Chapter I: SAMUEL, b. Oct. 4, 1648, d. Oct. 4, 1649 (1)

II. JOSHUA, b. Oct. 26, 1650, d. June 4, 1651.

About this point of time began the troubles and trials of this devoted family, and here, on the Springfield town records stands the following sad entry:

"_Joshua Parsons_, son of Hugh was killed by Mary Parsons his wife,
4. 1. 1651."

Singular as it may now seem, and notwithstanding the above entry, fair and legible at this day upon the records, an attempt was soon after made to throw the cause of the death of the son upon the father, and that he had effected it by witchcraft! We will not now enlarge on this subject, as we propose to publish at some future time an article on witchcraft in our country, and its unhappy effects.

P. S. We originally intended to have given in this number the genealogy of the branch of the family of Parsons settled at Gloucester, but for want of room, and some materials, are obliged to defer it to a future one; meanwhile we hope the descendants of JEFFREY PARSONS, (the progenitor of this branch,) will forward us all the facts they possess concerning it, that it may be rendered as complete as possible. For the information of those concerned, it may be proper to state, that we have a copy of the pedigree which was in the possession of the late William Parsons, Esq., of Boston, which, though extensive as it respects the names of the descendants, is very defective in dates and names of places. In these particulars we especially want information.

ANCIENT BIBLE IN POSSESSION OF WIDOW LUCY WATERS OF SHARON, MS.

It is said that this Bible was brought from England to America by the Pilgrim Fathers, who landed from the ship Mayflower, at Plymouth, Ms., December 22, A. D. 1620.

The title-page of the Testament[23] part of this Bible is in the following words, viz.--

=NEW TESTAMENT=
OF
OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST.

Confered diligently with the Greeke and best approved
translations, in divers Languages.

Imprinted at London by the Deputies of Christopher Barker, Printer
to the Queens most excellent Majesty.

=A. D. 1592.=

_Cum gratia privilegio Regiæ Maiestatis._

_Family Record in the Bible._

We Elisha Bradford and Bathshua Le-brocke, were married, September, y^e 7th, Anno Domini 1718. (?)

Account of the births, of all our children.

Our Daughter Hannah, was born April y^e 10th 1719
Joseph was born December y^e 7th day 1721
Silvanus was born July y^e 6th day 1723
Nehemiah was born July y^e 27th day 1724
Laurana was born March y^e 26th day 1726
Mary was born August y^e 1st day 1727
Elisha was born October y^e 6th day 1729
Lois was born January y^e 30th day 1730-31
Deborah[24] was born November y^e 18th day 1732
Allis was born November y^e 3d day 1734
Azenath was born September y^e 15th day 1736
Carpenter was born February y^e 7th day 1738-9
Abigail was born June y^e 20th day 1741
Chloe was born sixth day of April 1743
Content was born twenty-first day of May 1745
Content dec^d May 22 1745
Silvanus dec^d the twelfth day of July 1723

The foregoing title-page and Family Register were transcribed for and at the request of Alden Bradford, Esq., Feb. 22, 1842,

By his humble servant,
WILLIAM ELLIS.

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF PHYSICIANS IN ROCHESTER, N. H.

[For the account of the following medical gentlemen we are
indebted to Dr. Samuel Pray.]

_Dr. James Jackson_ was the first physician who settled in Rochester. He went from Connecticut, but in what year he went and how long he lived in the town, is not known.

_Dr. James How_ was the son of Deacon How of Methuen, and brother of David How, Esq., of Haverhill, Ms. He went to Rochester about the year 1777, and practised in his profession till near the time of his death, in 1807. He was a Representative to the State Legislature several years, and was elected a member of the N. H. Medical Society in 1791, soon after the Charter was granted. He was also surgeon's mate in the army of the Revolution. He died at the age of 53.

_Dr. Samuel Pray_ was born at South Berwick, Me., July 3, 1769. He received his preparatory education at Dummer Academy, Newbury, Ms., in the years 1784, '85, and '86, studied medicine with Dr. Jacob Kittredge of Dover, three years, and commenced the practice of his profession in September, 1792, at Rochester, where he has resided about fifty-five years. He united with a number of physicians in the old County of Strafford in 1811, who constituted the Strafford District of the N. H. Medical Society, of which he was Secretary several years. He was elected a Fellow of the N. H. M. Society in 1816, and has been one of the Censors for Strafford District. Dec. 14, 1821, he was elected an Honorary Member of the Medical Society at Dartmouth College.

_Dr. Timothy F. Preston_ went to Rochester in the year 1807, and resided in town about a year, and then returned to New Ipswich, his native place.

_Dr. John Perkins_ went to Rochester in 1807, and resided there till 1815, when he moved with his family to Jaffrey. It is not known where he received his education.

_Dr. Asa Perkins_ went from Dover, his native place, to Rochester, in 1816, and resided there two years, and then returned to Dover, where he now resides. He is the son of William Perkins, who was a merchant in Dover, and who died several years since. The Doctor studied medicine with Dr. Jabez Dow of Dover. He was born April 5, 1793. Having abandoned his profession, he entered into mercantile business.

_Dr. James Farrington_ went to Rochester in August, 1818, and has resided in town, to this time [1847]. He was born at Conway, October, 1791, and is the third son, now living, of Jeremiah Farrington, late of Conway, who emigrated when a young man from Concord, N. H., and with several others formed a settlement upon the banks of the Saco river, in that section of the country then called by the Indians Pequawket, now Conway and Fryeburg; and grandson of Stephen Farrington, who was one of the first settlers of Concord, and whose wife was a sister of Jonathan and Samuel Bradley, who, with Obadiah Peters, John Bean, and John Lufkin, were massacred by the Indians, Aug. 11, 1746, between Concord and Hopkinton, and to whose memory a granite monument has been erected on the spot where the massacre was perpetrated, by their surviving relatives. He received an academic education at Fryeburg Academy, where in 1814 he was prepared to enter college. He commenced the study of medicine under the tuition of Dr. Moses Chandler of Fryeburg, Me., February, 1815, and concluded his term of study under the instruction of Dr. Jabez Dow of Dover, in February, 1818. He was examined in the science of medicine and surgery by the Censors of the N. H. Medical Society, Drs. Crosby and Pray, July 18, 1818, and commenced practice in Rochester on the 9th of August following. He is a Fellow of the N. H. Medical Society, and has been Censor and a Counsellor of the Society, and for several years President of the Strafford District Society. He has been a Representative and Senator in the State Legislature, and in 1837 was elected a member of the 25th Congress of the United States. In 1845 he was appointed by the Executive of the State one of the Trustees of the N. H. Asylum for the Insane.

