMIN, a Boston patriot, died
in 1817, aged about 70. He delivered an oration
at Boston March 5. 1777, which was published in
4to. ; an oration at Boston July 4, 1784.
HIDDEX, SAMUEL, first minister of Tamworth,
N. II., died in 1837, aged 77, in the forty-sixth
year of his ministry. Born in llowley, Mass., he
graduated at Dartmouth in 1791. He was or
dained in 1792 on a rock near where the meeting
house was afterwards built. Settled in a country
almost a wilderness, his holy zeal led him to
preach the gospel widely around him. To his
own church more than five hundred were added.
His son William was a deacon. He was greatly
respected and beloved. In death he had triumph.
He said, " Just draw back the veil, and I am
there ! " His lyre, for he loved sacred music,
was tuned for the last song :
" Angels, roll the rook away!
Death, yield up the mighty prey! "
The rock, on which he was ordained, is near his
grave ; the rock of his hopes standeth forever !
His memoir was published in 1842.
HIGGINBOTHAM, THOMAS, died in Amherst
county, Va., in Feb., 1835. He emancipated fifty
slaves.
HIGGIXS, DAVID, a venerable minister, died
at Bath, N. Y., in June, 1842, aged 81, pastor of
the first Presbyterian church in that town. Born
at Haddam, he graduated at Yale in 1785. He
was first settled at Lyme for eighteen years, then
at Auburn, N. Y. He was an early, earnest, and
faithful laborer in the vineyard of Western New
York. In his old age he preached at Norwalk,
Ohio, and by one account he died there.
HIGGINSON, FRANCIS, first minister of Salem,
Mass., died in Aug., 1630, aged 42. After re
ceiving his education at Emanuel college in Cam
bridge, he became the minister of a church at
Leicester, in England. Here he devoted himself
to the duties of his office, bending all his efforts
to produce that renovation of heart and holiness
of life, without which no man can see the king
dom of God. While his popular talents filled his
church with attentive hearers, such was the divine
blessing upon his labors, that a deep attention to
religious subjects was excited among his people,
and he witnessed with pleasure the progress of
uprightness, benevolence, and piety among the
dishonest, the selfish, and the impious. Becom
ing at length a conscientious nonconformist to
the rites of the English church, some of which
he thought not only were unsupported by
Scripture, but corrupted the purity of Christian
worship and discipline, he was excluded from the
parish pulpit. But he obtained liberty to preach
a lecture in Leicester, and often attended private
meetings for prayer and religious conference with
a number of excellent Christians. As the spirit
of ecclesiastical tyranny became more jealous and
rigorous, information was lodged against him, and
while he was daily expecting to be dragged away
by pursuivants to the high commission court, a
kind Providence interposed remarkably in his
favor, and provided for him a place of security.
One day two messengers came to his house, and
with loud knocks cried out, " Where is Mr. Hig-
ginson ? We must speak with Mr. Higginson ! "
His wife ran to his chamber and entreated him
to conceal himself; but he replied that he should
acquiesce in the will of God. He went down, and
as the messengers entered the hall they presented
him with some papers, saying, in a rough manner,
" Sir, we came from London, and our business is
to convey you to London, as you may see by those
papers." — "I thought so," exclaimed Mrs. Hig
ginson, weeping ; but a woman's tears could have
little effect upon hard-hearted pursuivants. Mr-
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Iligginson opened the packet to read the form of
his arrest, but, instead of an order from Bishop
Laud for his seizure, he found a copy of the char
ter of Massachusetts, and letters from the gover
nor and company, inviting him to embark with
them for New England. The sudden transition
of feeling from despondence to joy inspired him
with the same good humor which induced his
friends to act the part of his enemies, and a pleas
ant interview succeeded.
Having sought advice and implored the Divine
direction, he resolved to accept the invitation. In
his farewell sermon, preached before avast assem
bly, he declared his persuasion, that England
would be chastised by war, and that Leicester
would have more than an ordinary share of suf
ferings. It was not long before his prediction was
verified. It is not meant that he claimed the
power of foretelling future events ; but he could
reason with considerable accuracy from cause to
effect, knowing that iniquity is generally followed
by its punishment, and he lived in an age when it
was usual for ministers to speak with more confi
dence, and authority, and efficacy, than at pres
ent. He sailed from Gravesend April 25, 1G29,
accompanied by Mr. Skclton, whose principles ac
corded with his own. When he came to the Land's
End he called his children and the other passen
gers on deck to take the last view of their native
country; and he now exclaimed : " Farewell Eng
land, farewell the church of God in England, and
all the Christian friends there. We do not go to
America as Separatists from the church of Eng
land, though we cannot but separate from its cor
ruptions." lie then concluded with a fervent
prayer for the king, church, and state in England.
He arrived at Cape Ann June 27, 1629, and hav
ing spent the next day there, which was Sunday,
on the 29th he entered the harbor of Salem.
July the 20th was observed as a day of fasting by
the appointment of Gov. Endicott, and the church
then made choice of Mr. Iligginson to be their
teacher, and Mr. Skelton their pastor. Each with
the assistance of some of the gravest members of
the church laid his hands at this time on the other
with prayer. A more solemn investiture took
place August Gth, when about thirty persons ac
cepted a confession of faith and church covenant,
which had been drawn up by Mr. Iligginson, and
the two ministers were again ordained by the im
position of hands. Governor Bradford and others
from the church of Plymouth gave them the right
hand of fellowship. As both these ministers had
been ordained by bishops in England, and as Mr.
Iligginson professed not to be a separatist from the
established church, this ordination cannot be con
sidered as investing them with the sacred office,
but only as introducing them to the pastoral care
of a particular flock. Thus auspicious was the
commencement of the settlement of Naumkeak,
or Salem ; but the scene was soon changed. Dur
ing the first winter about one hundred persons
died, and Mr. Iligginson was soon seized with a
hectic, which terminated his days. In his last
sickness he was reminded of his benevolent exer
tions in the service of the Lord Jesus Christ. To
consoling suggestions of this kind he replied, "I
have been an unprofitable servant, and all my de
sire is to win Christ, and be found in him, not
having my own righteousness." His family, con
sisting of his wife and eight children, whom he
was about to leave without a suitable provision for
their maintenance, he cheerfully commended to
the care of God, being fully persuaded that his
favor would attend them.
He was a zealous and useful preacher, mild
in his doctrines, but strict in discipline. He ad
mitted none into the church without satisfactory
evidence that they were truly religious, and ex
cluded the ignorant and immoral from the table
of the Lord. In his deportment he was grave,
and pure in morals, and, though not rash in his
decisions, he was not easily shaken from his pur
poses. In his person he was slender and not tall.
His son, Francis Iligginson, went to Europe, and
after residing some time as a student at Leyden,
was settled as a minister at Kerby Steven in
Westmoreland, England, where he died about
the year 1G70, aged 54. He was the first who
wrote against the Quakers, and he published also
a Latin treatise concerning the five principal
lights, uncreated and created light, and the light
of nature, grace, and glory.
Mr. Higginson, of Salem, wrote an account of
his voyage, which is preserved in Hutchinson's
collection of papers. He wrote also a short ac
count of that part of Massachusetts, which was
now settling, and of the Indians, entitled, New
England's plantation, or a short and true descrip
tion of the commodities and discommodities of
that country, 1630. It has been reprinted in the
collections of the historical society. This curious
account is generally correct, though the isle of
slates, and the marble, and the lions existed only
in report and imagination. — Maynalia, I. 18,
19; ill. 70-75; Coll. Hist. Soc. I. 117-124;
VI. 231, 242-244; ix. 2-3 ; Sprague's Annals.
HIGGINSON, JOHN, minister of Salem, Mass.,
died Dec. 9, 1708, aged 92. He was the son of
the preceding, and was born in England Aug. 6,
1616. Some time after the death of his father,
with whom he came to this country in 1629, he
was the instructor of a school at Hartford, his
mother with six of her children being somewhat
dependent upon his exertions for her support.
Having become a preacher, he was chaplain at
Saybrook fort a number of years. In 1641 he
went to Guilford, and preached about two years
as an assistant to Mr. Whitfield, whose daughter
he married. In 1643 he was chosen one of the
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seven pillars of Guilford. The practice of choos
ing from among the brethren seven persons, who
were called pillars, to whom the other church-
members were gathered, had before been adopted
in New Haven and Milford. After the church
was completely organized in Guilford in 1643,
Mr. Higginson was elected teacher to assist Mr.
Whitfield ; but he was not ordained. About
the year 1650 Mr. Whitfield returned to Eng
land, and Mr. Higginson remained as teacher of
the church. But in 16,39 he left that town with
the intention of revisiting his native country. On
his arrival at Salem he was persuaded to preach
one year in the church, where his father had been
settled, and was ordained in Aug., 1660. Here
he continued near half a century till his death.
He had been seventy-two years in the ministerial
office. His colleague, Mr. Nicholas Noyes, says
of him in his elegy :
" For rich array cared not a fig,
And wore Elisha's periwig;
At ninety-three had comely face,
Adorned with majesty and grace :
Before he went among the dead,
lie children's children's children had."
By his second wife he had two daughters, one
of whom married Jeremy Dummer. By his first
wife he had seven children. John was of the gov
ernor's council and lived in Salem ; Nathaniel
graduated at Harvard in 1670, went to England,
was employed in the tower, was governor of fort
St. George in the East Indies, and at last a mer
chant in London, where he died in 1708 ; Thomas
went to England and was a goldsmith, and sailing
from Arabia was never heard of again ; Francis
was educated at Cambridge in England, and died
young ; and Henry, a merchant, died in Barba-
does in the West Indies, in 1685. At his ordina
tion the hands of the deacons and one of the
brethren were imposed in the presence of the
neighboring churches and elders. Whether they
united in this ceremony is not known, but Mr.
Norton, of Boston, gave the right hand of fellow
ship. Mr. lligginson was at first zealous against
the Quakers, and he lived to lament that his zeal
was so warm. As a preacher he was highly re
spected. Judge Sewall calls him, " that aged
and venerable divine ; " and l)r. Mather speaks
of him, in the eighty-eighth year of his age, as
then performing the duties of his office with such
manly, pertinent, judicious vigor, and with so lit
tle decay of his intellectual abilities, as excited
admiration. In his worldly affairs he was often
embarrassed, being supported during part of his
ministry by voluntary contribution. It is consid
erable evidence of his good sense and of his
benevolence, that he took no part in the proceed
ings relating to witchcraft in 1692. Some of his
letters are in the Historical Collections, 3d series.
He published an election sermon, entitled, the
HILL.
cause of God and his people in New England,
1663 ; our dying Saviour's legacy of peace to his
disciples in a troublesome world, with a discourse
on the duty of Christians to be witnesses unto Christ,
unto which is added some help to self-examina
tion, 1686 ; an attestation to Dr. Mather's mag-
nalia, or church history of New England, prefixed
to that work, and dated, 1697 ; a testimony to
the order of the gospel in the churches of New
England with Mr. Hubbard, 1701 ; an epistle to
the reader, prefixed to Hale's inquiry into the na
ture of witchcraft, 1702 ; a preface to Thomas
Allen's invitation to thirsty sinners ; the deplor
able state of New England, 1708. — Magnolia,
in. 66, 76 ; Coll. Hist. Soc. \i. 243, 244, 259-
294,271,272; Sprague's Annals.
HIGHTOWN, JOSHUA, died in Marengo county,
Ala., Aug., 1844, aged 126. Family records at
test his age. He was wounded at Braddock's
defeat, and was also a soldier of the llevolution.
HILDRETII, HOSEA, died at Sterling July 10,
1835, aged 53. Born in Chelmsford in 1782, a
graduate of Harvard in 1805, he was a minister
for some years at Gloucester, Mass., afterwards
secretary of the Massachusetts temperance so
ciety. He published discourse at Exeter acad
emy, 1825; Dudlcian lecture, 1829; lives of
evangelists and apostles, 1830. •
HILL, ABRAHAM, died at Oxford, Mass., June
8, 1788, aged 69. Born at Cambridge, he gradu
ated at Harvard in 1737, and was the minister of
Shutcsbury from 1762 to 1778, when he was dis
missed. Hand's sermon at his ordination was
published. — Sprague's Annals.
HILL, HENRY, a merchant in Boston, died
July 7, 1828, aged 92. He graduated in 1756.
HILL, EBENEZER, minister of Mason, N. IT.,
died May 27, 1854, aged 88. He was born at
Cambridge, Mass., Jan. 29, 1766, was graduated
at Harvard in 1786, and ordained Nov. 3, 1790.
He had been settled more than fifty years. lie
published a sermon on the death of Ruth Batch-
eller, another on the death of William K. Batch-
eller, 1811. Seth Payson's sermon at his ordina
tion was published.
HILL, ISAAC, governor of N. II., died at
Washington March 22, 1851, aged 63. Born in
Cambridge, his parents removed when he was a
boy to Ashburnham. With little education he
became a printer, and as editor issued the New
Hampshire Patriot in 1809. It gained a wide
circulation and great influence in the party called
republican. In 1829 Jackson appointed him
second comptroller of the treasury ; but the next
year his nomination was rejected by the senate.
In 1831 he was chosen senator for six years, but
resigned in 1836 to accept the office of governor
of N. II., to which place he Avas rcchoscn in
1837 and 1838. In 1840 he was sub-treasurer
at Boston. He had long been pension agent.
HILL.
lie and two sons established Hill's New Hamp
shire Patriot, which was united with the Pat
riot in 1847. He published also the Farmer's
Monthly Visitor.
HILL, WILLIAM, I). D., died in Winchester,
Va., Nov. 16, 1852, aged 83. He was the minister
of W. from 1800 to 1838, and afterwards in Alex
andria and elsewhere. He was a powerful ex
temporaneous preacher; a man generous and
impetuous. He opposed what is called the ex
scinding act of his church in 1838, and joined
the New School Assembly. For the last five
years he lived in retirement with his children. —
N. Y. Observer, Dec. 2.
HILL, EBENEZER, died in Mason, N. H., May
20, 18,34, aged 88. A native of Cambridge, a
graduate of Harvard in 1796, he was the minister
of M. sixty-three years, having a colleague seven
teen years. — N. Y. Observer, July 6.
HILLIIOUSE, WILLIAM, judge, died Jan. 12,
1816, aged 87. He was the son of James H.,
iirst minister of the second church in New Lon
don, now Montville, who was a native of Ireland,
and was installed Oct. 3, 1722, and died in 1740.
He was born in 1727, and was for fifty years a
member of the legislature; for forty years a
judge of the court of common pleas, and also
judge of probate." During the Revolutionary war
he was one of the council of safety. His seat in
the council he resigned in 1808, and died at
Montville. He was a man of integrity, a Chris
tian, and an unshaken patriot.
HILLIIOUSE, JAMFS ABRAHAM, a distin
guished lawyer, the brother of the preceding, was
born at New London about 1729. He was grad
uated at Yale college in 1749, and was tutor from
1750 to 1756. He afterwards practised law at
New Haven, where he died Oct. 3, 1775, aged
46. His widow, Mary, died July, 1822, aged 87.
He had a high reputation as an advocate, and was
a zealous supporter of the rights of his country.
His Christian life was exemplary ; he was adorned
by meekness, humility, and charity. — Holmes'
Life of Stiles, 66.
1IILL1IOUSE, JAMES, LL. D., died of apo
plexy, suddenly, at New Haven Dec. 29, 1832,
aged 78. He was born at Montville Oct. 21,
1754, and was graduated at Yale in 1773. Hav
ing studied law, he took an active part in the
Revolutionary struggle. A member of congress
in 1791, he was chosen a senator in 1794, and
continued in the senate sixteen years, resigning
his seat in 1810. He was then commissioner of
the school fund of Conn, for fifteen years. From
1782 for fifty years he was treasurer of the col
lege. In 1825 he undertook the construction of
the Farmington and Hampshire canal, in which
he sunk much property, a railroad having taken
the place of the canal. His wife was a daughter
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of Col. M. Woolsey, of Dosoris. — Bacon's
Sketch.
IIILLI-IO'USE, JAMES ABRAHAM, a poet, died
at New Haven, Jan. 5, 1841, aged 51. The son
of the preceding, he was graduated at Yrale in
1808; and was distinguished for his acquirements,
taste, and character. He published Percy's
Masque, 1820 ; Hadad ; and the judgment. His
whole works were published in 2 vols., 12mo.,
1839, entitled dramas, discourses, and other
pieces.
IIILLIARD, TIMOTHY, minister of Cambridge,
Mass., died May 9, 1790, aged 43. He was born
in Kensington, N. II., in 1746, and was graduated
at Harvard college in 1764. In 1768 he was ap
pointed chaplain of castle William, and after offi
ciating a few months was elected a tutor of the col
lege, in which he was educated. He was ordained
the minister of Barnstable April 10, 1771, as the
successor of Mr. Green ; but after continuing his
benevolent exertions in this place for twelve
years, respected and beloved by his people, he
was induced in consequence of his impaired
health, occasioned by the dampness of the sea air,
to request a dismission, which was given him
April 30, 1783. He was succeeded by John Mel-
len. On the 27th of Oct., he was installed at
Cambridge, as colleague Avith Dr. Appleton. He
was peculiarly well qualified for the conspicuous
station, in which by Divine providence he was
now placed ; for he possessed an easy and pleas
ing elocution, and a devotional manner, and his
discourses were pure in language, and replete
with judicious sentiments, well arranged, instruc
tive, and truly evangelical. But the power of
doing good was continued to him but a few years.
In the midst of his usefulness and with increasing
reputation, he died suddenly. A short time be
fore he expired, he expressed his full confidence
in God, and said, that he enjoyed those consola
tions which he had endeavored to impart to
others. AVhile he was respected for his talents
and acquisitions, and made himself pleasing in
social intercourse, he also possessed an amiable
temper, kind and sympathetic feelings, and the
genuine benevolence of the gospel. Though firm
in the maintenance of his religious sentiments, he
was yet conspicuous for his candor. He published
two fast sermons, 1774; a sermon at the execu
tion of three persons, 1785 ; at the ordination of
Henry Ware, 1788; of Bczaleel Howard; of
John Andrews, 1789 ; and a Dudleian lecture,
1788. — Willard's Funeral Sermon; Holmes'
Hist, of Cambridge; Coll. Hist. Soc. III. 16;
VII. 63-67 ; Sprague's Annals.
IIILLIARD, WILLIAM, the son of Rev. Tim
othy II., of Cambridge, was a bookseller in Cam
bridge and Boston, and died at Cambridge, April
27, 1836, aged 57. He was descended from
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Emanuel Ililliard of Hampton, N. II., who was
lost with six others in a boat in 1657. In the old
records his name stands Em. Ililliar. Timothy
of Hampton, in 1686, was probably his son. Mr.
William Ililliard was among the early and exten
sive booksellers of Boston, and was a man of
great worth and highly respected. Through his
purchase of the ancient libraries of monasteries
in Germany, Dr. Homer procured valuable docu
ments, illustrating the labors of the reformers in
biblical learning. He left two sons, Francis, a
lawyer in Boston, and William. He published
address to charitable mechanic association, 1827 ;
to masons, 1829. — Sprac/ne's Annals.
HILLIAHD, TIMOTHY, Episcopal minister in
Portland, Me., the son of liev. Timothy II., of
Cambridge, died in Claremont, N. II., Jan. 2,
1842, aged 64. He was born in Barnstable, grad
uated with his brother Joseph at Harvard in 1793,
and was rector at Portland from 1803 to 1808.
HILLIARD, JOSEPH, the son of Rev. Timothy
H., died at Berwick, Maine, in 1843, aged 69.
Pie was graduated at Harvard in 1793, and was
the minister of Berwick from 1797 to 1825, when
he was dismissed.
HILLS, EBENEZER, a colored man, died in
Vienna, N. Y.,Aug. 3, 1849, aged 110. lie was
born a slave at Stonington, and was free at the
age of 28. He served through the Avar, was in
various battles, and was present at the surrender
of Burgoync. Can it be right to deny to such a
man, of a black color, the right of voting, given
to the most ignorant, freshly-arrived white Irish
man?
HILLYER, ASA, D. 1)., minister of Orange,
N. J., died Aug. 28, 1840, aged 76 ; a graduate
of Yale in 1786. He was a native of Massa
chusetts.
HILTON, EDWARD, the first settler of New
Hampshire, was sent over by the proprietors of
Laconia, with his brother William and David
Thompson in 1623. He set up a stage for fishery
at Dover. After fifteen or twenty years he re
moved to Squamscot patent, or Exeter, where he
died about 1671, leaving an estate of 2200
pounds. He left sons Edward, William, Samuel,
and Charles. His descendants and those of his
brother are numerous in N. II. and Maine.
HILTON, WINTHROP, colonel, the grandson
of the preceding, was killed by the Indians, while
at work in the woods of Epping in 1710. He
accompanied Church in his expedition in 1704;
and in 1705, with two hundred and fifty English
and twenty Indians, went against Norridgewock
on snow shoes and burned the Indian wigwams
and chapel. He was the son of Edward, and his
mother Ann was the daughter of Rev. S. Dudley
and Ann Winthrop, the son and daughter of Gov
ernors Dudley and Winthrop.
HINCKLEY, THOMAS, the last governor of
Plymouth, died at Barnstable in 1705, aged 75.
He was the son of Samuel II., who lived in Scit-
uate in 1636, removed to Barnstable in 1639, and
died in 1662. lie M~as born about 1630. lie
was chosen governor in 1680, and continued in
office, except when interrupted by Andros, till
the union of the old colony with Mass., in 1692.
Among the manuscripts of the New England, or
old south church library, which were deposited in
1817, in the historical library, are 3 vols. folio of
papers, collected by Gov. Hiiickley.
IIINCKLEY, SAMVEL, register and judge of
probate many years, died at Northampton in 1840,
aged 83. He was a graduate of Yale in 1781, a
descendant of Samuel, who lived in Scituate in
1638.
HINDE, Doctor, family physician of General
Wolfe, was a native of England, born in 1737,
and was with Wolfe when he fell on the plains
of Abraham Sept. 13, 1759. lie afterwards set
tled in Virginia in the neighborhood of Patrick
Henry, whom he accompanied, when he marched
against Lord Dunmore. His practice as a phy
sician and surgeon was extensive both in Virginia
and Kentucky, whither he removed. He died in
Newport, Ivy., in 1829, aged 92. Educated an
Episcopalian, he became a deist, and ridiculed
Christianity. When his wile and daughter
attached themselves to the Methodists, in his
rage he banished his daughter from his house,
and to cure his wife of her insanity he applied a
blister to her spine. But, as he used to say,
" God turned the huge blister upon his own
heart." Her meekness and fortitude under this
malignant cruelty awakened his attention to the
religion which sustained her ; and in the result
he became a Methodist. For nearly half a cen
tury he was a devout adherent of that sect of
Christians. No waking hour ever passed, who
ever might be present, in which he did not utter
some expression of admiration for the Christian
faith. No patient was visited without first pray
ing in secret for success, nor without assembling
the family, on his arrival at the house, and pray
ing for the recovery of the sick. — West. Journ.
Med. and Plnjs. Sciences.
HINMAN, EPHRAIM, general, died in Ilox-
bury, Conn., Dec. 11, 1829, aged 76. He was the
son of David of Southbury; and removed in 1784
to lloxbury, where he was thirty years a mer
chant. He was a man of dignified appearance
and was fond of military life; he was made brig
adier-general in 1805. The close of his life was
marked by humility and attachment to the ortho
dox faith. One of the Hinman family, Royal
R. Hinman, late secretary of Conn., now of the
city of New York, is publishing, in successive
numbers, a catalogue of the first Puritan settlers
of Conn. No. 5 was published 1856.
IIINSDALE, ABEL K., missionary to the Nes-
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torians, died in Dec., 1842. A native of Torring-
ton, Conn., he graduated at Yale college in 183.3;
in Jan., 1841, he sailed from Boston. He had a
quenchless zeal to promote God's glory, but he
was permitted to toil only a short time in the
missionary field.
HINSDALE, NANCY, Miss, died in Troy May
16, 1 85 >, aged 82; a useful teacher of females.
She was the daughter of llev. Theodore II., of
Windsor, Conn. In 179G she commenced the
buisnessof teaching in Pittsficld, Mass. In 1830
she removed to Troy. In her last hours she ex
claimed, " Blessed hope ! blessed hope ! " — N. Y.
Observer, June 26.
HINSDELL, EBENEZER, a descendant of Rob
ert Ilinsdale of Dedham in 1638, and afterwards
of Deerfield, died in 1763, aged about 56. He
graduated at Harvard in 1727, and was ordained,
with Stephen Parker and Joseph Seccomb, as a
missionary to the Indians, in 1733, when Dr.
Sewall preached the ordination sermon. —
Sprague's Annals.
HITCHCOCK, GAD, D. D., minister of Pem
broke, Mass., was graduated at Harvard college
in 1743, and after a ministry of fifty-five years
died Aug. 8, 1803, aged 85. He was frank, affa
ble, and hospitable; in his old age many profited
by his instructions. He published a sermon to a
military company, 1757 ; at the ordination of E.
Hitchcock, 1771; at the election, 1774; anniver
sary at Plymouth, Dec., 1774 ; Dudleian lecture,
1779.
HITCHCOCK, ENOS, D. D., minister of Provi
dence, Rhode Island, died Feb. 27, 1803, aged
58. He was a native of Springfield, Mass., and
was graduated at Harvard college in 1767. He
was ordained in 1771, a colleague of the aged
Mr. Chipman, pastor of the second church in
Beverly. At the commencement of the war his
zeal for his country's rights induced him to be
come a chaplain in the American army. Believ
ing that his duty to the public and to his family
required that his connection with the church in
Beverly should be dissolved, he was dismissed in
1780. In intervals of leisure from duty in the
camp he preached at Providence, and was installed
Oct. 1, 1783. Distinguished by active, habitual
benevolence through life, at his death he be
queathed 2500 dollars for the establishment of a
fund for the support of the ministry in his society.
He paid great, attention to the education of youth,
and, while he wrote upon the subject, he projected
and promoted the establishment of free schools.
He was an excellent preacher and died in peace.
He published a book of catechetical instructions
and forms of devotion for children and youth ;
memoirs of the Bloomsgrove family, a work on
education, 2 vols., 12mo., 1790 ; discourse on na
tional prosperity; farmer's friend, 12mo., 1793;
at a dedication ; on education; new years; a ser
mon at the dedication of his meeting-house, 1795 ;
an essay on the Lord's supper ; at the ordination
of A. Flint, 1791; of Jonathan Gould, 1793; of
E. Fiske, 1799 ; on the death of Washington ;
of Mrs. S. Bowcn, 1800. — Tapijan's Sermon
on his death.
HITCHCOCK, SAMUEL, died at Burlington,
Vt., in 1814, or end of 1813, aged 59, a judge of
the circuit court of the United States. He grad
uated at Harvard in 1777.
HITCHCOCK, SAMUEL J., judge, died at New
Haven Aug. 31, 1845, aged 59. Born in Bethle
hem, a graduate at Yale of 1809, he was a judge
of a county court and the principal instructor
in Yale college law school.
HITCHCOCK, HARVEY R., missionary to the
Sandwich Islands, died in 1855.
HITE, ISAAC, major, an officer of the Revolu
tionary war, died at Bellegrave, Va., Nov. 30,
1836, aged 80.
HOAR, LEONARD, M. D., president of Harvard
college, died Nov. 28, 1675, aged about 45. He
was graduated in that seminary in 1650, and in
1653, went to England and took the degree of
doctor in medicine at the university in Cambridge.
He was afterwards settled as a minister of Wen-
stcd in Sussex, from which parish he was ejected
for his nonconformity in 1662. He returned to
this country in 1672, and preached a short time
as an assistant to Thomas Thacher, at the south
church in Boston. In July he was chosen presi
dent, to supply the loss of Mr. Chauncy, and was
inducted into this office Sept, 10th. As a scholar
and a Christian he was very respectable; but
being deficient in a spirit of government, and fall
ing under the displeasure of a few men of influ
ence in the neighborhood, the students were thus
encouraged to array themselves against him, and
his situation was rendered so unpleasant that he
was under the necessity of resigning his office
March 15, 1675. He was succeeded by Mr.
Oakes. The injuries which he had suffered visi
bly affected his health, and induced a consump
tion, of which he died. While he was president,
there was a contribution through the colony for
erecting a new building for the college, and 1895
pounds were collected. A valuable letter of Dr.
Hoar to Josiah Flint, giving him direction in his
studies, is published in the collections of the his
torical society. — Maynalia, iv. 129; Collect.
Historical Society, VI. 100-108.
HOAR, JOHN, died at Concord, Mass., in 1701;
he had lived there since 1660. Mrs. Rowlandson
was by him restored from Indian captivity. His
son, Daniel, was the great grandfather of Samuel,
the following.
HOAR, SAMUEL, LL. D., died at ConcowJ,
Mass., Nov. 2, 1856, aged 78. Born in Lincoln
May 18, 1778, he graduated at Harvard in the
large and distinguished class of 1802. He
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practised law with success for more than half a
century in Concord ; and he was a respected and
honored citizen, who was elected to various offi
ces, the duties of which he most faithfully dis
charged. In the State he was a representative,
councillor, and senator, and a member of congress
in 1836. His mission to South Carolina is a mat
ter of historical record. Some negro free citizens
of Massachusetts, seamen in northern vessels,
were imprisoned at Charleston for no crime, but
under certain police regulations of the city con
cerning the blacks. The government of Massa
chusetts sent Mr. H. to Charleston to commence
a suit against the perpetrators of the offence in
the United States court. He was prevented
from executing his purpose by a mob of white
citizens, who drove him from the city Dec. 5,
1844; and the legislature in a distant city on the
same day passed resolutions, authorizing the gov
ernor to do what the mob had already done. To
the slaveholders of the south, who subsist by the
extorted labor of slaves, — inherited, or pur
chased, or begotten by themselves, and their own
children, — the sacred obligations of the constitu
tion in regard to the rights of all free citizens of
the United States, whether of a lighter or darker
hue, are deemed of no importance, compared with
the imagined security of " their own institution,"
as in soft words slavery is called. It is to be
hoped the day will come, when they will respect
not only the rights of the Northern States but
the rights of their own offspring and of the de
scendants of men kidnapped and brought to this
country by the God-abhorred race of men-stcalers.
Mr. Hoar was a worthy member of the Unita
rian church in Concord. He took a leading part
in the cause of temperance. His wife, who sur
vived him, was a daughter of Roger Sherman of
Conn. Judge E. Rockwood Hoar, named after a
classmate, is his son, with two other sons and two
daughters. His classmate, William Minot, has
been asked to prepare a memoir of Mr. Hoar.
He published a speech in congress on slavery in
the district of Columbia, 1836.
HOBART, PETER, first minister of Hingham,
Mass., the son of Edmund II., was born in Hing
ham, England, in 1604, and was educated at the
university of Cambridge. After he began to
preach, the impositions of the prelatical party in
duced him to come to this country. He arrived
June 8, 1635, and in Sept. he began, with a num
ber of his friends, a new plantation at Hingham.
Here he continued till his death, Jan. 20, 1679,
aged 74. Four of his sons were respectable min
isters, Joshua of Southold, L. I., Jeremiah of
Topsfield and Haddam, Gershom of Groton,
M^ass., and Nehemiah of Newton. — Mar/nalia,
III. 153-155; Winthrop, III., 222; Sprague's
Annals.
HOBART, GERSHOM, second minister of Gro
ton, died in 1707, aged 62. Born in Hingham,
the son of Rev. P. H., he graduated at Harvard in
1667. He was settled in 1679. succeeding S.
"Willard, and was succeeded by D. Bradstreet,
Trowbridge, Dana, and Chaplin.
HOBART, NEHEMIAH, minister of Newton,
the son of Rev. Peter H., was born Nov. 21, 1648,
and was graduated at Harvard college in 1667.
After preaching two years at Newton, he was
ordained Dec. 23, 1674, as successor of Mr. Eliot,
and died Aug. 12, 1712, aged 63. Mr. Cotton
succeeded him. He was humble, pious, and
learned. He published a sermon entitled, the
absence of the Comforter described and lamented.
— Hist. Coll. V. 267-269; IX. 169.
HOBART, JEREMIAH, minister of Haddam,
Conn., died in 1715, aged 84; or, by another ac
count, in 1717, aged 86. lie died on Sunday in
his chair after returning from public worship.
The son of Rev. Peter II., of Hingham, he grad
uated at Harvard in 1650, and afterwards became,
from 1672 to 1680, the minister of Topsfield.
Thence he removed, in 1683, to Hempstead, on
Long Island ; but, his people neglecting to give
him adequate support, he left them, and was set
tled in the ministry at Haddam Nov. 14, 1700.
One of his daughters was the mother of David
Brainerd.
HOBART, JOSHUA, died at Southold, Long
Island, in 1717, aged 88, in the forty-sixth year of
his ministry. The son of Rev. Peter H., he grad
uated at Harvard in 1650, in the class of his
younger brother, Jeremiah, and was ordained at
Southold in 1674.
HOBART, NEHEMIAH, minister of Cohasset,
died in 1740, aged 42; the son of David, and
grandson of Rev. Peter H. He was a graduate
of Harvard in 1714.
IIOBART, NOAH, minister of Fail-field, Conn.,
died Dec. 6, 1773, aged 68, in the forty-first year
of his ministry. He was the grandson of Rev.
Peter H., and the son of David, of Hingham.
He was graduated at Harvard college in 1724,
and was ordained Feb. 7, 1733, as the successor
of Joseph Webb. In a few years a number of
persons in Fairfield county adopted the Episco
palian worship, separating themselves from the
Congregational churches, and some of the Epis
copal missionaries represented the ministers of
the country as not the true ministers of Christ.
In consequence of this he was induced to write
upon the subject of Presbyterian ordination, and
to vindicate its validity in a sermon, which he
preached at the close of the year 1746. In an
swer to him Mr. Wetmore wrote his vindication
of the professors of the church of England. A
controversy now commenced, in which Mr. Hobart
had for his opponents Dr. Johnson, Mr. Wetmore,
Mr. Beach, and Mr. Caner. He contended that
the inhabitants of the American plantations were
HOBART.
not obliged by any laws of God or man to con
form to the prelatic church, as established in the
south part of Great Britain ; that it was not pru
dent to embrace the Episcopal communion ; and
that it was not lawful for members of the New
England churches to separate from them and pro
duce a schism. He also animadverted upon the
conduct of the society for propagating the gospel
in foreign parts, and upon the misrepresentations
of its missionaries. This controversy lasted a
number of years. He buried two wives, eight
children, and 1093 parishioners. His first wife,
whom he married Sept. 22, 1735, was Ellen Sloss.
His relict, Priscilla, died at Plymouth July, 1798,
aged 92. lie was her third husband, as she was
his third wife. In his life he exhibited the virtues
and in his death the resignation and peace of the
Christian. Not long before his departure from
the world, as some one remarked to him that he
was going to receive his reward, he replied, " I
am going, I trust, to receive the mercy of God
through Jesus Christ," He had few equals in
this country for acuteness of genius and learning.
A sound judgment, a retentive memory, and an
uncommonly social and communicative temper,
joined to a knowledge of books, and an extensive
acquaintance with most branches of science, es
pecially with history and divinity, which were his
favorite studies, rendered his conversation very
interesting and useful. In the public offices of
religion he acquitted himself with graceful dig
nity, and with a solemnity which indicated a deep
impression of the majesty of that Being, in whose
presence he appeared. In his preaching he ad
dressed himself to the understanding rather than
to the imagination and passions, inculcating the
great doctrines of regeneration, of repentance
toward God and faith in Jesus Christ, and press
ing with earnestness upon his hearers the neces
sity of that holiness, without which no man will
be admitted to heaven. He published a sermon
at the ordination of Noah Welles, 1747 : a se
rious address to the members of the Episcopal
separation in New England, 1748 ; election ser
mon, 1750 ; a second address to the members of
the Episcopal separation in New England, 1751 ;
a vindication of the piece entitled, the principles
of Congregational churches, etc., applied to the
case of the late ordination at Wallingford, occa
sioned by remarks made thereon by Mr. Hart,
1761; on the execution of I. Frazier, 1768.—
Welles' Funeral Sermon; Holmes; Sprague's
Annals.
HOB ART, JOHN SLOSS, judge of the district
court of New York, was the son of the preceding,
and died Feb. 4, 1805, aged G6, having sustained
through life a blameless character. During the
war he was placed in some of the most important
and confidential stations in New York. Mr. Jay,
Mr. Hobart, and Mr. Yatcs were appointed the
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three judges of the supreme court, first appointed
after the Revolution. This place he held for a
number of years. In 1798 he was chosen a sen
ator of the United States.
HOBART, JOHN HENRY, D. D., bishop of New
York, and professor of theology and eloquence in
the theological seminary, died Sept. 12, 1830,
aged 55. He was born at Philadelphia, and
graduated at Princeton in 1793, and was a tutor
from 179G to 1798. After being for some years
assistant minister of Trinity church, New York,
he was consecrated bishop May 29, 1811. He
was also rector of Trinity parish. The parish in
cludes Trinity church, St. Paul's chapel, and St.
John's ; and the rector had three assistant minis
ters. Dr. Hobart's predecessors in the rector
ship were Win. Veazie from 1696 to 1746 ; Henry
Barclay from 1746 to 1764 ; Sam. Auchmuty
from 1764 to 1777 ; Charles Inglis, afterwards
bishop of Nova Scotia, from 1777 to 1783 ; Sam.
Provoost from 1783 to 1800 ; Benjamin Moore
from 1800 to 1816. While at Auburn in the
performance of his official duties, he died sud
denly, and was buried at New York. His notions
concerning the necessity of Episcopal ordination
caused him to be ranked among the high-church
men. He had a controversy on the subject with
Dr. Mason, who wrote in the Christian's magazine ;
and a controversy with Rev. J. C. Jones, an Epis
copalian, 1811. A collection of sermons on his
death, with his life, was published in 1831. He
published a companion for the festivals and fasts,
1804 ; a thanksgiving sermon ; charge to the
clergy, 1815 ; address to the New York Bible and
common prayer-book society, 1816; to the Epis
copal missionary society, 1817; sermons in 2
vols., 8vo., London, 1824; a discourse comparing
the United States with England, 1825.
HOBBAMOC, an Indian, was a Pinese, or
chief captain of Massassoit. He repaired to
Plymouth in July, 1621, to live among the set
tlers as their friend, and he proved faithful till
his death. He was the guide of Capt. Standish,
when he went, Aug. 14th, against Corbitant at
Namasket ; and he fought bravely by his side in
1623. He also accompanied the governor to
Manomet in 1623 ; and was the guide of Wins-
low and John Ilampden when they visited Mas
sassoit in the same year. Hubbard describes him
as " a proper, lusty young man." — Hist. Coll. ;
Prince.
IIOBBIE, SELAII R., major, first assistant
postmaster-general, died in Washington March
24, 1854, aged 57. He first served as a member
of congress from Delaware county, N. Y. From
1829 to 1850, and subsequently, his services in
the post-office department were very important.
His wife was a daughter of Gen. Root, of Delhi,
N. Y.
HOBBY, WILLIAM, minister of Reading, Mass.,
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was graduated at Harvard college in 1725, and
died June 18, 1765, aged 57, in the thirty-third
year of his ministry. His natural endowments
and acquirements were uncommon. He preached
with fluency, and copiousness, and fervor, and
much promoted the cause of evangelical faith,
which he zealously espoused. As he went down
to the grave, he had a joyful, triumphant hope
of eternal life. He left behind him a serious ad
dress to his people, as from the dead, charging
them to choose as his successor a faithful preacher
of the gospel, which is in Massachusetts mission
ary magazine, v. ,371-375. He published a vin
dication of the itineracy and conduct of White-
field, 1745 ; self-examination in its necessity and
advantages, 1746 ; artillery election sermon, 1747 ;
vindication of the protest against Jonathan Ed
wards' dismission, 1751.
HODGE, HANNAH, Mrs., died in Philadelphia
Dec. 17, 1805, aged 84. She was a woman of
memorable Christian excellence. She was of
English and Huguenot descent, and became early
pious, joining the church formed by Gilbert Ten-
nent in Philadelphia in 1743, one of the first mem
bers, and for more than sixty years its ornament.
She performed no deeds which gain the applause
of the world ; but she was a woman of deep piety
and active benevolence. Her husband, who died
in 1783, left her his estate, wliich, after her death,
was to be a fund for the education in Princeton
college of poor young men, destined for the min
istry. But she continued his business, the profits
of which she expended in charity. She had good
common sense, strong passions under control,
great affability and kindness ; and she was hum
ble and truly pious. — Assembly's Magazine, 1806.
HODGES, A. W., a murderer, was hung in
Tortola May 4, 1811, for whipping to death one
of his slaves. Though the jury recommended
him to mercy, the governor would not listen to
the recommendation. He was a member of the
executive council.
HODKINSON, JOHN, a distinguished theatri
cal performer, died at Washington in 1805, aged
38. He came from England in 1792. His wife,
a distinguished actress, died in 1804. He pub
lished a narrative of the old American company
of comedians.
HOFFMAN, JOSIAH OGDEN, judge, died at
New York Jan. 24, 1837. He was a judge of
the supreme court of the city.
HOFFMAN, MICHAEL, died at Brooklyn Sept.
27, 1848, aged 60. He lived first as a physician
in Hcrkimer county, and was long a member of
congress. He was a canal commissioner in 1833.
For years a member of the assembly, he showed
the talents of a debater, and statesman, and finan
cier, and the honest devotion of a patriot to the
interests of the State of New York.
HOFFMAN, DAVID, LL. D., died at New York
HOLDEN.
Nov. 11, 1854, aged nearly 70. Born in Balti
more, he was a lawyer and for twenty years pro
fessor of law in Maryland university. He pub
lished a course of legal study, 1817 ; legal outlines,
1836 ; miscellaneous thoughts ; and Viator, 1841 ;
legal hints, 1846. He had prepared chronicles,
etc., in several volumes. — Ci/c. of Amer. Lit.
HOFFMAN, OGDEN, died in New York May
1, 1856, aged 62 ; a distinguished lawyer, lie
was a son of Judge Josiah Ogden Hoffman ; he
commenced the practice in Goshen. For years
after 1836 he was a member of congress. His
second wife, Virginia, daughter of S. L. Southard,
survived him.
HOGE, MOSES, D. D., president of Hampden
Sidney college, Virginia, died at Philadelphia in
July, 1820, aged 60. His son, Rev. Samuel Da-
vies Hoge, professor of natural sciences in the
university of Ohio, died at Athens, O., Dec. 25,
1826, aged 33. After the death of Dr. Hoge, a
volume of his sermons was published.
IIOLBPtOOK, ABIAII, a schoolmaster in Bos
ton, was master of the south writing school, and
died Jan. 27, 1769, aged 50. He was an exem
plary Christian. He brought penmanship to a
perfection before unknown in this country. A
specimen of his skill is in the library of Harvard
college.
HOLBROOK, AMOS, Dr., died at Milton, Mass.,
in June, 1842, aged 88.
HOLB11OOK, JOSIAH, died near Lynchburg,
Va., by falling into Black Hock Creek while on a
geological excursion, June 17, 1854, aged 65. He
was born at Derby, and was a graduate of Yale
in 1810. He devoted himself to the cause of
popular education, and diffused a love of min
eralogy.
HOLCOMB, REUBEN, minister of Sterling,
Mass., died in 1826, aged about 72. He gradu
ated at Yale in 1774, and succeeded J. Mellen in
1779. He left 1200 dollars to missionary and
education societies, and 250 dollars to the minis
terial fund of Boylston.
HOLCOMBE, HENRY, D. D., minister of the
first Baptist church in Philadelphia, died May 22,
1824, aged 61.
HOLDEN, SAMUEL, a benefactor of the prov
ince of Massachusetts, died in London in 1740.
A sermon on his death was preached in Boston
by Dr. Colman, before the general court. Mr.
Holden was at the head of the dissenters in Eng
land, and at the head of the bank of England.
Such was his benevolence and regard to religion,
that he sent to Dr. Colman thirty-nine sets of
Baxter's practical works, in four massy folios, to
be distributed among our churches. The amount
of his charities for promoting the gospel and
other useful purposes was 4,847 pounds. After
his death his widow and daughters gave in the
same liberal and benevolent spirit 5,585 pounds.
HOLLAND.
Holdcn chapel for the college at Cambridge was
built by their donation. Mr. Holdcn was a man
of unfeigned piety. He says in a letter : " I hope
mv treasure is in heaven, and would to God my
heart were more there. Abstract from God and
futurity, I would not accept of an eternity here in
any given circumstances whatever." — Caiman's
Sermon.
HOLLAND, ABRAHAM, Dr., died at Walpole,
N. H., March 1, 1847, aged 96. He was a grad
uate of 1779.
HOLLEXBACK, MATTHIAS, judge, a patriot
of the llevolution, died at Wilkesbarre Feb. 18,
1829, aged 76. He was an early settler in the
valley of Wyoming. When the valley was deso
lated by the Indians under Butler, he was one of
the few who escaped, while his corps was mostly
destroyed. In the Revolutionary army he was a
lieutenant, and afterwards engaged in the pro
fession of the law. He had a sound judgment
and much decision of character.
HOLLEY, HORACE, LL. D., president of Tran
sylvania university, Kentucky, died July 31, 1827,
aged 46. He was born in Salisbury, Conn., Feb.
13, 1781; was graduated at Yale college in 1803;
in 1805 was ordained as the minister of Greenfield
Hill, Fail-field, and in 1809 installed the minister
of Ilollis street, Boston. In 1818 he became the
president of the university of Kentucky in Lex
ington, but was induced to resign his office in
1827. On his voyage to New York he died of
the yellow fever. He was settled in Connecticut
as a Calvinist ; but, renouncing his early faith, he
was at Boston a Unitarian. In Kentucky his re
ligious views occasioned much excitement. Some
accused him of being openly a Deist. It was
found that the college would not flourish under
his care. He published a discourse on the death
of Col. James Morrison, 1823. His memoirs
were written by his widow.
HOLLEY, MARY AUSTIN, died at New Or
leans Aug. 2, 1846, widow of Rev. Horace II.
She emigrated to Texas under the protection of
Gen. S. T. Austin; and she published a history
of Texas.
HOLLINGSHEAD, WILLIAM, D. D., minister
of Charleston, S. C., was the son of Wm. II., of
Wakefield, Penn. He graduated at the univer
sity of Pennsylvania in 1770. About the year
1783 he succeeded Mr. Tcnnent as the pastor of
the Congregational church in Charleston, where
he died Jan. 26, 1817. J. Keith was associate
pastor in 1788. lie was a distinguished theologian.
He published a sermon on opening the new
meeting-house, 1787 ; on the advantages of public
worship, 1794; commemorative of Gen. Moultrie,
1805. — Spraguc's Annals.
IIOLLIS, THOMAS, a most liberal benefactor
of Harvard college, was born in England in
1659, of pious parents, and, being impressed by
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religious truth and having embraced the principles
of the Baptists, was baptized in 1679. He died
in Feb., 1731, aged about 72. He was for many
years an eminent merchant, and, while success
attended his exertions, it pleased God to incline
him also to charitable and benevolent deeds in
proportion to his wealth. He founded two pro
fessorships in Harvard college, the professorship
of divinity and mathematics. He also presented
a valuable apparatus for mathematical and philo
sophical experiments, and at different times aug
mented the library with many valuable books. In
1727 the net produce of his donation, exclusive
of gifts not vendible, amounted to 4900 pounds,
the interest of which he directed to be appropri
ated to the support of the two professors, to the
treasurer of the college, and to ten poor students
in divinity. The liberality of Mr. Ilollis seemed
to proceed from a pious heart. He says in a let
ter, after speaking of some of his efforts to do
good : " I think not hereby to be justified. My
rejoicing is in Christ, my God and Saviour." He
also ascribes all that he was, " to rich, free, and
sovereign, electing love." Being a Calvinist in
his sentiments, he required his professor of divinity
to be " of sound or orthodox principles." Still
he was not governed by a sectarian spirit ; he did
not require the preference of his own Baptist
denomination ; but the professorship was open to
every one, who, in his view, embraced the impor
tant and fundamental doctrines of the gospel.
His first professor was Dr. Wigglesworth. His
nephew, Thomas Ilollis, who died in 1774, had a
most ardent attachment to liberty, and endeavored
to promote it by the publication and distribution
of books which vindicate the rights of man. His
benefactions to the library of Harvard college
amounted to about 1400 pounds. — Colman's and
Wigglesicortli's Sermons ; Grecmcood's Discourse
and liudd's Poem on Jiis death ; Memoirs of T.
Ilollis, l. 1; n. 598-601; Morse's True Reasons,
etc. ; Holmes.
HOLMES, JOHX, minister of Duxbury, Mass.,
died Dec. 24, 1675. Although he was not a
graduate of the college at Cambridge, he studied
theology with President Chauncy in 1658; and
soon succeeded 11. Partridge, the first minister of
Duxbury, and was the pastor about thirty-seven
years. His successors were Wiswall, Robinson,
Veazie, Turner, and Drs. S anger and Allyn. As
Elder Brewstcr built a house in D. and lived there
for a time, some have regarded him as the first
teacher of the people.
HOLMES, OBADIAH, Baptist minister, died at
Newport, 11. I., in 1682, aged 75. He was of
Salem church before 1639, and became a Baptist
at Rehoboth. His descendants were estimated at
five thousand in 1790. — Benedict's Hist. Baptists.
HOLMES, DAVID, governor of Mississippi,
died Aug. 20, 1832.
HOLMES.
IIOLYOKE.
HOLMES, ABIEL, D. D., died at Cambridge
June 4, 1837, aged 73. A native of Woodstock,
Conn., the son of Dr. David H., a patriot who died
in 1779, he graduated at Yale in 1783 ; was pastor
of a church in Midway, Geo., as successor of
Moses Allen, from 1785 to 1791 ; and in 1792
was settled at Cambridge, Mass., over the first
church, and remained pastor till 1832, when he
was dismissed. His first wife was the daughter
of President Stiles ; his second the daughter of
Judge Oliver Wendell. A memoir of him by Dr.
Jcnks, is in hist, coll., 3d series, vol. VII., to which
is added a list of his numerous sermons and other
writings, which also may be seen in Dr. Sprague's
annals of the American pulpit. He published
nearly thirty sermons and disquisitions ; among
them sermons on the deaths of Gov. Sumner,
Washington, President Willard, and Drs. Tappan
and Osgood; a century sermon, 1801; at Ply
mouth, 1806 ; on the landing at Plymouth, 1820 ;
history of English translations of the bible; at
ordination of D. Kendall, 1803 ; of W. Bascom,
1805; of J. Bartlett, 1811; of T. B. Gannett,
1814; of H. Hildreth, 1825 ; at the inauguration
of E. Porter, 1812; two discourses on the second
century, 1821; convention sermon, 1819; Dud-
leian lecture, 1810; to the antiquarian society,
1814; the life of Stiles, 1798; American annals,
in 2 vols., 1805 ; a new edition, 1829. — Sprague's
Annals.
HOLMES, JOHN, died at Portland, Me., July
7, 1843, aged 70. He was born on Cape Cod,
but in early life removed to Maine, and, residing
at Alfred, became eminent as a lawyer. He was
a distinguished member of the convention which
framed the constitution of Maine, and its first
senator. He was a representative in congress,
1817-1820; and senator, 1820-'27, and 1828-'33.
At the time of his death he was district attorney
for Maine. He was many years a trustee of
Bowdoin college.
HOLMES, JABEZ, M. D., died at Bristol, R.I ,
Nov. 4, 1851. He was vice-president of the
medical society, and had been in extensive practice
nearly forty years.
HOLT, JOHN, a printer in New York, died Jan.
30, 1784, aged 64. He was a native of Virginia,
and settled as a merchant in Williamsburg, of
which place he was elected mayor. Being un
successful in business, he repaired in 1760 to
New York, where he published the New York
Gazette and Postboy, and in 1766, the New York
Journal. In the Revolution he was a firm whig ;
he was an excellent writer in favor of his country.
While the British had possession of the city, he
published his journal at Esopus and Poughkeep-
sie ; he inserted in it Burgoync's boastful procla
mation, and subjoined, — "pride goeth before
destruction, and a liaugldy spirit before a fall."
By the enemy he lost much property. His widow
printed a memorial of him on cards, which she
distributed among her friends. — Thomas, II. 105.
HOLT, NATHAN, minister of Danvers, Mass.,
died Aug. 2, 1792, aged 67. Born in Andover,
he graduated at Harvard in 1757, and was or
dained Jan. 3, 1759. Rev. T. Phillips preached
his ordination sermon.
HOLT, FIFIELD, minister of Bloomfield, Me.,
died Nov. 15, 1830, aged about 45. Born in
Hollis, N. H., he graduated at Middlebury, 1810,
and studied theology at Andover. He was set
tled in 1815 with liberty to employ half his time
in missionary labors. For years he thus preached
the gospel faithfully in the missionary settlements.
His ardent feelings gave an acceptable unction to
his public ministrations. He was familiar and
affectionate. — Tappan's Sermon.
HOLT, THOMAS, minister of Hardwick, Mass.,
died in 1836, aged 74. Born in Meriden, Conn.,
he graduated at Yale in 1784, was settled in
1789, and was dismissed in 1805. He was then
the minister of Chebacco church in Ipswich, from
1809 to 1813 ; and afterwards lived on a farm in
Hardwick. He published a sermon at the ordi
nation of Reed Paige.
HOLT, PETER, minister of Epping, died at
Greenfield, N. H., March 25, 1851, aged about 80.
He was a graduate of Harvard in 1790 ; and his
classmate, Benjamin Hasey, a lawyer of Tops-
ham, Me., died on the previous day, March 24th.
He was twenty-eight years the minister of Epping,
six at Exeter, and eight at Peterborough.
HOLT, CHARLES, an aged newspaper editor,
died at Jersey City July 30, 1852.
IIOLTEN, SAMUEL, president of congress, was
born in Danvers, Mass., June 9, 1738, and settled
in that town as a physician. In the Revolution
he zealously espoused the cause of his country.
In 1778 he was elected a member of congress,
and continued in that body five years. He was
again elected in 1793 ; and in 1796 was appointed
judge of probate for the county of Essex, which
office he resigned in May, 1815, after having been
in public stations forty-seven years. He died in
Christian peace Jan. 2, 1816, aged 77. With a
majestic form, a graceful person, and engaging
manners, he was eminently popular. Of all the
public and private virtues he was a bright ex
ample; and he was pious from early life. —
Thacher.
HOLYOKE, EDWARD, president of Hanard
college, died June 1, 1769, aged nearly 80. He
was born in Boston, 1689, the son of Elizur. He
was graduated in the seminary in 1705, and, after
being a tutor for a few years, vvas ordained the
minister, of a new society in Marblehead, April
25, 1716. He continued in this place until 1737,
when he was elected president. He was inducted
into this office as the successor of President
Wadsworth Sept. 28th. He retained the vigor
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of his mind and considerable strength of body,
and discharged the duties of his station until a
few months before his death. He was succeeded
by Mr. Locke. As a minister of the gospel, while
he contended for the free and sovereign grace of
God in our salvation, he was also zealous for good
works, and by his benevolence, uprightness, and
the uniform integrity of his conduct he exempli
fied the lessons, which he inculcated upon others.
His excellence as a preacher was such as gained
him a high reputation. At the head of the uni
versity he possessed a dignity peculiar to himself.
His majestic appearance, his speech, and demeanor
were calculated to impress with awe; but, not
withstanding his air of dignity and authority, he
was humble in heart. He sought not praise from
men, but endeavored to secure the approbation of
God. Having a vigorous constitution, and know
ing the value of time, his hours were appropriated
to particular duties, and he was remarkable for
his punctuality, exactness, and order. He was
eminent in the various walks of literature, but he
principally exceUcd in acquaintance with mathe
matics and natural philosophy. He published an
election sermon ; at the ordination of J. Diman,
1737; at a convention of ministers, 1741; an an
swer to Mr. Whitefield, 1744. — Appleton's Ser
mon on his death ; SewalVs Orat. Funeb.; Ifist.
Coll. viii. 70-75 ; x. 158 ; Holmes ; Sprayae's
Annals.
HOLYOKE, EDWARD AUGUSTUS, M. D., a
physician of Salem, Mass., son of the preceding,
was born in Marblehead Aug. 13, 1728, graduated
at Harvard college in 1746, and died at Salem
March 31, 1829, aged 100 years and between 7 and
8 months. He was born just one hundred years
after the settlement of Salem. He was married,
first in 1755, and a second time in 1759. By his
second wife he had twelve children, of whom only
two survived him. He had been a practising phy
sician in Salem seventy-nine years ; for two years
he had no case excepting a whitlow ; for many
years he had almost all the practice in the town ; on
some days he made one hundred visits, and at one
period, as he said, there was not a dwelling-house
in Salem which he had not visited professionally.
He enjoyed during his long life almost uninter
rupted health, which may be ascribed to his exer
cise, and great temperance, to the calmness and
cheerfulness of his disposition, his virtuous prac
tice, and his pious sentiments. On his centennial
anniversary, Aug. 13, 1828, about fifty medical
gentlemen of Boston and Salem gave him a pub
lic dinner, when he appeared among them with a
firm step and cheerful look. He smoked his pipe
with them at the table, and gave an appropriate
toast relating to the medical society and its mem
bers. A memoir of his life and character has
been published.
HOLYOKE, ELIZUR, minister of Boxford,
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Mass., died in 180G, aged 75. Born in Boston,
he graduated at Harvard in 1750; he was settled
in 1759.
IIOLYOKE, SAMUEL, a teacher of music, died
at Concord, N. II., in Feb., 1820. He graduated
at Harvard 1789. He published Columbian re
pository of sacred harmony; occasional music,
Exeter, 1802.
HOMER, GEORGE JOT, died in Boston June
7, 1845, aged 63. He was a merchant of the firm
of Homes & Homer, and a man of unceasing and
memorable beneficence. Even when young, with
an income of 500 dollars, he gave half of it in
charity ; and in this manner he gave through life.
His son, Rev. B. Homer, died before him.
HOMER, JONATHAN, I). D., died at Newton,
Mass., Aug. 11, 1843, aged 84. He was descended
from John, who came to Boston in 1670. His
father was Michael, a mason. He graduated at
Harvard in 1777. He was pious and learned.
His great affliction was the loss of his son, Jona
than, a graduate of 1803, who died the next year.
He devoted much time to a comparison of old
editions of the Bible. A part of Dr. Codman's
sermon on his death was published in the Boston
Recorder of Aug. 17. He published artillery
election sermon, 1790 ; a century sermon, Dec
25, 1791 ; a history of Newton in hist, coll., vol.
I; mourner's friend, a sermon, 1793; the way of
God vindicated, on the death of his only child,
1804 ; before the society for promoting Christian
knowledge, 1828. — Sprague's Annals.
HOMER, WILLIAM BRADFORD, minister of
South Berwick, Me., died March 22, 1841, aged
24. He had been settled only four months. He
graduated at Amherst in 1836. His father was
George J. Homer of Boston ; his mother was a
descendant of Gov. Bradford. His writings were
edited by E. A. Park, who also published a me
moir of him, 2d ed., 1849.
HOMER, ELMIRA, the last of the Turkey Hill
Indians, died at the ancient wigwam of the tribe
in New Milford, Conn., in Dec., 1852. About the
same time died Sally Maminash, the last of the
Indians at Northampton.
HCMES, WILLIAM, minister of Martha's Vine
yard, died June 20, 1746, aged 83. He was born
in 1663 in the north of Ireland, and was liberally
educated. He came to this country in 1686, and
taught a school three years on the Vineyard ;
then returned to Ireland and was ordained in 1692
the minister of Strabane. He came again to this
country in 1714, and in 1715 was settled at Chil-
mark, where he died. His son, Cant. Robert
Homes, married Mary, a sister of Dr. Franklin ;
a daughter married Col. Jonathan Allen of Chil-
mark. He was a learned, judicious, orthodox the
ologian, attached to the Presbyterian forms, and
eminently pious. He published a sermon on the
Sabbath ; on the public reading of the Scriptures ;
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on church government, 1732 ; on secret prayer ;
on the government of Christian families, 1747.
HOMES, HEXKY, died in Middleborough, Mass.,
Oct. 19, 1845, aged G9. His father, William, died
in Boston in 1825, aged 83 ; and his father, Wil
liam, a goldsmith, who married Itebecca, daughter
of Thomas Dawes, died in 1789, aged 69. The
last was the son of Capt. Robert, who married
Mary, the sister of Dr. Franklin ; and he was the
son of Rev. W. Homes of Martha's Vineyard. —
He was senior partner of the firm of Homes, Ho
mer & Co., Boston. George J. Homer died a
short time before him, June 7, 1845. Of such
integrity was he, that he received from London a
very honorable token of respect from a house,
with which he had for forty or fifty years trans
acted business. He was a man of benevolence,
charity, and piety, — one of the founders of Park
street church. For more than forty years he and
his partner were not only united in business
but in Christian labors. Before the tract so
ciety was formed, their store was a depository of
religious tracts ; before the education society, they
were accustomed to make loans to young men.
The writer of this has now in his library a folio
Greek testament, given to him as a student in the
ology half a century ago by Mr. Homes. He ac
cumulated property — not for self-indulgence —
but to do good with it from day to day, in a mul
titude of charitable ways, instead of reserving it
for a huge, fame-drawing bequest. To what lay
man has the religious state of Boston for the last
half-century been more indebted than to Henry
Homes ? His son was the well-known missionary
in Constantinople. His last words were, " Lord
Jesus, come quickly ! " — Dr. E. Beecher's Serm.
on his death in Recorder, Oct. 30.
HONE, PHILIP, died at New York, May 5,
1851, aged 70; a merchant and philanthropist.
HONEYWOOD, ST. JOHN, a poet, died Sept.
1, 1798, aged 33. He was born in Leicester,
Mass., in 1764. His father, a man of literature,
who came from England, died as a surgeon in the
American army at Ticonderoga in 1776. By the
generosity of individuals he was educated, and
was graduated at Yale college in 1782. Having
studied law at Albany, he settled in the practice
at Salem, N. Y., where he died. His miscellane
ous writings, prose and verse, were published in
1801. — Specimens American Poetry, II. 43.
HONTAN, BARON LA, a traveller, was an officer
of the French army, and first went out to Quebec
in 1683. For four years he was stationed chiefly
at Chambly, fort Frontenac, Niagara, St. Joseph
at lake HTiron, and the Sault de St. Marie. In
1688 he was at Michilimackinac, and at Green
Bay in 1689, and thence he proceeded to the Mis
sissippi. Some of his accounts are the inventions
of a traveller, particularly his account of Long
river, which he ascended eighty-four days, and of
various tribes of Indians. He was an infidel as
to religion. His travels were published in French
2 A-ols., 12mo., 1705; and in English, 1732.
HONYMAN, ROBERT, M. D., a physician, Avas
a native of Scotland ; for some years was a sur
geon in the British navy ; came to this country in
1774, and settled in Louisa, Virginia; was for a
time a surgeon in the army ; and after most skil
ful medical toils for half a century, died in 1824.
He read the Greek, Latin, French, and Italian,
and with unwearied industry read almost all the
most valuable books in English, making extraor
dinary attainments in literature. His life was
honorable and upright. — T/tacher.
HOOKE, WILLIAM, minister of New Haven,
after he came to this country was a preacher at
Taunton ; was settled at New Haven in 1644, the
colleague of Davenport ; returned to England in
1656 and was Cromwell's chaplain ; and died
March 21, 1678, aged 77. He was by marriage
a cousin of Cromwell, and brother-in-law of G.
Whalley. He published a discourse on the wit
nesses ; also, New England's tears for old Eng
land's fears, a fast sermon at Taunton, July
23, 1640. His description in this sermon of
the horrors of a civil war and of the battle field
is very striking. " Here ride some dead men,
swagging in their deep saddles ; there fall others
alive upon their dead horses ; death sends a mes
sage to those from the mouth of the muskets. In
yonder file is a man, that hath his arm struck off
from his shoulder, another by him hath lost his
leg ; here stands a soldier with half a face, there
fights another upon his stumps. A day of battle
is a day of harvest for the devil." He published
also a sermon on Job n. : 12, in 1641 ; a sermon
in New England in behalf of Old England, 1645;
the privileges of the saints on earth beyond those
in heaven, 1673; a discourse of the gospel day;
the slaughter of the witnesses ; a sermon in the
supplement to the morning exercises. — Bacon's
Historical Discourse; Sprayue's Annals.
HOOKER, THOMAS, the first minister of Cam
bridge, Mass., and one of the founders of the
colony of Connecticut, died of an epidemical fever
July 7, 1647, aged 61. He was the son of Thomas,
and was born in Leicestershire, England, in 1586,
and was educated at Emanuel college, Cambridge.
In his youth he had such a deep sense of his
guilt, as filled his mind with anguish ; but at
length he found peace through the blood of the
Redeemer, and an exemplary life of piety and
goodness proved that his hope would not make
him ashamed. After preaching for some time in
London, he was chosen lecturer and assistant to
Mr. Mitchell at Chelmsford in 1626. He was re-
remarkably successful in his labors ; but, being
silenced in about four years for his nonconformity,
he established a grammar school, and continued
to exert his Avhole influence for the Christian
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cause. Forty-seven conforming clergymen in his
neighborhood petitioned the bishop of London on
his behalf; but Laud was of too imperious and
determined a spirit to suffer any circumstance to
shake him from his purpose, when he had an
opportunity to lay his hands upon a Puritan. Mr.
Hooker was obliged to flee to Holland about the
year 1G30, and he preached sometimes at Delft,
and sometimes at Rotterdam, being an assistant
to the celebrated Dr. Ames.
In 1633 he came to New England in company
with Mr. Cotton and Mr. Stone, and was settled
with the latter at Newton, or Cambridge, October
11, being ordained by the imposition of the hands
of the brethren of the church. In June, 1GI3G, he
removed with a hundred others to a fertile spot
on the banks of the Connecticut river, which they
called Hartford, having travelled through the wil
derness with no other guide than a compass. In
this new colony he had great influence in estab
lishing the order of the churches. As he was
dying, he said, " I am going to receive mercy ; "
and then closed his own eyes, and expired with a
smile on his countenance. He was a remarkably
animated and interesting preacher. With a loud
voice, an expressive countenance, and a most com
manding presence, he delivered the truths of God
with a zeal and energy seldom equalled. He ap
peared with such majesty in the pulpit, that it was
pleasantly said of him, that " he could put a king
into his pocket." He has been called the Luther
and Mr. Cotton the Mclancthon of New England.
It was his custom, it seems, to preach without his
notes. On a visit to Massachusetts in May, 1G39,
he preached on the Sabbath at Cambridge, and
Governor Winthrop went from Boston to hear
him. Having named his text in the afternoon, he
proceeded about a quarter of an hour with great
loudness of voice and vehemence of manner, when
suddenly he found himself entirely at a loss what
to say. After several ineffectual attempts to pro
ceed, he observed to the assembly, that what he
intended to have spoken was taken from him,
and, requesting them to sing a psalm, withdrew
for half an hour. He then returned and preached
about two hours with wonderful pertinency and
vivacity. After the sermon, he said to some of
his friends, " We daily confess, that we can do no
thing without Christ ; and what if Christ should
prove this to be the fact before the whole congre
gation ? " Dr. Ames declared, that he never met
with Mr. Hooker's equal cither in preaching or
disputation.
While he lived in lu's native country, he was in
vited to preach in the great church of Leicester,
and one of the chief burgesses set a fiddler in the
churchyard to disturb the worship. Mr. Hooker
elevated his voice to such a pitch and spoke with
euch animation, as to rouse the curiosity of the
man and attract him to the church door. There
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he listened, and such solemn truths reached his
cars, a-s by the blcsfing of God were the means of
his salvation; Though his own preaching was
generally very practical and experimental, he ad
vised young ministers to preach the whole system
of divinity, both for their own benefit and that of
their people. In the government of the church
he would propound nothing for decision till it had
been previously considered by some of the prin
cipal brethren, and said, " The elders must have a
church in a church, if they would preserve the
peace of the church." Though naturally irascible
in his temper, he acquired a remarkable command
of his passions. He was condescending, benevo
lent, and charitable. It was no uncommon act of
beneficence with him to give five or ten pounds to
the necessitous. At a time when there was a
great scarcity at Southampton upon Long Island,
he with some friends sent the inhabitants a small
vessel, freighted with corn. His benevolence was
united with piety. One day in every month he
devoted to private prayer and fasting, and he
used to say, that prayer was the principal part of
a minister's work. In his family he exhibited a
lively devotion, and all, who resided under his
roof, were instructed and edified by him. His
sister, Dorothy, married in England John Ches
ter, the father of Leonard. Another sister, Mary,
married Rev. Roger Newton of Farmington.
His most celebrated work, entitled, a survey
of the sum of church discipline, was published in
England in 4to., 1648, under the inspection of the
famous Dr. Thomas Goodwin, who says, "As
touching this treatise and the worthy author of it,
to preface any thing by commendation of either
were to lay paint upon burnished marble, or add
light unto the sun." In this work Mr. Hooker
contends, that each church has in itself full power
to exercise all church discipline, but that there is
a necessity for consociations, which may proceed
against a church, pertinaciously offending, with a
sentence of non-communion. Mr. John Higgin-
son transcribed from his manuscripts about two
hundred sermons, and sent them to England ;
and near one-half of them were published. The
titles of some of his discourses and treatises are
the following : the soul's preparation for Christ ;
the soul's humiliation ; exaltation ; vocation ; im
plantation ; the unbeliever preparing ; of self-
denial ; duty and dignity of saints ; on the Lord's
prayer ; on church discipline ; four treatises on
the carnal hypocrite, the church's deliverance, the
deceitfumess of sin, the benefits of afflictions,
1638 ; the soul's possession ; pattern to perfec
tion ; saint's guide ; the application of redemption ;
on Christ's last prayer, 1656 ; and the poor, doubt
ing Christian draAvn to Christ. The seventh edition
of this last excellent work was published at Boston
in 1743. — Magnolia, III. 58-68; Hist. Coll., VII.
38-41 ; Trumbull's Connect., I. 10, 48, 55, 306.
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HOOKER, SAMUEL, the second son of Rev.
Thomas Hooker, and the second minister of Far-
mington, Conn., died in 1697, aged about Go. He
graduated at Harvard in 1633, and was ordained
the successor of Roger Newton in 1658, according
to one account, in July, 1G61, according to an
other. As Mr. Newton was installed at Milford
in 1660, if Mr. II. was ordained in 1658, it must
have been as his colleague. He was a fellow of
Harvard college. Of his eleven children Mary
married Rev. Mr. Pierpont, of New Haven, and
was the mother of Sarah, the wife of Jonathan
Edwards. — Sprague's Annals.
HOOKER, NATHANIEL, minister of West Hart
ford, Conn., died June 9, 1770, aged 32, and was
succeeded by Mr. Perkins. He was the son of
Capt. Nathaniel, a descendant of Thomas H. ;
his mother was Eunice, a daughter of Gov. Tal-
cott. A graduate of Yale in 1755, he was or
dained in Dec., 1757. He was a diligent, faithful
minister. A scholar, and having a lively fancy,
his discourses abounded in imagery. His senti
ments were liberal and catholic. Feeble in health
for eight years, he sometimes had transports in
his views of future glory. He left a daughter,
but no son. He had brothers, James and Hor
ace. He published a sermon, "the invalid in
structed," 1763. Six of his sermons were pub
lished in 1771.
HOOKER, JOIIN, minister of Northampton,
Mass., was a descendant of Thomas H., being
his great grandson, and was a native of Farming-
ton. The son of John, who was the grandson of
Rev. S. H., of Farmington, he was graduated at
Yale college in 1751, and was ordained at North
ampton in 1754. After a ministry of about
twenty-three years, he died of the small pox Feb.
6, 1777, aged 48, deeply regretted by the people
of his charge, who, in testimony of their affection
and his virtues, erected a handsome monument to
his memory. Having early imbibed the genuine
spirit of Christianity, he uniformly exhibited the
evidence of it in his life. He was an able and
faithful minister, of distinguished learning, pene
tration, and prudence, of uncommon suavity of
temper, and the most engaging manners. His
widow, Sarah, daughter of John Worthington, of
Springfield, died in 1817, aged 85. He published
a sermon at the ordination of Thomas Allen, of
Pittsfield, 1764, and a sermon on the death of
John Hunt, of Boston, 1776, both of which ser
mons furnish honorable testimony of his piety and
talents. — Sprague's Annals.
HOOKER, ASAIIEL, minister of Norwich, Conn.,
died April 19, 1813, aged 51. He was a descen
dant of Thomas II., and was born in Bethlem in
1762. After the age of twenty he became a
member of the church in Farmington, whither
his parents had removed. His own efforts to ob
tain an education were aided by the benevolence
of others. He was graduated at Yale college in
1789, and was ordained in Sept., 1791, at Goshen,
where, in 1799, his labors were eminently blessed,
about eighty persons being added to the church.
There was also a revival in 1807. At this period
of his life about twenty young men studied theol
ogy with him. In consequence of ill health he
was dismissed in June, 1810. Jan. 16, 1812, he
was installed at Chelsea, or Norwich city, as the
successor of Walter King, who had been dis
missed. But he died the next year. His
wife was Phebc, daughter of Timothy Edwards,
of Stockbridge. His only son is Prof. Edward
W. Hooker, D. I)., the minister of Bennington,
Vt. One of his daughters is the widow of Elias
Cornelius ; another married Rev. Dr. Peck. Mr.
Hooker was succeeded by Alfred Mitchell. He
published five occasional sermons, among which
are a sermon at the election, 1805 ; at the ordina
tion of John Keep, 1805 ; of James Beach, 1806.
— Panoplist,~x.l. 43, 97, 145; Sprague's Annals.
HOOKER, THOMAS, Dr., died in Rutland, Vt.,
April 14, 1836, aged 57. His wife was Sally, a
daughter of Col. John Brown, of the Revolution.
His son is the minister of Falmouth, Mass.
HOOPER, WILLIAM, minister in Boston, died
April 14, 1767. He was a native of Scotland, and
was first settled May 18, 1737, as the Congrega
tional minister of the west church, and then
Episcopal minister of Trinity church Aug. 28,
1747, as successor of A. Davenport, the first rec
tor. His successors were Walter, Parker, and
Gardiner. He had talents and eloquence. He
published, the Apostles neither impostors nor en
thusiasts, 1742 ; a sermon on the death of Thomas
Greene, 1763.
HOOPER, WILLIAM, a patriot of the Revolu
tion, son of the preceding, died Oct., 1790, aged
48. After graduating at Harvard college in 1760,
he studied law with James Otis, and settled at
Wilmington, N. C. In 1774 he was elected a
member of congress, and drew up in 1775 the ad
dress to the inhabitants of Jamaica. In 1776 he
signed the Declaration of Independence. His
embarrassed private affairs induced him to resign
his place in Feb., 1777. — Goodrich.
HOOPER, LUCY, Miss, died at Brooklyn, N. Y.,
Aug. 1, 1841, aged 25. Born in Newburyport,
she lived in her last ten years in Brooklyn. Her
poetical works were published in 1848. — Cycl.
Amer. Lit.; Boston Recorder, Aug. 21, 1856.
HOOPER, ROBERT, died at Marblehead June
2, 1843, aged 77. He M'as highly esteemed, a
man of integrity and disinterestedness, and a de
vout Christian.
HOPKINS, ED\VARD, governor of Connecticut,
and a benefactor of Harvard college, died in
1657, aged 57. He was an eminent merchant in
London, and arrived at Boston with Mr. Daven
port in the summer of 1637. He soon removed
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to Connecticut, choosing rather to establish him
self at Hartford, than to join Mr. Davenport and
Mr. Eaton, whose daughter-in-law he married, at
New Haven. He was chosen a magistrate in
1G39, and governor of Connecticut every other
year from 1G40 to 1G54. Mr. Haynes was the
alternate governor. He afterwards went to Eng
land, where he was chosen warden of the English
fleet, commissioner of the admiralty and navy,
and a member of parliament. He died in Lon
don. His young wife, the sister of David Yale, a
merchant of Boston, became deranged about
1642, and died in 1G98. Governor -Winthrop
says, she had written many books, and he as
cribes the loss of her reason to her " giving her
self wholly to reading and writing ; " and he
adds, that if she had attended her household af
fairs, and not "meddled in such things as are
proper to men, whose minds are stronger, etc.,
she had kept her wits." He was a wise and up
right magistrate, and a man of exemplary piety
and extensive charity. He bequeathed most of
his estate in New England, estimated at about
1000 pounds, to trustees in Connecticut, for the
support of grammar schools in New Haven and
Hartford ; and 500 pounds out of his estate in
England for promoting the kingdom of the Lord
Jesus, which donation was considered as made to
Harvard college and the grammar school in Cam
bridge, and, by virtue of a decree in chancery,
was paid in 1710. With this money real estate
was purchased in a township named Ilopkinton,
in honor of the donor, and the legislature of the
State has made such addition to the fund, that
six bachelors may now reside at Harvard college,
and seven boys at the grammar school. — Mag-
nalia,li. 22-25; Hutcldnson, I. 82, 101; Trum-
lull, I. 241.
HOPKINS, SAMUEL, minister of "West Spring
field, Mass., died Oct. G, 1755, aged 61, in the
thirty-sixth year of his ministry. He was grad
uated at Yale college in 1718, and was ordained
June 1, 1720. He was much beloved and es
teemed. His wife was Esther, a daughter of
Ilev. Timothy Edwards. One of his daughters,
Hannah, married Col. Worthington. He pub
lished historical memoirs relating to the Ilousa-
tunnuk Indians, or an account of the methods
used for the propagation of the gospel among that
heathenish tribe under the ministry of John Ser
geant, etc., 4to., 1753. — Breck's Cent. Serm. ;
Spraguds Address.
HOPKINS, SAMUEL, D. D., minister of Had-
ley, Mass., son of the preceding, was born Oct.
20, 1729 ; was graduated at Yale college in 1749,
and was tutor ; was ordained Eeb., 1755 ; and
after a ministry of fifty-six years died March 8,
1811, aged 81. He had a paralysis in 1809, and
in 1810, John Woodbridge was ordained as his
colleague. His first wife was the relict of Ilev.
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Chester Williams and daughter of Col. Porter ;
his second was Miss Margaret Stoddard. The
daughter of Mrs. Williams, his wife, married Rev.
N. Emmons. Of his eight children by his first
wife, four were married to ministers ; to Drs.
Spring and Austin, L. Worcester, and W. Riddel.
His character and useful labors were described by
Dr. Lyman in a funeral sermon. He published
discourses on infant membership ; a half-cen
tury sermon, 1805. — Spr ague's Cent. Address
at W. Springfield; Sprague's Annals.
HOPKINS, SAMUEL, D. D., an eminent theo
logian, from whom the Christians, called Hop-
kinsians, derive their name, died at Newport Dec.
20, 1803, aged 82. He was a descendant of
John II., one of the first settlers of Hartford, by
Stephen of Hartford, John of Waterbury, and
next his own father Timothy of Waterbury;
and not a descendant of Gov. Hopkins. He was
born in Waterbury, Conn., Sept. 17, 1721. He
lived with his parents, employed in the labors of
agriculture, until he entered his fifteenth year ;
and such was the purity of manners among the
youth of this place, that he never heard from any
of them a profane expression. After having
been placed for a short time under the tuition of
Mr. Graham of Woodbury, he entered Yale col
lege, where he was graduated in 1741. While a
member of that institution he made a public pro
fession of religion. lie diligently studied the
Scriptures and was constant in his secret devo
tions ; but he was afterwards convinced, that he
did all this Avithout any true love to the character
of God, and that as yet he was .ignorant of that
religion, which has its seat in the heart. It was
during the remarkable attention to the things of
a better world, excited in the college and town of
New Haven by the preaching of Mr. Whitefield
and Gilbert Tennent in the year 1741, that his
false confidence was shaken. Such was the extra
ordinary zeal for religion, which was at that time
called into action, that a number of the members
of the college were impelled to visit their fellow
students without regard to the distinction of class
es, and to speak to them of the important con
cerns of eternity. At this period David Urainerd,
then a student, entered the room of Mr. Hop
kins, and though he could draw nothing from him
and found him completely reserved, yet he made
a remark, which sunk into his heart. He ob
served, that it was impossible for any man to be a
real Christian, who was not sometimes deeply-
affected in contemplating the character of Christ.
Mr. Hopkins could not but admit, that a warm
affection for the Redeemer would exist in those
who had been saved by him from their sins, and,
as he was conscious of no such love to the Son of
God, he became convinced, that he was destitute
of the spirit of the gospel. The sense of his
ignorance and of his sin impelled him to seek
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instruction and supplicate mercy. At length he
•was enlightened with the knowledge of the way
of salvation. The character of Jesus Christ, as
a mediator between God and man, filled him
with joy, to which he had before been a stranger.
Still, he did not indulge the hope that he was a
Christian. His mind was for some time princi
pally occcupied by the consideration of his unwor-
thiness, helplessness, and guilt. Many whole
days he spent in fasting and prayer. In Sept.,
1741, he retired to his father's house, and lived a
recluse for a number of months, except when he
could hold intercourse with persons zealous in
religion. In Dec., he went to Northampton, to
pursue the study of divinity with Mr. Edwards.
In July, 1743, he went to Houssatonnoc, now
Great Harrington, where he was ordained Dec.
28, 1743. At this time there were only thirty
families in the place. Here he continued till
Jan. 18, 17G9, when he was dismissed by an
ecclesiastical council. This event was occasioned
by the diminution of his society and the want of
support. An Episcopal church had been estab
lished in the town in order to escape the tax for
the maintenance of a minister of the gospel. He
was again settled in the ministry at Newport,
II. I., April 11, 1770. There were some circum
stances, attending his establishment in this place,
which were remarkable, and which prove that
the hearts of all men are in the hands of God,
and may be turned, as the rivers of water are
turned. After he had been with this people some
time, a meeting was called, and it was voted not
to give him an invitation to settle among them.
Many were dissatisfied with his sentiments. He
accordingly made his preparations to leave them,
and on the Sabbath preached a farewell discourse.
This sermon was so interesting and impressive,
that a different vote was immediately and almost
unanimously passed, and he consented to remain.
For about four years he was unwearied in the
discharge of his pastoral duties, preaching a
lecture every week in addition to the services of
the Sabbath, and seizing every opportunity to im
part religious instruction. The war of the llevo-
lution interrupted his benevolent labors. In Dec.,
1776, when the British took possession of New
port, he left the town, and retired to his family,
which he had before sent to Great Barrington.
During the summer of 1777 he preached at
Newburyport in a congregation, which was
thought to be the largest in America. Its pastor,
Mr. Parsons, died a short time before. He after
wards preached in Canterbury and Stamford. In
the spring of 1780 he returned to Newport,
which had been evacuated by the British in the
fall of the preceding year. He found his church
and congregation much diminished. The meet
ing-house had been made a barrack for soldiers.
That portion of his former society, which had
remained in the town, had become so impover
ished that he had no prospect of a maintenance.
Yet such was his benevolence, that he preached
to them a year, supported entirely by a few gen
erous friends, and, Avhen he received a pressing
invitation to settle at Middleborough, the request
of his people induced him to decline it. From
this time till his death his maintenance was de
rived entirely from a weekly contribution and the
donations of his friends. But he was contented
with his humble circumstances, and in a situation,
which would have filled most minds with the
greatest anxiety, he cast himself upon the provi
dence of God, and experienced through a course
of years many remarkable interpositions in his
favor. His wants were always supplied. Jan.,
1799, a paralytic affection deprived him of the
use of his limbs, although his mental powers
were uninjured. But he afterwards recovered
from this attack, so as to be able to preach.
Dr. Hopkins was a very humble, pious, and
benevolent man. His views of his own character
were always very abasing. This humility per
vaded his whole conduct. It preserved him from
that overbearing zeal which is the offspring of
self-confidence and pride. In his intercourse
with persons of sentiments different from his
own, he exhibited the greatest mildness and can
dor. As truth was his object, and he never dis
puted for victory, he sometimes carried conviction
to an opponent by the force of arguments. He
sympathized in the distresses of others. lie took
delight in relieving the wants of the poor.
Though he had but little to bestow, yet many
were gladdened by his liberality. On one occa
sion he contributed 100 dollars for promoting the
gospel among the Africans. His life was spent
chiefly in meditation ; his preaching had but little
effect. He sometimes devoted to his studies
eighteen hours in a day. With respect to his
views of divine truth, he embraced the Calvinis-
tic doctrines ; and it is principally by the conse
quences which he drew from these doctrines, that
his name has been rendered famous. He fully
admitted the doctrine of the entire depravity of
the human heart and the sinfulness of all the
doings of the unregenerate ; but thought there
was a discordance between this doctrine and the
preaching of some of the Calvinistic divines, who
exhorted the unregenerate as such to perform
certain acts as the appointed way to obtain that
grace, which should renew their hearts and make
them holy. If men before conversion could do
nothing that was pleasing to God, he concluded,
they could do nothing to procure the influences
of the Holy Spirit. Instead, therefore, of exhort
ing sinners to use the means of grace in order to
obtain the divine assistance to enable them to
repent, when it was acknowledged, that in the
use of the means of grace they would be entirely
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sinful, he thought it a sacred duty, incumbent on
the ministers of the gospel, to imitate the preach
ing of the Lord Jesus, their Master, and to call
upon men immediately to repent and yield them
selves to the love of God. lie thought that re
ligious advantages, if in the use of them the
unregencrate were not converted, would but
increase guilt, as in this case there would be a
greater resistance to the truth. Another senti
ment, which is considered as one of the peculiar
sentiments of Dr. Hopkins, is that the inability
of sinners is moral and not natural ; but this is
only saying, that their inability consists in disin
clination of heart or opposition of will to Avhat is
good. Combining the Calvinistic doctrine, that
God has foreordained whatsoever comes to pass,
with his views of the nature of sin as consisting
entirely in the intention or disposition of the
mind, he inferred, that it was no impeachment
xipon the character of the most righteous disposer
of all events to say, not merely that he decreed
the existence of sin, but that he exerted his own
power to produce it. The design being benevo
lent, he contended that this agency is no more an
impeachment of the divine character, than the
bare permission of sin. This is another of his
peculiarities. In this he differed from President
Edwards, who maintained, that sin was " not the
fruit of any positive agency or influence of the
Most High," and who said, " if by the author of
sin he meant the sinner, the agent, or actor of
sin, or the doer of a wicked thing ; so it would
be a reproach and blasphemy to suppose God to
be the author of sin." It may indeed well excite
astonishment, that a man of intelligence and
piety should be so bewildered in metaphysics, as
to ascribe to God the efficient production of all
sinful volitions, and yet deem himself responsible
for such volitions. From his views of the nature
of holiness, as consisting in disinterested benevo
lence, he also inferred, that a Christian should be
willing to perish forever, to be forever miserable,
if it should be for the glory of God and the good
of the universe, that he should encounter this
destruction. Instead of the Calvinistic doctrine
of the strict imputation of Adam's sin and of the
righteousness of Christ, he chose rather to adopt
the language of Scripture, that on account of the
first transgression men were made or constituted
sinners, and that men are justified on account of
the righteousness of Christ, or through the re
demption which there is in him.
He published a life of Edwards ; three sermons,
entitled, sin, through divine interposition, an ad
vantage to the universe ; and yet tin's no excuse
for sin or encouragement to it, 1759 ; an inquiry
concerning the promises of the gospel, whether
any of them arc made to the exercises and doings
of persons in an unregenerate state, containing re
marks on two sermons by Dr. Mayhew, 1763 ; on
the divinity of Christ, preached in Boston, 17G8 ;
two sermons on Itomans vn. 7, and John I. 13,
17G8, rcpublished 1793; the true state and char
acter of the unregenerate, being an answer to
Mr. Mills, 17G9 ; animadversions on Mr. Hart's
dialogue, 1770 ; an inquiry into the nature of true
holiness, with an answer to Drs. Ilemmenway and
Mather, 1773; of this a second edition was pub
lished in 1791 ; a dialogue, showing it to be the
duty and interest of the American States to eman
cipate all their African slaves, 177G; an inquiry
concerning the future state of those who die in
their sins, 1783 ; a system of doctrines contained
in divine revelatian, to which is added a treatise
on the millennium, 2 vols., 8vo., 1793 (it is on this
system of divinity that the reputation of the au
thor principally rests) ; the life of Susannah An
thony, 179G ; the life of Mrs. Osborn, 1798 ; and
a volume of sermons. He left behind him sketches
of his life, written by himself; a dialogue on the
nature and extent of true Christian submission,
and an address to professing Christians, all of
which were published by Dr. West, of Stock-
bridge, in 1805. — IIo2)kins' Life; Sprague's
Annals.
HOPKINS, DANIEL, D. D., the brother of the
preceding, after a ministry of thirty-six years,
died Dec. 14, 1814, aged 80. He was born at
AVaterbury Oct. 16, 1734, being the son of Tim
othy II. and Mary Judd. At the age of fourteen
he lost his father, and the care of his education
devolved upon his brother Samuel. He was
graduated at Yale college in 17.38, removed to
Salem, Mass., in 17GG, and for twelve years was
chiefly employed as a teacher of youth, and was
ordained as successor of Dr. Whitaker, who had
become a Presbyterian, in Nov., 1778. He was a
respected and useful minister, llev. Brown Em
erson, D. D., married his daughter. His wife
was a daughter of John Saunders. Just before
his death he repeated the lines :
" Jesus, with all thy saints above
My tongue would bear her part
Would sound aloud thy saving love,
And sing thy bleeding heart."
He published a sermon on Washington's death,
and one at a dedication, 1805. Most of his works
were published in 1853, with a memoir by Pro
fessor Park. — Panopl., XII. 42 ; Spra guds Annals.
HOPKINS, STEPHEN, governor of llhode
Island, died July 13, 1785, aged 78. He was
born at Scituate March 7, 1707, and was bred a
farmer. In 1742 he removed to Providence and
engaged in mercantile business. lie was from
1751 to 1754 chief justice of the superior court.
In 1755 he was elected governor, and remained
in office, excepting four years, till 17G8. In 1774
he was a member of congress. His signature to
the Declaration of Independence indicates a
trembling hand j this was owing to a nervous af-
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fection. His heart did not tremble. He retired
from congress in 1779. He published, at the
order of the assembly, rights of the colonies ex
amined, 1705; and an account of Providence, in 2
historical collections, IX. 166-203. — Goodrich.
HOPKINS, LEMUEL, a physician, a descendant
of Gov. Hopkins, was born in Waterbury June
19, 1750. At Litchfield, where he practised
physic from 1776 to 1784, he acquired celebrity,
and the singularity of his appearance, manners,
and opinions, attracted general notice. About
the year 1784 he removed to Hartford, where he
had a high reputation and extensive practice as a
physician till his death, April 14, 1801, aged 50.
It is supposed that his erroneous practice in his
own case was the cause of his death. Apprehen
sive of the pulmonary consumption, for a pain in
his side he was repeatedly bled, against the re
monstrance of his medical friends, and he other
wise reduced his strength and brought on a
hydrothorax. His widow died at New York in
Sept., 1826. He was tall, lean, stooping, with
large features, and light, staring eyes. In his
early life he admired the Infidel philosophers of
France ; in his last days he read the Bible. As
a physician he was remarkable for his unceasing
attention to his patients, sometimes devoting to
one patient whole days and nights. Once, on
being called to a child sick with the scarlet fever
in a family to which he was a stranger, he en
tered the room without saying a word, and, see
ing the child loaded with bed-clothes in a heated
room, he seized the child in his arms and rushed
out of the house, followed with cries and broom
sticks, for his appearance was uncouth and ugly.
But, resting in a cool shade, he called for wine,
and had the pleasure of seeing the child restored
to health. He was a man of learning, and a
poet. He wrote for Barlow the beautiful version
of psalm 137, beginning with the words, "Along
the banks, where Babel's current flows." Asso
ciated with Trumbull, Barlow, Alsop, and others,
he wrote parts of the Anarchiad, the echo, politi
cal green-house, the guillotine, and other essays.
Three of his productions were published in the
American poems, — the hypocrite's hope, the
cancer quack, and a poem on Ethan Allen. The
Anarchiad was a satirical political poem in twenty-
four numbers ; and these writings appeared in
the newspapers from 178G to 1793. — TliaclieSs
Medical liioyraplty ; Specimens American Po-
etry, I. 272-284.
HOPKINS, ASA, died in New Haven Oct. 31,
1838, aged 59. Born in Litchfield, he there spent
most of a useful life. His widow died in 1855.
By his will his estate was to be divided thus : to the
Northfield society in Litchfield 3,000 dollars ; to
the church 300 ; to his native school 600 ; to
the Bible society 500 ; to the American board
of foreign missions 250 ; to the tract society 250 ;
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to Connecticut missionary society 250; the re
mainder, 7,000, to Northfield society.
HOPKINS, JOHN, died at Northampton Jan.
9, 1842, aged 72. He was a Christian professor,
and among his family connections was a remark
able number of ministers, namely : his father, Dr.
Samuel II., of Hadley, and his grandfather, Sam
uel II., of West Springfield, — his grandmother,
too, was the daughter of Rev. Mr. Stoddard, and
sister of President Edwards, the son of a minis
ter. His mother was the widow of Rev. Chester
Williams, of Hadley ; her son was Rev. N. Wil
liams ; her daughter married Dr. Emmons, whose
daughter married Dr. Ide, of Medway. Two of
his sons were ministers, and his daughter married
President Wheeler, of Burlington. Four of his
sisters married ministers, — Dr. Spring, of New-
buryport, Dr. Austin, of Worcester, and William
Riddell and Leonard Worcester. His nephews
arc Rev. Dr. Gardiner Spring, of New York, Rev.
Samuel Spring, Rev. Samuel II. Riddell, and Rev.
Leonard Worcester, of Peacham,Vt. ; of Mrs. W.'s
sons are the ministers, Rev. Samuel A. Worcester,
missionary, Rev. Evarts Worcester, deceased,
Rev. Isaac R. Worcester, of Littleton, and Rev.
John II. Worcester, of St. Johnsbury. The con
nections of such a family must have many calls to
be sober-minded and religious.
HOPKINS, ASA T., D. D., pastor of the first
church in Buffalo, died Nov. 27, 1847. Born in
Hartford, he was graduated at Yale in 1826.
HOPKINSON, FRANCIS, district judge of the
United States for Pennsylvania, died May 9, 1791,
aged 53. After passing two years in England, he
settled at Bordentown, N. J. He was a member
of congress in 1776, in which year he signed the
Declaration of Independence. He held an ap
pointment in the loan office for several years, and
afterwards succeeded George Ross, as judge of
the admiralty for the State of Pennsylvania. In
this station he continued till the year 1790, when
he was appointed by Washington a judge of the
district court. He was a person whose stature
was a little below the common size, whose features
were small, but uncommonly animated, and \vhose
speech and motions indicated the activity of his
mind. He was distinguished for his wit in con
versation, but it was mild and elegant. He con
tributed not a little towards promoting the inde
pendence of America ; not, however, by labored
discussions, but by his inimitable humor and satire.
He began in 1775 with a small tract, entitled, a
pretty story, in which, in an allegorical manner,
he exposed the tyranny of Great Britain towards
America, and he concluded his contributions to
his country in this way with the history of the
new roof, which ought to be read with interest,
while the citizens of the United States are shel
tered under their present form of national gov
ernment. His battle of the kegs has been much
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admired for its wit. A few years before his death,
in consequence of an act of the assembly for cut
ting down the trees of Philadelphia, in order to
guard against fire and the evils of stagnant air,
he wrote a humorous speech of a standing mem
ber of the assembly against the act, and rescued
the devoted trees from the impending destruction.
His satires on newspaper scandal had the effect to
restrain for a number of months the licentiousness
of the press. His specimen of modern learning,
in an examination of the properties of a salt box,
is a piece of exquisite humor. His opinions on
education were somewhat peculiar. He often rid
iculed in conversation the practice of teaching
children the English language by means of gram
mar. He considered most of the years, which
were spent in learning Greek and Latin, as lost,
ajid he held several of the arts and sciences, which
are taught in colleges, in great contempt. To
his poetical talents he united uncommon excel
lence in music, and some knowledge of painting.
Besides the above works, he published science, a
poem, 17G2. After his death his miscellaneous
essays and occasional writings were published in
three vols., Svo., 1792. — Mass. Mag., III. 750-753 ;
American Museum, III. 165 ; IX. 39.
IIOPKIXSON, JOSEPH, judge, died at Philadel
phia in Jan., 1842, aged 71. The son of Francis
II., he was educated at the university of Penn
sylvania, and practised law at Easton and Phila
delphia. He was appointed in 1828 judge of the
district court. He was president of the Phila
delphia academy of fine arts. He wrote the song,
" Hail Columbia," in 1798. — Cyd. Am. Lit.
HOPPER, ISAAC T., died in New York May 7,
1852, aged 80. Born in 1771 in West Jersey, he
resided many years in Philadelphia, and was in
spector of prisons ; a man of benevolence. His
life was written by Mrs. Child.
IIORRY, ELIAS, died at Charleston, S. C.,
Sept. 17, 1834, aged 91 ; a descendant of the
Huguenots. He gave 10,000 dollars to Charles
ton college for a professorship of moral philosophy.
IIORSMANDER, DANIEL, chief justice of Mew
York, a native of Great Britain, came to the prov
ince about 1730, and was recorder of the city and
president of the council. He died in Sept., 1778,
and was buried in Trinity churchyard. He pub
lished the New York conspiracy, or the history of
the negro plot, 1742; republished 1810. Of the
conspirators to burn the city fourteen were burnt,
and eighteen hanged, with ten whites.
IIOSACK, DAVID, M. D., LL. D., died of
apoplexy, at New York, Dec. 23, 1835, aged G6.
His father came from Scotland to New York.
Ho graduated at Princeton in 1789; was med
ically educated at Edinburgh, and was at the
head of his profession in New York. He was
professor of the theory and practice in the med
ical institution, an eloquent and able teacher ; a
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liberal promoter of the arts. lie published a
history of the Erie canal; a life of De Witt Clin
ton ; an address on temperance ; introductory
discourse, with a tribute to Rush, 1813; treatment
of the typhoid, 1815; envision; system of nosol
ogy, 1818; on the peripncumonia, etc. ; on febrile
contagion; the surgery of the ancients; syllabus
of lectures on botany, also on the theory and
practice ; course of studies ; memoir of Hugh
Williamson ; discourses before the historical and
horticultural societies ; medical essays, 2 vols. ; ob
servations on the medical character; plants in
botanic garden ; medical and philosophical regis
ter, with J. W. Francis, 4 vols. ; and other tracts.
— Memoir by Dr. Francis.
HOSMER, STEPHEN, minister of East Had-
dam, Conn., died in 1749, aged about 70. He
was a graduate of Harvard in 1699. He pub
lished election sermon, 1720.
HOSMER, STEPHEN TITUS, chief justice of
Connecticut, died Aug. 6, 1834, aged 76 ; a grad
uate of Yale in 1782.
HOTCIIKIN, BERIAH, died at Plattsburgh,
N. Y., 1829. He was Mr. at Yale, 1794.
IIOTCIIKISS, FREDERIC W., minister of Say-
brook, died March 31, 1844, aged 81. A native
of New Haven, he graduated in 1778, and was
ordained colleague with Win. Hart Sept, 24,
1783; the ministry of both exceeded a century.
He was aid to the commanding officer in 1779 in
resisting a British attack, and then lost his father
and two uncles. He was pastor sixty years,
highly respected, useful, and venerable. He pub
lished the cross of Christ the Christian's glory,
1801; a half-century sermon, 1833; a sermon at
the end of the sixtieth year of his ministry, 1843.
— Sprague's Annals.
HOUGH, GEORGE, a respected printer in Con
cord, N. II., died in 1830, aged 72. He was the
father of G. II. Hough, Baptist missionary to
Burmah, who died before him.
- IIOUGHTON, DOUGLASS, Dr., geologist of
Michigan, died Oct. 13, 1845, aged 36. He was
born in Troy, N. Y., and educated at the Renssel-
aer institute, in which he became a professor of
chemistry and natural history. In 1831 he was
surgeon and botanist to the expedition to the west.
Settling in Detroit, he was appointed State geol
ogist in 1837. In a snow storm he was drowned
with two men at the mouth of Eagle river, on
Lake Superior. He was an associate of various
learned associations. He was nearly ready to
make his last report for eight years. Though
young, he had a high rank among scientific men,
and was greatly esteemed.
1IOVEY, JOHN, second minister of Ivenne-
bunkport, Me., died in 1773, aged about 70.
Born in Ncwbury, he graduated at Harvard in
1725, and was settled in 1741.
1IOVEY, IVORY, minister of Plymouth, Mass.,
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died Nov. 4, 1803, aged 89. He was born at
Topsfiekl July 14, 1714; was graduated at Har
vard college in 1735, and was ordained minister
of Metapoiset, the second parish of Rochester,
Oct. 29, 1740. Having devoted much attention
to the study of physic, he in 1744 commenced the
practice, and was the principal physician of Meta
poiset till his dismission in 1765. lie was after
wards installed, April 18, 1770, at Monument
Ponds, in Plymouth, where he passed the re
mainder of his life. He had preached about
sixty-five years, and during that time kept a jour
nal, designed to promote his improvement in
Christian excellence, wliich he left behind him in
about seven thousand pages of short hand. Ex
tracts from it are preserved in the Pascataqua
magazine. He was one of the best of men, being
distinguished for meekness, humility, and piety.
He published a sermon on leaving Metapoiset,
and one on the subject of mortality.
HOVEY, SYLVESTER, died at Hartford, Conn.,
May 6, 1840,aged43. A native of Conway, he grad
uated at Yale in 1819. He was a tutor and pro
fessor of mathematics at Williams and Amherst
colleges, skilled in various sciences, highly re
spected and beloved. He died in peace ; his last
efforts to do good were by letters from his sick
chamber ; in this way one young man was brought
to the knowledge of the way of life. Mrs. Sig-
ourney described him as
" Sublime in science, yet with meekness clad,
Clear-minded, eloquent in thought and speech,
And full of love for truth."
He published letters from the West Indies.
HOWARD, SIMEON, D. D., minister in Boston,
died Aug. 13, 1804, aged 71. He was born at
Bridgewater May 10, 1733, and was graduated at
Harvard college in 1758. He was afterwards an
instructor of youth for several years. Soon after
he began to preach, he was invited to the province
of Nova Scotia, where he officiated about a year.
In 17G6 he was elected a tutor of Harvard col
lege ; and May G, 1767, was ordained pastor of
the west church in Boston, as successor to Dr.
Mayhew. He continued in this station till his
death, and was succeeded by Charles Lowell.
He heartily engaged in promoting the American
Revolution, and participated in the joy expe
rienced on the acknowledgment of our indepen
dence. In the various relations of life he was
faithful and exemplary. In his theological senti
ments he differed from the first fathers of the
New England churches, for he rejected the sys
tem of Calvin. Towards those who differed from
him, he was indulgent in his thoughts, and tole
rant in his conduct. He never could approve of
a sarcastic and irreverent way of speaking of ob
jects, which any sincere believer might deem
Bacrcd. He was indeed so mild and gentle, that
he could not express severity which he never
felt. There was a serenity upon his countenance
which indicated the peace that constantly dwelt
in his heart. He was remarkable for humility.
While he never mentioned either his virtues or
his faults, it was evident to all who were inti
mately acquainted with him, that he had a hum
ble sense of his own talents and moral attainments.
He was endeared to his people, for he interested
himself in their welfare, and endeavored to render
them virtuous and good. All wno knew him
were delighted with the modesty, mildness, and
benevolence, which he exhibited. He published
a sermon at the artillery election, 1773 ; on the
death of his wife, 1777; to freemasons, 1778; on
not being ashamed of the gospel, occasioned by
the death of Dr. Winthrop, 1779; at the elec
tion, 1780 ; at the ordination of T. Adams, 1791.
— Monthly Antliol. I. 476; m. 115-119.
HOWARD, JOHX EAGER, governor of Mary
land, died Oct. 12, 1827, aged 75. He was born
June 4, 1752, in Baltimore county, Maryland.
His grandfather came to this country about
1G85 and obtained a grant of land, which is
still in the family. His father, Cornelius, mar
ried Ruth Eager, grand-daughter of George
Eager, whose estate, procured soon after the
charter, now makes a considerable part of the
city of Baltimore. Mr. Howard entered the army
in 1776 as a captain in the regiment of Col. J. C.
Hall ; in the following years he was promoted,
till finally he succeeded Lieut.-Col. Ford in the
command of the 2d Maryland regiment. He was
an efficient coadjutor of Greene during the cam
paign in the south, distinguishing himself at the
battle of Cowpens, when, says Lee, " he seized
the critical moment, and turned the fortune of the
day;" also at Guilford and the Eutaws. He was
in the engagements of White Plains, German-
town, Monmouth, Camden, and Hobkirk's Hill.
Having been trained to the infantry service, he
was remarkable for pushing into close battle with
fixed bayonet. At Cowpens this mode of fight
ing was resorted to for the first, time in the war ;
but afterwards the Maryland line was often put
to this service. In this battle he had in his hands
at one time the swords of seven officers, who had
surrendered to him personally. On this occasion
he saved the life of the British general, O'Hara,
whom he found clinging to nis stirrup and asking
quarter. When the army was disbanded he re
tired to his patrimonial estate near Baltimore.
He soon afterwards married Margaret, the daugh
ter of Benjamin Chew, of Philadelphia, a lady
of courteous manners and elegant hospitality.
In Nov., 1788, he was chosen governor of Mary
land, and continued in this office three years.
From the autumn of 1796 till March, 1803, he
was a senator of the United States. His estate
was increased in a high degree in value by the
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growth of Baltimore, which extended so as to
embrace in its streets the shades which sheltered
the retired soldier. His old age was the object
of regard and veneration. In more than one letter
Washington expressed to him his confidence and
esteem. — Am. Ann. Reg., 1826-7, p. 137-139.
HOWARD, BENJAMIN, brigadier-general, died
at St. Louis in Oct., 1814. He had been a mem
ber of congress from Kentucky, and was late gov
ernor of the Missouri territory.
HOWARD, BEZALEEL, minister of Springfield,
died in 1837. A native of Bridgewatcr, he was
ordained as the successor of Mr. Breck April 27,
1785, and was dismissed on account of ill health
at the ordination of his successor, S. Osgood, Jan.
25, 1809. He published a sermon at the ordina
tion of A. Pratt, 1790 ; of A. Steward, 1793 ; of
Benj. R. Woodbridge, 1799.
HOWARD, ABISHAI, Dr., died in Sturbridge
Dec., 1844, aged 76; a physician and Christian,
making liberal bequests to benevolent objects.
HOWDEE, SARAH, the last of the Queen
Awashunk tribe of Indians, died May, 1827, at
Little Compton, R. I.
HOWE, PEHLEY, minister of Killingly, Conn.,
died in 1753, aged about 42. He graduated at
Harvard in 1731, was the minister of Dudley,
Mass., from 1735 to 1743, and was installed at
Killingly in 1746. At the time of his death, his
son Joseph, afterwards a minister, was only six
years old. — Sprac/ue's Annals.
HOWE, JOSEPH, son of Rev. Perley II., min
ister of the new south church in Boston, died in
Hartford Aug. 25, 1775, aged 28. He graduated
at Yale in 1765 at the age of eighteen, the first
scholar in his class. He was licensed to preach
in 1769, and was soon appointed a tutor at Yale.
In 1772 he was settled at Boston as the successor
of Rev. Penuel Bowen. The storm of war drove
him from the city early in 1775 ; in the same
year he died. lie was a minister of high talents
and promise, and of almost unequalled elocution.
Yet no stone marks the spot of his burial. —
Spraciue's Annals.
HOWE, GEORGE, lord viscount, was the eldest
son of Sir E. Scrope, second lord viscount Howe
in Ireland. He commanded five thousand British
troops, which arrived at Halifax in July, 1757.
In the next year, when Abercrombie proceeded
against Ticonderoga, in an attack on the advanced
guard of the French in the woods Lord Howe
fell on the first fire, in July, 1758, aged 33. In
him, says Mante, " the soul of the army seemed
to expire." By his military talents and many
virtues he had acquired esteem and affection.
Massachusetts erected a monument to his mem
ory in Westminster Abbey, at the expense of
250 pounds. — Holmes, II. 8L> ; Mmtle, 147.
HOWE, RICHARD, earl, an English admiral,
brother of the preceding, died Aug. 5, 1799, aged
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73. On the death of his brother he succeeded to
his title and estate. He commanded the British
fleet which arrived at Staten Island July 12,
1776, and was one of the commissioners to oner
proposals of peace. In July, 1777, he convoyed
the two hundred and seventy transports, in which
the British army sailed from New York to the
Cheaspeake. In the winter he repaired to New
port, as a safe harbor. This place, when threat
ened by the Americans and French, he relieved
Aug. 30, 1778, arriving from New York with one
hundred sail of ships. In Sept. he resigned the
command to Admiral Gambler. June 1, 1794,
he obtained a victory over the French. A severe
letter to Lord Howe on his naval conduct in the
American war was published in 1779, in all prob
ability written by Lord Sackville, the minister or
secretary for the colonies. He published a nar
rative of the transactions of the fleet, etc., 1779.
HOWE, Sir WILLIAM, general, brother of the
preceding, died in 1814. He was the successor
of Gage, in the command of the British forces in
America, arriving at Boston in May, 1775, with
Burgoyne. He commanded in the battle of
Bunker Hill. In Sept., 1776, he took possession
of New York. With his brother he was a com
missioner for peace. In July, 1777, he sailed for
Chesapeake; entered Philadelphia Sept. 27th;
and defeated the Americans at Germantown Oct.
4th. In May, 1778, he was succeeded by Clinton.
He published a narrative as to his command in
North America, 2d ed., 1780.
HOWE, NATHANIEL, minister of Hopkinton, died
Feb. 15, 1837, aged 72, in the forty-sixth year of
his ministry, respected for his talents and virtues.
Born in Ipswich, a graduate of Harvard in 1786,
he was ordained Oct. 5, 1791 ; he had a colleague
in 1830. In the gift of prayer he was remarka
ble ; he had an excellent character as a minister.
His century sermon in 1815 excited attention.
He said in it, " Do you know by what means I
have become so rich, as to have a great house,
etc. ; a farm, a herd of cattle, a flock of sheep,
etc. The principal reason is this, because I have
been doing your business and neglecting my
own." He then explains, that he had been
obliged to support himself on account of the neg
lect of his people. His son Appleton, a gradu
ate of 1815, has been a senator. He published
a sermon on the death of three persons, 1808;
the century sermon mentioned ; design of John's
baptism, 1819; a reply to Dr. Baldwin, 1820;
a catechism, with questions and proverbs. —
Sprague's Annals.
HOWE, JOHN, major, a brave officer of the
Revolution, died near Flemington, N. J., Dec.
15, 1843, aged 90.
HOWE, ZADOCK, M. D., died at Billcrica,
Mass., Feb. 8, 1851, after a long successful pro
fessional career, highly respected.
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HOWELL, RICHARD, governor of New Jer
sey, died April 28, 1802, aged 47. lie was a
native of Delaware, but commanded a New Jer
sey regiment from 1776 till 1779, when in conse
quence of a new arrangement of the army he
resumed the profession of the law. In 1788 he
was appointed clerk of the supreme court, which
office he held till June, 1793, when he was chosen
governor of the State. To this place he was
eight years successively elected. He possessed a
cultivated mind, and was benevolent in his life.
HOWELL, DAVID, LL. D., judge, died July
29, 1824, aged 77. He was born in New Jersey,
and graduated at Princeton, 1766. Removing to
Rhode Island, he was appointed professor of
mathematics and afterwards of law in the univer
sity. Devoting himself to the practice of the law
at Providence, he was chosen judge of the su
preme court. He was also a member of the old
congress; and in 1812, was appointed district
judge for Rhode Island, which office he sustained
till his death. He was a man of distinguished
talents and learning.
HOWELL, SILAS, died in Portland, Maine, in
May, 1846, aged 101.
HOWELL, NATHANIEL W., judge, died at
Canandaigua, N. Y., Oct. 16, 1851, aged 82. He
was eminent as a jurist.
ROWLAND, Jonx, a pilgrim of 1620, was a
member of Gov. Carver's family, and married his
daughter Elizabeth. On his voyage in a storm
he fell overboard, but escaped death by clinging
to the topsail halliards, which hung in the water.
He lived in Plymouth, Duxbury, and Kingston.
In the last town he died Feb. 22, 1672, aged 80.
The records speak of him as " a godly man and
an ancient professor of the ways of Christ." He
was a deputy, assistant, and one of the leading
men of the colony. He was buried at Plymouth.
His widow died 1687, aged 80. His sons were
John, Jabez, Isaac, Joseph ; his daughter Desire
married John Gorham; Hope married J. Chip-
man ; Elizabeth married E. Hicks ; Lydia mar
ried J. Brown; Ruth married T. Cushman. His
son John married Mary Lee, 1651, daughter
of Mary, and settled in Barnstable, Joseph in
Plymouth, Isaac in Middleborough, and Jabez in
Bristol, whose grandson John died in Providence
Nov. 5, 1854, at the great age of 97, a man of
moral worth, and skilled in antiquarian researches
in regard to the history of the pilgrims. He was
president of the R. I. historical society.
HOWLANI), JOHN, the minister of Carver,
Mass., died Nov. 4, 1804, aged 83. He was the
son of the second John of Barnstable ; gradu
ated at Harvard in 1741, and was ordained in
1746. His wife was the daughter of Rev. Dan
iel Lewis of Pembroke. His daughter Anna
married Rev. Ezra Weld of Braintree.
HOWOOSWEE, ZACHARY, an Indian minis
ter, died at Gayhead, Martha's Vinej-ard, July,
1821, aged 84.
HOYT, ARD, missionary to the Cherokees, was
a settled minister of Wilkesbarre, Pa., when he
offered his services to the American Board. In
Nov., 1817, he proceeded with his family to
Brainerd, and in 1824 to Willstown, where he
died Feb. 18, 1828, aged 57. He died very sud
denly, but was able to say, lifting his eyes in rap
ture to heaven, " I'm going." The Cherokees
were strongly attached to him. By his labors
Catherine Brown and others were converted. He
was indeed a most valuable missionary. His
journals were read with great interest.
HOYT, EPAPIIRAS, general, was born Dec. 31,
1765, and died at Dcerfield, Mass., Feb. 8, 1850,
aged 84. He published several works on mili
tary affairs, one of which was on cavalry discipline,
1797. His antiquarian researches were published
in 1824, containing a history of Indian wars, es
pecially in reference to the Connecticut river set
tlements.
HUBBARD, WILLIAM, minister of Ipswich,
Mass., and a historian, died Sept. 14, 1704, aged
82. He was born in the year 1621, the son of
William of Ipswich and Boston, and was gradu
ated at Harvard college in the first class in 1642.
The time of his ordination is not known, but it is
supposed to have been about the year 1657, as
colleague with Mr. Cobbet. In his old age John
Rogers was settled with him in 1692. His wife
was Margaret, the daughter of Nathaniel Rogers.
His second marriage in 1694 to Mrs. Mary Pear
son displeased his parish, on account of her
sphere in life. His son Nathaniel was a judge
of the superior court. He was a man of learn
ing, and of a candid, benevolent mind. He wrote
a valuable history of New England, for which the
State paid him 50 pounds. It was used by
Mather in writing his magnalia, by Hutchinson,
and by Dr. Holmes. At last it was published in
the Mass, historical collections, 2d series, vols. V.
and VI. He published an election sermon, enti
tled the happiness of a people in the wisdom of
their rulers directing and in the obedience of their
brethren, etc., 1676 ; the present state of New
England, being a narrative of the troubles with
the Indians from the first planting thereof in 1607
to 1677, but chiefly of the two last years, 1675
and 1676, to which is added a discourse about the
war with the Pequots, 4to., 1677 ; a fast sermon,
1682 ; a funeral discourse on Gen. Dcnison, 1684 ;
a testimony to the order of the gospel in the
churches of New England, with Mr. Higginson,
1701. — Ilutcldnson, II. 147; Holmes; Hist.
Coll. ; Sprague's Annals.
HUBBARD, JONATHAN, the first minister of
Sheffield, Mass., died July 6, 1765, aged 61. He
was born in Sunderland, and graduated at Yale in
1824. The church was formed and he was set-
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tied Oct. 22, 1735 : he was dismissed in 1764.
John Keep succeeded him. He had a sound
mind, and was active and lively.
IIUBBARD, JOHN, minister of Meriden, Conn.,
died Nov. 18, 1786, aged 59. The son of Col.
John II., of New Haven, he was graduated at
Yale in 1744, and was ordained June 22, 1769.
Several pamphlets were occasioned by his ordina
tion. He was useful and beloved. — Sprague's
Annals.
HUBBARD, LEVERETT, M. D., president of
the Connecticut medical society, died at Hartford
in 1794, aged 70. He graduated at Yale in 1744,
and was an eminent physician.
IIUBBARD, JOHN," minister of Northfield,
Mass., died Nov. 28, 1794, aged 69, in tjie forty-
fifth year of his ministry. Born in Ilatfield, he
graduated at Yale in 1747. He was ordained
May 30, 1750.
HUBBARD, EBENEZER, minister of Marble-
head, Mass., died Oct. 15, 1800, aged 42, in the
fourteenth year of his ministry. He was born at
Concord, graduated at Harvard in 1777, and was
ordained Jan. 1, 1783. E. Stone preached his
ordination sermon. He published a sermon at
the ordination of A. Orne, 1796. — Spraguc's
Annals.
HUBBARD, JOHN, professor of mathematics
and natural philosophy at Dartmouth college,
died in 1810, aged 51. Born inTownsend, Mass.,
he graduated at Dartmouth in 1785; and, having
studied theology, became the preceptor of New
Ipswich and Deerfield academies, and was also
judge of probate in Cheshire county. lie suc
ceeded Prof. Woodward at Dartmouth in 1804,
and was succeeded by Prof. Adams. He pub
lished an oration on the 4th of July, 1799; rudi
ments of geography, 1803 ; American reader,
1808; essay on music.
HUBBARD, BELA, D. D., Episcopal minister
in New Haven, died in 1812, aged about 75. He
graduated at Yale in 1758. He succeeded Mr.
Palmer in 1767.
HUBBARD, POLLY, Miss, died at Fowlerville,
N. Y., Dec. 29, 1837, aged 63 ; her sister Sally,
the wife of Wells Fowler, died the preceding day.
The loss of two such eminently pious women in a
new church is great. They were daughters of
deacon James Ilubbard, of Pittsfield, Mass. In a
religious meeting of females, Miss II. could do
two things well : she could guide and support a
conversation on religious subjects, and she could
pray. God has enriched our churches with a
multitude of such women, of whom the world,
which they bless, knows nothing. To the prayers
and toils of such women revivals of religion may
often be ascribed, in one of which her sister had
the happiness of seeing her husband, one son and
his wife, a daughter, also two daughters and their
husbands, united at the same time to the church.
With their work let a fashionable woman's work
this present season of 1856, at Saratoga, be con
trasted, displaying sixty different costly dresses,
made up at New York. The name of a vain and
useless woman of extravagance and folly may well
pass into oblivion ; the righteous shall be in re
membrance.
HUBBARD, RICHARD, mayor of Middletown,
Conn., died in 1839, aged 47. He graduated at
Yale in 1813.
HUBBARD, THOMAS, M. D., professor of sur
gery at Yale college, died at New Haven June 13,
1838, aged 63.
IIUBBARD, SAMUEL, judge, died at Boston
Dec. 24, 1847, aged 62. Born in Boston, he
graduated at Yale in 1802. For a few years he
practised law in Biddcford, then in Boston. In
1842 he was appointed a judge of the supreme
court. For years he was one of the board of
commissioners for foreign missions. He was
learned, upright, judicious, and expert in business.
IIUBBARD, CALEB, major, died in Sunderland
April 7, 1850, aged 96, an officer of the Revolu
tion.
HUBBARD, JONATHAN H., judge of the su
preme court of Vt., died at Windsor Sept. 20,
1849, aged 81; a member of congress, 1809-1811.
IIUBBARD, SAMUEL DICKINSON, LL. D., post
master-general, died of a spinal complaint at
Middletown, Conn., Oct. 8, 1855, aged 55. He
graduated at Yale in 1819.
IIUBBELL, WOLCOTT, died at Lanesborough
Oct. 26, 1840, aged 85. He was a magistrate,
senator, and Christian. — N. Y. Observer, Nov.
28.
IIUBBELL, WALTER, died in Canandaigua
March 25, 1848, aged 53 ; a lawyer and an active
Christian, a useful teacher in bible classes and
Sunday schools. — Daggctfs Sermon.
IIUBBELL, MARTHA STONE, wife of Rev.
Stephen Hubbell of North Stonington, died Aug.
8, 1856, aged 42. She wrote " Shady Side."
HUBBELL, MARY ELIZABETH, the only
daughter of the preceding, died at Stonington,
Conn., in June, 1856, aged 20, the authoress of
pieces, signed Leila Linwood.
IIUDDY, JOSHUA, captain, was taken prisoner
in a small fort on Tom's river, New Jersey, by a
party of tory refugees in March, 1782, and carried,
with his company, to New York. On the 8th of
April, he and two others were sent by the board
of loyalists to Middletown Point or Sandy Hook,
to be exchanged under the care of Capt. Lippen-
cot, who reported on his return, that he had ex
changed the two as directed, and that " Huddy
had been exchanged for Philip White." He had,
in fact, of his own authority, hung him on a tree
on the Jersey shore. The case of Philip White,
the tory, was this. Having been taken prisoner,
as some light horse were conveying him to Free-
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HUDSON.
hold at the end of March, he attempted to escape ;
though called upon to surrender, he continued to
run, and as he was about to leap into a bog he
was cut down by a sword. Gen. Washington,
April 21, 1778, demanded of Gen. Clinton the
delivery of Lippencot, the murderer of White ;
but the board of loyalists interposed for his pro
tection. On the failure of compliance with his
demand, Gen. Washington selected by lot Capt.
Asgill of the guards, taken at Yorktown, and
fixed the time and place of his execution. Mrs.
Asgill, the mother, wrote to M. Vergennes, the
French minister, and begged his interference,
describing her distress and that of her family.
Her pathetic appeal was published. In conse
quence of it, Vergennes interposed with Washing
ton, and by order of congress Asgill was released
in Nov. Capt. Asgill was afterwards Sir Charles
A., general; and died in 1823, aged 70.
HUDSON, HENRY, an eminent navigator, was
an Englishman, who explored a part of the coast
of Greenland in the years 1C07 and 1608, while
seeking a passage to Japan and China. After
his return to England from his second voyage, he
went over to Holland, and the Dutch East India
company gave him the command of a ship for
discovery. He sailed March 25, 1G09, and, after
passing along the coast of Lapland, crossed the
Atlantic, and discovered Cape Cod, at which place
he landed. He then pursued his course to the
Chesapeake, and on his return along the coast
entered the river in the State of New York, which
bears his name, and ascended as far as where the
city of Albany now stands. A settlement was
soon after made upon this river by the Dutch.
In 1610 he was again fitted out by some gentle
man to discover a passage to the south sea, and
in this voyage he discovered the extensive bay to
the north, which bears his name. He drew his
ship into a small creek, Nov. 3, and it was frozen
up during the winter. Uncommon flights of wild
fowl furnished provision, without which supply
the crew must have perished. In the spring of
1611 he made several efforts to complete his dis
coveries, but was obliged to abandon his enter
prise and make the best of his way home. Pie
distributed to his men with tears in his eyes all
the bread he had left, which was only a pound to
each ; though it is said that other provisions were
afterwards found in the ship. In his uneasiness
and despair, he let fall threatening words of set
ting some of his men on shore ; upon which a
few of the sturdiest, who had been very mutinous,
entered his cabin in the night, tied his arms be
hind him, and set him adrift in the shallop at the
west end of the straits, with his son and seven of
the most sick and infirm of his men. lie was
never heard of again. The crew proceeded with
his ship for England. Four of them were killed
by the savages, as they went on shore near the
HULL.
strait's month, and the rest, ready to die for want,
arrived at Plymouth in Sept., 1611. He published
divers voyages and northern discoveries, 1607 ; a
second voyage for finding a passage to the East
Indies by the northeast, 1608. Accounts of his
other voyages were published; but they were not
written by himself. Some of them are pre
served in the third volume of Purchas' pilgrims.
— Belknap's Biog. I. 394-407 ; New and Gen.
Biog. Diet.
HUGER, ISAAC, brigadier-general in 1777, died
in South Carolina in 1780, a patriot and soldier of
the Revolution. D. Huger and J. Huger, states
men, also of South Carolina, died in 1799 and
1804.
HUIT, EPHRAIM, minister of Windsor, Conn.,
came from England and was settled as colleague
with Mr. Warham in 1639, and died Sept. 4,
1644. He was a man of superior talents and
eminent usefulness. Johnson says of him :
" And Huit had his arguings strong and right."
His name is also written Heuet and Ilewett. He
published the prophecy of Daniel explained, 4to.,
1643.
HULL, JOSEPH, minister at Weymouth, Mass.,
was settled in 1635, and resigned in 1639.
HULL, WILLIAM, general, governor of Michi
gan Territory, died Nov. 29, 1825, aged 72.
Born at Derby, Conn., he graduated at Yale in
1772. He was a brave and useful officer of the
Revolutionary war. In 1796 he was chosen
major-general in the militia of Massachusetts.
In 1805 he was appointed governor of the Michi
gan Territory, in which office he was succeeded
by Lewis Cass in 1814. At the beginning of the
war he was requested to command the north
western army. He surrendered with two thousand
men at Detroit, to the British Gen. Brock, Aug.
15, 1812. A court martial was ordered to try
him on several charges, and he was actually in
1814 sentenced to be shot, but for his Revolution
ary services and his age recommended to mercy.
The president approved the sentence and remitted
the execution. Gen. Hull died at his residence
in Newton, near Boston. His relict, Sarah, died
in Aug., 1826. In his defence he makes state
ments, which ought to be taken into considera
tion, before it shall be concluded that the sentence
was just. Being governor of Michigan, as well as
general, he was bound to consult the safety of the
frontier settlers, who were threatened by a horde
of savages. His army was in effective force only
one-third of the forces of Brock. He could hope
for no co-operation on the part of Gen. Dearborn
on the Niagara, who had entered into an armistice,
and thus threw the enemy upon him ; the Bri
tish commanded lake Erie; and a part of his
own forces under Cass and McArthur had been
sent to the river Raisin. Under these circum-
HULL.
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stances, with six hundred Indians already present
with the BritNh army; cut off by the lake and the
wilderness from his supplies and reinforcements ;
he savs, that he deemed it a sacred duty, which
he owed to his fellow citi/cns under his govern
ment, to negotiate a capitulation, which secured
their safety. We must put treachery out of the
question. The only inquiry is, whether a brave
lie volution ary officer was absolutely a coward at
Detroit? It has been often the case, that rash
heroes have occasioned a pitiable and useless de
struction of life. It was so in the action at
Minisink. When St. Clair retreated from Ticon-
deroga in 1777, there was a great clamor against
him; but the measure was wise and indispensable
to the safety of the army. — He published defence
of himself, 1814 ; memoirs of the campaign of 1812,
with a sketch of his He volution ary services, 1824.
His Revolutionary services and campaign of 1812,
by his daughter Maria Campbell, and J. F.
Clarke, was published 1848. — Holmes, II. 470.
HULL, AKAETIUS B., minister in Worcester,
Mass., died in 1826, aged 47. Born in Wood-
bridge, Conn., he graduated at Yale in 1807; was
a tutor for six years ; then was ordained over the
first church in W., in 1821. He was a man of
great intelligence, and of a fine taste, and a faith
ful minister. — Sprague's Annals.
HULL, ISAAC, a naval commander, died at
Philadelphia Feb. 13, 1843, aged 08. He was
born at Derby, and was forty-five years in the
service of his country. Bred to the sea, at the
first establishment of the navy he was appointed
lieutenant. In 1800 he cut out the French letter-
of-marquc> the Sandwich, from a port in St.
Domingo. In the war of 1812 he commanded
the Constitution frigate of forty-four guns. Aug.
19, after an action of thirty minutes he cap
tured the Gucrriere, Capt. I) acres, carrying fifty
guns. After this period he Avas for some time
employed in settling the estate of a deceased
brother.
HUME, ROBERT W., missionary, died in 1855.
He had been for fifteen years a much respected
member of the mission to Bombay.
HUMMING-BIRD, General, a Choctaw chief,
was from his youth a friend of the United States,
and fought many battles by the side of white men
against the red people. In the expedition of
Wayne and Scott in 1794, against the Shawnees
and Delawares, he commanded sixty Choctaw war
riors. In the war against the Creeks and British
he also distinguished himself. He died at Nash
ville, Tenn., Dec. 23, 1827, aged 75, and was
buried by Col. Ward, the agent, with the honors
of war. His commission and silver medal, re
ceived from Washington, were placed in his coffin.
HUMPHREY, JAMES, first minister of Athol,
Mass., died in 179G, aged 73. Born in Dorches
ter, he graduated at Harvard in 1744, was settled
in 1750, and resigned in 1782.
HUMPHREY, JOHN, died at Pittsficld Dec. 2,
1854, aged 38. The son of Rev. Dr. Humphrey,
he graduated at Amherst college in 1835, and
was pastor of the Winthrop church in Charles-
town, Mass., from which he was removed by rea
son of ill health. Then he was settled at Bing-
hamton, N. Y.; at last was appointed professor
of moral philosophy at Hamilton college. Se
lections from his sermons with memoirs by W. J.
Budington were published in 185G.
HUMPHREYS, DANIEL, minister of Derby,
Conn., died in 1787, aged about 75. He was
graduated at Yale in 1732, and Avas ordained the
next year. He Avas one of the ministers Avho
zealously promoted the rc\'ival of religion about
1740. — Sprar/ue's Annals.
HUMPHREYS, DAVID, colonel, died Feb. 21,
1818, aged G5. He Avas the son of Daniel II., the
minister of Derby, Conn., Avas born in 1753, and
graduated at Yale college in 1771, and soon Avent
to reside in the family of Col. Phillips of Phillips
manor, NCAV York. He early entered the army
as a captain ; in 1778 he Avas a major and aid to
Gen. Putnam; in 1780 he Avas selected as Wash
ington's aid, Avith the rank of colonel, and re
mained in his family to the end of the Avar,
enjoying his confidence and friendship. His com
petitors for the place of aid Avcre Tallmadge,
Hull, and Alden. For his valor at the siege of York
congress honored him AA'ith a SAVord. In 1784 he
accompanied Jefferson to Paris, as secretary of
legation, accompanied by his friend Kosciusko.
He returned in 1786, and Avas elected to the leg
islature from Derby. Being appointed to com
mand a regiment, raised for the Avcstern service,
he resided for some time at Hartford, and Avith
Trumbull, BarloAv, and Hopkins, Avrote the Anar-
chiad. In 1788 he Avent to reside with Wash
ington, and continued with him till he Avas ap
pointed in 1790 minister to Portugal. He sailed
in 1791 ; and soon after his return in 1794 Avas
appointed minister plenipotentiary to Spain. He
concluded treaties Avith Tripoli and Algiers. In
1802 he Avas succeeded by Pinckncy. In his last
years he devoted much care to the rearing of
merino sheep. In 1812 he took the command of
the militia of Connecticut. He died suddenly, of
an organic affection of the heart, at NCAV Haven.
His wife, whom he married in 1797, Avas the
daughter of John Bulkier, an English merchant
at Lisbon of great Avealth. He published in
1782 a poetical address to the armies of the
United States, Avhich was much celebrated. His
other works are poems on the happiness of Amer
ica ; on the future glory of the United States ; on
the industry of the United States ; on the love of
country ; on the death of Washington. lie
HUNN.
IIUNTINGTON.
wrote also the life of Putnam, 1788; the widow
of Malabar, a tragedy, from the French, 1790;
and several political tracts and orations. A col
lection of his poems and tracts, including most
of his writings, was published at New York, 8vo.,
1790 and 1804. — Spec. American Poetry, l. 259-
272.
HUNN, NATHANIEL, the first minister of Read
ing, Conn., died in 1749. lie graduated at Yale
in 1731, and was settled in 1733. He published
the election sermon, 1747.
HUNNEWELL, WALTER, Dr., died in Water-
town Oct. 19, 1855, aged 86. Born in Cam
bridge, a graduate of 1787, he studied with Dr.
Spring ; his useful professional life was spent in W.
HUNT, JOHN, minister of Boston, died at his
father's house in Northampton Dec. 20, 1775,
aged 31. He and John Bacon were settled over
the old south church in Boston Sept. 26, 1771.
In the war in 1775, he was shut out of Boston;
his church was used as a riding-school. He died
of a pulmonary complaint. He was a preacher
of eminence and high promise. He published
a sermon at his ordination ; one on the death of
Sarah Gill, 1771. — Hooker's Funeral Sermon ;\
Spragtte's Annals.
HUNT, EBENEZER, M. D., a physician of
Northampton, was born there in 1744; was grad
uated at Harvard college in 1764; and studied
with Dr. Pyncheon of Springfield. He died Dec.
26, 1820, aged 76, having practised physic more
than fifty years, and in that time never having
sued any person for any debt, incurred by medi
cal attendance. For several years he was a
member of the senate. — Thaclier.
HUNT, WILLIAM G., died in Nashville, Tenn.,
Aug. 13, 1833, aged 42. He was a graduate of
Harvard in 1810 ; and a man of talents, and
learning, and worth. He lived at first in Boston.
He edited the National Banner.
HUNT, WILLIAM W., minister at North Am-
herst, Mass., died Oct. 5, 1837, aged 41. He |
graduated at Williams college in 1820, at An-
dover seminary in 1824. His sermons with a
memoir were soon published.
HUNT, LITTLETON, died in Gwinnett county,
Ga., March 12, 1843, aged 107, a soldier of the
Revolution, present at the battle of Guilford, and
wounded at Eutaw Springs.
HUNTER, WILLIAM, M. D., a physician of
Newport, K. I., was a native of Scotland; came to
this country about 1752; and gave, in 1754-6,
the first lectures on anatomy delivered in New
England. He died in 1777. His wife was the
daughter of Godfrey Malbonc, a rich merchant.
His son, William, was a senator of the United
States. — Tliaclier.
HUNTER, ANDREW, a chaplain in the navy,
died at Washington in Feb., 1823, aged 75. In
the Revolutionary war he was a brigade chaplain.
Probably he was the A. II. who was of the class
of A. Burr at Princeton in 1772.
HUNTER, WILLIAM L., died in Newport Dec.,
1849, aged 75. He was a lawyer, a senator in
congress from 1811 to 1821, and in 1842 minister
to Brazil. His style as a speaker was ornate and
more oratorical than was common at the bar. He
devoted much study in his last years to the sub
ject of religious liberty.
IIUNTINGTON, JOHN, minister of third church
in Salem, Mass., died May 30, 1766, aged 29.
The son of John II. of Norwich, Conn., he grad
uated at the college of New Jersey in 1759, and
was ordained Sept. 28, 1763. He died of the
consumption. He was a man much esteemed for
his talents and piety. — Sprague's Annals.
HUNTINGTON, HEZEKIAII, died at New Lon
don in 1773, aged 76. He was chief judge of the
county court, a respected, useful, religious man.
— Lord's Sermon.
HUNTINGTON, SAMUEL, governor of Con
necticut, died at Norwich Jan. 5, 1796, aged 63.
He was the eldest son of Nathaniel II., a farmer
of Windham, and was born in 1732. In his youth
he gave indications of an excellent understand
ing. Without the advantages of a collegial
education he acquired a competent knowledge of
the law, and was early admitted to the bar ; soon
after which he settled in Norwich in 1760, and in
a few years became eminent in his profession.
In 1764 he was a representative in the general
assembly, and the following year was appointed
king's attorney, which office he filled with repu
tation, until more important services induced him
to relinquish it. In 1774 he was made an assist
ant judge of the superior court. In 1775 he was
elected into the council, and in the same year
chosen a delegate to congress. In 1779 he was
president of that honorable body, and was re-
chosen the following year. After this year he
resumed his scat in the council and on the bench.
In 1783 he was again a member of congress. In
1784 he was appointed chief justice. He was
placed in the chair of the chief magistrate in 1786,
as successor of (Jov. Griswold, and was annually
re-elected till his death. His wife, Martha, the
daughter of Eb. Devotion, minister of Windham,
died June 4, 1794. Having no children, he
adopted two children of his brother, Joseph ; one
of whom was the governor of Ohio, and the other
married Rev. Edward D. Griffin. His elder broth
er, Nathaniel, minister of East Windsor, or El
lington, was ordained in 1749 and died in 1756,
aged 32. Gov. II. was an exemplary professor
of religion. He is one of those men, who by
the force of genius, by industry, patriotism, and
integrity, rose to eminent usefulness and honor. —
Strong's Funeral Sermon ; Goodrich; Diciijld,
II. 43.
HUNTINGTON, JOSEPH, D. D., minister of
HUNTINGTON.
Coventry, Conn., died in 1795, aged about 53.
He was graduated at Yale college in 17G2. One
daughter married Rev. Mr. Griffin ; another Mr.
Jones, and she was the mother of two eminent
men of Philadelphia, Judge Joel Jones and llcv.
Dr. Joseph Iluntington Jones. His brothers
were llev. Enoch II. of Middlctown, and Gov.
Samuel II. It is said, that many copies of his
work on future punishment remaining in the
family, Mrs. Jones " caused them to pass off in
smoke and flame." He is well known as the
author of a work, entitled, Calvinism improved,
or the gospel illustrated as a system of real
grace, issuing in the salvation of all men, which
Mas published, after his death, in 1796. It was
answered in the same year by Dr. Strong. It is
probable, that he adopted the notion of universal
salvation, as many others have, in consequence
of erroneous views of the divine sovereignty.
Ascribing to God an " Unalterable decree, — in
cluding every thought, volition, or inclination of
all moral agents, — every being and mode of be
ing, every circumstance, connection, and conse
quence throughout the whole system of being ; "
it would very naturally seem to him unjust, that
any man should be punished forever. He says,
" If any are in extreme sufferings to endless du
ration, in this case they must be infinite losers by
that existence, which the God of love forced upon
them." But surely Scripture does not ascribe to
God any decree or agency to produce sin ; on the
contrary, it declares expressly that God tempteth
no man to sin. Throughout the Bible, man is re
garded as a moral agent, self-acting, and, if sin
ful, with unforced volition choosing evil. Hence
he is responsible, and destined to answer for him
self in the final judgment. Setting out with the
grand error of absolute decree of sin, and pro
duction of it by God's power, and the consequent
denial of human responsibleness, Dr. II. founds
his argument for universal salvation on another
error in regard to the atonement of Christ, which,
he thought, included the endurance of all the pun
ishment threatened the sinner, and thus a satis
faction of the law, so that all sinful men are
released from its curse. Hence he says, by a
wild perversion of the plain language of scrip
ture, that sinners " in their surety, vicar, or sub
stitute, i. e. in Christ, the head of every man, go
away into everlasting punishment, in a true gos
pel sense. In him they suffer infinite punishment,
i. e. he suffers for them, in their room and stead."
By another strange perversion, revolting to com
mon sense, he represents that in the day of judg
ment, not men of all nations, but " characters
shall be separated one from another, as a shep
herd divideth the sheep from the goats." " The
character of sinners was always at God's left hand
and always Avill be." In the resurrection he main
tains that our sins will arise, " in the holy voice
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of the law," and that this will be the only resur
rection to condemnation and everlasting shame
and contempt, while all men will arise to ever
lasting life. It is by such strange departure from
scripture and common sense, that error is built
up and miserable men are deluded.
Dr. Iluntington published a sermon on the
vanity and mischief of presuming on things be
yond our measure, 1774; a plea in the cause of
Mrs. Fisk, excommunicated for marrying a pro
fane man, 1779 ; address to his anabaptist breth
ren, 1783; election sermon, 1784; installation of
J. Ellis, 1785 ; on death of J. Howard, 1789; on
the atonement, 1791 ; on the death of Mrs. Strong,
1793. After his death his work on universal
salvation was published, called Calvinism improved.
— Sprague's Annals.
HUNTINGTON, ENOCH, minister of Middle-
town, Conn., died in 1809, aged about 70. He
graduated at Yale in 1759. He succeeded "W.
Russell and was succeeded by Dan Iluntington.
The pastor of Westfield church in Middletown
was David Huntington, who graduated at Dart
mouth in the third class in 1773, and died in 1811,
aged about 60. He published a sermon at the
ordination of E. Parsons, 1773; a sermon on
political wisdom, 1786.
HUNTINGTOX, ASAIIEL, minister of Topsfield,
died April 22, 1813, aged 52. He left an unfin
ished sermon, written on the day of his sickness,
on the text, " Be ye also ready." He was born
in Franklin, Conn., once a part of Norwich, in
which town his ancestors lived. His grandfather
was Deacon Christopher II. He graduated at
Dartmouth in 1786, the first scholar in his class.
He was ordained in 1789. He was an excellent
minister and teacher. His wife was Alethea Lord
of Pomfret, of whom there is a portrait in Cleave-
land's address. She was the daughter of Dr.
Elisha L., and died in 1830, aged 83. Dr. Elisha
of Lowell and Asahel II. of Salem are his sons. —
Tojy-ifield Celebration ; N. Cleaveland's Address.
HUNTIXGTON, JEDIDIAH, general, died Sept.
25, 1818, aged 75. He was born in Norwich,
Conn., Aug. 15, 1743, and was graduated at Har
vard college in 1763, on which occasion he pro
nounced the first English oration ever delivered
at commencement. He soon engaged in com
mercial pursuits in Norwich. At the age of twenty-
three he made a profession of religion. Entering
the army in command of a regiment in 1775, he
was in May, 1777, appointed by congress a briga
dier-general. After the war, during which he
had the esteem and confidence of Washington, he
was sheriff of the county and treasurer of the
State. In 1789 he was appointed collector of the
port of New London, an office which he held
twenty-six years, resigning it in 1815. His first
wife, the daughter of Gov. Trumbull, died at
Dedham in 1775, while he was on his way to join
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the army at Cambridge. His relict, the sister of
Bishop Moore of Virginia, died in March, 1831.
With the courage of the soldier he combined the
humble graces of the Christian. He was an offi
cer 6f the church, a member of the American
foreign mission society from its organization, and
a zealous supporter of various charitable institu
tions. His own charities were unequalled in Con
necticut. — Panoplist, XV. 143.
HUXTIXGTOX, EBENEZER, major-general,
died at Norwich, Conn., in June, 1834, aged 79.
He graduated at Yale college in 1775, and joined
the army near Boston in the same year. He rose
in rank in successive years; in 1779 he was ap
pointed lieutenant-colonel, and was present at the
surrender of Cornwallis. He was twice elected a
member of congress. In 1799 he was appointed,
at the request of Washington, brigadier-general
in the army then raised.
HUNTTNGTON, HEZEKIAII, died at Middle-
town, Conn., May 27, 1842, aged 83. He was
United States attorney for Connecticut.
HUXTIXGTOX, JOSHUA, minister of Boston,
son of Jedidiah II., was born Jan. 31, 1786,
and graduated at Yale college in 1804. During
a revival in 1802 he became pious. He was or
dained colleague with Dr. Ecklcy, May 18, 1808,
and on his return from a journey for his health
to Canada, died at Groton Sept. 11, 1819, aged
33. He was a very faithful and useful minister,
and a humble, disinterested, excellent Christian.
When, in his sickness, told that he was about to
meet his father, he replied, " Yes ; it will be a
glorious meeting." He published memoirs of the
life of Abigail Waters, 1817. — Panoplist, xvi.
529-535 ; Spragne's Annals.
HUXTIXGTOX, SUSAN, wife of the preceding,
the daughter of Achilles Mansfield, minister of
Killingworth, Conn., was born Jan. 27, 1791.
Her mother was the grand-daughter of Jared
Eliot, minister of K., a descendant of the " Indian
apostle." At the age of sixteen she made a pro
fession of religion. She was married May 18,
1809. After surviving her husband four years,
she died in Boston Dec. 4, 1823, aged 32. Her
four surviving children became partakers of the
same grace in which their parents rejoiced. She
was very intelligent and remarkably pious. She
wrote a letter to a friend recovered from sickness,
which is tract Xo. eighty-eight of the American tract
society, and the story of Little Lucy. Her me
moirs by B. B. Wisncr, with an introductory essay
and poem by James Montgomery, were published,
third edition, 1829, containing her letters, journal,
and some pieces of poetry. Five editions have
been published in Scotland.
HUXTIXGTOX, SAMUEL, governor of Ohio,
died at Painesville July 7, 1817, aged 49. He
•was the son of Dr. H. of Coventry, and the
adopted son of Governor H. of Connecticut, was
born in 17G5, and graduated at Yale college in
1785. Removing in 1801 to Ohio, he was there
appointed chief justice. In 1808 he was elected
governor, as successor of Tiffin, the first governor;
in 1810 he was succeeded by Meigs.
IIUXTIXGTOX, GEORGE, died at Rome,N. Y.,
Sept. 23, 1842, aged 71 ; an early settler, and pa
triarch of the village. There was but one house
when he settled. He was a merchant, a man of
talents and integrity.
HUXTIXGTOX, ZACHARIAH, general, died at
Xorwich, Conn., June 23, 1850, aged 86.
HUXTIXGTOX, JABEZ W., judge, died in
Xorwich Xov. 1, 1847, aged 59. He graduated
at Yale in 1806, and was a member of congress
from 1829 to 1834. He was a judge of the su
perior court of C., and a senator of the United
States in 1840 and in 1845. He had a high char
acter for talents, integrity, and patriotism.
IIUXTIXGTOX, JABEZ, deacon, died in Nor
wich Aug. 16, 1848, aged 81. The son of Gen.
Jedediah H., he graduated at Yale in 1784. He
was president of Norwich bank, and connected
with it for fifty years. Mrs. Sarah L. Smith, the
missionary, was his daughter. His widow, Sarah
Lanman H., died Feb. 19, 1850, aged 84; an in
telligent Christian, blind in her last years.
HUXTIXGTOX, NEHEMIAH, died in Peter
borough, N. Y., in 1855, aged 78. His father
removed from Bozrah to Lebanon, N. II., in 1780.
He graduated at Dartmouth in 1804, and was a
sound lawyer and ripe scholar, a Christian, and an
elder in the church ; a man rich in good deeds.
HUXTOOX, JONATHAN, governor of Maine,
died at Fail-field in Oct., 1851, aged 70.
HUXTTIXG, JONATHAN, died at Southold, L. I.,
Dec. 30, 1850, aged 72. A graduate of Yale in
1804. he was the minister of Southold twenty-one
years, and after his dismission in 1828 supplied
various pulpits.
IIURD, CARLTON, D. I)., minister of Fryeburg,
Me., died Dec. 6, 1855, aged nearly 60. Born at
Newport, X. II., he graduated at Dartmouth in
1818. He was settled in 1823, and was an able
and laborious minister. He delivered some dis
courses on the Revelation, in the last of which he
gave notice that his next and last would be on
" the great white throne." The cause of his death
was a cold, taken by preaching a funeral sermon
near the open door of a private house. His re
collections of his daughter were published, with a
portrait by Sartain, 2d edition, 1847. Her
name was Marion Lyle Ilurd.
HURD, ISAAC, minister in Exeter, X. H., died
in South Reading Oct. 4, 1856, aged 70. Born
in Charlestown, he graduated at Harvard in 1 806,
and was ordained in Lynn Sept. 15, 1813, being
then a Unitarian ; but, becoming a Trinitarian, he
was dismissed in 1816, and the next year was in
stalled over the second church in Exeter, where
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he continued till his decease. He was a diligent
student, a good scholar, amiable, exemplary, and
faithful.
HURLBUT, JAMES, a physician, was born in
Berlin, Conn., in 1717, but lived in his latter years
at Wethersficld, where he died April 11, 1794,
aged 77. He was a learned and skilful physician.
No physician was better acquainted with our indi
genous matcria medica ; he employed the blood
root, geranium, cornus, trillium ; the cornus nor-
vegica in strangury. Although he was the greatest
genius in the medical profession in Connecticut,
he was in his last years a miserable drunkard, an
enormous eater of opium, a poor dependent on
charity. — Thacher.
HURLBUT, MARTIN LUTHER, died in South
ampton in 1842, aged 61. He graduated at Wil
liams: college in 1804. He was eminent as a teach
er, and lived at Charleston, S. C., as well as at S.
His son, William Henry, a graduate of Harvard
in 1847, is known at Cambridge as a scholar; he
is the author of an interesting book relating to
one of the West India islands.
IIUTCHINS, THOMAS, geographer-general of
the United States, died at Pittsburgh April 28,
1789. He was born in Monmouth county, New
Jersey. Before he was sixteen years of age he
•went to the western country, and was soon ap
pointed ensign in the army. He distinguished
himself at fort Pitt, the plan of which he laid
out, and which was executed by him under Gen.
Bouquet. He afterwards lived several years in
Louisiana, and was engaged in a variety of bat
tles with the Indians while with the army in West
Florida. He here obtained a captain's commis
sion in the British army ; but, being much at
tached to America, he found it necessary to relin
quish it. He was in London at the commencement
of the war in 1775, and his zeal in the cause of
his country induced him to refuse some excellent
offers which were made him in England. Being
suspected in 1779 of holding a correspondence
with Franklin, then in France, he was thrown
into a dungeon, and lost 12,000 pounds in one
day. In this dark and loathsome place he was
kept six weeks. He was then examined and lib
erated. After this he went to France and sailed
thence to Charleston, where he joined the army
under Gen. Greene. It was not long before he
was appointed geographer-general of the United
States. He was esteemed and beloved, being re
markable for piety, charity, and benevolence.
Under the vicissitudes of life he was patient and
resigned to the Divine will. Dr. Morse was much
indebted to him in the compilation of his Amer
ican gazetteer. He published an account of
Bouquet's expedition against the Ohio Indians in
17(54, with a map and plates, 17(>5; a description
of Virginia, Pennsylvania, Maryland, North Caro
lina, etc., with maps, London, 1778; and a his
torical narrative and topographical description of
Louisiana and West Florida, 1784.
HUTCHINSON, ANN, an artful woman, who
occasioned much difficulty in New England soon
after its first settlement, came from Lincolnshire
to Boston in 1036, and was the wife of Wm. II.,
a representative of Boston. She was an admirer
of Mr. Cotton. The members of his church used
to meet every week to repeat his sermons, and
discourse on doctrines. She set up meetings for
women, and soon had a numerous audience. Af
ter repeating the sermons of Mr. Cotton she
added reflections of her own ; she advocated er
roneous sentiments, and warped the discourses of
her minister to coincide with her own opinions.
She asserted that believers are personally united
with the spirit of God ; that commands to work
out salvation belong only to such as are under a
covenant of works ; that sanctification is not suf
ficient evidence of a good state ; and she pre
tended to immediate revelation respecting future
events. She soon threw the whole colony into a
flame. Those who opposed her were said to be
in favor of a covenant of works, and those who
supported her were said to be vindicating a cove
nant of grace. The progress of her sentiments
occasioned the synod of 1637, the first synod in
America. This convention of ministers con
demned eighty-two erroneous opinions, then prop
agated in the country. Mrs. Hutchinson, after
this sentence of her opinions, was herself called
before the court in November of the same year,
and, being convicted of traducing the ministers
and advancing errors, was banished the colony.
Her trial is published in the appendix of the sec
ond volume of Hutchinson. She discovers art,
spirit, and talents. The church in Boston excom
municated her for many evils in her conversation
as well as for corrupt opinions. She went with
her husband to Rhode Island. In the year 1642,
after her husband's death, she removed into the
Dutch country beyond New Haven, and the next
year she, her son Francis, and most of her family
of sixteen persons were killed by the Indians. —
Hist. Soc. vii. 16, 17; IX. 28, 29; Hutchinson,
I. 55-57, 66, 70-73 ; Magnolia, VII. 17-20 ; Win-
tlirop.
HUTCHINSON, THOMAS, died in Boston Dec.
3, 1739, aged 64. lie was the father of Gov. H.
He was long a member of the council, and de
serves remembrance for his good deeds. He was
a worthy member of the church. For thirty
years or more he gave away secretly to the poor
20 or 30 pounds in each year, at a season in
which he had received some special favor in God's
providence. He gave to the town the north Latin
school-house, and was at half the expense of the
north writing-school. Mather published a sermon
on his death.
HUTCHINSON, THOMAS, governor of Massa-
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chusetts, died June 3, 1780, aged 68. A de
scendant of Mrs. Ann H., he was the son of Col.
Thomas H., a distinguished merchant and mem
ber of the council, and a most benevolent and
excellent man, who died in 1739. lie was born
Sept. 9, 1711, and graduated at Harvard college
in 1727. He applied himself first to mercantile
business, but without success. He then engaged
in the study of the common law of England, and
the principles of the British constitution, with
reference to his employment in public life. For
ten years he was a representative, and the speaker
of the house three years. In 1752 he succeeded
his uncle Edward, a judge of probate; he was a
member of the council from 1749 to 1766, and
lieut. -governor from 1758 to 1771; in 1760 he
was appointed chief justice after the death of
Judge Sewall. This appointment displeased the
Otis family, the father having had the promise of
a scat on the bench. At one time he held the
offices of councillor, judge of probate, chief jus
tice, and lieutenant-governor. His respect to
religious institutions, his sympathy with the dis
tressed, his affability, his integrity, industry, and
talents, procured .in a very high degree the public
confidence. The stamp act being passed, Andrew
Oliver, one of the council, and brother-in-law of
Mr. Hutchinson, was appointed distributor of
stamps. The law was to go into effect Nov. 1,
1765. A few months before that time, Jared In-
gersoll, the distributor for Connecticut, arrived in
Boston from London. When he left town, Mr.
Oliver accompanied him a short distance, in con
sequence of which he was hung in effigy on the
great tree at South Boston, and a mob destroyed
a building which he had erected, supposed to be
designed for a stamp office, and also destroyed
the furniture of his house. Mr. Oliver immedi
ately resigned his office. In the evening the mob
thanked him, and made a bonfire on Fort hill near
his house. The next evening the house of Mr.
Hutchinson was attacked, a report being spread
that he had written letters in favor of the stamp
act ; but the chief damage was the breaking of
the windows. In a few evenings there was a more
formidable assault. The merchants being dis
pleased with the officers of the customs and the
admiralty, a mob was collected in the evening of
Aug. 26th in King street, and well supplied with
strong drink. Having first plundered the cellar
of the comptroller of the customs of the wine and
spirits, the rioters proceeded with intoxicated rage
to the house of Mr. Ilutchinson, and, splitting
the doors to pieces with broad axes, they de
stroyed or cast into the street everything which
was in the house, and kept possession until day
light. The damage was estimated at 2,500
pounds, besides the loss of a great collection
of public and private papers. He received a
grant for liis losses. The governor was that
night at the castle. The town the next day
voted their abhorrence of the riot ; but no person
was punished ; even six or eight persons who were
imprisoned for this affair were released by a com
pany, who, by threats, obtained the keys of the
prison from the prison-keeper.
The political controversy continued during the
remainder of Bernard's administration from 1765
to 1770; and Mr. Hutchinson, by taking his seat
in the council in 1767 without being chosen, and
merely in consequence of his office of lieut.-gov-
ernor, excited a clamor against him. He charged
it upon Mr. llawlcy's resentment for something
which had occurred in the court of common law.
But the claim to a seat was voluntarily aban
doned, though Mr. II. thought, that the early
practice sanctioned the claim. In a few days,
however, he was appointed by the house to an
important post, that of one of the commissioners
for settling the boundary with New York. In
1768 the arrival of the troops at Boston increased
the popular excitement against the lieut. -govern or.
At the request of the governor he accompanied
the sheriff to the manufactory house, to advise the
occupants to leave it, as it belonged to the State and
was at the disposal of the governor, who had ap
propriated it for the use of the troops ; but the
occupants, encouraged by " the first-rate sons of
liberty," held their ground. When Gov. Bernard
left the province in 1769, the administration de
volved on Mr. Ilutchinson, the lieut. -governor.
In the next year the Boston massacre, as it was
called, occurred, and inflamed the public mind ;
he had also a long controversy with the as
sembly, on his proroguing the assembly to
Cambridge, by order of the king ; the council
was also opposed to him. At this period, in med
itating on the future, he concluded, that it would
be prudent for him to remain chief justice, and to
pass his days in peace ; and his wishes he com
municated to the British government. In the
mean time, however, his commission as governor
was received in March, 1771, Andrew Oliver being
nominated lieut. -governor, and Tho. Flucker sec
retary in his stead. Unhappily for himself, he
accepted the appointment, for from this time till
his departure for England in 1774, he was in con
stant dispute with the assembly and council.
Among the subjects of controversy were the pro
vision made for his support by the crown, which
paid him a salary of 1500 pounds, and the pro
vision made in the same way for the judges. By
his speech Jan. 6, 1773, asserting the supreme
authority of parliament, he provoked a discussion
by the council and house, which it would have
been wiser not to have awakened. Indeed, the
minister recommended to him not to renew the
discussion. In 1772 Dr. Franklin procured some
confidential letters of Gov. H., and others, and
sent them in the autumn to Samuel Cooper, with
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an injunction, that they should not be copied nor
published. Mr. Cooper put them into the hands
of the speaker, with permission to show them to
five persons. Thus they were kept six or eight
months. In June, 1773, they were communicated
to the legislature in secret session. In order to
obviate the difficulty of the restriction and to
make them "public, Mr. II. says, that Mr. Han
cock presented to the house copies of the letters,
which some one in the street had put into his
hands ; and the next day, in consequence of
copies being abroad, the person to whom they were
sent gave his consent to the publication. It has
been recently asserted, that Mr. Williamson ob
tained them from a public office ; but this is
probably a mistake. They were written to
Thomas Whately, a member of parliament, who
at the time was out of office, and in opposition to
the ministry, and the ministry never saw them.
In the letters also there was no sentiment but
what the governor had openly expressed in his
addresses to the legislature. The council indeed
reproached him for saying, " there must be an
abridgment of what are called English liberties ;"
but this was no more than what had been said
openly in his speech at the last meeting, — the
whole paragraph was, — " I never think of the meas
ures necessary for the peace and good order of the
colonies without pain ; there must be an abridg
ment of what are called English liberties ; I
doubt whether it is possible to project a system of
government in which a colony, three thousand
miles distant, shall enjoy all the liberty of the
parent state." The writers of the other letters
were Andrew Oliver, Charles Paxton, Thomas
Moffatt, llobert Auchmuty, Nathaniel Rogers,
and George Home. Gov. II. complained, that his
letters were united with the other letters, of which
he knew nothing, and that he was made respon
sible for all. Franklin remarked, in regard to
the restriction under which he sent the letters,
" possibly, as distant objects seen only through a
mist appear larger, the same may happen from
the mystery in this case." For their concern in
obtaining these letters, Dr. Franklin and Mr.
Temple were removed from office. Mr. II.
thought, that the letters had been in the posses
sion of a member of parliament, not Mr. Whately,
and by him given to Dr. Franklin. The last pub
lic difficulty was the affair of the tea. A part of
it had been consigned to two sons of the gov
ernor, a part to Richard Clark and sons, and a
part to Benj. Faneuil and Josh. Winslow. On
the arrival of the first ship with tea, a " body
meeting " of the town and neighborhood was
called at old south church, on Tuesday, Nov. 30th,
and it was resolved, that the tea should be sent
back ; Mr. Rotch, the owner, being required not
to enter the tea, and Capt. Hall, the master, not
to land it. By order of the town the ship was
brought from below the castle to a wharf, and a
watch of twenty-five men was appointed for secur
ing the ship. The governor sent a sheriff, who
read a proclamation for the dispersion of the pub
lic, but a general hiss followed, and it was unani
mously voted to proceed in defiance of the gov
ernor, and compel the owner and master to
engage to send the tea back in the same vessel.
When two other vessels arrived, the committee of
safety required them to be brought to the same
wharf. There was a difficulty in the return of the
ships, for no clearance could be obtained from the
custom-house, and no pass by the castle from the
governor. As there were several men-of-war in
the harbor, an attempt to get to sea without a
pass would be ineffectual. It was apprehended,
too, that the collector would demand the duties,
and seize the ship and goods, in the proper dis
charge of his office. Another " body " meeting
was therefore summoned Dec. 14, 1773, of the
people of Boston and the adjacent towns, who en
joined the owner of the ship to apply for a clear
ance and a pass, which were refused. When the
governor's answer was returned to the "body,"
they dissolved the meeting and repaired to the
wharf as a guard to the destroyers of the tea.
About fifty men, covered with blankets and ap
pearing like Indians, had previously marched by
the old south church, and gone on board the ves
sel. On the arrival of the " body," the " Indians"
in two or three hours hoisted out of the holds of
the ship three hundred and forty-two chests of
tea and emptied them into the sea. The gov
ernor was much blamed in England for not
granting a pass ; but he could not have done it
without violating his oath, as the laws of the cus
tom-house had not been observed. Nor could
he secure the tea in the town without bringing
the regiment from the castle, or by marines from
the men-of-war. This would have brought on a
contest. In fact, the sons of liberty had annihi
lated all the powers of government. There was
not a judge, justice of the peace, or sheriff, who
could venture to withstand the inflamed, deter
mined people. Feb. 24, 1774, he informed the
legislature by message, that he had obtained his
majesty's leave to go to England, and that he
should soon avail himself of it. Gen. Gage ar
rived May 1'ith, but Mr. II. was assured of the
king's intention to reinstate him, when Gen.
Gage's services should be elsewhere required, and
that he should not suffer by the loss of his com
mission. He sailed for England June 1st.
After the publication of the letters in 1773,
the council and house voted an address for the
removal of the governor. His friend, Israel
Mauduit, petitioned for a hearing before the privy
council, which was granted Jan. 29, 1774, Mr.
Wcdderburne defending the governor, and Mr.
Dunning and John Lee being on the other side.
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The decision was in favor of " the honor, integ
rity, and conduct " of the governor, and was ap
proved by the king. In Massachusetts Jonathan
Sewall ably deicnded him under the signature of
Philalethes. After his arrival in England, the
unprosperous state of affairs in America deprived
him of the offices and rewards he may have ex
pected, though he received a pension. He lived
at Brompton, near London. The death of his
youngest son, William, in Feb., 1780, most deeply
afflicted him ; and he himself died in June, and was
buried at Croydon. His son, Thomas, died in
England in 1811, aged 71, and Elisha, in 1824,
aged 80. His brother, Foster II., was a judge
of the supreme court. Mr. Hutchinson was a
man of a good character, of unwearied industry,
and of respectable talents. But it was his fortune
to live at a Revolutionary period, and in the very
focus of the popular excitement. His political
views he candidly and manfully explained to the
legislature in many speeches and messages, which
display his learning, temper, and abilities. If any
man deserved the gratitude of the British admin
istration, it was he. Though a baronetcy was
offered, which he declined for private reasons ,
yet was he treated with neglect. Had the " rebel
lion " been put down the first year, he would have
been deemed worthy of the highest honors, so
much does the estimation of men depend on suc
cess. Massachusetts, amidst all the vituperations
against him for encouraging the ministers in their
measures to keep the colonies in a state of de
pendence, has one cause to remember him with
gratitude, for when the commissioners, Brattle,
Hawley, and Hancock, met those of New York
at Hartford, May 12, 1773, it was his advice only,
which prevented them from abandoning the claim
of Mass, to the western territory of New York,
which was retained and sold for a large sum. He
deserves great honor also for his labors in regard
to the history of Massachusetts. He published
a brief state of the claim of the colonies, etc.,
1764 ; the history of the colony of Massachusetts
Bay, from the first settlement thereof in 1628
until the year 1750, in 2 vols., 8vo., the first in
1760, and the second in 1767; and a collection
of original papers relative to the history of the
colony of Massachusetts Bay, 8vo., 1769. Those
works are held in high estimation by those who
are searching into the history of our country.
His grandson, Rev. John II., of Trentham, Eng.,
published from his manuscripts a third volume of
the history of Massachusetts, from 1749 to 1774,
8vo., London, 1828. There was promised many
years ago a biography of Gov. II. by the same
descendant. — Warren ; Gordon ; Minot ; IIulc/i-
ins on's Hist.
HUTCHINSON, JAMES, M. I)., professor of
materia medica and chemistry in the university of
Pennsylvania, died at Philadelphia of the yellow
fever Sept. 6, 1793, aged 51. One of his sons
was consul at Lisbon. — Thadier.
HUTCIIIXSON, ISRAEL, colonel, an officer in
the Revolutionary war, died at Danvcrs, Mass.,
in 1811, aged 84.
HUTCHINSON, AARON, the minister of Graf-
ton, Mass., died in 1800, aged 76. Born in He
bron, Conn., he graduated at Yale 'in 1747, and
was settled in 1750, and resigned in 1772, and
was succeeded by D. Grosvenor. In 1775 he
engaged to preach for five years in the towns of
Pomf'ret, Woodstock, and Hartford, Yt. In 1776
he removed his family of ten children to Yer-
mont, having a farm in Pomfret, preaching in the
vicinity till his death. He had memory and a
strong mind, but was unpolished and eccentric.
In his whole life he was prevented from preach
ing by ill health only two Sabbaths. He pub
lished at Grafton a sermon on valor for the truth.
Dr. Tucker replied to the sermon. When some
of his people found him digging at the bottom
of a well, " Really," said Dr. Tucker, " that was
veritas inputeo." He published also a reply to
Tucker, 1768; a sermon after the execution of
Arthur; two sermons as he left his people, 1772 ;
a sermon, 1772; at Pelham, 1773. — Sprague's
Annals.
IIUTCHINSON, AARON, died in 1843, aged
upwards of 90. The son of Rev. Aaron II. of
Grafton, Mass., he graduated at Harvard in 1770.
He was a lawyer in Grafton, N. II., and in Leba
non, N. II., where he died. His son, Henry, a
lawyer at Hanover, N. II., and at N. Y., married
Mary, a daughter of Professor Woodward.
HUTCHINSON, ANDERSON, chief justice of
Texas, died at Jackson, Miss., Dec. 31, 1852. He
was the author of a code, and manual of forms.
HYDE, ALVAN, D. D., minister of Lee, Mass.,
died suddenly Dec. 4, 1833, aged 65. Born in
Franklin, Conn., the son of Joseph, he graduated
at Dartmouth in 1788. and was settled June 6,
1792. He was highly respected as a pious, faith
ful, and successful minister, and as a teacher of
young men destined for the ministry. His suc
cessor from 1834 to 1838 was J. N. Danforth.
His brethren in Berkshire were Judson, West,
Catlin, Shepard, Allen, and Collins. His son,
Alvan, a graduate of Williams in 1815, was set
tled as a minister at Madison, Ohio, and died in
1824, at Lee, aged 30. A memoir of Dr. Hyde
was published in 1834. He published the follow
ing sermons : at thanksgiving, 1796 ; on the death
of Mrs. West and II. W. Dwight, 1804; of Mrs.
Bassctt, of Mrs. Benton ; of Rev. D. Perry, 1817 ;
of Madam 1). Williams, 1833 ; on the conjugal
relation, 1815 ; at the ordination of A. Clark,
1807; of A. Hyde, Jr., 1819; the power of Christ
in the salvation of believers, 1810; on the land
ing at Plymouth, 1820 ; on temperance, 1829 ;
sketches of the life of Rev. Dr. West, 1819;
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an essay on the state of infants,1830. — Sprague's
Anna!*.
HYDE, NANCY MAIIIA, died at Norwich, Conn.,
March 26, 18 1(5, aged 24. She was the daughter j
of Elishn Hyde, who died in 1813. For a few
years she was a teacher of young ladies, well
qualified, skilful in painting and embroidery. Her
writings, with a sketch of her life by her friend
and neighbor, Miss Huntley, afterwards Mrs. Sig-
ourney, were published in 1816.
ILLSLEY, ISAAC, collector of the port of Port
land, Me., appointed by Jefferson, died Oct. 17,
18,33, aged 88.
DILAY, GEORGE, published a topographical
description of the western territory of North
America, 8vo., London, 1792; the same, with a
supplement by J. Filson, 2 vols., New York,
1793.
INCE, JONATHAN, a distinguished mathemati
cian, died in 1657. He graduated at Harvard in
1650, in the class of President Hoar.
IXG ALLS, WILLIAM, M. D., professor of an at
om}- in Brown university, died at Wrentham,
Sept. 8, 1851, aged 82. Born in Newburyport,
the son of "William, his earlier ancestor, Edmund
of Lynn, came from Lincolnshire in 1629. He
was a graduate of Harvard in 1790 ; the only sur
vivor of his class is Josiah Quincy. He was long
an eminent physician in Boston.
INGERSOLL, JONATHAN, minister of Ridge-
field, Conn., died in 1778, aged about 62. lie
was graduated at Yale in 1736. He published
election sermon, 1761.
INGERSOLL, JARKD, a judge of the admiralty
court, died in New Haven in Aug., 1781, aged
about 60. He was born in Milford, Conn., in
1722; was graduated at YTale college in 1742;
settled at New Haven as a lawyer, and was agent
of the colony in England in 1757 ; but being ap
pointed distributor of the stamps in Connecticut,
under the stamp act, he lost his popularity. The
people of New Haven compelled him to resign
Aug. 24, 1765. Not deeming this resignation
explicit, a large company from the eastern part
of Connecticut set out on a journey to New Ila-
vcn. They met Mr. I. at "Wethersfield, when they
compelled him to resign and cry out, three times,
Liberty and Property. The next day five hun
dred men escorted him to Hartford. On being
appointed admiralty judge for the middle district,
about the year 1780, he removed to Philadelphia ;
but in consequence of the Revolution he returned
to New Haven.
INGEKSOLL, SAMUEL B., minister of Shrews
bury, Mass., died in 1820. He succeeded Dr.
Sunnier. He graduated at Yale in 1817, and in
three years died in the year of his settlement.
His sermon at Shrewsbury June 18, 1820, was
published, with a memoir.
IXGERSOLL, JARED, LL. D., judge of the
district court of Philadelphia, the son of Judge
Jarcd, died Oct. 31, 1822, aged 73. He was
graduated at Yale college in 1766, and attained
a high rank as a lawyer in Philadelphia. Tie was
also a member of congress, and of the convention
which framed the constitution of the United States.
The office of attorney-general of Pennsylvania he
resigned in 1816. At the time of his death he
was judge. In 1812 he was the Federal candi
date for the office of vice-president of the United
States.
INGERSOLL, JONATHAN, LL. D., judge, and
lieut.-governor of Connecticut, died Jan. 12, 1843,
aged 76. He was born in Ridgefield, the son of
Rev. Jonathan I., and was graduated at Yale in
1766. lie settled at Xew Haven and became emi
nent in the profession of the law. During the last
thirty years of his life he was in many unsought
public employments, and in all enjoyed the per
fect confidence of his fellow citizens. He was ap
pointed judge in 1798, but resigned in 1801, and
was chosen lieut.-governor in 1816. He left a
wife and seven children. His daughter, Grace,
married to Peter Grellet, died in Paris, 1816.
He was a patriot, statesman, and incorruptible
judge. Of the episcopal church he was from
early life a member ; his life evinced his benevo
lence and piety ; he was eminently a man of
prayer. He lived and died without reproach ;
yet at death he had no proud confidence ; his re
liance was on the mercy of the Redeemer.
IXGERSOLL, JAMES, died in Boston 1851, be
queathing to various societies 20,000 dollars.
INGLES, JOHN, colonel, a brave officer dur
ing the Revolutionary war, died near Raleigh,
X. C., Oct. 10, 1816, aged 77. He was an emi
grant Scotchman, and was commended by Steuben
as one of the best of disciplinarians.
IXGLIS, CHARLES, 1). I)., bishop of Nova
Scotia, died in February or March, 1816, aged 82.
He was rector of Trinity church, New York, in
1777, and for some years; but he fled as a tory,
and was succeeded by Mr. Provoost. His son,
John, Avas made bishop in 1825 ; and died in Lon
don in Nov., 1850. He published an answer to
Panic's Common Sense, in Feb., 1776, which
made him obnoxious to the patriots. — Observer,
Jan. 16, 1851.
INGLIS, JAMES, D. D., minister of Baltimore,
and an eloquent preacher, died Aug. 15, 1820.
A volume of his sermons was soon afterward
published.
INGRAM, DAVID, wrote travels in America in
1582 ; published in Ilakluyt.
INMAN, RICHARD, died in "Wilkesbarre, Penn.,
in 1831, aged 77. He lost four brothers in In
dian battles and skirmishing in 1778. He left a
large family of children, who removed still farther
west.
INMAN, HENRY, died at New York Jan. 17,
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IVES.
1846, aged 44, a distinguished painter, and presi
dent of the National academy of the arts of de
sign. He was born in Utica, and studied under
Jarvis. lie was chiefly skilled in portrait paint
ing, working rapidly, and having a peculiar free
dom and grace of pencil. He was an artist of
fine powers, producing delightful pictures.
INMAN, JOHN, died in New York March 30,
1850, aged 40. He was a brother of Henry In-
man, a native of Utica, and educated for the law,
but spent his life in literary and editorial labors.
On his return from Europe, he was connected
with the Standard and the New York Mirror, and
with the Commercial Advertiser, of which he be
came chief editor on the death of Col. Stone.
For some years he edited the Columbian maga
zine.
IREDELL, JAMES, judge, was appointed a
judge in North Carolina in 1777, and in 1790, a
judge of the supreme court of the United States.
lie died in Edenton in October, 1799. James I.,
probably his son, was governor in 1827.
IREDELL, JAMES, governor of North Caro
lina in 1827, died in 1853, aged 65. He was also
judge of the superior court, and a senator of the
United States from 1828 to 1831.
IRVIN, CALLENDER, general, died at Philadel
phia in 1841. He was commissary-general of
supplies, and president of the Cincinnati, much
respected.
Ill VINE, WILLIAM, major-general, died July
30, 1804, aged 63. He was born in Ireland.
Educated for the medical profession, he served as
a surgeon on board of a British ship in the war
which began in 1754, and after the peace of 1763
settled at Carlisle, Penn. In 1774 he was a mem
ber of the state convention. In 1776 he served
in Canada, and accompanied Col. Thompson, who
was dispatched by Gen. Sullivan from Sorelle to
dislodge the enemy from Trois Rivieres ; but was
taken prisoner June 16th, and remained as such
at Quebec nearly two years, until he was ex
changed in April, 1778. On his release he was
promoted to the command of the second Penn
sylvania regiment. In 1781 the defence of the
northwestern frontier, threatened by the British
and Indians, was intrusted to him. After the
war he was elected a member of congress. Dur
ing the whiskey insurrection of 1794 he was a
commissioner to the insurgents on the part of the
State, and, his peaceful mission having failed, he
was more successful at the head of the militia.
Removing about this time from Carlisle to Phila
delphia, he way appointed intendant of military
stores.
IRVINE, JAMES, general, a Revolutionary offi
cer, died at Philadelphia, April, 1819, aged 84.
He was a colonel in 1776; in 1782 a major-gen
eral in Pennsylvania.
IRVING, SIIIKLEY, a physician of Portland,
Me., died in Boston in July, 1813, aged 54. He
was the son of John Irving and the grandson of
Gov. W. Shirley. He entered Harvard college
in 1773, but the war interrupted his studies. For
many years he was a highly esteemed physician
in Portland. In his last years he suffered from an
affection of the lungs, and was induced to return
to Boston. He was of an equable temper, of un
bending integrity, affable and benevolent, as well
as learned without pedantry. — Dr. S. W. Wil
liams' Med. Jjioff.
IRVING, WILLIAM, a literary merchant, was a
member of congress from New York city from
1812 to 1818, and one of the committee of com
merce and manufactures. He died Nov. 9, 1821.
He was the brother of Washington Irving, of
whose " Salmagundi " he wrote some papers.
IRVING, MATTHEW, a physician, died at
Charleston, S. C., in Sept., 1827. He was a dis
tinguished physician and scholar, and a patriot of
the Revolution.
IRWIN, JARED, general, governor of Georgia,
wns a soldier of the Revolution. He was a mem
ber of the convention which adopted the con
stitution in 1789; was governor from 1796 to
1798, and also from 1806 to 1809, when he was
succeeded by Mitchell; and died March 1, 1818,
aged 68.
ISHAM, JIRAII, general, died at New London,
Conn., in 1842, aged 54. Born in Colchester, he
graduated at Yale in 1797; was a lawyer at New
London, much respected, state's attorney, mayor,
and judge of probate ; also major-general of the
militia in the war of 1812. His three wives were
Lucretia, daughter of Dr. L. Hubbard of New
Haven, Lucretia Starr, and Elizabeth C. Trott of
New London. He left twelve children.
IVES, LEVI, M. D., a physician, was born in
1750, and died at New Haven, Conn., Oct. 17,
1826, aged 76. He was one of the founders of
the New Haven medical society, and one of the
conductors of the " Cases and Observations," a
medical journal at New Haven, the first in this
country. With professional skill, he acquired
only a competence. While he regarded the
temporal weli'are of his patients, he had a deeper
solicitude for their spiritual interests.
IVES, JESSE, minister of Norfolk, Conn., died
in 1805, aged about 69. He graduated at Yale
in 1758, in the class of Dr. Hopkins.
IVES, REUBEN, Episcopal minister, died in
Cheshire, Conn., Oct. 14, 1836, aged 75. He
was a graduate of Yale in 1786.
rVES, ANSEL W., a physician, died in New
York Feb. 2, 1838, aged 50." Born in Woodbury,
Conn., a farmer's son, he was accustomed as he
went to his toils in the field to carry a book in his
pocket; then he taught school; then studied
physic with Dr. North of New London, Dr.
Wliitc of Fishkill, and Dr. Mott of New York.
IZARD.
As a physician his practice continually increased.
In 1827 he became a member of the Presbyterian
church. He wrote for the medical journals. His
paper on the humulus lupulus gained him reputa
tion. He rcpublished with notes Paris' pharma-
cologisc, and Hamilton on mercurial remedies ;
and on the influenza of 1815. — Williams' Med.
Biog.
IZARD, RALPH, a senator of the United
States from South Carolina, from 1789 to 1795,
was a distinguished and eloquent statesman. In
the judgment of Washington, no man was more
honest in public life. There was an enthusiasm
in his political sentiments ; but his patriotic mo
tives were unquestionable. In the senate he had
the confidence of all parties. He died at South
Bay, May 30, 1804, aged 66. His wife was Alice,
daughter of Peter Delancey of New York.
IZARD, GEORGE, general, governor of the
Arkansas territory from 1825 to 1828, died at
Little Rock, in consequence of the gout, Nov. 22,
1828. He was a native of South Carolina. After
a classical education and travelling in Europe he
entered the army as a captain of artillery and
rose to the rank of major-general. At one period
of the late war he commanded the division on the
northwestern frontier. After the war he resided
near Philadelphia till he was appointed successor
of Gov. Miller. In his office of governor he was
faithful and had the confidence of the people.
JACKMAN, ABEL, colonel, died in 1820, in
Corinth, Me., aged 58. In assisting to hive a
swarm of bees he was so stung as to die in ten
minutes. Who is secure against death?
JACKSON, EDWARD, died at Newton, Mass.,
in 1681, aged 78. He came from England in
1645. To Harvard college he gave four hundred
acres of land in Billerica and other property.
His descendants were numerous : one of his
daughters married Rev. N. Hobart.
JACKSON, JOSEPH, minister of Brookline,
Mass., died July 22, 1796, aged 61, and was suc
ceeded by John Pierce. Born in Boston, he grad
uated at Harvard in 1753 ; was a tutor some
years; and was ordained April 9, 1760. He was
an excellent and acceptable preacher ; but through
his modesty we cannot judge of his merit from his
writings, for he never would consent to publish a
sermon, although he was often requested.
JACKSON, JONATHAN, died in Boston in 1810,
aged 67. He was the son of Edward, a mer
chant, who graduated in 1726, and died in 1757,
whose only sister married Judge Wendell. Mr. J.
was graduated at Harvard in 1761, and was after
wards treasurer of the college and of the State.
He was a member of the provincial congress, and
of congress in 1781 ; the first marshal of Massa
chusetts district, and inspector of excise. His
sons, Judge Charles and Dr. James, were men of
eminence. Taking an early part in the American
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struggle for freedom, and being the owner of a
slave, named Pomp, he felt the obligation of set
ting him free. He therefore liberated him by a
noble document, recorded in the Suffolk probate
office, and dated two weeks before the Declara
tion of Independence, saying : " I, Jonathan Jack
son of Newburyport, in consideration of the im
propriety I feel and have long felt in holding any
person in constant bondage, more especially at the
time when my country is so warmly contending
for the liberty every man ought to enjoy," and
then declares, that he has given freedom to his
" negro man Pomp." This man lived, served in
the cause of freedom during the war, and died in
Andover, near Pomp's pond, in 1822, aged about
94. Washington had the same feelings with
Jackson, and ordered his slaves to be liberated on
the death of his wife, as there were obstacles to
their earlier liberation. — F. Jackson's Ilist. of
Newton.
JACKSON, HALL, M. D., a physician, died
Sept. 28, 1797, in consequence of being overset
in his gig while riding to visit a patient. He was
the son of Dr. Clement Jackson of Portsmouth,
N. II., who died Oct. 10, 1788, aged 82. After
studying with his father, he attended the medical
lectures in London during three years. On his
return he settled in his native town, where he was
eminent not only as a physician, but particularly
as a surgeon. He frequently performed the op
eration of couching the eye. His habits were
social, and he Avas a welcome guest in every circle.
The culture of the foxglove in New England was
introduced by him. He published a tract on the
malignant sore throat which prevailed from 1784
to 1786. — Thaclicr.
JACKSON, JAMES, governor of Georgia, died
at Washington March 18, 1806, aged 48. He
was a native of England and came to this coun
try at the age of fourteen in 1772. Early in the
war he joined the army; in 1778 he was chosen
'brigadier major; in 1781 he commanded the
legionary corps of the State. When the British
evacuated Savannah, July 12, 1782, he received
the keys. For his various services the assembly
of the State presented him with a house and lot
in Savannah. On the return of peace he engaged
with success in the practice of the law. In 1789
he was chosen a member of congress, and soon
afterwards a senator, which office he resigned in
1795. He was major-general of the militia; and
governor from 1798, till his election as senator in
the place of Gen. Gunn in 1801. His brother,
Gen. Abraham J., died in Georgia Jan., 1810.
Gov. Jackson had not strength of moral and
religious principle to restrain him from duelling.
He was an honorable murderer. In 1780 he
killed Lieut. Gov. Wells in a duel, and was him
self severely wounded in both knees. In conse
quence of a political controversy he fought a
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duel with Col. R. "Watkins in June, 1802, and was
wounded in the hip. Five shots were exchanged.
In May, 1803, he complained that he had been
cruelly treated by Georgia, and that republics are
always ungrateful ; he thought the capital of
Wayne county ought to be called Jacksonville in
honor of himself.
JACKSON, LEVI, died at Chesterfield, N. H.,
in 1821, aged 49. He graduated at Dartmouth
in 1799, and was six years preceptor of the acad
emy in Chesterfield, his native town ; afterwards
much in public service.
JACKSON, JAMES, Jr., M. D., died in Boston
March 27, 1834, aged only 24. He graduated at
Harvard at the age of eighteen ; studied medicine
with his father, the eminent physician, who still
lives; was in Paris and Great Britain from 1831
to 1833, when he returned, ready for practice.
He took rooms and sent out an advertisement ;
but he did not enter them, for in the same month he
died. His afflicted father published a memoir of
him in 8vo. He published a Boylston prize dis
sertation on pneumonia.
JACKSON, RICHARD S., died at Providence
April 18, 1838, aged 74. He was a member of
congress from 1808 to 1815. A merchant, he
was among the first to engage in the cotton man
ufacture, and was a man of integrity and religion,
the associate of various literary, benevolent, and
religious institutions.
JACKSON, THOMAS, Episcopal minister, died
at Alexandria, district of Columbia, in Nov., 1838,
aged 56.
JACKSON, HENRY, M. D., LL. D., professor
of mathematics, etc., in the university of Georgia,
died near Athens in 1841, aged 62. He went
with Crawford as secretary of legation to France,
and was absent from 1814 to 1817, resuming his
college duties on his return, but retiring in 1828.
JACKSON, WILLIAM, D. D., minister of Dor
set, Vt., died in 1842, aged 74. He was born in
1768, at Cornwall, Conn., and graduated at Dart
mouth college in 1790. Having studied theology
with Dr. Emmons and Dr. Spring, he was or
dained in 1796. His wife, Susanna Cram of
Brentwood, N. H., was a descendant of John
Rogers. She survived her husband. Born in
1771, she died in 1848, aged 77. Her remark
able letters may be read in the memoirs of her
daughter, Henrietta Anna Lorain Hamlin, the
wife of the missionary, Dr. H. Dr. Jackson was
an eminently pious and useful minister, as may be
gathered from the book just referred to. In nine
revivals five hundred were added to his church, of
whom fourteen became preachers. Though he well
studied and arranged his sermons, he did not
write them out in full. Of his church was good
Deacon Kent, worthy of perpetual honor, a man
of faith and prayer, who died near a hundred
years of age. At the age of ninety-two he made
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a memorable prayer at the bedside of his dying
pastor, saying, with more expansion of language,
but in substance, "Lord, we remember how thy
servant has preached and with what wonderful
power and success; but now we fear thou art
about to take away our head. If so, — though
we know not how to spare him, — lead him
through the dark valley, safe from the malignant
spirits there ; conduct him to that blessed world,
where thou dwellest, that he may be in the pres
ence of thee, the Lamb of God, in the midst of
saints and angels, joining in their anthems of
praise forever." Dr. J's elder daughter married
Rev. John Maltby of Sutton and of Bangor. His
son, Dr. Samuel C.,was the minister of west par
ish in Andover, then agent of the board of edu
cation. — Sprague's Annals.
JACKSON, ANDREW, President of the United
States, died near Nashville, Tennessee, June 8,
1845, aged 78. He was born at the Waxsaw
settlement, South Carolina, March 16, 1767. His
parents came from the north of Ireland and were
of Scotch descent. His early education he owed
to the kindness of a cousin. He engaged in the
war of the Revolution, in which he lost his two
brothers. At the age of twenty-one he practised
law in the back settlements of North Carolina.
When the territory was made into the State of
Tennessee, his residence was Nashville. In 1795
he assisted in forming its constitution. He was
soon a representative in congress and a senator in
1797; then a judge of the supreme court. He
was . appointed a major-general, and in 1814, he
received the like appointment in the army of the
United States. His victory over the British at
New Orleans was Jan. 8, 1815. The Seminole
war he conducted in 1817-1818. In 1821 he was
governor of Florida. He was chosen president
in 1828, and again in 1832, — thus being in office
eight years, succeeding J. Q. Adams and being
followed by Mr. Van Buren. Some events of his
administration were the removal of the deposits
from the United States bank, and the suppression
of the nullification movement in South Carolina.
In earlier life, in the absence of all moral and re
ligious principle he fought several duels ; was
wounded; and in 1804 killed Moses Dickenson in
a duel, — an act which must have embittered his
whole life. In old age he was a member of the
Presbyterian church. He died in great peace,
confiding in the grace of the Redeemer, and ex
pressing his hope of salvation, " through the mer
its and blood of our blessed Lord and Saviour." A
letter of Mr. Jefferson has lately been published,
in which he speaks of Gen. Jackson : " I feel
much alarmed at the prospect of seeing him pres
ident. His passions are terrible. When I was
president of the senate he was a senator ; and he
could never speak, on account of the rashness of
his feelings. I have seen him attempt it repeat-
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edly, and as often choke with rage." It deserves
the consideration of a people intrusted with the
4>ower of choosing their own rulers, whether they
can be justified by any principle of duty or by a
wise regard to their own security in elevating a
murderer to the highest rank in the community ?
Whether, if they do this, they must not make a
poor claim to be regarded as an intelligent and
virtuous people, worthy of God's gift of freedom ?
JACKSON, HENRY, deacon, died in Portland
Aug., 18,30, aged 67, an esteemed teacher in
Portland nearly fifty years.
JACKSON, WILLIAM, died at Newton Feb. 27,
1855, aged 71. In early life he was dissatisfied
with Mr. Holly's ministry in Boston and went to
hear Mr. Channing ; but he was led by the tri
umphant death of his wife to renounce Unitarian-
ism. For the last forty years he was a pillar of
the church at Newton Corner. As he was about
to die, he was asked, if the Saviour was precious.
He replied, " precious, very precious." While a
member of congress he met regularly for prayer
with a small band of Christians. He toiled for
temperance and in the anti-slavery cause.
JACKSON, CHARLES, LL. D., judge, died in
Boston Dec. 13, 1855, aged 80. Born in New-
buryport, the son of Jonathan J., a merchant, he
graduated in 1793 at Harvard with the highest
honors of a distinguished class. He studied law
with Judge Parsons, and practised in Newbury-
port until appointed a judge of the supreme court
in 1813, when he removed to Boston. After ten
years he was induced by ill health to withdraw
from office, but remained at the head of his pro
fession. His services were most important on
the commission, which reported in 1835 the
Revised Statutes of Mass. From 1825 to 1834
he was of the corporation of Harvard college.
Of his brothers, ])r. James Jackson survived him.
As a Christian believer he calmly awaited the
summons of death. He was the last survivor,
but one, of his class. — Boston Advertiser, July
1G, 185G.
JACOB, HENRY, a Puritan minister, came to
Virginia in 1624 ; but died soon after his arrival.
He left England and joined Robinson in Holland,
being an Independent as to church government.
He published in 1610 at Leyden, a treatise on
Christ's true, visible, and material church. He-
turning to England, he founded the first Inde
pendent or Congregational church, of which he
was chosen pastor with prayer and imposition of
hands. After about eight years he came to
America, and was succeeded by Mr. Lothropp. —
Sprague's Annals.
JACOB, STEPHEN, chief justice of Vermont,
died at Windsor in Feb., 1817, aged 61. He
graduated at Yale in 1778, in the class of Barlow
and Wolcott.
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JACOB, JOHN I., a Methodist minister, died in
Hampshire, Va., in 1839, aged 81.
JACOBS, PIIEBE ANN, once a slave, died at
Brunswick, Me., and was buried March 3, 1850.
She was honored in her death. President Allen,
in whose family she had lived many years, came
with two daughters several hundred miles, from
Northampton, merely to attend her funeral.
Rev. Dr. Adams, of Brunswick, made an affecting
and eloquent speech. Her pall-bearers were Gov
ernor Robert Dunlap, Dr. Lincoln, Professor
Packard, Joseph McKeen, and others. She was
placed by the side of her friends, Mrs. Allen and
her daughter Maria Malleville. Why was she
thus mourned and honored? Because she was a
Christian, and an eminent Christian. She had
been thirty years a most worthy member of the
church in Brunswick. Her friend, Mrs. Adams,
died the same night. Dr. Adams said, that if
his beloved companion, then lying dead, to be
buried the next day, could have chosen an attend
ant spirit in her upward flight, doubtless she
would have chosen Phebe. "Black Phebe!" he
exclaimed, " she has sometimes been called ; but
her soul is whiter and purer than the light, and her
heavenly garments are more resplendent than the
sun shining in his brightness ! " Mrs. Upham, the
wife of Professor Upham,wrote a brief memoir of
Phebe, which has been extensively circulated. Let
her lofty thoughts and Christian virtues and ele
vated character be contrasted with the unblush
ing project of a slaveholder, the present Governor
Adams of South Carolina, who, in his message at
this period, when I am writing, says : " To main
tain our present position we must have cheap
labor also. This can be obtained in but one way —
by re-opening the African slave-trade!" Let any
intelligent and Christian man make the compari
son, and his soul will burn with indignation as he
thinks of the governor of a southern State in this
year, 1856. Jefferson, in his views of human
rights, lamented the existence of slavery ; Wash
ington provided for the emancipation of his
slaves. But, pure selfishness, in the absence of all
sense of justice, and humanity, and human broth
erhood, would not only hold fast those men who
are now under hard oppression, but would gather
a new multitude of bondsmen from the coast of
Africa. All the noble women must revolt at the
continuance of slavery, which, besides its hard
oppression, annihilates all the sanctity of mar
riage.
JAFFREY, GEORGE, chief justice of New
Hampshire, died at Portsmouth in 1749, aged
about 67. Born in Newcastle, he graduated at
Harvard in 1702. He was councillor and treasu
rer, and a judge at different periods.
JAMES, an Indian sagamore at Lynn, Mass.,
died of the small pox in 1633, with most of his
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people, and John, sagamore, at "VVinnesimet.
The eastern Indians, the Tarratines, made a cap
tive of his wife, but she was liberated. — Hubbard.
JAMES, THOMAS, first minister of Charlestown,
Mass., died in England about 1678, aged 86. He
was born in 1592 ; came from Lincolnshire, where
he had been a minister, to Boston June 5, 1632 ;
and when the church in Charlestown was organ
ized Nov. 2, by dismissions from the Boston
church, he was appointed the pastor. Mr.
Symmes was ordained his associate, as teacher,
Dec. 22, 1634, and not in 1652, as Dr. Bartlett
states in his history of Charlestown. The suc
ceeding ministers were Harvard, Allen, Shepard,
Morton, Bradstreet, Stevens, Abbot, Prentice,
Paine, and Morse. After a short time he was dis
missed. Gov. "VVinthrop relates, that Satan
stirred up a spirit of discord between Mr. James
and many of his people, on which Mr. Savage
remarks, that " few in the present age would at
tribute such a misfortune to the agency of Satan,"
and that in our indictments for capital offences we
retained till lately " the absurd allegation," " be
ing moved and seduced by the instigation of the
devil." Mr. Savage is sincere in his disbelief of
the agency of Satan in tempting men to great
crimes and Christian men to discord; but he
certainly misjudges in his estimate of the general
opinion of the great body of Christians of vari
ous sects, who really believe that " he, who com-
mitteth sin, is of the devil," and also of the opin
ion of those who are not Christians, unless we
are to suppose, that in their daily conversation
they ascribe much to the tempter as a real being,
when they regard him as a nonentity. But
whether or not the devil was the sower of discord
at Charlestown, there arose a dissension between
Mr. James and the brethren. It is related, that
being " a melancholic man," he had uttered some
groundless, jealous surmises. A council advised
to his dismission which occurred in March, 1636.
He soon removed to New Haven. When at the
request of the people of Virginia three ministers
were sent to them , Mr. Thompson of Braintree,
and Mr. Knowles of Watcrtown set sail Oct. 7
or 8, 1642 ; they were long wind-bound at Rhode
Island. They put in at New Haven, where they
took in Mr. James as their companion. On the
rocks at Hell Gate they lost their pinnace. After
eleven weeks' dangerous passage the vessel arrived
about Jan. 1, 1643, in Virginia. It fared with
them as with the apostles : the people heard them
gladly, but the rulers persecuted them, ordering
them to quit the country by a certain day, unless
( they would conform to the English church. In
f June, 1643, Mr. Knowles returned to New Eng
land. Soon afterwards the great massacre by
' the Indians occurred. Mr. James stated, that in
Maryland he saw forty Indians baptized in new
shirts given them as encouragement to receive the
ordinance, but that, being detained there, after a
while he saw the same Indians return to the Eng
lish, saying, they must have again new shirts, or
they would renounce their baptism. It is not
known at what time Mr. James returned to Eng
land; perhaps not till after 1650, when his son,
Thomas, was settled at East Hampton, L. I. In
England he was the minister of Xecdham in Suf
folk, but was silenced and ejected for nonconform
ity in 1662. Yet afterwards he preached to a
pretty numerous society. The clergyman, his
successor, would allow him to be buried nowhere
in the churchyard, but in " the unconsccrated
corner, left for rogues, etc." Mr. Calamy says,
"he was a very holy, good man;" and Johnson
speaks of his " learned skill and courteous
speech."
JAMES, THOMAS, son of the preceding, was
the minister of East Hampton, Long Island, from
1650 till his death in 1696. In 1695 lie sold his
estate for 500 pounds to John Gardenier of G.
Island. He was a faithful preacher. His body
he ordered to be laid in a position contrary to
that of his people, — for what reason is not
known, — perhaps as a testimony against some
prejudices as to the manner of burial.
JAMES, JOHN, major, a brave Revolutionary
officer in South Carolina, died in 1791, aged 59.
Born in Ireland, his father emigrated to this
country, and brought his son, an infant, in 1733,
and settled at a village called King's Tree. His
teacher was Rev. John Rae, also an emigrant.
In 1776 he marched at the head of a company in
defence of Charleston. In 1779 he served under
Moultrie, commanding one hundred and twenty
riflemen. Through him the distinguished corps,
known as Marion's brigade, was formed. By the
war he was reduced from wealth to poverty, every
house on his plantation being burnt. In the bat
tle of Eutaw his riflemen had each twenty-four
cartridges, and many of the men expended the
whole, taking good aim. His last clays were de
voted to the improvement of his property and
the education of his child ; and he departed hence
with the fortitude of a Christian hero. — Ramsay's
South Carolina.
JAMES, WILLIAM, died at Albany Dec. 19,
1832, aged 63, leaving two or three millions of
dollars to nine heirs. He began as a clerk iii
1789.
JAMES, THOMAS C., M. D., died in Philadel
phia July 25, 1835, aged 69. He was educated
in Robert Proud's grammar school, then studied
medicine under Dr. Kuhn. In 1788 he went as
a surgeon to the Cape of Good Hope. He stud
ied in London and Edinburgh from 1790 to 1793,
when he returned to witness the ravages of the
yellow fever. In 1811 he was appointed profes
sor of midwifery in the university. He was mod
est, diffident, gentle, amiable. He was a diligent
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student of the Bible in various languages. He
knew Hebrew, Greek, Latin, French, and Ger
man. He was one of the founders of the histor
ical society. As he was skilful, so was he a good
teacher in his department. — Williams' Medical
Biography.
JAMIESOX, ROBERT, died in South Carolina
in 1813, aged 104. His eye-sight had failed for
some years, but was restored before his death.
JAMIESOX, HORATIO G., M. D.,long an emi
nent surgeon in Baltimore, died in Aug., 1855,
aged 70. He published a work on cholera.
JAXSEX, HENRY, a member of the conven
tion at Albany, died in Sept., 1821. He was at
the capitol, had purchased a ticket to view Peale's
" Court of Death " in the senate chamber, and in
passing toward it fell and died.
JAQUES, STEPHEN, a notary public, died in
Newbury, his birthplace, in 1779, aged 94. He
was for a while a schoolmaster on Cape Cod.
JAQUES, RICHARD, minister of Gloucester,
Mass., died April 12, 1777, aged 77. Born at
Newbury, he was graduated at Harvard in 1720,
and was ordained in 1725. John Cleaveland jus
tified his church in 1765 from some strictures by
Mr. Jaques.
JAQUETT, PETER, major, died on the banks of
the Christiana in Delaware in Sept., 1834, aged
79 ; an officer of the Revolution, said to have
been engaged in thirty battles in the fit-Id.
JARMAN, JANE, Mrs., died near Wadesbor-
ough Feb. 22, 1835, aged 105.
JARVIS, ABRAHAM, D. D., bishop of Connec
ticut, was born in Xorwalk May 5, 1739, and was
graduated at Yale college in 1761. He was a
minister in Middletown from about 1764 to 1799,
when he removed to Cheshire, and in 1803 to
New Haven. He succeeded Bishop Seabury in
1797, and died May 3, 1813, aged 73. He pub
lished a sermon on the death of Bishop Seabury,
and a sermon on the witness of the Spirit.
JARVIS, CHARLES, M. D., a physician, died
Nov. 15, 1807, aged 58. He was the son of Col.
Leonard Jarvis, a merchant of Boston. His
mother was the grand-daughter of the celebrated
Col. Church. After graduating at Harvard col
lege in 17G6, he completed his medical education
in Europe. On his return he settled in Boston,
and rose to eminence in his profession. In the
Revolution he engaged zealously in the cause of
his country. For many years he was a member
of the legislature. As an orator he was impres
sive and powerful. With a bald head and aqui
line nose, he was called the bald eagle of the
Boston seat. In his politics he opposed Jay's
treaty and espoused the democratic side, of which
he was the leader in Boston. When the marine
hospital was established at Charlestown, he was
appointed by Jefferson its surgeon, and faithfully
discharged the duties of his office till his death.
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His wife was the sister of Sir Wm. Pepperell, and
the grand-daughter of the first baronet of that
name. He left no issue. His only sister married
Joseph Russell. — Thaclier.
JARVIS, JOHN WESLEY, an eminent portrait
painter, died in Xew York Jan. 12, 1840.
JARVIS, SAMUEL FARMER, I). I)., LL. D.,
died in Middletown, Conn., March 25, 1851, aged
64, son of Bishop A. Jarvis. In 1813 he was a
rector in Xew York, then a professor in the theo
logical seminary. lie removed to Boston in
1820, and went in 1826 to Europe, where he re
mained nine years. In 1835 he was professor in
the college at Hartford, and soon became rector
at Middletown, and then was appointed historio
grapher of the church. He published an intro
duction to the history of the church, with a har
mony of gospels, 8vo., 1845; Christian unity;
sermons on prophecy ; no union with Rome ; col
onies of heaven ; narrative as to his rectorship in
Boston ; Christ's conversation with Xicodemus,
1822; discourse on the religion of the Indians, in
vol. 3d of Xew York historical collections ; reply
to the Catholic Milner's end of controversy; the
church of the redeemed, or history of the media
torial kingdom, 2 vols., 1850. — Cycl. of Lit.
JARVIS, RUSSELL, died in New York April 17,
1853, aged nearly 63. A native of Boston, he
graduated at Dartmouth in 1810. He was the
editor of the Philadelphia Ledger eight or ten
years, and, with Duff Green, also of the U. S.
Telegraph at Washington. He lost his wife and
two children in the burning of the Lexington
boat in the sound Jan 13, 1840.
JARVIS, LEONARD, died in Baltimore Nov. 16,
1855, aged 76. Born in Cambridge, he graduated
in 1797, and was a successful merchant in Boston
and Baltimore. He was generous to young mer
chants. By his will he devised the Jarvis build
ing, one-half to Harvard college and the other
half to several humane societies after the decease
of his widow, who was left with an income of
20,000 dollars a year. — Boston Advertiser, July
16, 1856.
JARVIS, LEONARD, died at Surry, in Maino,
Sept, 18, 1854, aged nearly 73. He was a native
of Cambridge, Mass., and was graduated in 1800.
In early life he spent years abroad. In Maine he
was collector of Eastport, sheriff, and a demo
cratic member of congress from 1831 to 1833.
For a time he was navy agent for the port of
Boston.
JAY, JOHN, chief justice of the United States,
died May 17, 1829, aged 84. He was the great-
grandson of Pierre Jay, a Protestant merchant of
Rochclle, in France, who, on the revocation of
the edict of Nantes, fled to England. Augustus,
a merchant, the son of Pierre, emigrated to Xew
York, where, in 1697, he married Anne Maria,
daughter of Balthasar Bayard. Dying at the age
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of 85, he left one son, Peter, who was born in
1704, and in 1728 married Mary, daughter of
Jacobus Van Cortlandt, of New York. About
the year 1746, Peter, a merchant, retired to his
estate at Rye, on Long Island Sound, whence he
was compelled to remove by the approach of the
British army. He died at Poughkeepsie in 1782.
John Jay, the son of Peter, was born in New
York December 12, 1745. He was educated
at King's college, where he graduated May 15,
1764, and in 1768 was admitted to the bar. In
1774 he married Sarah Livingston, the daughter
of William Livingston, afterwards governor of
New Jersey. Acquiring great reputation as a
lawyer, and presenting a rare union of the dig
nity and gravity of manhood with the energy of
youth, his fellow-citizens began to look up to him
as their future guide in the contest for liberty, j
He was appointed to the first American congress
in 1774. Being on the committee with Lee and
Livingston to draft an address to the people of
Great Britain, he was the writer of that eloquent
production, adopted Oct. 21, 1774. In the con
gress of 1775 he was on various important com
mittees, performing more services, perhaps, than
any member, excepting Franklin and J. Adams.
In May, 1776, he was recalled to assist in forming
the government of New York, and, in conse
quence, his name is not attached to the Declara
tion of Independence ; but, July 9th. he reported
resolutions in the provincial convention in favor of
the declaration. After the fall of New York and
the removal of the provincial assembly to Pough
keepsie, Mr. Jay retained his resolute patriotism.
The very eloquent address of the convention to
the people of New York, dated Fishkill, Dec. 23,
1776, and signed by A. Ten Broeck as president,
was written by him. March 12, 1777, he reported
to the convention of New York the draft of a
form of government, which was adopted, and
many of the provisions of which were introduced
into the constitutions of other States. From
May 3, 1777, to Aug. 18, 1779, he was chief jus
tice of the State, but resigned that office in con
sequence of his duties as president of congress.
The glowing address of that body to their con
stituents, dated Sept. 8, 1779, was prepared by
him. On the 29th Sept. he was appointed minis
ter plenipotentiary to the court of Spain. The
frigate in which he sailed, losing her masts in a
gale, was obliged to proceed to Martinique. He
reached Madrid April 4, 1780. In communicat
ing the resolution of congress of July 15, 1781,
yielding the navigation of the Mississippi to
Spain, he had the prudence to limit the propo
sition, so that it should have no force, unless a
treaty was made with Spain before a general peace.
This limitation was sanctioned by congress April
30, 1782. Being unsuccessful in his negotiation,
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Mr. Jay suspected some bad faith on the part of
France, but probably without reason.
Being appointed a commissioner to negotiate a
peace with Great Britain, he arrived at Paris June
23, 1782, and toiled incessantly to secure the in
terests of his country. His health now becoming
impaired, he went to Bath for its recovery. He
signed the definitive treaty at Paris Sept. 3, 1783.
The next year, having resigned his Spanish com
mission, he returned to New York, where he
arrived July 24, 1784. Congress had already ap
pointed him secretary of State for foreign affairs,
in the place of E,. 11. Livingston. In the difficult
circumstances of the country, the secretary was,
in effect, the head of the government. Mr. Jay's
services were of great importance. He drew up,
Oct. 13, 1786, an elaborate report on the rela
tions between this country and Great Britain.
Though not a member of the convention which
formed the constitution of the United States, he
was present at Annapolis and aided by his advice.
He also assisted Hamilton and Madison in writ
ing the Federalist. lie wrote numbers 2, 3, 4,
5, 64. His labors after the 5th number were in
terrupted by a wound in the forehead from a
stone in the doctor's mob. In the convention of
New York he contributed to the adoption of the
constitution.
For the high station of chief justice of the
United States, to which he was appointed by
Washington Sept. 26, 1789, he was eminently
qualified. In 1792 he was the unsuccessful can
didate of the federal party for the office of gover
nor of New York, against George Clinton ; but,
in 1795, he was elected against Robert Yatcs,
though he was at the time abroad, having been
appointed April 19,1794, minister plenipotentiary
to Great Britain. He effected the treaty which
bears his name, Nov. 19, 1794; a treaty which,
notwithstanding the clamors of political parti
sans friendly to France, was highly advantageous
to our country, as it stipulated for the surrender
of the northwestern posts, procured admission for
our vessels into India, and obtained payment for
spoliations amounting to nearly ten millions of
dollars. In 1798 he was re-elected governor
against J_l. 11. Livingston. The political excite
ment of the period rendered his station unquiet.
Longing for retirement, lie withdrew, at the end
of the term for which he was chosen, in the sum
mer of 1801, from the cares and honors of public
station, and passed the remaining nearly thirty
years of his life in retirement at his seat in Bedford,
Westchester county, where he died. His brother,
Sir James Jay, M. 1)., died in New York in NOT.,
1815. His pious, excellent wife died in May, 1 802.
In his character there were great and peculiar
excellencies. The utmost prudence was combined
with invincible energy. At a period of life when
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ambition is apt to bear sway, he abandoned all
the scenes of political agitation ; nor did he once
cast a lingering look behind. In his last years he
was much occupied in the study of the Scriptures,
particularly of the prophecies, and devoted to the
duties of religion and preparation for the scenes
of the future world. There is something refresh
ing in the view of his last years. Instead of
dwelling, like his co-patriots, Adams and Jefferson,
on the history of the past, or the agitating polit
ical occurrences of the day, and fighting anew the
battles of old time, his serene mind was absorbed
in the contemplation of the bright, and glorious,
and everlasting kingdom of God. Besides the
writings already mentioned, he published letters,
being the whole of the correspondence between
him and Lewis Littlepage, a young man, whom
Mr. Jay, when in Spain, patronized and took
into his family, 2d edit., 1786. His life was pub
lished by lu's son William, also by Renwick. —
American Annual Register, 1827-9, p. 215-234.
JAY, PETEK AUGUSTUS, a lawyer, president of
the New York historical society, died Feb. 20,
1843. He was the eldest son of John Jay, and
his private secretary. In 1817 he was recorder
of New York ; and of the American bible society
he was a vice-president.
JAY', ANN, daughter of John Jay, died in New
York, in Nov., 1856; and a few days afterwards
died her sister, Maria Banyer, aged 75, widow of
Goldsborough Banyer, the last of the daughters
of John Jay. These sisters bequeathed more
than 34,000 dollars, distributed among the bible,
tract, missionary, and other charitable societies.
JEFFERSON, ELEAXOR, Mrs., died at Boston
May 9, 1737, aged 100.
JEFFERSON, PETER, father of Thomas Jef
ferson, died Aug. 17, 1757, aged 49. He was
born at Osborne's in Chesterfield, Va., in 1708,
and married in 1739 Jane Randolph, daughter
of Isham Randolph, of Goochland. He was
chosen, with Prof. Fry of William and Mary col
lege, to continue the boundary line between Vir
ginia and North Carolina. He was employed by
Mr. Fry to make the first map of Virginia.
About the year 1737 he settled at Shadwell, near
Monticello, being the third or fourth settler in
that part of Virginia. His wife, who lived till
17 70, survived him, with six daughters and two
sons. To his eldest son, Thomas, he left an es
tate at Monticello. The ancestor came from
Wales, near the mountain of Snowden. — Jef-
ferson''s Writings.
JEFFERSON, THOMAS, president of the
United States, died July 4, 1826, aged 83. He
was the son of Peter J., and was born at Shad-
well, Albermarle county, near Monticello, in Va.,
April 2, 1713. His mother was Jane Randolph.
His early education was conducted by Mr. Doug
las and Mr. Maury, clergymen. In 1760 he went
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to William and Mary college, where he continued
two years. He derived great benefit from the in
structions of William Small, professor of mathe
matics, and afterwards lecturer on ethics, rhetoric,
and belles lettres. By his kindness he was placed
as a student of law at Williamsburg under his
intimate friend, George Wythe. In 1767 he
entered upon the practice of the law at the bar of
the general court. In 1769 he became a member
of the legislature for the county of his residence,
and so continued till the Revolution. Jan., 1772,
he married Martha Skelton, widow of Bathurst
Skclton, and daughter of John Wales, a lawyer
of much practice. By her he received property
about equal to his own patrimony.
In May, 1769, he was a member of the house
of burgesses. In the spring of 1773. he, with
Mr. Henry, R. H. Lee, F. L. Lee, and Dabney
Carr, his brother-in-law, at a private meeting,
agreed upon certain patriotic resolutions, which
were adopted by the house, and a committee of
correspondence with the other colonies was ac
cordingly appointed, of which Peyton Randolph,
the speaker, was made chairman. At this period
Mr. J. maintained the opinion, in which Wythe
agreed with him, that the British parliament had
no authority whatever over America. His views
were printed with the title, " A summary view of
the Rights of British America." It was reprinted,
a little altered, by Mr. Burke, as an opposition
paper in England. The other Virginia patriots,
Randolph, the Lees, Nicholas, and Pendleton,
concurred with John Dickinson, who allowed
that England had a right to regulate our com
merce and to lay duties for regulation but not for
revenue.
He took his seat in congress June 21, 1775, in
the place of Peyton Randolph, who had been re
called to the general assembly of Virginia. He
took with him the answer of the assemby, drawn
up by himself, to the conciliatory propositions of
Lord North. In congress he was immediately
placed on the committee to prepare a declaration
of the causes for taking up arms. He accordingly
drew up a paper ; but it not being deemed suffi
ciently conciliatory, he put it into the hands of
Mr. Dickinson, who was also on the committee ;
and he drew up the declaration which was
adopted, retaining only of Mr. Jefferson's the
four last paragraphs and half the preceding.
Mr. Dickinson also drew up the second petition
to the king, which Mr. Jefferson thought expressed
too much humility. In July, Mr. Jefferson drew
up the report on Lord North's conciliatory reso
lution. May 15, 1776, the convention of Virginia
instructed their delegates to propose in congress
a Declaration of Independence. Accordingly
Friday, June 7, R. H. Lee made the motion for
the Declaration of Independence. In the debate
which followed, it was argued by Wilson, R. R.
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Livingston, E. Ilutlcdge, Dickinson, and others,
that the measure, though ultimately to be adopted,
was yet now precipitate, and for various reasons
ought to be deferred. On the other hand the
measure was supported by J. Adams, Lee, Wythe,
and others. Of the thirteen States, all but four
voted for the motion on the 1st July, in committee
of the whole. South Carolina and Penn. voted
against it. Delaware was equally divided. The
delegates from New York, though in favor of the
motion, were excused from voting, being restrained
by their old instructions. The committee reported
their resolution to the house. July 2, the house
agreed to the resolution of the committee, all the
States but New York voting for it, South Caro
lina falling in for the sake of unanimity, and the
new members turned the votes of Delaware and
Pennsylvania. On the day of this vote the form
of the Declaration reported, drawn up by Mr.
Jefferson, was taken into consideration by the com
mittee of the whole. The debates continued till
Thursday the 4th, in the evening, when the De
claration was reported by the committee of the
whole, agreed to by the house, and signed by
every member present, except Mr. Dickinson.
July 9, the convention of New York approved of
the declaration, and their delegates signed July
15th. There was no sub-committeee for drawing
up the Declaration, though Mr. Jefferson showed
it to Dr. Franklin and Mr. Adams, who suggested
a few slight alterations. The other members of
the committee were R. Sherman and It. R. Liv
ingston. Several paragraphs were struck out by
congress, among which was the following : " lie
has waged cruel war against human nature itself,
violating its most sacred rights of life and liberty
in the persons of a distant people, who never
offended him, captivating and carrying them into
slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur miser
able death in their transportation thither. This
piratical warfare, the opprobrium of infidel power's,
is the warfare of the CHRISTIAN king of Great
Britain. Determined to keep open a market
where MEN should be bought and sold, he has
prostituted his negative for suppressing every leg
islative attempt to prohibit or restrain this exe
crable commerce." Mr. Jefferson supposed that
this clause was struck out in complaisance to
South Carolina and Georgia, who wished to con
tinue the importation of slaves, and that the
northern carriers also felt a little tender under
that censure.
This declaration was engrossed on parchment
and signed again Aug. 2d. The convention of
Pennsylvania named a new delegation July 2Qth,
leaving out Mr. Dickinson, and Willing, and
Humphreys, who had withdrawn, re-appointing the
three members, who had signed, — Morris, who
had not been present, and five new ones, Rush,
Clymer, Smith, Taj lor, and Ross. These six were
permitted to sign, as indicating the assent of the
full delegation. Thornton, of New Hampshire,
signed as late as Nov. 4th, for reasons unknown.
Mr. Jefferson retired from congress Sept. 2,
1776, and took his seat in the legislature of Vir
ginia Oct. 7th. He drew up the bill for the estab
lishment of courts of justice; the bill declaring
tenants in tail to hold their lands in fee simple ;
the bill for religious freedom ; the bill for the re
vision of the laws, in regard to which the com
mittee were Pendleton, Wythe, Mason, Thomas
L. Lee, and himself. The work was done by Pen
dleton, Wythe, and Jefferson, from 1777 to June,
1779. Mr. Jefferson also proposed a bill for gen
eral education, providing schools for every hundred
or ward, and twenty-four higher schools, etc.
June 1, 1779, he was appointed governor, as suc
cessor of Mr. Henry. As one of the visitors of
William and Mary college, he procured the abol
ishment of the professorships of divinity and ori
ental languages, and substituted those of law, of
anatomy, medicine, and chemistry, and of modern
languages. After being governor two years,
thinking that at the time of invasion the public
might have more confidence in a military chief
magistrate, he resigned, and Gen. Nelson was ap
pointed to succeed him.
In Sept., 1776, the state of his family induced
him to decline the appointment then made, of
commissioner, with Franklin and Deane, to nego
tiate treaties with France. Dr. Lee was appointed
in his place. He was appointed on the commis
sion for peace June, 1781, but the state of his
family again kept him at home. He was again
appointed minister plenipotentiary, with others,
for negotiating peace, Nov. 13, 1782. This he
accepted, having two months before lost the cher
ished companion of his life, with whom he had
passed " ten years in uncheckered happiness."
But before he could sail for England news was
received of the signing of a provisional treaty of
peace. He therefore was excused from further
proceeding, and returned home May, 1783. He
took his seat at Trenton Nov. 4th, in congress,
which adjourned the same day to Annapolis. In
1784 he wrote notes on the establishment of a
money-unit, and of a coinage for the United
States, in opposition to the views of Robert Mor
ris, the financier, or of his assistant, Governeur
Morris. He proposed the money-system now in
use. To him we are indebted for the dollar as the
unit, and the very conveiiient decimal divisions,
and our present pieces of coin. This was an im
portant service.
As a member of congress Mr. Jefferson made
few speeches. He remarks : " I served with Gen.
Washington in the legislature of Virginia before
the Revolution, and, during it, with Dr. Franklin
in congress. I never heard either of them speak
ten minutes at a time, nor to any but the main
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point, which was to decide the question. They
laid their shoulders to the great points, knowing
that the little ones would follow of themselves.
If the present congress CITS in too much talking,
how can it be otherwise in a body to which the
people send one hundred and fifty lawyers, whose
trade is to question everything, yield nothing, and
talk by the hour?"
In May, 1784, he was appointed, with Adams
and Franklin, a minister plenipotentiary to nego
tiate treaties of commerce with foreign nations.
He sailed from Boston with his eldest daughter,
July 5, in the Ceres, a merchant ship. After a
pleasant voyage of nineteen days from land to
land, he arrived at Cowcs July 26, and at Paris
Aug. 6th. He now printed his Notes on Virginia,
for which he had been collecting information since
1781. Dr. Franklin having returned in July,
1785, Mr. Jefferson was appointed his successor
at Paris, in which station he continued till he
solicited his recall in 1789, in order to place
his daughters in the society of their friends. He
arrived at Norfolk Nov. 23. While at Eppington,
in Chesterfield, at the residence of Mr. Eppes, he
received from President Washington the appoint
ment of secretary of State. At Monticello his
eldest daughter was married to Tho. M. Ran
dolph, the eldest son of the Tuckahoe branch of
Randolphs, afterwards governor of Virginia. He
arrived at New York March 21, 1790, and en
tered upon the duties of his office. On his way
he saw for the last time the venerable Franklin,
who put into his hands a narrative of his negoti
ations with the British ministry, by the interven
tion of Lord Howe and his sister. This paper
Mr. J. delivered to W. T. Franklin after Frank
lin's death. He apprehended it was suppressed
by the British government, and not published by
his grandson. In the office of secretary of State
Mr. Jefferson continued till the close of Dec., 1793,
when he resigned. lie was opposed to the funding
system and other measures of the administration,
and became the head of the republican party.
In a letter to Gen. Knox, Aug. 10, 1791, he
maintained, " that the Indians have a right to the
occupation of their lands, independent of the
States within whose chartered limits they happen
to be ; " that without their consent " no act of a
State can give a right to such lands;" and that
government will think itself bound to remove un
allowed settlements " by the public force."
In his retirement at Monticello Mr. J. says, in
Feb., 1794 : " I indulge myself in one particular
topic only ; that is, in declaring to my countrymen
the shameless corruption of a portion of the rep
resentatives of the first and second congress, and
their implicit devotion to the treasury."
On some appointment being offered him by
Washington, in Sept., 1794, he replied to the sec
retary, " No circumstances will ever more tempt
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me to engage in anything public." To Mr. Mad
ison, in Dec., 1794, he expressed a hope that his
friend might reach a more splendid post, — that
of president of the United States ; adding, " I
ought, perhaps, to say, while I would not'give up
my own retirement for the empire of the universe,
how I can justify wishing one, whose happiness I
have so much at heart as yours, to take the front
of the battle which is fighting for my security."
April 27, he wrote to Mr. Madison on the subject
of a republican candidate for president : " There
is not another person in the United States, who,
being placed at the helm of our affairs, my mind
would be so completely at rest for the fortune of
our political bark. As to myself, the subject had
been thoroughly weighed and decided on, and my
retirement from office had been meant from all
office, high or low, without exception."
Mr. Jefferson was chosen vice-president at the
close of 1796. Just before the election he wrote
to Mr. Madison, Dec. 17 : "The first wish of my
heart was, that you should have been proposed
for the administration of the government. On
your declining it, I wish anybody rather than my
self; and there is nothing I so anxiously hope, as
that my name may come out either second or
third." In case of an equal division, he expressed
a wish that congress would choose Mr. Adams.
To E. Rutledge he also wrote, Dec. 27 : "I retired
much poorer than when I entered the public ser
vice, and desired nothing but rest and oblivion.
My name, however, was again brought forward
without concert or expectation on my part (on my
salvation I declare it). I do not yet know the re
sult, as a matter of fact."
Mr. Jefferson was chosen president by congress
in Feb., 1801, he and Mr. Burr having an equal
number of the electoral votes. In this high office
he continued eight years, retiring in 1809 to Mon
ticello. There he passed the remainder of his
days, yet devoting the last years of his life to the
establishment of the university of Virginia at
Charlottcsville, about four miles from Monticello.
He died on the 4th of July, just fifty years from
the date of the Declaration of Independence. On
the same day, it is remarkable that Mr. Adams
also died. In the short intervals of delirium in
his last hours he seemed to dwell on the events
of the Revolution. He exclaimed, " Warn the
committee to be on their guard ! " For the most
part, during the last days of his life, his reason
was undisturbed. He expressed the anxious wish
that he might see the fiftieth anniversary of Inde
pendence. In a private memorandum he sug
gested that, if a monument should be erected, it
should be a small granite obelisk, with this in
scription : " Here lies buried Thomas Jefferson,
author of the Declaration of Independence, of
the statutes of Virginia for religious freedom, and
father of the university of Virginia." The young-
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JEFFREIS.
est daughter of Mr. J., who married Mr. Eppcs,
died about May, 1804, leaving two children. His
eldest daughter, Martha, married to Mr. Ran
dolph, was left with eleven children. He was an
extensive farmer. He had three hundred and
fifty acres of corn, as many of clover, and the
same of potatoes, beans, and peas; yet there
were much greater Virginia planters. Some
plantations were of five thousand acres. One
master had seven hundred miserable slaves toiling
for his profit.
Not long before his death Mr. Jefferson wrote
an essay on lotteries, and solicited permission of
the legislature to sell his property at its just
value by lottery, that he might be able to pay his
debts. A lottery was granted Feb., 1826. It was
a humiliating expedient, for, undeniably, all lot
teries exert a most baneful, corrupting influence
on the morals of the people, and several of our
States have on this account interdicted them.
Relief by public charity would have been no dis
honor ; but the request of a lottery is no credit to
his philanthropy. His library was purchased by
congress in 1815, G,000 vols. for 24,000 dollars. "
Mr. Jefferson was tall, with a mild countenance,
a light complexion, and hair inclined to red. He
was interesting in social intercourse, but not elo
quent in debate. As the head of a political sect
he had a greater sway than ever any man had in
this country, excepting Washington. For the ac
complishment of his objects he spared no personal
efforts or pecuniary sacrifices. He wrote nothing
for the newspapers himself; but in Jan., 1799, he
stimulated E. Pendleton to write against Adams'
administration, and in February he wrote to Mr.
Madison : " The engine is the press. Every
man must lay his purse and his pen under con
tribution. As to the former, it is possible I may
be obliged to assume something for you. As to
the latter, let me pray and beseech you to set
apart a certain portion of every post day to write
what may be proper for the public. Send it to
me." In the result he obtained the office of pres
ident. He kept his friends, for he never aban
doned them and gave them all the rewards in
his power.
The blindness of Mr. J. on the subject of re
ligion, while deeply lamented by the admirers of
his talents, is only a new proof that " the wisdom
of this world is foolishness with God." He seems
to have believed that God is a material being,
for his words are in letter 154 : " To say that
the human soul, angels, God are immaterial,
is to say that they are nothings, or that there
is no God, no angels, no soul." — "When once
we quit the basis of sensation, all is in the
wind." Yet he believed, that after depositing his
material body in the grave, he should " ascend in
essence," and be a " looker-on from the clouds
above." His ignorance of the disclosures made
in the gospel, — to say nothing of his setting him
self up, like Mahomet, as a rival teacher, in the
comparison which he makes between his own
doctrine and that of Jesus Christ, — ought not to
be overlooked : " I am a materialist ; He takes
the side of spiritualism. lie preaches the efficacy
of repentance towards the forgiveness of sin ; I
require a counterpoise of good works to redeem
it," &c., (letter 151). Any person, acquainted
with the instructions of Jesus, any child in a Sun
day school, would have told the philosopher that
repentance means a real change of character, im
plying the performance of good works, and that
Jesus required men to bring forth " fruits meet
for repentance."
It appears most clearly from his letters, that
Mr. J. was a contemner of the religion of the
gospel. The amount of his faith seems to have
been, that there is a God, and that there will be
a future state of retribution. The standard of
duty, in his view, was reason or instinctive moral
sense, not the Bible. He did not consider how
easily, by strong passion and the practice of evil,
conscience is blinded and seared, and how neces
sary religious instruction is to preserve the power
of the moral sense. This philosopher imagined
that he found in the gospel, among many passa
ges of correct morality, " Much untruth, charla
tanism, and imposture," and he regarded Paul
as the chief of " the band of dupes and impos
tors," and the " first corrupter of the doctrines of
Jesus." And so he gravely attempts " to winnow
the grain from the chaff." He speaks of the min
isters of the gospel of various sects thus : " We
have most unwisely committed to the hicrophants
of our particular superstition the direction of
public opinion, that lord of the universe. We
have given them stated and privileged days to
collect and catechise us, opportunities of deliver
ing their oracles to the people in mass," &c. With
these views of the gospel, he, of course, when he
died, could not be cheered with the hopes which
are founded upon a belief that Jesus Christ was
the son of God. There is no Christian on the
earth, who would die as he died. lie published
summary view of the rights of British America,
2d. edit., 1774; declaration of independence,
1776; notes on Virginia, 1781; manual of parlia
mentary practice, for the use of the senate ; life
of Capt. Lewis, 1814; some papers in American
philosophical transactions, IV. His works, chiefly
letters, were published by his grandson, Thomas
Jefferson Randolph, 4 vols., 8vo., 1829.
JEFFRIES, JOUN, M. D., a physician, died
Sept. 16, 1819, aged 75. lie was the son of Da
vid Jeffries, and was born in Boston Feb. 5, 1744.
After graduating at Harvard college in l7Go, he
studied physic with Dr. Lloyd, and afterwards at
tended the medical schools of Great Britain.
From 1771 to 1774 he was the surgeon of a ship
JENIFER.
of the line, lying in Boston harbor. His services
were required by the British commander for the
wounded at the battle of Bunker hill. Having
accompanied the British garrison to Halifax in
177G, he was appointed surgeon-general to the
forces of Nova Scotia, and also apothecary-gen
eral. He went to England in 1779, and being
appointed surgeon-major to the forces in America,
he repaired to Charleston and New York. At
the close of 1780 he resigned and commenced
the practice of his profession in London. Janu
ary 7, 1785, he crossed the British channel from
Dover to the forest of Guincs in a balloon. This
exploit procured him many friends in Paris and
London. But in 1790 he was induced to resume
his profession in his native country and town.
He kept for more than forty years a medical and
surgical diary. An inflammation, originating in
a hernia, which was caused by his efforts in his
first aerial voyage in 1784, caused his death. He
published a narrative of his two aerial voyages,
London, '1 786.— Thachcr, 316-324.
JENIFER, DANIEL, died at Port Tobacco, Md.,
Dec. 25, 1855, at an advanced age, a respected
and honored citizen. He was minister to Aus
tria, appointed by Harrison.
JENISON, SILAS H., governor of Vermont, died
in Shoreham in 1849, an esteemed and valuable
citizen.
JENKS, JOSEPH, governor of Rhode Island,
was the son of Joseph J. of Pawtuckct, who built
there the first house, and grandson of Joseph J.,
a blacksmith, who came from England to Lynn
about 1045, and died in 1683. He was born in
105G ; was governor, after Cranston, from 1727
to 1732; and died June 15, 1740, aged 83. His
brother, William, a judge, died in 1765, aged 90;
his brother, Ebenezcr, was a minister at Provi
dence. Gov. J. was a member of the Baptist
church and a zealous Christian. His skeleton
was disinterred at Pawtucket in July, 1831, and
after ninety-one years was found nearly entire.
His thigh bones measured eighteen inches. He
was the tallest man in Rhode Island, standing
seven feet two inches without his shoes.
JENKINS, JOHN, a teacher of the art of pen
manship, died at Wilmington, Delaware, in Oct.,
1822, aged 67. He was formerly of Boston. He
published the art of writing reduced to a plain
and easy system on a plan entirely new, second
edition, 1813. He was the first who reduced the
art to a system. WrifFord, Dean, Townes and
Carstairs followed his analysis. His book re
ceived the most ample testimonials to its une
qualled excellence from many distinguished men.
JENKINS, CHARLES, minister of Portland,
Maine, died Dec. 29, 1831, aged 45. He was
born in Barre, Mass., in 1786, and was graduated
at Williams college in 1813. He was afterwards
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preceptor of the academy at Westfield ; in 1816
he was appointed tutor at the college ; he was set
tled in the ministry at Greenfield, Mass., in 1820,
and installed at Portland, as the minister of the
third congregational society, in 1825. After a
short illness he died of the prevailing influenza.
He was highly esteemed and exerting a most im
portant and beneficial influence, when he was re
moved from life. His mind was of an original
cast and very fertile and vigorous. With a rich
poetical fancy, he gave an interest to the subjects
of his discussion. Sometimes, however, he failed
in simplicity of style and in adapting his method
of instruction sufficiently to the understandings
of minds less elevated than his own. With some
defect of this kind, which is to be ascribed in part
to his very originality, he was yet a most faithful
and useful preacher, and made himself under
stood in the hearts of the hypocritical and the
sinful. Disregarding the world's applause, he
steadily pursued the path of duty, declaring the
whole counsel of God, and seeking in every way
to advance the power of the gospel. He pub
lished three sermons on the obligations, duties,
and blessings of the Sabbath, with remarks on
the report in congress on Sabbath mails, 1830 ;
a sermon on the elevated nature of true piety, in
the national preacher, Dec., 1831. A volume of
his sermons was published after his death. —
Christian Mirror, Jan. 5, 1832.
JENKINS, SAMUEL, died at Lancaster, Ohio,
Feb. 4, 1849, aged 115. Born in 1734, the slave
of Capt. Broadwater, of Fairfax county, Va., he
drove a wagon in Braddock's campaign. He had
been free forty years.
JENKS, DANIEL, chief justice of Providence
county court, R. I., died in July, 1774, aged 72.
Born in Pawtucket, he was judge nearly tliirty
years ; and from his youth a member of a Baptist
church.
JENNER, THOMAS, a preacher at Weymouth
and elsewhere, was admitted a freeman in 1636,
and was a representative in 1640. He was the
minister of W. from 1636 to 1640.
JENNESS, RICHARD, died at Deerficld, K H.,
in 1819, aged 73. He was a senator and a judge
of the common pleas.
JENNLNGS, OBADIAH, D. D., minister at Nash
ville, Tenn., died Jan. 12, 1832, aged 52.
JENNINGS, JONATHAN, the first governor of
Indiana, died near Charlestown, July, 1835. He
had been a member of congress.
JENNLNGS, SAMUEL K., M. D., died at Bal
timore in Oct., 1854, aged 84. He was one of
the founders of the Methodist church, and for
years a professor in the medical college of Phila
delphia.
JENNISON, WILLIAM, minister of the east
church in Salem, died in 1750, aged 45. He
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JOHX.
graduated at Harvard in 1724, and was minister
in S. from 1728 to 1736. His successors were
Diman, Bentley, and Flint.
JEXXISOX, WILLIAM, a teacher, died in Bos
ton Dec. 4, 1843, aged 86. He was a graduate
of Harvard in 1774, and was once a teacher in
New Brunswick, Pa., and La.
JEXXISOX, TIMOTHY L., M. D., died at Cam
bridge in 1845, aged about 82 ; a graduate of
1782.
JEROME, AMASA, minister of Wadsworth,
Ohio, died suddenly at Xew Hartford, Conn., in
1832, aged 57. Born at Stockbridge, Mass., he
graduated at Williams college in 1798, and was
settled at Xew Hartford in 1802, whence after
eleven years he was dismissed on account of ill
health. — ftprayues Annals.
JEWETT, JEDIDIAII, minister of Rowley, died
in 1774, aged 68. Born in 11., he was graduated
at Harvard in 1726, and settled over the first
church in 1729 as the successor of Edward Pay-
son. He published a sermon at the ordination
of Y). Tappan.
JEWETT, DAVID, minister of Montville,
Conn., died in 1783, aged 66. He was a native
of Rowley, a graduate of Harvard in 1736 ; or
dained Oct. 3, 1739, just seventeen years from
the installation of James Hillhouse. Montville
was then Xew London, second church. He was
an accomplished gentleman, a good scholar, and
an eloquent preacher. During his ministry one
hundred and twenty-nine were added to the church ;
also twenty-one Indians living at Mohegan within
the town of Montville, whose names were nearly
all as follows : Cyrus and wife, widow Shokket,
Sarah Junco, Lucy Juneo, Henry Cochquid, Joshua
Xoncsuch, Hannah Xonesuch, Andrew Tantapan,
Joe Tanner, Betty Occom, Lizzy Ximrod, Lucy
Cochegun, John Xinnipoome, Sarah Occom, Anne
Uncas, Hannah Cooper, Sam Ashpo. After 1740
Ashpo set up a separate worship at Mohegan ;
other Indian preachers folloAved him, the last of
whom was John Cooper. Occom preached to
this church.
Immediately after the death of Mr. Jewctt's
son, Dr. David H. Jewett, in 1814 there was a
revival, in which sixty were in a few months added
to the church. May 6, 1823, the meeting-house,
standing on Raymond hill, was struck by light
ning and two persons were killed. There soon
followed a great revival, in which one hundred
persons were added to the church in one year.
JEWETT, DAVID, minister of Rockport, Mass.,
died at the house of his son-in-law, Rev. Mr.
Whitney, at Waltham July 14, 1841, aged nearly
68. Born in Hollis,N. H., he graduated at Dart
mouth in 1801, and was settled successor of E.
Cleaveland Oct. 30, 1805. His faithful and suc
cessful labors continued thirty-one years, when
from ill health he resigned his office. His church
increased from ten members to more than two
hundred and fifty. Amidst a flood of Universalism
and Unitarianism, which overflowed cape Ann, he
was the instrument in Providence of saving his
church from being wrecked ; and to him great is
the debt of gratitude from the Orthodox church
of Gloucester and two churches of Rockport. A
most interesting event was the burial of his re
mains at R. after fifteen years. His son, William
R. Jewett of Plymouth, X. H., preached the ser
mon on the occasion, July 13, 1856 ; then at the
grave made an address, which was responded to
on the part of the people by Dr. Benjamin Has-
kell. His widow, who was Miss Reed of Marble-
head, still lives. The handsome granite monu
ment was erected at the expense of his grateful
people, who remembered his virtues ; and he now
sleeps in the midst of their fathers, his former
flock. He was a man of childlike simplicity and
Christian tenderness, but of an iron purpose,
resolute, fearless, unmovable.
JEWETT, THOMAS, Dr., an Infidel reclaimed,
died in Rindge, N. H., April 24, 1840, aged 69.
Until seven or eight years before his death he
was an Infidel and Universalist ; but in 1833 he,
out of regard to his family, burnt his Infidel
books. As soon as his last book was in ashes, he
felt, for the first time, a sense of guilt, which led
him to accept the gospel. He died in peace.
The tract, 351, " the Infidel reclaimed," relates to
him. In his sickness he talked earnestly with
hundreds, who called to see him. Among his
last words were these : " All is light ; I seem to
look right into heaven." — " O, the joy and peace
in believing ! " — "I long to drink of the water
that flows from God and the Lamb."
JEWETT, JOSEPH, colonel, died in Ashburn-
ham May 3, 1846, aged 85. He served in several
campaigns in the war of independence ; his life
was useful, and he was regarded as the father of
the town. At the age of 70 he made a profes
sion of his faith in Christ.
JEWETT, ISAAC A., died in Keene, N. H., in
1853, aged 44. Born in Burlington, Vt., he grad
uated at Harvard in 1830, and was a lawyer in
Cincinnati and Xew Orleans. In his last years
he lived at the north. He published passages in
foreign travel, 2 vols. ; and wrote letters from the
West Indies, published in the Christian Register
about 1850.
JIM, a negro, died in Shreveport April 19,
1856, aged 124 years and nearly 4 months : born
a slave of John Carter in Fredcricksburg, Va.,
Dec. 24, 1731.
JOHX, an Indian sagamore, lived at Winne-
simet at the first settlement of Boston in 1630,
and was one of the principal chiefs of the Matta-
chusetts. He was courteous and friendly to the
new settlers, and endeavored to learn their lan
guage. In 1632 the Tarratines or Eastern Indians
JOHN.
wounded him. In 1633 he and most of his peo
ple died of the small pox : he said, " I must die,
the God of the English is much angry with me,
and will destroy me." To Mr. Wilson, who
visited him in his sickness, he gave his son to be
taught the Christian religion. — 2 Hist. Coll. III.
127 ; VI. 650.
JOHN, an old negro, died at Washington city
April 8, 1838, aged 115, drowned in the canal.
JOIINES, TIMOTHY, D. I)., a minister in Mor-
ristown, N. J., fifty-three years, died in 1794, aged
nearly 80. He was graduated at Yale in 1737.
From his hand Washington received the sacra
ment, as is related by Sparks.
JOIIXS, JEHIEL, died in Huntington, Vt., Aug.
12, 1840, aged 85. He built the first log house
in II., and brought his family in 1786.
JOHNSON, ISAAC, one of the founders of Mas
sachusetts, was a native of Clipsham, county of
llutland, England, and arrived at Salem June 12,
1630, with Gov. Winthrop in the chief ship of
the fleet, formerly the Eagle, but now named the
Arbella in honor of his wife. In July he, with
the governor and other gentlemen, proceeded to
Charlcstown. July 30th was a day of fasting, and
the church of Boston was founded at Charles-
town ; the four persons, who entered into cove
nant and laid the foundation of the church, were
Gov. Winthrop, Deputy-governor Dudley, Mr.
Johnson, and Mr. Wilson, afterwards the minister.
Five more were added August 1. The want of
good water at Cliarlestown induced Mr. Johnson
and others to remove to Shawmut, or Boston,
where was " an excellent spring." In August his
wife died at Salem : for an account of her sec the
next article. At the second court of assistants
in Charlestown, Sept. 7, Mr. Johnson was present.
Boston was settled under his conduct. He died
there on Thursday, Sept. 30, 1630. " He was a
holy man and wise, and died in sweet peace ;
leaving part of his substance to the colony. He
made a most godly end ; dying willingly ; pro
fessing his life better spent in promoting this
plantation, than it could have been any other
way." He had the largest estate of any of the
settlers, and was " the greatest furtherer of this
plantation." His lot in Boston was the square
between Trcmont, School, and Queen streets and
Cornhill ; and he was buried at the upper end of
his lot, which gave occasion for the first burying-
placc to be laid out around his grave. This is
now called the stone chapel grave-yard. His
house was on a hill near Tremont street. —
Prince, 318-333.
JOHNSON, ARBELLA, wife of the preceding,
came with him to Salem in June, 1630, and died
about Aug. 30th, probably of a prevailing infec
tious fever, contracted on shipboard, and of which
many died. She was the daughter of Thomas,
third earl of Lincoln, who died in 1619, and sis-
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477
ter of Theophilus, the fourth earl. Her sister,
Frances, married John, son of Sir Ferdinando
Gorges; her sister, Susan, married John Hum
phrey. She has been usually called the lady Ar
bella, and it was in honor of her that the admiral
ship of Winthrop's fleet, before called the Eagle,
received the name of the Arbella. The word,
indeed, by Johnson, Mather, Neal, Hutchinson,
and almost all our historians, excepting Prince,
has been written Arabella. Mr. Savage, in his
edition of Winthrop in 1825, has insisted upon
the propriety of following Prince, whose accuracy
is unquestioned, and who, doubtless, in the man
uscripts of which he made use, found the form
Arbella, as printed in his annals. Mr. Savage
testifies that the word is so written in the original
note of the meeting of the assistants on board
this ship ; that Winthrop so wrote the word, and
that Gov. Dudley so wrote it in a letter to the
countess of Lincoln, the mother of the lady. I
am able to strengthen the cause by a new argu
ment. The lady Arbella Johnson was probably
named after the lady known as the lady Arabella
Stuart, who died in the tower about twenty years
before the settlement of Massachusetts. In re
spect to her name, the English historians gener
ally have fallen into a mistake. Her name ought
to be written Arbella, and for these reasons :
Echard quotes the indictment against Raleigh,
etc., for sedition and "setting up the lady Ar
bella Stuart." Thus he wrote the name, and
thus, doubtless, he found it in the record. More
over, some years ago, in examining an English
book, I met with a fac simile of this lady's method
of writing her own name after her marriage to
Seymour, and the copy stands thus : " Arbella
Seymoure." We ought, then, to be satisfied, that
Arbella was the name of Isaac Johnson's wife, and
the name on the stern of the admiral ship. Shall
we now so write the name, or shall we accommo
date the orthography to what was probably the pro
nunciation of the English, who now give, in some
cases, a peculiar sound to the letter r, which we
are not accustomed to give ? Can we hope to in
duce the English to write Arbella Stuart ? Shall
we divide into the two belligerous factions of Ar-
bellans and Arabellans, and dispute, like the the
ologians of old, about a single letter ? Or shall
we fall in with the modern reformer, who stands
up for the primitive writing, and dares not substi
tute custom for the record ? Dr. Holmes, in his
second edition, has come out an Arbcllan. Mr.
Farmer, though contrary to his own antiquarian
principles, is an Arabellan. For my part, I have
concluded to be tolerant, — especially as in my
book I happen to present the word in both
forms, — and will embrace the partisans of both
sides in the compass of my charity. — Savage's
WintJirop, I. 1, 34 ; Prince, 314 ; Holmes ; I. 206 ;
Farmer.
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JOHNSON.
JOHNSON, EDWARD, captain, an early New
England historian, died April 23, 1672, aged,
probably, upwards of 70. He came from Herne-
Hill, a parish in Kent, in 1630, probably in the
fleet of Gov. Winthrop, for, Oct. 19, he was
among the petitioners to be admitted as freemen.
In 1632 he was atMerrimac, residing there under
a license to trade, but his usual residence was
Charlcstown. When it was determined to erect
a new town, and church, now called Woburn, he
was one of the committee for that purpose. In
May, 1642, the town was incorporated ; it had
been called " Charlestown village." Aug. 14 the
church was formed, and Mr. Carter ordained
Nov. 22. In 1643 he went with Capt. Cook and
forty men to Providence, to seize Gorton. In
the same year he was chosen representative, and
was annually re-elected, excepting 1648, till 1671.
He was the speaker of the house in 1655. At
the incorporation of the town he was chosen re
corder, and he kept the records of the town until
about a year before his death. In 1665 he was
appointed on the committee with Bradstreet, Dan-
forth, and others, to meet the commissioners,
Nicolls, Carr, etc., who had been sent from Eng
land. He left five sons, — Edward, George, Wil
liam, Matthew, and John, — two of whom were
representatives of Woburn. His descendants are
numerous in Woburn and Burlington. John
Farmer, the author of the New England Gene
alogical Register, was a descendant. Capt. John
son was the author of a history of Massachusetts
from 1628 to 1852, which is of great value, not
withstanding the imperfections of its style. Its
title is, history of New England from the English
planting in 1628 till 1652 ; or, wonder-working
Providence of Zion's Saviour, 4to., London, 1654.
It has been reprinted in the historical collections,
second series, vols. n., in., iv., vil., vm., in which
work it fills about 230 pages. Short pieces of
poetry are interspersed in the work, as a kind of
sonnets on individuals, and in other forms,
amounting to about 1200 lines. We should be
glad at the present day to exchange this poetry
for a plain narrative of facts. — Farmer; Chick-
ering's Dedication Sermon.
JOHNSON, ISAAC, captain, of Roxbury, was
one of the six captains slain by the Indians at the
capture of Narragansett fort, Dec. 19, 1675.
JOHNSON, WILLIAM, major, the son of Ed
ward, died at Woburn, Mass., in 1704. He was
a firm, inflexible assistant under the old colony
charter. — Collections of Farmer fy Moore, vol. I.
JOHNSON, NATHANIEL, Sir, governor of South
Carolina seven or eight years, died in 1713. He
had been a soldier and a member of the house
of commons, and from 1686 to 1689 governor of
the leeward islands, Nevis, St. Christopher, etc.
He first came to Carolina as a private individual,
and engaged in various projects, as the culture of
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silk, of grapes, of rice, the manufacture of salt,
the building of mills. He procured a legal es
tablishment of the Episcopal church, although
the majority of the people were opposed, and was
the means of introducing one hundred Episcopal
clergymen and forming parochial libraries. The
fort he built on the east end of James Island
bears his name.
JOHNSON, ROBERT, governor of South Caro
lina, died at Charleston May 3, 1735. He was
governor in 1719, and again from 1730 till the
period of his death. In 1731 he negotiated a
treaty with the Chcrokees. He proved himself
an efficient friend of Mr. Oglethorpc and the first
settlers of Georgia on their arrival at Charleston,
the assembly, at his suggestion, furnishing them
with one hundred and four head of cattle, twenty-
five hogs, twenty barrels of rice, and ten horse
men rangers for their protection. The settlement
of Purrysburgh, by six hundred Swiss under Col.
Peter Purry, was made in his administration.
JOHNSON, GABRIEL, governor of North Car
olina, remained in office from Nov., 1734, till his
death in 1752. In his administration much Avas
done for the establishment of order and the en
couragement of learning and religion, and the
colony prospered.
JOHNSON, WILLIAM, minister in Newbury,
Mass., died in 1772, aged 65. Born in N., he
graduated at Harvard in 1727, and was settled in
1732 over the fourth church. His successor was
Dr. Tappan.
JOHNSON, SAMUEL, D. D., first president of
King's college, New York, died Jan. 6, 1772, aged
75. He was born in Guilford, Conn., Oct. 14,
1696, and graduated at Yale college in 1714. In
Oct., 1716, the trustees and general court di
rected the college to be removed to New Haven,
and Mr. Johnson was chosen a tutor, in which
office he continued till March 20, 1720, when he
was ordained the minister of West Haven. Hav
ing an aversion to extemporary performances, it
was his practice to use forms of prayer, and to
write only one sermon in a month. He usually
preached the discourses of others, minuting down
only the heads, and expressing himself, when
his remembrance of the words of the author
failed him, in language of his own. Hav
ing embraced the Arminian doctrines and become
a convert to the Episcopalian worship and church
government, he resigned his charge at West Ha
ven, and embarked at Boston with President
Cutler for England Nov. 5, 1722. Having re
ceived ordination as a missionary for Stratford, he
arrived at that place in Nov., 1723. His prede
cessor and friend, Mr. Pigot, was immediately re
moved to Providence. Mr. Johnson was now the
only Episcopalian minister in Conn., and there
were but a few families of the English church in
the colony. They were not increased in Stratford
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by means of his labors, but in the neighboring
towns, where he sometimes officiated, many fami
lies conformed. The desire of escaping the Con
gregational tax by joining a church, whose minister
received a salary from a foreign society, and the
petty quarrels which exist in most congregations,
were causes, according to Mr. Hobart, of no in
considerable influence, in multiplying the Episco
palians. Between the years 1724 and 1736 Mr.
Johnson was engaged in a controversy on the
subject of Episcopacy with Mr. l^ickinson, Mr.
Foxcroft, and Mr. Graham. Entering on a new
course of studies, he procured the works of John
Hutchinson, and embraced many of his senti
ments. He regarded him as a person of a stupen
dous genius, little inferior even to that of Sir
Isaac Newton, whose principles he opposed ; and
he thought that in his writings he had discovered
many important ancient truths, had effectually
confuted the Jews, Infidels, Arians, and heretics
of other denominations, and proved that the
method of redemption by Jesus Christ was better
understood in the patriarchial and Mosaic ages
than was generally imagined. In 1754 he was
elected president of the college, which had been
lately instituted at New York. He went to that
place in April, and soon commenced his labors.
The charter was procured Oct. 31, 1754. In
March, 1763, he resigned, and was succeeded by
Myles Cooper. He passed the remainder of his
days in the peaceful retreat of Stratford, resuming
his former charge, and continuing in the ministry
till his death.
Dr. Johnson was in his person rather tall and
in the latter part of his life corpulent. He was
happy in a calmness of temper which was seldom
discomposed. Those who knew him generally
loved and revered him. The same good disposi
tion, which rendered him amiable in private life,
marked all his proceedings of a public nature,
and may be discovered in his controversial writ
ings. Benevolence was a conspicuous trait in his
character. He seldom suffered a day to pass
without doing to others some good offices relat
ing to their temporal or spiritual affairs. His
conversation was enlivened by the natural cheerful
ness of his disposition, yet in his freest discourse
he retained a respect to his character as a clergy
man. By his acquaintance with Dean Berkeley
he became a convert to the peculiar metaphysical
opinions of that great man. His piety was un-
miugled with gloom or melancholy, and he con
templated with admiration and gratitude the
wonderful plan of redemption, disclosed in the
gospel. An account of his life, written by Dr.
Chandler, was given to the public in 1805. He
published plain reasons for conforming to the
church, 1733; two tracts in the controversy with
Mr. Graham ; a letter from Aristocles to Au-
thades ; a defence of it in a letter to Mr. Dickin-
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son; a system of morality, 1746, designed to check
the progress of enthusiasm ; a compendium of
logic, 1752 ; a demonstration of the reasonable
ness of prayer, 1761 ; a sermon on the beauties
of holiness in the worship of the church of Eng
land ; a short vindication of the society for propa-
ating the gospel; an English grammar and a
catechism, 1765; a Hebrew grammar, 1767 ; this
evinced an accurate acquaintance with that lan-
uage, and it was reprinted with improvements
in 1771 . — Chandler's Life of Johnson ; Beach's
Fun. Sermon.
JOHNSON, STEPHEN, minister of Lyme in
Conn., died Nov. 8, 1786, aged 61. lie was
aduated at Yale in 1743, and was settled as the
successor of Jonathan Parsons in 1746. He
published election sermon, 1770 ; on the everlast
ing punishment of the wicked, in answer, to
Chauncy and others, 8vo., 1786.
JOHNSON, JACOB, minister of Groton, Conn.,
died in 1794, aged about 76. He was graduated
at Yrale in 1740, and settled over the third church
in Groton, 1748.
JOHNSON, WILLIAM MARTIN, Dr., a poet,
died at Jamaica, L. I., Sept. 21, 1797, aged
about 26. He was the son, real or stolen, of a
beggar, who intrusted him to the care of Capt.
Albee of Wrentham, Mass. He studied medi
cine with Dr. Gage of East Hampton, L. I.
Then he emigrated to Georgetown, S. C., where
he was a partner with Dr. Bromfield. He mar
ried and was in good business, when he soon lost
his health. He wrote this epitaph on a lady:
" Hero sleep in dust and wait the Almighty's will,
Then rise unchanged, and be an angel still."
— Cycl. of American Lit.
JOHNSON, NOAH, died at Plymouth, N. H.,
in Oct., 1798, aged 103. He was a deacon of the
church. He was a, soldier in Lovewell's battle
with the Indians at Fryeburg.
. JOHNSON, JOSHUA, was a graduate of Yale
in 1775; a minister of Dudley, Mass., from 1790
to 1796. He had been previously settled in 1784,
in Woodstock, Conn., north society.
JOHNSON, JOSHUA, commissioner of stamps,
died at Alexandria in April, 1802. He was
father-in-law of J. Q. Adams; and had been
American consul at London.
JOHNSON, JAMES, minister of North Fairfield,
Conn., died in 1810, aged about 70. He gradu
ated at Yale in 1760, in the class of Dr. Hart.
JOHNSON, BENJAMIN, judge of the supreme
court of llhode Island, died at West Greenwich
in 1813, aged 65.
JOHNSON, BAKER, colonel of the Pievolution-
ary army, died in Maryland in 1813.
JOHNSON, WILLIAM SAMUEL, LL. D., presi
dent of Columbia college, New Y'ork, the eldest
son of Dr. Samuel, died Nov. 14, 1819, aged 92.
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JOHNSON.
He was born at Stratford Oct. 7, 1727 ; was grad
uated at Yale college in 1744; and soon rose to
eminence as a lawyer. He was not only a man
of science and literature, but also an eloquent
orator. In 176,5 he was* a delegate to the con
gress at New York; and in 1766 was an agent of
the colony to England. While there he formed
an acquaintance with illustrious men ; with Dr.
S. Johnson he corresponded for many years. He
returned in 1771, and in 1772 was appointed a
judge of the supreme court of Connecticut ; an
office which he relinquished in 1774. In 17 85 he
was a delegate to congress ; and in 1787 he was
a member of the convention which framed the
constitution of the United States. He was one
of the first senators from Connecticut, and with
Mr. Ellsworth drew up the bill for the judiciary
system. From 1792 to 1800 he was the presi
dent of Columbia college. After 1800 he lived
in his native village till his death.
JOHNSON, THOMAS, governor of Maryland,
died at Hose Hill Oct. 26, 1819, aged 87. He
was a native of Calvert county. In 1774 he was
appointed a member of congress, and was for sev
eral years in that body. After the devolution he
was the first governor, from 1777 to 1779, when
he was succeeded by Thomas S. Lee. He was
an associate justice of the supreme court of the
United States from 1791 till his resignation, from
ill health, in 1793.
JOHNSON, Sir WILLIAM, a major-general of
the militia of New York, and remarkable for the
ascendency which he gained over the Indians,
died July 11, 1774, aged 60. He was born in
Ireland about the year 1714, and was a nephew
of Sir Peter Warren, the naval hero, who dis
tinguished himself especially at the siege of
Louisbourg in 1745. Sir Peter, having married a
lady in New York, was induced to purchase large
tracts of land upon the Mohawk river and the
more interior parts of the country, and he sent
for his nephew, about the year 1734, to come to
America and take- the charge of his affairs.
Young Johnson accordingly took up his residence
upon a certain tract on the Mohawk, about thirty
miles from Albany, and cultivated an acquain
tance with the Indians, lie learned their lan
guage ; he studied their manners, that he might
be able to conciliate their regard; his situation
upon the river between Albany and Oswego pre
sented a fine opportunity for trade, and he carried
on a large traffic with them, supplying them with
such goods as they needed, and receiving in
return beaver and other skins ; at length he ac
quired an influence over them, which no other
man ever possessed. In 1755 he was intrusted
with the command of the provincial troops of
New York, and marched to invest Crown Point,
while Shirley proceeded towards Ontario agreea
bly to the plan of the campaign. General John
son, after the defeat of a detachment under Col.
Williams, which he had sent out, was attacked
himself in his camp on lake George Sept. 8th.
But as soon as his artillery began to play, the
Canadian militia and the Indians fled with precip
itation to the swamps. The French troops were
repulsed, and Baron Dieskau, their general, was
taken prisoner. The advantage, however, which
was thus gained, was not pursued, and his con
duct in not proceeding against Crown Point has
been the subject of reprehension. Even the suc
cess of the battle is to be attributed to the exer
tions of the brave Gen. Lyman. But Johnson,
who was wounded in the engagement, reaped the
benefits of the repulse of Dieskau, which was
magnified into a splendid victory. The house of
commons bestowed on him 5,000 pounds, and
the king conferred on him the title of baronet.
About this time also he was appointed superin
tendent of Indian affairs in New York. In the
year 1759 he commanded the provincial troops
under Brig.-Gcn. Prideaux, in the expedition
against Niagara. While directing the operations
of the siege, Prideaux was killed by the bursting
of a cohorn July 20th; but Johnson prosecuted
the plan, which had been formed, with judgment
and vigor. On the 24th of July the enemy made
an attempt to raise the siege, but were defeated
through the excellent dispositions and the cour
age of Johnson, and the next day the fort was
taken, and about six hundred men made prison
ers of war. This event broke oft' the communi
cation which the French intended to establish
between Canada and Louisiana. When Amherst
embarked at Oswego in June, 1760, to proceed on
the expedition to Canada, Sir William brought to
him at that place one thousand Indians of the
Iroquois or five nations, which was the largest
number that had been seen in arms at one time
in the cause of England. He died at his seat at
Johnson hall, about twenty-four miles from
Schenectady, on the Mohawk river. lie left a
large sum of money to be employed in presents
to the Indians of the Mohawk castles, all of
whom, men, women, and children, had mourning
dresses presented them on his death.
Sir William possessed considerable talents as
an orator, and his influence over the Indians was
not a little owing to the impression made upon
them by means of his elocution. It has been
represented, that he was envious toward Shirley,
and endeavored to thwart him in his plans, by
discouraging the Indians from joining him; and
that in his private conduct he paid little respect
to those laws, the observation oi which only can
insure domestic peace and virtue. He had wives
and concubines, sons and daughters, of different
colors. He was zealous in supporting the claims
of Great Britain, which excited such agitation in
the colonies a few years before his death, and he
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exerted himself to promote the interest of the
church of England. The following anecdote
seems to evince that, in his dealings with the In
dians, who have a good reputation for cunning,
he was not outwitted by them. Having sent to
England for clothes finely laced, on their arrival,
Hendrick, the chief of the Mohawks, was dazzled
with their splendor, and began to think how
finely he should look dressed in a similar manner.
His vanity could not be resisted, and to gratify it
he hit upon the following expedient. He went
to Sir William one morning, and told him very
demurely, that in the preceding night he had
dreamed, that the baronet had generously pre
sented him with a suit of his laced clothes. The
solemn hint could not be mistaken or avoided,
and the Indian monarch went away pleased with
his successful ingenuity. In a few days, however,
Sir William accosted his majesty and made known
his dream, which was, that Hendrick had given
him a tract of land containing several thousand
acres. " The land is yours," said Hendrick,
" but now, Sir William, I never dream with you
again ; you dream too hard for me." He pub
lished a piece on the customs and language of
the Indians in philosophical transactions, vol. LXIII.
— Dr. Eliot ; Annual Beg. for 1758, 1759,
1760, 17G6, 1774; Marshall, I. 385, 395, 446;
Wynne,ll. 44-52, 99-101.
JOHNSON, Sir JOHN, son of the preceding,
died in Jan., 1798. He succeeded his father in
his title, and was appointed major-general in his
place Nov., 1774. At the commencement of the
war he joined the British, and about the year
1776 persuaded the Mohawks to retire into Can
ada, from whence he repeatedly ravaged different
parts of New York, and in one expedition, in
which he destroyed the very settlement where he
formerly lived, he proved himself not very dissim
ilar in character to his savage companions. In
Aug., 1777, he invested fort Stanwix, and de
feated Herkimer. In Oct., 1780, Gen. Van
Kensselaer defeated him at Fox's mills. In 1796
he was appointed governor of Upper Canada,
lie died at Hampton, Canada.
JOHNSON, JOSEPH, an Indian preacher, was
born at Mohegan, near Norwich, Conn., about
1750. He was the son of Capt. Joseph Johnson,
who served near lake George in the French war
of 1757, and who was a man of piety. After
being educated at Mr. Wheelock's school at Leb
anon, as was also Occom, another Mohegan
preacher, he was sent, at the age of fifteen, as a
schoolmaster to the Six Nations of Indians in
New York, and was thus employed two years.
Afterwards " he wandered up and down in this
delusive world." Returning from a whaling
voyage in 1771, he repaired to his farm at Mohe
gan, and there, in a time of sickness brought on
by his vices, became a Christian convert by read-
Cl
ing the New Testament and Baxter's saints'
rest. It would seem from his journal, which is
still preserved, that he experienced the deepest
conviction of sin. Afterwards he was licensed to
preach and was for years a missionary in the State
of New York. Being among the Six Nations in
1776, he received a letter from Washington,
dated at Cambridge Feb. 20th, saying: "Tell
them, that we don't want them to take up the
hatchet for us except they choose it ; we only
desire, that they will not fight against us. We
want that the chain of friendship should always
remain bright between our friends of the Six
Nations and us. We recommend you to them,
and hope, by your spreading the truths of the gos
pel among them, it will keep the chain bright."
His manuscript journal and sermons display his
talents and acquaintance with theology.
JOHNSON, JOHN, major, a painter, died about
1817. He was a brave officer in the Revolution
ary army. After the peace of 1783 he took up
the pencil, residing chiefly at Boston ; but he was
deficient in drawing, though with a correct eye
and steady hand. He was also a man of a vig
orous mind. His strong likenesses of some of
our fathers arc valuable. — Knapp's Lectures, 193.
JOHNSON, SAMUEL B., lieutenant, an officer
of the navy, was born in New York and educated
a printer. In the war of 1812 he joined the
marine corps, and was for a time a prisoner in
Chili. He died on board the Macedonian, May
12, 1820. He published letters from Chili, 1816.
JOHNSON, JOHN, chancellor of Maryland,
died suddenly in Aug., 1824, aged about 52, sup
posed to be a graduate of Columbia college, New
York, in 1792.
JOHNSON, WILLIAM, colonel, died at Boon-
ville in Christian peace, June 1, 1834, aged 85, a
Revolutionary soldier. Born in Haverhill, he
lived many years in Boscawen.
JOHNSON, WILLIAM, judge of the supreme
court of the United States, died at Brooklyn
Aug. 4, 1834. His residence was Charleston,
S. C. He published the life of Gen. Greene, 2
vols., 4to., 1822; essay to philosophical society;
Nugae Georgicac, 1815; eulogy on Adams and
Jefierson, 1826.
JOHNSON, SAMUEL, died at Hallow-ell Nov.
16, 1836, aged 44. He was secretary and agent
of the Maine missionary society. His death
was occasioned by a slight injury of one of his
toes by a peg in a newly-mended boot. Born
in Georgetown, Mass., he graduated at Bowdoin
in 1817. lie was the minister of Alna from
1818 to 1828, and minister of Saco from 1828 to
1836, succeeding Dr. Jonathan Cogswell, and
afterwards uscfally employed in promoting the
missionary cause. He had power as a preacher.
As he was about to die, he sent a message to his
church, that he should be ready to meet them in
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the world of glory, as one by one they should
enter.
JOHNSON, ALFRED, minister of Belfast, in
Me., died Jan. 12, 1837, aged 69.
JOHNSON, OSGOOD, principal of Andover
Academy, died May 9, 1837, aged 33 ; a graduate
of Dartmouth, 1828. He had talents, taste, lit
erature, and possessed manly and Christian virtues.
JOHNSON, MABIA PRESTON, Mrs., of Rupert,
Vt, wife of Stephen J., missionary to Siam, died
at Philadelphia Jan. 8, 1839. Ill health com
pelled her to return to this country.
JOHNSON, WILLIAM SAMUEL, judge, died at
Stratford Oct. 25, 1846, aged 85; a native of
S., and a graduate of 1779. He was a judge of
a county court.
JOHNSON, WILLIAM, died in New York in
July, 1848, aged about 80. Born in Middletown,
he graduated at Yale in 1788, and settled in the
law at New York. He was a reporter of the su
preme court and court of chancery. He published
a translation of Azuni's maritime law in 1806,
and a digest of cases decided in the courts of New
York, from 1799 to 1803, in 3 vols.; from 1808
to 1812; reports, etc., 20 vols., 1815, 1823;
digest of cases from 1799 to 1827, 2 vols., 1825 ;
do. from 1799 to 1823, 8vo.
JOHNSON, SAMUEL LEE, rector in Indian
apolis, Ind., died in 1848, aged 36. He gradu
ated at Kenyon college in 1839, and was several
years tutor. He established St. Mary's seminary
in I., and was its principal. He was a zealous and
faithful preacher.
JOHNSON, CHAPMAN, died at Richmond July
12, 1849; an eminent member of the bar, a lead
ing man in Virginia.
JOHNSON, RICHARD M., colonel, vice-presi
dent of the United States, died in Frankfort,
K.y., Nov. 19, 1850, aged about 70. From 1807
he was a representative in congress twelve years.
In the war he served under Harrison, and was
distinguished in the battle of the Thames. He
was afterwards a senator and representative.
His name as chairman is connected with a re
port against the suspension of the Sunday mails.
His death was by paralysis.
JOHNSON, THOMAS, a seaman, died at the
naval asylum, Philadelphia, in 1851, aged above
100. The old tar fought the Serapis with Paul
Jones in 1779.
JOHNSON, WALTER ROGERS, professor of
chemistry, died in Washington April 26, 1852,
aged 57. His death was caused by inhaling
noxious gas, while performing some chemical ex
periments in the Smithsonian institute. Born in
Leominister, Mass., he graduated at Harvard in
1819 ; was the preceptor of Germantown acad
emy, then professor of Chemistry in the college
at Philadelphia, and of the Smithsonian Institute.
JOHNSON, ISAAC, governor of Louisiana from
1845 to 1850, died in New Orleans in 1853.
JOHNSON, ELVIRA, Mrs., died in Hartford,
Conn., Sept. 21, 1856, aged 102. A Mr. Deems
died on the same day of the same age.
JOHNSON, ALFRED, judge, died at Belfast,
Me., in 1852, aged 62. Born in Newburyport, the
son of Rev. Alfred J., he was a resident in Belfast
in 1805, and graduated at Bowdoin in 1808. lie
was a member of the convention which formed
the constitution of Maine, and a judge of probate
eighteen years. He published an eulogy on
Adams and Jefferson, 1826.
JOHNSON, JOHN, chancellor of Maryland,
died at Baltimore Oct. 4, 1856. He was buried
at Annapolis, the place of his birth.
JOHNSTON, JOSIAH S., a senator of the
United States from Louisiana, died May 19, 1833,
killed on Red river forty miles above Alexandria,
by the explosion of a steamboat by gunpowder.
About fifteen others were killed. Born in Conn.,
his father emigrated to Kentucky, and thence to
Louisiana. He was senator from 1824 till his
death.
JOHNSTON, SUSAN, widow of John J., from
Ireland, died at Sault St. Marie in 1843, aged 67.
She was a daughter of Wabojeeg, chief of the
Chippewa nation.
JOHNSTON, JOHN, a Christian merchant of
New York, died April 16, 1851, aged 69. His
character was described by Iris pastor, Dr.
McElroy. — Observer, May 1.
JOHNSTON, JOHN, D. D., died in 1855, aged
77. He had been for half a century the pastor
of the Presbyterian church of Newburgh, N. Y.,
and was an attached friend of Dr. Prime. There
was a revival in 1843 in his church, of which he
had the charge forty-eight years.
JOHNSTONE, SAMUEL, governor of North
Carolina from 1788 to 1790, was also a judge of
the superior court of the State. He died at
Stewarkey in Aug., 1816, aged 82. Gabriel
Johnstone was the governor before the Revolu
tion from 1734 to 1753.
JOLLIFFE, or JOLYFE, JOHN, died at a
great age in Boston in 1701; a man of useful
public services, and at a late period of his life a
member of the council.
JOLLY, HENRY, judge, died in Jersey, Ohio,
July 29, 1842, aged 84, a soldier of the Revolu
tion in Morgan's regiment. lie emigrated to
Ohio in 1782, and settled a township now bear
ing his name. He was judge of the common
pleas fourteen years.
JONES, MARGARET, of Charlestown, Mass.,
was in June, 1648, executed as a witch. Ac
cording to Hubbard's account, she had " such a
malignant touch " that the person whom she
touched became immediately deaf, or was seized
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with some violent sickness ; and soon after her
execution a ship in the harbor, with one hundred
and twenty tons of ballast, rolled as if she would
have turned over. In did not occur to the histo
rian, that the movement of eighty horses, who were
on board, might have occasioned a little motion
of the ship.
JONES, JOHN, minister of Concord from about
1637 to 1644 ; then of Fairfield, where he died
about 1664, aged upwards of 70. He was the son
of William of Abergavenny, and was of Jesus col
lege, Oxford, in 1624, at the age of seventeen.
Coming to this country in 1635, he was ordained
pastor at Concord, and P. Bulkley teacher, April
6, 1637. The church was gathered in 1636.
His son John graduated at Harvard in 1643, in
the second class. — Sprague's Annals.
JONES, HUGH, minister of Jamestown, pub
lished the present state of Virginia, 8vo., London,
1724.
JONES, ELIPHALET, minister of Huntington,
L. I., died in April, 1731, or after, aged 90 or
more. He was the son of John Jones, born
at Concord, Jan. 11, 1641; and was settled in
1677.
JONES, THOMAS, minister of Woburn, died in
1774, aged about 55. He graduated at Harvard
in 1741.
JONES, DAVID, judge of the supreme court of
New York, died Oct. 11, 1775. He was born in
Sept., 1699, at Oyster Bay, L. L, and from 1737
to 1758 was a member of the assembly, and for
thirteen years the speaker. In 1758 he received
the appointment of judge, which he resigned in
1773. During his whole life he was the firm ad
vocate of tbe rights of the people against royal
encroachments, and participated largely in the
public confidence and respect.
JONES, ISAAC, minister of Western (now
Warren), Mass., died in 1784, aged about 64.
He graduated at Yale in 1742.
JONES, HORATIO, Dr., died at Stockbridge,
Mass., April 26, 1813, aged 43. His widow died
in Middletown in 1851, aged 77. He was a de
scendant of Lewis Jones, a first settler of Water-
town, Mass. His father was Capt. Josiah J., of
S. He left an only daughter of ten years old.
He was eminent in his profession, a good surgeon,
and most sociable and popular. His conversion
was memorable. His wife and her friend, each of
whom had an irreligious husband, agreed to meet
in order to pray for the salvation of their hus
bands. They were heard ; and in a few months Dr.
J. died in peace ; and in about two years the two
neighbors, a merchant and his wife, had a peace
ful departure. According to llev. Dr. Hyde, who
preached his funeral sermon, " He left the world
like a Christian, with resignation to the Divine
will, and with enrapturing views of the mediation,
all-sufficiency, and glory of Jesus Christ." Just
before he closed his eyes, he extended his arms
and said : " Jesus, I expand my arms to receive
thce. Happy, happy, beyond expression ! Ye
spirits in yonder sky, receive my soul, and take it
to Jesus! " Who would not die thus, rather than
in the dark, unchcered, hopeless despondence of
the Infidel ? — Panoplist, x. ; Williams' Mcd.
Biog.
JONES, SAMUEL, I). D., of Pennsylvania, died
Feb. 7, 1814. He received an honorary degree
at the first commencement of Rhode Island col
lege in 1769.
JONES, WALTER, died in Westmoreland co.,
Va., in 1816, aged 76; for many years a member
of congress.
JONES, JOHN, M. D., a physician, of Welch
extraction, died June 23, 1791, aged 62. He was
the son of Evan Jones, a physician, and was born
at Jamaica, Long Island, in 1729. After studying
physic with Dr. Cadwallacler at Philadelphia, he
completed his medical education in Europe, — at
London, Paris, Leyden, and Edinburgh. On his
return he settled at New York and was particu
larly eminent as a surgeon. In the war of 1755
he served as a surgeon in the army. The French
commander, Dieskau, severely wounded, was at
tended by him. On the establishment of a med
ical school in New York, he was appointed pro
fessor of surgery. Soon after he settled in the
city the physicians agreed, for their own dignity,
to wear their hair in a particular bob, and, as he
refused to concur in the project, they refused to
consult with him. But he soon triumphed, and
the power of ridicule compelled the medical men
to wear their hair like other gentlemen. In the
Revolutionary war he left the city, when it was
occupied by the enemy. In 1780 he settled in
Philadelphia, where he was the physician of
Franklin and Washington. In his religious views
he was a Quaker. He published plain remarks
upon wounds and fractures, 1775. After his
death his pupil, J. Mease, published his surgical
works, with an account of his life, 8vo., 1795. —
Ramsay's Review, 36 ; TJiacTier, 324-340.
JONES, JOHN PAUL, a naval commander, died
in Paris July 18, 1792, aged 45. He was born
at Arbingland, Scotland, July 6, 1747. His father
was a gardener of the name of Paul, for some
reason the son, when he lived in Virginia, assumed
the name of Jones. He early went to sea. After
being for some time in command of a vessel, he
engaged in commercial pursuits in the West In
dies. In 1773, on the death of his brother, he
resided in Virginia to settle his affairs. Soon
after the beginning of the war he commanded the
Providence of twelve guns and seventy men, in
which he cruised and took sixteen prizes. In
May, 1777, he was ordered to proceed to Paris
to arrange some naval operations with the Amer
ican commissioners. April 10, 1778, he sailed on
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a cruise in the Ranger, and alarmed the whole
coast of Scotland. He landed at Whitehaven,
and captured two forts with thirty cannon ; he
carried off also the plate from the house of the
Earl of Selkirk, at St. Mary's Isie, but he after
wards restored it. He returned to Brest with
two hundred prisoners of war. He sailed again
with a squadron of seven sail Aug. 14, 1779. His
own ship was the Bon Homme Richard, in which
after a desperate engagement off Flamborough
head he captured the British ship of war, Serapis,
of superior force, Sept. 24, 1779. His own vessel,
however, soon went down. For this exploit the
French king presented him with a golden sword.
Feb. 18, 1781, he arrived at Philadelphia. Con
gress passed a complimentary resolution and
voted him a golden medal. He afterwards super
intended at Portsmouth, N. H., the building of a
ship of war. After the restoration of peace he
went to Paris as agent for prize money. He was
soon invited to enter the Russian service with the
rank of rear admiral. But after serving a short
time in the Black sea, he was dissatisfied, was
calumniated at court, and had liberty from the
empress to retire. Returning to Paris, he died
in that city in neglect. Though most enterprising
and brave, he was irritable, vain, and of an im
petuous temper. An account of his life was
published in 1828 by J. II. Sherburne. — Me
moirs, 1830.
JONES, NOBLE WIMBERLY, a physician, and a
patriot of the Revolution, died Jan. 9, 1805, aged
80. He was the son of Col. Noble J., one of the
first settlers of Georgia and judge in 1755. He
held a military commission in 1738, and in 1748
was associated in business with his father.
He was a member of the assembly in 1761 ;
in 1774 he was one of the first to stir up
the Revolutionary spirit in Georgia. In 1775
he was chosen a delegate to congress ; and
again in 1781. In the capture of Savannah in
Dec., 1778, by the British, he lost one of his
sons, and he himself fell into the hands of the
enemy at the capture of Charleston in May, 1780.
In Dec. he was sent a prisoner to St. Augustine.
In Aug., 1781, he was exchanged, and commenced
the practice of physic in Philadelphia. At this
period he was also a member of congress. In
Dec., 1782, he returned to Savannah. He was
soon induced to remove to Charleston, where he
lived in lucrative practice till Dec., 1788, when he
again settled at Savannah. In 1795 he was pres
ident of the convention which amended the State
constitution. He continued in the practice of his
profession till his death. He was not only emi
nent as a physician and statesman, but in the
relations of private life was amiable and exem
plary. He was temperate and abstemious, a lover
of neatness and order, of strict morality, and a
sincere believer in Christianity. Though attached
to the Episcopal church, he contributed liberally
to other religious societies. — Tliaclier, 340-344.
JONES, WALTER, M. I)., a physician, died
Dec. 3.1, 1815, aged 70. He was born in Vir
ginia, and educated for medicine at Edinburgh
about 1770. On his return he settled in North
umberland county, where he had extensive prac
tice through life. For a few years he was a mem
ber of congress. On account of the originality
and strength of his mind, his extensive and vari
ous learning, and the captivating powers of his
conversation, he was one of the most extraordi
nary men. — Timelier.
JONES, SAMUEL, died at Rye Neck, N. Y., in
1819, aged 85. He was the brother of Judge
David, and son of Capt. Thomas, who came from
the north of Ireland to Long Island in 1692 ; and
has been called the father of the New York bar.
His services were extremely important in organ
izing the judiciary system at the close of the Rev
olution. For industry, extensive acquirements,
and purity of character he presented a model for
the imitation of those who aim at high attain
ments in jurisprudence. — New York Hist. Coll.,
ill. 278.
JONES, WILLIAM, governor of Rhode Island,
was born in Newport in 1754, and during the war
was a captain of marines. At the capture of
Charleston he was made a prisoner. After being
some years the speaker of the house, he was
chosen governor in 1810 and remained in the
office till 1817. He died in April, 1822, at Prov
idence, aged G7.
JONES, STEPHEN, chief justice and judge of
probate for the county of Washington, Maine,
died in Boston Oct. 6, 1825, aged 86. He served
in the old French war, and was present when
Lord Howe was killed at Ticonderoga. Remov
ing to Machias, soon after its settlement, he lived
there more than fifty-six years, fulfilling his
various duties with great cheerfulness and in
tegrity.
JONES, CAVE, an Episcopal minister, died at
Brooklyn, L. L, Jan. 29, 1829, aged 59. He was
a chaplain in the navy. He published Hobart's
intolerance, and a solemn appeal to the church,
1811 ; which was answered by Hobart.
JONES, ABIEL, minister of Royalton, Vt., died
in 1829, aged 67.
JONES, JAMES, Dr., died near Smyrna, Del.,
in 1830, aged 74. He was surgeon in the army,
and more than fifty years in the ministry of the
Baptist church, distinguished and respected.
JONES, EDWARD, colonel, died at Pittsbo-
rough, N. C., Aug. 8, 1841, aged 84, formerly
attorney-general. He was born in Ireland. At
the bar he was distinguished, and he was a scholar,
and witty and hospitable, highly esteemed.
JONES, THOMAS K., an eminent merchant in
Boston, died April 26, 1842, aged 83.
JONES.
JOXES, THOMAS, minister of Gloucester, died
in Aug., 1846, aged 83.
JOXES, THOMAS P., M. D., died at Washing
ton March 11, 1848, aged 75. He had been
superintendent of the patent office and editor of
the Franklin Journal.
JOXES, JACOB, commodore, died in Philadel
phia July, 1850, aged S'2. lie fought a bloody
battle in the Wasp, capturing, Oct. 18, 1812, the
Frolic of superior force, for which several States
voted him a sword; but both vessels were soon
taken by the Poictiers, a 74-gun ship, and car
ried to Bermuda. He was afterwards appointed
to the command of the Macedonian. Temperate
himself, he deserves honorable mention as a pro
moter of temperance among his crew ; many
seamen Avere by him reclaimed from intoxication.
JOXES, XANCY, a colored woman, died at Ja
maica, L. I., July 17, 1851, aged 110.
JOXES, SAMUEL TAYLOR, D. D.,died at Bang
kok, Siam, Sept. 13, 1851, aged 49. He was
born in Xew Ipswich, a graduate of Amherst in
1825, and was a Baptist missionary to Burmah
in 1829. He translated the whole Xew Testa
ment into the Siamese in 1829.
JOXES, ROGER, major-general, died in Wash
ington June 15, 1852. Born in Virginia, he was
lieutenant in 1809; was distinguished in 1813 and
1814 on the Xiagara frontier, and Was adjutant-
general from 1825 until his death.
JOXES, SAMUEL, chief justice of Xew York,
died at Cold Spring, Long Island, Aug. 8, 1853,
aged 83. He was chancellor 1826-1828, chief
justice 1828-1847, and judge of the court of ap
peals, 1848. He was the eldest son of chief jus
tice Samuel Jones, who died in 1819, and great-
grandson of Capt. Thomas Jones, who came from
Strahane in Ireland in 1692, and settled on Long
Island, south side, leaving three sons, David,
William, and Thomas. David was a judge of the
supreme court; William, who died in 1779, was
the grandfather of the subject of this article,
Chancellor Jones. His father, Thomas, who died
in 1769, was the brother of Judges David and
Samuel Jones. At the age of eighty he returned
to his profession.
JOXES, PETER, or Kakewakwanaby, an Indian
chief and Wesleyan missionary, died near Brant-
ford, Canada, June 29, 1856, aged 54. It is be
lieved that he did more than any other man to
interest the public on both sides of the Atlantic
in behalf of the christianization and improvement
of the Indian tribes.
JORDAX, ROBERT, an Episcopal minister at
cape Elizabeth, died in 1679. He married a
daughter of John Winter, from whom he inher
ited a large landed estate. He removed to Ports
mouth in 1676.
JORDAX, CIIABLES, died near Speedsborough,
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Anson co., N. C., July 12, 1803, aged 114. He
was born in April, 1689. Hunting was a favorite
amusement.
JOSEPH, FRA.NXTS, an Indian, died at Passa-
maquoddy in 1834, aged 99. He was a worthy
man, and governor of the Indians. In the war
of the Revolution he espoused the American
cause.
JOSSELYX, JOHN, an author, arrived in
Boston in 1663, and resided in Xew England a
number of years. He was brother to Henry
Josselyn, a councillor under the government of
Gorges. The following is the title of his princi
pal work : " Xew England's rarities discovered in
birds, fishes, serpents, and plants of that country;
together with the physical and chyrurgical reme
dies, wherewith the natives constantly use to cure
their distempers, wounds, and sores ; also a per
fect description of an Indian squaw in all her
bravery, with a poem not improperly conferred
upon her; lastly a chronological table of the most
remarkable passages in that country amongst
the English; illustrated with cuts, 1672." His ac
count of the natural history of the country is
amusing : " Some frogs, when they sit upon their
breech, are a foot high ; " " Barley frequently de
generates into oats," etc. He published also an
account of two voyages to Xew England, wherein
you have the setting out of a ship with the charges,
a description of the country, etc., 1674. — Sulli
van's Maine, 332; Hutcldnson, I. 267, 268;
Douglass, II. 71.
JOY, JOSEPH GREEN, died at Xahant July 2i,
1850, aged 67, a man of refined taste and kindly
feeling, endeared to his friends.
JUDD, THOMAS, the first of the name of Judd
in this country, died at Xorthampton, Mass., Xov.
12, 1688, aged about 80. His descendants of the
name of Judd down to this time, eight or nine
generations, were more than 2600. He came
from England about 1633, and settled in Cam-
.bridge ; thence he removed in 1636 with the
colony to Hartford; and thence to Farmington
about 1644, where he was a first settler, one of the
seven pillars of the church, a deacon and man of
influence, many years deputy to the general court.
In 1679 he married Clemence, widow of Thomas
Mason of Xorthampton, to which town he re
moved, as she had a good estate and no children.
His own six sons and three daughters were all
married and had children. Two of his sons set
tled in Mattatuck or Waterbury. The daughter
of one of them, Mary, the daughter of Thomas,
was the mother of Rev. Dr. S. Hopkins. T. J.
was one of the eighty-four proprietors of Farm
ington and four or five other towns, so that large
tracts were distributed to his children. His de
scendant, Sylvester Judd of Xorthampton, has in
this year, 1856, published " Thomas Judd and his
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descendants," a genealogical work, containing
names and notices of 1882 persons, among whom
Benjamin occurs 499 times, William 370, Thomas
325. — Judd's Genealogy.
JUDD, TIMOTHY, the brother of Rev. Jonathan
Judd, died in Westbury society in Waterbury,
Conn., in 1796, aged 82. He was a representa
tive of the town for more than twenty sessions of
the general court. He made full trial of matri
mony, for he had in succession five wives.
JUDD, JONATHAN, the first minister of South
ampton, Mass., died July 28, 1803, aged 83. He
was of the sixth generation from Thomas, and
the son of Capt. William of WTestbury in Water-
bury. He was graduated at Yale in 1741, in the
class of Dr. Hopkins and BucJl and of Wm. Liv
ingston. He was settled when the church was
formed, June 8, 1743. His house, standing in
1856, was palisaded in t'vo French and Indian
•wars. His four sons were each above six feet in
height. His ministry lasted sixty years. V.
Gould was his colleague in 1801. His wife was
Silence, the daughter of Capt. J. Sheldon of
Northampton; his second wife, in 1790, was Ruth,
widow of Ilev. A. Bidwell, and by her he had no
children. He was a faithful minister, an eminent
Christian, and a true patriot. During his minis
try, 691 persons were received into the church.
His sermons, about 3,000, were by his order com
mitted to the flames. He published a sermon to
the soldiers, 1759, and one in the select sermons.
— Judd's Genealogy.
JUDD, WILLIAM, major, of the sixth genera
tion from Thomas, died at Farmington, Conn., in
1804, aged 61. He was the son of William of
Farmington. He graduated at Yale in 1763 ;
was a popular man, and many years a representa
tive. In the Revolutionary war he was an officer ;
and afterwards conspicuous in the democratic
ranks in the party divisions of his day. He pub
lished an address to the people only five days
before his death.
JUDD, JONATHAN SHELDON, Dr., son of Sol
omon of Westhampton, and of the eighth gener
ation from Thomas, died in Onondaga Hollow in
1813, aged 33. His daughter, Louisa Melissa,
has been many years a teacher at the south and
west.
JUDD, JONATHAN, son of Rev. Jonathan, died
unmarried at Southampton Jan. 30, 1819, aged
74. He graduated at Yale in 1765; taught Hat-
field grammar school a feAV years, and then was
engaged in mercantile business. His property
of 14,000 dollars went to his brothers, sisters, and
nephew, who gave 1,000 dollars to the Hampshire
education society. — Sylvester Judd's Genealogy
of Judd.
JUDD, SYLVESTER, son of Rev. Jonathan J.,
died in Westhampton Sept. 19, 1832, aged nearly
80. He was a farmer and trader, much employed
in public business. He was a representative and
a member of the convention to form the consti
tution of Massachusetts. By his wife, Hannah
Burt, he had eleven children. His grand-daughter,
Clarissa Lyman, married Rev. J. H. Bisbee, and
Theresa married Rev. George Lyman. His son,
Sylvester of Northampton, is known for his his
torical and antiquarian researches. Perhaps there
is no man who has made such a collection of
New England historical facts since the first dis
covery of our coast.
JUDD, EBEN WARNER, Dr., settled at Middle-
bury, Vt., about 1800, and died in 1837, aged 76.
He was of the seventh generation from Thomas.
He was a surveyor and was employed in the
northern parts of Vermont. lie lived for a while
in Northumberland, where the falls in the Con
necticut river were called Judd's falls. He dis
covered marble at Middlebury about 1802, and
erected a water-mill with sixty teethless saws for
sawing marble, which operated for years. A
daughter married Dr. Eells of Cornwall. — Judd's
Genealogy.
JUDD, FREEMAN, brother of E. W. J., the son
of Stephen of Westbury, Conn., died in Lock-
port, N. Y., at the house of his son Alfred, in
1840, aged 84. He was a carpenter. He and his
brother served in the attack upon Quebec by
Arnold in 1775, and published a journal of their
movements from Boston to Quebec. He often
preached as a Methodist.
JUDD, DEMAS, of the seventh generation from
Thomas, died in Jefferson, N. Y., in 1841, aged
87. He was taken at fort Washington in the
Revolutionary war, and was confined in the Jer
sey prison ship. His wife died in 1840 ; they
had fourteen children.
JUDD, ELNATIIAN, Dr., of the seventh genera
tion from Thomas, died in Troy, Mich., in 1845,
aged 72. He was the father of Dr. Judd of the
Sandwich Islands. Born in Watertown, Conn.,
he emigrated to Paris, N. Y., and was there a
respected physician for thirty years. He was a
Christian of fervent piety, and died in peace.
His daughter married A. B. Bates, attorney-gen
eral under the king of thfi Hawaiian Islands.
JUDD, SYLVESTER, a Unitarian minister, died
in Augusta, Me., Jan. 26, 1853, aged 39. The
son of Sylvester J. of Northampton, and grand
son of Rev. Jonathan J., he was of the eighth
generation from Thomas. He graduated at Yale
in 1836 ; studied theology at Cambridge ; and
was ordained Oct. 1, 1840. He was a public lec
turer, and published various discourses. He mar
ried Jane Elizabeth, daughter of Reuel Williams
of Augusta, and left three daughters. His life by
Miss A. Hall was published in a small volume.
In his New Year's sermon, a few weeks before his
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death, he inquired — " Or will you follow your
pastor to the grave?" The next day he was
taken sick of bilious colic. He had a peculiar
frankness and independence, uttering his thoughts
boldly ; and he was a man of kindly sympathies,
highly esteemed by those who did not accord
with him in his religious notions. Mr. Judd pub
lished Margaret, a New England tale, 1845 ; an
edition in 2 vols., 1856; Philo, a poem in blank
verse ; and Richard Edney, a tale, 1850. In ref
erence to his book, Margaret, a tale, the artist,
Felix P. C. Darley, prepared in 18,36 thirty large,
beautiful illustrative plates, which were published
by Phillips, Sampson and Co., of Boston, at 10
dollars in boards. The church, in a series of dis
courses, was a posthumous work, 18,34. — Cyclop,
of American Literature ; JudcVs Genealogy.
JUDD, Lois, widow of Elihu Judd of Bethel,
Conn., died at Wilton Aug. 23, 1855, aged 102
years and 10 months. Her maiden name was !
Dikeman of Bethel. She married a second
husband ; but his name is not ascertained.
JUDKIXS, PHILIP, died at Parkman, Me.,
Oct. 27, 1851, aged 103; a pensioner.
JUDSON, DAVID, minister of Newtown, Conn.,
died in 1776, aged about 60. He was graduated
at Yale in 1738. He published church discipline,
a sermon, 1770; on church government, in reply
to Ross, 1773.
JUDSON, AXDREW, minister of Eastford in
Ashford, Conn., died in 1804, aged about 50. lie
graduated at Dartmouth in 1775.
JUDSON, EriiRAiM, minister of Sheffield,
Mass., died Feb. 23, 1813, aged 76. He was
born in Woodbury, Conn., the son of Capt. Elna-
than J., a descendant of William of Concord in
1635, and of New Haven. lie graduated at
Yale college in 1763. After being some years
the minister of Chelsea, or the second church of
Norwich, as the successor of Dr. Whitaker, he
was dismissed, and was succeeded by Walter King.
He was next settled as the minister of Taunton,
Mass. In May, 1789, he was settled at Sheffield
as the successor of John Keep. He was suc
ceeded by James Bradford. During his ministry
of twenty-two years only sixty were added to the
church. In the next fifteen years three hundred
and twenty-nine were added. He was mild, cour
teous, hospitable, and faithful as a preacher of
the gospel, yet a little eccentric. He published a
sermon at the ordination of J. Strong, 1789; of
E. Fitch, 1795; of II. Weeks and 1). Smith,
1799; two sermons in a collection. — Sprague's
Annals.
JUDSON, ANN, missionary to Burmah, died
Oct. 24, 1826, aged 36. She was the daughter
of John Hasscltine of Bradford, Mass., and was
born Dec. 22, 1789. In early life she was gay,
enterprising, active, and eager for the acquisition
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of knowledge. She was educated at the acad
emy of her native town. At the age of sixteen
she became pious. She married Adoniram Jud-
son, Jr., appointed a missionary to India, Feb. 5,
1812. In his letter to her father, asking his con
sent to the marriage, Mr. Judson said : " I have
now to ask, whether you can consent to her depar
ture for a heathen land ? whether you can con
sent to her exposure to the dangers of the ocean ;
to every kind of want and distress ; to degrada
tion, insult, persecution, and perhaps a violent
death ? Can you consent to all this, for the sdie
of Him who left his heavenly home and died for
her and for you ? " She was the first American
female who made up her mind to go to India as
a missionary. She sailed from Salem Feb. 19,
with Mrs. Newell, and arrived in June at Cal
cutta. While residing there, she and her hus
band adopted the principles of the Baptists and
were baptized Sept. 6. Mr. Rice, also, a mission
ary, was baptized Nov. 1. As the missionaries
were ordered to quit India, she sailed to the Isle
of France, where, on her arrival Jan. 17, 1813,
she was informed of the death of Mrs. Newell in
Nov. She proceeded in July to Rangoon in Bur
mah. A few English missionaries had been there
since 1807. After studying the language several
years, Mr. Judson began to preach and to publish
tracts in the Burman language. He was also
joined by the missionaries, Hough, Colman, and
Wheelock. In Jan., 1820, Mr. Judson made a
fruitless visit to the emperor to obtain permission
to propagate the Christian religion. In conse
quence of this refusal, Mr. Colman was induced
to remove to Chittagong, near which place he
died July 4, 1822. Mr. Wheelock was also de
ceased, and Mr. Hough had departed, so that Mr.
and Mrs. Judson were left alone at Rangoon.
Several converts were baptized in 1820. In con
sequence of alarming illness, Mrs. Judson left
Rangoon in Aug., 1821, and repaired to Calcutta,
and thence to England. In Sept., 1822, she ar
rived at New York. After visiting her friends at
Bradford for a few weeks, she was induced, on
account of her health, to pass the winter in the
milder climate of Baltimore, where Dr. Elnathan
Judson, an only brother of her husband, resided.
Here she lived in retirement and wrote an inter
esting work, a history of the Burman mission,
in a series of letters to Mr. Butterworth, a mem
ber of the parliament, in whose house she was
received while in England. She sailed on her
return June 22, 1823, from Boston, with the mis
sionaries, Mr. and Mrs. Wade, and arrived at Cal
cutta in Oct., and in Dec. proceeded to Rangoon.
In the same month she accompanied her husbSnd
to Ava, the capital. The Bengal government
invaded Burmah in May, 1824. June 8th, Mr.
Judson was seized and imprisoned, with Dr. Price
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and others. During his imprisonment of more
than a year and a half, nine months in three pair
of fetters, two months in five pair, — amidst inde
scribable sufferings, — Mrs. Judson repaired every
day two miles to the prison, prepared food for her
husband, and administered to the wants of the
prisoners, and made constant application to the
government for their lives and their deliverance,
until at last, on the approach of the British army,
she had the happiness to announce to them their
freedom.
" 0 woman —
When pain and anguish wring the brow,
A ministering angel thou ! "
In March, 1826, she passed down the Irrawaddy
to the British camp, when Gen. Archibald Camp
bell received her with the kindness which she
deserved for the eloquent appeals to the proud
Burman government, of which she was the author,
and which contributed to the peace. Mr. and
Mrs. Judson now settled in the new town of Am-
herst on the Salwen river. But after a few
months, in the absence of Mr. Judson, she died
there of a fever. This fatal event is to be ascribed
to her sufferings at Ava. In a few months her
only surviving child, Maria, died. They were
buried beneath a large hope tree, the Hopia.
Her little son, lloger Williams, was buried at
Hangoon. She was a woman of unquestioned
piety and most benevolent zeal. Her talents, too,
were of a high order. No female missionary ever
passed through such scenes of suffering, or made
such efforts of benevolence in sickness and amidst
perils and difficulties of every kind. When, at a
future time, the gospel shall triumph over the
superstitions of the east, her name will be hon
ored throughout all Burmah. A very interesting
memoir of her life -was published by James D.
Knowles, 2d ed., Boston, 1829.
JUDSON, ADONIRAM, the brother of Ephraim,
died at Scituate, Mass., in 1826, aged 76. Born
at Woodbury, he graduated at Yale in 1775, and
was the minister of Maiden from Jan., 1787, till
Sept., 1791 ; and then of Wenham from 1792 to
1799; and then of Plymouth from 1802 to 1817.
He afterwards connected himself with the Bap
tists and preached in several places. He was the
father of the missionary of the same name. He
published a sermon on the landing of our fathers,
1802. — Sprague's Annals.
JUDSON, SAMUEL, minister forty years of
Uxbridge, died Nov. 11, 1832, aged about 62.
He graduated at Yale in 1790. Till his last ill
ness he performed the public services of every
Sabbath.
JUDSON, ADOMRAM, D. D., Baptist mission
ary at Burmah, son of the Itev. A. J., died at sea
April 12, 1850, aged 62. He left Maulmain in
ill health April 3, 1850, in the French barque
Aristide Marie, bound for the isle of Bourdeaux.
lie was constrained to leave Mrs. J. behind.
In nine days he died, in latitude 15° north,
and longitude 93° east, within the range of
islands along the coast of Malacca ; and the
same evening was buried in the sea. He had
been more than thirty-eight years in service, hav
ing embarked in 1812 ^ and was one of the first
and most eminent of the American missionaries
in the cast. He was born in Maiden, graduated
at Brown university in 1807, and at Andover
seminary in 1810. He published a sermon on
baptism, 1812; a dictionary of the Burman lan
guage, 1826.
JUDSON, EMILY CIIUBBUCK, the widow of
the missionary, Adoniram Judson, died in Ham
ilton, N. Y., June 1, 1854, aged about 40.
She was a native of Morrisville, N. Y. She be
came a teacher in the female seminary at Utica.
As a writer under the name of Fanny Forrester,
she contributed in 1844 to the New York Weekly
Mirror. At Philadelphia she became acquainted
with Dr. Judson, who employed her to write his
deceased wife's biography. In the subsequent
conference he became convinced that she might
supply the place of the departed ; and he per
suaded her to yield to his wishes. They were mar
ried in July, 1846, and proceeded to Maulmain,
where she lived till his death. She was generally
known by her pen-name of Fanny Forrester, and
her writings were acceptable to the public. It
was in July, 1846, that she embarked with her
husband for India. Soon after his death in 1850
she returned to this country, and for the last two
years of her life was in feeble health. Her
mother died in ] 855. She published Alderbrook,
and memoirs of her husband. — Cycl. of Amer.
Literature.
JUMPER, a distinguished chief of the Semi-
nolc Indians, died at New Orleans April 18, 1838.
IvALB, BARON DE, major-general in the army
of the United States, was a German by birth, and
had long been in the French service. In the bat
tle near Camden, Aug., 1780, he fell, after receiv
ing eleven wounds in his vigorous exertions to
prevent the defeat of the Americans. He died
Aug. 19, aged 47, having served three years with
high reputation. His last moments were spent
in dictating a letter, which expressed his warm
affection for the men and officers of his division,
and his admiration of their firmness and courage
in withstanding a superior force. An ornamen
tal tree was planted at the head of his grave in
the neighborhood of Camden, and congress re
solved, that a monument should be erected to his
memory at Annapolis with a very honorable in
scription. — Gordon, III. 391, 443; Ramsay, II.
168; Warren, II. 243; Marshall, IV. 184; Holmes.
KALM, PETER, a naturalist, was a Swede, and
was sent to America, in 1748, to collect inforrna-
KANT.
tion concerning its botany. In two or three years
he travelled through Canada, New York, and
Pennsylvania. He was afterwards professor of
economy in Swedish Finland, where he died Nov.
16, 1779. In honor of him the beautiful Kalmia
received its name. His travels in North America
were published at Gottingen, 1754 ; the same in
English, 3 vols., 1770; 2 vols., 8vo., 1772. lie
published also an account of the cataracts at
Niagara, 1751.
KANT, JAMES, minister of Trumbull, Conn.,
died in 1840. He was settled in 1826.
KARNES, SARAH W., Mrs., died in New York
in 1854, aged 117 years, being born in 1737.
KAST, PHILIP GODFRID, Dr., an eminent phy
sician in Boston, died at Ilaverhill April 28, 1791,
aged 87.
KAST, THOMAS, Dr., died in Boston June 20,
1820, aged 69. He was the son of Dr. Philip
Godfrid Kast, and was graduated at Harvard in
1769. His profession he studied in Europe, and
returned to Boston in 1774. From 1810 to 1817
he was also in Europe for his health. He had
a well-deserved reputation in his profession,
and was especially eminent in obstetric practice.
For many years he had extensive practice as a
physician and surgeon. — Thacher.
KAVANAGH, EDWARD, governor of Maine,
died in Newcastle Jan. 20, 1844, aged 48. He
had been a member of congress.
KEAN, ANDREW, Dr., died in Goochland, Va.,
in 1837, aged 62, one of the most eminent physi
cians of Va.
KEARNEY, FRANCIS, an eminent engraver,
died at Perth Amboy, N. J., in 1837, aged 52.
KEARNEY, JAMES A., Dr., died in the Gulf
of Mexico Aug. 27, 1847. He was fleet-surgeon
of the home squadron, and had been nearly forty
years a skilful officer of the navy.
KEARNP^Y, STEPHEN W., major-general, died
at St. Louis Oct. 31, 1848, aged 54. He was
thirty-six years in the army, and served in NeAv
Mexico and California.
KEARSLEY, JOHN, a physician of Philadel
phia, was a native of England and came to this
country about 1711. As a member of the assem
bly, his speeches for the rights of the colony were
so acceptable that he was sometimes carried
home on the shoulders of the people. He died
Jan. 11, 1772, aged 88. He contributed much
for building Christ church, and the hospital of
that church for widows he endowed with a valua
ble estate.
KEEP, JOHN, minister of Sheffield, Mass., died
Sept. 3, 1785, aged 35, in the thirteenth year of
his ministry. He succeeded Mr. Ilubbard and
was succeeded by Mr. Judson. Born in Long-
meadow, probably a descendant of John Keep
who died in Longmeadow in 1675, he was grad-
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uatcd at Yale in 1769, and was ordained in 1772.
Such were his talents and eloquence, that few
preachers were so much commended. He was a
candidate for the professorship of divinity at
Yale, when Mr. Wales was chosen in 1782. His
widow, daughter of Rev. P. Robbins, married J.
Woodbridge. — Hist, of Berkshire.
KEITH, JAMES, first minister of Bridgewater,
Mass., was a native of Scotland, and educated at
Aberdeen. He was ordained Feb. 18, 1664, and
died July 23, 1719, aged 75. He had six sons
and two daughters. His descendants in Bridge-
water in 1810 were two hundred ; and there were
many more in other towns. His successors were
Daniel Perkins, who died Sept. 29, 1782, aged
85, and John Reed. He was of singular sweet
ness of temper and eminent piety. In his preach
ing he did not use notes. He published a case
of prayer, on the establishment of a new society ;
he and J. Danforth, two sermons, 1717. — Math
er 's Sermon.
KEITH, GEORGE, a Quaker, was born at Aber
deen, Scotland, and was well educated. He came
in 1682 to East Jersey, where he was surveyor-gen
eral. In 1689 he taught a school in Philadelphia.
After writing various treatises in favor of the Qua
kers, and visiting New England for the propaga
tion of his sentiments, on his return a schism
occurred between him and the Quakers in 1691.
He drew away many as his followers, who called
themselves Christian Quakers. At length lie en
tirely deserted the society ; in England he be
came an Episcopalian, and he officiated as an
Episcopal missionary about a year in New York
and Boston. Repairing again about 1706 to
England, he was a rector at Edburton in Sussex,
where he died. lie had learning, talents, acute-
ness, and logical skill, but was irritable, overbear
ing, and virulent. He had nothing of moderation,
meekness, and charity. In his day the contention
among the Quakers was vehement. The following
are the titles of some of his many publications :
immediate revelation not ceased, 1668; the way
to the city of God, 1678; the Presbyterian and
Independent churches in New England brought
to the test, 1689; this was answered in 1690 by
the Boston ministers, in their Protestant religion
maintained ; the pretended antidote proved poi
son, in answer to the preceding, 1690 ; account
of the great division amongst the Quakers in
Pennsylvania, 1692 ; more divisions, 1693 ; against
Sam. Jennings, 1694 ; a plain discovery of many
gross cheats in pamphlets by the Quakers; ac
count of his travels, 1699 ; the Deism of Wm.
Penn and his brethren destructive of the Chris
tian religion, 1699 ; account of a national church
and the clergy ; reasons for renouncing Quaker
ism, 1700; account of the Quakers' politics; the
magic of Quakerism, 1705 ; journal of travels
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from New Hampshire to Caratuck, 1706 ; new
theory of the longitude, 1709. — Proud, i. 363-
376 ; ScwalVs Hist. 504-664.
KEITH, Sir WILLIAM, governor of Pennsylva
nia, sustained this office from 1717 to 1726. He
had been before surveyor-general of the customs
in America. He died in England in poverty, Nov.
17, 1749, aged near 80. He was a desperate in
triguer, courting always the favor of the people,
and not sparing of delusive promises to individ
uals. At last he sunk into contempt. He pub
lished the history of the British plantations in
America, part I., containing the history of Vir
ginia, 4to., 1738; collection of papers and tracts,
1749; on the subject of taxing the colonies, 1767.
KEITH, ISAAC STOCKTON, D. I)., minister of
Charleston, S. C., died Dec. 14, 1813, aged 58.
He was born in Bucks county, Penn., Jan. 20,
1755, and graduated at Princeton in 1775. He
•was the minister of Alexandria in Virginia for
about ten years till 1788, when he was settled at
Charleston as the colleague of Dr. Hollingshead.
