LIBRARY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA. GIFT OK A Class BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES GRADUATES OF YALE COLLEGE WITH Annals of the College History VOL. IV. JULY, 1778- -JuNE, 1792 FRANKLIN BOWDITCH DEXTER, LiTT.D. HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY 1907 COPYRIGHT, 1907 BY HENRY HOLT & CO. 'V V A* THE TUTTLE, MOREHOUSK & TAYLOR PRESS, NEW HAVEN, CONN. TO DANIEL COIT OILMAN, LL.D. IN MEMORY OF HIS GUIDANCE AND EXAMPLE FIFTY YEARS AGO WHICH FIRST INSPIRED AN INTEREST IN THE COLLEGE HISTORY THIS VOLUME IS GRATEFULLY INSCRIBED Nescire autem quid antea quam natus sis acciderit, id est semper esse puerum. Cicero, Orator, 34. Homines quidem pereunt, ipsa autem humanitas, ad quam homo effingitur, permanet. Seneca, Epist. 65, 7. 'Quis leget haec?' 'Min' tu istud ais? Nemo hercule.' 'Nemo?' 'Vel duo, vel nemo.' Persius, Sat. i, 2-3. Historiam .., quae non ostentationi, sed fidei veritatique componitur. Pliny, Epist. 7, 17, 3. PREFACE Circumstances have enabled the author to prepare the present volume more rapidly than any of its predecessors, though this may be partly due to a smaller amount of research as more modern times are reached. The author is as conscious of the imperfections of his work as any critic can be ; but believes it wiser to put in type his material as it is, rather than delay for possible improvement. He is again indebted to his friend, Mr. John M. Gaines (Yale 1896), a Fellow of the Actuarial Society of America, for valuable vital statistics which appear in the Appendix. If another volume of this series should be undertaken, it would probably include the classes from 1792 to 1805. YALE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY, June, 1907 CONTENTS Preface ......... v Annals, 1778 ........ I Sketches, Class of 1778 ...... 2 Annals, 1778-79 . . . . . . . .89 Sketches, Class of 1779 . . . . . 90 Annals, 1779-80 . . . . . . . .135 Sketches, Class of 1780 ...... 136 Annals, 1780-81 ........ 175 Sketches, Class of 1781 ...... 176 Annals, 1781-82 . . . . . ... . 213 Sketches, Class of 1782 ...... 214 Annals, 1782-83 ........ 246 Sketches, Class of 1783 ...... 247 Annals, 1783-84 ........ 318 Sketches, Class of 1784 . . . . . .319 Annals, 1784-85 ........ 375 Sketches, Class of 1785 ...... 376 Annals, 1785-86 ........ 448 Sketches, Class of 1786 . . . . . -449 Annals, 1786-87 ........ 521 Sketches, Class of 1787 . . . . . .523 Annals, 1787-88 588 Sketches, Class of 1788 . . . . . .589 Annals, 1788-89 ........ 626 Sketches, Class of 1789 ...... 627 Annals, 1789-90 ........ 660 Sketches, Class of 1790 ...... 661 Annals, 1790-91 ........ 701 Sketches, Class of 1791 . . ... . . 702 Annals, 1791-92 . . . . . . . . 740 Appendix ......... 741 Additions and Corrections ...... 745 Index . . . . . . . -747 TJX or THf A g UNIVERSITY OF BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES ANNALS OF YALE COLLEGE Annals, 1778 At the date of President Stiles's inauguration, on July 8, the number of students enrolled as members of the College was one hundred and thirty-two ; and the officers in charge of this body included two Professors (of Divin- ity and of Mathematics) and three Tutors. The largest class was the Senior, numbering thirty-nine, and this was also a class of exceptional brilliancy. The most important incident in the two months which intervened before Commencement, was the receipt by Dr. Stiles on August 22 of a letter from the Hon. Silas Deane (Yale 1758), late Commissioner to France, proposing the establishment of a Professorship of the French language in the College and the gathering of a collection of French authors for the Library. He offered his agency in solicit- ing money and books in France to carry out these pur- poses, if he could be assured that the project was acceptable. Dr. Stiles appears to have favored the idea, but the Corporation gave it little encouragement, while they post- poned a final decision; and Deane's subsequent history was not such as to help the matter. The Commencement was a private one, on September 9. Sketches, Class of 1778 *Joel Barlow, A.M., LL.D. Univ. Georg. 1809, apud Aul. Gall. Legat. *i8i2 *Phineas Bartholomew *i8i6 *Abrahamus Bishop, A.M. *i844 *Shubael Breed, A.M. *i84O * Aaron Buel, A.M. 1786 *Benjamin Chaplin, et Harv. 1779, A.M. * I 7^>9 *Ebenezer Daggett, A.M. "1781 * Johannes Alexis Dibble, A.M. * I 79& *Obadias Dickinson, A.M. *i844 *Henricus Ely, A.M. "1835 *Edmundus Foster, A.M. 1786 et Harv. 1784 *i826 * Jonathan Frisbie *:8o4 *Ezekiel Gilbert, A.M. 1793, e Congr. *i84i *Thomas Gold, A.M. *i827 * Johannes Goodrich, A.M. *i8oo *Fredericus Guilielmus Hotchkiss, A.M. *Obadias Hotchkiss, A.M. *Stephanus Jacob, A.M. 1788 et Dartm. 