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P R IN T E D BY B. L. H. A M L E N,
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1848.

INTRO DU C T 0 R Y NOT IC E S.
ON the Tuesday before the late Commencement at Yale
College, the Class of 1797 held their first Class-meeting,
half a century after their graduation. Twelve out of the
twenty-four survivors were present; namely, Lyman Beecher
of Cincinnati, Ohio, J oseph Billings of Hatfield, Mass., Israel
Brainerd of Vernon, N. Y., Diodate Brockway of Ellington,
Ct., Bennet Bronson of Waterbury, Ct., Asahel Clarke of
Columbia, Ct., Sylvester Dana of Concord, N. H., Thomas
Day of Hartford, Ct., Charles Goodrich of Havana, N. Y.,
Sylvester Maxwell of Charlemont, Mass., James Murdock of
New Haven, Ct., and Seth P. Staples of New York City.—
Mr. Day read memoirs of the thirteen deceased members of
the Class, composed by him for the occasion; and each one
present recounted the events of his life, since the Class had
separated; and of those absent, the best information obtain-
able was given. The meeting was intensely interesting.
And it was unanimously agreed, that if life should continue,
they would endeavor to meet again at the end of three years,
or on the Tuesday before Commencement, A. D. 1850, at 9
o'clock A. M., and that all the living members of the Class
be invited to be present. It was likewise agreed, that Mr.
Day's Memoirs of the deceased, and also brief memoirs of
the living members of the Class, should be printed in a
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pamphlet form, for the use of the Class and their friends. Mr.
Murdock and Mr. Day were appointed a Committee to issue
the publication. Afterwards, mutually interchanging signa-
tures, and having knelt together in devout prayer and praise,
the parting adieu was given, with emotions which cannot be
described.
In fulfillment of their duty, the publishing Committee now
offer to the Class the following Memoirs. Those of the de-
ceased are given just as they were read at the Class-meeting,
and have the initials T. D. subjoined to each memoir.
Those of the living are derived, principally, from the written
statements of the individuals made to the Committee, and
being compiled by J. Murdock, have the initials J. M. sub-
joined to them. -
The Class of 1797 is distinguished for the longevity of
its members, twenty-four out of thirty-seven, or about two-
thirds of all that graduated, being alive after a separation of
half a century, with ages ranging from sixty-eight to seventy-
eight years. No Class within ten years of it, and but one
within fourteen years of it, presents so rare a sprinkling of
stars on the Triennial Catalogue.
It was also distinguished, while in College, for the very
uniform good scholarship of its members. With none who
were prodigies of genius, and only a few who were clearly
above the common average, and very few of low scholarship,
the great majority of the Class—perhaps two-thirds or three-
fourths of the whole—were so nearly equal as to talents and
scholarship, that it was not easy to decide which of them
excelled. President Dwight, near the close of his life, de-
clared that, although several classes had afforded some greater
men, yet he had never instructed more than one other Class,
which, as a whole, possessed an equal amount of talent.
This Class was also highly favored, by having men of dis-
tinguished talents and skill in teaching for its immediate
College instructors. During its Freshman year, the Hon.
JAMES Gould, LL.D., afterwards of the Law School at Litch-
field, and a Judge of the Superior Court of Connecticut,
had charge of the Class: after him, the Hon. Roger MINOT
SHERMAN, LL.D., of Fairfield, also a Judge of the Superior
Court of Connecticut, took charge of the Class until the
spring of Junior year: and Professor Josia H MEIGs, sub-
sequently President of the University of Georgia, instructed
the class during the remainder of that year. The Senior
year, the Class was of course under the immediate instruc-
tion of that preeminent teacher and guide of young men,
Dr. Dwight, then in the prime and vigor of his presidential
Career.
Sirteen of the thirty-seven members of the Class made
the Law their profession; of whom sia became Magnates,
and four attained the honorary degree of LL.D.: fifteen be-
came preachers of the Gospel, most of them in orthodox
Congregational or Presbyterian churches, and three of them
obtained the honorary degree of S.T.D.
Every one of the thirty-seven was born in New England;
and nearly all were descendants of Puritans. They have
been dispersed through all the New England states, and in
the states of New York, Ohio, and Pennsylvania; and, from
the purity and correctness of their lives, the soundness of
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their political and religious principles, and the persevering
energy with which they have served their generation, few
Classes, it is believed, have been more useful to the world,
or will, in the great day of retribution, better deserve the
plaudit, “Well done, Good and Faithful Servants; enter ye
into the joy of your Lord.” J. MURDock.
New Haven, January 25, 1848.
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J O S I A H BIS HO P AND R. E. W. S.,
WAs born in Southington, Conn., about the year 1777.
He was the only son of Josiah Andrews, and a grandson of
Jonathan Andrews, who was one of the early inhabitants,
and perhaps one of the first settlers of Southington. By
their industry and economy his father and grandfather both
acquired good estates, and were respectable and useful mem-
bers of society. His mother was a Bishop, and a very res-
pectable woman. He was brought up on the farm with his
father, and fitted for College with the Rev. Wm. Robinson
of that town.
After graduation he studied theology with the Rev. Abel
Flint, D.D., of the South Church in Hartford. In the sum-
mer of 1800, he performed a mission of several months
among the new settlements in Pennsylvania and western
New York, under a commission from the Missionary Society
of Connecticut. His mission terminated in December. The
following year he preached with much acceptance in various
parishes in Connecticut, and especially in the north parish of
Killingworth, where he received a call to settle, and was or-
dained, April 21, 1802. A revival commenced in that parish
before his ordination, and continued for about two years,
producing an accession to the church of more than ninety
members. Of this revival, Mr. Andrews gave an account in
the Connecticut Evangelical Magazine, vols. iv and v. He
was at that time an animated and popular preacher, and advo-
cated very high Orthodoxy. But, about the year 1809 or
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1810, some occurrences in his family brought his morality
under suspicion. He was tried by an ecclesiastical court and
acquitted, but was dismissed from his pastoral charge. Re-
moving to New York or to New Jersey, he connected himself
with the Presbyterian Church, and preached for some years
at Perth Amboy. But here again he was involved in difficul,
ties, which terminated, it is said, in his dismission and depo-
sition from the sacred office, on the ground of the unsound-
ness of his faith. He then studied medicine, and obtaining
the degree of M.D. in New York city, was for a time con-
nected with the health office of that port. On the death of his
father, he returned with his family to Southington, lived on
the family estate which had fallen to him, and offered himself
for practice as a physician. He also occasionally read prayers
on Sundays for the small Episcopal Society of that town,
and applied to the Standing Committee of the Diocese for
admission to holy orders. To that Committee he declared
that he did not hold the Calvinistic system of doctrines, and
that he disbelieved the eternity of future punishments.
They refused to receive him. He continued to reside in
Southington until 1837, when he represented that town in
the State Legislature. In the same year he removed to the
city of New York, where he has continued ever since, both
practicing physic and occasionally preaching.
He married a Miss Bissel, daughter of Col. Bissel of Sims-
bury, and sister to the wife of Dr. Flint, his theological in-
structor. She is said to have been a very amiable young
lady; but from some cause unknown, she became dejected
while residing at North Killingworth, and sunk into an im-
becile state of mind, which disqualified her for discharging
the duties of mistress of the family. From that state, so far
as we are informed, she has never recovered. By her, Mr.
Andrews has had three children, Josiah Bissel, Solomon, and
Eliza. The oldest son, Josiah Bissel, is said to have been
an affectionate and kind hearted child. He lived some time
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with his grandfather at Southington, and after returning to
his parents, he clandestinely embarked on a voyage at sea,
and has not since been heard from. Of the other children
we can give no account.
Mr. Andrews having failed to send us promised and cor-
rect information, the preceding statements are given in ac-
cordance with the best information we could obtain.
J. M.
D A W I D A T W AT E R .
OF his death I have not been able to ascertain precisely
the time or place, or the circumstances under which it occur-
red. Though he was born and reared in New Haven, and
here his parents lived and died, the enquiries which have
been made respecting him, have been generally unsuccessful.
A memorandum of Hezekiah Howe, who must have known
him well, shews, that he “removed from New Haven to
Ohio, and died young.” His name is first starred in the
catalogue of 1805. T. D.
HENRY BAL D WIN,
WAs a native of New Haven, the son of a respectable
farmer, born in the year 1779. Of course, he was only
eighteen years old when he graduated. He soon afterwards
went to Litchfield, and attended the law lectures of Judge
Reeve, and of his former tutor, Mr. Gould. In College his
class-mates remember, he was a light-minded boy, who
neither aimed at, nor attained to, much distinction as a
scholar. In the Law School at Litchfield, his mental pow-
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ers began to be developed, especially in the discussions in
Moot-hall; and it was soon perceived and acknowledged,
that he stood there, shoulder to shoulder, with those who
then ranked high as law students, and who afterwards be-
came eminent in their profession. After attending the
lectures about two years, he left Litchfield, and went to
Philadelphia, where he remained some months, pursuing his
professional studies. He was then admitted to the Bar, and
established himself in practice in the western part of Penn-
sylvania. Here he was more successful than young lawyers
generally are. He was a rough, but powerful and acute, ad-
vocate. His practice soon extended itself beyond the coun-
ty in which he resided, and he rode a circuit embracing sev-
eral counties, with business in all. That part of the country
being then new, and the roads bad, he was obliged to travel
on horseback, and lodge in log-taverns, carrying a few ele-
mentary law books in his saddle-bags. He has been heard
to recount, with much zest, his adventures in these excur-
sions, accompanied, as they were, with enthusiasm, frolic
and hardship—or what would now be deemed hardship.
And he was not only successful as a lawyer, but was also
in favor with the people as a politician. In due time, they
sent him to Washington. He there represented the district
in which he resided, in the 15th, 16th, and 17th Congresses.
From his youth, he had professed democracy; but though
he called himself a democrat, and was always considered as
belonging to the democratic party, he acted independently,
and frequently broke loose from party trammels. He was a
zealous and able defender of the manufacturing interest, and,
as Chairman of the Committee on domestic manufactures,
drew up the tariff bill of His residence, while he was
in Congress and afterwards, was in Pittsburg, the great man-
ufacturing city of the west. Here, after he left Congress,
he continued the practice of his profession, until the acces-
sion of Gen. Jackson to the Presidency, in 1829; soon after
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which, he was appointed a Judge of the Supreme Court of
the United States. To the performance of the high and
responsible duties of this office, according to the testimony
of those who had the best means of information, and were
the most competent to judge, he brought “a mind well pre-
pared and disciplined, possessing extensive learning, inde-
fatigable industry, pure integrity and sterling abilities.” He
is described “as frank, generous and benevolent, as a man,
and as pure, profound and independent as a Judge.”
It is declared that “his great learning commanded the
confidence of all who had an opportunity of knowing him:”
that “he was indeed full of the learning of the law, and
strikingly familiar with its records and decisions, in ancient
as well as modern times.” *
He died at the Merchants' Hotel in Philadelphia, April
21st, 1844, aged about 65. His disease was paralysis, of
which he had a severe attack the week before, and under
which he gradually sunk.
He was twice married. His first wife was Marana Norton,
a beautiful and well educated girl, with whom he became
acquainted at Litchfield, while he was in the Law School,
and she was in Miss Pierce's School. The name of his
second wife is not known here; nor has it been ascertained
when or where he married her. He left one child, and it is
believed, but one,—a daughter, who is married. A few
years before his death, he removed from Pittsburg to Mead-
ville in the same state, where it is supposed, his widow now
resides. T. D.
LY MAN BE ECH ER,
WAs born at New Haven, Conn., Sept. 12, 1775. His
father, David Beecher, a blacksmith, is supposed to have de-
scended from one of the four Beechers who were among the
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one hundred and twenty-nine proprietors of the town of New
Haven in 1685. His mother was Catharine Lyman of Mid-
dlefield, and died in childbed with Lyman, her first and only
child. On her death bed she bequeathed the feeble inſant to
her sister, the wife of Lot Benton, a farmer of North Guil-
ford, who was childless. The infant, when received by the
foster parents, it is said, weighed but three and a half pounds.
It grew up with them at North Guilford, and fitted for Col-
lege with Rev. Thomas W. Bray, the minister of the parish.
On entering College, young Beecher became resident with
his father, and continued in his family till he completed his
education.
His course after graduation, we will leave him to describe
in his own language.—“I pursued my theological studies
at Yale College, under the instruction of President Dwight;
and in September, 1798, was licensed to preach the Gospel
by the New Haven West Association. In November of
the same year, I commenced preaching on probation at East
Hampton, Long Island, where I was ordained in September,
1799. My church and people were of Puritan origin, and
had from the beginning enjoyed evangelical instruction, and
under my predecessor (Dr. Buel) had been blest with repeat-
ed and glorious revivals of religion. In the latter part of his
life, however, numbers of young men of his congregation
had become unsettled in their confidence in the Bible and
its doctrines, and held revivals of religion in light estimation.
I was favored with three seasons of special divine influence,
in which almost three hundred were added to the church,
and before which the epidemic skepticism passed away. In
the third year of my ministry, my labors were suspended
for thee-fourths of a year by fever and subsequent debility,
from which I arose by rural exercise and manual labor. Dur-
ing my residence at East Hampton, I published four ser-
mons,—the History of East Hampton, on Dueling,-on
the Government of God desirable, and a funeral discourse.
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“In 1810, I received and accepted a call from the 1st Con-
gregational church in Litchfield, Conn., over which I was
installed in June of the same year, and with which I contin-
ued my connexion till March, 1826,-the most laborious part
of my life. In this period I published sermons on the
Reformation of Morals;–Building up of waste places;–
the death of Obokiah;-the Bible a code of Laws;–the
Faith once delivered to the Saints;–the Design, Rights and
Duties of local Churches;–and the Means of National Pros-
perity. I also assisted in the establishment of the Connec-
ticut Domestic Missionary Society, the Litchfield County
Foreign Missionary Society, the Connecticut Education So-
ciety, the American Bible Society, and the Christian Specta-
tor and Connecticut Observer. These various efforts, with
protracted labors at home and abroad in revivals of religion,
again interrupted my health, and suspended my pastoral
labors for six months, and sent me again to rural exercise
and manual labor for more than a year.—The result of my
labors in Litchfield in souls renewed, was about the same as
at East Hampton.
“In 1826, I received and accepted a call from the Hanover
Church in Boston, where I continued six and a half years.
This, though not the most exhausting, was the most active
and intensely interesting period of my Pastoral life. These
years were employed almost constantly, at home and abroad,
in promoting revivals of religion, in which many of the or-
thodox churches were quickened and their numbers and
moral power greatly augmented. In this time the Spirit of
the Pilgrims was established for the elucidation and vindica-
tion of the truth; and it performed successfully the work of
its day. My publications while in Boston were, a Review
of the Review of my Sermon on the faith once delivered to
the saints;–a Reply to Johnson's Report on the Sabbath;
—the Groton Report, establishing the rights of the Congre-
gational Churches of the state, in opposition to sundry legal
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decisions against them;-Infant Damnation not a doctrine
of the Calvinistic system, in reply to sundry anonymous
writers;–the Resources of the Adversary, preached before
the Board of Foreign Missions;–the Memory of our Puritan
Fathers, preached at Plymouth at the anniversary of the
landing of the Pilgrims;–Dependence and Free Agency;
—Six Sermons on Intermperance, preached in Litchfield,
and delivered again and published in Boston.
“In 1832, I received a call to the Presidency of Lane Sem-
inary near Cincinnati, Ohio, where pledged endowments of
sixty thousand dollars depended upon my acceptance; and
considering the immense importance of an early educated,
evangelical ministry at the West, I accepted the call, and
for ten years performed the official duties of the Institution,
and the duties of the Pastoral relation in the 2nd Presbyte-
rian Church of Cincinnati. Since that time, though releas-
ed from Pastoral care, I have, till within a few Sabbaths, been
habitually employed in preaching the Gospel as before. The
trials attendant on rearing such an Institution in a new coun-
try, and the agitation of the vexed question, and the rendings
of the church, and the loss of funds by the pressure of the
times, have not been small; but they have been lightened
by the tokens of Divine favor, in the addition to my church
of many who will I trust be saved, and in enabling us to
send from the Institution, three hundred young men to preach
the Gospel to the West and East, and North and South, and
to the Pagan and Papal lands, and the islands of the sea.—
Before my arrival at Cincinnati, an active opposition com-
menced—a part of the general movement which tried Duf-
field and suspended Barnes, and eventuated in regular charges
against me, and a trial and acquittal before Presbytery and
Synod. The case was then carried by appeal to the General
Assembly, and by the prosecutor withdrawn at his own re-
quest, and, as he said, by advice of the friends he had been
accustomed to consult, and with, I believe, the unanimous
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consent of the General Assembly, certainly by a very large
majority.—My publications in Cincinnati have been, a small
volume on Political Atheism ; another, entitled a Plea for
the West; also a Plea for Colleges; and Lectures to Arti-
zans, published only in the newspapers.
“My health is unusually good; and the condition and pros-
pects of the Seminary were never as favorable as now. The
plaintiff in a suit in chancery to oust us, has been declared in-
competent to prosecute, and the Quo Warranto before the Su-
preme Court has been thrown out on the statute of limita-
tion.—With the exception of a schism in our church, my re-
lations to my brethren in the ministry have in my various
local relations been those of mutual affection, confidence,
and coöperation, unalloyed by ambition or envy.—In my do-
mestic relations, my cup of mercy, though not unmingled
with bitterness in the death of two beloved wives, two in-
fants, and an adult son in the ministry, has nevertheless been
filled with pure, copious, and habitual enjoyment, especially
in the early conversion of my children, and their blessed aſ-
fection for me and usefulness in the Church of God.”
Mr. Beecher was first married to Roxanna Foote of Guil-
ford, Conn.; who bore him nine children, and died at Litch-
field about the year 1816. His second wife was Harriet
Porter of Bath, Maine; who bore him four children, and
died at Cincinnati about 1834 or 35. His third wife was
the widow Lydia Jackson of Boston, who is still living. By
this marriage he has no children.—Of his thirteen children,
we can give only the following notices. (1.) Catharine E.
was born September, 1800; affianced to Prof. A. M. Fisher,
who was lost in the Albion, in 1822. She is a well known
authoress.—(2.) William, bred a merchant, honorary A.M.
at Yale, 1833, married Catharine Edes of Boston; Pastor at
Middletown, Conn., at Batavia, N. Y., and at Toledo, Ohio.
—(3.) Edward, graduated at Yale, 1822; Tutor there 1825
–6; Pastor of Park street Church, Boston, 1826; married
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Isabella Jones of Wiscasset, Maine; President of Illinois
College ; S.T.D., Marietta; Pastor in Boston.—(4.) Mary,
married to the Hon. Thomas C. Perkins, Esq. of Hartford.
—(5.) Harriet, died in infancy at East Hampton.—(6.)
George, born 1809; graduated at Yale, 1828; Pastor at Ba-
tavia, Ohio, at Rochester, N. Y., and at Chillicothe, Ohio :
accidentally shot himself, July 1, 1843.—(7.) Harriet, mar-
ried in 1836 to Prof. C. E. Stow, S.T.D., of Lane Seminary;
known as an authoress.-(8.) Henry Ward, graduated at
Amherst; married in 1837 to Eunice Bullard of Sutton,
Mass.; Pastor at Indianapolis, Indiana, and in 1847, of the
Plymouth Church, Brooklyn, N. Y. —(9.) Charles, educated
at Bowdoin College; Pastor at Fort Wayne, Indiana; mar-
ried Sarah Coffin of Jacksonville, Ill.—(10.) Isabella, mar-
ried to John Hooker, Esq. of Farmington, Conn.—(11.)
Frederic, died in infancy.—(12.) Thomas, educated at Jack-
sonville, Ill.—(13.) James, now obtaining an education.
Mr. Beecher closes his narrative with these reflections.—
“In this retrospection, I perceive that the period of my pub-
lic life has been one, perhaps, of unparalleled interest in the
history of the world;—in the epidemic infidelity and the
bloody revolutions and wars that have swept over Europe,
and agitated the world;—in the advancement of civil and
religious liberty;-in the restoration of evangelical doctrine,
and the prevalence of revivals of religion, pure, frequent,
extensive and powerful;-in successful missions and efforts
to evangelize the world;—in the developments of science,
art, agriculture, commerce, and the facilities of intercommun-
ion with the world by steam and telegraph;-in the power
of the press—the extension of Schools and knowledge;—in
the conspiracies of Potentates and Priests to stay the progress
of light, and turn back the nations to the dark ages. In
view however of this mingled scene of light and darkness,
my life has been one of constant hope, and confidence in
God, that these movements of his Providence will be on-
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ward, with increasing power, till a voice under the whole
heaven shall cry, Hallelujah! for the Lord God Omnipotent
reigneth.-In the progress of my life, I have laid no plans
of my own, but simply consecrated myself to Christ and
his cause, confiding in his guidance and preservation, and
meeting as I might be able, such exigencies as his Provi-
dence placed before me, which has always kept my head,
hands and heart full.” J. M.
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WILLIAM BENE DICT,
WAs born at Reading in this state, in the year 1776, of
respectable parents. His father, Thaddeus Benedict, a na-
tive of Danbury, was educated at Yale College, where he
graduated in 1773; was a lawyer in good standing and prac-
tice, first in Reading, and afterwards in Bridgeport, where
he died in 1801 or 2. His mother was the daughter of Col.
Read, one of the original proprietors of a township, which,
from his name, was called Read-ing.—Soon after he gradua-
ted, he commenced the study of law, under the instruction
of Judge Reeve, at his celebrated Law School in Litchfield,
where he continued about a year—perhaps a little longer—
and then went to Bridgeport, where he finished his prepara-
tory studies and was admitted to the bar in Fairfield County.
He succeeded his father in the business of his profession,
and, for a time, had a fair practice, and fairer prospects. He
was a young man of strict integrity, possessed of a well fur-
nished and well disciplined mind, and of kind and friendly
feelings towards all with whom he was in any way associa-
ted. His manners, indicating the frankness and sincerity of
his disposition, though not polished, were decidedly popular.
He was surrounded by personal and family friends, and had
never seen the face of an enemy. But one came in disguise;
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in the guilelessness of his heart he embraced him—and be-
came his victim. His character and business soon began to
decline; and his subsequent course was downward—down-
ward only. With his habits, his temper and disposition
were changed. For some time before he gave himself up to
the destroyer, and ever afterwards, he was a miserable hypo-
chondriac and misanthropist. In the agony of his mind, he
would sometimes exclaim—“O ! I wish the world was on
fire, that all mankind might be as miserable as myself!”