There his ministry of twenty-five years was longer
than that of any of his eleven predecessors. He
died suddenly. His first wife was the daughter
of Rev. Dr. Sproat ; his second the daughter of
Thomas Legare of Charleston; his third the
daughter of Wm. Huxham. He was an eminent
Christian and a faithful pastor. To his church he
bequeathed 5000 dollars, and half that sum to
the general assembly. To each of about twenty
children, bearing his name or that of one of his
wives, he bequeathed Scott's commentary. A col
lection of his sermons, addresses, etc., with an
account of his life by Dr. Flinn, was published,
1816. — Panopl. XL, 441-448 ; Sprague's Annals.
KEITH, REUEL, D. D., died Sept. 3, 1842.
He was an eminent scholar, teacher, and clergy
man; the principal of the Episcopal theological
seminary near Alexandria.
KELLOGG, JOSEPH, was taken prisoner at
Deerfield in 1703. He acted as Indian interpre
ter at the treaty of Albany in 1754, and as such
was to accompany Shirley to Oswego ? but he
died on his way at Schenectady in 1756.
KELLOGG, GILES CROUCH, Dr., died at Had-
ley in 1793, aged about 60. He was adopted
and educated by Dr. Crouch, a bachelor and phy
sician of II., who came from England ; he was
graduated at Harvard in 1751, and had the ec
centricity of Dr. C.
KELLOGG, EBENEZER, the first minister of
Vernon, Conn., died Sept. 3, 1817, aged 80, in
the fifty-fifth year of his ministry. He graduated
at Yale in 1757.
KELLOGG, BELA, minister of Avon, Conn.,
died in 1831, aged 50. He was a graduate in
1800 in the sixth class of Williams college.
KELLOGG, ELIJAH, a minister in Portland,
Maine, died there in March, 1842, aged 80. Born
in South Hadley, Mass., he graduated at Dart
mouth in 1785, and was minister of the second
church in Portland from 1788 to 1811, Mr. Pay-
son becoming his colleague in 1807 ; then of the
chapel church from 1812 to 1821. He was after
ward a missionary from the society for propagat
ing the gospel to the Quoddy Indians, living in
Perry Pleasant Point, near Eastport, Me. The
Passamaquoddies, the Indian name, means pol
lock fish. Schoodak signifies burnt land ; Sock-
um chief, Seepee river. Mr. K's. vocabulary of
the Quoddy language is published in Hist. Coll.,
vol. HI., 3d series. He published an oration on
the death of Rev. T. Smith, 1795.
KELLOGG, DAVID, D.D., died at Framingham,
Mass., Aug. 13, 1843, aged 87. A native of Am-
herst, Mass., he graduated at Dartmouth in 1775,
and was pastor from 1781 to 1830. His son is
Judge Daniel K. of Vermont. He published a
masonic sermon, 1796. — Sprague's Annals.
KELLOGG, EBENEZER, professor, died in Wil-
liamstown, Mass., Oct. 2, 1846, aged 57. He was
born in Vernon, Conn. ; graduated at Yale in 1810 ;
in 1815 he was elected professor of Greek and
Latin in Williams college, which office he use
fully discharged.
KELLY, WILLIAM, the first minister of War
ner, X. II., died in 1813, aged 65. He was the
son of John of Atkinson, who died in 1783, aged
84 ; graduated at Harvard in 1767 ; was ordained
in 1772; and dismissed in 1801. His son, John,
a councillor at law, graduated at Dartmouth in
1804. — Farmer.
KELLY, MOSES, colonel, the sheriff of Hills-
borough county, N. II., died Aug. 2, 1824, aged
85. He was the brother of William. His father
and three preceding ancestors up to John of New-
bury bore the name of John. — Farmer.
KELLY, JOHN, minister of Hampstead, N. H.,
died in 1848, aged 85. Born in Amesbury, Mass.,
he graduated at Dartmouth in 1791, and was
ordained in 1792. He was a descendant of John,
a first settler of Newbury, who died in 1644.
He published a sermon on the death of Dr. W.
Cogswell, 1831. — Sprague's Annals.
KEMP, JOHN, LL. D., professor of mathema
tics in Columbia college, N. Y., died in 1812, aged
49. Born in Scotland, he was educated at Maris-
chall college, Aberdeen. Before the age of twen
ty-one he was chosen a member of the royal
society of Edinburgh. He began his toils at
Columbia college in 1785. He was appointed in
1785 to an additional professorship of geography,
history, and chronology. In 1810 he made a
journey to lake Erie, and satisfied himself that
the project of a canal was feasible.
KEMPER, JAMES, president of Walnut Hills
college, Ohio, died Aug. 29, 1834, aged 80.
KENDAL, SAMUEL, D. D., minister of Wes-
ton, Mass., died Feb. 16, 1815, aged 60. He
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was a descendant of Francis K., who lived in
Woburn in 1647, was born at Sherburne July 11,
1753; his father,, Elisha K., died in 1824 at the
age of 99. He was graduated at Harvard col
lege in 1782, and was ordained Nov. 5, 1785.
His two wives were the daughters of Samuel
Woodward, his predecessor in the ministry, and
descendants of llichard Mather. He published
a sermon at the ordination of T. M. Harris, 1794 ;
at thanksgiving ; at ordination of P. Nourse,
1802 ; at the election, 1804 ; seven sermons for
the young, making 8th number of the Christian
monitor, 1808; on the death of S. Dexter, 1810;
century sermon, 1813. A volume of his sermons
was published after his death.
KENDALL, SAMUEL, the first minister of New
Salem, Mass., died Jan. 31, 1792, aged 84. Born in
Woburn, he was a graduate of Harvard in 1731 ;
was ordained in 1742 ; and dismissed in 1776.
Joel Foster was his successor from 1779 to 1802.
KENDALL, DAVID, died in Augusta, N. Y.,
Feb. 19, 1853, aged 85. Born in Athol, Mass., he
graduated at Harvard in 1794, and was minister
of Ilubbardston from 1802 to 1809. He removed
to Augusta, Oneida county, where he was pastor
till his death.
KENDRICK, J., captain, a navigator, lost his
life on the northwest coast in 1800, or towards
the close of the last century. Born in Martha's
Vineyard, his residence was at Wareham.
KENDRICK, NATHANIEL, I). 1)., late presi
dent of Madison university, died at Hamilton,
N. Y., Sept, 18, 1848.
KENDRICK, WILLIAM POOLE, minister in
Bristol, Illinois, died in 1854 or 1855, aged 64.
He was a native of Ilollis, N. II. ; a graduate of
Harvard in 1816; a theological student at An-
dovcr.
KENNEDY, WILLIAM M., a Methodist minis
ter, died in Newbury, S. C., in 1840, aged 56.
KENNEDY, JOHN II., minister at Cannons-
burg. Penn., died in 1840, aged 38.
KENNEDY, E. PENDLETON, commodore in
the navy, died at Norfolk March 29, 1844, aged
65, of paralysis. He was in command of the flag
ship Pennsylvania.
KENNEDY, ANDREW, died in Indiana Dec.
31, 1847, aged 37. At the age of nineteen he
could neither read nor write ; yet became a law
yer, a member of the State senate, and of con
gress from 1841 to 1847.
KENNISON, JENNY, died at Brookfield, N. IL, j
Dec. 27, 1840, aged 110, the oldest person in
New Hampshire.
KENNISTON, DAVID, died at Chicago Feb. 24,
1852, aged 117 ; the last of the party who de
stroyed the tea at Boston.
KENNISTON, JOHN, of Greenland, N. II., was
killed by the Indians April 16, 1677, and his
house burnt.
KENNON, BEVERLEY, commodore, was killed
by the explosion of the great gun on board the
steamer Princeton, Feb. 28, 1844. He was chief
of the bureau of construction, etc. He had a
high reputation in the navy.
KENT, ELISHA, died at Philippi, N. Y., July
17, 1776, aged nearly 72, in the forty-second year
of his ministry. A native of Suffield, Conn., the
son of John Kent and Abigail Dudley, he was
graduated at Yale in 1729. He was a minister
of talents and influence, and of a humble, Chris
tian character. His son, Moss Kent, the father
of Chancellor Kent, graduated at Yale in 1752,
and died in 1794, aged about 62, a lawyer in
Duchess county, N. Y.
KENT, JOSEPH, Dr., governor of Maryland,
died near Bladensburg, Nov. 24, 1837, aged 58.
He Avas a physician and farmer ; many years a
representative ; governor from 1826 to 1829 ; and
senator of the United States from 1833 to 1837.
KENT, WILLIAM A., colonel, died in Concord,
N. II., April 7, 1840, aged 75, a member of the
State senate and treasurer of the State. He was
a man much respected for his virtues.
KENT, JAMES, chancellor, died at New York
Dec. 12, 1847, aged 84. He was born in 1763,
in Duchess county ; his father was Moss Kent,
his grandfather was Elisha Kent. He graduated
at Yale in 1781, studied law with E. Benson, and
practised law in Poughkeepsie and New York.
In 1797 he was recorder of the city; in 1798 a
judge of the supreme court; in 1804 chief jus
tice ; in 1814 chancellor; and he retired from
office July 31, 1823, at the age of sixty, as re
quired by the constitution. His brother, Moss
Kent, was a senator of the United States. His
lectures as law professor of Columbia college
were the basis of his commentaries. He was
eminently a virtuous and good man, respected
and beloved. He lived long, contented and
prosperous, and was eminently happy in domestic
life. His commentaries on American law, pub
lished in 4 vols., in 1830, were by him enlarged.
His important decisions in law and equity are
preserved in the reports of Caines and Johnson.
His biography, it is said, is preparing by his son,
William Kent. — American Almanac, 1849;
Cyclopedia of Amer. Literature.
KENTON, SIMON, general, died in Logan
county, Ohio, April 29, 1836, aged 82. He was
a companion of Col. Boone, in exploring the
western country and commencing new settle
ments. Many were his hardships. Once he was
tied to a stake by the Indians to be burned, but
was rescued by a friend.
KER, NATHAN, Presbyterian minister at Go-
shen, N. Y., more than forty years, died Dec. 21,
1804, aged 68. Born in New Jersey, he gradu
ated at Princeton in 1761. He published a ser
mon on the church and union, and on God's
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sovereignty in the American preacher, vols. in.
and iv.
KERR, HAMILTON, major, was the son of Mat
thew of Philadelphia, who emigrated to the Mus-
kingum in 1787. He was a bold hunter on the
frontiers, as related by Hildreth. His descend
ants are many.
KERR, ROBERT, a minister of the Scotch Pres
byterian church, died at Savannah in June, 1805,
having been a preacher thirty-two years.
KERR, JOSEPH, D. D., pastor of the Associate
Reformed church at Pittsburg, died in 1829.
KETELTAS, ABRAHAM, minister of Jamaica,
L. I., died Sept. 30, 1798, aged 66. He was the
son of a minister of the same name ; was gradu
ated at Yale college in 1752 ; and was settled at
first the minister of Elizabeth. He preached flu
ently in Dutch and French. In 1777 he was a
member of the convention which framed the con
stitution of New York. His wife, the daughter
of William Smith, a distinguished man, died in
1815, aged 84. He published a sermon on ex
tortion, 1778, and other occasional discourses.
KEY, PHILIP BARTON, a member of congress
from Maryland, died at Georgetown July 28,
1815, aged 50. His eloquent resistance to the
restrictive system gave him celebrity.
KEY, FRANCIS S., district attorney of the
United States, died at Baltimore Jan. 11, 1843,
aged 63. Born in Frederick county, Maryland,
his father was John Ross Key, an officer of the
Revolutionary army. He was educated at St.
John's college, Annapolis. Having studied law
with liis uncle Philip, he lived in Fredericktown
and Washington. He was a brother-in-law of
Chief Justice Taney. His poems were published
in New York in 1856. His star-spangled banner,
a song, was written on an occasion of deep inter
est, with the inspiration of patriotism and of
poetry. — Cyclopedia of American Literature.
KEYES, ABRAHAM J., a Jew, pastor of the
Hebrew congregation, Philadelphia, died Oct. 18,
1828, aged 47.
KEYS, TllOMAS, a Methodist minister, died in
Jefferson county, Virginia, in 1828, aged 57.
KIDD, WILLIAM, a pirate, was the commander
of a vessel which sailed irom New York to Lon
don, and in London was recommended by Mr.
Livingston of New York as a suitable commander
of a vessel, which Lord Rumney and others had
fitted out against the pirates of the East Indies,
at an expense of 6000 pounds. Kidd first sailed
to New York, where he had a family ; on his
arrival in India he committed many daring acts
of piracy. In his infatuation he came from Mad
agascar to Boston. July 3, 1699, he was sum
moned before Governor Bellamont, and ordered
to draw up a narrative of his proceedings. But
not doing this, he was arrested July 6th, with
several of his men. A man-of-war was sent
from England to transport them thither for trial.
They Avere condemned and executed. Bradish,
who was executed at the same time, had run away
with the ship Adventure on a voyage to India, and
arrived in March, 1699, at the east of Long
Island, where he had deposited in the care of a
gentleman his money, rings, and jewels. Multi
tudes of weak-minded men have dug along the
American coast in search of Kidd's money, im
agining that he had concealed gold and silver on
the shores. Such dupes of covetousness would
do well to dig the soil.
KIDDER,JosEPH,ministerofDunstable,N.H.,
died in 1818, aged 76. Born in Billerica, he
graduated at Yale in 1764; was ordained in 1767 ;
was dismissed in 1796, but continued pastor of
the church till his death.
KILBORN, JONATHAN, died in Colchester,
Conn., in 1785, aged 78. He was a very inge
nious mechanic, and is said to have been the in
ventor of the iron screw.
KILBURN, JOHN, a brave man, the first settler
in 1749 of Walpole, N. H., died April 8, 1789,
aged 84. His son, John, died at Shrewsbury,
Vt., in 1822, aged also 84. Kilburn's garrison was
attacked by about two hundred Indians in 1755.
His force consisted of himself and wife and daugh
ter, his son John, and John Peak and his son.
Philip, the Indian chief, cried out from behind a
tree, " Old John, young John, I know you, come
out here ; me give you good quarter." — " Begone,
or we '11 quarter you ! " was the reply. The in
cessant firing lasted till night, the females casting
bullets.
KILLAM, REBECCA, died at Hillsborough, N.
H., in Sept., 1856, aged 103 years wanting nine
days. She was the widow of Daniel K., a soldier
under Washington near Boston.
KILLEN, WILLIAM, chancellor of the State
of Delaware, died at Dover Oct. 3, 1805, aged
83. He was a native of Ireland. Early in life,
before he had attained the age of manhood, he
arrived in America, having an excellent educa
tion in the English language. After passing
through a variety of scenes, incidental to stran
gers, he settled himself in the family of Samuel
Dickinson, the father of John Dickinson of Wil
mington. There he devoted himself most assid
uously to the acquisition of a competent knowl
edge of the Greek and Latin languages, under
the direction of Jacob Orr, who was engaged in
teaching the sons of Mr. Dickinson, and some
other young gentlemen. The diligence and
modesty of Mr. Killen made him a favorite of the
whole family, and particularly of his instructor.
His unwearied attention was rewarded by a rapid
proficiency in his studies. After holding the office
of county surveyor for some years, he commenced
the study of the law. In the courts of Delaware
his knowledge, and especially his skill in survey-
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ing and in various branches of the mathematics,
rendered him an able assistant in suits for land,
and in such trials the most eminent men of his
day were always pleased to associate with him as
their colleague. His practice soon became exten
sive. His moderation, his modesty, and his punc
tuality in business, aided by his abilities, led him
to wealth and to all the honors of his country. For
manv years before the Revolution he was selected
by his fellow citizens to represent them in the
assembly of Delaware. At the commencement
of the contest with Great Britain he took a de
cided and actiye part in favor of American liberty.
Soon after the declaration of independence he was
appointed chief justice of the supreme court of
the State of Delaware, which office he held till he
was promoted to that of chancellor in 1793. lie
resigned his seat in the court of chancery in 1801.
In all the variety of public business, in which he
was engaged, he exhibited the strictest integrity.
As a legislator he was wise and attentive to the
interests of his constituents, and as a judge he
was learned, patient, and impartial. The same
uprightness, which marked his public character,
was also conspicuous in all the relations of private
life. — Neio York Spectator, Oct. 22, 1805.
KILPATRICK, JOSEPH D., minister in Ruth
erford co., N. C., died in 1829.
KIMBALL, THOMAS, of Ipswich, one of the
first settlers of Bradford, Mass., was killed by
the Indians May 3, 1676 ; and his wife and five
children were carried prisoners into the wilder
ness, but returned in a few weeks. — Farmer.
KIMBALL, DANIEL, founder of Union acad
emy in Plainfield, N. II., died in March, 1817,
aged 63. He gave the academy between 20 and
30,000 dollars.
KIMBALL, JAMES L., died in 1833, aged 34.
A native of Lyndon, Vt., and a graduate of Dart
mouth in 1824, he was secretary of the American
tract society, Boston.
KIMBALL, JOSEPH HORACE, died at Pem
broke, N. II., April 1 1, 1838. He had been editor
of the Herald of Freedom at Concord. He and
J. A. Thome visited the West Indies and pub
lished Fmancipation in the West Indies, a six
months ' tour, etc.
KIMBALL, INCREASE, the inventor of the first
machine for making cut nails, died at Hanover,
N. II., Sept. 16, 1806, aged 80. He was a mem
ber of the church. At the age of thirty he gave
signs of derangement. In the controversy be
tween the college and the university, he espoused
the side of the latter, which was annulled by de
cision of the supreme court. In his displeasure
he took a vow never to shave. So he lived with
a long white beard, and, regarding himself as a
Jew, he would not eat pork, wearing a long white
robe girt about his loins. In the course of half
a century such a change came over the world that
he saw many men, who used to regard his long
beard as a proof of insanity, themselves wearing
long beards without being deemed insane. His
invention, patented in 1806, was of no advantage
to him, as he would not sell out his right.
KIXCAID, MARY, Mrs., died in Monroe co.f
Va., Nov. 13, 1838, aged 100.
KING, ANDREW, died in Orange co., N. Y.,
Nov., 1815, aged 69. He had been there a faith
ful minister for forty years.
KING, WALTER, minister of Williamstown,
Mass., died Dec. 1, 1815, aged 57. Born at Wil-
braham, he graduated at Yale in 1782, and was a
faithful pastor of the second church in Norwich,
Conn., from 1787 for twenty-four years, when he
was dismissed without any impeachment of his
character, lie was less than three years at Wil-
liamstown, in consequence of apoplexy, which
seized him in the pulpit as he was preaching a
lecture. lie was a solemn preacher and a man
of prayer. He published a sermon at ordination
of Daniel Hall, 1797; on taking leave of his
people. — Panoplist, XII. p. 141; Sprague's An
nals.
KING, CYRUS, major-general, died at Saco,
Me., April 25, 1817, aged 44. The son of Rich
ard, he was born at Scarborough. He was the
private secretary of his brother Rufus, in London,
then studied law in Portland. In 1812 he was a
member of congress, and his speeches exhibited
a splendor of language and a profusion of im
agery, in opposing the increase of taxes and on
the bill for filling the ranks of the army in 1814.
KING, RUFUS, minister of the United States to
Great Britain, died April 29, 1827, aged 72. He
was the eldest son of Richard King, a merchant
of Scarborough, Me., and was born in 1755.
From Dummer academy at Byfield he went to
Harvard college, about the time of the death of
his father. His studies had been interrupted at
the beginning of the war by the occupation of the
college buildings as barracks, but were resumed
at Concord. He graduated in 1777, with reputa
tion for classical attainments and particularly for
liis powers of oratory, to the culture of which he
had applied himself with great zeal. In 1778 he
was an aid to Sullivan in an expedition against
the British in Rhode Island. After studying law
with Mr. Parsons, he was admitted to the bar in
1780 at Newburyport, by which town he was soon
afterwards chosen a representative in the legisla
ture. It being recommended by congress to the
States about 1784 to grant a 5 per cent impost to
the general government, a distinction arose be
tween the federal and the State interests. In
the debate which followed, Mr. King supported
the grant, and prevailed, and James Sullivan, the
most popular speaker in the house, opposed it.
The legislature appointed him in 1784 a delegate
to congress, then in session at Trenton, but soon
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adjourned to New York, in which body he intro
duced, March 1785, a resolution, prohibiting
slavery in the territory northwest of the Ohio.
Of the convention in 1787 to form the present
constitution of the United States he was an effi
cient member, as he was also of the Massachusetts
convention for considering that constitution.
Having relinquished his profession in 1784, and
in 1786 having married the daughter of John
Alsop, an opulent merchant of New York, he re
moved in 1788 to that city. In 1789 he and
Gen. Schuyler were elected senators under the
constitution of the United States. During the
violent discussions respecting the British treaty in
1794, he co-operated with his friend, Gen. Hamil
ton, in its defence. Of the papers concerning
this treaty, with the signature of Camillus, usually
ascribed to Hamilton, all the numbers, except
the first ten, were written by Mr. King, display
ing much acquaintance with the laws of different
nations on the subjects of navigation and trade.
When a petition was presented against allowing
Mr. Gallatin to take his seat as senator, in conse
quence of the law of naturalization, a warm de
bate arose ; the right to the seat was maintained
by Taylor, Monroe, and Burr, and opposed suc
cessfully by Ellsworth, Strong, and King. On
this occasion Mr. King displayed great talents as
an orator. Being re-elected to the senate, he
was nominated by Washington in 1796 minister
plenipotentiary to Great Britain. At the English
court he remained during the administration of
Mr. Adams, and two years of that of Mr. Jeffer
son, with great advantage to his country. His
dignity, mildness, and firmness promoted the ad
justment of several difficult claims. The conven
tion as to boundaries was, however, rejected by
Mr. Jefferson, from misapprehension, perhaps, as
to its effect on the boundary of Louisiana, which
had been purchased. Had this convention been
adopted, the northeastern boundary, which has
occasioned much uneasiness, would have been set
tled by three commissioners, two appointed by
the parties, and the third by the two. Mr. King
made great efforts to induce the British to re
nounce the practice of impressing American sea
men. After his return in 1803 he lived in retire
ment until the war of 1812, when he came forward
in support of his country. In consequence of
the patriotic spirit which he manifested, 1 he dem
ocratic legislature of New York appointed him
in 1813 a senator of the United States. His
speech concerning the conduct of the enemy in
the destruction of the city of Washington, gained
him great honor. In 1816 he was. an unsuccess
ful candidate for the office of governor of New
York. He-elected to the senate in 1820, he
brought forward the important law, requiring cash
payments upon sales of the public lands. In the
discussions relating to the admission of Missouri
into the union, he endeavored to extend to that
State the prohibition of slavery, which had been
wisely imposed upon the northwest territory.
The last proposition which he brought forward
was to devote the proceeds of the public territory
to the removal of slaves and free persons of color
to some country beyond the limits of the United
States.
On retiring from the senate in 1825 he was in
duced by Mr. Adams to proceed again as a min
ister to the British court, in the hope of adjusting
several disputed questions. But an overruling
Providence did not permit him to accomplish the
objects which he had in view. During his voyage
he was attacked by a disease, often the conse
quence of a voyage, which prevented him from
entering upon the active discharge of his duties.
After remaining abroad a year without amend
ment, he returned to die in his native land and in
the bosom of his family. He died at Jamaica
Long Island, in a composed and resigned state
of mind. In person Mr. King was above the
common size, and somewhat athletic, with a coun
tenance manly and bespeaking high intelligence.
His conversation and writings were remarkable
for conciseness and force.
KING, FREDERIC GORE, M. D., died at New
York in 1829, aged 27. The youngest son of
Rufus King, he graduated at Harvard in 1821,
and studied medicine, especially anatomy, in New
York and in France. He gave lectures at the
athenaeum, on phrenology and on the structure of
the human voice. To the national academy of
design he lectured on anatomy. He was surgeon
in the New York hospital, and he gave lectures
on the preparations in the museum. — Dr. Wil
liams' Am. Mcd. Biog.
KING, JONAS, died in Hawley, Mass., in 1832,
and Abigail, his widow, died in 1839, aged 76.
These persons were happy in being the parents
of Jonas King, who has been for many years, and
is still, the distinguished American missionary at
Athens in Greece.'
KING, EDWARD, general, died at Cincinnati
Feb. 6, 1836 ; a distinguished lawyer, formerly
speaker of the house in Ohio.
KING, ELISHA W., a distinguished lawyer of
New York, died at Brooklyn Dec. 3, 1836, aged
56.
KING, DAVID, M. D., a physician in Newport,
R. I, died Nov. 14, 1836, aged 62. Born at
llaynham, Mass., he graduated at Brown univer
sity in 1796, and studied physic with Dr. Thacher,
of Plymouth, settling at N. in 1799. The medi
cal library of Dr. Center came opportunely into
his possession. With great independence he
adopted Jenner's practice of inoculation. He was
surgeon to the U. S. troops at fort Wolcott.
During the prevalence of the yellow fever in 1819,
he would not admit the contagious character of
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the disease, but ascribed its prevalence to a gen
eral cause. He was a good physician, and presi
dent of the Rhode Island medical society.—
S. W. Williams' Am. Med. Biog.
KING, WILLIAM, Dr., died in Boston in 1839,
aged 78. He was the inventor of lightning rods,
having many points along the rod. It is said
that he saw at the south a company of soldiers,
whose bayonets, in a storm, were all tipped with
the electric flame, which led him to his invention.
KING, ASA, died in Westminster, Conn., Dec.
2, 18-49, aged 78. Born in Mansfield, he was a
minister forty-six years ; nine years at Pomfret,
twenty years at North Killingworth. His labors
were remarkably effectual and successful.
KING, WILLIAM, governor, died at Bath, Me.,
June 17, 1852, aged 84. Born in Scarborough,
a brother of Rufus King, he engaged in com
merce at Bath, lie was the first governor of
Maine ; he was also commissioner on the Spanish
claims, and collector of the port of Bath.
KING, WILLIAM 11., Nice-president of the
United States, died in Selma, or Cahawba, Ala.,
April 18, 1803, aged 68. Born in North Caro
lina, he was representative and senator nineteen
years; minister to France from 1845 to 1849;
for many years president of the senate. He was
a man of probity, industry, and of a gentlemanly
bearing.
KING, JAMES G., son of Rufus King, died at
Highwood, N. J., Oct. 4, 1853, aged 62. He was
an eminent banker in New York, the brother of
Charles King, president of Columbia college. —
Lives of American Merchants.
KINGSBERRY, SANFORD, judge, died in Gar
diner, Me., in 1849, aged 66. Born in Clare-
mont, N. II., lie graduated at Dartmouth in 1801,
and settled as a lawyer in G. in 1804. He was
a judge of the court of common pleas, and a
member of the State senate.
KINGSBURY, SAMUEL, minister of Edgar-
town, Martha's Vineyard, died in 1778. He
graduated at Harvard in 1759, and was ordained
in 1761. His predecessors were T. Mayhew, J.
Dunham, S. Wiswall, and J. Newman. His suc
cessor was J. Thaxter.
KINGSBURY, JOEL, colonel, died at Franklin,
Mo., July 1, 1837, aged 82. A native of Con
necticut, he was an officer in the service of the
United States forty-two years.
KINGSBURY, Judge, died at Newburg, Ohio,
Dec. 12, 1847. He was an early settler on the
Reserve, in 1796, and was appointed territorial
judge by Gov. St. Clair.
KINGSLEY, JAMES L., professor of languages
and ecclesiastical history in Yale college, died
Aug. 31, 1852, aged 73 years. He was con
nected with the college in the department of clas
sical literature, with high reputation, for half a
century. lie published an eulogy on Prof. Fisher,
1822 ; sketch of history of Yale college in Quar
terly Register, vol. vm.
KINKELDON, ADAM, a Catholic minister,
died at New Orleans in 1837. He was a philan
thropist, the founder of an association for the re
lief of male orphans.
KINNARD, GEORGE L., member of congress
from Indiana, died at Cincinnati Nov. 26, 1836, in
consequence of the explosion of the steamboat
Flora, on the Ohio, Nov. 16th.
KINNE, AARON, minister of Groton, Conn.,
died July 9, 1824, aged 79. He was born at
Newent in Norwich, now Lisbon, was graduated
at Yale college in 1765, and was ordained Oct.,
1770. The massacre of Ledyard and others of
his people, at fort Griswold, diminished his means
of support. At last, in 1798, he was dismissed.
In 1800 he resided in Winsted, in 1803 at Egre-
mont, Mass.. and in 1805 he removed to Alford.
He was occasionally employed by the Berkshire
missionary society. He died at Talmadge, Ohio,
at the house of his son-in-law, Dr. Wright, five
days after his arrival there. He was a faithful
preacher. He published .a work on the sonship
of Christ; a display of Scripture prophecies,
1813 ; an explanation of the types, prophecies,
revelation, etc., 8vo., 1814.
KINNEY, HENRY, missionary to the Sand
wich Islands, died Sept. 24, 1854. He sailed
with his wife in 1847, and was stationed at Kau
on Hawaii. Ill health induced him in 1854 to
repair to California, and he died at Sonora, " the
mountain city," in great peace. His Infidel doc
tor said : " None but a Christian can die in that
way."
KLNSEY, JAMES, LL. D., chief justice of New
Jersey, died at Burlington Jan. 4, 1802, aged 69.
He had been a member of congress before the
adoption of the present constitution.
KIRBY, EPIIRAIM, first judge of the district
court of the United States at New Orleans, died
at fort Stoddert, Oct. 20, 1804. He had sustained
this office but a short time. He had been for a
! number of years an inhabitant of Litchfield in
Connecticut, and was once a candidate for gover
nor in that State. He published reports of cases
adjudged in the supreme court of the State of
Connecticut from 1785 to May, 1788, with some
determinations in the supreme court of errors,
Litchfield, 8vo., 1789.
KIRBY, REYNOLD M., major in the army of
the United States, son of the preceding, died at
fort Sullivan, in Eastport, Oct. 7, 1842, aged 52.
He entered the army in 1813, and on the Niagara
was aid to Gen. Ripley, and received him in his
arms as he fell wounded. His wife, Harriet, was
a daughter of Col. Simon Lamed, of Pittsfield.
KIRK, DAVID, Sir, admiral, " a great truck-
master," captured and garrisoned, in 1629, fort
| Kebeck, or Quebec, a great market for beavers and
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otters. As late as 1645 he was on the coast of
Newfoundland.
KLRKLAND, DANIEL, or Kirtland, as the
name was formerly written, minister of Newent,
the third society of Norwich, or Lisbon, Conn.,
died in May, 1773, aged 72. He was of Scotch
descent from his grandfather, John, of Saybrook,
in 1635, who came -from London. His father had
also the name of John ; and, as he had nine
other children, his descendants may have been
numerous. Born in Saybrook, he graduated at
Yale in 1720, and in 1723 was ordained at New
ent, the first pastor of the third church then in
Norwich. After thirty years he became deranged,
and removed to Groton, but returned to Newent,
where he died. His wife was a Miss Perkins, of
Windsor. He had two sons, Daniel and Samuel.
He was a worthy minister, of fine talents, a
scholar, of ready wit and an amiable temper. —
Life of S. Kirkland, by Lothrop ; Miss Caul-
kins' History of Norwich,
KIRKLAND, SAMUEL, a missionary among
the Indians, died March 28, 1808, aged 66. He
was the son of Daniel -K., minister of Norwich.
After enjoying for some time the advantages of
Whefelock's school, he finished his education at
the college in New Jersey, where he was grad
uated in 1765. While at school he had learned
the language of the Mohawks, and he commenced
a journey to the Seneca Indians, in order to ac
quire their language, Nov. 20, 1764, and did not
return till May, 1766. June 19th, he was or
dained at Lebanon as a missionary to the Indians.
He removed his wife to Oneida castle in 1769.
She was Jerusha Bingham, whose mother was a
sister of President E. Wheelock, in whose family
she long lived. In the spring he went to the
house of his friend, Gen. Herkimer, at Little
Falls, and there his twin children were born Aug.
17, 1770, of whom one was President Kirkland.
His daughter Jerusha married John II. Lothrop,
of Utica, the father of Itev. S. K. Lothrop, of
Boston. About 1772 he removed to Connecticut,
and afterwards lived for a time at Stockbridge.
For more than forty years his attention was di
rected to the Oneida tribe in New "Vork, and he
died at Clinton in that State, the place of his res
idence, in the neighborhoad of Oneida. Dr. Nor
ton preached a sermon at his funeral. — Wheel-
ode's Narratives; Panoplist, III. 536; Life by
Lothrop ,• Sparks' Library of American Biog
raphy ; Whcelock's Life ; Sprague's Annals.
KIRKLAXD, JOHN THORNTON, D. D., LL. D.,
president of Harvard university, died in Boston
April 26, 1840, aged 69. He bears the name of
Mr. Thornton of London, a correspondent of
President Wheelock, and a benefactor of Moor's
Indian school. He was the son of the preceding,
a descendant on the maternal side from Miles
Standish. He was born at Gen. Ilerkimer's, Ger
man Flats, N. Y., Aug. 17, 1770 ; George White-
field was his twin brother. His mother was then
on her return to New England after residing at
Oneida. The Indians called the child John
Ahganowiska, or Fair Face. Having prepared
for college at Andover, he was graduated in 1789,
and ordained pastor in Summer street, Boston,
in 1794. In 1810 he, was elected President of
Harvard college, as the successor of President
Webber ; which office he resigned, after eighteen
years, in 1828. He married in 1827 Elizabeth,
the daughter of George Cabot. The next year
he embarked for Europe, and was absent three
or four years. His widow died in 1852. He was
eminent as a scholar and writer, and the delight
of his associates and friends. lie published artil
lery election sermon, 1795 ; on the death of Bel-
knap, 1798; of Washington, 1800; at a fast;
oration before Phi Beta Kappa society, 1798 ; at
ordination of J. Pipon, 1800 ; address to lire
society, 1801; Dudleian lecture, 1813; before
society for suppressing intemperance, 1814; elec
tion sermon, 1816; life of Fisher Ames, Svo.,
1809; life of Com. Preblc, 8vo. ; life of Gen.
Lincoln in historical collections, vol. III., 2d series ;
on the death of George Cabot, 1823 ; in com
memoration of Adams and Jefferson, in memoirs
of American academy. Other papers of Ms are
in the historical collections.
KIRKLAND, JOSEPH, first mayor of Utica,
died Jan. 26, 1844, aged 73. Born in Lisbon, a
part of Norwich, Conn., he graduated in 1799.
For nearly fifty years he was a prominent man in
Oneida county.
KIRKLAND, WILLIAM, died in New York
about 1847. He had been a teacher in Hamilton
college. His wife was Caroline M. Stansbury,
the daughter of a bookseller in New York ; she is
known by her various writings. They lived sev
eral years in Geneva, Switzerland ; then two
years at Detroit. He published a series of letters
from abroad. — Cycl. of Amer. Lit.
KIRKPATRICK, ALEXANDER, a minister in
Laurens district, S. C., died Dec. 30, 1832.
KIRKPATRICK, DAYID, captain, died at Del
aware City in 1838, aged 86. He served in the
Revolutionary war, in the battles of Monmouth,
Germantown, Trenton, Cowpcns, and others.
KIRTLAND, TURHAND, died in Poland, Ohio,
Aug. 16, 1844, aged 89*. Born in Wallingford,
Conn., he visited Ohio in 1798, and was the agent
of the Connecticut land company, selling exten
sive tracts to new settlers, and sustaining various
public offices with credit.
KISSAM, RICHARD S., M. D., a distinguished
surgeon, died in Oct., 1822, aged 58. He was
the son of Benj. K., a lawyer, and was born in
New York in 1763. At Edinburgh he studied
medicine five years. Returning to New York in
1791, he continued in the practice about thirty
KISSAM.
years. He was one of the surgeons of the New
York hospital. Of sixty-five operations as a
lithotomist only three cases were fatal. — Thacher.
KISSAM, BENJAMIN P., a surgeon in the
United States Navy, died at Portsmouth in Oct.,
1828. He had been a practitioner in New York.
KJTTIIEDGE, JOHN, the ancestor of all in
this country who bear the name, died in Biller-
ica Oct. 18, 1676. He was a farmer, who came
from England. His sons were John, James,
Daniel, Jonathan, and Benoni. John, who had
six sons, was called doctor ; a title borne by many
of the descendants of the common ancestor. —
Farmer.
KITTREDGE, THOMAS, M. D., a physician,
died at Andover in Oct., 1818, aged 72. He was
a descendant of John K., whose son, John, was a
physician. Born at Andover in July, 1746,
he studied with Dr. Sawyer of Newburyport.
At the beginning of the Hevolution he was a sur
geon in the army. After being an eminent physi
cian and surgeon about fifty years, and being
often a member of the legislature, he died of the
angina pectoris. In his politics he was a strenu
ous republican. It were not an easy task to
reckon up all the physicians in New England,
who have had the name of Kittredge. — Thacher.
KITTREDGE, BENJAMIN, Dr., died at Tewks-
bury, Mass., Jan. 18, 1822, aged 81.
KITTREDGE, OLIVER, Dr., died at Salem in
Jan., 1823, aged 38. A native of Brookfield, he
was the son of Dr. Jacob K., and brother of Dr.
Benjamin K., of Salem, both deceased.
KITTREDGE, FRANCIS, Dr., died at Woburn,
Mass., in 1828, aged 46.
KITTREDGE, BENJAMIN, died at Little Rock,
Ark., in 1830, aged 45. He removed from Salem
in 1837.
KITTREDGE, INGALLS, Dr., died in Beverly
June 17, 1856, aged 86.
KITTS, THOMAS J., a Baptist minister at Phil
adelphia, died in 1838, aged 48.
KNAPP, FRANCIS, a poet, was educated at
Oxford, and in this country lived at Watertown.
In 1717 he wrote a poetical address, congratulat
ing Pope on his Windsor forest, in the best style,
then exhibited in our country.
KNAPP, JOSHUA, minister in Winchester,
Conn., died in 1816, aged about 67. A graduate
of Yale, he was ordained in 1772, and dismissed
in 1789.
KNAPP, SAMUEL L., LL. D., died at Hopkin-
ton, Mass., July 8, 1838, aged 53. He was born
in Newburyport in 1784; was graduated at Dart
mouth in 1804; and lived in Boston and New
York, and was a lawyer and an author. In 1812
he commanded a regiment of militia. In 1824
he edited the Boston Gazette. He published the
travels of Ali Bey, 1818 ; sketches of lawyers,
statesmen, etc.; lectures on American literature,
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1829; sketches of public characters, 1830; the
bachelor and other tales, 1836 ; advice in the pur
suits of literature ; sketches of Americans, 1833;
female biography.
KNAPP, JOSIAH, died in Boston in 1843,
aged 90 ; an honorable man of business, cheer
ful, retaining all his faculties. To him the south
part of Boston was much indebted for various
improvements.
KNAPP, HORTON O., missionary at the Sand
wich Islands, died at Honolulu in March, 1845.
Born at Greenwich, Conn., in 1813, he embarked
in 1836. He had been a school teacher since 1837.
His wife was Charlotte Close of Greenwich. He
resided at Waimea and Kailua. Great peace
attended his death ; " dying was but going home."
He gave earnest exhortations and sent dying
messages of truth and love.
KNAPP, ISAAC, minister of Westfield, died
July 6, 1847, aged 72. A native of Norfolk,
Conn., and graduate of Williams college in
1800, he was ordained the fifth minister of W.,in
1803 ; his predecessors were E. Taylor, N. Bull,
J. Ballantinc, and N. Atwater. His successor
was E. Davis. He published a sermon on the
death of Gen. W. Shepard, 1818.
KNAPP, UZAL, died at Newburg Jan. 16,
1856, aged 95, the last of AVashington's life guard.
KNEEL AND, WILLIAM, a physician of Cam
bridge, died in 1788, aged 56. He was born in
Boston ; graduated at Harvard college in 1744 ;
and was a tutor about nine years. For many
years he was register of probate. He was a man
of integrity and religion. The impressions made
upon his mind by the instructions of his pious
parents were never obliterated. — Tliacher.
KNICKERBACKER, HARMAN, judge, died in
Schaghticoke, or Williamsburg, N. Y., in 1855,
aged 75. In 1810-13 he was a member of con
gress. He was the original of Irving's Diedrich,
" a fellow of infinite mirth."
. KNIGHT, WILLIAM, the first minister at Tops-
field, Mass., died about 1665, Farmer says 1655.
He was admitted a freeman in 1638, and began
to preach in 1641.
KNIGHT, JOHN M., D. D., died at Chambers-
burg, Pa., in 1823, aged 70.
KNIGHT, DEBORAH, Mrs., died at Sumner,
Me., June 22, 1839, aged 104.
KNIGHT, HENRY C., a graduate of Brown
university in 1812, died in early life ; he was the
brother of Frederick, and was born in Newbury
port. lie published poems, 1809 ; another vol
ume of poems, the broken harp, at Philadelphia,
1815 ; a tlu'rd collection in 2 vols., Boston, 1821.
— Cycl. of American Literature.
KNIGHT, JONATHAN, a faithful minister, died
in Cranston, R. I., Feb. 15, 1842, aged 82. He
was a soldier of the Revolution.
KNIGHT, NATHANIEL, captain, died in Salem
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Jan. 20, 1845, aged 84. He was imprisoned in
the old Jersey prison-ship at New York. He
lived in a house built by his great-grandfather.
KNIGHT, CALEB, minister of Washington,
Mass., died in 1854, aged 83. Born in Lisbon,
Conn., he graduated at Williams college in 1800;
was ordained at Hinsdale in 1802; was dismissed
in 1816, and settled in Washington in 1826.
KNIGHT, FREDERICK, died at Rowley, Mass.,
in 1849, aged 58. He studied law, and was a
teacher for a short time. He found friends, with
whom he lived, enjoying his simple tastes. He
wrote various poetical pieces. A memorial of
him was published at Boston, entitled Thorn cot
tage, or the poet's home. — Cycl. of American
Literature.
KNIGHT, NEHEMIAH R., governor of Rhode
Island, died at Providence April 18, 1854, aged
73. He was governor 1817-21, and senator of
the United States 1821-41.
KNOLLYS, HANSERD, an early preacher at
Dover, N. H., and at Long Island, after being an
Episcopal minister some years, came to this coun
try in 1638. For his abuse of the Massachusetts
government he made a confession in Boston.
About 1G42 he returned to England, and formed
a Baptist church in London, of which he was
many years the minister. He died Sept. 19,
1691, aged 93. He published rudiments of the
Hebrew grammar, 1648.
KNOWER, BENJAMIN, died at Watervliet,
N. Y., Aug. 23, 1839, aged 64. He lived forty
years in Albany, eminent first as a mechanic, then
as a merchant.
KNOWLES, JOHN, minister of Watertown,
Mass., died April 10, 1685, probably between 80
and 90 years of age. He was educated at Mag
dalen Hall, Cambridge, and was chosen fellow of
Catherine Hall, in 1625, in which station he was a
respected and successful tutor. He came to New
England in 1639; was ordained colleague with
George Phillips Dec. 9, 1640; and went as a mis
sionary to Virginia, with Mr. Thompson and Mr.
Jam^s in 1642. He arrived about Jan. 1, 1643,
having been invited by gentlemen of Virginia,
who were anxious to hear the gospel. Gov.
Berkeley at first received these missionaries cour
teously ; but when he found they were opposed
to the common prayer, surplice, etc., he was de
termined to silence them. In about two months
an act was passed, March 2, 1643, prohibiting any
minister from preaching in the colony, unless he
subscribed an agreement to conform to the church
of England. The governor and council were to
silence offenders and compel them to leave the
country. Without question this act was aimed at
the New England ministers, and Virginia had as
good right to pass it, as Massachusetts to make
enactments against the Quakers for their religion.
It was clearly an act of bigotry and persecution.
In consequence of this act Mr. Knowles returned
to Watertown in June, 1643. Probably Mr.
James remained longer, as he was for some time
in Maryland. Cotton Mather is mistaken in
supposing the Indian massacre occurred at the
time Mr. Knowles left Virginia, for the date of
the massacre was April 18, 1644. In 1650 Mr.
K. returned to England, and was a preacher in
the cathedral of Bristol. After being silenced in
1662 he preached, at the hazard of imprisonment,
in London, where he was useful during the
plague in 1665. — Calamy.
KNOWLES, JAMES DAVIS, died at Newton of
the small pox May 9, 1838, aged 39. He was pro
fessor of rhetoric, etc., in N. theological seminary.
He was born in Providence ; became a Baptist
minister in Boston in 1825, and removed to
Newton in 1832. He conducted the Christian
review, and wrote the memoirs ' of Mrs. Judson,
1829 ; and the memoir of Roger Williams, 1834.
He published a sermon on spirituous liquors,
1829 ; address to Newton theological institution,
1832.
KNOWLES, D., a Freewill Baptist minister,
died at Guilford, N. H., in 1840, aged 60.
KNOX, JOHN, a captain in the British army,
published an historical journal of the campaigns
in North America, for 1757-1760, 2 vols., 4to.,
London, 1769.
KNOX, HENRY, a major-general in the army
of the United States, died in Thomaston, Me.,
Oct. 25, 1806, aged 56. He was born in Boston
July 25, 1750. Before hostilities between this
country and Great Britain in the Revolutionary
war commenced, he discovered an uncommon zeal
in the cause of liberty. Being placed at the
head of an independent company in Boston, he
exhibited in this station a skill in discipline, which
presaged his future eminence. It was at the
unanimous request of all the officers of artillery,
that he was intrusted with the command in that
department. When the corps of artillery in
1776 was increased to three regiments, the com
mand was given to Knox, who was promoted to
the rank of a brigadier-general. He was ac
tively engaged during the whole contest. Alter
the capture of Cornwallis in 1781, he received
the commission of major-general, having distin
guished himself in the seige at the head of the
artillery. Previously to the adoption of the pres
ent constitution he succeeded Gen. Lincoln as
secretary at Avar in March, 1785 ; and after our
present government was organized in 1789,
Washington nominated him for the same office.
He continued to fill this department till the close
of the year 1794, when he resigned it. In his
letter to the president he says : " After having
served my country near twenty years, the greater
portion of the time under your immediate aus
pices, it is with extreme reluctance I find
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myself constrained to withdraw from so honor
able a situation. But the natural and powerful
claims of a numerous family will no longer per
mit me to neglect their essential interests. In
whatever situation I shall be, I shall recollect
your confidence and kindness with all the fervor
and purity of affection, of which a grateful heart
is susceptible." Washington in reply assured
him of his sincerest friendship, and declared him
to have " deserved well of his country." During
the last years of his life Gen. Knox lived at
Thomaston. It has been stated, that he failed in
1798 for the large sum of 400,000 dollars, and
that Gen. Lincoln shared in the loss 150,000 dol
lars, and that Col. Jackson was also a sufferer.
His death was occasioned by his swallowing the
bone of a chicken. His wife, the daughter of J.
Flucker, secretary of Massachusetts, died June 20,
1824. In April, 1796, he lost two children by
death in one week ; and in a manner almost as
sudden he had previously lost five children.
He was distinguished for his military talents,
and possessed in an uncommon degree the es
teem and confidence of Washington. Though a
soldier and a statesman, he did not dismiss the
amiable virtues of the man. There was a frank
ness in his manners, which was pleasing, and his
heart was susceptible of the kindly affections. —
Bradford's Sermon on Ids death; Marshall,
in. 62; IV. 49,3 ; v. 25, 213, 614; Tkacher's
Eulogy.
KNOX, SAMUEL, president of Baltimore col
lege, died Sept., 1832, aged 76.
KNOX, RUTH, died in Blandford July 19, 1847,
aged 84, the widow of Eiij ah Knox, who died in
1833, with whom she had lived fifty years. She
\vas strong-minded, skilled in family govern
ment, and blessed in her pious labors. Nine
children survived, and her descendants were scat
tered in six different States. Such mothers have
been God's great benefactions to New England
and our whole country.
KXOX, WILLIAM, died in Berwick, Me., May
24, 1851, aged 103 years and 6 months.
KNYPIIAUSEN, BARON, lieutenant-general,
commanded the Hessian troops in the British
service in the war of the Revolution. In June,
1780, he made an incursion into New Jersey,
•with five thousand men. Landing at Elizabeth-
town, he proceeded to Connecticut Farms, where
he burned thirteen houses and the church. Being
reinforced, he repulsed the Americans near
Springfield, and burned the town, consisting of
about thirty houses. He died at Berlin, Prussia,
in June, 1789, aged 59.
KOLLOCK, HKNE.Y, D. D., minister of Savan
nah, died Dec. 19, 1819, aged 41. He was born
at New Providence, N. J., Dec. 14, 1778 ; was
graduated at Princeton in 1794; in Dec., 1800,
was ordained at Elizabethtown, to which place
his parents had removed, but in Dec., 1803, was
appointed professor of theology at Princeton,
having the care also of the church. His abilities
and eloquence procured him great respect. In
1806 he removed to Savannah, where he was a
minister about thirteen years. For a time some
ecclesiastical difficulties, founded on charges of
indiscretion, interrupted his quietude. He went
to Europe in 1817, and returned with invigo
rated health. After his death his sermons were
published in 4 vols.
KOLLOCK, LEMUEL, a physician, died at
Savannah in 1823, aged 57. He was a native of
Massachusetts, and settled in South Carolina,
and then in Georgia, where he was distinguished.
KOLLOCK, SHEPHERD, an officer of the Revo
lution, died at Philadelphia, July, 1839, aged 87.
lie was born at Lewistown, Del., in 1750. He
was in the battle of Trei'ton, fort Lee, and Short
Hills. In 1779 he established the New Jersey
Journal, at Chatham ; in 1783 he removed his
press to New York and established the New York
Gazette, first weekly, then three times a week ; in
1787 revived at Elizabethtown the New Jersey
Journal, which he edited thirty-one years, sup
porting the democratic administrations. For
thirty-five years he was judge of the court of
common pleas. He was greatly respected for his
usefulness and his exemplary religious character.
KONKAPOT, JOHN, captain, lived at Wnahtu-
kook or Stockbridge, when Mr. Sergeant went
there as a missionary ; his cabin was on a knoll
north of the Konkapot brook, east of the county
road. Gov. Belcher gave him a captain's commis
sion. Mr. Ilawley in 1770 spoke of him as less
than 80 years old at his death some years before.
KONKAPOT, JOHN, Jr., a Mohegan Indian of
Stockbridge, gave, more than fifty years ago, a
list of Mohegan words, which was published in
the Massachusetts historical collections, vol. IX.
He was a grandson of the warrior Hendrick, who
was the son of Wolf, a Mohegan chief, by a Mo
hawk woman, Ilunnis, the daughter of a chief.
KOSCIUSKO, THADDEUS, a Polish officer in
the American Revolutionary war, was born in
Lithuania in 1756, of an ancient and noble family,
and educated at the military school at Warsaw.
He afterwards studied in France. He came to
America, recommended by Franklin to Gen.
Washington, by whom he was appointed his aid.
He was also appointed engineer, with the rank of
colonel, in Oct., 1776. At the unsuccessful siege
of Ninety-six, in 1791, he very judiciously directed
the operations. It was in 1784 that he left this
country, and in 1786 he returned to Poland. In
1789 the diet gave him the appointment of ma
jor-general. In the campaign of 1792 he dis
tinguished himself against the Russians. When,
in 1794, the Poles made a noble attempt to
recover their liberty and independence, Kosciuska
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KUYPERS.
was intrusted with the supreme command. In
April, at the head of 4,000 men, he defeated
12,000 Russians, but was subsequently defeated
and obliged to retire to his intrenched camp near
Warsaw, in which city he was soon besieged by
60,000 Russians and Prussians. When, after two
months, an assault was made, he with only 10,000
men repelled the attack. An insurrection in
Great Poland compelled the king of Prussia to
raise the siege. Kosciusko, with 20,000 regular
troops and 40,000 armed peasants, had resisted
the combined armies, amounting to 150,000 men.
At last, Oct. 10, at Macziewice, fifty miles from
Warsaw, an overwhelming Russian force defeated
Kosciusko, who had only 21,000 men. Being
wounded, he fell from his horse, saying, " Finis
Polonise," and was made a prisoner.
" And Freedom shrieked when Koscinsko fell."
He was thrown into prison by Catharine ; but was
released by Paul I. When the emperor pre
sented him with his own sword, he declined it,
saying, " I no longer need a sword, since I have
no longer a country." Never afterwards did he
wear a sword. In Aug., 1797, he visited America
and was received with honor. For his Revolu
tionary services he received a pension. In 1798
he went to France. Having purchased an estate
near Fontainebleau, he lived there till 1814. In
1816 he settled at Soleure in Switzerland. In
1817 he abolished slavery on his estate in Poland.
He died at Soleure, in consequence of a fall with
his horse from a precipice near Vevay, Oct. 16,
1817, aged 61. He was never married. His
body was removed to the tomb of the kings at
Cracow, beneath the cathedral. Gray-headed
•warriors bore the relics .on their shoulders ; two
maidens with wreaths of oak-leaves and branches
of cypress followed ; then came the general staff',
the senate, and clergy. Count Wodziki delivered
a funeral oration on the hill Wavel, and in the
church a prelate gave an eloquent address. The
senate of Cracow decreed, that a lofty mound
should be raised on the heights of Bronislawad.
For three years men of every class and age toiled
in this work, from Oct. 16, 1820, to Oct. 16, 1823,
till the Mogila Kosciuszki, the hill of Kosciusko,
was raised to the height of three hundred feet.
A serpentine foot-path leads to the top, from
which there is a fine view of the Vistula and of
the ancient city of the Polish kings. He erected
himself a better monument to his memory. In
1798 he made a bequest for the emancipation
and education of slaves in Virginia. In 1826 the
amount was about 25,000 dollars. B. L. Lear
was the executor. A suit was pending, in 1830,
instituted by the heirs, who claimed the bequest.
KRAYNE, ROBERT, died in Boston about 1650.
He was an early settler ; a merchant tailor, who
came from London ; his benefactions to the town
and college make him worthy of honorable
remembrance. He gave to Boston the first mar
ket-house and conduit, and the first public library.
To Harvard college lie gave a house. The court of
assistants, in consequence of his "liberal gifts to
the country," gave his widow five hundred acres
of land. He was allied by marriage to Rev. Mr.
Wilson.
KREMER, GEORGE, member of congress from
1823 to 1829, died in Union co., Penn., Sept. 11,
1854, aged 79.
KRIMMEL, Jonx LEWIS, a distinguished
painter, was drowned, while bathing near Ger-
mantown, July 15, 1821, aged 35. He was pres
ident of the society of American artists, having
resided about ten years in Philadelphia. At the
time of his death he was engaged to paint a large
historical picture of the landing of Wm. Penn.
His genius and amiable manners secured to him
respect and esteem.
KUHN, ADAM, M. D., a physician, died at
Philadelphia July 5, 1817, aged 75. He was
born at Germantown, Nov. 17, 1741, old style ;
his father came from Swabia, and was a useful
physician and an elder of the Lutheran church.
In 1761 he proceeded to Europe, and studied at
Upsal under Linnajus, and by him was highly
esteemed. After visiting various countries of
Europe, he returned to this country in Jan., 1768,
and in May commenced his first course in botany.
For twenty-two years he attended the Pennsyl
vania hospital. In 1789 he was appointed profes
sor of medicine in the university, but resigned in
1797. He practised physic about fifty years. He
left two sons. A biographical sketch was pub
lished, 1818. — Thacher.
KUHN, FREDERIC, Dr., died at Lancaster, Pa.,
in March 1816, aged 68.
KUNZE, JOHN CHRISTOPHER, D. D., professor
in Columbia college, N. Y., died July 24, 1807,
aged 73. For fourteen years he was the minister
of the German Lutheran church in Philadelphia,
and a professor in the college of that city. In
1784 he removed to New York, where he was a
minister twenty-three years, also professor of the
oriental languages. His valuable cabinet of coins
and medals is now owned by the N. Y. Historical
society.
KURTZ, J. DANIEL, D. D., died at Baltimore
June 30, 1856, aged 92. He was for more than
half a century a minister of the German Luthe
ran church; preaching always Christ and him
crucified, and justification through faith in his
blood.
KUYPERS, GERARD A., D. D., minister of
the reformed Dutch church, in New York city,
died June 28, 1833, aged 66.
KUYPERS, ZACIIARIAH II., D. D., died in
New York, Oct. 4, 1850, aged 80, the son of
Warmoldus K., D. D., of Rhinebeck. He was
KYAN.
thirty-six years pastor of Jamaica, Newtown,
Inness, and Oyster Bay congregations; then
twelve years of Wyckoff, Ponds, and Preakness,
N. J.
KYAN, JOHN II., an Englishman, who lived a
short time in this country, died in New York in
1849 or 1850, aged 75. He was the inventor of
the chemical process of hardening wood, making
•what is called Kyanized wood.
LABAT, J. B., published in French a voyage
to the American isles, 6 vols., 1722.
LACOCK, ABNER, general, died near Freedom,
Beaver county, Penn., April 12, 1837. He was a
native of Virginia. With little education, he by
his talents, industry, and much worth, became
eminent as a legislator and statesman. He was
a representative in congress from 1811 to 1813,
and a senator of the U. S. from 1813 to 1819.
LACY, JACOB, died in 1840, at Longhill, N. J.,
aged 100, a Revolutionary pensioner.
LADD, JOSEPH BROWN, a poet, died in 1786,
aged 31. He was the son of Wm. L. of Little
Compton, R. I. Having commenced the practice
of physic, the rejection of his addresses by a
young lady, to whom he was extremely attached,
induced him to remove to Charleston, S. C.
There he proved himself destitute of moral and
religious principles by fighting a duel in conse
quence of a political controversy. He was
wounded, and neglected the means of recovery.
The poems of Arouet were published in 1786 ;
a sketch of his life, with poems, in 1832. — Speci
mens of American Poetry, i. 334.
LAUD, WILLIAM, president of the American
peace society, died at Portsmouth, N. H., April
9, 1841, aged 63. His residence was at Minot,
Me. Born in Exeter in 1778, he graduated at
Harvard in 1797. His widow died in Boston in
1856 ; he left no children. He took a very active
part in promoting the interests of the peace soci
ety, in which perhaps the first movement was
made by Dr. Noah Worcester. For years he
was the president and the agent of the society,
which was indebted more to his toils than to
those of any other person. He made many pub
lic addresses and he labored abundantly with his
pen. His views in regard to the right of defen
sive war accorded with those of the Quakers and
of Mr. Grimki and Mr. Dymond. Many per
sons believed that the incorporation of the denial
of this right into the constitution of the peace
society, which he formed, was greatly injurious to
the cause of pe'ace, as not being founded in truth.
lie edited the Friend of Peace, begun by Dr.
Worcester ; also the Harbinger of Peace. He
was a man honest, earnest, benevolent, and pious.
He published, among other essays and addresses,
an address to the peace society of Maine, 1824 ;
to that of Massachusetts, 1825; a dissertation on
a congress of nations, 1832.
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LAET, JOHN DE, a historian, and a director of
the Dutch East India company, died at Antwerp
in 1649. Among other works he published No-
vus Orbis, fol., 1633.
LAFAYETTE, GILBERT MOTHER, marquis de,
died in Paris May 20, 1834, aged 76 ; an honored
friend of American liberty. Born in Auvergne,
France, he was educated at Paris, and at the age
of seventeen married the grand-daughter of the
Duke de Noailles. In 1777, when the American
struggle seemed very doubtful, he, at the age of
nineteen, espoused the cause of freemen ; and
when the agents of our country confessed that
they were not able to convey him to America,
"Then," said he, "I will fit out a vessel myself!"
And in such a vessel he arrived at Charleston,
April 25, bringing hope to the desponding, and
producing an amazing sensation through the land.
He was immediately offered a command in the
army, but he chose rather to raise and equip a
body of men at his own expense, and to enter the
service as a volunteer, without pay. In July he
was appointed major-general; in September was
wounded at Brandy wine. He served in Pennsyl
vania and Rhode Island in 1778. He embarked
at Boston Jan., 1779, for France, in order the
more effectually to aid our country. He returned
soon with the assurance that a French force would
follow him, and took the command of two thou
sand men, partly equipped at his expense. He
marched to Virginia in Dec., 1780, raising 2000
guineas on his own credit at Baltimore, to supply
the troops. In the siege of Yorktown he shared,
storming a redoubt. Again he went to France,
honored, of course, with the commendatory reso
lutions of congress, and urged upon the French
government the sending of a strong and decisive
force to America. Such a force, of forty-nine
ships and twenty thousand men, he found at Cadiz,
ready to follow him, had not peace prevented.
Invited to revisit America, he landed Aug. 4, 1784,
and, after spending a few days at Mount Vernon,
visited the great cities and received the acknowl
edgments which were his due. The world hardly
furnishes such an instance of noble, effectual aid,
on the part of an individual, a foreigner, to a na
tional struggle for freedom ; and no American
can hear the name of Lafayette without a tide
of gratitude rushing through his heart. On his
return to France he toiled for the benefit of Prot
estantism, and the abolition of slavery. In 1789
he commanded the national guards of Paris. In
1790 he renounced the title of nobility, and sus
tained the constitution of a representative mon
archy. He defended the king, but soon resigned
his command and retired to his estates. The
Jacobins triumpliing, he left France, and, falling
into the hands of the Austrians, was imprisoned
several years at Olmutz. He was released in
1797. He declined the dignity of senator and
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of a peerage, offered by Bonaparte. In 1824
he visited the United States, and was enthu
siastically received, in twenty-four States, as the
nation's guest. Congress made him a grant of
200,000 dollars and a township of land. He was
carried home in the frigate Brandywine, so named
in compliment to him, in Sept., 1825. In 1830
he was made marshal of France. In 1834 his
earthly course was finished. His eldest son,
George Washington, who accompanied him in
his visit to America, died at Lagrange, in France,
Jan. 6, 1856. He was a consistent, noble-minded,
disinterested patriot. His engagement in the
cause of America is an unparalleled event in his
tory ; and the honorable treatment which he re
ceived from America is a proof that republics are
not always ungrateful.
LAFON, BARTHELEMY, a geographer, died at
New Orleans, where he had long been a citizen,
Sept. 29, 1820. He published a map of Lower
Louisiana and New Orleans. About 1814 he
proposed for publication a work, entitled, Urane
geography, designed to prove, that America was
known to the ancients, and was the native place
of Orpheus, etc.
LAIDLIE, ARCHIBALD, D. D., the first minis
ter of the Dutch church in America, Avho offi
ciated in the English language, was a native of
Scotland, and had been for four years a minister
of the Dutch church of Flushing in Zealand,
when he received a call from New York. lie
arrived in America in the year 1764, and died at
Red Hook Nov. 14, 1779, during his exile from
the city, occasioned by the Revolutionary war.
His wife was the daughter of Col. Martin Hoff-
Ile was a man of a vigorous mind and of
singular piety ; a sound divine ; an evangelical,
commanding, and powerful preacher, and indefat-
igabiy faithful in his pastoral labors. His ministry
was much blessed and attended with an uncom
mon revival of religion. — Christian's Magazine,
II. 13.
LAKE, THOMAS, captain, a merchant, was the
joint owner with Maj. Clarke, of Boston, of Arrou-
sic island in Kennebcc river, where he had a house.
Here he was killed by the Indians, Aug. 14, '1676.
LAKE, MARY, a pioneer Christian of Ohio,
died at Marietta in 1802, aged 60. A native of
Bristol, England, she married Mr. Lake, who em
igrated to New York, and worked in a ship-yard.
She was a member of Dr. Rodgers' church. In
1789 he removed to Marietta. One of the first
Sunday schools in America was taught by her in
1791. At this time Mr. Storey preached once
on each Sunday. She taught the catechism and
lessons from the bible to twenty scholars. They
removed to a farm a few miles up the Muskingum.
Her children were all pious ; two of her sons
were aged in 1852. — Hildretli.
LAKE, WILLIAM, a poet, was born at Kings
ton, Penn., in 1787, and died Dec. 17, 1805. His
poems, entitled the Parnassian pilgrim, were pub
lished at Hudson, 12mo., 1807.
LALLEMAND, HENRY, baron, general of
artillery in the Imperial guard of France, espoused
the side of Napoleon on his return from Elba, for
which he was condemned to death for contumacy,
having escaped to this country. He died at Bor-
dentown, N. J., Sept. 15, 1823. He published in
this country a valuable work on artillery.
LAMB, GEORGE, a worthy, much esteemed
Freewill Baptist minister, pastor of a church in
Brunswick, Maine, died in Dec., 1836, aged 48.
His son, George W. Lamb, LL. B. at Cambridge,
a graduate of Bowdoin college in 1837, and a
lawyer in New Orleans, died recently.
LAMB, ANTHONY, general, died at New York
May 13, 1855, aged 84.
LAMB, EDWARD, Dr., died at Montpelier, Vt,
Nov. 4, 1845, aged 74 ; for half a century a dis
tinguished physician and citizen.
LANCASTER, THOMAS, minister of Scarbo
rough, Me., died in 1831, aged 88. Born in
Rowley, he graduated at Harvard in 1764, and
was settled in 1775.
LANCASTER, JOSEPH, died at New York,
Oct. 24, 1838, aged 68, of wounds received from
a gig, while he was walking in the street. He
was born in England and bred a Quaker. He
came to America about 1820, and introduced his
system of education, called the Lancastrian. He
published several works relating to education.
LANE, JOB, an excellent tutor of Yrale college,
died in 1768, aged 26. Born at Bedford, Mass.,
he graduated at Yale in 1764. He was once a
soldier ; and he studied theology. For his last
two years he was a tutor. President Daggett in
a sermon highly commended him. — Sprague's
Annals.
LANE, EZEKIEL, died at Buffalo in May, 1828,
aged 103. In 1795 there were only four build
ings in Buffalo ; the first was erected by Lane
and his father-in-law, Martin Middaugh, a double
log-house.
LANE, OTIS, died at Southbridge, Mass., in
1842, aged about 64. Born in Rowley, Mass., he
was graduated at Harvard in 1798 ; was minister
of Sturbridge from 1801 to 1819; and was
installed at Sterling, Conn., in 1828. — Sprague's
Annals.
LANE, AMOS, colonel, died in Lawrenceburgh,
Ind., in 1850. He was a member of congress
from 1833 to 1837, and was speaker, and a lawyer
of talents.
LANG, DAVID, a Baptist minister, died at Cole-
rain, Mass., in 1831, aged 78.
LANG, JOHN, died at New York March 17,
1836, aged 67 ; editor of the New York Gazette,
connected with it from the first. He was a man
of moral worth, of integrity and benevolence.
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LANG, RICHARD, a man of business at Han
over, N. II., the seat of Dartmouth college, died
in 1840, aged 71.
LAXGDOX, SAMUEL, minister of York, Me.,
died in 1794, aged 71. He was horn in Farming-
ton, Conn. ; his mother's name was Elizabeth Lee.
lie graduated at Yale in 1747. He was ordained
over the second church in York in 17(54. He
was a man of talents and a faithful preacher ; but
much depressed by his little success. — Piscat-
aqua Magazine, I.
LAXGDOX, SAMUEL, D. D., minister of Ports
mouth, Xew Hampshire, and president of Har
vard college, died Nov. 29, 1797, aged 74. He
was a native of Boston, and was graduated in
1740. He was ordained as the successor of Mr.
Fitch Feb. 4, 1747. He was inducted into the
office of president as the successor of Mr. Locke
Oct. 14, 1774, but resigned it, in consequence of
the disaffection of his pupils, occasioned by his
want of dignity and authority, Aug. 30, 1780.
President Willard succeeded him. He now
entered again on the milder task of presiding
over an assembly of Christians. He was installed
at Hampton Falls, N. II., Jan. 18, 1781. His
extensive knowledge, hospitality, patriotism, and
piety secured to him, in this calm retreat, the
affection and respect of the people of his charge,
and of his numerous acquaintance. He published
a sermon at the ordination of S. Macclintock,
1756; on the conquest of Quebec, 1759; an im
partial examination of It. Sandeman's letters on
Theron and Aspasio, 1765; a summary of Chris
tian faith and practice, 1768; a rational explica
tion of St. John's vision of the two beasts, 1771 ;
Dudleian lecture, 1775 ; before the provincial con
gress, 1775; at the ordination of E. Sprague,
1777; on the death of professor Winthrop, 1779;
New Hampshire election sermon, 1788; observa
tions on the revelations of Jesus Christ to saint
John, 1791; the efficacy of the gospel above all
earthly wisdom, the business of life and hope in
death, two sermons in American preacher, IV. ;
before the Piscataqua association, 1792; correc
tions of some great mistakes committed by J. C.
Ogden; remarks on the leading sentiments of
Dr. Hopkins' system of doctrines, 1794. — Alden's
account of the Rdi/jious Society of Portsmouth ;
Hist, Coll. X. 51; Sprague's Annals.
LAXGDOX, JOHN, LL. D., governor of New
Hampshire, died at Portsmouth Sept. 19, 1818,
aged 78. He was the grandson of Tobias L.,
and the son of John L., a farmer of Portsmouth.
After being educated at a public grammar school,
he became acquainted with mercantile business in
the counting-house of Daniel Kludge, and after
wards prosecuted business upon the sea until the
commencement of the controversy with Great
Britain. He was one of the party which removed
the powder and the military stores from fort
William and Mary, at Newcastle, in 1774. In
1775 and 1776 he was chosen a delegate to con
gress. Commanding a company of volunteers,
he served for a while in Vermont and llhode
Island. In his own State, he was in 1776 and
1777 speaker of the house and judge of the court
of common pleas. In 1779 he was continental
agent in New Hampshire and contracted for the
building of several public ships-of-war. June 13,
1783, he was again appointed delegate to con
gress. He was afterwards repeatedly a member
of the legislature, and speaker. In March, 1788,
he was chosen president of the State ; and in
November was elected senator of the United
States. He was opposed to the funding system.
In 1794 he was re-elected for another term of six
years. He was afterwards representative and
speaker in the State legislature. From 1805 to
1808, and in 1810 and 1811, he was governor of
the State. After 1811 his days were passed in
the calmness of retreat from public life. In his
politics he acted with Mr. Jefferson and was
known as a republican. In 1801 Mr. Jefferson
solicited him to accept the post of secretary of
the navy. In 1812 the majority in congress
selected him for vice president, but he declined
the honor, to which he would have been elevated
instead of Mr. Gerry, had he consented to be a
candidate. For several years he was a member
of the first church in Portsmouth; he enjoyed the
consolations of religion; and nothing gave him so
much pain as to see the doctrines of grace re
jected and assailed. His habits were social; and
in his manners he was easy, polite, and pleasing.
— Annals of Portsmouth, 370; Farmer's Bel-
knap, I. 405.
LANGDON, JOILX, minister of Bethlehem,
Conn., died in 1830, aged 40. lie graduated at
Yale in 1809, and was a tutor from 1811 to 1815.
He was pastor at B. from 1816 to 1825. —
Sprague's Annals.
LANGSTAFF, HENRY, died by a fall at Bloody
Point, N. II., in 1705, aged 100 : a hale, strong
man ; the first in New England who reached a
century. But in the next one hundred and forty
years there were one hundred and sixty persons
who attained the same or a greater age. See W.
Perkins.
LANGWORTIIY, CONTEXT, Mrs., died at
Stonington, Conn., in 1814, aged 105.
LANKTON, LEVI, died in Alstead, N. H., in
1843, aged about 87. Born in Southington,
Conn., he was graduated at Yale in 1777, and was
pastor in Alstead from 1789 to 1828. — Sprague's
Annals.
LANMAN, JAMES, died at Norwich, Conn.,
Aug. 7, 1841, aged 72. He graduated at Yale in
1788, and was a senator of the United States, and
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a judge of the supreme court of Connecticut.
His brother, Peter I,., died Dec. 29, 1854, aged 83.
LAXSIXG, ABRAHAM, the original proprietor
of Lansingburgh, N. Y., died at New York in
1791, aged 72.
LANSING, JOHN, chancellor of New York,
died in Nov., 1829, aged 75. He went out from
the City hotel, New York, one stormy evening,
and was never heard of afterwards.
LANSING, NICHOLAS, minister at Tappan,
N. Y., died in 1835, aged 86.
LAPHAM, DARIUS, died in Cincinnati in 1850,
aged 42. He was an engineer, first employed on
the Erie canal ; and was a man of science.
LARCUM, MARY, Mrs., died at Hartford,
Conn., in 1839, aged 100.
LARNED, SYLVESTER, minister of New Or
leans, died Aug. 31, 1820, aged 24. He was the
son of Col. Simon Lamed, of Pittsfield, Mass.,
who was a native of Thompson, Conn., and a
Revolutionary officer, and died in 1817. His
mother, of extraordinary intellectual power and
pious zeal, was of the name of Bull, of Hartford.
He was born Aug. 31, 1796, and after being for a
short time a member of Williams college, he re
moved to Middlebury with his friend, Solomon
Allen, and there in his senior year his mind was
first impressed by religious truth. He graduated
in 1813, having the English oration. His talents
were very early developed. His theological edu
cation was at Andover and Princeton. At this
period no one equalled him in extemporary de
bate. After he became a preacher, in 1817, and
was ordained as an evangelist, he repaired to
New Orleans, where he arrived Jan. 22, 1818.
Mr. Cornelius had been there as a missionary
about three weeks, endeavoring to form a congre
gation. On the arrival of Mr. Lamed the society
was quickly established, and he was settled as the
minister of the first Presbyterian congregation.
In the summer he visited New England, and pro
cured materials for the erection of a church. The
corner-stone was laid Jan. 8, 1819. He fell a
victim to the yellow fever the next year. He
preached on the preceding Sabbath from the
words, " For to me to live is Christ and to die is
gain ; " and closed his discourse in tears. Mr.
Hull, the Episcopal minister, read the funeral ser
vice over him in the Presbyterian church. His
widow, Sarah Wyer, of Newburyport, died at
Washington city Jan. 20, 1825, aged 25. Mr.
Larned was distinguished for his powerful talents
and pathetic eloquence. He was sanguine, bold,
and confident, yet not haughty. lie had press
ing solicitations from churches in Alexandria,
Baltimore, and Boston, to become their pastor ;
but he deemed his Christian influence more im
portant at New Orleans. Probably no preacher
in the United States occupied a more important
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station, or was more admired for his eloquence.
By his death, a kind of sacrifice to duty, he left
a dee]) impression of the courage and value of
true piety.
" Revolving his mysterious lot,
I mourn him, but I praise him not;
Glory to God be given,
Who sent him, like the radiant bow,
His covenant of peace to show,
Athwart the breaking storm to glow,
Then vanish into heaven."
LARNED, CHARLES, general, died of the
cholera at Detroit Aug. 13, 1834; a son of Col.
Simon L. of Pittsfield.
LARNED, ERASTUS, minister of Canterbury,
Conn., died before 1840. He graduated at
Brown university in 1795.
LASELL, EDWARD, died at Auburndale Jan.
31, 1852, aged 42, of typhus fever. He had been
eighteen years professor of chemistry at Williams
college. He had projected and established with
others a female seminary at Auburndale.
LATHROP, JOHN, the first minister of Scituate
and Barnstable, Mass., died Nov. 8, 1653. He
was educated at Oxford, and was an Episcopal
minister in Kent. About 1624 he renounced his
Episcopal orders and was chosen the successor of
Henry Jacob, who in 1616 became the pastor in
London of the first Independent or Congrega
tional church in England, but removed in 1624
to Virginia, where he died. The congregation
met in private houses. In April, 1632, the
bishop seized and imprisoned forty-two of them ;
eighteen escaped. Mr. L., after an imprison
ment of two years, obtained liberty " to depart
the kingdom." Mr. Canne succeeded him.
With about thirty followers he came to New
England in 1634. He removed from Scituate to
Barnstable Oct. 11, 1639. He was meek, hum
ble, learned, and faithful. His successors were
Walley, Russell, and Shaw. He left several sons
and daughters ; his son, Samuel, who settled at
Norwich, was the ancestor of those who bear the
name in Connecticut, New York, and Vermont,
Mr. L. wrote his name Lothropp : Morton wrote
it Laythrop ; some of his descendants in Ply
mouth county still write it Lothrop, as the word
is pronounced in Massachusetts ; but it is gen
erally written Lathrop. A descendant at Nor
wich, Dr. Joshua L., died Oct 29, 1807, aged 84.
Two of his letters to Gov. Prince arc in 2 hist,
coll. I. 171. — Sprague's Annals.
LATHROP, ELIJAH, minister of Gilead in
Hebron, Conn., died in 1797, aged 73. He grad
uated at Yale in 1749.
LATHROP, JOSHUA, Dr., died at Norwich,
Conn., in 1807, aged 84. He was a graduate of
Yale in 1743; a man highly esteemed. David
Austin married his only daughter.
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LATIIROP, EBENEZER, general, died in Barn-
stable in 1815, aged 72, an officer of the Revo
lution.
LATHROP, JoSErn, D. D., minister of "West
Springfield, Mass., a descendant of John L.,
died Dec. 31, 1820, aged 89. lie was the son of
Solomon and Martha L., and was born at Nor
wich, Conn., Oct. 20, 1731. After the decease of
his father in 1733, his mother removed to Bolton.
He graduated at Yale college in 17.30, having
first made a profession of religion. Becoming the
teacher of a school at Springfield, he studied the
ology with Mr. Breck, and was ordained Aug. 25,
1756, and was pastor sixty-three years. In 1819,
Dr. Sprague, now of Albany, was settled as his
colleague. His wife Elizabeth, daughter of Capt.
Seth 1) wight of Hatfield, died in 1821. His son
•was president of the senate. lie stood as the
patriarch of the Congregational churches ; no
minister was more respected and venerated. lie
was as eminent for candor and charity as he was
devout and holy in life. A man once had the
impudence to ask him : " Dr. Lathrop, do you
think you have got any religion ? " He replied :
" None to speak of." When one in another
parish asked his advice in regard to his minister,
whom he did not well like, he advised him, as he
was a rich farmer, to send a generous piece of his
beef, when he slaughtered a fat animal, to his
minister, accompanied with this passage : " Let
him that is taught in the word, communicate in
all good things to him that teacheth." As a
writer he was remarkably perspicuous, plain, and
useful. His publications were numerous, and
more extensively known than those of any con
temporary theologian of this country. They con
sisted of 'sermons, six volumes of which were
published during his life, on various subjects,
chiefly practical. After his death an additional
volume was published, accompanied by a memoir
of his life, written by himself. This autobiogra
phy is remarkable for its simplicity and candor.
His sermons were published 2 vols., 1796 ; 1 vol.,
1806 : 5 vols., 2d edit., 1807-9 ; and a volume of
discourses on the epistle to the Hebrews, 8vo.,
1801. He published the following sermons : on
the death of II. Brcck, 1781; of Dr. Gay, Suf-
field; of Dr. G.'s wife, 1796; of Mrs. Whitney,
1800; of Rev. Mr. Atwater, 1802; of four young
women drowned at Southwick, 1809 ; at a thanks
giving relating to the insurrection, 1786 ; the per
spicuity of the Scriptures, in American preacher,
1791; four discourses on baptism, 1793; on the
dismission of Mr. Willard of Wilbraham, 1794 ;
on American independence, 179-1; at a thanks
giving, 1795; a century discourse for the town;
to children, 1796 ; God's challenge to infidels, at
a fast, 1797; at a fast, 1798; also, 1803; also,
1808; at the ordination of Mr. Ball, 1797; of
Mr. Bcmis, 1801 ; of E. D. Andrews, 1807 ; of
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Thaddcus Osgood, 1808; century sermon, 1800;
at the dedication of Westfield academy, 1800 ;
before a missionary society, 1802; on leaving the
old meeting-house ; dedication of the new, 1802 ;
two discourses on the Sabbath, 1803; two on the
church of God, 1804 ; on old age ; on suicide,
two sermons ; on the drought ; on the opening of
the bridge, 1805 ; on Christ's warning to churches ;
on the consulting of the witch of Endor ; on the
solar eclipse, 1806; warning to beware of false
prophets, 1811 ; before a bible society, 1814 ; two
sermons on the sixtieth anniversary of his ordina
tion, 1816. — Sprague's Annals.
LATHROP, JOHN, D. D., minister in Boston,
a great-grandson of John L., of Barnstable, died
Jan. 4, 1816, aged 75. He Avas born in Norwich,
Conn., May 17, 1740, and was one of ten sons.
He graduated at Princeton college in 1763, and
soon afterwards became an assistant to Mr.
Wheelock in his Indian school at Lebanon. He
was ordained May 18, 1768, at the Old North
church, Boston, where the Mathers were minis
ters. In 1779, his society having united with Dr.
Pemberton's, of the new brick church, their own
church being demolished by the enemy, he be
came the pastor of the united society, called the
second church. He was an officer of various lit
erary and charitable societies. He published the
following sermons : soon after 5th March, 1770 ;
on early piety, 1771 ; at the artillery election ; at
the thanksgiving, 1774; on 5th March, 1778; on
the death of his wife, Mary L., 1778; of S. West,
1808; of his wife, Elizabeth L., 1809; of J.
Eckley, 1811; of J. Eliot, 1813; at the ordina
tion of W. Bentley, 1783; on the peace, 1784;
before the humane society, 1787 ; catechism,
1791; Dudleian lecture, on popery, 1793; before
the fire society, 1796 ; at the Thursday lecture,
1797; at Brattle-street, 1798; on the fast, 1799;
on the commencement of the nineteenth century ;
before the society for propagating the gospel;
before the female asylum; at Milton, 1804; at
the thanksgiving, 1808; at the same, 1811; a
birth-day discourse, 1812; at the fast, 1812; on
the law of retaliation, 1814; on the peace; his
tory of the late war, 1815. — Parkman's Sermon.
LATHROP, JOHN, son of the preceding, died
at Georgetown, D. C., Jan. 30, 1820, aged 48.
He was born in Boston in 1772, and was gradu
ated at Harvard college in 1789. Having studied
law, he settled at Dedham ; but, soon returning
to Boston, he devoted himself to literary and so
cial indulgence with Paine, Prentice, and others,
neglecting his profession. Embarking for India,
he lived at Calcutta ten years, teaching a school,
and writing for the journals. In 1809 he re
turned and engaged in the business of teaching,
and gave lectures on natural philosophy. In
1819 he proposed to publish a work on the man
ners and customs of India. He went to the
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south, and delivered lectures. At last he ob
tained a place in the post-office. Improvident
and 'destitute of foresight, his talents scarcely
procured him subsistence. He published an ora
tion July 4, 1796; speech of Canonicus, a poem,
Calcutta, 1802 ; the same, Boston, 1803 ; pocket
register and freemason's anthology, 1813. —
Specimens American Poetry, n. 101-108.
LATHROP, SAMUEL, died at West Springfield
July 11, 1846, aged about 75. He was the son
of Rev. Dr. L., and a graduate of Yale in 1792.
He was a member of congress 1818-1826. His
•widow died in 1853, aged 73. His minister, Rev.
Dr. Sprague, now of Albany, was his son-in-law.
LATTA, JAMES, died at Chestnut Level, Lan
caster co., Penn., in 1801, aged 67. He was a
preacher from Ireland. He had four sons, who
were ministers, of whom Francis A. L. died at
Monson, the preceptor of Moscow academy, near
Philadelphia, in 1834, aged 67. John E. Latta,
of New Castle, Del., delivered a sermon before
the general association of Connecticut in 1809,
which was published. He died in Delaware in
1824.
LAUDERDALE, JAMES, lieut-colonel, was
killed in battle under Gen. Jackson, Dec. 13, 1814.
Born in Virginia, of an ancient family, he re
moved to West Tennessee. He was distinguished
in three battles under Gen. Coffee, with the Creek
Indian's. — Analect. Magazine, v.
LAURENS, HENRY, president of congress,
died Dec. 8, 1792, aged 69. He was a native of
South Carolina, and took an early part in oppos
ing the arbitrary claims of Great Britain at the
commencement of the American Revolution.
When the provincial congress of Carolina met in
June, 1775, he was appointed its president, in
which capacity he drew up a form of association,
to be signed by all the friends of liberty, which
indicated a most determined spirit. After the
establishment of the temporary constitution in
1776, he was elected vice-president. Being ap
pointed a member of the general congress after
the resignation of Hancock, he was appointed
president of that illustrious assembly in Nov.,
1777. In 1780 he was deputed to solicit a loan
from Holland, and to negotiate a treaty Avith the
United Netherlands. But on his passage he was
captured by a British vessel on the banks of New
foundland. He threw his papers overboard, but
they were recovered by a sailor. Being sent to
England, he was committed to the tower Oct. 6th
as a state prisoner, upon a charge of high treason.
Here he was confined more than a year, and was
treated with great severity, being denied, for the
most part, all intercourse Avith his friends, and
forbidden the use of pen, ink, and paper. His
capture occasioned no small embarrassment to
the ministry. They dared not to condemn him
as a rebel, through fear of retaliation, and they
Avere unwilling to release him, lest he should ac
complish the object of his mission. The discov
eries found in his papers led to war betAveen
Great Britain and Holland, and Mr. Adams Avas
appointed in .his place to carry on the ne
gotiation with the United ProA'inces. Dur
ing his imprisonment it Avas intimated to Mr.
Laurcns that it might be of advantage to him if
he could induce his son, then on a mission to
France, to withdraAv from that country. He re
plied, " that such was the filial regard of his son,
that he kne\v he Avould not hesitate to forfeit his
life for his father; but that no consideration
would induce Col. Laurens to relinquish his honor,
even Avere it possible for any circumstance to pre
vail on his father to make the improper request."
At length, in Dec., 1781, enfeebled in health and
apparently sinking into the grave if continued in
confinement, he sent a petition to the house of
commons for release, stating that he had labored
to preserve the friendship betAveen Great Britain
and the colonies, and had extended acts of kind
ness to British prisoners of Avar. At the close of
the year he was accordingly released. Proceed
ing to Paris, he, Avith Franklin, etc., signed the
preliminaries of peace Nov. 30, 1782, having been
appointed by congress one of the commissioners.
He returned to this country in 1783, and died at
Charleston. He directed his son to burn his
body on the third day, as the sole condition of
inheriting an estate of sixty thousand pounds
sterling. Dr. Ramsay married his daughter.
His son, Henry L., died in May, 1821. — Gor
don; Ramsay's Rev., II. 213; History of Souih
Carolina, I. 33, 38, 93; Warren; Marshall, ill.
339; IV. 5, 572.
LAURENS, JOHN, a brave officer in the Amer
ican war, died in 1782. He Avas the son of the
preceding, and Avas sent to England for his edu
cation. He joined the army in the beginning of
1777, from which time he Avas foremost in danger.
At GermantOAvn he Avas Avounded. He was pres
ent and distinguished himself in every action of
the army under General Washington, and AA'as
among the first who entered the British lines at
YorktoAvn. Early in 1781, Avhile he held the
rank of lieutenant-colonel, he was selected as the
most suitable person to depute on a special mis
sion to France, to solicit a loan of money, and to
procure military stores. He arrived in March
and returned in August, having been so successful
in the execution of his commission, that congress
passed a vote of thanks for his services. Such
Avas his dispatch, that in three days after he re
paired to Philadelphia he finished his business
Avith congress, and immediately afterAvard rejoined
the American army. In conjunction with Dr.
Franklin, Count de Vergennes, and Marquis de
Castries, he arranged the plan of the campaign
for 1781. August 27, 1782, in opposing a forag-
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ing party of the British, near Comhahee river, in
South Carolina, he was mortally wounded, and he
died at the age of 29. His father, just released
from imprisonment, and happy in a son of such
distinction and virtues, now witnessed the desola
tion of all his hopes. Col. Laurens, uniting the
talents of a great officer with the knowledge of
the scholar and the engaging manners of the
gentleman, was the glory of the army and the
idol of his country. Washington, .who selected
him as his aid, and reposed in him the highest
confidence, declared that he could discover no
fault in him, unless it was intrepidity, bordering
upon rashness. His abilities were exhibited in
the legislature and in the cabinet, as well as in
the field. He was zealous for the rights of hu
manity, and, living in a country of slaves, con
tended that personal liberty was the birthright of
every human being, however diversified by coun
try, color, or powers of mind. His insinuating
address won the hearts of all his acquaintance,
while his sincerity and virtue secured their lasting
esteem. — Ramsay's South Carolina, II. 21, 105,
206, 306, 374 ; Gordon ; Warren, II. 465 ; in.
54, 55 ; Marshall, III. 486, 508 ; IV. 407, 485,
575 ; Gordon.
LAURIE, Mrs., wife of Thomas Laurie, mis
sionary to Mosul, died Dec. 16, 1843. She was
born in Westford, Mass., and embarked in 1842.
She died in peace. Though her missionary life
was brief, she did not live in vain.
LAVAL, FRANCOIS DE, first bishop of Canada,
arrived in June, 1659. He was also the pope's
apostolic vicar. In 1662 he procured the estab
lishment of the seminary at Quebec. He sent
out various missionaries amongst the Indians.
He made great and commendable exertions to
prevent the supply to the Indians of strong
liquors, for all his promising Christians were be
coming drunkards. But he struggled in vain
against the covetousness of the traders, who were
not opposed by the government. He, therefore,
in 1662 repaired to France and presented his
complaint to the king, and obtained an order for
the suppression of the detestable traffic. It was
afterwards resumed, and representations were
made of the indispensable necessity of it in order
to secure the friendship of the Indians. The
bishop was for some time engaged in another
struggle ; but in 1678 he procured another order
for the suppression of the traffic, under severe
penalties to offenders. — Charlevoix.
LAVAL, LE PEUE, a Jesuit, published voyage
de la Louisiane en 1720, 4to., 1728.
LAV AT, R. P., published Nouveau voyage aux
Isles de 1'Amerique, 12mo., 8 vols., 1711.
LAW, JONATHAN, governor of Connecticut,
died Nov. 6, 1750, aged 76. He was born at
Milford, Aug. 6, 1674 ; was graduated at Har
vard college in 1695; and from 1715 to 1725,
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excepting one year, was a judge of the supreme
court. In 1725 he was appointed chief justice
and lieutenant-governor, which offices he held
till he was chosen governor, as successor of Jo
seph Talcott, in 1741. He was succeeded by
Roger Wolcott. Governor Law, in his zeal
against the more zealous preachers of his day,
the followers of Mr. Whitcfield, the new lights,
etc., gave his sanction to some persecuting acts
of the legislature. Trumbull remarks : " Gov.
Talcott, who called those days times of refresh
ing, was now no more, and a gentleman of a
diiforent character was chosen governor. Under
his administration a number of severe and per
secuting laws were enacted." Mr. Law was of
the Arminian, or " old-light " party, and the
outrageous enactments were ascribed to him.
President Finley, for preaching in Connecticut,
was, agreeably to one of those laws, carried as a
vagrant out of the colony.
LAW, RICHARD, LL. D., chief justice of Con
necticut, the son of the preceding, died Jan. 26,
1806, aged 72. He was born at Milford, and
graduated at Yale college in 1751. After a
lucrative practice of law for some years at New
London, he was appointed a judge of the county
court; in 1784 a judge of the supreme court;
and in 1786 chief judge. In 1789 he was ap
pointed district judge of the United States, in
which office he continued till his death.
LAW, ANDREW, Rev., a teacher of music for
forty years, died at Cheshire, Conn., July, 1821,
aged 73. He was graduated at Brunswick in
1775. He invented four characters to express
always the four syllables of music. He published
rudiments of music, 1783 ; musical primer, on a
new plan, with the four characters, 1803; mu
sical magazine, 1804 ; collection of hymn tunes.
LAW, LYMAN, died at New London, in 1842,
aged 71, an eminent counsellor. He graduated
at Yale in 1791. His father and grandfather
were distinguished in the councils of the State
and nation. He was a member of congress in
the time of Jefferson.
LAWLER, JOAB, a member of congress from
Alabama, died at Washington in 1838. He was
a Baptist minister, and much respected.
LAWRENCE, WILLIAM, the minister of Lin
coln, Mass., died in 1780, aged about 57. He
graduated at Harvard in 1743, and published a
sermon at the ordination of S. Farrar.
LAWRENCE, JAMES, a naval commander,
died June 6, 1813, aged 31. He was the son of
James L., a lawyer, and was born at Burlington,
N. J., Oct. 1, 1781. He had early a predilection
for a seafaring life, which his friends could not
conquer. At the age of sixteen he received a
midshipman's warrant. In the war against Tri
poli he accompanied Decatur as his first lieuten
ant in the hazardous exploit of destroying the
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frigate Philadelphia. He remained several years
in the Mediterranean and commanded successively
the Vixen, Wasp, Argus, and Hornet. While
cruising in the latter off Delaware, he fell in -with
the British brig, Peacock, and after an action of
fifteen minutes captured her, Feb. 24, 1813. On
his return he was received with distinction. Be
ing promoted to the rank of post captain, he was
intrusted with the command of the frigate Ches
apeake. While in Boston roads, nearly ready for
sea, the British frigate Shannon, Capt. Brooke, ap
peared off the harbor, and made signals expres
sive of a challenge. Although under many dis
advantages, with an undisciplined crew, etc., yet
Capt. L. determined to accept the challenge.
He put to sea in the morning of June 1 ; the
Shannon bore away. At four the Chesapeake
hauled up and fired a gun ; the Shannon then
hove to. Soon after the action commenced, Capt.
L. was wounded in the leg. Soon the anchor
of the Chesapeake caught in one of the Shannon's
ports, in consequence of which her guns could
not be brought to bear upon the enemy. As
Capt. L. was carried below in consequence of a
second and mortal wound from a bullet, which
lodged in his intestines, he cried out, " Don't
give up the ship ! " But after the action had
continued eleven minutes the enemy boarded and
captured the Chesapeake. The loss of killed and
•wounded was one hundred and forty-six ; that of
the Shannon eighty-six. Capt. L. lingered four
days in extreme pain and then died. He was
honorably buried at Halifax. His body and that
of Lieut. Ludlow were brought by Capt. G.
Crowninshield, at his own expense, to Salem, and
then removed to New York. His wife was the
daughter of Mr. Montaudevert, a merchant of
New York. She survived with two children.
LAWRENCE, SAMUEL, major and deacon, the
father of a distinguished family, died in Groton
Nov. 8, 1827, aged 73. His widow, Susanna
Parker, daughter of William P., died May 2,
1845, aged 89. He was a descendant in the fifth
generation from John Lawrence of Great St. Al-
bans, Herefordshire, who came to Watertown,
probably of Winthrop's party, in 1635, and who
in 1660 removed to Groton, where he was an
influential and respected citizen. Deacon Law
rence, when a youth, heard the alarm from Con
cord and immediately mounted his horse and
rushed into the contest. He was in the battle
of Bunker Hill, and served during the war. For
forty years he was a deacon of the church.
LAWRENCE, LAWRENCE, a Methodist minis
ter in Maryland, presiding elder in Chesapeake
district, died April 4, 1829. _
LAWRENCE, LUTHER, son of Deacon Sam
uel L., died at Lowell April 27, 1839, aged 61.
He was mayor of the city, and was killed by a
fall through the scuttle of a mill. A graduate
of Harvard in 1801, he was a lawyer, a speaker
of the house of representatives, a man respected
for his virtues.
LAWRENCE, NATHANIEL, minister of Tyngs-
borough, Mass., died Sunday, Feb. 5, 1843, aged
77, in the fiftieth year of his ministry. His death
was sudden. He preached in the morning;
walked home half a mile in a snow-storm ; and
was fatally attacked at his table. He published
a sketch of Tyngsborough in historical collections.
LAWRENCE, JOHN J., missionary at Madura,
died at Tranquebar Dec. 20, 1846, aged 39. Born
in Geneseo, N. Y., he graduated at Union col
lege in 1829, at Andover seminary in 1834. He
sailed from Boston in May, 1835, and continued
in the Madura mission till his death. His wife
was Mary Ilulin of Troy.
LAWRENCE, WILLIAM, the son of Deacon
Samuel L., died in Boston Oct. 14, 1848, aged
about 64. Brought up a farmer, he became a
merchant ; at first he kept a small store ; then
he was a partner with his brother Samuel. In
1825 he commenced domestic manufactures. The
Suffolk bank system, much commended, origin
ated with him. He married a daughter of Wil
liam Boardman, and left his wife and four chil
dren. He was a man of integrity, kindness, and
religious faith. His munificence to Lawrence
academy in Groton is worthy of honorable record ;
in all by gift and bequest he gave 40,000 dol
lars to the academy. His portrait and a memoir
are in Barnard's American Journal of Education,
July, 1856.
LAWRENCE, MYRON, died in Belchertown,
Mass., in 1852, aged 57. A graduate of Middle-
bury, he was a lawyer and senator of Massachu
setts. His daughter, Mrs. Sara, wife of Gov.
Robinson, published in 1856 a well-written
account of Kansas, to which she was an emigrant,
entitled, Kansas, its interior and exterior life.
He published agricultural address, 1832.
LAWRENCE, AMOS, the son of Deacon Sam
uel L., died in Boston Dec. 31, 1852, aged 77.
He early settled in Boston as a merchant. Mod
est and unassuming, his private noiseless chari
ties were unceasing and unequalled. He ex
pended, not in splendid donations bringing fame,
but in private charities in various forms and with
unceasing consideration and care, as much as six
hundred thousand dollars ! To Williams college
he gave at different times about 25,000 dollars ;
to the Bunker Hill monument 10,000 dollars;
and some thousands to Groton academy. Though
not ranked among the orthodox in his faith, he
believed in the high rank and atonement of Jesus
Christ. His memoirs were published by his son.
LAWRENCE, ABBOTT, died in Boston Aug.
18, 1855, aged 62, brother of the preceding. At
the age of sixteen he entered the store of his
brother Amos, at 39 Cornhill; a connection in
LAWRENCE.
business followed, and the acquisition at last of
great wealth, a million and a half or two millions
of dollars, by merchandise and manufactures.
He assisted in establishing the cities of Lowell,
Lawrence, and Manchester. He was several
years a member of congress. The place of secre
tary of the navy, offered him by President Tay
lor, he declined. He was our minister to England
in 1849, and in subsequent years. He gave
50,000 dollars to Harvard college to found a sci
entific school, and bequeathed a like sum. He
married in 1819, Katharine, daughter of Timothy
BigeloAv, and left three sons and two daughters.
Of his several brothers only Samuel survived him.
Although an attendant at Brattle-street church,
in Boston, his friends, or some of them, did not
regard him as in his faith a Unitarian.
LAWltENCE, ELEAZER, Dr., died at Pepper-
ell, Mass., in 1856, aged 86. A graduate of
Harvard in 1795, he practised physic fifty-one
years in Hampton, N. H. He gave but little
medicine.
LAW SOX, JOHN, a traveller, was surveyor-
general of North Carolina. While exploring
lands on the river Neus, accompanied by the
Baron GrafFenreid, the Indians seized him and
solemnly tried him for encroaching on their terri
tory, before a large council, and condemned and
executed him in the autumn of 1712. This was
the commencement of an Indian war. The baron
escaped by representing, that he was not of the
English party, but king of the Palatines. He
published a journal of one thousand miles' travels
amongst the Indians, with a description of North
Carolina, 4to., London, 1700; the same, 1711;
also the same at Hamburg, 1712; history of Car
olina, 4to., London, 2d edit., 1714; the same,
1718. — Holmes, I. 507.
LAY, BEXJAMIX, a benevolent Quaker of great
singularities, died in 1760, aged 79. He was a
native of England and brought up to the sea.
About the year 1710 he settled in Barbadoes.
Bearing his open testimony in all companies
against the conduct of the owners of slaves, he
became so obnoxious to the inhabitants, that he
left the island in disgust, and settled in Penn
sylvania. He fixed his residence at Abington,
ten miles from Philadelphia. On his arrival he
found many quakers, who kept slaves. He re
monstrated against the practice with zeal, both
in public and private. To express his indigna
tion at the practice of slave-keeping, he once
carried a bladder filled with blood into a public
meeting, and in the presence of the whole con
gregation thrust a sword into it, which he had
concealed under his coat, exclaiming, " Thus
shall God shed the blood of those persons, who
enslave their fellow-creatures." Calling upon a
friend in Philadelphia, he was asked to sit down
to breakfast. He first inquired, " Dost thou keep
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slaves in thy house ? " On being answered in
the affirmative, he said, " Then I will not partake
with thec of the fruits of thy unrighteousness."
After an ineffectual attempt to convince a farmer
and his wife in Chester county of the iniquity of
keeping slaves, he seized their only child, a little
girl of three years of age, under the pretence of
carrying her away, and when the cries of the
child and his singular expedient alarmed them,
he said, " You see and feel now a little of the
distress which you occasion by the inhuman prac
tice of slave-keeping." In 1737 he wrote a trea
tise, entitled, all slave-keepers, that keep the in
nocent in bondage, apostates. It was printed by
Dr. Franklin, who told the author, when the
manuscript was brought to him, that it was defi
cient in arrangement. " It is no matter," said
Mr. Lay ; " print any part, thou pleasest, first."
This worthy Quaker died at his house in Abing
ton. He was temperate in his diet, living chiefly
upon vegetables, and his drink was pure water.
When tea was introduced into Pennsylvania, his
wife brought home a small quantity, with a set
of cups and saucers. In his zeal he seized them,
and, carrying them back to the city, he scattered
the tea from the balcony of the court house, in
the presence of a multitude of spectators, and
broke to pieces the instruments of luxury, deliv
ering at the same time a striking lecture upon
the folly of introducing a pernicious herb in the
place of the wholesome diet of the country. He
often visited schools, carrying a basket of religious
books with him, and distributing them as prizes
among the scholars, imparting also frequently
some advice and instruction. So much was he
the enemy of idleness, that when the inclemency
of the weather confined him to his house, or
his mind was wearied with reading, he used to
spend his time in spinning. All his clothes were
manufactured by himself. Though kind to the
poor, he had no pity on common beggars, who,
Ire said, if able to go abroad to beg, were able
also to earn four pence a day, and this sum was
sufficient to keep any person above want or de
pendence in this country. He once attempted to
imitate our Saviour by fasting forty days; but he
was obliged to desist from the attempt. His
weaknesses and eccentricities disappear before the
splendor of his humanity and benevolence. His
bold, determined, and uniform reprehension of
the practice of slavery, in defiance of public
opinion, does him the highest honor. The tur
bulence and severity of his temper were neces
sary at the time in which he lived ; and the work
which he began was completed by the meek and
gentle Anthony Benezet. — RusJi's Essays, 305-
311 ; Mass. Magazine, IV. 28-30.
LAYNE, CHARLES, died in Campbell co., Va.,
in 1821, aged 121, leaving a wife aged 110. He
was a native of Virginia.
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LEAKE, WALTER, governor of Mississippi,
succeeded Geo. Poindexter in 1821, and was suc
ceeded by David Holmes in 1825. He was a
soldier of the Revolution. He died at Mount
Salus, in Hines county, Miss., Nov. 17, 1825.
LEAMIXG, JEREMIAH, D. D., an Episcopal
minister, died at New Haven in Sept., 1804, aged
86. He was born in Middle-town, Conn., in 1719,
and was graduated at Yale college in 1745. He
preached in Newport, 11. I., eight years; at Nor-
walk, Conn., twenty-one years ; and at Stratford
eight or nine years. In the Episcopal contro
versy he wrote with great ability upon the sub
ject. He published a defence of the Episcopal
government of the church, containing remarks on
some noted sermons on Presbyterian ordination,
1766 ; a second defence of the Episcopal gov
ernment of the church, in answer to Noah Welles,
1770 ; evidences of the truth of Christianity,
1785 ; dissertations on various subjects, which
may be well worth the attention of every Chris
tian, 1789.
LEAR, Mrs., died at Portsmouth, N. H., in
1775, aged 103.
LEAR, BENJAMIN, a hermit, died at Sagamore
Creek, in Portsmouth, N. H., Dec. 17, 1802, aged
82. For more than twenty years he lived en
tirely alone, in a miserable hut ; yet on his own
farm, which was sufficient for the support of a
large family. He tilled his land, milked his
cows, made his butter and cheese, but subsisted
entirely on butter and milk. At the age of eighty-
two his face was as free from wrinkles as that of
a man of fifty. He died alone in the morning
after a cold night, in which the thermometer was
four degrees below zero.
LEAR, TOBIAS, colonel, died at Washington
Oct. 11, 1816. He was consul-general at St.
Domingo in 1802; he was afterwards consul-gen
eral at Tripoli, and in 1804 commissioner with
Barron to negotiate a peace, which he effected,
much to the dissatisfaction of Gen. Eaton, then
at the head of an army at Derne, agreeing to pay
for two hundred prisoners 60,000 dollars. At
the time of his death Mr. Lear was accountant of
the war department.
LEASURE, JOSEPH, died in Garrard county,
Ky., July 21, 1836, aged 104; being born March
21, 1732. He walked seven miles the day of his
death.
LEAVEN WORTH, MARK, minister of Water-
bury, Conn., died in 1797, aged about 80. He
graduated at Yale in 1737, and was ordained in
1740. In the French war he was a chaplain.
He published a sermon on the death of D. South-
mayd, 1754; at the election, 1772.
LEAVENWORTH, HENRY, brigadier-general,
died at Cross Timbers, one hundred and twenty
miles west of fort Towson, July 22, 1834. He
commanded on the southwest frontier.
LEAVTTT, FREEGRACE, first minister of Som-
ers, Conn., died in 1761, aged about 38. He
graduated at Yale in 1745.
LEAVITT, DUDLEY, minister of the Taberna
cle church, Salem, died in 1762, aged 42. Born
in Stratham, he graduated at Harvard in 1739.
LEAVITT, DUDLEY, died at Meredith, N. H.,
Sept. 22, 1851, aged 78; for half a century an
almanac-maker. He was born in Exeter.
LE BAROX, FRANCIS, a physician, died in
Plymouth in 1704, aged 36. A native of France,
he was a surgeon in a privateer wrecked in Buz
zard's Bay in 1696, and was made a prisoner.
His surgical skill having been experienced at
Plymouth, the people, although he was a Catho
lic, solicited his liberation and his residence
among them. There he married. His son, Laz
arus, who studied with Dr. Mackay, a Scotch
physician of Southampton, L. I., after long prac
tice, died in Plymouth in 1773, aged 75 ; and two
of his sons died physicians in Plymouth, and an
other son, Lemuel, was the minister of Rochester.
LE BARON, LEMUEL, minister of Rochester,
Mass.. died in Nov., 1836, aged 89, in the sixty-
fifth year of his ministry. He graduated at Yale
in 1768, and succeeded Ivory Hovey, and was
succeeded by Thomas Robbins. He was a de
scendant of Dr. Francis Le Baron, who came to
Plymouth from France. The Indian name of
the village of Rochester was Mattapoisett, mean
ing a place of rest.
LECHFORD, THOMAS, a lawyer from London,
lived in Boston from 1638 to 1641. Being dis
satisfied with the country, he returned to Eng
land. He published, plain-dealing, or news from
New England's present government, ecclesiastical
and civil, compared, etc., London, 1642.
LEDERER, JOHN, an early explorer to the
west of Virginia, published his discoveries in
three numbers in 1669 and 1670, translated from
the Latin in 1672. — Cyc.l. Am. Lit.
LED YARD, JOHN, a distinguished traveller,
died Jan. 17, 1789, aged 38. He was born in
Groton, Conn., in 1751. His father died while he
was yet a child, and he was left under the care of
a relative in Hartford. Here he enjoyed the ad
vantages of a grammar school. After the death
of his patron, when he was eighteen years of age,
he was left to follow his own inclinations. With
a view to the study of divinity he now passed a
short time in Dartmouth college, where he had
an opportunity of learning the manners of the
Indians, as there were several Indian pupils in
the seminary. His acquaintance with the savage
character, gained in this place, was of no little
advantage to him in the future periods of his
life. His poverty obliging him to withdraw from
the college before he had completed his educa
tion, and, not having a shilling in his pocket to
defray the expense of a journey to Hartford, he
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made him a canoe, fifty feet in length and three
in breadth, and being generously supplied with
some dried venison for his sea-stores, he em
barked upon the Connecticut, and, going down
that river, which is in many places rapid, and
with which he was totally unacquainted, he ar
rived safely at Hartford, at the distance of one
hundred and forty miles. He soon went to New
York, and sailed for London in 1771, as a com
mon sailor. When Captain Cook sailed on his
third voyage of discovery, Ledyard, who felt an
irresistible desire to explore those regions of the
globe which were yet undiscovered, or imperfectly
known, accepted the humble station of corporal
of marines, rather than forego an opportunity so
inviting to his inquisitive and adventurous spirit.
He was a favorite of the illustrious navigator, and
was one of the witnesses of his tragical end in
1778. He ascribed the fate of Cook to his rash
ness and injustice toward the natives. He sur
prised his American friends, who had heard noth
ing of him for eight years, by a -visit in 1781.
His mother kept a boarding-house at Southold ;
he took lodgings with her, and she did not recog
nize her son. Having offered his services to sev
eral merchants to conduct a trading voyage to
the northwest coast, and meeting with no encour
agement, he again embarked for England in 1782.
He now resolved to traverse the continent of
America from the northwest coast, which Cook
had partly explored, to the eastern coast, with
which he was already perfectly familiar. Disap
pointed in his intention of sailing on a voyage of
commercial adventure to Nootka sound, he crossed
the British channel to Ostend with only ten guin
eas in his purse, determined to travel overland to
Kamschatka, whence the passage is short to the
western coast of America. When he came to the
gulf of Bothnia, he attempted to cross the ice,
that he might reach Kamschatka by the shortest
way ; but finding that the water was not frozen in
the middle, he returned to Stockholm. He then
travelled northward into the arctic circle, and,
passing round the head of the gulf, descended on
its eastern side to St. Petersburgh. There his ex
traordinary appearance attracted general notice.
Without stockings or shoes, and too poor to pro
vide himself with either, he was invited to dine
with the Portuguese ambassador, who supplied
him with twenty guineas, on the credit of Sir Jo
seph Banks. Through his interest he also ob
tained permission to accompany a detachment of
stores destined to Yakutz for the use of Mr. Bil
lings, an Englishman, who was intrusted with the
schemes of northern discovery in which the em
press was then engaged. From Yakutz, which is
situated in Siberia, six thousand miles east of Pe
tersburgh, he proceeded to Oczakow, or Ochotsk,
on the Kamschatkan sea; but, as the navigation
was completely obstructed by the ice, he returned
to Yakutz, intending to wait for the conclusion of
the winter. Here, in consequence of some unac
countable suspicion, he was seized in the name of
the empress by two Russian soldiers, who con
veyed him, in the depth of the winter, through
the north of Tartary to the frontier of the Polish
dominions, assuring him, at their departure, that,
if he returned to Russia, he should certainly be
hanged ; but, if he chose to return to England,
they wished him a pleasant journey. Poor, for
lorn, and friendless, covered with rags, and ex
hausted by fatigue, disease, and misery, he pro
ceeded to Konigsberg, where the interest of Sir
Joseph Banks enabled him to procure the sum of
five guineas, by means of which he arrived in
England.
He immediately waited on Sir Joseph, who re
commended him to an adventure as perilous as
that from which he had just returned. He now
was informed of the views of the association,
which had been lately formed for promoting the
discovery of the interior parts of Africa, which
were then little known. Sparrman, Patterson,
and Vaillant had travelled into Caffraria, and
Xordon and Bruce had enlarged the acquaintance
of Europeans with Egypt, Nubia, and Abyssinia.
In regard to other parts of this quarter of the
globe, its geography, excepting in relation to its
coasts, was involved in darkness. Ledyard en
gaged with enthusiasm in an enterprise, which he
had already projected for himself; and, receiving
from Sir Joseph a letter of introduction to one of
the members of the committee appointed to direct
the business and promote the object of the asso
ciation, he went to him without delay. The de
scription, which that gentleman has given of his
first interview, strongly marks the character of
this hardy traveller. " Before I had learned,"
says he, " from the note the name and business of
my visitor, I was struck with the manliness of his
person, the breadth of his chest, the openness of
his countenance, and the inquietude of his eye. I
spread the map of Africa before him, and, tracing
a line from Cairo to Sennaar, and from thence
westward in the latitude and supposed direction
of the Niger, I told him that was the route by
which I was anxious that Africa might, if possible,
be explored. He said, he should think himself
singularly fortunate to be intrusted with the ad
venture. I asked him when he would set out?
To-morrow morning, was his answer."
From such zeal, decision, and intrepidity the
society naturally formed the most sanguine ex
pectations. He sailed from London June 30,
1788, and in thirty-six days arrived in the city of
Alexandria ; and, having there assumed the dress
of an Egyptian traveller, proceeded to Cairo, which
he reached Aug. 19th. He travelled with pecu
liar advantages. Endowed with an original and
comprehensive genius, he beheld with interest
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and described with energy the scenes and objects
around him; and, by comparing them with what
he had seen in other regions of the globe, he wasv
enabled to give his narrative all the varied effect
of contrast and resemblance. His remarks on
Lower Egypt, had that country been less gener
ally known, might have ranked with the most
valuable of geographical records. They greatly
heightened the opinion which his employers al
ready entertained of his singular qualifications for
the task which he had undertaken. Nor was his
residence at Cairo altogether useless to the asso
ciation. By visiting the slave markets, and by
conversing with Jelabs, or travelling merchants
of the caravans, he obtained without any expense
a better idea of the people of Africa, of its trade,
of its geography, and of the most prudent man
ner of travelling, than he could by any other
means have acquired ; and the communications
on these subjects, which he transmitted to Eng
land, interesting and instructive as they were,
afforded the society the most gratifying proofs of
the ardent spirit of inquiry, the unwearied atten
tion, the persevering research, and the laborious,
indefatigable, anxious zeal, with which their au
thor pursued the object of his mission.
He had announced to his employers, that he
had received letters of earnest recommendation
from the Aga ; that the day of his departure was
appointed ; that his next dispatch would be dated
from Sennaar ; and the committee expected with
impatience the result of his journey. But that
journey was never to be performed. The vexa
tion, occasioned by repeated delays in the de
parture of the caravan, brought on a bilious com
plaint, which, being increased at first by incautious
treatment, baffled the skill of the most approved
physicians of Cairo, and terminated his earthly
existence.
The society heard with deep concern of the
death of a man, whose high sense of honor, mag
nanimous contempt of danger, and earnest zeal
for the extension of knowledge had been so con
spicuously displayed in their service ; whose ardor,
tempered by calm deliberation, whose daring
spirit, seconded by the most prudent caulion, and
whose impatience of control, united with the
power of supporting any fatigue, seemed to have
qualified him above all other men, for the very
arduous task of traversing the widest and most dan
gerous part of the continent of Africa. Despising
the accidental distinctions of society, he seemed to
regard no man as his superior ; but his manners,
though unpolished, were not disagreeable. His
uncultivated genius was peculiar and capacious.
The hardships to which he submitted, in the pros
ecution of his enterprises and in the indulgence
of his curiosity, are almost incredible. He was
sometimes glad to receive food as in charity to a
madman, for that character he had assumed in or-
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der to avoid a heavier calamity. His judgment of
the female character is very honorable to the sex.
I have ahvays remarked," said he, " that women
in all countries are civil and obliging, tender and
humane ; that they are ever inclined to be gay
and cheerful, timorous and modest ; and they do
not hesitate, like men, to perform a generous ac
tion. Not haughty, not arrogant, not supercil
ious, they are full of courtesy, and fond of society;
more liable in general to err than man, but in
general also more virtuous, and performing more
good actions than he. To a woman, whether
civilized or savage, I never addressed myself in
the language of decency and friendship, without
receiving a decent and friendly answer. "With
man it has often been otherwise. In wandering
over the barren plains of inhospitable Denmark,
through honest Sweden, and frozen Lapland, rude
and churlish Finland, unprincipled Russia, and
the widespread regions of the wandering Tartar ;
if hungry, dry, cold, wet, or sick, the women have
ever been friendly to me, and uniformly so. And
to add to this virtue, so worthy the appellation of
benevolence, their actions have been performed in
so free and kind a manner, that, if I was dry, I
drank the sweetest draught, and if hungry, I ate
the coarsest morsel, with a double relish."
Besides his communication to the African asso
ciation, he published an account of Cook's voyage
in 1781. Several of his manuscripts were a few
years ago in the hands of his brother, Dr. Isaac
Ledyard, health officer of the city of New York.
His life by'J. Sparks was published in 1828.
LEDYARD, colonel, commanded in 1781 fort
Griswold in Groton, Conn., on the Thames, exactly
opposite to New London, when, Sept. 7, he was
attacked by Col. Eyre with a large force. With
one hundred and fifty men he fought bravely ;
Col. Eyre and Maj. Montgomery being killed,
the command of the British devolved on Maj.
Broomfield. When the fort was carried by assault
with the bayonet, Broomfield inquired, who com
manded. Ledyard replied: "I did command,
sir, but you do now ; " and presented to him his
sword. The ferocious officer instantly run him
through the body ; and between sixty and seventy
Americans were slaughtered, after they had sur
rendered. The whole American loss was seventy-
three killed ; about thirty wounded ; and about
forty taken prisoners. The British loss was
forty-eight killed, one hundred and forty-three
wounded. On the other side of the river Arnold
burned New London. Col. Ledyard was a brave,
sensible, polished, noble-minded citizen. He fell
by the hand of a brutal assassin. His widow
Ann married A. Hodge, and died at Philadelphia
Nov. 8, 1848, aged nearly 91. — Dtciglit, n. 525.
LEE, SAMUEL, first minister of Bristol, R. I.,
died in 1691, aged G6. He was born in London
hi 1625, and was the son of Samuel L., an cmi-
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nent and wealthy citizen, whose estate he inher
ited. At the age of fifteen he went for his
education to Oxford, where he was admitted to
the degree of master of arts in 1648. He was
soon settled in a fellowship in "VValdham college,
and in 1651 was appointed a proctor of the uni
versity. He was afterwards preferred by Crom
well to a church near Bishopsgate in London, but
was ejected in 1662. He was then a lecturer of
Great St. Helen's church in London. After the
restoration he was not silenced for nonconformity,
for he had no preferment to lose ; but he lived
for some time in Oxfordshire, occasionally preach
ing. In 1678 he removed to Newington-grcen,
near London, where he was for several years min
ister of an Independent church. His learned
tutor, Bishop Wilkins, advised him to enter the
established church ; but his views of truth and
duty would not suffer him to do it. Being appre
hensive that the rights of conscience would soon
•be further invaded by the return of Popery, he in
June, 1686, removed to New England, and
preached in the town of Bristol. When a church
was formed May 8, 1687, he was chosen minister.
After the Ilevolution in his native country, he
was eagerly desirous of returning. Just before
he sailed in 1691, he told his wife that he had
viewed a star, which, according to the rules of as
trology, presaged captivity. He was accordingly
captured by a French privateer, and carried into
St. Maloe, in France, where he died about the
time of Christmas, and was buried without the
city as a heretic. He was a very learned man,
who spoke Latin with elegance, was a master of
physic and chemistry, and well versed in all the
liberal arts and sciences. He had studied the as
trological art, but, disapproving of it, he burned
a hundred books, which related to the subject.
Though a conscientious nonconformist, he pos
sessed a catholic, liberal spirit. His learning was
united with charity, and the poor were often re
lieved by his bounty. In a manuscript treatise
on Rev. XL, he expressed his belief that the pe
riod of 1260 years would end between 1716 and
1736, and that the broad wings of the eagle mean
the eastern and western empires. He published
Chronicon Cestrense, an exact chronology of all
the rulers of Cheshire and Chester, in church and
state, from the foundation of the city, 1656 ; or-
bis miraculum, or the temple of Solomon por
trayed by scripture light, folio, 1659; this was
printed at the charge of the university ; de ex-
cidio antichristi, folio, 1659 ; a sermon on the
means to be used for the conversion of carnal re
lations, 1661 ; contemplations on mortality, 8vo.,
1669 ; a sermon on secret prayer, 1674 ; tha vis
ibility of the true church, 1675 ; the triumph of
mercy in the chariot of praise, a discourse of
secret and preventing mercies, 1677 ; two dis
courses on the mournful state of the church, with
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a prospect of her dawning glory, 1679 ; a disser
tation on the ancient and successive state of the
Jews, with Scripture evidence of their future con
version and establishment in their own land,
1679 ; this is printed with Fletcher's Israel redux ;
the joy of faith, 1689 ; answer to many queries
relative to America, as to its natural productions,
diseases, etc., 1690 ; the great day of judgment,
preached before a court at Bristol, 1695. He
also wrote a preface to John Howe's Immanuel,
with his life. His triumph of mercy was much
read in New England; Judge Davis says, it is
now, with his other works, " lost in oblivion."
But I have a copy in my possession, printed at
Boston, 1718; also a copy of his contemplations
on mortality. They display learning and genius.
- Wood's Ath. Oxonienses,n.882,883; Calamy's
Nonconformists' Memorial, I. 104 ; Mather, III.
223 ; Account of origin of Bristol ; Sprague's
Annals.
LEE, CHARLES, a major-general in the army of
the United States, died Oct. 2, 1782. He was
born in Wales, and was the son of John Lee, a
colonel in the British service. He entered the
army at a very early age ; but, though he pos
sessed a military spirit, he was ardent in the pur
suit of knowledge. He acquired a competent
skill in Greek and Latin, while his fondness for
travelling made him acquainted with the Italian,
Spanish, German, and French languages. In
1756 he came to America, and was engaged in
the attack upon Ticonderoga in July, 1758, when
Abercrombie was defeated. In 1762 he bore a
colonel's commission, and served under Burgoyne
in Portugal, where he much distinguished him
self. Not long afterwards he entered into the
Polish service. Though he was absent when the
stamp act passed, he yet by his letters zealously
supported the cause of America. In the years
1771, 1772, and 1773, he rambled overall Europe.
During this excursion he was engaged with an
officer in Italy in an affair of honor, and he mur
dered his antagonist, escaping himself with the
loss of two fingers. Having lost the favor of the
ministry and the hopes of promotion in conse
quence of his political sentiments, he came to
America in Nov., 1773. He travelled through
the country, animating the colonies to resistance.
In 1774 he was induced, by the persuasion of his
friend, General Gates, to purchase a valuable
tract of land of two or three thousand acres in
Berkeley county, Va. Here he resided till the
following year, when he resigned a commission
which he held in the British service, and accepted
a commission from congress, appointing him
major-general. He accompanied Washington to
the camp at Cambridge, where he arrived July 2,
1775, and was received with every mark of re
spect. In the beginning of the following year he
was dispatched to New York to prevent the
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British from obtaining possession of the city and
the Hudson. This trust he executed with great
wisdom and energy. He disarmed all suspicious
persons on Long Island, and drew up a test to be
offered to every one whose attachment to the
American cause was doubted. His bold measures
carried terror wherever he appeared. He seems
to have been very fond of this apph'cation of a
test ; for, in a letter to the president of congress,
he informs him that he had taken the liberty at
Newport to administer to a number of the tories
a very strong oath, one article of which was, that
they should take arms in defence of their country,
if called upon by congress ; and he recommends
that this measure should be adopted in reference
to all the tories in America. Those fanatics who
might refuse to take it, he thought, should be car
ried into the interior. Being sent into the south
ern colonies, as commander of all the forces
•which should there be raised, he diffused an ardor
among the soldiers which was attended by the
most salutary consequences. In October, by the
direction of congress, he repaired to the northern
army. As he was marching from the Hudson
through New Jersey, to form a junction with
Washington in Pennsylvania, he quitted his camp
in Morris county to reconnoitre. In this em
ployment he went to the distance of three miles
from the camp, and entered a house for breakfast.
A British colonel became acquainted with his sit
uation by intercepting a countryman, charged
•with a letter from him, and was enabled to take
him prisoner. He was instantly mounted on a
horse, without his cloak and hat, and carried
safely to New York. He was detained till April
or May, 1778, when he was exchanged for Gen
eral Prescott, taken at Newport. He was very
soon engaged in the battle of Monmouth. Being
detached by the commander-in-chief to make an
attack upon the rear of the enemy, Washington
was pressing forward to support him, June 28th,
•when, to his astonishment, he found him retreat
ing without having made a single effort to main
tain his ground. Meeting him in these circum
stances, without any previous notice of his plans,
Washington addressed him in terms of some
warmth. Lee, being oi-dered to check the enemy,
conducted himself with his usual bravery, and,
when forced from the ground, on which he had
been placed, brought off his troops in good order.
But his haughty temper could not brook the in
dignity which he believed to have been offered
him on the field of battle, and he addressed a
letter to Washington, requiring reparation for the
injury. He was on the 30th arrested for disobe
dience of orders, for misbehavior before the en
emy, and for disrespect to the commander-in-chief.
Of these charges he was found guilty by a court
martial, at which Lord Stirling presided, and he
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was sentenced to be suspended for one year.
He defended himself with his accustomed ability,
and his retreat seems to be justified from the cir
cumstance of his having advanced upon an enemy
whose strength was much greater than was ap
prehended, and from his being in a situation,
with a morass in his rear, which would preclude
him from a retreat, if the British should have
proved victorious. But his disrespectful letters to
the commander-in-chief it is not easy to justify.
His suspension gave general satisfaction to the
army, for he was suspected of aiming himself at
the supreme command. After the result of his
trial was confirmed by congress, in Jan., 1780, he
retired to his estate in Berkeley county, where he
lived in a style peculiar to himself. Glass win
dows and plaster would have been extravagances
in his house. Though he had for his compan
ions a few select authors and his dogs, yet, as he
found his situation too solitary and irksome, he
sold his farm in the fall of 1782, that in a differ-'
ent abode he might enjoy the conversation of
mankind. He went to Philadelphia, and took
lodgings in an inn. After being three or four
days in the city he was seized with a fever, which
terminated his life. The last words which he ut
tered were : " Stand by me, my brave grenadiers."
In his person Gen. Lee was rather above the
middle size, and his remarkable aquiline nose
rendered his face somewhat disagreeable. He
was master of a most genteel address, but was
rude in his manners and excessively negligent in
his appearance and behavior. His appetite was
so whimsical, that he was everywhere a most
troublesome guest. Two or three dogs usually
followed him wherever he went. As an officer
he was brave and able, and did much towards
disciplining the American army. With vigorous
powers of mind and a brilliant fancy, he was a
correct and elegant classical scholar, and he both
wrote and spoke his native language with propri
ety, force, and beauty. His temper was severe.
The history of his life is little else than the his
tory of disputes, quarrels, and duels in every part
of the world. He was vindictive, avaricious,
immoral, impious, and profane. His principles,
as would be expected from his character, were
most abandoned, and he ridiculed every tenet of
religion. He published about the year 1760 a
pamphlet on the importance of retaining Can
ada. After his death, memoirs of his life, with
his essays and letters, were published, 12mo.,
1792. — Lee's Memoirs.
LEE, RICHARD HENIIY, president of congress,
died June 19, 1794, aged 62. He was a native
of Virginia, and from his earliest youth devoted
his talents to the service of his country. His
father was Thomas Lee of Stratford, West
moreland county, and in 1749 president of
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the council, who died in 1750, leaving six sons,
all of whom were men of distinction ; Philip
Ludwell, a member of the council, Thomas Lud
well, a member of the assembly, llichard Henry,
Francis Lightfoot, William, and Arthur. llich
ard Henry was born Jan. 20, 1732. He was edu
cated in a school at Wakefield, Yorkshire, Eng
land. He had a seat in the house of burgesses
in 1757 ; but it was only after several years, that
he was able to surmount his natural diffidence.
His public life was distinguished by some remark
able circumstances. He had the honor of origin
ating the first resistance to British oppression in
the time of the stamp act in 1765. He pro
posed in the Virginia house of burgesses in 1773,
the formation of a committee of correspondence,
whose object was to disseminate information, and
to kindle the flame of liberty throughout the con
tinent. He was a member of the first congress, in
1774, and in October prepared the draft of the me
morial to the people of British America, ordered
by congress. He also made and ably supported
the Declaration of Independence June 7, 1776.
From June 10th till Aug., he was absent from
congress on account of the sickness of his family.
The second eloquent address to the people of
Great Britain was di'awn up by him as chairman
of the committee. After the adoption of the
articles of the confederation, he was under the
necessity of withdrawing from congress, as no
representative was allowed to continue in con
gress more than three years in any term of six
years ; but he was re-elected in 1784, and con
tinued till 1787. It was in Nov., 1784, that he
•was chosen president of congress. When the
constitution of the United States was submitted
to the consideration of the public, he contended
for the necessity of amendments previously to
its adoption. After the government was organ
ized, he and Mr. Grayson was chosen the first
senators from Virginia in 1789. This stp.tion he
held till his resignation in 1792, when John Tay
lor was appointed in his place. Mr. Lee died at
his seat at Chantilly in Westmoreland county,
Va. By two marriages he left many children.
He supported through life the character of a phi
losopher, a patriot, and a sage ; and he died as
he had lived, blessing his country. A letter
which he wrote against Deane is published in
the Virginia Gazette of Jan. 1, and the Indepen
dent Chronicle of Feb. 11, 1779, and a letter to
Gov. llandolph respecting the constitution in the
American museum. lie is supposed to have
been the author of observations leading to a fair
examination of the system of government, pro
posed by the late convention, in letters from the
Federal Farmer to the Republican, 1787. His
life, with his correspondence, was published by
R. II. Lee in 2 vols., 8vo., 1825. — Gazette of
United States, July 8, 1794; Marshall, II. 180-
183, 209, 402, 409; Gordon, II. 274; Warren,
I. 306; Holmes' Annals, II. 401; American
Museum, n. 553-558 ; Jay's Memoirs, II. 382.
LEE, FRANCIS LIGHT-FOOT, a statesman of
Virginia, brother of the preceding, died in April,
1797, aged 62. He was born Oct. 14, 1734.
He was educated under the care of Mr. Craig, a
domestic tutor. The estate, bequeathed him by
his father, was in the county of Loudoun, from
which county he was a member of the house of
burgesses in 1765. In 1772, having married the
daughter of Col. John Tayloe of Richmond, he
removed to that county. In 1775 the convention
of Virginia elected him a member of congress, in
which body he continued till the spring of 1779.
He was one of the signers of the Declaration of
Independence. Though he seldom took part
in the public discussions, his patriotic spirit was
not less determined than that of his brother,
Richard Henry Lee. After being called again
to the legislature of Virginia, he withdrew from
public life for the quietness of domestic retire
ment. In his disposition he was benevolent ;
his manners were courteous ; and in his inter
course with his friends he was uncommonly inter
esting and instructive. At the approach of death
the gospel gave him consolation and hope. He
died of the pleurisy, and his wife in a few days
afterwards died of the same disease.
LEE, WILLIAM, brother of the preceding, was
born about 1737, and was sent to London before
the Revolution as the agent of Virginia. Being a
zealous whig, and a favorite of the livery of Lon
don, he was elected one of the sheriffs in 1773.
During the Revolution he was the agent of con
gress at Vienna and Berlin.
LEE, ARTHUR, M. D., minister of the United
States to the court of Versailles, the youngest
brother of the preceding, died Dec. 14, 1782, aged
nearly 42. He was born in 'Virginia Dec. 20,
1740. He was educated at the university of
Edinburgh, where he also pursued for some time
the study of medicine. On his return to this
country he practised physic four or five years in
Williamsburg. He then went to London about
1766, and commenced the study of the law in the
Temple. At this time he became the intimate
friend of Sir William Jones. During his resi
dence in England he kept his eye upon the meas
ures of government, and rendered the most im
portant services to his country by sending to
America the earliest intelligence of the plans of
the ministry. When the instructions of Gov.
Bernard were sent over, he at the same time com
municated information to the town of Boston,
respecting the nature of them. In 1769 he wrote
his Monitor's letters in vindication of the colonial
rights. From 1770 to 1776 he enjoyed a lucra
tive practice of law. At this period he wrote a
series of letters, under the signature of Junius
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Americanus, which were much celebrated. In
1775 he was in London as the agent of Virginia,
and he presented, in August, the second petition
of congress to the king. All his exertions were
now directed to the good of his country. When
Mr. Jefferson declined the appointment of a min
ister to France, Dr. Lee Avas appointed in his
place, and he joined his colleagues, Dr. Franklin
and Mr. Deane, at Paris, in Dec., 1776. lie as
sisted in negotiating the treaty with France. In
1779 he and Mr. Adams, who had taken the
place of Deane, were recalled, and Dr. Franklin
was appointed sole minister to France. His re
turn had heen rendered necessary by the mali
cious accusations with which Deane had assailed
his public conduct. In the preceding year,
Deane had left Paris, agreeably to an order of
congress, and come to this country in the same
ship with the French minister, Gerard. On his
arrival, as many suspicions hovered around him,
he thought it necessary to repel them by attack
ing the character of his colleague, Dr. Lee. In
an inflammatory address to the public he vilified
him in the grossest terms, charging him with ob
structing the alliance with France, and disclosing
the secrets of congress to British noblemen. He
at the same time impeached the conduct of his
brother, William Lee, agent for congress at the
courts of Vienna and Berlin. Dr. Lee also was
not on very good terms with Dr. Franklin, whom
he believed to be too much under the influence
of the French court. Firm in his attachment
to the interests of his country, honest, zealous, he
was inclined to question the correctness of all the
commercial transactions in which the philoso
pher had been engaged. These dissensions among
the ministers produced corresponding divisions in
congress, and Monsieur Gerard had so little re
spect to the dignity of an ambassador, as to be
come a zealous partizan of Deane. Dr. Lee had
many friends in congress, but Dr. Franklin had
more. When the former returned to America
in 1780, such was his integrity that he did not
find it difficult to reinstate himself fully in the
good opinion of the public. In 1784 he was ap
pointed one of the commissioners for holding a
treaty with the Indians of the Six Nations. He
accordingly went to fort Schuyler and executed
this trust in a manner which did him much honor.
In Feb., 1790, he was admitted a counsellor of
the supreme court of the United States by a
special order. Having purchased a farm in the
county of Middlesex, near Urbana, on the banks
of the Ilappahannock, while assisting in planting
an orchard he exposed himself in a cold and rainy
day, in consequence of which he died of the pleurisy.
He was never married. He was a distinguished
scholar, being well skilled not only in the Greek
and Latin, but also in the French, Spanish, and
Italian languages. He was a man of uniform
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patriotism, of a sound understanding, of great
probity, of plain manners, and strong passions*
During his residence for a number of years in
England he was indefatigable in his exertions to
promote the interests of his country. Besides the
Monitor's letters, written in 1769, and the letters
of Junius Americanus, he Avrote an appeal to the
English nation ; he also published extracts from
a letter to the president of congress, in answer to
a libel by Silas Deane, 1780; and observations
on certain commercial transactions in France,
laid before congress, 1780. His life by 11. H.
Lee was published in 2 vols., 8vo., 1829. This
work contains many of his letters. His public
letters are published in Sparks' diplomatic cor
respondence.
LEE, ANN, founder of the sect of Shakers in
America, died Sept. 8, 1784. She was born in Man
chester, England, about 1736, and was the daugh
ter of a blacksmith, who lived in Toad lane. Her
trade was that of a cutter of hatter's fur. Not
being instructed in what she afterwards taught
was the way of rectitude, she committed the sin
of marrying Abraham Standley, a blacksmith, who
lived in her father's house. Her four children
died in infancy. At the age of twenty-two, about
1758, she became a convert to James Wadley,
who was originally a Quaker, but who, in 1747,
imagining that he had supernatural visions and
revelations, established the sect, called Shakers,
from their bodily agitations. Having become a
member of this society, — which was merely a
new form of the fanaticism of the French proph
ets fifty years before, — she passed through the
exercises of the sect. In her fits, as she clinched
her hands, it is said the blood flowed through the
pores of her skin. Her flesh wasted away, and in
her weakness she was fed like an infant. Thus
was she exercised nine years, by the end of which
time, it might be thought, she had lost her reason.
At length, about 1770, she made the discovery of
the wickedness of marriage, and op?ned her tes
timony against it. She called herself " Ann, the
word," signifying, that in her dwelt the word, and
to this day her followers say, that "the man who
was called Jesus, and the woman who was called
Ann, are verily the two first pillars of the church,
the two anointed ones," etc. Soon after Mrs.
Standley began her testimony against " the root
of human depravity," her exercises induced the
people of Manchester to shut her up in a mad
house, where she was kept several weeks. She
came to America in the ship Maria, Capt. Smith,
and arrived at New York in May, 1774, having as
her companions her brother, Wm. Lee, James
Whitakcr, John Hocknell, called elders, and oth
ers. As her husband's name is not mentioned,
probably he was left behind. During the voyage
the ship sprung a leak, and she and the elders,
being strong and lusty, put their hands to the
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pumps, and the ship arrived safe; in consequence,
as the Shakers say in their hook, of their " power,
which was above the natural power of man." In
the spring of 1776, she went to Albany, and
thence to Niskeuna, now Watervliet, eight miles
from Albany. Here she and her followers lived
unknown a few years, holding their meetings as
usual.
But in the beginning of 1780, when there was
an unusual religious commotion, principally among
the Baptists in New Lebanon and some adjacent
towns, in the midst of the wildness and extrav
agance of fanatacism some account of the elect
lady reached the bewildered enthusiasts. Imme
diately the road to Niskeuna was crowded with
deluded beings in quest of greater delusions.
The mother received them with many smiles, and
told them she knew of their coming before ; de
clared herself to be the woman clothed with the
sun, mentioned in the twelfth chapter of the rev
elation ; claimed the power of ministering the
Holy Spirit to whom she pleased ; asserted that
she was daily judging the dead of all nations,
•who came to her for that purpose ; and that no
favor could be shown to any person but through
the confession of their sins unto her. These im
pious pretensions, enforced upon persons, some
of whom -were already bereft of reason, by the
magical charms of wry looks, odd postures, whim
sical gestures, unintelligible mutterings, alternate
groans and laughter, and the solemn ceremony
qf hopping, dancing, and whirling, completed the
•work of converting rational beings into idiots,
and brought her in a fine harvest of deluded fol
lowers. One of these was Valentine Rathbun,
a Baptist minister ; who, however, in about three
months recovered his senses, and published a
pamphlet against the imposture. He says, that
there attended this infatuation an inexplicable
agency upon the body, to which he himself was
subjected, that affected the nerves suddenly and
forcibly, like the electric fluid, and was followed
by tremblings and the complete deprivation of
strength. When the good mother had some
what established her authority with her new dis
ciples, she warned them of the great sin of fol
lowing the vain customs of the world, and having
fleeced them of their ear-rings, necklaces, buckles,
and every thing which might nourish pride, and
having cut off their hair close by their ears, she
admitted them into her church. Thus metamor
phosed, they were ashamed to be seen by their
old acquaintance, and would be induced to con
tinue Shakers to save themselves from further
humiliation. The impostor asserted, that she was
not liable to the assaults of death, and that, when
she left this world, she should ascend in the
twinkling of an eye to heaven. But, unhappily
for her claims, she was not exempted from the
same event which befalls beasts, and her bones
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are mouldering in the vile ground. She died at
Watervliet. After her death James Whitaker
was head man; and after his death in 1787, Elder
Joseph Meacham and Lucy Wright, a native of
Pittsfield, Mass., stood in the " spiritual relation
of a joint parentage" to the society; and on
Meacham's death in 1796, Lucy Wright, as she
chose to be called, though her husband, Mr.
Goodrich, was still living, stood to the Shakers
"in the order of the first mother of their redemp
tion." There are now several societies in differ
ent parts of our country. Rejecting the ordi
nances which Jesus Christ most expressly enjoined;
and substituting revelations and impressions upon
their minds, in the place of the consistent and
plain instructions of Scripture, they are to be
classed with those, who choose rather to be
guided by their own reason or imagination, than
by the wisdom of God. Of the art of Mother
Ann, an instance is given in the account of Col.
John Brown. She had the gift of speaking in an
unknown tongue. An honest man, who was
once her follower, assured me, that in her pres
ence he once uttered many unmeaning words
with Latin and Dutch terminations, — for he had
studied the Latin Grammar and knew a little of
the Dutch, — and asked her what it meant, when
she replied, that " He was talking to the spirits,
and they understood his language." But, he
remarked, he knew better when she said so, for
he could not understand it himself. Tho. Brown,
who was once a Shaker, and published an account
of the Shakers in 1812, gives the following speci
men of one of his miraculous speeches : " Liero
devo jirankemango, ad sileabana, durem subramo
devirante diacerimango, jasse vah pe cri evaniga-
lio ; de vom grom seb crinom, os vare cremo
domo." Learned inquirers into the affinities of
spiritual languages and unknown tongues may
compare this precious morsel with the following,
which was uttered by one of Mr. Irving's congre
gation in London in 1831 :
" Hippo-gerosto hippo booros senoote
Foorime ooriu hoopo tanto noostin
Noorastin niparos hipanos bantos boorin
O Pinitos eleiastino halimungitos dantitu
Hampootine farimi aristos ekrampos
Epoongos vangami beresessino tereston
Sa tinootino alinoosis 0 fastos sungor 0 fuston sungor
Eletauteti erctine menati."
As to the moral character of Mother Ann, Reu
ben Rathbun, who was once a Shaker, testifies,
that he once saw her come to hard blows with
Wm. Lee. He adds, " it appears to me, that the
mother, at that time, was very much overcome
with strong liquor." He considered her also as
well skilled in profane and indecent language.
But, whatever might have been her moral deport
ment, it is one of the deplorable facts, of which
the history of the world is full, evincing the blind
ness and depravity of man, that rational beings
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should yield their minds to her blasphemous re
ligious pretensions. — New York Theol. Mag. I.
82 ; V. Rathbun's Hints ; D. Rathbun's, Taylor's,
West's and Brown's Account of Shakers.
LEE, JONATHAN, first minister in Salisbury,
Conn., died Oct. 10, 1788, aged. 70. He was the
son of David Lee of Coventry, who married in
1695 Lydia Strong, daughter of Jedidiah Strong
and Freedom Woodward, and grand-daughter of
Elder John Strong, and about 1709 removed from
Northampton to Coventry. David Lee's parents
were John Lee, who died in 1690, and Mary
Hart of Farmington. Mr. Lee was born in
Coventry about 1718; was graduated at Yale
college in 1742 ; and, having studied theology
with Mr. Williams of Lebanon, was ordained
Nov. 23, 1744. The church of Salisbury was
formed on the principles of the Cambridge plat
form ; the association of the county, adhering to
the Saybrook platform, suspended the ministers
who ordained Mr. Lee, — Mr. Humphreys of
Derby, Mr. Leavenworth of Waterbury, and Mr.
Todd of Northbury. A fierce zeal against the
zealous Calvinistic preachers occasioned this and
other strange proceedings in Connecticut, which
are related by Dr. Trumbull. His first wife was
Elizabeth, daughter of Rev. Joseph Metcalf of
Falmouth, Mass. ; his second was Love Graham
Brinkcrhoff, a widow, the daughter of Rev. Mr.
Graham. He had eleven children, of whom Eliza
beth married Rev. Thomas Allen ; Love married-
Rev. Aaron Cook Collins ; Elisha Lee lived in
Sheffield; and Dr. Chauncey Lee was minister of
Marlborough, Conn. He was an animated and
popular preacher. He published the election
sermon, 1766 ; a sermon on the death of Abigail
Spencer, 1787.
LEE, JOHN, born in Marblehead, at the com
mencement of the Revolutionary war commanded
a private armed vessel, owned by Jhe Tracys,
merchants. With a vessel of six iron guns and
some wooden ones he captured a heavy armed
merchantman ; approaching in the dark, and ex
tending indistinct lights beyond the bowsprit and
stern to produce the appearance of great length,
he produced a ready submission to the inferior
force of the shrewd Yankee. In his last days
he amended his habits, and became considerate,
meek, and patient in suffering, and was cheered
with the Christian hope. — Knapp's Lectures.
LEE, JOSEPH, died at Cambridge Dec. 5, 1802,
aged 93. A graduate of 1729, he was a justice
of the common pleas.
LEE, JOHN, a physician of great promise, died
at Ashfield, Mass., in 1813, aged 27. He was
born in Amherst. — Williams' Amer. Med. Biog.
LEE, JESSE, called the apostle of American
Methodism, died in August, 1816, aged 58, and
was buried at Baltimore. He was born in Prince
George's county, Virginia, and he was a minister
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of zeal and ability, and the apostle of Methodism,
especially in the New England States.
LEE, JOSEPH, first minister of Royalston, Mass.,
born at Concord, was graduated at Harvard in
1765; ordained Oct. 19, 1768; and died Feb. 16,
1819, aged 77. He published four sermons, 12mo.,
1782 ; a sermon at the ordination of W. B. Wes
son, 1803; half-century, 1818.
LEE, EZRA, captain, an officer in the Revolu
tionary war, died at Lyme, Conn., Oct. 29, 1821,
aged 72. He was selected by Gen. Parsons, at
the request of Washington, to navigate Bush-
nell's submarine vessel, called the marine turtle,
in the harbor of NBAV York, for the purpose of
blowing up the British ship Asia. The copper of
the ship prevented him from attaching the in
strument of destruction to it, though he toiled
two hours under water ; but the explosion at a
little distance alarmed the fleet and caused its
removal to the Hook. He was amiable and be
nevolent, and respected for his valor, having
fought bravely in several battles.
LEE, THOMAS SIM, governor of Maryland,
from 1779 to 1783, was afterwards a member of
congress, and of the convention which formed
the constitution. He was again chosen governor
in 1792. He died at Needwood, in Frederic
county, Nov. 9, 1819, aged 75. He was much
attached to agricultural pursuits.
LEE, CHARLES, attorney-general of the United
States, succeeded Mr. Bradford Dec. 10, 1795,
and was succeeded by L. Lincoln in 1801. lie
died in Fauquier county, Virginia, June 24, 1815,
aged 58.
LEE, HENRY, general, governor of Virginia,
died March 25, 1818, aged 62. He was born in
Virginia Jan. 29, 1756, and was graduated at
Princeton college in 1773. While his father, in
1774, was engaged in negotiating a treaty with
the Indian tribes, he was intrusted with the man
agement of the private concerns of the family.
In 1776 he was appointed a captain of cavalry
under Col. Bland ; in Sept., 1777, he joined the
main army. His skill in discipline and gallant
bearing soon attracted the notice of Washington.
He was soon promoted to the rank of major,
with the command of a separate corps of cavalry,
and then advanced to the rank of lieut.-colonel.
From 1780 to the end of the war he served under
Greene. The services of Lee's legion in various
actions were very important. He particularly
distinguished himself in the battle of Guilford ;
afterwards he succeeded in capturing fort Corn-
wallis and other forts ; he was also conspicuous
at Ninety^six and at the Eutaw Springs, In
1786 he was appointed a delegate to congress from
Virginia, in which body he remained till the con
stitution was adopted. In the convention of
Virginia he advocated its adoption. In 1791 he
succeeded Beverly Randolph as governor, and
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remained in office three years. By appointment
of Washington, he commanded the forces sent to
suppress the whiskey insurrection in Pennsylva
nia. In 1799, while a member of congress, he
was selected to pronounce a funeral oration on
Washington. After the accession of Mr. Jeffer
son in 1801 he retired to private life. In his last
years he was distressed by pecuniary embarrass
ments. While confined, in 1809, within the
bounds of Spottsylvania county for debt, he wrote
his valuable memoirs of the southern campaigns.
Being in Baltimore in 1814, when the mob at
tacked a printing-office, he was one of the de
fenders, and was carried to jail for safety ; in the
attack on the jail, when Gen. Lingan was lulled,
he was severely wounded. Repairing to the
West Indies for his health, on his return he
died at Cumberland island, near St. Mary's, Geor
gia, at Mrs. Shaw's, the daughter of Gen. Green.
By his wounds at Baltimore he was rendered de-
crepicl, and afterwards life was a burden. It has
been represented, that he was dissipated and
without moral principle. Being once taken by
an officer for debt, the ingenuity of the soldier
procured his release from the sheriff; he told
him, he was glad that he was about to lodge him
in prison, for he had been bitten by a mad dog
and might do mischief. After a while, as they
were riding, he began to rave, and the terrified
officer was glad to escape from a man who had
been bitten by a mad dog ! General Lee's son,
Major Henry Lee, published a work, entitled, the
campaign of 1781, etc., the design of which was
to vindicate the memory of his father against the
representations which are to be found in John
son's life of General Greene. General Lee him
self published an oration on the death of Wash
ington, 1800 ; memoirs of the war in the south, 2
vols., 8vo., 1812.
LEE, THOMAS BLAND, a member of the first
congress from Virginia, died at Washington
March 12, 1827, aged 65 years. He enjoyed the
friendship and confidence of Mr. Madison, and
was a man of high talents and public virtue.
LEE, ELIAS, a Baptist minister, died at Balls-
ton Spa in 1829, aged 63.
LEE, FRANCIS, died in Boston in 1830, leaving
by his will 20,000 dollars to the McLean asylum
for the insane.
LEE, ANDREW, D. I)., minister of Lisbon,
Conn., died Aug. 25, 1832, aged 87. He was
born in Lyme, the son of John Lee, a lawyer,
who died when his son was an infant. He grad
uated at Yale in 1766; was ordained at Hanover,
now Lisbon, in 1768 ; and toiled as a minister till
within a year of his decease. He was beloved
and honored. At the time of the Revolution he
was a glowing patriot. In his theology he avoided
extremes, and was rather liberal. He published
a fast sermon, 1776; at the funeral of B. Throop,
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1785 5 an inquiry as to a •willingness to be
damned, 1786 ; at the ordination of J. Ellis, 1789;
of D. Palmer, 1800 ; declensions of Christianity,
1793; at election, 1795 ; two discourses on Rom.
IX., 1811; a half-century sermon, 1818; sermons,
8vo., 1803. — Sprague's Annals.
LEE, ELISHA, a lawyer of Sheffield, Mass., died
in 1835, aged about 78. He was the son of Rev.
Jonathan Lee, and graduated at Yale in 1777 ;
in 1784 he settled at Sheffield. Mr. Sedgwick
was settled there previously. His wife was the
widow of Rev. Moses Allen of Georgia. He
sustained a high Christian character.
LEE, ELIZABETH, Mrs., died in Baltimore in
April, 1836, aged 112 years.
LEE, THOMAS G., M. D.,died in Charlestown,
Mass., Oct. 29, 1836, aged 28, superintendent of the
McLean asylum, a man of talents and usefulness.
LEE, HENRY, consul at Algiers, died in Paris
in 1837, aged 50. He was the son of Gen. Henry
Lee, born at Stratford, Va., and educated at Wil
liam and Mary college. He served as a major in
the war of 1812. In vindication of his father's
fame he published the campaigns of 1782, in the
Carolinas, 1782; observations on the writings of
Jefferson, 1832 ; an incomplete life of Napoleon,
1835. — Cycl. of Am. Lit.
LEE, THOMAS, died at Charleston, S. C., in
1839, aged 69. He was judge of the United
States court for South Carolina, and held various
offices, and was much respected.
LEE, SAMUEL, general, a soldier of the Revo
lution, died at Barre, his birth-place, Oct. 17,
1839, aged 72. His monument of marble, pro
tected by a portico and roof of granite, cost 2,000
dollars. It has inscribed these lines :
" To freedom's cause his ardent youth was given ;
His riper age to rural cares and Heaven."
His son Charles, a merchant of Boston, perished
in the Lexington steamboat, when it was burnt
in the sound, Jan. 13, 1840, aged 43. — Boston
Advertiser, July 13, 1851.
LEE, WILLIAM, died at Boston in 1840, for
merly consul at Bordeaux, late second auditor of
the treasury of the United States.
LEE, GIDEON, died at Geneva, N. Y., Aug. 21,
1841, aged 63 ; born in Amherst, Mass. He was
a dealer in leather in New York, and mayor ; also
member of congress. He was a man of talents,
integrity, and philanthropy, and acquired a large
fortune.
LEE, CHAUNCEY, D. D., minister of Colebrook,
Conn., died in Hartwick, N. Y., Nov. 5 or Dec.,
1842, aged 79. He was the son of Rev. Jona
than Lee of Salisbury by his second wife, who
was the widow Love Brinkerhof, the daughter
of Rev. John Graham of Southbury. He grad
uated at Yale in 1784, and studied law with Mr.
Reeve of Litchfield, and then practised there for
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a short time. He studied theology with Dr.
West, and was ordained in Sunderland, Vt., in
1790 ; another pastor was settled the same day in
another part of the town, who gained in a lawsuit\
some land which had been given to the first set
tled minister, as he was settled two minutes the
first! After about seven years he left S., and
resided in Lansingburgh and Hudson as a teacher
and preacher. Installed in Colebrook in 1800, he
remained there twenty-seven years, and was then
pastor of Marlborough, Conn., eight years. For
the last five or six years of his life he resided
with one of his sons in Hartwick, N. Y. By his
wife, Abigail Staunton, he had a son, Chauncey
Graham, who was a minister ; his second wife
was the widow of A. Spencer, the brother of
Chief Justice Spencer of New York ; his third wife
he married in 1818. Dr. Lee was courteous and
gentlemanly, and had a kindly, a benignant spirit.
In his theology he was attached to the ancient
school, and rejected modern novelties, against
which he wrote in his letters. He was a writer
of poetry and was skilled in music. Sometimes
he indulged in sallies of harmless wit, which
amused, but which he sometimes lamented. He
was a classical scholar and a man of learning.
He published an arithmetic, 1797; a poetical
version of Job, 1807 ; election sermon, 1813; on
the death of A. It. Robbins, 1813 ; sermons for
revivals, one vol., 1824; letters from Astarchus to
Philemon, 1833. — Sprague's Annals.
LEE, MOSES ALLEN, M. I)., professor of mate-
ria meclica in Berkshire Institution, died at Pitts-
field, Mass., June 16, 1842, aged 35. He was
the son of Samuel L. of Salisbury, and brother
of Dr. Charles A. L. ; and studied physic with his
brother-in-law, Dr. Lxither Ticknor. His wife
was Adelia, daughter of Joseph Merrick of Pitts-
field. He died of an epidemic erysipelas. — Wil
liams' American Medical Biography.
LEET, WILLIAM, governor of Connecticut,
died April 16, 1683. He came to NCAV England
in 1637, in company with Eaton and Hopkins.
Sept. 29, 1639, he, Mr. Whitefield, and others pur
chased Menunkatuck, or Guilford, of the sachem
squaw, the owner. The agreement was made at
New Haven, and was confirmed by the general
court Jan. 31, 1640. When the church of Guil
ford was formed in 1643, he was one of the seven
pillars, or first members. Whitefield and Higgin-
son were two others. For many years he was
the clerk of the town. He was an assistant of
New Haven colony from 1643 to 1657, and gov
ernor from 1661 to 1665 ; and after the union of
New Haven and Connecticut, was deputy governor
from 1669 to 1675, and governor, after Winthrop,
from 1676 to 1680. Having removed to Hart
ford, he died there. His sons were John and
Andrew ; his posterity are numerous. He con
ducted the public affairs with integrity and M'is-
dom. In 1660, when the regicides, Whalley and
Goffe, were in danger of being arrested, he nobly
protected them.
LEFFINGWELL, THOMAS, of Saybrook in
163 1, was one of the purchasers of the town of
Norwich, in 1659, from Uncas and his sons Owa-
neco and Attawanhood.
LE FORGE, HENRY, died at Hamden, Conn.,
in 1839, aged 100.
LEFTWICH, JOEL, general, died at Bedford,
Va., in 1846, aged 86 ; a brave soldier of the
Revolution.
LEGARE, HUGH SWINTON, died at Boston
June 20, 1843, aged about 50. He lived at
Charleston, S. C., and was a member of congress,
attorney-general, and charge to Brussels. He
was a scholar, and a writer in Southern Review.
LEGGETT, WILLIAM, died in New York May
24, 1839, editor of the Evening Post and the
Plaindealer, author of poems and miscellaneous
writings.
LEGGETT, ABRAHAM, major, a Revolutionary
soldier, died at New York in 1842, aged 88. He
was made prisoner at the capture of fort Mont
gomery.
LEIGH, BENJAMIN W., died at Richmond Feb.
2, 1849, aged 67. He was a lawyer and states
man. From 1829 to 1841 he was reporter of the
State of Virginia, frequently a member of the
legislature, and of the senate of the United States
from 1834 to 1837.
LELAND, JOHN, minister of Peru, Mass., died
in 1826. He was born in Holliston, settled in
1783, and received R. Hawkes as a colleague in
1815. Rev. Dr. Aaron W. Leland, of South
Carolina, is his son.
LELAND, JOHN, a Baptist minister, died at
Cheshire, Mass., Jan. 14, 1841, aged 85. He
was born at Grafton in 1754. From 1776 he
lived fourteen years in Virginia ; in 1791 he set
tled in Cheshire. In 1810 he had baptized 1163
persons, about 700 of them in Virginia. He was
a zealous political friend of Jefferson, and pub
lished various tracts, political and religious. His
people sent him to Washington city to present a
great cheese to Mr. Jefferson, whose politics they
approved. It was made from curds furnished on
a particular day by the dairyvvomen of the town ;
it weighed 1,450 pounds. The speaker presented
it in behalf of his people as " a peppercorn " of
their esteem for the democratic president. He
published oration, 1802; on the death of Mrs.
Northrop; the Virginia Chronicle, 12mo., 1790;
the rights of conscience, 1793.
LELAND, AARON, deacon, died at Sherburne,
Mass., Sept. 17, 1846, aged 95, the last of four
brothers -and four sisters, all of whom, but one,
lived above eighty years, showing a family of in
dustry and temperance.
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LEMELL, ELEANOR, died in Lafayette parish,
La., in 1839, aged 105.
LE MERCIER, ANDREW, minister in Boston,
died in 1762. He had for many years the care
of the Protestant French church, which was
founded by Protestants, driven from France by
the revocation of the edict of Nantes in 1686.
Daille was their first minister. The society being
very much diminished, he at length desisted from
his public labors, and the house was in 1748 occu
pied by Mr. CroswelPs church. He sustained a
reputable character. He published a church his
tory of Geneva, 12mo., 1732, and a treatise on
detraction. — Hist. Coll., III. 264, 301.
LENOIR, WILLIAM, general, died in 1839 at
fort Defiance, Wilkes co., N. C. ; an officer of the
Revolutionary war. He was president of the
senate ; a patriot, a man of integrity, generous,
hospitable.
LENOX, ROBERT, died in New York Dec. 13,
1839, aged 80; a merchant, a native of Scotland,
enterprising and wealthy.
LENT, ISAAC, died in Ballston, N. Y., in 1847,
aged 102. A native of New York, he was a
Revolutionary pensioner.
LENTHALL, ROBERT, minister of Weymouth,
was there from 1638 to 1640. Barnard, Hull,
and Jenner were ministers before him; all came
from England.
LEONARD, NATHANIEL, minister of Plymouth,
died in 1770, aged about 72. He graduated at
Harvard in 1719, and was ordained in 1724 as
successor of Mr. Little. He ceased to preach
from ill health in 1757, and removed to Norton,
and Mr. Robbins was ordained his successor in
1760.
LEONARD, ABIEL, D. D., son of Rev. Na
thaniel L., died in 1778, aged about 40. He
graduated at Harvard in 1759, and was a chap
lain in the army. He published a thanksgiving
sermon at Woodstock, Conn., 1767; at the ordi
nation of G. Wheaton, 1772.
LEONARD, GEORGE, LL. D., died at Rayn-
ham July 26, 1819, aged 90. Born in Boston, he
graduated at Harvard in 1748. He was a de
scendant of Judge Thomas Leonard, on whom,
after his death in 1713, S. Danforth published an
eulogy. His father was Col. George L., a judge
of probate and of the common pleas. He him
self sustained the same offices, and was one of
the first members of congress under the constitu
tion. He was a man of wealth. His ancestors
were as follows : Lennard, Lord Dacre, created
a baron in 1297 ; James and Henry Leonard set
tled at Raynham in 1652, and built the first forge
in America. Henry removed to New Jersey.
Of the great ages attained by this family, it is
stated that in 1793 it was known that one had
died aged 100, two over 90, seventeen over 80,
and fifty-three over 70. Thirteen had graduated
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at Cambridge. James L. lived in friendship with
King Philip. Among his descendants were
Judge Daniel Leonard of Bermuda, Judge
Ward Chipman of New Brunswick, Judge Wilde
of Massachusetts, L. White, Lieut.-Gov. Cobb,
and Dr. Howard.
LEONARD, ELIJAH, died Feb. 8, 1834, aged
74, minister of second society in Marshfield,
Mass., forty-five years. He graduated at Yale in
1783.
LEONARD, DAVID, a minister, graduated at
Providence in 1792, and published a sermon on
the death of John Holmes at Holmes' harbor,
1795; a masonic oration atNantucket, 1797.
LEONARD, ABIGAIL, died in Raynham Jan.
25, 1845, aged nearly 101 ; a descendant of John
Alden. Her husband was high-sheriff of Bristol.
In early life she was consecrated to the Redeemer.
She devoted a portion of every day to literature
and the bible. For the last fifteen years she
could read without glasses. She was cheerful,
pious, happy.
LEONARD, JONATHAN, Dr., died at Sandwich,
Mass., in 1849, aged 86 ; a graduate of Harvard
in 1786.
LE ROY, HERMAN, died in New York in 1841,
aged 84 ; a prosperous merchant.
LESCARBOT, MARC, published Histoire de la
Nouvelle France, two vols., 12mo., 2d edit., 1612.
LESLIE, GEORGE, minister of Washington,
N. H., died in 1800, aged 72. He was the son of
James, of Topsfield, a Scotchman ; was graduated
at Harvard in 1748; was ordained at Linebrook
in Ipswich in 1749, and dismissed in 1779; and
was pastor at W. from 1780 to his death. He
fitted young men for college, and some for the
ministry. He published a sermon at the ordina-
'tion of S. Perley. — Sjjraguc's Annals.
LEVERETT, JOHN, governor of Massachu
setts, died March 16, 1679, aged 62. He was the
son of Elder Thomas L., and came to this coun
try with his father in 1633, and was admitted a
freeman in 1640. He signalized himself by his
bravery in the early periods of his life. He was
long employed in public affairs and places of
great trust. He was in England at the Restora
tion, and appeared an advocate for the colony.
Upon his return to this country he was chosen a
member of the general court for Boston. In
1664 he was chosen major-general, and in 1665 an
assistant. He was elected governor in 1673 as
successor to Bcllingham, and was continued in
that office till his death. His administration is
spoken of with respect. He was succeeded by
Bradstreet. — Magnolia, II. 19 ; Neal, II. 32 ;
Hutcliinson.
LEVERETT, JOHN, president of Harvard col
lege, died May 3, 1724, aged 61. He was grand
son of Governor Leverett, and was graduated at
the college, which was afterwards intrusted to Ins
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LEWIS.
care, in 1680. He was first appointed a tutor in
this seminary. He next was chosen a member of
the house of representatives, and then speaker.
He was successively a member of his majesty's
council, a justice of the superior court, and a
judge of the probate of wills. After the death of
the vice-president Willard, he was chosen presi
dent, and was inducted into this office Jan. 14,
1708. In this station he continued till his sudden
death. He was succeeded by Wadsworth. Pres
ident Leverett received from the gift of God great
powers of mind, which he diligently cultivated.
He was conspicuous for his learning, and he was
an eminent divine as well as statesman. In an
early period of his life he occasionally preached.
So extensive was his knowledge and so correct
was his judgment, that in almost every difficult
case the people resorted to him for information
and advice. He was a man of courage and res
olution and firmness, as well as learning. No
difficulties discouraged him, when he once en
gaged in any affair of importance; he encoun
tered them with cheerfulness, and by his perse
verance and diligence frequently effected what
•would have been impossible to a mind of feebler
texture. When his object could not be accom
plished, he yielded it without disquietude. At
the head of the university he was respected, for
he possessed personal dignity and a talent of gov
ernment. There was a majesty in his speech,
behavior, and countenance, which secured the
reverence of all who conversed with him, and
impressed the youth who were subject to his au
thority with awe. Yet he did not lose their affec
tions, for his dignity was not the offspring of
pride. He was a good man, of unaffected piety
and of a holy life, a cordial friend to the Congre
gational churches, but placing religion not so
much in particular forms, as in the weightier mat
ters of righteousness, faith, and love. In his care
of the college he was indefatigable, and it flour
ished much during his presidency. He was its
glory, and he was also the ornament of his coun
try. His first wife was Margaret, daughter of
President Rogers ; his second, Mrs. Harris, who
afterwards married Dr. Colman. His daughter
Sarah married Rev. E. Wigglesworth ; Mary
married Major John Denison. — Funeral Sermons
by Appleton, Colman, and Wadsworth.
LEVERIDGE, WILLIAM, a preacher, arrived
at Salem in the ship James, Oct. 10, 1633, and
preached at Dover till 1635. In 1640 he was in
Sandwich, and was employed as a missionary in
1657 by the commissioners of the united colonies.
He accompanied the first settlers to Huntington,
L. I. ; but in 1670 he removed to Newtown,
•where he died, and where his posterity remain. —
Farmer.
LEWIS, DANIEL, first minister of Pembroke,
Mass., died in 1753, aged 68. He graduated at
Harvard in 1707. His daughter married Mr.
[lowland, minister of Carver from 1746 to 1804,
ivhen he died, aged 83 ; his grand-daughter mar
ried Mr. Weld, minister of Braintree. He pub
lished a sermon at ordination of J. Stacey, 1720 ;
the sins of youth, 1725 ; the election sermon,
1748.
LEWIS, JOSIAH, minister of Wellfleet, Mass.,
died in 1786, aged 84. A graduate of Harvard
in 1723, he was ordained in 1730.
LEWIS, JOHN, minister in Wethersfield, Conn.,
died April 28, 1792, aged about 42. Dr. Chapin
was his successor. He graduated at Yale in 1770,
was tutor from 1773 to 1778, and was ordained at
Rocky Hill in 1781. He published two sermons
on forbearance to weak consciences, 1789. —
Sprague's Annals.
LEWIS, FKAXCIS, a patriot of the Revolution,
died Dec. 30, 1803, aged 90. He was born in
Landaff, South Wales, in 1713. He was educated
at Westminster. In 1735 he arrived at New
York, where he engaged extensively in navigation
and foreign trade. His commercial transactions
induced him to visit Russia and other parts of
Europe. As agent for supplying the British
troops, he was at fort Oswego when it surren
dered to Montcalm, after Col. Mersey had been
killed by his side. He was carried a prisoner to
Montreal, and thence to France. After his liber
ation, in the Revolutionary movements of the
country he was among the first of " the sons of
liberty." In April, 1775, he was elected a mem
ber of congress ; the next year he signed the
Declaration of Independence. He was employed
in the importation of military stores and other
secret services. In 1775 he removed to Long
Island; in the autumn of 1776 his house was
plundered by the British ; his library and papers
were destroyed, and Mrs. Lewis taken prisoner.
She was confined several months by the brutal
foe, without a bed to lie upon ; her sufferings
were such as to occasion her death in one or two
years. Mr. Lewis in his last days lived in com
parative poverty. — Goodrich.
LEWIS, MERITS-ETHER, governor of Upper
Louisiana, died Oct. 11, 1809, aged 35. He was
born near Charlottesville, Va., Aug. 18, 1774.
He relinquished his academic studies at the age
of eighteen, and, after being a farmer for two
years, enlisted as a volunteer in the militia, called
out at that time, and soon entered the army.
From 1801 to 1803 he was the private secretary
of President Jefferson, who appointed him in 1803
to the command of the exploring party, directed
to cross the continent to the Pacific Ocean. His
unshaken firmness and undaunted courage, his
prudence and enterprise, besides his knowledge
of botany, qualified him for this service. Accom
panied by William Clarke, he returned from this
expedition in about three years. He was re-
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warded by a tract of land. Soon after his return
in 1S06 he was made governor of Louisiana, and
Clarke was made a general and agent for Indian
affairs. On his arrival, he was successful in com
posing some dissensions which had sprung up.
Some difficulty as to his accounts, which distressed
him, induced him to set out on a journey to
Washington. Landing at Chickasaw Bluffs, he
thence proceeded by land. On the borders of
Tennessee, about forty miles from Nashville, he
killed himself with a pistol and a razor. This
event was ascribed to the protest of some bills
which he drew on the public account. lie had
written an account of his expedition up the Mis
souri and to the Pacific, which was published,
under the care of Paul Allen, in 2 vols., 8vo.,
1814, in which appeared his life, written by Mr.
Jefferson.
LEWIS, COMFORT, Miss, died at Portsmouth,
N. II., Sept., 1834, aged 105.
LEWIS, LAWRENCE, major, died at Arlington
house, near Alexandria, Va., Nov. 20, 1839, aged
73. lie was of Wood Lawn, a nephew of George
Washington, the last of his near blood relatives.
His widow, grand-daughter of Martha Washing
ton, died in 1852, aged 83.
LEWIS, ISAAC, 1). D., minister of Greenwich,
Conn., died Aug. 27, 1840, aged 94, in the seventy-
second year of his ministry. Born in Stratford
Feb. 1, 1746, he graduated at Yale, in 1765, in a
class of forty-seven, which sent out twenty-one
ministers. His conversion was ascribed to the
preaching of Whitefield. He studied theology
with S. Bucll and J. Mills. He was first installed
at Wilton ; from 1786 to 1818 he was the minis
ter of Greenwich, Conn., and was dismissed at
his request at the age of 72; his son Isaac being
installed in his place the same day. He made
his last address at the communion-table at the
age of 90. lie was a man much venerated ; of
various learning, urbane, courteous, cheerful,
sound in the faith, fervent in his preaching. Of
his five sons, two were ministers and three were
lawyers. His wife died in 1829, aged 86. He
published a sermon at ordination of J. Mitchell ;
at Yale college, 1790; divine mission of Christ,
1796 ; election sermon, 1797 ; at inauguration of
President Day ; at installation of his son ; piety
in ministers.
LEWIS, ZACHARIAH, the son of Rev. Dr. Isaac
L., died at Brooklyn, N. Y., Nov. 14, 1840, aged
67. A graduate of Yale in 1794, he was licensed
to preach, and was several years a tutor in the
college. His health failing, he became the editor
of the Commercial Advertiser and New York
Spectator, and thus toiled seventeen years, from
1803 to 1820. He was secretary of the New
York tract and missionary societies, and vice-
president of the American bible society. He
edited the Missionary Register. He was a good
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scholar, a close reasoner, a man endowed with
the Christian virtues. He published an oration
before the Cincinnati, 1799 ; remarks and reply
relating to a subterranean wall hi South Carolina,
1802; reports of tract society. — Sprayue's
Annals.
LEWIS, SETH, died at Rapides, Louisiana, in
1848, aged 84. He was a district judge, and an
eminent jurist.
LEWIS, ISAAC, D. D., son of Rev. Dr. Isaac
L., and twin-brother of Zachariah, died at New
York Sept. 23, 1854, aged 82. He was gradu
ated at Yale in 1794 ; was a Presbyterian, settled
as pastor at Cooperstown in 1800, afterwards at
Goshen. On the decease of his father at Green
wich, Conn., in 1818, he was settled in that place,
and last at Bristol, R. I. One of his daughters
married Dr. Harvey E. Peet, president of the
New York institution for the deaf and dumb.
He published a sermon at ordination of J. Knight,
1804; at thanksgiving, 1812; on the divinity of
Christ ; address to Bible society, 1824 ; union
of believers with Christ ; Connecticut election
sermon, 1827. — Sprague's Annals.
LEWIS, MORGAN, general, died at New York
April 7, 1844, aged 89, the son of Francis Lewis
of New York, who signed the Declaration of In
dependence. He graduated at Princeton in 1773,
and was a colonel in the army at the surrender
of Burgoyne. In 1791 he was attorney-general,
chief justice in 1801, and governor in 1804. He
was a kind parent, a benevolent man, and a
good citizen.
LEWIS, DIXON H., a senator from Alabama,
died at New York Oct. 25, 1848, aged 46. A
native of Virginia, he was the largest man in con
gress.
LEYDT, JOHN, a Dutch minister in New
Brunswick, N. J., died in 1772. He sought the
independence of the Dutch churches in America,
and published several pamphlets on the subject.
He was answered by Mr. Ritzema of New York.
He assisted in forming the union in 1771.
LIL, the name of a slave who died in North
ampton about 1821, very aged. She lived in the
family of Col. Dwight, and then of his son, Presi
dent Dwight; and through her care were thir
teen children brought up. She was a pious
woman, a member of the church of N. She was
liberated, if not by the act of her master, yet by
the constitution of Massachusetts, many years
before her death. Though called Lil, her name
was Sylvia Church.
LILLY, ANNA, Mrs., died in Sutton July 6,
1843, aged 100. At the age of 90 she plied her
spinning-wheel.
LINCOLN, BENJAMIN, general, died May 9,
1810, aged 76. He was a descendant of Thomas
L., a cooper, who lived at Hingham, Mass., in
1636. His father was Benjamin L., a maltster
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and farmer, a member of the council, and one of
the principal men in the county. lie was born
Jan. 23, 1733, old style, and had few advantages
of education, though his brother, Bela, was a
graduate of 1754. His vocation was that of a
farmer till he was more than forty years of age.
He toiled every day, except when engaged in
civil or military duties, lie was a magistrate,
representative, and lieutenant-colonel of the
militia. In 1776 he was much employed in train
ing the militia, being major-general. In Feb.,
1777, he joined Washington's army with a re
inforcement, and was soon created a major-gen
eral by congress. On the approach of Burgoyne,
Washington sent him to join the northern army,
but first to receive at Manchester and form the
militia, as they came in, and to operate in the rear
of the enemy. September 13th, he detached Col.
Brown on a successful service. He himself joined
Gates on the 29th. Commanding in the Avorks,
he did not participate in the action of Oct. 7th.
The next day, as he was returning from a post he
had visited, a party of the enemy having been
advanced, he found himself within the reach of
their fire, and was severely wounded in the leg,
rendering it necessary for him to be removed to
Albany and to Hingham. It was several years
before the wound was healed ; but he was able
to rejoin Washington in August, 1778. Being
now appointed to the chief command in the
southern department, he proceeded to Charleston
in December. As the enemy in the same month
had landed in Georgia, and defeated Gen. Robert
Howe, and captured Savannah, Gen. Lincoln
marched in April, 1779, toward Augusta, in order
to cover the upper parts of Georgia, but was re
called to protect Charleston against Gen. Prc-
vosc. June 19, he attacked the enemy intrenched
at Stono ferry ; but as their works were strong,
and they were reinforced from John's island,
opposite to Stono, he was repulsed. On the ar
rival of Count D'Estaing with French troops, it
was resolved to recover Savannah. An assault
was made by the combined American and French
forces Oct. 9th, but it was unsuccessful, with the
loss of nearly one thousand men. In February,
1780, Sir II. Clinton conducted an expedition
from New York against Lincoln ; besieged him
in Charleston ; and constrained him to capitulate
May 12th. But, notwithstanding his misfortunes,
his reputation as an able, prudent, brave officer
was untarnished. Admitted to his parole, he
returned to Hingham ; but was exchanged in
November. In 1781 he joined the army of
Washington. At the siege of Yorktown he com
manded a central division ; the same terms were
granted to Cornwallis which were granted at
Charleston to Lincoln, who was appointed to re
ceive the submission of the captured troops, and
to conduct them to the field where their arms
were deposited.
Congress elected him, Oct. 31, 1781, the secre
tary of war, which office he discharged, still re
taining his rank in the army, for three years,
when he retired to his farm, with a vote of con
gress commending his capacity and faithfulness
in his office and his meritorious services in the
field. In 1786 and 1787 he was intrusted with
the command of the militia for the suppression
of the Shays insurrection, lie proceeded to
Hampshire and to Pittsfield in Berkshire and re
stored order. In May, 1787, he was elected
lieutenant-governor ; but at the next election the
democratic party gained the ascendency and
chose Samuel Adams. In 1789 he was appointed
collector of the port of Boston, which office he
held nearly twenty years, till he resigned it two
years before his death. He had offered to re
sign it a year or two before Gen. Dearborn suc
ceeded him. In 1789 he was a commissioner to
treat with the Creek Indians, and in 1793 a com
missioner to make peace with the western Indians.
After a short attack of disease he died at Hing
ham. He lived with his wife fifty-five years.
His sons, Benjamin and Theodore, were gradu
ates of 1777 and 1785; the former, who married
a daughter of James Otis, died in 1788. Gen.
Lincoln was temperate, frugal, and methodical ;
cheerful in his temper ; and for a great part of
his life a deacon in the church. No profane ex
pression ever fell from the lips of this soldier.
About the year 1799 lu's pecuniary responsibili
ties for Gen. Knox subjected him to much tem
porary inconvenience ; but his large income for
the last twenty years enabled him to distribute
considerable sums amongst his children, lie
published, in the historical collections, observa
tions on the climate, etc., of the eastern counties
of Maine; on the religious state of the same,
vol. IV. ; on the Indian tribes, their decrease and
claims, vol. v. — Hist. Collections, ill. 233-255
LINCOLN, LEVI, attorney-general of the United
States and lieutenant-governor of Massachusetts,
died at Worcester April 14, 1820, aged 71. He
was a descendant of Samuel L. of Hingham, who
came to this country from Hingham, England, in
1637. He was graduated at Harvard college in
1772, and settled as a lawyer in Worcester, where
he rose to distinction. In the party divisions
during Mr. Adams' administration, he was a zeal
ous democrat or republican. He wrote, at that
period, a series of political papers, called farm
er's letters. On the triumph of Mr. Jefferson he
was appointed attorney-general, March 5, 1801,
as successor of Charles Lee, and was succeeded
by R. Breckenridge, Dec. 23, 1805. In 1807 and
1808 he was chosen lieutenant-governor, and on
the death of Mr. Sullivan, acted as governor in Jan.,
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1809. His speech, delivered at a difficult political
period, reprehending the resistance to the em
bargo laws, was not responded to in sentiment
by the senate and house ; and in the spring Mr.
Lincoln, who was a candidate for the office of
governor against Mr. Gore, failed to be elected.
In 1810 Mr. Gerry was chosen governor and Mr.
Gray lieut-governor. His widow, Martha, died
at Worcester in April, 1828, and was followed to
the grave by two sons, then governors, — Levi,
governor of Massachusetts, and Enoch, governor
of Maine.
LINCOLN, ENOCH, governor of Maine, son of
the preceding, died Oct. 8, 1829, aged 40. He
was born Dec. 28, 1788, and having studied law,
settled in Fryeburg, Maine, and afterwards in
Paris. He was a member of congress from 1819
to 1826. Having been elected governor, he en
tered upon the duties of his office in Jan., 1827.
In the autumn of the same year and in 1828 he
was re-elected ; but at the election in Sept., 1829,
he was not a candidate. He died at Augusta,
whither in bad health he had taken a journey
of fifty or sixty miles, to deliver an address to a
female academy. He was never married. As
the governor of the State he maintained the
right of Maine to the whole controverted eastern
territory, and denied the power of the United
States to alienate it, whatever might be the deci
sion of the umpire to whom the dispute between
Great Britain and the United States as to the
northeastern boundary had been referred. He
published, while he lived at Fryeburg, the village,
a poem, 1816. The first vol. of Maine historical
collections contains a few remarks on the Indian
languages, and an account of the Catholic mis
sions in Maine, found among his papers. — Spec.
American Poetry, II. 303.
LINCOLN, NATHANIEL, captain, a Revolution
ary soldier, died at Windham in 1834, aged 105.
LINCOLN, HUTH, widow, died in Mansfield,
Mass., March 27, 1842, aged 101. Her husband
had been dead twenty-six years ; for his military
services she received a pension of 100 dollars a
year for ten years. She left many descendants.
LINCOLN, WILLIAM, died at Worcester Oct.
5, 1843, aged 42. The son of Levi Lincoln, he
graduated at Harvard in 1822. He studied law
with his brother, and entered into business with
R. Newton. He edited the National JEgis ;
with Mr. Baldwin he published the Worcester
magazine. He was an early and efficient member
of the antiquarian society. His own descent he
could trace from Samuel of Hingham, Mass., who
came from Hingham, England, in 1637. He
published an oration, 1816; W. magazine and
historical journal, 1826-7 ; address on Mr.
Baldwin, 1835; history of Worcester, 1837. —
Hist. Coll. x. 3d series.
LINCOLN, THEODORE, judge, died at Dennys-
ville, Me., June 15, 1852, aged 89. A son of
Gen. Benjamin L., he was an early settler of D.,
and was judge of the court of common pleas. His
father had bought much eastern land of Judge
Lowell and others. Mr. L. was the father of
Benjamin L., professor of anatomy and surgery
at Burlington university, who died in 1835, aged
32, being a graduate of Bowdoin in 1823.
LINCOLN, LUTHER B., died in Deerfield May
11, 1855, aged 53, then a member of the legisla
ture. He was a graduate of 1822. He was a
teacher in Sandwich and Greenfield, and precep
tor of Deerfield academy, and Derby academy in
Hingham. For thirty years he ardently devoted
himself to the work of teaching.
LINDALL, TIMOTHY, speaker of the house of
Massachusetts, died at Salem in 1760, aged 82.
He was the son of Timothy of Duxbury and Salem ;
and grandson of James of Duxbury, as early as
1640, who died in 1652. He graduated at Har
vard in 1695, and was judge of the court of com
mon pleas.
LINDSAY, WILLIAM, colonel of the United
States army, died at Huntsville, Ala., in 1838.
He was a native of Virginia, much respected.
LINDSLEY, PHILIP, D. D., died of apoplexy
at Nashville, Tenn., May 25, 1855 ; he was at
tending, as a delegate from New Albany, the old
school general assembly. He was once a pro
fessor at Princeton college, then president of the
university of Nashville. He died in the midst of
his children, in the place where he spent the
years of his manhood. He published a plea for
the theological seminary at Princeton ; discourses
on the improvement of time, 1823 ; baccalaureate
address, 1831.
LINES, HENRY, a Baptist minister, died in
New Haven, Conn., in 1835, aged 52.
LINGAN, JAMES MACCUBIN, general, a victim
to a mob, was a native of Maryland, and an offi
cer of the Revolutionary army ; he fought in the
battle of Long Island. At the surrender of fort
Washington he was taken prisoner and shared in
the sufferings of the horrible prison ship. At
the close of the war he returned to Georgetown,
of which port he was appointed by Washington
the collector. For several years before his death
he lived retired in the country, happy in domestic
life. He was murdered by a mob at Baltimore,
his brains being beaten out with clubs, July 28,
1812, aged about 60. The following is a brief
history of the event. The war had just been
declared against Great Britain. In June, Mr.
Hanson had published something in his Federal
Republican, which so irritated the populace, that
they destroyed the printing-office. Mr. H., re
solving to issue his paper anew, took possession
of a house on Sunday, July 26, supported by a
number of his zealous political friends, well
armed. The next morning the paper was issued,
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containing animadversions on the police and peo
ple of Baltimore ; in the evening the house was
attacked, but, assisted by Gens. Lingan and Lee
and about twenty others, he repelled the assault
by firing upon the assailants, killing Dr. Gale and
•wounding others. In the morning of the 28th,
the gentlemen in the house found it necessary
for their security to surrender to the civil au
thority, and were conducted to jail. In the
evening of the same day a bloodthirsty mob
forced the jail, and killed Gen. Lingan and
dreadfully mangled eleven others. A few es
caped in the crowd. Eight of the wounded
were thrown together in front of the jail, sup
posed to be dead. Of this number were Mr.
Hanson and Gen. Lee. Dr. Hall preserved them
by persuading the mob to intrust the supposed
dead bodies to his care. He removed them
first to the jail room, and then to places of safety.
LINING, JOHN, M. D., an eminent physician
and philosopher of South Carolina, died in 1760.
He was born in Scotland in 1708, and received an
excellent education. He came to America about
the year 1730. He corresponded with Dr.
Franklin on the subject of electricity, and was the
first person who introduced an electrical appa
ratus into Charleston. He practised physic in
Charleston nearly thirty years, and was reckoned
one of its most skilful physicians. He published
a series of judicious statical experiments, which
were conducted from 1738 to 1742. In 1753 he
published a history of the yellow fever, which was
the first account of that disease that was given to
the world from the American continent. — Mil
ler, II. 364.
LINN, WILLIAM, D. D., minister in New York,
died at Albany, Jan., 1808, aged 55. He was
born in 1752, and was graduated at the college
of New Jersey in 1772. He was at first connected
with the Presbyterian church in Pennsylvania.
During the war of the Revolution he was chap
lain in the army. A few years after the peace he
attached himself to the Reformed Dutch church,
and settled in the city of New York. He was
finally constrained to resign his pastoral charge
by indisposition, though his friends regarded his
complaints as imaginary. Before disease broke
down his strength, he was distinguished and use
ful. His eloquence was for the most part natural,
impressive, and commanding, though at times he
had too much vehemence in his manner. He
married a daughter of Rev. John Blair. One of
his daughters married Chas. B. Brown ; another,
Simeon De Witt. The following are his publica
tions : a military discourse, delivered in Carlisle,
1776; the spiritual death and life of the believer,
and the character and misery of the wicked, two
sermons in American preacher, I. ; a sermon on
American independence, 1791 ; sermons histori
cal and characteristical, 12mo., 1791 j at a fast,
1798; a funeral eulogy on Washington, 1800. —
Panoplist, III. 431, 432; Life of J. P. Linn, 1.
LINN, JOHN BLAIR, D. D., a poet, and minis
ter in Philadelphia, the son of the preceding,
was born in Shippensburgh, Penn., March 14,
1777. He early evinced a strong attachment to
books. At the age of thirteen he returned from
a seminary inFlatbush on Long Island, where he
had passed two or three years in the full enjoy
ment of health, and delighted with the beauties
of nature. He now entered Columbia college,
and engaged in a new scene, being subject to new
discipline and interested by new associates.
During the four years which he passed in the col
lege, he evinced a powerful tendency to poetry
and criticism. Admiring the great works of the
dramatic writers, it was natural for him, when un
restrained by deep seriousness, and in a city,
where there is an established theatre, to hasten
where he might behold these works invested with
the charms of life and action on the stage. But
though the theatre became his chief passion, he
was not seduced into vicious pleasures. When
his academical career was ended, he was eighteen
years of age, and his choice of a profession fell
upon the law. He was placed under the direc
tion of Alexander Hamilton, who was the friend
of his father ; but he did not apply himself with
much assiduity to his new pursuit. He regarded
the legal science every day with new indifference,
and at the close of the first year relinquished the
profession altogether. Before this event he ven
tured to produce a new dramatic composition,
called Bourville Castle, on the stage. Its success
was encouraging ; but other objects now claimed
his attention, and his dramatic career was entirely
renounced. His passion for theatrical amuse
ments yielded to affections of a more serious and
beneficial nature, and those religious impressions,
which from his earliest infancy he had occasion
ally felt, now sunk permanently into his heart.
He was ordained, June 13, 1799, as the colleague
of Rev. Dr. Ewing of Philadelphia. The two
succeeding years of his life were passed in dili
gent and successful application to the duties of
the pastoral office, which were rendered more ar
duous by the increasing infirmities of his vener
able colleague. In the summer of 1802 his con
stitution suffered irreparable mischief from a fever.
His brain afterwards was frequently seized with
dizziness, which was followed by a heavy depres
sion of mind. He struggled manfully with his
infirmity, but his strength was wasting, and he
was sinking into the earth.
The gloom which hovered over his mind be
came deeper and more settled. He could look
beyond the grave Avithout fear, but the terrors of
death were almost insupportable. In the summer
of 1804 he was induced to take a journey to the
eastern States. The images of melancholy, the
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gloom, the despondence, the terror, which he had
before felt, still, however, attended him. He re
turned to Philadelphia in July. Aug. 30th, he
arose with less indisposition than usual. On the
evening of that day he had scarcely laid his head
upon the pillow, when he said to his wife : " I feel
something burst within me. Call the family
together ; I am dying." A stream of blood now
choked his utterance. But after a short interval
he recovered strength to exclaim with fervency,
clasping his hands and lifting his eyes, " Lord
Jesus, pardon my trangressions, and receive my
soul ! " Such was the termination of his life, Aug.
30, 1804.
He prepared for the press and published soon
after he left college, without his name, 2 volumes
of miscellanies in prose and verse, 12mo. His
poem on the death of Washington was written in
imitation of the manner of Ossian, and published
in 1800; and his powers of genius in 1801 ; a
funeral sermon on Dr. Ewing, 1808 ; his two
tracts in the controversy with ])r. Priestley, 1802.
After his death there was published from his man
uscripts, Valerian, a narrative poem, intended in
part to describe the early persecutions of Chris
tians, and rapidly to illustrate the influence of
Christianity on the manners of nations, 4to.,
1805. Prefixed to this is a sketch of Dr. Linn's
life by Mr. Brown, written in a style of uncom
mon excellence. — His Life in Valerian ; Port
folio, new series, I. 21-29, 129-134, 195-203;
Blair's Funeral Sermon.
LINN, JOHN, died at Belvidere, N. J., in 1841,
aged 108 ; a native of Maryland. He was a car
penter, and assisted in building a log court-house
near Washington city.
LINN, LEWIS F., died at St. Genevieve, Mo.,
in 1843, aged 49. He was a physician, and a
senator of the United States, born near Louis
ville, Ky. Mr. Benton, in a speech, delineated
his character. — Williams' Am. Mcd. l>iog.
LINSLEY, JAMES II., died in Stratford, Conn.-,
Dec. 26, 1843. He was a native of Brandford,
and a graduate of 1817. For several years he
was a Baptist minister, till his health failed. Di
recting his attention to natural history, he pub
lished various communications in the American
Journal of Science ; a catalogue of mammalia in
vol. XLIII., and of birds in vol. XLIV.
LIPPITT, CHARLES, died at Providence Aug.,
1845, aged 91; an officer of the Revolution, a
good citizen, and a Christian.
LISLE, HENRY M., a native of the West Indies,
died at Tortola in 1814. He resided at Milton,
Mass., and practised law. He published an ora
tion on the death of Washington, 1800 ; Milton
hill, a poem ; a masonic address, 1805.
LISPCOMB, JAMES, major, died in Columbus,
Miss., in 1850, aged 55, president of the State
senate. He was esteemed for his large and lib
eral mind.
LITCHFIELD, PAUL, minister of Carlisle,
Mass., died in 1827, aged 75. Born in Scituate,
he graduated at Harvard in 1775, and was or
dained in 1781. He published a sermon to mis
sionary society, 1805. — Spr ague's Annals.
LITCIIFIELD, JOSEPH, minister in Kittery,
Me., died in 1828, aged 78. Born in Scituate, he
graduated at Brown university in 1773, and was
settled in the second church in 1782.
LITCIIFIELD, FRANKLIN, Dr., died at Puerto
Cabello, where he was U. S. consul, in 1844, aged
about 59. He was the son of Rev. Paul L., and
a descendant, in the seventh generation, of Law
rence L., who removed soon after 1643 from
Barnstable to Scituate. He graduated at Har
vard in 1810.
LITTELL, WILLIAM, LL. D., died in Frank
fort, Ivy., in 1824. He was reporter of the de
cisions of the court of appeals, the compiler of
Littell's laws of Kentucky.
LITTLE, EPIIRAIM, minister of Plymouth, died
Nov. 23, 1723, aged 47. Born in Scituate, he
graduated at Harvard in 1695, and was ordained
the successor of Mr. Cotton, Oct. 4, 1G99, having
first preached there two years. He was succeeded
by Mr. Leonard. He was active and useful, gen
erous and charitable.
LITTLE, EPHRAIM, minister of Colchester,
Conn., died in 1787, aged about 80. A descen
dant of Thomas, who early lived in Plymouth, he
was the son of David, a lawyer of Scituate, Mass.,
and graduated at Harvard in 1728. He was or
dained in 1732. — Sprague's Annals.
LITTLE, DANIEL, minister of Kennebunk, Me.,
died in 1801, aged 77. Born in Newburyport, he
was educated under Mr. Scwall, but obtained an
honorary degree from Cambridge in 1766. He
was for half a century pastor of the second church
in AVclls. He was cheerful and sociable, and vis
ited his people from house to house. He disliked
controversy. A fifth of his income he spent in
hospitality and charity. He sometimes acted as
a missionary in the new plantations. N. H.
Fletcher became his colleague in 1800.
LITTLE, HARVEY D., a lawyer, was born at
Wethersfield, Conn., in 1803. For several years
he followed the business of a printer and editor
in Ohio, and afterwards entered the profession of
the law. He died at Columbus Aug. 22, 1833,
aged 30. He edited the eclectic and medical
botanist.
LITTLE, MOSES, a distinguished physician of
Salem, was a descendant of George L., who lived
in Newburyport in 1640. He was born there in
1766, graduated at Harvard college in 1787, and
died at Salem Oct. 13, 1811, aged 45. He and
his wife, the daughter of George Williams, and
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two children, were the victims of the consumption.
In his surgical practice he once successfully punc
tured the liver. — Thacher.
LITTLE, EZEKIEL, died in Atkinson, N. H., in
1840, aged 77. He graduated at Harvard in
1784, and was for many years the popular teacher
of the Eliot school in Boston.
LITTLE, EDWARD, died in Danville, Me., Sept.
21, 1849, aged 76 ; for years a lawyer of New-
buryport. From Portland he removed to D.,
where he throve by the good management of real
estate, derived from his father. He endowed an
academy, and contributed liberally for charitable
and religious objects.
LITTLEJOHN, JOHN, a Methodist minister,
died in Louisville, Ivy., in 1836, aged 82.
LLTTLEPAGE, LEWIS, an adventurer, died
July 19, 1802, aged 39. He was born at South
Wales, Hanover co., Va., Dec. 19, 1762, and lost
his father when he was young. At the request
of his uncle, Benjamin Lewis, Mr. Jay, minister
at Madrid, was induced to patronize him, and re
ceived him into his family in Sept., 1780, and
soon advanced for him, as his uncle failed to make
him a remittance, about 1,000 dollars, in cash.
He volunteered under the Duke De Crillon in
the expedition against Minorca in 1781, and af
terwards accompanied the Count Nassau to the
siege of Gibraltar, and thence to Constantinople
and Warsaw. The king of Poland made him his
confidential secretary in 1786, and sent him as
his agent or ambassador to Russia. On the rev
olution in Poland he returned to Virginia, and
died at Fredericksburg. When he was at New
York, in Nov., 1785, Mr. Jay arrested him for
the debt of 1,000 dollars, without interest, which
•was still unpaid. For this he challenged Mr.
Jay. The correspondence between him and Mr.
Jay was published in 1786. Mr. Jay had reason
to complain, not only of the pecuniary imposition,
but also of other abuse, as he expresses himself,
from the young man " with my money in his
pocket and my meat still sticking in his teeth."
LITTLE TURTLE, an Indian chief, was de
feated by General Wayne in 1792, on the Miami.
The confederated Indians were Wyandots, Miamis,
Pottowattomies, Delawares, Shawanoes, Chippe-
was, Ottoways, and some Senecas. He lived
many years afterwards, and was esteemed and
respected for his courage and humanity, his wis
dom and consistency. He did much to abolish
the horrible custom of human sacrifices. His
grave is near fort Wayne.
LIVERMOltE, SAMUEL, LL. D., chief justice
of New Hampshire, died in May, 1803, aged 71.
He was probably a descendant of John L., who
lived in Watertown in 1642 ; and was born in
Waltham about 1732. He graduated at Prince-
toil in 17-52, was judge-advocate of the admiralty
court before the llevolution, from 1782 to 1790
was a judge of the superior court, and a senator
of the United States from 1793 to 1801. He
died at Holderness. His wife was the daughter
of A. Browne, of Portsmouth. His sons, Edward
St. Loe and Arthur, were judges of the same
court. — Farmer.
LIVERMORE, ARTHUR, judge, died in Camp-
ton, N. H., July 1, 1853, aged nearly 67, being
born in Londonderry July 26, 1776. From 1799
to 1816 he was a judge of the supreme court of
NCAV Hampshire, afterwards a member of con
gress, and from 1825 to 1833 a judge of the
common pleas. He was a son of Judge Sam
uel L.
LIVINGSTON, ROBERT, first possessor of the
manor of Livingston, in the State of New York,
and founder of one of the most distinguished
families in this country, was the son of John L.,
who received the degree of A. M. at Glasgow in
1621, and was the minister of Ancrum ; but, re
fusing to take the oath of allegiance in 1663, was
banished, and removed to Rotterdam, where he
was a minister of the Scot's chapel, and died Aug.
9, 1672, aged 69. Robert L. was born at An
crum in 1654, and came to this country with his
nephew about 1672. He was a member of the
council in 1698. His wife was the sister of Peter
Schuyler, and the widow of Nicholas Van Rens-
selaer. He left three sons : Philip, Robert, and
Gilbert. A Mr. Livingston, perhaps Mr. R. L.,
who was many years speaker of the assembly of
New York, died at Boston Oct. 1, 1728.
LIVINGSTON, PETER VAN BRUGH, a native
of New York, was graduated at Yale college in
1731, and was long distinguished as a judicious,
well-informed, and public-spirited man. He died
at an advanced age. — Miller, II. 345.
LIVINGSTON, PHILIP, a patriot of the Rev
olution, grandson of Robert L., died June 12,
1778, aged nearly 62. He was the fourth son of
Philip L., who inherited the manor of Livings
ton. He was born at Albany Jan. 15, 1716, and
was graduated at Yale college in 1737, and soon
afterwards settled in New York, where he en
gaged prosperously in commercial pursuits. In
1754 he was elected an alderman; the population
of the city was then only about ten thousand. In
1759 he was chosen a member of the assembly,
the whole colony having only one hundred thou
sand inhabitants. He exerted an important in
fluence in promoting measures for the prosecution
of the French war, and also for advancing the
interests of agriculture and commerce. In 1764,
in the answer to a speech of Lieutenant-Governor
Coldcn, which he wrote, he spoke of " that great
badge of English liberty, of being taxed only
with our own consent." In 1770, when Edmund
Burke was agent of the colony in London, Mr.
Livingston, as chairman of the committee of the
legislature, conducted the correspondence Avith
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him. He was chosen a member of congress in
1774, and again in 1776, when he signed the
Declaration of Independence, and also in 1777.
It was in a state of ill health, from the dropsy in
the chest, that he took his seat in congress at
York, Penn., May 5, 1778. He had visited his
friends in Albany, and bid adieu to his family at
Kingston, whither they had been obliged to ilec
from the city. His health rapidly declined.
During his few last days his son, Henry Philip,
then a member of Washington's family, was with
him. His wife was the daughter of Col. Dirck
Ten Broeck, by whom he had several children.
He firmly believed the truths of Christianity, and
was a humble follower of the Saviour. By a do
nation in money in 1746 he laid the foundation of
the professorship of divinity at Yale college. —
Goodrich' s Lives.
LIVINGSTON, WILLIAM, LL.D., governor of
New Jersey, brother of Philip L., died July 25,
1790, aged 67. He was born about the year
1741. He afterwards pursued the study of the
law. Possessing from the gift of God a strong
and comprehensive mind, a brilliant imagination,
and a retentive memory, and improving with un-
weared diligence the literary advantages which he
enjoyed, he soon rose to eminence in his profes
sion. He early embraced the cause of civil and
religious liberty. When Great Britain advanced
her arbitrary claims, he employed his pen in op
posing them and in vindicating the rights of his
countrymen. After sustaining some important
offices in New York he removed to New Jersey,
and as a representative of this State was one of
the principal members of the first congress in
1774. After the inhabitants of New Jersey had
sent their governor, William Franklin, under a
strong guard to Connecticut, and had formed a
new constitution in July, 1776, Mr. Livingston
was elected the first chief magistrate, and such
was his integrity and republican virtue, that he
was annually re-elected till his death. During
the war he bent his exertions to support the in
dependence of his country. By the keenness
and severity of his political writings he exasper
ated the British, who distinguished him as an ob
ject of their peculiar hatred. His pen had no in
considerable influence in exciting that indignation
and zeal which rendered the militia of New Jer
sey so remarkable for the alacrity with which, on
any alarm, they arrayed themselves against the
common enemy. He was in 1787 a delegate to
the grand convention which formed the constitu
tion of the United States. After having sustained
the office of governor for fourteen years, with great
honor to himself and usefulness to the State, he
died at his seat near Elizabethtown. He was suc
ceeded by William Patterson. Judge Brockholst
L. was his son. Mr. Jay married his daughter.
Governor Livingston was from his youth re-
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markably plain and simple in his dress and man
ners. Always the enemy of parade, he never
exhibited himself in splendor. He was convivial,
easy, mild, witty, and fond of anecdote. Fixed
and unshaken in Christian principles, his life pre
sented an example of incorruptible integrity, strict
honor, and warm benevolence. He obeyed the
precepts of the gospel, and, in the opinion of his
Christian friends, was sincerely pious. He relied
for salvation solely upon the merits of Christ. In
his political principles he was purely republican,
having an abhorrence of the monarchical form of
government. He was en excellent classical
scholar. His writings evince a vigorous mind and
a refined taste. Intimately acquainted with the
celebrated writers of his day and of the preced
ing age, he acquired an elegance of style which
placed him among the first of modern writers.
He was unequalled in satire. He published a
poem, called philosophical solitude ; a funeral eu-
logium on President Burr, 1758, which is consid
ered as a fine specimen of eloquence ; a letter to
the bishop of Landaff, occasioned by some pas
sages in his sermon, 1767 ; and a number of mis
cellaneous tracts, in various periodical works.
The review of the military operations of 1753-
1756, ascribed to him and W. Smith and Scott,
which is in Massachusetts historical collections,
vii., a literary gentleman of Philadelphia has
said was not written by them. His son, William
Livingston, issued proposals, a few years ago, for
publishing memoirs of his life, with his miscella
neous writings, in prose and verse ; but the work
was not given to the public. — Macwhorter's Fu
neral Sermon; Miller's Retrospect, II. 369.
LIVINGSTON, ROBERT R., chancellor of the
State of New York, died Feb. 26, 1813, aged
66. He was born Nov. 27, 1746. His grand
father, Robert L., was the second son of the first
owner of Livingston's manor, and died at Cler-
mont June 27, 1775, aged 88 ; his father, Robert
Livingston, was a judge of the supreme court,
who died at Clermont Dec. 9, 1775, aged 58 ; his
mother was Margaret Beekman. He was grad
uated at King's college, New York, in 1765.
Having studied law with Wm. Smith, he was ap
pointed by Gov. Tryon recorder of the city ; an
office which he resigned at the beginning of the
Revolution. In April, 1775, he was elected from
Duchess county to the assembly. In 1776 he
was a member of congress, and was placed on the
committee with Jefferson, Adams, Franklin, and
Sherman, for drawing up the Declaration of
Independence, and on other important commit
tees. In Aug., 1781, he was appointed secretary
for foreign affairs ; and he commenced his duties
Oct. 20th. The foreign concerns of congress had
been previously conducted by the committee of
secret correspondence. He was diligent, prompt,
and energetic. Domestic affairs were also in
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part intrusted to him. His valuable correspon
dence is published in the diplomatic correspon
dence, edited by Jared Sparks. On his resigna
tion in 1783 he received the thanks of congress,
and was succeeded by Mr. Jay. Under the new
constitution of New York, which he assisted in
forming as chairman of the committee, he was
appointed chancellor, and continued in that place
till 1801. In 1788 he was chairman of the State
convention which adopted the federal constitution,
uniting his efforts at that time with those of Jay
and Hamilton. In 1794, on his declining the
place of minister to France, which Washington of
fered him, it was given to Mr. Monroe. But in 180 1
he was induced to proceed as minister plenipo
tentiary to Paris, appointed by Mr. Jefferson. By
the first consul he was received with respect, and,
after his mission had closed, Napoleon presented
him with a splendid snuff-box, with a miniature of
himself by Isabey. Assisted by Mr. Monroe, he
made the very important purchase of Louisiana,
for 15,000,000 of dollars. In Paris he formed an
intimacy with Robert Fulton, whom he assisted
by his counsels and money. After his resigna
tion and the arrival of Gen. Armstrong, his suc
cessor, he travelled in Italy, Switzerland, and Ger
many, returning to his seat, called Clermont, on
the Hudson, in June, 1805. He rebuilt a ven
erable old mansion, his summer residence, on
an ample patrimonial estate, called the upper
Livingston's manor, and devoted the rest of his
days to the promotion of improvements in agri
culture and the arts. He caused the introduction
of steam navigation in this country. He intro
duced the merino sheep in New York, and the use
of gypsum ; of an agricultural society, and of the
academy of fine arts, he was a president. He
died suddenly at Clermont. His widow, Maria,
died at Washington in March, 1814. He pub
lished an oration before the Cincinnati, 1787 ; an
address to the society for promoting the arts,
1808; essays on agriculture; a work on the
merino sheep.
LIVINGSTON, JOHN II., D.D., president of
Queen's college, New Jersey, died Jan. 29, 1825,
aged 78. He was born at Poughkeepsie, N. Y.,
in 1746, and graduated at Yale college in 1762.
In May, 1776, he went to Holland to prosecute
his theological studies in the university of Utrecht,
where he resided about four years, obtaining the
degree of doctor in theology in 1770, in which
year he returned to this country and became the
pastor of the Dutch Reformed church in the city
of New York. At this period the Dutch churches
in this country were divided into the Conferentie
and the Coetus parties ; by the efforts of Dr. Liv
ingston a happy union was effected in 1772, and
the Dutch churches became independent of the
classis of Amsterdam. For this independence he
had negotiated while in Holland. In 1784 he
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was appointed theological professor in the Dutch
church. The duties of minister and professor he
performed till 1810, when, on the removal of the
theological school to Queen's college, New
Brunswick, he was appointed the president of the
college, in which place he remained till his death.
His father was Henry, his grandfather was Gil
bert L., son of Robert. His wife was a daughter of
P. Livingston; one of her sisters married S. Van
Rensselaer ; another was the mother of Mrs. D.
Clinton. He was eminently learned, pious, and
useful. lie published two sermons on growth in
grace in American preacher, vol. I.; sanctuary
blessings, vol. III.; before New York missionary
society, 1799 ; address at the commencement at
Queen's college, 1810. — Observer, March 20,
1851.
LIVINGSTON, BROCKHOLST, LL. D., judge
of the supreme court of the United States, died
March 18, 1823, aged 65. He was the son of
Gov. William L. of New Jersey, and was born in
New York Nov. 25, 1757. He was graduated
at Princeton college in 1774 ; and in 1776
entered the family of Gen. Schuyler, commander
of the northern army, and was afterwards at
tached to the suite of Arnold, at the time of the
capture of Burgoyne. In 1779, when Mr. Jay,
who had married his sister, repaired to the court
of Spain, he accompanied him as his private sec
retary. After an absence of three years Col.
Livingston returned and studied law. He was ad
mitted to the bar in April, 1783 ; was appointed
judge of the State supreme court Jan. 8, 1802 ;
and in Nov., 1806, was appointed, in the place of
Mr. Patterson, judge of the supreme court of the
United States. He died at Washington during a
session of the court. His daughter, Louisa C.,
died Feb., 1807, aged 16. It is said that, having
killed a man in a duel in early life, the recollec
tion of the deed imbittered the remainder of his
days. His mind was acute and powerful, and he
was distinguished as a scholar and jurist.
LIVINGSTON, HENRY, general, a soldier of
the Revolution, was born at Livingston manor
Jan. 19, 1752. He joined his country in the
struggle for liberty , accompanying a detachment
of militia from his native county, he acted as
lieutenant-colonel at the capture of Burgoyne.
He died at his residence in the manor of Livings
ton, May 26, 1823, aged 71, and his remains were
placed in the family vault. The poor and indus
trious experienced his benevolence and liberality.
He was a friend to the people, aiming always to
secure their liberties and rights. His princely
estate was inherited by Henry L., who married
the eldest daughter of Judge W. W. Van Ness,
and died at Claverack Nov. 14, 1828.
LIVINGSTON, HENRY WALTER, judge, a
member of congress from 1803 to 1807, was
born in 1764 ; was graduated at Yale college in
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1786; was secretary in 1792 to Mr. Morris, am
bassador to France; and died at Livingston's
manor, in Linlithgow, N. Y., Dec. 22, 1810, aged
42. lie was educated to the law, and possessed
good talents. Of the court of common pleas for
Columbia county he was the judge. In his man
ners he was pleasing, and in his habits of life cor
rect and honorable.
LIVINGSTON, JAMES, colonel, died in Sara
toga co., N. Y., in 1832, aged about So, a soldier
of the Revolution.
LIVINGSTON, GILBERT R., D. D., pastor of
a Dutch church in Philadelphia, died March 9,
1834, aged 48. His son, II. G. Livingston, who
graduated at Williams' in 1840, was the minister
of Carmel and the successor of Dr. Bethune in
Philadelphia; and died Jan. 27, 1855, aged
nearly 34. — Observer, Feb. 15.
LIVINGSTON, EDWARD, an eminent jurist,
died at Rhinebeck May 23, 1836, aged 71. He
was descended from a Scottish family, and born
in 1764, at Clermont, Livingston's manor, N. Y.
He was graduated at Princeton in 1781. Admit
ted to the bar in 1785, he pursued his profession
till 1795, when he became a member of congress
from the city of New York, and continued till
1802, when he was appointed attorney of the
United States for the district of New York. He
was also mayor of the city. Removing to New
Orleans in 1804, he there was eminent as a law
yer. At the invasion of Louisiana he acted as
the aid of Gen. Jackson. In 1823 he was again
a member of congress ; in 1829 he was elected a
member of the Senate; in 1831 he was appointed
secretary of State, and in 1833 minister to
France. His death was sudden, said to be caused
by drinking cold water, when heated. He was
employed with others by the legislature of Louis
iana to prepare a system of jurisprudence and
also of municipal law, and performed this service
with great industry and deep research. His
Penal Code, his own unaided work, is a monu
ment of his profound learning and of his desire
to promote the welfare of mankind.
LIVINGSTON, EDWARD, died at Albany in
1840, formerly speaker of N. Y. assembly, and
district attorney.
LIVINGSTON, EDWARD P., died at his seat at
Clermont, N. Y., in 1843, aged 63. He was
many years a member of the State senate; in
1830 he was lieutenant-governor.
LIVINGSTON, PETEK R., died at Rhinebeck,
N. Y.,in 1847, aged 81. He had been a member
of the State senate and of congress.
LIVINGSTON, JOHN R., died at Red Hook
Sept. 27, 1851, aged 98, a brother of Robert
R. L. His father was Robert; so also his grand
father; and next the first Robert L. He had
lived fifteen years at Red Hook, one mile below
the chancellor's house. He had been previously
a merchant in New York ; lu's house was sup
planted by the Broadway house.
LLOYD, JAMES, M. D., died at Boston in
March, 1810, aged 82. He was the grandson of
James L., who came from Somersetshire in 1670,
and, after residing a short time at Shelter Island,
where he married a lady, settled at Boston, where
he died in July, 1693. His father was Henry L.,
who inherited an estate, purchased by his father,
in Queens county, Long Island ; his mother was
the daughter of John Nelson of Boston, a " Rev-
olutioner," or one of those, who put down the
tyranny of Andros in 1689. Dr. L. was born at
Long Island in April, 1728. He was educated at
Stratford, where he formed a friendship with
"Wm. Samuel Johnson, which lasted through life.
Having studied medicine for a time in Boston, he
proceeded to England, where he attended the
London hospitals two years. In 1752 he returned
to Boston and soon obtained extensive practice.
He introduced improvements in surgery, such as
ligatures for cautery, and amputation by double
incision. Among his numerous pupils were Gen.
Warren, Rand, Jeffries, and Clark. During the
occupation of Boston by the British, he remained
in the town. He thought the Revolutionary
movements were premature. Yet he was devoted
to his profession, and not a zealous politician.
The dispersion of his connections and the loss of
his two sons threw a heavy cloud upon his mind
for several years, and taught him the lesson,
which comes to all, that the earth is not the
abode of happiness. In the war the enemy
stripped of its timber an estate of six or seven
hundred acres, inherited from his father, at
Queen's Village or Lloyd's Neck, on Long Island,
about forty miles from New York, bordering on
the sound. In 1789 he went to England to seek
compensation, but without success, as he would
not consent to become a British subject, nor even
express an intention of becoming such. His fine
health, which continued to old age, was first inter
rupted by a fall from his horse. He left two
children ; James L., and Sarah, relict of Leon
ard Vassal Borland. For nearly sixty years he
was in extensive practice. He was educated in
the Episcopal form and was a worshipper at Trin
ity church. His house was the seat of hospital
ity. Multitudes of the poor experienced his
kindness. lie had no avarice of money. His
professional services to them were without charge,
and he was also frequently the almoner to their
necessities. In his last will he directed the can-
celment of the debts due from those who could
ill afford to pay them. — Thatcher's Med. Biog.,
359-376.
LLOYD, EDWARD, governor of Maryland, died
at Annapolis June 2, 1834, aged 55. He was a
senator of the United States, and respected in
public and private life.
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LLOYD, JAMES, a senator of the United States,
the son of the preceding, died at New York in
1831, aged 62. He was born in Boston in 1769,
and graduated at Harvard college in 1787. He
afterwards, in order to acquire a knowledge of
commercial pursuits, entered the counting-house
of Thomas Hussell. About the year 1792 he
visited Europe and resided for some time in Rus
sia. In 1808 he was elected senator, and in a
period of great political excitement and national
difficulty was a distinguished member of con
gress. He opposed the war of 1812. He was
re-elected senator in 1822, and during a service
of five years was incessant in his efforts to pro
mote the public interest. He was the chairman
of two important committees, of commerce and
naval affairs. The result of his investigations
appeared in several pamphlets. He married, in
1809, the daughter of Samuel Breck of Philadel
phia. He published remarks on the report of
the committee of commerce of March, 1826, on
the British colonial intercourse.
LOBDELL, HENKY, M. D., missionary at
Mosul, died March 25, 1855. He graduated at
Amherst in 1849. His wife, Lucy C. L., survived
him. They sailed from Boston in Nov., 1851.
His great fitness for his work and his faithfulness
make his early removal from his field of labor a
deep mystery.
LOCKE, Mrs., wife of Edwin Locke, mission
ary to the Sandwich Islands, died at Waialua,
Oahu, Oct. 20, 1842. She was the daughter of
Rev. Joseph Rowell, of Cornish, N. H., and
sailed from Boston in 1836. Her brother,
George B. R., joined the mission only a fortnight
before her death. Her end was peaceful.
LOCKE, EDWIN, missionary to the Sandwich
Islands, died Oct. 28, 1843. He was born at
Fitzwilham, N. H., in 1813, and arrived at Waia
lua in 1837. He had taught a manual labor
school with great skill and success. His mission
ary brethren held him in high esteem. By his
death his three daughters were left without father
or mother.
LOCKE, JOSEPH, judge, died in Lowell, Nov.
10, 1853, aged 81. Born in Fitzwilliam, N. H.,
he graduated at Dartmouth in 1797, studied law
with Mr. Bigelow, settled at Billerica, and re
moved to Lowell in 1833. He was judge of the
court of police 13 years. He had also been a
member of the convention to revise the constitu
tion in 1820, and a representative and councillor.
LOCKE, JOHN, a lawyer, brother of Judge L.,
died in Boston March 29, 1855,aged91. Hegrad-
uated in 1792, and settled in Ashby. In 1820 he
was a member of the convention for revising the
constitution ; from 1823 to 1829, a member of
congress. He removed to Lowell in 1837, and
thence to Boston in the family of his son, John
G. Locke,
LOCKE, JOHN, professor, died at Cincinnati
July 8, 1856, aged 64. Born at Fryeburg, Me.,
his education was at Bethel academy, and he
early distinguished himself by mechanical and
scientific attainments. He received a medical
degree at Yale, and was then a surgeon in the
navy. For thirty years he had lived in the west.
In 1836 he was chosen professor of chemistry in
Cincinnati. He was an accurate geologist, and
skilled in every department of natural history.
His " magnetical researches " extended widely :
the country was also indebted to him for his
" magneto-astronomical clock."
LOCKWOOD, JAMES, minister of Wethersfield,
Conn., died July 20, 1772, aged 57. The son of
James and Lydia L., he was born in Norwalk in
1714, and graduated at Yale in 1735; and was
ordained in 1739, as successor of S. Mix. He
favored Mr. Whitefield when he soon after visited
the New England churches. He declined the
presidency of Princeton and Yale colleges, to
both of which he was invited, for he was strongly
attached to his people. He was a scholar, and
theologian, and a good preacher, a man of pru
dence, benevolence, and faithfulness. His wife
was Mary, daughter of Rev. Moses Dickinson of
Norwalk. Dr. Marsh succeeded him. He pub
lished the election sermon, 1754, also in 1763;
on the death of Col. Williams, 1755 ; of A. Wood-
bridge, 1758; at ordination of E. May, 1756;
thanksgiving for peace, 1763. — Spr ague's Annals.
LOCKWOOD, SAMUEL, D. D., minister of An-
dover, Conn., the brother of Rev. James L., died
in 1791, aged 69. He was graduated at Yale
college in 1745, and was ordained in 1749. He
contributed, in the year 1787, 100 pounds toward
completing the philosophical apparatus in Yale
college. His death occurred at New Lebanon,
whither he went for his health ; but he was
buried at A. He was highly respected and had
great influence. No religious society was more
prosperous than his. He published the election
sermon, 1774. — Holmes' Life of Stiles, 390,
397 ; Sprague's Annals.
LOCKWOOD, WILLIAM, minister of Glasten-
bury, Conn., died June 23, 1828, aged 75. He
graduated at Yale in 1774, and was a tutor.
LOCKWOOD, JESSE, missionary among the
Arkansas Cherokees, died at Dwight July 11,
1834, aged 31. A native of North Salem, N. Y.,
he graduated at Williams college in 1830. His
labors at Dwight were only for a few months.
His wife was a daughter of Rev. M. Sawyer of
Gloucester. His character is described in the
Missionary Herald for 1834.
LOGAN, JAMES, distinguished for his learning,
died Oct. 31, 1751, aged about 77. He was
descended from a family formerly of Scotland,
and was born at Lurgan in Ireland in 1674. Pos
sessing a good genius and being favored with a
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suitable education, he made considerable profi
ciency in the sciences and in various branches of
polite literature. As he was educated in the sen
timents of the Quakers, and was acquainted with
AVilliam Penn, he was induced to accompany that
gentleman to Pennsylvania in 1G99, in his last
voyage. Under his patronage he was much em
ployed in public affairs. By his commission he
was, in 1701, appointed secretary of the province
and clerk of the council. He afterwards held the
offices of commissioner of property, chief justice,
and president of the council. He attached him
self rather to the interest of the proprietary and
his governor than to that of the assembly, and
was in consequence in the earlier periods of his
life very unpopular ; but he soon gave general
satisfaction in the discharge of the duties of his
several offices. Upon the death of Governor Gor
don in Oct., 1736, the government of course de
volved upon him, as president of the council ; and
during his administration of two years the utmost
harmony prevailed throughout the province. Sev
eral years previously to his death he retired from
public affairs and spent the latter part of his life
principally at Stanton, his country seat, near Ger-
mantown, where he enjoyed among his books
that leisure which he much relished, and was
much employed in corresponding with learned
men in different parts of Europe. He was well
versed in both ancient and modern learning ; he
had made considerable proficiency in oriental lit
erature ; he was master of the Greek, Latin,
French, and German languages ; and he was well
acquainted with mathematics, natural and moral
philosophy, and natural history. In his religious
sentiments he was a Quaker. He had collected
with great care a library of more than three
thousand volumes, which at that time was by far
the largest in Pennsylvania, and particularly rich
in works in the Latin and Greek languages, and
in the most curious, rare, and excellent scientific
publications. This valuable collection of books,
usually called the Loganian library, was be
queathed by its possessor to the citizens of Phila
delphia, and has since been deposited in one of
the apartments belonging to the library company
of that city.
Mr. Logan published in the philosophical trans
actions, for 1735, an account of his experiments
on maize. The work was afterwards published in
Latin, entitled, cxperimenta et meletemata de
plantarum generatione, etc., Leyden, 1739; and
in London by Dr. Fothergill with an English ver
sion on the opposite page, 1747. He also pub
lished canonum pro inveniendis refractionum, turn
simplicium.tum in lentibus duplicium focis, demon-
strationes geometrica?, etc., Leyden, 1739; and
a translation of Cicero's treatise de senectute,
1741. This was the first translation of a classi
cal author made in America. — Fraud's Hist.
Pennsylvania,!. 448,479; Miller's Eetr. I., 134;
II. 340.
LOGAN, MARTHA, a great florist, was the
daughter of llobert Daniel of South Carolina.
In her fifteenth year she married Geo. Logan,
son of Col. Geo. L., and died in 1779, aged 77.
At the age of 70 she wrote a treatise on garden
ing.
LOGAN, an eloquent chief, was the second son
of Shikellemus, a celebrated chief of the Cayuga
nation, whose residence was at Shamokin. Logan
was the friend of the white people, he admired
their ingenuity, and wished to be a neighbor to
them. In April or May, 1774, when Logan's
residence was on the Ohio, his family was mur
dered by a party of whites under the command
of Capt. Michael Cresap. The occasion of this
outrage was a report, that the Indians had killed
a number of white persons, who were looking
out for new settlements. A Avar immediately
commenced, and during the summer great num
bers of innocent men, women, and children fell
victims to the tomahawk and scalping-knife of
the Indians. In the autumn of the same year a
decisive battle was fought at the mouth of the
great Kanawha, between the collected forces of
the Shawanese, Mingoes, and Delawares, and a
detachment of the Virginia militia. The Indians
were defeated, and sued for peace. Logan, how
ever, disdained to be seen among the suppliants.
But, lest the sincerity of a treaty from which so
distinguished a chief absented himself, should be
mistrusted, he sent by a messenger the following
speech, to be delivered to Lord Dunmore, gov
ernor of Virginia : " I appeal to any white man
to say, if ever he entered Logan's cabin hungrv,
and he gave him not meat ; if ever he came cold
and naked, and he clothed him not. During the
course of the last long and bloody war, Logan
remained idle in his cabin, an advocate for peace.
Such was my love for the whites, that my coun
trymen pointed as they passed, and said, Logan
is the friend of white men. I had even thought
to have lived with you, but for the injuries of one
man. Colonel Cresap, the last spring, in cold
blood and unprovoked, murdered all the rela
tions of Logan, not even sparing my women and
children. There runs not a drop of my blood in
the veins of any living creature. This called on
me for revenge. I have sought it ; I have killed
many ; I have fully glutted my vengeance. For
my country I rejoice at the beams of peace.
But do not harbor a thought that mine is the
joy of fear. Logan never felt fear. He will
not turn on his heel to save lus life. AVho is
there to mourn for Logan ? Not one."
After this peace Logan sunk into a deep mel
ancholy, and declared that life was a torment to
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him. He became in some measure delirious.
He went to Detroit, where he yielded himself to
the habit of intoxication. On his return, between
that place and Miami, he was murdered. In
October, 1781, Mr. Heckewelder was shown the
spot, by some Indians, where this event was said
to have occurred. — Jefferson's Notes on Vir
ginia, query vi., and appendix.
LOGAN, BENJAMIN, died in Shelby county,
Ky., Dec. 11, 1802, at an advanced age. He took
an active part in favor of his country in 1776.
An early adventurer to Kentucky, he was one of
her most able defenders against the savages.
The fate of the western country seemed to Irang
upon him. He was upright, sincere, honorable,
of unbounded hospitality.
LOGAN, GEORGE, M. D., a senator of the
United States, the grandson of James Logan,
died at Stanton April 9, 1821, aged 66. He was
the son of William L., and was born at Stanton,
near Philadelphia, Sept. 9, 1753. After being
three years at the medical school of Edinburgh,
he travelled on the continent, and returned to
this country in 1779. After applying himself for
some years to agriculture, and serving in the legis
lature, he was induced in June, 1798, to embark
for Europe, with the sole purpose of preventing a
war between America and France. He made his
way from Hamburg to Paris ; and there was in
troduced to Merlin, the chief director. At this
period Mr. Gerry, the American minister, had de
parted, an embargo had been laid on our ship
ping, and many seamen had been imprisoned.
Dr. L. persuaded the French government to raise
the embargo, and prepared the way for a nego
tiation, which terminated in peace. He was in
deed reproached, and accused of being sent by
a faction ; but on his return he vindicated himself
in a letter of Jan. 12, 1796. He was a senator
in the seventh and eighth congresses from 1801
to 1807. He went to England in Feb., 1810, on
the same peaceful mission, which led him to
France, but not with the same success. Mr. Du-
ponceau said of him : " And art thou too gone,
Logan ? friend of man ! friend of peace ! friend
of science ! Thou, whose persuasive accents could
still the angry passions of the rulers of men, and
dispose their minds to listen to the voice of reason
and justice? " He was an active member of the
board of agriculture, and of the philosophical
society. He published experiments on gypsum,
and on the rotation of crops, 1797.
LOGAN, DEBORAH, widow of Dr. George L.,
died at Stenton, Pa., in 1839. She was skilled in
the early history of Pennsylvania, and was a mem
ber of the Pennsylvania historical society.
LOMBARD, SOLOMON, first minister of Gor-
ham, Maine, died in 1781. Born in Barnstable,
Mass., he graduated at Harvard in 1723 ; was
ordained in 1756, and dismissed in 1764. —
Sprague's Annals.
LONG, SARAH, a colored woman, died in To
ronto, Canada, June 16, 1856, aged 119.
LONGFELLOW, STEPHEN, LL. D., died in
Portland Aug. 2, 1849, aged 73. Born in Gor-
ham, he was a descendant of William L. of New-
bury, who died in 1690, aged 37 ; he graduated at
Harvard in 1798, and passed his life as an eminent
lawyer, chiefly at Portland. Of the Hartford
convention he was a member from Maine. The
poet, Longfellow, is his son. He compiled six
teen vols. of the Massachusetts Reports and
twelve vols. of the Maine, extending over a period
of thirty years.
LONGLEY, WILLIAM, died at Hawley, Mass.,
July 8, 1836, aged 92. He was one year in the
French war and five years in the Revolutionary war.
LONGLEY, EDMUND, died in Hawley, Nov.
29, 1842, aged 96. He built the first framed
house in the town, then called Number Seven, and
was an officer in the Revolutionary war.
LONGLEY, JONATHAN, minister of North-
bridge, Mass., died in 1850, aged 60.
LONGMERE, DAVID, D. D., died at Glouces
ter, N. J., Sept. 15, 1855, aged 62.
LOOKER, OTHNIEL, died in Palestine, Illinois,
in 1845, aged 87. Born in New Jersey, he was
a soldier of the Revolution ; he emigrated in
1804 to Ohio, and was a senator of Hamilton
county, a judge, and acting governor in 1814.
LOOMIS, HARVEY, first minister of Bangor,
Maine, was a native of Torringford, Conn. ; grad
uated at Williams college in 1809; and was or
dained Nov. 27, 1811, when the church of Bangor
was formed, consisting partly of members of what
was called the Orrington church. After the toils
of fourteen years, on Sunday morning, Jan. 2,
1825, Mr. Loomis walked in a snow-storm up to
his meeting-house, with a sermon on this text :
" Tliis year thou shalt die." When he had seated
himself in the pulpit, he had a fit of the apoplexy
and died in ten minutes, aged about 36. His
successor was S. L. Pomeroy. He was a popular
and useful preacher, in his character and manners
adapted to the people of his parish, skilful in the
guidance and control of the young and active
minds, which on the banks of the Penobscot were
laying the foundations of a large town. In his
sermons he dispensed with circuitous preambles ;
was direct, concise, brief, energetic, seldom ex
ceeding twenty-five minutes ; and thus he had no
hearers of a lagging attention. His prayer
meetings were conducted with great freedom and
wisdom. Why he was cut down in the midst of
his important labors is one of the great mysteries
of Providence.
It is said, he once preached a sermon of terror
on future punishment ; when he had for a hearer
LOOM IS.
a rich log owner, who commended him, and said,
" I have no 1'aith in your doctrine, but I wish you
to preach it, till the stealers of my logs shall
learn to be honest ; " and that the same man
gave a bell for the church to call them to meet
ing. Doubtless God's word is full of terror to
the wicked, and the God of justice and of truth
will not fail to execute his purposes. He pub
lished a sermon before the Maine Missionary So
ciety, 1823. On occasion of his death a young
lady of his society wrote some lines, called " The
deserted conference-room," of which the follow
ing is an extract :
" Ye need not hang that candle by the desk,
Ye may remove his chair, and take away his book ;
lie will not come to-night. He did not hear the bell,
Which told the hour of prayer.
Do ye remember, how he 'd sometimes sit
In this now vacant corner, quite hid by its obscurity,
Only ye might perceive his matchless eye
Striving to read the feelings of your souls,
That he might know, if ye would hear the voice of Jesus?
Ye do remember. Well — he's not there now j
Ye may be gay and thoughtless, if ye will,
His glance shall not reprove you.
There — listen to that hymn of praise:
Did ye not hear an angel-voice take up the lofty strain,
' For Thou, O Lamb of God, art worthy?'
'Twas his voice ;
Not rising, as in former days from this low temple :
Only the clearest, softest strain, waving its way
From the celestial world, just strikes the listening ear, —
And now 'tis gone."
A notice of him is in the Independent, July 17,
1856. — Sprague's Annals.
LOOMIS, LEBBEUS, colonel, died in Cherry
Valley, in 1836, aged 79. He was in the battle of
Bunker Hill, and an officer to the close of the war.
LOPEZ, AAHOX, died May 20, 1782, at Smith-
field, R. I. He was a rich Jewish merchant of
Newport, but removed to Leicester in 1777 on ac
count of the war. On a journey to Providence
he drove his horse in a gig to water in Spot's
pond ; when the gig was upset and he was
drowned. His house in Leicester was purchased
as the first building used by the academy.
LORD, RICHARD, captain, died at Hartford in
1G62, aged 51, the son of Thomas, who was a
first settler. He was a merchant and man of dis
tinction. His son Richard was also a merchant ;
and he died in 1685. His wife was Mary, daugh
ter of Henry Smith of Springfield, and grand
daughter of W. Pynchon. After his death she
married Dr. Thomas Hooker, the son of Rev.
Samuel H. of Farmington, and grandson of Rev.
Thomas II. of Hartford. Mr. Goodwin gives the
names, in order, of one hundred of the descend
ants of Thomas Lord.
LORD, JOSEPH, first minister of Dorchester,
South Carolina, died June 6, 1748, aged about
77, was a native of Charlestown, Mass., and was
graduated at Harvard college in 1691. In the
fall of 1695 he was ordained pastor of the church
which was gathered in Dorchester, Mass., with
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the design of removing to South Carolina. They
arrived Dec. 20th, and began a settlement called
Dorchester, on Ashley river, about eighteen miles
from Charleston. The sacrament of the Lord's
supper was first administered in Carolina, Feb. 2,
1696. Hugh Fisher succeeded Mr. Lord. —
Holmes1 Annals, H. 34 ; Collect. Hist. Society,
IX. 156, 157 ; Guilder sleeve's Cent. Sermon.
LORD, BENJAMIN, D. D., minister of Nor
wich, Conn., died in April, 1784, aged 90. He
was a graduate at Yale college in 1714, and was
afterwards a tutor in that seminary two years.
He was ordained in October, 1717, as successor
of Mr. Woodward, who was the next minister
after Mr. Fitch ; and, continuing his public labors
about sixty years, he lived to see eight religious
societies, which had grown out of the one of
which he had taken the charge. Two other par
ishes were formed at the time of his settlement.
During the half-century of his ministry, ending
in 1767, about a thousand persons had died. Of
persons admitted to the church there were three
hundred and thirty. The covenant was owned by
four hundred and ten, of whom ninety joined the
church; and two thousand and fifty were bap
tized. He was a man of distinction, and a faithful
evangelical preacher. He had some trouble from
a wild sect called Rogercnes. Rogers, their
leader, once accosted him at his church doc<- :
" Benjamin, Benjamin, dost thou think that they
wear white wigs in heaven ? " He published a
discourse on the parable of the merchant man
seeking goodly pearls, 1722; true Christianity
explained and enforced, 1727 ; on the character,
birth, and privileges of God's children, 1742 ; an
account of the extraordinary recovery of Mercy
Wheeler, 1743; at the election, 1751 ; on the
death of Henry Willes, 1759; of Hezekiah Lord,
1763; of Hezekiah Huntington, 1773; of Mrs.
Willes, 1774; at the instalment of Nathaniel
Whitaker, 1761 ; at the ordination of Levi Hart,
1762; a half-century discourse, Nov. 29, 1767,
being fifty years from his ordination ; a sermon,
1780. — Sprague's Annals.
LORD, JOSEPH, son of Rev. J. L., a preacher
and physician, died at Westmoreland, N. H., in
1789, aged 85. He graduated at Harvard in
1726.
LORD, JOHN, minister of Buffalo, N. Y., died
in 1839, aged 65.
LORD, JOHN KING, minister in Cincinnati,
Ohio, died of the cholera July 13, 1849, aged 30.
The son of President Lord of Dartmouth college,
he graduated in 1836. Having studied theology
at Andover, he was six years a minister in Hart
ford, Vt., and then in 1847 was the pastor of the
first congregational church in Cincinnati. In less
than two years he died. A volume of his ser
mons, with a memoir by his father, was published
in 1850. — Sprague's Annals.
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LOVELL.
LORD, WIILIAM, Dr., died at Lyme, Conn.,
in 1852, aged 89. He graduated at Yale in 1784.
LORD, NATHANIEL, died in Ipswich, Mass., Oct.
16, 1852, aged 72. The son of Isaac of Ipswich,
he graduated in 1798, and was a teacher, and
register of probate in Essex county.
LORIXG, ISRAEL, minister of Sudbury, Mass.,
died March 9, 1772, aged 90. He was born at
Hull, April 6, 1682, the son of John, and was
graduated at Harvard college in 1701. He was
ordained at Sudbury, Nov. 20, 1706, as successor
of Mr. Sherman. A new church was formed on
the east side of the river in 1723, and William
Cooke was settled as its pastor March 20. He
preached on the first day of the month in which
he died. He was a venerable man, of primitive
piety and manners, and faithful and useful in his
ministerial work. He had preached for nearly
seventy years, and was zealously attached to the
doctrines of the gospel. His successor was Jacob
Bigelow. His son John, a physician in Boston,
died in 1744, aged about 35. He graduated in
1729. lie published the nature and necessity of
the new birth, 1728, with a preface by Mr. Prince ;
on the death of Robert Breck, 1731 ; on the tor
ments of hell, 1732; election sermon, 1737 ; jus
tification not by works, but by faith in Jesus
Christ, 1749; at the ordination of G. Richardson,
1754. — Sprague's Annals.
LORING, JAMES, deacon, died in Boston July
9, 1850, aged 80. He had been an officer in the
Baptist church of Dr. Stillman, and was a Chris
tian of humility and great excellence of character.
For fifty-five years he was a printer and book
seller, and was editor of the Christian Watchman,
and publisher of the Massachusetts State Regis
ter, from 1800 to 1848. He was born at Hull
July 22, 1770. His earliest ancestor in this
country was Deacon Thomas Loring, who came
from Devon to Hingham Dec. 22, 1634 ; and after
him were Deacons John, Benjamin, and James,
the last of whom was the father of the subject of
this article.
LOTIIROP, NATHANIEL, a physician, died in
Plymouth Oct. 20, 1828, aged 93. Born in P.,
he graduated at Harvard in 1756.
LOUGHBRIDGE. MARY, died at Tallahassee
in 1850, wife of Robert M. L., missionary to the
Creeks, and daughter of Deacon Joseph Avery,
of Conway.
LOVE, BENJAMIN, colonel, a Chickasaw chief,
died in 1849. He was an intelligent and useful
man, engaged in public matters since 1832, when
he was a chief, and the interpreter at the making
of the treaty; he was a commissioner of the
Chickasaw nation.
LOVEJOY, HANNAH, died in Amherst, N. H.,
in 1805, aged 102.
LOVEJOY, POMPEY, died in Andover in 1826,
aged 102. He was born a slave in Boston, but
became a freeman. He lived on the spot where
he died, ninety-one years ; his wife survived him,
aged 98. He was the oldest man in the county
of Essex, and had his mental faculties to the
last.
LOVEJOY, DANIEL, a useful minister in
Maine, died in Albion in 1833, aged 58. He was
the father of sons of eminence. Born in Amherst,
N. II., he was settled in Robbinston and Wind
sor, Me., and went to Albion in 1829.
LOVEJOY, ELIJAH P., son of the preceding,
was killed at Alton, 111., Nov. 7, 1837, aged 35.
He was born in Maine in 1802 ; graduated at
Waterville in 1826, and was licensed to preach in
1833. He soon established the St. Louis Ob
server, an anti-slavery paper, which occasioned a
mob in 1836. Driven away, he re-established his
paper in Alton, where his press was twice de
stroyed by mobs. On the attack for the third time,
he was shot, Avhile defending his property against
lawless murderers.
LOVEJOY, SAMUEL, Dr., died in West Town-
send May 21, 1851, aged 75. He was a success
ful physician, and he died in the Christian's hope.
LOVELL, JOHN, a schoolmaster in Boston,
died in 1778, aged about 70. He was a descend
ant of one of the first settlers of Massachusetts,
and was graduated at Harvard college in 1728,
and, after succeeding Jeremy Gridley as assistant,
for some years, in the south grammar or Latin
school, was placed at the head of the school in
1738. He was "the master" nearly forty years.
Many of the principal men of the Revolution had
been under his tuition. But unhappily he was
himself a loyalist, and in 1776 accompanied the
British army to Halifax, where he died. Master
Lovell was succeeded in his school by Samuel
Hunt. He was a good scholar, of solid judg
ment, rigid in discipline, yet humorous and an
agreeable companion. He published a funeral
oration on P. Faneuil, 1742, and several political
and theological pamphlets. In the Pietas, etc.,
printed at Cambridge, he wrote Nos. 2, 25, 26, and
27, partly in Latin. — Eliot.
LOVELL, JAMES, a schoolmaster in Boston,
son of the preceding, died in July, 1814, aged 76.
He was graduated at Harvard college in 1756,
and was for many years a teacher of the Latin
school, associated with his father. In the Revolu
tion he was a firm whig, devoted to the cause of
liberty. Eor his patriotic zeal Gen. Gage shut
him up in prison ; and he was carried as a pris
oner by the British troops to Halifax, where he
was for a long time kept in close confinement.
The father was a tory refugee ; the son, a whig
prisoner. On his return to Boston he was elected
a member of congress, in which station his services
were of great advantage to his country. On the com
mittee of foreign correspondence he was laborious
and faithful. One of the letters of the committee,
LOVELL.
to which his name is affixed, is dated Oct., 1777.
In May, 1778, ho was associated with It. H.
Lee and II. Morris. Before the establishment of
the present constitution of Massachusetts he was
the collector of the customs for Boston, and after
wards was naval officer for Boston and Charles-
town, in which station he continued till his death.
lie published oratio in funere II. Flyntii, 17GO.
Several of his letters are found in the life of A.
Lee.
LOVELL, JOSEPH, M. D., died at Washington
Oct. 17, 1836, surgeon-general of the United
States army. lie graduated at Harvard in 1807 ;
entered the army in 1812, and served on the Nia
gara frontier; and was then hospital surgeon.
lie was a man of talents and skill, and adorned
with the virtues of private life. He left a widow
and eleven children.
LOVELL, JAMES, major, died in St. Matthews,
S. C., July 10, 1850, aged 92. Born in Boston
July 9, 1758, the son of James Lovell, he gradu
ated in 1776. He was in various battles of the ':
•war, and was severely wounded. He was adju
tant in Lee's legion. After all his perils, he lived
to be the oldest graduate at Harvard.
LOVELL, ALEXANDER, died in Nashua, X. II.,
July 2, 1855, aged 68. Born in Holden, a grad
uate of Dartmouth in 1814, of Andover in 1816,
he was from 1817 for fifteen years a useful minis
ter of Vergennes ; then eleven years at Philips-
ton, when ill health laid him aside.
LOVEWELL, JOHN, captain, the hero of Pig-
wawkett, died in 1725. He was the son of Zac-
cheus L., who was an ensign in the army of O.
Cromwell, and who settled at Dunstable, and died
there, aged 120, being the oldest person who ever
died in New Hampshire. Zaccheus had three
sons : Zaccheus, a colonel in the French war of
1759 ; Jonathan, a preacher, representative, and
judge; and the subject of this article. In the
Indian Avars a large bounty being offered for
scalps, Capt. Lovewell, at the head of a volunteer
company of thirty men, marched to the north of
Winipisseogee lake and killed an Indian and took
a boy prisoner, Dec. 19, 1724. Having obtained
his reward at Boston, he augmented his company
to seventy and marched to the same place. There
dismissing thirty men for the want of provisions,
he proceeded with forty men to a pond in Wake-
field, now called Lovewell's pond, where he dis
covered ten Indians asleep by a fire ; they were
on their march from Canada to the frontiers. He
killed them all Feb. 20, 1725, and with savage
triumph entered Dover with their scalps hooped
and elevated on poles, for each of which one
hundred pounds was paid out of the public treas
ury at Boston. He marched a third time with
forty-six men. Leaving a few men at a fort,
which he built at Ossipec pond, he proceeded with
thirty-four men to the north end of a pond in
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I Pigwawkett, now Fryeburg in Maine, and there a
severe action was fought with a party of forty-
i two Indians, commanded by Paugus and Wahwa,
I May 8, 1725. At the first fire Lovewell and
eight of his men wero killed ; the remainder re
treated a short distance to a favorable position
and defended themselves. With the pond in
their rear, the mouth of an unfordable brook on
their right, a rocky point on their left, and having
also the shelter of some large pine trees, they
fought bravely from ten o'clock till evening, when
the Indians, — who had lost their leader, Paugus,
killed by Mr. Chamberlain, — retired, and fled
from Pigwawkett. Ensign Itobbins and two
others were mortally wounded ; these were neces
sarily left behind to die. Eleven, wounded but
able to march, and nine, unhurt, at the rising of
the moon quitted the fatal spot. Jonathan Frye,
the chaplain, Lieut. Farwell, and another man,
died in the woods in consequence of their wounds.
The others, with the widows and children of the
slain, received a grant of Lovewell's town, or
Suncook, now Pembroke, N. II., in 1728, in re
compense of their sufferings. The bodies of
twelve were afterwards found by Col. Tyng and
buried. Capt. L. had two sons ; John died in
Dunstable, and Col. Nehemiah in Corinth, Ver
mont. His daughter married Capt. Joseph Baker
of Pembroke. The last of his company, Thos.
Ainsworth, died at Brookfield Jan., 1794, aged
85. — Symmes' Memoirs of the Fight; Farmer;
Eelknap, n. 61-70; Farmer's Hist. Coll. L; II.
94, 180 ; III. 64, 173.
LOVEWELL, Mr., died in Dunstable, X. H.,
aged 120. He died many years ago, but the date
of his death has not been ascertained. He was
the father of Col. Zaccheus L., mentioned by
Belknap.
LOW, SAMUEL, a poet, was born in 1765. He
published at New York, two small vols. of poems,
1800.
LOW, JAMES, M. D., a physician, died in 1822,
aged 40. He was born at Albany Dec. 9, 1781,
and was educated at Schenectady college. He
studied his profession four years at Edinburgh,
and, returning in 1808, commenced the practice at
Albany in connection with his former teacher, Dr.
Wm. McClelland, and was extensively employed.
For some years he delivered lectures on chemis
try. He was a scholar, an enthusiast in poetry,
and a promoter of learning. He published an
inaugural dissertation, de tetano, 1807 ; account
of the epidemic pneumonia, in medical register,
IV. ; observations on the moth destructive to bees;
notes to Hooper's Vade Mccum, and to Bell on
the venereal. — Thacher.
LOW, ANN, died in Rye, N. Y., in 1849, aged
91, at the house of her son-in-law, Rev. M. De
Vinne. Her maiden name was Creglere, of Hu
guenot descent. Excepting sixty years in New
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York, the rest of her life was spent in the itin
eracy of her daughters, in connection with the
Methodist church.
LOW, SETH, died at Brooklyn, N. Y., in 1853,
aged 71. Born in Gloucester, he graduated at
Harvard in 1804. A merchant, he lived in Salem
and New York, and was a man of judgment, of
generous charity and influence.
LOWELL, JOHN, minister in Newburyport,
died May 15, 1767, aged 63. He was a descend
ant of Percival L., a merchant, who came from
Bristol, England, and settled at Newbury, where
he died Jan. 8, 1665. His father, Ebenezer L.
of Boston, died in Boston in 1711, aged 36. He
was born March 14, 1704, graduated at Harvard
college in 1721, was ordained over the third
church in Newbury Jan. 19, 1726. Mr. Gary was
his successor. He was amiable, candid, liberal,
and social, respected for his learning, and a useful
minister. He published a sermon at the ordina
tion of T. Barnard, 1738; before Col. Titcomb
and his soldiers, 1755 ; on the death of Col. Moses
Titcomb, who fell near Lake George, 1760. —
Tucker's Funeral Sermon ; Spraguc's Annals.
LOWELL, JOHN, LL. D., judge, the son of
the preceding, died at Roxbury May 6, 1802, aged
58.- He was graduated at Harvard college in the
year 1760. Having settled in Boston as a lawyer,
he was chosen a member of congress in 1781. Of
the convention which formed the constitution of
Massachusetts he was a distinguished member.
In 1789 Washington appointed him judge of the
district court, and on the new organization of the
courts of the United States in Feb., 1801, he was
appointed chief judge of the first circuit. Unit
ing to a vigorous mind, which was enriched with
literary acquisitions, a refined taste and concilia
tory manners, and being sincere in the profession
and practice of the Christian religion, his decease
was deeply felt and lamented. For eighteen
years he was a member of the corporation of
Harvard college, and one of the founders of the
American academy. His son, Francis C., a pro
prietor of the Lowell factories, died in 1817; his
son, Rev. Charles L., is still living. He wrote
an English poem, No. 3, in the " Pietas," etc.,
printed at Cambridge. He pronounced before
the American academy of arts and sciences, in
Jan., 1791, an elegant eulogy on their late presi
dent, James Bowdoin, which is prefixed to the
second volume of the memoirs of that society.
LOWELL, JOHN, died in Bombay in Feb.,
1836, aged 37, oldest son of Francis C. L. In
heriting early an ample fortune, he yet toiled for
learning. Losing his wife and children, he trav
elled in Greece, Syria, Egypt, Nubia, and Abys
sinia, lie had moral and religious principle, and
was esteemed in the relations of life and by his
fellow-citizens.
LOWELL, JOHN, LL. I)., died of apoplexy at
Boston March 12, 1840, aged 70. He was the
son of Judge Lowell, and was born at Newbury
port Oct. 6, 1769; was graduated at Cambridge in
1786 ; and, after practising the law till of the age
of 34, he left the bar. In 1803 he went to
Europe for the benefit of his health. After his
return he wrote much for the newspapers and
journals, few men exercising so great an influence
over public opinion. He was of the federal
school. His poh'tical pieces appeared chiefly in
the Centinel; he wrote also on theological
controversial matters and agriculture. He was
the author of twenty-five or more pamphlets.
From 1810 to 1822 he was one of the corpora
tion of the college. Of the Massachusetts gen
eral hospital, the athenaeum, the savings bank,
and the hospital life insurance company he was
one of the founders. He was frank, fearless,
generous, sometimes impetuous.
LOWNDES, WILLIAM, LL. D., a statesman,
was a native of South Carolina, and was a distin
guished member of congress for a period of ten
years from about 1812 to 1822, when from ill
health he resigned. In 1818 he was chairman of
the committee of ways and means. While on u
voyage from Philadelphia to London in the ship
Moss, he died at sea, Oct. 27, 1822, aged 42.
His family was with him. A writer in the Na
tional Register describes him as tall, slender, ema
ciated, of a rueful countenance; a man of M'ealth
and . probity ; modest, retiring, and unambitious ;
with a mind of the first order, vigorous, compre
hensive, and logical, and a memory of uncommon
power, and standing in the first rank of American
statesmen. There must have been some most
extraordinary excellences in his character, for he
was respected and beloved even by his political
adversaries. He had a heart of kindness, purity
of morals, frankness and candor, a sound judg
ment, wisdom pre-eminent, and patriotism most
ardent. His feeble voice and awkward gesticula
tion were of little advantage to his oratory. But
his strong, comprehensive mind, and his love of
country, together Avith his virtues, gave him a
persuasive power. On hearing of the victory of
Lake Erie, he rose and electrified the house with
his eloquence. Had he lived, lie might have been
the president of the United States. It was said
of him in congress by Mr. Taylor of New York :
" The highest and best hopes of the country
looked to Wm. Lowndcs for their fulfilment. The
most honorable office in the civilized world, the
chief-magistracy of this free people, would have
been illustrated by his virtues and talents." Con
cerning that office, of seeking which, by any in
trigue or artifice or effort of his own whatever,
Mr. Lowndes was totally incapable, he remarked •
" The office of president of the United States is
one neither to be solicited nor declined." It were
happy for our country, if the same modest spirit
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exerted a controlling effect over our great states
men, and if the honors of high office were mer
ited by public services and private virtues, and not
sought.
LOWXDES, THOMAS, died at Charleston, S. C.,
July 8, 1843, aged 77. He was the eldest son of
llawlins L., who was president of South Carolina
in 1778-1780. Mr. L. was in congress in 1801-
1805, and was eloquent in debate.
LOWREY, GEORGE, major, a distinguished
Cherokee, died Oct. 20, 1852, aged about 82. He
was a deacon in Mr. Worcester's church. Born
on the Tennessee river about 1770, he was one of
the delegates who visited President Washington
at Philadelphia in 1791 or 1792, and who made
the treaty of 1819; he was a member of the con
vention which framed the constitution of the
Cherokee nation in 1827, and was elected assist
ant principal chief. He sustained various offices,
and was an honest man, a pure patriot, a devoted
Christian. He wrote a tract on temperance in
Cherokee, which was printed, and he aided in the
translation of the Scriptures. As he was about
to die, he expressed his reliance on the atoning
blood of Christ.
LOWRIE, WALTER M., missionary to China
of the Presbyterian board, was murdered by
pirates, being thrown into the sea, in Aug., 1847.
He was the son of Walter L., secretary of the
Presbyterian board, and brother of John C. L.,
missionary in Northern India. He was on his re
turn from Shanghae, where he had attended a
convention of missionaries to revise the transla
tion of the New Testament. II. W. Dickinson
has spoken of him in the columns of the Observer,
Jan. 8, 1848.
LOWHY, JAMES, a minister in Chester district,
S. C., died in 1853, leaving 1000 dollars for for
eign missions, and the same for domestic mis
sions.
LUCAS, WILLIAM, minister of Auburn, N. Y.,
died in 1839.
LUCAS, JOHN B. C., died at St. Louis in 1842,
aged about 80. Born in Normandy, he was edu
cated at Caen, and became doctor of laws. He
emigrated in 1784 to Pittsburg. While a mem
ber of congress, Mr. Jefferson, in 1805, nominated
him as a judge in Louisiana, an office which he
held till 1820.
LUDLOW, ROGER, deputy-governor of Mas
sachusetts and of Connecticut, was a pious gen
tleman of a good family in the west of England,
and came to this country with Maverick and
Warham, and was one of the first settlers of Dor
chester in 1630. He was an assistant four years,
being chosen such in England. In May, 1632,
when Gov. Winthrop told him that the people
intended to ask of the next general court that the
assistants might be chosen annually, " he grew
into passion and said, that then we should have
no government, etc." In 1634 he was deputy-
governor ; but, failing to be chosen governor, he
complains of the election, as agreed upon by the
deputies in private. For this he was left out of
the magistracy. In consequence he removed in
1635, with the first settlers, to Windsor, and in
Connecticut he was for nineteen years one of the
most useful and distinguished men. He was
every year a magistrate or deputy-governor ; he
was also one of the commissioners of the united
colonies. Removing in 1639 to Fairfield, his sit
uation made him particularly interested in the
protection of the western frontier against the
Dutch and Indians. The commissioners, in con
sequence of an alleged plot of the Dutch, voted,
in 1653, to make war against them ; but Massa
chusetts refused to concur, much to the dissatis
faction of New Haven, and in disregard, it was
asserted, of the power stipulated to belong to the
commissioners, to make war and peace. At this
period the inhabitants of Fairfield determined to
make war with Manhadoes, and chose Mr. Ludlow
commander-in-chief. He accepted the appoint
ment. But the general court of New Haven dis
countenanced the project, and punished his offi
cers, Basset and Chapman, for attempting to make
an insurrection, and for raising volunteers. Prob
ably, in consequence of this affair, Mr. Ludlow
embarked, in April, 1654, for Virginia, with his
family, and carried away the records of Fairfield
with him. The time and place of his death are
not known. Mr. Endicott was his brother-in-law.
He was ambitious and aspiring. Yet he deserves
honorable remembrance for his knowledge of ju
risprudence and various public services. He com
piled the first Connecticut code of laws, which
was printed in 1672.
LUDNUM, AUGUSTA V., Miss, a celebrated
pianist of Cincinnati, died at New Orleans Jan.
30, 1851.
LUNDY, BENJAMIN, died at Hennepin, 111., in
Sept., 1839; editor of the genius of universal
emancipation.
LUXSFORD, LEWIS, a Baptist minister, died
in Virginia Oct. 26, 1793, aged 40. With little
education, he was an eloquent and celebrated
preacher, the pastor of Moratico church, residing
in 1779 in Northumberland. He sometimes ap
peared more like an angel than a man, his face
beaming with light, and his style and manner
most energetic and sublime. Though in charge
of an opulent church, he was poor and neg
lected ; being, as ministers in all ages have often
been, like the camels of Arabia, who, while they
carry spices and jewels, feed on coarse shrubs
and thistles.
LUSK, JOHN, died near MoMinnville, Tenn.,
in June, 1838, aged 104. Born on Long Island,
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LUTHER.
LYMAN.
he was a soldier in the French and Revolutionary
•wars.
LUTHER, SAMUEL, a Baptist minister of
Swansey from 1685, died in 1717. He -was a
man of character, of talents and faithfulness.
LUZERNE, CAESAR ANXE DE LA, chevalier,
minister from France to the United States, suc
ceeded M. Gerard, having been previously em
ployed in a diplomatic capacity in Bavaria. He
arrived at Philadelphia Sept. 21, 1779, from which
time till the end of the war he continued in his
office, having the esteem and confidence of the
American people. After five years he was suc
ceeded by M. Barbe Marbois, the secretary of
legation, as charge d'affaires. From Jan., 1788,
Luzerne was ambassador at London till his death,
Sept. 14, 1791, at the age of 50. His correspon
dence in regard to America is published in the
10th and llthvols. of diplomatic correspondence,
edited by Jared Sparks.
LYFORD, JOHN, a preacher, was sent over
about 1623 as an enemy of the Plymouth com
pany. He was well received and employed for a
while as a minister ; but, his character being dis
covered, he was banished. He then preached,
about 1626, in Gloucester, Mass., and thence went
to Virginia, where he died miserably.
LYMAN, PHINEHAS, major-general, died in
1775, aged about 59. He was born at Durham,
Conn., about 1716, was graduated in 1738 at Yale
college, in which he was afterwards a tutor three
years, and settled as a lawyer in Suffield. He
sustained various public offices. In 1755 he was
appointed major-general and commander-in-chief
of the Connecticut forces. When Sir W. John
son was wounded in the battle of Lake George,
the command devolved on him, and he animated
his men to a successful combat. For five hours,
in front of the breastwork, he issued his orders
with the utmost coolness. Yet Johnson, who was
in every respect his inferior, in his mean jealousy
gave him no praise ; he wished to bear away the
honor himself; he was, in fact, made a baronet
for this battle, and received 5,000 pounds. In
1758 he served with Abercrombie, and was with
Lord Howe when he was killed. He was also at
the capture of Crown Point by Amherst, and at
the surrender of Montreal. In 1762 he com
manded the provincial troops in the expedition
against Havana. His services were important,
and he acquired a high reputation. In 1763 he
went to England as the agent of a company,
called the " Military adventurers," and wasted
eleven years of his life. The company had pur
chased of the Six Nations of Indians, under the
authority of Connecticut, a tract of land on the
Susquehannah river. The proprietors of Penn
sylvania claiming the same tract, the government
of Connecticut recommended to the company to
obtain a confirmation from the king. For this
purpose Gen. Lyman went to England. Proba
bly he formed other projects. Dr. Dwight rep
resents that the object of the company was to
obtain a tract on the Mississippi and Yazoo.
Being deluded for years by idle promises, his
mind sunk down into imbecility. At last his wife,
who was a sister of Dr. Dwight's father, sent his
second son to England to solicit his return, in
1774. About this time a tract was granted to
the petitioners. After his return he embarked
with his eldest son for the Mississippi. Both
died soon after their arrival at West Florida, in
1775. Mrs. Lyman and all her family, but her
second son, accompanied by her only brother,
Col. Dwight, proceeded in 1776 to the neighbor
hood of Natchez. Within a few months she died,
and Col. Dwight also died in 1777. The Spanish
war compelled the whole company, in 1781 or
1782, to flee from Natchez, and with incredible
sufferings to make a journey of more than one
thousand miles to Savannah, where two of the
daughters of Gen. Lyman died. His four sons
joined the British in the war. One of them, once
brilliant, gay, and ingenious, came to Suffield,
about 1783, penniless, and died in poverty and
melancholy. The history of this unhappy family
is not encouraging to adventure and emigration.
— DwigU, I. 305; III. 361.
LYMAN, ISAAC, minister of York, died March
12, 1810, aged 85. Born in Northampton, he
graduated at Yale in 1747. He was ordained
Dec. 20, 1749, so that he was sixty years in the
ministry. His widow, Ruth, died in March, 1824,
aged 93.
LYMAN, GERSIIOM C., first minister of Marl-
borough, Vt., died in 1813, aged 61. Born in
Lebanon, Conn., he graduated at Yale in 1773,
and was ordained Dec. 9, 1778.
LYMAN, JOSEPH, D. D., minister of Hatfield,
Mass., died March 27, 1828, aged 78. He was
the son of Jonathan, of Lebanon, Conn., and was
graduated in 1769 at Yale college, where he was
a tutor from 1770 to 1771. Soon afterwards he
was ordained at Hatfield, as the successor of Mr.
Woodbridge, and died in consequence of a can
cerous humor, which afflicted him nearly two
years. In his painful sickness he never com
plained ; his last words expressed his trust in
Christ as a Saviour. He was an original member
of the American foreign mission society, and in
1823 and several subsequent years was its presi
dent. He published election sermon, 1787 ; two
occasional sermons, 1804 ; at ordination of W.
Graves, 1791 ; of H. Lord, 1804; of T. II. Wood,
1806; of D. Huntington, 1809; of S. Hopkins,
1811 ; at the convention, 1806 ; at the opening of
the bridge, 1807; at Charlestown, 1811; on the
death of S.Hopkins, 1811; of R. Woodbridge,
1819 ; of C. Strong, 1819; before American board,
1819 ; before Hampshire ministers, 1821 ; two
LYMAX.
LYOX.
Rcrmons on the overthrow of the French army in
Russia, 1813. — Spraguc's Annals.
LYMAX, WILLIAM, brigadier-general, consul
of the United States at London, was a native of
Northampton, Mass., and graduated at Yale col
lege in 1776. For some years he was a member
of congress from Hampshire county, then resid
ing at Northampton. He went in 1805 as con
sul to London, where he died in Oct., 1811, aged
about 58.
LYMAX, THEODORE, died at Waltham May
24, 1829, aged 86. He had been a merchant in
Boston, and was a man of liberal charities.
LYMAX, THEODORE, son of the preceding,
died in Boston in 1849. He was a graduate of
1810, and mayor of Boston. He published, A few
weeks in Paris, 1814 ; political state of Italy,
1820 ; oration July 4, 1820 ; three weeks in Paris ;
account of the Hartford convention, 1823 ; diplo
macy of the United States, 2 vols., 1826.
LYMAX, WILLIAM, D. 1)., minister of Had-
dam, Conn., and China, X. Y., died in 1833, aged
about 70. lie graduated at Yrale in 1784. He
published the election sermon in 1806; a sermon
on the death of Mrs. Griswold, of Lyme ; a ded
ication sermon at Lebanon, 1807 ; at the ordina
tion of J. Harvey, 1810.
LYMAX, HENRY, a missionary, was killed with
Mr. Munson by the Battahs at Sumatra, June 28,
1834, aged 24. He was born at Xorthampton,
the son of Theodore and Susan W. Lyman, and
a graduate of Amherst in 1829, in a class of
thirty-eight persons, of whom twenty-six were
ministers. He attended medical lectures at Bow-
doin college, preparatory to his fatal mission.
There is a monument to his memory at North
ampton, near the grave of Braincrd. His wife
was Eliza Pond, of Boston. His mother died at
Montreal June 12, 1855, aged 68; his sister
Helen died there also in 1852. Another sister
has been for years at the head of an excellent
school for young ladies in Montreal. He pub
lished Condition of females in Pagan countries.
LYMAN, ELIPILVLET, minister of South Wood
stock, Conn., died in 1836, aged 81. He gradu
ated at Yale in 1776. He published two dis
courses, with an appendix, 1794.
LYMAX, ASA, died at Clinton, N. Y., in 1836,
aged about 60. The brother of Rev. Dr. Wm.
L., he was graduated at Yale in 1797; was minis
ter of Ilamden, Conn., for three years from 1800;
was minister in Bath, Me., from 1806 to 1808,
when he was dismissed for ill health. He was
afterwards a publisher of books in Portland, after
wards in New York, Newark, and Buffalo. Two
of his sons were ministers of the Episcopal church
in Maryland.
LYMAN, LEWIS, merchant, died at Hartford,
Vt., Jan. 29, 1837, aged 45.
LYMAX, JOSEPH, judge, died in Xorthampton,
Mass., in Dec., 1847, aged 80. Born in X., he
graduated at Yale in 1783. When he was young
a falling tree killed his companion, while he es
caped. He was clerk of the courts, judge of the
common pleas, judge of probate, and sheriff of
Hampshire. He voted at fifty-nine annual elec
tions. Of the Hartford convention he was a
member, and of that for revising the State con
stitution. To the town of X. he was a benefactor,
giving the land for the boys' high school. lie
was descended from John L., a first settler of X.,
by Benjamin, Joseph, and Captain Joseph, his
father, who died in 1804, aged 70. — Ellis' Ser
mon.
LYXCH, THOMAS, a patriot of the Revolution,
was born Aug. 5, 1749, at Prince George's parish,
S. C. His ancestor, Jonack L., emigrated from
Ireland. He was educated at Eton and Cam
bridge, England, and afterwards studied law at
the Temple. In 1772 he returned. In 1775 he
commanded a company in the first South Carolina
regiment. Being chosen to succeed his father,
then in ill health, as a member of congress, he
signed in 1776 the Declaration of Independence.
He set out on his return in company with his
father, who died at Annapolis. His own ill health
constrained him at the close of 1779 to embark with
his wife, in a ship commanded by Capt. Morgan, but
nothing was ever afterwards known concerning the
vessel. Probably he and his companion went
down together into the depth of the ocean. He
was about twenty-eight years of age. He had
ability, integrity, and firmness, and was amiable
in the relations of private life. — Goodrich.
LYXDE, BENJAMIN, chief justice of Massachu
setts, died March 28, 1745, aged 79. He was
born at Salem in 1666 ; graduated at Harvard
college in 1686 ; and studied law at the temple.
He was appointed a judge in 1712, and chief
justice in 1729. From 1723 to 1737 he was a
member of the council.
LYXDE, BENJAMIN, chief justice of Massa
chusetts, son of the preceding, died in 1781, aged
about 63. He was graduated in 1718; from
1737 he was for many years a member of the
council. At the trial of Capt. Preston in 1770
he presided in court. He resigned the office of
chief justice in 1772.
LY'XDOX, JOSIAS, governor of Rhode Island
in 1768, died in 1778, aged 74. He was a mem
ber of the Baptist society in Providence, to which
he bequeathed his house and other property.
LYOX, RICHARD, a poet, came early to this
country. In 1649 he was a private tutor to a
young English student at Cambridge, and lived
with President Dunster ; he was a preacher.
After Eliot's Bay Psalms were published, when
it was deemed necessary to revise them, Mr. Lyon
was appointed to this service with President
Dunster. Many passages from other parts of the
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LYON.
MACKAY.
bible, called the spiritual songs of the Old and
New Testament, are inserted. The 20th edition
was published in 1722.
LYON, JAMES, minister of Brookhaven, N. Y.,
died in October, 1790, aged 90.
LYON, ASA, minister in South Hero, Grand Isle,
Vt., died April 4, 1841, aged 78. Born in Mas
sachusetts, he graduated at Dartmouth in 1790, and
commenced preaching the gospel in Grand Isle
county, Avhen the settlement was new, and he was
venerated in his old age. He was a preacher
more than fifty years, and lived at Grand Isle
forty years.
LYON, MARY, principal of Mount Holyoke
female seminary, died at South Hadley March
5, 1849, aged 52. She was born of pious parents,
in the humble walks of life, in a retired spot among
the green mountains, in Buckland, Hampden
county. On the same mountains were born the
missionaries Parsons, Fisk, and King. Early be
reaved of her father, she yet enjoyed the care
of a Christian mother. She was first the teacher
of a district school, evincing talent and skill.
Her own academical studies were pursued under
Joseph Emerson. She toiled a while in the
academy of Ashfield ; then became the associate
of Miss Grant in the academy of Derry. Thence
they removed to Ipswieh, and for years Miss
Grant conducted a popular female academy with
Miss Lyon for her assistant. But now Miss L.
formed the plan of Mount Holyoke seminary at
South Hadley, near Mount Holyoke. Hers was
the plan, and the labor of collecting funds, and
arranging the buildings, and the course of instruc
tion. She presided for years over an admirable
school, in a beautiful brick college, whose pro
portions are visible to the traveller on the rail
road on the western side of the Connecticut
river, furnishing rooms to more than two hundred
young ladies. Miss L.'s objects were to bring
the means of a thorough education within the
ability of the less wealthy, and in the three years'
course to train up accomplished teachers, sending
them out in great numbers to the far west. Thus
has she been an almost unequalled benefactor
of the whole country. Her life was written by
Dr. Humphrey. For twelve years she was at
the head of the seminary. As a teacher thirty-
five years she had three thousand pupils.
LYTTLE, ROBERT T., general, died at New
Orleans in 1839. He was of Cincinnati, and a
member of congress and distinguished speaker
from Ohio.
MACBIUDGE, JAMES, a physician, died in
Charleston, S. C., in 1817. He was much de
voted to botany, and assisted Elliott in his sketch
of southern botany.
MACCAHTY, TIIADDEUS, minister of Worces
ter, Mass., died July 18, 1785, aged 63. Born
in Boston, he graduated at Harvard in 1739 ;
he was ordained at Kingston in 1742, and after
three years was dismissed for his attachment to
Whitefield ; was settled June 10, 1747, at Wor
cester, where he was succeeded by S. Austin.
He Avas tall and slender, with a black, piercing
eye, and a sonorous voice. He published a ser
mon at his installation, 1747 ; two fast sermons,
1759; at execution, 1768; at execution for bur
glary, 1770. His farewell sermon at Kingston
was published 1795.
MACCLINTOCK, SAMUEL, D. D., minister of
Greenland, N. II., died in 1804, aged 71. He
was born in Medlbrd, Mass., May 1, 1732. His
father was a native of Ireland. He was gradu
ated at the college in New Jersey in 1751. Be
ing invited to become an assistant to William
Allen of Greenland, he was ordained about the
year 1757. He was an eminent divine. Though
he had no predilection for the field of contro
versy, yet, when forced into it, he evinced him
self a master of argument. An enemy to all
civil and religious impositions, during the war
he was repeatedly in the army in the character
of a chaplain. His exhortations animated the
soldiers to the conflict. Under afflictions he was
submissive to the Divine will. As he was averse
to parade, he directed his funeral to be attended
in a simple manner. He published a sermon on
the justice of God in the mortality cf man, 1759;
against the Baptists, 1770 ; Herodias, or cruelty
and revenge the effects of unlawful pleasure,
1772 j at the commencement of the new consti
tution, 1784 ; an epistolary correspondence be
tween himself and J. C. Ogden, 1791 ; at the
ordination of Jesse Appleton, 1797 ; the choice,
occasioned by the drought, the fever, and the
prospect of war, 1798 ; an oration commemora
tive of Washington, 1800. — Piscat. Evangelical
Magazine, I. 9-12.
MACE, Mrs., died at Brookline, Mass., Dec.
31, 1850, aged 100.
MACGltEGORE, DAVID, died May 30, 1777,
aged 66, having been forty-one years pastor of
the second Presbyterian church in Londonderry,
N. H. He was an excellent preacher, a zealous,
confident patriot, a trustful Christian. He pub
lished a sermon, 1741, entitled professors warned ;
and the true believer's all secured, 1747.
MACK, DAVID, died in Middlefield, aged 94.
He was the first merchant in the town, acquired
wealth, and was a man of influence and benevo
lence, highly esteemed. Yet so ignorant was he,
that he went to school with his own son six years
old. The tract, the faithful steward, relates to
him. — Holland's Hist. Hampshire Co.
MACKAY, ANDREW, Dr., died at Wareham,
Mass., in April, 1817, aged 70, the son of a Scotch
physician of Soutaampton, Long Island.
MACKENZIE.
MACKENZIE, ALEXANDER, Sir, a Scotchman
employed in the service of the Northwest Fur
company in Canada, went in 1789 on an exploring
expedition from fort Chipewyan to the northern
ocean in lat. 69°. In 1792 he crossed the Rocky
•Mountains and reached the Pacific. His travels
were published in 2 vols., 1802.
MACKENZIE, ALEXANDER SLIDELL, com
mander in the navy, died at Tarrytown, in 1848,
aged 45. His father was J. Slidell of New York.
He was induced to take his mother's name. In
1842 he made his cruise in the Somers, in which
he felt constrained to hang several mutineers to
the yard-arm. Two courts approved of his con
duct. He was a man of integrity and devotional
feeling. He published a year in Spain, 1825;
American in England ; Spain revisited ; biogra
phies of Paul Jones and S. Decatur. — Cycl. of
American Literature.
MACKENZIE, DONALD, died at Mayville,
N. Y., Jan. 20, 1851, aged 67. He was a partner
of J. J. Astor in the fur trade at the west ; in
1825 he was the governor of the Hudson Bay
company. He withdrew in 1832 and lived in M.
MACKLIN, ROBERT, was born in Scotland
and died at Wakefield, N. II., in 1787, aged 115.
He lived several years in Portsmouth.
MACLEAN, JOHN, professor of chemistry at
Princeton and William and Mary colleges ; a
Scotchman, died in 1814.
MACLURE, WILLIAM, died March 23, 1840,
aged 77, near the city of Mexico. Born in Scot
land, he lived in Philadelphia. He was twenty
years president of the academy of natural scien
ces. His liberal gifts to the association amounted
to 25,000 dollars. He crossed the Alleghany
mountains fifty times in his scientific explora
tions. He published, among other essays, a sci
entific map, 1809; geology of the U. S. and W.
Indies; opinions on various subjects, 1831. —
Cyclopedia of American Literature.
MACOMB, ALEXANDER, major-general, coni-
mander-in-chief of the army of the United States,
died at Washington, June 25, 1841. He was
born at Detroit in 1782, and entered the army
in 1799. He commanded as brigadier at the
battle of Plattsburg. For his gallantry he re
ceived a gold medul from congress. After the
death of Brown he was commander-in-chief.
He published a treatise on martial law and courts
martial, 1809.
MACON, NATHANIEL, died in Warren county,
North Carolina, June 29, 1837, aged 79. He was
in congress from 1791 to 1815 ; then in the senate
till 1828, having been for thirty-seven years in
the national legislature, — longer than any other
man. He was speaker of the 7th, 8th, and 9th
congresses. He was the friend of Jefferson and
Madison. Though a conspicuous party man, no
one questioned his integrity. Mr. Randolph said
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of him, he is " the best, and purest, and wisest
man that I ever knew."
MACNEVEN, WILLIAM J., M. D., died at
New York July 12, 1841, aged 78. Born in
Ireland, he was educated by an uncle at Prague
and Vienna, and commenced the practice at
Dublin in 1783. In the political difficulties of
1798 he was imprisoned. Released in 1802, he
travelled, and published a ramble through Swit
zerland; next he was a captain in the French
army. He came to New York in 1805, and by
the aid of Mr. Emmet, Mr. Sampson, and other
friends, commenced the successful practice of
physic. He married Mrs. Tone, the widow of 'a
merchant and the daughter of Samuel Ricker.
He was a devout Catholic. He was skilled in
German, French, and Italian. He held various
professorships in the college of physicians for
twenty years. He published the atomic theory,
1820 ; and was co-editor of the New York med
ical journal. — Williams' Med. Biography.
MACWHORTER, ALEXANDER, D. D., died
at Newark, N. J., April 2, 1807, aged 72. He
was a native of Delaware. His father, Hugh,
was of Scotch descent, and came from the north
of Ireland. A. M. was two years in the univer
sity of Edinburgh ; he graduated at Princeton in
1757. His deep religious impressions began at
the age of 16. lie was ordained in 1759, and
was minister of the first Presbyterian church
about forty-six years. His wife, Mary, was .a
sister of Rev. A. Gumming of Boston. Dr. M.
had the attachment and confidence of his people.
Dr. Stearns has published a full account of him
in his history of Newark.
MADISON, JAMES, bishop of Virginia, died
March 6, 1812, aged 62. He was born Aug. 27,
1749, near Port Republic, Rockingham county,
Virginia. His father was clerk of West Augusta
district. He was educated at William and Mary
college, and was distinguished for classical learn
ing. Under Mr. Wythe he studied law, and was
admitted to the bar ; but he soon resolved to de
vote himself to theology. In 1773 he was chosen
professor o/ mathematics in William and Mary
college, and in 1777 was appointed the president,
and visited England for his improvement in sci
ence. Until 1784 he was not only president, but
professor of mathematics, and aftenvards was
professor of natural, moral, and political philos
ophy until his death. He first introduced lec
tures on political economy. In 1788 he was
chosen bishop. As a preacher he was eloquent.
His wife was Mrs. Mary Tait of Williamsburg.
He was tall and slender, of a delicate constitu
tion, temperate and abstemious. In his disposi
tion he was mild and benevolent, of simple, but
courteous and winning manners. He published
a thanksgiving sermon, 1781 ; a letter to J.
Morse, 1795 ; address to the Episcopal church,
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1799 ; discourse on the death of Washington ; a
large map of Virginia; and several pieces in
Barton's journal.
MADISON, GEORGE, governor of Kentucky,
son of the preceding, at the age of seventeen
went out as a soldier in defence of the western
frontier, and was engaged in several hattles with the
Indians. In St. Glair's defeat he was wounded.
In the war of 1812 he was an officer at the battle
of Itaisin. After having been twenty years audi
tor of the public accounts, he was chosen gover
nor for the term of four years in 1816, but in a
few weeks after his election he died at Paris in
Oct., 1816, and was buried at Frankfort.
MADISON, JAMES, president of the United
States, died at his seat at Montpelier, Orange co.,
Va., June 28, 1836, aged 85. He was the son of
Col. James Madison of Orange co., and of Nelly
Conway, born March 16, 1751; and he could
trace back his ancestors only the short distance of
a hundred years. His father died in 1801. He
was born at the house of his maternal grand
mother, in Port Conway on the llappahannock.
Early educated by Mr. Robertson, a Scotchman,
in King and Queen co., and by Hev. Mr. Martin,
a Jerseyman, at his father's house, he studied
English, Latin, Greek, French, and Italian. He
entered Princeton college in 1769, and graduated
in 1771, going over the junior and senior studies
in one year. Then he remained at Princeton till
1772, studying the Hebrew. In 1776 he was
sent to the general assembly ; but the next year
he lost his election because he would not treat
and electioneer. From 1779 to 1785 he was a
member of the continental congress chosen by
the general assembly ; and he was again chosen
in 1786. In 1787 he was a member of the great
convention at Philadelphia, which formed the con
stitution of the United States, by unanimous
agreement, Sept. 17th. He remained in congress
until 1797. In 1798 he was of the general as
sembly; in 1800 an elector. In 1801 he \vas sec
retary of State of the United States, and contin
ued eight years, till in 1809 he was chosen
president, remaining in office two -terms until
1817, when he retired to Montpelier. He was a
visitor and elector of the university; and in 1829
a member of the State convention. In the sev
enth year afterwards he died. He held a high
and honorable and unstained character, and his
memory is venerated. Yet in making the awards
of truth and justice, the inquiry is not to be over
looked, whether in his high office of president of
the United States he did not perform one act
which cannot be justified, but which in the calm
judgment of sober reason must be condemned?
No reflecting man can doubt whether war is a
great and tremendous evil, and whether for a
ruler to precipitate his country into a needless
war is not an enormous crime. Probably the war
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of 1812 with Great Britain would not have oc
curred, had not Mr. Madison in his message
seemed to recommend it, when he proposed to
congress the decision of the question, " whether
the United States shall continue passive under
these progressive usurpations and these accumu
lated wrongs ; or, opposing force to force in de
fence of their national rights, shall commit a just
cause into the hands of the Almighty Disposer
of events ? " Notwithstanding these good and
justifying words, it may well be doubted whether
the wrongs experienced were at all of a character,
rendering a war just and necessary, and whether
an enlightened Christian, seeking the approbation
of God, would have recommended war for the
reasons alleged. In fact, within four days after
the declaration of war, the British orders in coun
cil, one chief cause of the war, were repealed.
The next year, through the mediation of Russia,
commissioners were appointed to negotiate a
peace, and in 1814 peace was made, after the loss
of a multitude of valuable lives and an immense
waste of treasure. When will great statesmen
learn, that, as they will be brought to account by
the Supreme Ruler for any act of flagrant im
morality which stains their character, so they
will most assuredly be held to fearful judgment
for plunging their country, without just and ur
gent reasons, into the desolations and horrors of
war ? If the sword may be drawn in defence of
the national existence and the national freedom,
yet it is not to be drawn from ambition, the love
of popularity or fame, or the love of office, from
pride or petty revenge, or for the enlargement of
territory. Cowper said, after alluding to " the
diversion " of princes in the tented field,
" But war 'a a game, which, were their subjects wise,
Kings would not play at."
And with greater certainty American presidents
and members of congress will not again rush into
an unjust and unnecessary war, unless the Ameri
can people, \vho choose them to office, are foolish,
deluded, and borne away by evil passions. The
numbers in the Federalist, illustrative of the
constitution, which Mr. Madison wrote, were 10,
14, 18, 20, 37-58, 62, 63. Jay wrote 2-5 and 64 :
Hamilton the other numbers. His report of the
proceedings and discussions of the contention was
published. His works have been published in
six vols.
MADISON, DOKOTHY, Mrs., the widow of
President M., died at Washington July 12, 1849,
aged about 80. Her maiden name was Dorothy
Paine ; her parents were of the society of Friends
in Virginia, and removed to Philadelphia while
she was young. Before the age of twenty she
married Mr. Todd, who died in three years, leav
ing her the mother of a son, who sOrvived her.
Mr. Madison, who as a member of congress
boarded at the house of her mother, married Mrs.
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Todd in 1794. Of her grace and dignity, while
her husband was president, much has been said.
In her old age her house in Washington was a
centre of attraction, her form being still erect,
her voice full, her manners cordial. She was a
member of the Episcopal church.
MADISON, WILLIAM, general, youngest
brother of President M., died at Woodberry
Forest, Madison co., Va., July 19, 1843, aged 82.
He was a soldier in two wars, a man of a strong
mind, of integrity and benevolence.
MADOCKAWANDO, sachem of Penobscot,
or chief of the Malecites, was a powerful chief in
the war of 1676 ; Mugg was his prime minister.
At the siege and capture of Casco fort in May,
1690, by Portneuf, whom Capt. Davis calls Bur-
niffe, he was present with his Indians. June 10,
1692, he co-operated with a Frenchman in an
unsuccessful attack on Storer's garrison .in Wells,
commanded by Capt. Convers. He afterwards
entered into the treaty of Pcmaquid, but Thury,
the missionary, persuaded him again perfidiously
to take up the hatchet. In 1694 he accompanied
the Sieur do Villieu, who had under him two
hundred and fifty Indians, in the attack on Oyster
river, at Piscataqua, killing and capturing, July
17th, nearly . one hundred persons, and burning
twenty houses. Matawando, as Charlevoix calls
him, fought bravely by the side of the French
man. He carried the scalps to Canada and was
rewarded by Frontcnac.
MAFFIT, JOHN N., died in Mobile May 28,
1850. He was born in Ireland, and was a Meth
odist minister of great celebrity, many years, for
his eloquence.
MAGRAW, JAMES, D. D., minister of West
Nottingham, Md., died in 1835, aged 60.
MAGRUDER, ALLEN B., a senator of the
United States from Louisiana in 1812, had been
previously a lawyer in Kentucky. lie died at
Opelousas in April, 1822. He had collected ma
terials for a general history of the Indians. He
published a character of Mr. Jefferson, and re
flections on the cession of Louisiana to the United
States, 1805.
MAIRS, GEORGE, minister at Argyle, N. Y.,
died in 1841, aged 80, in the forty-eighth year of
his ministry at Argyle. Born in Ireland, he
studied theology under John Brown, in Scotland.
MAKEMIE, FRANCIS, died in Boston in 1708.
He preached the first Presbyterian sermon in the
city of New York, in a private house Jan. 20,
1 708. He was from Ireland, a resident in Va.
For thus preaching, Gov. Cornbury imprisoned
him several weeks. The first settled Presbyterian
minister in New York was James Anderson from
Scotland, who was settled in Oct., 1717.
MAKIN, THOMAS, a poet, was one of the early
settlers of Pennsylvania, and died in 1735. In
the year 16 89 he was usher to George Keith in
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the Friends' public grammar school, and in the
following year succeeded him as master. He was
for some time clerk of the provincial assembly.
He published two Latin poems in 1728 and 1729,
inscribed to James Logan, and entitled, encomium
Pennsylvania?, and in laudcs Pennsylvania? poema ;
extracts from which are preserved in Proud's his
tory of that province.
MALBONE, JOHN, general, died at Newport,
R. I., in 1795, aged 60. Francis M., a senator of
the United States from Rhode Island, died at
Washington of the apoplexy, May 4, 1809.
MALBONE, EDWARD G., a portrait painter,
died at Savannah May 7, 1807, in early life. He
was a native of Nc\vport, R. I. At an early pe
riod of life he discovered a propensity for paint
ing, which became at length so predominant that
he neglected every other amusement for its indul
gence. When a schoolboy he delighted in draw
ing rude sketches of the objects of nature. As
he obtained the necessary assistances to improve
ment, his talents were developed. He frequented
the theatre to contemplate the illusions of sce
nery ; and by the regularity of his attentions be
hind the scenes in the forenoon, he attracted the
notice of the painter, who discovered unusual
genius in his young acquaintance, and accepted
his assistance with the brush. He Avas at length
permitted to paint an entire new scene, and as a
reward received a general ticket of admission.
His intervals of leisure were now employed in
drawing heads, and aftenvards in attempting
portraits. His rapid progress in the latter occu
pation convinced him, that he had talents for it,
and gave alacrity to his exertions ; and he was
soon induced to devote to it his whole attention.
As he now began to be known and patronized as
a miniature painter, his natural propensity was
nourished by the prospect of reputation and
wealth. He visited the principal cities, and re
sided successively in New York, Philadelphia, and
Boston. In the winter of 1800, he went to
Charleston, where his talents and the peculiar
amenity of his manners enhanced the attentions
which he received from the hospitality of its in
habitants. In May, 1801, he sailed from Charles
ton to London, where he resided some months,
absorbed in admiration of the paintings of cele
brated masters. With a mind improved by study
and observation" and animated by the enthusiasm
of genius, he visited the different galleries of liv
ing painters, enlarging his ideas and profiting by
the contemplation of their works. He was intro
duced to the acquaintance of the president of the
royal academy, who gave him free access to his
studio, and showed him those friendly attentions
which were -more flattering than empty praises to
the mind of his young countryman. He even
encouraged him to remain in England, assuring
him that he had nothing to fear from professional
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competition. But he preferred his own country,
and returned to Charleston in the winter of 1801.
He afterwards continued his pursuits in different
parts of the continent, always finding employ
ment. By his sedentary habits and intense appli
cation to his professional labors his health was so
much impaired, that in the summer of 1806 he
was compelled to relinquish his pencil, and indulge
in exercise ; but his frame had become too weak
to become again invigorated. As he felt the
symptoms of an approaching consumption, his
physicians advised him to try the effect of a change
of climate. In the beginning of the winter he
therefore took a passage in a vessel for Jamaica;
but, the change not producing much benefit, he
returned to Savannah, where he languished till
his death.
Though he had not reached all the perfection
which maturer years would have given, yet his
pencil will rescue his name from oblivion. His
style of painting was chaste and correct, his col
oring clear and judiciously wrought, and his taste
altogether derived from a just contemplation of
nature. In his female heads particularly there
was, when his subjects permitted, enchanting del
icacy and beauty. To his professional excellence
he added the virtues which endeared him to his
friends. His heart was warm and generous. The
profits of his skill, which were very considerable,
contributed to the happiness of his relations ; and
as their welfare was an object which seemed
always to animate his exertions, his mother and
sisters deeply deplored his death.
MALCOMSON, JAMES, a minister from Ire
land, died at Charleston, S. C., in 1804, aged 35.
He was ten years pastor of the Presbyterian
church of Williamsburgh, when a division and
animosity among his people induced him to go
to C. as a teacher; but he died within a few
months.
MALHIOT, MODESTE, the Canadian giant,
died at St. Jean des Challons, Lower Canada,
Feb. 28, 1834. His height was 6 feet 4 inches ;
his weight six hundred and nineteen and a half
pounds. He had exhibited himself in America
and in various countries of Europe.
MALLET, ANGELIXE, Mrs., died at Vincennes,
Indiana, in 1834, aged 110.
MALTBY, ISAAC, general, lived in Hat£eld,
and was a representative in the legislature and a
member of the church. He removed to Water
loo, New York, where he died in Sept., 1819.
He published elements of war, 12mo., 1812 ; a
treatise on courts martial and military law, 1813.
MALTBY, BENJAMIN, deacon, died at his son's,
Deacon Daniel M.'s, at Southington, Ohio, Jan. 1,
1847, aged 97. He was the son of deacon Daniel
M. of Northford, Conn. Both he and his father
had each eleven children, and all of them were
members of the church. He was a patriot of
the Revolution.
MAMINASH, SALLY, the last Indian in
Northampton, Mass., died Jan. 3, 1853, aged 88.
Her father's grave-stone stands alone in a field near
the pine grove, a little south of the new State
asylum for the insane. Her mother, who died
in 1780, aged GO, was Elizabeth Occom of Mohc-
gan, near Norwich, Conn., the eldest sister of
liev. Samson Occom. Sally was a pious, excel
lent woman. For many years she was kindly
provided for in a family in South street, of the
name of Clapp.
MAN, SAMUEL, first minister of Wrentham,
Mass., died May 22, 1719, aged 71. He gradu
ated at Harvard college in 16G5. After preach
ing one or two years in Wrentham, he was driven
away by the Indian war, March 30, 1676 : but
after the war he returned to his labors, August
21, 1680, and continued them till his death. No
church being previously formed, he was not or
dained till April 13, 1692. He was a man of
erudition, a faithful pastor, an accomplished
preacher, good, pious, and eminent. His succes
sors were Henry Messinger, who died March 30,
1750, and Mr. Bean.
MANCHESTER, NILES, M. D., died at North
Providence, Pawtucket, H. I., in 1843, aged 65,
having been a faithful physician about forty years.
MANCIUS, WILHELMUS, Dr., died at Albany
N. Y., in 1808, aged 70. He had been nearly
forty-eight years a skilful physician at A.
MANIGAULT, GABRIEL, a merchant of Charles
ton, S. C., and a patriot of the Revolution, died
in 1781, aged 77. lie was born in 1704 of pa
rents driven from France by Catholic persecution.
By his commercial pursuits for fifty years he hon
estly acquired a fortune of half a million of dol
lars. In the beginning of the war he loaned the
State 220,000 dollars. In May, 1779, at the age
of seventy-five, when the British General Provost
appeared before Charleston, he equipped himself
as a soldier, and, equipping also his grandson of
fifteen years, he led him to the lines to repel an
expected assault. His daughter married Lewis
Morris, and lost her life in the great hurricane
on Sullivan's Island in 1822. His son, Peter, also
a patriot and speaker of the house from 1766 to
his death, died in 1773, aged 42. Integrity and
benevolence were prominent traits in the charac
ter of Mr. M. He bequeathed to a charitable
society 5,000 pounds. He was a member and a
zealous supporter of the French Calvinistic church.
MANLEY, JAMES It., a physician in New
York, died in 1851, aged 70.
MANLY, JOHN, a captain in the navy of the
United States, died in Boston in 1793, aged 59.
He received a naval commission from Washing
ton, Oct. 24, 1775. Invested with the command
MANN.
of the schooner Lee, he kept the hazardous sta
tion of Massachusetts bay during a most tempest
uous season, and the captures which he made
were of immense value at the moment. An
ordnance brig, which fell into his hands, supplied
the continental army with heavy pieces, mortars,
and working tools, of which it was very destitute,
and in the event led to the evacuation of Boston.
His services were the theme of universal eulogy.
Being raised to the command of the frigate Han
cock of thirty-two guns, his capture of the Fox
increased his high reputation for bravery and
skill. But he was taken prisoner by the Rain
bow of forty guns, July 8, 1777, and suffered a
long and rigorous confinement on board that ship
at Halifax, and in Mill prison, precluded from
further actual service till near the close of the
war. In September, 1782, the Hague frigate was
intrusted to his care. The cruise was peculiarly
urJiappy. A few days after leaving Martinique
he was driven by a British seventy-four on a sand
bank at the back of Gaudaloupe. Three ships
of the line, having joined this ship, came to within
point blank shot, and with springs on their cables
opened a most tremendous fire. Having sup
ported the heavy cannonade for three days, on
the fourth day the frigate was got off, and, hoist
ing the continental standard at the main-top gal
lant mast, thirteen guns were fired in farewell
defiance. On his return to Boston a few months
afterwards, he was arrested to answer a variety
of charges exhibited against him by one of his
officers. The proceedings of the court were not
altogether in approbation of his conduct. Me
moirs of his life, which should vindicate his char
acter, were promised, but they have never ap
peared.
MANN, JAMES, a surgeon, died at New York
in November, 1832, aged about 70. Born in
"Wrentham, his ancestor wrote his name Man.
He graduated in 1776, and served as a surgeon
three years in the army of the Revolution. -In
1812 he was hospital surgeon ; and was at the
head of the medical staff on the northern frontier.
He was a Swedenborgian. He published two
monographs, which gained prizes in 1804; and
medical sketches of campaigns of 1812, etc.
MANN, PEREZ, Dr., died in Burlington, Conn.,
Feb. 1, 1843, aged 84. He was surgeon's mate
in the Revolutionary war, and the principal phy
sician of B. for thirty years.
MANN, JACOB, died in Morristown, N. J., Dec.
17, 1843, aged 67. He was an editor thirty-five
years, having established the Genius of liberty in
1798.
MANN, HERMANN, died in Dedham Nov. 26,
1851, aged 56. He published annals of Dedham
in 1847.
MANNING, JAMES, D. D., first president of
the college in Rhode Island, died July 29, 1791,
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aged 52. He was born in New Jersey Oct. 22,
1738, and was graduated at Nassau hall in 1762.
When he began to preach, several of his Baptist
brethren in New Jersey and Pennsylvania pro
posed the establishment of a college in Rhode
Island, on account of the religious freedom which
was there enjoyed, and directed their attention
towards him as its president. The charter was
obtained in February, 1764, and in 1765 he re
moved to Warren, to make preparations for car
rying the design into execution. In September
the seminary was opened, and it was soon replen
ished with students. In 1770 the institution was
removed to Providence, where a spacious building
had been erected. He was soon chosen pastor
of the Baptist church in that town, and he con
tinued in the discharge of the duties of these two
offices, except in an interval of about six months
in 1786, when he was a member of congress, till
his death of the apoplexy. He was of a kind and
benevolent disposition, social and communicative,
and fitted rather for active life than for retire
ment. Though he possessed good abilities, he
was prevented from intense study by the pecu
liarity of his constitution. His life was a scene
of labor for the benefit of others. His piety and
his fervent zeal in preaching the gospel evinced
his love to God and man. With a dignified and
majestic appearance, his address was manly, fa
miliar, and engaging. In the government of the
college he was mild yet energetic. His memoir
was written by W. G. Goddard.
MANNING, JOHN, a physician, probably a de
scendant of John M., who lived in Ipswich in
1640, died in 1824, aged nearly 87. He was the
son of Dr. Joseph M. of Ipswich, who died at the
age of 79. He was born November, 1737, and,
after practising in Ipswich eleven years, went to
England in 1771 for his medical improvement.
In the American war he served as a surgeon one
campaign on Long Island and Rhode Island. In
his politics he was a democrat or republican. On
public worship he was a regular attendant. He
left three sons, physicians. — Thaclier.
MANNING, RICHARD J., governor of South
Carolina, died in Sumter district in 1836. He
was twice chosen to congress, and was respected
as a patriot and Christian.
MANNING, JOHN, Dr., died in Rockport,
Mass., November, 1841, aged 80. He was a
skilful physician.
MANNING, WILLIAM, died at Cambridgeport
July 25, 1849, aged 83 ; the oldest printer in the
State, formerly of the firm of Manning and Lor-
ing, Boston.
MANNING, JOHN, a physician, the son of Dr.
John M., died at Rockport in 1852, aged 62. He
was a native of Gloucester, and graduated at
Harvard' in 1810.
MANNING, SAMUEL B., a printer in Boston,
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died in 1856, aged 60. He was the son of Wil
liam, and with him connected in publishing the
Worcester Spy.
MANSFIELD, ACHILLES, minister of Killing-
worth, Conn., died in 1814, aged G3. He gradu
ated at Yale in 1770, and was ordained in 1779.
He preached on the Sabbath preceding his death,
from the text, " His rest shall be glorious." His
wife, a widow when he married her, was the
daughter of Joseph Elliot of K., and grand-daugh
ter of Rev. Jared Elliot. Mr. M. was a respected
minister, and a trustee of the college. His daugh
ter married Rev. Joshua Huntington. He pub
lished the Christian hope in Amer. preacher, rv.
MANSFIELD, RICHARD, D. D., Episcopal
minister in Derby, Conn., died in 1820. As he
graduated at Yale college in 1741, jf he was then
twenty-one years old, his age at his death was
about 100 years.
MANSFIELD, JARED, colonel, LL. D., pro
fessor of natural philosophy in the military
academy at West Point, died in 1830, aged 71.
He was born in New Haven, and graduated at
Yale college in 1777. He was afterwards sur
veyor-general of the United States and professor.
A few years before his death he retired from
West Point to Cincinnati, Ohio, where he resided
while surveyor. While on a visit to New Haven
he died. Colonel Totten, United States engineer,
was his nephew. He published essays mathe
matical and physical, 1802.
MARCH, EDMUND, minister of Amesbury,
Mass., died March 6, 1791, aged 88. Born in
Newbury, he graduated at Harvard in 1722, and
was ordained the same year. In a controversy
on original sin, originating with Mr. Webster of
Salisbury, he published a pamphlet entitled fair
play, etc. — Sprague's Annals.
MARCIIANT, HENRY, LL. D., judge of the
district court of the United States for Rhode
Island, died in 1796, aged 55. He practised law
at Newport ; was attorney-general of the State
in 1774 ; was a patriot of the Revolution ; and
in 1783 a delegate to congress. He was judge
from 1790 4ill his death. '
MARION, FRANCIS, a brave officer in the Rev
olutionary war, died in 1795. He was born near
Georgetown, South Carolina, in 1733. In 1759
he served as a soldier against the Cherokee In
dians. In the Revolutionary war he assisted in
the defence of fort Moultrie and commanded a
regiment at the siege of Charleston. He was
promoted by Governor Rutledgc to the rank of
brigadier-general in 1780. On the advance of
Gates, he placed himself at the head of sixteen
men, and captured a small British guard, rescu
ing one hundred and fifty continental prisoners.
As the militia was in no subordination, sometimes
he had not more than a dozen men with him.
September 4th, he marched with fifty-three men
to attack a body of two hundred tories. He first
surprised a party of forty-five, killing and wound
ing all but fifteen, and then put the main body
of two hundred to flight. His conduct was most
generous as well as brave. Not one house was
burned by his orders, for he detested making
war upon poor women and children. At one
time he was obliged to convert the saws of saw
mills into horsemen's swords for his defence. For
months he and his party slept in the open air,
and sheltered themselves in the thick recesses of
swamps, whence they sallied out and harassed
the enemy. After the war he married Mary VI-
deau, a lady of wealth, and resided in his native
parish of St. John's. As a member of the legis
lature he nobly resisted all retaliatory measures
towards the tories. As a prudent, humane, en
terprising, brave partisan officer, he had no supe
rior. His life, written by General P. Horry and
M. L. Weems, was published, 6th edition, 1818.
The soldier and companion of Marion had little
concern in writing the book. It bears all the
marks of Mr. Weems' wild, undisciplined pen ;
one can scarcely read it without mingled laughter
and tears.
MARKOE, PETER, a poet, died at Philadelphia
in 1792. He published miscellaneous poems,
1787 ; the times, a poem, 1788 ; the patriot chief,
a tragedy ; reconciliation, an opera ; and was sup
posed to be the author of Algcrine spy.
MARKS, ZACIIARIAH, died at Burlington, Conn.,
in 1840, aged 80. He was a farmer, and left an
estate of 3,000 dollars to Washington college,
Hartford.
MARQUETTE, JOSEPH, a Jesuit missionary,
the discoverer of the Mississippi river, died sud
denly on the Marquette river, which falls into lake
Michigan, in 1G75. He explored the western re
gions of Canada ; laid the foundations of Michil-
limackinac; and, in company with the Sicur
Joliet, crossed the portage from the Fox river of
Green Bay to the Wisconsin, and first entered
the Mississippi in 1673. — Cliarlevoix.
MARSH, JOSEPH, minister of Braintree, now
Quincy, died in 1726, aged 41. Born in Hadley,
he graduated at Harvard in 1705, and was or
dained in 1709. His successor was John Han
cock in 1726. — Spr ague's Annals.
MARSH, ELISHA, minister of Westminster,
Mass., died in 1784, aged about 66. Born in
Hadlcy, he graduated at Harvard in 1738, was
ordained in 1742, and dismissed in 1757. —
Spraguc's Annals.
MARSH, EBENEZER GRANT, professor of lan
guages and ecclesiastical history in Yale college,
died in 1803, aged 26. He was the son of Dr.
John Marsh, minister of Wethersfield. He was
graduated at Yale college in 1795. In 1798 he
was elected an instructor in the Hebrew language,
and in 1799 one of the tutors. In 1802 he was
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elected a professor; but the hopes which had
been excited by his talents and unequalled in
dustry were blasted, and his increasing usefulness
was terminated by his death. He was a man of
amiable manners, pure morals, and unquestioned
piety. As a preacher of the gospel he was un
commonly acceptable. His literary acquisitions
were great. lie published an oration on the
truth of the Mosaic history of the creation, 1798 ;
a catalogue of the historical writers of this coun
try, entitled, a series of American historians, from
the first discovery of this country to the present
time, 1801 ; and an elaborate oration, delivered
before the American academy of arts and sciences
in 1802, designed to confirm the truth of Scrip
ture history by the testimony of eastern writers.
This, it is believed, with improvements, was a post
humous publication. — Diciylifs and Dana's
Sermon, and Folder's Oration, on his Death ;
Hist. Coll. ix. 108-111.
MARSH, JOHN, D.D., minister of Wethersfield,
Conn., died Sept. 13, 1821, aged 78. Born in
Haverhill, he graduated at Harvard in 1761, and
was ordained Jan. 12, 1774. He published elec
tion sermon, 1796; at the installation of AY.
Lockwood, 1797.
MARSH, JAMES, D. D., died at Burlington,
Vt, July 3, 1842, aged 47. He was a native of
Hartford, Vt, and a graduate of Dartmouth in
1817. He was professor of moral and intellect
ual philosophy in the Vermont university, and
had been the president. He was a scholar, and
a man of modest worth and piety. His two wives
were sisters, the daughters of James AVheelock,
the brother of President AYheelock of Dartmouth
college. He. published, with notes, Coleridge's
aids to reflection, and some translations from the
German, and some reviews.
MARSH, DANIEL, minister of Bennington,Vt.,
died at Jamesville, N. Y., Dec. 13, 1843, aged 81.
Born in New Milibrd, Conn., he graduated at
AVilliams in 1795. He was first settled at Pough-
keepsie, then from 1806 to 1820 at Bcnnington,
and last at Jamesville, where his labors were
greatly blessed. His sight failed him. Respected
and beloved, he died in Christian peace.
MARSH, JONATHAN*, minister of AVindsor,
Conn., died Sept. 8, 1747, aged 63. He was the
son of John, and grandson of John, a first settler
of Hartford, then of Hadley. He graduated at
Harvard in 1705. His Avife was Margaret AArhit-
ing. His son Jonathan was the minister of New
Hartford ; his daughters married Rev. Nathaniel
Roberts of Torrington, and Rev. Stephen Heaton
of Goshen. He published election sermons, 1721
and 1737.
MARSH, CHARLES, LL. D., died at AVood-
stock, Vt., Jan. 11, 1849, aged 83. Born at Leb
anon, Conn., he was graduated at Dartmouth in
1786. His father removed to Vermont, and was
lieutenant-governor. For fifty years he practised
law at AVoodstock. From 1815 to 1817 he was
in congress. He was a member of various relig
ious and charitable societies.
MARSH, TRUMAN, died at Litchfield, Conn.,
March 27, 1851, aged 83; an Episcopal minister.
lie graduated at Yale in 1786.
MARSH, DEXTER, died at Greenfield, Mass.,
April 2, 1853, aged 47. An uneducated man, a
native of Montague, while he lived in G. he had
an enthusiastic zeal in collecting the print-marks
of various animals on the sandstones of the Con
necticut river valley. He collected a valuable
cabinet, which, at his executor's sale, sold for
nearly 3,000 dollars. — Holland's History, II. 376.
MARSH, SAMUEL D., missionary to the Zulus
in Africa, died Dec. 11, 1853, leaving a wife and
child. He was wise, prompt, courageous, and
persevering. He was peaceful in his last hours,
assured that " the good pilot " would conduct
him safely over the flood.
MARSHALL, HUMPHREY, a botanist and in
dustrious horticulturist, died about 1805. He
published Arbustum Amcricanum, the American
grove, or alphabetical catalogue of forest trees
and shrubs, Philadelphia, 8vo., 1785 and 1788.
It was translated into French, 1788.
MARSHALL, MOSES, died at Marshallton,
Penn., in 1813; a scientific naturalist, and a man
of practical skill.
MARSHALL, ALEXANDER K., reporter of the
court of appeals of Kentucky, died in Mason co.
in 1825, aged 55.
MARSHALL, JONAS, Dr., died at Fitchburg,
in Dec., 1825, aged 87.
MARSHALL, JOHN, chief justice of the United
States, died at Philadelphia July 6, 1835, aged 79.
His eldest son, on his way to his father's death
bed, was killed by the fall of a chimney, at Balti
more. He was born in Fauquier county, Va.,
Sept. 24, 1755, the son of Col. Thomas M., and
the eldest of fifteen children. He had some clas
sical instruction, but was never at a college. A
soldier in the war, he reached the rank of cap
tain, and fought in various battles. As a lawyer,
he soon rose to distinction. Of the Arirginia con
vention to ratify the constitution he was a con
spicuous member. Mr. Adams sent him as a
minister to France, with Pinckney and Gerry, in
1798. In 1800 he was secretary of war, and af
terwards secretary of State, and chief justice in
1801. On the resignation of Chief Justice Ells
worth, he was nominated by President John
Adams, Jan. 31, 1801, chief justice of the United
States ; which high office he held with increasing
reputation and unsullied integrity thirty-four
years, till his death. He had great talents, un
questioned uprightness, and was laboriously de
voted to the important duties of his office. He
was undoubtedly the most illustrious judge of
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our country. Amidst the changes of parties in
our government he yet was held in universal re
spect, because he was a man not only of great
learning and mental power, but also of stern, un
bending principle, and of moral virtue, resolute
to maintain the right, incapable of being swayed
aside by prejudice, interest, or partisanship. Sup
pose there should ever stand in his high place
— the most important, perhaps, in our country —
a man of a different character, whose prejudices
and passions should blind him to the right when
some great constitutional question, such, perhaps,
as the relation of slavery to the territories of our
country, should come before him; and a majority
of his associates should agree with him in feeling
and judicial decision ; it is easy to see that such
a false judgment, revolting to the sense of free
dom in the hearts of a majority of the States,
might break up the very foundations of our Union.