1803, Reip. Viridim. Cur. Supr. Jurid. Princ. *i8i7 *Guilielmus Johnson * I 779 *David Judson, A.M. *i84i * Aaron Kellogg *i83O *Nathan Leavenworth, A.M. 1793 * J 799 *Josias Meigs, A.M., Tutor, Math, et Philos. Nat. Prof., Univ. Georg. Praeses et Math., Philos. Nat., Chem. Prof., in Coll. Columbian. Wash. Philos. Nat. Prof. *i822 *Ashurus Miller, Reip. Conn. Cur. Super. Jurid., Socius ex officio *i82i * Johannes Mix, A.M. "1844 *Josephus Noyes, A.M. *i8i7 Biographical Sketches, 1778 3 *Aegidius Pettibone, A.M. *i8n *Daniel Reed "i&H *Ebenezer Sage, e Congr^ *i^34 *Noachus Smith, Reip. Viridim. Cur. Supr. Jurid. *i8i2 *Asa Spalding, A.M. Harv. 1791 *i8n *Josias Spaulding, A.M. "1823 *Sethus Storrs, A.M. *i837 *Zephanias Swift, A.M., LL.D. 1817 et Mediob. 1821, e Congr., Reip. Conn. Cur. Supr. Jurid. Princ. "1823 *Urias Tracy, A.M., e Congr., Rerumpubl. Foed. Sen. "1807 *Noachus Webster, A.M. et Neo-Caes. 1795, LL.D. 1823 et Mediob. 1830 "1843 * Johannes Welch, Socius ex off. *i844 *Ichabod Wetmore, A.M. ^785 * Alexander Wolcott *i828 *Oliverus Wolcott, A.M., LL.D. 1819 et Brun. 1799 et Neo-Caes. 1799, Rerumpubl. Foed. The- saur. Secretarius etiam Cur. in Jurisd. Conn. Jurid., Reipubl. Conn. Gubernator, Socius ex officio "1833 JOEL BARLOW was born in Redding, Fairfield County, Connecticut, on March 24, 1754, being the youngest son of Samuel Barlow, a respectable farmer of Fairfield and Redding, and grandson of Lieutenant Samuel Barlow of Fairfield. His mother was Esther, daughter of Nathan- iel Hull, of Redding. His early studies were directed by his pastor, the Rev. Nathaniel Bartlett (Yale 1749), from whose instruction he passed to Moor's Indian Charity School, at Hanover, New Hampshire. While studying there his father died, and in the fall of 1774 he entered Dartmouth College. At an early period in the College course he removed to Yale, and while still an undergraduate he became noted 4 Yale College for his literary promise. At the presentation of his Class for degrees he was called on to deliver a poem, his first publication. He remained in New Haven after graduation, teaching and pursuing studies in law and in literature, and finding it difficult to decide on a permanent occupation, until finally his friends persuaded him to apply for a chaplaincy in the army. On August 6, 1780, he was admitted to member- ship in the College Church, and eight days later he was licensed to preach by the New Haven Association of Min- isters. He was already appointed Chaplain of the Fourth Massachusetts Brigade, and joined the army in New Jer- sey on September 2. The war continued for three years longer, during which he fulfilled (though somewhat perfunctorily) the duties of his office. In College he had become attached to Ruth Baldwin, of New Haven, a younger sister of his tutor, Abraham Bald- win (Yale 1772) ; and when her father's consent to their union was withheld, owing to Mr. Barlow's unsettled sit- uation, he persuaded the lady to agree to a secret mar- riage, which took place at New Haven on January 26, 1781. The secret was kept for nearly a year, and the young couple did not begin their independent life until late in 1782, when they hired a house in Hartford. While still retaining his chaplaincy (until October, 1783) Mr. Barlow declined a call to the tutorship at Yale (in Sep- tember, 1781), and subsequently began law studies in Hartford, while still finding his chief pleasure in poetical composition. In July, 1784, he formed a partnership with a printer in Hartford for the publication of a weekly newspaper, called The American Mercury, with which he remained con- nected until November, 1785. At this date he resolved to apply himself seriously to the law, and in the following April he was admitted to the bar at Fairfield. In the meantime *he had conducted a book-store, mainly for the Biographical Sketches, 1778 5 sale of the edition of Dr. Watts's version of the Psalms, which he had lately revised. He did not, however, succeed as a lawyer ; his manners and address were not popular, and his elocution was embarrassed; so that his main occupation was still the cultivation of literature. Finally, in the spring of 1788, another employment unexpectedly presented itself. The Ohio Company, organ- ized in 1786, had secured by the agency of the Rev. Dr. Manasseh Cutler a large grant of land from Congress; and a subordinate enterprise, the Scioto Land Company, undertook to dispose of its territory to European immi- grants. For this purpose an agent was needed, who should go abroad to enlist settlers. Mr. Barlow probably at the suggestion of his brother-in-law, the Hon. Abraham Bald- win was selected for this duty, and sailed for France on May 25, 1788. The story of his embassy is a painful record of failure, the first responsibility for which, however, lies at the door of his employers. At the same time it is doubtless true that his lack of experience and his imprudence and mis- takes of judgment contributed to the result. The promises made to the settlers who emigrated from France were not fulfilled, and the whole scheme practically collapsed in the fall of 1790. Meantime he had traveled in England and on the Con- tinent, had applied himself to composition, and had enjoyed large opportunities of literary intercourse. The associations which he formed in Paris combined with innate