His mother and sister, whose principal dependance for sup-
port was upon him, were with him reduced to poverty. In
a miserable hut in Bridgeport, which sheltered his unfortu-
nate mother, he died, on the 26th day of August, 1819, in
the forty-third year of his age. He was never married.
Though he never made a public profession of religion,
yet at one time, not long after he left College, his mind was
seriously impressed and his heart much subdued, with the
truths of the Gospel; and he would then have joined the
communion of the Congregational Church, (as he stated to
a friend,) had he not been dissuaded from it, by his father.
He was, for a long time afterwards, confident, that he had
experienced the influences of the Holy Spirit, and was once
a child of God; and on that ground he rested his hope of
eternal happiness! There are many even now who cherish
a regard for his memory, while they mourn over his blighted
prospects and untimely end. T. D.
J O S EPH BILLING S,
WAs born at Hatfield, Mass., March 5, 1776. His par-
ents were Silas and Miriam Billings, descendants from the
first settlers of Hatfield, and occupants of the homestead
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of their ancestors for a period of two hundred years. His
ancestors were farmers; and in this employment young
Billings was trained till the age of seventeen, and for it
he has ever retained a predilection. Being not very ro-
bust, his father offered him the choice of some other pro-
fession. A merchant of Boston solicited him to become
a clerk in his store; and he was inclined to accept the offer,
but his friends persuaded him to go to College. Accord-
ingly, in the autumn of 1792, he commenced his prepara-
tory studies with the Rev. Dr. Lyman of Hatfield, and, to-
gether with four others from Dr. Lyman's school, entered
Yale College in September, 1793. His subsequent feelings
he thus describes: “I soon found, to my infinite mortifica-
tion, that the impediment in my speech illy fitted me for
that place, or for a learned profession ; and I should have
left at the close of my first term, had not the arrangements
been made for my continuance.” This modest and amiable
man, however, does not now regret that he spent four years
reputably at College.
When about to leave College in 1797, he received applica-
tion from Pittsfield to teach a high school for young ladies;
but his ill health prevented him from accepting that post.
The next spring, however, his health being somewhat im-
proved, he became the Principal of an Academy at New
Salem in Massachusetts, in which office he continued one
year. Being now fully persuaded that he could never be-
come a public speaker, and his feelings revolting at the
thought of becoming a physician, he commenced merchant
at Hatfield in 1799. That employment he relinquished in
1804, at the solicitation of an uncle and aunt, his father's
only brother, who requested him to come and live with
them. He complied with their wishes, and has remained
in the same position ever since, although his father and
mother, and uncle and aunt, have gone to their long home.
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He was married in December, 1808, to Mary Smith, a
daughter of Capt. Elijah Smith of Hatfield. She is still
living, though in feeble health, having been an invalid from
her youth. In 1814 she bore him a son, which lived only
five hours. This was their first, and their only child.
He says: “My life has been an even course; no remark-
able occurrence has happened. I have enjoyed much pros-
perity, mingled with some afflictions, but not more than a
wise God thought best for me.”—In younger life he filled the
office of Selectman, and that of Town Clerk, the latter for
several years. He was also several times commissioned as
a Justice of the Peace; but he declined to take the office.
He became a member of the Congregational Church in
Hatfield in 1813, was appointed a Deacon in 1817, and still
holds that office. He writes thus: “I have enjoyed much
of the consolations of religion, more than I deserved; I have
not had many extacies, but have had a trembling hope that
I was a child of God. I have not been much engaged in
political broils and strife. I meant to do my duty at the
polls, but mainly, that God might be glorified in and by me,
and my fellow citizens be benefitted.” J. M.
E Z R A B R A D LEY,
A NATIVE of Hamden, New Haven county, Conn., was one
of the younger members of the Class. His parentage and
early history have not been ascertained. No reply to our
request for direct information from himself has been receiv-
ed, and the following statement is therefore founded on
current report.
After graduation in 1797, he studied theology, was ordain-
ed a Deacon in the Protestant Episcopal Church, by Bishop
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Jarvis, on the 30th September, 1798, and afterwards preach-
ed at Great Barrington, Mass., for some two or three years,
and until he was removed from the sacred office for an of-
fense which had best be nameless. He then went to Balti-
more, Md., where he spent about three years in the study
and the practice of law. On becoming involved in some
difficulty of a dueling character, he returned to Hamden, his
native place. About that time some real estate, including a
gristmill, ſell to him, and he carried on the milling business
for a short time. Then, selling his mill, he bought a farm,
erected a house on it, and became an agriculturist. About
the year 1813, he sold his property in Hamden, and remov-
ed to West Springfield in Mass., purchased a farm of about
three hundred acres of good land in a retired part of the
town, three miles from the village of Cabotville, and there
he has remained a forehanded farmer until the present time.
He has the reputation of being a good scholar, and of
possessing much information. Some of his discourses from
the pulpit are said to have been fine specimens of composi-
tion. After his removal from the sacred office, he is said to
have become somewhat intemperate, but he is now reform-
ed.—Of his marriage or family we have no information.
In a letter dated West Springfield, July 3d, 1847, he says:
“My circumstances are easy; my health is as good as at any
period of my life, though my limbs have lost some of their
youthful elasticity. I have resided in this place a long time,
with very little to disturb my peace and quiet. Years have
insensibly rolled on, and I am often surprised to find myself
in advanced years. My leisure hours are amused in reading
and writing, and some of my papers I ought to have sent to
Silliman's Journal instead of publishing them elsewhere.”
J. M.
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IS R A E L B R A IN E R D.
He descended from the ancient and numerous family of
Brainerds of Haddam in Connecticut, a family which, a
century ago, gave birth to the celebrated Missionary, David
Brainerd. Israel Brainerd’s maternal grandmother, whose
maiden name was Brainerd, was the sister of David
Brainerd. Both his parents, and his four grandparents, were
professors of religion, and members of the Congregational
Church, in which his father was a Deacon, from the age of
twenty-eight, till his age and infirmities induced his resigna-
tion. Israel was born at Haddam, and on the hereditary
homestead, Sept. 13, 1772. In childhood he attended the
district school, summer and winter, till he was able to labor;
and then labored on the farm and in a valuable stone quarry
in the summer months, and attended school in the winter.
At the age of seventeen, he began to teach school in winter,
and labor in summer. At the age of twenty, he com-
menced the study of Latin with Rev. Thomas W. Bray of
North Guilford, and had Lyman Beecher for a schoolmate.
After seven months study, he entered College in Septem-
ber, 1793.
On leaving College in 1797, he first taught the waning
Academy, established on Greenfield Hill by the late President
Dwight; and then a large district school, in the same town
of Fairfield, till he was called to be the first Principal of a
new Academy established at Albany. In the spring of
1799, he commenced the study of theology in the family
of the Rev. Charles Backus, D.D., of Somers; and in Octo-
ber of the same year, he was licensed by the Tolland Asso-
ciation. He supplied the parishes of Union, North Coventry
and Guilford; from the last of which he received an almost
unanimous call to become the Pastor. He accepted the call,
and was ordained over the first Church in Guilford, June 11,
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1800. His ministry there was successful; but a party not
relishing his high orthodoxy, he was dismissed at the end
of about six years. On leaving Guilford, he preached six
months in Derby, and in September, 1806, removed to
Verona, Oneida county, N. Y. After preaching seven Sab-
baths, he commenced a missionary tour of four months, in
the western counties of New York, and the adjacent coun-
ties of Pennsylvania. In September, 1807, he was installed
Pastor of the First Church in Verona, with liberty to travel
as a missionary a part of the time for four years. Here he
remained thirty years, a laborious and successful minister of
the Gospel. He witnessed four revivals in Verona; viz., in
the years 1810, 1818, 1825, and 1835. During the revival
of 1810, he says, “One evening, at meeting, there was
such a manifestation of the divine glory and presence, that
all the pious present were swallowed up and lost in joy and
contemplation: it was a foretaste of heaven, and the scene
is still fresh in my memory.” But the Revival of 1818 was
the greatest: it produced an accession to the church of more
than a hundred members, fifty-four at one time.—In 1836,
he resigned his charge in Verona, was a missionary among
the destitute churches within the bounds of Oneida Presby-
tery one year, preached two summers in Crawford county,
Pennsylvania, and removed, in 1838, to Oneida Castle, and
preached there three years. He then returned to Verona,
and retired from regular ministerial labor, after having
preached constantly for forty years. He still resides on his
farm in Verona, or rather Vernon separated from Verona only
by the common highway, and is in comfortable circumstan-
ces as to property. He still preaches occasionally, at the
age of seventy-five, and writes articles for the religious jour-
nals in his neighborhood.—While a Pastor at Werona, he was
Commissioner of Common Schools for that town, and for
seven years licensed the teachers and inspected the schools.
In 1812, he published two sermons in one pamphlet, one on
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the Doctrines of Grace, Free Agency, and the use of Means,
the other on the Termination of the old Dispensation, and
the Commencement of the new. In the religious journals
of western New York, he has published several articles in
defense of the Presbyterian mode of Church Government;
and, besides other miscellaneous articles, he has recently
published ten Letters addressed to a Romish Priest. All his
publications, if collected, would make a small volume.
Mr. Brainerd was married Dec. 30, 1800, to Mary Hun-
tington of Woodbridge, Conn. She is still living, and has
been the mother of eleven children, four sons and seven
daughters. Two of the sons and three of the daughters
died in infancy. Of the six children who lived to maturity,
Israel Huntington, the oldest son, died at Albany, in July,
1836, a merchant's clerk, and a chorister in Dr. Sprague's
congregation:—the youngest and last surviving son, died in
the month of August, 1847, also a merchant's clerk in (I be-
lieve) Syracuse:—Mary, the oldest daughter, born in 1810,
is married to Ammi B. Clarke, of Kirkland, three miles from
Clinton, a man of large business, farming, milling, and man-
ufacturing —Harriet, born in 1812, is married to Amos
Scott, a hatter and a dealer in hats and caps, at Elyria, state
of Ohio :—Cornelia, born in 1814, the wife of Jeremiah
Higbee, a wealthy merchant at Harrisville, state of Ohio,
died Oct. 17th, 1847:—Elizabeth, born in 1816, is married
to George W. Thompson, a Presbyterian minister, now
Principal of an Academy at Riga, state of New York.—The
four daughters who reached maturity all became professors
of religion; and by them he has seven grandchildren.—His
wiſe had a paralytic shock in 1831, and was unable to walk
without aid, for four years; but she gradually recovered, and
for twelve years has enjoyed good health, and is now active
for a person of her years.
Mr. Brainerd professed religion, and joined the Church in
Somers, while a student in theology. Of his religious ex-
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perience, he says: “I have had great enjoyment in the
things of religion, especially in revivals. I have also had
seasons of distressing darkness; and now I look forward, at
times, in assurance of a blessed immortality.” J. M.
D I O D A T E B R O C K W A Y,
WAs born, Dec. 29, 1776, at Columbia, Windham county,
Conn. His father, Rev. Thomas Brockway, a native of
Lyme, Conn., graduated at Yale in 1768, was Pastor of the
Congregational Church in Columbia, then a Parish in the
town of Lebanon, and died there July 5th, 1807. His wife
was Eunice Lathrop of Norwich, who became the mother
of thirteen children, ten daughters and three sons. After the
death of her husband, she removed with her son, Lathrop
Brockway, to Clinton, Oneida county, N. Y., and there died
Sept. 16th, 1823. “She was a devotedly pious woman,
and died in the triumphs of faith.”
Diodate Brockway spent his childhood in Columbia. He
says: “I recollect well—and it is among my earliest remi-
niscences—the stir that was made in my native village by
the news of the burning of New London by the British in
the war of the Revolution. An express brought the news,
and I saw my father and some of his parishioners start for
New London with their guns.”—Diodate prepared for Col-
lege at a Classical School in his native place, under a succes-
sion of teachers mostly graduates of Yale College.
During the first six months after he left College, he taught
school at East Haddam Landing; and then commenced the
study of theology under the direction of Rev. Mr. Parsons
of East Haddam ; and afterwards completed his studies un-
der his father. He was licensed by the Middlesex Associa-
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tion, and after a few weeks commenced preaching in Elling-
ton, Hartford county, Conn., and was ordained over the
Congregational Church there, Sept. 19, 1799. His father
preached on the occasion upon a stage erected in the open
air. Ellington was then comparatively a new and unsettled
town. Now it is populous, and one of the pleasantest in
the state. There Mr. Brockway has continued to reside
until the present time.—In the month of July, 1804, occurred
his memorable fall from the belfry to the ground floor of his
new and unfinished meeting-house. He thus describes the
event.—“I was led by a train of circumstances to ascend
the tower. A scaffolding was built around the dome posts,
and taking hold of a board carelessly fastened to the dome
post with but a single nail, the board gave way, the nail
drawing out, and I fell backwards inside the building, the
distance of sixty-five feet. It is remarkable, that on the
same day, heavier men than myself had taken hold of and
been supported by the same board. I remember well the
first thoughts that flashed through my mind when I found
myself falling. I was aware I must be instantly killed. I
thought of my wife and children, and my final account. I
instinctively caught at the cross timbers in falling, but in
vain. I struck upon a joiner's bench, on the lower floor of
the house : one of my thighs was broken, a severe wound
was made in my head by a nail, and I was taken up for
dead. It was some time before signs of life were discover-
ed.—Through the good providence of God I recovered, but
have ever since been lame. After a partial recovery, I
preached for some time sitting in a chair. It was a most
wonderful escape from instant death, and is ever to be com-
memorated by me as a special interposition of a kind Provi-
dence in my behalf.”—Since this memorable event, Mr.
Brockway has not only been lame, moving with much diffi-
culty, but his general health has been gradually declining.
He says: “For the last twenty years of my life, my health
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has been so poor that I have scarcely had respite from bodily
suffering.” He is still the Senior Pastor of the Church in
Ellington, and now has his third colleague, who he says, is
“an excellent and talented young man.”—In 1827, Mr.
Brockway was elected a Fellow of Yale College,_a station
which he still fills. During his ministry he published...five
occasional sermons; namely, a funeral sermon, a dedication,
a missionary, an election, and a new year’s sermon.
On the 29th of October, 1799, Mr. Brockway was mar-
ried to Miss Miranda Hall of Ellington; who bore him
seven children, and died March 29th, 1824. He says of
her, “She was a woman endowed with a high order of in-
tellect, and was gifted with uncommon discretion, and de-
votedly pious. She died lamented by all, and to my grief
and irreparable loss.” Since her death Mr. Brockway has
remained single. His children were, (1.) John H. Brock-
way, born in 1801, graduated at Yale in 1820, a lawyer by
profession, lives in Ellington and very near to his father.
He has been several times a member of both houses of the
State Legislature, and was a member of Congress from 1839
to 1843. He is married, and has three children, the only
surviving grandchildren of his father:-(2.) Mortimer W.
Brockway, born in 1802, is a farmer, unmarried and lives
with his father:—(3.) Miranda Brockway, born in 1805,
died in 1816, aged eleven :—(4.) Jane Matilda Brockway,
died in infancy, A. D. 1808:-(5.) Edwin Brockway, lived
to manhood, married, had three children, and died at the
age of twenty-nine. His wife and all his children are also
dead:—(6.) Francis Brockway, born in 1813, died in 1816,
aged three years:–(7.) Jane E. Brockway, born in 1814,
died in 1847, aged thirty-three.—Only the two oldest of the
seven children, are now living, and they are both members
of the Church in Ellington.
Mr. Brockway says, his “worldly circumstances are com-
fortable, very far below affluence, but above want.”—He
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has an excellent housekeeper, who has lived with him forty-
four years, and is now more than seventy years of age.
Mr. Brockway made a public profession of religion at Co-
lumbia, his native place, in 1798. He says: “Through
life I have indulged a hope that I was a child of God: and
I think I have earnestly desired the salvation of sinners, and
have labored—how feebly and imperfectly, none better un-
derstands than myself—for that glorious end.” J. M.
BENNET B R ONS ON,
WAs born at Waterbury, Conn., on the 14th November,
1775. He was the youngest son of Deacon Stephen Bron-
son, a forehanded farmer of Waterbury, and the fifth in de-
scent from John Bronson, who is supposed to have been one
of the company that traveled through the wilderness from
Newtown, Mass., in June, 1636, with the Rev. Thomas
Hooker and one hundred others, and settled the town of
Hartford, Conn. About the year 1644, this John Bronson
removed with others to Farmington, and was one of “the
seven pillars” of the first Congregational Church in that
town. He died at Farmington in 1680. His son Isaac re-
moved to Waterbury, about the year 1678, was one of the
seven male members at the organization of the first Congre-
gational Church in Waterbury, and died there in 1718. This
Isaac Bronson had a son Thomas, a grandson Thomas, and
a great grandson Stephen, who were successively Deacons
of the first Church in Waterbury, as was also Bennet the son
of Stephen, the subject of this memoir.
Bennet Bronson in childhood, worked on the farm, atten-
ding the common school in winter, and was designated in
the purpose of his father to be sent to College. But, at the
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age of twelve, he had a long period of sickness, and before
his recovery his older brother died, and his father, having
now but one son, thought he could not spare him from the
farm. However, at the age of fifteen, he was sent to Chesh-
ire to prepare for College, in the family and under the instruc-
tion of Rev. John Foot, the Congregational minister. After
six months he returned home; and from that time alternately
studied and worked on the farm, until May, 1793, when he
returned to Mr. Foot's, and completed his preparatory studies,
and joined College in September of the same year.
On leaving College in 1797, Mr. Bronson had not fixed
upon a profession, and he spent the first year in teaching
school and in laboring on the farm. In September, 1798,
he engaged in a school at Derby Landing, and before the
end of the second quarter, he received appointment as a First
Lieutenant in the provisional army of the United States, rais-
ed during the presidency of John Adams. This appointment
he accepted, relinquished his school at the end of the quarter,
and entered on the recruiting service in May, 1799. In Au-
gust, the same year, he joined his regiment encamped at New
Haven, under Col. Timothy Taylor of Danbury. In Octo-
ber the regiment was ordered to New Jersey for winter quar-
ters; and Lieut. Bronson and his company came near to per-
ishing by shipwreck at Hurl Gate. The packet ran upon
sunken rocks and filled; but small boats came and took off
the passengers. When he had joined his regiment at Eliza-
bethtown Point, it was quartered for the winter, with two
other regiments, in log huts, at a place called Scotch Plains.
The three regiments were the 11th, 12th, and 13th, all un-
der the command of Col. Smith of New York. In June,
1800, the provisional army was disbanded by an act of Con-
gress, and Lieut. Bronson laid aside his epaulets, and return-
ed to Waterbury as a common citizen.
He had now determined on a profession, and the next
week after reaching Waterbury, he commenced the study of
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law under the Hon. Noah B. Benedict of Woodbury. In
April, 1802, he was admitted to the bar in Litchfield County,
and in the summer following he opened an office in his na-
tive town, where he has resided ever since.
As a lawyer, his business has never been extensive, but
respectable in amount, and affording him a comfortable sup-
port. In May, 1809, he was appointed a Justice of the Peace,
and reappointed annually till 1818, when he was dropped.
In May, 1827, he was again appointed to that office, but
again dropped at the end of three years. Since that time he
has been repeatedly appointed to the office, but has declined
it. In May, 1812, Mr. Bronson was appointed one of the
assistant Judges of the County Court for New Haven County,
and was continued in that office two years, when he de-
clined a reappointment. In May, 1824, he was appointed
Chief Justice of the same Court, and held that office for six
years, when, by a change of power in political parties, he was
removed, and the Hon. Noyes Darling appointed. In May,
1829, he represented the town of Waterbury in the State
Legislature.
At the age of sixty, Mr. Bronson relinquished the practice
of law, and has since occupied his time in the management
of his farm and in other domestic concerns. In the spring
of 1814, he became interested in a Clock Manufactory, which
in about two years produced five thousand clocks, and yield-
ed him a profit of about twelve hundred dollars. In the
spring of 1823 he became partner in a company for manu-
facturing gilt and other buttons, then brass plate and wire,
and subsequently pins and hooks and eyes. The business
of the company has been extensive and prosperous, and is so
still. Mr. Bronson, however, has never engaged personally
in conducting a manufactory, but has intrusted his interest in
manufactures to the management of others. He has been
successful in acquiring property.
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Mr. Bronson was first married, in May, 1801, to Anna Smith,
daughter of Richard Smith of Roxbury. She bore him seven
children, four sons and three daughters, and died of con-
sumption in March, 1819. His second wiſe was Elizabeth
Maltby, a daughter of Benjamin Maltby of Northford. She
bore him two daughters, and died June 12th, 1840. His
third wife, who is still living, was Nancy Daggett, a daughter
of Jacob Daggett of New Haven.—George, his oldest son,
was born, February, 1802, and died of consumption in 1822.
—Henry, the second son, M.D. in 1827, Professor of Materia
Medica and Therapeutics in Yale College since 1842; mar-
ried Sarah M., a daughter of the Hon. Samuel Lathrop of
West Springfield, and has three children, all sons.—Jesse,
the third son, graduated at Yale in 1826, became M.D. in
1829, practiced in North Haven, and died of consumption in
1831, aged 25.-Thomas the fourth son, graduated at Yale
in 1829, was licensed to preach in 1834; married Cynthia
Bartlet of Hartford, has one daughter and two sons; resides
at Smithfield in Virginia, and now teaches a school.—Eliza-
beth Anna, the oldest daughter, declined in health from the
age of 20, and died in 1845, aged 33.—The second daughter
died in infancy.—Harriet Maria, the third daughter, mar-
ried Zina K. Murdock, a merchant and manufacturer, the
son of Peter Murdock of Westbrook. They reside in Water-
bury, and have two children.—Rebecca T., the oldest daugh-
ter by the second wife, married Douglas F. Maltby, son of
Julius Maltby of Northford, and died childless in 1845, aged
23.—Susan, the youngest child, lives with her father in
Waterbury.—The three wives of Mr. Bronson, and five of
his children, (George, Thomas, Elizabeth A., Harriet M.,
and Rebecca T.,) made public profession of religion.
Mr. Bronson united with the church in Waterbury, of
which his father, grandfather, and great grandfather, had
been deacons, in January, 1833, was appointed a deacon in
1838, and resigned that office in 1844. He writes thus:—

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“My ancestors in the male line, so far as I can ascertain,
have all been forehanded farmers, and professors in Congre-
gational Churches.” He also states:—“There has been
nothing special in my religious experience. I have ever had
a great respect for religion, and there has been no very mark-
ed difference in my conduct and feelings, before, and since
my union with the church.”—Mr. Bronson says, he has ever
been a Federalist in politics, and acted with the Federalists so
long as they remained a distinct body. Since that time he
has voted with the so-called Whigs. J. M.