The evil of a president faithless to his trust can
be remedied by the people at a new election.
But our judges are permanent in office : if they
become corrupt, there is no remedy but revolu
tion. Judge Story, who was twenty-four years
the associate of Chief Justice Marshall, said of
him, that there was not a man of any party
" who would not cheerfully admit, that the high
est judicial honors could not have fallen on any
one who could have sustained them with more
solid advantage to the glory or interests of the
country." And as to his official labors he also
said : " There is one class of cases which ought
not to be overlooked, because it comes home to
the business and bosom of every citizen of this
country, and is felt in every gradation of life,
from the chief magistrate down to the inmate of
the cottage. We allude to the grave discussions
of constitutional law, which, during his time, have
attracted so much of the talents of the bar in the
supreme court, and sometimes agitated the whole
nation. If all others of the chief justice's judi
cial arguments had perished, his luminous judg
ments on these occasions would have given an
enviable immortality to his name." — Judge Mar
shall's residence was Richmond, Va. He had
gone to Philadelphia for medical advice in his
failing health. His faculties he retained to the
last; and he met death with the resignation of
the Christian. He was a man of kind feelings
and simple manners : he was not uplifted by his
honors. In his dress he was very plain. He
mixed easily with his neighbors. In various ob
jects of benevolence and human improvement he
took a lively interest. He believed in the Chris
tian religion ; was a regular attendant on the
Episcopal church ; was one of the vice-presidents
of the American bible society, and the president
of the colonization society. No one, in the pos
session of his reason, would ascribe to him, or to
Washington, the project of reviving the slave
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trade, or the wish to extend and perpetuate
slavery, or the absence of the wish of justice and
humanity, that all slavery might come to an
end. — He published the life of Washington, 5
vols., 1805; 2d edit., improved, in 2 vols., 1832.
The history of the colonies was published sep
arately in 1824.
MARSHALL, JOHN E., an eminent physician,
died at Buffalo in 1838, aged 52.
MARSHALL, JOHN J., judge, died in Louis
ville, Ivy., June, 1846, aged 61. He had a great
estate ; but, lending his name generously and in
cautiously to support the credit of others, he lost
his property.
MARSHALL, ANDREW, a colored preacher,
died in Richmond, Va., about Dec. 20, 1856, aged
100. For many years he was pastor of the Afri
can Baptist church, Savannah. He had gifts, and
by his excellent character he won the respect and
esteem of all who knew him. He preached, in
the last spring, in various churches in New York.
MARSTOX, JOHN, died in Taunton ])ec. 13,
1846, aged 91 ; a commandant of artillery under
Gen. Ivnox in the war of the Revolution.
MARTHA, an Indian, died at Mohegan, near
Norwich, Conn., in 1805, aged 120. She was the
widow of Zacharah, a chief, and was herself for
years the agent of the Mohegan tribe.
MARTIN, JOHN, first minister of Northbo-
rough, Mass., died in 1767, aged 61. Born in
Boston, he graduated at Harvard in 1724, and
was settled in 1746.
MARTIN, ALEXANDER, LL. D., governor of
North Carolina from 1782 to 1785, died in
1807. He was a delegate to the convention
which framed the constitution of the United
States. In 1789 he was again chosen governor.
In 1792 he was elected a senator of the United
States.
MARTIN, PHILIP, a patriot of the Revolution,
died at Providence, R. I., in 1821, aged 65. He
was a State senator.
MARTIN, LUTHER, a patriot of the Revolu
tion and a jurist, died at New York July 10,
1826, aged 81.
MARTIN, WILLIAM P., a Methodist minister,
died near Lynchburg, Va., in 1829, aged 84.
MARTIN, JAMES, a Revolutionary soldier, died
atlvnoxville in 1833, aged 106.
MARTIN, JOHN, died in Augusta, Ga., Feb.
14, 1843, aged 105. His parents came with Ogle-
thorpe. He served in the Cherokee war, and was
wounded in the head by an Indian tomahawk.
He served also in the war of the Revolution.
MARTIN, FRANCIS X., LL. 1)., died at New
Orleans Dec. 9, 1846, aged 84. He was chief
justice of the supreme court of Louisiana. He
was born in Marseilles in France. He pub
lished cases in supreme court of Louisiana, in 12
vols., 1816-1823; the same, new series, 8 vols.,
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1824-1830 ; history of North Carolina, 2 vols.,
1818.
MARTIN, JOSEPH P., died in Prospect, Me.,
May 2, 1850, aged 90. The son of a minister in
Berkshire, he entered the army in 1776, and was
in several bloody battles. He was the clerk of
the town, which was a wilderness when he settled
in it. He published in 1830 a narrative of his
adventures as a soldier.
MARTIN, DAVID, a popular writer, died at
Baton Rouge, La., in 1856. He wrote the song,
" Erin is my home."
MARTINDALE, STEPHEN, minister of Wal-
lingford, Vt., died in 1847, aged 59. Born in
West Dorset, he graduated at Middlebury in
1806, and was a preceptor seven years. He was
a minister at Tinmouth from 1819 to 1832, and
for the rest of his life at "W. — Sprague's Annals.
MARTYN, RICHARD, speaker of the assembly,
died at Portsmouth, N. II., in 1693. He was one
of the founders of the church in 1661, and a
councillor. His son, Richard, a graduate of 1680,
was for a time a preacher.
MARVIN, THOMAS J., judge, died at Havana
in Dec., 1852, aged 50. He lived at Saratoga.
He and his brother were the proprietors of the
great house, called the United States hotel, and
had held it for twenty years, constantly enlarging
and improving it. lie Avas a judge in Saratoga
county.
MASON, JOHN, captain, proprietor of New
Hampshire, died in 1635. He was a merchant of
London, and afterwards governor of Newfound
land. On his return he met with Sir Win. Alex
ander, who was induced to engage in the project
of settling the new world, and obtained a patent
of Acadie, or Nova Scotia, in 1621. In the same
year Mason obtained of the Plymouth company,
of which he was a member, a grant of the land
from Salem river to the Merrimack, and up to
the heads thereof, called Mariana. In 1622 he
and Gorges obtained a grant of the lands between
the Merrimac and Sagadahoc, extending back to
the lakes, called Laconia. He obtained, Nov. 7,
1629, a new patent of New Hampshire. His
daughter Jane married John Tufton, whose son,
Robert T., assumed the name of Mason. He had
been at great expense in the settlement of his
province, with no advantage. His heirs sold their
rights to Samuel Allen in 1691.
MASON, JOHN, major, a brave soldier, and
author of the history of the Pequot Avar, died
about 1672, aged 72. He was born in England
about the year 1600. He was bred to arms in
the Netherlands, under Sir Thomas Fairfax, whose
good opinion he so much conciliated, that, after
his arrival in this country, when the struggle
arose in England between King Charles I. and
the parliament, Sir Thomas addressed a letter to
Mason, requesting him to join his standard and
give his assistance to those who were contending
for the liberties of the people. The invitation,
however, was declined. Mason was one of the
first settlers of Dorchester, being one of the com
pany of Mr. Warham in 1630. From this place
he removed to Windsor about the year 1635, and
assisted in laying the foundation of a new colony.
The Pequot war, in which he was so distinguished,
was in the year 1637. The Pequot Indians were
a spirited and warlike nation, who lived near New
London. In 1634 a tribe which was in confed
eracy with them murdered a Captain Stone and
a Captain Norton, with their crew of eight men,
and then sunk the vessel. A part of the plunder
was received by Sassacus, the Pequot sachem. In
1636 the Pequots killed a number of men at Say-
brook, where there was a garrison of about twenty
men ; in consequence of which Mason was sent
down the river by the Connecticut colony in
March, 1637, for the relief of the fort. He re
mained there a month, but not an Indian was to
be seen. In April the Pequots killed nine of the
English at Wethersfield, and destroyed much
property. The colony was now reduced to a
most lamentable condition. The inhabitants were
in number but about two hundred and fifty, and
most of the men were needed for the labor of the
plantations. Many of the cattle had been lost by
the want of hay or corn. There were, perhaps,
not five ploughs in the colony, and the people
were suffering for want of provisions. They were
at the same time so harassed by a powerful enemy,
that they could neither hunt, fish, nor cultivate
their fields, but at the peril of their lives. They
were obliged to keep a constant watch. At this
crisis a court was summoned at Hartford on the
first of May. Besides the six magistrates, there
were also committees from the few towns in the
colony, to compose the court. As the Pequots
had killed about thirty, and Avere endeavoring to
effect a union of all the Indians in a plan for the
extirpation of the English, it Avas determined that
an offensive Avar should be carried on against
them, and that ninety men should immediately
be raised, forty-two from Hartford, thirty from
Windsor, and eighteen from Wethersfield. The
little army, under the command of Mason, Avith
Mr. Stone for their chaplain, fell doA\rn the river
on the 10th, and arrived at Saybrook on the 17th.
They had united with them about seventy Indians
under the command of Uncas, sachem of the Mo-
hegans, Avho had lately revolted from Sassacus.
At Saybrook Mason and his officers were entirely
divided in opinion respecting the manner of pros
ecuting their enterprise. The court had directed
the landing of the men at Pequot harbor, from
Avhence they were to advance upon the enemy ;
but Mason Avas of opinion that they should sail
past the Pequot country to Narragansett, and
then return and take the enemy by surprise.
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This opinion was a proof of his discernment and
military skill. The Pequots were expecting them
at the harbor, where they kept a Avatch clay and
night ; and the place was encompassed by rocks
and thickets, affording the Indians, who were the
more numerous, every advantage. It would be
difficult to land, and if a landing was effected, it
would be difficult to approach the enemy's forts
without being much harassed, and giving an op
portunity for all of them to escape, if they were
unwilling to fight. Besides, by going first to Nar-
ragansett, the hope was indulged that some ac
cession to their force might be procured. These
reasons weighed much with Mason, but not with
the other officers, who were afraid to exceed their
commission. In this perplexity Mr. Stone was
desired to seek wisdom from above. Having
spent most of Thursday night in prayer on board
the Pink, in the morning he went on shore and
told Mason he was entirely satisfied with his plan.
The council was again called, and the plan was
adopted. On Saturday, the 20th, they arrived at
Narragansett ; but the wind was so unfavorable,
that they could not land until Tuesday at sunset.
He immediately marched to the residence of the
sachem, Miantunnomu, and disclosed to him the
object which he had in view. Two hundred of
the Narragansetts joined him, and on Wednesday
they marched about eighteen or twenty miles to
the eastern Nihantick, which was a frontier to the
Pequots. Here was the seat of one of the Narra
gansett sachems, who was so unfriendly that he
would not suffer any of the English to enter the
fort. A strong guard was in consequence placed
round it, that none of the Indians should come
out and alarm the Pequots. The little army con
tinued its march on Thursday, having in its train
about five hundred Indians. In the evening they
reached the neighborhood of one of the Pcquot
forts at Mystic. The army encamped, being ex
ceedingly fatigued in consequence of the heat and
the want of necessaries. The guards, who were
advanced considerably in front, heard the enemy
singing until midnight. It was a time of rejoic
ing with them, as they had seen the vessels pass
a few days before, and concluded that the Eng
lish had not courage to attack them. About two
hours before day on the morning of Friday, May
26th, the captain assembled his men, and prepared
himself for determining the fate of Connecticut.
The blessing of God was briefly and devoutly im
plored. With less than eighty brave men he
marched forward, the Indians, who were much
afraid, having fallen in the rear. He told them
to stay behind at what distance they pleased, and
to see whether Englishmen would not fight. As
Mason approached within a rod of the fort a dog
barked, and an Indian roared out, Owanux ! Owa-
nux ! [Englishmen ! Englishmen !] The troops
pressed on, and, having fired upon the Indians
through the palisadoes, entered the fort at the
principal entrance, sword in hand. After a severe
conflict, in which a number of the enemy were
killed, victory was still doubtful, for the Indians
concealed themselves in and about their wigwams,
and, from their retreats, made good use of their
arrows. At this crisis the captain cried out to his
men, " We must burn them ! " and, seizing a fire
brand in one of the wigwams, set fire to the mats
with Avhich they were covered. In a short time
all the wigwams were wrapped in flames. Mason
drew his men without the fort, encompassing it
completely ; and the sachem, Uncas, with his In
dians and such of the Narragansetts as remained,
took courage and formed another circle in the
rear. The enemy were now thrown into the ut
most terror. Some climbed the palisadoes and
were brought down by the fire of the muskets ;
others were so bewildered that they rushed into
the very flames. A number collected to the wind
ward and endeavored to defend themselves with
their arrows, and about forty of the boldest issued
forth and were cut down by the swords of the
English. In a little more than an hour the whole
work of destruction was completed. Seventy
wigwams were burned, and six hundred Indians
perished. Seven escaped, and seven were taken
prisoners. Two only of the English were killed,
and sixteen wounded. The victory was complete,
but the army was in great danger and distress.
So many were wounded and worn down by fa
tigue, that only about forty could be spared to
contend with the remaining enemy. In about an
hour three hundred Indians came on from another
fort ; but Mason led out a chosen party and
checked their onset. It was determined to march
immediately for Pequot harbor, into which, a few
minutes before, to their unutterable joy, they had
seen their vessels enter, guided by the hand of
Providence. When the march commenced, the
Indians advanced to the hill on which the fort
had stood. The desolation which here presented
itself to their view filled them with rage ; they
stamped and tore their hair in the transports of
passion ; and, rushing down the hill with great
fury, seemed determined to avenge themselves on
the destroyers of their brethren. But the supe
riority of fire-arms to their bows and arrows kept
them at a distance. Mason reached the harbor
in safety ; and, putting his wounded aboard, the
next day marched by land to Saybrook with about
twenty men. His safe return, and the success
which attended the expedition, filled the whole
colony with joy and thanksgiving. Several prov
idential events were particularly noticed. It was
thought remarkable that the vessels should come
into the harbor at the very moment when they
were so much needed. As Mason entered a
wigwam for fire to burn the fort, an Indian was
drawing an arrow to the very head, and would
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have killed him instantly, had not one Da-sis at
this critical moment cut the bowstring with his
sword. So completely was the object of the ex
pedition effected, that the remaining Pequots were
filled with such terror, that they burned their wig-
Arams and fled from their abode. The greatest
part of them went towards New York. Mason
was sent out to pursue them, and he took one
hundred prisoners of the old men, women, and
children. The rest, about two hundred in num
ber, soon submitted themselves, engaging never
to live in their country again, and becoming sub
ject to the sachems of Mohegan and Narragan-
sett, with the disgraceful necessity of never again
being called Pequots.
Soon after this war, Mason was appointed by
the government of Connecticut major-general of
all their forces, and continued in this office till his
death. He remained a magistrate, to which sta
tion he was first chosen in 1642, till May, 1660,
when he was elected deputy-governor. In this
office he continued ten years, till May, 1670, when
his infirmities induced him to retire from public
life. After the Pequot war, at the request of the
inhabitants of Saybrook, and for the defence of
the colony, he removed from Windsor to that
place in 1647. Thence, in 1659, he removed to
Norwich, where he died in 1672 or 1673, aged
72. He left three sons, Samuel, John, and Dan
iel, whose descendants are numerous ; one of
them was Jeremiah Mason, of Portsmouth. Mason
held the same reputation for military talents in
Connecticut, which Standish held in Plymouth
colony. Both rendered the most important ser
vices to their country. Both were bred to arms
in the Dutch Netherlands. Standish was of
short stature, but Mason was tall and portly, and
equally distinguished for his courage and vigor.
He was also a gentleman of prudence and correct
morals. At the request of the general court he
drew up and published a brief history of the Pe
quot war. It is reprinted in Increase Mather's
relation of troubles by the Indians, 1677. It was
also republished more correctly, with an introduc
tion and some explanatory notes by Thomas
Prince, in 1736. — Introduction to Mason's His
tory ; Trumbull, i. 68-87, 337 ; Holmes.
MASON, GEORGE, an eminent statesman of
Virginia, died in 1792, aged 67. He was a mem
ber of the general convention which in 1787
framed the constitution of the United States, but
refused to sign his name, as one of that body, to
the instrument which they had produced. In the
following year he was a member of the Virginia
convention, which considered the proposed plan
of federal government. He united with Henry,
and opposed its adoption with great energy. He
thought that the confederation was about to be
converted into a consolidated government, for
which, he said, many of the members Of the gen-
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eral convention avowed an attachment, and he
was desirous of introducing amendments. He
contended for the necessity of an article, reserving
to the State all powers not delegated. This arti
cle is now among the amendments of the consti
tution. He wished also that there should be a
limitation to the continuance of the president in
office. So averse was he to that section which
allowed the slave trade for twenty years, that, at
tached as he was to the union of all the States,
he declared that he would not admit the southern
States into the union, unless they would agree to
discontinue the traffic. He died at his seat at
Gunston Hall, Va.
MASON, JOHN, D. D., minister of the Scotch
church in Cedar street, N. Y., died in 1792, aged
57. His widow, Sarah, died in 1827, aged 84, at
New llochclle, at the house of Rev. Isaac Blan-
velt, her brother-in-law.
MASON, DAVID, colonel, died in Boston Sept.
17, 1794, aged 67. He was a meritorious officer
of the Revolution, and laid the foundation of the
armory at Springfield. His earliest ancestor in
Boston came from England in 1634. He learned
the art of painting and gilding, and then portrait-
painting of Greenwood ; he also delivered lec
tures on electricity in various towns. Dr. Frank
lin was a friend in his father's house. In the
French war he was a lieutenant, and understood
well the art of gunnery, commanding a battery of
six cannon in fort William and Henry. He was
there taken prisoner, but was released in the
woods b)' the kindness of a French officer. In
1763 he organized the first artillery company in
Boston. In 1774 he was appointed engineer.
Two brass cannon, which the British seized, he
secretly carried off concealed in loads of manure.
His wife, Hannah, grand-daughter of Rev. Thomas
Symmes, cut out five thousand flannel cartridges.
From Salem, April 19, 1775, he marched to Med-
ford with four or five hundred men. Under
Washington's eye he bombarded Boston from
Dorchester heights with a 13-inch mortar, cap
tured by Capt. Manly. At the second fire the
mortar burst and wounded him in his leg. As
soon as he could ride, he followed Washington to
New York. Late in 1776 Washington ordered
him to select a place for preparing ammunition ;
he agreed for ten acres, now the arsenal at Spring
field, and there he lived five years. His residence
was afterwards at Springfield. His State securi
ties he sold at a great loss, for two or three shil
lings on the pound. In 1786 he became lame,
and remained so eight years, till his deatu. He
was a Christian, eminent for love to God and
man. His daughter Hannah married Capt. John
Bryant of Boston, and died at Springfield. Su
sanna married Professor John Smith of Hanover.
Mary married Daniel Tuttle of Boston. His
grandson, John Bryant, merchant of Boston, now
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MASON.
living, married Mary, a daughter of Professor
Smith by liis first wife, Mary Cleaveland.
MASON, JOHN, minister of Swanzey, died in
July, 1801, aged 85.
MASON, THADDEUS, register of deeds for Mid
dlesex, died May 1, 1802, aged 96. He grad
uated at Cambridge in 1728.
MASON, JOHN M., D. D., minister in New
York, died Dec. 27, 1829, aged 59. He was the
son of Dr. John M., was born March 19, 1770,
and was graduated at Columbia college in 1789.
Having studied theology with his father, he com
pleted his education at Edinburgh. In 1792 he
succeeded his father in the church in Cedar street.
By his letters on frequent communion, written in
1798, the associate Reformed churches were in
duced to change the old custom of communing
but twice a year for a more frequent commemora
tion of the death of the Redeemer. Appointed
professor of theology in 1801, he performed the
duties until his health declined. In 1810 his con
nection with Cedar-street church was dissolved,
and in 1812 he became the pastor of a new church
in Murray street. From 1811 to 1816 he was
the provost of Columbia college. In 1816 he
travelled in Europe for the benefit of his health ;
in 1819 he suffered from two paralytic attacks.
From 1821 he presided over Dickinson college in
Pennsylvania until 1824, when he returned to New
York, and lingered the rest of his days the
shadow of what he once was.
He was eminent for erudition and for his intel
lectual powers. As a preacher he was uncom
monly eloquent. But he was harsh and overbear
ing, somewhat in proportion " to the robustness
of his faculties of mind and body." At a contri
bution in his church, a man put into the box a
counterfeit ten-dollar bill. In the afternoon Dr.
M. said to the people : " A counterfeit ten-dollar
bill was put into the box this morning ; the man
knew it to be counterfeit ; if he is here, I will tell
him — ' the Almighty has debited you ten dollars,
and will charge you compound interest during the
endless ages of eternity ! ' " In preaching he
once quoted Pope's lines as to God's being adored
alike " by saint and savage and by sage," he pro
nounced it (in his deepest guttural), "the most
damnable lie." He edited for some years the
Christian's magazine, in which he had a contro
versy with Bishop Hobart on Episcopalianism.
In that work his letters on frequent communion,
a plea for communion on catholic principles, and
other writings, are found. He published a sermon
preached before the New York missionary society,
1797 ; before the London missionary society, about
1802 ; an oration on the death of Washington,
1800 ; of Hamilton, 1804. Four volumes of liis
sermons were published in 1832.
MASON, AKMISTEAD T., general, a senator of
MASSASOIT.
the United States, died Feb. 6, 1819, aged 33.
He was the son of Stephens Thompson Masr n,
a senator from Virginia, and was born in 1785.
He ably defended Norfolk in 1812. On the resig
nation of Mr. Giles he was elected senator in his
place in 1816, the term of office expiring in 1817.
In consequence of a political dispute with his rel
ative, John McCarty, they fought a duel with
muskets at Bladensburg, when Gen. Mason was
killed. In the correspondence with his antago
nist, which was published, he manifested the most
malignant ferocity. The benevolent temper, en
joined by the gospel of Jesus Christ, would have
excluded from his heart that hatred of his brother
which led to his own destruction. In the first
third of the present century there were more than
a hundred murders committed by duellists in this
country, and the blood of more than a hundred
unavenged murders cries to Heaven against our
guilty land. Maj. Campbell was executed in Lon
don in Sept., 1808, for killing Capt. Boyd in a
duel ; yet in our republic no " honorable mur
derer" has yet been brought to the gallows.
Blackstone, in expounding the law of England,
says of deliberate duelling, that " both parties
meet avowedly with an intent to murder." The
law of God and the laws of our country require,
that the murderer shall be put to death.
MASON, ABEL, captain, died at Southbridge,
Mass., in 1832, aged 93, a soldier of 1756, and
of the Revolution.
MASON, EBENEZER P., died in 1840, aged 21.
He graduated at Yale in 1839, and published an
introduction to practical astronomy.
MASON, WILLIAM, minister of Castine, Maine,
died in 1847, aged about 77. Born in Rowley,
he graduated at Harvard in 1792. He was set
tled in 1793, and dismissed in 1834.
MASON, ELIIIU, minister of Le Roy, N. Y.,
died in 1849, aged 67. Born at West Spring
field, he graduated at Dartmouth in 1808, and
was the minister of Hcrkimcr, N. Y., then of
Barkhamstead, Conn., two years from 1814 ; then
engaged in missionary service ; at last was pastor
at Lc Roy, when after four years he was in 1833
disabled by ill health. He was laborious and
eminently pious.
MASON, JOSEPH, Dr., died in Providence
July 19, 1843, aged about 76, for many years an
eminent physician. He was a graduate of Brown
university in 1786.
MASON, STEVENS THOMPSON, the only son of
Gen. John Thompson Mason, died at New York
Jan. 4, 1843, aged 31. At the age of nineteen
he was appointed secretary of Michigan, and was
its governor as a Territory, and also as a State.
MASON, JOHN THOMPSON, general, died at
Galveston April 17, 1850. A native of Virginia,
he lived in Kentucky from 1811 to 1835 ; and in
MATHER.
Michigan, where he lived fifteen years ; he was
governor after the death of his son, Stevens
Thompson Mason.
MASON, JEREMIAH, LL. D., died at Boston
Nov. 14, 1848, aged 80. Descended from Capt.
John Mason, he was born in Lebanon ; his father,
opulent, died in 1813. His grandfather died in
Norwich in 1779; his great-grandfather lived at
Iladdam. He graduated at Yale in 1788. In
the practice of law he lived first at AVestmore-
land, N. H., then at Walpolc, and at Portsmouth
in 1797. In 1802 he was attorney-general.
From 1813 to 1817 he was a senator of the United
States. In 1832 he removed to Boston ; at the
age of seventy he left the bar, though still con
sulted as a lawyer. His high character in his
profession was described by Mr. Webster and
Judge Woodbury. As few men were so tall in
stature, so very few ever reached his height of
excellence as a lawyer.
MASON, THOMAS, minister of Northfield,
Mass., died Jan. 3, 1801, aged 81. Born at
Princeton, he was a graduate of Harvard in 1796,
and pastor at N. from 1799 to 1830. He pub
lished a thanksgiving sermon, 1824.
MASON, ERSKINE, D. D., died at New York
May 14, 1851, aged 47 ; minister at Bleecker
street; son of Dr. John M. Mason. His memoir,
written by W. Adams, is prefixed to his sermons
on practical subjects, entitled a pastor's legacy.
MASSASOIT, sachem or king of the Wompo-
neags or Womponoogs, whose authority extended
from Narragansett bay to Massachusetts bay,
died about 1600. He is sometimes called their
great sagamore and great sachem ; but, although
Dr. Dwight maintains, that sachem means a
principal chief, and sagamore an inferior one, yet
probably they are words of the same meaning,
or the same word in different dialects or in dif
ferent inflexions. Ilubbard says the same as Dr.
Dwight ; but Winslow speaks of " sachems or
petty governors." An ancient writer says, that
the northern Indians used the term sagamore and
the southern the term sachem. Purchas gives
the word sagamo. Winslow, in his account of his
visit to Massasoit, says, that he went to the
sachimo comaco, to the sachem's house ; and that
Hobbamoc addressed him with the words, " Neen
womasu sagimus," My loving sachem. We may
then regard sachem, sachcmo, sagamo, sagamore,
as the same. The name of M. was written by
Winslow, as it was probably pronounced, Mas-
sassowat ; also it was written Massasoyt and Mas-
sasoyet. He was also called Asuhmequin, Osa-
mekin, and Woosamequen. His residence was at
Packanakick, or Pokanoket, sometimes called
Sowams and Sowamset. Over against him, on
the opposite side of the great bay, lived the Nar-
ragansetts. Winslow, in going to Massasoit,
crossed a river, which, I suppose, was Taunton ;
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in three miles he came to Metapoiset, in Swan-
zcy ; and four or five miles beyond was Packa-
nokic, the residence of the sachem. A Dutch
vessel had been stranded before his house. I
suppose, therefore, that he lived at Warren, and
that Sowams or Sowamset was Swanzey, though
the town was so called from Swansea in Wales,
whence some of the first inhabitants came. March
22, 1621, he visited the English pilgrims at Ply
mouth with his brother, Quadequina, and a train
of sixty men, and presented himself on Spring
hill. The governor sent Mr. Winslow to invite
him to a treaty. While Quadequina detained
Mr. W. as a hostage, the sachem with twenty
unarmed men met Capt. Standish and a few men
at the town brook, where they saluted each other.
Massasoit was then conducted to Governor Car
ver and made a treaty, the articles of which he
always faithfully observed. The league lasted to
1670. It was stipulated, " that neither he nor
his should injure any of ours ; that if any un
justly warred against him, we would aid him,
and if any warred against us, he should aid us."
He was " a portly man, in his best years, grave
of countenance, spare of speech." The Narra-
gansetts under Canonicus being hostile to him,
he was glad of the friendship of the whites. In
July, E. Winslow visited the sachem at his resi
dence, and was kindly received. When he was
sick in March, 1623, Mr. Winslow, accompanied
by John Hampden, " a gentleman of London,"
visited him. This was probably the celebrated
Ilampdcn. Massasoit, who was very sick, in his
gratitude said, " I will never forget this kind
ness ; " and he disclosed the Indian conspiracy
for the destruction of the Plymouth settlers.
Capt. Standish in consequence killed the ring
leaders. The benevolent visit was the means of
saving the colony from destruction. Massasoit
was succeeded by his son, Alexander ; king
Philip was another son. — BdJcnap, II. 229, 290.
MATHER, RICHARD, minister of Dorchester,
the son of Thomas M., died April 22, 1669, aged
73. He was born in Lancashire, England, in
1096. At the age of fifteen he was invited to
take the instruction of a school at Toxteth, near
Liverpool. After suffering for some time that
| anxiety and distress, which the knowledge of his
! own character as a sinner produced, he in his
18th. year found peace and joy in the gospel
of the Redeemer. In May, 1618, he was admit
ted a student at Oxford ; but in a few months
afterwards he became the minister of Toxteth,
being ordained by the bishop of Chester. Here
he continued about fifteen years without any in
terruption of his benevolent labors. He preached
every Tuesday at Prescot, and he always seized
the opportunity, which his attendance upon funer
als afforded, for imparting instruction to the
living. He was silenced for nonconformity to the
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established church in 1633, but through the in
fluence of his friends was soon restored. He was
again suspended in 1634, as he had never worn
the surplice, and could not adopt the ceremonies
which were enjoined. Having resolved to seek
the peaceable enjoyment of the rights of con
science and the purity of Christian ordinances in
New England, he escaped the pursuivants, who
were endeavoring to apprehend him, and em
barked at Bristol in May, 1635. August 17th
he arrived in Boston harbor. He was in a few
months invited to Dorchester ; and, as the first
church had removed with Mr. Warham to Wind
sor, a new church was formed, of which he was
constituted the teacher, August 23, 1636. He as
sisted Mr. Eliot and Mr. Welde in 1640 in making
the Xew England version of the psalms. The
model of church discipline, which he presented
to the synod of 1648, was the one which was
chiefly adopted in preference to the models pre
pared by Mr. Cotton and Mr. Partridge. He
died in the peace of the Christian. The follow
ing was the poetic inscription of the day :
" Divinely rich and learned Rich'd Mather,
Sons, like him prophets great, rejoic'd this father.
Short time his sleeping dust here's cover'd down;
Not his ascended spirit or renown."
His first wife was the daughter of Edmund
Hoult ; his second was Sarah, widow of John
Cotton. His six sons were by his first wife.
Though in his old age he experienced many in
firmities, yet, such had been his health, that for
half a century he was not detained by sickness
so much as one Sunday from his public labors.
He was a pious Christian, a good scholar, and a
plain and useful preacher. He was careful to
avoid foreign and obscure words, and unneces
sary citation of Latin sentences, that all might
understand him. While his voice was loud and
distinct, there was also a vehemency and dignity
in his manner. He wrote the discourse about
the church covenant, and the answer to thirty-
two questions, published in 1639, which pass
under the name of the elders of Xew England.
He wrote also a modest and brotherly answer to
Charles Herle's book against the independency
of churches, 1644 ; a reply to Rutherford, or a
defence of the answer to Ilerle's book, 1646 ; an
heart-melting exhortation, etc., in a letter to his
countrymen of Lancashire, 1650 ; a catechism ;
a treatise of justification, 1652; a letter to Mr.
Hooker, to prove that it was lawful for a ministei
to administer the sacrament to a congregation
not particularly under his care ; election sermon
about 1660 ; an answer to Mr. Davenport's work
against the propositions of the synod of 1662.
He also prepared for the press sermons on the
second epistle of Peter, and an elaborate defence
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of the churches of New England. — Wood's
Athence. Oxon., II. 427, 428; Magnalia, ill. 122
-130 ; Hist. Coll. VIII. 10 ; /. Mather's account
of his Life.
MATHER, SAMUEL, minister of Dublin, Ire-
and, the son of the preceding, died in Dublin
Oct. 29, 1671, aged 45. He was born in Lanca-
ihire May 13, 1626. Accompanying his father
to this country, he was graduated at Harvard
college in 1643. He was appointed the first fel
low of the college, and he Avas held in such esti
mation by the students whom he instructed, that,
when he left them, they put on badges of mourn
ing. When he began to preach, he spent some
time in Rowley as an assistant to Mr. Rogers.
A church having been gathered in the north part
of Boston, he was invited to take the charge of
it ; but, after preaching there one winter, he was
induced to go to England in 1650. The church
which he left was afterwards under the pastoral
care of his brother, Increase Mather. In Eng
land he was appointed chaplain of Magdalen col
lege, Oxford. He then preached in Scotland
and Ireland. In Dublin he was senior fellow of
Trinity college, and was settled the minister of
the church of St. Nicholas. Though he refused
several benefices that were offered by the lord
deputy, because he did not wish to have the Epis
copalian ministers displaced ; yet soon after the
restoration he was suspended on a charge of sedi
tion. Returning to England, he was minister at
Burton wood, till ejected by the Bartholomew
act in 1662. He afterwards gathered a church
at his own house in Dublin, where he died in
peace. He was succeeded by his brother, Na
thaniel Mather. As a preacher he held the first
rank, and his name was known throughout the
kingdom. His discourses were remarkable for
clearness of method. He published a whole
some caveat for a time of liberty, 1652 ; a
defence of the protestant religion against pope
ry, 1671; an irenicum, or an essay for union
among the Presbyterians, Independents, and Ana
baptists ; a treatise against stinted liturgies ; a
piece against Valentine Greatarick, who pretended
to cure diseases by stroking ; a course of sermons
on the types of the Old Testament, Avith some dis
courses against popish superstitions. — Wood's
Athence. Oxon., n. 489, 490 ; Magnolia, IV. 143-
153 ; Nonconformists' Memorial, n. 355-357.
MATHER, NATHANIEL, minister in London,
the son of Richard Mather, died July 26, 1697, aged
67. He was born March 20, 1630. After his
arrival in this country with his father, he was ed
ucated at Harvard college, where he graduated
in 1647. He afterwards went to England, and
was presented to the living at Barnstable by
Oliver Cromwell in 1656. Upon his ejectment
in 1662 he went into Holland, and was a minister
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at Rotterdam. About the year 1071 or 1672 he
succeeded his brother, Samuel Mather, at Dub
lin. Thence he removed to London, where he
was pastor of a Congregational church, and one
of the lecturers at Pinner's hall. He was buried
in the burying ground near Bunhill fields, and
there is upon his tomb-stone a long Latin in
scription, written by Dr. Watts, which ascribes to
him a high character for genius, learning, piety,
and ministerial fidelity. He published the right
eousness of God by faith upon all who believe,
1694 ; a discussion of the lawfulness of a pastor's
officiating in another's church ; twenty-three ser
mons, preached at Pinner's hall, and Lime street,
taken in shorthand as they were delivered, 1701;
a fast sermon. — Calamy's Contin. I. 257-258.
MATHER, ELEAZER, first minister of North
ampton, Mass., the son of Richard Mather, died
July 24, 1669, aged 32. He was born May 13,
1637. He was graduated at Harvard college in
1656. Having preached about two years at
Northampton, when a church was gathered there
in 1661, he was ordained its minister, June 23.
His wife was the daughter of John Warham ; she
married after his death S. Stoddard. His daugh
ter married Rev. John Williams. He was ad
mired as a man of talents and exalted piety, and
as a zealous and eminently useful preacher. After
his death there was published from his manu
scripts a serious exhortation to the succeeding
and present generation, being the substance of
his last sermons, 1671. — Magnolia, III. 130.
MATHER, INCREASE, D. D., president of
Harvard college, the son of Richard Mather, died
August 23, 1723, aged 84. He was born at Dor
chester June 21, 1639. He was graduated in
1656. Beginning to preach in the next year,
and being invited by his brother to Dublin, he
embarked for England July 3, 1657, and after
an absence of four years returned in August,
1661. In the next month he was invited to
preach at the north church in Boston, though he
was not ordained there till May 27, 1664. Two
years before this, when the controversy respecting
the subjects of baptism was agitated, he opposed
the results of the synod, but, being convinced by
the arguments of Mr. Mitchell, he afterwards de
fended the synodical propositions. He was a
member of the synod of 1679, and drew up the
result, which was then agreed on. AAHien King
Charle§ II. expressed his wish that the charter
of Massachusetts might be resigned into his
hands in 1683, Dr. Mather zealously opposed a
compliance with his majesty's pleasure. In 1688
he sailed for England as agent of the province to
procure redress of grievances. After several
years of important services he returned with a
new charter, and arrived in Boston May 14, 1692.
He had the sole nomination of the first governor.
After his arrival the general court appointed a
day of public thanksgiving for his safe return,
and for the settlement of the government. Dur
ing the witchcraft delusion he opposed the violent
measures which were adopted. He wrote a book
to prove that the devil might appear in the shape
of an innocent man, by means of which a number
of persons, convicted of witchcraft, escaped the
execution of the sentence. After the death of
Mr. Oakes in 1681, the care of Harvard college
devolved upon him. But as his church refused
to relinquish him, he only made weekly visits to
Cambridge, until the appointment of President
Rogers in the following year. After his death he
was again called to the presidency of the college,
June 11, 1685, and he continued in this station
till Sept. 6, 1701, when he resigned in consequence
of an act of the general court, requiring the presi
dent to reside at Cambridge. He was unwilling
to leave his church, though his son, Cotton Ma
ther, had been settled as his colleague for a
number of years. Mr. Willard succeeded him.
After a long life of benevolent exertion, he died
in Boston, having been a preacher sixty-six years,
sixty-two of which were passed in the ministry in '
Boston. His wife was Maria, the daughter of
John Cotton. He had six daughters and three
sons ; Sarah married Rev. Mr. Walter, and Abi
gail, Rev. John White.
He was a man of great learning and of exten
sive influence and usefulness. Soon after his re
turn from England he procured an act, authoriz
ing the college to create bachelors and doctors of
theology, which power was not given by its
former charter. As president he was careful not
only to give the students direction in their liter
ary pursuits, but also to impart to them religious
instruction. He frequently called them one by
one into the library, and there, with the affection
of a parent and the fidelity of a minister of the
gospel, he would confer with them respecting the
salvation of their souls, and solemnly charge
them to renounce their sins, to embrace the gos- '
pel, and to devote themselves to the service of
God. He usually preached to them every week,
and his sermons, both at Cambridge and in Bos
ton, were designed to impress the conscience as
well as to enlighten the mind. He considered
him as the best preacher who taught with the
greatest simplicity. His delivery was somewhat
peculiar. He usually spoke with deliberation,
but at times, when uttering an impressive sen
tence, his voice became the voice of thunder.
Always committing his sermons to memory, he
never used his notes in the pulpit. Sixteen hours
in every day were commonly spent in his study,
and in his retirement he repeatedly addressed
himself to the Lord, his Maker. He always
kept a diary, designed for his improvement in'
religion. Such was his benevolence, that he de
voted a tenth part of all his income to charitable
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purposes. His portrait is in the library of the
Massachusetts historical society. The following
is a list of his publications : the mystery of Israel's
salvation, 1669 ; the life and death of Richard
Mather, 1670 ; woe to drunkards, 1673 ; the day
of trouble near ; important truths about conver
sion, 1674; the first principles of New England;
a discourse concerning the subject of baptism,
and consociation of churches ; the wicked man's
portion ; the times of men in the hands of God,
1675 ; history of the war with the Indians from
June 24, 1675, to Aug. 12, 1676 ; a relation of
troubles of New England from the Indians, from
the beginning ; an historical discourse on the
prevalency of prayer ; renewal of covenant the
duty of decaying and distressed churches, 1677 ;
pray for the rising generation, 1678 ; a call to
the rising generation, 1679 ; the divine right of
infant baptism ; the great concernment of a cove
nant people ; heaven's alarm to the world, 1680 ;
animadversions upon a narrative of the Baptists,
1681 ; diatriba de signo filii hominis ; practical
truths; the church a subject of persecution, 1682;
a discourse concerning comets, 1683 ; remarkable
providences ; the doctrine of divine providence,
1684 ; an arrow against profane and promiscuous
dances, 1685; the mystery of Christ; the great
est of sinners exhorted ; a sermon on an execu
tion for murder, 1686 ; a testimony against super
stitions, 1687 ; de successu evangelii apud Indos
epistola, 1688; the unlawfulness of using common
prayer, and of swearing on the book, 1689 ; sev
eral papers relating to the state of New England;
the revolution justified, 1690 ; election sermon,
1693 ; the blessing of primitive counsellors ; cases
of conscience concerning witchcraft ; an essay
on the power of a pastor for the administration
of sacraments, 1693 ; whether a man may marry
his wife's own sister; solemn advice to young
men, 1695 ; a treatise of angels, 1696 ; a dis
course on man's not knowing his time ; the case
of conscience concerning the eating of blood,
1697; funeral sermon on J. Baily, 1698; the
surest way to the highest honor ; on hardness of
heart ; the folly of sinning, 1699 ; the order of
the gospel vindicated, 1700; the blessed hope,
1701; remarks on a sermon of George Keith;
Ichabod, or the glory departing, an election ser
mon ; the Christian religion the only true religion ;
the excellency of public spirit, 1702 ; the duty of
parents to pray for their children; soul-saving
gospel truths, 1703 ; the voice of God in the
stormy winds ; practical truths to promote holi
ness, 1704 ; meditations on the glory of Christ,
1705 ; a discourse concerning earthquakes ; a
testimony against sacrilege ; a dissertation con
cerning right to sacraments, 1706 ; meditations
on death ; a disquisition concerning right to sacra
ments, 1707 ; a dissertation wherein the strange
doctrine of Mr. Stoddard is refuted, 1708; on
the future conversion of the Jews, confuting Dr.
Lightfoot and Mr. Baxter ; against cursing and
swearing, 1709; concerning faith and prayer for
the kingdom of Christ ; at the artillery election,
on being very courageous ; awakening truths
tending to conversion, 1710; meditations on the
glory of the heavenly world ; concerning the
death of the righteous ; the duty of the children
of godly parents, 1711; burnings bewailed; re
marks upon an answer to a book against the com
mon prayer ; meditations on the sanctification of
the Lord's day, 1712; a plain discourse showing
who shall not enter into heaven ; a funeral sermon
for his daughter-in-law, 1713; on the death of
his consort, 1714 ; Jesus Christ a mighty Saviour,
and other subjects, 1715 ; a disquisition concern
ing ecclesiastical councils ; there is a God in
heaven ; the duty and dignity of aged servants
of God, 1716; at the ordination of his grandson;
sermons on the beatitudes ; practical truths
plainly delivered with an ordination sermon, 1718;
five sermons on several subjects, one of them on
the author's birth-clay, 1719 ; a testimony to the
order of the churches, 1720 ; advice to children
of godly ancestors, a sermon concluding the Bos
ton lectures on early piety ; several sheets in
favor of inoculation for the small pox, 1721 ; a
dying pastor's legacy ; Elijah's mantle, 1722. —
Remarkables of I. Mather; Nonconformists' Me
morial, II. 245-249; Magnolia, IV. 130, 131; V.
77-84 ; VI. 2.
MATHER, COTTON, D. D., F. R. S., minister
in Boston, died Feb. 13, 1728, aged 65. He was
the son of the preceding, and grandson of John
Cotton. He was born in Boston Feb. 12, 1663.
Distinguished for early piety, when he was a
schoolboy he endeavored to persuade his youth
ful companions frequently to lift up their hearts
to their Maker and heavenly Friend, and he even
wrote for them some forms of devotion. He had
also the courage to reprove their vices. At the
a"-c of fourteen he beoran to observe davs of secret
o o *
fasting and prayer, reading commonly fifteen
chapters in the bible every day. He was grad
uated at Harvard college in 1678, having made
uncommon proficiency in his studies. At this
early period of his life he drew up systems of the
sciences, and wrote remarks upon the books
which he read, and thus matured his understand
ing. At the age of seventeen he approached the
Lord's table with affectionate reliance upon Jesus
Christ for salvation. Having been occupied for
some time in the study of theology, he was or
dained minister of the north church in Boston as
colleague with his father, May 13, 1684. Here
he passed his days unwearied and unceasing in
his exertions to promote the glory of his Maker,
and the highest welfare of his brethren. He
died in the assurance of Christian faith. His first
wife was the daughter of Col. John Phillips ; his
MATHER.
second, widow Hubbard, daughter of Dr. John
Clark ; his third, widow George, daughter of Rev.
Samuel Lee. By his two first wives he had fif
teen children, lie was a man of unequalled in
dustry, of vast learning, of unfeigned piety, and
of most disinterested and expansive benevolence.
He was also distinguished for his credulity, for his
pedantry, and for his want of judgment and taste.
No person in America had so large a library, or
had read so many books, or retained so much of
what he read. So precious did he consider time,
that to prevent visits of unnecessary length, he
wrote over his study door in capital letters, " Be
short." Still his manners were never morose, but
easy and obliging. His social talents and va
rious knowledge rendered his conversation inter
esting and instructive. Every morning he usually
read a chapter of the Old Testament in Hebrew
and another in the French, and a chapter of the
New Testament in Greek. Besides the French,
he understood also the Spanish and Iroquois, and
in these languages he published treatises. There
were two books, in which he every day wrote
something. In the one, which he called his quo-
tidiana, he transcribed passages from the authors
which he read. In the other, which was his diary,
he noted the events of the day, his imperfections
and sins, and every thing which might subserve
his religious improvement. By this diary it ap
pears that in one year he kept sixty fasts and
twenty vigils, and published fourteen books, be
sides discharging the duties of his pastoral office.
As a minister of the gospel he was most exem
plary. Always proposing in his sermons to make
some particular impression upon the minds of his
hearers, the whole discourse had relation to this
object, and he endeavored to make his sentences
short, that those who took notes might do it
with more ease. His discourses, without doubt,
were equal in length to those of his brethren,
which, he himself informs us, usually went a good
way into the second hour. He kept a list of the
members of his church, and frequently prayed for
each separately. Those especially, \vhose cases
had been mentioned on the Sabbath in the house
of public worship, were remembered by him in
his secret addresses to the throne of grace. He
usually allotted one or two afternoons in a week
to visiting the families of his congregation, and in
these visits he addressed both the parents and the
children, exhorting the former to faithfulness, and
endeavoring to instruct the latter by asking them
questions, and recommending to them secret
prayer and reading of the Scriptures. When he
left them he recommended to their consideration
a particular text of Scripture. As he published
many pious books, he was continually putting
them into the hands of persons to whom he
thought they would be useful. His success
seemed to correspond with his fidelity. In the
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first year of his ministry about thirty were added
to his church ; and he received the benedictions
of many dying believers, who spoke of his labors
as the means of their salvation. He promoted
the establishment of several useful societies, par
ticularly a society for suppressing disorders and
for the reformation of manners, and a society of
peacemakers, whose object was to prevent law
suits and to compose differences. He arranged
the business of every day in the morning, always
inquiring by what means he could be useful to his
fellow men, and endeavoring to devise new meth
ods of doing good. He did not content himself
with contriving plans, but vigorously executed
them. When he travelled, he commonly had for
a companion some young gentleman, to whom he
might impart instruction, and he used to pray
with him in private, when they lodged together.
Notwithstanding his benevolent labors and un
wearied industry, he expressed the greatest hu
mility, and spoke of his days as passed in sloth
and sin. He took some interest in the political
concerns of his country, and on this account, as
well as on account of his faithful reproof of in
iquity, he had many enemies. Many abusive
letters were sent him, all of which he tied up in
a packet and wrote upon the cover, " Libels :
Father, forgive them." Though he derived much
satisfaction from his theological and literary pur
suits ; yet he declared, that, in performing an act
of benevolence to some poor and suffering Chris
tian he found much higher pleasure. In his
diary he says : " As for the delights of the world,
I know of none comparable to those which I
take in communion with my Saviour. As for the
riches of this world, I use no labor for them. In
my Saviour I have unsearchable riches ; and in
my fruition of him I have a full supply of all my
wants. As for the honors of this world, I do
nothing to gain honors for myself. To be em
ployed in the Lord's work, for the advancement
of his kingdom, is all the honor that I wish for."
His publications amounted to three hundred
and eighty-two. Many of them indeed were
small, such as single sermons ; but others were of
considerable magnitude. His essays to do good,
12mo. 1710, is a volume peculiarly excellent.
It has lately been reprinted. Dr. Franklin as
cribed all his usefulness in the world to his read
ing it in early life. His Christian philosopher,
8vo. 1721, was admired in England. His direc
tions for a candidate of the ministry, 12mo. 1725,
gained him a vast number of letters of thanks.
Others of his larger works are, the life of his
father ; and ratio discipline fratrum Nov-Anglo-
rum, or an account of the discipline professed and
practised in the churches of New England. But
his largest and most celebrated work is his Mag-
nalia Christi Americana, or the ecclesiastical his
tory of New England from its first planting in
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MATHER.
1625 to the year 1698, in seven books, folio, 1702.
His style abounds with puerilities, puns, and
strange conceits, and he makes a great display of
learning; but no man was so thoroughly ac
quainted with the history of New England, and
he has saved numerous important facts from ob
livion. In the work are contained biographical
accounts of many of the first settlers, both gov
ernors and ministers. It appears that he gave
full credit to the stories of witchcraft; but he was
not singular in his credulity. Even Dr. Watts
wrote to him, " I am persuaded that there was
much immediate agency of the devil in those af
fairs, and perhaps there were some real witches
too." The catalogue of his publications in his
life, written by his son, occupies eighteen pages ;
and the whole, therefore, could not with con
venience be here inserted. He published many
funeral sermons. Among his other works, which
are principally occasional sermons or pious tracts,
is the Wonders of the Invisible World, 4to. 1692 ;
and Psalterium Americanum, or the book of
Psalms in blank verse, with illustrations, 1718.
Besides his numerous publications, he left behind
him in manuscript the angel of Bethesda, in which
he placed under every disease not only suitable
religious instructions, but the most simple and
easy medicines ; a large treatise, designed to pro
mote union among protestants ; Goliathus detrun-
catus, against Mr. Whiston, to prove that most of
the Antenicene fathers were orthodox and not
Arian ; and Biblia Americana, or the sacred Scrip
tures of the Old and New Testament illustrated.
This learned work, which it was once proposed to
publish in three folio volumes, is now in the
library of the Massachusetts historical society. —
Life by S. Matlier; Middleman's Biog. Evang.
IV. 233-240.
MATHER, SAMUEL, minister, of Windsor,
Conn., the son of Timo. M. of Dorchester, and
the grandson of Richard M., was graduated at
Harvard college in 1671 ; was ordained in 1682;
and died March 18, 1728, aged 77. His prede
cessors were Warham and Huit; his successor
was Jonathan Marsh. An unhappy division ex
isted in Windsor from 1667 to 1680. The two
preachers, neither of whom were ordained, were
Mr. Chauncy and Mr. Woodbridge. But the two
churches and town happily united in Mr. Mather,
and lived in harmony during his ministry. lie
was one of the first trustees of Yale college, from
1700 to 1724. His wife was Hannah, the daugh
ter of Gov. Treat. He published dead faith,
1697 ; on renouncing our righteousness, 1707.
MATHER, AZARIAII, minister of Saybrook,
Conn., died in 1737. He graduated in the fourth
class at Yale in 1705, and was tutor at Killing-
worth, where the college then was, in 1709 and
1710. He published woe to sleepy sinners, 1720 ;
sabbath day's rest; election sermon, 1725.
MATHER, SAMUEL, an eminent physician of
Windsor, Conn., died in 1743, aged 63. He was
born in or near Boston ; graduated at Harvard
in 1698; and studied physic with Dr. Hooker of
Hartford. No man had a wider circuit of prac
tice; and he was venerated for his virtues.
Among his descendants may be mentioned Dr.
Samuel Mather of Windsor and Hartford, his
grandson ; and Dr. diaries Mather, who died in
Hartford in 1822, aged 80. — Williams' Medical
Biography.
MATHER, ALLYNT, first minister of Fairhaven,
Conn., died in 1784, at Savannah, whither he had
gone on account of his health, aged 36. He
graduated at Yale in 1771; and was ordained
February 3, 1773.
MATHER, SAMUEL, D. D., minister in Boston,
the son of Cotton M., died June 27, 1785, aged
79. He was graduated at Harvard college in
1723. He was ordained in the same church in
which his father was settled, as colleague with Mr.
Gee, June 21, 1732. In about ten years a sepa
ration occurred, in consequence, it is believed, of
a difference of views in regard to the revival of
religion at that period. A church was built for
him, in Bennet street, by persons who withdrew
with him from the old north church. He was
their pastor till his death. He was buried, by his
own direction, without any ceremony. A society
of Universalists purchased his church and still
occupy it. Dr. Mather published a sermon on
the death of William Waldron, 1727 ; of his
father, 1728; life of his father, 8vo. 1729; essay
on gratitude, 1732 ; on the death of Queen Caro
line, 1738; an apology for the liberties of the
churches in New England, 8vo. 1738; artillery
election sermon, 1739; on the death of T. Hutch-
inson, 1740; of the prince of Wales, 1751; of
William Welsteed and Ellis Gray, 1753 ; disserta
tion on the name of Jehovah, 1760 ; convention
sermon, 1762; essay on the Lord's prayer, 1766;
a modest account of the salutations in ancient
times, 1768, anonymous ; the sacred minister, a
poem, in blank verse, 1773 ; America known to
the ancients, 1774; all men will not be saved for
ever, in answer to Chauncy, 1781. — Hist. Coll.
III. 258, 263 ; Holmes.
MATHER, MOSES, D. D., minister of Mid
dlesex, Conn., died in 1806, aged about 88.
He graduated at Yale in 1739. He published in
fant baptism defended, 1759; election sermon,
1781.
MATHER, ELISIIA, M. D., died in Northamp
ton, Mass., April 24, 1840, aged 48. He was
the son of Mr. Elisha Mather, and grandson of
Dr. Samuel Mather of Northampton, an eminent
physician, who died in 1779, aged 73, and whose
son William, also a physician in N., died before
him in 1775, aged 32. Dr. M. was a counsellor
of the Massachusetts medical society, skilled in
MATHER.
physiology and pathology, and exemplary as a
Christian. — Williams' Medical Biography.
MATIIEll, TIIADDEUS, M. D., died at Bing-
hamton, N. Y., Oct. 8, 1854, aged 75; a descend
ant from Dr. Samuel M. of Windsor, by Nathan
iel, and Elihu M.
MATHEWS, THOMAS, a soldier of the Revolu
tion, died at Norfolk, Va., in 1818.
MATIGXON, FRANCIS ANTHONY, D. D., Catho
lic minister in Boston, died Sept. 19, 1818, aged 64.
He was born at Paiis Nov. 10, 1753. Appointed
professor in the college of Navarre in 1785, after
some years he received an annuity from the king,
which made him independent. The revolution
compelling him to leave France, Bp. Carroll sent
him from Baltimore to Boston, Aug. 20, 1792; in
1796 he received Mr. Cheverus as his colleague.
He was gentle and courteous, learned and elo
quent ; and, assisted by the higher eloquence of
Mr. Cheverus, the decayed Catholic society was
rendered flourishing.
MATTHEWS, MARMADUKE, was a preacher at
Hull, Mass., in 1650. He was also the first min
ister of Maiden in 1651, and died in England in
1683. Mr. Wigglesworth came to M. about
1654.
MATTHEWS, JOHN, governor of South Caro
lina, died at Charleston in 1802, aged 58. He
was a patriot of the Revolution, and in 1776 a
judge of the supreme court. He was appointed
in 1780 a delegate to congress, in which body his
services were important. He succeeded Mr. Rut-
ledge in 1782 as governor for one year, and in
1784 was appointed a judge in the court of equity.
MATTHEWS, VINCENT, general, LL. D., died
at Rochester, N. Y., Aug. 23, 1846, aged 80. He
was one of the greatest lawyers in the State of
New York, engaged 56 years in the practice of
the law. Born in Orange county, near Elmira,
he lived in Bath, and then in Rochester.
MATTHEWS, MARY, Mrs., died in Warren,
Me., May 6, 1851, aged 106.
MATTHEWSON, ELISHA, died at Scituate,
Mass., Oct. 14, 1853, aged 88. He was in pol
itics of the democratic school of Jefferson, and
four years a senator of the United States.
MATTOON, EBENEZER, general, died in Am-
herst, Mass., Sept. 11, 1843, aged 88. Born in
Amherst, he graduated at Dartmouth in 1776.
In the war he was a major ; he was also a mem
ber of congress, and sheriff of Hampshire. In
1816 he was adjutant-general. He was a mem
ber of the second church of Amherst.
MAUD, DANIEL, an early minister, died at
Dover, N. II., in 1655. He was a schoolmaster
in Boston ; a freeman in 1636 ; and was settled
at D. in 1641 or 1642.
MAULE, THOMAS, a shopkeeper of Salem,
was called before the council in 1695, for publish
ing a pamphlet of 260 pages, truth held forth.
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Thus early did authority attempt to shackle the
press.
MAURY, JAMES, died at New York Feb. 23,
1840, aged 95. A native of Virginia, he was the
first United States' consul at Liverpool, — a
station which he held nearly half a century.
He was educated, intelligent, amiable, and re
spected.
MAVERICK, JOHN, one of the first ministers
of Dorchester, and colleague pastor with War-
ham, lived in England forty miles from Exeter;
he arrived at Nantasket May 30, 1630, and died
at Boston, Feb. 3, 1636, aged about 60. He was
a man of a humble spirit and eminently useful.
Most of his church removed to Windsor.
MAXCY, JONATHAN, D. D., president of three
colleges, died June 4, 1820, aged 52. He was
born at Attlcborough, Mass., Sept. 2, 1768, and
was graduated in 1787 at the college in Provi
dence, of the Baptist church in which town he
was ordained the pastor, Sept. 8, 1791. He was
also professor of divinity in the college, and eleven
years the president, from Sept. 6, 1792. In his
pastoral office he was succeeded by S. Gano. In
1801 he succeeded Dr. Edwards as the president
of Union college in Schenectady, in which office
he was succeeded by Dr. Nott in 1804. For the
next fifteen years he was the first president of
the college of South Carolina in Columbia, where
he died. He married a daughter of Commodore
Hopkins of Providence. He published a dis
course on the death of Pres. Manning ; address
to graduates, 1794; oration to mechanics, 1795;
oration July 4 ; existence of God from his works ;
at a dedication; on the atonement, 1796; ser
mon at Boston ; to a class, 1797 ; address to
graduates, 1798 ; to candidates for a degree, 1801 ;
funeral sermon to legislature, 1818. His literary
remains, with a memoir by Dr. Elton, were pub
lished in 1844.
MAXCY, VIRGIL, was killed by the explosion
on board the steamer Princeton, Feb. 28, 1844. In
the same manner were killed Commodore Kennon
and Secretary Gilmer. He was born in Massachu
setts, and graduated at Providence in 1804, his
brother being the president of the college. In
law he was associated with A. G. Harper of Mary
land. He was solicitor of the treasury, and charg6
at Belgium five years. He published oration to
Phi Beta Kappa society, 1833.
MAXWELL, EBENEZER K., minister at Delhi,
N. Y., died in 1840, aged 55.
MAY, ELEAZAR, minister of Haddam, Conn.,
died in 1803, aged 70. Born in Wcthersfield, he
graduated at Yale in 1752, and was ordained in
1756.
MAY, SAMUEL W., minister at Cincinnati, O.,
died March 27, 1840.
MAY, HEZEKIAH, died at Tionesta, Venango
valley, Penn., July 4, 1843, aged 69. Born in
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MAYLEW.
Haddam, he graduated at York in 1793, and from
1803 to 1808 was the minister of Marblchead;
then he emigrated to the wilderness of the Alle-
ghany river. His first care was preaching the
gospel, yet he successfully engaged earnestly in
agriculture, bringing up a large family. His
father was Eleazar, a minister in East Haddam
fifty years. He published a sermon at the instal
lation of E. Sage, 1808.
MAY, FREDERIC, a physician, died at Washing
ton in 1847, aged 74. He graduated at Harvard
in 1792, and removed to Washington in 1795,
when the capital was a wilderness. For many
years he was its physician and surgeon. He was
president of the medical society.
MAY, GEORGE W., a physician, died at Wash
ington in 1845, aged 56. Born in Boston, he
graduated at Harvard in 1810.
MAYHEW, THOMAS, governor of Martha's
Vineyard and the neighboring islands, died in
1681, aged 92. He resided at Watertown, Mass.
in 1636. He had been a merchant in South
ampton, England. In Oct., 1641, he obtained of
the agent of Lord Stirling a grant of the above
lands. In the following year he began a settle
ment at Edgartown. In about thirty years these
islands were attached to New York, and in 1692
they were annexed to Massachusetts. He gave
his son much assistance in the benevolent work
of converting the heathen. The Indian sachems
were afraid that the reception of the Christian
religion would deprive them of their power ; but
Gov. Mayhew convinced them that religion and
government were distinct, and by his prudent con
duct removed their prejudices against the truth.
Having persuaded them to adopt the English
administration of justice, and having proved him
self their father and friend, they became exceed
ingly attached to him, and at length submitted
themselves to the crown of England. After the
death of his son, as he was acquainted with the
language of the Indians, and as he saw no pros
pect of procuring a stated minister for them, he
began himself, at the age of seventy, to preach to
the natives as well as to the English. Notwith
standing his advanced years and his office of gov
ernor, he sometimes travelled on foot near twenty
miles through the woods, in order to impart the
knowledge of the gospel to those that sat in
darkness. He persuaded the natives at Gayhead
to receive the gospel, which they had before op
posed. Between the years 1G64 and 1667 he was
much assisted by John Cotton. When an Indian
church was formed, Aug. 22, 1670, the members
of it desired him, though above fourscore, to be
come their pastor ; but, as he declined, they chose
Hiacoomes. When Philip's war commenced in
1675, the Indians of Martha's Vineyard could
count twenty times the number of the English,
and the latter would probably have been extir
pated, had not the Christian religion been intro
duced ; but now all was peace, and Mr. Mayhew
employed some of his converts as a guard. While
his zeal to promote the gospel was yet unabated,
he died in old age. In his last moments his heart
was filled with Christian joy. — Prince's Account,
annexed to Mayhew's Indian Converts, 280, 292-
302.
MAYHEW, THOMAS, the first minister of Mar
tha's Vineyard, the only son of the preceding,
died in 1657, aged 36. He in 1642 accompanied
his father to that island, where he became the
minister of the English. He beheld with Chris
tian compassion the miserable Indians, who were
ignorant of the true God; he studied their lan
guage; he conciliated their affection; and he
taught them the truths of the gospel. The first
convert was Hiacoomes in 1643. Mr. Mayhew
commenced his public instructions to the Indians
in 1646, the same year in which Mr. Eliot began
his missionary exertions in a different part of the
country. Many obstacles were thrown in his
way; but he persevered in his benevolent labors,
visiting the natives in their different abodes, lodg
ing in their smoky wigwams, and usually spending
a part of the night in relating to them portions
of the Scripture history. Before the close of the
year 1650, a hundred Indians entered into a
solemn covenant to obey the Most High God, im
ploring his mercy through the blood of Christ.
In 1662 there were two hundred and eighty-two
of the heathens who had embraced Christianity,
and among these were eight pawaws, or priests,
who were so much interested to support the credit
of their craft. He sailed for England in Nov.,
1657, to communicate intelligence respecting these
Indians to the society for propagating the gospel,
and to procure the means of more extensive use
fulness ; but the vessel was lost at sea. He left
three sons, — Matthew, who succeeded his grand
father in the government of the island in 1681,
and also preached to the Indians, and died in
1710; Thomas, a judge of the common pleas for
the county; and John. A grandson of Matthew
was Dr. Matthew Mayhew, a man of wit and
humor and uncommon powers of mind, who died
before 1815, aged 85. — He had received a liberal
education, and was a man of considerable learn
ing. His talents might have procured him a set
tlement in places, where his maintenance would
have been generous ; but he chose to preach the
gospel to the heathen, and cheerfully consented
to live in poverty and to labor with his own hands
to procure the means of subsistence for his fam
ily. Four of his letters respecting the progress
of the gospel were published in London. — In
dian Converts, app. 280-292 ; NeaVs N. E. I.
262-267 ; Magnolia, III. 200.
MAYHEW, JOHN, minister of Martha's Vine
yard, the son of the preceding, died in 1689, aged
MAYHEW.
30. He was born in 1652. At the age of twen
ty-one he was called to the ministry among the
English at Tisbury, in the middle of the island.
About the same time also he began to preach to
the Indians. He taught them alternately in all
their assemblies every week, and assisted them in
the management of their ecclesiastical concerns.
For some years he received but five pounds an
nually for his services, but he was content, being
more desirous of saving souls from death than of
accumulating wealth. He sought not glory of
men, and willingly remained unknown, though he
possessed talents which might have attracted ap
plause. He died, leaving an Indian church of one
hundred communicants, and several well-instructed
Indian teachers in different congregations. In
his last sickness he expressed his hope of salva
tion through the merits of Christ. — Indian Con
verts, Appendix.
MAYHEW, EXPERIENCE, minister on Martha's
Vineyard, the eldest son of the preceding, died
Nov. 29, 1758, aged 85. He was born Jan. 27,
1673. In March, 1694, about five years after the
death of his father, he began to preach to the
Indians, taking the oversight of five or six of
their assemblies. The Indian language had been
familiar to him from infancy, and he was em
ployed by the commissioners of the society for
propagating the gospel in New England to make
a new version of the Psalms and of John, which
work he executed with great accuracy in 1709.
His sons were Jonathan, Joseph, Nathan, and
Zechariah. He published a sermon, entitled, all
mankind by nature equally under sin, 1724 ; In
dian converts, 8vo. 1727, in which he gives an
account of the lives of thirty Indian ministers,
and about eighty Indian men, women, and youth,
worthy of remembrance on account of their piety ;
a letter on the Lord's supper, 1741; grace de
fended, Svo. 1744, in which he contends, that the
offer of salvation, made to sinners in the gospel,
contains in it a conditional promise of the grace
given in regeneration. In this, he says, he differs
from most in the Calvinistic scheme ; yet he sup
ports the doctrines of original sin, of eternal de
crees and of the sovereignty of God in the sal
vation of man. — Indian Conv. Appen. 306, 307 ;
Chauncy'a Remarks on Landaff's Sermon, 23.
MAYHEW, ZECHAKIAH, a missionary to the
Indians, the son of the preceding, died March 6
1806, aged 89. He was ordained at Martha's
Vineyard Dec. 10, 1767, and devoted his life to
the instruction of the remnants of the red men
being employed by the Massachusetts society for
propagating the gospel among the Indians. In
Oct. of this year there were at Gayhead people of
color in all two hundred and twelve. Former!
the number of Indians was very large. The age
attained by the Mayhewsis remarkable: the firsi
Thomas died, aged 90; Experience, 84; John
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•randson of the first John, 89 ; his brother, Jere
miah, 85 ; Dr. Matthew, 85 ; Zechariah, 79.
MAYHEW, JONATHAN, D. ])., minister in
Boston, the son of Experience M., died July 9,
[766, aged 45. He was born at Martha's Vine-
rard Oct. 8, 1720, and was graduated at Harvard
:ollege in 1744, having made uncommon pro-
iciency in literary pursuits. He was ordained
the minister of the west church in Boston June
L6, 1747, as successor of the first minister, Mr.
rlooper, who had embraced the Episcopalian
system. Here he continued till his sudden death.
Ele was succeeded by Dr. Howard.
He possessed superior powers of mind, and in
:lassical learning held an eminent rank. His
writings evince a mind capable of making the
nicest moral distinctions, and of grasping the
most abstruse metaphysical truths. Among the
orrespondents, which his literary character or
bus attachment to liberty gained him abroad, were
Lardner, Benson, Kippis, Blackburne, and Hollis.
From the latter he procured many rich donations
for the college at Cambridge. Being a deter
mined enemy to religious establishments, to test
acts, and to ecclesiastical usurpation, he in 1763
engaged in a controversy with Mr. Apthorp re
specting the proceedings of the society for the
propagation of the gospel in foreign parts, of
which Mr. Apthorp was a missionary. He con
tended, that the society was either deceived by
the representations of the persons employed, or
was governed more by a regard to Episcopacy
than to charity. He was an unshaken friend of
civil and religious liberty, and the spirit which
breathed in his writings, transfused itself into the
minds of many of his fellow citizens, and had no
little influence in producing the great events of the
Revolution. He was the associate of Otis and
other patriots in resisting the arbitrary claims of
Great Britain. He believed it to be his duty to pro
mote the happiness of his brethren in every pos
sible way, and he therefore took a deep interest
in political concerns. He possessed singular forti
tude and elevation of mind. Unshackled by
education, he thought for himself, and what he
believed he was not afraid to avow. In his nat
ural temper he was warm, and he had not always
a full command of himself. His want of meek
ness and his pride are peculiarly displayed in his
letter to John Cleaveland. He was, however,
amiable in the several relations of life, endeared
to his friends, ready to perform the offices of
kindness, liberal, and charitable. Some of his
contemporaries considered him as not perfectly
evangelical in his sentiments. But, although he
thought for himself, and wished others to enjoy
the same liberty, yet he did not degrade his in
tellectual dignity by confounding the difference
between truth and falsehood, right and wrong,
and saying, that it is of little consequence what a
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man believes. Though he was called liberal in
his sentiments, his charity would not admit of
attenuation and expansion to such a degree as to
embrace every one. His discourses were practi
cal and persuasive, calculated to inform the mind
and to reach the heart. He was most interesting
to the judicious and enlightened. He published
seven sermons, 8vo. 1749, which for perspicuous
and forcible reasoning have seldom been equalled ;
a discourse concerning unlimited submission, and
non-resistance to the higher powers, preached
Jan. 30, 1750, in which he did not speak of the
royal martyr in the strain of the Episcopalians ;
on the death of the prince of Wales, 1751; elec
tion sermon, 1754 ; on the earthquakes ; sermons
on justification, 1755; two thanksgiving sermons
for the success of his majesty's arms, 1758, and
two on the reduction of Quebec, 1759; a thanks
giving sermon on the entire reduction of Canada;
on the death of Stephen Sewall; on the great
fire in Boston, 1760 ; on the death of George II. ;
striving to enter in at the straight gate explained
and inculcated, 1761; Christian sobriety, in eight
sermons to young men, with two thanksgiving
sermons ; observations on the charter and con
duct of the society for propagating the gospel in
foreign parts, 1763 ; defence of the preceding,
1764 ; second defence, 1765 ; letter of reproof to
John Cleaveland; Dudleian lecture, 1765; thanks
giving sermon for the repeal of the stamp act, 1766.
— Chauncy's and Gay's Sermons.
MAYHEW, MATTHEW, Dr., died in Chilmark,
Martha's Vineyard, in 1805, aged 86. He was
an eminent physician, a senator, and judge of
probate. He was a man of talents, of wit and
humor ; of benevolence and an exemplary Chris
tian ; and his end was peace. Nine children
followed him to the grave. — Collections Hist.
Society, 2d series, vol. in.
MAYHEW, ALLEN, Dr., died at Chilmark,
Martha's Vineyard, in Dec., 1826, aged 59.
MAYHEW, WILLIAM, died in Edgartown in
Dec., 1840, aged 92, the oldest person on Mar
tha's Vineyard. He was a member of the con
vention of 1789.
MAYHEW, JOHN, died in 1742, aged about
47. He graduated at Harvard in 1715. He
wrote poetry, and published the conquest of Lou-
isburg ; also, in blank verse, Gallic perfidy, relat
ing to the massacre by the savages of the garrison
of fort William Henry, Aug. 9, 1757.
MAYNADIER, HENRY, colonel, died in Anna
polis, Md., in 1849, aged 93. He served under
Washington in the war. As a surgeon he ex
tracted a ball from the leg of Lafayette at the
battle of Brandywine.
MAYNAHD,' WILLIAM II., a lawyer, died of
the cholera in 1832, aged 44. He graduated at
Williams in 1810. He bequeathed to Hamilton
college, New York, about 20,000 dollars, to found
a law department.
MAYNARD, ELIPHAL, missionary to the Jews
at Salonica, died Sept. 14, 1849. He sailed from
Boston with Mr. Dodd in January, and arrived
at S. April 2, and entered upon the study of the
Hebrew, Spanish, Turkish, and Greek. Expos
ure on a journey to mount Olympus was the
cause of his death. He was a native of Pots
dam, N. Y. ; his wife, Celestia A., was born in
Parishville, N. Y.
MAYNARD, JOHN, judge, died in Auburn,
N. Y., March 24, 1850, formerly of Seneca Falls.
In 1826 he was a member of congress, support
ing Mr. Adams. He was a judge of the supreme
court of New York, and a judge of the court of
appeals.
MAYO, JOHN, the first minister of the north
church, Boston, died in 1662, or later. He came
to this country in 1642, and was a pious and
learned minister in Plymouth colony ; about
1649 he went to Boston. He opposed the result
of the synod respecting baptism in 1662.
MAYO, Mrs., died in Portsmouth in 1775,
aged 106.
MAZZEI, PHILIP, a native of Tuscany, after
engaging in commercial business in London, re
moved to Virginia. By that State he was sent
on a secret mission to Europe, from which he
returned in 1785. He afterwards lived in Poland
in the service of the king. He died at Pisa,
March 19, 1816, aged 86. A notorious letter of
Mr. Jefferson was addressed to him. He pub
lished recherches historiques et politiques sur les
Etats-Unis, 4 vols., 8vo., 1788.
McOALL, THOMAS IL, D. D., died early in
this century at Savannah. He graduated at
Princeton in 1774. As a Presbyterian minister
he was pre-eminent for science, classical learning,
and eloquence, in the western counties of North
Carolina. He was called to the presidency of
the college at Wynnsborough, S. C., and thence,
after several years, removed to Savannah, where
he soon died.
McCALL, HUGH, major in the army of the
United States, died at Savannah, Georgia, in 1824,
aged 57. He published a history of Georgia,
2 vols., 8vo., 1816.
McCALLA, DANIEL, D. D., minister at Wap-
petaw, South Carolina, died April 6, 1809, aged
60. He was born at Neshaminy, Penn., in 1748,
of pious parents, and graduated at Princeton in
1766. He afterwards taught an academy in Phil
adelphia, making himself great improvement in
science, acquiring also a knowledge of the French,
Spanish, and Italian languages. In 1774 he was
ordained pastor of the churches of New Provi
dence and Charleston, Penn. In the war he went
as a chaplain to Canada and was made a prisoner
McCLARY.
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with Thomson at Trois Rivieres. For some months
he was confined in a prison ship. He returned
on parole at the close of 1776. After his ex
change he taught an academy in Hanover county.
For twenty-one years he was the minister of the
Congregational church at Wappetaw, " Christ's
church parish," devoting himself chiefly to the
critical study of the Scriptures in the original
languages. The death of his daughter over
whelmed him, and gave new power to his disease.
He died in calm submission. His wife was Eliza
beth, daughter of Rev. John Todd of Virginia ;
his only child, who married Dr. John R. Wither-
spoon, died at the age of 26, leaving one son.
He had a Latin bible of the ninth century, which
he gave to his son-in-law, Rev. Dr. Witherspoon.
He was an eminently learned, good, and useful
man. His eloquence was almost unrivalled. He
preferred the Congregational form of government
as most consonant to the apostolical practice.
He published a sermon at the ordination of
James Adams. His sermons and essays, with
an account of lus life by Hollingshcad, were pub
lished in 2 vols., 18 1Q.
McCLARY, ANDREW, major, fell in the bat
tle of Bunker Hill June 17, 1775, in the vigor of
manhood. Born in Epsom, N. II., his parents
were of Irish descent. In Dec., 1774, he accom
panied Cilley in the capture of fort William and
Mary. On hearing of the battle of Lexington
he left his plough. At Warren's fall he suc
ceeded to the command, and said he would not
retire until he had given them one more shot ;
but at that moment a cannon-ball killed him.
He was prompt, generous, and of a sound judg
ment.
McCLARY, JOHN, died at Epsom, N. H., in
1801, aged 82, a councillor. Gen. Michael Mc-
Clary died at Epsom in 1824, aged 71.
McCLELLAND, SAMUEL, M. D., died at
Philadelphia Jan. 4, 1854, aged 53 ; an eminent
physician.
McCLURE, DAVID, D. D., minister of East
Windsor, Conn., died June 25, 1820, aged 71.
He was a native of Brookfiekl, Mass., and was
graduated at Yale college in 1769. From Nov.
13, 1770, till Aug. 30, 1785, he was the minister
of North Hampton, N. H., and in 1786 was in
stalled at East Windsor. His wife was the daugh
ter of Dr. Pomeroy. His predecessors were T.
Edwards and J. Perry. Dr. M. was a respected
and useful minister, and a trustee of Dartmouth
college. He published a sermon .on the death
of Dr. Pomeroy, 1784; of Erastus Wolcott ; or
dination of S. Griswold, 1790; with Dr. Parish,
memoirs of E. Wheelock, founder of Dartmouth
college, 8vo., 1810 ; twenty-four sermons on the
moral law, 8vo., 1818; an account of Windsor,
in historical collections, V.
McCLURE, SAMUEL, died in Clark county,
Illinois, Dec. 18, 1845, aged 97. A soldier, he
removed at the close of the war to Kentucky. He
was overtaken on his way and wounded by the
Indians, his four children killed, and his wife taken
prisoner ; but he recovered from his wounds.
McCLURE, GEORGE, general, died in Elgin,
Illinois, in 1851, aged 80. He was an emigrant
from Ireland to Bath, N. Y., where he lived from
1794 to 1835. He commanded a brigade in the
war of 1812.
McCLURG, JAMES, M. D., a physician in
Virginia, died in Richmond in 1825, aged 77.
He was killed by his horses running away. He
was the son of Dr. Walter M. ; was educated
at William and Mary college; then studied
physic at Edinburgh and Paris. At his return
about 1773 he settled at Williamsburg ; about
1783 he removed to Richmond. He stood high
in his profession. He published an essay on
the bile, which has been much commended. —
Cyclopaedia of Amer. Literature.
McCONAUGHY, DAVID, D. D., LL. D., died
Jan. 29, 1852, formerly president of Washington
college at Washington, Penn.
McCORD, DAVID J., colonel, died in Colum
bia, S. C., May 12, 1855, aged 58. He was grad
uated at Columbia college, and was a lawyer of
repute, editor of the statutes of the State, and
one of the authors of Nott and McCord's reports.
He also published two vols. of law and two of
chancery reports ; also South Carolina law journal
one vol., with Col. Blanding ; and wrote many
pieces for the Southern review. — Cycl. of Amer.
Literature.
McCORNISH, ANDREW T., a minister for
twenty-three years of the first Episcopal church
at Washington, died in 1841, aged about 80.
McCRACKEN, J. L. H., a merchant of New
York, died at Sicrre Leone in 1853, aged 40. He
was a literary man, and wrote for the magazines
and journals. — Cycl. of Amer. Literature.
McCREA, JANE, murdered by the Indians in
1777, was the second daughter of James M.,
minister of Lamington, New Jersey, who died
before the Revolution. After his death, she re
sided with her brother, Col. John M., of Albany,
who removed in 1773 to the neighborhood of fort
Edward. His house was in what is now North
umberland, on the west side of the Hudson, three
miles north of fort Miller falls. In July or Aug.,
1777, being on a visit to the family of Mrs. Mc
Neil, near fort Edward, at the close of the week,
she was asked to remain until Monday. On Sun
day morning, when the Indians came to the
house, she concealed herself in the cellar ; but
they dragged her out by the hair, and, placing
her on a horse, proceeded on the road towards
Sandy Hill. They soon met another party of In
dians, returning from Argyle, where they had
killed the family of Mr. Bains ; these Indians
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disapproved the purpose of taking Miss McCrea
to the British camp, and one of them struck her
with a tomahawk and tore off her scalp. This is
the account given by her nephew. The account
of Mrs. McNeil is, that her lover, anxious for
her safety, employed two Indians, with the pro
mise of a barrel of rum, to bring her to him ;
and that in consequence of their dispute for the
right of conducting her, one of them murdered
her. Gates, in his letter to Burgoyne of Sept. 2,
says, she " was dressed to receive her promised
husband." Her brother, on hearing of her fate,
sent his family the next day to Albany, and, re
pairing to the American camp, buried his sister
with one Lieutenant Van Vechten, three miles
south of fort Edward. She was twenty-three
years of age, of an amiable and virtuous charac
ter, and highly esteemed by all her acquaintance.
It was said and believed, that she was engaged
in marriage to Capt. David Jones of the British
army, a loyalist, who survived her only a few
years, and died, as was supposed, of grief for
her loss. Her nephew, Col. James McCrea, lived
at Saratoga in 1823.
McCREERY, JOHN, minister of White Clay
Creek, Delaware, died in 1800, aged 64, having
been pastor thirty years.
McCREERY, JOHN, a Virginia poet, died at
Richmond in 1825.
McCULLOCH, JAMES H., died at Baltimore
in 1836, aged 80, for thirty years the collector of
the port. He was a patriotic, respected citizen.
McCULLOCH, THOMAS, D. D., died at Pic-
tou in Nova Scotia, Sept., 1843, aged 67. He
was long known as one of the leading minds of
the country where he lived. He had great
learning, and profoundly investigated the myste
ries of nature.
McCULLOCH, ROBERT, a patriot of the
Revolution, died in Marcellus, N. Y., Dec. 16,
1855, aged 96. He was at the surrender of Bur
goyne. During his long life he never had occa
sion to call a physician. By mistaking the door
he fell into his cellar and was instantly killed.
Multitudes attended the funeral of a man of up
rightness and kindness, who had lived to see the
increase of his country's population from three to
nearly thirty millions, and who was one of the
noble men whose toils and courage established
our national independence.
McDANIEL, ARCHIBALD, died in Bladen
county, North Carolina, in 1834, aged 101.
McDOXALD, FLORA, an early settler of
Fayetteville, N. C., died in her native Isle of
Skye, March 5, 1790, aged about 62. When un
married she assisted the pretender, Charles Ed
ward, to escape after the battle of Culloden in
the dress of a woman, in 1746. She married
Allen McDonald, and with him emigrated to
North Carolina in 1775. In the war her husband
McDOUGALL.
espoused the wrong side, and was taken prisoner
and sent to Halifax. Dr. Johnson was a visitor
at her house in Scotland. Her son John, a writer
on tactics and the telegraph, died in 1831, aged
72.
McDONALD, JOHN, a Presbyterian minister,
died at Albany in 1821.
McDONALD, JOHN (or Daniel), D.D., pro
fessor of languages at Geneva college, New York,
died in 1830, aged 44.
McDONALD, DONALD, born in Scotland in
1722, died in Lynn, Mass., Sept. 4, 1830, aged
108 years.
McDONALD, WILLIAM, general, died at
Baltimore Aug. 18, 1845, aged 86; a soldier of
the Revolution, and long an enterprising mer
chant.
McDONELL, ALEXANDER, D. D., bishop of
Kingston, U. C., died Jan. 14, 1840, aged 80.
McDONOGH, JOHN, a merchant, died in
New Orleans Oct. 26, 1850, aged 72. He was a
man of immense wealth, of which he gave equal
portions to New Orleans and Baltimore, to estab
lish free schools and an asylum for the poor ;
also a large sum to the American colonization
society.
McDONOUGII, THOMAS, commodore, died
Nov. 10, 1825, aged about 39. He was the son
of a physician in New Castle county, Delaware,
who was a major in the war, and died in 1796.
After the death of his father he obtained a mid
shipman's Avarrant and went in our fleet to the
Mediterranean. In the war of 1812, at the age
of 28, he commanded the American forces on
lake Champlain. His own ship, the Saratoga,
mounted twenty-six guns ; the Confiance, the ship
of the British Capt. Downie, mounted thirty-six.
In the battle of Sept. 11, 1814, after an action of
two hours and twenty minutes, he obtained a
complete victory, which he announced to the de
partment of war as follows : " The Almighty has
been pleased to grant us a signal victory on lake
Champlain, in the capture of one frigate, one
brig, and two sloops of war of the enemy." The
State of New York gave him one thousand acres
of land on the bay in which the battle was fought.
His residence was Middletown, Conn. His wife,
who was Miss Shaler of that town, died in August,
while he was absent. He was tall and dignified,
of light hair, complexion, and eyes.
McDOUGALL, ALEXANDER, major-general,
died in June, 1786. He was the son of a Scotch
man, who sold milk in the city of New York, nor
was he ashamed to acknowledge that, when a
boy, he assisted his father. He proved himself a
zealous whig before the beginning of the war. In
1770, when he was a printer, he was in prison in
New York for a libel on the royal party of the
colonial government; and on the 19th of March,
the anniversary of the repeal of the stamp act in
McDOUGAL.
1766, when three hundred -vvhigs met at Hamp-
den hall, opposite the common, or the park, be
fore they sat down to dinner, with the liberty pole
before them in the park, they deputed ten of their
number to dine with Capt. McDougall in the new
gaol. In Aug., 1776, he was appointed brigadier,
and major-general in Oct., 1777. He commanded
in the action at White Plains and was engaged
in the battle of Germantown. In 1781 he was
elected a delegate to congress ; he was afterwards
of the senate of New York. His only daughter
married John Lawrence.
McDOUGAL, ALEXANDER, died March 3,
1841, aged 101, in Hamilton county, Ohio. He
was a Baptist ; and a soldier of the Revolutionary
•war.
McDOWALL, JOHN ROBERT, died in New
York, in 1836, aged 35. He was the founder of
the moral reform societies, and editor of McDow-
all's journal for the promotion of purity of
morals.
McDOWELL, SAMUEL, colonel, died near
Danville, Ky., Oct. 25, 1817, aged 84; one of the
first settlers of the State. He was circuit judge ;
a man of industry and integrity, patriotic and
pious. He left more than one hundred descend
ants.
McDOWELL, JAMES, governor of Virginia,
died near Lexington, Aug. 23, 1851, aged 55.
He was a descendant of the Scotch and Irish of
Ilockbridge ; and graduated at Princeton in 1816.
He was for years a member of congress, and a
distinguished orator. As a friend of temperance,
he did not offer intoxicating drink at his table.
He was a member of the church, and one who
did not neglect family prayer. His religious life j
commenced in the revival of 1838, soon after the
conversion of his wife.
McDOWELL, WILLIAM A., D. D., died at
Morristown, N. J., Sept. 18, 1851. He lived in
Lamington, and was a learned theologian, and
an impressive preacher.
McDUFFIE, GEORGE, governor of South
Carolina, died March 11, 1851. He was many
years a member of the house and senate of -the
United States, and governor from 1834 to 1836 ;
a State rights man, and very zealous for the in
terests of slavery. The slaves on his estate were
sold, in 1856, being two hundred and ten in num
ber, for 140,000 dollars. They were thus sold to a
western planter for about 700 dollars each, with
the condition that they should not be separated.
McELROY, WILLIAM C., president of Dan
ville college, Va., died in 1837.
McEWEN, JOHN, minister at Salem, S. C.,
died in 1833, aged 34.
McFARLAND, ASA, D. D., died at Concord,
N. H., in 1827. He was a graduate of Dart
mouth in 1793; ordained at Concord in March,
1798; and continued in office till, by reason of a
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palsy, he resigned in March, 1825. He was many
years a trustee of the college, and president of
the State missionary society. He published an
oration, 1802; historical view of heresies, 1806.
McFARLAND (or McFarlane), JOHN, D. D.,
died in Paris, Ky., in Aug., 1828. He was of the
Presbyterian church.
McGEE, JOHN, a Methodist minister in Smith
county, Tenn., died in 1836, aged 71.
McGREGORE, JAMES, first minister of Lon
donderry, N. H., died in 1729, aged 52. He had
the care of a Scotch Presbyterian society in the
north of Ireland. The sufferings of the Protest
ants in that country and the inextinguishable
desire of religious liberty impelled him, with a num
ber of other ministers and a part of their con
gregations, to seek an asylum in America. He
arrived at Boston with about one hundred families,
Oct. 14, 1718. In the following year sixteen
families settled on a tract of good land near
Haverhill, which was called Nutfield, and which
they named Londonderry. Mr. McGregore,
who since his arrival had preached at Dracut,
was called to be their minister. He was a wise,
affectionate, and faithful guide to his people both
in civil and religious concerns. They brought
with them every thing necessary for the manufac
ture of linen. They also introduced the culture
of potatoes, which were first planted in the gar
den of Nathaniel Walker of Andover. — Bel-
knap's N. II. II. 55 — 37, 41.
McGREGORE, DAVID, minister of London
derry, N. H., son of the preceding, died May 30,
1777, aged 66, in the 42d year of his ministry.
He left eight children. One of his daughters
married Col. Robert Means, who died in Amherst
in 1823, leaving two sons and three daughters,
who married Jeremiah Mason, Jesse Appleton,
and Caleb Ellis. With eminent abilities he was
an excellent Evangelical preacher. He was also
a zealous and intrepid assertor of the rights and
liberties of America, and died in the full persua
sion that the cause of his country would triumph,
and that here the church of God would flourish
in its purity. He published professors warned
of their danger, 1741 ; on the trial of the spirits,
in answer to Caldwell, 1742 ; the believer's all
secured, 1747 ; on the death of J. Moorhead,
1774.
McGREGORE, DAVID, minister of Falmouth,
Me., died Oct. 18, 1845, aged 74. He was a de
scendant of the minister of Londonderry. He
graduated at Dartmouth in 1799, and was first
the minister of Bedford, N. H., then of F.
McGUIN, SAMUEL, died at Andover, N. H.,
Feb. 1, 1845, aged 110. He was a soldier of the
Revolution, and a pensioner, who was called the
Caithness veteran.
McINTIRE, Mrs., died in Goflstown, N. H.,
in 1811, aged 106.
5G8
McINTOSH.
McKEAN.
McINTOSH, JOHN MORE, came from Scot
land to Georgia in 1735, with one hundred fol
lowers, and settled at Darien, in Mclntosh county.
He drew up a protest — and was the first signer
of it — against the introduction of African slaves
into Georgia. Had the views of this enlightened
and benevolent man been regarded, to what a
comparative height of prosperity and dignity
would the State of Georgia have attained? Of
his sons and grandsons, seven bore commissions
in the army of the llcvolution. — Cycl. of Amer.
Literature.
McIXTOSII, LACHLAX, general, an officer of
the Revolution, died at Savannah Feb. 20, 1806,
aged 80. He was one of the early settlers of
Georgia, and the principal military officer of the
province. Sept. 16, 1776, he was appointed
brigadier-general. Having murdered Mr. Gwin-
nett in a duel, the event, instead of banishing him
from the army, was the cause of his removal to
the north. Having served till the end of the
war, he was a member of congress in 1784. In
1785 he was one of the commissioners to treat
with the southern Indians.
McIXTOSII, JOHN, general, was an officer of
the Georgia line in 1775, and served during the
war with unblemished honor. In 1814 he com
manded the Georgia division, which went to Pen-
sacola. He died at his plantation in Mclntosh
county, Nov. 12, 1826, aged about 70. He was a
sincere Christian.
McINTOSH, WILLIAM, general, an Indian
chief, was one of the three great chiefs of the
Creeks ; the others were Big Warrior, and Little
Prince, who died in April, 1828. — He was about
six feet in height, dignified, generous, brave, and
temperate; and the only chief who could con
verse in English with facility. About the year
1826 he was killed by his tribe on the charge of
treachery, in bargaining away their territory to
the whites. A clu'ef, who assisted in killing him,
made this speech : "Brothers! Mclntosh is dead.
He broke the law of the nation, — the law which
he made himself. His face was turned to the
white men, who wish to take our land from us.
His back was to his own people. His ears were
shut to the cries of our women and children.
His heart was estranged from us. The words of
his talk were deceitful. They came to us like the
sickly breeze, that flies over the marsh of the
great river."
McINTOSH, DUNCAN, a noble philanthropist,
a native of Scotland and an American citizen,
died at Aux Caves in Nov., 1820. At the Revo
lution in St. Domingo he was living there, a mer
chant of immense wealth acquired by trade ; he
might have withdrawn, and secured his property ;
but he remained, and sacrificed his estate and
risked his life in the sacred cause of humanity.
When four hundred thousand ignorant slaves had
broken their chains and were devastating the
island and thirsting for the blood of the whole
French population, and when all were flying for
safety, there was found one man, who remained
as the preserver and benefactor of the miserable.
With his gold he bought the victims out of the
hands of the executioners ; others he rescued by
force. In defiance of the decree of death against
those who should conceal the French, he main
tained them three months in the places where
they were concealed. More than once was he
thrown into a dungeon ; but on recovering his
freedom he engaged with new ardor in the work
of benevolence. During the revolutionary storm,
of seven or eight months' continuance, he was
able, by his indefatigable exertions, to save, in
vessels which he freighted for that purpose, more
than nine hundred men and fifteen hundred wo
men and children. While the heart is susceptible
of the emotions of gratitude and admiration to
wards men of great virtues and heroic benevo
lence, the name of Mclntosh will not be forgotten.
— Portfolio, new series, I. 285-297.
McINTOSH, ANN, Mrs., died in Mclntosh
county, Georgia, in 1833, aged 100. Her parents,
before her birth, came to Georgia with Gen.
Oglcthorpe.
McINTYRE, JOHN, a Presbyterian minister,
died in Robinson, S. C., Nov. 17, 1852, aged 102.
McJIMSEY, JOHN, D. D., died in Newburgh,
N. Y., Aug. 27, 1854, aged 82 : he was of Craw
ford, Orange county.
McKEAN, THOMAS, governor of Pennsylvania,
a patriot of the Revolution, died June 24, 1817,
aged 83. He was the son of William M., an
Irishman, who settled in New London, Penn.; and
was born March 19, 1734. He was educated in
the excellent school of Dr. Allison, at New Lon
don. Having studied law in Newcastle, he settled
in that county. He was a member of the legis-
ture in 1762; of the congress of 1765; and of
that of 1774, having his residence at this period
at Philadelphia. He remained in congress as a
delegate from Delaware from 1774 to 1783; yet
was he at the same time chief justice of Pennsyl
vania from 1777, being claimed by both States.
He was present in congress July 4, 1776, and
voted for the Declaration of Independence, and
signed it as engrossed, Aug. 2d, yet in the printed
journal his name was omitted. The subsequent
signers, who were not pres*ent July 4th, were Mr.
Thornton, B. Rush, G. Clymer, J. Smith, G. Tay
lor, and G. Ross. As a member of the conven
tion of Pennsylvania, he urged the adoption of
the constitution. In 1799 he succeeded Mr. Mif-
flin as governor, and remained in office till 1808,
when he was succeeded by Mr. Snyder. In his
politics he accorded with Jefferson. After the
close of 1808 he passed his days in retirement.
As chief justice for twenty- two years he was very
McKEAN.
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eminent. His decisions were accurate and pro
found, lie once had occasion to say, " No act
of my public life was ever done from a corrupt
motive, nor without a deliberate opinion that the
act was proper and lawful in itself." — Goodrich.
McKEAN, JOSEPH, D. D., LL. D., professor
of rhetoric and oratory at Harvard college, died
March 17, 1818, aged 41. He was born at Ips
wich April 19, 1776. His father was Wm. M.,
a native of Glasgow ; his mother was a daughter
of Dr. Joseph Manning of Ipswich. Having
graduated at Harvard college in 1794, he for a
few years taught a school in Ipswich and the
academy in Berwick. In Nov., 1797, he was or
dained as the minister of Milton; his infirm
health induced him to ask a dismission, Oct. 3,
1804. He afterwards engaged in the business of
instruction at Boston. He was inaugurated Oct.
31, 1809, as professor of oratory at Cambridge,
in which office he was industrious and punctual.
It was with him a maxim, that what was worth
doing at all was worth doing well. He died at
Havana, whither he went for his health in conse
quence of a pulmonary complaint, trusting in the
mercy of God through the merits of his Son.
His wife was a daughter of Maj. Swasey of Ips
wich. Prof. McKean possessed a powerful mind,
and was an impressive orator. He was an effi
cient member of the historical society. He pub
lished a valedictory sermon, 1804; two fast
sermons on friendship and patriotism, 1814; at
the ordination of J. B. Wight, 1815 ; of N. L.
Frothingham, 1815 ; on the death of John War
ren, 1815; at the installation of Dr. llichmoncl,
1817 ; memoir of John Eliot, in hist, collections;
addition to Wood's continuation of Goldsmith's
England.
McKEAN, JOSEPH W., M. D., died in Bos
ton in 1839, aged 39. He was the son of Pro
fessor M., and graduated at Harvard in 1819.
At the medical college of Vermont he gave a
course of lectures. He M-as found dead in his
chair.
McKEE, ROBERT, Episcopal minister, died
at Albany, N. Y., in 1840, aged 41. ,
McKEEN, JOSEPH, D. D., first president of
Bowdoin college, died July 15, 1807, aged 49.
He was born at Londonderry, N. II., Oct. 15,
1757. His immediate ancestors were from the
north of Ireland, though of Scotch descent. He
was graduated at Dartmouth college in 1774,
having evinced while in that seminary a decided
predilection for mathematical pursuits. After
eight years' employment in a school in his native
town, and after being some time an assistant in
the academy at Andover, he directed his atten
tion to theology, and was ordained successor of
Dr. Willard, as pastor of the church in Beverly,
in May, 1785. Here he continued with reputa
tion and usefulness seventeen years. Being cho-
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sen president of Bowdoin college, which had
been incorporated eight years, but had not yet
been carried into operation, he was inducted into
that important office Sept. 2, 1802. He died of
the dropsy, leaving the seminary, over which he
had presided, in a very flourishing condition.
His widow died in 1834. He possessed a strong
and discriminating mind, his manners were con
ciliating though dignified, and his spirit mild
though firm and decided. He was indefatigable
in his exertions to promote the interests of sci
ence and religion. He was respectable for his
learning and exemplary for his Christian virtues,
being pious without ostentation, and adhering to
evangelical truth without bigotry or superstition.
He published a sermon at the fast, 1793 ; at the
ordination of Rufus Anderson, 1794; of A.
Moore, 1796 ; two discourses on the fast, 1798;
at the election, 1800 ; at the fast, 1801 ; and some
papers in the transactions of the American acad
emy ; his inaugural address, with Mr Jenks'
eulogy, 1802.
McKEEN, JOSEPH, LL. D., died in New
York April 12, 1856, aged 64. Born in Ver
mont, he came to New York in 1818, and was for
some years a private teacher, then principal of
the school in Mott street, then county superin
tendent. He also edited an educational journal,
and was zealously engaged in the Sunday-school
cause ; being highly esteemed for his ability, dili
gence, and efficiency, and for the amenities of his
character.
McKEMIE, FRAXCIS, the first Presbyterian
preacher in the city of New York, was impris
oned by the governor and company, for his
preaching in a private house in Jan., 1707. He
was confined two months before he was admitted
to bail ; the costs amounted to 200 or 300 dollars.
The next year Mr. Anderson was settled in Wall
street church. — Amer. Quar. Register, vm. 323.
McKENDREE, AViLLUM, senior Methodist
bishop, died in Tennessee March 5, 1835, aged 77.
McKINLEY, JOHX, judge of the supreme
court of the United States, died in 1852. He was
born in Virginia.
McKINLEY, DAXIEL, D. D., died at Cham-
bcrsburg, Penn., Dec. 7, 1855.
McKINSTRY, JOHX, minister of Ellington,
Conn., died in 1754, aged 77. He was a Scotch
man, graduated at Edinburgh in 1712. He was
the pastor of Sutton, Mass., from 1720 to 1728 ;
then of Ellington from 1730 to 1746, when he
resigned his place.
McKINSTRY, JOHX, minister in Springfield,
Mass., son of the preceding, died Nov. 9, 1813,
aged nearly 90. He graduated at Yale in 1746 ;
was ordained at Chicopee, the fifth parish in
Springfield, in 1752 ; and was dismissed on ac
count of ill health in 1789. His successor was
Alexander Phoenix,
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MCKNIGHT.
McKNIGHT, CHARLES, M. D., a physician,
of Irish descent, died jn 1790, aged 40. He was
born in Cranbury, New Jersey, Oct. 10, 1750, and
graduated at Princeton college in 1771. He
studied medicine with Dr. Shippen. In the Rev
olutionary war he was the senior surgeon of the
flying hospital in the middle department. After
the war he settled in New York, where he deliv
ered lectures on anatomy and surgery. His wife
was Mrs. Litchfield, daughter of John M. Scott.
He published a paper in memoirs of London
medical society, rv.
McLEAN, LAUGHLIN, Dr., a Scotchman, came
to this country about 1740, and died at an
advanced age. He lived in Wethersfield and
Hartford, and was an ornament of his profes
sion.
McLEAN, ALEXANDER, a faithful missionary
in Maine, died at Newcastle Jan. 11, 1808, aged
63. Born in the island of Skye in Scotland, he
was educated at Aberdeen. He came to this
country in 1770, and was settled in Bristol, Me.,
from 1773 to about 1798, when he became a mis
sionary, employed by the society for propagating
the gospel. In its service he toiled zealously in
the destitute settlements of the district of Maine
during the rest of his life. He was plain and
earnest in his preaching, zealous for the ancient
doctrines of grace. The people of his first charge
begged his body, and he was buried at Bristol.
They remembered with gratitude his labors.
McLEAN, JOHN, a merchant of Boston, died
in Oct., 1823, aged 64. He once failed for a
large sum, and was reduced to the necessity of
resorting to the bankrupt act. Afterwards, while
he was in Italy for his health, he engaged in such
commercial pursuits as enabled him to acquire
a large fortune. Having thus the ability, he
honorably paid all his old creditors, although
they had no legal claims upon him. In his last
will, after providing for his wife, Ann Amory, he
bequeathed the large sum of 100,000 dollars to
the Massachusetts general hospital in Boston ;
also 50,000 dollars to the hospital and to Harvard
university, on the death of an individual.
McLEAN, FERGUSON, died at Clear Creek,
Warren county, Ohio, in Feb., 1837, aged 91.
He was the father of Judge McLean, and a pion
eer in the settlement of the Miami valley,
removing to that place in 1797. His son Wil
liam, a member of congress, died in 1839.
McLEOD, ALEXANDER, D. ])., pastor of the
first reformed Presbyterian church in New York,
died Feb. 17, 1833, aged 58. He was the son of
Rev. Niel M. of St. Kilda. He came to this
country at the age of eighteen, and was educated
at Union college, Schenectady ; with a minister
in the neighborhood he studied theology ; settled
in early life in New York, he formed the clerical
association Avith lu's brethren, Livingston, Linn,
MCNEIL.
Abeel, Rogers, Miller, and Romeyn, and Dr. Ma
son. He married in 1805 Mary Anne Agnew,
the daughter of one of his elders ; his son, John
N. M., 1). 1)., succeeded him. A synod was
formed, of three presbyteries, the northern, mid
dle, and southern, in 1809. His disease was an
enlargement of the heart and dropsy in the
chest. In his last sickness he was peaceful and
happy ; he said, with tears, " I have always loved
to preach Christ." He was a powerful preacher,
a man of learning and wisdom, and a devout
Christian. He published negro slavery unjustifi
able, 1802 ; Messiah, 1803; on the ministry, 1808 ;
catechism, 1807 ; life and power of godliness, a
series of sermons, 1816 ; he assisted Dr. Mason
in the Christian magazine, and wrote the articles
on the atonement ; lectures on the book of Reve
lations, 1814; sermons on the war, 1815 ; sermons
on true godliness ; articles for the evangelical
guardian and review, 1817-18; reformation prin
ciples ; and other pieces. A large memoir of
him, by Dr. S. B. Wylie, was published in 1855,
with a fine portrait.
McLEOD, JOHN, died in Washington in 1846,
aged about 80. Born in Ireland, he was for forty
years a teacher in Washington.
McMAH ON, BARTHOLOMEW A., assistant min
ister of St. Peter's church, New York, died July
18, 1800, aged 44. A native of Ireland, he lived
nearly twenty years in Italy ; but on his return
was compelled to flee to this country for safety.
In the epidemic of 1799 he remained at his post,
ministering to the sick. He published in Italy
several books in the Italian language.
McMAIION, BERNARD, a gardener and florist,
founded in 1809 a botanic garden near Philadel
phia, and died in Sept., 1816. He published the
American gardener's calendar, 1806.
McMANUS, JOHN, died at Brunswick, Maine,
in 1843, aged 83. He was at the surrender of
Burgoyne, and received at Cherry Valley a wound
which made him lame for life.
McMILLAN, WILLIAM, D. D., died at New
Athens, Ohio, April 11, 1832, aged 52.
McMILLAN, JOHN, I). D., died at Canons-
burg, Penn., Nov. 16, 1833, aged 80.
McMURRAY, WILLIAM, D. D., died at New
York Sept. 24, 1835, aged 50. He was of the
Dutch church.
McNAIR, ALEXANDER, governor, died in Mis
souri in May, 1826. lie was among the first
American settlers in Missouri, and took the field
in defence of the frontiers against the savages.
He held various offices, and an important station
in the Indian department. He died of a pre
vailing influenza.
McNEIL, HENRY, general, died in Clinton
county, N. Y., May 16, 1844, aged 81. He was
a soldier under Washington.
McNEIL, WILLIAM G., general, died in Brook-
McNUTT.
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lyn, N. Y., in 1853, aged 51. Educated at West
Point, he devoted himself for years to the pur
suits of an engineer, building railroads and the
dry dock at Brooklyn.
McNUTT, ALEXANDER G., governor of Missis
sippi, died in l)e Soto county, in 1848, aged 47.
lie was born in Virginia, and graduated at Wash
ington college. lie was chosen governor in 1837
and 1839. It is mentioned, to his honor, that
although in earlier life he was intemperate, yet
that he corrected his vices and gained general
esteem. As a stump orator he had no superior.
McPHEETEKS, WILLIAM, D. D., died at
Ilaleigh, N. C., in 1842, aged 64. lie was a theo
logian, a scholar, and a successful teacher.
McPIIERSON, general, died in Philadelphia
in 1813. He fought under Lafayette in Virginia,
in 1781.
McSPARRAN, JAMES, D. D., an eloquent
Episcopal minister in Rhode Island, died at his
house in South Kingston Dec. 1, 1757. His
family was Scotch, of the north of Ireland. He
came as a missionary to Narraganset, as Kings
ton was called, in 1721. There was in 1720 no
Episcopal church in Providence. Mr. Gay was
his predecessor, employed about 1717 by the
society for propagating the gospel. He published
a sermon on the Christian priesthood, and a his
torical tract, entitled, America dissected, 1752. —
Updike's Hist. Narrative; Cycl. of Amer. Lit.
McVAY, HUGH, governor of Alabama, died
in 1851, aged 84. For thirty years he was con
nected with the legislation of Alabama.
McWILLIAMS, ALEXANDER, M. D., died at
Washington March 31, 1850, aged 75. He was
in the navy from 1801 to 180G ; afterwards a
physician in Washington ; the founder of the
Columbian institute ; a man generous and worthy.
MEAC1IAM, JOSEPH, minister of Coventry,
Conn., died in 1752, aged GO. Born in Enfield,
Conn., he graduated at Harvard in 1710, and
was settled in 1814. — Sprcfgue's Annals.
MEACIIAM, J. B., for thirty years a Baptist
colored minister at St. Louis, died in his pulpit
Feb. 26, 1854. He was a man of eminent piety
and usefulness.
MEACIIAM, JAMES, member of congress, died
at Middlebury, Vt, Aug. 23, 1856, from conges
tion of the brain and lungs. He was for a while
the minister of New Haven, Vt., and a professor
in Middlebury college. On the announcement
of his death to the house of representatives, they
adjourned for the day, neglecting the public busi
ness, yet receiving their pay, amounting to 2400
dollars or more, for doing nothing. Such a cus
tom of adjournment for the death of a member
docs not exist in the British house of commons.
MEAD, JOHN, general, died at Meadvillc,
Penn.,in 1816, aged 64.
MEAD, ASA, minister of Brunswick, Maine,
died Oct. 26, 1831, aged 39. He was born at
Meredith, N. II., in 1792, and graduated at Dart
mouth college in 1818. His father was a Bap
tist. He studied theology at Andover, was
ordained at Brunswick in Dec., 1822, and dis
missed in 1829. After toiling for a few months
as an agent of the temperance and peace societies,
he was installed Aug. 18, 1830, at East Hartford,
Conn., where he died of the typhus fever. His
mind was vigorous, and he was conspicuous for
industry. He always kept several sermons on
hand, which he had never preached, and prepared
his discourses for the Sabbath before the end of
the week. While on a journey to Maine a short
time before he died, he wrote five or six sermons.
He died in peace and hope. His son, John Moo-
ney, nearly five years old, a child of great promise
and undoubted piety, died April 8, 1831. He
published a discourse before the Cumberland con
ference, 1826 ; a call to the temperate, 1827 ; a
sermon before the Hartford county peace society,
1831; a memoir of John Mooney Mead, pp. 92,
1831.
MEAD, STITII, a Methodist minister, died in
Amherst, Virginia, in 1834, aged 67.
MEAD, SHADRACII, Dr., died at Greenwich,
Conn., Sept. 16, 1856, aged 86. He was a grad
uate of Yale in 1779 ; and a devoted Christian.
MEADE, WILLIAM, M. D., a mineralogist,
died in Newburgh, N. Y., Aug. 19, 1833.
MEANS, ROBERT, colonel, died at Amherst,
N. II., in 1823, aged 80. Born in Ireland, he
came to this country in 1796, and acquired a
large property as a merchant. His wife was
Mary, daughter of Rev. David McGregore. His
sons were Thomas, David M., and Robert; and
of his daughters, Mary married Jeremiah Mason ;
Elizabeth married Jesse Appleton ; and Nancy
married Caleb Ellis, also Amos Lawrence.
MEANS, ROBERT, died at Columbia, S. C.,
Jan. 20, 1836. He was the minister of Fairfield
district. He published several sermons, and an
essay on the Pentateuch, in answer to Dr. Thomas
Cooper.
MEEKER, JOTHAM, a missionary among the
Choctaws for thirty years, died Jan. 11, 1855, at
Ottawa. He died in peace, offering a prayer,
clasping his hands across his breast, and closing
his eyes.
MEETZ, J. Y., a minister, died at Lexington
district, S. C., in 1833, aged 76.
MEGAPOLENSIS, JOHN, JR., a minister of
the Dutch church in New York, died in 1669, or
before. He came from Holland at the age of 39,
and took charge of the Dutch church at Rens-
selaerswyck, or Albany, in 1642. He resigned
his charge in July, 1649, and was settled in New
Amsterdam, or New York. In 1652 he was
joined by a colleague, Samuel Drisius; and by
his own son, Samuel, M. D., in 1662. The inhab-
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MELLEN.
itants in New York were fifteen hundred in 1664,
when the city surrendered to Col. Nicolls. lie
wrote an account of the Mohawk Indians, 1644.
A translation is in Hazard, I. 517-526.
MEIGS, RETURN JONATHAN, colonel, a hero
of the Revolution, died in 1823, aged 82. He
•was probably a descendant of John M., who
lived in Weymouth in 1641 ; and was born
in Middletown, Conn., in 1740. In 1775,
immediately after the battle of Lexington, he
marched a company of light infantry to the
neighborhood of Boston. With the rank of ma
jor, he accompanied Arnold in his march through
the wilderness of Maine in order to attack Que
bec. His printed journal gives the best account
of this expedition. In the assault on Quebec by
Montgomery and Arnold, at the close of the year,
he was made a prisoner, with Captains Morgan
and Dearborn. In 1776 he was exchanged and
returned home, and the next year was appointed
colonel. His expedition to Long Island in May,
1777, was one of the most brilliant enterprises
of the war, for which he received, Aug. 3, the
thanks of congress and a sword. At the head
of a few companies he attacked the British troops
at Sagg Harbor with fixed bayonets, made ninety
prisoners, and destroyed twelve vessels and much
forage, without the loss of a man. In 1779 he
commanded a regiment under Wayne at the cap
ture of Stony Point, and was honorably men
tioned by Washington. After the war, about
1788 or 1789, he was one of the first settlers of
the wilderness of Ohio. For the first emigrants
he drew up a system of regulations, which were
posted on a large oak near the confluence of the
Ohio and Muskingum rivers, the bark of the tree
being cut away for the space of the sheet. Often
was the venerable oak consulted. He was the
agent for Indian affairs as early as 1816. He
died at the Cherokee agency. The true origin
of his name is of more interest than the reason
•why Mr. Preserved Fish was so called. His
father lived in Middletown, Conn. When a
young man, seeking a companion for life, he
addressed a fair Quaker at Middlefield, in his
neighborhood. He was unsuccessful, and repeat
edly rejected. She said, "Nay, Jonathan, I
respect thee much ; but I cannot marry thee, for
' better is a dinner of herbs with contentment,
than a stalled ox and contention therewith.' "
But at length, as Jonathan had some spirit and
wisdom as well as love, he told Ruth plainly it
was his last visit. As he slowly mounted his
horse the relenting lady beckoned to him to stop,
saying sweetly, " Return, Jonathan ! return, Jon
athan ! " These, the happiest words he ever
heard, induced him to call his first-born son
Return Jonathan. His journal of the expedition
to Quebec, from Sept. 9, 1775, to Jan. 1, 1776, is
published in American remembrancer for 1776;
in 2 hist. coll. II. 227-247 ; and a summary of
it in Maine hist. coll. I.
MEIGS, RETURN JONATHAN, governor of
Ohio, son of the preceding, died in 1825. He
succeeded Mr. Huntington as governor in 1810,
and remained in office until he was appointed
postmaster-general, in the place of Mr. Granger,
in Feb., 1814. He was succeeded by John Mc
Lean in 1823. He died at Marietta.
MEIGS, JOHN, major, died at New Hartford
in 1826, aged 75 ; an officer of the Revolution, in
service seven years.
MELCHER, JOHN, died at Portsmouth, N. II.,
June 9, 1850, aged 90. He was a printer. He
commenced the Portsmouth Journal in 1793 ; he
printed the State laws and many books.
MELISH, JOHN, a geographer, was a native of
Scotland ; came to this country in 1809 ; and died
at Philadelphia, Dec. 30, 1822, aged 52. He
published travels in the United States, and in
Great Britain and Canada, 2 vols. 8vo., 1812; a
description of the roads, etc., 1814; traveller's
directory, 1815; description of the United States,
1816; universal school geography and atlas; the
necessity of protecting manufactures, 1818; maps
of Pennsylvania and of the United States; infor
mation to emigrants, 1819.
MELLEN, JOHN, minister of Sterling, Mass.,
died July 4, 1807, aged 85. He was born at
Ilopkinton, March 25, 1722, and was graduated
at Harvard college in 1741. He was ordained
pastor of the church in Lancaster, now Sterling,
Dec. 19, 1744. His connection with his society
was dissolved in consequence of disputes, oc
casioned principally by his endeavors to maintain
what he considered the order of the churches. In
1784 he became the minister of Hanover, Mass.,
M'here he continued to discharge the duties of the
sacred office until Feb., 1805, when his infirmities
induced him to relinquish it. He soon removed
to Reading, and closed a long and useful life in
the house of his daughter, the relict of Caleb
Prentiss. His sons were John; Henry, a law-,
yer and poet, who died at Dover, N. H., July 31,
1809, aged 51; and Prentiss, chief justice of
Maine, who was born in 1764. He was respect
able in his profession, and many had an affection
ate remembrance of his faithful labors as a min
ister of the gospel. He published a sermon at
the ordination of J. Palmer, 1753 ; at a general
muster, 1756; on the mortal sickness among his
people, 1756; on the conquest of Canada, 1760;
on the death of S. Smith, 1765; religion produc
tive of music ; at the ordination of Levi Whit
man, 1785 ; on the duty of making a profession
of Christianity; fifteen discourses on doctrinal
subjects, with practical improvements, 8vo., 1765.
MELLEN, JOHN, minister of Barnstable, son
of the preceding, was born July 8, 1752; gradu
ated at Harvard college in 1770; was ordained
MELLEN.
Nov. 12, 1783 ; and died at Cambridge, Sept. 19,
1828, aged 7(x One of his daughters married
Prof. Frisbie. lie published a sermon on the
death of I. Dunster, 1791; masonic discourse,
1793; at thanksgiving, 1794 and 1795; at a
dedication, 1795 ; at the election, 1797 ; Dudlcian
lecture, 1799 ; on the death of Mrs. Alden, 1797 ;
of D. Davis, 1799.
MELLEX, HENRY, a poet, brother of Judge
Mellen, died at Dover, X. II., July 31, 1809, aged
51. lie was born at Sterling, Oct. 24, 1757;
graduated at Harvard college in 1784; and,
having studied law, settled at Dover. He wrote
popular songs. A collection of his poems was
published.
MELLEX, PRENTISS, LL. D., chief justice of
Maine, died Dec. 31, 1840, aged 76. He was the
son of Rev. John M., and was born at Sterling,
Mass., Oct. 11, 1764; graduated at Cambridge in
1784 ; practised law in Sterling and South Bridge-
water, and removed to Biddefbrd, Me., in 1792,
and to Portland in 1806. He was at the head of
the bar in Maine. In 1817 he was a senator of the
United States; and when Maine was formed into
a State, in 1820, he was appointed chief justice.
In 1834, at the age of 70, he was disqualified
by the constitution ; and, leaving the bench, he
returned to the bar. He was a trustee of Bow-
doin college. He died at Portland. His de
cisions may be found in the first eleven volumes
of the Maine reports.
MELLEX, GRENVILLE, a poet, the eldest son
of Judge M., died in New York, Sept. 5, 1841,
aged 42. He graduated at Cambridge in 1818,
and afterwards studied law, which he for a while
practised, and then relinquished. He published
various poems and other writings ; in 1833, the
chief collection of his poems, entitled the mar
tyr's triumph, etc. — Cyclopedia of American
Literature.
MELVILLE, THOMAS, major, died in Boston
Sept. 16, 1832, aged 81. He was the son of
Allan, of Boston, and grandson of Thomas M.,
minister of Leven, in Scotland. His mother was
Jean Cargill, of Londonderry, N. H. He gradu
ated at Princeton in 1769, and was a merchant
in Boston, a patriot and soldier of the Revolution,
one of the "Boston tea party" in Dec., 1773.
He served as a major in Rhode Island. For
many years he was the naval officer at Boston,
and surveyor. He was highly respected as a
citizen and Christian. Of his family, a daughter,
who died perhaps half a century ago, was engaged
to marry one of the most eminent and venerable
men of Massachusetts now living ; and his son
Thomas, who lived in Pittsfield, is also dead.
MERCELX, THOMAS F. RANDOLPH, a Metho
dist minister, died at Sheffield, Mass., in Sept.,
1856. He published a work of merit on natural
goodness.
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MERCER, JOHN, published an abridgment of
the acts of assembly of Virginia, 1737.
MERCER, HUGH, brigadier-general, died
Jan. 19, 1777, aged about 56. He was a na
tive of Scotland, and educated for the profes
sion of medicine. On his emigration to this
country he settled and married in Virginia. He
served with Washington in the war against the
French and Indians, which terminated in 1763,
and was by him greatly esteemed. He was with
Braddock in the campaign of 1755. In the ac
tion at fort Du Quesne he was wounded, and, faint
with the loss of blood, he lay down under a fallen
tree. One of the pursuing Indians jumped upon
the very tree, but did not discover him. Mercer
found a brook, at which he refreshed himself. In
his hunger he fed on a rattlesnake, which he had
killed. After pursuing his solitary way through
a wilderness of one hundred miles, he arrived at
fort Cumberland. At the commencement of the
war of the Revolution he abandoned his exten
sive medical practice and entered the army. He
was distinguished in the battle of Trenton. In
the action near Princeton, Jan. 3, 1777, he com
manded the van of the Americans, composed
principally of southern militia. While exerting
himself to rally them, his horse was killed under
him. He was surrounded by some British sol
diers, who refused him quarter, and stabbed him
with their bayonets, and bruised his head with
the butt-end of their muskets, leaving him on the
field as dead. He died from his wounds. He
was buried at Philadelphia; tliirty thousand of
the inhabitants followed him to the grave. He
was a valuable officer. Wilkinson regarded him
as second only to Washington. He was well
educated, polished in manners, gentle and diffi
dent, yet in the hour of peril ignorant of fear,
patriotic and disinterested. Provision was made by
congress, in 1793, for the education of his young
est son, Hugh Mercer. His son, Col. John M.,
who accompanied Monroe to France as secre
tary, died Sept. 30, 1817.— Marshall, II. 552;
Holmes.
MERCER, SILAS, died in Georgia in 1796,
aged 51. He was a Baptist minister, born in.
Xorth Carolina in 1745; about 1776 he preached
in Halifax county, and in six years preached more
than two thousand sermons, more than one a day.
At the close of the war he went again to Georgia,
where he had previously lived. He published
tyranny exposed and true liberty discovered.
MERCER, JOHN, governor of Maryland, died
in 1821, aged 64. He was a soldier of the Revo
lution. In 1782 he was elected a delegate to
congress from Virginia; in 1787 he was a mem
ber from Maryland of the convention which
framed the constitution of the United States, and
also a member of congress from Maryland. He
was governor from 1801 to 1803, when he was
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succeeded by Robert Bowie. He died at Phila
delphia.
MERCER, JESSE, a Baptist minister, died in
Georgia in 1841, bequeathing 60,000 dollars to
Mercer university, and to the bible and home
missionary and other charitable societies.
MERIAM, JONAS, minister of Newton, Mass.,
died in 1780, aged 50. Born in Lexington, he
was graduated at Harvard in 1753, and was or
dained in 1758. He published a sermon at the
ordination of T. Smith, 1764; of S. Dean, 1765.
— Sprague's Annals.
MERRIAM, MATTHEW, minister of Berwick,
Me., died in 1797, aged about 60. Born in Wal-
lingford, he graduated at Yale in 1759, and was
ordained in 1765, as the successor of J. Morse,
the first minister. J. Hilliard was his successor.
MERRICK, JONATHAN, minister in Branford,
Conn., died in 1772, aged about 67. He gradu
ated at Yale in 1725, and was ordained in 1727.
— Sprague's Annals.
MERRILL, NATHANIEL, minister of Notting
ham West (now Hudson), N. H., died in 1796,
aged 83. Born in Newbury, Mass., he graduated
at Harvard in 1732 and was settled in 1737.
MERRILL, GYLES, minister of Plaistow,
N. H., died in 1801, aged 62. He graduated at
Harvard in 1759, and was ordained the successor
of James Gushing in 1765. The third parish
of Haverhill, Mass., was annexed in 1728 to
Plaistow, in N. H. He was a sound scholar and
learned divine, simple and earnest. His sons
were James C. and Samuel.
MERRILL, JOHN, for forty years a member
of the Baptist church in Topsham, Me., died in
1828, aged 94. Born in Arundel, he came to T.
in 1760, and was the principal surveyor in Lin
coln county. He was a man of judgment and
moral worth.
MERRILL, DANIEL, minister of Sedgwick,
Me., died in 1833, aged about 65. Born in Dan-
vers, he graduated at Dartmouth in 1789; was
ordained in 1793; became a Baptist in 1804; was
immersed with eighty others, mostly members of
his church, May 15, 1805, when a Baptist church
was formed and he was re-ordaincd. He pub
lished on baptism seven sermons, tenth edition,
1812; eight letters on open communion, 1805;
letters occasioned by Worcester's discourses;
Balaam disappointed; thanksgiving sermon, 1815 ;
ordination of P. Bond, 1825; of J. Billings, 1826.'
— Sprague's Annals.
MERRILL, MOSES, preacher to the Otoe In
dians, died in 1840, aged 36. The son of Rev.
Daniel M. of Sedgwick, Me., he was six years of
the Baptist mission in Missouri.
MERRILL, NATHANIEL, minister of Lynde-
borough, N. II., died in 1839, aged 57. Born at
Rowley, he graduated at Dartmouth in 1809, and
was ordained in 1811. .— Sprague's Annals.
MERRILL, BENJAMIN, LL. D., died in Salem,
July 30, 1847, aged 63. Born in Comvay, N. H.,
he graduated at Harvard in 1804. He was a
scholar. As a lawyer he was a partner in business
with Judge Putnam of Salem. He was a kind
and generous man, remembered, not by any chil
dren, but by the partakers of his kindness.
MERRILL, DAVID, died in Peacham, Vt., July
21, 1850, aged 52. He was a graduate of Dart
mouth in 1821, and minister of Urbana, O., and
of Peacham, a colleague of L. Worcester. He
published the famous " ox sermon " on temper
ance. The text is Exod. xxi. 20 — " If the ox
were wont to push with his horn in time past,
and it hath been testified to his owner, an;l he
hath not kept him in, but that he hath killed a
man or a woman ; the ox shall be stoned, and his
owner also shall be put to death." The ox
" goring " represents the effect of the sale of
spirituous liquors, and the permission to sell is
allowing the ox to go abroad, instead of " keep
ing him in," etc.
MERRILL, ELiniAL, died at Northwood,
N. H., Feb. 7, 1853, aged 98 ; a Free-will Baptist
minister, a native of Stratham.
MERRILL, JAMES GUSHING, a lawyer in Bos
ton, died of the palsy, Oct. 4, 1853, aged 69. He
was the son of Rev. Gyles Merrill of Haverhill,
and was born Sept. 27, 1784, and was graduated
at Harvard in 1807. He was nearly twenty years
a judge of the police court. As a scholar he was
very skilled in the Greek language. His wife
was Anna, a sister of Leverett Saltonstall.
MERRILL, THOMAS ABBOT, D. D., died at
Middlebury, Vt,, April 29, 1855, aged 75. He
was a graduate of Dartmouth in 1801, in the class
of Daniel Webster, holding a high rank as a
scholar. He was a tutor both at Dartmouth and
Middlebury, and the respected and useful sole
minister of Middlebury, Vt., from 1805 to 1842,
and senior pastor from 1842 till his death. Dur
ing his service there were fifteen revivals of re
ligion, and he admitted to his church one thou
sand two hundred and thirty-four members. For
a long period his church consisted of more than
five hundred members. Though not distinguished
as a writer of sermons, or as a graceful speaker,
he had power in preaching, especially in his ex
temporaneous labors, when he was often bold,
strong, and lofty in his oratory. He was a cor
respondent of Mr. Webster, who highly respected
him.
MERRILL, JOHN, M. D., died at Portland,
June 7, 1855, aged 73. Born in Comvay, he
graduated at Harvard in 1804. He was a skilful
physician and a good citizen.
MERWIN, NOAH, minister of Torrington,
Conn., died in 1795, aged about 42. He was or
dained in 1776; dismissed in 1783; re-settled in
Washington, Conn., in 1785.
MERWIN.
MERWIX, J. B., died at Danbury, Vt., Sept.
6, 1851, aged 77, the oldest minister in the Troy
Methodist conference. He had been fifty-one
years a travelling preacher.
MERWIN, SAMUEL, a minister in New Haven,
died Sept. 3, 1856, aged 74. Born at Milford, he
graduated at Yale in 1802. He studied divinity
with Dr. Dwight and Dr. Backus of Somers, and
was settled in 1805 over the United society or
nortli church in N. H., and continued a faithful
pastor twenty-six years. He was next for some
years the pastor of Wilton ; then, about the age
of GO, returned to spend the remainder of his
days at New Haven. He often preached in
the chapel of the alms-house. He died in peace.
He published a half-century sermon, which he
preached in the north church a few months be
fore Ms death. — Bacon's Funeral Sermon.
MESSER, ASA, D. D., LL. D., president of
Brown university, died Oct. 11, 1836, aged 67.
He graduated in 1790, and was president from
1802 to 1826. He was of respectable literary
and scientific attainments. He died as he lived,
a sincere Christian. He published an address to
graduates, 1803; discourse, 1813.
MESSHED1ER, FRED. VAL., a naturalist,
minister of the Lutheran church at Hanover,
York county, Penn., devoted much time to the
study of the entomology of this country, but was
not encouraged. He died about 1814. He left
a son, with similar intelligence and taste. He
published a catalogue of insects of Penn., 1806.
METCALF, JOSEPH, first minister of Fal-
mouth, Mass., died May 24, 1723, aged 41. He
was born in Dedham, the son of Jonathan and
Hannah; was graduated at Harvard in 1703 ; and
was ordained in 1707. He was highly respected
and greatly lamented. His wife was Abiel Adams,
daughter of Rev. William Adams of Dedham,
and grand-daughter of Maj. William Bradford.
His widow removed to Lebanon, and married
Rev. Isaac Chauncey. One of his daughters
married Rev. Jonathan Lee.
METCALF, JONATHAN, died at Lebanon, Conn.
March 30, 1739, aged 62, the son of Jonathan of
Dedham, and brother of Rev. Joseph M. His
daughter, Mary, married Rev. Peter Pratt of
Sharon. He was a Christian merchant, gener
ous, a benefactor of the church.
METCALF, WILLIAM, died in Lebanon June
15, 1773, aged 64, the son of the preceding. He
married Abigail, the daughter of Rev. Timothy
Edwards ; she died in 1764. He was a faithful
magistrate, and a Christian, who patiently en
dured long and extreme pain.
METCALFE, THOMAS, general, governor of
Kentucky, died in Nicholas county in 1855, aged
75. Born in Virginia, his parents emigrated to
Kentucky. He served in the war of 1812, and
became a member of congress ; was chosen gov-
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emor in 1827 ; and was a senator of the United
States in 1848. Once an apprentice to a stone
mason, he became a man of great eminence and
influence, able, firm, equal to all occasions.
METLIN, ROBERT, died in Wakefield, N. H.,
in 1787, aged 115. When eighty years old he
walked from Portsmouth to Boston, sixty miles,
in one day, and returned the next.
MEYER, HERMANNUS, D. ])., minister of the
reformed Dutch church, died in 1791. He was
invited from Holland to take the charge of the
church at Kingston or Esopus, New York. Upon
his arrival in 1762, he was received with that re
spect and affection which were due to his charac
ter. But his preaching soon excited opposition.
He was too evangelical, practical, and pointed,
addressing the conscience too closely to suit the
taste of many of his principal hearers. No plau
sible ground of opposition, however, could be
found until his marriage. The Dutch churches
in this country were at this time divided into two
parties, called the coetus and the conference par
ties, of which the former wished to establish
judicatories with full powers in America, and the
latter was desirous of retaining the churches in
subjection to the classis of Amsterdam. His
marriage into a leading family of the ccetus party,
and an intimate friendship, which soon succeeded
with other families and distinguished characters
of the same party, furnished his enemies with an
occasion of standing forth against him. A num
ber of the neighboring ministers were invited to
attend and decide in the dispute, and they pro
ceeded to suspend him from his ministry in that
place. He was afterwards settled at Pompton,
in New Jersey, where he continued to labor with
much diligence, faithfulness, and success till his
death. He died without ever being able to effect
a reconciliation with the church at Kingston,
greatly beloved and respected in all the other
Dutch churches. He was a man of great eru
dition, of a mild and humble temper, polite and
unaffected in his manners, and eminently pious.
Appointed by the general synod of the Dutch
church a professor of the oriental languages, and
a lector or assistant to the professor of theology,
as such he rendered very important services in
preparing candidates for the ministry. — Mason's
Christian's Magazine, II. 10-12.
MIANTUNNOMU (or Miantonomoh), sachem
of the Narragansetts, was the nephew and suc
cessor of Canonicus, and in the old age of the
latter, took upon him the government in 1636.
In the same year he made a treaty with the Eng
lish at Boston. He was the friend and bene
factor of the settlers in Rhode Island. In the
Pequot war of 1637, several of his chiefs and
many of his men joined Capt. Mason. It was
estimated, at this period, that he had five thou
sand warriors : probably the number is much ex-
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aggeratcd. In 1638 he and Uncas, sachem of
Mohegan, and the English, entered into an agree
ment at Hartford. The sachems engaged not to
make war upon each other without first appealing
to the English. In 1643 Uncas attacked Sequas-
son, a sachem on Connecticut river, killing and
wounding about twenty men, and burning the
wigwams. Miantunnomu, a kinsman and ally of
Sequasson, took up the quarrel; he first com
plained of Uncas to the governor at Hartford ;
he asked, whether any offence would be taken if
he made war upon Uncas ? The governor re
plied, that if Uncas had injured him and re
fused to give satisfaction, Miantunnomu would
be left " to take his course." This seems to have
been submitting the affair to the judgment of the
sachem. He accordingly marched to Mohegan at
the head of eight hundred or one thousand men,
and on a great plain in Norwich was defeated by
Uncas, who had only five or six hundred men,
and taken prisoner. Uncas applied to the com
missioners of the United Colonies, Winthrop,
Winslow, Eaton, etc., for advice as to disposing
of his prisoner. They decided, after enumerating
several charges, that he might be put to death in
the jurisdiction of Uncas. This decision in regard
to a prisoner in their hands, an Indian king, who
had been their ally against the Pequots and a
friend of the whites, was ungenerous and iniqui
tous, and a stain upon the character of the com
missioners. The prisoner was taken to a place
between Hartford and Windsor, where some of
Uncas' men lived, and a brother of Uncas killed
him with a hatchet. This is the account of Win
throp. Trumbull says, on the authority of a
manuscript of Mr. Hyde, that he was put to death
at Sachem's Plain, in the easterly part of Nor
wich, and that a pile of stones was placed upon
his grave. He was " a goodly personage, of tall
stature, subtle and cunning in his contrivements,
as well as haughty in his designs." His execu
tion by the advice of the commissioners roused
the indignation of Canonicus and Pessacus, who
the next year threatened war, but were induced
to enter into terms of peace. Probably this un
happy event contributed to light up the sub
sequent dreadful Avar of king Philip, who was
assisted by the Narragansetts. It is known, also,
that it fostered in the breasts of the Indians a
contempt of Christianity. In every respect, gen
erosity, forgiveness, and kindness, as well as jus
tice, are advantageous.
MICHAUX, ANDRE, a botanist, died in 1802.
He was born in France in 1746. He married in
1769 Cecilia Claye; but she died in 1770. After
extending his botanical excursions to Spain, and
spending two years in Persia, he came to America
in October, 1785. During about nine years he
travelled over the middle, southern, and western
States, and proceeded to the north to the neigh
borhood of Hudson's bay, procuring trees and
shrubs for the establishment at Rambouillet.
For the preservation of his plants he established
botanical gardens at New York and near Charles
ton. On his return to Europe in 1796 he was
shipwrecked, but saved most of his collections.
He had sent sixty thousand stocks to Rambouil-
let, of which but few had escaped the ravages of
the Revolution. His salary for seven years he
could not obtain, nor any employment from gov
ernment. In 1800, however, he was sent out on
an expedition to New Holland. He died of a
fever at Madagascar. He published histoire des
chenes de Amerique septentrionale, folio, Paris,
thirty-six plates, 1801; flora boreali — Ameri
cana, 2 vols. 8vo., Paris, 1803, fifty-one plates.
MICHAUX, FRANCOIS ANDRE, son of the
preceding, was born in 1770. He published the
beautiful work, entitled the North American
sylva, 5 vols., 8vo., Philadelphia, 1817, 150
colored engravings ; and voyage a 1'ouest de
monts, etc., 1804; the same, translated, entitled,
travels in Ohio, Kentucky, and Tennessee : Lon
don, 1805.
MIDDLETON, PETER, M. D., a physician in
New York, died in 1781. He was a native of
Scotland. In 1750 he assisted Dr. Bard in the
first dissection in this country, and in 1767 was
appointed professor of physiology and pathology.
He published a medical discourse, 1769 ; and a
letter on the croup, in medical repository, IX. —
Thaclier.
MIDDLETON, ARTHUR, a patriot of the Rev
olution, died Jan. 1, 1788, aged 44. He was born
on the banks of Ashley river, South Carolina, in
1743. His father was Henry, president of con
gress. He received an excellent education at
Westminster and Cambridge, England, and then
travelled several years upon the continent. After
returning and marrying the daughter of Walter
Izard, he again travelled in Europe. In 1773 he
settled upon the banks of the Ashley river in
Carolina. At the commencement of the Revolu
tion both he and his father, a man of great wealth,
entered zealously into the American cause. In
1775 he was one of the secret committee of de
fence, and also of the council of safety, and, the
next year, on the committee to prepare a consti
tution. He was also sent a delegate to congress
and signed the Declaration of Independence, but
resigned his seat at the close of 1777. In 1779
he suffered in his property, like others, by the
ravages of war. At the capture of Charleston in
1780, he was taken prisoner and confined at St.
Augustine nearly a year. At length, in July, 1781,
he was exchanged, and proceeded in a cartel to
Philadelphia, lie was now again appointed a
member to congress. He died of an intermit
tent fever. — Goodrich.
MIDDLETON, HENRY, president of congress
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in 1774, was governor of South Carolina from
1810 to 1812. He was the son of Arthur, the
first royal governor of South Carolina.
MIDDLETON, HENRY, governor of South
Carolina and minister to Russia, died in Charles
ton June 14, 1846, aged 15. After being in con
gress he was governor in 1810, and again went
to Washington in 1814. Mr. Monroe sent him
to Ilussia in 1820. He was hospitable and so
cial, of polished and dignified manners.
MIDDLETON, ARTHUR, grandson of A. M.,
died at Naples June 9, 1853, aged about GO. He
graduated at Harvard in 1814, and married at
Rome the Countess Bcnivoglio. He was favora
bly known by Americans at Naples.
MIEL, CHARLES, captain, a Revolutionary
officer, died in Alleghany county, Maryland, in
1836, aged 102. He served under Wolfe and
Montgomery at Quebec, and fought at Bunker
Hill.
MIFFLLN, THOMAS, a major-general in the
American army, and governor of Pennsylvania,
died Jan. 20, 1800, aged 56. He was born about
the year 1744 of parents who were Quakers, and
his education was intrusted to the care of Dr.
Smith, with whom he was connected in habits of
cordial intimacy and friendship for more than
forty years. Active and zealous, he engaged
early in opposition to the measures of the British
parliament. He was a member of the first con
gress in 1774. He took arms and was among
the first officers commissioned on the organization
of the continental army, being appointed quarter
master general in Aug., 1775. For this offence
he was read out of the society of Quakers. In
1777 he was very useful in animating the militia ;
but he was also suspected in this year of being
unfriendly to the commander-in-chief, and of wish
ing to have some other person in his place. His
sanguine disposition and his activity might have
rendered him insensible to the value of that cool
ness and caution, which were essential to the
preservation of such an army as was then under
the command of Washington. In 1787 he was
a .member of the convention which framed the
constitution of the United States, and his name
is affixed to that instrument. In Oct., 1788, he
succeeded Franklin as president of the supreme
executive council of Pennsylvania, in which sta
tion he continued till October, 1790. In Septem
ber, a constitution for this State was formed by a
convention, in which he was president, and he
was chosen the first governor. In 1794, during
the insurrection in Pennsylvania, he employed to
the advantage of his country the extraordinary
powers of elocution with which he was endowed.
The imperfection of the militia laws was compen
sated by his eloquence. He made a circuit
through the lower counties, and at different pla
ces publicly addressed the militia on the crisis in
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the affairs of their country, and through his ani
mating exhortations the State furnished the quota
required, lie was succeeded in the office of gov
ernor by Mr. McKcan, at the close of the year
1799, and he died at Lancaster. He was an ac
tive and zealous patriot, who had devoted much
of his life to the public service. — Smith's Ser
mon on his Death.
MIGIIILL, THOMAS, minister of Scituate,
died in Feb., 1689, aged 49. He was the son of
Thomas, and was born at Rowley ; graduated at
Harvard in 1663 ; and was ordained in 1684.
MIGHILL, DAVID, M. D., LL. D., died at
Georgetown in May, 1851, aged 65.
MILES, JOHN, minister of the first Baptist
church in Massachusetts, was settled at listen
near Swansea in South Wales, from 1649 till his
ejectment in 1662. He soon came to this coun
try, and formed a church at Rehoboth in Bristol
county, in 1663. The legislature of Plymouth
colony granted to these Baptists in 1667 the town
of Swanzey, to which place they removed. He
died Feb. 3, 1683. His wife was Ann, the daugh
ter of John Humphrey. — Baylies' Memoir of
Plymouth, II. 239.
MILES, SAMUEL, minister of king's chapel,
Boston, died in 1729, aged about 65. He was
the son of Rev. J. M. He graduated at Harvard
in 1684 ; went to England and received holy or
ders ; and became rector of the chapel in Boston
in 1689.
MILES, JOHN, minister of Grafton, Mass., was
ordained in 1796 and dismissed in 1826. Born
in Westminster, he graduated at Brown in 1794.
MILES, NOAH, minister of Temple, N. II., died
in Dec., 1831, aged 79, in the fiftieth year of his
ministry. Born in Westminster, Mass., he grad
uated at Dartmouth in 1780. He published a
sermon on the death of Washington.
MILLAR, JOHN, first minister at Yarmouth,
Mass., died as late as 1651 or later. He was first
an assistant to E. Rogers of Rowley. He was in
the ministry in England before he came to
America.
MILLEDGE, JOHN, governor of Georgia, was
in 1780 attorney-general, and governor in 1802.
He was afterwards a member of congress and a
senator of the United States from 1806 to 1809.
He died at his seat at the Sand Hills Feb. 9,
1818, aged 64. He was the principal founder
of the university of Georgia.
MILLEDOLER, PHILIP, D. D., president of
Rutgers' college, New Brunswick, died at Staten
Island Sept. 22, 1852, aged 77. He was born in
Farmington, Conn., Sept. 22, 1775 ; his parents
were from Berne in Switzerland. At the age of
twenty he became the minister of the German
reformed church in New York, in May, 1795,
preaching both in German and in English.
From 1810 to 1813 he was pastor of the third
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Presbyterian church in Philadelphia. From 1813
to 1820 he was a minister in Itutgers street col
legiate Dutch church, New York. Afterwards in
1825 he became a professor and president of
Rutgers college, New Brunswick, and continued
seventeen years. He lived at the close of life in
the family of his daughter. His wife, Margaret,
the daughter of Gen. Steele of Philadelphia, died
the day after him. At the funeral the two coffins
were side by side on a bier in front of the pulpit ;
the sermon was preached by Dr. Dewitt. He was
an eminent and most pious and useful minister of
the Dutch reformed church ; was among the
founders of the bible and missionary institutions;
and was the first president of the New York tract
society. He published a sermon at the installa
tion of Mr. llomeyn, 1808; of G. Spring, 1810;
charge at Princeton seminary, 1812; address at
Columbia college, 1828.
MILLER, JOHN, minister of Brunswick, Me.,
died in 1789, aged 56. Born in Milton, he grad
uated at Harvard in 1752, and succeeded in 1702
R. Dunlap, the first minister. He was succeeded
by E. Coffin, W. Bailey, A. Mead, and Dr. G. E.
Adams.
MILLER, JOHN, minister of Dover, Delaware,
died in 1791, aged 68. He was the son of John
M., a native of Scotland, who married and set
tled in Boston in 1710, and was born in Boston
Dec. 24, 1722, and experienced the power of re
ligion under the ministry of Dr. Sewall. Having
studied theology with Mr. Webb, he was ordained
in the old south in April, 1749, with a view to his
establishment at Dover, where he was a minister j
more than forty years, having the charge also of
the church at Smyrna, twelve miles distant.
Among his many sons, all of whom engaged in
the learned professions, were Edward Miller and
Samuel Miller, late one of the professors in the
theological seminary at Princeton. Another son,
a physician in the army, died in 1777. With a
sound mind he was a good scholar, a faithful
preacher, a great lover and maker of peace, and
a centre of literary and religious influence.
MILLER, EDWARD, M. D., a physician of
New York, third son of the preceding, died March
17, 1812, aged 51. He was born at Dover, Del
aware, May 9, 1760 ; his mother was the daugh
ter of A. Millington of Talbot county, Maryland.
He was educated by his father, and at Newark
academy under F. Allison and A. McDowell.
Having studied medicine with Dr. Ridgely, he
entered the army as surgeon's mate in 1780, and
in 1781 went as surgeon in an armed ship to
France. After attending the lectures at Phila
delphia, he commenced the practice in Frederica,
but removed thence to Maryland, and in 1786 to
Dover, where he remained ten years. About
1793 he wrote an able letter to Dr. Rush, assert
ing the domestic origin of the yellow fever. In
1796, in order to enjoy the society of his only
surviving brother, he removed to New York,
where his practice was extensive, and where he
projected and published, with Drs. Mitchill and
Smith, the medical repository, the first number
of which appeared in August, 1797. This was
the first work of the kind in the United States ;
he lived to see nearly fifteen vols. completed. In
1803 he was appointed resident physician of New
York. In 1805 he drew up a learned report,
maintaining the domestic origin of the yellow
fever. In 1807 he was elected the professor of
the practice of physic in the university of New
York ; in 1809 one of the physicians of the hos
pital. The typhus fever, succeeding an inflamma
tion of the lungs, terminated his life. Four of
his brothers, in two of the learned professions,
died in early life. He was a distinguished scholar,
and, in the opinion of Dr. Rush, " inferior to no
physician in the United States." He was a man
of probity, and honor, and charity, with a heart
of sympathy, and courtesy of manners. His
gratuitous services to the poor have been seldom
equalled. In his habits he was remarkably tem
perate, seldom using any drink but water, and
rejecting the use of tobacco in every form as an
odious practice, and a provocative to the love of
drinking. He was a believer in Christianity, and
devoutly perused the holy Scriptures. His med
ical works, with a biographical sketch by his
brother, Samuel Miller, were published, 8vo.,
1814. — TJtacher, 385-392.
MILLER, HENRY, general, a distinguished
officer of the Revolution, died in 1824 in Carlisle,
Penn., aged 71. He was prothonotary of Perry
county.
MILLER, JAMES W., a poet and miscellane
ous writer, died in 1829.
MILLER, JONATHAN, minister of Burlington,
Conn., died in 1831, aged 69. Born in Torring-
ford, he graduated at Yale in 1781, and was or
dained in 1782. He wrote much for the evan
gelical magazine. A few years before his death
his mind broke down, and he had a colleague.
He published a concio ad clerum, 1812. T—
Spragtie's Annals.
MILLER, JOHN, died in Washington, Pcnn.,
Dec., 1832, aged 100. lie was at the capture of
fort Du Quesne, now Pittsburg, in 1758.
MILLER, ROBERT, an Episcopal minister, died
at Mary's Grove, N. C., in 1834, aged 74.
MILLER, STEPHEN D., governor of South
Carolina, died in Mississippi while on a visit,
March 8, 1838. He had been a senator of the
United States.
MILLER, JOHN, governor of Missouri, died
near Florisant in 1846. He was an officer in the
war of 1812, and a member of congress.
MILLER, JONATHAN P., colonel, died in Mont-
pelier, Vt, Feb. 17, 1847, aged 50. He was an
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opposer of slavery, and he encouraged the Greeks
in their struggle for liberty, carrying to them from
New York a cargo of supplies, the distribution of
which he superintended.
MILLER, WILLIAM, the so-called prophet, died
in Hampton, or Low Hampton, N. Y., Dec. 20,
1849, aged G8. He was born in Pittsfield, Mass.;
•was a captain in the war of 1812, and then be
came a preacher. Fixing upon 1843 as the
period for the beginning of the millennium, he
preached on the subject for ten years in the
northern and middle States, perhaps gaining
thirty or forty thousand disciples, who soon dis
appeared after the year 1843 had passed over.
lie was one of the misguided fanatics, who, on
account of their honest zeal, readily find followers
among the ignorant.
MILLER, SAMUEL, D. D., died at Prince
ton, N. J., Jan. 7, 1850, aged 80. He was born
in Dover, Delaware. His father, a native of Bos
ton, was a minister many years in Dover. He
graduated at Pennsylvania university in 1789 ;
was ordained in 1793 as pastor of the brick
church in Xew York ; and was chosen at Prince
ton theological seminary the professor of ecclesi
astical history and church government in 1813.
He was a man most amiable and polished in
manners, learned and pious, and of great influ
ence. He published many books : among them,
letters on the Christian ministry, 1809 ; on the
office of ruling elder ; on baptism ; lectures at
the seminary, 1827, 1830; letters on clerical man
ners and habits ; on the eternal sonship of Christ,
addressed to Prof. Stuart, 1823 ; on Unitarian-
ism ; memoirs of J. Rodgers ; sermon to society
for liberating slaves ; and other single sermons ;
retrospect of 18th century, 2 vols., 1803.
MILLER, NATHANIEL, M. D., died in Frank
lin, Mass., June 10, 1850, aged 79.
MILLER, JAMES, general, died in Temple,
N. IL, July 7, 1851, aged 76. Born in Peterbo
rough, he was bred to the law. He entered the
army in 1810, and was distinguished in the battles
of Chippewa, Bridgewatcr, and Lundy's lane.
When asked by his general, Riplcy, if he would
take the fort, he said, " I'll try, sir ! " He was
governor of Arkansas, and collector many years
of the port of Salem, Mass.
MILLER, ELIJAH, a profound lawyer, died at
Auburn, N. Y., Nov. 14, 1851, aged 80. lie was
father-in-law of Governor Seward, and the son of
Samuel M., a patriot of the Revolution.
MILLER, WILLIAM S., died in New York
Nov. 9, 1854, a member of congress. He was
social and hospitable, had a cultivated mind, and
was a liberal patron of the arts.
MILLER, MOSES, the mountain pastor, the
minister of Heath, Mass., died about 1855, aged
nearly 80. He was born in Worcester in 1776,
and was the grandson of a much respected Dea
con Miller of Dr. Austin's church. He gradu
ated at Providence in 1800, and was then some
years a tutor. He was ordained in the moun
tain town of Heath Dec. 26, 1804, and was a
faithful pastor more than forty years. He pub
lished a sermon to missionary society, 1824. He
wrote his autobiography while living with his
children in Nunda, N. YT. ; and it was published
in the Recorder in 1856.
MILLS, GIDEON, minister in Simsbury, Conn.,
died in 1772, aged 56. Born at Windsor, the
brother of Jedidiah M., he graduated at Yale in
1737 ; was ordained over the first church in Sims-
bury in 1744, and continued ten years. He was
installed over the second church in 1761.
MILLS, JEDIDIAII, minister of Ilipton, Conn.,
died in 1776, aged about 76. Born in Wind
sor, he graduated at Yale in 1722, and Avas
ordained in 1724. He was a friend of Mr. White-
field and David Brainerd. Mr. Ely was his col
league in 1771. He published a vindication of
gospel truth, 1747 ; the state of the unregencr-
ate, 1767. — Sprayue's Annals.
MILLS, EBEXEZER, minister of Sandisfield,
Mass., died in 1799, aged 89. He graduated at
Yale in 1738. He was first settled in Granby.
MILLS, SAMUEL J., agent of the American
colonization society, died June 16, 1818, aged 35.
He was the son of the minister of Torringford,
Conn., and was born April 21, 1783. At an
early period he had such a sense of his sin, that
for two years he regarded his existence as a
curse. In answer to the prayers of his parents
he was cheered with the Christian hope. He
graduated at Williams college in 1809. While
in that seminary his mind was deeply impressed
with the importance of foreign missions, and he
endeavored to awaken a similar feeling in the
hearts of his fellow students. At the theological
seminary in Andover he united with Newell, Jud-
son, Nott, and Hall, in a resolution to undertake
a foreign mission. These young men offered
themselves as missionaries to the general associa
tion of ministers of Massachusetts at Bradford,
June 27, 1810. In 1812 and 1813 he and J. F.
Schermerhorn made a missionary tour in the
western States. He was ordained with other
missionaries at Newburyport June 21, 1815. He
made a second tour with D. Smith in 1814 and
1815. He ascertained that in March, 1815, not a
bible could be found for sale or to be given away
in New Orleans ; in that city he distributed many
bibles in French and English, and visited the
sick soldiers. Finding that seventy or eighty
thousand families at the south were destitute of
a bible, he suggested at the close of his report
the establishment of a national society like that
of the British. His efforts contributed to the es
tablishment of the society, May 8, 1816. The
plan of the united foreign mission society, which,
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however, accomplished but little, originated with
him, while residing with Dr. Griffin at Newark,
as did also the African school, which existed a
few years at Parsippany, near Newark. He
attended the first meeting of the colonization
society Jan. 1, 1817, which was established by the
exertions of Dr. Finley. Appointed with E.
Burgess, to visit England and explore the coast
of Africa for the society, he sailed in Nov., 1817,
and in a wonderful manner escaped shipwreck
on the coast of France. As the ship was drifting
towards a ledge of rocks, the captain despaired
of preservation, and jumped into the boat with
his two sons, all of whom were lost. A strong
current as the ship approached the rocks carried
her away from them. He sailed from England
for Africa Feb. 2, 1818, and arrived on the coast
March 12th. After a laborious inspection of
more than two months, he embarked on his re
turn in the brig Success, May 22, 1818. A severe
cold, which he took early in June, was succeeded
by a fever, of which he died. He was buried in
the depths of the ocean. He was eminently
pious and benevolent ; and, when the sea gives
up its dead, he will rise to heavenly glory. His
memoirs by Gardiner Spring were published, 8vo.,
1820.
MILLS, EDMUXD, minister of Sutton, Mass.,
the successor of Dr. Hall, died in 1825, aged 72.
Born in Kent, Conn., he graduated at Yale in
1775. He was pastor from 1790 till his death,
a popular and successful preacher. He published
an oration July 4, 1809.
MILLS, ELIJAH HUNT, a lawyer and member
of congress, died at Northampton May 5, 1829,
aged 51. He graduated at Williams in 1797.
He published an oration to Washington benevo
lent society, 1813.
MILLS, THOMAS, D. D., Episcopal minister at
Charleston, S. C., died in 1830, aged 87.
MILLS, SAMUEL, died at Torringford May 11,
1833, aged 89.
MILLS, JOSHUA, Dr., died at Cleveland, Ohio,
in 1843, aged 46, an acceptable physician.
MILNOR, JAMES, D.D., rector of St. George's
church, New York, died March 8, 1845, aged 70.
A lawyer in Philadelphia, he was a member of
congress in 1812 ; afterwards he was thirty years
an eminent minister in New York ; an able sup
porter of various charitable societies. He was a
man of untiring and systematic industry.
MILTIMOliE, JAMES, minister of Belleville
church, Newbury, Mass., died March 23, 1836,
aged 81. Born in Londonderry, he graduated
at Dartmouth in 1774 ; was ordained in Strat-
ham, N. H., in 1786, and dismissed in 1807 ; was
installed at Newbury in 1808. He published a
discourse on the death of J. Murray, 1793 ; to a
musical choir, 1794 ; at a dedication, 1807. —
Sprague's Annals,
MILTON, CHARLES W., minister at Newbury-
port, died in 1837, aged 69 : installed in 1791.
MINER, JESSE, a missionary at Green Bay,
died March 22, 1829.
MINER, THOMAS, M. D., died at Worcester
April 23, 1841, aged 63. A graduate of Yale in
1796, he practised physic first at Middletown,
Conn., his native place, and was one of the found
ers of the medical institute of Yale, and of the
Connecticut retreat for the insane. His autobi
ography was published by Dr. Williams. He
was a man of integrity and of literary attain
ments. He published with Dr. Tully a work on
typhus, which excited much attention. — Wil
liams'' Med. Biography.
MLNNICK, Mrs., died in South Carolina about
1805, aged 108.
MINNS, THOMAS, died at Boston April 4,
1836, aged 62. He was the editor of the New
England Palladium from 1792 to 1828. He was
first associated with A. Young in publishing the
Mercury.
MINOT, GEORGE RICHARDS, a historian, died
Jan. 2, 1802, aged 43. He was born in Boston
Dec. 28, 1758. Distinguished in early life by the
love of learning, graceful modesty, and amiable
manners, he was peculiarly endeared, while at
school, to his excellent instructor, Mr. Lowell,
and in college he secured the esteem of the gov
ernors of the institution and the warmest attach
ment of his companions. He was graduated in
1778. Having pursued the study of the law
under the care of William Tudor, he began its
practice with a high reputation and with fixed
principles and habits. But his attention was im
mediately diverted somewhat from his profession
by his appointment as clerk of the house of rep
resentatives in 1781, soon after the new constitu
tion had commenced its operation. While in this
station, the duties of which he discharged with
the greatest fidelity and impartiality, the causes
which produced the insurrection were operating,
and he had an opportunity of being well ac
quainted with the proceedings of the house. Of
these transactions he wrote a sketch, which was
published in the Boston magazine for 1784 and
1785. After the insurrection was suppressed, he
wrote a history of it, which was praised equally
for its truth, moderation, perspicuity, and ele
gance. Of the convention of Massachusetts
which considered the constitution of the United
States, he was chosen the secretary. In Jan.,
1792, he was appointed judge of probate for the
county of Suffolk, and several years afterwards
judge of the municipal court in Boston. Amidst
the violence of parties his mildness, candor, and
moderation gained him the respect of all. His
conversation was interesting, for his mind was
enriched with various knowledge, and there was
a modesty and benignity in his character, which
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attracted and delighted. Humble and devout, he
complied with the ordinances of Christianity, and
trusted entirely to the mercy of God for salvation.
He published an oration on the Boston massacre,
March 5, 1782 ; history of the insurrection in
Massachusetts, 8vo., 1788 ; an address to the
charitable fire society, 1795; eulogy on Washing
ton, 1800 ; a continuation of the history of Mas
sachusetts Bay from 1748 to 1765, with an intro
ductory sketch of events from its original settle
ment. The first volume of this work, which is a
continuation of Hutchinson, was published in
8vo., 1798 ; the second volume was almost com
pleted at the time of his death, and it has since
been published. The narrative is perspicuous,
and the style simple and pure, and a model of
historical eloquence. — Collections of Historical
Society, vm. 89-109.
MINOT, TIMOTHY, Dr. , died in Concord, Mass.,
Aug. 1, 1804, aged 78. He graduated at Har
vard in 1747, and was a respected physician, the
founder of the Middlesex medical association.
MINTO, WALTER, LL. D., professor of natural
philosophy in the college of New Jersey, died
Oct. 21, 1796, aged 42. He was born in Scotland
Dec. 3, 1753, and educated at Edinburgh. By
the persuasion of the Earl of Buchan, he wrote a
book to prove that the original discovery of loga
rithms was to be attributed to Napier, the laird
of Merchiston. The earl sent him to America
in 178G, being desirous of laying a foundation of
mathematical science in the land of Columbus
and of Washington. Soon after his arrival he
was chosen mathematical professor in Princeton
college. In this situation he was respected and
useful. He was a sincere Christian and a truly
learned man. Besides the book on Napier, he
published a demonstration of the path of the new
planet; researches into some parts of the theory
of the planets, etc., 8vo., 1783 ; and an oration
on the progress and importance of the mathemat
ical sciences, etc., 1788.
MIRANDA, DON FRANCISCO, general, was born
of a Spanish family at Caraccas, of which province
his grandfather was governor. In 1783 he visited
the United States, and travelled on foot over a
part of Europe. In the French Revolution he
was a major-general in the service of France.
From the prison into which he was cast, he es
caped to England in 1797. Having been again
banished from France for opposing the French
consul in 1803, he resolved to emancipate South
America from the dominion of Spain. Having
obtained secret assistance and encouragement, he
sailed from New York in 1806, with a number of
American volunteers. At St. Domingo he char
tered two schooners ; they were captured on the
coast, while he escaped in his ship. In 1810 he
renewed his attempt, but was obliged to capitu
late to Gen. Monteverde, who, in disregard of
the agreement, treated him as a prisoner. He
was sent to Spain, and died after four years' con
finement in the dungeons of the inquisition at
Cadiz.
MITARK, sachem of Gay Head on Martha's
Vineyard, being converted to the Christian faith
by Mr. Mayhew, became a preacher. Of the
English he was a faithful ally, and died regretted
by all the islanders, Jan. 20, 1683. He said :
" I have hope in God, that when my soul departs
out of this body, God will send his messengers,
who shall conduct it to himself, to be with Jesus
Christ, where that everlasting glory is."
MITCHELL, JONATHAN, minister of Cam
bridge, Mass., the son of Jonathan M., died July
9, 1668, aged 42. He was born in England in
1624. He was brought to this country in 1635,
by his parents, who sought a refuge from ecclesi
astical tyranny in the wilderness. His father first
settled at Concord; afterwards he lived at Say-
brook, Wethersfield, and Stamford ; and died in
1645. Mr. Mitchell was graduated at Harvard
college in 1647, having made great acquisitions in
knowledge, and improvements in virtue. Under
the ministry of Mr. Shepard his mind was im
pressed by the truths of religion. While at col
lege he kept a diary in Latin. When he began
to preach, he was invited to settle at Hartford,
but he was ordained at Cambridge, as the suc
cessor of Mr. Shepard, Aug. 21, 1650. Soon
after his settlement Pres. Dunster embraced the
principles of Anti-pedobaptism. This was a pe
culiar trial to him ; but, though he felt it to be his
duty to combat the principles of his former tutor,
: he did it with such meekness of wisdom as not to
I lose his friendship, though the controversy oc-
' casioned his removal from the college. In 1662
he was a member of the synod which met in
Boston to discuss and settle a question concern
ing church membership and church discipline,
and the result was chiefly written by him. The
determination of the question relating to the bap
tism of the children of those who did not ap
proach the Lord's table, and the support thus
given to what is called the half-way covenant, was
more owing to him than to any other man. Con
sidering baptized persons as members of the
church and liable to its discipline, he thought
that their children should be admitted to baptism.
He died in the hope of glory. His wife was
Margaret, daughter of Mr. Shepard, his prede
cessor. His children were John ; Nathaniel ;
Samuel, a graduate of 1681 ; and Jonathan, a
graduate of 1687. Mr. M. was eminent for piety,
wisdom, humility, and love. His vigorous powers
of mind were diligently cultivated ; his memory
was very retentive; and he had acquired much
learning. lie wrote his sermons with care and
yet preached without notes, speaking with great
majesty, and attaining towards the close of his
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discourses a fervency which was most energetic
and impressive. His delivery was inimitable.
He was frequently called to ecclesiastical coun
cils, and, possessing singular acuteness, prudence,
and moderation, he was well qualified to heal dif
ferences. Attached to the institutions of the
founders of New England, he frequently said,
that if it should become a general opinion that
all persons, orthodox in judgment as to matters
of faith, and not scandalous in life, should be ad
mitted to partake of the Lord's Supper without
any examination concerning the work of saving
grace in their hearts, it would be a real apostasy
from former principles, and a degeneracy from
the reformation already attained. He was faith
ful and zealous in the discharge of the duties of
the sacred office. Besides his stated labors on
the Sabbath, he preached a monthly lecture upon
man's misery by sin, salvation by Christ, and holy
obedience, which was much attended by persons
from the neighboring towns. He published a
letter of counsel to his brother, 1664 ; an election
sermon, entitled, Nehemiah upon the wall in
troublesome times, 1667 ; a letter concerning the
subject of baptism, 1675; a discourse of the
glory to which God hath called believers by Jesus
Christ, printed London, reprinted Boston, 12mo.,
1721. — His Life, by C. Mather ; Magnolia, IV.
158-185; Hist. Soc. vn. 23, 27, 47-51.
MITCHELL, JOHN, M. D., F. R. S., a botanist
and physician, came from England to Virginia
about the year 1700. He died in 1772. His
residence was chiefly at Urbana, a small town on
the llappahanock, about 73 miles from Richmond.
He appears to have been a man of observation,
acuteness, and enterprise, as well as learning.
He wrote, in 1743, an essay on the causes of the
different colors of people in different climates,
which was published in the philosophical trans
actions, vol. XLIII. He attributes the difference
of the human complexion to the same causes
which have been assigned by Dr. Smith, to the
influence of climate and modes of life ; and he
thinks that the whites have degenerated more
from the original complexion in Noah and his
family, than the Indians, or even negroes. The
color of the descendants of Ham he considers a
blessing rather than a curse, as without it they
could not well inhabit Africa. He published also
an essay on the preparations and uses of the
various kinds of potash, in philosophical trans
actions, vol. XLV. ; a letter concerning the force
of electrical cohesion, in vol. LI. ; and a useful
work on the general principles of botany, con
taining descriptions of a number of new genera
of plants, 4to. 1769. It is believed that he was
also the author of the map of North America,
published in 1755, which was accompanied by a
large pamphlet, entitled, the contest in America,
and followed by another, entitled the present
state of Great Britain and North America, 1767.
His manuscripts on the yellow fever, as it appeared
in Virginia in 1742, fell into the hands of Dr.
Franklin, by whom they were communicated to
Dr. Rush. — Miller's Retrospect, I. 318; II. 367;
Timelier.
MITCHELL, JUSTUS, minister of New Canaan,
Conn., died in 1806, aged about 50. He gradu
ated at Yale in 1776, and was ordained in 1781.
— Sprague's Annals.
MITCHELL, DAVID, general, died in Juniata,
Cumberland county, Penn., May 25, 1818, aged
76. He was a soldier in Bouquet's campaign, in
1764, and a friend of the Indian chief Logan.
With the Indians he wras engaged in twenty-
seven actions. He fought also during the whole
Revolutionary war. For more than twenty years
he was a representative in the State legislature,
and twice an elector of president.
MITCHELL, AMMI R., a physician, the son of
Judge David Mitchell, died May 14, 1824, aged
62. He was born at North Yarmouth, Me., May
8, 1762. Having studied physic at Portsmouth,
when, at the close of the war, the America, a
seventy-four gun ship, was presented by congress
to the king of France, he accompanied Dr. Meau-
bec, the surgeon of the ship, to Brest, where he
enjoyed many advantages for improvement in
surgery. On his return he settled at North Yar
mouth, where he had extensive practice through
life. He was also an eminent Christian ; for
twenty-one years a deacon of the church. He
was found dead in the street, having been thrown
from his gig, as he was riding. He published
an eulogy on Washington, 1800; an address
on sacred music, 1812. — Cummings' Sermon ;
ThacJier.
MITCHELL, ALFRED, minister of Norwich,
Conn., the son of Judge Stephen Mix M., died
Dec. 19, 1831, aged 41. He was born at Wethers-
field, May 22, 1790; was graduated at Yale col
lege in 1809; and, having studied theology at
Andover, was ordained as the successor of Mr.
Hooker Oct. 27, 1814. He was a man of intel
lectual power, of firmness and zeal, yet modest
and retiring. Almost his last words were, "The
will of the Lord be done." He published several
occasional sermons. From the lines written on
his death by Mrs. Sigourney, who once attended
on his preaching, the following is an extract. She
had heard that one of his last expressions was,
" Am I so near my home ? "
" Pure spirits should not pass unmourn'd.
This earth is poor without them. — But a view
Of bettor climes broke o'er thee, and thy soul
Hose o'er its stricken tent with outspread wing
Of seraph rapture : for to reach a home,
Where is no rootless hope, no vain desire,
No film o'er faith's bright eye, for love no blight,
Is glorious gain. — Teacher and guide, farewell."
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MITCHELL, STEPHEN Mix, LL. D., an emi
nent lawyer, died in Wethcrsficld, Conn., Sept.
30, 1835, aged 91. He was born in "VVethcrsfield
Dec. 20, 1743, and graduated at Yale college in
1763. In 1779 he was appointed associate judge
of the Hartford county court, and in 1795 judge
of the superior court. From 1807 till 1814 he
was chief justice. In 1783 and 1785 he was
elected a member of congress, and senator from
1793 to 1795. His State was much indebted to
him for the establishment of her title to the
Western Reserve, in Ohio.
MITCHELL, DAVID B., general, governor of
Georgia from 1809 to 1813, died at Milledgeville
April 22, 1837, aged 71.
MITCHELL, COLBY C., missionary to Mosul,
died in June, 1841, on his journey to M., distant
five days' journey. In a few days afterwards Mrs.
Mitchell died at Mosul.
MITCHELL, NAHUM, judge, died at East
Bridgewater Aug. 1, 1853, aged 84. He was the
son of Gushing M., and a graduate of 1789 in
the class of Dr. Kirkland. He sustained various
offices ; was representative in congress, treasurer
of the State, chief justice of the court of common
pleas. He published a history of Bridgewater,
1840 ; and with B. Brown he edited a collection
of sacred music.
MITCHELL, SAMUEL LATHAM, M. D., LL. D.,
died in New York Sept. 8, 1831, aged 67. His
father, Robert, was a Quaker farmer on Long
Island, and, being adopted by his uncle, Dr. S.
Latham, he was Avell educated. After the close
of the war he studied medicine and natural his
tory in Edinburgh. He was appointed professor
of chemistry and natural history in Columbia
college. In a discourse before the historical
society, he gave an account of all books on Ameri
can botany. For several years he was a member
of congress and a senator. His practice was ex
tensive ; he was physician to the city hospital ;
with Dr. Smith he edited fourteen volumes of the-
medical repository. He published also life of
Tammany, the Indian chief, 8vo. 1795; remarks
on the gaseous oxyde of azote, 18mo. 1795; ob
servations on the geology of America ; picture of
New York, 12mo. 1807; description of Schooley's
mountain in New Jersey, 8vo. 1810; discourse
before the New York historical society, 1813. —
Williams1 Mcd. Biotj.
MIX, STEPHEN, minister of Wethersfield,
Conn., died in 1738, aged 66. Born in New
Haven, he graduated at Harvard in 1690, and
was ordained in 1694 as successor of J. Wood-
bridge. His successor was J. Lockwood.
MONCKTON, ROBERT, governor of New York
from 1762 to 1763, died in England, as governor
of Portsmouth, in 1782. In 1755 he was lieut.-
governor of Nova Scotia, and in the expedition
of Wolfe against Quebec, he served as brigadier-
general. He was succeeded by Sir H. Moore as
governor of New York.
MONETTE, JOHN W., M. D., died in Louisiana
March 1, 1851. He was the author of a history
of the discovery and settlement of the valley of
the Mississippi, 2 vols., 1848.
MONIS, JUDAII, the first Hebrew instructor in
Harvard college, died in 1764, aged 81. He was
a native of Italy, and after his arrival in this
country began his instructions about the year
1720. Though a Jew, he embraced the Christian
religion, and was publicly baptized at Cambridge
in 1722. After the death of his wife in 1761, he
resigned his office, which he had sustained for
about forty years, and retired to Northborough.
In that town he passed the remainder of his life
in the family of Rev. John Martyn, who had mar
ried a sister of his wife. He bequeathed 46
pounds to be divided among seven of the neigh
boring ministers, and 126 pounds as a fund, the
interest of which was to be given to the indigent
Avidows of ministers. He published truth, whole
truth, nothing but the truth, 1722; and a He
brew grammar, 4to. 1735.
MONRO, GEORGE, M. D., a physician, died
Oct. 11, 1819, aged 59. He was born at New
castle, Delaware, Feb. 22, 1760; his father,
George M., came from Scotland. At the close
of the war he was a surgeon in the army. On
the return of peace he spent three years in Lon
don and Edinburgh, and profited by the lectures
of Cullen, Gregory, Black, Home, Brown, and
Monro. He published at this period a Latin dis
sertation on Cynanche, which was commended by
Cullen. In 1786 he settled on his farm at St.
George's, Newcastle county; in 1793 he removed
to Wilmington, where he passed the remainder
of his life in extensive practice as a physician and
surgeon. He was an Infidel till about 1800, when
he publicly acknowledged his belief in Christian
ity, and joined the Presbyterian church, and ever
afterwards exhibited the virtues of an eminent
Christian. In all his habits he was simple. He
drank nothing but water. His strict economy
enabled him to be extensively charitable; his
charities prevented him from accumulating prop
erty. Of uniform piety, he was punctual in at
tending upon every religious ordinance. The
eternal welfare of his patients weighed upon his
heart ; he conversed with them on religion. His
bible was always open before him ; he relished
no Jaook, company, or employment, which was not
spiritual. He died of ossification of the heart.
His wife was Jemima, daughter of Col. John Haslet,
who fell in the battle of Princeton. — T/iacher.
MONROE, JAMES, president of the United
States, died July 4, 1831, aged 72. He was born
in 1758, on the Potomac, in Westmoreland county,
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MONROE.
Virginia, on the land of his ancestor, one of the
first patentees of the province. His father was
Spcnce, a mason. Having been educated at Wil
liam and Mary college, he in 1776 entered as a
cadet in the regiment commanded by Col. Mer
cer. Being appointed a lieutenant, he joined the
army of Washington, and was engaged in the
battles of Harlem Heights and White Plains. In
the attack on Trenton, Dec. 26, 1776, he was
wounded through the left shoulder, and for his
bravery was promoted to be a captain of infantry.
Being soon appointed aid to Lord Stirling, he
served as such in 1777 and 1778, and was en
gaged in the battles of Brandywine, Gcrmantown,
and Monmouth. In 1778 he proposed to raise a
regiment in Virginia, but, not being successful, he
engaged in the study of the law under Mr. Jef
ferson, yet rendered good military service in the
repulse of invasions. In 1780 he was military
commissioner for Virginia, and visited the south
ern army under De Kalb. In 1782 he was elected
from King George county to the assembly ; the
next year, at the age of twenty-four, he was a
member of congress. His enlarged views at this
period were evinced by his proposition, in 1786,
which, however, was not adopted, to vest congress
with power to regulate trade with all the States.
Having served three years, he returned home in
1786. In the mean time he had married a beau
tiful young lady, whose person and conversation
had attracted much notice in Paris and London.
In 1788 he was a member of the convention of
Virginia, which considered the constitution of the
United States, — an assembly of illustrious and
eloquent men, never equalled in any State. From
1790 to 1794 he was a senator of the United
States. Washington sent him in 1794 as minister
plenipotentiary to France. He was recalled in
1797. As he had been severely censured in a
letter of Mr. Pickering, the secretary of State,
of June 13, 1796, for not vindicating at the
French court the British treaty, he published on
his return the whole of his correspondence, with
one hundred pages of preliminary observations.
He was attached to the republican party as con
tradistinguished from the federalists. From 1799
to 1802 he was governor of Virginia. When Mr.
Livingston was resident minister at Paris, he was
appointed to join him as envoy extraordinary in
1802, for the purchase of Louisiana. This ser
vice having been performed, he repaired in 1803
to London as successor of Mr. King, minister at
the British court. In 1805 he assisted Mr.
Charles Pinckney in a negotiation in Spain, and
then returned to London, where he remained two
or three years, occupied in important duties. He
remonstrated against the seizure of vessels undei
the orders in council. With Wm. Pinkney he
negotiated a commercial treaty with Great Britain
which Mr. Jefferson rejected, because it did not
MONTCALM.
provide against impressment. After an absence
of five years, returning home in 1808, he passed
the two next years on his farm in Albemarlc
county. In 1811 he was again elected governor
of Virginia. Mr. Madison nominated him as
secretary of State, as successor of 11. Smith, Nov.
25, 1811, and he remained in office till 1817,
being also secretary at war as successor of J.
Armstrong, from Sept. 27, 1814, to March 2, 1815,
when Mr. Crawford was appointed. Being elected
the fifth president of the United States, he com
menced his administration March 4, 1817, and,
being subsequently re-elected, with only one dis
senting vote, continued in his high office eight
years, till 1825. His wife, the daughter of Law
rence Kortvvright, died in Virginia at Oak Hill,
his residence, in Loudoun county, Sept. 23, 1830.
He died July 4, 1831. It was remarkable that
Adams and Jefferson also died July the fourth,
] 826. He left no son ; one daughter married
Judge George Hay of Richmond, and was left a
widow in Sept., 1 830 ; another married Samuel
L. Gouvcrneur of New York, at whose house Mr.
Monroe died. He was an attendant on the Epis
copalian worship. Mr. Monroe possessed a very
determined spirit and was distinguished for un
wearied industry. There was much energy in
the measures of his administration : the army
and navy were strengthened ; surveys and plans
of fortifications were made ; a cession of Florida
from Spain was obtained ; the independent States
of South America Avere recognized ; and the bold
declaration was made to the world, that an inter
ference of European powers in respect to those
States would not be tolerated. Vigorous efforts
were also made for the suppression of the slave
trade; the pension for the Revolutionary soldiers
was voted ; and the generous La Fayette received
from the United States the just acknowledgment
of his services in promoting the establishment of
American liberty. Though in the course of his
life he had received from the public treasury for
his services 358,000 dollars, he retired from the
office of presidency deep in debt. He was, how
ever, at last relieved by the adjustment by con
gress of his claims, founded chiefly on the dis
bursements made during the war.
MONSON, ^LxEAS, Dr., died at New Haven
Aug. 22, 1852, aged 89, then the oldest graduate
of Yale, in 1780. In the American army he was
an assistant surgeon. Afterwards he was a mer
chant, and president of several banks.
MONTCALM, Louis JOSEPH DE, marquis of
St. Veran, a distinguished French general, was
born of a noble family at Candiac in 1712, and
entered early in the army. He commanded with
reputation in Italy, Bohemia, and Germany. In
1756 he became a field-marshal, and was sent to
Canada, where he succeeded Dieskau. He soon
took Oswego ; and in 1757 fort William Henry ;
MONTEFIORE.
and in 1758 he repulsed Abercrombie with much
slaughter from the walls of Ticonderoga. When
Wolfe in his attack on Quebec had gained the
plains of Abraham, Sept. 13, 1759, Montcalm
resolved upon a battle, and accordingly marched
out. The commanders of the two armies both
fell, equally illustrious for bravery, and both occu
pied by the event of the battle at the moment
they were about to exchange time for eternity.
The former rejoiced that he should die in the
arms of victory, and the latter that he should not
survive the surrender of Quebec. — Wynne, n.
125, 141 ; Marshall, I. 407, 414, 450, 45G-4G4.
MONTE FIOHE, JOSHUA, died in St. Albans,
Vt., June 26, 1843, aged 81. He was a native of
London, and had vigorous health all his days ;
he never used glasses. He published commer
cial dictionary, commercial precedents, on the
bankrupt laws, and other works.
MONTGOMERY, RICHARD, a major-general
in the army of the United States, died Dec. 31,
1775, aged 38. He was born in the north of
Ireland in the year 1737. He possessed an ex
cellent genius, which was matured by a good
education. Entering the army of Great Britain,
he successfully fought her battles with Wolfe at
Quebec in 1759, and on the very spot where he
was doomed to fall, when fighting against her
under the banners of freedom. After his return
to England he quitted his regiment in 1772,
though in a fair way to preferment. He had im
bibed an attachment to America, viewing it as the
rising seat of arts and freedom. After his arri
val in this country he purchased an estate in New
York about a hundred miles from the city, and
married a daughter of Judge Livingston. He
now considered himself as an American. When
the struggle with Great Britain commenced, as
he was known to have an ardent attachment to
liberty, and had expressed his readiness to draw
his sword on the side of the colonies, the com
mand of the continental forces in the northern
department was intrusted to him and General
Schuyler in the fall of 1775. By the indisposition
of Schuyler the chief command devolved upon
him in October. He reduced fort Chamblee, and,
November 3d, captured St. Johns. On the 12th
he took Montreal. In December he joined Ar
nold and marched to Quebec. The city was be
sieged, and on the last day of the year it was
determined to make an assault. The several
divisions were accordingly put in motion in the
midst of a heavy fall of snow, which concealed
them from the enemy. Montgomery advanced
at the head of the New York troops along the
St. Lawrence, and, approaching one of the bar
riers, he was pushing forwards, when one of the
guns of the battery was discharged, and he was
killed with his two aids. This was the only gun
that was fired, for the enemy had been struck
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with consternation, and all but one or two had
fled. But this event probably prevented the cap
ture of Quebec. When he fell, Montgomery was
in a narrow passage, and his body rolled upon
the ice which formed by the side of the river.
After it was found the next morning among the
slain, it was buried by a few soldiers without any
marks of distinction. In his person he was tall
and slender, genteel and graceful. He was a
man of great military talents, whose measures
were taken with judgment and executed with
vigor. With undisciplined troops, who were jeal
ous of him in the extreme, he yet inspired them
with his own enthusiasm. He shared with them
in all their hardships, and thus prevented their
complaints. His industry could not be wearied,
nor his vigilance imposed upon, nor his courage
intimidated. Above the pride of opinion, when
a measure was adopted by the majority, though
contrary to his own judgment, he gave it his full
support. By the direction of congress, a monu
ment of white marble of the most beautiful sim
plicity, with emblematical devices, was executed
by Mr. Cassiers at Paris, and it is erected to his
memory in front of St. Paul's church, New York.
His remains, in consequence of an act of the leg
islature of New York, were taken up by his
nephew, Col. L. Livingston, in June, 1818, — the
place of burial being pointed out by an old sol
dier, who attended the funeral forty-two years
before, — and conveyed to New York, where they
were again committed to the dust in St. Paul's
church with the highest civil and military honors.
His widow was then alive. His life was writ
ten by Armstrong. — Smith's Oration on Ms
Death; Marshall, II. 302-311; Warren, I. 259-
268, 431.
MONTGOMERY, JAMES, D. D., an Episcopal
minister at Philadelphia, died in 1834, aged 46.
MONTGOMERY, WILLIAM B., missionary
among the Osages, died of the cholera at the
Hopeficld settlement Aug. 17, 1834. A native
of Danville, Penn., he was in the first family sent
by the united foreign missionary society to the
Osages of the Missouri, proceeding by the way
of the great rivers from Pittsburg in 1821. He
died triumphantly, saying, " Can it be, that in
less than twenty-four hours I shall be walking
the streets of the New Jerusalem ? I know in
whom I have believed." His wife, Harriet Wool-
ley of New* York, died Sept. 5, 1834. He had
reduced the Osage language to writing, and trans
lated various portions of Scripture. Plis book
was printed at Boston about the time of his death.
MONTGOMERY, GEORGE W., died at Wash
ington, being a clerk in the department of State,
June, 1841. Born in Spain of an Irish family,
he came early to this country, and died in the
prime of life. He published an historical novel,
Bernardo del Carpeo, and translated into Spanish
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Irving's conquest of Granada. He also published
a narrative of a journey to Guatemala, and vari
ous pieces in the journals.
MOODY, JOSHUA, minister of Portsmouth,
N. II., died July 4, 1697, aged 64. He was born
in England in 1633. His father, William, one
of the early settlers of Newbury, came to this
country in 1631. He was graduated at Harvard
college in 1653. He began to preach at Ports
mouth about the year 1658, but was not ordained
till 1671. In the year 1683, when Cranfield was
governor, one of the members of Mr. Moocly's
church was guilty of perjury in relation to a ves
sel sent out of the harbor ; but he found means
to settle the affair with the governor and collec
tor. The faithful minister of the gospel however
believed that a regard to the purity and reputa
tion of the church rendered it necessary that a
notorious offence should be the subject of eccle
siastical discipline. The governor, when called
upon, refused to furnish the evidence of the man's
perjury, and even threatened Mr. Moody if he
proceeded. But the servant of Jesus Christ was
not to be intimidated. He preached against false
swearing ; he called the offender to an account ;
and even obliged him to make a public confes
sion. Cranfield, in revenge, issued an order re
quiring the ministers to admit all persons of
suitable years and not vicious, to the Lord's Sup
per, from the first of January, 1684, under the
penalty of the statutes of uniformity. He at the
same time signified to Mr. Moody his intention
of partaking the Supper on the next Sunday, and
requiring him to administer it according to the
liturgy. As Mr. Moody refused to administer
the ordinance to an unworthy applicant, a prose
cution was immediately commenced against him,
and he was sentenced to six months' imprison
ment without bail or mainprize. Two of the
judges, who dissented from this sentence, were
removed from their offices. At length, by the
interposition of friends, he obtained a release,
though under a strict charge to preach no more
within the province. He then accepted of an in
vitation from the first church in Boston to be an
assistant minister, and was so highly esteemed
that upon the death of President Rogers he was
invited to take the oversight of the college ; but
he declined. In the days of the witchcraft de
lusion, in 1692, he manfully resisted the unjust
and violent measures towards the imagined of
fenders. Particularly when Philip English, a
merchant of Salem, was accused, with his wife,
and both were imprisoned in Boston. Just before
the appointed time of trial Mr. Moody preached
from the text, " If they persecute you in one city,
flee to another," and provided for their flight to
New York, by which means they escaped a trial
and probable condemnation. His zeal against
this wretched delusion occasioned, however, his
' dismission from the church where he was preach-
I ing. In the following year he returned to Ports-
| mouth, where he spent the rest of his life in use
fulness and peace. On the approach of his last
sickness, he went for advice to Boston, where he
died. His son, Samuel, a graduate of 1689, was
a preacher at New Castle, N. II. He was suc
ceeded by Mr. Rogers. Though he was deeply
impressed with his unworthiness of the divine
mercy ; yet he indulged the hope of glory, and
was desirous of entering into the presence of the
Redeemer, whom he had served in his gospel.
He wrote upwards of four thousand sermons.
He published a practical discourse concerning
the choice benefit of communion with God in his
house, being the sum of several sermons, 12mo.,
1685 ; reprinted, 1746 ; an election sermon,
1692. — C. Mather's Funeral Sermon; Mag
nolia, iv. 192-199.
MOODY, SAMUEL, minister of York in the
district of Maine, died Nov. 13/1747, aged 70.
[ He was the son of Caleb M. in Newbury, and
grandson of William M. ; was born Jan. 4, 1676,
and graduated at Harvard college in 1697. He
was ordained Dec. 29, 1700, as successor of Shu-
bael Dummer, who was killed by the Indians, and
was succeeded by Mr. Lyman. His son, Joseph
Moody, the first minister of the north church in
York, died March 20, 1753, aged 52, leaving a
son, Samuel, who after being thirty years the dis
tinguished preceptor of Dummer academy, died
at Exeter Dec. 17, 1795, aged 69. He had many
eccentricities in his conduct ; but he was eminent
for piety, and was a remarkably useful minister
of the gospel. In his younger years he often
preached beyond the limits of his own parish,
and wherever he went, the people hung upon his
lips. In one of his excursions he went as far as
Providence, where his exertions were the means
of laying the foundation of a church. Though a
zealous friend to the revival of religion which
occurred throughout the country a short time
before his death, yet he gave no countenance to
separations. Such was the sanctity of his char
acter, that it impressed the irreligious with awe.
To piety he united uncommon benevolence.
While with importunate earnestness he pleaded
the cause of the poor, he was very charitable
himself. It was by his own choice, that he de
rived his support from a free contribution, rather
than a fixed salary in the usual way. In one of
his sermons, he mentions that he had been sup
ported twenty years in a way most pleasing to
him, and had been under no necessity of spend
ing one hour in a week in care for the world.
Yet he was sometimes reduced almost to want,
though his confidence in the kind providence of
God never failed him. Some remarkable in
stances of answers to his prayers, and of corre
spondences between the event and his faith, are
MOODY.
not yet forgotten in York. The hour of dinner
once came, and his table was un supplied with
provisions ; but he insisted upon having the cloth
laid, saying to his wife, he was confident that they
should be furnished by the bounty of God. At
this moment some one rapped at the door, and
presented a ready cooked dinner. It was sent
by persons who on that day had made an enter
tainment, and who knew the poverty of Mr.
Moody. He was an irritable man, though he
was constantly watchful against this infirmity.
He once went into a tavern, and among a number
of gamblers found a member of 'his church. In
his indignation he seized hold of him, and cast
him out at the door. In one of his sermons the
doctrine, which he drew from his text, and which
was the foundation of his discourse, was this :
" When you know not what to do, you must not
do you know not what." He published the dole
ful state of the damned, especially of such as go
to hell from under the gospel, 1710 ; Judas hung
up in chains, 1714; election sermon, 1721; a
summary account of the life and death of Joseph
Quasson, an Indian. — Sullivan's Maine, 238 ;
a Funeral Sermon on Moody.
MOODY, SAMUEL, Dr., died at Brunswick,
Me., in 1758, while in command of fort George.
He was the son of Rev. S. M. of Newcastle. He
was at first a surgeon in the army in 1722, and
lived at Portland.
MOODY, JOSEPH, minister of the north church
in York, Me., died in 1753, aged 53. The son of
Rev. Samuel M., he graduated at Harvard in
1718; and then for years was register of deeds
and judge of a court. He became the minister
of a new church about 1732 ; but after the death
of his wife he fell into a deep melancholy, and
wore a handkerchief over his face, for which rea
son he was called Handkerchief Moody. Yet in
all his gloom he had some gleams of wit. He
boarded with his deacon, who was of a hasty tem
per, and who one day asked him to pray for a
neighbor, chargeable with some fault, " who had
got terribly out of the way." Mr. Moody asked,
whether he might not possibly share in the blame ?
" No, no, no," cried the deacon. " If I thought
I did, I would take my horse and ride fifty miles
on end." — " Ah," said Mr. M., " I believe, Dea
con Bragdon, it would take a pretty good horse
to outride the devil ! " Mr. M. was respected for
his abilities and Christian virtues. He published
several religious tracts. — Sprague's Annals ;
Sketches of the Moody Family.
MOODY, JOSHUA, a minister and teacher, died
at Newburyport in 1768, aged 82. Born in Sal
isbury, Mass., he graduated at Harvard in 1707,
and was soon ordained as a preacher for the Isle
of Shoals ; which place he left in 1733, and set-
tied as a schoolmaster at Hampton, then at
Njwburyport. Once, as a fishing shallop had
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been lost in a northeast storm in Ipswich bay, he
endeavored to impress this event upon his sea
faring hearers at the Shoals in this way : " Sup
pose, my brethren, any of you should be taken
short in the bay in a northeast storm, your hearts
trembling with fear, and nothing but death before
you ; whither would your thoughts turn, and what
would you do ?"— " What would I do ? " replied
one of the hardy seamen, " why, I would in
stantly hoist the foresail and scud away for
Squam."
MOODY, JOHN, first minister of Newmarket,
N. H., died hi 1778, aged 73. Born in Byfield
parish, Newbury, Mass., he graduated at Har
vard in 1727, and was settled in 1730.
MOODY, SAMUEL, an eminent teacher, died
in Dec., 1795, aged G9. He was the son of Rev.
J. Moody of York, born in 1726, graduated in
1746, and commenced the business of teaching
in York, but was soon called to take charge of
the academy in Newbury, founded by Governor
Dummer. His fame as a teacher drew many
pupils, and he toiled successfully nearly thirty
years, till his infirmities caused him to retire
from his field of labor. Many distinguished men
were the pupils of Master Moody. He was con
scientious, faithful, a man of piety and religion. —
C. C. P. Moody 's Sketches oftlie Moody Family^.
MOODY, BENJAMIN, a very eminent Christian,
adorned with all the virtues, died at Newburyport
in 1802, aged 81. His character was described
by his pastor, Dr. Dana, in a funeral sermon.
MOODY, SILAS, minister of Arundel, Maine,
died in 1816, aged 74. He was of the fourth
descent from William, who came from England ;
born in Newbury, the son of William ; graduated
at Harvard in 1771 ; and was ordained at Arun
del, now Kennebunkport, in 1771. He was an
excellent minister. He published a sermon on
the death of Washington.
MOODY, AMOS, minister of Pelham, N. H.,
died in 1819, aged 79. Born in Newbury, Mass.,
he graduated at Harvard in 1759 ; was settled in
1765; and dismissed in 1792. Dr. Church was
his successor.
MOODY, PAUL, a memorable man in the his
tory of cotton-spinning, died at Lowell in 1831,
aged 52. He was the son of Paul of Byfield.
lie had the charge of the Waltham cotton com
pany about 1813 or 1814, and made several im
portant inventions, as the dead spindle, the
governor, and others. About 1824 he was trans
ferred as superintendent to Lowell. — Sketches
of the Moody Family.
MOODY, LEMUEL, captain, died at Portland,
Maine, August 11, 1846, aged 79; his father
came from Newbury. He was active in erecting
the observatory. He published in 1825 a valua
ble chart of Casco bay.
MOODY, ANSON, M. D., worthy of honorable
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remembrance, died in New Haven Feb. 11, 1855,
aged 63 ; a victim to the ship fever, contracted in
the faithful discharge of his duty.
MOOERS, BENJAMIN, general, died at Platts-
burgh Feb. 20, 1838, aged 80. He was a soldier
of the Revolution, and settled in the wilderness
of New York in 1783. He held the rank of
major-general, and commanded at the siege of
Pittsburgh.
MOOR, MoRDECAl, died in Clinton, Maine, in
1840, aged 103. He served in the French Avar.
MOORE, JAMES, governor of South Carolina
in 1700 to 1703, and in 1719, undertook an un
successful and costly expedition against Florida.
The expense occasioned the first issue of paper
money under the name of bills of credit.
MOORE, ALEXANDER, Dr., died at Borden-
town, N. J., Aug. 30, 1785, aged 74. He had
been nearly forty years in practice, a man of skill
and of a cheerful temper.
MOORE, ABRAHAM, minister in Newbury,
Mass., died in 1801, aged 33. Born in London
derry, he graduated at Dartmouth in 1789, and
was ordained in 1796.
MOORE, HANNAH, died in Effingham county,
Virginia, May 25, 1802, aged 111 years.
MOORE, JOHN, colonel, died at Noi-ridgc-
wock, Maine, in 1809, aged 77. lie commanded
on the left of the troops at the battle of Bunker
Hill.
MOORE, ALFRED, judge of the supreme court
of the United States, died at Belfont, N. C., in
1810, aged 55. He was a native of North Caro
lina and a patriot of the Revolution. He was a
captain in a Carolina regiment at the age of
nineteen, and sacrificed a great portion of his
ample fortune in the cause of his country. After
the peace he studied law, and in his profession
was the rival of Davie and acquired a large for
tune. He succeeded Mr. Iredcll as judge in
1800, but resigned the office in 1805.
MOORE, BENJAMIN, D. D., bishop of New
York, died at Greenwich Feb. 27, 1816, aged 67.
He was born at Newtown, Long Island, Oct. 16,
1748, and educated at King's college, New York.
His father was Samuel M., a farmer. He was
chosen the rector of. Trinity church in 1800; was
president of Columbia college from 1801 to 1811 ;
and was for some years a bishop. He was suc
ceeded by Bishop Hobart. He published a ser
mon before the convention, 1804 ; on disobedience,
in American preacher, vol. I. ; iniquity its own
accuser, in vol. II.
MOORE, WILLIAM, M. D., a physician, brother
of the preceding, died in 1824, aged 70. He
was born at Newtown, Long Island, in 1754. In
1778 he went to Europe for his medical education.
For more than forty years he was in extensive
practice in New York, and highly respected for
his virtues and religion. He published various
papers in the American medical register, the
repository, and in the New York journal. —
Thacher.
MOORE, JACOB BAILEY, Dr., a surgeon in
the army, died in 1813, aged 40. He was of
a Scotch family, who settled at Georgetown, Me.;
his father was a physician and a surgeon in a na
tional vessel. He followed his father's profession
in Andover, N. H., from 1796 until the war of
1812, when he entered the army. He was skilled
in music, and wrote songs. Some of his musical
compositions are in Ilolyoke's repository. — Cycl.
of Amer. Lit.
MOORE, JONATHAN, third minister of Roches
ter, Mass., died in 1814, aged 75. Born at Ox
ford, Mass., he graduated at Harvard in 1761;
was settled in 1768 ; and resigned in 1792. Dr.
Cobb was settled in 1799.
MOORE, ZEPHANIAH SWIFT, D. D., president
of Williams college and first president of Amherst
college, died June 30, 1823, aged 52. He was
born at Palmer, Mass., Nov. 20, 1770 ; was grad
uated at Dartmouth college in 1793 ; and was
the minister of Leicester from 1798 till 1811,
when he was appointed professor of languages in
Dartmouth college. In September, 1815, he was
chosen president of Williams college. Having
co-operated in the ineffectual attempt to remove
this college to Hampshire county, his situation
was rendered unpleasant at Williamstown ; so
that when the collegiate seminary was established
at Amherst in 1821, and before it was incorpo
rated as a college, he was invited to preside over
it. He died of the cholera at Amherst. His wife
was the daughter of Thomas Drury of Ward.
He published a sermon at the ordination of Mr.
Cotton at Palmer, 1811; at the election, 1818;
at ordination of L. P. Bates, 1823.
MOORE, ELIZABETH, Mrs., died in Pitt county,
North Carolina, in 1833, aged 100.
MOORE, HUGH, a printer, died at Amhcrst,
N. II., in 1837, aged 28. He was editor of the
Burlington Sentinel. — Cycl. of Amer. Lit.
MOORE, HENRY E., son of Dr. Jacob B. M.,
died at East Cambridge, Nass., in 1841, aged 38.
He served as a printer with Isaac Hill ; published
in 1825 the Grafton Journal, at Plymouth, N. II. ;
and then soon devoted his whole attention to
music. He published the musical catechism ;
collection of instrumental music ; also of church
music ; the choir ; the northern harp ; anthems,
etc.
MOORE, JAMES, M. D.,Rev., of Grand Bassa
in Africa, died on his Avay to the United States
in 1851. A slave in America, by his industry he
was enabled to purchase himself and family.
Living with a physician in Washington, he ac
quired much knowledge of medicines and was
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assistant physician to the African colony. lie
was a member of the Methodist church and a
preacher.
MOORE, JACOB B., printer and editor, died
Sept. 1, 1853, aged 56. He was the son of Dr.
Moore of Andover, N. II. In 1818 and after
wards he was a partner with Isaac Hill at Con
cord, in the printing and bookselling business.
He became an able political writer, and gave
much attention to the history and antiquities of
New England, assisting Mr. J. Farmer in his
works. He established the New Hampshire
Statesman. Receiving an appointment in the
general post-office department, he removed to
Washington. Afterwards he was at New York,
librarian of the historical society. On the elec
tion of President Taylor he was sent to California
in charge of the post-office department. By his
great labors his health was broken down, and
twice was he obliged to return to New England.
He died at Bellows Falls, Vt. The present libra
rian of the New York historical society is his son.
His sister married Dr. Thomas Brown, who died
of the cholera at Manchester in August, 1849,
himself a leader in the temperance cause. Mr.
M. was a man of great intelligence and industry,
and of great urbanity of manners. He published
a history of Andover, and of Concord ; and, with
Dr. Farmer, historical collections, and a gazetteer
of New Hampshire; the laws of trade in the
United States, 1840. — Cycl. ofAmer. Lit.
MOORE, SAMUEL, died at Albion, Maine, Oct.
21, 1854, aged nearly 106.
MOORE, DAVID, D. D., died at Richmond,
New York, Sept. 30, 1856, aged 69, rector for
forty-eight years of St. Andrews church, Staten
Island. lie was the eldest son of Richard Chan-
ning Moore, D. D., late bishop of Virginia.
MOORHEAD, JOHN, minister in Boston, died
Dec. 2, 1773, aged 70. He was born near Bel
fast in Ireland about the year 1703, and com
pleted his education at one of the universities of
Scotland. He arrived at Boston in 1729 or 1730,
being invited to become the minister of some
emigrants from the north of Ireland, who had
sought in that town the peaceable enjoyment of
civil and religious liberty. The first meeting for
the election of elders was held July 14, 1730,
and the church was formed according to the
model of the Presbyterian church of Scotland.
He devoted himself entirely to his benevolent
work, and such was the success of his labors, and
the accession of foreign Protestants, that the
communicants in 1736 were about two hundred
and fifty. His successor was Robert Annan. He
visited once or twice in the year all the families
of his congregation, for the purpose of imparting
religious instruction, and he concluded his visit
with prayer, which he always performed upon his
knees. Keeping the great object of the ministry
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continually in view, he was unwearied in his en
deavors to promote the edification and salvation
of his people. His mind was not destitute of
strength, his imagination was lively, and his man
ner was solemn, affectionate, and pathetic. —
Panoplist, II. 393-396.
MOREHEAD, JAMES T., governor of Ken
tucky, died at Covington Dec. 28, 1854, aged 58.
He was a lawyer, and held various offices ; was
governor in 1834, and an eminent senator of the
United States from 1841 to 1847.
MORELL, WILLIAM, a poet, accompanied Rob
ert Gorges to this country in Sept., 1633, with a
commission to superintend the ecclesiastical con
cerns of New England. But, as Gorges failed in
his plan of a general government, Morell had no
opportunity to act under his commission. He
lived about a year at Weymouth and Plymouth,
and then returned. The result of his observa
tions on the country, the Indians, etc., he wrought
into a poem, which he published in Latin and
English. It is printed in the historical collec
tions, I. The following is a specimen :
" A grand child to earth's paradise is born,
Well limb'd, well uerv'd, fair, rich, sweet, yet forlorn;
Thou blest director, so direct my verse
That it may win her people, friends, commerce;
Whilst her sweet air, rich soil, blest seas, my pen
Shall blaze, and tell the natures of her men."
MORELL, GEORGE, chief justice of Michigan,
died at Detroit in 1845, aged 59. Born in Lenox,
Mass., he graduated at Williams' college.
MOREY, GEORGE, died in Aug., 1829, aged
79, in the 46th year of his ministry, at Walpole,
Mass. He was a graduate of Harvard in 1776.
MOREY, SAMUEL, M. D., died in Norton,
Mass., in 1836, aged 79, an excellent physician.
He was a graduate of Yale in 1777, and a sur
geon in the army ; at last, for his services he re
ceived a pension.
MORGAN, ABEL, Baptist minister of Pen-
nepek, Penn., was born in Wales in 1637, and
came to this country in 1711. He died Dec. 16,
1722. He compiled a folio concordance to the
Welch Bible, printed at Philadelphia ; and also
translated " century confession " into Welch, with
additions. — Benedict, I. 583.
MORGAN, JOHN, M. D., F. R. S., a learned
physician, died in 1789, aged 53. He was born
in Philadelphia in 1735. When he had com
pleted the study of physic under the care of Dr.
Redman, he entered into the service of his coun
try as a surgeon and lieutenant with the provin
cial troops in the last war which was carried on
against the French in America. He acquired
both skill and reputation as a surgeon in the
army. In the year 1760 he went to Europe to
prosecute his studies in medicine. After attend
ing the lectures of William Hunter, he spent two
years at Edinburgh, where he received the in-
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structions of Monro, Cullen, Rutherford, Whyt,
and Hope. lie then published an elaborate
thesis upon the formation of pus, and was ad
mitted to the degree of doctor of medicine.
From Edinburgh he went to Paris. lie also vis
ited Holland and Italy. During his absence he
concerted with Dr. Shippen the plan of a medical
school in Philadelphia, and on his arrival in 1765
was immediately elected professor of the theory
and practice of medicine in the college of that
city. He soon delivered his plan for connecting
a medical school with the college. In 17G9 he
saw the fruits of his labors, for in that year five
young gentlemen received the first honors in
medicine that were conferred in America. He
was active in establishing the American philo
sophical society in 17G9. In 1773 he went to
Jamaica to solicit benefactions for the advance
ment of general literature in the college. In
Oct., 1775, he was appointed by congress director
general and physician-in-chief to the general hos
pital of the American army, in the place of Dr.
Church. He immediately repaired to Cambridge ;
but in 1777 he was removed from his office with
out an opportunity to vindicate himself. The dis
sensions between the surgeons of the general
hospital and of the regiments, and other circum
stances, gave rise to calumnies against him.
After his removal he presented himself before a
committee of congress, appointed by his request,
and was honorably acquitted. His successor in
the professor's chair was Dr. Rush. He published
tentamen modicum de puris confectione, 17G3; a
discourse upon the institution of medical schools
in America, 1765 ; four dissertations on the re
ciprocal advantages of a perpetual union between
Great Britain and her American colonies, 1766 ;
a recommendation of inoculation, 1776; a vindi
cation of his public character in the station of
director-general. — Rush's Address, etc. ; Ameri
can Museum, vi. 353-355.
MORGAN, DANIEL, brigadier-general, a dis
tinguished officer of the Revolution, died July 6,
1802, aged 65. He was born in New Jersey in
1737. At the age of eighteen he emigrated to
Virginia, in 1755, and being without property,
dependent on his daily labor, he obtained em
ployment from farmer Roberts of Berkeley co.,
now Jefferson. Afterwards he was engaged to
drive a wagon for J. Ashley, who lived on Shenan-
doah river, in Frederic county. At last he be
came the owner of a wagon and horses, and was
employed by J. Ballantine on Occoquan creek.
A British writer mentioned it as a matter of
reproach, that Gen. Morgan was once a wag
oner. He shared in the perils of Braddock's
expedition against the Indians, probably as a
wagoner, and was wounded by a bullet through
his neck and cheek. It is said, also,-that in this
campaign he was unjustly punished on the charge
of contumely to an officer, and received five hun
dred lashes. From the age of twenty to that of
thirty he was dissipated, a frequenter of tippling
and gambling houses, and often engaged in pugi
listic combats, at Berrystown, a small village in
Frederic county. From this degradation he rose
to usefulness and honor as a soldier. In civil life
he might also have been distinguished, had he
sought to educate himself. The profits of his
business as a wagoner enabled him to buy a tract
of land in Frederic, on which he built a house,
and where he lived at the commencement of the
Revolutionary war. Soon after the battle of
Lexington he was appointed a captain by con
gress, June 22, 1775, and directed to raise a
company of riflemen and march to Boston. Re
cruiting very soon ninety-six men, he arrived at
Boston after a march of twenty-one days. In
Sept., he was detached in the expedition against
Quebec, and marched with Arnold through the
wilderness of Maine. In the attack on the city
of Quebec, Dec. 31, 1775, he was with the party
which attacked on the northerly side, along the
St. Charles. Arnold being wounded, Morgan
and his riflemen assaulted the battery of two guns
at the west angle of the town, in a street called,
not Saint des Matelots, as Marshall says, but
Sault au Matelot, or sailor's leap ; and, firing into
the embrasures, and mounting the barricade by
ladders, soon carried the battery. Col. Green,
who commanded, marched about daylight to at
tack the second barrier, which was just around
the angle of the town. But this attack was in
effectual, , as the enemy fired from the stone houses
on each side of the street as well as from the
port-holes, besides pouring over grape-shot from
a cannon on a high platform within the barrier.
In the rear also there was a strong force to pre
vent their retreat. Morgan and the survivors
were taken prisoners. After his exchange he re
joined the army, and was appointed to the com
mand of a regiment. Being sent to the assistance
of Gen. Gates, he contributed to the capture of
Burgoyne, though Gates neglected to speak of
his merit. He afterwards served under Gates
and Greene in the campaign at the south. With
admirable skill and bravery he defeated Tarleton
in the battle of the Cowpens, Jan. 17, 1781, tak
ing upwards of five hundred prisoners. For this
action congress voted him a golden medal. Soon
afterwards he retired from the army, and returned
to his farm. In the whiskey insurrection in 1794,
Washington summoned him to command the
militia of Virginia. He afterwards was elected a
member of congress. In July, 1799, he pub
lished an address to his constituents, vindicating
the administration of Mr. Adams. His health
declining, he removed from his residence, called
Saratoga, to a farm near Berrysville, and after a
few years to Winchester. Gen. Lee says, that no
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mrm hotter loved this world, and no man more
reluctantly quitted it. In his last years he mani
fested great penitence for the follies of his early
life, and became a member of the Presbyterian
church of Winchester. lie died after a long
and distressing sickness. His son was a captain
in the northern army in 1812. — He was stout
and active, six feet in height, fitted for the toils
of war. In his military command he was indul
gent. His manners were plain, and his conver
sation grave and sententious. Reflecting deeply,
his judgment was solid, and what he undertook
he executed with unshaken courage and perse
verance. J. Graham's life of Morgan was pub
lished in 1856.
MORGAN, WILLIAM, doctor, died at Charles
ton, S. C., in July, 1809.
MORGAN, SOLOMON, minister in Canaan,
Conn., died in 1809, aged 59. Born in Canter
bury, he was not educated at college. lie was
ordained in 1799, over the second parish; was
dismissed in 1804; and had a lingering sickness.
MORGAN, JOHN, general, a soldier of the
Revolution, died at Philadelphia in May, 1817.
Major-general James Morgan died at South Am-
boy, N. J., in 1822, aged G6.
MORGAN, WILLIAM, captain, a victim of free
masonry, died Sept. 19, 1826. He was born in
Culpepper co., Va., about 1775. He fought in the
battle of New Orleans under Gen. Jackson, Jan. 8,
1815. In Oct., 1819, he married Lucinda Pendle-
ton of Richmond, Va. In 1821 he removed to York,
Upper Canada, where he commenced the business
of a brewer; but, his buildings being destroyed
by fire, he removed to Rochester, and then to
Batavia, in the State of New York. His trade
was that of a mason. Having resolved to pub
lish a book, disclosing the ridiculous secrets of
free-masonry, and his intentions being known, the
free-masons resolved to suppress the book, and to
punish him for his anti-masonic conduct. lie
was first thrown into prison at Canandaigua for.
an alleged debt ; a free-mason paid the debt, and,
taking him out of the prison, placed him in a
carriage at the door, Sept. 11, 1826; and, thus
attended and guarded by a sufficient number of
free-masons, he was conveyed eighty or ninety
miles to Fort Niagara, commanded by Col. King,
a free-mason. After being confined a few days,
he was removed from the fort, and has never been
seen since that time. The evidence elicited has
put it beyond a doubt that he was murdered by
free-masons in the night, and his body was prob
ably sunk in the Niagara river. This murder
was the consequence of the masonic oaths, the
result of the principles of free-masonry; and
many masons, in various places, have justified the
deed. Capt. Morgan was a royal arch mason,
being the seventh degree, and he had taken seven
oaths, binding himself not to reveal any of the
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secrets of masonry, under penalty of "having his
throat cut across, his tongue torn out by the
roots," and having " his left breast torn open, his
heart and vitals taken from thence and thrown
over his left shoulder," and other penalties of
similar horror. In the execution of these penal
ties Morgan was doubtless murdered by free
masons. Such an event as the abduction and
murder of a fellow citizen for merely exposing
the imposture of free-masonry, which he had en
gaged to keep secret, naturally aroused the indig
nant spirit of the people of this country, especially
as free-masonry, too strong for the laws, still pro
tected the murderers. Richard Rush, the min
ister to London and secretary of the treasury in
the administration of J. Q. Adams, in his letter
of March 2, 1832, says, "A fellow citizen in New
York has been murdered by a large and daring
confederacy of free-masons, for telling their se
crets. The spirit that led to this deed has
proved itself able to rescue the murderers from
punishment; for masonic witnesses would not
testify against brother masons, nor would masonic
jurymen convict them, although jurymen not
masonic were satisfied of their guilt. This is
enough. It shows the lodge to be too strong for
the law. Can there be a greater reproach to the
Republic ? " " It has been demonstrated, that
evil-minded men, or those of weak understand
ings, committed murder under color of these
oaths." " Masonry works in the dark. Such
an institution is dangerous. It ought not to be
allowed to exist in a well-governed country."
The writer of this article published the following
remark a quarter of a century ago : " Whether
the institution of masonry, with its false preten
sions to antiquity, its mummeries, its ridiculous
secrets, its horrible oaths, and shocking blas
phemies, all exposed to full light, and red with
the blood of its victim, can yet sustain itself in
this land of laws, and of morals, and of Chris
tianity, assailed by two hundred and thirty news
papers established for the special purpose of
overthrowing the institution, and with ten thou
sands of intelligent, patriotic, and indignant men
frowning upon it, remains to be seen." In the
result the institution has disappeared : recent at
tempts have been made to revive it.
MORGAN, ASAPII, minister of St. Albans, Vt.,
died in 1828, in the 21th year of his ministry.
MORGAN, AsiiURY, a Methodist minister,
died at Charleston, S. C., in 1828, aged 30.
MORGAN, CHARLES W., commodore, died in
command of the navy-yard in Washington, Jan.
5, 1853. Born in Virginia, a nephew of Gen.
Morgan, he entered the navy in 1808, and was
distinguished in the Constitution. In 1849 he
commanded the naval forces in the Mediterranean,
and remained on that station three years.
MORRILL, MOSES, minister of Biddeford, Me.,
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died in 1778, aged 56. Born in Salisbury, Mass.,
he graduated at Harvard in 1737, and was settled
in 1742. He succeeded S. Willard, the first min
ister.
MORRILL, ISAAC, minister of Wilmington,
Mass., died in 1793, aged 75, having been a faith
ful pastor 52 years. Born in Salisbury, he gradu
ated at Harvard in 1737. He published a sermon
to Capt. O.sgood and his company, 1755.
MORRILL, ISAAC, a respected physician, died
at Natick, Mass., in 1839, aged 92.
MORRILL, THOMAS, a Methodist minister,
died at Elizabethtown in July, 1839, aged 90. He
was a major of the militia in the Revolutionary
war, but after 1785 was a man of peace.
MORRILL, DAVID L., LL. D., governor of
New Hampshire, died at Concord Feb. 4, 1849,
aged 77. Born in Epping, from 1802 to 1811 he
was a minister of Goffstown, N. II., but was after
wards in political life. He was a senator of the
United States from 1816 to 1822, and governor
from 1824 to 1826. He published a sermon on
the death of Lieut. Roby, 1812.
MORRIS, LEWIS, governor of New Jersey,
died May 14, 1746, aged about 73. He was the
son of Richard M., an officer in the time of Crom
well, who, at the Restoration, came to New York,
and, obtaining a grant of some thousand acres
of land in Westchester county, died in 1673.
He was born a short time before the death of his
father, and was adopted by his uncle. Once,
through fear of his resentment, he strolled into
Virginia, and thence to the West Indies. On his
return, however, he was received with joy. He
was for several years chief justice of New York.
He was the second councillor of New Jersey,
named in Cornbury's commission in 1702, and
continued, with several suspensions, till 1738,
when he was appointed the first governor of New
Jersey as a separate province from New York.
He directed his body to be buried at Morrisania,
N. Y., in a plain coffin, without covering or lining
with cloth ; he prohibited rings and scarfs from
being given at his funeral ; he wished no man to
be paid for preaching a funeral sermon upon him,
though if any man, churchman or dissenter, min
ister or not, was inclined to say any thing on the
occasion, he should not object. He prohibited
any mourning dress to be worn on his account,
as he should die when divine providence should
call him away, and was unwilling that his friends
should be at the expense, which was owing only
to the common folly of mankind. One of his
sons was a judge of the court of vice admiralty;
another, Robert, was chief justice of New Jersey,
and judge of the district court, and died June 2,
1815, aged 71; and a third was lieutenant-gov
ernor of Pennsylvania. He was a man of letters,
and, though a little whimsical in his temper, was
grave in his manners and of a most penetrating
mind. No man equalled him in the knowledge
of the law and in the arts of intrigue. Acute in
controversy, when he had advanced an argument
he would not yield it, unless it was disproved by
demonstration almost mathematical. — Smith's
New Jersey, 428-435 ; Smith's New York, 125,
126.
MORRIS, ROBERT HUNTER, chief justice of
New Jersey, the son of the preceding, was for
near twenty-six years one of the council of that
colony, and was also lieutenant-governor of Penn
sylvania from Oct., 1754, to Aug., 1756. The
office of chief justice he resigned in the fall of
1757, and he died Feb. 20, 1764. His vigorous
powers of mind were improved by a liberal edu
cation. As a judge he was impartial and upright.
Insisting upon strict adherence to the forms of
the courts, he reduced the pleadings to precision
and method. His address was easy, and there
was a commanding influence in his manners. He
was free from avarice; generous and manly,
though sometimes inconsiderate in the relations
of life; often singular, sometimes whimsical, al
ways opinionated, and mostly inflexible. — Smith's
New Jersey, 438, 439.
MORRIS, LEWIS, major-general, grandson of
Gov. Lewis M., died Jan. 22, 1798, aged 71. He
was born at the manor of Morrisania, N.Y., in 1726.
He was the eldest of four brothers : Staats was
an officer in the British service and a member of
parliament; Richard was judge of the rice-ad
miralty court, New York, chief justice, and died
in April, 1810; and Gouverneur was a member
of congress. After graduating at Yale college in
1746, he settled down in domestic life at Mor
risania, having married a Miss Walton, and being
devoted to agricultural pursuits. In May, 1775,
he was a member of congress, and no one was
more zealous for the interests of his country.
He was sent to Pittsburg to detach the western
Indians from the British. Disregarding his pri
vate interest, he voted for the' Declaration of In
dependence, although British ships were lying
within cannon-shot of his house. His beautiful
manor of Morrisania was soon desolated; his
woodland of one thousand acres was destroyed;
and his family driven into exile. He retired from
congress in 1777, and was afterwards general of
the militia. Three of his sons served their coun
try : one as the aid of Sullivan and in the family
of Greene ; another as the aid of Lee ; and a tliird
as lieut. of artillery. One of these, I suppose,
was Colonel Lewis M., who died at Morrisania in
Nov., 1824, aged 70.
MORRIS, ROBERT, superintendent of the
finances of the United States, died at Philadel
phia May 8, 1806, aged 71. He was born in
Lancashire, England, in June, 1734 ; when he
was at the age of thirteen his father brought him
to this country. About 1749 he was placed in
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the counting-house of Charles Willing, an emi
nent merchant of Philadelphia, after whose death
he was taken into partnership by his son, Thomas
Willing. The partnership lasted from 1754 to
1793, a period of thirty-nine years. At the be
ginning of the Revolution the house of Willing
and Morris was more extensively engaged in
commerce than any other house in Philadelphia.
His enterprise and credit have seldom been
equalled. In 177G he was a member of congress
from Pennsylvania, and his name is affixed to the
Declaration of Independence. In the beginning
of 1781 he was intrusted with the management
of the finances, and the services which, in this
station, he rendered to his country, were of incal
culable value, being assisted by his partner, Gou-
verneur Morris. He pledged himself personally
and extensively for articles of the most absolute
necessity to the army. It was owing in a great
degree to him that the decisive operations of the
campaign of 1781 were not impeded, or com
pletely defeated, from the want of supplies. He
proposed the plan of a national bank, the capital
to be formed by individual subscription, and it
was incorporated on the last day of 1781. The
army depended principally upon Pennsylvania for
flour, and he himself raised the whole supplies of
this State on the engagement of being reimbursed
by the taxes which had been imposed by law. In
1782 he had to struggle with the greatest difficul
ties, for, with the most judicious and rigid econ
omy, the public resources failed, and against him
were the complaints of unsatisfied claimants
directed. He resigned his office after holding it
about three years. In his old age he engaged in
land speculations, by which he lost his fortune,
and in his last years he was confined in prison
for debt. Surely those laws which send a man to
prison for misfortune, and not for crime, will at
last come to be regarded as discreditable to a
civilized community. His wife was the sister of
Bishop White. A part of his laborious corre
spondence is published in the Diplomatic corre
spondence, by J. Sparks. — Marshall, rv. 457-460,
557, 565.
MORRIS, RICHAED, chief justice of New York,
died at Westchester in April, 1810.
MORRIS, ROBERT, judge, died at New Bruns
wick, N. J., May 2, 1815, aged 70. He was chief
justice of New Jersey during the war; and was
succeeded by Brearley. Washington appointed
him district judge, which post he held till his
death.
MORRIS, GOUVERNEUR, minister of the United
States to France, the youngest son of Lewis
Morris by a second marriage, died Nov. 6, 1816,
aged 64. He was born at Morrisania, near New
York, Jan. 31, 1752, and was graduated at King's
college in 1768. Having studied with William
Smith, he was chosen in May, 1775, a member of
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the provincial congress, and he served zealously
in the same body in subsequent years ; in Oct.,
1777, he was a member of the continental con
gress. In 1780 he removed to Philadelphia.
Being thrown from his carriage in the street, the
bones of his leg were so fractured as to render
amputation necessary. The loss was supplied by
a " rough stick," which he never changed for a
handsome leg. In July, 1781, he was an assist
ant to Robert Morris in the superintendence of
the finances, and after the war engaged with him
in commercial enterprises. They were not con
nected by blood. In Dec., 1786, he purchased
from his brother, a lieutenant-general in the Brit
ish service, the estate of Morrisania, and soon
made it his abode. In the next year he was a
member for Pennsylvania of the convention
which framed the Constitution of the United
States. He proposed a senate for life. From
1788 to 1792 he resided chiefly in Paris, engaged
in selling lands and in money speculations. In
1792 he was appointed a minister plenipotentiary
to France, and held this place till Oct., 1794.
Afterwards he travelled on the continent. Re
turning to this country in the autumn of 1798,
he was chosen a senator of the United States in
1800, to fill a vacancy till 1803. In the contest
for the presidency he preferred Jefferson to Burr.
The project of the great canal of New York was
promoted by his efforts. He died at Morrisania.
His wife, whom he married in 1816, was Miss
Randolph of Virginia. He lived in hospitality,
and was admired for his various knowledge and
his copious and eloquent conversation ; yet he
was sometimes overbearing and indiscreet. He
delivered two months before his death an address
to the historical society, in which he points out
the superiority of scriptural history to all other
history. He regarded religious principle as ne
cessary to national independence and peace.
" There must be something more to hope than
pleasure, wealth, and power. Something more
to fear than poverty and pain. Something after
death more terrible than death. There must be
religion. When that ligament is torn, society is
disjointed and its members perish." This final
testimony in favor of Scripture is the more im
portant, as Mr. Jefferson represents that he did
not believe in Christianity. He published obser
vations on the American Revolution, 1779; ad
dress against the abolition of the bank of North
America, 1785 ; an eulogy on Washington ; an
eulogy on Hamilton ; an eulogy on G. Clinton ;
an oration before the New York historical so
ciety, 1812; oration on the restoration of the
Bourbons in France, 1814; inaugural discourse
as president of the New York historical society,
Sept. 4, 1816. His life, with selections from his
correspondence, etc., was published by Jared
Sparks in 3 vols., 8vo., 1832.
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MORSE.
MORRIS, JAMES, an eminent teacher in Conn.,
died in Waynesborough, Ga., in 1820, aged about
65. He graduated at Yale in 1775, and was an
officer in the Revolutionary war. Afterwards, in
his native village of South Farms, in the town of
Litchfield, Conn., he founded and conducted a
very flourishing academy for the youths of both
sexes. — Dwight's Travels.
MORRIS, JACOB, general, died in Butternuts,
Otsego co., New York, Dec. 13, 1843, aged 89,
aid of Gen. Lee in the war of the Revolution.
He was the son of Gen. Lewis Morris, and the
patriarch of a numerous family.
MORRIS, CHARLES, commodore, died at Wash
ington Jan. 27, 1856, aged 70, senior officer in
the navy, regarded as the ablest naval commander
in the world. A native of Connecticut, he entered
the navy in 1799, served under Preble against the
Barbary States, and was with Decatur at his
destruction of the frigate Philadelphia from under
the guns of Tripoli. In the war of 1812 he was
first lieutenant in the Constitution. At the cap
ture of the Guerriere he was shot through the
body. During the many years of peace his ad
vice and services were very important at Wash
ington. He was chief of the ordnance bureau.
MORRISON, JOHN, first minister of Peter
borough, N. H., died in 1782, aged 40. Born in
Scotland, educated at Edinburgh, he was settled
in 1766, and dismissed in 1775.
MORRISON, NORMAN, Dr., died in Connec
ticut in 1791, aged 71. He was born in Scot
land ; educated at Edinburgh ; came to this
country about 1740 ; first lived two years at
Wethersfield, then settled at Hartford, where his
reputation ever stood high for science and skill.
He instructed pupils. He died at the house of
his pupil, Dr. Farnsworth, of Wethersfield. The
following anecdote is related : A patient wished
him to consult an ignorant Dr. Andrus, who was
conversant with the Farmington Indians, and had
learned their skill in herbs. He agreed, but sent
him a note requesting a meeting, written in Latin.
Dr. A. could make nothing of it. However, he
carried it to Rector Williams, who translated it.
The Yankee was not to be outwitted ; so he sent
back an answer written in the Indian tongue,
which it was beyond the power of Dr. Morrison
to decipher. — Williams' Med. Biog.
MORRISON, WILLIAM, D. D., minister of
Londonderry, N. H., a native of Scotland, suc
ceeded David McGregore, and was ordained in
the west parish of L., Feb. 12, 1783. He died
March 9, 1818, aged G9, and was succeeded Jan.
16, 1822, by Daniel Dana, subsequently settled
in Newburyport. He was an eminently pious
and useful minister. He published a sermon
at the election, 1792 ; installation of J. Giles,
1803; a sermon at the ordination of J. Walker,
1812.
MORROW, JEREMIAH, governor, died in Ohio
March 22, 1852, aged 82. A native of Pennsyl
vania, he removed to the Northwest Territory in
1795 ; he assisted in forming the constitution of
Ohio in 1802, and was the first member of con
gress, then a senator from 1813 to 1819. He
was also governor from 1822 to 1826, and subse
quently canal commissioner and representative in
congress. In all trusts he was distinguished for
good sense and integrity.
MORSE, EBENEZER, first minister of Boylston,
Mass., died Jan. 3, 1802, aged 84. Born in Med-
field, he graduated at Harvard in 1737; was or
dained in 1743 ; and resigned in 1775.
MORSE, JEDIDIAII, D. D., minister of Charles-
town, Mass., died June 9, 1826, aged 65. He
was a native of Woodstock, Conn., and a de
scendant of Anthony M. who lived in Newbury,
Mass., in 1636. He was born in 1761 ; gradu
ated at Yale college in 1783 ; and was installed
April 30, 1789. His predecessors were James,
Symmes, Harvard, Allen, the Shepards, Morton,
Bradstreet, Stevens, Abbot, Prentice, and Paine.
About 1821 he was dismissed and Mr. Fay was
settled as his successor. He died at New Haven.
His wife was Miss Breeze of New Jersey, a grand
daughter of Pres. Finley, and was eminent for
her intelligence and virtues; she died May 28,
1828, aged 61. One of his sons is distinguished
as a painter, and is known the world over by
his electric telegraph ; and two are the editors
of the New York Observer. Dr. Morse estab
lished the publication of the Panoplist, and
was for some time its principal editor, until it
was committed to Mr. Evarts. His zeal for
the orthodox faith caused him to be much en
gaged in controversy, particularly in regard to
the election of the Hollis professor of divinity at
Harvard college. He deserves the title of the
American geographer. He first published geog
raphy made easy, 1784, and American geography,
8vo., 1789. In 1793 it appeared in two vols. and
in many subsequent editions. He published also
the American gazetteer, 1797 and 1804. He
published also thanksgiving sermons, 1795, 1798,
1799; fast sermons, 1798, 1799, 1812; on the
death of R. Carey, 1790; of Thos. Russell, 1796;
of James Russell, 1798; of George Washington,
1800; of Mary Russell, 1806; masonic sermon,
1798 ; address to the Andover students, 1799 ;
before the humane society; at the artillery
election, 1803 ; history of New England, with E.
Parish, 1804; true reasons on which the elec
tion of a professor of divinity was opposed, 1805 ;
at the African meeting-house, 1808; at the or
dination of H. May, 1803; of J. Huntington,
1808; before the asylum, 1807; before the society
for propagating the gospel, 1810 ; at the conven
tion, 1812; before a moral association, 1813; ap
peal to the public on the controversy concerning
MORSE.
MORTON.
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Harvard college, 1814 ; at the annual meeting of
the commissioners for foreign missions, 1821 ; re
port on Indian affairs, being a narrative of a tour
made in 1820, 8vo. — Budington's History of
Charlestown.
MORSE, NATHANIEL S., Dr., died in Sutton
March 17, 1835, aged 84; an eminent physician
and Christian.
MORSE, Mrs., widow of Asa M., died in Bel-
chertown Oct. 3, 1843, aged 99. She had seven
children, sixty-two grandchildren, one hundred
and forty-four great-grandchildren, and ten
great-great-grandchildren.
MORSE, STEPHEN, a soldier who bled in the
war of the Revolution, died at Ilaverhill, N. II.,
in 1843, aged 88. Of his twelve sons, all but one
lived to manhood.
MORSE, JOHN, minister of Green River, Co
lumbia county, died in Otsego county, N. Y., Jan.
3, 1844, aged 80. Born in Medway, he gradu
ated at Providence ; studied theology with Mr.
Sandford of M., whose daughter he married.
From 1792 he was minister at Green River
twenty-three years, and then twelve at Otsego.
In both places his labors were much blessed. He
was a sound theologian, a faithful preacher.
Among his last words he said : " I long to depart,
that I may be with Christ."
MORSS, JAMES, Episcopal minister in New-
buryport, died April 26, 1842, aged 62 ; a grad
uate of 1800, nearly thirty-nine years in the
ministry.
MORTON, THOMAS, an early settler in New
England, and a disturber of the public peace,
died about 1646. He was a lawyer in England,
and came first to this country in June, 1622, with
Weston's company, who made a temporary set
tlement at Weymouth. He arrived again with
Capt. Wollaston in 162,3, and settled at Mount
Wollaston, now Braintree. Here the company,
which did not consist of persons influenced by
any religious considerations, " fell to great licen
tiousness of life, in all profaneness, and the said
Morton became lord of misrule." He supplied
the Indians with arms, that they might hunt for
him; and in this way, as well as by his injustice,
endangered the existence of the religious settle
ments. On May day, 1626, a new name was
given to Pasonagessit, or Mount Wollaston, that
of " Ma-re Mount," commonly written Merry
Mount, on which occasion there was a revel. A
pine tree eighty feet in length, with a pair of
buck's horns nailed near the top, was brought to
the place, with drums, guns, and pistols, and
raised up ; a barrel of beer and a case of bottles
were provided ; and the company danced around
the May-pole hand in hand, while one filled out
the liquor and all joined in a licentious song;
which, says Morton, was " lamentable to the pre
cise separatists at Plymouth." The magistrates, at
the common request of different plantations, after
ineffectual remonstrances with Morton, sent Capt.
Standish to suppress the pestilent establishment.
Morton was taken prisoner and transported to
England ; but the next year he returned, and he
was again seized by the governor of Massachu
setts and transported, and his house was demol
ished, " that it might be no longer a roost for
such unclean birds." He came again to tin's coun
try in 1643, and after being arrested and impris
oned a year for his scandalous book, was dis
missed with a fine in 1644. His age saved him
from corporal punishment. He died in poverty
at Agamenticus. He published New English Ca
naan, containing account of the natives, a de
scription of the country, and the tenets and prac
tice of the church, 4to., 1632. The same work
has the imprint, Amsterdam, 1637, pp. 188. It
professes to be written upon ten years' knowledge.
As a specimen of his skill in natural history, he
says, that the humming-bird " lives upon the bee,
which he catcheth among the flowers. Flowers
he cannot feed upon by reason of his sharp bill."
He describes the principal persons under fictitious
names ; Mr. Endicott is Capt. Littleworth, Win-
throp is Joshua Temperwell, Standish is Capt.
Shrimp. He relates that at Wessagusset a young
man stole corn, and was tried by Edward John
son, a special judge, and sentenced to death ;
when it was proposed to put the young men's
clothes on an old, impotent, sickly man, that was
about to die, and hang him instead of the young
man ; and " so they did." Such is my memoran
dum after examining the book many years ago ;
Mr. Savage, however, says, that he states that the
proposal " was not agreed to." In either case,
this was the origin of the story in Hudibras. —
Prince, 76-80; Hutclunson, I. 8, 31, 32.
MORTON, CHARLES, minister of Charlestown,
Mass., died April 11, 1698, aged 71. He was
born in England about the year 1626, and edu
cated at Oxford, of which college he was fellow.
He was at first a royalist and zealous for the
church of England ; but, observing in the civil
wars that the most debauched generally attached
themselves to the king in opposition to the more
virtuous part of the nation, he was led to attend
more to the controversy between the Prelatists
and the Puritans. At length he became a Puri
tan himself. He began his ministry at Blisland.
After his ejectment by the act of uniformity in
1662, he preached privately to a few people till
the fire of London, in 1666, after which event he
removed to that city and established an academy
at Newington Green. Among his pupils was De
Foe, the author of Robinson Crusoe. Many
young ministers were educated by him. After
about twenty years continuance in an employ
ment for which he was eminently qualified, he
was so infested by processes from the bishop's
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court that he was obliged to desist from it. He
came to New England in July, 1686, and was in
stalled pastor of the church in Charlestown, Nov.
5, 1686. Here he continued till his death. He
was succeeded by Mr. Bradstreet. He was emi
nent in every kind of learning. Having a gentle
and benignant temper, he was endeared to all
his acquaintance. He wrote a number of trea
tises, but they are chiefly compendious, for he
was an enemy to large volumes, often quoting
the adage, a great book is a great evil. In Cal-
amy's Continuation there is a copy of his advice
to those of his pupils who were designed for the
ministry. Two of his manuscripts are still pre
served in this country; the one in the library
of the Massachusetts historical society, entitled,
compendium physical ex authoribus extractum ;
and the other in the library of Bowdoin college,
entitled, a complete system of natural philosophy
in general and special. He published the little
peace-maker; foolish pride the make-bate, 1674;
the gaming humor considered and reproved;
the way of good men for wise men to walk in ;
season birds, an inquiry into the sense of Jeremiah
VIII. 7 ; meditations on the first fourteen chapters
of Exodus, etc. ; the spirit of man, meditations
on 1 Thess. V. 23 ; of commonplaces or memo
rial books ; a discourse on improving the country
of Cornwall, a part of which, on sea-sand for ma
nure, is printed in the philosophical transactions,
April, 1675 ; considerations on the new river ;
letter to a friend to prove money not so necessary
as imagined ; the ark, its loss and recovery.
MO11TON, NATHANIEL, secretary of Plymouth
colony, died June 28, 1685, aged 73. He was
born in England, and was the son of George M.,
who came to this country in July, 1623, and died
at Plymouth in June, 1624, leaving a widow, the
sister of Governor Bradford, and four sons ; from
John, one of these, descended Marcus M., and
from Ephraim descended Perez M., distinguished
men, in the State of Massachusetts. Mr. M. was
appointed in 1645 clerk or secretary of the colony
court, and continued in office forty years, till his
death. He wrote in 1680 a brief ecclesiastical
history of the church at Plymouth, in the records
of the church, which is preserved by Hazard ;
and New England's memorial, or a brief relation
of the most memorable and remarkable passages
of the providence of God, manifested to the plant
ers of New England, 4to., 1669. This work,
which is confined very much to Plymouth colony,
was compiled principally from manuscripts of his
uncle, William Bradford, extending from the year
1620 to 1646, and he had access also to the
journals of Edward Winslow. This work has
been of great service to succeeding historians.
A second edition was printed in 1721; a fifth,
with notes by Judge Davis, 1826; a sixth, with
notes, by the Congregational board, 1855.
MORTON, JOHN, a patriot of the Revolution,
died in 1777, aged 55. He was a native of Ches
ter county, Penn., now Delaware. In 1764 he
was appointed a member of the assembly of Penn
sylvania, and afterwards a judge of the superior
court. Elected a member of congress in 1774, he
in 1776 voted in favor of the Declaration of In
dependence. Had he voted on the other side,
the voice of Pennsylvania would have been against
the declaration, as the other delegates were
equally divided on the subject. Of the committee
on the system of confederation he was the chair
man. He left three sons and five daughters.
He was a professor of religion and a benevolent
and excellent man. — Goodrich.
MORTON, JACOB, general, a man of promi
nence in the city of New York, died in 1836.
MORTON, PEREZ, attorney-general of Massa
chusetts, died at Dorchester in 1837, aged 87.
He graduated at Harvard in 1771.
MORTON, SAMUEL GEORGE, Dr., died in Phil
adelphia in 1851, aged 52. He was for thirty
years a member of the academy of natural scien
ces, of which he was president. He had a mu
seum of crania, the most extensive in the world,
lie published crania Americana, and crania Egyp-
tiaca ; a work on consumption ; and other works.
After his death his types of mankind was pub
lished, with a memoir. — Cycl. of Amer. Lit.
MOSELEY, SAMUEL, minister of Hampton,
Conn., died in 1791, aged 82, in the fifty-seventh
year of his ministry. Born in Dorchester, Mass.,
he graduated at Harvard in 1729. He was an
accomplished gentleman and scholar, a strict dis
ciplinarian, a faithful preacher. — Cogswell's Ser
mon.
MOSELEY, ABNER, a physician in Wethers-
field, Conn., died in 1811, aged 45. He gradu
ated at Yale in 1786, and studied with his uncle,
Dr. Thomas M. of East Haddam, president of
the Connecticut medical society. — Thacher.
MOSELY, SAMUEL, a missionary, died at May-
hew in the Choctaw nation Sept. 11, 1824, aged
33. His theological studies had been completed
at Andover three years previously. He was a
graduate of Middlebury in 1818. His wife sur
vived him. In great peace he requested her to
weep no more for him.
MOSHER, HANNAH, Mrs., died at Galloway,
New York, in 1835, aged 100.
MOSS, REUBEN, minister of Ware, Mass.,
died in 1809, aged about 42. Born in Cheshire,
Conn., he was graduated at Yale in 1787, and
was ordained in 1792. — Sprague's Annals.
MOULTON, JEREMIAH, colonel, died at York,
July 20, 1765, aged 77. He was born at York,
Maine, in 1688, and was taken prisoner by the
Indians Jan. 22, 1692, old style, when York was
destroyed by the Indians. He was released, with
other children, in gratitude for the humanity of
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Col. Church, who in one of his expeditions had
released several Indian prisoners, old women and
children. The savages were not ungrateful for
acts of kindness. In August, 1724, he and Capt.
Harmon, with two hundred and eight men and
three Mohawk Indians, marched against the In
dian settlement at Xorridgewock, in consequence
of attacks upon the frontiers. There being four
companies, the other commanders were Capt.
Bourne and Lieut. Bean. They left llichmond
fort Aug. 8, old style, or Aug. 19; the next day
arrived at Taconic, where they left their boats
and a guard of forty men. August 21, they
marched by land, and in the evening fired upon
two Indians, who proved to be the daughter and
wife of Bomaseen ; the former was killed ; the
latter taken prisoner. Aug. 23, they approached
the village ; Harmon with eighty men marching
circuitously by the fields, and Moulton with eighty
men directly upon Norridgewock, which he sur
prised. The Indians, consisting of about sixty
warriors, were defeated, and the chapel and vil
lage destroyed. Father Ralle was killed in a
wigwam, and twenty-six Indians, among whom
were Bomaseen, and his son-in-law, Mog, also
Job, Canabesett, and Wissememet, all noted war
riors. One of the Mohawks was killed, but none
of the whites. Harmon carried the scalps to
Boston, and, being chief in command, was made a
lieutenant-colonel for the exploit of Moulton, who
obtained no reward. At the reduction of Louis-
bourg, in 1745, he commanded a regiment, and
was afterwards sheriff of the county, councillor,
and judge of the common pleas and of probate.
His son and grandson were sheriffs.
MOULTRIE, JOHN, an eminent physician of
South Carolina, was a native of Europe, and came
to Charleston about the year 1733. For forty
years he was at the head of his profession. He
died about the year 1773, universally lamented.
He was the idol of his patients. So great was
the confidence reposed in his judgment, that
those who were usually attended by him prefer
red his advice and assistance, even on the festive
evening of St. Andrew's day, to the advice of any
other professional man in his most collected mo
ments. He possessed excellent talents for obser
vation, and was very sagacious in finding out the
hidden causes of diseases and in adapting reme
dies for their removal. On account of his death,
a number of the ladies of Charleston went into
mourning.
MOULTRIE, JOHN, M. D., son of the preced
ing, and eminent for literature and medical sci
ence, was the first Carolinian who obtained a
medical degree from the university of Edinburgh,
where, in 1749, he defended a thesis de febre flava.
He was afterwards lieutenant-governor of East
Florida. — Ra?usay's Review of Medicine, 43 ;
Miller, II. 364.
MOULTRIE, WILLIAM, governor of South
Carolina, and a major-general in the American
war, died in Charleston Sept. 27, 1805, aged 75.
He was devoted to the service of his country from
an early period of his life. In the Cherokee war,
in 1760, he was a volunteer under the command
of Governor Littleton. He was afterwards in
another expedition under Col. Montgomery. He
then commanded a company in a third expedition
in 1761, which humbled the Cherokees, and
brought them to terms of peace. He was among
the foremost at the commencement of the Rev
olution to assert the liberties of his country, and
he braved every danger to redress her wrongs.
His manly firmness, intrepid zeal, and cheerful
exposure of every thing he possessed, added
weight to his counsels, and induced others to
join him. In the beginning of the war he was
colonel of the second regiment of South Carolina.
His defence of Sullivan's Island, with three hun
dred and forty-four regulars and a few militia,
and his repulse of the British in their attack upon
the fort, June 28, 1776, gained him honor. In
consequence of his good conduct, he received the
unanimous thanks of congress, and in compliment
to him, the fort was from that time called fort
Moultrie. In 1779 he gained a victory over the
British in the battle near Beaufort. In 1780 he
was second in command in Charleston during the
siege. After the city surrendered he was sent to
Philadelphia. In 1782 he returned with his
countrymen, and was repeatedly chosen governor
of the State, till the infirmities of age induced
him to withdraw to the peaceful retreat of do
mestic life. The glory of his honorable services
was surpassed by his disinterestedness and integ
rity. An attempt was once made on the part of
the British to bribe him, and he was thought to
be more open to corruption, as he had suffered
much in his private fortune. But, resolving to
share the fate of his country, he spurned the
offers of indemnification and preferment which
were made him. He was an unassuming, easy,
and affable companion, cheerful and sincere in his
friendships. He published memoirs of the Amer
ican Revolution, so far as it related to North and
South Carolina and Georgia, 2 vols. 8vo., 1802.
This work is principally a collection of letters,
written by civil and military officers in the time
of the war. — Ilollingshead's Discourse.
MOUNTAIN, JACOB, first Episcopal bishop of
Quebec, was consecrated about the year 1794,
and died at Marchmont, near Quebec, June 19,
1825, aged 75. He was succeeded by Dr.
Stewart.
MOURT, GEORGE, published a relation or
journal of the beginning and proceedings of the
English plantation, settled at Plymouth in Now
England by certain English adventurers, both
merchants and others, London, 1622. This was
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abridged byPurchas and republished in historical
collections, Till. 203-239. The parts of the
original relation which are omitted in the abridg
ment, are published in 2 hist. coll. IX. 26-74.
This relation, probably written by different per
sons, includes a journey to Packanokik, the hab
itation of the great king, Massassoit. Concerning
Mourt himself nothing is known ; it is supposed
that he was one of the merchant adventurers.
MOXON, GEORGE, first minister of Spring
field, Mass., was born at Wakefield, in Yorkshire,
England, and educated at Cambridge. Coming
to this country as a preacher in 1637, he was in
that year settled at Springfield, where he re
mained until 1652, when he returned to England.
He preached in different places till disabled by
age and the palsy. He died at Congleton Sept.
15, 1687, aged 84. He was succeeded by Mr.
Glover. His son, George, was ejected from a
parish in Essex in 1662. Some sermons on self-
denial were prepared for the press, but not
printed.
MOXUS, an Indian chief of distinction at Nor-
ridgewock, in Maine, about 1690, was concerned,
in 1702, in a treacherous but unsuccessful assault
on Maj. March at Casco.
MUHLENBERG, HEXRY MELCHIOR, D. I).,
the founder of the German Lutheran church in
the United States, was born at Eimbeck, in Han
over, Germany, in 1711, and came to Philadel
phia, where he was the pastor of a German
Lutheran church forty-five years, and distin
guished for his piety and learning. He died in
1787, aged 76. His three sons, Peter, Frederick,
and Henry, were distinguished men : Frederic
Augustus, treasurer of the State, president of the
convention which ratified the constitution of the
United States, member of congress and speaker
of the house in 1793, died at Lancaster June 4,
1801, aged 51.
MUHLENBERG, PETER, major-general in the
army of the Revolution, son of the preceding,
died Oct. 1, 1807, aged 62. In obedience to the
wishes of his father he studied divinity, and offi
ciated as an Episcopal clergyman in Virginia until
1776, when he was elected a member of the con
vention. He soon entered the military service in
command of a regiment. In conducting a storm
ing party at Yorktown, he and all his men were
wounded. In Feb., 1777, he was appointed brig
adier-general, and major-general at the close of
the war. In 1801 he was appointed a senator of
the United States from Pennsylvania, and in 1802
collector of the port of Philadelphia, in which
office he continued till his death.
MUHLENBERG, HENRY ERXST, D. D., a
botanist, the son of Rev. Henry M. M., died
May 23, 1815, aged 61. He was born in New
Providence, Montgomery county, Penn., Nov. 17,
1753. In 1763 he was sent to Halle with his
two elder brothers to finish his education. On
his return in 1770 he was ordained, at the early
age of 17, and in 1774 appointed one of the
assistants of his father in the Philadelphia con
gregation. In 1780 he accepted a call from Lan
caster, where he lived about thirty-five years in
the exemplary discharge of the duties of his
office. He died of the apoplexy. While he was
a learned theologian and well acquainted with
the ancient languages, and skilful also in medi
cine, chemistry, and mineralogy, he was particu
larly distinguished for his knowledge of botany.
He was induced first to cultivate this science in
1777, when he was driven from Philadelphia in
consequence of its being occupied by the British.
From this time he corresponded with many
learned botanists in Europe and America. Of
many learned societies he was a member. His
herbarium was purchased and presented to the
Amer. philos. society. lie published catalogus
plantarum Amer. septent. 1813; descriptio ube-
rior graminium, etc., 1816. He left flora Lan-
castriensis in manuscript. — Encyc. Americana.
MU1R, JAMES, minister at Alexandria, Va.f
died in Aug., 1820. He published the virtuous
woman, a sermon in the American preacher, II. ;
address to a public society, 1814.
MULLIKEN, ISAAC, Dr., of Townsend, Mass.,
died in 1837, aged 85, a fellow of the medical
society.
MUNFORD, WILLIAM, a poet, died in Rich
mond, Va., June 21, 1825, aged 49. His father,
Col. Robert, was a patriot of the Revolution,
whose poems were published in 1798. The son
was educated at William and Mary college ;
studied law ; was many years a member of the
house of delegates ; then was appointed clerk
till his death. He translated the whole of Ho
mer's Iliad into blank verse : the work was pub
lished in two vols., 1846, at Boston. He published
also an early volume of poems and prose writings.
— Cycl. of Amer. Lit.
MUNGER, Mrs., wife of S. B. Munger, mis
sionary in India, died at sea March 12, 1846, aged
45. Her body was committed to the Indian
ocean in lat. 37°. Her name was Maria An
drews, of Middlebury, Vt. She arrived at Bom
bay with her husband in Sept., 1834. For several
years she devoted herself to her missionary work ;
but ill health compelled her to visit her native
country in 1842. It was on her return to India that
she died in great peace. Her heart of benevolence
was turned towards India; for India were her
cares, watchings, teachings, prayers, and tears, in
much weakness and painfulness. She could not
lose her reward.
MUNN, LOUISA, wife of Bethuel Munn, mis
sionary at the Sandwich islands, died Aug. 25,
1841, aged 3.2. She sailed with Mrs. Castle.
She was the daughter of Deacon Eli Clark of
MUNSON.
Skaneatclcs. She was a diligent teacher; her
character was marked by humility, patience, and
love to the Redeemer.
MUXSOX, SAMUKL, minister of Lenox, Mass.,
died in 1814, aged about 72. He was graduated
at Yale in 1763; was ordained in 1770; and dis
missed in 1792.
MUNSOX, AENEAS, M. D., a physician, died
in New Haven June 16, 1826, aged nearly 92.
He was born in New Haven, June 24, 1734;
graduated at Yale college in 1753 ; and, having
been a tutor, was a chaplain in the army in 1755
on Long Island. Ill health induced him to study
medicine with John Darly of Easthampton. He
practised physic at Bedford in 1756, and removed
in 1760 to New Haven. For more than half a
century he had a high reputation as a physician,
and was in the practice seventy years. Of the
medical society of Connecticut he was the presi
dent. He was a man of piety from an early
period of his life. At the bedside of his patients
he was accustomed to commend them to God in
prayer. It was with joyous Christian hope that
this venerable old man went down to the dead.
— Thaclicr.
MUXSOX, SAMUEL, a missionary, died June
28, 1834, aged about 28. He was born in New
Sharon, Me., and graduated at Bowdoin college
in 1829; at Andover seminary in 1832. He em
barked in 1833 with Mr. Henry Lyman for the
East, — both accompanied by their wives, — and
both were murdered by the Battahs, as they were
travelling in Sumatra. His wife was Abigail
Johnson, of Brunswick, Me. In 1856 there was
published a memoir of H. Lyman, which gives
an account of the circumstances of the deaths of
these friends. Mr. L. was shot ; Mr. M. was run
through the body.
MUXSOX, ISRAEL, died at Boston Feb. 3,
1844, aged 78. He was a graduate of Yrale in
1787, a native of Xew Haven ; a physician, then
a respected merchant in Boston, a liberal bene
factor of several literary and charitable institu
tions.
MURDOCK, JONATHAN, minister of Bozrah,
Conn., died in 1813, aged 66. Born at or near
Saybrook, he graduated at Yale in 1766 ; was for
some years the minister of Rye, N. Y. ; and was
settled at Bozrah in 1786.
MURDOCK, THOMAS JEWETT, minister in
Canterbury, Conn., died in 1827, aged about 35.
Born in Norwich, Vt., he graduated at Dartmouth
in 1812, and was tutor three years ; was ordained
over the chapel church in Portland, Me., in 1819,
and dismissed in 1821 ; and was installed at Can
terbury in 1822. — Spraguc's Annals.
MURDOCK, JAMES, D. D., died at his son's
house in Columbus, Miss., Aug. 10, 1856, aged 80
years. He had long been known as a teacher,
professor, and eminently learned man. Born at
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"Westbrook, Conn., he descended from thj Pro
testant Scotch-Irish. His father emigrated from
Ireland about 1700, and lived at W. fifty years.
It was in a very eminent class, that of 1797, that
he graduated at Yale under Dr. Dwight. In his
class are the names of Baldwin, Bcecher, Day,
Foot, George Griffin, Staples, and Seymour. He
was ordained the minister of Princeton, Mass., in
1802, and was successful in his pious labors. In
1815 he was appointed professor of languages at
Burlington; and in 1819 professor of ecclesiasti
cal history at Andover, and assistant professor of
eloquence. He resigned in 1829, and passed the
remainder of his life in learned industry at Xew
Haven. At an early period he made himself
familiar with Hebrew, so as to read from the
Hebrew bible into English at family worship.
At Burlington he acquired the German. All his
writings evince his learning. In consequence of
his sermon on " the nature of the atonement,"
some zealous writers were led to call in question
his soundness in the faith ; but he rested his opin
ions not on old creeds, but on the obvious teach
ing of Scripture, and he did not feel himself bound
to adhere to antiquated terms, if, as he thought,
they ceased to communicate the truth. He was
not an unbeliever in the atoning sacrifice and
mediatorship of Christ. Relying on his media
tion, he calmly awaited the approach of death.
Besides his sermon on the atonement, he pub
lished a sermon at the installation of W. Bas-
com, 1815; a translation of Mosheim's institutes
of ecclesiastical history, 1832, and recently a new
edition ; a translation of Mosheim's commentaries
on the affairs of Christians, 1851; a translation
of Muenscher's elements of dogmatic history,
1830; sketches of modern philosophy, 1842; a
translation of the Syriac new testament, 1851 ;
the Congregational catechism, 1844.
MURPHY, JOHN, died in Fauquier co., Va., in
1838, aged 105. He was born in Ireland.
MURRAY7, JOSEPH, a friend of literature, was
a native, it is believed, of Great Britain, and
educated in that country. He was one of his
majesty's council and attorney-general for the
province of New Y'ork. He left the whole of
his estate, consisting of books, lands, and other
property, in value to the amount of about 25,000
dollars, to King's college. — Miller, II. 357.
MURRAY7, JOHN, a Presbyterian minister, died
at Newburyport, Mass., in 1793, aged 50. Born
in Ireland, educated at Edinburgh, in his twentieth
year he came to America as a preacher ; and was
settled first in Philadelphia, then in Boothbay,
Maine, from 1767 to 1779; then in Newburyport.
He had a high degree of popular eloquence.
Once, when recruits were wanted in the Avar, he
was invited to the meeting-house, attended by a
regiment under arms, to try the effect of his
oratory on the project of enlisting a full compauy
coo
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of officers and men for an emergency. Within
two hours after his address the company was
filled ; and in a few days marched to strengthen
our weak army. He by his letters induced Mr.
Milton to visit X., where he founded a new church.
His last words were :
" Come, Lord Jesus, come quickly!
He is come, he is come, he is come ! "
He published a sermon on the origin of evil ;
the last solemn scene ; appeal in behalf of the
oppressed, 1768; at a fast, 1779; a voice from
the wilderness ; tyranny's grave destroyed, at
thanksgiving, 1783 ; justification by imputed
righteousness, in three sermons ; origin of evil ;
on death of Jona. Payons ; of R. Cross ; of llev.
J. Prince, 1791; at thanksgiving, 1795. — Mil-
timore's Sermon.
MURRAY, WILLIAM VAXS, minister of the
United States to the Batavian Republic, died Dec.
11, 1803, aged 41. He was born in Maryland in
the year 1761 or 1762. After the peace of 1783
he went to London, and resided three years as a
student in the Temple. At an age when the
passions are generally unrestrained, with a con
stitution of exquisite sensibility, and in the midst
of a splendid and luxurious metropolis, he re
tained the resolution and the firmness to devote
his time and attention to those objects which
were to mark the usefulness of his future life.
The observations of Dr. Price, of Mr. Turgot,
and of the Abbe de Mably, on the constitutions
and laws of the United States, being published
during his residence in England, he studied them
with persevering and honest research, and gave
the public result of his reflections in a pamphlet,
which was favorably received. In the summer of
1784, during a vacation, he made an excursion of
about six weeks to Holland ; and during this
short time, in which he travelled over that coun
try, he was most assiduous in the use of his pen.
The minutes, which he then took, he afterwards
digested and methodized into a regular work.
The intelligence of the death of his father, to
whom he was most affectionately attached, reach
ing him at a time when his health was precarious,
he sunk under the affliction, and did not rise from
his bed for six weeks. After a tedious convales
cence of several months he returned to his native
country. He immediately engaged in the prac
tice of the law ; but the voice of his country soon
called him to her councils. He was first elected
a member of the legislature of Maryland, and at
three successive elections, from 1791 to 1797, to a
seat in the house of representatives of the United
States. This station he filled with distinguished
honor. His eloquence in debate placed him in
the same rank with Madison and Ames, Giles and
Dexter. A regard to his fortune, which was not
affluent, at length induced him, in 1797, to de-
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cline being a candidate for re-election to congress.
But his merit and talents had not escaped the
discerning eye of Washington, Avho in one of the
last acts of his administration appointed Mr.
Murray as minister of the United States to the
Batavian Republic. This station had been occu
pied about three years by John Q. Adams, who
now received a commission as minister plenipo
tentiary at Lisbon. Mr. Murray arrived at the
Hague at a very critical period of affairs, for the
misunderstanding between the United States and
France was approaching to a rupture, and the in
fluence of the latter over the Batavian councils
was uncontrolled. But by a judicious mixture of
firmness, of address, and of conciliation, he suc
ceeded in preserving uninterrupted harmony be-
; tween the American and Batavian nations.
| With Mr. Ellsworth and Mr. Davie, he assisted
in making the treaty, which was signed at Paris
Sept. 30, 1800, and which has contributed in a
great degree to the prosperity of America. Im
mediately after signing that instrument he returned
to his station as minister resident at the Hague,
where he remained till his return to the United
States in Dec., 1801, it having been judged un
necessary to continue the expense of supporting
that mission. From this period he lived in re
tirement at his seat in Cambridge, on the eastern
shore of Maryland. In private life he was re
markably pleasing in his manners, and at once
1 amusing and instructive in his conversation.
With a mind of incessant activity he united the
fancy of a poet. He had a strong and genuine
, relish for the fine arts, a refined and delicate taste
for literature, and a persevering fondness for the
pursuits of science. The keenness of his sensi
bility and the rapidity of his conceptions gave him
! a sense of decorum which seemed almost in
tuitive. His facility in writing was proportioned
j to the vivacity of his mind. His letters, by their
! elegance, their simplicity, their poignant wit, and
unbounded variety of style, might serve as models
of epistolary correspondence.
MURRAY, JOHN, first Universalist minister in
Boston, died Sept. 3, 1815, aged 74. He was
born at Alton, Hampshire county, England, about
1741. His father was an Episcopalian; his
mother a Presbyterian. They removed from
Alton to Ireland. In early life he believed the
doctrine of election; then he became a Metho
dist preacher in Mr. Wesley's connection ; and
afterwards he was attached to Mr. Whitefield.
Repairing to London, he soon forgot the charac
ter of a minister. Good company, music, danc
ing, Vauxhall, and the play-houses intoxicated
him. He says, "I plunged into a vortex of
pleasure." Visiting a young lady to convert her
from the error of Universalism, the following was
the argumentation. She asked, What is an unbe
liever damned for not believing? He replied,
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For not believing that Jesus Christ is his complete
Saviour. She again asked, Must the unbeliever
believe that Jesus Christ is his Saviour ? Must
he believe a lie ? Is Christ the Saviour of the
unbeliever? By this argument he was over
whelmed. His own erroneous definition of faith
was indeed refuted by the questions of the lady ;
but, instead of abandoning that error, and re
garding Christ as the Saviour only of them who
believe, he was led to regard him as the actual
Saviour of all men, believers or unbelievers.
Having lost his wife and child, he came to America
in poverty in Sept., 1770. He preached at Bruns
wick, Xew Jersey, Newport, and Providence, and
first in Boston Oct. 30, 1773 ; afterwards in New-
buryport and New London, in New York and
Pennsylvania. In May, 1775, he was a chaplain
in a Rhode Island regiment. After preaching in
Gloucester, he was established in Boston about
the year 1785, and passed the remainder of his
life there. After six years of helplessness he
died in peace. His widow, Judith, sister of Gov.
Sargent, of Mississippi, a native of Cape Ann,
died at Natchez June 6 1820, aged 69; she wrote
the repository and gleaner, 3 vols., 1798, first
published in Massachusetts magazine, with the
signature of Constantia ; she wrote also poetical
essays, signed Honora Martesia, in Boston weekly
magazine. Mr. M. was a Trinitarian. He re
garded Winchester as a believer in purgatorial
satisfaction, and as teaching that every man is his
own saviour. He believed that myriads of men
would rise to the resurrection of damnation, and
would call on the rocks to hide them from the
wrath of the Lamb; yet he seems to have con
sidered that damnation as ending at the judgment
day, when the judge would separate all men from
sin and death and from the evil angels. He sup
posed that in the day of judgment the devil and
his angels would be placed, as the goats, on the
left hand of the judge, and all men on the right
hand, — in most obvious contradiction to the
Scripture, which says that " all nations " will be
gathered to be separated. This amounts in fact
to a denial of the future judgment. But since
his death Mr. Balfour has explicitly maintained
that there will be no future reckoning day. At
last this error of denying a future judgment, and
thus subverting the moral government of God,
appeared so great and perilous to a number of
Universalist ministers, who assert a future retri
bution, and the punishment, though not everlast
ing, of the wicked, that in Aug., 1831, they
announced their full and entire separation from
the denomination of Universalists, and the estab
lishment of a religious community by the name
of the " Massachusetts Association of Universal
Restorationists." Mr. Murray published letters
and sketches of sermons, 3 vols. His life, by
himself, was published in 1816.
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MURRAY, Joirx, a philanthropist, a brother
of Lindley Murray, died Aug. 4, 1819, aged 61.
He was born in New York, and after acquiring a
fortune as a merchant, retired from business, and
devoted his income and toils to enterprises of be
nevolence, lie was a Quaker. The society for
the manumission of slaves was promoted by his
efforts, and he assisted in founding and support
ing most of the benevolent institutions of New
York, and was liberal in his benefactions. He
exerted himself to effect the repeal of the crim
inal code and to establish the penitentiary sys
tem. For thirty-five years he was a governor of
the New York hospital. Such men of beneficence
deserve to be held in lasting honor.
MURRAY, ALEXANDER, commodore, died Oct.
6, 1821, aged 66. He was born in Chestertown,
Maryland, in 1755. His father was a physician ;
his grandfather, banished from Scotland for ad
hering to the cause of the pretender in 1715, set
tled at Barbadocs. As a lieutenant and captain
in- the army he fought in the battles of White
Plains, Flatbush, and New York, and served till
the close of 1777. He afterwards took the com
mand of a letter of marque. Twice was he taken
prisoner, the second time in the frigate Trum-
bull ; he afterwards served in the Alliance under
Barry until the close of the war. He then suc
cessively commanded the Insurgent and the Con
stellation, and went with a squadron to the
Mediterranean to protect our trade against the
Barbary States. He, at last, commanded the
navy yard at Philadelphia, and died near Ger-
mantown. To great firmness and resolution he
united a mild and serene temper.
MURRAY, JAMES, major, a military adven
turer, died in 1806, aged 41. He was born in
Rhode Island about 1765; his name was Lilli-
bi-idge, which he changed to Murray. In conse
quence of a quarrel with his family, he went to
sea in early life ; in 1790 he arrived at Tranque-
bar, on the coast of Coromandel, and, joining the
Mahrattas, who were at war with the British, he
encountered in their service, during fifteen years,
every kind of peril and hardship. Having dis
pleased Holkar, the chief, by preserving the lives
of British officers, he abandoned his service, and,
raising a large force, occupied as a sovereign a
large district. At length he went over to the
British with seven thousand native cavalry, the
command of which he retained. At the close of
the war, having acquired a large fortune, he de
termined to return to America. A few days be
fore he proposed to set sail he made a splendid
entertainment in Calcutta. After dinner, for the
entertainment of his guests, he mounted a favor
ite Arabian horse, to leap over the table at which
they sat, — a feat which he had often performed.
But the horse, having his feet entangled in the
carpet, threw his rider, who in a few days died of
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the injury. Thus died, the victim of his vanity,
the best horseman in India, the soldier, unrivalled
in the use of the broadsword, who had fought in
many battles.
MURRAY, LINDLEY, a grammarian, died near
York, England, in 1826, aged 81. He was born
of Quaker parents, near Lancaster, Pa. He be
came both a lawyer and a merchant. He pub
lished English grammar, and exercises, and key,
etc., and power of religion ; on reading the Scrip
tures.
MURRAY, WILLIAM, died near Jonesborough,
Tenn., in 1836, aged 111. He was born in Mary
land.
MURRAY, WILLIAM C., a leading merchant
of Charleston, S. C., died in 1856, aged 49.
MUSSEY, B. B., an enterprising and success
ful bookseller in Boston, died Jan. 12, 1857, aged
52. Born in Bradford, Vt., he came to Boston
as a book auctioneer, and became a bookseller in
Cornhill, accumulating a large fortune. Attached
to the doctrine of the Universalists, he was a
liberal donor to Tufts' college; and his bounty
was not limited to his own sect. In politics he
•was an honest and generous member of the Re
publican party.
MUTER, GEORGE, chief justice of Kentucky,
died May 9, 1811. He was a soldier of the
Revolution. He was appointed in 1777 lieuten
ant-colonel of the regiment of artillery, under
Col. Marshall, in Virginia.
MUZZY, Mrs., missionary to Madura, died
Dec. 3, 1846, aged 38. She was the wife of C.
F. Muzzy, missionary : her name was Samantha
B. Robbins, of Wardsborough, Vt. She had
toiled ten years in the missionary service ; at the
time of her death there was great attention to
religion in the boarding-school under her care.
Multitudes of the natives mourned her loss; six
or eight hundred attended her funeral.
NANCREDE, JOSEPH, died in Paris Dec. 15,
1841, aged 81. He came to America in the
army of Rochambeau, and was wounded at York-
town. He lived in Philadelphia and many years
in Boston as a bookseller ; he was also, about
1800, a teacher of the French language at Har
vard college. He edited a French reader,
L'Abeillc Framboise, 1792; and other books.
NASH, FRANCIS, brigadier-general, a soldier
of the Revolution, was a captain in North Caro
lina in 1771, when he distinguished himself by
his firmness and bravery in an action with the
insurgents. In the Revolutionary war he was ap
pointed a colonel by the convention of North
Carolina in Sept., 1775, and brigadier-general in
the continental army in Feb., 1777. In the battle
of Germantown, Oct. 4, 1777, he was mortally
wounded at the head of his brigade, which, with
Maxwell's, formed a corps de reserve under Lord
Stirling.
NEIGHBORS.
NASH, JUDAII, first minister of Montague,
Mass., died Feb. 19, 1805, aged 76, after a min
istry of 52 years. He graduated at Yale in
1748.
NASH, WILLIAM, minister of West Boylston,
Mass., died in 1829, aged 59. He graduated at
Yale in 1791.
NASH, JONATHAN, first minister of Middle-
field, Mass., died in 1834, aged 69. Born in
South Hadley, he graduated at Dartmouth in
1789 ; was settled in 1792 ; and resigned in 1832.
He published a sermon at end of 21st year of his
ministry.
NASH, ANSEL, minister of Windsor, Conn.,
died in 1851, aged 62. He was born in Hart
ford, Vt. ; graduated at Williams in 1809; was
minister of Tolland, Conn., from 1812 to 1831,
when he was settled at Wintonbury in Windsor.
NASON, REUBEN, minister of Freeport, Me.,
died Jan. 15, 1835, aged 56. Born in Dover, N. H.,
he graduated at Harvard in the large class of
1802; was ordained Feb. 7, 1810, and dismissed
in 1815; afterwards he was employed as a teacher.
He published an account of Freeport in historical
collections, second series, vol. IV. — Sprue/lie's
Annals.
NEAL, DANIEL, Congregational minister in
London, died in 1743, aged 65. He published a
history of New England, in two vols., London,
1720 ; also, a history of the puritans, in four vols.
Concerning his history of New England, Dr.
Watts wrote a letter to Dr. C. Mather in 1720,
which is in historical collections, first series,
vol. v. He hoped that Neal's account of perse
cution would do good.
NEAL, JOSEPH C., died at Philadelphia July
18, 1847, aged 40. Born at Greenland, N. H.,
his father had been a teacher at Philadelphia, and
was a preacher at G. Mr. N. was early an editor,
first of the Pennsylvania!!, begun in 1831, then in
1844 of Saturday's Gazette. He was a writer of
humor, a good descviber of the loafer. He
published illustrated volumes, entitled charcoal
sketches. — CycL of Amer. Lit.
NEALE, LEONARD, Catholic archbishop of
Baltimore, died at Washington June 18, 1817,
aged 70 ; the successor of Dr. John Carroll.
NEALE, CHARLES, a Catholic minister, super
intendent of the Jesuits in the United States,
died at Mount Carmel, Maryland, April 27, 1823,
aged 74. He had been appointed for the third
time to his station.
NECKERE, LEON DE, D. D., Catholic bishop
of New Orleans, died in Sept., 1833.
NEFF, MARY, the brave woman, a prisoner
with the Indians, who, with Hannah Duston and
a boy, killed their Indian masters and gained
their freedom, bringing home with them ten In
dian scalps. This was in 1697.
NEIGHBORS, Mr., died in Laurens, S. C., in
NELSON.
1798, aged 114. His wife died aged 109. They
were both from Pennsylvania, and had been mar
ried eighty years. — Ramsay's S. C., II. 421.
NELSON, PHILIP, an early fanatic or impos
tor, died in 1691. He was the son of Thomas,
and came to New England with his father in
1638, and graduated at Harvard in 1654, the only
graduate of that year. lie made trouble in the
church of Rowley, by pretending to cure a deaf
and dumb boy, in imitation of Jesus Christ, by
saying Ephphatha. The ministers were called
together and interrogated him ; but " there he
stood," as say the records, " like a deaf and dumb
boy, as he was." It is not stated whether this
inquiry cured the impostor of his pretence, or his
dupes of their folly.
NELSON, Jonx, a patriot in 1689, was the
leader of the soldiers who made Gov. Andros of
Massachusets, prisoner. In the opinion of Hutch-
inson he was not raised to merited office by the
people, because he was an Episcopalian. While
on a trading voyage he was captured and carried
to Quebec, and confined two years. His provi
dential release was as follows : A gentleman, who
called at his grate, asked him what service he
could render him ; and kindly sent a letter which
Mr. N. had written, to his friend, Sir P. Temple,
in England, who procured his freedom. He after
wards fell into the Bastile at Paris.
NELSON, THOMAS, governor of Virginia, a
patriot of the Revolution, died Jan. 4, 1789, aged
50. He was born at York, being the eldest son
of Wm. N., a rich merchant. At the age of
fourteen he was sent to England for his educa
tion. At the university of Cambridge Beilby
Porteus was his tutor. In 1761 he returned to
this country. Being a member of the general
convention of Virginia in 1775, he introduced a
resolution for organizing a military force. la
Aug., 1775, he was appointed a member of con
gress ; in the next year he signed the declaration
of independence ; but ill health in 1777 induced
him to resign his seat. He was soon appointed
brigadier-general and commander-in-chief of the
forces of the colony. He also aided the cause of
his country by his property. In 1781 he suc
ceeded Mr. Jefferson as governor of Virginia.
His efforts in the prosecution of the war were
very important, and were particularly noticed by
Gen. Washington after the capture of York, in
his general orders, Oct. 20, 1781. In about a
month afterwards his ill health caused him to re
sign the office of chief magistrate. An act was
passed, Dec. 31st, to legalize certain acts of his
administration, which, owing to peculiar circum
stances, were done without the advice of the
council. He died at his estate in Hanover. His
wife was the daughter of Philip Grymes of Bran
don. He had four brothers, zealous iriends of
the Revolution; of these, the last, Robert N.,
NETTLETON.
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died at Malvern Hills in Aug., 1818, aged 66. As
a soldier he was active and intrepid. Most ar
dently was he attached to civil and religious lib
erty. He was refined in manners, social, and
benevolent. — Goodrich ; Eucy. Amer. ; Dwighfs
Sketches.
NELSON, WILLIAM, chancellor, died at Wil-
liamsburg, Virginia, July 10, 1813 ; professor of
law in the college of William and Mary.
NELSON, ROGER, general, a soldier and pat
riot of the Revolution, was for many years a dis
tinguished member of congress from Maryland.
He died at Fredericktown June 7, 1815, at an
advanced age.
NELSON, JOSEPH, LL.D., the blind professor
of Latin and Greek in Rutgers college, New
York, died in 1830. He succeeded Dr. Brownlee,
and was succeeded by Dr. McClelland. So great
were the powers of his memory, that he was an
excellent teacher. — Cyclopedia of American
Literature.
NELSON, HUGH, American minister to Spain,
died in Albemarle county, Virginia, March 18,
1836. He was speaker of the house, judge of
the general court, and member of congress from
1811 to 1823.
NELSON, JEREMIAH, died at Newburyport in
1838, aged 60 ; a man much respected. He was
a member of congress from 1805 to 1807, and
from 1815 to 1823.
NELSON, DAVID, a physician and minister,
died near Quincy, Illinois, Oct. 17, 1844, aged
about 51, a native of East Tennessee. He had
an epileptic illness of several years. Though his
parents were pious, yet through the influence of
irreligious companions he became a sceptic. Hav
ing studied medicine, he entered upon a profita
ble practice ; but, after a while, as he thoroughly
investigated the subject of religion, he was con
vinced of the truth of the gospel, and embraced
with a sincere and earnest spirit the profession
of a minister, and for the remainder of his life
devoted himself to this method of doing good,
preaching in wide circuits. He did not deal so
much in argument and reasoning as in anecdote
and analagous illustration. His work on the
cause and cure of Infidelity was published by the
tract society, 1841. He gives in it his own reli
gious history. — N. T. Observer, Jan. 4, 1845.
NELSON, LEVI, minister of Lisbon, Conn.,
died Dec. 17, 1855, aged 76, in the fifty-second
year of his ministry. He was born in Milford,
Mass., and was a faithful, useful minister, with
scarcely any interruption in his long labors. He
preached five thousand and one hundred different
sermons. His death was calm and serene. He
bequeathed 1000 dollars to his parish, provided
they did not settle as his successor a man em
bracing what was called the New Haven theology.
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evangelist or itinerant preacher, died at East
Windsor, Conn., May 16, 1844, aged 60. Born
in Killingworth, the son of a farmer in rather
humble circumstances, he was compelled to toil
in order to provide for his education. lie grad
uated at the age of twenty-five at Yale in 1809.
He wished to be a foreign missionary ; but he
was led to a different field of labor. For ten
years, from 1812 to 1822, he was constantly em
ployed as an evangelist ; and revivals everywhere
attended his preaching ; as in thirty-two towns
of Connecticut; in Pittsfield, Lenox, Lee, and
Wilbraham of Massachusetts ; and in Saratoga,
Ballston, Malta, Milton, Schenectady, and Nas
sau of New York. In some of these towns a
hundred or more of persons were through his
labors added to the church. He usually preached
three times on the Sabbath and several times
during the week. A long illness of typhus fever
now occurred at the house of his friend, Rev. Mr.
Parmelee of Bolton, who caught the disease and
died of it. When his health was restored, he
resumed his toils. He preached in Albany, in
New York, and in Virginia. In 1831 he went to
Great Britain. When the theological institute
was founded at East Windsor, in 1833, he was
invited to a professorship, which he did not ac
cept ; but he resided in East Windsor, and gave
lectures. Dr. N. had great discernment, judg
ment, and skill in promoting the cause of religion.
He was solemn and earnest, and he presented
important truths most clearly; but he was not
endowed with a glowing fancy. Yet, in describ
ing the condition of sinners, he ended with the
words, " lost, lost, lost," with wonderful effect. He
was never married. He published village hymns.
— Sprague's Annals.
NEUFVILLE, EDWARD, D. D., long the rec
tor of Christ church in Savannah, died Jan. 1,
1851. He was a native of Newport, II. I.
NEVELING, GILBERT W., pastor of the Ger
man reformed church at Amville, N. J., died in
1844, aged 93. In the Revolutionary war he
preached to the battalions in New Jersey in the
cause of freedom.
NEVILLE, PRESLEY, general, died near Ne
ville, Ohio, in 1818, aged 62. Born in Virginia,
he graduated at the university of Philadelphia,
and entered the army at the age of nineteen.
He served several campaigns as the aid of Lafay
ette. He was a prisoner from the surrender of
Charleston to the close of the war. The battles
in which he fought were those of Princeton,
Trenton, Germantown, Brandywine, and Mon-
mouth. In the latter his horse was killed under
him.
NEVINS, WILLIAM, D. D., died at Baltimore
Sept. 14, 1835, aged 37. He was settled about
1820.
NEVINS, RUSSELL II., died in New York
Nov. 27, 1853 ; long a broker and banker. A
member of Mercer street church, he devoted his
last years to benevolent labors. The New York
hospital shared his liberality.
NEWBY, Mrs., died in Laurens, South Caro
lina, after 1800, aged 112. — Ramsay.
NEWELL, TIMOTHY, one of the selectmen of
Boston, kept a diary in 1775 and 1776, when the
city was shut up. It is published in historical
collections, 4th series, vol. I.
NEWELL, SAMUEL, minister of Bristol, once
a part of Farmington, Conn., died in 1789, aged
about 70. He graduated at Yale in 1739, and
was settled in 1747, and was succeeded by G. H.
Cowles.
NEWELL, ABEL, minister of Goshen, Conn.,
died in 1813, aged about 84. He graduated at
Yale in 1751.
NEWELL, SAMUEL, a missionary at Bombay,
died May 30, 1821, aged about 35. He was born
at Durham, Maine, and was graduated at Har
vard college in 1807, and studied theology at
Andover. With Judson, Nott, and Mills, he
offered himself as a missionary to the general
association of ministers at Bradford, June 27,
1810 ; was ordained at Salem with Hall, Judson,
Nott, and Rice, Feb. 6, 1812 ; and sailed on the
19th for Calcutta. On his arrival he was ordered
by the Bengal government to leave the country.
Proceeding first to the Isle of France, he suffered
the affliction of losing his wife and child : he
afterwards went to Ceylon, and was useful in pre
paring the way for the subsequent mission in that
island. He afterwards joined Mr. Hall at Bom
bay, and in 1817 was joined by Mr. Graves and
Mr. Nichols. He continued at Bombay a faithful
laborer in the service of Jesus Christ until his
death. He was seized with the epidemic, spas
modic cholera, in the morning of May 29th, and
died without being able to say any thing of his
hopes, at one o'clock the next morning. The
same disease in four years had swept over India,
Burmah, and the Asiatic islands, and hurried mil
lions to the tomb ; in 1832 it prevailed in London
and Paris. A few days before his death he visited
at Tannah many of the sick and dying, from
whom probably he took the disease, as it was
deemed somewhat contagious. At that time
from sixty to one hundred were dying daily in
Bombay. Mr. Newell was very modest and hum
ble, possessed great tenderness of feeling, and
was entirely devoted to the arduous and impor
tant labors of a missionary. He wrote, with Mr.
Hall, the conversion of the world, or the claims
of six hundred millions, etc., 2d edit., 1818. —
Sprague's Annals.
NEWELL, HARRIET, the wife of the preced
ing, the daughter of Moses Atwood of Haver-
hill, Mass., died Nov. 30, 1812, aged 19. She
was born Oct. 10, 1793, and received an excellent
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education. At the age of fifteen she made a pro
fession of religion. She sailed with her husband
from Calcutta for the Isle of France, Aug. 4, 1812 ;
about three weeks before her arrival she became
the mother of a daughter, who died on the fifth
day, Oct. 13, and was buried in the ocean. In a
few weeks Mrs. Newell died of the consumption
at the Isle of France. She departed in the peace
and triumph of an eminent Christian. In writing
to her mother, Mr. Newell said : " Come, then,
let us mingle our griefs and weep together ; for
she was dear to us both; and she too is gone.
Yes, Harriet, your lovely daughter, is gone, and
you will see her face no more ! Harriet, my own
dear Harriet, tl*e wife of my youth and the desire
of my eyes, has bid me a last farewell, and left
me to mourn and weep ! Yes, she is gone. I
wiped the cold sweat of death from her pale,
emaciated face. O Harriet, Harriet ! for thou
wast very dear to me, — thy last sigh tore my
heart asunder, and dissolved the charm which
tied me to the earth." Her mother, Mary
Atwood, died July 4, 1853, aged 84 ; her father
died in 1808. Her life, written by Dr. Woods,
has passed through many editions. The cause
of missions was greatly promoted by the delinea
tion of her character and the description of her
sufferings.
NEWELL, JONATHAN, minister in Stow, Mass.,
died in 1830, aged 81. Born in Needham, he
graduated at Harvard in 1770. John Gardner,
his predecessor, died at the age of 80. His suc
cessor, John L. Sibley, was settled in 1829. He
published a sermon, 1783; review of fifty years,
1825.
NEWELL, HEPZIBAH, Mrs., died in Monson,
Mass., Sept. 22, 1834, aged 103.
NEWELL, ISRAEL, died in Durham, Maine,
in 1846, aged 51, a graduate of Bowdoin in 1819.
For thirteen years from 1822 he was the princi
pal of Kimball union academy, Plainfield, N. II.,
teaching more than twelve hundred youth and
fitting two hundred for college. He was a
preacher. His wife was E. M. Whittlesey of
Cornish. — Mirror, Feb. 19.
NEWHALL, TIMOTHY, general, died at Stur-
bridge, Mass., Feb. 5, 1819, aged 76. Born in
Needham in 1742, he was at first a mechanic,
then a merchant and farmer. He entered the
army as brigade-major, and rose to the rank of
colonel. In Shay's rebellion he was also called
into active service ; he was also a senator and
councillor. Of a noble person and dignified man
ners, he was also a most agreaable companion.
One daughter married Dr. Ephraim Allen of
Salem, N. Y., and another married Judge C. J.
Savage of New York. — Washburn's Sketch of
Leicester Academy.
NEWMAN, FRANCIS, governor of New Haven
from 1658 till his death in 1661, was an agent to
seek redress in 1653 from Stuyvesant, the Dutch
governor at Manhadoes, and was secretary under
Eaton. He was a man of benevolence and piety.
NEWMAN, SAMUEL, first minister of Iteho-
both, Mass., died July 5, 1663, aged 63. He was
born at Banbury, Eng., in 1600, and was educated
at Oxford. He came to this country in 1636.
After his arrival he spent a year and a half at
Dorchester, and then, becoming the pastor of the
church at Weymouth, continued there about five
years. In 1644 he removed with a part of his
church and settled at Rehoboth, now Seekonk.
While he was indefatigable in his study of the
Scriptures, and animated and zealous in his
preaching, he was also hospitable, charitable, and
pious. In his last illness he sent for one of his
deacons, and, after requesting him to make a
prayer, said : " And now, ye angels of the Lord,
come and do your duty." He then immediately
expired. His daughter, Hope, married Rev. G.
Shove. He compiled a concordance of the Scrip
tures, which was published in London in a thick
folio, 5th edit., 1720. While he was at Rehoboth
he revised it, using pine knots in the night in
stead of candles. It passes under the name of
the Cambridge concordance. — Magnolia, HI.
113-116.
NEWMAN, ANTIPAS, second minister of Wen-
ham, Mass., died in 1672. The son of Rev. Sam
uel N., he began to preach at Wenham in 1657 ;
was ordained in 1663 ; and married in 1668,
Elizabeth, daughter of Gov. Winthrop. She
afterwards married Z. Endicott of Salem. —
Farmer ; Sprague ; Miss Caulkins.
NEWMAN, NOAH, the successor of his father,
Samuel N., as the minister of Rehoboth, died
April 16, 1676. He was settled in March, 1668.
His wife was Joanna, daughter of Rev. Henry
Flynt. After his death the people voted to give
his widow 15 pounds and wood ; a very creditable
act. To his successor, Mr. Angier, they offered
40 pounds a year, of which 10 was to be money,
with a prospect of augmentation. — Baylies'
Plymouth.
NEWMAN, JOHN, minister of Edgartown,
Mass., died in 1763. He was graduated at Har
vard in 1740; was ordained in 1747, and dis
missed in 1758. The sermon at his ordination,
by T. Balch, was published. His predecessors
were Mayhew, Dunham, and Wiswall.
NEWMAN, SAMUEL P., professor of rhetoric
and oratory at Bowdoin college, died Feb. 10,
1842, aged 45. He was the son of Mark New
man of Andover, now living aged 84, whose
father lived in Ipswich, and died aged above 90.
He was graduated at Bowdoin college in 1816.
He was the first professor in his department from
1824 to 1839. Then he took charge of the State
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normal school at Barre, Mass. But disease soon
cut him down in the midst of life. He published
a system of rhetoric, and a treatise on political
economy.
NEWMAN, MARK II., hrother of Professor
N., died in Brooklyn, Dec. 22, 1852^ aged 47.
His wife, Mary Dickinson of Amherst, Mass.,
died the same year, aged 43. He was a pub
lisher in New York, a man of enterprise and
success in business, and a Christian held in high
esteem.
NEWMARCH, JOHN, minister of Kittery, Me.,
died Jan. 15, 1754, aged about 80. He was grad
uated at Harvard in 1690. He lived at Kittery
point, on the east side of the Piscataqua, opposite
Portsmouth, in 1699, and had land as the min
ister, but a church was not gathered until 1714,
when he was ordained, Nov. 4th. Col. Pepperell,
the father of Sir William P., was a member of
his church at its organization, consisting of eight
een men and twenty-five women. Mr. Stevens
in 1751 became his colleague, on account of his
infirmity. — • Sprague's Annals.
NEWTON, ROGER, the first minister of Far-
mington, Conn., died June 6, 1683, aged about
63. He was born in England, and ordained the
first minister of Farmington about Oct. 13, 1652,
and removed to Milford in 1660. He died greatly
lamented. His wife was Mary, the eldest daugh
ter of Rev. Thomas Hooker. To her eldest child
Governor Hopkins bequeathed 30 pounds, out of
respect, perhaps, to her father. His daughter,
Sarah, married Rev. John Wilson of Medfield. —
Sprague's Annals ; Farmer.
NEWTON, ROGER, colonel and judge, died
at Milford, Conn., in 1771, aged 86. He was
distinguished in the expeditions of 1709 and 1710.
These lines are a part of his epitaph :
" Newton, as steel inflexible from right
In faith, in law, in equity, in fight."
NEWTON, CHRISTOPHER, Episcopal minister
of Stratford, Conn., died in 1787, aged about 70.
He graduated at Yale in 1740.
NEWTON, ROGER, D. D., minister of Green
field, Mass., died Dec. 10, 1816, aged 79. He
was born at Durham, Conn., May 23, 1737 ; was
graduated at Yale college in 1758 ; was ordained
Nov. 18, 1761, and had Gamaliel S. Olds as his
colleague for a few years. His wife was Abigail
Hall of Middletown. His son, Roger, educated
at Yale college and a tutor, died Aug. 19, 1789.
He was a faithful, useful minister, prudent and
courteous and amiable in all the relations of life.
NEWTON, Mrs., the wife of Samuel N., mis
sionary to the Osages, died at Shawneetown, 111.,
May 9, 1821. She was taken ill while descend
ing the Ohio in a boat. Her end was peace.
NEWTON, MRS., wife of Samuel N., mission
ary to the Arkansas Cherokees, died at the forks
of Illinois in 1835, aged 33. Born in Rockawaj
N. J., she joined the mission among the Osaget,
in 1820, as the wife of J. Scely. In 1827, after
her marriage with Mr. Newton, they were trans
ferred to the missionary field, where she died.
She had been fourteen years in the service. She
died in peace and triumph.
NEWTON, THOMAS, for thirty years a mem
ber of congress from Virginia, died at Norfolk in
1847, aged 78.
NIBLET, SOLOMON, died Oct. 15, 1815, in
Laurens district, South Carolina, aged 143. Born
in England, he emigrated to Maryland, and
thence in 1765 to South Carolina. He never lost
his teeth nor eye-sight. The public journal,
which states these facts, also says, that a few days
before his death he joined a hunting party and
killed a deer. Whether in this account there is
some mistake or some invention, there are no
means at hand of deciding.
NICENS, DAVID, a Baptist colored minister,
died in Cincinnati, Ohio, Sept. 14, 1838, aged 43.
NICHOLAS, WILSON CARY, governor of Vir
ginia, died at Milton Oct. 10, 1820. He was an
officer in the war of the Revolution, and a mem
ber of the convention which ratified the constitu
tion of the United States. He was for years a
distinguished member of the house of represent
atives and of the senate of the United States,
being chosen senator from Virginia in Dec., 1799,
in the place of Henry Tazewell, deceased. He
ably supported the measures of Jefferson's admin
istration. Accepting the office of collector of the
ports of Norfolk and Portsmouth in 1804, he re
signed his seat in the senate. He was afterwards
a member of the house; but he resigned his seat
in 1809. In 1814 he succeeded James Barbour
as governor, and was succeeded by Col. James
Preston in 1817. He published a letter to his
constituents, 1809.
NICHOLET, CHARLES, came from Virginia to
Salem in 1672, and was assistant minister to Mr.
Higginson. He was invited to settle for lii'e ; but
a difficulty sprung up as to the manner of his
support, whether by voluntary contribution or
otherwise, and he removed to Lynn in 1674, but
went to England in 1676.
NICHOLS, MOSES, a physician and colonel,
distinguished in the battle of Bennington, Aug.
17, 1777, died at Amherst, N. II., in May, 1790,
aged 49. He commanded the troops sent by
Stark to the rear of the enemy's left wing. He
held at last the rank of brigadier-general of the
militia. He practised many years as a physician,
and held various offices. His son, Moses, a phy
sician and judge, lived in Canada.
NICHOLS, Joiix, missionary to Bombay, was
ordained at Boston with the missionaries, Swift,
Graves, Parsons, and Buttrick, Aug. 2, 1817, and
sailed for Bombay, with his wife and Allen Graves
NICHOLS.
and his wife, and Philomela Thurston, Sept. 5,
1817, and arrived Feb. 23, 1818. After toiling
in his benevolent work nearly seven years, he died
of a fever at Bombay, Dec. 10, 1824.
NICHOLS, PIIIXEAS, deacon, died at Haver-
hill, Mass., in 1838, aged 98. He was at the cap
ture of Louisbourg in 1758, and took an active
part in the war of the Revolution.
NICHOLSON, JAMES, a naval officer, died
Sept. 2, 1804 or 1806, aged 68. He descended
from ancestors who were the early settlers of
Maryland, was born in Chestertown in 1737, and
was trained to the sea with two brothers, who
were afterwards commanders in the navy. Hav- 1
ing married, he resided in the city of New York
from 1763 till 1771, when he returned to the
eastern shore of Maryland. In 1776 he was put
in command of the Maryland ship-of-war, the
Defence, in which in March he recaptured several
vessels which the British had taken. In 1778 he
was intrusted with the command of the Trumbull,
a frigate of thirty-two guns, in which, June 2,
1780, he fought a severe battle of three hours
with the "VVyatt, losing about thirty men, when
the vessels parted. He was afterwards captured
and carried into New York, where he continued
to live after his release at the close of the Avar.
During the controversy concerning Jay's treaty,
he was at the head of the opponents to it in New
York. In 1801 he succeeded Mr. Clarkson as
commissioner of loans for the State of New York.
He died near New York. His three daughters
married Albert Gallatin, William Few, and John
Montgomery, a member of congress and mayor
of Baltimore : it is remarkable, that Mr. Mont
gomery and Col. Few were buried on the same
day, in 1828.
NICHOLSON, SAMUEL, commodore in the
American navy, and probably brother of the
preceding, died at Charlestown, Mass., in 1811,
aged 69.
NICHOLSON, JOSEPH HOPPER, chief judge
of the sixth judicial district, and a judge of the
court of appeals of Maryland, died March 4,
1817, aged 47 years. His talents were invigor
ated by a good education. For many years he
was a conspicuous member of congress. He was
appointed a judge in 1805. On the bench his
dignity, integrity, and abilities commanded re
spect. In private life he was amiable and be
loved. He was succeeded by Walter Dorsey.
NICHOLSON, JESSE, a Methodist minister,
died at Portsmouth, Va., in 1834, aged 74.
NICHOLSON, JOHN B., commodore, died at
Washington Nov. 9, 1846. He was a midship
man in 1805 ; was in the United States when she
captured the Macedonian, and in the Peacock in
the engagement with the Epervier.
NICOLL, JOHN, M. D., a physician in New
York, died Oct. 2, 1743, aged 63. He was a na-
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tive of Scotland, and was educated at Edinburgh.
Retaining the highest attachment to the doctrine,
constitution, and discipline of the church of Scot
land, after his arrival in this country he was one
of the principal founders and benefactors of the
first Presbyterian church in New York, which was
established in 1719. He spent a considerable
part of his estate in erecting a house of worship.
As a physician he was unwearied in his attention
to his patients. The poor he cheerfully visited
without the prospect of reward. His life was
distinguished for benevolence and piety.
NICOLLET, J. N., an eminent mathematician
and astronomer, died in Washington Sept. 11,
1843, aged about 48. He was born at or near
Sallenches in Savoy, between Geneva and Mont
Blanc. He was a favorite pupil of La Place in
Paris. For the last ten years he lived in this
country, engaged in researches, chiefly in the em
ployment of the government. He explored the
regions beyond the Mississippi and the Missouri,
and completed a map and partly prepared a re
port. He wrote various books, treatises, and
memoirs. — Boston Advertiser, September 20,
1843.
NICOLL S, RICHARD, colonel, first English
governor of New York, was commissioned in
1664, with Carr, Cartwright, and Maverick, to
determine complaints and appeals in all causes,
military, criminal, and civil, throughout New
England. Nicolls proceeded to Manhattan and
obliged Stuyvesant, the Dutch governor, to capit
ulate Aug. 27, 1664, and gave to New Amster
dam the name of New York. Sept. 14th, fort
Orange was captured, and called Albany. He
established a regular government at New York.
The purchase of lands from the Indians on Long
Island was prohibited, except with a license from
the governor. In 1667 he retired from the gov
ernment with honor, and was succeeded by Love
lace, who purchased Staten Island from the
natives.
NILES, SAMUEL, minister of Braintree, Mass.,
died May 1, 1762, aged 88. He was a descend
ant of John Niles, who lived in Braintree from
1639 till his death, in Feb., 1694; was born on
Block Island May 1, 1674, and graduated at Har
vard college in 1699. He afterwards preached
for some time in Rhode Island, in a district called
Ministerial Lands, from 1702 to 1710. In 1710
he removed from Kingston to Braintree, where
he was ordained minister of the second church
May 23, 1711. In 1759, sixty years after he re
ceived the first honors of the college, he took the
degree of master of arts. His first wife, a daugh
ter of P. Thacher of Milton, died in 1716; his
second, Ann Coddington, died in 1732. He pub
lished a brief and sorrowful account of the present
churches in New England, 1745; -vindication of
divers important doctrines, 8vo., 1752; Scripture
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doctrine of original sin, in answer to Taylor, 8vo.,
1757. His history of the Indian and French
wars is in historical collections, third series, vol.
VI., making one hundred and twenty-four pages,
and unfinished. — Sprague's Annals.
NILES, THOMAS, first minister of Rumney,
N. II., died about 1788, aged about 50. Born in
East Haddam, he graduated at Yale in 1758.
He was settled in 17G7 and dismissed in 1788.
NILES, SAMUEL, minister of Abington, Mass.,
died Jan. 16, 1814? aged 70. He was the son of
Mr. Samuel X., who was distinguished in public
life ; was born in Braintree in 1743, and graduated
at Princeton college in 1769. He was ordained
Sept. 25, 1771; his predecessors were Samuel
Brown, Avho died in 1749, and Ezekiel Dodge,
who died in 1770. After suffering from the palsy
about two years, he died Jan. 16, 1814, aged 69.
His successor was Holland Weeks. His wife was
a daughter of his predecessor, E. Dodge. He
was a faithful, useful minister, and a man of a
vigorous mind, inclined to metaphysical investi
gations. He published some remarks on a ser
mon by John Reed, 1813 ; a sermon on the death
of Washington, 1800 ; before missionary society,
1801. — Panoplist, X. ; Sprayue's Annals.
NILES, SAMUEL, died at Lebanon, Conn., May,
1804, aged 93. He graduated at Cambridge in
1731, and was a councillor of Massachusetts and
a justice of common pleas for Suffolk.
NILES, JOHN, a minister, died at Bath, Steu-
ben county, N. Y., in 1812, aged about 35. He
graduated at Yale in 1797.
NILES, NATHANIEL, judge, died in West Fair-
lee, Vt, in Nov., 1828, aged 87. He was the
brother of Rev. Samuel N. of Abington, and was
born in South Kingston, R. I. ; graduated at
Princeton in 1769. He was for a time a student
of medicine and law, and then of theology under
Dr. Bellamy, and preached in various places, but
was never settled. He resided in Norwich, Conn.,
where he married a daughter of Elijah Lothrop,
a man of Avealth. Here he invented a method
of making wire from bar iron, by water power, —
the first invention of the kind. He also erected
a woollen card manufactory. Purchasing land in
Vermont, he was the first settler in West Fairlee.
He became speaker of the house and judge of
the supreme court; also, a member of congress;
and six times an elector of president. He was a
metaphysician, a defender of the taste scheme.
For twelve years he preached in his own house.
He wrote the American hero, a celebrated sap-
phic ode on the Avar, which was set to music, and
was the war-song of the Revolution. It begins
with the lines,
" Why should vain mortals tremble at the sight of
Death and destruction in the field of battle? "
It is in the New York Observer, Aug. 21, 1851 ;
also in the cyclopedia of American literature.
He published four discourses on secret prayer,
1773; two on confession and forgiveness ; two on
God the fountain of good, 1777 ; on vain amuse
ments ; a letter on the power of sinners to make
new hearts, 1809. — Sprague's Annals.
NILES, HEZEKIAH, died at Wilmington, Del.,
April 2, 1839, aged 62. For twenty-five years
he was the editor of Niles' Weekly Register, at
Baltimore. In his character he was esteemed.
He published his Register in twelve volumes
from 1812 to 1817 ; in twelve volumes from 1817
to 1823; in eight volumes from 1823 to 1827.
NILES, GEORGE, died in Shaftsbury, Vt., May
19, 1846, aged 105 yrs. and 9 mos. He served in
the French and Indian war at the age of 16.
NILES, WILLIAM WATSON, a minister, died at
La Porte, Indiana, in 1854, aged 57, a graduate
of Dartmouth in 1820.
NILES, JOHN M., died at Hartford May 31,
1856, aged 68; he was a senator of the United
States eleven years, and the efficient postmaster-
general under President Van Burcn. He died of
a cancer on his cheek. He had no children. He
published the life of Perry.
NINIGRETT, sachem of Niantick, or Nehan-
tick, or Nayantick, was one of the Narragansett
chiefs at the settlement of Rhode Island by the
whites. His name is variously written, Ninegret,
Nincgrad, Ninicrete, Ninicraft, Nynigrett. He
was the uncle of Miantunnomu ; but in the war
of the latter with the Pequots in 1632 he did not
participate. However, he assisted the English in
the Pequot war of 1637, his country being in the
line of march, and when the division of the two
hundred surviving Pequots was made among the
conquerors, he received twenty and Miantunnomu
eighty. The commissioners of the United Colo
nies, Sept. 20, 1653, determined to make war
with him, and ordered two hundred and fifty sol
diers to be immediately raised. He was suspected
of joining in a plot with the Dutch for the de
struction of the English colonies, for he had spent
the preceding winter at Manhadoes with Stuyve-
sant, the Dutch governor, and had visited the
western Indians. The commissioner from Massa
chusetts Avas opposed to the war, and, as that
colony did not concur in the measure, it AA'as not
prosecuted. In the mean while Ninigrett Avaged
his AArar Avith the Long Island Indians ; and, re
fusing to appear at Hartford, Avar Avas again de
termined on in Sept., 1654. Maj. S. Willard
marched from Massachusetts into the Narragan
sett country to demand the Pequots under Nini
grett, and tribute ; he brought off one hundred
Pequots, but Ninigrett had fled. His country
, was not laid Avaste, probably from the forbearance
of Massachusetts, averse to the war. Oct. 13,
! 1660, he and Scuttup and other chiefs mortgaged
their territory to II. Atherton and his partners,
and delivered possession by turf and tAvig at Pet-
NISBET.
tequamscot in 1662. lie did not join in Philip's
•war, and in consequence his tribe escaped the
ruin which came upon the other tribes. The
time of his death is not known. In 1761 the
number of his tribe was two hundred and forty-
eight; and there was a sachem Ninigrett, proba
bly his descendant.
NIS13ET, CHARLES, D. D., first president of
Dickinson college, Penn., died Jan. 17, 1804, aged
66. He was born in Scotland, educated in Edin
burgh, and was for many years minister of Mont-
rose. During the struggle between Great Britain
and her colonies, such was his attachment to lib
erty that he dared to lift up his voice in favor of
America. When Dickinson college was founded
at Carlisle in 1783, he was chosen its principal,
though he did not arrive in this country and enter
upon the duties of the office till 1785. His
successors were Atwater, Mason, and Neill. His
imagination was lively and fertile, and his under
standing equally acute and vigorous. He pos
sessed a memory tenacious almost beyond belief,
a solid judgment, and a correct taste. He could
repeat with great facility all the beautiful and
striking passages of the classic authors. He was
acquainted both Avith the ancient learned lan
guages, and with the modern languages of Europe.
His lectures in the college, which were designed
to communicate the elements of knowledge, were
plain and simple, but rich in solid learning. In
private life he was a most entertaining companion,
for his humor was excellent and exhaustless. His
penetrating mind perceived relations and con
nections among things which escaped almost
every other, and he was constantly enlivening
conversation with flashes of wit. He was master
of the lively anecdote, the smart repartee, the
keen irony, and the delicate rebuke. His remarks
on men were often severe and cutting, for, being
himself upright, he had a rooted abhorrence of
deceit and chicanery in others. His independ
ent mind scorned the idea of procuring favor or-
insuring popularity by any means inconsistent
with the most dignified and virtuous sentiments,
and he had no respect for the man who, to obtain
the one or the other, would cringe to the multi
tude. His manners were gentle, unassuming,
simple, and in the common affairs and traffic of
this world he was a very child. His temper was
cheerful, his morals unimpeached, his piety un
questioned. As the principal of a college, as a
minister of the gospel, as a true patriot, as a good
man, he has not often been surpassed. His posthu
mous works were published about 1806 ; his
memoirs, by Dr. Miller, were published in 1840.
— Ci/cl. of Arner. Literature.
NITSCHMAN, DAVID, died in Bethlehem April
14, 1758, aged 81. He felled the first tree at B.
and built the first house.
NIXON, JOHN, brigadier-general, a soldier of
NOBLE.
GOO
the Revolution, died March 24, 1815, aged 90.
lie was born at Framingham, Mass., March 4,
1725. He was present as a soldier at the siege
of Louisburg in 1745. After serving in the army
and navy seven years, he returned to his native
place. But he soon again entered the army as a
captain. He fought in the attack on Ticonderoga,
when Abercrombie was defeated, and in the bat
tle of lake George. Afterwards falling into an
ambuscade, he cut his way through the enemy and
escaped, but with the loss of nearly all his party.
In the Revolutionary war, at the head of a com
pany of minute-men, he met the enemy in the
battle of Lexington ; and in that of Bunker Hill
he was distinguished by his bravery at the head
of a regiment, and received a severe wound, from
which he never entirely recovered. He was made
a brigadier-general in Aug., 1776. Washington
intrusted him with the command on Governor's
Island, near New York. He was with Gates in
1777. In the battle of Stillwater a cannon-ball
passed so near his head as to impair permanently
the sight of one eye and his hearing in one ear.
In bad health, he resigned his commission in 1780.
He removed to Middlebury, Vt, in 1803, and
lived with his children. His brother, Col. N., an
officer of the Revolution, was drowned in a voy
age to the district of Maine. For many years
before his death he was a member of a Congre
gational church. He was respected and esteemed
in the various relations of life.
NOAH, an Indian preacher of good character,
lived in 1698 at Nantucket, where there were then
two Indian churches and five congregations. The
other preachers were Muckamuck, Asherman,
Quequenah, Netowah, Peter Hayt, Wunnohson,
Spotso, and Codpogannut.
NOAH, MORDECAI MAJJASSEII, major, died of
apoplexy in New York, March 22, 1851, aged 65.
Born in Philadelphia, he was an apprentice, and
in early life went to Charleston. He was consul
to Morocco from 1813 to 1816. On his return
he established the National Advocate, and after
wards the New York Enquirer, which was merged
in the Courier and Enquirer ; and then the Even
ing Star, merged in the Times and Star. He
also published a weekly paper, the Times. He
was surveyor of the port, and sheriff. He pub
lished travels in England, France, Spain, and the
Barbary States, 1819; on the restoration of the
Jews, 1845.
NOBLE, OLIVER, minister in Newbury, Mass.,
died in 1792, aged 56. Born in Hebron, Conn.,
he graduated at Yale in 1757 ; was ordained at
Coventry, Conn., as successor of J. Meacham in
1759; was dismissed in 1761; settled in New
bury from 1762 to 1783; and then in Newcastle,
N. H., from 1784 till his death. He published a
discourse on church music, 1774; on Boston
massacre, 1775.
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NOBLE.
NOIUUS.
NOBLE, GIDEON, minister of Willington,
Conn., died in 1792, aged about 60. He was
born in Westfield, Mass., and graduated at Yale
in 1755.
NOBLE, JOHN, deacon, a man of benevolence,
died in Portsmouth, N. II., in 1801, aged 67, leav
ing two bridge-shares to the parish poor.
NOBLE, DAVID, judge, an early settler of
"William stown, Mass., died March 4, 1803, aged
58. He was a lawyer, and a prosperous mer
chant.
NOBLE, SETH, died in Ohio in 1807, aged 64.
He was the son of Thomas of Westfield, and
minister of Montgomery, Mass., from 1801 to
1806. At an earlier period he preached in Ban-
gor, Me., before the town obtained an incorpora
tion ; to procure which he carried their petition
to Boston. They asked that the name of the
place might be Lonfield ; but, as he admired the
tune of Bangor, he struck out that word and in
serted Bangor; and such was the music-loving
origin of the name of the city of the Penobscot,
which was incorporated in 1791. In 1792 it had
only 169 inhabitants. — Holland's Hist. II. 100.
NOBLE, OBADIAH, first minister of Orford,
N. H., died in Vermont Feb. 19, 1829, aged 90.
Born in Sheffield, Mass., he graduated at Prince
ton in 1763; was settled in 1771; and dismissed
in 1777.
NOBLE, CALVIN, minister of Chelsea, Vt.,
died in 1834, aged 56. He was a graduate of
Middlebury in the fourth class, in 1805.
NOBLE, PATRICK, governor of South Carolina,
died in Abbeville district in 1840, aged 53. He
graduated at Princeton in 1806; was a lawyer, a
member of the legislature, and governor in 1838;
as his term of office was not expired, the legisla
ture chose a lieutenant-governor. He was intel
ligent, and of an amiable and irreproachable
character, a member of the Presbyterian church.
— Boston Chronicle and Patriot, April 22, 1840.
NODDLE, WILLIAM, took the freeman's oath
at Boston, in 1631. From him Noddle's Island
was named.
NOEL, SILAS M., D. D., a Baptist minister,
died at Lexington, Ivy., in 1839, aged 55.
NORCliOSS, NATHANIEL, a preacher at Lan
caster, became a freeman in Massachusetts, in
1643. He was a first settler of Nashaway, as
Lancaster was called in that year ; and in the
next he became the minister, but in one or two
years returned to England. He was ejected from
his living at Walsingham after the Restoration.
— Felt's Eccl. History.
NORDHEIMER, ISAAC, Dr., died in New
York in 1842, professor of Hebrew and teacher
of German in Union theological seminary.
NORMANDIE, JOHN ABRAHAM DE, a physi
cian, formerly of Bristol, Penn., died at Bellefield,
near Trenton, N. J., Sept. 22, 1805, aged 85.