Dr. Farrington was married, in 1827, to Mary D., eldest daughter of Mr. Joseph Hanson of Rochester, and has four children living; three sons and one daughter. Formerly he had students in medicine, among whom were Dr. Joseph H. Smith, now a successful practitioner in Dover, Dr. Timothy Upham, an eminent physician, late of Waterford, N. Y., and a son of the Hon. Nathaniel Upham, late of Rochester, also Dr. Alfred Upham, now a physician in the city of New York.

Dr. Farrington has had an extensive business in his profession for twenty-five years, and has performed many difficult surgical operations.

_Dr. Calvin Cutter, Dr. Theodore Wells, and a Dr. Turner_ from Massachusetts, went to Rochester and tarried a short time in 1832 and 1833, and then returned to their native towns.

_Dr. Rufus K. Pearl_ was born at Farmington, Feb. 6, 1815, attended Medical Lectures at Bowdoin and Dartmouth Colleges, and studied medicine with Dr. Wight of Gilmanton. He commenced practice in Rochester in 1840, and being out of health, he left the profession, and has gone into trade in the village of that place.

_Dr. John W. Pray_ is the son of Dr. Samuel Pray of Rochester, with whom he studied medicine. He was born in Rochester, August, 1814, attended Medical Lectures at Dartmouth College, commenced the practice of his profession in Barrington, in 1840, and continued at that place three years, when he returned to Rochester and went into practice with his father.

_Dr. Richard Russel_ moved from Great Falls village to Rochester, about the year 1841, and resided in town about three years, and then returned to Great Falls, in 1844. It is not known when he began the practice of his profession, nor what was his education.

_Dr. Jeremiah Garland_ was born at Strafford, Sept. 23, 1815, and commenced the practice of his profession at Rochester, in 1844. He attended Medical Lectures at New York, in the old medical and surgical institution, and obtained the degree of M. D. at that institution. He studied medicine with Drs. Chadbourne and Haynes of Concord.

SKETCHES OF ALUMNI AT THE DIFFERENT COLLEGES IN NEW ENGLAND.

HON. NATHAN WESTON OF AUGUSTA, ME.

JOHN WESTON, from whom the subject of this memoir is the fourth in descent, came from Buckinghamshire in England to this country, in 1644, at the age of 13. After residing a few years in Salem, he purchased a tract of land in what is now South Reading, Ms., to which he removed, and where he spent the residue of his days. He died in 1723; being more than 90 years of age. It is noted on his gravestone, that he was one of the founders of the church in Reading. A part of his estate remained in the hands of his posterity for over one hundred years. Stephen, his son, was a pious, industrious, and respectable man. He had a farm in Reading, where he died in 1753, at the age of 88.

Stephen, his son, became the owner of a farm in Wilmington, Ms. He was a leading man there, distinguished for his piety, and was for many years Deacon of the church in that town, where he died in 1776, in his 81st year. Nathan, his fifth son, was born at Wilmington, in 1740. He married Elisabeth, the mother of the subject of this Memoir. She was the daughter of Samuel Bancroft, Esq., of Reading, who represented that town for many years in the General Court, and sister of the late Rev. Dr. Bancroft of Worcester. He (Nathan) removed to that part of Hallowell which is now Augusta, in Maine, then a part of Massachusetts, in 1781. He was for several years in the State government of Massachusetts, being, at different times, a member of the House, Senate, and Council of that Commonwealth. He died in 1832, at the advanced age of nearly 93 years.

NATHAN WESTON, his son and the subject of this Memoir, was born at Hallowell, now Augusta, July 27, 1782. He pursued his studies, preparatory to his entering college, at Hallowell Academy, under the direction of the late Preceptor Moody. He was graduated at Dartmouth College, in 1803. He went immediately into the study of the law. After reading a few months with Benjamin Whitwell, Esq., of Augusta, he entered the office of George Blake, Esq., Attorney for the United States, for the Massachusetts District, at Boston, where he prosecuted his studies, until his admission to the bar, in the county of Suffolk, in July, 1806.

He soon after opened an office at Augusta, but in March, 1807, removed to New Gloucester, in the county of Cumberland, where he continued in full practice in his profession three years, representing that town in 1808, in the General Court of Massachusetts. In June, 1809, he married Paulina B., daughter of the Hon. Daniel Cony, and returned to Augusta, in March, 1810, where he now (1847) resides. He continued the practice of the law until the fall of 1811, when he was made Chief-Justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the Second Eastern Circuit of Massachusetts, in which he continued to officiate until the separation of Maine, in 1820. He then became one of the Judges of the Supreme Judicial Court, and in October, 1834, he was appointed Chief-Justice of that State, which office he held till October, 1841, when his term of office expired. In 1831, the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws was conferred upon him at Dartmouth College, and afterwards at Waterville and Bowdoin Colleges, Maine.

In February, 1825, at a general meeting of the members of both houses of the Legislature, then sitting in Portland, without distinction of party, he was with great unanimity nominated for the office of Governor, but preferring to remain on the bench, he declined the nomination.

Judge Weston has four sons; Nathan, Daniel Cony, who married Mary C. North, granddaughter of the late General William North of New York, George Melville, and Charles. The first three were educated at Bowdoin College, and are now in the practice of law; one in Augusta, one in Orono, and one in Vassalborough, in Maine. His third son, George Melville, is Attorney for the State for the county of Kennebec. Charles, his fourth son, has been a midshipman in the Navy of the United States. Of his daughters, Paulina Cony died in 1820, aged two years. Two survive, namely, Catharine Martin and Louisa Matilda.

Chief-Justice Weston is not known as the author of any published work, beyond an occasional oration or address, in his younger days; but the decisions of the Supreme Court of Maine, now extended to about twenty volumes, are filled with legal opinions drawn by him, which will remain a monument of his learning and industry.

HON. RICHARD LAW OF NEW LONDON, CT.

[This memoir was obtained through the instrumentality of Prof. Kingsley of Yale College.]