R U F US B UN N E L,
CAME to College from Cheshire in this state. While he
was in College, he appeared to be rather sluggish, both in
body and mind; and the principal distinction he attained to,
was, to be the subject of a mock trial, instituted and prosecu-
ted, not without probable cause, for murder of the English
language. The verdict of his peers was against him. No
one, at this time, would have selected him from the rest of
his class, to become the most active and efficient, and the
boldest operator, among the business men of our country.
In what manner he employed his time, for the first three
years after he graduated, has not been ascertained. But in
1800, he was engaged in mercantile business, in a small
way, in Meredith, Delaware county, state of New York.
He remained there until about 1805 or 6, when he removed
to and resided at a place on the Delaware river, in the town
of Kortright, called The Four Corners, about eight miles
above the town of Delhi. There he entered into partner-
ship with his brother-in-law, Dr. Thomas Fitch, in mercan-
tile business, which they carried on for several years, exten-
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sively and prosperously. About the year 1811 or 1812,
they removed to Philadelphia and entered into the lumber
business, which they continued in until 1816. They then
dissolved their connexion, and Bunnel came to New York,
and entered into partnership with Joseph D. Beers, an emi-
nent broker in Wall street, in the stock and exchange busi-
mess. This business they extended to the principal places
in the southern part of the United States, connecting with
it the factorage of cotton, and also dealing in that article on
their own account.
In the year 1821 or 1822, Bunnel went to Charleston,
S. C., and took charge of their business in that state, and
also at Savannah and Augusta, in Georgia. He remained
there until May or June, 1825; at which time, cotton had
advanced, in a few months, from seven to ten cents, up to
twenty-five cents per pound. They had then disposed of all
their cotton at great profits, and were closing up their affairs
for the season. Bunnel's health, which was generally delicate,
was, at this time, more impaired than usual, and he came to
the conclusion that he would take a trip to Liverpool, with his
wife, for its restoration. Before he left this country, he be-
came convinced, that cotton, from the shortness of the crop,
and other circumstances within his observation, would ad-
vance still higher. He therefore bought with the consent of
his partner, but on his individual account, a large quantity
of upland and sea-island cotton, which he took with him,
as an experiment. On his arrival in England, he found that
cotton had fallen to a considerable extent, causing great
losses and failures, there and in this country. That he
must suffer a heavy loss on his own adventure, was certain.
This, with the fact that he had given orders to all the de-
partments of their establishment, before his departure, to in-
vest all their means in cotton, at the then high prices of
twenty to twenty-eight cents per pound, and also the fact
that his partner was totally opposed to such speculations on
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the partnership account, having written him to that effect,
before he left Charleston, and sent letters which met him
on his arrival at Liverpool, predicting what had already
taken place—these facts staring him in the face, while he
was in a delicate state of health, and desparing of relief, but
considering himself and family, his partner and all others
concerned in the business, as irretrievably ruined—he be-
came insane. . . . . His partner, however, anticipating the
evil day, sold in this country, all the cotton which Bunnel
had ordered, before the fall of prices in Liverpool was known
here, and thereby avoided any econsiderable loss upon the
purchase. His wife, pursuant to the advice of their friends,
returned home with him, immediately. But the impression
was made, and could not be removed. Though his partner,
on the winding up of the partnership concerns, found there
was due to him, a balance of more than a hundred thousand
dollars, which was actually paid over to him, (or his family,)
—and he had some other property besides—yet to his be-
wildered mind this was of no avail: he still saw nothing but
bankruptcy and hopeless poverty. I do not mean to say,
that no glimpse of reason ever broke into his mind after-
wards. He would occasionally appear to listen, with some
degree of intelligence, to the statements of his business
friends—but the impression of overwhelming ruin was the
prevailing habit of his mind. By the advice of his physi-
cians, he was sent to the Insane Hospital in Charlestown,
near Boston; but even there none could minister effec-
tively to a mind so diseased.—He declined in mental and
physical health until July, 1826, when he died. His remains
were conveyed to New York, and were interred under the
ministrations of the Rev. Dr. Spring, whose church he at-
tended with his family during his residence in that city.
Mr. Bunnel’s family consisted of a wife, and three sons—
William, James F., and Thomas. James was educated at
Yale College, where he graduated in 1826. The other sons
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received a mercantile education. After Mr. Bunnel’s de-
cease, his family fixed their residence in Bridgeport, in this
state, where they still remain, with the exception of James,
who has gone to the West.
Mr. Bunnel always enjoyed a high reputation, as an hon-
est and upright man—a reputation to which he was justly
entitled. To his family he was exceedingly kind; and to
those of his other relations, who, though not of his family,
needed his aid, he gave it willingly and generously. His
neighbors and more distant friends also participated in the
kindness of his disposition. He was, at all times, when in
health, an agreeable companion. T. D.
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ELIS HA C H A PM AN,
WAs a native of Saybrook in this state. His father, also
named Elisha, was a respectable farmer, and a lineal
descendant of Robert Chapman, one of the earliest settlers
of the town of Saybrook. After he graduated, he spent
some time in school-keeping, in his native district, and in
Colchester, and perhaps elsewhere. His leisure hours,
during this period, he employed in the study of medicine;
and he afterwards went to Hartford, where he completed his
course of study with Dr. M. F. Cogswell. He then went
to New London, and advertised for practice. This was in
the early part of the year 1801. Not meeting with im-
mediate encouragement in his profession in that city, he
made a voyage to Demarara in British Guiana, with the
design of establishing himself there as a physician; acting,
at the same time, as the agent of Dr. [Isaac) Thompson and
others in the sale of their medicines. After residing in that
place about three months, he took the fever of the country,
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and died there, at the age of twenty-four. His death cccur-
red in December, 1801. He was then one of a numerous
family. Now, there are none left, but a brother about twelve
years younger than himself, and an aged sister. T. D.
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WAs born of pious parents in Columbia, Tolland county,
Conn., on the 25th of July, 1776. His grandfather was
born at Northampton, Mass., and removed at early manhood,
with one of his brothers, to Columbia, then a parish in the
town of Lebanon, married a Miss Huntington of Lebanon,
%. and spent his life on the farm now occupied by his grand-
son. His father, Asahel Clarke, senior, married a sister of
the late Caleb Strong, of Northampton, Governor of Massa-
chusetts, was a farmer, built a house néar' his father, and
spent his life in Columbia. Asahel, Jr., till the age of
sixteen, labored on the farm of his father. His preparation
for College was under the tuition of Ebenezer Dutton, Esq.,
of Lebanon.
On leaving College in 1797, he pursued, though with
some interruption, the study of law, under the direction
of the late Judge Gilbert of Hebron; was admitted to the
bar in 1800, and commenced practice in his native town,
where he has resided to the present time. During fifteen
years he pursued his professional course with success, had
the esteem and confidence of his townsmen, frequently rep-
resented them in the State Legislature, was an active magis-
trate, and was gradually rising to wealth and fame. But in
the year 1815, his progress was suddenly arrested, and his
worldly prospects shrouded in darkness, by a shocking ca-
lamity. A cart tongue, which had been elevated in the air,
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suddenly fell upon his head, broke his scull, and laid him
senseless on the earth. He was taken up for dead. “For
several weeks, (he writes,) I remained balancing, as it.were,
between life and death. But, after months of suffering and
debility, I was enabled to rise from my bed, and gradually
to resume the care of my business; but the loss to my mind
and person and property, was irreparable. My faculties both
of mind and body, although not permanently destroyed or
deranged, were doubtless much weakened. I felt that my
memory was less ready and retentive, my flow of ideas and
language was less free and vigorous, my speech was im-
peded, and my nervous system completely shattered. I
resumed the practice of my profession ; but it was a painful
effort, serving only to make me sensible how much I had
lost, and by slow degrees I was persuaded to relinquish it
altogether. But, I trust, that these afflictions and disappoint-
ments were not without a blessing. The great Shepherd,
as I believe, used them as the means of gathering us both
into his fold.”—Mr. Clarke and his wife both made a public
profession of religion in 1816.—About the same time he
purchased a valuable farm, adjoining that of his father,
which he has since cultivated, and from which he has de-
rived a support. His father died in 1827, and he then took
possession of his paternal mansion; but he has recently
built a large and elegant house, on the site of his former
residence, the very spot where his grandfather's house stood.
There he now resides, with two maiden sisters, the only
survivors of his father's family.
Mr. Clarke, in 1804, married Abigail Hooker, a daughter
of Col. Noadiah Hooker of Farmington, a lady of great
excellence and worth. She bore him eight children, one of
which died in infancy, the other seven, namely six daughters
and a son, are still living. Mrs. Clarke died in 1839. Sam-
uel S. Clarke, the only son of Asahel Clarke, is married, and
is a merchant in Charleston, S. C., but spends his summers
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at the North. Four of the daughters are unmarried, and
reside with their father. They are, Nancy Hooker, born in
July, 1805; Ellen Strong, born in May, 1807; Jane
Rebecca, born in May, 1810; and Lucy Abigail, born in
April, 1819. The other two daughters are married, and
reside in the state of Alabama: Mary Ann, born in Novem-
ber, 1815, married a Mr. Smith, and resides at Union
Springs; Sarah Louisa, married Joseph . D. Hopper, a
planter and County Clerk, at Montgomery. Mr. Clarke has
four grandchildren.—He says, “I cannot boast. that any of
my children have risen above mediocrity in point of talents
or acquirements; but I have the happiness to feel that they
are all occupying respectable and useful positions in Society,
and six of them are consistent members of the Church of
Christ.”—He adds: “My age is crowned with blessings,
and with regard to external comforts, I could hardly ask for
more. With all my infirmities and afflictions, I am bound
to acknowledge that goodness and mercy have followed me
all my days, and I venture to hope that I shall dwell in the
house of the Lord forever.” - J. M.
SYL W E S T E R D ANA,
WAs born at Ashford, Conn., on the 14th of Oct., 1769.
He is the great great grandson of Richard Dana, a French
Protestant, who fled from persecution in France, went first
to England, and then, about the year 1640, came to America.
He resided in what was then called Cambridge, now Brigh-
ton, in the vicinity of Boston. He had a son and a grand-
son, both named Jacob Dana. Jacob Dana, Jr., lived in
Ashford, and was grandfather to Sylvester. The father of
Sylvester was Anderson Dana, a lawyer by profession, who,
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after residing some years in Ashford, removed in the autumn
of 1772, to the Wyoming Valley, on the Susquehanna, in
Pennsylvania. The mother of Sylvester was Susanna
Huntington, a daughter of Deacon Caleb Huntington, of
Lebanon, Conn. Both his parents were members of the
Congregational Church in Ashford. When they removed
to Wyoming, Sylvester was but three years old, yet he dis-
tinctly recollects the event, and that he rode on horseback
hehind his mother, who carried an infant in her arms,
through the whole journey of near three hundred miles, the
last fifty through a perfect wilderness, with only marked
trees for their guide. The Wyoming Walley was then con-
sidered as part of the territory of Connecticut, and it was
settled chiefly by people from Connecticut, who lived many
years far removed from other settlements of white men.
Wilkesbarré is the principal town of that charming valley.
For six years the Dana family prospered in that wilderness;
but in the summer of 1778, Col. John Butler, with his band
of tories and British troops, and seven hundred Indian
auxiliaries, attacked and utterly destroyed the settlement.
Most of the men were slain, all their property was either
destroyed or carried away, and the women and children, who
escaped the massacre, fled through the wilderness to the
nearest white settlements. Anderson Dana and his son-in-
law, Stephen White, were among the slain. His widow,
with her seven children, including Sylvester then nine years
old, traveled on foot all the way back to Ashford in Con-
necticut, a distance of three hundred miles.
At the age of about 17, or in April, 1786, Sylvester and
his older brother, Anderson Dana, Jr., returned to Wyoming,
and commenced cultivating their father's lands. In the
course of the same year, his mother and another brother
returned to Wyoming. On settling their father's estate, they
found nothing remaining after the debts were paid ; and
Sylvester applied himself to manual labor for support. In
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about five years he had accumulated property deemed suffi-
cient to carry him through College; and he determined to
obtain a regular education for the ministry. He therefore
made his arrangements, returned to Connecticut, fitted for
College with Rev. Nehemiah Prudden of Enfield, and in
1793, at the age of 27, was admitted into Yale College.
In the March following he was visited with severe sickness,
and brought near the gates of death. But he recovered so
far as to be able to resume his studies and go on with his
class. During his Sophomore year he was admitted into
the College Church.
After graduating in 1797, he pursued a course of theolog-
ical study in the family of Dr. Charles Backus of Somers,
and was licensed on the fifth of June, 1798, at North Bolton.
During the Summer he preached at Marlborough and Mont-
ville. In September he visited Wyoming, and preached one
year in Wilkesbarré and Hanover. During the winter of
1799, 1800, he performed a missionary tour of one thousand
three hundred miles in the western part of New York, under
the Missionary Society of Connecticut. In the spring of
1800, he preached at Windsor, Vermont, three months; and
afterwards at Haverhill and Orford in New Hampshire, until
May, 1801, when he was ordained over the Congregational
Church in Orford. In that situation he remained for more
than thirty-two years, and was favored with several revivals
of religion among his people. Resigning his pastoral charge
at Orford in 1833, he preached four years in Thornton, New
Hampshire, and witnessed considerable accessions to that
church. In August, 1837, being nearly sixty-eight years old,
and somewhat infirm, he removed with his family to Con-
cord, N. H., and has not since assumed any pastoral charge,
though continuing to preach occasionally for several years.
In Sept., 1844, the house in which he resided was destroyed
by fire, and a large portion of his worldly effects, including
more than five hundred volumes of his library, were con-
sumed, together with all his manuscripts.
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Soon after his settlement in Orford, Mr. Dana was mar-
ried to Miss Hannah Kimball, the third daughter of Deacon
John Kimball of Concord, N. H., with whom he lived hap-
pily for nearly forty-five years. She died, Nov. 16th, 1846;
and was the mother of nine children, six sons and three
daughters. Four of the sons and one daughter died in
infancy; two sons and two daughters are still living.—Anne
Kimball, the oldest daughter, is the wife of Reuel Barrows,
M.D., of Fryeburg, Maine. On the the 17th of Oct. last,
Dr. Barrows suffered a great loss by fire, the work of an
incendiary. His house, barn and sheds, with an office con-
taining a valuable anatomical cabinet, were all consumed.
The loss is estimated at $5000; insurance only $1400.—
Charles Backus, the oldest son, graduated at Dartmouth
College in 1828, and at the Andover Theological Seminary
in 1833; was admitted to holy orders the next year, by
Bishop Moore, and instituted Rector of Christ's Church at
Alexandria in Virginia, in which office he continues to the
present time.—Sylvester, the second son, graduated at Dart-
mouth in 1839, studied in the Law School at Cambridge,
and with Messrs. Pierce and Fowler of Concord, and is now
a practicing Attorney in Concord,—Hannah, the youngest
daughter, is unmarried, and resides with her father.
Mr. Dana has never submitted any of his works to the
press, except a few articles in the periodicals of the day.
But he had carefully written out a System of Theology, and
also a History of Wyoming; both of which manuscripts
were destroyed in the conflagration of the house he
Occupied.
On reviewing his past life, he says: “No domestic occur-
rences have marred my happiness, except various instances of
sickness and death in my family. As to bodily health and
vigor, I am as highly favored as most men of my years.
The infirmities of age are upon me, so that I am now un-
able to speak in public. My worldly circumstances are
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moderate, but ‘having food and raiment, I am therewith
content.”—Fifty-three years have passed away, since I made
a public profession of religion; during which period, I have
generally enjoyed a comfortable state of mind; not having
been carried with St. Paul to the third Heaven, nor with
Cowper deeply depressed; but have been enabled to go on
my way rejoicing in God my Savior. At times I am almost
ready to adopt the language of Rev. John Newton, who
said he was like a ‘letter, written, folded, superscribed,
sealed, waiting for the carrier.' Surely, I shall not have
occasion to wait long for the carrier.” J. M.
THOMAS DAY,
WAs the third son of Rev. Jeremiah Day, a Congrega-
tional minister in New Preston Society, town of Washing-
ton, Conn., and a younger brother of Rev. Jeremiah Day,
D.D., LL.D., President of Yale College. He was a de-
scendant, in the sixth generation, from Robert DAy” of
Hartford, who was born in England, came to America
among the first settlers in Massachusetts, and joined the
* It was estimated, seven years ago, that the whole number of the de-
scendants of Rob ERT DAY, in the male line, has been at least two thousand.
Of the more than eleven hundred known, the numbers in each generation
are as follows:–First generation, 2; second generation, 16; third genera.
tion, 46; ſourth generation, 114; fifth generation, 248; sixth generation, 478;
seventh generation, 249; eighth generation, 10. Of these, 197 became heads
of families. “To a great extent they have been farmers. So far as is known
they have generally been useful and respectable members of society. In
some of the branches nearly every member has been a professor of religion.
Seventeen have been graduated at Yale College, one at Dartmouth, and one
at Amherst.”—See Genealogical Register of the Descendants of Robert Day;
printed at New Haven, 1840. pp. 44, 8vo.
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company of one hundred persons, who, in 1638, removed
from Newtown, Mass., to Hartford, Conn., with the Rev.
Thomas Hooker, the first minister of Hartford.—Thomas
Day was born at New Preston, July 6th, 1777. He passed
his childhood and youth under the paternal roof, attending
the common district school in winter, and laboring with his
brothers on a farm in summer. His father and older brother
first instructed him in Latin and Greek; and he afterwards
spent some months under the tuition of Barzillai Slosson,
Esq., in the neighboring town of Sharon. The winter of
1793–4 he passed at an academy in New Milford. Thus
fitted for College, he entered the Freshman Class in the
spring of 1794, and graduated in 1797, at the age of twenty.
During his first year after graduation, he attended the law
lectures of Judge Reeve at Litchfield. From September,
1798, to September, 1799, he was a Tutor in Williams'
College, and, at the same time, read law under the direction
of Daniel Dewey, Esq., of Williamstown, afterwards a
Judge of the Supreme Court of Massachusetts. In Sep-
tember, 1799, Mr. Day went to Hartford, read law for about
three months with Theodore Dwight, Esq., was admitted to
the bar in December, 1799, and immediately entered on the
practice of law in Hartford, where he has resided ever since.
In October, 1809, he was appointed by the General Assembly
of Connecticut, Assistant Secretary of State; and in 1810,
he was elected Secretary of State by the people, and re-
elected for twenty-five successive years, or until May, 1835.
In May, 1815, he was appointed Associate Judge of the
County Court for the County of Hartford, and annually after-
wards, except one year, until May, 1825, in which year he
was made Chief Judge of that Court, and was continued in
that office, by successive annual appointments, until June,
1833. In March, 1818, as one of the two senior aldermen
of the city of Hartford, he became one of the Judges of the
City Court, and continued such, by successive annual elec-
tions, until March, 1831.
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Mr. Day was one of the Committee who prepared the
edition of the Statutes of Connecticut, published in 1808;
and by him the notes were compiled, the index made, and
the introduction written. He was also one of the Commit-
tee who revised the Statutes in 1821, and likewise one of
the Committee to prepare and superintend a new edition in
1824.
In June, 1805, he began to attend the Supreme Court of
Errors, for the purpose of taking notes and reporting the
decisions of that Court; and he has attended it ever since
for the same purpose. Provision being made by law for
the appointment of a Reporter, Mr. Day was appointed to
that office in June, 1814, and has been continued in it to
the present time. As a volunteer, he prepared and published
reports of cases decided by the Supreme Court of Errors,
from 1802 to 1813, in five volumes 8vo; and as official
Reporter, reports of cases decided by the same Court, from
from 1814 to 1846, inclusive, in seventeen volumes royal
8vo, the eighteenth being now in a course of preparation.
He has also edited several English law works, in all about
forty volumes, in which he introduced notices of American
decisions, and sometimes of the later English cases, either
by incorporating them with the text, or by appending them
as notes in the margin, together with other improvements.
Mr. Day's name likewise stands connected with many
literary and benevolent institutions. He is, or has been, one
of the Trustees of the Hartford Grammar School, and Clerk
of the Board;—one of the Trustees of the Hartford Female
Seminary, and President of the Board;—one of the Vice
Presidents of the American Asylum for the Education of
the Deaf and Dumb –one of the Trustees of the Retreat
for the Insane;—one of the Directors of the Connecticut
Bible Society;-President of the Hartford County Missionary
Society, auxiliary to the Am. B. C. F. M.;-President of the
Connecticut Branch of the American Education Society;-
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President of the Goodrich Association, &c. &c. He was
an original member of the Connecticut Historical Society,
and aided in its organization in 1825, being at that time its
Recording Secretary. On the revival of the Institution in
1839, he became its President, a position which he still
retains.
Mr. Day was married, on the 18th of March, 1813, to
Sarah Coit, daughter of Wheeler Coit of Preston, (now
Griswold,) who was a grandson of the Rev. Joseph Coit of
Plainfield, one of the first class of Yalensian graduates.
They have had eight children, two sons and six daughters.
One of the sons died in infancy, the other son and all the
daughters are now living. They are Sarah Coit, born in
1814, resides with her father;-Elizabeth, born in 1816, is
the wife of Prof. N. P. Seymour of the Western Reserve
College, and resides at Hudson, Ohio;-Thomas Mills, born
in 1817, graduated at Yale in 1837, was admitted to the bar
in Hartford, 1840, and is resident in Boston;–Catharine
Augusta, born in 1819, resides with her father;-Harriet,
born in 1821, is the wife of John P. Putnam, LL.B., who
graduated at Yale in 1837, and resides now in Boston;–
Robert, born in 1824, and died the same year; Mary Fran-
ces, born in 1826, and Ellen, born in 1829, reside with their
parents. Mrs. Seymour and Mrs. Putnam have each two
children.
Mr. Day and his wife made a public profession of religion
in April, 1821, and united themselves with the first Congre-
gational Church in Hartford. From that Church they
were dismissed, with others, to form the Church connected
with the North Society, of which they were among the
original members.
At the Commencement of Yale College in 1847, the Cor-
poration of that Institution, conferred on Mr. Day the Hon-
orary Degree of LL.D. J. M.