NORPJS, EDWARD, minister of Salem, had
been a preacher before he arrived in this country
in 1639; he and liis wife Eleanor first joined the
church in Boston; he was ordained at Salem
March 18, 1640, as a colleague with Hugh Peters ;
and died April 10, 1659, aged about 70, having
been 'sole pastor eighteen years. His church did
not adopt the platform of 1648; nor did they
use the New England psalms instead of Ains-
worth's till some years after his death. Mr. Nor-
ris was tolerant, and did not join in the persecution
of the Gortonists and Anabaptists. In 1651 and
1654, when one person was executed for witch
craft in Boston and several others in the colony,
he withstood the delusion of the times. Yet, with
his excellent disposition and enlarged views, he
urged, by his writings, the prosecution of the Avar
against the Dutch, which the commissioners of
the United Colonies had recommended in 1653,
but which was deemed inexpedient by the gov
ernment of Massachusetts. If they did not go
to war, he thought the curse upon Meroz would
be deserved. In this he erred in spirit and judg
ment. He lived in Gloucestershire in England,
and was a teacher as well as minister. He pub
lished in London a treatise on asking for temporal
blessings, and other tracts against Boye and Trask.
— Felt's Ecd. JIist.,381.
NOERIS, JOHN, one of the founders of the
theological seminary in Andover, died Dec. 22,
1808, aged 57. He was for many years a re
spectable merchant in Salem, Mass. March 21,
1808, he gave 10,000 dollars towards establishing
the institution at Andover. This was a day of
unequalled munificence, for on the same day
Messrs. Brown and Bartlett, merchants of New-
buryport, gave towards the same object, the
former 10,000 and the latter 20,000 dollars. Mr.
Norris lived to see the seminary opened on Sept.
28th. His widow, Mary Norris, died at Salem in
1811, bequeathing 30,000 dollars to the theologi
cal seminary at Andover, and the same sum to
trustees for the benefit of foreign missions to the
heathen. In such esteem was he held by his
fellow citizens, that he wan for several years
elected a member of the senate of Massachusetts.
Obtaining through the divine blessing upon his
industry an ample fortune, he considered himself
as the steward of God, and his abundant liberality
flowed in various channels. Though his extreme
self-diffidence prevented him from making a pub
lic profession of religion, yet his house was a
house of prayer, in which the morning and even
ing sacrifice ascended to the mercy-seat, and he
was constant in his attendance on public worship.
Being asked by a friend whether he did not en
tertain a hope that he was a Christian, he replied
in a solemn manner, " I would not relinquish my
hope that I am a child of God, for a thousand
worlds."
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NORRIS, Phcbe, died at Birmingham, Pa., in
1811, aged 109. She had been maintained as a
pauper the last fifty years.
NORRIS, JOHN, a Methodist minister, died at
Windsor, O., in 1840, aged 74.
NORRIS, ISAAC, chief justice of Pennsylvania,
died at Germantown June 3, 1735. lie was a
Quaker, and a highly respected and useful man.
His wife was a daughter of Gov. Lloyd.
NORRIS, THOMAS F., editor of the Olive
Branch, died at Somerville, Mass., Dec. 21, 1853.
NORRIS, EDWARD, an ancient schoolmaster
of Salem, son of Rev. Edward N., died in 1684,
aged 69. He was a member of the church in
1639, and a teacher from 1640 to 1671. — Farm
er's Register.
NORSWORTHY, THOMAS, died at Salem, in
Dec., 1856, aged 99. He had been married six
times and was the father of thirty-three children.
NORTH, JOSEPH, died in Augusta, Me., in
April, 1815, aged 85.
NORTH, WILLIAM, general, died at New York
Jan. 4, 1836, aged 83. He was aid to Baron
Steuben in the Revolutionary war, and afterwards
adjutant-general; a man of unstained integrity,
and highly respected. He was buried at Duanes-
burgh.
NORTH, CALEB, colonel, died at Coventry, Pa.,
Nov. 7, 1840, aged 88. An officer in the Revo
lutionary war, he was afterwards a merchant of
Philadelphia, high sheriff, and president of the
Cincinnati.
NORTH, MILO L., M. D., died at Saratoga
Springs in 1856. For many years he Avas a dis
tinguished physician at the Springs, and was a
man of skill, of honor, and of Christian piety.
NORTON, Jonx, minister in Boston, died April
5, 1663, aged 55. He was born at Starford in
Hertfordshire, England, May 6, 1606, and was
educated at the university of Cambridge. A
lecture was at this time supported at Starford by
a number of pious ministers, and through their
labors Mr.N., who was himself a preacher, though
like many others ignorant of his own character
and unacquainted with the truth as it is in Jesus,
was impressed with a sense of his sin, and by the
agency of the Holy Spirit was brought to re
pentance. The view of his own heart and life,
compared with the holy law of God, almost over
whelmed him with despair; but at length the
promises of the gospel administered to him inex
pressible joy. His attention had been hitherto
occupied in literary and scientific pursuits, but he
now devoted himself exclusively to the study of
theology, and, being by his own experience ac
quainted with repentance, and faith, and holiness,
he preached upon these subjects with zeal and
effect. He soon became eminent. Unable to
submit to the impositions of the establishment, he
embarked for New England in 1634, but a violent
storm obliged him to return. In the following
year he sailed again for this country, and arrived
at Plymouth in October, in company with Mr.
Winslow. lie preached in this town during most
of the winter, and was earnestly invited to take
the charge of the church ; but the state of things
in the colony did not please him. Early in 1636
he removed to Boston, where he was highly re
spected, being consulted by the magistrates in
some of their most difficult affairs. Before the
close of the year he accepted an invitation to set
tle in Ipswich, where a church had been gathered
in 1634. In 1639 Mr. Rogers was established as
his colleague. While minister of Ipswich he
wrote a number of books, which procured him a
high reputation. He assisted in forming the
Cambridge platform, which was adopted in 1648.
After the death of Mr. Cotton at the close of
1652, the church in Boston applied to Mr. Nor
ton to become their minister. He accordingly
preached in that town for some time, with the
consent of his people ; but, after the death of Mr.
Rogers in 1655, they reclaimed him. Though a
number of councils, called upon the occasion, ad
vised his removal to Boston, the inhabitants of
Ipswich declined giving him a dismission. At
length the governor and magistrates were under
the necessity of summoning a council, whose ad
vice or result was followed, as it was considered
as partaking more of the nature of authority.
From this period he was the minister of Boston,
and was eminently useful. After the restoration
of Charles II. it was thought necessary to address
him. Mr. Norton and Simon Bradstreet were
accordingly appointed the agents of Massachu
setts for that purpose. They sailed for England
in Feb., 1662, and returned in September, bring
ing with them a letter from the king, in which he
promised to confirm the charter, but required that
the administration of justice should be in his
name, and that all persons of good and honest
lives should be admitted to the sacrament of the
Lord's supper, and their children to baptism.
The agents, who had faithfully endeavored to
serve the colony, on their return met with a cold
reception, and the smothered grief of Mr. Nor
ton, on account of the ill treatment wliich he re
ceived, it is thought, hastened his end. He died
suddenly. He left no children. Mr. Davenport
succeeded him in the ministry.
Mr. Norton was an eminent scholar and divine.
In controversy he was very acute, for his powerful
talents had been cultivated by an excellent edu
cation, and he was familiar with the subtleties of
the schoolmen. The doctrines, for which he con
tended, were the following : that there is one
God subsisting in three persons ; that the will of
God is the cause of all causes, and second causes
the effects of the first cause ; that the will of man
is an instrument disposed and determined unto
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its action according unto the decree of God, being
as much subordinate to it as the axe is to the
hand of the hewer; that man, even in violating
God's commands, fulfils God's decree ; that the
infallible ordering of the existence of sin for a
better end, and the forbidding of sin, are not at
all inconsistent, but fall under the compass of the
same one volition of God, which cannot be resisted
or defeated ; that God is not the author of sin,
and yet that he does not merely permit it, since
he has decreed it ; that the reprobates freely
commit such a measure of sin, as fits them for
the intended measure of wrath ; that man is a
free agent, having a real efficiency, though sub
ordinate to the first cause, which determines the
second in its operation ; that all mankind par
ticipated in Adam's sin and also have it imputed
to them ; that original sin is the hereditary and
habitual contrariety and enmity of the nature of
man against the whole will of God ; that God has
elected whom in his wisdom and mercy he pleased
to eternal life ; that the conversion of these is
the effect of God's Spirit; that good works are
necessary as the way to salvation, but not as the
cause ; that the only meritorious cause of salva
tion is the active and passive obedience of Jesus
Christ, which is imputed unto those who believe,
and is received by faith alone ; that only the elect
believe in the Redeemer ; that their belief or faith
is the effect of special, absolute, irresistible grace ;
and that the will is passive, not having the nature
of a free agent, in the first reception of grace.
His sermons were written with great care, and in
his extemporary devotional performances there
was a variety and fulness and fervor seldom
equalled. A good man of Ipswich used fre
quently to walk to Boston, a distance of about
thirty miles, to attend the Thursday lecture, and
would say, that it was worth a great journey to
unite in one of Mr. Norton's prayers. His ex
ample, according to Dr. Mather, was so much
followed, that some young ministers were able
to continue their addresses to God for more than
an hour with great propriety ; and without weary
ing those who joined with them. In his natural
temper Mr. Norton was somewhat irascible, but,
being taught by the grace of God to govern his
passions, his renewed heart rendered him meek,
courteous, and amiable. Still, a mistaken zeal for
the truth made him, as it made his contempora
ries, friendly to persecution. He was convinced
that some difference of sentiment must be per
mitted, and wished that an erroneous conscience
should be treated with tenderness ; but when the
fundamental doctrines of Christianity were de
nied, or errors were supported by a contumacious
will, especially if they produced disturbance in
the State, then he thought it indispensably neces
sary to be acquainted, to use his own words,
" with the holy tactics of the civil sword." The
disuse of this instrument, in his opinion, gave op
portunity for the rise of the man of sin ; the
abuse of it maintained him ; but the good use
of it would tend to destroy him. With these
sentiments he probably encouraged the magis
trates in their persecution of the Quakers, who
in return represented to the king and parliament,
that " John Norton, chief priest in Boston, by the
immediate power of the Lord was smitten and
died."
Mr. Norton wrote in Latin a letter to the fa
mous John Dury, which was signed by forty-three
other ministers. A translation of it may be
found in S. Mather's apology. In 1645 he drew
up at the request of the ministers of New Eng
land an answer to a number of questions relating
to church government, which were sent over by
Apollonius under the direction of the divines of
Zealand. This was the first Latin book ever
written in this country. It was published with
the title of responsio ad totum qucestionum syllo-
gen a clariss. viro dom. Gul. Apollonio proposi-
tam, ad componendas controversias in Anglia,
London, 8vo., 1648. He published also a discus
sion of the sufferings of Christ, and the questions
about his righteousness, active and passive, and
the imputation thereof, in answer to a dialogue of
Mr. Pinchin, 12mo., 1653 ; this was written by
the direction of the general court ; the orthodox
evangelist, or a treatise wherein many great evan
gelical truths are briefly discussed, 4to., 1654 ;
election sermon, 1657 ; the life of Mr. Cotton,
1658 ; the heart of New England rent by the
blasphemies of the present generation, a treatise
concerning the doctrine of the Quakers, by the
desire of the general court, 8vo., 1660 ; election
sermon, 1661; a catechism; three choice and
profitable sermons on several texts, being the last
sermons which he preached at the election, at
the Thursday lecture, and on the Sabbath, 1664.
— Mather's Life of Norton ; Sprague's Annals.
NORTON, JOHN, the second minister of Hing-
ham, Mass., died Oct. 3, 1716, aged 66. He was
the nephew of Rev. John N. of Boston, and the
son of William of Ipswich. He graduated at
Harvard in 1671, and was ordained Nov. 27,
1678. He published the election sermon, 1708.
— Lincoln's Hist. Hingham.
NORTON, JOHN, minister of Easthampton in
Chatham, Conn., died in 1778, aged about 61.
He graduated at Yale in 1737, and was settled
in 1748.
NORTON, SETH, minister of Windsor, Conn.,
died in 1762, aged about 32. He graduated at
Yale in 1751.
NORTON, JOHN, first minister of Bernards-
ton, Mass., died March 24, 1778, aged 62. Born
in Berlin, Conn., ho graduated at Yale in 1737 ;
was settled in 1737 ; but resigned in 1741. He
was afterwards minister in Middlctown, Conn.
NORTON.
His predecessors were Russell, Bartlctt, Eells,
and Bowers.
NORTON, JOHN, an Indian chief of the Six
Nations, about the year 1807 translated the Gos
pel of John into Mohawk. The work was printed
in London, at the expense of the bible society,
and distributed among the Mohawks on Grand
river in Canada. Norton's Indian name was
Tryoninhokaraven. His father was an Indian;
his mother was of Scotland. He was educated
at an English school.
NORTON, ICHABOD, colonel, died at Granby,
Conn., in 1825, aged 90. He was a soldier in
the French and Revolutionary wars.
NORTON, MOLLY, widow, died in Chester,
N. II., in 1840, aged 100 ; formerly of Green
land, N. H.
NORTON, ELIAS, Dr., died in Addison, Me.,
June 15, 1846, aged 99. He was surgeon's mate
in the war of the Revolution.
NORTON, HERMAN, secretary of the foreign
Christian union, died in 1850, aged 50. He was
born at New Hartford, N. Y., in 1800, and grad
uated at Hamilton college in 1823. In 1831 he
was pastor of the Union church in Prince street,
New York. In 1837 he was pastor of a church
in Cincinnati ; and in 1843 was secretary of the
American Protestant society. In 1849 he was
associated with Dr. Baird. His widow was a
daughter of Rev. Dr. Flint of Hartford. He had
recently insured his life for 2500 dollars. He
was faithful, benignant, and a man of faith.
NORTON, JOHN P., professor of agricultural
chemistry at Yale college, died at Farmington,
Conn., Sept. 5, 1851, aged 30.
NORTON, ASAIIEL STRONG, D. D., died at
Clinton, N. Y., May 10, 1853, aged 87. Born in
Farmington, Conn., he graduated at Yale in 1790,
and was settled the first minister of C. in 1793.
Among the members of his ordaining council
were Mr. Kirkland and Mr. Sergeant, missiona
ries to the Indians. For forty years he exerted
an important influence in western New York,
when he was induced to resign in consequence of
the new measures, so called, which had affected
the quietude of his church. Yet, living on his
farm, he officiated often as a minister, when his
services were wanted. He was one of the found
ers of Hamilton college at Clinton. His wife
was Mary C. Pitkin, the daughter of Rev. T. Pit-
kin of Farmington. — Sprague's Annals.
NORTON, ANDREWS, 1). D., died at Newport
Sept. 18, 1853, aged 67. His residence was Cam
bridge, where he graduated in 1804, was teacher
of theology from 1813 to 1819, and Dexter pro
fessor of sacred literature from 1819 to 1830 ;
also librarian from 1813 to 1821. He was a son
of Samuel N. of Hingham, a descendant of Rev.
John N., who was a nephew of the celebrated
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John N. of Ipswich and Boston. He married a
daughter of Samuel Eliot of Boston. He pub
lished evidences of the genuineness of the gos
pels ; a discourse on religious education, 1818;
inaugural, 1819 ; review of trustees' address,
1823 ; of character and writings of Byron, 1825 ;
of Channing's sermon, 1826 ; of Mrs. Hemans'
forest sanctuary ; address at the funeral of Mr.
Frisbie, 1822; memoirs of Frisbie; thoughts on
true and false religion, 1820 ; remarks on a re
port of overseers, 1824 ; speech before overseers,
1825.
NOTT, ABRAHAM, died in Saybrook Jan. 24,
1756, aged about 60; the first pastor of the second
church in Pettipaug, or Pautapaug, now Essex.
His father and grandfather both had the name
of John, and lived in Wethersfield. He gradu
ated at Yale in 1720. His wife was Phebe Tap
ping, probably the daughter of John T. of South
ampton, L. I. He was the grandfather of two
memorable men, Rev. Samuel and Rev. Eliphalet
Nott.
NOTT, HENRY JUNITJS, died with his wife in
the wreck of the steamer, the Home, off the coast
of North Carolina, Oct. 18, 1837, aged 40. He
was the son of Judge Abraham Nott of South
Carolina, and was graduated at South Carolina
college, and practised law till 1821, when he de
voted himself to literature. On his return he
was appointed in 1824 professor of belles lettres
in his college. He published novelties of a
traveller, 2 vols., 1834; and various articles in
the southern quarterly. — Cycl. of Amer. Lit.
NOTT, SAMUEL, D. D., the son of Stephen,
and grandson of Rev. Abraham Nott, died in
Franklin, Conn., May 26, 1852, aged 98. He
was born in Saybrook Jan. 23, 1754 ; was gradu
ated at Yale in 1780 ; and was settled in Norwich,
West Farms, now Franklin, March 13, 1782, so
that he was a pastor of his flock seventy years.
He died in consequence of a burn, his gown
having caught fire from a stove. He had a
colleague from 1849 to 1851. His eldest son,
Samuel, was a missionary to the east. Two of
his daughters married ministers, Eli Hyde and
John Hyde ; the former, a graduate of Yale in
1803, was the minister of Hampden and Preston
in Connecticut, and of North Wilbraham, Mass.,
and died in 1848, aged 72. He published a ser
mon at the ordination of A. Hooker, 1812 ; of
J. Aver, 1825 ; on the death of J. Hunt; two on
the death of J. Gurley, 1812 ; of Mr. Williams ;
of J. Benedict, 1816; of Mr. C. Welch; of Z.
Ely, 1824; of A. Lee, 1832; at the election,
1809; to a foreign mission society, 1814; half-
century sermon, 1832 ; on the 60th anniversary
of his ordination, 1842. — Sprague's Annals.
NOURSE, PETER, minister of Ellsworth, Me.,
died at Phippsburg March 25, 1840, aged 64.
614
NOURSE.
NOYES.
Born in Stow, he graduated at Harvard in 1802,
and Avas librarian from 1805 to 1808. He was
minister in Ellsworth from 1812 to 1835.
NOURSE, JOSEPH, died near Georgetown,
D. C., Sept. 1, 1841, aged 87. He was born in
London in 1754 ; emigrated to Virginia in 17G9;
and entered the Revolutionary army in 1776. He
was register of the treasury from 1789 to 1829,
and vice-president of the American bible society.
He was held in high esteem and respect.
NOWELL, INCREASE, secretary of the Massa
chusetts colony, died Nov. 1, 1655. He was
chosen an assistant in England in 1629, and came
to this country with Winthrop in the Arabella,
1630. He was chosen ruling elder August 27th,
but resigned the office in 1632, being convinced
that the offices of ruler in the church and state
were incompatible. Of the church in Charles-
town he was one of the founders in 1632, having
been dismissed from Boston. In 1634 he was
one of the commissioners for military affairs.
He was secretary from 1644 to 1649. In 1649
he entered into the association against wearing
long hair. He died in poverty. The name of
his wife was'Parnell, to whom one thousand acres
of land on Cocheco river, New Hampshire, were
granted, probably as a public acknowledgment of
his faithful services. He left several sons, of
whom Samuel, a graduate of 1653, was a preacher,
an assistant from 1680 to 1686, and an adherent
of the old charter ; and Alexander, who gradu
ated in 1664, was the author of several almanacs.
NOWELL, SAMUEL, died at Cambridge or
Boston in 1688, aged about 55. He graduated
at Harvard in 1653. He was a chaplain under
Gen. Winslow in the Indian battle Dec. 19, 1674,
and evinced the greatest courage while " the balls
whistled around him." He was afterwards a
magistrate and treasurer of the college.
NOWEQ.UA, an Indian, the brother of Uncas,
in 1645 with one hundred and thirty Mohegans
plundered the Nopnut Indians of ten copper ket
tles, fathoms of wampum, hempen baskets, and
bear skins. The next year he committed outra
ges on Fisher's Island. The commissioners re
quired Uncas " to regulate and continue his
brother in a righteous and peaceable frame."
NOYES, JAMES, one of the first ministers of
Newbury, Mass., died Oct. 22, 1656, aged 47.
He was born in Wiltshire, England, in 1608, and
was for some time a student in the university of
Oxford. After he began to preach, as he could
not conscientiously comply with the ceremonies
of the established church, he accompanied his
friend, Mr. Parker, to New England in 1634.
They arrived in the month of May. Mr. Noyes
preached about a year at Mystic, now Medford,
when he was invited to become the minister of
Watertown ; but, as he preferred a settlement
with Mr. Parker, who had removed from Agga-
wam to Newbury, he was established as his col
league in 1635, having the title of teacher. He
continued to discharge with faithfulness the duties
of his office more than twenty years. A long
sickness he bore with patience and cheerfulness.
He left six sons. Mr. Noyes and Mr. Parker
were the most cordial and intimate friends. In
England they instructed in the same school ; they
came to this country in the same ship ; they were
ministers in the same church ; and, as Mr. Par
ker had no family, they lived in the same house.
Mr. Noyes was very much beloved by his people,
for he was humble, gentle, and constantly desir
ous of doing them good. He wras the implaca
ble enemy of heresy and scliism. Though he
could never submit to the ceremonies of the Eng
lish church, he was not so averse to Episcopacy
itself. He did not approve of a governing vote
in the fraternity, and he thought that ecclesiastical
councils should have the power of inflicting cen
sures upon particular churches. He was emi
nently skilled in Greek, and he had read the
fathers and the schoolmen. His memory was
tenacious, his invention rich, and his judgment
profound. While his manners were so amiable,
and his disposition so truly benevolent and affec
tionate, that no one was ever acquainted with
him who did not desire his friendship and society ;
he yet was resolute and determined in his defence
of the truth. He was considered as one of the
most eminent men in his day. He published the
temple measured, or a brief survey of the temple
mystical, which is the instituted church of Christ,
London, 4to., 1647 ; a catechism, which was re
printed in 1797 ; Moses and Aaron, or the rights
of church and state, contained in two disputa
tions, the former concerning the church, the lat
ter asserting the sacredness of the persons of
kings against king-killing, 1661. This was pub
lished by Mr. Woodbridge of England. — Ma
ther's Magnolia, ill. 145-148; Hist. Coll. Til.
242.
NOYES, JAMES, the first minister of Stoning-
ton, Conn., the second son of the preceding, died
Dec. 30, 1719, aged nearly 81. He was born
March 11, 1640, and graduated at Harvard col
lege in 1659, being educated at the expense of
his uncle, Mr. Parker. In the year 1664 he
began to preach at Stonington, where he was
ordained Sept. 10, 1674. He gave religious
instruction to this people fifty-five years. He was
a distinguished preacher, carrying an uncommon
fervor and heavenly zeal into all his public per
formances. His ordinary conversation breathed
the spirit of the Avorld to which he was endeavor
ing to guide his fellow men. In ecclesiastical
controversies he was eminently useful. Being a
friend of literature, he was one of the first trus
tees of Yale college. He was also a councillor
in civil affairs at some critical periods. As a phy-
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NOYES.
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sician he was much consulted, and he gave away
annually the amount of his salary in medicines.
But he most delighted in his ministerial work, for
his tenderness and faithfulness in which he was
highly esteemed and beloved.
NOYES, NICHOLAS, minister of Salem, Mass.,
died Dec. 13, 1717, aged nearly 70. lie was the
son of Nicholas N. and the nephew of Mr. Noyes
of Ncwbury ; was born in that town Dec. 22, 1647.
He was educated at the expense of his uncle, Mr.
Parker, receiving the first honors of Harvard col
lege in 1667. After having preached thirteen
years in Haddam, he removed to Salem, where
lie was ordained as colleague with Mr. Higginson
Nov. 14, 1683. George Curwin was settled with
him in 1714, but died in 1717. Mr. Noyes was
never married. Acquainted with all the litera
ture of the times, and having uncommon talents
for his sacred work, his death was deeply and
generally lamented. He was entertaining and
useful in conversation, of eminent sanctity and
virtue, and always solicitous for the welfare of his
people. But with all his good qualities he un
happily believed the reality of witchcraft, and had
some influence in promoting those legal inquiries
in 1692, which reflect so much disgrace upon the
age. He afterwards, however, publicly confessed
his error without offering any excuse for himself,
or concealing any circumstance; and he visited
and blessed the survivors, whom he had injured,
asking always their forgiveness. Such conduct
reflects the highest honor upon his character. A
letter of his containing an account of James
Noyes is preserved in Mather's magnalia. He
published the election sermon, 1698 ; and a poem
on the death of Joseph Green of Salem village,
1715.— Coll. Hist. Society, vi. 264, 267,273,
286.
NOYES, OLIVER, Dr., died in Boston in 1721,
aged about 48. He graduated at Harvard in
169<3. He was a representative of Boston,
strongly attached to the popular party, and highly
esteemed by the people.
NOYES, MOSES, the first minister of Lyme,
Conn., died Nov. 10, 1729, aged nearly 86. He
•was the son of llev. James N. of Newbury, and
born Dec. 6, 1643 ; was graduated at Harvard in
16.39 ; was ordained in 1693, having preached
there twenty-seven years before the church was
formed.
NOYES, JOSEPH, minister of New Haven,
Conn., died June 14, 1761, aged 72. He was the
son of James N. of Stonington ; was graduated
in 1709 at Yale college, where he was a tutor
from 1710 to 1715 ; and was one of the corpora
tion for many years. Ordained as the successor
of Mr. Pierpont July 4, 1716, the church was
happy under his ministry till 1742, when a sepa
ration was made. Many of his church were dis
trustful of the correctness of his sentiments, and
displeased with his zeal against religious revivals.
The church had been independent, but in Jan.,
1742, he caused them to adopt the Saybrook plat
form. Those who withdrew were formed into a
new church, and finally settled Samuel Bird at
Whitehaven, Oct. 3, 1751. Of the ecclesiastical
council on this occasion were Wheclock, Bellamy,
Graham, Pomeroy, and Hopkins. Mr. Whittle-
sey was settled in 1758 as the colleague of Mr.
Noyes. — Dana's Centen, Discourses.
NOYES, JOHN, the son of llcv. Joseph N.,
died greatly lamented in 1767, aged about 34.
He was a graduate of 1753 and became a preacher;
but from ill health was not settled in the minis
try. His sons John and James were ministers.
His widow, Mary, the daughter of llev. Joseph
Fish of Stonington, married in 1775 General
Gold S. Silliman of Fairfield, and thus she was
the mother of Professor Benjamin Silliman. —
Sprague's Annals.
NOYES, EDMUND, minister of Salisbury, Mass.,
died in 1809, aged about 84. He graduated at
Harvard in 1747. He succeeded S. Webster.
NOYES, NATHANIEL, minister of South Hamp
ton, N. II., died at Newbury in 1810, aged 75.
The son of Deacon Parker Noyes of Newbury,
he graduated at Princeton in 1759; was ordained
in 1763 ; and dismissed in 1800. For fifty years
he preached constantly and faithfully without be
ing confined one Sabbath by sickness. His last
text was, " Now lettest thou thy servant depart
in peace, for mine eyes have seen thy salvation."
— Panoplist, Jan., 1811.
NOYES, MATTHEW, minister of Northford, in
Branford, Conn., died in 1839, aged about 74.
Born in Lyme, he graduated at Yale in 1785, and
was ordained in 1790. He was a member of the
college corporation.
NOYES, THOMAS, minister of Ncedham, Mass.,
died in 1837, aged 69. He was born at Acton;
graduated at Harvard in 1795 ; and was ordained
over the second church in Needham in 1799, and
was a faithful minister thirty-four years.
NOYES, NATHAN, M. D., died in Newbury-
port in 1842 ; graduated at Dartmouth in 1796.
NOYES, JAMES, died Feb. 18, 1844, aged 79;
the minister of Wallingford, Conn. He was born
in Fairfield, and graduated at Yale in 1782.
NOYES, JOHN, died in Weston, Conn., May
15, 1846, aged 84. He was the son of John, and
grandson of Itev. James N. of New Haven. He
graduated at Yale in 1779 ; was ordained pastor
at Norfield, then a parish of the town of Fair-
field, May 31, 1786. His wife was the daughter
of Samuel Sherwood, his predecessor, who grad
uated in 1749, and died in 1783. He published
a half-century sermon, 1836.
NOYES, DANIEL, deacon, died at Andover,
April 8, 1852, aged 60 ; a man always ready to
every good work. He was of the firm of May-
616
NOYES.
OBBATINEWAT.
nard and Noyes, Boston, druggists ; whose ink
has made its mark the world over. He was a
member of the prudential committee of the Amer
ican board of missions.
NOYES, ELI, D. D., died at Lafayette, Indi
ana, Sept. 10, 1854. He was a Freewill Bap
tist, a man of learning, and six years a missionary
at Orissa in India. He published a Hebrew
grammar.
NOYES, JOSIAH, M. D., died at Clinton, New
York, Nov. 1, 1853. Born in New Hampshire,
he graduated at Dartmouth in 1801, a classmate
of Webster, concerning whose college life he
wrote a memorial. He was a professor in Ham
ilton college.
NUNNENUNTENO, a Narragansett Indian
sachem, was taken prisoner and put to death in
1676 on the Pawcatuck river, near Stonington.
He was a blood-stained chief. Two Indians were
employed to shoot him ; when his head was cut
off and carried to Hartford.
NURSE, REBECCA, wife of Francis of Salem
village, was hung as a witch July 19, 1692. She
had four sons and four daughters. The year in
which this poor woman was hung Avas memora
ble for witchcraft in Essex county, Mass. Before
the close of September, 1692, nineteen persons
were hung ; and one, Giles Cory, was pressed to
death on the charge of witchcraft. More than a
hundred women, many of fair characters and
reputable families in Salem, Beverly, Andover,
Billerica, and other towns, were apprehended and
generally committed to prison. The evidence
was of such kind as this : when the accused were
before the magistrate, with the possessed or
" afflicted " children as witnesses, and were di
rected to look upon the afflicted, these children
cried out and fell into a fit ; and this was proof.
And then the old women were blinded, and or
dered to touch the afflicted, and at their touch
they came out of their pretended fits. In Eng
land, about eight years previously, many more
persons suffered for witchcraft under such an em
inent judge as Sir Matthew Hale. The spiritu
alism of the present day, dealing with the invisi
ble world, may have as little evidence to support
it as the witchcraft of 1692 ; but its adherents
are no less the victims of a miserable delusion.
NUTTING, JOHN, died May 20, 1790, aged 97.
The son of Jonathan of Cambridge, he graduated
in 1712, and was a school-master at Salem thirty-
seven years. He was also custom-house officer
at Salem.
NYE, SAMUEL, Dr., died at Salisbury, Mass.,
in June, 1834, aged 85 ; a graduate of Harvard in
1771.
OAKES, URIAN, president of Harvard college,
died July 25, 1681, aged 49. He was born in
England about the year 1631, and was brought
to America in his childhood. A sweetness of
disposition exhibited itself early and remained
with him through life. He was graduated at
Harvard college in 1649. While very young and
small he published at Cambridge a set of astro
nomical calculations with this apposite motto :
Parvum parva decent sed iuest sua gratia pairis.
He soon went to England, and was settled in
the ministry at Titchfield in Hampshire. Being
silenced in 1662 with the other nonconforming
ministers, he found an asylum in a respectable
family, and afterwards preached in another con
gregation. Such was his celebrity for learning
and piety, that the church and society of Cam
bridge, on the decease of Mr. Mitchell in 1668,
sent a messenger to England to invite him to be
come their minister. He accepted the invitation,
but through various circumstances did not com
mence his labors in Cambridge till Nov. 8, 1671.
Being placed at the head of Harvard college after
the death of Dr. Hoar, he commenced the duties
of this office April 7, 1675, still however retain
ing the pastoral care of his flock. But, Feb. 2,
1680, the corporation appointed him president,
and persuaded him to be inaugurated, and to
devote himself exclusively to this object. He was
succeeded by Mr. Rogers in the college, and by
Mr. Gookin in the church of Cambridge. He was
a man of extensive erudition and distinguished use
fulness. He excelled equally as a scholar, as a
divine, and as a Christian. By his contempora
ries he was considered as one of the most re
splendent lights that ever shone in this part of
the world. He was very humble with all his
greatness, like the full ear of corn, which hangs
near the ground. In the opinion of Dr. Mather,
America never had a greater master of the true,
pure Ciceronian Latin, of his skill in which lan
guage an extract from one of his commencement
orations is preserved as a specimen in the Mag-
nalia. He published an artillery election sermon,
entitled, the unconquerable, all conquering, and
more than conquering Christian soldier, 1672 ;
election sermon, 1673 ; a sermon at Cambridge
on the choice of their military officers; a fist
sermon ; a long elegy on the death of Rev. Mr.
Shepard of Charlcstown, 1677. This is pathetic
and replete with imagery. — Holmes'1 Hist, of
Cambridge ; Sprague's Annals.
OAKES, THOMAS, Dr., of Boston, the brother
of Pres. O., died in Wellfiect in 1719, aged 75.
He graduated at Harvard in 1662 ; was a repre
sentative in 1689 ; and went to England as an
agent for Massachusetts, and aided in the new
charter. John Dunton describes him: "He is
an eminent physician and a religious man; at his
first coming to a patient he persuades him to put
his trust in God, the fountain of health."
OBBATIXEWAT, an Indian sachem, subject
to Massassoit, who lived at the bottom of Massa-
OBOOK1AII.
OCCOM.
chusctts bay. He was in constant fear of the
Tarentines, or Eastern Indians.
OBOOKIAH, HENRY, a native of Hawaii or
Owhyhce, died in Cornwall, Conn., Feb. 17, 1818,
a"-ed 26. He was brought to New Haven in 1809,
by Capt. Brintnal, from the Sandwich Islands ;
and benevolent friends educated him for several
years under Mr. Mills of Torringford, and at
Andover, Mass., and with Mr. Morris of Litch-
field. Next the ministers of Litchfield county
took him under their care, and he was placed, in
1817, in the Cornwall mission school. There, in
the midst of companions from the Sandwich
Islands, and of pupils from various countries, East
Indians and American Indians, he was smitten
by a fever, and the hopes resting on him were
blasted. It was a mystery of Providence. lie
was, however, the cause of the establishment of
the missionary school, in which, in 1820, the num
ber of pupils was twenty-nine. He had trans
lated Genesis into his native language. His
memoirs were published 1818.
O'BRIEX, JEREMIAH, collector of the customs
at Machias, Me., died in 1818, aged 78. He was
a Revolutionary patriot. May 12, 1775, at the
head of thirty-two men, with muskets, he captured
the British schooner Margaretta, completely
armed with swivels, hand-grenades etc., and hav
ing thirty-five men, nearly half of which were
killed and wounded. This was the first British
flag which struck to America. He was a worthy
man, a benefactor of the poor.
O'BIIIEN, RICHARD, consul-general of the
United States to the Barbary Powers, died in
1824, aged 72. He was in early life an active
seaman ; then a successful adventurer in the pri
vateering exploits of the Revolution ; afterwards
a brave commander in the regular naval service.
Falling into the hands of the barbarians of Africa,
he was a slave in Algiers. After being released
from slavery, he was appointed consul-general.
In his last years he was a farmer and a member
of the legislature of Pennsylvania. He died at
Washington city.
OCCUISII, PHILIP, a worthy Christian Indian,
died at Niantic, in Lymc, Conn., " in the sure
hope of ever being with the Lord," March 20,
1789, aged 71. His wife Sarah died two years
before, saying, " she saw heaven opened to receive
her." Their gravestones are standing in a grave
yard of the Niantic or Nchantic Indians, in the
east part of Lyme, on the west shore of a little
bay at the mouth of the Niantic river, a few miles
from New London. The sachem of the tribe was
Wequash. Their faithful missionary at an early
period was Mr. Griswold, the ancestor of many
of that name in Connecticut. — Boston Recorder,
Jan. 8, 1857.
OCCOM, SAMSON, an Indian preacher, died in
July, 1792, aged 69. He was born at Mohegan,
78
on Thames river, near Norwich, Conn., about the
year 1723. His parents, like the other Indians,
led a wandering life, depending chiefly upon
hunting and fishing for subsistence. Not one
then cultivated the land, and all dwelt in wig
wams. None of them could read. When Oc-
com was a boy, Mr. Jewett, the minister of New
London, now Montville, was accustomed to preach
once a fortnight at Mohegan. One man went
among the Indians to teach them to read. Dur
ing the religious excitement, about 1739 and 1740,
several ministers visited these Indians, and the
Indians repaired to the neighboring churches.
Occom at this period became the subject of re
ligious impressions, and was in distress of mind
for six months. He then found consolation.
From this time he was desirous of becoming the
teacher of his tribe. He could read by spelling,
and in a year or two learned to read the Bible.
At the age of nineteen he went to the Indian
school of Mr. Wheelock of Lebanon, and re
mained with him four years. He afterwards, in
1748, kept a school in New London; but soon
went to Montauk on Long Island, where he taught
a school among the Indians ten or eleven years,
at the same time being the religious teacher of
the Indians in their own language, and preaching
also to the Skenecock or Yenecock Indians, dis
tant thirty miles. During a revival among the
Montauks many became Christians. He lived in
a house covered with mats, changing his abode
twice a year, to be near the planting-ground in
the summer and the wood in the winter. Amongst
his various toils for subsistence, he was expert
with his fish-hook and gun ; he bound old books
for East Hampton people, made wooden spoons,
stocked guns, and made cedar pails, piggins, and
churns. He was ordained by the Suffolk Pres
bytery Aug. 29, 1759, and was from this time a
regular member of the Presbytery. In 1766 Mr.
Wheelock sent him to England with Mr. Whit-
akcr, the minister of Norwich, to promote the
interests of Moor's Indian charity school. He
was the first Indian preacher who visited Eng
land. The houses in which he preached were
thronged. Between Feb. 16, 1766, and July 22,
1767, he preached in various parts of the king
dom between three and four hundred sermons.
Large charitable donations were obtained, and the
school was soon transplanted to Hanover, N. H.,
and connected with Dartmouth college. After
his return, Occom sometimes resided at Mohegau,
and was often employed in missionary labors
among distant Indians. In 1786 he removed to
Brothcrton, near Utica, N. Y., in the neighbor
hood of the Stockbridge Indians, who were of
the Mohegan root, and who had formerly been
under the instruction of Mr. Sergeant and Mr.
Edwards. A few of the Mohegans and other
Indians of Connecticut, Long Island, and Rhode
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ODIORXE.
OGDEX.
Island removed about the same lime. The Onei-
das gave them a tract of land. In the last years
of his life he resided with the Indians at New
Stockbridge, near Brotherton, where he died.
Upwards of three hundred Indians attended his
funeral. lie had two sisters, Lucy Tantequiggen
and Sally Maminash. The flattering attentions
which he received in England might have
awakened some emotions of pride, and occa
sioned some discontent with his previous narrow
circumstances. In a few instances he was be
trayed into excess and intemperance ; but then
he humbled himself and reformed. lie did not,
like many white men, destroy himself by strong
drink. Dr. Dwight says: "I heard Mr. Occom
twice. His discourses, though not proofs of su
perior talents, were decent ; and his utterance in
some degree eloquent. His character at times
labored under some imputations. Yet there is
good reason to believe that most, if not all, of
them were unfounded ; and there is satisfactory
evidence that he was a man of piety." J. John
son was another Indian preacher of the same
tribe. An account of the Montauk Indians, writ
ten by Occom, is preserved in the historical col
lections. He says that they had a multitude of
gods. He published a sermon at the execution
of Moses Paul, an Indian, at New Haven, Sept. 2,
1772 ; as Paul's crime resulted from drunkenness,
he said in this sermon, that he never heard of
" drunken devils." — DuelVs Ord. Sermon; Hist.
Coll. IV. G8; v. 13; IX. 89, 90; X. 105; Dwight,
il. 112.
ODIORNE, THOMAS, died in Boston in 1851,
aged about 70. He graduated at Dartmouth in
1791. His ancestor John was of Portsmouth in
1660. He published poems, 1792.
ODLIN, ELISIIA, minister of Amesbury, Mass.,
died in 1752, aged 41. Born in Exeter, he gradu
ated at Harvard in 1731, and was settled in 1744.
His predecessors M'ere E. March and T. Wells,
the first minister.
ODLIN, JOHN, minister of Exeter, N. H., died
in 1754, aged 72. He was the son of Elisha of
Boston, and grandson of John, one of the first set
tlers of Boston. He graduated at Harvard in 1702,
and was ordained in 1706. His son, Elisha, a
graduate of 1731, was minister of Amesbury.
His son John, a physician, died at Concord about
1790, aged 72. He published a sermon, 1742.
ODLIN, WOODBRIDGE, son of the preceding
and his successor, died in March, 1776, aged 57,
and was succeeded by Isaac Mansfield. He
graduated at Harvard in 1738, and was ordained
in 1743. By his mother he was descended from
J. Woodbridge of Andover.
OFFLEY, DAVID W., consul of the United
States in Smyrna, Asia Minor, died there in 1846.
OGA-NA-YA, a Cherokee Indian and Baptist
minister of great ability and usefulness, died at
Jefferson city, Mo., Sept. 6, 1852.
OGDEN, JACOB, a physician, died in 1779, aged
58. He was born at Newark, N. J., in 1721. and
commenced the practice of medicine at Jamaica,
L. I., where he lived in high reputation as a phy
sician nearly forty years. His death was occa
sioned by an injury, received in consequence of a
fright of his horse. He published letters on the
malignant sore-throat distemper in 1769 and 1774.
He recommended the use of mercury. Perhaps
he was the first to introduce in that disorder the
mercurial treatment. — Thacher.
OGDEN, MATTHIAS, died at Elizabethtown,
N. J., in 1791. He was a brigadier in the army
of the United States, took an early and a decided
part in the contest with Great Britain. He joined
the army at Cambridge, and such was his zeal
and resolution, that he accompanied Arnold in
penetrating through the wilderness to Canada in
1775. He was engaged in the attack upon Que
bec, and was carried wounded from the place of
engagement. On his return from this expedition
he was appointed to the command of a regiment,
in which station he continued until the conclusion
of the war. On the occurrence of peace he was
honored by congress with a commission of briga
dier-general. He was distinguished for his lib
erality and philanthropy. He was generous,
amiable, and endeared to his friends.
OGDEN, JOHX COSENS, died at Chestertown,
Maryland, in 1800. A native of New Jersey, a
graduate of Princeton in 1770, he was ordained
by Bishop Seabury, and succeeded Mr. Browne
in Portsmouth, N. H., from 1786 to 1793, after
which time he was subject in a degree to mental
derangement. He resided after 1770 fifteen years
in New Haven. His wife was a daughter of
Gen. Wooster; his son, Aaron, survived him.
He published election sermon, 1790; a masonic
sermon ; address at the opening of an academy ;
letters occasioned by correspondence between
him and Dr. Macclintock ; excursion to Bethle
hem, 1800.
OGDEN, DAVID B., an eminent lawyer, died
at New York, July 15, 1849, aged 80. He came
from New Jersey to New York in 1802. He was
the associate of great lawyers, as Spencer, Van
Ness, Wells, Emmet ; his chief practice was in
the supreme court of the United States. He
was a man of simple manners and of great kind
ness.
OGDEN, AARON, governor of New Jersey in
1812, died at Jersey city, April 19, 1839, aged
83. He served as an officer during the Revolu
tionary war; for many years he practised law
with reputation ; and was senator of the United
States in 1801-1803.
OGDEN, UZAL, D. D., died at Newark, N. J.,
OGILVIE.
in Nov.. 1822, ngcd 70 or 79. Tic was rector of
Trini1 y church. 1 IP published a masonic sermon,
17s»; and the reward of iniquity.
OGILVIE. JOHN, ]>. 1)., minister in New York,
was graduated at Yale college in 1748, and was
for some time, nominally, a missionary to the
Indians on the Mohawk, and had a salary as
such, but resided chiefly as a preacher at Albany ;
he was afterwards .assistant minister of Trinity
church, New York, where he died Xov. 26, 177-i,
aged 51. His appearance, address, and manners
were prepossessing and interesting ; he had good
abilities and was exemplary in his life. He left
300 pounds to a charity school, and other bene
factions.
OGILVIE, JAMES, an orator, died Sept. 18,
1820, aged 45. He was a native of Scotland.
His father, Rev. Dr. O., who died in 1814, was a
branch of the noble family of Finlater. From
the age of eighteen to thirty-five he had the
charge of an academy at Milton, Albemarle co.,
Virginia. He relinquished his school in 1807,
and delivered in the principal cities lectures as
models of oratory. It was a hazardous but suc
cessful undertaking. He received much applause ;
and for that he hungered. However, although
his gestures were very graceful, there was a mon
otony in his voice. He wanted the fire and vehe
mence of passion. Returning to Europe, he was
very unsuccessful in his lectures in London and
Edinburgh, and was overwhelmed with disap
pointment. In 1820 he succeeded to the lordship
of Finlater, but died soon at Aberdeen. It was
reported that he killed himself. He was in
America addicted to the use of opium for the
purpose of exhilaration. He published philosoph
ical essays, 1816.
OGILVY, JOHN, published in London a history
of America, folio, 1670.
OGLE, SAMUEL, governor of Maryland from
1737 to 1742, and from 1747 to his death, died
in 1751.
OGLE, BENJAMIN, governor of Maryland from
1798 to 1801, died at Annapolis July 6, 1809,
aged 60.
OGLETHORPE, JAMES, the founder of Geor
gia, died in Aug., 1785, aged 97. He was born
in England about the year 1688. Entering the
army at an early age, he served under Prince
Eugene, to whom he became secretary and aide-
de-camp. On the restoration of peace he was
returned a member of parliament, and distin
guished himself as a useful senator by proposing
several regulations for the benefit of trade, and a
reform in the prisons. His philanthropy is com
memorated in Thomson's seasons. His benevo
lence led him in 1732 to become one of the
Trustees of Georgia, a colony, the design of whose
settlement was principally to rescue many of the
inhabitants of Great Britain from the miseries of
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poverty, to open an asylum for the persecuted
Protestants of Europe, and to carry to the natives
the blessings of Christianity. In the prosecution
of this design Mr. Oglethorpe embarked in Xov.
with a number of emigrants, and, arriving at
Carolina in the middle of Jan., 1733, proceeded
immediately to Savannah river, and laid the foun
dation of the town of Savannah. He made
treaties with the Indians, and crossed the Atlantic
several times to promote the interests of the col
ony. Being appointed general and commander-
in-chief of his majesty's forces in South Carolina
and Georgia, he brought from England in 1738,
a regiment of six hundred men to protect the
southern frontiers from the Spaniards. A mutiny
was soon excited in his camp, and a daring at
tempt was made to assassinate him ; but his life
Avas wonderfully preserved through the care of
that Providence which controls all earthly agents,
and superintends every event. After the com
mencement of the war between Great Britain
and Spain in 1739, he visited the Indians, to se
cure their friendship, and in 1740 he went into
Florida on an unsuccessful expedition against St.
Augustine. As the Spaniards laid claim to
Georgia, three thousand men, a part of whom
were from Havana, were sent in 1742 to drive
Oglethorpe from the frontiers. When this force
proceeded up the Alatamaha, passing fort St.
Simon's without injury, he was obliged to retreat
to Frederica. He had but about seven hundred
men, besides Indians. Yet, with a part of these
he approached within two miles of the enemy's
camp, with the design of attacking them by sur
prise, when a French soldier of his party fired
his musket and ran into the Spanish lines. His
situation was now very critical, for he knew that
the deserter would make known his weakness.
Returning, however, to Frederica, he had re
course to the following expedient. He wrote a
letter to the deserter, desiring him to acquaint
the Spaniards with the defenceless state of Fred-
erica, and to urge them to the attack ; if he could
not effect this object, he directed him to use all
his arts to persuade them to stay three days at
fort Simon's, as within that time he should have
a reinforcement of two thousand land forces, with
six ships of war, cautioning him at the same time
not to drop a hint of Admiral Vernon's meditated
attack upon St. Augustine. A Spanish prisoner
was intrusted with this letter under promise of
delivering it to the deserter. But he gave it, as
was expected and intended, to the commander-in-
chief, who instantly put the deserter in irons. In
the perplexity occasioned by tin's letter, while the
enemy was deliberating what measure to adopt,
three ships of force, which the governor of South
Carolina had sent to Oglethorpe's aid, appeared
off the coast. The Spanish commander wos now
convinced, beyond all question, that the letter, in-
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stead of being a stratagem, contained serious
instructions to a spy, and in this moment of con
sternation set fire to the fort, and embarked so
precipitately as to leave behind him a number of
cannon with a quantity of* military stores. Thus,
by an event beyond human foresight or control,
by the correspondence between the artful sug
gestions of a military genius and the blowing of
the winds, was the ^nfant colony providentially
saved from destruction, and Oglethorpe retrieved
his reputation and gained the character of an able
general. He now returned to England, and never
again revisited Georgia. In 1745 he was pro
moted to the rank of major-general, and was sent
against the rebels, but did not overtake them, for
which he was tried by a court martial and hon
orably acquitted. After the return of Gage to
England in 1775, the command of the British
army in America was offered to General Ogle
thorpe. He professed his readiness to accept
the appointment, if the ministry would authorize
him to assure the colonies that justice would be
done them ; but the command was given to Sir
William Howe. Upon his tomb, in Cranham
church, Essex, is the following inscription :
" Religion watches o'er his urn,
And all the virtues bending mourn.
Humanity, with languid eye,
Melting for others' misery ;
Prudence, whoso hands a measure hold ;
And Temperance, with a rein of gold ;
Fidelity's transparent vest,
And Fortitude in armor drest ;
Wisdom's gray locks and Freedom join
The moral train to bless his shrine,
And, pensive, all around his ashes holy
Their last sad honors pay in order melancholy."
His life was written by Rev. Dr. Harris. — Mar
shall, I. 318-344; Thompson's Seasons, Winter,
359-388.
O'HARA, JAMES, one of the founders of Pitts-
burg, Penn., died Dec. 19, 1819, aged 66. lie
was born in Ireland in 1754, and came to America
in 1772, without friends or capital. Engaging in
the Indian trade, he became qualified for employ
ment by the government in frequent missions to
the Indian tribes. Under Gen. Wayne he was
very useful to the army as quartermaster-general.
Duly estimating the fine locality of Pittsburg,
he early purchased there an extensive real estate
and laid the foundation of a princely fortune.
The first glass works and brewery were estab
lished by him. Mary Carson, his daughter, mar
ried in 1823 Wm. Croghan. His intelh'gence and
wit gave a charm to his conversation ; he was
most hospitable, liberal, and beneficent. The
citizens mourned him as a father.
OJEDA, DON ALONZO DE, a follower of Colum
bus in his second voyage, was celebrated for his
personal endowments and daring spirit. Of small
size, he yet had great strength and activity, was
expert in all kinds of weapons, most adventurous
OLDHAM.
and fierce in fight. Once, when Queen Isabella
was in the tower of a church at Seville, he walked
out on a beam which projected twenty feet from
the tower at a dizzy height. In Jan., 1494, he
explored the interior of Ilispaniola. After being
besieged in a fortress by Caonabo, he treacher
ously seized the Carib chieftain. In the same
spirit of inhumanity he made up his Cavalgada,
or droves of slaves, carrying the unhappy natives
to Cadiz, and selling them in the slave-market.
He was afterwards governor of New Andalusia
at Darien, but he failed about 1513 in his attempt
to establish a colony there. In his voyage to
Paria in 1499 he was accompanied by Amerigo.
— Irving' s Columbus.
OLCOTT, BULKLEY, minister of Charlestown,
N. H., died in 1793, aged 59. Born in Bolton,
Conn., he graduated at Yale in 1758, and was
settled in 1761. J. Crosby was his successor in
1810. He published a masonic sermon, 1781.
OLCOTT, ALLEN, minister of Farmington,
Conn., died in 1811, aged about 63. He gradu
ated at Yale in 1768 ; was settled in 1786, and
dismissed in 1792. He was born in East Hart
ford. J. Washburn and N. Parker succeeded
him.
OLCOTT, SIMEON, chief justice of New Hamp
shire, died in 1815, aged 78. He was graduated
at Yale college in 1761, and commenced .the
practice of the law at Charlestown, N. H. He
was appointed chief justice of the court of com
mon pleas Dec. 25, 1784, a judge of the superior
court Jan. 25, 1790, chief justice March 28, 1795,
and, from 1801 to 1805, a senator of the United
States, in the place of Mr. Livermore, who had
resigned.
OLCOTT, MILLS, died at Hanover, N. H., JuJy
11, 1845, aged 71. He was the son of Gen. Peter
O. of Norwich, Vt., who removed from Bolton,
Conn., in 1773, and was lieutenant-governor.
His mother was Sarah Mills of Waterbury. He
graduated at Dartmouth in 1790; practised law
in Hanover ; was secretary, treasurer, and trustee
of the college; and a member of the Hartford
convention. Becoming a member of the church
in 1820, he was president of Grafton county bible
society. His wife was a daughter of Col. Asa
Porter of Haverhill, N. H. He had nine chil
dren. Of his daughters, Catharine married Jo
seph Bell, and Helen married Rufus Choate of
Boston, Jane married W. T. Hcydock of Lowell,
Sarah married W. H. Duncan of Hanover, and
Mary married Charles E. Thompson of Haver-
hill.
OLDHAM, JOHN, a disturber of the church at
Plymouth, arrived in the Ann, in 1623, and was
associated with Lyford in 1624. They set up a
separate worship on the Sabbath, and intended
to alter, probably to assume, the government. He'
lived after he left Plymouth at Hull and Cape Ann,
OLDMIXON.
and was the representative of Watertown in 1634,
so that he recovered his lost credit. He had a
spirit of adventure, and with Samuel Hall and
two others travelled, in 1G33, from Dorchester
through the wilderness to a place on the Connec
ticut river, called by the Indians Mattaneaug,
now Windsor. The sachem welcomed them.
This led to the settlement. Afterwards, in 1636,
as he went in his barque to trade with the Indians,
and lay at anchor at Block Island, the Indians
boarded his vessel and murdered him. This
event led to the Pequot war. John Endicot con
ducted the first expedition, and burned all the
wigwams on Block Island. According to the
account of Lion Gardiner, Oldham, when he was
killed, had with him 50 pounds in gold coins,
•which the Indians, punching holes through them,
wore upon their necks for ornaments. — Stone's
Uncas.
OLDMIXON, Joiix/died in England in 1742,
aged 69. He published, among other works, the
British empire in America, 2d ed., 2 vols., 1741.
OLDS, GAMALIEL S., died at Circleville, O.,
June 13, 1848, aged 71. Born in Granville,
Mass., he graduated at Williams in 1801, and
•was a tutor several years. In 1806 he was chosen
professor of mathematics, which office he held
till 1808, when he began the study of theology.
In 1813 he was ordained a colleague with Dr.
Newton of Greenfield, and remained three years.
From 1819 to 1821 he was professor of mathe
matics in the University of Vermont, and from
1821 to 1825 in Amherst college, and afterwards
in the university of Georgia. He went to Ohio
in 1841, and discharged the duties of a minister
till his death. On his return from Bloomfield,
whither he had been to preach, his frightened
horse threw him from his vehicle down a bank,
and he was so wounded that in a few days he
died ; and he departed in peace. His wife and
children were all soon dead. He published in
augural oration, 1806; eight sermons on Episco
pacy and Presbyterian parity, 1815; a statement
of facts as to professor at Middlebury, 1818.
OLIN, GIDEON, judge, died at Shaftsbury, Vt.,
in 1822. Born in llhode Island, he was one of
the founders of the State of Vermont, speaker of
the house, judge of a county court, and a mem
ber of congress.
OLIN, STEPHEN, D. D., LL. D., president of
the Wesleyan university, died in Middletown
Aug. 16, 1851, aged 54. Born in Leicester, Vt.,
he graduated at Middlebury in 1820, and entered
the Methodist ministry in 1824; he then spent
two years in Charleston, S. C. In 1833 he was
president of the college at Macon, Georgia, and
thence went to Middletown as the successor of
Pres. Fisk. In 1837 he travelled in Europe for
his health. He was over six feet in height, of a
large frame, with a voice of great power and
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compass; but his gestures were stiff. He pub
lished various sermons, lectures, and discourses,
and also travels in the East, in 2 vols. His life
and letters were published in 1853. — Cyclopedia
of Amer. Literature.
OLIVER, THOMAS, an elder of the church in
Boston, died in 1657. He arrived in 1631. His
sons, John, James, Peter, and Samuel, were noted
and useful men in Boston. John died in 1646,
aged 29, leaving five children. According to
Winthrop, he was greatly lamented for the sweet
ness of his disposition and his public usefulness,
being an expert soldier, an excellent surveyor of
land, a good scholar; and he had been an able
preacher for four years.
OLIVER, PETER, son of Thomas, and an emi
nent merchant in Boston, died in 1670. He was
admitted a freeman in 1640, and was captain of
the artillery company in 1669. Of his sons, Peter
graduated in 1675 ; James graduated in 1650,
was a physician in Cambridge, and died in 1703;
and Daniel died in 1732, aged 68, being the father
of lieutenant-governor Andrew Oliver and of
chief justice Peter Oliver.
OLIVER, JAMES, Dr., died at Cambridge April
8, 1703, aged 43. He was a skilful physician,
and eminent for his virtues.
OLIVER, DANIEL, a member of the council of
Mass., the son of Peter, a merchant, and grand
son of Elder Thomas O., was born in 1664, and
died in Boston in July, 1732, aged 68. He was
distinguished for piety, humility, and charity from
his youth. He always rose early to read the
sacred volume and pour out his heart unto God.
Though mercantile business claimed much of his
attention, yet he devoted Saturday afternoon to
visiting the sick in his neighborhood. He was
an overseer of the poor, and he maintained, at
his own expense, a school which received thirty
of their children. He built for this purpose a
house which cost 600 pounds, and in his will he
directed it to be devoted to the instruction of the
poor forever. He contributed largely to the pro
motion of the gospel among the ignorant and
vicious. — Prince's Fun. Sermon.
OLIVER, ANDREW, lieutenant-governor of
Massachusetts, son of the preceding, died at Bos
ton March 3, 1774, aged 67. He was graduated
at Harvard college in 1724. While he was secre
tary of the province, he was appointed distributor
of stamps in 1765, but the Boston mob demol
ished his office, August 14, and compelled him
to resign. He sustained the office of lieutenant-
governor from 1770 till 1774, during the admin
istration of his brother-in-law, Mr. Hutchinson.
No man was more disposed to promote the de
signs of the British ministry. His letters, which
were sent over by Dr. Franklin in 1772, disclosed
his subserviency to the British ministry, and the
disclosure embittered his remaining days. He
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OLMSTED.
was hungry for office and honor. Yet in private
life he was respected. He was succeeded as
lieutenant-governor by Thomas Oliver, of a differ
ent family, who died in England in July, 1816,
aged 82.
OLIVER, PETER, LL. D., chief justice of Mas
sachusetts, the brother of the preceding, died at
Birmingham, England, in Oct., 1791, aged 79.
He was born in 1713, and graduated at Harvard
college in 1730. He was appointed a judge of
the superior court, Sept. 15, 1756. His place of
residence was Middleborough, and he had not
been educated to the law. In the year 1774,
when the general court called upon him, as they
called upon the other judges, to receive the grant
for his services, as usual, from the treasury of the
province, and to engage to receive no pay or
emolument except from the assembly, he peremp
torily refused. In consequence of this refusal
the house voted articles of impeachment in Feb
ruary, accusing him of high crimes and misde
meanors. His son, Peter, died at Shrewsbury,
England, in 1822, aged 81. He published 'a
speech on the death of Isaac Lathrop, 1750 ;
poem on the death of Secretary Willard ; scripture
lexicon, 1787. — Warren,!. 119; Gordon, l. 345.
OLIVER, THOMAS FITCH, Episcopal minister,
first of Marblehead, then of Providence, died in
1797, aged about 42. He graduated at Harvard
in 1775. W. Harris succeeded him at M. He
published a masonic discourse, 1784.
OLIVER, ANDREW, judge of the court of
common pleas for Essex, the son of Lieut.-Gov.
Andrew O., was born in 1731 ; was graduated at
Harvard college in 1749 ; and died at Salem early
in Dec., 1799, aged 68. He was distinguished
for his attachment to literature and science. Of
the American academy he was one of the original
members. He published an essay on comets, in
1772 ; and theory of lightning and water-spouts,
in American transactions.
OLIVER, ROBERT, colonel, died at Waterford
in May, 1810, aged 72, an excellent Christian.
Living at Barre, Mass., at the time of the Revo
lution, he was an officer in the army ; afterwards
he lived at Conway. In 1789 he erected at Wa
terford the first mills in Ohio. He sustained
various civil offices.
OLIVER, THOMAS, lieutenant-governor of
Massachusetts, died in England in July, 1816,
aged 82. He was a native of Dorchester, and a
descendant of Elder Thomas O. He was gradu
ated at Harvard college in 1753. After the death
of Lieutenant-Governor Andrew O. in 1774, he
was nominated as his successor by the advice of
Mr. Ilutchinson, though not related to him. He
was a scholar, and affable and gentlemanly, and
in the possession of a good fortune, residing in
an elegant mansion, which he had built at Cam
bridge. Probably Mr. Hutchinson thought his
influence would be important. In the Revolu
tion he went to England, and lived at Bristol.
He wrote in the pietas et gratulatio, a short Eng
lish poem. — Eliot.
OLIVER, NATHANIEL K. G., died at sea in
the ship Potomac, of which he was secretary,
May 1, 1832, aged 42. The son of Rev. Daniel
O., he graduated at Harvard in 1809, and was
for years the useful teacher of a public school in
Boston. Ill health induced him to take a voyage
to the east in the ship in which he died. IleAvas
a distinguished scholar, a man of exemplary vir
tues.
OLIVER, ROBERT, an eminent merchant of
Baltimore, died in 1834, aged 77.
OLIVER, BENJAMIN LYNDE, M. D., died at
Salem May 14, 1835. He was a native of Bos
ton, and grandson of Lieutenant-Governor Oliver.
He was respected for his talents, learning, and
philanthropy. He published hints on the pur
suit of happiness, 1818.
OLIVER, DANIEL, a minister in Beverly, died
in Roxbury Sept. 14, 1840, aged 88. Born in
Boston, he graduated at Dartmouth in 1785 ; was
the pastor of the upper parish of Beverly from
1787 to 1797 ; in later years was not the minister
of any church. His wife, of the name of Kem-
ble, was the sister of the wife of Caleb Bingham.
He published nine discourses on baptism, 1806.
OLIVER, DANIEL, M. D., LL. D., died at Cam
bridge June 1, 1842, aged 54 ; professor of the the
ory and practice of physic and of intellectual phi
losophy in Dartmouth college. He was born in
Marblehead Sept. 9, 1787, graduated at Harvard
in 1806, and was for several years the associate
of Dr. Mussey in Salem. From 1820 to 1837
he lived at Hanover ; afterwards at Cambridge.
He lectured at Cincinnati in 1841 and 1842. An
exemplary member of the Episcopal church, of
which his father was a minister, he died in peace.
He was a man of mild deportment, gentlemanly,
of a pure character ; an accomplished classical
scholar, skilled in various languages, having also
a fine taste for music. He published first lines
of physiology in 1835, and a 2d edition in 1840.
— Williams' Med. Biog.
OLIVER, WILLIAM, died in Dorchester in
1847, leaving his whole property, about 100,000
dollars, to be divided between the Perkins insti
tution for the blind and the McLean asylum for
the insane.
OLMSTEAD, JARED, missionary among the
Choctaws, died at Norwalk Sept. 19, 1843, aged
32. He was born in Ridgeficld, Conn., and en
tered on his work in 1 836, at first a teacher at
Whcelock, then a preacher at Norwalk. He had
the confidence and love of the Indians.
OLMSTED, GIDEON, died at East Hartford
Feb. 7, 1845, aged 96. In 1776 in a privateer
he was captured and carried to Jamaica, and
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thence ordered to a prison ship in New York ;
but lie and three others rose on the crew and
captured the vessel.
OLMSTED, DENNISON, JUN., professor of
chemistry at Yale college, died Aug., 1846.
OLNEY, JEIIEMIAH, colonel, died at Provi
dence in 1812, aged 63. lie was collector of the
customs at P.
OLNEY, THOMAS, minister of the Baptist
church in Providence, died June 11, 1722, aged
91. He was born in Hertford, England, in 1631.
It is supposed he was the son of Thomas O., who
went with Roger Williams from Boston to Provi
dence, and was one of the founders of the first
Baptist church in this country.
OLNEY, STEPHEN, captain, died at Provi
dence Dec., 1832, aged 77. He fought in various
battles and was twice wounded. — Host. Patriot,
Dec. 5.
OLNEY, GIDEON W., Episcopal minister at
Portland, Maine, died in Feb., 1838, aged 44.
OLYPHANT, DAVID W. C., a merchant of
New York, died in Cairo, Egypt, on his return
from China, June 10, 1851. Living in China for
years, he redeemed the promise made thirty years
before in a letter to Dr. Morrison, that he would
do what he could for Christian missions. The
missionaries found him a friend and counsellor.
He was also liberal in giving to them in his ships
passages free of charge. To the mission house
in New York, he presented a thousand select
Chinese volumes. — Observer, July 24.
ONDAYAKA, died near Oncida castle Sept.
20, 1839, aged 90 ; head chief of the Onondagas.
ORDWAY, NEHEMIAII, died in Pembroke,
N. H., June, 1836, aged 93. Born in Amesbury,
a graduate of Harvard in 1764, he was ordained
at Middleton, N. H., in 1778; then was pastor at
Haverhill from 1789 to 1794.
ORNE, JOSEPH, Dr., died in Salem Jan. 28,
1786, aged 36. lie was born in Salem; gradu
ated at Harvard in 1765 ; studied with Dr. Hoi-
yoke ; and practised physic a few years in Bev
erly, then in Salem. He was an associate of the
academy of arts and sciences, and wrote for the
medical society. Dr. Ilolyoke regarded him as
one of the best poets our country had produced.
He introduced the cow parsnep as a cure of the
epilepsy. — Thacker's Med. Bioy.
OEONO, chief of the Penobscot tribe of In
dians, died at Oldtown, an island in Penobscot
river, three leagues above tide water, Feb. 5,
1801, aged 113 years. lie cultivated among his
subjects the principles of peace, temperance, and
religion. In the time of the war with Great
Britain he formed a treaty with the American
government, and faithfully adhered to it. His
people profess the Roman Catholic religion and
have a church. He retained his mental faculties
to an unusual degree in his old age. His hair
had long been of a milky white, and this vener
able chief had lived to hunt in three different
centuries. His wife, Madam Orono, died in Jan.,
1809, aged 115. A notice of him by W. 1). AVil-
liamson is in hist. coll. 3d series, vol. VIII. His
father was a Frenchman ; his mother half French.
His eyes were blue, his hair brown, not black, in
early life. He understood both the French and
Indian languages. He succeeded Osson as chief,
and was succeeded by Aitteon, who died about
1811. His son, John Aitteon, succeeded in 1816.
John Neptune was associated with him as lieu
tenant-governor.
ORR, HUGH, an enterprising manufacturer,
died in Dec., 1798, aged 81. He was born Jan.
13, 1717, in Scotland, and was educated a gun
smith. About 1738 he settled at Bridgewater,
Mass., where he first erected a trip-hammer and
manufactured scythes and other tools. About
1748 he made five hundred muskets for the State.
In the war of the Revolution he cast iron and
brass cannon, from 3 to 42-pounders, and can
non balls. He also invented a machine for
cleaning flaxsecd, which he exported to Scotland,
and constructed a machine for the manufacture
of cotton. So highly was he esteemed by his
fellow citizens, that he was for some years elected
a senator. His widow, Mary, died in 1804, aged
80. His son, Robert, was armorer at Spring
field. Dr. Hector Orr of Bridgewater was his
grandson.
ORR, JOHN, died at Topsham, Maine, in Oct.,.
1799, aged 103.
ORR, JOHN, an officer in the Revolution, died
at Bedford, Mass., in 1822, aged 75. He served
under Gen. Stark in the battle of Bennington,
and was severely wounded, a ball entering just
above the knee joint and lodging in the bone.
In consequence of this he had a stiff knee and
was a cripple, and subject to indescribable suffer
ings for life. For many years he was a repre
sentative and senator of New Hampshire. His
mind was vigorous; his judgment sound; and
his Christian character exemplary. His son,
Benjamin Orr, a distinguished lawyer, died at
Brunswick, Maine, in Sept., 1828; his son, Isaac
Orr, was the secretary of the African education
society at Washington ; his daughter was the
wife of Samuel A. Worcester, the missionary,
whom the Georgians held a prisoner in their pen
itentiary in disregard of the solemn decision of
the supreme court of the United States.
ORR, BENJAMIN, died at Brunswick, Me., in
1828, aged about 50. The son of John Orr of
Bedford, N. II., a patriot, who died in 1822, he
graduated at Dartmouth in 1798, and settled as
a lawyer at Brunswick, holding a> high rank in
liis profession. He was a member of congress.
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OSBORN.
His son, John Orr, is a minister in Alfred, Maine.
He published an oration on the death of Wash
ington, 1800.
ORR, ALEXANDER D., died at Paris, Ky., in
1835. He was a representative in congress from
1792 to 1797.
ORR, ROBERT G., minister of Paterson, N. J.,
died in 1837, aged 49.
ORR, ISAAC, died at Amherst, Mass., April
28, 1844, aged 50. Born in Bedford, X. II., the
son of John Orr, a civilian and patriot of the Rev
olution, who was wounded at the battle of Bcn-
nington and made a cripple, — he graduated at
Yale in 1818, distinguished as a scholar; after
wards he was a teacher in the asylum for the
deaf and dumb at Hartford. He also was a
preacher and missionary in Washington city. He
labored for the colonization society. As a man
of integrity and of pure character he was much
esteemed. He was the inventor of the air-tight
stove. He wrote a multitude of communications
for the papers, journals, and scientific magazines,
among them forty-five letters of Hampden in
the Commercial Advertiser, and eighty letters of
Timoleon in the Boston Courier. He left a com
mentary on Daniel and the Revelation.
ORR, HECTOR, M. D., died at East Bridge-
water, Mass., April 29, 1855, aged 86. The same
was his native town. He was the son of Colonel
Robert Orr ; and graduated at Harvard in 1792.
He published history of free-masonry, a discourse,
1797 ; oration, 1801.
ORR, JOHN SAYERS, the " angel Gabriel," as
he called himself, died in prison at Demarara, in
185G, aged 35. His crime in D. was stirring up
an insurrection of the blacks. Born in England,
he spent many years in this country. He thought,
or pretended to think, that he was the angel Ga
briel, and with a small horn he called together
his audience in the streets or on the wharves of
New York and other places, thinking he had a
commission to preach against the Catholics.
OSBORX, JOHN, a physician and poet, died
May 31, 1753, aged 40. He was born at Sand
wich, Mass., in 1713. His father, a native of
Ireland, was the minister of Eastham from 1718
to 1737, and died at Boston, aged above 90. He
was graduated at Harvard college in 1735. Un
certain for a time what profession to pursue, he
directed his thoughts towards theology, and pro
ceeded so far as to read before the association of
ministers, with the design of being licensed to
preach, a sermon which was not perfectly ortho
dox. Having afterwards resolved upon the study
of medicine, he removed to Middletown, Conn.
But little is known concerning him after this
period. In 1753 he wrote to a sister that he
had lingered almost two years a life not worth
having. One of his sons was a physician in Mid
dletown. His manners were open, plain, and
agreeable, and his temper cheerful and mild.
His elegy on the death of a young sister is pre
served in the Boston mirror. His whaling song
has been sung by whalers. It is published in
cyclopedia of American literature. — Tkacher's
Medical Biography.
OSBORX, SAMUEL, minister of Eastham,
Mass., died in Boston, between 90 and 100 years
of age. He came from Ireland ; was ordained
in 1718; the next year his church divided into
two churches. He was dismissed in 1737 for be
ing an Arminian. He removed to Boston, and
there taught a private school ten years or more,
lie taught the Cape Cod people the use of peat.
He published his case and complaint, 1743.
OSBORX, SYLVANUS, minister of East Green
wich, Conn., died in 1771, aged about forty. He
was graduated at Princeton in 1754, and was
ordained in 1757.
OSBORX, SARAH, died at Xewport, R. I., in
1796, aged 82 ; a woman of distinguished piety.
OSBORX, BENJAMIN, minister of Timnouth,
Vt , died in 1818, aged 70. Born in Litchfield,
Conn., he graduated at Dartmouth in 1775, and
was pastor at T. from 1780 to 1787.
OSBORX, JOHN, a physician, son of John,
was born March 17, 1741, and after practising
physic more than sixty years at Middletown, died
in June, 1825, aged 84. He was with the army
at Ticonderoga in 1758. He was skilful as a
chemist, and had the best medical library in the
State. He published before the Revolution La
Condamine's treatise on inoculation, with an ap
pendix. — Tliacher.
OSBORX, JOHN C., M. D., a physician, the
eldest son of the preceding, died March 5, 1819,
aged 52. He was born in Sept., 1766, and
studied medicine with his father. He practised
physic at Xewbern, Xorth Carolina, from 1787
till 1807, when he removed to the city of Xew
York, where he was appointed professor of medi
cine in Columbia college, and afterwards professor
of obstetrics in the college of physicians and sur
geons. He died of a pulmonary disorder at St.
Croix. He had a taste for painting, and such
skill in poetry that Barlow's vision of Columbus
was submitted to him and Alsop for revision
before it was published. — Tkacker.
OSBORX, SELLECK, a poet, died at Philadel
phia Oct. 1, 1826, aged 43. He was brought up
a printer. He was born in Trumbull, Conn.,
and conducted a paper at Litchfield, about 1808,
and was imprisoned for a libel, — a circumstance
which excited much sympathy among his repub
lican friends. He afterwards edited a paper in
Boston, and the American Watchman at Wil
mington, Delaware. He published a volume of
poems, Boston, 1823. — Spec, of Amer. Poetry,
II. 145.
OSBORX, SYLVESTER, major, died in Danvers
OSBORNE.
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Oct. 2, 1845, aged 87. lie was with G. Foster
in the battle of Lexington in 177,3.
OSBOltXK, J. C , Mrs., died March 5, 1819,
aged 11,3. Her husband died a few years before
her, aged 110. — Jamison.
OSEOLA, or Powell, a Scminole Indian chief,
died of a diaease of the throat at fort Moultrie,
near Charleston, Jan. 31, 1838, aged about 35.
lie was the master spirit of a long and desperate
war ; cool, subtle, determined in his hostility to
the whites, he had a wonderful ascendency over
the Indians.
OSGOOD, JOHN, died at Andover, Mass., in
165 1, aged 56. lie came from Andover, Eng
land ; was admitted freeman at Xewbury in 1G39 ;
was one of the founders of the church at An
dover in 1645, and the first representative in
1651. He had sons John, Stephen, Christopher,
and Thomas. His posterity is numerous. Mary,
the wife of his son John, was accused of witch
craft in 1G92, and it was only by confessing the
crime that she saved her life. She afterwards
made a recantation. Twenty-five of the name of
Oliver had graduated in the New England col
leges before 1829.
OSGOOD, JAMES, minister of Wenham, Mass.,
died in 1745, aged about 41. lie graduated at
Harvard in 1724.
OSGOOD, Joux, minister of Midway, Georgia,
was born in Dorchester, South Carolina ; gradu
ated at Harvard college in 1733; and was ordained
at Dorchester March 24, 1735. He followed in
1754 a part of his society to a new settlement,
about thirty miles from Savannah, called Midway,
where he remained till his death, Aug. 2, 1773.
He was succeeded by Moses Allen, Abiel Holmes
from Nov., 1785, to June 21, 1791, and Cyrus
Guildersleeve, Dec. 14, 1791. He was the father,
friend, and shepherd of his flock, and by them
was greatly beloved and lamented.
OSGOOD, JOSEPH, Dr., died at Andover,
Mass., Jan., 1797, aged 78. He graduated at
Harvard in 1737, and was an eminent physician,
and for thirty years a deacon of the first church.
OSGOOD, SAMUEL, postmaster-general of the
United States, died Aug. 12, 1813, aged 65. He
was a descendant of John O., one of the founders
of the church at Andover in Oct., 1645 ; was
born in Andover, Mass., Feb. 14, 1748, being the
son of Peter O. and Sarah Johnson ; and was
graduated at Harvard college in 1770. At the
beginning of the Revolution he was a member
of the board of war, and for some years a mem
ber of the legislature. In 1775 and 1776 he was
an aid to Gen. Ward. In 1781 he was appointed
a member of Congress. In 1785 the congress
appointed him first commissioner of the treasury.
Alter the commencement of our present govern
ment, Washington selected him in 1789 as post
master-general, after Mr. Hazard ; an office which
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he held two years, when he was succeeded by Mr.
Pickering. In 1801 he was supervisor of New
York, and in 1803 appointed naval officer for the
port of New York, where he died. He was an
elder of one of the churches in New York.
Though he cherished the hope that he became
religious at the age of fifteen, yet he had many
days of doubt and melancholy, and suffered keen
remorse for doing so little in the cause of his
Master. He published a work on chronology;
remarks on Daniel and Revelation ; a letter on
Episcopacy, 1807 ; three letters on different sub
jects, addressed to J. B. Itomeyn, J. Osgood, and
A. Armstrong.
OSGOOD, JONATHAN, minister of Gardner,
Mass., died in 1821, aged 60, in the twenty-first
year of his ministry. Born at Westford, he
graduated at Yale in 1789.
OSGOOD, DAVID, D. D., minister of Med-
ford, Mass., died Dec. 12, 1822, aged 74. Born
in Andover, he was the son of Isaac Osgood, a
pious farmer in the southwestern part of the
town, near the borders of Tewksbury, at whose
house, in a place of retirement, James Otis was
a boarder, when at the door a flash of lightning
struck him dead. This ancient house now stands.
A print of it is in the memoir of Otis and in cyclo
paedia of American literature. Dr. Osgood was
graduated at Harvard college in 1771, and or
dained Sept. 14, 1774. His ministry was of
nearly fifty years. His wife was Hannah Breed
of Charlestown. He was one of the most dis
tinguished preachers of Massachusetts. His style
was perspicuous, energetic, and elegant. In his
delivery he was accustomed to raise his voice oc
casionally to a high pitch. Those who heard him
preach, may remember that now and then he
took off his spectacles and laid them on the
cushion, or held them in one hand, and then with
an altered voice he would say, " My brethren,"
and would pour forth elaborate sentences of great
energy and pathos. Sometimes he committed
whole sermons to memory, especially on public
occasions. With great care he wrote out all his
sermons. His best ones he often preached. Once
in his plainness he said to a young preacher :
" Yrou had gotten your sermons by heart ; I do
so sometimes, but never unless I am sure I have
a good sermon, worth the labor ; yours were not
worth committing." His prayers were also studied;
and some of them he committed to memory.
Timothy Bigelow once had the courage to ask
him the congruity of the imagery in the sentence :
'• Hide forth, king Jesus, triumphant on the word
of truth; make it like a sword to pierce, and like
a hammer to break in pieces, and dissolve the
hard and stony heart into godly sorrow for sin."
Once, in his preaching at Cambridge, he gave a
home thrust to President Kirkland, which caused
much talk among the students. Having quoted
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some texts to prove the divinity of Christ, he
turned round and looked to the left wall, where
the president and some professors were sitting,
and said with energy, " What will our Socinian
brethren say to this?" One, who sometimes
heard him in the pulpit, remembers well his odd
habit of looking around the congregation while
he was in prayer. Although he was a learned
man and a laborious writer, yet as a minister he
might have been more useful had he lived less in
his study and mere among his people, whom he
seldom visited. It may be doubted whether his
usefulness as a minister was not impaired by the
zeal with which he engaged in the political con
troversies of his day. lie was a federalist of the
Hamilton school, and he sometimes preached
sermons of bitter invective against men of differ
ent politics. Quotations from them are given
by Mr. Carey in his olive branch. He pub
lished a sermon at the installation of P. Thacher,
1785; at the artillery election, 1788; at the
thanksgiving, 1783, 1794, and February and No
vember, 1795 ; on the death of a child, 1797 ; of
Washington, 1800 ; of J. Iloby, 1803 ; at the
fast, and convention, 1798 ; the devil let loose,
etc., a fast sermon, 1799 ; at the ordination of
Leonard Woods, 1800; of C. Francis, 1819; at
the Dudleian lecture, 1802 ; the validity of bap
tism by sprinkling, and the right of infants, etc.,
1804 ; at the election, 1809 ; a discourse at Cam
bridge, in the hearing of the university, 1810 ;
solemn protest against the declaration of war,
1812. A volume of his sermons was published,
8vo., 1824. — Sprague's Annals.
OSGOOD, GEORGE, Dr., died at Andover,
Mass., in 1823, aged Go.
OSGOOD, EMORY, a Baptist minister, died at
Utica, Sept. 12, 1824, aged 47. He was superin
tendent of the Oneida mission, and had been
pastor of Henderson in Jefferson county.
OSGOOD, FRANCES S., the wife of S. S. Os-
good, a painter, died at Hingham, Mass., May
12, 1850, aged about 38. . Her father, Joseph
Locke, was a merchant of Boston. She early
wrote poetry with the signature of Florence.
Being in England with her husband, she pub
lished in London a wreath of wild flowers from
New England, 1839; and the happy release, a
play. She edited at New York in 1841 the
poetry of flowers ; and in 1847 the floral offering.
She died of the consumption. — Cycl. of Amer.
Literature.
OSGOOD, TIIADDEUS, died at Glasgow, Scot
land, Jan. 19, 1852, aged about 70. Born in
Methuen, Mass., he graduated at Dartmouth in
1803, and began the study of theology with Dr.
Lathrop of West Springfield. He began to
preach in 1804. An invitation to settle was de
clined, and he chose to act as a missionary in
New York and Canada. In 1812 he went to
England, and for the support of a school in
Quebec collected 9,000 dollars, which was placed
in the hands of a committee. He fitted up the
old theatre, in which two . hundred boys were
taught to read extracts from the bible. The
Catholics and Episcopalians also set up schools,
which have ever since been continued. In 1825
he went to England and collected 5,000 dollars
for a society to promote education and industry.
In 1837 he caused a society to be formed in
Canada to supply bibles to seamen and emigrants,
and to aid in education. He toiled through
life as a preacher, a distributor of tracts, and a
founder of Sabbath schools. Mr. O. had some
skill in controversy. He once attended Ilobert
Owen's Infidel meeting in London, with liberty
himself to speak. He said to him, " You deny
the future, and you cut yourself off from the hap
piness derived from the anticipation of future
good." — " No," replied Owen, " I believe matter
will exist." — "And so," returned Mr. Osgood,
" your happiness is to hope that a clod of clay,
called Ilobert Owen, will rise up as a goose, a
jackass, or a cabbage-head."
OSO01T, ZACIIARY, an Indian preacher at Gay
Head, Martha's Vineyard, was one of the Indian
ministers on the island, when certain commis
sioners visited Mashpee in 1767. He preached
before them at Mashpee, being there agreeably
to a good annual custom of a meeting for com
munion of the island and continental Indians.
Solomon Bryant, the pastor, prayed ; both per
forming " with apparent solemnity and devotion."
OSSON, an Indian chief on the Penobscot, suc
ceeded Tomer, who followed Orono, and died
about 1775, aged about 100. He was wise and
influential. The government of Massachusetts
made him a justice of the peace.
OSTEANDEIl, DANIEL, died at Plattskill,
New York, in 1843, quite aged ; a Methodist min
ister, who had completed the fiftieth year of his
ministry.
OTIS, RICHARD, of Dover, N. II., was killed
by the Indians with Major Waldron, June 27,
1G89. His descendants remain in New Hamp
shire.
OTIS, Joiix, colonel and judge, died Sept.
23, 1727, aged 70. He was born at Hingham,
Mass., in 1657, and was the eldest son of John
O., who lived in Hingham in 1636, and removed
about 1662 to Scituate, where he died in 1684,
aged 64. His father's name was also John, who
was born in Barnstable, England, in 1581, emi
grated with Hobart to llingham in 1635 and
lived at Otis' Hill, and died at Weymouth in
1657, aged 76. He settled, when a young man,
in Barnstable, of which town he Avas for twenty
years the representative. He was a councillor
from 1706 for twenty-one years, and was also for
many years commander of the militia of Barn-
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OTIS.
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stable county, chief justice of the court of com
mon pleas, and judge of probate. Joseph O.,
justice of peace at Plymouth in 1747, was per
haps his brother. His son John, a representa
tive of Barnstable and member of the council
from 1747 till his death, died in May, 1758.
Col. Otis had fine talents, the power of wit and
humor, and an intimate knowledge of mankind.
He was also an eminent Christian, strict and ex
emplary in the performance of religious duties.
— Eliot.
OTIS, JOSEPH, died in New London in 1754,
aged 90. He was of the second church under
Mr. Hillhouse. When the meeting-house was
built, he was the owner of one of the four pews
of the highest honor ; which were on each side
of the pulpit and of the opposite door. He
came from Scituate and lived in the north parish,
where he owned a large quantity of land. — Miss
Caulkins' Hist, of New London.
OTIS, JAMES, colonel and judge, died in
Nov., 1778. He was the son of Colonel John.
Without the advantages of a collegiate education,
he yet was distinguished for his intellectual pow
ers and his knowledge of law. Gov. Shirley
promised him, that, upon a vacancy in the supe
rior court, he should be appointed judge ; but
he did not fulfil his promise. On the death of
the Chief Justice Scwail in 17GO, Col. Otis, then
speaker of the house, applied to Gov. Bernard
for the appointment of associate judge, and his
son, James, seconded the request. But Mr.
Hutchinson was nominated. To this disappoint
ment Mr. Hutchinson attributes the flaming
patriotism of the father and the son. He says :
" From this time they were at the head of every
measure in opposition. From so small a spark
a great fire seems to have been kindled." In
order to conciliate this family, Gov. Bernard, as,
by the demise of the king in 1760, all civil and
military offices must be renewed, proposed to
Col. Otis to give him the principal offices in the
county of Barnstable, with the right of nominat
ing many of his relations and friends. Accord
ingly Col. Otis was appointed chief justice of the
county court and judge of probate. Soon after
wards Mr. Otis, the son, supported the grant of
the island of Mount Desert to the governor. It
seems, however, that the reconciliation was not
of long continuance. Col. Otis maintained the
rights of the colonies ; and the governor, in his
speech in 1766, asks : " Shall this fine country
be ruined, because every person in the govern
ment has not been gratified with honors or offices
according to the full of his pretensions ? Shall
the private interests, passions, or resentments of
a few men deprive this whole people of the great
and manifold advantages which the favor and in
dulgence of their sovereign and his parliament
are even now providing for them ? " Hutchin
son says, that the reference is to Col. Otis ; but
this is ascribing a great deal to one family. When
chosen a councillor, he was repeatedly rejected
by the governor. His wife was Mary Allyne of
Wethersfield, Conn., a native of Plymouth, the
daughter of Joseph Allyne and Mary Dotcn, who
removed to W. His three sons were men of dis
tinction. His daughter married Gen. James
Warren.
OTIS, JAMES, a distinguished patriot and
statesman, the son of the preceding, died May
23, 1783, aged 58. He was born at Great
Marshes, or West Barnstable, Feb. 5, 1725, and
was graduated at Harvard college in 1743. After
pursuing the study of the law under Mr. Gridley,
the first lawyer and civilian of his time, at the
age of twenty-one he began the practice at Ply
mouth. In about two years he removed from
this town to Boston, where he 'soon gained so
high a reputation for integrity and talents, that
his services were required in the most important
causes. It will be seen, under the account of his
father, that Mr. Hutchinson ascribes his zeal for
colonial rights to resentment. Dr. Eliot also
says, that in 1775 he heard Judge Trowbridge
remark, that Mr. Otis, in his resentment, had
said, " That he would set the province in flames,
if he perished by the fire ; " and he doubted not
the war would have been delayed for years, if
Mr. Ilutchinson had not been appointed chief
justice. But, allowing the resentment at the
time, one would think the accommodation of the
father as to office was pretty ample. Besides,
new questions had sprung up, and the force of
circumstances would easily render such a mind
as that of James Otis earnest in the defence of
the rights of the colony. In 1761 he distin
guished himself by pleading against the writs of
assistance, which the officers of the customs had
applied for to the judges of the supreme court.
His antagonist was Mr. Gridley. Of his speech
John Adams said : " Otis was a flame of fire ;
with a promptitude of classical allusions, a depth
of research, a rapid summary of historical events
and dates, a profusion of legal authorities, a pro
phetic glance of his eyes into futurity, and a
rapid torrent of impetuous eloquence, he hurried
away all before him. American independence
was then and there born. Every man of an im
mense crowded audience appeared to me to go
away, as I did, ready to take up arms against
writs of assistance." Judgment was suspended
in order to get information from England ; at
the next term writs were ordered to be issued on
application to the chief justice by the surveyor^
general of the customs. Yet they were never
executed. He was, in this or the following year,
chosen a member of the legislature, in \\ hicli
body the powers of his eloquence, the keenness
of his wit, the force of his arguments, and re-
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OTIS.
sources of his intellect gave him a most com
manding influence. When the arbitrary claims
of Great Britain were advanced, he warmly en
gaged in defence of the colonies, and was the
first champion of American freedom, who had
the courage to affix his name to a production
that stood forth against the pretensions of the
parent State. He was a member of the congress
which was held at New York in 1765, in which
year his rights of the colonies vindicated, a
pamphlet, occasioned by the stamp act, and which
was considered as a masterpiece both of good
writing and of argument, was published in Lon
don. For the boldness of his opinions he was
threatened with an arrest ; yet he continued to
support the rights of his fellow citizens. lie
resigned the office of judge advocate in 1767,
and renounced all employment under an admin
istration which had encroached upon the liberties
of his country. His warm passions sometimes
betrayed him into unguarded epithets, that gave
his enemies an advantage, without benefit to the
cause which lay nearest his heart. Being vilified
in the public papers, he in return published some
severe strictures on the conduct of the commis
sioners of the customs, and others of the minis
terial party.
A short time afterwards, on the evening of
Sept. 5, 1769, he met John Robinson, one of the
commissioners, in a public room, and an affray
followed, in which he was assaulted by a number
of ruffians, who left him and a young gentleman,
who interposed in his defence, covered with
wounds. The wounds were not mortal; but his
usefulness was destroyed, for his reason was
shaken from its throne, and the great man in
ruins lived several years the grief of his friends.
In an interval of his reason he forgave the men
who had done him an irreparable injury, and re
linquished the sum of 2000 pounds which Mr.
Robinson had been by a civil process adjudged to
pay, on his signing a humble acknowledgment.
He lived to see, but not fully to enjoy, the inde
pendence of America, an event towards which his
efforts had greatly contributed. At length, as he
was leaning on his cane at the door of Mr. Isaac
Osgood's house in Andover, he was struck by a
flash of lightning ; his soul was instantly liberated
from its shattered tenement, and sent into eter
nity. His wife was Ruth Cunningham of Boston.
President Adams, then minister in France, wrote
respecting him : " It was with very afflicting sen
timents I learned the death of Mr. Otis, my
worthy master. Extraordinary in death as in
life, he has left a character that will never die,
while the memory of the American Revolution
remains ; whose foundation he laid with an en
ergy and with those masterly abilities which no
other man possessed." He was highly distin
guished by genius, eloquence, and learning, and
no American perhaps had possessed more exten
sive information. Besides his legal and political
knowledge, he Avas a complete master of classical
literature. He published rudiments of Latin
prosody, with a dissertation on letters, and the
power of harmony in prosaic composition, 12mo.,
1760, which has been considered the most clear
and most masterly treatise on the subject; vindi
cation of the conduct of the house of representa
tives of Massachusetts in 1762; the rights of the
British colonies asserted, 1764; considerations
on behalf of the colonists, 1765. His life by
William Tudor was published, 8vo., 1823.— War
ren, I. 47, 85-89 ; Monthly Anthology, v. 222-
226.
OTIS, JOSEPH, general, brother of the pre
ceding, a Revolutionary patriot, died Sept. 23,
1810, aged 82. He was born in 1728, and was
for many years a clerk of the court of common
pleas, a member of the legislature, and brigadier-
general of the militia. Washington appointed
him collector for the district of Barnstable, an
office which he held for many years. His resi
dence was at the parish of Barnstable, called
Great Marshes. He died in the peace of the
Christian, leaving four sons and two daughters.
His daughter Maria, wife of Rev. Philip Colby
of Micldleborough, a lady of many attractions
and accomplishments and eminent piety, died
May 20, 1821, aged 33. His son William, clerk
in the land office at Washington, died in 1837,
aged 53. His son John, collector at Barnstable,
died in 1854, aged 80.
OTIS, SAMUEL ALLYXE, secretary of the sen
ate of the United States, brother of the preced
ing, died April 22, 1814, aged 73. He was
graduated at Harvard college in 1759, and settled
as a merchant in Boston. In 1776 he was chosen
a representative, and afterwards was a member
of the convention which framed the constitution
of Massachusetts. He was also a member of the
board of war. In 1787 he was one of the com
missioners to negotiate with the insurgents. In
1788 he was elected a member of congress, and,
after the adoption of the constitution, secretary
of the senate, an office which he held, amidst the
collision of parties, with exemplary fidelity and
amenity of manners, without the absence of one
day, more than thirty years, till his death at
Washington. His first wife was the daughter of
Harrison Gray, treasurer of Massachusetts ; his
second was the widow of Edward Gray. His
son, Samuel Allyne Otis, died at Newburyport in
1814, aged 44. Another son was Harrison Gray
Otis of Boston.
OTIS, GEORGE, died in 1828, aged about 33.
He graduated at Harvard in 1815, and was tutor
and professor of Latin. lie was an Episcopal
preacher, lie published perfectibility; address
to humane society at Newburyport, 1818; sermon
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at Cambridge at the re-opening of the Episcopal
church, 18126.
OTIS. GALKN, Dr., died at Woolwich, Me., Aug.
16, 1S:!6, aged 73.
OTIS, CrsmxG, M. I)., died at South Scituate
in 1837, aged about 70. He graduated at Har
vard in 1789; and was much respected as a man
and a physician.
OTIS, ISAAC, captain, died at Otisville, N. Y.,
in 1838, aged 87. Born in Massachusetts, he
served in the war of the Revolution five years.
OTIS, HARRISON GRAY, died at Boston Oct.
28, 1818, aged 83. The son of Samuel Allyne
Otis, he was graduated in 1783. In politics he
was associated with Ames, Lowell, Parsons, Cabot,
and Gore. He was a member of congress in
1797 and for eight years, and in Massachusetts
was the speaker of the house, and the president
of the senate ; he was also judge and mayor of
the city. Of the Hartford convention he was a
member. From 1817 to 1822 he was a senator
of the United States. For the last twenty years
he lived retired. For a graceful eloquence he
was unequalled, as well as for the interest of his
conversation. His wife was Sally, the daughter
of William Foster, a merchant. He had eleven
children : among them Sophia Harrison, who
married Andrew Ritchie ; William Foster, a grad
uate of 1821 ; and Allyne, a graduate of 1825.
He published oration July 4, 1788; letter to W.
Heath, 1798; eulogy on Hamilton, 1804; speech
on restricting slavery in Missouri, 1820 ; on the
sedition law ; letters in defence of the Hartford
convention, 1824 ; address in Boston ; speech in
Boston, 1830.
OTIS, JOSEPH, died at Norwich, Conn., March
11, 1851, aged 85. He had lived many years in
New York, and was a man of great excellence of
character and eminent piety. Among his bene-
fac;ions to the church and people with which he
was connected in Norwich, is a beautiful library
building, well filled with valuable books, also
given by him. He also bequeathed 3750 dollars
to the free academy in Norwich.
OTTERBINE, WILLIAM, died at Baltimore
Nov., 1813, aged 89. He was sixty years a min
ister, forty years at Baltimore.
OTTO, JOHN C., died at Philadelphia June 30,
1845, aged 70; clinical lecturer in the Phila
delphia hospital. For his skill, philanthropy,
and pure character, he enjoyed the confidence of
his fellow citizens for half a century. He was the
son of Dr. Bodo Otto, an eminent physician of
New Jersey, and an officer in the Revolutionary
army.
' OUSAMEQUIN, one of the names of Massas-
soit, the sachem of Packonokik, or Pocanaukett,
or Bristol. His deed, to Myles Standish and
others of Bridgewater, is dated March 23, 1649,
giving seven miles square for seven coats, nine
hatchets, eight hoes, twenty knives, four moose
skins, and ten yards and a half of cotton. His
mark was possibly intended to represent a fish.
OUTEIN, NANCY C., Mrs., died in Gloucester,
Mass., in 1814, aged 36, a lady of distinguished
talent, of piety, benevolence, and usefulness. A
sermon describing her character was published,
which was preached by Dr. Dana of Newbury-
port, before the Gloucester female society for pro
moting Christian knowledge. According to him,
she had a mind of tht first order, richly endowed
with highly polished manners, and bowed most
humbly at the foot of the cross, and toiling un
wearied for the poor, the ignorant, the wretched,
carrying to them, as far as possible, the means of
knowledge and comfort, so that as she departed
many were ready to exclaim :
" How blessings brighten as they take their flight! "
Such an example may do great good years a^ei
her departure. What dazzling princess, shining
only in the outward splendors of a court, can
bear any comparison with her ? What treasures
are given us in many hundreds of such excellent
women, scattered through our towns and villages ?
OVANDO, DON NICOLAS DE, governor of His-
paniola, was chosen in 1501 to succeed Bobadilla,
whose hunger for gold had caused the greatest
miseries and disorders in the island. He arrived
in April, 1502. In June he refused to afford a
shelter to the squadron of Columbus in the har
bor, and afterwards treated him with great neg
lect when he was in distress in Jamaica. Under
the color of hiring the natives to labor, with the
benevolent design also of teaching them Chris
tianity, the chiefs were ordered to furnish a cer
tain number of natives for six or eight months,
who were subjected to severe toil, under the lash,
with scanty food, and with no teaching but the
ceremony of baptism. The indignant Indians,
who fled to the mountains, were hunted like wild
beasts. Such was Ovando's method of promoting
Christianity ! He was indeed an unprincipled
tyrant, greedy after lucre, and his name is infa
mous. Once he seized treacherously several of
the caciques of Anacaona, and, after torturing
them, set fire to the house and consumed them,
and then sent the princess, Anacaona, in chains to
San Domingo, and caused her to be hung. His
various atrocities and horrible cruelties cannot
here be described. Yet such is the man whom
the Spanish represent as an enemy to avarice and
venerable for his regard to justice. It is no won
der that the curses of Heaven have descended on
the Spanish empire, chargeable with the blood
by which the new world Avas drenched. He was
superseded by Don Diego Columbus in 1509, but
was permitted to retain his wealth, which he
wrung from the natives. — Irving's Columbus.
OVEKBAUGH, PETER, died at Poughket-psie,
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OVIEDO.
PACKARD.
N. Y., in 1842, for many years the respected pas
tor of the Reformed Dutch church of Flatbush.
OVIEDO, GONZALO FERNANDEZ DE, historio
grapher of the Indies, was born in Madrid in
1478 ; in 1513 he was sent out to the new world
to superintend the gold founderies, and was alcaid
of the fortress of St. Domingo in 1535 ; and died
at Valladolid in 1557, aged 79. He had lived
thirty-four years in the colonies. He published a
chronicle of the Indies, in fifty books, 1535 and
1547. A part of the work is yet unpublished. —
Irving's Columbus.
OWANECO, or Neco, an Indian sachem, the
son and successor of Uncas, died in 1710. He
with his father signed, June 6, 1659, a deed of
the town of Norwich, Conn., nine miles square,
for 70 pounds in money. His mark was the
figure of a bird. He also signed a deed of the
use of certain lands to the Mohegans, March 6,
1693-4. Cesar and Ben Uncas were his sons.
OWEN, GRIFFITH, an eminent physician of
Philadelphia, died in 1717. He was among the
early settlers, and a Quaker and preacher highly
esteemed. He held several stations in the civil
department. — Proud, II. 99.
OWEN, JOHN, minister of Groton, Conn., suc
cessor of E. Woodbridge, died June 14, 1753,
aged 54. Born in Braintree, he graduated at
Harvard in 1723, and was ordained in 1727. His
first wife was Anna Morgan ; his second, the
widow of Rev. J. Hillhouse. His only son was
the teacher of the grammar school of New Lon
don, and town clerk; but has no memorial stone.
His gravestone remains at Pequonnuck, with the
good words,
" God's faithful Seer."
He was a man of a liberal mind, an advocate of
toleration. — Miss Caulkins' History of New
London.
OWEN, ABRAHAM, colonel, aid to Gen. Har
rison, was killed in battle with the Indians, near
the Prophet's town, on the Wabash,Nov. 7, 1811.
The killed, and those who died of their wounds
received at Tippecanoe, were sixty-two in number.
OWEN, DANIEL, died at Gloucester, R. I., in
1812, aged 81. lie had been lieutenant-governor.
OWEN, JOHN, governor of North Carolina in
1830 and 1831, died at Pittsborough in 1841,
greatly respected for his talents and worth.
OWENS, JOHN, died at Carroll, N. Y., Feb.
24, 1843, aged 107 ; a soldier in the French and
Revolutionary wars.
OXENBIUDGE, JOHN, minister in Boston,
died Dec. 28, 1674, aged 65. He was born in
England Jan. 30, 1609, and was educated at Ox
ford, where he was for some time a tutor. Be
coming a preacher, soon after the year 1634 he
went to Bermuda, and took the charge of a church.
In 1641 or 1642 he returned to England, and
was fellow of Eaton college. In 1662 he was
induced, in consequence of the act of uniformity,
to go to Surinam and thence to Barbadoes. He
came to New England in 1669, and was settled
pastor of the first church as colleague with Mr.
Allen, April 10, 1670. He was a celebrated
divine, and one of the most popular preachers of
his time. He published a double watchword, or
the duty of watching and watching in duty, 1661 ;
a proposition for propagating the gospel by
Christian colonies in the continent of Guiana ;
election sermon, 1671; seasonable seeking of
God. — Wood's Ath. Oxon., n. 536,537; Mag-
nalia, III. 321; Spr ague's Annals.
PACA, WILLIAM, governor of Maryland, died
in 1799, aged 59. He was the son of John P., a
gentleman of large estate in Harford county,
was born Oct. 31, 1740. Having been educated
at the college of Philadelphia, he practised law
at Annapolis. He was appointed a member of
congress with Samuel Chase in 1774, and con
tinued in that body till the close of 1778. He
signed the Declaration of Independence. From
1778 to 1780 he was chief justice of Maryland;
then chief judge of the court of appeals in ad
miralty cases; he was governor in 1782, and
again in 1786; in 1789 he was appointed the
judge of the district court of the United States.
His first wife was a daughter of Samuel Chew.
He was a man of vigorous intellect and polished
address, of integrity, patriotism, and moral worth.
PACKARD, ELIJAH, minister in Plymouth,
died in 1766, aged about 36. Born in Bridge-
water, he was graduated at Harvard in 1750, "and
settled over the second church in 1753, succeed
ing J. Ellis, the first minister, and followed by J.
Hovey.
PACKARD, WINSLOW, first minister of Wil
mington, Vt., died in 1784, aged 33. Born in
Bridgewater, Mass., he graduated at Dartmouth
in 1777, and was settled in 1781.
PACKARD, ASA, died at Lancaster, Mass.,
March 20, 1843, aged 84. Born in Bridgewater,
he graduated at Harvard in 1783. He was thirty-
seven years the minister of Marlborough, being
ordained in 1785. Afterwards he assisted in
forming the evangelical church in Lancaster.
Being a soldier in early life, he bore a British
bullet in his body sixty or seventy years.
PACKARD, HEZEKIAH, D. D., died at Salem
April 25, 1849, aged 87. He was a brother of
the preceding, and a soldier under Washington
at the siege of Boston. He graduated in 1787
in the class of J. Q. Adams. For many years
he was the minister of Wiscasset, Me. Two of
his sons were professors at Bowdoin, and in the
Episcopal theological seminary of Virginia. He
published thanksgiving sermon, 1795; fast ser
mons, 1799; at ordination of A. Beattie, 1797;
of T. Cochran, 1805 ; Christian's manual.
PACKARD.
PACKARD, TiiEorun.rs, D. D., died Sept.
17, 1855, aged 86. He was a native of North
Bridgewater, and graduated at Dartmouth in
179G; was ordained at Shelburne, Mass., in 1799,
but relinquished his pastoral duties in 1842.
About thirty young men studied theology -with
him, among them Pliny Fisk and Dr. Fisk. He
was a trustee of Williams and Amherst colleges.
His son, Theophilus, afterwards of Mouiit Pleas
ant, Iowa, was his colleague for twenty-five years
from 1828. Perhaps it ought to be mentioned
as a monitory fact, that in his old age he was a
firm believer in the spiritual visions or commu
nications of a young woman of his acquaintance,
which seemed to be of no value even to those
who believed them. Some accounted for his
easy faith from his habit of intense thought on
every subject of inquiry. He published a sermon
at ordination of J. W. Cannon; two on the
divinity of Christ, 1808; before a missionary so
ciety; on slander, 1815 ; the life of his son, J. T.
Packard, 1820. — Sprague's Annals.
PACKARD, LEVI, minister of Spencer, Mass.,
died at Stafford Springs, Conn., Jan. 11, 1857,
aged 63. He was twenty-seven years at Spencer.
PADDOCK, JUDAH, published a narrative of
the shipwreck of the ship Oswego on the south
coast of Africa, 1818.
PADILLA, A. D., published historia de la
provincia de Santiago de Mexico ; folio, Madrid,
1596.
PAGE, JOHN, governor of Virginia, died at
Richmond Oct. 11, 1808, aged 64. From his
youth he was a man of pure and unblemished
life. He was a patriot, a statesman, a philosopher,
and a Christian. From the commencement of
the American Revolution to the last hour of his
life he exhibited a firm, inflexible, unremitting,
and ardent attachment to his country, and Jie
rendered her very important services. He was
one of the first representatives from Virginia
under the present constitution. In 1800 he was-
chosen one of the electors of president. In Dec.,
1802, he was chosen governor of Virginia in the
place of Mr. Monroe, and was succeeded by Mr.
Cabell in 1805. His residence was at Rosewell.
His conduct was marked by uprightness in all the
vicissitudes of life, in the prosperous and calami
tous times through which he had passed, in
seasons of gladness and of affliction. He pub
lished addresses to the people, 1796 and 1799.
PAGE, HARLAN, died at New York in Sept.,
1834, aged 43. A religious tract, widely circu
lated, describes his character.
PAGE, BENJAMIN, M. D., died at Hallowell,
Me., Jan. 25, 1844, aged 73. A native of Exeter,
he studied with Dr. Kittredge of Andover. He
was a skilful physician, and a Christian.
PAIGE, REED, minister of Hancock, N. II.,
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died in 1815, aged 52. Born in Hardwick, Mass.,
he graduated at Dartmouth in 1786, and was or- -
dained in 1791. He was a good preacher and
useful minister. He published a sermon at ordi
nation of J. P. Fisher, 1796 ; of J. Robinson, 1803 ;
at election, 1805; at a fast, 1812; at Lynde-
borough, 1815; oration 4th of July.
PAINE, THOMAS, died in Boston in 1757, aged
about 60. A graduate of 1717, he married
Eunice, the daughter of Rev. Samuel Treat of
Eastham, by his second wife Abigail, daughter of
Rev. S. Willard; and was ordained atWeymouth
Aug. 19, 1719, and preached his own ordination
sermon, which was published. After a ministry
of nine or more years he relinquished his office
and engaged in commerce in Boston : the reasons
for this course are not known. His sentiments
seem to have been entirely evangelical. He was
the father of Judge II. T. Paine. He published
— besides the sermon mentioned — a Thursday
lecture on original sin, 1724; on the doctrine of
earthquakes, 1728.
PAINE, ELISHA, a Separatist minister, died in
1775, aged 84. He was a lawyer in Canterbury,
when, during a revival in Windham under the
ministry of Sol. Whiting in 1721, he became
pious. About 1742 he deemed it his duty to
preach, and for his unlicensed preaching he
was imprisoned. He was the uncle of John and
Ebenezer Cleaveland, who were expelled from
Yale college for attending on his preaching in a
vacation ; they were afterwards very worthy min
isters at Gloucester and Ipswich. A majority of
the church of Canterbury followed Mr. Paine and
his brother Solomon ; the latter was ordained
over the church, which built a new meeting-house.
The bigotry of the State government and of the
Saybrook platform ministers spread the separa
tion widely ; churches sprang up also in Marsh-
field, Windham, Coventry, Killingly, Plainfield,
Voluntown, Preston, Lisbon, Franklin, Colches
ter, Norwich, Lcdyard, North Stonington, Gro-
ton, New London, Montville, Lyme, Suffield,
! Windsor, Wethersfield, and Middletown. For
rearing the teachers, a transient school, called the
'• Shepherd's Tent," was presided over at New
London by Rev. Timo. Allen.
Mr. E. Paine became pastor of a church in
Bridgehampton, L. I., in 1752 ; and there con
tinued a minister till his death. His brother,
Solomon, died about 1754; he published a short
view of the constitution of the church. The
Separatists held a general meeting in 1781, and
for twenty years afterwards. But some became
Baptists, and they died away, as the causes of
separation, as to doctrines, ceased to exist.
PAINE, TIMOTHY, died at Worcester in 1793,
aged 63. Born in Bristol, R. I., he graduated at
Harvard in 1748, and held various offices, as
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PAINE.
PAIXE.
clerk, register of deeds, and councillor. Mild
v and affable, he had good sense and solid talents.
— Lincoln's History of Worcester.
PAINE, JOSHUA, minister of Sturbridge, Mass.,
died Dec. 28, 1799, aged 65. A native of Pom-
fret, Conn., he graduated at Yale in 1759, and
succeeded C. Rice in 1761. He was a patriot of
the He volution, and gave up a portion of his
salary for the relief of his people, and made a
special contribution of a barrel of gunpowder to
aid the struggle for liberty. Upon a salary of
222 dollars he educated two sons at college, one
of whom was a minister, — doubtless Joshua, a
graduate of Harvard in 1784, minister of Charles-
town from 1787 till his death, in 1788, aged 24.
— Washburn's Hist. Leicester Academy.
PAINE, THOMAS, a political writer and Deist,
died at New York June 8, 1809, aged 72. He
was born in Norfolk, England, in 1737 ; his father,
a Quaker, was a stay-maker. He followed the
same business ; and then became an exciseman
in Sussex, but was dismissed for misconduct. He
. came to Philadelphia in 1774, and in Jan., 1775,
he was employed by Mr. Aitken to edit the
Pennsylvania magazine. After the war com
menced, he, at the suggestion of Dr. Rush, wrote
his celebrated pamphlet of common sense, recom
mending independence. For this tract the legis
lature of Pennsylvania voted him 500 pounds.
He was also elected by congress in April, 1777,
clerk to the committee on foreign affairs ; he
chose to call himself " secretary for foreign affairs."
At this period he wrote the crisis. For divulging
some official secrets he lost his office in Jan.,
1779. In 1780 he was clerk of the assembly of
Pennsylvania; in 1785 congress voted him 3,000
dollars, and the State of New York gave him
five hundred acres of land, the confiscated estate
of Davol, a royalist, at New Rochelle. There
was on it a stone house, one hundred and twenty
by twenty-eight feet. In 1787 he went to Paris
and London. In answer to Burke's reflections
on the French Revolution, he wrote his rights of
man. In Sept., 1792, he Avas a member from
Calais of the national convention of France.
Voting against the sentence on the king, he
offended the Jacobins, and, in Dec., 1793, was
thrown into prison for eleven months. He had
written the first part of his age of reason against
Christianity and committed it to Joel Barlow;
the second part was published in 1795, after his
release. At this period he was habitually drunk.
He returned to America in Oct., 1802, bringing
with him as a companion the wife of De Bonne-
ville, a French bookseller, having separated from
his second wife. His political writings have sim
plicity, force, and pungency. But he died in con
tempt and misery. His disgusting vices, his
intemperance, and profligacy, and irreligion made
him an outcast from all respectable society. He
is represented as irritable, vain, cowardly, filthy,
envious, malignant, dishonest, and drunken. In
the distress of his last sickness he frequently
called out, " Lord Jesus ! help me." Dr. Mauley
asked him whether, from his calling so often upon
the Saviour, it was to be inferred that he believed
the gospel. He replied, at last, " I have no
wish to believe on that subject." Mr. Cheetham
published an account of his life. His writings
were published in 1vol., 1792. — North Amer.
Review, 1845.
PAINE, ROBERT TREAT, LL. D., a judge of
Massachusetts, died at Boston May 11, 1814,
aged 83. He was born in Boston March 11,
1731; his father, Thomas P., was ordained the
minister of Weymouth Aug. 19, 1719, but in
consequence of ill-health had been dismissed ; his
mother was the daughter of Samuel Treat and
grand-daughter of Samuel Willard. Having
graduated at Harvard college in 1749, he studied
theology, and in 1755 acted as a chaplain in the
army. He was induced to go to Europe for mer
cantile objects, and to provide for the support of
his father ; on his return he studied law, and set
tled about 1759 at Taunton, where he became
distinguished in his profession. In 1770, in the
absence of the attorney-general, he conducted
the prosecution of Capt. Preston for the Boston
massacre. About the year 1780 he removed to
Boston. Being a delegate to the first congress,
which assembled Sept. 5, 1774, he signed the
Declaration of Independence, and continued in
that body an efficient patriot until, on the adop
tion of the Massachusetts constitution, he was
appointed attorney-general. He was a judge of
the superior court from 1790 till his resignation,
in consequence of his deafness, in 1804, at the
age of 73. His wife was a sister of Gen. Cobb.
He had a high rank as a lawyer. He had an
inflexible regard to order and justice. His ap
pearance on the bench was stern and ungainly,
and in his manner there was an unpopular se
verity; yet, by his talents, integrity, and learning,
he rendered good service to his country in the
various stations in which he was placed. He was
a firm believer in Christianity, and died in peace.
PAINE, ROBERT TREAT, a poet, son of the
preceding, died at Boston Nov. 14, 1811, aged
37. He was born at Taunton, Dec. 9, 1773.
While a member of Harvard college he was ir
regular and subject to discipline. At the time of
his graduation in 1792, he delivered a poem.
Being placed as a clerk to a merchant, instead of
applying himself to business, he penned stanzas.
He was also often attracted to the theatre. At
this period the law against theatrical perform
ances was abrogated in Massachusetts. On the
opening of the brick theatre in 1793, he obtained
a medal for the prologue. In Oct., 1794, he
commenced a newspaper, the Federal Orrery;
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but indolence, the theatre, and temptations to
pleasure, made him neglect it, and it sunk into
disregard, and was relinquished in 1790. His
satire drew upon himself personal chastisement.
In 179,5 he married Miss Baker, an actress, who
withdrew from the stage ; this marriage caused a
separation between him and his father, and his
removal from his father's house. His poem, de
livered at Cambridge in 1795, called the inven
tion of letters, brought him a profit of 1500
dollars: and in 1797, his ruling passion, 1200.
He now was appointed master of ceremonies at
the theatre, with a salary. His song of Adams
and liberty, in 1798, yielded him 750 dollars —
more than 11 dollars for each line. There is one
stanza in it, which, for its high poetry, deserves
preservation :
l; Should the tempest of war o'ershadow our land,
Its bolts could ne'er rend Freedom's temple asunder ;
For, unmov'd, at its portal would Washington stand,
And repulse with his breast the assaults of the thunder.
His sword from the sleep
Of its scabbard would leap,
And conduct with its point every flash to the deep.
For ne'er shall the sons of Columbia be slaves,
While the earth bears a plant, or the sea rolls its waves."
When at this time his name, which had been
Thomas, was by act of the legislature changed to
Hobert T., he remarked, that now he had a Chris
tian name, alluding to the name of Paine, the
Infidel. By the advice of his friends he studied
law, and was admitted to the bar in 1802. At
first he was patronized ; but, after neglecting his
profession a few years, he gave up his office. His
dissipated habits broke down his health and re
duced him to want. Indolence and the theatre,
wine and women ruined him. There is nothing
of simple, natural beauty in any of the writings
of Mr. Paine. His prose is in bad taste, and his
poetry is entirely unworthy of the commendation
bestowed upon it by his contemporaries. But,
had he written the most beautiful poetry, it would
have been worthless, associated with his own im?
moral character. No poet has power over the
heart, if known to be a gamester, and intemper
ate, and a profiigate lover of pleasure. The
virtuous and ennobling sentiments found in the
poems of Cowper and Montgomery have tenfold
power, because known to have come from the
hearts of virtuous, good men. His works, with a
biography by Charles Prentiss, were published,
8vo., 1812. — Spec. Amer. Poet, II. 93; Cyd. of
Amer. Lit.
PAINE, WILLIAM, M. T)., died it is supposed
in New York, in 1833, aged 83. He graduated
at Harvard in 1768. His name stands the second
in a class of more than forty, when the names
were arranged according to the dignity of families.
PAINE, EmvARD, general, died at Painesviile,
Ohio, Oct., 1841, aged 96. He was an officer of
the Revolution, and one of the earliest set tiers
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of the northern part of Ohio. In the Avar he led
on the first company that broke ground at Dor
chester Heights, near Boston.
PAINE, ELIJAH, judge, died at Williamstown,
Vt, April 21, 1842, aged 85. He graduated at
Harvard in 1781, and was a senator of the United
States from 1795 to 1801. J. Adams appointed
him a judge of the district court of Vermont.
Of the Phi Beta Kappa society at Cambridge he
was the first president. As a judge and citizen
he was much respected and esteemed.
PAIXE, ELIJAH, died at Ashfield, Mass., Aug.
3, 1846, aged 86. In early life he served his
country ; was graduated at Yale in 1789, and
studied law; he was a State senator in 1816; a
deacon of the church thirty years; a faithful,
useful Christian. Three sons were ministers, —
Elijah of West Boylston, William P. of Holden,
and John C. of llehoboth.
PAINE, ELIJAH, judge, son of Judge E. Paine,
died in New York Oct. 6, 1853, aged about 59.
He graduated at Cambridge in 1814, and prac
tised law in New York, where he -was a judge.
He published reports of the circuit court ; and a
work on practice, with Mr. Duer.
PAINE, CHARLES, governor of Vermont, the
son of Judge E. Paine, died in 1853, aged 54.
He was born at Williamstown, Vt, April 15, 1799,
graduated in 1820, and was a manufacturer many
years, then president of the Vermont central
railroad corporation. He was governor two years
from 1841. His residence was Northfield; but
he died in Waco, Texas. He had been engaged
in exploring a route for a Pacific railroad.
PALLOTE, JOSEPH, died at Canterbury, N. H.,
in 1823, aged 105.
PALFRAY, WARWICK, JUN., died at Salem,
Mass., in 1838, aged 51. He was a member of
the senate of Massachusetts, and had edited for
thirty-three years the Essex Register.
PALFREY, WILLIAM, colonel, a patriot of the
Revolution, was aide-de-camp to Washington,
when he was in the neighborhood of Washing
ton, and was also paymaster-general. His son,
John Palfrey, a Boston and New Orleans mer
chant, and then a planter, died at St. Martinsville
in 1843, aged 76. And his son is Rev. Dr. John
G. Palfrey, who inherited slaves from liim and
set them free.
PALMER, SOLOMON, Episcopal minister in
Connecticut, died in 1771, aged about 62. He
graduated at Yale in 1729 ; succeeded Mr. Pun-
derson in New Haven from 1763 to 1766 ; and
then removed to Litchfield. Mr. Hubbard fol
lowed him at New Haven.
PALMER, JOSKPII, minister of Norton, Mass.,
died in 1791, aged 61. Born in Cambridge, he
graduated at Harvard in 1747, and was ordained
in 1753.
PALMER, ELHIU, a preacher of Deism, died
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at Philadelphia in 1806, aged 42. He was gradu
ated at Dartmouth college in 1787. He was the
head of the Columbian illuminati, a deistical
company at New York, established about 1801,
consisting of ninety-five members. Its professed
aim was to promote " moral science" against re
ligious and political imposture. The Temple of
Reason was a weekly paper, of which the prin
cipal editor was one Driscoll, an Irishman, who
had been a Romish priest, and who removed with
his paper to Philadelphia. Mr. P. delivered lec
tures, or preached, against Christianity. But,
according to Mr. Chccthain, he was " in the small
circle of his church more priestly, more fulmi
nating," than Laud and Gardiner of England;
" professing to* adore reason, he was in a rage if
any body reasoned with him." He was blind
from his youth. He published an oration, July
4, 1797; the principles of nature, 1802.
PALMER, GEORGE, a free man of color, died
in Georgia in 1812, aged 121.
PALMER, STEPHEN, minister of Needham,
Mass., died in 1821, aged 55. Born in Norton,
he graduated at Harvard in 1789, and was or
dained in 1792. He published a sermon on the
death of C. Whiting; of T. Thacher, 1812; at
ordination of I. Braman, 1797 ; a century sermon,
1811. — Sprague's Annals.
PALMER, DAVID, M. D., of Woodstock, Vt.,
president of the Vermont medical college in W.,
died at Pittsfield, Mass., in 1840. He was highly
respected for his talents, acquirements, and char
acter. His death was occasioned by imprudence
in conducting some chemical experiment.
PALMER, JOB, died at Charleston, S. C., in
1845, aged 97 years and 5 months, a Revolution
ary patriot. Born in Ealmouth, Mass., in early
life he settled at C.
PALMER, BENJAMIN M., D. D., died at
Charleston in Oct., 1847, at an advanced age. His
widow died within a few days afterwards. He
was settled at C. in 1817, and was eminently
faithful and useful as a minister.
PALMER, DAVID, minister of Townsend, Mass.,
died Feb. 15, 1849, aged 80. Born inWindham,
Conn., his father John was there a minister. At
Dartmouth he graduated in 1797 ; he was or
dained at T. Jan. 1, 1800, and dismissed in 1830.
He was frank, social, agreeable, and successful as
a minister. Some of Iris sermons were printed.
PARIS, MKS., wife of J. I). Paris, missionary
to the Sandwich Islands, died at Hilo Feb. 18,
1847, aged 39. She was the daughter of John
Grant of Albany. When living at Johnstown she
became a Christian at the age of 13 : her parents
afterwards lived in New York. She embarked
with her husband in 1840, and settled at Kau in
Hawaii. Notwithstanding her desire to live for
the benefit of her children, who needed a moth
er's care, she bowed in quiet submission and firm
trust. When the dark valley was spoken of, she
said : " What does that mean ? I do not under
stand it. I look upon death very differently."
" What are all the dark valleys and rivers, if
Jesus is with us ? "
PARISH, ARIEL, minister of Manchester,
Mass., died in 1794, aged 30. Born in Lebanon,
Conn., he graduated at Dartmouth in 1788, and
was ordained 1792.
PARISH, ELIJAH, D. D., minister of Byfield,
Mass., was born in Lebanon, Conn., Nov. 7, 1762,
and graduated at Dartmouth college in 1785. He
was ordained in 1787. After being the minister
of B. nearly forty years, he died Oct. 14, 1825,
aged 62. Some of his violent political sermons
are quoted by Mr. Carey in his olive branch.
He published a sermon on the death of J. Cleave-
land, 1799 ; at the ordination of A. Parish, 1792;
of N. Waldo, 1806; of D. Thurston, 1807; of,
N. Merrill, 1812 ; of D. Smith and C. Kingsbury
and of E. Pilsbury, 1815 ; at Hanover, 1801 ;
orations, 1799 and -1800; on missions, 1807; be
fore a charitable society, 1808 ; at a thanksgiving,
1804 ; do. 1807 ; at Hanover, 1806 ; at fasts,-1808,
1812, 1813 ; before the society for propagating
the gospel; before convention, 1821; eulogy on
J. Hubbard, 1810 ; history of New England, with
Dr. Morse, 1804 ; with Dr. McClure, memoirs of
Eleazer Wheelock, 8vo., 1811; gazetteer of the
eastern continent ; modern geography ; gazetteer
of the Bible. A volume of his sermons was pub
lished after his death. — Sprague's Annals.
PARISH, JASPER, died at Canandaigua in July,
1836, aged 69. An emigrant with his parents
from Windham, Conn., to Lucerne county, Pa.,
he was captured in 1778, at the age of eleven, by
the Delaware Indians, and was seven years a
prisoner among the Six Nations. Being released
in 1784, his misfortune proved of the highest ad
vantage to him, for, speaking five Indian lan
guages, he was employed under Washington as
interpreter and sub-agent, and remained in office
thirty years. From 1792 he resided in Canan
daigua, N. Y., being respected as a husband,
father, and citizen.
PARISH, II., died at New York, in 1856. He
bequeathed 50,000 dollars in charity : to the
American bible society 10,000 dollars ; the New
York orphan asylum 10,000 ; St. Luke's hospital
10,000 ; New York eye infirmary 20,000.
PARK, THOMAS, an officer in the Revolution
ary war, died at Oswego, N. Y., in 1838, aged 91.
PARK, CALVIN, D. D., died at Stoughton,
Mass., Jan. 5, 1847, aged 72. Born in North-
bridge, Mass., he graduated at Brown university,
1797 ; and was a tutor and professor of moral
philosophy for twenty-five years. As an evange
list he was ordained in 1815. He became the
minister of Stoughton, Mass., in Dec., 1826, but
resigned his office in 1840. He was known as a
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great lover of truth, and as one fond of and ca
pable of teaching ; as a man of intellect and sound
learning, of refined taste and a warm heart. He
was buried at Wrentham by the side of his de
ceased wife, Abigail Ware of W. He was the
father of Professor Park of Andover. — Storrs'
Funeral Sermon ; Sprague's Annals.
PAIIK, JASON, first minister of Barry, Michi
gan, died May 11, 1849, aged 70. He was born
in Canterbury, Conn. Having studied theology
with Dr. Strong of Hartford, he was sixteen years
from 1816 the minister of Southbridgc, Mass.
Removing to the West, he organized in 1833 the
church of Barry, the first in the county, and la
bored with them faithfully for the remainder of
his life. He was benevolent, upright, conscien
tious ; a friend of missions. He left children to
deplore his loss. The general association passed
a commendatory vote, on the death of the first
of their body.
PARK, JOHN, died at Worcester in March,
1802, aged 77. Born in Windham, N. H., a
graduate of Dartmouth in 1791, for many years
he was a distinguished politician, and was the ed
itor of the Boston Repertory. He was the father
of J. C. Park.
PARKE, JOHN, a poet, died, probably in Vir
ginia, after the close of the Revolutionary war.
Bom in Delaware about 1750, he was in 1768 in
the college of Pennsylvania. He served in the
army, and was at Boston and Valley Forge. Af
ter the peace he lived in Philadelphia. He pub
lished the works of Horace translated into English
verse, with original poems by a native, etc., 1786.
The odes are inscribed each to an American
worthy. — Cycl. of Amer. Lit.
PARKE, BENJAMIN, judge, died at Salem,
Ind., in 1835, aged 57. Born in New Jersey, he
was appointed by Jefferson judge of the United
States court for Indiana about 1801, and was
respected in his office. He had been a delegate
to congress from 1805 to 1808.
PARKER, THOMAS, first minister of Newbury,
Mass., died in April, 1677, aged 81. He was the
only son of Robert Parker, who was driven out
of England for Puritanism in the reign of Eliza
beth ; was born in 1595. After having been for
some time a student at Oxford, he pursued his
studies in Ireland under Dr. Usher. Thence he
went to Holland, where he enjoyed the assistance
of Dr. Ames. He returned to Newbury in Eng
land, where he preached and was the instructor
of a school. He came to this country with a
number of Christian friends in May, 1634, and
immediately went to Aggawam, or Ipswich, Mass.,
where he continued about a year as an assistant
to Mr. Ward. In 1635 he commenced the set
tlement of Newbury, and was chosen pastor and
Mr. Noyes teacher. He left behind him the
character of aia eminent scholar, and of a most
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pious and benevolent Christian. Through his in
cessant application he became blind several years
before his death. Under this heavy calamity he
was patient and cheerful, and used to say, in refer
ence to his darkened eyes, " they will be restored
shortly in the resurrection." Having never been
married, he yet with parental affection gave sev
eral young gentlemen the advantages of a public
education. In his views of church government
he differed from the Congregationalism of New
England, in consequence of which his church was
unhappily divided. A bitter controversy lasted
for years, an account of which, in forty pages, is
in Coffin's history of Newbury. Some theses de
traductione pcccatoris ad vitam, written by him
at an early age, were printed with some works of
Dr. Ames. He also published a letter to a mem
ber of the Westminster assembly, on the govern
ment in the churches of England, 1644 ; the
prophecies of Daniel expounded, 4to., 1646; a
letter to his sister, Mrs. Avery, on her opinions,
1649. — Magnolia, ill., 143-145, 147.
PARKER, THOMAS, first minister of Dracut,
Mass., died in 1765, aged 64. Born in Cam
bridge, he graduated at Harvard in 1718, and be
gan to preach at D.
PARKER, JAMES, a printer in New York, died
in 1770. He was born in Woodbridge, New Jer
sey, and began business about 1742. He pub
lished the Post-Boy, and in 1752 a periodical
work, The Reflector. A private journal of
Moses Allen, while at college at Princeton in
1769, mentions that " the printer Parker's daugh
ter, in New York, famous for sense and beauty,
challenged a gentleman for some indecency,
wounded him, and came off victorious."
PARKER, JONATHAN, second minister of
Plympton, Mass., died in 1776, aged 71. Born
in Barnstable, he graduated at Harvard in 1725,
and was settled in 1731, the successor of J. Cush-
man. He was followed by E. Sampson.
PARKER, NEHEMIAH, first minister of Hnb-
bardston, Mass., died in 1801, aged 59. Born in
Shrewsbury, he graduated at Harvard in 1763;
was settled in 1770, and resigned in 1800.
PARKER, SAMUEL, D. D., bishop of Mass., died
Dec. 6, 1804, aged 59. He was born at Ports
mouth, N. H., in 1745, and was graduated at Har
vard college in 1764. He was afterwards nine
years an instructor of youth in Newburyport and
other towns. In 1773 he was ordained by the
bishop of London, and, May 19, 1774, was estab
lished as assistant minister at Trinity church,
Boston, of which he became the rector in 1779.
During the Revolutionary war the other Episcopal
clergymen quitted the country, but he remained
at his post, and his church was saved from dis
persion. After the death of Bishop Bass he was
elected his successor ; but he was at the head of
the Episcopal churches but a few mouths. He
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died suddenly at Boston. Distinguished foi his
benevolence, he was in a peculiar manner the
friend of the poor, who in his death mourned the
loss of a father. He published a sermon at the
election, 1793 ; before the asylum, 1803 ; and
some other occasional discourses.
PARKER, SAMUEL, minister of Provincetown,
Mass., died in 1811, aged 70, in the 38th year of
his ministry. He graduated at Harvard in 1768.
PARKER, ISAAC, LL. D., chief justice of Mass.,
died May 26, 1830, aged nearly 62. He was born in
Boston June 17, 1768, and graduated at Harvard
college in 1786. His father was a merchant, who
met with reverses of fortune in his business. He
commenced the practice of law at Castine, in the
district of Maine, and was elected a member of
congress. Adams appointed him marshal for the
district of Maine ; an office which he held till the
accession of Mr. Jefferson to the presidency in
1801. Afterwards he removed to Portland. In
1806 he was appointed a judge of the supreme
court, and in 1814 chief justice, as the successor
of Mr. Sewall, of which office he with high repu
tation and faithfulness discharged the duties six
teen years. In 1820 he was president of the
Massachusetts convention for the revision of the
constitution. For several years he was professor
of law in Harvard University. His father and
several of his ancestors had died of the apoplexy.
He died poor, but the citizens of Boston made
provision for his family. On Sunday, July 25,
1830, he was suddenly attacked with the apo
plexy, of which he died the next morning. His
successor was Lemuel Shaw. He was a dis
tinguished scholar and friend of literature. For
eleven years he was a trustee of Bowdoin college,
and for twenty years an overseer of Harvard col
lege. He was a man of great moral worth, and
a firm believer in the Christian religion. He
published a sketch of the character of Judge Par
sons, 1813; of Judge Sewall; of S. How, 1828;
oration on Washington, 1800. — Ann. Reg., 1830-
1831, p. 272-276.
PARKER, NATHAN, D. D., died at Portsmouth
Nov. 8, 1833, aged 51. He was a graduate of
Harvard in 1803. He published New Hampshire
election sermon, 1819; a dedication sermon at
Portsmouth, 1826.
PARKER, S. E., general, died in Northamp
ton county, Va., in 1836. He was an eminent
lawyer, and a member of congress from 1819 to
1821.
PARKER, RICHAKD E., judge of various
courts, died in Virginia in 1840, aged about 63.
He was aLo a senator of the United States.
PARKER, JOHN, a merchant, died in Boston
May 29, 1840, aged 83.
PARKER, BENJAMIN, M. D., died in 1845,
aged about 84. He graduated at Harvard in
1781. He was a physician in Bradford, Mass.,
till in 1819 he removed to some other State.
PARKER, BENJAMIN, first minister of the
east church in Haverhill, Mass., died Nov. 29,
1790, aged 76. Born in Bradford, he graduated
at Harvard in 1737, and was ordained in 1734.
He published a sermon on the death of Edward
Barnard, 1774.
PARKER, DANIEL, brigadier-general, died at
Washington April 5, 1846. He was a native of
Massachusetts. He was adjutant and inspector-
general, and chief clerk in the war department.
He published army register, 1816.
PARKER, EDWARD L., minister of London
derry, N. H., died in 1850, aged about 64. He
graduated at Dartmouth in 1807, and was settled
in the original or east parish in 1810. He pub
lished a century sermon at L., 1819 ; at Ordination
of A. Cross, 1824.
PARKER, JOHN A., died at New Bedford
Dec. 30, 1853, a rich merchant, at an advanced
age.
PARKER, FREEMAN, first minister of Dres
den, Me., died in 1854, aged about 78. He was
born in Barnstable, Mass., July 13, 1776 ; was
graduated at Harvard in 1797 ; and ordained
Sept. 2, 1801. After twenty-five years he re
signed and removed to Wiscasset. Though blind
for more than forty years, he still preached. His
last discourse was delivered at Dresden on the
fiftieth anniversary of his settlement.
PARKER, GEORGE PHILLIPS, died in New
York Jan. 19, 1856, aged 62. He was the son
of John Parker of Boston, and graduated at Har
vard in 1812. For some years he was engaged
in the temperance cause, to which, from his ample
means, he liberally contributed.
PARKHURST, BENJAMIN, died Dec. 15, 1842,
aged 97. He was one of the first settlers of Roy-
alton, Vt. : his parents died at the age of 97 ;
his grandfather died at the age of 100 ; his grand
mother, at the age of 104.
PARKHURST, PHINEHAS, Dr., died at Leba
non, N. H., Oct. 16, 1844, aged 85. He was
born in Plainfield, Conn. His father removed
to Royalton, Vt., and was killed in an attack of
the Indians from Canada, Oct. 16, 1780. Dr. P.
was long a physician and prominent citizen of
Lebanon.
PARKMAN, EBENEZER, first minister of West-
borough, Mass., was graduated at Harvard col
lege in 1721, and was ordained Oct. 28, 1724, the
day on which the church was gathered. After
continuing his ministerial labors near sixty years,
he died Dec. 9, 1782, aged 79. His wife was a
daughter of Rob. Brcck ; Samuel P., who died in
Boston in June, 1824, aged 72, was a descendant.
A short account of Westborough, written by him,
is printed in the historical collections. He pub-
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lished reformers and intercessors, 1752 ; a con
vention sermon, 1761.
PARKMAX, GEORGE, M. D., died in 1849,
aged about 58. The son of Samuel P., he grad
uated at Harvard in 1809, and was a physician
and a man of large property in Boston. He was
murdered by Dr. Webster in the medical build
ing, and his body partly consumed, when the
crime was discovered. The motive to its com
mission was the wish to avoid the payment of a
debt, lie published a treatise on insanity, 1817.
PARKMAN, FRANCIS, D. D., son of Samuel
P., died in Boston, Nov. 12, 1852, aged G4. He
graduated at Harvard in 1807. He was the pas
tor of the new north church from 1813 to 1849.
He published century sermon, 1814 ; on the
death of J. Lathrop ; at ordination of J. Park-
man, 1837 ; offering of sympathy on the revolu
tion in France, 1830.
PARKS, WILLIAM, printer of the Virginia
Gazette, died in 1750.
PARMELE, ELISHA, first minister of Lee,
Mass., died in 1784, aged about 26. Born in
Goshen, Conn., he graduated at Harvard in 1778,
and was settled in 1783. His successor was A.
Hyde.
PARMELEE, PHILANDER, minister of Bolton,
Conn., died in 1822, aged 39. Born in North
Killingworth, he graduated in 1809 ; was minis
ter of Victor, N. Y., five years ; and settled at B.
in 1815. He was an earnest, useful minister. —
Sprague's Annals.
PARMELEE, MOSES, minister of Stockholm,
N. Y., was found dead in his bed after an eve
ning lecture in 1838, aged 50. Born in Pitts-
ford, Vt., he was first the minister of South Gran-
ville, N. Y., in 1816. His character was pure ;
his temperament ardent, and this gave unction
and pathos to his address. His brother Simeon
was the minister of Westford, Vt.
PARRIS, SAMUEL, the first minister of Dan-
vers, Mass., died after 1711 ; if in 1713, he was
aged 60. He was born in London in 1653 ;
studied at Harvard college ; and was ordained at
Salem village, now Danvers, Nov. 15, 1689. In
1692 the Salem witchcraft delusion commenced
in his family. His daughter, about twelve years
of age, and his niece, Abigail Williams, eleven or
twelve years old, pretended to be bewitched, and
accused Tituba, an Indian woman living in the
family, of bewitching them. Mr. Parris beat her
and compelled her to confess herself a witch.
Indian John, Tituba's husband, for his own safety,
turned accuser of others. The " afflicted " per
sons increased ; the " accused " also increased
rapidly. More than one hundred women were
apprehended, and most of them committed to
prison. Even the wife of Gov. Phipps was ac
cused. Aug. 19, 1692, George Burroughs and
four others were executed ; in all nineteen were
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hung, and Gyles Corey pressed to death for not
pleading. There had before been executed for
witchcraft Margaret Jones of Charlestown, in
June, 1648; then a woman in Dorchester, and
another in Cambridge; then in Boston in 1055
Mrs. Hibbins, wife of an assistant ; in 1662 Mrs.
Greensmith and her husband 5 in 1663 Mary
Johnson ; in 1688 Mrs. Glover of Boston. This
delusion at Salem lasted sixteen months. As Mr.
Parris had been a zealous prosecutor, his church,
in April, 1693, brought charges against him ; and
at last, although he acknowledged his error, he
was dismissed in June, 1696. He removed to
Concord. In 1711 he preached six months in
Dunstable.
PARRIS, MARTIN, minister of Marshfield,
Mass., died in 1839, aged 72. Born in Pem
broke, he graduated at Brown university in 1790 ;
was settled at Marshfield in 1871, succeeding W
Shaw.
PARRIS, SAMUEL, died at Washington Sept.
10, 1847, aged 92. A native of Pembroke, Mass.,
he was at Bunker Hill in 1775, and was an offi
cer of the Revolution. He settled at Hebron,
Maine, and was a judge of the common pleas,
and one of the electors of president at Madison's
second term. He was the father of Gov. A. K.
Parris.
PARRIS, ALBION K., governor of Maine, died in
Portland inFeb., 1857, aged about 71. Born in Au
burn, Oxford county, he graduated at Dartmouth
in 1806, and was in public life nearly forty years.
He was a member of congress from 1815 to 1818;
the first United States district judge for Maine;
was governor five years from 1821 to 1826 ; was
senator of the United States in 1828; and judge
of the supreme court of Maine from 1828 to 1836,
when he was appointed second comptroller of the
treasury, and removed to Washington, retaining
tin's office till 1851, when he returned to Portland,
of which city he was the mayor in 1852. — Bos-
ion Advertiser.
PARRISH, JOHN, died at Baltimore in 1807,
one of the oldest ministers of the society of
Friends. He succeeded Benezet in pleading the
cause of the African race. He published remarks
on the slavery of the black people, 1806.
PARRISII, JOSEPH, M. D., died at Philadel
phia March 18, 1840, aged 60. He was a most
eminent physician, a professor in the university,
and a man of benevolence and many virtues. He
was brought up in the principles and habits of the
Quakers, and sought to be guided by an inward
divinely-given principle. He ever recommended
cool air, exercise, and cool drinks. His medical
degree he received in 1805. He gave popular
lectures on chemistry in 1807. In the prevalence
of the typhus epidemic in 1812, he successfully
substituted a stimulant practice for the prevalent
contrary one. He was chosen in 1816 surgeon to
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the hospital. ITc had for years many medical
pupils, lie died in peace. His character is de
lineated fully in Williams' book. His beloved
wife was the daughter of John Cox, an esteemed
preacher in the society of Friends. lie wrote
many papers for the journals. — Wood's Memoir ;
Williams' Med. Biog.
PARROTT, JOHN F., a senator of the United
States 1819-1825, died in Greenland, N. II., July
9, 1836.
PARSONS, JOSEPH, cornet, the first of the
name in Northampton, the ancestor of many fam
ilies, died in 1(383. He came from England in
1630 or soon afterwards. He came to Springfield
at its first settlement about 1636, and married in
1616 Mary, the daughter of Thomas Bliss of
Windsor. He, it is believed, was the son of
Thomas Parsons of Great Milton, or Great Tor-
rington near Exeter, who married Catherine, the
daughter of Alderman Radcliff of London, and
was knighted by King Charles I. The three
eagles, with wings outspread, on his coat of
arms, might well be regarded as indicating the
flight of his sons to the distant new world ; for
Deacon Benjamin, another of his sons, came with
Joseph. After living at Windsor and Springfield
about twenty years, he in 1655 was among the
first settlers of Northampton. But in 1679 he
returned to Springfield, where he died, probably
of the age of 70. His widow died in 1712. His
brother Benjamin had a son Ebenezer, who was
the father of Jonathan, born in West Springfield
in 1705. Joseph had ten children ; among them
Joseph, John, Samuel, settled at Durham, Conn.,
Ebenezer, killed by the Indians in 1675, Josiah,
and David.
PARSONS, JosErn, died in Northampton in
1729, aged 82. The son of Joseph, he was born
at Springfield in 1647. His wife was Elizabeth,
daughter of Elder Strong ; and his daughter
Elizabeth married Eleazar Strong, and their
daughter Elizabeth married Rev. Dr. Lathrop.
His other children were Joseph, John, Ebenezer,
David, Josiah, Daniel, Moses, Abigail, and Noah.
PARSONS, DAVID, the minister of Maiden and
Leicester, Mass., died in 1737, aged about 52.
The son of Joseph of Northampton, he graduated
at Harvard in 1705, in the class of President Hoi-
yoke ; was settled first at Maiden in 1705, then
at Leicester in 1721 ; and resigned in 1735. His
successor was D. Goddard.
PARSONS, JOSEPH, minister of Salisbury,
Mass., died March 13, 1740, aged 69. He was the
son of Joseph of Northampton, and graduated at
Harvard in 1697, and was installed over the second
church of S. in 1718. He had been previously at
Lebanon, Conn., from 1700 to 1708. He pub
lished a sermon at ordination of J. Blunt, 1733.
PARSONS, JOSEPH, minister of Bradford,
Mass., died in 1765, aged 62, in the 39th year of
his ministry. lie graduated at Harvard in 1720.
He published sermon at ordination of S. Web
ster, 1741; at artillery election, 1744; election
sermon, 1759.
PARSONS, JOSEPH, minister of Brookfield,
Mass., died in 1771, aged 38. Born in Bradford,
he graduated at Harvard in 1752, and was or
dained in 1757.
PARSONS, JONATHAN, minister in Newbury-
port, Mass., died July 19, 1776, aged 70. He
was born at West Springfield, Mass., Nov. 30,
1705, and was graduated at Yale college in 1729,
having given indications of an uncommon genius.
He was ordained in 1730 minister of Lyme,
Conn., where he continued several years. The
last thirty years of his life were spent at Ncw-
buryport, in one of the largest congregations iu
America. His labors were incessant, and lie
sometimes sunk under his exertions. During his
last sickness he enjoyed the peace of a Christian.
lie expressed his unwavering assurance of an in
terest in the favor of God through the Redeemer.
He was a Presbyterian. As a preacher he was
eminently useful. During some of the first years
of his ministry his style was remarkably correct
and elegant; but after a course of years, when
his attention was occupied by things of greater
importance, his manner of writing was less pol
ished, though perhaps it lost nothing of its pa
thos and energy. In his preaching he dwelt much
and with earnestness upon the doctrines of grace,
knowing it to be the design of the Christian re
ligion to humble the pride of man and to exalt
the grace of God. He labored to guard his peo
ple both against the giddy wildness of enthusiasm,
and the licentious tenets of antinomian delusion.
His invention was fruitful, his imagination rich,
his voice clear and commanding, varying with
every varying passion, now forcible, majestic, ter
rifying, and now soft, and persuasive, and melt
ing. His zealous and indefatigable exertions
were not in vain. During his ministry at Lyme,
at a period of uncommon effusion of God's Spirit
of grace, he indulged the belief that near two
hundred of his people were renewed in the dis
positions of their minds, and enlightened by the
truth as it is in Jesus ; and his labors at Ncw-
buryport were attended by a happy revival of
religion. lie was eminent as a scholar, for he
was familiar with the classics, and he was skilled
in the Latin, Greek, and Hebrew languages. He
was accounted a dexterous and masterly reasoner.
His church is now called the old south church of
of Newburyport ; it has been thoroughly repaired
and ornamented. In a vault beneath the pulpit
— a low vault, yet accessible and often visited —
rest the remains of Mr. Parsons, Mr. Whitefield,
a Mr. Prince ; three preachers, Mr. Whiteficld's
coffin being in the centre. Mr. Parsons' firi-t
wife, and the mother of all his children, was
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Phebe Griswold, sister of Governor M. Griswold,
a woman of fervent piety and uncommon talents.
When his engagements were pressing, she some
times wrote his sermons for him. One of his
daughters was the mother of Simon Greenleaf.
He published a sermon at Boston lecture, 1742 ;
good news from a far country, in seven discourses,
1756 ; observations, etc., 1757 ; manna gathered
in the morning, 1761 ; infant baptism from heaven,
in two discourses, 1765 ; a sermon on the death
of G. Whitefield, 1770 ; freedom from civil and
ecclesiastical tyranny the purchase of Christ,
1774 ; sixty sermons on various subjects, in two
volumes, 8vo., 1780. — SearVs Sermon on his
death.
PARSONS, MOSES, minister of Byfield, Mass.,
died Dec. 14, 1783, aged 67. He was born June
20, 1716, and was graduated at Harvard college
in 1736. lie devoted a number of years to the
labors of a grammar school, and, while the re
spect and the affection of his pupils were pre
served by mingled dignity and mildness, he
endeavored to impress them with religious truth,
and to give them that instruction which might
save their souls from death. He was ordained
June 20, 1744. The Maker of the human frame
gave him a most graceful and commanding pres
ence, a quick conception, a fertile invention, an
easy flow of thought and expression, a correct
judgment, a resolute temper, and a large share of
the kind and tender sensibilities. These, ex
panded by a liberal education, polished by a large
acquaintance with mankind, and sanctified by di
vine grace, made him eminent as the gentleman
and Christian, the divine and the preacher. When
he had once deliberately fixed his opinion or his
purpose, no opposition could shake him. He al
ways carried the dignity and decorum of the
Christian minister into his most cheerful hours,
and, though he often indulged his pleasant humor
among his friends, yet he never degraded himself
by the puerile jest, the boisterous laugh, or by
vain, indelicate mirth. He usually mingled with
his sprightly sallies some useful lesson of a moral
nature. lie knew how to be familiar without
meanness, sociable without loquacity, cheerful
without levity, grave without moroseness, pious
without enthusiasm, superstition, or ostentation,
zealous against error and vice without ill-natured
bitterness, affable to all without the least sacrifice
of his ministerial dignity. There was a generous
openness in his language and behavior, and one
could almost discern his heart in his frank, honest
countenance. He was influenced by enlarged
benevolence. He was a zealous advocate of the
civil and religious interests of his beloved Amer
ica. Eminent as a preacher, he yet greatly ex
celled in the gift of prayer. His last hours were
brightened with the hopes of the gospel. He
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anticipated i.he joy of dwelling in the presence of
that divine Saviour, whom he had served in his
church below. His wife was the daughter of Eb-
enezer Davis of Gloucester, whose mother was
the great grand-daughter of John Robinson, of
whom, therefore, Mr. Parsons' son, Chief Justice
Parsons, was a descendant. He published the elec
tion sermon, 1772; at the ordination of J. Dana,
1765; of O. Parsons, 1773. — Tappan's Sermon
on his death ; Frisbie's Oration; Spr ague's An
nals.
PARSONS, DAVID, the first minister of Am-
herst, Mass., died Jan. 1, 1781, aged 68. The
son of Rev. David P. of Maiden, he graduated
at Harvard in 1729, and was ordained Nov. 2,
1739. His wife was Eunice Weed of Wethers-
field, and he had nine children.
PARSONS, SAMUEL, second minister of Rye
N. II., died in 1789, aged 77, in the fifty-third
year of his ministry. He graduated at Harvard
in 1730, and succeeded Nathaniel Morrill in 17C6,
ten years after the church was founded. He was
respected and beloved. He admitted into the
church two hundred and six persons, and bap
tised six or seven hundred.
PARSONS, SAMUEL HOLDEN, major-general,
was drowned in descending the rapids of the Big
Beaver river, O., Nov. 17, 1789, aged 52. He
was born in Lyme, Conn., and was the son of Rev.
Jonathan P., who removed from Lyme to New-
buryport. His mother was the sister of Gov. M.
Griswold. He graduated at Harvard in 1756.
He settled as a lawyer in Lyme, and there mar
ried the daughter of Richard Mather, a descend
ant of Rev. R. M. ; he removed to New London.
He sustained various public offices. With him
originated the first suggestion of assembling a
congress, in a letter of March 3, 1773, to John
Adams, " an annual meeting of commissioners
from the colonies to consult on their general wel
fare ; " a fact most honorable to him. He and
others formed the design, which was executed by
Ethan Allen, of capturing the forts. As colonel
he was in the battle of Long Island, and in 1776
was made brigadier-general. Dr. Hildreth de
scribes his many important services during the
war. He was one of the board for the trial of
Andre. After the war he resumed the practice of
the law in Middletown. In 1786 he was a com
missioner to negotiate with the Indians; and by a
treaty the land on which Cincinnati stands was
acquired. In 1787 he was appointed a judge of
the Northwestern Territory ; in 1789, chief
judge. In the same year he visited the Wyan-
dots, to arrange with them for holding a treaty,
and on his return was drowned. His son is S.
H. Parsons of Hartford. lie published a piece
describing the discoveries in the western country,
iuAmer. Acad., vol. II. — Hildretk's Biog. Mem.
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PARSONS, OBADIAH, minister of Gloucester,
Mass., died in 1801, aged 55. Born in G., he
graduated at Harvard in 1768, and was ordained
in 1772, and dismissed in 1779. From 1784 to
1790 he was the minister of Lynn ; then a teacher
in G. — Sprague's Annals.
PARSONS, PHEBE, memorable for her piety,
died Jan. 5, 1805, aged nearly 74. She lived in
Northampton, and was the wife of Noah Parsons;
but she died while on a visit to her son in West-
hampton. Her name was Phebe Bartlett, and of
her conversion at the age of 5 or 6 years, Pres.
Edwards gives an account in his " Narrative." —
Life of Justin Edwards, p. 11.
PARSONS, THEOPHILUS, LL. D., chief justice
of Massachusetts, the son of the preceding, died
in Boston Oct. 30, 1813, aged 63. He was born
Feb. 24, 1750. His early education was at Dum-
mer academy under Master Moody. After grad
uating at Harvard college in 1769, he studied law
with Judge Bradbury of Falmouth, now Portland,
and kept the grammar school. When the town
was burnt by the British, he returned to his fath
er's, and soon opened an office in Newburyport.
In 1779 he was a member of the convention
which framed the constitution of Massachusetts;
he was also in 1789 a member of the State con
vention which adopted the constitution of the
United States. He removed to Boston in 1800,
well skilled in the civil law and the law of nations-
After an extensive practice of thirty-five years he
succeeded Chief Justice Dana in 1806. He was
himself succeeded by Judge Sewall. His wife
was a daughter of Benjamin Greenleaf ; he left
three sons and four daughters. He was of large
size, broad, and corpulent, with a sallow complex
ion, and heavy appearance. His eyes were blue,
tinged with hazel-gray, sunk in his head, but
sometimes twinkling bright. His high, smooth
forehead was partly covered with a reddish skull
cap, which he wore, having been bald at the age
of thirty. A bandanna handkerchief often pro
tected his neck from the chilly winds, which were
his abhorrence. He was not more remarkable
for his deep learning, than for the keenness of his
wit, His repartees were often very cutting. Not
only was he a profound lawyer, but an excellent
classical scholar and a skilful mathematician. His
political influence, in the party divisions of his
day, was very great. He was a most determined
federalist. Of his belief in Christianity he made
a public profession in his last years, joining the
church in Boston of which Dr. Kirkland was the
pastor. The first six volumes of the Massachu
setts reports contain many of his judicial decis
ions. In the opinion of Judge Parker, had he
lived in England he would have been made lord
chancellor or lord chief justice. — Parker's Sketch ;
Knapp's Biog. Sketches, 37-77.
PARSONS, LEVI, a missionary to Palestine,
died Feb. 10, 1822, aged 29. He was the son
of Justin P., a minister; was born in Goshen,
Mass., July 18, 1792. At the age of sixteen he
became a Christian convert ; but his graces were
revived while he was a member of college, and
he became earnestly desirous to be a missionary.
During three revivals of religion his efforts were
useful. He was graduated at Middlebury in
1814, and studied theology at Anelover. After
being ordained in Sept., 1817, he was an agent of
the board of missions. In Nov., 1819, he sailed
with Mr. Fisk for Palestine, and arrived at Smyr
na in Jan., 1820; after passing half a year at
Scio, he proceeded to Jerusalem, where he re
mained from Feb. to May, 1821. On his return
to Smyrna he was seized with a distressing mal
ady at Syra. In December he went with Mr.
Fisk to Alexandria, where he died in great peace
and triumph. He was a good scholar, and very
amiable and interesting in his manners and de
voted to his benevolent work. His life was writ
ten by his brother-in-law, D. O. Morton, 1824.
He published a sermon, 1819. — Sprague's An
nals.
PARSONS, DAVID, D. D., minister of Am-
herst, Mass., died at Wethersfield, Conn., May
18, 1823, aged 74. He graduated at Harvard in
1771, and succeeded his father as the minister of
A., Oct. 2, 1782. In 1795 he declined the ap
pointment of professor of divinity at Yale col
lege. During his ministry there were several re
vivals. In one, in the year 1816, one hundred
persons were added to his church. He had a
zeal for education, which led him to promote the
establishment of an academy, which was followed
by the college. He was dismissed at his request
in 1819; D. A. Clark was his successor. His
widow, daughter of E. Williams of Wethersfield,
died in 1850, aged 86. As he read his sermons
he had but little action in the pulpit ; yet his de
livery was not dull. He had remarkable social
qualities. He sometimes lamented his propensity
to facetiousness, for which he once offered to his
brother-in-law, Dr. Howard of Springfield, the
poor excuse, " Grace does not cure squint eyes.''
He restrained himself in the pulpit : he might
have laid restraints upon himself out of it. He
published the election sermon, 1788 ; at the ordi
nation of J. L. Pomeroy, 1795. — Holland's His
tory of Hampshire ; Sprague's Annals.
PARSONS, ELIJAH, minister of East Had dam,
Conn., died in 1827, aged about 80. Born in
Northampton, Mass., he graduated at Yale in
1768, and was ordained in 1772. He was a fel
low of the college.
PARSONS, SILAS, minister at Niagara, N. Y.,
died in 1839, aged 78.
PARSONS, ENOCH, the son of Gen. S. H.
Parsons, died at Hartford about 1839, aged per
haps 60. He was president of the U. S. branch
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bank at II. ; a man of earnest whig character in
his politics. His son is Samuel II. Parsons of
Middlctown.
PARSONS, THOMAS W., M. D., died in Bos
ton in 1854. lie received his medical degree in
1818.
PARSONS, ANDREW, died in Corunna, Mich.,
in 1855. He was lieutenant-governor in 1853,
and in the same year was governor by Gov. Mc-
Clelland's becoming secretary of the interior.
PARTRIDGE, GEORGE, died in Duxbury, Mass.,
July 7, 1828, aged 88. He graduated at Harvard
in 1762; and was a delegate to congress, and a
representative after the adoption of the constitu
tion, from 1779 to 1791.
PARTRIDGE, RALPH, first minister of Dux-
bury, Mass., died in 1658, having been a preacher
forty-nine years. He was born in England and
became a minister of the established church;
but by the severity of the bishops he was hunted,
as C. Mather says, like a partridge upon the
mountains, till at last he resolved to get out of
their reach by taking his flight into New Eng
land. He arrived at Boston Nov. 14, 1636, and
was soon settled at Duxbury. He was appointed
with Mr. Mather and Mr. Cotton to prepare a
model of church government for the considera
tion of the synod of Cambridge in 1648. He
was succeeded by Mr. Holmes. His daughter
Elizabeth married Rev. T. Thatcher, and her son,
Ralph T., was settled at Martha's Vineyard in
1697. In the inventory of his property, four
hundred volumes of books are mentioned, and
between one hundred and two hundred acres of
land. Such was his humility and self-denial, that,
when most of the ministers of Plymouth colony
left their places for want of a suitable mainten
ance, he was one of the few who remained with
their people. — Sprague's Annals.
PARTRIDGE, SAMUEL, colonel, probably the
son of AVilliam, died in Hatfield, Mass., in 1740,
aged 96. Another Col. S. P., probably his son
or grandson, died in 1799, aged 92.
PARTRIDGE, OLIVER, a member of the first
colonial congress in 1765, died at Hatfield, Mass.,
July 21, 1792, aged 80. He graduated at Har
vard in 1730 ; and was the son of Edward of
Hatfield, who was the son of Samuel, the son of
William, one of the early settlers on the Connec
ticut river, who came from Berwick-on-Tweed,
and died in Hadley. His widow, Anna, died in
1802, aged 85. His fellow delegates to congress
were James Otis and Timothy Ruggles.
PARTRIDGE, OLIVER, Dr., died in Stock-
bridge in 1850, aged 99. He was born in Hat-
field April 15, 1751. As a physician, unmarried,
he lived from his twentieth year forty-three years
in the family of "Dr. Sergeant, they harmoni
ously visiting each other's patients. He was
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skilful in diseases of children ; at the age of 97
he still was in practice.
PARTRIDGE, ALDEN, captain, died in Nor
wich, Vt., his native place, Jan. 16, 1854, aged
about 70. For nearly fifty years he was a teacher
in all the branches of military knowledge. At
first he was principal of the West Point academy ;
then of an institution of his own at Norwich, Vt.
and Middletown, Conn., at Portsmouth, Va., and
in his last years at Brandywine Springs, where
his school-house was burnt. His fatal illness was
very brief, lasting only twenty-four hours. His
character was marked with indomitable persever
ance, and zeal for the promotion of military sci
ence. He lectured in many places on military
affairs. He published an excursion, 1822 ; lec
ture on education ; on national defence.
PASCALIS, FELIX A. O., M. D., a physician
of New York, died in 1833, aged 72.
PASSACONAWAY, an Indian sagamore,
called the Merrimac sachem, and the great saga
more of Pannukog, or Pe:;acook, died in 1660.
About the year 1644 he held control over all the
Indians in New Hampshire south of the northern
extremity of lake Winnepisseogee. To him the
sachems of Squamscot, Newichwannock, Paw-
tucket, and some tribes in Massachusetts ac
knowledged subjection. He was a chief of
moderation, yet of sagacity and cunning. He
had great reputation as a powow, or sorcerer.
The Indians believed that he could make water
burn, and trees dance, and that he could meta
morphose himself into flame ; that from the skin
of a serpent he could produce a living one, and
change the ashes of a leaf into a green leaf. At
a great dance and feast in 1660, he made his
farewell speech to his people, and exhorted them
to live in peace with the English, acknowledging
that he had tried his arts as a powow against
them in vain. In the war of 1675, "Wonolanset,
his son and successor, withdrew his people to
some remote place, that he might not partici
pate in the quarrel. — Pelfs Hist. New Eng.
PATTEN, WILLIAM, minister of Hartford,
Conn., died Jan. 16, 1775, aged 36. He was a
grandson of William P., who lived in Cambridge
from 1645 till 1668 ; was born at Billerica in
March, 1738, and was graduated at Harvard col
lege in 1754. He succeeded J. Cotton as the
minister of Halifax, Mass., in Feb., 1758; but
was dismissed by reason of ill health in 1768.
He was afterwards the minister of the south
church in Hartford, as the colleague of E. Whit
man, about seven years. After languishing two
years, and losing his voice, he died in his father's
family at Roxbury. He was an eminently elo
quent, popular, and faithful preacher. Leaving
a wife and six children with little property, he
committed them in faith to the God of the widow
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and fatherless. His widow, the daughter of Pres
ident Eleazar Wheelock, eminent for her piety,
died at Hartford Dec. 5, 1831, aged 91. — 2 Coll.
Hist. Soc., iv. 282.
PATTEN, GEORGE JAFFREY, an eminent
teacher in Hartford, died March 17, 1830, aged
about 56. He was the son of Rev. Wm. Patten
and Ruth Wheelock ; and, as his father died
when he was a child, it was by the aid of his
brother that he was educated. He graduated at
Providence in 1792; then taught a grammar
school in Hartford six years ; and was subse
quently engaged five years in commercial affairs.
At length he established in conjunction with his
sisters an independent school, to which he de
voted the remainder of his life, thirty-two years.
It was a school of great distinction and useful
ness ; he had under his care three thousand
youth of both sexes. Very many he prepared
for college. All the virtues of a son and a
brother were his. Only a year or two did his
aged mother survive him. Mr. Patten was evan
gelical in his religious sentiments, and he cher
ished a hope that he was a Christian convert ;
but in his diffidence he never made a public pro
fession of his faith. Yet he was a man of prayer
in private and in the family.
PATTEN, WILLIAM, D. D., died at Hartford,
Conn., March 9, 1839, aged 76. He was the
son of Rev. William Patten ; was graduated at
Dartmouth in 1780 ; and settled as successor of
Mr. Stiles in 1786 at Newport, where he preached
for forty-eight years. He married Hannah Hurl-
but of New London ; she died at Brooklyn Aug.
30, 1855, aged 86. To the praise of her benev
olence, it is said that she set up at Newport, forty
years previously, the first ragged school in this
country, aided by Mrs. Floride Calhoun of South
Carolina. Her children were William, a lawyer
of Providence ; Joseph of New York; George W.,
a captain in the army ; Ruth, married to F. W.
Hotchkiss of Hartford ; Mary Anna, married to
C. S. Halsted of Brooklyn ; and others. Dr.
Patten was a distinguished theologian, but meek
and lowly in heart, most kind and benevolent.
He died after a short illness, in which he suffered
little pain. He published a sermon after his or
dination, 1786 ; on the slave trade, 1792 ; Chris
tianity the true theology, against Paine, 1795;
on the death of President Stiles, 1795 ; of Dr.
Isaac Senter, 1799 ; before the African benevo
lent society, 1808. — Sprague's Annals.
PATTEN, RUTH, Miss, died in Hartford March
1, 1850, aged 86, daughter of Rev. Wm. Patten,
and sister of Rev. Dr. Wm. Patten of Newport,
and grand-daughter of Rev. Dr. E. Wheelock ; a
woman of an eminent Christian character and
highly useful. Her sister Mary, also an excellent
woman, who had always been her companion, fol
lowed her in a few days, dying April 19, 1850,
aged 83.
PATTERSON, WILLIAM, governor of New
Jersey, and associate judge of the supreme court
of the United States, died Sept. 9, 1806, aged
about 63. He was a native of New Jersey, and
was graduated at the college in that State in
1763. He was a member of the convention in
1787 which framed the constitution of the United
States, and his name is affixed to that instrument.
When the new government commenced its opera
tions in 1789, he was a member of the senate
from New Jersey. He was chosen governor in
1790 as successor of Mr. Livingston. While a
judge of the supreme court of the United States
he died at Albany. In this office he was suc
ceeded by Brockholst Livingston. He was an
able statesman, an upright judge, and a disinter
ested friend of his country. He endured the
sufferings of a lingering and distressing disease
with exemplary patience. When he saw that
death was at hand, he sent for a minister to re
ceive from him the sacrament. The judge ob
served, that it had been for some time past his
intention to receive that sacred rite, but that
some casualty or other had always prevented
him. He did not wish, however, to leave the
world before he had fulfilled his duty. When
the minister mentioned the qualifications which
are required of those who partake of that holy
ordinance, he acquiesced in them all, and re
marked, at the same time, that he had always
been a believer in the truths of Christianity ; that
the only point on which he had ever entertained
any doubt, was the divinity of the Saviour; but
he had long since examined that subject, and
satisfied his mind upon it ; that he had now no
hesitation in professing his belief in all the doc
trines of our religion. He then received the
communion with the utmost devotion. When
the minister, as he retired, expressed his appre
hension that they should not meet again, he
replied, " Yes, I trust we shall ; we shall meet
again in heaven." — Clarke's Fun. Ser.
PATTERSON, ROBERT, LL. D., president of
the American philosophical society, died July 22,
1824, aged 81. He was born in the north of
Ireland May 30, 1743. In 1768 he emigrated
to Philadelphia. In 1774 he was appointed prin
cipal of the academy at Wilmington, Delaware.
In the Revolutionary Avar he acted as brigade
major. In 1779 he was appointed professor of
mathematics in the university of Pennsylvania,
and then vice-provost. He was succeeded, by his
son of the same name in 1814. In 1805 he was
appointed director of the mint of the United
States. In 1819 he was chosen president of the
American peace society. In the transactions of
the philosophical society he published many pa-
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pers. A remarkable trait of his character was
his fervent piety. It influenced all his conduct
from his youth. He was an elder of the Scotch
Presbyterian church nearly half a century.
PATTERSON, GEORGE, M. D., a Baptist min
ister, died at Cincinnati in Dec., 1831, aged 44,
the pastor of the church in Race street.
PATTERSON, JOSEPH, minister at Pittsburg,
Penn., died in 1832.
PATTERSON, WILLIAM, a distinguished mer
chant, died in Baltimore in 1835, aged 85.
PATTERSON, JAMES, died in Philadelphia
Nov. 24, 1837, aged 50. Settled in the Northern
Liberties in 1814, in his brief ministry one thou
sand six hundred and ninety persons were re
ceived into his church ; and there were hundreds
of converts as he preached elsewhere, the labors
of no preacher since the days of Whitefield hav
ing been more blessed. Under his patronage
sixty young men became ministers. He pub
lished many useful tracts.
PATTERSON, DANIEL T., died at Washing
ton in 1839. He was a captain in the navy, and
commander of the navy yard at W.
PATTERSON, ROBERT M., Dr., director of
the United States mint, died at Philadelphia in
1854. He was president of the American philo
sophical society, and had been a professor in the
universities of Pennsylvania and Virginia.
PATTISON, GRANVILLE SHARPS, M. D., died
at New York Nov. 12, 1851, aged 60, professor
of anatomy in the university.
PAUGUS, sachem of Pigwawkett, was killed
near the pond in Fryeburg, Me., in Lovewell's
fight, April 18, 1725. A man by the name of
Chamberlain shot him.
PAUL, SILAS, an Indian Baptist preacher at
Gayhead on Martha's Vineyard, was ordained in
1763 and died in 1787. His inscription on a
gravestone there is as follows : " Yeuuh' Wohhok'
Sipsin' Sil' Paul' Nohtobeyontok' Aged 49 : years'
Nuppoop' Tab' August' 24th 1787." The corre
sponding English is this : Here, the body, lies,
Silas Paul, an ordained preacher, died, then or in.
PAUL, THOMAS, African, Baptist minister of
blacks in Boston, died April 13, 1831, aged 54.
A few days before him died another African min
ister, Richard Allen, of Philadelphia, aged 70.
PAUL, NATHANIEL, a colored Baptist minis
ter, died in Albany about 1842. His widow, a
white English woman, died in Northampton,
Mass., in 1853, aged 60, or more. She was sup
ported by private charity. He was a mulatto,
light colored. She loved him.
PAULDING, JOHN, one of the captors of
Major Andre, died in 1818, aged 59. He was
three times a prisoner with the enemy in New
York ; twice he escaped, the second time only
four days before Andre was taken ; from his third
imprisonment he was released by the peace.
The watch, horse, saddle and bridle of Andre,
with 80 dollars in continental bills, were retained
as lawful prize, being the property of an enemy,
and were sold and the money divided among the
three captors and four others of the party, who
were keeping a look-out half a mile distant. Col.
Wm. S. Smith purchased the watch for 30 guin
eas. Judge Benson states, that the watch was
sent from a person unknown to Lieut.-Governor
Elliot in New York, and by him sent to the
family of Major Andre. Paulding and his com
panions, Van Wart and Williams, received from
congress a silver medal, on one side of which
was a shield, inscribed " FIDELITY," and on the
other the motto, " VINCIT AMOR PATRLE;"
also an annuity of two hundred dollars. He died
at Yorktown, or Staatsburg. The corporation of
New York in 1827, erected a marble monument
to his memory in the church-yard, two miles from
Peekskill village, Westchester county.
PAWLING, ALBERT, colonel, died in Troy
Nov. 10, 1837, aged 88. As an officer of the
Revolution he was engaged in various battles.
lie was the first sheriff of Rensselaer county,
New York, and first mayor of the city of Troy.
PAYNE, WILLIAM, captain, died in Clinton,
Virginia, in 1837, aged 83. He commanded the
Falmouth blues several years in the war ; also a
company of volunteers at the siege of Yorktown.
PAYNE, JOHN HOWARD, consul at Tunis, died
in 1852. He was the author of the song, " Home,
sweet home," and of dramatic pieces and poems.
PAYSON, EDWARD, minister of Rowley, Mass.,
died in 1732, aged 75. The son of Edward of
Roxbury; he graduated at Harvard in 1677, and
was ordained in 1682. His sons were Samuel,
Eliot, Stephen, Jonathan, David, and Phillips.
He published two sermons on awful providences,
1728.
PAYSON, PHILLIPS, minister of Walpole,
Mass., died in 1778, aged 74. Born in Dorches
ter, he graduated at Harvard in 1724, and was
ordained 1730; and at his death was in the forty-
eighth year of his ministry, highly respected. He
published two fast sermons on the war with
Spain, 1741.
PAYSON, PHILLIPS, D. D., minister of Chel
sea, Mass., died Jan. 11, 1801, aged 64. He was
a descendant of Edward P., who lived in Rox
bury in 1649, the grandson of Edward P., the
fifth minister of Rowley, and the son of Phillips
P., minister of Walpole ; was born Jan. 18, 1736.
lie was graduated at Harvard college in 1754.
From the time of his ordination, Oct. 26, 1757,
he continued to discharge the duties of the sacred
office with zeal and fidelity till his death. He
was succeeded by Mr. Tuckerman. During the
struggle, which terminated in the independence
of America, Dr. Payson boldly advocated the
cause of his country. As a classical scholar he
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rose to distinction, and many young men re
ceived the rudiments of their education under
him. His acquaintance with astronomy and
natural philosophy is evinced by his tracts in the
transactions of the American academy of arts
and sciences. As a minister he was the friend
and father of his people, and he preached with
energy of diction and pathos of delivery. He
published an election sermon, 1778; at the ordi
nation of his brother, John P. of Fitchburg, 1768 ;
of his brother, Seth Payson of Rindge, 1782 ; on
the battle of Lexington ; on the death of Wash
ington, 1800. — Barnard's Fun. Ser.
PAYSON, JOHN, first minister of Fitchburg,
died in 1 804, aged 59. The brother of Dr. Phillips
P., he graduated at Harvard in 1764, and was
ordained in 1768. His successor was S. Wor
cester.
PAYSON, SETH, D. D., minister of Rindge,
N. H., brother of the preceding, was born Sept.
19, 1758 ; was graduated at Harvard college in
1777 ; ordained Dec. 4, 1782 ; and died Feb. 26,
1820, aged 61. His widow, Grata, died in 1827.
He possessed superior abilities, and was a plain,
faithful, and useful preacher. He was a trustee
of Dartmouth college and a member of the Amer
ican foreign mission society. He published proofs
of illuminism, an abstract of Robinson and Bar-
ruel, 12mo., 1802 ; two fast sermons, 1805 ; on
the death of S. Waters, 1802; of J. Gushing,
1806; of L. Pillsbury, 1819; at the ordination of
E. Hill, 1790; of J. Brown, 1795; of J. Con
verse, 1806 ; of E. Payson, 1808 ; of J. Wright,
1812; before the Social lodge; election sermon,
1799. — Spr -ague's Annals.
PAYSON, EDWARD, D. D., minister of Port
land, Maine, the son of the preceding, died Oct.
22, 1827, aged 44. He was born July 25, 1783 ;
was graduated at Harvard college in 1803; and
for three years was the teacher of an academy at
Portland. At this period the death of a brother
had a favorable influence on his religious charac
ter, and he engaged with a pious zeal, which
continued through life, in the cause of Jesus
Christ. He was ordained as the colleague of Mr.
Kellogg, Dec. 16, 1807 ; he afterwards became
the sole pastor of a new church. His successor
was Dr. Tyler. In his distressing sickness he
displayed in the most interesting and impressive
manner the power of Christian faith. Smitten
down in the midst of his days and usefulness, he
was entirely resigned to the divine will, for he
perceived distinctly, that the infinite wisdom of
God could not err in the direction of events, and
it was his joy that God reigneth. His mind
rose over bodily pain, and in the strong visions
of eternity he seemed almost to lose the sense of
suffering. His wife was Ann Louisa Shipman of
New Haven. She died at Williamstown Nov.
17, 1848, aged 64. One of his daughters is
the wife of Professor Hopkins of Williams col
lege, and is known by her valuable writings.
During about twenty years he was exclu
sively devoted to the work of the ministry,
with increasing usefulness, being the instrument
of the conversion to the Christian faith of some
hundreds of his hearers. He repeatedly declined
invitations to remove to Boston and New York.
Among his uncommon intellectual powers a rich
fancy was the most conspicuous. Without any
of the graces of the orator, his preaching had
the eloquence of truth and feeling. In his prayers
especially there was a solemnity, fulness, origin
ality, variety, pathos, and sublimity, seldom
equalled. Some of his discourses, on which he
bestowed labor, exhibit a polished taste and much
grace and beauty of language. His eloquent
address to the bible society has been published
as one of the tracts of the American tract society.
He published a discourse on the worth of the
bible ; an address to seamen ; and a thanksgiv
ing sermon. A memoir of his life, by Asa Cum-
mings, was published, 2d edit., 1830; a volume
of sermons, 8vo., 1828 ; another volume, 12mo.,
1831.
PAYSON, PHILLIPS, died in Fayetteville, N. Y.,
Feb. 16, 1856, after an illness of four days, aged
60. Born in llindge, the son of Dr. S. Payson,
he studied theology at Andover, and was some
years the minister of Leominster, and then else
where ; but for a few of his last years he had not
strength to preach. He was a scholar, a diligent
inquirer after truth, an earnest, faithful man. Be
fore his death he had the joy of seeing the last
of six children converted to Christ, as he hoped.
His end was peace.
PEABODY, OLIVER, minister of Natick, Mass.,
and missionary to the Indians, died in peace Feb.
2, 1752, aged 53. He was born in Boxford in
1698, and graduated at Harvard college in 1721.
He was the son of William and grandson of Fran
cis, who came over in the ship Planter in 1635.
He was pious in early life, and while in college
was preparing for the ministry. Employed by
the commissioners for propagating the gospel, be
preached first at Natick Aug. 6, 1721; there
were then but two families of white people in the
town. The Indian church, which the apostolic
Eliot had founded, was now extinct, the Indian
preacher, Daniel Tahhowompait, having died in
1716; and all records were lost. A new church
was formed Dec. 3, 1729, consisting of three In
dians and five white persons, and he was ordained
at Cambridge Dec. 17th. Through his influence
many of the Indians were induced to abandon
their savage mode of living and to attend to hus
bandry as the means of subsistence ; he had the
happiness to see many of the Indian families with
comfortable houses, cultivated fields, and flourish
ing orchards. But -his chief aim was to teach
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tliom the religion of Jesus Christ. There were
added to the church in the first year twenty-two
persons, several of whom were Indians ; in July,
17-13, he stated that in the two preceding years
about fifty had been received into the church.
Against the vice of intemperance among the In
dians he set himself with great zeal and much
success. During his residence at Natick he bap
tized one hundred and eighty-nine Indians, and
four hundred and twenty-two whites; and he re
ceived to the church thirty-five Indians and thirty
whites ; and there died two hundred and fifty-six
Indians, of whom one was 1 10 years old. Dur
ing one season he went on a mission to the Mo-
hegans. - Gov. Belcher was especially his friend.
His wife was Hannah, daughter of Hev. Joseph
Baxter of Medfield. His eldest son, Oliver,
ordained at Roxbury in Nov., 1750, died in May,
1702; he had eleven other children. His suc
cessor at Natick was Stephen Badger, under
whom the Indians degenerated, and the Indian
church again became almost extinct. After Mr.
B., the ministers were Freeman, Sears, and Mar
tin Moore. Mr. Peabody was eminently pious
and greatly beloved and lamented. He pub
lished artillery election sermon, 1732 ; on a good
and bad hope of salvation, 1742. — Panopl. VII.
49-56 ; S prague's Annals.
PEABODY, STEPHEN, minister of Atkinson,
N. II., died in 1819, aged 78. He graduated at
Dartmouth in 17C9. It is said, that while he was
a chaplain in the army he had occasion to ad
minister reproof for profaneness to Cols. Cilley
and Poor. Declining from strict Orthodoxy, he
was regarded by some as a Unitarian. He pub
lished a sermon at ordination of J. Webster,
1799; of M. Dow, 1801 ; election sermon, 1797.
PEABODY, NATHANIEL, a physician and Rev
olutionary patriot, died June 27, 1823, aged 82.
He was born at Topsfield, Mass., March 1, 1741 ;
his father, the son of Jacob P., was a physician,
removed to Leominsterin 1745 and died in 1759',
his mother, Susanna, was the daughter of John
Rogers, minister for fifty years of Boxford, who
was the son of Jeremiah of Salem. Having
studied with his father, he settled at Atkinson,
N. II., and had extensive practice. In Oct., 1774,
he was appointed a lieutenant-colonel, and in
Dec. he accompanied Langdon, Bartlett, and Sul
livan in the capture of fort William and Mary at
Newcastle. As a member of the legislature his
patriotic services were important. In 1778 he
was adjutant-general of the militia, with the rank
of colonel. Being appointed a delegate to con
gress, he took his seat June 22, 1779, and was a
very useful member. In 1780 he was, with Philip
Schuyler and J. Matthews, on the committee of
congress to repair to head-quarters, for the gen
eral improvement of the military system. It was
a laborious service; his zeal and labors were
commended by Greene, R. II. Lee, and others.
In the autumn he resigned his seat. In subse
quent years he was a representative, senator, and
councillor; in 1793 he was appointed a major-
general of the militia. During several of the
last years of his life he was for debt confined to
the limits of the prison at Exeter, where he died.
This old Revolutionary patriot, and Robert Mor
ris, whose financial operations contributed in a
very high degree to the success of Washington
and the establishment of American independence,
both died in prison, not for crime, but debt.
When will laws, which are remnants of a bar
barous age, be repealed? — Gen. Peabody left no
child ; his aged widow survived him. He was a
man of humor and wit. In his politics he was a
decided republican. Notwithstanding his patriot
ism and public services, he had some faults ; he
was vain and obstinate, and in middle life fond
of dress and parade. Being a good horseman, he
expended much money in the purchase of elegant
horses, and travelled with a servant. If there is
no excuse for his extravagance, yet he asserted
that his misfortunes were owing to his losses by
suretyship, and the misconduct of his agents and
pretended friends. — Farmer's Collect, ill. 1-16;
Thacher.
PEABODY, OLIVER, judge, died at Exeter,
N. II., Aug. 3, 1831, aged 79. He was born at
Andover, Mass., Aug. 22, 1752, and graduated at
Harvard college in 1773. Having studied law,
he about 1788 settled at Exeter, N. II. He was
judge of probate from 1790 till 1793; treasurer
of the State from 1794 to 1805 ; sheriff of the
county from 1805 to 1810 ; judge of the common
pleas from 1813 to 1816; and repeatedly a sen
ator. Three times he was an elector of president
and vice-president. In all his stations he ac
quitted himself with dignity and integrity. His
two sons, twins, Oliver Wm. Bourn P., and Wm.
Bourn Oliver P., a lawyer and a minister, grad
uated at Harvard college in 1816.
PEABODY, DAVID, professor of oratory and
belles lettres at Dartmouth, died Oct. 15, 1839,
aged about 31. He was born at Topsfield, Mass.,
graduated at D. in 1828, and was for a few years
a minister in Lynn, and in Worcester as the suc
cessor of Mr. Abbott. He was in office in college
only one year. Few young men have died of so
high promise and so greatly respected for scholar
ship and character, for his intellectual powers and
warm affections, for his skill and eloquence as a
faithful preacher of the gospel. His widow,
whose name was Maria Br'gham, was for some
years previous to her second marriage the emi
nent conductor of a female school in Hanover.
Pres. Lord published a sermon on his death. He
published a fast sermon at Worcester, 1836.
PEABODY, JOSEPH, a rich merchant of Salem,
died Jan. 5, 1844, aged 86. He had built and
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freighted eighty-three ships, which made thirty-
eight voyages to Calcutta ; seventeen to Canton ;
thirty-two to Sumatra ; forty-seven to St. Peters
burg ; ten to other ports in the north ; and twenty
to the Mediterranean. He was never involved in
litigation. — Hunt's Mer. Mag.
PEABODY, WILLIAM B. O., D. D., Unitarian
minister in Springfield, Mass., died May 28, 1847,
aged 57. He was a native of Exeter, and a
graduate of Harvard in 1816. Mr. Simmons
was his successor. He published the lives of Wil
son, C. Mather, and D. Brainerd ; and a report
on ornithology. — Holland's History.
PEABODY, OLIVER W. B., minister in Bur
lington, Vt., twin brother of the preceding, died
July 5, 1848 ; a graduate of Harvard in 1816.
He published the life of Putnam.
PEABODY, WILLIAM A., died at Amherst,
Mass., Feb. 27, 1850, aged 34. He was profes
sor of Latin and Greek in Amherst college, late
minister in East Randolph. His wife was a
daughter of Rev. Dr. Codman.
PEABODY, EPHRAIM, D. D., minister of
King's chapel, Boston, died Nov. 28, 1856, aged
49. He graduated at Bowdoin college in 1827.
He was settled at New Bedford, Mass., in 1838.
PEAK, JOHN, Baptist minister in Newbury-
port, was born in Walpole, N. H. ; was settled at
N. in 1809; and resigned in 1818. His church
in Liberty street was burnt in the great fire of
1811, and rebuilt in Congress street.
PEALE, CHARLES WILSON, the founder of the
Philadelphia museum, died in 1827, aged 85.
He was born at Charlestown, Md., in 1741, and
was apprenticed to a saddler at Annapolis. He
became also a silver-smith, watch-maker, and car
ver ; he was a portrait-painter, a naturalist and
preserver of animals, a skilful dentist, and the
inventor of various machines. Carrying a hand
some saddle to Hesselius, a portrait-painter in
his neighborhood, he begged him to explain to
him the mystery of putting colors on canvas.
Repairing to England, he studied under Mr.
West in 1770 and 1771. After his return he
was for about fifteen years the only portrait-
painter in North America. In the war he was at
the head of a company in the battles of Trenton
and Germantown. At Philadelphia he opened a
picture gallery, in which were the portraits of
many officers of the army. Opening a museum,
he procured an almost entire skeleton of a mam
moth from Ulster county, N. Y., at an expense
of 5,000 dollars. His museum at length became
extensive. lie delivered a course of lectures on
natural history ; and zealously supported the
academy of fine arts. His life was a life of toil
and temperance. His sons were distinguished as
painters, llaphaelle P., the eldest, died at Phila
delphia in March, 1825, aged 52. — Encyclopedia
Americana.
PEARCE, ELIZABETH, Mrs., died in Johnson
county, N. C., in 1833, aged about 111.
PEARCE, WILLIAM, one of the " tea party " in
the Revolution, died at Boston in 1840, aged 94.
PEARCE, DUTEE J., died at Newport, R. I.,
May 9, 1849, aged 60. He was a distinguished
lawyer; a member of congress from 1825 to
1837 ; attorney-general of the State, and United
States' district attorney.
PEARSON, ELIPHALET, LL. D., professor of
Hebrew and oriental languages at Harvard col
lege, died in Sept., 1826, aged 74. He was a de
scendant of John P., who came from England and
settled at Rowley in 1647, and died Nov. 2, 1697,
aged 82. Born in 1752, he graduated in 1773 at
Harvard college, where he was a distinguished
professor from 1786 to 1806; and after his re
moval from Cambridge, the first professor of
sacred literature in the theological seminary at
Andover from 1808 to 1809, when he was suc
ceeded by Moses Stuart. He died at Greenland,
N. H., at the house of his son-in-law, Rev. Mr.
Abbot. His first wife was a daughter of Prcs.
Holyoke ; his second, a daughter of Henry Brom-
field of Harvard. This town was his last place
of residence : it was on a visit to Greenland that
he died. He left a valuable course of lectures on
language, delivered at Cambridge. Dr. Pearson,
besides teaching Hebrew at Cambridge, was also
a lecturer on grammar and the teacher of rhetoric,
in which capacity his taste and skill and seventy
of criticism had a most beneficial effect on the
style of composition at the college. He was a
learned and able instructor. At the opening of
the seminary, Sept. 28, 1808, he Avas ordained as
a preacher. He published a lecture on the death
of Pres. Willard, 1804; a discourse before the
society for promoting Christian knowledge, 1811 ;
on the death of Madam Phillips, 1812; at the
ordination of E. Abbot, 1813 ; before the educa
tion society, 1815. — Sprague's Annals.
PEARSON, ABIEL, M. D., died at Andover,
Mass., in 1827, aged 71. He graduated at Dart
mouth in 1779.
PEASE, LORENZO W., missionary, died at
Larnica in Cyprus, Aug. 28, 1839, aged 30.
Born in Hinsdale, Mass., he graduated in 1828,
and at Auburn seminary in 1833, and went to
Larnica in 1835. His wife, Lucinda Leonard,
was born in War eh am.
PEASE, CALVIN, judge, died at Warren, Ohio,
Sept, 17, 1839, aged 63. He was one uf the
earliest settlers, and took an active part in form
ing and administering the government of Ohio.
Eor many years he was one of the judges of the
supreme court of Ohio. A man of talents and
integrity, he was greatly respected.
PECK, ROBKRT, one of the first ministers of
Ilingham, was ordained Nov. 28, 1638, but sailed
for England in 1641.
PECK.
PECK, JEREMIAH, minister of Waterbury,
Conn., died in 1699. He studied at Cambridge,
and at a late period of his life was settled in 1689 J
as the first minister at Mattatuck or Waterbury. i
He is called Mr. P., senior, of Greenwich ; but it
does not appear that he was the minister of G.
There were thirty families, and one hundred and
fifty inhabitants. Mr. Southmayd was his suc
cessor.
PECK, S., minister of Rehoboth, Mass., died
in Dec., 1788, aged 82.
PECK,- WILLIAM DANDRIDGE, professor of
natural history at Harvard college, died at Cam
bridge, Oct. 3, 1822, aged 59. He was born in
Boston May 8, 1763. His father, John P., an in
genious shipwright, at the seige of Boston in
1776 removed to Braintree, and afterwards to
Kittery, Me. After he was graduated, in 1782, he
passed a few years in the counting-house of Mr.
Russell, a merchant, in Boston ; and then re
paired to his father's house, where he spent
twenty years of his life, secluded from the world,
but occupied in the pursuits of natural history.
Whatever he attempted to study, he studied pro
foundly. It was chiefly for his benefit, that some
of his friends promoted a subscription for a pro
fessorship of natural history at Cambridge. He
was elected the first professor March 27, 1805,
and subsequently spent three years in Europe.
He left one son ; his wife was Harriet, the daugh
ter of Rev. Timothy Ililliard. Mr. P., like his
father, was a most ingenious artist ; he made a mi
croscope, and the most delicate instruments, for
which he had occasion. He found amusement at
the lathe after he had lost the use of one of his
hands by the palsy. At the age of thirty he was
baptized by Bishop Bass, as he preferred the wor
ship of the Episcopal church. He published an
account of the sea-serpent in memoirs of Amer
ican Academy, iv., and a few other articles. — 2
Hist. Coll. x. 161.
PECK, GEORGE, colonel, died at Eastport,
Me., March, 1834, aged 97. He was an officer in
the war of the Revolution.
PECK, JAMES II., judge of U. S. district
court for Missouri, died in 1836. He was born
in Tennessee ; a man of integrity and ability.
PECK, EVERARD, died at Rochester, N. Y.,
in 1854, aged 63. He was an early settler of R.,
and a useful citizen. He was a bookseller and
publisher. In 1816 he published the Telegraph.
PECKER, JAMES, a physician in Boston, died
in 1794, aged 70. A son of Dr. James P., of
Ilaverhill, he graduated at Harvard in 1743.
Dr. Rand successfully removed from him a stone
in the bladder, with which he had been afflicted.
PEET, JOSIAII, minister of Norridgewock, Me.,
died Eeb. 17, 1852, aged 71. Born in Bethle
hem, Conn., he was the son of Benjamin; his
mother was^ Elizabeth Hendee, niece of Dr. E.
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Wheelock. He graduated at Middlebury in 1 808,
and was ordained in 1814. He was a laborious,
faithful, excellent minister ; and he toiled in the
new towns around him as a missionary. — Ilath-
awai/'s Sermon.
PEET, STEPHEN, died in Chicago March 21,
1855, aged 58. Born in Sandgate, Vt., his pa
rents removed to Lee, where he became pious at
the age of sixteen, and to Ohio. In 1823 he
graduated at Yale, and was soon settled at Euclid,
near Cleveland, which was then a small village ;
he remained there seven years, much blessed in
his labors, wherever he preached. At Hudson,
Ohio, by one sermon many were converted, and
among the converts were five lawyers. After this
he was devoted to the cause of the lake seamen,
being chaplain at Buffalo, and editing the Bethel
Magazine and Buffalo Spectator. In 1837 he be
came the minister of Green Bay; the bell for his
meeting-house, the first in Wisconsin, was given
by J. J. Astor. He next, in the employment of
the Home missionary society, explored Wisconsin,
and assisted in founding Beloit college and thirty
churches. Then he settled as the minister of
Milwaukie ; he afterwards took charge of an in
stitute at Batavia in Illinois, and then was the
agent of an association in Michigan, which pro
posed to found a 'theological seminary. He was
buried at Beloit. His piety, zeal, and energy
made him one of the greatest benefactors of Wis
consin.
PEIRCE, WILLIAM, an early settler of Boston,
arrived in the Griffin with Cotton, Hooker, and
two hundred passengers, in 1633. He was a
selectman, and died in 1661 or 1669, for in those
years one of the name died. — Savage ; Farmer.
PEIRCE, WILLIAM, was a distinguished ship
master at an early period in New England. He
repeatedly crossed the Atlantic. He was master
of the Ann in 1623 ; afterwards of the May
flower, and the Lyon. It was by his aid, in
his vessel, that Bradford detected, by opening
their letters, the designs of Lyford and Oldham.
In 1830 he was at Salem, and visited the Arabella
as that vessel came in sight. Our fathers called
him " the Palinurus of our seas." He was cast
away in Virginia in 1633, and suffered great loss,
as did also Winthrop, in beaver and fish by him
owned ; in writing to whom he says, piously, " a
happy loss if our souls may gain." In 1638 he
carried Pcquot captive Indians for sale to the
West Indies, and he brought back from Tortugas
negro slaves : this was the first slave traffic in
New England, disgraceful and infamous in both
its branches, carrying out red and bringing home
black slaves. He was killed at Providence, one of
the Bahama Islands, in 1641. — Savage; Felt's
Hist, of N. E.
PEIRCE, NATHANIEL, published an account of
his clangers at sea, 1756.
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PEIRCE, BENJAMIN, librarian of Harvard col-
lego, died in 1831, aged about 50. He graduated
in 1801, and was librarian from 1826 to his death.
Mr. Folsom preceded him, and Dr. Harris fol
lowed him. He published a history of Harvard
college in 1833.
PEIRSON, ABEL LA WHENCE, M. D., was killed
by railroad disaster at Xorwalk bridge May 6,
1853, aged 57. A graduate of Harvard of 1812,
he settled at Salem, and was eminent in his pro
fession, and a man of scientific attainments. He
was the son of Samuel P. of Biddeford. His life
and other lives were lost by reason of careless
ness as to necessary signals on the railroad.
PELHAM, HERBERT, one of the fathers of
Mass., was an assistant from 1645 to 1649,
and a commissioner of the united colonies of New
England, in making a treaty with the Narragan-
sett and Niantick Indians in 1G45. His name, as
affixed to the treaty, stands next to Gov. Win-
throp's. Among the Indians present were Pesse-
cus, Meekesano, Asumsequen, and Pummash.
Pelham lived but a few years in America. In
1650 he had returned to England, where he died
about 1676. The colony of Massachusetts in
trusted him with some of their important matters.
He was a member of the society for promoting
the gospel among the Indians. Edward, his son,
graduated at Harvard, 1673.
PEMBERTON, THOMAS, Dr., died in Boston
July 26, 1693.
PEMBERTON, EBEXEZER, minister in Boston,
the son of James P., one of the founders of the
old south church, was graduated at Harvard col
lege in 1691, and was afterwards a tutor in that
seminary. He died Feb. 13, 1717, aged 44. His
wife, Mary Clark, survived him, and married
Henry Lloyd, the father of Dr. Lloyd. He left
one son and three daughters. He was a very emi
nent preacher. He wrote in a style strong, argu
mentative, and eloquent. With great powers of
mind and extensive learning, he united a zeal
which flamed. His passions, when excited, were
impetuous and violent ; but when free from the
excitement of any unpleasant circumstance, he
was mild and soft. The talent of reasoning
he possessed in a high degree ; and he was a
master of speech. He was a faithful servant of
Jesus Christ, preaching the gospel with zeal, and
exhibiting in Ms life the Christian virtues. In
prayer he was copious and fervent. His sermons
were illuminating, practical, and pathetic, and de
livered with very uncommon fervor. Towards the
close of his life he was afflicted with much pain ;
but under his weakness and infirmity he was ena
bled to do much for the honor of his Master and
the good of his brethren. His election sermon,
preached 1710, entitled the divine original and
dignity of government asserted and an advanta
geous prospect of the ruler's mortality recom
mended, is much and justly celebrated. It is
reprinted in a volume of sermons, which was
published in 1727. — Sprague's Annals.
PEMBERTON, EBENEZER, D. I)., minister in
Boston, the son of the preceding, died Sept. 9,
1777, aged 72. lie was graduated at Harvard col
lege in 1721. After he began to preach, he was in
vited in April, 1727, by the Presbyterian church in
New York to succeed Mr. Anderson, the first min
ister, with the request that he would be ordained in
Boston. This ceremony was accordingly per
formed Aug. 9th. Through his benevolent exer
tions the congregation was greatly increased, so
as to be able to build an edifice of stone in 1748.
In 1750 A. Cumming, afterwards minister in Bos
ton, was settled as his colleague ; but both were
dismissed about the year 1753, the former on ac
count of indisposition, and Mr. Pcmberton through
trifling contentions, kindled by ignorance and big
otry. He was succeeded by Mr. Bostwick. Be
ing installed minister of the new brick church in
Boston, March 6, 1754, as successor of Mr. Wei-
steed, he continued in that place till his death.
Dr. Lathrop's society, whose meeting-house had
been destroyed by the British, united with Mr.
Pemberton's in 1779. He was a man of a devo
tional spirit, who was zealous and respectable in
his ministerial work. He published a sermon be
fore the synod, 1731 ; before the commissioners
of the synod, 1735 ; sermons on several subjects,
8vo., 1738; practical discourses on various texts,
12mo., Boston, 1741 ; on the death of Dr. Nicoll,
1743; of Mr. Whitefield, 1770; at the ordina
tion of Mr. Brainerd, 1744; of J. Story, 1771 ;
artillery election sermon, 1756; election sermon,
1757 ; salvation by grace through faith illustrated
and confirmed, in eight sermons, 8vo., 1774. —
Smith's N. Y., 192, 193 ; Coll. Hist. Society, ill.
261.
PEMBERTON, THOMAS, eminent for his ac
quaintance with American history, was born in
Boston in 1728, and for many years pursued the
mercantile employment. He died July 5, 1807,
aged 79, having lived a bachelor, devoting regu
larly a part of each day to his studies and to vis
iting his friends. He contributed almost a ninth
part to the collections of the historical society.
Of this institution he Avas a member, and he be
queathed to it all his manuscripts. He wrote a
Massachusetts chronology of the eighteenth cen
tury, containing the remarkable events of every
year, biographical notices of eminent men, etc., in
five MS. volumes. This work was used by Dr.
Holmes in compiling his annals. His MS. memo
randa, historical and biographical, make about
fifteen volumes. His historical journal of the Avar
is in historical collections, II.
PEMBERTON, EBENEZER, LL. D., died in
Boston June 25, 1835, aged 89. He was a grad
uate of Princeton college in 1765, a tutor; and
PEMRY.
he was addressed by Madison in a Latin address,
valedictory and complimentary on the part of his
class to their teacher. His life was devoted to
teaching, not only in Nassau hall, but in Plainfield,
Conn., in Phillips' academy in Andover, and in
Billerica ; and no teacher had a higher character
for scholarship, manners, eloquence, and piety.
His last twenty years were years of infirmity.
He was elegant and dignified in his appearance,
his manners, and utterance. By his law every
scholar was to be in his seat when the academy
bell stopped. He then entered and bowed to all,
the scholars standing at their seats and returning
his bow. He then ascended to his desk, opened
the bible, and made a short prayer. Then each
scholar, rising in his turn, read a verse in the Old
Testament in the morning, and he read from the
New at night j then he made the long prayer.
His attitude, look, voice, and gestures were those
of the orator. On Saturdays he read from Watts
and Doddridge. — Sprague's Annals.
PEMRY, SARAH, Mrs., died in Spartansburgh,
S. C., in 1816, aged 103.
PENDLETON, EDMUND, a distinguished states
man of Virginia, died at Richmond Oct. 26, 1803,
aged 82. He was a member of the first congress
in 1774, and was again appointed at the next
choice, but in Aug., 1775, he declined a third
election on account of his ill health. He was for
many years one of the judges of the court of ap
peals of Virginia, with Blair and Wythe, and was
its president at the time of his death. In 1787
he was appointed president of the convention of
Virginia, which met to consider the constitution
of the United States, and all the weight of his
character and talents aided its adoption. After
the government was organized, he was in 1789
appointed by Washington district judge for Vir
ginia, but, as he declined this office, Cyrus Griffin
was appointed in his place. In 1798, when the
difficulties between this country and France ap
proached almost to a rupture, the venerable
patriarch, as the late President Adams calls him,
published a pamphlet, protesting against a war
with a sister republic.
PENIIALLOW, SAMUEL, judge, historian of
Indian wars, was born in Cornwall, England, July
2, 1665 ; came to this country in 1G86 ; and set
tled at Portsmouth, where he was a judge of the
superior court in 1714, and chief justice from
1717 till his death. He died Dec. 2, 1726, aged
61. His wife was Mary, daughter of President
Cutt. He published a narrative of the wars of
New England with the Eastern Indians from 1703
to 1726, printed 1726; reprinted in N. II. histor
ical coll., I.
PENN, WILLIAM, the founder of Pennsylvania,
died July 30, 1718, aged 73. He was born in
London Oct. 14, 1644, and in the fifteenth year
of his age entered as a gentleman commoner of
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a college in Oxford. His genius was bright and
his imagination lively. Being impressed by the
preaching of an itinerant Quaker, he, with a num
ber of other students, withdrew from the estab
lished worship, and held meetings by themselves.
He was fined for the sin of nonconformity ; but
this only confirmed him in his principles. He
was then expelled, in the sixteenth year of his
age. Next followed the discipline of his father,
which was also ineffectual to reclaim him. Being
sent to France for the refinement of his manners,
he passed two years in that country, learned its
language, and acquired its politeness. He then
studied law in Lincoln's Inn till the plague broke
out in 1665. He was sent to Ireland in 1666 to
manage an estate of his father ; but he there as
sociated himself with the Quakers, and in conse
quence he was recalled. He could not be per
suaded to take off his hat in the presence of the
king, or his father. For this inflexibility he was
turned out of doors ; upon which he commenced
the toils of an itinerant preacher, and gained
many proselytes. Though sometimes imprisoned,
he was persevering, and such was his integrity
and patience that his father became reconciled to
him. In 1668 he published a book entitled the
sandy foundation shaken, for which he was im
prisoned seven months. In vindication of the
principles of this book, he wrote during his con
finement his innocency with her open face, and
also his famous work, no cross no crown. In
1670 he was apprehended for preaching in the
street, and was tried at the old Bailey, where he
pleaded his own cause with the magnanimity of a
hero. The jury returned their verdict " not
guilty." On the death of his father he received
a plentiful estate ; but he continued to preach, to
write, and to travel as before. He was shut up in
the Tower and in Newgate. On his release he
preached in Holland and Germany. It was ow
ing to his exertions, in conjunction with Barclay
and Keith, that the fraternity was formed into
order. Some debts being due to his father, at
the time of his death, from the crown, and as
there was no prospect of payment very soon in
any other mode, Penn solicited a grant of lands
in America, and in 1681 obtained a charter of
Pennsylvania. The colony was planted in the
same year, though before this time some Dutch
and Swedes had settled in the province. In 1682
Penn himself arrived, and established a govern
ment, allowing perfect liberty of conscience. He
made honest purchases of the Indians, and
treated them with great tenderness. He formed
a plan of a capital city and called it Philadelphia.
Two years after it was founded it contained 2,000
inhabitants. In 1684 Mr. Penn returned to
England. One great motive for his return was
to exert his influence in favor of his suffering
brethren in Great Britain. He exerted it with
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success, and 1,300 Quakers, who had been confined
in prison, were set at liberty. While he remained
in England he was suspected of being a Papist,
and an enemy to his country, and was several
times arrested. But he continued his preaching
and increased his controversial writings. In 1699,
after fifteen years' absence, the American Lycur-
gus revisited his province. Having made some
alteration in the government, he sailed again for
England in 1701. He resumed his favorite em
ployment, and continued it for a number of years.
In 1712 he was seized by a paralytic disorder, of
which he died. Notwithstanding his large pater
nal inheritance, he was continually subject to the
importunity of his creditors, and obliged to mort
gage his estate. His death prevented his surren
dering his province to the crown. His posterity
held it till the Revolution, his last surviving son,
Thomas Penn, dying in 1775. Mr. Penn was a
man of great abilities, of quick thought and ready
utterance, of mildness of disposition and exten
sive charity. He was learned without vanity,
facetious in conversation, yet weighty and serious,
of an extraordinary greatness of mind, yet void
of the stain of ambition. He published a multi
tude of tracts, large and small. The following is
the title of his principal works ; no cross no crown,
or several sober reasons against hat honor, titular
respects, you to a single person, etc., 4to., 1GG9 ;
serious apology for the people called Quakers,
against Jeremy Taylor, 4to., 1669 ; the spirit of
truth vindicated, in answer to a Socinian, 4to.,
1672 ; Quakerism a new nickname for old Christ
ianity, 8vo., 1672 ; reason against railing, and
truth against fiction, 8vo., 1673 ; the Christian
Quaker and his divine testimony vindicated,
folio, 1674. His select works have lately been
published, in five volumes, Svo. — Belknap's Amer.
Hiog. II. 381-450.
PENN, THOMAS, son of Wm. Penn, died at
Stoke, in England, in 1775. His wife was the
daughter of the Earl of Pomfret. He had four
children. John, a minor, succeeded his father,
and died in 1834, aged 75. He published critical
and dramatic works, two vols., 1798; and poems,
two vols. Grenville wrote a life of his great
grandfather, Admiral Penn. Hichard was a
member of parliament, a man of classical attain
ments, and wonderful memory. Sophia married
William Stuart, archbishop of Armagh.
PENN, Jonx, a patriot of the Revolution, the
son of Moses P., died in Sept., 1788, aged 47.
He was born in Virginia May 17, 1741. His
early education was greatly neglected ; he went
to school only two or three years. At the age of
18, on the death of his father, he inherited a com
petent fortune. Instead of plunging into vicious
excesses, he resolved to acquire knowledge and
study law. The library of his relative, Edmund
Pendleton, was opened to him. lie became a
self-taught lawyer, a distinguished advocate. In
1774 he removed to North Carolina. Being a
member of congress from 1775 to 1779,he signed
the Declaration of Independence. — Goodrich.
PENNINGTON, Jonx, a physician of Phila
delphia, died in 1793. Had he lived a few years
longer, he would have been very eminent, in the
opinion of Dr. Hush. lie published chemical
and economical essays, 8vo., 1790.
PEPPERRELL, WILLIAM, colonel, the father
of Sir William P., died at Kittery, now in Maine.
Feb. 15, 1734, aged about 80. Born in Wales, he
was apprenticed to the captain of a fishing
schooner, employed on the coast of New England.
At the age of 22 he settled at the Isle of Shoals,
near Kittery Point, to which place he removed,
and where he found his wife, Margery Bray, the
daughter of a man of property, who came from
Plymouth, England. His business was various :
the most lucrative was the fisheries ; shipbuilding
was also profitable. Mr. Newmarch was his minis
ter; and, when the church was formed in 1714,
he and his wife and several of his daughters with
their husbands were members. He had two
sons and six daughters. As Andrew died about
1713, he left his estate chiefly to William. His
daughter Mary married first John Frost, and
had many children ; then married Rev. Benjamin
Colman ; then Judge Prescott of Danvers. Jo
anna married Dr. George Jackson. His widow
died in 1741, aged 80, a woman of piety and
exemplary virtues. She had the means of doing
good, and her charities were constant ; and
her name should never be forgotten. She died in
Christian peace. — Parsons' Life of Pepperrell.
PEPPERRELL, SIR WILLIAM, lieutenant-
general, died at Kittery, Maine, July 6, 1759, aged
63. He was born at Kittery Point, now Maine,
1696, and was bred a merchant. His brother was
now deceased. One of his sisters married John
Newmarch. About the year 1727 he was chosen
one of his majesty's council, and was annually
re-elected thirty-two years till his death. Living
in a country exposed to a ferocious enemy, he was
well fitted for the situation in which he wns
placed, for it pleased God to give him a vigorous
frame, and a mind of a firm texture, and of great
calmness in danger. He rose to the highest mil
itary honors which his country could bestow upon
him. When the expedition against Louisburg
was contemplated, he was commissioned by the
governors of New England to command the
troops. He invested the city in the beginning of
May, 1745. He was aided by Commodore War
ren. Articles of capitulation were signed June
16. There was a remarkable series of provi
dences in the whole affair, and Mr. Peppcrrell
ascribed his unparalleled success to the God of
armies. The king, in reward of 'his services, con
ferred upon him the dignity of a baronet of Great
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Britain, an honor never before nor since conferred
on a native of New England. He was appointed
lieutenant-general in Feb., 1759. He married,
March 16, 1723, Mary Hirst, the daughter of
Grove Hirst of Boston, and the grand-daughter
of Judge Sewall. When he first saw her in 1722
at the house of her relative, Rev. Samuel Moody
of York, his visit was very unwelcome to Joseph,
the son of Mr. M., who in his journal has re
corded that he was bewildered by the attractions
of the young lady. It is no wonder that the pre
tensions of the schoolmaster could not rival those
of Col. P., the heir of a man of wealth, who also
conducted the affair with much skill, making
presents of gold rings, and a large hoop, and
other articles of dress, thus awakening a little
vanity, which drew upon Miss Hirst, who in the
preceding year had made a profession of religion,
the remonstrances of her sober friends. He had
two children, a daughter and a son ; but it
pleased God to afflict him by the death of his
son Andrew in 1751, at the age of 25. In the
depth of his sorrow and the severity of his trial,
he doubtless shared the tender sympathy of his
friends. The following letter, written the day
before the death of his son, exhibits the an
guish of the parental heart, and shows how
worthless, compared with other blessings of
Providence, are high honors and distinctions :
" Dear Christian Friends, — The great, but
holy, just, and good God is come out against us
in his holy anger. O may it be fatherly anger !
He is bringing our sins to remembrance, and
seems to be slaying our only son. O pray ! pray !
pray for us, that the Lord would keep us from
dishonoring his great name in our distress and
anguish of soul, that he would support us under
and carry us through, what he shall, in his sover
eign pleasure, bring upon us ; and, if it be his
blessed will, that our child may be yet spared to
us, and sanctilied, and made a blessing. Pity us !
O our friends, and cry mightily to God for us.
" We are your distressed friends,
" WM. PKPPERRELL, -
" MARY PEPPERRELL.
"Dear Cousin Gerrish, — Let our case be known
to Christian friends along the road, and carry this
letter, as soon as you get to town, to one of the
ministers to whom it is directed.
"KiTTERY, Feb. 28, 1750.
" To the Rev. Dr. Bewail, Mr. Prince, Mr. Foxcroft, Dr.
Chauncy, etc., etc., etc., at Boston."
He had a high relish for the pleasures of society,
and was the life and spirit of every company.
Though not without his faults, he yet respected
the Christian character. He became in 1734 a
member of the church of which his father was
one of the founders in 1714. During his last
sickness he spoke with gratitude of the goodness
of God, which he had experienced, and of his
own imperfections and sins ; he admired the plan
of salvation made known in the gospel ; knowing
his dependence upon the grace of God, he sought
the influences of the Holy Spirit ; and, as he ever
professed a belief of the transcendent dignity and
glory of the great Saviour of mankind, of the
fulness of his merits, and the atoning virtue of
his obedience and sufferings, when he was just
entering the eternal world he commended his
soul into the hands of this Redeemer. His life,
by Usher Parsons, was published in 1855, — a
book of great interest. He was a man of great
wealth. He owned in Saco 5,500 acres, being
the site of that populous town; and then his
possessions were large in Portsmouth, Hamp
ton, Berwick, and other towns. His will was
drawn up with great care ; but he gave in it little
to educational and charitable purposes. He had
been liberal to his parish and church, and to New
Jersey college. He had an only daughter and
surviving child, Elizabeth, who married Col.
Nathaniel Sparhawk ; their descendants were
numerous. Their son, William P. Sparhawk,
was made the heir of Sir William on condition
of dropping the name of Sparhawk. He grad
uated at Cambridge in 1766, and became baronet
Sir William Pepperrell, in 1774. But, espousing
the British side in the controversy, all his vast
property was confiscated and swept away. Col.
Cutts purchased most of the lands in Saco. In
England he was treated with respect, and received
500 pounds per annum from the British govern
ment; he died in London in 1816, aged 70. The
descendants of Col. Sparhawk are numerous,
bearing his name, and among others the names
of Spooner, Jarvis, and Cutts. Lady P., the
widow of Sir William, built her a house near her
daughter's, at Kittery, and survived her husband
thirty years, dying in 1789. — Stevens1 Fun. Ser
mon ; Parsons' Life of P.
PERCIVAL, JAMES G., M. D., a poet, died at
Hazelgrove, Illinois, April 25, 1856, aged 60.
Born in Berlin, Conn., he graduated at the age of
twenty at Yale in 1815. He was, in 1824, as
sistant surgeon in the army, and professor of
chemistry at West Point; but soon resigned and
removed to Boston. Dr. Noah Webster em
ployed him two years as assistant in editing his
quarto English dictionary. He became now a
resident of New Haven. By the governor of
Connecticut he was appointed State geologist:
and finally he became, in 1854, the State geolo
gist of Wisconsin. He was a bachelor and lived
a recluse. His poetry was regarded as poetry
of tenderness and melancholy sweetness. He
speaks thus of New England, in a short poem of
that title :
" Hail to the land whereon we tread,
Our fondest boast ;
The sepulchre of mighty dead,
The truest hearts that ever bled,
\Vho sleep in Glory's brightest bed,
A fearless host :
No slave is here ; our unchain' J feet
Walk freely as the waves that beat
Our coast."
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He published Prometheus, a poem, in 1821 ; a
miscellaneous volume of poetry and prose, called
Clio, in 1822 ; a third vol., 1827 ; dream of day
and other poems, 1843; report on the geology
of Conn., 1842; Malte Brun's geography, trans
lated by him, 1843.
PERCY, WILLIAM, D. D., Episcopal minister
in Charleston, S. C., rector of St. Paul's, died in
London in 1819, aged 75. He was a zealous
preacher of the Calvinistic doctrines.
PERINE, WILLIAM, died in Dansville, N. Y.,
in 1847, aged 92, a soldier of the Revolution.
He became a Christian at the age of 76.
PERKINS, WILLIAM, minister of Gloucester
and Topsficld, Mass., died in 1682, aged 75. He
came from London, and succeeded R. Blinman
at G. in 1650, and in 1655 removed to Topsfield,
•where he succeeded Wm. Knight, who also came
from London.
PERKINS, WILLIAM, remarkable for longevity,
was born in the west of England, and died at
New Market, N. 1L, in 1732, aged 116 years. —
£elknap's N. IT., in. 252.
PERKINS, DANIEL, second minister of West
Bridgewater, died in 1782, aged 86. Born in
Topsfield, he graduated at Harvard in 1717, and
was settled as successor of J. Keith in 1721. His
successor was J. Reed. He was a useful and
much respected man.
PERKINS, JOSEPH, Dr., of Norwich, Conn.,
died in 1794, aged 90. Born in N., he graduated
at Yale in 1727., He was eminent as a physician
and surgeon, practising till near the close of life.
He had brilliant talents, and was a man of science
and of un dissembled piety. Thacher describes
a remarkable operation of his for the hernia. —
Thacker's Med. Biog.
PERKINS, ELISHA, a physician, the inventor
of the tractors, died in Sept., 1799, aged 59. He
was the son of Dr. Joseph P., a distinguished
physician of Norwich, Conn., who died in 1794,
aged 90; — he was born in Jan., 1740. Having
studied with his father, he settled in Plainfield,
Conn., and had extensive practice. His habits
were social; his mind active and inquisitive.
About the year 1796 he invented the tractors,
which are two instruments, one of steel and the
other of brass, pointed at one end. Cures were
effected by drawing the points for a few minutes
over the part of the body diseased. Thus the
head-ache, the tooth-ache, rheumatic and other
pains were removed. A patent was obtained.
The fame of Perkinism extended to Europe.
The son of Dr. P. went to London, where a Per-
kinean institution was created for the benefit of
the poor, of which Lord Rivers was president.
The published cases of cures amounted to five
thousand, certified by eight professors, forty physi
cians and surgeons, and thirty clergymen. Yet
it was not long before the tractors sunk into neg
lect. Dr. P. invented an antiseptic medicine, and
repaired to New York to test its efficacy against
the yellow fever ; but he took the disease from
the sick and died of it. — T/tacJicr.
PERKINS, BEXJAMLX DOUGLASS, a bookseller
of New York, the son of Dr. Elisha P., died in
New York in 1810, aged about 36. He graduated
at Yale in 1794. He visited England in the ser
vice of his father's tractors, and was there several
years. He was a man of a fine appearance and
of a high character ; was discreet, frank, and hon
orable ; of exemplary morals, and earnest in re
ligion. As a bookseller, he was of the respect
able firm of Collins and Perkins. As to the
tractors, his father claimed that the metallic com
position of them was important, and that was a
secret. But they seemed to be only steel and
brass. Having had myself for a great many
years a pair of them, if they have ever relieved
pain, I have found them also useful in picking
walnuts. — Tliaclier's Med. Biog.
PERKINS, JAMES, a benefactor of Harvard
college and of the Boston Athenaeum, died at
Roxbury Aug. 1, 1822, aged 61. He was born
in Boston in 1761, and was the son of James P.
Educated as a merchant in the counting-house of
the Messrs. Shattucks, he settled in St. Domingo ;
but was driven away by the Revolution in that
island. On his return he engaged in business
with his brother, Col. Thos. Handasyd P., and
conducted an extensive trade to the northwest
coast and to China. His wife was the daughter
of Timothy Paine of Worcester. He was an up
right merchant. One of his last acts of liberality
was the gift to the Boston athenaeum of the
house lately occupied by the institution, — an
estate which was valued at 18,000 dollars. He
also in his will bequeathed 20,000 dollars to Har
vard college. His fine portrait is preserved in
the athenaeum.
PERKINS, ELIPHAZ, Dr., died at Athens,
Ohio, in 1828, aged 75. A native of Norwich,
Conn., he graduated at Yale in 1776. He re
moved to A. in 1800, and was an excellent physi
cian and patron of learning. He was treasurer
of the Ohio university. He died in the peace of
the Christian faith, of which he had long been a
professor. His descendants are numerous and
respectable. — Ilildretk's Biog. Memoirs.
PERKINS, ALFRED ELIJAH, M. D., died in
Norwich, Conn., in 1834, aged about 24. Born
in Norwich, he graduated at Yale in 1830. He
left 10,000 dollars to the library of Yale ; 3,000
to the home missionary society; 1,000 to the
colonization society; and 500 to Sabbath schools.
PERKINS, NATHAN, D. D., died at West
Hartford, Conn., Jan. 18, 1838, aged 88, in the
66th year of his ministry at West Hartford. He
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•was born in Norwich May 12, 1749 ; was graduated
at Princeton in 1770; and ordained in 1772, con
tinuing to perform his ministerial duties until two
years before his death. Many theological stu
dents were under his care. His wife, Catharine,
was a daughter of Rev. T. Pitkin of Farmington.
His predecessor was N. Hooker, who died in
1772, aged only 32.
Dr. P. had a good inheritance, and a salary of
100 pounds ; under his own management his
affairs went on well, but, intrusting them to
another, he was impoverished. lie died under
his own mortgaged roof. He resolved, if he died
poor, he would die a generous man. He had
great influence with his people; his kindness
triumphed over opposers. It has been said he
had family pride, an aspiring spirit, an emulation
for influence ; that he wished every thing con
nected with him to be rich, elegant, accomplished.
If so, his final poverty may have been a useful
reproof and admonition. Yet his urbanity, his
determination to be a perfect gentleman, an ex
emplary Christian, a winning minister, are not to
be ascribed to pride and ambition. He was a
successful minister ; he spoke of six extensive
revivals among his people. In early life he spent
the whole of Saturday in committing his sermons
to memory. Dr. Sprague has published an in
teresting letter concerning him, written by Rev.
Daniel Waldo, now chaplain in congress, aged
9-i. He published a volume of sermons, 1795 ;
election sermon, 1808; at the ordination of S.
Wolcott, 1786 ; of II. N. Woodruff, 1790 ; of AV. F.
Miller, 1792 ; C. Chapin, 1794 ; J. Brace, 1807 ; E.
G. Welles, 1808 ; E. Mason and N.Perkins, 1810;
a fast sermon, 1812; at the funeral of T. Pitkin,
of N. Strong ; account of a great revival ; on his
fiftieth anniversary ; on his sixtieth ; letters of
gratitude ; many pieces in the Connecticut evan
gelical magazine. — Sprague's Annals ; Puritan
llecorder, Oct. 25, 1855.
PERKINS, NATIIAX, minister of the second
church in Amherst, Mass., died of the croup in
March, 1842, aged 65. The son of Rev. Dr.
Nathan P., he graduated at Yale in 1795, and
was for some years a magistrate and farmer. He
was ordained Oct. 10, 1810. He was a man of
respectable talents, prudent, kind, affectionate,
cheerful, a persuasive preacher, and good pastor.
He published a sermon at the ordination of E.
Moody, 1818; on the death of Dr. S. Coleman.
— Sprague's Annals.
PERKINS, ABRAHAM, died in Ipswich in 1842,
aged 96, a soldier of the Revolution.
PERKINS, SIMON, general, died in Warren,
Ohio, Nov. 19, 1844, aged 73. He was born in
Norwich, Conn. At the age of twenty-four he
was employed in the survey of new lands in New
York; afterwards in the western reserve. He
settled in Warren in 1801. His services were
important in the Avar of 1812 ; his skill as a finan
cier caused him to be appointed a commissioner
of the canal fund.
PERKINS, CYRUS, M. D., died at Rossville,
Staten Island, April 23, 1849, aged 70; a dis
tinguished physician and surgeon. He was a
native of Bridgewater ; a graduate of Dartmouth
in 1800; professor of anatomy and surgery at
Dartmouth from 1810 to 1819; and afterwards a
resident in New York. He was a physician of
great skill, an excellent medical teacher, a man
of kind and generous feelings, enjoying the con
fidence and attachment of his friends and ac
quaintances. He married Mary, daughter of
Prof. J. Smith, who survived him. He published
an eulogy on W. II. Woodward, Hanover, 1818.
PERKINS, JAMES H., a literary man, died at
Cincinnati in 1849, aged 39. He was the son of
Samuel G. Perkins of Boston, the nephew of
Thomas H. P. He was educated as a merchant
and also studied law ; but at last devoted himself
wholly to literature. Settling at Cincinnati, he
edited various papers, and wrote many articles
for the North American Review. He was presi
dent of a historical society in 1844, and wrote
annals of the west. He engaged also in various
projects of reform and charity. In a state of de
pression he threw himself into the Ohio, and
was drowned. — Cyclopedia of American Liter
ature.
PERKINS, JACOB, an inventor, died in Lon
don July 30, 1849, aged 83. Born in Newbury-
port July 9, 1766, he early displayed a mechanical
genius. At the age of fifteen his master, a gold
smith, died ; but he carried on the business.
Gold beads, worn by the old and young, he made
in the best style, as well as plated shoe-buckles.
He made dies at twenty-one for the mint; at
twenty-four he invented the nail-machine for cut
ting and heading nails at once. He invented
steel plates for bank-notes, which, as was sup
posed, could not be counterfeited. The miscon
duct of men, with whom he was associated in
business, left him overwhelmed with debt. For
several years he lived in England.
PERKINS, ERASTUS, died at Norwich city,
Oct. 18, 1853, aged 101 years and 8 months.
lie descended from Jabez, who, with his brother
Joseph, came from Ipswich in 1695, and pur
chased eight hundred acres in Lisbon for 70
pounds, near the junction of Quinebourg and She-
tucket rivers. The descendants of Jabez were :
Jabcz, born June 3, 1699 ; next, Jabez, born 1728,
married Anne Lathrop ; this last was the father
of Erastus, who was born Feb. 17, 1752. He
was a soldier ; and he was engaged in commer
cial business. For many years he was the in
spector of customs at Norwich. Others of his
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name reached a great age. Dr. Joseph Perkins
died at X. in 1794, aged 90.
PERKINS, THOMAS HAXDASYD, colonel, died
in Brookline in Jan., 1854, aged 89, being born
in Boston in King, now State street, Dec. 15,
1764. As a merchant he acquired a fortune of
2,000,000 dollars. He had an early partnership
in business with his brother James, in the trade
of the northwest coast, Canton, and Calcutta.
He was a man of public spirit and great liberal
ity; several splendid charitable institutions were
founded by his munificence. The Perkins blind
asylum, the mercantile library association, and
the Boston athcnfoum shared largely in his
bounty. In 1842 he made a speech in laying the
corner-stone of the merchant's exchange. A
company of the blind pupils of the asylum at
tended his funeral. — Life, by T, G. Gary.
PERKINS, GEORGE WILLIAM, died at Chicago
Nov. 15, 185G, aged about 52. He graduated at
Yale in 1824; was minister of Meriden, Conn.,
many years, and had but recently gone to Chi
cago. He was a preacher of distinction ; his zeal
against slavery never grew cold.
PERLEY, SAMUEL, minister of Moultonbo-
rough, N. II., died in 1831, aged 89. Born in
Ipswich, he graduated at Harvard in 17G3; was
minister of Seabrook, N. II., from 17G5 to 1775;
and was settled at M. in 1778, and at length dis
missed. — Sprague's Annals.
PERLEY, HUMPHREY CLARK, minister of
Methuen, Mass., died in 1838, aged 76. Born in
Boxi'ord, he graduated at Dartmouth in 1791 ;
was settled from 1795 to 1815; then in Beverly,
second church, from 1818 to 1821.
PERREIN, JEAN, eminent for his acquaintance
with natural history, died at New York in 1805,
aged 54. He was a native of France, and a
member of the society of sciences and belles let-
tres of Bordeaux. With a view to the acquisition
and diffusion of knowledge in botany and other
departments of natural history, he travelled
through Africa and most of the West India
islands. To complete his collection of birds,
plants, etc., he came to New York, where he
spent several months ; but he was cut down in
the midst of his labors. In Sonninni's edition
of Buflbn's natural history, credit is given to Per-
rein as the author of many of the most valuable
communications contained in that work.
PERRINE, MATTHEW LA RUE, D. D., profes
sor of ecclesiastical history at Auburn, N. Y.,
died Feb. 12, 1836, aged 59. Born in Mon-
mouth, N. J., he graduated at Princeton in 1797,
and settled as the pastor of Battle Hill in 1802.
In 1811 he became the first pastor of Spring
street church, N. Y. He died in peace and hope.
In his various relations in life he was wiae and
faithful.
PERRY, JOSEPH, minister of East Windsor,
Conn., died in 1783, aged 50. Born in Shevburn,
Mass., he graduated at Harvard in 1752; in 1755
he was settled as a colleague witli Mr. Edwards,
who lived till 1758. He published a sermon on
the death of R. Wolcott, 17G3; of N. Hooker,
1771; election sermon, 1775. — Sprayue's Annals.
PERRY, JOSHUA, minister in Hamden, Conn.,
died in Burlington in 1812, aged about 57. He
graduated at Yale in 1775.
PERRY, DAVID, minister of Richmond, Mass.,
died in 1817. aged 70. Born in Huntington,
Conn., he graduated at Yale in 1772, and was
minister of Harwinton, Conn., from 1774 to 1784,
and installed at Richmond in 1784. — Spra'jue's
Annals.
PERRY, OLIVER HAZARD, a naval commander,
died Aug. 23, 1820, aged 35. He was born at
Kingston, near Newport, R. I., in Aug., 1785 ;
he was the sen of Christopher R. P., a naval
patriot of the Revolution, and collector of New
port, who died in May, 1818; and grandson of
Judge Freeman P., who died in Oct., 1813, aged
82. His earliest ancestor in America was Ed
mund P., a Quaker. Having served as a mid
shipman in the Mediterranean, he was in 1812
advanced to be master-commandant. In 1813
he was appointed to the command of the squad
ron on Lake Erie. Sept. 10, he achieved a com
plete victory over the enemy under Com. Barclay,
after an action of three hours, capturing the whole
squadron. In 1815 he proceeded to the Mediter
ranean in command of the Java; in June, 1819,
he proceeded to the West Indies in the ship John
Adams. He died of the yellow fever at Port
Spain, Trinidad. His wife was a daughter of Dr.
Mason, and niece of Christopher Champlin of
Newport; he left four sons and one daughter.
lie once unhappily was engaged in a duel. Under
a sense of a supposed injury, he personally as
saulted Capt. Heath of the marines on board of
his ship. A court martial censured both. Capt.
H. however challenged him, and a duel was
fought on the Jersey shore in Oct., 1818, though
Perry refused to fire. The contemptible code of
honor must explain how the opportunity of shoot
ing off a pistol at Perry could soothe into quiet
ness the irritated feelings of the captain of
marines. Had the commodore refused thus to
stand as a mark to be fired at, instead of violat
ing the laws of his country, he would have been
honored for a manly courage, which restrained him
from doing wrong. Our rulers, whose business it
is to execute the laws of the people, ought to have
struck both their names from the rolls of the navy.
PERRY, BAXTER, minister of Lyme, N. II.,
died in 1829, aged 37.
PERRY, JOSEPH, minister in New Haven,
Conn., died in 1829, aged 50.
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PERRY, Jos. M. S., missionary to Ceylon, died
Marck 10, 1837, aged 30, of the cholera : his wife
died of the same disorder, March 13. He was
the son of Rev. Mr. Perry, of Sharon, Conn.,
graduated at Yale in 1827, and was settled in the
ministry at Mcndon. His wife, Harriet J. La-
throp, a native of Norwich, was the sister of Mrs.
Winslow and Mrs. Cherry, missionaries. Among
her last utterances were the words, " Sweet peace !
sweet peace !"
PERRY, ALFRED, M. D., died at Stockbridgc,
Mass., in 1838, aged 57. The son of Rev. David
Perry, he graduated at Williams college in 1803.
PERRY, JAMES, a Methodist minister, died at
Plainfield, Vt., in 1840, aged 82.
PERRY, ELNATIIAN, captain, died at Rush.
N. Y., June, 1849, aged 90. lie entered the army
at fifteen, and fought at Bennington, Saratoga,
and Eutaw.
PESSACUS, a Narragansett sagamore, who,
with other sagamores and a Niantick deputy, made
a treaty in 1045, at Boston, with the commission
ers of the four colonies of Massachusetts, Rhode
Island, Connecticut and New Haven. Pummash
was another of the seven Indian signers. Pessa-
cus was the successor of Miantunnomu. — Felfs
Hist, of Neiv E nt/land.
PETERS, THOMAS, the first minister of Say-
brook, the brother of Hugh P., was a minister in
Cornwall, England, who was driven away in the
civil wars, and came to this country with Fen-
wick, arriving at New Haven in July, 1G39, and
settled at Saybrook about 1641. Winthrop mar
ried his niece, a daughter of Hugh Peters. Gov.
Winthrop, of Mass., speaks of his own brother
and sister. Peters. This perhaps is to be ex
plained by supposing, as the wife of Thos. Peters
was in America, that she was Gov. Winthrop's
sister. Samuel Peters descended from William
P., a brother of Thomas, who settled near Boston
in 1634. A letter of T. P., written at Pcquot, or
Saybrook, to Gov. W., is published by Mr. Sav
age, dated 1645. Of his death there is no note.
Being invited to return to his people in England,
he sailed from Boston in Dec., 1646.
PETERS, HUGH, minister of Salem, Mass.,
died Oct. 16, 1660, aged 61. He was born at
Fowey in Cornwall, in 1599, and was educated at
Trinity college, Cambridge, where he took the
degree of master of arts in 1622. He was li
censed by the Bishop of London, and preached
in the city with great popularity and success.
Meeting with some trouble on account of his non
conformity, he went into Holland, where he re
mained five or six years. He arrived in America
with Richard Mather in Aug., 1635. He took
the charge of the church in Salem, Dec. 21, 1636,
disclaiming the errors of Mr. Williams, who had
been minister before him, uud cxcorn mimic atiu
his adherents. During his five years' ministry,
one hundred and sixty persons joined his commu
nion. He did not confine his attention to reli
gious concerns, but took an interest in mercantile
and civil affairs. He assisted in reforming the
police of the town ; he suggested the plan of the
fishery, and of the coasting and foreign voyages ;
he procured carpenters, and engaged in trade
with great success. His zeal in worldly concerns
was probably the cause of his suppressing in
Salem the weekly and occasional lectures, by
which the good men of that day were nourished
up unto eternal life. Being considered as a suit
able person to send to England to procure an
alteration in the laws of excise and trade, he was
appointed for this purpose, with Mr. Welde and
Mr. Ilibbins, by the general court, and sailed Aug.
3, 1641. He never returned to America. Dur
ing the civil wars in England he supported the
cause of the parliament, and contributed much
aid to it by his preaching. Burnet says that he
pressed the king's condemnation with the rude
ness of an inquisitor ; but Mr. Peters in his leg
acy declares that he opposed it. He was
appointed by Cromwell one of the licensers of
ministers, and also a commissioner for amending
the laws, though utterly disqualified for the busi
ness. After the restoration, he was tried for
conspiring with Cromwell and compassing the
king's death, and was executed. His wife was
the widow of Colonel Read : her daughter mar
ried John Winthrop of Conn. His own daughter,
Elizabeth, was baptized in 1640. She married a
Mr. Barker ; and was a widow, and living at
Deptford, England, in 1709. For her he wrote
his legacy in 1660. He was charged by his ene
mies with great vices ; but it is not probable that
the charges were well founded. He was, how
ever, weak, ignorant, and carried away by his
zeal. If he had confined himself to the proper
duties of a minister of the gospel, and had not
"engaged in parties, nor become the tool of the
ambitious, nor exerted himself to stimulate the
furious passions of men, he would have been use
ful and respected, and might have died in peace.
Though he was ignorant, he possessed a native
and peculiar vigor. lie had the power of associ
ating his thoughts in such a manner, as to prevent
them from being easily forgotten. His coarse
and familiar images never failed to answer his
purposes, and his vulgar yet striking eloquence
gained him thousands of hearers in London.
Specimens of his curious sermons are to be found
in the trials of the regicides. In an engraving
prefixed he is placed in the pulpit with a multi
tude before him ; his hour glass is turned, and he
says, " Come, my good fellows, I know you like
another glass." His verses for his daughter were
entitled " my wishes." One stanza is this :
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"I wish you neither poverty, nor riches,
But godliness, so gainful, with content;
No painted pomp, nor glory that bewitches ;
A blameless life is the best monument :
And such a soul, that soars above the sky,
Well pleas'd to live, but better pleas'd to die."
The "rules" which he sent to his daughter
from prison were these :
" Let thy Thoughts
Talk
Words
Manners
Diet
Apparel
Will
Sleep
Prayers
Recreation
Memory
be Divine, awful, godly.
" Little, honest, true.
" Profitable, holy, charitable.
" Grave, courteous, cheerful.
" Temperate, convenient, frugal.
" Sober, neat, comely.
" Constant, obedient, ready.
" Moderate, quiet, seasonable.
" Short, devout, often, fervent.
" Lawful, brief, seldom.
" Of death, punishment, glory."
He published a sermon before both houses of
parliament in 1646; last report of the English
wars ; a word to the army, 1647 ; good work for
a good magistrate, or short way to great quiet,
1651 (in this work he proposed the extirpation
of the whole system of laws, and recommended
that the old records in the tower should be
burned as records of tyranny, and that they should
begin anew) ; brief aen den Vader la Chaize ; a
dying father's legacy to his only child, 8vo., 1660
and 1717. This has been spoken of with respect.
It is preserved in the New England library estab
lished by Mr. Prince of Boston. — Young's Life
of Peters ; Sprague's Annals ; Cycl. Amer. Lit.
PETERS, ANDREW, first minister of Middle-
ton, Mass., died in 1756, aged 55. Born in An-
dover, he graduated at Harvard in 1723, and was
settled in 1729. His successor was E. Smith.
PETERS, JOHN, died in Adams, Mass., Sept.
10, 1807, aged 107, retaining to the last all his
faculties.
PETERS, SAMUEL A., LL. D., an Episcopal
minister, died at New York, April 19, 1826, aged
90, and was buried at Hebron. He was born at
Hebron, Conn., Dec. 12, 1735 ; graduated at
Yale college in 1757 ; took the charge of the
churches at Hartford and Hebron in 1762, but,
being a Tory, he in 1774 went to England, where
he resided till 1805, when he returned to this coun
try. In 1817 and 1818 he made a journey to the
West as far as the Falls of St. Anthony, claiming
a large territory under Carver. He published a
history of Connecticut, 8vo., 1781. It is embar
rassed in its authority by a number of fables.
Rev. Dr. Bacon, in his historical discourses, calls
it " that most unscrupulous and malicious of lying
narratives, Peters' history of Connecticut." — Cycl.
Amer. Lit.
PETERS, RICHARD, judge of the district court
of the United States, died Aug. 21, 1828, aged
84. He was born at Philadelphia in June, 1744,
the son, as I suppose, of Richard Peters, D. D.,
an Episcopal minister, who died in 1775. He en
tered successfully upon the practice of the law.
Congress appointed him, June 13, 1776, secretary
of the board of war. On resigning that post he
was appointed in December, 1781, a member of
congress ; and, in 1789, judge of the district
court, in which office he continued thirty-six years,
till his death at Blockley, near Philadelphia. Of
the admiralty law of the United States he may
be deemed the founder. His decisions are pre
served in Peters' reports. He was a practical
farmer. In 1797 he published a pamphlet on the
use of gypsum, which introduced the culture of
clover, and effected a beneficial change in hus
bandry. His various communications appeared
in the memoirs of the Philadelphia agricultural
society.
PETERS, JOHN F., judge of the supreme
court of Connecticut, died at Hartford in 1834,
aged 69.
PETERS, ABSALOM, general, died in New
York, March 29, 1840, aged 86. Born in He
bron, Conn., he descended from William of Bos
ton, the brother of Hugh Peters. His great
grandfather was John of Anclover ; his grand
father was John, his father Colonel John, both of
Hebron. He graduated at Dartmouth in 1780.
He settled as a farmer at Wentworth, N. Y. In
the war he rendered services to his country, and
he sustained various offices. His first wife was
Mary Rogers, a descendant of John Rogers the
martyr. After his second marriage, in 1821, to
the widow of Rev. John Gurley, he removed to
Lebanon, Conn., and lived near his paternal home.
He died at the house of his son, John R. P.
Another son is Rev. Dr. Absalom Peters.
PETERS, SAMUEL A., judge, died at Colches
ter, Conn., Dec. 19, 1854, aged 85. He was one
of the oldest lawyers in Conn., and a judge of
New London county court.
PETERS, EDWARD D., a successful merchant
of Boston, died suddenly of apoplexy at his house
in Jamaica Plain, Oct. 20, 1856, aged 70. He
was a native of Blue Hill, Me. ; a man respected
for his integrity. He left four sons, active mer
chants in Boston.
PETERSON, SIMEON, a Freewill Baptist min
ister, died at Hermon, N. Y., in 1837, aged 40.
PETERSON, JOHN D., minister of a German
Lutheran church, died in Upper Canada in 1848,
aged 91. Born in Bremen, he was pastor at Ilar-
risburg, Pa., from 1803 to 1819, when he became
pastor of Markham and Vaughan in Upper Can
ada. He was faithful and zealous in his office un
til his labors were interrupted by infirmity.
PETTENGILL, AMOS, died at Salem 'Bridge,
Conn., Aug. 17, 1830. aged 50. Born at Salem,
N. H., he graduated at Cambridge in 1805. He
was a minister for five years at Champlain, N. Y.,
till 1812, and was installed at Litchfield South
Farms, Conn., in 1816. After an unquiet period
of six years he removed to a more pleasant
PHELPS.
abode, to Salem, Conn., now Naugatuck, for his
seven last years. He was a respected and useful
minister. A memoir of him, l>_, L. Hart, is among
the volumes of Massachusetts Sabbath school so
ciety. He rendered service as a teacher and in
other ways to the cause of education. He pub
lished a view of the heavens, for schools, 1826 ; a
rotary celestial map ; the spirit of Methodism,
1829 ; a sermon at the ordination of J. Johnson ;
and other discourses. — Sprague's Annals.
PHELPS, AMOS A., minister in Boston, died
at Roxbury, July 30, 1847, aged 42. Born in
Simsbury, Conn., he graduated at Yale in 1826 ;
was minister of Hopkinton two years ; then pas
tor of Pine street church in Boston from 1832 to
1834. Then he engaged in the service of the
anti-slavery society, and was general agent, and
edited the Emancipator ; in 1839 he became the
minister of the Marlborough chapel free church ;
in 1842 he was pastor of the Maverick church,
East Boston, and afterwards secretary of the
anti-slavery society at New York. He published
lectures on slavery, 1834; book of the Sabbath,
1841 ; letters toDrs. Bacon and Stowe ; and sev
eral pamphlets relating to slavery. — Sprague's
Annals.
PIIELPS, DUDLEY, minister of Groton, Mass.,
died Sept. 24, 1849, aged 51. He graduated at
Yale in 1823, and was settled first at Haverhill in
1828 ; then at Groton in 1836. He published a
temperance address at Haverhill, 1830.
PIIELPS, JOHN, judge, died April 14, 1849.
He drafted the constitution of Vermont ; which
State he left, 1837, to assist his wife, Mrs. Lincoln
Phelps, in conducting Patapsco female institution.
PHELPS, DAVENPORT, Episcopal minister,
died at Geneva, N. Y., before 1816, aged about
60. His father was Alexander Phelps of Conn. ;
his mother was the daughter of Rev. Dr. Eleazar
Wheelock.
PHELPS, BENAIAH, first minister of Man
chester, Conn., died in 1817, aged about 76. He
graduated at Yale in 1761 ; was settled about
1780 ; and removed to Nova Scotia about 1795.
PHELPS, ELISIIA, died at Simsbury, Conn., in
1847, aged 67. Born in S., he graduated at Yale
in 1800, and was a member of congress from
1819 to 1821, and from 1825 to 1829.
PHELPS, OLIVER, died near Buffalo, in West
Canada, May 4, 1851, aged 71, a man of distinc
tion in western New York. He was born in 1779
in Simsbury, Conn., of a humble family. In com
pany with Nathaniel Gorham he purchased the
Genesee country in New York, and thus became
a man of wealth. He lived much at Canandai-
gua, and also at St. Catharine's, in Canada West.
In the Welland canal he was much interested.
At Ludlowville he built the Presbyterian church
almost at his own expense. His religious charac
ter is highly commended. He was a member of
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the church, a man of prayer, and who loved to
meet with his fellow Christians. A few days be
fore his death he visited the place of his birth : it
was on his return that he died before he reached
his home. In his memorandum book he made,
near the place of his birth, this very interesting
entry : " Here, on the top of this mountain,
near my father's place, on the 19th of August,
1799, — on this same spot where I now stand, —
did God open my eyes to behold the glory of the
Lamb. Fifty-one years last August here I bowed
in prayer and praise to God for plucking me as a
brand from the burning. And here again, on
this 23d of April, 1851, have I bowed the knee in
prayer and praise, that his love and grace are
still the same." Let our rich and great men pon
der on these words. — Observer, Aug. 7, 1851.
PIIELPS, ELIZABETH, died at Andover, Nov.
30, 1852, aged 36. She was daughter of Prof.
Stuart and the wife of Prof. Phelps. She wrote
an interesting book, entitled sunny-side, and
much else which is instructive and useful.
PIIELPS, ANSON G., died in New York, Nov.
30, 1853, aged 74. A native of Canton, Conn.,
he resided in New York, a merchant and manu
facturer. He was a member of the American
board of missions, and was president of the New
York colonization society, — a man of benevo
lence and piety. Of his property of two mil
lions and a half of dollars, he left more than half
a million to benevolent purposes : besides other
bequests to twenty-two grandchildren, he gave to
each 5,000 dollars, the interest of which to be an
nually devoted to religious charity. The asylum
for the blind shared his bounty.
PIIELPS, SAMUEL S., judge, died in Middle-
bury, Vt., March 25, 1855, aged 61. Born in
Litchfield, a graduate of Yale in 1811, he for a
while served in the army, then settled as a lawyer
in M. He was a judge of the supreme court,
and a senator of the United States from 1839
to 1851.
PHILBRICK, ABIGAIL, Mrs., died at Deerfield,
N. H., May 22, 1841, aged 103.
PHILIP, sachem of Pokanoket, well known by
the name of King Philip, died Aug. 12, 1676. He
was the youngest son of Massassoit, and succeed
ed his brother Alexander in 1657. In 1662 he
renewed the friendship which had subsisted with
the English, and engaged not to dispose of any
lands without their knowledge or appointment.
In 1675 he commenced the war which desolated
New England. It is said that he was pressed
into the war by the importunity of his young
warriors. As he foresaw the loss of his territory
and the extinction of his tribe, if the English
settlements were permitted to extend and in
crease without interruption, he was determined to
make one mighty effort to prevent these calami
ties. He in consequence lighted up the flame of
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war in various parts of the country. The first
attack was made Sunday, June 20. After doing
much mischief, as he was endeavoring to escape
from Captain Church, who had pursued him into
a swamp, he was killed. The name of the Indian
soldier who killed him was Alderman. By
Church's order, Philip was beheaded and quar
tered ! Thus, after deeds of heroism, fell King
Philip of Mount Hope in Rhode Island. Mr.
Eliot once preached before him, when he took
hold of a button of the good man's coat, and said
to him, " I do not value the gospel any more than
that." — Drake's Ind. Biog. ; Baylies.
PHILLIPS, GEORGE, first minister of Water-
town, Mass., died July 1, 1644. He was born in
the county of Norfolk, England, and was educated
at the university of Cambridge, where he gained
a high reputation for learning. Having, as he
believed, been made a partaker of the Divine na
ture through the renewing agency of the Holy
Spirit, he devoted himself to the ministry of the
gospel, and was settled at Boxford in Essex. But,
becoming a nonconformist to the ceremonies of
the established church, he came to New England
with Governor Winthrop in the Arabella, and ar
rived at Salem in June, 1630. He immediately,
with Sir Richard Saltonstall and others, com
menced a plantation at Watertown. A church
was formed July 30th, when about forty members
signed a covenant, 'binding themselves to cleave
unto the word of God, and " the true sense and
meaning thereof." A confession of faith was af
terwards added. The salary settled upon the
minister was 30 pounds a year. He was suc
ceeded by Mr. Sherman. He was much lamented
by his church, who expressed their respect to his
memory by educating his eldest son, Samuel
Phillips, who was afterwards minister of Rowley,
and eminently useful.
Mr. Phillips was well skilled in the original
languages in which the bible was written, and
such was his attachment to the word of God, that
he used to read it through six times in every year,
and he always found in it something new. As
a preacher he was very faithful, and many were
converted by means of his labors. Though very
humble and modest, he was an able disputant.
He published a judicious work, entitled, a reply
to a confutation of some grounds for infants'
baptism, as also concerning the form of a church,
put forth against me by one Thomas Lamb ; to
which is added, a discourse of the verity and va
lidity of infants' baptism, 1645. — Mather's Mag
nolia, in. 82-84, 162.
PHILLIPS, WILLIAM, major, lived in Saco,
Maine, in 1659 ; his house was assaulted by the
Indians Sept. 18, 1675, and afterwards burnt by
them.
PHILLIPS, SAMUEL, an early bookseller in
Boston, was spoken of by John Dunton of Lon-
PHILLIPS.
don, in 1686, who then \isited B., as very thriv
ing, as " young and witty, and the most beautiful
man in the town of Boston."
PHILLIPS, SAMUEL, sen of Rev. George P.
was the minister of Rowley, Mass., and died
April -22, 1696, aged 71. He was born in Box-
ford, England, in 1625, and graduated at Har
vard in 1690, being educated at the expense of
the church of Watertown; an honorable testi
mony of their gratitude to his father. He was
settled as the colleague of Mr. Rogers. His
widow, Sarah, daughter of Samuel Applcton of
Ipswich, died in 1713, aged 86. His son, Samuel,
a goldsmith of Salem, married Mary, daughter
of Rev. John Emerson of Gloucester, and was
the father of Rev. Samuel Phillips of Andovcr.
PHILLIPS, JOHN, colonel, of Charlestown,
died March 20, 1725, aged 93. He was judge
of admiralty, and treasurer of the province.
PHILLIPS, GEORGE, minister of Brookhaven,
L. I., died in 1739, aged 75. The son of Rev.
Samuel P. of Rowley, he graduated at Harvard
in 1686, and preached a few years at Jamaica,
L. I., before he was settled at B., in 1702. Though *
a good man, it is thought that he was too much
addicted to facetiousness and wit.
PHILLIPS, SAMUEL, minister of Andover,
Mass., died June 5, 1771, aged 81. He was the
grandson of Samuel P., minister of Rowley, and
the son of Samuel P., a goldsmith of Salem. He
was graduated at Harvard college in 1708 ; began
to preach in the south and new parish of Andover
April 30, 1710; and was ordained Oct. 17th. He
continued faithfully to discharge the duties of the
sacred office for sixty years till his death. Being
sincerely attached to those views of religious
truth which were embraced by the first fathers
of New England, he could not quietly see the
efforts that were made to pervert the faith, which
he was persuaded was once delivered to the
saints. He exerted himself both by his preach
ing and his writings to guard his people against
the intrusion of error. He contended that all
mankind come into the world depraved in conse
quence of Adam's sin, and liable to punishment ;
that men could as easily create themselves anew,
as believe in Christ by a power inherent in them
selves ; that God from eternity had elected those
whom he would save, and on whom he would be
stow his efficacious grace to prepare them for
salvation ; that men were justified on account of
the righteousness of Christ, received by faith,
and immediately upon believing ; and that none,
who were once in a state of justification, would
finally be lost. He published elegy on Noyes
and Corwin ; a word in season, or the duty of a
people to take the oath of allegiance to a glori
ous God, 1727 ; advice to a child, 1729; the his
tory of the Saviour ; the orthodox Christian, or
a child well instructed, 1738; a minister's address
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to his people, 1739; artillery election sermon,
17-11 ; living water to be had for asking; election
sermon, 1700 ; the sinner's refusal to come unto
Christ reproved ; the necessity of God's drawing
in order to men's coming unto Christ ; convention
sermon, 1753; at the ordination of N. Holt; at
the instalment of S. Chandler, 1759 ; seasonable
advice to a young neighbor, 17G1 ; address to
young people, in a dialogue ; a sermon to young
people, 1763 > on justification, 17GC; sin of sui
cide contrary to nature, 1767.
PHILLIPS, JOHN, LL. D., founder of the
academy in Exeter, N. II., the son of the pre
ceding, died in April, 1795, aged 76. He was
graduated at Harvard college in 1785. He was
for several years a member of the council of New
Hampshire. April 21, 1778, he with his brother,
Samuel Phillips of Andover, founded and liberally
endowed the academy in that town, which was
incorporated in 1780. In 1789 he further gave
to this institution 20,000 dollars. The academy,
called Phillips' Exeter academy, of which he was
the sole founder, was incorporated in 1781 with
a fund of 15,000 pounds. He bequeathed to this
academy two-thirds of all his estate, and one-
third of the residue to the seminary at Andover,
particularly for the benefit of pious youth. To
this object his brother, William Phillips of Bos
ton, also bequeathed 4,000 dollars. — Morse's
Geog. : Holmes' Annals, II. 404 ; Constitution
of Tlieo. 8 em.
PHILLIPS, SAMUEL, LL. D., lieutenant-gov
ernor of Massachusetts, died Feb. 10, 1802, aged
50. lie was the grandson of Samuel P., minis
ter of Andover. His father, Samuel P., one of
the councillors of Massachusetts, died at Andover
Aug. 21, 1790, aged 76. Mr. Phillips was grad
uated at Harvard college in 1771. He was a
member of the provincial congress in 1775, and
of the house of representatives till the year 1780,
when he assisted in framing the constitution of
Massachusetts. On its adoption he was elected
a member of the senate, and was its president
from 1785 to 1801. Being appointed justice of
the court of common pleas for Essex in 1781, he
held this office till 1797, when his declining health
induced his resignation. He was chosen lieut.-
governor in 1801. His widow, Phoebe, died Oct.
31, 1812, aged 69. His son, John, died in Sept.,
1820. While he possessed a sound judgment
and an ardent, persevering spirit, his integrity
and patriotism gained him the confidence of his
fcllow-cilizens. Such was his superiority to the
pride of wealth and of power, and such his be
nevolence and humility, that, when honored with
public applause and raised to eminence, he would
frequently spend the interval between the morn
ing and evening services of the Sabbath in the
house of God for the purpose of reading some
pious book to those whose distant habitations
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prevented them from returning home. He was
careful to impart religious instruction to his
family, and he led its daily devotions with hu
mility, fervor, and eloquence. He appeared to
be continually governed by love to the Supreme
Being, and by the desire of imitating his benev
olence and doing good. His deep views of evan
gelical doctrine and duty, of human depravity
and mediatorial mercy, formed his heart to hu
mility, condescension, and kindness, and led him
continually to depend on the grace of God
through the atonement of his Son. He projected
the academy at Andover, and was much con
cerned in establishing that as well as the acad
emy at Exeter, which were founded by his father
and uncle. To these institutions he was a dis
tinguished benefactor. His exertions to effect
their establishment bring him the highest honor,
for he was the natural heir of the founders. He
bequeathed 1000 dollars, one sixth part of the
interest of which he directed annually to be
added to the principal, and the remainder to be
expended in the purchase of bibles, and -other
books, to be distributed among poor and pious
Christians in other towns, and also among the
inhabitants of places where the means of religious
knowledge are very sparingly enjoyed. After
his death, his widow, Phoebe Phillips, and his
son, John Phillips of Andover, evinced the same
attachment to the interests of learning and reli
gion by uniting with Samuel Abbot, and three
others of a most liberal and benevolent spirit, in
founding the theological seminary in Andover,
which was opened in September, 1818. On their
part they engaged to erect two separate buildings
for the accommodation of fifty students, and for
public rooms. By such acts of most honorable
munificence has the family, Avhich bears the name
of Phillips, proved to the world that the blessing
of wealth may fall into hands which shall employ
it for the best of purposes. — Tappan'sFun. Ser.
PHILLIPS, WILLIAM, lieutenant-governor of
Massachusetts, the grandson of llev. Samuel P.
of Andover, died May 26, 1817, aged 77. He
was the son of Deacon William P., a merchant of
Boston, a patriot of the Revolution, and a bene
factor of Andover academy by the bequest of
5000 dollars, who died Jan. 15, 1804, aged 81 ;
his mother was Abigail, the daughter of Edward
Bromfield. He was born April 10, 1750, being
an only son. His feeble health prevented his
receiving a public education. He engaged in
mercantile pursuits with his father, on whose
death a large fortune came into his hands. In
1772 he made a profession of religion ; in 1794
he was chosen a deacon of the old south church,
and he officiated until his death. For several
years, while Strong and Brooks were governors,
lie was the lieutenant-governor of the State.
His wife, Miriam, the daughter of Jonathan
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Mason, died May 7, 1823, aged 69. He had
seven children ; Jonathan of Boston inherited
about half a million of dollars. Abigail Brom-
field married Rev. E. Burgess of Dcdham. His
daughter, Miriam, the wife of Samuel H. W alley,
died March 2G, 1827 ; his son, Dea. Edward P.,
died Nov. 3, 1826. Deacon Phillips was an ac
tive member of many charitable societies. Dur
ing the last three weeks of his life he contributed
5,000 dollars to various objects. For a series of
years his charities had been from 8 to 11,000
dollai-s annually. Many widows and fatherless
children were by him rescued from want. He
bequeathed to Phillips academy 15,000 dollars ;
to the theological institution at Andover, 10,000
dollars ; to the society for propagating the gospel
among the Indians, the Massachusetts bible so
ciety, the foreign mission board, the Congrega
tional society, the education society, and the
Massachusetts general hospital, each 5,000 dol
lars ; to the medical dispensary, 3,000 dollars ;
to the female asylum, and the asylum for boys,
each 2,000 dollars ; in all, 62,000 dollars.
PHILLIPS, JOHN, the first mayor of Boston,
died May 29, 1823, aged 52. He was the son
of William P., a merchant of Boston, who died
in 1772, and grandson of Col. John P., also a
merchant in Boston, and brother of Rev. Samuel
P. of Andover; and was born Nov. 26, 1770. His
mother, Margaret, a daughter of Col. Jacob Wen
dell, took the charge of his early education.
After graduating at Harvard college in 1788, he
studied law and settled in Boston. He was a
member of the senate nineteen years, during the
last ten of which he was the president. In 1809
he was appointed a judge of the common pleas.
When the city government was established in
1822, he was elected the first mayor, in which
office his course was conciliatory and judicious.
For nine years he was one of the corporation of
the college. He died suddenly of an affection of
the heart. He had presided in the senate the
preceding day. His wife was Sally, the daughter
of Thomas Walley. Five sons and three daugh
ters survived him. He was a man of sound
judgment, of simple manners, of pure character,
and of religion.
PHILLIPS, ALONZO, died at Newburyport in
April, 1838, aged 50. A graduate of Middlebury
in 1815, he was sixteen years from 1820 the min
ister of Princeton, Mass. ; faithful and successful.
An extract from Dimmick's funeral sermon is in
Boston Recorder, May 1 1.
PHILLIPS, TIMOTHY, captain, a soldier of
the Revolution, died at Bradford, Mass., in 1840,
aged 82.
PHILLIPS, JAMES, died in Chenango county,
New York, in 1841, aged 90. At the age of 88
he made a profession of religion at Greenville.
PHINNEY, ELIAS, died at Lexington in July,
1849, aged 69, clerk of court and an excellent
farmer. He kept the stock of the agricultural
society, and was enthusiastic in his devotion to
agriculture. A multitude of friends experienced
his hospitality. He published an address, 1830.
PHINNEY, STURGIS, M. D., died in 1841.
He removed from New Bedford to New York in
1825.
PHIPS, WILLIAM, first minister of Douglass,
Mass., died in Oxford in 1798, aged about 72.
Born in Sherborn ; he graduated at Harvard in
1746; was settled at D. the next year; and re
signed in 1765. He was succeeded by I. Stone.
He published a sermon on the death of J. Camp
bell, 1761.
PIIIPPS, JAMES, came from Bristol, England,
and settled near Pemaquid, Bristol, Me., before
1649. He had reason to be satisfied with the
number of his children, as he had twenty-six by
the same wife, twenty-one of them sons. —
farmer.
PHIPPS, SIR WILLIAM, governor of Massa
chusetts, died in 1695, aged 44. He was born
at Pemaquid, now Bristol, Maine, Feb. 2, 1651.
His father, James P., was a gunsmith in humble
circumstances, and his mother had twenty-six
children, of whom twenty-one were sons. After
living in the wilderness till he was eighteen
years of age, he bound himself as an apprentice
to a ship-carpenter for four years, at the expira-
tien of which time he went to Boston, where he
learned to read and write. Determining to seek
his fortune upon the sea, after a variety of ad
ventures he discovered a Spanish wreck on the
coast of Hispaniola, and fished up plate, and
pearls, and jewels, amounting in value to 300,-
000 pounds sterling, with which he sailed to
England in 1687. Such was his honesty, and
so liberal was he to his seamen, that his own
share amounted only to 16,000 pounds. He
was at this time made a knight by King James.
Returning to Boston, he was in 1690 ad
mitted a member of the north church, being
baptized and professing repentance of his sins.
In the same year he commanded an expedi
tion against Port Royal, which place he cap
tured. When the new charter of Massachusetts
was obtained, he was nominated by Dr. Mather
as the governor. In this capacity he arrived at
Boston May 14, 1692. He soon put a stop to
prosecutions for witchcraft. In August he sailed
with about four hundred and fifty men to Pema
quid, where he built a fort. In 1694, in a dispute
with the collector of the port, Sir William was
so far carried away by the passion of the moment
as to have recourse to blows to settle the con
troversy. He was soon afterwards removed, and
he sailed in November for England, where he
received assurances of being restored; but, being
seized by a malignant fever, he died of it. He
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was succeeded by the Earl of Bellamont. Sir
William, though his origin was very humble, was
not elated by the great change in his circum
stances. He was a man of uncommon enter
prise and industry, of an excellent disposition,
though he tlid not always retain the command of
himself, and of perfect honesty and integrity.
He exerted himself to promote the interests of
New England. — Magnolia, n. 37-75.
PIIIPPS, DAVID, died at New Haven in 1825,
aged 80. He was a patriot of the Revolution
and an officer of the navy.
PIKE BUS, WILLIAM, a Methodist minister,
died at New York in 1832, aged 77.
PIIYL, Mr., a native of Switzerland, died in
New Jersey in 1810, or Jan., 1811. He died in
a cave in which he had lived twenty-six years.
PIIYSICK, PHILIP SING, M. D., died at
Philadelphia Dec. 15, 1837, aged 69. He was a
very eminent physician and surgeon, and profes
sor of anatomy and surgery in the university of
Pennsylvania. His father, an Englishman, had
the charge of the estates of the Penn family.
He graduated at the university of Pennsylvania
in 1785. In 1789 he studied with John Hunt in
London, and in 1790 was appointed for one year
surgeon to St. George's hospital. In 1792 he
took his medical degree at Edinburgh. He soon
rose to distinction in his profession. He has
been called the father of American surgery. He
introduced the use of blisters to cure gangrene.
He performed the operation of lithotomy on
Judge Marshall. His own disease was hydro-
thorax, which was attended with great agony.
For years he had studied religion, and every
morning read a portion of Scripture. Dr. De-
lancy was his friend and pastor. His beloved
wife was Elizabeth Emlen, the gifted, talented
daughter of one of the most distinguished Qua
ker preachers. His countenance, as exhibited by
a lithograph in Williams' book, is one of great
dignity and beauty. — Dr. Randolph's Memoir;
Williams' Med. Diog.
PICKENS, ANDREW, governor of South Car
olina in 1816, died at Pontotoc, Miss., in 1838.
PICKENS, ANDREW, major-general, a soldier
of the Revolution, died Aug. 11, 1817, aged nearly
80. He commenced his military career in the
Indian war with the Cherokees in 1760. In 1779
at the head of three hundred men he defeated a
party of Royalists on the western frontier of
South Carolina. For his bravery in the battle
of Cowpens, when he commanded the Southern
militia, he received a sword from congress. At
the battle of Eutaw Springs he was severely
wounded. In 1782 he compelled the Cherokees
to sue for peace. After the war he was a member
of congress. In 1802 he was a commissioner to
treat with the Choctaws. He died at Tumasscc,
Pendleton district, South Carolina. He was a
disinterested patriot, and a skilful and brave sol
dier. He was also gentle, beneficent, and hos
pitable. From early life he was a professor of
religion and an influential member of the church.
PICKER, NATHANIEL, minister of Scituate,
Mass., died in 1723, aged 37. Born in Dorches
ter, he graduated at Harvard in 1703 ; was set
tled in 1707 ; and was succeeded by S. Bourne.
PICKERING, TIMOTHY, secretary of State of
the United States, died at Salem, Mass., Jan. 29,
1829, aged 82. He was a descendant of John
P., a carpenter, who came to New England in
1630, and died at Salem in 1657; was born at Sa
lem, Mass., July 17, 1746, and graduated in 1763.
As soon as he heard of the affair at Lexington,
on the morning of April 19, 1775, being colonel
of a regiment, he marched the same day with the
Salem militia to Medford, in order to intercept
the enemy ; but was not in season to participate
in the fight. In 1775 he was appointed judge
of the court of common pleas for Essex, and of
the maritime court for the district including Bos
ton "and Salem. In the fall of 1776 he took the
command of the Essex regiment of seven hun
dred men, and performed duty under Washing
ton in New Jersey. In 1777 he accepted the ap
pointment of adjutant-general and marched with
the army to Pennsylvania. He was by the side
of Washington in the battle of Brandywine, Sept.
14 ; and he was present also in that of German-
town, Oct. 4th. Congress soon elected him a
member of the board of war, with Gates and
Mifflin. The arrangement of the staff depart
ment was also intrusted to him and Mifflin. In
August, 1780, he succeeded Greene as quarter
master-general, and discharged most faithfully its
arduous and complicated duties. From 1790 to
1794 he was employed in various negotiations
with the Indian tribes, being also postmaster-
general from 1791 to 1794, when he was ap
pointed secretary of war as the successor of Knox.
In August, 1795, lie had the temporary charge of
the department of State on the resignation of
Randolph, and in December received the ap
pointment of secretary of State, which he held
till May, 1800, when he was removed by Presi
dent Adams, as he was an adherent of Hamilton
in his opposition to the policy of the president.
Being in debt for new lands, he plunged into the
back woods of Pennsylvania, with his son and a
few laborers, and cleared several acres and built
a log hut for his family. The liberality of some
friends in Massachusetts, in purchasing his lands,
enabled him to return to his native State, and to
become the owner of a small farm in Essex,
which he cultivated with his own hands. From
1803 to 1811 he was a senator of the United
States; from 1814 to 1817 he was also a repre
sentative in congress. In consequence of the
activity of his life, he had little leisure for literary
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pursuits ; yet the productions of his pen do him
great credit as a writer of elegance and vigor.
In public life he was disinterested, faithful, and
energetic. His morals were pure, and from early
life he was a professor of religion. His feelings
•were strong, and some of his political controver
sies were vehement, He published a letter to
Gov. Sullivan on the embargo, and addresses to
the people, 1808 ; review of the correspondence
between J. Adams and W. Cunningham, 1824.
PICKERING, HENRY, son of Col. Timothy
P., died in New York in 1838, aged 57. He was
a merchant in Salem, and acquired a moderate
fortune, of which he made a liberal and benevo
lent use. But his losses of property induced him
to remove to New York. He wrote poetry. —
Cycl. of Amer. Lit.
PICKERING, JOHN, LL. D., died in Boston
May 5, 1846, aged 69. He was a son of Timothy
P., and graduated at Harvard in 1796. He be
gan the study of law in Philadelphia, where his
father lived as secretary of State ; but soon ac
companied W. Smith, minister to Lisbon, as his
secretary. There he prosecuted his studies, es
pecially in various languages, as he did also in
London, when secretary to Rufus King. lie re
turned in 1801, and lived at Salem. In 1829 he
was appointed city solicitor in Boston, where he
then lived. He was several years a State sen
ator. There were few so eminent in scholarship
as he ; none so skilled in the modern and Indian
languages. He was familiar with seven languages
besides Greek and Latin, and well acquainted
with four others, and explored with some care
ten or fifteen others. His memoir is in historical
collections, third scries, vol. X., with a history
of his writings, the principal of which are vocabu
lary of words peculiar to America, 1815; essay
on the orthography of the Indian languages, in
memoirs of American academy, 1820 ; Greek and
English lexicon, 1826 ; Indian languages, in cyclo
pedia Amer. ; revised statutes of Massachusetts,
1813; eulogy on Dr. Bowditch ; lecture on the
uncertainty of the law ; on the pronunciation of
the Greek, in memoirs of American academy :
also articles in various reviews and magazines.
He was tall, of commanding presence, yet be
nignant and courteous. With a small, well-
formed mouth, he had a Roman nose, and a
serene and ample forehead.
PICKERING, GEORGE, died in Waltham Dec.
8, 1846, aged 77, for fifty-seven years an itinerant
Methodist minister.
PICKERING, THEOPHILUS, minister of Ips
wich, Mass., Chebacco parish, died in 1747, aged
47. The son of John P. of Salem, he graduated
at Harvard in 1719. In 1725 he was invited to
assist Mr. Wise ; in 1727 he was ordained. In
1747 J. Cleaveland was settled over a new church,
the supporters of which were attached to Mr.
Whitcficld. Some pamphlets were published in
consequence of this settlement. Mr. P. wrote
also letters to N. and I). Rogers, 1742; a letter
to Mr. Whitefield, 1745; bad omen to the
churches, 1747. — Spragve's Annals.
PICKMAN, THOMAS, Dr., died at Salem in
1817, aged 43. The son of Benjamin, he grad
uated at Harvard in 1791, and studied physic
with Dr. Holyoke. He had judgment, decision,
and skill ; was social, and endowed with a literary
taste. — Thaclier's Med. Biog.
PICKMAN, BENJAMIN, died at Salem in Aug.,
1843, aged 80. A graduate of 1784, he was a
merchant, and sustained various public offices;
was a member of the senate and council; of con
gress in 1809; of the convention of 1620. He
published an oration on the birthday of Wash
ington.
PICKMAN, DUDLEY L., died at Salem, Mass.,
in 1846, aged 67. He was a man of intelligence,
highly respected.
PIDGIN, WILLIAM, minister of Minot, Me.,
died at Portland in 1848, aged nearly 77. Born
in Newbury, he graduated at Dartmouth in 1794 ;
settled at Hampton, N. H., in 1796, and at Minot,
Me., from 1811 to 1819.
PIERCE, ROBERT, an early settler of Dorches
ter in 1640. His widow, Ann, died 1695, aged
about 104 years.
PIERCE, MICHAEL, captain, of Scituate in
1647, was slain in Philip's war, March, 1676, with
fifty English and tAventy Cape Cod Indians, near
Providence.
PIERCE, THOMAS, minister of Scarborough,
Me., died in 1775, aged 37. Born in Newbury,
he graduated at Harvard in 1759, and was or
dained in 1762.
PIERCE, BENJAMIN, governor of New Hamp
shire, died at Ilillsborough, N. H., April 1, 1839,
aged 81. He was a descendant of Nathaniel
Pierce of Woburn, and son of Benjamin of
Chelmsford, and was born Dec. 25, 1757. He
risked his life in the cause of human freedom.
He fought in the battle of Bunker Hill, and con
tinued in the army during the war, rising from
the rank of a common soldier to be major by
brevet. For many years from 1789 he was the
representative of Ilillsborougli, to which town he
went in poverty and built a log house. In 1805
he was brigadier-general ; in 1809 sheriff, in which
office he liberated the prisoners by paying fur
them 300 or 400 dollars. Among them was an
old companion in arms, Capt. Moses Brewer, who
had been shut up four years for debt. In 1827
and 1829 he was governor. He died in conse
quence of a paralytic affection. His daughter,
by his first wife, born in 1788, married Gen. John
McNeil. His second wife was Anna Keudrick of
Amhcrst, by whom he had eight children, one of
whom was the president of the United States,
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•who was born Nov. 23, 1804; all the others are
deceased except Henry D. Pierce, a drover and
farmer in Ilillsborough. Nancy married Gen.
Solomon McNeil of llillsborough ; and Harriet
married Hugh Jameson of Boston, both of whom
died in 1837.
PIERCE, MARY E., Miss, missionary to Siam,
died Sept. 22, 1844, aged 28. Born at Butter
nuts, N. Y., she embarked at Boston in July,
1839, and occupied her field of labor at Bangkok
till her death. Mr. Johnson spoke of her as
having a frame of mind calm and heavenly in the
view of her departure, and as an ornament to re
ligion.
PIERCE, JOHN, D. D., minister of Brookline,
died Aug. 24, 1819, aged 76. He was born in
Dorchester July 14, 1773, the son of a farmer,
and graduated at Harvard college in 1793. He
was then preceptor two years in the English de
partment at Leicester academy, from whose select
library of moral and religious books, presented
by Gov. Gill, he derived great advantage in prose
cuting his purpose to become a minister. His
salary was 200 dollars the first year, and 250 the
next ; but then the cost of board was less than a
dollar a week. He wore a cocked or three-cor
nered hat ; his hair queued with a black ribbon
half-way down his back ; he also had silver knee-
buckles, and large plated shoe-buckles covering
half his instep. He and the principal occupied
the same bed, with the addition sometimes of a
college friend. Afterwards he was a tutor in
Harvard college. March 15, 1797, he was or
dained at Brookline, and remained the pastor for
the remainder of his life, having a colleague for
a few of his last years. He resigned in July the
office of secretary of the overseers of Harvard
college, held for thirty years. He had preached
the Thursday lecture in Boston one hundred
times, and attended the lecture one thousand eight
hundred and seventy-four times. The large and
beautiful organ in his church was exhibited on
Saturday before his death, when the sick pastor
was carried into the church, where he indulged
his great love of sacred music by listening to the
notes which were awakened; he then read the
doxology, which was sung in chorus by the entire
audience. At his funeral, the arrangements for
which had been made by Dr. P. himself, the
meeting-house was not dressed in mournin
The preacher said, that his last words to one
about to make a prayer with the dying man,
were: " Ask that I receive 'with submission the
will of my Father." He had also said, " Repeat
to my friends around my remains the words of
Christ, ' I am the resurrection and the life,' and
say, that my faith and hope are these, — that I do
not feel that I shall ever die, but only press on
to a higher life." He left many volumes of his
private journal. He published a sermon at the
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ordination of S. Clark, 1817; Dudleian lecture,
1821 ; a sketch of Brookline in historical collec-
ions, 2d scries, vol. II.
PIERCE, RICHARD, second minister of New
Bedford, Mass., died in 1749, aged 49. He grad
uated at Harvard in i724, and was settled in
1735. His predecessor was Samuel Hunt; his
two next successors, Mr. Cheevcr and Samuel
West.
PIERCE, SARAH, Miss, died at Litchficld Jan.
19, 1852, aged 84. She was a celebrated teacher,
long at the head of a well-known female school
in Litchfield.
PIERCE, SUSAN, wife of Epaminondas J.
Pierce, missionary to Gaboon in Africa, died sud
denly Feb. 24, 1855, expressing her confidence
in the Saviour.
PIERPONT, BENJAMIN, minister in South
Carolina, died near Charleston in 1G98, aged
about 30. He graduated at Harvard college in
1G89, and emigrated from near Boston with a
select company in 1G91, to found an independent
church in South Carolina. Mr. Adams succeeded
him.
PIERPONT, JONATHAN, minister of Reading,
Mass., died in 1709, aged about 44. Born in
Roxbury, he graduated at Harvard in 1685, and
was settled in 1689. His predecessor was John
Brock.
PIERPONT, JAMES, fourth minister of New
Haven, Conn., died in Nov., 1714, aged 53. He
was the son of John P., of Roxbury, Mass., who
died in 1690, and grandson of James P., who
came from England and died at Ipswich. He
was born in 1661 ; graduated at Harvard college
in 1681 ; and was ordained July 2, 1G85. His
predecessors were Davenport, Hook, and Street.
One of the first persons he received into his
church was an old man called James Daniels, but
who was John Dixwell, one of King Charles'
judges. lie was succeeded by J. Noycs. He
married Abigail Davenport, a grand-daughter of
his predecessor, Oct. 27, 1691. But she died
Feb. 3, of consumption, occasioned by exposure
to cold on the Sabbath after her wedding, going
to meeting in her bridal dress. lie married
Sarah Ilaynes, May 30, 1694, a grand-daughter
of Gov. II. She died Oct. 7, 1690. He married
Mary Hooker, July 26, 1698, a grand-daughter
of the first pastor of Hartford. She was the
motheu of Sarah, the wife of Pres. Edwards, and
lived till Nov., 1740. He was a man of uncom
mon prudence, amiable manners, and exemplary
piety. The articles of discipline, adopted with
the Saybrook platform in 1708, were drawn up
by him. He published false hopes of heaven,
a sermon, 1712. — Sprague's Annals.
PIERPONT, SAMUEL, the minister of Lyme,
Conn., died March 15, 1723, aged only 22. The
son of Rev. James P. of New Haven, and Mary
PIERPONT.
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Hooker, he graduated in 1718, and was ordained
Dec. 12, 1722. In crossing the river from Say-
brook with an Indian waterman, the canoe upset
and he was drowned. His body was found April
28th, at Fisher's Island, and buried there. He
had an extraordinary gift, and was a Boanerges
in his preaching. Great hopes rested on him.
PIERPOXT, JAMES, died at South Farms, in
Litchfield, in 1840, aged 79; a most worthy and
esteemed citizen.
PIERREPONT, JAMES HENRY, M. D., died at
Portsmouth in Jan., 1839, aged 70. The son of
William P., of Springfield, he was graduated at
Harvard in 1789, and studied medicine with Dr.
Spring. He had lived since 1801 in P., and was
a physician of character and eminence. — Bur-
rough's Disc, on his Death ; Williams' Med. Uiog.
PIERSOX, ABRAHAM, first minister of South
ampton on Long Island, died Aug. 9, 1678, aged
70. Born in Yorkshire, E., he graduated at the
university of Cambridge in 1G32 ; and he preached
some time in or near Newark, before he came to
Boston, in 1639. In 1640 a number of the
inhabitants of Lynn formed the resolution to re
move to Long Island, and invited him to accom
pany them. Having first formed a church, they
went and settled Southampton. These planters
constituted a government by themselves. When
it was found necessary to divide the church, Mr.
Pierson passed over to the main land, and became
the first minister of Branford, Conn., in 1644.
He continued here till 1665, when he removed to
New Jersey. He was one of the first settlers of
Newark in 1667, and was the first minister of
that town. His son, Abraham, was his colleague.
His wife was a daughter of Rev. J. Wheel
wright ; he had eight children. His son sur
vived him ; and his successors were Prudden,
Wakcrman, Bowers, Webb, and Burr. He was
a man of piety and learning. Having studied the
Indian language, he preached to the natives of
Long Island and in the several plantations of
New Haven colony. — Magnolia, III. 95 ; Trum-
buWs Conn. I. 289, 521 ; Sprague's Annals.
PIERSON, ABRAHAM, first president of Yale
college, the son of the preceding, died May 5,
1707, aged about 60. He was graduated at Har
vard college in 1668 ; ordained as colleague with
his father at Newark March 4, 1672 ; removed to
Connecticut in 1692, and was installed the min
ister of Killingworth in 1694. On the establish
ment of the college at Saybrook in 1701, he was
chosen rector, and the students attended upon
his instructions at Killingworth, although the
commencements were held at Saybrook. His
son, John, a graduate at Yale college of 1711,
was the minister of Wood bridge, N. J. He was
an excellent scholar, a great divine, a faithful
preacher, and wise and judicious in all his con
duct. Mr. Andrew of Milibrd was chosen rector
pro tempore after his death, but a new president
was not appointed till 17 19, M'hen Mr. Cutler
was placed at the head of the college. lie wrote
a system of natural philosophy, which was studied
in the college for many years. He published
election sermon, 1700. — Sprague's Annals.
PIERSON, JOSIAH, died at Bergen, N. Y.,
March 7, 1 846, aged 64. He was a minister who
did much in the establishment of churches in
Western New York. He was born in Killing-
worth, Conn., a descendant of A. Pierson. When
not a preacher he was a member of the church
in Bergen in 1808, the first church west of the
Genesee, except the Scotch church at Caledonia.
In 1817 he began to preach.
PEIRSON, ABEL L., M. D., a very distinguished
surgeon and physician of Salem, Mass.; was killed
on the railroad at Norwalk, Conn., May 5, 1853,
aged 59. He was born in Saco, Me., July 4,
1793, and graduated at Harvard in 1812.
PIERSON, SrsAX, died at Bridgehampton,
L. I., Feb. 24, 1854, aged 71. For more than
fifty years she kept her bed. Her bible was
always in her hands. She was an eminent Chris
tian. — N. Y. Observer, May 18.
PIKE, JOHN, a settler of Newbury in 1635,
died at Salisbury, Mass., in 1654. His son John
was one of the first settlers of Woodbridge, N. J.,
in 1669. Gen. Z. M. Pike was a descendant.
His son Joseph was killed by the Indians in 1694.
PIKE, ROBERT, major, son of John P., died in
Newbury Dec. 12, 1706, aged 90. He was born
in England in 1616. He was assistant and coun
cillor, a man highly useful and respected.
PIKE, JOHN, minister of Dover, N. II., died
March 10, 1710, aged 56. The son of Major Rob
ert, he graduated at Harvard in 1675, and was
ordained the successor of John Rayner in 1681.
PIKE, JAMES, first minister of Somersworth,
N. II., died March 19, 1792, aged 89, in the sixty-
second year of his ministry. The son of Joseph,
of Newbury, who was killed by the Indians, he
graduated at Harvard in 1725, and was ordained
in 1730. He published a sermon on the duty of
ospel ministers, 1751.
PIKE, NICHOLAS, the son of Rev. James P.,
was a descendant of John P., who lived in New
bury in 1635. He was graduated at Harvard
college in 1766, and died at Newburyport Dec.
9, 1819, aged 76. He published a system of
arithmetic, 8vo., 1788, which was long in general
use in New England.
PIKE, ZEBULOX MONTGOMERY, brigadier-gen
eral, died April 27, 1813, aged 34. He was a
descendant of John P., who lived in Newbury,
Mass., in 1635, and whose son, John, removed to
Woodbridge, N. J., in 1669. He was born at
Lamberton, N. J., Jan. 5, 1779, and was the son
of Zebulon P., brevet colonel in the service of the
United States. He acquired a knowledge of
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mathematics and of the Latin, French, and Span
ish languages. After the purchase of Louisiana
Mr. Jefferson appointed him in 1805 to explore
the sources of the Mississippi. Soon after his
return he was sent on a similar expedition into
the interior of Louisiana. On the Itio Del Norte
he was seized by a Spanish force and lost his
papers. He returned in 1807. Being appointed
a brigadier-general in the late war, he commanded
the land forces in the attack upon York, Upper
Canada. In the explosion of the British maga
zine he was struck by a large stone, and died in a
few hours on board the commodore's ship. When
the British standard was brought to him, he
caused it to be placed under his head. His wife
was Miss Brown of Cincinnati ; his only daughter
married, in 1819, J. C. S. Harrison of Ohio. He
was one of the most accomplished officers of the
army. He published an account of his expedi
tions to the sources of the Mississippi, etc., 8vo.,
1810.
PIKE, HARRIET, died in Albany in Sept., 1845,
aged 19. Her name was Williams ; she had been
married to N. Pike eleven weeks. She was ac
complished and pious. As the teacher of a Sab
bath school, she often led her young charge in
fervent prayer.
" She is gone !
The young, the beautiful, the blest:
Gone to her rest,
Where shadows ne'er gather, nor sorrows come,
To darken the sky of the spirit's home."
PILLSBURY, LEVI, minister of Winchendon,
Mass., died in 1819, aged 47. Born at Dracut,
he graduated at Dartmouth in 1798, and was or
dained in 1801.
PINCKXEY, CHARLES COTESWORTH, major-
general, a soldier of the Revolution, died at
Charleston Aug. 16, 1825, aged about 79. lie
was the son of Chief Justice Pinckney of South
Carolina, and was born in 1746. Sent to Eng
land for his education, at Westminster he held a
high rank; he afterwards removed to Oxford,
and thence to the Temple as a student in law. On
his return to Carolina in 1769 he engaged suc
cessfully in the legal profession. In a few years
the encroachments of Great Britain on American
liberty induced him to take up arms in the de
fence of his country, and in resistance to oppres
sion. At first a captain, he was speedily promoted
to the command of the first regiment of infantry.
When the danger of immediate invasion passed
over, he joined the northern army and was ap
pointed aide-de-camp to Washington. In this
capacity he distinguished himself at the battles
of Brandywinc and Germantown. Returning to
the south, he was intrusted with the defence of
the fort on Sullivan's Island ; but as the enemy
passed the island into the port, he hastened into
the city to defend the lines. When at length a
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council of war was called to deliberate on the
surrender of the place, as the garrison was re
duced to extremity, and resistance in an unwalled
city to a superior army would be unavailing, Mr.
Pinckney gave his decided opinion in favor of the
most obstinate resistance, hoping at least to crip
ple the enemy, and thus benefit other parts of the
United States. His opinion, though seconded by
the gallant Laurens, was overruled. The city
was surrendered, and he fell into the hands of the
British as a prisoner of war. His confinement
was rigorous, in order to crush his spirit and in
timidate others. He was even denied the con
solation of attending the remains of an only son
to the tomb. In his principles and devotion to
his country he was unmoved by this severity, and
unmoved also by flattering promises. After the
peace he was appointed a member of the con
vention which formed the constitution of the
United States, to which he was very instrumental
in promoting the assent of South Carolina.
Washington, when chosen president, offered him
a seat on the bench of the supreme court ; but
he declined it. He was also offered the place of
secretary of war in 1795 on the resignation of
Knox, and in the same year that of secretary of
State on the dismissal of Edmund Randolph. In
1796 he accepted the appointment of minister to
France as successor of Mr. Monroe. The French
directory refused to receive him ; but he remained
at Paris till Feb., 1797, when he was ordered to
quit the French territory. He removed to Am
sterdam. In a short time John Marshall and
Elbridge Gerry were united with him as commis
sioners to France. When some unaccredited
agents demanded a loan as a pre-requisite to a
treaty, Mr. Pinckney replied, " Millions for de
fence, but not a cent for tribute." After a short,
unsuccessful negotiation, passports were given to
Pinckney and Marshall, while Gerry was invited
to remain. On his return, Mr. Pinckney was by
Washington, the commander-in-chief, nominated
a major-general in the army which was raised in
consequence of the difficulties with France. Al
though his rank was inferior to that of Hamilton,
who was his junior in the Revolutionary war, and
some friends urged him to resent this injustice,
he replied with a very commendable spirit, al
though not of pride : " I am confident that Gen.
Washington had sufficient reasons for this prefer
ence. Let us first dispose of our enemies; we
shall then have leisure to settle the question of
rank." In 1800 Mr. Adams and he were candi
dates for the offices of president and vice-presi
dent of the United States, against Jefferson and
Burr. At this period the offices were not dis
criminated in the votes, but the person having
the largest number of votes was to be the presi
dent. Gen. Hamilton, in his celebrated letter
against Mr. Adams, endeavored to secure the
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election of Gen. Pinckney as president; but
neither was elected. His wife, Mary, died Jan.
4, 1812, aged CO. He was connected with various
benevolent societies. Of the Charleston bible
society he was the president. In a letter, written
in 1804, he reprobates the barbarous practice of
duelling. There was a frankness in his manners
which attracted confidence. Although at the
head of a party in politics, he was free from the
vindictive passions of party. " Heligious and
moral principles presided over all his faculties
and pursuits, and gave a dignity to his character.
An ardent youth and a vigorous manhood were
succeeded by a serene and cheerful old age, and
the reverence and love of the whole city attended
him to the tomb." — Ann. Beg., 1823.
PINCKXEY, THOMAS, general, governor of
South Carolina, the brother of the preceding,
died Xov. 2, 1828. He was distinguished by his
patriotic zeal and his military talents in the war
of the Revolution. With the rank of major, he
was the aid of General Gates. Having his leg
shattered by a musket ball, he fell into the hands
of the enemy in Aug., 1780. He succeeded
Moultrie as governor in 1787, and was succeeded
by Charles Pinckney in 1789. He was minister
to London in the administration of Washington,
and returned in Dec., 1796. In 1796 he was can
didate with John Adams in the votes for presi
dent and vice-president, and he had the votes of
his own State and fifty-eight other votes, but was
not chosen ; the next federal candidate with John
Adams in 1800 was his brother, Charles Cotes-
worth P. In 1800 he was a member of congress.
For his social virtues he was highly esteemed.
He died after a lingering and painful illness.
His wife died in 1796. His two wives were daugh
ters of Jacob and Rebecca Motte, whose third
daughter married Colonel William Allston. His
daughter, Harriet, the wife of Colonel Francis Iv.
Huger, died at Philadelphia in Dec., 1824.
PIXCKXEY, CHARLES, governor of South Car
olina, died Oct. 29, 1804, aged 66. He was born
in 1758. His education was private. He was a
patriot in the Revolutionary struggle. In 1787
he was a delegate to the convention which framed
the constitution of the United States. He pro
posed that the president should hold his office
seven years, and then be ineligible. The evils of
the present system will probably lead to the
adoption of a single term. He succeeded Thos.
Pinckney as governor in 1789, and continued in
office till 1792 ; he was again governor from 1796
to 1798 ; and again as the successor of P. Hamil
ton from 1806 to 1808, when he was succeeded
by J. Drayton. In the year 1798 he was a sen
ator of the United States, and afterwards ambas
sador at the court of Spain from 1801 or 1802 till
1805, in the administration of Mr. Jefferson. He
possessed amenity of manners, great colloquial
powers, and fervid eloquence.
PIXE, ROBERT E., an eminent historical and
portrait painter, died in Philadelphia in Xov.,
1788.
PIXKXEY, WILLIAM, a distinguished lawyer,
ambassador to England, died Feb. 25, 1822, aged
57. He was born at Annapolis, Maryland, March
17, 1764. His father, a native of the north of
England, adhered to the British cause in the
Revolution. He regarded himself as related to
the South Carolina Pinckneys. His education
was imperfect. He was admitted to the bar in
1786, and soon acquired distinction in his profes
sion. From Harford county he was a delegate
to the convention which ratified the constitution
of the United States. As a member of the legis
lature in 1789, he eloquently resisted a proposed
law to prevent the emancipation of slaves. In
1796 he was appointed a commissioner under
Jay's treaty, and repaired with his family to Lon
don, where he resided eight years ; his associates
were Gore and Trumbull. On his return in 1804
he engaged anew in the practice of the law, which
he had diligently studied during his residence in
London. In 1806 he went as minister to Eng
land, and with Mr. Monroe negotiated a treaty,
which Mr. Jefferson rejected. After a residence
as minister for five years, he found that he was
expending not only his salary but his own small
capital, and therefore solicited a recall. He ar
rived in June, 1811, and settled at Baltimore. In
December he was appointed attorney-general of
the United States by Mr. Madison. He approved
of the war of 1812. Commanding a volunteer
corps for the defence of Baltimore, he marched to
Bladensburg, in the action at which place he was
severely wounded. After continuing his arduous
labors at the bar for several years, he was in
duced, as he wanted relaxation, in March, 1816,
to accept the appointment of minister to the
courts of Xaples and Russia. He, in consequence,
resigned a seat which he then, held in congress.
From Italy he proceeded to Vienna, and thence
to St. Petersburg. He returned in 1818. He
took his seat in the senate of the United States,
Jan. 4, 1820. On the Missouri question, he
deemed it unconstitutional to make the exclusion
of slaves a condition of admission into the Union.
He was taken ill at Washington Feb. 17, and
was for the most part delirious till his death.
His wife was Ann Maria Rodgers, the daughter
of John It., of Havre de Grace, and sister of
Commodore 11. Probably there was no lawyer
in this country of so great eminence as Mr. P.,
for combined legal science and eloquence. He
had a fine countenance, and elegant manners, and
to his dress was particularly attentive. In the
supremacy of his powers and fame, and in the
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midst of his utmost efforts to maintain them, he
was summoned suddenly to the retributions of
eternity ; a tremendous warning to the great men
around him. An account of his life and writings
was published by Henry Wheaton, 8vo., 1826.
PIXKXEY, EDWARD COATE, a poet, the son of
William Pinkney, died at Baltimore in 1828,
aged 25. He was born in London in 1802. At
the age of 14 or 15 he was appointed a midship
man in the navy, in which post he continued nine
years, visiting various parts of the globe. On the
death of his father in 1822, he devoted himself
to the study of the law. He also edited the Bal
timore Marylander, an administration paper.
He published in 1825 a volume of poems, which
is highly commended by the North American
Review.
PINXEO, BEZALEEL, D. D., died at Milford,
Conn., Sept. 15, 1849, aged 80, a descendant of
the Huguenots. During a ministry of fifty-three
years there were in his town seven revivals ;
seven hundred and sixteen persons joined the
church ; and at his death there were five hundred
and twenty members, all of whom but three he
had admitted. He had followed eleven hundred
of his flock to the grave.
PIXXEY, BUTLER, a minister, died in Bloom-
field, Conn., in 1850, aged 87.
PIXSOX, SARAH, widow of Simeon P., a Rev
olutionary soldier, died in Scituate Dec. 22, 1851,
aged 103.
PIXTARD, JOHN, died in New York, June 21,
1844, aged 85 ; an eminent merchant, vice-presi
dent of the American bible society.
PINTARD, LEWIS, died at Princeton, N. J.,
March 25, 1818, aged 85. He was of a family
which fled from France on the revocation of the
edict of Xantes.
PIPER, ASA, minister of Wakefield, N. H.,
died iu 1835, aged 78. He graduated at Har
vard in 1778.
PIPER, SUSANNAH, Mrs., died at Baltimore,
Jan. 24, 1841, aged 107.
PIPOX, JOHN, minister of Taunton, Mass.,
died in 1821, aged about 50. He graduated at
Harvard in 1792, and was ordained in 1800. He
published a masonic discourse, 1811.
PITCHER, NATHANIEL, minister of Scituate,
Mass., died in 1723, aged about 40. He gradu
ated at Harvard in 1703.
PITKIX, WILLIAM, came from Middlesex, Eng
land, and settled in East Hartford, Conn., in
1059, and died in 1694. He was a lawyer and
king's attorney, and a farmer ; and was distin
guished for his talents and virtues. His sister,
an accomplished woman, married to Simon Wol-
cott, was the mother of the first Governor W.
A William Pitkin, many years a magistrate, " a
grout aud good, mau," died in 1723.
PITKIX, WILLIAM, governor of Connecticut,
died in East Hartford, 1769. He was lieutenant-
governor and ex ojflcio chief justice from 1754 to
1766, and governor three years. The William P.
who was chief justice in 1713 was perhaps his
father. He was a man of strong mind and in
tegrity. His son, Major William P., died in
1789. He went with the Connecticut forces
against Canada, under Abercrombie, in 1758, and
was a gallant officer. In the Revolutionary war
he was a member of the council.
PITKIX", TIMOTHY, minister of Farmington,
Conn., died in 1812, aged 85. The son of Gov
ernor P., he was born at East Hartford, and
graduated at Yale in 1747. After serving as a
tutor, he was ordained in 1752, and dismissed on
account of ill health in 1785. He was long a
member of the corporation of the college. —
Sprague's Annals.
PITKIN, TIMOTHY, died at New Haven, Dec.
18, 1847, aged 82. The son of Rev. Timothy P.,
he was graduated in 1785. By profession he was
a lawyer, and for fourteen years, from 1805, a
member of congress. He published a statistical
view of the commerce of the United States in
1816, rcpublished in 1835 ; he published also po
litical and civil history of the United States from
1763 to the close of Washington's administration.
PITKIN, EDWARD, M. D., died in East Hart
ford, April 11, 1851, aged 82.
PITMAN, CHARLES, D. D., died in New York,
Jan. 14, 1854; many years an eminent minister
of the Methodist church.
PLAISTED, ICHABOD, minister in Rochester,
Mass., died in 1831, aged 35. Born in Gardiner,
Me., he graduated at Bowdoin college in 1821,
and was settled over the third church in R. in
1827.
PLANT, MATTHIAS, Episcopal minister in New-
bury, Mass., died in 1753, aged 52. Born in
England, he graduated at Jesus college, Cam
bridge, and was settled at N. in 1722. His
church was called Queen Anne's chapel. His two
predecessors were Mr. Lampton and Henry Lu
cas, both from England. Dr. Bass, the first
Episcopal minister of Newburyport, was settled
in 1752. A singular letter of his is printed. —
Coffin's Hist. Newbury.
PLANTE, MARIE LOUISE, died in Cuthbert,
L. C., in July, 1832, aged 117. Many Plantes
sprung from her.
PLATT, JONAS K., M. D., professor of surgery
in the university of Vermont, died at Plattsburg
in 1824.
PLATT, JONAS, LL. D., judge, died in Peru,
Clinton county, N. Y., in 1834. He had been a
member of congress, and was a judge of the su
preme court of New York.
PLATT, EBENEZER, judge, died in New York
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in 1 839, aged 85. lie lived fifty years in Ilun-
tington, L. I. He was the father of Mrs. Phebe
Rogers, the mother of Rev. Dr. E. P. Rogers.
PLATT, ELIPHAZ A., minister of East Palmy
ra, N. Y., died suddenly, Sept. 16, 1854, aged 46.
He was faithful, and his labors for thirteen years
were successful. He received one hundred and
seventy-one persons into the church.
PLEASANTON, STEPHEN, died in Washing
ton in 1855. He was the sixth auditor of the
treasury for fifty years, and during the adminis
tration of twelve presidents.
PLEASANTS, JAMES, governor of Virginia,
died in Goochland county, Nov. 9, 1836, aged 67.
He was a member of congress from 1811 to 1819,
and senator from 1819 to 1822, and governor
from 1822 to 1825. He was a man of rare mod
esty, respected and esteemed for his private vir
tues and public worth.
PLEASANTS, JOHN II., the son of Governor
P., died at Richmond, Feb. 27, 1846, aged 39. Af
ter editing the Richmond Whig twenty-two years,
he fell, as a fool dieth, in a duel with Thomas
Ritchie, Jun. A hundred others, who have fallen
in our country in like folly, depravity, and mad
ness, could be enumerated ; yet no murderer in
private combat has yet been hung in our country.
Does not the stain of blood in this respect rest
upon our guilty land ?
PLESSIS, J. O., Catholic bishop of Quebec,
died Dec. 4, 1825. He was taken suddenly ill,
fell back in his chair, and expired.
PLIMLEY, HENRY, died at Trenton, N. J., in
1842, aged 98. In the war he fought at Trenton,
Fort Stanwix, Whitehall, and Yorktown, and was
severely wounded.
PLUMBE, WILLIAM, died June 2, 1843, aged
94. A graduate of Yale in 1769, he was a chap
lain in the army : he lived to be the oldest grad
uate.
PLUMER, JOHN, a worthy magistrate of Ro
chester, N. II., died Nov. 19, 1815, aged 95.
Governor Wentworth appointed him a judge of
the court of common pleas. He aimed to pro
mote the amicable settlement of disputes, and
was a peace-maker, greatly respected.
PLUMER, WILLIAM, governor of New Hamp
shire, died at Epping, Dec. 23, 1850, aged 91.
He was born at Newbury, Mass., June 25, 1759,
and removed to Epping in 1768, where he lived
till his death. He practiced law from 1787 till
1809, was often in the legislature, and was a mem
ber of the convention which framed the constitu
tion of New Hampshire. In 1802 he was chosen
senator of the United States ; and he was gover
nor in 1812, 1816-1818. His last public employ
ment was that of elector of president in 1820.
Then for nearly thirty years he was occupied in
literary pursuits. He published papers with the
signature of Cincinnatus. He wrote well, though
he had not been favored with a public education,
and knew no language but the English. His ear
liest ancestor in this country was Francis of Bos
ton, in 1634, who died in Newbury. The others
descending were Samuel, Sylvanus, Samuel, Sam
uel, the father of the governor, married to Mary
Dole in 1755. Governor P. married Sarah Fow
ler of the Ipswich family ; she died in 1852, aged
90. His brother, Colonel Daniel Plumer, died in
1852, aged 81. His sister married Colonel Daniel
Cilley of Epsom. He published appeal to the
old whigs, 1805 ; address to the clergy, 1814.
PLUMER, WILLIAM, son of Governor P., died
at Epping, N. H., Sept. 18, 1854, aged 65. He
graduated at Harvard in 1809, and was a mem
ber of congress from 1819 to 1825. He opposed
the Missouri compromise. He was a man of taste
and had an attachment to historical researches.
His library was large. He published two small
volumes of poems ; address to agricultural so
ciety.
PLUMMER, CAROLINE, Miss, died in Salem,
May 15, 1854, bequeathing 15,000 dollars to Har
vard college to found a professorship of Chris
tian morals ; 30,000 dollars to the Salem athe
naeum ; and 30,000 dollars to found a farm school.
PLYMPTON, SYLVANUS, Dr., died at Woburn
in 1837, aged 79. He graduated at Harvard in
1780.
POCAHONTAS, daughter of Powhatan, em
peror of the Indians of Virginia, died in 1617,
aged 22. She was born about the year 1595.
When Captain Smith was taken prisoner in 1607,
and it was determined that he should be put to
death, his head was placed upon two large stones
at the feet of Powhatan, that a number of In
dians, who stood ready with lifted clubs, might
beat out his brains. At this moment Pocah6"ntas
rushed to the spot and placed her own head upon
his. From regard to his daughter, the savage
king spared his life. In 1609, when but fourteen
years of age, she went to James Town in a dreary
night, and unfolded to Captain Smith a plot which
the Indians had formed for the extermination of
the English, and thus at the hazard of her life
saved them from destruction. In 1612, after
Captain Smith left the colony, she was for a bribe
of a copper kettle betrayed into the hands of
Captain Argal, and retained a prisoner, that better
terms of peace might be made with her father.
He offered five hundred bushels of corn for his
daughter ; but, before this negotiation was com
pleted, a different and more interesting one had
commenced. A mutual attachment had sprung
up between her and John Rolfe, an Englishman
of good character, and with the consent of Pow
hatan they were married. This event restored
peace, and secured it for many years. Pocahon-
tas soon made a profession of Christianity and
was baptized. In 1616 she accompanied her hus-
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band to England, where she was received with
distinction at court. It is said that King James
expressed great indignation that one of his sub
jects should dare to marry into a royal family.
As she was about to embark for Virginia, she died
at Gravesend. She is represented as a pious
Christian. She left one son, Thomas Rolfe ; and
from his daughter descended some respectable
families in Virginia. — Beverly ; Keith; Stitli.
POE, EDGAR ALLAN, a dissolute, fantastic wri
ter, died at Baltimore in consequence of fits of
intoxication, in 1849, aged 38. His grandfather,
David, of Maryland, served honorably in the
army of the llevolution. His father, David, mar
ried an English actress, and went himself upon
the stage. This, their son, was born in Baltimore.
A generous merchant, John Allan, adopted him
and provided for his education. But his course
of life in college and afterwards was dissolute and
disgraceful. His patron refused to pay his fre
quent drafts for gambling debts, and would no
longer keep the ungrateful and profligate young
man in his house. He was now thrown upon the
labors of his pen, in prose and verse, for subsist
ence. With an indignant spirit must all virtuous
and good men think of the degradation of our
literature, by its falling at times into the hands of
unprincipled men, who produce nothing of true
value and worth reading; nothing to enlighten
by great truths, nothing to animate to noble acts
of virtue. Nor in fact can any great utterances
be incitements to virtue, when we know that they
are not sincere, but come from characters vile
and contemptible. Poe's miscellaneous works
were published, in four volumes, 1856. The wild
nautical story of Pym occupies half the last vol
ume. — Cijcl. of Amer. Lit.
POGGATACUT, great sachem of Pamanack
or Long Island, died in 1651, and was succeeded
by his brother Wyandanch.
POHLMAN, WILLIAM J., missionary at Amoy,
died January 5, 1849, being drowned in leaving
a wrecked schooner, in which he was proceeding
to Amoy. The small boat was upset by the rush,
and all who could not swim were drowned. He
was a devoted and successful missionary.
POHLMAN, Mrs., wife of William J. Pohl-
man, missionary to Borneo, died at Amoy Sept.
30, 1845, aged 34. Her name was Theodosia R.
Scuddcr of Freehold, N. J., living in New York
at the time of her marriage. She embarked in
1838. Her companion, Mrs. Doty, died in a few
days after Mrs. P.'s death.
POINDEXTEH, GEORGE, died at Jackson in
1853 ; the second governor of Mississippi. He
was a member of congress as delegate of the
Territory, and then as representative of the State,
and a senator from 1831 to 1835. In 1811 he
murdered, in a duel, Abijah Hunt, in Mississippi
Territory ; and thus his dishonored name must be
added to the list of "honorable murderers."
Does not the unavenged blood of the murdered
in private combat call for vengeance upon our
guilty land ?
POINSETT, JOEL R., died Dec. 14, 1851, at
Statesburg, S. C., aged 72. He was born in
Charleston, of a Huguenot family. He travelled
in Europe, Asia, and Spanish America. In 1825
he was minister to Mexico, and secretary of war
under Mr. Van Buren. He labored for the pre
servation of the Union against the movements in
his own State. He published notes on Mexico,
made in 1812, with a sketch of the Revolution.
— Cycl. of Am. Lit.
POLI1EMUS, HEXRY, a useful minister of
the Dutch church, died in Ulster county, N. Y.,
Nov. 2, 1815, aged 4Q. His last two years he
was the pastor at Shawangunk in Ulster.
POLITIS, PETER, a colored man, died in New
York in 1820, aged 103 : he was present at the
capture of Louisburg in 1745.
POLK, WILLIAM, colonel, died at Raleigh,
N. C., Jan. 14, 1834, aged 75. He was among
the small band of patriots who declared indepen
dence in Mecklenburgh county, N. C., May 20,
1775. He was present at the battles of Camden,
Eutaw Springs, Brandywine, and Germantown.
At the close of the war he held the rank of lieu
tenant-colonel, and was the last surviving officer
of the N. C. line.
POLK, JAMES Kxox, president of the United
States, died at Nashville, Tenn., June 15, 1849,
aged 53. An ancestor, Pollock, emigrated from
Ireland. Mr. Polk was born Nov. 2, 1795, in
Mecklenburg county, N. C. ; his father, in 1806,
with ten children, removed to Tennessee, in the
valley of Duck river, a branch of the Cumberland.
He graduated at the university of North Carolina
in 1815. In 1825 he was a member of congress,
of which body he was speaker in 1835 and 1837.
He was chosen governor in 1839, for tAvo years.
In Dec., 1844, the electors chose him president,
the votes being for him 170, for Clay 105. Dur
ing his administration the Oregon question was
settled, Texas annexed, the Mexican war waged,
and New Mexico and California acquired. In
his private life he was without reproach. Whether
owing to education or to the influence of a pious,
admirable wife, his arrangements in travelling
never interfered with the Sabbath. He regularly
attended church. Dr. Edgar attended him in his
last sickness. He acknowledged his unworthi-
ness before God, and said, he had too long de
layed to devote himself to the service of Christ
to expect his mercy on a deathbed. Afterwards
he professed to have obtained pardon and purifi
cation through the blood of Christ ; and after he
received the sacraments never expressed the
slightest doubt, but died in the assurance of a
glorious immortality.