RICHARD LAW was a son of the Hon. Jonathan Law, Governor of Connecticut, and was born at Milford, on the 17th of March, 1733. He was educated at Yale College, where he was graduated in 1751, and where also he received the degree of LL. D. Immediately after graduating, he entered upon the study of the law, in the office and under the instruction of that able jurist and accomplished lawyer, the Hon. Jared Ingersoll; and after a course of studies usual at that day, he was, soon after the age of 21, admitted to the bar, at New Haven; and immediately removed, and settled at New London, where he became highly distinguished in his profession. As an advocate at the bar, his style was pure and correct, but not copious and flowing. He was distinguished more as a learned lawyer, a close logician, a fair special pleader, than an eloquent orator. His talents were better adapted to a court than a jury. He possessed a discrimination, and power of seeing and seizing the great point in the case--the point on which it must turn; and by a course of special pleadings--by drawing on the "_heartstrings of the law_," he had a faculty of presenting his point, by forming an issue in law for the decision of the court, most favorably for his client; and on such issues, from the logical structure of his mind, he was powerful. He was thoroughly read in the ancient English law authorities; and few American lawyers or jurists, of his day and age, better understood the great principles of the English common law, or could better discriminate between such of those principles as were applicable to the genius of a republican government, and such as were not, than Judge Law. Those which he adopted formed, as it respected the common law, the polestar of his judicial decisions.

After a full and lucrative practice of several years, in consequence of ill health, he was induced to relinquish the bar, and accept a seat as Chief-Judge on the Bench of the County Court for the county of New London. This office he held until May, 1784, when he was appointed one of the Judges of the Superior Court.

In May, 1776, he was chosen an Assistant, a member of the Council or upper house of Assembly, which office he held by annual elections of the freemen, until May, 1786, when an act was passed excluding Judges from a seat in the Legislature.

In 1777, it is believed that at May session, he was appointed by the General Assembly a member of Congress; and continued with little, if any intermission, a member of that body until 1782.

On granting the charter to the city of New London, he was by the freemen in March, 1784, unanimously chosen Mayor; which office he held until his death--a period of nearly twenty-two years.

On the return of peace, after the Revolution, he was appointed with the Hon. Roger Sherman, to revise the code of Statute Laws of the State. This code had not been revised for thirty years, and had accumulated to a great size, from the great variety of statutes enacted in the emergencies of the Revolution. In its subjects of correction, a work of great interest and importance, it required no small ability so to select and discriminate as to give universal satisfaction. In the discharge of which duty he discovered great knowledge of the science of legislation, and the true principles of national government.

In May, 1786, he was appointed Chief-Judge of the Superior Court; and continued in that office until the adoption of the Constitution of the United States; when being by President Washington appointed District Judge of the District of Connecticut, in October, 1789, he resigned the former and accepted the latter, which he held until his death, which occurred at New London, Jan. 26, 1806, in the 73rd year of his age.

Judge Law lived in an eventful period of his country, and of the world; and the many and various important offices which he held and honorably sustained through the course of a long life, better bespeak, than language can express, the character, the worth, and merits of the man.

REV. NAPHTALI SHAW OF BRADFORD, VT.

NAPHTALI SHAW was born at Bridgewater, Ms., June 20, 1764, and was the fourth son of his parents. His father, who was by occupation a tanner and shoemaker, was William Shaw, who lived in Bridgewater, and married Hannah, daughter of Samuel West, who was a Deacon of the Congregational Church in that place, and lived to be more than eighty years of age. He had five sons and six daughters. At the age of fifteen the subject of this Memoir enlisted as a soldier in the Revolutionary army, and went with others to take Rhode Island, which was in 1779 in possession of the British, but he did not continue long in the service, the object being accomplished. He prepared for college under the instructions of Dr. Crane, a physician of Titicut Parish, and the Rev. Dr. Reed of West Bridgewater. In 1786, he entered the Freshman Class of Dartmouth College, and graduated there in 1790. After receiving his bachelor's degree, he taught school at Easton, Ms., and at Boston, as an assistant of Mr. Caleb Bingham, an instructor of much celebrity. His theological course of study was pursued under the direction of the Rev. Dr. Sanger of Bridgewater, who was in the habit of educating young men for the ministry. He was approbated to preach the gospel, as it was then called, by the Plymouth Association of Ministers, Aug. 1, 1792. Jan. 30, 1793, he was ordained Pastor of the church in Kensington, N. H., where he remained till Jan. 13, 1813, when he was dismissed on account of ill health. His ministry was pacific and useful; peace and harmony were restored, and the cause of education, morals, and religion promoted. His health was such, that upon resignation, he retired from the ministry, and devoted himself to agricultural pursuits, having purchased a farm in the town of Bradford, Vt., where he still lives in the enjoyment of his bodily and mental powers, to a good degree, at the age of 84 years.

Mr. Shaw married, June 10, 1798, Mary Crafts, daughter of Dr. John Staples Crafts of Bridgewater, who was to him a great blessing. "The greatest blessing," said Martin Luther, "with which a man can be favored is a pious and amiable wife, who fears God and loves her family, with whom he may live in peace, and in whom he may repose confidence." The wife of Mr. Shaw died Jan. 14, 1840. Their children were four;--Thomas Crafts, living in Bradford, Vt., a farmer, and a deacon of the church in that place, who married Sarah Jenkins, by whom he has two daughters, Sarah Jane and Mary Ann; Eliza Park, who married Dea. Randell H. Wild of West Fairlee, who died in Bradford, Dec. 22, 1841, leaving two daughters, Elisabeth and Emily; Samuel West, who married Jerusha Bliss of Fairlee, and died March 12, 1832, leaving no child; Mary Ann, who died July 12, 1808, in childhood.

HON. NAHUM MITCHELL OF PLYMOUTH.

NAHUM MITCHELL was born in East Bridgewater, Feb. 12, 1769. His father was Cushing Mitchell, son of Col. Edward, grandson of Edward, and great-grandson of Experience, who was one of the Pilgrim forefathers, and arrived at Plymouth in the third ship, the Ann, in 1623. They all lived and died in East Bridgewater, on the spot which their descendants now occupy. His mother was Jennet, daughter of the Hon. Hugh Orr, from Lochwinioch, County of Renfrew, Scotland, who married Mary, daughter of Capt. Jonathan Bass of East Bridgewater, whose father was Dea. Samuel Bass of Braintree, whose father was John, who married Ruth, daughter of the Hon. John Alden, the Pilgrim; and John's father was Dea. Samuel Bass of Braintree, (now Quincy.) Capt. Jonathan Bass's wife was Susanna, daughter of Nicholas Byram of East Bridgewater, whose wife was Mary, daughter of Dea. Samuel Edson of West Bridgewater, and whose father, Nicholas Byram, married Susanna, daughter of Abraham Shaw of Dedham.