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WAR. R. EN DUTTON,
WAs born at East Haddam, Middlesex county, Conn., in
the year 1774. His father was a country merchant, and
removed in 1787 to Lebanon in New London county.
Warren Dutton’s early education was in such schools as the
country then provided. His preparation for College was
commenced under the instruction of Rev. William Lyman,
D.D., of Millington, and completed chiefly with his brother,
Ebenezer Dutton, Esq., who graduated at Yale in 1787, and
afterwards settled in Cazenovia, Madison county, N. Y.
After graduating with his Class in September, 1797, Mr.
Dutton returned to New Haven, and commenced the study
of theology under the direction of President Dwight. But
in January, 1798, he accepted the appointment of Tutor in
Williams’ College, Massachusetts, and continued in that office
till September, 1800, when he was transferred to a Tutor-
ship in Yale College. In the close of the same year he was
selected to be Editor of a political newspaper about to be
established in Boston, called the Palladium, under the auspi-
ces of the leading men of the Washington School in politics
in Massachusetts and Connecticut. With that paper he was
connected about two years.-In 1803, having completed his
law studies in the office of John Lowell, an eminent Coun-
sellor in Boston, he was admitted to the bar, and entered on
the practice of his profession in Boston. Soon afterwards,
Mr. Lowell went to Europe for the benefit of his health,
leaving much of his unfinished business in Mr. Dutton's
hands. This gave him at once a large share of professional
employment, and he became extensively known as a lawyer.
In the year 1805, at the request of the Selectmen of Boston,
he delivered the customary oration on the 4th of July: and
in 1811 he represented the town of Boston in the State Leg-
islature. In 1820, he again represented the town in the
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Legislature, and also was a member of the Convention for re-
vising the State Constitution. The next year he was a mem-
ber of the Massachusetts Senate.—In 1825, his health being
somewhat impaired, he visited Europe with a part of his
family; and after an absence of fifteen months, returned to
Boston. Since that time, he has only occasionally engaged
in the practice of his profession, and for the last time, before
, the Supreme Court at Washington in 1837.
Mr. Dutton, in 1806, married the youngest daughter of
Judge Lowell, and the sister of his best friend John Lowell,
Esq. This lady is still living, and has been the mother of
three sons, all of whom attained to manhood. The oldest,
John Lowell Dutton, engaged in mercantile pursuits, and
died at home in 1844. The other two sons, James Russell
Dutton, and Francis Lowell Dutton, were educated at Har-
vard College, entered the Law School at Cambridge, and in
due time were admitted to the bar.
Mr. Dutton says:—“As to the measure of worldly pros-
perity which I have enjoyed; it has been such, as ought to
satisfy any person, who was not over anxious to lay up
treasures upon earth. As to my religious hopes and opin-
ions; I can only say, briefly, that I have an unwavering
faith in the Bible, as a revelation from God; and that my
hope of happiness beyond this life, is wholly founded upon
the grace and mercy there revealed, through the redemption
that is in Christ Jesus. My opinions, if put into the form
of a creed, would approach much nearer to the orthodox
standard than any other: but observation and reflection have
taught me to attach much less importance to confessions of
faith, and much more to the power of religion on the heart
and life. My connection with the Church of Christ began
in 1794, then under the pastoral care of the Rev. Zebulon
Ely, D.D., of Lebanon. From that time to the present it
has been continued with the Churches where I have had
my residence.” J. M.
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TIM OTHY FIELD,
WHose oration on theoretical philosophy, the last time we
were together as a class, will be remembered as long as any
of his hearers survive, was a native of East Guilford, now
Madison, Conn., born Sept. 28th, 1775. The winter after
leaving College, he taught a school in Worthington, a part
of Berlin; and the succeeding summer, in Wethersfield.
At the latter place he united with the Congregational
Church, then under the pastoral care of the late Rev. John
Marsh, D.D. He then read theology with President Dwight
at New Haven; and was licensed to preach the Gospel, by
the Eastern Association of New Haven county, at their ses-
sion in Madison, May 28th, 1799.
Immediately after being licensed, he went to Canandaigua
in the state of New York, and preached there, as a candi-
date for settlement. On the 27th of February, 1800, he
was ordained, and installed as the first pastor of the Presby-
terian Church in that place. In the month following his
ordination, he with four other clergymen, formed themselves
into the First Association of Ontario county, which then
included all the territory of New York west of Seneca Lake.
In June, 1804, he organized the Church in Prattsburg, the
first Presbyterian Church in the county of Steuben. From
his charge in Canandaigua he was dismissed, in June, 1805.
Upon this dismission he removed his family back to Madi-
son, and took a journey into the eastern parts of New Eng-
land. He preached some weeks in Topsfield, Mass., and
probably in some other places in that section of the country.
On the 30th of January, 1807, he was settled in the west
parish of Westminster, Vt., where he remained pastor until
1835—a period of twenty-eight years. In this place, his
ministry was greatly blessed. During its continuance, in a
small population, he received into the Church, on profession,
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375 persons. After his dismission, also, he was useful to
the people; sometimes preached to them, and at other times
acting as a teacher in the Sabbath School. He was likewise
highly esteemed as a friend and counsellor in the Church.
In the winter of 1843, 4, he was attacked with a disease
of the brain, which deprived him of the regular use of his
reason. By the advice and agency of his friends, he was
conveyed to the Insane Hospital at Brattleborough, in the
hope that by the treatment in that establishment he might
be restored. But it was all in vain: he died at the hospital,
on the 22d of February, 1844.
He was twice married : first, to Miss Weltha Bishop of
Madison, Conn., who died at Westminster, April 17, 1814;
by whom he had seven children, three of whom died in
infancy, and one in childhood, and three survive. He was
married, a second time, to Mrs. Susanna Lusk, whose
maiden name was Pomeroy, and native place Northampton.
By her he had three children, all sons, who are still living.
T. D.
wri LIAM L.AMBERT Foot,
OLDER brother of Samuel A. Foot, was born in Cheshire,
Conn., October 10th, 1778. His father, Rev. John Foot,
was the Congregational minister of Cheshire for forty-seven
years: and his mother, Abigail Hall, was the daughter of
Rev. Samuel Hall, Pastor of the same Church during fifty
years. Rev. Mr. Hall and his son-in-law, Rev. J. Foot,
preached in Cheshire ninety-seven years.-William L. Foot
was a feeble sickly child in early life, and was not sent to
school until he was ten years old. After this period, his
health improving, he commenced the study of Latin under
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his father's instruction at the age of twelve, and entered the
Freshman Class at Yale in the spring of 1794.
After graduation in 1797, he was undecided as to a pro-
fession, and remained at home, out of business one year.
He then concluded to study physic, went to Middletown,
and put himself under the instruction of Dr. William Hall.
In 1799, he was licensed by the then existing Medical Soci-
ety, and commenced practice in his native town, in connex-
ion with Dr. Cornwall. Afterwards, his health failing, he
followed merchandize for about five years. Then, having
recovered health, he resumed the practice of physic, and has
continued it more or less to the present time. For a year or
two, however, in consequence of age and rheumatic com-
plaints, he has not gone much from home, and now occu-
pies himself principally with merchandize and farming,
being still able to do a little business.—Mr. W. L. Foot was
a member of the State Legislature in 1839, Judge of Pro-
bate for the district of Cheshire four years, Town Clerk and
Town Treasurer six years, and has held other town offices.
In 1801, Mr. Foot married Mary Scovill of Berlin, by
whom he has had three sons and three daughters, all now
living : viz. William Sidney, aged forty-three, a practicing
Physician in Ohio :—Mary Ann, aged thirty-nine, now
living with her father:—Abigail Hall, aged thirty-seven,
married E. Doolittle, removed to New York, lost her hus-
band and returned to Cheshire, where she now lives:—
Scovill D., aged thirty-four, resides at Flushing, L. I., and
keeps a Botanic Garden:—Eliza S., aged twenty-nine,
resides with her parents:—John L., aged twenty-seven, fol-
lows merchandize in Cheshire.
Mr. Foot and wife united with the Congregational Church
in Cheshire about thirty years ago; and all his children,
except the youngest, have united with the same Church.
His general health is good, for a man of his years, and both
he and his family enjoy much domestic happiness. He
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says: “Our worldly circumstances are good, having an
abundance to supply all our wants. We enjoy the consola-
tions of religion, and look forward with hope to a blessed
immortality.” J. M.
SAMUEL AUGUST US FOOT,
(OR Foot secundus, as he was called in College,) was, I
believe, the youngest member of the class. He was born
Nov. 8th, 1780; and of course was not quite seventeen
when he graduated. After he left College, he resided, a few
months, in Washington in this State, and studied law with
Daniel N. Brinsmade, Esq. He then went to Litchfield and
entered the Law School of Judge Reeve, in the companion-
ship of his Classmates, Baldwin, Benedict, Day, Griffin,
Seymour and Sill. How long he remained there, cannot
now be ascertained with precision—not more than a year
certainly, and it is believed, somewhat less. While he was
there he suffered greatly from a severe pain in his head: he
was generally seen at lecture with a bandage round his
temples. Finding his malady increased by study, he relin-
quished his design of practicing law, and turned his atten-
tion to a more active occupation. He soon moved to New
Haven, and engaged in the shipping business on Long
Wharf. He went himself three voyages to the West Indies
—in the capacity, it is supposed, of supercargo. The war
with Great Britain, which commenced in 1812, destroyed
his business; and in 1813, he removed to Cheshire, his
native place, and engaged in agricultural pursuits. While
he was in New Haven, he devoted himself exclusively to
his mercantile business; but on his farm in Cheshire, he
found leisure and opportunity to share in the party politics
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of the day, and it was not long before he became a zealous
and active partisan. He united with a large majority of his
townsmen in opposition to the state government, which was
then in the hands of the Federalists. In the two sessions
of the General Assembly in 1817 and 1818, when his party
gained the ascendency in the state, he was a representative
from Cheshire, and a leading member of the house. In
April, 1821, he was, at the same time, elected a Senator in
the State Legislature and a representative of the town of
Cheshire. With a wise regard to his popularity and future
prospects, he declined the former situation, and accepted the
latter. He represented that town in the two succeeding
years—1822 and 1823. In the latter year, he was elected
a representative of the people of this state in the Congress
of the United States, for the term of two years. Immedi-
ately after the expiration of this term, viz., in May, 1825,
he again represented his native town in the General Assem-
bly of this state, and was speaker of the house. In 1826,
he was again a representative of Cheshire, and speaker of
the house. During the session of the Legislature in this
year, he was appointed a Senator from this state in the Con-
gress of the United States, for the full term of six years,
commencing on the 4th of March, 1827. The latter part of
this term was rendered memorable by the long debate in the
Senate on Mr. Foot's resolution. In April, 1833, he was
elected a representative in Congress for two years from the
4th of March of that year; but in 1834, the Whigs of this
state belonging to a party opposed to the administration of
Gen. Jackson, nominated Mr. F. as their candidate for Gov-
ernor. He obtained a plurality, but not a majority, of the
votes of the electors. The appointment, therefore, devolved
upon the General Assembly; and it was given to him. He
accepted it, and resigned his seat in Congress. The next
year, he was again the candidate of the Whigs for the same
office; but his party were defeated, and his competitor be-
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came his successor in office. After this event, he was not
actively engaged in public affairs; his domestic and private
concerns engrossing his attention. He died, at his residence
in Cheshire, on the 15th of September, 1846.
His political course brought him into antagonism with
different classes of persons at different times, and with some
persons at all times; yet the kindness of his heart and his
social qualities secured to him the regard of nearly all. He
was a member of the Church of which his father had been
the Pastor, and manifested in his life and conversation much
Christian feeling.
In March, 1803, he married the eldest daughter of An-
drew Hull, Esq., of Cheshire. She is still living. By her
he had six children, all sons, viz., John Alfred, Andrew
Hull, Roderick Augustus, Augustus Edwin, William Henry
and Edward Dorr. The first, second and fourth are living ;
the others died in infancy or childhood. John A. is a law-
yer, now residing in Cleveland, Ohio, having commenced
the practice of his profession in his native place. He has
been a member of the house of representatives of Connecti-
cut and also of Ohio. He has had seven children, all living
except one who died in infancy.—Andrew H., the second
son of Gov. F., is a Lieutenant in the U. S. Navy. He has
had three children, two of whom are living.—Augustus E.,
the fourth son of Gov. F., resides in Cleveland, Ohio. He
has been a member of the Legislature of that state. He is
now the book-keeper in the Merchants' Bank of that city.
T. D.
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C H A R L E S GOOD RICH,
Born at Pittsfield, Mass., April 2d, 1778, was the great
grandson of William Goodrich, one of two orphan brothers
who emigrated from Wales to the Colony of Connecticut in
1644. David Goodrich, the son of William and grandfather
of Charles, lived and died in Wethersfield, Conn. He had
two wives and seventeen children. One of his children died
at the age of 30, another at the age of 45, all the others lived
to be over 70, and the average age of the whole seventeen
was 73 years. The youngest but one of these children, was
the Hon. Charles Goodrich, the father of the subject of this
memoir. He was born, April 6th, O. S., 1720, and removed
to Pittsfield, Mass., then called Pontoosuck, in 1752, before
a single house had been built there. He gained a Christian
hope under the preaching of Whitefield in 1741; and was
one of the original members of the Congregational Church in
Pittsfield, at its formation. His wife belonged to the same
church. He was a volunteer in the battle of Bennington,
for many years a civil magistrate, and a representative of the
town in the State Legislature, and also one of the first bench
of Judges in Berkshire County Court. He died at Pittsfield,
Nov. 15th, 1815, aged 96, leaving two sons and one daugh-
ter. One of the sons lives in Vermont; the daughter is the
wife of Pratt, Esq., of Spencertown, N. Y.
Charles Goodrich, Jr., spent his childhood under the pater-
mal roof, prepared for College at Williamstown Academy, be-
fore its incorporation as a College, and entered Yale College
in November, 1793. While in College, having obtained a
hope in Christ, he joined the College Church. Immediately
after graduating in 1797, he married Amelia Jones, daughter
of Isaac Jones, Esq., of New Haven, and returning to Pitts-
field, took the oversight of his father's farm. His connex-
ion with the College Church was transferred to the Congre-
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gational Church in Pittsfield. At that time, he writes, “the
state of religion was very low in that and the neighboring
towns. About A.D., 1803, on examining my own eviden-
ces, I gave up my hope, and for months entirely despaired
of the mercy of God. But, in great kindness, he delivered
me, and filled my mouth with his praise. Until this time, I
had not thought of the ministry, but I now felt, “woe is me
if I preach not the Gospel.” About the same time there was
a revival in the part of the town where we lived, and Mrs.
Goodrich became pious and united with the church.” He
commenced theological studies with Doctor Hyde, of Lee.
But his father and all his friends insisted that he was not
called to leave his aged father, then eighty-three or eighty-
four years old. It was proposed to the other brother to re-
turn home and live with his father, but he declined it; and
Charles then said, “Suffer me first to bury my father.”—In
1809 he was chosen deacon of the church, an office which
he held till he entered the ministry. He also received from
the Governor and Council a commission as Justice of the
Peace for seven years, and at the expiration of that time, a
Second commission for the same term.
In 1822, Mr. Goodrich was licensed to preach the Gospel;
and in June, 1824, he was ordained as an Evangelist by the
Berkshire Association. For a few months he supplied the
pulpit of the Rev. Mr. Wheeler of Great Barrington; and
then, by appointment of the Berkshire and Columbia Mis-
sionary Society, he preached to a small destitute church in
the northeast part of the town of Windsor in Berkshire Co.,
and to another in the northeast part of the same county. In
these two places he labored five or six months, and had the
pleasure of seeing a precious revival, by which the first of
these churches was more than doubled in numbers, and
some were added to the other. The Ladies’ Association in
Windsor contributed fifty dollars, and made him an honorary
member of the American Board of Commissioners for For-
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eign Missions. Mr. Goodrich likewise fulfilled missions in
Herkimer Co., and in Hillsdale, Columbia Co., N.Y.; and
for a time supplied the congregations of West Stockbridge
and South Hadley. In April, 1827, he was engaged to sup-
ply the first Congregational Church in Worcester, until the
ordination of Mr. Miller; and then, after Mr. Miller's ordina-
tion, he was continued for a time as an assistant to Mr. Mil-
ler. He also preached at Millbury, where a new church was
about to be organized. While laboring at Worcester and
Millbury, about sixty members were added to the former
church, and about twenty to the latter. At Millbury he was
driven to a public discussion with a Baptist minister, the
issue of which was, that all the young converts and one of
the principal members of the Baptist communion united
with the Congregational church.—In the autumn of 1830,
Nr. Goodrich sold his property in Pittsfield, and in 1831 re-
moved to Havana, Chemung Co., N.Y., where three of his
children had previously settled. Here he purchased real es-
tate, on which he still lives. After locating himself in Ha-
vana, he preached as a stated supply for one or more years
to several congregations in the vicinity, (generally under
commissions from the Home Missionary Society,) until a se-
vere fit of sickness, five or six years ago; since which, he
has not preached statedly in any place.
Mr. Goodrich's first child, a son, died at the age of ten
months. Eight other children, four sons and four daughters,
attained maturity, and seven still survive.—George White-
field, the third son, went to South Carolina, married there,
and died in 1840, leaving comforting evidence that his
change was a happy one. He was engaged in an academy,
and left a widow with two children. The widow and chil-
dren visited Mr. Goodrich the next year, and the oldest child,
(Josephine,) was left at the North for education; but in
March, 1845, she died a peaceful and happy death at the age
of twelve :—Elizabeth Amelia, not married, lives with her
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parents:—Charles S. J., the oldest son, is a physician in
Brooklyn:—David is settled in Albany; as is also Harriet,
the wife of J. C. Robinson, Esq. :—Amelia, the wife of C.
G. Judd, Esq., lives in Penn Yan –Lucy P., the wife of
Doctor Nelson Winton, lives in Havana:—Samuel W. is
married, and likewise lives in Havana. All the seven survi-
ving children, except one, are members of Presbyterian
churches.
In reviewing his past life, Mr. Goodrich thus writes: “In
infancy I was feeble, and not firm in manhood; yet I have,
with few and short exceptions, enjoyed good health, and
outlived most of my early associates, though younger and
firmer. My life has been without remarkable changes; and
since the new hope obtained in 1803, I have daily rejoiced
in the hope of the glory of God.—In other places, besides
those in which I have spoken of revivals, I have had pleas-
ing evidence that my ministry was well received, and that
God used me as an instrument of bringing some to spiritual
life. And well assured I am, that on this side heaven, there
is no joy so pure, so refreshing to the soul, as that which
flows from a consciousness of this instrumentality. In my
case, however, there is a great drawback in the reflection
that had I early obeyed the call, and more faithfully fulfilled
its duties, the trophies of divine grace would have greatly
increased. Yet even now in the remnant of my pilgrimage
do I hope, and purpose, to be more actively and successfully
engaged in my master's vineyard.” J. M.
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GEO R. G E GRIFFIN,
WAs born at East Haddam, Conn., on the 14th of January,
1778, and was a younger brother of the Rev. Edward Dorr
Griffin, S.T.D., late President of Williams College, Massa-
chusetts. In what manner Mr. Griffin passed his early years,
we are not informed. He prepared for College in the short
space of eight months, under the instruction of the Rev.
Frederick W. Hotchkiss of Saybrook. He was four years a
member of Yale College, and graduated in 1797.
After graduation, he commenced the study of law with
Noah B. Benedict, Esq., of Woodbury; and after six months
study under Mr. Benedict, he removed to the Law School
at Litchfield, under the joint charge of Judge Reeve and
Judge Gould. Having completed his studies at Litchfield,
and being admitted to the bar in December, 1799, he was
some months in determining on a place of residence. In the
summer of 1800, he located himself at Wilkesbarré, Luzerne
county, Pennsylvania, and there pursued his profession for
more than six years. Late in the autumn of 1806, he re-
moved to the city of New York, where he has resided ever
since.
Mr. Griffin has ranked high in his profession, and was for
many years regarded as one of the most eloquent advocates
at the New York bar. Columbia College in the city of New
York, conferred on him the honorary degree of LL.D. Of
late, for several years, he has been gradually retiring from
the profession of law, and has devoted himself much to
theological studies and to general literature. His mental
powers are in full vigor, his bodily health good for his years,
and his worldly circumstances very comfortable. He made
a public profession of religion in 1812, and joined the Pres-
byterian Church in Wall street, New York.
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While residing at Wilkesbarré, he married a beautiful and
accomplished daughter of Col. Zebulon Butler of the rev-
olutionary army, the officer who took command of the
militia and citizens of Wyoming, in their heroic but unsuc-
cessful conflict with the Indians and Tories at the time of
the Wyoming massacre in June, 1778. By this his only
wife, Mr. Griffin has had eight children, only four of whom,
two sons and two daughters, are now living. One of his
sons is a practicing attorney in New York. One of the
daughters is married, and the other single. J. M.
IR A HART,
WAs born in Farmington, (or what was then a part of
Farmington, Conn.,) September 18th, 1771, and was, of
course, just twenty-six years old when he graduated. He
studied theology at New Haven, under the instruction of
President Dwight, and after what would now be considered
a brief preparation, was licensed to preach the Gospel. It
ought to be remembered, however, that his mind was made
up as to his future profession, before he came to College, and
he put himself into a direct course of training for it, which
was continued without intermission until he left College.
On the 7th of November, 1798, he was ordained, and installed
Pastor of the Church in Middlebury, Conn. On the 3d of De-
cember following, he was married to Miss Maria Sherman of
New Haven, daughter of John Sherman, and grand-daughter
of the distinguished statesman, Roger Sherman. In the spring
of 1809, he was dismissed from his pastoral charge in Middle-
bury; and on the 3d of December, 1809, he was installed
Pastor of the church in Stonington. Here he spent the rem-
nant of his days, enjoying the respect and confidence of his
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own people and of his brethren in the ministry. As a
preacher he was certainly above mediocrity. If his sermons
did not sparkle with “original ideas,” they presented the
truths of the Gospel plainly, earnestly, persuasively. In the
less public duties of a Pastor, he was distinguished for ten-
derness towards the sick and the bereaved, and sympathy
with their sorrows. His labors were attended with a good
degree of success. At Stonington he was instrumental in
giving union, strength and stability to a society that had
previously languished, from the want of a regular ministry,
for seven years. In one year, (1822,) an accession of sixty
members was made to his church; and some were added
nearly every year of his ministry.