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POLKE.
POND.
POLKE, WILLIAM, died at Fort Wayne, Ind.,
in 1843, aged 68. Born in Virginia, he emigrated
to Kentucky in 1782. Captured by the Indians,
he was kept a year at Detroit. In 1808 he set
tled in Indiana ; in 1811 was wounded at the bat
tle of Tippecanoe. He held various offices ; was
register of the U. S. land office ; and was esteemed
and beloved.
POMEROY, SETH, minister of Greenfield, in
Fail-field, Conn., died in 1770, aged about 37, and
was succeeded by Dr. Dwight. He graduated at
Yale in 1753.
POMEROY, MEDAD, deacon, the ancestor of
many families of the name, died at Northampton,
in 1716, having ten or more children. He was
the son of Eltweed Pomeroy of Dorchester and
Windsor, who died in 1662. He married Expe
rience Woodward, and also Abigail, the widow
of Rev. Mr. Chauncy of Hatfield. Ebenezer,
his son by his first wife, was the father of Seth.
POMEROY, SETH, brigadier-general, died at
Peckskill, while in the service, in Feb., 1777.
He lived in Northampton, and was the son of
Ebenezer and grandson of Deacon Medad P.
In the French war he was an intrepid soldier un
der Sir William Johnson. He was present at the
defeat of Dieskau. In the battle of Bunker Hill
he was a volunteer; and he lamented that he,
" old and useless," had not fallen instead of War
ren. He died of the pleurisy. He was an inge
nious mechanic and manufacturer of arms, and a
most zealous and devoted friend of his country.
His five sons were Quartus, Asahel, Lemuel, Seth,
and Medad.
POMEROY, BENJAMIN, D. D., minister of
Hebron, Conn., died at Hebron Dec. 22, 1784,
aged 80. He was a descendant of Eltweed P.,
who settled in Windsor in 1633 ; was born in Suf-
field ; and graduated at Yale college in 1733.
He was ordained in Dec., 173,3. During the
revival, in the time of Mr, Whitefield, he
preached with great zeal and power. For preach
ing in disregard of the laws of Connecticut, he
was deprived of his stated salary for seven years.
He was also once arrested and brought before
the assembly with Mr. Davenport. In his patri
otic spirit he served as a chaplain in the French
and Revolutionary wars. With great zeal, he
had a vein of wit and sarcasm. He was perse
vering, just, polite, generous, charitable, frank.
In the fervor and pathos of his preaching he was
unequalled. Rev. Dr. Sprague has published a
letter concerning him, written by a native of He
bron, Rev. John Sawyer- pf Garland, Maine, in
Aug., 1855, when he wanted but two months of
being one hundred years old. In early life he
was a hearer of Dr. P. He says : " I have a dis
tinct recollection of his solemn and earnest mail'
ner in the pulpit, and of seeing the tears flow
down his cheeks, while he was exhorting sinners
to be reconciled to God." His wife was Abagail,
the sister of Dr. E. Wheelock; his daughter,
Hannah, married Dr. McClure. Mr. Peters rep
resents him as an excellent scholar, an exemplary
gentleman, and a thundering preacher. Dr.
Trumbull describes him as a man of real genius,
and as among the best preachers of his day. —
Sprague's Annals.
POMEROY, JONATHAN LAW, minister of
Worthington, Mass., died at West Springfield, in
1836, aged about 67. He was minister from 1794
to 1832. He bequeathed to the American colo
nization, education, home missionary, and bible
societies 1,000 dollars each, and made them
residuary legatees after the death of his wife, who
soon died, to the supposed amount of 20,000 dol
lars. He also gave his brother, Col. Seth P., J.
Boardman, his wife's brother, and Miss M. Bil
lings, 5,000 dollars each. His library he gave to
Rev. T. Shipman, of Southbury. He published a
sermon on death of O. Pomeroy, 1799 ; of J. Wil
bur, 1816; to a missionary society, 1806; reply
to a Unitarian pamphlet, 1822; sermons, 1826.
POMEROY, SAMUEL WYLLIS, died at Pome
roy, Meigs county, Ohio, in 1841, aged 77; an
emigrant from Brighton, Mass., where he was a
respected citizen.
POMEROY, JOHN, Dr., died at Burlington,
Vt,, Feb. 19, 1844, aged 80. Born in Middle-
borough, Mass., he was first a soldier ; then set
tled in B. as a physician, in 1792, and in 1797,
after occupying a log house, built there the first
brick house. He was a leading physician and
surgeon for forty years, and was professor of anat
omy and surgery in the university.
POMEROY, TIIADDEUS, Dr., died at Stock-
bridge, Mass., in 1847, aged 82. He graduated
at Harvard in 1786.
POMEROY, LEMUEL, died in Pittsfield, Mass.,
in 1849, aged 71. He was the son of Lemuel and
grandson of Gen. Seth Pomeroy of Northamp
ton. He was long engaged in very extensive
business in iron works. His widow, an excellent
woman, died in 1852, aged 70.
POMPONOHO, chief of the Titicut Indians,
sold lands to the people of Bridgewater, north of
the Titicut river, by deed, in 1672. His father
and grandfather lived there before him.
POND, ENOCH, minister of Ashford, Conn.,
died in 1807, aged 50. Born at Wrentham,
Mass., he graduated at Brown university in 1777.
He was one year in the army; then taught mu
sic and one of the schools in Boston ; and was
ordained in 1789. During a revival in 1798,
there were added to his church eighty members.
He was a good man and affable, a scholar, and
an acceptable preacher. — Sprague's Annals.
POND, JULIA ANN, wile of Dr. E. Pond, died
at Bangor, Sept. 7, 1838, aged 41. A native of
Northford, Conn., and a sister of the Rev. J.
POND.
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Maltby, she was an early Christian convert, and a
consistent, earnest, prayerful Christian, an exam
ple to those around her.
POND, CORDELIA E., wife of S. W. Pond,
missionary to the Dakotas, died at Washington,
Conn., Feb. 6, 1852. She was an eminent Chris
tian, pleasant, retiring, trustful. She gave faith
ful dying exhortations.
PONTE, LORENZO L. DA, died at New
York in 1840, professor of Italian language and
history in the university of New York.
PONTIAC, chief of the Sauks or Sacs, a war
like tribe of Indians on the Des Moines and Mis
sissippi, was killed in a time of peace by the
Kaskaskias and others. A desolating revenge
was the consequence. F. Parkman, Jr., pub
lished a history of the conspiracy of Pontiac in
1851.
POOLE, ELIZABETH, Miss, died at Taunton,
Mass., May 21, 1G54, aged 65. She was of a
good family in Taunton, England ; but she left
her friends and prospects in the prime of her life,
that she might enjoy freedom of conscience in a
wilderness. She resided first at Dorchester.
Then, in 1G37, she commenced a settlement at
Cohasset, now Taunton. She did good with her
wealth. At the entrance of the new and beauti
ful cemetery, after the style of Mount Auburn
near Boston, the ladies of Taunton have erected
a graceful monument "in honor of Elizabeth
Poole." — Felt's Hist, of N. E.
POOLE, WILLIAM, of Dorchester, died in
1672. He was town clerk about forty years, and
often a schoolmaster.
POOR, ENOCH, brigadier-general, died in New
Jersey, Sept. 8, 1780, aged 43. He \vas a descen
dant of Daniel, who died in Andover, Mass., in
1713, aged 84.
POOR, DANIEL N., M. D., died in Newbury,
Mass., in 1837, aged 78. Born in N., he grad
uated at Harvard in 1777.
POOR, DANIEL, D.D., missionary to Ceylon, died
at Manepy, Feb. 3, 1855, aged 65. Mr. Meigs' let
ter, who was his fellow laborer nearly forty years,
giving an account of his death, is in Missionary
Herald. Born in Danvers, Mass., in June, 1789,
he graduated at Dartmouth in 1811 ; studied the
ology at Andover ; was ordained at Newburyport
June 21, 1815, with Mills, Warren, Richards,
Bushnell, and Meigs. He lived at Colombo, in
Ceylon, from 1816 to 1823, when he took charge
of the seminary at Batticotta. In 1836 he re
moved to Madura, in 1841 to Jaffna. In 1849
and 1850 he was in his native land. From 1851
till his death he resided at Manepy. He was an
able, devoted, respected missionary, and he died
in triumph: his last words were "Joy! joy ! hal
lelujah!" He was buried at Tillipally, near his
first wife, an excellent missionary, Susan Bulfinch,
of Salem, who died in 1821, and near Mr. Rich
ards, who died in 1822. He was divided in death
from Dr. Scudder only twenty-one days. Meigs
and Spaulding survived him. He was taken sick
of the cholera on Friday and died the next day.
His second wife was Ann Knight from England.
— Spro {/lie's Annals.
POPE, JOHN, Dr., died in Boston in May,
1796, aged 55.
POPE, JOSEPH, minister of Spencer, Mass.,
died March 8, 1826, aged 79. He had a palsy
for eight years. His widow reached the age of
100, Dec. 16, 1854, retaining her powers of mind
and body, excepting sight ; and, it is thought, is
still alive, in 1857. Born in Pomfret, now Brook
lyn, he was graduated at Cambridge in 1770. He
was ordained July 17, 1773. He was a man of
literary acquirements, and secretary of the trus
tees of Leicester academy. Professor Shurtleff
of Dartmouth married his daughter. He was
wise, courteous, faithful : his life was honorable
and useful.
POPE, NATHANIEL, judge, died at St. Louis,
Missouri, in 1850, aged 66. He was a member of
congress, and a judge of the district of Illinois.
POPE, LEMUEL, president of a Boston in
surance company, died Aug. 3, 1851, at Iloxbury,
aged 74. He was for many years a merchant,
much respected.
POPHAM, GEORGE, president of the first
company of settlers in New England, sailed from
Plymouth, England, the last of May, 1607, with
two ships and one hundred men, and all necessary
supplies. Capt. Popham had the command of
one ship, and Raleigh Gilbert, nephew of Sir
Walter Raleigh, of the other. On the llth of
August they fell in with the island of Monhegan,
a few miles from the coast of Maine, and soon
afterwards landed at the mouth of the Sagadahoc
or Kennebec river, " on a western peninsula,"
and not on Parker's Island, as Gov. Sullivan sup
posed. A sermon was delivered ; the patent and
laws were read ; and a store-house built, with a
fort, which was called fort St. George. The
ships sailed on their return Dec. 5th, leaving a
colony of 45 persons ; Popham being president
and Gilbert admiral. The next year supplies
were brought them ; but intelligence being re
ceived at the same time of the death of Sir John
Popham and Sir John Gilbert, and the president
Popham being also deceased, the colony deter
mined to return in the ships. The winter had
been severe, and the stores had been lost by fire.
Smith says, the country was esteemed a cold, bar
ren, mountainous, rocky desert; and that this
colony " found nothing but extreme extremities."
POPE, JOSEPH, an ingenious mechanic, died
at Hallowell, Maine, in Aug., 1826, aged 72. He
constructed a large and admirable orrery, which
was purchased by Harvard college, and he in
vented a threshing-machine.
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POPKIN.
PORTER.
POPKIN, JOHN SNELLING, D. D., died at
Cambridge, March 2, 1852, aged 80. Born in
Boston June 19, 1771, he was graduated at Har
vard in 1792, ordained over the Federal street
church in Boston July 10, 1799, and dismissed in
1802. In Newbury he was a minister from 1804
to 1815, when he became professor of Greek at
Cambridge. From 1826 to 1833 he was Eliot
professor of Greek literature. For the rest of
his life he resided in Cambridge. In 1844 and
subsequently he had sudden attacks of disease,
which impaired his memory. At last he had a
fatal disease of the heart. As a preacher his dis
courses were sound, well-written, and useful;
but he was not an orator. In his religious views
he was not Unitarian but Evangelical. To a lady,
who asked him if he was a Hopkinsian, he re
plied, "Madam, I am a Popkinsian." His ser
mon on the death of Washington contains passa
ges of eloquence. He was never married. It is
said that, fifty years after he was susceptible of
attachment, he, contrary to the habit of his life,
followed a venerable deceased lady to the grave.
Whatever was in his memory, he never spoke of
it. He published a sermon on the death of J.
Kimball ; on the death of Washington ; on the
memory of the righteous ; to recommend justice
and charity ; on leaving the old meeting-house ;
on the dedication of the new, 1806; on the sea
sons, time, and eternity ; at the thanksgiving,
1813; thanksgiving for peace, 1815; on an
affliction ; two sermons before his removal to
Cambridge, 1815 ; three lectures on liberal edu
cation, 1836. — Sprague's Annals.
POPMUXNUCK, ISAAC, an Indian, deacon of
the church at Marshpee, died in 1758, aged about
80. He was an Indian magistrate of great repu
tation, the grandson of Popmunnuck, the sachem
in 1648. His brother Josiah, a schoolmaster,
died in 1770, aged about 85.
PORTER, AARON, first minister of Medfield,
Mass., died in 1722, aged about 34. Born in
Iladley, he graduated at Harvard in 1708, and
was settled in 1713. His next successors were E.
Turell and D. Osgood.
PORTER, MOSES, captain, of Hadley, died
Sept. 8, 1755, slain by the Indians while on a
morning scout near Ticonderoga.
PORTER, SAMUEL, minister of Sherborn,
Mass., died in 1758, aged 49. Born in Hadley,
he graduated at Harvard in 1730, and was set
tled in 1734. His predecessors were D. Gookin
and D. Baker. He published a sermon at ordi
nation of W. Phipps, 1748 ; of J. Perry, 1755.
PORTER, AARON, Dr., died at Portland at an
advanced age. He came from Boxford, Mass.,
and settled in Biddcford in 1773 ; he removed to
Portland in 1810. His wife, whom he married
in 1777, was Pauline, daughter of Richard King
of Scarborough.
PORTER, JOHN, first minister of Xorth Bridge-
water, Mass., was graduated at Harvard college
in 1736, and ordained in Oct., 1740. He died in
the' hope of the Christian March 12, 1802, aged
86. He was a man. of respectable talents, of
great prudence, and of a blameless life. As a
preacher he dwelt with earnestness upon the
great doctrines of the gospel. A crucified Re
deemer was his frequent theme. Avoiding dry
and barren speculations, he aimed to impart in
struction, and to render men holy. His faithful
labors were not in vain, for at different periods it
pleased God by the influence of his Spirit to ren
der them the means of converting many, who
were chosen in Jesus Christ. He received four
hundred and sixty-four into the church. At a
donation visit in 1769, there met at his house
ninety-seven young ladies, who presented his wife
with four hundred and seventy-four skeins of
yarn, cotton, linen, woollen, by them spun, all
dressed in homespun. He preached on " this
woman was full of good works," Oct. 9. He had
as colleague, for a short time, Asa Meach. After
him the pastor was Daniel Iluntington, more than
twenty years. Mr. Porter had three sons, grad
uates at Cambridge in the same class in 1777, one
of whom was Dr. E. Porter of Roxbury. He
published a sermon at the ordination of Silas
Brett, Freetown ; the absurdity and blasphemy
of substituting the personal righteousness of men
in the room of the surety righteousness of Christ
in the article of justification before God, 1749;
reply to Mr. Bryant's remarks on the above ser
mon, 1751.
PORTER, NEHEMIAH, minister of Ashfield,
Mass., died Feb. 29, 1820, aged 99 years and 11
months. He was born in Ipswich March 20, or
April 2, 1720; graduated at Harvard college in
1745 ; and was ordained Jan. 3, 1750, at Che-
bacco, now Essex, but was dismissed in 1766.
He was installed at Ashfield Dec. 21, 1774. In
June, 1819, at the age of 99, he assisted in ordain
ing his colleague, Thomas Shepard ; he ascended
the pulpit stairs without aid, made the conse
crating prayer, and gave a charge to the people.
By his first wife, the daughter of Rev. Mr. Chip-
man of Beverly, he had ten children, and two
hundred and thirty descendants. He published
a discourse July 4, 1811.
PORTER, SAMUEL, Dr., died at Williams-
burgh Jan., 1822, aged 67.
PORTER, MOSES, general, died at Cambridge,
in April, 1822, aged 65. A native of Danvers, he
was an officer of artillery in the battle of Bunker
Hill; he was also in the battles of Brandyvvine
and Trenton; he was with Wayne in 1794, and
commanded at the capture of fort George in
1813. He was upright and honorable, dignified,
a rigid disciplinarian.
PORTER, EXPERIENCE, minister of Belchertown,
PORTER.
POUTER.
GTS
Mass., died in 1828, aged 46. Born in Lebanon,
N. II., he graduated at Dartmouth in 1803 ; was
minister of Winchester, N. II., from 1807 to 1810;
then of B. from 1814 to 1825. He followed J.
Forward, and was succeeded by Lyman Coleman.
He died of a consumption. During his ministry
there were extensive revivals of religion, as the
result of which, one hundred and seven were
added to the church in 1812 and 1813, and two
hundred and eight in 1818 and 1819; as many
during his ministry as for eighty years before.
PORTER, MICAH, a minister, died in Plain-
field, N. II., in 1829, aged 81.
PORTER, WILLIAM A., professor of moral
philosophy and rhetoric in Williams college, died
in 1830, aged 31. He graduated at Williams in
1818, and was appointed Professor in 1827.
PORTER, THOMAS, died in Granville, N. Y.,
in 1833, aged 90. He was a soldier of 1755 ;
the father of Professor P. of Andover.
PORTER, EUPHALET, 1). D., died at Roxbury
Dec. 7, 1833, aged 74. A graduate of 1777, he
spent his life in the ministry at Roxbury. He
published various discourses ; a fast sermon, 1798;
on the death of Gov. Sumner, 1799 ; new year's
sermon, 1801; century sermon ; before the hu
mane society, 1802; at the ordination of J. G.
Palfrey, 1818.
PORTER, EBENEZER, D. D., president of the
theological seminary at Andover, died April 8,
1834, aged 61. He was the son of Thomas P. of
Cornwall, Conn., and a descendant of the sixth
generation from Thomas of Hartford, who re
moved to Farmington, and died in 1697. He
graduated at Dartmouth in 1792, and was or
dained at Judea society in Washington, Conn.,
Sept. 7, 1796, the successor of Noah Merwin,
whose daughter Lucy he married. After fifteen
years of toil there, he was invited to Andover in
1811, as Bartlett professor of pulpit eloquence,
and there passed the remainder of his life, being
chosen president in 1827. He published many,
single sermons ; among them, at the ordination
of J. W. Putnam and A. Mitchell, 1815; of T.
J. Murdock, 1819; on the fatal effects of ardent
spirits, 1811; at the fast, 1816, 1823; at dedica
tion of the new edifice, 1818; to the education
society, 1820; to the pastoral association, 1827;
to the society to give the gospel to the Indians ;
on God's immortality, 1829; two sermons at the
fast, 1831. He also published the preacher's
manual ; a lecture on the analysis of vocal in
flections ; principles of rhetorical delivery ; the
rhetorical reader, 1831 ; a lecture on progress in
study; lectures on homiletics, preaching, and
public prayer, 1834. — Sprague's Annals.
PORTER, GEORGE B., governor of the Terri
tory of Michigan, died at Detroit in 1834.
PORTER, NATHANIEL, deacon, of Lebanon,
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N. H., died at an advanced age, about 1830 or
later. He gave 12,000 dollars, almost all his
property, to three charitable societies, for foreign
and home missions and education.
PORTER, RACHEL, widow, died in Worthing-
ton June, 1834, aged 93. When above 90 she
received for knitting six pair of mittens a pre
mium, which she gave to the bible society, to
which she had before given 1,000 dollars.
PORTER, ISRAEL, died at Cambridge May 28,
1837, aged 93, a respected citizen.
PORTER, NATHANIEL, D. D., died in Con-
way, N. II., Nov. 1 1, 1837, aged 92. Born in Tops-
field, Mass., he graduated at Harvard in 1768.
He had been a farmer until of the age of 18.
In 1773 he was ordained at New Durham, N. H. ;
in 1778 he became the first minister of Conway,
and continued such more than thirty years. In
his politics a zealous federalist, one of his ser
mons on the fourth of July displeased his people
and caused his dismission. Subsequently he
preached in the neighboring town of Fryeburg,
even after he became blind, and after he was
eighty years old. When unable to preach, he
would make the public prayer, sometimes of the
length of forty minutes, with great propriety.
He was very poor : he used his scythe on his
own small farm. He had scarcely twenty vol
umes of valuable books. Yet he was respected
as a theologian, a moderate Calvinist. For the
last twenty-five years living with a second wife,
who had property, he had a comfortable subsist
ence. Two of his sons were masters of vessels,
and perished at sea. He published two sermons
on infidelity; on the death of Washington; be
fore the legislature of New Hampshire, 1804; at
the opening of an academy, 1806; on the fourth
of July, 1811. — Sprayue's Annals.
PORTER, ELIJAH, Dr., died at Waterford,
N. Y., Jan., 1841, aged 67, one of the most dis
tinguished physicians in Saratoga county.
PORTER, SAMUEL, died at Hadley April 23,
1841, aged 76 ; judge of the court of sessions.
PORTER, DAVID, commodore, died March 3,
1843, aged 63. Born in Boston, he was a mid
shipman under Truxton; he also sailed under
Barron and Stewart. In an engagement with a
corsair he was wounded. With Bainbridge he
was captured in the Philadelphia in the harbor of
Tripoli, in 1803. After five years he returned.
From New York he sailed in the Essex July 3,
1812, and soon captured the Alert; he also cap
tured a vessel with 11,000 pounds on board ; and,
doubling Cape Horn, he took many whaling ves
sels ; but he was taken by the Phoebe and Cherub
in the harbor of Valparaiso, March 28, 1814. He
published a narrative of his cruise in the Essex,
in two vols.
PORTER, ALEXANDER J., senator of the United
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States, diet! in Louisiana Jan. 13, 1844, aged 58.
He was a native of Ireland ; a judge in Louisiana,
of talents, learning, taste, and popular manners.
PORTER, HUNTINGTOX, D. D., minister of
Rye, N. H., died at Lynn March 7, 1844, aged
89. He graduated at Harvard in 1777, and was
ordained as colleague of S. Parsons in 1784.
From that time for thirty-eight years only eighty-
four persons were received into the church. The
sea-coast of Rye is perilous : forty or fifty per
sons, who have perished, have been taken up and
decently buried. He published a century ser
mon, 1801; a funeral sermon; a new year's ser
mon, 1801 ; on a remarkable sickness, 1803.
PORTER, PETER B., general, died at Niagara
Falls March 20, 1844, aged 71. Born in Salis
bury, Conn., he was graduated at Yale in 1791.
He was a useful officer of the army in the war of
1812. For a time he was secretary of war. His
name is associated with important events in west
ern New York.
PORTER, ISAAC, minister of Granby, Conn.,
died in 1844, aged about 76. Born in Farming-
ton, he graduated at Yale in 1788.
PORTER, FIDELIA, died at New York Jan.
22, 1847, aged 76. She was the sister of Pres.
Dwight, and married Jonathan E. Porter of Had-
ley ; she afterwards lived in New Haven and
New York. She was an intelligent Christian, of
active benevolence. She toiled much for the
benefit of seamen. — N. Y. Observer, March 13.
PORTER, WILLIAM, Dr., a descendant of
Pres. Edwards, died at Hadlcy, Mass., Nov. 6,
1848, aged 83. He was a venerable member of
the church, and one of the most respected of the
citizens of Iladley.
PORTER, DAVID, D. D., died at Catskill Jan.
7, 1851, aged 89; his elder, S. L. Penfield, died
the same day. Born in Hebron, Conn., he was
nearly a year in the army, and then went to col
lege, and was graduated at Dartmouth in 1784.
For fourteen years he was the minister of Spen-
certown; then of Catskill from 1803 to 1831,
when, after eminent usefulness, at the age of 70
he resigned. The last sermon which he preached
to his people was the fifty-sixth anniversary of
his ordination, Sept. 24, 1843, on the text, "The
time is short." His wife was Sarah, the daughter
of Mr. Collins, the minister of Lanesborough ;
and his daughter Laura, the wife of Mr. Hill,
treasurer of the American board of missions, died
in 1852. He published a sermon at the installa
tion of D. Marsh, 1801 ; of R. Williams, 1812;
of J. T. Benedict, 1816; at ordination of J. H.
Hotchkin, 1803 ; of J. De Witt and of O. Lyman,
1813.
PORTER, MOSES, died at Iladley May 22,
1854, aged 85, a grandson of Pres. Edwards.
He was a Christian in early life, and a consistent,
earnest Christian all his days ; he also held va
rious commissions, civil and military. He visited
the sick and prayed with them; and his hand
was open in charity. To no man in the county
was committed the trust of administering on so
many estates. His death was very sudden.
PORTER, AMASA, a minister, died at New
Haven in 1856, aged 85. He graduated at Yale
in 1793.
PORTERFIELD, ROBERT, general, died in
Augusta county, Va., Feb. 13, 1843, aged 90.
He was a captain in the Revolutionary war, and a
brigadier in that of 1812; a man highly es
teemed.
POST, WRIGHT, M. D., died at Throg's Neck,
near New York, in 1828, aged 62. He was born
at North Hempstead, Long Island, in 1766.
From 1784 to 1786 he studied medicine in Lon
don. In 1792 he was appointed professor of
surgery in Columbia college. He once tied the
femoral artery and thus cured a disease of it, for
which his patient paid him an annual visit of
gratitude for thirty years. He was a physician
of great eminence. He was a member of the
Episcopal church, a strict attendant on religious
worship. His eldest son, Edward, was a physi
cian, who died in 1816, aged 24, having studied
in England and France, and travelled in Switzer
land and Italy. — Williams' Med. Biog.
POTTER, NATHANIEL, minister of Brookline,
died in 1768, aged about 35. Born in Elizabeth-
town, he graduated at Princeton in 1753; was
settled as successor of C. Brown in 1755, and
was dismissed in 1759. His successor was J.
Jackson. He published a discourse, Jan. 1, 1758.
POTTER, JARED, M. D., died at Wallingford,
Conn., in 1810, aged 67. Born at East Haven,
he graduated at Yale in 1760, and practised in
his native town till his removal to W., in 1772.
He was an excellent physician, and he kept a
medical school. He loved also to discuss ques
tions of theology and politics. He was frank
and colloquial. Dr. James Potter, a kinsman,
also eminent, was of New F airfield. — r£kacher's
Med. Biog.
POTTER, ISAIAH, minister of Lebanon, N. H.,
died in 1817, aged about 70. He graduated at
Yale in 1767, and was settled at L. in 1772. He
published a masonic sermon at Hanover, 1802.
POTTER, ELISHA R., died at South Kings
ton, R. I., in 1835. For forty years he was a
man of character and influence in the State. He
was a member of congress in 1796, and from
1809 to 1815.
POTTER, MERCY, Mrs., died at Philadelphia
Aug. 21, 1841, aged 103.
POTTER, NATHANIEL, M. D., died in Balti
more in 1843, aged 73. Born in Maryland, he
was an eminent physician, and for thirty years
professor of the theory and practice of physic in
the university of Md. — Williams' Med. Biog.
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POTTS, GEORGE C., minister at Philadelphia,
died in 1838, aged 63.
POTTS, WILLIAM S., D. D., a minister in St.
Louis, died in April, 1852. He was a native of
New Jersey. He was a minister of high charac
ter and influence. For a short time, about 1837,
he was president of Marion college. By mar
riage he was connected with Colonel Benton's
family.
POTWINE, THOMAS, minister of Scantic, in
East Windsor, Conn., died in 1802, aged about
71. The son of John P. of Boston, he graduated
at Yale in 1751, and was ordained in 1754. S.
Bartlett succeeded him.
POULSON, ZACHARIAII, died in Philadel
phia, August, 1844, aged 82 ; long the proprietor
of Poulson's Advertiser, a profitable paper. He
was a Quaker.
POWER, JAMES, D. D., died at Greensburg,
Penn., in 1830, aged 85. He graduated at
Princeton in 17G6.
POWERS, PETER, minister in Connecticut
and Vermont, died at Deer Isle, Maine, in 1799,
aged about 71. The first boy born in Ilollis,
N. II., in 1728, he graduated at Harvard in 1754;
was ordained in 1756 at Newent society, Nor
wich, Conn., and dismissed in 1766 from inade
quate support ; then was pastor of llaverhill,
N. II., and Xewbury, Vt., till 1784. He pub
lished a sermon on the death of D. Bayley, 1772.
— - Sprague's Annals.
POWERS, JosiAH W., a minister, died in
Putnam, Ohio, in 1840, aged 41. He was in the
employment of the American bible society. His
wile was the widow of Capt. Brewster, of the ship
Topaz, who on his return from Calcutta was cap
tured and murdered with his crew by pirates, and
his ship burnt.
POWERS, GRANT, minister of Goshen, Conn.,
died in 1841, aged 56. He was born in Hollis,
N. II., in 1784; graduated at Dartmouth in 1810;
and was several years minister of llaverhill, N. II,
He was afterwards settled at Goshen, Conn., in
1829. He was much esteemed for his talents
and virtues. He published a sermon at ordina
tion of J. I). Farnsworth ; an essay on the influ
ence of the imagination on the nervous system,
contributing to a false hope in religion ; a cen
tennial address at Hollis, 1830.
POWERS, Mrs., wife of P. O. Powers, mis
sionary at Broosa, Turkey, died at Phillipston,
Mass., Feb. 15, 1842, aged 37. Her name was
Harriet Goulding of Phillipston, but born at Pax-
ton. Her return was caused by ill health. She
died in great peace.
POWHATAN, emperor of the Indians in Vir
ginia, at the time of the settlement of that
colony in 1607, was the most powerful of the
Indian kings. He was deeply versed in all the
savage arts of government and policy, and was
insidious, crafty, and cruel. After the marriage
of his daughter to Mr. Rolfe, he remained faith
ful to the English. He died April, 1618.
POWNALL, THOMAS, governor of Massachu
setts, died Feb. 25, 1805, aged 83. He was ap
pointed to the office in 1757, in the place of Mr.
Shirley. His measures were accommodated with
great address to the state of the people, and he
had the pleasure of seeing the British arms tri
umphant in Canada ; but, as he did not give his
confidence to Mr. Hutchinson and his party, and
as many slanders were propagated respecting
him among the people, he solicited to be recalled.
In 1760, when Sir Francis Bernard was removed
to Massachusetts, he succeeded him in New Jer
sey, as lieutenant-governor. He was soon ap
pointed governor of South Carolina ; but from
this station he was in about a year recalled, at his
own request. In 1768 he was chosen a member
of parliament, and he strenuously opposed the
measures of the administration against the colo
nies. He declared that the people of America
were universally, unitedly, and unalterably re
solved never to submit to any internal tax, im
posed by any legislature in which they were not
represented. He retired from Parliament in
1780, and died at Bath, retaining his faculties in
perfect vigor in his last days. His speeches in
parliament were all published in Almon's parlia
mentary register, and he assisted Mr. Almon in
his American remembrancer, in twenty volumes.
He published principles of polity, 1752 ; admin
istration of the colonies, 1764, of which there
were afterwards several editions with improve
ments, and part II., 1774 ; the interest and duty
of the State in East India affairs, 1773 ; memoir
on drainage, 1775; description of North America,
with Evans' map, improved ; letter to Adam
Smith on his inquiry into the wealth of nations,
1776 ; a memorial to the sovereigns of Europe
on the state of affairs between the old and new
world, 1780; two memorials, 1782; a memorial
to the sovereigns of America ; on the study of
antiquities, 1783; notices and descriptions of an
tiquities of the provincia Romana of Gaul ; intel
lectual physics ; an essay on being ; a treatise on
old age.
PRATT, JOHN, Dr., lived in Newton, Mass.,
in 1635. The assistants called him to account
for an injurious letter sent to England. Mr.
Felt gives an account of his ingenious apology.
— Pelfs Hist, of New Eng.
PRATT, JOHN, an experienced surgeon, was
admitted into Mr. Hooker's church at Cambridge
in 1634. He sailed for England with his wife,
and was lost in Dec., 1644, on the coast of Spain.
— Farmer.
PRATT, PETER, an eminent lawyer, died at
New London in Nov., 1730. Two of his daugh
ters were drowned in a creek at Lyme in Sep-
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tember. He published the prey taken from the
strong, the recovery of one from the Quaker
errors.
PRATT, PETER, first minister of Sharon, Conn.,
died in 1780, aged about 64. He graduated at
Yale in 1736. He was settled in 1740 ; his two
next successors were J. Searle and C. M. Smith.
PRATT, BENJAMIN, chief justice of New York,
died Jan. 5, 1763, aged 53. He was born in
Boston in 1709 of poor parents, and bred to a
mechanical employment ; but the misfortune of
losing a limb was a great blessing to him, and
made him a scholar and a man of eminence.
He graduated in 1737 at Harvard college, and in
the catalogue his name, in a class of thirty-four,
is the lowest, the names then being placed ac
cording to the dignity of parentage ; yet his is
the only name in the class which attained the
dignity of being printed in capitals. Thus the
lowest is the most honorable ; the most degraded
is the most dignified. He rose to distinction as
a lawyer. He was a representative of Boston
from 1757 to 1759, and ably supported the rights
of the colonies. When Governor Pownall, by
whom he was highly esteemed, was about to leave
the province, he voted to send him away honor
ably and safely in the province ship, designed
for the protection of the trade. This circum
stance lost Mr. Pratt the favor of the merchants
and mechanics of Boston ; they in 1760 chose in
his stead another representative, who, it is said,
•was skilful to ferment the populace against his
rival. Truly it is not an easy thing, consistently
with independence and honor, to retain amidst
various exciting influences the popular good will.
Mr. Pratt, however, was not forgotten by Gov.
Pownall, who procured for him the appointment
of chief justice of New York, in which station,
though he retained it but a short time, he was
admired for his penetration, learning, and elo
quence. His wife was a daughter of Judge Auch-
muty ; he left a son and daughter ; the descend
ants of the latter live in Boston. Judge Pratt
was a writer of poetry, a specimen of which is
preserved by Mr. Knapp. He also collected
materials for a history of New England. No man
in his day wrote in a better style. — Knapp 's
Biog. Sketches, 163-174.
PRATT, EPHRAIM, died in Shutesbury, Mass.,
May 22, 1804, aged 116. The grandson of John
P., of Plymouth in 1620, he was born at Sudbury
Nov. 1, 1687. At the age of twenty-one he mar
ried Martha Wheelock, and before his death he
could number among his descendants about fifteen
hundred persons. In the year 1801 four of his
sons were living, the eldest of whom was ninety
years of age, and the youngest 82. Michael
Pratt, his son, died at S. in December, 1826, aged
103 years. He was always remarkable for tem
perance. For the last sixty years he had tasted
no wine nor any distilled spirits, and he was
never intoxicated in his life. His drink was wa
ter, small beer, and cider. Living mostly on
bread and milk, for forty years before his death
he did not eat any animal food. Such Avas his
uniform health, that before 1801 he had never
consulted a physician. He swung a scythe 101
years.
PRATT, LEVI, minister of Medford, Mass.,
died in 1837, aged 36. He graduated at Am-
herst in 1826.
PRATT, HORACE S., professor of rhetoric in
the university of Alabama, died at Tuscaloosa in
1840, aged 45. He graduated at Yale in 1817.
PRATT, BENJAMIN, deacon, died in Reading,
Mass., in 1843, aged 84. He fought at Bunker
Hill in 1775; and he died during the celebration
at Bunker Hill in 1843.
PRATT, ALLEN, second minister of West
moreland, N. II., died in 1843, aged 77. Born
in East Bridgewater, he graduated at Harvard in
1785. He succeeded W. Goddard, who was or
dained in 1764 ; he was settled in 1790, and over
a second church in 1827.
PRATZ, LE PAGE DU, published histoire de
Louisiane, 3 vols., 12mov 1758.
PRAY, RUTULIUS II., died at Pearlington, Miss.,
in 1840, aged 45, judge of the high court of
errors. He was an eminent lawyer and an up
right judge.
PREBLE, EDWARD, commodore in the Amer
ican navy, died Aug. 25, 1807, aged 46. He was
a descendant of Abraham P., who lived in Scitu-
ate in 1637 and removed to Kittery ; was the son
of Brigadier-General Jedidiah P., who died at
Portland, Me., in March, 1784, aged 77, and was
born in August, 1761. About the year 1779 he
served as a midshipman under Captain Williams,
and in a short time was promoted to a lieuten
ancy on board the sloop-of-war commanded by
Capt. Little, with whom he continued till the
peace in 1783. In this station he performed a
brilliant action. He boarded and captured with
a few men a vessel of more than equal force lying
in the harbor of Penobscot, under a furious can
nonade from the battery and an incessant fire of
the troops. In 1801 he had the command of
the frigate Essex, in which he performed a voyage
to the East Indies for the protection of our trade.
In 1803 he was appointed commodore with a
squadron of seven sail, and he soon made his
passage to the Mediterranean with the design of
humbling the Tripolitan barbarians. He first
took such measures with regard to the Emperor
of Morocco as led to a peace. He next, after
the loss of the frigate Philadelphia, procured a
number of gun-boats of the King of Naples, and
proceeded to the attack of Tripoli. The Phila
delphia was burned by Decatur, but the place
was not taken. The bravery exhibited had, how-
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ever, its effect, for a peace was afterwards ob
tained on honorable terms. Such was the good
conduct of Commodore Treble, that it extorted
praise from the Bashaw of Tripoli, and even the
Pope of Home declared that he had done more
towards humbling the anti-christian barbarians on
that coast, than all the Christian States had ever
done.
PREBLE, ENOCH, captain, died at Portland
Sept. 28, 1842, aged 79. lie was many years
president of the marine society, and a respected
citizen, — the son of Brigadier-General Jedidiah
P., and the brother of Commodore Edward
Preble.
PREBLE, HARRIET, Miss, died in Alleghany
city, Feb. 5, 1854, niece of Commodore Preble,
and sister of Mrs. Thos. Barlow. She was born
and educated in Paris, enjoying all the advantages
of wealth, skilled in French, English, and Italian
literature. She lived in America perhaps twenty
years. At first an unbeliever in the bible, she
was converted to the Christian faith by reading
Wilson's evidences. She read also carefully Dick's
and Dwight's theology, and other works. To a
friend she lamented the time spent on literature
to the neglect of God's book, which utters all-im
portant truth. She and her mother joined the
Presbyterian church. Her memoirs were pub
lished by Prof. R. H. Lee.
PRENTICE, JOHN, minister of Lancaster,
Mass., died in 1746, aged 66. Born in Newton,
he graduated at Harvard in 1700, and was or
dained in 1708. He married a daughter of Rev.
John Mellen of Chockset or Sterling. His pre
decessors were Joseph Rawlandson, from 1660 to
1678 ; John Whiting, from 1690 to 1697. His
successors were Timothy Harrington, Nathaniel
Thayer. He published a sermon on the death
of Rev. R. Breck, 1731; before a court, 1731;
the election sermon, 1735.
PRENTICE, SOLOMON, first minister of Graf-
ton, Mass., died in 1773, aged about 91. lie
graduated in Harvard in 1727 ; was settled in
1731 ; and dismissed in 1747 ; he was next pas
tor of Easton from 1747 to 1754.
PRENTICE, THOMAS, minister of Charles-
town, Mass., died in 1782, aged 80. Born in
Cambridge, he graduated at Harvard in 1726 ;
was ordained at Arundel, Me., in 1730, but the
church was dispersed in the Indian war of 1737.
He then was the minister of Charlestown ; but
when that town was burned by the British in
1775, he retired to Cambridge ; but after three
years resumed his labors. He published a ser
mon at thanksgiving for the reduction of Cape
Breton, 1745; at a fast; on the earthquake,
1756 ; on the death of Mrs. A. Cary, 1755. —
Sprague's Annals.
PRENTICE, CALEB, minister of Reading,
Mass., died in 1803, aged 56. Born in Cam
bridge, he graduated at Harvard in 1765, and was
settled in 1769. His predecessor was W. Hobby;
his successor, R. Emerson.
PRENTICE, CHARLES, minister of South Ca
naan, Conn., died in 1838, aged 59. Born in
Bethlehem, he graduated at Yale in 1802. He
published a sermon at the ordination of C. T.
Prentice, 1836.
PRENTISS, THOMAS, captain, of Cambridge
village or Newton, died in 1710, aged 88. He
was a freeman in 1652. lie did good service in
Philip's war, commanding a company of troops. —
Farmer.
PRENTISS, THOMAS, D. D., minister of Med-
field, died in 1814, aged 66. Born in Holliston,
he graduated at Harvard in 1766 ; he was settled
in 1770. His predecessors were John Wilson,
Joseph Baxter, and J. Townsend. His wife was
a daughter of John Scollay, clerk of Boston forty
years ; his daughter, Mary, was the wife of Rev.
Rufus Hurlbut of Sudbury. His four sons were
educated at Cambridge. He was a man of char
acter, and influence, and of zeal to do good. He
was a leader in the temperance reform : he made
successful efforts to establish in M. a large pub
lic library. He published a sermon at the ordi
nation of S. Wright, 1785 ; of P. Clarke, 1793 ;
of T. Mason, 1799 ; on the death of J. Haven,
1803 ; on the duty of brethren ; on American in
dependence ; on idleness ; religion and morality ;
Christians cautioned ; on strengthening evil doers ;
fast sermon; to society for Christian knowledge. —
Sprague's Annals.
PRENTISS, THOMAS, Unitarian minister in
Charlestown, Mass., died in 1817, in the year of
his settlement, aged 25. The son of Rev. Dr. P.
of Medfield, he graduated at Harvard in 1811.
It is an almost unparalleled instance of the early
death of a minister. Yet J. Paine, pastor of the
same church, died in 1788, at the age of twenty-
four, after having been the pastor a little more
than one year.
PRENTISS, SAMUEL, Dr., died in Northfield,
Mass., in 1818, aged 59. He was the son of
Colonel Samuel P., of the Revolutionary army,
and was born in Stonington, Conn. He studied
with Dr. Philip Turner of Norwich, an excellent
surgeon, and served in the war ; then settled at
Worcester, whence he removed to Northfield ;
and there his practice as a surgeon was extensive
for twenty years. Of his four sons, Samuel was
a judge in Vermont, and John II. of Coopers-
town was twice a member of congress. — Wil
liams' Med. Biog.
PRENTISS, CHARLES, an editor, died at Brim-
field, Mass., in 1820. He graduated at Harvard
in 1795. He edited a paper in Baltimore, and
the Washington Federalist ; and had reputation
for his writings. He published a poem at Brook-
field, also a satire, and New England freedom ;
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poems, 1813 ; trial of Calvin and Hopkins, 1819;
history of United States, 12mo. ; life of Eaton ;
the thistle.
PHEXTISS, JOSHUA, died at Marblehead in
1837, aged 93, an officer of the Revolution.
PHEXTISS, SERGEANT S., died near Natchez,
July 1, 1850, aged 40. Born in Portland, the
brother of Ilev. Dr. P. of New York, he gradu
ated at Bowdoin college in 1826. He went to
the West and became a distinguished lawyer at
Vicksburg. Gaining a suit involving a valuable
portion of the city, he won not only a high rep
utation but a grand fee, which made him a very
rich man. He was of brilliant eloquence as a
stump orator, and also in congress. Becoming
embarrassed in his affairs, he removed to New
Orleans. He was admired for his talents and
brilliant imagination, and for his social qualities
and virtues endeared to his friends. A memoir,
edited by his brother, was published by Scribner,
New York, 2 vols., 1855.
PRENTISS, NATHANIEL SHEPHERD, a phy
sician, died at West Cambridge in 1853, aged 87.
He was born in Cambridge Aug. 7, 1766, was
graduated in 1787, and practised twelve years in
Marlborough. He was afterwards the teacher of
the Latin school in Roxbury eight years, and was
town clerk thirty years. He was a benefactor of
the athenseum of R.
PRENTISS, SAMUEL, LL. D., judge of the
district court of Vermont, died at Montpelier
Jan. 15, 1857. The son of Dr. Samuel P., he
was many years a senator of the United States,
and a judge of the supreme court of Vermont.
PRESCOTT, BENJAMIN, a councillor, died at
Groton, Mass., in 1738, aged 42. He was de
scended from John, who lived in Watertown in
1641. His wife was a daughter of Thomas Oliver
of Cambridge, a member of the council. His
sons were distinguished men, Oliver, James, and
William.
PRESCOTT, BENJAMIN, minister of Danvers,
died May 28, 1777, aged 89. The son of Jona
than of Concord, he graduated at Harvard in
1709; was ordained in 1713; and resigned his
charge in 1756. He published a letter to the
Salem church, 1735 ; one to J. Gee, 1743 ; to
George Whitefield, 1745 ; on the controversy be
tween Britain and the colonies, 1768. — Sprague's
Annals.
PRESCOTT, WILLIAM, colonel, a soldier of
the Revolution, died Oct. 13, 1795, aged 70. He
was born at Groton, Mass., in 1725 ; his father
was Benjamin P., a councillor ; his mother was a
daughter of Thomas Oliver, also a councillor.
He inherited a large estate, and resided at Pep-
perell. Under Winslow he assisted in the con
quest of Nova Scotia. His military talents being
of a high order, he was intrusted with the com
mand of the troops who threw up the fortifica
tion at Bunker Hill ip the evening of June 16,
1775. In the battle of the 17th he was greatly
distinguished. Colonel Swett has described his
exertions on that day. He accompanied Wash
ington to New York, and he served with Gates in
the capture of Burgoyne. His brother James, a
councillor, high sheriff of Middlesex, and chief
justice of the common pleas, died Feb. 15, 1800.
PRESCOTT, OLIVER, M. I)., a physician,
brother of the preceding, died Nov. 17, 1804,
aged 73. He was born April 27, 1731, and grad
uated at Harvard college in 1750. Dr. Thacher
relates, that he was accustomed to sleep on horse
back, while his horse proceeded at the usual pace.
He was not only a physician of great eminence
and usefulness, but a patriot of the Revolution,
being about 1776 brigadier-general of the militia,
and as such rendering important services, while the
British occupied Boston. From 1777 to 1779 he
was a member of the council, during which pe
riod there was no governor nor lieutenant-gover
nor. From 1779 till his death he was judge of
probate. He died at Groton of a dropsy in the
chest. His son, James, succeeded him as judge
of probate. One of his daughters married Tim
othy Bigelow. He was tall and corpulent. The
versatility of his powers was remarkable. He
early made a profession of religion, and was al
ways an influential member of the church at
Groton. — Thacher.
PRESCOTT, ABEL, Dr., died in Concord, Mass.,
in 1805, aged 88. He had been an eminent phy
sician.
PRESCOTT, OLIVER, M. D., a physician, son
of Dr. Oliver P., was born April 4, 1762 ; was
graduated at Harvard college in 1783 ; studied
physic with Dr. Lloyd, and settled at Groton,
where he had extensive practice. In 1811 he
removed to Newburyport, where he died of the
typhus fever, Sept. 26, 1827, aged 65. He was
an eminent physician, and he early made a pro
fession of his Christian faith. He published va
rious articles in the New England journal of
medicine ; also a dissertation on ergot, which
was reprinted in London, and in France and
Germany. — Thacher.
PRESCOTT, WILLIAM, M. D., died in Lynn
in 1844, aged about 81. He graduated at Har
vard in 1783.
PRESCOTT, WILLIAM, judge, died in Boston
Dec. 8, 1844, aged 82. He was born in Pepper-
ell, descended from ancestors who came to
America about 1640. His father, Col. Wm. Prcs-
cott, commanded at the battle of Bunker Hill.
Prepared for college by Master Moody, he grad
uated in 1783. For two years he taught school
in Beverly, and there studied law with Mr. Dane.
At Salem he married the daughter of Mr. I lick-
ling, consul at St. Michael's. Such was his emi
nence as a lawyer, that he was twice offered a seat
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on the bench of the supreme court. From Sa
lem he removed to Boston in 1808. In 1814 he
was a member of the Hartford convention. For
a year he was judge of the court of common
pleas. After forty years he retired from practice,
being then at the head of the bar in Massachu
setts. For the last sixteen years he lived quietly
in retirement. His widow, the mother of Mr.
Prescott the historian, died in Boston May 17,
1852, aged 84.
PllESCOTT, AARON, a lawyer of peculiar and
memorable benevolence, died in llandolph, Mass.,
Nov. 24, 1851, aged G4. Born in Westford, he
graduated at Harvard in 1814. He was hon
est and exemplary. He had no son ; yet the
education of youth engrossed his thoughts. He
purchased a large and valuable library for chil
dren and youth, and kept it at his office ; and,
acting as librarian, loaned the books gratuitously.
— Boston Advertiser, Dec. 3, 1851.
PllESCOTT, JOSEPH, Dr., died at Halifax,
N. S., in 1852, aged 90. He was a physician in
the Revolutionary army.
PHESTON, JOHN, Dr., the first physician of
New Ipswich, N. II., died in 1803, aged 64. lie
was a patriot of the Revolution ; a member of the
general court, and a magistrate ; and eminent in
his profession. Perhaps his son was Dr. John
Preston, a graduate of Dartmouth in 1791, and
who died in 1828.
PRESTON, FRANCIS, general, died at Colum
bia, S. C., in 1835, aged 70. He was in congress
from 1793 to 1797.
PRESTON, WILLIAM, died at Rumney, N. II.,
in 1842, aged 87; a Revolutionary pensioner, one
of the first settlers of the town, and its represent
ative in the general court.
PRESTON, JAMES P., colonel, governor of Va.,
died at Smithfield in 1843, aged 68. Wounded
at Chrystler's field in the war of 1812, he was
maimed for life.
PRESTON, AMARIAH, Dr., a remarkable man,
died at the house of his son in Lexington, Mass.,
Oct. 29, 1853, aged nearly 95. His father died
at the age of 95 in Connecticut. Pie was born
in Uxbridge, and enlisted in the army in 1777
for three years ; then studied medicine with Dr.
Jabe/ Brown of Wilmington ; afterwards practised
physic forty years in Bedford. In his old age, in
consequence of an indorsement, he lost his house
and all his property ; his wife died, and other af
flictions came upon him. His business failed;
and in 1832 he removed to Plymouth, where his
son Dr. Ilervcy N. Preston lived. But his son
died in 1837, when, in poverty, the old man of
eighty resolved to commence life anew. Selling
some furniture, he provided for his board for one
month, and entered again upon the medical prac
tice, which soon became lucrative, so that he laid
up 3,000 or 4,000 dollars, and again retired.
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079
Such enterprise in an old man has seldom been wit
nessed ; even in his last years he worked with his
hands, being an ingenious mechanic. As a Chris
tian he was eminent ; a zealous professor during
the ministry of Mr. Stearns in Bedford, he died
a member of the church in Plymouth. To a
friend he said : " You mean to be a good man,
but you are deluded ; you can never get to heaven
except through the blood of Christ; you must
have repentance and you must have faith." His
own end was peace.
PRESTON, WILLARD, D. D., president of
Vermont university, died at Savannah suddenly
of a paralysis of the heart, April 26, 1856, aged
nearly 71. Born in Uxbridge, he graduated at
Brown university in 1806, and practised law in
Providence. He was then the minister of the
third church in P. from 1816 to 1820 ; next of St.
Albans, and president of the university. He
removed to Georgia in 1829. In 1831 lie became
pastor of an Independent church in Savannah, in
which office he continued till his death. He was
a faithful and excellent minister. Fearlessly he
remained with his people during the scourge of
the yellow fever in 1854, visiting the sick and
afflicted, — even the dark night saw him with a
lantern in his hand on his errand of mercy.
Ministers of various denominations attended his
funeral. He published a farewell sermon at St.
Albans, 1815; a sermon at Brooklyn, 1817.
PRICE, ROGER, Episcopal minister in Boston,
was rector of King's chapel from 1729 to 1746.
S. Myles was his predecessor ; Dr. II. Caner suc
ceeded him.
PRICE, RICHARD, D. D., a friend of American
liberty, was born in Wales, Feb. 22, 1723, the son
of a Calvinistic minister. He was educated at an
academy near London. In 1757 he became the
pastor of a dissenting congregation at Ncwington
Green, and in 1769 the pastor at Hackney. In
his religious sentiments he was an Arian. He
died March 19, 1791, aged 67. His nephew,
AVilliam Morgan, wrote his life and described his
excellent character. lie published a review of
the principal questions in morals ; four disserta
tions ; observations on annuities, etc. ; discussion
concerning materialism and necessity, in a corre
spondence with Dr. Priestley ; two volumes of
sermons. His works, which procured for him
great respect in America, were observations on
civil liberty and the justice of the war with
America, 1776; additional observations, 1777;
importance of the American Revolution and the
means of making it useful to the world, 1784.
PRICE, JONATHAN D., a physician and a Bap
tist missionary to Burmah, died Feb. 14, 1828.
He was ordained in Philadelphia May 20, 1821.
lie arrived early in the next year at Rangoon,
where his wife died May 2d. When lus medical
character was known at court, he was ordered by
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the king to repair to Ava, where he was intro
duced to the king, who gave him a house. When
the British invaded Burmah, he and Mr. Judson
were thrown into prison, June 8, 1824. He was
confined and subject to dreadful sufferings till
Feb. or March, 182G, when he was released, and
employed to negotiate a treaty with the British,
who had advanced near to the capital. After the
war he resided at Ava, in the favor of the em
peror ; he engaged in the tuition of several schol
ars; and by his lectures hoped to shake the
foundation of Boodhism. But he fell a victim to
a pulmonary consumption.
PIUCE, JOHX, a minister, died in Talbot co.,
Maryland, in 1831, aged 75.
PRICE, C. M., general, died at Jackson, Miss.,
Dec. 20, 1850. He was ten years editor of the
Missisippian.
PRIDGEN, WILLIAM, died in Bladen county,
N. C., Oct. 14, 1845, aged 123. He was a soldier
of the Revolution, and a pensioner. His sight
had been lost for a few years, but he retained his
mental faculties. He left one son.
PRIEST, DEGORY, one of the first Plymouth
pilgrims, died Jan. 1, 1621.
PRIESTLEY, JOSEPH, D. D., an eminent
philosopher and voluminous writer, died Eeb.
6, 1804, aged 70. He was born at Fieldhead, in
Yorkshire, England, March 24, 1733. His father
was a cloth-dresser. At the age of nineteen he
had acquired in the schools to which he had been
sent, and by the aid of private instruction, a good
knowledge of Greek, Latin, and Hebrew, French,
Italian, and German ; he had also begun to read
Arabic, and learned Chaldee and Syriac. With
these attainments and others in mathematics,
natural philosophy, and morals, he entered the
academy of Daventry under Dr. Ashworth in
1752, with a view to the Christian ministry. Here
he spent three years. The students were referred
to books on both sides of every question, and re
quired to abridge the most important works.
The tutors, Mr. Ashworth and Mr. Clark, being
of different opinions, and the students being
divided, subjects of dispute were continually dis
cussed. He had been educated in Calvinism,
and in early life he suffered great distress from
not finding satisfactory evidence of the renova
tion of his mind by the Spirit of God. He had
a great aversion to plays and romances. He at
tended a weekly meeting of young men for con
versation and prayer. But, before he went to the
academy, he became an Arminian, though he re
tained the doctrine of the trinity and of the
atonement. At the academy he embraced Ari-
anism. Perusing Hartley's metaphysical works,
he was fixed in the belief of the doctrine of ne
cessity. In 1755 he became assistant minister to
the Independent congregation of Needham Mar
ket in Suffolk, upon a salary of forty pounds a
year. Falling under the suspicion of Ariar.ism,
he became in 1758 pastor of a congregation at
Nantwich in Cheshire, where he remained three
years, being not only minister but schoolmaster.
In 1761 he removed to Warrington as tutor in
the belles lettres in the academy there. In 1767
he accepted the pastoral office at Leeds. Here,
by reading Lardner's letter on the Logos, he be
came a Socinian. In 1773 he went to live with
the Marquis of Lansdowne as librarian, or literary
companion, with a salary of 250 pounds a year.
During a connection of seven years with his lord
ship he visited in his company France, Holland,
and some parts of Germany. He then became
minister of Birmingham. At length, when sev
eral of his friends celebrated the French revolu
tion, July 14, 1791, a mob collected and set fire
to the dissenting meeting-houses, and several
dwelling-houses of dissenters, and among others
to that of Dr. Priestley. lie lost his library, and
was forced to take refuge in the metropolis. He
was chosen to succeed Dr. Price at Hackney, and
was a lecturer in the dissenting college of that
place. But, the public aversion to him being
strong, and his sons emigrating to the United
States, he followed them in April, 1794. He
settled at Northumberland, a town of Pennsyl
vania, about one hundred and thirty miles north
west of Philadelphia. In this city for two or
three winters after his arrival he delivered lec
tures on the evidences of Christianity. He died
in calmness, and in the full vigor of his mind.
He dictated some alterations in his manuscripts
half an hour before his death. He was amiable
and affectionate in the intercourse of private and
domestic life. Few men in modern times have
written so much, or with such facility ; yet he
seldom spent more than six or eight hours in a
day in any labor which required much mental ex
ertion. A habit of regularity extended itself to
all his studies. He never read a book without
determining in his own mind when he would
finish it ; and at the beginning of every year he
arranged the plan of his literary pursuits and
scientific researches. He labored under a great
defect, which, however, was not a very consider
able impediment to his progress. He sometimes
lost all ideas both of persons and things, with
which he had been conversant. He always did
immediately what he had to perform. Though
he rose early and dispatched his more serious
pursuits in the morning ; yet he was as well
qualified for mental exertion at one time of the
day as at another. All seasons were equal to
him, early or late, before dinner or after. He
could also write without inconvenience by the
parlor fire with his wife and children about him,
and occasionally talking to them. In his family
he ever maintained the worship of God. As a
schoolmaster and professor he was indefatigable.
PRIESTLEY.
With respect to his religious sentiments Us
mind underwent a number of revolutions ; but he
died in the Socinian faith, which he had many
years supported. He possesses a high reputa
tion as a philosopher, particularly as a chemist.
Commencing his chemical career in 1772, he did
more for chemistry in two years than had been
done by any of his predecessors. He discovered
the existence of vital or dephlogisticated air, the
oxygen gas of the French nomenclature, and
other kinds of aeriform fluids. He always ad
hered to the old doctrine of Stahl respecting
phlogiston, though the whole scientific world had
rejected it. But his versatile mind could not be
confined to one subject. He was not only a
chemist, but an eminent metaphysician. He was
a materialist and necessarian. He maintained
that all volitions are the necessary result of pre
vious circumstances, the will being always gov
erned by motives ; and yet he opposed the Cal-
vinistic doctrine of predestination. The basis of
his necessarian theory was Hartley's observations
on man. The chart of history used in France
was much improved by him, and he invented
the chart of biography, which is very useful. Of
his numerous publications the following are the
principal: a treatise on English grammar, 17G1;
on the doctrine of remission ; history of elec
tricity, 17G7; history of vision, light, and colors ;
introduction to perspective, 1770 ; harmony of
the evangelists ; address to masters of families
on prayer ; experiments on air, 4 vols. ; obser
vations on education ; lectures on oratory and
criticism ; institutes of natural and revealed re
ligion ; a reply to the Scotch metaphysicians,
Reid, Oswald, and Bcattie ; disquisitions on mat
ter and spirit, 1777 ; history of the corruptions
of Christianity ; letters to Bishop Newcome on
the duration of Christ's ministry; correspondence
with Dr. Horseley ; history of early opinions
concerning Jesus Christ, 4 vols., 1786 ; lectures
on history and general policy ; answers to Paine
and Volney ; several pieces on the doctrine of
necessity, in the controversy with Dr. Price ; dis
courses on the evidences of revealed religion,
3 vols. ; letters to a philosophical unbeliever ;
discourses on various subjects. He also wrote
many defences of Unitarianism and contributed
largely to the theological repository. After his
arrival in this country he published a comparison
of the institutions of the Mosaic religion with
those of the Hindoos ; Jesus and Socrates com
pared ; several tracts against Dr. Linn, who wrote
against the preceding pamphlet; notes on the
Scriptures, 4 vols. ; history of the Christian
church, 6 vols. ; several pamphlets on philo
sophical subjects, and in defence of the doctrine
of phlogiston. Dr. Priestley's life was published
in 1806 in two volumes. The memoirs were
written by himself to the year 1787, and a short
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continuation by his own hand brings them to
179,3.
PRIME, EIJEXKZEK, minister of Huntington,
Long Island, sixty years, died in 1779, aged 79.
He graduated at Yale college in 1718. He was
the grandfather of X. S. Prime.
PRIME, NATHANIEL SCUDDER, D. D., died at
Mamaroneck, near New York, March 27, 1856,
aged 70. He was buried at the cemetery of the
evergreens. He was a native of Iluntington,
L. I., where his father, Benjamin Young Prime,
M. D., was a very distinguished physician and
scholar. For fourteen years he was the minister
of the church of Cambridge, N. Y. His sister,
relict of S. J. Wetmore, died May 20, 1841, aged
77, in New York. Dr. P. had the happiness of
being the father of worthy sons, two of them
ministers and one the principal editor of the New
York Observer ; one a physician ; and one a law
yer now travelling in the east ; and a daughter
married to A. P. Cummings, one of the editors
of the New York Observer. He published the
history of Long Island, an elaborate work.
PRIME, NATHANIEL, an eminent merchant in
New York, of the house of Prime, Ward, King
and Co., died on the shore of East River in 1840.
PRINCE, THOMAS, governor of Plymouth
colony, died at Plymouth March 29, 1673, aged
72. He was a native of England, and arrived at
Plymouth in 1621; he wrote his name Prence.
He was first chosen governor in 1634. Being
appointed an assistant the next year, he con
tinued in this office, except in the year 1638,
when he was chosen governor, till the death of
Mr. Bradford in 16J7. At this time, as a dispo
sition prevailed in the colony to discountenance
regular ministers by giving the preference to the
gifts of the private brethren, it was thought that
his re-election to the office of governor would
prevent the church from being overwhelmed with
ignorance, and it proved highly beneficial to the
interests of religion. He was governor from
16*37 to 1672. He had been living at Nauset or
Eastham, of which town he was one of the first
planters in 1644 ; but after being chosen gov
ernor he removed to Plymouth. He was suc
ceeded by Mr. Winslow. His second wife, mar
ried in 163o, was Mary Collier, whose sister Eliza
beth married Constant Southworth ; his third
wife was Mary, the widow of Samuel Freeman,
whom he married in 1662. lie was a man of
great worth and piety, and eminently qualified
for his station. Strict in his religious opinions,
he zealously opposed those whom he believed to
be heretics, particularly the Quakers. As a
magistrate, such was his care to be impartial, that
if any person who had a cause in court sent a
present to his family during his absence, he im
mediately on being informed of it returned its
value in money. Though his abilities had not
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been much improved by education, he was the
friend of learning. In opposition to the clamors
of the ignorant he procured revenues for the sup
port of grammar schools in the colony. — Mag-
nalia, II. 6, 7.
PRINCE, THOMAS, minister in Boston, died
Oct. 22, 1758, aged 71. He was the fourth son
of Samuel Prince of Sandwich, and grandson of
Elder John Prince of Hull, who came to this
country in 1633, and was the son of Rev. John
P. of East Sheftbrd in Berkshire. He was born
at Sandwich -May 15, 1687, and was graduated I
at Harvard college in 1707. Having determined j
to visit Europe, he sailed for England April 1,
1709. For some years he preached at Combs in
Suffolk, where he was earnestly invited to con
tinue, but his attachment to his native country
was too strong to be resisted. He arrived at
Boston July 20, 1717, and was ordained pastor
of the old south church, as colleague with Dr.
Sewall, his classmate, Oct. 1, 1718. In this sta
tion his fine genius, improved by diligent study,
polished by an extensive acquaintance with man
kind, and employed to the noblest purposes of
life, rendered him an ornament to his profession,
and a rich blessing to the church. In his last
sickness he expressed a deep sense of his sinful-
ness, and a desire of better evidence that he was
fit to dwell in heaven. When his speech failed
him, as he was asked whether he was submissive
to the Divine will, and could commit his soul to
the care of Jesus, he lifted up his hand to express
his resignation, and confidence in the Saviour.
From his youth he had been influenced by the
fear of God. He was an eminent preacher, for
his sermons were rich in thought, perspicuous
and devotional, and he inculcated the doctrines
and duties of religion as one who felt their im
portance. The original languages, in which the
Scriptures were written, were familiar to him. In
the opinion of Dr. Chauncy no one in New Eng
land had more learning, except Cotton Mather.
Firmly attached to the faith once delivered to
the saints, he was zealous for the honor of his
Divine Master. He was anxious to preserve suit
able discipline in the church, that those who had
been guilty of open sins might be reclaimed,
and that the name of Christian might be pre
served from reproach. He mourned over the
degeneracy of the New England churches both
in doctrine and practice. When Mr. Whitefield
visited this country in 1740, Mr. Prince received
him with open arms, and was always his friend.
He always respected that Christian benevolence,
which animated the eloquent itinerant ; and he
was grateful for those labors which were so emi
nently useful to his people and the town of Bos
ton. In private life he was amiable and exem
plary. It was his constant endeavor to imitate
the perfect example of his Master and Lord.
He was ready to forgive injuries, and return good
for evil. By the grace of God he was enabled
to preserve a calmness of mind under very trying
events. When heavy afflictions were laid upon
him, he displayed exemplary submission to the
will of God. Though he was a learned man, and
was uncommonly diligent in study, yet he relished
the comforts and faithfully discharged the duties
of domestic life. It was no small part of his
labor to impress on his children a sense of reli
gion, and he had the happiness of seeing all his
offspring walking in the truth. His wife, Debo
rah Denny, survived him, and died June 1, 1766.
The only child who survived him was Sarah, who
in 1759 married Mr. Gill, afterwards lieutenant-
governor, and died without children in August,
1771.
Mr. Prince began in 1703, while at college, and
continued more than fifty years, a collection of
public and private papers relating to the civil and
religious history of New England. His collec
tion of manuscripts he left to the care of the old
south church; and they were deposited in an
apartment of the meeting-house, with a valuable
library of books which he had established, under
the name of the New England library. But the
manuscripts were principally destroyed by the
British during the war, and thus many impor
tant facts relating to the history of this country
are irrecoverably lost. The books yet remain,
and have been deposited in the historical library.
He published an account of the first appearance
of the aurora borealis ; a sermon at thanksgiving,
1717; at his own ordination, 1718; an account
of the English ministers at Martha's Vineyard,
annexed to Mayhew's Indian converts, 1727 ;
election sermon, 1730; on the day of prayer for
the choice of a minister, 1732; on the death of
George I., 1727 ; of Cotton Mather, and Samuel
Prince, his father, 1728; a sermon on the arrival
of the governor, 1728; on the death of Samuel
Sewall, 1730 ; Daniel Oliver and Daniel Oliver,
Jun., 1732; Mrs. Oliver, 1735; Mary Belcher,
1736; Nathaniel Williams, 1738; Mrs. Deborah
Prince, 1744; Thomas Gushing, 1746; Martha
Stoddard, 1748; the Prince of Wales, 1751;
Hannah Fayerweather, 1755 ; Edward Bromfield
and Josiah Willard, 1756; a chronological his
tory of New England in the form of annals,
12mo., 1736, and three numbers of the second
volume in 1755. In this work it was his inten
tion to give a summary account of transactions
and occurrences relating to this country, from the
discovery of Gosnold in 1602 to the arrival of
Governor Belcher in 1730, but he brought the
history down only to 1633. He spent much time
upon the introductory epitome, which begins at
the creation. Had he confined himself to New
England, and finished his work, it would have
been of incalculable value. He published also an
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account of the revival of religion in Boston, in
the Christian history, 1744; a sermon on the bat
tle near Culloden, and the destruction of the
Marquis D'Anville's squadron ; a thanksgiving
sermon on the taking of Louisburg, 1746 j a
thanksgiving sermon for reviving rains, after the
distressing drought, 1749 ; the New England
psalm-book revised and improved, 1758. After
his death, Dr. John Erskine of Edinburgh pub
lished from his manuscripts six sermons, the last
of which was occasioned by the death of his son,
Thomas Prince. — Wisner's Hist, of Old South ;
Sprat/iie's Annals.
PRINCE, THOMAS, son of the preceding, was
born Feb. 27, 1722; graduated at Harvard col
lege in 1740 ; and died in October, 1748, aged
26. lie died in Christian peace, as did also his
three sisters, Deborah, 1744; Mercy, 1752 ; Mrs.
Sarah Gill, 1771. The dying exercises of Debo
rah and devout meditations of Mrs. Gill were
published at Edinburgh, 178,3. Mr. P. published
the Christian history, a periodical account of re
ligion, beginning March 5, 1743, in 2 vols., 8vo.,
1744-1745.
PRINCE, NATHAN, a distinguished scholar,
the brother of Rev. Thomas P., died July 25,
1748, aged about 50. He was graduated at Har
vard college in 1718. He was chosen tutor in
1723, and fellow in 1737; but he was removed
in 1742. He in consequence published an ac
count of the constitution and government of Har
vard college from its first foundation in 1636 to
the year 1742, in which he endeavored to prove
that the general court had the sole power of
dismissing members of the corporation, and are
the only visitors of the college. In this work he
also complains of the management of the treasury,
and reprobates the injustice which he believes
was done in arranging the students in the classes,
and their names in the catalogue, according to
the dignity or worth of their connections. He
had before his removal refused to assist in this
arrangement. The alphabetical disposition of
the names was not made till 1773. Mr. Prince
once had a deep-rooted aversion to the Episcopal
church ; but after his dismission he took orders.
He died at Italian in the West Indies, where he
was a minister. He was a greater mathematician
and philosopher, and a much better classical
scholar and logician than his brother ; and is
ranked among the great men of this country.
He published, besides the book mentioned, an
essay to solve the difficulties attending the ac
counts of the resurrection, 1734.
PRINCE, JOHN, LL. I)., died in Salem June
7, 1836, aged 85. Born in Boston July 22, 1751,
he graduated in 1776, and was ordained as the
minister of the first church in Salem in 1779, so
that he was pastor more than fifty-six years. lie
possessed an uncommon knowledge of natural
and mechanical philosophy. He made improve
ments in the air-pump. A memoir by C. W. Up-
ham is in hist, coll., 3d series, vol. 5. He be
queathed a library of four hundred and fifty vols.
to the use of the ministers of his church. He
published a fast sermon, 1798; to charitable so
ciety, 1806 ; on the death of Dr. Barnard, 1814;
before the bible society, 1816.
PRINCE, OLIVER H., died Oct. 9, 1837 ; lost
with one hundred others in the wreck of the
steamboat Home, near Ocracocke. He had been
a member of the United States senate from Geor
gia. He was at Boston during the summer, edit
ing the laws of Georgia, then in the press.
PRINCE, WILLIAM, died at Flushing, N.Y.,
April 6, 1842, aged 76. As the enterprising pro
prietor of a botanic garden and nursery, he was
long a public benefactor.
PRINCELY, PHILIP, died at Northampton
Sept. 9, 1855, aged 110. He was born in Ireland
in 1745, and came to N. about 1780. Till the
last three years he had voted at the town meet
ings. ' He left a son in N.
PRIOLEAU, ELIAS, a minister, the founder
of a very respectable family in South Carolina,
came to this country soon after the revocation of
the edict of Nantes in 1685. He was the grand
son of Anthonie P., elected doge of Venice in
1618. A theologian of the name of P. died in
1734. Samuel P. died in 1792, aged 74. Dr. P.
was a grandson, living in 1809. Among the other
French names in South Carolina, were Bordeaux,
Du Pont, Gaillard, Huger, Legare, Laurens, Mar
ion, and Simons.
PRITCIIARD, BENJAMIN B., the Kent giant,
died in Montgomery county, N. Y., June 30,
1835. His weight -was five hundred and twenty-
five pounds.
PROCTOR, JOHNSON, captain, a Revolution
ary patriot, died at Danvers Nov. 11, 1851, aged
86. He was a man of industry and integrity.
-For his last ten years he was blind.
PROUD, ROBERT, a historian, died July 7,
1813, aged 85. He was born in Yorkshire, Eng
land, May 10, 1728, and in January, 1759, arrived
at Philadelphia, where he lived half a century.
For many years he was a teacher in a school of
the Quakers. In the Revolution he was a de
cided Royalist. About the year 1791 he devoted
himself to writing his history, the publication of
which was attended with pecuniary loss. He was
tall ; his nose was Roman, with " most impend
ing brows. Domine Proud wore a curled gray
wig, and a half-cocked ancient hat. He was the
model of a gentleman."
PROUDFIT, ALEXANDER, D. D., died at his
son's house in New Brunswick, N. J., April 17,
1843, aged 75. He was for many years the faith
ful and successful pastor of the church in Salem,
N. Y., being a colleague with his father from 1794
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to 1802. He was afterwards the secretary of the
New York colonization society. He was an emi
nently pious, faithful, and useful minister. His
works are instructive, and written in a fervent
style of piety. He published a sermon at ordi
nation of II. Davis, 1810; before American
board, 1822; at installation of J. Proudfit, 1828;
ruin and recovery of man, 12mo., 1806 ; theolo
gical works, 4 vols., 12mo., 1815. — Observer,
June 10.
PROUDFOOT, WILLIAM, died at London,
Canada West, Jan. 16, 1851, aged 63, professor
of theology in the Presbyterian church.
PROVOOST, SAMUEL, D. D., bishop of New
York, died in New York in 1815, aged 73. He
graduated at Columbia college in the first class
in 1758. His name is sometimes written Provost,
and Prevost.
PRUDDEN, PETEK, the first minister of Mil-
ford, Conn., died in 1656, aged 56. He was born
in Herefordshire, England ; arrived in company
of J. Davenport in 1637; resided for some time
at Dedham ; and was settled at M. in 1640. His
four next successors were R. Newton, S. Andrew,
S. Whittlcsey, S. Wales., — Farmer.
PRUDDEX, JOHN, supposed to have been the
son of Peter, died in 1725, aged 79. He grad
uated at Harvard in 1668 ; was settled as min
ister of Jamaica, L. I., in 1670, and thence
removed to NeM'ark, N. J., in 1692, but resigned
his charge in 1699.
PRUDDEN, JOB, the minister of "Milford,
Conn., died in 1774, aged about 51. He was the
pastor of the second church. He graduated at
Yale in 1743.
PRUDDEN, NEHEMIAH, minister of Enfield,
Conn., died in 1815, aged 65. Born in Milford,
he graduated at Yale in 1775, and was ordained
in 1782. His predecessors were N. Collins, P.
Reynolds, and E. Potter ; his successor was F.
L. Robbins. He published a treatise on marry
ing a sister of a deceased wife, 1811 ; a sermon
to a missionary society, 1815. — Sprague's An
nals.
PUFFER, REUBEN, D. D., minister of Berlin,
Mass., died April 9, 1829, aged 73. Born in
Sudbury, he graduated at Harvard in 1778. In
1781 he was ordained in Bolton, south parish,
now Berlin. He died of a rheumatic fever. It
is remarkable that he had prepared in advance,
for preaching, about fifty sermons. By his first
wife he had thirteen children ; and one child by
his second wife. He was a man of dignity and
of suavity, acceptable as a preacher, orthodox in
his faith. When he preached the Dudleian lec
ture at Cambridge, the students generously pub
lished it in a manner to furnish a sum of money
to the preacher, who was a poor man with a large
family, living on a salary of 80 pounds. He
published the election sermon, 1803 ; Dudleian
lecture, 1808; convention sermon, 1811 ; address
on fourth of July ; two sermons on leaving the
old and entering the new meeting-house. —
Sprague's Annals.
PULASKI, count, brigadier-general in the
army of the United States, died October 11, 1779.
He was a Polander of high birth, who with a
few men in 1771 carried off King Stanislaus from
the middle of his capital, though surrounded with
a numerous body of guards and a Russian army.
The king soon escaped and declared Pulaski an
outlaw. After his arrival in this country he
offered his services to congress, and was honored
with the rank of brigadier-general. He discov
ered the greatest intrepidity in an engagement
with a party of the British near Charleston in
May, 1779. In the assault upon Savannah, Oct.
9th, by Gen. Lincoln and Count D'Estaing,
Pulaski Avas wounded at the head of two hundred
horsemen, as he was galloping into the town with
the intention of charging in the rear. Congress
resolved that a monument should be erected to
his memory.
PUMIIAM, sachem of Shawpmet, near Provi
dence, put himself in 1643 under the government
of Massachusetts, in order to escape the tyranny
of Miantonomo. The government of Massachu
setts made a grant of land to settlers from Brain-
tree, being a part of the territory relinquished by
Pumham. — Felts Hist, of New England.
PUNCHARD, JOHN, deacon, died at Salem,
Mass., Feb. 13, 1857, aged nearly 94 years. He
was born April 12, 1763, in Salem, where all his
paternal ancestors were born and lived, back to
William, who emigrated to that town previous to
1669. His father was James, a shipmaster and a
patriot. He was himself a volunteer soldier of
the Revolution, and was probably the last sur
vivor of a regiment stationed at West Point at
the time of Arnold's defection, and was on duty
at head-quarters on the memorable night after
Andre was brought in a prisoner. At the expi
ration of his term of service he settled in Salem
as a mechanic ; but by his industry, intelligence,
and integrity gradually raised himself to positions
of trust and importance in his native town,
county, and State. He was-a member of the
Tabernacle church in Salem seventy-four years,
and one of its deacons and its clerk for about
forty years. The succession of ministers in this
church has been as follows: From 1774 to 1834,
N. Whitaker, J. Spaulding, S. Worcester, E.
Cornelius, J. P. Cleaveland, and S. M. Worces
ter. He was one of the founders of the Massa
chusetts missionary society, and its treasurer about
thirty years. He encouraged the various enter
prises of benevolence. He was a man of wisdom
and energy, of integrity and trustworthiness,
and of unslacked zeal in doing good, sustaining a
high Christian character, venerated and beloved
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in old age. As the great aim of his long life was
to promote God's glory in human happiness, es
pecially that happiness which is imperishable as
springing from the reception of Divine truth into
the heart, who is there among the prosperous
merchants, great scholars, and illustrious jurists
and statesmen, the boast of Salem, that can stand
higher in the estimate of infinite reason and
goodness, than this humble, zealous, unwearied
Christian ? Rev. George Punchard, the author
of two valuable books, a view of congregational-
ism and a history of Congregationalism, is his
son.
PUNDERSON, EBENEZER, Episcopal minister
in New Haven, died in 1764, aged about 58. He
was graduated at Yale in 172G; was settled over
a new precinct in Groton, Conn., from 1729 to
1736; had the charge of the Episcopal society in
New Haven from 1755 to 1762; and then re
moved to Rye. He was succeeded by S. Palmer.
PUNDERSON, THOMAS, minister of Hunting-
ton, Conn., died in 1848, aged about 64. Born
in New Haven, he graduated at Yale in 1804;
was the minister of the second church in Pitts-
field, Mass., from 1809 to 1817; and was in
stalled at H. in 1818.
PURCHAS, SAMUEL, a minister in London,
died about 1628, aged 51. He published his
pilgrimage, or relations of the world, five vols.,
fol., London, 1641, etc. It is a rare and valuable
collection and abridgment of travels.
PURCHASE, THOMAS, the owner of Pejep-
scott, Me., settled there in the third year of
Charles I., and lived there till the war just before
1683. His deed was from the council of Ply
mouth in England, given to him and George
"Way of Dorchester, E. His heirs sold to Rich
ard Wharton of Boston.
PURKITT, HENRY, colonel, died in Boston
March 3, 1846, aged 91. He was a Revolution
ary soldier, and assisted in the destruction of
tea in Boston.
PURSH, FREDERIC, a botanist, was born at
Tobolski in Siberia, and educated at Dresden.
He resided in this country from 1799 to 1811,
employed in various excursions by Mr. Hamilton
of Philadelphia and Dr. Hosack of New York.
Ongoing to England in 1811 with a collection
of plants, he was patronized by Smith and Banks,
who opened to him their botanical stores. After
publishing his book in 1814, he returned to
America, and, while engaged in collecting mate
rials for a Canadian flora, died at Montreal June
11, 1820, aged 46. He published a valuable
work, flora Americ* septentrionalis, or the
plants of North America, London, 8vo., 1814.
PURVIANCE, JOHN, died in Baltimore in
1854, aged 81, nearly thirty years a judge of the
county court.
PUSHMATAHA, a Choctaw chief, died at
Washington in 1824. To his Indian companions
he said : " I shall die, but you will return to your
brethren. As you go along the paths you will
see the flowers and hear the birds ; but Pushma-
taha will see them and hear them no more.
When you come to your home, they will ask you,
Where is Pushmatciha? and you will say to them,
He is no more. They will hear the tidings like
the sound of the fall of a mighty oak in the still
ness of the wood."
PUTNAM, DAXIEL, first minister of Reading,
Mass., died in 1759, aged 62. Born in Danvers,
he graduated at Harvard in 1717, and was settled
in 1720. His successor was E. Stone.
PUTNAM, ISRAEL, major-general in the army
of the United States, died at Brooklyn, Conn.,
May 29, 1790, aged 72. He was a descendant,
like all of the name in New England, from John
Putnam, who came from Buckinghamshire to
Salem in 1634 with three sons, Thomas, Na
thaniel, and John. He was born in Salem, Mass.,
Jan. 7, 1718. His mind was vigorous, but it was
never cultivated. In running, leaping, and wrest
ling he almost always bore away the prize. In
1739 he removed to Pomfret, Conn., where he
cultivated a considerable tract of land. He had
however to encounter many difficulties, and
among his troubles the depredations of wolves
upon his sheepfold were not the least. In one
night seventy fine sheep and goats were killed.
A she wolf being considered as the principal
cause of the havoc, Mr. Putnam entered into a
combination with a number of his neighbors to
hunt alternately, till they should destroy her.
At length the hounds drove her into her den in
Pomfret, and several persons soon collected with
guns, straw, fire, and sulphur, to attack the com
mon enemy. But the dogs were afraid to ap
proach her, and the fumes of brimstone could not
force her from her cavern. It was now ten
o'clock at night. Mr. Putnam proposed to his
black servant to descend into the cave and shoot
the wolf; but, as the negro declined, he resolved
to do it himself. Having divested himself of his
coat and waistcoat, and having a long rope fast
ened round his legs, by which he might be pulled
back at a concerted signal, he entered the cavern
head foremost with a blazing torch, made of strips
of birch bark, in his hand. He descended fifteen
feet, passed along horizontally ten feet, and then
began the gradual ascent, which is sixteen feet in
length. He slowly proceeded on his hands and
knees in an abode which was silent as the house
of death. Cautiously glancing forwards he dis
covered the glaring eyeballs of the wolf, who
started at the sight of his torch, gnashed her
teeth, and gave a sullen growl. He immediately
kicked the rope, and was drawn out with a
friendly celerity and violence which not a little
bruised him. Loading his gun with nine buck-
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shot, and carrying it in one hand, while he held
the torch with the other, he descended a second
time. As he approached the wolf, she howled,
rolled her eyes, snapped her teeth, dropped her
head between her legs, and was evidently on the
point of springing at him. At this moment he
fired at her head, and soon found himself drawn
out of the cave. Having refreshed himself he
again descended, and seizing the wolf by her
ears, kicked the rope, and his companions above
with no small exultation dragged them both out
together. During the French war he was ap
pointed to command a company of the first
troops which were raised in Connecticut in 1755.
He rendered much service to the army in the
neighborhood of Crown Point. In 1756, while
near Ticonderoga, he was repeatedly in the most
imminent danger. He escaped in an adventure
of one night with twelve bullet-holes in his blan
ket. In August he was sent out with several
hundred men to watch the motions of the enemy.
Being ambuscaded by a party of equal numbers,
a general but irregular action took place. He
had discharged his fusee several times, but at
length it missed fire, while its muzzle was pre
sented to the breast of a savage. The warrior
with his lifted hatchet and a tremendous war-
whoop compelled him to surrender, and then
bound him to a tree. In the course of the action
the parties changed their position, so as to bring
this tree directly between them. The balls flew
by him incessantly ; many struck the tree, and
some passed through his clothes. The enemy
now gained possession of the ground, but, being
afterwards driven from the field, they carried
their prisoner with them. At night he was
stript, and a fire was kindled to roast him alive ;
but a French officer saved him. The next day
he arrived at Ticonderoga, and thence he was
carried to Montreal. About the year 1759 he
was exchanged through the ingenuity of his fel
low-prisoner, Col. Schuyler. After the peace he
returned to his farm. He was ploughing in his
field in 1775, when he heard the news of the
battle of Lexington. He immediately unyoked
his team, left his plough on the spot, and without
changing his clothes set off for Cambridge. He
soon went to Connecticut, levied a regiment, and
repaired again to the camp. In a little time he
was promoted to the rank of major-general. In
the battle of Bunker's Hill he exhibited his usual
intrepidity. He directed the men to reserve
their fire till the enemy was very near, reminded
them of their skill, and told them to take good
aim. They did so, and the execution was terrible.
After the retreat he made a stand at Winter Hill
and drove back the enemy under cover of their
ships. When the army was organized by Gen.
W ashington at Cambridge, Putnam was appointed
to command the reserve. In Aug.. 1776, he was
stationed at Brooklyn, on Long Island. After
the defeat of our army he went to New York,'
and was very serviceable in the city, and neigh
borhood. In October or November he was sent
to Philadelphia to fortify that city. In Jan.,
1777, he was directed to take post at Princeton,
where he continued until spring. At this place
a sick prisoner, a captain, requested that a friend
in the British army at Brunswick might be sent
for to assist him in making his will. Putnam was
perplexed. He had but fifty men under his com
mand, and he did not wish to have his weakness
known ; yet he was unwilling to deny the request.
He however sent a flag of truce, and directed the
officer to be brought in the night. In the even
ing lights were placed in all the college windows,
and in every apartment of the vacant houses
throughout the town. The officer on his return
reported that General Putnam's army could not
consist of less than four or five thousand men.
In the spring he was appointed to the command
of a separate army in the highlands of New York.
One Palmer, a lieutenant in the tory new levies,
was detected in the camp ; Gov. Tryon reclaimed
him as a British officer, threatening vengeance if
he was not restored. Gen. Putnam wrote the
following pithy reply : " Sir, — Nathan Palmer, a
lieutenant in your king's service, was taken in my
camp as a spy ; he was condemned as a spy ; and
he shall be hanged as a spy. P. S. Afternoon.
He is hanged." After fhe loss of Fort Mont
gomery, the commander-in-chief determined to
build another fortification, and he directed Put
nam to fix upon a spot. To him belongs the
praise of having chosen West Point. The cam
paign of 1779, which was principally spent in
strengthening the works at this place, finished
the military career of Putnam. A paralytic af
fection impaired the activity of his body, and he
passed the remainder of his days in retirement,
retaining his relish for enjoyment, his strength of
memory, and all the faculties of his mind. His
only surviving daughter, Mrs. Mary Waldo, died
at Conway, N. H., Nov., 1825, aged 72 years.
His son, Col. Israel P., died at Belprc, Ohio, in
March, 1812. Peter Schuyler P., his seventh son,
died at Williamstown, Mass., in 1827, aged 63.
Geri. P. was exemplary in the various relations
of life, a constant attendant on public worship,
and a worshipper of God in his house. For
many years he was a professor of religion. In
his last years he professed a deep sense of sin,
yet a strong hope of salvation through the lic-
deemer of sinners. — Humphrey's Life of P.
PUTNAM, AMOS, Dr., died at Danvers, Mass.,
July 26, 1807, aged 85.
PUTNAM, AAUON, minister of Pomfret, Conn.,
died in 1813, aged 79. The son of Ilev. Daniel
PUTNAM.
P., he graduated at Harvard in 1752; was or
dained in 1756; resigned his pastoral charge in
1802.
PUTNAM, RUFUS, general, a soldier of the
Revolution, and the father of the western coun
try, died at Marietta, Ohio, May 1, 1824, aged 86.
He was born at Sutton, Mass., in 1738, and was
a wheelwright. He first settled in Brookfield : in
1782 he bought and removed to a confiscated
estate of Col. Murray in Rutland. He engaged
in the war of 1756, and in the Revolutionary
struggle took an active part. At the commence
ment of hostilities he commanded a regiment ;
and during the war was an engineer. His com
mission as brigadier in the army of the United
States is dated Jan. 7, 1783. On the return of
the peace he retired to his farm. For several
years he was a member of the legislature. In
1786 and 1787 he was engaged in organizing the
Ohio company for the purpose of settling the
Northwest Territory. The affairs of the company
•were intrusted to him. April 7, 1788 lib planted
himself with about forty others in the wilderness
on the west bank of the Ohio, at the mouth of
the Muskingum, and called their settlement Ma
rietta. He lived to see Ohio a flourishing State,
having nearly seventy counties and a population
of 700,000 souls. In 1789 Washington ap
pointed him a judge of the supreme court of the
Northwest Territory ; and in 1791 he was ap
pointed a brigadier-general under Wayne; in
1795 surveyor-general of the United States, which
office he held till some years after the accession
of Mr. Jefferson to the presidency. He was a
member of the convention which framed the con
stitution of Ohio. He was liberal, generous,
hospitable, a philanthropist, and a Christian. Of
the Revolutionary army he was the last surviving
general officer, except Lafayette. Mr. Robbins
became his esteemed pastor in 180C. With oth
ers he in 1812 formed the first bible society west
of the mountains. In Sabbath schools and mis
sionary societies he was deeply interested. In
his old age, in all kinds of weather, he attended
public worship as long as he could walk. His
end was full of hope and heavenly consolation.
His wife, with whom he lived fifty-five years, was
Persis Rice of Westborough : by her he had
many children. He was nearly six feet tall, stout,
and commanding, of strong features, with a calm,
resolute expression : one of his eyes had an out
ward cast, from an injury in childhood : his man
ner abrupt and decisive. A long account of his
life is in Ilildreth's biographical memoirs.
PUTNAM, AARON WALDO, the son of Col.
Israel P., died of the epidemic in Ohio, in 1822,
aged 45. Born in Pomfret, Conn., he went to
Ohio in 1788, with his father; he encountered at
Belpre the perils of the early settlers. His elder
son, William Pitt, lived on the homestead in
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1852 ; and five other children were living, ranked
with the most respectable citizens. — I!i/<l/'ct!i.
PUTNAM, JESSK, regarded as the father of
the merchants of Boston, died April 14, 1837,
aged 83 years. He is one of the many who re
pose beneath a monumental stone at Mount
Auburn.
PUTNAM, SAMUEL, judge, LL. D., died in
Somerville, Mass., July 3, 1853, aged 85. Born
in Danvers in 1768, he graduated at Cambridge
in 1787. As a lawyer he lived in Salem. He
was a judge of the supreme court from 1814 to
1842; and was held in high respect.
PUTNAM, WILLIAM RUFUS, died at Marietta
Jan. 1, 1855, aged 83. A son of Gen. Rufus
P., he settled in M. in 1803, and was highly es
teemed ; was a legislator and a useful man.
PUTNAM, DAVID, died at Marietta March
31, 1856, aged 87. He was the son of Col. Israel
and grandson of Gen. Israel Putnam, and was
born in Pomfret, Conn., Feb. 24, 1769. He was
the last survivor of the family of Col. Israel Put
nam.
PYNCIION, WILLIAM, died at Wraisbury on
the Thames, in Buckinghamshire, in Oct., 1662,
a^ed 71 or 73. He came from Springfield, Essex
county, England, in 1630, to Roxbury,and thence
went to Springfield with Moxon, as one of the
first settlers, about 1637, in which year the court at
Hartford contracted with him for 500 bushels of
corn, in which contract he failed. He published
in England, in 1650, the meritorious price of
Christ's redemption, which displeased the author
ities of Massachusetts, who employed Norton to
answer him. The book was burnt on the com
mon, by order of the court, and he was deposed
from the magistracy and recanted. He went to
England in 1652, and a new edition was pub
lished in 1655. He taught, that Christ did not
bear hell-torments for us, and that he bore not
our sins by imputation. Vane was his friend.
-His descendants -have been numerous. His son,
Col. John P., died in 1703, aged 82; his grand
son, Col. John P., died in 1721, aged 74; his
great-grandson, Col. John, died in 1742, nged 68.
His daughters married II. Smith and E. Holyoke,
of Springfield, and Wm. Davies of Boston. Be
sides the book referred to, he published on the
Sabbath, 4to., 1654.
PYNCIION, JOHN, colonel, son of William
Pynchon, was a man of distinction, for more
than fifty years a magistrate of Springfield, and
a chief promoter of the settlement of Northamp
ton in 1654. He died Jan. 17, 1703, aged 76
years. His wife was Amy, daughter of Governor
Wyllis, whom he married at Hartford Oct. 30,
1645. In the Indian war there were burnt, Oct. 5,
1675, twenty-nine dwelling houses with barns ;
but Maj. Pynchon's house escaped destruction.
Few lives were lost, as a friendly Indian gave no-
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tice of the proposed attack. The minister, Mr.
Glover, lost his valuable library with his house.
PYNCHON, JOSEPH, Dr., died in Boston, un
married. He was the brother of John, born in
1646 ; graduated at Harvard in 1664 ; was the
representative of Springfield in 1681 and 1682.
PYNCHON, JOHN, the son of John, died at
Springfield, in 1721, aged 73. His wife, Marga
ret, was a daughter of Rev. W. Hubbard. He
was clerk of court and register of deeds. He
had sons, John and William, born at Ipswich.
PYNCHON, CHARLES, a distinguished phy
sician of Springfield, Mass., died before 1789.
He was probably the son of John, who died in
1721.
QUADEQUINA, an Indian sachem, accom
panied his brother, Massassoit, in his first visit to
the pilgrims at Plymouth, Thursday, March 22,
1621, about three months after their landing. lie
received as presents, "a knife, a jewel to hang
in his ear, and withal a pot of strong water, a
good quantity of biscuit, and some butter."
QUANNOPIN,aNarragansett sagamore, bought
Mrs. Rowlandson of the Indians, who made her
prisoner in 1676; and by his means she was re
stored to her friends. The 20 pounds he received
for her freedom were raised by Mr. Usher and
the ladies of Boston.
QUANONCHET, prince or sachem of the
Narragansetts, was captured by Capt. Denison in
the Indian war of 1676, and was beheaded by
the Indians of his company. The result of the
fight was very extraordinary. Capt. I), had in
his command sixty-six volunteers and one hundred
friendly Indians, and he slew seventy-six of the
enemy without the loss of a man on his side.
QUASON, or QUOSSEN, SAMUEL, was in
1762 sachem of the Monymoyk or Monamoy
Indians in Chatham, on Cape Cod, only thirty in
number. At an earlier period, in 1698, John
" Quossen," was one of the rulers over fourteen
houses at " Monimoy," as the names were then
printed : John Cosens was preacher and school
master.
QUASSON, JOSEPH, an Indian, of whose life
and death " Father Moody " of York published
an account.
QUINCY, EDMUND, a judge of the superior
court of Massachusetts, died Feb. 23, 1738, aged
56. He was born at Braintrcc Oct. 24, 1681.
His grandfather, Edmund Quincy, came to Bos
ton with John Cotton in 1633, and became a pro
prietor of lands at Mount Wollaston or Brain-
tree in 1635, and died soon afterwards, aged 33.
His father, Lieut.-Col. Edmund Quincy, died Jan.
7, 1698. His mother, Elizabeth, was the daugh
ter of Maj.-Gen. Gookin. He was graduated at
Harvard college in 1699, and afterwards sustained
several important offices, the duties of which he
discharged with ability and faithfulness. He was
a judge of the superior court from 1718 till a
short time before his death. Being sent as an
agent to London for the purpose of settling the
boundary line between Massachusetts and New
Hampshire, he died in that city of the small pox.
His wife was the daughter of Josiah Flint. He
left two sons, Edmund and Josiah; and two
daughters, Mrs. Wendell and Mrs. Jackson.
The general court made a donation to his heirs of
one thousand acres of land in Lenox, Berkshire
county, and erected a monument at Bunhill-fields,
London. His uncommon powers of reasoning
and of eloquence were joined to the Christian
virtues. As a member of the council, he, for
twenty years, had great influence in giving direc
tion to the proceedings of government. In his
family it gave him pleasure to worship the God
of all the families of the earth, and to impart to
his children religious instruction. — Memoirs of
J. Quincy, 3.
QUINCY, Jonx, colonel, the son of Daniel
Quincy, died July 13, 1767, aged 78. He was
the grandson of Lieut.-Col. Edmund Quincy, by
his first wife, Joanna Hull, daughter of Mr. Hull,
an assistant preacher with Thomas Thacher in
Boston, and was born in 1689. Having graduated
in 1708, he was early employed in public life, be
ing appointed a major in the militia, and colonel
on the resignation of his uncle, Judge Edmund
Quincy. For forty years without interruption he
was a representative and a member of the coun
cil. He was long the speaker of the house. He
discharged the duties of his various offices with
fidelity, honor, and acceptance, carefully avoid
ing all temptations to unfaithfulness, and retaining
a high sense of accountableness to God. His
ample fortune did not corrupt him. He was just
and devout, adorning by his holy conduct and
attendance to the ordinances of the gospel the
Christian profession, and being exemplary in the
relations of private life. When that part of
Braintree in which the Quincy farms lay, was
incorporated, the general court, in honorable re
membrance of his long and faithful services, gave
it the name of Quincy. He left an only sen,
Norton Quincy, an amiable and virtuous man,
who died without issue. His daughter married
Rev. William Smith of Weymouth, and was the
mother of Mrs. Cranch and of the wife of John
Adams. His paternal estate, Mount Wollaston,
became the property of his great-grandson, John
Quincy Adams, president of the United States.
QUINCY, EDMUND, the son of Judge Edmund
Q., died July 4, 1788, aged 85. He was born
in Braintree in 1703 and graduated at Harvard
college in 1722. For many years he was a mer
chant in Boston ; he afterwards lived on the
paternal estate. His fourth daughter, Esther,
married Jonathan Sewall ; she was the worthy
wife of an eminent man. Another daughter
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married Gov. Hancock. He published a treatise
on hemp husbandry, 1765.
QUINCY, JOSIAII, jun., an eminent patriot,
died April 26, 1775, aged 31. He was the grand
son of Judge Quincy ; his father, Josiah, a mer
chant in Boston and a zealous friend of his
country, died at Braintree in 1784, aged 75. He
was born Feb. 23, 1744. While at college he
•was distinguished for unwearied industry, for the
eager thirst for learning, and for a refined taste.
With unblemished reputation, he was graduated
in 1763. His legal studies were pursued for two
years under the care of Oxenbridge Thacher, of
Boston, an eminent lawyer. On commencing his
profession, his talents, diligence, and fidelity
secured to him an extensive and profitable prac
tice. At this period he wrote several manuscript
volumes of "reports" of decisions in the supreme
court, in which are preserved abstracts of the
arguments of Auchmuty, Thacher, Gridley, Otis,
Adams, and other lawyers. The circumstances
of the times soon directed his attention and all
the energies of a very sensitive mind to the politi
cal condition of his country. In opposition to
the measures of the British government he began
to write political essays as early as 1767. In the
next year, after the landing of two British regi
ments at Boston, he made a most forcible appeal
to the patriotism of his countrymen in a piece
signed " Plyperion." Of the boldness of his
views a judgment may be formed from his lan
guage in 1768: "Did the blood of the ancient
Britons swell our veins, did the spirit of our fore
fathers inhabit our breasts ; should we hesitate a
moment in preferring death to a miserable exist
ence in bondage ?" — and from his declaration in
1770, " I wish to see my countrymen break off
— off forever ! — all social intercourse with those
whose commerce contaminates, whose luxuries
poison, whose avarice is insatiable, and whose
unnatural oppressions are not to be borne."
After what is called " the Boston massacre,"
March 5, 1770, when five citizens were killed by
the British troops, Mr. Quincy, with John Adams,
dei'cnded the prisoners, Capt. Preston and eight
soldiers. To undertake their defence against the
remonstrance of his father and in resistance to
the strong tide of popular indignation required a
strong love of justice and a fixed purpose of soul.
With great ability he plead their cause, and the
defence was closed by Mr. Adams. In the re
sult Capt. Preston and six soldiers were acquitted,
and two were convicted of manslaughter only.
This administration of justice in the midst of an
excited and furious people was an event most
honorable to Mr. Quincy and to the American
cause. In 1771 and 1772 he continued his pro
fessional and political labors with accustomed in
dustry and zeal ; but in Feb., 1773, a pulmonary
complaint compelled him to seek the renewal of
his health or the preservation of his life by a
voyage to Carolina. In Charleston he formed an
acquaintance with the eminent lawyers and pat
riots of the day, who received him with wonted
southern hospitality, — with Bee, Parsons, Simp
son, Scott, Charles C. Pinckney, llutledge, Lynch,
and others. He returned by land to New York.
In Philadelphia he met with J. Dickinson, J.
Heed, J. Ingersoll, Dr. Shippen, Chief Justice
Allen, and his sons, and Mr. Galloway. His
journal of this tour is found in his Life, published
by his son. After an absence of three or four
months he reached home, and soon wrote the bold
essays under the title of Marchmont Nedham.
His chief political work, observations on the act
of parliament, commonly called " the Boston
port bill," with thoughts on civil society and
standing armies, was published in May, 1774.
By the advice of his political friends, and in
the hope of rendering eminent service to his
country by counteracting Hutchinson, and in
other ways, he relinquished his professional busi
ness and embarked at Salem privately for Lon
don, Sept. 28, 1774. His voyage was serviceable
to his health. At London he had a conference
on American affairs with Lord North, and ex
plained to him his views with great freedom ; but
the British minister seemed anxious to intimidate
one who could not be reached in that way, by allud
ing to the power of Great Britain, and her determi
nation to exert it to effect the submission of the
colonies. He visited also Lord Dartmouth and
Lord Shelburne, and consulted much with Dr.
Franklin, Governor Pownall, Dr. Price, Sheriff
William Lee, Arthur Lee, and other friends of
America. He also occasionally attended the sit
ting of parliament. It was at this period that
Lord Camden said, " Were I an American, I would
resist to the last drop of my blood." Colonel
Barrc, who once travelled through this country,
assured him that such was the ignorance of the
English, that two-thirds of them on his return
imagined the Americans were all negroes !
While in England, Dr. Warren wrote to him,
Nov. 21st, "It is the united voice of America to
preserve their freedom or lose their lives in de
fence of it." He attended the debates in the
house of Lords, Jan. 20, 1775, and on that day
had the high satisfaction of hearing the celebrated
speech of Lord Chatham against the ministry
and in defence of America, of which he drew up
an interesting report. " His language, voice, and
gestures," said Mr. Q., " were more pathetic than
I ever saw or heard before, at the bar or senate.
He seemed like an old Itoman senator, rising
with the dignity of age, yet speaking with the fire
of youth. The illustrious sage stretched forth
his hand with the decent solemnity of a Paul, and,
rising with his subject, he smote his breast with
the energy and grace of a Demosthenes." In
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this speech Chatham said : " For genuine saga
city, for singular moderation, for solid wisdom,
manly spirit, sublime sentiments, and simplicity
of language, for every thing respectable and hon
orable, the congress of Philadelphia shine un
rivalled. This wise people speak out. They do
not hold the language of slaves ; they tell you
what they mean. They do not ask you to repeal
your laws as a favor ; they claim it a right, — they
demand it. They tell you, they will not submit
to them ; and I tell you, the acts must be re
pealed ; they will be repealed ; you cannot enforce
them." Lord Camden followed Chatham on the
side of America, and equalled him in every thing,
" excepting his fire and pathos. In learning, per
spicuity, and pure eloquence, probably no one
ever surpassed Lord Camden." He exclaimed :
" This I will say, not only as a statesman, poli
tician, and philosopher, but as a common lawyer,
— my lords, you have no right to tax America.
I have searched the matter ; I repeat it, you have
no right to tax America. The natural rights of
man and the immutable laws of nature are all
with that people." " Kings, lords, and commons
may become tyrants as well as others ; tyranny
in one or more is the same ; it is as lawful to re
sist the tyranny of many as of one. When Mr.
Selden was asked, in what law book you might
find the law for resisting tyranny, he replied, ' It
has always been the custom of England,' and
" the custom of England" is the law of the land.'
Supported by such authorities and by conference
•with a multitude of the friends of America, and
despairing of any change of measures without a
previous struggle, Mr. Quincy, by the advice of
many friends to his country, determined to return,
probably in order by verbal communications to
arouse his fellow citizens to the mighty contest.
Indeed, as early as Dec. 14, 1774, he wrote:
" Let me tell you one very serious truth, in which
we are all agreed, your countrymen must seal
their cause with their blood." While in London
he was in active correspondence with Dickinson,
Heed, and other patriots. He embarked for Bos
ton March 16, 1775, with a bad cough and de
clining health. In his last interview Dr. Franklin
said, that ."New England alone could hold out
for ages against Great Britain, and, if they were
firm and united, in seven years would conquer
them." After being at sea a few weeks, he be
came convinced that his fate was inevitable. He
had but one desire, that he might live long
enough to have an interview with Samuel Adams
or Joseph Warren. In the last letter, which he
dictated April 21, he explained the reasons of his
proceeding to America so early, against his own
inclinations and prospects as to health. He had
ascertained the sentiments of many learned and
respectable friends of America in regard to the
course of conduct exacted by the existing crisis.
RADCL1FF.
" To commit their sentiments to writing was
neither practicable nor prudent at this time. To
the bosom of a friend they could intrust what
might be of great advantage to my country. To
me that trust was committed, and I was, immedi
ately upon my arrival, to assemble certain per
sons, to whom I was to communicate my trust,
and, had God spared my life, it seems it would
have been of great service to my country."
" Had Providence been pleased that I should
have reached America six days ago, I should have
been able to converse with my friends. I am
persuaded that this voyage and passage are the
instruments to put an end to my being. His
holy will be done ! " Such were his last recorded
words. Perhaps the battle of Lexington had
rendered his communications unnecessary. He
died when the vessel was in sight of land. The
ship, in a few hours, entered the harbor of Glou
cester, Cape Ann. His wife, the sister of the
late Deacon Wm. Phillips, who survived him
twenty-three years, being at this time with her
child and parents at their place of refuge at Nor
wich, Connecticut, the funeral rites were per
formed by the inhabitants of Gloucester. His
remains were afterwards removed to Braintree.
It was the strong passion of Mr. Quincy's soul to
become, by reason of his patriotic labors, immor
tal in the hearts of his countrymen. A just mon
ument to his memory has been raised in his Life,
written by his son. Amidst the miserable aban
donment of principle, honor, and country, from
the most selfish motives, presented frequently to
the eje of every modern observer of public men,
it is refreshing to behold the noble, daring, truly
patriotic zeal of such a man as Josiah Quincy.
His son, Josiah Q., late president of Harvard
college, published his memoir, 1855 ; to which is
added the celebrated piece, observations on the
Boston port bill, etc., first printed in 1774.
QUINCY, SAMUEL, died in Boston in 1789,
aged about 55. The son of Colonel Josiah, he
graduated at Harvard in 1754. In his politics he
differed from the other Quincys. He was ap
pointed solicitor-general, when Jonathan Sewall,
who married his cousin, was attorney-general.
He left Massachusetts with the loyalists and died
in the West Indies.
QUINCY, Rev. Mr., born in Boston, was as
sistant minister of St. Philip's church in Charles
ton, S. C. He published a volume of sermons
about 1750.
QUOY, JOHN, an Indian sachem at Sandwich
in 1698. He was one of three rulers over three
hundred and forty-eight Indians, who had a meet
ing-house, and Ralph Jones, a sober man, one of
their preachers.
RADCLIFF, JACOB, judge, died in Albany
June 25, 1823, aged 62. He was a judge of the
supreme court of New York. His wife was Juli-
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ana, the daughter of Rev. C. M. Smith of Sha
ron, Conn.
RADCLIFFE, ROBERT, the founder of the
first Episcopal church in New England, estab
lished in Boston in 1686, the church which after
wards built King's chapel in Tremont street. Of
the time of his death nothing has been ascer
tained.
RAE, LrzERNE, died in Hartford Sept. 16,
1854, aged 43. A graduate of Yale in 1831, he
became a teacher in the asylum for the deaf and
dumb ; he also engaged in various literary labors.
He edited the religious herald, and six vols. of
the annals of the deaf and dumb. He had col
lected materials for a history of New England.
RAFINESQUE, S. C. S., professor, died at
Philadelphia in 1840, aged 56. His father was a
Levant merchant of Versailles. He was born at
Galata, a suburb of Constantinople. At the age
of 16 he was sent to Philadelphia with his brother :
he cultivated a taste for botany and natural his
tory. From 1805 he spent ten years in Sicily ;
but in sailing for New York in 1815, with his col
lections, the result of many years' labor, he was
wrecked on Long Island, and lost all his treasures,
books, manuscripts, and drawings. Dr. Mitchell
befriended him. He made a scientific tour to the
West, and was appointed professor of botany at
Lexington university. He again travelled, lec
tured, and settled at Philadelphia. He published
in Italy various works in 1810 and 1814 ; also ad
dress on botany and zoology, 1816 ; florula Ludo-
viciana from the French, 1817; ichthyologia
Ohiensis ; annals of Kentucky, 1824 ; Atlantic
journal, begun in Philadelphia in 1832; life and
travels, 1836. — Cycl. of Amer. Lit.
RAGUEY, CONDY, died in Philadelphia in
1842, aged 58, president of the chamber of com
merce. He was the author of several works on
political economy.
HALLE, SEBASTIEX, a missionary among the
Indians of North America, died Aug. 23, 1724.
lie was a French Jesuit, and arrived at Quebec in
Oct., 1689. After travelling in the interior sev
eral years, he went to Norridgewock on the Ken-
nebec river, where he tarried twenty-six years till
his death. Being considered as the inveterate
enemy of the English, and as stimulating the In
dians to their frequent depredations, Captains
Harmon and Moulton were sent in 1724 against
the village in which he lived. They surprised it
August 23d, and killed Ralle, and about thirty
Indians, all of whose scalps were brought away
by Harmon. The Jesuit was found in a wigwam,
and he defended himself with intrepid courage.
He was in the 67th year of his age. By his con
descending deportment and address he acquired
an astonishing influence over the Indians. Such
was his faithfulness to the political interests of
France, that lie even made the offices of devotion
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serve as an incentive to savage ferocity ; for he
kept a flag, on which was depicted a cross sur
rounded with bows and arrows, and he raised it
at the door of his little church, when he gave ab
solution previously to the commencement of any
warlike enterprise. He was a man of good sense
and learning, and was particularly skilful in Latin,
which he wrote with great purity. He spoke the
Abnakis language, which was the language of the
Norridgewocks, and was acquainted with the Hu
ron, Outawis, and Illinois. In his preaching he
was vehement and pathetic. For the last nine
teen years his health was feeble, as his limbs had
been broken by a fall. An ineffectual attempt
was made to seize him in 1722 ; but some of his
papers were secured, and among them a diction
ary of the Abnakis language, which is now in the
library of Harvard college. It is a quarto vol
ume of five hundred pages. Two of his letters
of considerable length are preserved in the lettres
edifiantes.
RALPH, JAMES, died at Chiswick, Eng., in
1762-. Born in Philadelphia, he lived in England
thirty-two years ; he was a poet, and wrote on
politics and history.
RALSTON, ROBERT, died at Philadelphia Aug.
11, 1836, aged 74. He was long a successful
merchant, and was a philanthropist and Christian,
a promoter of benevolent and charitable objects.
His daughter married first Ebenezer Rockwood
of Massachusetts, and next Rev. Dr. Vcrmilye of
New York.
RALSTON, SAMUEL, D. D., died in Carroll,
Pa., Sept. 25, 1851, aged 96. He had been in
the ministry seventy years.
RAMAGE, ADAM, died in Philadelphia July 9,
1850, aged 80. He was the inventor of the Ram-
age printing press, by a change of shape in the
screw ; said still to be very useful in certain cases.
RAMSAY, DAVID, M. D., a physician and his
torian, died in Charleston, S. C., May 8, 1815,
aged 69. He was the youngest son of James R.,
an Irish emigrant and farmer, and was born in
Lancaster county, Pa., April 2, 1749, and was
graduated at Princeton college in 1765. Two
brothers also received a public education. He
settled in the practice of physic at Charleston,
where he was eminent in his profession. During
the war he was a determined whig and a leading
member of the legislature ; he was also a surgeon
in the army. With thirty-seven other citizens he
was seized by the British Aug. 27, 1780, and
transported to St. Augustine, where he was de
tained nearly a year. From 1782 to 1786 he was
a respected member of congress, being for one
year the president. He was subsequently for
many years a member of the legislature of South
Carolina, and president of the senate. His death
was occasioned by a wound, received from an in
sane man, named Wm. Linning, who shot him in
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the back with a large pistol, loaded with three
balls. He suffered excruciating pain about thirty
hours. Linning, some years before, had been
brought into court for an attempt to murder, and,
indignant because Dr. R. expressed the opinion
that he was deranged, had declared his purpose
to take his life. His first wife was the daughter
of President Witherspoon ; she died of the scar
let fever, soon after the birth of a son, in 1784.
His second wife was the daughter of Henry Lau-
rens. He left four sons and four daughters.
His son, Dr. John W. R., died in July, 1813,
aged 29. His daughter, Sabina Elliot, married
Henry L. Pinckney. Dr. 11. was for many
years a member of the Independent or Congre
gational church of Charleston, and he died
in the peace of the Christian. His life was de
voted to benevolent and patriotic labors. In his
zealous anticipations of public improvements he
was led to invest his property in projects, by the
failure of which he lost his private fortune. He
was a man of unwearied industry, and most eco
nomical of time, usually sleeping only four hours.
In every relation of life he was exemplary. His
historical writings are valuable. He published a
history of the He volution in South Carolina, 2
vols. 8vo., 1785 ; history of the American Revo
lution, 2 vols., 1789 ; review of the improvements,
etc., of medicine, 1800 ; the life of Washington,
1801 ; medical register, 1802 ; oration on the ac
quisition of Louisiana, 1804 ; history of South
Carolina, 2 vols., 1809, with valuable public docu
ments annexed ; a biographical chart ; memoirs
of Martha L. Ramsay, 1811 ; eulogium on Dr.
Rush, 1813; history of the United States, 3 vols.,
181G; universal history Americanized, 8 vols.
RAMSAY, MARTHA LAURENS, the wife of the
preceding, died June 10, 1811, aged 51. The
daughter of Henry Laurens, she was born Nov.
3, 1759. After passing ten years in England and
France she returned to this country, and was
married in Jan., 1787. She was the mother of
eleven children, eight of whom survived her.
She was a woman of talents, learning, and piety.
She fitted her sons for college. One of her Sun
day employments was reading the New Testament
in Greek with her sons, and in French with her
daughters. When, in the absence of her hus
band, she was the head of her family, she daily
prayed with them and read the Scriptures. Of
her benevolence, the following is an instance :
When in France she received from her father a
present of 500 guineas. With a part of this
sum she purchased and distributed French testa
ments, and established a school at Vigan. Me
moirs of her life, with extracts from her writings,
were published by her husband, 2d ed., 1812.
RAMSAY, ALEXANDER, M. D., an anatomist,
was a native of England, but resided for many
years in this country as a lecturer on anatomy
and physiology. He died at Parsonsfield, Maine,
Nov. 24, 1824, aged about 70. He had. been bit
ten two years ' before by a rattlesnake ; and he
supposed that his last sickness was the conse
quence of the poison, producing an altered state
of the lymphatics of his lungs. He was a very
skilful anatomist. He published anatomy of the
heart, cranium, and brain, with a series of plates,
2d ed., Edinburgh, 1813.
RAMSAY, WILLIAM, captain, died in Boon
county, Mo., May 24, 1845, aged 104. He served
during the whole of the Revolutionary Avar, and
was an Indian fighter in Kentucky. He removed
to Missouri in 1802.
RAMSEY, Mrs., wife of William R., mission
ary, died at Bombay June 11, 1834, aged 29.
Her name was Mary Wire, of Philadelphia.
RAMSEY, JAMES, D. D., died at Frankfort,
Pa., March G, 1855, aged 84.
RAND, WILLIAM, minister of Kingston, Mass.,
died in 1779, aged within a week of 80. Born
in Charlestown, he graduated at Harvard in 1721,
in the class of Drs. Chauncy and Pemberton. He
was the minister of Sunderland from 1724 to
i 1745, and of Kingston from 1746 to 1779, in all
I about fifty-five years in the ministry. He was a
man of eminence. He published a sermon on
preaching Christ, 1736; at ordination of D. Par
sons, 1739; of A. Hill; of A. Williams; at the
convention, 1757. — Sprague's Annals.
RAND, ISAAC, M. D., vice-president of the
medical society, died in Charlestown, Mass., in
1790, aged 71. He studied medicine with Dr.
Thomas Greaves of C., his native town. In 1775
he had a small pox hospital in Cambridge. With
out a college education, lie was respectable for
his attainments and was held in high esteem.
RAND, JOHN, first minister of Lyndeborough,
N. H., died in Bedford in 1805, aged 78. Born
'• in Charlestown, Mass., he graduated at Harvard
in 1743, and was pastor from 1757 to 1762. lie
was college librarian. There being no meeting
house when he was settled, he was ordained Dec.
3d in a barn.
RAND, ISAAC, M. D,', a physician, died in Bos
ton Sept. 11, 1822, aged 79. The son of Dr.
Isaac R. of Charlestown, Mass., he was born
April 27, 1743, and graduated at Harvard college
in 1761, in which year he and Samuel Williams
accompanied Professor Winthrop to Newfound
land, to observe the transit of Venus. In 1764 he
settled as a physician in Boston, and rose to emi
nence. In the Revolution he was a royalist, but,
taking no active part in politics, he was not mo
lested. He remained in Boston while it was pos
sessed by the enemy. From 1798 to 1804 he was
president of the Massachusetts medical society.
He was for many years a professor of religion.
Such was his charity to the poor, that he gave
them not only his services, but his money. For
RAND.
years several families were supported by his boun
ty. His manners were dignified and courtly. He
published a tract on hydrocephalus interims, and
a discourse on the use of the warm bath and fox
glove in phthisis. — Thaclicr.
HANI), BENJAMIN, LL. I)., died in Boston
April 26, 1852, aged G7. Born in "Wcston, he
graduated at Harvard in 1808, and was a distin
guished member of the Boston bar.
11ANDALL, RICHARD, M. D., governor of
Liberia, died April 19, 1829. He was born in An
napolis, studied physic in Philadelphia, was sur
geon's mate in the navy, and in 1825 commenced
the practice in Washington. He was one of the
managers of the colonization society, and in 1828,
after the death of Mr. Ashmun, was appointed
governor of Liberia. He accepted the perilous
office ; but soon died.
RANDALL, STEPHEN, Dr., died at North Prov
idence March 15, 1843, aged 81.
RANDALL, JOHN, M. D., an esteemed phy
sician in Boston, died Dec. 20, 1843, aged 67.
He graduated at Harvard in 1802.
RANDALL, ARCHIBALD, judge, died at Phila
delphia May 30, 1846, aged 46. He was a judge
of the United States district court.
RANDALL, ABRAHAM, died at Stow, Mass.,
March 3, 1852, aged 80. Born in Stow, he grad
uated at Harvard in 1798, was settled at Man
chester in 1802, and dismissed in 1808. He then
returned to his native town.
RANDOLPH, EDWARD, a man worthy of in
famy in New England, was sent over to inquire
into the state of the colonies in 1676. In his
zeal for Episcopacy he wished to destroy the New
England churches, and was the cause of the tak
ing away of the Massachusetts charter. He was
conjoined with Governor Andros. He died in
the West Indies. — Eliot.
RANDOLPH, PEYTON, first president of con
gress, died Oct. 22, 1775, aged 52. He was a
native of Virginia, of which colony he was attor
ney-general as early as 1756. In this year he
formed a company of one hundred gentlemen,
who engaged as volunteers against the Indians.
He was afterwards speaker of the house of bur
gesses. Being appointed one of the deputies to
the first congress in 1774, he was, Sept. 5, elected
its president. He was also chosen president of
the second congress, May 10, 1775, but on the
24th, as ho was obliged to return to Virginia, Mr.
Hancock was placed in the chair. Mr. Randolph
afterwards took his seat again in congress. He
died at Philadelphia of an apoplectic stroke.
RANDOLPH, EDMUND, governor of Virginia,
died Sept. 12, 1813. He was the only son of
John 11., attorney-general, who, being a loyalist,
left the country at the beginning of the Revolu
tion with Lord Dunmore. He was bred under
his father to the law, but refused to accompany
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him to England. After seeing a little military
service in the suite of Washington, he applied
himself to the profession of the law, and was ap
pointed attorney-general. He was governor after
Patrick Henry from 1786 to 1788, when he was
succeeded by Beverly Randolph. In 1790 Wash
ington appointed him attorney-general of the
United States; and in 1794 he succeeded Mr.
Jefferson as secretary of State, but in consequence
of some difficulties with the administration he re
signed Aug. 19, 1795. In his private affairs he
was much embarrassed. He died in Frederic
county, Va. His wife was a daughter of Robert
Carter Nicholas, treasurer under the royal gov
ernment ; and by her he had several children.
He published a vindication of his resignation,
1795.
RANDOLPH, THOMAS M., colonel, governor
of Virginia, died at Monticcllo June 20, 1828.
His wife was a daughter of Mr. Jefferson. Other
governors of the name were Edmund, from 1786
to 1788 ; and Beverly, from 1788 to 1791.
RANDOLPH, MARTHA, died in Albemarle
county, Virginia, Oct. 10, 1836, aged upwards of
70 ; the last survivor of the daughters of Thomas
Jefferson. She was the widow of Governor
Thomas M. Randolph, and a woman of eminent
talents and virtues.
RANKINS, CATHARINE, died at Braynefield,
Caroline county, Miss., Oct., 1833, aged 109; born
near Port Royal, Virginia.
RANTOUL, ROBERT, JUN., senator of the
United States, died at Washington Aug. 7, 1852,
aged 46. He was born at Beverly, Mass., Aug.
13, 1805, and graduated in 1826, delivering the
valedictory poem. After being admitted to the
bar he became a resident of Gloucester in 1833,
of which town he was a representative. As chair
man of a committee he drew up several reports
in favor of the abolition of the punishment of
death in all cases. It is, perhaps, as much owing
to him as to any man, that so many have come
to disregard the ancient Divine injunction to pun
ish the murderer with death, — an infliction neces
sary to the safety of human society. He was on
the democratic side in politics. In 1843 he was
collector in Boston ; in 1845 he was appointed
district attorney for four years. In 1851 he was
chosen senator to supply for a few days the va
cancy occasioned by the resignation of Mr. Web
ster. In November he was chosen a member of
congress by the united votes of the democratic
and free-soil parties. His speeches and writings
have been collected in one volume.
RAPP, FREDERIC, died in July, 1834, aged
59 ; the leader of the Harmonists, so called, at
Economy, their seat in Pennsylvania. George
Rapp, the founder of the society, a German, died
in 1847, aged 92.
RATHBUN, VALENTINE, was born in Ston-
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ington in 1723, and was by trade a clothier. He
formed a Baptist church in Pittsfield, Mass., in
1772, and was their pastor; it was a large church
in 1780. He now joined the Shakers in the
neighboring town of Hancock, with a large part
of his church ; and also Mr. Johnson, Presbyte
rian minister of New Lebanon. In about three
months, however, he left them, and wrote Rath-
bun's hints against their delusions, a tract, of
which five editions were soon published. His
brother, Daniel Rathbun, remained with them
four years ; then withdrew and published a more
full account of their madness, in 1785. The
Baptist church once under his care becoming ex
tinct, a new one was formed in Pittsfield, of which
John Francis was the minister from 1806 to his
death in 1813.
RATHBUN, BENJAMIN, died in Springfield,
New York, in 1854, bequeathing 12,000 dollars
to the bible and other societies.
RAUCH, CHRISTIAN HENRY, a Moravian mis
sionary, arrived at New York, July, 1740, and
proceeded thence to Shekomeko, an Iiidian vil
lage bordering on Connecticut, near the Stissik
mountain. He was successful in his labors. He
baptized the three first Indians Feb. 22, 1742,
and twenty-six more before the end of the year.
Some of his brethren were maltreated by inter
ested whites, opposed to the civilization of the
Indians, particularly at New Milford and Peckipsi,
now called Poughkeepsie. — Ileckewelder's Nar.
R-AUCH, F. A., minister at Mercersburg, Penn.,
died March 2, 1841.
RAVENSCROFT, JOHN S., D. D., bishop of
North Carolina, died at Raleigh March 5, 1830,
aged 57. He was the author of sermons.
RAWDON, Earl of, or Francis Rawdon Hast
ings, Marquess of Hastings, died on board ship
Revenge near Naples, Nov. 28, 1826, aged 73.
In 1778 he was adjutant-general of the British
army in America. At the battle of Camden, Aug.
16, 1780, he commanded one wing of the army.
Severe illness induced him to return to England.
In 1793 he was major-general ; in 1803 com-
mander-in-chief in Scotland ; in 1812 governor-
general of British India; in 1824 governor of
Malta. His wife was Flora Muir Campbell ; as
he was about to die he requested that his right
hand might be cut off and preserved till the
death of his wife, to be interred in the same coffin
with her. It was cut off. Whether she pre
served it is not stated.
RAWLE, WILLIAM, died April 12, 1836, aged
77. He was one of the first lawyers of Phila
delphia, an eminent jurist, respected for his vari
ous learning, and an honor to his profession for
fifty years. He published an address to the ag
ricultural society, 1819; a view of the constitu
tion of the United States, 2d edition, 1829 ; dis
course on law, 1832.
RAWSON, EDWARD, secretary of Massachu
setts colony above forty years, died at Dorchester
in 1694, aged about 60. lie graduated at Har
vard in 1653 ; his name is printed in italics as a
minister. His son Grindall, born in 1658, mar
ried Susan, daughter of Rev. John Wilson of
Medficld, and had eight sons and five daughters.
RAWSON, GRINDALL, minister of Mcndon,
Mass., died Feb. 6, 1715, aged 56. He was the
son of Secretary Edward; was graduated at Har
vard college in 1678, and was ordained successor
of Mr. Emerson about the year 1680, when there
were but about twenty families in the town. Such
] was his benevolence, that he studied the Indian
language that he might be able to preach the
gospel of salvation to the Indians in Mendon.
He usually preached to them in their own tongue
every Sunday evening. His discouragements
were great, for he had but little success ; but he
persevered in his humane exertions. He was
highly respected for his talents, piety, and be
nevolence. He was succeeded by Mr. Dorr.
When on his sick bed, as he was reminded of his
faithfulness in the service of God, he replied :
" O, the great imperfection I have been guilty of!
How little have I done for God ! " lie continued :
" If it were not for the imperfection of the saints,
there would be no need of a Saviour. In the
Lord Jehovah I have righteousness and strength."
The last words which he uttered were : " Come,
Lord Jesus, come quickly." He published the
election sermon, 1709. — C. Mather's Death of
Good Men.
RAWSON, GRINDALL, first minister of South
Hadley, and of Hadlymein East Iladdam, Conn.,
died in 1777, aged 69. The son of Rev. G. R.
of Mendon, he graduated at Harvard in 1728.
He was the first minister of South Hadley, Mass.,
from 1733 to 1741 ; then of Hadlyme, and re
mained pastor until in 1745 he was dismissed.
RAWSON, GRINDALL, minister of Yarmouth,
Mass., died in 1794, aged 73. The cousin of the
preceding, born in Milton, he graduated at
Harvard in 1741 ; was from 1751 to 1754 the
minister of Ware ; and was pastor at Yarmouth
from 1755 to 1760. — Sprayue's Annals.
RAWSON, JAMES, D. I)., died in Hungan's
parish, Virginia, Aug. 26, 1854.
RAY, WILLIAM, a poet, died at Auburn, N. Y.,
in 1827, aged 56. He was born in Salisbury,
Conn., and had but little education. After several
ineffectual attempts to provide for his family,
he sailed to the Mediterranean in 1803 on board
the frigate Philadelphia, which struck upon a rock
near Tripoli, and fell into the hands of the Tripo-
litans. He was a slave for a year and a half, and
his sufferings were great. In 1809 he settled in
Essex county, N. Y. ; but was unsuccessful in
trade. In the war of 1812 he was a major in the
detached militia. He afterwards lived in Onon-
RAY.
RED JACKET.
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daga. His volume of poems was published in
1821. In the exordium he says :
l; When you're captured by a Turk,
Sit down aud write a bettor work."
— Spec. Amer. Poetry, II. 137.
RAY, JOSEPH, M. D., died in Cincinnati, Ohio,
April 17, 18,35, aged 48. He was an eminent
teacher in various places, and president of the
Woodward high school. He published three
treatises on arithmetic, and two on algebra, in
good repute at the west.
RAYMOND, WILLIAM, captain, commanded
a company of young men of Beverly in the ex
pedition to Canada in 1690 ; to him and them a
township of land was given in reward of their
services. Their pastor, Mr. Hale, was chaplain.
— R. EantouUs Memoir of Hale, in coll. hist.
soc. 3d series, vol. 7.
RAYXER, JOHN, or Reyner, died at Dover,
N. II., in April, 1069, probably as old as 70 years.
He had his degree at Magdalen college, Cam
bridge, in 1625. He began to preach at Ply
mouth about March, 1635, and was successor of
R. Smith as the teacher from 1636 to 1654,
when he left the town in consequence of the dim
inution of his church by emigration and of pre
judices against a learned ministry. He was
installed at Dover in 1657. He manifested the
Christian virtues and was an able and faithful
preacher. The instruction of children occupied
much of his attention. He married Frances
Clark of Boston about 1642.
RAYNER, JOHN, minister of Dover, N. II.,
died in Eraintree Dec. 21, 1676, aged 34. The
son of J. Rayncr, born in Plymouth ; he gradu
ated in 1663, and settled in 1671, the successor
of his father.
READ, GEORGE, chief justice of Delaware,
died in 1798, aged 64. He Avas a patriot of the
Revolution, was of Irish descent, and born in
Maryland in 1734. After he was admitted to
the bar he relinquished to his brothers his right
to two shares of his father's estate. He was at
torney-general of the three lower counties from
1763 till 1775. In August, 1774, he was chosen
a member of congress and continued in that body
during the Revolutionary war. Though he voted
against the declaration of independence, thinking
it premature, yet he signed the instrument, and
was truly a friend of his country. He presided
in the convention which formed the first consti
tution of Delaware, and was a member of that
which formed the constitution of the United
States. He was also a senator of the United
States, and chief justice from 1793 till his death.
He was a distinguished judge, and in private life
respectable and estimable. — Goodrich.
READ, CLEMENT, minister in Charlotte county,
Virginia, died in 1841, aged 71.
READ, LEIGH, brigadier-general, died at Tal
lahassee, Florida, in 1841, aged 31; a brave officer
in the Scminole war in 1836.
READ, JOHN, a great lawyer in Massachu
setts, died Feb. 7, 1749, aged about 72. He
graduated at Harvard in 1697. lie was a man
of talents and integrity, and a friend of the peo
ple. He was a representative of Boston and a
councillor. The next age was fond of quoting
his opinions and sayings. — Eliot.
READ, Jonx, M. D., died at Philadelphia in
November, 1792.
READ, COLLINSOX, published abridgment of
the LIAVS of Pennsylvania, 1804.
READ, D., published American singing book,
also a new collection of psalm tunes, Dedham,
1805.
READ, THOMAS, D. D., died at Wilmington,
Delaware, in 1823. He was many years an ex
cellent preacher in the Presbyterian church. As
he received an honorary degree at Princeton in
1772, he was probably aged 75 or more at his
death. — Rev. T. R. died in Montgomery county,
Maryland, Jan. 5, 1838, aged 90, nearly forty
years rector of Prince George's parish.
READ, WILLIAM, doctor, died at Charleston,
S. C., April 20, 1845, aged 91. He had the rank
of lieutenant-colonel, and was of Washington's
staff in the war of the Revolution.
READ, NATHAN, judge, died in Hallowell,
Maine, Jan. 20, 1849, aged 89. He graduated
in 1781, and soon opened a school in Salem for
young ladies, and he became noted for his me
chanical science and inventions. He was a mem
ber of congress from Essex county in 1801. He
emigrated to Maine. Of the American academy
he was a member. Such were his high inventive
powers, that before Fulton he applied steam to
navigation, but with paddles instead of wheels.
READING, THOMAS, a distinguished patriot
of the Revolution, died near Flemington, N. J.,
in 1814, aged 81. He was religious from youth;
in dying he said, " I am now ready to be offered."
REAM, JEREMIAH, a preacher in Sumter dis
trict, South Carolina, after he was ninety years
old ; died after 1797, aged 100. — Ramsay.
REDFIELD, WILLIAM C., died in New York
Feb. 12, 1857, aged 68. Born in Middletown,
Conn., he came to New York in 1825. He was
a man of science and zealously promoted steam
navigation. In 1828 he published a paper on a
route of a great western railway. He began
early to study the theory of storms. His writ
ings on meteorology appeared in the American
journal of science, and in the nautical magazines
and journals. lie gave much attention also to
geology.
RED JACKET, chief of the Seneca Indians,
:lied near Buffalo, N. Y., Jan. 20, 1830, aged 80.
His Indian name was Sagryuwhahad, Keeper
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REED.
Awake. He had always strenuously opposed the
introduction of Christianity, of schools, and of the
arts of civilized life among his people. Before
his death he was restored to his dignity of chief,
from which he had been deposed a few years for
his intemperance and other vices. His people
were divided into the Christian party and the
heathen party. He died a pagan ; requesting
his wife to put into his hand when he was about
to die a vial of water, that, as the devil might at
tempt to take his soul, he might thus be secure.
This expedient might have been the result of a
dream, or of the Catholic practice of sprinkling
with holy water.
REDLON, SARAH, died at Buxton, Maine,
Dec. 26, 1856, aged 100; the widow of Ebenezer
R., a Revolutionary soldier. She retained her
faculties in old age. The mother of eleven chil
dren, her descendants were two hundred and
seventy-three.
REDMAN, JOHN, M. D., first president of
the college of physicians of Philadelphia, died
March 19, 1808, aged 86. He was born in that
city Feb. 27, 1722. After finishing his prepara
tory education in Mr. Tennent's academy, he
entered upon the study of physic with John
Kcarsely, then one of the most respectable physi
cians of Philadelphia. When he commenced the
practice of his profession he went to Bermuda,
where he continued for several years. Thence
he proceeded to Europe for the purpose of per
fecting his acquaintance with medicine. He lived
one year in Edinburgh ; he attended lectures,
dissections, and the hospitals in Paris; he was
graduated at Leyden in July, 1748; and, after
passing some time at Gray's hospital, he returned
to America, and settled in his native city, where
he soon gained great and deserved celebrity. In
the evening of his life he withdrew from the labors
of his profession ; but it was only to engage in
business of another kind. In the year 1784 he
was elected an elder of the second Presbyterian
church, and the benevolent duties of this office
employed him and gave him delight. The death
of his younger daughter in 1806 was soon suc
ceeded by the death of his wife, with whom he
had lived nearly sixty years. lie himself soon
died of the apoplexy, lie was below the middle
stature ; his complexion was dark and his eyes
animated. In the former part of his life he pos
sessed an irritable temper, but his anger was
transient, and he was known to make acknow
ledgments to his pupils and servants for a hasty
expression. He was a decided friend to deple
tion in all the violent diseases of our country.
He bled freely in the yellow fever of 1762, and
threw the weight of his venerable name into the
scale of the .same remedy in the year 1793. In
the diseases of old age he considered small and
frequent bleedings as the first of remedies. He
entertained a high opinion of mercury in all
chronic diseases, and he gave it in the natural
small pox, with the view of touching the salivary
glands about the turn of the pock. He intro
duced the use of turbith mineral as an emetic in
the gangrenous sore throat of 1764. Towards
the close of his life he read the later medical
writers, and embraced 'with avidity some of the
modern opinions and modes of practice. In a
sick room his talents were peculiar. He sus
pended pain by his soothing manner, or chased
it away by his conversation, which was occasion
ally facetious and full of anecdotes, or serious and
instructing. He was remarkably attached to all
the members of his family. At the funeral of
his brother, Joseph R., in 1779, after the com
pany were assembled, he rose from his seat, and,
grasping the lifeless hand of his brother, said :
" I declare in the presence of God and of this
company, that in the whole course of our lives
no angry word nor look has ever passed between
this dear brother and me." He then kneeled
down by the side of his coffin, and implored the
favor of God to his widow and children. He was
an eminent Christian. While he was not ashamed
of the gospel of Christ, he thought humbly of
himself, and lamented his slender attainments in
religion. His piety was accompanied by benevo
lence and charity. lie gave liberally to the poor.
Such was the cheerfulness of his temper, that
upon serious subjects he was never gloomy. He
spoke often of death, and of the scenes which
await the soul after its separation from the body,
with perfect composure. He published an inau
gural dissertation on abortion, 1748; and a de
fence of inoculation, 1759.
REDMAN, JOSEPH, Dr., died at Bordentown,
X J., in 1818: he had lived in Philadelphia.
REDWOOD, ABRAHAM, a friend of learning,
died in Newport, R. I., in 1788, aged 78. He
was a Quaker, and came from Antigua to New
port. In 1730 a number of gentlemen formed a
society for the promotion of knowledge and vir
tue. The establishment of a library being
deemed important, Mr. Redwood gave 500
pounds sterling for the purpose. In consequence
an incorporation was obtained for the company of
the Redwood library ; Mr. Collins gave a lot of
land; and wealthy citizens subscribed 5,000
pounds. The building was finished in 1750.
The British troops in the war carried away some
of the finest works ; but the library now contains
six or seven thousand volumes. — Ci/cl. o/'Amcr.
Lit.
REED, JOHN, an eminent lawyer of Danbury,
Conn., settled there perhaps before the beginning
of the last century. He was as singular as he
was learned. Anecdotes of him may yet be pre
served in D.
REED, JOSEPH, general, president of Pcnn-
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sylvania, died March 4, 1785, aged 43. He was
bom in Now Jersey Aug. 27, 1741, and gradu
ated at Princeton in 1757. He studied law with
11. Stockton ; also at the Temple in London. On
his return he resided in Philadelphia, where he
was one of the committee of correspondence in
1774 and president of the convention. He
accompanied AVashington to Cambridge in July,
1775, and as his aid and secretary remained with
him during the campaign. In the campaign of
177G he was adjutant-general, and proved him
self a brave, active, and useful officer. By direc
tion of Washington, he cooperated in the affair
of Princeton, Jby attacking the neighboring British
posts. In the spring of 1777 he was appointed
a general officer in the cavalry, but declined the
station, though he still attended the army. lie
was engaged in the battle of Germantown. In
1777 he was chosen a member of congress. In
May, 1778, when he was a member of congress,
the three commissioners from England arrived in
America. Gov. Johnstone, one of them, ad
dressed private letters to F. Dana, R. Morris,
and Mr Reed to secure their influence towards
the restoration of harmony, giving to the two
latter intimations of honors and emoluments.
But he addressed himself to men who were firm
in their attachment to America. Mr. Reed had
a yet severer trial, for direct propositions were
made to him in June, through the agency of an
accomplished American lady, known to be Mrs.
Ferguson, wife of Henry Hugh F., a Scotchman,
who joined the British. She assured him, as from
Gov. Johnstone, that 10,000 pounds sterling and
the best office in the gift of the crown in America
should be at his disposal, if he could effect a re
union of the two countries. He replied, that
" He was not worth purchasing ; but, such as he
was, the king of Great Britain was not rich
enough to do it." In Oct., 1778, he was chosen
president of Pennsylvania, and he continued in
this office till Oct., 1781. During his adminis
tration violent parties sprung up from various
causes, as the paper currency, opposition to the
State constitution, and personal ambition, and he
was rudely assailed, as many other illustrious
men have been, in the public papers, the vehicles
of passion and slander. Yet he remained in of
fice so long as he was eligible ; and then returned
to the profession of the law. He was content to
rest the merits of his administration on the
arrangements for establishing the university, for
the gradual abolition of slavery, and the demo
lition of proprietary power. lie ever enjoyed the
confidence of AVashington and Greene. In 1784
he visited England for his health. His wife was
the daughter of Dennis De Berdt, an eminent
merchant of London and agent for Massachu
setts ; his son, Jos. R., was a respected citizen of
Philadelphia; his youngest son, Gco. W. It., edu
cated at Princeton, served under Decatur in 1804 ;
commanded the Vixen brig-of-war in the war of
1812; and died a prisoner in England. Gen. R.
was pure in morals and polished in manners. He
published remarks on Johnstone's speech, with
papers relative to his propositions, etc., 1779;
remarks on a publication in the Gazetteer, with
an address to the people on the many libels, etc.,
1783. This was addressed to Gen. Cadwalladcr,
who replied. — Marshall, III. 529, 544 ; Rogers.
REED, SOLOMON, minister of Middleborough,
Mass., died in 1785, aged 68. Born in Abiugton,
he graduated at Harvard in 1739 ; was ordained
minister of Framingham in 1747 ; and installed
at M. in 1757. Of his sons, John was a Unitarian
minister ; Solomon, the minister of Petersham, died
in 1 808, aged 55 ; and Samuel, the minister of War
wick, died in 1812, aged 57. — Sprar/ue's Annals.
REED, SOLOMON, minister of Petersham, Mass.,
died in 1808, aged 55. Born in Middleborough,
he graduated at Yale in 1775, and was pastor
from 1780 to 1800.
REED, SAMUEL, minister of Warwick, Mass.,
died in 1812, aged 57. Born in Middleborough,
he graduated at Dartmouth in 1778, and was set
tled in 1779.
REED, JOHN, D. D., minister of West Bridge-
water, Mass., died Feb. 17, 1831, aged 80. He
was the son of Solomon R., minister of Middle-
borough ; was graduated at Yale college in 1772,
and ordained as colleague with D. Perkins June
7, 1780. He and his two predecessors, D. Per
kins and J. Keith, occupied one hundred and
sixty-seven years ; that is, Mr. Keith from 1664
to 1719, Mr. Perkins from 1721 to 1782, and Dr.
R. from 1780 to 1831. He was a member of
congress. He published a convention sermon,
1807 ; before the Plymouth association, 1810 ; a
treatise on baptism, 12mo.
REED, WILLIAM, a missionary, died on his
return from India in 1834.
REED, AUGUSTUS B., minister of Ware, Mass.,
died in 1838, aged 38. He graduated at Provi
dence in 1821.
REED, NELSON, died at Baltimore in 1840,
aged 88 ; the oldest Methodist minister in the
United States.
REED, JOSEPH, died in Bordentown, N. J.,
Jan. 7, 1843, aged 95. He was a soldier of the
Revolution : his father was one of the first set
tlers in the region in which he lived.
REED, JOHN, D. D., died at Poughkeepsie,
N. Y., July 6, 1845, aged 68.
REED, ISAAC G., colonel, died in Waldobor-
ough Feb. 26, 1847, aged 63. His father, Isaac,
was a graduate of Cambridge ; his mother, Mary,
was the daughter of Isaac Gardner, who was
slain April 19, 1775. He graduated at Cam
bridge in 1803, studied law, and settled in W.
lie was a legislator of Massachusetts and Maine,
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REILAY.
a member of the Maine convention, and he de
signed and prepared the State seal. He was a
worthy Christian professor, and died in peace.
REED, CALEB, a graduate of 1817, was the
son of Rev. John Reed, and died in Boston Oct.
14, 1854, aged 57. He published a small work,
— the general principles of English grammar, —
1821. For more than twenty years he was editor
of the New Jerusalem magazine, and a believer
in the strange notions of the Swedenborgian so
ciety.
REED, WILLIAM, died at Marblehead, sud
denly, Feb. 18, 1837, aged 60, while attending
the meeting of the Sunday school children. He
was an eminent merchant, and of a benevolent
and religious character. He was a member of
congress from 1811 to 1815; was president of
the Sabbath school union of Massachusetts, and
of the American tract society, and a member of
the board of visitors of the theological seminary
at Andover, and of the trustees of Dartmouth
college. He left 68,000 dollars to benevolent
objects; of which 17,000 were to Dartmouth col
lege, 10,000 to Amherst, 10,000 to the American
board of missions, 9,000 and 7,000 to the two
churches of Marblehead, and 5,000 to increase
the library of Andover seminary.
REED, HENRY, professor of English litera
ture in the university of Pennsylvania, perished
on his return from Europe in the steamer Arctic,
Sept. 27, 1854, aged 46. He was a grandson of
the patriot Joseph Reed, and graduated at the
university in 1825. His wife was Elizabeth W.
Bronson, a grand-daughter of Bishop White. He
studied law, and was an eminent scholar and
teacher. He edited a dictionary, and Arnold's
lectures on history ; he wrote essays and reviews,
and a life of General Reed. Since his death, his
brother, W. B. Reed, has published his lectures
on English literature, from Chaucer to Tennyson.
— Cycl. of Amer. Lit.
REED, HANNAH, widow of William Reed,
died at Marblehead May 16, 1855, aged about 77.
Her maiden name was Hooper, of one of the
principal families of M. Her house was the seat
of hospitality, and she was always engaged in
works of charity. In attending distant meetings
of the American board of missions, she some
times took with her, at her own expense, half a
dozen female companions. She was a most ac
complished lady and eminent Christian.
REESE, THOMAS, D. D., minister in South
Carolina, was graduated at the college of New
Jersey in 1768, and was for several years settled
over the Presbyterian church at Salem, S. C. He
died at Charleston in Aug., 1796. He published
an essay on the influence of religion in civil soci
ety, 1788 ; death of Christians is gain, in Ameri
can preacher, I. ; and the character of Haman, in
ibid. vol. n.
REESIDE, JAMES, long a famous mail con
tractor, called " the land admiral," died at Phila
delphia in 1842.
REEVE, EZRA, minister of Holland, Mass,
died in 1818, aged 85. Born on Long Island, he
graduated at Yale in 1757, and was settled in
1785.
REEVE, TAPPING, chief justice of Connecticut,
died at Litchfield Dec. 13, 1823, aged 79. He
was the son of Abner R., minister of Brookha-
ven, L. I, was born in Oct., 1744; was graduated
in 1763 at Princeton college ; and entered upon
the profession of the law at Litchfield, Conn., in
1772. He was a patriot in the time of the Revo
lution. He was a judge of the superior court
from 1798 till he was 70 years old. In 1792 he
commenced a law school, and continued to give
lectures to students at law nearly thirty years till
1820. His pupils were numerous. His first
wife, the daughter of Pres. Burr, was in feeble
health, demanding his care, for twenty years.
His only child, Aaron Burr R., died Sept. 1,
1809, aged 28. He was not only a profound law
yer, but also an eminent Christian. Much of his
time was employed in devotion. He was accus
tomed to pray particularly for the conversion of
individuals among his acquaintance. His chari
ties were extensive. His minister said of him :
" I have never known a man who loved so many
persons with such ardor, and was himself beloved
by so many." He published a tract on the do
mestic relations, 1816. — Beecher's Fun. Sermon.
REID, GEORGE, general, died in Londonderry,
N. II., in 1815, aged 81. He was a colonel in
the war, in 1780; in 1785 was brigadier-general
of the militia; in 1791 sheriff of Rockingham.
REID, JOHN, major, aid to General Jackson,
died .in 1816. He was born in Campbell county,
Va., and was the son of Major Nathan Reid, a
hero of the Revolution. Educated at Lexington,
Rockbridge county, he settled as a lawyer in Ten
nessee, and afterwards in New Orleans, where his
practice was very profitable. Becoming aid to
Jackson, he manifested a commendable humanity
in the war with the Creeks. He was an able of
ficer. He died at the house of his father, of the
typhoid pneumonia. — National Register, vol. I.
REID, ROBERT R., governor of Florida, died
near Tallahassee in 1841, aged 51. Born in
South Carolina, he was a member of congress
from Georgia, and a judge of the superior court.
Mr. Van Buren appointed him governor in 1839.
He was a scholar and jurist, and of a kindly
temper.
REID, JARED, minister of Belchertown, Mass.,
died in 1854, aged about 58. Born in Colchester,
Conn., he graduated at Yale in 1817, and was set
tled in 1833, as the successor of L. Coleman.
REILAY, JOHN, captain, died in Troy, N. Y.,
in 1838, aged 104.
REINKER.
REYNOLDS.
GOO
REIXKER, ABRAHAM, a Moravian minister,
died at Litiz. Pa., in 1833, aged 78.
REMINGTON, JONATHAN, judge of the su
preme court of Massachusetts, died at Cambridge
Sept. 30, 1745, aged about 70. He graduated at
Harvard in 1696, and was the second tutor from
1707 to 1711. II. Flynt was the first.
RENSIIAW, JAMES, commodore in the navy
of the United States, diad at Washington in May,
1846, aged 62.
REVEL, JOHN, one of the five first underta
kers of New England, and an assistant in 1629,
returned to England in 1630 or 1631. The
other four were "Winthrop, Dudley, Johnson, and
Saltonstall. — Eliot.
REVERE, PAUL, colonel, a patriot and a
most ingenious artist, died in Boston in May,
1818, aged 83. He was born in B. in December,
1734, or Jan. 1, 1735, new style. The name was
written Rivoire by his ancestors in France. His
grandfather, a Huguenot, emigrated from St.
Foy to Guernsey Island. His father, when a boy,
was sent to Boston to learn the trade of a gold
smith; married there, and Paul was his eldest
son. He was brought up to his father's trade ;
was skilful with the graver ; and having a taste
for drawing, executed all the engravings on silver
plate. In the war of 17(56 he was a lieutenant of
artillery in the army, and was stationed at fort
Edward on Lake George. On his return he
married and settled down for life as a goldsmith,
deeply interested in various mechanical and man
ufacturing arts. He studied mechanics as a sci
ence. In the art of engraving on copper he was
self-instructed. One of his first productions was
an engraved portrait of his friend Dr. Mayhew,
•whose ministry, to the grief of his father, he was
disposed to attend ; another was a representation
of the repeal of the stamp act in 1766. Another
was of great note. The house of representatives
had issued, in 1768, a circular to the other prov
inces on the alarming claims of the mother coun
try. Gov. Bernard required them to rescind it ;
but for compliance there were only seventeen
votes, while ninety-two stood firm. The seven-
enteen rescinders, as they were called, were
treated with great contempt. Mr. Revere lent
his art to the side of the people. The design
was a pair of open shark's jaws, with flames issu
ing, and the devil with a pitchfork driving the re
scinders into the " warm place," as it was called.
The foremost of them, supposed to be Mr. Rug-
gles of Worcester, seeming reluctant, a special
winged agent, with his fork, is flying towards him,
saying, "Push on, Tim." In 1770 he published
an engraved print of the massacre in King street
March 5, 1770, of which a lithograph has been
republished. In the same year he was one of the
grand jury, which refused to act, in consequence
of an act of parliament making the judges inde
pendent of the people. One man only, Mr.
Pratt of Chelsea, hesitated; but he, when the
chief justice told him it was unimportant whether
the crown or the province paid the salaries, re
joined, " I won't sarve" This was the last grand
jury of the crown. In 1775 he engraved the
plates for the Massachusetts paper money ; and
the provincial congress sent him to Philadelphia
to visit the only powder-mill, to learn the art of
making powder. On his return he set up a mill.
He was employed on other confidential business.
He was one of those who planned the destruction
of the tea in Boston harbor. He belonged to a
club of patriotic young men, concerning whose
operations a letter of his is in print. He became
a lieutenant-colonel in the regiment for the de
fence of the State. The trunnions of the cannon
being broken oft' by the British as they left castle
William, Washington called on Mr. Revere to
render them useful, which he did by a new car
riage. After the peace he erected an air-furnace
and cast church bells and brass cannon. His
mills were at Canton, near Boston. He was first
president of the charitable mechanic association,
and a liberal supporter of various benevolent in
stitutions. He prospered and educated a large
family of children, who venerated the memory of
such a father. His large house was in Bonnet
street. His son, Joseph W. Revere, lives in Bos
ton. His youngest son was Dr. John Revere.
His letter, referred to, relating to the affairs of
1775, is in historical collections, vol. V. Notices
of him are in New England magazine, and in
annals of Massachusetts mechanic association,
1853. The magazine has a fine lithograph of
him from a painting by Stuart. — N.E.Mag.,
m. 305.
REVERE, JOHN, M. D., died at New York
April 29, 1847, aged 60. He was a professor in
the medical school of the university of New York ;
also in Jefferson college, Philadelphia; a graduate
of Harvard in 1807.
REXFORD, ELIJAH, the first minister of
Monroe, Conn., died in 1807, aged about 66.
He graduated at Yale in 1763; was settled in
1766 ; and was succeeded by Chauncey G. Lee
in 1821.
REYNOLDS, Methodist bishop in Canada,
died at Hamilton, Canada West, Jan. 17, 1857,
aged 71. He was born at Clynehill, near Hud
son, N. Y., and had been a preacher fifty years.
His last sermon was from this text : " For there
shall be no night there."
REYNOLDS, PETES, minister of Enfield, Conn.,
died May 11, 1768, aged 67. Born in Bristol,
R. I., he graduated at Yale in 1720, and was in
| the ministry at E. 42 years. The poetic inscrip-
j tion on his monument is preserved. He pr.b-
lished the election sermon, 1757. — Barber's Hist-
Coll. of Conn.
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REYNOLDS, JOSEPH, died at Whitehall, N. Y.,
Sept. 16, 1840, aged 100; a Revolutionary officer,
a pensioner as a lieutenant in the United States
army.
REYNOLDS, THOMAS, governor of Missouri,
killed himself at Jefferson city Feb. 9, 1844, aged
51. It is said he assigned as a reason for his
crime the violence of his political enemies : was
he a madman ? A native of Kentucky, he be
came a judge of the supreme court of Illinois,
and afterwards judge and governor of Missouri.
REYNOLDS, FREEGEACE, minister of Wil
mington, Mass., died in Dec., 1854, aged 88.
Born in Somers, the son of a physician, he grad
uated at Yale in 1787, and was ordained in 1795.
After thirty-five years he removed to Leverett,
where he was pastor seven years, but returned in
1839 to W., where he died. He was a plain,
evangelical preacher.
REYNOLDS, J. A., Catholic bishop, died at
Charleston, S. C., March 6, 1855, aged 56.
REYNOLDS, MICAJAH, colonel, died at New
ark in August, 1856. He left 11,000 dollars to
Baptist missionary and bible societies and other
charities.
RHEES, MORGAN J., D. D., an eminent Bap
tist minister, died at Williamsburg, N. Y., Jan.
15, 1853, aged 49. He lived much in Philadel
phia, and was at first a lawyer. His sermons
were well studied, without useless verbiage, short,
and impassioned; and remembered.
RHOADES, FOSTER, died in Pensacola Nov.
17, 1846. As the United States naval constructor
he built some of our most beautiful ships of war ;
he also built vessels for the Turkish navy. He
was esteemed for his virtues.
RICE, CALEB, first minister of Sturbridge,
Mass., died in 1759, aged 46. Born in Hingham,
he graduated at Harvard in 1730, and was settled
in 1736. Some of his successors were O. Lane,
A. Bond, and J. S. Clark.
RICE, ASAPII, minister of Westminster, Mass.,
died in 1816, aged 83. Born in Hardwick, he
graduated at Harvard in 1762, and was ordained
in 1765. In 1762 he went on a mission with Dr.
Forbes to the Oneida Indians, with the care of
whom he was left. — Sprague's Annals.
RICE, DAVID, supposed to have been the first
Presbyterian minister in Kentucky, died, it is
thought, about 1815 or 1820. He commenced
his labors when the country was a wilderness, in
habited chiefly by Indians. In this year, 1857, it
is proposed to remove his remains to Louisville,
Ky., and to erect a monument to his memory.
RICE, JACOB, first minister of Hcnniker, N. II.,
died in Maine in 1824, aged 84. Born in North-
borough, Mass., he graduated at Harvard in 1765,
and was pastor from 1769 to 1782. M. Sawyer
succeeded him.
RICE, TILLEY, Dr., died in Brookfield, Mass.,
in 1824, aged 66.
RICE, JOHN II., D. D., professor in the Union
theological school in Prince Edward county, Va.,
was for many years a distinguished minister in
that State. The theological seminary was estab
lished in 1824. He died Sept. 3, 1831, aged 52.
Memoirs of his life were published by Mr. Max
well. A paper of " resolutions " was found in
his pocket-book, among which were the follow
ing : "Never spare person, property, or reputa
tion, if I can do good ; necessary that I should
die poor. Endeavor to feel kindly to every one ;
never indulge anger, envy, jealousy towards any
human being. Endeavor to a'ct so as to advance
the present comfort, the intellectual improvement,
and the purity and moral good of all my fellow
men." He was for some years the editor of the
Virginia evangelical and literary magazine. He
published memoirs of S. Davies ; an illustration
of the Presbyterian church in Virginia, 1816; on
the qualifications for the minister, in the quarterly
register; a discourse before the foreign board of
missions, 1828.
RICE, LUTHER, missionary, died Oct. 25, 1836,
aged about 46. He was born in Northborough,
Mass., and graduated at Williams college in
1810. He sailed as a missionary of the American
board to India in 1812; but afterwards becoming
a Baptist, he returned to this country and was
actively employed in promoting missions among
his brethren, the Baptists. He died in Edgefield
district, S. C. Columbia college was chiefly
founded by his efforts in the District of Columbia.
RICE, BENJAMIN, minister of Winchendon,
Mass., died in 1847, aged 63. He was a grad
uate of Brown university in 1808.
RICE, HENRY -GARDNER, a merchant in Bos
ton, died March 26, 1853, aged 69. The son of
Dr. Tilley R. of Brookfield, born Feb. 18, 1784,
he graduated at Harvard in the large class of
1802. He was a man of amiable, respectable
character.
RICE, BENJAMIN HOLT, D. D., died in Prince
Edward county, Va., Feb. or March 17, 1856,
being struck with the palsy as he was preaching
in his own pulpit. He was a minister of dis
tinction ; and a younger brother, it is believed,
of Dr. John Holt Rice. His title of D. D. was
given him by Princeton college in 1832 ; and he
was for years a minister in the town of Prince
ton.
RICH, OBADIAH, died in London Jan. 20, 1850.
He was a member of various learned societies.
He was American consul at Valencia. In Lon
don he did good service to literature as a diligent
collector of rare books and manuscripts, espe
cially relating to America. He published manu
scripts and books relating to America, 1827 ;
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bibliotheca Americana nova, London, 1835, and
by Harper, X. Y.
RICH, EZEKIEL, minister at Deep River, Conn.,
died in 18.54, aged 71. He was educated at An-
dover, and was many jcars the minister of
Troy, X. H.
RICHARD, GARRIEL, a Catholic priest, died in
Detroit in 1832, aged 68; a man of learning.
Born in France, he came to America during the
French Revolution ; was a missionary to Illinois;
went to Detroit in 1798, and was a member of
cor gross in 1823.
RICHARDS, JOHN, minister of North Guil-
ford, Conn., died in 1811, aged about 86. Born
in Waterbury, he graduated at Yale in 1745 ; was
pastor from 1748 to 1765, when he removed to
Vermont.
RICHARDS, JOHN, first minister of Piermont,
N. II., died in 1814, aged 84. Born in Water-
bury, Conn., he graduated at Yale in 1745, and
was pastor from 1776 to 1802.
RICHARDS, JAMES, a missionary, died at
Ceylon Aug. 3, 1822, aged 28. He was born in
Abington, Mass., Feb. 23, 1784; his parents,
while he was young, removed to Plainfield. lit
graduated at Williams college in 1809, being
there the associate of Mills. Having studied
theology at Andover and medicine at Philadel
phia, he embarked for Ceylon in Oct., 1815. Of
a pulmonary disorder, which interrupted his mis
sionary labors, he at last died. His widow, Sarah
Bardwell of Goshen, a sister of Mr. Bardwell,
the missionary, married Rev. Joseph Knight, and
died at Nellore April 26, 1825. He was emi
nently pious and died in peace. — Miss. Herald,
XIX. 241-247; Rprayue's Annals.
RICHARDS, JAMES, D. D., professor of theol
ogy at Auburn, died Aug. 2, 1843, aged 75. Born
in Canaan, Conn., he was ordained over the first
Presbyterian church in Morristown, N. J., 1794;
installed at Newark, 1809; was professor of
theology from 1823 to his death. He was a de
scendant from Samuel R., who came from Wales
and lived near Stamford. His mother was Ruth
Hanford, a woman of intellect and piety. He
had an honorary degree at Yale in 1794; and
was a man eminently useful in the various labors
of a minister and Christian teacher. His lec
tures, with a sketch of his life, by S. H. Gridley,
were published by I)odd, New York, in 1846,
with a portrait. His lectures relate to the will,
the depravity of man, the atonement, election,
justification, ability, and other subjects. Dr.
Sprague published a sermon and an essay on his
character in 1849. He published an address at
the funeral of Sarah Cummings, 1812 ; several ser
mons, 1836; sinners' inability to come to Christ.
RICHARDS, WILLIAM, missionary at the
Sandwich Islands, died at Honolulu Nov. 7, 1847,
aged 54. He was minister of public instruction
: in the service of the king. Born in Plainfield,
j Mass., he graduated at Williams college in 1819,
' at Andover in 1822, and embarked Nov. 19, and
j arrived in April, 1823. His residence was at
Lahaina. He toiled as a most faithful missionary
till 183S; being among the first as a preacher and
translator, no one shared more highly in the af
fections of the Hawaiian people. II is wife was
Clarissa Lyman of Northampton. In 1838 he
entered upon his secular career as adviser of the
king, and introducer of law and order. He went
on a successful embassy in 1842 to the United
States, to Great Britain, and France, to vindicate
the rights of the Sandwich Islands. He returned
from his embassy March 23, 1845, and was ap
pointed by the king his minister of public in
struction in 1846. He did great service in regard
to the publication of the laws in English and
Hawaiian. He was a man of a kind, noble, and
disinterested mind. He left nothing for his wife
and seven or eight children. His widow lived in
New Haven in 1856; a daughter married Pro
fessor Clark of Amhcrst college. — New York
Observer, March 18, 1848; Sprague's Annals.
RICHARDS, WILLIAM L., a missionary, son
of Rev. Wm. 11., died on his return from China,
and was buried in the ocean off St. Helena June
5, 1851, aged about 25. Pres. Brown of Jeffer
son college adopted and educated him. He
studied theology at the Union seminary, New
York; and in 1847 went as a missionary to
China, where in three years he acquired a good
knowledge of the Chinese, and had begun to
preach in it, when illness interrupted his labors.
— Sprague's Annals.
RICHARDSON, JOILX, minister of Newbury,
Mass., died in 1696, aged 49. He graduated at
Harvard in 1666, and was ordained in 1675. He
was the son of Amos 11. of Stonington, Conn. —
Farmer's Register.
RICHARDSON, ABIJAH, Dr., died in Medway,
Mass., in 1822, aged 70.
RICHARDSON, WILLIAM, colonel, a distin
guished officer in the Revolution, died in Caroline
county, Md., in 1825, aged 90. He was treas
urer of the eastern shore.
RICHARDSON, WILLIAM M., LL. D., died
at Chester, N. H., March 23, 1838, aged 64. He
was chief justice of New Hampshire. He was
born in Pelham, N. H., Jan. 4, 1774, and grad
uated at Cambridge in 1797. He was preceptor
of the academy at Groton, and also practised law
there, and was a member of congress from 1811
to 1814, in which last year he removed to Ports
mouth. From 1816 for twenty-two years he was
chief justice; and was highly respected and es
teemed. He was the author of the New Hamp
shire justice, and of the town officer. A large
part of the matter in four volumes of reports was
prepared by him.
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RICHARDSON, WILLIAM, died at Bath, Me.,
Dec. 22, 1846, aged GO; a prosperous merchant,
a man of liberal charities, and a Christian. He
bequeathed 10,000 dollars to the Maine mission
ary society.
RICHARDSON, JOHN J., judge, died in South
Carolina in 1850. He was a member of congress.
RICHMOND, EDWARD, D. D., minister of
Stoughton from 1792 to 1817, died in Boston
April 10, 1842, aged 75. Born in Middleborough,
he graduated at Brown university in 1789. lie
was pastor in Dorchester from 1817 to 1833 ; then
lived several years in Braintree. He was re
garded as an Arminian, and in his last days as a
Unitarian. He published a sermon at ordination
of S. Wordsworth; to a masonic lodge, 1801; to
Derby academy, 1807; at last meeting in old
house, 1808; at ordination of C. Briggs, 1819. —
Sprague's Annals.
R1CHSONVILLE, a principal chief of the
Miami Indians, died Aug. 13, 1841, aged 80, on
St. Mary's river, near Fort Wayne, Indiana. He
left 200,000 dollars in specie and a large landed
estate.
RIDDEL, WILLIAM, a minister, who preached
in various places in New England, died Oct. 24,
1829, aged 82. Born in Coleraine, he graduated
at Dartmouth in 1793; was pastor at Bristol,
Me., from 1796 to 1804; lived in Townsend and
Whitingham, Vt. ; in Bernardston, Hadlcy, and
South Deerfield. His wife was a daughter of
Rev. S. Hopkins of Hadlcy. He was the father
of Rev. Samuel II. Riddel. — Sprague's Annals.
RIDDEL, JOHN, D. I)., minister of the Dutch
church at Robinson's Run, Pa., died in 1829,
aged 70.
RIDDLE, JAMES, judge, died at Chambers-
burg, Pa., Feb. 5, 1837, aged 82. He graduated
at Princeton in 1779, and was a tutor. He was
a lawyer of respectable talents, of learning and
worth ; and a judge of the high court of errors
and appeals.
RIDGE, JOHN, an Indian, died June 10, 1839,
aged about 38, murdered by Indians. He was a
Cherokee, educated at the Indian school at Corn
wall, Conn., and there married Miss Gold, of a
respectable family, lie was an attorney among
the Cherokees, and president of the senate of
that Indian nation.
RIDGELY, CHARLES, a physician, died Aug.
25, 1785, aged 47. The son of Nicholas R. of Do
ver, Delaware, he was born Jan. 26, 1738. Hav
ing studied medicine in Philadelphia, he settled
in Dover in 1758, and there passed his life in ex
tensive practice and high reputation. He was
often also a member of the legislature, and a
judge in several courts. By his first wife his son
was Nicholas II., chancellor of Delaware ; by his
second wife his son was Henry Moore 11., a sen
ator of the United States ; his daughter, Mary,
married Dr. Wm. W. Morris, of Dover. He
was a man of intelligence, judgment, and learn
ing, and amiable in the relations of life. Of the
Episcopal church he was an exemplary member.
To the religious education of his children he was
very attentive, deeming merely intellectual cul
ture without the discipline of the passions and of
the heart of little value. To his children and all
around him he recommended the diligent study
of the Scriptures. — Thaclter.
RIDGELY, HENRY MOORE, died in Dover,
Del., in 1847, aged 69. lie was an eminent law
yer ; twice chosen a member of congress ; and a
j senator of the United States in 1827.
RIDGELY, CHARLES G., commodore, died at
I Baltimore in 1848, aged 63. Born at B., he en
tered the navy in 1799, and was at the battle of
Tripoli with Preblc.
RIDGEWAY, JACOB, died at Philadelphia,
April 30, 1843, aged 74 ; said to be worth 6,000,-
000 dollars. How a man of immense Avcalth
ought to dispose of his money is an important
question for him to settle.
RIEDESEL, FREDERICA, baroness, died at
Berlin, Prussia, in 1808, aged 62. At the age of
sixteen she married Lieutenant-Colonel Ricdesel,
who, in 1777, commanded the Brunswick troops
in the English service in America. She accom
panied him, and returned to Europe in 1783.
He died in 1808. Her adventures in America
were published by her son-in-law, Count de Reuss,
entitled voyage to America, or letters of Madame
Von Ricdesel, translated, New York, 1827.
RIGDALE, JOHN, came over with his wife in
the Mayflower in 1620, and died in the first sick
ness at Plymouth in 1621.
RIGHTER, CHESTER N, a minister, agent of
the American bible society, died at Diarbeker,
Turkey, in Dec., 1856, aged about 30. He grad
uated at Yale in 1846. He had been on an ex
tended tour among the missionary stations in
Turkey when he was taken sick. Among his
last words were often these, " God is good ! "
HIKER, RICHARD, recorder of New York for
nearly thirty years, died in 1842, aged 69.
RILEY, JAMES, captain, died at sea March 15,
1840, aged 63. He was of Middlctown, Conn. ;
and published a narrative of sufferings in North
Africa, on the coast of which he was wrecked.
As to his rescue from a horrible captivity two
names should be mentioned with honor : William
Wiltshire, a native of London, a merchant in
Mogadore, who paid 1200 dollars for his redemp
tion and that of some of his companions ; and
Horatio Sprague, an American merchant at Gib
raltar, who paid at once Riley's draft to W. for
that sum.
RINGGOLD, SAMUEL, major, was killed iu
battle in Texas, May 8, 1846, aged 50. He was
the son of General Samuel It. of Maryland ; his
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mother was a daughter of General Cadwalladcr.
lie graduated at West Point; he entered the
army as a lieutenant of artillery in 1818. He
served in Florida ; and organized the Hying ar
tillery. By a cannon-ball was he killed with his
horse. He was an officer of distinction.
HIPLEY, DAVID, first minister of Abington in
Pomfret, Conn., died in 1785, aged about 56.
Graduated at Yale in 1749, he was settled in
1753. He was the brother of Dr. II. Ilipley.
RIPLEY, SYLVAXUS, first professor of divinity
in Dartmouth college, died in 1787, aged about
37. lie was a graduate of the first class in 1771,
and was early ordained as a missionary among
the Indians. lie returned from a mission in
Sept., 1772, bringing with him ten Indian boys
from Cahgnawaga and the tribe at Loretto, to be
educated in Moor's school, of which he was the
preceptor from 1775 to 1779. lie was appointed
professor of divinity in 1782, and was a preacher
to the church connected with the college. He
died, in consequence of an injury received while
riding in a sleigh. His widow, Abigail, the daugh
ter of President E. Wheelock, died at Fryeburg,
Maine, in April, 1818; his daughter, the wife of
Judah Dana, died also in Fryeburg ; his son, Gen
eral Eleazer W. It., was distinguished on the
Canadian frontier in the war of 1812; his son,
General James W. It., was the collector at Pas-
samaquoddy, Maine.
ItlPLEY, WILLIAM B., minister in Goshen, of
Lebanon, Conn., died in 1822, aged about 56. He
graduated at Yale in 1786 ; was settled at Ball-
ston, N. Y. ; then in 1798 at Goshen, and was
succeeded by E. Itipley in 1823.
IUPLEY, UEZEKIAII, D. I)., minister at Green's
Farms, Fairfield, Conn., died in 1831, aged 88.
He was descended from Governor Bradford of
Plymouth, whose daughter married his grand
father Ilipley. His father was David R. of Wind-
ham, Conn. He graduated at Yale in 1763 ; was
ordained at Green's Farms in Fairfield in 1767.
His predecessor, D. Buckingham, graduated in
1735, and was pastor from 1742 to 1756. In
1821 he resigned his charge: T. F. Daniels was
installed in his place in 1829, — Dr. It., in his 87th
year, giving the charge. His son, W. B. Ripley,
minister of Goshen in Lebanon, a graduate of
1786, died in 1822. He was an excellent minis
ter, and a patriot of the Revolution ; a man of a
commanding presence, tall, and athletic. —
Spr ague's Annals.
RIPLEY, DOROTHEA, died in Mecklenburg
county, Va., in Jan., 1832, aged 65. Born in
Whitby, England, she early joined the Metho
dists, but left them, as they did not encourage
her purpose of becoming a preacher ; the Qua
kers refused to receive her as a member. Yet
she preached all her life, crossing the Atlantic in
her travels nineteen times, addressing hundreds
of thousands of people. Of the usefulness of
her labors nothing is known.
RIPLEY, JAMES W., general, the brother of
General E. W. Ripley, died at Fryeburg, Me.»
June 2, 1835. lie was a member of congress
from 1827 to 1831, and collector of the "United.
States at Eastport. His mother, Abigail, died in
1818 ; his brother, John Phillips R., in 1810.
RIPLEY, ELEAZAR WIIF.ELOCK, brigadier-gen
eral, son of Professor Ripley of Dartmouth, died
in New Orleans March 2, 1839, aged about 57.
He was the nephew of President John Whcelock,
and was graduated at Dartmouth in 1800. Hav
ing studied law, he commenced the practice on
the Kennebcc in Maine, and thence removed to
Portland. As a member of the legislature of
Massachusetts he was speaker of the house about
1811. At the beginning of the war of 1812 he
entered the army. At the battle of Bridge water,
after Scott was wounded, he succeeded to the com
mand of the troops engaged, and was regarded
as the saviour of the army. It was in answer to
him that Miller said, " I'll try, sir." After the
war he was an eminent lawyer in New Orleans,
and a member of the twenty-fifth congress. His
wife, who died before him, was Love Allen, the
daughter of Rev. Thomas Allen of Pitt-field.
She nursed him on the frontier after his severe
wound, being shot through the neck at the sortie
from fort Erie. Congress, by resolution, Nov. 3,
1814, presented him with a medal, containing a
bust of General Ripley, and on the reverse Victory
holding up a tablet among the branches of a
palm tree, inscribed with "Niagara, Chippewa,
Erie." He published oration July 4, 1805.
RIPLEY, DAVID B., minister of Maiiborough,
Conn., died in Illinois Sept. 4, 1839, aged about
61. Born in Pomfret, he graduated at Yale in
1798; was minister from 1807 for twenty years,
and was succeeded in 1828 by Chauncey Lee. He
afterwards was the minister of Endor in Illinois,
where he died.
RIPLEY, EZRA, D. D., died at Concord, Mass.,
Sept. 21, 1841, aged 90. He was born in Wood
stock, Conn., May 1, 1751 ; graduated at Har
vard in 1776 ; arid was ordained Nov. 7, 1778.
He preached for the last time May 1, 1841, his
ninetieth birth-clay. His son, Samuel, minister
of Waltham, died in 1847, aged 64; a graduate
of 1804, and settled 1809. He published a ser
mon at ordination of AV. Emerson, 1792 ; of R.
Messenger, 1798 ; on repair of meeting-house ;
at execution of Samuel Smith, 1799 ; masonic
sermon, 1802 ; at ordination of S. Ripley, 1809 ;
of W. Frothingham, 1819 ; of E. Q. Sewall, 1820 ;
at funeral of Ab. Adams, 1813; history of the
fight at Concord, 1827 ; half-century sermon,
1828.
RIPLEY, ERASTUS, minister of Meriden, Conn.,
died Nov. 17, 1843, aged 73. He graduated at
RITCHIE.
PJTTENIIOUSE.
Yale in 1795, and -was minister of Brookficld,
Conn., from 1801 to 1802. He was in M. from
1803 to 1822. lie removed to Goshen in Leba
non in 1823.
IUTCTIIE, WILLIAM, minister of Needham,
Mass., died in 1842, aged about 60. Born at
Peterborough, N. H., he graduated at Dart
mouth in 1804, and succeeded S. Palmer in 1821.
RITCHIE, THOMAS, the editor of the Rich
mond Enquirer, died May 21, 1854. He was a
native of Essex county, Virginia. For a long
period he wielded a great political influence in his
native State. In his last years he went to Wash
ington to relieve his poverty by the aid of the
public printing. His father, Thomas II., died a
few weeks after him, July 3, 1854, aged 76.
RITTENIIOUSE, DAVID, LL. D., F. R. S.,
an eminent philosopher, died June 26, 1796, aged
64, at Philadelphia. He was descended from an
cestors who emigrated from Holland, and was
born in Germantown, Penn., April 8, 1732. The
early part of his life was spent in agricultural
employments ; and his plough, the fences, and
even the stones of the field were marked with
figures, which denoted a talent for mathematical
studies. A delicate constitution rendering him
unfit for the labors of husbandry, he devoted him
self to learning the trade of a clock and mathe
matical instrument maker. In these arts he was
his own instructor. During his residence with
his father in the country he made himself master
of Newton's principia, which he read in the Eng
lish translation of Mott. In this retired situ
ation, while working at his trade, he planned and
executed an orrery, by which he represented the
revolutions of the heavenly bodies more com
pletely than had ever before been done. This
masterpiece of mechanism was purchased by the
college of New Jersey. A second was made by
him, after the same model, for the use of the col
lege of Philadelphia. In 1770 he was induced,
by the urgent request of some friends who knew
his merit, to exchange his beloved retirement for
a residence in Philadelphia. In this city he con
tinued his employment for several years ; and
his clocks had a high reputation, and his math
ematical instruments were thought superior to
those imported from Europe. His first commu
nication to the philosophical society of Philadel
phia, of which he was elected a member, was a
calculation of the transit of Venus, as it was to
happen June 3, 1769. He was one of those ap
pointed to observe it in the township of Norriton.
This phenomenon had never been seen but twice
before by any inhabitant of our earth, and would
never be seen again by any person then living.
The day arrived, and there was no cloud in the
horizon ; the observers waited for the predicted
moment of observation ; it came, and in the in
stant of contact between the planet and sun, an
emotion of joy so powerful was excited in the
breast of Mr. Rittenhouse, that he fainted. Nov.
9th he observed the transit of Mercury. An ac
count of these observations was published in the
transactions of the society. In 1775 he was ap
pointed one of the commissioners for settling a
territorial dispute between Pennsylvania and Vir
ginia ; and to his talents, moderation, and firm
ness was ascribed in a great degree its satisfactory
adjustment in 1785. He assisted in determining
the western limits of Pennsylvania in 1784, and
the northern line of the same State in 1786. He
was also called upon to assist in fixing the boun
dary line between Massachusetts and New York
in 1787. In his excursions through the wilder
ness he carried with him his habits of inquiry and
observation. In 1791 he was chosen president of
the philosophical society, as successor to Di1.
Franklin, and was annually re-elected till his
death. His unassuming dignity secured to him
respect. Soon after he accepted the president's
chair he made to the society a donation of 300
ponnds. He held the office of treasurer of Penn
sylvania by an annual vote of the legislature from
1777 to 1789. In this period he declined pur
chasing the smallest portion of the public debt
of the State, lest his integrity should be im
peached. In 1792 he accepted the office of di
rector of the mint of the United States, but his
ill state of health induced him to resign it in
1795. In his last illness, which was acute and
short, he retained the usual patience and benevo
lence of his temper. He died in the full belief
of the Christian religion, and in the .anticipation
of clearer discoveries of the perfections of God in
the eternal world. He was a man of extensive
knowledge. From the French, German, and
Dutch languages he derived the discoveries of
foreign nations. In his political sentiments he
was a republican ; he was taught by his father to
admire an elective and representative govern
ment ; he early predicted the immense increase
of talents and knowledge, which would be infused
into the American mind by our republican con
stitutions ; and he anticipated the blessed effects
of our Revolution in sowing the seeds of a new
order of things in other parts of the world. He
believed political as well as moral evil to be in
truders into the society of man. In the more
limited circles of private life he commanded es
teem and affection. His house and his manner
of living exhibited the taste of a philosopher, the
simplicity of a republican, and the temper of a
Christian. He possessed rare modesty. His re
searches into natural philosophy gave him just
ideas of the Divine perfections, for his mind was
not pre-occupied in early life with the fictions of
ancient poets and the vices of the heathen gods.
But he did not confine himself to the instructions
of nature; he believed the Christian revelation.
RIVINGTON.
He observed as an argument in favor of its truth,
that the miracles of our Saviour differed from all
pretended miracles in being entirely of a benevo
lent nature. The testimony of a man possessed
of so exalted an understanding outweighs the de
clamation of thousands. He published an ora
tion, delivered before the philosophical society,
1775, the subject of which is the history of as
tronomy ; and a few memoirs on mathematical and
astronomical subjects, in the first four volumes of
the transactions of the society. Dr. Hush deliv
ered an eulogium on him, and memoirs of his
life were published by W. Barton, 8vo., 1813.
RIVINGTON, JAMES, died in New York in
1802, aged 77. Born in Great Britain, he was
many years an eminent printer and bookseller in
New York ; he was king's printer in 1777. Hav
ing failed as a bookseller in England, he came to
America in 1700. He commenced the New York
Gazetteer in 1773. In 1777 he called his paper
the New York Royal Gazette. He remained after
the Avar, and his paper became Rivington's New
York Gazette. That he lived undisturbed by the
patriots is explained by his being known to have
been a spy employed by Washington. — Cycl. of
Amer. Lit.
ROANE, SPENCER, judge, died Sept. 4, 1822,
aged GO. He was born in Essex, Va., April 4,
1762, and thoroughly studied law with Mr.
Wythe, and in Philadelphia. He was early elect
ed a member of the assembly ; then of the coun
cil, and senate. In 1789 he was appointed a
judge of the general court, and in 1794, at the
age of 33, a judge of the court of errors in the
place of Mr. Tazewell, who resigned. In 1819
he was one of the commissioners for locating the
university. His wife was a daughter of Patrick
Henry. In his politics he was a republican, an
adherent of Mr. Jeiferson. He published in the
Richmond Enquirer several essays, signed Alger
non Sydney, asserting the supremacy of the State
in a question of conflicting authority between Vir
ginia and the United States.
ROANE, WILLIAM II., died May 11, 1845, aged
57, at Tree Hill, near Richmond, Va. He was a
senator of the United States, and an ardent poli
tician. He was also of an affectionate disposition,
and had the love' of many friends.
ROBBINS, PHILEMON, minister of Branford,
Conn., died in 1781, aged about 71. He was the
grandson of Nathaniel It., who came from Scot
land in 1670, and died at C'harlestown, Mass., in
1719; and the son of Nathaniel, who died in
1741. He graduated at Harvard in 1729, and
was settled in 1732 a successor of S. Russell.
Sympathizing with Mr. Whiteficld in 1740, and
venturing to preach in a neighboring parish with
out the minister's consent, he was deposed from
office ; but he contemned the injustice of the law,
and continued his labors : his next text was, "Woe
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is me, if I preach not the gospel." In the end
he triumphed. His second wife was widow Jane
Mills, whom he married in 1778, the mother of
S. J. Mills of Torringford. He published an ac
count of ecclesiastical proceedings, 1743 ; a nar
rative, 1747 ; defence of it, 1748 ; at ordination
of his son, C. Robbins, 1760 ; of his son, A. R.
Robbing, 1761. — Sprague's Annals.
ROBBINS, NATHANIEL, minister of Milton,
Mass., died May 19, 1795, aged 68. Born in
Lexington, he graduated in 1747, and in 1750
succeeded at Milton John Taylor, remarkable for
his scholarship and manners. He was a prudent,
useful minister. He published a sermon at the
ordination of P. Thacher, 1770; of B. Wads-
worth, 1773; at election, 1770; at artillery elec
tion, 1772 ; on the Lexington tragedy, 1777.
ROBBINS, CHANDLER, I). IX, minister of Ply
mouth, Mass., died June 30, 1799, aged 60. He
was the son of Philemon R.. minister of Branford,
Conn. ; was born Aug. 24, 1738; and was gradu
ated at Yale college in 1756. Jan. 30, 1760, he
was ordained at Plymouth as successor of Mr.
Leonard. Here he continued till his death. His
wife was Jane Prince, daughter of a physician in
Boston. His son, Samuel Prince R., minister of
Marietta, a graduate of Harvard in 1798, died in
1823, aged 45. He was succeeded by James
Kendall. He was a man of eminent talents, and
he discharged the duties of a minister of the gos
pel with unabating zeal and fidelity. Searching
the Scriptures for religious truth, and coinciding
in the result of his investigations with the senti
ments of the founders of the first church in New
England, he inculcated the doctrines of the gos
pel with energy and fervor. He was unwearied in
his endeavors to impress the thoughtless, and to
render sinful men, holy. In private and social
life he was amiable and exemplary. He pub
lished a sermon on the death of Mrs. E. Watson,
1767 ; of Mrs. Hovey ; at the ordination of L.
Le Baron, 1772 ; of E. Gillet, 1795 ; of W. Cot
ton, 1797 ; on the French Revolution, 1793 ; cen
tury sermon at Kingston, for E. Cobb, 1794; a
reply to J. Cotton ; some brief remarks on a
piece by J. Cotton in answer to the preceding,
1774 ; election sermon, 1791 ; at the convention ;
on the landing of our forefathers, 1793; before
the humane society, 1796. — Shaic's Sermon on
his death ; Sprague's Annals.
ROBBINS, CHARLES, published the Colum
bian Harmony, Portland, 1805.
ROBBIXS, AMMI RUHAMAH, first minister of
Norfolk, Conn., died Oct. 31, 1813, aged 73, in the
fifty-third year of his ministry. He was the son
of Rev. Philemon Robbins of Branford, gradu
ated at Yale in 1760, and married Elizabeth Le
Baron of Plymouth, a descendant of Governor
Bradford. In 1776 he was a chaplain in the army
in its retreat from Canada. He was a faithful
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minister and a good preacher and teacher. He
preached more than six thousand five hun
dred sermons. His funeral sermon was pub
lished by C. Lee. His r,on, James W. Robbins,
a man of great worth, died at Lenox in 1847,
aged 61. Another son was Rev. Dr. Thomas
Robbins. He published a sermon at ordination
of J. Knapp, 1772; at election, 1789; calamity
among the wicked, 1797 ; a half-century sermon,
1811. — Sprague's Annals.
ROBBIXS, SAMUEL PRINCE, son of Rev. C.
Robbins, and minister of Marietta, Ohio, died in
August, 1823, aged about 45. He died of an
epidemic fever, which prevailed along the waters
of the Ohio. He was a graduate of Harvard in
1798, and studied theology with Dr. Hyde of
Lee. His wife was a grand-daughter of Gen. R.
Putnam. — Hildrefh.
ROBBINS, EDWARD II., lieutenant-governor
of Massachusetts, died in Milton in 1829, aged
about 74. He was the son of Rev. Nathaniel R.
of Milton, and a graduate of 1775. lie was
speaker of the house and judge of probate. Of
his children, Sarah Lydia married Judge Howe,
and Anne Jean married Judge Lyman of North
ampton. His son, Dr. Robbins, a graduate of
1812, died in 1850.
ROBBINS, ASHUR, LL. D., died at Newport,
R. I, Feb. 25, 1845, aged 88. Born in "Wethers-
field, he was a graduate of Yale in 1782. For
fourteen years he was a senator of the United
States. His deep learning, his scholarship and
forcible eloquence made him conspicuous in the
senate. He had the misfortune to fall upon the
ice twro months before his death, and this was
the cause of it. He published address on domes
tic industry, 1822; oration July 4, 1827; speech
on domestic industry, 1832.
ROBBINS, ISAAC, a minister, died at Alexan
dria in May, 184G, aged 77. He was the son of
Rev. Chandler R.
ROBBINS, SAMUEL H., M. D., died in Boston
Jan. 10, 1850, aged 58.
ROBBINS, PETER OILMAN, M. D., died at
Roxbury, Mass., May 18, 1852, aged 73. He
was the son of Rev. Chandler R., and a man of
worth, a beloved physician.
ROBBINS, THOMAS, D. D., secretary of the
Connecticut historical society, died in Colebrook
Sept. 13, 1856, aged 79. Born in Norfolk, Conn.,
he graduated at Yale in 1796, and was minister
of East AVindsor from 1809 to 1827; then of
Stratford from 1830 to 1831 ; then of Mattapoi-
set in Rochester, Mass., the successor of L. Le
Baron. For years he lived in Hartford and was
librarian of the historical society, to which he be
queathed his very valuable library. His mental
powers failed him in his last days. He published
a century sermon delivered at Danbury Jan. 1,
1801; a fast sermon, 1815 ; at installation of E.
L.Clark, 1820; to military at Hartford, 1822;
on the death of E. B. Cook, 1823.
ROBERTS, NATHANIEL, first minister of
Torrington, Conn., died in 1776, aged about G6.
Graduated at Yale in 1732, he was settled in
1741. He was followed by A. Gillet and W. K.
Gould.
ROBERTS, WILLIAM, published an account
of the discovery and natural history of Florida,
4to., 1763.
ROBERTS, CHARLES, remarkable for longev
ity, died in Berkeley county, Virginia, Feb. 17,
1796, aged 116. He was a native of Oxfordshire,
England, but had resided in America about eighty
years. During his long life he never knew sick
ness.
ROBERTS, JOSEPH, died at Weston in 1811,
aged 91. A native of Boston, he graduated in
1741, and was minister of Leicester from 1754 to
1762.
ROBERTS, JOHN, major, died in Rappahan-
nock county, Virginia, in 1843, aged 85. He was
a major in the Revolutionary war, and many
years a member of the legislature.
ROBERTS, ROBERT R., died in Indiana March
26, 1843, aged 67; a venerable Methodist bishop.
Born in Frederick county, Maryland, he was con
secrated bishop in 1816; and was benevolent,
zealous, and useful.
ROBERTSON, GEORGE, Congregational min
ister in Amelia county, Virginia, died March 8,
1838, aged 79.
ROBERTSON, ALEXANDER, an artist, a painter,
died in New York May 27, 1841, nged 69. He
was secretary of the academy of fine arts.
ROBIE, THOMAS, eminent for science and
scholarship, died in 1729. He graduated at
Harvard in 1708, and was a tutor from 1714 to
1723, and librarian. He wrote much in the
magazines and papers. He published a discourse
to the students, the knowledge of Christ supe
rior to all other knowledge, 1721. — Eliot.
ROBIN, a sachem of a remnant of the Pe-
quots, who lived at Mystic in Connecticut, and
afterwards at Mashantucket. He died in 1692.
His Indian name was Cassasinamon, which Miss
Caulkins thinks is rather spicy, — cassia, cinna
mon. — Miss Caulkins' New London.
ROBIN, MARIE, a colored woman, died at
New Orleans in 1839, aged 107.
ROBINSON, JOHN, minister of the English
church at Leyden, a part of which first settled
New England in 1620, died Feb. 19, 1625, old
style, or March 1, new style. He was born in
Great Britain in 1575, and educated at Cambridge.
After holding for some time a benefice near
Yarmouth in Norfolk, when a society of Dissenters
was formed in the north of England about the
year 1602, he was chosen their pastor with Clif
ton. Persecution drove his congregation into
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Holland in 1608, and he soon followed them.
At Amsterdam, where they found emigrants of
the same religious sentiments, they remained
about a year ; but as the minister, J. Smith, was
unsteady in his opinions, Mr. llobinson proposed
a removal to Leyden. Here they continued
eleven years, and their numbers so increased that
they had in the church three hundred communi
cants. They were distinguished for perfect har
mony among themselves and for friendly inter
course with the Dutch. Mr. llobinson, when he
first went into Holland, was a most rigid Sepa
ratist from the Church of England ; but by con
versation with Dr. Ames and R. Parker he was
convinced of his error and became more moder
ate, though he condemned the use of the liturgy
and the indiscriminate admission to the sacra
ments. In 1613, Episcopius, one of the profes
sors of the university of Leyden, the successor
of Arminius, and of the same doctrine with him,
published some theses, which he engaged to de
fend against all opposers. Mr. Robinson, being
earnestly requested to accept the challenge by
Polyander, the other professor, who was a Calvin-
ist, held the disputation in the presence of a
numerous assemby, and completely foiled Episco
pius, his antagonist. In 1617, when another re
moval was contemplated, Mr. Robinson entered
zealously into the plan of making a settlement
in America. His church was liable to be cor
rupted by the loose habits of the Dutch, and he
wished it to be planted in a country where it
might subsist in purity. The first settlers of
Plymouth in 1620, who took with them Mr. Brcw-
ster, the ruling elder, were the members of his
church, and it was his intention to follow them
with the majority that remained; but various dis
appointments prevented. A part of his church
and his widow and children came to New Eng
land in 1630. Isaac and John were his sons.
He was a man of good genius, quick penetration,
ready wit, great modesty, integrity, and candor.
His classical learning and acuteness in disputa
tion were acknowledged by his opponents. He
was also discerning and prudent in civil affairs.
In his principles of church government he was
himself an Independent or Congregationalist, be
ing of opinion that every church is to consist only
of such as appear to believe in and obey Christ ;
that the members have a right to choose their
own officers, which are pastors or teaching elders,
ruling elders, and deacons ; that elders, being
ordained, have no power but by consent of the
brethren ; that all elders and churches are equal ;
and that only the children of communicants are
to be admitted to baptism. He celebrated the
Supper every Lord's day. In his farewell ad
dress to the first emigrants to New England, he
said to them : " If God reveal any thing to you
by any other instrument of his, be as ready to
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receive it as ever you were to receive any truth
by my ministry ; for I am verily persuaded, I
am very confident, that the Lord has more truth
yet to break forth out of his holy word. For my
part, I cannot sufficiently bewail the condition of
the reformed churches, who are come to a period
in religion, and will go at present no further
than the instruments of their reformation. The
Lutherans cannot be drawn to go beyond what
Luther saw ; whatever part of his will our good
God has revealed to Calvin, they will rather die
than embrace it. And the Calvinists, you see,
stick fast where they were left by that great man
of God, who yet saw not all things." He pub
lished, 1. a justification of separation from the
Church of England, 1610; 2. of religious com
munion, 1614 ; 3. apologia justa et necessara,
1619, (translated into English, 1644) ; 4. a de
fence of the doctrine propounded by the synod
of Dort, 1624 ; 5. a treatise of the lawfulness of
learning of the ministers in the Church of Eng
land, 1634 ; 6. essays or observations, Divine and
moral 1628 (second edition, 1638). His col
lected works were published by the Cong. Board
of Publication, Boston, in 3 vols., 1851. — Bel-
knap's Amer. Biog., II. 151-178.
ROBINSON, ISAAC, the son of John Robin
son, died at or near Cape Ann, aged 92. He
was at Duxbury, 1635 ; of Scituate in 1636, and
of Barnstable in 1639. He bought land at
Island Creek, Duxbury. His wife was a sister of
Elder Faunce. His brother Abraham, not John
as by one account, lived also on the Cape Ann
side of the bay, and died in 1645, and was the
father of Abraham, living in 1730, who died at
the age of 102. He left a family of twelve chil
dren, one of whom was Andrew, from whom Mrs.
President Webber descended. To Isaac's daugh
ter, Mercy, Captain Standish bequeathed three
pounds ; of whom he said, " Whom I tenderly
love for her grandfather's sake." Isaac's children
were baptized at Barnstable: John in 1640; Is
rael in 1651, Jacob in 1652 ; daughters Fear and
Mercy, and a child, whose name is lost, in 1642,
— Deane's Scituate; Deane's Bradford.
ROBINSON, Joiix, minister of Duxbury,
Mass., died in Lebanon, Conn., in 1745, aged 70.
He was the son of James of Dorchester, grand
son of "William R. of Roxbury in 1636 ; was
born in D. in March, 1671 ; was graduated in
1695; and settled in 1702; dismissed in 1738,
when he removed to Lebanon, Conn., where he
had two daughters married ; Betty to Rev. J.
Eliot, and Faith to Governor J. Trumbull. He
was a man of talents, eccentric, impetuous, rough.
J. Wiswall preceded, S. Veazie succeeded him.
His wife, Hannah, the daughter of Mr. Wiswall,
was drowned with his daughter Mary near Nan-
tasket beach in 1722; her body was found on
Cape Cod and buried at Herring Cove. He left
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a large estate : lands and money to John ; 2000
pounds to Ichabod, a merchant ; 400 pounds to
Althea. John and William, ministers, were the
sons of Ichabod ; and Althea married Rev. Daniel
Ripley of Abington in Pomfret. — Sprague's
Annals.
ROBINSON, MOSES, LL. D., second governor
of Vermont, died at Bennington May 26, 1813,
aged 72. He succeeded Mr. Chittenden in 1789,
and was succeeded by him in 1790. He was af
terwards a senator of the United States, in the
administration of Mr. Adams. His politics were
republican ; he was^opposed to Jay's treaty. His
son, Moses R., died at Bennington in Jan., 1825,
aged 61.
ROBINSON, JONATHAN, chief justice of Ver
mont, the brother of the preceding, died at Ben
nington Nov. 3, 1819, aged 64. He was chosen
chief justice in 1801, in the place of Mr. Smith,
and succeeded him also in 1806 as a senator in
congress. He was also a senator in 1815.
ROBINSON, AYlLLiAM, first minister of South-
ington, Conn., died Aug. 15, 1825, his birth-day,
aged 71. Born in Lebanon, the son of Ichabod,
a merchant, he graduated at Yale in 1773; he
was pastor from 1780 to 1821, forty-one years;
and was succeeded by D. L. Ogden. His wife,
Naomi Wolcott of East Windsor, died of the
small pox in 1782, aged 27. His second wife
was Sophia Moseley of Westfield, Mass., who
soon died. His third wife was Anna Mills of
Simsbury. Ilis fourth, in 1790, was Elizabeth
Norton of Farmington ; and by her he had six
children, one of whom is Professor Edward Rob
inson, D. D., of New York. — Sprague's Annals.
ROBINSON, CHARLES S., minister of St.
Charles, Missouri, died in 1828, aged 34. Born
in Massachusetts, he graduated at Andover theo
logical seminary in 1819.
ROBINSON, JOHN, minister of Westborough,
Mass., from 1789 to 1807, died in Lebanon, Conn.,
his native place, suddenly, in 1832, aged 71. He
graduated at Yale in 1750. He was the son of
Ichabod, and grandson of Rev. John R. of Dux-
bury. He succeeded E. Parkman, and was suc
ceeded by E. Rockwood.
ROBINSON, PETER, associate judge of the
supreme court of Delaware, died in 1836.
ROBINSON, JAMES, died at Ottawa, Illinois,
in 1843, aged 50; a judge of the supreme court,
a man of integrity and courteousness. He was
twelve years a senator of the United States.
ROBINSON, DAVID, general, died in Ben
nington Dec. 10, 1843, aged 89. He was born
in Hardwick, Mass., Nov. 11, 1754, and came to
Vermont with his father Samuel in 1761, to live
in a log hut in the centre of the present town
of B. There he lived 82 years. Capt. Stephen
was another early settler, whose daughter he
married. Temperate and active, he encouraged
all public institutions, civil and religious. He
early became a member of the church.
ROBINSON, JOHN, D. D., died in Cabarrus
county, North Carolina, Dec. 14, 1843, aged about
80, having been long a distinguished and useful
minister.
ROBINSON, WILLIAM, Dr., died in Stoning-
ton, Mass., Dec. 28, 1845, aged 81 ; a successful
practitioner in the town for fifty-seven years,
much respected. He was a soldier of the Revo
lution.
ROBINSON, CHARLES, missionary to Siam,
died at sea on his return, March 3, 1847, aged 45,
one week after leaving St. Helena. Mrs. R., with
four children, arrived at New Bedford April 16.
Born in Lenox, Mass., at the age of fifteen he
made a profession of religion ; he graduated at
Williams college in 1829, and embarked June
10, 1833, with his wife, and Munson and Lyman
and their wives, for Batavia. He proceeded to
Bangkok. Ill health removed him from Siam
in Nov., 1845. He died in peace, and his body
was committed to the mighty deep. His wife
was Maria Church of Riga, N. Y.
ROBINSON, M. M., died in Louisiana, May,
1850; a lawyer. He published sixteen volumes
of reports, evincing great labor and fidelity,
with marginal notes, which are models of exact
ness.
ROBINSON, ELI P., captain, died in Wind-
ham, Greene county, N. Y., Dec. 14, 1851, aged
71. He served in the northern army in 1812 at
the head of volunteers ; and was both an ardent
patriot and an exemplary Christian, embracing
the faith of his ancestor, John R. of Leyden.
ROBINSON, ISAAC, D. D., minister 'of Stod-
dard, N. II., died July 9, 1854, aged 75, in the
52d year of his ministry. Born in Hudson,
N. H., he improved his few literary advantages,
and was settled in 1803. He preached one week
before his death. On the day of his death he said,
" If it be the will of the Lord, may my earthly
labors end on this Sabbath." He was distinguished
as a scholar and theologian. He published a
tract on Universalism ; sermon on the death of
S. Payson ; on the divinity of Christ ; and answer
to T. R. Sullivan's strictures. — Spr ague's Annals.
ROBINSON, TRACT, died at Binghamton,
N. Y., Dec. 7, 1855, aged 77. Born in Wind-
ham, Conn., he removed to Chenango valley in
1800, to B. in 1810, when in that place was only
a squad of cabins. He was a physician, post
master, judge, and a warden in Christ's church ;
and died greatly lamented.
ROBINSON, JOHN, died in Brookline, Jan.
13, 1855 aged 91 years. He was long a deacon of
the church under the care of Dr. John Pierce.
ROBY, JOSKPII, minister of Lynn, Mass.,
died Jan. 31, 1803, aged 79. Born in Boston, he
graduated in 1742, and was ordained in 1752, as
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Buccossor of Mr. Chcever, and continued his la
bors fifty years. lie was a faithful minister and
an excellent Christian, lie published a fast ser
mon, 1781, and 1794.
HOBY, THOMAS, minister of Harrison, Me.,
died in 1836, aged 76. He graduated at Har
vard in 1779.
ItOCIIAMBEAU, JEAN BAPTISTE DONATIEN
DE VlMEUR, count, marshal of France, died in
1807, aged 82. He was born in 1725. After
much military service, he was appointed lieuten
ant-general, and in 1780 sent with an army of
6,000 men to the assistance of the United States
in the war with Great Britain. In the siege at
Yorktown he rendered important services, for which
he received the present of two cannon taken from
Cornwallis. In the Revolution he narrowly es
caped suffering death under the tyranny of Ro
bespierre, la 1803 Bonaparte gave him a pen
sion and the grand cross of the legion of honor.
His memoirs were published, 8vo., 1809. — Encyc.
Amer.
ROCHESTER, NATHANIEL, colonel, died at
Rochester, N. Y., May 17, 1831, aged 79. He
was an officer of the Revolution : the town of R.
was named after him.
ROCHESTER, WILLIAM B., judge, of Buf
falo, was lost off the coast of North Carolina
June 15, 1838, with many others, by the explo
sion of the steamboat Pulaski. He was a mem
ber of congress from 1821 to 1823, and was much
respected.
ROCKWELL, WILLIAM, ancestor of the
Rockwells in this country, came from Plymouth,
England, with Warham and Maverick, in 1630.
He was of the church in Dorchester and removed
to Windsor. He was a deacon : and had sons
John and Samuel.
ROCKWELL, ALPHA, deacon, died in Win
chester, Conn., June 1, 1818, aged 50. His name
•was given him, Alpha, the first letter of the
Greek alphabet, because he was the first child
born in the town of Colebrook. He became
pious at the age of 17. He died in great peace
and triumph. His excellent character, and his
zeal to do good to all around him, are described
in Mr. Beach's sermon at his funeral, extracts
from which are in the Boston Recorder of July 7.
ROCKWELL, LATHROP, minister of Lyme,
Conn., died in 1828, aged about 60. He grad
uated at Dartmouth in 1789, and was ordained
in 1790 as successor of S. Johnson, and was suc
ceeded by C. Colton.
ROCKWELL, JAMES OTIS, died in Provi
dence in 1831, aged 24. Born in Lebanon, Conn.,
he was self-educated, became a printer, and took
the charge of the Providence Patriot for his last
two years. He wrote many pieces of poetry,
•with the imperfections of an undisciplined genius.
— Ci/cL of Amer. Lit.
ROCKWELL, MARTIN, died in Colebrook,
Conn., Dec. 11, 1851, aged 80, the youngest and
last survivor of the brothers of that name, who
as men of business, philanthropists, and Chris
tians did no dishonor to their Puritan ancestry.
ROCKWELL, SAMUEL, died at Holland Pa
tent, Oncida county, N. Y., May 27, 1855, aged
104.
ROCKWOOD, EBENEZER, M. D., died at
Wilton, N. II., in 1830, aged 87. He graduated
at Harvard college in 1773; and was highly re
spected. His widow, Mary, died at the house of
her son-in-law, Rev. Leonard Swett, in Ilollis, in
1848, aged 94. His son, Ebenezer Rockwood, a
lawyer of high promise, a graduate of 1802, died
at Charlestown, Mass., May 8, 1815, aged only
32. He married the daughter of Ebenezer Haz
ard of Philadelphia.
RODGERS, JOHN, D. D., minister in New
York, died May 7, 1811, aged 83. He was born
in Boston, Mass., Aug. 2, 1727. His parents
having removed to Plu'ladelphia, he was educated
for the ministry by Mr. Blair. It was by means
of the preaching of Mr. Whitefield that his
mind was impressed by religious truth. He was
ordained March 16, 1749, at St. George's, Dela
ware, where his labors were very useful until
July, 1765, when the synod sent him to New
York. Upon the death of Mr. Bostwick he be
came colleague pastor in the church in Wall
street, then the only Presbyterian church in the
city. He died in the triumph of the believer.
His widow died March 15, 1812, aged 87. He
was the intimate friend of Pres. Davies, after
whose death the mother of Pres. D. resided in
his family. As a preacher he was energetic,
zealous, and faithful. For his excellent character
he was highly respected. Several of his sermons
are found in the American preacher. His life
was written by Samuel Miller.
RODGERS, GEOKGE W., captain, command
ing a squadron on the S. A. station, died at Bue
nos Ayres March 21, 1832, aged 45; a brother of
Com. John R.
RODGERS, JOHN, commodore, died at Phila
delphia Aug. 1, 1838, aged about 73 years; the
senior commander in the navy. He had been
fifteen months in the naval asylum, most of the
time closely confined as a confirmed lunatic. He
was born in Maryland, and educated for the nau
tical profession, and had high qualifications. In
1803 he commanded the New York and the John
Adams in the Mediterranean : he assisted Preble.
As commander of the marines he defended Bal
timore in the war of 1812.
RODGERS, J. KEARNEY, M. D., died at New
York Nov. 9, 1851, aged 58 ; surgeon in the hos
pital, one of the founders of the eye and ear infir
mary. He was the son of Dr. J. R. B. Rodgers,
and grandson of Rev. Dr. 11. He was an emi-
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nent surgeon, and was once successful in tying the
subclavian vein. He -was not a writer, but a skil
ful and honest practitioner. — N. Y. Observer,
Nov. 27.
RODMAN, JOHN, Dr., a Quaker, lived on
Block Island in July, 1G89, when three French
privateers took possession of the island and plun
dered the people. One of the ruffians insulted
his wife : when he interposed for her protection
the villain threatened to shoot him with his pistol.
Opening his breast, the Dr. said, " Thee maycst
do it if thou pleasest, but thou shalt not abuse
my wife." His two slaves joined the privateer's
men. A slave of Simon Ray, an aged inhabitant,
was killed by them.
RODMAN, SAMUEL, a merchant, died at New
Bedford Dec. 30, 1835, aged 83.
RODNEY, CJESAR, president of Delaware,
died in 1783. He was the descendant of an an
cient English family, the son of William R. ; was
born in Dover, Delaware, about 1730. He inher
ited a large real estate. In 1765 he was a mem
ber of congress at New York. He early resisted
the tyrannical claims of Great Britain. Being a
member of the congress of 1774, he was placed
on several important committees. He voted for
the Declaration of Independence in 1776. His
colleagues, M'Kean and Read, being divided in
opinion, his vote determined the vote of the State.
Indeed, Mr. M'Kean sent an express for him, as
he was then absent, and he entered the hall with
his spurs on his boots just before the great ques
tion was put. After the first constitution of
Delaware was adopted, he was the president of
the State from 1778 till 1782, when he was suc
ceeded by John Dickinson; during this difficult
period his energy afforded efficient aid to Wash
ington in the prosecution of the war. A cancer
on his face, which for many years had afflicted
him, was the cause of his death. He was a man
of patriotic feeling and generous character. —
OoodricJi.
ROE, AZEL, D. D., minister of Woodbridge,
N. J., died Dec. 2, 1815, aged 77. He graduated
at Princeton in 1756, and was the pastor fifty-six
years. Mr. McDowell preached his funeral ser
mon.
ROESE, WILLIAM, died in Maryland in 1813,
aged 108.
ROGERS, THOMAS, one of the passengers in
the Mayflower, arrived at Plymouth in 1620, and
died in the first sickness, about April, 1621. His
son Joseph survived, and other children came
over. His descendants were numerous.
ROGERS, NATHANIEL, minister of Ipswich,
Mass., died July 3, 1655, aged 57. He was the
son of Rev. John Rogers and Elizabeth Gold,
of Dedham, in England, and a grandson of John
Rogers the martyr. lie was born in 1598, and
was educated at Enmnuel college, Cambridge.
The evils to which his Puritan principles exposed
him induced him to come to New England. He
sailed June 1, 1636; but did not cast anchor in
Massachusetts bay till Nov. 16. In the following
year he was a member of the synod, together with
Mr. Partridge, who came in the same vessel. lie
was settled in the place of Mr. Ward, as colleague
with Mr. Norton at Ipswich, Feb. 20, 1639. His
son, John, was president of Harvard college ; his
only daughter married Rev. William Hubbard.
As a preacher he possessed a lively eloquence,
which charmed his hearers. Though one of the
greatest men among the first settlers of New
England, he was very humble, modest, and re
served. He published a letter to a member of
the house of commons in 1643, in which he pleads
for a reformation of church affairs, and he left in
manuscript a vindication of the Congregational
church government, in Latin. — Mag. III. 104,
108 ; Sprague's Annals.
ROGERS, EZEKIEL, first minister of Rowley,
Mass., died Jan. 23, 1661, aged 70. He was a
cousin of the preceding ; was born in England in
1500, the son of Richard Rogers of Wethersficld.
After being educated at Cambridge, he became
the chaplain of Sir Francis Barrington. His
preaching was in a strain of oratory which de
lighted his hearers. lie afterwards received the
benefice of Rowley, where his benevolent labors
were attended with great success. At length his
nonconformity obliged him to seek a refuge from
persecution in New England, where he arrived in
1638, bringing with him a number of respectable
families. He commenced the plantation at Row
ley in April, 1639, and Dec. 3 was ordained.
He died after a lingering sickness. His third
wife was the daughter of John Wilson. His
library he bequeathed to Harvard college, and
his house and lands to the town for the support
of the ministry. In the latter part of his life it
pleased God to overwhelm him with calamities.
A fall from his horse deprived him of the use of
his right hand ; much of his property was con
sumed by fire ; and he buried two wives and all
his children. He was pious, zealous, and perse
vering. His feeble health induced him when in
England to study the science of medicine.
Though his strong passions sometimes misled
him, yet he was so humble as readily to acknow
ledge his error. He preached the election ser
mon in 1643, in which he vehemently exhorted
his hearers never to choose the same man gover
nor for two successive years ; but his exhortation
was disregarded, for Mr. Winthrop was re-elected.
— Ma gn alia, HI. 101-104; Sprayue's Annals.
ROGERS, Jonx, president of Harvard col
lege, died July 2, 1684, aged 53. He was grad
uated at this seminary in 1649. He was the son
of N. Rogers, with whom he preached some time
as an assistant at Ipswich, but at length his incli-
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nation to the study of physic withdrew his atten
tion from theology. After the death of President
Oakes he was elected his successor in April, 1682,
and was installed Aug. 12, 1683. He died sud
denly the day after commencement, and was suc
ceeded by Increase Mather. He was remarkable
for the sweetness of his temper, and he united to
unfeigned piety the accomplishments of the gen
tleman. His wife was Elizabeth Dennison ; his
daughter married President Lcverett; his son,
Daniel, a physician in Ipswich, died in a snow
storm on Hampton beach, Dec. 1, 1722, leaving
a son, Daniel, the minister of Littleton ; his son,
Nathaniel, was the minister of Portsmouth ; his
son, John, the minister of Ipswich, who left three
sons, who were ministers, — John of Kitten*, who
died Oct. 16, 1773, aged 82 ; Nathaniel of Ips
wich, a colleague ; and Daniel of Exeter. John
11., the minister of Gloucester, who died Oct. 4,
1782, aged 63, was the son of J. II. of Kittery,
or Eliot. Truly this was a family of ministers. —
Magn. iv. 130; Sprague's Annals.
ROGERS, JOHN, the founder of the small sect
of the Rogerenes in New London county, Conn.,
was the son of James, who died in 1688, a re
spectable Quaker or seventh-day man. It was a
provision in his will, " There shall be no lawing
among my children ;" he required them to decide
any difference by lot. But they were regardless
of his injunction. He married Elizabeth, daugh
ter of M. Griswold of Lyme ; she obtained a di
vorce, and married Peter Pratt. His son, John,
was a disciple : he was the father of twenty chil
dren. The fanatics of this family worked on the
Sabbath, and sometimes disturbed the worship of
others, and drew upon themselves various penal
ties. Once J. R. sent in a wig as his contribution
for the support of a wiggcd ministry ; but he la
mented his folly. The sect is not yet quite ex
tinct. John, the second, died in 1721, aged 73,
and was buried on the Mamacock farm, on the
river Thames. He published the midnight cry
and other books. — Miss Caulkins1 History of
New London.
ROGERS, DANIEL, a physician in Ipswich,
Mass., died in a snow-storm on Hampton beach,
Dec. 1, 1722, aged about 56. He was the son of
President J. Rogers, and graduated at Harvard
in 1686.
ROGERS, NATHANIEL, minister of Portsmouth,
N. H., died Oct. 3, 1723, aged about 06. The
son of President Rogers, he graduated at Har
vard in 1687, and was ordained in 1699. In con
sequence of building a meeting-house the church
was divided into two churches. His sons were
Nathaniel, who was the father of Judge R. of
Exeter, and Daniel, who was a councillor. —
Eliot.
ROGERS, JOHN, minister of Ipswich, died
Dec. 28, 1745, aged 79, in the 56th vear of his
ministry. He graduated in 1684, and was or
dained in 1692. Wiggles worth preached a ser
mon on his death. His son, Daniel, was the
minister of Exeter. He was himself the son of
President John, a preacher, whose ancestors were
ministers in this ascending order : Nathaniel of
Ipswich, Jt)hn of Dedham, England, who was the
grandson of John, the martyr of Smithfield, Feb.,
1555. He published death the wages of sin,
1701 ; election sermon, 1706 ; on death of J.
Appleton, 1739 ; an account of a revival in the
Christian history.
ROGERS, JOHN, minister of Boxford, Mass.,
died in 1755, aged about 72. Born in Salem, he
graduated at Harvard in 1705, and was pastor
from 1709 to about 1743 ; and was succeeded by
E. Holyoke.
ROGERS, JOHN, minister of Kittery, Me., died
in 1773, aged 81. The son of Rev. John R. of
Ipswich, he graduated at Harvard in 1711, and
was ordained in 1721. His parish became the
town of Eliot in 1810.
ROGERS, NATHANIEL, son of Rev. John of
Ipswich, and his colleague, died May 10, 1775,
aged 72, having been pastor nearly fifty years.
He graduated at Harvard in 1724. He was a
man of eminent learning and goodness. The
pastors of Ipswich were of the name of Rogers
for more than one hundred years. The family
descended from Rogers the martyr, the grand
father of Mr. Rogers of Dcdhnm, England, whose
son, Nathaniel, came to New England. He pub
lished a sermon on the death of J. Appleton,
1739 ; at the ordination of J. Treadwell ; on the
death of S. Williams, 1763.
ROGERS, ROBERT, major, the son of James
R., an Irishman, an early settler of Dunbarton,
N. II., commanded a company in the war of 1755,
and " Rogers' Rangers " were celebrated for their
exploits. March 13, 1758, with one hundred and
seventy men he fought one hundred French and
six hundred Indians ; after losing one hundred
men and killing one hundred and fifty he retreat
ed. In 1759 he was sent by Amherst from Crown
Point to destroy the Indian village of St. Fran
cis, which service was performed ; two hundred
Indians were killed. Obliged to return by the
way of the Connecticut river, the party suffered
great hardships. After serving in the Cherokee
war he was appointed in 1766 governor of Mich-
illimackinac. Accused of a plot for plundering
the fort and joining the French, he was sent in
irons to Montreal and tried by a court martial.
In 1769 he went to England and was presented
to the king ; but was soon imprisoned for debt.
In the war of the Revolution he joined the ene
my, and, while commanding a corps at an out
post near Mamaroneck, narrowly escaped being
taken prisoner Oct. 21, 1776, by a party sent out
by Lord Stirling. He soon went to England.
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His name is included in the act of New Hamp
shire against tories, of Nov. 19, 1778. His
father was shot in the woods, being mistaken for
a bear ; his brother, Captain James It., died at
Louisburg ; his brother, Richard, was slain in
1756. He published a concise account of North
America, London, 1765 ; journals of the French
war, 1765 ; this was republished, entitled, remi-
niscenses of the French war, with the life of
Stark, 12mo., Concord, 1831.
ROGERS, JOHN, minister of Gloucester. Mass.,
died Oct. 4, 1782, aged 65. Born in Kittery,
Me., he graduated at Harvard in 1739, and was
settled in 1744.
ROGERS, DANIEL, minister of Littleton, Mass.,
died in 1782, aged 76. He was the son of Dr.
Daniel R. ; graduated in 1725 ; and was ordained
in 1732. He was a man of talents and research,
and courtly in his manners. — Eliot.
ROGERS, DANIEL, first minister of the second
church in Exeter, N. II., died Dec. 9, 1785, aged
78. The son of Rev. J. R., he graduated at Har
vard in 1725 ; was tutor from 1732 to 1741 ; and
was settled Aug. 31, 1748.
ROGERS, JOHN, first minister of Leominster,
Mass., died in Oct., 1789, aged about 80, and was
succeeded by F. Gardner. Born in Boxford, he
graduated at Harvard in 1732, and was settled
Sept. 4, 1743; resigned in 1757. He published
three sermons, 1756.
ROGERS, SUSANNAH, published an account of
Lovewell's fight.
ROGERS, CLARK, the first minister of Han
cock, Mass., died Jan. 14, 1806, aged 76, in the
thirty-fourth year of his ministry. He was a
Baptist. His sons, Samuel and William, were
also distinguished ministers.
ROGERS, HEZEKIAII, major, of the war de
partment, died at Washington Sept. 4, 1810, aged
57. He was a gallant officer in the Revolution
ary army ; a man of worth. In great suffering,
the gospel, which he had early embraced, sus
tained him.
ROGERS, SARAH, born without hands, died at
Philadelphia in Oct., 1813. She could paint,
holding the brush in her mouth.
ROGERS, WILLIAM, I). D., a minister in
Philadelphia, died April 24, 1824, aged 72. He
was born at Newport, R. I., July 22, 1751,
and was the first student at the college of R. I.,
graduating in 1769. In May, 1771, he was or
dained over the first Baptist church in Philadel
phia. During five years he was a chaplain in the
army. In 1789 he was appointed professor of
belles lettres in the college of Philadelphia, which
office he resigned in 1812. He published a ser
mon on the death of Rev. O. Hart, 1796.
ROGERS, MEDAD, minister of New Fail-field,
Conn., died in 1824, aged about 68. He gradu
ated at Yale in 1777, and was settled in 1786.
A. O. Stansbury was his successor.
ROGERS, ADAM, died in Mansfield, Conn., in
Nov., 1834, aged 103.
ROGERS, ROBERT, colonel, died at Newport
Aug. 5, 1835, aged 78, an officer in the Revolu
tionary army. He was a graduate in 1775 of
Providence college. For many years he was at
the head of a classical school, and' librarian of the
Redwood library. He was a highly respected
member of the Baptist church.
ROGERS, NATHAN, died at Bridgehampton,
L. I., in 1844, aged 57. He was an artist of merit
and reputation, a member of the national acade
my of design. He lent his aid to institutions of
morals and charity.
ROGERS, JOHN, chief of the Western Chero-
kees, died at Van Buren July 4, 1846, aged 70.
ROGERS, TIMOTHY F., minister of Bernards-
ton, Mass., died in 1847, aged 66. Born in
Tewksbury, he graduated at Harvard in 1802,
and was settled in 1809. The church, of which
he was the fourth pastor, was formed at Deer-
field in 1741, when John Norton was ordained
over what was called Fall Town. He published
dedication sermon, 1825.
ROGERS, PETER, died at Waterloo, III., in
1849, aged 99 ; a minister. He was one of Wash
ington's life guards.
ROGERS, J. SMYTH, M. D., died at New York
March 30, 1851, aged 57. He was a man of ed
ucation and accomplishments ; professor of chem
istry and mineralogy in Trinity college, Hartford.
ROGERS, WILLIAM M., minister in Boston,
died Aug. 11, 1851, aged nearly 45. He was
born in the island of Aklerney, near the coast of
France ; his brother, an officer, was killed in the
battle of the Nile. Left Avithout parents, he Avas
sent to this country and became a member of Dr.
Codman's church, Dorchester. He graduated in
1827. For five years he was the minister of
ToAvnsend ; then of Franklin-street church in
Boston in 1835, removed to Winter street in
1841. He Avas buried at Leominster. He took
a great interest in the Avelfare of seamen, and
Avas a Arery popular and useful minister.
ROGERS, JAMES B., M. D., died at Philadel
phia June 15, 1852. He Avas professor of chem
istry in the university of Pennsylvania.
ROGERSON, ROBERT, second minister of
Rehoboth, Mass., died in 1799, aged 77. He Avas
born in Portsmouth, England, and succeeded D.
Turner July 2, 1751. O. Thompson succeeded
him.
ROLFE, BENJAMIN, second minister of Haver-
liill, Mass., Avas slain by the Indians Aug. 29,
1708, aged 45. The son of Benj. R. of NCAA'-
bury, he Avas born Sept. 13, 1662 ; graduated at
Harvard college in 1684 ; began to preach at II.
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in 1689, and was ordained in Jan., 1G94. The
Indians and French from Canada made their at
tack on llaverhill on Sunday, and with him his
wife and one child were also killed. Two daugh
ters were preserved by Ilagar, the maid servant,
who covered them with tubs in the cellar ; one of
whom married Samuel Chcckley, minister of Bos
ton. The door of the parsonage house, pierced
with bullet-holes, was nailed up as a memorial in
the porch of the meeting-house.
ROLFE, BENJAMIN, first minister of Parsons-
field, Me., died in 1817, aged about 62. Born in
Newbury, he graduated at Harvard in 1777 ; was
settled in 1795 ; and dismissed in 1815.
ROLFE, WILLIAM, minister of Groton, Conn.,
died in 1837, aged about 70. His widow, Judith,
died at Canterbury in 1849, aged 75. He was
born in Plaistow ; graduated at Dartmouth in
1799 ; and was pastor from 1803 to 1828.
ROMEYN, THEODORIC DIRCK, D. D., minister
of Schenectady, N. Y., died April 16, 1804, aged
60. lie was the son of Nicholas R. ; was born
Jan. 12, 1744, at New Barbadoes, New Jersey.
His early studies were directed by his brother,
Thomas It., then a minister in Delaware. He grad
uated at Princeton in 1765 ; was ordained by the
Coetus over the Dutch church in Ulster county
May 14, 1766, and afterwards installed at Hack-
ensack, where he remained until his removal to
Schenectady in Nov., 1784. In 1797 he was
appointed professor of theology in the Dutch
church. The establishment of the college at
Schenectady is principally to be ascribed to his
efforts. His colleague, Mr. Meyer, represents
him as a son of thunder in the pulpit. He was
highly instrumental in promoting the independ
ence of the Dutch churches, or their separation
from the jurisdiction of Holland.
ROMEYN, JEREMIAH, minister of Woodstock,
Ulster county, N. Y., died July 17, 1818, aged 49.
He was a professor of Hebrew in the Reformed
Dutch church.
ROMEYN, Jonx B., D. D., minister in New
York, died Feb. 22, 1825, aged 46. He was the
only son of the minister of Schenectady ; was
born in 1778 ; graduated at Columbia college in
1795 ; and was settled in 1799 as the pastor of
the Dutch church in Rhinebeck. In 1803 he
succeeded Dr. Clarkson at Schenectady ; in 1804
he succeeded Dr. Nott at Albany ; and in 1808 was
removed to the Presbyterian church in Cedar
street, New York, of which he was the first min
ister. His sermons were published, 2 vols. 8vo.,
1816.
ROMEYN, JAMES V. C., minister at Hacken-
sack, N. J., died June 27, 1840, aged 74.
RONALDSON, JAMES, died at Philadelphia
March 31, 1841. A native of Scotland, he was a
type-founder and horticulturist. The beautiful
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cemetery, bearing iiis name, was established by
him. He was upright, frugal, honest.
ROOT, JESSE, judge, a patriot of the Revolu
tion, died March 29, 1822, aged 85. He was the
son of Ebenczcr R., and grandson of Thomas R.,
both of whom removed from Northampton to
Coventry, Conn. ; was born in Jan., 1737 ; his
mother was Sarah Strong, daughter of Joseph
S., also from Northampton. Having graduated
at Princeton college in 1756, he preached about
three years, and then in consequence of the cir
cumstances of his family was induced to study
law. In 1763 he was admitted to the bar. Re
siding at Hartford, early in 1777 he raised a com
pany and marched to join the army of Washington,
and was made a lieutenant-colonel. From May,
1779, till the close of the war, he was a member
of congress. In 1789 he was appointed a judge
of the superior court, and was chief justice from
1796 till his resignation in 1807, on reaching the
age of 70. As a judge he was learned and dig
nified. He was through life a man of exemplary
piety. To the great doctrines of the gospel he
was ever strongly attached ; and he abounded in
acts of charity. At the age of 85 he was accus
tomed to attend prayer meetings and religious
conferences. In the evening of his death he said,
" I set out on a pleasant journey in the morning,
and I shall get through to-night."
ROOT, OLIVER, colonel, died in Pittsfield May
2, 1826, aged 85. He served in the French war;
was present at the surrender of Burgoyne ; and
was with Colonel Brown, when he was killed,
skilfully conducting the retreat. He was a man
of great worth, highly respected.
ROOT, ERASTUS, general, died in New York
Dec. 24, 1846, aged 73. Born in Hebron, he
graduated at Dartmouth. As a lawyer he settled
at Delhi. He served in public life as representa
tive, senator, and lieutenant-governor, and as a
senator of the United States. He was a political
disciple of G. Clinton. Tall and stout, he was
bold, frank, zealous, and trustworthy.
ROPER, JOHN, was killed by the Indians at
Lancaster in 1676, aged about 55. He was a
freeman of Dedham in 1641. His first wife was
killed in 1675. His second wife, a daughter, and
his son, EphraSm, were killed in 1697.
ROPES, GEORGE, an early settler of Salem,
Mass., in 1637, died in 1670, leaving sons, John
and George, whose descendants have been nu
merous and respectable.
ROPES, BENJAMIN, a brave officer in the war of
1812, died at Salem July 29, 1845, aged 71. He
was in the battles on the Niagara river in Canada.
ROSE, AQUILA, a poet of Philadelphia, is
spoken of by Franklin. His poems on several
occasions were published by his son, Joseph, in
1740. — CijcL of Amcr. Lit.
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HOSE.
ROWLAND.
ROSE, TIMOTHY, an early settler of Granville,
Ohio, died Nov. 16, 1815, aged 50. He was born
inGranville,Mass., June 1, 1762, and was a soldier
in early life, afterwards a deacon. He conducted
a colony to Ohio ; and Granville has now a col
lege and two academies, and about a quarter of
the inhabitants are professors of religion. He
was a judge, and he left a character worthy of
remembrance for enterprise, and benevolent, use
ful labors.
ROSE, DANIEL, M. D., died at Thomaston,
Me., Oct. 25, 1833, aged 62. He was warden of
the State prison, and agent for the sale of lands.
ROSE, ISRAEL G., minister of Chesterfield,
Mass., died Feb. 6, 1842, aged 43. Born in Cov
entry, he graduated at Yale in 1821, and was first
the minister of Canterbury, also of Wilbraham.
ROSS, GEORGE, judge, a patriot of the Revo
lution, died in July, 1779, aged 49. He was the
son of an Episcopal minister at New Castle, Del
aware, and was born in 1730. Having studied
law with his brother in Philadelphia, he settled in
Lancaster. Being a member of congress from
1774 to 1777, he signed the Declaration of Inde
pendence. For his public services the people of
the county voted him 150 pounds out of the
treasury; but he declined to receive it, deeming
it the duty of a representative of the people to
promote the public welfare without expecting
pecuniary rewards. In April, 1779, he was ap
pointed a judge of the court of admiralty. He
died of a sudden attack of the gout. While he
was a patriotic citizen and a learned and skilful
lawyer, he was also kind and affectionate at home.
• — Goodrich.
ROSS, ROBERT, minister of Bridgeport, Conn.,
died in 1799, aged about 60. He graduated at
Princeton in 1751, and was settled in 1760. S.
Blatchford was his successor in 1797.
ROSS, ALEXANDER, died in New Hampshire
in September, 1818, aged 120. — N. II. Patriot,
Sept. 29.
ROSS, WILLIAM, general, died at Wilkesbarre
Aug. 9, 1842, aged 82 ; an early settler from New
London county, a man of great wealth, the father
of William S. Ross, of the senate of Pennsylva
nia.
ROSS, JAMES, died at Pittsburg, Pa., Nov. 27,
1847, aged 85 : a senator of the United States
from 1794 to 1803.
ROSS, EDWARD C., LL. D., died at New York
May 16, 1851 ; professor of mathematics in the
free academy.
ROSSETER, BRYAN, Dr., was an early settler
of Guilford, Conn., in 1650. He purchased Dr.
Desborow's house and lands when he returned to
England. His son Josiah was a magistrate : one
of his daughters married Rev. John Cotton of
Plymouth. It is supposed that he was a freeman
in Massachusetts in 1631, and removed to Wind
sor in 1640, by mistake called Bray Rosseter.
ROSSETER, EBENEZER, third minister of
Stonington, Conn., died in 1762, aged about 64.
He graduated at Yale in 1718, and succeeded J.
Noyes in 1722, and was dismissed in 1730.
ROSSETER, ASHUR, second minister of Pres
ton, Conn., died in 1791, aged about 60. Gradu
ated at Yale in 1742, he succeeded S. Treat in
1744.
ROSSITER, EDWARD, an assistant in Massa
chusetts in 1629, came from England, but died
in 1630. He was a man wealthy, grave, and
pious, whose loss was deeply felt. — Eliot.
ROTCH, WILLIAM, died at New Bedford in
May, 1828, aged 93.
ROUSE, PETER P., minister of the reformed
Dutch church in New Brunswick, N. J., died in
1832, aged 37.
ROWAN, STEPHEN N., D. D., died in New
York in 1835, aged 49. Born in Salem, N. Y.,
he graduated at Union college, and was the min
ister of the eighth Presbyterian church in New
York from 1819 to 1830. He was succeeded by
II . Hunter, who died before him in 1834.
ROWAN, JOHN, died at Louisville, Ky., July
13, 1843, aged 70. He was born in Pennsylva
nia. He held many offices, from 1804, when he
was secretary of Kentucky, till he was elected to
the senate of the United States in 1824. His
literary attainments Avere great and his eloquence
persuasive and commanding.
ROWLAND, DAVID SHERMAN, minister of
Plainfield and Windsor, Conn., died in 1794,
aged 74. Graduated at Yale in 1743, he suc
ceeded J. Coit in 1748 ; was dismissed in 1761 ;
settled at Windsor, 1776, and dismissed in 1789;
and was succeeded by H. A. Rowland in 1790,
probably his son. He published a farewell ser
mon, 1761 ; on the repeal of the stamp act, 1766 ;
on his installation, 1776 ; before the ministers of
Rhode Island, 1772 ; on death of Rev. II. Bissell,
1783.
ROWLAND, HENRY A., minister of Windsor,
Conn., died Nov. 28, 1835, aged 71. A graduate
of Dartmouth in 1785, he succeeded, in 1790,
D. S. Rowland, probably his father. By his wife
Frances, the daughter of Moses Bliss of Spring
field, he had eight children. Her mother was
Abigail Metcalf, the daughter of William of Leb
anon, who married Abigail, daughter of Rev.
Timothy Edwards.
ROWLAND, WILLIAM FREDERIC, minister
of Exeter, N. H., died in 1843, aged about 80.
Born in Plainfield, Conn., he graduated at Dart
mouth in 1784, and was settled in 1790. He
published New Hampshire election sermons,
1796 and 1809.
ROWLAND, THOMAS, major, died at Detroit
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in 1849, a brave soldier in the war of 1812. For
a time he commanded the post at Detroit.
ROWLANDSON, JOSEPH, first minister of
Lancaster, Muss., died at Wethersfield, Conn.,
Nov. 24, 1678, aged about 44. He was born in
England. His father, Thomas, came from Ips
wich to Lancaster, and died in 1657. He was a
solitary graduate of 1652 at Cambridge ; was or
dained, after preaching some years in the place,
in 1660, at Lancaster, which town was destroyed
by the Indians Feb. 10, 1676, when his wife and
children were carried away captives. He was at
that time in Boston. He next succeeded, in 1677,
Mr. Bulkley, at Wethersfield, and was succeeded
by J. Woodbridgc. His son Joseph died in W.
in 1712; and his son Wilson died in 1735. A
fast sermon, preached Nov. 21, 1678, was pub
lished in 1682. His wife, Mary, published an ac
count of her captivity : 5th ed., 1828.
ROWLEY, THOMAS, died at Cold Spring,
Westhaven, Vt, in August, 1796, aged 75. He
was a patriot and poet, and was called "the
Green Mountain patriarch." He was an early
settler in Vermont, and an associate in council
and in the field, of Allen and Warner. He was
a magistrate in Rutland county. His popular
poetical writings appeared in various publications.
ROWSON, SUSANXA, died in Boston in 1824,
aged 62. She was the daughter of William
Haswell, a British naval officer, who was wrecked
in 1769, on Lowell's Island, and then lived at
Nantasket wuh his daughter. He returned to
England ; and there she married William Rowson,
the leader of a musical military band. She came
to America with her husband in 1793, under a
theatrical engagement; and was for years use
fully employed in the education of youth in Mcd-
ford, Newton, and Boston. She published novels
and plays, Charlotte Temple, etc. ; poems, 1804 ;
geography and history, 1806 ; biblical dialogues,
1822. — Encye. of Amer. Lit.
ROY ALL, AXXE, a notorious woman for some
years, died in 1854. Born in Virginia, she
was kidnapped by the Indians and detained fif
teen years ; she then married Capt. R., and lived
in Alabama. She established papers in Wash
ington, Paul Pry and the Huntress. From sim
ple men she extorted money by her personalities
or threats. She published sketches, 1826; the
Teanesseean, 1827; the black book, 1828.
ROYCE, SAMUEL, died of the pestilence, near
Alexandria, on Red river, Louisiana, in October,
1819, aged 28. His name is unknown upon the
earth ; but it will stand high in the roll of heaven,
where the names of great statesmen and con
querors will not be found. His family friends
lived in Clinton, N. Y. He graduated at Sche-
nectady in 1813. Determined to devote himself
to the benefit of the new settlements of the
south, which were in a spiritual desolation, he
was licensed by the presbytery of Mississippi,
consisting of four members, in 1816, and soon re
paired to A., employed by the Connecticut mis
sionary society. He went where no Protestant
preacher ever went. He said : " I am fond of
going foremost with the standard of Christ.
There is not one religious person in the place."
But he soon fell, in all the fervor of his self-sacri
ficing zeal.
RUDD, ABIGAIL, died in Bozrah, Norwich,
Conn., in 1857, aged 99. Her name was Allen.
She was married in 1780, and had a pension for
her husband's Revolutionary services. She could
repeat the whole of Milton's paradise lost, and
much of the bible. Retaining her faculties to
the last, she died in peace and hope.
RUDE, WILLIAM, died at Cumberland, R. L,
Oct. 24, 1845, aged 97. He fought at Bunker
Hill and White Plains.
RUGGLES, THOMAS, minister of Guilford,
Conn., succeeded J. Eliot and died in 1728, aged
about 58 or 63. Born in Roxbury, Mass., the
son of John, a representative, he graduated at
Harvard in 1690, and was ordained in 1695.
One account says he was born in 1655, which is
probably a mistake for 1665, as it would render
his age 35 at the time of his graduation. His
son Thomas succeeded him in 1729, and died in
1770, aged about 60 : he graduated at Yale in
1723.
RUGGLES, SAMUEL, the second minister of
Billerica, Mass., died in 1749, aged 68. Born in
Roxbury, he graduated at Harvard in 1702, and
was ordained in 1708, succeeding S. Whiting.
RUGGLES, TIMOTHY, minister of Rochester,
Mass., died in 1768, aged 84. Born in Roxbury,
he graduated at Harvard in 1707, and succeeded
S. Arnold in 1710.
RUGGLES, THOMAS, minister of Guilford,
Conn., died in 1770. He graduated at Yale in
1723; succeeded his father, T. R., in 1729 ; and
from 1746 was one of the fellows of the college.
He published the usefulness of soldiers, 1736;
a sermon on the death of Dr. J. Eliot, 1763.
RUGGLES, BEXJAMIN, minister of New Brain-
tree, Mass., died in 1782, aged 82. He gradu
ated at Harvard in 1721; was ordained at Mid-
dleborough in 1724; installed at N. B. in 1754;
and received D. Foster as a colleague in 1778.
— Sprague's Annals.
RUGGLES, THOMAS, minister of Cheshire,
Conn., died in 1836, aged about 52. Born in
Guilford, he graduated at Yale in 1805, and was
pastor from 1809 to 1811.
RUGGLES, DAVID, Dr., a colored man, died
at Northampton Dec. 16, 1849, aged 40. He
established a water-cure ; and was so much of a
bewildered man or impostor, as to claim the skill
of determining diseases by the greater or less ra
pidity of perspiration, ascertained by feeling the
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skin. On the same spot on Mill river, two miles
from the centre of the town, has grown up the
large water-cure of Dr. Munde, from Germany.
RUMP, FREDERIC, a Revolutionary pen
sioner, died at Urbana, Ohio, Nov. 9, 1841, aged
106. A German, he served in the American war.
He was twice married and had eighteen children.
RUMSEY, JAMES, resided in Berkeley county,
Va., and died in Philadelphia. In 1782 he in
vented a method of employing steam in naviga
tion, for which he obtained a patent in Virginia in
1787. In 1784 he published a treatise on the
subject, in controversy with J. Fitch, who claimed
a similar invention. His method did not succeed
in experiments made in this country and in Eng
land. He died while employed in describing his
invention.
RUNNELS, HARMAN, colonel, died near Mon-
ticello, Miss., in 1841, aged about 90 ; a soldier of
the Revolution, a legislator of Georgia and Mis
sissippi.
RUSH, BENJAMIN, M. D., a physician, died
April 19, 1813, aged G7. He descended from
ancestors who early emigrated from England to
Pennsylvania. He was born at Byberry, four
teen miles northeast of Philadelphia, Dec. 24,
1745. After the death of his father, his mother
sent him to the academy of his uncle, Dr. Finley,
in Nottingham, Maryland, where he lived eight
years and became deeply impressed with moral
and religious sentiments. Having graduated at
Princeton in 1760, he studied physic with Red
man and Shippen, and also at Edinburgh from
1766 to 1768. He returned to Philadelphia in
1769, and was elected the professor of chem
istry in the college ; in 1791 he was appointed
professor of medicine. In his practice he re
lied much on the lancet and on cathartic medi
cines. In the yellow fever of 1793, when 4,044
persons died, he successfully resorted to his favor
ite remedies. Being a member of congress in
1776, his name is affixed to the declaration of
independence. In 1777 he was appointed physi
cian-general of the hospital in the middle mili
tary department ; in 1787 he was a member of
the convention for adopting the constitution of
the United States ; and for the last fourteen years
of his life treasurer of the United States mint.
He was president of the society for the abolition
of slavery; vice-president of the Philadelphia
bible society ; and connected also with many
other charitable and literary societies. His short
inquiry into the effect of ardent spirits upon the
human body and mind was a most valuable trea
tise and one of the earliest productions on the
subject of temperance. He also wrote against
the use of tobacco, describing the effect of its ha
bitual use on health, morals, and property. His
zeal for the interests of learning induced him to
be one of the founders of Dickinson college at
Carlisle ; he also eloquently advocated - the uni
versal establishment of free schools. He died of
the pleurisy, after an illness of five days. His
wife was Julia, the daughter of Richard Stockton.
Nine children survived him. Richard Rush, his
son, was secretary of the treasury in the admin
istration of John Q. Adams. In 1811 the em
peror of Russia sent him a gold ring, as a testi
mony of respect for his medical character. Dr.
Rush was one of the most eminent physicians
and most learned medical writers of our coun
try. His writings contain many expressions
of piety. It was his usual practice at the close
of each day to read to his collected family a
chapter in the bible, and to address God in
prayer. His character is fully described in
Thacher's medical biography, where may be found
a list of the subjects of his various writings. His
medical works are in six volumes. He published
also a volume of essays, literary, moral, and phi
losophical, 1798. — Tliaclicr, II. 29-71.
RUSH, JACOB, LL. D., judge, brother of the
preceding, was born in 1746 ; graduated at
Princeton college in 1765 ; and was for many
years president of the court of common pleas for
Philadelphia, where he died Jan. 5, 1820, aged
74. In the controversy between Dickinson and
Reed, he was a writer on the side of the for
mer. He published his charges on moral and
religious subjects, 1803.
RUSSELL, JOHN, a Weddcrdop'd shoemaker
of Woburn, after the result of the synod of 1639,
published a brief narrative concerning the first
gathering of a church of Christ in gospel order
at Boston, — in favor of the anabaptists. Hub-
bard says : " Surely he was not well aware of the
old adage, ' Ne sutor ultra crepidam,' or else he
would not have made such botching work." But
this witticism proves nothing. Mr. Russell might
have had just cause of complaint of persecution.
RUSSELL, RICHARD, died in Charlestown,
Mass., in 1676, aged 64. He came from Here
fordshire, Eng., in 1640 ; and was speaker of the
house, assistant, and treasurer of the colony.
Among his descendants, of the fifth generation,
was Judge Chambers Russell of the supreme
court, the son of Daniel, a graduate of 1731,
who died in 1767, aged 53 ; also Thomas Russell,
and Margaret, who married John Codman and
was the mother of Rev. Dr. Codman.
RUSSELL, JOHN, the first minister of the
Baptist church in Boston, was settled July 28,
1679, and died Dec. 24, 1680. The Russells of
Providence descended from him. He might have
been the son of John, a freeman of Woburn in
1640, and a Baptist, who died in 1676.
RUSSELL, JOHN, the first minister of "VVeth-
ersfield, Conn., and of Hadley, Mass., died in II.
Dec. 10, 1692, aged 65. He was the son of
John, who lived in Cambridge and in Connecti-
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cut ; and was born in England. He graduated
at Harvard in 1045. He was succeeded at Wcth-
ersfield by G. Bulkley. lie came to Hadley in
1(559 ; in his house the regicides, Goffe and
Whalley, were concealed from 1664 for fifteen or
sixteen years. His son, Samuel, graduated at
Harvard in 1681 ; was ordained at Branford,
Conn., in 1687 ; and died in 1731, aged 71. His
elder son, Jonathan, was the minister of Barn-
stable. It is supposed the remittances to his
English boarders enabled the poor country min
ister to educate his sons.
RUSSELL, JONATHAN, minister of Barnsta-
ble, Mass., died Feb. 21, 1711, aged 55. He
was the son of John 11., first minister of Weth-
ersfield, then of Hadley. He was graduated at
Harvard in 1675, and ordained Sept. 19, 1683.
His successor, from 1712 to 1758, was Jonathan
R., his son, a graduate of Yale in 1708. He was
a minister of distinction. Dr. John II. of Barn-
stable, a graduate of 1704, is supposed to have
been his son. He published the election sermon,
1704.
RUSSELL, NOADIAII, minister in Middle-
town, Conn., died Dec. 3, 1713, aged 54. He
was the son of William, who came from Eng
land and died at New Haven in 1664; he was
graduated at Harvard in 1681 ; was a schoolmas
ter at Ipswich ; was ordained Oct. 24, 1688. He
was one of the twelve who founded Yale college
in 1712, for which act he deserves to be held in
honorable remembrance. Nathaniel Collins was
his predecessor, settled Nov. 4, 1688 ; and his
successor was his son, William Russell, ordained
June 1, 1715, died June 1, 1761. From him de
scended Samuel and E. Augustus Russell, living
in 1854. Rev. Mr. X. R., by his wife, Mary
Hamlin, had nine children. Some poetic effu
sions on his death were reprinted in the Sentinel
and Witness of Feb. 7, 1854, the longest of
which was written by Rev. N. Collins of Enfield,
born in M. June 13, 1677, graduated at Harvard
1697. His diary is in N. E. hist, register for
Jan., 1853.
RUSSELL, SAMUEL, second minister of Bran-
ford, Conn., died in 1731, aged 70. He suc
ceeded A. Pierson in 1687. The son of Rev. J.
R. of Hadley, he graduated at Harvard in 1681.
He was first the minister of Deerfield, Mass.
His wife was the daughter of Major John Whit
ing. He published election sermon, 1699.
RUSSELL, SAMUEL, first minister of North
Guilford, Conn., died in 1746, aged about 41.
Born in Branford, he graduated at Yale in
1712.
RUSSELL, WILLIAM, forty-six years minister
of Middlctown, Conn., died in 1761, aged about
70. lie graduated at Yale in 1709; was tutor
and trustee; was ordained in 1715 as successor
of his father, Noadiah Russell, the second pastor
from 1688 to 1713, a graduate of Harvard in
1681. He was succeeded by E. Huntington.
lie published election sermon, 1730.
RUSSELL, DANIEL, first minister of Stepney,
in Wethersfield, Conn., died in 1764, aged about
57. He graduated at Yale in 1724, and was set
tled in 1727. C. Chapin was one of his succes
sors.
RUSSELL, WILLIAM, minister of Windsor,
Conn., died in 1774, aged about 50. The son of
Rev. William of MiddletoAvn, he graduated at
Yale in 1745. In a class of twenty-seven his
name stands the first, when the names were ar
ranged according to family rank. He was tutor
from 1748 to 1750. He was settled in 1751.
D. S. Rowland succeeded him.
RUSSELL, NOADIAII, minister of Thompson,
in the parish of Killingly, Conn., died in 1795,
ngcd 65. The son of Rev. William R. of Mid-
dletown, he graduated at Yale in 1750, and was
ordained in 1757, and was pastor nearly thir
ty-eight years. He and his predecessor, Marston
Cabot, both died of the apoplexy.
RUSSELL, THOMAS, died in Boston April 8,
1796, aged 55. He was the son of James R.,
and a descendant of Richard, born in Charles-
town in 1740. A successful and wealthy mer
chant, he was abundant in charitable distributions
and good works. The amount of his annual
gifts most men would regard as a fortune. Of
the gospel he was not ashamed, but made a public
profession of his love to the Saviour of sinners.
Dr. Moise published a sermon on his death.
RUSSELL, JAMES, a councillor of Massachu
setts, was the descendant of Richard R., who
settled in Charlestown in 1640 and was treasurer
of the colony. He was born in C. Aug. 1C, 1715,
and died April 24, 1798, aged 82. He discharged
the duties of a judge, and of other public offices,
which he sustained, with the greatest fidelity. To
the poor he was a steady and liberal friend. He
respected the institutions of the gospel, and,
while his family and his closet witnessed his con
stant devotions, his life adorned the religion which
he professed. In his last illness he was supported
and consoled by the truths of the gospel. He
was the father of Thomas Russell.
RUSSELL, WILLIAM, colonel, died in Fay-
ette county, Ky., in July, 1825, aged about 66.
At the age of sixteen he entered the army of
the Revolution as a soldier, and rose to the rank
of captain : in all subsequent wars he also served
about twenty campaigns.
RUSSELL, JONATHAN, commissioner of the
United States at Ghent, died Feb. 16, 1832, aged
60.
RUSSELL, H., widow, died in Nantucket in
April, 1836, aged 99, the oldest person in N.
RUSSELL, BENJAMIN, major, died in Boston
Jan. 4, 1845, aged 83. A soldier of the Revolu-
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tion, a practical printer, he edited for about forty
years the Centinel, a semi-weekly paper at Cos-
ton of great influence, the frequent contributors to
which were Ames, Lowell, Cabot, Iligginson, and
Pickering. The first number was issued March
24, 1784. He was a man cheerful and benevolent.
He knew how to consult in his paper the taste of
the people. " The Centinel was always as rich
in deaths as a church-yard, and in marriages as
prolific as an asparagus bed," — " the gate to ter
restrial immortality of all the people of New
England who died during its continuance."
RUSSWURM, JOHN BROWN, governor, died
in Africa in 1851, aged 52. lie was a colored
man, a graduate of Bowdoin college in 1826, and
governor of Liberia by the appointment of the
American colonization society.
RUST, HENRY, first minister of Stratham,
N. H., died in 1749, aged 62. He graduated at
Harvard in 1707, and was ordained in 1718.
RUTER, MARTIN, D. D., died May 16, 1838,
aged 53. He was born at Charlestown, Mass.,
April 3, 1785 ; and, with little education, was
licensed to preach. He studied with diligence
while a preacher. He was president of Augusta
college, in Kentucky, from 1827 to 1832, and of
Alleghany college, at Meadville, Pa., from 1834
to 1837. Then he superintended a mission to
Texas, where he died.
RUTGERS, HENRY, colonel, a patriot of the
Revolution, died in Feb., 1830, aged 84. He
fought at Brooklyn heights. The British occupied
his house as a hospital and barracks. In 1807
he delivered an address on laying the corner
stone of the Reformed Dutch church in Orchard
street. He was a respected, useful citizen of New
York ; in his politics a decided partisan, but never
engaging in any important measure without mak
ing it a special subject of prayer. It were well
if politicians would follow his example; there
would then be likely to be in their movements
less of greedy selfishness and vindictive passion,
and more of disinterestedness and of virtuous
calmness. Being very rich, Col. Rutgers was
abundant in his charities for almost all public
objects and towards numerous individuals. He
expended for others an immense sum. In one
instance he received a note, in which the writer,
then at the door, begged his assistance, intimating
that in the failure of it he should kill himself.
He conversed with the young man, and found
that he had ruined himself by gambling. But
he cautiously interposed, and saved him from the
meditated crime, and rescued him from misery ;
and the same young man became respectable and
pious. — McMurray's Sermon.
RUTIIRAUFF, J., minister of the German
Reformed church, Greencastle, Pa., died Dec. 15,
1837, aged 73.
RUTLEDGE, JOHN, chief justice of the United
RUTLEDGE.
States, died in July, 1800. He was the son of
Dr. John R., who, with his brother Andrew, a
lawyer, emigrated from Ireland to Charleston
about 1735. Having studied law at the Temple,
he returned to Charleston in 1761, and soon
proved himself an able lawyer and accomplished
orator. He took an early and distinguished part in
support of the liberties of his country, at the com
mencement of the American Revolution. He was
a member of the first congress in 1774. When
the temporary constitution of South Carolina was
established in March, 1776, he was appointed the
president and commandcr-in-chief of the colony.
He continued in this station till the adoption of
the new constitution in March, 1778, to which he
refused to give his assent. He was opposed to it,
because it annihilated the council, reducing the
legislative authority from three to two branches,
and was too democratic in its features. In 1779,
however, he was chosen governor, with the au
thority, in conjunction with the council, to do
whatever the public safety required. He soon
took the field at the head of the militia. All the
energies of the State were called forth. During
the siege of Charleston, at the request of Gen. Lin
coln, he left the city, that the executive authority
might be preserved, though the capital should
fall. Having called a general assembly in Janu
ary, 1782, he addressed them in a speech, in which
he depicted the perfidy, rapine, and cruelty \vhich
stained the British arms. In 1784 he was a
judge of the court of chancery ; in 1789 a judge
of the supreme court of the United States ; in
1791 chief justice of South Carolina; and in 1796
chief justice of the United States. He was a
man of eminent talents, patriotism, decision, and
firmness. His son, Gen. John R., a distinguished
member of congress, died at Philadelphia Sept.
1, 1819, aged 53.
RUTLEDGE, EDWARD, governor of South
Carolina, brother of the preceding, died Jan. 23,
1800, aged 50. He was born in Charleston in
Xov., 1749. In 1769 he M'cnt to England to
complete his legal education at the Temple, and
returned in 1773. In his practice he would not
engage in a cause which he did not believe to be
just. His powers of persuasion were not cm-
ployed to support iniquity or to shield oppression.
Being a member of 'congress from 1774 to 1777,
he signed the declaration of independence. lie
had much of the esteem and confidence of Wash
ington . He commanded a company of the militia
in 1779, when the British were driven from Port
Royal Island. Being taken a prisoner in 1780,
he was sent with others to St. Augustine and de
tained nearly a year. After he was exchanged
he resided near Philadelphia till the evacuation
of Charleston by the enemy in Dec., 1782. After
an exile of almost three years, he returned and
resumed his profession. In 1798 he was elected
HUTLEDGE.
SALTONSTALL.
governor. In person he was above the middle
height, rather corpulent, of a fair complexion,
and a pleasing countenance. His constitution
was broken down by hereditary gout. By his
wife, the daughter of Henry Middleton, he had a
son, Major Henry M. R. of Tennessee, and a
daughter. He had great address in moderating
those collisions which often produce duels. His elo
quence was less vehement than that of his brother
John, but more insinuating and conciliatory.
RUTLEDGE, EDWARD, died at Savannah in
1832; he was president elect of Transylvania
university. He graduated at Yale in 1817; and
was professor of moral philosophy in the univer
sity of Pennsylvania.
RUXTON, GEORGE F., died at St. Louis of
dysentery, Sept. 29, 1848, aged 88; he was a
lieutenant in the British army. He wrote the
series in Blackwood, of life in the far west, and
was the author of adventures in Mexico and the
Ilocky Mountains.
ItYALLS, HENRY, died at Darien, Georgia,
Sept. 12, 1838, aged 110. A soldier of the Rev
olution, he retained his faculties to the last.
RYLAND, WILLIAM, chaplain of the navy,
died at Washington Jan., 1846, aged 77.
SAFFORD, DANIEL, died in Boston Feb. 3,
1856, aged 63; a deacon of Mt. Vernon church.
He was for many years a successful mechanic,
a gentleman of princely beneficence, of remarka
ble courtesy, kindness and cheerfulness of dis
position, and a devout and consistent Christian.
The members of the church were, at the time
of his death, upwards of seven hundred in num
ber.
SAGE, SYLVESTER, minister of Westminster,
Vermont, died in 1841, aged 74. Born in Had-
dam, Conn., he graduated at Yale in 1787, and
was the pastor of Westminster till his death, ex
cepting that from 1807 to 1809 he was colleague
with Mr. Weld of Braintrec, Mass. He pub
lished farewell .sermon at Braintree, 1809.
SALES, FRANCIS, died at Cambridge Feb. 16,
1854, aged 82. lie was instructor in the Span
ish language, lie published Spanish grammar ;
colmena Espanola, 182<3 ; Cadalso, 1827 ; selec-
cion de obras maestras dramaticas, 1828.
SALLE, ROBERT DE LA, embarked at Rochelle
July 14, 1678, and reached Quebec in September.
Proceeding up the St. La\vrenee, he laid the
foundation of fort Niagara in the same year. In
1679 he passed up the Niagara river, the falls
of which he estimated at six hundred feet ! He
proceeded to Michillimackinac, and the Sault de
St. Marie. He visited the lake of the Illinois
and Green Bay, and built a fort on the St. Joseph
of lake Michigan ; and another, called Crevc-
cocur, in the midst of the tribes of the Illinois.
In trailicking with the Indians he found abun
dance of Indian corn. He sent out persons to
explore the Mississippi ; and returned to fort
Frontenac on lake Ontario in 1680. In the fol
lowing year he prosecuted his discoveries. In
April, 1683, he was at the mouth of the Missis
sippi. Returning by the way of the lakes to
Quebec and France, he was again sent out by
the king with four ships and two hundred men.
Leaving Rochelle in July, 1684, he proceeded to
the gulf of Mexico. In Feb., 1685, he built a
fort in the bay of St. Louis, and founded a set
tlement ; but was at last, in 1687 or 1688, assas
sinated by one of his own party. An account
of his discoveries was published by the Chevalier
Tonti ; an account is also in New York hist, coll.,
vol. II.
SALTER, RICHARD, D. I)., second minister
of Mansfield, Conn., died in 1789, aged 65. Born
in Boston, the son of John, a merchant, he grad
uated at Harvard at the age of sixteen. He then
studied both medicine and theology. In 1744
he succeeded E. Williams. His successors were
E. Gridley, J. Sherman, S. P. Williams. He had
in his church great difficulty on account of the
Separatists ; of the members, twenty-four were
excommunicated. He gave by deed a farm to
Yale college, worth 2000 dollars, to promote the
study of the Hebrew and other languages. His
wife was Mary, the daughter of E. Williams ; but
his three children died in infancy. His second
wife was a daughter of Rev. Solomon Williams.
His health failed him in his last two years. He
was a very great smoker of tobacco ; whether
that habit injured his health is not known. He
was a man of a dignified and commanding ap
pearance, of a powerful intellect, and of power
ful passions, not always laid under restraint. In
his preaching his morning sermon was usually
doctrinal ; in the afternoon he presented the
practical bearings of the subject. He published
the election sermon, 1768. — Sprague's Annals.
SALTONSTALL, RICHARD, Sir, one of the
fathers of the Massachusetts colonv, died in En"--
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land about 1658; and from him descended those
of the name in New England. He came over in
the Arabella with Governor Winthrop in 1630.
With Mr. Phillips he commenced the settlement
of Watertown ; but, discouraged, he returned to
England the next year, leaving two sons behind.
A liberal Puritan, he was through life a friend of
the colony ; he was also a patentee of Connecti
cut. His wife was a daughter of John Hampden.
SALTONSTALL, RICHARD, son of the pre
ceding, died in England in 1694, aged 84. lie
settled at Ipswich, and was an assistant in 1637.
He entered his protest against the introduction
of negro slavery. A friend of Whalley and Goffe,
he gave them in 1672 fifty pounds. He visited
England several times. His son Nathaniel, a
720
SALTOXSTALL.
SAMPSON.
giaduate of 1659, settled in Haverhill on an es
tate known as the Saltonstall seat; and died in
1707.
SALTOXSTALL, GURDON, governor of Con
necticut, died Sept, 24, 1724, aged 58. He was
born in Haverhill, Mass., March 27, 1666, and
was graduated at Harvard college in 1684. His
father was Col. Nathan, the son of Richard of
Watertown, who was the son of Sir Richard S.
He was ordained Nov. 25, 1691, minister of New
London, where he continued for several years,
highly esteemed. In 1707, by the advice of the
clergy, he was persuaded to undertake the chief
direction of the civil affairs of the colony, and he
was annually chosen governor till his death. He
was both a profound divine and a consummate
Statesman. The complexion of the Saybrook
platform was owing to his desire of bringing the
mode of church government somewhat nearer to
the Presbyterian form. To a quick perception
and a glowing imagination he united correctness
of judgment. The majesty of his eye and de
portment was softened by the features of benevo
lence. As an orator, the music of his voice, the
force of his argument, the beauty of his allusions,
the ease of his transitions, and the fulness of his
diction gave him a high rank. His temper was
warm ; but he had been taught the art of self-
command, for he was a Christian. His widow,
Mary, the daughter of William Whittingham and
the relict of Wm. Clark, died in Jan., 1730. She
was distinguished for her intelligence, wit, wis
dom, and piety. To Harvard college she be
queathed 1000 pounds, for two students designed
for the ministry.
SALTONSTALL, RICHARD, judge, grandson
of Nathaniel, died in Massachusetts in 1756, aged
53 ; a graduate of 1722. In 1736 he was made
a judge of the supreme court. He was affable
and polished, liberal to the poor, and generously
hospitable. His third wife was Mary, daughter
of E. Ccoke of Boston, the mother of Dr. Na
thaniel S. He left three sons, and two daugh
ters, married to Col. George Watson of Plymouth,
and to Moses Badger, Episcopal minister in Pro
vidence.
SALTONSTALL, NATHANIEL, a physician, a
descendant of Richard, and brother of Gur-
don S., was the son of Richard S., a judge of
the supreme court of Massachusetts, and was
born at Haverhill Feb. 10, 1746. He was grad
uated at Harvard college in 1766, and died at
Haverhill May 15, 1815, aged 69. His maternal
ancestor was Governor Leverett. While his
brothers were royalists, Dr. S. was a whig of
the Revolution. He was an intelligent, skilful,
humane physician, a friend of science and reli
gion, and highly respected by his fellow citizens.
— Thacher ; 2 Hist. Coll. IV.
SALTONSTALL, LEVERETT, LL. D., died in
Salem May 8, 1845, aged nearly 62. The son
of Dr. Nathaniel S. of Haverhill, he graduated
in the large class of 1802, and practised law in
Salem. He was a learned and faithful and hon
est lawyer, a member of congress, and connected
with various literary and charitable societies.
His care for the poor was such that he stored
his cellar with reference to their wants in the win
ter. In his will he was a benefactor of Harvard
college and of Exeter academy. He published a
historical sketch of Haverhill. A memoir of him
is in hist, coll., 3d series, vol. IX.
SAMPLEMAN, GEORGE, died in Clark county,
Ohio, Jan., 1843, aged 110; born in Germany
June 24, 1732.
SAMPSON, EZRA, died in New York in 1823,
aged 74. Born in Middleborough, the son of
Uriah, he graduated at Yale in 1773, and was
ordained at Plymouth in 1776, as colleague with
J. Parker. In the first campaign he was a chap
lain in the army at Cambridge. Being dismissed
in 1796, he removed to Hudson, devoting him
self to literature, and preaching occasionally.
His last years were spent with his sons in New
York. He died in peace. He and Dr. Harry
Croswcll published the newspaper, the Balance.
He published a sermon to soldiers, 1775 ; beau
ties of the bible, 1802 ; the historical dictionary,
1804; the sham patriot unmasked; the brief
remarker. — Sprague's Annals.
SAMPSON, DEBORAH, several years a woman
soldier, died about 1830. Born in 1758 in Ply
mouth county, she was the child of poor and un
happy parents. Yet she made every effort to
acquire some education. She shared the patriotic
feeling of the Revolution. By keeping school
she gained twelve dollars, with which she pur
chased fustian, which she made into a suit of
men's clothes, and joined the army as a man in
October, 1778. For three years she performed
all the duties of a soldier without the discovery
of her sex, under the name of Robert Shirtliffe.
While sick of a fever, Dr. Binney of Philadelphia
made the discovery. When she was recovered,
he sent her with a note to Washington, disclos
ing the fact, Washington said not a word, but
gave her a discharge and a sum of money. As
her conduct had been irreproachable, she mar
ried Benjamin Gannett of Sharon, a respectable
farmer, and became the mother of three children ;
the eldest in 1805 was aged 19. She claimed
of the court in Dedham in 1820 a reward for her
services. Her husband died in February, 1837,
aged 80.
SAMPSON, WILLIAM C., missionary to Bom
bay, died Dec. 22, 1835. Born in Kingston,
U. C., he went to B. in 1833. His wife was
Mary L. Barker of Augusta, N. Y.
SAMPSON, WILLIAM, died at New York Dec.
27, 1836, aged 73. He was an eminent counsel-
SAMPSON.
SANGER.
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lor at law, a native of Ireland. He published a
report on a trial for libel, 1807; speech on the
trial of James Cheetham, 1810; trial of journey
men cordwaincrs ; is a whale a fish ? being a re
port, etc., 1819 ; discourse before the New York
historical society, 1824.
SAMPSON, "FRANCIS S., D. D., died before
1806 ; he was many years a teacher of the o\d
school theological seminary in Virginia, and had
reputation as a scholar. His critical commentary
on the epistle to the Hebrews was published, ed
ited by Dr. Dabney, in 1856.
SAMSON, DANIEL, died in Barre, N. Y., May
28, 1842, aged 83. He was a soldier of the Rev
olution, and for fifty-seven years a professor of
religion and eminent Christian, of rare humility,
simplicity, and benevolence. Before he removed
to B. he lived in Cornwall, Vt.
SANDEMAN, ROBERT, the founder of the
sect of Sandemanians, died at Danbury, Conn.,
April 2, 1771, aged 53. He was born at Perth
in Scotland, and educated at St. Andrews. Hav
ing married a daughter of Mr. Glass, he became
one of his followers. lie represented faith as
the mere operation of intellect, and maintained
that men were justified without holiness, merely
on speculative belief. This faith, however, he
contended would always, wherever it existed,
produce the Christian virtues ; so that his system
cannot be charged with opening a door to licen
tiousness. In 1762 he went to London and es
tablished a congregation. He came to America
in October, 1764, and from Boston he went to
Danbury. In that town he gathered a church
in July, 1765. He published an answer to Iler-
vey's Theron and Aspasio, in 2 vols., 8vo., 1757.
This work is ingenious, though it exhibits a great
deal of asperity. Mr. Ilervey himself acknow
ledged that the author had pointed out some
errors in his writings, and had the most exalted
views of Divine grace.
SANDERS, DANIEL CLARK, president of Ver
mont university, died suddenly in Medfield in
1850, aged 82. Born in Sturbridge, he gradu
ated at Cambridge in 1788; was ordained atVer-
genues in 1794 ; and chosen president of the
university of Vermont in 1801. He resigned in
1813, during the war, and was installed at Med
field in 1818, and dismissed in 1829. For fifty
years he kept a meteorological journal. He pub
lished a sermon on the death of M. Russell, 1805;
a history of the Indians, 1812.
SANDERS, MOSES C., died in Peru, Ohio,
May 18, 1856, aged 66. A native of Massachu
setts, he removed to Ohio in 1818, and was an
eminent physician and surgeon. He was for
years an Infidel, but in 1837 he became a Chris
tian. Practising physic in a new country, some
times he was guided to his patients through
pathless forests by a pocket compass.
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SANDERSON, ALYAN, minister of Ashfield,
Mass., died in 1817, aged 36. Born in Whatcly,
he graduated at Williams college in 1802. After
a mission in Maine, he was settled in A., the suc
cessor of Nehemiah Porter. Being dismissed in
ill health in 1814, he established a grammar
school. He was a faithful minister, gentle, cour
teous, an example of Christian goodness. Having
none in his house to provide for, he bequeathed
400 dollars to his religious society, 500 dollars
for missions, and 1500 or 2000 dollars to his
school.
SANDERSON, JOHN, died at Philadelphia in
1844, aged 61. He was the author of the biog
raphy of the signers of the declaration of inde
pendence, in several volumes, and also of the
American in Paris, and sketches of Paris. — Cycl.
of Amer. I At.
SANDFORI), PETER P., D. I)., a Methodist
minister, died at Tarrytown, N. Y., Jan. 14, 1857,
aged 76. 1 le for some time labored in the city
of New York, and was highly esteemed.
SANDS, ROBERT C., died at New York Dec.
16, 1832, aged 33. A graduate of Columbia
college in 1815 ; he was a man of genius and an
elegant writer. He was one of the editors of the
Commercial Advertiser. He published Yamoydcn,
a poem, written principally by him; notice of
Cortes ; life of Paul Jones. — Cyclojjedia of Amer
ican Literature.
SANFORD, DAVID, minister of Medway, Mass.,
died in 1810, aged 73. Bora in Milford, Conn.,
his father, an admirer of the character and preach
ing of David Braincrd, gave his son the name of
David. He graduated at Yale in 1755 ; lived
some years in Great Barrington under the teach
ing of Dr. Hopkins ; and was settled in 1773, so
that he was in the ministry about thirty-seven
years. Among his people were extensive reviv
als in 1784 and 1785. The sermon at his fu
neral Avas preached by Dr. Emmons, and is in his
works, vol. I., p. 330. There was probably much
of bluntness and straight-forwardness in his
preaching. Mr. Bellamy and he married sisters.
An anecdote, as to the difference between his and
Bellamy's preaching, may be found under the
name of Bellamy. He published a dissertation
on the law to Adam ; also on the scene in the
garden, 1810. — Spraytie's Annals.
SANFORD, NATHAX, died on Long Island
October, 1838. He was a senator of the United
States from 1815 to 1821, and from 1825 to
1830, and chancellor of New York two years.
SANFORD, JOSHUA, died in Dublin, N. H.,
Dec. 12, 1856, aged 103 years and 8 months.
He had a strong frame, took much exercise, and
was temperate in all things.
SANGER, ZEDEKIAII, minister in South
Bridgewater, died Nov. 17, 1820, aged 72. Born
in Sherborn in 1748, he was a descendant of
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SAEGEANT.
SAWYER.
Richard S., a blacksmith, who removed from Sucl-
bury to Watertown, and died in 1691 ; whose son
Richard, born in 1667, married Elizabeth Morse ;
and his son Richard, born 1706, married Deborah
Rider, and died 1786, his eighth child being
Zedekiah. Mr. S. graduated at Harvard in 1771,
and was ordained at Duxbury July 3, 1776, and
dismissed in 1786. He was settled at Bridge-
water Dec. 17, 1788, as colleague of John Shaw.
His wife was Irene Freeman. His children were
Richard, born 1778; Joseph, in 1781; Caroline,
1782, married Rev. Samuel Clark ; Zedekiah,
in 1784; Samuel F. ; Rev. Ralph, graduated in
1808, married Charlotte Kingman, settled at Do
ver; and several daughters. lie was a scholar
and learned divine. Young men he prepared
for college, and he had students in divinity. His
successor at Duxbury was Dr. J. Allyn.
SARGEANT, NATHANIEL PEASLEE, chief jus
tice of the supreme court of Massachusetts, died
at Ilaverhill in October, 1791^ aged 60. The son
of Christopher S. of Methuen, he graduated at
Harvard college in 1750. In 1776 he was ap
pointed, a judge of the superior court, and chief
justice in December, 1789.
SARGENT, JOHN, colonel, was the first child
born in Vermont. The time of his death has
not been ascertained ; but his widow died at
Brattleboro in July, 1822, aged 87.
SARTI, Signor, died in Boston Sept., 1850 ;
manufacturer of fine anatomical figures in wax.
He was a native of Florence.
SATTERLEE, A. B., Baptist missionary to
Akyab, Arrican, died July 1, 1856, of cholera.
A graduate of Brown, he had been in service but
a few years, and was highly respected.
SAUBERT, XAVIER, Dr., died Jan. 20, 1836;
called the fire king. In making experiments with
phosphoric ether, or prussic acid, it exploded and
killed him.
SAUNDERS, PRINCE, a colored man, attor
ney-general of Hayti, was born at Thetford, Vt.
He was well educated. About 1806 he taught a
free colored school in Colchester, Conn., and af
terwards in Boston. Going to Hayti, Christophe
employed him to improve the state of education
in his dominions, for which purpose he was sent
to England. His Christian name, Prince, being
mistaken for his just title of dignity, he was
conversant with the nobility. Returning from
Hayti to this country, he studied divinity and
preached at Philadelphia. But he went again
to Hayti, where he died, as attorney-general, in
February, 1839. He published several tracts,
one concerning Hayti.
SAUSAMAN, JOHN, was the son of an Indian
convert. He was cunning and plausible, well
skilled in the English language, and employed
as a school-master at Natick. Upon some misde
meanor he left the English, and became secretary
of King Philip in 1672. He was prevailed upon
by the solicitations of Mr. Eliot to return to Na
tick ; he was baptized, and became an Indian
preacher, well gifted. He discovered a plot
against the English, and communicated it to
Gov. Winslow. Not long afterwards he was
murdered by three of Philip's men, and his body
was put under the ice in Assawampset pond.
His murderers were seized and executed at Ply
mouth in 1675.
SAVAGE, THOMAS, major, the ancestor of the
families of Savages in New England, died Feb. 14,
1682, aged 74. He came over from England as
early as 1635, and was representative of Boston,
Hingham, and Andover, and speaker of the house.
He commanded the troops in the early part of
Philip's war in 1675. He married Faith, the
daughter of William and the celebrated Ann
Hutchinson; and from them descended James
Savage of Boston, the learned antiquarian, who
still lives in a good old age. The generations
and families are as folloivs: 1. Major Thomas
Savage and Faith Huntington ; 2. Lieut.-Colonel
Abijah Savage and Hannah Tyng; 3. Licut,-
Colonel Thomas Savage and Elizabeth Scottow ;
4. Lieut.-Colonel Habijah Savage, who died in
1746, aged 71; 5. the father of Mr. S., whose
name does not occur ; 6. James Savage of Bos
ton, born in 1784. If he bears no military title,
yet he knows how to wield the pen instead of
the sword.
SAVAGE, EDWARD, a painter, died at Prince
ton, Mass., in 1817, aged 56. He was born at
P. in 1761. He was at first a goldsmith. After
studying for a while under West in London, he
repaired to Italy. Before he went abroad he
painted the Washington family, and, finding no
engraver, engraved the picture himself. Of this
print, it is said that he sold nine thousand copies
at nine dollars each. He was a man of good
talents; but his attention was too much divided
among different pursuits to allow of his attain
ing the highest eminence as a painter. He com
menced a museum in New York, and brought it
to Boston ; where it became a part of the old
.New England museum. — Knapp's Lect.
SAVAGE, MARY, died at Woolwich, Maine,
in 1825, aged 102.
SAVAGE, SAMUEL, M. I)., an eminent phy
sician of Barnstable, Mass., died in 1831, aged
83. He graduated at Harvard in 1766.
SAVAGE, SARAH, Miss, died at Salem, Mass.,
in 1837, aged 52, a lady worthy and refined. She
wrote factory girl, and other works.
SAWYER, MICAJAH, M. D., a physician, the
son of a physician, was born at Newbury, Mass.,
July 15, 1737 ; graduated at Harvard college in
1756; and, after practising physic more than
SAWYER.
SCHUYLER.
fifty years in Newburyport, died Sept. 29, 1815,
aged 77. He was an eminent physician and a
9 man of pure morals and religion. — TJiacltcr.
SAWYER, ELIZABKTII, died in Bolton, Mass.,
in 1815, aged 105, retaining her faculties to the
last. Her descendants were three or four hun
dred.
SAXTOX, or SEXTON, GILES, minister of
Scituate, Mass., as early as 1630. He came from
Yorkshire. He was admitted freeman in 1631.
It is said he returned to England, and that on
the voyage he cried out, in a perilous hour, " O,
who is now for heaven ? Who is bound for
heaven." — Felt's Hist. New Eng.
SAY, THOMAS, died Oct. 10, 1834, aged 46, at
New Harmony, Ind. He was a merchant. He
made abundant contributions to science. His writ
ings on insects, on fresh-water and land-shells, on
univalves, etc., are in the American philosophical
transactions. He published American entomol
ogy, 3 vols., 1824 and 1828 ; explanation of terms,
1825. — Cycl. of Amer. Lit.
SCAMMELL, ALEXANDER, colonel, a soldier
of the Revolution, died Oct. 6, 1781, aged about
33. He was born in Mendon, now Milford, Mass.,
and graduated at Harvard college in 1769. He
studied law with Gen. Sullivan ; assisted Capt.
Holland in surveys for his map of New Hamp
shire; and in 1775 was appointed brigade-major,
and in 1776 colonel. In the battle of Saratoga
in 1777 he was wounded. About 1780 he was
adjutant-general of the American armies, and
deservedly popular. At the siege of Yorktown,
being officer of the day, Sept. 30, 1781, while re-
connoitering he was surprised by a party of the
enemy's horse, and after being taken prisoner
was inhumanly wounded. Being conveyed to
Williamsburg, he died of his wound. General
Brooks and General Dearborn each named a son
after their friend.
SCAMMELL, JOHN, Dr., died at Bellingham
March 9, 1845, aged 83. His father and grand
father were physicians before him. He served a
short time in the Revolutionary war.
SCHAEFFER, F. G., D. D., died in Phila
delphia in March, 1831, aged 38; pastor in the
Lutheran church, professor of German in Colum
bian college.
SCIIAEFFER, FREDERIC DAVID, D. D., died
at Frederic, Md., Jan. 27, 1836, aged 77. He
had been pastor of a German Lutheran church
in Philadelphia ; and was a man of learning,
skilled in languages ; a native of Germany.
SCIIERMERHORN, II. O., died at Utica
Sept. 22, 1854, aged 36. He was seized with his
last sickness on his return to New York from
a wedding tour to Niagara. A distinguished
scholar, he settled as a minister first at Ticonde-
roga, then in New York city. His labors were
great and incessant. He increased a Sabbath-
school from forty to six hundred scholars. His
wife was a daughter of Sheldon Martin.
SCHNEIDER, Mrs., wife of Rev. B. S., mis
sionary to the Armenians, died Sept. 28, 1856, at
Aintab, aged 47.
SCIIOLEY, CATHERINE, Mrs., died in Scioto,
Ohio, July 5, 1855, of neuralgia ; the largest
woman in the world, who was exhibited by Col.
Wood. He had her life insured for 25,000 dol
lars.
SCIIOOLCRAFT, LAWRENCE, colonel, died
at Verona, N. Y., June 7, 1840, aged 80; a sol
dier of the Revolution, a man much respected.
SCIIOONMAKER, JACOB, D. D., died at Ja
maica, L. I., in 1856, aged 74. His father was
minister at Aquackanock over forty years ; his
grandfather was the first minister at Jamaica.
Dr. S. was pastor both of Ncwtown and Jamaica
till 1849. The old dominie preached his fare
well discourse in 1850, assisted by his friend, Dr.
Brodhead, at the Lord's Supper.
SCIIOOP, JOHN, a Mohican Indian, died at
Bethlehem in 1746 ; a convert, baptized in 1742.
SCIIUREMAN, JOHN, D. I)., professor in
the theological college of New Brunswick, N. J.,
died in 1818, aged 39. He had been a minister
of the Dutch church in the city of New York.
SCIIUYLER, PETER, mayor of the city of
Albany, was much distinguished for his patriot
ism, and for the influence which he possessed
over the Indians. In the year 1691 he headed a
party of three hundred Mohawks, and with about
the same number of English, made a bold attack
upon the French settlements at the north end of
lake Champlain. He slew three hundred of the
enemy. Such was the authority of Col. Schuyler
with the five nations, that whatever Quider (for
so they called him, as they could not pronounce
Peter) recommended, had the force of law. In
1710 he went to England at his own expense,
taking with him five Indian chiefs, for the pur
pose of exciting the government to vigorous
measures against the French in Canada. The
chief command in New York devolved upon him
as the eldest member of the council in 1719;
but in the following year Governor Burnet arrived.
He often warned the New England colonies of
expeditions meditated against them by the French
and Indians. — Smith's New York, 66-152.
SCHUYLER, PHILIP, a major-general in the
Revolutionary war, died at Albany Nov. 18, 1804,
aged 72. He received his appointment from
congress, June 19, 1775. He was directed to
proceed from New York to Ticonderoga, to se
cure the lakes, and to make preparations for
entering Canada. Being taken sick in Septem
ber, the command devolved on Montgomery. On
his recovery he devoted himself zealously to the
management of the affairs in the northern de
partment. The superintendence of the Indian
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concerns claimed much of his attention. On tlic
approach of Burgoyne in 1777, he made every
exertion to obstruct his progress ; but, the evacu
ation of Ticonderoga by St. Clair occasioning
unreasonable jealousies in regard to Schuyler in
New England, he was in August superseded by
Gates, and congress directed an inquiry to be
made into his conduct. It was a matter of ex
treme chagrin to him to be recalled at the mo
ment when he was about to face the enemy. He
afterwards, though not in the regular service,
rendered important services to his country in the
military transactions of New York. He was a
member of the old congress, and when the pres
ent government of the United States commenced
its operations in 1789, he was appointed with
Ilufus King a senator from his native State. In
1797 he was again appointed a senator in the
place of Aaron Burr. His daughter married
Gen. Hamilton. Another daughter married John
B. Church, an Englishman, contractor for the
French army in the Revolutionary war, and after
wards member of parliament, who died April,
1818 ; she died in 1814. Distinguished by
strength of intellect and upright intentions, he
was wise in the contrivance, and enterprising and
persevering in the execution of plans of public
utility. In private life he was dignified, but cour
teous, a pleasing and instructive companion, af
fectionate in his domestic relations, and just in
all his dealings. — Marshall, n. 237, 301-306;
III. 3, 4, 226-258, 273 ; IV. 449.
SCHWEINITZ, Louis DAVID DE, died at Beth
lehem, Pa., Feb. 8, 1834, aged 52. He was a
minister among the Moravians, their second head ;
and was the author of several valuable works on
botany.
SCOBY, WILLIAM, one of the first planters
of Londonderry, N. H., died in that town at the
age of 104. He came over from Ireland with
Mr. Macgrcgore. These planters lived on an av
erage to eighty years, some to ninety, and others
to one hundred.
SCOTT, CHARLES, brigadier-general, governor
of Kentucky, died Oct. 22, 1807, aged 74. He
was a Virginia soldier of the Revolution. His
commission of brigadier is dated April 2, 1777.
He was governor from 1808 to 1812, when he
was succeeded by Shelby.
SCOTT, JONATHAN, minister of Minot, Me.,
died in 1819, aged 75. He was installed in 1796.
His successor was Elijah Jones, whose labors
were very successful. He was first a minister in
Yarmouth, Nova Scotia ; then in Poland, Me. ;
and about twenty-three years in Minot. He pub
lished a sermon on death of S. Foxcroft ; before
missionary society, 1808. — Sprague's Annals.
SCOTT, JOHN, a lawyer and judge, died in
Virginia in 1850, aged 68.
SCOTT, DANIEL, died at Philadelphia June 26,
1856 ; many years pastor of the colored church.
SCOTTOW, JOSHUA, captain, died in Boston
in 1698, aged about 80. His daughter, Elizabeth,
married Colonel Thomas Savage, an ancestor of
the learned antiquarian, James Savage, who will
soon, it is said, tell the New England people
more than any one else can tell them of their
ancestors. He published a narrative of planting
of Massachusetts colony, etc., 1694 ; old men's
tears for their own declensions, 1691.
SCREVEN, WILLIAM, died at Georgetown,
S. C., in 1713, aged 84. A native of England,
born in 1629, he came to Massachusetts, whence
as an unwelcome Baptist minister he removed to
Piscataway, where he married a Miss Cutts.
Thence he went to Cooper's river, S. C., in 1683,
and formed a church. His successors, Baptist
ministers at Charleston, were Fry, White, Tilly,
Simons, Chanler, Bedgewood, Hart, down to 1780.
The late Col. Thomas Screven and Rev. Charles
0. Screven were his descendants. He published
ornament for church members. — Ramsay.
SCREVEN, THOMAS, brigadier-general, died
in 1778. He was a descendant of William S.
He commanded the militia when Georgia was in
vaded by East Florida in Nov., 1778. While a
party of the enemy was marching from Sunbury
towards Savannah, he had repeated skirmishes
with them at the head of a hundred militia. In
an engagement at Midway, the place of his resi
dence, he was wounded by a musket ball, and
fell from his horse. Several of the British im
mediately came up, and, upbraiding him with the
manner in which a Captain Moore had been
killed, discharged their pieces at him. He died
soon after of his wounds. Few officers had done
more for their country, and few men were more
esteemed and beloved for their virtues in private
life.
SCREVEN, CHARLES ODINGSELLS, D. D., died
at New York July 2, 1830, aged 57. He was of
Sunbury, Georgia. Born at Midway, Liberty
county, at the age of thirteen he was baptized by
Dr. Furman of Charleston ; graduated at Provi
dence in 1795 ; and became the minister of the
Baptist church in Sunbury in 1803. He was a
faithful and successful minister.
SCUDDER, Jonx, died at New York in 1821 ;
proprietor of the American museum.
SCUDDER, JOK\, M. D., missionary in Ma
dras, died at the Cape of Good Hope, at Wynberg,
Jan. 13, 1855, of apoplexy, aged 61. His ven
erable mother, Mary, aged more than 80, survived
him. He was born in New Brunswick, N. J. ;
but his parents removed to Freehold, where he
was brought up. He was graduated in 1811, and
went to Tillipally in Dec., 1819, as a missionary
physician, but was soon ordained. For sixteen
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years he labored at the station of Pandeteripo in
Ceylon. In 1836 he and Mr. Winslow were
transplanted to the city of Madras, where it was
purposed to use a religious press in the Tamul
language. From 1843 to 1847 he was in the
United States, promoting the cause of missions
by visiting the churches, everywhere most im
pressively addressing the children. He was edu
cated in the Dutch Reformed church, of which
he was the first missionary, and to which he was ever
attached. By his wife, Harriet, he had fourteen
children, of whom seven sons and two daughters
survived him. Six of the sons devoted them
selves to foreign missions, three of whom were,
at the time of his death, in the field in India, at
Arcot, seventy miles from Madras. His appeal
to the youth in behalf of the heathen was pub
lished in 1846; he wrote also a tract, provision
for passing over Jordan.
SCUDDER, KATHARINE, wife of W. W. Scud-
der, missionary at Arcot, died of the cholera
March 11, 1849; she had been less than two
years in India. She had no regret, and no fears.
Her Saviour was with her. She died on board a
vessel, anchored near the continent, and was
buried in a grove of thorn trees, which looks out
upon the ocean. She was the daughter of Thos.
Hastings of New York.
SCUDDER, Mrs., wife of Dr. Scudder, mis
sionary at Madras, died Nov. 19, 1849, aged 54.
She had been connected with missions thirty
years. Her name was Harriet Waterbury, of
New York. She was married in 1816, and sailed
in 1819 for India, with the wives of Messrs. Wins-
low, Spaulding, and Woodward. From Ceylon
she removed to Madras in 1836. For several
years before 1846 she and her husband were in
America. Just before she died she exclaimed,
"Glorious heaven! glorious salvation!"
SEABURY, SAMUEL, D. ])., first bishop of
the Episcopal church in the United States, died
Feb. 25, 1796, aged 68. He was the son of Mr.
Seabury, Congregational minister at Groton, and
afterwards Episcopal minister at New London,
and was born in 1728. After being graduated at
Yale college in 1751, he went to Scotland for the
purpose of studying medicine ; but, his attention
being soon directed to theology, he took orders in
London in 1753. On his return to this country
he was settled in the ministry at Brunswick in
New Jersey. In the beginning of 1757 he re
moved to Jamaica on Long Island ; and thence
in Dec., 1766, to West Chester. In this place he
remained till the commencement of the war,
when he went into the city of New York. At
the return of peace he settled in New London.
In 1784 he went to England to obtain consecra
tion as bishop of the Episcopal church of Connec
ticut, but, meeting with some obstruction to the
accomplishment of his wishes, he went to Scot
land, where, Nov. 14th, he was consecrated by
three nonjuring bishops. After this period he
discharged for a number of years at New London
the duties of his office in an exemplary manner.
He published the duty of considering our ways,
1789 ; a discourse at the ordination of R. Fowle,
1791 ; and two volumes of sermons, which evince
a vigorous and well-informed mind. After his
death a supplementary volume was published in
1798.
SEAMAN, VALENTINE, M. D., died in New
York in June, 1817, aged 47. He was the son
of Samuel and descendant of Captain John, who
settled at Hempstead, L. I., about 1660. He was
of the society of Friends, and adhered to it. He
studied with Dr. Nicholas Romeyn, and in Phila
delphia, and was an eminent physician. For the
good of the African race he toiled much, being a
member of the manumission society. — Williams'
Med. Biog.
SEAMANS, JOB, a Baptist minister in New
London, Conn., died in 1830, aged 82. Born in
Swanzey, Mass., he was first a minister in Attle-
borough, Mass., and removed to New London in
1788, when the Baptist church was formed.
SEAMANS, AARON, a Baptist minister, died
at Marion, Iowa, Oct. 1, 1856, aged 87. Born
in Rehoboth, his father removed to Cheshire,
Mass., and there became religious under the
preaching of Elder Leland. For about forty
years he was the pastor of the Baptist church in
Northville, N. Y. In 1842 he removed to Iowa.
His life was useful ; his end peace.
SEARLE, JOHN, the second minister of Sha
ron, Conn., died in Stoneham, Mass., in 1787,
aged about 64. He graduated at Yale in 1745,
and was succeeded by C. M. Smith in 1755, and
removed to Stoneham, where he was pastor from
1758 to 1776. He published a sermon at the or
dination of S. Peabody. — Sprague's Annals.
SEARLE, JONATHAN, first minister of Mason,
N. II., died in 1812, aged 68. Born in Rowley,
he graduated at Harvard in 1764 ; was pastor
from 1772 to 1781.
SEARLE, JONATHAN, first minister of Salis
bury, N. II., died in Dec., 1819, aged 74. Born
in Rowley, he graduated at Harvard in 1765, and
was pastor from 1773 to 1791, and was succeeded
by Thomas A^rorcestel•.
SEARLE, THOMAS C., the minister of Madi
son, Ind., died Oct. 10, 1821, aged about 32.
Born in Rowley, he graduated at Dartmouth in
1812, and studied theology at Princeton. He
was a preacher of talents and eloquence. His
zeal for the advancement of religion in the West
induced him in 1819 to emigrate from his beloved
New England. Probably not more than one or
two Presbyterian ministers had been settled in
Indiana before him. He opened an academy in
Madison, and preached incessantly. His great
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labors brought on a fatal fever. His widow, An
nette, a woman of rare excellence of character,
the daughter of Professor B. Woodward of Dart
mouth, died Nov. 27, 1824, aged 34.
SEARS, JOSHUA, a merchant of Boston, died
in Feb., 1857, leaving property to the amount of
1,600,000 dollars. He bequeathed 15,000 dollars
to the town of Yarmouth, his birth-place, to es
tablish a nautical school ; 8,000 dollars to the
seamen's friend society of Boston ; and legacies
to his brothers and other relatives to the amount
of 107,000 dollars. The remainder, nearly a
million and a half, is left to his son of three years
of age, whose guardian is Alpheus Hardy. The
boy, on reaching twenty-one years, is to receive
30,000 dollars ; then 4,000 dollars a year for three
years ; then 6,000 dollars a year till he reaches
the age of thirty ; and 10,000 dollars a year af
terwards. It is said, Mr. S. has given to the
poor of the town of Yarmouth within a few
years 40,000 dollars. Had he given his son
100,000 dollars or half a million, and left one
million for great charities, and especially to
spread abroad the revealed truth of that God
who intrusted him with his wealth, all enlightened
Christian men would have approved of his be
quest. Y'et what other rich man has had the
pleasure of distributing with his own hands
40,000 dollars among the poor of his native
village ?
SEAVY, HAXXAII, widow, died at Kennebunk
Port in 1821, aged 101.
SECCOMBE, JOHX, first minister of Harvard,
Mass., died in Chester, Nova Scotia, in Jan., 1793,
aged about 85. Born in Medford, he graduated
at Cambridge in 1728 ; was from 1733 to 1757
the minister of Harvard ; thence before 1772 he
removed to Chester. He was a descendant of
Richard, of Lynn from 1660 to 1694. He wrote
Father Abbey's will, a short humorous poem ;
and published a sermon on the death of Abigail
Belcher, 1772 ; also at ordination of Bruin R.
Comingoe over the Dutch congregation at Lunen-
burg, preached at Halifax, 1770, the first in Nova
Scotia on such an occasion.
SECCOMBE, JOSEPH, died in 1760, aged 54.
He was a brother of the preceding, a graduate of
1731, and was installed at Kingston, N. H., in
1737. He published ways of pleasure and paths
of peace ; rehearsal of the operations of Christ
as God, 1740 ; and a sermon to a fishing party, a
discourse written at sea.
SEEBER, HENRY, died in German Flats May
15, 1845, aged 104. He was born in Indian Cas
tle, and served in the French and subsequent
wars. At Oriskany he received three wounds,
and bore a ball in his body to his death. He
lived to see the sixth generation, and left two
hundred and thirteen descendants.
SEDGWICK, ROBERT, general, died in Ja
maica May 24, 1656. His widow married Rev.
Thomas Allen. He was an early settler of
Charlc£town, Mass., a man of distinction, the
head of the families of Sedgwicks in this country.
He engaged in the service of Cromwell, and com
manded an expedition, designed against the Dutch
at New York ; but, as peace was made, he sailed
from Boston against the French and captured St.
John's and Port Royal. He was an enterprising
man, a merchant ; and, though far from an intol
erant spirit, he was religious. His letters to
Cromwell are in Thurloe's state papers. — Cood-
win, p. 175.
SEDGWICK, THEODORE, LL. I)., judge, died
Jan. 24, 1813, aged 66. Born at West Hartford,
Conn., in May, 1746, he was a descendant of
Robert S., an early settler and distinguished mil
itary officer of Massachusetts, residing at Charles-
town. His father, Benjamin S., relinquished
mercantile business, removed to Cornwall, and at
his death left a widow and six children. Of these,
Theodore S. was the youngest son. He settled
as a lawyer at Sheffield, then at Stockbridge in
1785. In the war of the Revolution he was an
aid to General Thomas in 1776 in the expedition
to Canada ; and in the Shays rebellion he exert
ed himself most zealously in its suppression. In
1785 and 1786 he was a member of congress ;
also from 1789 to 1796. From 1796 to 1798 he
was a senator of the United States. In 1799 he
was a member of the house and was chosen
speaker. From 1802 till his death he was a
judge of the supreme court of Massachusetts.
lie died at Boston, and was buried at Stockbridge.
His daughter, Catherine S., is known by her vari
ous writings. His life was active and useful. As
his attachments and aversions were strong, he
was zealous as a politician ; in his manners he
was dignified, and his habits were social. He
was a communicant in the church of Dr. Chan-
ning at Boston.
SEDGWICK, THEODORE, the oldest son of
Judge Sedgwick, a lawyer of Albany, and then a
resident of Stockbridge for the last twelve or
more years, died of the apoplexy at Pittsfield,
while attending a political meeting, Nov. 7, 1839,
aged about 60. He graduated at Yale in 1798.
His three brothers, men much respected, are also
deceased. Henry D., a lawyer of New York, a
graduate of Williams in 1804, died in 1831, aged
45 ; Robert, a lawyer of New York, died at Sa
chem's Head in 1841, aged 54 ; and Charles, a
lawyer, and for many years clerk of the Berk
shire courts, died at Lenox in 1856, aged 64,
highly esteemed for his social qualities and active
benevolence, and greatly lamented by his numer
ous friends.
SEEGER, CHARLES L., a distinguished phy
sician, died in Northampton in May, 1848, aged
85. He was a native of Germany, and had been
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settled in N. nearly half a century. He pub
lished oration July 4, 1810 ; lecture on the chol
era, 1832.
SEIXAS, GEISHOUR, minister of the Jewish
congregation in the city of New York, died in
181(3, aged 70, in the fiftieth year of his min
istry.
SELDEN, DUDLEY, an eminent lawyer of New
York, died in Paris, France, in 1855.
SELWIN, or SELYNS, HENRY, died in 1700.
He was installed as the minister of the Dutch
church in Brooklyn Sept. 3, 1660. He resided
at 'N'ew Amsterdam. He addressed a Latin poem
to C. Mather, dated 1697, which is prefixed to the
Magnolia.
SEMMES, THOMAS, Dr., an eminent physician
of Alexandria, Va., died about 1833, aged about
54. In the cholera of 1832 he was very assidu
ous in his labors. — Williams' Med. Biog.
SEMPLE, ROBERT B., D. D., died in "Virginia
Dec., 1831. He had been a preacher forty-two
years, and was president of the Baptist mission
ary convention. He published a history of the
Baptists in Va., 1809.
SEXTER, ISAAC, M. D., an eminent physician
of Xewport, 11. I., died in Dec., 1799, aged 44.
He was born in N. H., and studied with Dr.
Thomas Moffatt of Newport. He was a surgeon
in the Revolutionary war, and accompanied Ar
nold in his expedition to Quebec, of which he
prepared an account for the press. After the war
he practised for a time in Pawtucket ; then settled
at Newport. His wife was Miss Arnold of Paw-
tucket. He wrote for periodicals in America and
Europe. — Thacher's Med. Biog.
SERGEANT, JOHN, missionary among the In
dians, died at Stockbridge July 27, 1749, aged 38.
He was born at Newark, N. J., in 1710, and was
graduated in 1729 at Yale college, where he was
afterwards a tutor for four years. In Oct., 1734,
he went to Houssatonnoc, an Indian village in
the western part of Massachusetts, and began to
preach to the Indians. That he might be en
abled to administer to them the Christian ordi
nances he was ordained at Deerfield Aug. 31, \
173-3. Jonathan Edwards succeeded him. Mrs.
Sergeant was a sister of Colonel Ephraim Wil
liams, the daughter of Mr. E. Williams, one of
the first settlers of Stockbridge. Parsons in his
life of Pepperrell speaks of a faction, composed
by her husband, Brigadier Dwight, and the Wil-
liamses, for displacing Jonathan Edwards from
his charge of the Houssatonnoc Indian mission ;
and he publishes a letter of Secretary Willard to
Sir William, written in 1753, in favor of Edwards. !
Mrs. Dwight was a teacher of the Indian girls.
His son, Dr. Erastus S., died at Stockbridge in
Nov., 1814, aged 72 ; his son, John S., sixty
years a missionary to the Indians at New Stock-
bridge, N. Y., died Sept. 8, 1824, aged 77. He
was supported in part by the commissioners of the
society for propagating the gospel, and in part by
individuals in England, whose munificence reached
him through the hands of Dr. Colman of Boston.
He had baptized one hundred and twenty-nine
Indians, and forty-two were communicants at the
time of his death. With great labor he trans
lated the whole of the New Testament, excepting
the Revelation, into the Indian language, and sev
eral parts of the Old Testament. In his life he
was just, kind, and benevolent. The Iloussaton-
noc or Stockbridge Indians emigrated to New
Stockbridge in the State of New York, and were
for many years under the care of his son. He
published a letter to Dr. Colman on the educa
tion of the children of the Indians, and a sermon
on the causes and danger of delusions in religion,
1743. — Hopkins' Memoirs of Houss. Indians;
Panoplist, II. ; Spr ague's Annals.
SERGEANT, ERASTUS, a physician in Stock-
bridge, Mass., died in 1814, aged 72. He was
the son of Rev. John S. ; studied two years in
Princeton college, then studied physic with his
uncle, Dr. Thomas Williams of Deerfield; and
commenced the practice in his native town in
1765. He was a skilful surgeon as well as phy
sician ; his business extended to the neighboring
towns. He was sedate, kind, benevolent, adorned
with the Christian graces. For many years he
was a deacon of the church. In the war he was a
major in the garrison at Lake Champlain in 1777.
He died of a pulmonary disease. At dinner he
was taken with bleeding and died immediately.
It is remarkable, that though neither parent had
a clouded reason, five of his children were in
sane. His son, Erastus, a physician in Lee, died
in 1832, aged about 60; a graduate of Dartmouth
in 1792.
SERGEANT, JOHN, died in Philadelphia Nov.
23, 1852, aged nearly 73. He graduated at
Princeton in 1795. For more than half a cen
tury he was honored for his great ability as a law
yer ; he was also distinguished in congress. In
1832 he Avas whig candidate for vice-president,
Mr. Clay for president. He was a worthy mem
ber of the Episcopal church. His father, Jona-
athan Dickinson Sergeant, was a grandson of
President Dickinson, and son of Jonathan Ser
geant. He was a patriot in the Revolution, and
was the first attorney-general of the State. He
died a victim to the yellow fever in 1793. His
mother was a daughter of Rev. Dr. Elihu Spen
cer. His sister, Sarah, married Rev. Dr. Samuel
Miller, and lived with him nearly fifty years. He
published a eulogy on Adams and Jefferson ; and
a speech on the Missouri question, 1820.
SEVER, NICHOLAS, minister of Dover, N. H.,
died in Massachusetts in 1764, aged 84. Born in
Roxbury, he graduated at Harvard in 1701, and
was tutor and fellow; he was settled in 1711.
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The ministers before him were Maud, Rayner,
Pike ; and after him J. Gushing, J. Belknap, II.
Gray, etc.
SEVERANCE, LUTHER, died in Augusta, Me.,
Jan. 25, 1855 ; editor of the Kennebec Journal.
He was a member of congress, and a commis
sioner to the Sandwich Islands.
SEVIEIl, JOHN, governor of Tennessee, died
in October, 1815. lie was a soldier of the Rev
olution, and was distinguished in the battle at
King's Mountain with Colonel Ferguson in 1780.
He and Colonel Shelby projected and executed
the enterprise, for which the legislature of North
Carolina in 1813 voted him a sword. In 1789 he
commanded the forces which defeated the Creek
and Cherokee Indians. He was a general in the
provisional army, and in 1798 governor of Ten
nessee.
SEVIER, AMBROSE H., colonel, died in the
last hour of 1848, aged 49. Born in the moun-x
tains of East Tennessee, he settled in Arkansas,
and was long a delegate to congress, first in 1827,
and a member of the senate of the United States.
Among his last services he perfected a treaty of
peace with the republic of Mexico. He held pub
lic stations for a quarter of a century. He was
sincere, straight-forward, zealous, faithful to his
principles, energetic, honorable.
SEWALL, SAMUEL, chief justice of the su
preme court of Massachusetts, died Jan. 1, 1730,
aged 77. He was born at Bishop-Stoke, Eng
land, March 28, 1652. His father, Henry, had
before this time been in America, and in 1G34 be
gan the settlement of Newbury. He finally es
tablished himself in this country in 1661, when
his son was nine years old. In his childhood
Judge Sewall was under the instruction of Mr.
Parker of Newbury. He was graduated at Har
vard college in 1671, and afterwards preached for
a short time. In 1688 he went to England. In
1692 he was appointed in the new charter one of
the council, in which station he continued till
1725. He was made one of the judges in 1692,
and chief justice of the supreme court in 1718.
This office, as well as that of judge of probate
for Suffolk, he resigned in 1728, on account of in
firmities. His brothers were John and Stephen.
His wife, Hf.nnah, was the only child of John
Hull. His daughter, Elizabeth, married Grove
Hirst, and lier daughter married Sir William
Pepperell ; his daughter, Mary, married S. Ger-
rish, and Judith married Wm. Cooper in 1720,
but died in the same year. By his wife he re
ceived a large fortune, 30,000 pounds in six
pences, which he employed for the glory of God
and the advantage of men. Eminent for piety,
wisdom, and learning, in all the relations of life
he exhibited the Christian virtues, and secured
universal respect. For a long course of years he
was a member of the old south church, and one
of its greatest ornaments. He was constant in
his attendance upon public worship, keeping his
bible before him to try every doctrine. He read
the sacred volume every morning and evening in
his family, and his prayers with his household as
cended to heaven. A friend to every follower of
Christ, he was liberal, hospitable, and benevolent.
For the praying Indians at Natick he at his own
expense built a house of worship ; jmd he uni
formly, as a member of the council and of the
society for propagating the gospel, exerted him
self for the benefit of his copper-colored brethren.
He deeply felt also for the enslaved negroes.
Between 1700 and 1710 he published the sell
ing of Joseph, in which he advocated their
rights. He was critically acquainted with the
Latin, Greek, and Hebrew languages. In his
last sickness he was resigned, patient, and com
posed, placing his whole dependence for salvation
upon the Redeemer. He left behind him several
volumes of copies of letters, and a diary in three
volumes, which embraces about forty years.
From this it appears, that as one of the judges
at the trial of the Salem witches in 1692, he con
curred in the sentence of condemnation ; but he
afterwards of his own accord made a confession
of his error. It was read by his minister, Mr.
Willard, on a day of public fast, and is preserved
in his diary. He published an answer to queries
respecting America, 1690 ; proposals, touching
the accomplishment of the prophecies, 4to., 1713;
a description of the new heavens and earth, 4to.,
2d edit., 1727. — Prince's Fun. Serm.
SEWALL, JOSEPH, 1). D., minister in Boston,
the son of the preceding, died June 27, 1769, aged
80. He was born Aug. 26, 1688, and was gradu
ated at Harvard college in 1707. Having evinced
a serious disposition from his earliest days, he
now directed his attention to the study of theol
ogy. Though a member of one of the first fam
ilies in the country, he sought no worldly object,
it being his supreme desire to serve God in the
gospel of his Son. He was ordained the minis
ter of the old south church in Boston, as colleague
with Mr. Pemberton, Sept. 16, 1713. After sur
viving three colleagues, Pemberton, Prince, and
Gumming, he died in the fifty-sixth year of his
ministry. His colleague, Samuel Blair, was dis
missed in October of the same year, and in 1771
John Bacon and John Hunt were ordained minis
ters of this church. Dr. Sewall possessed re
spectable abilities, and was well acquainted with
classical learning. In 1724 he was chosen presi
dent of Harvard college, but such was his humil
ity and the elevation of his views, that he de
clined the appointment, wishing rather to continue
in the office of a minister of the gospel. His
chief glory was the love of God and the zeal to
do good, for which he was conspicuous among
his brethren. Few ministers have ever lived
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with such uniform reference to the great end of
their office. Deeply interested himself in the
truths of religion, he reached the hearts of his
hearers ; and sometimes his voice was so modu
lated by his feelings, and elevated with zeal, as
irresistibly to seize the attention. Though he
was deliberate and cautious, he was courageous in
withstanding error. lie could sacrifice every
thing for peace but duty, and truth, and holiness.
During his last illness, which continued for a
number of months, he was remarkable for his
submission and patience. While he acknow
ledged himself to be an unprofitable servant, he
looked to the atoning sacrifice of Christ for par
don, lie spoke of dying with cheerfulness.