Cushing Mitchell's mother was Elisabeth, daughter of Elisha Cushing of Hingham, a descendant from Matthew Cushing, one of the first settlers in Hingham, and ancestor of all of the name in this part of the country, and whose father was Peter Cushing of Hingham in England. Matthew's wife was Nazareth, daughter of Henry Pitcher. Matthew's son Daniel married Lydia, daughter of Edward Gilman, ancestor of all the Gilmans in New England. Daniel's son Daniel, father of Elisha, married Elisabeth, daughter of Capt. John Thaxter of Hingham, son of Thomas, the ancestor of all the Thaxters in this vicinity. Capt. John Thaxter's wife was Elisabeth, daughter of Nicholas Jacob, or Jacobs, of Hingham.

Col. Edward Mitchell's mother was Alice, daughter of Maj. John Bradford of Kingston, son of William, Deputy-Governor, and grandson of William Bradford, the Governor. The Governor's wife was widow Alice Southworth, her maiden name Carpenter. William the Deputy's wife was Alice, daughter of Thomas Richards of Weymouth. Maj. John's wife was Mercy, daughter of Joseph Warren, son of Richard Warren, and his wife Elisabeth, from London. Joseph's wife was Priscilla, daughter of John, and sister of Eld. Thomas Faunce of Plymouth. Col. Edward Mitchell's mother, after the death of his father, married Dea. Joshua Hersey of Hingham.

The subject of this Memoir prepared for college with the Hon. Beza Hayward, in Bridgewater, and entered Harvard College, July, 1785, where he graduated in 1789. He kept school at Weston, while in college, and a few times after graduating, in Bridgewater and Plymouth; and was engaged in instructing part of the time while attending to his professional studies. He read law with the Hon. John Davis, Judge of the District Court of Massachusetts, lately deceased in Boston, but then living in Plymouth, his native place. He was admitted to the bar, Nov. 24, 1792, and settled in the practice of the law in East Bridgewater, his native place.

Judge Mitchell was Justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the Southern Circuit, from 1811 to 1821, inclusive, being Chief-Justice during the last two years of that time. He was Representative to General Court from Bridgewater seven years between 1798 and 1812; Representative in Congress from Plymouth District two years, from 1803 to 1805; Senator from Plymouth County two years, 1813 and 1814; Counsellor from 1814 to 1820, inclusive; Treasurer of the Commonwealth five years, from 1822 to 1827; Representative to General Court from Boston, 1839 and 1840, in which place he then resided. He was appointed by the Governor one of the Commissioners for settling the boundary lines between Massachusetts and Rhode Island; and afterwards, for settling the line between Massachusetts and Connecticut; and was Chairman of the first Commissioners for exploring and surveying the country from Boston to Albany for a railroad route, 1827, and is a member of the Massachusetts Historical Society, and has been Librarian and Treasurer of that institution. He was also several years President of the Bible Society in Plymouth county.

Judge Mitchell married, in 1794, Nabby, daughter of Gen. Silvanus Lazell of East Bridgewater, and has 5 children, Harriet, Silvanus L., Mary Orr, Elisabeth Cushing, James Henry. Harriet married the Hon. Nathaniel M. Davis, Esq., of Plymouth; Silvanus L. married Lucia, daughter of Hon. Ezekiel Whitman of Portland, Me., Chief-Justice of Court of Common Pleas; Mary O. married David Ames, Jr., Esq., of Springfield; Elisabeth C. married Nathan D. Hyde of East Bridgewater; James Henry married Harriet Lavinia, daughter of John Angier of Belfast, Me., and is a merchant in Philadelphia; Silvanus L. was graduated at H. C., 1817, and he and his brother-in-law, Hyde, went into business as merchants at East Bridgewater, and thence removed to Boston.

Judge Mitchell wrote a short History of Bridgewater, which was published in 1818, in the Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society, Vol. VII., 2nd series. He has since published an enlarged History of the Early Settlement of that Town, with a particular Genealogy or Family Register of the Early Settlers.

ADVICE OF A DYING FATHER TO HIS SON.

Dated January 27, 1716.

[The following article was addressed by the Rev. William Brattle
of Cambridge to William Brattle, his son and only child who lived
to maturity, while he was preparing for college. The father was a
man distinguished for "piety, wisdom, and charity;" and the son
"was a man of extraordinary talents and character, acceptable
as a preacher, eminent as a lawyer, celebrated as a physician."
He was a Major-General in the militia, and much in public
office. May it not be supposed that this paternal Advice from an
affectionate father to a son of filial affection and an obedient
disposition, had great effect in making him what he was? For
this and several other articles of an antiquarian nature we are
indebted to Charles Ewer, Esq.]

1. Agreeably to what is written 1 Chron. xxviii, 9, My dear Son, know thou the God of thy father, & serve him with a perfect heart, and with a willing mind. If thou seek him, he will be found of thee; but if thou forsake him, he will cast thee off for ever.

2. Think often of thine own frailty, and of the uncertainly and emptiness of all Sublunary Enjoyments. Value not Self upon riches. Value not thy Self upon any worldly advancement whatsoever. Let faith and Goodness be thy treasure. Let no happiness content and Sattisfie thee but what secures the favour and peace of God unto thee.

3. Remember thy baptism, acquaint thy Self well with the nature and obligations of that Ordinance. Publickly renew thy baptismall Covenant. Renew it Seasonably in thy early Days with humility and thirsty desires to enjoy Communion with God in the ordinance of the Lord's Supper and in all Approaches before God therein bringing faith and Love and a Self abasing Sence of thine own Emptiness and unworthyness.

4. Prize and Esteem the holy word of God infinitly before the finest of Gold. Reverence it with thy whole heart, read it constantly with seriousness, and great delight. Meditate much upon it, make it thy Guide in all thy wayes, fetch all thy Comforts from thence, and by a religious and holy walk, establish thine Interest in the blessed and glorious Promises therein contained.

5. Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy. Reverence God's Sanctuary. In prayer, in Singing, in hearing God's word Read or preached, and in every public administration Wait upon God with outward Reverence and true devotion in thine heart, Remembering that holyness for ever becomes God's house. When in thy more private retirements, Still let it be thy Care to Sanctifie God's Sabbath. Be watchfull therefore over thine heart and over thy thoughts. Call to mind and run over what thou hast heard in God's house. Read Savoury books. Catechise thy Self, and others too when God gives Opportunity.

6. Take care of thy health, avoid all Excess in eating and in drinking, in taking thy pleasure, and in all innocent Recreations whatsoever. Let not immoderate heatt and Colds needlessly Expose thy body.