About the middle of September, 1829, he received a se-
vere contusion in his side, by a fall from his chaise ; which,
though it often gave him great pain, did not wholly confine
him to his house. He languished from the effects of this
injury, until the morning of the 29th of October, when, after
being conducted, at his request, to the window of his cham-
ber, and returning to his chair, (in the language of my
informant,) “for an instant, his eyes and hands were raised
upward, an expression of heavenly serenity and peace settled
upon his countenance,—and he ſell asleep.”
Mr. Hart had five children; one of whom, a youth of
great promise and of hopeful piety, died of a quick consump-
tion, October 13th, 1819, while a member of the Sophomore
Class in Yale College. Another son and a married daughter
have died since their father's death; the latter leaving six
children. The widow of Mr. Hart is still living, and resides
at Stonington, in comfortable, though not in affluent circum-
Sfanſ' eS. T. D.
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HOMER HINE,
WAs born at New Milford, Conn., on the 25th of July,
1776. His great grandfather, who was among the early set-
tlers of Milford in New Haven county, is said to have emi-
grated from Ireland. His grandfather, JAMEs HINE, was born
in 1696, removed in early manhood to New Milford among
the first settlers of the place; and there he married Margaret
Noble, who was carried to New Milford when quite a child,
and was the first white female that set foot in that place.
This James Hine was a respectable farmer, lived to the age
of 78, and died in New Milford in 1774, leaving two sons,
Abel and Noble. He, with both his sons, and their wives,
were professors of religion in the Congregational Church.
Abel Hine was a trader in New Milford. He was the father
of Major Bebee Hine of New Haven, and the grandfather of
Mrs. Taylor, the wife of Rev. N. W. Taylor, S.T.D.—NoBLE
HINE was a forehanded farmer, resided on the family estate
in New Milford, and died there in 1795. He had three sons
and six daughters. The sons were Bildad, Homer, and
Abel; the daughters were Mabel, Urania, Athalia, Beulah,
Mary, and Frances. One of these daughters is the wife of
Rev. Charles A. Boardman, and resides in Youngstown,
Ohio.—HoMER, the second son of Noble Hine, attended the
district schools in New Milford, till the age of thirteen, when
he was placed in the select school of Rev. Truman Marsh,
the Episcopal minister of New Milford. He also spent a
few months under the instruction of Rev. Stanley Griswold.
Horatio Seymour was his fellow student during the whole
course of their preparation for College : and they traveled
to New Haven together, were examined together, and roomed
together four years at Yale. And, Mr. Hine says, “Not the
least altercation, or one unkind word, so far as I can remem-
ber, ever passed between us.” This, Mr. Hine modestly
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ascribes to “the well disciplined mind and the bland dispo-
sition of Mr. Seymour.”
The first year after his graduation, Mr. Hine spent very
pleasantly at Stockbridge, Mass., as Preceptor of an Acad-
emy. Miss Catharine Sedgwick, a celebrated authoress, was
one of his pupils. The next year he spent in the study of
law under the direction of P. Ruggles, Esq., at New Milford:
and during the year 1800, he attended the Law School of
Judge Reeve and Judge Gould at Litchfield. He was ad-
mitted to the bar in Litchfield in the spring of 1801, and in
June of the same year, removed to the Western Reserve in
Ohio, then a part of the North West Territory: and there
he has resided till the present time. The whole Reserve
then formed one county, and contained about six or eight
hundred inhabitants. Now it forms twelve counties, and
contains between three and four hundred thousand inhabit-
ants. Having witnessed the whole process of this growth
and prosperity, Mr. Hine feels constrained to bear testimony
to the beneficial effects of missionary labor in the new settle-
ments. “At first,” he says, “it was the general custom for
the settlers to spend the Sabbath in hunting, or to come
together for a drinking frolic, and engage in all kinds of
sport. Even those who had left New England as professors
of religion, seemed so far carried away by the influence of
example, as to conclude that the Sabbath was not binding in
the wilderness. The missionaries immediately commenced
forming churches in the principal settlements, and persuaded
the people to assemble on the Sabbath and perform public
worship, by singing, prayer, and reading printed sermons.
This, together with occasional visits from the missionary,
soon produced a radical change in the inhabitants for good,
both in a religious and moral point of view. The few hun-
dred dollars expended on this Reserve for missionary services,
has profited the country to the amount of millions. But the
real benefits are not to be measured by dollars and cents.”—
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Mr. Hine first located himself in Canfield, the seat of justice
for Mahoning county; but in the year 1806, he removed
to Youngstown, the place of most business in the same
county, where he still resides. He commenced the practice
of law on his first arrival in the country, and continued it
with good success, till the age of sixty. He then declined
to engage in new causes, but attended the courts for about
three years in order to dispose of the causes in which he
was engaged. Since his retirement from the bar, he has oc-
cupied himself in agriculture. From 1804 to 1824, he was
almost constantly a representative of his county in the State
Legislature: and during five years of that time, the legisla-
ture annually appointed him to an office in the financial de-
partment of the government, with a salary of eight hundred
dollars, until the financial system was changed and the office
abolished.
In the year 1807, Mr. Hine married Miss Mary Skinner,
daughter of Abraham Skinner, Esq., of Painesville, Ohio, who
removed from East Hartford, Conn., in 1805. Mrs. Hine is
still living, and has been the mother of eight children, two
of which died in infancy. Of the six now living, the two
oldest are daughters, and the four youngest are sons. They
are, (1.) Mary Sophia, born in 1809, married in 1828 to
Henry Wick, a merchant of Youngstown ; (from whom,
and from his daughter, Henrietta Matilda, now at a boarding-
School in New Haven, many of the particulars here stated
were learned.) Mrs. Wick has four children:—(2.) Henrietta
Maria, born about the year 1811, is the wife of Dudley
Baldwin, a forwarding merchant at Cleveland, Ohio. She
has six children:—(3.) Samuel, the oldest son, is a merchant
at Hubbard, Trumbull county, about four miles from Youngs-
town. He married Ellen Montgomery of Coitsville, and has
one child :—(4.) Abraham Skinner, is a farmer in Board-
man, about five miles south from Youngstown, and is un-
married —(5.) Homer Hubbel, about twenty-seven years
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old, was educated at Hudson College, Ohio, and is a lawyer
in Youngstown. He married Julia La Rue of Harisburg,
Kentucky, and has one child:—(6.) Augustus, the youngest
child, aged twenty, resides with his father, and is unmarried.
—Mr. Hine says: “As most of my friends and companions
in the early settlement of this country are now dead, and
gone, were it not for our domestic circle of children and
grandchildren, it appears to me, I should now in my old age
feel quite lonesome and solitary, even amidst the passing
throng of thousands. And so highly have we been favored
in our domestic relations, that I can remember no incident
of any great magnitude that has occurred to mar our happi-
ness. I am almost daily made sensible of the gradual ap-
proach of the infirmities of years both in body and mind.
My constitution is naturally a firm one, and the general state
of my health through life has been good. A violent and
persevering influenza, however, during the present winter,
has brought me down lower than I have ever been before.”
Since he left the bar at the age of sixty-three, Mr. Hine
has retired altogether from public life, and now spends his
time amid rural occupations in dignified retirement. He
says: “I have a good, productive farm adjoining this village,
which occupies my attention during spring, summer, and
autumn. I have ever been fond of agriculture, and at this
period of life, I find it a great source of contentment and
pleasure. As to my worldly circumstances, I think they
come very near to the standard recommended by Solomon—
neither poverty nor riches. I live in the midst of a friendly
and agreeable society. Our village contains a printing press,
which issues a weekly political paper, four large and well
finished country churches—one Presbyterian, one Episcopal
Methodist, one Protestant Methodist, and one Campbellite.
The Baptists and Roman Catholics have also each recently
organized themselves, and are preparing to erect houses for
public worship. My lot has been cast with the Presbyte-
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rians. I have always been a member and a regular attendant
in that congregation, from its first organization under the
pastoral care of Rev. Mr. Wick, to the present time, a period
of nearly half a century.
“And now, to conclude my narrative, I must, upon a
careful review of my past life, leave this testimony, that, little
as my conduct has been influenced by the governing princi-
ples of the Christian religion, it is that little influence alone,
which has been the chief source of my happiness. And
when I look forward to that future state of existence upon
which I expect soon to enter, I have not the least confidence
in the good deeds I have performed as a safe passport. Noth-
ing short of the atoning sacrifice of an Almighty Redeemer
can for a moment sustain my hope.” J. M.
J I R A H IS HA M,
WAs born at Colchester, Westchester Society, in May,
1778, and was the youngest but one in the class. After he
graduated, he studied law, one year, at New Haven, with
the Hon. David Daggett, and afterwards at New London,
with the late Judge Brainard; was admitted to the bar in
1800; and established himself in practice in New London.
He was much respected as a man and a lawyer. With
engaging manners and a warm heart, he entered into the
feelings and views of his numerous clients, with such entire
devotedness, that they regarded him not merely as a safe
adviser and able advocate, but as a personal friend. His dis-
position was eminently social; but this never interfered with
the severer studies of his profession. His habits were at
once active and studious. While he mingled freely, and
with much zest, in general Society, he devoted most of the
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hours of every day to laborious application to business. In
his elocution at the bar, he was always fluent and graceful;
generally ardent; and occasionally, it is said, truly eloquent.
During the last war, he, as major general of the militia of
this state, commanded for a time, the troops stationed at New
London and its vicinity for the defense of that part of the
state; and those who served under him felt, that they were
Serving under a commander whose talents and courage they
never doubted.
He held for several years, the office of State's Attorney
for New London county; was Mayor of the city of New
London; and Judge of Probate for the probate district of
New London. He continued in full practice until his death,
which occurred at New London, on the 6th of October, 1842.
He was thrice married. First, in 1799, to Lucretia, daugh-
ter of Dr. Leverett Hubbard of New Haven; by whom he
had one child, a daughter. After her decease, he was mar-
ried to Lucretia, daughter of Jonathan Starr of New London;
by whom he had four children, all daughters. His third
wife was Elizabeth C. Trott, daughter of John P. Trott of
New London; by whom he had eight children, three daugh-
ters and five sons. She survived her husband less than two
years, having died on the 23d of July, 1844. Of the thir-
teen children of Gen. Isham, twelve are now living.
Q T. D.
E Z RA IV ES,
WAs a native of Hamden in this state. Shortly after he
graduated, he went to the South—probably to keep school—
and in about two years, returned. He then went to Hart-
ford, and studied medicine with Doct. Cogswell, about two
years; after which he obtained his medical license at Dan-
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bury or New Milford. Then he went to a small island,
called St. Helena or St. Helen's, (not the prison-house of
Napoleon,) belonging to South Carolina or Georgia—my
geography does not say which—but probably the latter.
He resided in a town called Pocotaligo, but practiced over
the whole island. Here he continued to reside and practice
until the summer of 1818; when he died. T. D.
B E T H E L J U D D.
As no communication has been obtained from him, the
following imperfect account of his origin and of the vicissi-
tudes of his life, is all that can be given.
He was born at Watertown, Conn., in the month of May,
1776. His father, NoAH JUDD, resided near the center of
the town, and died, Sept. 4th, 1822, aged eighty-six. His
mother, Rebecca Judd, lived to the age of ninety-nine, and
died, March 19, 1838. The grandfather of Bethel bore the
name of John, and was the first of the family that became
an Episcopalian. His great grandfather also bore the name
of John, and was a Congregationalist, and probably de-
scended from one of the original settlers of Hartford and
Farmington. For two of the original proprietors of Water-
bury which included Watertown, and who removed from
Farmington in 1678, bore the name of Judd : and when
Watertown became a distinct Ecclesiastical Society by the
name of Westbury, in 1739, two of the leading members of
that Society, were Dea. Timothy Judd and Elnathan Judd,
Noah Judd, the father of Bethel, and Asa Judd, were two of
the twenty original members of the Episcopal Society of
Watertown, at its organization in 1764.
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Bethel Judd, on leaving College in 1797, prepared himself
for holy orders in the Protestant Episcopal Church, in which
he had been educated. Bishop Jarvis ordained him Deacon,
at an ordination held at Cheshire, Sept. 30, 1798. In the
three subsequent annual Conventions of the Episcopal Clergy
of Connecticut, we find Mr. Judd present with the title of
Deacon. Where he officiated during those three years is
not ascertained, except that in the year 1800, he preached
for some time in Woodbury. From 1801 to 1813, he ap-
pears to have resided out of this diocese, as he is not men-
tioned among the clergy of Connecticut. It is supposed that
he removed to Hudson in the state of New York, preached
there some years, and afterwards resided there and preached
in the vicinity. In 1806 or 1807, he supplied the small
parish of Claverack. In January, 1809, he was a resident of
Annapolis in the state of Maryland, where he continued sev-
eral years. At what time, where, or by whom he was ad-
mitted to the order of Priests, is not known. In 1813, he
became Rector of St. Paul's Church in Norwalk; and in the
same year (and also in 1834) he was elected one of the
Standing Committee of the Diocese of Connecticut. The
three following years he attended the meetings of Conven-
tion, and is supposed to have resided in Norwalk, and to
have preached in various societies in that vicinity. In the
years 1817, 1818, he preached in North Carolina, but spent
the hot months with his family in Norwalk. At that time,
he was one of the candidates for the bishoprick of North
Carolina. In the year 1819, we find him performing a mis-
sion of two months among the feeble churches of New Lon-
don county, under the Episcopal Society for promoting
Christian Knowledge; and, it is said, several of the clergy
wished he might be made Bishop of Connecticut. During
about fourteen years from that time, he taught a female
Academy in the city of New London, and preached there
and in other places as he found occasion. From 1830 to
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1836, he was a Curator of Washington (now Trinity) College
at Hartford. In 1831, that College conferred on him the
honorary degree of S.T.D. In 1834, he removed from New
London to Cheshire, and was Rector of the Church and
Principal of the Academy in that place about two years. In
1836, he was again resident in Norwalk, and he preached for
a time in Wilton. About the year 1837, he removed to the
state of New York, resided some time at Ithaca, Tompkins
county. In 1844, he was at Sackett's Harbor in Jefferson
county, and in August, 1847, his residence was at Avon
Springs in Livingston county. In October, 1847, he was at
the General Convention in New York city; and was then
on the eve of departing for St. Augustine, with his daughter
who was in declining health.—In 1820, Mr. Judd published
a sermon preached in New London, and entitled, “Baptism
not Regeneration.” He also published two pamphlets, in
which he maintained that ordination by bishops is the only
valid ordination.
Mr. Judd was married, about the year 1803, to Margaret
Heron, a daughter of William Heron, Esq., of Reading,
Conn. She was a very accomplished woman, and highly
esteemed by all who knew her. She bore him seven chil-
dren, and died of a consumption, Jan. 30th, 1828. Of the
children of Mr. Judd, one died soon after its birth; the other
six were—(1.) William, born in 1804 or 1805, graduated at
Brown University, was ordained Deacon, preached in Tus-
caloosa, Alabama, and died at Mobile in 1829 or 1830:—
(2.) Anna Maria Chandler, born at Annapolis, married to
Lieut. George Fetterman of the U. S. Army, had one child,
and died in Cheshire, on the 26th of April, 1835, aged
twenty-five. She was buried in New Haven.—(3.) John
Maurice Heron, died at the age of two years:—(4.) A second
John Maurice Heron, born about 1814 or 1815; became a
druggist, lived sometime at Ithaca, and now resides at Wil-
liams' Port, Penn., never married:—(5.) Margaret, born at
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Norwalk about 1816, now in Florida for the benefit of her
health. She was never married —(6.) Henry Bethel, born
at New London in 1819, graduated at West Point, was in
the Florida war, and is now a lieutenant of artillery in
Mexico.
Mr. Judd, it is believed, has ever been strictly evangelical
in Sentiment, liberal towards Christians of other denomina-
tions, a friend to wholesome discipline in his own church,
and entirely free from all Tractarian tendencies. As a man
he is exemplary, learned, and discreet. His health is good
for a man of his years, and being of a longlived stock, he
may continue to serve the church for several years to come.
J. M.
A S A L Y MAN,
WAs a native of Lebanon, Conn., and a younger brother
of the Rev. William Lyman, D.D., of Millington. After he
graduated, he remained in New Haven, keeping the College
buttery, and studying divinity with President Dwight. In
about two years, he was licensed to preach, and supplied
some vacant pulpits in the vicinity of New Haven. In Sep-
tember, 1800, he was ordained at Hamden, and installed
Pastor of the Congregational Church and Society in that
town. In this situation, he continued about three years,
when he was dismissed. On the 1st of January, 1806, he
became Pastor of the Church and Society in Bath, Lincoln
County, Me., where he continued until March, 1808, when
he was dismissed in consequence of ill health. On the 30th
of November, 1809, he was again settled in the ministry, at
Windham, in Cumberland county in the same State; but
he remained there only six months, leaving, I believe, on ac-
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count of another failure of health. We next find him as a
publisher and vender of books, on a small scale, in Portland;
but his success was not such as to warrant a long continu-
ance in that business. What became of him, and what he
did, for some time after he left Portland, is known here but
imperfectly. It is believed he had some agency or agencies,
in the city of New York, in disposing of books, maps or
Something else, from which he derived a sort of support.
During this period, he was once or twice in Connecticut,
when he spoke of the failure of his health in Maine, as hav-
ing ruined his prospects in life. He afterwards resided in
Newark, N. J., and in Buffalo and Skeneateles in the state
of New York, making the business of instruction, in all these
places, either alone, or with the aid of his daughters, his prin-
cipal employment. Some twelve or fourteen years ago, he
removed to Clinton, in Oneida county, for the purpose of
educating his sons in Hamilton College. There he died in
1836, about three years subsequent to his removal.
Mr. Lyman was married, not far from the time of his set-
tlement in Hamden, to Miss Benedict of Middlebury, an esti-
mable woman. She, with two sons and several daughters,
survived him, and are still living.—His sons are both minis-
ters in the Episcopal Church, settled in Maryland; and, like
the sons of some other Congregational or Presbyterian cler-
gymen, are said to be “Puseyites of the first order.” The
widow and most of the daughters, reside also in Maryland.
T. D.
SY LW E STER MAXWELL,
THE son of Col. Hugh Maxwell, was born on the 16th of
April, 1775, at Heath, then a part of Charlemont, Franklin
county, Massachusetts. Col. HUGH MAXWELL was born in
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Ireland, about the middle of the last century: his parents
removed to this country when he was very young, with two
other children older than he, and afterwards had three other
sons and one daughter born in this country. The Colonel
early connected himself with the army of the revolution
as a commissioned officer; and he served with reputation
through the war, and till the army was disbanded. He has
been styled, “the Christian patriot.”
Sylvester Maxwell spent his childhood in the newly set-
tled mountain town of Heath, far from the good schools and
the improved society of the older settlements; and was at
the same time deprived of the immediate inspection and dis-
cipline of his excellent father, who was from home in the
service of his country. His means of improvement in early
life were, of course, very slender. He says: “I had no op-
portunity for schooling till I was about nine years old, not
even to learn to read, and had no book but an old Dilworth’s
Spelling Book nearly worn out, and a part of a New Eng-
land Primer. I never saw a book on grammar, or arithme-
tic, or geography, till I was over twelve years of age, and
but few books of any description.”—At the age of seventeen,
his father determined to give him a College education, and
placed him first under the instruction of the Rev. Joseph
Strong, Pastor of the church in Heath, and then under the
care of the Rev. Joseph Lyman, D.D., of Hatfield. From
the school of Dr. Lyman, Mr. Maxwell, with four others,
(Ashley, Billings, Hunt, and Partridge,) entered the Fresh-
man Class at Yale College in September, 1793.
Immediately after graduation in 1797, he went to Georgia,
and there taught the county School or academy of Burke
county, one year. Returning to Massachusetts, he com-
menced the study of law in the office of the late Judge
Hinckley of Northampton; and, after the usual period of
study, was admitted to the bar, and opened a law office at
Charlemont, where he has ever since resided. Modesty,
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integrity, and good sense, being his prominent characteristics,
Mr. Maxwell has been more distinguished as a counsellor
than as an advocate at the bar. Enjoying the respect and
entire confidence of all around him, he has had the chief
direction of the municipal affairs of his town for about thirty
years; and he has been repeatedly elected to a seat in both
branches of the Legislature of the state. He says, he has
“never attempted to make much noise; but has uniformly
endeavored to accomplish what he had to do, with as little
show as possible.”
In the year 1805, Mr. Maxwell married a daughter of
Deacon Lemuel Taylor of Buckland, with whom he has
lived in great domestic happiness to the present time. She
has borne him ten children, seven of whom are still living.
Two died in infancy.—His eldest son, Sylvester, resides on
a farm in Greenfield. His second son, George, has an agency
in a manufacturing establishment at Rockville, Conn. His
third son, Arthur, is now attending the Law School at Cam-
bridge. His fourth and youngest son was a member of the
Sophomore Class in Williams College, and perished in con-
sequence of his clothes taking fire and burning upon him,
while engaged with others in the amusements of the evening
preceding the 4th of July, 1846. The father devoutly says:
“In this grievous calamity, it becomes me not to open my
mouth.”—His oldest daughter, Tirzah, resides with her
father. His second daughter, Priscilla, is married, and re-
sides in Eutau, Alabama, and has charge, as Principal, of a
female school in that place. Two other daughters, Dorcas
and Abigail, are employed as teachers in the same school.—
All the surviving children of Mr. Maxwell, except one, are
professors of religion.—He has three grandchildren.
Mr. Maxwell and his wife united with the Orthodox Con-
gregational Church of Charlemont, in the year 1824: and
for several years he has been a Deacon of that Church. In
the organization of the Sabbath School in 1817, he took a
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very active part; and he was Superintendent of it, almost
uninterruptedly, for about twenty years. -
“As to the affairs of this world,” he writes, “I have little
to perplex myself about, but trust that that great and good
Being, who has hitherto sustained me, will not neglect me
in my old age. And as to the future, when he who is the
believer's life shall appear, I hope to be like him, and to see
him as he is.” J. M.