Sometimes he was heard to say with great pathos,
" Come, Lord Jesus, come quickly." At length
he died as one who was assured of a happy im
mortality. He married, Oct. 29, 1713, Elizabeth
Wallcy, who died before him. Only one child
survived him, his son, Samuel, who was a deacon
in the church from 17G3 to 1771. He published
a sermon on family religion, 171G; on the death
of Wait Winthrop, 1717; of King George I.,
Thomas Lewis, and Samuel Hirst, 1727 ; of his
father, 1730 ; Benjamin Wadsworth, 1737 ; Jo-
siah Willard, 1756 ; Thomas Prince, 1758; Alex
ander Gumming, 17G3 ; a caveat against covet-
ousness, 1718; election sermon, 1724; on a day
of prayer for the rising generation, 1728; at the
ordination of three missionaries, 1733 ; fast ser
mon before the general court, 1740 ; sermon at
Thursday lecture ; the Holy Spirit convincing the
world of sin, of righteousness, and of judgment,
four sermons, 1741 ; on a day of prayer; on the
love of our neighbor, 1742; sermon on Revela
tion Y. 11, 12, 1745; on the reduction of Ha
vana, 1 762. — Cliauncy's Fun. Scrm. ; Wisner's
Hist., 98.
SEWALL, STEP-HEX, chief justice of the supe
rior court of Massachusetts, died in 1760, aged
57. The nephew of Samuel Sewall, he was the
son of Major Stephen Sewall of Salem. His
mother was Margaret, the daughter of Jonathan
Mitchell. He. t»as born in Dec., 1702, and was
graduated at Harvard college in 1721. Having
instructed a school in Marblehead for several
years, he began to preach with great acceptance.
In 1728 he was chosen a tutor in the college, and
he filled this office till 1739, when he was called
to take a seat on the bench of the superior court.
On the death of Chief Justice Dudley in 1752 he
was appointed to succeed him, though not the
senior judge. He was also soon elected a mem
ber of the council, and continued such till his
death, though it was with difficulty that he could
be prevailed upon to accept the appointment, as
he questioned the propriety of sustaining at the
same time the two offices. His estate was insol
vent. He was distinguished for genius and learn-
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ing. He united an uncommon degree of quickness
of apprehension with a deeply penetrating and
capacious mind. As a tutor, he proved that
there was a perfect consistency between the most
vigorous and resolute exertion of authority and
the most gentle and complacent manners. Though
he was a very humble and modest man he sup
ported the dignity of a judge. He \vas an ex
emplary Christian, and while he constantly
attended upon the institutions of the gospel, he
offered up sacrifices to the Lord in his own house,
though, as he was never married, his family can
not be supposed to have had the deepest interest
in his affections. His charity to those in want
was so great that it has been thought excessive.
He had a deep reverence of the Supreme Being,
and often spoke with approbation of the circum
stance in the character of Sir Matthew Hale, that he
never mentioned the name of God without making
a pause in his discourse. — Maylicw's Fun. Serm.
SEWALL, STEPHEN, first Hancock professor
of Hebrew in Harvard college, died July 23,
1804, aged 70. He descended from Henry S. of
Newbury, by his second son, John. He was born
at York, Maine, in April, 1734, and was gradu
ated in 1761. He succeeded Mr. Monis in 1762.
Hebrew had sunk into contempt in the hands of
Mr. Monis, but it was now brought into honor.
AVhen Mr. Hancock founded the professorship of
Hebrew, he was inaugurated June 17, 1765, and
continued in office above twenty years. He took
an early part in the Revolution. After he lost
his professorship, he led a very retired life till
his death. His wife was a daughter of Professor
Wigglesworth. His lectures proved him to have
possessed an elegant taste. He published a He
brew grammar, 8vo., 1763; oratio funebris in
obitum D. Edvardi Holyoke, 1769 ; an oration on
the death of Professor Winthrop, 1779 ; transla
tion of the first book of Young's night thoughts
in Latin, 1780 ; carmina sacra, qua? Latine Gra>
ceque condidit America, 1789 ; the scripture ac
count of the Schechinah, 1794; the scripture
history, relating to the overthrow of Sodom and
Gomorrah, and to the origin of the salt sea, or
lake of Sodom, 1796. He wrote a Chaldee and
English dictionary, which is in the library of
Harvard college.
SEWALL, JONATHAN, attorney-general of
Massachusetts, died at Halifax in 1796. A de
scendant of Henry S., he was the nephew of
Chief Justice Stephen S. Having lost his parents
in early life, he Avas educated by the charity of
his friends, and graduated at Harvard college in
1748; taught school in Salem till 1756; then
studied law with Judge Chambers Itusscll of
Lincoln ; and commenced the practice in Charles-
town. About 1767 he was appointed attorney-
general. Being a tory in the Revolution, he
retired from this country in 1775, and resided in
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Bristol. In 1788 he went to Halifax. His wife
was Esther, daughter of Edmund Quincy of
Quincy. One of his sons was attorney-general
and the other chief justice of Canada. He had
an insinuating eloquence, was an acute and learned
lawyer, and one of the finest writers of his day
in New England. He wrote various political pa
pers, the chief of which, signed Massachusetten-
sis, were answered by J. Adams, under whose
name an account of them is given.
SEWALL, DAVID, LL. D., judge, died Oct.
22, 1825, aged 90. He was a descendant of
John, the second son of Henry S., who lived in
Newbury in 1634 ; was born at York, Maine, and
graduated at Harvard college in 1755, being a
classmate and friend of John Adams. In 1777
he was appointed a judge of the supreme court
of Massachusetts; and in 1789 judge of the dis
trict court of the United States. He died at
York. He was an honest lawyer ; a learned and
upright judge; a sincere patriot; and an exem
plary Christian.
SEWALL, JONATHAN MITCHELL, a poet, was
born in York in 1749. Being adopted by his
uncle, Chief Justice Stephen S., he studied law,
and in 1774 was register of probate for Grafton
county, N. II. He afterwards removed to Ports
mouth, where he died March 29, 1808, aged 59.
His ode of war and Washington was celebrated,
and was sung in the llevolutionary war. A volume
of his poems was published, 1801. — Spec. Amcr.
Poet. I. 198. .
SEWALL, SAMUEL, LL. D., chief justice of
Massachusetts, died June 8, 1814, aged 56. He
was the grandson of Joseph S., the minister of
Boston ; was born in Boston Dec. 11, 1757; his
mother was a daughter of Edmund Quincy. He
graduated at Harvard college in 1776. He set
tled at Marblehead, and in 1797 was a member
of congress ; in 1800 he was placed upon the
bench of the supreme court of Massachusetts.
After the death of Judge Parsons in 1813, he was
appointed chief justice. He died suddenly at
Wiscasset, and was succeeded by Chief Justice
Parker. The gentlemen of the bar erected a
monument to his memory. His sons, Samuel
and Edmund Q., were ministers of Burlington
and Danvers. — Knapp's Biog., 219-231.
SEWALL, DANIEL, died at Kennebunk, Me.,
Oct. 14, 1842, aged 87. Born in York, the
brother of Jotham, he Avas early devoted to farm
ing and mechanics, yet found time to study
much, and became skilled in mathematics and
natural philosophy. After being a while in the
army, he became a teacher. He was register of
probate from 1783 to 1820; then postmaster, and
clerk of the supreme court. He held various
other offices. No one doubted that he was a
man of integrity and faithfulness. He was the
brother of Gen. S.
SEWALL.
SEWALL, THOMAS, M. D., died in Washing
ton April 10, 1845, aged 58. Born in Augusta,
Me., he studied medicine in Boston. Erom
Essex he removed to Washington in 1820. In
1821 he was appointed professor of anatomy in
the medical college, and retained this place till
his death. He belonged to the Methodist church,
and was never ashamed of the religion of Christ.
A weekly prayer-meeting of pious members of
congress was held at his house. He published a
lecture, 1825; an essay on phrenology; and a
learned tract on temperance, which was translated
into German and circulated in Europe; also
charge, 1827 ; a sketch of Dr. Godman, 1830. —
N. Y. Observer, April 19, 1845.
SEWALL, HENRY, general, died in Augusta,
Me., in Sept., 1845, aged 93. Born in York in
1752, the brother of Jotham, he learned to be a
mason of his father. He joined the army in
1775 and continued in it till the peace. When
the church was formed in Hallowell in 1791 he
united with it, and was its deacon. He was
useful, benevolent, and honored, during his long
life, being an eminent Christian.
SEWALL, DUMMER, died at Chesterville,Me.,
in 1846, aged 85. He was a patriot of the Rev
olution and a pensioner. He went to C. in 1782,
when it was an unbroken wilderness.
SEWALL, JOTHAM, died at Chesterville, Me.,
Oct. 3, 1850, aged 90. He was the son of Henry,
a mason, the brother of Prof. Stephen S. He
was born in York Jan. 1, 1760 : in the early part
of his life he was a mechanic. For many years
he was employed as a missionary by societies in
Massachusetts and Maine ; and he was widely
useful. His memoirs, by his son, were published
in 1853. He was rigidly temperate : for forty
years he had used neither tea nor coffee. Bread
and milk and fruits were his diet. He had thir
teen children. As an uneducated preacher he
had remarkable power, with a voice of great
depth, and a heart of great tenderness. He was
nearly forty years old when he began to preach ;
yet he preached in fourteen States, in four hun
dred and thirteen different plaees, and twelve
thousand five hundred and ninety-three limes.
Once, as he was the preacher at Brunswick, he
said to President Appleton, " You have one fault ;
when you would be earnest in the pulpit or out,
you open your eyes so wide as to show the white,
which is a little unpleasant." The reply was,
"Very well." After preaching himself, Mr. S.
asked for the president's friendly criticism, the
text being " A golden bell and a pomegranate,"
Exod. XXVIII. 34, in the description of the priest's
robe; the doctrine deduced being, that good fruit
should attend a sounding profession. Dr. A. re
plied : " Your sermon, Mr. S., was valuable, but
not the less so because it had no connection with
your text." — tiprague's Annals.
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SEWALL, HENRY, minister of Bethel and of
other towns, died at Sangerville, Me., in 1850,
aged 78. Born in Bath, he began to preach as a
missionary in 1808; he was settled in 1812 in
Hebron and West Minot, and about 1820 in
Bethel ; in 1828 he removed to Sangerville and
was the minister about sixteen years. He was a
faithful preacher ; but he was obliged to toil with
his own hands for the support of his family.
SEWARD, WILLIAM, minister of North Kil-
lingworth, Conn., died in 1782, aged about 70.
He graduated at Yale in 1734.
SEWELL, JONATHAN, LL. D., judge, died at
Quebec Nov. 12, 1839, aged 73. He was chief
justice of Lower Canada.
SEYBERT, ADAM, M. D., died at Paris May
2, 1825, aged 52. Born and educated in Phila
delphia, in 1793 he went to Europe and studied
at Paris, London, Edinburgh, and Gottingen,
devoting especial attention to chemistry and min
eralogy. On his return to Philadelphia he
brought a good cabinet. For eight years he was
a member of congress. From 1819 to 1821 he
travelled in Europe ; and made a third voyage in
1824. He bequeathed 1,000 dollars for educating
the deaf and dumb, and 500 dollars to the or
phan asylum. He published statistical annals of
the United States from 1789 to 1818, 4to.
SIIAFER, JOSEPH L., D.D., died at Newton,
N. J., Nov. 12, 1853, aged G6. A graduate of
Princeton in 1808, he was settled in 1812. His
labors were greatly blessed ; in all he received
into his church six hundred members. He toiled
successfully for the establishment of an academy.
His character was that of great excellence. He
was gentle ; but faithful, bold, and energetic as a
preacher.
SIIALER, WILLIAM, died at Havana March
29, 1833, of the cholera, aged 55. He was Amer
ican consul at H. He was long consul-general
at Algiers. He had no family. He published
sketch of Algiers, 1826 ; on the language, etc.,
of the Berbers in Africa, in Am. phil. trans., new
series, vol. II.
SHANKLIN, ANN, Mrs., died at the house of
her grandson, George W. Dunlop, Washington,
Dec. 5, 1850, aged 116.
SHANKLIN, J. A., an Episcopalian minister,
died in Charleston, S. C., in 1856.
SHARP, DANIEL, D. D., a Baptist minister of
Boston, died June 23, 1853, aged 69. Born in
Yorkshire, England, he came to New York as a
merchant at the age of 19. As a Baptist minis
ter he was first settled in Newark, N. J. ; in
Charles street, Boston, he was installed April 29,
1812. For his piety and useful labors forty-one
years he was held in general and high respect in
Boston.
SHATTUCK, BENJAMIN, first minister of Lit
tleton, Mass., graduated at Harvard in 1709,
and was pastor from 1717 to 1730, and was suc
ceeded by D. Rogers. The time of his death is
not known. His wife was a grand-daughter of
John Sherman of Watertown. — Thaclier.
SHATTUCK, BENJAMIN, Dr., a distinguished
physician of Templeton, Mass., died in 1794, aged
52. He was grandson of Benjamin, the first
minister of Littleton. He graduated at Harvard
in 1765. His wife was Lucy Barren, the daugh
ter of a brave man, who fell in Johnson's fight in
1755. — Thacher's Med. Biog.
SHATTUCK, GEORGE C., M.D., died in Bos
ton March 18, 1854, aged 70. He was the son of
Dr. Benjamin Shattuck of Templeton, who mar
ried Lucy Barren, and died in 1794, aged 52, and
who was the grandson of Benjamin Shattuck, the
first minister of Littleton. He graduated at
Dartmouth in 1803, and was president of the
Massachusetts medical society. He published
three dissertations, 1808.
SHAVER, JOHN, died at Burlington, Boone
county, Ky., April 22, 1851, aged 116.
SHAW, OAKES, minister of Barnstable, died
Feb. 11, 1807, aged about 70. Born at Bridge-
water, the son of Rev. John Shaw, he graduated
at Harvard in 1758. He was settled as the min
ister of Great Marshes, West Barnstable, Oct.
1, 1760 : the sermon was by John Shaw. A
grateful monument was erected by his people,
whom he faithfully served for forty-six yeai's, com
memorating his talents, piety, zeal, constancy,
his sincerity and kind affections, and his many vir
tues. James Otis was born in his parish. Mr. S.
was the father of Lemuel Shaw, the venerable
chief justice of Massachusetts, at whose house in
Boston his widow died in 1839, aged 94. He
had a brother, who was a minister in Haverhill.
— Burr's Sermon ; Panoplist, ill. p. 43-45.
SHAW, JOHN, a physician and poet, died Jan.
10, 1809, aged 30. He was born at Annapolis,
May 4, 1778 ; graduated at the college there in
1795 ; and in 1800 proceeded to the Mediterra
nean in the frigate Philadelphia. At Tunis he
was the secretary of Consul Eaton. In the next
year he pursued his medical studies at Edinburgh,
and in 1803 accompanied Lord Selkirk to Canada.
Settling afterwards at Baltimore, he was appointed
professor of chemistry. He died while on a
voyage for his health. His poems were published
in one vol. 12mo., 1810.
SHAW, JOHN, second minister of Bridgewa-
ter, Mass., died in 1791, aged about 84, in the
sixtieth year of his ministry. Born in East
Bridgewater, he graduated at Harvard in 1729,
and was ordained in 1731. He succeeded Ben
jamin Allen, who was settled in 1718; and was
succeeded by Z. Sanger. Nunketest was the
Indian name of the town. He published a ser
mon at ordination of M. Taft, 1752 ; of Oali.es
Shaw, 1760.
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SHEPARD.
SHAW, WILLIAM, D. D., died at Marshfield,
Mass., July 1, 1816, aged 73. The son of Rev.
John S., and a graduate of Harvard in 1762, he
was ordained April 2, 1766, the successor of
Thomas Brown. His own successors have been
M. Parris and Seneca White, who was installed
in 1838. Mr. S. was the brother of Rev. Oakes
Shaw. He published a sermon at ordination of
J. C. Shaw, 1793; on the death of C. Ilobbins,
D.D., at Plymouth, 1799.
SHAW, ICHABOD, an ingenious artist, of Ply
mouth, Mass., died in 1822, aged 87 ; a descendant
of John, an early settler. He venerated the pil
grim fathers, and his manners were simple like
theirs.
SHAW, JEREMIAH, minister of Moultonbor-
ough, X. II., died in 1834, aged 88. He gradu
ated at Harvard in 1767.
SHAW, PHILANDER, minister of Eastham,
died Dec. 10, 1841, aged 72. The son of Rev.
William S. of Marshfield, he graduated at Har
vard in 1792, and was ordained in 1797. He
published a sermon preached at Welfleet, 1803.
SHAW, JOHN, died in Woolwich, Me., June
6, 1843, aged 91 ; a soldier during the Revolution
ary Avar, a man held in esteem.
SHAW, ROBERT G., fifty-six years a merchant
in Boston, died May 3, 1803, aged 78. He was
president of the eye and ear infirmary.
SHAYS, DANIEL, captain, the leader of the
rebels in Massachusetts, in 1787, was a captain in
the Revolutionary war. In the rebellion he ap
peared at Springfield at the head of two thou
sand men, and attempted to seize the arsenal;
but his forces were dispersed by Gen. Shepherd.
He next assembled a force at Pclham ; but in
Feb., 1787, Gen. Lincoln by a forced inarch sur
prised the rebels and took one hundred and fifty
prisoners, and put an end to the insurrection.
Such was the lenity of the government, that not
a man was executed. Even Shays, after hiding
himself a year or two in Vermont, obtained a
pardon. He removed to Sparta, in New York.
In his old age he had a pension of 20 dol
lars a month for his Revolutionary services. He
died Sept. 29, 1825, aged 85. The clemency
which he experienced, and which is honorable to
Massachusetts, made him a good citizen.
SHEAFE, SAMSON, died in 1772, aged 91.
The son of Samson of Newcastle, N. H., he
graduated at Harvard in 1702, and was a coun
cillor of N. H.
SHEDD, WILLIAM, a minister for only a year
of Abington, Mass., died in 1830, aged 32.
Born in Mount Vernon, N. H., he graduated at
Dartmouth in 1819, was ordained as an evange
list in 1823, and at New Orleans toiled for the
benefit of seamen ; and by a voyage to England
obtained aid for founding the Mariner's church
jn New Orleans. He wrote for the Spirit of the
Pilgrims, Canonicus, and a review of Stuart on
the Hebrews.
SIIEFTALL, LEVI, a respected Jew, died at
Savannah in Jan., 1809, at an advanced age. He
had some agency for the U. S.
SHELBY, ISAAC, colonel, the first governor of
Kentucky, died in Lincoln county in 1826, aged
75. He was a soldier of the Revolution and dis
tinguished himself in the battle of King's Moun
tain ; also on the Thames, in Upper Canada, in
the war of 1812. He was governor from 1792
to 1796, when he was succeeded by Garrand; he
also succeeded Scott in 1812, and was succeeded
by Madison in 1816. He lost the use of his
right arm by palsy in 1820 ; and died of apo
plexy.
SHELDON, DAMEL, general, died at New
port, R. I.,' in 1822 or 1823, aged 71. He was a
patriot of the Revolution, and many years major-
general of the militia.
SHELDON, DANIEL, Dr., an eminent physi
cian of Litchficld, Conn., died in 1840, aged 89.
Born in Hartford, he studied with the eccentric
Dr. Seth Bird of L., and first practised in Wood-
bury, having for his partner Dr. Seth Hastings,
father of the celebrated musician. He succeeded
Dr. Lemuel Hopkins in L., on his removal to
Hartford. — Williams' Mcd. Eiog.
SHELDON, NOAH, minister of Stockbridge,
Mass., died in 1856, aged 68. He graduated at
Williams college in 1815.
SHELDON, SAMUEL, deacon, died at Suffield
August 1, 1856, aged 99, in consequence of be
ing thrown from his wagon.
SHEPARD, THOMAS, minister of Cambridge,
Mass., died Aug. 25, 1649, aged 44. He was
born near Northampton, England, Nov. 5, 1605,
and was educated at Emanuel college, Cambridge.
While in this seminary it pleased God in infinite
mercy to awaken him from his natural state of
thoughtlessness and sin, to convince him that he
had been entirely selfish in his desires and con
duct, to inspire him with holy principles, and to
render him a humble disciple of Jesus Christ.
He met afterwards with many kinds of tempta
tions ; but, as he said, he was never tempted to
Arminianism, his own experience so perfectly
confuting the freedom of the will. After he left
the university he was eminently useful as a
preacher. His Puritan principles exposing him
to persecution, he narrowly escaped the pursui
vants, and arrived at Boston in this country
Oct. 3, 1635. After the removal of Mr. Hooker
and Mr. Stone to Connecticut, he formed a church
at Cambridge, and took the charge of it Feb. 1,
1636. Here he continued till his death. He
was succeeded by Mr. Mitchell. As a preacher
of evangelical truth and as a writer on experi
mental religion, he was one of the most distin
guished men of his time. It was on account of
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the energy of his preaching, and his vigilance in
detecting and zeal in opposing the errors of the
day, that when the foundation of a college was to
be laid, Cambridge, rather than any other place,
was pitched upon as the scat of the seminary.
He was the patron of learning and essentially pro
moted its interests. He was distinguished for
his humility and piety. Under heavy afflictions
he acknowledged that he deserved nothing but
misery, and bowed submissive to the Divine will.
He usually wrote his sermons so early for the
Sabbath, that he could devote a part of Saturday
to prepare his heart for the solemn and affection
ate discharge of the duties of the following day.
lie published thesis sabbaticaD ; a letter, entitled
New England's^ lamentation for Old England's
errors, 1645; cautions against spiritual drunken
ness, a sermon ; subjection to Christ ih all his or
dinances the best means to preserve our liberty,
to which is added a treatise on ineffectual hearing
of the word ; the sincere convert ; the sound be
liever, a treatise on evangelical conversion ; sing
ing of psalms a gospel ordinance ; the clear sun
shine of the gospel upon the Indians, 4to., 1648 ;
a treatise of liturgies, power of the keys, and
matter of the visible church, in answer to Mr.
Ball, 4to., 1653 ; the evangelical call ; select cases
resolved and first principles of the oracles of
God ; these were republished, together with med
itations and spiritual experiences, extracted from
his private diary, by Mr. Prince of Boston, 1747 ;
of the right use of liberty ; reply to Gauden,
1661 ; the parable of the ten virgins; the church-
membership of children and their right to bap
tism, 1663; the saint's jewel and the soul's imita
tion of Jesus Christ, two sermons ; the four last
things, 4to. — Mather's Magnalia, III. 84-93;
Sprague's Annals.
SHEPARD, SAMUEL, minister of Rowley,
Mass., died in 1668, aged 27. The son of Rev.
Thomas S. of Cambridge, he graduated in 1658,
and was ordained in 1665 as colleague with Mr.
Phillips. His wife was Dorothy, daughter of
Rev. II. Flint.
SIIEPARD, THOMAS, minister of Charles-
town, Mass., the son of Rev. Thomas, was born
in London April 5, 1635; was graduated at Har
vard college in 1653 ; and ordained April 13,
1659, as colleague to Mr. Symmes. After a min
istry of eighteen years he died of the small pox
Dec. 22, 1677, aged 42. President Oakes in a
Latin oration represents Mr. Shepard as distin
guished for his erudition, prudence, modesty, and
integrity, as a strenuous defender of the ortho
dox faith, and as holding the first rank among
the ministers of his day. He published the elec
tion sermon, 1672. In Mather's Magnalia there
is preserved a paper of excellent instructions to
his son, a student at college, who afterwards suc
ceeded him at Charlcstown in 1680, but died
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in 1685. — Magnalia, IV., 189-202; Oakcs' El-
e9y-
SHEPARD, JEREMIAH, minister of Lynn,
Mass., died in 1720, aged 72, in the forty-second
year of his ministry. The son of Rev. Thomas
of Cambridge, he graduated in 1669. He first
preached for a time in Rowley and Ipswich. He
was faithful, courageous, zealous, active ; of a
free, generous spirit and cheerful conversation.
He published a Sort of believers never saved,
1711; election sermon, 1715. t
SHEPARD, MASE, D. 1)., minister of Little
Compton, 11. I., died Feb. 14, 1821, aged 63.
Born in Norton, he was a descendant of Thomas,
who died in Milton, 1719. He graduated at
Dartmouth in 1785, and was settled in Septem
ber, 1787. He was a distinguished and success
ful preacher ; a man of commanding presence
and powerful voice, addressing the people with a
warm heart, without any notes. In his conversa
tion and conduct he won the affections of all.
His chosen theme in preaching was the sovereign
mercy of God. In one of several revivals of re
ligion, he received in one year one hundred and
twenty persons into his church. He was the
father of Prof. Charles U. Shepard. — Sprague's
Annals.
SHEPARD, STEPHEX, missionary printer at
the Sandwich Islands, died July 6, 1834, at Hon
olulu. Born in Johnstown, N. Y., he embarked
at Boston Nov., 1827, to succeed Mr. Loomis as
printer soon after the printing of Luke was com
menced. He was anxious to give the Scriptures
to the islanders; but ill health took him off from
his labors in 1831. His death was peaceful and
joyful, his mind resting on the promises of the bible.
SHEPARD, THOMAS W., died at Northamp
ton, Mass., in 1843, aged 49. He was postmaster,
and publisher of the Hampshire Gazette.
SHEPARD, Mr., died near Cleveland, about
1846, aged 118.
SIIEPARD, SAMUEL, D. D., minister of
Lenox, Mass., died Jan. 4, 1846, aged 72. Born
in Chatham, now Portland, Conn., the son of
Daniel, he graduated at Yale in 1793. He lived
at Lenox more than half a century. His brother,
Deacon Daniel S., died in Portland, Conn., in
1850, aged 96. He published the election ser
mon, 1806 ; at execution of E. Wheeler; on fif
tieth anniversary of his ordination, 1845. —
Sprague's Annals.
SIIEPARD, MICHAEL, died in Salem, Mass.,
Oct. 10, 1856. He had been forty-three years a
member of the first Baptist church and a very
exemplary Christian. Among his ways of doing
good was the gift of thousands of dollars to the
Newton theological institution and to a missionary
society. He managed most wisely the property
of many widows and orphans, securing their
warmest gratitude ; and he was liberal to the
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poor. He was ever devout ; and he entered into '
rest, trusting for salvation in the Lord Jesus
Christ.
SHEPHERD, SAMUEL N., son of Rev. Samuel
S., and the minister of Madison, Conn., died
Sept. 30, 1856, aged 57, having been a successful
pastor thirty-one years, highly esteemed. He
was a graduate of Williams college in 1821. In
good health, he was seized with illness in the
morning and died in the afternoon.
SHEPHERD, LEVI, Dr., died at Northampton,
Mass., in 1805. He was the father of Thomas,
postmaster, who died in 1846, aged 68.
SHEPHERD, WILLIAM, general, died at
Westfield Nov. 11, 1817, aged nearly 80, being
born Dec. 1, 1737. He was the son of Deacon
John S. ; entering the army at the age of 17, he
was six years a captain under Amherst, from
1759, and was in various battles, as of fort Wil
liam Henry, Crown Point, etc. He married Sa
rah Dewey, who was fifty-seven years his wife.
Entering the army of the Revolution as a lieu
tenant-colonel, he was in 1783 a brigadier-general.
He fought in twenty- two battles. He was major-
general of the militia. From 1797 he was a
member of congress for six years. A virtuous,
good man, he was thirty-four years a professor of
religion and a constant attendant upon public
worship. His house was a house of prayer.
SHEPPARD, MOSES, a retired merchant of
Charleston, S. C., died Jan. 31, 1857. He left
600,000 dollars as a fund for an insane asylum.
SHEPLEY, JOHX, a lawyer, died at Saco,
Me., 1857, aged about 70. There was a John
Shepley in Salem, in 1630, who might have been
the ancestor of men of the name in New Eng
land. He once lived in Fitchburg, Mass., and
was a member of the legislature. Removing to
Maine, he was a law-partner of his brother,
Chief Justice Ether Shepley. He was reporter
of the supreme court four years.
SHERMAN, JOHX, minister of Watertown,
Mass., died Aug. 8, 1675, aged 71. He was born
in England in 1613, and educated at Cambridge.
His Puritan principles induced him to come to
this country in 1634. After being a short time
an assistant to Mr. Phillips at Watertown, he re
moved to Connecticut, where he preached occa
sionally. But after the death of Mr. Phillips in
1644, he returned to Watertown, and was minis-
ier in that place till his death. He was succeeded
by John Bailey. Besides being a distinguished
divine, Mr. Sherman was an eminent mathema
tician, and published a number of almanacs, to
which pious reflections were added. Though he
was a very humble man, in his preaching there
was an unaffected loftiness of style, and his dis
courses were enriched with figures of oratory.
He was twice married, having by his first wife six
SHERMAN.
children, and twenty by his last. — MagnaUa,
m. 162-165.
SHERMAN, JOSIAH, minister of Woburn,
Mass., died in 1789, aged about 55. He gradu
ated at Princeton in 1754. He was the brother
of Roger Sherman of Connecticut. His prede
cessors were T. Carter, Jabez Fox, John Fox, E.
Jackson.
SHERMAN, ROGER, senator of the United
States, died July 23, 1793, aged 72. He was a
descendant of Capt. John S., who lived in Wa
tertown, Mass., in 1637, and was a representative
in 1663 ; he was born at Newton, Mass., April
19, 1721. His father, William S., a farmer, could
give him no advantages for education, excepting
those of a common school. Yet was he eager in
the pursuit of knowledge. Apprenticed to a
shoemaker, he often had a book open before him
while at work on his seat. The care of a numer
ous family devolved on him on the death of his
father in 1741. He kindly provided for his mother,
and assisted two brothers, afterwards ministers,
to obtain an education. He removed in 1743 to
New Milford, Conn., carrying his tools upon his
back. He soon relinquished his trade and be
came the partner of an elder brother, a country
merchant at New Milford. In 1745 he was ap
pointed county surveyor. Having acquired a
competent knowledge of the law, he was admitted
to the bar in 1754. In the following year he was
appointed a justice of the peace ; he was also
chosen a representative in the legislature, and a
deacon in the church. Removing to New Haven
in 1761, he was in 1766 chosen an assistant of
the colony, and appointed a judge of the superior
court, which office he held for twenty-three years.
He was a member of the first congress in 1774,
and continued a member nineteen years till his
death. He was one of those who signed the
act of independence in 1776. During the war
he was a member of the governor's council
of safety. After the adoption of the consti
tution of the United States, of the convention
for framing which he was a conspicuous mem
ber, he was elected a representative to con
gress. Being chosen a senator in 1791, he con
tinued in this station till his death. By two wives
he had fifteen children. Jeremiah Evarts mar
ried a daughter. His son, Roger, died March 5,
1856, aged 88, the oldest man in New Haven.
His talents were solid and useful ; his judgment
unfailing. Mr. Macon said of him : " Roger
Sherman had more common sense than any man
I ever knew." Mr. Jefferson pointed him out as
a man " who never said a foolish thing in his
life." He was eminently a self-taught man. Few
young men can reach the political distinction of
Roger Sherman ; all may possess his integrity,
and industry, and love of science and truth.
SHERMAN.
SHIRLEY.
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Having made a public profession of religion at
the age of twenty-one, he was never ashamed to
advocate the peculiar doctrines of the gospel,
which arc often so unwelcome to men of worldly
eminence. His sentiments were derived from the
word of God and not from the exertions of his
own reason. In the relations of private life he
secured esteem and affection. — Goodrich.
SHERMAN, NATHANIEL, minister of Mount
Carmel, Conn., died in 1797, aged 74. Born in
Newton, Mass., he graduated at Princeton in
1753 ; was pastor at Bedford from 1756 to 1767 ;
and was installed at M. C. in 1768.
SHERMAN, JOHN, minister of Mansfield,
died at Trenton, N. Y., in 1828, aged about 54.
A grandson of Roger Sherman, and a graduate
of Yale in 1792, he was settled in 1797 in the
south parish of M. Soon in a revival many were
added to his church. In his religious opinions
he became anti-trinitarian, first adopting Watts'
scheme, then becoming an Arian, next a Socinian.
He was dismissed by a ministerial council in 1805.
Tie published one God in one person only,
which was answered by D. Dow ; also statement
of his difficulties. Judge Vanderkemp answered
Mr. Dow ; and Mr. Welsh answered the state
ment.
SHERMAN, DAVID A., died in Racine county,
Wisconsin, Dec. 4, 1843, aged 63. Born in New-
Haven, he graduated in 1802, and was six years
a tutor in the college; afterwards he was the
president of a college in East Tennessee, and a
missionary in Wisconsin.
SHERMAN, ROGER MINOTT, judge, died in
Fairfield, Conn., Dec. 30, 1844, aged 71. He
was born in Woburn, Mass. ; the son of Rev.
Josiah and the nephew of Roger Sherman, and
graduated at Yale in 1792. As a lawyer he was
eminent in Norwalk and Fairfield. He was a
judge of the superior court from 1840 to 1842.
He was a member of the Hartford convention in
1814. He united the embellishments of litera
ture and science and the graces of Christianity.
His wife was Elizabeth, daughter of Dr. William
Gould of Branford and New Haven.
SHERMAN, JOSEPH, LL. D., president of
Jackson college, Tenn., died in 1849, aged 49;
a graduate of Bowdoin in 1826.
SHERAVOOD, RET-BEN, D. D., an Episcopa
lian minister, died at Hyde Park, N. Y., in 1856,
aged 67.
SHEW, JOEL, died at Oyster Bay, Long Isl
and, Oct. 6, 1855. An eminent water-cure doctor,
he died of the dropsy.
SHINE, DANIEL, a Methodist minister, died
at Louisburg, N. C., in 1829, aged 62.
SIIIPHERD, JOHN J., died Sept. 16, 1846,
at Walton, Michigan, aged 42. He had been a
minister at Elyria. He was the projector and
founder of Oberlin institute and colony.
SHIPMAN, NATHANIEL, judge, died in Nor
wich, Conn., July 14, 1853, aged 89; a much re
spected citizen. He became a member of the
church seven years before his death, and ho died
in peace. His only son, T. L. Shipman, was then
a minister of Jewett city.
SHIPPEN, EDWARD, one of the first settlers
of Pennsylvania, was a native of England, and a
member of the society of Friends. He came to
Massachusetts to avoid persecution, and settled
at Boston as early as 1669, but persecution drove
him thence to Pennsylvania, in which colony he
was speaker of the house of assembly, and mem
ber of the governor's council. He was also the
first mayor of Philadelphia. His descendants
have been persons of distinction to the present
day. — Miller, II. 340.
SHIPPEN, WILLIAM, Dr., a physician of
Philadelphia, died in 1801, aged 89. He was
born in P. ; and was one of the founders of the
college of New Jersey, and a valuable member
for seventy years of the Presbyterian church. —
Thaclier's Med. liiog.
SHIPPEN, EDWARD, LL. D., chief justice of
Pennsylvania, a descendant of Edward S., re
ceived this appointment in 1799, but resigned it
in Feb., 1806. He died April 15, 1806, aged 77.
SHIPPEN, WILLIAM, M. D., first professor
of anatomy in (he university of Pennsylvania, died
at Germantown July 11, 1808, aged 74. He was
a descendant of Edward S., and was graduated
at the college in New Jersey in 1754. The son
of Dr. William S., after studying medicine for
some time in Philadelphia, he completed his
medical education at Edinburgh. After his re
turn he commenced in 1764 a course of lectures
on anatomy at Philadelphia, which were the first
ever pronounced in the new world. Being one of
the founders of the medical school, he was ap
pointed professor of anatomy in 1765. He had
to struggle with many difficulties, and his life was
sometimes endangered by a mob in consequence
of his dissections. But he lived to see the insti
tution divided into five branches, all of which
were supplied with able professors, his own pu
pils, and become a rival to the medical school at
Edinburgh. Instead of the ten students, whom
he first addressed, he lived to address two hun
dred and fifty. About the year 1777 he was ap
pointed director-general of the medical depart
ment in the army of the United States, in the
place of Dr. Morgan. The death of an only son
in 1798 caused an almost entire abandonment of
his duties as a practitioner and lecturer ; but he
partially recovered his spirits and delivered a
course of lectures in 1807. As a demonstrator
of anatomy and a physician he was very distin
guished. He resigned his professorship in 1806
into the hands of his colleague, Dr. Wistar.
SHIRLEY, WILLIAM, governor of Massachu-
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setts, died at Roxbury in 1771, aged 60 or 70.
He was a native of England, and was bred to
the law. After his arrival at Boston about the
year 1733, he practised in his profession till he
received his commission as governor in 1741, in
the place of Mr. Belcher. He planned the suc
cessful expedition against Cape Breton in 1745 ;
but, while his enterprising spirit deserves com
mendation, some of his schemes did not indicate
much skill in the arts of navigation and war. He
went to England in 1745, leaving Spencer Phipps,
the lieutenant-governor, commander-in-chief, but
returned in 1753. In 1754 he held a treaty with
the eastern Indians, and explored the Kennebec,
erecting two or three forts. In 1755, being com
mander-in-chief of the British forces in America,
he planned an expedition against Niagara, and
proceeded himself as far as Oswego. In June,
1756, he was superseded in the command of the
army by Abercrombie. He embarked for Eng
land in September, and was succeeded by Mr.
Pownall. After having been for a number of
years governor of one of the Bahama islands, he
returned to Massachusetts. Though he held sev
eral of the most lucrative offices within the gift
of the crown in America, yet he left no property
to his children. The abolition of the paper cur
rency was owing in a great degree to his firmness
and perseverance. His penetration and unre
mitting industry gained him a high reputation.
But it Avas thought, that, as a military officer, he
was not sufficiently active in seizing the moment
for success. During his administration England
learned the importance of this country, and the
colonists learned to fight, and thus were trained
for the mighty contest which in a few years com
menced. His instructions to Pepperell, with a
full account of the expedition against Louir.burg,
are preserved in the first volume of the historical
collections. He published Electra, a tragedy, and
birth of Hercules, a masque, 1765.
SHORT, WILLIAM, died in Philadelphia Dec.
5, 1850, aged 91. A native of Virginia, a class
mate at college with Judge Marshall, in 1774 he
was secretary of legation under Jefferson to
France. Under the present constitution he was
the first citizen nominated to a public office, hold
ing a commission from Washington as charge to
the French republic; and by him was appointed
minister at the Hague, and to Spain. His State
papers were written with great research and clear
ness.
SHOSIIAXIM, the last sachem of the Nash-
away Indians, joined Philip in his war. He was
taken prisoner and executed at Boston.
SHOVE, GEORGE, minister of Taunton, died
in 1687, aged about 42. Born in Dorchester, he
was ordained in 1G65.
SHOVE, SETH, the first minister of Danbury,
Conn., died in 1735, aged about 68. He was the
son of Rev. George S. ; graduated at Harvard
in 1687 ; and was settled in 1697.
SHREVE, HENRY M., died in St. Louis March
6, 1851 ; for forty years identified with western
navigation. He invented the steam snagboat,
and was superintendent of western river improve
ments. — Democratic Review.
SHUBRICK, IRVINE, lieutenant in the navy,
died at Philadelphia in 1849, aged 52. He was
a native of South Carolina, and was distinguished
in various actions in the war of 1812.
SHUCK, ELIZA G., wife of J. L. Shuck, Bap
tist missionary in China, died in 1851, aged 28.
SHULTZ, JOHN A., governor of Pennsylvania,
died in Lancaster in 1852, aged 80. He was
chosen governor in 1823 and 1826.
SHURTLEFF, WILLIAM, minister of Ports
mouth, died May 9, 1747, aged about 60. Born
in Plymouth, Mass., he was graduated at Harvard
in 1707; ordained at New Castle in 1712, and re
moved in 1732 ; installed in the south parish of
Portsmouth Feb. 21,1733, as successor of Mr.
Emerson ; he was followed by Job Strong. He
was a faithful minister. In 1742 there were
added to his church sixty-three persons. He
published these sermons : at the ordination of
N. Merrill, 1726; on the sufferings of ship
wrecked mariners ; at ordination of N. Goohin ;
on the execution of two persons, 1739 ; at a lec
ture in Boston, 1741 ; account of the revival at
Portsmouth in Christian history ; a letter to his
brethren refusing to admit Whitcfield into their
pulpits.
SHURTLEFF, BENJAMIN, M. D., died at
Boston April 12, 1847, aged 71. A graduate of
Brown university in 1796, he was a physician in
extensive and successful practice.
SHUTE, SAMUEL, governor of Massachusetts,
died in 1742, aged 80. He was the son of mi
eminent citizen of London. His mother was the
daughter of Mr. Caryl, a dissenting minister of
distinction. His early education was under the
care of Charles Morton. From London he was
sent to Leyden, and afterwards he entered the
army of King William, served under Marlbo-
rough, and became a lieutenant-colonel. He was
wounded in one of the principal battles in Fbn-
ders. Arriving at Boston as governor Oct. 4,
1716, in the place of Dudley, he continued in
office a little more than six years. Ho embarked
Jan. 1, 1723, on his return to England, with com
plaints against the province. Governor Burnet
succeeded him. During his administration be
maintained a warm controversy with the house
of representatives. lie endeavored in vain to
procure a fixed salary, an object which Dudley
had sought without effect. His right of ncgallv-
ing the speaker was denied, and his powers r.s
commander-in-chief were assumed by the houcc.
In consequence of his complaints an explanatory
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charter was procured in 1724, which confirmed
the governor in the rights for which he had con
tended. He died in England. — Hutchinson, n.
215-217, 238; Minot, I. Gl.
SHUTE, DANIEL, D. D., minister of Hingham,
Mass., died Aug. 30, 1802, aged 80. He was
born July 19, 1722, and was graduated at Har
vard college in 1743. He was ordained pastor
of the second church in II., Dec. 10, 1746. By
the failure of his sight being under the necessity
of quitting his public labors, Mr. Whitney was
ordained his colleague Jan. 1, 1800. Under the
infirmities of age he was serene and patient. He
was a member of the convention which formed
the constitution of the United States. He pub
lished artillery election sermon, 17G7 ; election
sermon, 1768; on the death of E. Gay, 1787.
SIBLEY, MARK II., judge, died at Canandai-
gua Sept. 8, 1852, aged 56. Born in Great Bar-
rington, he settled in 1814 as a lawyer inC. He
sustained various offices ; was eloquent, and had
rare colloquial powers.
SICCARY, Dr., died in Virginia. Mr. Jeffer
son says he introduced the tomato plant. He
maintained that by eating in sufficient abundance
of the plant one need not die. He did not eat
enough, according to his theory; for he died,
though in a good old age. He was a Portu
guese Jew.
SIGNAY, JOSEPH, Catholic archbishop of Que
bec, died Oct. 3, 1850, aged 71. He was made
bishop in 1833, and archbishop in 1844.
SILLIMAN, ROBERT, minister in Saybrook,
Conn., died in 1786, aged about 70. He gradu
ated at Yale in 1737. He was the first minister
of New Canaan, about 1770, and went to S. in
1774.
SILLIMAN, GERSHOM, a Baptist elder, died
in Illinois in 1857, aged 73. He was born in
Weston, Conn., and was one of the fathers of the
Baptist church in the west.
SILSBEE, NATHANIEL, died at Salem July 1,
1850, aged 77. He was a successful merchant,
and sustained various offices ; he was a senator
of the U. S. from 1826 to 1835.
SIMMONS, GEORGE F.,dicd in Concord, Mass.,
Sept. 5, 1855, aged 41, a graduate of Harvard in
1832; and much of a martyr to his opinions and
utterances concerning slavery. He was ordained
in 1838 as an evangelist in Boston, and soon was
a minister in Mobile ; but, offending the slave
holders by a sermon, he was obliged to flee, con
cealed in a vessel, — such are the selfish bigotry
and ruffian tyranny of southern slave-masters.
He next was a minister in Waltham, a colleague
with his father-in-law, Mr. Ripley; and after
wards in Springfield, as the successor of W. B. O.
Peabody ; but both places he was compelled to
leave on account of his anti-slavery pulpit utter
ances. He next was settled in Albany; his ill-
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health carried him to Concord, the place of his
death.
SIMMONS, CHARLES, died at North Wren-
tham May 12, 1856, aged 58. He was a minis
ter, and known as the author of Scripture manual,
and also of a laconic manual.
SIMONDS, BENJAMIN, colonel, died at Wil-
liamstown April 11, 1807, aged 81. He was an
early settler, a soldier at the age of twenty, a
man of enterprise and wealth.
SIMPKINS, JOHN, minister of Brewster, died
at Boston Feb. 28, 1843, aged 75. A son of
Deacon John S. of Boston, he graduated at Har
vard in 1786, and in 1791 was ordained at Har
wich, now Brewster, as successor of J. Dunster,
who was pastor forty-three years. He was a
good scholar and divine, evangelical but liberal.
For some years he was in poor health and had
retired from the ministry.
SIMPSON, SAMSON, a Jew, died at New York
in 1857, leaving 50,000 dollars, the interest to be
applied to meliorate the condition of the Jews at
Jerusalem, by promoting education and skill in
various arts.
SIMS, EDWARD D., died suddenly April 15,
1845. He was professor of English literature in
the university of Alabama ; and a member of the
Methodist church.
SITGREAVES, JOHN, district judge of North
Carolina, was an officer in the Revolutionary war,
and a member of congress after the peace. He
died at Halifax, N. C., in March, 1802.
SKELTON, SAMUEL, one of the first minis
ters of Salem, Mass., died Aug. 2, 1634. He was
a preacher in Lincolnshire, England, and, being
persecuted for his nonconformity, came to this
country in June, 1629, and was ordained with
Mr. Higginson at Salem August 6th. After the
death of his colleague he had for his assistant
Roger Williams. Though strict in discipline, he
was a friend to the utmost equality of privileges
in church and State. His fears of the assump
tion of authority by the clergy made him jealous
of the ministers, who used to hold a meeting once
a fortnight for mutual improvement. — Magna-
lia, I. 16 ; III. 74, 76 ; Savage's Wintlirop, I. 26,
31; Morton, 82-86; Prince, 183-191; Neal,I.
140, 157 ; Hist. Coll. VI. 244.
SKEXONDOU, an Indian chief, died atOneida,
New York, in 1816, aged 106 or 110. In his
youth he was very savage and addicted to drunk
enness. In 1755 he was present at a treaty made
at Albany. At night lie was drunk, and in the
morning he found himself in the street, stripped
of his ornaments and clothing. Indignant at his
own folly, he resolved that he would never again
deliver himself over to the power of strong water.
Through the instructions of Mr. Kirkland, a mis
sionary, he lived a reformed man for more than
sixty years. He died in Christian hope. From
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attachment to Mr. Kirkland, he had often ex
pressed a desire to be buried near his minister,
that he might, as he said, " Go up with him at
the great resurrection." At the approach of
death, after listening to the prayers, which were
read at his bedside by his great-grand-daughter,
he repeated his request. Accordingly his corpse
was conveyed to the village of Clinton, where he
Avas buried, March 13, with distinction; an ad
dress being made to the Indians by Dr. Backus,
president of Hamilton college, and interpreted
by Judge Dean of Westmoreland. After the
funeral the only surviving son of Skenondou re
turned thanks for the respect shown to his father.
In person he was tall and brawny, but well made.
His countenance expressed the dignity of an In
dian chief. He was a brave and intrepid warrior
in youth, and an able counsellor in age. He
watched the Canadian invasions with the cunning
of the fox, and repelled them with the agility and
fierceness of the mountain cat. To his vigilance
the inhabitants of German Flats on the Mohawk
were indebted for preservation from massacre.
His influence brought his tribe to our assistance
in the war of the Revolution. Among the Indian
tribes he was called " the white man's friend."
For several years he kept his dress for the grave
prepared, lie often went to Clinton to die, that
his body might lie near his Christian teacher. A
short time before his death, he said to a friend by
an interpreter : " I am an aged hemlock ; the
winds of an hundred winters have whistled through
my branches ; I am dead at the top. The gener
ation to which I belonged have run away and
left me ; why I live, the Great Good Spirit only
knows. Pray to my Jesus, that I may have pa
tience to wait for my appointed time to die."
SKIXNEIl, RICHARD, governor of Vermont,
died at Manchester May 23, 1833, aged 55. lie
was born at Litchfiejd, Conn., in 1778; removed
to Manchester in 1800 ; was a member of con
gress in 1813; judge of the supreme court in
181G; chief justice in 1817; and governor in
1820-1822. He was again chief justice from
1824 to 1829. For his private worth and his
public services he was much respected.
SKINNER, DANIEL, died in Corinth, Me., in
1841, aged 98. Born in Mansfield, he served in
the French war. He was a member of the Free
will Baptist church, an exemplary Christian. The
thought, that all temporal as well as spiritual good
came through the sufferings of Christ, deeply and
long affected him.
SKINNER, JOHN, Dr., died at New Haven,
Conn., in 1850, aged 85.
SKINNER, JOHN S., colonel, died at Balti
more in 1851, aged about 70. He was postmas
ter twenty years. He was a writer on agricul
ture ; and editor of the Plough, the Loom, and
the Anvil.
SKINNER, THOMAS, minister of Colchester,
Conn., died in 17G2, aged about 52. He gradu
ated at Harvard in 1732. He published a ser
mon on the death of his wife, 1745.
SKINNER, ICIIABOD LORD, died at Brooklyn,
N. Y., Jan. 29, 1852, aged about 80. He grad
uated at Yale in 1793.
SKINNER, EZEKIEI, M. D., a Baptist minis
ter in Ashford and Westport, Conn., died in 1855,
aged 78. He made three voyages to Africa for
the benefit of the Baptist mission and the colony.
SLATER, SAMUEL, died at Webster, Mass.,
April 20, 1835, aged 67. He was the father of
cotton manufactures of the United States. The
first manufactory built in this country was built
by him in Pawtucket, R. I. He acquired a great
estate. — Life by J. L. Slake.
SLATER, JOHN, died at Slaterville, R. I., June
3, 1843, aged 67. The beautiful village of his
name was built up under his direction. He left,
besides that, an immense estate.
SLUYTER, RICHARD, minister of the Dutch
church of Claverack, N. Y., died in 1843, aged 55.
In 1815 he was settled as colleague with Mr.
Gebhard over the churches of C. and Hillsdale.
He was born in Nassau. In his church were re
vivals in 1821-1823, 1833, 1835, 1838, 1842. He
received into the communion eleven hundred
souls.
SMALL, ISAAC, died at Canterbury, N. II., in
1821, aged 101; his widow, Hannah, died in
1822, aged 102.
SMALLEY, JOHN, D. D., minister of Berlin,
Conn., died June 1, 1820, aged nearly 86. He
was born in Lebanon Crank, now Columbia,
Conn., in 1734, the son of Benjamin. His pa
rents, especially his mother, led him in the path
of piety. He graduated at Yale college in 1756,
and was ordained April 19, 1758. He was a dis
tinguished theologian and a faithful and success
ful preacher. He published sermons on natural
and moral inability, 1760 ; eternal salvation not
a just debt, against John Murray, 1785 ; concio
ad clerum ; at the election, 1800; sermons on
connected subjects, 1803; sermons, 2 vols. —
Sprague's Annals.
SMALLWOOD, WILLIAM, general, governor
of Maryland, died in 1792. lie was appointed
a brigadier in 1776, and major-general Sept. 15,
1780. In the defeat on Long Island in August,
his brigade suffered most severely. Among the
two hundred and fifty men whom he lost, were
many from the first families of Maryland. He
was in the battle of Camdcn and ui that of Ger-
mantown in 1777. In 1785 he was a delegate to
congress. He succeeded Paca as governor in
1785, and was succeeded by Howard in 1788.
SMIBERT, JOHN, an eminent portrait-painter,
died in 1751, aged 67. He was born in Edin
burgh in 1684. After serving his time as a house-
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painter, he repaired to London, and thence to
Italy, where he spent three years in copying Ra
phael, Titian, Vandyck, . and Itubcns. lie was
induced in 1728 to come to this country ; he set
tled in Boston, where he married a woman with
a considerable fortune, whom he left with two
children at his death. His son, Nathaniel, a
painter of great promise, died in early life. The
gazette of May 5, 17*57, speaks of his death. He
painted Mr. Lovcll, his schoolmaster. Many of
the portraits of Mr. S. are regarded as good
paintings. His head of Cardinal Bentivoglio, and
of Dr. Mayhew, have been commended. At Yale
college his large painting of Dean Berkeley and
his family is preserved. Smibert himself is one
of the figures, with an expressive countenance.
SMITH, JOHN, the father of the colony of
Virginia, died in London in 1631, aged 51. He
was born in Lincolnshire, England, in 1579. He
early discovered a romantic genius, and delighted
in daring and extravagant actions. At the age
of thirteen he sold his books and satchel to raise
money in order to convey himself privately to sea,
but was prevented. Being an apprentice to a
merchant he quitted his master at the age of fif
teen, and went to France and the low countries.
After his return he studied military history and
tactics, and, having recovered a part of the estate
which his father left him, he was enabled to set
out again on his travels at the age of seventeen,
in a better condition than before. Having em
barked at Marseilles for Italy with some pilgrims,
a tempest obliged them to anchor near a small
island off Nice. As his companions attributed
their unfavorable voyage to the presence of Smith,
they threw the heretic into the sea ; but by swim
ming he was enabled to reach the shore. After
going to Alexandria, he entered into the service
of the emperor of Austria against the Turks. By
his exploits he soon obtained the command of two
hundred and fifty horsemen. At the siege of
llegal the Ottomans sent a challenge, purporting
that the lord T urbisha, to divert the ladies, would
fight any captain of the Christian troops. Smith
accepted it, and, meeting his antagonist on horse
back in view of the ladies on the battlements,
killed him and bore away his head. A second
antagonist met the same fate. Smith then re
quested, that, if the ladies wished for more diver
sion, another champion might appear. His head
was added to the number of the others, though
Smith narrowly escaped losing his own. He was
afterwards taken prisoner ; but by killing his ty
rannical master he escaped into Kussia. When
he returned to England, he formed the resolu
tion to seek adventures in North America. Hav
ing persuaded a number of gentlemen in 1GOG to
obtain a patent of south Virginia, he engaged in
the expedition, which was fitted out under the
command of Christopher Newport, and arrived
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with the first emigrants, who made a permanent
settlement, in the Chesapeake, April 26, 1607. A
colony was begun at Jamestown, and the govern
ment was in the hands of a council, of which
Smith was a member. When Newport returned,
more than one hundred persons were left in Vir
ginia. They would have perished with hunger
but for the exertions of Smith in procuring corn
of the Indians. When he could not effect his
object by purchase, he resorted to force. He
once seized the Indian idol, Okec, made of skins
stuffed with moss, for the redemption of which as
much corn was brought, to him as he required.
While exploring the Chickahominy river he was
taken prisoner, after having killed Avith his own
hand three of the enemy. He was carried to the
emperor Powhatan, who received him, clothed in
a robe of raccoon skins, and seated on a kind of
throne, with two beautiful girls, his daughters,
near him. After a long consultation two large
stones were brought in, and his head was laid
upon one of them. At this moment, when the
war-clubs were lifted to dispatch him, Pocahontas,
the king's favorite daughter, shielded him from
the blows, and by her entreaties saved his life.
He was sent to Jamestown, where, by his resolu
tion, address, and industry, he prevented the
abandonment of the plantation. In 1608 he ex
plored the whole country from Cape Henry to
the river Susquehannah, sailing about three thou
sand miles. On his return he drew a map of the
bay and rivers, from which subsequent maps have
been chiefly copied. In this year, when he was
president of the council, by his severity and his
example he rendered the colonists exceedingly
industrious. It happened, however, that the blis
tered hands of several young gentlemen, who
had known better times in England, called forth
frequent expressions of impatience and profane-
ness. Smith caused the number of every man's
oaths to be noted daily, and at night as many
cans of water to be poured inside his sleeve.
This discipline so lessened the number of oaths,
that scarcely one was heard in a week, and it
perfectly restored the subjects of it to good hu
mor. In 1609, being much injured by an explo
sion of gunpowder, he returned to England for
the benefit of medical assistance. In 1614 he
ranged the coast of what was then called north
Virginia, from Penobscot to Cape Cod, in an open
boat with eight men. On his return he formed a
map of the country, and desired Prince Charles,
afterwards the royal martyr, to give it a name.
By him it was for the first time called New Eng
land. For all his services and sufferings he
never received any recompense. He published
the sixth voyage made to Virginia, 1606 ; the first
voyage to New England with the old and now
names, 1614; a relation of his second voyage,
1615 ; description of New England, 1617 ; New
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England's trials, declaring the success of twenty-
six ships, employed thither within these six years,
etc., 1620 ; the general history of Virginia, New
England, pnd the Summer Isles, with the names
of the adventurers, etc., from 1584 to 1626, also
the maps and descriptions of all those countries
in six books, folio, 1627 ; his friend, Mr. Purchas,
had published in his pilgrims most of the narra
tive part before ; the true travels, adventures, and
observations of Captain John Smith in Europe,
Asia, Africa, and America, from 1603 to 1629,
folio, 1630 ; 2d edit.', 2 vols., 8vo., Richmond,
1819 ; this is preserved entire in Churchill's col
lections ; advertisements for the inexpcriencefl
planters of New England, 4to., 1630. — Smith's
Travels ; Belknap's Amer. Biog., i. 240-319.
SMITH, RALPH, the first ordained minister of
Plymouth, Mass., died at Boston in 1662. He
was pastor from 1629 to 1633. Elder Brewster
had previously officiated as the religious teacher,
although he did not administer the ordinances.
He graduated at Cambridge, England, in 1613,
and John Rayner succeeded him at Plymouth.
In 1645 he was called to preach in Manchester,
Cape Ann. — Sprague's Annals.
SMITH, HEXRY, minister of Wethersfield,
Conn., died in 1648, aged 91. He was born in
1557, the first of fifteen children.
SMITH, JOSEPH, of Hartford, Conn., married
in 1656 Lydin, daughter of Rev. E. Huit, and
was the father of Joseph, who removed to Hadley
in 1680, and was the ancestor of Rev. Ethan
Smith. There lived in Iladley about the same
time Philip Smith, a representative and deacon,
and Samuel, also a representative. Whether
they were brothers of Joseph is not known.
SMITH, CALEB, minister of Orange, N. Y.,
died Oct. 22, 1762, aged 38. Born on Long Is
land, he was educated at Yale ; ordained Nov. 30,
1748; married Martha, daughter of Jonathan
Dickinson. He published a sermon on the death
of Aaron Burr.
SMITH, CHARLES JEFFERY, died on Long Is
land Aug. 10, 1770, aged 29. He was found
dead, his gun by his side. He had gone out a
gunning ; his gun was so placed, as if he had shot
himself. Some believed he was murdered. By
some his death was ascribed to suicide ; but his
friends knew that he was subject to a violent pain
in his breast, passing to his head, and by some it
was thought his death was occasioned by this dis-
. ease. He was ordained as a missionary at Lebanon
June 30, 1763. He was eminent for his gifts and
graces, extensively known, and very useful, espe
cially at the South. He died in the prime of life.
Mr. Buell, who was his intimate friend, published
a sermon on his death, relating to the mysterious
events of providence. He was the only son, and
inherited the estate of his father, who lived at
Brookhaven, L. I., and died in 1748. His estate
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in Long Island, in lands and money, amounted to
six or seven thousand pounds. After being for a
time with the Indians, he labored for the instruc
tion of slaves in Virginia; and, having purchased
property in that State, he returned to Long Is
land to settle up his affairs. He published a
sermon on regeneration, 1766.
SMITH, SAMUEL, a historian, was a native of
Burlington, N. J., in which place he died in 1776.
He published a history of New Jersey from its
settlement to 1721,8vo., 1755, which is a judicious
compilation.
SMITH, WILLIAM, chief justice of the prov
ince of New York, the son of William S., an
eminent lawyer and judge of the supreme court,
who died Nov. 22, 1769, aged 73, was graduated
at Yale college in 1745. In the Revolution he
was a tory, and afterwards chief justice of Canada.
He published a history of the province of New
York, from the first discovery to the year 1732,
4to., 1757; 2d ed., 1814. A continuation from
1732 to 1762 was written by his son, William S.
SMITH, JOSIAH, minister in South Carolina,
died in 1781, aged 76. He was the first native
of that province who received a literary degree.
He was born in Charleston in 1704, being the
grandson of Gov. Thomas Smith, and graduated
at Harvard college in 1725. He was ordained
in Boston as minister for Bermuda July 11, 1726,
and afterwards became minister of Cainhoy, and
pastor of the Presbyterian church in Charleston.
Having become a prisoner of war at Charleston,
he was sent on parole in 1781 to Philadelphia,
where he died. He maintained, in the early part
of his ministry, a learned disputation with Hugh
Eisher on the right of private judgment. He
published a sermon at his own ordination ; the
Spirit of God a holy fire, 1727 ; the duty of pa
rents to instruct their children, 1727 ; the young
man warned; Solomon's caution against the cup,
1729 ; human impositions proved unscriptural ;
answer to a sermon of Hugh Fisher ; the divine
right of private judgment, 1730; on the preach
ing of Mr. Whitefield, 1740; on the death of
Hannah Dart, 1742 ; letters to W. Cooper, 1743 ;
Jesus persecuted in his disciples ; zeal for God
encouraged and guarded, 1745; a volume of
sermons, 8vo., 1752; the church of Ephesus
arraigned, the substance of five short sermons
contracted into one, 1765. — Sprague's Annals.
SMITH, AARON, minister of Marlborough,
Mass., died in 1781, aged about 67. He gradu
ated at Harvard in 1735 ; was ordained in 1740 ;
was dismissed for ill health in 1778.
SMITH, WILLIAM, minister of Weymouth,
died in 1783, aged 77. Born in Charlestown, he
graduated at Harvard in 1725, and was settled in
1734. Among his predecessors were J. Hull and
T. and P. Thacher. His successor was J. Nor
ton. His wife was Elizabeth, the daughter of
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Col. John Quincy of Mount "\Vollaston in Brain-
tree. She died in 1775, aged 53. He was the
son of Daniel, who married Anna Shepard, the
daughter of Ilev. Thomas S. His daughters
married distinguished men. He had three
daughters ; Mary, who married Ilichard Cranch ;
Abigail, who married John Adams ; and Eliza
beth, who married first Ilev. John Shaw, and
then Ilev. Mr. Peabody. The following family
anecdotes are repeated : that Mr. Cranch and
Mr. Adams were suitors of Mary, and that the
former, who was in good business, was preferred
by Mary and the family, the father preaching on
the marriage from this text, " Mary hath chosen
that good part, which shall not be taken away."
In the course of time, Abigail, who had a strong
and cultivated mind, was married to John Adams,
and, as the father asked her what text he should
preach from, she replied, " And John came, nei
ther eating nor drinking, and ye say, he hath a
devil." She lived to see her chosen one chosen by
the people the president of the United States.
SMITH, THOMAS, minister of Pembroke, Mass.,
died in 1788, aged 83. Born in Barnstable, he
graduated at Harvard in 1724, and succeeded in
1754 Daniel Lewis, the first*minister, who was
ordained in 1707.
SMITH, ROBERT, D. D., minister in Pennsyl
vania, died about 1785, aged 62. He was born
of Scotch parents in Londonderry, Ireland, about
the year 1723, and was brought to this country
about the year 1730. At the age of about sev
enteen years he became the subject of that Divine
influence, which so eminently accompanied and
blessed the preaching of Mr. "Whiteficld during
his first visit to America. His classical and theo
logical studies he pursued under the instruction
of Samuel Blair. In 1751 he was settled in the
Presbyterian church at Pequca in Pennsylvania,
in which station he continued to officiate with re
putation and usefulness till his death. His wife,
the sister of Mr. Blair, was intelligent and pious ;
in his absence, she conducted the family worship.
Two sons were physicians and three ministers.
He was one of the most able theologians, the
most profound casuists, and the most successful
preachers of his age. Soon after his settlement
he founded a school at Pequea. Many young
men, who have since filled very honorable sta
tions in church and state, received in it their clas
sical education. It was his care to instil with the
elements of literature the principles of a pure
and ardent piety. In the American preacher,
vol. IV., there are published three of his sermons,
entitled, the nature of saving faith; the excel
lency of saving faith; practical uses from the
nature and excellency of. saving faith.
SMITH, THOMAS, first minister of Portland,
Me., died May 23, 1795, aged 93. He was the
son of Thomas S., merchant of Boston; was born
March 21, 1702, and was graduated at Harvard
college in 1720. In 1725 he went to Falmouth,
now Portland, as chaplain to the troops stationed
there, and preacher to the inhabitants. He was
ordained March 8, 1727, the day on which a
church was gathered. Though he received for
his colleague Mr. Deane in 1767, he preached till
the close of 1784, and officiated in public prayer
till within a year and a half of his death. He
renounced all self-dependence, and placed his
hope in the mercy of God through the merits of
the Redeemer. He published a sermon at the
ordination of Solomon Lombard at Gorham, and
a sermon to seafaring men. — Sprague's Annals.
SMITH, ELIHU HUBBARD, a physician, died
of the yellow fever in 1798, aged 27. He was
born at Litchfield, Conn., and was graduated at
Yale college in 1786. After pursuing a regular
course of medical studies under the direction of
his father, he commenced the practice at Weth-
ersfield in 1792, but removed to Xew York in
1793. In 1797 he commenced the medical repos
itory in conjunction with Drs. Mitchell and Miller.
At his early age he had explored a vast extent
of medical learning. His writings display singu
lar acuteness, great force of reasoning, and the
talent of accurate and extensive observation.
Besides his medical productions in the repository,
he published Edwin and Angelina, or the ban
ditti, an opera in three acts, 1797.
SMITH, JOHN BLAIR, first president of Union
college at Schenectady, the son of Dr. Robert S.,
died Aug. 22, 1799, aged 43. In early life he
exhibited marks of uncommon energy of mind.
He was the subject of many pious prayers, and
those prayers were heard in heaven. When he
was about fourteen years of age, it pleased God
to excite among the youth in the academy at
Pequea a serious attention to religion. His mind
was at this period deeply impressed by the truths
of the gospel ; he was renewed by the agency of
the Holy Spirit ; and in a short time he avowed
himself a disciple of Jesus. From the year 1773,
when he was graduated at the college of New
Jersey, he devoted himself almost entirely to
theological studies, under the direction of his
brother, Samuel S. Smith, at that time president
of Hampden Sidney college in Virginia. In
1779 he was settled over a church in Virginia,
and at the same time he succeeded his brother as
principal of the seminary. Here he was emi
nently honored by the Great Head of the church
in being made instrumental in promoting a gen
eral religious solicitude and reformation among
the people of his charge and of the neighborhood.
As he was now called to extraordinary exertions,
he generally preached once at least every day,
and in the evenings he was commonly engaged in
religious conversation. His engagements inter
fering with the attention due to the college, he
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resigned this part of his charge, that he might
give himself wholly to the work of the Christian
ministry. His zeal was rewarded by the success
which attended his labors ; but, as his health was
enfeebled, he was persuaded to accept an invita
tion from the third Presbyterian church in Phil
adelphia, where he was installed in Dec., 1791.
When Union college was founded in 1795, he
presided over it for three years with high reputa
tion. But, amidst his literary occupations, the
duties of the sacred office most warmly interested
him. He improved every opportunity for preach
ing the gospel of his Redeemer. Being again
invited to his former charge in Philadelphia, he
returned to that city in May, 1799. His succes
sor in the care of the college was Dr. Edwards.
In a short time he was seized with the yellow
fever, of which he died in resignation and joyful
hope.
SMITH, ROBERT, D. D., first bishop of the
Episcopal churches in South Carolina, was conse
crated bishop in 1795, and died at Charleston in
Nov., 1801, aged 72. He had for forty-seven
years discharged the duties of a minister of St.
Philip's church.
SMITH, WILLIAM, D. D., first provost of the
college in Philadelphia, died May 14, 1803, aged
7G. He was a native of Scotland, received his
education at the university of Aberdeen, where
he was graduated in 1747. After being employed
as a private tutor in the family of Gov. Martin on
Long Island, he was invited to take the charge
of the college in Philadelphia, and he accepted
the invitation. After revisiting England, and re
ceiving regular ordination in the Episcopal church
in Dec., 1753, he returned to America, and in
May, 1754, was placed at the head of the infant
seminary. His popular talents and taste in polite
literature contributed greatly to raise the charac
ter of the college. He was principally assisted by
Dr. Allison. After being for many years a distin
guished preacher and writer, and rendering im
portant service to the literary interests of Amer
ica, he died at Philadelphia. He published a
sermon to freemasons, 1755 ; discourses on several
public occasions during the war, 1759, and 2d
edit., with sermons added, 1763; concerning the
conversion of the heathen in America, 1760; an
account of the charitable corporation for the
widows of clergymen, 1769; an oration before
the American philosophical society, 1773; on the
present crisis of American affairs, 1775; an ora
tion in memory of Montgomery, 1776; on tem
poral and spiritual salvation, 1790 ; eulogium on
Franklin, 1792. His works were published in
two vols., 8vo., 1803.
SMITH, JAMES, colonel, a patriot of the Revo
lution, died in 1806, aged about 92. He was a
native of Ireland. He settled as a lawyer and a
surveyor in York, Penn. He raised in 1774 the
first volunteer company in the State for the pur
pose of resisting Great Britain. In 1776 he was
a member of congress and signed the declaration
of independence. In Nov., 1778, he resumed his
professional pursuits. For many years he was
a professor of religion.
SMITH, COTTON MATHER, minister of Sharon,
Conn., died Nov. 27, 1806, aged 75. The son of
Samuel of Suffield, who was grandson of Rev.
Henry Smith, he graduated at Yale in 1751 ; was
ordained at Sharon Aug. 28, 1755 ; and continued
fifty-one years. He succeeded J. Searle and was
succeeded by D. L. Perry. He was an excejlent
minister, a man of eminent virtues. Several of
his contemporary neighboring brethren attained
a great age, as Lee of Salisbury, Farrand of Ca
naan, Champion of Litchfield, and Mills of Tor-
ringford. He was the father of Gov. Smith. His
wife was Temperance, the widow of Dr. Moses
Gale of Goshen, N. Y., daughter of Rev. W.
Worthington. She died at the house of her son-
in-law, Judge Jacob Radcliff of Albany, in 18CO.
— Spr ague's Annals.
SMITH, JOHN, D. D., professor of languages
at Dartmouth college, died at Hanover in May,
1809, aged 56. He was born at Byfield, Mass.,
Dec. 21, 1752, and was graduated in 1778 at
Dartmouth, where he was a tutor from 1774 to
1778, and professor from 1778 till his death. He
was a preacher, as well as a teacher of the ancient
languages. His daughter, Sarah, who had a fine
taste for poetry, and of whom a memoir is given
in the panoplist, IX. 385, died Aug. 17, 1812,
aged 23. He published a dedication sermon,
1795; Hebrew grammar, 1803; Greek grammar,
1809; Latin grammar, 3d edit., 1812; a sermon
at dedication, Hanover, 1796; at ordination of
T. Eastman, 1801. — Spr ague's Annals.
SMITH, ISRAEL, governor of Vermont, died in
1810, aged 51. lie was born in Connecticut
April 4, 1759, and graduated at Yale college in
1781. He studied law with his brother at Ben-
nington. He lived first at Rupert, then at Rut
land. In 1791 he was elected one of the first rep
resentatives from Vermont, and continued in that
body till 1797, when M. Lyon was elected. At
this period he was chosen by the legislature chief
justice; but in 1798, in the prevalence of feder
alism, another was elected. From Dec., 1801, till
1803 he was a member of congress. From 1803
to 1807 he was a senator of the U. S. In 1807
he was chosen governor, but ere his term of ofiice
ended his nervous system became so impaired as
to terminate in derangement. He died at his
residence in Rutland. His diffidence was allied
to bashfulness. He was a man of strict integrity,
with a metaphysical turn of mind. On the trial
of Judge Chase he voted to acquit him on every
article ; on that of Judge Pickering he voted to
convict him.
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SMITH, WILLIAM LOUGHTON, LL. D., ambas
sador to Spain, died in South Carolina in 1812.
He was elected in 1789 a member of congress
from South Carolina, and with great ability sup
ported the administrations of Washington and
Adams. In 1797 he was appointed minister to
Portugal, and in 1800 to Spain; but the next
year, on the accession of Mr. Jefferson, his func
tions ceased. He published an oration July 4,
1796; a comparative view of the constitutions of
the States and of the U. S., 1797; a pamphlet
against the pretensions of Mr. Jefferson to the
presidency; essays signed Phocion. His speeches
and letter to his constituents were republished,
London, 1795.
SMITH, ISAAC, a judge of the supreme court
of New Jersey, died in 1807, aged 67. He was
graduated at the college in that State in 1755,
and afterwards commenced the practice of physic.
From the beginning of the troubles with Great
Britain he was distinguished for his patriotic ser
vices in the cause of his country. In 1776 he
commanded a regiment, and during the periods
of gloom and dismay he was firm and persever
ing. He associated valor with discretion, the
disciplined spirit of the soldier" with the sagacity
of the statesman. Soon after the termination of
the struggle, he received his appointment as
judge, and for eighteen years discharged the
arduous duties of that station. After the present
constitution of the U. S. was formed, he was a
member of the house of representatives, and was
esteemed by Washington and Adams. Endowed
with fine talents, and having enjoyed a classical
education, he united the character of a Christian,
scholar, soldier, and gentleman. He died in
hope of mercy through the Redeemer. — Port
folio, new series, I. 135, 136.
SMITH, SAMUEL STANHOPE, D. D., president
of Princeton college, died Aug. 21, 1819, aged
69. He was the son of Robert Smith, D. I).;
was born at Pcquea, town of Salisbury, Lancaster
county, Penn., March 16, 1750 ; and graduated
in 1769 at Princeton, where he was afterwards
two years a tutor. Being an eloquent and popu
lar preacher in Virginia, Hampdeh Sidney college
was instituted with the design that he should be
come its president. After beiiig at the head of
that college a few years, he was appointed in 1779
professor of moral philosophy at Princeton ; and
was succeeded in Virginia by his brother, John S.
In the absence of Dr. Witherspoon as a member
of congress, much of the care of the college de
volved upon him ; and after his death in 1794 he
was elected his successor. In consequence of his
infirmities he resigned his office in 1812. He was
succeeded by Dr. Green. His wife was a daugh
ter of Dr. Witherspoon; his daughter married
J. M. Pintard, consul at Madeira. He published
a sermon on the death of R. Stockton, 1781 ; an
essay on the causes of the variety of the com
plexion and figure of the human species, 1788;
in which he ascribed all the variety to climate,
the state of society, and the manner of living ;
sermons, 8vo., 1801 ; lectures on the evidences of
the Christian religion, 12mo., 1809; on the love
of praise, 1810; a continuation of Ramsay's his
tory of the U. S., from 1808 to 1817; lectures
on moral and political philosophy ; the principles
of natural and revealed religion.
SMITH, JOHN, the second minister of Dighton,
Mass., died in Kentucky, about 1815 or 1820,
aged about 70 or 75. Born in Plainfield, Conn.,
he graduated at Princeton in 1770; was settled
in 1772 as the colleague of N. Fisher ; and was
dismissed in Dec., 1801. The sermon at his ordi
nation, by Levi Hart of Preston, was printed by
S. Southwick, Newport. In 1802 he removed as
a missionary to the neighborhood of Canandaigua,
N. Y. In his liberality he gave a deed of six
thousand acres of land to found a seminary of
learning in C. Afterwards he was a missionary
and settled on a farm in Athens township, Bloom-
field, Lycoming co., Penn., where he remained
till 1811 or 1812. He next removed to Kentucky,
where his son Francis was a lawyer, at Shep-
herdsville, Nelson county ; and there he acted for
a time as a missionary. Francis removed to
Monmouth, 111., and died highly respected in
1838, aged 72, leaving a large family. Other
sons were John, a lawyer in Washington ; Lem
uel, a farmer now living near Alton, 111. ; Henry,
a merchant of Portland, Me., who died in 1853,
and whose son is Rev. Dr. Henry B. Smith, now
professor of theology in Union theological semi
nary, in the city of New York.
SMITH, GEORGE WILLIAM, governor of Vir
ginia, was elected as successor of Mr. Monroe in
1811. Being one of the attendants at the thea
tre in Richmond in the evening of Dec. 26, 1811,
when it took fire, he lost his life with Mr. Vena-
ble and seventy others.
SMITH, ISAAC, the first minister of Gilmanton,
N1. H., died in 1817, aged 72. Born in Sterling,
Conn., he graduated at Princeton in 1770, and
was settled Nov. 30, 1774. L. A. Spofford was
his successor.
SMITH, EDWARD DARRELL, M. D., professor
of chemistry and mineralogy in the college of So.
Carolina, died near St. Louis, Missouri, Aug. 17,
1819. He translated Desault's surgical works,
two vols.,8vo., 1814.
SMITH, DAXIEL, died in Louisville, Ky., in
1822, aged 33. Born in Bennington, Vt., he
graduated at Middlebury in 1810; studied theol
ogy at Andover ; and went with Mills in an ex
ploring tour to the southwest, lie was a mis
sionary in Natchez from 1816 to 1820, when he
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removed to L. He had intellect, and taste, and
piety, and was an excellent preacher. — Sprague's
Annals.
SMITH, NATHANIEL, judge, died at Wood-
bury, Conn., March 9, 1822, aged 60. He was
born Jan. 6, 1762, and with few advantages foi
education rose to distinction. He practised law
in his native town. In 1795 he was a member ol
congress: from 1806 till 1819 he was a judge of
the supreme court. He was learned in the law ;
his mind was acute and powerful; and he wa
respected for his integrity and piety.
SMITH, EBENEZER, a Baptist minister, died in
Fredonia, N. Y., in 1824, aged 89. Two persons,
who heard him preach his first sermon in 1753,
heard him after seventy years preach his last in
1823, in a place five hundred miles distant from
the place where they heard the first sermon, —
such is the tide of emigration in our country.
SMITH, JONATHAN, died at Hadley in 1829,
aged 80. lie graduated at Harvard in 1768, and
was a preacher on Martha's Vineyard forty years.
SMITH, ISAAC, died in Boston in 1829, aged
79 ; chaplain to the alms-house. He graduated
at Harvard in 1767, and was tutor and librarian.
SMITH, NATHAN, M. D., professor in the med
ical schools of Dartmouth, Yale, and Bowdoin
colleges, died at New Haven Jan. 26, 1829, aged
66. He was born in Rehoboth, Mass., Sept. 30,
1762. As his parents removed to Chester, Vt,
he was brought up as a farmer at the foot of the
Green Mountains. At the age of twenty-four he
began the study of physic. After practising a
few years at Cornish he projected a medical insti
tution at Dartmouth college. Being chosen a
professor, he went to Europe in 1796 for his im
provement in science. In 1798 the school was
opened ; for twelve years he lectured on the vari
ous branches usually taught ; in 1810 Dr. Cyrus
Perkins was appointed professor of anatomy. In
1813 he was chosen "professor of the theory and
practice of physic and surgery at Yale college,
and removed from Hanover to New Haven. In
1821 he was the first lecturer in the medical
school of Maine at Bowdoin college, and he lec
tured there for five years. His son, Nathan
Ryno Smith, is a distinguished physician and
professor at Baltimore. Dr. S. was eminent
both as a physician and surgeon, and had prac
ticed more extensively in New England than any
other man. His manners were pleasing and in
teresting ; in his friendships he was steady ; and
he was beloved by his numerous pupils. His
works, entitled medical and surgical memoirs,
were published, 8vo., 1831. — Williams' Med.
Biog.
SMITH, GUY, a minister, died in Wilkes
county, Geo., Aug., 1830, aged 73.
SMITH, JOHN, D. I)., professor of theology
in the theological seminary at Bangor, Me., died
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in 1831, aged 65. He was born in Belchertown,
Mass., in 1766; graduated at Dartmouth col
lege in 1794; and, having studied theology with
Dr. Emmons, was ordained at Salem, N. II., in
1797. After twenty years he was dismissed and
settled at Wenham, Mass. In 1819 he succeeded
A. Wines as professor of theology at Bangor,
where he died in Christian peace. His successor
was Ilev. Mr. Pond. He published a treatise on
baptism ; two fast sermons ; on the peace, 1815 ;
to the senior class, 1822 ; to missionary society,
1830; at ordination of S. H. Peckham.—
Sprague's Annals.
SMITH, JOHN M., professor of languages in
the Wesleyan college in Middletown, Conn., died
in 1832, aged 37. He was a Methodist minister.
SMITH, PETER THACHER, died in Oct., 1826,
aged 95. The son of Rev. Thomas, he grad
uated at Harvard in 1753 ; was ordained at Wind-
ham, N. H., in 1762 ; and dismissed in 1790.
SMITH, PRESERVED, minister of Howe, died
in 1834, aged 75. Born in Ashfield, he gradu
ated at Brown in 1786, and was pastor from 1787
to 1832, excepting the interval between 1804 and
1812, in which time he was settled in Mendon.
He published masonic sermon, 1798; farewell
sermon, 1804.
SMITH, NATHAN, a senator, brother of Judge
Nathaniel, died suddenly at Washington, Dec. 6,
1835, aged 68. He was born in Woodbury, Conn.,
in 1770. He commenced the practice of law in
New Haven, where he made his home till his
death. None understood law better than he :
such was his regard for the right, that he would
not undertake a cause obviously unjust. He was
U. S. attorney for Connecticut; in 1833 he was
elected to the Senate. He was of the demo
cratic party.
SMITH, CHARLES, LL. D., judge, died at
Philadelphia March 18, 1836, at an advanced
age. He arranged and published the laws of
Pennsylvania.
SMITH, SARAH LANMAN, the wife of the mis
sionary to Syria, Dr. Eli Smith, died at Boujah, a
village near Smyrna, Sept. 30, 1836, aged 34.
She had been three years in the east. She was
the daughter of Deacon Jabez Huntington of
Norwich, Conn. Her mother, an excellent Chris
tian, had the name of Lanman. Born in 1802,
he became early pious. In 1830 and 1831 she
and Sarah Breed established and conducted a
Sabbath school among the Mohegan Indians, the
remnants of the tribe of Samson Occom, at Mo-
legan or Montville, five miles distant. In 1833
she married Rev. Eli Smith, and sailed from Bos-
,on in September. She arrived at Malta in No
vember and at Alexandria in December. Her
)rief but useful missionary labors were chiefly at
Beirut. In 1836, in ill health, on a voyage to
Smyrna, she was wrecked on the coast of Asia
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Minor, but escaped in a boat. Her private jour
nals were lost. She survived only a few woeks.
She died at the house of Mr. Adger, and was
buried in the cemetery of Boujah, a village four
or five miles from Smyrna. Just before her
death she said, " Tell my friends, I would not for
all the world lay my remains anywhere but here,
on missionary ground." Her last words were,
" Lord Jesus, receive my spirit ! " An interest
ing memoir of her life was published by Dr. E.
W. Hooker, in 1839.
SMITH, THOMAS G., a minister in the Dutch
Jleformed church, died at Tarrytown, N. Y., April
10. 1837, aged 79.
SMITH, PETER, judge of Madison county,
died at Schenectady of apoplexy in 1837. lie
was enterprising and wealthy; the father of Ger-
rit Smith.
SMITH, SAMUEL, general, died at Baltimore
April 25, 1839, aged 86. He was a merchant,
and held various public offices. He was in the
house or senate from 1793 to 1833. He had re
turned from a ride, and was found dead on the
sofa. He had been mayor of the city; and was
a soldier of the Revolution.
SMITH, ISAAC, Dr., an eminent physician of
Chatham, Conn., died in Christian faith and hope
in 1839, aged 67. — Williams' Med. Biog.
SMITH, JOHN, major, died at Hadley, Mass.,
in 1840, aged 88. He was a patriot of the Rev
olution, an officer of the Mass. line.
SMITH, SIBYL WORTHINGTON, died in Had
ley, Mass., perhaps about 1830 or 1840, aged
102. ^he was the widow of Deacon Elijah
Smith of Belchertown, who died about 1769,
when his son, Rev. Ethan S., was seven years
old. Deacon Jacob Smith^of Hadley was her
son.
SMITH, JEREMIAH, LL. D., governor of N. II.,
died in 1842, aged about 62. He was born at
Peterborough, N. IT., and graduated at Rutgers'
college, X. J., in 1790. He was a representative
in congress from 1791 to 1797. He was gov
ernor in 1809, and was for several years chief
justice of the superior court, residing at Exeter.
He died at Dover. lie was highly respected as
a statesman and jurist, as a lawyer and judge;
and was of a good literary taste. His extraor
dinary mental powers were unimpaired in his
old age. His life was written by J. II. Morri
son, 1845.
SMITH, MARIA WARD, wife of the mission
ary, Eli Smith, died at Beirut May 27, 1842,
aged 23. She was the daughter of Moses Cha-
pin of Rochester, N. Y., and embarked on her
mission a year before death. She said, she was
not sorry she had come to Syria, though but to
die. On her sick bed she received a letter, an
nouncing the conversion of brothers for whom she
had earnestly prayed.
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SMITH, ROBERT, died at Baltimore Nov. 26,
1842, aged 80. He was a volunteer soldier in
the Revolutionary war ; appointed by Jefferson
secretary of the navy, and by Madison secretary
of State, in which office he continued one year.
SMITH, JOSEPH, the founder of the Mor
mons, died June 27, 1844. He was born in
Vermont in 1805 : in his boyhood his parents re
moved to Palmyra, N. Y. After the age of
twenty he began his imposture. He pretended
to have received golden plates from an angel :
these, with the help of O. Cowdery, he says he
translated, and thus made the book of Mormon.
He lived in Kirtland, Ohio ; and thence removed
to Illinois. His book was made up of a manu
script story of Mr. Spaulding, written in 1809,
which fell into Smith's hands. About 1843 he
had as many as ten thousand followers. Such is
the amazing madness of men. In consequence
of a dispute of two rival newspapers, Joseph was
cast into prison, and a mob murdered him and
his brother Hiram, June 27, 1844. The next
prophet was Brigham Young, by whom the Mor
mons were removed to Utah, the central wilder
ness of the west, where it was thought he had
convened 100,000 followers and slaves in 1855.
Young is a shameless impostor. He has seventy
young women enslaved as his wives ; and his dis
ciples choose as many wives as they can feed.
Doubtless, if common sense is not entirely lost in
these women, they will make a revolt and over
throw the atrocious tyranny which keeps them
as prostitutes.
SMITH, ELI, died in Northford, formerly
a part of Branford, Conn., July 7, 1845, aged
79 ; a humble, devoted Christian. He could
count twenty-five persons, who became converts,
while members of his family. His son, Rev. Dr.
Eli Smith, the missionary in Syria, visited him
in his sickness.
SMITH, SAMUEL H., died at Washington
Nov. 1, 1845, aged 19. He edited a paper, the
New World, in Philadelphia in 1796, and at Wash
ington, when it became the seat of government,
he established the National Intelligencer, which
he edited till 1810. He was a friend of Jeffer
son, Madison, and Monroe.
SMITH, OLIVER, died at Hatfield Dec. 22,
1845, aged 80 ; leaving an estate of half a mil
lion of dollars, of which 20,000 dollars was for
the establishment of an agricultural school in
Northampton, and 360,000 dollars to eight towns
for orphan and poor children, and 10,000 dollars
to the colonization society.
SMITH, JOHN COTTON, LL. D., governor of
Connecticut, died at Sharon Dec. 7, 1845, aged
80. He was born in Sharon Feb. 12, 1765.
Graduating at Yale in 1783, he settled in his na
tive town as a lawyer. For several terms he was
a member of congress, but resigned in 1806. In
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1809 he was a judge of the supreme court, and
governor from 1813 to 1817. He was also pres
ident of the American board of commissioners,
and of the American bible society. He was tall
and .slender, and graceful; of dignified manners,
yet courteous and persuasive. At this period
some may be glad to learn what was his dress.
He wore breeches, black silk stockings and shoe-
buckles ; his hair powdered, turned back, with a
queue, and a friz over his ears. His boots, when
he appeared in them, were white-topped. He
was a zealous federalist in nis political principles ;
and an exemplary Christian professor, a man of
piety and benevolence. — Goodrich's Recollec
tions.
SMITH, SUSAN, widow of Prof. John Smith,
died at Hanover Dec. 20, 1845, aged 82. She
was his second wife, the daughter of Col. David
Mason of Boston and Springfield. She wrote a
memoir of her husband. She had a strong and
well-furnished mind, and was a woman of benevo
lence and earnest piety and great usefulness.
SMITH, DANIEL, minister of Stamford, Conn.,
died in 1846, aged 78. Born in New Canaan, he
graduated at Yale in 1791, and was ordained in
1793.
SMITH, AMASA, a minister in Maine, died at
Cumberland in 1847, aged 91. One minister,
still older, in Maine, Mr. Sawyer, survived him,
and now lives, 1857, aged 101. He was born in
Belchertown, Mass., the brother of Rev. Eli S.
He was first settled at Turner, then in Cumber
land, in 1806, remaining fourteen years ; then
was elsewhere a preacher.
SMITH, ELI, minister of Hollis, N. H., died
in 1847, aged 86. Born in Belchertown, he
graduated at Brown university in 1792, and was
pastor from 1793 to 1830.
SMITH, JOSEPH, died at Mercer, Penn., July
31, 1849, aged 84. Born in the county of Derry,
Ireland, in 1765, at the age of nine his parents
brought him to this country. His ancestors were
pious, and he early became pious. His trade
was that of a millwright. He settled at M. in
1800, and was an elder of the new-formed church ;
and was an eminent Christian : a son was a min
ister. A long account of him by Dr. W. S.
Plumer is in the N. Y. Observer March 16, 1850.
He became a Hebrew scholar : the bible was his1
constant companion.
SMITH, ETHAN, minister of Hopkinton,N. II.,
a descendant of llev. Henry S., of "Wethersfield,
died Aug. 29, 1849, aged 86. He died at the
house of his son-in-law, Rev. W. II. Sanford, of
Boylston. He was born in Belchertown Dec. 19,
1762, the son of Deacon Elijah ; graduated at
Dartmouth in 1790; was a minister at Ilaverhill,
N. H., nine years, and then from March 12, 1800,
for eighteen years at Hopkinton, N. II. He also
lived some years at Hebron, N. Y., Poultney, Vt.,
and Hanover, Mass. He was descended from
Rev. E. Iluit. His mother died at Hadley aged
102. His wife was a daughter of Rev. D. San-
ford. On the Sabbath before his last illness he
preached with animation. His last words were,
" Joy and peace in believing." He published a
dissertation on the prophecies ; view of the Trin
ity, in answer to N. Worcester ; lectures on bap
tism; key to the figurative language of the
bible ; memoirs of Mrs. Bailey ; key to the Reve
lation ; prophetical catechism ; a tract to prove
the Indians to be descendants of the ten tribes ;
two sermons on episcopacy; farewell sermon ; one
at Hopkinton ; two sermons on vain excuses of
man ; on the moral perfections of God ; on the
daughter of Zion ; on the death of Mrs. Harris ;
at the ordinations of S. Martindale and H.
Smith. — Sprague's Annals.
SMITH, WATERS, M. D., died in Brooklyn,
N. Y., Sept. 19, 1850. He was surgeon of the
U. S. naval hospital, one of the oldest and most
skilful surgeons in the navy.
SMITH, AZARIAH, M. D., missionary at Ain-
tab, died June 3, 1851, aged 34. Born at Man-
lius, N. Y., he graduated at Yale college in 1837,
and studied both physic and theology. He was
ordained in 1842, and embarked for Western
Asia in November. He married in 1848; his
wife, Corinth I. Smith, survived him. He was a
man of skill as a physician, of eminent piety, of
unwearied diligence, self-denying, and liberal, en
tirely consecrated to his work.
SMITH, DANIEL, died in Kingston. N. Y.,
in June, 1852, aged about 45 ; an eminent Meth
odist minister, formerly in New York city. He
was the author of several excellent books for
youth and Sunday school libraries.
SMITH, JOHN R., died at Salem, N. C., Dec.
16, 1852, aged 68. As a preacher in the United
Brethren's church he spent years among the In
dians in Canada and the Cherokees.
SMITH, JUNIUS, died in Astoria, N. Y., Jan.
23, 1853, aged 72. Born in Plymouth, Conn., he
graduated at Yale in 1802 : for many years he
lived in London as a merchant. He devoted
much of his life to two objects, steam navigation
and the introduction of the tea plant into this
country. He cultivated it at Greenville, S. C.
He published oration, July 4, 1804.
SMITH, TiiEorniLUS, minister of New Ca
naan, died Aug. 29, 1853, aged 53. lie gradu
ated at Yale in 1824, and was a scholar, skilled
in biblical literature, a man of sound judgment,
a diligent preacher and faithful pastor.
SMITH, WILLIAM MOORE, published poems
written in Pcnn., 1785. His son, Richard P.
Smith, died near Philadelphia in 1854. He pub
lished novels, stories, and plays. — Cycl. of Amer.
Lit.
SMITH, S. LISLE, one of the most brilliant
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orators of the west, died at Chicago July 30,
1854.
SMITH, JONATHAN, Baptist minister at Chic-
opee, died at Hartford Jan. 2, 1855, aged 94.
Born in Norton, he was a Revolutionary soldier
three years : he was present when the British
evacuated Boston. He then became a Baptist
minister and labored seventy years in preaching
the gospel. His residence was Chicopee.
SMITH, HOBERT, an Episcopal missionary,
died at Cavalia, West Africa, May 25, 1855, aged
30. He was a native of Tennessee, a graduate
of Yale, and a theological student of Alexandria.
SMITH, JACOB J., died at Cleves, O., Dec.
12, 1855, aged 101.
SMITH, WORTHINGTON, D. D., president of
the university of Vermont, died at St. Albans
Feb. 13, 1856, aged 62. He was born in Hadley,
the son of Deacon Seth Smith. He graduated
at Williams college. As a minister and as the
head of the college he was highly respected.
SMITH, ELI, D. D., the eminent missionary
to Syria, died at Beirut, in Syria, of a cancer of
the stomach, Jan. 11, 1857, aged 55. He was
born in 1801, the son of Eli Smith of Branford,
Conn., Northford society, about ten miles from
New Haven ; a village remarkable for the num
ber it has furnished of educated youth. He
graduated at Yale college in 1823, and at Ando-
ver theological seminary in 1826. In the same
year he embarked as a missionary of the Ameri
can board for Malta ; went to Cairo ; crossed the
desert to Syria in Feb., 1827; was at Beirut till
182S, when he returned to Malta and had care
of the press. In 1830 and 1831 he and Dr.
D wight made an exploring tour in Armenia, oc
cupying almost a year. They were at Tebreez in
Persia in Jan., 1831. They returned to Con
stantinople in May ; to Malta in July. He made
also two exploring tours with Dr. Robinson. Af
ter an absence of six years he visited this country
in 1832, and published his researches in Armenia.
In 1833 he married Miss Sarah Lanman Hunting-
ton, the daughter of Deacon Jabez Huntington
of Norwich, Conn., and sailed for Malta in that
year. He soon settled down at Beirut. She
gave him important aid in his labors; but she
died in 1836 at Boujah, a village near Smyrna,
and there was buried. Her memoir was writ
ten by Dr. Hooker. In 1838 he and Professor
Ilqbinson made an exploring tour in the east.
In 1839 he superintended the casting of Arabic
types in Leipsic. Dr. Smith married for his sec
ond wife Miss Chapin, the daughter of General
Chapin of Rochester, N. Y. ; but she, too, after a
few years was taken away and was buried at Bei
rut. In the course of time he sought another
companion in America, and was married in Oct.,
1846, to Miss Hetty S. Butler of Northampton,
Mass., the daughter of Mr. Daniel Butler; and
she now is left a desolate widow at her beautiful
and late happy abode at Beirut on the shore of
the Mediterranean. He left a son by his second
wife and four children by his last, two sons and
two daughters. From the beginning of his mis
sionary life it was the great object of Dr. Smith
to make himself skilled in the Arabic language,
so as to be able to translate into it, as now spo
ken in the east, God's holy book ; and in his work
he had made very considerable progress, having
it is believed translated the Pentateuch and New
Testament ; the Psalms and the lesser Prophets ;
and Isaiah. It must be for his future biographer
to describe the variety and extent of his efforts in
accomplishing the object dear to the missionary
of the cross, — that of communicating to the mis
guided and uninstructed the knoAvledge of Jesus
Christ, the Son of God, the Mediator between
God and man, the Saviour of all them that be
lieve. The memorable fact that this son of
America sleeps in distant Syria, at the foot of
Mount Lebanon, whither he went from the new
world to carry back the triumphs of the cross to
the old world, to Syria, and Egypt, and Persia,
and to gladden Jerusalem with the doctrine of
redemption, — this fact compels the remark, that
the glory of this zealous missionary casts con
tempt on the fame of Alexander, the great war
rior ; for this mighty conqueror spread only dis
may and terror, desolation and death over the
wide east ; but the missionary sought to spread
over the same region the beams of eternal truth,
the principles of virtue, the elements of happi
ness, the hopes of bliss beyond the grave, and
the sure possession of ineffable joy, of immortal
glory. He was buried the day after his death,
the services being performed in the American
chapel, the consuls of the Protestant nations be
ing present, and a crowded congregation of
afflicted natives. Rev. Mr. Calhoun made an
address in English, and Rev. Mr. Ford in Ara
bic. His body was then placed in its grave in
the neighboring Protestant burying-ground, un
der the shade of the cypress, next to the grave of
his second wife, near the graves of the eminent
missionaries, Pliny Fisk and George B. Whiting.
Will not theirs be the resurrection of the just ?
As to some of the labors of Dr. Smith, in super
intending the casting of Arabic types in Germany,
he made an improvement in the form of the let
ters, rendering them more distinct and agreeable,
nearer to the style of writing than to the old
characters, to the great satisfaction of the natives
and of the learned in Europe. In his great labor
of translating he had the assistance of Professor
Bistany and of other natives; and thus he toiled
incessantly for eight years. Happily he had fin
ished the New Testament and other parts of the
Bible ; it must be for another to complete the
work of giving the whole Word of God to six
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millions of the human family. A friend at Bei
rut wrote a few days after his death a letter con
cerning him, in which he said : " The precision
and logical order of his mind were its prominent
features. lie had not the vehemence and warmth
which enter into high oratory ; while there was a
seriousness, a force of argument, a tenderness,
and apparent conscientiousness, whose influence
was far better and more enduring. His field of
knowledge was wide, his scholarship ripe, and his
modesty equal to his attainments. But his
moral qualities were his chiefest glory. He had
subjected his whole nature to reason, and his rea
son to the teachings of God. The study of that
blessed book, which was constantly before him,
brought him into contact with the pure and the
heavenly, and seemed to bathe his spirit with
holy influences. A scholar, and largely ac
quainted with the world, he was still a very child
in simplicity, loving all, laboring for all, and not
ashamed of the most humble service. His faith
in the Divine goodness seemed never to forsake
him. With collectedness and serenity he met
the darkest adversities in life, and smiled as he
advanced to the dominions of death. When near
his end he said that he felt that he was a great
sinner, but there was a greater Saviour ; that he
had no righteousness of his own, and relied en
tirely on the blood of Christ ; that for aught he
knew he had more friends in heaven than re
maining on the earth, and soon he should be
with them and all the holy in the presence of
God. I heard the grave-clods fall upon the cof
fin of that accomplished scholar and meek, guile
less, devoted Christian ; and never did they sound
more harshly. And yet, truly interpreted, they
were the notes of triumph, such only as the dead
can give, when they pass into the regions of im
mortality : ' O death ! where is thy sting ? O
grave ! where is thy victory ? ' " He published
researches in Armenia, 2 vols., 1832 ; missionary
sermons and addresses, 1834. — Jour. Commerce,
Feb. 27.
SNELLIXG, WILLIAM, an early physician of
Newbury, Mass., came from Devon, England,
and removed to Boston in 1654, and there died.
SNEYD, SAMUEL S., a Methodist minister,
died at Philadelphia in 1840, aged 47.
SNIDEIl, ANDREW, died at Intercourse, Lan-»
caster county, Pa., Nov. 1, 1845, aged 112; a
soldier of the Revolution.
SNODGRASS, JAMES, died in 1846, aged 82 ;
minister of West Hanover, Penn., father of Rev.
Dr. S. of New York.
SNOW, JOSEPH, minister of Providence, R. L,
died April 10, 1803, aged 89. He was the son
of Joseph, and was born in P. and settled in 1743.
Among his successors were J. Wilson, Cyrus Ma
son, Mark Tucker in the second church, of which
he was the first pastor, from 1743 to 1793. He
was also the first pastor of the third church from
1793, in which T. Williams and W.Preston were
his successors.
SNOW, ELISIIA, a Baptist minister, died in
Thomaston, Me., in 1832, aged 92.
SNOWDEN, SAMUEL FINLEY, died in Brown-
ville, N. Y., May 21, 1845, aged 77. Born at
Philadelphia, son of Isaac S., whose seven sons
were educated at Princeton, he was pastor in
Princeton, N. J. ; then in Newr Hartford, N. Y. ;
then of Sackett's Harbor.
SNYDER, SIMON, governor of Pennsylvania,
died in Nov., 1819. He succeeded Gov. McKean
in 1808.
SOMERJ3Y, ANTHONY, an early schoolmaster
of Newbury, Mass., died in 1686, aged 76. He
came from Lincolnshire, England, in 1639.
SOMMER, LUTHER, minister of Scoharie,
N. Y., died after Sept., 1786, then aged 76 ; in that
month he suddenly recovered his sight after being
blind seventeen years. He awaked in the morn
ing, and looked out and saw distinctly ; and went
to church without his usual guide.
SOUTIIALL, DANIEL, a Methodist minister,
died at Washington, Dist, Col., Oct. 15, 1830,
aged 67.
SOUTHARD, SAMUEL L., governor of New
Jersey, died June 26, 1842, aged 55. He was
born June 9, 1787, at Baskenridge, and gradu
ated at Princeton in 1804. In 1815 he became a
judge of the supreme court. He was a senator
of the United States in 1823, and in the same
year secretary of the navy : attorney-general of
New Jersey in 1 829, governor in 1832, and again
a senator in 1833 and 1838. Of the senate he
was the president in 1841. His wife was a Miss
Harrow. He was distinguished for talents and
eloquence, and for his private virtues. He pub
lished reports in the supreme court of New Jer
sey, 1819; an eulogy on Chief Justice Ewing,
1832.
SOUTHMAYD, JOHN, minister of Water-
bury, Conn., died in 1755, aged about 80. He
graduated at Harvard in 1697, and was pastor
from 1705 to 1735. J. Peck was the first minis
ter from 1669 to 1699.
SOUTIIMAYD, DANIEL S., first minister of
the Trinitarian church in Concord, Mass., died
in 1837, aged 35. Born in Castleton, Vt., he
graduated at Middlcbury college in 1822, and
was settled in 1827, and resigned in 1832, and
was succeeded by J. Wilder. He then was an
editor in Lowell and in New York. He died in
Texas. lie published sermon on the advance
ment of gospel truth, 1830.
SOUTH WICK, SOLOMON, died at Albany in
1839, aged about 65. He was a native of Rhode
Island. After being a journeyman printer he
established and edited the Albany Register, a
leading democratic paper; but, quarreling with
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his party, it died in 1817. He established other
papers, the Christian Visitant, and the Plough
Boy; in 1827 he established an anti-masonic
paper. He was even a candidate for governor :
his thirty thousand votes gave Mr. Van Buren a
plurality over Smith Thompson. Tie experienced
reverses and misfortunes, and his political dreams
vanished. From an Infidol becoming a Chris
tian, he connected himself with the Methodist
church. For years he was a public lecturer on
temperance, biblical literature, and self-education,
thus obtaining a precarious support.
SOUTHWORTH, THOMAS, a younger brother
of Constant S., was born in 1016 and died Dec.
8, 1669, aged 53. He was selected to succeed
Elder Brewster ; but his father-in-law, Gov. Brad
ford, wished him to enter upon civil affairs. He
was a commissioner of the United Colonies from
16,39 for several years, and governor in 1664 of
the colony's territory in Maine, and was highly
esteemed for his good judgment and piety. He
married his cousin, Elizabeth, daughter of Rev.
John Ruyner ; and his only child, Eli/a, married
Joseph, son of the pilgrim John Howland. Mrs.
Rayner then was the sister of Mrs. Bradford, as
was also the wife of T)r. Samuel Fuller, and the
wife of William Wright of Plymouth. Their
name was Carpenter : their unmarried sister,
Mary Carpenter, a godly woman, died at Ply
mouth March 19, 1720, aged 90. It appears also
that J. Cooper of Scituate in 1634 called Olive
Bradford his sister ; so that probably his wife was
another sister of the Carpenter family.
SOUTIIWORTII, CONSTANT, died at Duxbury
in 1687, aged about 72. He was born in Eng
land, the son of Alice S., who married Gov. Brad
ford when he was about eight years old. He came
over in 1628 when he was thirteen years old.
The Plymouth company paid ten pounds for his
passage, and for diet eleven weeks at one shil
ling and eight pence per week. His father's
name is not known ; but it was probably Edward.
Southworth was a Basset-Lowe family in Eng
land. There was. an Edward in 1614, the son of
Robert, the son of Richard, the son of Aymond.
There was also a Thomas at Clarkborough and a
William at Ilcyton. Robert about 1604 con
sorted with the Puritans. Constant's oldest and
youngest sons were called Edward and William.
He married Elizabeth, the daughter of William
Collier, and sustained various offices, civil and
military. In Philip's war he was commissary-
general and accompanied the army. Captain B.
Church married his daughter Alice. Two of his
eons were with Church in his expeditions. He
left three sons, Edward, Nathaniel, and William.
The first occupied the homestead ; the sons of,
the two last lived in Tiverton. In his estate of
360 pounds was included an Indian boy at 10
pounds. His daughter Mercy married Samuel
SPARHAWK.
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Freeman ; Mary married Daniel Alden. Eliza
beth had bequeathed to her two beds and furni
ture, " provided she do not marry William
Fobbcs; but if she do, then to have five shil
lings." Like most other young ladies, she chose
to decide the question of a husband for herself.
She accepted the five shillings. Mr. Fobes lived
in Duxbury and Little Compton : his son John
died in Bridgevater in 1661. Mr. S.'s son Ed
ward had a son Thomas, whose son Jcdidiah was
a deacon of the church in North Yarmouth, Me. ;
and his son, Deacon John, died in 1814, aged 81.
From the daughters of this family there were
many descendants.
SPAIGHT, RICHARD D., governor of N. C.,
a miserable, unprincipled duellist, died as a fool
dieth, in 1802. On account of some insult given
or received in a political dispute, he set himself up
as a mark to be shot at by John Stanley, and was
killed. Stanley was convicted and sentenced to
death for murder, but obtained a pardon.
SPALDING, SAMSON, the first minister of
Tewksbury, Mass., died in 1796, aged 86 ; in the
sixtieth year of his ministry. He graduated at
Harvard in 1732, and was settled in 1737. T. T.
Barton was settled in 1792 ; J. Coggin in 1806.
SPALDIXG, LYMAN, M. D., died at Ports
mouth Oct. 31, 1821, aged 46. His death was
caused by a wound in the head. He was born in
Cornish, N. H., and graduated at Harvard in
1797. He settled at Portsmouth. In 1812, be
ing appointed president of the college of physi
cians at Fail-field, N. Y., and professor of anat
omy and surgery, he removed to the city of New
York. He was a skilful physician and surgeon.
With him originated the plan of a pharmaco
poeia of U. S. He published 'a nomenclature of
chemistry, 1799; inaugural address, 1813; his
tory of scutellaria ; reflections on yellow fever,
1819. — TJiaclier's Mcd. Biog.
SPALDING, JOSHUA, minister in Salem, Mass.,
died at Newburg, or South-East, N. Y., in 1825,
aged 65. About 1780, at the age of twenty, he
was settled over the Tabernacle church in S.,
Avhere he continued till 1802 ; then for three years
he was in New Jersey. Returning to Salem, he
preached in the Branch church till 1813, when he
removed to South-East in New York. For four
years he lingered under an attack of the palsy.
For forty years he was a zealous, devoted minis
ter. He published a sermon at the execution of
Coombs, 1787 ; defence, 1802; at opening of the
Branch church ; the Lord's songs, 1805 ; to a
charitable society, 1808.
SPARHAWK, JOHN, minister of Bristol, R. I.,
died in 1718, aged 46. He graduated at Harvard
in 1689, and was ordained 1695. His son was
the minister of Salem, Mass., and died in 1755,
aged 41. A graduate of Harvard in 1731, he was
ordained in 1736.
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SPARHAWK.
SPENCER.
SPARHAWK, GEORGE, a physician, died at
Walpole, N. H., Feb. 12, 1847, aged 90. Born
in Brighton, he was graduated at Harvard in 1777.
SPARLING, HULDAH, Mrs., died at Oswego
in March or April, 1852, aged 110. She was
born at Walpack, N. J., and was wounded by the
Indians in the old French war.
SPAULDING, JOSIAH, minister of Buckland,
Mass., died in 1823, aged 72. Uc graduated at
Yale in 1778; was first the minister of Plainfield,
Conn., and was installed at B. in 1794. He pub
lished a sermon on inability, 1782; Universalism
confounds and destroys itself, 1805.
SPAULDING, THADDEUS, a patriot of the
Revolution, and an eminent Christian, died in
Townsend Feb. 10, 1836, aged 78 : his wife, Olive
Blood, died Feb. 19, aged 70. His son, Dr.
Thaddeus Spaulding, died at South Reading in
1844, aged 52; a good physician, and useful civ
ilian, and respected Christian. — Thacher.
SPAULDING, EPHRAIM, missionary at the
Sandwich Islands, died in Westborough June 28,
1840. Born in Ludlow, Vt., he graduated at
Middle-bury in 1828. From 1831, for several
years, he was a missionary; but a bleeding at his
lungs compelled his return. — Anderson's Serm.
SPEECE, CO.XRAD, D. D., died in Staunton,
Va., in 1836 ; a Presbyterian minister. His de
gree was given by Princeton in 1820.
SPENCE, JOHN, M. D., died in Dumfries, Va.,
in 1829, aged 63 ; a native of Scotland. He
zealously promoted the vaccine inoculation ; he
wrote for the journals. — Williams'' Med. Biog.
SPENCER, JOSEPH, a surgeon, died in the
early part of this century at Vienna, Wood
county, Va., leaving six sons and five daughters.
He was the son of Gen. Spencer ; was a surgeon
in the army of the Revolution ; and in 1794 emi
grated from New York to Ohio, and, with Col.
Abner Lord, purchased a tract of land, lying five
miles on the river at Marietta. His daughters
married Gen. Cass of Detroit, Gen. Hunt of
Maumee, Rev. Matthew Wallace of Indiana.
Another was Mrs. Martha Brainerd Wilson, who
died at Marietta in 1852, aged 69, and who was
born at Lebanon, Conn.
SPENCER, ELIIIU, D. D., minister of Eliza-
bethtown and Trenton, N. J., died in 1784. He
was a graduate of Harvard in 1746. A native of
East Haddam, he was a descendant of Jared,who
lived in Cambridge in 1634, then in Lynn, Hart
ford, and Iladdam, where he died in 1685. His
daughter married Jonathan D. Sergeant, who
died in 1793, leaving ten children, of whom the
eminent John Sergeant was one.
SPENCER, JOSEPH, major-general in the army
of the Revolution, died in 1789, aged 75. He
received this appointment in Aug., 1776; he had
been previously a brigadier, and in the war of
1758 had served as a major and colonel. He
was with the army in the expedition to Rhode
Island and in the retreat in 1778. On his resig
nation he was chosen a member of congress. He
died at East Haddam, the place of his birth.
His father was Isaac ; his wife was Martha, the
sister of David Brainerd. His brother, Elihu S.,
D. D., successively minister of Jamaica, L. I.,
and of Trenton, N. J., died Dec. 27, 1784. His
nephew, Oliver S., son of Capt. Samuel S., mar
ried a daughter of Robert Ogden ; commanded a
regiment in the battle of Princeton ; and after
the war was judge of probate in Ohio, where he
died Jan. 22, 1811.
SPENCER, SAMUEL, LL. D., judge of the
supreme court of N. C., died in 1793, aged about
54. He graduated at Princeton in 1759.
SPENCER, JACOB, died in Washington, N. J.,
Oct. 13, 1836, aged nearly 100. He had seven
wives, and left one child.
SPENCER, AMBROSE, chief justice, a descend
ant of William S., of Cambridge and Hartford at
their settlement, died at Lyons, N. J., March 13,
1848, aged 82. He was born in Salisbury, Conn.
His father, Philip, a mechanic and farmer, edu
cated his two sons in Yale and Harvard ; at Har
vard they graduated in 1783. He studied law in
part with J. Canfield of Sharon, whose daughter,
Laura, he married, and settled in Hudson. He
was attorney-general in 1802, and a judge of the
supreme court in 1819. A federalist at first, he
early joined the republicans and was the warm
friend of De Witt Clinton, two of whose sisters
he married for his second and third wives. In
1823 he retired from the bench and resumed the
practice of the law. From the neighborhood of
Albany he removed to Lyons in 1839, there living
in his calm old age, yet presiding at the whig
national convention at Baltimore in 1844, which
nominated Clay and Frelinghuysen for president
and vice-president.
SPENCER, WILLIAM A., captain in the navy,
brother of the preceding, died in New York March
3, 1854, aged 61. He fought in the battle of
lake Champlain under McDonough. He married
two daughters of Peter Lorillard of N. Y.
SPENCER, ICIIABOD SMITH, D. D., minister
in Brooklyn, died Nov. 23, 1854, aged 57. He
was born in Rupert, Vermont, Feb. 23, 1797, and
studied at Salem academy, N. Y. He graduated
at Union college in 1822. While teaching school
at Schencctady and Canandaigua, he studied the
ology. He was' first settled in the ministry at
Northampton, Sept. 11, 1828, as colleague with
Mr. Williams, and toiled there with great success
between three and four years, the additions to
the church being two hundred. He was dismissed
March 12, 1832, and became the first pastor of
the second Presbyterian church in Brooklyn,
where he remained till his death. At his funeral
Dr. Spring preached the sermon ; the bearers
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•were ministers with scarfs, of the Reformed Dutch,
Congregational, Methodist, Baptist, Episcopal,
and Presbyterian denominations. He had been
ill for two years ; his sufferings for the last three
weeks were great. He had a disease of the kid
neys and ulceration of the bladder. When asked,
" Is it peace with you ? " he replied, " It is all
peace." He was a faithful and very successful
minister, giving himself wholly to his proper
work. He published two volumes of pastoral
sketches, and various single sermons. His ser
mons, with a sketch of his life, were published
by J. M. Sherwood, with a portrait, in 2 vols.,
1855.
SPEXCER, ELIPIIALET M., minister of Carroll,
N. Y., died March 26, 1855, aged 68, a member
of the Otsego Presbytery. He was born in Great
Barrington, Mass., and was a brother of Joshua
S. of Utica.
SPENCER, JOHN C., son of Judge Ambrose
S., died of the consumption at Albany, May 17,
1855, aged 67. He was a member of congress
from Ontario in 1816; secretary of war in 1841-4;
and secretary of the treasury. He lived in Can-
andaigua till 1845, when he removed to Albany.
He was a successful lawyer, and held various
offices in public life. By his revision of the stat
utes of New York he gained high reputation.
He was a man of intellect and intense energy.
He belonged to the anti-masonic party, when Mr.
Van Bur en was governor.
SPENCER, GEORGE, died at Clinton, Iowa,
Aug. 20, 1856, aged 60. He lived in Utica, and
was for years principal of the academy ; but ill
health compelled him to abandon his literary
pursuits, lie was secretary of the railroad to
Binghamton ; and he invented a car ventilator.
He was serene and resigned in suffering. He
went to Iowa for his health. He published an
introduction to Latin, and an elaborate English
grammar.
SPOONER, EPHRAIM, deacon, a venerable,
much esteemed citizen of Plymouth, Mass., died
Sunday, March 22, 1818, aged 82. He was a
merchant and a judge, a representative and coun
cillor. He was most courteous, and he performed
all the acts of kindness promised by his man
ners. In the Revolution he was a zealous patriot.
For thirty-four years he was a faithful deacon of
the church. His wife, Elizabeth Shurtleff, died
a month before him ; he departed in peace. His
sons, James and Ebenezer, survived him. —
Thaclier's Plymouth.
SPOONER, WILLIAM, M. D., died in Boston,
his native town, in 1836, aged nearly 76. He
graduated at Harvard in 1778. He studied with
Dr. Danforth, and then served as a surgeon in a
ship-of-war. He afterwards studied at Edinburgh
under Cullcn, Monro, and Black. In 1786 he
settled in Boston, where he obtained a good
share of medical practice. He was benevolent
and public-spirited, and in his manners affable
and' courteous. His eldest son. William Jones S.,
a lawyer of Boston, died in 1824 ; the author of
a phi beta kappa oration, whose memoir is in the
hist, coll., vol. X. — Williams' Med. Biog.
SPOTSO, DANIEL, Avas an Indian teacher at
Nantucket in 1698. There were then on the
island two churches, five congregations, and five
hundred Indians. Some of the other preachers
were Job Mukemuk, John Asherman, Netowah,
Wunnohson, and Noah.
SPRAGUE, RICHARD, o plain, an early set
tler of Charlestown, Mass., died in 1668, aged
63, bequeathing about 30 pounds to the church.
He and his brothers Ralph and William began
the settlement of C. in 1628, two years before
Winthrop and his company arrived in the Ara
bella. His son, Captain Richard, died in 1703,
bequeathing a parsonage-house and lands to the
church. William removed to Hingham. II.
Sprague of Hingham published an account of the
Spragues in 1828. — Budington's Hist, of Charles-
town.
SPRAGUE, JOHN, a physician in Newbury-
port, died in 1784, aged 73. He graduated at
Harvard in 1730.
SPRAGUE, JOHN, M. D., a physician in Bos
ton, died in 1797, aged 84. He was graduated
in 1737; married the daughter of Dr. Lewis Dal-
Honde, a French physician; and had extensive,
profitable practice. He retired to Dedham with
a second wife, a lady of fortune. In 1779 he was
a member of the Massachusetts constitutional
convention. — Tkacher.
SPRAGUE, EDWARD, minister of Dublin,
N. II., died in 1817, aged 78. He Avas the son
of Dr. Sprague, an eminent physician of Dedham,
and graduated at Harvard in 1770. He was or
dained at Dublin before 1780. Coming into pos
session, by inheritance, of a large estate, which he
sold for 50,000 dollars, the consequence was in
jurious by reason of his foolish expenses. He
died from wounds by the upsetting of his car
riage. He left his estate to his parish.
SPRAGUE, DEBORAH, wife of Seth Sprague,
died at Duxbury Nov. 2, 1843, aged 82. She
lived with her husband sixty-four years, and was
the mother of fifteen cliildren, all of whom lived
to have families ; in all, her descendants at the
time of her death were one hundred and seventy-
seven.
SPRAGUE, SAMUEL, died in Boston June 20,
1844, aged 90 ; a soldier of the Revolution. He
was an enterprising and successful mechanic,
many public buildings being the monuments of
his skill and labor. He lived happy with his wife
and children, and respected and esteemed by his
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many friends. The name of his son, Charles
Sprague, skilled in the construction of good verse,
is well known.
SPllAGUE, SETH, the son of Phineas of Dux-
bury, was born July 4, 1760, and died July 8,
1847, aged 87. A soldier of the Revolution, he
settled in Duxbury in husbandry and other busi
ness, and was long a magistrate and senator. He
was a democrat in politics. In various moral re
forms he took an early part. He was the father
of many children, one of whom is Peleg, born
April 27, 1793, judge of the U. S. district court.
SPRAGUE, TIMOTHY D., editor of the literary
magazine at Andover, Conn., died in Oct., 1849,
aged 30. He graduated at Yale in 1845.
SPRAGUE, JOSEPH E., sheriff of Essex, died
of apoplexy at Salem Feb. 22, 1852, aged 69.
Born in S., the son of Dr. William Stearns, he
assumed the name of his grandfather Sprague,
and graduated at Harvard in 1804. A member
of the Essex bar, he was an active politician of
the Jefferson school. lie was clerk of court,
postmaster, and high sheriff. He published ora
tions, July 4, 1810, and 1813.
SPRAGUE, WILLIAM, governor of Rhode
Island, died in Providence Oct. 19, 1856, aged
56. He was the son of William of Cranston;
was a representative to Congress in 1835; gov
ernor in 1838; senator of the United States in
1842. He was connected with the largest cotton
manufactory in the State. He had talent and
judgment, firmness and integrity, and in his hab
its was plain and abstemious.
SPRING, ALPHKUS, minister of Eliot, Maine,
died in 1791, aged about 46. He graduated at
Princeton in 1766, and was settled in 1768. John
Rogers, the first minister, was settled in 1721.
SPRING, SAMUEL, D. D., minister of Newbu-
ryport, Mass., died March 4, 1819, aged 73. He
was born in Northbridge Feb. 27, 1746, and grad
uated at Princeton college in 1771. He was the
only chaplain in Arnold's detachment, which pen
etrated through the wilderness of Maine to Que
bec in 1775. On his return in 1776 he left the
army. He was ordained Aug. 6, 1777. His wife
was a daughter of Dr. Hopkins, minister of Ilad-
ley ; his two sons were ministers in New York
and in Hartford, Conn. Besides his labors as
minister, Dr. Spring performed various other
important public services ; he was one of the
founders of the Massachusetts missionary society
in 1799, and its president; he assisted also in
founding the theological seminary at Andover,
and the American board of commissioners for
foreign missions, of which he was one of the pru
dential committee. In his theological views he
accorded with Drs. Hopkins, Bellamy, and West,
who were his teachers. He was distinguished
for metaphysical acuteness. He published friendly
dialogue on the nature of duty, 1784; disquisi
tion and strictures on Rev. D. Tappan's letters
to Philalethes, 1789; thanksgiving sermon, 1794;
a missionary sermon, 1802 ; at the ordination of
B. Bell, 1784; of C. Coffin, 1804; of S. Walker,
1805; inauguration of E. D. Griffin; at three
thanksgivings ; on the death of Washington ; of
T.Thompson; of N. Noyes, 1810; on sinners
coming to Christ immediately, 1780 ; on family
prayer; to missionary society, 1802; to humane
society, 1807 ; on agency of God and man in sal
vation, 1807; to benevolent society, 1818; on
the duel between Hamilton and Burr, 1804; two
discourses on Christ's self-existence, 1805; two
fast sermons, 1809, which occasioned a letter from
Mr. Aikin ; before the American foreign mission
society, 1818. — Spragne's Annals.
SPRING, MARSHALL, M. D., a physician,
died in Jan., 1818, aged 75. He was born in
Watertown, Mass. ; graduated at Harvard col
lege in 1762; and settled at Waltham, where he
had extensive practice. He disapproved of the
resistance to Great Britain, and was a tory ; yet
in 1801 he was a democrat, or an adherent of
Mr. Jefferson. To his son he left a fortune of be
tween two and three hundred thousand dollars ;
but bequeathed nothing to religious or charita
ble institutions. He had a high reputation for
medical skill. Many resorted to him as to an
oracle. He was a man of keenness of wit. —
Timelier.
SPROAT, JAMES, D. D., minister in Philadel
phia, died in 1793, aged 71. He was born at
Scituate, Mass., April 11, 1722, and was gradu
ated at Yale college in 1741. While a member
of this seminary he heard a sermon by Gilbert
Tennent, which made the most permanent im
pressions upon his mind. He was ordained Aug.
23, 1743, a minister in Guilford, where he was
highly popular and very useful. Thence he re
moved to Philadelphia, and succeeded Mr. Ten
nent at the close of the year 1768. Here he
continued till his death. Dr. Green, his colleague,
survived him. The manner of his funeral showed
the high esteem in which he was held. It was at
the time when the yellow fever made such ravages
in the city, and when even two or three mourning
friends were seldom seen attending a corpse to the
grave. About fifty persons followed him, and
some religious negroes voluntarily offered them
selves to carry the bier. He was a respectable
divine, and in his preaching he loved to dwell on
the peculiar doctrines of the gospel. His life
exhibited a most amiable view of the influence of
religion. The copious extracts from his diary in
the assembly's magazine evince his piety and sub
mission to the will of God under the heaviest
afflictions, and give an affecting account of the
distress occasioned by the yellow fever.
SPROAT, EBENEZER, colonel, died at Marietta
suddenly in Feb., 1805, aged 53. He was the
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son of Col. Ebenezer S. of Middleborough, Mass.
In the war he had the rank of major; and was
noble in appearance, six feet four inches high,
with a model form. He loved his fellow-soldiers,
and he loved a joke. Once three soldiers dined
on poor fare at his mother's inn : when the bill
was asked for, he went to his mother, and in
quired " How much it was worth to pick those
bones ?" She said, " A shilling." He returned,
and from the money-drawer paid each man a shil
ling, much to their satisfaction. He was appointed
a surveyor of lands in Ohio. The Indians called
him Hetuck or Big Buckeye; hence the name of
Buckeye to the natives of Ohio. He was sheriff
fourteen years of the county of Washington. —
Jlildrcth's Biog. Memoirs.
SPURZIIEIM, JOHN CASPAR, M. D., died at
Boston Nov. 10, 1832, aged 55. He was born
near Treves on the Moselle in Germany, and be
came acquainted with Dr. Gall in 1800, and
became his fellow-laborer. After lecturing in
Europe he came to America, and commenced
some courses of lectures on phrenology Sept. 17,
and soon died after an illness, by the typhus fever,
of three weeks.
SQUANTO, a noted Indian at Plymouth, called
also Sisquantum and Tisquantum, was a native of
Plymouth, and joined the Pilgrims as their inter
preter in 1621. He had been carried off in 1614
with seven other Indians by Thomas Hunt, and
sold as a slave at 20 pounds in Malaga. His
services were important. He taught the people
how to plant corn and catch fish. He died in
Dec., 1622.
SQUAW, SACHEM, queen of the Indians in
New England, was the wife of Webbacowitts,
who was a powah or powwow, and king in right
of his wife. She submitted to the jurisdiction of
Massachusetts in 1644.
STAGEY, WILLIAM, colonel, died in Marietta
in 1804. A native of Massachusetss, he was a
patriot soldier, lie was taken prisoner by the
tories and Indians at Cherry Valley, and was a
prisoner four years. In 1789 he emigrated from
New Salem to Marietta. — Ilildrdh.
STAGEY, JOSEPH, the first minister of Kings
ton, died in 1741, aged 47. Born in Cambridge,
he graduated at Harvard in 1719, and was set
tled in 1720. His successors were Maccarty,
]laml, and Willis. He was very abstemious, and
took delight in fishing and fowling ; but diligent
in his ministerial duties and of eminent piety.
This parish was set off from Plymouth, and Major
John Bradford gave him two acres of land, on
which he built his house.
STAFFORD, WARD, minister in New York,
died in 18.31, aged about 60. Born in Washing
ton, N. H., he graduated at Yale in 1812; and
was settled over the Bowery church, which place
he resigned in 1828. He was afterwards settled
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at Youngstown, Ohio. His successors at New
York were J. S. Christmas and Dr. Woodbridge.
STANDISII, MILES, the hero of New England,
died in Duxbury, Mass., Oct. 3, 1656, aged about
72. He was born in Lancashire about the year
1584. After having served for some time in the
army in the Netherlands, he settled with Mr.
Robinson's congregation at Leyden. Though not
a member of the church, he embarked with the
company that came to New England in 1620, and
was chosen captain or chief military commander
at Plymouth. In every hazardous enterprise, he
was foremost; he was resolute and daring; and
often, when in great danger, was guarded by the
providence of God. His wife, Rose, died Jan. 29,
1621. His second wife was Barbara^ His chil
dren were Alexander, Miles, Josiah, and Lora ;
also Charles and John, who died early. Alex
ander married Sarah Alden, and left children;
Miles married Sarah Winslow, and lived in Bos
ton ; Josiah, captain, lived in Norwich or Preston,
Conn., and had nine children. Lora died before
her father. Her sampler is preserved in Pil
grim's hall, Plymouth, as follows :
"Lora Standish is my name.
Lord, guide my heart that I
May doe thy will. Also fill
My hands with such convenient skill,
As may conduce to virtue void of shame ;
And I will give the glory to thy name."
In 1623 he was sent to Wessagusset or Wey-
mouth, to protect the settlers there from a con
spiracy of the Indians, which Massassoit had
disclosed. Having chosen eight men, he went to
the plantation under pretence of trade, and he
found it in a most perilous condition. The people,
by their unjust and disorderly conduct, had made
themselves contemptible in the eyes of the In
dians. To give the savages satisfaction on account
of corn which had been stolen, they pretended to
hang the thief, but hung in his stead a poor, de-
crepid old man. After Standish arrived at Wey-
mouth he was insulted and threatened by the
Indians, who had been named as conspirators.
Taking an opportunity, when a number of them
were together, he killed five, without losing any
of his men. He himself seized Pecksuot, a bold
chief, snatched his knife from his neck, and killed
him with it. The terror with which this enter
prise filled the savages was of great advantage to
the colonists. When the report of this transac
tion was carried to Holland, Mr. Robinson, in his
next letter to the governor, exclaimed, " O that
you had converted some, before you killed any ! "
Captain Standish was one of the magistrates or
assistants as long as he lived. At Duxbury he
had a tract of land, known by the name of " Cap
tain's hill." Mr. Hubbard says of him : " A little
chimney is soon fired ; so was the Plymouth cap
tain, a man of a very small stature, yet of a very
hot and angry temper. He had been bred a
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soldier in the low countries, and never entered
into the school of Christ, or of John the Baptist."
It does not appear, however, that in his military
expeditions he exceeded his orders. Morton says,
that he fell asleep in the Lord. — Belknap's
Amer. Biog. I. 310-336.
STANDISH, WILLIAM, a descendant of Miles
S., died in Pembroke, Mass., in November, 1828,
aged 93.
STANFORD, JOHN, D. D., a Baptist minister,
died in New York Jan. 14, 1834, aged 80.
STANFORD, JOSHUA, died in Dublin, N. H.,
Dec. 12, 1856, aged 103 years and 8 months.
STANLEY, JOHN, an eminent lawyer of North
Carolina, died in 1833. He was a member of
congress.
STANLEY, ANTHONY D., died in East Hart
ford March 16, 1853, aged 42, professor of mathe
matics in Yale college, where he was graduated
in 1830. He published a treatise on spherical
trigonometry, an edition of Day's algebra, and a
set of mathematical tables; and left projected
labors unfinished.
STANTON, EDWARD, died in Stonington in
1832, aged 7 1 ; a defender of fort Griswold. Shot
through the body, Col. Van Buskirk gave him a
silk cap to place in the wound, and gave him a
cup of water, — the only acts of kindness that
day : honor to the name of this British officer.
S. kept the cap till his death.
STANTON, HENRY, brigadier-general, died at
fort Hamilton Aug. 2, 1856, aged about 70. He
was of the quartermaster's department.
STANWIX, colonel, commanded a consider
able force in 1757, designed for the protection of
the western frontiers. In 1758 he erected a fort
on the north side of the Mohawk, at the carrying-
place to Wood creek, and called it fort Stanwix.
It was designed in part for the security of the
friendly Indians. He then had the rank of brig
adier-general.
STAR, COMFORT, a minister in England, died
at Leeds in Sussex in 1711, aged 86. His father,
of the same name, a physician, came from Ash-
ford, E., and lived in Cambridge in 1634 ; then in
Duxbury; last in Boston, where he died in 1660.
Born in Ashford, he graduated at Harvard in the
fifth class in 1647, and was a tutor and fellow.
Returning to E., he was a minister in Cumber
land till deprived by the act of uniformity ; then
at Leeds.
STARK, JOHN, major-general, died May 8,
1822, aged 93. He was the son of Archibald S.,
a native of Glasgow, who married in Ireland ;
was born at Londonderry, N. H., Aug. 28, 1728.
In 1736 his father removed to Derryfield, now
Manchester, on the Merrimac. While on a hunt
ing expedition, he was taken prisoner by the St.
Francis Indians in 1752, but was soon redeemed
at an expense of 103 dollars, paid by Mr. Wheel
wright of Boston. To raise this money, he re
paired on another hunting expedition to the An-
droscoggin. He afterwards served in a company
of rangers with Rogers, being made a captain in
1756. On hearing of the battle of Lexington, he
repaired to Cambridge, and, receiving a colonel's
commission, enlisted in the same day eight hun
dred men. He fought in the battle of Breed's
hill, June 17, 1775, his regiment forming the left
of the line, and repulsing three times, by their
deadly fire, the veteran Welsh fusileers, who had
fought at Minden. His only defence was a rail-
fence, covered with hay to resemble a breastwork.
In May, 1776, he proceeded from New York to
Canada. In the attack on Trenton he com
manded the van of the right wing. He was also
engaged in the battle of Princeton. Displeased
at being neglected in a list of promotions, he
resigned his commission in March, 1777, and re
tired to his farm. In order to impede the prog
ress of Burgoyne, he proposed to the council of
New Hampshire to raise a body of troops, and
fall upon his rear. In the battle of Bennington,
so called, though fought six miles northwest from
B., in the borders of New York, Saturday, Aug.
16, 1777, he defeated Col. Baum, killing two hun
dred and seven, and making seven hundred and
fifty prisoners. The place was near Van Schaack's
mills, on a branch of the Hoosuck, called by Dr.
Holmes Walloon creek; by others Walloom-
sack, and Walloomschaick, and Looms-chork.
This event awakened confidence, and led to the
capture of Burgoyne. Of those who fought in
this battle, the names of T. Allen, J. Orr, and
others, are recorded in this volume. In Septem
ber he enlisted a new and larger force, and joined
Gates. In 1778 and 1779 he served in Rhode
Island, and in 1780 in New Jersey. In 1781 he
had the command of the northern department at
Saratoga. At the close of the war, he bade adieu
to public employment?. In 1818 congress voted
him a pension of 60 dollars per month. John,
his third son, died in Manchester, N. II., in 1844,
aged 82. — He was buried on a small hill near the
Merrimac; a granite obelisk has the inscription,
"Maj. Gen. Stark." A memoir of his life was
published, annexed to reminiscences of the French
war, 12mo., 1831.
STARK, ANDREW, LL. D., pastor of the asso
ciate Presbyterian church, New York, thirty years,
died in Scotland Sept. 18, 1849, aged 58, a'faith-
ful and useful minister.
STARR, PETER, minister of Warren, Conn.,
died in 1829, aged 84. Born in Danbury, he
graduated at Yale in 1764 ; was a pastor sixty
years ; and was the oldest minister in the State.
Hart Talcott was settled in 1825.
STARR, JOHN, a physician, died at Northwood,
N. IL, Sept. 8, 1851, aged 67. The son of Dr.
Ebcne/cr S. of Dunstable, he graduated at Har-
STAUGIITON.
vard in 1804, and studied physic with Dr. M.
Spaulding. He commenced practice in Peter
borough. After three years he removed to
Xorthwood, where he toiled in his profession
thirty-six years.
STAUGHTOX, WILLIAM, D. D., died at
Washington Dec. 12, 1829, aged 59; a Baptist,
formerly president of Columbia college. He was
on his way to Georgetown college, Ky. lie came
from England in 1798; and had been pastor of a
church in Philadelphia six years, from 1805. He
published an eulogium on Dr. Hush, 1813 ; ad
dress at opening of Columbia college at Wash
ington, 1822.
STAUXTOX, BENJAMIN, an eminent physi
cian of Xewport, II. I., died at a very advanced
age in 17GO. Other physicians of X., who died
before him, were James Xoyes and Clarke Hod
man, and his son William.
STEARXS, JOSIAH, died in Epping, X. H.,
July 25, 1788, aged 56, in the thirtieth year of
his ministry. He was the son of John of Biller-
ica, and of Esther, who was descended from the
celebrated Capt. Edward Johnson. His ancestor
John lived in B. at its incorporation in 1665, and
his earliest ancestor in this country was Isaac of
* Watertown, in 1630, who died Aug. 29, 1676,
leaving sons Isaac, Samuel, and probably others.
He graduated at Harvard in 1751. He had two
wives, Sarah Abbot of Andover, and Sarah Rue-
O
gles of Billerica, and had six sons and six daugh
ters. He published two sermons on the love of
God, preached at Exeter for the benefit of the
students of the academy ; also at ordination of
S. Gile, 1807; of T. Skelton, 1808; of E. P.
Sperry, 1813; on the death of D. Bacon, 1810;
of E. Stone, 1822; on the peace, 1815; at a
dedication, 1817; to society for Christian knowl
edge, 1820. — N. II. Repos. ; Sprayue's Annals.
STEARXS, CHARLES, D. D., died at Lincoln
July 26, 1826, aged 74. A native of Leominster,
a graduate of 1773, he was ordained in 1781 the
successor of William Lawrence, the first minis
ter, lie published a sermon on music, 1792; a
poem, 1797; principles of religion, 1807; on the
death of E. Brooks, 1807 ; before a bible society;
convention sermon, 1815.
STEARXS, SAMUEL, son of Rev. Josiah S.,
died at Bedford, Mass., Dec. 26, 1834, aged 66,
in the thirty-ninth year of his ministry. He was
highly respected. He was a grandson of Rev.
Samuel Ruggles of Billerica, and father of W. A.
Stearns, president of Amherst college. He was
graduated at Harvard college in 1794, and studied
theology with Rev. Jonathan French of Andover,
whose daughter he married. Ordained April 27,
1795, he, in consequence of a division, became,
June 5, 1833, the minister of the Trinitarian Con
gregational society, yet pastor of the same church.
He published a sermon at the ordination of Sam-
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ucl Gile, 1807 ; of T. Skelton, Foxborough, 1808 ;
on the murder of David Bacon, 1810; at the or
dination of E. P. Sperry, Dunstable, 1813 ; at
the dedication of a meeting-house in B. in 1817 ;
before Mass, society for promoting Christian
knowledge, 1820 ; at the funeral of Mr. Stone, of
Reading; address at Dracut on the return of
peace, 1814. — Boston Recorder, Jan. 2, 1835;
April 24.
STEARXS, SAMUEL HORATIO, a minister in
Boston, died in Paris July 15, 1837, aged 35. He
was the son of the preceding, born at Bedford
Sept. 12, 1801 ; was graduated at Harvard in
1823 ; and ordained over the old south church
in Boston April 16, 1834. In ill health, he was
invited by Rev. E. E. Salisbury to visit with him
the south of Europe. He died in France. A
volume of his life and discourses was published
in 1838. The interesting account of him, in one
hundred and ninety-two pages, was prepared by
his brother, W. A. Stearns, now president of Am
herst college. — Sprague's Annals.
STEARXS, ASAHEL, LL. D., professor of law
at Cambridge, died Feb. 5, 1839, aged 64. He was
born at Lunenburg in 1774, graduated at Har
vard in 1797, and practised law many years at
Cbelmsford. He was a member of Congress in
1815-1817. He was professor from 1817 till
1829, when he resigned his place. He died at
Cambridge. He published a volume on real ac
tions, 1824, and was one of the commissioners to
revise the statutes of the commonwealth. He
was a skilful lawyer, a zealous advocate, and a
man of integrity.
STEARXS, SILAS, a Baptist minister, died in
Bath, Me., in 1840, aged 55.
STEARXS, JOHN, M. D., died in Xew York
March 18, 1848, aged nearly 78 ; president of the
X. Y. medical society. A native of Wilbraham,
Mass., he graduated at Yale college in 1789. He
was a devoted practitioner and a consistent
Christian, being connected with Dr. Milnor's
church. He was one of the founders of the tract
society, and chairman of the finance committee.
He died in peace.
STEBBLXS, STEPHEN WILLIAMS, minister of
Westhaven, Conn., died Aug. 15, 1843, aged 85.
Born in Longmeadow in 1758, the grandson of
Dr. Stephen Williams, he graduated at Yale in
1782. He declined an invitation to succeed his
grandfather at L., and was settled at Stratford,
where he remained twenty-nine years, and then
for twenty-eight years was the pastor of West-
haven. His form was erect and noble, his
countenance was bland and expressive : he had
intellect, judgment, feeling. He was humble,
self-denying, condescending, and holy; and his
death was peace.
STEBBIXS, CYRUS, D.D., died at Waterford,
X. J., in 1841, aged 68.
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STEBBIXS, DANIEL, Dr., died in Northamp
ton, Mass., Oct. 7, 1856, aged 90 years and 6
months. He was the son of Joseph of Wilbra-
ham, a descendant of Homeland, who came from
England in 1634 and was among the first settlers
of Springfield in 1636. To this ancestor, from
whom Dr. S. descended in the seventh genera
tion, he erected a granite monument in North
ampton, where he died in 1671. He graduated
at Yale in 1788, leaving only two survivors of
his class, Rev. Daniel Waldo, chaplain in con
gress, aged 94, and Judge John Woodworth of
Troy. He was educated as a physician, and prac
tised a few years. He came to Northampton in
1806. For thirty-five years he was the county
treasurer, annually chosen by the people. He
was a man of integrity and piety, industrious, in
terested in all the objects which conduce to the
public welfare. His last days were embittered
by suffering, and by the decay of his intellectual
powers ; but he cherished the hope, through the
gospel, that they would flourish anew, subject to
no second decay.
STEDMAN, C., published a history of the
American war, 2 vols. 4to., London, 1794.
STEEL, STEPHEN, the first minister of Tol-
land, Conn., died in 1759, aged 62, in the thirty-
seventh year of his ministry. Born in Hadley,
Mass., he graduated at Yale in 1718. Nathan
Williams was his successor.
STEEL E, JOHN, a useful magistrate at Hart
ford in 1636, was the first secretary of the gov
ernment. He removed to Farmington in 1651,
and died in 1664. He was one of the legislators,
who, to what was called Newtown, gave the name
of Hartford, probably because Mr. Stone was
born in H., England. The seal of Hartford, by
Mr. Hartley, is a hart fording a stream ; the crest
an eagle, with the motto, " Post nubila Phoebus."
It is described in " Hartford in the olden time."
STEELE, JOHN, general, died near Salisbury,
N. C., August, 1815. He was a member of con
gress soon after the adoption of the constitution,
and comptroller of the treasury ; a man of pro
found knowledge and strong reasoning powers.
STEELE, MARSHFIELD, minister of Machias,
Me., died in 1832, aged 60. Born in Hartford,
Conn., he graduated at Yale in 1790, and was
ordained in 1800.
STEELE, JOHN, M. D., missionary, died at
Madura Oct. 6, 1842, aged 38. Born in Hebron,
N. Y., he embarked at Boston in 1836. He was
highly respected ; his end was perfect peace.
His wife was Mary Snell of Plainfield, Mass.
STEEHS, GEORGE, a distinguished shipbuilder,
died on Long Island Sept. 25, 1856. He was
riding, when his horse ran away and threw him,
the injury causing his death. He constructed
the famous yacht America, which won the race at
Cowes in 1851. The steamers Niagara and Adri
atic, built by him, exhibited great beauty and
symmetry.
" STEPHENS, JOHN L., a traveller, died at
New York Oct. 13, 1852, aged 46. Born in
Shrewsbury, N. J., he graduated at Columbia
college in 1822. He studied and practised law,
but ill health compelled him to travel. From
1834 to 1836 he visited Europe, Greece, and Tur
key. President Van Buren sent him as ambassa
dor to Central America in 1839 in order to nego
tiate a treaty. He was concerned in the first
lines of steamers to Europe ; was a director in
the ocean steam navigation company, and presi
dent of the Panama railroad company, and passed
the winter of 1851 on the isthmus of Darien.
The iron track between the Atlantic and the Pa
cific will be forever associated with his name. He
published incidents of travel in Egypt, etc., 1837 ;
in Greece, Turkey, etc., 1838; in Central Amer
ica, 1841; in Yucatan. — Gycl. of Am. Lit.
STEPHENSON, JAMES, D. D., died in Maury
county, Tenn., in 1832.
STETSON, ELLEN, Miss, a missionary to the
Cherokces, died at Dwight Dec. 29, 1848, aged
65. Born at Kingston, Mass., she entered upon
her labors as teacher of the female school in 1821
at "Old Dwight." In 1829 she removed to the
new station. She was very humble, yet full of
peace ; a most faithful and useful laborer for the
good of Cherokee girls during 27 years.
STEUBEN, FREDERICK WILLIAM, baron de,
a major-general in the American army, died at
Steubenville, N. Y., in 1794, aged 61. He was
a Prussian officer, who served many years in the
armies of Frederick, and afterwards entered the
service of Prince Charles of Baden. He had the
rank of lieutenant-general, and was also a canon
of the church. With an income of 2500 dollars
a year, he passed his winters at Paris, and there
became acquainted with Franklin. He arrived
at Portsmouth, N. IL, in Nov. 1777, with strong
recommendations to congress. He claimed no
rank, and only requested permission to serve as
a volunteer. He was soon appointed to the office
of inspector-general with the rank of major-gen
eral. He established a uniform system of ma
noeuvres, and by his skill and persevering industry
effected during the continuance of the troops at
Valley Forge a most important improvement in
all ranks of the army. He was a volunteer in
the action at Monmouth, and commanded in the
trenches of Yorktown on the day which concluded
the struggle with Great Britain. He was an
accomplished gentleman and a virtuous citizen,
of extensive knowledge and sound judgment.
His aids were North, Popham, and Walker. The
following anecdotes will illustrate his character.
When in Virginia, a militia-colonel rode up with
a boy, and said, "I have brought you a recruit."
The baron patted the boy on his head, and asked
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his age, and in his indignation at the cheat ordered
the colonel to be dismounted, unspurred, and
turned into the ranks ; and said to the lad, " Go,
my boy, take the colonel's spurs and horses to
his wife ; — make my compliments, and say, her
husband has gone to fight for the freedom of his
country, as an honest man should do. By pla
toons ! to the right wheel ! forward march ! " On
the arrival of the corps at Itoanoke, the colonel
escaped, and applied in vain to Governor Jefferson
for redress. At a review in Morristown he ar
rested a Lieut. Gibbons for a fault of which he
was innocent ; but, ascertaining his innocence, he
desired him to come to the front, when he said :
" Sir, the fault which was committed would have
been perilous in the presence of an enemy, but it
was not yours; I ask your pardon; return to
your command ; " and this was said with his hat
oif, and the rain pouring on his reverend head.
AVhat officer would not respect the veteran ? On
leaving a sick aid-de-camp in Virginia, he said,
" There is my sulkey, and here is half of my
money; I can do no more." For amusement he
sometimes miscalled words in English, similar in
sound. Mrs. Washington, at the dinner-table,
asked him once what he had caught, when he
went a-fishing. He replied that he had caught
two fish, adding, " I am not sure, but I think one
of them was a whale." — " A whale, baron, in the
North river ? " — " Yes, I assure you, a very fine
whale ; was it not ? " appealing to one of his aids,
who replied, " An eel, baron." At the house of
Mrs. Livingston, the mother of the chancellor,
he was introduced to a Miss Sheaff. " I am
happy," said he, " to be presented to you, though
at a great risk ; from my youth I have been cau
tioned against mischief, but I had no idea that
her attractions were so powerful ! " When the
army was disbanded, and the old soldiers shook
hands in farewell, Lieut. Col. Cochran, a Green
Mountain veteran, said, " For myself I could
stand it, but my wife and daughters are in the
garret of that wretched tavern, and I have no
means of removing them." — "Come," said the
baron, " I will pay my respects to Mrs. C. and her
daughters ; " and when he left them their coun
tenances were brightened, for he gave them all
he had to give. This was at Newburg. On the
wharf he saw a poor wounded black man, who
wanted a dollar to pay for his passage to his
home. Of whom the baron borrowed the dol
lar, it is not known ; but he soon returned,
when the negro hailed the sloop, and cried, " God
bless you, master baron ! " The State of New
Jersey gave him a- small farm. New York gave
him 16,000 acres in Oncida county; a pension of
2500 dollars was also given him. He built him
a log house at Steubenville, gave a tenth part of
his land to his aids and servants, and parcelled
out the rest to twenty or thirty tenants. His
library was his chief solace. Having little exer
cise, he died of the apoplexy. AgreeaUv to his
request he was wrapped in his cloak and buried
in a plain coffin without a stone. He was a be
liever in Jesus Christ, a member of the reformed
Dutch church, New York. An abstract of his
system of discipline was published in 1779, and
in 1784 he published a letter on the subject of an
established militia and military arrangements.
STEVENS, JOSEPH, minister of Charlestown,
Mass., the son of Joseph S., died of the small
pox Nov. 16, 1721, aged 40. He was born in
Andover; was graduated at Harvard college in
1703; and was ordained colleague with Mr.
Bradstreet Oct. 13, 1713. He was a fervent and
eloquent preacher, cheerful though serious in
conversation, gentle as a father, and beloved by
all his congregation. There was published from
his manuscript his last sermon, entitled, another
and a better country in reserve for all true be
lievers ; and annexed to it a discourse on the
death of Mr. Brattle of Cambridge. He was
the great-grandfather of Joseph Stevens Buck-
minster.
STEVENS, TIMOTIIT, first minister of Glas-
tenbury, Conn., died April, 1726, aged 60. He
was the son of Timothy of Roxbury, and gradu
ated at Harvard in 1687. His wife was Eunice,
the daughter of John Chester; his second wife
was Alice, the widow of llev. John Whiting of
Lancaster.
STEVENS, PHINEHAS, first minister of Bos-
cawen, N. H., died in 1755, aged about 43. He
was born in Andover, and graduated at Harvard
in 1734; was settled Oct. 8, 1740. Three of his
successors were II. Morrill, N. Merrill, S. Wood.
STEVENS, BENJAMIN, D. 1)., minister of Kit-
tery, Maine, the son of Rev. Joseph, was grad
uated at Harvard college in 1740, and ordained
May 1, 1751. He died May 18, 1791, aged 70,
having been respected in life as an able minister
of the gospel, an exemplary Christian, and a mod
est and humble man. His only child, Sarah,
married llev. Joseph Buckminster. He gave his
library to the ministers of York and Kittory.
He published a sermon on the death of Andrew
Pepperell, 1752 ; on the death of Sir W. Pep-
perell, 1759; at the election, 1760; at the con
vention, 1764. — Sprague's Annals.
STEVENS, EDWARD, general, a soldier of the
Revolution, died in Virginia Aug. 17, 1820. A
native of Virginia, he served with distinction dur
ing the whole war. He was the friend of Wash
ington and Greene. At the battle of the Great
Bridge near Norfolk, he commanded a battalion
of ritlemen. At the battle of Brandy wine for his
good conduct he received the public thanks of
the commander-in-chief ; and in the same way
was honored at the battle of Germantown. Pro
moted to the command of a brigade, he fought
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in the battle of Camden. In that of Guilford
court-house, he was severely wounded in the
thigh ; but he brought off his troops in good or
der. His military career ended at the siege of
Yorktown. From the adoption of the State con
stitution until 1790 he was a member of the sen
ate of Virginia.
STEVENS, EBENEZER, major-general, a sol
dier of the Revolution, died in 1823, aged 71.
He was born in Boston in 1751, and entered the
army as an artificer. He obtained the rank of
lieutenant-colonel of artillery. On the return of
peace he settled in New York, and was an enter
prising merchant. For many years he com
manded the division of the artillery of the State.
STEVENS, EDWIN, missionary to China, died
at Singapore Jan. 5, 1837, aged 36. Born at
New Canaan, he graduated at Yale in 1828, at
New Haven seminary in 1831. He was a chap
lain at Canton in 1832, and was skilled in the
Chinese language.
STEVENS, JOHN II., died at Stoneham.Mass.,
July 9, 1851, aged nearly 85 ; for thirty-two years
pastor of the church at S. Born at Canterbury,
Conn., he was pastor of Methucn, Mass., from
1791 to 1795; of Stoneham from 1795 to 1827;
of the east parish of Haverhill from 1828 to 1833.
He published two sermons on the death of a
young man, 1803 ; and two fast sermons. —
Sprague.
STEVENS, JOHN, died in Talbot county, Md.,
in April, 185G. He had recently given 36,000
dollars for a packet to be in the service of the
Liberian colonization.
STEVENS, ROBERT L., died at Hoboken April
20, 1856, aged 68. He was remarkable for his
inventive powers. His father, John S., was con
nected with John Fitch in the improvement of
navigation by steam. His inventions are de
scribed in the Tribune of April 22. He is said
to have died Avorth two millions of dollars.
STEVENSON, JAMES, D. D., died in Maury
county, Tennessee, in 1832.
STEVENSON, WILLIAM, a Methodist minis
ter, died at Rock Run, Md., in 1839, aged 74.
Edward S., also a Methodist minister, died at
Snow Hill, Md., in 1839, aged 45.
STEVENSON, ANDREW, a Virginia statesman,
died of the pneumonia in Albemarle county, in
1857, aged 73. He was in early life an eminent
pleader at the bar. As a member of congress
he was chosen speaker of the house, and presided
with great dignity and ability. Next to Mr. Clay
he was regarded as best qualified for that station. '
From congress he was sent as a minister to Eng
land, and in that position was distinguished, for
his character was dignified, his appearance splen
did, his social accomplishments remarkable. On
his return he was rector of the university of Vir
ginia, to which he devoted much care, as also to
the pursuits of agriculture.
STEWARD, ANTIPAS, first minister of Lud-
low, Mass., died in Belchertown in 1814, aged
80. Born in Marlborough, he graduated at Har
vard in 1760 ; was ordained in 1793, and dis
missed in 1803. He well understood Hebrew
and was a good scholar.
STEWARD, JOSEPH, a painter, died in April,
1822, aged 69. He graduated at Dartmouth
college in 1780. He became a preacher; but
losing his health he devoted himself to painting,
being instructed by Trumbull. He established a
museum at Hartford, Conn.
STEWART, DANIEL, general, died in Liberty
county, Georgia, in 1829, aged 69 ; a patriot of
1776.
STEWART, ZURIAII, widow of David S.,died
at Kingwood, N. J., Oct. 31, 1843, aged 103. By
her first husband, G. Opdycke, she had eleven
children. She left eighty-four grandchildren, one
hundred and eighty great-grandchildren, and
thirty-nine great-great-grandchildren.
STEWART, SARAH, wife of Rev. C. S. Stew
art, died June 16, 1854 ; a woman of great ex
cellence of character. — Observer, July 17.
STEWART, JAMES, M. 1)., died at Baltimore
Jan. 31, 1846, aged 90. Born in Annapolis, he
studied medicine in Edinburgh; in 1780 he came
to B., and served in the army. He saw in the
city an increase from fifteen thousand inhabitants
to one hundred thousand.
STILES, ISAAC, died at North Haven May 14,
1760, aged 62. He was the son of John, whose
father John came from Milbrook, England, and
settled in Windsor in 1635. Born in Windsor,
a graduate of 1722, he was ordained at North
Haven Nov. 11, 1724; and was succeeded by Dr.
Trumbull. His predecessor, Mr. Wetmore, had
become an Episcopalian. He was a zealous and
eloquent preacher. His wife was a daughter of
Rev. Edward Taylor ; and President Stiles was
her only child. He published election sermon,
1742 ; at the ordination of his son at Newport,
1755 ; duty of soldiers, 1755. — Sprague's An
nals.
STILES, ABEL, minister of Woodstock, north
society, died July 25, 1783, aged 74, in the forty-
sixth of his ministry. A brother of the preced
ing, he graduated in 1733, was a tutor, a good
scholar, and eminent theologian. Besides these
two sons, John, their father, had twelve children.
STILES, EZRA, D. I)., president of Yale col
lege, died at New Haven May 12, 1795, aged 67.
He was the son of Isaac Stiles, minister of .North
Haven, Conn.; was born Dec. 15, 1727. He was
graduated in 1746, and in 1749 was chosen tutor,
in which station he remained six years. After
having preached occasoually, his impaired health
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and some doubt respecting the truth of Chris
tianity induced him to pursue the study of the
law. In 1753 he took the attorney's oath at
New Haven, and practised at the bar till 1755.
But, having resumed preaching, he was ordained
Oct. 22, 1755, minister of the second Congrega
tional church in Newport, Rhode Island. In
March, 1776, the events of the war dispersed his
congregation, and induced him to remove to
Dighton. lie afterwards preached at Portsmouth.
In 1777 he was chosen president of Yale college,
as successor of Mr. Clap, and continued in this
station till his death. It seems, from the private
journal of Mr. Stiles, that he was earnestly op
posed to the new-fangled doctrines of Dr. Hop
kins and Stephen West, of which he speaks thus :
" The people begin to be tired of the unintelligi
ble and new points, as 1. that an unconverted
man had better be killing his father than pray
ing for converting grace ; 2. that true repentance
implies a willingness to be damned ; 3. that we
are to give God thanks that he caused Adam to
sin and involved all his posterity in total deprav
ity ; that Judas betrayed, etc. ; 4. that the chil
dren of none but communicants are to be bap
tized ; 5. that the church and ministers are so
corrupt that no communion is to be held with
them." When he was a candidate for the presi
dency of the college, Dr. James Dana wrote to
him, that there was a party for Elizur Goodrich,
but that if he was chosen " there would be an
other college." The nine ministers, constitut
ing the trustees, with Mr. Goodrich, chose Mr.
Stiles. He was one of the most learned men of
whom this country can boast. He had a thor
ough knowledge of the Hebrew, Greek, and Latin
languages, the former of which he learned when
he was about forty years of age ; he had made
considerable progress in the Samaritan, Chaklee,
Syriac, and Arabic ; on the Persic and Coptic he
had bestowed some attention ; and the French
he read with great facility. He was also well
versed in most branches of mathematical know
ledge. Next to sacred literature, astronomy was
his favorite science. lie had read the works of
divines in various languages, and very few have
had so thorough an acquaintance with the fathers
of the Christian church. He possessed an inti
mate acquaintance with the Ilabbinical writings.
He was a most impressive and eloquent preacher,
for he spoke with that zeal and energy which the
deepest interest in the most important subjects
cannot fail to inspire. His early discourses were
philosophical and moral ; but he gradually be
came a serious and powerful preacher of the mo
mentous truths of the gospel. In the room of
labored disquisitions, addressed rather to the
reason than to the conscience and heart, he em
ployed his time in preaching repentance and
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faith ; the great truths respecting our disease and
cure; the physician of souls and our remedy in
him ; the manner in which the sinner is brought
home to God in regeneration, justification, sanc-
tification, and eternal glory ; the terrors and
blessings of the world to come; the influence of
the Holy Spirit and the efficacy of the truth in
the great change of the character, preparatory
for heaven. The doctrines of the trinity in unity,
of the divinity and atonement of Christ, with the
capital principles of the great theological system
of the doctrines of grace, he believed to have been
the uninterrupted faith of eight-tenths of Chris
tendom from the ascension of Jesus Christ to the
present day. He delighted in preaching the gos
pel to the poor. Among the members of his
church at Newport were seven negroes. These
occasionally met in his study, when he instructed
them, and, falling on their knees together, he im
plored for them and for himself the blessing of
that God with whom all distinction excepting that
of Christian excellence is as nothing. In the
cause of civil and religious liberty he was an en
thusiast. He contended that the right of con
science and private judgment was unalienable;
and that no exigences of the Christian church
could render it lawful to erect any body of men
into a standing judicatory over the churches.
He engaged with zeal in the cause of his country.
He thought that the 30th of January, which was
observed by the Episcopalians in commemoration
of the martyrdom of Charles I., " ought to be
celebrated as an anniversary thanksgiving, that
one nation on earth had so much fortitude and
public justice as to make a royal tyrant bow to
the sovereignty of the people." He was catholic
in his sentiments, for his heart was open to re
ceive all who loved the Lord Jesus in sincerity.
He was conspicuous for his benevolence, as well
as for his learning and piety. The following ex
tracts from his diary furnish evidence of his Chris
tian goodness : " The review of my life aston
ishes me with a sense of my sins. May I be
washed in the blood of Jesus, which cleanseth
from all sin. Purity and sanctify me, O blessed
Spirit ! I hope I love my Saviour for his divine
excellences, as well as for his love to sinners ; I
glory in his divine righteousness ; and earnestly
beseech the God of all grace to endue me with
true and real holiness, and to make me like him
self. I have earnestly importuned the youth of
this university to devote themselves to that divine
Jesus who hath loved them to the death. And,
praised be God, I have reason to hope the blessed
Spirit hath wrought effectually on the hearts of
sundry, who have, I think, been brought home to
God, and experienced what flesh and blood can
not impart to the human mind. Whether I shall
ever get to heaven, and through many tribula-
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tions enter into rest, God only knows. This I
know, that I am the most unworthy of all the
works of God."
He was a man of low stature, and of a small
though well-proportioned form. His voice was
clear and energetic. His countenance, especially
in conversation, was expressive of benignity and
mildness; but, if occasion required, it became
the index of majesty and authority. He pub
lished a funeral oration in Latin on Governor
Law, 1751; a discourse on the Christian union,
preached before the Congregational ministers of
Ilhode Island, 1760; in this work he recommends
harmony among different Christians, and shows
an intimate acquaintance with the ecclesias
tical affairs of the country; a sermon at the
installation of S. Hopkins, 1770; a Latin oration
on his induction into his office, 1778 ; the United
States elevated to glory and honor, an election
sermon, preached May 8, 1783, which exhibits
the eloquence, and patriotism, and glowing sen
timents of liberty, with which the august occasion
could not fail to inspire him ; account of the set
tlement of Bristol, 1783; a sermon at the ordi
nation of II. Channing, 1787; history of the three
judges of King Charles I., Whalley, Goffe, and
Dixwell, 12mo., 1795; in this work he discloses
very fully his sentiments on civil liberty, and pre
dicts a republican renovation in England. He
left an unfinished ecclesiastical history of New
England, and more than forty volumes of man
uscripts. An interesting account of his life was
published by his son-in-law, Dr. Holmes, in 1798.
— Spragne.
STILLMAN, SAMUEL, D. D., minister in Bos
ton, died March 13, 1807, aged 70. He was born
in Philadelphia Feb. 27, 1737. When he was
but eleven years of age his parents removed to
Charleston, South Carolina, and in an academy
in that city he received the rudiments of his edu
cation. The preaching of Mr. Hart was the means
of teaching him that he was a sinner, and of
converting him. Being ordained at Charleston
Feb. 26, 1759, he immediately afterwards settled
at James Island ; but his impaired health in
duced him in 1760 to remove to Bordentown,
New Jersey, where he preached two years, and
then went to Boston. After being an assistant
about a year in the second Baptist church, he was
installed the minister of the first, as successor of
Mr. Condy, who now resigned his office, Jan. 9,
1765. In this church he continued his benevo
lent labors, universally respected and beloved,
till his death by a paralytic shock. As an elo
quent preacher of the gospel Dr. Stillman held
the first rank. Embracing the peculiar doctrines
of the Christian religion, he explained and en
forced them with clearness and with apostolic
intrepidity and zeal. He possessed a pleasant
and most commanding voice, and, as he felt what
he spoke, he was enabled to transfuse his own
feelings into the hearts of his auditors. The to
tal moral depravity of man was a principle on
i which in his preaching he much insisted, and he
believed that the Christian was dependent on
j God's immediate agency for the origin and con-
l tinuance of every gracious exercise. From his
clear apprehension of the eternal personal elec
tion of a certain number of the human race to
salvation, he was led to believe the perseverance
unto eternal glory of all those who are regener
ated by the Spirit of God. The Godhead and
atonement of the Lord Jesus Christ were his
frequent themes. He was a preacher of right
eousness, and his own life was holy. In the
chamber of sickness and affliction he was always
among different denominations a welcome visitor.
His uncommon vivacity and energy of feeling
were united with a perfect sense of propriety,
and with affability, ease, and politeness. He pub
lished a sermon on the repeal of the stamp act,
1766; enlistments, 1769; dangers of youth,
1771 ; at the artillery election, 1770 ; at the or
dination of S. Shepard, 1771 ; of Stephen S.
Nelson, 1797 ; of Thomas Waterman, 1801 ; of
Lucius Bowles, 1805 ; on the death of Mary Still
man, 1768; of S. Ward, 1776; election sermon,
1779; on charity, 1785; before a society of free
masons, 1789; apostolic preaching in three dis
courses, 1790; on the death of N. Brown, 1791 ;
of Washington, 1800; of H. Smith, 1805; at the
execution of Levi Ames, 1773 ; thanksgiving ser
mon on the French revolution, 1794; on the
national fast, 1799; on opening the Baptist meet
ing-house in Charlestown ; on the first anniver
sary of the female asylum, 1801 ; on the first an
niversary of the Massachusetts Baptist missionary
society, 1803. A volume of twenty sermons was
published, 8vo., 1808, of which eight had never
before been published.
STILLWELL, JARRAT, general, died in New
York in 1843, aged 86 ; a Revolutionary soldier.
STILLWELL, WILLIAM, Methodist minister,
died at Astoria, N. Y., Aug. 9, 1851, aged 64.
He was thirty-one years pastor in Christie street,
New York. He performed the marriage service
eight thousand times ; the funeral service seven
thousand times.
STIRLING, earl of, see William Alexander.
STITH, WILLIAM, president of William and
Mary college, Virginia, was a native of that col
ony, and for some years a respectable clergyman.
He withdrew from the laborious office which he
sustained in the college, soon after the year 1740,
and died in 1750. He published a history of the
first discovery and settlement of Virginia, Wil-
liamsburg, 8vo., 1747. It brings down the his
tory only to 1624. An appendix contains a
collection of charters relating to the period com
prised in the volume. Besides the copious ma-
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terials of Smith, the author derived assistance
from the manuscripts of his uncle, Sir John Ran-
dolph, and from the records of the London com
pany, put into his hands by Col. William Byrd,
president of the council, and from the valuable
library of this gentleman. Mr. Stith was a man
of classical learning, and a faithful historian ;
but he -was destitute of taste in style, and his de
tails are exceedingly minute.
STOCKBRIDGE, CHARLES, M. D., died at
Scituate, Mass., in 1806, aged 72, leaving a son
Charles, a physician, who died in S. in 1827, aged
38. His father, Benjamin, was a distinguished
physician before him in S. — Dean's Hist, of S.
STOCKBRIDGE, JOSEPH, captain, died at
Bath, Maine, Aug. 9, 183.3, aged 76; a soldier of
the Revolution, engaged in various battles.
STOCKBRIDGE, CHARLES, M. D., a physi
cian of Scituate, died in Oct., 1827, aged 38.
STOCKING, JEREMIAH, minister of Glastcn-
bury, Conn., died in 1853, aged 85.
STOCKING, WILLIAM It., late missionary at
Oroomiah, Persia, died at New York April 30,
1854, aged 44.
STOCKTON, RICHARD, a statesman of New
Jersey, died ne^r Princeton Feb. 28, 1781, aged
50. lie was the son of John S., and grandson
of Richard S., who died in possession of a large
landed estate at Princeton in 1720; was born at
Princeton Oct. 1, 1730; was graduated in the
first class in 1748; and studied law with David
Ogdcn of Newark. In 1766 he visited England.
In 1774 he was appointed a judge of the supreme
court of New Jersey, and in 1776 a member of
congress. In debate he took an active part, and
signed the declaration of independence. No
vember 30th, a party of royalists captured him
and threw him into prison at New York, where
his sufferings destroyed his health. Congress
interposed for his release. The enemy destroyed
his library and devastated his lands. At the bar
Mr. S. appeared with unrivalled reputation and
success, refusing to engage in any cause which he
knew to be unjust, and standing forth in defence
of the helpless and the injured. He filled the
office of judge with integrity and learning. His
superior powers of mind, which were highly cul
tivated, were united with a flowing and persua
sive eloquence ; he was also a sincere Christian.
His son, Richard S., LL. D., a distinguished law
yer and a senator of the United States, and for
thirty years a trustee of Princeton college, died
at Princeton in 1828.
STODDARD, ANTHONY, the first in this
country of the family of Stoddards, died at Bos
ton March 15, 1687, aged about 70. He lived
in Boston as early as 1639, and was a representa
tive more than twenty years. His first wife was
a daughter of Emanuel Downing, and by her he
had sons, Solomon, Samson, and perhaps Simeon.
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His second wife was Barbara, the widow of J.
Wc-ld, and her son was Stephen. His third wife
was Christiana, and by her he had Anthony, Jo
seph, and Ebenezer.
STODDARD, SOLOMON, minister of North-
nmpton, Mass., died Feb. 11, 1729, aged 85. He
was the eldest son of Anthony Stoddard, was
born in Boston in 1643, and was graduated at
Harvard college in 1662. He was afterwards ap
pointed a fellow. His health being impaired, he
went to Barbadoes as chaplain to Gov. Serle, and
preached to the dissenters on that island near
two years. After his return, being ordained
Sept. 11, 1672, as successor to Mr. Mather at
Northampton, he continued in that place till his
death. His ministerial labors were interrupted
for but a short time. His colleague, Mr. Edwards,
survived him. His wife was Esther, the daugh
ter of John Warham, and widow of his predeces
sor, E. Mather; she died in 1736, aged 91. Be
sides his children, here mentioned, Anthony and
John, he had sons Samuel and Aaron, and
daughters Mary, the wife of Rev. Stephen Mix ;
Esther, of Rev. Timothy Edwards ; Christina, of
Rev. William Williams of Hatfield ; and Sarah,
of Rev. Samuel Whitman of Farmington. Mr.
Stoddard was a learned man, well versed in re
ligious controversies, and himself an acute dispu
tant. He engaged in a controversy with Increase
Mather respecting the Lord's supper, maintain
ing that the sacrament was a converting ordi
nance, and that all baptized persons, not scanda
lous in life, may lawfully approach the table,
though they know themselves to be unconverted,
or destitute of true religion. As a preacher his
discourses were plain, experimental, searching,
and argumentative. He was blessed with great
success. He used to say that he had five har
vests ; and in these revivals there was a general
cry, What must I do to be saved ? He was so
diligent in his studies, that he left a considerable
number of sermons which he had never preached.
He wrote so fine a hand, that one hundred and
fifty of his discourses are contained in a small
12mo. manuscript volume. He published the
trial of assurance, 1696 ; doctrine of instituted
churches, London, 4to., 1700, in which he main
tained that the Lord's table should be accessible
to all persons not immoral in their lives ; that
the power of receiving and censuring members is
vested exclusively in the elders of the church ;
and that synods have power to excommunicate
and deliver from church censures. He published
also the necessity of acknowledging offences,
1701; the danger of degeneracy, 1702; election
sermon, 1703; sermon on the death of John Pyn-
chon, 1703; on the neglect of the worship of
God, relating to the supper, etc., 1707 ; the false
ness of the hopes of many professors, 1708; at
the ordination of J. Willard, 1718; of Thomas
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Cheney, 1718; examination of the power of the
fraternity, 1718; appeal to the learned on the
Lord's supper, against the exceptions of I. Mather,
1709; plea for tithes ; divine teachings, 1712; a
guide to Christ, or the way of directing souls in the
way to conversion, compiled for young ministers,
1714; three sermons, showing the virtue of
Christ's blood to cleanse from sin, that natural
men are under the government of self-love, that
the gospel is the means of conversion, and a
fourth annexed to stir up young men and maid-
. ens to praise the Lord, 1717 ; a treatise concern
ing conversion ; the way to know sincerity and
hypocrisy, 1719; answer to cases of conscience,
1722; defects of preachers, 1723; whether God
is not angry with the country for doing so little
towards the conversion of the Indians, 1723;
safety of appearing at the judgment in the right
eousness of Christ; this work was republished at
Edinburgh, 8vo., 1792. — Colman's Sermon on
Ms Death.
STODDARD, SAMPSON, minister of Chelms-
ford, Mass., died in 1740, aged about 60. Born
in Boston, he graduated at Harvard in 1701, and
was settled in 1706. His predecessors were J.
Eiske and T. Clark. He was succeeded by E.
Bridge and IT. Packard.
STODDARD, ANTHONY, minister of Wood-
bury, Conn., died Sept. 6, 1760, aged 82. He was
the son of Solomon S. of Northampton, born in
1678; graduated at Harvard in 1697; was or
dained as successor of Z. Walker, May 27, 1702;
and preached sixty years with great success, hav
ing four hundred and seventy-four admissions to
his church. He was also clerk of probate forty
years, and was to his people a lawyer and physi
cian ; and was one of the largest farmers in the
town. His wife from 1701 to 1714 was Prudence
Wells ; he next married Mary Sherman, who
died in 1720. He had eleven children. Among
his descendants were Major Amos, of Boston,
and Col. Henry Stoddard of Ohio. He pub
lished election sermon, 1716. — CotJiren's Hist.
Woodbury.
STODDARD, ISRAEL, sheriff of Berkshire
county, died in Pittsfield in 1782, aged 41. He
was the son of John and the grandson of Rev.
Solomon S.
STODDARD, JOHN, a member of the council
of Massachusetts, the son of Rev. Solomon, died
at Boston June 19, 1748, aged 66. He was grad
uated at Harvard college in 1701. He discharged
the duties of several important stations with
great ability and uprightness. He was many
years in the council, was chief justice in the court
of common pleas, and colonel of a regiment.
With a vigorous mind and keen penetration he
united an accurate acquaintance with the con
cerns of the colonies and of the neighboring
tribes of Indians. Thoroughly established in
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the principles and the doctrines of the first fath
ers of New England, he greatly detested what
he considered the opposite errors of more mod
ern divinity. His wife was Prudence Chester of
Wethersfield. — Edwards' Sermon.
STODDARD, AMOS, major, died in 1813, aged
54. His father was Anthony of Woodbury, Conn.,
who was a grandson of Rev. Anthony S. He
was a soldier from 1779 to the close of the war ;
then clerk of the supreme court in Boston. He
settled as a lawyer in Hallowell, Me., about 1792 ;
in 1799 he was appointed a captain of artillery
in the army. In the battle at fort Meigs he was
wounded by a shell, and in consequence died of
the lockjaw. He was civil commander of upper
Louisiana. He Avas a man of talents. He
published the political crisis, London; and
sketches of Louisiana, 12mo., 1812.
STODDARD, SOLOMON, JUN., died at North
ampton Nov. 11, 1847, aged 47. A graduate of
Yale college in 1820, he was a professor of lan
guages at Middlebury college. He was a de
scendant of Solomon, the second minister of
Northampton. His father, Solomon of North
ampton, still lives, aged 86 years, Feb. 18, 1857,
the son of Solomon, high sheriff of Hampshire,
who was the son of Colonel John. His mother
was a daughter of Benjamin Tappan. In 1836
he united with Professor Andrews in preparing
their Latin grammar. He was a good scholar
and highly esteemed teacher and professor.
STODDARD, HARRIET, wife of David T. S.,
missionary in Persia, died of the cholera at Trcbi-
zond Aug. 2, 1848, aged 26; the daughter of Dr.
C. Briggs of Marblehead. She was a most ac
tive and useful member of the mission at Oroo-
miah. Mr. S., with his family, was on a journey
for his health to Constantinople. — N. Y.Ob-
server, Nov. 25.
STODDARD, SILAS, captain, died in Mace-
don, Conn., July 3, 1850, aged 91. He served
and fought in the war of independence on board
the ship Discovery.
STOLL, JACOB, seventy years a minister of the
Dunkcrs, died in Lancaster county, Pa., in April,
1822, aged 91.
STONE, SAMUEL, one of the first ministers of
Hartford, Conn., died July 20, 1663. He was a
native of Hertford, England, and was educated
at Emanuel college, Cambridge. To escape per
secution he came to this country with Mr. Cotton
and Mr. Hooker, and was settled as an assistant
of the latter at Cambridge Oct. 11, 1633. He
removed with him in 1636 to Hartford. While
he was regarded as one of the most accurate and
acute disputants of his day, he was also celebrated
for his wit, pleasantry, and good humor. Being
eminently pious, he abounded in fastings and
prayer, and was a most strict observer of the
Christian Sabbath. His wife was Elizabeth Al-
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len, who lived till 1681. His daughter Elizabeth
married William Sedgwick, the son of Ilohert,
from whom she was divorced on account of his
absence in the West Indies and neglect, and then
married John Roberts, lie left a son Samuel,
who was a preacher : he fell down the bank of a
rivulet in the evening and was killed. His daugh
ter Mary married Joseph Fitch, and Sarah mar
ried Thomas Butler. His estate was 563 pounds ;
his books were estimated at 127 pounds, nearly a
quarter of the whole estate of this minister in
the wilderness. He published a Congregational
church, etc., London, 1652. In this work, which
is a curious specimen of logic, he endeavors to
demolish the system of a national, political church.
He left in manuscript a confutation of the anti-
nomians, and a body of divinity. The latter was
so much esteemed as to be often transcribed by
theological students. — Mather's Magnolia, in.
62, 116-118.
STONE, NATHANIEL, first minister of Har
wich, now Brewster, died in 1755, aged about 85.
A graduate of 1690, he was ordained at the gath
ering of the church, Oct. 16, 1700 : his successor
was J. Dunster. He published election sermon,
1720; before the superior court April 24, 1728;
the state of man by the fall, 1731.
STONE, THOMAS, a patriot of the Revolution,
died at Port Tobacco, Md., Oct. 5, 1787, aged
44. lie was a descendant of William S., gov
ernor of Maryland in 1640, the son of Da
vid S. Having studied law, and married a
.daughter of Dr. G. Brown, with whom he re
ceived 1000 pounds, he purchased a farm. Be
ing in 1776 and in subsequent years a member of
congress, he signed the declaration of indepen
dence. In 1783 and 1784 he was also in con
gress. A deep melancholy settled upon him in
consequence of the death of his wife by the
small pox. He died suddenly, leaving a son,
who died in 1793, and two daughters. He was
amiable in disposition, and a professor of religion
of sincere piety. — Goodrich.
STONE, TIMOTHY, first minister of Goshen,
in Lebanon, Conn., died in 1797, aged about 56.
He was a descendant of Ilev. Samuel S., a clergy
man in England in the reign of Elizabeth, the
father of Ilev. Samuel S. of Hartford, by his
son John, an emigrant to Salem in 1636, and to
Guilfbrd. He graduated at Yale in 1763, and
was ordained in 1767. His successors were
W. B. Itipley and E. Ripley. His wife was a
daughter of Ilev. Dr. Williams of Lebanon. His
son Timothy, minister of Cornwall from 1803 to
1827, died in 1852. He published a sermon on
selfishness, 1778 ; on the death of Faith Trum-
bull, 1780; at election, 1792; at ordination ofL.
llockwell at Lyme, 1794. — Sprague's Annals.
STONE, JONATHAN, captain, died in 1801,
aged 50. Born in New Braintree, Mass., he
served in the war, and then lived at Brookfield.
He reared his log cabin at Belpre, Ohio, in
Dec., 1789. His son, Col. John, occupied the
farm in l852. — IIildretJi.
STONE, JOHN HOSKINS, governor of Mary
land, died in 1804. He was a patriot of the Rev
olution. In early life and at an early period of
the Revolution he was the first captain in the cel
ebrated regiment of Smallwood. At the battles
of Long Island, White Plains, and Princeton, he
was highly distinguished. In the battle of Ger-
mantown Oct. 4, 1777, he received a wound
which deprived him of bodily activity for the re
mainder of his life. But he still bent his exer
tions to promote the same cause for which he
had bled. He was governor from 1794 to 1797.
lie died at Annapolis, leaving behind him the
reputation of an honest and honorable man, an
intrepid soldier, a firm patriot, and a liberal, hos
pitable, friendly citizen.
STONE, ELIAB, minister of Reading, Mass.,
died Aug. 31, 1822, aged 85. Born in Framing-
ham, the son of Micah, he graduated at Harvard
in 1758; was ordained in 1761; and was pastor
sixty-one years. He published a sermon at ordi
nation of E. Hubbard, 1783; of M. Stone, his
son, at Brookfield, 1801 ; at funeral of I. Morrill,
1794; at the fast, 1799 ; on the death of C.Pren-
tiss, 1803; a half-century sermon, 1811.
STONE, DAVID, governor of N. C., died at
Raleigh in 1818. He had been a judge, and a
senator of the U. S.
STONE, BENJAMIN, the first preceptor of
Leicester academy, died in 1832, aged 76. Born
in Shrewsbury, he graduated in 1776, and began
his labors in the academy June 7, 1784. After
three years of useful service he became the pre
ceptor of Westford academy ; but for many years
he lived in retirement on a farm in Shrewsbury,
where he died. The first boy who entered his
school, became the governor of a neighboring
State, — W. L. Marcy, late secretary of State of
the U. S.
STONE, ATOSSA, missionary in India, died at
Bombay Aug. 7, 1833, aged 35. She was the
daughter of Col. Joseph Frost of Marlborough,
N. H., and educated at Keene, Plainfield, and
Bradford, Mass. She married Rev. Cyrus Stone,
missionary, and embarked for Calcutta in June,
1827, in company with Mrs. Allen; and she was
buried near her and Mrs. Hervey. In her sick
ness she referred to the hymn in Worcester's
book, beginning with " Thou dear Redeemer," as
expressive of her state of mind. It was sung at
her funeral. She died, as an English officer at
Bombay wrote, —
" Scattering the good seed on the moral waste.
Compar'd with her's. earth's highest deeds how mean
Achievements anthenvd in a nation's shout,
The pompous vapors of a little day! "
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STONE.
STORES.
It were well if all soldiers felt like this one ;
and better, if the masters of soldiers felt so.
STONE, ISAAC, minister of Douglass, Mass.,
died in 1837, aged 89. Born in Shrewsbury, he
graduated at Harvard in 1770, and was pastor
from 1771 to 1805. W. Phipps was the first
minister, in 1747.
STONE, WILLIAM M., Episcopal bishop of
Maryland, died in 1838, aged 58.
STONE, JOHN, M. D., died in Springfield,
Mass., in 1838, aged 73. Born at Rutland, he
commenced practice at Greenfield, whence about
1819 he removed for a short time to Providence;
afterwards he lived at S. He died universally
lamented. — Williams' Med. Biog.
STONE, JOSIAH, a Baptist minister, died at
New Boston, N. II., in 1839, aged 76.
STONE, WILLIAM, minister at East Ridge,
N. Y., died in 1840, aged 82.
STONE, WILLIAM L., died at Saratoga
Springs Aug. 15, 1844, aged 52; for many years
editor of the New York Commercial Advertiser.
His wife was a sister of President Wayland. He
published a memoir of Brant, in 2 volumes ; the
life of Red Jacket; and a work on the history of
Wyoming. For many years he was the useful
superintendent of the common schools in the city
of New York.
STONE, NOAH, Dr., died at Oxford, Conn.,
1851, aged 68.
STONE, ENOS, colonel, died Oct. 23, 1851,
aged 76. He was the first settler of Rochester,
N. Y., and built the first house there.
STONE, TIMOTHY, died in S. Cornwall, Conn.,
May 14, 1852, aged 78 ; many years pastor of
the church. His end was peace. He was active
in forming the Cornwall mission school.
STONE, MICAH, minister of Brookfield.Mass.,
died Sept. 20, 1852, aged 82. Born in Reading
in 1770, the son of Rev. Eliab Stone, he gradu
ated at Harvard in 1790, and was pastor of South
Brookfield from 1801 to 1827. Then he with
drew, with the church, from the parish, and
formed a new society. His last sermon, at the
age of eighty, was delivered on the fiftieth anni
versary of his ordination, and gave evidence of
unimpaired intellect. As a neighbor, friend, and
minister he was highly esteemed. He published
a sermon on the death of Mary Reed, 1804; a
fast sermon, 1812 ; a semi-centennial sermon,
1851.
STORER, SETH, minister of Watertown, Mass.,
died in 1774, aged 72. Born in Saco, the son of
Col. Joseph S., he graduated at Harvard in
1720, and was settled in 1724 as successor of H.
Gibbs.
STORER, EBEXEZER, an officer in the Revo
lutionary war, died at Gorham, Me., Jan. 20, 1846,
aged 87. He was born in Wells : his mother
was a sister of Gov. Langdon. He was a mer
chant of Portland and New York, and a Chris
tian. — Christian Mirror, Feb. 12.
STORK, WILLIAM, published a description of
East Florida, with a journal of J. Bartram, 4to.,
1774.
STORKE, CHARLES A. G., minister at Rowan,
N. C., died in 1831, aged 66.
STORRS, JOHN, minister of Southold on
Long Island, died in Mansfield, Conn., in 1799,
aged about 65. He graduated at Yale in 1756;
was a tutor in 1761 ; was ordained in 1763. In
consequence of the war he left his charge from
1776 to 1782, living in Mansfield, where his pat
rimony lay, and acting sometimes as chaplain in
the army. He resigned his charge at Southold
in 1787, and returned to Mansfield. He was the
father of Rev. R. S. Storrs ; and published a ser
mon at his ordination, 1786.
STORRS, RICHAKD SALTER, minister of Long-
meadow, Mass., died Oct. 3, 1819, aged 54. Born
in Mansfield, Conn., the son of Rev. John S., he
graduated at Yale in 1785, and was ordained
Dec. 7, 1785, succeeding S. Williams, and was
succeeded by B.Dickinson in 1823. His preach
ing was fervent and rich in evangelical truth, and
his ministry was very acceptable. His wife was
Sally, a daughter of Rev. N. Williston : he was
the father of distinguished sons, one of whom is
Rev. Dr. S. of Braintree, who is the father of a
distinguished son, Rev. Dr. S. of Brooklyn. His
earliest ancestor in America was Samuel of Mans
field, the son of Samuel of Sutton in England ;
next was Samuel, then John, then again John,,
then Samuel of Mansfield, then Rev. John Storrs
of Southold, who was his father. He was named
after Rev. Richard Salter, who adopted and edu
cated him in consequence of some family ties.
STORRS, WILLIAM, minister of Ashford,
Conn., died in 1824, aged about 50. He gradu
ated at Dartmouth in 1788.
STORRS, CHARLES B., president of a col
lege in Ohio, died at Braintree, Mass., Sept. 15,
1833, aged 39. He was the son of Rev. Richard
S. Storrs, and studied theology from 1817 three
years at Andover seminary. From 1822 to 1828
he was the pastor of Ravenna, Ohio. Afterwards
he was professor of theology and president of the
Western Reserve college at Hudson, Ohio. In
ill health he visited his brother, Rev. Dr. Storrs
at Braintree, there to die. He was a man reso
lute in purpose and persevering in effort, of
learning and deep piety.
STORRS, HENRY RANDOLPH, died in New
Haven July 29, 1837, aged 49. Born in Middle-
town, he graduated at Yale in 1804. He settled
as a lawyer at Utica, and was a member of con
gress 1819-21, 1823-31; of powerful elocution,
and a debater of high rank. From Utica he
removed to New York. — Goodrich's Eecollec-
tions.
STORKS.
STORY.
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STORRS, NATHANIEL, died in Boston June
16, 18,31, aged 77 ; a distinguished teacher many
years. He was a native of Lebanon, N. H.
STORRS, JOHN, minister of Winchendon,
Mass., died in 1854, aged 52. Born in Mansfield,
Conn., he had been pastor in Barre and IIol-
liston, also in Norwich, Conn. ; and was agent of
the American bible society.
STORY, DAMKL, first minister of Marietta,
died Dec. 30, 1804, aged 49. An uncle of Judge
J. Story, he was born in Boston in 1755, and
graduated at Dartmouth in 1780. While preach
ing at Worcester, lie was engaged in 1789 to go
as a chaplain to Ohio, and commenced his labors
in the spring, preaching at Marietta and at the set
tlements of Waterford and Bclpre ; at the latter
place under the shade of a wide-branching tree.
From 1791 to 1795 he preached in the chamber
of the block-house of Campus Martins at Mari
etta. He preached also at the mouth of the
Muskingum on the left bank, fort Harmer being
on the right bank. He was accustomed to go to
Belpre, fifteen miles, and to Waterford, twenty
miles, in a canoe. He collected a church of
members from various places in 1796, over which
as pastor he was ordained, — not on the spot, for
there was no minister west of the mountains,
but at Danvers in Mass., Mr. Cutler preaching
the sermon, Aug. 15, 1797. He was dismissed
at his own request, being in bad health, March
15, 1804 ; and died in the same year. He owned
lands ; but he left debts, which the sale of them
was only sufficient to pay. His property and his
life were sacrificed for the religious benefit of the
west. He was a good preacher; in prayer
greatly gifted. In his conversation he was cheer
ful and animated. He was never married. His
name is remembered with honor. Mr. Robbins
succeeded him. — Hildrctli's Biog. Memoirs.
STORY, ISAAC, minister of Marblehead, died
in 1816, aged about 70. He graduated at Prince
ton in 1768; was ordained colleague with S.
Bradstreet of Marblehead in 1771 ; and married
his daughter. After thirty years he left the min
istry and engaged in secular business. He pub
lished an epistle from Yarico to Inkle ; a thanks
giving sermon, 1774, 1795 ; eulogy on Washing
ton ; oration at Worcester, 1801; Parnassian
shop, 1801. — Sprague.
STORY, JOSEPH, judge, died in Cambridge
Sept. 10, 1845, aged nearly 66. He was the son
of Dr. Elisha Story of Marblehead, and was born
Sept. 18, 1779, and graduated at Harvard in 1798.
He became a member of the legislature in 1805,
and w^as elected speaker : he was also a member
of congress. Mr. Madison appointed him in 1811
a judge of the supreme court, an office he held
thirty-four years till his death. In 1830 he was
appointed Dane professor in the law school at
Cambridge. It is said he acquired the largest
fortune of any lawyer from his practice and his
books; the income from his books being 10,000
dollars a year. His wife, Sarah Waldo Wet-
more, was the daughter of Judge William Wet-
more. He left a son ; also a daughter, who
married George W. Curtis. In regard to law
yers' fees Judge Story relates a pleasant anec
dote. Judge Parsons was once consulted by let
ter, and his opinion asked, and a fee of 20 dollars
was sent. He made no answer. After a while
came a second letter, to which the judge replied
that he had examined the case and formed an
opinion, but " somehow or other it stuck in his
throat." The gentleman took the hint and sent
him 100 dollars. In his politics Judge Story was
a republican, denominated a jacobin, an adherent
of Mr. Jefferson ; and he drew upon himself not
a little odium, living in the midst of warm feder
alists. But he rapidly rose to distinction as a
lawyer, for he was always a hard student, and he
had talents and genius. His political attachments
did not prevent him from making some important
discoveries and from uttering some indignant
New England feelings : " Virginia has ruled us
by the old maxim, divide and conquer." " We
have foolishly suffered ourselves to be wheedled
by southern politicians, until we have almost for
gotten that the honors and the constitution of
the Union are as much our birthright and our
protection as of the rest of the United States."
He combined in his character some traits which
are seldom united. He was a writer of poetry
and a learned, philosophical jurist : he was the life
of social parties, and almost unequalled in conver
sation, yet a hard and laborious student. In the
extent of his invaluable legal writings he stands
almost alone. His commentaries and his writ
ten judgments in his circuit make twenty-seven
volumes; and his judgments in the supreme
court form an important part of thirty-four vol
umes more. The reporters of the circuit cases
were J. Gallison, W. P. Mason, C. Sumner, and
W. W. Story. His commentaries on the consti
tution of the United States are in three volumes ;
and on the conflict of laws in one volume ; on
equity jurisprudence in two volumes; on the law
of pleadings in one ; on the law of bailments in
one. He wrote also on the law of agency ; of
partnership ; of bills of exchange ; of promissory
notes. In his last sickness he said to his wife : " I
shall die content, and with a firm faith in the
goodness of God. We shall meet again." He
was a member of the Unitarian church in Cam
bridge ; but, although the author of the account
of his life says of him, "he believed in the inspi
ration and doctrines of Christ, in the immortality
of the soul, in the unity of God," there does not
seem to be any evidence, in the two volumes of
his life, that he regarded the Son of God as any
thing more than an inspired man : not one word
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STOUGHTOX.
STRINGIIAM.
occurs in them intimating his belief of the teach
ings of Scripture concerning the pre-existence and
incarnation of the Son of God, and his death as
a propitiation for the sins of the world. In no
ticing the diversities of construction among
learned men of the same Divine word, every re
flecting man must feel it to be his duty to judge
for himself, and not to build his faith on the per
suasion of another. As to his poetry, if the
remarks of a critic are true, the defects of his
Power of solitude, written in early life, are " an
exaggeration of feeling, confusion of imagery,
and a want of simplicity of expression. The
style is stilted and artificial." His life was pub
lished by his son, William "VVetmore Story, in 2
vols., 1851.
STOUGHTON, WILLIAM, lieutenant-governor
of Mass., died at Dorchester July 7, 1701, aged
70. He was the son of Col. Israel Stoughton,
who commanded the Massachusetts troops in the
Pequot war. He was graduated at Harvard col
lege in 1650, and becoming a preacher was for
some years resident in England. After the res
toration in 1G60 he was ejected from a fellowship
in Oxford, and repaired to New England in 16G2.
Though not a settled minister he was appointed
to preach the election sermon in 1CG8. This
sermon has been ranked among the best delivered
upon the occasion. After the death of Mr.
Mitchell he declined an invitation to become his
successor in the care of the church at Cambridge.
In 1071 he was chosen a magistrate, and in 1677
went to England as an agent for the province.
He was a member of the council, and chief jus
tice of the superior court. Being appointed
lieutenant-governor in 1692, he was commander-
in-chief from 1694 to 1699, and again in 1700.
He was a man of great learning, integrity, pru
dence, patriotism, and piety. He was a generous
benefactor of Harvard college, giving to that
institution about 1,000 pounds. Stoughton hall
was erected at his expense in 1698. He left a
tract of land for the support of students, natives
of Dorchester, at the college, and another tract
for the benefit of schools. He was never mar
ried. — Willarcrs Sermon.
STOUGHTOX, JUAN, don, Spanish consul,
died at Boston in 1820, aged 75. He had been
consul at B. for thirty years.
STOW, SAMUEL, first minister of Middlctown,
Conn., died May 8, 1704, aged 82. He was the
son of Thomas of Concord, and was born in Eng
land ; was graduated in 1645, in the third Har
vard class ; and went to Middletown in 1645,
remaining in the ministry ten years. He then
relinquished his profession, and was for the re
mainder of his life a much-respected citizen. His
wife was Hope, daughter of William Fletcher of
Concord : his daughter Hope married George
Phillips of Middletown. He gave a lot of land
to the town for the benefit of education. He left
in manuscript ten Essays for conversion of the
Jews.
STOWE, WILLIAM B., died at Ridgeville, 0.,
in 1855, aged 73. Born in Marlborough, he
graduated at Williams college in 1811, and was
for many years a minister in New England and
New York, and performed much missionary
labor.
STRAWBRIDGE, WILLIAM, a Baptist min
ister, died at Lower Providence, Pa., in 1830,
aged 73.
STREET, NICHOLAS, minister of Taunton and
New Haven, died in 1674. He came from Eng
land ; was colleague with Mr. Hook at Taunton,
where he remained twenty years; and then was
colleague with Mr. Davenport in 1659, and re
mained at New Haven till his death. He was
pious, modest, judicious, and a good preacher.
His first wife was a sister of Elizabeth Pool ; his
second, the widow of Gov. Newman. — Sprague's
Annals.
STREET, SAMUEL, minister of New Haven,
the son of Nicholas S., died Jan. 16, 1712, aged
82. He had been minister forty-two years. His
daughter married Theophilus Yale.
STREET, 'SAMUEL, first minister of Walling-
ford, Conn., died Jan. 16, 1717, aged 82. He
was the son of Rev. Nicholas S., and ordained in
1674, then 40 years of age. The church was
strictly Congregational, rejecting the Saybrook
platform, when formed. Mr. Whittelsey was or
dained in 1710.
STREET, NICHOLAS, minister of East Haven,
Conn., died in 1806, aged 76. He graduated at
Yale in 1751, and was settled in 1755, succeeding
the first pastor, J. Hemingway. He was distin
guished for piety, prudence, and benevolence. —
Sprague.
STREETER, ZEBEDEE, a Universalist minister,
died at Surry, N. II., in 1808, aged 70.
STRICKLAND, JOHN, a minister, died at Hud
son, N. II., in 1823, aged 84. Born at Hadley,
he graduated at Yale in 1761. He was pastor at
Oakham, Mass., from 1768 to 1773; was installed
at Nottingham West in 1774; at Turner, Me., in
1774; at Andover, N. II., in 1786.
STRINGER, SAMUEL, Dr., died at Albany in
1817, aged 82. Born in Maryland, he was a sur
geon in the army in 1758, and after the war
settled and married in Albany. In the Revolu
tionary war, he was director-general of the hos
pitals at the north. He was esteemed as a
physician. In his habits he was frugal and tem
perate. — Thaclier's Mca. Biog.
STRINGIIAM, JAMES S., M. D., a physician
of New York city, died at St. Croix in 1817, aged
about 42. Born in N. Y., he graduated at Co
lumbia college in 1793. He studied medicine in
part in Edinburgh. He succeeded Mitchell as
STRONG.
professor of chemistry in Columbia college; then
was professor of medical jurisprudence. He wrote
for various journals. — Timelier ts Me<l. liiog.
STIIOXG, Jon, died Sept. 30, 1751, aged 27,
at Portsmouth, N. II., where he had been a min
ister two years. lie was a native of Northamp
ton; a graduate of Yale in 1747; a missionary
among the Indians a short time. A letter of his
is preserved in Brainerd's life.
STRONG, THOMAS, first minister of New Marl-
borough, died Aug. 23, 1777, aged about GO.
Born in Northampton, he graduated at Yale in
1740, and was settled Oct. 31, 1744. T. Tattlow
of Marlborough, Conn., bequeathed Henry's com
mentary, in six large volumes, to the church, to
be lent out to the members : they were a treas
ure in the wilderness. His successors were C.
Alexander and J. Catlin. Mr. S. married Eliza
beth Barnard ; and his son, Thomas Barnard
Strong, a graduate of Yale in 1800, is a citizen
of Pittsfield.
STRONG, NATHAN, minister of Coventry,
Conn., the first in the north society, died in 1795,
aged about 75. He graduated at Yale in 1742.
STRONG, JOSEPH, minister of Williamsburg,
Mass., died in 1803, aged 73. The son of Jo
seph of Coventry, he graduated at Yale in 1749,
and was first the minister of Granby, Conn., from
1752 to 1770 ; was a chaplain in the army ; and
was settled in W. in 1781. His son, Joseph,
minister of Glastenbury, South Hadley, Belcher-
town, and Preble, N. Y., died in 1823, aged 67 ;
the father of Prof. Theodore Strong of Clinton.
He published a sermon at the ordination of S.
Graves ; on the death of G. Mills ; the church
one, 1783; two sermons in a volume, 1799.—
Sprague's Annals.
STRONG, SIMEON, LL. D., judge, died at Am-
herst, Mass., Dec. 14, 1805, aged 69. Born in
Northampton, his father removed to Amherst ; he
graduated at Yale in 1756 ; was at first, a preacher,
but was admitted to the bar in 1761, and was ap
pointed a judge of the supreme court in 1800.
He was a learned lawyer, an upright judge, a
pious Christian, conversant with family and closet
devotions.
STRONG, NEHEMIAII, professor of mathema
tics in Yale college, died in 1807, aged 79. Born
in Northampton, he graduated at Yale in 1755;
was tutor three years ; then ordained in Sims-
bury, now Granby ; and was professor from 1770
to 1781. He died at Bridgeport. He published
astronomy improved, the substance of three lec
tures.
STRONG, CYPRIAN, D. D., minister of Chat
ham, now Portland, Conn., died in 1811, aged 67.
Born at Farmington, Conn., he graduated at Yale
in 1763, and was settled in 1767. The first min
ister was Daniel Newell, settled in 1721, the town
being then a part of Middletown. Dr. Strong's
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ministry continued fifty-four years. He pub
lished a sermon on owning the covenant, 1780;
remarks on sermons of J. Lewis, 1789; inquiry
on baptism, 1793 ; at ordination of S. Shepard,
1795 ; of E. Gridley, 1797 ; of J. Bushncll, 1800 ;
at election, 1799; at the request of masons; a
fast sermon. — Sprague's Annals.
STRONG, JONATHAN, 1). D., minister of Ran
dolph, Mass., died Nov. 9, 1814, aged 50. He was
born in Bolton, Conn., Sept 4, 1764; his parents
removed to Orford,N. II. lie was graduated at
Dartmouth college in 1786; ordained as the col
league of Mr. Taft in Jan., 1789. His successor
was Thaddeus Pomeroy. His daughter married
W. Cogswell, D. D. In three periods of success
ful toil during his ministry he numbered more
than two hundred converts. He was a faithful
preacher, of unpolished but powerful eloquence,
firm in his attachment to the great truths of the
gospel. A memoir of him by Rev. Mr. Storrs is
in the panoplist, vol. XII. He wrote much for the
Massachusetts missionary magazine, and also for
the panoplist. He published a sermon at the
thanksgiving, 1795; at the ordination of L.
White, 1798; on the landing of our forefathers,
1803; on the death of Dr. Z. Bass, 1804; be
fore the missionary society, 1808; on the national
independence, 1810; at a dedication, 1814. —
Sprague's Annals.
STRONG, JOHN, general, died at Addison, Vt.,
in 1816, aged 79. He was a soldier of the Revo
lution, and first judge of Addison county.
STRONG, NATHAN, D. D., minister of Hart
ford, Conn., died Dec. 25, 1816, aged 68. He
was the son of Nathan S., minister of Coventry;
was born in 1748 ; graduated at Yale college in
1769; and was ordained Jan. 5, 1774. In the
war he was a patriot and a chaplain in the army.
He was a learned and very useful minister, dis
tinguished for his discernment and knowledge of
men. Of the missionary society of Conn, he was
the principal founder in 1798. For some years
he was the editor of the Connecticut evangelical
magazine. Dr. S. issued a prospectus for his
sermons. As the poet Trumbull one day met
him, he inquired, " When are your sermons to be
out ? " The Dr. replied, " I cannot exactly tell ; I
am waiting to find a text to suit a man who never
comes to church, except when he has a child to
be baptized." He published the doctrine of eter
nal misery reconciled with the benevolence of God,
in answer to Huntington, 8vo. ; a sermon at the
execution of M. Dunbar, 1777 ; of R. Doane,
1797 ; on the death of Washington ; of S. Wil
liams, 1800; of C. Backus, 1804; of J. Cogswell,
1807; of C. Goodrich, 1815; at election, 1790;
at two thanksgivings ; at ordination of J. Strong,
1778; of J. L. Skinner, 1794; at convention of
a church; before a benevolent society; on muta
bility of life ; on the use of time ; a century ser-
768
STRONG.
STUART.
mon, 1801; sermons, 2 vols. — Sprague's An
nals; Am. Quar. Reg., Nov., 1840.
STRONG, CALEB, LL. D., governor of Massa
chusetts, died suddenly at Northampton, Nov. 7,
1819, aged 74. lie was the son of Caleb S.,
descended from John S., who arrived from Taun-
ton, England, in May, 1630, and settled at Dor
chester, and thence removed to Windsor, and in
1659 to Northampton. He was born at N. in
Jan., 1745, and graduated at Harvard college in
1764. He studied law with Mr. Hawley, but
from ill health did not commence the practice
till 1772. In 1776 he was a member of the leg
islature with Mr. Ilawley, and continued in that
body an active friend of his country till 1780,
when he was chosen a councillor. In 1779 he
assisted in forming the constitution of Massachu
setts, and in 1787 that of the United States.
Under the new national government he was eight
years a senator, from 1789 to 1797. He was
governor from 1800 till 1807, when Mr. Sullivan
was elected ; and was again chosen governor
during the difficult period of the war, from 1812
to 1815. His wife, the daughter of John Hooker,
the minister of Northampton, died in 1817. lie
was a man of sound judgment, and of exemplary
piety. He wrote the address of the government
to the insurgents in 1786. His speeches from
1807 to 1808 were published, Svo., 1808.
STRONG, JOSEPH, J). D., died at Norwich,
Conn., Dec. 18, 1834, aged 80. He descended
from John Strong; his grandfather removed
from Windsor to Woodbury; his father, Rev.
Nathan S., of the second church in Coventry, was
graduated in 1742. He was a brother of Nathan
Strong of Hartford. His son, Henry Strong,
LL. I)., died at Norwich, Nov. 11, 1852, aged 64.
Dr. S. succeeded B. Lord. J. Fitch was the first
pastor. He had as a colleague C. B. Everett.
He published a sermon on the death of Gov.
Huntington, 1796; of Washington ; of Dr. J.
Lathrop, 1 803 ; of J. Murdock ; of A. Hooker,
1813.
STRONG, TITUS, D. D., Episcopal minister in
Greenfield, died June 11, 1855, aged 68.
STRYKER, ISAAC P., missionary for Borneo,
died at Batavia March 27, 1842. He sailed from
Boston in 1840, Capt.' John Codman giving him
a free passage to Batavia in the ship Sarah Par
ker. After a residence for some time at B., he
had embarked for Borneo, when he was attacked
with a fatal fever.
STUART, GILBERT, or Gilbert Charles, a por
trait-painter, died Wednesday, July 9, 1828, aged
73. He was born in Newport, R. I., in 1755.
He was a pupil of Benjamin West in London.
He was applauded in England, but he returned
to America in 1790 or 1794, and resided chiefly
in Philadelphia and Washington till about 1801,
when he removed to Boston. He was long
racked with the gout. He left a daughter, Mrs.
Stebbins, a painter. He was thoroughly ac
quainted with his art, and as a portrait and his
torical painter was unequalled in this country.
He was also a man of a strong mind and inter
esting conversation. His picture of Washington
presents a head of calni and majestic wisdom,
familiar to all Americans. His pictures of Madi
son and Jefferson are in the gallery of Bowdoin
college.
STUART, DUNCAX, an early shipbuilder in
Newbury, Mass., died in Rowley in 1717, aged
100. He removed to R. before 1680.
STUART, ROBERT, died at Chicago Oct. 20,
1848, aged 63. He lived as an enterprising mer
chant at Mackinaw, connected with the great
west; but his chief residence was Detroit. He
went to Illinois for a temporary abode, as con
nected with the internal improvements in that
State. Full of joyous hopes as to rejoining his
family in Detroit, he fell a victim to the great
destroyer. But he was an exemplary Christian
and an elder in the church. He was Indian
agent, and held various offices of trust. — Obs.,
Nov.' 18.
STUART, DAVID, died at Detroit, Nov. 22,
1853, aged 88 ; one of Astor's agents in his ex
pedition to Columbia river in 1810.
STUART, ROBERT, D. D., died near Nicholas-
villc, Aug. 10, 1856; the oldest minister of the
synod of Kentucky, an excellent and venerable
man.
STUART, MOSES, died at Andover Jan. 4,
1852, aged 71. The son of Isaac, he was born
at Wilton, Conn., March 26, 1780; was gradu
ated at Yale in 1799; was two years tutor, from
1802 to 1804. He first studied law, then theol
ogy, and was ordained as successor of Dr. Dana
over the central church, New Haven, March 5,
1806; but in 1810 removed to Andover as pro
fessor of sacred literature, where he passed the
remainder of his life. He had been a preacher
forty-seven years, a teacher forty-one, a professor
in the theological seminary thirty-eight. In per
son he was tall ; he was frank, noble, independent,
simple in manners ; though at times sarcastic and
severe, yet always honest and highly respected
for his integrity and directness. His wife, Han
nah Clark of Danbury, died in 1855. Three
sons graduated at Yale, two of whom entered
the profession of law, and one that of medicine.
One of his daughters married Professor Phelps
of Andover, and died in 1852 : she was a gil'tcd
writer. Professor Stuart may be regarded as
eminently the father of biblical literature in this
country. His more important writings may be
divided into four or five classes. First, his gram
mars and other aids to the theological student ;
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next, his various commentaries on several books
of the Old Testament, and on the epistle to the
llomans, on that to the Hebrews, and on the
Apocalypse of the New Testament. Then come
his letters relating to the Unitarian writings of
Dr. Channing of Boston ; and lastly his contro
versy with Professor Miller of Princeton. But
it was in the lecture-room that, in the judgment
of Professor Stowc, who was one of his stu
dents, he was more remarkable than even in his
writings, for " his readers can never feel the
kindling enthusiasm that was never wanting
among his hearers." The controversy in 1822
and 1823 between this learned professor at An-
dover and Dr. Miller, the head of the theo
logical school at Princeton, concerning the Son-
ship of Christ, is an event of note in the theolog
ical history of our country. What was the
doctrine of Professor Stuart? He believed that
the title of Son was not given to Christ in refer
ence to his pre-existing nature, but only in respect
to his human nature, and that he was the Word,
and not the Son of God from eternity. He also
believed that "infinite power, wisdom, justice,
benevolence, etc., all belong to God in his simple
unity," and that these attributes are not to be
distinguished from his substance or essence, which
is numerically one. Dr. Miller maintained, with
the ancient fathers of the church, that Christ was
the Son of God in his pre-existing nature, before
he came into the world, and was generated from
the divine essence of the Father. Yet he was
afraid to use the word derived, though the word
generated can have no other meaning. He says :
" The generation of the Son was eternal. This lan
guage is to be understood in a Divine and ineffable
sense, excluding derivation, inferiority, or subor
dination." It were well for all our theologians
who wish to teach any thing, not to use words in
an " ineffable sense." So also Mr. Stuart denies
a derivation of the Logos : " I believe that the
Logos is really and verily Divine, — self-existent,
uncaused, independent, immutable in himself."
Yet he admits that he departs from the opinion
of antiquity, saying, " the Nicene fathers and
the Greek commentators, one and all, held that
Christ as to his divine nature was derived from
the Father." It was also the doctrine of the
fathers of the three first centuries, as he admits,
that the Son was derived from God. Notwith
standing, in his view, whatever was the opinion
of the ancients, it is impossible " to make the
idea of time and proper divinity harmonize with
that of derivation and consequent dependence."
The ancient fathers believed that the self-existent,
eternal God had a Son generated before the cre
ation of the world, in time or before all time,
derived from God the Father. These two Amer
ican professors, on the contrary, believed that the
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being called the Word or the Son was underived,
independent, equal with him who is called the
Father, God himself, or one of three equal per
sons or beings, constituting God. So that the
controversy between them relates entirely to the
application of the term Son to Christ before he
came into the world. The conscientious inquirer,
who wishes to settle the question whether the
bible does not teach that Christ was the Son of
God in heaven, by whom God created the world,
and that he came to the earth to tabernacle in
human flesh, himself to sufi'er, in order to make
atonement for the sins of man, will not build his
faith on human authority; though, if authority
were to govern, the ancient fathers stand higher
than the modern professors. But he will search
the Scriptures with his own eyes and reason. It
is pleasant to record it, that both these eminent
men recommend a free, untrammeled, manly in
quiry after truth. Dr. Miller says, " I rejoice
that our lot is cast in an age and a country, in
which the most unlimited freedom of inquiry
reigns." Mr. Stuart expresses the hope that the
time will come when we shall " hold ourselves
more and more free to canvass the opinions of
uninspired men, and faster bound to the simple
instructions of the bible." Surely, what is plainly
taught in God's book is to be received, however
discordant it may be with the teaching of vener
ated creeds and of learned professors and doctors
of theology. Among Mr. Stuart's writings are
his communications to the biblical repository;
Hebrew grammars ; commentaries on the He
brews, llomans, Daniel, Ecclesiastes, Proverbs,
Apocalypse ; a critical history of the Old Testa
ment canon ; a volume of miscellanies, including
his letters to Dr. Channing on the trinity; two
sermons at New Haven, 1810; letters to Dr.
Miller on the eternal generation of the Son,
1822 ; two sermons on the atonement, 1824 ; at
a dedication; at election, 1827; at ordination of
W. G. Schauffler ; on the Lamb of God ; on the
death of Mrs. Woods ; at ordination of T. Pun-
derson; of Fisk, Spaulding, etc., 1819; on fin
ishing the seminary building, 1821; sketch of
Mrs. E.Adams; on distilled liquors, 1830; hints
on the prophecies ; letters to Dr. Channing on
religious liberty; on the Old Testament canon;
on the wine question, 1848; various translations
of learned works ; course of Hebrew study, 1830 ;
on baptism, 1833 ; a grammar of the New Tes
tament dialect; conscience and the constitution,
1851; commentary on Ecclesiastes ; on the Prov
erbs. — Sprac/ne's Annals.
STUBER, HENRY, Dr., died in Philadelphia,
about 1792, aged about 22. He was a young
man of learning and of great promise. He wrote
a continuation of the life of Franklin. — Wil
liams.
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STUFFLEBEAN.
STUFFLEBEAN, JOHN, died in Illinois Jan.
16, 1844, aged 110 years and 11 months. Born
near Albany, he served in the Revolutionary war ;
in Kentucky he fought the Indians ; he finally
lived with a son near Kaskaskias. He was three
times married.
STURTEVANT, ZENAS, a soldier, died at
Plympton April 5, 1851, aged 81. By his grand
mother Sturtevant he M-as the sixth in descent
from Robert Cushman and from Isaac Allerton.
He was in the army of Gen. St. Clair in the In
dian battle near the forks of the Miami in Ohio,
Nov. 4, 1791. In the disastrous defeat he was
twice wounded and fell, but concealed himself
from the Indians and reached fort Jefferson in
three days. His company were all killed and
wounded but three : among the killed was Lieut.
Winslow Warren, son of Gen. James W. of Ply
mouth, and Ensign Cobb, son of Gen. D. Cobb of
Taunton.
STURTEVANT, NEWELL, a merchant of Bos
ton, died of apoplexy Oct. 20, 1856, aged 48.
On the same day, from the same cause, died
another Boston merchant, E. D. Peters ; both
natives of Maine. Mr. S. was born in Winthrop.
He was a pioneer in shipping coal from Pennsyl
vania, in which business he acquired an ample
fortune. He was honorable, and was esteemed.
STUYVESANT, PETER, the last Dutch gov
ernor of New York, began his administration in
1647. He was continually employed in resisting
the encroachments of the English and Swedes
upon the territory intrusted to him. In 1664 an
expedition from England was sent out against
the Dutch possessions. Three or four frigates
under the command of Col. Nichols appeared
before New Amsterdam or New York, and Gov.
Stuyvesant was summoned to surrender ; but, is
he was a good soldier, having lost a leg in the
service of the States, he was by no means dis
posed to comply. He returned a long letter vin
dicating the claims of the Dutch, and declaring
his resolution to defend the place. He was,
however, obliged to capitulate Aug. 27. The
whole of the New Netherlands soon became sub
ject to the English. He remained in this coun
try, and at his death was buried in a chapel on
his own farm a few miles from New York. —
Smith's New York, 5-23.
STUYVESANT, PETER G., of New York,
died at Niagara Falls Aug. 16, 1847, aged 75.
In good health, he died in the plunging bath
near the hotel. He was an early member of the
historical society and its president, and vice-pres
ident of the American bible society. His prop
erty was reported to amount to 15,000,000 dol
lars.
SULLIVAN, JOHN, LL. D., major-general in
the American army, and president of New Hamp-
SULLIVAN.
shire, died in Durham Jan. 28, 1795, aged 54.
He was appointed by congress a brigadier-general
in 1775, and in the following year, it is believed,
a major-general. He superseded Arnold in the
command of the army in Canada June 4, 1776 ;
but was soon driven out of that province. He
afterwards, on the illness of Greene, took the
command of his division on Long Island. In the
battle of Aug. 27, he was taken prisoner with
Lord Stirling. In a few months, however, he was
exchanged. When Lee was carried off, he took
the command of his division in New Jersey, Dec.
20. Aug. 22, 1777, he planned and executed an
expedition against Staten Island, for which, on an
inquiry into his conduct, he received the approba
tion of the court. In Sept. he was engaged in
the battle of Brandywine, and Oct. 4 in that cf
Germantown. In the winter he was detached to
command the troops in Rhode Island. In Aug.,
1778, he laid siege to Newport, then in the hands
of the British, with the fullest confidence of suc
cess ; but, being abandoned by the French fleet
under D'Estaing, who sailed to Boston, he was
obliged, to his unutterable chagrin, to raise the
siege. Aug. 29 an action occurred with the pur
suing enemy, who were repulsed. On the 30th,
with great military skill, he passed over to the
continent, without the loss of a single article, and
without the slightest suspicion on the part of the
British of his movements. In the summer of
1779 he commanded an expedition against the
six nations of Indians in New York. Being
joined by Gen. Clinton, Aug. 22, he marched
towards the enemy under the command of Brant,
the Butlers, and others, at Newton, between the
south end of Seneca Lake and Tioga river ; at
tacked them in their works ; and completely
dispersed them. He then laid waste the country,
destroyed all their villages, and left not a single
vestige of human industry. This severity was
necessary to prevent their ravages. General
Sullivan had made such high demands for mili
tary stores, and had so freely complained of the
government for inattention to those demands, as
to give much offence to some members of con
gress and to the board of war. lie in conse
quence resigned his command Nov. 9. He was
in 1774 a member of the first congress, and also
a member in 1780. In the years 1786, 1787, and
1789 he was president of New Hampshire, in
which station, by his vigorous exertions, he
quelled the spirit of insurrection which exhib
ited itself at the time of the troubles in Massa
chusetts. In Oct., 1789, he was appointed
district judge.
SULLIVAN, JAMES, LL. D., governor of Mas
sachusetts, the brother of the preceding, died in
Boston Dec. 10, 1808, aged 64. He was born at
Berwick, Me., April 22, 1744. His father, a man
SULLIVAN.
of liberal education, came to this country about
the year 1723: he took the sole charge of the
education of his son, James, and lived to sec him
distinguished in the world ; dying in July, 1795,
aged 105. Governor Sullivan was destined for
military life ; but the fracture of a limb in his
early years induced him to bend the vigorous
powers of his mind to the investigation of the
law. After pursuing the study of this science
under his brother, General Sullivan, and opening
an office at Biddeford, on Saco river, he soon rose
to celebrity, and was appointed king's attorney
for the county of York, in which he resided. On
the approach of the Revolution he took an early
and active part on the side of his country. Being
a member of the provincial congress of Massachu
setts in 1775, he was intrusted, together with two
other gentlemen, with a difficult commission to Ti-
conderoga, which was executed in a very satisfac
tory manner. Early in the following year he was
appointed a judge of the superior court. Soon
afterwards he purchased a farm in Groton and
removed his family to that place. He was a
member of the convention which framed the con
stitution of the State in 1779 and 1-780. In Feb.
1782, he resigned his office of judge, and returned
to the practice of the bar, first at Cambridge,
then at Boston, where he resided during the re
mainder of his life. He was appointed a dele
gate to congress in 1783; and in the ensuing
year was one of the commissioners in the settle-
men c of the controversy between Massachusetts
and New York respecting their claims to the
western lands. He was repeatedly chosen to
represent the town of Boston in the legislature ;
in 1787 he was a member of the executive coun
cil and judge of probate for Suffolk; and in 1790
was appointed attorney-general, in which office
he continued till June, 1807, when he was called
to the chief magistracy of the commonwealth, as
successor of Governor Strong. He was appointed
by President Washington agent under the fifth
article of the British treaty for settling the boun
daries between the United States and the British
provinces. Of the American academy of arts
and sciences he was one of the members from its
first institution ; a principal founder and many
years president of the Massachusetts historical
society ; and president of the Massachusetts Con
gregational charitable society. He was the pro
jector of the Middlesex canal, to which object he
devoted a great portion of time and labor. Soon
after his second election to the office of governor
his health became enfeebled, and he suffered a
long and distressing confinement, which termi
nated in his death. The various public offices,
which he sustained during a period of forty years,
were conferred upon him by the free and unbi
assed sufi'rages of his countrymen. As he was
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not assisted in his progress to distinction by the
advantage of opulence or family connections, the
stations which he held were a proof of his
talents, of his indefatigable industry, and of the
confidence that was reposed in his integrity. As
a judge he was universally acknowledged to have
displayed the most perfect impartiality. As the
public prosecutor of the State he tempered the
sternness of official severity with the rarer ten
derness of humanity. His style of eloquence
was original, and adapted, with judicious discrim
ination, to the occasion, the subject, and to the
tribunal before which it was called forth. Deeply
versed in the science of the law, and equally well
acquainted with the sources of persuasion in the
human mind, he was alike qualified for the inves
tigation of the most intricate and complicated
questions of legal discussion, and for the devel
opment of the issues of fact before juries. As
the chief magistrate of the State, he considered
himself as the delegated officer, not of a political
sect, but of the whole people, and endeavored to
mitigate the violence of parties. In all the rela
tions of domestic and social life his conduct was
exemplary. He early made a profession of Chris
tianity, and his belief of its truth was never
shaken. When his frame was evidently shattered,
and he had reason to think that God was calling
him to his great account, the faith of Jesus was
ever gaining a new ascendency in his views,
and his thoughts expatiated with singular clear
ness on the scenes which awaited him, on the
mercy of his God, his own unworthiness, and the
worth of the Redeemer. His private prayers
and his domestic devotions, expressing at times
both the joy and the anguish of his feelings,
proved that his passions were not all given to the
world. He closed his laborious life with the un
shaken assurance of renewing his existence in
another and better state. Amidst the great and
constant pressure of business which occupied him,
he still found time for the pursuits of literature
and science. He was ever ready to contribute
the efforts of his powerful and original mind to
the purposes of public utility. He published ob
servations on the government of the United
States, 1791 ; dissertation on the stability of the
States; the path to riches, or dissertation on
banks, 1792; history of the district of Maine,
8vo., 1795 ; history of land titles in Massachusetts,
8vo., 1801; dissertation on the constitutional
liberty of the press, 1801 ; history of the Penob-
scot Indians in the historical collection. — Buck-
minster's Sermon on his Death.
SULLIVAN, GEORGE, died at Exeter, N. II.,
June 14, 1838, aged 64. He was born at Dur
ham, the son of Gen. John S., an officer of the
Revolutionary army, was graduated at Harvard
in 1790, and for more than forty years practised
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SUMTER.
law at Exeter. He was a member of congress in
1811 and 1813, and attorney-general of New
Hampshire from 1816 to 1835. He was highly
respected for his talents, his useful life, and his
religious character.
SULLIVAN, WILLIAM, LL. D., brigadier-
general, died in Boston Sept. 3, 1839, aged 64.
He was the son of Governor James S. ; was grad
uated in 1792 ; and for many years practised law
in Boston. He published orations in 1803 and
1813; familiar letters; moral class-book, 1831 ;
political class-book, 1831 ; on temperance, 1832.
SUMMERFIELD, JOHN, a minister, died at
New York June 13, 1825, aged 27. He was born
in Lancashire, England, Jan. 31, 1798. After
early dissipation he became pious, and preached
in the Methodist connexion in Ireland. He came
to New York in 1821, and preached almost with
the popularity of Whitefield. His ill health in
duced him in 1823 to visit France, where, as a
delegate from the American bible society, he ad
dressed the Paris bible society. Few ministers
have exhibited such meekness, humility, disinter
estedness, and benevolence in life ; few have been
so eloquent in discourse. His memoirs by J.
Holland, with his portrait, were published, 8vo.,
2d edit., 1830.
SUMNER, INCREASE, governor of Massachu
setts, died in Roxbury June 7, 1799, aged 52.
He was the son of Increase, who died in 1774;
his previous ancestors were Edward, George, and
"William of Dorchester, who was born in England
in 1605. He was born in Roxbury Nov. 27, 1746,
and was graduated at Harvard college in 1767.
After entering upon the profession of the law he
was chosen a representative of his native town in
the legislature, and then a senator. In 1782
Governor Hancock placed him on the bench of
the supreme court. As a judge he was dispas
sionate, impartial, and discerning. In 1797 he
was chosen governor as successor of S. Adams,
and he was reflected in the succeeding years till
his death. His wife was Elizabeth, daughter of
William Hyslop. His son, William Hyslop Sum-
ner, a graduate of 1799, still lives. He possessed
a strong and well-balanced mind. His judgment
was correct, and, though he maintained an unu
sual degree of self-command, yet his coolness of
temper was to be ascribed rather to the influence
of religious discipline, than to constitutional tem
perament. He was mild, candid, and moderate,
being remarkably free from every appearance of
party spirit. In the intercourse of domestic and
private life he was affectionate and faithful. Soon
after he commenced the practice of the law, he
made a public profession of his belief in Chris
tianity, and his life was exemplary. An inter
esting memoir by his son, W. II. Sumner, with a
fine portrait, is in New England Register, April,
1854.
SUMNER, JOSEPH, D. D., died at Shrews
bury Dec. 9, 1824, aged 84. Born in Pomfrct,
he graduated at Yale in 1759, and was ordained
as the successor of J. Gushing in 1762. lie was
present at the regular administration of the Lord's
supper for sixty- two years. In the Revolution
he was an earnest patriot, a useful friend of learn
ing, long a trustee of Leicester academy. His
white wig and venerable air gained respect, lie
published a sermon at the ordination of his son
Samuel at Southborough, 1791 ; at thanksgiving,
1799 ; at ordination of Wilkcs Allen, 1803 ; half-
century sermon, 1812.
SUMNER, CHARLES P., died in Boston April
2, 1839, aged about 62. He graduated at Har
vard in 1796, and was the sheriff of Suffolk. He
was the father of the eminent senator of the
United States, Charles Sumner ; also of George
Sumner, whose memoir of the pilgrims at Ley-
den is in hist, coll., vol. ix., third series. He
published the compass, a college poem, 1795 ;
eulogy on Washington, 1800 ; letter on freema
sonry, 1829; discourse on the sheriff's office,
1829.
SUMTER, THOMAS, general, a soldier of the
Revolution, died June 1, 1832, aged 97. After
the capture of Charleston, S. C., by the British,
he fled to North Carolina. But he soon returned
at the head of a little band of exiles. July 12,
1780, a part of his corps routed a detachment of
the British ; this success soon increased his troops
to six hundred men. Gov. Rutledge promoted
him and Marion from the rank of colonels to that
of brigadiers in the militia, lie was younger than
Marion ; of a larger frame, fitted for the toils of
war ; with a stern countenance, and determined
patriotism, and indomitable courage. He at
tacked, August 1st, three times unsuccessfully the
post of Rocky Mount ; August 6th, he attacked
the British at Hanging Rock, and destroyed Col.
Brown's regiment. About the time that Gates
was defeated at Camden, he captured a British
convoy. But through his own negligence he was
surprised near Catawba ford, by Tarleton, August
18th, at the head of nine hundred and sixty men,
and his force of eight hundred men instantly dis
persed, and his artillery lost. He retrieved his
character in the remainder of the campaign. lie
resolutely kept the field for three months. Nov.
12th he defeated the British under Major
Wcmyss, and Nov. 20th, at Blackstock hill, near
Tyger river, he repulsed Tarleton, who in vain
attempted to dislodge him. The wounded of the
enemy were left to the humanity of Sumter. In
this action he was himself severely wounded, and
in consequence long detained from the field ; but
he was consoled by the thanks of congress and
the applause of his country. In 1811 he was
chosen a senator of the United States. He died
suddenly at his residence at South Mount, near
SUMTER.
Camdcn. His only son, Col. Thomas, died in
1840, aged 72.
SUMTEIl, THOMAS, colonel, only son of Gen.
S. of Revolutionary memory, died at his residence
near Statebnrg, S. C., in 1840, aged 71. His
son, J. L. S., was a mcmher of congress.
SUXSEETO, a Mohegan Indian, whose epi
taph is at Norwich :
" Here lies the body of Sunsecto.
0\vn son to Unciis, grandson to Oneeko,
Who were the famous sachems of Mohcgan;
But now they arc all dead, I think it is Wcrhocgen."
The meaning of Werheegcn is, all's well, or
good news. The epitaph was written by Mr.
Worthington of Xorwalk, son of Rev. Mr. "W. of
Saybrook. His irregularity of measure is almost
equal to that of some of our popular poets at the
present day.
SUTHERLAND, DAVID, minister of Bath,
X. II., died of disease of the heart, July 26, 1855,
aged 78. lie was long a very useful minister in
that part of the State in which he resided. He
published election sermon, 1815.
SUTHERLAND, COLIN, died at East Corra,
Canada, Oct. 15, 185C, aged 103, a native of Scot
land.
SWAIN, JOSEPH, minister of Wenham, Mass.,
died in 1792, aged about 70. He graduated at
Harvard in 1744, and was ordained in 1750.
SWAN, JOSIAII, minister of Dunstable, N. II.,
died in 1777, aged about G6. Born in Lancaster,
Mass., he graduated at Harvard in 1733. The
first minister, from 1695 to 1702, was Thomas
Weld.
SWAN, ROSWELL S., minister of Xorwalk,
Conn., died in 1819, aged 40. Born in Ston-
ington, he graduated at Yale in 1798, and was
ordained in 1807. The admissions to his church
were two hundred and sixty-one persons in twelve
years. — Spragues Annals.
SWAX, JAMES, colonel, died in Boston or
Dorchester about 1831. lie went with Judge
W. Lathroj) from Cambridge, and fought in the
battle of Bunker Hill. He was a representative
of Dorchester. He published an essay on the
fisheries, 1784 ; observations on the fisheries of
Massachusetts, 178G; dissuasion from the slave
trade ; on the obstructions to the commerce be
tween this country and France, in French, 1790.
SWAX, TIMOTHY, died at Xorthfield in 1842,
aged 82 ; skilled in sacred music, the author of
China and other pieces.
SWEAT, MOSES, first minister of Sanford,
Maine, died in 1822, aged about 60. He was
ordained when the church was formed in 1786.
Harvard gave him a degree in 1790.
SWEET, BENONI, died in Lebanon, Conn.,
August, 1840, aged 80 ; a celebrated surgeon.
SWEETZER, THOMAS W., died in Salem in
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1854, bequeathing 10,000 dollars to furnish the
poor with cooking-stoves.
SWETT, BENJAMIN, captain, was killed by
the Indians at Black Point, XT. II., 1677. He re
moved from Xewbury, Mass., to Hampton before
1664.
SWETT, JOHN BARNARD, M. D., died of the
yellow fever at Xcwburyport in 1796, aged 44.
The son of Samuel S. of Marblchead, he gradu
ated at Harvard in 1767, and studied physic in
Edinburgh. On his return he joined the Ameri
can army as a surgeon. After settling in 1780,
he had a wide surgical practice. He was intelli
gent, social, frank, good-humored, of polished
manners, a general favorite. His widow, a daugh
ter of W. Bourne of Marblehead, married Gov.
John T. Oilman. — Thachcr's Med. Diog.
SWETT, JOHN A., Dr., was born in Boston,
graduated in 1828, practised with high reputa
tion in New York, and died in 1854, aged 45.
His work on diseases of the chest, 1852, is a val
uable text-book. He was connected with the
Xew York city hospital, and was a professor of
the theory and practice of physic in the univer
sity of Xew York.
SWIFT, JOHN, the first minister of Framing-
ham, Mass., died in 1745, aged 67. Born in
Milton, he graduated at Harvard in 1697, and
was settled in 1701 His successors were M.
Bridge, D. Kellogg, G. Trask, and D. Brighani.
Two other churches have been formed. His son
John was a graduate of 1733, and minister of
Acton thirty-seven years from 1738, dying in
1775, aged 72. He published a sermon on the
death of II. Breck, 1731; election sermon, 1732.
— Sprague's Annals.
SWIFT, JOB, D. D., minister of Bennington,
Vt., died Oct. 20, 1804, aged about 61. He
was born in Sandwich, Mass., in 1743, and was
graduated at Yale college in 1765. About the
year 1766 he was ordained at Richmond, where
he continued seven years, making every exertion
to instruct his people in the peculiar doctrines
of the gospel. He was afterwards the minister
of Xine Partners in Xew York ; of Manchester,
Bennington, and Addison in Vermont. In Ben
nington he lived about sixteen years. While he
was on a mission, in the northern part of Ver
mont, undertaken at his own expense, he died at
Enosburgh. He rejoiced that his life was to ter
minate at a distance from his friends, without
witnessing the distresses of his family. The pa
tience with which he endured the pains of his
last sickness, and the composure with which he
met the king of terrors, excited the greatest as
tonishment in an unbeliever who was present.
While suffering a great variety of evils in life, he
never uttered a complaining word ; and, when
he discovered uneasiness or discontent in any of
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the members of his family, he inculcated upon
them the duty of submission, and reminded them
of the undeserved blessings which they were yet
permitted to enjoy. His wife was Mary Ann, the
sister of Judge Sedgwick. She died in 1826.
Benjamin, a senator from Vermont, and Samuel,
secretary of State, were their sons. A volume
of his sermons was published, 12mo., 1805. —
Sprague's Annals.
SWIFT, SETH, minister of Williamstown,
Mass., died in 1807, aged 58. Born in Kent, the
brother of Rev. Job S., he graduated at Yale in
1774 ; studied theology with Dr. Bellamy ; and
was ordained in 1776, the successor of the first
minister, Whitman Welch, and was succeeded by
Walter King. He was the father of Rev. E. G.
Swift of Stockbridge, and of Rev. Elisha P. Swift,
professor in the Alleghany theological seminary.
He was warm in his temper, and zealous and en
ergetic, yet prudent, revered, and loved.
SWIFT, ZEPHANIAH, LL. D., chief justice
of Connecticut, died Sept. 27, 1823, aged 64. He
was born in Wareham, Mass., in Feb., 1759; his
father removed to Lebanon. He graduated at
Yale college in 1778. After being a member of
congress from 1793 to 1796, he accompanied Mr.
Ellsworth as secretary to France. In 1801 he
was elected a judge. From 1806 to 1819 he was
chief justice. In 1814 he was a member of the
Hartford convention. He died at Warren while
on a visit to Ohio. An oration on account of his
death was pronounced by S. Perkins at Wind-
ham, the place of his residence. He left a widow,
Lucretia Webbs, and seven children. Unaided
by family friends, he rose to distinction. He was
a learned and upright judge. He published ora
tion on domestic slavery, 1791 ; a system of the
laws of Connecticut, 2 vols., 1795 ; a digest of
the law of evidence, and a treatise on bills of ex
change, 1810 ; digest of the laws of Connecticut,
2 vols., 1823.
SWIFT, HEMAN, Dr., died in Bennington Jan.
30, 1856, aged 62 ; an eminent physician and
Christian. The son of Rev. Dr. Swift, he gradu
ated at Middlebury in 1811.
SYKES, JAMES, M. D., of Maryland, died of
the gout in 1722, aged 61. He was born near
Dover. As a physician he practised four years
at Cambridge, on the eastern shore ; then re
moved to Dover. While there he discovered
that a dreadful cholic, causing many deaths, was
produced by adulterated Peruvian bark. A work
man in Philadelphia, employed in pulverizing
bark, had mixed with it oxide of lead, to increase
the weight. In 1814 he removed to New York ;
but after a few years returned to Dover. —
Thacker's Med. Biog.
SYME, ARCHIBALD, D. D., died in Peters-
burgh, Va., Oct. 26, 1845, aged 92 ; a respected
Episcopal minister and useful teacher. He was
born in Scotland.
SYMMES, ZECHARIAH, the second minister
of Charlestown, Mass., the son of Rev. AVilliam
S., died Feb. 4, 1671, aged 71. He was born in
Canterbury, April 5, 1599 ; came to New Eng
land in 1634 in the same ship with Ann Hutchin-
son and J. Lathrop ; and settled as colleague
with Mr. James, being chosen teacher Dec. 22,
1634. His son, Zechariah, the first minister of
Bradford, was born in 1638 ; was ordained Dec.
27, 1682, and died March 27, 1707, aged 69. He
preached the election sermon, 1648. — Sprague's
Annals.
SYMMES, THOMAS, second minister of Brad
ford, Mass., died Oct. 6, 1725, aged 47. He was
the son of Zechariah S., the first minister of that
town. He was born Feb. 1, 1678; was gradu
ated at Harvard college in 1698 ; was ordained
the first minister of Boxford Dec. 30, 1702, but
was dismissed from that town in 1708, and suc
ceeded his father at Bradford in the same year.
He was a man of strong powers of mind and of
very considerable learning ; an animated, popu
lar, faithful, and successful preacher. His exer
tions to do good in private and public were re
warded by large accessions to his church. He
was remarkable for the sanctity of his life, for
secret devotion, and for his regard to days of fast
ing and prayer. He published monitor to de
laying sinners ; artillery election sermon, 1720 ;
against prejudice; at the ordination of J. Emer
son, 1721 ; joco-serious dialogue on singing, 1723 ;
on the support of ministers, 1724; historical
memoirs of the fight of Piggwacket, May 9,
1725, with a sermon on Lovewell's death. An
account of his life was published by J. Brown, to
which is annexed his advice to his children and
to the church.
SYMMES, WILLIAM, D. D., minister of An-
dover, Mass., died in 1807, aged 77. He was
graduated at Harvard college in 1750, and from
1755 to 1758 was a tutor hi that seminary; he
was ordained Nov. 1, 1758. His sermons were
written with great care and in a style remarkably
neat and correct. He was distinguished for his
prudence ; was hospitable, dignified in his manners
and pure in his principles and conduct. He pub
lished election sermon, 1785, and two other occa
sional discourses.
SYMMES, JOHN CLEVES, captain, author of
the theory of the hollow earth, died at Hamilton,
Butler county, Ohio, June 19, 1829. He was a
native of New Jersey, but emigrated at an early
age to the west. He was the son, as I suppose,
of J. C. S., a judge of the supreme court of New
Jersey, a member of congress, and in 1788 a
judge of the northwest territory, who died at
Cincinnati in March, 1814, whose wife was Su-
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sanna, daughter of Gov. Livingston, and whose
daughter married Gen. "\Villiam II. Harrison.
For some years he was a captain in the army.
During the Avar of 1812, he distinguished himself
by his intrepidity on the Niagara. lie was an ami
able and exemplary man. On his strange theory
of the earth he lectured in many cities and towns,
apparently in full persuasion of its truth. lie
supposed that the hollow earth, open at the poles
for the admission of light, had within it six or
seven concentric hollow spheres, also open at
their poles.
TACKAXASII, JOHN, Indian minister on
Martha's Vineyard, died Jan. 22, 1G84. He was
ordained colleague with Iliacoomes Aug. 22,
1670, the day of the formation of the first Indian
church on the island. He possessed considera
ble talents, and was exemplary in his life. Allow
ing himself in few diversions, he studied much,
and seemed to advance in piety, as he became
more acquainted with the truths of the gospel.
Of Indian preachers he was the most distin
guished. In prayer he was devout and fervent ;
faithful in his instructions and reproofs ; strict in
the discipline of his church, excluding the im
moral from the ordinances till they repented.
So much was he respected, that the English,
when deprived of their own minister, attended
his meetings and received the Lord's supper from
his hands. He died in the peace and hope of the
Christian. His place of residence was at Nun-
paug at the east end of Martha's Vineyard. The
preacher in 1698, at the visitation of Mr. Raw-
son, was Joseph Tackquannash, as his name was
written, having charge of eighty-four Indians at
Nunnepoag. — Mayhew's Indian Conv. 15-16.
TADEUSKUND, principal chief of the Dela-
wares, died in 1763. He was burnt to death at
Wyoming on the Susquehannah. It is supposed
that he was made drunk, and then that his house
was set on fire, with the rest of the village. He
had been a useful man to his tribe.
TAFT, MOSES, one of the ministers of Brain-
tree, died in 1791, aged about 60. Born in Men-
don, he graduated at Harvard in 1751, and was
ordained in 1752. E. Eaton preceded him, and
Dr. J. Strong succeeded him.
TAFT, BJCZALEI-L, the son of Senator B. Taft,
was born in Uxbridge, and died in 1846, aged
66. A graduate of Harvard in 1804, he had no
occasion to depend for his support on the profes
sion of the law, but lived on a beautiful farm on
the banks of the Blackstone. He was represent
ative, senator, and councillor.
TAGGAUT, SAMUEL, minister of Colerain,
Mass., died in 1825, aged 71. For some years
he was a member of congress. Born in London
derry, he graduated at Dartmouth in 1774 ; was
settled in 1777 and resigned in 1818. He was a
member of congress. He published address to
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electors, 1811; on impressments, 1813; in final
perseverance, 1801.
TAGGAItT, CYNTHIA, a writer of poetry, died
in 1849, aged 47. She was born in Rhode Island.
Her grandfather, an old soldier, had a farm at
Middletown six miles from Newport, which in the
war the British laid waste, and made her father
a prisoner. From the jail at Newport he escaped
through a window which had wooden bars, and
he crossed to the main land at Bristol ferry on a
raft of rails. She was many years an invalid.
Many pieces of poetry, of a melancholy cast, she
wrote on her sick bed. Some of them were col
lected and published in a small volume. — Cycl.
of Amcr. Lit.
TAILER, WILLIAM, lieutenant-governor of
Massachusetts, died in 1732, aged 55. He came
from England with his commission from the
queen in 1711, and was stern for the prerogative,
and an Episcopalian ; but pleasant and facetious.
Marrying a relative of Gov. Stoughton, he came
in possession of his estate at Dorchester. — Eliot's
Biog.
TALCOTT, JOHN, major, probably of Hart
ford, a distinguished officer in the Indian war of
1676, resigned the office of treasurer of Connec
ticut on receiving his military appointment. A
small army of four hundred and fifty men, of
whom two hundred were Mohegan and Pequot
Indians, was assembled at Norwich, and he
marched in June into the Nipmuck country,
where nineteen Indians were killed and thirty-
three made prisoners. Thence he marched to
Quabaug or Brookfield, and Northampton. After
he arrived at N., about seven hundred Indians
attacked the garrison at Hadlcy ; but he crossed
the river for its relief, and thus saved the town,
and probably other towns, from destruction. He
scoured the country as far as the falls above
Deerfield. Then he marched to Providence and
did good service in the Narraganset country. In
all, about four hundred and twenty Indians fell
in battle and were captured. He returned to
Connecticut in July, and having recruited, marched
to Westfield, and thence to the Houssatonnoc
river, where he again fought the enemy success
fully. The sachem of Quabaug was killed, and
forty-one Indians killed or taken. About the
same time Capt. Church killed King Philip, Aug.
12, 1676, and the savages generally submitted to
the English or fled. Major T. was probably the
son of John T., who was of Cambridge in 1632,
and was an assistant at Hartford in 1654. —
TrumbulVs Hist. Conn.
TALCOTT, JOSEPH, governor of Connecticut
from 1724 to 1741, died Oct. 11, 1741, full of
days, and was succeeded by Gov. Law. He had
long served his country. Eminent for piety, he
called the periods of revival in his last years
times of refreshing ; but Gov. Law was rather
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disposed to suppress by rash legal enactments
what he deemed enthusiasm. His sister married
R. Edwards.
TALCOTT, HART, minister of Warren, Conn.,
died suddenly in 183G, aged 45. lie graduated
at Dartmouth in 1812. He was pastor of Kil-
lingworth, the successor of A. Mansfield, from
1818 to 1824. He succeeded P. Starr at W. in
1825.
TALCOTT, SAMUEL A., attorney-general of
New York, died at New York in 1836, aged 45.
Born at Hartford, he graduated at Williams col
lege in 1809. lie had brilliant talents, but, un
happily wanting self-discipline, he was the grief
of his friends. With what mighty weight for
good ought the notes of such warnings to come
upon the ears of the young and tempted ?
TALIAFEHRO, JOHN, died in Virginia in
1853, aged 85. For more than twenty years he
was a member of congress, and for several years
was librarian of the treasury department at
Washington.
TALLMADGE, JAMES, colonel, died at Pough-
keepsie in 1828, aged 78. He was a soldier of
the Revolution, and commanded a company of
volunteers at the capture of Burgoyne.
TALLMADGE, BENJAMIN, colonel, died at
Litchfield, Conn., March G, 1835, aged 81. He
was born at Brookhaven, L. I. ; was graduated
in 1773 ; from 1770 he served in the army until
the close of the war, and was a distinguished
officer. lie had the custody of Major Andre,
and regarded him with great affection. In many
actions he was unhurt, and he gratefully acknow
ledged the divine protection. From 1784 till
his death he lived as a merchant in Litchfield.
In 1817 he was a member of congress. His re
ligious impressions began in 1793, from reading
the life of Col. Gardiner. He was an eminent
Christian, and he died in triumph.
TALLMADGE, JAMES, general, died sud
denly at New York in 1853, aged 75. lie was
born in Stamford, Dutchess county, N. Y. ; his
father, James, was born in Sharon, Conn., and
was a soldier of the Revolution. In 1798 he
graduated at Brown university ; from Dutchess
county he was sent to congress in 1817. lie op
posed Mr. Clay in regard to the extension of
slavery beyond the Mississippi, maintaining the
principles of the Wilmot proviso in an able
speech ; and it is said Mr. Clny's hostility pre
vented him from being in the cabinet of J. Q.
Adams, or from being sent as a minister to Eng
land. He visited Russia in 1835. For twenty-
five years he lived in New York in the winter,
and at his seat on Wappinger's Creek in the sum
mer ; and there he was a practical and skilful
farmer. He had great talents as a public speaker.
Of the American institute he was the president.
TALLMAN PELEG, a merchant, died in Bath,
Me., in 1841, aged 72. Born at Tiverton, R. I.,
he entered the privateering service in 1778, at
the age of fourteen. In 1780 one of his arms
was shot off. From 1781 to 1783 he was a pris
oner. He next commanded a merchant vessel,
and he became a rich merchant.
TALMADGE, MATTHIAS BURNET, general,
died at Poughkeepsie, N. Y., Oct. 8, 1819, aged
45. Born at Stamford, N. Y., he graduated at
Yale in 1795. He was a judge of the district
court. His wife was a daughter of George Clin
ton. His only daughter married John Suyclam.
TALMAGE, JEIIIEL, died at Bloomfiekl,*N. J.,
Sept. 26, 1854, aged 69. He was twenty-three
years pastor of Knowlton, and then a minister in
Ohio, laborious and earnest. He was buried be
side his Christian parents in Somcrvillc. His
son, P. S. T., is minister of Bloomficld, at whose
house he died.
TANTEQUIGGEN, LUCY, an Indian, the
Avidow of John T., died at Mohegan, Conn., in
June, 1830, aged 97. She was the sister of Sam
son Occom, the celebrated Indian preacher, and
a descendant by her mother from Uncas. She
was regarded as a pious woman ; in her last days
she expressed her willingness to die, that " she
might go where she should sin no more." A few
weeks after her death a Sunday-school was opened
at her house, where three or four generations of
her descendants lived, and this commencement
of benevolent efforts for the remnant of a once
powerful tribe has led to the erection of a meet
ing-house and the establishment of a teacher
among these Indians.
TAPPAN, or TOPPAN, PETER, Dr., was the
son of Abraham, a settler in Newbury, Mass., in
1637, and Susannah Goodale. He was born in
England in 1634; his sons were Peter, Samuel,
and Christopher. His last child was born in
1674. He was killed by a fall. One of the sons
or grandsons of Abraham emigrated to New
York, and from him, it is supposed, the town of
Tappan and Tappan Sea derived their name.
TAPPAN, EDMUND, a physician in Hampton,
N. II., died in 1739, aged about 40. He was the
son of Christopher, and grandson of Dr. Peter.
His mother was Sarah Angier of Cambridge.
TAPPAN, AMOS, minister of Kingston, N. II.,
died in 1771, aged 35. Born in Newbury, Mass.,
he graduated at Harvard in 1768.
TAPPAN, DAVID, D. I)., professor of divinity
in Harvard college, died Aug. 27, 1803, aged 51.
He was the son of Benjamin Tappan, minister of
Manchester, and was born April 21, 1753. The
name was formerly written Toppan. lie was
graduated at Harvard college in 1771. After
pursuing the study of divinity for two or three
years he commenced preaching, and was ordained
minister of the third church in Newbury in April,
1774. In this place he continued about eighteen
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years. His successor was Leonard Woods. In
June, 1792, he was elected professor of divinity
in Harvard college in the place of Dr. Wiggles-
worth, who had resigned, and after anxious de
liberation and the advice of an ecclesiastical
council he was inaugurated Dec. 26, 1792. When
he was introduced into this office, the students
of the university were uncommonly dissolute.
For some time they had received no regular in
struction in theology, and the tide of opinion be
gan to run in the channel of Infidelity. But the
lectures of Dr. Tappan, which combined enter
tainment with information, which were profound
and yet pathetic, elegant in style and conclusive
in argument, and which came warm from a pious
heart, soon checked the progress of profanencss
and dissipation, and put open irreligion to shame.
He was succeeded by Dr. Ware. His widow,
Mary, died in Sept., 1831, aged 72. His son,
Benjamin T., was the minister of Augusta, Me.
He possessed much activity and vigor of mind,
fertility of invention, and force of imagination.
He had a facility in fixing his attention, and dis
criminating and arranging' his thoughts. His
readiness of conception and command of lan
guage enabled him both in speaking and writing
to express what he thought and felt with pro
priety, perspicuity, and force. The religious
principles which he embraced were the doctrines
of the eternal counsels of Jehovah ; man's fallen,
ruined state ; the electing love of God ; the
atonement of Christ; justification by grace ; and
the efficacy of the Divine Spirit in renewing sin
ners and preparing them for glory. The doctrine
of redemption by a crucified Saviour constituted
in his view the basis of the gospel. In such a
light did he regard the proper divinity of Jesus
Christ, that he declared it to be " the rock of
his eternal hopes." To benevolence and candor,
sincerity in speech, and uprightness in conduct,
he joined the careful cultivation and practice of
the personal virtues. He was superior to all fret
ful and anxious thoughts about his temporal
affairs, and to all vanity of external appearance.
When tried by the ignorance and stupidity or
by the perverseness and injustice of men, he was
calm and collected. For the conduct of those,
who had treated him with the most painful
unkindness, he invented the most charitable ex
cuses, and even sought opportunities of doing
them good. His religion as well as his nature
disposed him to sympathy, tenderness, and love.
Kind affections lighted up his countenance, gave
a glow to his conversation, and cheerfulness to
his active benevolence. When arrested by his
last sickness, and warned of his approaching dis
solution, he was not discomposed. With many
expressions of humility and self-abasement inter
mingled, he declared his hope in the infinite
mercy of God through the atonement of Christ.
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When his wife expressed some of the feelings
which were excited by the thought of parting
with him, he said : " If God is glorified, I am
made forever. Can't you lay hold of that ? " To
his sons, he said : " I charge you to love God
supremely, and to love your neighbor as your
selves ; for without these there is no true reli
gion." He had such a sense of the evil of sin
and of his own ill desert, that nothing could
afford him consolation but the all-sufficient grace
of the Redeemer. In Jesus Christ his soul found
rest. He published two discourses, preached on
the Sabbath after his ordination, 1774; a dis
course on the character and best exertions of
unregencrate sinners, 1782 ; a sermon on the fast,
1783; on the peace, 1783; on the death of M.
Parsons, 1784; of eight persons drowned, 1794;
of J. Russell, 1796 ; of Washington, 1800 ; of
S. Phillips, 1802 ; of Dr. Hitchcock, and Mary
Dana, 1803; two friendly letters to Philalcthes,
1785; at the ordination of J. Dickinson, 1789;
of J. T. Kirkland, 1794 ; of J. Kendall ; of N. II.
Fletcher, 1800 ; installation of H. Packard, 1802 ;
address to the students of Andover academy,
1791 ; at the election, 1792 ; before an association
at Portsmouth, 1792 ; farewell sermon at New-
bury ; on the fast, 1793 ; a discourse to gradu
ates ; address to students at Andover ; to the
class which entered college, 1794, 179G, and
1798 ; on the thanksgiving, 1795 ; before the
convention, 1797 ; on the fast, 1798. Since his
death there have been published sermons on im
portant subjects, 8vo., and lectures on Jewish
antiquities, 8vo., 1807. — Panoplist, I.
TAPPAX, SAMUEL, died at Portsmouth April
29, 1806, aged 45; the highly esteemed teacher
of one of the public schools, a very eminent
Christian. He was the son of Rev. Mr. T. of
Manchester.
TAPPAN, AMOS, died in Portsmouth, N. H.,
in 1821, aged about 53. He was the son of Rev.
Benjamin T. ; was graduated at Harvard in 1788 ;
and for nearly thirty years taught a classical
school in P. Ilis wife was Isabella, the sister of
Rev. Joseph Buckminster.
TAPPAX, BENJAMIN, minister of Manchester,
Mass., died in 1790, aged about 70. He was the
son of Samuel, a farmer of Xewbury, and grand
son of Dr. Peter T., and his wife, Abigail Wig-
glesworth, was the daughter of the minister of
Maiden. He had twelve children ; two of his
sons, David and Amos, were graduates. He
wished also to educate Benjamin ; but, settled
on a salary of eighty pounds, his son, who over
heard him speaking of his poverty, nobly re
solved that he would not go to college. He
| graduated at Harvard college in 1742 ; his name
appears in the catalogue as Toppan.
TAPPAN, BENJAMIN, a merchant of North
ampton, Mass., died Jan. 29, 1831, aged 83. Of
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his ancestors, who wrote the name Toppan in
stead of Tappan, Abraham was the first in this
country ; he came from Yarmouth, England, and
settled at Xcvvbury in 1637, dying in 1672, leav
ing sons, Peter, Abraham, Jacob, John, and Isaac,
whose descendants have been many. He was the
son of Rev. Benjamin T., and the eldest of twelve
children. He served his time with William
Homes, a goldsmith of Boston, a descendant of
Rev. W. H., and the grandfather of Henry
Homes, and whose wife was a daughter of Mrs.
Mary Dawes, Dr. Franklin's sister, the mother
of William Dawes, a worthy citizen. He settled
in Northampton as a goldsmith in 1769, and
afterwards was a merchant, of the firm of Tappan
and Whitney. He was a patriot of the Revolu
tion, and marched with other volunteers from
Northampton to meet the forces of Burgoyne at
Saratoga. He was a man of most exemplary
character, of integrity and prudence, of Christian
principle and feeling, who brought vip his large
family in the paths of virtue and honor, and who
lived to be rewarded, as many other New Eng
land parents have been, by seeing his children
industrious, upright, enterprising, prosperous,
and some of them men of distinction in our coun
try. Instead of remembering and honoring such
a citizen and head of a family, why is it that a
mere adventurer, of no principle, who in perhaps
an unjust war loses an arm or only feels the
breath of a cannon-ball, is applauded through the
land, and elevated to some office, and pensioned
with an annual bounty from the public treasury
during the remainder of his life ? Is it not be
cause the race of fools is not extinct ? or, to speak
more calmly, because we the people are not wise ?
The children of Mr. Tappan knew how to honor
the memory of such parents as God had given
them. There assembled in the place of their
birth, June 1, 1848, from different States six
brothers, — still living in 1857, — and three sis
ters, between the ages of 60 and 77, namely :
Benjamin, a democratic lawyer of Ohio, who had
been a senator of the United States ; William,
a farmer of Binghamton, N. Y. ; John, long a
merchant in Boston, whose life forty years be
fore Providence had preserved, when the ship
Jupiter, in which he was returning from England,
struck an iceberg and sunk with most of the
passengers, and who is well known for his benev
olent deeds ; Arthur, one of the founders of Ober-
lin college, a merchant of New York, who had
failed with high honor, for with a debt of a mil
lion of dollars he paid up the whole ; Charles, a
bookseller in Boston ; Lewis, a merchant in New
York, whose talents and zeal have been mani
fested in the anti-slavery cause; Sarah, since
deceased, the wife of Solomon Stoddard of North
ampton ; Rebecca, the wife of Col. William Ed
wards of New York ; Lucv, the widow of Rev. Dr.
TAPPAN.
John Pierce of Brookline. Of this family of nine
there were a hundred children, among them six
or eight ministers, or the wives of ministers, —
one, David Tappan Stoddard, a missionary in
Persia. Besides these, Mr. Tappan's daughter
Elizabeth, who died in 1819, was the wife of a
minister, Rev. Alexander Phoenix.
TAPPAN, SARAH, wife of Benjamin T., died
at Northampton March 26, 1826, aged 78. She
was the daughter of William Homes, goldsmith,
who was an excellent Christian, a descendant of
Rev. W. Homes. Her mother was a daughter
of Thomas Dawes of Boston. Her life Avas a
Christian life and her end was peace. She left
nine children, and sixty-one grandchildren. Her
memoir was published in 1834.
TAPPAN, ENOCH S., M. D., died in Augusta,
Me., in 1847, aged 65. The son of Professor T.,
he graduated at Harvard in 1801.
TAPPAN, CHRISTOPHER, died at Newbury
July 23, 1747, aged 75, having been minister of
the first church fifty years. He was the son of
Peter T. ; graduated at Harvard in 1691, and was
ordained in 1696. -He was a man of learning
and piety, a very successful minister, and a useful
physician and surgeon, demanding no fees.
TAPPAN, WILLIAM BLNGHAM, a religious
poet, died in West Needham, Mass., in 1849,
aged 54; general agent of the American Sunday
school union. His father was Samuel T. of Bev
erly, a teacher, who died when he was twelve
years old. His only schooling Avas for six months.
An apprentice, he ascribed much in the preser
vation of his morals to his mother's prayers. He
toiled and studied ; for four years he was not ab
sent from church. Of twelve apprentices Avith
him, all but tAvo came to ruin. He was a success
ful teacher six years in Philadelphia. After his
marriage he became a religious man. Removing
to Boston, he zealously engaged in Sabbath
schools, and was salesman of the Sunday school
union. In Cincinnati he prosecuted the same be
nevolent object ; also again four years in Phila
delphia ; then the rest of his life in Boston. In
1840 he obtained a license to preach, and he
preached with great interest at Mattapoisett the
last Sabbath before his death. His attack Avas
sudden and violent, but his faith failed not ; he
said, "I'm going, — my sight is gone, — Avifc,
daughter, fareAvell ; Lord Jesus, receive my spirit."
Such a benefactor of men deserves honorable re
membrance. He died a poor man at Grantville,
Needham. He published several volumes of
poetry, but without pecuniary profit.
TAPPAN, JAMES, colonel, died at Gloucester
Feb. 6, 1853, aged 85. His death was occasioned
or hastened by a fall on the ice. As he Avas the
early schoolmaster of D. Webster, he frequently
in his old age Avas the grateful recipient of his
bounty. Such a record is most honorable to his
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great scholar, who preceded him in the descent
to the grave.
TAPPEX, JOHN, an officer in the Revolutionary
war, died at Fallsburgh in 1846, aged 92.
TARLETON, B., lieutenant-colonel in the
British service, published a history of the southern
campaigns of 1780 and 1781, 4to., London, 1787.
TASK, THOMAS, colonel, a brave officer in the
French and Revolutionary wars, died in New
Durham, X.H., in 1809, aged 87. Born in Dur
ham, he lived twenty years in N. D., in the set
tlement of which town he was active.
TASSEMAKER, Mr., the first minister set
tled in Schencctady, was murdered with all his
family by the Indians, who burned that city in
1690. He was of the Dutch church. Rev. J.
Fonda could obtain no information of his age
and character, the annals of the Dutch church
having perished.
TATIIAM, WILLIAM, an engineer and drunk
ard, threw himself before the mouth of a gun,
fired at Richmond, Va., Feb. 22, 1819, on the
birthday of Washington, and* was blown to
pieces, aged 67. A native of England, a lawyer
in North Carolina, Mr. Monroe gave him an
office in the arsenal in Virginia. He compiled an
analysis of Virginia, and published two tracts re
lating to the canal between Norfolk and North
Carolina.
TAWAXQUATUCK, the first sachem con
verted to Christianity on Martha's Vineyard, lived
on that island when the English first settled
there in 1642. He died about the year 1670.
His conversion, through the labors of Mr. May-
hew, was a circumstance very irritating to his
copper-colored brethren, who were indignant
that he should turn away from the religion of
their fathers. One night, after an assembly of
the Indians, as Tawanquatuck lay asleep upon a
mat by a little fire, an Indian approached him
and let fly a broad-headed arrow, intending to
drench it in his heart's blood ; but it struck his-
eyebrow, and being turned in its direction by the
solid bone, glanced and slit his nose from the
top to the bottom. The next morning Mr. May-
hew visited the sagamore, and found him prais
ing God for his great deliverance. He afterwards
became a Christian magistrate to his people, and
discharged faithfully the trust reposed in him as
long as he lived. — Mayhew's Indian Converts.
TAYLOR, JOSEPH, minister of Southampton,
L. I., died in 1682, aged 30. He graduated at
Harvard in 1669, and succeeded Rev. Robert
Fordham in 1680.
TAYLOR, JOHN, minister of Milton, Mass.,
died in 1749, aged 56. Born in Boston, he grad
uated at Harvard in 1721, and was ordained in
1728, the successor of P. Thacher. His succes
sor was N. Robbins. He was a classmate of
Dr. Chauncy, to whom he left his papers with
orders to burn them, and who says of him that
few men were more universally beloved. — Hist.
Coll., vol. x.
TAYLOR, NATHANIEL, minister of New Mil-
ford, Conn., died in 1800, aged 78, in the fifty-
second year of his ministry. Born in Danbury,
he graduated at Yale in 1745, and" was ordained
in 1748. He was a scholar and a teacher of
youth preparing for college, and a trustee of the
college. In 1759 he was a chaplain at Ticonde-
roga, and a patriot in the war of the Revolution,
in one year relinquishing his salary to his people.
S. Griswold became his colleague in 1790. By
his first wife, who was a daughter of Rev. D.
Boardman, the first minister of New Milford, he
had a son, Nathaniel, who was the father of Rev.
Dr. N. Taylor of the theological seminary at New
Haven. He published a sermon at Crown Point,
1762; at the ordination of D. Brownson, 1764.
— Sprague's Annals.
TAYLOR, EDWARD, first minister of Warro-
noce or Westfield, Mass., was born in Leicester
shire, England, in 1642, and died June 29, 1729,
aged 87. A graduate of Harvard in 1671, he in
the same year Avent to Westfield to preach ;
Philip's war delayed his settlement till Aug. 27,
1679. X. Bull was his colleague in 1726. Sub
sequent ministers have been J. Ballantine, N. At-
water, I. Knapp and E. Davis. He married in
1674 Elizabeth, daughter of James Fitch of Nor
wich. His second wife, in 1692, was Ruth,
daughter of Samuel Wyllys of Hartford. By her
he had five daughters, who married ministers ;
Ruth, who married Rev. B. Colton of West
Hartford ; Naomi, who married Rev. E. Devo
tion of Suffield ; Anne, who married Rev. B.
Lord of Norwich ; Mehitable, who married Rev.
W. Gager of Lebanon ; and Keziah, who married
Rev. Isaac Stiles, and was the mother of Presi
dent Stiles. He had four other daughters, who
married ministers in Connecticut. His descend
ants remain in W. Among his descendants is
II. W. Taylor of Canandaigua, a judge of the su
preme court of New Yrork. He left fourteen
quarto volumes of four hundred pages each;
much of it in poetry. — Holland's Hist. II. 142 ;
Sprague's Annals.
TAYLOR, GEORGE, a patriot of the Revolu
tion, died at Easton Feb. 23, 1781, aged 65. He
was born in Ireland in 1716. On his arrival at
Durham on the Delaware, he engaged in labor in
the iron works of a Mr. Savage, who paid the
expenses of his voyage. Advanced to be clerk,
after the death of Mr. S. he married his widow,
and became a man of fortune. Being a member
of congress soon after the declaration of inde
pendence was passed, he signed the engrossed
copy Aug. 2, 1776. — Goodrich.
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TAYLOR.
TAYLOR, WILLIAM, died in Pitt county,
N. C., in Oct., 1794, aged 114. He was a native
of Virginia.
TAYLOR, HEZEKIAH, first minister of New-
fane, Vt., died in 1814, aged 66. Born in Graf-
ton, Mass., he graduated at Harvard in 1770 and
was settled in 1774.
TAYLOR, JOHN, colonel, a senator of the
United States, died suddenly in Caroline county,
Va., Aug. 20, 1824, at an advanced age. He
was distinguished for his attention to agriculture.
He published construction construed ; an inquiry
into the principles and policy of the government
of the United States, 1814 ; and other works.
TAYLOR, RICHARD, commodore, died in Old-
ham county, Ky., in 182-5, aged 78. He was an
officer in the Revolutionary war.
TAYLOR, JAMES, minister of Sunderland,
Mass., died in 1831, aged 47. He graduated at
Williams college in 1804.
TAYLOR, JOHN, colonel, governor of South
Carolina from 1826 to 1828, died in 1832. He
had been a member of congress.
TAYLOR, JOHN, a Baptist minister, died in
Franklin county, Ky., in 1835, aged 82.
TAYLOR, SARAH LOUISA, died in 1838, aged
27. Her memoir was written by Rev. Lot
Jones.
TAYLOR, JOHN, minister, died at Bruce,
Mich., in 1840, aged 77. He graduated at Yale
in 1784.
TAYLOR, JOHN, minister of Deerfield, Mass.,
died in 1840, aged about 76. Born in Westfield,
he graduated at Yale in 1784, and was pastor
from 1787 to 1806, the successor of J. Ashley,
and was succeeded in 1807 by Rev. Dr. Wil-
lard, who still lives in this year, 1857. He pub
lished century sermon, 1804; farewell at Deer-
field, 1806.
TAYLOR, PHILIP W., a minister for sixty
years, died in Shelby county, Ky., about 1840,
aged upwards of 80. Born in Caroline county,
Va., he was a soldier of the Revolution, and
present at the surrender of Cornwallis. In 1781
he was a pioneer settler in Kentucky. He
was not only a preacher, but for two years high
sheriff.
TAYLOR, JOHN M., colonel, died in Phila
delphia in 1843, aged 92. He was commissary-
general of the American army in 1775, at the
siege of Quebec, and he remained in the service
with honor till 1779.
TAYLOR, SAMUEL AUSTIN, missionary to
Constantinople, died at Worcester in 1847, aged
28. He graduated at Amherst in 1837, and at
Andover theological seminary in 1842.
TAYLOR, JAMES, general, died at Newport,
Ky., in 1848, aged 80. His last political act was
voting, on his sick bed, on the day of his death,
for his relative, President Taylor. He served iu
the war of 1812. It was thought his landed es
tate was worth 3 or 4,000,000 of dollars.
TAYLOR, ZACHARY, president of the United
States, died at Washington July 9, 1850, aged
65. The son of Col. Richard T., he was born in
Orange county, Va., Sept. 24, 1784. Perhaps
Zachary Tailor, who arrived in Virginia in 1635,
was his ancestor. In 1808 he entejed the army.
In 1810 he married Margaret Smith of Maryland.
In the war of 1812 he served at the west; in
1816 he commanded at Green Bay. He served
under Scott in the Black Hawk war. He was
also in the Florida war, and was intrusted with
the command of all the troops. At the close of
the war he purchased an estate and settled at
Baton Rouge. He distinguished himself greatly
in the Mexican war, and among other victories,
gained, Feb. 23, 1847, the memorable one of
Bucna Vista over Santa Anna. The whig con
vention of 1848, smitten with his military fame,
nominated him for the presidency. He was in
augurated March 4, 1849. He was ill only five
days, was in office sixteen months, and was
succeeded by Mr. Fillmore. He left a widow, one
son, and two daughters: Ann, married to Dr.
R. C. Wood, surgeon in the army; Bessy, to
Major W. W. S. Bliss. A daughter deceased,
Sarah Knox, was married to Col. Jefferson Davis.
TAYLOR, OLIVER ALDEN, minister of Man
chester, Mass., died Dec. 18, 1851, aged 50.
Born at Yarmouth, his mother was the daugh
ter of Rev. T. Alden. His parents emigrated to
Ilawley, where he had no advantages of early
education. At the age of sixteen he joined the
church with fifty-three others. Having prepared
to enter college at an academy, he borrowed 10
dollars, and made a journey on foot to Alleghany
college, where his uncle, T. Alden, was president.
He graduated at Union college in 1825, and
studied theology at Andover, where he lived
twelve years, devoted to literary pursuits. He
was the minister of M. from 1839 till his death ;
and was eminent for learning and piety. His
wife was a daughter of Dr. N. Cleaveland. In
1836 he was a teacher of sacred literature iu the
seminary at Andover. He published various ar
ticles in the biblical repository and spirit of the
pilgrims; brief views of the Saviour, for the
young, 1835 ; the music of the Hebrews, a trans
lation ; memoirs of llcinhard; catalogue of the
seminary library, 1838 ; memoir of Andrew Lee,
1844 ; also some poetical effusions. A memoir
of him by his brother, Rev. T. A. Taylor, was
published in 1853. — Rprayue's Annals.
TAYLOR, STEPHEN, D. D., died at Rich
mond, Va., in 1853, aged 56. He graduated at
Williams college in 1815, and was for a quarter
of a century one of the most useful ministers in
Virginia. He was a professor in the theological
seminary ; but, not concurring in the acts of the
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general assembly in 1838, he resigned that office.
lie had peace in death.
TAYLOR, RICHARD, second chief of the In
dian Cherokee nation, died at Tahlequah, Ar
kansas, in 1853. He commanded under Jackson
in the Creek war.
TAYLOR, JOHN W., a distinguished states
man, died at Cleveland, Ohio, in 1854, aged 70.
He died in the family of his son-in-law, "W. D.
Bcattie. Born in Saratoga county, N. Y., he
studied law in Albany, and was a member of
congress from 1813 to 1833, and was speaker in
1821. He was most earnestly opposed to the
admission of Missouri as a slave State. He sur
vived the great debaters on that subject, King,
Tallmadge, Clay, Holmes, Randolph, Pinckuey,
and Storrs.
TAYLOR, STEPHEN W., LL. D., president
of Madison university, Hamilton, N. Y., died in
1856, aged 66. He had been wasting away by
disease two or three years. He was a graduate
of Hamilton college, having borrowed the money
necessary to defray the expenses of his educa
tion. About 1816 he was at the head of Black
river academy at Lowville ; in 1834 he took
charge of the grammar school at Hamilton. In
1846 he went to Pennsylvania and built up a
Baptist college. In 1850 he became president of
Madison university. His son, B. F. Taylor, was
an editor at Chicago ; and his son, A. H. Taylor,
principal of Hamilton academy. He was gen
tlemanly, affectionate, and generous. He had
an iron will. He said to students in poverty,
" Every boy in this country can acquire a liberal
education, if he wills it."
TECUMSEH, an Indian chief, died Oct. 5,
1813, aged 43. He was the son of a Shawanee
warrior, and was born on the Scioto river, Ohio.
He was engaged in many incursions into Ken
tucky, and intercepted many boats descending the
Ohio. It is supposed that about 1806 he and
his brother, Elskwatawa the prophet, formed the
project of uniting all the western Indians in a
war against the Americans. When Gen. Harri
son attacked and defeated the prophet in the
battle of Tippecanoe, Nov. 7, 1811, Tecumseh
was absent, on a visit to the south. In the war
of 1812 he was an ally to the British, with the
rank of brigadier-general. At the siege of fort
Meigs, and at the second assault in July, he was
present, being at the head of two thousand warriors.
In the battle at Moravian town, on the Thames,
Gen. Harrison had for his aids Gen. Cass and
Com. Perry. Col. R. M. Johnson commanded
on the left, and came in personal conflict, it is
said, with Tecumseh. His horse being killed and
himself wounded by three balls in his right thigh
and two in the left arm, the savage chief rushed
upon him with his tomahawk; but, drawing a
pistol from his holster, Johnson laid him dead at
his feet. In this battle, Col. J.'s brother, Lieut-
Col. James J., was killed. The project of uniting
all the western Indians against the Americans,
and the efforts made to execute the project, dis
play a savage energy and perseverance, but indi
cate very little wisdom. The prophet as well as
the warrior being now deceased, such a combina
tion will probably never be made again. King
Philip; Pontiac, the Ottawas chief, who in 1763
captured Michillimackinac and invested Detroit ;
the Prophet, and Tecumseh, may be regarded as
the most remarkable of the savage warriors of
America. His life was written by Dr. Daniel
Drake, 1841.
TEFFT, ELIZA, wife of Rev. J. C. Tefft, mis
sionary in Africa, died at the Mendi station June
10, 1851, aged 26. She was the daughter of
E. C. Benton of Pittsfield, Mass., afterwards of
Seville, Ohio.
TELFER, Dr., died at Toronto, Upper Can
ada, March 7, 1857, an eminent physician.
TEMPLE, DANIEL, a missionary in Malta,
died in Reading, Mass., Aug. 9, 1851, aged 61.
Born in Reading, the eldest of thirteen children,
he worked at the trade of a shoemaker till the
age of twenty-one, when he became a Christian
convert. He graduated at Dartmouth in 1817 ;
at the theological seminary in Andover in 1820.
Having been an agent for the American board of
missions one year, he was ordained in 1821. He
sailed as a missionary for Malta in 1822, and car
ried with him the first printing-press for the east.
His wife, Rachel, the daughter of Col. T. Dix of
Boscawen, N. II., died in Malta in 1827. In
1830 he married Martha Ely of Longmeadow,
Mass., and sailed again for Malta. From 1833
to 1844 he lived in Smyrna, occupied with his
press. But now, a change being determined up
on in the Greek department of the mission in
Turkey, to which he was specially devoted, it
was deemed best that he should return to Amer
ica. He was employed as an agent of the board,
and in preaching in various places. In 1847 he
was installed at Phelps in New York, where he
continued two years. He died in his paternal
home, in the midst of his relatives, in the confi
dence that he was going to his eternal home in
the heavens. He said : " I am a happy man. I
am looking forward to an eternity of blessedness."
His name was venerated in the east by Turks
and Greeks. They knew him long and well.
He was not only noble in looks, but truthful and
generous in character. He published a sermon
at Boston, 1822. In connection with his press
he prepared books in the modern Greek, Italian,
and Armenian languages ; he wrote many Scrip
ture histories, and edited a magazine in Greek.
— Sprayue's Annals.
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TENNENT.
TEX BROECK, PETRUS, Episcopal minister
at Portland, Me., died at Danvers, Mass., in 1849,
aged 57.
TEX EYCK, SARAH, died in Somerset county,
N. J., in 1844, aged 101 years.
TEXXEXT, JOHN, a physician of Virginia,
published at Williamsburgh, in 1736, an essay on
the pleurisy, which was reprinted in Xe\v York
in 1742. In this work he first brought into view
the virtues of the Seneca snake-root. The im
mediate cause of a pleurisy or peripneumony, in
his opinion, is a viscidity of blood of the same
nature with that produced by the venom of the
rattlesnake ; and, as the rattlesnake root had
been found a cure for the bite of the snake, he
proposed it as a cure for the pleurisy. — Ham-
say's Rev. 36.
TEXXEXT, WILLIAM, a useful scholar and
minister of a Presbyterian church at Xeshaminy,
Penn., died about 1743. He received Episcopal
ordination in Ireland, and emigrated to this coun
try in the year 1718, with four sons, Gilbert,
William, John, and Charles. After his arrival he
renounced his connection with the Episcopal
church, and was admitted into the synod of Phila
delphia. He spent a short time in the State of
New York, and then in 1721 or 1722 removed to
Bensalem, Penn. Here he remained not more than
four or five years ; for in 1726 he settled at Xesha
miny, about twenty miles north of the city of
Philadelphia, where he became pastor of a small
Presbyterian congregation. Here he established
a seminary of learning, which soon received the
name of the " log college," by which it was long
known. But this institution, though humble in
name, was the nursery in which many ministers
of the gospel were trained up for eminent useful
ness. Among these were his four sons, who
•were educated under his sole instruction, and
Messrs. Rowland, Campbell, Lawrence, Bcatty,
Robinson, and Samuel Blair. He had the hap
piness to see all his sons employed in the ser
vice of the church for several years before his
death. As the calls for ministerial service were
urgent, he sent them out as soon as they were
qualified for the work. Of these, John died in
early life, and the others lived to an advanced age,
and were among the most useful and respectable
ministers of their time. He was a man of great
integrity, simplicity, industry, and piety; and to
his labors and benevolent zeal the American
churches are in no small degree indebted. — Bou-
dinofs Life of T.
TEXXEXT, GILBERT, minister of Philadelphia,
the son of the preceding, died about 1765, aged
62. lie was born in Ireland. At the age of
14 he began to be anxious for the salvation of his
soul ; he was often in great agony of mind, but at
length the character of Jesus Christ as the Sav
iour of sinners filled him with peace. Still he
was diffident of his Christian character, and in
consequence pursued the study of physic for a
year, but afterwards devoted himself to theology.
In the autumn of 1726 he was ordained minister
of Xew Brunswick in X. J. For some time he
was the delight of the pious, and was honored by
those who were destitute of religion. But, when
God began to bless Iris faithful labors to the
awakening of secure sinners, and to their conver
sion from darkness unto light, he presently lost
the good opinion of false professors ; his name
was loaded with reproaches, and the grossest im
moralities were attributed to him. But he bore
all with patience. Though he had sensibility to
character as well as other men, yet he was willing
to encounter disgrace, rather than neglect preach
ing the truth, however offensive to the sinful,
whom he wished to reclaim. Towards the close
of the year 1740 and in the beginning of the
year 1741, he made a tour in Xew England, at
the request of Mr. Whitefield. An astonishing
efficacy accompanied his labors. Visiting various
towns, he was everywhere remarkably useful. In
this tour the dress, in which he commonly entered
the pulpit, was a great coat, girt about him with
a leathern girdle, while his natural hair was left
undressed. His large stature and grave aspect
added a dignity to the simplicity or rather rus
ticity of his appearance. In 1743 he established
a new church in Philadelphia, consisting of the
followers of Mr. Whitefield. In 1753, at the re
quest of the trustees of New Jersey college, he
went to England to solicit benefactions for that
seminary. After a life of great usefulness he died
in much peace, and was succeeded by Dr. Sproat.
For more than forty years he had enjoyed a
habitual, unshaken assurance of his interest -in re
deeming love. As a preacher, he was in his vig
orous days equalled by but few. His reasoning
powers were strong, his language forcible and
often sublime, and his manner of address warm
and earnest. His eloquence, however, was rather
bold and awful than soft and persuasive. When
he wished to alarm the sinner, he could represent
in the most awful manner the terrors of the Lord.
He was bold, courageous, ardent, and indepen
dent. A number of Presbyterians, both among the
clergy and laity, who were considered as mere
formalists in religion, violently opposed Mr.
Whitefield and Mr. T. The consequence was
that the synod of Philadelphia was split into
two synods, which treated each other with great
censoriousness. At length Mr. T., who had been
principally concerned in promoting the separa
tion, became desirous of restoring harmony, and
labored with great industry for this purpose. His
longest and most elaborate publication, entitled
the peace of Jerusalem, was upon this subject.
The synods were united in 1758. The whole
transaction illustrates his character. An ardent
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love to -what he conceived to be truth and duty
always triumphed over all considerations of a per
sonal kind. He published the righteousness of
the scribes and pharisees considered ; a sermon
on justification; remarks upon a protestation to
the synod, 1741 ; the examiner examined, or Gil
bert Tennent harmonious, in answer to Mr. Han
cock's pamphlet, entitled the examiner, or Gilbert
against Tennent ; three sermons on holding fast
the truth against the Moravians ; at the ordina
tion of C. Beatty, 17-43; on the victory of the
British arms: two sermons at Philadelphia, on
account of a revival of religion in Prince's Chris
tian history, 1744 ; on the success of the expedi
tion against Louisburg ; discourses on several
subjects, on the nature of justification, on the law,
and the necessity of good works vindicated, 12mo.,
1745; on the lawfulness of defensive war, 1747;
on the consistency of defensive war with true
Christianity ; defensive war defended ; a fast ser
mon ; before the sacramental solemnity, 1748 ;
essay on the peace of Jerusalem ; at a thanksgiv
ing; on the displays of divine justice in the pro
pitiatory sacrifice of Christ, 1749 ; sermons on
important subjects, adapted to the present state
of the British nation, 8vo., 1758; at the opening of
the Presbyterian church. — Assembly's Miss.
Mag. I. 238-248; n. 46.
TEXNENT, WILLIAM, minister, of Freehold,
N. J., died March 8, 1777, aged 71. He was the
brother of the preceding, and was born in Ireland,
June 3, 1705. He arrived in America when in
the 14lh year of his age. Having resolved to de
vote himself to the ministry of the gospel, his in
tense application to the study of theology under
the care of his brother at New Brunswick so im
paired his health as to bring on a decline. He be
came more and more emaciated, till little hope of
life was left. At length he fainted and apparently
expired. The neighbors were invited to attend
his funeral on the next day. In the evening his
physician, a young gentleman who was his par
ticular friend, returned to the town and was af
flicted beyond measure at the news of his death.
On examining the body he affirmed that he felt
an unusual warmth, and had it restored to a
warm bed, and the funeral delayed. All proba
ble means were used to restore life ; the third
day arrived, and the exertions of the doctor had
as yet been in vain. It was determined by the
brother that the funeral should now be attended,
but the physician requested a delay of one hour,
then of half an hour, and finally of a quarter of an
hour. As this last period nearly expired, indica
tions of life were discovered. The efforts were
now renewed, and in a few hours Mr. T. was re
stored to life. His recovery, however, was very
slow ; all former ideas were for some time
blotted out of his mind, and it was a year before
he was perfectly restored. To his friends he rc-
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peatedly stated that, after he had apparently
expired, he found himself in heaven, where he be
held a glory which he could not describe, and
heard songs of praise before this glory which
were unutterable. He was about to join the
throng when one of the heavenly messengers
said to him, " You must return to the earth." At
this instant he groaned and opened his eyes upon
this world. For three years afterwards the
sounds which he had heard were not out of his
ears, and earthly things were in his sight as
vanity and nothing.
In Oct., 1733, he was ordained at Freehold, as
the successor of his brother, John T. It was not
long before his inattention to worldly concerns
brought him into debt. In his embarrassment a
friend from New York told him that the only
remedy was to get a wife. " I do not know how
to go about it," was the answer. " Then I will
undertake the business," said his friend ; " I have
a sister-in-law in the city, a prudent and pious
widow." The next evening found Mr. T. in New
York, and the day after he was introduced to
Mrs. Noble. Being pleased with her appearance,
when he was left alone with her he abruptly told
her that he supposed she knew his errand, that
neither his time nor inclination would suffer him
to use much ceremony, and that if she pleased
he would attend his charge on the next Sabbath,
and return on Monday and be married. With
some hesitation the lady consented ; and she
proved an invaluable treasure to him. About the
year 1744, when the faithful preaching of Mr. T.
and John Rowland was the means of advancing
in a very remarkable degree the cause of religion
in New Jersey, the indignation and malice of
those who loved darkness rather than light, and
who could not quietly submit to have their false
security shaken, were excited against these ser
vants of God. There was at this time prowling
through the country a noted man, named Tom
Bell. One evening he arrived at a tavern in
Princeton, dressed in a parson's frock, and was
immediately accosted as Ilev. Mr. Rowland, whom
he much resembled. This mistake was sufficient
for him. The next day he went to a congrega
tion in the county of Hunterdon, and, declaring
himself to be Mr. Rowland, was invited to preach
on the Sabbath. As he was riding to church in
the family wagon, accompanied by his host on an
elegant horse, he discovered, when he was near
the church, that he had left his notes behind, and
proposed to ride back for them on the fine horse.
The proposal was agreed to, and Bell, after re
turning to the house and rifling the desk, made
off with the horse. Mr. Rowland was soon in
dicted for the robbery, but it happened that on
the very day in which the robbery was committed
he was in Pennsylvania or Maryland ; and this
circumstance being proved by the testimony of
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TENNEXT.
TENNEY.
Mr. T. and two other gentlemen, who accompa- should I say? Why, that he was an idle, lazy
nied him, the jury brought in a verdict of not
fellow, and that it was his business to do the
guilty. Mr. Rowland could not again be brought work that I had appointed him." He was the
before the court ; but the witnesses were indicted
for wilful and corrupt perjury. The evidence was
very strong against them, for many had seen the
supposed Mr. Rowland on the elegant horse.
Mr. T. employed John Coxe, an eminent lawyer,
to conduct his defence. He went to Trenton on
the day appointed, and there found Mr. Smith of
New York, one of the ablest lawyers in America,
and of a religious character, who had voluntarily
attended to aid in his defence. He found also at
Trenton his brother Gilbert, from Philadelphia,
with Mr. Kinsey, one of the first counsellors in
the city. Mr. Tennent was asked who were his
witnesses ; he replied that he had none, as the
persons who accompanied him were also indicted.
He was pressed to delay the trial, as he would
most certainly be convicted ; but he insisted that
it should proceed, as he trusted in God to vindi
cate his innocence. Mr. Coxe was charging Mr.
T. with acting the part of an enthusiast, when
the bell summoned them to court. The latter
had not walked far in the street, before he was
accosted by a man and his wife, who asked him
if his name was not Tennent. The man said
that he lived in a certain place in Pennsylvania
or Maryland ; that Mr. T. and Mr. Rowland had
lodged at his house, or at a house where he and
his wife had been servants, at a particular time,
and on the next day preached ; that, some nights
before he left home, he and his wife both dreamed
repeatedly that Mr. T. was in distress at Tren
ton, and they only could relieve him; and that
they in consequence had come to that town, and
wished to know what they had to do. Mr. T.
led them to the court house, and their testimony
induced the jury to bring in a verdict of not
guilty, to the astonishment of his enemies. He
was well skilled in theology, and professed him
self a moderate Calvinist. The doctrines of
man's depravity, the atonement of Christ, the
necessity of the all-powerful influence of the
Holy Spirit to renew the heart, in consistency
•with the free agency of the sinner, were among
the leading articles of his faith. With his friends
he was at all times cheerful and pleasant. He
once dined in company with Gov. Livingston and
Mr. Whitefield, when the latter expressed the
consolation he found in believing, amidst the
fatigues of the day, that his work would soon be
done, and that he should depart and be with
Christ. He appealed to Mr. T. whether this was
not his comfort. Mr, T. replied : " What do you
think I should say if I was to send my man,
Tom, into the field to plough, and at noon should
find him lounging under a tree, complaining of
the heat, and of his difficult work, and begging
to be discharged of his hard service ? What
friend of the poor. The public lost in him a
firm asserter of the civil and religious rights of
his country. Few men have ever been more
holy in life, more submissive to the will of God
under heavy afflictions, or more peaceful in death.
His account of the revival of religion in Freehold
and other places is published in Prince's Chris
tian history. — Assembly's Miss. Mag. II. 97-103,
146, 202, 233.
TENNENT, WILLIAM, minister of Norwalk,
Conn., died in 1777, aged about 40. He gradu
ated at Princeton in 1758; was settled in 1763,
the successor of M. Dickinson, and was succeeded
by M. Burnet.
TENNEY, DANIEL, died at Hopkinton,N.IL,
in 1816, aged 82 ; a soldier in the Revolutionary
war, whose brother was killed at his side in the
battle of Bunker Hill.
TENNEY, SAMUEL, M. D., a physician and
judge, died in 1816, aged about 65. He was
born at Byfield, Mass., and graduated at Harvard
college in 1772. Having studied physic, he re
paired to the army on the day of Breed's Hill
battle, and was employed in the night in dress
ing the wounded. He served in the Rhode Is
land line during the war, at the close of which he
settled at Exeter, N. II., but did not resume his
profession. He was judge of probate from 1793
till 1800, when he was elected a member of
congress. He was a man of literature, and sci
ence, and religion. In the collections of the
historical society he published an account of Exe
ter, and communications in various journals. —
Thacher.
TENNEY, DATID, a missionary, died at Shoal
Creek, 111., Oct. 21, 1819, aged 34; a native of
Massachusetts.
TENNEY, TABITIIA, the widow of Dr. Sam
uel T., died at Exeter, N. H., in 1837, aged 75.
Her father was Samuel Oilman ; her mother was
of the name of Robinson. She published the
new pleasing instructor ; female quixotism, 2 vols.,
1829. — Cyd. of Amer. Lit.
TENNEY, CALEB JEWETT, D. D.. died at
Northampton, Mass., Sept. 28, 1847, aged 67.
He was a son of William T., of Hollis, N. II., a
descendant of Thomas, who came over from Eng
land with Rev. E. Rogers in 1638, and settled at
Rowley. His mother was Phcbe Jewett of Row
ley. He was born in Ilollis May 3, 1780. At the
age of twelve a good Providence preserved his
life, as the wheel of a cart, loaded with wood,
Avent over him, across his hips as he lay on his
face. He graduated at Dartmouth in 1801, re
ceiving the highest appointment, the valedictory
oration, at commencement. Daniel Webster was
a member of his class. He had become pious at
TERRELL.
the age of sixteen, in consequence of reading Da-
vies' sermons, by request of his mother. Having
studied theology a little while with Drs. Burton
and Spring, he was ordained at Newport, R. I.,
in September, 1804, as successor of Dr. Hopkins,
and there remained twelve years : and there he
married Ruth Channing, the daughter of John
Channing. For twenty-four years he was the
minister of Wethersfield, Conn., from 1816 to
1840, although from ill health he ceased to preach,
in 1833. So successful were his labors in 1820
and 1821, that two hundred persons were added
to his church. His predecessors in this ancient
town were H. Smith, Russell, Bulkley, Rowland-
son, Woodbridge, Mix, Lockwood, Marsh. Re
moving in 1842 to Northampton, he there suf
fered the great affliction of the death of his wife.
His last years were spent in the acceptable ser
vice of the colonization society. He was a learned
theologian and a useful preacher, doctrinal, in
structive, solemn, affectionate, and earnest; a
j udicious and faithful pastor ; and a man of emi
nent and steady piety, amiable, just, and gener
ous, a true philanthropist. He was sick but one
week, and not thought dangerous till just before
he died. He said, " I have a comfortable hope."
His wife, Ruth, the daughter of John Channing,
of Newport, died in 1842, aged 60 : his daughter,
Ruth, has died since his decease. His diary is
preserved. He published a sermon on baptism ;
at ordination of R. Robbins, 1816 ; New England
distinguished, 1827 ; on the death of Dr. Marsh,
1821; of Dr. Austin, 1830; of A. Mitchell,
1832.— N. T. Observer, April 1, 1848; Sprague's
Annals.
TERRELL, WILLIAM, M. D., died in Sparta,
Geo., July 4, 1855 ; a member of congress from
1817 to 1821. He took an interest in agricul
ture, and in 1853 made a liberal donation of
20,000 dollars to found an agricultural professor
ship in the university of Georgia.
TERRY, NATHANIEL, died at his son's in New
Haven June 14, 1844, aged 76. A graduate of
Yale in 1786, he lived in Hartford, and was a
member of congress, a useful and respected man.
His father was Ephraim of Enfield, who married
Ann Collins, the daughter of Rev. N. Collins, and
a descendant by her mother, Alice Adams, from
Gov. Bradford. Besides Seth Terry of Hartford,
he had brothers, Samuel, Ephraim, Elijah, Eli-
phalet.
TERRY, ELI, died at Terrysville, Conn., Feb.
24, 1852, aged 80 ; the most extensive clock man
ufacturer in the United States.
TESCIIEMACIIER, J. E., died in 1853; a
geologist and naturalist.
TETARD, LEWIS, a professor in Columbia
college, N. Y., died in 1787. He came from
Switzerland, and was the minister of the French
church in New York, and a chaplain in the army.
TIIACIIER.
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THACHER, THOMAS, first minister of the old
south church in Boston, died Oct. 15, 1678, aged
58. The son of Rev. Peter T. of Old Sarum, he
was born in England May 1, 1620, and arrived
in this country June 4, 1635. He pursued his
studies under the direction of Chauncy. Jan. 2,
1644, he was ordained minister of Weymouth;
but after the death of his wife in 1664 he was in
duced to remove to Boston. When a new church
was formed out of the first by persons displeased
with the settlement of Mr. Davenport, Mr.
Thacher was installed its pastor Feb. 16, 1670.
His colleague, Mr. Willard, survived him. His
wife was a daughter of Rev. Ralph Partridge.
His son, Ralph, was a minister at Martha's Vine
yard. Being well skilled in the Hebrew, he com
posed a lexicon of the principal words in that
language. President Stiles speaks of him as the
best Arabic scholar in the country. As a preacher
he was very popular, being remarkably fervent
and copious in prayer. He was also a physician.
He published a fast sermon, 1674 ; a brief rule
to guide the common people in the small pox
and measles, 1677; 2d ed., 1702. — Magnolia,
in. 148-153 ; Sprague's Annals.
THACHER, PETER, first minister of Milton,
the son of the preceding, died Dec. 17, 1727, aged
76. He was born at Salem in 1651, and was
graduated at Harvard college in 1671. In a few
years he went to England, where he became ac
quainted with a number of eminent divines. On
his return he was ordained at Milton, June 1,
1681. His successor was John Taylor. His wife
was Theodora, daughter of Rev. John Oxen-
bridge ; his second wife, the widow of Rev. J.
Bailey ; his third, the widow of J. Gee. His
daughter by his first wife married Rev. S. Miles.
In his natural temper there was a great deal of
vivacity, which gave an interest to his conversa
tion and to his public performances. While he
was cheerful and affable, he was eminent for
sanctity and benevolence. Besides the ordinary
labors of the Lord's day he preached a monthly
lecture, and encouraged the private meetings of
his neighbors for religious purposes. Having
studied the Indian language, he also at a monthly
lecture imparted to the Indians of a neighboring
village the gospel of salvation. Being a physi
cian, his benevolence prompted him to expend a
great part of his yearly salary in the purchase of
medicines for the sick and indigent. His death
was sudden. The last words which he uttered
were, " I am going to Christ in glory." He pub
lished unbelief detected and condemned, to which
is added the treasures of the fathers inheritable
by their posterity, 1708; election sermon, 1711;
Christ's forgiveness a pattern, 1712 ; on the death
of Samuel Man, 1719; a divine riddle, he that is
weak is strong, 1723; the perpetual covenant. —
Sprayue's Annals.
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THACHER.
THACHER.
THACHER, RALPH, was a minister at Mar
tha's Vineyard in 1G97 ; dismissed in 1714. He
was the son of Rev. Thomas, of Boston. His
successors were Holmes, Boardman, and Jona
than Smith, ordained in 1788; Joseph Thaxter
was then pastor of Edgartown.
THACHER, PETER, minister in Boston, died
Feb. 26, 1739, aged 61. He was born in that
town, the son of Rev. Thomas T., and was gradu
ated at Harvard college in 1696. While a mem
ber of college it pleased a sovereign God to give
him a deep sense of his sin, and at length to in
spire him with a cheerful faith in the Saviour.
After living at Hatfield some time as a school
master, he was settled in the ministry at Wey-
mouth, where he remained eleven or twelve
years. He was installed pastor of the new north
church in Boston, as colleague with Mr. Webb,
Jan. 27, 1720. In consequence of some divisions
in the society, and some irregularity in the meas
ures which were adopted to obtain Mr. Thacher,
the association refused to assist in his settlement.
He possessed a strong masterly genius. Mr.
Cooper calls him the evangelical reasoner. In
the gift of prayer he was almost unequalled.
During his last sickness he was cheerful, for he
hoped in the mercy of God through the Re
deemer. He published the election sermon, 1726,
and a sermon on the death of Mrs. Gee. —
Sprague's Annals.
THACHER, PETER, minister of Middlebor-
ough, Mass., died April 22, 1744, aged 56. He
was the son of Rev. P. Thacher, of Milton. He
was born Oct. 6, 1688, and was graduated at Har
vard college in 1706. After preaching two years
in Middleborough, he was ordained Nov. 2, 1709.
He was succeeded by Sylvester Conant. He
was very distinguished for the sanctity of his life.
At one period his faithful exertions as a minister
were the means of adding near two hundred
members to his church in less than three years.
He published an account of the revival of religion
in Middleborough, in the Christian history, where
is a minute account of his life by Mr. Prince. —
Recorder, Feb. 9, 1843.
THACHER, OXENBRIDGE, a representative of
Boston in the general court, died July 8, 1765,
aged 45. He was the son of Oxenbridge T., who
died in 1772, aged 92, and grandson of Rev.
Peter T., of Milton. He was graduated at Har
vard college in 1738. He was a learned man
and good writer. He published a pamphlet on
the gold coin, 1760 ; and the sentiments of a Brit
ish American, occasioned by the act to lay cer
tain duties in the British colonies, 1764.
THACHER, ROLAND, minister of Wareham,
died in 1775, aged about 63. He graduated at
Harvard in 1733.
THACIIER, PETER, minister of Attleborough,
Mass., died in 1785, aged 69. The son of Peter
T. of Middleborough, he graduated at Harvard
in 1737, and was ordained in 1748. lie pub-
Dished a sermon on the death of H. Weld, 1782,
A volume of his sermons was published after his
death.
THACHER, PETER, D. D., minister in Boston,
the son of Oxenbridge T., died Dec. 16, 1802, aged
50. He was born in Milton, March 21, 1752,
and was graduated at Harvard college in 1769.
Sept. 19, 1770, he was ordained the minister of
Maiden. As a preacher he was admired. His
oratorical powers, his fluency in prayer, and the
pathos of his expression were applauded by the
serious and intelligent, and rendered him uncom
monly acceptable to the multitude. No young
man preached to such crowded assemblies. Mr.
Whitefield, in his prayers, called him the young
Elijah. Being a strict Calvinist in his sentiments,
he contended zealously for the faith of his fathers.
When the controversy began with Great Britain
he exerted himself in tho pulpit, in conversation,
and in other ways, to support the rights of his
country. He was a delegate from Maiden to the
convention which formed the constitution of
Massachusetts in 1780. Being democratic in his
sentiments, he contended that there should be no
governor ; and, when a decision was made con
trary to his wishes, he still made objections to the
title of Excellency, given to the chief magistrate.
But afterwards, as he became better acquainted
with the policy of government, he was warmly at
tached to those parts of the constitution which he
had once disapproved. He was installed minister
of the church in Brattle street, Boston, as suc
cessor of Dr. Cooper, Jan. 12, 1785, and in this
vineyard of the Lord he continued till his death.
Being afflicted with a pulmonary complaint, his
physicians recommended the milder air of a more
southern climate. He accordingly sailed for Sa
vannah, where he died. He was succeeded by
Mr. Buckminster. Just before he set sail from
Boston, he was visited by Dr. Stillman, to whom
he expressed his belief that he should not recover,
and said, with peculiar energy : " The doctrines I
have preached are now my only comfort. My
hopes are built on the atonement and righteous
ness of Christ." The last words which he uttered
were, " Jesus Christ, my Saviour." In the chamber
of sickness he wasremarkably acceptable. To the
distressed and afflicted his voice was that of an angel
of comfort. In prayer he was uncommonly elo
quent, uttering in impressive and pathetic lan
guage the devout feelings of his own heart, and
exciting deep emotions in the hearts of his hear
ers. He published an oration against standing
armies, March 5, 1776 ; on the death of A. El
liot, 1778; three sermons in proof of the eternity
of future punishment, 1782; observations on the
state of the clergy in New England, with stric
tures upon the power of dismissing them usurped
THACHER.
THAXTER.
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by some churches, 1783 ; a reply to strictures
upon the preceding; on the death of J. Paine,
1788; of Gov. Bowdoin, 1791 ; of Gov. Hancock,
1793; of S. Stillman.jun., 1794; of T. Russell
and N. Gorham, 1796 ; of Dr. Clarke and Re
becca Gill, 1798; of Gov. Sumner, 1799; of
Washington, 1800 ; at the ordination of E. Kel
logg, 1788; of W. F. Rowland, 1790; at the
ordination of his son, T. C. Thacher, 1794 ; me
moirs of Dr. Boylston, 1789; before the Massa
chusetts Congregational charitable society, 1795 ;
before a society of freemasons, 1797 ; at the artil
lery election, 1798; a century sermon, 1799. —
Spr -ague's Annals.
THACHER, THOMAS, minister of Dedham,
Mass., brother of the preceding, was graduated
at Harvard college in 1775, and died Oct. 19,
1812, aged 56. He published a sermon on be
nevolence, 1784; at a thanksgiving, 1795; on
the death of N. Robbins, 1795 ; of Washington,
1800 ; after the execution of J. Fairbanks, 1801 ;
on death of S.Adams, 1804; at Christmas, 1799;
at the ordination of E. Dunbar; of J. Tucker-
man; before the humane society, 1800; century
sermon, 1801 ; Dudleian lecture, 1805 ; at the
dedication of Milton academy, 1807; at a fast;
character of Dr. West, 1808.
THACHER, SAMUEL COOPER, minister in
Boston, died Jan. 2, 1818, aged 32. He was the
son of Rev. Peter T. ; was born Dec. 14, 1785;
was graduated at Harvard college in 1804; and
in 1806 went to Europe with Mr. Buckminster.
He was ordained as the successor of J. T. Kirk-
land in Boston May 15, 1811, and died in Mou-
lins in France, whither he went for his health.
He published a memoir of Mr. Buckminster, and
many reviews in the monthly anthology, that of
the constitution of Andover theological seminary
exciting the most attention, After his death a
volume of sermons, with a memoir, was published,
8vo., 1824.
THACHER, GEORGE, judge, died at Bidde-
ford, Me., in 1824, aged about 70. He graduated
at Harvard in 1776, and was a member of con
gress, and a judge of the supreme court of Mas
sachusetts. He had wit and humor and self-
command. When in congress, a bill was reported
in respect to the eagle to be imprinted on the
American coin. He opposed it, saying, the eagle
was a royal bird, not suitable for our democracy ;
but the figure of a goose would be very proper
to be stamped on the dollar, in which case gos
lings would be right for the dimes. It is said
that he was challenged for this speech by the re
porter of the bill ; and that he replied to the
second, that he would write a note consulting
Mrs. Thacher on the subject : in the mean while
the challenger might mark his size on a wall and
fire at it with a pistol, and, if he hit it, he would
acknowledge that he was shot. This ended the
matter.
THACHER, PETER O., judge, died in Boston
Feb. 22, 1843. The son of Dr. T., he was born
in Maiden in 1776 ; graduated at Harvard in
1796; and was appointed a judge of the muni
cipal court in Boston in 1823, in which office he
faithfully served for twenty years, much respected
for his integrity and humanity.
THACHER, JAMES, Dr., died at Plymouth
May 24, 1844, aged 90. He was born in Barn-
stable. A surgeon in the Revolutionary army,
he was present in the principal battles. At the
close of the war he settled in Plymouth as a sur
geon, and was eminent and in successful practice
during most of his life. He was a public-spirited,
disinterested citizen. He published a military
journal; new dispensatory; on hydrophobia;
modern practice of physic ; American orchardist,
1822; American medical biography, 2 vols. 8vo.,
1828; on the management of bees; on demon-
ology, ghosts, etc., 1831; history of Plymouth,
1832; also communications to societies and peri
odicals. — Williams' Med. Biog.
THACHER, THOMAS C., minister of Lynn,
Mass., died in 1849, aged 79. The son of Dr.
Peter T. of Boston, he graduated at Harvard in
1790, and was pastor from 1794 to 1813, being
succeeded by Isaac Hurd.
THACHER, WASHINGTON, an agent of the
American home missionary society, died at Utica
June 29, 1850, aged 56. A native of Attlebor-
ough, Mass., he was a descendant of Thomas
Thacher of Boston. His ministerial life was
earnest and useful.
THATCHER, ORLANDO G., minister of Brad
ford, X. H., died in 1837, aged 39. He gradu
ated at Dartmouth in 1823.
THATCHER, BENJAMIN B., died in Boston
July 14, 1840, aged 30, after a year of illness.
Born in Maine, a graduate of Bowdoin college
in 1826, he was eminent for talents and acquire
ments. His father, Samuel, was a member of
congress. He wrote during ten years for the
reviews ; he wrote poetry with skill ; and he
published a history of the Indians.
THAXTER, THOMAS, the ancestor of the
Thaxters of Hingham and its vicinity, lived there
as early as 1638, and died in 1654. His son
John, who died in 1687, had twelve children, of
whom Samuel was a colonel and councillor, one
of whose daughters, Elizabeth, married first
Capt. John Norton, then Col. Benjamin Lincoln,
the father of Gen. B. Lincoln. — Lincoln's Hist,
of Hinr/liam.
THAXTER, THOMAS, a physician in Hing
ham, died in 1813, aged 64.
THAXTER, JOSEPH, minister of Edgartown,
Martha's Vineyard, died July 18, 1827, aged
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THAXTER.
about 83. He was the last of the Revolutionary
chaplains. Born in Hingham, he graduated at
Harvard in 1768, and was ordained Nov. 8, 1780.
His predecessors were T. Mayhew, J. Dunham,
S. Wiswall from 1713 to 1746, J. Newman from
1747 to 1758, S. Kingsbury from 1761 to 1778.
As to other ministers on the Vineyard, J.
Mayhew was the first at Tisbury ; then Torrey,
Hancock, Damon, Morse, Hatch ; and R. Thacher,
the first at Chilmark ; then Holmes, Boardman,
Smith. — Hist. Coll., second series, vol. in.
THAXTER, ROBEET, M. D., died at Dor
chester, of ship fever, in 1852, aged 75. He was
the son of Dr. Thomas, an eminent physician of
Hingham, and graduated at Harvard in 1798.
In 1802 he settled in Hingham, but removed to
Dorchester in 1809. For thirty years he was not
kept from business one day by illness.
THAYER, EZRA, minister at Ware River,
died in 1775, aged about 40. He graduated at
Harvard in 1754.