7. Beware of Passion. Let not Anger and Wrath infect thine heart, suffer wrong with Patience, Rather than to right thy Self by unchristian methods, or by suffering thy spirit to be out of frame.

8. Labour to establish thy Self and begg of God that he would Establish thee in the grace of Chastity, keep thine heart clean and Chast, keep thy Tongue clean and Chast, keep thine hands clean and Chast, keep thine Eyes clean and Chast. Never trust to thy Self to be thy keeper, avoid temptations to uncleaness of every nature, be watchfull over thy Self night and day, but in the midst of all Let thine heart be with God, and be thou much in prayer, that God would be thy keeper. Let all the incentives to Lust as farr as may be, be avoided by thee.

9. Speak the Truth alwayes. Let not a Lye defile thy Lips, be content with Suffering rather than by telling the Least Lie to Save thy Self. Beware of Shuffling off by disimulation.

10. Let Pride be an abomination in thy Sight. Cloth thyself with humility. Let humility be thine under Garment. Let humility be thine upper Garment.

11. Despise no man, let the State of his Body or mind or other circumstances of his, be what they will, still reverence humanity, consider who made thee to differ.

12. Be just to all men; be thou courteous and affable to all men; render not Evil for Evil, but recompense evil with Good. Owe no man any thing but Love.

13. Be thou compassionate, tender hearted, and mercifull; do good to all men, be rich in good works, ready to distribute, willing to communicate; for with such sacrifices God is evermore well pleased.

14. Avoid sloth and idleness, give thy Self to thy Studys; converse with such Authors as may tend to make thee wise and good and to forward thy growth in true wisdom and goodness.

15. Acquaint thy Self with History; know something of the Mathematicks, and Physick; be able to keep Accompts Merchant like in some measure; but let Divinity be thy main Study. Accomplish thy Self for the worke of the Ministry, begg of God that he would incline thine heart therto, and accept thee therin, and if it shall please God thus to Smile upon thee, aspire not after great things; let the Providence of God chuse for thee, and let the Flock have the Love of thy heart; be Solicitous for their Spirituall good, and for the glory of God; and let thy Aims be this way in all thy private meditations, and public administrations, all the dayes of thy Life.

My dear Child, be of a Catholick Spirit.

RELATIONSHIP.

In old wills and other old documents the word _cousin_ is
sometimes used for _nephew_, and thus many errors may occur in
tracing out genealogies. Many curious cases of relationship
will be found to exist by those that investigate the descent of
families, some of which cannot be described by the terms we now
use to designate consanguinity. It is surprising, that among the
many words that have been coined, some new terms have not come
into use as substitutes for the awkward way we now have of naming
some of our relatives; such as great-great-great grandfather,
great-great-great-uncle, &c. The following curious case was taken
from a newspaper; whether the account is correct or not, the
reader may see that it may be true.

"_A man can be his own grandfather._

"A widow and her daughter-in-law and a man and his son--the widow
married the son, the daughter the father; the widow was mother
to her husband's father and grandmother to her husband; they had
a son to whom she was great-grandmother. Now as the son of a
great-grandmother must be either a grandfather or great-uncle,
the boy must be one or the other. This was the case of a boy in
Connecticut."

DECEASE OF THE FATHERS OF NEW ENGLAND.

Chronologically arranged.

(Continued from p. 74.)

1648.

Oct. 11, Rev. Henry Green of Reading.

1649.

March 26, Gov. John Winthrop of Boston, b. Jan. 12, 1588, d., a. 61.

Aug. 25, Rev. Thomas Shepard of Cambridge, b. Nov. 5, 1605, d., a. 44.

1650.

Sept. 11, Atherton Hough of Boston, an Assistant.

1651.

Aug. --, William Thomas, an Assistant of Plymouth Colony, d., a. 77.

1652.

Aug. 24, Adam Winthrop, Esq., of Boston, d., a. 33.

Sept. 14, Capt. Bozoun Allen of Boston, formerly of Hingham.

Dec. 23, Rev. John Cotton of Boston d., a. 67. (The old "Boston Book"
says, Mr. Cotton d. 15th of 10th month.)

1653.

Jan. 18, Capt. William Tyng of Boston, Treasurer of the Colony.

July 31, Gov. Thomas Dudley of Roxbury d., a. 77.

Rev. Nathaniel Ward, first minister of Ipswich, d. in England,
a. 83.

Nov. 8, Rev. John Lothrop of Barnstable.

Oct. 8, Hon. Thomas Flint of Concord.

1654.

Jan. --, John Glover of Dorchester, an Assistant.

Gov. John Haynes of Hartford, Ct.

July 23, William Hibbins, an Assistant, d. at Boston.

Dec. 9, Gen. Edward Gibbons of Boston.

1655.

May 8, Edward Winslow of Plymouth d. on board the Fleet, a. 61.

July 3, Rev. Nathaniel Rogers of Ipswich d., a. 57.

Rev. Daniel Maud of Dover, N. H. He had taught a school for
some years in Boston before he went to Dover.

Henry Wolcott, the ancestor of the governors of Connecticut
by this name, d., a. 78.

1656.

Capt. Miles Standish of Duxbury d., a. ab. 72.

Capt. Robert Bridges of Lynn, an Assistant.

1668? Rev. Peter Prudden of Milford, Ct., d., a. 56.

March 23, Capt. Robert Keaine, merchant in Boston.

Oct. 22, Rev. James Noyes of Newbury d., a. 48.

1657.

Jan. 7, Gov. Theophilus Eaton of Connecticut d., a. 66.

March --, Gov. Edward Hopkins d. in London, a. 57.

George Fenwick, the first settler of Saybrook, d. in England.

May 9, Gov. William Bradford of Plymouth, d., a. 69.

1658.

Rev. Ralph Partridge of Duxbury.

John Coggan of Boston.

1659.

Feb. 27, Rev. Henry Dunster of Scituate d., (buried at Cambridge.)

March 9, Rev. Peter Bulkley of Concord d., a. 77.

April 10, Rev. Edward Norris of Salem d., a. ab. 70.

Sept. 29, John Johnson of Roxbury.

1660.

Oct. 16, Rev. Hugh Peters executed in England, a. 61.

1661.

Jan. 23, Rev. Ezekiel Rogers of Rowley, a. 70.

Sept. 17, Maj. Gen. Humphrey Atherton of Dorchester. He was
killed by a fall from his horse on Boston Common,
when on his return from a military review on the
Common. Mr. Savage and the inscription on his tombstone
say, that he died on the 16th, but other authority,[25]
and incontrovertible, says, on the "17th at about 1
o'clock, after midnight."