J AM E S M U R D O C K,
BoFN, Feb. 16th, 1776, at Westbrook, Middlesex Co., Ct.,
of Protestant Scotch-Irish descent. His great great grand-
father, John MURDOCK, was a wool-comber in, Limeric in
Ireland, during the reigns of Charles II. and James II. He
married Mary Munson, had one son and three daughters, lost
all his property in the siege of Limeric in 1691, and died about
the year 1695. His only son, PETER MURDock, born at Limeric
in 1679, came to America about the year 1700, married Mary
Fithin of East Hampton on Long Island, where he spent most
of his life. He accumulated a handsome property, and died
at Westbrook in 1753, aged 74. His only child, JoHN MUR-
Dock, was born at East Hampton in 1706, removed early to
Westbrook, became a large farmer, was Major of the Provin-
cial troops, Deacon in the Congregational Church, and J udge
in the Court of Common Pleas. He died at Westbrook in
1778, aged 72. His first wiſe was Phebe Sill of Lyme, who
died in childbed ten months after marriage, and her child
with her. His second wife was Frances Conklin of East
Hampton. She bore him thirteen children, seven sons and
six daughters, all of whom lived to maturity. She died in
1799, aged 86. Three of the sons of John Murdock, gradu-
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ated at Yale College; viz. Peter, graduated in 1755, and died
the same year; Jonathan, graduated in 1766, became a Con-
gregational minister, and died at Bozrah in 1813, aged 68;
James, graduated in 1774, settled over the Congregational
Church in Sandgate, Vt., removed to Martinsburg, N. Y.,
and died at Crown Point in 1840, aged 84. The other sons
were all farmers. ABRAHAM, the 11th child and 6th son,
died at Westbrook in 1777, aged 26, leaving two young chil-
dren; Anna, who married J. J. Avery of Groton, bore him
twelve children, and died in 1817, aged 44; and JAMEs, the
subject of this memoir. The wife of Abraham Murdock
and mother of James, was Hannah Lay of Westbrook, a
daughter of Jonathan Lay, senior, and sister of Judge Jona-
than Lay of Westbrook. She married, for her second hus-
band, Seth Smith, Esq., of East Lyme, bore him two sons,
and died in 1824, aged 70.
JAMEs MURDock, an orphan at the age of fourteen months,
passed his childhood partly in East Lyme, and partly in
Westbrook, with no peculiar advantages for education till
the age of fifteen, when he commenced fitting for College
with his uncle, Rev. Jonathan Murdock of Bozrah. He en-
tered College, poorly fitted, in October, 1793, joined the Col-
lege Church in October, 1794, and graduated in 1797. In
the November following, he became Preceptor of the Hop-
kins Grammar School in New Haven. Relinquishing that
office in March, 1799, he commenced the study of theology
under President Dwight. In the following autumn, in
conjunction with his Classmate, Rev. John Niles, he took
charge, for one year, of Hamilton Oneida Academy, now
Hamilton College, at Clinton, N. Y. In September, 1800,
he resumed the study of theology under the Rev. A. S. Nor-
ton, D.D., of Clinton, was licensed in January, 1801, by the
Oneida Association, supplied New Hartford till April, and
then returned to New Haven. During the summer of 1801,
he preached sometime at Oxford, Conn., as a supply, and
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spent four weeks in the family of Rev. Azel Backus, D.D.,
of Bethlehem, both supplying his pulpit and instructing in
his private academy. In the fall of that year, he was invi-
ted to preach as a candidate at Princeton, Worcester county,
Mass. In February, 1802, he received a unanimous call to
settle there, and was ordained the June following. For
some years his ministry seemed to produce little fruit, but in
1810 it was attended by a revival, in which about fifty per-
sons, most of them heads of families, were added to the
church. While at Princeton, Mr. Murdock was a close stu-
dent, and made considerable advances, particularly in sacred
literature.—In 1815, being appointed Professor of the learned
languages in the University of Vermont, he resigned his pas-
toral charge and removed to Burlington, where he officiated,
not only as Professor of the learned languages, but also as
Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy. In 1818,
he was elected Professor of Languages in Dartmouth Col-
lege, an office which he declined. In the spring of 1819,
being appointed Brown Professor of Sacred Rhetoric and
Ecclesiastical History in the Theological Seminary at An-
dover, he left Vermont and returned to Massachusetts. In
the autumn of that year, Harvard University conferred on
him the honorary degree of S.T.D. Difficulties soon after-
wards arose between him and the other Professors, respecting
his course of duties in the Seminary, which continued sev-
eral years, and at last issued, in 1828, in his dismission from
the Institution. He removed to New Haven in 1829, where
he has remained to the present time, retired very much from
public life, and devoted to private studies and especially to
ecclesiastical history. For a few years he preached and de-
livered Lectures in different places, but of late seldom ap-
pears as a public speaker. He was made an honorary mem-
ber of the New York Historical Society several years ago;
also Vice President, and recently President, of the Connecti-
cut Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is likewise Vice
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President of the Philological Society of Connecticut, of
which he was one of the original founders. Mr. Murdock
was always fond of study, and possessing good health, and
free from worldly cares, he now enjoys the sweets of literary
retirement. He is a strict Congregationalist, associates with
the Orthodox, but calls no man master. Without attaining
full assurance, he has never relinquished his hope of salva-
tion through divine grace. He is familiar with death and
the grave, and relying on the mediation of the Lord Jesus
Christ, he is calmly and cheerfully waiting for the time when
he must bid adieu to all sublunary things.
While in Princeton, he published nothing but an ordina-
tion sermon, and some articles in the Panoplist. While at
Andover, he published two discourses; one of them, on the
Atonement, produced considerable sensation. In 1830, he
translated from the German, Dr. Wm. Muenscher's Elements
of Dogmatic History, published by A. H. Maltby, 1 vol.
12mo. In 1832, he published his great work, a New and
Literal Translation of Mosheim’s Institutes of Ecclesiastical
History, with copious additional Notes, 3 vols. 8vo; and a
second, revised and stereotyped, edition in 1839. Of this
work a pirated edition has been printed in England. In
1842, he published a small work entitled, Sketches of Mod-
ern Philosophy, especially among the Germans, 18mo, pp.
201. This also has been reprinted in Scotland. For more
than a year he has had ready for publication a Literal Trans-
lation of the whole New Testament from the Paschito Syriac
Version, which is to be accompanied with a Preface and
marginal Notes. He has likewise written several articles for
the New Englander and for other periodicals of the day.
Mr. Murdock was married, in October, I799, to Rebekah
Lydia Atwater, daughter of Jeremiah Atwater, Esq., of New
Haven. She made a profession of religion at Princeton in
1810, was the mother of ten children, and died a peaceful
death, at New Haven, December 27th, 1832. Six of their
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children died in infancy or early childhood. The second
son, Jeremiah A., died in hope, at Andover, in 1820, aged
19:—Anna, the oldest daughter, early professed religion,
was married to Rev. Edward R. Tyler, and died full of
hope at New Haven, June, 1830, aged 22.-One son and
one daughter are still living : viz., Abraham, aged 37, a mer-
chant in Columbus, state of Mississippi. He is married, and
has one child, about six years old. He is not a professor of
religion:—Lydia, aged 32, early professed religion, married
the Rev. N. S. Richardson, an Episcopal clergyman, has two
sons, and has lost a son and a daughter.—Since the death of
his wife in 1832, Mr. Murdock has remained single ; and
since his children left him, he has lived as a boarder in one
of the houses which he built in 1833. His worldly circum-
stances are comfortable.
JOHN NILES,
WAs a native of Colchester in this state. He studied
theology, under the direction of President Dwight, for about
one year after he graduated, and was then licensed to preach
the gospel. His reception in the ministry was, from the
first, very favorable. He preached in several respectable
societies in Connecticut, in one of which he was invited to
take a pastoral charge, but declined the invitation. At the
close of the year 1798, he took charge of Hamilton Oneida
Academy, now Hamilton College, as the first Preceptor of
that institution. The duties of that station he discharged,
with great faithfulness and ability, for about three years;
preaching occasionally, at the same time, in the vicinity.
Finding his health impaired by his labors, he then relin-
quished this situation, and returned, with his family, to
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Connecticut. Here and in some parts of Massachusetts he
preached, as opportunities occurred and his health permitted,
until the fall of 1803, when he went, with his family, to
Prattsburgh in Steuben county, N. Y. This place was then
a wilderness, with but one other family residing in it. Its
population, however, increased rapidly; and in about eight
months from the time of his arrival there, a church was
constituted there, consisting of fourteen members. Bath
was then the seat of justice for the county; and he preach-
ed alternately there and in Prattsburgh, for a considerable
period. In June 1806, he was ordained as a minister of
the gospel, without a pastoral charge, by the Ontario Associ-
ation. On the 6th of July, 1808, he was, by a committee
of the same ecclesiastical body, installed Pastor of the church
and congregation in Bath; and thither he removed with his
family. He had previously supported his family, in part, if
not principally, by the products of his farm in Prattsburgh;
now, he devoted his time wholly to his ministerial duties.
In the summer of 1812, he was appointed to preach the
ordination sermon, at an ordination in Angelica in the ad-
joining county of Allegany. He attended at the time and
place; but before he had performed the duty assigned him,
he was seized with a nervous putrid ſever, which prevented
his performing it. The disease continued with unabated
violence, for three weeks, and then terminated in death.
This was on the 13th of September, 1812. He was then
in the thirty-seventh year of his age.—In his ordinary de-
portment, he was serious and somewhat reserved. His man-
ners were simple, his purposes pure, his heart sincere. His
preaching was earnest and impressive. He was eminently
a godly man. He left a widow and several children; but,
none of them, it is believed, are now living, except a daugh-
ter, who resides at Clinton, N. Y. T. D.
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WILLIAM PAGE,
WAs born Sept. 2d, 1779, at Charlestown, Cheshire coun-
ty, New Hampshire. His father was a physician, a self-ed-
ucated man of humble parentage. His mother was the
daughter of a minister of the Gospel. His early years
were spent in Charlestown, and he there fitted for College
under the tuition of Mr. L. Hedge, a graduate of Harvard
University. He entered Yale College at the age of fourteen,
and graduated at the age of eighteen, being one of the
youngest members of the Class.
At the time of his graduation, his father's health was
greatly impaired, and his affairs considerably embarrassed,
and the son devoted one or two years to the aiding his father.
When he had rendered him all the assistance in his power,
he entered on the study of Law at Burlington, Vermont,
under the direction of Daniel Farrand, Esq., afterwards one
of the Judges of the Supreme Court of Vermont. On being
admitted to the bar in March, 1806, he went immediately to
Rutland in the same state, and there he has remained to the
present time. He was actively and prosperously engaged in
his profession, until March 18th, 1825, when he was ap-
pointed Cashier of the Bank of Rutland, an office which he
still holds. In October, 1803, he was appointed by Governor
Tichener, Secretary to the Governor and Council of Wer-
mont, and annually reappointed to the same office, with the
exception of one year, until 1809. The office of Justice
of the Peace he has held, by annual appointment, since the
year 1813. On the 3d of November, 1811, he made a pub-
lic profession of religion, and united with the Congrega-
tional Church in Rutland, of which he has been a Deacon
since April, 1829.
Mr. Page was first married, May 17th, 1807, to Mary
Boardman, a daughter of Col. Boardman of Bennington.
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She bore him two children, and died April 10th, 1810, aged
twenty-seven. The children of this marriage were, Frances
B., born April 19th, 1808, married to Royal C. Waller, Jan.
25th, 1830, and died Jan. 13th, 1833;-and William, born
March 17th, 1809, now living at Mount Carmel, Illinois.
He is married, and has five children.—Mr. Page married for
his second wife, Cynthia A. Hickok of Lansingburgh, New
York, on the 18th of October, 1811. By her he has had
eleven children: viz. –Mary B., born Aug. 6th, 1812;-
James H., born March 6th, 1815, married to Ellen Eldridge,
and died in Illinois, July 25th, 1843, leaving one son;–Henry,
born June 27th, 1817, married to Mary E. Ryder at Wood-
bury, Illinois, where he resides and has two children —Ann,
born March 21st, 1818, married to Rev. A. G. Rann, now
minister of Waterbury, Vt., and has two children;–George,
born May 23d, 1820, married L. Dike;—Elizabeth, born
March 20th, 1821, married to S. D. Winslow, and has
one child;—Julia, born July 7th, 1824;-John Boardman,
born July 25th, 1826;-Charles, born March 3d, 1828;-
Egbert, born Sept. 30th, 1829;-Cynthia . . . . , born Aug.
14th, 1834.—“A goodly number, (Mr. Page subjoins,) of
whom the Lord, I trust, has called seven into his kingdom,
and of others we are not without hopes, having endeav-
ored, with the Lord's help, and that of a faithful companion,
to train them up in the fear of the Lord.”
Mr. Page was severely injured by a fall, in October, 1846,
which laid him up and rendered him nearly helpless for
many months. So late as August last he could not go
abroad without assistance; and he expects never to enjoy
his former physical vigor. Yet he writes: “What trials and
afflictions I have experienced, I trust, have been sent by my
heavenly Father in covenant love, and I endeavor to be daily
in preparation for that great change which I have reason to
expect at any time. My life has glided quietly along; the
even tenor of its course has been disturbed with no incidents
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of an exciting character. I have been highly favored in my
worldly circumstances, and I am waiting the day of my ap-
pointed time until my change come.” In another letter, he
writes thus: “In the leading events of my life for the last
half century, I am constrained to speak first and principally
of the goodness of God to me and my numerous household.
Goodness and mercy have accompanied me all the way.
I am favored with eleven living children, two are not,
and nine grandchildren. But what is my chief joy, is, that
so many of them and their companions are the professed
followers of the Lord Jesus, and are doing what in their
power lies, to forward his cause and kingdom among their
fellow men. I can say with truth, that ‘the lines have fallen
to me in pleasant places, and that I have a goodly heritage.’
Were I to enter into particulars, it would be but to record
those many little incidents which make the pilgrimage on
which we are sent, pleasant, and have a tendency to fill our
hearts with joy and gladness.” . . . . J. M.
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HORATIO SEY MOUR,
WAs born at Litchfield, Conn., May 31, 1778. He was
of the sixth generation in lineal descent from RICHARD SEy-
MoUR, one of the first settlers of Hartford. This Richard Sey-
mour, his son JoHN, his grandson JoHN, and his great grand-
son Moses, all lived and died in Hartford. Moses Seymour,
the great grandson of Richard and the grandfather of Hora-
tio, was born at Hartford in 1705, and died there, Sept. 24,
1795, aged 85. His wife Rachel was born in 1716, and
died July 23, 1763, aged 47. Major Moses SEYMoUR, Jr.,
the son of Moses and the father of Horatio, was born at
Hartford, July 23, 1742, removed early to Litchfield, and
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married Mary the daughter of Ebenezer Marsh, Esq., of
Litchfield, a pious and estimable woman. Major Seymour
was in the war of the revolution, and was present at the sur-
render of Burgoyne. He represented the town of Litchfield
in the State Legislature, much of the time, from 1795 to
1812; was Town Clerk from 1789 to 1826, and Senior
Warden of St. Michael's Church, Litchfield, more than sev-
enteen years. He died greatly respected, Sept. 17, 1826,
aged 84. His pious wife died, July 17, 1826, aged 73.—
They had six children: namely, (1.) Clarissa, born Aug.
3, 1772, married in October, 1791, to Rev. Truman Marsh,
who was born in Litchfield, Feb. 22, 1768, graduated at Yale
in 1786, was ordained a Deacon by Bishop White in March,
1790, and a Presbyter by Bishop Seabury in June the same
year, became the Rector of St. John’s Church, New Milford,
till November, 1799, then Rector of St. Michael’s Church,
Litchfield, till 1810. Mr. Marsh and his estimable wife are
still living in Litchfield, he aged 80, and she aged 76.—(2.)
Moses Seymour, Jr., Esq., born June 30, 1774, married Ma-
bel Strong of Addison, Vt., was several years Postmaster
in Litchfield, and died there, May 8, 1824, aged 52. His
son Dr. George Seymour, born in 1817, is a physician in
Litchfield, and has twice represented that town in the
State Legislature.—(3.) Ozias Seymour, born July 8, 1776,
married Miss Sebrina Storrs of Mansfield, Conn., was for
several years Sherif of Litchfield county, and is still living.
His wife died, Nov. 2, 1814, aged 28, leaving an only son,
Origen S. Seymour, Esq., who was born, February, 1804,
graduated at Yale in 1824, and is a noted lawyer in Litch-
field.—(4.) Horatio Seymour, the subject of this memoir.—
(5.) Henry Seymour, born May 30, 1780, removed to Utica,
state of New York, became wealthy, was Mayor of Utica,
Canal Commissioner, State Senator, and died recently, leav-
ing a widow and reputable descendants.-(6.) Epaphroditus
Seymour, born July 8, 1783, removed to Brattleborough, Vt.,
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where he still lives, and is president of a bank. He was
never married.*
Horatio Seymour, the fourth child of Major Moses Sey-
mour, was, from early childhood, amiable, studious and dec-
orous in all his conduct. He fitted for College at New Mil-
ford, under the instruction of his brother-in-law, the Rev.
Truman Marsh.—The first year after his graduation, he was
an assistant teacher in the academy at Cheshire, Conn. The
next year he spent in Litchfield, attending the Law School
of Judge Reeve. In October, 1799, he removed to Middle-
bury, Addison county, Vermont, and became a student of
law in the office of the Hon. Daniel Chipman. In the
spring of 1800, he was admitted to the bar, and commenced
business in Middlebury, which has been his place of resi-
dence ever since.—In 1809, he was elected a member of the
Council, or Upper House, in the State Legislature; and for
seven or eight years, he was annually elected to that body.
In October, 1820, the Legislature of the State appointed
him a Senator in the United States Congress for six years
from the 4th of March, 1821: and at the expiration of that
term, he was reëlected for a second term of six years. In
1833 he resumed the practice of law, and has continued it
to the present time.—Up to the time that he went into the
United States Senate, his law practice had been very exten-
sive, and his pecuniary affairs prosperous. He had acquired
an amount of property, which might be deemed a compe-
tency for the remainder of life. But he subsequently lost it
all, and chiefly by becoming surety for others. Since he
left the Senate, his professional business has afforded him a
good support, and has also enabled him every year to pay a
considerable amount of debts. Still he is destitute of prop-
erty. In October, 1847, the Legislature appointed him Judge
* For most of the facts here stated, the compiler is indebted to a valuable
communication from the Rev. Isaac Jones of Litchfield.
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of Probate for the district of Addison. This affords him
employment a great part of his time, and adds something to
his means of support.—The Corporation of Yale College, at
the Commencement in 1847, conferred on him the honorary
degree of LL.D.
In the spring of 1800, Mr. Seymour was married to Miss
Lucy Case of the town of Addison, Vt., who bore him six
children, and died in October, 1838. Since her death, he
has remained single. His six children were—(1.) Ozias
Seymour, educated at Middlebury College, a lawyer in Mid-
dlebury, and residing near his father. He has a wife and five
children.—(2.) Moses Seymour, bred a merchant, engaged
in business in Middlebury, was unfortunate inehis business,
and removed to the West a few years ago, and now resides
in Geneva, Walworth county, Wisconsin, where he culti-
vates a small farm. He has a wife and two children.—(3.)
Mary Seymour, who died in June, 1821, at the age of six-
teen, of consumption.—(4.) Emma Hart Seymour, married
Philip Battell, Esq., son of the late Joseph Battell of Norfolk,
and died of consumption, November, 1841, leaving two small
children, a son and a daughter. These grandchildren and
their surviving parent now constitute a part of Mr. Seymour's
family.—(5.) Horatio Seymour, Jr., was educated at Mid-
dlebury College, and is a lawyer of note at Buffalo, state of
New York. He has a wife and two children.—(6.) Henry
Seymour, was a merchant’s clerk until of age, never em-
barked in regular business, and was never married. He was
with the army in Florida during most of the Seminole war,
afterwards went to the coast of Africa in the United States
ship Jamestown, returned in the ship, and died in Boston,
January, 1847.
Mr. Seymour united with the Episcopal Society in Mid-
dlebury at its first organization, and for the last eight or ten
years has been the Senior Warden of the parish. He has
been a communicant in the Episcopal church for many years.
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He says: “I have, through life, with few exceptions, en-
joyed good health, and am at present exempt from bodily
infirmities to a much greater degree than are most persons
who have arrived at my advanced age. I attend regularly
the sessions of the courts in this county, and take part in the
trial of causes. I keep an office, and am regular and con-
stant in my attention to the business of it. So long as I
shall be blessed with the measure of health I now enjoy, I
ought not to feel any anxiety in relation to a comfortable
support.” J. M.
T H E O DOR E SILL,
WAs the son of a respectable physician in Goshen, Conn.
Soon after he graduated, he joined the Law School in Litch-
field, where he continued about a year. He then went to
Whitesborough in the state of New York, and placed him-
self as a law student, in the office of Thomas R. Gold, his
brother-in-law, an eminent lawyer, and of some distinction
as a statesman. On his admission to the bar, he formed a
partnership with Mr. Gold, who was already in full practice.
For many years they did a very large law business, the jun-
ior partner himself sustaining a high rank at the bar of the
county and state. He was several times a member of the
Legislature of the state; and I have been informed by those
who were themselves distinguished, that there was no man,
at that period, who had a greater share of influence in that
body than he. In politics he was a federalist, as long as
that party retained its distinctive character, and was after-
wards a supporter of De Witt Clinton. Both at the bar and
in the legislative hall, he was regarded as an able advocate
and an eloquent speaker. He was distinguished also as a
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military man, and was advanced to the rank of major general
of artillery. In his dealings in business, he was honorable
and just.—Soon after he was established in business, he
married a beautiful and estimable woman, of whom he might
well be proud, as he in fact appeared to be ; and he after-
wards built an elegant house in Whitesborough for their resi-
dence. Thus situated, who would not deem his lot an
enviable one Thus far, his course had been onward and
upward; his prospects opening and brightening. But here
the road turns—here the scene shifts. He fell into habits
of intemperance; in consequence of which he paid little
attention to business, or politics, or social duties. His friends
(and he had many) made great efforts to reclaim him ; but
their efforts were fruitless—he was a lost man. His health
declined until March, 1836, when he died—a victim of
intemperance.
He left a widow and four children, viz., a son and three
daughters. His son was early addicted to dissolute habits,
went South and died—a grief to his friends. His oldest
daughter married C. Comstock, Esq., of Rome in Oneida
county, a lawyer, whº is District Attorney of the county, and
a very estimable man. The other two daughters, who are
unmarried, reside with their mother, a very respectable
lady, in the village of Rome. As Gen. Sill left considerable
property, his family are in comfortable circumstances.
-> T. D.
RICH A R D SMITH,
WAs born in Sharon, Litchfield county, Conn., on the
17th of January, 1779. His father, Phineas Smith, brother
of the late John Cotton Smith, Governor of Connecticut,
was a lineal descendant from the celebrated Dr. Cotton
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Mather of Boston, whose daughter Jerusha married Samuel
Smith the grandfather of John Cotton Smith and of Phineas
Smith.