THAYER, EBENEZER, minister of Hampton,
N. H., died in 1792, aged 58 ; supposed to have
been a descendant of Nathaniel, an early settler
of Boston. He graduated at Harvard in 1753,
and was tutor from 1760 to 1766, when he was
ordained the successor of Ward Cotton. He
was succeeded by J. Appleton. Some of the
previous ministers were J. Wheelwright and Sea
born Cotton. He was the father of Rev. Dr.
Nathaniel T.
THAYER, EBENEZER, first minister of the sec
ond church in Roxbury, died in 1733, aged about 45.
Born in Boston, he graduated at Harvard in 1708
and was settled in 1712; succeeded by N. Wal
ter. He published two sermons, on the first and
last days of the year, 1722; at election, 1725.
THAYER, ELIHU, D. D., minister of Kings
ton, N. H., died in 1812, aged 65. Born in
Braintree, the son of Nathaniel, he graduated at
Princeton in 1769, and was settled in 1776. He
was a good scholar and excellent minister. He
fitted many young men for college. His wife
was a daughter of Colonel John Calef of Kings
ton ; by her he had six sons and five daughters.
He published a sermon on the death of Gov.
Bartlett, 1795; a summary of Christian doc
trines and duties. A volume of his sermons was
published, 1813. — Sprague's Annals.
THAYER, NATHANIEL, D.D., died at Roches
ter, N. Y., June 23, 1840, aged 71; pastor of the
church of Lancaster, Mass. He was born at
Hampton, N. H. ; graduated at Harvard college
in 1789; and was ordained in 1793. His
mother was a daughter of Rev. J. Cotton of
Newton. He was a man of talents and acquire
ments. More than twenty of his occasional dis
courses were published ; among them, to masons,
1797; artillery election, 1798; at installation of
W. Emerson, 1799; ordination of S. Willard,
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1807 ; at a fast ; on death of F. Gardner, 1814 ; on
leaving old meeting-house, 1817; at election,
1823; at a dedication, 1828; at thanksgiving,
1828 ; at Townsend, Feb. 10, 1828.
THAYER, CAROLINE MATILDA, Mrs., died in
Louisiana in 1844, a grand-daughter of Gen.
Warren. She was a writer for periodicals, in
prose and poetry.
THAYER, MINOTT, died at Braintree, Mass.,
in 1856, aged 85; a useful citizen, and for years
a representative of the town. Families of the
name of Thayer were among the early settlers ;
Richard, son of Richard of Boston, and Thomas,
lived in Braintree in 1650 ; and from the latter
there were between two thousand and three
thousand descendants.
TPIOMAS, WILLIAM, one of the fathers of
Plymouth, died at Marshfield in 1651, aged 76.
He came to Plymouth in 1630. He was an as
sistant seven years. His son, Nathaniel, who
served in Philip's war, died in 1718, aged 74.
THOMAS, JOHN, an Indian, remarkable for
longevity, died at Natick, Mass., in 1727, aged
110. He was among the first of the praying In
dians. He joined the church, when it was first
gathered at Natick by Mr. Eliot, and was exem
plary through life. — Rellmap.
THOMAS, JOHN, a major-general in the
American army, died May 30, 1776. He de
scended from a respectable family in the county
of Plymouth, Mass., and served in the war of 1756,
against the French and Indians, with reputation.
In April, 1775, residing at Kingston, Mass., he
raised a regiment and marched to Roxbury. He
was soon appointed by congress a brigadier-gen
eral, and during the siege of Boston he com
manded a division of the provincial troops at
Roxbury. In March, 1776, he was appointed
major-general, and after the death of Montgom
ery was intrusted with the command in Canada.
lie joined the army before Quebec on the first
of May, but soon found it necessary to raise the
siege and commence his retreat. He died of the
small-pox at Chamblee. On his death the com
mand devolved for a few days on Arnold, and
then on Gen. Sullivan. His aid-de-camp was
Maj. Joshua Thomas, judge of probate, who died
at Plymouth in Jan., 1821. Gen. T. was a man
of sound judgment and fixed courage, and was
beloved by his soldiers and amiable in the rela
tions of private life.
THOMAS, JAMES A., died in Tatnall county,
Ga., April 11, 1804, aged 133. He was temper
ate, and he retained his eyesight and his facul
ties to the last.
THOMAS, Jonx, a physician, died in 1818,
aged 60. He was born in Plymouth, Mass.,
April 1, 1758, and was appointed surgeon in the
army, 1776, on the resignation of his father.
He and a brother, a captain, served during the
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whole war, at the close of which he settled at
Poughkeepsie, N. Y., where he died. In his
conduct he was honorable, just, and benevolent.
For wit and humor he was unrivalled. Col.
AVm. North relates, that once at dinner at head
quarters, Dr. T. told a story, which caused Gen.
Washington to laugh heartily ; it was concerning
an inquisitive Yankee at Taunton, who journeyed
to Rhode Island to see llochambeau's French
army, and who on his return said : " The fools,
who call a hat a chapeau : why couldn't they call
it a hat at once, and done with it ? "
THOMAS, THOMAS, general, a patriot and
officer of the Ilcvolution, died in Westchester
co., N. Y., in 1824, aged 80.
THOMAS, ISAIAH, LL. D., an eminent printer,
died at Worcester, Mass., April 4, 1831, aged 82.
He was a descendant of Peter of Boston, who
was born in 1682, the son of George. The son
of Moses T., he was born in Boston in 1749. His
father being dead, he was at the age of six ap
prenticed to Z. Fowle, a printer, and remained
with him eleven years. In 1770 he published
the Massachusetts Spy in Boston. For an arti
cle in his paper in 1771, Gov. Ilutchinson and
council ordered Thomas to appear, but he ex
pressly refused to go ; the attorney-general then
presented in vain a bill of indictment to the grand
jury, and next was directed to file an information
against him ; but such resistance was made that
the measure was dropped. In 1775 he removed
his press to Worcester, where he printed the
Spy, May 3d. A few days before, he was in the
battle of Lexington. In 1788 he opened a
bookstore in Boston, under the firm of Thomas
and Andrews, and opened printing-houses and
bookstores in other towns, still residing at Wor
cester. At one time he had sixteen presses in
use, and eight bookstores. In 1791 he printed
an edition of the bible in folio, and many subse
quent editions. He was the founder and presi
dent of the American antiquarian society, for
•which he erected a brick house at Worcester, and
to which he presented many books, and made a
large bequest. lie was also a benefactor of Lei
cester academy. He published a valuable history
of printing in America, 2 vols. 8vo., 1810.
THOMAS, PKLKG, died at Lebanon, Conn., in
April, 1834, aged 98 : from early life he esteemed
the bible more than all other books.
THOMAS, JOSEPH, died at Plymouth, Mass.,
in 1838, aged 84; a captain of artillery during
the war of the Revolution.
THOMAS, JAMES, governor of Maryland in
1835, died in 1845, aged 61; a man of worth,
highly esteemed.
THOMAS, NEIIEMIAH, minister of Scituate,
Mass., died in 1831, aged about 62. He gradu
ated at Harvard in 1789, and was ordained in
1792. Ills predecessors were Lathrop, Chauncy,
Baker, Gushing, Pitcher, Bourne, Grosvenor, and
Dawes.
THOMAS, DANIEL, minister of South Abing-
ton, died Jan. 5, 1847, aged 68. A memoir of
him, written Avith great skill and beauty, occupies
two columns of the Boston Recorder of Feb. 18.
A native of Middleborough, he graduated at
Brown university in 1803, and was ordained June
1, 1808, the first inister of South Abington.
He was a clear, intelligent preacher : the gospel
with him was a theme of ineffable love. In his
person he was neat, immaculate : he was tall
and thin, his dark eye beamed kindly, his swell
ing forehead was shaded with venerable locks, his
sallow features wasted by toil and age. He was
never married; but, betrothed to a very lovely
woman of his own parish, whose illness contin
ued for thirty-seven years, he all this time cher
ished her affection, was true, gentle, and happy in
this trial! He published an oration, 1810; a
letter to J. Norton on the Trinity, 1815 ; at the
funeral of J. W. Dawes, 1824.
THOMAS, PHILEMON, general, died at Baton
Ilouge Nov. 18, 1847, aged 83. He was a mem
ber of congress. He headed the insurrection
against Spain in West Florida.
THOMAS, CALVIN, M. D., died at Tyngs-
borough, Mass., in 1851, aged 85.
THOMAS, JOHN B., died at Plymouth in
1852, aged 65. A graduate of Harvard in 1806,
he was a lawyer and clerk of the courts, and
president of the Old Colony bank.
THOMPSON, JOHN, died in Petersburgh, Va.,
in 1799, aged 22. His w ritings in the Petersburg
Gazette, with the signatures of'Casca and Gracchus,
were in hostility to the federal administration.
His life was written by Mr. Hay. His letters,
signed Curtius, addressed to Chief Justice Mar
shall in 1798, were published, 12mo., 1804.
THOMPSON, EBENEZER, Dr., secretary of
State in New Hampshire, died at Durham in
1802, aged 65. He sustained various civil offi
ces, and was also a physician.
THOMPSON, Sir BENJAMIN, count Rumford,
died Aug. 20, 1814, aged 61. He was a de
scendant of Jona. T. of Woburn in 1659 ; was
born in Woburn, Mass., March 26, 1753. His
father died while he was young ; his mother,
Mrs. Ruth Pierce, in 1811. Being placed as a
clerk to a merchant in Salem, he was disqualified
for business by his devotion to the mechanic arts.
Through the kindness of Sheriff Baldwin he ob
tained permission to attend the philosopical lec
tures of Prof. Winthrop at Cambridge. He
afterwards taught school in Rumford, now Con
cord, N. II., where he married Sarah, the widow
of B. Rolfe and the daughter of Rev. Mr. Walker.
By this marriage his pecuniary circumstances
were rendered easy. In about two years his ad
herence to the British cause induced him to leave
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his family in 1775 and to repair to England,
where he was patronized by Lord Germainc. His
personal appearance and manners recommended
him. He was under secretary in the northern
department. Near the close of the contest he
went to New York, and commanded a regiment
of dragoons, and became entitled to half pay.
On his return the king knighted him. His ac
quaintance with the minister of the duke of
Bavaria induced him to go to Munich, where he
introduced important reforms in the police. The
prince raised him to nigh military rank and cre
ated him a count of the empire. He added the
title of Ilumford. In 1800 he was in London,
and projected the royal institution of Great Brit
ain. He died at Autreuil, France. His first
wife died at Charlestown, N. II., in Feb., 1792.
It would seem that hn abandoned her. How this
is to be reconciled to good moral principle is yet
to be explained. His daughter, Sarah, Countess
Ilumford, died in Concord, N. II., in 1852, aged
70. He bequeathed 50,000 dollars to Harvard
college, and appropriated other sums to promote
discoveries in light and heat. His own discov
eries gave him high reputation, and caused him to
be elected a member of many learned societies.
His essays were published at London, 1796.
THOMPSON, JAMES, a preacher forty years,
was drowned in the Kentucky river at Frankfort
in 1818, aged 74.
THOMPSON, JOHN, minister of South Ber
wick, Me., died in 182S, aged 88. Born in Scar
borough, he graduated at Harvard in 1765, and
was settled in 1783. J. Wade, J. Wise, and J.
Foster \vere ministers before him.
THOMPSON, JOHN, the minister of Standish
and South Berwick, Me., died Jan. 20, 1829, aged
87, in the sixty-first year of his ministry. He
was the son of Rev. Wm. T., who was minister
of Scarborough from 1728 to 1759, and was
graduated at Harvard in 1765 ; was minister of
Standish from 1768 to 1783, in which year he
was installed at Berwick.
THOMPSON, WILLIAM, died at Hickory Hill,
Baltimore county, Md., July 22, 1833, aged 111.
He left twelve surviving children, the eldest 91,
the youngest 25.
THOMPSON, ELIZA N., missionary at Jerusa
lem, wife of Rev. William M. Thompson, died
at Jerusalem July 22, 1834, aged 34. Her name
was Eliza Nelson Hanna, and she was born in
Baltimore : she lived in Jamaica, Long Island.
Her time of service in Syria was short. She and
Mrs. Dodge opened a school for Frank children
early in 1833 at Beirut. Removed to Jerusalem,
she found herself, in May, 1834, in circumstances
of great alarm and suffering. An earthquake
shook down a part of her house, which was near
the castle. Then occurred the struggle between
the rebel Fellahs and the government, when the
bullets and balls whistled around her. Soon, after
a sickness of a few days, she died. She was
buiied on the top of Zion near the sepulchre of
David. Dr. Dodge died the next January. Oth
ers, the noble-minded from distant America, sleep
with them in the holy land and will share in a
glorious resurrection. J. W. Alexander wrote :
" Mourn not for her, who falls
On consecrated ground,
Whom God from Zion calls
In heav'n his praise to sound.
Mourn not for her, who gains
Jerusalem above ;
Her soul, let loose, attains
The golden streets of love."
THOMPSON, BENJAMIN, Dr., died at Wash
ington in 1840, aged 54. His previous residence
was at Concord, N. II. lie made himself famous
as a botanical physician.
THOMPSON, LATHROP, minister of Sharon
and Chelsea, Vt., and of Southold, L. I., died in
Chelsea in 1843, aged 82. He was born in Farm-
ington, Conn. ; but his father removed to Wind
sor, Vt. After being in Southold from 1810 to
1826, he returned to Chelsea and lived with his
son-in-law, Rev. Calvin Noble. He survived four
wives.
THOMPSON, JOHN, professor of mathematics
and philosophy in Wabash college, died at Craw-
fordsville, Ind., in 1843.
THOMPSON, SMITH, judge, died in Pough-
keepsie Dec. 18, 1843, aged 76. Having studied
law with Chancellor Kent, he became district at
torney, and was judge of the supreme court of
New York in 1801 ; in 1814 he was chief justice.
In 1818 he was secretary of the navy ; but in
1823 he became an associate justice of the su
preme court of the United States, which place
he held till his death. Learned as a judge, his
private life was pure and exemplary.
THOMPSON, WADDY, died near Greenville,
S. C., Feb. 9, 1845, at a very advanced age. He
was for many years a judge ; a man of distinc
tion in South Carolina, of integrity and talents.
THOMPSON, JONATHAN, died at New York
in 1846, aged 73. From 1820 to 1829 he was
collector of the port of New York. He collected
and exactly accounted for upwards of a hundred
millions of dollars. Gen. Jackson removed him
from office.
THOMPSON, ABRAHAM G., died in New York
in Nov., 1851. His estate was 380,000 dollars,
of which he left 347,000 to public charities. To
the bible society he gave 65,000 ; to the tract
society and seamen's friend society, 54,000 each ;
to the colonization and home mission society,
43,000 each ; to the education society and Amer
ican board of missions, 32,000 each ; to the in
stitutions for the deaf and dumb and for the
blind, 10,800 each.
THOMPSON, JOHN, Dr., died at New Lisbon,
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Ohio, in 1852, aged 75. He was a member of
congress from 1825 to 1827, and from 1829 to
1837.
THOMPSON, ISAAC, M. D., died in Connecti
cut in 1852. He was the inventor of a famous
eye-water.
THOMPSON, JAMES, D. D., died at Barre,
Mass., in 1854, aged 75. A graduate of 1799,
he was settled at Barre in 1804. His doctrines
were Unitarian. He preached a half-century
sermon.
THOMPSON, THOMAS F., died in New York
July 28, 1856, bequeathing 14,000 dollars to va
rious charitable institutions.
THOMSON, CHARLES, secretary of congress,
a patriot of the Revolution, died Aug. 16, 1824,
aged 94. He was born in Ireland in 1730, and
came to this country with his three elder brothers
about 1741. He landed at Newcastle with slen
der means of subsistence. Having been educated
by Dr. Allison, he kept the Friends' academy.
He afterwards went into Philadelphia, where he
obtained the advice and friendship of Dr. Frank
lin. At the first congress in 1774 he was called
upon to take minutes of their measures ; from
that time he was sole secretary of the Revolu
tionary congress. He resigned his office in July,
1789, having held it fifteen years. An Indian
tribe, which adopted him, gave him the name of
" The man of truth." He was strictly moral and
his mind was deeply imbued with religious prin
ciples. In his last years he was principally
employed in preparing for his removal into the
eternal world. He died in Lower Merion, Mont
gomery county, near Philadelphia. His wife was
Hannah Harrison. His mind was enriched with
various learning, and his character was marked
by regularity, probity, firmness, and patriotism.
He translated the Septuagint, which was pub
lished, entitled, holy bible translated from the
Greek, 4 vols. 8vo., 1808.
THOMSON, CATHARINE, wife of F. B. Thom
son, missionary to Borneo, died at Batavia Nov.
17, 1839, aged 26. Her name was Catharine
Wyckoft' of New Brunswick, N. J. She died in
peace. When asked if she was sorry she had
come to make a sacrifice of her life, she said she
was not : " Tell my dear parents and friends I
do not regret it in the least. I am only sorry
that I have done so little."
THOMSON, SAMUEL, Dr., died in Boston in
1843, aged 74. He was the originator of what
•was called the Thomsonian system in medical
treatment.
THOMSON, FREDERIC B., missionary to Bor
neo, died at Berne, Switzerland, April 2, 1848,
aged 38. Born in New Brunswick, N. J., he was
a graduate of 1831. He embarked May, 1838.
When he died, he was on his way to this country
to obtain a reinforcement of the mission ; but on
reaching the residence of his late home he was
taken with his last illness.
THORNDIKE, ISRAEL, a merchant, died May
10, 1832, aged about 75. He was the son of
Andrew, a descendant of Paul, a representative,
who married in Beverly in 1G68. lie was a native
of Beverly, Mass. In the Revolutionary war he
was in part the owner and the commander of an
armed ship. His cruises were successful. For
many years he was a partner with his brother-in-
law, Moses Brown, and afterwards engaged in
commerce to the East Indies and China, which
he continued till his death, lie was a large
owner in manufacturing establishments. After a
long residence in Beverly, he passed his last
years in Boston, where he died. He purchased
in 1818 the library of Professor Ebeling of Ham
burg, of more than three thousand volumes, of
great value in relation to American history, and
presented it to Harvard college. It includes
three hundred and fifty volumes of newspapers
printed in this country. To three sons he be
queathed each about half a million of dollars, and
other sums to another son, to his widow and
daughters; in all about 1,800,000 dollars to his
relations. Some poor man may be inclined to
say, that were he the owner of one or two mil
lions of dollars, he would bequeath much to the
great charities of the world; but, perhaps, on
gaining the power, he would lose the disposition
to benefit others beyond his own family, and
would forget, that of them to whom much, as the
stewards of heaven's bounty, is given, much will
be required.
THORNDIKE, ROBERT, died at Camden, Me.,
in 1834, aged 103; he was born in Beverly, Mass.
THORNTON, THOMAS, minister of Yarmouth,
Mass., died at Boston Feb. 15, 1700, aged 92.
He was one of the ejected ministers of England
in 1662. The next year he was in Yarmouth, a
neighbor to Mr. Walley of Barnstable, also
ejected, and remained till 1675. His charge em
braced also the present towns of Dennis, and of
Brewster and Harwich, in part ; several hundred
Indians were under his friendly inspection. As a
physician he had occasion to traverse often his
wide parish. A brook, hill, and pond are yet
called by his name. Few Americans who love
to trace a long line of ancestry can be so much
gratified as the descendants of Mr. Thornton, for
he was descended in the seventh generation from
John Thornton, lord mayor of York, in England.
From him descended the Thorntons of Maine
and John AVingate Thornton, a lawyer of Boston,
who is of the seventh generation from him. The
ancestors of J. "W. T. from Thomas were Timo
thy, Ebenezer, and Timothy of Boston, mer
chants ; Thomas G. of Saco, Maine, physician ;
and James B. of Saco, merchant. One important
and most beneficial influence of the minister of
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Yarmouth Avas in his securing the good will of the
Indians on the cape, so that they dwelt in peace.
Had they joined King Philip in his war, the event
would have been disastrous. In 1673 the num
ber of praying or Christian Indians in Yarmouth,
Harwich, and Barnstable, was one hundred and
twenty-two, so that the whole number of Indians
was probably five hundred, supposed not to be
exceeded by the white population of Yarmouth.
THORNTON, MATTHEW, colonel, a patriot of
the Revolution, died June 24, 1803, aged 88. He
was a native of Ireland. His father lived a few
years at Wiscasset, then removed to Worcester.
Mr. T. settled as a physician in Londonderry,
N. II. He accompanied Pepperell as a surgeon
in the expedition to Louisburg in 1745. Of the
provincial convention in 1775 he was the presi
dent, and, taking his seat as a member of congress
Nov. 4, 1776, he signed the declaration of inde
pendence, but was not present to vote for it, as
were not Rush, Clymer, Wilson, Ross, and Tay
lor. He was soon appointed a judge of the
superior court, in which office he remained till
1782. About 1780 he removed to Merrimac on
the banks of the Merrimac. He died while on a
visit to his daughters at Newburyport. On his
grave is the inscription : " An honest man."
THORNTON, THOMAS G., a physician, died at
Saco, Me., March 4, 1824, aged 55. He was born
in Boston, the son of Timothy, a merchant, a de
scendant of Rev. Thomas T. In the administra
tions of Jefferson, Madison, and Monroe, he was
U. S. marshal for Maine. His wife was Sarah,
daughter of Thomas Cutts.
TIIROOP, WILLIAM, minister of Southold,
L. I., died in 1756, aged about 36. He gradu
ated at Yale in 1743, and was pastor of the
second church in Mansfield, Conn., from 1744 to
1746, when he removed to Southold, where he
had considerable success in his labors.
TIIROOP, BENJAMIN, the minister of Bozrah,
in Norwich, Conn., died in 1785, aged about 72.
He graduated at Yale in 1734, and from 1738
was pastor forty-seven years. He published a
sermon on the death of B. Sylvester, 1753 ; elec
tion sermon, 1758.
THROOP, BENJAMIN, colonel, died at Oxford,
N. Y., in 1822, aged 80. He was a brave officer
in the Avar of the Revolution. He led one hun
dred warriors of the Mohegan tribe to Canada
in 1776, most of whom died of the small-pox and
by the fate of war. He was then a captain and
lieutenant-colonel in the line. He fought in the
battles of Long Island, White Plains, Saratoga,
and Monmouth.
T1IURBER, DANIEL, M. D., died at Mendon,
Mass., in 1836, aged 70.
TIIURSTON, DAVID, first minister of the
second church in Medway, was pastor from 1752
to 1769, and was succeeded by D. Sanford. He
graduated at Princeton in 1751.
TIIURSTON, GARDNER, a Baptist minister,
died at Newport, R. I., in 1802, aged 80. He
was born in N., and succeeded Mr. Eyers in
1759, and was succeeded by Joshua Bradley.
He was eminently pious. — Benedict.
THURSTON, PEARSON, minister of Somers-
worth, N. H., died at Leominster, Mass., in 1819,
aged 55. Born in Lancaster, Mass., he gradu
ated at Dartmouth in 1787 ; and was pastor from
1792 to 1812. In this last year his house was
burnt, with the church records, communion ser
vice, and a social library.
THURSTON, JOHN BUCKNER, judge, died at
Washington Aug. 30, 1845, aged 82. A native of
Virginia, he emigrated to Kentucky. He was a
senator of the U. S. 1805-1810, and an associate
judge of the circuit court till his death.
THWING, BENJAMIN, was a member of the
Boston church in 1642, and had sons Edward and
John. He was a proprietor of Watertown.
TIBBETS, GEORGE, mayor of Troy, died in
1849, aged 86. From poverty he rose to great
wealth ; for many years he was a State senator.
TICHENOR, ISAAC, governor, died at Ben-
nington, Vt., in Dec., 1838, aged 84. He was
a senator of the United States in 1796, and
from 1815 to 1821 ; also a judge of the supreme
court of Vermont; governor from 1797 to 1808.
TICKNOR, ELISHA, an excellent teacher, died
in Boston in 1821, aged about 60. He was a
descendant of William T., who settled in Scitu-
ate as early as 1646. He was the son of Col.
Elisha T., who at the age of seventeen removed
with his father from Connecticut to Lebanon,
N. H., and who was an officer in the war of the
Revolution, and a highly respected citizen, dying
in 1822, aged 85. He graduated at Dartmouth
in 1783, and was from that year preceptor of
Moor's school till 1786, when he removed to Bos
ton, and had the care of a grammar-school until
1794. Afterwards he was a prosperous merchant.
He took great interest in education, and in the
establishment of the savings institution. He mar
ried in 1791 Betsey, the widow of Dr. Benjamin
Curtis, and by her was the father of George Tick-
nor, the eminent author, of Boston.
TICKNOR, CALEB, M. D., of New York, died
about 1842 or 1843, aged 36. Born in Salisbury,
Conn., he was one of three brothers, who were
physicians. His medical education was at the
Berkshire institution. He adopted Ilahnemann's
system, or that of homoeopathy. He was a man
of skill and integrity. He wrote much for the
medical journals. He published philosophy of
living, a work much admired. Dr. Williams, in
his medical biography, devoted an article to him ;
but strangely forgot to mention the time of his
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death, which was probably in 1833 or 1843. His
brother, Luther, died after him in 1846. His
wife, Mary, the daughter of Samuel Lee of Salis
bury, died in 1841. An address at his funeral is
spoken of in Boston med. and surg. jour., vol.
XXIII.
TICKNOR, LtmiER, M. D., died at Salisbury,
Conn., in 184^, aged 55; president of the Connec
ticut State medical society. Born in Jericho, Vt.,
at the age of fifteen he lost his father, who was
killed by the falling of a tree. He was a self-
made man, of great energy and indomitable per
severance ; liberal-hearted, generous, benevolent.
In his death he was greatly lamented. His
brother, Dr. Caleb Ticknor of New York, died
before him. — N. Y. Jour, of Med., May, 1846.
TILDEN, THOMAS, arrived at Plymouth in the
ship Ann in 1623, and was probably the brother
of Joseph, who died in Scituate in 1670. Joseph
T., who died at Boston in 1853, was a member of
the American academy and of the historical so
ciety of Massachusetts.
TILDEN, Mr., published in thirty pages his
poems, designed to animate the soldiers, 1756.
lie was then 70 years old ; but nothing more is
known concerning the author. — Cycl. Am. Lit.
TILESTON, JOHN, died in Boston in 1826,
aged 92. He was many years master of the
north writing-school; and was probably a de
scendant of Thomas, a freeman of Massachusetts
in 1637.
TILCHMAN, WILLIAM, chief justice of Penn
sylvania, died April 30, 1827, aged 70. He was
born Aug. 12, 1756, in Talbot county, on the
eastern shore of Maryland. His father, James,
was secretary of the proprietary land office. His
mother's father was Tench Francis, an eminent
lawyer of Philadelphia, the brother of Richard
Francis, who was the author of maxims of equity,
and of Mr. Philip Francis, the translator of Hor
ace. After the removal of his family to Phila
delphia he studied law in that city, under the
direction of Benjamin Chew, from 1772 to 1776.
In 1783 he was admitted to the courts of Mary
land ; but in 1793 he returned to Philadelphia,
and practised law till his appointment by Mr.
Adams, March 3, 1801, chief judge of the circuit
court of the United States. The law establish
ing this court being repealed in about a year, Mr.
Tilghman again practised law till he was ap
pointed, in July, 1805, president of the courts of
common pleas in the first district. In Feb.,
1806, he succeeded E. Shippen as chief justice
of the supreme court. His wife was Margaret
Allen, daughter of James A. of Philadelphia.
Besides his ordinary official duties, he, in obedi
ence to the legislature, reported about 1809 the
English statutes in force within the State ; a work
of great labor, and requiring an intimate know
ledge of the written law of England and of the
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colonial legislation. It was also his great and
constant toil to incorporate the principles of sci
entific equity with the law of Pennsylvania. He
published an eulogium on Dr. Wistar, 1818.
TILLARY, JAMES, M. D., died in New York
city > Dut the year of his death his biographer,
Dr. Thacher, neglects to mention. It was prob
ably about 1810 or 1820. He came from Scot
land, and was more than forty years a much
respected physician in New York. During the
yellow fever in 1795 and 1798, he remained no
bly at his post and refused no service of danger.
He cheered the poor and forsaken. The grati
tude of the people made him afterwards resident
physician. He was president of the St. An
drew's society. . He was a philanthropist, also a
Christian. — Hosack's Address ; Thacher.
TILLEY, EDWARD, was one of the one hun
dred pilgrims in the Mayflower to Plymouth in
1620, with Ann his wife ; but they both died in
the first sickness. Henry Samson, of their family,
a cousin, lived and left descendants. He was a
man of judgment, who with Bradford was asso
ciated with the first exploring party to give good
advice. — Bradford's Hist.
TILLEY, Joiix, was one of the one hundred
pilgrims in the Mayflower to Plymouth in 1620,
with his wife ; but they both died soon after com
ing ashore. Their daughter, Elizabeth, survived
the early general sickness, and married John
Howland, leaving ten children. He was of the
second exploring party. — • Bradford's Hist.
TILLINGHAST, PARDON, a minister, was
born near Beachyllead in England, in 1622, and
succeeded Mr. Olney, a Baptist minister at Prov
idence, in 1645. About 1700 he built at his own
expense at the north end of the town a meeting
house, which was replaced by a larger one in
1718. He published in 1689 a tract on water
baptism, which drew a reply from George Keith,
the Quaker. — Benedict.
TILLINGHAST, JOSEPH L., died suddenly at
Providence Dec. 30, 1844, aged more than 50.
He was a ripe scholar, and repeatedly a member
of congress.
TILTON, JOSEPH, doctor, died at Exeter,
N. H., Dec. 5, 1837, aged 94 ; a surgeon in the
army of the Revolution.
TILTON, JAMES, M. D., a physician, died May
14, 1822, aged 77. He was born in Delaware
June 1, 1745; was sent early to Finley's Not
tingham academy ; and settled as a physician at
Dover. In 1776 he served as a surgeon in the
army; in 1777 he was called to the hospital de
partment, and continued as hospital surgeon till
the close of the war. He introduced the hospital
huts, with a fire in the middle, and a hole in the
roof for the escape of smoke. With his pecu
niary resources exhausted, he resumed his pro
fession, and lived on a farm in New Castle county.
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The office of commissioner of loans, given him
in 1785, he held for some years. In the war of
1812 he was appointed physician and surgeon-
general of the army of the United States. He
visited the hospitals of the northern frontier.
At the age of seventy a disease of his knee ren-
sdered amputation necessary. He died near Wil
mington. He was never married. His height
was about six feet and a half; in person, man
ners, speech, and all his habits he was an original.
He was a Christian. In his last sickness the
Scriptures were his principal study. Of the vica
rious righteousness of Christ he was fond of con
versing. He published observations on military
hospitals, and some papers on agriculture. He
maintained that a farmer should live on the pro
duce of his own land, and of course should re
ject tea and coffee. As for himself, he kept no
tea-cups and saucers. — Thacher's Med. Biog.
TILTON, NATHAN, minister of Scarborough,
Me., died in 1851, aged 79. Born in East Kings
ton, N. H., he graduated at Harvard in 1796.
He was settled in 1800 and resigned his charge
in 1827.
TILTON, JOSEPH, a respected lawyer, died in
Exeter, N. H., 1856, aged 81; a graduate of Har
vard in 1797. He was associated at the bar with
eminent men, as Webster, Mason, Smith, Sulli
van, Woodbury, Bartlett, Cutts, and Haven.
TIMROD, WILLIAM H., died in 1838, aged
46. He was a mechanic, and wrote poetry. —
Cycl. of Amer. Lit.
TINKER, THOMAS, was one of the one hun
dred pilgrims in the Mayflower to Plymouth in
1620, with his wife and son ; but they all died in
the first sickness.
TITCOMB, WILLIAM, of Newbury, Mass., died
in 1676. He came from Newbury, England, as
early as 1642. He had five sons and seven daugh
ters. One of his descendants was Colonel T., who
was killed in the French war in 1755.
TITCOMB, BENJAMIN, died at Brunswick,
Me., Oct., 1848, aged-88; minister of a Baptist
church. His son, Benjamin, also a Baptist
preacher, died in Brunswick in 1829, aged 40.
He published the Cumberland gazette, the first
newspaper in Maine.
TITUS, PIICEBE, Mrs., died at Huntington,
L. I., about Jan., 1846, aged. 91; a woman of
courage and energy. Her name was Platt. She
was a young wife, when in the war two brothers
were captured and imprisoned in the pestilential
jail of New York. She heard they were starv
ing. " They shall not starve," said this bold
sister. Amidst many perils she made her way
to the prison-house week after week with a bas
ket of provisions. When they were sentenced
to be shot, she went to the British commander
and begged their lives. One of these, Ananias
Platt, left about 15,000 dollars to the Presbyte-
TOKKOHWOMPAIT.
rian church, Albany. Her only son was Platt
Titus of Troy.
TOBEY, SAMUEL, minister of Berkley, Mass.,
died in 1781, aged 66. Born in Sandwich, he
graduated at Harvard in 1733 and was ordained
in 1737.
TODD, JOHN, lived in Rowley in 1650, was
representative in 1686. Fifteen of the name
graduated at Yale, and one at Harvard.
TODD, SAMUEL, first minister of Plymouth,
Conn., died in 1789, aged about 75. He gradu
ated at Yale in 1734, and was settled in Water-
bury, now Plymouth, from 1740 to 1766, when
A. Storrs succeeded.
TODD, JONATHAN, second minister of East
Guilford, Conn., now Madison, died in 1791, aged
77, in the fifty-eighth year of his ministry. The
son of Jonathan of New Haven, he graduated at
Yale in 1732. He was the successor of John
Hart. He participated in the controversy relat
ing to the settlement of J. Dana. In his old age
he was tranquil. He had no children. He pub
lished a sermon, young people warned, 1740 ;
at the election, 1749; on the death of N. Chauncy,
1756; narrative relating to the church at Wal-
lingford, 1759 ; reply to Eells' remarks ; on the
death of T. Ruggles, 1770; of T. Hill, 1781 ; of
A. Redfield, 1783. — Sprague's Annals.
TODD, ELI, M. D., died in 1833, aged about
64. He was physician of the retreat for the in
sane at Hartford, Conn. ; was born in New Ha
ven, the son of Michael, a merchant ; graduated
at Yale college in 1787 ; and after practising
many years in his profession at Farmington, re
moved to Hartford in 1819, and exerted an im
portant agency in founding the retreat for the
insane, of which he was the physician. He was
a man of superior talents and extensive acquire
ments, and respected and beloved as a physician,
philanthropist, and Christian, though once an
Infidel. — Williams1 Med. Biog.
TODD, CLARISSA, Mrs., missionary, died at Ma
dura June 1, 1837. Her name was Clarissa Em
erson. Born in Chester, N. H., she married first
Edmund Frost, missionary at Bombay ; next, in
1826, Henry Woodward, missionary ; and then, in
1836, William Todd, missionary at Madura.
TODD, SAMUEL, died in Albany, Vt., May 30,
1840, aged 98 years. He served in the Revolu
tionary war, was in Bunker Hill battle, and helped
build the fort at Crown Point.
TOIIKUKQUONNO, JOHN, an Indian sachem
at Little Compton in 1698, had a good character.
TOKKOIIWOMPAIT, DANIEL, Indian min
ister at Natick in 1698, ordained by Eliot, had a
church of seven men and three women, and un
der his care fifty-nine men and fifty-one women,
and seventy children under sixteen years of age.
He died in 1716, aged 64. After his death, O.
Peabody was sent to preach to these Indians.
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TOL, JOHN C., died in Glenville, N. Y., Oct.
25, 1848, aged 68. A graduate of Union college
in 1799, he was the minister of Canajoharie.
TOLEIl, RICHARD II., editor twenty-three
years of the Lynchburg Virginian, died at Rich
mond in 1848, aged 49.
TOMLIXSOX, GIDEON, died at Stratford,
Conn., in 17GG, aged 34. An officer in the army,
he was at the capture of Ticonderoga. His son,
Jabez H., died in 1849, aged 88. His grandson,
Gideon, was governor of Connecticut from 1827
to 1831.
TOMLIXSON, DANIEL, minister of Oakham,
Mass., died Oct. 29, 1842, aged 83. Born in
Derby, Conn., he graduated at Yale in 1781, was
ordained June 22, 1786, and was pastor fifty-six
years ; for the last ten years he had a colleague.
TOMLIXSOX, GIDEON, governor of Connec
ticut, died at Fairfield Oct. 8, 1854, aged 74.
Born at Stratford, he graduated at Yale in 1802.
From 1818 to 1827 he was a member of congress,
then governor four years, and six years senator
of the United States.
TOMPKIXS, DANIEL D., vice-president of the
United States, died at Staten Island June 11,
1825, aged 50. He was born June 21, 1774, the
son of the Revolutionary patriot, Jonathan G. T.,
who died in May, 1823, aged 86, at Fox Mead
ows, or Searsdale, on the river Bronx, in West-
chester county, X. Y. He graduated at Columbia
college in 1795, and settled at New Yrork as a
lawyer. In the party struggles of 1799-1801 he
was a conspicuous republican. In 1803 he suc
ceeded Mr. Lewis as chief justice of the superior
court, and in 1807 was elected governor. In
1812 he prorogued the legislature, in order to
prevent a corrupt system of banking. During
the war, which began in 1812, he was as gov
ernor extremely active and devoted to the cause
of his country. His efforts had an important
bearing on the result of the war. At the close of
the war he purchased a farm in Richmond county}
in view of the city. In 1817 he was elected
vice-president ; Mr. Munroe being president.
TOMPKIXS, GEORGE, judge, died near Jeffer
son city, Mo., in 1846, aged 66. He was a judge
of the State supreme court, a man of legal
knowledge and moral worth, well acquainted
with the history of the west.
TOMPSOX, WILLIAM, first minister of Brain-
tree, Mass., died Dec. 10, 1666, aged 68. He
was a native of England, was first settled in Lan
cashire. After his arrival in this country, when
a church was gathered at Mount "\Yollaston, or
Braintree, now Quincy, he was chosen its pastor,
and was installed Sept. 24, 1639. Mr. Flynt
was settled as his colleague March 17, 1640. In
the year 1642 he accompanied Mr. James and
Mr. Knowles to Virginia, in order to carry the
gospel to the ignorant, but was soon obliged to
leave that colony for his nonconformity to the
Episcopalian worship.
TOMPSOX, SAMUEL, of Braintree, son of Rev.
William, died in 1695, aged 63. Born in Eng
land, he came with his father in 1637, was deacon
of the church, and representative fourteen years.
TOMPSOX, EDWARD, minister of Marshfield,
Mass., died in 1705, aged 39. The son of Ben
jamin, he graduated at Harvard in 1684, and
taught a school several years at Newbury. His
predecessors were E. Bulkier, S. Arnold ; his suc
cessors J. Gardner and S. Hill. On his grave
stone near the Winslow tomb is this inscription :
" Here in a tyrant's hand'dcth captive lie a rare
synopsis of divinity." His last sermons, heaven the
best country, were published in 1712.
TOMPSON, BENJAMIN, the son of Rev. Wil
liam T., died in 1714, and was buried at Roxbury,
aged 71. He graduated at Harvard in 1662, and
was a preacher in Boston from 1667 to 1770,
when he removed to Cambridge. He was also a
physician and a poet. He wrote an elegy on S.
Whiting, printed in Mather's Magnalia. — Cycl.
of Am. Lit.
TOMPSON, JOSEPH, of Billerica, son of Rev.
William T., died in 1732, aged 91. He was
schoolmaster, captain, selectman, town-clerk,
deacon, and representative. Among his descend
ants were Benjamin and Colonel William of B.
TOOLEY, HENRY, a useful man, died at Nat
chez in 1848, aged 75 ; mayor of the city, a Meth
odist professor for sixty years, and a preacher for
his last fifteen years. He understood Hebrew,
and was much interested in astronomy, and was
the father of temperance in Natchez.
TOOTH ACHER, ROGER, an early settler of
Billerica in 1660; had a son, grandson, and great-
grandson, all physicians and named Roger.
TORREY, WILLIAM, captain, an early author in
Massachusetts settled at Weymouth and was a free
man in 1642 and a representative several years.
He might have died as late as 1663. He was a good
penman, skilled in Latin, and usually clerk of the
deputies. He published a small book on the
millennium, " written by a very old man, in con
tinual expectation of his translation into another
life and world," 2d ed. 1757.
TORREY, SAMUEL, minister of Weymouth,
Mass., died April 21, 1707, aged 75, the succes
sor of T. Thacher. He was the son of Capt. Wil
liam. He had been in the ministry fifty years,
and was an able and faithful preacher. He was
educated at Harvard, but did not take a de
gree, as he did not comply with a new law, re
quiring four years' residence. Such was his gift in
prayer that he was always chosen, as Mr. Prince
says, " to bring up the rear of their religious exer
cises." He was very liberal. At a public fast in
1696, after the other exercises, he finished by a
prayer of two hours in length, so regular, perti-
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nent, free, lively, affecting, that, towards the end,
glancing upon some new scenes of thought, a
rare lawyer, Mr. Reed, said to Mr. Prince, " We
could not help wishing him to enlarge upon
them." So deep were his views, that the gover
nor and council invited him to assist them with
his wisdom and advice. After the death of Pres
ident Rogers of Harvard college in 1686 he was
chosen his successor, but declined the office. His
wife was a daughter of Secretary Rawson. He
published the election sermon in the years 1674,
1683, and 1695 — Eliot's Biog.
TORREY, JOSIAH, first minister of Tisbury,
Martha's Vineyard, died in 1723, aged about 45.
He graduated at Harvard in 1698, and was a
trustee. He was ordained in 1701. J. Mayhew
had preached at T. before him. His successors
were Hancock, Damon, Morse, and Hatch, or
dained in 1801. R. Thacher was at the same
time minister at Chilmark.
TORREY, JOSEPH, minister of South Kingston,
R. I., died in 1792, aged 93. He graduated at
Harvard in 1728.
TORREY, DOROTHY, died at Windsor, Conn.,
Jan. 16, 1838, aged 106, with no disease. Her
husband died aged 91.
TORREY, CHARLES T., died in Baltimore May
9, 1846, aged 33. Born in Scituate, Mass., he
graduated at Yale in 1833. He was a minister
at Providence, R. L, and Salem, Mass. Attempt
ing to carry away and liberate some slaves in
Maryland, he was sentenced to the State prison,
in which he died of the consumption.
TOTO, a friendly Windsor Indian, gave notice
of the proposed Indian attack on Springfield in
1675 or 1676.
TOURO, JUDAH, died at New Orleans, Jan. 18,
1854, aged 78, worth nearly tw6 millions of dol
lars, by him chiefly bequeathed to the public
institutions of New Orleans. Born in Newport,
R. I., in 1776, he went to N. O. in 1802, and was
wounded in its defence in the war of 1812. He
was of the Jewish faith.
TOWN, ITIIIEL, architect, died in New Haven
June 13, 1844, aged 60; a native of Thompson.
TOWNER, WILLIAM, M. D. and general,
died in Williamstown, Mass., in 1813, aged 58. He
was an early settler and a useful physician.
TOWN SEND, PENN, colonel, died in Boston,
Aug. 25, 1727, aged 75. He was the son of
William, who lived in Boston as early as 1636.
He was speaker, chief judge of the common pleas,
and colonel. He used to pray in the field with
the militia, as well as in his family and closet.
He was an encourager of learning, and one of the
managers of the society for propagating the gos
pel among the Indians.
TOWNSEND, JONATHAN, first minister of
Needham, Mass., died in 1762, aged 64. He
graduated at Harvard in 1716. He was suc
ceeded by Dr. West, who was transferred to
Boston. He published two fast sermons, 1729 ;
caveat against strife, 1749. Perhaps this last
sermon was by J. T. of Medfield.
TOWNSEND, JONATHAN, minister of Medfield,
Mass., died in 1776, aged about 56. He gradu
ated at Harvard in 1741. He published conven
tion sermon, 1758; two sermons on the reduction
of Quebec, 1760.
TOWNSEND, SOLOMON, minister of Barring-
ton, R. I., died in 1798, aged 82. Born in Boston,
he graduated at Harvard in 1735, and was pastor
from 1741 to 1798. The previous pastors were
J. Wilson, S. Torrey, and P. Heath.
TOWNSEND, DAVID, M. D., a respectable
physician of Boston, a member of the Mass, med
ical society, died in 1829, aged 74. His son,
Alexander, a graduate of the class of 1802, died a
lawyer in Boston, in 1835 ; he published a 4th of
July oration, 1810; address to charitable fire
society.
TOWNSEND, ISAAC H., died in New Haven
in 1847, aged 43. He graduated in 1822. In
1842 he was associated with Judge Hitchcock in
the arrangement of the law school of Yale, at the
reorganization of which he was one of the pro
fessors in 1846.
TOWNSEND, JOHN, died in Albany, Aug.
26, 1854, aged 71. He was mayor of the city,
and held many important stations, and was uni
versally respected. The son of Henry T., he was
born at Stirling Iron-works, back of Newburg,
N. Y., and came to Albany as clerk to his brother
Isaiah, in 1802 ; and became his partner in the
iron and hardware trade, and acquired a princely
fortune. He was one of the original owners of
Syracuse, and there established the manufacture
of salt by solar evaporation. He was president
of the Commercial bank of Albany. He survived
his brother many years. His wife was the
daughter of Judge A. Spencer ; and seven chil
dren survived him. — Sprague's Sermon on his
Death.
TOWNSEND, ELIZA, died in Boston in 1854,
aged 65. She wrote 'poetry for the anthology,
Unitarian miscellany, and portfolio. She was
esteemed for her intellect and amiable qualities.
Cycl. of Am. Lit.
TOWNSEND, SAMUEL, of Madison county,
Ala., died in 1856, aged 55 ; the wealthiest planter
of Kentucky. By his will about forty slaves were
to be liberated and removed from the State, and
a large portion of his property to be distributed
among them.
TOWSON, NATHAN, major-general, died at
Washington July 20, 1854, aged 71. He ac
quired a military reputation in the war of 1812, at
the battles of Chippewa and Bridgewater. In
his last years he was paymaster-general. He
was a native of Maryland. His wife, who died
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July 21, 1832, was Sophia Bingham, the daughter
of Caleb Bingham of Boston.
TRACY, ELISIIA, Dr., died in Norwich, Conn.,
in 17,52. He was eminent as a physician, and
was a classical scholar, and adorned with the
moral and social virtues.
TRACY, UIUAII, a statesman, died at Wash
ington June 19, 1807, aged 53. He was gradu
ated at Yale college in 1778, and afterwards, di
recting his attention to the law, he soon rose to
eminence in that profession. The last fourteen
years of his life were devoted to the service of
his country in the national councils, where he
•was admired by his friends, and respected by his
opponents. After having been a member of the
house of representatives for some time, he was
chosen a senator, and he continued in this high
station till his death. In the beginning of March,
1807, while in a feeble state of health, he exposed
himself by attending the funeral of Mr. Baldwin
of the senate. From this period he declined.
His three daughters married three judges, namely,
Gould of Litchfield, Howe of Northampton, and
Metcalf ofDedham ; Mrs. M. died in 1857. His de
votion to the public service precluded him from
that attention to his private interests which claim
the principal regard of most men. His speeches
displayed a vigorous and well-informed mind. In
wit and humor he was unrivalled ; in delivery
graceful, and lucid in argument. He was some
times severe ; but the ardor of debate, the rapid
ity of his ideas, and the impetuosity of his elo
quence constituted an apology. He was an
instructive and agreeable companion.
TRACY, STEPHEN, first minister of Norwich,
Mass., died in 1822, aged 73. Born in Norwich,
Conn., he graduated at Princeton in 1770, was
pastor from 1781 to 1799, when he was suc
ceeded by B. R. Woodbridge.
TRACY, ELISIIA, died at Norwich, Conn., in
1842. He was an eminent and much respected
citizen.
TRACY, ADELINE, missionary to China, died
in Streetsborough, O., in 1851, aged 41. She was
the daughter of Deacon Alfred White of West
Brookfield, a descendent of Peregine White.
She married Ira Tracy in China in 1834. After
a few years' service she returned, in very poor
health.
TRACY, RACHEL, died in Utica April 7, 1852,
aged 73. She was the daughter of Judge Ben
jamin Huntingdon, of Norwich, Conn., and the wid
ow of Wm. G. Tracy, a merchant of Whitcstown,
who died in 1830. Her brothers, Henry and George
H., were conspicuous men in Oneida county. She
possessed great excellence of character, and was a
model of goodness. — N. Y. Observer, April 29.
TRACY, EBENEZER, Dr., died at Middletown
July 29,1856, aged 99.
TRANTHAM, or TRENTIIAM, BETSEY, Mrs.
died Jan. 10, 1834, in Maury county, Tenn.
aged 154. She was born in Germany, and
emigrated to North Carolina in 1710. For the
last twenty years her vision was good. At the
age of 65 she bore her only child, who survived
her.
TRASK, WILLIAM, captain, an early settler of
Salem, died in 1666, leaving sons William and
John and daughters. He came with governor
Endecott in 1628, and was representative of Salem,
Mass., five years. — Felt.
TRASK, NATHANIEL, the first minister of
Brentwood, N. II., died in 1789, aged 67. Born
in Lexington, Mass., he graduated at Harvard in
1742, and was settled in 1748.
TRASK, NAIIUM, Dr., died at Windsor, Vt.,
1837, aged 76.
TRAXALL, ABRAHAM, preacher to the society
of the United Brethren fifty years, died near/
Mount Pleasant, Pa., in 1825, aged 74. /
TREADWELL, DANIEL, professor of mathe
matics in King's college, N. Y., died in 1760, aged
about 26. Born at Portsmouth of parents who
came from Ipswich, Mass., he graduated in 1754.
He was an eminent mathematician, though
young. — Eliot.
TREADWELL, JOHN, minister of Lynn, Mass.,
died in 1811, aged 73. Born in Ipswich in 1738,
he graduated at Harvard in 1758, and was pastor
from 1763 to 1782. His predecessors were S.
Batchelor, who died in 1661, aged 100 ; S. Whit
ing, who died in 1679, aged 83 ; T. Cobbet, who
died in Ipswich, aged 77 ; J. Shcpard, who died
aged 72 ; J. Whiting, who died aged 82 ; and N.
Henchman, who died aged 62.
TREADWELL, JOHN, LL. D., governor of
Connecticut, died Aug. 19, 1823, aged 77. The
son of Ephriam T., he was born in Farmington,
Nov. 23, 1745 ; graduated at Yale college in 1767 ;
and, having studied law with Titus Hosmer of
Middletown, settled in his native town, but did
not engage in the practice. He was an only son,
and the heir of a competent estate. After sus
taining various offices, as judge of probate and of
other courts and lieutenant-governor, he was in
1809 chosen governor as successor of Trumbull,
but was succeeded by Griswold in 1811; thus be- "
ing thrown out of all public employments, which
had occupied him thirty years. This was painful.
For twenty years he was a deacon of the church
of which he became a member at the age of
twenty-six under the salutary influence of affliction
by the loss of a daughter. lie was the first pres
ident of the American foreign mission society,
and continued 'in that place till his death. His
wife was a daughter of Joseph Pomeroy, of a
family from Northampton. Gov. T. was not a
man of popular address or character, but he was a
man of unbending integrity, and great usefulness ;
he was a.lso an eminent Christian, bowing meekly
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to God's will under heavy afflictions, and dying in
the joyous hope of the believer. In his last years
he wrote a series of theological essays, which were
not published.
TREADWELL, JOHN D., M. D., died at Sa
lem, Mass., June 6, 1833, aged 65. He gradu
ated at Harvard in 1788.
TREADWELL, JOHN G., M. D., a graduate
of Harvard in 1825, died in Salem Aug. 8, 1856,
aged about 51. He bequeathed his property,
over 100,000 dollars, — after the death of his
mother, aged 80, — to Harvard college, to estab
lish professorships of physiology and anatomy.
If the prescribed conditions were not accepted,
the whole property was to go to the Massachu
setts general hospital.
TREAT, ROBERT, governor of Connecticut,
died at Milford July 12, 1710, aged 88. He was
the son of Richard of Wethersficld. He was chosen
one of the magistrates in 1673. After Philip's
•war commenced, he was sent to Westfield at the
head of the Connecticut troops, and, when the
enemy attacked Springfield, he marched to its
relief and drove them from the town. He also
attacked the Indians in their assault upon Had-
ley Oct. 19, and put them completely to flight.
In 1676 he was chosen deputy-governor, and in
1683 governor, to which office he was annually
elected for fifteen years. From 1698 to 1708 he
was again deputy-governor. His character was
very respectable, and he had rendered the most
important services to his country.
TREAT, SAMUEL, first minister of Eastham,
Mass., the son of the preceding, died March 18,
1717, aged 68. He was graduated at Harvard
college in 1669. lie was ordained in 1672, a
church having been established for more than
twenty years. Soon after his settlement he
studied the Indian language, and devoted to the
Indians in his neighborhood much of his time
and attention. Through his labors many of the
savages were brought into a state of civilization
and order, and not a few of them were converted
to the Christian faith. In 1693 he wrote a letter
to Increase Mather, in which he states that there
were within the limits of Eastham five hundred
adult Indians, to whom he had for many years
imparted the gospel in their own language. He
had under him four Indian teachers, who read in
separate villages on every Sabbath, except on
every fourth, when he himself preached the ser
mons, which he wrote for them. He procured
schoolmasters and persuaded the Indians to
choose from among themselves six magistrates,
who held regular courts. He passed near half a
century in the most benevolent exertions as a
minister of the gospel. His second wife was the
widow of Rev. B. Estabrook and daughter of
S. Willard. His daughter was the mother of
Judge Paine. He was a consistent and strict
Calvinist, who zealously proclaimed those truths
which are calculated to alarm and humble the
sinner ; and it pleased God at different times to
accompany his labors with a Divine blessing. An
extract from one of his sermons, which proves
that the author was able to array the terrors of
the Lord against the impenitent, is preserved in
the historical collections. He was mild in his
natural temper, and his conversation was pleas
ant and sometimes facetious, but always decent.
He published the confession of faith in the Nau-
set Indian language; and the election sermon,
1713. — Sprague's Annals.
TREAT, RICHARD, first minister of Brim-
field, Mass., graduated at Yale in 1719. He was
born in Glastenbury, Conn.; was settled in 1725,
and resigned in 1734.
TREAT, SALMON, minister of Preston, Conn.,
died in 1846, aged about 73. He was a grand
son of Richard T., one of the first settlers of
Wethersfield, and the son of James. A gradu
ate of Harvard in 1694, he was ordained at Pres
ton in 1698, and resigned in 1744.
TREAT, JOSEPH, general, died at Bangor
Feb. 27, 1853, aged 77. He was skilled in the
Indian languages of the eastern part of Maine.
TRECOTHICK, JAMES, died in London, in
Sept., 1843, aged 90. A native of Boston, he
graduated at Harvard in 1773. His father was
James Ivers, who took by will the estates and
assumed the name of his uncle, Barlow Treco-
thick, a merchant of London and member of
parliament.
TRESCOTT, LEMUEL, colonel, died at Lubec,
Me., in 1826, aged 75 ; one of the best field-of
ficers in the war of the Revolution. He com
manded a battalion of the light infantry under
Lafayette, and he enjoyed the confidence of
Washington. He was the best disciplinarian.
Struggling with poverty, he yet devoted himself
to the cause of liberty. After the return of
peace, as he acquired an estate, his house and
heart were ever open to distress. He was an
upright man, a patriot, a Christian. If he has
left descendants, they may speak with satisfac
tion of their ancestor. He was probably a de
scendant of John, who died in Dorchester in
1740, aged 89; and of William, a freeman of
Dorchester in 1643. — Farmer.
TREVETT, SAMUEL II., M. D., died of the
yellow fever on board the Peacock at Norfolk,
Nov. 4, 1822, aged 39. Born in Marblehead, he
was graduated at Harvard in 1804, and served as
a surgeon in the United States frigate at the
capture of the Macedonian, and was captured in
the President. He was surgeon in the navy-
yard at Charlestown, of which office it is said ho
was deprived, because he displeased his superiors
by his honest evidence in a case under trial, and
was ordered away on a cruise ; — such sometimes
TREVORE.
TRUMBULL.
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are the pitiable malignity and oppressions of
the holders of power. — Thachcr's Mcd. Biog.
TItEVOKE, WILLIAM, was a seaman, who,
with one Ely, a seaman, was hired by the one
hundred Pilgrim settlers in the Mayflower to re
main for one year, after which time they returned
to England. They were passengers indeed ; but
not properly to be reckoned among the Pilgrims,
who sought a new home, any more than the
other seamen, employed for a shorter time.
TRIMBLE, JOHN, a judge of several courts
in Kentucky, died in Harrison county in 1852,
aged G9 ; an able lawyer and upright man. He
was the brother of Robert T.
TROOST, GERARD, M. ])., died at Nashville,
Tcnn., Aug. 15, 1800, aged 74 ; long a professor
in the university of X. He was born in Hol
land ; came to this country in 1810; was first
president of the academy of natural sciences at
Philadelphia. In 1825 he joined Owen's com
munity in Ohio. As State geologist, his reports
were deemed very valuable. — Cijcl. of Amer.
Lit.
TROTT, NICHOLAS, chief justice of South
Carolina, was born in England in 16G3. In 1700
he was speaker of the assembly, and a friend of
the people. Being appointed chief justice, he
espoused the cause of the proprietors, and drew
upon himself the popular resentment. He died
at Charleston in 1740, aged 77 ; Richard Alleyn
succeeded him. He was learned in Hebrew. He
revised and published the laws of South Carolina
before 1734.
TROTTER, GEORGE, general, died near Lex
ington, Ky., in 1815, aged 37. Born in Virginia,
he served under Harrison in the war of 1812.
Until a few weeks before his death he had be
stowed no thoughts upon religion. Then he
took up his bible, and continued to read, until
seized with a fatal disease. His last words
seemed to be this prayer : " O Lord, be merciful
to me a sinner."
TROUP, ROBERT, colonel, died at New York
in 1832, aged 84. He was an officer in the war
of the Revolution. He published a letter on
the lake-canal policy of New York, 1822.
TROUP, GEORGE M., governor of Georgia,
died in South Carolina in 1856. Born in Geor
gia, he was senator of the United States in 1810,
and was governor in 1823. In a dispute with
the general government respecting the removal
of the Creeks, he disregarded the treaty, and
ordered the State militia to be in readiness to
resist any troops of the United States. He left
the chair of State in 1827, and from 1828 served
six years again in the senate. He was a great ad
vocate of southern State rights, of which party he
was a candidate for the presidency in 1852.
TROWBRIDGE, CALEB, minister of Groton,
Mass., died in 17GO, aged G8. He graduated at
Harvard in 1710. His predecessors were S.
"Willard, G. Ilobart, I). Bradstreet ; his successor
was S. Dana.
TROWBRIDGE, EDMUND, a judge of the
supreme court, died at Cambridge in 1793, aged
94. His original name was Goff. Born in New
ton in 1709, he graduated at Harvard in 1728;
was attorney-general in 1749; was appointed
judge in 17G7 ; but, being attached to the royal
government, resigned in 1772. It was before him
that Capt. Preston, defended by Mr. Adams, was
tried.
TROWBRIDGE, AMASA, Dr., of Watertown,
N. Y., was killed by being run over, as he was
riding, by horses in a lumber wagon, in 1841,
aged 27. He was eminent as a physician and
surgeon ; and so was his father of the same
name, who removed from Watertown to be a
professor in the Willoughby institute, Ohio. —
Williams' Mcd. Biofj.
TROWBRIDGE,' HENRY, died in New Haven
in 1849, aged 70 : bequeathing to the board of
foreign missions 5,000 dollars ; and 5,000 to the
home missionary society ; 2,OGO to the bible
society ; 2,000 to the seamen's friend society ;
2,000 to the poor of the first Congregational so
ciety, etc., — in all, 25,000 dollars.
TRUE, HENRY, the first minister of Hamp-
stead, N. H., died in 1782, aged about 57. He
graduated at Harvard in 1750, and was ordained
in 1752. Daniel Kelley succeeded him.
TRUE, JABEZ, Dr., died at Marietta, of an
epidemic fever, in 1823, aged G3. He was born
in Hampstead, N. H., the son of Rev. Henry
True, and studied physic with Dr. Flagg. He
emigrated to Marietta in the summer of 1788.
His professional services were often attended with
danger from the Indians in the bridle-paths of
twenty or thirty miles. In 1799 he joined the
church and became its deacon. lie was cheerful,
benevolent, pious ; and he had an excellent wife,
an aid to him in his deeds of charity. lie once
caught a boy on a tree in his garden, who was in
pursuit of the summer sweeting ; and said : " Ah,
James ! you are on the wrong tree ; come down,
my lad." And when he came down, he showed
him the best tree, and with a pole helped him to
apples, telling him to call, when he wanted the
good apples. The boy was cured of his habit.
— Hildrdli.
TRUE, BENJAMIN, a printer in Boston, died
in 1845, aged SO. He published the Boston
Yankee, and was then associated in the Boston
Statesman. lie was patriotic, honest, benevo
lent.
TRUMBULL, JONATHAN, governor of Con
necticut, died Aug. 17, 1785, aged 74. He was
the son of Joseph T. of Lebanon, descended
from John T., who came from England ard lived
in Rowley, Mass., in 1640-43, whose son, John, re-
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moved to Suflfield, and Jiis son, Joseph, settled at
Lebanon. He was born in 1710, and was gradu
ated at Harvard college in 1727. He was cho
sen governor in 17G9, and was annually elected
till 1783, when he resigned, having been occupied
for fifty years without interruption in public em
ployments, and having rendered during eight
years' war the most important services to his
country. Having seen the termination of the
contest in the establishment of the independence
of America, he withdrew from public labors, that
he might devote himself to the concerns of relig
ion, and to a better preparation for his future
existence. His wife was Faith llobinson, a de
scendant of John R. of Leyden, by whom he had
four sons and two daughters; Joseph was com
missary-general in 1775, and died unmarried;
John was aid to Gen. Lee ; David died in Leba
non Jan. 17, 1822, aged 71 ; Faith married Gen.
Iluntington ; Mary married Gen. William Wil
liams of Lebanon. On the death of his wife,
Faith Trumbull, T. Stone published a sermon
in 1780. Washington, in a letter of condolence
on his death to one of his sons, wrote thus :
" Under this loss, however great as your pangs
may have been at the first shock, you have every
thing to console you. A long and well-spent
life in the service of his country placed Gov.
Trumbull among the first of patriots; in the
social duties he yielded to none ; and his lamp
from the common course of nature being nearly
extinguished, worn down with age and cares, but
retaining his mental faculties in perfection, are
blessings which attend rarely his advanced life.
All these combining have secured to his memory
universal respect here, and no doubt increasing
happiness hereafter." A long letter of Gov. T.
upon the war is printed in the historical collec
tions.
TRUMBULL, JONATHAN, governor of Con
necticut, the son of the preceding, died Aug. 7,
1809, aged G9. He was born in Lebanon March
2G, 1740; graduated at Harvard college in
1759 ; and settled in his native town. From
1775 to the close of the campaign in 1778, he
was paymaster to the army in the northern de
partment. In 1780 he was appointed secretary
and first aid to Washington, in the enjoy
ment of \vhose confidence and friendship and
in whose family he remained until the end of the
war. In March, 1789, he was a member of con
gress ; in 1791 speaker of the house; and in
1794 a senator of the United States. In 1798
he succeeded Wolcott as governor, and remained
in office eleven years till his death. He died of
dropsy of the heart at Lebanon Aug. 7, 1809,
aged 09. He had no children. His wife, Eunice
Backus, died at New Haven Feb., 1826, aged 76.
In deliberative assemblies he presided with great
dignity, being graceful in manner and elegant in
language. His incorruptible integrity was united
with a sound judgment and extensive knowledge.
To the ancient religious principles of New Eng
land he was zealously attached. It -was with
serenity and Christian hope, founded on the
atonement made for sin, that he met the king of
terrors.
TRUMBULL, BENJAMIN, D. D., an historian,
minister of North Haven, Conn., died Feb. 2,
1820, aged 85. He was the grandson of Benoni
T., the brother of the first Gov. T.'s father. He
was a native of Hebron, and lived long in the
family of Dr. Wheelock. He graduated at Yale
college in 1759 ; was ordained Dec. 25, 1760.
His widow died in June, 1825, aged 92. His
daughter Martha, widow of Rev. Aaron Wood
ward, died in 1851. With a salary not exceed
ing 400 dollars he left a good estate, the result of
his prudence and industry. In the sermon at his
ordination, Dr. Wheelock urged upon the peo
ple the duty of providing for him ; but said he
should not, if he believed him to be " a sensual,
sleepy, lazy, dumb dog, that cannot bark." His
historical works are valuable. He published
essays in favor of the claim of Connecticut to the
Susquehannah country, in the Journal, 1774; ser
mon at a thanksgiving, 1783; a treatise on
divorces, 1788 ; at the ordination of Mr. Holt,
1789 ; a century sermon, 1801 ; address on prayer
and family religion, 1804 ; twelve discourses on
the Divine origin of the Scriptures ; history of
Connecticut, vol. I., 8vo., 1797 ; vol. II., 1818 ;
history of the United States to 1765, vol. I., 1819.
— Sprague's Annals.
TRUMBULL, JOHN, LL. D., judge, a poet,
died May 10, 1831, aged 81. A descendant of
John T. of Suffield, he was the son of John T.,
minister of Watertown, Conn., who died Dec. 13,
1787, aged 72 ; his mother was Sarah Whitman,
daughter of Rev. Samuel W. of Farmington,
and grand- daughter of S. Stoddard. He was
born in 1750. His fatRer directed his early
studies, and at the age of seven he was judged
qualified for admission to college. He Avas grad
uated at Yale in 1767. From 1771 to 1773 he
was a tutor, and in this period he published his
poem, the progress of dulness, which had a
great sale. Having studied law with John Ad
ams at Boston, he settled at Hartford in 1781,
and became distinguished in his profession. In
1784 he published his celebrated poem, McFingal,
which had thirty editions. About the year 1797
his feeble health withdrew him from business.
He was the victim of hypochondria. But from
1801 to 1819 he was a judge of the superior
court. In 1820 he revised his works, for which
he received a handsome compensation. Having
in 1825 removed with his wife to Detroit, to re
side in the family of his son-in-law, Mr. Wood-
bridge, he there died. His wife was Sarah,
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daughter of Col. Leverett Hubbard of New Ha
ven. He had two sisters; one married Dr. Caleb
Perkins of West Hartford, and the other Rev.
Timo. Langdon of Danbury. From early life he
was a professor of religion, whose consolations
he experienced in his last days. His poetical
works were published in 2 vols. 8vo., 1820.
TRUMBULL, JOHN, colonel, the painter, died
in New York Nov. 10, 1843, aged 87. He was
the son of Gov. T., and born at Lebanon, and
graduated at Harvard in 1773. In the war he
was a member of Washington's family, his aid-de
camp; and adjutant under Gates. After the war
he went to Europe to perfect himself in the art
of painting, and studied with Benjamin West.
He was a fifth commissioner under the Jay treaty,
with Pinckney and Gore, for the settlement of
American claims upon England. His four great
historical paintings are in the Capitol at Wash
ington, — the Declaration of Independence, the
Surrender at Saratoga, the Surrender of Corn-
wallis, and the Resignation of Washington.
The Trumbull gallery, which he presented to
Yale college, contains fifty-five of his paintings.
— N. Y. Observer, Nov. 15.
TRUSSELL, MOSES, died at New London,
N. H., in 1843, aged 83. At Bunker Hill battle,
while speaking to a friend, a ball from a ship took
off one of his hands and also one of his friend's.
TRUXTON, THOMAS, a naval commander, died
May 5, 1822, aged 67. The son of a lawyer, he
was born on Long Island Feb. 17, 1755. He
early went to sea. Early in 1776 he sailed as a
lieutenant in the private armed ship, the Con
gress ; captures were made off Havana, and of one
of the prizes he took the command and brought
her to New Bedford. In June, 1777, he com
manded the Independence, fitted out by himself
and Isaac Sears, and off the Azores captured three
large and valuable ships. He afterwards sailed
in the Mars. His prizes were numerous. Sailing
in the St. James of twenty guns, in a severe en
gagement he disabled a British ship of thirty-two
guns. He returned from France with a most
valuable cargo. After the war, residing at Phil
adelphia, he was extensively concerned in trade to
Europe and Asia. In 1794 he was intrusted with
the command of the Constellation, in which, Feb.
9, 1799, he captured the French ship, L'lnsur-
gente, of superior force, losing one man killed and
two wounded ; the enemy lost twenty-nine killed
and forty-four wounded. Feb. 1, 1800, he gained a
victory over La Vengeance, of fifty-four guns and
500 men, but one of his own masts falling, the si
lenced vessel escaped in the night. For this action
congress gave him a golden medal. Being ap
pointed to command the expedition against Tripoli,
but denied the assistance of a captain to command
his flag ship, he declined the service. Jefferson for
this dismissed him. In 1816 he was high sheriff
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of Philadelphia, and remained in that office till
1819. He died at Philadelphia. His only re
maining son, William, died at Key West in April,
1830.
TRYON, WILLIAM, died Jan. 27, 1788. He
was once governor of New York. He and Com
modore Collier conducted the attack upon New
Haven in 1779, when twenty-seven were killed,
and among the wounded was Dr. Daggett, pro
fessor of divinity, who was barbarously treated.
— Barber's Conn. Hist. Coll.
TUCK, HENRY, a minister, died in Lincoln
county, N. C., in 1837, aged 97.
TUCKE, JOHN, minister of Gosport, Isles of
Shoals, a graduate of 1723, died Aug. 12, 1773,
aged 71. Hull, Brock, Belcher, and Moody had
previously preached on the Isles. His son, John,
was a chaplain in the army. He was an industri
ous, faithful, learned minister, and a useful phy
sician. He published a sermon at the ordination
of his son, 1761.
TUCKE, JOHN, first minister of Epsom, N. H.,
died in 1777, aged 36. Born in Gosport, the son
of J. T., he graduated at Harvard in 1758, and
was pastor from 1761 to 1774.
TUCKER, JOHN, D. D., minister of Newbury,
Mass., died March 22, 1792, aged 72. He was
born at Amesbury, and was graduated at Har
vard college in 1741. He was ordained colleague
with Christopher Tappan, Nov. 20, 1745. As
there was not a perfect union in the invitation
which was given him, he hesitated long ; but, as
the opposition arose from contrariety of sentiment
which, probably, would continue to exist, he was
induced to accept the call. Those who dissented,
formed with others the Presbyterian society, of
which Jonathan Parsons was the first minister.
Mr. Moor succeeded him. Ho possessed a strong
and well-furnished mind, and in argumentation
exhibited peculiar ingenuity. He was habitually
meek and placid, but when called to engage in
controversy he defended himself with courage
and with the keenness of satire. He published
a sermon at the ordination of Edmund Noyes,
1761 ; four sermons, on the danger of sinners
hardening their hearts, on God's special care over
the righteous under calamities, on the reconcilia
tion of sinners to God, and on being born of God,
1756; at a thanksgiving, 1756; on the doctrines
and uncharitableness of J. Parsons, as exhibited
more especially in his late discourses, 1757; at
the ordination of A. Moody, 1765; account of an
ecclesiastical council, to which is annexed a dis
course, being a minister's appeal to his hearers
as to his life and doctrines, 1767 ; two discourses
on the death of J. Lowell, 1767; remarks on a
sermon of A. Hutchinson; the reply of A. Hutch-
inson considered, 1768; a letter to J. Chandler;
a reply to Mr. Chandler's answer, 1768; remarks
on Mr. Chandler's serious address, 1768; at the con-
802
TUCKER.
TUDOH.
vention of ministers, 17G8; two sermons, on the
condition of salvation, and on the nature and ne
cessity of the Father's drawing such as come to
Christ, 1769; at the election, 1771; remarks on
a discourse of J. Parsons, 1774; the Dudleian
lecture, 1778; and a sermon at Newburyport,
1788. — Sprague's Annals.
TUCKER, JEDIDIAH, first minister of Loudon,
N. H., died in 1818, aged 57. He was settled in
1789.
TUCKER, JAMES W., minister in Rowley,
Mass., died in 1819, aged 32. He graduated at
Yale in 1807. He published a sermon on the
national fast, 1815.
TUCKER, THOMAS TUDOR, treasurer of the
United States, died in Washington May 1, 1828,
aged 83. He was a patriot of the Revolution, a
member of the first congress, a faithful public
officer, and estimable in private life. He died in
a resigned and pious frame of mind.
TUCKER, ST. GEORGE, judge, died in Nelson
county, Virginia, in Nov., 1827, aged 75. Born
in Bermuda, he was educated at William and
Mary college. He had been a judge of the State
court, and was appointed in 1813 judge of the
district court of the United States, in the place of
Tyler, deceased. In 1778 he married the mother
of Johh Randolph. He succeeded E. Pendleton
as judge of the court of appeals in 1803. He
•wrote poetry. A piece of three stanzas is ad
mired, the two first relating to his " youth." The
last stanza is the following :
" Days of my age, yo will shortly be past ;
Pains of my age, yet a while ye can last ;
Joys of my age, in true wisdom delight ;
Eyes of my age, be religion your light ;
Thoughts of my age, dread ye not the cold sod ;
Hopes of my age, be ye flx'd on your God."
He was a patriot of the Revolution, a man of
taste and of an amiable character. He published
an examination of the question, how far the com
mon law of England is the law of the United
States ; a treatise on slavery, 1796 ; letter on the
alien and sedition laws, 1799; commentaries on
Blackstone. — Cycl. of Amer. Lit.
TUCKER, SAMUEL, commodore, died at Bre
men, Me., in 1833, aged 85. Born in 1747, the
son of a shipmaster at Marblehead, he was placed
on board the frigate Royal George, at the age of
twelve. As commander of the ship Phoenix he sailed
from Boston to London just before the war. Re
turning in a vessel of Robert Morris, he was the
means of saving it in a storm. Washington soon
sent him a commission in the navy as captain,
which was soon followed by that of commodore,
Manley being sick at Beverly. In every battle
he conquered. His last years were employed in
agricultural pursuits, the war having left him in
affluence.
TUCKER, EBEXEZER, a soldier of the Revolu
tion, died at Tuckerton, N. J., in 1845, aged 87.
He held various offices, and was a member of
congress.
TUCKER, HEXRY ST. GEORGE, judge, died at
Winchester, Va., Aug. 28, 1848, aged 69. He
was professor of law in the university of Virginia,
and a judge in the State and national courts; also
a member of congress. He was learned and ac
complished. He published various treatises of law.
TUCKER, EBEXEZER, the first minister of Phil-
ipston, died at Heath in 1848. He graduated at
Harvard in 1783; was pastor of P. from 1785 to
1799; then removed to Heath as his place of
residence.
TUCKER, BEVERLEY, judge, professor in
William and Mary college, died at Winchester,
Va., Aug. 26, 1851, aged 67. He was the son of
Henry St. George T.; studied law; removed from
Virginia to Missouri in 1815, and there was ap
pointed a judge. In 1830 he returned to Vir
ginia. He held to the States-right doctrines. He
published a work on pleading ; lectures on gov
ernment ; three novels, George Balcombe, Parti
san Leader, and Gertrude. — Cycl. of Amer. Lit.
TUCKER, EDWARD, a minister of the Univer-
salists, died at Jamaica Plain in 1853, aged 76.
He was a minister in Salem in 1808; then in
Charlestown and Portsmouth. Next, at Charl-
ton, he was connected with a Unitarian society.
TUCKERMAN, JOSEPH, D. D., died April 20,
1840, aged 62. He was born at Boston in 1778 ;
was graduated in 1798; and was pastor in Chel
sea from 1801 to 1826. Out of regard to the
neglected poor in Boston, he acted as a minister
at large, and was the almoner of many charities.
He died at Havana in Cuba.
TUDOR, SAMUEL, first minister of Wintonbury
church in Windsor, Conn., died in 1757, aged
about 50. He graduated at Yale in 1728; and
was a descendant of Owen Tudor from Wales, an
early settler of Windsor, whose son Samuel com
menced the settlement on the east side of Connec
ticut river.
TUDOR, ELIIIU, M. D., died at East Windsor
March 6, 1826, aged 93. He graduated at Yale
in 1760. His wife was Miss Brewster, a descend
ant of Elder B. Though an Episcopalian he was
a communicant in the Congregational church.
He was a son of Rev. Samuel. He was a sur
geon with Wolfe in 1759, and at the capture of
Havana in 1762, and afterwards in the hospitals
of England. Discharged at his own request on
half-pay, he returned to America and lived on
the paternal farm sixty years. He lived to be
the oldest surviving graduate of Yale. — Thaclier's
Med. Biog.
TUDOR, WILLIAM, an author, died March 9,
1830, aged about 51. He was the son of Wil-
TUFTS,
Ham T., a lawyer and distinguished citizen of Bos
ton, who died July 8, 1819, and grandson of John
T., who died in 1796, aged 86; was graduated at
Harvard college in 1796, and settled in Boston as
a lawyer. He died at Rio de Janeiro, where he
was American charge d'affaires. He published
a discourse before the humane society, 1817 ; let
ters on the eastern States, 1820; miscellanies,
1821 ; the life of James Otis, 8vo., 1823.
TUFTS, PETER, died in Maiden in 1700, aged
82. He came from England in 1654, and left
sons, Peter, Jonathan, and John, and four daugh
ters.
TUFTS, SIMON, Dr., the son of Peter, died in
1746, aged 46, the first regular-bred physician in
his native town, Medford, Mass. He graduated
at Harvard in 1724. His circle of practice em
braced ten or twelve neighboring towns. On his
death sermons were preached at Medford, Bos
ton, Charlestown, and Cambridge. To the poorer
class of students he made no charge for his ser
vices. He had two sons, eminent physicians, of
whom Simon died in Medford in 1786, aged 60.
— Thacher's Med. Biog.
TUFTS, JOHN, minister of the second church
in Newbury, Mass., died in 1750, aged about 63.
He was a descendant of Peter, and graduated at
Harvard in 1708. He published a discourse at
the ordination of B. Bradstreet, 1729.
TUFTS, COTTON, M. 1)., a physician in Wey-
mouth, the son of Dr. Simon T. of Medford, died
Dec. 8, 1815, aged 84. He graduated in 1749.
His practice in early and middle life was exten
sive. He was a member of the convention for
adopting the constitution of the United States,
and a member of the State senate. He was also a
deacon of the church. — Thacher's Med. Biog.
TUFTS, AARON, doctor, died in Dudley, Mass.,
in 1843, aged 73. A native of Charlestown, he
studied medicine with Dr. Eaton of Dudley ; af
ter a practice of a few years he engaged in man
ufactures, and acquired a handsome fortune, and
occupied a beautiful estate. But affliction came
upon him. His son, G. A. Tufts, a graduate of
1818, a senator, died in 1835, greatly lamented.
TULLAR, DAVID, died at Sheffield, Mass., in
1839, aged 90. He graduated at Yale in 1774,
and was the minister of many towns: of Milford,
Conn., from 1780 to 1803 ; of Rowley from 1803
to 1810 ; of Hawley; of Windsor, Vt. ; of Cale
donia, N. Y.; of Ipswich Line-brook church from
1823 to 1831, laboring there with great success.
TULLY, JOHN, died in Middletown, Conn.,
in 1701. He came from England, and was a
maker of almanacs from 1681 to his death.
TUPPER, THOMAS, of Lynn, removed to Sand
wich in 1637, and died in 1676, aged 96. Ann,
his wife, died in 1675, aged 96. He and Richard
Bourne were the purchasers of the Sandwich
lands in 1637, both men of wealth. In his re-
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gard for the spiritual interests of the Indians he
preached to them, although he was not educated
for the ministry. He founded an Indian church
near Herring river, supplied with a succession
of ministers of his name. A pastor, his great
grandson, died in 1787. — Hist. Coll. ill. 188, and
I. 201 ; N. E. Memorial.
TUPPER, BENJAMIN, general, died at Marietta,
Ohio, in June, 1792, aged 56. Born in Stough-
ton, now Sharon, he was apprenticed to Mr. Wil-
kington, a farmer in Dorchester. He lived in
Easton and Chesterfield, serving in the war, and
reaching the rank of colonel. He and Rufus
Putnam originated the Ohio company. He trav
elled with wagons to the Ohio, and reached Mari
etta Aug. 9, 1788. A professor of religion, he
encouraged public worship in the new settlement.
Daniel Story was the first minister. His wife was
H. White. Of his children, Maj. Anselm died
at Marietta in 1808 ; Col. Benjamin died at
Putnam in 1815 ; Gen. Edward W. died atGalli-
polis, in 1823; Rosanna married Winthrop Sar
gent, and died in 1790 ; Sophia married Nathan
iel Willis, and died in 1789; Minerva married
Col. Nye, and died at Marietta in 1836. Only
Edward W. T., of Putnam, is left as a represent
ative of the family. — Hildreth's Biog. Mem.
TUPPER, WILLIAM, colonel, died at Mon-
son in 1825, aged 90, formerly of Marlborough.
TURELL, JANE, the wife of Rev. Ebenezer
Turell, died at Medford in 1735, aged 27. She
was the daughter of Rev. B. Colman. Her men
tal powers were very early unfolded. At the age
of four she could repeat the catechism and many
psalms. At the age of eleven she began to write
poetry. Her memoirs with her poems were pub
lished in 1735. — Cycl. of Amer. Lit.
TURELL, EBENEZER, second minister of
Medford, Mass., died Dec. 5, 1778, aged 76.
He was a native of Boston ; was graduated at
Harvard college in 1721 ; and was ordained Nov.
25, 1724, as successor of Aaron Porter. Dr.
Osgood was his successor. He was an eminent
preacher, of a ready invention, a correct judg
ment, and fervent devotion, who delivered Divine
truth with animation, and maintained discipline
in his church with boldness tempered with pru
dence. To his country he was a zealous friend in
all its interests. After following to the grave
three wives, he died in Christian hope. He pub
lished a sermon at ordination of S. Cooke ; direc
tion as to present times, 1742; dialogue abou .
the times ; exhortation on the past ; on witch
craft, in hist. coll. ; the life and character of Dr.
Colman, 8vo., 1749.
TURNBULL, ROBERT T., died at Charleston,
S. C., in 1833, aged 60 ; reputed as the ablest
writer on the side of " nullification."
TURNER, JOHN, was one of the one hun
dred Pilgrims in the Mayflower to Plymouth ic
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TUTTLE.
1620, with two sons ; but they all died in the first I
sickness. A daughter came over afterwards, and
was married at Salem.
TURNER, HUMPHREY, a settler of Scituate
in 1633, died in 1673, leaving amofag other chil
dren a son, John, who married Mary Brewster, a
daughter of Jonathan Brewster. John's son
Ezekiel lived in New London, and died in 1704,
leaving a son, Ezekiel, and ten daughters, all of
whose descendants are of course descendants of
Elder Brewster of Plymouth. Thomas Turner,
a settler in New London after 1729, from whom
many families are descended, is supposed to have
been a descendant of Humphrey. — Miss Caul-
kins' Hist. New London.
TURNER, DAVID, first minister of Rehoboth,
Mass., died in 1757, aged 63. Born in Scituate,
he graduated at Harvard in 1718, and was settled
in 1721. The church grew under him from ten
members to one hundred and seventy. R. Rog-
erson from England succeeded him, and then O.
Thompson.
TURNER, PHILIP, a celebrated surgeon, died
in 1815, aged 74. He was born in Norwich,
Conn., in 1740 ; studied with Dr. Elisha Tracy,
whose daughter he married ; and served as a
surgeon in the French war from 1759 to 1763.
He then settled in Norwich. In the Revolution
ary war he was surgeon-general of the eastern
department. In 1800 he removed to New York.
He was soon appointed a surgeon in the army.
He died at York Island. — Thacher.
TURNER, CHARLES, minister of Duxbury,
Mass., died in 1816, aged about 66. He gradu
ated at Harvard in 1752. He published a ser
mon at ordination of G. Damon, 1760; of T.
Haven, 1770 ; the election sermon, 1773 ; a Plym
outh discourse, 1773; two fast sermons, 1783.
TURNER, a hermit of this name, died on the
East Rock in New Haven, Nov. 2, 1823. He was
found dead in his cabin, built of mud and stone,
on the top of the rock, in which he had lived for
years. He kept two or three sheep. He begged
his food. Of his history little was known.
TURNER, JAMES, governor of North Carolina,
died in Warren county in 1824, aged 57. He
was a senator of the U. S.
TURNER, JAMES, a minister in Bedford
county, Va., died in 1828, aged 68.
TURNER, WILLIAM, doctor, died at Newport,
R. I., in 1837, aged 62 ; a surgeon in the U. S.
army.
TURNER, EDWARD, professor of mathematics
and natural philosophy at Middlebury college,
died in 1838, aged about 40. He graduated at
Yale in 1818.
TURNER, ANDREW, colonel, a patriot of the
Revolution, died in Harford county, Md., in 1840,
aged 89.
TURNER, GEORGE, captain, a Revolutionary
soldier, died in Philadelphia in 1843, aged 03.
He was born in England. In the war he had a
command in S. C., and was distinguished in se
vere engagements. Washington esteemed him.
TURNER, DANIEL, commodore, died in Phil
adelphia in 1849 or 1850. His first commission
in the navy was in 1808. In the battle of lake
Erie in 1814 he commanded the Caledonia.
TURNER, GEORGE F., M. I)., died at Corpus
Christi in 1 854, aged 47. He graduated at Har
vard in 1826. He was assistant surgeon in 1833,
and surgeon in the army in ] 840. He served in
Florida, and afterwards at the falls of St. Anthony.
In the Mexican war he was medical surveyor.
TURRILL, STEPHEN, died in Charlotte, Vt.,
Feb. 28, 1844, aged 101. He was a soldier under
Abercrombie in 1758, and served during the Revo
lutionary war.
TUSTEN, colonel, and a physician, command
ed the troops assembled at Minisink to withstand
the 300 Indians, who had destroyed the settle
ment July 20, 1779. The question was, whether
to seek the enemy at Grassy Swamp brook. Col.
T. gave reasons for not going then into the
woods ; but a Major Meeker, mounting his horse
and flourishing his sword over his head, desired
the brave to follow him and the cowards to stay
behind. They marched seventeen miles, when
Col. Hathorne arrived and took the command.
He \vas also averse to the pursuit. But again
Major Meeker flourished his sword and prevailed.
The troops were drawn into an ambush, and after
fighting the whole day were defeated, with the
loss of forty-four valuable citizens of Goshen,
among whom were Jones, Little, Duncan, Vail,
Townsend, and Knapp. Dr. Tusten dressed the
wounds of thirteen men in a nook of the rocks ; but
he and they all fell under the tomahawk. Such
was the consequence of yielding to rash counsel.
TUTHILL, A. G. D., died at Montpelier, Vt.,
June 12, 1843, aged 67 ; late of Buffalo. He was
a pupil of Benjamin West, and known as an artist,
skilled in historical and portrait painting.
TUTTLE, MOSES, the first minister of Gran-
ville, Mass., died in Southold, L. I., in 1785, aged
65. He graduated at Yale in 1745, and was set
tled in 1747, and dismissed in 1754. His suc
cessors were J. Smith and Dr. Cooley. His wife
was Martha, the daughter of Rev. Timothy Ed
wards. If report is true, her temper was not
sweet. On the appointed day of marriage he
failed to appear, in consequence of a flood in the
Connecticut. When he appeared, she at last
consented to an interview, when she asked,
" Why did you not come on the day agreed
upon ? " To his answer, " The flood made the
river impassable," she replied, " That is no ex
cuse at all." Perhaps she thought he was as good
a swimmer as Leander. She died in 1794, aged
77. — Holland's Hist. II. 65.
TWIGGS.
TWIGGS, or TWIGG, LEVI, major, was killed
by a bullet through his heart at the storming of
Chapultepec in Mexico, Sept. 1C, 1847. He was
the son of Gen. T. of Ga., and had served his
country thirty-four years.
TWITCIIELL, AMOS, M. D., died in Kecne,
N. H., May 26, 1850, aged 69. He was a skilful
physician and surgeon ; and rode for forty years
forty miles a day. He successfully tied the caro
tid artery of a man in Sharon, wounded by a pis
tol, lie was earnestly engaged in the cause of
temperance and against the use of tobacco. —
N. Y. Independent, June 20.
TYLER, ANDREW, minister in Dedham, west
church, died in 1775, aged about 60. He was
born in Boston, and graduated at Harvard in
1738, and succeeded Josiah Dwight, the first min
ister in 1743, and was dismissed in 1772. T.
Thachcr was his successor.
TYLER, SAMUEL, a judge in chancery, died
in Williamsburg, Va., in 1812.
TYLER, JOHN, rector in the Episcopal church,
died at Norwich, Conn., in 1813, aged 86.
TYLER, ROYALL, judge, died in Brattleboro',
Vt., in Aug., 1826, aged 66. Born in Boston, he
graduated at Harvard in 1776. He was aid to Gen.
Lincoln in the Shays rebellion. Settling in Ver
mont, he was a successful advocate. He was a
judge of the supreme court twelve years, chief jus
tice half of that period. He was a poet, scholar,
and an erudite judge, of elegant manners and so
cial habits. He published reports in the supreme
court of Vt., 2 vols., 1809-1810 ; the Algerine
captive ; several comedies, and some poems, spec
imens of which may be found in the cyclopedia
of Amer. literature. — N. Y. Statesman, Aug. 25.
TYLER, ROYAL, minister of Salem, Conn.,
died in 1826, aged about 60. He was graduated
at Dartmouth in 1788. He was minister in Cov
entry, Andover society, from 1792 to 1818; of
Salem, Conn., from 1818 to 1822.
TYLER, EDWARD II., editor of the New Engr
lander, died at New Haven Sept. 28, 1848, aged
48 ; the son of Judge R. Tyler, of Brattleboro',
Vt. lie graduated at Yale in 1825, and was a
minister in Midclletown, and then in Colebrook.
He founded with others the New Englandcr, and
became its editor and proprietor in 1843.
TYLER, WILLIAM, bishop of the Roman
Catholic church, died at Providence, R. I., in 1849.
TYLER, JOSEPH D., an Episcopal minister,
died in Staunton, Va., in 1852, aged 48. Born
in Brattleboro', Vt., he graduated at Yale in
1829. Of the State institution for the deaf and
dumb at S. he was the principal for fifteen years.
TYNG, WILLIAM, a merchant of Boston, died
in 1653, leaving five daughters and an estate of
2774 pounds. He was a freeman in 1638 ; was
representative, and treasurer of the colony.
TYNG, EDWARD, general, a merchant of Bos-
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ton, died in Dunstable, in 1681, aged 80. He
was brother of William ; was in B. as early as
1639 ; was representative, assistant fourteen years,
and colonel of Suffolk regiment. Of his daugh
ters, Hannah married II. Savage, Eunice married
Rev. S. Willard, and Rebecca married Gov. J.
Dudley. Ilis son, Edward, was appointed gover
nor of Annapolis, but was taken prisoner on his
passage and died in France ; and this Edward's
son Edward was a brave naval commander who
died 1755, and his daughter Mary married Rev.
John Fox, and his daughter Elizabeth married a
brother of Dr. Franklin.
TYNG, JOHN, major, of Chelmsford, was killed
by the Indians in Aug., 1710, aged about 40.
He graduated at Harvard in 1691, leaving two
sons: Col. Eleazer, a graduate of 1712, who
died in 1782, aged 92; and Judge John of
Tyngsborough, a graduate of 1725, who died in
1797, aged 92.
TYNG, ELEAZER, colonel, died at Dunstable
in 1782, aged 92. The son of Col. John of Wo-
burn, he graduated at Harvard in 1712.
TYNG, JOHN, died April 17, 1797, aged 93.
The son of John of Chelmsford, he graduated at
Harvard in 1725, and was a justice of the com
mon pleas court.
TYNG, DUDLEY ATKINS, LL. D., died in Bos
ton in 1829, aged about 70; a graduate of 1781.
He was the son of Dudley Atkins, a merchant
of Newburyport. He assumed the name of
Tyng for the following reason : James Tyng,
having large landed estates in Tyngsborough,
died without a male heir. His sister and heir
was Mrs. Winslow, a descendant of Gov. Dudley.
She determined to make Mr. Dudley Atkins her
heir, because he also was descended from Dudley,
though related to her only as her sixth cousin ;
he in consequence took the name of Tyng. His
farm of one thousand acres was only a burden
and an injury to him ; for it diverted him from
his high prospects in his profession. For years
he was the excellent collector of Newburyport ;
but lost his office on the accession of Jefferson.
He then succeeded E. Williams as reporter of
the supreme court, which station he honorably
held during the rest of his life. An interesting
account of his character, by his friend, John Low
ell, is in hist, coll., 3d series, vol. II.
TYTLER, JAMES, eminent for learning, was
a native of Scotland, and emigrated to this coun
try about the year 1796. He died at Salem,
Mass., in Jan., 1804, aged 53. He was poor, and
lived on a point of land at a little distance from
the town. Returning to his house in a dark
night, he fell into a clay pit and was drowned.
His conduct in life was marked by perpetual im
prudence ; yet he was a man of no common sci
ence and genius. He was one of the editors of
the Edinburgh edition of the Encyclopedia Britac-
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nica. He published an answer to Paine's age of
reason, and a treatise on the plague and yellow
fever.
ULMER, GEORGE, major-general, died at
"VValdoborough, Me., in Jan., 1826, aged 70.
Born in W. of German parents, at the age of 20
he could neither read nor write. Enlisting in
the army, he was with Montgomery at Quebec,
at the capture of Burgoyne, and in the battles of
Brandywine and Monmouth. In this period he
learned to read. Settling at Ducktrap, he be
came a merchant, and was a representative and
senator of Massachusetts, afterwards of Maine.
As a legislator he manifested powers of intellect
and of eloquence. He was for years sheriff of
ILmcock county, Me.
ULRICK, Mrs., died at Hollis, N. H., in 1789,
aged 104.
UNCAS, sachem of the Mohegan Indians in
Connecticut, is said to have been a Pequot by
birth and of royal descent. Rebelling against
Sassacus, he was expelled from the Pequot coun
try and by his enterprise became chief of the
Mohcgans. To the English he was an uniform
friend, at the time of their lirst settlement in Con
necticut and for many subsequent years. When
all the other Indians of New England were by
the arts of Philip combined for the destruction
of the whites, the sachemdom of Mohegan alone
remained in friendship. He was a brave warrior ;
but oppressive to his captive subjects. In 1637
he with seventy Mohegan warriors accompanied
Capt. Mason in his expedition against the Pequots.
At the destruction of the Mystic fort and of the
Pequot race he and his Indians formed the sec
ond line. He received a part of the one hundred
and eighty captives. As he had given some um
brage to the Massachusetts government, he went
to Boston in 1638, and making a present of wam
pum to the governor, formed a treaty of friend
ship, to which he was faithful. In Sept. he made
a treaty with the colonists of Connecticut, and he
conveyed to them in 1640 Colchester and all his
land excepting Mohegan. In 1643, when the
Narragansett sachem attacked him with one
thousand men, he took Miantunnomu prisoner,
and, having obtained the advice of the commis
sioners of the united colonies, Winthrop, Wins-
low, Hopkins, etc., he cut off his prisoner's head.
This seems a savage act. The wonder in this
case is, that Christian white men should give such
advice. In 1654 he subdued the chief at Sims-
bury. In King Philip's war two hundred Mohe
gan and Pequot Indians marched with two hun
dred and fifty whites under Major Talcott to
Brookfield and Northampton ; and this little
army, June 12th, defeated seven hundred Indians
at Iladlcy and saved the town. In the summer
there was a great drought at Mohegan ; the corn
was dried up in August. Uncas, who had given
no encouragement to the preaching of Mr. Fitch,
now went to the good man, with many Indians,
asking his prayers for rain, and engaging to as
cribe the blessing, if granted, to the mercy of
God in hearing prayer. A day of fasting and
prayer was observed ; and the day following
there was copious rain. Uncas was now an old
man. He probably died soon afterwards. His
brother was Nowequa. Onecho, his eldest son,
assisted the English in the Avar of 1676. The
family declined in power with the decay of the
tribe. Isaiah Uncas attended Dr. Wheelock's
school. About 1800 Noah and John Uncas were
living ; but the name is now extinct at Mohegan.
The regal burying-ground is not at Mohegan,
but at Norwich city, on the plain, near the
house of the late Calvin Goddard, and near the
falls of the Y an tic. There are several grave
stones. The inscription on the stone, not of the
sachem Uncas, as Dr. Holmes represents, but of
Samuel Uncas, his great grandson, who died in
1741, aged 27, is this :
" For beauty, wit, and sterling sense,
For temper mikl and eloquence,
For courage bold and things Werheegan,
lie was the glory of Mohegan.
His death has caused great lamentation
Both to the English and the Indian nation. "
The " things Werheegan" are either things per
taining to warfare, or things agreeable and wel
come. There are less than a hundred Mohegans,
including those of mixed blood, now remaining.
Something of their history may be known by
looking at the articles Fitch, Occom, Jos. John
son, and Tantequiggen, in this book. The French
and Revolutionary Avars, and above all the use of
spirituous liquors, have nearly exterminated the
tribe. HoAvever, there is noAV reason to hope for
amendment. They retain of their large territory
tAvo thousand seven hundred acres of good land,
and have several houses, Avhich they rent to Avhite
men ; they have noAV schools and a preacher. If
they can renounce strong drink, and should culti
vate their remaining land diligently, and espe
cially if the poAver of religion should be felt
among them, they would become a respectable
and happy community.
UNCAS, BENJAMIN, Indian sachem, died at
Mohegan in 1769. He left his estate to his eldest
son, on condition of his opposing Mason's claim.
UNCAS, GEORGE PEGEE, died at Mohegan,
or Montville, Conn., July, 1833 ; the last of the
royal race. He Avas buried in the grave-yard of
his ancestors at Nonvich.
UNCAS, JOHN, an Indian, died at NorAvich
Dec. 19, 1842, aged 89, and Avas buried in the
royal Mohegan burying-ground ; the last male
descendant of the early Uncas.
UNDERIIILL, JOHN, captain, of Boston, died
at Oyster Bay, L. I., about 1672. His descend-
UNDERWOOD.
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ants, mostly Quakers, remain on Long Island.
lie came to New England in 1630 ; was repre
sentative of Boston ; then engaged in the Pequot
war. He lived in Dover ; then settled in Stam
ford, Conn. ; in 16-16 he removed to Flushing.
Winthrop gives an account of his sitting on the
stool of repentance in the Boston church, for
some offence, with a white cap on his head. —
Eliot; Wood's Hist, of L. I.
UNDERWOOD, NATHAN, minister of Har
wich, Mass., died in 1841, aged 89. Born in
Lexington, he was a soldier in the Revolutionary
war, in the battles of Lexington, Bunker Hill,
White Plains, and Trenton. A graduate of 1788,
he was a preacher for forty years ; the pastor of
H. from 1792 to 1828.
UPDIKE, DANIEL, died in East Greenwich,
R. I., June 15, 1842, aged 81 years. His father
was Ludowick U., an accomplished man ; his
grandfather was Daniel U., attorney-general.
Having studied law with J. M. Varnum, he was
admitted to the bar in 1784. He was attorney-
general in 1790. He had a good library. Among
his cherished relics of the past was a silver coffee
pot, presented to his grandfather by Bishop
Berkeley. His parents died in old age ; his sur
viving brothers and sisters were eight in number.
UPHAM, CALEB, minister of Truro on Cape
Cod, died in 1786, aged 62. He graduated at
Harvard in 1744, and was ordained in 1755. He
was a good scholar, an animated preacher, and
friend to his country. In his writings he indi
cated a strong taste for poetry.
UPHAM, EDWARD, a Baptist minister at New
port, R. I., died in 1797, aged about 83. He
was born in Maiden, probably a descendant of
Nathaniel, a freeman of M. in 1653, and gradu
ated at Harvard in 1734.
UPHAM, TIMOTHY, first minister of Deer-
field, N. II., died in 1811, aged 62, in the thirty-
ninth year of his ministry. Born at Maiden, he
graduated at Harvard in 1768, and was settled.
Dec. 9, 1772. His sons were Nathaniel of Ro
chester, the father of Prof. Thomas C. Upham
of Bowdoin college, and Timothy of Ports
mouth. He published a masonic discourse, 1792.
— N. E. Geneal. Reg., vol. I.
UPHAM, SAMUEL, captain, a Revolutionary
soldier, died at Montpelier, Vt, in 1848, aged
85. He was one of the earliest settlers of M. ;
and the father of Senator Upham.
UPSHUR, ABEL P., secretary of State, died
Feb. 28, 1844, aged 53, killed by the bursting of
a large wrought-iron gun on board the steamer
Princeton in the Potomac river. There were also
killed Mr. Gilmer, Mr. Maxcy, and others. The
president was on board. Born in Virginia, he
studied law with Wirt, and became a judge of the
general court. In 1841 he was appointed by
President Tyler secretary of the navy, and in 1843
secretary of State. He published a pamphlet,
reviewing Story on the constitution.
UPSON, BKNONI, D. D., minister of Berlin,
Conn., died in 1826, aged 76. He graduated at
Yale in 1776, and was a trustee of the college.
USHER, JOHN, Episcopal minister at Bristol,
R. I., died in 1804, aged 81. He graduated at
Harvard in 1743.
USHER, JOHN, lieutenant-governor of New
Hampshire, died at Medford, Mass., in 1726, aged
77. The son of Ilezckiah of Cambridge in 1639,
of Boston in 1646, he was a bookseller and sta
tioner in Boston, a colonel and a councillor. He
was five years in his N. H. office from 1692, and
was reiippointed in 1702. He married a daugh
ter of Samuel Allen, whose claims in N. H. he
supported. From Portsmouth he removed to
Medford. His son, John, was a graduate of Har
vard in 1719, was a minister, and died in 1775,
aged 76, leaving a son John, an Episcopal min
ister of Bristol, R. I., who graduated in 1743 and
died in 1804, aged about 81. — Farmer.
VAILL, JOSEPH, minister of Hadlyme in East
Haddam, Conn., died in 1838, aged 86. He
graduated at Dartmouth in 1778. G. Rawson
preceded him. He had three sons, who were
ministers, Joseph, William, and Franklin.
VALLET, PETER, an eminent merchant of
New York, died in 1753. Born in France, he
fled to this country from religious intolerance,
and was one of the supporters of the old French
church in New York.
VAN ALSTYNE, JACOB, died in Fonda, N. Y.,
May 11, 1844, aged 95. He was a soldier of the
Revolution.
VAN ARSDALE, ELIAS, LL. D., died at
Newark, N. J., in 1846, aged 75, a distinguished
member of the bar, long president of the State
bank at N.
VAN BUREN, JOHN, died in Kingston, N. Y.,
in 1855, one of the oldest lawyers of Ulster bar.
He was a member of congress from 1841 to 1843.
VANCE, JOSEPH, governor of Ohio, died near
Alabama, Ohio, in 1852. He was an old resident
in the State ; was a member of congress from
1821 to 1835, and governor in 1836.
VAN DER HEYDEN, JACOB D.,the patroon
of Troy, N. Y., died in 1809, aged 50.
VAN DER KEMP, FRANCIS ADRIAN, LL.D.,
died at Trenton, N. Y., in 1829, at an advanced
age. He was a native of Holland and a man of
literature.
VANDERLYN, PETER, Dr., died at Kingston,
N. Y.,in 1802.
VANDERLYN, JOHN, an excellent painter,
died in Kingston, N. Y., his native place, Sept.
23, 1852, aged 76. From 1796 he remained in
Paris five years. His first historical composition
was the murder of Miss McCrea by the Indians.
Marius on the ruins of Carthage was his master-
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piece; it was removed to Paris in 1808. He
made many copies from Correggio, Titian, and
other old masters, as theDanae, the Antiope, etc.
He returned in 1815. His panoramic exhibitions
proved unsuccessful and occasioned pecuniary
embarrassments. In 1832 the government em
ployed him to paint a full length portrait of
Washington for the representatives' hall. For a
panel in the rotunda of the capitol, he also painted
the landing of Columbus. He at last exhibited
a full length picture of Gen. Taylor. His two
prints of the falls of Niagara were published in
1805.
VAN DYCK, ABRAHAM, a distinguished law
yer, died at Coxsackie, N. Y., in 1835, aged 56.
VANE, Sir HENRY, governor of Massachu
setts, was born in England about 1612, and edu
cated at Oxford. He then went to Geneva,
where he became a republican, and found argu
ments against the established church. After his
return to London, as his nonconformity displeased
the bishop, he came to New England in the be
ginning of 1635. In the next year, though he
was only twenty-four years of age, he was chosen
governor ; but, attaching himself to the party of
Mrs. Hutchinson, he was in 1637 superseded by
Gov. Winthrop. He soon returned to England,
where he joined the party against the king,
though he was opposed to the usurpation of
Cromwell. In 1651 he was a commissioner to
Scotland. Mackintosh declared, that he pos
sessed one of the most profound minds, not infe
rior, perhaps, to Bacon's. Milton addressed a
beautiful sonnet to him. His life, by C. W. Up-
ham, is in library of American biography, vol. IV.
After the restoration he was tried for high trea
son, and beheaded June 14, 1662, aged 50. He
published a number of speeches ; the retired
man's meditations, or the mystery and power of
godliness, showing forth the living word, etc., 4to.,
1655; a healing question, 1656; a needful cor
rective, or balance in popular government ; the
love of God and union with God ; an epistle gen
eral to the mystical body of Christ, etc., 1662 ;
the face of the times, or the enmity between the
seed of the woman and of the serpent, 1662;
meditations concerning man's life ; meditations
on death ; and a number of political tracts, and
pieces relating to his trial.
VAN GELDER, Mr., died at Pinotaway town,
N. J., Feb. 28, 1818, aged 116 years.
VANIIINING, HENRY, died in Norton, Ohio,
in 18-40, aged 102; a soldier of the Revolution,
an early settler of O.
VAN HORN, JOHN, Dr., of Springfield, Mass.,
died in 1805, aged 78.
VAN IIOIINE, ABRAHAM, minister at Fonda,
N. Y., died in 1840; forty years pastor of the
Dutch church.
VAN HORNE, JOHN P., died at New York
in March, 1854, leaving in legacies 70,000 dollars,
and the residue of his estate, about 150,000 dol
lars, to the bible society.
VAN LENNEP, EMMA L., wife of a mission
ary, died in Smyrna Sept. 12, 1840, aged 20.
She was the daughter of Henry Bliss of Putney,
Vt., and West Springfield, Mass., and sailed for
Smyrna in Dec., 1839. Among her last words,
she said, " Christ is sufficient."
VAN LENNEP, MARY E., Mrs., wife of Henry
Van Lennep, missionary at Constantinople, died
Sept. 27, 1844. She was the only daughter of Rev.
Dr. Hawes of Hartford, Conn., married in 1843.
Her sickness was the typhus fever. A memoir
of her by her mother was published in 1847.
She left this country in Oct., 1843. She rejoiced
in the privilege of being a missionary. In her
last morning, unable to speak, she yet "- whis
pered words of strong hope and joyful expecta
tion."
VAN NESS, WILLIAM W., judge, the son of
Wm. W. V., who died in 1821, aged 83, was born
at Claverack, N. Y., in 1775, and practised law
at Hudson. He was a judge of the supreme
court of New York from 1807 till his resignation
May 1, 1822, when he returned to the bar at New
York. Repairing to the south for his health,
he died at Charleston, Feb. 28, 1823, aged 47.
His eldest daughter married Henry Livingston.
Without any peculiar advantages of education or
patronage he rose to distinction by the force of
his talents. He was a learned, impartial, re
spected judge. In his manners he was courteous,
and in private life he was amiable and beloved.
He died as a Christian, invoking the mercy of the
Saviour of sinners. At a meeting of the bar in
New York, Mr. Jay and Mr. Griffin described
his eminent and excellent character.
VAN NESS, JOHN P., general, died at Wash
ington March 7, 1846, aged 76. A native of
New York, he married a daughter of David Burns,
who inherited a fortune in Washington. To the
improvement of the city he much contributed.
He presented a lot for a church in 1845. He
was a member of congress.
VAN NESS, CORNELIUS P., governor of Ver
mont, died in Philadelphia Dec. 16, 1852, aged
71. He had been collector of Burlington, chief
justice, and governor of Vermont ; minister to
Spain nine years ; and collector of the port of New
York.
VAN NEST, PETER, died in Pemberton, N. J.,
Sept. 17, 1850. He had been a Methodist itin
erant minister fifty-four years.
VAN RENSSELAER, JEREMIAH, the founder
of the family of that name in the State of New
York, a man of wealth and a director of the
Dutch West India company, emigrated to New
York about 1660. Others of the same name
emigrated about the same time. He brought out
VAN RENSSELAER.
settlers from Holland and purchased of the In
dians an extensive tract around Albany. The
purchase was confirmed by the Dutch govern
ment and a patent was obtained. After Nicolls'
conquest of the Dutch settlements in 1664, the
duke of York granted another patent, which was
confirmed by Queen Anne, giving the right of
holding courts and of sending a representative
to the assembly. By one of the family the manor
was accordingly represented till the Revolution.
His lands have descended from generation to gen
eration, and are now held by the heirs of his
descendant, Stephen Van II., formerly lieutenant-
governor of New York.
VAN RENSSELAER, JEREMIAH, a patriot
of the Revolution, and lieutenant-governor of
New YTork, was for some years a member of con
gress.- He died at Albany Feb. 22, 1810, aged
69.
VAN RENSSELAER, HENRY K., general, a
patriot of the Revolution, was a colonel in the
army of the United States, and afterwards gen
eral of the militia of New York. At the cap
ture of Burgoyne he was wounded. For his
services he received a pension from his country.
He died at Albany in Sept., 1816, aged 72. His
son, Solomon Van R., was adjutant-general of
New York in 1809.
VAN RENSSELAER, PHILIP S., mayor of
Albany, was elected in 1798, and amidst all the
changes of party was annually reflected, except
ing in two years, till 1823. For twenty-three
years he was a faithful chief magistrate of the
city, assiduous in promoting its moral and politi
cal interests. He died Sept. 25, 1824, aged 58.
He was a much respected and useful citizen. Of
the Albany bible society he was at the time of
his death the president, and a trustee of Union
college. He was the principal founder of the
Albany academy, and of the Lancaster school so
ciety. His fortune and talents were employed
for the promotion of benevolent objects. In his
death, while the poor lost their best friend, the
church was deprived of an exemplary member.
VAN RENSSELAER, STEPHEN, LL. D.,
major-general, died at Albany Jan. 16, 1839,
aged 74. He was born in New York in Nov.,
1764, and graduated at Cambridge in 1782. He
was six years lieutenant-governor of New York ;
a member of congress from 1822 to 1829; was
appointed in 1810 one of the canal commissioners.
In the war of 1812 he commanded on the Niag
ara frontier. He was called the patroon ; a title,
like that of seignior in Lower Canada, denoting
the proprietor of large estates in lands. He Ava?
the fifth in descent from Kilian Van R., the origi
nal proprietor in 1637 of a territory forty-eight
miles long and twenty-four broad. He was the
friend of Washington, Hamilton, and Jay. He
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was munificent in deeds of benevolence and in
the promotion of learning.
VAN RENSSELAER, WILLIAM K., died in
New York June 18, 1845, aged 82. He was a
member of congress ten years, but lived in retire
ment his last twenty years ; and was a man much
respected.
VAN RENSSELAER, NICHOLAS, colonel,
died at Albany March 29, 1848, aged 93. He
was a soldier with Montgomery at Quebec, and
also at Ticonderoga.
VAN RENSSELAER, SOLOMON, general,
died near Albany April 23, 1852, aged 78. He
was the son of Gen. H. Iv. Van R., a soldier ;
and served under Wayne in 1794, and was
wounded through the lungs. He was adjutant-
general of New York, and a member of con-
ress.
VAN SANTVOORDT, CORNELIUS, was born
at Leyden in 1687. A call being sent from Staten
Island to Holland for a minister, who was able
and willing to preach in the French and Low
Dutch languages, he declared his acceptance of
it, and entered upon the duties of his office in 1718.
He labored at Staten Island about twenty-two
years. In 1740 he was removed to Scheneetady,
where he continued in the exercise of his ministry
until his decease Jan. 6, 1752, old style, aged 65.
He was a man of talents, learning, and piety, and
sound in the doctrines of grace. While on Staten
island he preached in French and Low Dutch.
He published, it is believed, in Low Dutch, an
anonymous conciliatory pamphlet on the Freigh-
linghuisen controversy about the year 1725 ; and
a translation in the same language of John a
Marck's Latin exposition of the Apocalypse, Ley-
den, 4to., 1736.
VAN SINDEREN, ADRIAN, a merchant in
New York, died in Brooklyn in 1843. His father
was a minister of the Dutch church in King's
county, N. Y. Having acquired a competence,
he retired to Newtown ; then to Brooklyn. In
both places he was an eminently worthy citizen
and useful Christian, — munificent and active.
He was president of the seamen's friend society,
and twenty-eight years of the Long Island bible
society.
VAN VLECK, JACOB, a Moravian minister,
died at Bethlehem, Pa., in 1831, aged 80.
VAN VOAST, JOHN J., died in Glenville,
N. Y., in 1844 aged 103.
VAN VRANCKEN, NICHOLAS, minister of
the Dutch churches of Fishkill, Hopewell, and
New Hackensack, N. Y., died May 20, 1804,
aged 42. He was an excellent man, greatly be
loved.
VAN WART, ISAAC, colonel, one of the cap
tors, with Paulding and Williams, of Andre', was
born at Greensburgh, Westchester county, N. Y.,
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VAN ZUREN.
VAUGIIAN.
in 1748, and died at his residence in the town of
Mount Pleasant May 23, 1828, aged 80. He was
a worthy man, sober, industrious, moral, and re
ligious, and much respected in his neighborhood.
His account of the capture of Andre was this :
He was at the encampment at North Castle,
where Col. Jameson commanded, when Paulding
proposed to go on a scout below. They started
in the afternoon, and Williams joined them. At
Mount Pleasant they passed the night in a barn.
The next morning at nine o'clock they lay in wait
on the North river post-road, in a field, now the
property of Mr. Wiley, three-quarters of a mile
from Tarrytown. He was sentinel, lying in the
bushes by the fence, while the others played
cards. In thirty minutes, seeing a man riding a
black horse on the rising ground, opposite Tar
rytown academy, he summoned his companions
to take their firelocks and stand by the fence.
Having captured Andre, they took off his boots
and found the papers in his silk stockings. In
conveying him to the encampment, they allowed
him to ride, but avoided the highway ; " big
drops of sweat kept falling from his face." He
once expressed a wish that they had blown his
brains out when they stopped him. Having ar
rived at Sands' mills, ten miles from the place
of capture, they surrendered him to Col. Jameson.
VAN ZUIIEN, CASPER, was a Dutch minister
on Long Island before 1677.
VARICK, RICHARD, colonel, third president
of the American bible society, was born in 1752.
In 1783 he was one of Washington's military
family, being recording secretary. He was a
mayor of the city of New York in 1789 ; also so
late as 1801, when he was removed and Edward
Livingston appointed in his place. After Mr.
Jay, who succeeded Mr. Boudinot, he was elected
president of the bible society. He died at Jer
sey city July 30, 1831, aged 79. His life was
upright. For many years he was a member of a
Christian church. In his manners he was dig
nified, and fixed in his principles, political and
religious.
VARNUM, JAMES MITCHELL, general, a sol
dier of the Revolution, died at Marietta, Ohio,
Jan. 10, 1789, aged 40. He was the son of Jo
seph and grandson of Sam. V., who came from
Wales to this country in 1649 and settled in Dra-
cut, Mass. He was born in 1749, and graduated
at Providence college in the first class in 1769,
and afterwards studied law and resided at East
Greenwich. In Feb., 1777, he was appointed a
brigadier-general in the army of the United
States. In Nov., he commanded at Red Bank,
and served under Sullivan in Rhode Island in
Aug., 1778, but resigned in 1779. In 1786 he
was a delegate to congress, and in Oct., 1787,
was appointed a judge of the Northwestern Ter
ritory. A letter to his wife, on the value of relig
ion, is in Massachusetts magazine, Nov., 1790.
She was Martha Childe, of Warren, and died at
the age of 88, leaving no children. An account
of her life is in Hildreth's biographical memoirs.
VARNUM, JOSEPH BRADLEY, general, a sol
dier of the Revolution, brother of the preceding,
was born about 17.30, and resided at Dracut.
After the adoption of the constitution he was
elected a member of congress, in which body he
remained twelve years. He was the speaker four
years. Of Mr. Jefferson's administration he was
a zealous supporter. In 1811 he succeeded Mr.
Pickering as senator of the United States. Of
three conventions of Massachusetts he was a use
ful member. He died suddenly Sept. 11,1821,
aged 71, being then major-general of a division
of the militia.
VASSALL, WILLIAM, an associate in the
charter of Massachusetts, came over at the settle
ment; but returned to England in 1631. He
again came and settled at Scituatc in 1630 ;
thence he went to Barbadocs, where he died.
Lewis, John, and William, graduates of Harvard
in 1728, 1732, 1733, were his descendants.—
Eliot's Biog.
VAUDREUIL, MARQUIS DE, governor of Can
ada, received the government of Montreal in
1689, and in 1703 succeeded to the govern
ment of the whole province of Canada. He con
tinued in this office till his death Oct. 10, 1725.
His administration was distinguished by vigilance,
firmness, and success. He was succeeded by the
Chevalier de Bcauharnois, who sent one of his
officers to penetrate to the south sea. This object
was effected.
VAUGHAN, WILLIAM, poet and physician,
died about 1640, aged 63. He came from Wales
to Newfoundland. He published the golden
fleece, in prose and verse, 1626; and church mil
itant, a poem, in 1640. — Cycl. of Amcr. Lit.
VAUGHAN, WILLIAM, Dr., chief justice of
New Hampshire, died at Portsmouth in 1719,
aged about 70. His wife was Margaret, daughter
of Richard Cutt. His son George, a graduate of
Harvard in 1696, was lieutenant-governor of
New Hampshire. — Belknap ; Farmer.
VAUGHAN, JOHN, M. D., died in Delaware
in 1807, aged 31. lie was the son of John, a
Baptist minister in Chester county, Penn., and
.studied at Philadelphia. In 1799 he settled
at Wilmington, Del. He soon gained a high
reputation, was the friend of great men, and
a member of various societies. From 1806 he
occasionally preached the gospel to his Baptist
brethren. He published an edition of Smith's
letters ; numerous communications to the medi
cal museum, and New York medical repository ;
observations on animal electricity, in favor of
Perkins' tractors, 1797.
VAUGHAN, BENJAMIN, LL. D., died at Hal-
VAUGHAN.
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lowcll Doc. 8, 1835, aged 84. His father was a
wealthy planter in Jamaica, whence he removed
to London. At the age of sixteen he was placed
under the instruction of Dr. Priestley. He then
went to Cambridge, and studied law and medi
cine. In politics he was the associate of Frank
lin, Priestley, and Price. In 1792 he was a mem
ber of parliament. In 1797 he came to Maine.
lie had a fine library, a part of which he liber
ally gave to Bowdoin college. He was a man
of learning, devoted to scientific and literary pur
suits ; he was also social, courteous, hospitable,
and benevolent.
VAUGHAN, CHARLES, died at Hallowell,
Me., in 1839, aged 87. The brother of Benja
min, he was born in England. He was a man of
knowledge, and made efforts for the improvement
of agriculture. His brother, John, died in Phila
delphia in 1841, aged 85 ; secretary of the Amer
ican philosophical society, a much respected citi
zen, at whose decease an aged brother was living
in London.
VAUX, ROBERTS, died at Philadelphia Jan.
7, 1836, a member of the society of Friends.
He was a justice of the court of common pleas ;
and long distinguished for his zeal in promoting
philosophy, education, and human improvement.
VEAZIE, SAMUEL, minister of Duxbury, Mass.,
died in 1797, aged 86. He graduated at Har
vard in 1736. He was pastor from 1739 to
1750, and was succeeded by C. Turner. His pre
decessor was John Itobinson. The earlier preach
ers were Brewster, Partridge, Holmes, and Wis-
wall. After Turner were Sanger and Allyn.
He was pastor of Hull from 1753 to 1767 ; and
it is believed that he was afterwards a teacher
many years, and died at Harpswell or Brunswick,
Me.
VENABLE, ABRAHAM B., a senator of the
United States from Virginia, perished with Gov.
Smith and about seventy others, principally fe
males, in the conflagration of the theatre at
Richmond, Dec. 26, 1811. Mr. Bott, a lawyer,
and his wife, Miss Almerine Marshall, daughter
of Chief Justice M., and Miss Clay, daughter of
a member of congress, were among the victims.
VEXXER, THOMAS, a conspirator against
Cromwell, was a wine-cooper in Boston. Going
to England, he was in 1657 at the head of a fa
natical company of insurgents. Brought before
the protector, he behaved with pride, insolence,
and railing. He again led out a rabble of forty
men, and was, in Jan., 1661, drawn and quar
tered.
VERGXIES, FRANCIS, Dr., died at Newbury-
port in 1830, aged 83.
VIGXEROX, CHARLES ANTHONY, Dr., a Ger
man, an eminent physician of Newport, R. I.,
died about 1760 or 1770, aged over 100. He
was learned and popular, and practised till near
the close of his life. Dr. Hooper was his con-
temporary.
V1GO, FRANCIS, colonel, a patriot worthy of
remembrance, died in Knox county, Ind., March
22, 1836, aged upwards of 90. A native of Sar
dinia, he in early life emigrated : having amassed
a fortune, he applied the whole of it to supply
the starving army of Gen. George Rogers Clark
at the west. For many years he in consequence
lived in comparative indigence. At last two
friends prosecuted his claims for him, and were
allowed, just before his death, 30,000 dollars for
money and supplies to the Virginia troops.
VINAL, WILLIAM, minister of Newport, R. I.,
died in 1781, aged 63. Born in Boston, he grad
uated at Harvard in 1739, and was pastor from
1746 to 1768. Dr. Hopkins succeeded the next
year. His predecessors were John Clarke, N.
Clapp, J. Gardner, and J. Helyer.
VINCEXT, PHILIP, a minister in England,
made a visit to this country in 1637, and pub
lished the true relation of the battle between
the English and the Pequots, 1638. It is re
printed in the Massachusetts historical collections,
vol. VI., third series. Joseph Hunter's letter
concerning it is in historical collections, 4th se
ries, vol. I.
VIXCEXT, JOHN, captain, an Indian, died at
Parkerstown, Vt., in Aug., 1810, aged 95. Born
at Loretto, Canada, he had a command in the
Cagnawaga tribe. He was present at Braddock's
defeat. In the Revolutionary war he joined the
Americans, believing the Great Spirit was with
Washington, whom his young warriors could not
hit, when Braddock was killed. He piloted our
troops through Maine to Quebec. He was a
Catholic, and kept a French bible, and was not
negligent of daily worship. He was a pensioner
of Vermont.
VINCENT, Louis, an Indian chief, was edu
cated at Moor's school and at Dartmouth college,
where he was graduated in a class of four in
1781. In the preceding year Peter Pohquon-
noppeet, a Stockbridge Indian, was graduated.
Vincent was one of the chiefs of the Hurons or
Wyandots near Quebec. In his last years he was
a schoolmaster. He died at Loretto, Canada,
in May, 1825, aged about 65. His son, a grand
chief, was then in England.
VINCENT, JOSEPH, a soldier of the Revolu
tion, died at Salem, Mass., Nov., 1832, aged 96.
VIXTON, JOHN R., major, was killed at the
siege of Vera Cruz March 22, 1847, aged 46 ; a
soldier, scholar, and Christian. Born in Provi
dence, R. I., he served in the Florida war.
VINTON, ANNE ADAMS, relict of Josiah V.,
died in Braintree Dec. 18, 1851, aged 95; a de
scendant of John Alden, and a Christian.
VOSE, JOHN, died in Atkinson, N. II., March
31, 1840, aged 73 ; a graduate of Dartmouth in
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WABAN.
WADSWORTH.
1795. He was the son of Samuel of Bedford,'
who was the son of Robert of Milton, Muss. ,
The earlier ancestors were Henry and Thomas,
and llobert, from Lancashire in 1G33, who had a
farm in that part of Dorchester which is now
Milton. For twenty-one years he was the learned
preceptor of Atkinson academy; then eleven
years of Pembroke academy. As a senator and
in other public trusts he was faithful ; a friend of
temperance and of Sunday schools ; an exem
plary Christian. He published a phi beta kappa
oration, 1805 ; on 4th of July, 1809; on agricul
ture, 1813; a system of astronomy, 1827; and a
compendium, 1832 ; original works. — N. 77. Re
pository, July, 1846.
WABAN, an Indian, welcomed Mr. Eliot to
his wigwam in Newton, Oct. 28, 1646, when he
first preached to the Indians, and became an em
inent Christian and a useful magistrate. Remov
ing to a tract of three thousand acres in Natick,
the Indians cultivated the land and were much
civilized. He died in 1674, aged 70. One of his
exhortations is preserved in Neal's history. As
to his views of administering justice, it is said
that, when asked by a younger justice, " When
Indians get drunk and quarrel, what you do den ? "
He replied, " Hah ! tie um all up, and whip um
plaintiff, and whip um 'fcndant, and whip um wit
ness ! " The following is the form of a warrant
he issued : " You, you big constable, quick you
catch um Jeremiah OfFscow, strong you hold um,
safe you bring um afore me. Waban, justice
peace." This is similar to the warrant mentioned by
Judge* Davis : " I Hihoudi, you Peter Waterman,
Jeremy Wicket : Quick you take him, fast you
hold him, straight you bring . him before me,
Hihoudi." This simplification of legal writings
rather exceeds the proposed improvements of
modern reformers of law.
WADE, JOHN, first minister of South Ber
wick, Me., died in 1703, aged about 30. He gradu
ated at Harvard in 1693, and was settled in 1702.
He was succeeded by J. Wise.
WADE, DAVID E., died at Cincinnati in 1842,
aged 80. A native of New Jersey, he was one
of the first settlers of C. ; he helped to found the
first church, of which he was forty years an elder,
and lived to see fifty churches spring up in the
fifty years of his residence at C.
WADE, RICHARD D. A., lieutenant-colonel of
U. S. artillery, died in Portsmouth, N. H., in
1850. He fought in Florida and Mexico.
WADDELL, JAMES, D. D., the eloquent
blind minister of Virginia, died Sept. 17, 1805,
aged 66. Born in Ireland in 1739, he was edu
cated by Dr. Finley in Pennsylvania; in 1762
he became pastor of Lancaster and Northumber
land ; in 1775 he removed to the church of Tink
ling Spring in Augusta county, west side of the
Blue Ridge, Va. His last removal was to an
estate, called Hopewell, in the northeast corner
of Albemarle county, on the east side of the Blue
Ridge, adjoining Orange and Louisa counties, Va.
At this, his home, he died. lie was a man of
great learning and eloquence, arousing the deep
est sympathies. For some years he was blind
by cataracts. By couching he recovered the sight
of one eye. His daughter, Janetta, who married
Rev. Dr. Alexander, was accustomed to read
Latin to him. In regard to his preaching,
Mr. Wirt speaks of entering his old, decayed
house of worship in the forest. He was struck
with the appearance of a blind, tall, very spare
old man, whose head, covered with a white linen
cap, whose shriveled hands and voice, were all
shaking under the influence of the palsy. His
subject was the passion of the Saviour, and the
sacrament was to be administered. As he de
scended from the pulpit to distribute the symbols,
the bread and wine, there was a deep solemnity
in his appearance. He then drew a picture of
the sufferings of our Saviour ; of his trial before
Pilate, of his ascent to Calvary, of his crucifixion
and death. His voice trembled on every sylla
ble, and every heart trembled in unison. He
presented the original scene to the eyes of the
assembly, and all were indignant. He touched
upon the patience and the forgiving meekness of
the Redeemer, and as he represented his eyes
lifted in tears to heaven for man, and his voice
breathing a prayer for the pardon of his murder
ers, the voice of the preacher, which had all along
faltered, grew fainter and fainter, until, his utter
ance being completely broken, he raised his
handkerchief to his eyes and burst into a loud
and irresistible flood of grief. The groans and
sobs of the congregation mingled in sympathy.
When he was enabled to proceed, he broke the
awful silence in a manner which did not impair
the dignity and solemnity of the subject. Re
moving his white handkerchief from his aged
face, wet with tears, and slowly stretching forth
the palsied hand which held it, he said, adopt
ing the words of Rousseau, " locrates died like
a philosopher ; " then pausing, raising his ether
hand, pressing both, as clasped together, with
warmth and energy to his breast, lifting his sight
less eye-balls to heaveii, and pouring his soul
into his tremulous voice, he added, " but Jesus
Christ like a God ! " — British Spy in Va.; Evan.
Intel, March, 1808; N. Y. Spectator, Oct. 19,
1805.
WADSWORTH, SAMUEL, captain, of Milton,
was killed with Lieut. Sharp and twenty-six sol
diers by the Indians at Sudbury, April 18, 1676.
His son, President W., erected a monument in
S. to his memory.
WADSWORTH, BENJAMIN, president of Har
vard college, died March 16, 1737, aged 67 ; the
son of Capt. Samuel W., he was born at Milton,
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and was graduated at Harvard in 1690, and was
ordained minister of the first church in Boston,
as colleague with Mr. Allen, Sept. 8, 1696. Here
he continued till his election as the successor of
President Leverett. Into this office he was in
ducted July 7, 1725, Mr. Foxcroft, his colleague,
remaining in the church at Boston. His succes
sor was President Holyoke. His learning was
considerable, and he was most pious, humble,
prudent, and a very pathetic and excellent
preacher. A tenth part of his income he de
voted to charitable uses. He published artillery
election sermon, 1790 ; exhortations to early
piety, 1702 ; three sermons, 1706; on the day of
judgment, 1709 ; on assembling at the house of
God, 1710; the well ordered family, 1712; five
sermons ; advice to the sick and well ; explana
tion of assembly's catechism, 1714; invitation to
the gospel feast in eleven sermons, 12mo. ; saint's
prayer to escape temptation ; on the death of I.
Addington, 1715; of President Leverett ; elec
tion sermon, 1716; twelve sermons, 1717; zeal
against flagrant wickedness ; essay for spreading
the gospel into ignorant places, 8vo., 1718;
Christ's fan is in his hand ; imitation of Christ a
Christian duty, 1722; a dialogue on the Lord's
supper, 1724; it is honorable not shameful to
suffer, 1725 ; the benefits of a good and mischiefs
of an evil conscience, in fourteen sermons; none
but the righteous saved. — Sprague.
WADSWORTH, DANIEL, minister of Hart
ford, Conn., died in 1747, aged about 41. He
graduated at Yale in 1726, and succeeded T.
Woodbridge in 1732. His successors were E.
Dorr, N. Strong, J. Hawes.
WADSWORTH, JEREMIAH, of Connecticut,
commissary-general during the greater part of
the Revolutionary war, died at Hartford in 1804,
aged 60. He was a member of congress.
WADSWORTH, JAMES, general, died at
Durham, Conn., in 1817, aged 88.
WADSWORTH, BENJAMIN, D. D., minister
of Danvers, Mass., was born in Milton July 29,
1750 ; graduated at Harvard college in 1769 ;
was ordained in 1773; and died in Jan., 1826,
aged 75, in the fifty-fourth year of his ministry.
He was eminently pious, and a prudent, faithful
minister. He published a sermon at the ordina
tion of J. Badcock, 1783; at thanksgiving, 1795
and 1796; eulogy on Washington ; at a dedica
tion, 1807 ; before a society for suppressing in
temperance, 1815; to bible society; at installa
tion of M. Dow ; on death of S. Holten, 1816.
WADSWORTH, PELEG, major-general, a sol
dier of the Revolution, died in Nov., 1829, aged
about 80. He was graduated at Harvard col
lege in 1769. In 1780 he was sent from Boston
to command in the district of Maine. In Feb.,
1781, a party of the enemy captured him in his
own house, and conveyed him to Bagaduce or
Castine. From his prison in the fort he and
Major Burton effected their escape in June, by
most extraordinary efforts, crossed the Penob-
scot in a canoe, and travelled through the wilder
ness to St. Georges. Of his captivity and escape
Dr. Dwight gives a long account in the second
volume of his travels. For many years he was
a member of congress from Cumberland district.
He died at Hiram, Me. His son, Lieut. Henry
W., was blown up in a fire-ship in the harbor of
Tripoli, with Capt. Somers, Midshipman Izard,
and a few men, in Sept., 1804.
WADSWORTH, WILLIAM, general, died at
Genesee, N. Y., in Feb., 1833 ; an early settler in
western New York.
WADSWORTH, JAMES, died at Gencsco,
N. Y., in 1844, aged 76. A native of Durham,
Conn., he graduated at Yale in 1787. Associated
with his brother, he purchased a large tract of
land on the Genesee river, and thus became a
man of great wealth, of which he made a gener
ous use in promoting the diffusion of knowledge.
He endowed the first normal school in the State
of New York.
WADSWORTH, DANIEL, died in Hartford,
Conn., July 28, 1848, aged nearly 77. He was
the son of Col. Jeremiah II., the principal founder
of the Wadsworth athenaeum in Hartford. He
also built a tower and country-seat on Talcott's
mountain, which he left to the public. His pic
ture gallery he gave to the city of Hartford.
Though his property amounted to 300,000 dol
lars, he left nothing to any of the great charitable
and religious societies. S. G. Goodrich says the
elegant seat of Talcott's mountain is now occu
pied by a thriving manufacturer of axes. His
wife was a daughter of the second Gov. Trum-
bull. — Goodrich's Recollections.
WAGGAMAN, GEORGE A., died at New Or
leans March 23, 1843, aged 53. He had been
secretary of State and a senator of the United
States; yet, if he may be justly termed a fool
for being killed in a duel, what term may be ap
plied to the ruler of a people who sacrifices one
hundred thousand lives in a war not defensive
and not needful ?
WAGNER, JOHN, Dr., died at Charleston,
S. C., in 1841, aged about 48. He graduated at
Yale in 1812, and then studied medicine in New
York, London, and Paris. He was an eminent
surgeon. In 1829 he was a professor in the med
ical college, and in 1832 was appointed to the
chair of surgery. Much suffering by disease
was his lot in life. — Williams' Med. Eiocj.
WAINWRIGHT, ARTHUR, D. D., died at
Pottsville, Penn., in 1839.
WAINWRIGHT, Dr., died in New York of
the bite of a rattlesnake, Dec. 9, 1847, aged 36.
He was the son of a banker in London, and had
been some years in extensive practice in New
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York. The snake was received from a brother-
in-law in Alabama ; he was carelessly handled by
the doctor, his fangs entering between his rin
gers. The flesh near the wound was cut out, and
several doctors lent their aid vainly. As his arm
swelled, he begged an amputation, but it was
refused. As he was near his end, the pain leav
ing his hand and arm, the ease creeping upward,
he said : " This is horrible ! to know that death
is feeling his way to my vitals. That arm is dead
already! and" — placing the other hand at his
heart — " the destroyer will soon be HERE ! " These
words are fearfully monitory to the sinner. The
religious character of Dr. "W. is not known ; but
the dying sinner, impenitent and unbelieving, will
have reason to lay his hand upon his heart and
to cry out in anguish and horror, " The de
stroyer will soon be here ! "
WAINWRIGHT, JONATHAN MATHEW, D. D.,
bishop in New York, died Sept. 21, 1854, aged
62. He was a grandson of J. Mayhew, and son
of Peter W. of Boston. He graduated at Har
vard in 1812. His ministerial labors began in
1819 in Hartford. He was afterwards rector of
Grace church in New York, and Trinity church
in Boston. He became bishop in 1852. He
published a sermon before the foreign missionary
society of the Episcopal church, 1848.
WAITE, BENJAMIN, M. D., died at South
Kingston, R. L, in 1811, aged 85. Besides be
ing a skilful physician, he was forty-five years a
Baptist minister in the town of his residence.
WAKELEY, ABEL, a soldier of the Revolu
tion, died in Greenville, Greene county, N. Y., in
1850, aged 89. He was born in Roxbury, Conn.
He served during the whole war, and was in the
front rank in the storming of the redoubt at
Yorktown. He was also a soldier of the Cross,
for more than half a century a member of the
church of which Beriah Hotchkin was the pastor.
— N. Y. Observer, April 27.
WALDO, SAMUEL, brigadier-general, died in
stantly of the apoplexy on the Penobscot, May
23, 1759, aged 63. He was the son of Jonathan
W., a wealthy merchant of Boston, who died in
1731. There were in his life remarkable coinci
dences with the life of his friend, Sir William
Pepperrell. They lived in Maine and were rich
bachelors ; they were councillors together ; they
commanded regiments and were together at Lou-
isburg ; they passed a year together in England ;
they were born the same year and died nearly at
the same time. He lived, when in Maine, at
Falmouth. He was an accomplished man, active
and enterprising ; and was a distinguished officer.
He had crossed the ocean fifteen times. He was
pointing out to Gov. Pownall the boundary of his
land, when he fell dead. His daughter, Hannah,
was for four years engaged to be married to An
drew Pepperrell, the son of Sir William, when
through his fault she dissolved the engagement.
In six weeks she married T. Flukcr, secretary of
Massachusetts ; and her daughter married Gen.
Knox, who was enabled to save and rescue much
of the Waldo property from confiscation. Daugh
ters of Knox married Mr. Swan, John Holmes
and Judge Thachcr. Andrew P. died unmarried
in 1751, aged 28. His son, Col. Samuel, died in
1770, aged 49. — Parsons' Pepperrell.
WALDO, ALBIGEREU, Dr., of Pomfret, Conn.,
died in 1794, aged about 44. He was a skilful
surgeon in the army. — Thacher's Mcd. Eiog.
WALDO, DANIEL, died at Worcester July
9, 1845, aged 82. His father was an eminent
merchant in Boston, but in the war removed in
1782 to Worcester. With him his son was a
partner in business, and remained a merchant
forty years. He was remarkable for justice, cour
tesy, and liberality. He left to Leicester acad
emy a legacy of 6,000 dollars, and other noble
bequests. — Sweetzer's Serm. ; Washbiirn's Leic.
Academy.
WALDO, ELIZABETH, Miss, died at Worcester
in Aug. or Sept., 1845. She bequeathed about
12,000 dollars to each of six societies, namely,
the American bible ; the foreign evangelical ; the
American Protestant; the colonization ; the Amer
ican bethel ; and the Bangor theological seminary.
WALDO, SARAH, Miss, died in Boston, 1851.
She bequeathed more than 50,000 dollars to va
rious charitable societies and theological semina
ries, and made the American home missionary
society residuary legatee. — Boston Adver., April
5, 1851.
WALDRON, RICHARD, major, president of
New Hampshire, was killed by the Indians, June
29, 1689, aged 80. He was an early settler of
Dover, came from Somersetshire, England, about
1635, and began a plantation at Cocheco, or Do
ver, about 1640. From 1654 he was a represen
tative to the general court at Boston twenty-two
years, and several years the speaker of the house,
and president, after Cutt, in 1681. He was chief
military officer. In the war of 1676 two compa
nies were sent to him from Massachusetts with
orders to seize all Indians concerned in the war.
There assembled at his house four hundred In
dians. The English captain wished to attack
them, but Major W. substituted a stratagem in
the place of an open attack. He proposed to the
Indians a sham-fight, and after they had fired the
first volley he made them all prisoners. Dismiss
ing those whom he deemed friendly, he sent to
Boston about two hundred, some of whom were
hung, and the rest sold as slaves in foreign parts.
This occurrence awakened in the savage breast
the desire of revenge, which after thirteen years
was gratified. The Indians adopted the following
stratagem : To each of the garrisoned houses in
Dover they sent two squaws to ask a lodging, for
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the purpose of opening the doors in the night to
the assailants. June 29, 1689, the Indians thus
entered Major Waldron's house, and made pris
oner of the brave old soldier, who fought them
with his sword in hand. Seating him in an elbow
chair on a long table in the hall, they asked him,
" Who shall judge Indians now?" and then
horribly mangled and killed him. His descend
ants have been men of distinction.
WALDRON, WILLIAM, first minister of the
new brick church in Boston, died of a fever in
1727, aged 30. He was the son of Ilichard of
Portsmouth, and was graduated in 1717; was
ordained in 1722. His wife was Eliza Allen of
Martha's Vineyard; his daughter married Col. J.
Quincy. — Spragnc's Annals.
WALES, JOHN, the first minister of Rayn-
ham, Mass., died in 1765, aged Go. Born in
Braintree, he graduated at Harvard in 1728, and
was succeeded by P. Fobes. He was a faithful
and pathetic preacher ; in public prayer he was
almost unequalled in appropriate excellence. He
was the father of Prof. Wales of Yale college.
WALES, SAMUEL, D. D., professor of divinity
in Yale college, the son of the preceding, died
Feb. 18, 1794, aged about 46. He graduated
in 1767, and was the minister of Milford from
1770 to 1782. He succeeded Prof. Daggett June
12, 1782. His mind for two years was broken
down by the epilepsy. He brought to the theo
logical chair great abilities, a pure and energetic
style, exemplary piety, and dignity and solemnity
of manner. He published election sermon, 1783.
— Sprague.
WALES, ATHERTON, minister of Marshfield,
Mass., died in 1795, aged 92, in the fifty-seventh
year of his ministry. Born in Braintree, he grad
uated at Harvard in 1726; and was settled as
the first pastor of the second church in 1739. E.
Leonard succeeded him. He was eminently
pious and faithful.
WALES, JONATHAN-, M. D., died at Randolph,-
Mass., in 1843, aged Go.
WALES, THOMAS B., died in Boston June 15,
1853, aged 77. The son of Dr. Ephraim W. of
Randolph, he graduated at Cambridge in 1795.
His father graduated in 1768. lie was a very
successful and respected merchant.
WALES, HKNHY, M. J)., of Boston, died in
1S5G, aged about 36. He graduated in 1838,
and he bequeathed his library, of about one thou
sand four hundred volumes of splendid books,
to Harvard college.
WALKER, ZECHAIUAH, first minister of Wood-
bury, Conn., died Jan. 20, 1700, aged 62. He
was settled at W. in June, 1678. Born in Bos
ton in 1637, he preached first at Jamaica, L. I.,
from 1663 to 1668; and then was installed, May
5, 1670, over the second church in Stratford. He
was a learned man, a powerful preacher, of good
judgment, and much beloved. During his min
istry one hundred and eight were admitted to
the church. At S. there was an unhappy division
between his friends and those of a rival preacher,
Israel Chauncey.
WALKER, ROBERT, judge of the supreme
court of Connecticut, a descendant of Robert W.,
who lived in Boston in 1634, and of Zechariah,
his son, the minister of Jamaica, L. I., and of
Stratford and Woodbury, Conn., was graduated
at Yale college in 1730, and died at Stratford in
1772. He was judge from 1760 to 1772, and
was succeeded by W. S. Johnson. One of his
daughters married Mr. Wetmore, minister of
Stratford, and another John M. Breed, mayor of
Norwich. His son, Gen. Joseph Walker of Strat
ford, died at Saratoga Aug. 11, 1810.
WALKER, TIMOTHY, first minister of Con
cord, N. II., died in 1782, aged 77. Born in
Burlington, Mass., he graduated at Harvard in
1725, and was settled Nov. 18, 1730. He was
nearly fifty-two years in the ministry. His suc
cessors were I. Evans, A. McFarland, N. Bouton.
WALKER, BENJAMIN, colonel, died at Utica
in 1818. He was aid and friend of Baron Steu-
ben. He generously scattered his wealth among
the poor.
WALKER, TIMOTHY, judge, died May 5,
1822, aged 85. He was a patriot of the Revo
lution, the son of T. W., the minister of Concord,
N. II. He graduated at Harvard college in
1756; and in 1776 was one of the committee of
safety. He commanded a regiment of minute-
men, and served a campaign at Winter Hill under
Sullivan. For several years he was chief justice
of the court of common pleas. His son, Charles,
a lawyer, graduated at Harvard in 1789, and died
in 1834 ; his grandson, Charles, graduated in
1818, and died in 1843 in New York.
WALKER, SAMUEL, minister of Danvers,
died July 7, 1826, aged 47. A graduate of
Dartmouth in 1802, he was ordained in 1805, and
was faithful and useful and respected.
WALKER, WILLIAM, judge, resided in Berk
shire county, Mass. In 1775 he was an officer
in the army at Cambridge. For many years he
was the judge of the county court and judge of
probate. He died at Lenox in Nov., 1831, aged
80. In his politics he was a republican in the
party times of 1801. He was tall, with white
locks, of great personal dignity ; Gov. Lincoln
remarked, that he was the most venerable man
he ever saw. He was indeed venerated by those
who knew him, not only for a long life of faithful
public service, but for his social virtues, his pure
morals, his disinterested benevolence, and ardent
piety. Of the church at Lenox he was an exem
plary member; of the Berkshire bible society,
president. In one of the last years of his life he
travelled over the bleak hills of Berkshire with
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the sole object of arousing his fellow-citizens in
different towns to a sense of the value of some
moral and charitable institution designed for
their benefit.
WALKER, JACOB, a slave, a very remarkable
man, twenty-seven years the pastor of a Baptist
church, died at Augusta, Ga., May 26, 1846, aged
76. He Avas a slave till his death, having refused
freedom, offered him by his people, lest he should
be lifted above his flock. He was loved by his
large communion of fourteen hundred persons,
as few ministers have been loved. His people
placed a marble tablet over his grave.
WALKER, MRS., wife of William Walker,
missionary in West Africa, died in April, 1849.
By her cheerful labors several persons were con
verted to God.
WALKER, JOSEPH, minister of Paris, Me.,
died in 1851, aged 59. He graduated at Bow-
doin in 1818.
WALKER, PEREZ, captain, died at Sturbridge,
Mass., in 1851 or 1852, a philanthropist and
Christian. He was a benefactor of Amherst col
lege ; for years he sustained a missionary at the
west. He bequeathed 1750 dollars to various
societies.
WALKER, SEARS COOK, well-skilled in astron
omy, died in 1853, aged about 48.
WALKER, CHARLES, M. D., a respectable phy
sician of Northampton, Mass., died Jan. 17, 1855,
aged 52. He graduated at Yale college in 1824.
WALKER, TIMOTHY, LL. I)., judge, died at
Cincinnati Jan. 15, 1856, aged 53. A native of
Wilmington, Mass., and descendant of William
Brewster, he graduated in 1826. Having studied
law, he settled in Cincinnati. In 1833, he with
Judge Wright established a law school ; but he re
signed his professorship in 1844, from which
time he was in full practice as a lawyer. He was
an excellent teacher, a profound and learned
jurist. In 1838 he gave a course of lectures on
commercial law. He edited the Western law
journal, and published introduction of American
law. — Boston Adv., July 16, 1856.
WALL, ARTHUR, died in Wake county, N. C.,
in 1840, aged 130, "or thereabouts."
WALL, GARRET D., judge, died at Burlington,
N. J., in 1850, aged 67. He was chosen gov
ernor in 1829, but declined the appointment.
From 1835 to 1841 he was a senator of the
United States, succeeding Mr. Frelinghuysen.
He was a judge of the court of errors and appeals.
WALLACE, ANDREW, a soldier of the Revo
lution, died at New York in 1835, aged 105.
Born in Scotland, he served in the army from
1776 to 1813.
WALLACE, JAMES, D. D., died in South Car
olina Jan. 15, 1851. He was professor of mathe
matics in the S. C. college, as he had previously
been in Columbia college, N. Y., and George
town college, D. C. He published a treatise on
globes, and practical astronomy.
WALLACE, HORACE B., " of Philadelphia,
killed himself in consequence of a disease of the
brain, in Paris, in 1852, aged 35. He was the son
of John B. Wallace, an eminent lawyer of Phila
delphia. He graduated at Princeton in 1835.
From his papers was published after his death a
volume entitled, art, scenery, and philosophy in
Europe, 1852. — Cycl. of. Amer. Lit.
WALLACE, MATTHEW G., died at Terre
Haute in July, 1854, aged about 80 ; a Presby
terian minister nearly sixty years, one of the first
in Cincinnati, a champion of the truth.
WALLCUTT, THOMAS, died at the McLean
asylum, Boston, June 5, 1840, aged 82. In his
last days he had epileptic fits. Born in Boston,
he lived in the family and was educated in the
school of Dr. Wheelock, of Hanover, and went a
missionary to the St. Francis Indians. In the
war he was a steward in the army. Being a fair
penman, he long served at Boston as a clerk in
the office of the secretary of State. He was
secretary of the historical society and of the peace
society. Having collected many books, he com
mitted about eight hundred volumes to William
Allen, who married a daughter of his friend
President Wheelock, and by him they were pre
sented to Bowdoin college. The remainder of
his library he gave to the antiquarian and histor
ical societies. — Boston Recorder, June 19.
WALLER, JOHN, died in South Carolina, July
4, 1802, aged 62. Born in Virginia, he was or
dained as a Baptist minister in 1770, and was
very successful. In Virginia he baptized more
than 2,000 persons and assisted in forming eigh
teen churches and ordaining twenty-seven min
isters. For some years he was pastor over five
churches ; he counted 1500 church-members.
In his persecutions he was five times imprisoned,
in all one hundred and thirteen days.
WALLEY, THOMAS, minister of Barnstable,
Mass., died March 24, 1679, aged 61. He was
ejected from a parish in London in 1662, and in
1663 sought a refuge in America, and was settled
in Barnstable. His prudence was the means of
restoring the harmony of the church, which had
been interrupted. He was an accomplished
scholar and an eminent Christian, remarkable for
humility. He published balm in Gilcad to heal
Zion's wounds, an election sermon in Plymouth,
June 1, 1669.
WALLEY, JOHN", a judge of the superior court
of Massachusetts and a member of the council,
died at Boston Jan. 11, 1712, aged 68. In the
year 1690 he accompanied Sir W. Phipps in his
unsuccessful expedition against Canada, being in
trusted with the command of the land forces.
He was one of the principal founders of the town
and church of Bristol. The high trusts, reposed
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in him by his country, were discharged with abil
ity and fidelity, and he exhibited an uncommon
sweetness and candor of spirit and the various
virtues of the Christian. His journal of the ex
pedition to Canada is preserved in Ilutchinson.
WALLEY, JOHN, minister of Ipswich, died in
17S1. aged 68. He graduated at Harvard in
1734. He was ordained at Ipswich in 1747 ; in
stalled at Bolton in 1773; and died at Roxbury.
He was a faithful, diligent preacher, solicitous to
bring the truth to the hearts of his hearers.
W ALLEY, SAMUEL II., a worthy citizen of
Boston, died at Burlington, Vt., in 1850. His
wife was a daughter of Deacon William Phillips.
His good deeds made him highly respected. He
was the brother of Thomas, who became a Cath
olic and lived at Brookline, and died in 1848,
aged 79. They were the sons of Thomas, and
the fourth in descent from Rev. Thomas of Barn-
stable.
WALN, NICHOLAS, died in Philadelphia in
1813; formerly a distinguished member of the
bar, latterly a preacher among the Friends.
WALN, ROBERT, Jux., a poet, was born in
Philadelphia in 1794, and was liberally educated,
but did not pursue any profession. On his return
from a voyage to Canton as supercargo he pub
lished in 4to. numbers a history of China. He
died July 4, 1825, aged 31. After the publica
tion of the 3d volume of the biography of the
signers of the declaration of independence, he
edited that work. He published the hermit in
Philadelphia, a satirical work, 1819; a second
series of do.; the American bards ; touches at
the times, with other poems, 1820; life of Lafay
ette, 1824. — Spec. Am. Poet.,m. 213.
WALN, ROBERT, died at Philadelphia in 183G,
aged 71; a merchant, and a member of congress
from 1798 to 1801.
WALSH, MICHAEL, died at Amesbury, Mass.,
in 1840, aged 77. He was a native of Ireland,
an eminent teacher and useful citizen. He pub
lished mercantile arithmetic.
WALTER, NEHEMIAH, minister of Roxbury,
Mass., died Sept. 17, 1750, aged 86. He was
born in Ireland in December, 1663. His father,
who settled in Boston, brought him to this country
as early as 1679 ; he was graduated at Harvard
college in 1684. He soon afterwards went to
Nova Scotia, and lived in a French family. Thus
acquiring a correct knowledge of the French lan
guage, he was enabled in the latter periods of his
life to preach to a society of French Protestants
in Boston, in the absence of their pastor. After
his return he- pursued his studies for some time at
Cambridge, where he was appointed a fellow of
the college. He was ordained at Roxbury Oct.
17, 1688, as colleague with the apostolic Eliot.
After a ministry of more than sixty-eight years he
died in peace and hope. His wife was Sarah,
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daughter of Increase Mather. His daughter
married G. Firmin. His ministry and that of
Mr. Eliot occupied a space of near one hundred
and twenty years. He preached a few years after
his settlement without notes, in the usual manner
of the day ; but, his memory having been impaired
by a fit of sickness, he from that cause kept his
notes before him. He was eminent in the gift of
prayer. It was a maxim with him, that those re
ligious principles might well be suspected which
could not be introduced in an address to Heaven ;
and he was pleased in observing that those, who
in their preaching opposed the system of Calvin,
were wont to pray in accordance with it. His
whole life was devoted to the great objects of the
Christian ministry. He presented a bright exam
ple of personal holiness. Mr. Whitcaeld, who
saw him in 1740, calls him a good old Puritan,
and says, "I had but little conversation with him,
my stay was so short ; but I remember he told
me, he was glad to hear I said that man was
half a devil and half a beast." In his own preach
ing it was the care of Mr. Walter to humble man,
and to exalt the grace of God. He published the
body of death anatomized, an essay on indwelling
sin, 12mo., 1707; on vain thoughts; the great
concern of man ; the wonderfulness of Christ ;
the holiness of heaven, 1713; a convention ser
mon, 1723; unfruitful hearers detected and
warned, 1754; a posthumous volume of sermon
on the 55th chapter of Isaiah, with his life, Svo.,
1755. — Sprague.
WALTER, THOMAS, minister of Roxbury,
Mass., the son of the preceding, was born in
1696, and was graduated at Harvard college in
1713. He was ordained a colleague with his father
Oct. 29, 1718, but died Jan. 10, 1725, aged 28.
He was one of the most distinguished scholars
and acutest disputants of his clay. He was a
champion of the doctrines of grace. In his last
illness he was for some time very anxious for the
salvation of his soul, as the follies of his youth
were fresh in his view ; but at length his appre
hensions were removed. He said, " I shall be a
most glorious instance of sovereign grace in all
heaven." He published a sermon at the lecture
for promoting good singing, 1722 ; the Scrip
tures the only rule of faith and practice, 1723 ;
and two other sermons. — Sprague.
WALTER, NATHANIEL, minister of the second
church in Roxbury, died in 1776, aged about 67.
The son of Rev. Thomas, he graduated at Har
vard in 1729, and was ordained in 1734. He
was the father of Rev. William ; and his daugh
ter Rebecca married Rev. M. Byles, jun., and
Maria married Gen. Joseph Otis, of Barnstable.
He succeeded E. Thayer, and was succeeded by
Abbot, Bradford, Flagg, and Whiting.
WALTER, THOMAS, a botanist, was a native
of England. After his arrival in this country he
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became a planter a few miles from Charleston in
South Carolina, and died towards the close of
the last century. He published flora Carolini
an a, 1788.
WALTER, WILLIAM, D. D., died in Boston
Dec. 5, 1800. He was the son of Thomas W.,
by Rebecca, a daughter of Rev. Joseph Belcher.
Born in 1737, he graduated at Harvard in 1756.
He was rector of Trinity church from 1764 to
1776, and rector of Christ's church in 1792.
He was the grandson of Rev. Nathaniel W., of
Roxbury, and the father of Lynde and William
W., merchants of Boston.
WALTER, WILLIAM BICKER, a poet, was
born in Boston; the only son of William, a
merchant, and grandson of the Rev. William,
D. I).; graduated at Bowdoin college in 1818 ;
and died in Charlestons. C., April 23, 1823, aged
27. He published Sukey, a poem, 1821 ; a vol
ume of poems, 1821 — Spec. Am. Poet. 11., 161.
WALTERS, DANIEL D., doctor, a physician
in extensive practice in New York, died in 1824,
aged 51. He published a diary concerning the
yellow fever in 1822. This fever, he maintained,
originated in a specific poison brought from abroad.
His family belonged to the society of Friends : he
confided for religious teachings in Barclay's books.
— Williams' Med. Biog.
WALTON, WILLIAM, first minister of Marble-
nead, died about 1668. He came from England
m 1637, and was succeeded by S. Cheever.
WALTON, GEORGE, colonel, governor of
Georgia, died Feb. 4, 1804, aged 63. He was
the only son of William, and a patriot of the
Revolution; was born in Frederick county, Va.,
in 1740, and was early apprenticed to a carpen
ter, whose economy would not allow his young
apprentice a candle to read at night. In his zeal
for knowledge he found a substitute in pine knots.
In 1774 he commenced the practice of the law
in Georgia. Being from Feb., 1776, till Oct., 1781,
a member of congress, he signed the declaration
of independence. With a colonel's commission
in the militia he assisted in the defence of Savan
nah in Dec., 1778, and was wounded in the thigh,
and kept a prisoner till Sept., 1779. In the next
month he was chosen governor; and again in
1789. He was also a senator of the United
States, and for fifteen years a judge of the supe
rior court. To such eminence did this self-taught
man rise by the force of his talents, his industry,
and the favor of Providence. In his last years
he suffered from the gout. — Goodrich.
WALTON, JOSEPH, minister in Portsmouth,
third church, died in 1822, aged 80. Born in New
castle, he was settled in 1789.
WALTON, WILLIAM C., pastor of a free church
in Hartford, Conn., died in 1834, aged 40.
WALTON, EZEKIEL P., general, died at Mont-
pelier, Vt.,in 1855, aged 66; editor of the Ver
mont Watchman.
WAMPUS, JOHN, an Indian sachem, was one
of the native owners of the town of Sutton, Mass.
His sale of the land was confirmed to the pur
chasers in 1704.
WAPLES, SAMUEL, captain, an officer of the
Revolutionary army, died in Accomac county, Va.,
in 1834, aged 60.
WARD, NATHANIEL, first minister of Ipswich,
Mass., died in 1653, aged about 83. He was
born in Haverhill, England, in 1570, the son of
John W., a minister of the established church.
He was educated at the university of Cambridge.
Being settled in the ministry at Standon in Hert
fordshire, he was ordered before the bishop, Dec.
12, 1631, to answer for his noncomformity ; and,
refusing to comply with the requisitions of the
church, he was at length forbidden to continue
in the exercise of his clerical office. In April,
1634, he left his native country, and arrived in
New England in June. He was soon settled as
pastor of the church at Agawam or Ipswich. In
1635 he received Mr. Norton as his colleague ;
but in the following year he was by his own re
quest released from his engagement as a minister,
and Nathaniel Rogers was settled in his place.
In 1641 he was chosen by the freemen without
the consent of the magistrates to preach the
election sermon. In Dec. of the same year the
general court established one hundred laws, called
" the body of liberties," which were drawn up by
Mr. Ward in 1639, and had been committed to
the governor and others for consideration. In
1647 he returned to England, and soon after his
arrival published a work entitled, " the simple
cobbler of Aggawam in America," which was
written during the civil wars of Charles I., and
designed to encourage the opposers of the king,
and the enemies of the established church. lie
resumed his profession, and in 1648 was settled
at Shenfield in Essex, where he remained till his
death. He was a man of great humor. Besides
his simple cobbler at Aggawam, which was printed
at London in 4to. and at Boston 1713, and winch
is a curious specimen of his wit and the vigor of
his mind, he published several other humorous
works ; but they are now forgotten, excepting a
trifling satire upon the preachers in London,
entitled, Mercurius antimccharius, or the simple
cobbler's boy with his lap full o£ caveats, etc.
1647. — Sprague.
WARD, JAMES, doctor, the son of Nathaniel
W., went with him to England and became a
physician. He graduated at Harvard in 1645.
WARD, JOHN, first minister of Haverhill,
Mass., died Dec. 27, 1693, aged 87. The son
of Nathaniel W., he was born in England
Nov. 5, 1606. He came to this country in 1639,
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preached for some time at Agamenticus, but in
1041 was settled at Havcrhill. Here he continued
till his death. About a month before this event
he preached an excellent sermon. His firm
health in his advanced age was owing to his tem
perance in eating, drinking, sleeping, and to his
much exercise. He sometimes walked thirty
miles without any difficulty. He was very mod
est and diffident ; plain iu his dress and prudent
in his whole conduct. He was a physician as
well as a minister. His successors were Rolf,
Gardner, Brown, Barnard, Shaw, Abbot, Dodge,
and Phclps. — Sprague's Annals.
WARD, SAMUEL, doctor, died in Greenwich.
N. J., Feb. 17, 1774. He was a man of benevo
lence, and venerable for his religion.
WARD, SAMUEL, governor of Rhode Island,
died March 26, 1776. He was chosen governor
in 1762, and again in 1765 and in 1766. He was
also chief justice of the supreme court. He was
a member of the first congress in 1774. While
attending his duty as a member of this body, he
died at Philadelphia of the small pox. His
brother, Henry W., a patriot of the Revolution,
died in Dec., 1797. He was not only a firm pat
riot, but a sincere Christian, a devout attendant
on the Lord's supper, and a useful member of
the church with which he was connected.
WARD, ARTEMAS, the first major-general in
the American army, died at Shrewsbury, Mass.,
Oct. 28, 1800, aged 73. He was graduated at
Harvard college in 1748, and was afterwards a
representative in the legislature, a member ol
the council, and a justice of the court of com
mon pleas for Worcester county. When the
war commenced with Great Britain, he was ap
pointed by congress first major-general, June 17,
1775. After the arrival of Washington in July,
when a disposition was to be made of the troops
for the siege of Boston, the command of the
right wing of the army at Roxbury was intrusted
to him. He resigned his commission in April,
1776, though he continued some time longer in
command, at the request of Washington. He
afterwards devoted himself to the duties of civil
life. He was a member of congress both before
and after the adoption of the present constitu
tion. He had a long decline, in which he exhib
ited the most exemplary patience. He was a
man of incorruptible integrity. His life pre
sented the virtues of the Christian.
WARD, EPHRAIM, minister of West Brook-
field, died in 1818, aged 77; highly respected.
He was a native of Newton, a graduate of Har
vard in 1763, and was settled in 1771 over the
church of the then first parish of Brookfield.
lie published several sermons.
WARD, JOSIAII M., Dr., died in Berlin, Conn.,
in 1825, aged 43. Born in Guilford, he studied
medicine with Dr. Percival of B., and succeeded
him in business. The fatal spotted fever of 1823,
and after, demanded of him much labor and fa
tigue. Some of his own children died in 1825,
and in that year he followed them. — Thaclicr.
WARD, SAMUEL, colonel, died at New York
Aug. 16, 1832, aged 75. The son of Gov. Ward
of Rhode Island, he graduated in 1771, in the
third class of Brown university. In 1774 he
was enrolled in the patriot company of the Kent
ish guards. As a captain he was in the camp at
Cambridge in 1775, and accompanied Arnold
through the wilderness of Maine to Quebec. He
was made prisoner, but exchanged. As a major
in Greene's regiment he fought at Red Bank fort,
and served bravely during the whole war. His
military operations were then exchanged for
those of the merchant. He made a voyage from
Providence to Canton in 1783, and then estab
lished himself in business in the city of New
York. His affairs carried him to Europe. On
his return he settled on a farm at East Green
wich, R. I., where he lived to see his children ed
ucated to usefulness. At last, to be near his
children, who were in business in New York, he
removed to Jamaica, L. I. Here he lived as a
patriarch until it pleased God to remove him from
the earth. His wife was a daughter of Gov. Wil
liam Greene of Rhode Island, and thus he was
again connected, as he had been before by mili
tary sendees, with the soldiers of that name.
WARD, SAMUEL, died in New York Nov. 27,
1839, aged 53; president of the bank of com
merce. He was the head of the banking-house
of Prime, Ward, and King. He had intelli
gence, a sound judgment, and integrity; and was
a man of strong religious feelings, zealous to
promote the objects of benevolence.
WARD, NATHANIEL, died in Irwington, Ga.,
in 1840, aged 98. He was a Virginian, and
served several campaigns under Washington ; a
poor man, but nobly patriotic.
WARD, JOHN, died in St. John's, New
Brunswick, Aug. 5, 1846, aged 92 ; the father of
the city. Born in Westchester, he was a tory and
soldier: in 1783 he embarked with his regiment
of loyal Americans for New Brunswick, where
he held various offices and lived in high esteem.
WARD, ARTEMAS, LL. D., died at Boston
Oct. 7, 1847, aged 84, chief justice of the court
of common pleas. He was a graduate of Har
vard in 1783, a member of congress in 1815, and
was appointed a judge in 1821, holding his place
nineteen years. Of learning and courtesy, he
was respected on the bench and esteemed in do
mestic and social life.
WARD, SAMUEL, governor of Rhode Island,
died in Jan., 1851 ; a supporter of law during the
Dorr rebellion.
WARDEN, JOHN, died in New Scotland, N. Y.,
in 1836, aged 100.
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WARDEN.
WARNER.
WARDEN, DAVID B., U. S. consul at Paris,
died in that city in 1845 ; a man of scientific and
literary acquirements. A native of Ireland, he
was consul and secretary of legation to France
for forty years before his death. He published
account of the United States, 3 vols., 1819; the
same in French at Paris ; on consular establish
ments, 1813; the same in French; bibliotheca
Americana, collection of books relating to N. A.,
1831; and bib. Americo-sept., Paris, 1820. —
Goodricli's Recollections.
WARDWELL, DANIEL, M. D., died at An-
dover, Mass., April 14, 1851, aged 67. lie en
joyed an extensive practice and was much beloved.
WARE, HEXRY, D. D., Hollis professor of
theology at Harvard college, died at Cambridge
July 12, 1845, aged 81. He was born at Sher-
born April 1, 1764, and was of the fifth genera
tion from Robert Ware, who lived in Dedham
from 1642 to 1699. The intervening ancestors
after Robert, were John, Joseph, and John. His
brother, Joseph Ware, a farmer, was the father
of Judge Ashur Ware of Maine. He graduated
in 1785, and was ordained at Hingham as succes
sor of Dr. Gay Oct. 24, 1787. He became pro
fessor in 1805, as successor of Dr. Tappan, and
remained in office till 1840. His first wife was
Mary, daughter of Rev. Jonas Clarke of Lexing
ton ; his second, married in 1807, was Mary,
daughter of James Otis and widow of Benjamin
Lincoln, jun. ; his third wife, married Sept., 1807,
was Elizabeth, daughter of Nicholas Bowes. Of
his daughters, Lucy Clark married Rev. Joseph
Allen, D. D., of Northborough ; Harriet, by his
third wife, married Rev. Edward B. Hall, D. D.,
of Providence ; Elizabeth Ann married Rev.
George Putnam, D. D., of Roxbury; and Caro
line Rebecca married Edward Warren, M. D., of
Newton. His children, the offspring of two wives,
were nineteen in number. Of his sons were
Rev. Henry and Rev. William, John, M. D.,
Charles Eliot, M. D., George Frederic, Thornton
Kirklanci. In 1839, at a family meeting, fifty of
his descendants were present. In his last years
he was nearly blind. On his appointment as
professor of divinity, a warm controversy sprung
up on the propriety of placing a Unitarian in
that office. Dr. Morse was one of the writers on
the occasion. Dr. Ware published letters to
Trinitarians and Calvinists, and other tracts in
answer to Dr. Woods ; lectures on the evidences
and doctrines of Christianity.
WARE, HENRY, junior, D. D., died in Fra-
mingham, Mass., Sept. 22, 1843, aged 49. He
was born in Hingham in 1793, the son of Rev.
Dr. W., and graduated at Harvard in 1812. Jan.
1, 1817, he was ordained pastor of the second
church in Boston, as successor of Dr. J. Lathrop.
After thirteen years he was dismissed, and
R. W. Emerson was his successor. He then
travelled a year in Europe. On his return he
was professor of pulpit eloquence in the divinity
school, Cambridge. At last he had long infirmi
ties and illness.
WARE, WILLIAM, minister in New York, died
at Cambridge Feb. 19, 1852, aged 54. The son
of Rev. Prof. Ware, he graduated at Harvard in
1816, and was pastor of the Unitarian church in
New York from 1821 to 1836. He was then a
minister at West Cambridge from 1843 to 1845.
He travelled in Europe. He delivered various
lectures. He published Zenobia ; Probus ; letters
from Palmyra.
WARIIAM, JOHN, first minister of Windsor,
Conn., died April 1, 1670. He was an eminent
minister in Exeter, England, before he came to
this country. Having taken the charge of a
church which was gathered at Plymouth, consist
ing of persons about to emigrate to America, he
accompanied them as teacher and Mr. Maverick
as pastor. They arrived at Nantasket May 30,
1630, and in June began a settlement at Dor
chester. In 1635 this church removed and set
tled at Windsor. Mr. Maverick, while prepar
ing to follow them, died Feb. 3, 1636 ; but Mr.
W. joined them in Sept. Here he continued
about thirty-four years till his death. Though he
was distinguished for piety and the strictest mor
als, yet he was sometimes the prey of religious
melancholy. He was known to administer the
Lord's supper to his brethren, while he did not
participate with them, through apprehension that
the seals of the new covenant did not belong to
him. It is supposed that he was the first minis
ter in New England who used notes in preaching ;
yet he was animated and energetic in his manner.
— Mather's Magnolia, III. 121 ; Sprague.
WARNER, SETH, colonel, a soldier of the
Revolution, died at Woodbury, Conn., in 1785,
aged 41. He was born in Woodbury about 1744.
In 1773 he removed to Bennington, Vt., where
he became an indefatigable hunter. In the con
troversy with New York he and Ethan Allen were
the leaders of the people. New York passed an
act of outlawry against him March 9, 1774. At
the head of troops which he raised, he marched
with Allen to capture Ticonderoga in 1775. Re
ceiving a commission from congress he also raised
a regiment and joined Montgomery in Canada ;
but on the approach of winter his men were dis
charged. After the death of Montgomery he
raised another body of troops in 1776 and
marched to Quebec. He covered the retreat to
Ticonderoga. Forced to abandon that post, July
6, 1777, the enemy overtook him at llubbardton
July 7, and attacked the three regiments of Hale,
Francis, and AVarner. Francis fell; Hale surren
dered with his regiment ; but Warner made good
his retreat to Manchester. Called to the aid of
Stark Aug. 16, 1777, he arrived in season to meet
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and defeat the reinforcement of the enemy, and
thus to participate in the renown of the Bcnning-
ton victory. He then joined the army under
Gates. In vain did the New York convention in
1777 solicit congress to revoke his commission.
Worn down by his toils, he sunk under a compli
cation of disorders, and died at Woodhury,
whither he had removed his family. Vermont,
in gratitude to this brave soldier, granted a valu
able tract of land to his widow and children.
WARNER, AUGUSTUS L., M. D., professor
of surgery in Hampden Sidney college, Virginia,
died in 1847.
WARREN, RICHARD, one of the one hun
dred pilgrims who came to Plymouth in the May
flower in 1620. His name, in the compact signed
by tha company, is one of the ten names having
the title of Mr. prefixed. He died in 1628 : his
widow, Elizabeth, died in 1673, aged 90. They
had two sons and five daughters. Mary married
Robert Bartlett of Duxbury, who came in 1623.
Her brother Benjamin's daughter, Rebecca War
ren, married William Bradford in 1679.
WARREN, PETER, Sir, commodore, long
employed on the coast of America, died in Eng
land in 1752. He cooperated with Pepperrell in
the capture of Louisburg. His wife was Susan,
daughter of J. Delaucy of New York. He pur
chased lands on the Mohawk, and invited his
nephew, William Johnson, to take charge of
them. — Parsons' Life of Pepperrell.
WARREN, JOSEPH, a major-general in the
American army, was killed at Bunker's Hill June
17, 1775, aged 35. He was descended from an
ancestor who was an early settler of Boston.
His mother's name was Stevens, whose sister Su
sanna married John Sumner. His father, Joseph,
a farmer in Roxbury, Mass., was killed in 1755,
as he was gathering apples, by falling from the
ladder : he was a worthy, respected man, an ex
emplary Christian. He was born at Roxbury in
1740, and was graduated at Harvard college in
1759. Having studied under Dr. Lloyd, he in a
few years became one of the most eminent physi
cians in Boston. But he lived at a period when
greater objects claimed his attention than those
which related particularly to his profession. He
was a bold politician. While many were waver
ing with regard to the measures which should be
adopted, he contended that every kind of taxa
tion, whether external or internal, was tyranny,
and ought immediately to be resisted; and he
believed that America was able to withstand any
force that could be sent against her. From the
year 1768 he was a principal member of a secret
meeting or caucus in Boston, which had great
influence on the concerns of the country. In
this assembly the plans of defence were matured.
After the destruction of the tea, it was no longer
kept secret. He was twice chosen the public
orator of the town on the anniversary of the
massacre, and his orations breathe the energy of
a great and daring mind. It was he who, on the
evening before the battle of Lexington, obtained
information of the intended expedition against
Concord, and at ten o'clock at night dispatched
an express to Hancock and Adams, who were at
Lexington, to warn them of their danger. He
himself, on the next day, the memorable 19th of
April, was very active. After the departure of
Hancock to congress, he was chosen president of
the provincial congress in his place. Four days
previous to the battle of Bunker's or Breed's Hill
he received his commission of major-general.
When the intrenchments were made upon the
fatal spot, to encourage the men within the lines,
he went down from Cambridge and joined them
as a volunteer on the eventful day of the battle,
June 17. Just as the retreat commenced, a ball
struck him on the head, and he died in the
trenches. He was the first victim of rank that
fell in the struggle with Great Britain. In the
spring of 1776 his bones were taken up and en
tombed in Boston. Congress made provision for
the education of his four children. With warm
zeal he was yet judicious in council, and candid
and generous towards those who had different
sentiments respecting the controversy. His mind
was vigorous, his disposition humane, and his
manners affable and engaging. In his integrity
and patriotism entire confidence was placed. To
the most undaunted bravery he added the vir
tues of domestic life, the eloquence of an accom
plished orator, and the wisdom of an able states
man. He published orations in 1772 and in
1775, commemorative of the 5th of March, 1770.
WARREN, JAMES, a patriot of the Revolution,
died at Plymouth Nov. 17, 1808, aged 82. He
was descended from Richard W., one of the first
settlers of Plymouth in 1620, and was born in
the year 1726. He was graduated at Harvard
college in 1745. Directing his attention to com
mercial affairs, he was for many years a respecta
ble merchant. About the year 1757 his father
died and left him a handsome patrimonial estate,
which had descended from Richard W. He was
at this time appointed a high sheriff, as successor
of his father, and he retained this office till the
commencement of the war, notwithstanding the
active part which he took in opposing the meas
ures of the British ministry. In May, 1766, he
was chosen a member of the general court from
Plymouth, and he uniformly supported the rights
of his country. The government, who knew his
abilities and feared his opposition, tried the influ
ence of promises and threats upon him ; but his
integrity was not to be corrupted. In 1773 his
proposal for establishing committees of correspon
dence was generally adopted. He was for many
years speaker of the house of representatives.
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WARREN.
Preferring an active station, in which he could
serve his country, he refused the office of lieuten
ant-governor, and that of judge of the supreme
court, but accepted a seat at the navy board, the
duties of which were very arduous. At the
close of the war he retired from public employ
ments to enjoy domestic ease and leisure. Amidst
public cares, which demanded his abilities and
much occupied him, he never neglected the
more humble duties of domestic life, or the more
exalted claims of religion.
WARREN, MERCY, an historian,' wife of the
preceding, the daughter of James Otis of Barn-
stable, was born in 1727, and died at Plymouth
in Oct., 1814, aged 87. Before the Revolution
she wrote some political pieces. She published
poems, dramatic and miscellaneous, 1790 ; a his
tory of the American Revolution, 3 vols. 8vo., 1805.
— Cycl. of Amer. Lit.
WARREN, JOHN, M. D., a physician, died in
Boston April 4, 1815, aged 61. He was brother
of Gen. Joseph W. ; was born in Roxbury July
27, 1753 ; and graduated at Harvard college in
1771. Being settled in the practice of physic at
Salem, he marched as surgeon to the scene of
battle at Lexington. He was soon appointed
hospital surgeon ; other Massachusetts surgeons
in the war were Foster, Eustis, Adams, Townsend,
Hart, Fiske, and Bartlett. In 1772 he followed
the army to Long Island and New Jersey. In
1777 he was intrusted with the military hospitals
of Boston, in which post he remained during
the war. In 1780 he gave a course of dissections ;
and in 1783 he was appointed a professor of
anatomy and surgery in the medical school of
Cambridge. In 1796 he indorsed the notes of a
medical friend, who had purchased lands in
Maine, and in- consequence of his failure was
obliged to pay for and receive the lands, which
caused him immense vexation and great loss of
property. For years he was subject to an or
ganic disease of the heart, but he died of an inflam
mation of the lungs. His wife was a daughter of
Gov. Collins ; his son, Dr. John Collins W., suc
ceeded him as professor of anatomy and surgery.
He was the most eminent man in New England,
unless Dr. Nathan Smith might be considered as
equally skilful. As an eloquent anatomical lec
turer he was unequalled. For industry and
temperance he was remarkable. Firmly believing
the Christian religion, he was not regardless of
its duties. He attended on the Sabbath public
worship, and was careful to instruct his family in
religious worship. He had himself been instruct
ed by a pious mother. At times he was subject
to great depression of spirits, the consequence of
afflictions ; so that he lost the wish to live to old
age. He was liberal, generous, charitable in pri-
•••ate life, and a disinterested, enlightened friend
WARREN.
of his country. He delivered various public ora
tions and addresses. — Thaclter II. 254-271.
WARREN, EDWARD, a missionary to Ceylon,
was born in 1786; graduated at Middlebury
college in 1808; and studied theology at Andover.
He sailed for Ceylon in Oct., 1812. After a resi
dence of some years, falling into consumption,
he for his health sailed with Mr. Richards in
April for Cape Town, where he died Aug. 11, 1818,
aged 32. Archdeacon Twistleton said of him
and Mr. II., " Men of more amiable manners and
purer lives I never saw."
WARREN, MOSES, minister in Wilbraham,
Mass., died in 1831, aged about 68. Born in
Upton, he graduated at Harvard in 1784, and was
pastor of the south parish from 1788 to 1829.
WARREN, ISAAC, died in Charlestown March
19, 1834, aged 76. He liberally endowed War
ren academy in Woburn, and was a benefactor of
Middlebury college.
WARREN, SAMUEL, colonel, died in Pendle-
ton, S. C., in 1841, aged 80. He was a Revolu
tionary officer, and a legislator, a man of a high
character.
WARREN, DELIVERANCE, Mrs., died in Read-
field, N. Y., in Jan., 1843, aged 104 years and
8 months. She had been a member of the Bap
tist church more than 80 years.
WARREN, MARY, Mrs., died in 1851, aged
108.
WARREN, SILAS, a useful teacher, died in
Jackson, Me., Jan. 7, 1856, aged 88. Born in
Weston, he graduated in 1795, and from 1812
was ten years the minister of Jackson. The re
mainder of his life he spent on a farm and in
teaching. — Boston Adv., July 16, 1856.
WARREN, JOHN COLLINS, M. 1)., died in
Boston May 4, 1856, aged 77, the son of Dr. John
W., and a graduate of 1797. His mother was
the daughter of Gov. Collins of It. I. After
studying physic he spent several years in the
hospitals of London and Paris. He was the
eminent professor of anatomy and surgery at
Cambridge nearly forty years ; and president of
the Boston society of natural history, and a mem
ber of many learned societies. He and his friend
Dr. James Jackson originated the general hos
pital and McLean asylum. Six children survived
him, by his first wife, Susan, a daughter of Jona
than Mason ; his second wife, Anna, daugh
ter of T. L. Winthroj), died in 1850. The remains
of his uncle, Gen. Warren, he placed in a stone
urn, in whose skull was visible the hole made by
the fatal ball. He published a book on the fam
ily of the De Warrens, etc., at the expense of 4,000
or 5,000 dollars ; but unluckily, as Mr. Savage
remarked, he did not prove the connection with
the English family. He published a work on
the mastodon of this country and the geneal-
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ogy of Warren, 1854 ; and also contributed many
papers to the Mass. med. society. — Boston Adver
tiser, July 16, 1856.
WARBINGTON, LEWIS, a captain in the
navy, died at Washington in 1851, aged 68. He
was a native of Williamsburg, Va., educated at
William and Mary college ; and he entered the
navy in Jan., 1800, and was distinguished in the
war with Tripoli, and with England in 1812. lie
was amiable, and of a modesty which won esteem.
WASHBURX, SETH, colonel, died at Leicester,
Mass., in 1793, aged 70; one of the founders of
the academy. He fought at Bunker Hill. Among
his sons were, it is believed, Judges Ileuben of
Vermont and Ebenezer of Alabama, and Gov. E.
Washburn of Worcester.
WASHBURX, JOSEPH, minister of Farming-
ton, Conn., was graduated at Yale college in 1793,
and was ordained in 1795. His declining health
induced him in 1805 to seek a more southern
climate. While on his passage with his wife
from Norfolk to Charleston, he died Dec. 25, and
his body was deposited in the ocean. His suc
cessor was Noah Porter. He was one of the
editors of the Connecticut evang. magazine. A
volume of his sermons was published after his
death, in 12mo.
WASHINGTON, GEORGE, commander-in-chief
of the American army during the war with Great
Britain, and first president of the United States,
died at Mount Vernon, Va., Dec. 14, 1799, aged
67. He was the third son of Augustine Washing
ton, and was born at Bridges creek, in the county of
Westmoreland, Va., Feb. 22, 1732. His great
grandfather had emigrated to that place from
Sulgrave, Northamptonshire, the north of Eng
land, about the year 1657. At the age of ten
years he lost his father, and the patrimonial
estate descended to his elder brother, Lawrence
Washington, Avho in the year 1740 had been en-
engaged in the expedition against Carthagena.
In honor of the British admiral, who command
ed the fleet employed in that enterprise, the
estate was called Mount Vernon. At the age
of 15, agreeably to the wishes of his brother, as
well as to his own urgent request to enter into
the British navy, the place of midshipman in a
vessel of war, then stationed on the coast of Vir
ginia, was obtained for him. Every thing was in
readiness for his departure, when the fears of a
timid and affectionate mother prevailed upon
him to abandon his proposed career on the ocean,
and were the means of retaining him upon the land
to be the future vindicator of his country's rights.
This mother had not ceased, since the death of
her husband, to gather her little flock of chil
dren round her daily, and to read to them lessons
of wisdom, usually from Sir Matthew Hale's
contemplations, — the excellent maxims of which
sank into George's mind. This book of his
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mother he ever preserved with care. All the
advantages of education, which he enjoyed, were
derived from a private tutor, who instructed him
in English literature and the general principles
of science, as well as in morality and religion.
After his disappointment with regard to entering
the navy, he devoted much of his time to the
study of the mathematics ; and in the practice
of his profession as a surveyor, he had an oppor
tunity of acquiring that information respecting
the value of vacant lands, which afterwards greatly
contributed to the increase of his private for
tune. At the age of 19, when the militia of
Virginia were to be trained for actual service, he
was appointed adjutant-general with the rank of
major. It was for a very short time that he
discharged the duties of this office. In the year
1753 the plan formed by France, for connecting
Canada with Louisiana by a line of posts, and
thus of inclosing the British colonies, and of es
tablishing her influence over the numerous tribes
of Indians on the frontiers, began to be developed.
In the prosecution of this design possession had
been taken of a tract of land then believed to
be within the province of Virginia. Mr. Dinwid-
die, the lieutenant-governor, being determined to
remonstrate against the supposed encroachment
and violation of the treaties between the two .
countries, dispatched Major Washington through
the wilderness to the Ohio, to deliver a letter to
the commanding officer of the French, and also
to explore the country. This trust of danger
and fatigue he executed with great ability. He
left Williamsburg Oct. 31, 1753, — the very day on
which he received his commission, — and at the
frontier settlement of the English engaged guides
to conduct him over the Alleghany mountains.
After passing them, he pursued his route to the
Monongahela, examining the country with a mil
itary eye, and taking the most judicious means for
securing the friendship of the Indians. He se
lected the forks of the Monongahela and Alle
ghany rivers, as a position which ought to be
immediately possessed and fortified. At this
place the French very soon erected fort du Quesne,
which fell into the hands of the English in 1758
and was called by them fort Pitt. Pursuing his
way up the Alleghany to French creek, he found
at a fort upon this stream the commanding
officer, to whom he delivered the letter from Mr.
Dinwiddie. On his return he encountered great
difficulties and dangers. As the snow was deep
and the horses weak from fatigue, he left his at
tendants at the mouth of French creek, and set
out on foot, with his papers and provisions in his
pack, accompanied only by his pilot, Mr. Gist.
At a place upon the Alleghany, called the Mur
dering town, they fell in with a hostile Indian,
who was one of a party then lying in wait, and
who fired upon them not ten steps distant. They
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took him into custody and kept him until nine
o'clock, and then let him go. To avoid the pur
suit which they presumed would he commenced
in the morning, they travelled all night. On
reaching the Monongahela they had a hard clay's
work to make a raft with a hatchet. In attempt
ing to cross the river to reach a trader's house,
they were inclosed by masses of ice. In order to
stop the raft, Maj or Washington put down his set
ting pole ; hut the ice came with such force against
it as to jerk it into the water. lie saved himself
hy seizing one of the raft logs. With difficulty
they landed on an island, where they passed the
night. The cold was so severe that the pilot's
hands and feet were frozen. The next day they
crossed the river upon the ice. Washington
arrived at Williamsburg Jan. 16, 1754. His jour
nal, which evinces the solidity of his judgment
and his fortitude, was published.
As the French seemed disposed to remain
upon the Ohio, it was determined to raise a regi
ment of three hundred men to maintain the claims
of the British crown. The command was given
to Mr. Fry, and Major Washington, who was ap
pointed lieutenant-colonel, marched with two
companies early in April, 1754, in advance of the
other troops. A few miles west of the Great
Meadows he surprised a French encampment, in
a dark, rainy night, and only one man escaped.
Before the arrival of the two remaining companies
Mr. Fry died, and the command devolved on
Colonel Washington. Being joined by two other
companies of regular troops from South Carolina
and New York, after erecting a small stockade
at the Great Meadows, he proceeded towards
fort du Quesne, which had been built but a short
time, with the intention of dislodging the French.
He had marched only thirteen miles to the west
ernmost foot of the Laurel hill, before he received
information of the approach of the enemy with
superior numbers, and was induced to return to
his stockade. He began a ditch around it, and
called it fort Necessity ; but the next day, July
the 3d, he was attacked by 1500 men. His
own troops were about 400 in number. The ac
tion commenced at ten in the morning and lasted
until dark. A part of the Americans fought
within the fort and a part in the ditch filled with
mud and water. Colonel Washington was him
self on the outside of the fort during the whole
day. The enemy fought under cover of trees and
high grass. In the course of the night articles of
capitulation were agreed upon. The garrison
were allowed to retain their arms and baggage,
and to march unmolested to the inhabited parts
of Virginia. The loss of the Americans in killed
and wounded was supposed to be about 100, and
that of the enemy about 200. In a few months
afterwards orders were received for settling the
rank of the officers, and those who were commis-
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sioned by the king being directed to take rank of
the provincial officers, Col. Washington indig
nantly resigned his commission. He now re
tired to Mount Vernon, that estate by the death
of his brother having devolved upon him. But
in the spring of 1755 he accepted an invitation
from Gen. Braddock to enter his family as a vol
unteer aid-de-camp in his expedition to the Ohio.
He proceeded with him to Wills' creek, after
wards called fort Cumberland, in April. After
the troops had marched a few miles from this
place, he was seized with a raging fever; but, re
fusing to remain behind, he was conveyed in a
covered wagon. By his advice, twelve hundred
men were detatched in order by a rapid move
ment to reach fort du Quesne before an expected
reinforcement should be received at that place.
These disencumbered troops were commanded by
Braddock himself, and Col. Washington, though
still extremely ill, insisted upon proceeding with
them. After they arrived upon the Mononga
hela he advised the general to employ the rang
ing companies of Virginia to scour the woods and
to prevent ambuscades ; but his advice was not
followed. July 9, when the army was within
seven miles of fort du Quesne, the enemy com
menced a sudden and furious attack, being con
cealed by the wood and high grass. In a short
time Col. Washington was the only aid who was
unwounded, and on him devolved the whole duty
of carrying the orders of the commander-in-chief.
He was cool and fearless. Though he had two
horses killed under him, and four balls through
his coat, he escaped unhurt, while every other
officer on horseback was either killed or wounded.
Dr. Craik, the physician, who attended him in his
last sickness, was present in this battle, and says:
" I expected every moment to see him fall. Noth
ing but the superintending care of Providence
could have saved him from the fate of all around
him." After an action of three hours the troops
gave way in all directions, and Col. Washington
and two others brought off Braddock, who had
been mortally wounded. He attempted to rally
the retreating troops ; but, as he says himself, it
was like endeavoring " to stop the wild bears of
the mountains." The conduct of the regular
troops was most cowardly. The enemy were
few in number and had no expectation of victory.
In a sermon occasioned by this expedition, Sam
uel Davies of Hanover county thus prophetically
expressed himself: " As a remarkable instance of
patriotism, I may point out to the public that
heroic youth, Col. Washington, whom I cannot
but hope Providence has hitherto preserved in so
signal a manner for some important service to
his country." For this purpose he was indeed
preserved, and at the end of twenty years he
began to render to his country more important
services than the minister of Jesus could have
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anticipated. From 1755 to 1758 he commanded
a regiment which was raised for the protection of
the frontiers, and during this period he was inces
santly occupied in efforts to shield the exposed
settlements from the incursions of the savages.
His exertions were in a great degree ineffectual, in
consequence of the errors and the pride of gov
ernment, and of the impossibility of guarding
with a few troops an extended territory from an
enemy which was averse to open warfare. He in
the most earnest manner recommended offensive
measures as the only method of giving complete
protection to the scattered settlements. In the
year 1758, to his great joy, it was determined to
undertake another expedition against fort du
Quesne, and he engaged in it with zeal. Early
in July the troops were assembled at fort Cum
berland ; and here, against all the remonstrances
and arguments of Col. Washington, Gen. Forbes
resolved to open a new road to the Ohio instead
of taking the old route. Such was the predicted
delay, occasioned by this measure, that in Novem
ber it was resolved not to proceed further during
that campaign. But intelligence of the weakness
of the garrison induced an alteration of the plan
of passing the winter in the wilderness. By slow
marches the army was enabled, on the 25th of
Nov., to reach fort du Quesne, of which peacea
ble possession was taken, as the enemy on the
preceding night, after setting it on fire, had aban
doned it, and proceeded down the Ohio. The
works in this place were repaired, and its name
was changed to that of fort Pitt. The success of
the expedition was to be attributed to the British
fleet, which intercepted reinforcements destined
for Canada, and to events in the northern colo
nies. The great object which he had been anx
ious to effect being now accomplished, and his
health being enfeebled, Col. Washington resigned
his commission as commander-in-chief of all the
troops raised in Virginia.
Soon after his resignation he was married to
Martha, the widow of Mr. Custis, a young lady
to whom he had been for some time strongly
attached, and who to a large fortune and a fine
person added those amiable accomplishments
which fill with silent felicity the scenes of domes
tic life. His attention for several years was prin
cipally directed to the management of his estate,
which had now become considerable. He had
nine thousand acres under his own management.
So great a part was cultivated, that in one year
he raised seven thousand bushels of wheat and
ten thousand of Indian corn. His slaves and
other persons employed by him amounted to
near a thousand ; and the woollen and linen
cloth necessary for their use was chiefly manufac
tured on the estate. He was at this period a
member of the legislature of Virginia, in which
he took a decided part ia opposition to the prin-
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ciple of taxation asserted by the British parlia
ment. He also acted as a judge of a county
court. In 1774 he was elected a member of the
first congress, and was placed on all those com
mittees whose duty it was to make arrangements
for defence. In the following year, after the bat
tle of Lexington, when it was determined by
congress to resort to arms, Col. Washington was
unanimously elected commander-in-chief of the
army of the united colonies. All were satisfied
as to his qualifications, and the delegates from
New England were particularly pleased with his
election, as it would tend to unite the southern
colonies cordially in the war. He accepted the
appointment with diffidence, and expressed his
intention of receiving no compensation for his ser
vices, and only a mere discharge of his expenses.
He immediately repaired to Cambridge in the
neighborhood of Boston, where he arrived on the
2d of July. He formed the army into three
divisions, in order the most effectually to inclose
the enemy, intrusting the division at Iloxbury to
Gen. Ward, the division on Prospect and Winter
hills to Gen. Lee, and commanding himself the
centre at Cambridge. Here he had to struggle
with great difficulties, with the want of ammuni
tion, clothing, and magazines, defect of arms and
discipline, and the evils of short enlistments ; but
instead of yielding to despondence he bent the
whole force of his mind to overcome them. He
soon made the alarming discovery that there was
only sufficient powder on hand to furnish the army
with nine catridges for each man. With the
greatest caution to keep this fact a secret, the
utmost exertions were employed to procure a
supply. A vessel, which was dispatched to
Africa, obtained in exchange for New England
rum all the gunpowder in the British factories ;
and in the beginning of winter Capt. Manly cap
tured an ordnance brig, which furnished the
American army with the precise articles of which
"it was in the greatest want. In September, Gen.
Washington dispatched Arnold on an expedition
against Quebec. In February, 177G, he proposed
to a council of his officers to cross the ice and attack
the enemy in Boston, but they unanimously dis
approved of the daring measure. It was, how
ever, soon resolved to take possession of the
heights of Dorchester. This was done without
discovery on the night of the 4th of March,
and on the 17th the enemy found it necessary
to evacuate the town. The recovery of Boston
induced congress to pass a vote of thanks to
Gen. Washington and his brave army.
In the belief that the efforts of the British
would be directed towards the Hudson, he has
tened the army to New York, Avhere he himself
arrived April 14th. He made every exertion to
fortify the city, and attention was paid to the forts
in the highlands. While he met the most em-
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barrassing difficulties, a plan was formed to assist
the enemy in seizing his person, and some of his
own guards engaged in the conspiracy ; but it
was discovered, and some who were concerned in
it were executed. In the beginning of July,
Howe landed his troops at Staten Island. His
brother, Lord Howe, who commanded the fleet,
soon arrived ; and as both were commissioners
for restoring peace to the colonies, the latter
addressed a letter upon the subject to "George
Washington, Esquire ; " but the general refused
to receive it, as it did not acknowledge the public
character with which he was invested by con
gress, in which character only he could have any
intercourse with his lordship. Another letter
was sent to " George Washington, &c. &c. &c."
This for the same reason was rejected. After the
disastrous battle of Brooklyn on the 27th of
August, in which Stirling and Sullivan were taken
prisoners, and of which he was only a spectator,
he withdrew the troops from Long Island, and in
a few days he resolved to withdraw from New
York. At Kipp's bay, about three miles from the
city, some works had been thrown up to oppose
the enemy ; but on their approach the American
troops fled with precipitation. Washington rode
towards the lines, and made every exertion to pre
vent the disgraceful flight. He drew his sword,
and threatened to run the cowards through ; he
cocked and snapped his pistol, but it was all in
vain. Such was the state of his mind at the mo
ment, that he turned his horse towards the ad
vancing enemy, apparently with the intention of
rushing upon death. His aids now seized the
bridle of his horse and rescued him from destruc
tion. New York was on the same day, Sept. 15,
evacuated. In October he retreated to the White
Plains, where, Oct. 28, a considerable action took
place, in which the Americans were overpowered.
After the loss of forts Washington and Lee, he
passed into New Jersey in November, and was
pursued by a triumphant and numerous enemy.
His army did not amount to three thousand, and
it was daily diminishing ; his men, as the winter
commenced, were barefooted and almost naked,
destitute of tents, and of utensils with which to
dress their scanty provisions ; and every circum
stance tended to fill the mind with despondence.
But Gen. Washington was undismayed and firm.
He showed himself to his enfeebled army with a
serene and unembarrassed countenance, and they
were inspired with the resolution of their com
mander. Dec. 8, he was obliged to cross the
Delaware ; but he had the precaution to secure
the boats for seventy miles upon the river.
While the British were waiting for the ice to
afford them a passage, as his own army had been
leinforced by several thousand men, he formed
the resolution of carrying the cantonments of
the enemy by surprise. On the night of Dec.
25 he crossed the river nine miles above Trenton,
in a storm of snow mingled with hail and rain,
with about two thousand four hundred men.
Two other detachments were unable to effect a
passage. In the morning, precisely at eight
o'clock, he surprised Trenton, and took one
thousand Hessians prisoners, one thousand stand
of arms, and six field pieces. Twenty of the
enemy were killed. Of the Americans, two pri
vates were killed and two frozen to death ; and
one officer and three or four privates were
wounded. On the same day he recrossed the
Delaware with the fruits of his enterprise ; but in
two or three days passed again into New Jersey,
and concentrated his forces, amounting to five
thousand, at Trenton. On the approach of a
superior enemy under Cornwallis, Jan. 2, 1777, he
drew up his men behind Assumpinck creek. He
expected an attack in the morning, which would
probably result in a ruinous defeat. At this mo
ment, when it was hazardous if not impracticable
to return into Pennsylvania, he formed the reso
lution of getting into the rear of the enemy, and
thus to stop them in their progress towards Phil
adelphia. In the night he silently decamped,
taking a circuitous route through Allenstown
to Princeton. A sudden change of the weather
to severe cold rendered the roads favorable for
his march. About sunrise his van met a British
detachment on its way to join Cornwallis, and
was defeated by it ; but as he came up he exposed
himself to every danger and gained a victory.
With three hundred prisoners he then entered
Princeton. During this march many of his sol
diers were without shoes, and their feet left the
marks of blood upon the frozen ground. This
hardship and their want of repose induced him
to lead his army to a place of security on the road
to MorristOWQ. Cornwallis in the morning broke
up his camp, and, alarmed for his stores in Bruns
wick, urged the pursuit. Thus the military
genius of the American commander, under the
blessing of Divine Providence, rescued Philadel
phia from the threatened danger, obliged the
enemy, which had overspread New Jersey,, to
return to the neighborhood of New York, and
revived the desponding spirits of his country.
Having accomplished these objects, he retired to
Morristown, where he caused his whole army to
be inoculated with the small pox, and thus was
freed from the apprehension of a calamity which
might impede his operations during the next cam
paign.
On the last of May he removed his army to
Middlebrook, about ten miles from Brunswick,
where he fortified himself very strongly. An inef
fectual attempt was made by Sir William Howe to
draw him from his position, by marching towards
Philadelphia; but, after Howe's return to New
York, he moved towards the Hudson, in order to
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defend the passes in the mountains, in the ex
pectation that a junction with Burgoyne, who
was then upon the lakes, would be attempted.
After the British general sailed from New York
and entered the Chesapeake, in August, Gen.
"Washington marched immediately for the defence
of Philadelphia. Sept. 11, he was defeated at
Brandywine, with the loss of nine hundred, in
killed and wounded. A few days afterward, as
he was pursued, he turned upon the enemy, de
termined upon another engagement ; hut a heavy
rain so damaged the arms and ammunition that
he was under the absolute necessity of again re
treating. Philadelphia was entered by Cornwal-
lis Sept. 26. Oct. 4, the American commander
made a well-planned attack upon the British
camp at Germantown ; but, in consequence of
the darkness of the morning, and the imperfect
discipline of his troops, it terminated in the loss
of twelve hundred men, in killed, wounded, and
prisoners. In Dec. he went into winter quarters
at Valley Forge, on the west side of the Schuyl-
kill, between twenty and thirty miles from Phila
delphia. Here his army was in the greatest dis
tress for the want of provisions, and he was
reduced to the necessity of sending out parties to
seize what they could find. About the same time
a combination, in which some members of con
gress were engaged, was formed to remove the
commander-in-chicf and to appoint in his place
Gates, whose recent successes had given him a
high reputation. But the name of Washington
was too dear to the great body of Americans to
admit of such a change. Notwithstanding the
discordant materials of which his army was com
posed, there was something in his character
which enabled him to attach both his officers and
soldiers so strongly to him that no distress could
weaken their affection or impair the veneration
in which he was generally held. Without this
attachment to him the army must have been dis
solved. Gen. Conway, who was concerned in
this faction, beiir* wounded in a duel with Gen.
Cadwallader, and thinking his wound mortal,
wrote to Gen. Washington, " You are in my eyes
the great and good man." Feb. 1, 1778, there
were about four thousand men in camp unfit for
duty, for the want of clothes. Of these scarcely a
man had a pair of shoes. The hospitals were
also filled with the sick. At this time the enemy,
if they had marched out of winter quarters, could
easily have dispersed the American army. The
apprehension of the approach of a French fleet
inducing the British to concentrate their forces,
when they evacuated Philadelphia, June 17, and
marched towards New York, Gen. Washington
followed them. Contrary to the advice of a
council he engaged in the battle of Monmouth
June 28, the result of which made an impression
favorable to the cause of America. He slept in
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lis cloak on the field of battle, intending to renew
the attack the next morning, but at midnight
the British marched off in such silence as not to
be discovered. Their loss in killed was about
three hundred, and that of the Americans sixty-
nine. As the campaign now closed in the mid
dle States, the American army went into winter
quarters in the neighborhood of the highlands
upon the Hudson. Thus, after the vicissitudes of
two years, both armies were brought back to the
point from which they set out. During the year
1779, Gen. Washington remained in the neigh
borhood of New York. In Jan., 1780, in a win
ter memorable for its severity, his utmost exer
tions were necessary to save the army from
dissolution. The soldiers in general submitted
with heroic patience to the want of provisions and
clothes. At one time they ate every kind of
horse food but hay. Their sufferings at length
were so great, that in March two of the Connect
icut regiments mutinied, but the mutiny was
suppressed and the ringleaders secured. In Sept.
the treachery of Arnold was detected. In the
winter of 1781, such were again the privations of
the army that a part of the Pennsylvania line re
volted and marched home. Such, however, was
still their patriotism that they delivered up some
British emissaries to Gen. Wayne, who hanged
them as spies. Committing the defence of tne
posts on the Hudson to Gen. Heath, Gen. Wash-
ton, in August, marched with Count Itochambeaux
for the Chesapeake, to cooperate with the French
fleet there. The siege of Yorktown commenced
Sept. 28, and Oct. 19 he reduced Cornwallis to
the necessity of surrendering, with upwards of
seven thousand men, to the combined armies of
America and France. The day after the capitu
lation, he ordered that those who were under ar
rest should be pardoned, and that divine service,
in acknowledgment of the interposition of Provi
dence, should be performed in all the brigades
and divisions. This event filled America with
joy, and was the means of terminating the war.
Few events of importance occurred in 1782.
In March, 1783, he exhibited his characteristic
firmness and decision in opposing an attempt to
produce a mutiny by anonymous letters. His
address to his officers on the occasion displays in
a remarkable degree his prudence and the cor
rectness of his judgment. When he began to
read it he found himself in some degree embar
rassed by the imperfection of his sight. Taking
out his spectacles he said, " These eyes, my
friends, have grown dim, and these locks white,
in the service of my country ; yet I have never
doubted her justice." He only could have re
pressed the spirit which was breaking forth.
April 19, a cessation of hostilities Avas proclaimed
in the American camp. In June he addressed a
letter to the governors of the several States, con-
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gratulating them on the result of the contest in
the establishment of independence, and recom
mending an indissoluble union of the States
under one federal head, a sacred regard to public
justice, the adoption ef a proper peace establish
ment, and the prevalence of a friendly disposi
tion among the people of the several States. It
was with keen distress, as well as with pride and
admiration, that he saw his brave and veteran
soldiers, who had suffered so much, and who had
borne the heat and burden of the war, returning
peaceably to their homes without a settlement of
their accounts or a farthing of money in their
pockets. Nov. 25, New York was evacuated,
and he entered it, accompanied by Gov. Clinton
and many respectable citizens. Dec. 4, he took
his farewell of his brave comrades in arms. At
noon the principal officers of the army assembled
at Francis' tavern, and their beloved commander
soon entered the room. His emotions were too
strong to be concealed. Filling a glass with wine,
he turned to them and said : " With a heart full
of love and gratitude, I now take leave of you ;
I most devoutly wish that your latter days may
be as prosperous and happy as your former ones
have been glorious and honorable." Having
drunk, he added : " I cannot come to each of
you to take my leave, but shall be obliged to you
if each of you will come and take me by the
hand." Gen. Knox, being nearest, turned to
him. Incapable of utterance, Gen. Washington
grasped his hand and embraced him. In the
same affectionate manner he took leave of each
officer. In every eye was the tear of dignified
sensibility, and not a word was articulated to in
terrupt the silence and the tenderness of the
scene. Ye men who delight in blood, slaves of
ambition! AVhen your work of carnage was fin
ished, could ye thus part with your companions
in crime ? Leaving the room, Gen. Washington
passed through the corps of light infantry, and
walked to Whitehall, where a barge waited to
carry him to Powles' Hook. The whole company
followed in mute procession with dejected coun
tenances. When he entered the barge, he turned
to them, and, waving his hat, bade them a silent
adieu, receiving from them the same last affec
tionate compliment. On the 23d of Dec. he re
signed his commission to congress, then assem
bled at Annapolis. He delivered a short address
on the occasion, in which he said : " I consid
ered it an indispensable duty to close this last
solemn act of my official life by commending
the interests of our dearest country to the pro
tection of Almighty God, and those who have the
superintendence of them to his holy keeping."
He then retired to Mount Vernon to enjoy again
the pleasures of domestic life. Here the expres
sions of the gratitude of his countrymen, in affec
tionate addresses, poured in upon him, and he
received every testimony of respect and vener
ation.
In his retirement, however, he could not over
look the public interests. He was desirous of
opening by water carriage a communication be
tween the Atlantic and the western portions of
our country, in order to prevent the diversion of
trade down the Mississippi, and to Canada, from
which he predicted consequences injurious to the
union. Through his influence two companies
were formed for promoting inland navigation.
The legislature of Virginia presented him with
one hundred and fifty shares in them, which he
appropriated to public uses. In the year 1786
he was convinced, with other statesmen, of the
necessity of substituting a more vigorous general
government, in the place of the impotent articles
of confederation. Still he was aware of the dan
ger of running from one extreme to another.
He exclaims, in a letter to Mr. Jay : " What as
tonishing changes a few years are capable of pro
ducing! I am told that even respectable char
acters speak of a monarchical form of government
without horror. From thinking proceeds speak
ing ; thence to acting is often but a single step.
But how irrevocable and tremendous ! AVbat a
triumph for our enemies to verify their predic
tions ! What a triumph for the advocates of des
potism to find that we are incapable of governing
ourselves, and that systems, founded on the basis
of equal liberty, are merely ideal and fallacious !"
In the following year he was persuaded to take a
seat in the convention which formed the present
constitution of the United States, and he pre
sided in that body. In 1789 he was unanimously
elected the first president of the United States.
It was with great reluctance that he accepted
this office. His feelings, as he said himself, were
like those of a culprit going to the place of ex
ecution. But the voice of a whole continent, the
pressing recommendation of his particular friends,
and the apprehension that he should otherwise
be considered as unwilling to hazard his reputa
tion in executing a system which he had assisted
in forming, determined him to accept the ap
pointment. In April he left Mount Vernon to
proceed to New York, and to enter on the duties
of his high office. He everywhere received tes
timonies of respect and love. At Trenton the
gentler sex rewarded him for his successful enter
prise, and the protection which he afforded them,
twelve years before. On the bridge over the
creek which passes through the town, was
erected a triumphal arch, ornamented with laurels
and flowers and supported by thirteen pillars,
each encircled with wreaths of evergreen. On the
front of the arch was inscribed in large gilt letters :
"THE DEFEJfDER OF THE MOTHERS
WILL BE THE
PROTECTOR OF THE DAUGHTERS."
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At this place he was met by a party of matrons,
leading their daughters, who were "dressed in
white, and who with baskets in their hands sung
with exquisite sweetness the following ode, writ
ten for the occasion :
" Welcome, mighty chief, once more
Welcome to this grateful shore.
Now no mercenary foe
Aims again the fatal blow,
Aims at THEE the fatal blow,
Virgins fair and matrons grave,
Those thy conquering arms did save,
Build for thee triumphal bowers;
Strew, ye fair, his way with flowers,
Strew your HERO'S way with flowers."
At the last line the flowers were strewed be
fore him. After receiving such proofs of affec
tionate attachment he arrived at New York, and
was inaugurated first president of the United
States, April 30. In making the necessary ar
rangements of his household, he publicly an
nounced that neither visits of business nor of
ceremony would be expected on Sunday, as he
wished to reserve that day sacredly to himself.
In Oct. and Nov., 1789, he visited New England.
At the close of his first term of four years, he
prepared a valedictory address to the American
people, anxious to return again to the scenes of
domestic life ; but the earnest entreaties of his
friends and the peculiar situation of his country
induced him to be a candidate for a second elec
tion. During his administration of eight years
the labor of establishing the different departments
of a new government was accomplished ; and he
exhibited the greatest firmness, wisdom, and inde
pendence. He was an American, and he chose
not to involve his country in the contests of Eu
rope. He accordingly, with the unanimous advice
of his cabinet, Messrs. Jefferson, Hamilton,
Knox, and Kandolph, issued a proclamation of
neutrality April 22, 1793, a few days after he
heard of the commencement of the war between
England and France. This measure contributed
in a great degree to the prosperity of America:
Its adoption was the more honorable to the pres
ident, as the general sympathy was in favor of the
sister republic, against whom it was said Great
Britain had commenced the war for the sole pur
pose of imposing upon her a monarchical form
of government. He preferred the peace and wel
fare of his country to the breath of popular ap
plause. Another act, in which he proved himsell
to be less regardful of the public partialities and
prejudices than of what he conceived to be the
public good, was the ratification of the British
treaty. The English government had neglected
to surrender the western posts, and by commer
cial restrictions and in other ways had evinced a
hostile spirit towards this country. To avert the
calamity of another war, Mr. Jay was nominated
as envoy extraordinary in April, 1794. In June,
1795, the treaty which Mr. Jay had made was
submitted to the senate, and was ratified by that
:)ody on the condition that one article should be
altered. While the president was deliberating
upon it, an incorrect copy of the instrument was
made public by a senator, and the whole country
was thrown into a state of extreme irritation.
At this period he, in August, conditionally rati-
ied it, and in Feb., 1796, when it was returned
from his Britannic Majesty with the proposed al
teration, he declared it to be the law of the land.
After this transaction, the house of representa
tives requested him to lay before them the papers
relating to the treaty, but he with great inde
pendence refused to comply with their request, as
they could have no claim to an inspection of them
except upon a vote of impeachment, and as a
compliance would establish a dangerous prece
dent. He had before this shown a disposition to
maintain the authority vested in his office, by de
clining to affix his signature to a bill which had
passed both houses.
As the period for a new election of a president
of the United States approached, and after plain
indications that the public voice would be in his
favor, and when he probably would be chosen for
the third time unanimously, he determined irre
vocably to withdraw to the shades of private life.
He published in Sept., 1796, his farewell address
to the people of the United States, which ought
to be engraved upon the hearts of his country
men. In the most earnest and affectionate man
ner he called upon them to cherish an immova
ble attachment to the national union, to watch
for its preservation with jealous anxiety, to dis
countenance even the suggestion that it could in
any event be abandoned, and indignantly to frown
upon the first dawning of every attempt to alien
ate any portion of our country from the rest.
Overgrown military establishments he represent
ed as particularly hostile to republican liberty.
While he recommended the most implicit obe
dience to the acts of the established government,
and reprobated all obstructions to the execution
of the laws, all combinations and associations,
under whatever plausible character, with the
real design to direct, control, counteract, or awe
the regular deliberations and action of the con
stituted authorities, he wished also to guard
against the spirit of innovation upon the principles
of the constitution. Aware that the energy of
the system might be enfeebled by alterations, he
thought that no change should be made without
an evident necessity, and that in so extensive a
country as much vigor as is consistent with liberty
is indispensable. On the other hand he pointed
out the danger of a real despotism, — by break
ing down the partitions between the several de
partments of government, by destroying the
reciprocal checks, and consolidating the different
powers. Against the spirit of party, so peculiarly
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baneful in an elective government he uttered
his most solemn remonstrances, as well as against
inveterate antipathies and passionate attachments
in respect to foreign nations. While he thought
that the jealousy of a free people ought to be
constantly and impartially awake against the in
sidious wiles of foreign influence, he wished that
good faith should be observed towards all nations,
and peace and harmony cultivated. In his opin
ion, honesty, no less in public than in private affairs,
is always the best policy. Providence, he believed,
had connected the permanent felicity of a nation
with its virtue. Other subjects, to which he
alluded, were the importance of credit, of econ
omy, of a reduction of the public debt, and of
literary institutions ; above all he recommended
religion and morality as indispensably necessary
to political prosperity. " In vain," says he, " would
that man claim the tribute of patriotism, who
should labor to subvert these great pillars of
human happiness, these firmest props of the duties
of men and of citizens." Bequeathing these
counsels to his countrymen, he continued in office
till the fourth of March, 1797, when he attended
the inauguration of his successor, Mr. Adams, and
witli complacency saw him invested with powers
which had for so long a time been exercised by
himself. He then retired to Mount Vernon, giv
ing to the world an example most humiliating to
its emperors and kings, — the example of a man
voluntarily disrobing himself of the highest au
thority, and returning to private life, with a char
acter having upon it no stain of ambition, of
covetousness, of profusion, of luxury, of oppres
sion, or of injustice.
It was now that the soldier, the statesman,
and the patriot hoped to repose himself, after the
toils of so many years. But he had not been
long in retirement before the outrages of repub
lican France induced our government to raise an
army, of which, in July, 1798, he was appointed
commander-in-chief. Though he accepted the ap
pointment, his services were not demanded, and he
himself did not believe that an invasion would be
made. Pacific overtures were soon made by the
French directory, but he did not live to see the
restoration of peace. On Friday, Dec. 13, 1799,
while attending to some improvements upon his
estate, he was exposed to a light rain which wetted
his neck and hair. Unapprehensive of danger, he
passed the afternoon in his usual manner ; but
at night he was seized with an inflammatory
affection of the wind-pipe. The disease com
menced with a violent ague, accompanied with
some pain and a sense of stricture in the throat, a
cough and difficult deglutition, which were soon
succeeded by fever and a quick and laborious
respiration. About twelve or fourteen ounces of
blood were taken from him. In the morning his
family physician, Doctor Craik, was sent for; but
the utmost exertions of medical skill were applied
in vain. The appointed time of his death Mas
Believing from the commencement of his
complaint that it would be mortal, a few hours
before his departure, after repeated efforts to be
understood, he succeeded in expressing a desire
that he might be permitted to die without being
disquieted by unavailing attempts to rescue him
from his fate. After it became impossible to get
any thing down his throat, he undressed himself
and went to bed, there to die. To his friend and
physician, who sat on his bed, and took his head
in his lap, he said with difficulty, " Doctor, I am
dying, and have been dying for a long time ; but
I am not afraid to die." Respiration became
more and more contracted till half-past eleven
on Saturday night, when, retaining the full pos
session of his intellect, he expired without a
struggle. Thus Dec. 14, 1799, in the 68th year
of his age, died the father of our country, " the
man first in war, first in peace, and first in
the hearts of his fellow-citizens." This event
spread a gloom over the country, and the tears
of America proclaimed the services and virtues
of its hero and sage, and exhibited a people not
insensible to his worth. The senate of the United
States, in an address to the president on this melan
choly occasion, indulged their patriotic pride,
while they did not transgress the bounds of truth,
in speaking of their WASHINGTON. " Ancient
and modern names," said they, " are diminished
before him. Greatness and guilt have too often
been allied ; but his fame is whiter than it is
brilliant. The destroyers of nations stood abashed
at the majesty of his virtues. It reproved the
intemperance of their ambition, and darkened
the splendor of victory. The scene is closed,
and we are no longer anxious lest misfortune
should sully his glory; he has travelled on to the
end of his journey, and carried with him an increas
ing weight of honor ; he has deposited it safely
where misfortune cannot tarnish it, where malice
cannot blast it." Mary, his mother, died at Fred-
ericksburg Aug. 25, 1789, aged 82. She lived
about four months after the inauguration of her
son as president of the United States. Martha, his
widow, died May 22, 1802; in her sickness the
Lord's supper was administered to her.
Gen. Washington was rather above the com
mon stature ; his frame was robust and his consti
tution vigorous. His exterior created in the be
holder the idea of strength united with manly
gracefulness. His eyes were of a gray color, and
his complexion light. His manners were rather
reserved than free. His person and whole deport
ment exhibited an unaffected and indescribable
dignity, unmingled with haughtiness, of which
all who approached him were sensible. The
attachment of those who possessed his friend
ship was ardent, but always respectful. His
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temper was humane, benevolent, and conciliatory ;
but there was a quickness in his sensibility to any
thing offensive, which experience had taught him
to watch and correct. He made no pretensions
to vivacity or wit. Judgment rather than genius
constituted the most prominent feature of his
character. As a military man he was brave,
enterprising, and cautious. At the head of a
multitude, whom it was sometimes impossible to
reduce to proper discipline before the expiration
of their time of service, and having to struggle
almost continually with the want of supplies, he
yet was able to contend with an adversary
superior in numbers, well disciplined, and com
pletely equipped, and was the means of saving
his country. The measure of his caution has by
some been represented as too abundant ; but he
sometimes formed a plan, which his brave offi
cers thought was too adventurous, and sometimes
contrary to their advice he engaged in battle.
If his name is not rendered illustrious by splendid
achievements, it is not to be attributed to the
want of military enterprise.
He conducted the war with that consummate
prudence and wisdom which the situation of his
country and the state of his army demanded.
He also possessed a firmness of resolution, which
neither dangers nor difficulties could shake. In
his civil administration he exhibited repeated
proofs of that practical good sense, of that sound
judgment, which is a most valuable quality of the
human mind. More than once he put his whole
popularity to hazard in pursuing measures which
were dictated by a sense of duty, and Avhich he
thought would promote the welfare of his coun
try. In speculation he was a real republican,
sincerely attached to the constitution of the United
States, and to that system of equal political rights
on which it is founded. Heal liberty, he thought,
was to be preserved only by preserving the au
thority of the laws, and maintaining the energy
of government. Of incorruptible integrity, his-
ends were always upright, and the means which
he employed were always pure. He was a poli
tician to whom wiles were absolutely unknown.
When any measure of importance was proposed,
he sought information and was ready to hear
without prejudice whatever could be said in re
lation to the subject ; he suspended his judg
ment till it was necessary to decide ; but after
his decision had been thus deliberately made, it
was seldom shaken, and he was as active and per
severing in executing, as he had been cool in
forming "il. He possessed an innate and unas
suming modesty, which adulation would have
offended, which the plaudits of millions could not
betray into indiscretion, and which was blended
with a high sense of personal dignity, and a just
consciousness of the respect which is due to
station. lie dined at four o'clock. Sometimes
members of congress were late. He said to them :
" Gentlemen, we are punctual here. My cook
never asks whether the company has arrived, but
whether the hour has." In 1789 an escort to
Salem was to attend him at Boston at eight ; but
the escort did not overtake him until he reached
Charles river. He said, " Major, I thought
you had been too long in my family not to know
when it was eight o'clock."
With regard to the religious character of
General Washington there have been different
opinions. In the extracts from some of his pri
vate letters, which have been published by the
historian of his life, the name of the Supreme
Being is once or twice introduced in a manner
which in common conversation is deemed irrever
ent. It is also understood that in a few instances
during the war, particularly when he met Gen.
Lee retreating in the battle of Monmouth, his
language was unguarded in this respect. It may
not be impossible that a good man in a moment
of extreme irritation should utter a profane ex
pression ; but perhaps it is less possible that such
a man, when his passion has passed away and
his sober recollections have returned, should not
repent bitterly of his irreverence to the name of
God. On the other hand, General Washington,
when at the head of the army, issued public or
ders, calling upon his officers to discountenance
the habit of profanity ; he speaks in his writings
of " the pure and benign light of revelation," and
of the necessity of imitating " the charity, hu
mility, and pacific temper of mind which were the
characteristics of the Divine author of our blessed
religion ; " he gratefully acknowledged the inter
positions of Providence in favor of this country ;
his life was upright and virtuous ; he principally
supported an Episcopal church in the neighbor
hood of Mount Vernon, where he constantly at
tended public worship ; during the Avar he not
unfrequently rode ten or twelve miles from camp
for the benefit of the institutions of religion ; and
it is believed that he every day had his hour of
retirement from the world for the purpose of
private devotion. In a letter to Dr. Ilodgers,
June 11, 1783, he said: "Glorious indeed has
been our contest, if we consider the prize for
which we have contended, and glorious its issue.
But in the midst of our joys I hope we shall not
forget that to Divine Providence is to be ascribed
the glory and the praise."
General Washington was blessed with abun
dant wealth, and he was not ignorant of the
pleasure of employing it for generous purposes.
His style of living was dignified, though he main
tained the strictest economy. While he was in
the army he wrote to the superintendent of his
estate in the following terms : " Let the hospi
tality of the house be kept up with regard to the
poor. Let no one go hungry away. If any of
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this sort of people should be in want of corn,
supply their necessities, provided it does not en
courage them in idleness. I have no objection
to your giving my money in charity, when you
think it is well bestowed ; I mean, that it is my
desire that it should be done. You are to con
sider that neither myself nor my wife are in the
way to do these good offices." Thus was he be
neficent, while at the same time he required an
exact compliance with engagements. A pleasing
proof of the generous spirit which governed him
is exhibited in his conduct towards the son of his
friend, the Marquis de Lafayette. The mar
quis, after fighting in this country for American
liberty, had returned to France ; but in the con
vulsions of the French Revolution he was exiled
and imprisoned in Germany. General Washing
ton gave evidence of sincere attachment to the
unhappy nobleman, not only by exerting all his
influence to procure his release from confinement,
but by extending his patronage to his son, who
made his escape from France, and arrived with
his tutor at Boston in 1795. As soon as he was
informed of his arrival, he wrote to a friend, re
questing him to visit the young gentleman and
make him acquainted with the relations between
this country and France, which would prevent
the president of the United States from publicly
espousing his interest, but to assure him of his
protection and support. He also directed this
friend to draw upon him for moneys to defray
all the expenses, which young Lafayette might
incur. Towards his slaves General Washington
manifested the greatest care and kindness. .Their
servitude lay with weight upon his mind, and he
directed in his will that they should be emanci
pated on the decease of his wife. There were
insuperable difficulties in the way of their receiv
ing freedom previously to this event. On the
death of Mrs. Washington in 1802, his estate, as
he had no children, was divided according to his
will among his and her relations. It amounted
by his own estimate to more than 500,000 dollars.
The public addresses and other productions
of General Washington's pen are written in a
style of dignified simplicity. Some have seen so
much excellence in his writings, that they have
been ready to transfer the honor to his secreta
ries ; but nothing has appeared under his name
to which his own powers were inadequate. A
volume of epistles, confidential and domestic,
attributed to him, was published in 1777, and
republished about the year 1796. Of these Gen
eral Washington, in a letter to the secretary of
State in 1797, declared the following to be forge
ries ; a letter to Lund Washington, dated June
12, 1776; a letter to John Parke Custis, dated
June 18, 1776 ; letters to Lund Washington,
dated July 8, July 16, July 15, and July 22, 1776;
and a letter to Mrs. Washington, dated June 24,
1776. His official letters to the American con
gress, written during the war, were published in
two volumes, 8vo., 1795. Since his death his
letters to Arthur Young and Sir John Sinclair, on
agriculture and the rural economy of the United
States, have been published. — Marshall's Life
of Washington ; Jiis Life by Ramsay, and San-
croft, and Irving.
WASHINGTON, MARTHA, the widow of
George W., died May 22, 1802, aged 70. She
was the daughter of Mr. Dandridge of the county
of New Kent in Virginia, and was born in May,
1732. Her first husband was Col. Daniel P.
Custis, who lived on thePamunkey river, a branch
of York river. Of the children by this marriage
Martha died in womanhood at Mount Vernon in
1770, and John Custis in 1781, at the siege of
Yorktown, aged 27, leaving several children.
She married Washington in 1759. During the
Avar she was accustomed to spend the winters at
head-quarters. The remains of husband and wife
rest in the same vault. She was amiable and
dignified, and adorned with the Christian virtues,
and cheered with the Christian hope as she went
down to the grave.
WASHINGTON, WILLIAM, colonel, a soldier
of the Revolution, a relative of George Wash
ington, died in South Carolina in 1810. He was
born in Stafford county, Va. He served as a
captain under Mercer ; he fought at the battle
on Long Island, and distinguished himself in
that of Trenton, in which he was wounded. He
was afterwards major and lieutenant-colonel. At
the battle of the Cowpens he commanded the
cavalry, and contributed much to the victory.
For his good conduct he received a sword from
congress. In the battle of Eutaw Springs he
was wounded and taken prisoner. After the war
he resided at Sandy Hill, S. C., the family seat
of his wife, Jane Elliott. In 1798 George Wash
ington selected him _as one of his staff, with the
rank of brigadier-general. His son, William,
died at Charleston in March, 1830, aged 45.
WASHINGTON, THOMAS, brigadier-general,
a brave and skilful officer in the Revolutionary
war, died in Rutherford county, Tcnn., in 1818,
aged 55.
WASHINGTON, LAWRENCE AUGUSTINE, died
at Wheeling, Va., in 1824, aged 49; a nephew
and one of the heirs of George Washington.
WASHINGTON, BUSIIROD, judge, died at
Philadelphia Nov. 26, 1829, aged 70. The first
president of the American colonization society,
the nephew of George Washington and heir of
his books and papers, he was born in 1759, and
studied law with James Wilson. At the siege of
York he was a private soldier under Mercer. In
1797, he was appointed by Mr. Adams a judge
of the supreme court of the United States, an
office, which he retained till his death. At the
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first annual meeting of the colonization society
he delivered an address, which expresses his de
vout confidence in the blessing of God upon the
institution. His widow, the daughter of Mr.
Blackburne, died in a few days after him. His
nephew, John Augustine W. (the son of Corbin
W.), to whom he bequeathed the mansion at
Mount Vernon, died June 14, 1832, aged 43.
He was a man of integrity and simplicity of man
ners, devoted to the performance of his duties, a
patriot, and a Christian. He published reports
in the court of appeals of Virginia, 2 vols.,
1798-9.
WASHINGTON, BAILEY, Dr., died in Wash
ington Aug. 4, 1854, aged 67. He was born in
Va., and was a relative of George Washington.
He entered the navy as a surgeon in 1810. He
was surgeon of the Enterprise when she cap
tured the Boxer. He was fleet-surgeon under
llogers, Elliott, and Paterson in the Mediter
ranean.
WATERHOUSE, JOHN FOTHERGILL, M. D.,
died at Charleston, S. C., in 1817, aged 26. The
son of Dr. W., he graduated at Harvard in 1811.
He Avas a physician, a naturalist, and an orator.
WATERHOUSE, BENJAMIN, M. D., died at
Cambridge, Oct. 2, 1846, aged 92. Born in
Newport, he was sent to London in 1775, and
placed under the care of his relative, Dr. Foth-
ergill. His studies were continued at Edinburgh,
and at Leyden, where he graduated. After an
excellent medical education, he returned and was
chosen a professor at Cambridge, where he passed
the remainder of a long life. In his politics he
was a follower of Mr. Jefferson. A particular
memoir of him is in the Polyanthos, vol. II. He
published the botanist, in twelve numbers, in the
Anthology ; a work aiming to prove that the
Earl of Chatham was Junius ; a lecture against the
use of tobacco ; a treatise on the small pox, kine
pox, etc. ; a discourse on the history of medicine,
and other medical treatises.
WATERMAN, SIMON, first minister of Welles,
Conn., died in 1813, aged about 74. He gradu
ated at Yale in 1759, and was pastor from 1761
to 1780 of the second society in Wallingford.
Of Plymouth, Conn., he was minister from 1790
to 1810. The previous and subsequent minis
ters there were A. Storrs and L. Hart.
WATERMAN, ELIJAH, minister of Bridgeport,
Conn., was graduated at Yale college in 1791 ;
ordained at Windham in 1794; installed at
Bridgeport in 1806 ; and died at Springfield Oct.
11, 1825, aged 56. He published the noble con
vert, a sermon, at the request of Pierpont Ed
wards, 1809; an oration, 1794; a century sermon,
1800 ; at execution of C. Adams, 1803 ; on death
of N. Strong, 1807 ; of A. Hawley ; of D. Ely ;
of F. Lockwood ; catechism of Geneva; life of
Calvin, 8vo., 1813. — Sprague's Annals.
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WATERMAN, WILLIAM, a soldier of the Rev
olution, died in Royalton, Vt., in 1845, aged 87.
He was wounded through the thigh at White
Plains, and was a prisoner in a ship oif New
York, from which he escaped by swimming to
Long Island.
WATERS, NICHOLAS B., M. D., died in Phil
adelphia in 1796, aged 32. His medical degree
he received in 1788. His wife was Hester, the
daughter of David Rittenhouse. He published
an abridgment of Benjamin Bell's system of sur
gery, in a large volume, 1791. — Thatcher's Med.
Biog.
WATERS, ISRAEL, captain, a benefactor of
Leicester Academy, died about 1823, at Charlton.
His important legacy to the academy amounted
to about 8,000 dollars. He was a manufacturer
of leather. — Washburn's Sketch of Leicester
Academy.
WATERS, CORNELIUS, minister of GofTstown,
N. H., from 1781 to 1795, died in 1824, aged 76.
Born at Millbury, Mass., he graduated at Dart
mouth in 1774. He was succeeded at G. by Gov.
Morrill. Next he was pastor at Ashby, Mass.,
from 1797 to 1816.
W ATKINS, TOBIAS, doctor, died at Washing
ton Nov. 14, 1855, aged 75; many years United
States auditor of accounts. He was an able con
tributor to several journals and magazines.
WATKINS, JOHN L., M. D., died at Cleves,
O., Dec. 12, 1855, aged 75 ; born in New Jersey,
and a graduate of Princeton in 1814.
WATROUS, JOHN, colonel, died at Colchester,
Conn., in Jan., 1817, aged 91.
WATROUS, JOHN R., M. D., an eminent phy
sician and surgeon, died at Colchester, Conn., in
1843, aged 91. He was a surgeon in the army
of the Revolution, the companion of Dr. Hall of
East Hartford. He was a member of the gen
eral assembly of Connecticut in 1795.
WATSON, JOHN, died at Plymouth, Mass., in
1826, aged 78. He graduated at Harvard in
1766, and was president of the pilgrim society.
He was proprietor of Clark's Island, and lived
there about forty years, pleased with its antiqua
rian associations. He left sons and daughters.
WATSON, ELKANAH, died at Port Kent, N. Y.,
Dec. 12, 1842, aged 84. Born in Plymouth in
1758, lie in early life travelled in Europe. He
lived many years in Pittsfield, Mass., and re
moved to Albany in 1815, to Port Kent on Lake
Champlain in 1825. He wrote much on agricul
ture and internal improvements. In London he
published on account of his early journey in the
wilderness of New York. He published history
of the canals, 1820. His memoirs, entitled men
and times of the Revolution, were published by
his son, Winslow C. W., in 1856, containing his
journal of travels in Europe, etc., from 1772 to
1842.
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AVATSON.
WEBB.
WATSON, BENJAMIN M., died at Newton
Aug. 31, 1851, aged 71. Born at Marblehead.a
descendant of Winslow, he graduated at Harvard
in 1800, and studied law with Judge Parsons, but
became a merchant, and Avas president of the
mercantile marine insurance company.
WAWWAW, an Indian chief, lived at Wells,
Me., about the year 1740, and laid claim to the
territory there.
WAY, JOHN, captain, died in New London in
1831, aged 92. In returning from the funeral of
his neighbor, John Starr, aged 90, he fell and
expired. He never had a day's sickness.
WAYNE, ANTHONY, major-general, died in
Dec., 1796, aged about 51. He was born in
Easttown, Chester county, Penn., in 1745. In
1773 he was appointed a representative to the
general assembly, where, in conjunction with
Dickinson, Mifflin, Thompson, and other gentle
men, he took an active part in opposition to the
claims of Great Britain. In 1775 he quitted the
councils of his country for the field. He entered
the army as a colonel, and at the close of the
year accompanied Gen. Thompson to Canada.
When this officer was defeated in his enterprise
against the Three Rivers in June, 1776, and taken
prisoner, Wayne received a flesh wound in the
leg. His exertions were useful in the retreat.
At the close of the campaign he was made a
brigadier-general. In the campaign of 1777 in
the middle States he took a very active part. In
the battle of Brandywine he distinguished him
self, though he was in a few days afterward sur
prised and defeated by Major-general Gray. He
fought also in the battle of Germantown, as well
as in the battle of Monmouth in June, 1778. In
his most daring and successful assault upon
Stony Point in July, 1779, while he was rushing
forward with his men under a tremendous fire of
musketry and grape-shot, determined to carry
the works at the point of the bayonet, he was
struck by a musket ball upon his head. He was
for a moment stunned ; but, as soon as he was
able to rise so as to rest on one knee, believing
that his wound was mortal, he cried to one of
his aids, " Carry me forward and let me die in the
fort." When he entered it, he gave orders to
stop the effusion of blood. In 1781 he was
ordered to march with the Pennsylvania line from
the northward, and form a junction with Lafay
ette in Virginia. July 6th, after receiving infor
mation that the main body of the enemy under
Cornwallis had crossed James' river, he pressed
forward at the head of eight hundred men to
attack the rear-guard. But to his utter astonish
ment, when he reached the place, he found the
whole British army, consisting of four thousand
men, drawn up ready to receive him. At this
moment he conceived of but one way to escape.
He rushed upon the enemy, and commenced a
gallant attack, which he supported for a few min
utes, and then retreated with the utmost expedi
tion. The British general was confounded by
this movement, and, apprehensive of an ambus
cade from Lafayette, would not allow of a pur
suit. After the capture of Cornwallis, he was
sent to conduct the war in Georgia, where with
equal success he contended with British soldiers,
Indian savages, and American traitors. As a re-'
ward for his services the legislature of Georgia
presented to him a valuable farm. At the con
clusion of the war he retired to private life. In
1787 he was a member of the Pennsylvania con
vention, which ratified the constitution of the
United States. In 1792 he succeeded St. Clair
in the command of the army to be employed
against the Indians. In the battle of the Miamifi,
Aug. 20, 1794, he gained over them a complete
victory and afterwards desolated their country.
On the 3d of Aug., 1795, he concluded a treaty
with the hostile Indians northwest of the Ohio.
While in the service of his country he died in a
hut at Presque Isle, and was buried on the shore
of lake Erie.
WAYNE, ISAAC, colonel, only son of Major-
general W., died in Chester co., Penn., Oct. 26,
1852, aged 82. He Avas a State senator and an
excellent citizen. In 1814 he was a candidate
for governor against Snyder.
WEARE,MESHECH, president of the State of
New Hampshire, died Jan. 15, 1786, aged 72.
The son of Nathaniel W. of Hampton, he was
graduated at Harvard college in 1735. In 1754
he was appointed a commissioner to the congress
at Albany, afterwards one of the justices of the
superior court, and in 1777 chief justice. Chosen
president of New Hampshire in 1776, he was in-
i vested at the same time with the highest offices,
legislative, judicial, and executive, in which he
was continued by annual elections during the
whole war. When a new constitution was adopted,
he was again in 1784 elected president ; but he
resigned before the close of the year. He died
at Hampton Ealls, worn out with public services.
He " dared to love his country and be poor.''
WEATHERFOPJ), Mr., a Baptist minister,
died in Pittsylvania county, Va., in 1833, aged 90.
WEATHERS, JAMES, a minister, died in
Granville county, N. C., in 1843, aged 93. He
was a soldier of the Revolution.
WEBB, JOSEPH, minister of Eairfield, Conn.,
died in 1732, aged about 00. He graduated at
Harvard in 1684, and was ordained in 1694.
WEBB, JOHN, minister in Boston, was gradu
ated at Harvard college in 1708. He was or
dained the first minister of the new north church
in Boston, Oct. 20, 1714. After surviving one
colleague, Mr. Thacher, and enjoying the assist
ance of another, Dr. Eliot, for eight years, he
died in peace and joy April 16, 1750, aged 62.
WEBB.
WEBSTER.
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His colleague pronounced him " one of the best
of Christians and one of the best of ministers."
He published the following sermons : to a society
of young men, 1718; 011 the advantages of early
piety, 1721 ; before the general assembly, 1722;
warning against bad company keeping, 1726; on
the death of W. Waldron, 1727; the believer's
redemption by the blood of Christ ; on the pay
ment of vows, 1728 ; directions to obtain salva
tion in seven sermons, 1729 ; the great concern
of New England ; at the ordination of a deacon,
1731 ; the duty of a degenerate people to pray
for the reviving of God's work ; a sermon to two
malefactors, 1734 ; the government of Christ, an
election sermon, 1738; on the death of P. Thacher,
1739; Christ's suit to the sinner while he stands
and knocks at the door.
WEBB, NATHAN, first minister of Uxbridge,
Mass., died in 1772, aged 66. He graduated at
Harvard in 1725. He was ordained in 1731 and
was pastor forty-one years. Wacantuck was the
Indian name of the town.
WEBB, ISAAC, an eminent naval architect,
died at New York in 1840, aged 46.
WEBBER, SAMUEL, D. D., president of Har
vard college, died of the apoplexy July 17, 1810,
aged 51. He was born in Byfield in 1759; was
graduated in 1784; and in 1789 succeeded Dr.
Williams as professor of mathematics. In 1796
he examined the boundary between the United
States and New Brunswick. After the death of
Dr. Willard he was elected president, and in
ducted into his office May 6, 1806. His daugh
ter married Prof. J. F. Dana. He published a
system of mathematics, 2 vols. 8vo., 1801 ; an
eulogy on President Willard, 1804.
WEBSTER, JOHN, governor of Connecticut,
died at Hadley, Mass., in 1665. He was a magis
trate of Connecticut in 1639, and governor in
1656. About 1660 he, with Rev. Mr. Russell and
his associates, purchased the territory now in
cluded in Hadley and other towns, and removed
thither. He was the ancestor of Noah Webster.
WEBSTER, SAMUEL, D. D., minister of Salis
bury, Mass., was born in Bradford in 1718; was
graduated at Harvard college in 1737 ; and was
ordained Aug. 12, 1741. After a ministry of
nearly fifty-five years, he died July 18, 1796, aged
77. At the time when he entered the sacred
office, his mind was so impressed with the impor
tance of the work in which he was about to en
gage, that he was ready to abandon all thoughts
of the calling. In his preaching he was remark
ably clear and plain. There was an earnestness
in his manner which convinced his hearers that
he himself felt what he delivered. He did not
preach the things which he considered as of
doubtful disputation. He possessed a happy
talent in visiting his people, and could adapt him
self to their circumstances, and in a pleasing
manner give them instruction. The beauties of
Christian virtue were exhibited in his whole life.
He published a sermon, 1756; at ordination of
S. Webster, 1772 ; the duty of an enslaved people,
a fast sermon, 1774; to two companies of minute-
men, 1775; election sermon, 1777; two discour
ses on infant baptism, third edit., 1780 ; on the
death of J. Tucker.
WEBSTER, EBENEZER, captain, a soldier of
the French and the Revolutionary wars, died at
Salisbury, N. H., in 1816, aged 76. He was the
son of Ebenezer of Kingston, six miles from Ex
eter, and of Susannah, daughter of Rev. S.Bach-
elder, and he was the son of Ebenezer, who set
tled in K. in 1700. The next ancestor was
Thomas of Hampton, then John of Ipswich, who
came from Ipswich in England. He was the
father of Daniel Webster, by his second wife,
Abigail Eastman of Salisbury. Among the chil
dren by his first wife was Abigail, who married
Mr. Haddock, the father of Prof. Haddock of
Dartmouth college. ;
WEBSTER, DAVID, colonel, died at Ply
mouth, N. H., June 28, 1824. He was the oldest
inhabitant, one of the first settlers. Coming from
Hollis with his wife and child, there was no road
nor path from Boscawen to Plymouth, a journey
of two days on foot in winter. His valuable es
tate was near the mouth of Baker's river. He
was the first sheriff of Grafton county.
WEBSTER, EZEKIEL, an eminent lawyer, the
brother of Daniel, lived at Boscawen, N. H., and
died in the court-house at Concord in 1829, aged
about 48. He graduated at Dartmouth in 1804,
and was a State senator.
WEBSTER, NATHANIEL, minister of Bidde-
ford, Me., died at Portland in 1830, aged 81.
He graduated at Harvard in 1769.
WEBSTER, CHARLES R., died July 18, 1834,
aged 71. He was a bookseller in Albany as early
as 1784. He established and conducted for forty
years the Albany Gazette.
WEBSTER, JOSIAH, minister of Hampton,
N. H., died in 1837, aged 65. He was born in
Chester Jan. 16, 1772, and graduated at Dart
mouth college in 1798. From 1799 to 1806 he
was minister at Chebacco in Ipswich. He was
installed at Hampton as the successor of Mr.
Appleton, June 8, 1808, and was pastor nearly
twenty-nine years. E. D. Eldredge was his suc
cessor. He published a sermon at the installa
tion of J. Lord, Thomaston, 1809; at ordination
of J. W. Dow, Tyringham, 1811 ; at the thanks
giving, 1812 ; before the general association of
New Hampshire, 1819; at ordination of J. C.
Webster, 1837, as seamen's chaplain for Russia.
WEBSTER, REDFORD, died in Boston in
1838, aged 77. He wrote poetry and miscella
nies.
W7EBSTER, NOAH, LL. D., died at New
WEBSTER.
WEEMS.
Haven May 28, 1843, aged 84. Born in West
Hartford, a descendant of John of Hartford, he
graduated at Yale in 1778. After being ad
mitted to the bar he engaged in the business of
instruction. In 1783 he wrote an English gram
mar, and also some political pieces. In 1793 he
commenced at New York the Commercial Adver
tiser ; iu 1798 he removed to New Haven, and in
1807 began to compile his English dictionary,
first published in 1828. In the edition of 184*0
were printed 4394 new words, freely furnished by
the author of this Biographical work, the acknowl
edgment for which has not yet been made by the
editor. He lived some years in Amherst. For
the last forty years he was incessant in his studies,
and had vigorous health. He died in composure
and resignation. He published various ele
mentary school books ; sketches of American
policy, 1784 ; and his dictionary of the English
language in 1828. A quarto edition, revised by
C. A. Goodrich, was published at Springfield by
G. and C. Merriam, 1854.
WEBSTER, JOHN W., professor of chemistry
and mineralogy in the medical school connected
with Harvard college, was hung as a murderer
in the yard of the Leverett street jail in Boston,
Aug. 30, 1850, aged about 56. He graduated
at Harvard in 1811 5 was appointed professor in
1827. He murdered in 1849 in the medical
building in Boston, Dr. George Parkman, out of
revenge, or to evade the payment of a debt. This
execution on the gallows of such a man for such
a crime is honorable to the administration of jus
tice in Massachusetts. What security can there
be for human life, if the life of the murderer is
spared through a pitiable, falsely-called human
ity ? It is God's command, " He that sheddeth
man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed."
He published a manual of chemistry ; description
of the island of St. Michael, 1821.
WEBSTER, DANIEL, LL. D., died at Marsh-
field, Mass., Oct. 24, 1852, aged 70. He was
born in Salisbury, N. H., Jan. 18, 1782, the son
of Capt. Ebenezer W. He graduated at Dart
mouth in 1801, being one of the two first schol
ars of his class. He practised law in Boscawcn
and in Portsmouth. In 1813 he was a mem
ber of congress. He removed to Boston in
1816 : was re-elected to congress in 1822, and in
1828 entered the senate of the United States.
His famous debate with Hayne was in 1830, and
that with Calhoun in 1833. He visited Europe
in 1839, and was secretary of State from 1841 to
1843. He negotiated the Ashburton treaty ;
afterwards he served in the Senate ; his last
office was that of secretary of State under Pres
ident Fillmore. It is stated by Mr. Ticknor that
after he had signed his will he prayed aloud
for some minutes, ending with the Lord's prayer
and the usual ascription. It was announced by
the commissioners on his estate, that his assets
amounted to 35,000 or 3(5,000 dollars, and his
debts to about 155,000 dollars. Thus, it would
seem, he knew nothing of the economies of pri
vate life. Yet among our public men of his day
none were superior to him in talents, learning,
and forcible eloquence. He aimed to be presi
dent of the United States ; but failed. Had he
held that station for the last four years, it is not
supposable that his strong arm would have failed
to shield the new settlers and citizens of the
far west from the outrages of border-ruffianism.
It will be honorable to his memory to repeat his
words, which he uttered in his speech in Faneuil
Hall in Boston, Nov. 1, 1844 : " What ! when all
the civilized world is opposed to slavery, — when
morality denounces it, — when every thing re
spected, every thing good bears united witness
against it, — is it for America, — America, the
land of Washington, — the model republic of
the world, — is it for America to come to its as
sistance, and insist that its maintenance is neces
sary to the support of her institutions ? " His
works, in 6 vols., 8vo., were published 1851.
WEBSTER, RICHARD, minister of Mauch
Chunk, Penn., died in 1855 or 1856. He wrote
a history of the Presbyterian church, which in
Aug., 1856, J. W. Wilson, of Philadelphia, pro
posed to publish in one volume of seven hundred
pages, with a biography by Dr. Van Rensselaer.
WEEKES, DANIEL, died at Ship Harbor, Nova
Scotia, Dec. 29, 1851, aged 116; having been
born on Long Island Dec. 3, 1735. At the age
of twenty-four he served in the British army,
when Wolfe fell. Adhering to the royal cause,
he received a grant of land in Nova Scotia. In
1838 he recovered his sight. He toiled in the
woods bareheaded till within two years of his
death. His children were twenty-one, his de
scendants some hundreds.
WEEKS, HOLLAND, minister of Abington,
Mass., died at Henderson, N. Y., in 1843, aged
about 70. He graduated at Dartmouth in 1795.
He became at last a fanatic or enthusiast, and
was dismissed from his pastoral charge.
WEEKS, WILLIAM R., D. D., of Newark,
N. J., died at Oneida June 26, 1848, aged 66.
He was an able writer and a successful teacher ;
a man of an excellent character.
WEEMS, MASON L., a writer and Episcopal
minister, resided in Virginia, but died at Beau
fort, S. C., May 23, 1825, after long sickness.
Before the Revolution he was rector of Mount
Vernon parish, when the old church at Pohick
had George Washington for an attendant on his
ministry. A large family compelled him to seek a
better income than his parish afforded, and he be
came a book agent for Matthew Gary. The bible,
Marshall's life of Washington, and his own pop
ular books he scattered over the south, travelling
WELBY.
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with a few sermons in his knapsack, that he might
occasionally preach. lie had a peculiar extrava
gance of style ; but he had energy, humor, pathos,
and skill in awakening enthusiasm. Immedi
ately after the decease of Washington, he pub
lished a history of his life and death, virtues and
exploits, dedicated to Mrs. Martha Washington,
Feb. 22, 1800. The eleventh edition, fully un
folded, was published of the life of G. W., 1811.
Afterwards, he published the life of Benjamin
Franklin ; the life of William Penn ; the life of
Gen. Francis Marion. lie published also God's
revenge against murder, a tragedy; and various
tracts. — Cycl. of Amer. Lit.
WELBY, AMELIA B., Mrs., a poetess, died
at Louisville, Ky., May 3, 1852, aged 31. She
was born in Maryland and married Mr. George
Wclby of Louisville: Her poems were published
in 1850. — Cycl. of Amer. Lit.
WELCH, DANIEL, minister of Mansfield,
Conn., died suddenly in 1782, aged about 56.
Born in Windham, he graduated at Yale in 1749,
in the class of Dr. Hopkins, and succeeded Mr.
Throop in the north society. His successors
were M. C. Welch and W. Ely. He had good
pulpit talents, and was beloved by his people and
respected by a large acquaintance.
WELCH, SAMUEL, the oldest native of New
Hampshire, was born at Kingston Sept. 1, 1710,
and died at Bow April 5, 1823, aged 112. He
was always a man of temperance. At the age of
112 he retained his faculties, and conversed on
the events of past days. When asked, if it
seemed to him that he had lived so long, he re
plied : " O no, but a little while." Weary of the
burthen of life, he expressed a willingness to die.
WELCH, MOSES C., D. D., minister of Mans
field, Conn., died in 1824, aged 70, in the fortieth
year of his ministry. He succeeded his father,
Daniel, who was a native of Windham, a gradu
ate of Yale in 1749, and who died in 1782. Dr.
C. graduated at Yale in 1772. He studied law
and physic and taught school for some years, and
was ordained in 1784. His son, Jonathan A., was
a lawyer in Brooklyn, Conn. : his son, Archibald,
a physician of Hartford, was killed in the railroad
disaster at Norwalk. His fourth wife survived
him. He was a man of talents, of strong pas
sions, impetuous, witty, and satirical, a very popular
preacher, sometimes in his preaching touching
on the democracy of the day, which he thought
allied to French atheism. He had a dignified
air, but was pleasant in private intercourse.
Many pupils fell under his care. He was the
friend of Samuel Nott. He published a sermon
on the death of S. White, 1794 ; of B. Chaplin ;
of Mrs. Pond; of A. Miller, 1801 ; of Mary J.
Salter; of J. W. Judson ; of J. Gurley, 1812; a
century sermon, 1801; election sermon, 1812;
at the execution of S. Freeman for murder,
1805; to Windham association; at ordination of
W. Andrews ; and several controversial pam
phlets. — Sprague's Annals.
WELCH, THOMAS, M. D., died in Boston in
Feb., 1831, aged 80. Born in B., he graduated
in 1772, and served as a surgeon in the army.
The marine hospital at Charlestown was under
his care, and he was also quarantine physician for
Boston. He was greatly respected. — Uoston
Med. Jour. iv.
WELCH, SARAH, Mrs., died in Boston in
1850, aged 101. She was a native of Gloucester
and daughter of Jonathan Coates.
•WELCH, ARCHIBALD, M. D., of Hartford,
was killed by the railroad plunge into the river
May 6, 1853, aged 58. He was born at Mans
field, Vt., where he practised physic twenty years ;
for the last fifteen he lived in Wetherstiekl and
Hartford, in good reputation. He was a son of
Rev. M. C. Welch, and grandson of Rev. Dan
iel W. By his mother he descended from Rev.
W. Williams of Hatfield, and Rev. J. Ashley of
Deerfield. He married in 1819 Cynthia Hyde
of Lebanon : two of his sons, Henry and Moses,
were graduates of Yale.
WELCOTT, NANNIE, died at Oxford, Me.,
July 17, 1848, aged 114.
WELD, THOMAS, first minister of Dunsta-
ble, N. H., died in 1702, aged 49. Born in Rox-
bury, he graduated at Harvard in 1671. The
church was gathered and he ordained Dec. 16,
1685. By his wife, Mary Savage, he was the
father of Rev. Habijah W.
WELD, HABIJAH, minister of Attleborough,
Mass., died in 1782, aged 79. Born in Dunstable,
he graduated at Harvard in 1723 and was ordained
in 1727, the successor of E. White : M. Short
was the first minister. He was succeeded by J.
Wilder. His wife was Mary, the daughter of
Rev. John Fox of Woburn : she died aged 92.
They had fifteen children, of whom Elizabeth
married Rev. O. Shaw of Barnstable, and Lucy
married Rev. O. Noble of Coventry, and Hannah
married Caleb Fuller of Hanover. Mr. W.'s
father was the first minister of Dunstable. He
had a very loud and pleasant voice, and was
highly esteemed as a preacher and minister, and
very successful. — Thacher's Serin. ; Sprague.
WELD, EZRA, minister of Braintree, Mass.,
died in 1816, aged 80. Born in Pomfret, Conn.,
he graduated at Yale in 1759, and was ordained
in 1762. He was a very faithful and useful min
ister. His predecessors were H. Adams and S.
Niles ; his successors S. Page, R. S. Storrs, E. A.
Park. He published a sermon at the ordination
of S. Niles; on union, 1794 ; at a fast, 1799.
WELD, LEWIS, minister of Hampton, Conn.,
died in 1844, aged 78. The son of Rev. Ezra of
Braintree, he graduated at Harvard in 1789 ;
was ordained in 1792; and dismissed in 1824.
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WELD.
WELLS.
He afterwards preached at Fabius, N. Y. lie
died at Belleville, N. J., near the residence of his
son, Theodore D. W., in full hope of a blessed
immortality. His widow, Elizabeth, daughter of
John Clark of Lebanon, Conn., died Aug. 31,
1853, aged 81. He was a man of talents and
distinguished usefulness.
WELD, LEWIS, Rev., died in Hartford Dec.
30, 1853, aged 57; principal of the American
asylum for the deaf and dumb. Born in Hamp
ton, Conn., the son of Rev. L. W., he was a
graduate in 1818. In 1822 he was principal of
the institution in Philadelphia for the deaf and
dumb. As the successor of Mr. Gallaudet in
the same office, he lived twenty-three years at
Hartford, and was successful and greatly respected.
He was unceasing in a regard to the spiritual in
terests of his pupils, as became an enlightened,
far-looking Christian. His wife was Mary,
daughter of Dr. Mason E. Cogswell of Hartford.
He left five children.
WELDE, THOMAS, first minister of Roxbury,
Mass., died in England in 1662. He was a native
of England, and was a minister in Essex before
he came to this country. Refusing to comply
with the impositions of the established church, he
determined to seek the quiet enjoyment of the
rights of conscience in America. He arrived at
Boston June 5, 1632, and in July was invested
with the pastoral care of the church in Roxbury.
In Nov. following, he received J. Eliot as his col
league. In 1639 he assisted Mr. Mather and
Mr. Eliot in making tho tuneful New England
version of the Psalms. In 1641 he was sent
with Hugh Peters to England as an agent for the
province, and he never returned. He was settled
at Gateshead, but was ejected in 1662. His
sons, Edward, John, and Thomas, were ministers :
the two first not in this country, but Thomas, of
Dunstable, died in 1702, aged 50. He published
a short story of the rise, reign, and ruin of the
antinomians, familists, and libel-tines that infected
the churches of New England, 4to., 1644 ; 2d
edit., 1692 ; an answer to W. R.'s narration of
the opinions and practices of the New England
churches, vindicating those godly and orthodoxal
churches from more than one hundred impu
tations, etc., 1644. With others he wrote the
perfect pharisee under monkish holiness, against
the Quakers, 1654. — Sprague.
WELDE, THOMAS, grandson of Rev. T. W.,
was the minister of Dunstable, Mass., from 1756
to his death in 1702, aged 50. He was the son
of Thomas, a representative in the general conrt,
and graduated at Harvard in 1671.
WELLES, NOAH, D. D., minister of Stam
ford, Conn., was graduated at Yale college in
1741, and was ordained Dec. 31, 1746. He died
about 1776. Born in Colchester, he was of
Welsh origin. By his wife, Abigail Woolsey, he
had thirteen children. .He was a theologian of
great distinction, and he took an active part in
the controversy respecting an American episco
pate. He published a discourse in favor of the
Presbyterian ordination ; a vindication of the va
lidity and divine right of Presbyterian ordination,
as set fovth in Mr. Chauncy's Dudleian lecture
and Mr. Welles' discourse, in answer to the excep
tions of J. Learning, 1767; a funeral sermon on
Mr. Hobart, 1773. — Sprague.
WELLES, SAMUEL, died at Paris Aug. 31,
1841, aged 63. A native of Boston, he was
long a well-known American banker in Paris, es
tablished there in 1815. He was a man of ability
and integrity, friendly, hospitable.
WELLES, JOHN, a rich merchant, died in
Boston Sept. 25, 1855, aged 90. He was the son
of Arnold W., and graduated in 1782, outliving
his class and all preceding graduates. He was
successively in business with his father, with
Samuel, and with Benjamin W. He was a repre
sentative, senator, and councillor. His summers
he spent on a valuable farm in Natick. which had
been in possession of the Welles family from the
days of the apostle Eliot, the teacher of the
Natick Indians.
WELLINGTON, TIMOTHY, Dr., died of dis
ease of the heart, at West Cambridge, Mass., in
1853, aged 71. The son of Timothy of Lexing
ton, he graduated at Harvard in 1806. His
practice was extensive and successful. His son is
Dr. William W. Wellington of Cambridgcport.
WELLS, THOMAS, governor of Connecticut,
died at Hartford Jan. 14, 1660, aged 62. He was
appointed deputy-governor in 1654, and governor
in 1655. His successor was John Webster. At
this time the number of rateable persons in the
colony of Connecticut, as distinct from New
Haven, was only 775. In 1657 J. Winthrop was
governor and Mr. Wells deputy-governor. Hugh,
the brother of Gov. W., was one of the founders
of Hartford, but removed to Hadley about 1660.
These brothers were the sons of Thomas, a
wealthy merchant and zealous Puritan of Lon
don ; and Samuel Welles of Boston and Paris,
and John Welles of New York, were of this
family, though the name differs a little.
WELLS, THOMAS, the first minister of Ames-
bury, Mass., died in 1734, aged 87. He was
the first man who received an honorary degree
at Harvard, in 1703. He was settled in 1672.
His successor was E. March, who died aged 88.
WELLS, THOMAS B., minister of North Guil-
ford, Conn., died in 1808, aged 70, in the forty-
second year of his ministry.
WELLS, HENRY, Dr., a physician in Mon
tague, Mass., died in 1814, aged 72. Born in
New York in 1742, he graduated at the early
age of fifteen at Princeton in 1757. Before the
Revolutionary war he settled in Brattleboro',
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and thence he removed to Montague. He was
•widely consulted as a physician. Dr. Itichard
W., late of Canandaigua, was his son. He
dressed much like the Quakers. He wore velvet
or buckskin small-clothes, a long vest with flaps
and pockets, and a broad-brimmed, low-crowned
hat. The following anecdote shows the good
effect of his cheerfulness and facetiousness. Hav
ing spent an evening with a patient dangerously
sick, as he went to find his bed, the patient, being
inoculated with his good humor, sent a messen
ger to him with a boot-jack, "to enable him to
pull off his buckskin breeches." — " Go and tell
him," said the doctor, " he need be under no fear
of dying at present." — Williams' Med. Biog.
WELLS, WILLIAM CHARLES, Dr., died in
London in 1817, aged 60. Born in Charleston,
his father, a Scotchman, was a tory, and so was
the son. From 1775 to 1778 he studied his pro
fession at Edinburgh. From 1780 he was in South
Carolina for some years; but in 1784 went to Eng-
gland. He is chiefly known by his experiments on
dew. He published a volume of essays on vision
and dew, 1816 ; also some papers in the philosophi
cal transactions ; and miscellanies. — Gycl. of
Amer. Lit.
WELLS, WILLIAM, D. D., minister of Brat-
tleboro', Vt., died in 1827, aged 83. He was
born in England in 1744, and was a minister at
Bronsgrove about twenty years. From 1794 to
1814 he was the minister of B., though not in
stalled ; then formed a new church in the east
village. In his principles he was an Arian. He
was the father of William Wells, a graduate of
Harvard in 1796 ; an excellent tutor, afterwards
bookseller in Boston, still living. Dr. Wells'
predecessor at B., the first minister, was A.
Reeve, a graduate of Yale in 1731, who was set
tled in 1770, and died in 1798, aged 90.
WELLS, JOHN DOANE, M. D., professor of
anatomy and surgery in the medical school of
Maine, died at Boston July 25, 1830, aged 31.
He was born in B. March 6, 1799; graduated at
Harvard college in 1817; and, having finished his
medical education in Europe, succeeded Dr. Smith,
and delivered his first course of lectures in the
spring of 1823. In Sept., 1826, he was chosen
professor in the medical school at Pittsficld, and
lectured there four years. At the close of 1829,
he repaired to Baltimore to deliver a course of
lectures ; and thence in March, 1830, to his post
at Brunswick, Me. But, exhausted by his labors,
he was able to lecture only one week. As a lec
turer on anatomy, it has been thought that no
one in this country was superior to him. lie was
a member of the church in Boston, of which Dr.
Lowell was pastor.
WELLS, RUFUS, the first minister of Whately,
Mass., died Nov. 8, 1834, aged 90. A native of
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Deerfield, he graduated at Harvard in 1764, and
was ordained in 1771. He was succeeded by
Bates and Ferguson.
WELLS, SAMUEL W., died at Salem, Mass., in
1751, aged about 48 ; for many years a teacher
of navigation. He graduated at Harvard in 1823.
WELLS, DANIEL, judge, died at Cambridge,
June 23, 1854, aged 63, chief justice of the
common pleas. He was appointed attorney-gen
eral in 1838; chief judge in 1844. He was born
in Greenfield, where he lived most of his life ; a
graduate of Dartmouth in 1810. His death was
sudden by disease of the heart.
WELSH, THOMAS, a physician, died in Boston
in 1831, aged 89. lie graduated at Harvard in
1772 ; was a surgeon in the Revolutionary army,
taking care of the wounded at Lexington and
Bunker Hill ; and subsequently had extensive
practice in Boston, where he was quarantine
physician, and he was connected also with the
marine hospital at C'harlestown. He was a con
sulting physician of the Massachusetts general
hospital. He published oration March 5, 1783 ;
eulogy on N. Gorham, 1796.
WELSTEED, WILLIAM, minister in Boston,
died in 1753, aged 58. Born in Boston, he gradu
ated at Harvard in 1716 ; was a tutor several
years ; succeeded Mr. Waldron in 1728 in the
new brick church ; and had E. Gray as a colleague
for ten years. He was an excellent Christian, an
accomplished gentleman, an exemplary minister.
He published election sermon, 1751. — Sprague.
WENDELL, OLIVER, judge, died in Boston
Jan. 15, 181 8, aged 85. He graduated at Harvard
in 1753. He was a descendant of Evart Janson
Wendell, who came from Embden to Albany :
his father Jacob, a merchant in Boston, married
Sarah, daughter of Dr. James Oliver of Cam
bridge. Mild, benevolent, exemplary, faithful in
public life, he enjoyed in his failing years great
peace and the hopes of a blessed immortality
though the propitiation made by Christ. His wife
was Mary, daughter of Edward Jackson, and her
mother was Dorothy Quincy. His daughter
Sarah married Rev. Dr. Holmes, of Cambridge,
and was the mother of Oliver Wendell Holmes,
physician and poet.
WENDELL, JOHN II., general, died suddenly
at Albany, while attended an association of the
reformed Dutch church, July 11, 1832, aged 88.
He was a soldier of the Revolution. At the be
ginning of the contest he abandoned the law and
was a captain in the army. He was in the battle
of Monmouth, and at the surrender of Burgoync.
He died under his paternal roof; and was long a
man of piety.
WENDELL, PETER, died at Albany, Oct. 29,
1849, aged 63; the oldest physician, chancellor of
the regents of the university.
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WERTMULLER.
WENTWORTH, WILLIAM, ancestor of the
Wentworths of New England, died at Dover,
N. II., about 1690 or 1700, more than 80 years
old. He was of Exeter in 1639, and was a ruling
elder of the church of Dover.
WENTWORTH, JOHN, lieutenant-governor
of N. II., died at Portsmouth in 1730, aged 58.
He was the son of Samuel of Portsmouth or
Dover, and grandson of William, and was born
in 1672. He was in office from 1717 to 1729.
His commission had annexed to it the name of
Joseph Addison, then secretary in England. His
administration was acceptable to the people ; but
in a few years the harmony was interrupted, and
he had the misfortune also to lose the favor of
Gov. Belcher. The office-seekers in those days
quarrelled, as they do now. He was the father
of sixteen children. — Eliot.
WENTWORTH, BENNING, governor of New
Hampshire, the son of lieutenant-governor Went-
worth, died in 1770, aged 74. He was graduated
at Harvard college in 1715. After having been a
member of the assembly and of the council,
his mercantile business called him to London,
where he solicited and obtained the commission
of governor. He began his administration in
1741 and continued in this office near twenty years.
He was superseded in 1767 by his nephew, John
Wentworth. He possessed strong passions and his
resentments were lasting. Closely attached to the
interest of the church of England, in his grants of
lands, by which he enriched himself, he reserved a
right in every township for the society for propa
gating the gospel, of which he was a member.
Bennington in Vermont has its name from him,
and he granted many other towns in that State.
Though during his administration he declined giv
ing a charter for a college in New Hampshire unless
it was put under the direction of the Bishop of
London, yet he afterwards gave a lot of five hun
dred acres of land to Dartmouth college, and
on this land the college edifice was erected. He
co-operated with the assembly in giving to Har
vard college 300 pounds towards repairing the
library which had been destroyed by fire. In his
appointment of civil and military officers he Avas fre
quently governed by motives of favor ; but his ad
ministration in other respects was beneficial. He
was frequently visited by the gout, and from these
visits he did not acquire much patience.
WENTWORTH, JOHN, LL. D., governor of
New Hampshire, died April 8, 1820, aged 83. He
was a descendant of W. Wentworth of Dover,
and the son of Murk Hunting W., and was born
in 1736. lie graduated at Harvard college in
1755. At the age of 31 he was appointed gov
ernor in 1767 as successor of B. Wentworth,
and remained in office till the Revolution of 1775.
He gave the charter of Dartmouth college. He
was a very acceptable and popular governor.
In 1792 he was appointed lieutenant-governor
and commander-in-chief of Nova Scotia, but was
succeeded by Prevost in 1808. He resided at
Halifax, where he died. His wife, whom he
married in 1760, was Miss Hilton. He had a
pension of 500 pounds per annum given him by
the British government in 1808. He was a man
of large and liberal views, of sound judgment,
and cultivated taste. He did much to encourage
agriculture, cultivating a farm and building an
elegant house at Wolfsboro', on the border of
lake Winnipiscogee.
WEQUASH, sachem of the Niantic Indians
in Connecticut, died at an early period after the
settlement of Lyme, and is buried at the Chris
tian Indian burying-ground on the west side
of the bay near the mouth of the Niantic river.
His memorial-stone says, " He was the first con
vert among the New England tribes." This may
be a mistake. Mr. Griswold was a missionary
to these Indians. It would be well if some
measures were taken to preserve this Indian
grave-yard, near the surges of the bay, from dese-
ecration. Mr. Shepard wrote concerning this
Pequot : " Wequash, the famous Indian at the
river's mouth, is dead and certainly in heaven.
He knew Christ, he loved Christ, he preached
Christ up and down, and then suffered martyr
dom for Christ." — FeWsEccl. Hint. N. E.
WERAUMAUG, an Indian, was a Pootatuck
sagamore, who became sachem of the Wyante-
nucks in New Milford. He lived two miles below
the village. He had a reservation of two thousand
acres in Washington, called the hunting-grounds
of Raumaug. He died about 1735. Under the
watchful instruction of Rev. D. Boardman he
became a Christian, and died such, though the
Indians with him remained in heathenism. In
1736 a part of his people removed to Schaghticoke
and were there taught by the Moravian mission
aries. Mr. Boardman called him a distinguished
sachem, of great abilities and eminent virtues, the
most potent prince in the colony.
WERDEN, PETER, a Baptist minister of
Cheshire, Mass., died in 1808, aged 80. He was
ordained at Warwick in 1751, and removed to
Cheshire in 1770, and was there pastor 38 years.
— Benedict's Hist.
WERTMULLER, ADOLPH ULRIC, an eminent
painter of Philadelphia, died near Marcus Hook,
Oct. 5, 1811, aged 61. Born in Stockholm, he
studied and pursued his profession several years
in Paris, and first came to Philadelphia in 1794 ;
but returned to Europe in 1796. Losing a large
sum of money by the failure of others, he
returned to Philadelphia in 1800, and obtained
an income by exhibiting his picture of Danac. In
1801 he married a rich lady of Swedish descent.
His last residence was a farm at Marcus Hook,
on the Delaware. His Danac sold at New York
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for 1500 dollars ; a small copy at Philadelphia
for 500. His picture of Washington is thought
not to be accurate.
WESSELHOEFT, ROBERT, doctor, died at
Leipsic in Nov. or Dec., 1852 : he was the founder
of the Brattleboro' water-cure establishment, Vt.
WEST, SAMUEL, D. I)., minister of New Bed
ford, Mass., died at Tiverton, II. I., Sept. 24,
1807, aged 77, and was buried at New Bedford.
He was born in Yarmouth March 4, 1730, and
was early occupied in the labors of husbandry.
Discovering traits of genius, a few intelligent
and good men resolved to give him a liberal edu
cation. He was graduated at Harvard college
in 1754, having gained a rank among the most
distinguished of his class. About the year 1764
he was ordained at New Bedford. The year
1765 awakened his attention to politics, and he
became a whig partisan. He wrote many forcible
pieces in the newspapers. He deciphered the
letter of Dr. Church. He was a member of the
convention for forming the constitution of Mas
sachusetts and of the United States ; and was
chosen honorary member of the academy of
sciences at Philadelphia, and a member of the
academy at Boston. In the latter part of his
life his memory almost entirely failed him. He
possessed an original mind of vigorous powers.
During the last thirty years of his life he used
no notes in preaching. It was his practice, when
he was not in his own pulpit, to discourse upon
any text which was pointed out to him ; and some
times the most difficult passages would be given
him for the purpose of trying his strength. He
was not, however, a very popular preacher. There
were defects in the tone and inflection of his
voice, and there was a singularity and uncouth-
ness in his manner, for which the ingenuity and
strength of his arguments could not compensate.
His manners were unpolished ; his figure and
deportment were not very attractive ; nor was his
temper very mild and amiable. Notwithstand
ing his singularities, no man could accuse him of
the wilful violation of any principle of moral rec
titude. He published a sermon at the ordination
of S. West, 1764; election sermon, 1776; at the
anniversary of the landing of the forefathers,
1777 ; at the ordination of J. Allyn, 1788 ; on
infant baptism ; essays on liberty and necessity,
in which the arguments of President Edward
and others for necessity are considered, the first
part in 1793, the second in 1795. To these
essays Dr. Edwards, the son of the president,
wrote an answer, and Dr. West left behind him a
reply almost completed, lie maintains that
volition is not an effect, for which a cause is to
be sought in nature, or out of man, but, being
the mind willing, is itself an efficient cause :
that human volitions are not effects, unless divine
volitions are effects ; that divine prescience and
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permissive decree do not imply the necessity of
events ; and that man has a self-determining
power, or that he himself determines, though
acting with motives. He adopted Berkeley's ideal
theory, denying the existence of matter. The
following anecdote relating to his faith has been
preserved. At a minister's meeting, when Berke
ley's scheme was discussed, father Farrand of
Canaan was present. On coming away, it was
discovered that Dr. West's horse was gone.
" Stolen," said F. ; " you must advertise him ; but
can you describe him ?" W. replied, " I could
tell every white hair on him." — " But have you a
perfect idea of him ?" — " Yes." — " Well, then,
saddle it, and ride ! "
WEST, SAMUEL, D. D., minister in Boston,
died April 10, 1808, aged 69. He was born at
Martha's Vineyard Nov. 19, 1738. His father,
Thomas W., was the colleague of E. Mayhew,
but afterwards removed to Rochester. He was
graduated at Harvard college in 1771, and soon
afterwards was appointed chaplain at fort Pow-
nall in Penobscot, where he had a good opportu
nity for pursuing his theological studies. He was
ordained minister of Necdham April 25, 1764,
and was installed pastor of the church in Hollis
street, as successor of Mr. Wight, March 12,
1789. He had a lingering illness of several years.
He was succeeded by Mr. Holley. Being of a
mild disposition, he was never disposed to intol
erance, polemical discussion, or acrimonious cen
sure of others. He could live in habits of friend
ship with men whose opinions were opposite to
his own. His sentiments in the latter period of
his life, it is represented, suffered considerable
change. Having an excellent memory, he was
in the practice of preaching without the use of
notes, though his sermons were always the fruit
of deep study and reflection. He published a
sermon at the ordination of Jonathan Newell,
1774; at a funeral; two fast sermons, 1785;
election sermon, 1786 ; at his own instalment,
1789; at the artillery election, 1794; atathanks-
giving, 1795 ; on the death of George Washing
ton, 1800 ; essays in the Columbian Centinel of
an old man, from Nov. 29, 1806, to Aug. 22, 1807.
WEST, BENJAMIN, LL. D., postmaster at
Providence, R. L, died in 1813, aged 63. He
was professor at Brown university of mathematics,
astronomy, and natural philosophy, from 1786 to
1798.
WEST, STEPHEN, D. D., minister of Stock-
bridge, Mass., was born in Tolland, Conn., in
1736; was graduated at Yale college in 1755;
and ordained June 13, 1759. He died May 13,
1819, aged 83. Ephraim G. Swift was his col
league for a few years. During his ministry of
nearly sixty years, five hundred and four persons
were admitted to the church, of whom twenty-
two were Indians. His predecessor was Mr. Ed-
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wards. He is principally known for his essay
on moral agency, published in 1772, in which his
metaphysical doctrine is the antipode of that of
Dr. Samuel West of New Bedford. He main
tains that volition in every case is an effect, the
production of God's immediate agency ; so that
he represents man to be a passive instrument, a
mere machine. Yet he speaks of moral agency
and human liberty, and these as consisting in
" voluntary exertion," not in the power of choice,
but in actual willing ; not reflecting that brutes
have voluntary exertion as well as man. This
doctrine, though he was himself eminently pious,
is well calculated to destroy the sense of account-
ableness and to promote the opinions of the
Universalists. He published also a treatise on
the atonement, 1785; life of Dr. Hopkins, 1805;
and about twenty occasional sermons and tracts.
— Sprague.
WEST, BENJAMIN, died March 18, 1820, aged
82 ; a distinguished painter, president of the royal
academy in England. He was born at Spring
field, near Philadelphia, in 1738, of Quaker pa
rents. His taste for painting was very early
indicated. In 1760 he went to Italy; thence to
Paris, and in Aug., 1763, to London, where he
settled. He married a Miss Shewell of Phila
delphia. From 1764 for forty years he exposed
his works to the public entertainment. lie in
troduced modern dresses. Many of his subjects
were from the Scriptures. The catalogue of his
paintings in 1805 occupied ten pages of small
print ; among them are Death on the pale horse,
and Christ healing the sick.
WEST, JOEL, minister in Chatham, Conn.,
died in 1826, aged 60, in the thirty-fifth year of
his ministry.
WEST, NATHANIEL, a rich merchant, died in
Salem, Mass., in 1851, aged 96.
WESTBROOK, THOMAS, one of the Pejep-
scott proprietors in Maine, died Feb. 11, 1743-4.
The town of Westbrook may be named from his
father or ancestor. There was a John W. of
Portsmouth in 1665.
WESTEHLO, ELIARDUS, D. D., minister in
Albany, died in 1790. He was a native of Hol
land. He had just finished his studies in the
university of Groningen, when he was invited to
the Dutch church in Albany. He came to America
in 1760. In 1771 he readily imparted his aid, in
conjunction with Dr. Livingston and others, to
wards effecting a union of the Dutch churches,
then divided into parties, and he had the happi
ness of seeing this object completed in the fol
lowing year. He was highly popular and useful
as a preacher. He was a man of strong mind,
of eminent piety, and of great erudition in the
ology, and in oriental literature.
WESTON, FRANCIS, of Salem, a representa
tive in the first general court in 1634, removed
to Providence, and was one of the founders of
the first Baptist church in America.
WESTON, NATHAN, an early settler of Hal-
lowell, Me., died in 1832, aged 92.
WESTON, DANIEL, minister of Gray, Me.,
died in 1837, aged 73. He graduated at Har
vard in 1795.
WESTWOOD, WILLIAM, a respected early
settler in Hartford, Conn., about 1636, died in
Hadley April 9, 1669, aged 62. He was a native
of Essex, England, and came to Cambridge about
1632. He lived in Hadley eleven years. His
daughter, Sarah, married Aaron Cook, son of
Capt. A. C. of Northampton. To her he gave
his lands in Hartford, which were inherited by
her son, A. C. of Hartford.
WETHERELL, WILLIAM, first minister of
the second church of Scituate, died in 1684, aged
84. He was of Cambridge in 1635, and was pas
tor at S. from 1645 till his death. He wrote an
elegy on Sarah Gushing in 1679.
WETMORE, JAMES, an Episcopalian mission
ary, died May 14, 1760, aged about 66. He was
graduated at the college in Saybrook in 17 14;
ordained the first minister of North Haven in
Nov., 1718 ; but in Sept., 1722, he announced his
conversion to the Episcopal persuasion. This
was the time at which Dr. Cutler changed his
sentiments. After going to England for orders
in 1723, Mr. W. was on his return established
rector of the church at Rye, in the province of
New York, under the patronage of the society
for propagating the gospel. In this place he con
tinued till his death. His successor at North
Haven, Isaac Stiles, died on the same day. Such
was his zeal for Episcopacy, that he once declared
he would rather join in worship with a Jewish
synagogue than with a Presbyterian church. He
published a letter against Dickinson in defence
of Waterland's discourse on regeneration, about
the year 1744 ; a vindication of the professors of
the Church of England in answer to Ilobart's
sermon in favor of Presbyterian ordination, 1747 ;
a rejoinder to Hobart's serious address ; an ap
pendix to Beach's vindication.
WETMORE, NOAH, minister of Brookhavcn,
N. Y., died in 1796, aged 76. He graduated at
Yale in 1757.
WETMORE, IZRAHIAH, minister of II unting-
ton, Conn., died in 1798, aged 69. He graduated
at Yale in 1748.
WETMORE, LEONIDAS, captain, died in a
steamboat in Missouri in 1849. He fought with
the Indians in Florida, and was in various battles
in Mexico.
WIIARTON, CHARLES HENRY, D. D., Epis
copal minister in Burlington, N. J., died July 23,
1833, aged 86.
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WHARTON, LEVI, M. D., died at Providence
Aug. 29, 1851, aged 90 ; a surgeon in the Rev
olutionary army.
WHEAT, or WHEET, NATHANIEL, Dr., died
in Manchester, N. H., in 1856, aged 74. Born
in Canaan, he was fifty years in the practice of
his profession, and always ready to visit the poor.
WIIEATLEY, PHILLIS, a poet, was a native
of Africa, and was brought to America in 1761,
when she was between seven and eight years old.
She soon acquired a knowledge of the English
language, and made some progress in Latin.
While she was a slave in the family of John
Wheatley in Boston, she wrote a volume of
poems. Africa may well boast that one of her
daughters, not twenty years of age, should pro
duce the following lines. They are extracted
from the poem on imagination :
" Though winter frowns, to fancy's raptured eyes
The fields may flourish, and gay scenes arise ;
The frozen deeps may break their iron bands,
And bid their waters murmur o'er the sands ;
Fair Flora may resume her fragrant reign,
And with her flowery riches deck the plain ;
Sylvanus may diffuse his honors round,
And all the forest may with leaves be crown'd ;
Showers may descend, and dews their gems disclose,
And nectar sparkle on the blooming rose."
She afterwards was married to Mr. Peters, and
died at Boston Dec. 5, 1794, aged 31. She pub
lished, besides other separate pieces, poems on
various subjects, religious and moral, 8vo., Lon
don, 1773.
WHEATON, LABAN, judge, died at Norton,
Mass., March 23, 1846, aged 92. Born in Marsh-
field, he graduated at Harvard in 1774, in the
class of Fisher Ames. He studied both theology
and law ; for eight years he was a member of
congress. After the death of a beloved daughter
he founded, with a part of the property he had
devoted to her, an important seminary, known
as the Wheaton female seminary, which ranks
high among similar seminaries, and has been very
useful. He was humble, lamenting the course
of his life. For the last seventeen years he at
tended on orthodox preaching. — Holmes' Fun.
Sermon.
WHEATON, HENRY, LL. D., died in Rox-
bury, Mass., March 11, 1848, aged 67; a native
of Providence, and a graduate of Brown in 1802.
He was a descendant of Robert W., a Baptist
minister, an emigrant, who first settled in Salem
in the time of Charles I., and then in Rhode
Island. Having studied law, in 1812 he was the
editor of the National Advocate at New York,
and soon a judge in the marine court. As re
porter of the supreme court of the United States
from 1815 to 1827, he published twelve volumes
of reports. In 1837 he was minister to Prussia,'
where he continued in high reputation many
years. On his return he was professor of inter
national law at Cambridge. He published a
treatise on the law of captures ; elements of in
ternational law ; sketch of the law of nations ;
digest of the reports ; life of W. Pinckney ; a
history of the Northmen ; a correspondence with
the department of State ; and various addresses
and discourses. — Cycl. of Amer. Lit.
WHEATON, ROBERT, the son of Henry, died
in 1851, aged 25. He had been admitted to the
bar. There was published a volume of selections
from his writings, in 1854. — Cycl. of Am. Lit.
WHEATON, LEVI, M. D., died at Providence
Aug. 29, 1851, aged 90. He graduated at Brown
university in 1782, and was appointed professor
of the theory and practice of medicine in 1815.
WHEELER, THOMAS, captain, died in 1676.
He was of Concord, Mass., and served in Phil
ip's war. He published a narrative of his expe
dition to the Nipmug country in 1675, which may
be read in N. H. hist. coll.
WHEELER, HANNAH, widow, died in Keene,
N. H.,in 1824, aged 103.
WHEELER, ELIJAH, minister of Great Bar-
rington, Mass., died in 1827, aged 53. Born in
Pomfret, Conn., he was for some years an Infidel
physician ; but becoming a Christian, he studied
theology with Dr. West of Stockbridge, and was
a successful minister from 1806 to 1823, admit
ting one hundred and fifty-two members. The
first minister was S. Hopkins. — Sprague.
WHEELER, CHARLES S., died at Leipsic
June 13, 1843, aged 25. A graduate of Harvard
in 1837, he published an edition of Herodotus
with notes.
WHEELER, NELSON, professor, died at Roy-
alston, Mass., in 1855, aged 41. He was an emi
nent teacher in Worcester when he was chosen,
in 1852, professor of Greek in Brown university.
WHEELOCK, ELEAZAR, D. D., first presi
dent and founder of Dartmouth college, died
April 24, 1779, aged 68. He was a descendant
of Ralph W., a native of Shropshire, educated
at Clare Hall, Cambridge, and an eminent
preacher, who came to this country in 1637, and
settled first at Dedham, and thence removed to
Medfield, where he died in 1683, aged 83, leav
ing numerous descendants in various towns.
His grandfather, Eleazar W. of Medfield, after
wards of Mendon, distinguished not only as a
Christian, but also as a soldier in the Indian wars,
died in 1731. His father, Ralph W., a deacon
of the church, died at Windham, Conn., in 1748,
aged 66 ; his mother was Ruth Iluntington, the
daughter of Christopher H. of Norwich. He
was an only son, and was born in Windham in
April, 1711; was graduated at Yale college in
1733 ; and was ordained in 1735 the minister of
the second society in Lebanon, where his labors
were attended with a remarkable blessing. Dur
ing the revival about 1740 he preached with
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WIIEELOCK.
great zeal and effect in many towns of New Eng
land. Yet he successfully withstood the enthu
siasm of the Separatists. While he had under
his care a few English youth, Samson Occom, a
Mohegan Indian, solicited admission into his
school in Dec., 1743, and was received, and re
mained in his family five years. In consequence
of the education of Occom, Dr. Wheelock was in
duced to form the plan of an Indian missionary
school. He conceived that educated Indians
would be more successful than whites as mission
aries among the red men. The project was new,
for the labors of Sergeant and the Brainerds, as
well as those of Eliot and the Mayhews, were
the labors of missionaries among the Indians,
and not labors designed to form a band of In
dian missionaries. Two Indian boys of the Del
aware tribe entered the school in Dec., 1754, and
others soon joined them. In 1762 Dr. W. had
more than twenty youth under his care. For
the maintenance of these Indians, funds were
obtained by subscription of benevolent individ
uals, from the legislatures of Connecticut and
Massachusetts, and from the commissioners in
Boston of the Scotch society for propagating
Christian knowledge. Joshua Moor, a farmer
at Mansfield, having made a donation of a house
and two acres of land in Lebanon, contiguous to
Dr. Wheelock's house, the institution received
the name of Moor's Indian charity school. Of
this school several gentlemen were associated
with Dr. W. as trustees ; but in 1764 the Scotch
society appointed a board of correspondents in
Connecticut, who in 1765 sent out white mission
aries and Indian school-masters to the Indians in
New York. For the enlargement of this school
Mr. Whitaker, minister of Norwich, and Samson
Occom, were sent to Great Britain in 1766. The
money which they collected for Moor's school
was put into the hands of a board of trustees in
England, of which the Earl of Dartmouth was
the head, and into the hands of the Scotch so
ciety. As the school increased, Dr. W. deter
mined to remove it to a more favorable location,
nearer to the Indians, and to establish in con
nection with it a college for instruction in all the
branches of science. Efforts were made to in
duce Dr. W. to establish the college at Pittsfield,
Stockbridge, and Albany ; but larger tracts of
land being offered in New Hampshire, he con
cluded to transplant his school to Hanover, and
there to found the college, of which a charter was
given by Gov. Wentworth in 1769. It was an
error not to have located the college at Pittsfield
or Albany, which had offered a subscription of
about 10,000 dollars. In 1770 he procured a
dismission from his people, of whom he had
been the faithful minister about thirty-five years,
and removed his school to the wilderness on the
western border of New Hampshire, and there
also laid the foundations of the college. The
school was not merged in the college, as has
been supposed, but it ever has been and is still
distinct, with a separate incorporation, obtained
at a subsequent period from New Hampshire.
Of Moor's school the earl of Dartmouth was a
benefactor, but not of Dartmouth college, to the
establishment of which he and the other trustees
of the fund were opposed, as being a departure
from the original design. It would be but an
act of justice were this college called Wheclock
college, or even Wentworth college, or Phillips
college, rather than Dartmouth. The patriarch
and his family, pupils, and dependants, consisting
of about seventy souls, resided at first in log
houses ; but the frame of a small two-story col
lege was soon set up. The first commencement
in the college was held in 1771, when four stu
dents graduated, one of whom was J. Whcelock.
At this period the number of his scholars, des
tined for missionaries, was twenty-four, of whom
eighteen were whites and only six Indians. This
alteration of his plan was the result of experi
ence. He had found that of forty Indian youth
who had been under his care, twenty had re
turned to the vices of savage life. The celebrated
Brant was one of his pupils. Among the mis
sionaries whom he employed were Occom, C. J.
Smith, T. Smith, T. Chamberlain, S. Kirkland,
L. Frisbie, and D. McClure. The Revolutionary
war obstructed in a great degree the benevolent
project which had been commenced. After be
ing at the head of the college about nine years,
he died in Christian peace, and was succeeded in
his office by his son, John Wheelock. Two of
his daughters married Profs. Woodward and
Riplcy. His daughter, Ruth Patten, died at
Hartford, Conn., Dec. 5, 1831, aged 91. His son,
Col. Eleazar, died in Ohio, suddenly, about Jan.,
1812.
Dr. Wheelock was one of the most interesting,
eloquent, and successful ministers in New Eng
land. Dr. Trumbull describes him as " of a
comely figure, of a mild and winning aspect ; his
voice smooth and harmonious, the best, by fur,
that I ever heard. He had the entire command
of it. His gesture was natural but not redun
dant. His preaching and addresses were close
and pungent, yet winning, beyond all comparison,
so that his audience would be melted even into
tears before they were aware of it." Besides his
constant labors in the ministry for about forty-five
years, he conducted his school in Lebanon about
thirty years, and then at Hanover had the double
care of the school and college for nine years.
Forest lands were to be cleared and cultivated,
various buildings erected, distant missions estab
lished and directed, funds in the difficult period
of the war were to be procured, and a multitude
of English and Indian youth were to be governed
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WHEELCCK.
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and taught. For enlarged views, and indomita
ble energy, and persevering and most arduous
toils, and for the great results of his labors in the
cause of religion and learning, perhaps no man in
America is more worthy of being held in honor
than Eleazar A\fheelock. It was a noble Chris
tian spirit, and not a selfish zeal, which governed
him. Although some lands were at first given
him, yet for his cares and labors at Hanover he
received merely the means of subsistence for his
family. His whole life was devoted to the good
of mankind. He published a narrative of the
Indian charity school at Lebanon, 1762 ; sermon
at the ordination of Charles J. Smith, 1763 ; nar
ratives in several numbers from 1763 to 1771;
continuation of the narrative, 1773, to which is
added an abstract of a mission to the Delaware
Indians west of the Ohio, by McClure and Fris-
bie ; a sermon on liberty of conscience, or no
king but Christ in the church, 1775. His me
moirs, by Drs. Me Clure and Parish, were pub
lished, 8vo. 1811, with extracts from his corre
spondence. — Sprague.
WIIEELOCK, JOHN, LL.D., second president
of Dartmouth college, died April 4, 1817, aged
63. The son of the preceding, he was born at
Lebanon, Conn., Jan. 28, 1754. After being a
member of Yale college, he removed with his
father to Hanover, and graduated in the first
class of four persons at Dartmouth in 1771.
Two of the others were Frisbie and Ripley. In
1772 he was appointed a tutor, and was devoted
to the business of instruction until the beginning
of the Revolution. In 1775 he was a member
of the assembly ; in the spring of 1777 he was
appointed a major in the service of New York,
and in Nov., a lieut. -colonel in the continental
army, under Col. Bedel. In 1778 he marched a
detachment from Coos to Albany. By direction
of Stark he conducted an expedition into the
Indian country. At the request of Gen. Gates,
he entered his family and continued with him
until he was recalled to Hanover in 1779, by the
death of his father, whom he succeeded in the
office of president at the age of 25. His associ
ates in the care of the college were Professors
"Woodward, Kipley, and Smith. The trustees in
1782 resolved to send him to Europe in order to
promote the interests of the college. With let
ters from Gen. Washington, Governors Trumbull
and Livingston, and others, he sailed from Bos
ton Jan. 3, 1783, and visited France, Holland,
and England, procuring considerable donations
for the college in money, books, etc. On his re
turn in the brigantine, Peace and Plenty, he
left Halifax Dec. 29th, and in the morning: of
O
Jan. 2, 1784, was shipwrecked on the bar off the
point of Cape Cod, losing his strong box, con
taining his money and papers. Yet his voyage
was in various respects advantageous to the col
lege. His laborious duties were now resumed
and continued for more than thirty years. Be
sides attending the daily recitations of the senior
class, he for many years delivered two public lec
tures a week on theology, and history, evincing
" the extent of his learning, the diversified pow
ers of his intellect, and the irresistible force and
pathos of his eloquence." His favorite subjects
of investigation were intellectual philosophy,
ethics, politics, and history. After faithfully serv
ing the college thirty-six years, he was removed
from office by the trustees in 1815. The cause
of this event might be found, among other cir
cumstances, in a local ecclesiastical controversy
of long continuance. This event aroused a
strong feeling of indignation, which induced the
legislature to pass an act enlarging the board of
trustees and changing the title of the college;
but the act was ultimately declared unconstitu
tional. By the new trustees he was restored to
office in Feb., 1817. But his health was by this
time effectually undermined. His wife, Maria,
the daughter of Gov. Suhm of St. Thomas, died
Feb. 16, 1824, aged 66. His only child, Maria
Malleville, wife of President William Allen, died
at Brunswick, Maine, June 3, 1828, aged 40. He
bequeathed about half his estate, consisting of
several houses, some wild lands, and some
hundred acres of leased lands in Hanover and
Lebanon, to the theological seminary at Prince
ton. To his family he said, that " he had noth
ing of his own ; all was the gift of God ; and to
him he would devote it. Trust in him and
serve him, and he will bless you." He died in
perfect composure and peace, relying for salva
tion on the atoning blood of Jesus Christ. He
prepared for the press a large historical Avork,
proposals for the publication of which were once
issued by a Boston bookseller ; but the work is
yet in manuscript. He published an eulogy on
Dr. Smith, in 1809; sketches of the history of
Dartmouth college, 1816.
WHEELOCK, EDWARD, Baptist missionary to
Burmah, died on his passage from Rangoon to
Calcutta in August, 1849. His widow, Mrs.
Jones, died at sea from Calcutta in May, 1831:
she had two children of the name of Jones.
Mr. W., in his application to the board, said :
"To Burmah would I go; in Burmah would I
live ; in Burmah would I die."
WHEELOCK, RALPH, captain, died at South-
bridge, Mass., in Jan., 1822, aged 97.
WHEELOCK, EPHRAIM, colonel, a veteran of
the Revolution, died at Medfield, Mass., in 1826,
aged 93.
WHEELOCK, JAMES R., minister of Barre,
Vt., died in Boston Nov. 24, 1841, aged 51. His
father, James of Hanover, the son of President
E. Wheelock, died in 1836, aged about 60 ; a
graduate of Dartmouth in 1776.
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WHEELOCK.
WHELPLEY.
WHEELOCK, THOMAS, died at Winchester,
N. II., in 1853, aged 91.
WHEELWRIGHT, JOHN, the founder of
Exeter, N. H., died at Salisbury, N. H., in 1679,
between 80 and 90 years of age. He came to
this country from Alford, near Boston, in Lincoln
shire. He was a graduate of Cambridge, Eng
land, a friend of Cromwell, an Episcopal minis
ter until with thirty of his brethren driven from
the church by the tyranny of Laud, and then
called the Lincolnshire Nonconformists. Pur
chasing land of the Indians, he founded Exeter,
N. H., and carried out, as his descendants main
tain, the first democratic constitution on this con
tinent. Afterwards he purchased five hundred
acres and removed to Wells ; then became the
pastor of Hampton ; and thence to Salisbury,
where he died ; but the place of his burial is not
known. After being a minister in England, he was
induced in consequence of the impositions of the
established church to come to Massachusetts soon
after its first settlement. Having married Mary
Hutchinson, he was a brother-in-law to the fa
mous Mrs. Hutchinson, and partook of her anti-
nomian zeal. He preached in Boston on a fast
day in 1G36, and his sermon was filled with invec
tives against the magistrates and ministers. The
court of magistrates in return adjudged him
guilty of sedition. As all endeavors to convince
him of his error Avere in vain, sentence of banish
ment was passed upon him in Nov., 1637. In the
year 1638, accompanied by several persons from
Braintree, where he had been a preacher, and
which was a part of Boston, he went to New
Hampshire, and laid the foundation of the church
and town of Exeter. The next year, thinking
themselves out of the jurisdiction of Massachu
setts, they combined into a separate body politic ;
but in 1642, when Exeter was annexed to Essex
county, Mr. Wheelwright, being still under the
sentence of banishment, removed with a part of
his church to Wells in the district of Maine. In
1644 he was restored to the freedom of the col
ony upon his making an acknowledgment. In
1647 he removed to Hampton, where he was
minister for several years. In 1658 he was in
England and in favor with Cromwell. After the
restoration he returned to America, and settled
as successor of William Worcester at Salisbury,
N. II., where he died. He was the oldest min
ister in the colony, and was a man of learning,
piety, and zeal. An Indian deed, alleged to
have been given to him in 1629, and which had a
bearing on the claims of Mason and Allen, Mr.
Savage in his edition of Winthrop has shown to
be a forgery. His daughter, Rebecca, married
first Samuel Maverick ; next William Bradbury
of Salisbury. Rev. R. W. Clark of Portsmouth
was a descendant. — Sprague.
WHEELWRIGHT, JOHN, j udge, died in Wells,
Me., about 1760, aged 85. He was the son of
Samuel of Wells, and the grandson of Rev. John
W. His public services were of great value. He
was deemed the bulwark of Massachusetts against
the assaults of the French and Indians on the
east. On his gravestone is the figure of a judge
in full wig, with flowing robes. He was the
great-grandfather of Ebcnezer of Newburyport.
WHEELWRIGHT, ABRAHAM, captain", died
in Newburyport Oct. 9, 1850, aged 93. He and
his brothers were once extensive merchants. —
Boston Adv., Oct. 16.
WHEELWRIGHT, JOSEPH, M. D., died at
Heathsville, Va., in 1853, aged 61. Born in
Newburyport, he graduated at Harvard in 1811,
and was forty years a physician.
WHEELWRIGHT, EBENEZER, died in New
buryport, Mass., Jan. 1, 1855, aged 91. He was
a descendant of John W. His father was Jere
miah, who went with Arnold to Quebec, who was
a grandson of Judge John W. of Wells, Me., and
he was a grandson of Rev. John W. He was a
man of inflexible integrity in business, and a
venerable Christian. Reduced in consequence of
the war of independence to comparative poverty,
yet his perseverance and energy enabled him to
bring up as he wished a large family. He had
judgment, and great benevolence, and the most
amiable domestic virtues. His wife, Anna, was
the daughter of William Coombs, a distinguished
merchant and Christian: she died Aug. 4, 1855.
aged 90. Of his nine children, eight are still
living, among whom Mary, the widow of Rev.
Dr. John Codman, is the oldest. His son Wil
liam furnishes a memorable instance of Yankee
enterprise. His name is held in the highest ven
eration in South America, where he has lived
many years. He superintended and built the
first railroad of any consequence in South Amer
ica, that from Caldera, on the seacoast, to
Copiapo, about latitude 27° S. in Chili, thence
to the mines. He also organized the Pacific
steam navigation company, and introduced water
and gas into the city of Valparaiso. Other sons
are Ebenezer of Newburyport, and Isaac W. of
Byfield, a graduate of Bowdoin in 1821 ; and
his grandson, Henry B. W. of Taunton, is skilled
in the ancestral history of the family.
WHELPLEY, SAMUEL, a minister, died in
New York in 1817, aged 51. He was born in
Berkshire county, Mass., in 1766. For many
years he resided at Morristown, N. J., where he
had the charge of an academy. About 1812 he
removed to the city of New York. He had
acutcness and originality as a writer. He pub
lished the triangle, in defence of the New Eng
land doctrines, or against three points of old
Calvinism, 2d edit., 1831 ; letters on capital pun
ishment and war ; compend of history ; lectures
on ancient history.
WHELPLEY.
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W IIELPLEY, PHILIP MELANCTHON, minister
in New York, son of the preceding, was born in
Stockbridge, Mass., in 1792; received an honor
ary degree at Princeton in 1815 ; was ordained
over the first Presbyterian church, New York,
April 25, 1815 ; and died at Schooley's moun
tain July 17, 1824, aged 31. He published a
sermon on the landing of the pilgrims at Ply
mouth, 1822 ; one before the united foreign mis
sion society in 1823.
WIIIPPLE, JOSEPH, minister of Hampton
Falls, N. H., died in 1757, aged 56. Born in
Ipswich, he graduated at Harvard in 1720, and
was ordained in 1727.
WIIIPPLE, WILLIAM, general, a patriot of
the llevolution, died Nov. 28, 1785, aged 54.
He was born at Kittery, Me., in 1730; his mother
was the daughter of Robert Cutts, a shipbuilder.
By several voyages to the West Indies he acquired
a considerable fortune. From 1759 he was con
cerned in trade at Portsmouth. Being a mem
ber of congress in 1776, he signed the declaration
of independence. In 1777 he was appointed with
Stark a brigadier-general. He fought at Sara
toga ; and was one of the officers who conducted
the prisoners to Cambridge. At the time of his
death he was a judge of the superior court.
WHIPPLE, JOSEPH, Dr., died in Boston in
1804, aged 48. He was one of the founders of
the medical society and its secretary, and was a
good physician and useful man.
WHIPPLE, ABRAHAM, commodore, died at
Marietta May 29, 1819, aged 85. His wife,
Sarah, sister of Gov. Hopkins of Rhode Island,
died in 1818, aged 79. Born in Rhode Island,
he went to sea in boyhood : he commanded the
privateer Game-cock, and in one cruise in 1759 or
1760 took twenty-three French prizes. In the
frigate Providence, in 1778, he escaped from the
blockaded harbor and carried dispatches to
France, for which service Washington wrote him
a complimentary letter. At the capture of
Charleston in 1780 he was taken prisoner, and
remained such to the end of the war. In 1784
he commanded the first vessel that unfurled our
flag in the Thames. In 1788 he emigrated to
Ohio. His daughters married Col. E. Sproat,
and Dr. Comstock of Smithfield. His life was
written by Dr. Hildreth.
WIIIPPLE, WILLIAM, an officer of the army
and navy, died at Providence in July, 1820, aged
67.
WIIIPPLE, EDWARDS, died in Shrewsbury,
Mass., Sept. 22, 1822, aged 44. Born in New
Braintree in 1778, he graduated at Williams col
lege in 1801 ; was settled in Charlton in 1804, and
dismissed in 1821; and installed Sept. 26, 1821,
in Shrewsbury, where he lived only a year. —
Nelson's Sermon on his Death.
WIIIPPLE, SOLOMON, colonel, died in Cum
berland, R. L, in 1824, aged 87. He was an
officer of the Revolution. His farm was once
the residence of Mr. Blackstone, the original
proprietor of Boston. Pawtucket river from
Whipple's bridge is called Blackstone river.
WHIPPLE, THOMAS, Dr., died at Wentworth,
N. H., in 1835, aged 50. He was a member of
congress.
WHISTLER, GEORGE W., colonel, died at
St. Petersburg April 7, 1849; chief engineer of
the Petersburg and Moscow railroad. A grad
uate of West Point, he devoted himself to civil
engineering. He was chief engineer of the rail
road between Boston and Albany. In 1842 he
went to Russia : the great railroad was com
pleted a year after his death.
WHITAKER, NATHANIEL, D. D., first minis
ter of Chelsea in Norwich, Conn., died in March,
1795, aged about 85. He was graduated at Har
vard in 1730, and was installed at Norwich Feb.
15, 1761. In 1766 Mr. Wheelock employed
him to go to England with Samson Occom, to
solicit aid for Moor's Indian school. He was dis
missed in 1772 ; his successors were Judson,
King, Hooker, Mitchell, and Dickinson. As
the pastor of the third church in Salem, Mass.,
he was installed July 28, 1769; but after a
few years' service he was dismissed in 1784,
and was installed at Norridgewock, Me. He
died in Virginia. He published a sermon at or
dination of C. J. Smith, 1763 ; on the death of
Whitefield ; two sermons on reconciliation, 1770;
confutation of Wise's churches' quarrel, etc., 1774;
sermon against toryism, 1777 ; two sermons, at
the beginning and end of the Revolutionary war ;
history of the third church, 1784.
WHITAKER, JONATHAN, minister of Sharon,
Mass., died at Henrietta, N. Y., in 1835, aged
64. Born in Salem, he graduated at Harvard
in 1797 ; was pastor from 1799 to 1816, in which
year he was installed at New Bedford as successor
"of E. Randall, of the united parish, and was suc
ceeded by O. Dewey in 1823, then by J. Angier
and E. Peabody. He published a sermon before
a bible society, 1818.
WH1TCOAT, RICHARD, one of the bishops
of the Methodist church in America, died in 1806,
at Dover, Delaware.
WHITCOMB, JOHN, a Revolutionary pen
sioner, died at Swanzey, N. H., in 1835, aged
103.
WHITCOMB, JOHN P., general, died at Har
vard, Mass., April 21, 1847, aged 50; a man of
extensive business, widely known and respected.
He had been a prominent advocate of the tem
perance cause.
WHITCOMB, JAMES, governor of Indiana,
died at New York Oct. 4, 1852, aged 60. He
was a senator of the United States, and vice-
president of the American bible society.
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WHITE.
WHITE.
WHITE, WILLIAM, one of the one hundred
pilgrims in the Mayflower to Plymouth in 1620,
died soon, Feb. 21, 1621. Edward Thompson,
his servant, died at Cape Cod Dec. 4, and never
reached Plymouth. Mr. White's widow in less
than three months after his death married Ed
ward Winslow, whose wife died March 24. His
descendants were numerous. His was the first
child born in New England.
WHITE, PEREGRINE, the first Englishman
born in New England, was born on board the
Mayflower in the harbor of Cape Cod, before
the landing at Plymouth, about Nov. 20, 1620,
and died at Marshfield July 20, 1704, aged 84.
He was the son of William and Susanna White.
The News-Letter of 1704 says: "He was vig
orous and of a comely aspect to the last." He
bore civil and military offices. The court gave
him two hundred acres of land in consideration
of his birth. A monument was proposed in 1854.
P. White's daughter, Sarah, married Thomas
Young of Scituate, and reached the age of 92.
His father died Feb. 21, and his mother made
good haste to marry, May 12, 1621, Edward Wins-
low, who was in still greater haste.
WHITE, JOHN, minister of Gloucester, Mass.,
was graduated at Cambridge in 1698, and died in
1760, aged 83. He published a book, entitled
New England's lamentations, in 1734, recom
mended by Thacher, Sewall, Prince, Webb,
Cooper, and Thacher.