Dec. 28, Rev. Timothy Dalton of Hampton d., a. ab. 84.

1662.

March 1, Rev. Ralph Smith d. at Boston.

March 30, Rev. Samuel Hough, minister of Reading, d. in Boston.

June 14, Sir Henry Vane executed in England, a. 50.

Oct. --, William Pynchon d. at Wraisbury, Bucks, a. 72.

1663.

----, Thomas Camock, nephew of the Earl of Warwick, d. in
Scarborough, Me. If he is the same who is named in
the 2nd charter of Virginia, 1609, he was quite
advanced in years.

Rev. Richard Denton of Stamford, Ct., [ab. 1663.]

April 5, Rev. John Norton of Boston, a. 57.

June 12, Rev. John Miller d. at Groton.

July 5, Rev. Samuel Newman of Rehoboth, a. 63.

July 20, Rev. Samuel Stone of Hartford.

1665.

Jan. 9, Rev. Samuel Eaton of New Haven.

March 15, Gov. John Endecott of Boston, a. 77.

July 15, Capt. Richard Davenport, killed by lightning at Castle
William, a. 59.

Rev. Adam Blackman of Stratford.

Dr. John Clark of Boston, a. 66.

NEW ENGLAND.

The following is an extract from "A NEW DESCRIPTION OF THE WORLD,--London, printed for Hen. Rhodes, next door to the Swan Tavern, near Brides-Lane, in Fleet-Street, 1689."

_NEW ENGLAND_, an _English_ Colony in America, is bounded on
the North-East with _Novumbegua_, on the Southwest with _Novum
Belgium_; and on the other parts by the Woods and Sea coast;
scituate in the middle of Temperate Zone, between the degrees
of 41 and 44, equally distant from the Artick Circle, and the
Tropick of _Cancer_; which renders it very temperate and very
agreeable to the Constitution of _English_ Bodies, the Soil being
alike Fruitful, if not in some places exceeding ours; all sorts
of Grain and Fruit trees common with us growing kindly there; The
Woods there are very great, wherein for the most part the Native
_Indians_ dwell Fortefying themselves as in Towns or places of
defence, living upon Deer and such other Creatures, as those vast
Wildernesses whose extents are unknown to the _English_ abound
with; there are in this Country store of Ducks, Geese, Turkies,
Pigeons, Cranes, Swans, Partridges, and almost all sort of Fowl,
and Cattle, common to us in _Old England_; together with Furs,
Amber, Flax, Pitch, Cables, Mast, and in brief whatever may
conduce to profit and pleasure; the Native _Indians_, in these
parts are more tractable, if well used, than in any other; many
of them though unconverted, often saying, that our God is a good
God, but their _Tanto_ evil, which _Tanto_ is no other than the
Devil, or a wicked Spirit that haunts them every Moon, which
obliges them to Worship him for fear, though to those that are
converted to Christianity he never appears.

This _English_ Colony after many Attempts and bad Successes was
firmly Established 1620, at what time _New Plymouth_ was Built
and Fortified; so that the _Indians_ thereby being over-aw'd,
suffered the Planters without controul to Build other Towns, the
chief of which are _Bristol_, _Boston_, _Barnstaple_, and others,
alluding to the Names of Sea Towns in _Old England_; and are
accommodated with many curious Havens commodious for Shipping,
and the Country watered with pleasant Rivers of extraordinary
largeness; so abounding with Fish, that they are not taken for
dainties; and for a long time they were all Governed at their own
dispose, and Laws made by a Convocation of Planters, _&c._ but of
late they have submitted to receive a Governor from _England_.

_NOVUM BELGIUM_, or the _New Neitherlands_, lies in this tract
on the South of _New England_, extending from 38 to 41 degrees
North Latitude; a place into which the _Hollanders_ intruded
themselves, considerable Woody; which Woods naturally abound with
Nuts and wild Grapes, replenished with Deer, and such Creatures
as yield them store of Furrs, as the Rivers and Plains do Fish
and Fowl; rich Pastures, and Trees of extraordinary bigness,
with Flax, Hemp, and Herbage; the ground very kindly bearing
the Product of _Europe_; and here the Natives, such as live in
Hutts and Woods, go clad in Beasts Skins, their Household goods
consisting of a Wooden dish, a Tobacco Pipe, and a Hatchet made
of a sharp Flint Stone, their Weapons Bows and Arrows; though
the _Dutch_ unfairly to their cost, out of a covetous Humor,
traded with them for Guns, Swords, _&c._, shewing the use of them
which the _Indians_ turning upon their quondam Owners, found an
opportunity to send 400 of their new Guests into the other World;
and here the chief Town is _New Amsterdam_, commodiously Scituate
for Trade, and the Reception of Shipping.

TIME OF THE ARRIVAL IN NEW ENGLAND OF THE FOLLOWING MINISTERS.

1630.

Rev. John Maverick.
Rev. John Warham.
Rev. John Wilson.
Rev. George Phillips.

1631.

Rev. John Eliot.

1632.

Rev. Thomas Weld.
Rev. Thomas James.
Rev. Stephen Bachiler.

1633.

Rev. John Cotton.
Rev. Thomas Hooker.
Rev. Samuel Stone.
Rev. William Leveredge?

1634.

Rev. John Lathrop.
Rev. John Miller?
Rev. James Noyes.
Rev. Thomas Parker.
Rev. Zechariah Symmes.
Rev. Nathaniel Ward.

1635.

Rev. Peter Bulkley.
Rev. John Avery.
Rev. George Burdet?
Rev. Henry Flint.
Rev. Peter Hobart.
Rev. John Reyner?
Rev. Richard Mather.
Rev. Hugh Peters.
Rev. John Norton.
Rev. Thomas Shepard.
Rev. William Walton.
Rev. John Jones.

1636.

Rev. Ralph Partridge.
Rev. Samuel Whiting.
Rev. Nathaniel Rogers.
Rev. John Wheelwright.
Rev. Thomas Jenner.
Rev. Samuel Newman.

1637.

Rev. John Allin.
Rev. Edmund Brown.
Rev. Thomas Cobbet.
Rev. Timothy Dalton?
Rev. John Davenport.
Rev. John Fiske.
Rev. John Harvard.
Rev. George Moxon.
Rev. William Thompson.
Rev. John Prudden.
Rev. Samuel Eaton.

1638.