Richard Smith commenced the study of Latin at the age
of eleven years, first under the direction of the Hon. John
T. Peters, then under the Rev. Daniel Smith, and after-
wards, under Barzillai Slosson, Esq. In October, 1793, he
joined the Sophomore Class in Yale College, and continued
in that Class till the next April, when the students were dis-
persed in consequence of the prevailing sickness. His
father died in June of that year, and he, being the oldest
son, was detained from College for more than a year. He
returned to College in October, 1795, when he fell back into
the next Class, then Juniors.
After graduation in 1797, he resided with his widowed
mother, and aided in the settlement of his father's estate.
Afterwards by desire of his uncle, John C. Smith, he enter-
ed on the study of law in his uncle's office, and was admit-
ted to the bar at Litchfield, in March, 1801. He then went
into Vermont, where he had relations, hoping to find there a
place in which he could enter on his profession. But he un-
expectedly found that, by a new regulation of the courts
there, he could not be admitted to plead in them, without
first studying some years in that state. He therefore return-
ed to Connecticut, and in August, 1801, repaired to Canan-
daigua, and was admitted to the bar of the County Court in
Ontario county. On the erection of Genesee county, with
Batavia for its capital, Mr. Smith obtained admission to that
bar in 1803, and in 1804 took up his residence in Batavia,
where he has resided ever since.—He writes thus: “I have
done little in my profession; my mind is not adapted to it,
and I was always disgusted with ‘the tumult of forensic lit-
igation ;’ and my life, in consequence of an early misdirec-
tion, has been spent to little purpose. For more than forty
years, I have vegetated in this place, not however, without
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the favorable regard of my fellow citizens. I have held the
office of Surrogate for the term of sixteen years, have been
a Judge of the County Court, and now hold some offices,
the avails of which have essentially contributed to enlarge
the ‘res angustae domi,” with the meaning of which terms I
am experimentally acquainted.—The most that can be said
of me is, that like other great men, I was born on a certain
day, month, and year, and that, like the same great men,
when the time shall arrive, I died on a certain other day,
month, and year.”
Mr. Smith's first wife was the widow Almira Babcock,
who was born in Canaan or Suffield, Conn., and whose
maiden name was Landen. This marriage occurred in
1816; and five children, the issue of it, are still living:
namely, Mary A., Anne L., Jane B., Sarah P., and Harriet
M., all daughters. The eldest, Mary A., aged 30, is married
to a Mr. Brownell. The youngest, Harriet M., is nearly 20
years old. Their mother died in 1833.-Mr. Smith's second
and present wife was the widow Mercy B. Kingsbury, whose
maiden name was Higgins. She was born in Haddam, and
has lived in Glastenbury. This marriage took place at Ba-
tavia, in June, 1841, and is without issue.
Mr. Smith says: “On the subject of religion, I can mere-
ly say, that I have ever felt a strong and profound regard for
the Christian religion: but I am not a professor, in the sense
usually connected with that term.” It appears, that in the
early settlement of the town of Batavia, and before they
had regular preaching, Mr. Smith and a Mr. Daniel Brown
were accustomed to assist in holding religious meetings and
reading sermons, on Sundays and at funerals. Previously to
the year 1815, he was a Presbyterian, or rather an Independ-
ent. But at that time, some books in defense of Episcopal
doctrines fell in his way, and being convinced by their argu-
ments, he has connected himself with the Protestant Episco-
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pal Church. His present wife, however, is a communicant
in the Presbyterian Church, and he sometimes attends the
Presbyterian worship with her. His fellow citizens bear
testimony to his upright and decorous life. J. M.
SET H P E R KIN S S T A PL E S,
WAs born in the parish of Westminster, town of Canter-
bury, Conn., on the first day of September, 1776. His
father, Rev. John Staples, the Congregational minister of
Westminster, was the son of Deacon Seth Staples of Taun-
ton, Mass., and of Hannah Standish, a descendant of Miles
Standish of the Plymouth colony. A daughter of Deacon
Staples married Deacon Daniel Wilde of Taunton, the ſather
of Hon. Samuel S. Wilde, LL.D., Associate Judge of the
Supreme Court of Massachusetts. The Rev. John Staples
graduated at Princeton College in 1765, was Pastor of the
church in Westminster more than thirty years, and died
there in the year 1804. His wife, the mother of the subject
of this memoir, was a daughter of Matthew Perkins of Lis-
bon, Conn., and the sister of Rev. Nathan Perkins, S.T.D.,
of West Hartford, and of Enoch Perkins, Esq., an able law-
yer of Hartford. The Staples and Perkins families were of
pure English blood, and were dissenters in England, and
Puritans in America of the orthodox Congregational order.—
Seth P. Staples passed his childhood under his father's roof,
attended the district schools in winter, and labored in the
summer, until nearly sixteen years old. In the spring of
1793, he commenced fitting for College with Rev. Elisha
Atkins, the Congregational minister of Killingly, Conn., and
was admitted to the Freshman Class at Yale College in the
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spring of 1794. While in College, he belonged to the Broth-
ers’ Society, was elected into the T. B. K., and took an hon-
orable appointment at the Commencement of 1797.
After graduation, Mr. Staples commenced the study of
law, immediately. This, he says, “he has regretted through
life; for he ought to have taught a school, as his father ad-
vised, for at least two years, that he might review and well
settle in his mind his classical studies.” After two years
study in the law office of the Hon. David Daggett, LL.D.,
at New Haven, he presented himself for admission to the
bar at Litchfield in September, 1799. At the preceding
Commencement a strenuous effort had been made to dissolve
the p. B. K. Society, because it was a secret association; and
Mr. Staples, having taken a very active part in the defense
of the Society, was unjustly suspected of leaning towards
French jacobinism and German illuminism ; which caused
some zealous political gentlemen to raise objections to his
admission. But they withdrew their objections, and receiv-
ed him.—He immediately opened a law office in New Haven,
and went into full practice. In the year 1800, Mr. Isaac
Beers, a noted bookseller in New Haven, imported for him a
very complete law library, much the best at that time in
New England. This library induced law students to esteem
it a high privilege to study in his office, and he soon found
himself at the head of a respectable private law school.
After toiling alone for several years, he in 1820 called to his
aid the late Judge Samuel J. Hitchcock, LL.D., and made
him a partner both in his business and in the law school.
In the year 1824, he resigned both his office and school alto-
gether to Judge Hitchcock, and removed to the city of New
York, where he soon acquired an extensive practice, espe-
cially in the courts of the United States. The Law School
at New Haven continued to flourish under Judge Hitchcock,
aided by Judge Daggett, until the death of the former in
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1845; when it passed into the hands of Isaac H. Townsend,
Esq., and the Hon. Wm. L. Storrs, and afterwards into those
of the Hon. Clark Bissel, LL.D., and Henry Dutton, Esq.,
under whom it maintains a highly respectable character.
Mr. Staples was early elected a member of the Connecti-
cut Academy of Arts and Sciences, and was a representative
of the town of New Haven in the State Legislature seven
or eight sessions, most of them during the war of 1812.
He was a member of the house when it approved the Report
of the famous Hartford Convention, of which Mr. Staples
says: “I have always believed, that it was one of the most
able, and patriotic, and truly American Conventions that ever
met in New England.” Mr. Staples withdrew himself from
political life, altogether, in 1816; and has since devoted his
whole time to his profession.—He has now been a member
of the bar, and in full practice, for forty-eight years; and at
the present time is nearly as much occupied with profes-
sional business as ever. He has never been absent from a
term of court, which he had engaged to attend ; and never
failed to be present at the trial of a case in which he was
employed as counsel, either from sickness or from any other
cause. Nearly every case, in which he was concerned, he
was called to argue; and he has always acquitted himself
with much reputation.
Mr. Staples was married, in November, 1799, to Miss
Catharine Wales, the only daughter of Rev. Samuel Wales,
S.T.D., Professor of Divinity in Yale College, whose death
occurred in 1794. Mrs. Staples made a profession of religion
at New Haven in 1816. She is still living, and is the mother
of six children, three sons and three daughters. The chil-
dren of Mr. Staples are all married, and all settled, four of
them in the city of New York, one son in Maryland, and
one daughter in Kentucky. Each of them has offspring,
and all united afford him seventeen grandchildren.—While
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resident in New Haven, Mr. Staples was a member of the
first Ecclesiastical Society, then under the charge of Rev.
Nathaniel W. Taylor, S.T.D., and was a constant attendant
on public worship. He began to indulge the hope of having
experienced a change of heart, as early as the year 1814 or
15: but he did not unite himself to any church till after his
removal to New York in 1824. He then connected himself
with the Presbyterian church under the care of the Rev.
Dr. Potts. J. M.
T H E O D OR E S T R O N G.
No direct communication has been obtained from Mr.
Strong, but his friends in New Haven have furnished the
following brief notices, containing all that they wish may be
here said of him.
“He was born at Northampton, Mass., Jan. 13, 1779, and
was the oldest child of the late Governor Strong of that state.
“After leaving College in 1797, he returned to his native
town, where he passed through a course of legal studies un-
der the instruction of his father. But having little fondness
for the details of business, and possessing sufficient property
for his support, he did not engage in the active duties of
the profession; and the law library of his brother, Hon.
Lewis Strong, having been destroyed by fire, he transferred
his own to him.
“He continued to reside at Northampton until about four
years since, when he disposed of his property there, and re-
moved to Lawrence county, Ohio, where he owns a large
tract of land adjoining the Ohio river, on which are valuable
beds of iron and coal.
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“In the year 1807, he married Martha Allen, niece and
adopted daughter of Jeremiah Allen, Esq., of Boston. They
have had five children, of whom two only survive:—Jere-
miah Allen, who resides with his father, and Sarah Eliza-
beth, wife of Rev. Augustus Thompson of Roxbury.”
J. M.
EP H R AIM T R E A D W E L L WOOD R U FF,
WAs born at Farmington, Connecticut, on the 17th of
October, 1777; and was the youngest of nine children of
Timothy Woodruff, by his first wife, Lucy Treadwell, a
sister of the Hon. John Treadwell, late Governor of Con-
necticut. His mother, who was a pious woman, died in
1781. His father married again, had three other children,
and died in 1787, aged 50. Both his parents were professors
of religion, industrious, and reputable, but not affluent.
Left fatherless and motherless at the age of ten years,
Ephraim went to live with his older brother, Rev. Hezekiah
N. Woodruff, who graduated at Yale in 1784, and became
Pastor of the Congregational Church at Stonington Point.
Fostered by that brother, he made a public profession of re-
ligion at the age of thirteen, fitted for College under his
brother’s instruction, and entered the Freshman Class at
Yale College in the fall of 1793.
On leaving College, he taught an academy at Stonington
Borough one year; and subsequently taught in Farmington
six months. He then commenced the study of theology
under the Rev. Charles Backus, D.D., of Somers, Conn.;
was licensed in June, 1800, and preached in North Stoning-
ton, Marlborough and Coventry in Tolland county. In the
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last named place, he was ordained on the 8th of April, 1801;
and there he sustained the Pastoral office, with great success,
for about seventeen years. Soon after his settlement in Cov-
entry, a revival of religion added fifteen members to the
church. Two subsequent revivals brought in about one
hundred and twenty members. Besides his ministerial labors,
Mr. Woodruff taught a private school for both sexes in his
own house, nearly the whole time he resided in Coventry. In
1817, he found his health failing from excess of labor, and pro-
posed to take a dismission. But his people would not con-
sent, and he labored on two years more. He was then com-
pelled to resign the pastoral charge, and attend to his health.
But he was not suffered to be long idle. He preached seven
Sabbaths in Barkhamsted, was invited to settle there, but de-
clined it on account of his health. He next took a commis-
sion from the Missionary Society of Connecticut, to labor as
he should be able on the Connecticut Reserve in Ohio. On
his way thither, he was invited to take charge of the acade-
my at the Little Falls, Herkimer county, New York, with a
salary of $900, and liberty to preach in the vicinity, if he
chose to do so. He accepted the offer, remained there one
year, and then finding his health considerably improved, he
proceeded on his mission to Ohio. He arrived there in April,
1819, traveled through the wilderness to Wayne in Ashta-
bula county, where he located himself and has had his resi-
dence ever since. For twenty years he preached either as
Pastor of the church in Wayne, or as a Missionary, and with
much success. Two revivals in Wayne under his ministry,
added about one hundred and fifty members to that church.
His missionary labors in the vicinity, were equally blest.
But at length, difficulty in his vocal organs, and the failure
both of his sight and his hearing, obliged him to relinquish
preaching; and for eight years he has resided on his little
farm of twenty acres, acted as agent for the Connecticut
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Bible Society, and used his pen for advancing that Gospel
which he can no longer preach. He says, he is not rich,
but has a competence. His general health is good. He
attends public worship regularly, and by standing near the
preacher in the pulpit, he is able to hear the prayers and the
sermon. In view of his ministerial life, he says: “Bless the
Lord, O our souls, and forget not all his benefits.”
Mr. Woodruff has published a Sermon, preached at the
funeral of three young children murdered by their mother in
1820;-a fourth of July Sermon ;-and a Sermon at the
ordination of his son.—Contemplating the wants of the fee-
ble and destitute churches of the West, among which he
had been a successful missionary, he was induced to employ
about three years in composing short sermons for the use of
such little flocks in the wilderness. The number of sermons
is one hundred and one, and they are prepared for the press;
but, he says: “I have no pecuniary means for putting for-
ward the publication of this work, it remains on my hands.
But it is consecrated labor for the good of souls in the Mis-
sissippi valley, whether it see the light of the sun or not. I
think I shall make a present of the work to the Bible Society
of Connecticut, and let them dispose of it at their dis-
cretion.”
Mr. Woodruff was married on the 7th of October, 1801,
to Sally Alden, the orphan daughter of Jonathan Alden of
Norwich, a lineal descendant from the Pilgrim Alden of
Plymouth rock. This excellent woman bore him eight chil-
dren, and died a happy death in 1829 or 1830. After two
years of single life, Mr. Woodruff married Susan Porter,
born and educated in East Windsor, Conn., and a descendant
of the Tudor family. By this marriage he has no children.
His eight children by his first wife, were—(1.) Charlotte,
who died in infancy:—(2.) Sarah Bartlett, born in 1804,
married in 1822 to Seth Hayes, a thrifty merchant at Hart-
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ford, Trumbull county, Ohio:—(3.) Phebe, married, Nov.
20th, 1831, to Dr. Theodore Kellogg, a physician in Girard,
Erie county, Pennsylvania:—(4.) Jonathan Alden, who
graduated at Hamilton College, became a Presbyterian minis-
ter, married Susan Osborn, and resides at Newton Falls, Trum-
bull county, Ohio —(5.) Harriet, who met a peaceful death
at the age of 18:-(6.) Ephraim, who died in infancy:—
(7.) Charlotte Maria, married, Sept. 17th, 1834, to John B.
Clark, harness-maker and coach trimmer at Girard, Penn. :-
(8.) Samuel Ebenezer, who graduated at Hamilton College,
married recently, and is a lawyer at Girard, Penn.—Mr.
Woodruff says: “I do humbly trust, in the fear and love
of God, that all my children are either with Christ, or in
him.” Those living, and their companions, are all pro-
fessors of religion; and all members of Presbyterian church-
es, except the wife of the youngest son, who is a Methodist.
They are all well settled in the world, prosperous in business,
active for the cause of Christ, and residing not far from him.
They were trained up, from infancy, in a strictly religious
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FOR THE PALIXADIUMI.
fêev. James Murdock, HP. D.
It will be observed that the Obituary list of to-day
records the death of the Rev. James Murdock, D. D.
of this city; an event which will be mourned by
massy outside the circle of his immediate relatives,
and especially by his venerable friends and asso-
ciates who still linger among us in the Waning
twilight of old age as worthy specimens of the ripe
wisdom and Solid Scholarship of a past generation.
The busy crowd will not miss him, for he was
not a frequenter of our thoroughfares and public
places. But tears, many and Sorrowful, will be
shed by a noble fraternity in our midst, of which
he was an honored member—a fraternity made up
of Christian thinkers and students, whom the in"
firmities of age have induced to retire from ačtive
studies : but who still tend with careful hands the
twin lamps of piety and learning. It were not
well that so eminent a Scholar, so worthy a Chris-
tian, and so valuable a citizen as Dr. Murdock,
should be allowed to leave us without Some brief
account of what he was, and what he did.
Dr. Murdock was born at Westbrook, in this
tate, Feb. 16. 1766. He graduated with distinc-
tion at Yale, in 1797. After some year; spent in
instruction, during which he was one of the foun-
ders of Hamilton College, in New York, the Sud-
ceeding 13 years were spent chiefly in the duties
of the Congregational ministry at Princeton, Mass.
[n 1815, he was appointed Professor of the learned
Languages in the University of Vermont. In 1818
he was elected to the same Chair in Dartmouth
College, which he declined. in the spring of 1819,
he was chosen Brown Professor of Sacred Rhetoric
and Ecclesiastical History in the Theological Sem-
inary at Andover. In 1828, having resigned his
Chair in that Institution, he returod to New Ha-
years, though occupying no official station he was
not idle. With a zealous and untiring assiduity
he deveted himself to the cause of sacred learning,
and achieved by his published works an enduring
reputation abroad as well as at home. In 1830 he
translated from the German, Dr. William Mueng-
Scher's Elements of Dogmatic History. In 1822
he published the great work of his life : a New and
Literal Translation of Mosheim’s Institutes of Ec-
clesiastical History, with copious additional Notes,
3 vols. 8vo. This work he endeavored to copy.
right in England, but could not effect it. Two
Or three editions have already appeared there.—
In 1842, he gave to the public, a work con-
taining “Sketches of Modern Philosophy as
held by the Germans.” This work was re.
printed in Scotland. In 1851 he edited the First,
and translated the Second volume of “Mosheim's
Historical Commentaries on the state of Christian-
ity during the first 225 years of the Christian
Era.” He performed this task with a singular
degree of taste and fidelity; so much 50 indeed as
to win for himself the universal respect of schol-
|. and historians. It is an interesting fact, and
one that may be talee-------- ~~~~ww.vii of Ills well
trained habits as a student, and also of the una-
bated vigor of his intellect, that at three-score and
|tem hºbegan the Study of the SyriaGlanguage, and
subsequently translated with force and precision,
the "Paichito Syriac Version of the New Tºstã.
ment.” His private correspondence with Scholars
and divineg On questions of Philosophy and Th90l.
(g), WA; Qntinued tº the Wºry list, and to an ºx.
(Altkſwil Olly ſlišillºlilºſſill, WI.
all of the Ancient Languages and of the Modern
Languages ºf Eur), he rºad with filmſy.
As might iſ Sū)0ſºl from fluſh ºn ITW ºf
learned labors, the erudition of Dr. Murdock was
not more various than profound and accurate.—
Thoroughness characterized all his studies; and
though largely discursive in his range of topics,
he was never Superficial. Without being brilliant,
his mind was at once robust, acute and compre-
. . hensive. What he saw, he saw clearly and on all
, sides. Questions of evidence he decided with a
stern judicial impartiality, loving truth more than
theory or party, or Schools of thought. With a
strong natural taste for the speculative and the
abstract, his energies were yet turned away from
cloud-land of metaphysics toward the Solid ground
of historical investigation. This preference in-
creased with the lapse of years, and his large ex-
perience of the vagaries and fancies of speculative
reason. So much was this 80, that during his later
years, he began to look with distrust if not posi-
tive aversion on many of the favorite pursuits and
lauded trophics of Germań thought and Style ºf
thºught, with which for years he had made him-
Self familiar.
In closing up the record of 80 long, S0 Scholarly,
and thoughtful a life, a life animated throughout
by a thoroughly analytical and inquisitive Spirit,
it is a Satisfaction to hear its final testimony as to
the value and efficency of Gospel Truth. Dr. Mur-
dock’s witueBS on this point was not more intelli-
gent than decided. Only a few months before his
death, he remarked in substance to a friend that
the Whole result of his investigations had been to
confirm the simple faith of his early years. And
we have reason to know that as his wisdom ripe-
ened, as his soul drew near to the solemn aspects
of another world, and above all, as the calm decline
of old age led his intellect back from the cold
proud heights of mere learning into the region of
feeling and desire, where the heart if knit to
Christ, enjoys a perpetual youth ; we have reason
to know that as these processes went on, he re-
garded with increasing suspicion all philosophi-
cal refinements of Revealed Truth and reposed
With a mor) undoubting Onſident.0 upºn th9 grºñi
facts and elementary verities of the Christian sys-
ven, where he has since resided. During these 28.
Notes for the Campaign.
At an American meeting in Nashville, Tenn., a
few days since, says the Banner, Gen. Barrow
read a letter Written by Gen. Jackson to Wm. B.
Lewis, Esq., in which “Old Hickory” charges
James Buchanan with “a want of moral courage,”
&C. Gen. B. read from the original letter, in the
well known hand writing of Gen. Jackson, and
held the manuscript up to the crowd, so that all
might See it.
According to the latest classification by The
Chicago Tribune of the Illinois papers, the whole
number is 187. Of these 97 are Fremont, 61 Bu-
chaman, 28 neutral and I Fillmore. Is it possible
that a party so weak in the Sucker can be strong
in the Hoosier State 2
The issue in the present Presidential Câmpaign
is becoming plainer and more distinctly defined
every day. The following resolution was passed
at a late meeting of the nigger driving democracy
of Fauquier, Wa. :—
Resolved, That the paramount issue of the can.
Yass is the slavery question, to which there can be
but two sides, the one held by the Black Republi-
cans, and the other by the democracy, and that
those who are not for us and with us, aro against
U18.
-ms
The Charter Oak,
At Hartford, was blown down last night, during
the Severe storm. So goes another old land mark
of Freedom.
-*-a- ºn-
-aſ wºr-º-
AMERICAN GENIUS.–Professor Morse has been
invited to the coronation of the new Emperor of
Russia, and, it is stated, has contracted with the
government to establish lines of telegraph through-
out the empire. With the usual magnificent hos-
pitality which the Czar always extends to scientific
employees, our distinguished GGüntryman is fur-
nished with Splendid apartiaents, horses, servants,
and all requisite entertainment.
ſº Counterfeit ten dollar bills, ofthe Mahaiwe
Bank, at Great Barrington, Mass., are in circula.
tion.
-----
fºr The Scotch dialect is never more expressive
than when a hot forenoon is spoken of as a lºsiºn.
mer morn.”
*An eccentric clergyman once remarked,
that bringing politics into religion was undoubt.