WHITE, EBENEZER, first minister of Mans
field, Mass., died in 1761, aged 47. Born in
Brookline, he graduated at Harvard in 1733, and
was ordained in 1737. His successor was R.
Green, who died in 1808, at the age of 70.
WHITE, THOMAS, the first minister of Bolton,
Conn., died in 1763, aged about 63. He gradu
ated at Yale in 1720, and was settled in 1725.
G. Colton succeeded him.
WHITE, TIMOTHY, a minister at Nantucket,
died in 1765, aged 63. He graduated at Har
vard in 1720.
WHITE, DAVID, first minister of Hardwick,
Mass., died in 1784, aged 74. He graduated at
Yale in 1730, and was settled in 1736. T. Holt,
his successor, reached the same age. Mr. W.
was esteemed and very useful, and lived as pas
tor nearly fifty years harmoniously with his
people.
WHITE, STEPHEN, minister of Windham,
Conn., died in 1793, aged 75, in the fifty-third
year of his ministry. Born in Middletown, he
graduated at Yale in 1736, and succeeded president
Clap at Windham, 1740. By his wife, a sister of
E. Dyer, he had thirteen children. He was a
scholar, a Christian, an able and judicious divine.
He published a sermon on the death of Gov.
Trumbull, 1778.
WHITE, HAFFIELD, major, died at Wolf
creek near Marietta. A native of Danvers, Mass.,
he was an officer in 1775. In 1788 he removed
to Ohio. After the peace of 1795 he lived with
his son. — Hildretli.
WHITE, ALEXANDER, a distinguished mem
ber of the first congress, died at Woodville, Va.,
in 1804, aged 66. He was a man intelligent, elo
quent, patriotic.
WHITE, SAMUEL, a senator of Delaware,
died at Wilmington Nov. 4, 1809, aged 39. From
March, 1801, he was a senator till his death.
The following facts may illustrate the times a
little. In his speeches he laid his hat on the
bench before him, and his copious brief behind
his hat. On the trial of Judge Pickering, he
said, " The accused is in default, not in contempt
of court, but under the awful visitation of God ;
and, as he is deranged, our proceedings scarcely
deserve thenameof a mock trial." Wilson Carey
Nicholas, of Va., here called out, " Order, order,
order ! I will not submit to hear our proceedings
called by the name of a mock trial." Mr. W.
said to the president : " I am in order, sir, — I
repeat it, sir, it is a mock trial. I have no
wish to offend; but if that gentleman is offended,
I am ready to give him satisfaction at any time
and place." It does not appear that the presi
dent gave any rebuke at this offer before the sen
ate to fight a duel. Mr. W. was so blinded as
to think duelling justifiable ; and was second to
Gardiner in his duel with Campbell. Yet he
was a man of sense, of integrity, of polished
manners, of excellent temper ; cards and games
of hazard he detested. He was zealously opposed
to the slave trade. He Avas himself what is called
a dead shot. He and his colleague, William W.
Wells, practised in this way : one would hold a
shingle in his hand, and the other five or six paces
distant would shoot a ball through it. Then, one
would fall on his knees and set a shingle up
edgeways on his head, and the other would shoot
as before. My informant, a senator, once saw
this experiment. Had Mr. W. been married, he
might have deemed his life of more value than
he held it as a duellist.
WHITE, HUGH, judge, the first settler of
Whitestown, N. Y., died in 1812, aged 80. He
was a citizen of Middletown, Conn., when he
emigrated with his family in 1784 to the Mohawk
river at W., that region being then the abode of
savages. He lived to see the western wilderness
of New York occupied by about 300,000 inhabi
tants, being a greater population than that of his
native State.
WHITE, JOSHUA E., a physician, was a native
of Pennsylvania, and died at Savannah August
25, 1820. He published letters, being a journal
of travels in England, etc., 2 vols. 8vo., 1812.
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WHITE, Mrs., widow of Henry White, died
in New York in 1836, aged 99 ; the daughter of
Gov.Van Courtlamlt.
WHITE, LEVI, minister of Sandisfield, Mass.,
for thirty years, died at Gull Prairie, Mich., in
1836, aged 65. Born in Randolph, he graduated
at Dartmouth in 1796, and was ordained in 1798.
He admitted into the church three hundred and
thirty-nine members.
WHITE, WILLIAM, D. D., bishop of the Pro
testant Episcopal church of Pennsylvania, died at
Philadelphia July 17, 1836, aged 88. He was
born at Philadelphia April 4, 1748, and educated
at the university. In 1770 he repaired to Eng
land, and was ordained deacon and priest by Dr.
Young, bishop of Norwich. On his return to
Philadelphia, in Sept., 1772, he was settled as
an assistant minister of Christ church and St.
Peter's church. In the Revolutionary war he
was chaplain to congress. When chosen bishop
in 1786 there were only three of his brethren
present, to give him their votes. He and Bishop
Provoost of New York were consecrated in Eng
land by Archbishop Moore, Feb. 4, 1787. For the
rest of his long life he performed the duties of
pastor and bishop with ability, prudence, and
zeal, being held by his fellow-citizens in high
respect. For a long time he was senior and pre
siding bishop. At the time of his death about
thirty-two bishops had been consecrated : Bishop
Seabury in Scotland in 1784 ; Bishop Madison in
1790 in England ; almost all the others by Bishop
White. He was a voluminous author. He pub
lished memoirs of the Protestant Episcopal
church in the United States, 1820 ; comparative
views of the controversy between the Calvinists
and Arminians ; lectures on the catechism ; and
commentaries on the ordination service.
WHITE, DAVID, missionary to Africa, died at
Cape Palmas, Jan. 23, 1837, aged 29. His wife,
Helen M. Wells of Newburg, N. Y., died Jan. 27 ;
both of the fever. He was a native of Pittsfield,
Mass.; graduated at Union college, 1851; and
studied theology at Princeton. His zeal for the
spread of the gospel carried him to the post of
danger, where he had been only a few weeks when
he died. In his preaching by an interpreter, the
Sabbath before he was taken sick, he told the
people it might be the last time they would hear
his voice, and asked them what message he should
carry to the courts of heaven ? They heard him
with emotion.
WHITE, HUGH LAWSON, a senator of the
United States from Tennessee, died near Knox-
villo April 10, 1840, aged 67; a distinguished
lawyer and statesman.
WHITE, HENRY, M. D., died in Southamp
ton, L. I., Dec. 23, 1840, aged 90. He was the
son of Rev. Libanus White, fifty-four years the
minister of S. In the Revolutionary army he
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was a surgeon. Captured in a privateer, he for
seven months knew the horrors of the " Jersey "
prison-ship. For thirty-eight years he was a
ruling elder in the church.
WHITE, THOMAS W., died at Richmond, Va.,
in 1843, aged 55; editor of the Southern Literary
Messenger.
WHITE, ROBERT, judge, died in Nashville,
Tenn.,in 1844, aged 78. He came from Gallo
way, Scotland, about 1794, and settled in Vir
ginia. He was a judge of the court of errors and
appeals in Tennessee.
WHITE, JOHN, judge, speaker of the house
of representatives, in a fit of depression shot
himself in Richmond, Ky., Sept. 22, 1845.
WHITE, EDWARD D., governor of Louisiana,
died in 1847. He was twice a member of con
gress, respected and very popular.
WHITE, LEONARD, died in Haverhill, Mass.,
in 1849, aged 82 ; a venerable citizen, who had
filled various offices and had been a member of
congress. He was in the class at Harvard of his
friend J. Q. Adams, in 1787.
WHITE, HENRY, D. D., died in New York,
Aug. 25, 1850, aged 50; professor of theology in
the Union theological seminary.
WHITE, WILLIAM, a Presbyterian minister,
died in Liberty co., Ga., Feb. 1, 1851, aged 91.
WHITE, JOHN, minister in Dedham, Mass.,
died Feb. 1, 1852, aged 64. The son of Deacon
John of Concord, he graduated at Harvard in
1805. He was ordained over the third parish in
D. in 1814. His predecessors were J. Dwight,
A. Tyler, and T. Thacher.
WHITE, HENRY, died in 1846, in Christiana
village, Delaware ; a very aged Methodist min
ister.
WIIITEFIELD, GEORGE, an eloquent itiner
ant preacher, died at Newburyport Sept. 30,
1770, aged 55. He was born in Gloucester, Eng.,
Dec. 16, 1714. After having made some pro
gress in classical learning, he was obliged to as
sist his mother, who kept an inn, in her business ;
but at the age of 18 he entered one of the col
leges at Oxford. Here he became acquainted
with John and Charles Wesley, whose piety was
ardent and singular, like his own. From the
strict rules and methods of life which these young
men followed they were called Methodists, and
they were the founders of the sect thus denomi
nated. His benevolent zeal led him to visit the
poor, and even to search out the miserable objects
in goals, not only to diminish their wants, but
that he might impart to them the consolations
and hopes of the gospel. He took orders, being
ordained by the bishop June 20, 1736, and
preached his first sermon in the church at Glouces
ter. When a complaint was afterwards entered
with the bishop that by his sermon he drove fifteen
persons mad, the worthy prelate only expressed
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a wish that the madness might not be forgotten
before the next Sunday. After preaching at vari
ous places he was induced by a letter from Mr.
Wesley, who was in Georgia, to embark for Amer
ica. He arrived at Savannah May 7, 1 738. After
laboring in this place with unwearied fidelity for
several months to promote the interests of religion,
he embarked for England Sept. 6th. He was
ordained priest at Oxford by Bishop Benson, Jan.
14, 1739. In Nov. he again arrived in America,
and he travelled through the middle and southern
colonies, dispensing the gospel to immense mul
titudes. In Sept., 1740, he arrived at Rhode
Island from Savannah, having been invited by
the ministers of Boston, and he preached in dif
ferent parts of New England. At the end of
Oct. he went to New York, and he soon returned
to Georgia. He was much occupied in the es
tablishment of an orphan house near Savannah.
In Jan., 1741, he sailed for England. He arrived
again in America in Oct., 1744 ; and he now spent
between three and four years in this country. In
March, 1748, he went to the Bermudas, and in
July he reached London. Having crossed the
Atlantic for the fourth time, he arrived at
Savannah Oct. 27, 1751, and returned to his
native country in April, 1752. In his fifth visit to
the new world he remained here from May, 1754,
to March, 1755. His sixth voyage brought him
to Virginia in Aug., 1763, and he did not set sail
again for Great Britain till June, 1765. For the
seventh and last time his zeal to do good induced
him to brave the dangers of the ocean, and he
landed upon the American shore Nov. 30, 1769,
never again to leave it. After preaching in
various parts of the country, he died suddenly at
Newburyport, Mass. Few men since the days
of the apostles have labored with such indefatiga
ble zeal in preaching the gospel of salvation, as
Mr. W. He was the means of imparting the
pure principles and the elevated hopes of reli
gion to thousands both in Great Britain and
America. No preacher ever had such astonish
ing power over the passions of his auditory, or
was attended by such multitudes as he some
times addressed in the fields. Mr. Jotham Sew-
all stated that Mr. W. died on Sunday, and that
on Thursday before he heard him preach at York,
Me., on the text, " I am the way, the truth, and
the life." In his sermon he said : " How can
you be saved? By works. By works! (strik
ing the desk with great force with his hand.)
Should you see a man making a rope of sand,
with which to climb to the moon, would you not
deem him a fool ? So is the man who would be
saved by works." He also said: "In ancient
Rome a man was accused of a capital crime, and
brought into court, — when his brother, who had
lost both his hands in war for his country, presented
himself before the judges and lifted up both the
stumps of his arms [lifting up his hands with his
fists closed], and said nothing. Instantly his
brother for his sake was set free, uncondemned.
So Christ in heaven only lifts up his pierced
hands, and thus intercedes effectually for sinners."
In the early periods of his life he was guilty in
some instances of uncharitableness and indiscre
tion ; but he afterwards had the magnanimity to
confess his fauY He was in reality a man of a
very liberal and catholic spirit, for he had little
attachment to forms, and embraced all who loved
the Lord Jesus in sincerity. His life was spent
in most disinterested and benevolent exertion.
The following lines will show the opinion which
was formed of his character by the evangelical
poet, Cowper :
" lie loved the world that hated him ; the tear
That dropp'd upon his bible was sincere ;
Assail'd by scandal and the tongue of strife,
His only answer was a blameless life,
And he that forg'd, and he that threw the dart,
Had each a brother's interest in his heart.
Paul's love of Christ and steadiness unbrib'd
Were copied close in him, and well transcrib'd;
He followed Paul, his zeal a kindred flame,
His apostolic charity the same ;
Like him cross'd cheerfully tempestuous seas,
Forsaking country, kindred, friends, and ease;
Like him he labor'd, and like him content
To bear it, suffer'd shame where'er he went.
Blush, calumny ! and write upon his tomb,
If honest eulog3T can spare thee room,
Thy deep repentance of thy thousand lies,
Which, aim'd at him, have pierc'd th' offended skies;
And say, blot out my sin, confess'd, deplor'd,
Against thine image in thy saint, 0 Lord?"
His letters, sermons, controversial and other
tracts, with an account of his life, were published
in seven volumes, 8vo. 1771. — Gillies' Life of
W.; Middleman's Biog. Evang.; Parsons1, Pem-
berton's and Wesley's Sermons.
WHITEHEAD, JAMES, D. D., minister in
Norfolk, Va., and in Baltimore, died about
1808.
WHITE-HEAD, DECARI or SCHACHIPKAKA,
chief of the Winnebago Indians, on Wisconsin
river, died April 20, 1836, aged 89.
WHITEI1ILL, JOHN, judge, died at Pequea,
Lancaster county, Penn., in 1815, aged 94. He
was a member of the council of safety and of
congress, and an associate judge of Lancaster
county.
WIIITFIELD, HENRY, first minister of Guil-
ford, Conn., died in AVinchester, England, after
1650. lie was born in England in 1597, the
son of a rich lawyer, and was settled at Okely
in Surrey before he came to this country in 1639.
He continued at Guilford until 1650, when he
returned to his native country, and finished
his life in the ministry at Winchester. He was
a good scholar, a distinguished divine, and an
excellent preacher. He published the light ap
pearing more and more, etc., giving an account of
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the progress of the gospel among the Indians,
1651. — Magnalia, III. 217, 218: — Sprague.
WIIITFIELD, JOHN, a Methodist minister,
died in North Carolina in 1833, aged 88.
WIIITFIELD, JAMES, Roman Catholic arch
bishop, died at Baltimore Oct. 19, 1834, aged 64.
He was born at Liverpool in 1770. He was a
merchant, and became a prisoner under Bona
parte at Lyons, where he became acquainted with
Ambrose Marechal, afterwards archbishop of Bal
timore, whom he succeeded. He came first to
B. in 1817.
WHITING, WILLIAM, major, one of the first
settlers of Hartford in 1636, died in 1647. He
was a man of wealth and education, a magistrate,
and treasurer of the colony. — Goodwin's Gen
ealogical Notes.
WHITING, SAMUEL, first minister of Lynn,
Mass., died Dec. 11, 1679, aged 82. The son of
John W., mayor of Boston, England, he was
born in 1597, and was educated at Cambridge.
He arrived at Boston May 26, 1636. In about
a month he went to Lynn, where a church was
gathered Nov. 8. Mr. Cobbet was his colleague
for several years, and after his removal one of
his own sons was his assistant. His son, Samuel,
first minister of Billerica, died in 1713 ; Joseph
was minister of Lynn ; his daughter married Jer
emiah Ilobart. He possessed an accurate know
ledge of Hebrew, and wrote Latin with elegance.
His disposition was peculiarly amiable, and the
sanctity of his life impressed all men with re
spect for him. From his writings Norton's life
of Cotton was partly composed. He published
a treatise upon the last judgment, 1664; Abra
ham interceding for Sodom, a volume of ser
mons, 1666. — Magnalia,ia.. 156-161 ; Sprague.
WHITING, JOHN, minister in Hartford, Conn.,
died before 1689. The son of William of II., he
graduated at Harvard in 1653. He preached two
years in Salem, Mass., an assistant to Mr. Norria;
then was settled in the first church in H. ; and
next was installed in 1670 over a new, the south
church, with which he was connected till his
death. His wife was a sister of llev. J. Collins :
she married, after his death, Rev. John Russell of
Hadley. His son, William, commanded the Con
necticut troops sent to Port Royal. The Ameri
can quarterly register has by mistake printed his
name Samuel, who, graduating the same year,
was the minister of Billerica.
WHITING, JOHN, second minister of Lan
caster, Mass., was killed by the Indians Sept. 11,
1697, aged 33. The son of Rev. Samuel of Bil
lerica, he graduated at Harvard in 1685, and was
settled in 1690. He succeeded J. Rowlandson.
He was succeeded by Prentiss, Harrington,
Thayer. Surprised, away from the fort, by the
Indians, they offered him quarter ; but he chose
rather to fiyrht than to fall into their hands. His
widow, Alice Cook of Cambridge, married Rev,
T. Stevens of Glastenbury. His sister, Elizabeth,
married Rev. T. Clark of Chelmsford, Mass.
WHITING, SAMUEL, first minister of Biller
ica, Mass., died in 1713, aged nearly 80. Born
in England, the son of Rev. Samuel of Lynn, he
graduated at Harvard in 1653, and was settled
in 1663. His successors were Ruggles, Chan
dler, Cummings, Whitman, and Abbott. His
mother was a daughter of Oliver St. John, a man
of note in Cromwell's time. His son, John, was
the minister of Lancaster. A manuscript volume
of his sermons fell into the hands of his descend
ant, llev. M. G. Thomas of Concord, N. H.
WHITING, JOSEPH, died in 1717, aged 72,
the son of the first William W. He was a mer
chant of Hartford, and treasurer of Connecticut.
He married Mary, daughter of John Pynchon
and Anna Wyllys : his second wife was Anna,
daughter of Col. John Allyn, and of his wife, who
was a daughter of Henry Smith and grand
daughter of William Pynchon. His daughter,
Margaret, by his second wife, married Rev. Jona
than Marsh.
WHITING, JOSEPH, minister of Lynn, died
in 1723, aged 82. The son of Rev. Samuel, he
was born in Lynn, and graduated at Harvard in
1661, and was settled in 1680, having assisted
his father for some years before. In 1682 he
went to Southampton on Long Island.
WHITING, SAMUEL, the first minister of
Windham, Conn., died in 1725. The brother of
Rev. John, he was ordained Dec. 4, 1700, and
died at Enfield, while on a visit to his cousin and
brother-in-law, Rev. Mr. Collins. He was suc
ceeded by President Clap. He was the brother
of llev. John of Hartford. His wife was
Elizabeth, the daughter of Rev. TV. Adams of
Dedham: she was born in 1681, and died in
1766. Her second marriage was with Rev. Mr.
Niles. She died in New Haven, at the house of
her son, Col. Nathan Whiting. His daughter,
Mary, married President Clap, and died in 1736.
He published a thanksgiving sermon, 1721.
WHITING, WILLIAM, colonel, son of Rev,
John of Hartford, died about 1730. He served
in Canada. His wife was Mary, daughter of
John Allyn. His sister married Rev. S. Russell.
lie removed to Newport, R. I.
WHITING, JOHN, minister of Concord, Mass.,
twenty years, died in 1752, aged about 72. Born
in Lynn, he graduated at Harvard in 1700 ; was
tutor from 1703 to 1706, and librarian from 1707
to 1712, in which year he was ordained. He was
learned, benevolent, and rich. The first minister
of his church was P. Bulkley ; his successors
were Bliss, Emerson, and Ripley.
WHITING, JOHN, colonel, son of the preceding,
died at Windham, Conn., in 1786, aged 80. He
graduated at Yale in 1726, and was a preacher,
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then judge of probate, and a colonel. His
daughter, Mary, married H. Jones of North Car
olina ; and their daughter married Gov. Nash in
1779.
WHITING, WILLIAM, Dr., died in Great Bar-
rington Dec. 8, 1792, aged 62. Born in Nor
wich, Conn., the son of llev. Samuel of Wind-
ham, he studied with Dr. Bulkley of Colchester.
He lived in Hartford till 17G6 ; then settled in
G. B. He was a professor of religion in the
Episcopal church, and often in public life ; a
member of the provincial congress, and of the
convention to frame the constitution, and chief
judge of the court of common pleas. His son,
Mason Whiting, died in Binghamton, N. Y., in
1849, aged 74, whose wife was Mary, a descendant
of Pres. Edwards, and whose daughter, Amelia,
is the wife of Prof. W. S. Tyler of Amherst col
lege.
WHITING, EBENEZER, major, died at West-
field in 1794, aged 59. He was the son of
Charles, who died at Montville, and grandson of
Col. William. His mother was Elizabeth, daugh
ter of Samuel Bradford of Duxbury, a descendant
of Gov. Bradford. His wife was Ann, daughter
of Col. Eleazer Fitch of Windham. He resided
at Norwich, and was a major in the Revolution
ary army. His son, Henry, a brigadier-general
in the army of the United States, died at St.
Louis Sept. 10, 1851.
WHITING, WILLIAM BRADFORD, colonel, died
in Canaan, N. Y., near New Lebanon, in 1796,
aged 65. He was a colonel in the Revolution, a
senator of New York, and a judge. His accom
plished and excellent daughter Harriet — whom
the writer knew more than fifty years ago as the
friend of his sister Elizabeth — married Eleazar
Backus, a bookseller of Albany, now of Phila
delphia, if yet among the living. She died July
13, 1804, after being the mother of one child.
WHITING, SAMUEL, colonel, brother of the
preceding, died at Stratford, Conn., in 1803, aged
81. He served in the French Avar as a colonel,
and in the Revolutionary war. Four of his sons
were also in the army.
WHITING, SAMUEL, first minister of Rock-
ingham, Vt., died in 1819, aged 70. Born in
Franklin, Mass., he graduated at Harvard in
1769, and was pastor from 1773 to 1809.
WHITING, THURSTON, a minister in Warren,
Me., died in 1829, aged 79.
WHITING, JOHN, deacon, died at Canaan,
N. Y., Oct. 2, 1844, aged 80. He was the son of
Col. William B. He was ready for every good
word and work, a pillar in the church, a father in
Israel, — like thousands of others, whom God in
his grace has scattered over our land.
WHITING, JOHN, general, died in Great
Barrington Jan. 13, 1846, at an advanced age.
He was a descendant of William, in the line of
John, of the sixth generation; the son of Gama
liel. He was an eminent lawyer. His first wife
was Hannah, daughter of Col. Aaron Kellogg,
married in 1800 ; his second was Lucy Allen,
married in 1831. His son, Francis, was born in
1808; his daughter, Martha, married David
Allen.
WHITING, NATHAN, a worthy citizen of New
Haven, died Feb. 17, 1848, aged 75, the son of
Col. William B. W. By his first wife, Lydia
Backus of Norwich, he had a daughter, Harriet
B., wife of A. N. Skinner, late mayor of New
Haven ; and also Alexander, a physician in New
York. His second wife, now a widow, was Mrs.
Nancy Breed Williams of Norwich.
WHITING, EDWARD, captain, died in Nor
wich July 14, 1851, aged 74; a man of an excel
lent character, held in high esteem by his fellow-
citizens.
WHITING, HENRY, brigadier-general, died
at St. Louis Sept. 16, 1851. He was among the
oldest officers of the army. He arrived two days
before his death from a tour of duty in Texas,
and fell dead instantly in his room, probably from
disease of the heart. He lived many years at
Detroit. He was the son of Gen. John W. of
Lancaster, Mass. He was a man conversant with
literature, and wrote various articles for the
North American review, among which was the
sketch of Pres. Taylor, relating chiefly to his mil
itary life.
WHITING, GEORGE B., missionary of the
American board in Syria, died of the cholera at
Beirut Nov. 8, 1855. He was the son of John
W. and of Lydia Leffingwell of Norwich, and
grandson of Col. William B. W. He had been,
with his wife, a daughter of John Ward of Newark,
a missionary twenty-six years ; first at Beirut, then
eight years at Jerusalem. His letters to the
missionary herald were most interesting. Dr.
Smith, his associate in Syria, says, "The Ameri
can church has sent into the missionary field few
so lovely spirits as that of our brother who has
just been called to his reward."
WHITING, DANIEL, died at Philadelphia, at
the house of his son-in-law, Rev. Dr. Brainard,
June 7, 1855, aged 87. He was the son of Col.
William B. Whiting of Canaan, N. Y., and
brother of Deacon John W. of Canaan, and of
Deacon Nathan W. of New Haven. As a lawyer
he practised at Canaan, Albany, and Troy. For a
time he was a partner in a book concern in Albany
with Backus and Whiting, and editor of the Al
bany Daily Sentinel. At the bar he was conver
sant with Hamilton, Burr, Clinton, Kent, and
Spencer. He died with trust in the Saviour,
whose name he professed thirty years before his
death, under the ministry of Dr. Tucker. For
nine years he had been blind. He was the last
of a large family, distinguished for piety.
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WHITMAN, JOHN, the ancestor of a large
posterity, died at Wcymouth, at a great age,
about 1692. He came from England to Charles-
town about 1638.
WHITMAN, ZECIIARIAH, minister of Hull,
Mass., died in 1726, aged 82. He graduated at
Harvard in 1668, and was settled in 1670. The
Dorchester records describe him as " Vir pius,hu-
milis, orthodoxus, utilissimus."
WHITMAN, SAMUEL, minister of Farming-
ton, Conn., died in 17*31, aged 75. He gradu
ated at Harvard in 1696 ; was a teacher in Salem
in 1699; and was ordained in 1706. He was a
fellow of Yale from 1724 to 1746. He was pre
ceded by T. Pitkin and succeeded by S. Hooker.
His son, Elnathan, a graduate of 1726, was min
ister of the second church in Hartford from 1732
to his death in 1776. He published the election
sermon in 1714.
WHITMAN, SAMUEL, minister of Goshen,
Mass., died in 1827, aged 75. Born in Wey-
mouth, he graduated at Harvard in 1775 ; was
minister of Ashby from 1778 to 1783; then of
Goshen from 1788 to 1818. He published a ser
mon at ordination of L. Lankton ; of Mr. Hal-
lock; on baptism of Christ, 1800; a key to the
atonement and justification, 8vo., 1814; sermon
to missionary society, 1817; at Cummington,
1819; history of proceedings at Goshen, 1824. —
Spr ague's Annals.
WHITMAN, BERNARD, Unitarian minister of
Waltham, Mass., died in 1834, aged 38. He
published artillery election sermon, 1829 ; letter
on revivals, 1831 ; answer to E. Pearson's letter.
WHITMAN, KILBORN, minister of Pembroke,
Mass., died in 1835, aged about 70. Born in
Bridge water, he graduated at Harvard in 1785,
and was pastor from 1787 to 1796. His prede
cessor was T. Smith, who reached the age of 83.
He published sermon at ordination of J. Cush-
man, 1796; oration, 1798.
WHITMAN, LEVI, minister of Wellfleet,
Mass., died at Kingston in Aug., 1839, aged 90.
Born in Bridgewater, he graduated at Harvard in
1779, and was pastor at W. from 1785 to 1808.
He was a member of the convention for adopting
the constitution of the United States.
WHITMAN, JOHN, deacon, died at East
Bridgewater, Mass., Aug. 5, 1842, aged 107 years
and 4 months, a descendant of the fourth gener
ation from Miles Standish. lie had fourteen
children ; three of his sons were ministers.
WHITMAN, JASON, Unitarian minister, died
at Lexington, Mass., in 1848, aged 49. He grad
uated at Harvard in 1825; was for some years a
minister in Saco ; then secretary of the Unitarian
association in Boston, whence he removed to
Portland in 1835, and remained ten years. In
184."- he was installed at Lexington.
WIHTMOKE, EDWARD, general, was drowned
in Plymouth bay in Feb., 1761. At the second
capture of Louisburg, in 1758, he was military
governor of the place, being colonel of the twenty-
second regiment and brigadier-general.
WHITNEY, AARON, first minister of Peters
ham, Mass., died in 1779, aged 65. He gradu
ated at Harvard in 1737. He was the father of
Rev. Peter W.
WHITNEY, PETER, second minister of North-
borough, Mass., died in 1816, aged 72. Born in
Petersham, he graduated at Harvard in 1762,
and was ordained in 1767. Joseph Allen was his
successor. The first minister was John Martin,
from 1746 to 1767. He published two fast ser
mons, 1774; history of the county of Worcester,
1793 ; at ordination of P. Whitney, jun. ; on the
death of Lucy Sumner.
WHITNEY, JOSIAH, D. D., minister of Brook
lyn, Conn., died in 1824, aged 93. Born at
Plainfield, he graduated at Yale in 1752. He
studied theology with Mr. Breck of Springfield,
whose daughter he married. He was ordained
in 1756, and after being sole pastor fifty-seven
years, received as colleague, in 1813, Abiel Abbot,
who soon became a Unitarian, and was dismissed.
He published a sermon at ordination of E.
Weld; election sermon, 1788; on the death of
Gen. Putnam, 1790 ; of N. Russell, 1795 ; a half-
century sermon, 1806. — Spragne's Annals.
WHITNEY, ELI, inventor of the cotton-gin,
died Jan. 3, 1825, aged 59. He was born at West-
borough, Mass., Dec. 8, 1765. His mechanical
genius was early manifested. He graduated at
Yale college in 1792. Proceeding to Georgia,
and becoming acquainted with the widow of Gen.
Greene, she invited him to make her house his
home, while he studied law. While at her house
he invented the cotton-gin, a rrmchine for sepa
rating the seed from the cotton ; an invention of
vast importance to the States which cultivate cot
ton. It has been worth to them 100,000,000
dollars. His disappointments, difficulties, and
trials in the vindication of his rights are described .
in a memoir of his life in Silliman's journal for
Jan., 1832, which contains also a beautiful por
trait. In 1798 he commenced the manufacture
of fire-arms for the United States. His first con
tract amounted to 134,000 dollars for ten thousand
st'and of arms, which he made in ten years. His
next contract was for fifteen thousand stand of
arms. He had unequalled sufferings from his
disease. His wife, whom he married in 1817,
was Henrietta, daughter of Pierpont Edwards.
Two daughters and a son survived him. lie was
highly beloved and respected in domestic life.
For inventive power and a persevering spirit,
which never relinquished an undertaking until it
was accomplished, he had scarcely a parallel.
His name will he ranked with the names of Ful
ton, Arkwright, and Watt. Of his monument
854
WHITNEY.
WHITTLESEY.
after the model of that of Scipio at Rome, a prirt
is in Silliman's journal. Similar monuments at
New Haven have been placed over the remains of
Dr. X. Smith and Mr. Ashmun.
WHITNEY, DAVID S., died at Gainsville
Ala., in 1840. He was for years a merchant in
Northampton, Mass., and removed to the south.
His Christian character was always held in high
esteem.
WHITNEY, SARAH, Mrs., a Quaker, died at
Casco, Me., in July, 1843, aged 100 years and 8
months.
WHITNEY, PETER, minister of Quincy, Mass.,
died in 1843, aged 73. He graduated at Harvard
in 1791, and was ordained in 1800, and succeeded
by W. P. Lunt. His predecessor was A. Wibird.
WHITNEY, SAMUEL, missionary to the Sand
wich Islands, died Dec. 15, 1845, aged 52. Born
at Branford, Conn., he was two years a member
of Yale college. He arrived at Hawaii in 1820,
was licensed to preach by the missionaries in
1823, and ordained 1825. Most of his time was
spent on the island of Kanai. He said in his ill
ness, " I have fought the good fight." In twenty-
six years of service the Saviour had been with
him. " Christ is the rock on which I rest."
Throwing up his arms, he said : " And is the vic
tory won ? Glory, glory, glory ! Hail, glorious
immortality ! " Let the great warriors of the
earth look upon this dying man.
WIIITON, JOHN MILTON, D. D., died at An
trim, N. II., Sept. 28, 1856, aged 71, having been
the minister forty-five years to a day. Born in
Winchendon, Mass., he graduated at Yale in
1805. The first minister was Walter Fullington,
from 1800 to 1804. He published a history of
N. H. for schools ; a history of Antrim. In 1806
he published in the repository an account of the
ministers of Hillsborough.
WIIITTELSEY, SAMUEL, minister of Wal-
lingford, Conn., died April 15, 1752, aged 66.
He was graduated at Yale college in 1705 and
. was ordained as the colleague of Mr. Street in
May, 1710. He was one of the most distinguished
preachers and faithful ministers of the colony in
which he lived. Such was the vigor and penetra
tion of his mind, that he easily comprehended
subjects which presented great difficulties to
others. His wife was Sarah, daughter of Rev. N.
Chauncy of Ilatfield. His son Samuel was min
ister of Milford from 1738 till his death in 1768.
His son, Chauncey W., an eminent scholar, was
minister of New Haven from 1758 till his death
in 1787. He published a sermon upon the death
of John Hall, 1730; at the election; on the
awful condition of impenitent souls in their sepa
rate state, 1731 ; at the ordination of his son,
Samuel W., at Milford, 1737. — Dana's Cent.
Disc. ; Sprague.
WIIITTELSEY, SAMUEL, minister of Mil-
ford, Conn., died in 1768, aged 55. He gradu
ated at Yale in 1729, and was tutor from 1732
to 1738. He was a man of an excellent spirit
and judgment, an eminent Christian. S. An
drew preceded and S. Wales succeeded him.
WIIITTELSEY, CIIAUNCEY, minister in New
Haven, died July 24, 1787, aged 69. The son of
Rev. Samuel W. of Wallingford, he graduated
at Yale in 1738, and was ordained over the first
church in New Haven as colleague with Mr.
Noyes, March 1, 1758, and continued in office
nearly thirty years. Mr. Dana was his successor.
His wife was Elizabeth, daughter of Col. Whiting.
He published a sermon at New Haven, 1744;
to a class, 1745; on the death of A. Noyes, 1768 ;
of Mary Clap, 1769 ; at the ordination of
J. Hubbard, 1779; election sermon, 1778. —
Sprague's Annals.
WHITTELSEY, SAMUEL G., missionary at
Oodooville, Ceylon, died at Dindigal March 10,
1847, aged 38. He had gone to D., on the con
tinent, for his health. Born in Preston, he grad
uated at Yale in 1834. In 1842 he was ordained :
his station was Oodooville, at the female mission
ary seminary. He said he had rather be a mis
sionary in that dark land than to be " in Amer
ica, enjoying all the pleasures of a civilized and
Christian country."
WHITTEMORE, AARON, the first minister
of Pembroke, N. H., died in 1767, aged 55.
Born in Concord, Mass., he graduated at Har
vard in 1734, and was settled in 1737. J. Emery,
born in Andover, was his successor.
WIIITTEMORE, AMOS, inventor of the card
machine, died at West Cambridge, Mass., in
April, 1828, aged 69. He was the inventor of
the machine for sticking cards, which indicated a
powerful mechanical genius, and which was a
most useful invention. Each machine in his man
ufactory occupied no more space than a small
table ; the wire was reeled off, cut off the right
length for teeth, bent, holes were pricked in the
leather, the teeth were inserted, and this was
continued till the card was completed, and all by
the unassisted machine.
WHITTLESEY, SAMUEL, died in Utica,N. Y.,
in 1842, aged 66. Born in Litchfield, Conn.,
he graduated at Yale in 1803; was pastor at
New Preston in Washington county from 1807
to 1817 ; then was principal of the deaf and dumb
asylum at Hartford ; in 1826 he took the charge
of a female seminary in Utica ; and in 1833 be
came the publisher of the mother's magazine in
New York. — Sprague's Annals.
WHITTLESEY, FREDERIC, judge, died in
Rochester, N. Y., in Sept., 1851, aged 54 ; a mem
ber of congress and judge of the supreme court.
He was professor of law in Genesee college at
Lima. Internal improvements were earnestly
promoted by him.
WIIITTLESEY.
WIGGLESWORTH.
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WHITTLESEY, AJVNA L., Miss, died at Bei
rut May 1, 1852. She had been there one year
as a teacher in the female boarding-school. She
had a vigorous intellect and a zealous heart.
Her character is described by Dr. De Forest in
missionary herald, July, 1852.
WHITWELL, WILLIAM, minister of Marble-
head, died in 1781, aged 44. Born in Boston,
he graduated at Princeton in 1758, and was or
dained colleague with Barnard in 1762. He was
a gentleman and a Christian ; in his preaching
concise and pertinent, instructive and pathetic.
He published a sermon to mariners, 1769 ; on
the death of Mr. Barnard. — Sprague.
WI1YTE, ARCHIBALD, a minister, died at Ar-
gyle, N. Y., in 1849, aged 93 ; a learned and
pious man.
"WIBI11D, ANTHONY, minister of Quincy, Mass.,
died in 1800, aged 72. Born in Portsmouth, he
graduated at Harvard in 1747, and was ordained
in 1755. His predecessors were Thompson,
Flint, Fiske, Marsh, Hancock, Bryant; his suc
cessors, P. Whitney, and W. P. Lunt.
WICKES, ELiPHALET,died in Troy, N. Y., June
7, 1850, aged 81. He was the son of Thomas of
Iluntington, L. I. As a lawyer he lived in the
town of Jamaica until 1835. He was of integ
rity and of reputation as a lawyer. Before he
undertook a cause he endeavored to reconcile the
parties. He was an elder of the church. For
thirty years he devoted to charity a certain per
centage of his income. He founded a scholar
ship in Princeton seminary. About to die, he
said : li It may be that I am now to be called
home. Well, I have a good home to go to." —
N. Y. Observer, Oct. 19.
WIER, Mr., died in Davidson county, N. C.,
Aug. 9, 1824, aged 120. He was a native of
Germany.
WIGGIX, TIMOTHY, died at Barry, near Lon
don, early in 1856, aged 83. Born in Hopkinton,
he went into business in Boston with his elder
brother in 1798 : the firm of B. and T. W. con
tinued about twenty years, during some of which
he resided in Manchester, and there married a
lady of beauty and piety, most amiable and
agreeable. About 1826 he commenced business
as a banker in London with great success; but
giving credit largely without security, in 1836 he
lost his property ; he had considered himself
wortli a million and a half. With the aid of
friends and of the bank of England, he paid all
his debts and repaid the advances; but his own
fortune melted away to nothing. He did not
sink clown in miserable despondence ; he submit
ted to Providence without a murmur, and died
in the Christian hope of a blessed immortality.
WIGGLESWORTH, MICHAEL, a poet, was
graduated at Harvard college in 1651, and was
afterwards ordained minister of Maiden, where
he continued till his death, June 10, 1705, aged
73. His wife was Sybil Sparhawk, granddaugh
ter of Rev. Samuel Newman; she died in 1708.
He had five daughters, Abigail, Mary, Martha,
Esther, and Dorothy ; and sons, Samuel and Ed
ward. He Avas useful, not only as a minister, but
as a physician. During his illness, which occa
sionally interrupted his exertions as a preacher
for several years, he still sought to do good by
his labors as a poet. The following extract from
his sermon on wearing hair may have a peculiar
application at the present day : " It argues much
wantonness, when men shall affect a kind of
bravery, as now-a-dayes they do, by curling or
frizeling of their hair, and parting it with a seam
in the middest; it argues much effeminacy. The
Lord abhors such vanity in women ; but for men
to do it is a most loathsome thing, and a fashion
altogether unbeseeming a Christian." " Why
should we wear it at such a time as this, when
every one useth it, the very basest sort of per
sons, every ruffian, every wild-Irish, every hang
man, every varlet and vagabond shall affect long
hair, shall men of peace and honor esteem it an
honor unto them ? " He published the day of
doom, or a poetical description of the great and
last judgment, with a short discourse about eter
nity, sixth edit., 1829 ; a sermon on wearing
hair ; meat out of the eater, or a meditation con
cerning the necessity, end, and usefulness of afflic
tions unto God's children, fifth edit., 1718. —
Holmes'1 Annals.
WIGGLESWORTH, EDWARD, D. D., first
Hollis professor of divinity in Harvard college,
died in 1765, aged 72. The son of the preced
ing, he was graduated at Harvard college in
1710. After he commenced preaching, his servi
ces were enjoyed in different places. So conspic
uous were his talents, and so exemplary was he
for every Christian virtue, that when the profes
sorship of divinity in Harvard college was founded
by T. Hollis, he was unanimously appointed first
professor, and was inducted into this office Oct.
24, 1722 ; when he declared his assent to the
confession of faith in the assembly's catechism,
especially to the doctrine of the trinity and of
the eternal godhead of Christ ; also to that of
predestination and special grace. He was a
prominent writer in the controversy relating to
Mr. Whitefield, whose preaching at Cambridge
he censured. He died, conscious of the failings
of life, yet hoping for pardon through Jesus
Christ. His son succeeded him in 1765. His
daughter married Prof. Sewall. The next pro
fessor was Dr. Tappan. He published sober re
marks, 1724 ; on the duration of future punish
ment, 1729; a trial of the spirits, 1735; on the
death of Mr. Wadsworth, 1737 ; inquiry into the
imputation of the guilt of Adam's sin to his pos
terity, 1738; a letter to Mr. Whitefield, 1745;
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WILDER.
on the inspiration of the Old Testament, 1753;
two lectures on the ministers of Christ, 1754;
Dudleian lecture, 1757 ; doctrine of reprobation,
1763. — Appletoii's Sermon; Sprague.
WIGGLESWORTH, SAMUEL, minister of Ips
wich hamlet, now Hamilton, Mass., died in 1768,
aged 79. The son of Michael by his second
wife, Martha, he graduated at Harvard in 1707.
He commenced the practice of medicine in 1710,
but was settled as a minister in 1714. He pub
lished a sermon at the ordination of J. Dennis ;
of J. Warren at Wenham, 1733 ; at the elec
tion, 1733; account of Mr. Hale; a pamphlet
concerning a council; at the convention, 1751;
on death of J. Rogers, 1746 ; at a fast; two ser
mons to men enlisted, 1755 ; Dudleian lecture,
1760 ; on admitting members from other churches,
1765. — Spragne's Annals.
WIGGLESWORTH, EDWARD, D. D., the
successor of his father as the Hollis professor of
theology at Harvard, died in 1794, aged about 62.
He graduated in 1749 and was chosen professor
in 1765. He was secretary of the commissioners
of the society in Scotland for propagating the
gospel among the Indians. He was an original
member of the American academy of arts and
sciences. He published the Dudleian lecture on
the errors of the Roman church, 1777; sermon
on the death of J. Winthrop, 1779. — Sprague's
Annals.
WIGGLESWORTH, THOMAS, a rich mer
chant, died in Boston April 27, 1855, aged 79.
He was the son of Rev. Edward W. of Cambridge,
and was graduated in 1793. He was engaged
in the Russia and India trade.
WIGHT, JABEZ, minister in Norwich, Conn.,
died in 1782, aged 81. Born in Dedham, he
graduated at Yale in 1715; was pastor of the
fifth society in N. in 1726.
WIGHT, EBEXEZER, second minister of Hollis
street church, Boston, died in 1821, aged about
65. Born in Dedham, he graduated at Harvard
in 1776, and succeeded Dr. M. Byles in 1778.
His successors were West, Holley, Pierpont.
WIGHT, HENRY, D. D., died in Bristol, R. I.,
Aug. 12, 1837, aged 84. Born in Medfield, he
graduated at Harvard in 1782. For one year,
while the college exercises were suspended, he
served in the army. He was sole pastor in B.
from 1785 to 1815, and then had a colleague till
1828. He kept a daily record seventy years.
He died in peace, leaving a widow and seven
children.
AVIGIITMAN, VALENTINE, a Baptist minister,
died at Groton, Conn., in 1796, aged 76, in the
forty-second year of his ministry.
WILBUR, HERVEY, died at Newburyport
Jan. 5, 1852, aged 65. Born in Worthington,
his late education was with several ministers in
Oneida county, N. Y. As a preacher he was use
ful in various places, and was minister of Wendell
six years from 1817. Then he was at the head
of several female seminaries, and prepared and
delivered astronomical and other lectures, with
illuminated diagrams. He published a sermon
on religious education ; the reference bible ; and
various school books and manuals. — Dimmick's
Sermon.
WILCOX, JOSEPH, general, died at Marietta,
Ohio, in 1817. Before he went to the west he
lived at Killingworth and was marshal of Con
necticut, lie was an officer of the Revolution.
WILCOX, ROBERT, captain, died at Lebanon,
Conn., in 1822, aged 71 ; a native of Newport.
He was during the whole war of the Revolution
on board of ships, except when a prisoner tAvo
years. He was with Paul Jones, and was the
first who boarded from the Bon Homme Richard
the British ship Serapis, which was captured,
while the American ship sunk.
WILCOX, CARLOS, a poet and minister of
Hartford, Conn., died at Danbury of the con
sumption May 29, 1827, aged 32. He was born
at Newport, N. II., Oct. 22, 1794, but his parents
soon removed to Orwell, Vt. He graduated at
Middlebury college in 1813; studied theology at
Andover ; and, after preaching in various places,
and spending two or three years in writing his
poems, was ordained at Hartford in Dec., 1824.
In consequence of ill health he was dismissed in
May, 1826. His intimate friends, whom he com
memorated in his poetry, were Allen, Lamed,
Fisher, Parsons, Fisk, and Andrus. He had the
genius of a poet. A long and interesting ac
count of him is given in Dr. Sprague's annals.
His principal poems are the age of benevolence,
and the religion of taste, both of which were pub
lished in his remains, 8vo. 1828.
WILDE, RICHARD HENRY, born in Balti
more, was attorney-general of Georgia, and died
suddenly of a fever, as professor of law in Louis
iana at New Orleans, Sept. 10, 1847, aged 58.
For several years he was a member of congress.
He was best known as a scholar and poet. He
published a work on the love, madness, and im
prisonment of Tasso.
WILDE, SAMUEL SUMNER, LL. D., judge,
died in Boston June 12, 1855, aged 84. Born
at Taunton, Feb. 5, 1771, he graduated at Dart
mouth in 1789. He practiced law in Augusta,
Me. ; for thirty-five years from 1815 to 1851 he
was a judge of the supreme court of Massachu
setts ; then lived five years in retirement. He
was a member of the Hartford convention. His
daughter, the wife of Attorney-general C. Gushing,
died some years before him. He was skilled in
the law of real estate, and his decisions on the
common law were respected. He published ora
tion July 4, 1797 ; masonic oration, 1799.
WILDER, LUKE, captain, an officer of the
WILDER.
WILLARD.
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Revolutionary army, died at Bangor, Me., in 1836,
aged 82. Born in Lancaster, Mass., he marched
to join Stark at Bennington.
AVILDER, JOHN, minister of Attleboro', died
in 1836, aged 77. Born in Templeton, he grad
uated at Dartmouth in 1784, and was pastor as
successor of H. Weld from 1790 to 1822. He
was succeeded by T. Williams. He was a faith
ful minister, and witnessed several revivals of
religion among his people. He published sev
eral sermons.
WILDER, JONAS, of Brighton, a highly es
teemed teacher, died at Newton in June, 1839,
aged 39.
AVILDER, NATHANIEL, died at Wendell, Mass.,
Jan. 24, 1851, aged 100; a Revolutionary pen
sioner.
WILDMAN, BENJAMIN, minister of Wood-
bury, Conn., was settled colleague with Mr. Gra
ham Oct. 22, 1766, and died Aug. 2, 1812, aged
76. lie was a graduate of 1753 ; a faithful, an
imated, popular minister. Rum-drinking was an
evil custom of his day. Once he asked Dr. Bel
lamy as to the best means of persuading his peo
ple to attend meeting. The advice given was,
"Place a barrel of rum under the pulpit." —
" Ah," said Mr. Wildman, " I am afraid to do
this, for I should have the attendance of half the
church of Bethlehem every Sabbath ! " There
was then a case of discipline for intemperance
pending in that church. At a wood-bee, when
his parishioners brought loads of wood, the
custom was to ask them to drink before they
unloaded. A jocose poor man, wanting a share
of refreshment, entered the wood-yard with a
heavy log on his shoulder ; the minister cried
out to him, " Come, come, good friend ; come
in and drink before you unload ! "
WILEY, EDWARD, died in Savannah in 1850,
an honorable merchant. Born in New York, he
lived thirty years in S. In 1842 he failed in
business, and compromised with his creditors for
fifty cent's on a dollar, and obtained a full release.
But in a few years, having repaired his losses, he
paid up the entire balance.
WILEY, JOHN, M. D., died in Brooklyn in
1852, bequeathing more than 20,000 dollars to
hospitals and other charities.
WILKIN, JAMES W., general, died in Goshen,
N. Y., in 1845, aged 82. He was much engaged
in public life, and was respected and beloved.
WILKINS, DANIEL, first minister of Amherst,
N. H., died in 1785, aged about 70. He gradu
ated at Harvard in 1736, and was ordained in
June, 1741. The next minister was J. Barnard,
ordained in 1780.
WILKIXS, JOHN, general, died at Pittsburg,
Va., in 1816, aged 54.
WILKINS, JAMES C., colonel, died at Louis
ville, Ky., in 1849. Born in Pennsylvania, he
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removed about 1809 to Mississippi, and was an
eminent cotton merchant, of the firm of AVilkins
and Linton, New Orleans. He was charitable and
generous. Many merchants in difficulty experi
enced his kind aid ; the widow and orphan he
did not forget.
WILKINSON, JEMIMA, an impostor, died in
1819. She was born in Cumberland, R. I., about
1753, and was educated a Quaker. She was art
ful, bold, and zealous. About 1773, when she
recovered from a fit of sickness, in which she
had been apparently dead, she announced that
she had been raised from the dead, and had re
ceived a divine commission as a religious teacher.
Having made a few proselytes, she removed with
them to the State of New York, and settled near
Seneca and Crooked Lakes, calling her village
Jerusalem. In consequence of the dupery of her
followers, she was enabled to live in a style of
elegance, being waited upon by half a dozen
handsome girls. She inculcated poverty; but
was careful to be the owner of lands, purchased
in the name of her companion, Rachel Miller.
AVhen she preached, she stood in the door of her
bed-chamber, wearing a waistcoat, a stock, and a
white silk cravat. In a short time her followers
began to fall off.
AVILKINSON, JAMES, general, a soldier of the
Revolution, died Dec. 28, 1825, aged 68. He
was born in Maryland about 1757, and studied
medicine. In 1775 he repaired to Cambridge as
a volunteer. In 1776 he was a captain in a regi
ment which proceeded to Canada. On the sur
render of Burgoyne he carried the dispatches to
congress and received the brevet of brigadier-
general. After the peace he settled in commer
cial business in Kentucky. Again he entered the
army and had the command on the Mississippi.
In the war of 1812 he served on the northern
frontiers. Not long before his death he went to
Mexico, where he was attacked with the diar
rhoea, which is common among strangers. At
the age of 56, he married Miss Trudeau, aged 26.
He published memoirs of my own times, 3 vols.,
8mo., 1816.
AVILKINSON, ABRAHAM, died at Pawtucket,
R. I., in 1849, aged 80. AVith Slater he founded
the first cotton factories at Pawtucket.
AVILLARD, SIMON, major, of Salem, died at
Charlestown, where he was holding a court, in
1676, aged about 70. The son of Richard of
Kent in England, he came to this country in
1634 ; lived a short time at Cambridge ; in 1635
was chief of the settlers of Concord ; then lived
in Lancaster and Groton, from which last place he
was driven by the Indian war in 1676; at last he
resided in Salem. He sustained various civil
offices, and was skilful as a soldier. His wives
were Mary Sharp ; Elizabeth, sister of President
Dunster; Mary D., the cousin of the president;
WILLARD.
WILLARD.
and by these he had a goodly numbe» of children,
who might help to people a new country, — nine
sons and eight daughters. It is not known
by which of these wives President Willard was
his son. — Sprague's Annals.
WILLARD, SAMUEL, minister in Boston and
vice-president of Harvard college, died Sept. 12,
1707, aged 67. He was the son of Major Simon
W., and was born at Concord Jan. 31, 1640. He
was graduated at Harvard college in 1659. He
was afterward settled the minister of Groton in
1663; but the ravages of the Indian war drove
him from that place in 1676. G. Hobart suc
ceeded him at G. He was settled colleague with
Mr. Thacher, the first minister of the old south
church in Boston, April 10, 1678. In 1700 he
received Mr. Pemberton as an assistant minister.
After the resignation of President Mather, he as
vice-president took the superintendence of Har
vard college Sept. 6, 1701, and presided over that
seminary till his death. President Leverett suc
ceeded him. By two wives he had twenty
children. Mr. W. possessed very superior pow
ers of mind. His imagination was rich though
not luxuriant, his perception was rapid and cor
rect, and in argument he was profound and clear.
His learning also was very considerable. In
controversy he was a champion, defending the
cause of truth with courage, and with enlightened
and affectionate zeal. All his talents and acqui
sitions were devoted to God, who had created
him anew in Christ Jesus, and implanted in his
heart all the pure, and humble, and lovely virtues
of Christianity. In the time of the witchcraft
delusion he distinguished himself by opposing
the rash proceedings of the courts. The cata
logue of his writings occupied a page in Dr.
Sprague's Annals. His chief work is his body
of divinity, a folio volume, made up of monthly
lectures, delivered for nineteen years. His doc
trine of the divinity is : " There is one essence or
substance and three distinct subsistences in the
Godhead. These subsistences, which are eternal,
are relative properties, and not merely relations.
The unity of essence makes the Godhead one ;
the three subsistences make the three persons.
The Father's manner of subsistence consists in
his begetting the Son. The Son's manner of sub
sisting consists in his being begotton of the
Father. The Holy Ghost's manner of subsisting
consists in his proceeding both from the Father
and from the Son." All this theoretical expla
nation is rejected in the more modern theory of
Professor Stuart. He published a sermon to
the second church after they had received the cov
enant ; a discourse on the death of J. Leverett,
1679; of Maj. Thos. Savage, 1682 ; animadversions
on the Baptists, 1681 ; covenant-keeping the way
to blessedness ; on the fiery trial ; at a fast; elec
tion sermon, 1682 ; the child's portion, 1684 ; on
justification ; heavenly merchandise, 1686 ; on
laying hands on the bible in swearing, 1689; the
barren fig-tree's doom ; against excessive sorrow ;
the danger of taking the name of God in vain ;
on promise-keeping, 1691 ; on worshipping God ;
on discerning the times ; on the doctrine of the
covenant of redemption, 1693 ; at the election ;
at a fast ; the law established by the gospel,
1694 ; spiritual desertions discovered and reme
died, 1699; a remedy against despair; love's
pedigree ; the perils of the times displayed, the
substance of several sermons ; on the calling of
the Jews, 1700; the Christian's exercises by
Satan's temptations ; caution about swearing ; on
the death of W. Stoughton, 1701; at a fast;
Israel's true safety, 1704; fountain opened, or
blessings to be dispensed at the national conver
sion of the Jews, 1727 ; sacramental meditations.
His largest work, and the first folio volume on
divinity printed in this country, was published in
1726, entitled a body of divinity in two hundred
and fifty expository lectures on the assembly's
shorter catechism. It is considered as a work of
great merit. — Pemberton's Serm. ; Sprague.
WILLARD, SAMUEL, minister of Biddeford,
Me., died in 1741, aged 35. The son of John, a
merchant at Kingston, Jamaica, and grandson
of Rev. Samuel of Boston, he graduated at Har
vard in 1723. His wife was the daughter of
Samuel Wright of Rutland. He was the father
of President Joseph Willard. — Sprague.
WILLARD, JOSIAH, secretary of Mass., the
son of Rev. Samuel W., of Boston, died in 1756,
aged 75. He was graduated at Harvard college in
1698. In June, 1717, the king appointed him
secretary of his native province, and he was con
tinued in that station thirty-nine years till his
death. He was also a judge of the probate of
wills and a member of the council. While he
commanded the highest respect in the public offi
ces which he sustained, his heart was the abode
of all the Christian virtues. — SewalVs and
Prince's Sermons.
WILLARD, JOSIAII, first minister of Sunder-
land, Mass., died in 1790, aged 90. He was set
tled in 1718, and resigned in 1721.
WILLARD, JOSEPH, D. D., LL., D., president
of Harvard college, died Sept. 25, 1804, aged 65.
He was born at Biddeford Dec. 29, 1738, the son
of Rev. Samuel W. He was graduated at Har
vard college in 1765; and was ordained Nov. 25,
1772, as a colleague with Mr. Champney, minister
of Beverly, where he continued in the high esteem
of the people of his charge till he was elected
president in the place of Dr. Langdon. Into this
office he was inducted Dec. 19, 178.1. During
the last years of his life his usual health was un
settled. He died at New Bedford. His widow,
Mary, daughter of Jacob Sheafe of Portsmouth,
died in March, 1826. Mr. Webber succeeded
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him. He was distinguished for his acquaintance
with classical literature and with mathematical
and astronomical science. His attainments in
Greek learning have been equalled by few in
America. At the head of the university he
mingled paternal tenderness with strict authority,
and by his dignified person and deportment united
with candor, generosity, and benevolence, he se
cured at the same time respect and affection.
lie published a thanksgiving sermon, 1783 ; at
the ordination of J. McKeen, 1785 ; on the
death of T. Hilliard, 1790; at the ordination of
II. Packard, 1793 ; a Latin address on the death
of Washington, prefixed to Tappan's discourse,
1800; and mathematical and astronomical commu
nications in the memoirs of the American acad
emy. — Webber's Eulogy ; Holmes ; Pearson ;
Sprague.
WILLARD, JOHN, D. D., minister of Stafford,
Conn., died Feb. 16, 1807, aged about 76. He
was the brother of President Willard, and grad
uated at Harvard in 1751. For more than fifty
years he was a faithful minister, with little com
pensation for his services, toiling with his hands
for his own subsistence. He was respected for his
talents and acquirements, and generous kindness
to the young, who needed his aid in acquiring an
education.
WILLARD, SAMUEL, a physician, died in Ux-
bridge, Mass., in 1811, aged 63.
WILLARD, JOSEPH, son of Rev. John, died
at Lancaster, N. H., in 1827, aged 66. He
graduated at Harvard in 1784 ; was pastor in
North Wilbraham, Mass., from 1787 to 179-i;
then of Lancaster, N. H., from 1794 to 1822.
WILLARD, JOSEPH, minister of Mendon,
Mass., died in 1828, aged 86. He graduated at
Harvard in 1765, and was pastor from 1769 to
1782, and was succeeded by C. Alexander. His
predecessors were J. Emerson, G. Rawson, J.
Dorr. He next was installed in 1785 at Boxbo-
rough, where he continued nearly forty-three years.
WILLARD, SIMEON, died at Boston Sept. 20,
1848, aged 95; long known as a clock-maker.
WILLARD, ASIIBEL, Dr., died at Wrentham
Nov. 20, 1852, aged 85.
WILLARD, SIDNEY, professor of Hebrew, etc.,
at Harvard college, died Dec. 6, 1856, aged 76.
The son of President W., he graduated at Har
vard in 1798; was librarian of the college from
1800 to 1805 ; was professor of Hebrew, as suc
cessor of Dr. Pearson from 1807 to 1831. He
published a Hebrew grammar, 1817. — Boston
Advertiser, Dec. 10, 1856.
WILLES, HENRY, minister of Franklin, Conn.,
from 1718 to 1749, died in 1758. His society
was at time of settlement called West Farms,
Norwich. He was graduated at Yale in 1715.
WILLET, MARINUS, colonel, a soldier of the
Revolution, died in New York, Aug., 1830, aged
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90. He waS in fort Stanwix Aug. 3, 1777, when
it was invested by St. Leger. Aug. 6th he sallied
from the fort and bravely attacked the enemy in
order to favor the approach of Herkimer with aid ;
but II. had been defeated. In a few days he and
one officer effected a march of fifty miles through
the wilderness to German Flats, in order to urge
the sending of sufficient aid to the fort. July 10,
1781, he defeated a party of the enemy at Cor-
rey's town.
WILLEY, ANNA, Mrs., died in Concord, N. II.,
in 1835, aged 100.
WILLEY, ELIJAH F., a Baptist minister, died
at Cleveland, Ohio, in 1841, aged 55.
WILLEY, CHARLES, died in Nottingham,
N. H., Jan. 23, 1853, aged 107 : he was a soldier
of the Revolutionary war.
WILLIAMS, THOMAS, one of the Pilgrims in
the Mayflower in 1620. He died before the end
of March of the next year. lie left no descend
ant.
WILLIAMS, ROGER, the father of Providence
plantation, died in April, 1683, aged 84. He
was born in Wales in 1599, and was educated at
Oxford. After having been a minister in the
church of England, his nonconformity induced
him to seek religious liberty in America. He
arrived at Hull Feb. 5, 1631. In April he was
chosen an assistant to Mr. Skelton in the minis
try at Salem. Such was his puritanic zeal, that
he contended for a complete separation from the
English church, and even refused to join in fel
lowship with his brethren in Boston, unless they
would declare their repentance for having com
muned, before they came to this country, with
the church of England. He was of opinion, also,
that the magistrate might not punish the breach
of the Sabbath, or any violation of the precepts
of the first table. Before the close of the sum
mer he was obliged to retire to Plymouth, where
he preached as an assistant to Mr. Smith about
two years. In 1633 he returned to Salem, and,
after the death of Mr. Skelton in 1634, was the
sole minister of the church. His peculiar senti
ments and conduct soon brought him before the
court, where he was accused of asserting that
offences against the first table of the law ought
not to be punished, unless they disturbed the
public peace ; that an oath ought not to be ten
dered to an unregenerate man ; that a Christian
should not pray with the unregenerate ; and that
thanks ought not to be given after the sacrament,
nor after meat. He asserted that the Massachu
setts patent was invalid and unjust, because a fair
purchase had not been made of the Indians. He
even refused to commune with the members of
his own church, unless they would separate from
the polluted and anti-Christian churches of New
England. As he could not be induced to retract
any of his opinions, sentence of banishment was
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passed upon him in 1635. He obtained permis
sion to remain till spring ; but, as he persisted in
preaching in his own house, orders were sent in
Jan., 1636, to seize him and send him to England.
He escaped, and went with four of his friends to
Seekhonck, now llehoboth, and crossing the river
laid the foundation of a town, which, in acknowl
edgment of God's goodness to him, he called
Providence. His early associates were John
Throckmorton, William Arnold, William Harris,
Stukley AVescot, John Greene, Thomas Olney,
Richard Waterman, Thomas James, Robert Cole,
William Carpenter, Francis Weston, and Ezekiel
Holliman. lie purchased the land honestly of
the Indians; and, while he enjoyed liberty of con
science himself, he granted it to others. Having
embraced the sentiments of the Baptists, he was
baptized in March, 1639, by one of his brethren,
and he then baptized Ezekiel Holliman, and ten
others. But he soon entertained doubts respect
ing the correctness of his principles ; the church,
which he had formed, was dissolved ; and he
came to the conclusion that baptism ought not
to be administered in any mode without a revela
tion from heaven. At this period he studied the
Indian language, and used his endeavors to
impart to the savages the blessings of the gospel.
In 1643 he went to England as agent for
the colonists, to procure an act confirming their
voluntary government. He obtained a charter,
and, returning with it, landed at Boston in Sept.,
1644. Though he was still under the sentence
of banishment, a letter of recommendation from
some of the principal members of parliament
secured him from any interruption on his way
to Providence. In 1651 he went again as agent
for the colony to England, and continued there till
1654. On his return he was chosen president of
the government, in which station he was continued
till 1657, when Benedict Arnold was appointed.
Being zealous against the Quakers, he in 1672
held a public dispute with three of their most
eminent preachers, which occupied three days at
Newport and one day at Providence. Of this
dispute he afterwards published an account. His
memory is deserving of lasting honor for the
correctness of his opinions respecting liberty of
conscience, and for the generous toleration which
he established. So superior was he to the mean
ness of revenge, and such was his magnanimity,
that he exerted all his influence with the Indians
in favor of Massachusetts, and ever evinced the
greatest friendship for the colony from which he
had been driven. For some of its principal men
he preserved the highest affection, and main
tained a correspondence with them. In his con
troversial writings, especially with Mr. Cotton,
respecting toleration, he shows himself a master
of argument. His talents were of a superior
order. In the religious doctrines which he
embraced, he seems to have been remarkably
consistent. The Scriptures he read in the origi
nals. Though his writings and his conduct in
the latter period of his life evince that he was
under the influence of the Christian spirit ; yet
his mind was so shrouded in doubt and uncer
tainty, that he lived in the neglect of the ordi
nances of the gospel. He did not contend, like
the Quakers, that they were superseded, but
found himself incapable of determining to what
church it was his duty to unite himself. He
would pray and preach with all who would hear
him, of whatever denomination. If his conscience
had been enlightened, one would suppose it must
have reproved him for not partaking of the sa
crament also with different sects. His first bap
tism he appears to have renounced, not so much
because he was dissatisfied with the time or the
mode of its administration, as because it was
received in the church of England, which he
deemed anti-Christian. He published a key to
the language of America, or a help to the tongue
of the New England Indians, 8vo., 1643, which
has been reprinted in the collections of the Mas
sachusetts historical society ; an answer to Mr.
Cotton's letter concerning the power of the mag
istrate in matters of religion ; the bloody tenet of
persecution for the cause of conscience, 1644 ; the
bloody tenet yet more bloody by Mr. Cotton's
endeavor to wash it white in the blood of the
Lamb, etc., to which is added a letter to Mr.
Endicott, 4to., 1652 ; the hireling ministry none
of Christ's, or a discourse on the propagation of
the gospel of Christ Jesus ; experiments of spir
itual life and health, and their preservatives,
London, 1652; George Fox digged out of his
burrows, 1676, which was written against Fox
and Burrows, and gives an account of his dispute
with the Quakers. An answer to it was published
in 1679, entitled, a New England fire-brand
quenched. — Winthrop ; Magnolia, VII. ; Hist.
Collect.
WILLIAMS, JOHN, first minister of Deerfield,
Mass., died June 12, 1729, aged 64. He was the
grandson of Robert, who came to this country
and settled in Roxbury in 1638. He was the
son of Deacon Samuel W. ; was born in Rox
bury, Dec. 10, 1664 ; and was graduated at Har
vard college in 1683. In May, 1686, he was or
dained at Deerfield, a frontier town, much exposed
to the incursions of the savages. In the beginning
of 1704 information was received from Col.
Schuyler of Albany of the designs of the enemy
against Deerfield, and the government, at the soli
citation of Mr. W., ordered twenty soldiers as a
guard. In the night of Feb. 28th, the watch
patroled the streets, but before morning they
went to sleep. Three hundred French and
Indians, who had been hovering about the town,
when they perceived all to be quiet, surprised the
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garrison house. A party of them then broke
into the house of Mr. W., who, as soon as he was
awakened, snatched the pistol from the tester,
and put it to the breast of the first Indian that
approached, but it missed fire. The savages
seized and bound him. Two of his children, and
a negro woman of his family, were taken to the
door and murdered. His wife, the only daugh
ter of Mr. Mather of Northampton, and all his
children, excepting his eldest son, with himself
were compelled immediately to begin their march
towards Canada. In wading a small river on
the second day, Mrs. W., who had scarcely recov
ered from a late confinement, fell down ; and soon
afterwards an Indian killed her with his hatchet.
About twenty other prisoners were murdered,
because their strength began to fail them. At
length, after witnessing the most agonizing scenes
during a journey of three hundred miles, he
arrived in Canada. Here new trials awaited him,
for every exertion was made to convert this heretic
to popery. His Indian master, after seeing the
inefficacy of other methods, lifted his hatchet
over the head of his prisoner, and threatened to
kill him, if he did not instantly cross himself and
kiss a crucifix ; but Mr. W. was governed by too
elevated principles to be made to violate conscience
from regard to his life. He was redemed in 1706.
One of his daughters he was unable to bring
with him. She had become assimilated to the
Indians, and afterwards married one of them and
embraced the Rom an Catholic religion. Settling
again in Deerfield he continued in that place till
his death. He was succeeded by Mr. Ashley.
His three eldest sons, Eleazar, Stephen, and "War-
ham, were ministers of Mansfield, Springfield, and
Watertown, and were highly respected and useful.
He published warnings to the unclean, a sermon
at the execution of Sarah Smith at Springfield,
1698 ; a sermon at Boston lecture after his re
turn from Canada; God in the camp, 1707; the
redeemed captive, 12mo., which gives a minute
account of his sufferings, and has passed through
several editions ; a serious word to the posterity
of holy men, calling upon them to exalt their
fathers' God, being the abstract of a number of
sermons. — Foxcroffs Sermons ; Sprague.
WILLIAMS, WILLIAM, minister of Hatfield,
Mass., died suddenly in 1741, aged 76. He was
the son of Isaac of Newton, and grandson of
Robert of Roxbury, and graduated at Harvard in
1683, in a class of three, one of whom was his
cousin, Rev. John W. From 1685 he was pastor,
as the successor of N. Chauncy, fifty-six years till
his death, and was succeeded by Mr. Woodbridsre.
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His predecessor was Mr. Atherton. His notions
of church music differ from those of the present
age. In a sermon at Watertown in 1723 he says,
that the practices of a corrupt church are to be
condemned, " as burning of caudles, instrumental
music, sacred vestments, etc." His first wife
was Eliza, daughter of Rev. Seaborn Cotton, by
whom he had sons, who were ministers, — William
of Weston and rector Elisha ; his second wife
was Christian, daughter of Rev. S. Stoddard, by
whom he had two sons, Rev. Dr. Solomon and
Israel. A daughter married Rev. J. Ashley. He
preached a half-century sermon from his ordina
tion ; and so also did his son, Solomon ; his
grandson, Eliphalet of East Hartford ; and his
great-grandson, Solomon of Northampton. He
was a man of distinguished talents. He pub
lished a sermon at the ordination of Stephen
Williams, 1716; of Warham Williams, 1723;
of Nehemiah Bull, 1726 ; obligation of parents
to transmit religion, 1721; of baptism; the
great salvation explained in several sermons, 1717;
election sermon, 1719; convention sermon, 1726;
on the death of S. Stoddard, 1729 ; the duty and
interest of a Christian people to be steadfast ;
directions to obtain a true converson, 1736.
WILLLVMS, ELEAZAR, first minister of Mans
field, Conn., the eldest son of Rev. John W., was
graduated at Harvard college in 1708; was or
dained in 1710; and died Sept. 21, 1742, aged
33. He published the election sermon, 1723 ;
sinners invited to Christ, three sermons, 1735.
WILLIAMS, WARHAM, minister of Water-
town, Mass., west precinct, now Waltham, died
in 1751, aged 52. The son of Rev. John of
Deerfield, he graduated at Harvard in 1719, and
was ordained in 1723. As he was preaching he
was struck with palsy, four months before his
death. — Sprague.
WILLIAMS, EBEXEZER, first minister of Pom-
fret, Conn., died March, 1753, aged 62. The
son of Deacon Samuel W. of Roxbury, and
nephew of Rev. John, he graduated at Harvard
in 1709, and was ordained in 1715. His wife was
Penelope Chester, the daughter of John C. of
Wethersfield. He was a good scholar, and exerted
an influence for good. In his last days he be
came very corpulent, so that he could not reach
his feet. — Sprague.
WILLIAMS, CHESTER, minister of Hadley,
died in 1753, aged 36. The son of Rev. Eben-
ezer of Pomfret, he graduated at Yale in 1735,
and was a tutor, and was ordained about Jan.,
1741. He succeeded Mr. Chauncy and was suc
ceeded by Dr. Hopkins. His wife was Sarah,
daughter of Eleazer Porter of Hadley. —
Sprague.
WILLIAMS, WILLIAM, minister of Weston,
Mass., the son of Rev. W. W. of Hatfield, was
graduated at Harvard college in 1705, and died
in 1753, aged about 68. His wife, a daughter of
Rev. S. Stoddard, was the sister of his father's
second wife. As his widow she married William
Smith of New York. He published a sermon at
the ordination of D. Hall, Suttou, 1729; at the
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artillery election, 1737 ; on the execution of P.
Kennison for burglary, 1738; on saving faith;
at the election, 1741; on the death of Caleb
Lyman, 1742; of his wife, 1745. — Sprague.
WILLIAMS, EPHRAIM, colonel, founder of
Williams college, died in 1755, aged 40. He was
born in 1715, was the son of E. AV. of Newton,
who was afterwards one of the first settlers of
Stockbridge. In early life he made several voy
ages to Europe. Possessing uncommon military
talents, in the war between England and France
from 1740 to 1748 he found opportunity to exert
them. The command of the line of the Massa
chusetts forts on the west side of Connecticut
river was intrusted to him. At this period he
resided chiefly at Hoosac fort, which stood on the
bank of Hoosac river in Adams, and he also com
manded a small fort at Williamstown, three or
four miles distant. In 1755 he took the command
of a regiment and joined Gen. Johnson. Sept.
8th, he was sent out at the head of one thousand
men with about two hundred Indians to skirmish
with the enemy near lake George. He was am
buscaded, and in the action was killed. His party
retreated to the main body, and in another en
gagement on the same day the enemy were
repulsed, and Baron Dieskau taken prisoner.
He was a brave soldier, and was beloved by his
troops. He was aifable and facetious. His
politeness and address gained him great influence
in the general court. He bequeathed his prop
erty to the establishment of a free school in the
township west of fort Massachusetts, on the con
dition that the town should be called Williams-
town. In 1785 trustees were appointed; in 1791
the school was opened ; and in 1793 it was incor
porated as a college, under the presidency of Dr.
Eitch. It is now a flourishing seminary, which
does honor to the munificence of its founder, and
to the liberality of the general court, which has
patronized it. — Coll. Hist. Soc.
WILLIAMS, ELISHA, president of Yale col
lege, died July 24, 1755, aged 60. The son of Rev.
W. W. of Hatfield, he was graduated at Harvard
college in 1711. He was the minister of New-
ington in Wether sfield, Conn. In 1726 he was
inaugurated president in the place of Dr. Cutler ;
but his impaired health induced him in Oct., 1739,
to resign his office, and Mr. Clap succeeded him.
He now lived at Wethersfield and was soon made
a justice of the superior court. In 1745 he went
as chaplain in the expedition against Cape
Breton. In the following year he was appointed
colonel of a regiment on the proposed expedition
against Canada. He afterwards went to Eng
land, where he married a lady of superior accom
plishments. He died at Wethersfield. Dr. Dod-
dridge, who was intimately acquainted with him,
represents him as uniting in his character " an
ardent sense of religion, solid learning, consum-
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mate prudence, great candor and sweetness of
temper, and a certain nobleness of soul, capable
of contriving and acting the greatest things,
without seeming to be conscious of his having
done them." He presided at commencements
with great dignity. He married first Eunice,
daughter of Thomas Chester, a grandson of
Leonard; next Elizabeth, daughter of Ilev.
Thomas Scott of Norwich, England. Few men
have been subjected to such heavy afflictions ; yet
he bore them as a Christian. Soon after 1740 he
was bereaved of his eldest son, who was liberally
educated and of rare endowments ; then of his
eldest daughter, gifted and eminently pious; then
of his youngest son, a graduate of Yale, of great
promise. About 1750 he lost a daughter of ami
able and engaging qualities, and soon afterwards
his beloved wife was taken away from him. He
published a sermon on divine grace, 1727 ; on the
death of T. Ruggles, 1728 ; the rights and lib
erties of Protestants, 1744. — Clap's Hist, of
Tale College; Sprague.
WILLL\MS, SOLOMON, D. D., minister of
Lebanon, Conn., the son of W. W.,of Hatfield,
was born in Jan., 1701, and graduated at Har
vard college in 1719. He was ordained Dec. 5,
1722, and died Feb. 29, 1776, in the 76th year of
his age and the 54th of his ministry, having been
one of the distinguished men of his day. His
wife was Mary Porter of Hadley. He published
a sermon at the ordination of Jacob Eliot, 1730;
on the death of J. Woodward, 1741 ; of John
Robinson, 1739 ; of Rev. Eleazer Williams, 1743 ;
of Rev. J. Meacham, 1752 ; of Rev. Ebenezer
Williams, 1753; of Faith Huntington, 1775; on
a day of prayer ; election sermon, 1741 ; the
more excellent way, against enthusiasm, 1742;
Christ the king and witness of the truth, 1744;
a vindication of the Scripture doctrine of justify
ing faith, in answer to A. Croswell, 1746 ; the
true state of the question concerning the qualifi
cations for communion, in answer to J. Edwards,
1751; for success in arms, 1759; half-century
sermon, 1772. — Sprague.
WILLIAMS, STEPHEN, D. D., first minister of
Longmeadow, died June 10, 1782, aged 89, in
the 66th year of his ministry. The son of Rev.
John W., he was born at Deerfield, May 14,
1693, and Feb. 29, 1704, was carried captive by
the Indians to Canada, whence he returned Nov.
21, 1705. He was graduated at Harvard college
in 1713, and ordained over the second church of
Springfield, now Longmeadow, Oct. 17, 1716. In
1745 he went to Louisburg as a chaplain under
Pepperrell, and in 1755 he went to Lake Cham-
plain in the same capacity under Sir W. Johnson,
and in 1756 under Winslow. By the officers and
soldiers, he was held in esteem and honor. By
his first wife, Abigail Davenport, he had seven
children, three of whom were ministers ; all pres-
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ent at his funeral ; his son Stephen was minister
of Woodstock, Warham of Northford, and Nathan
of Tolland. His wife was a daughter of John
Davenport of Stamford and, sister of Ilev. John
D. Probably he was the principal means of
sending a missionary to the Houssatohnoc Indi
ans, for, Sept. 9, 1734, he went to New Haven
and engaged John Sergeant for that service. He
published a sermon at the ordination of John
Keep, Sheffield, 1772. — Spr ague's Annals.
WILLIAMS, ABRAHAM, minister of Sandwich,
Mass., died in 1784, aged 58. Born in Marlbo-
rough, he graduated at Harvard in 1744, and
was ordained in 1749. He published convention
sermon, 1757. — Sprague.
WILLIAMS, EUNICE, a captive among the In
dians, died in Canada about 1786, aged 90. She
was the daughter of Itev. John W., of Deerfield,
born in 1696, and carried captive with her father
in her 8th year. She soon forgot the English
language, became conformed to Indian habits,
and married an Indian, named John De Rogers.
She could not be persuaded to return to civilized
life. In 1740 she visited her brother Stephen at
Longmeadow ; and she made subsequent visits. —
S prague's Annals.
WILLIAMS, WARHAM, minister of Northford
society in Branford, Conn., died in 1788, aged 62.
The son of Rev. Dr. Stephen W., he graduated
at Yale in 1745; was a tutor four years; and
was ordained the first pastor at N. in 1750. By
his wife, Ann, the daughter of Rev. S. Hall of
Cheshire, he had twelve children. His second
wife was the widow of Col. Whiting of New
Haven. He was a scholar and a solid divine,
being ranked " among the weighty characters in
the ministry." At the close of life he cherished
a humble hope as to the future, but " with trem
bling." — Sprague's Annals.
WILLIAMS, SIMON, minister of Windham,
N. H., died in 1793, aged 64. Born in Ireland,
he graduated at Princeton in 1763, and was or
dained in 1766.
WILLIAMS, OTHO HOLLAND, colonel, died
in 1794, aged 45. Born in Maryland, he wa
a brave officer in the Revolutionary war ; held a
command in the Maryland line ; and was deputy
adjutant-general of the American army. At
the capture of fort Washington he was taken
prisoner. In the retreat of Greene from South
Carolina to Virginia, in the beginning of 1781, he
was intrusted with the command of the light
corps in the place of Gen. Morgan, who was in
disposed, and by his manoeuvres he greatl)
embarrassed Cornwallis in his pursuit. After the
war he resided at Baltimore. He was a firm anc
disinterested patriot as well as a gallant soldier
In the relations of private life his conduct securec
esteem.
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WILLIAMS, JOHN, a Baptist minister in Vir
ginia, died in 1795, aged 48. He was born in
flanover. He had the care of Merwin church.
He had fourteen children. His appearance was
noble and majestic.
WILLIAMS, NEHEMIAH, minister of Brimfield,
Mass., died in 1796, aged about 47. The son of
Chester Williams, minister of Hadley, he was
graduated at Harvard college in 1769. He was
ordained Feb. 9, 1775. As a preacher he was
distinguished for the energy and pathos with
which his discourses were delivered. His life was
most holy and benevolent, but on his dying bed
be declared that his hope of salvation rested
wholly upon the free and sovereign mercy of God
through Jesus Christ. At the moment of his
departure he cried, "I have finished my course
with joy," and, clasping his hands as in devotion,
expired" without a struggle. A posthumous vol
ume of twenty- four sermons was published. —
N. Y. TJieol. Mag.
WILLIAMS, EBENEZER, minister of Falmouth,
Me., died in 1799, aged about 60. Born in Rox-
bury, he graduated at Harvard in 1760 ; succeeded
Mr. Wiswall in 1765 ; and in 1798 was succeeded
by Mr. Miltimore.
WILLIAMS, SIMON F., first minister of Mere
dith, N. H., died in 1800, aged about 40. He
graduated at Dartmouth in 1785, and was pastor
from 1792 to 1798 ; and was succeeded by D.
Smith and F. Norwood.
WILLIAMS, ELIPHALET, D. D., minister of
East Hartford, Conn., died in 1803, aged 76.
The son of Rev. Solomon, he was born at Leba
non Feb. 21,1727; graduated at Yale college in
1743 ; and was ordained in March, 1748. His
predecessor, S. Woodbridge, was minister from
1705 to 1746 ; his successors were Yates, ordained
in 1801, Fairchild, and Mead. His wife was the
daughter of Rev. Warham W. Two of his sons
were ministers, Solomon W. of Northampton, and
Elisha W. of Beverly. Few ministers live, as he
lived, to preach a half-century sermon from the
time of ordination. He was an eminent minister
and an exemplary Christian, and had an unblem
ished reputation. He published a sermon on
account of the earthquake, 1755; at a thanksgiv
ing, 1760 ; at the election, 1769 ; on the death of
Gov. Pitkin, 1769.
WILLIAMS, WILLIAM, died at Dalton,Mass.,
in 1808, aged 74. He graduated at Yale in 1 754,
and was clerk of the common pleas of Hamp
shire county until 1775. He was a venerable
Christian. He married Dorothy, daughter of
Rev. Jonathan Ashley, who died in 1833, aged
89. His father, Israel of Hatfield, died in 1823,
aged 79.
WILLIAMS, HENRY, first minister of Leverett,
Mass., died in 1811, aged 67. Born in Stoning-
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WILLIAMS.
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ton, Conn., he received an honorary degree from
Dartmouth in 1782. He was settled in 1784.
WILLIAMS, WILLIAM, a patriot of the Revo
lution, died Aug. 2, 1811, aged 80. The son of
Rev. Solomon W., he was born at Lebanon, Conn.,
April 8, 1731, and was graduated at Harvard col
lege in 1751. In 1755 he belonged to the staff
of Col. Ephraim Williams, and was engaged in
the battle of lake George. In 1776 and 1777 he
was a member of congress and signed the decla
ration of independence. In his zealous patriot
ism he made great efforts and sacrifices for the
liberties of his country. His wife was a daugh
ter of Gov. Trumbull. His surviving son lived in
Lebanon. His last days were devoted to reading,
meditation, and prayer. From his youth till his
death, he was a deacon of the church and an
exemplary Christian. — Goodrich.
WILLIAMS, BENJAMIN, governor of North
Carolina, a patriot of the Revolution, was for
some years a member of congress. He was gov
ernor from 1799 to 1802, and again in 1807, and
uied July 20, 1814.
WILLIAMS, JONATHAN, brigadier-general, was
born in Boston in 1752. For many years he was
at the head of the engineer corps of the army.
He was also a member of congress. He died at
Philadelphia in May, 1815, aged G3. He pub
lished a memoir on the use of the thermometer
in navigation, 1799; elements of fortification,
transl., 1801 ; Kosciusko's manoeuvres for horse
artillery, transl., 1808.
WILLIAMS, THOMAS, Dr., died at Roxbury,
Mass., in 1815, aged 70.
WILLIAMS, AVERT, minister of Lexington,
Mass., died in 1816, aged about 34. Born in
Guilford,Vt.,he graduated at Dartmouth in 1804,
and was pastor after J. Clark from 1807 to 1815.
C. Briggs was his successor.
WILLIAMS, SAMUEL, LL. D., an historian,
died in Rutland, Vt., 1817, aged 73. He was the
son of Rev. Warham W. of Waltham, Mass. ;
was graduated at Harvard college in 1761 ; and
ordained the minister o*Bradford Nov. 20, 1765.
He was professor of mathematics at Harvard col
lege from 1780 till 1788, when he resigned and
removed to Rutland, where he preached from
1789 to 1795. For some years he was the editor
and proprietor of the Rutland Herald. He pub
lished two sermons on regeneration, 1766; at
ordination of T. Barnard, 1773 ; of J. Prince,
1780 ; on the love of country, 1775 ; at the elec
tion, 1794; evidence of personal religion, 1799;
love of country, 1799; before the centre lodge;
the natural and civil history of Vermont, in 8vo.,
1794 ; second edit, in 2 vols. 1809 ; a masonic
discourse, and several scientific papers. —
Spr ague's Annals.
WLLLIAMS, THOMAS, Dr., died in Lebanon,
Conn., in 1819, aged 83. He was the son of
Rev. Dr. Solomon W., of Lebanon ; was gradu
ated at Yale in 1756; and spent his life as a
practising physician.
WILLIAMS, ISAAC, died Sept. 25, 1820, aged
84, strong in the faith of a blessed immortality,
and rich in good deeds. He was born in Chester
county, Pa. At the age of 18 lie served as a
ranger and spy in the army of Braddock. He
settled west of the mountains in 1769, in the west
of Virginia. He made money by the entries of
lands in a singular way. By girdling a few trees
and planting a patch of corn an entry was made;
and thus he sold many lots of four hundred acres
each very cheap to new-comers. Then the owner
by paying a small sum into the treasury gained
the right of entering one thousand acres adjoin
ing. His last residence and plantation was oppo
site the mouth of the Muskingum on the Vir
ginia side of the Ohio. Of course he was likely
to hold slaves. He was so generous, that once in
a scarcity he sold hundreds of bushels of corn to
his suffering Ohio neighbors at fifty cents a
bushel, when he was offered by speculators three
times that sum. The way by which he acquired
his fine farm was this. In 1773 his wife's brother,
named Tomlinson, in reward of her services as
housekeeper, chose four hundred acres opposite
the Muskingum, girdled four acres, fenced and
planted it with corn, and gave it to her. After
thirteen years he determined to occupy it, and
built his cabin. The spot is still in the possession
of her descendants. Mr. W's adventures are
described by Ilildreth.
WILLIAMS, WILLIAM, a Baptist minister, died
at Wrentham, Mass., in 1822, aged about 75.
Born in Pa., he graduated in the first class, 1769,
at Brown university.
WILLIAMS, SAMUEL PORTER, minister of
Newburyport, died in 1826, aged 46. A descen
dant of Rev. Sol. W., he was born at Wethers-
field, Conn., Feb. 22, 1779; graduated at Yale col
lege in 1796 ; and, after being engaged in a mer
cantile employment, studied theology with Dr.
Dwight, and was ordained at Mansfield Jan. 1,
1807. After being dismissed Sept. 7, 1817, he
preached two years at Northampton, and then
succeeded Dr. Dana at Newburyport Feb. 8, 1821.
A volume of sermons, with a print and a sketch
of his life, was published in 8vo., 1827.
WILLIAMS, OTHO L., a Methodist minister,
died at Winchester, Va., in 1828, aged 45.
WILLIAMS, NATHAN, D. D., minister of Tol-
land, Conn., died April 15, 1829, aged 93. The
son of Rev. Stephen W. of Longmeadow, born
in 1735, he graduated at Yale in 1755, was or
dained at Tolland in 1760, and retired from his
active duties about 1814. His widow, Mary Hall
of Wallingford, died March 9, 1833, aged 95.
Dr. Sprague gives his remembrance of him. His
was one of the lingering white wigs remembered.
WILLIAMS.
In prayer he often said, " we earnestly pray,"
pronouncing the first syllable of earnestly as air.
He was cheerful but dignified, and full of anecdote
in conversation. lie published the election ser
mon, 1780 ; at a fast, 1793 ; an anniversary of
independence, on death of E. Hall, 1794; of Rev.
N. Strong, 1795; a dialogue on baptism and dis
cipline. — Sprague's Annals ; Puritan Recorder,
April 12, 1855.
WILLIAMS, WILLIAM S., Dr., died in Deer-
field, Mass., in 1829, aged 67.
WILLIAMS, HENRY, died in Boston in Oct.,
1830. He was an eminent miniature painter, and
he made admirable anatomical preparations.
WILLIAMS, DAVID, with Paulding and Van
Wart, one of the captors of Maj. Andre, died at
Livingstonville, N. Y., in Aug., 1831, aged 78.
WILLIAMS, JOSHUA L., minister in Middle-
town, Conn., died Dec. 29, 1832, aged 46. His
son, John M. W., of Yale college, aged 18, died
the next day; on new year's day both were buried
in one grave.
AVILLIAMS, ELISHA, a distinguished lawyer,
died at Hudson June 29, 1833, aged 59. He
was the son of Col. Ebenezer Williams of Pom-
fret, Conn., and of Jerusha Porter, the daughter
of Col. Eleazer Porter of Hadley. Both his
father and his uncle, Rev. Chester W., married
sisters. He settled in Hudson in 1799.
WILLIAMS, NATHANIEL W., died in Tennes
see, of the cholera, on board the steamboat
Mount Vernon, in 1833, aged 44. He was a
wealthy banker of Nashville, a man highly re
spected.
WILLIAMS, SOLOMON, the fifth minister of
Northampton, Mass., died in 1834, aged 82. The
son of Rev. Eliphalet W., by his wife, the
daughter of Rev. Elisha Williams, his uncle, he
graduated at Yale in 1770. He succeeded in
1778 Mr. Hooker, whose daughter he married,
and was succeeded by Dr. Tucker and Dr.
Spencer. There was but one church in N.,
until, in the last ten years of his life, there
were formed the Unitarian, Episcopal, Baptist,
and Edwards churches, and, in about ten years
afterwards, the Methodist and Catholic churches.
His widow, Mary, died in 1842, aged 85. His
excellent daughter, Mary, died in Northamp
ton in 1853, aged 67. He published a sermon
on Christ the physician, 1777 ; three sermons,
1799; to a missionary convention, 1802; three
sermons, 1805 ; historical sketch of Northampton,
1815. — Sprac/ue's Annals.
WILLIAMS, EPHRAIM, died at Deerfield,
Mass., Dec. 27, 1835, aged 75. lie was at first a
partner of Judge Sedgwick, and then a leading
lawyer in Berkshire. He was the first reporter of
the decisions of the supreme court. He was a
member of the senate and council. He pub
lished the first volume of Mass, reports.
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WILLIAMS, NATHAN, judge, died at Geneva,
N. Y., in 1835.
WILLIAMS, JOSHUA, minister at Upper Mid-
dletown, Conn., died in 1836, aged 75. He
graduated at Yale in 1780.
AVILLIAMS, JOHN W., died at Philadelphia
in 1837, aged 34. Born in Connecticut, he grad
uated at Yale in 1822. He was a lawyer, and the
editor of the American quarterly review and of
the National Gazette.
WILLIAMS, JOSHUA, D. D., minister of West
Pennsborough, Pa., died in 1838, aged 71.
WILLIAMS, NATHANIEL, teacher of the Smith
grammar school, Boston, died in 1738, aged 63.
He graduated at Harvard in 1693, and in 1698
was ordained as an evangelist for one of the
West India Islands. But the climate was found
unhealthful. On his return he succeeded Master
Chcever ; he also preached, and practised physic.
He was called " the beloved physican," his voice
and countenance doing good like a medicine. He
wrote a pamphlet on the inoculation for the
small pox. — Eliot's Biog.
AVILLIAMS, ROBKRT, Dr., a surgeon in the
Revolutionary army, died in Pitt county, N. C., in
1840, aged 82; a man highly respected for his
virtues. He was a member of the convention
which adopted the constitution of the United
States.
AArILLIAMS, DAVID, a soldier of the Revo
lution, died at Elizabethtown, N. J., in 1841,
aged 84.
AVILLIAMS, SAMUEL, died in Boston Jan.
16, 1841, aged 81 ; a Boston merchant. He lived
in London as a distinguished banker thirty years.
AA^ILLIAMS, JOHN, a Baptist minister, died at
Richfield, N. Y., in Aug., 1843, aged 100 years
and 7 months. He was a great-grandson of
Roger Williams. Ordained at the age of 25, he
long preached in Foster, R. I. He was respected
as a man of understanding and piety, and a
good citizen. He left many descendants, some
of the fifth generation.
AVILLIAMS, ELISHA SCOTT, a Baptist minister,
died at Beverly Feb. 3, 1845, aged 87. He was
born at East Hartford, the son of Rev. Eliphalet
AV., and graduated at Yale in 1775. He published
a sermon before a missionary society. — Sprague.
AATILLIAMS, JOHN, the oldest counsellor at
the Boston bar, died in 1845, aged 72; a graduate
of Harvard in 1792.
A\TILLIAMS, SIDNEY P., M. D., a physician in
Philadelphia, died March 5, 1845, aged 33 ; the
only son of Dea. E. AViliiams, of Northampton,
Mass. He graduated at Yale in 1829. AVhen
an aged father of wealth is thus made childless,
it has sometimes been seen, that, in the absence
of the claims of family pride, the claims of gen
erous charity, in obedience to the promptings of
wisdom and benevolence, have been regarded ;
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and thus great calamity, God's appointment, glori
fies God.
WILLIAMS, JOHN, Dr., died at Walpole,
N. H., in 1846, aged 97. During the war he was
a physician in Hanover, N. H.; then in Provi
dence. He was an apothecary, and physician at
Cambridge, and made much use of steam.
WILLIAMS, WILLIAM G., captain, engineer,
fell at Monterey mortally wounded, Sept. 21,
1846. He was graduated at West Point, and
for twenty-two years was a topographical engi
neer, being employed in the Cherokee country,
on the Niagara, and in Canada ; he was superin
tendent of harbor constructions, and carried on
a triangular survey of the lakes. As a painter
he was a member of the national academy of
design.
WILLIAMS, EBEXEZER, captain, an officer of
the Revolution, died at Central Bridge in Scoha-
rie co., N. Y., July 1, 1847, aged 98. The son of
Jonathan W. of Lebanon, he entered the army in
1775, and was in various battles. Through the
influence of a pious mother, he reverenced reli
gion, and was long an exemplary Christian.
WILLIAMS, JOHN D., of Roxbury or Boston,
died in Sept., 1848. He bequeathed about 50,000
dollars to the Boston asylum, to the society for
theological education, and the Mass, general
hospital.
WILLIAMS, BETSEY, a Punkapog Indian,
died at Stoughton, Mass., Feb. 2, 1848, aged 100.
WILLIAMS, THOMAS, or TAHORAGWA-
NEGEN, died Dec. 16, 1848, atCahnowaga, near
Montreal, aged 89; a chief of the Iroquois nation,
and descended from Rev. J. Williams, of Deer-
field. In the war of the Revolution he acted
with the British at Bennington and Saratoga.
He professed the Christian religion, and died re
spected and beloved.
WILLIAMS, ABIEL, minister of Dudley, Mass.,
died in 1850, aged 75. He graduated at Brown
university in 1795.
WILLIAMS, MARMADUKE, judge, died in
Tuscaloosa, Ala., in 1850, aged 78. Bornin North
Carolina, he was a member of congress from 1803
to 1809. For several years he was a judge of
the county court in Alabama, until he reached the
age of 70.
WILLIAMS, THOMAS, consul of Venezuela,
died at New York in 1852, aged 62. He was a
translator of French novels.
WILLIAMS, CHARLES K., LL. D., governor
of Vermont, died in Rutland in 1853, aged 71.
Born in Cambridge, the son of Prof. S. Williams,
he graduated at Williams college in 1800, and
was many years judge, and chief-justice of the
supreme court of Vermont. From 1850 to 1852
he was governor.
WILLIAMS, SARAH P., wife of William F.
W., missionary at Mosul, died July 1, 1854.
WILLIAMS, EDWIN, a geographer, died in
New York, Oct 21, 1854, aged 58. He was the
editor of Williams' annual register and the states
man's manual.
WILLIAMS, THOMAS W., died at New Lon
don Sept. 12, 1855, aged 40. He died of a con
gestion of the brain, after an illness of twenty-four
hours ; the only son of Gen. William Williams,
of Norwich. As an upright and skilful merchant,
engaged extensively in the whale fisheries, he
acquired great wealth, which chiefly fell into the
hands of his father, of well-known liberality and
charity. He himself was liberal and charitable.
A number of papers contained notices of his
death and character, and the sermon of Dr.
Tryon Edwards on his death, entitled, the future
unknown, were published.
WILLIAMSON, HUGH, M. D., LL. D., a
physician, died in New York in 1819, aged 83.
He was born in West Nottingham, Penn.,Dec. 5,
1735. From 1760 to 1763 he was professor of
mathematics in the college of Philadelphia. He
afterwards studied medicine at Edinburgh and
Utrecht. On his return he practised successfully
in Philadelphia. In order to procure subscrip
tions for an academy at Newark, Del., he sailed
from Boston for London Dec. 22, 1773, and was
examined before the privy council in Feb., 1774,
on the subject of the destruction of the tea at
Boston. Dr. Hosack and Thacher give a minute
account of the manner in which he at this period
procured personally very adroitly and at great haz
ard, from a public office in London, the famous let
ters of Hutchinson and Oliver, which Franklin sent
to Massachusetts. The account is fortified by let
ters of Bishop White, James Read and John
Adams. Mr. Read received the account from the
lips of Dr. Williamson, and John W., a brother,
confirmed the account to Dr. Hosack. All this is
an extraordinary mistake ; for those very letters
were made public in Boston and acted upon by
the legislature in June, 1773, six months before
Dr. Williamson set sail from Boston for London.
After his return in 1776 he resided in North Caro
lina. In 1780 he was surgeon in the militia
under Caswell. After the peace he was for five
or six years a member of congress ; he also as
sisted in framing the constitution of the U. S.
In his last years he resided in New York. He
published a discourse on the benefit of civil his
tory, 1810; observations on the climate of Amer
ica, 1811; history of North Carolina, 2 vols. 8vo.,
1812 ; and many medical and philosophical com
munications. — Thacher.
WILLIAMSON, MATTHIAS, a Revolutionary
officer and a lawyer, died in Elizabethtown, N. J.,
in 1836, aged 84. He was in the commissary
department.
WILLIAMSON, JACOB, judgp, a soldier of
the Revolution, died in Amwell, N. J., in 1841,
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aged 83. He was benevolent and kind and
highly respected.
WILLIAMSON, ISAAC II., died at Elizabeth-
town, N. J., July 10, 1844, aged 67. He was
governor and chancellor of the State from 1817
to 1829. He was an able jurist, an excellent
officer, a citizen highly respected and beloved.
WILLIAMSON, WILLIAM DURKEE, died at
Bangor May 27, 1846, aged 66. Born in Can
terbury, Conn., he graduated at Providence in
1804. He commenced the practice of law at B.
in 1807. In the first legislature of Maine he was
a senator, and a member of congress in 1821;
afterwards a judge of probate until 1840. He
published a history of Maine in two volumes,
1832.
WILLIS, ELIAKIM, minister of Maiden, Mass.,
died in 1801, aged nearly 87. Born in Dart
mouth, Mass., he graduated at Harvard in 1735,
and was ordained in 1752. A. Green succeeded
him in 1795. The two first ministers of the town
were M. Matthews and M. Wigglesworth.
WILLIS, HENRY, a soldier of the llevolution,
died at Newark, N. J., in 1842, aged 85; buried
with military honors.
WILLIS, ZEPIIANIAH, minister of Kingston,
died March 6, 1847, aged 99. Born in Bridge-
water, he graduated at Harvard in 1778, and
survived all his classmates. He was pastor from
1780 to 1828, nearly fifty years. Stacy, Macarty,
and Hand preceded him ; Cole was his successor.
WILLIS, NATHAN, general, died at Pittsfield,
Mass., June 16, 1851, aged 88. His father was
Nathan of West Bridgewater, descended from
John Willis, who lived in Duxbury in 1637, and
at Bridgewater in 1656, dying in 1693. He mar
ried first a daughter of Col. Tupper of the Ilev-
olutionary army. Living in Rochester, he was
its representative in 1800, and senator for years
from 1806. After 1813 he removed to Pittsfield,
and was for several years in the public service.
In his politics he was denominated a republican.
In his old age he made a profession of his Chris
tian faith, and became a member of the church.
WILLISTON, NOAH, minister of West Haven
in North Haven town, Conn., died in 1811, aged
77. He was born in Springfield, Mass., the
grandson of Joseph W., and graduated at Yale
in 1757. His wife was a daughter of his prede
cessor, Mr. Birdseye, who lived to be 103 years
old. His two sons, Payson and David Howe,
were ministers ; and his two daughters married
ministers : Sarah married R. S. Storrs, and Han
nah married E. Kingsbury.
WILLISTON, E. B., president of Jefferson
college, Miss., died at Norwich, Vt., in 1837,
aged 37.
WILLISTON, RALPH, minister of Zion's
church, died in Hempstead, L. I., in 1839, aged 65 ;
formerly rector of Zion's church in New York.
WILLISTON, SETII, D. D.,died in 1851, agec
80. lie was a cousin of Dr. Payson W., a grad
uate of Dartmouth in 1791. In 1796 he preached
at Chenango, when there was only one meeting
house to the west beyond, in the State of New
York, and that was Mr. Grover's log-house, at
Bristol, near Canandaigua. In 1809 he was set
tled at Durham, N. Y. ; after some years he was
dismissed. He was the author of several books :
lectures on the moral imperfections of Christians,
1846 ; harmony of divine truth ; vindication of
the doctrines of the reformation.
WILLISTON, PAYSON, D. D., died at East-
hampton, Mass., Jan. 30, 1856, aged 92 years and
7 months. The son of Rev. Noah W. of West
Haven, he graduated at Yale in 1783, was settled
the first minister of Easthampton in 1789, and
resigned in 1833, after a faithful ministry of
forty-four years. He lived to see a little settle
ment in the wilderness grown into a large town
of two churches, the seat of prosperous and ex
tensive manufactures, conducted by his own son,
and that son the founder and benefactor of a
large and excellent academy in the same town.
In 1853 his name was the first not starred in the
Yale catalogue. Dr. Woodbridge of Hadley
preached his funeral sermon. He was well and
able to make visits until within a few days of his
death. He published a sermon in a volume of
sermons, 1799; a half-century sermon from his
settlement, 1839. — Sprague's Annals.
WILLOUGHBY, FRANCIS, deputy-governor
of Massachusetts, died in Charlestown in 1671.
He was in office during his last six years. What
is supposed to be his journal, written in cypher,
is preserved in the library of the antiquarian
society at AYorcester. — Budington.
WILLSON, HORACE, Dr., died in Clarksburg,
Md., in 1847, aged 54. He was skilful, and en
gaged in the public service as a legislator.
WILMER, WILLIAM H., D. D., president of
William and Mary college, Va., died at Williams-
burg in 1827.
WILMER, SIMON, Episcopal minister in
Charles county, Md., died in 1840, aged 66.
WILSON, JOHN, first minister of Boston, died
Aug. 7, 1667, aged 78. He was born at Wind
sor, England, in 1588, and was the son of Rev.
Dr. Wm. W. He was educated at King's col
lege, Cambridge, where he obtained a fellowship ;
but was deprived of it for his nonconformity to
the English church. After studying law for three
years at one of the inns of court, he directed his
attention to theology, and was a chaplain in sev
eral honorable families. He then settled in the
ministry at Sudbury in Suffolk. In 1629 he came
to this country in the same fleet with Gov. Win-
throp. Charlestown was fixed upon as a place
of settlement, and Mr. Wilson and Mr. Phillips
preached under a tree. A church was formed on
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Friday, July 30th, and Aug. 27th, Mr. Wilson
was ordained as teacher by the imposition of
hands. This ceremony was performed by some
of the brethren merely as a sign of his election
to be their minister, and not because he had re
nounced his former ordination. In a few months,
when the greater part of his church removed
across the river to Shawmut, or Boston, he ac
companied them. In 1631 he returned to Eng
land for his wife, whom he had left behind,
enjoining it upon Gov. Winthropand some other
brethren to prophesy, or to impart instruction
and give exhortations in the church during his
absence. In Oct., 1632, thirty-three members
were dismissed to form a new church at Charles-
town. They had Mr. James for their pastor, to
whom Mr. Symmes was soon united as teacher.
In Nov., Mr. Wilson was again ordained as pastor.
In the following year he received Mr. Cotton as
his colleague, and after his death Mr. Norton,
July 23, 1656. He survived them both. Mr.
Davenport succeeded him. His daughter mar
ried Rev. E. Rogers ; his youngest, Mary, mar
ried Rev. S. Danforth. Mr. Wilson was one of
the most humble, pious, and benevolent men of
the age in which he lived. Kind affections and
zeal were the prominent traits in his character.
Such was his readiness to relieve the distressed,
that his purse was often emptied into the hands
of the needy. Every one loved him, and he was
regarded as the father of the new plantation.
He appears frequently to have possessed a partic
ular faith in prayer. Events sometimes occurred
according to his predictions. The blessings pro
nounced by him had been observed to be so pro
phetical, that on his death-bed the most consid
erable persons brought their children to him to
receive his benediction. Having a most wonder
ful talent at rhyming, he used to write pieces of
poetry on all occasions, and to send them to all
persons. He was also a great anagrammatist.
Dr. Mather thinks that he made more anagrams,
and made them more nimbly, than any man since
the days of Adam. They generally conveyed
some religious truth or advice. But it was not
always the case that the letters of his anagram
corresponded with those of the name. It was
perhaps in pleasant allusion to this discordance,
as well as in reference to the hospitable temper
of Mr. Wilson, that Mr. Ward, the witty author
of the simple cobbler of Aggawam, said that the
anagram of John Wilson was, " I pray come in,
you are heartily welcome." In the early periods
of his life his discourses were very correct ; but
as he advanced in years his sermons consisted
principally of exhortations, admonitions, and
counsels without much connection or method, but
delivered with affectionate warmth. He partook
of the common error of his times in calling upon
the civil magistrate to punish those who were
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deemed heretical in doctrine. His portrait is in
the library of the historical society. He pub
lished in England some helps to faith, 12mo. In
this country an extemporary sermon, 1665, was
taken down by a stenographer and afterwards
published. — Sprague's Annals.
WILSON, JOHN, minister of Medfield, Mass.,
died in 1691, aged about 68. The son of the pre
ceding, he graduated in the first class at Har
vard college in 1642 ; was ordained as colleague
with R. Mather at Dorchester in 1649 ; but after
two years removed to Medfield, where he was
minister forty years.
WILSON, MATTHEW, D. D., a physician and
minister, died in Lewes, Del., March 31, 1790,
aged 61. He was born in Chester county, Penn.,
in 1729. He studied medicine with Dr. Mc
Dowell, a physician and minister, and himself
sustained those offices twenty-four years ; he also
for years had the charge of an academy at New
ark. He was a profound theologian and a good
Hebrew and classical scholar, truly benevolent
and pious, mild, affable, and courteous. In the
time of the Revolution his patriotic zeal was
ardent. He resolved to drink no more tea, and
obliged his wife and children to deny themselves.
He published a paper, proposing seventeen
plants as a substitute. But his wife's sister, on a
visit from Philadelphia, infringed his domestic
regulation ; she brought tea with her, and as it
was of the " old stock," which paid no duty, " tea
she would drink." He published a history of a
malignant fever, 1774 ; remarks on the cold
winter of 1779-1780; an essay to prove that
most diseases proceed from miasmata in the air,
1786. — Thacher.
WILSON, JAMES, judge, died in 1798, aged
56. A patriot of the Revolution, he was born in
Scotland about 1742. After being educated at
Edinburgh, he came to Philadelphia in 1766.
and studied law with J. Dickinson. Being a
member of congress from 1775 to 1777, he
signed the declaration of independence. Being
a member of the convention which framed the
constitution of the United States, he was chair
man of the committee which reported it ; he was
also a member of the State convention which
ratified it. In 1789 he was appointed a judge of
the supreme court of the United States. He
died at Edenton, N. C., while on a circuit. lie
was eminent as a lawyer and judge, and was pro
fessor of law in the university of Pennsylvania.
His works, including his lectures, are in 3 vols.
8vo., published 1804.
WILSON, JAMES, minister in New York, suc
cessor of Dr. Rodgers, died in 1799, aged 47.
Born in Scotland, he was pastor from 1785 to
1788 : then he became a minister in Charleston,
S. C.
WILSON, ALEXANDER, an ornithologist and
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poet, died in Philadelphia Aug. 23, 1813. He
was born at Paisley, Scotland, and came to this
country in 1794. Becoming acquainted with
Mr. Bartram of Philadelphia, he was induced to
devote himself to the study of natural history.
He commenced in 1808 the publication in seven
volumes, 4to., of his most interesting and valua
ble work, the American ornithology, with colored
plates. An 8vo. edition has since been published.
Besides his ornithology, he published the forest
ers, a poem, in portfolio, n. s. vol. I.; in Scot
land he published the laurel disputed, a poem on
Allan Ilamsay and Robert Ferguson, 1791 ; and
Watty and Meg, a poem, 1792. The eighth
and ninth volumes of his ornithology were pub
lished by Mr. Ord in 1814 ; the ninth has an
account of Wilson. Charles Lucien Bonaparte
has published three supplementary volumes, fol.,
1825-1828.
WILSON, PETER, LL. D., professor of Greek
and Latin in Columbia college, N. Y., died at
Hackensack, N. J., in Aug., 1826, aged 79. He
was a distinguished scholar. He published a
learned work on Greek prosody.
WILSON, SAMUEL, M. D., a physician, died
in 1827, aged 64. He was born at Charleston,
S. C., Jan. 26, 1763, the son of Dr. Robert W.,
an eminent physician. At the age of seventeen
he fought under Marion in the Revolutionary
war. He went to Edinburgh in 1784 to pursue
the study of medicine. In 1791 he was associ
ated in business with Dr. Alexander Baron ; in
1810 with his brother, Dr. Robert W. ; and after
wards with his sons, Drs. Isaac and Samuel W.
Many young physicians were instructed by him.
He was a respected physician ; an amiable, be
nevolent man ; an elder and communicant in the
church for thirty years.
AVILSON, JAMES P., D. D., minister in Phil
adelphia, was first a distinguished lawyer, and
then was for many years the pastor of the first
Presbyterian church. He died at his residence
in Bucks county, Dec. 10, 1830. His general
knowledge and talents and his usefulness and
excellent character caused him to be regarded
as one of the most distinguished men of this
country. He published lectures on the parables
and the historical parts of the New Testament,
8vo., 1810.
WILSON, WILLIAM, minister at Augusta, Va.,
died Jan. 1, 1S36, aged 83.
WILSON, Mrs., wife of Dr. A. E. Wilson,
missionary in Africa, died at Mosika Sept. 18,
1836. Her name was Mary J. Smithey of Rich
mond, Va.
WILSON, JAMES, an eminent lawyer and
member of congress, died at Keene, N. H., in
1839, aged 72.
WILSON, JAMES, a Presbyterian minister,
died at Providence in 1839, aged 80. He re
ceived an honorary degree at Brown university
in 1798.
WILSON, ALEXANDER E., M. D., missionary
to Africa, died at Cape Palmas in 1840, aged 36.
Born in Mecklenburg county, N. C., he received
a college education. He embarked in 1834 for
Cape Town : he was at Port Natal in 1837. His
wife was Mary Hardcastle of New York. His
last sermon was from the text, " There remaineth
a rest unto the people of God." He died in
peace, relying on the atonement; he asked for
the singing of Cowper's hymn, " There is a foun
tain fill'd with blood." With great fervor he
gave his exhortations to the living.
WILSON, JOSHUA L., D. D., died in Cincin
nati Aug. 14, 1846, aged 72. Born in Virginia,
he was brought up in Kentucky as a blacksmith,
but became a minister, first in Kentucky, then in
1808 as pastor of the only Presbyterian church
in Cincinnati, where for many years he was the
chief minister of the highest character and influ
ence, the most popular until the arrival of Dr
Beecher in 1832. His church was so large that
in 1833, after the colonizing of the second church,
five hundred and eighteen members remained.
Dr. W., in the division of the Presbyteria.i
churches in 1837, attached himself to the old
school. In his prosecution of Dr. Beecher, his
justification or excuse was a conviction that
his teachings were erroneous and pernicious.
Perhaps he was not aware of an imperiousness of
will and of other human imperfections.
WILSON, JOHN, a lawyer, died at Belfast,
Me., in 1848, aged 71. He graduated at Har
vard in 1799.
WILSON, NATHANIEL, died in Boston in 1849,
aged 60 ; purser in the U. S. navy. He was in
the battle of Plattsburg. He left his property,
25,000 dollars, to his native town, Belfast, Me.,
for the purposes of education.
WILSON, HENRY R., D. D., died at Phila
delphia in 1849, aged 69.
WILSON, JAMES G., died at Plainfield, N. J.,
in 1850, aged 41 ; a printer and publisher and
bookseller. The New Yorker, the N. Y. Whig,
the Empire State, and the Brother Jonathan
were published by him ; also, the Weekly Dis
patch.
WILSON, WILLIAM, a painter of high repu
tation, died at Charleston, S. C.,in 1851.
WILSON, ROBERT I)., D. D., died in South
Salem, Ross county, Ohio, April 17, 1851, aged
84.
WINCHELL, JAMES M., minister in Boston,
died in 1820, aged 28. The son of Col. Martin
E. W., he was born in Duchess county, N. Y., in
1791 ; was graduated at Brown university in
1812; and succeeded Mr. Clay in the first Bap
tist church in Boston March 30, 1814. He died
of the consumption. lie published Watts'
870
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hymns, arranged according to the subjects ; two
discourses, containing a history of his church,
1819.
WINCHESTER, JONATHAN, first minister of
Ashburnham, Mass., died in 1767, aged 51. Born
in Brookline, he graduated at Harvard in 1737,
and was settled in 1760. He was succeeded by
J. Gushing.
WINCHESTER, ELHANAN, an itinerant
preacher of the doctrine of restoration, died at
Hartford, Conn., in April, 1797, aged 45. He
was born in Brookline, Mass., in 1751. Without
an academical education he commenced preach
ing, and was the first minister of the Baptist
church in Newton. In 1778 he was a minister
on Pedec river in South Carolina, zealously teach
ing the Calvinistic doctrines, as explained by Dr.
Gill. In the following year his labors were very
useful among the negroes. In 1781 he became
a preacher of universal salvation in Philadelphia,
where he remained several years. He afterwards
endeavored to propagate his sentiments in vari
ous parts of America and England. His system
is very similar to that of Dr. Chauncy. He pub
lished a volume of hymns, 1776; a plain politi
cal catechism for schools ; a sermon on restora
tion, 1781 ; universal restoration, in four dia
logues, 1786; lectures on the prophecies, Ameri
can edit., 2 vols. 8vo., 1800.
WINCHESTER, SAMUEL G., minister of
Natchez, Miss., died in New York in 1841, aged
39 ; a man of remarkable talent and greatly
beloved.
WINDER, WILLIAM H., general, died in
1824, aged 49. He was born in Somerset
county, Maryland, in 1775, and practised law
at Baltimore. In the war of 1812 he was
first a colonel, then brigadier-general. At the
buttle of Bladensburg he commanded the troops.
On the return of peace he resumed his profession.
WINDER, LEVIN, governor of Maryland,
died July 1, 1819, aged 63. He was a soldier of
the Revolution. He was governor during the
war with Britain from 1812 to 1815. In 1816 he
was a member of the Maryland senate ; he was
also a general of the militia.
WINDS, WILLIAM, general, died in New Jer
sey in 1789, aged about 62. His residence was
one mile from Dover, Morris county, on the road
to Rockaway. He was born in Southold, L. I.
He purchased a large tract of land in New Jer
sey, and was one of the founders of the Presby
terian church in Rockaway, and bequeathed to it
more than half his property. In 1775 he was
lieutenant-colonel in Lord Stirling's regiment.
In 1776 he was colonel, and led his regiment to
Ticonderoga. He was a large, athletic man, and
had a most powerful voice, of which, on one oc
casion, he made a very good use. Commanding
a small detachment near Hackensack, he found
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that a much larger force of the enemy was ad
vancing against him. Unwilling to retire, he
awaited their approach to within half a mile and
in the hearing of his voice, when he roared out
the command, " Open to the right and left, and
let the artillery through ! " As the enemy were
not prepared to meet cannon, on hearing this
they fled. He had his singularities. He was ex
citable, stern, and of an imperious temper. He
once during service in church applied his wagon-
whip to some unruly boys present. To a cooper,
who, from laziness, neglected to prepare some
barrels at the time agreed upon, he applied his
hickory, saying in no mild tones, " I will teach
you to lie, and be lazy too ! " With his soldiers
he was very popular. Two of them, being out
of provisions, put a stone in their camp-kettle
when Winds was expected. As he inquired,
" Well, men, any thing to eat ? " they replied,
"Not much." — "What have you got in that
kettle ? " Their answer was, " A stone, general,
for they say there is some strength in stones, if
you can only get it out ! " He replied : " There
ain't a bit of strength in it. You must have
something better to eat." Then he rode off to a
Quaker's house, and offered the good woman
money for a part of her batch of bread. She
said, "Thee cannot have it to help men to fight."
" I don't care a fig about thee and thou, but I
want the bread." Then he seized the bread, and,
throwing down the money, carried it off in his
bag to his hungry men. Rev. John Darley, pas
tor at Parsippany, attended him as a physician,
drew up his last will, preached his funeral ser
mon, and wrote his epitaph. — N. T. Evangelist,
Oct. 23, 1856.
WIND SHIP, JONATHAN, captain, a skilful
horticulturist, died in Roxbury in 1847.
WINDSHIP, CHARLES WTILLIAMS, a physi
cian, died in Roxbury Aug. 27, 1852, aged 78.
The son of Dr. Amos W. of Boston, he gradu
ated at Harvard in 1793. He was skilful, and
practised in the western country, in Havana,
Cuba, in Boston and Roxbury.
WINES, ABIJAH, died in 1833, aged 60.
Born in Southold, L. I., of Welsh extraction, he
graduated at Dartmouth in 1794, and was or
dained at Newport, N. II.. in 1796, having studied
theology with Dr. Emmons. In 1818 he became
a teacher in the Maine charity school at Bangor,
but in a year he removed to Deer Island, where
he preached twelve years. His mind became
disordered, and he died in the hospital at Charles-
town, and was buried at Amesbury, where his
son-in-law, Rev. B. Sawyer, lived. He published
a sermon on depravity, 1804 ; the sinner's inal.il-
ity, 1812; vain amusements; merely amiable
man no Christian; moral young men; ordina
tion of B. Sawyer at Cape Elizabeth. — Spraync's
Annals.
WINGATE.
WIXGATE, JOSHUA, colonel, the son of J. W.,
an early settler at Dover, N. H., was at the con
quest of Louisburg in 1745, and died at Hamp
ton, aged about 90. His son, Paine, was minister
of Amesbury ; and his son, Paine, was the oldest
living graduate of Harvard.
"WIXGATE, PAINE, minister of Amesbury,
Mass., died in 1780, aged 83 or 86. Born in
Hamilton, N. H., he graduated at Harvard in
1723, and was settled. in 1720, being the pastor
sixty years. He was the first minister of the
second church. He was the father of Judge
Wingate.
AVIXGATE, PAINE, judge, died at Stratham,
N. H., March 7, 1838, aged 98. He was born at
Amesbury May 14, 1739, the son of Ilev. P. W.,
was graduated at Harvard in 1759, and ordained
at Hampton Falls in 1763. After his dismission
in 1771 he engaged in agriculture at Stratham.
He was a member of congress under the confed
eration in 1787, and a senator from 1789 to
1793; a member of congress 1793-1795. From
1798 to 1809 he was a judge of the superior
court of New Hampshire. He was highly re
spected and esteemed. He had lived with his
wife three-quarters of a century. She was a sis
ter of Timothy Pickering, and died Jan. 7, 1843,
aged 100 years and 8 months.
WIXGATE, JOSHUA, general, died in Port
land Xov. 6, 1843, aged 70. Born in Haverhill,
Mass., he was graduated at Harvard in 1795,
and then was a merchant in Hallowell. Accom
panying his father-in-law, Gen. Dearborn, to
AVashington, he was for years chief clerk in the
war department. Afterwards he was collector
of Bath, which office he resigned in 1822. He
was president of the branch bank of the United
States.
WIXSHIP, JOSIAII, minister of Woolwich,
Me., died Sept. 29, 1824, aged 86. Born in
Cambridge, lie graduated in 1702. Ordained
June 12, 1765, he was fifty-nine years minister.'
WINSLOW, GILBERT, one of the pilgrims
in the Mayflower to Plymouth in 1620. He was
born in 1600, and was a brother of Edward ; but
he soon left the colony, and went, it is supposed,
to Portsmouth, and died before 1600.
WIXSLOW, EDWARD, governor of Plymouth
colony, died May 8, 1655, aged 59. The son of
E. W., he was born in Worcestershire in 1595.
In his travels, becoming acquainted with Mr.
Ilobinson at Ley den, he joined his church, and
accompanied the first settlers of New England in
1020. He was one of the party which discov
ered the harbor of Plymouth. Possessing great
activity and resolution, he was eminently useful
in the establishment of the colony. When the
first conference was held with Massassoit, he of
fered himself as a hostage. In June or July,
1621, he visited the sachem, accompanied by
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871
S. Hopkins, with Tisquantum, or Squanto, an In
dian, for a guide ; on his way to Pakanokick, the
Indians at Namaschet gave him the best enter
tainment in their power, supplying him with the
spawn of shad and a kind of bread, called by
them Maizium. On arriving at the residence of
the king, he presented to him a horseman's laced
coat of red cotton, and when arrayed with it the
savage seemed wonderfully delighted. In 1022
he made a voyage to Monhegan Island, to pro
cure a supply of bread from the fishing vessels.
In March, 1623, on hearing that Massassoit was
sick, he made him a second visit, having, as he
says, " one master John Hampden, a gentleman
of London, who then wintered with us, and de
sired much to see the country, for my consort,
and Hobbamoc for our guide." This was proba
bly the celebrated Hampden, for he resided at
that period in London; in Jan., 1621, he took
his seat in James' third parliament, which was
dissolved in about twelve months, and the next
one did not sit till Feb., 1624. In this interval
Hampden could visit Plymouth. On arriving at
Narragansett, the king was found extremely sick j
but the skilful attendance of Mr. Winslow was
the means of restoring him to health. In his
gratitude, Massassoit disclosed a plot of the
" Massachuseuks," which was suppressed by
Standish. In the autumn of 1623 Mr. W. went
to England as an agent for the colony, and re
turned in the following spring with a supply of
necessaries and the first cattle which were intro
duced into New England. He went again to
England in 1624 and returned in 1625.
In 1633 he was chosen governor, Mr. Bradford
being importunate not to retain the office, but to
have some one appointed in his place ; he was
again elected governor in 1636 and 1044. He
frequently went to the Penobscot, Kennebec, and
Connecticut rivers on trading voyages. Going
to England as an agent in 1635, he was thrown
into the Fleet prison for seventeen weeks, on the
complaint of T. Morton, for teaching in the church
at Plymouth, and for performing the ceremony
of marriage. He exerted his influence in Eng
land to form the society for propagating the gos
pel in New England, which was incorporated in
1049, and of which he was an active member.
In 1055 he was appointed one of the commission
ers to superintend the expedition against the
Spaniards in the West Indies. The troops were
defeated by an inconsiderable number of the
enemy near St. Domingo. In the passage be
tween Hispaniola and Jamaica he died of a fever,
and was buried in the ocean. His wife died March
24, 1621; his second wife, whom he married
May 12, 1621, was Susanna, widow of Wm. White.
This was the first marriage in New England. lie
published good news from New England, or a
relation of things remarkable in that plantation,
872
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to which is annexed an account of the Indian
natives, 1623. His account is republishod in
Bclknap, and abridged in Purchas. He published
also hypocrisy unmasked, relating to the com
munion of the Independent with the Reformed
churches, 1646; and the same in 1649 with anew
title, the danger of tolerating levellers in a
civil State, or a narration, etc. ; New England's
salamander discovered, or a satisfactory answer
to many aspersions cast upon New England, 1647 ;
reprinted in Mass. hist, coll., XXII., 110-145;
and a narration of disturbances made in New
England by Samuel Gorton and his accomplices,
4to., 1649. — Bellmap's Amer. Biog., II.
WINSLOW, JosiAH, governor of Plymouth,
the son of the preceding, died at Marshfield,
Dec. 18, 1680, aged 51. He was chosen gov
ernor in 1673 as successor of Mr. Prince, and was
continued in this office till 1680. In Philip's war,
being commander of the Plymouth forces, he
evinced himself a brave soldier. He married,
perhaps about 1655, Penelope Pelham, daughter
of Herbert P. of Boston. He was general-in-
chief of the united colonies in 1678, and governor
for seven years from 1673 till his death. His print
is in the N. E. Register of Oct., 1850, taken from
a painting belonging to Isaac Winslow, the only
descendant of the name, which is now in the hall
of the Massachusetts historical society. He was
an accomplished man and a delightful companion,
and his magnificent hospitality was enhanced by
the charms of a beautiful wife. She died in 1703,
aged 72. His son, Isaac W., a councillor and
general, died in 1738, aged 67.
WINSLOW, JOHN, major-general in the Brit
ish service, was the grandson of the preceding.
He was a captain in the unfortunate expedition
to Cuba in 1740, and afterwards major-general
in the several expeditions to Kennebec, Nova
Scotia, and Crown Point in the French wars.
He died at Hingham in April, 1774, aged 71.
His son, Dr. Isaac W., died at Marshfield in
1819, aged 80.
WINSLOW, JOHN. M.D., died at Marshfield,
Mass., in 1814, aged 80.
WINSLOW, HARRIET, wife of Miron Wins-
low, missionary to Ceylon, arrived at Jaffna in
Feb., 1820, and died at Oodoville Jan. 14, 1833.
Her memoir, by her husband, was published in
1835. Her name was Harriet W. Lathrop of
Norwich, Conn.
WINSLOW, BENJAMIN I)., assistant minister
at St. Mary's church, Burlington, N. J., died in
1839, aged 24. Born in Boston, he graduated
at Harvard in 1835. Bishop Doane published a
volume of his sermons and poetical remains. —
Cycl. of Amer. Lit.
WINSLOW, ANNE, wife of M. Winslow, mis
sionary at Madras, died June 20, 1843; her
name was Anne Spiers, daughter of Mr. Spiers,
born in Cuddalore, but brought up in England.
She was married in 1838.
WINSLOW, ISAAC, died at Roxbury July 26,
1856, aged 82; long a merchant in Boston, a de
scendant of John, the brother of Edward W.
He had a literary taste and read much in the
bible. The only notice he desired was, he said,
this : " He fell asleep in Jesus, — to God be the
glory ! "
WINTER, FRANCIS, a -patriot of the Revolu
tion and chaplain, died in Bath, Me., in 1826,
aged 81. He graduated at Harvard college in
1765.
WINTHROP, JOHN, the second governor of
Massachusetts, died March 26, 1649, aged 61.
He was born at Groton in Suffolk, England, Jan.
12, 1588. His father, Adam, was a lawyer, as
was his grandfather, Adam, who was of eminence
in his profession and a lover of the gospel in the
reign of Henry VIII. He was himself bred to
the law, though inclined to theological studies.
Having converted a fine estate of 6 or 700 pounds
per annum into money, he embarked for America
in the forty-third year of his age, as the leader of
a company of emigrants to Massachusetts, and
with a commission as governor. Endicott had
been two years governor before him, being an
associate of a company in London, who chose
the governor and council. He was the first gov
ernor under the colonial charter. But when
Winthrop came, the company transferred the gov
ernment to Massachusetts. He arrived at Salem
June 12, 1630, and soon removed to Charles-
town, and afterwards crossed the river to Shaw-
mut or Boston. In the three following years he
was re-chosen governor, for which office he was
eminently qualified. His time, his exertions, his
interests were all devoted to the infant plantation.
In 1634 Mr. Dudley was chosen in his place, but
he was reelected in 1637, 1638, and 1639, and in
1642, 1643, 1646, 1647, and 1648. He died worn
out by toils and depressed by afflictions. Mr.
Endicott succeeded him. He was the husband
of four wives, and the father of thirteen children.
His first wife was Mary, the daughter of John
Forth, and by her he had sons, John, Henry, and
Forth, and three daughters ; his second was the
daughter of William Clopton ; his third was Mar
garet, daughter of Sir Tindal Knight, and she
came to Massachusetts, and by her he had chil
dren, Adam, Stephen, Deane, Samuel, Anne,
William ; his fourth was Martha, the widow of
Thomas Coytmore, who lost his life by shipwreck,
and by her he had a son, Joshua. From his son
John descendc'd most of the Winthrops ; from
his son Adam descended Prof. Winthrop of Cam
bridge. He was a most faithful and upright
magistrate and exemplary Christian. He was at
first very mild in the administration of justice;
but he afterwards yielded to the opinions of others,
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who thought that severer discipline was necessary
in a new plantation. Not having a high opinion
of a pure democracy, when the people of Connec
ticut were forming a government, he wrote them
a letter, in which he observed : " The best part
of a community is always the least, and of that
least part the wiser are still less." In a speech
to the general court he took occasion to express
his sentiments concerning the power of the magis
tracy and the liberty of the people : "You have
called us," said he, " to office ; but, being called,
we have authority from God, it is the ordinance
of God, and hath the image of God stamped upon
it ; and the contempt of it hath been vindicated
by God with terrible examples of his vengeance.
There is a liberty of corrupt nature, which is in
consistent with authority, impatient of restraint,
the enemy of truth and peace, and all the ordi
nances of God are bent against it. But there is
a civil, moral, federal liberty, which consists in
every one's enjoying his property, and having
the benefit of the laws of his country, a liberty
for that only which is just and good ; for this
liberty you are to stand with your lives." In the
course of his life he repeatedly experienced the
versatility of the public opinion ; but, when he
was left out of office, he possessed perfect calm
ness of mind, and still exerted himself to serve
his country. In severe trials his magnanimity,
wisdom, and patience were conspicuous. He de
nied himself many of the elegancies of life, that
he might give an example of frugality and tem
perance, and might exercise liberality without
impoverishing his family. He was condescend
ing and benevolent. In a severe winter, when
wood was scarce, he was told that a neighbor was
wont to help himself from the pile at his door.
" Does he ? " said the governor in seeming anger.
" Call him to me, and I will take a course with
him that shall cure him of stealing." When the
man appeared, he addressed him thus : " Friend,
it is a cold winter, and I hear you are meanly
provided with wood ; you are welcome to help
yourself at my pile till the winter is over." He
afterwards asked his informant, " Whether he
had not put a stop to the poor man's stealing ? "
Though he was rich when he came to this coun
try, yet, through his devotion to public business
while his estate was managed by unfaithful ser
vants, he died poor. He was so much of a theo
logian that he sometimes gave the word of
exhortation in the church. His zeal against
those who had embraced erroneous doctrines
diminished in his latter years. He was careful
in his attendance upon the duties of public and
of family worship. Governor's Island, in the
harbor of Boston, was granted to him, and still
remains in the possession of his descendants. He
procured a law against the heathenish practice
of health-drinking. From his picture it appears
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that he wore a long beard. He kept an exact
account of occurrences and transactions in the
colony down to the year 1648, which was of great
service to Hubbard, Mather, and Prince. It was
not published till the year 1790, when it was
printed in 8vo. A manuscript of the third vol
ume of Winthrop's history was found in 1816 in
the New England library, kept in the tower of
the old south church. Mr. James Savage trans
cribed it, and, adding notes to this and the work
already printed, published a new edition in 2 vols.
8vo., 1825. Besides adding valuable notes, he
collated the former manuscripts with the edition
of 1790, and corrected many errors and suggested
amendments. His model of Christian charity,
written on shipboard, is in hist, coll., 3d series,
vol. vii; the Winthrop papers are in vols. IX.
and x. — Mather's Magnalia, n. 8-15 ; Bel-
knap's Biog. II. 337-338.
WINTHROP, JOHX, F. R. S., governor of
Connecticut, died in Boston April 5, 1676, aged
70. He was the son of the preceding, and his
fine genius was improved by a liberal education
in the universities of Cambridge and of Dublin,
and by travel upon the continent. He arrived at
Boston in Oct., 1635, with authority to make a
settlement in Connecticut, and the next month
dispatched a number of persons to build a fort
at Saybrook. Pie was chosen governor in 1657,
and again in 1659, and from that period he was
annually reflected till his death. In 1661 he
went to England and procured a charter, incor
porating Connecticut and New Haven into one
colony. His second wife, Elizabeth Read, was
the daughter of Col. Read, whose widow married
Hugh Peters ; and thus, by mistake, it is some
times said that he married a daughter of Hugh
Peters. Roger Williams calls Mr. Peters the
father of John Winthrop, jun. He possessed a
rich variety of knowledge, and was particularly
skilled in chemistry and physic. His valuable
qualities as a gentleman, a Christian, a philoso
pher, and a magistrate secured to him universal
respect. He published some valuable communi
cations in the philosophical transactions. — Felt.
WINTHROP, FITZ JOHN, F. R. S., governor
of Connecticut, the son of the preceding, died
Nov. 27, 1707, aged 68. He was born March 14,
1639. In 1689 he was major-general of the
army sent to operate against Canada. In 1694
he was agent of the colony to Great Britain, and
rendered such service that the legislature pre
sented him with 500 pounds. He was governor
from 1698 till his death. His son, John, a grad
uate of Harvard college in 1700, and who died
in England in 1747, was a learned man, and a
member of the royal society.
WINTHROP, WAITSTILL, major-general, son
of Gov. J. Winthrop, of Conn., died in Boston
Sept. 7, 1717, aged 75. Born at Boston in 1642,
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he was a member of Andros' council and of the
first council under the new charter, 1692. His
wife was Mary, daughter of William Browne of
Salem. His son, John, a graduate of 1700, a
fellow of the royal society, married a daughter
of Gov. J. Dudley, and died in 1747 ; and his
son, John Still, who died in 1776, aged 56, had
five sons, — John, a graduate of 1770 ; Francis
Bayard and William, of New York ; Joseph of
Charleston, S. C. ; and Thomas Lindall, lieuten
ant-governor. Gen. W., with another executor
of his father's will, sold the ten-hill farm in
Charlestown, of six hundred acres, for 3300
pounds, to widow Elizabeth Lidgett. The curious
and long Latin epitaph on the death of Gen. W.,
together with an English translation, may be
read in Mr. Bridgman's memorials of the dead
in Boston. It seems, that, in addition to his mil
itary office and that of chief justice, he was also
a physician, for the epitaph says :
" He that under this stone now sleeps in death
Still lives in the hearts of thousands,
Whose livea he has prolonged."
It says also of him and the three governors
reposing with him :
" Four Winthrops lie buried in this tomb,
Who were sufficient to enrich even the four quarters of the
earth.
He is unacquainted with the history of New England
Who is ignorant of this family."
WINTHROP, JOHX, LL. D., F. R. S., Hollis
professor of mathematics and natural philosophy
in Harvard college, died at Cambridge May 3,
1779, aged 64. He was the son of Adam
Winthrop, a member of the council, and a de
scendant of the governor of Massachusetts. He
was graduated in 1732. In 1738 he was ap
pointed professor in the place of Mr. Green
wood. He immediately entered upon the duties
of this office and discharged them with fidelity
and high reputation through life. In 1761 he
sailed to St. John's in Newfoundland, to observe
the transit of Venus over the sun's disk, June 6th,
agreeably to the recommendation of Mr. Halley.
When the day arrived, he was favored with a
fine, clear morning, and he enjoyed the inexpres
sible satisfaction of observing a phenomenon
which had never before been seen, excepting by
Mr. Horrox in 1639, by any inhabitant of the
earth. He was distinguished for his very inti
mate acquaintance with mathematical science.
His talents in investigating and communicating
truth were very rare. In the variety and extent
of his knowledge he has seldom been equalled.
He had deeply studied the politics of different
ages; and he was thoroughly acquainted with
the controversy between Christians and deists.
His firm faith in the Christian religion was
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founded upon an accurate examination of the
evidences of its truth, and the virtues of his life
added a lustre to his intellectual powers and sci
entific attainments. In his family he devoutly
maintained the worship of the Supreme Being.
While he himself attended upon the positive in
stitutions of the gospel, he could not conceive
what reason any one, who called himself a Chris
tian, could give for neglecting them. The day
before his death he said : " The hope that is set
before us in the New Testament is the only
thing which will support a man in his dying
hour. If any man builds on any other founda
tion, in my apprehension his foundation will fail."
His accurate observations of the transit of Mer
cury in 1740 were noticed by the royal society of
London. He published a lecture on earthquakes,
1755; answer to Mr. Prince's letter upon earth
quakes, 1756; two letters on comets, 1759; an
account of several fiery meteors, 1765.
WINTHROP, JAMES, LL. D., judge, the son
of the preceding, was graduated in 1769, and
fought in the battle of Bunker Hill. For some
years he was chief justice of the court of com
mon pleas, and register of probate. He died at
Cambridge Sept. 26, 1821, aged 70. His brother,
William, a graduate of 1770, died in 1825, at
Cambridge. The valuable library which he had
collected he bequeathed to Alleghany college,
Pennsylvania. He published a translation of a
part of the Apocalypse, 1794, and various scien
tific papers.
WINTHROP, THOMAS LIXDALL, lieutenant-
governor of Massachusetts, a descendant of Gov.
W., died in Boston Feb. 22, 1841, aged 81. He
was the son of John Still Winthrop and of Jane
Borland, grand-daughter of Timothy Lindall.
He graduated at Harvard in 1780, and married
Elizabeth Bowdoin Temple in 1786. From 1826
to 1832 he was lieutenant-governor. He was
president of the Massachusetts historical society
and of the American antiquarian society. He
was the father of Mrs. Tappan, wife of Rev. Dr.
T. of Augusta, Me., and of five sons, — James,
who took the name of Bowdoin, who graduated
at Bowdoin college in 1814, was a lawyer in Bos
ton, and died in 1834; Francis William, de
ceased; George Edward ; Grenvillc Temple ; and
Robert Charles of Boston, late a senator of the
United States. He was a man of large property,
and highly respected by his fellow-citizens. He
was a benefactor of the historical society. His
body found a resting-place in a remarkable tomb
in the King's chapel burying-ground in Boston,
— a tomb in which were placed three of his an
cestors, who were governors; John of Massachu
setts, John and Fitz John, governors of Connec
ticut, and also Waitstill, a brother of the last,
chief justice and major-general. There also rest
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Elizabeth Bowdoin, the wife of Lieut.-Gov. W.,
and his sister, Mrs. Ann Winthxop Sears, the
mother of David Sears.
WINTHROP, ADAM, died near New Orleans
in 1846, aged 68; clerk in the district court of
Louisiana. He graduated at Harvard in 1800.
WIRT, WILLIAM, LL. D., died at Washington
Feb. 11, 1835, aged 62. Born at Bladens-
burg Nov. 8, 1772, his father was a Swiss,
his mother a German, both dying before he
was eight years old. By an uncle he was edu
cated till he was fifteen, but he never was at
college. In 1792 he commenced the practice of
law in Virginia. Marrying the daughter of Dr.
George Gilmer, he lived with him near Char-
lottesville, and here he was introduced to the ac
quaintance of Jefferson, Madison, and Monroe.
It is said he was reclaimed from dissipation by a
sermon of James Waddell. In 1802 he was ap
pointed chancellor and lived at Williamsburg ;
his second wife was a daughter of Col. Gamble.
He removed to Norfolk in 1803 ; to Richmond in
1806. As a lawyer he was distinguished at the
trial of Burr. In 1817 he was attorney-general
of the U. S. In 1830 he removed to Baltimore.
As a Christian he was exemplary and held in
respect. About 1802 he wrote the British spy,
in which he spoke of the blind preacher Wad-
dell ; it passed through ten editions. His old
bachelor was written in 1812; his life of Patrick
Henry in 1817.
WISE, JOHN, minister of Ipswich, now Essex,
Mass., died April 8, 1725, aged 73. He was the
son of Joseph W., of Roxbury ; was graduated
at Harvard college in 1673 ; and was soon or
dained at Chebacco in Ipswich. In 1688 he was
imprisoned by Andros for remonstrating against
the taxes as a grievance, because imposed without
an assembly. After the Revolution he brought
an action against Mr. Dudley, the chief justice,
for denying him the benefits of the habeas corpus
act. Being a chaplain in the unhappy expedi
tion against Canada in 1690, he distinguished
himself not only by the pious discharge of the
sacred office, but by his heroic spirit and martial
skill. When several ministers signed proposals
in 1705 for establishing associations, which
should be intrusted with spiritual power, he
exerted himself with effect to avert the danger
which threatened the Congregational churches.
In a book, which he wrote upon this occasion,
entitled the churches' quarrel espoused, he exhib
ited no small share of the wit and satire of a
former minister of Ipswich, Mr. Ward. He con
tended that each church contains in itself all
ecclesiastical authority. In 1721, when the inoc
ulation for the small pox was first introduced, he
was one of those ministers who approved of it.
Mr. Stoddard of Northampton was another. He
was enriched with the excellences of nature and
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religion, uniting a graceful form and majestic
aspect to a lively imagination and sound judg
ment, and to incorruptible integrity, unshaken
fortitude, liberal charity, and fervent piety. His
attachment to civil and religious liberty was zeal
ous and firm. He was a learned scholar and
eloquent orator. In his last sickness he expressed
a deep sense of his own unworthiness in the sight
of Heaven, and a conviction that he needed the
Divine mercy and was entirely dependent on the
free grace of God in Christ Jesus. He published
the churches' quarrel espoused, 1710; and a vin
dication of the government of the New England
churches, about the year 1717 or 1718. It was
reprinted in 1772. lie contends that the eccle
siastical government, as established by Christ
and as existing in New England, was a democ
racy, and was best calculated for the advantage of
all. — Sprague's Annals.
WISE, JEREMIAH, minister of Berwick, Me.,
was graduated at Harvard college in 1700, and
was ordained successor of John Wade Nov. 26,
1707. He died in 1756. He was a man of emi
nent piety and goodness. He published a ser
mon on the death of Charles Frost, 1725 ; elec
tion sermon, 1729 ; a sermon at the ordination of
James Pike, 1730.
WISNER, BENJAMIN B.,D. D., died in Boston
of the scarlet fever Feb. 9, 1835, aged 40; min
ister of the old south church, one of the secreta
ries of the American board of missions. Born
in Goshen, N. Y., Sept. 29, 1794, his father, P. B.
Wisner, soon afterwards removed to Geneva,
where he was one of the first settlers and found
ers of the church. He graduated at Union col
lege in 1813, and was a tutor for several years,
lie studied theology at Princeton. His wife was
Sarah H.Johnson of Johnstown. He was ordained
Feb. 21, 1821. Ill health induced him to relin
quish the beloved work of the ministry for the
office of secretary in 1832. He died after a short
illness, in Christian peace and hope. A memoir
is inserted in the missionary herald for 1836.
He was a man of judgment, wisdom, and energy.
His successor was S. H. Stearns. His predeces
sors in the old south church were Thacher, Wil-
lard, Pemberton, Sewall, Prince, Gumming,
Blair, Bacon, Hunt, Eckley, and Huntington.
He published a sermon on the death of Mrs.
Phillips, 1823; of W. Phillips, 1827; before a for
eign missionary society ; review of Channing's
dedication sermon, 1826; to society for propa
gating the gospel ; history of the old south
church, 1830; on Sabbath schools; review of the
new divinity tried, 1832. — Sprague's Annals.
WISTAR, CASPAR, M. D., a physician, died
Jan. 22, 1818, aged 56. He was a grandson of
Caspar W., who emigrated from Germany in
1717, and established a glass manufactory in New
Jersey. He was born in Philadelphia Sept. 13,
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WITUERSPOON.
1761 ; his parents were Quakers. In Oct., 1783, '
he went to England in order to complete his med
ical education. His father's death put him in pos
session of a fortune; yet was he not induced to
relax in his industry. He returned to Philadel
phia in Jan., 1787. In 1789 he was elected pro
fessor of chemistry in the college; and in 1808
he succeeded Shippen as professor of anatomy.
As a lecturer he was fluent and eloquent, and he
gave most ample instruction. As a physician he
was scrupulously attentive to his patients and em
inently skilful. lie died of a malignant fever.
Three children, by his second wife, Elizabeth
Mifliin, niece of Gov. M., survived him. He pub
lished a system of anatomy. — Tilgliman's Eu-
loqy ; Thacher.
WISTAR, THOMAS, of Philadelphia, died in
1851, aged 88. He was a merchant, a man of
probity and benevolence.
WISWALL, ICHABOD, minister of Duxbury,
Mass., died it is thought about 1700. But little
is known of him. There is, however, a record of
one important public service. He went to Eng
land with the Massachusetts agents to assist in
procuring what was obtained, the charter of Mas
sachusetts Bay, uniting the colonies of Plymouth
and Massachusetts. He was pastor thirty years,
and was succeeded by J. Robinson from 1700 to
1737 ; subsequently by Veazie, Turner, Sanger,
and Allyn. His predecessors were W. Brewster,
R. Partridge, and J. Holmes.
WISWALL, JOHN, first minister of Falmouth,
Me., died in 1812, aged about 85. He graduated
at Harvard in 1749, and was pastor from 1756 to
1764. E. Williams and W. Miltimore succeeded
him.
WITHEREL, OBADIAH, died in Albion, Me.,
in 1844, aged 98. Born in Pepperell, he served
in the whole Revolutionary war. One of the first
settlers of Norridgewock, he lived there more
than fifty years.
WITHERELL, or WETHERELL, WILLIAM,
first minister of the second church in Scituate,
died in 1684, aged 84. He was born in England ;
settled in 1645 ; and was succeeded by Mighill,
Lawson, Elles, Barnes, and Deane.
WITHERSPOON, JOHN, D. D., LL. D., pres
ident of the college of New Jersey, died Nov.
15, 1794, aged 72. He was born in Yester, near
Edinburgh, Feb. 5, 1722, and was lineally de
scended from John Knox. At the age of four
teen he entered the university of Edinburgh,
where he continued till he reached the age of
twenty one, when he was licensed to preach the
gospel. He was soon ordained at Beith, and
thence was translated to Paisley. Here he lived
in high reputation and great usefulness, until he
•was called to the presidency of Princeton college.
So extensively was he known that he was invited
to Dundee, to Dublin, and Rotterdam. He
arrived with his family at Princeton, N. J., in
Aug., 1768, and took the charge of a seminary,
over which had presided Dickinson, Burr, Ed
wards, Davies, and Finley, men distinguished for
genius, learning, and piety. His name brought
a great accession of students to the college, and
by his exertions its funds were much augmented.
But the war of the American Revolution pros
trated every thing. While the academical shades
were deserted, and his functions as president were
suspended, he was introduced into a new field of
labor. As he became at once an American on his
landing in this country, the citizens of New Jer
sey, who knew his distinguished abilities, ap
pointed him a member of the convention which
formed the constitution of that State. Here he
appeared as profound a civilian as he had before
been known to be a philosopher and divine.
From the Revolutionary committees and conven
tions of the State he was sent, early in 1776, a
representative to the congress. He was during
seven years a member of that illustrious body,
and he was always collected, firm, and wise amidst
the embarrassing circumstances in which con
gress was placed. His name is affixed to the
declaration of independence. But, while he was
thus engaged in political affairs, he did not lay
aside his ministry. He gladly embraced every
opportunity of preaching, for his character as a
minister of the gospel he ever considered as his
highest honor. As soon as the state of the
country would permit, the college was reestab
lished, and its instruction was recommenced
under the immediate care of the vice-president,
Dr. Smith. After the termination of the strug
gle for American liberty, Dr. W. was induced
from his attachment to the college to cross the
ocean, that he might promote its benefit. After
his return, he entered into that retirement which
was dear to him, and his attention was principally
confined to the duties of his office as president,
and as a minister of the gospel. For more than
two years before his death he was afflicted with
the loss of sight; but during his blindness he
was frequently led into the pulpit, and he always
acquitted himself with his usual accuracy and
animation. At length he sunk under the pres
sure of his infirmities. He was succeeded by
Dr. Smith. He possessed a mass of information,
well selected and thoroughly digested. Scarcely
any man of the age had a more vigorous mind
or a more sound understanding. As president
of the college he rendered literary inquiries more
liberal, extensive, and profound, and was the
means of producing an important revolution in
the system of education. He extended the study
of mathematical science, and it is believed he was
the first man who taught in America the sub
stance of those doctrines of the philosophy of
j the mind, Avhich Dr. Reid afterwards developed
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with so much success. lie was very distinguished
as a preacher. He loved to dwell on the great
doctrines of Divine grace. Though he wrote his
sermons and committed them to memory, yet as
he was governed by the desire of doing good and
wished to bring his discourses to the level of
every understanding, he was not confined, when
addressing his hearers, within the boundaries of
what he had written. His life was upright and
holy. Besides the daily intercourse with Heaven
which he held in the closet, and occasional sea
sons of solemn recollection and devotion, he ob
served the last day of the year with his family as
a day of fasting, humiliation, and prayer.
His works are various, for he wrote on politi
cal, moral, literary, and religious subjects. No
one has more strikingly displayed the pernicious
effects of the stage ; and his treatises on the na
ture and necessity of regeneration, justification
by free grace through Jesus Christ, the impor
tance of truth in religion, or the connection
between sound principles and a holy practice, are
highly esteemed. Though a very serious writer,
he yet possessed a fund of refined humor and
delicate satire. In his ecclesiastical characteris
tics his wit was directed at certain corruptions in
principle and practice, prevalent in the church of
Scotland, and it is keen and cutting. He formed
a union of those who accorded with him, and
became at length their leader. His works were
published in 4 vols., with an account of his life by
Dr. Rodgers, 8vo., 1802. —Ed wards' Qu. Beg.,
Nov., 1836.
WITIIERSPOON, JOHN R., M. D., died in
Greensborough, Ala., about 1850, aged about
75. He graduated at Princeton in 1794. He
published a description of a Latin bible of the
9th century, in his possession.
WITIIERSPOON, JOHN, D. D., died in Hills-
boro', N. C., Sept. 25, 1853, aged 61 ; a grandson
of President W. Born at Newbern, he gradu
ated at Chapel Hill ; he was at first a lawyer,
afterwards a minister at H., also at Camden and
Columbia, S. C. He was able and influential.
WITIIERSPOON, ALEXANDER, Dr., died at
Washington in 1854, aged 37. Educated medi
cally at New York, he was house surgeon in the
city hospital. At his decease he was a member
of the medical corps of the army. He contrib
uted papers to the medical journals.
WITHINGTON, LEMUEL, of Dorchester, died
Nov. 12, 1847, aged 90. He served his country
in Putman's regiment at the age of sixteen. In
his old age he was resigned, though twenty years
blind. A religious man, he died in peace, in the
hope of glory.
WOLCOTT, HENRY, the first ancestor in this
country of many distinguished men of the name
of Wolcott, died in AV^indsor, Conn., in 1655,
aged 77. lie came from Somersetshire, Eng
land, in 1630; settled at Dorchester; but in
1636 removed to Windsor, where he was a mag
istrate. Among his descendants may be reck
oned three governors of Connecticut. His stone
monument, of a handsome form, one of the oldest
in the State, was made by his son-in-law, a stone
cutter, Matthew Griswold, ancestor of the Gris-
wold family in Lyme.
WOLCOTT, ROGER, governor of Connecticut,
a descendant of Henry W., died May 17, 1767,
aged 88. He was born at Windsor Jan. 4, 1679.
His parents lived in a part of the country which
suffered much from the Indians, and in the town
there was neither a schoolmaster nor minister, so
that he was not a member of a common school
for a single day in his life. When he was twelve
years of age he was bound as an apprentice to a
mechanic. At the age of twenty-one, when the
laws permitted him to enjoy the fruits of his
labors, he established himself on the east side of
Connecticut river in the same town in which he
was born, where by the blessing of God upon his
industry and frugality he acquired what was con
sidered as a plentiful fortune. He is an eminent
proof of the power of talents and integrity, in a
free country, in raising one to distinction, notwith
standing the disadvantages of education and of
birth. He rose by degrees to the highest mili
tary and civil honors. In the expedition against
Canada in 1711 he was commissary of the Con
necticut forces, and at the capture of Louisburg
in 1745 he bore the commission of major-general.
He was successively a member of the assembly
and of the council, judge of the county court,
deputy governor, chief judge of the superior
court, and from 1751 to 1754, governor. In all
his exaltation above his neighbors he exhibited no
haughtiness of deportment, but was easy of
access, free and affable, of ready wit and great
humor. His literary attainments were such, that
in conversation with the learned upon most sub
jects he secured respect. He was much attached
to the peculiar doctrines of the gospel, and was
for many years a member of a Christian church.
From the year 1754, when his life was more
retired, he devoted himself particularly to read
ing, meditation, and prayer. He was very careful
in searching into himself, that he might perceive
his own character, and know whether he was
rescued from that depravity, to which previously
to the renewing agency of the Divine Spirit the
human mind is subjected, and whether he was
interested in the salvation of the gospel. In his
last moments he was supported by the hopes of
the Christian, and he entered into his rest. He
had eleven children. He published poetical med
itations, with a preface by Mr. Bulkley of Col
chester, 1725; a letter to Mr. Hobart in 1761,
entitled, the New English Congregational churches
are and always have been consociated churches,
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and their liberties greater and better founded in
their platform, agreed upon at Cambridge in
1648, than in the agreement at Saybrook in 1708.
A long poem, written by Gov. Wolcott, entitled,
a brief account of the agency of J. Winthrop in
the court of Charles II., in 1662, in procuring the
charter of Connecticut, is preserved in the collec
tions of the historical society. It describes with
considerable minuteness the Pequot war. His
vacant hours was published, 1724. — Hist. Coll.
IV. 262-297.
WOLCOTT, ERASTUS, a judge of the superior
court of Connecticut, died in 1793, aged 70.
The son of the preceding, he was born about the
year 1723. In 1776 he commanded a regiment
of militia, and assisted in the investment of Bos
ton. He was appointed a brigadier-general in
1777, and went on an expedition to Peekskill.
He was repeatedly a member of congress. To
wards the close of his life he resigned his office
of judge. Integrity and patriotism were united
in his character with religion. He was a zealous
friend to republican principles, an able advocate
of the rights of his country. His last illness he
bore with a cheerful serenity and submission to
the will of God. A short religious tract, written
by him, was annexed to McClure's sermon on his
death.
WOLCOTT, ALEXANDER, Dr., died at Wind
sor, Conn., in 1795, aged 93.
WOLCOTT, OLIVER, LL. D., governor of
Connecticut, the son of Gov. Rcger W., died
Dec. 1, 1797, aged 71. He was born about the
year 1726, and graduated at Yale college in 1747.
He held a captain's commission in the war
•with the French. Cn retiring from military ser
vice he studied physic; but his attention was
drawn from this profession by his appointment as
high sheriff of the county of Litchfield, which
office he sustained about fourteen years. He
was a member of the memorable congress which
agreed upon the declaration of independence in
1776, and he boldly advocated that measure.
Barlow, in his vision of Columbus, says :
" Bold Wolcott urg'd the all important cause,
With steady hand the solemn scene he draws ;
Undaunted firmness with his wisdom join'd,
Nor kings nor worlds could warp his steadfast mind."
He was chosen governor in 1796. Mr. Trumbull
succeeded him. Incorruptible integrity and un
shaken firmness were conspicuous traits in his
character. He was the friend of virtue and re
ligion. In his last sickness he expressed a deep
sense of his personal unworthiness and guilt.
WOLCOTT, WILLIAM, Dr., died at Windsor,
Conn., in 1825, aged 72 ; the son of William of
East Windsor.
WOLCOTT, OLIVER, governor of Connecticut
and circuit judge, died at New York June 1,
1833, aged 73. He was a native of Litchfield,
the son of Oliver W., who was also governor.
He graduated at Yale in 1778. Educated for
the bar, Washington appointed him auditor and
comptroller of the treasury. He succeeded Ham
ilton from 1795 to 1800 as secretary of the treas
ury, in which place he continued till the end of
J. Adams' term of office. From 1800 to 1815
he was a merchant in New York. After the war
of 1812 with England, he was governor from
1817 to 1827; then he returned to New York to
be near his children. His wife was Elizabeth,
daughter of John Stoughton of Windsor. His
sister, Mary Anne, wife of Chauncey Goodrich,
was a very accomplished woman. Born in 1765,
in the war a leaden statue of George III. was
carried from New York to Litchfield and cast
into bullets, and she and other ladies formed
them into good patriotic cartridges. He was a
statesman, and was acquainted with literature,
and in his conversation was sagacious and witty,
and made keen observations on the world. His
correspondence in two volumes was published
by his grandson, Gibbs. — GoodriclCs Recollec
tions.
WOLCOTT, FREDERIC, councillor and sena
tor in Connecticut, died at Litchfield in 1837, aged
70. The brother of Oliver, he graduated at
Yale in 1786. A man of talents and character,
he was forty-five years in office.
WOLCOTT, Mrs., wife of Samuel W., mis
sionary to Syria, died at Beirut Oct. 26, 1841, in
great peace.
WOLF, GEORGE, died at Philadelphia March
11, 1840, aged 63. He was governor, 1829-
1835; first comptroller of the United States,
1836; collector of Philadelphia and member of
congress, 1824-1829.
WOLFE, JAMES, a major-general in the Brit
ish army, was killed Sept. 13, 1759, aged 32.
lie was born inWesterham in Kent, Jan. 2, 1727.
He entered young into the army, and soon dis
tinguished himself as a brave and skilful officer.
After his return from the expedition against Lou-
isburg in 1758, he Avas immediately appointed
to the command of one of the expeditions des
tined against Canada in 1759. He arrived at the
Island of Orleans, in the neighborhood of Que
bec, late in June. On the last of July he at
tacked the French intrenchments at Montmo-
rency on the left bank of the St. Charles, but his
troops were thrown into disorder by the enemy's
fire, and he was compelled to give orders for re
turning to the island. He now determined to
effect a landing above the city, and by scaling a
precipice to gain the heights back of the town,
where it was but slightly fortified. He was fully
aware of the temerity of the enterprise, but re
solved to execute it. Sept. 13, an hour before
daybreak, he landed with a strong detachment
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about a mile above cape Diamond. Ascending
the precipice by the aid of the rugged projec
tions of the rocks and the branches of trees and
plants growing on the cliffs, the van gained the
heights, and quickly dispersed a captain's guard
which had been intrusted with a four-gun bat
tery. The whole army was soon upon the heights
of Abraham. Montcalm now perceived that a
battle could no longer be avoided, and that the
fate of Quebec depended on the issue. He im
mediately crossed the St. Charles and marched
to attack the English army. In the beginning of
the action Wolfe received a ball in his wrist, but,
wrapping a handkerchief around his arm, he con
tinued to encourage his men. He soon received
a shot in the groin, which he also concealed. He
was advancing at the head of the grenadiers with
charged bayonets, when a third bullet pierced
his breast. Being conveyed into the rear, he
still discovered, in the agonies of death, the most
anxious solicitude concerning the fate of the day.
Asking an officer to support him while he viewed
the field : " Tell me, sir," said he, " do the enemy
give way there ? tell me, for I cannot see.''
His sight was dimmed and confused, and almost
extinguished forever. Being told that the enemy
was visibly broken, he reclined his head from ex
treme faintness on the officer's arm ; but was
soon aroused by the cry of " They run, they run ! "
" Who run ? " exclaimed the hero. The officer
replied, " The French ; they are" beat, sir ; they
are flying before you." The general then said,
" I am satisfied, my boys ! " and almost instantly
expired. This death of the illustrious Wolfe, in
the thirty-third year of his age, combines every
circumstance to gratify the thirst for military
glory. If the creatures of God were allowed to
seek their own honor, and if men, destined for
immortality, would choose to place this honor
in having their names repeated and their hero
ism applauded by future and unknown genera
tions, perhaps no instance of a death more to -be
envied could be found in the annals of history.
The body of Wolfe was carried to England, and
a monument was erected to his memory in West
minster abbey. He was formed by nature for
military greatness. His apprehension w-as quick
and clear, his judgment sound, his courage dar
ing perhaps to an extreme. With a temper
lively and almost impetuous he was not subject
to passion, and with the greatest independence
he was free from pride. He was manly yet gen
tle, kind and conciliating in his manners. He
was not only just, but generous ; and he searched
out the objects of his charity and beneficence
among his needy officers. One of the most cel
ebrated of the paintings of Benjamin West is
that of the death of Gen. Wolfe. His life and
correspondence was published in London in 1827,
2 vols. 8vo.
WOMPATUCK, or WAMPATUCK, JOSIAH,
the sachem of Mattakeeset, now Pembroke, Mass.,
received in 1652 fourteen pounds to extinguish
his title to the lands. The rights or claims of his
son, Josiah, were subsequently purchased in 1686.
AVOOD, WILLIAM, author of the earliest
printed account of Massachusetts, came to this
country in 1629, and, after a residence of about
four years, set sail for England Aug. 15, 1633.
Nothing further is known with certainty concern
ing him. He says, that in the town in which he
resided there were, in three years and a half,
only three deaths, and two of those were infants.
Mr. Lewis supposes that he lived in Lynn, and
was the William W. who was the representative*
in 1636, and in 1637 removed to Sandwich, where
he was town clerk. He published New England's
prospects, being a true, lively, and experimental
description of that part of America commonly
called New England ; London, 1634, 1635, and
1639 ; reprinted in Boston with an introductory
essay, 1764. This work is well written and very
amusing. It is surprising that it has not been
republished in the Massachusetts historical col
lections. The towns which he describes are
Wichaguscusset, Mount Wolleston, Dorchester,
Iloxbury, Boston, Charlestown, Medford, New
ton, Watertown, Mistick, Winnisimet, Saugus,
Salem, Marblehead, Agowamme, and Merrimack,
although in the two last places there were " scarce
any inhabitants." As to the peninsula of Bos
ton, he says that " a little fencing will secure their
cattle from the wolves ; " at the south side, at
one corner, was " a great broad hill," with a fort
upon it ; on the north side was an equal hill, hav
ing a windmill upon it ; and to the northwest
" a high mountain, with three little rising hills
on the top of it, wherefore it is called the Tra-
mount." This word now appears in the form of
Tremont. His specimen of the Massachusetts'
Indian language is the earliest to be found, — the
following are a few of the words : abamocho, the
devil; aunum, a dog; cowims, sleeps ; cossaquot,
bow and arrows ; cone, the sun ; coepot, ice ;
eat chumnis, Indian corn ; hoc, the body ; hub
hub hub, come come come ; matchet, it is naught ;
mattamoi, to die; matta, no; mawcus sinnus,
a pair of shoes ; maw paw, it snows ; matchet
wequon, very blunt; nuncompecs, a boy; nick-
squaw, a maid ; nippe, water ; nasampe, pottage ;
netop, a friend ; ottucke, a deer ; occone, a deer
skin; ottommaocke, tobacco; ontoquos, a wolf;
pow wow, a conjurer; pappouse, a child; picke,
a pipe ; papowne, winter ; pequas, a fox ; pesissu,
a little man ; sagamore, a king; sachem, a king;
sannup, a man ; squaw, a woman ; suckis suacke,
a clam ; sequan, the summer ; tokuche, a hatchet ;
wampompeage, Indian money ; winnet, very
good ; wigwam, a house ; wawpatucke, a goose ;
wompey, white ; squi, red ; as cos coi, green.
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WOOD.
WOOD, SAMUEL, Dr., was one of the first set
tlers of Danbury, Conn., about 1685. He was
born and educated in England, and was a regular
bred physician, able, skilful, and useful many
years in the town.
WOOD, JAMES, governor of Virginia, died at
Richmond in June, 1813. He was a distinguished
general officer in the Revolutionary army. He
was chosen governor in 1796, and was succeeded
by Mr. Monroe in 1799.
WOOD, JOHN, a native of Scotland, died in
May, 1822. In 1806 he edited a paper, the West
ern World, in Kentucky, and in 1817 a paper, the
Atlantic World, at Washington. In his last years
"he resided at Richmond, Va., and was employed
in drawing maps of the counties. He published
a history of Switzerland and of the Swiss revolu
tion ; history of the administration of J. Adams ;
a statement of the sources, etc. of the above, 1802 ;
exposition of the Clintonian faction, 1802; anew
theory of the diurnal motion of the earth, 1809.
WOOD, ABRAHAM, first minister of Chester
field, N. H., died in 1823, aged 75, in the fifty-
first year of his ministry. He graduated at Dart
mouth in 1767, and was ordained Dec. 31, 1772.
WOOD, ASAHEL, a Baptist minister, died at
Poultney, Vt., in 1824, aged 55 ; bequeathing his
property, after the death of his wife, to foreign
mission and educational societies.
WOOD, SAMUEL, D. D., died at Boscawen,
N. II., Dec. 24, 1836, aged 84. He was born in
Mansfield, Conn., but his father removed to Leb
anon, N. H. ; he graduated at Dartmouth in 1779,
and was ordained in 1781 at Boscawen. The
next year between thirty and forty heads of fami
lies were added to the church. No minister in
the State fitted so many young men for college,
being one hundred in number, of whom about
fifty became ministers of the gospel. By them
he was regarded with aifection and respect. His
charity was manifested in the aid of those who
needed his assistance. On the day before his
death he preached on " working while it is day."
His last words before his death were, " All is
well." He published a sermon at the ordination
of B. Wood ; a fast sermon, 1804.
WOOD, Lois, Mrs. , died at Leominster, Mass.
in 1836, aged 100 years and 6 months.
WOOD, Mrs., the wife of George Wood, mis
sionary, died-at Singapore March 8, 1839. Mr.
Orr made an address at her funeral. Her name
was Johnston, of Morristown, N. J. — N. Y. Ob
server, Nov. 14, 1840.
WOOD, SYLVANUS, died in Woburn Aug.
1840, aged 93, a pensioner. In the battle of
Lexington he took the first prisoner of the war,
WOOD, JAMKS, a Methodist minister, died at
Kingwood, Va., in 1840, aged 89.
WOOD, STEPHEN, a soldier of the Revolution-
WOODBRIDGE.
ary war, who fought in various battles, died in
Salem, Mass., in 1841, aged 94.
WOOD, THOMAS II., minister of Halifax, Vt.,
died in 1842, aged 69. Born in Norwich, Conn.,
tie graduated at Williams college in 1799.
WOOD, STEPHEN, Dr., died in Miami, Ohio,
in 1844, aged 82. He was the last survivor of
the band of pioneers associated with John Cleves
Symmes in the settlement of North Bend in
1789. Probably no man had lived so long in
Ohio.
WOOD, JOEL, died at Fort Miller, N. Y., June
6, 1845, aged 48. He was fifteen years a mis
sionary among the Choctaw Indians, and one year
among the Tuscaroras. From ill health he left
the south, and for five years was the pastor of a
church at Fort Miller. — N. T. Obs., July 12.
WOOD, SILAS, died at Huntington, L. L,
March 2, 1847, aged 78. He was a member of
congress, and the author of a history of Long
Island.
WOOD, BENJAMIN, died at Upton, Mass., April
24, 1849, aged 76. His parents removed from
Mansfield to Lebanon, N.H., where he was born ;
Dr. W. of Boscawen was his brother. A graduate
of Dartmouth in 1793, he studied with Emrnons,
and was ordained June 1, 1796. He knew eight
seasons of revival. His voice was fine ; he had
earnestness and unction, and was a popular and
successful preacher, of pathetic eloquence. He
published a sermon at Upton, 1796 ; on death
of Mrs. Ruggles ; to an education society; a
masonic address at Uxbridge, 1819 ; masonic at
Milford, 1820; masonic at Holden, 1825; on
baptism, 1823. — Sprague's Annals.
WOOD, JOHN, a merchant, died in New York
in 1850, aged 60. He was a patron of many of
the philanthropic institutions of the city.
WOOD, LUKE, minister of Somers, Conn.,
died in 1851, aged 74.
WOOD, SALLY S., died at Kennebunk, Me.,
Jan. 6, 1855, aged 95. She was, perhaps, the first
authoress in Maine. Among the novels which
she published were Dorval, the speculator ; Ferdi
nand and Almira ; Amelia, or the influence of
virtue ; and tales of the night.
WOOD, JOSEPH, judge, died at New Haven
Nov. 13, 1856, aged 77. He was a graduate of
Yale in 1801. He formerly lived in Stamford.
Present at a weekly meeting of a few literary men
at the house of President Day, he spoke with
animation twenty minutes, when soon afterwards
he fell and instantly expired. His death was
caused by an ossification of the coronal artery of
the heart.
WOODBRIDGE, BENJAMIN, D. D., the first
graduate of Harvard college, died Nov. 1, 1684,
aged 60. The son of Rev. John W. of England,
he was born in 1622, and graduated in 1642. On
WOODBRIDGE.
his return to England, he succeeded Dr. Twissat
Newbury, where he gained a high reputation as
a scholar, a preacher, a casuist, and a Christian.
After he was ejected in 1(562 he continued to
preach privately. He died at Inglefield in Berks.
His work on the justification of sinners, a volume
of 359 pages, is a well-written, valuable work, and
a rare book. The writer of this holds the only
copy he has ever heard of in this country. Dr.
Calamy says : " He was a universally accom
plished person ; one of a clear and strong reason,
and of an exact and profound judgment. His
learning was very considerable, and he was a
charming preacher, having a most commanding
voice and air. His temper was staid and cheer
ful, and his behavior very genteel and obliging."
He published a sermon on justification by faith,
1653 ; the method of grace in the justification
of sinners, 4to., 1656 ; church-members set in
joint, against lay preachers, 1656. He also pub
lished a work written by Mr. Noyes, entitled,
Moses and Aaron, or the rights of Church and
State, containing two disputations, 1661.
WOODB11IDGE, JOHN, first minister of Kil-
lingworth, Conn., died in Wethersfield, in 1690,
aged about 46. He was the son of Rev. John
W. of Andover, Mass. He graduated at Har
vard in 1664, and was pastor at K. from 1666 to
1679, and was succeeded by A. Pierson in 1684.
He was re-settled in Wethersfield as the succes
sor of J. Rowlandson in 1679, and was succeeded
by Mix, Lockwood, Marsh, Tenney ; the three
first ministers were II. Smith, Russell, and
Bulkley.
WOODBRIDGE, JOHN, first preacher of An
dover, Mass., died March 17, 1695, aged 81. He
was the son of Rev. John W.; was born in Stan-
ton, Wiltshire, England, in 1613; and, after
passing some time at Oxford, pursued his studies
in private. In 1634 he came to this country with
his uncle, Thomas Parker. He was ordained as
pastor at Rowley in 1645 ; but, upon the invita
tion of his friends in England, he returned to
them in 1647. Being ejected in 1662, he again
sought a retreat in America, and became an as
sistant to Mr. Parker of Newbury, and actec
with him in his controversy with his church
After his dismission on account of his views of
church discipline, he was a magistrate of the
colony. His successors at A. were Dane, Bar
nard, Symmes, Loring. In the second church
were Phillips, French, Edwards, Badger. Hii
wife was a daughter of Gov. T. Dudley. His son
Benjamin, minister of Bristol, and in 1688 oi
Kittery, who died at Medford Jan. 15, 1710
wrote the ingenious lines for the tomb of Mr
Cotton, found in Mather's Magnalia, III. 31. His-
son, John, the minister of Wethersfield, died ii
1690 ; and his descendants, ministers, were John
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)f West Springfield, who died in 1718, and
ohn of South Hadley,who died Sept. 10, 1783,
aged 79. The grandson of the last, making the
enth John W. of this family in the ministry, is
F. Woodbridge, D. D., of Hadley. — Mather's
Mag. II. 219.
WOODBRIDGE, BENJAMIN, the first preacher
at Bristol, R. I., died at Medford in 1710. He
ivas the son of Rev. John W. After being for
bur years from 1680 at Bristol, he was succeeded
iv Samuel Lee; and in 1688 was a preacher at
vittery, Me. But it does not appear that he was
he settled minister in either town. His wife
was Mary, the daughter of Rev. John Ward.
He wrote an elegy on John Cotton, which is in
Mather's magnalia.
WOODBRIDGE, JonN, first minister of West
Springfield, died June 10, 1718, aged 40. The
on of Rev. John W. of Wethersfield, he gradu
ated in 1694, and was ordained in 1698. His
wife was a daughter of Rev. Joseph Eliot. His
son, John, was the minister of South Hadley ;
another son, Benjamin, was the minister of
Amity, now Woodbridge, in Connecticut, and
died much respected in 1785, aged 73, in the
forty-fourth year of his ministry. Two sons set
tled in Stockbridge. — Holland's Hist, of West
ern Jfass.
WOODBRIDGE, BENJAMIN, the first misera
ble victim in New England to the rode of honor,
died in Boston, murdered in a duel, July 3, 1728,
aged 19. He was the son of Dudley W. His
grave-stone is in the Granary burying-ground. —
Bridgman's Pilgrims of Boston.
WOODBRIDGE, TIMOTHY, minister of Hart
ford, Conn., died April 30, 1732, aged nearly 80.
The son of Rev. John W. of Andover, he was
graduated at Harvard college in 1675, and was
ordained Nov. 18, 1685. His predecessors were
Hooker, Stone, and Haynes ; his successors,
Wadsworth, Dorr, Strong, and Hawes. He in
troduced into Connecticut, in 1696, the practice of
baptizing the children of those who owned the
covenant without being received into full com
munion. He was tall and of a majestic aspect.
For his useful labors and Christian zeal and ex
emplary virtues, he was one of the most distin
guished men of his day. He published an election
sermon, 1727. He was no mean poet. To C.
Mather, on his magnalia, he wrote :
" Great your attempt. No doubt some sacred spy,
That liegcr in your sacred cell did lie,
Nurs'd your first thoughts with gentle beams of light,
And taught your hands things past to bring to sight.
Thus led by secret, sweetest influence,
You make returns to God's good providence j
Recording how that mighty Hand was nigh
To trace out paths, not known to mortal eye,
To those brave men that to this land came o'er,
And plac'd them safc ou the Atlantic shore, —
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And gave them room to spread, and bless 'd their root,
Whence, hung with fruit, now many branches shoot."
WOODBRIDGE, SAMUEL, first minister o
East Hartford, Conn., died in 1746, aged G(
He had been forty-three years minister, and WE
succeeded by E. Williams. He graduated i
Harvard in 1801.
WOODBRIDGE, ASIIBEL, minister of Glai
tenbury, Conn., died in 1758, aged 53. He wa
graduated at Yale in 1724. He was a ver
humble, excellent, and pious man.
WOODBRIDGE, TIMOTHY, minister of Hat
field, Mass,, thirty years, died in 1770, aged 5'
He was preceded by Atherton, Chauncy, an
Williams ; and succeeded by Lyman, Waterburj
and Pratt.
^WOODBRIDGE, EPHRAIM, the minister o
New London, Conn., died in 1776, aged 30. Th
son of Rev. John of Wethersfield, he graduate)
at Yale in 1765. His predecessors were Blin
man, Bulkley, Bradstreet, Saltonstall, Adams
Byles.
WOODBRIDGE, JOHN, minister of South
Hartley, Mass., died in 1783, aged 80. Born in
West Springfield, the son of Rev. John W., h.
graduated at Yale in 1726. He was first settlec
as a minister in Poquonnuck, a village of Wind
sor, in 1729, and removed to South Hartley ir
1742. He was the ninth Rev. John W. who
were all related to each other as ancestor and
descendant.
WOODBRIDGE, BENJAMIN, the first minister
of Woodbridge, Conn., died in 1785, aged 65 or
75. He graduated at Yale in 1740 ; he was or
dained in 1742; and in 1783 had Mr. Ball for a
colleague. The town was named after him ; in
return for the honor he presented to the town
Whitby's commentary. The regicides Goffe and
Whalley had a lodge in this town, seven miles
from New Haven.
WOODBRIDGE, ENOCH, chief justice of Ver
mont, died at Vergennes in 1805.
WOODBRIDGE, RUGGLES, colonel, the son
of Rev. John W., died at South Hadley March
8, 1819, aged 80. He was a colonel in the Rev
olutionary army, and a physician ; no man in the
town had so great influence. For fifteen years
he was treasurer of the Hampshire missionary
society. He gloried in the cross of Christ. —
Holland, n. 274.
WOODBRIDGE, SYLVESTER, Dr., died at
Southampton, Mass., in 1824, aged 70. He was
the son of Rev. John W. of South Hartley. He
probably studied his profession with a brother,
who was a physician. In consequence of a vote
of invitation from the town he settled in South
ampton, where he toiled skilfully and faithfully
during his life. He ever delighted in reading
new books and prosecuting his medical studies.
WOODBURY.
He was also an habitual student of the bible ; a
constant attendant on public worship ; zealous in
theological discussion. His general habits were
those of the Puritan stamp. Of his children,
Rev. John Woodbridge, ]). D., is the aged min
ister of Hartley; Mindwell, who died in 1837,
was the wife of Rev. Vinson Gould ; and Rev.
Sylvester Woodbridge, D. D., is a minister in the
city of New Orleans. — B. B. Edwards' Centen
nial Address.
WOODBRIDGE, WILLIAM, died in Franklin,
Conn, Feb. 27, 1836, aged 80. He was a grad
uate of Yale in 1780, was a preacher, and was an
honored teacher fifty years. He wrote for the
annals of education, published by his son, W.
C. W, and contributed to other papers. He
wrote the dead bird, published by the Sabbath
school union.
WOODBRIDGE, JOHN E, died in Youngs-
town, Ohio, Dec. 1, 1844, aged 67. His mother
was a daughter of President Edwards; his father
was Jahleel W. of Stockbridge. He was an early
settler of Y., and by his amiableness, urbanity,
integrity, love of order, and respect for religion,
was, like thousands of other excellent men of
like character, and placed in like circumstances,
a great benefactor of a new and prosperous
"own.
WOODBRIDGE, BENJAMIN R, second min
ster of Norwich, Mass., died at South Hadley in
1844, aged about 60. Born in S. II., he gradu
ated at Dartmouth in 1775, and was pastor from
1799 to 1831. S. Tracy was the first minister of
Norwich, born in Norwich, Conn. ; a graduate of
Princeton in 1770; settled from 1781 to 1799;
died in 1822, aged 73. Mr. W. died suddenly,
"ailing from his chair. On the previous day he
ittended the laying of the corner-stone of a new
meeting-house.
WOODBRIDGE, WILLIAM C, died in Bos
on Nov. 9, 1845, aged 50. After graduating at
if ale in 1811, he studied theology. He became
i teacher in the institution of Mr. Gallaudet for
he deaf and dumb at Hartford. From about
820 he spent six or seven years in Europe, col-
ecting materials for his geography. After his
eturn he devoted himself to the improvement
f education. He published the American an-
als of education ; various works on education
nd geography. — N. Y. Observer, Dec. 6, 1845 ;
Goodrick's Recollections.
WOODBURY, ISRAEL, Dr, died at Beverly,
lass., in 1797, aged 63 ; an eminent physician.'
WOODBURY, BENJAMIN, died in Ohio Dec.
9, 1845, aged 53. Born in New London, N. H.,
raduated at Dartmouth in 1817, he taught an
cademy five years in New Jersey and New Or-
ans, where he caught the spirit of missions from
ylvester Lamed. He was the minister of Fal-
outh, Mass., from 1824 to 1833. In one revi-
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val there were five hundred converts. He formed
temperance societies throughout the county of
Barnstable. In 1 835 he removed to the Maumee
valley in Ohio, where he spent the rest of life in
most important labors, employed by the home
missionary society. He saw the moral wilder
ness blossom. His last words were: "The
Saviour is most precious." His predecessors
at Falmouth were J. Metcalf, J. Marshall, S.
Palmer, Z. Butler, I. Mann, II. Lincoln ; his suc
cessors, J. Bent and II. B. Hooker.
WOODBURY, LEVI, judge, died at Ports
mouth, X. II., Sept. 4, 1851, aged 61. Born in
Francestown, the son of Peter "W., a State sena
tor, he graduated at Dartmouth in 1809. In 1816
he was judge of the superior court ; governor in
1823 ; senator in 1825 ; secretary of the navy in
1831; and secretary of the treasury from 1834
to 1841, when he was re-elected to the senate.
In 1845 he was appointed, on the death of Judge
Story, a judge of the supreme court of the United
States. At the time of his death he was re
garded a prominent candidate of the democratic
party for the office of president. He was distin
guished for indefatigable industry and for the
able and faithful discharge of his public duties.
WOODFORD, THOMAS, was town-crier, Hart
ford, 1640, to receive two pence for the use of
his lungs at a public meeting. He was also bell-
ringer in 1640, for Hartford then had a bell, in
stead of a drum or a conch-shell, to summon to
meeting. He was also sexton. Thomas Wood-
ford was a citizen of Northampton in 1662 ;
whether T. W. of Hartford, or his son, is not
known.
WOODFORD, WILLIAM, general, a soldier of
the "Revolution, died in Virginia in 1792. He
had the rank of colonel, when he repulsed an
attack made on him by a party of royalists, near
Great Bridge, Williamsburg, Dec. 15, 1776. He
was behind a breast work ; it was " a Bunker Hill
affair in miniature." He served in New Jersey
in June, 1778, having then the rank of general.
WOODHOUSE, JAMES, M. D., professor of
chemistry in the college of Philadelphia, died
of the apoplexy June 4, 1809, aged 38. The
son of a bookseller, he was born in Philadelphia
Nov. 17, 1770. In 1791 he served as a surgeon
in the army of St. Clair. In 1795 he was cho
sen professor. For his improvement in science
he visited England and France in 1802. He
published an inaugural dissertation on the chem
ical and medical properties of the persimmon
tree, and the analysis of astringent vegetables,
1792 ; the young chemist's pocket companion,
1797; an answer to Dr. Priestley's considerations
on the doctrines of phlogiston and the decompo
sition of water; an edition of ChaptaPs chemis
try, with notes, 2 vols. 8vo., 1807.
WOODHULL, JOHN, D. D., died at Free
hold, N. J., in 1824, aged about 80 ; a venerable
pastor. He graduated at Princeton in 1766.
WOODHULL, GEORGE S., 1). D., died at
Middletown Point, N. J., Dec. 25, 1834, aged 60.
He graduated at Princeton in 1790, and was a
trustee of the college.
WOODHULL, JOHN, died at River Head,
N. Y., March 21, 1855, aged 100. Born in
Brookhaven, he was for fifty years a member and
officer of the church.
WOODMAN, JOSEPH, first minister of San-
bornton, N. II., died in 1807, aged 59. Born
in West Newbury, Mass., he graduated at Prince
ton in 1766, and was pastor from 1771 to 1807 ;
and was succeeded by A. Bodwell.
WOODRUFF, AARON D., attorney-general of
New Jersey, died in Sussex co., in 1817, aged 55.
WOODRUFF, HEZEKIAH N., minister of
Stonington, Co'nn., died in the interior of New
York, in 1833, aged about 70. Born in Far-
mington, Conn., he graduated at Yale in 1784 ;
was pastor at Stonington from 1789 to 1803;
then was a preacher at Oncida in the State
of New York. He published a sermon at ordina
tion of Clark Brown ; of his brother, E. T.
Woodruff, at North Coventry, 1801. — Sprayue'a
Annals.
WOODRUFF, ARCHIBALD, captain, died at
Cincinnati in 1845, aged 72. Born in Elizabeth-
town, N. J., he was editor of a daily paper in
New York, and afterwards engaged in navigation.
He removed to C. in 1819.
WOODS, ABEL, a Baptist minister, died at
Hamilton, N. Y., Aug. 11, 1850, aged 85.
WOODS, LEONARD, D. D., professor of theol
ogy in the theological seminary at Andover, Mass.,
died Aug. 24, 1854, aged 80. Born in Prince
ton, Mass., June 19, 1774, the son of Samuel, he
graduated at Harvard in 1796. After studying
theology a few months with Dr. Backus of Som-
ers, Conn., he was ordained as pastor of the church
in Newbury, Mass., Dec. 5, 1798, remaining there
nine years. He was installed professor of the
ology at Andover Sept. 28, 1808, and continued
in the office about thirty-eight years till 1846.
He died of an ossification of the heart. On the
night before his death, when a friend asked if he
should pray with him, he replied, " There is no
prayer that meets my case, but that of the publi
can, ' God be merciful to me, a sinner.' " He had
instructed more than one thousand students in
theology. He was one of the founders of the
American tract society at Boston, in 1814, and
assisted in preparing its early publications ; he
promoted its union with other societies in the Amer
ican tract society in 1825. His last years were
spent in revising his lectures for publication, and
in writing a history of the theological seminary.
In regard to the important doctrine of the pre-
existent Sonship of Christ, the two professors at
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Andover, Woods and Stuart, seemed to hold
contradictory views. Prof. Stuart maintained
that Christ is not called the Son of God, except
in reference to the miraculous manner of his
earthly existence, but that he is called the Word
in reference to his pre-existent nature ; in fact, that
he is the Son of God only as a man. On the
other hand, Prof. Woods maintains that he was
the Son of God from eternity, not indeed literally
but metaphorically ; not because derived from
God, but because of his Divine dignity, and be
cause he " eternally stood in a personal rela
tion to the Father, which is represented to us
under the idea of the filial relation." " He called
himself the Son of God in such a sense as to
imply that he was God, — one with the Father."
So that the constant distinction in Scripture be
tween the Father and his Son would seem to be
overlooked by this professor. The two professors,
although thus differing, agreed in the general
doctrine that Christ, whether called Son or Word,
•#as eternally one of three equal persons making
up the one God. If, then, it should be asked,
what were his notions of the unity of God, Dr.
Woods' reply is : " God is one. All divine attri
butes and acts belong to this one Being, Jeho
vah, and to him only." Yet he labors to prove
that the existence of three equal eternal persons
in the Godhead is not inconsistent with this
unity. There are two American books on which
he remarks, which are in opposition to his theory ;
one is the bible news by Dr. Noah Worcester,
and the other by a layman, a lawyer of New
York, George Griffin, the father of Fdmund D.
Griffin and the brother of Rev. Dr. Griffin, who
maintains that Christ in his Divine nature as the
Son of God was the real sufferer on the cross.
As to the doctrine of antiquity, in speaking of
Christ as " God of God," the meaning seems to
be, beyond all doubt, that the Son was derived
from God. So the creed of the English Episco
pal church says : " I believe in one Lord Jesus
Christ, the only begotten Son of God, begotten
of his Father before all worlds, God of God, light
of light, very God of very God, begotten not
made." So the venerated Ilichard Hooker of
the English church says : " The Father alone is
originally that Deity which Christ originally is
not ; for Christ is God by being of God." And
so the fathers in the early ages of the Christian
Church taught most clearly the derivation of the
Son of God. Thus Athanasius says of the
Father : " He only is unbegotten and he only is
the fountain of divinity ; therefore he is styled
the only God." So Hilary says : " He is the one
God, because he is self-existent God." And
Eusebius says, that " God alone is underived and
unbegotten, who hath his divinity of himself,
and is the cause of the Son's being." It is to be
considered by the inquirer after truth, whether
the doctrine of three equal, eternal, independent
persons, making up one God, is not an American
doctrine, the invention of our reasoners, who,
taking for granted that Christ is the infinite God,
felt constrained to deny that he could be begotten
or derived from God, the fountain of divinity.
After all, every man is bound to build his faith
upon holy Scripture, irrespective of old or new
creeds ; and he must judge whether or not the
bible teaches that the Son of God is a being de
rived from God. As Dr. W. believed that the
eternal, infinite Son could not suffer, the bearing
of this theoretical view on the doctrine of the
atonement, the first doctrine of importance, is
the next point of inquiry. If it be asked, how
is his doctrine different from that of the Socini-
ans, since they believe that only the man Christ
could suffer ? Dr. Woods replies : " We believe
that all the divine and human perfections which
the Scriptures ascribe to Christ constitute but
one person." " The value of any action or suf
fering in Christ must be according to the dignity
or excellence of his whole character," as it is
" attributable to his whole person." He therefore
regarded the suffering of Christ of as high value
in making an atonement, " as if it had been the
suffering of the Divinity." As to all similar state
ments, Dr. Noah Worcester replied to the sup
porters of them : " This person you call the Son
of God endured no share in the sufferings of the
cross ; the man only suffered and died. This
real sufferer had never enjoyed one moment of
pre-existent dignity or glory. But in my
scheme," Dr. Worcester continues, " the sufferer
is that glorious Son, by whom God created all
things in heaven and earth." Every reflecting
reader must feel impelled to study the Scriptures
earnestly, in order to discover which of these
doctrines or what other doctrine relating to the
atonement it has pleased God to reveal. The
authority of great names can settle nothing.
The creeds and confessions of contending sects,
churches, and councils can settle nothing. The
plain meaning of God's word is the sole inquiry.
But if the judgment of others is to weigh with
the earnest theological inquirer, he will have to
consider whether the earlier fathers of the three
first centuries do not teach the doctrine that
Christ was " the son of God, begotten before the
whole creation," yet capable of becoming and ac
tually becoming himself the sufferer on the cross.
He will have to judge whether Dr. Woods'
scheme, or that which he opposes, is most con
sistent with the great, all-important doctrine of
atonement for sin by the blood of him who came
down from heaven for the express purpose of
being himself a sacrifice for sin.
WOODS, JOHN, died in Hamilton, Ohio, in
1855, aged 61. He was a lawyer, born in Penn
sylvania ; a member of congress from Ohio from
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1824 to 1828; then the publisher of the Hamil
ton Intelligencer. In 1845 he was chosen audi
tor of Oliio.
WOODVILLE, JOHN, an Episcopal minister,
died at St. Mark's parish, Va.,in 1834, aged 76.
WOODWARD, SAMUEL, minister of Weston,
Mass., died in 1782, aged 56. He was born at
Newton, the son of Ebenezer; he graduated at
Harvard in 1748, and was ordained in 1751. He
died beloved and lamented, lie published a
sermon at the ordination of J. 'Wheeler, 17GO ;
of John Marsh, 1774; at Lexington, 1779; on
the death of Cyrus Woodward, 1782.
WOODWARD, BKZALKKL, first professor of
mathematics at Dartmouth college, died Aug. 25,
1804, aged 59. He was born at Lebanon, Conn.,
in 1745; graduated at Yale college in 1764; and
after being a preacher, was appointed in 1782
professor, in which capacity he was highly re
spected. His wife was a daughter of Dr. E.
Wheelock. His son, William H. W., chief jus
tice of the court of common pleas, died at Han
over Aug. 9, 1818, aged 44. His son, Henry W.,
was a missionary at Ceylon.
WOODWARD, DAVID, colonel, died in Ran
dolph, Vt., in 1823, aged 97 ; an officer in the
old French war.
WOODWARD, SAMUEL, Baptist minister at
Brunswick, died in 1832, aged 83.
WOODWARD, HENRY, missionary at Cey
lon, died Aug. 3, 1834, aged 37. He was the
son of Prof. Beza W. of Hanover, and graduated
at Dartmouth in 1815, at Princeton seminary in
1818. lie embarked June 8, 1819, and spent
his life at Ceylon and on the continent in the
neighborhood. His wife, Lydia Middleton of
Crosswicks, N. J., died in 1825. His second wife
was Mrs. Frost, Clarissa Emerson of Chester,
N. II.
WOODWARD, JONATHAN, died at Dunsta-
ble, Mass., Dec. 24, 1840, aged 101 ; a Revolu
tionary pensioner.
WOODWARD, JAMES WHEELOCK, minister
of Norwich, Vt., died in 1847, aged about 70.
He was the son of Prof. Woodward, and gradu
ated at Dartmouth in 1798. He published a
sermon on the death of Eden Burroughs, D. D.,
1814.
WOODWARD, THOMAS G., died in 1849,
aged 61 ; editor of the New Haven Daily Courier.
He had a fund of native humor.
WOODWARD, SAMUEL BAYARD, M. D., a
distinguished physician, died in Northampton,
Mass., Jan. 3, 1850, aged 63. He was for many
years the acceptable superintendent of the large
State lunatic asylum at Worcester. His earliest
known ancestor was Henry Woodward, who came
to Dorchester in 1638, and was an inhabitant of
Northampton in 1658, and died April 7, 1685.
He was born in Torringford, Conn., the son of
Dr. Samuel Woodward, an eminent physician in
extensive practice, who died in 1835, aged 84,
and who had four sons that were physicians : one
of whom, Elijah, was his own associate ; and two
others, Henry and Charles, settled in Middle-
town, of whom Charles still lives. Dr. W., be
fore he went to Worcester, was for years a phy
sician in Wethersfield, Conn., and a State
senator. lie was superintendent of the lunatic
hospital from Jan. 1, 1833, to July 1, 1846. He
immediately transplanted himself to a beautiful
residence in the town of the abode and the place
of the burial of his first ancestor, Henry. His
wife, married in 1815, who survives, was Maria,
daughter of Eleazer Porter of Hartford. Among
his children are his daughters Urania and Maria,
and his son, Dr. Rufus Woodward, who, after
studying his profession in Paris, has been for
some years in practice at Worcester. He pub
lished annual reports of the State lunatic asy
lum, and occasionally an article in the medical
journals, and two or three pamphlets on medical
etnd moral subjects.
WOODWORTH, SAMUEL, died in New York
Dec. 9, 1842, aged 57. Born in Weymouth,
Mass., about 1786, he was an apprentice to the
Centinel office of B. Russell, Boston ; afterwards
a printer in New YTork, where he died, a drunk
ard, an outcast, forsaken, with scarcely a friend
to follow him, the poor slave of his appetite, to
his grave. Yet what he might have done is
shown by his famous song of the old oaken
bucket, the chorus to which is :
" The old oaken bucket.
The iron-bound bucket,
The moss-eover'd bucket,
That hung in the well."
Alas ! that the writer himself should prefer to
drink from a different spring. The first stanza
is this :
" How dear to this heart are the scenes of my childhood,
When fond recollection presents them to view!
The orchard, the meadow, the deep-tangled wild wood,
And every lov'd spot v;hich my infancy knew."
The whole may be read in the New York Obser
ver of July 15, 1852.
WOOLEY, AARON K., judge, died at Lex
ington, Ky.,in 1849, aged 49. Born in Newark,
N. J., he settled in Kentucky in 1828, and was a
judge, and for ten years law professor in Tran
sylvania university.
WOOLIIOPTER, PHILIP D., a printer, died
at Savannah in 1818. He was for twenty years
one of the editors of the Columbian Museum.
WOOLMAN, JOHN, a writer against slavery,
died in England in 1772, aged 52. He was a
descendant of J. W., a settler of Burlington,
N. J., in 1680, and was born in 1720. He was a
preacher among the Quakers, and a coadjutor of
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Anthony Benezet in his labors for the freedom of
the blacks. He was the grandson of Henry
Burr of New Jersey, who at his death in 1742
bequeathed liberty to all his slaves; supposed to
be the first instance of emancipation. Peter
"White, the son-in-law to Burr, also bequeathed
freedom to his slaves. These examples had their
influence on Woolman, who visited Maryland
about 1757 in order to discuss the affair of " slave-
keeping," and who wrote earnestly upon the sub
ject. On a visit to England he died. He was a
man of great industry, self-denial, and benevo
lence. His works were published, 1774; 5th
edit., Philadelphia, 1818.
WOOLSEY, MELANCTHON LLOYD, general,
a soldier of the Revolution, was born on Long
Island about 1757. He was afield officer at the
age of twenty-two, and rendered important ser
vices on the northern frontier. After the war he
resided at Plattsburg. "While on a journey to
visit his son, Com. W., at Sackett's Harbor, he
•was taken sick, and died at Trenton, N. Y., June
29, 1819, aged 62.
WOOLSEY, MELANCTHON T., a captain in
the navy of the United States, died at Utica in
1838, aged 59 ; an officer much respected and
esteemed.
WOOLWORTH, AARON, D. D., minister of
Bridgehampton, L. I., was born in Longmeadow ;
graduated at Yale in 1784; was ordained in 1787 ;
and died April 2, 1821, aged 57. His wife was
a daughter of Rev. Dr. Buell ; he left five chil
dren. He was a distinguished and useful min
ister.— AT. Y. Observer, Nov. 26, 1842.
WOOSAMEQUEN was one of the Indian
names of Massassoit.
WOOSTER, DAVID, major-general in the
Revolutionary war, died May 2, 1777, aged 66.
He was born at Stratford in 1711, and was grad
uated at Yale college in 1733. At the com
mencement of the war with Great Britain he was
appointed to the chief command of the troops in
the service of Connecticut, and made a brigadier-
general in the continental service ; but tins com
mission he afterwards resigned. In 1776 he was
appointed the first major-general of the militia
of his native State. While opposing a detach
ment of British troops, whose object was to de
stroy the public stores at Danbury, he was mor
tally wounded at Ridgefield April 27, 1777.
WOOSTER, BENJAMIN, minister of Fairfield,
Vt., died in 1840, aged 77. He graduated at
Yale in 1790; was settled as the minister of
Cornwall, Vt., in 1787, but was pastor only a few
years; in 1804 he was installed at Fairfield. He
commanded a company of volunteers about 1813
at the siege of Plattsburg, and remained four
years in the army.
WO-PEQUAND, or WO-PEQUOIT, was the
name of Sassacus' father, the chief of the Indi-
WORCESTER.
ans living at the mouth of the Thames in Con
necticut. From him these Indians were called
Pequots or Pequods. The name is given by the
Dutch explorers of the country about 1614 as
Pequats.
WORCESTER, WILLIAM, the first minister of
Salisbury, Mass., died in 1662. He emigrated
with his family from Salisbury, England, about
1637. The church was formed in 1638. He was
succeeded by John Wheelwright, who was fol
lowed by J. Ailing, Caleb Gushing, E. Noyes.
His sons were Samuel, William, Timothy, and
Moses. Of these, Samuel of Bradford 'died in
1680, leaving a son, Francis, whose son was Fran
cis of Sandwich. — Farmer.
WORCESTER, FRANCIS, minister of Sand
wich, Mass., died at Hollis, N. H., in 1783, aged
85. The son of Samuel, he was born in Brad
ford, Mass. Without a college education, he be
came pastor of the second church in Sandwich
from 1735 to 1745. He was a zealous friend of
the great revival of that period. Subsequently
he lived at Exeter, Plaistow, and Hollis.
WORCESTER, NOAH, a venerable citizen of
Hollis, N. H., the son of Rev. Francis W., died
in 1817, aged 81. He left a large family, of
which four sons were 'eminent ministers, Noah,
Leonard, Thomas, and Samuel. — Farmer.
WORCESTER, SAMUEL, D.D., first secretary,
of the American board of commissioners for for
eign missions, died June 7, 1821, aged 50. He
was born in Ilollis, N. H., Nov. 1, 1771, a de
scendant in the sixth generation of William W.
He was graduated at Dartmouth college in 1795,
and ordained at Fitchburg, Mass., Sept. 27, 1797.
April 20, 1803, he was installed the pastor of the
Tabernacle Church in Salem. At the institution
of the foreign mission society in 1810, he was
chosen recording secretary, and upon him de
volved the chief care and labor of the society.
In 1817, when Mr. Cornelius was settled as his
colleague, he was allowed to devote three-quar
ters of his time to the missionary cause. In
1820, in a state of feeble health, he visited the
missionary stations at the south. From New
Orleans he proceeded to Mayhew, and thence,
May 25th, to Brainerd, a missionary station
among the Cherokees, dearer to him than any
city or mansion on the earth, where he died. His
body rests in the territory of the Cherokees.
The body of his nephew, Samuel A. Worcester,
for preaching the gospel to the same Indians in
disregard of the unconstitutional laws of Geor
gia, was shut up among convicts in the prison-
house of the Georgians, and 'there held, in defi
ance of the supreme court of the U. S. Dr. W.
was a bright example of pastoral faithfulness
and of habitual, fervent piety. During his min
istry in Salem, two hundred eighty-five were
added to the church. He attended more than
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eighty ecclesiastical councils. He was humble,
benevolent, and disinterested. He died a poor
man ; but he left his family what is more valua
ble than riches, — the benefit of his eminently
holy character and of his instructions and pray
ers. Multitudes in this world of selfishness toil
only for themselves ; he toiled incessantly for the
good of others, and for the kingdom of Jesus
Christ. He was conspicuous for a cool, sound
judgment; was distinguished as a writer; and
enjoyed in a high degree the confidence of the
churches. His wisdom and talents are seen in
the ten first annual reports of the board, of
which he was the secretary. Mr. Evarts was his
first successor as secretary ; and then for a short
time Mr. Cornelius, his former colleague at Sa
lem. His wife was a daughter of Dr. Jonathan
Fox of Hollis. Of his children are Rev. Dr.
Samuel M. W. of Salem, and Jonathan Fox, a
teacher. He published sermons on future pun
ishment, 1800; two discourses on the perpetuity
of the covenant with Abraham, 8vo., 1805; let
ters to T. Baldwin, 1807 ; on the death of Elea
nor Emerson, 1808; of R. Anderson, 1814; be
fore the Mass, missionary society, 1809; God a
rewarder ; at the installation of E. D. Griffin,
1811; at the ordination of E. L. Parker, 1810;
of the missionaries, Newell, Judson, Nott, Hall,
and Rice, 1812; of six missionaries, 1815; of
W. Cogswell, 1815; fast sermons on the war,
1812; before the foreign mission society of Sa
lem, 1813 ; three separate letters to W. E. Chan-
ning, on Unitarianism, 1815 ; Christian psalmody,
1815 ; before the American education society, on
true liberality, at the first anniversary, 1816; the
drunkard a destroyer, 1817; ten reports of the
American foreign mission society, from 1811 to
1820; sermons, 8vo., 1823. — Sprague's An
nals; Memoir by his son, S. M. W.
WORCESTER, THOMAS, minister of Salis
bury, N. II., died in 1831. He was the brother
of Samuel. His brother, Evarts, minister -of
Peacham, Vt., died in 1836, aged 29, having
been ordained at Littleton the same year. He
published a sermon at thanksgiving, 1795; on
death of J. Wardwell, 1814; on our Saviour's
divinity, 1810 ; on the testimony of the Son of
God, 1810 ; on the Divine Sonship of Christ,
1810; the glory of Christ, 1811; call for evi
dence as to Christ's being God ; examples of
faith and worship, 1814; ecclesiastical usurpa
tion, 1815; chain of argument as to trinity,
1817; letter to trinitarian brother, 1819.
WORCESTER, NOAH, D. D., died at Brigh
ton, Mass., Oct. 31, 1838, aged 79. He was the
founder of the Massachusetts peace society. He
was born at Hollis, N. II., Nov. 25, 1758 ; was
the brother of Rev. Samuel W., great-grandson
of Rev. Francis W., who was the great-grandson
of Rev. William W., the first minister of Salis
bury With no education except in a common
school, he was in early life several years in the
army. After his marriage he lived from 1779 to
1782 in Plymouth, N. II., and then removed to
Thornton, where he was a farmer and town clerk
and also taught school. In 1785 he published a
letter to J. Murray on his sermon on the origin
of evil. By advice of some ministers he studied
theology for a while, and was ordained at Thorn
ton in 1787. In 1810 he removed to Salisbury,
N. H., and thence in 1813 to Brighton. Mass.,
where he edited the Christian disciple till 1819.
In 1815 he published a solemn review of the cus
tom of war. This led to the , formation of the
Massachusetts peace society, organized in Jan.,
1816. As secretary, and as editor of the friend
of peace, he labored till he reached the age of 70.
Dr. Channing published a discourse on his char
acter, in which he says, after alluding to his
feebleness and sufferings and narrow circum
stances yet contented and cheerful, " On leaving
his house and turning my face towards the city, I
have said to myself, How much richer is this poor
man than the richest who dwell yonder?" The
peculiar doctrines which he advanced in his bible
news, published in 1810, were the following:
Jesus Christ, as he believed he found taught in the
Scriptures, was truly the Son of God, before the
creation of the world ; not created himself, as the
Arians maintain, but derived; divine in dignity
and various powers received from God, but capa
ble of suffering, if he chose to suffer; the ani
mating soul or spirit in the body of Christ, for he
tabernacled in the flesh and died in agony on the
cross, and the very being who came down from
heaven was the sufferer. The Holy Ghost, or
Holy Spirit, or Spirit of God does not mean a
person or being distinct from God, but God's
agency or sacred influence, bestowed in various
ways upon a world of dark-minded, perishing sin
ners, by which they are enlightened, regenerated,
and saved: the phrase he finds thus employed,
as he thinks, most plainly, more than two hun
dred times. He published a sermon at ordina
tion of T. Worcester, 1791 ; against the Baptist
theory, 1809; review of testimonies in favor of
the divinity of the Son of God, 1810; bible
news, 1810; address to Trinitarian clergy, 1814;
appeal to the candid, 1814 ; solemn review of the
custom of war, eighth edit., 1825. lie and
Thomas published a word in season, 1813.
WORCESTER, HENRY A., minister of a New
Jerusalem church in Portland, Me., died in 1840,
aged 38. He graduated at Yale in 1828, and
was highly esteemed. He published a small vol
ume of sermons.
WORCESTER, NOAH, M. D., died at Cincin
nati in 1847, aged 36; a professor in the West
ern Reserve college, and a physician in C. He
graduated at Harvard in 1832.
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WORCESTER, LEONARD, first minister of
Peacham, Vt., died in 1846, aged 79. He was the
son of Noah of Hollis, and was first an apprentice
to I. Thomas, printer, of Worcester ; then a jour
neyman ; then sole printer and partner as a pub
lisher and bookseller. He was a deacon in Mr.
Austin's church, and was brought into notice by
a reply to a sermon of Dr. Bancroft on the doc
trine of election. Studying theology while print
ing, he'was settled at Peacham, and after more
than fifty years' service had for a short time as a
colleague, D. Merrill, the author of the " Ox
sermon." After the publication of the bible news
by his brother Noah, he embraced his peculiar
doctrines, according to which he modified and
published the confession of his church. As to
the Son of God, his faith was that Christ was, in
his original nature and state, properly the Son of
God, derived from God, not created, by an eter
nal generation ; thus distinct from God, not prop
erly God, but Di^ie. The Spirit he regarded
not as a person distinct from God. He de
lighted especially in the doctrines of atonement
and of justification by faith. Four of his sons
were ministers, — Samuel A., Evarts, Isaac 11.,
and John II. He was the brother of Samuel
of Salem, and of Thomas, minister of Salisbury,
N. H., who died in 1831. He published an ora
tion on Washington's death, 1800 ; at ordination
of Gridley and Worcester as missionaries, 1825.
WORTH, W. J., general, died in Texas May
7, 1849, aged 55, a native of Hudson, N. Y. In
1812 he entered the army, and was distinguished
in battles in Canada. For some time he was su
perintendent of West Point. He had the chief
command in Florida in 1821. He won at Mon
terey the brevet of major-general, and fought in
various other battles, in some of which, it is
thought, he hazarded the lives of his men too
freely. But what is the life of his men to a
great soldier ? He was brave to a fault, chival
rous, of imposing presence, haughty, impetuous.
WORTHINGTOX, WILLIAM, minister of Say-
brook, Conn., died Nov. 16, 1756, aged 60. He
was the son of William of Hartford and Colches
ter, and grandson of Nicholas, the emigrant an
cestor of all who bear the name in this country,
who was wounded in the Cromwellian wars, and
emigrated about 1650, and settled in Ilatfield,
and thence removed to Hartford. A graduate of
Yale in 1716, he was ordained at Pochog, or that
part of S. which is now called Westbrook, in
1726. He was a man of great dignity and influ
ence, a persuasive and popular preacher and faith
ful pastor. His daughter, Temperance, married
Rev. Mr. Smith 'of Sharon, and was the mother
of Gov. J. C. Smith. She died at Albany in
1800, at the house of Judge Radcliff, her son-in-
law. Professor Fowler of Amherst is his de-
WORUMBO.
scendant. He published the election sermon,
1744.
WORTIIINGTON, JOHN, LL. D., colonel, an
eminent lawyer, died at Springfield, Mass., in
April, 1800, aged 81. He was graduated-at Yale
college in 1740. In 1774 he was a member of
the legislature of Massachusetts, and opposed the
measures of the friends of liberty. His name
was in the same year included in the list of the
mandamus councillors, but he declined the ap
pointment. Mr. David Ames married his
daughter. — Holland, II. 135.
WORTIIINGTON, PETER, an African, died in
Baltimore in 1833, aged 110.
WORTIIINGTON, GEORGE, Dr., died at
Georgetown, D. C., in 1836, aged 77 ; a man
highly respected.
WORTIIINGTON, WILLIAM, died at Cincin
nati June 5, 1846, aged 98: he served the seven
years of the Revolutionary Avar.
WORTMAN, TUNIS, died at New York in
1822. He published an oration on the influence
of social institutions on morals and happiness,
1796; a treatise on the liberty of the press, 1800.
WORUMBO, or WARRUMBEE, sachem of the
Ameriscoggan Indians, had a fort on the Ameris-
coggan, or, as it is now called, Androscoggan
river; which, in his absence, was captured by
Church in 1690. About the 9th or 10th of Sept.,
Maj. Church sailed from Portsmouth with three
hundred soldiers. In a few days he arrived at
Maquoit, and proceeded to Pejepscott fort in
Brunswick, and thence marched up the river
about forty miles, according to Mather, and Sun
day, Sept. 14, captured the Indian fort, making
prisoners of one man and the wives and children
of Worumbo and Hawkins. The prisoners were
afterwards released at Wells, on the appearance
of the chiefs with a flag of truce and their en
gagement to live in peace, with the delivery of
many prisoners. From Church's account of the
expedition, it is uncertain whether the Indian
fort was at Lewiston, Jay, or Rumford, at each
of which places are falls, at the distances of
twenty, forty-five, and sixty miles from Pejep
scott. He says that the Indians ran down from
the fort to the river, and ran in under the sheet
of water at the falls. At Rumford upper falls,
— for there are three pitches, — the water shoots
over in a manner which would allow of passing
under it. The falls, three miles below Jay point,
called Rockamecko, do not answer this descrip
tion, nor do those at Lewiston. Yet the distance
of sixty miles seems a long march with three
hundred men into the wilderness. With boats
or canoes he could not have been supplied. July
7, 1684, Warrumbee, with five other sagamores,
namely, Darumkine, Wihikermett, Wedpn Dom-
hegon, Nehonongassett, and Numbanewett, gave
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a deed of land to Richard Wharton of Boston,
which was the foundation of the claim of the
Pejepscott proprietors. The contract was made
at Pejepscott or Pejepscook, as the Indians
called the falls at Brunswick, and the territory
granted was to extend from five miles above " the
upper part of the Androscoggan uppermost falls"
in a northeast line to the Kennebec, and four
miles westward of the falls, and thence " down to
Maquoit." The point of legal controversy was
what was intended by the " uppermost falls " of
Androscoggan. The court has settled, that it
means Lewiston falls, twenty miles above Bruns
wick ; yet, from reading Warrumbee'fl deed, the
first book of records of the Pejepscott proprie
tors, and other papers, it seems clear that Bruns
wick upper falls were intended. A northeast
line from Lewiston would strike the Kennebec at
Xorridgewock or Waterville, and confer an im
mense territory, to which these Indians had no
pretensions, and interfere with the Kennebec
company. Besides, the falls at Lewiston are the
middle falls of the river, and those at Rumford,
forty miles distant, are the uppermost. In one
place the deed speaks of " the uppermost part of
Androscoggan falls," as though the falls extended
same distance in the river, which is not the case
with the single fall at Lewiston, but which an
swers to the three falls of Brunswick, separated
many rods from each other. This deed professes
to confirm a previous grant of land, with the
same western boundary, to Thomas Purchase,
and iiis house is described as being near the cen
tre of the territory; as he lived between Bruns
wick and Bath, his house would be far from the
centre, if the line was four miles west of Lewis-
ton. The deposition of Peripole, an Indian, in
1793, that the river at Brunswick and for some
miles above was called by the Indians Pejepscook,
and not Androscoggan, is confuted by a deed in
1639 of T. Purchase, whose land is described
as lying " at Pejepscott upon both sides -of
the river of Androscoggan," and by a deed of
J. Blaney in 1683, whose lands are described as
lying between " the river of Kennebec, Ambros-
ccggan, and Casco bay." The proprietors in 1715
describe Brunswick as on the Androscoggan
river. Tho. Johnson's old map, founded on pre
vious surveys and on a plan in 1719 made by Jos.
Heath, a surveyor of the Pejepscott company,
five years only after their purchase, exhibits dis
tinctly by a double line their western boundary,
four miles from Brunswick falls. On the whole
it seems evident, that Warrumbee intended
Brunswick falls as one of the boundaries in his
deed. But even the poor remnant of his tribe
have disappeared from Rocamecko point in Jay
and from Pennicook in Rumford, and their whole
territory has fallen into the hands of the whites.
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Is there not a debt of justice due to the few
Indians who yet remain in the United States?
WRAGG, WILLIAM, a lawyer of S. Carolina,
died in Sept., 1777. He was born in 1714, and
was educated and studied law in England. After
his return to this country he was for many years
a member of the assembly, and in 1753 a mem
ber of the council. He declined in 1769 the
appointment of chief justice for a most honora
ble reason, to prevent a suspicion that his politi
cal course was influenced by the hope of office.
In the Revolution his sense of duty restrained
him from espousing the cause of independence.
Leaving his country, he embarked for England,
and was shipwrecked on the coast of Holland,
and lost; his infant son was saved. A monu
ment to his memory in Westminster abbey ex
hibits the melancholy scene of his last moments.
He was a man of talents, and eloquence, and
many virtues. He published reasons for not
concurring in the non-importation resolution,
1769.
WRANGMAN, JOIIN, died at Peru, N. J.,
in 1835, aged 102.
WRIGHT, MEHITABEL, a distinguished artist,
died in London in Feb., 1786, at an advanced
age. She early discovered a singular talent in the
moulding of figures in wax. On the death of
her husband, an aged Quaker of Philadelphia,
she repaired with her family about the year 1772
to London, where she acquired great celebrity
for her plastic skill. Her numerous busts, among
which were those of the king and queen, Chat
ham, Barre, and Wilkes, and her Indian family,
and story of queen Esther, were deemed very
fine. Her society was sought for her uncommon
powers in intellect and conversation. Her pat
riotism was unshaken. It is supposed that she
communicated to Dr. Franklin much political
information, derived from sources to which few
could have access.
WRIGHT, JOB, second minister of Bernards-
ton, Mass., died in 1822, aged 85. Born in East
Hampton, he graduated at Yale in 1757, and
was pastor from 1761 to 1782, when he was dis
missed on account of the poverty of the people.
J. Norton was the first minister.
WRIGHT, NATHANIEL H., a poet, was born
in Concord, Mass., in 1787, and educated as a
printer in Boston, where he edited the Kaleido
scope, and died May 13, 1824, aged 37. He
published the fall of Palmyra, a poem ; Boston,
or a touch at the times, a small pamphlet.
WRIGHT, ISAAC, died in New York in 1832.
He and his son-in-law, Francis Thompson, cre
ated the first establishment of the very impor
tant packet system from New York to Europe.
He was a man of probity and philanthropy, a
member of the society of Friends.
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WYLIE.
WRIGHT, HENRY, D. D., died at Bristol,
R. I., in Aug., 1837, aged 85 ; a graduate of
Harvard in 1782.
WRIGHT, CHESTER, minister of Montpelier,
Vt., died April 16, 1840, aged 63. Born in Han
over, N. H., he was a farmer ; at the age of
twenty-one a Christian convert, he resolved to
preach ; and was graduated at Middlebury in
1806, and settled the first pastor of Montpelier
from 1809 to 1830. In twenty years the church
increased from seventeen to more than four hun
dred members. In 1836 he was installed in Hard-
wick, Vt., remaining pastor till his death at M.
He was highly respected and remarkably useful
as a minister. He published an arithmetic and
several sermons.
WRIGHT, JAMES, colonel, died in Duplin co.,
N. C., in 1840, aged 84 ; a soldier of the Revo
lution, a venerable citizen.
WRIGHT, BENJAMIN, died in New York Aug.
24, 1842, aged 72. Born in Wethersfield, he
removed in early life to Fort Stanwix. He edu
cated himself as a surveyor. A member of the
canal board in 1816, he became a director and a
chief constructor of the Erie canal ; he was after
wards consulted in regard to a multitude of canals
and railroads. No individual did more for inter
nal improvements. He was also a man of ac
knowledged probity.
WRIGHT, JUDAH, blind from infancy, died
in Holden, Mass., in 1844, aged 70. He was a
scholar, a reasoner, a philosopher, and a Chris
tian. His knowledge of history was extensive
and exact. Yet he was poor, and lived by man
ual labor and by charity.
WRIGHT, ELIZUR, died in Tallmadge, Ohio,
Dec. 15, 1845, aged 83. A graduate of Yale in
1781, he devoted himself to agriculture. In 1810
he emigrated to Ohio with a large family. Much
of his time was given to scientific studies : some
of his mathematical papers are in the American
journal of science.
WRIGHT, SILAS, governor, died at Canton,
N. Y., Aug. 27, 1847, aged 52. He was born in
Amherst, Mass., May 24, 1795, being a descend
ant of Samuel Wright of Northampton, who
died in 1665. In childhood he lived at Wcy-
bridge, Vt. ; and was graduated at Middlebury in
1815. He settled as a lawyer at Canton. His
various offices were those of a State senator ; a
member of congress in 1826 ; comptroller ; a
senator of the U. S. in 1833 and 1837, and 1843;
and governor in 1844. He had many friends,
who regarded him as a candidate for the high
station of president of the U. S. But he was
suddenly smitten down in his strength, showing
the vanity of earthly hopes and prospects. —
Holland's Hist. n. 171.
WRIGHT, ROYAL N., a home missionary, died
at Belvidere, 111., in Oct., 1849. A native of
Hanover, N. H., he graduated at Dartmouth in
1837 : he attended the meeting of the American
board at Pittsficld just before his death.
WRIGHT, THEODORE S., pastor of the first
colored church in New York city, died March 25,
1847, aged 49.
WRIGHT, EUNICE, widow of Moses W. of
Northampton, Mass., died in 1851, aged 98.
WRIGHT, FANNY D'ARUSMONT, died at Cin
cinnati Dec. 14, 1852, aged 57. If her name
shall be remembered, it will be as that of a
woman who was an enemy of God's pure and
heavenly truth. She published fables and tracts ;
also, lectures complete, 1836.
WRIGHT, ALFRED, missionary among the
Choctaws, died at Wheelock March 31, 1853,
aged 65. Born in Columbia, Conn., he gradu
ated at Williams college in 1812, at Andover
seminary in 1814; he went on his mission to
Mayhew in 1821, to Wheelock in 1832. His
wife was Harriet Bunce of Charleston, S. C. He
had labored more than thirty years among the
Indians, and was eminently useful. It was his
wish to finish the translation of the bible on
which he had long toiled. His industry was
incessant, rising at five o'clock for his work. His
end was peaceful, triumphant. Since the church
was founded in 1832, five hundred seventy-seven
persons were admitted.
WRIGHT, HULDAH, died at Chicago in 1854,
aged 67. The daughter of Stephen Dewey of
Sheffield, Mass., she married, in 1812, Jonathan
Wright, who removed to Chicago in 1834, and
was ruling elder in the first church till his death
in 1840. In 1842 she united with the second
church. Her life was a life of devotion and faith,
of charity and good works ; her end was peace,
amid the tears of those who reverenced and loved
a woman of great excellence.
AVRIGHT, JOHN, one of the first preachers of
the gospel in Ohio, died in Delphi Aug. 31, 1854,
aged 78. He was licensed to preach in 1802.
WYCOFF, HENRY J., an eminent merchant
of New Jersey, died in 1839, aged 72 ; a zealous
friend of benevolent institutions.
WYLIE, ANDREW, D. D., died in Blooming-
ton, Ind., Nov. 11, 1851, aged 62. He had been
president of Jefferson college, also of Washing
ton college, and for the last twenty-three years
president of Indiana State university at Bloom-
ington. He had done much for good morals and
sound learning.
WYLIE, SAMUEL BROWN, D.D., died at Phil
adelphia Oct. 14, 1852, aged 80; for fifty-three
years pastor of the first Reformed church. He
had been professor of ancient languages in the
university of Pennsylvania. He was eminent in
oriental, classical, and general literature, a good
teacher, a learned theologian, a philanthropist,
and true Christian.
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• WYLLIS, GEORGE, governor of Connecticut
in 1642, came from England to Hartford in 1638,
and died in March, 1644. He was the son of
llichard of Fenny-Compton in Warwickshire.
He was eminently pious, and, from regard to the
purity of divine worship, left a fine estate in the
county of Warwick and encountered the hard
ships of the wilderness. His descendants are
distinguished in the civil history of Connecticut.
His son, Samuel, died May 30, 1709 ; the charter
in the time of Andros was concealed in a hollow
oak, standing until August, 1856, called "char
ter oak." Hezekiah, the son of Samuel, was sec
retary, and died in 1734. George, the son of
Ilezekiah, died April 24, 1796, aged 85, being
annually chosen secretary sixty-one years till his
death. Samuel, the son of George, died June 9,
1823, aged 85. He also was secretary from 1796
to 1809, — the family holding the office ninety-
eight successive years. He was, besides, in the
rank of colonel, a soldier of the Revolution, and
major-general of the militia. Col. Hezekiah W.
died in April, 1827, aged 80.
WYLLIS, HEZEKIAH, colonel, died at Hart
ford in 1827, aged 80. He graduated at Yale in
1765. He was the last of the family of George
W., who died aged 86, and three of whose sons,
near 1817, died aged 80 or upwards.
WYLLY, RICHARD, colonel, an old Revolu
tionary officer, died at Savannah in 1801.
WYLLYS, SAMUEL, general, a patriot of the
Revolution, died at Hartford, Conn., in 1823,
aged 84. The son of George W., he was born
Jan. 15, 1739; graduated at Yale college in
1758; and in 1775 was appointed lieutenant-col
onel in Spencer's regiment. In Jan., 1775, con
gress appointed him colonel of a regiment in the
Connecticut line, in which capacity he served dur
ing the war. He was afterwards major-general
of the militia. In May, 1796, he succeeded his
father as the secretary of State, in which office
he continued till 1809, when in consequence of
a paralytic affection he resigned. For ninety-
eight years he and his father and grandfather
held the office of secretary, and that in a repub
lic where the elections were annual. He was of
the tenth generation from Richard W. of Napton,
in the reign of Henry VIII.
WYMAN, RUFUS, M. D., died in 1842 at Rox-
bury, aged 64. A graduate of Harvard in 1799,
he was long superintendent of the M'Lean asy
lum for the insane in Somerville.
WYMAN, ROBERT, missionary at Ceylon, died
at sea Jan. 13, 1845, aged 30. Born in Cumber
land, Me., he graduated at Bowdoin college in
1836, and, after studying theology, embarked for
Ceylon in Oct., 1841. He was a teacher in Bat-
ticotta seminary. Ill health compelled him to
undertake a voyage to the United States, Dec. 27,
1844. He was buried in the deep. His widow
arrived at Boston May 4.
WYMAN, THOMAS W., a captain in the U. S.
navy, died in Florence, Italy, in 1854, aged about
64. He entered the navy in 1810 ; was made
captain in 1842 ; was faithful in the discharge of
his duties and was highly esteemed.
WYNKOOP, PETER S., died in Hudson Nov.
1, 1848, aged 62 ; pastor at Blooming Grove.
He was first settled at Madison, then at Hyde
Park ; and was a faithful minister. — N. Y. Ob
server, Nov. 18.
WYNNE, J. H., published a general history
of the British empire in America, two vols. 8vo.,
1770.
WYTHE, GEORGE, chancellor of Virginia, and
a distinguished friend of his country, died June
8, 1806, aged 80. He was born in the county
of Elizabeth city in 1725. His father was a re
spectable farmer, and his mother was a woman
of uncommon knowledge and strength of mind.
She taught the Latin language, with which she
was intimately acquainted, and which she spoke
fluently, to her son ; but his education was in
other respects very much neglected. His parents
having died before he attained the age of twenty-
one years, like many unthinking youths he com
menced a career of dissipation and intemperance,
and did not disengage himself from it before he
reached the age of thirty. He then bitterly
lamented the loss of those nine years of his life,
and of the learning which, during that period,
he might have acquired. But never did any man
more effectually redeem his time. From the
moment when he resolved on reformation, he
devoted himself most intensely to his studies.
Without the assistance of any instructor he ac
quired an accurate knowledge of the Greek, and
he read the best authors in that as well as in the
Latin language. He made himself also a pro
found lawyer, becoming perfectly versed in the
civil and common law, and in the statutes of
Great Britain and Virginia. The wild and
thoughtless youth was now converted into a
sedate and prudent man, delighting entirely in
literary pursuits. When the time arrived which
Heaven had destined for the separation of the
wide, confederated republic of America from the
dominion of Great Britain, he was one of the
instruments in the hand of Providence for accom
plishing that great work. He took a decided
part in the very first movements of opposition.
Not content merely to fall in with the wishes of
his fellow-citizens, he assisted in persuading them
not to submit to British tyranny. With his, pupil
and friend, Thomas Jefferson, he roused the
people to resistance. As the controversy grew
warm, his zeal became proportionably fervent.
Before the war commenced, he was elected a
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member of the Virginia assembly. After having
been for some time speaker of the house of bur
gesses, he was sent by the members of that body
as one of their delegates to the congress, which
assembled May 18, 1775, and did not separate
until it had declared the independence of America.
In that most enlightened and patriotic assembly
he possessed no small share of influence. He
\vas one of those who signed the memorable
declaration, by which the heroic legislators of this
country pledged " their lives, their fortunes, and
their sacred honor " to maintain and defend its
violated rights. By a resolution of the general
assembly of Virginia, dated Nov. 5, 1776, he and
Jefferson, Pendleton, Mason, and T. L. Lee were
appointed a committee to revise the laws of the
commonwealth. This was a work of very great
labor and difficulty. The three first prosecuted
their task with indefatigable activity and zeal,
and, June 18, 1779, made a report of one hundred
and twenty-six bills, which they had prepared.
This report showed an intimate knowledge of
the great principles of legislation, and reflected
the highest honor upon those who formed it.
The people of Virginia are indebted to it for
almost all the best parts of their present code of
laws. Among the changes then made in the
monarchical system of jurisprudence which had
been in force, the most important were effected
by the act abolishing the right of primogeniture,
and directing the real estate of persons dying
intestate to be equally divided among their
children, or other relations ; by the act for regu
lating conveyances, which converted all estates in
tail into fees simple, and thus destroyed one of
the supports of the proud and overbearing dis
tinctions of particular families ; and finally by the
act for the establishment of religious freedom.
After finishing the task of new modelling the
laws, he was employed to carry them into effect
according to their true intent and spirit, by being
placed in the difficult office of judge of a court
of equity. He was appointed one of the three
judges of the high court of chancery, and after
wards sole chancellor of Virginia, in which sta
tion he continued until the day of his death,
during a period of more than twenty years. His
extraordinary disinterestedness and patriotism
were now most conspicuously displayed. Al
though the salary allowed him by the common
wealth was extremely scanty, yet he contentedly
lived upon it, even in the expensive city of Rich
mond, and devoted his whole time to the service
of his country. With that contempt of wealth
which so remarkably distinguished him from
other men, he made a present of one-half of his
land in Elizabeth city to his nephew, and the pur
chase money of the remainder, which he sold,
was not paid him for many years. While he
resided in Williamsburgh he accepted the profes
sorship of law in the college of William and
Mary, but resigned it when his duties as a chan
cellor required his removal to Richmond. His
resources were therefore small ; yet with his lib
eral and charitable disposition he continued, by
means of that little, to do much good, and always
to preserve his independence. This he accom
plished by temperance and economy.
He was a member of the Virginia convention,
which in June, 1788, considered the proposed
constitution of the United States. During the
debates he acted for the most part as chairman.
Being convinced that the confederation was
defective in the energy necessary to preserve
the union and liberty of America, this venerable
patriot, then beginning to bow under the weight
of years, rose in the convention, and exerted his
voice, almost too feeble to be heard, in contending
for a system, on the acceptance of which h-- con
ceived the happiness of his country to depend.
He was ever attached to the constitution, on
account of the principles of freedom and justice
which it contained; and in every change of affairs
he was steady in supporting the rights of man.
His political opinions were always firmly republi
can. Though in 1798 and 1799 he was opposed
to the measures which were adopted in the
administration of President Adams, and repro
bated the alien and sedition laws, and the raising
of the army ; yet he never yielded a moment to
the rancor of party spirit, nor permitted the dif
ference of opinion to interfere with his private
friendships. He presided twice successively in
the college of electors in Virginia, and twice voted
for a president whose political principles coin
cided with his own. After a short but very
excruciating sickness he died. It was supposed
that he was poisoned ; but the person suspected
was acquitted by a jury of his countrymen. By
his last will and testament he bequeathed his val
uable library and philosophical apparatus to his
friend, Mr. Jefferson, and distributed the remain
der of his little property among the grandchil
dren of his sister, and the slaves whom he had
set free.
YALE, ELIHU, the principal benefactor of Yale
college, died in Wales July 8, 1721, aged 73.
lie was born at New Haven in 1648, and at the
age of ten years went to England, and about
the year 1678 to the East Indies, where he
acquired a large estate, was made governor of
fort St. George, and married an Indian lady of
fortune. After his return to London he was cho
sen governor of the East India company, and
made those donations to the college in his native
town, which induced the trustees to bestow on it
the name of Yale.
YALE, LE ROY MILTON, M. D., died at Holmes'
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Hole in Tisbury, Martha's Vineyard, in 1849. He
received his medical degree from Harvard in
1829.
YALE, ELISHA, D. D., minister of Kingsboro',
N. Y., died Jan. 9, 1853, aged 72. lie was born
in Lee. He had been nearly fifty years in K.,
settled over a very industrious people, chiefly em
ployed in the manufacture of gloves ; hence the
name of a new village, Gloversville. He trained
them to regular and remarkable beneficence. He
was a most faithful and excellent minister.
YALE, CYRUS, minister of New Hartford,
Conn., died in 1 854, aged 65. Born in Lee, Mass,
he graduated at Williams college in 1811; was
ordained in 1814; dismissed in 1834, and became
the minister of Ware for three years, and was
then re-settled in New Hartford till his death by
paralysis. He was zealous in the cause of tem
perance and peace. As the fruits of four revi
vals, three hundred and thirty persons joined his
church. He wrote a memoir of Rev. J. Hallock,
1828. He also published a sermon at the ordi
nation of II. Goodwin; on the death of S. E.
Hawley ; at the funeral of a child ; before the
Adelphic society ; on erecting a meeting-house ;
on a living faith ; at thanksgiving ; life of A.
Hyde; to consociation, 1849; sketches of minis
ters of Litchfield county, 1852. — Sprague's
Annals.
YALES, WILLIAM, Dr., died at Morris, Ot-
sego co., N. Y., April 7, 1857, aged 90. He was
a native of England, and was the first who intro
duced vaccination in the United States.
YANCEY, MARY, Mrs., died in Louisa county,
Va., in 1840, aged 100; leaving a numerous,
respectable offspring.
YANCEY, ROBERT Y., an editor, died in Mem
phis, Tenn., in 1852, aged 46. He published the
Reporter at Somerville, and at M. the Eagle and
Enquirer, and then the Southerner.
YARROW, THOMAS, Dr., died at Sharpetown,
N. J. , in 1841; an aged physician and much
respected citizen.
YATES, ROBERT, chief justice of New York,
died Sept. 9, 1801, aged 63. He was born at
Schenectady in Jan., 1738, and became eminent
as a lawyer in Albany. In 1776 and 1777 he was
chairman of the committee for military operations.
Under the constitution of the State, which he
assisted in framing in 1777, he was appointed a
judge of the supreme court. He was chief jus
tice from 1790 till 1798. Of the convention
which formed the federal constitution he was a
member. For his many virtues he was esteemed,
and respected as an upright, learned judge, and
an accomplished scholar.
YATES, JOSEPH C., governor of New York,
died at Schenectady March 19, 1837. He was a
judge of the supreme court of New York, and
governor from 1822 to 1825.
YATES, ANDREW, D. D., died in 1844. He
graduated at Yale in 1794, and was professor of
logic and ethics at Schenectady from 1814 to
1825.
YEATES, JASPER, judge, a patriot of the
Revolution, died March 14, 1817. He was a
member of Lancaster county committee of cor
respondence, Penn., in 1774, and of the conven
tion which ratified the constitution of the United
States in 1788. He was a judge of the supreme
court of Pennsylvania from 1791 till his death at
Lancaster. He was a man of sound judgment
and great industry and faithfulness in his office.
He published reports of cases in the supreme
court of Pennsylvania, 1817.
YORK, ISAAC, a Revolutionary soldier, died
in Standish, Me., in 1846, aged 89; the oldest
inhabitant born in S.
YOUNG, HENRY, general, died in King and
Queen's county, Va., in 1817, aged 75. He was
a Revolutionary officer.
YOUNG, DANIEL, minister of a German re
formed church in Augusta, Ga., died in 1831.
He was also a professor in York seminary.
YOUNG, SAMUEL, Dr., died in Hagerstown,
Md., in 1838, aged 99; a man much respected.
YOUNG, JOHN, governor of New York, died
at New York in April, 1852, aged 50; assistant
treasurer of the United States at New York. He
was a member of congress in 1841-3 and gov
ernor in 1847-9.
YOUNG, SAMUEL, died in Ballston, N. Y., in
1850, aged 71 ; a man of political distinction,
having sustained many offices in the State of
New York. He was born in Lenox, Mass. For
a long period he was either a representative or
senator in the State legislature. One of the
board of canal commissioners in 1817, he con
tinued till the completion of the Erie canal. He
was also of the board of regents of the univer
sity. He was a man of a simple taste, honest,
fearless, indomitable, of high talents. After the
age of sixty he studied several modern languages.
He loved his books, his garden, and the society
of the young.
YOUNG, ALEXANDER, D. D., died in Boston
March 16, 1854, aged 53. He was the son of
Alexander Young, a printer, and born in Bos
ton ; he graduated at Harvard in 1820; was
settled over the sixth church in Boston as the
successor of Dr. Greenwood, Jan. 19, 1825. He
published a sermon on sins of the tongue, 1829;
and several works of great value to all readers,
who are making inquiry concerning the early
history of New England, namely, chronicles of
the Pilgrim fathers of the colony of Plymouth ;
also chronicles of the first planters of Massa
chusetts.
YOUNG, HENDERSON, judge of the sixth
judicial circuit of Kentucky, died in 1854.
894
YOUNGMAN.
ZEISBERGER.
YOUNGMANj JOHN GEORGE, a Moravian
missionary, was first employed among the Mo-
hegans in Connecticut, and afterwards among
the Delawares on the Susquehannah, and in the
•western country. He died at Bethlehem in July,
1808, aged 87.
YOUNGS, JOHX, the first minister in South-
hold, L. I., had been a ministe • in Hingham,
England, but came to this country with a part
of his church in 1640, and in Oct. commenced
the settlement of S. He died in 1672, aged 73.
His son, John, colonel and sheriff of the county,
died in 1688, aged about 64. His brother, Ben
jamin, and others of the name were judges of the
common pleas.
YOUNGS, SAMUEL, a soldier of the Revolu
tion, died at Irving, N. Y., in 1839, aged 79.
After the war he studied law, and was surrogate,
and was much respected.
YUMMANUM, a Pequot Indian, the last sa
chem of the tribe at Nihantic in Lyme, Conn.,
died about 1740.
ZABRISKIE, JOHX, a minister, died at Mill
stone, N. J., in 1850, aged 72.
ZEISBERGER, DAVID, a Moravian mission
ary among the Indians of North America, died
in 1808, aged 87. He was a native of Moravia,
in Germany, whence his parents emigrated to
Herrnhut in Upper Lusatia, for the sake of reli
gious liberty. He was born in 1721. In 1738
he came to Georgia, where some of his brethren
had begun a settlement, that they might preach
the gospel to the Creeks. Thence he removed
to Pennsylvania, and assisted in the commence
ment of the settlements of Bethlehem and Naza
reth. From 1746 he was for sixty-two years a
missionary among the Indians. Perhaps no man
ever preached the gospel so long among them,
and amidst so many trials and hardships. He
was one of the oldest white settlers in the State
of Ohio. In the last forty years of his life he
only paid two visits to his friends in the Atlantic
States. His last journey to Bethlehem was in
1781. He died at Goshen, on the river Muskin-
gum, in Ohio. He was a man of small stature,
with a cheerful countenance, of a cool, intrepid
spirit, with a good understanding and sound
judgment. His portrait is prefixed to Hecke-
welder's narrative. Amidst all his privations
and dangers he was never known to complain,
nor ever regretted that he had engaged in the
cause of the Redeemer. He would never con
sent to receive a salary, although he deemed it
proper for some missionaries. He trusted in his
Lord for the necessaries of life, and he looked
to the future world for his reward. Free from
selfishness, a spirit of universal love filled his
bosom. A more perfect character has seldom
been exhibited on the earth.
It is a melancholy fact, that he suffered more
from white men, called Christians, by reason of
their selfishness, and depravity, and hostility to
the gospel, than from the Indians. In 1745, on
his journey towards the five nations, he was ar
rested at Albany with Mr. Post, and after much
abuse, imprisoned seven weeks in the city of New
York. At last he was declared innocent of any
treasonable views, and was liberated. At one
time a plot was laid by one Girty, an English
agent, or trader at Sandusky, to procure his
scalp, and nearly succeeded.
In March, 1782, between ninety and one hun
dred of the Christian Indians at Gnadenhutten,
on the Muskingum, were massacred by a party
of whites from the settlements on the Ohio. The
immediate cause of this massacre was the mur
der of a woman and child by some Sandusky
warriors, in which, however, it is incredible that
the whites could have thought the Christian In
dians were implicated. The party found the In
dians at work in a corn-field, and hailed them as
friends, and offered to protect them from their
enemies, and even called them good Christians.
When they were secured, it was told them that
they must die. Begging for a short delay, that
they might prepare for death, they fell on their
knees and prayed to their God and Saviour, and
sang his praises, and then kissed each other with
a flood of tears mingled with lofty Christian
hope. Some of the party remonstrated against
what was proposed, but it being in vain, they
withdrew to a distance, wringing their hands,
saying they were innocent of the blood which
was to be shed. Then one of the white monsters
began the work of death. Seizing a cooper's
mallet, he knocked in the head fourteen unre
sisting victims one after another, and then handed
the instrument to a brother monster, saying, " I
think I have done pretty well!" More than
ninety men, women, and children, were killed
and scalped, when the murderers, having set fire
to the houses, and scalped their victims, went off
shouting and yelling. Such a foul and horrible
deed cannot be found in the page of history.
The object was the plunder of eighty horses, of
furs, and other property of these peaceable In
dians. Of these victims, sixty-two were grown
persons, one-third of whom were women ; thirty-
four were children. Two of them had been
members of David Brainerd's church in New
Jersey. The leader of this horrible party had
the name of Williamson. Two months after
wards he attacked the warrior Indians at San
dusky, and was defeated. Col. Crawford was
taken prisoner, and the savages, in retaliation,
tied him to a stake and put him to death by
various tortures; under which he was tauntingly
asked, how he felt, and whether they did as well
ZENGER.
ZINZENDORF.
895
to him as he had done to the helieving Indians?
They added, " We have to learn barbarities of
you white people ! "
Had the back settlers of our country partici
pated in the benevolent spirit of the Moravians,
the benefit to the Indians would have been incal
culable. Amidst all obstacles, the brethren, in
the days of Mr. Zeisberger, instructed and bap
tized about fifteen hundred of the Indians. The
calm death of those whcuwere murdered at Mus-
kingum is a delightful proof of the influence of
the gospel on men concerning whom it is some
times said they cannot be made Christians.
In the evening of his days, as the faculties of
Mr. Z. began to fail him, his desire to depart and
to be with Christ continually increased. Yet he was
patient and resigned. His last words were : " Lord
Jesus, I pray thee come, and take my spirit to
thyself. Thou hast never yet forsaken me in my
trials ; thou wilt not forsake me now."
He made himself acquainted with two lan
guages, the Onondaga and the Delaware. About
1768 he wrote two grammars of the Onondaga,
in English and German, and a dictionary, Ger
man and Indian, of more than seventeen hundred
pages. In the Lenape, or language of the Del-
awares, he published a spelling-book, first in
1776, and an enlarged edition in 1806 ; also ser
mons to children, and an hymn-book of three
hundred and sixty pages, containing upwards of
five hundred hymns, translated partly from Ger
man and partly from English. He left in manu
script a grammar in German of the Delaware
language, which has been translated by Mr. Du
Ponceau ; also a harmony of the four gospels,
translated into Delaware. It is believed that the
last has been published by the female missionary
society of Bethlehem. — Amer. Reg. V. ; Heck-
ewelder's Narrative.
ZENGER, JOHN PETER, a printer in New
York, died in 1746. He came from Germany,
and established a press in 1726. In 1733. he
established the Weekly Journal. In consequence
of some strictures in that paper on Gov. Crosby
and the council he was imprisoned by a warrant
from the governor and council in Dec., 1734, and
kept in close confinement thirty-five Aveeks. An
drew Hamilton, an eminent lawyer of Philadel
phia, though aged and infirm, repaired to New
York to defend him at his trial. Prosecuted for
publishing a false libel on the governor, Mr. H.
admitted the publication, but insisted that the
publication was not false. The court would not
allow the witnesses of the truth to be examined ;
would not allow the jury to judge of the law as
well as of the fact; yet the jury, notwithstanding
the direction of the bench, brought in a verdict
of not guilty. Afterward in England Mr. Owen,
prosecuted by desire of the commons, was in like
manner acquitted. This precedent had its weight
in the trials relating to the writings of Junius.
It is to America and to Andrew Hamilton that
the principle may be traced, that the jury have a
right to examine the truth of the alleged libel
and the motives of the writer. The common
council of New York presented Mr. H. the free
dom of their corporation in a gold box. Zenger's
widow, Catherine, and his son, John, continued
his paper after his death. A narration of his
trial was published at Boston ; also at London,
with the trial of William Owen, 8vo., 1765. —
Holmes, u. 5 ; Thomas, II. 95.
ZEPHANIAH, an aged Indian at Marshpee,
in Barnstable, Mass., died in 1767, aged 90. He
was the son of Popmunnuck, who was chief of the
tribe in 1648.
ZIMMERMAN, SAMUEL, was killed on the
railroad near Hamilton, Upper Canada, March
12, 1857, as the cars ran off the track and broke
down the bridge over a canal. More than sev
enty persons were killed. Born in Pennsylvania,
he went a poor boy to Canada, where as a rail
road contractor he amassed a fortune. He lived
in a splendid style near the Clifton house, Niag
ara. He was married before his death.
ZIXZENDORF, NICHOLAS Louis, count, the
founder of the sect of the Moravians, died at
Herrnhut May 9, 1760, aged 60. He was born
at Dresden in May, 1700. He studied at Halle
and Utrecht. About the year 1721 he purchased
the lordship of Bertholdsdorf in Lusatia. Some
poor Christians, the followers of John Huss, ob
tained leave in 1722 to settle on his estate.
They soon made converts. Such was the origin
of the village of Herrnhut. From this period
Count Z. devoted himself to the business of in
structing his fellow-men by his writings and by
preaching. He travelled through Germany, and
in Denmark became acquainted with the Danish
mission in the East Indies and Greenland.
About 1732 he engaged earnestly in the promo
tion of missions by his Moravian brethren, whose
numbers at Herrnhut were then about five hun
dred. So successful were these missions, that in
a few years four thousand negroes were baptized
in the West Indies, and the converts in Green
land amounted to seven hundred and eighty-
four. In 1737 he visited London, and in 1741
came to America, and preached at Gcrmantown
and Bethlehem. Feb. 11, 1742, he ordained at
Oly, in Pennsylvania, the missionaries Rnuch
and Buettner, and Rauch baptized three Indians
from Shekomeco, east of the Hudson, the " first
lings of the Indians." He soon, with his daugh
ter, Benigna, and several brethren and sisters,
visited various tribes of Indians. At Shekomeco
he established the first Indian Moravian congre
gation in North America. In 1743 he returned
896
ZUBLY.
to Europe. At his burial, his coffin was carried
to the grave by thirty-two preachers and mis
sionaries whom he had reared, and some of whom
had toiled in Holland, England, Ireland, North
America, and Greenland. What monarch was
ever honored by a funeral like this ? The sect
established by Z. boasts not of great orators and
learned theologians ; indeed, it boasts of nothing ;
but no sect has been more deeply imbued with
the meek and benevolent spirit of the gospel, or
manifested more of a noble missionary zeal.
ZUBLY, JOHN JOACHIM, D. D., first minister
of the Presbyterian church in Savannah, died in
July, 1781. He came from St. Gall in Swit
zerland, and took the charge of this church in
1760. He preached to an English and German
congregation, and sometimes also he preached in
ZUBLY.
French. He was a member of the provincial
congress in 1775, but, as he differed in opinion
from his fellow-citizens with respect to the inde
pendence of the United States, he incurred their
displeasure, aud his subsequent days were embit
tered. He was a man of great learning, of a
vigorous and penetrating mind, and of a heart
moulded into the Christian spirit. He published
a sermon on the value of that faith without which
it is impossible to please God, 1772 ; a sermon
on the death of J. Osgood of Midway, 1773 ;
the law of liberty, a sermon on American affairs,
at the opening of the provincial congress of
Georgia, with an appendix giving an account of
the struggle of Switzerland to recover liberty,
1775. — Georgia Analyt. Eepos. I. 49; Gordon,
II. 75.
INDEX.
CLASSIFIED AND SELECT
Artists.
Allston, Washington
Page Cobb, Sylvamis R
29 Coit, Jonathan
Page
. . .242 Stevens, John
. . .246 Stoughton, William
. . . 259 S weetzer. Thomas W
Page
..758
..766
..773
Beck, George
Birch, Thomas
Brou were, John II
Bulfinch, Charles
Cheney, Seth
Clark, John
Clevengcr, S. L. V:ii
Colo. Thomas
Copley, John S
Dunlap, William
Enrle. James
Earle, Ralph
Evans, Oliver
Fainiian, Gideon
Fairman. David
76 Cresson, Elliott
. ... 92 Dexter, Samuel
. . . .144 Dixon, Alexander
159 Dodge. David L
218 Dowse, Thomas
. . . .229 Ihvight, Edmund
. . . .237 Dwight. Louis
249 Eliot, Samuel .-
202 Erring, William
313 Evarts. Jeremiah
318 Faneuil, Peter
318 Gallaudet, Thomas II
344 Girard, Stephen
317 Golcltrap, Thomas W
347 Goodell, Solomon
. . .272 Thompson, Benjamin
..789
. . .300 Thompson, Abr. G
. 304 Thompson, Thomas F
..790
. .791
. . .305 Thorndike, Israel
. . .307 Touro, Judah
..791
..796
. .79'3
. . .318 Treadwell, John G
. . .334 Trowhridge, Henry
. . .343 Waldo, Daniel
. . 345 Waldo, Elizabeth
-.798
..799
..814
. .814
. . .347 Waldo, Sarah
. . . 372 Wallcut, Thomas
. . .381 Weld, Lewis
. . .385 Wiley, John,
. . .886 Williams, Ephrahn
. . .393 Yale, Elihu
..814
..816
..838
..857
..862
..892
...411 Ziiizeudorf, N. L
...418
...428
..895
.. 1
Green, John
395 Harvard. John
808 llenrv, Alexander
. . . .420 Holdcn, Samuel
...438 Divines.
llei-wig, Leopold
429 ! Hollis, Thomas
...439
. 441 Abbot Abiel
441 Hone Philip
. . .442 Abeel, John N
.. 2
Inman, Henry
4C-3 Hopkins, Asa
. . . 448 Abercrombie, James
. . .449 Alexander, Archibald
.. 2
.. 15
4S1 Jay, Ann
. . .471 Allen, John
...16
489 Kiniball, Daniel
. . . 493 Allen, Thomas
.. 16
500 Ladd, William
.. 17
21
.. 28
. . .508 Appleton, Nathaniel
. . .51)9 Appleton, Jesse
...as
...39
. 40
Robertson, Alexander
706 Lay, Benjamin
Savage, E I ward
Smibert, John
722 Lowry , James
738 Maclure. William
. . .539 Armstrong, William J
. . . 543 Asbury, Francis
548 Austin Samuel
.. 42
.. 46
. 50
Stuart, Gilbert
Trumbull, Jolin
Vanderlyn, John
Wertmuller. A. U
768 McDonogh, John
. 801 Mel n tosh, Duncan
807 McLean, Joseph
840 Mercer, Jesse
. . .506 Backus, Isaac
.. 51
. . .568 Backus, Charles
...52
.. .570 Backus, Azel
...52
. . . 57
842 ' Miller, Jonathan P
... 63
Wright, Mehitabcl
889 Morris, J udah
Murray, Joseph
Murray. John. ..
...588 Barnes, David
. . .599 Bascom, H. B
. . . 601 Bass, -Edward
... 65
...70
...71
Benefactors & Philanthropists. Mussey,' B. B
Nevins, Kussell II
Abbot, Samuel 1 Norris, John
Alford, John 1'5 Olvphant, David
Appleton, Samuel 40 Pariah, U
. . .602 Bates, Joshua
. . 604 Baxter, George A
.. .610 Beach, John
. .. .623 Bellamy, Joseph
. . .634 Benedict, Joel
. 652 Bentley William
...71
...72
...74
.. 80
...82
84
Bartlett, William
Benezet, Anthony
68 Perkins, Alfred E
83 i Perkins, Thomas II
. . . 652 Berkeley, George
. . .654 Blair, Jaines
.. 86
.. 94
94
88 Phelps, Anson G
Bissell. Jcsinh
Boudinot, Elias
Boiightou, Benjamin
Koyiston, Nicholas
Boylston. Ward Nicholas
Brown, Nicholas
Brown, Moses
Brown. Nicholas
Burr. Joseph
92 Phillips, John
100 Phillips, William
107 Plummer. Caroline
115 Pouieroy, Jonathan L
115 Prescott, Aaron
145 Redwood, Abraham
151 Reed, William
1 ">1 Reynolds. Micajah
171 Richardson, William
. . .659 Blair, John
. . .659 Blatohford. Samuel
... 95
...97
. 100
. . .670 Bostwick. David
. . .679 Boyd, William
..In;,
...112
. . .696 Bradstreet, Simon
. . .698 Brattle, William
...700 Brazer, John
. . . 702 Brewster, William
..125
..182
..133
...136
..139
..140
..148
..155
..157
..159
Caldwell, Elias B
183 Rii^ell Thomas
. . .717 Brodhead, Jacob
. . .726 Brown, Francis
...731 Buckniinster, Joseph
. . .734 Buell, Samuel
Chandler. Peter
Chandler. Abiel
208 Seats, Joshua
208 Scybcrt Adam
Clark, Ebenezer
Clark. Enoch W
2
221* Sheppard. Moses
229 Smith, Oliver
(897)
898
INDEX.
Bulklev. Peter
Page
159
Frelinghuysen, Theodore J
French, Jonathan
Frey, Joseph
Page
367 Lyman, Joseph
367 Maecartv. Thaddeus . . .
Page
540
542
Bullard, Artemas
Burr, Jonathan
Burr, Aaron
161
107
169
549
Burton. Asa
173
Furnian, Richard.
„-„ ,. . ' ' L'XillKler
Bvics. Mather
CaldweU, David
Campbell, Alexander
Cancr, Henry
Cannon, James S
Carroll, John
179
183
189
189
189
193
Gadsden, Christopher
Gardiner, John S. John
Gay, Ebenezer
Gilbert, Eliphalet W
Gile, Samuel
Gillet, Eliphalet
371 Manning, James
374 Mason, John
376 Mather, Richard
380 Mtither, Increase
330 Mather, Cotton
380 Mather Samuel
547
554
5f>5
657
558
Casas, B. Las
201
386 Mati"uon F A
Chandler, Thomas B
Channing. William E
208
209
Gray, Thomas
394 Maxcy, Jonathan
561
563
(":i;ijiin, Calvin
210
3H6 Mavhew, Jonathan
399 McCall. Thomas II
401 McCalla, Daniel
503
564
504
Chaplin, Daniel
210
Greenwood, Francis W. P
Griffin, Edward D
Griswold. Alexander V
Hallock, Moses
Chaplin, Jeremiah
Chase, Philander
Chauncy, Charles
210
212
213
402 : McCulloch, Thomas
566
569
Chauncv, Charles
215
Hardenbcrgh, Jacobus
Harris, Samuel
413 Mo Keen, Joseph
414 McLeod Alexander
669
570
Cheverus, L. De
Clap, Nathaniel
Clap. Thomas
Clark, Peter
219
226
226
228
Harris, William
Harris, ThaJdeus
Hart, Levi
415 ! Merrill, Thomas A
415 Merwin, Samuel
574
575
Clarke. John
Clay, Joseph
Cleaveland, John
Cobbett, Thomas
Codman, John
Coffin, Charles
Cogswell, James
231
232
234
242
243
245
245
245
246
Haven, Samuel
Haynes, Lemuel
Redding, Elijah
Ilemmenway, Moses
Henry, T. Charlton
Higginson, Francis
Higginson, John
Hill, William
Hilliard, Timothy
Hitchcock. Gad
Hitchcock, Enos
Hoar, Leonard
Hobart, Noah
Hobart, John Henry
Hoge, Moses
Holley , Horace
Hollingshead, William
419 Milledoler, Philip
423 Miller, Samuel
434 Milnor, James
424 Mitchell, Jonathan
428 Moody, Joshua
430 Moody, Samuel
577
579
580
5S1
586
580
588
588
589
589
594
594
595
597
598
599
599
Cogswell, William
433 Moore, Zephauiah S
433 Moorhead, John
435 Morgan, Abel
435 Morrison, William
435 Morse, Jedidiah
436 Morton, Charles
437 Mountain, Jacob
438 , Mnhlenberg, Henry M
439 Murdock, James
Coke, Thomas
Colman, Benjamin
Cone, Spencer II
Comvell, Henry
Cooper, William
Cooper, Samuel
250
258
258
259
260
Cooper, Myles
261
Cornelius, Eh'as
Cotton, John
263
265
Croswell, William
273
Holmes, Abiel
600
Cumings. Henry
274
Holyoke, Edward
440 Nelson, David
603
603
Cummings, Asa
274
Cutler, Timothy
277
Homes, William
605
Daggett, Naphtali
278
Hooke, William
.... 442 Niles Samuel
607
Dana, James
280
Hooker, Thomas
442 Niles Samuel
608
Danforth, Samuel
283
Hooker, John
444 Nisbet. Charles
609
Davenport, John
Davies, Samuel
285
288
Hooker, Asahel
444 N orris, Edward
610
611
292
Hopkins, Samuel
445 Norton, Asahel S
613
613
De Witt, John
300
Dickinson, Jonathan
301
Howard, Simeon
450 Nott. Samuel
613
614
Dickinson, Austin
303
Dow, Lorenzo
Dow, Daniel
306
«06
Hubbard, William
452 Noyes, Nicholas
. 456 Oakes Uriah
615
610
309
Huntington, Joshua
Hyde, Alvan
Inglis, Charles
Inglis, James
Jackson, William
James, Thomas
Jarvis, Abraham
458 Olin, Stephen
462 Osgood, David
463 Oxenbridge, John
463 Packard. Hezekiah
466 Parish, Elijah
621
625
630
030
634
Duffield, George
Dunster. Henry
Dwi"ht, Timothy
311
313
315
Dwight, Sereno E
Ecklcy, Joseph
Edwards, Timothy
317
321
322
468 Park, Calvin
469 Parker, Thomas
634
635
Edwards, Jonathan
Edwards, Jonathan
322
326
Jenkins, Charles
Johnson, Samuel
Johnson, Win. Samuel. ,
Johnson, Samuel
475 Parker, Samuel
478 Parker, Nathan
479 : Parker, Edward L
481 Parkman, Francis
635
630
030
637
637
Edwards, Morgan
Edwards, Justin
Edwards, Bela B
328
329
829
330
638
Eliot, Andrew
Eliot, John
333
334
Kirkland, John T
496 Parsons, Moses
499 Parsonsi David . .
639
640
Emerson, William
338
Kunze, John C
5-10 Partrid"-e. Ralph
641
Emerson, Joseph
Euimous, Nathaniel
339
339
Kurtz, J. D
Kuypers, Gerard A
500 Patten," William
i;.;-j
643
England, John
Ewing, John
Fcnwiok, Benedict
Finley, Samuel
Finley, Robert
Fisher. Jonathan
Fisk, Wilbur
342
346
,350
351
352
353
354
Kuypers, Zachariah II
Langdon. Samuel
Lamed, Sylvester
Lathrop. John
Lathrop, Joseph
Lathrop, John
500 Payson, Phillips
643
503 Payson, Selh
644
504 Pavson, Edward
504 Peabodv, Oliver
505 Peabodv, William B. 0
505 1 Peabody, Oliver W. B
644
f,44
640
040
<i40
354
. ...510 Peet, Stephen
. 047
355
t!48
355
. ..518 Perkins, Nathan .
Fitch, James
355
356
Lee, Chauncey
519 Perrine, Matthew
054
520 1 Peters, Ihi"-h
Flinn, Andrew
Flint. Henry
Flint, Abel
Flint, James
Forbes, Eli
357
357
357
357
359
360
Le Mercier, Andrew
Lewis, Isaac
Lindsley, Philip
Linn, William
Linn, John B
Livingston, John H
Livingston, Gilbert 11
Looruis, Harvey
Lord, Benjamin. . .
521 Peters, Samuel A
656
G57
658
526 Pierce, John
526 Pierpont, James
530 Piorson, Abraham
531 Pomeroy, Benjamin
534 Porter, John
...535 Porter, Nehemiah. ..
663
663
664
070
072
672
360
Foxcroft, Thomas
Freeman, James.. .
362
...366
INDEX.
899
Porter, Eliphalet
Page
673
673
WMV. -ester, Samuel
Page
886
887
Pngo
673
888
Thomas, W
l orrer.
.. 674
;...895
Uncas 806
675
Zubly, John J
896
Vincent, Louis 811
Prentiss, Thomas
077
681
Indians.
.. 15
Waban 812
Worumbo 888
|> • . .' T> ,, •!<
082
1> •' >' 1 1
683
...683
Inventors and Engineers.
Bushnell, David 174
Coleman, Obed M 250
684
Bi" Warrior
91
Puffer, Hen ben
Reese, Thomas
Rhees, Morg.i:i J
684
698
7<M)
700
Black Dog
Black Hawk
BlacU Hoof.
93
93
:;;;;;" Ho
700
101
Cotting, Uriah 265
...701
Boudinot, Elias
Brant, Joseph
107
131
147
Darby, William 284
Dearborn, Benjamin -'.*',
De Gerstner 297
Ripley, Sy Ivanus
703
. 703
1' 11' Cl Her
705
148
Fitch, John 356
-•' Ml' P
149
Godfrey, Thomas &83
Robinson, John
706
709
Bryant, Solomon
Burr, Mary
Bushy head, Jesse
154
172
174
189
Guess, "George 403
Kimball, Increase 493
Rogers. John
710
712
King AVilliam 495
Kvaii, John 501
Rogers, William M
Romeyn, John B
712
713
721
Caonabo
Cheeshahteaumuck
190
218
240
Orr, Hugh 628
Perkins, Jacob 653
Pope, Joseph 671
721
202
Head, Nathan 695
Seabury. Samuel
Sewall Jo«eph
725
728
Cornplanter
264
273
Rumsey , James 716
Shrove, Henrv M 736
Sharp. Daniel
Shepard, Thomas
731
732
737
Ephruim
Folsom, David
342
359
301
Stevens, Robert L 758
Whistler. George W 847
Whitney, Eli 853
Smith, Thomas
Smith, John B
741
741
. . 742
Gcdney, Kachael...
Greenough, Thomas.
377
398
420
AVhittemore, Amos 854
Judges and Lawyers.
Adams, Andrew 4
Addison, Alexander 14
Allen, William 18
Allyn, Matthew 29
Smith Samuel S
743
425
744
429
Smith, Ethan
746
750
Hobbamoc
Homer, Elmira. . . .„
IIo\vdee, Sarah
437
441
451
452
Spring. Samuel
Staughton William
752
Stiilman, Samuel
Stoddard Solomon
760
761
Humming Bird
455
470
Arnold, Peleg 46
Ashmun, John II 47
Tappan, David
770
779
Johnson, Joseph
481
485
T ,', 1 . ' t ('ill < 't
782
485
782
488
... .784
4119
Benson, Egbert 84
Thacher, Peter
Tucker, John
Tuekerman, Peter
786
801
802
812
Little Turtle
Logan
Lowrie, George
528
5:33
539
545
Berrien, J. Macphersou 88
Bigelow. Timothy 90
Blackburn, Samuel 93
Blair, John 95
Wadsworth, Benj-iinin
Waimvright, Jonathan M. . . .
Wales, oamuel
Walter, Nehemiah
812
814
815
817
Maminash, Sally
Massassoit
Molntosh, William
Miantuimomu
546
555
508
575
Blake. George 96
Bliss, George 99
Bradbury, Theophilus 116
Brearley, David 133
818
Mitark.
581
.. 820
59-f
820
(J08
820
009
Burnet, Jacob 167
Welde, Thomas
838
613
Burr, Peter 169
West, Samuel
West Stephen
841
.. 841
Nowequa
Nunnenunteno
614
610
617
Chase, Samuel 211.
Chauncey, Charles 213
Chauucey, Charles 217
843
840
617
Chew Benjamin 219
Whelpley, Philip M
847
848
Oga-na-ya
618
623
Chipman, Ward 220
White. William
849
623
Church, Samuel 224
Whitefield, Geor"e.
849
625
Clavton, Thomas 234
Wigglesworth, Eduard
855 l Osooit
856 1 Osson
626
626
Colden, Cadwallader D 249
Cranch, Richard 271
630
Willard, Joseph
858
6-11
Cushing, William 276
Williams, |{o"-cr
859
643
Dag^ett, David 279
Williams, John
860
Paul, Silas
643
...... 055
Dana, Francis 280
Dana, Samuel 280
862
Philip
657
668
Dane, Nathan 2S2
AVilliams, Solomon
802
AVilliams. Stephen
862
. ., 670 Davis. John 292
Williams, Eliphalet
863
Pontiae
Powhatan , - .
671
675
Dawes, Thomas 292
Day, Thomas 293
AVilliams, Solomon
865
Wilson, John
867
684
DC Lanccy, James 298
Wilson, James
868
685
Desaussure, Henry AV 299
Wilson, James P
868
Bed Jacket
Uirh.-onville
Kidge, John
095
702
702
708
Dewev, Daniel 299
Drayton, AVilliam 308
Dravton. John 308
Dua'ne, James 309
Dudley Paul 310
Wilson, Joshua L
Winchester, Elhanau
SOU
870
S75
712
AVitherspoon, John
Woodbriditc, Benjamin
Woodbridge John.
876
880
881
Snir .imaii
Skcnondou »,
Siinsceto
Tac-kawash, John
Tacleuskuud . .
722
737
773
.' '. '. 775
Dulaney , Daniel 311
Durfee, Job 314
Dyer, Eliphalet 318
Edwards, Pierrcpont 328
Woodbridge, Timothy
Woods. Jxiouard
881
...883
900
1XDKX.
Page
Edwards Ilenry P 329
Emmett, Thomas A 339
Emott, James 341
Ford, Gabriel II 359
Foster, Jedediah 300
Giilloway, Joseph .373
Goddard, Calvin 383
Gould, James 391
Graham, John A 392
Granger, Gideon 393
Greenleaf, Simon.. 398
Gridlcy, Jeremy 400
Griswold, Stanley 402
Hamilton, Andrew 408
Harrison, Robert II 415
Hay, George 421
Hey ward, Thomas 429
Ilil'lhouse, James A 433
Hitchcock, Samuel J 435
Hoar, Samuel 435
Hobart, John S 437
Hoffman, David 433
Hoffman, Ogden 438
Holmes, John 440
Hopkinson, Francis 448
Hopkinson, Joseph 449
Horsmander, Daniel 449
Hosmer, Stephen T 449
Howell, David 452
Hubbard, Samuel 453
Ingersoll, Jared 4(i3
Ingersoll, Jonathan 403
Imlell, James 464
Jackson, Charles 407
Jacob, Stephen 467
Jay, John 409
Johnson, William 481
Johnson, Wm. Samuel 482
Jones, David 483
Jones, Samuel 485
Kent, James 491
Killam, William 492
Kinsey, James. 495
Kirby, Ephraim 495
Lansing, John 504
Law, Richard 507
Lee, Charles 518
Lincoln, Levi 524
Lit toll, William 527
Livermorc, Samuel 528
Livormore, Arthur 528
Livingston, Brockholst 530
Livingston, Edward 531
Ijoi-.irt'ellow, Stephen 534
Lowell, John 538
Lynde, Benjamin 541
Marsh, Charles 549
Marshall, John 549
Martin. Luther 550
Martin, Francis X 550
Mason, Jeremiah 555
Matthews, Vincent 661
Mellon, Prentiss 573
Merrill, Benjamin. 574
Merrill, James C 574
Mitchell, Stephen M 582
Morris, Robert II 592
Morton. Perez 596
Nelson, William 003
Nicholson, Joseph II 607
Nilcs. Nathaniel 608
Ogden, David 15 618
Olcott, Simeon 620
Oliver, Peter 622
Poine, Robert Treat 632
Paine, Elijah.. 633
Parker, Isaac 636
Parsons, Theophilus 640
Praive, Dutce J 646
Pinkney, William 666
Prntt, Peter 676
I'ratt, Benjamin 670
I'rontiss, Samuel 678
f'nlnam, Samuel 687
Quincy, Edmund 688
Uadoliffe, Jacob 690
Hawle. William 094
I'.oad. George 695
Read, John 695
Reeve, Tapping 698
Richardson, William 701
Roane, Spencer 705
Robinson, Jonathan 708
Robinson, M. M 708
Root, Jesse 713
Ross, George
Rush, Jacob
Rutledge, John
Saltonstall, Richard
Sargent, Nathaniel P
Sodgwick, Theodore
Sergeant, John
So wall, Samuel
Sewall, Stephen
Sewall, Samuel
Sewoll, Jonathan
Sherman, Roger M
Shippen, Edward
Smith, William
Smith, Jeremiah
Spencer, Ambrose
Stearns, Asahel
Story, Joseph
Strong, Simeon
Sullivan, George
Sullivan, William
Swift, Zephaniah
Thacher, George
Thacher, Peter 0
Thompson, Smith
Tilghman, William
Trowbridge, Edmund
Tucker, St. George
Tucker, Henry St. George.
Tucker. Beverley
Ward. Artemas. . .
90
Washington, Bushrod .
Whcaton, Laban
Wheaton, Henry
Wilde, Samuel S
Wilson, James
Winthrop, Waitstill . . .
Winthrop, .fames
Wirt, William
Wolcott, Erastus
Worthington, John. . .
Wragg, William
Wythe, George
Yates, Robert
.875
.878
.888
.889
.891
.8! -3
Men of Learning.
Abbot, Benjamin..
Adams, Charles B.
Adrian, Robert.. . .
Alden, Timothy
Audubon, John James.
Banister, John
. 15
.. 49
Barclay. Robert
Barnes, Daniel II
Bartram, John
Bartram, William
Beck, Lewis C
Belknap, .Jeremy
Beverly, Robert
Bollan, AVilliam
Bonnycastle, Charles. . .
Bordley, John B
Boucher, Jonathan
Bowditch, Nathaniel. . . .
. 76
. 79
. 88
.100
.101
.104
.105
.108
Bradford. Alden
Brattle. William
Brown, Charles B
Buckminstor, Joseph S. ,
Burke, John D
Butler, Caleb. . .
.124
.133
.140
..156
.165
Butler, Mann
Callender, John
Cardoll, William S
Carey, Matthew
Carter, Nathaniel II. ...
Catesby, Mark
Chalmers, George
Charlevoix, I'oter De.. . .
Chastellux, Marquis De.
Checvor, E/ekiel
Clayton, John
..178
.178
.180
.191
.191
.194
.203
.2H4
.210
.212
.218
.233
Clifford, John D
Colbnrn, Zera
Colden, Cadwalladcr.
Cooper, Thomas
Cooper, James F
Coxe, Daniel
Coke, Tench
Cutbush, James
Cutler, Manassch. . . .
.246
.247
.202
.202
..270
.270
.277
.278
De Kay, James E. . . .
Dennic, Joseph
Dray tun, William II.
.308
Pago
Dummer. Jeremiah 311
Dnponceau, Peter S 314
Dutton, Matthew R 314
Dwight, Theodore 317
Eaton, Amos 321
Eddy, Samuel 322
Ellicott, Andrew 335
Elliott, Stephen 335
Evans, Lewis 344
Everett, Alexander II 340
Farmer, John: 348
Farrar, John 348
Fisher, Alexander M 353
Fiske. Nathan W 355
Fobes, Perez 358
Follen, Charles T. C 358
Foot, Joseph 1 359
Franklin, \Villiam 366
Frisbie. Levi 308
Grew, Theophilus 39'J
Griffin, Edmund D 400
Grimko, Thomas S 401
Grimshaw, William 402
Gros, John D 403
Hakluyt, Richard 404
Hall, John E 400
Hall, Frederic 407
Harris, Thaddeus W 415
llaskell, Daniel 418
Hassler, Ferdinand 418
Hazard, Ebeuezer 423
Hedge, Levi 424
Hennepin, Louis 425
Hentz, N. M 428
Hewitt, Alexander 429
Houghton, Douglass 449
Hoyt, Epuphras 452
Hutchins, Thomas 459
Johnson, Edward 478
Josselyn, John 485
Judd. Sylvester 480
Kalm, Peter 488
Kemp, .John 490
Kingsley, James L 495
Knapp, Samuel 497
Lafon, Barthelemy ..502
Lawson, John 509
Lcverett, John 521
Liusley, James II 527
Locke, John . . .532
Logan, James 532
Mansfield, Jared 648
Marsh, James 549
Marshall, Humphrey 549
Melish, John 572
Michanx, Andre 576
Miuot. George R 580
Minto, Walter 581
Mitchell, John 582
Monette, John W 583
Moody, Samuel 5S7
Morton, Nathaniel.. . . . . .590
Mourt, George 597
Murray, Lindley , 002
Newman, Samuel P 005
Nii-ollet. J. N ...607
Partridge, Alden 041
Patterson, Robert 642
Peabody , David 645
Pearson, Eliphalet 640
Peck, William D 047
Pierce. Benjamin 648
Pemberton, Thomas 648
Pemberton, Ebenczer 048
Pickering, John 002
Pitkin, Timothy 007
I'opkin, JohnS 072
Prince, Nathan 083
I'roud. Robert OH3
I'mvhas, Samuel
I'nrsli. Frederic 085
Pynchon, William 687
liamsav, David 091
095
7(10
704
700
721
723
745
758
700
Storrs. Charles 15 704
Stn.-.rt, .Moses 7(58
Taylor, Oliver A 780
Redfleld, William C.
Rich, Obadiah
Itittcnhousc, David.
Robic, Thomas
Sanderson, John . . ,
Say. Thomas
Smith. Samuel
Stiles, Ezra
Stith, William
INDEX.
901
Page
800
802
805
Page
429
434
4as
452
Woodward. Henry
Wright, Royal N
Page
s*.-,
'r'1Tn .!.:,,. •*
Ilin-M ;!<• Abel K
Iliti-hciM'k, Harvey
Hoyt Ard
Wright, Alfred
Wyuwn, Robert
Youngman. John G
Zeisberger, David
Persons over One
Years.
Alden, John
Alice
S'.N)
Mil
894
8'J-i
Hundred
..11
10
Warden, David B
Weblier, Samuel
\\ cli-NT No-ill
820
8,35
835
845
864
Hume, Robert W
Johnson, Maria P
Jones, Samuel T
455
482
485
487
Wh.vlMc-k. John
vv'l \l "- 1 •
8f>8
Judson, Adoniram
488
. ' j .
874
Judson, Emily C
488
Wooil. William
Wood. John
879
830
.893
Kinney, Henry
Kirkland, Samuel
Knapp, Horton 0
495
496
497
Missionaries.
9
507
33
508
86
Lobdell Henry
532
Ange, Francis
38
532
Anglin, Ilenrv
33
532
Appleton, Lydia
40
A 1°* ' V -t
18
532
Arnold, Seth
46
Allen, Mvra
Allen, Orpah
Allen, Azubiih
Andrews, I'arnelly
Ai)thor]>. George II
27
27
27
36
41
76
Lowrie, Walter M
Lyman. Henry
Mar<|notte, Joseph
Marsh, Samnel 1)
May hew, Zeehariah
Maynard, Eliphnl
McLean, Alexander
Mills, Samuel J
539
541
548
549
563
564
570
579
580
Atwell, Lucretia
Badger. Rachel
49
55
06
Bartlett. Elisha
Bayley, Matthias
Belknap. Ezekiel
68
73
80
Beuj.imin, Nathan
Bigot, Vincent
84
91
93
84
87
Billings. Asahel
91
93
Montgomery, William B
Mosely, Samuel
585
596
598
Binkley, Adam
Rirdseye, Nathan
Blowers, Sampson S
92
92
99
Boardman. George D
99
107
' 1 , 1
108
598
Bo"art, Abraham
100
* ' ' 1
1°4
509
Boucher, Charles
Kit)
Br linerd. David
127
Muzzy, Mrs
602
Brown, Svphax
151
Braiuerd. John
Brebeuf, Jean De
Bressani, F. G
Bridgman, James G
131
134
135
133
152
Newell, Samuel
Newell, Harriet
Newton, Mrs
Niehols, John
604
604
606
600
616
Burnham, Lydia
Burr, Mary
Bushc, Benjamin
Butler, William
102
107
172
174
177
1' t !• s P
154
634
Butterworth. Catharine. .
17-i
]!uell, William
Burgess, N. M. Hall
Burgess, Mrs
Bushncll, Mrs
159
1(52
1(32
174
178
Parsons, Levi
Perry, Joseph M. S
Pierce, Mary
Pohlman, William J
640
655
CH3
609
(509
Campbell, Jenny
Carrier. Thomas
Clark, Daniel
Cobb, Ebenezer
Coffee. John
189
l:i3
228
241
244
Bnttner, Gottlieb
178
178
Pond, Cornelia E
671
071
Cole, Coletta
Collamore, John
249
250
189
675
262
Campbell, Harvey M
Carlicil, E. De
189
191
''00
Price, Jonathan D
Ralle, Sebastiou
079
691
692
Crawford, Marv
Crull, Philip. "
Currier, Mehetabel
272
273
275
Castle. Angelina
Chamberlain, Levi
202
204
205
Kanch, C. II
lieed, William
Dice, Luther
694
697
700
Davie, Mary .
Davy, John
Deems, Adan,
288
292
297
210
701
Deputy, Jacob
2:''.>
,', TV , r _
212
701
Drinker, Edward
::tis
212
701
Dnnlap. Hush
313
218
Richards, William L
701
Easton, Violctte
316
Condcc, Mrs
Crane. Edwin
dimming!*, Abraham
258
272
274
275
Itobinson, Charles
Satterlee, A. B
Schneider, Mrs
708
722
723
724
Eaton, Abigail
Elliott, Robert
El well. Mehetabel
Eve, Adam
321
335
337
345
Dibble, Sheldon
l)oil"c A«a
301
305
Scuddcr, Katharine
725
727
Farrar, Timothy
Farrar, Mary
348
349
317
744
Ferry, Rachel
350
317
Smith Maria W
745
Edwards. William
328
346
Smith, Azariah.
Smith, Robert
746
747
Follow, Peter
:;:,S
Fontaine, William
Everett Joel S
346
Smith, Eli
747
Forbes, Duncan
369
Fisk, Pliny
Fisk, Is.-uie
Foote, Koxaua
i' i-encb, Henry S. G
354
354
359
367
309
Spanlding, Ephraim
Stetson, Ellen
Stevens. Edwin
Stoddard, Harriet
750
756
758
702
7113
Francisco, Henry
Gilley, John
Goodrich, Hannah
Cough, Hannah
Grant, Anna
:N7
898
... 371
780
Green, Ezra
373
Tefft Eliza
781
-t]:{
Goddard, Josiah
Goodall, Hervey
383
386
393
Temple, Daniel
Thompson, Eliza
781
...790
7!H
Harvey, Benjamin
Hatch Elisha
4 IS
419
Hitchcock, Thomas
419
Grant, Asahel
394
394
Thomson, Frederic B
791
794
Hightown, Joshua
Hills, Ebenezer
432
4:u
Gridley, Elnathan
400
402
Tracy. Adeline
797
808
Howell, Silas
Hunt, Littleton
4:72
450
Grout, Hannah
Gnil ic B \.
403
403
Van Lennep. Mary E
808
845
Jamieson, Robert
'. ..4>:i>
469
Il-ill. Gordon
Hall, AlansonC
Hnll.Klay. Albert R
Hamlin, Henrietta
Hancock, Martha
Hawlcv, Gideon
Hebard, Story
Ilubanl, Itcbecca
406
407
407
410
413
120
41M
424
424
White, David
Whiting, George B
852
852
853
471
475
Jim
470
Whittelsey, Samuel G
Wilson, Mrs
Wilson. Alexander
Winslmv. Harriet
Winslow, Anne
Wood, Mrs
Wood! Joel . .
854
809
809
872
872
880
...880
John
Johnson, Noah
477
479
482
Jones, Nancy
Judd, Lois
Judkins, Philip
Karues, Sarah W
4S5
4S7
1-7
Hervev. William. . .
...429
902
INDEX.
Page
Kennison, Jenny 491
Ke-nniston. David 491
Killam, Rebecca 492
Kincaid. Mary 493
Knight. Deborah .497
Knox, William 499
Lacy. Jacob 501
Lane. E/.ekiel 502
Langstaff. Henry 503
Langworthy, Content 503
Jjiiirum, Mary 504
Layne, Charles 509
Lear, Mrs 510
Leasure. Joseph 510
Lee. Elizabeth 519
Le Forge. Henry 520
Lemell, Eleanor 521
Lent, Isaac 521
Leonard, Abigail 521
Lewis. Comfort 523
Lilly. 'Anna 523
Lincoln, Ruth 525
Linn, John 527
Lovejoy, Hannah 536
Lovejoy, Pompcy 536
Lovewell. Mr 537
Lusk, John 539
Macklin, Robert 543
Mallet, Angeline 546
Marshall, Andrew 550
Martha 550
Martin, John 550
Matthews, Mary 561
Mayo. Mrs 564
McDaniel. Archibald 566
McDonald, Donald 566
McDougal, Alexander 567
McGuin, Samuel 567
Mclntire, Mrs 567
Mclntosh, Ann 568
Mclntire. John 568
Miller. John 578
Miimiek. Mrs .580
Moor, Mordecai 588
Moore, Hannah 588
Moore, Elizabeth 588
Woore, Samuel 589
Mosher, Hannah 596
Murphy, John 599
Murray, William 602
Nuu'hbors, Mr 602
Newby, Mrs 604
Newell, Hep/.ibah 605
Niblet, Solomon 606
Niles, George 608
Norris, Phebe 611
Norton, Molly 613
Orr, John 623
Orr. ls:iac 624
Osborne, Mrs 625
I':. llote, Joseph 633
Palmer, George 634
Pearce. Elizabeth 646
Peniry, Sarah 649
Perkins, William 652
IVrUiiis. Erastus 653
Philbrick, Abigail 657
Pierce, Robert 602
Pinson. Sarah 667
Piper. Susannah 667
P:ai.te. Marie 667
Politis, Peter 669
Potter. Mercy 674
Pratt. Ephraim 676
PrM'.'en. William 680
PIT .ely. Philip 683
Ramsay, William 692
Raiikins, Catharine 693
Ream. Jeremiah 695
Redlon, Sarah 696
i'.oil-ty. John 698
Reynolds, Joseph 700
Roberts, Charles 706
it'il.i'!. Marie 706
lioe.-e. William 710
Rogers. Adams 712
Ross. Alexander 714
Rump. Frederic 716
Rvalls. Henry 719
Sanfnrd. Joshua 721
. Mary 722
r, Elizabeth 723
. Hannah 726
Seeber, Henry 726
Shanklin, Ann 731 |
Shaver, John
Shcpard, Mr
Small, Isaac
Smith. Jacob J
Snider, Andrew
Sparling, Huldah
Stanford, Joshua
Ten Eyck, Sarah
Thorndike, Robert.. . .
Torrey, Dorothy
Ulrick, Mrs
Van Gelder, Mr
Vanhining, Henry. . . .
Van Voast, John J.. . .
Wall, Arthur
Warden, John
Warren, Mary
Welch, Samuel
Welch, Sarah
Welcott, Nannie
Whitman, John
Whitney, Sarah
Wier. Mr
Wilder, Nathaniel. . . ;
Willcy, Anna
Willey, Charles
Wingutc, Mrs
Wood. Lois
Woodhull, John
Woodward, Jonathan.
Worthington, Peter . .
Wrangman, John
Yancey, Mary
Page
. . .731
"738
..747
..748
. . .750
..754
...782
..791
. . .796
, . .806
..808
..808
..809
. .816
...819
, . .822
..837
..837
..837
..853
..854
i . .855
..857
..859
. .859
..871
..880
..883
885
888
889
893
Physicians and Surgeons.
Ames, Nathaniel
Anderson. James
Aspinwall, William
Atkinson. Israel
Avery, William
Bard, John
Bard, Samuel
Baron, Alexander
Bartlett. Josiah
Bartlett'. Zaccheus
Barton, Benjamin S
Bayley, Richard
Baylies, William
Baynam, William
Beatty, John
Beck "John B
Beck, T. Romeyn
Belden, Joshua
Bliss, James C
Bond, Thomas
Boweu, Pardon
Boylston, Zabdiel
Brackett, Joshua. . .
. 76
. 78
. 98
.101
.111
.113
.116
Brigham. Amariah
Brown, Samuel
Bruce, Archibald
Buel, William
Bulfii-ch. Thomas
Bull, William
Bullard, Artemas
Cadwallader, Thomas. .
.139
.140
.152
.157
.159
. 161
161
182
183
193
Chalmers. Lioi.el 204
Caldwell, Charles. ,
Carrigain, Philip
Cheevcr, Abijah
Childs, Timothy
Church, Benjamin
Clark, John. . .
218
220
Clarke, Thaddeus
Clayton, Joshua
Cleaveland. Parker. . . .
Cleaveland. Nehemiah .
Cochran, John
Coffin, Charles
Coffin, Nathaniel
Coffin, John G
Cogswell, Mason F
Cookc, Elisha
Cornelius. Elias
Cotton, John
Craik, James
Cutler, John
Cutter, Ammi R
Dana, James F
Danforth. Samuel
Dewces, William P. ...
De Witt. Benjamin. . . .
Dixwell, John
.1>::2
.233
..2*->
.237
..242
..244
..244
.244
.245
Page
Doane. George .3(4
Donaldson. William 305
Dorsey, John S 305
Douglass. William 306
Drake, Daniel 307
Dwiglit, Benjamin W 317
Eldridge, Charles 330
Emerson, Samuel 339
Erving, Shirley 343
Evans, Cadwailader 314
Field, Richard 350
Fisher, Joshua- 353
Fiske, Caleb 355
Fiske, Oliver 355
Flint, Austin 357
Freeman. Nathaniel 306
Fuller, Samuel 309
Gallup, Joseph A 373
Ganiage, William 373
Garden, Alexander 374
Godman, John D 385
Gorham, John 390
Graeme, Thomas 392
Graham, Andrew 392
Greene, Peter 398
Greene, Thomas 398
Greene, Alpheus S 398
Griffitts, Samuel P 401
Harris, Tucker 414
Hart, John 417
Hay ward, Lemuel 423
Hay ward, Nathan 423
Hazard, Enoch 423
Ilersey, E/.ekiel 428
Horsey, Abner 428
Hinde 434
Holland, Abraham 439
Holyoke, Edward A 441
Hooker, Thomas 444
Ilosacki David 449
Hunt, Ebenezer 456
Ingalls, William 403
Ives, Levi 404
James, Thomas 408
Jeffries, John 474
Jones, John 483
Jones, Noble W 484
JonesJ Walter 484
Jones, Thomas P 485
King, David 494
Kissam, Richard S 493
Kittredge, Thomas ..497
Kollock, Lemuel 499
Kulin, Adam 5CO
Lathrop, Joshua 504
Lining, John 527
Lloyd, James 531
Lovell, Joseph 537
Low, James 537
Maci:evcn. William J 543
547
547
547
562
564
578
Miner, Thomas 580
Mitchell, Ammi I! 582
Mitchell, Samuel L 5S3
Monro, George 583
Morgan. John 5S9
596
597
.599
Nicoll. John .'..607
Noyes, Josiah. ... 616
Oliver, Bei-iainin L 022
Oliver, Daniel 622
P.irrish. Joseph 637
Pea body. Nathaniel 645
Perkins, Elisha 652
653
661
664
Post, Wright '.'.'.'.'.'.674
Potter. Nathaniel 074
Prescott,
Mann. James.
Mann, Perez
Manning, John
May, Frederic
Mayhew, Matthew
Miller, Edward. . .
Morton. Samuel G
Moultrie, John
Munson, JKneas. . .
Perkins, Cvrus. . .
Physick. Philip S.
Pierson/Abel D. .
.271
.277
.278
.282
283
'.299
..299
.304
OU
.678
Rmnsay, Alexander 092
Rand, Isaac 692
Redman, John 696 -
Revere, John • 699
Ridgely, Charles 702
Rock wood, Ebcnezer 709
Rodgers, J. Kearney 709
Rush, Benjamin 716
INDEX.
903
Scwall, Thomas
Shattuck, George C
Shippen, William
ShurtlctT. Beaj imin
Smith, Nathan
Spalding, Lyman
Spooncr. William
Spring, Marshall
Spurzheim, John G
Sweet, Benoni
Thacher. James
Thompson, Samuel
Tilton. James
Todd, Eli
Pago
730
731
735
736
744
749
751
752
753
773
787
...791
793
794
Pago
Wigglesworth, Michael 855
Wilcox, Carlos 850
Wright, Nathaniel II 889
Printers and Publishers.
Aitken, Robert 14
Armstrong, Samuel T 43
Bat-he, Benjamin F 61
Bingham. Caleb 91
Bradford, William 121
Bradford. Andrew 12:
Butler, William 177
Calhoun, John C
Calvert, George
Calvert, Leonard
Carroll. Charles
Carver, John
CM well, Richard
Champlain, Samuel Do
Chittenden, Thomas
Clairborne, William C. C
(Hair, Arthur St
Clark, William
Clarke, John
Clay, Henry
Clinton, George
Page
1^4
186
187
194
197
202
206
221
224
224
..229
229
232
238
Townsend. Daniel
Tudor, Elihu
...790
802
803
Butler. Simeon
Coleman, William A. .
Cummings, Jacob A.. .
Day, Stephen
Dobson, Thomas
• In
250
274
293
304
..309
Clinton, George
Clinton. De Witt
Clymer. George
Coddington, William
Collins, John
Cooke, Elisha
Cornbury, Edward II
Cortlandt, Pierre Von
Crawford, William II
Cushing, Thomas
Cushuian, Robert
Cutt, John
240
241
243
250
259
263
264
272
275
276
278
Twitchell, Amos
Warren, John
Warren, John C
Washington, Bailey
Waterhouse, Benjamin
Welch, Thomas
Welch, Archibald
Williamson, Hugh
805
.822
S->2
'. 8:53
8as
837
837
806
809
Dunham, Josiah
Elliot. Jonathan
Fleet, Thomas
Fowle, Daniel
Fox, Justus
Franklin, Benjamin.. .
313
335
350
301
302
302
875
Dallas, Alexander J
Danforth, Thomas
D'Aulnay
Davis, John
279
282
284
292
Woodhouse, James
Woodward, Samuel B
Poets.
883
885
. 3
Gaine. Hugh
Goddard, William ....
. . .371
3^2
394
Green, Timothy
Hale David
405
Dayton, Jonathan
Deane. Silas
294
294
Hilliard, William
Holt, John
Holt, Charles
Hough. George
Lang, John
433
440
440
449
502
5^0
Dexter, Samuel
Dickerson, Mahlon
Dickinson, John
Dinsmodr, Samuel
Dinwiddie, Robert
300
301
302
304
304
. . . .309
Allen. James
Allen; Paul
Alsop, Richard
25
27
30
Barlow, Joel
Beveridge, John
61
88
Moore, Jacob B
Mussey, B. B
589
602
Dudley. Joseph
Dummcr, William
310
312
Bleecker. Anthony
Boyd, William
Bradstreet, Anne
98
113
125
126
144
140
190
2'79
Nancrede, Joseph
Newman. Mark II
Noah. Mordccai M. . . .
602
000
609
635
Dunmore, John
Early, Peter
Eaton. Theophilus
Edwards, Ninian
313
318
319
328
Brooks, .lames G
Brown, William II
Capen. Joseph
Prentiss. Charles
Ritchie. Thomas
Rivington. James
677
704
705
717
Edwards, Henry W
Ellery William
329
335
Ellsworth, Oliver
Endecott, John
336
341
238
Smith Samuel II
745
Eustis, William
343
Coffin. Robert S
244
249
Southwick. Solomon .
748
704
Fauquier, Francis
Fcnner, James
349
350
Crafts. William
Davidson, Lucrctia M
270
287
304
Thomas, Isaiah
True, Benjamin
Statesmen and
7S9
799
Magistrates.
5
Foot, Samuel A
Forsyth, John
Franklin, Benjamin
359
300
362
V 'H ' 1 W '
319
309
V > •-' > ' Tl P
350
Gadsden, Christopher
370
,, > V,, ...
307
Gaillard, John
371
C If -P • Tlioi laa
• j ;
Gallatin, Albert
372
„ t " V , , i
395
Genet, Edmund C
377
433
13
Gerry, Eibridge
Giles, William B
Gill, Moses
378
380
380
Honey wood, St. John
Johnson, William M
Key, Francis S
442
479
492
497
Alden, John
Ames, Fisher
Andros, Edmund
14
31
30
.. .. 41
Gilman, John T
Gooch, William
381
385
Knight, Henry C
Ladd, Joseph B
Lake, William
Leggett, William
Low, Samuel
Lyou, Richard
.......497
501
502
520
537
541
545
Argall, Samuel
Baldwin. Abraham. . .
Bartlett. Josiah
Bnssett. Itichard
Bayard, James A
Belcher, Jonathan. . .
Bell Samuel
41
50
07
71
72
77
80
Gookin, Daniel
Gore. Christopher
Gray, William
Grayson. William
Griswold, Matthew
Griswold. Roger
387
389
394
394
402
402
403
548
. . 80
Habcr-'ham. Joseph
404
MeCrcery, John
566
.. .. 573
Bellingham, Itichard.
Berkeley, William. . . .
Berkley, Norborne. . .
82
85
87
87
Hall, Lyman
Hamilton, Alexander
Hamilton, Paul
406
408
410
412
Mellen, Grenville
Miller James W
573
578
Morell William
5^9
Bibb William W
89
Harper, Robert G
413
Munford, William
598
(124
Bingham, William. . .
Blake, Joseph
91
90
Harrison, Benjamin
Harrison, William II
415
416
Osborn Selleck
626
Bland Richard
.97
420
O-I'IMHI Frances S
626
97
Havrie, Kobcrt V
422
Paine, Robert T.
682
Ins
422
Parke, John
635
1 10
1 leister. Joseph
424
111
Hendrick William
425
60"
Bradford William
117
Henry, Patrick
425
668
Bndlbrd' William
121
Hill. Isaac
432
Ray, William
Rose, Aquila
Sands, Kobcrt C
Shaw, John
- Smith, William M
Oil I
713
721
731
74(i
Bradford, William
Bradley, Stephen R. .
Bradstreet, Simon. . . .
Bin-lift, William
122
124
125
105
171
Hillhoiise, James
llinckley, Thomas
433
434
440
444
444
Tappan, William B
Tilden. Mr
Wain, Ro!:ert
Wclby, Amelia B. . .
778
793
817
...837
Bun-ill, James
Butler, Peirce
('abut. George
1 Calhoui). John E. . .
172
177
182
...184
Hopkins, Stephen
Howard. John E
Howard, Benjamin
lluiitiimtun, Samuel. . .
447
450
1M
.. 456
904
INDEX.
Iluntington, Samuel
Hutchinson, Thomas
Izard, Ralph
]/ard. George
Page
. . . .458
459
465
....465
Rodney, Caesar
Russwurm, John B
Rutlcdge, Edward
Saltonstall, Gurdon
Sevier, John
Sherman, Roger
Shirley, William
Shute, Samuel
Smith, John
Smith, Israel
Smith, John C
Southard, Samuel L
Stockton, Richard
Pago
710
718
718
720
728
734
735
736
739
742
745
748
Pa so
142
142
Brown, John
Brown, Andrew
144
146
Jackson, James
Jackson, Andrew
Jefferson. Thomas
Jenks, Joseph
...465
....466
471
....475
Brown, Jacob
Bull, John
Burbeck, Henry
150
161
162
Johnson, Isaac
....477
. . . .478
478
....478
....479
482
. ... 491
Burgoyne, John
Burrows, William
Butler, Richard
Butler, Thomas
162
173
174
175
175
Johnson, Robert
Johnson, Gabriel
Johnson, Thomas
Johnstone, Samuel
761
768
Stuyvesant, Peter
Sullivan, James
Sunnier, Increase
Taylor, Zachary
Thomson, Charles
Thornton, Matthew
Tichenor, Isaac
Tomlinson, Gideon
Tompkins, Daniel D
Tracy, Uriah
Treadwell, John
Treat, Robert
770
770
772
780
791
792
792
795
795
797
797
798
...799
Butler, Zebulon
Butler. William
Byrd, William
Cadwallader, John
Calhoun, Patrick
Campbell, Samuel
Carlton, Guy
Cass, Jonathan
Champe, John
Chandler, John
Chauncey, Isaac
176
177
180
182
184
188
191
202
205
208
213
219
King. Rnfus
King, William
King. William K
Knight, Neherniah R
Langdon, John
Laurens, Henry
Law, Jonathan
Lee, Richard Henry
Lee, Arthur
Lee, Thomas Sim
Leet, William
Levcrctt, John
Lewis, Meriwether
Lewis, Morgan
Lincoln, Enoch
Livingston, Philip
Livingston, William
Livingston, Robert R
Lloyd, Edward
Lloyd, James
Lowndes, William
Lndlow, Roger
Macon, Nathaniel
Madison, George
Madison, James
Martin, Alexander
Mason, George
Mayhew, Thomas
McDowell, James
McDuffie, George
Mi Kean, Thomas
Meigs, Return J
Mercer, John
Metcalfe, Thomas
Aliddleton, Henry
493
495
495
....498
503
....506
....507
514
. ... 515
....518
520
521
522
523
525
528
529
529
531
532
538
539
543
544
544
550
553
562
567
567
568
572
573
575
576
Childs, Thomas
Church, Benjamin
Cilley, Joseph
Clarke. George R
Clarkson, Matthew
Clinton, James
Clinton, Henry, Sir
Coffee. John
Conway, Henry
Conway, Robert
Cooper, James B
Cornwall!?, Charles
Cortcz, Hernando
Covingtou, Leonard
Croghan, William
Cropper, John
dimming. John N
Gumming. Robert
Gushing, Thomas U
Dale, Richard
Davidson, William
Da vie, William R J<!*. .
Dayton, Elias
Dearborn, Henry
220
222
!!!"!224
231
232
238
240
244
258
258
262
264
264
270
272
273
274
274
276
279
287
288
293
294
296
Tryon, William 801
Fpshu'r, Abel P 807
Vane, Henry 80S
Van Rensselaer, Stephen 809
Waldron, Richard 814
Walton. George 818
Weare, Mesliech 834
Webster, Daniel 836
Wentworth, Renning 840
Wentworth, John 840
Williams, Benjamin 864
Winslow, Edward 871
Winslow, Josiah 872
Winthrop, John 872
Winthrop, John 873
Winthrop, Fitn-John 873
Winthrop, Thomas L 874
Wolcott, Roger 877
Wolcott, Oliver 878
Woodburv, Levi 88£
Wright, Silas 890
Wyllis, George 891
"Warriors and Patriots.
Abercrombie, James 5
Ackland. John D c
Adair, John «
Alexander. William. Lord Stirling... . 15
Allen, Ethan 18
Allen, William Henry 25
Amher.-t, Jeffrey • • 33
Andre. John 34
Arbuckle. Matthew 41
Armistead, W. K 42
Armstrong, Robert 42
Armstrong, John 42
Arnold, Benedict 48
Ashley, John *j
Ashlev, William 47
Ather'ton. Humphrey 48
Bacon. Nathaniel 53
Bainbridge, William 56
Barney, Joshua >«
Ban-on, Samuel 66
Tiarron, James "6
Barry, John 6C
Barton, William 88
Bayard, John '£
Biddle, Nicholas °S
Biddlo, Thomas 8-;
i Blakeley. Johnston 9f
Bliss, John • • [*
Bloomlield, Joseph jJJ
Bomford. George 11
Boone, Daniel -JO-j
Bouquet, Henry 10'
Bowie, Robert 11
Boyd, John 1' 1]-
Braddock, Edward 116
Bradford, William l^l
i Bradford, Gamaliel 1-1
Bradford, William 122
Bradstrect, John JZ«
Brady, Hugh J»
Brock, Isaac 141
i Brooke, George M Mi
Millodge, John
Miller, Stephen D
Miller, John
Mitchell, David B
Monroe, James
Morrill, David L
Morris, Lewis
Morris, Robert
Morris, Gouverneur
Morrow. Jerenii.ih
Moultrie, William
Murray, William Vans
Nelson, Thomas
Nicholas, Wilson C
Ogden, Aaron
< t horpe, James
( )sgi iod. Samuel
Oils. James
Otis, Harrison Gray
Paca, William
Page. John
Parris, Albion K
Patterson, William
Peiidleton, Edmund
PiMin. William
Phillips. John
Phipps, William
I'irkcring, Timothy
Pierce, Benjamin
I'inckney, Thomas
Pincknoy, Charles
Pleasants, James
Plnmer, William
Poinsett, Joel U
Polk, James K
Pownoll, Thomas
I'l-escott, William
Prince, Thomas
Pynchon, John
Randall, Richard
Randolph, Peyton
Randolph, Edmund
Rantoul, Robert
Rnbbins, Ashur
Robinson, Moses
577
578
578
583
583
592
592
592
593
594
5'J7
600
603
606
618
619
625
627
029
630
631
637
642
649
649
660
660
'.'.'.em
666
666
668
668
669
669
675
67.8
081
687
6113
093
692
60S
70C
70S
Dickinson, Philemon
303
304
Dwight. Joseph
Easton, James
Eaton, William
Egbert, Samuel
Eustace, John S
Fellows. John
Few, William
Floyd, William
Folsom, Nathaniel
Forbes, Joseph
Forrest, Uriah
Foster, Gideon
Frelinghuysen, Frederic ....
Frost, John
Frye, Joseph
Gaines, Edmund P
Gansevoort, Peter, jun
Gates, Horatio
Gibbons, Edward
Gibson, John
Gist, Mordecai
Greene, Nathaniel
Gridloy, Richard
Hale. Nathan
Hampton, Wade
Harmar, Josiah
Harmon, Johnson
Harrington, Lewis
Hayne, Isaac
Hazen, Moses
Heath, William
Henry, William
] [erkimer, General
Hilton. Winthrop
llnbbard, Caleb
linger. Isaac
Hull, William
Hull. Isaac
Humphreys, David
Hnntiugton. Jeremiah
Iluntington, Ebenezcr
Irvine, William
315
319
320
330
343
349
350
358
359
359
360
361
367
368
369
372
374
376
378
379
382
396
400
405
411
413
413
414
422
423
423
428
428
434
453
454
454
455
455
457
458
464
INDEX.
905
Pago
Irwin, Jared 464
James, John 468
Joim-on, \Villi:im. Sir 480
Johnson, Richard M 482
Jonc*. Jolin Paul 483
Jones, J:in>b 485
Jones, Roger 485
Kalb, Baron Do 488
Kearney, Stephen W 489
Kennon, Beverley 491 ;
Knox, Henry 498 1
Kosciusko, Thaddeus 499
Lafayette, G. M 501
Laurens, John 506
Lawrence, James 507
Ledyard. Colonel 512
Lee, Charles 513
Loc, John 518
Lee, Henry 518
Lee, Samuel 519
Lincoln, Benjamin 523
Lingan, James M 525
Livingston, Henry 530
Lovewell, John 537
Lyman, Phinehas 540
Mackenzie, Alexander S 543
Macomb, Alexander 543
Manly, John 546
Marion, Francis 548
Mason, John 551
Mason, David 553
Mattoon, Ebenezer 561
McClary , Andrew 505
McDonough, Thomas 56(5
McDougall, Alexander 566
Mclntosh, John 568
Meigs, Return J 572
Mercer, Hugh 573
Mimiu, Thomas 577
Miller, James 579
Mitchell, David 582
Montgomery, Richard 585
Mooers, Benjamin 588
Morgan, Daniel 589
Morris, Lewis 592
Morris, Charles 594
Morton. Jeremiah 596
Muhlenberg, Peter 598
Murray, Alexander 601
Nash, Francis 602
Nelson, Roger 603
Nicholson, James 607
Nicholson, Samuel 607
Nicholson, John B 607
Nixon, John 609
Ogden, Matthias 618
Paine, Edward 633
Parsons, Samuel U 639
Pepperrell, AVilliam 650
Perry, Oliver II 654
Pickens, Andrew 661
Pike, Zebulon M 664
Pinckncy, Charles C 665
Pomeroy, Seth 670
Porter, Moses 672
Porter, David
Porter, Peter B
Porterfleld, Robert
Prrhle. Edward. . .
Prescott, William
Putnam, Israel
Putnam, Rufus
Quincy, Josiah
Reed, Joseph
Revere, Paul
Ripley, Eleazar Wheelock.
Rodgers, John
Scammell, Alexander
Schuyler, Philip
Scott, Charles
Screven, Thomas
Sewall, Henry
Shelby, Isaac
Sheldon, Daniel
Shepherd. William
Smallwood, William
Smith, Samuel
Spencer, Joseph
Stanwix, Colonel
Steuben, F. W
Stevens, Edward
Stevens, Ebenezer
Sullivan, John
Sumter, Thomas
Talcott, John
Tallmadge, Benjamin
Throop, Benjamin.
Towsou, Nathan
Truxton, Thomas. ....
Tucker, Samuel
Tupper, Benjamin
Ulmer, George
Varnum, James M
Wadsworth, Peleg. . .
Ward, Artemas
Ward, Samuel
Warner, Scth
Warren, Joseph
Warren, James
Warrington, Lewis.. . .
AVashington, George..
Washington, Thomas.
Wayne, Anthony
Whipple, Abraham. ..
Whiting, Henry
Wilkinson, James
Williams, William. . . .
Williams, Otho H
Williams, Jonathan.. .
Williams, William G..
AVilliams, Ebenezer. . .
Winder, William H...
Winds, William
Wolfe, James
Wood, James
Woodford, William. . .
Pago
..673
. . .674
..674|
..676!
. . .678 '
...685!
..6871
..689!
. . .696
..699:
..703;
..709 i
..723;
..723:
..724J
724
..730
...732
..732
..734
..738
..745
..750
..754
. . .75(5
. .757
..758
..770
...772
. .775
..776
..792
..796
. . .801
..802
..803
. . .806
..810
..813
..819
..819
. . .820
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Anthony, Susanna 38
Beekman, Cornelia 77
Bleeker, Ann Eliza 97
Brace, Lucy C 115
Bradford, Alice 120
Bradford, Susan 123
Brooks, Maria 143
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Campbell, Maria 189
Case, Mary 202
Codman, Catherine 243
Colby, Maria Otis 247
De Witt, Susan 300
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Dwight, Margarette 317
Dyer, Mary 318
Edwards, Sarah 328
Farrar, Phebe 348
Faugeers, Margaretta 349
Ferguson, Elizabeth 350
Fiske, Catharine 355
Fletcher, Bridget 356
Freeman, Sarah 367
Frelinghuysen, Charlotte 367
Gould, Bulah U 392
Hart, Ruth 418
Ilentz, Caroline Lee 428
Hinsdale, Nancy 435
Hodge, Hannah 438
Hooper, Lucy 444
Hubbard, Polly 453
Huntington, Susan , 458
Hutchinson, Ann 459
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Lake, Mary 502
Lee, Ann 516
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Reidesel. Frederica 702
Ripley, Dorothea 703
Rowson, Susanna 715
Smith, Susan 746
Warren, Mercy 822
Washington. Martha 832
Wheatley, Phillis 843
Wood, Sally S 880
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