Rev. Ezekiel Rogers.
Rev. Robert Peck.
Rev. Edward Norris.
Rev. Charles Chauncy.
Rev. Thomas Allen.
Rev. Henry Phillips?
Rev. Marmaduke Matthews.

1639.

Rev. John Knowles.
Rev. Henry Whitfield.
Rev. Richard Denton?
Rev. Jonathan Burr.
Rev. Ephraim Hewett.
Rev. Henry Smith.
Rev. John Ward.
Rev. William Worcester.
Rev. Abraham Pierson?

1640.

Rev. Henry Dunster.

1641.

Rev. Richard Blinman?

GENEALOGIES AND THEIR MORAL.

We were carelessly looking over a genealogy of the "Minot Family" in the second number of the "New England Historical and Genealogical Register," when suddenly our eyes were suffused with tears, as they rested on the following sentence in the catalogue of the children of Capt. John Minot, who died in Dorchester, 1669:

"Martha, born Sept. 22, 1657; died, single, Nov. 23, 1678, aged
21. She was engaged to be married, but died unmarried, leaving
a will in which she directed that at her funeral her betrothed
husband, 'John Morgan, Jr. be all over mourning, and follow next
after me.'"

What a history is there in these few words about Martha Minot, who lived almost two centuries ago! The mind runs back in a moment to those times, when almost all New England was a wilderness--to those days of the old Indian wars, when no man could be a "captain" without being a man of some rank and consequence. Just after the close of King Philip's war, when the villages of New England were all in peace, Capt. John Minot's daughter Martha, twenty-one years of age, and having come into possession of her share of her father's estate, had plighted her troth to one she loved, and was expecting to be married too, when disease fastened upon her young frame, and would not be repelled. In the chill November air, when

"The melancholy days were come, the saddest of the year,"

she faded like a leaf. And at her burial there followed, nearer than brother or sister, nearest to the hearse, the one whom, of all the living, she loved most, from whom to part had been to her more painful than the death-pang, and who had been in her thoughts till "the love-light in her eye" was extinguished. That single item in her directions for her funeral, that "John Morgan, Jr., be all over mourning, and follow next after me," tells the whole story.

Nothing seems, at first sight, less interesting or less instructive, than a genealogical table, a mere register of names and dates. But such a passage as that which we have quoted--so picturesque, so suggestive, so touching, so dramatic--when it occurs in the midst of these dry records, throws out an electric light at every link in the chain of generations. Each of those names in the table is the memorial--perhaps the only memorial--of a human heart that once lived and loved; a heart that kept its steady pulsations through some certain period of time, and then ceased to beat and mouldered into dust. Each of those names is the memorial of an individual human life that had its joys and sorrows, its cares and burthens, its affections and hopes, its conflicts and achievements, its opportunities wasted or improved, and its hour of death. Each of those dates of "birth," "marriage," "death,"--O how significant! What a day was each of those dates to some human family, or to some circle of loving human hearts!

To read a genealogy then may be, to a thinking mind, like walking in a cemetery, and reading the inscriptions on the gravestones. As we read, we may say with the poet--

"To a mysteriously-consorted pair,
This place is consecrate--to Death and Life."

The presence of death drives the mind to thoughts of immortality. Memorials of the dead are memorials not of death only, but of life. They lived, and therefore they died; and as the mind thinks of the dead gathered to their fathers, it cannot but think of the unseen worlds which they inhabit. All these names are memorials of human spirits that have passed from time into eternity. Ready or unprepared, in youth or in maturity, in childhood or in old age, they went into eternity, as we are going.

"The nursling, and the tottering little one
Taken from air and sunshine when the rose
Of infancy first blooms upon his cheek;
The thinking, thoughtless schoolboy; the bold youth
Of soul impetuous, and the bashful maid,
Smitten when all the promises of life
Are opening round her; those of middle age,
Cast down while confident in strength they stand,
Like pillars fixed more firmly, as might seem,
And more secure, by very weight of all
That for support rests on them; the decayed
And burthensome; and lastly that poor few
Whose light of reason is with age extinct;
The hopeful and the hopeless, first and last,
The earliest summoned and the longest spared,
Are here deposited."

The genealogical chapters in Genesis and Chronicles are commonly and very naturally regarded as being almost if not quite an exception to the testimony, "All Scripture is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness." But the story is told of a man who had long been irreligious and thoughtless, that in some vacant hour he happened to open his Bible, and began to read the catalogue of antediluvians, in the fifth chapter of Genesis. As he read that one lived so many years and he _died_, and another lived so many years and he died, the uniformity of the record arrested his attention, his mind was awakened to new thoughts of the significancy of death and life, and thus he was led to realize the ends of his existence, and to dedicate himself, in penitence and trust, to a forgiving God.--_New York Evangelist._

FIRST SETTLERS OF RHODE ISLAND.

BY THE LATE JOHN FARMER, ESQ.

Roger Williams,
John Thockmorton,
William Arnold,
William Harris,
Stukeley Westcot,
Thomas Olney, Sen.
Thomas Olney, Jun.
John Greene,
Richard Waterman,
Thomas James,
Robert Cole,
William Carpenter,
Francis Weston,
Ezekiel Holleman,
Robert Williams,
John Smith,
Hugh Bewitt,
William Wickenden,
John Field,
Thomas Hopkins,
William Hawkins,
William Hutchinson,
Edward Hutchinson, Jun.
John Coggeshall,
William Aspinwall,
Samuel Wildbore,
John Porter,
John Sandford,
Edward Hutchinson,
Thomas Savage,
William Dyre,
William Freeborn,
Philip Sherman,
John Walker,
Richard Carder,
William Baulston,
Henry Bull,
William Coddington,
John Clark,
Edward Cope,
Chad. Brown,
Daniel Brown,
Henry Brown,
John Brown,
Samuel Bennett,
Hugh Bewett,
Adam Goodwin,
Henry Fowler,
Arthur Fenner,
Henry Reddock,
Thomas Sucklin,
Christopher Smith,
Richard Pray,
Nicholas Power,
Stephen Northup,
Edward Hart,
Benjamin Herenden,
Edward Inman,
John Jones,
James Matthewson,
Henry Neale,
William Man,
---- Jinckes,
Roger Mawry,
Edward Manton,
Shadrach Manton,
George Shepard,
Edward Smith,
Benjamin Smith,
John Smith, (the Mason.)
John Smith, (Sen.)
John Smith, (Jun.)
John Smith, (Jamaica,)
Epenetus Olney,
Lawrence Wilkinson,
Daniel Williams,
Christopher Onthank,
Joshua Verin,
John Sayles,
Richard Scott,
Joan Tyler,
Joshua Winsor,
Valentine Whitman,
George Way,
William White,
Thomas Walling,
John Warren,
John Whipple,
Matthew Waller,
Robert Williams,
Joseph Williams,
William Wickenden,
Robert R. West,
Pardon Tillighast.