. *:::. º GOn 860 uences; but that the
1ntroduction of religion into politi
different matter-W. J’. º tics was a very
*---ºº-º-º--—.
BAR PENDANTS,-Ear-rings are worn by all na-
tions. In the East Indies they are made the size
of saucers, and are generally of gold and valuable
jewels. . In order to admit this immense ear-ring,
ºn incision is made through the ear, and a filament
formed of cocoa nut leaves tightly rolled around
is thrust in the opening. The filament is constant.
ly enlarged, till it has wrenched the orifice two
inches in diameter, and the perfection required be.
ing then obtained, the wound is allowed to heal,
and the ear laden with every kind of ornament."
The ear of a lady belonging to civilized Christen-
dom would be looked upon with contempt by these
Eastern faBhionables of both sexes—for mea as
#.º.º.º. ººcytºft.
Gure; but among the Indian tribes, the noblesse
are allowed the high privilege of having an or.fice
through the ear more than three inches in diame-
tºr, While th910WOr Order; aſ TCŞtricted to that
size.
ſº"The dºgſ% ºf L,L,I), has bºth CŞnferred
upon Hon. Charles Sumner, by Amherst College,
-—6&–0-$2–~~~~
THE SUMMER IN ENGLAND-The Iondon papers
received by the Canada, report the state of the
weather in England up tº July 20th. For the
week ending that date, the thermometer when
ligh!!!, Mºlſºm (50.78%, the lºt figurgh.
ing the highest point the mercury has reached this
season. On the morning of July 25th, the ther.
mometer was down to 44°. It appears by the re.
port of meteorological observations in England,
that no day of the summer, has, thus far, been so
Warm G8 it was in Boston last Sunday, which was
here regarded as a fine, cool day for August.— Bos-
ton Transcript.
--"
sfºoral, Norrors.
PHŠSOLUTION OF CAPPARTNERSHIP.
The Copartnership heretofore existing under the
name and firm of BABCOCK & WILDMAN, Pub-
lishers of the New Haven Daily, Tri-Weekly and
Weekly PALLADIUM, is dissolved by mutual con-
sent. All the debts of the firm will be paid by J
F. BABCOCK. All notes and accounts due to the
late firm, will be paid to bim, who is fully author-
ized to Settle all the affairs of Baid BABCOCK &
WILDMAN, JAMES F. BABCOCK,
CORNELIUS WIT,DMAN.
New Haven, August 1, 1856.
REW COPARTNERSHIP,
The Subscribers have this day, August 1, 1856,
formed a Copartnership under the name and firm
of BABGOCK & SIZER, by whom the New Haven
Daily, Tri-Weekly and Weekly PALLADIUM, will
be published.
JAMES F BABCOCK,
FREDERICK. W. J. SIZER,
New Haven, August 1, 1856.
# W. W. BALDWIN, BROKER, No. 9
Adelphi Building, New Haven, gives particular attention
to the purchase and gale of Bonds, Štockſ, and Notes, and
Negotiating Loans. feb2-déºwtf-18
§ 8 U M M E R C I, o T H 1 N G F O B.
tem.
Dr. Murdock was in many respects a remarka-
ble man We lament that so much worth and wis-
dom has been taken from us. But wejoy to think
how his aged form sunk to rest amid a very bap-
tism of heavenly light. For ourselves, as it was
our privilege to listen to him in life, so now that
he is no more, we shall visit with a sad pleasure,
the spot where he will sleep in the certain hope of
a joyful resurrection.
He died at Columbus, Miss., August 10th, at the
age of 80 years.
--- MEN AND BOYS. -
The largest stock of THIN CLOTHING for MER AND Boxg,
to b8 found in any one store in this State, is now on exhi-
ition and for sale at the LOWERT PRICEs at the CLOTHING
MPoſtIUM, 94 Chapel gtreet.
THOMAS CHATTERTON.
jelld&wtſ37
§ REMARKABLE CURES BY USING THE
GENUINE ALLIED Oriºr MENT AND HUMoR §YRUP.
J. 8. §tafford of Lawrence, testifleg to two cureş of Sorof
ula of very aggravated character, and of being himself
cured of a bad hurror.
Lucy Redbian cf Lawrence, cured of Eing's Evil,
Mr. Crºſby of Lawrenº WA; Cured Of Erysipóláſ.
Mrš, Fórnºld Of IlúWrenç0, Wāş Çured of a cancer,
Rhesa Bromson of Fall River, was cured of humors of six
years' standing.
James W. Hunt of Lawrence, wag Gured of chronic diffi
culty of the chest, occasioned by humorg.
S. I. Thompson of Lawrence, cured of bad humor.
Matthias Shore of New Bedford, cured of bad humor.
Mrg, J. Carlton of Lawrence, curéd of a Spider Cancer.
L. D. Reed, Great Falls, wageured of Cancer which had
often through his lip,
A lady in Łeominster cured of Cancer in her stomach.
Alady in Derry was cured of Cancer.
Mr. Carlton of Lawrence, was Oured of Barber's Itch,
Mfg. Swan of Lawrence, Oured of internal humorg,
A. R. Hall of Lawrence, was cured of Sick Headache,






















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sº II. 49. {P. F.
ěžº EXCUIRSION -
ºš TO
G L E N C 0 W E , L. I.
The members of the various Lodges and Fn campment of
ODD FELLOWS of this city and vicinity, have chartered
the Steamer CHAMPION for an Excursion to Glen Cove, L.
I., on TUESDAY, Aug. 26th, leaving New Haven at
precisely 8 o'clock a.m., returning in the evening. The
WEW HAVEN BRASS AND COTILLON BAND have been
engaged to furnish Music for the occasion. The Roat Will
be put in complete order, and the Committee are using
overy exortion to make this the finest Excursion of tho
season. Refreshments can be procured on bºard, and &m-
ple provision for the “immer man” can be had at the Various
excellent Hotels in Glen Cove.
Brothers of the Order from abroad are invited to attend.
Sale of Tickets limited to 450,—prico $1 00. Children's
Tickets, 50 cents—to bo had of the following narûed mem-
bers of the Committed, viz.: -
George Crabtree, 14 Clarke-st; Homer H. Peck, 13 High
st; W. W. White, 70 Chapel-fit; David Botsford, 66 Chap-
el-st; Charles IIartwig, Greene gt; 8. C. Ford, West Ville;
F. D. Kellogg, Fair Haven. Also of B. Beecher, Jr., 75
Chapel-st; J. Waterman, 95 Chapel st; M. P. Thomas, 106
Chapel-st, and T. H. Pease, 83 Chapel-st.
CHARLE.8 L. SAGE,
au21-4 (l Chairman Colm of Arrangements.
S T.E.A.M. ## E A 'H' H R St.
The subscriber, having purchased of the CONN.
§TEAM HEATING COMPANY the right for S. J. Gold's
method for heating buildings, by low pressure Steam, for
the State of Connecticut, would inform the public that he
is now prepared to erect the apparatue in dwellings, stores,
factories, or public buildings, of any size or capacity, in this
State. This method of warming is free from tho objections
urged against hot air, and has advantages too numerous to
mention—among which are, safety from fires, economy,
simplicity of operation; being gelf-acting, requires very
little attention and trouble to tend it. It is much cleaner
than any other method, is vastly more healthy, giving a
summer atmosphere in the room the coldest Winter day,
and of even temperature at tºe floor and ceiling, thereby
avoiding the necessity of getting the foot eleva: că above
their place on the floor to get them warm, ...The best re-
commendation we can give, is to refer to parties using our
method, and invite an examination. It will be found to re-
commend itself much better than any description we could
give in an advertisement, as truths told of it might 80und
like bombast. Pieage call and examine for yourgelves, at
our Office, 88 and 90 Stafford Building, New Haven.
au?l-lyr II. M. HILI,8.
Yīl U R F T N G, . 'i U R F [ N G .
The subscriber is now prepared to lay any amount
of TURIſ, of the begt quality, at only 2 cents a square foot.
All orders will be promptly attended to, and the work dome
in a satisfactory manner. PFT}}R, MiAL}_AHAN,
all 21-6d No. 23 York street.
\}\}. ANTED TO BORROW-–$700 or
$800, to be secured on Real Estate in South Nor-
walk, adjoining the Railroad, worth from $1,800 to $2,000.
Inquire at this oftice. au21-p3d
OLASSFS.—Cargo per “Excelsior,”
front Porto Rico, is offered for sale in lots.
au31-3d H. TROWBRITYGE'S 80NS.
ARPER'S MAGAZINE–For Septem-
ber, for sale at the ſauðll 8. §. DEPOSITORY.
TARPER'S MAGAZINE–For Septem-
her. Also, Harper's 8tory Book. 3. BABCOOK.
AVID'S IMPROVED ADHESIVE
I MUUILAGE–David's Carmine Inks, &c, &c. A good
supply to be found at the §. S. DEPUSITORY,
au?l No. 3 Tºxchange Building, Church-Rt.
ARPER'S MAGAZINE–For Septem-
ber. Also, Godey's Trady’s Book, Petergon's, Na-
tional, Graham's, and Ballou's Magazines ài è received.
Exercises at the Dedication of the New Grounds of the
Evergreen Cemetery—66.
Public Acts of the State of Connecticut, paſſified May 808-
ſhion, 1856--37%.c. For Balo by
au21 E. DOWNE8, 5 Exchange.
LATED WARE.--We have on hand a
good assortment of Plated Table and 'l'ea Spoons,
Table and Desert Forks, Butter Knives, Sugar and Salt
Shovels, Mustard Spoons, &c. These articles are from re-
#iable makers, and can be depended upon,
sºu?]. WY’. I 1. NY A. Y. & Co., 35 Church. Bt.
TUDU'S LIQUID CUTICLE.—A supply
just receiyed, and for sale by the dºzęn or Bingle bottle,
at 158 Chapel-2t. C. B. WHITTLESEY, Druggist.
S.A.: SYRUP.-R. L. & A. Stuart's
JEx ra Bugar House Syrup, one cask this day received
at 83 State-fit. all 21 W. T. BRADLEY & C().
NE (JASE, One Yard Wide, English
Prints, white grounds, for 13% centº per yard I reg-
ular 25 cent Goods. HEMAN B. A.J.I.RN, 144 (Jhapel-st.
HQGS, PIGS, AND PEGGIES......
A choice lot of all sizes of SPRING
PIGS, from 30 to 150 pounds each, received this day, and
kept constantly and continually for Bale at
17 RBroadway, New Haven.
Call and see the best lot ever brought to thig city.
$W
Dlsº OF NEW HAVEN, ss. Pro-
bate Court, Aug. 21ſt, 1856.-Estate of JAME}}}
HANLEY, late of New Haven, in said DiBtriot, deceased.
Ortofºre D–That the Administrator exhibit his Adminis-
£ration account to this Court for adjustament, at the Probate
Ottico in New Haven, on the 25th day of August, 1856, at 9
cº'clock in the forenoon : and that all person 8 interested
in said lºstate may be notified thereof, the Adminigtrator
Willºlº his ºrder tº bu published in a newspaper
printed in New Iſayen County, and post a copy thereof
on the sign post in said town.
1W.47 CYPRIAN WILIGOX, Judge,
***** **** -----, ------, ... ….....
*****-------------------------------...
SAVR ONE HUNDRED PER (ENT.
PIAAHN AN}} PIAID FitiºM(H MERIN0s!
SIGITIY DAMAGED ly WME,
at a stºcrifice of
TWENTY-FIVE FER CENT
FROM THE COST OF IMPORTATION |
lºſſ Wil Plai, Marius, in high colors, at 87% is per yd
1275 yds “ “ at 1,12% cts, worth
1,50 to-day
1700 yds Plaid, all wool, Merinos, ugual price 75c. Our
price will be 87%g per yd, a discount of one hundred per et.
3W 47 RIGGS & SMITH, 129 Chapel-gt.
Olº {}{{RESE.---25 boxes old CHEESE
this day received at 33 State St.
au8 W. T. [3H AIDLEY & CO.
LD PAPERS FOR SALE.--A quantity
of old NEWSPAPERS, Buitable for wrapping paper.
Apply at this office. all 20-3d
MOKED HALIBUT-Pickled Salmon,
and No. 1 Mackerol, just received at 75 Ståle-St.
au?0 T). S. COOPER.
TARPER'S MAGAZINE–For Septem-
ber. Harper's Story Book, No. 22–Gibraltar Gal-
Juſt received by au20 DüRRIF: A PFCK.
BUY Alº, Wºoi. The
NEXT SHY THON FHS :
How long we shall be able to sell such bargains in
Bleached and Brown Cottons, is very uncertain. Now you
can have full yard wide Bleached Cottons at “Yankee six-
pence”
KillO4}inth Blºheddo at 10 cent, worth 1% at
§uperior mudressed do go at 13% cents, worth 15 oth
lish Linoni. At 2 Blllling
t * * ,
Fluodo do, 50 and 62% ets
Šuperior Limens, 75c to $100 -
Judging from our salos the last thre3 days, the supply
will not last long. “A word to the wise,” &c.
ALDEN & HUNTINGTON, 125 Chapel st.,
Lyon Building:
EP'I'EMBER -–1856- SEPTEMBER...
HARPER'S MAGAZINE for Septembey, just received.
SubSeriptions received and single numbers for sale at 105
Chapel-Ét, by JOHN H. AUSTIN,
au?0 Old Stand of Peterson & Glenmey.
AT WO{}]]'5 JAUNT) ICE BITTERS.--
A. gupply * º above just received at 158 Chapel-st,
{All!
lery.
au%
C. B. WHITTLESEY, Druggist.
Eº Spring Water, and Congress
$pring Water, a full and fresh supply just received
at 158 Chapel-at. For sale by
all 20 C. B. WHITTLESEY, Druggist.
RWINGPS ] IFE OF WASHING'i'GN--
wº Vol. 1, uniform edition, $1 50. The Delnºcratic
Review for August, containing Portraits of Euchanam and
Breckenridge, 250. For Băle by ¥3
&ul G E. DOWNES, 5 Exchang
For sale by
- -- º - - • * * ~ * - º sº - -- ºr rºº Bºº & º ºr "ſº y stºr- ºr .a.º. ºf
Sº, a * : *-, *.*.* ºr ºs-Sºº sº. 3.; ºfºº ś ºšº Yºº. º
§§§ Sºś §º Fº º {#ſº
# Cotil 1 on Party :
#$º AT
Union Hail,
THURSDAY EVENING, Aug. 31st,
MUSIC BY THE OLD (AENT'S BAND.
TICKET8... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .50 CENTS.
For gale at J. H. AUSTIN’S, 105 Chapel-at., and at the
door. 7& B incing to commence at 9 o'clock.
aul 9 p2d
..F. E. X C U R S I O
R.sº TO
Hålºgatafººd Hºgwie at .
On FRIDAY, Aug. 22d, and SATURDAY, 23d.
Tho Steamboat CHAMPION will leave the 8teamboa
Wharf ag above, at 2 o'clock, returning to the city at 7 o'clk.
aul{}
T. H. O. T C H K I S S & S ON,
& IDEALER8 IN
ANTHRACITE AND BITUMINOUS
(C ID A HA
10 STATE ST., opp. Mechanics Bank.
29 LONG WHARE'.
NEW HAVEN, CON N.
ISAAC T. HOTCHKISS. jy9-3md DAVID T. HOTCHKISg.
G O O. Dº T H I N G, ...—
The new Machime for paring and slicing Appleg,
wiligh has oreated go much interest amongst Mechanics
and Inventors, is now thoroughly perfected, as d for sale,
wholesale and retail, in this city, at MUNSON & JOHN-
SON'S, No. 49 State street, E. IWES', Adelphſ Building,
Chapel street, near the Depot, and at the Manufactory,
corner of Chapel and Chestnut streets.
This Machine is the result of years of study, and has
beam pronounced by all who have examined it, one of the
most succeſsful results of American ingenuity. It not
only pºres the apple with incredible quickness, but also
slices it into curved slices of uniform thickness, in an
equally short space of time. Apples thus sliced will dry in
one day in the sum. A girl of fifteen years will pare and
slice twenty bushels in a day. Farmers, Hotel keeperg and
Bakers are invited to call and see it.
H. N. GOODMAN & CO,
Ownerg of the Patent for the U. S. A.
New Haven, Ct.
Zºº Patent Agents wanted. au} 6-3d&W'tf{T
SILVER WARE.—The Subscriber
jº would inform his friends and the public that he is
$4:# constantly receiving additions of the latest and
most fathionable styles, to his already extensive ail sort-
ment of Silver Ware. His experience in this branch of
trade enables him to offör superior inducement.8 to pur-
chagers, both in variety and price—and justifies him in bé-
lieving that he can readily pleage all that favor him with
, Officeſ,
a call. C. J. MONSON, 8 Exchange Building,
jylö New Haven, Comm.
Y ROCERH
sold on the premises in Morocco-8t, above York-st,
on FRIDAY, Aug. 22d, at 10 o'clock a. m. The stock was
recently laid in for cash, and is worthy tho attention of the
trade, ſº Sale positive—and for cash,
aul 6–6;i O. F. HOTCHKISS & 3ON.
F I, Y T R A P S .
We are now receiving a more regular supply of our
novel
F i y C a t c he r s :
the rapid sale of which shows that they are appreciated by
all who see them. For Meat Shops, Hotels, Eating Houses,
Grocery 8tores, Stables, Dairies, or the sick room, in fact
wherever flies are troublegome, it will be found invaluable,
and will goon be deemed an indispensable article of furni-
ture in every family, store and shop. They may be found
on ret. All at the Stores of SIMMONS HINE and MUNSON
& JOHNSON, in State 8t, GEO. BROWN'S Store, and R. J.
COWE'S. Barber Shop in Chapel-fit, at the Grain and Feed
Storo of Mr. CRITTENDEN, in Broadway, and at wholeſale
Of WM. JUMPER, New Haven,
GEO. GILBERT, Westville.
New Havon, Aug. 19th, 1856. 3mogd&w 47
L A D I E S
A. -
JAS. M. CROFU'H' & CO.,
Having leased the Store formerly occupied by 8. C
Pl!CK, JR, and re-fitted it for the continuance of the
CLOAK, SHAWL AND MANTILLA BUSINESS,
would most respectfully solicit your attention to our Fall
stock of Goods. Thankful for your liberal patronage the
past year, and your appreciation of Goods and prices, we
would holicit it continuance of your favorg by ensuring you
batter Goods &nd prides than ever before offered you, In
connection, we have opened a -
IADIES” FITTING STORR),
where we shall manufacture to order, Cloaks, Mantillas
and Talmaş, -also, ladies' and children's garments of
6Very description. An assortment of Ladies' under
clothing. Cloths, Silks, Velvets, Cambrict, and Trimmings
will be kept for sale, below the usual prices.
5 APPRENTIOES Wanted,
aul.9 JAS. M. CTROFUT & CO.
ORN, OATS AND FEED–This day
landing, and in Store—
2,500 bughold Wegtern Corn
l,000 ** Northorn. “
5,000 & 3 Western Oats
500 bags fresh ground Meal
1,000 “ fine Feed and Rye Bran
New Wheat and Rye Flour, and all other kindg of Feed,
for gale by LINSLEY & OARLISLE,
aul 9 No. 1 Custon, Houge Square.
EHGH, Egg, AND STONE COAI-
Now landing, Spring Mountain, Lehigh, Egg and
Stone, of the same excellent quality that has pleased all
thºſe Been it. Call and look at it—our pricºs Bhall bº
tliiſaſtory, T. BENEDICT & SON,
alló cor. East Water and Brewery ºtg.
'º'Aºi. -******.
FANCY SILKS-0ut present assortment
A wº shall ºr allow priº, in Oſlº tº make MoW
for ºilandid sººk ºf Vulvillmºlal).
ault RIGGS & SMITH,
{{ORNER STANDS-Just finishing, new
ſtyles of Rogewood, Black, Walnut and Mahogany
Corner Sºldi, to With WOWOld imit5th allonſon ºf
the publi), at the Furniture Warerooms of
aul 8 HOWARD B. RNSIGN, 41 Orange-gt.
Sºyº BUTTON'S AND STUDS.–A
J great variety of the latest and most fashionable styles,
for gale low at 120 Chapel-st. aul3 Gl.O. BROWN.
Y HEEL-BARROWS.—50 Canal Bar-
rows, of good strength and superior finish, at the
Agricultural Store, MUNSON & JOHNSON.
au'ſ . d&W-45
*RABLE GUTLERY.—A general assort-
ment, including Ivory Handle and Plated Knives and
Forks, &c., carefully selected, and cheap, at the Crockery
and Houge Furnishing Store in Street's Building, 63 State
gt. |au'l-d&W-45] BROUGHTON & CLARKE.
OLLAR BLACK SILKS-12 1-2 ct.
BRILLIANTS, and the best agsortment of cheap
Bleached and Brown Cottons in the city. We are selling
immenge quantibiog daily.
N. B.-See the bargains.
aul.8 ALDEN & HUNTINGTON, 125 Chapel. st.
HINA. DOLLS AND DOLL HEADS.–
A full aggortment of China, Babies, black and white;
algo, China Doll Heads of all gizos, just received at the
Cash Crockery Store, 11T Chapel treet,
§ll? E. S. MINOR,
"HE EXCITEMENT INCREASES.–
R£MNANT3 OF PRINTS.--We have just received
another largo supply, which are of bright Chintz colors and
small figures. We shall make short work with them in
order to make room for otherg already ordered.
auil JARMAN BROTHERS, 153 Chapel st.
T}DS AND ENDS.—We have an ac-
cumulation of odd and shop-worm pieces of Furni-
ture that we have marked down legg than 008t, to clear
them out, as we want the room. There are—10 Bedsteads,
$150 io $6 50; 10 ºahogamy Chairs, six patterns; a small
lot of Cano Seat Chairs; 8 cheap 8tands; 4 Wagh-stands;
8 Teapoy Stands; 1 Oral Stand; 1 Leaf Stand; 3 Sofas;
1 second hand Spring Bed, at $12 50, the hair in which is
worth the money; 10 Wood Chairs; 8 long wood Benches
guitable for a school, &c, &c. BOW DITCH & SON,
airl 5 88 and 40 Orange and 96 Chapel-fit,
; AISIRIS.--150 boxes prime Layer
-º- Raising,
25 boxes prime M. R. Raigins
25 hf boxes. “ tº & do
25 l' & 4 44 tº ()
Received this day, and for gale by -
auiS WYLIE & BROTHER.
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