MARRIAGES AND DEATHS.

[Our authorities for most of our records of Marriages and Deaths
are the newspapers. These may not always be correct.]

MARRIAGES.

BATES, JOHN S., ESQ., of Canandaigua, N. Y., to ANNIE M.,
daughter of Gen. Timothy Upham of Boston, late of Portsmouth, N.
H., May 19.

BIGELOW, H. J., M. D., to SUSAN, daughter of William Sturgis,
Boston, May 8.

BROWN, ABNER HARTWELL, M. D., of Lowell, Prof. of Chemistry in
Willoughby Medical College, O., to SUSAN AUGUSTA, daughter of
Rev. Dr. Shurtleff, late Prof. in Dartmouth College, April 13.

BURLINGAME, ANSON, Attorney, of Boston, to JANE CORNELIA,
daughter of Hon. Isaac Livermore of Cambridge, June 3.

COFFIN, REV. EZEKIEL W., Minister of the Universalist Society in
Attleboro', to MISS MARY ELIZA WEBBER of Boston, May 30.

FOSTER, FORDYCE, M. D., to MISS ADELINE JANE TOWER, Cohasset,
March 24.

GILMAN, WOODBURY, M. D., to MISS C. W. HAYES, only daughter of
Lewis Hayes, Esq., Kittery, Me.

HARDING, SPENCER S., of Boston, to LOUISA T., daughter of Prof.
Joseph Dana of Athens, O., April 6.

JOHNSON, REV. JOHN, appointed missionary to China, to ARETHUSA
ANNA, daughter of Abel Stevens, Esq., of Eastport, Me., May 30.

LEMON, JOHN J., of Boston, to MISS EMMA L. BADGER of
Philadelphia, daughter of the late George Dier Badger of Windham,
Ct., March 20.

RUSSELL, BRADFORD, Attorney, Groton, to MISS MARIA PROUTY of
Sterling, March 25.

SEEGER, EDWIN, M. D., of Springfield, to ELIZABETH A., daughter
of Hon. John H. White of Lancaster, N. H., May 31.

SHATTUCK, JOEL, ESQ., of Pepperell, to MRS. NANCY PARKER of
Boston, April 14.

STEARNS, REV. OAKHAM S., of Southbridge, to ANNA JUDSON, daughter
of Rev. B. C. Grafton of Medford, June 8.

TERRILL, CHARLES FREDERICK, to HANNAH WILLIAMS, daughter of W.
Warland Clapp of Boston, Editor of the Evening Gazette, May 28.

DEATHS.

ADAMS, MRS. MEHITABLE T., May 9, a. 79, widow of the late Dea.
Nehemiah Adams of Salem, and mother of Rev. N. Adams of Boston.

AIKEN, DANIEL, Wexford, Canada West, a. 120. He had contracted
seven marriages, and his grandchildren and great-grandchildren
were 570--370 males and 200 females.--_New York Observer._

BLAKE, REV. CALEB, Westford, May 11, a. 85. He gr. H. C. 1784,
and was settled in Westford forty-five years.

BRIMMER, HON. MARTIN, Boston, April 25, for some years Mayor. H.
C. 1814.

BURNHAM, BENJAMIN, Essex, April 14, a. 92, a soldier of the
Revolution. Twelve persons have died in Essex since Jan. 12,
whose united ages amount to 970 years.

CARPENTER, REV. CHESTER W., Sinclairville, N. Y., April 17, a.
35. He died at Beaver, Pa., while returning home from Mobile. He
gr. A. C., 1839.

CARPENTER, MRS. HANNAH, Chichester, N. H., April 21, a. 80, wife
of Rev. Josiah Carpenter.

COTTON, JOHN, M. D., Marietta, O., April 2, a. 86. Dr. Cotton
was a lineal descendant of Rev. John Cotton of the first church,
Boston, and was a man of literary and scientific attainments and
deep piety.

DAGGETT, HON. TIMOTHY, Edgarton, April 26, a. 79.

DAY, ORRIN, ESQ., Catskill, N. Y., Dec. 25, a. 80. He was one of
those philanthropic men who formed the American Bible Society,
was a corporate member of the A. B. C. F. M., and a patron of all
good institutions.

DUNBAR, ELIJAH, ESQ., Keene, N. H., May 18, a. 88. D. C. 1783.
Attorney.

ELLSWORTH, MRS. NANCY G., Lafayette, La., Jan. 15, a. 54. She
was the wife of Hon. Henry L. Ellsworth, late Commissioner of
Patents, and dau. of Hon. Elizur Goodrich of New Haven, Ct.

FISK, DEA. EBENEZER, Shelburne, Dec. 21, a. 62. He was a brother
of the Rev. Pliny Fisk, Missionary to Palestine.

FITCH, DEA. ELIJAH, Hopkinton, April 27, a. 68. He was a son of
Rev. Elijah Fitch, second pastor of the church in that town.

FULLER, ABRAHAM W., ESQ., Boston, April 6, a. 63. Counsellor at
Law.

GOULD, MRS. SALLY MCCURDY, May 19, widow of the late Hon. James
Gould of Litchfield, Ct.

GRAY, REV. THOMAS, D. D., Pastor of the Congregational Church,
Roxbury, (Jamaica Plains,) June 1, a. 75. H. C. 1790.

HARVEY, REV. BENJAMIN, Frankfort, N. Y., March 18, a. 112. He
was of the Baptist denomination, and had been a preacher more
than seventy years.

HODGDON, ALBERT E., Barnstead, N. H., May 20, a. 25. D. C. 1842.
Attorney.

HOLMAN, GEN. SILAS, Bolton, March 25, a. 86. He was connected
with the State Legislature between 20 and 30 years, and was one
of the Governor's Council during the administrations of Strong
and Brooks.

KELLOGG, MRS. SUSAN C., Williamstown, April 8, a. 48, widow of
the late Prof. Kellogg.

MEIGS, MRS. ELISABETH, New Britain, Ct., March 5, a. 92, widow of
the late Major John Meigs of the U. S. Army in the Revolution.

MOORE, REV. GEORGE, Quincy, Ill., March 11, a. 35, H. C. 1834,
minister of the Unitarian Society in that place.