tendencies which had long been latent to make him an avowed liberal in religion and a republican in polit- ical sympathies. His wife joined him in the summer of 1790, and the excesses of the French Revolution made it prudent to spend a good part of the next two years in London. This refuge, however, failed them in Novem- ber, 1792, when a political pamphlet from his pen was suppressed by order of the British government and its 6 Yale College author marked for arrest. In the preceding month, in recognition of his assistance as a pamphleteer, the com- pliment of French citizenship had been conferred on him by the National Convention; and now he was invited to stand for election as a deputy to the Convention from the Department of Savoy. The attempt was unsuccessful, but we owe to it Barlow's best poetical effort, the Ode to Hasty Pudding, composed in a Savoyard inn. In June, 1793, his wife joined him in Paris, and for the next two years he appears to have devoted himself to commerce and speculation, with a view to retrieving his fortunes, which had been sadly impaired by his support of the Republican cause. He had achieved a reasonable suc- cess when, in the summer of 1795, he was invited by the United States Government to accept the post of Consul in Algiers, with the design of effecting the ransom of the Americans who had been captured by the piratical Alger- ines and negotiating a treaty for future security. This business absorbed him from December, 1795, to Septem- ber, 1797, and was creditably accomplished. Then followed seven years of literary and scholastic life in Paris, enlivened by a constant and keen interest in passing political events both in Europe and America. An interesting evidence of his views is given in a striking letter to Washington, in October, 1798, which is printed in Washington's Writings, edited by Sparks, vol. ii, pp. 560-63. Finally, in the summer of 1805, he returned to the United States, with the intention of making his home in Washington and devoting himself and his fortune to building up a National Institution for education and the advancement of science. The latter project failed to enlist immediate support (though it led to the establishment of the Columbian University, in 1821, and was the precur- sor of the National Academy of Sciences), but in the fall of 1807 Mr. Barlow purchased a charming country-seat in the suburbs of Washington, to which he gave the name Biographical Sketches, 1778 ^ of Kalorama, and which became a favorite resort of his literary and political friends. He was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society (of Philadelphia) in January, 1809, an d in the same year received the degree of LL.D. from the University of Georgia. Meanwhile he devoted himself to literature, and in particular began a work on the history of the United States, which he designed to serve as an antidote to the current Federalist accounts. In politics he sympathized with the ruling Virginian dynasty, and in July, 1811, President Madison sent him as Minister Plenipotentiary to France, with the hope that his intimate knowledge of the French character might be of service in obviating the disastrous effects on American commerce of the war against England. But Napoleon's preoccupation with larger affairs interfered, and Barlow was able to accomplish but little. After more than a year had elapsed, in October, 1812, negotiations reached the point that the Minister of Foreign Affairs summoned him to Vilna, in West Russia, a sort of head-quarters in Napo- leon's Russian campaign, in order that the much-desired treaty of commerce might there be signed. Under an overpowering sense of duty, Barlow made the wearisome journey to Vilna, and was there impatiently awaiting the Emperor, when news arrived on December 4 of the defeat of the French and Napoleon's flight for Paris. He then retraced his steps, in a winter of extreme severity, under conditions of the most trying exposure, which induced or aggravated an inflammation of the lungs. When his illness became alarming he halted at the village of Zarnovich, near Cracow, in Poland, where he died, five days later, on December 24, 1812, in his 59th year. His widow returned to America in the fall of 1813, and lived in seclusion at Kalorama, until her death there on May 29, 1818, in her 62d year. They had no children. To Barlow's ow r n generation he figured as a poet of distinction, but posterity has refused to substantiate this 8 Yale College claim. On the other hand, his political career needed the stamp of success to ensure durable fame, but he was mocked and cajoled, and his life finally thrown away, in the vain attempt to cope with the remorseless treachery of Napoleon. His religious beliefs have excited some inquiry; but the facts seem to be that while he nominally remained an adherent of the Christian faith, and so proclaimed him- self, in his freer moments he did not hesitate to scoff at everything religious. This change in his views appears to have begun as early as his residence in Hartford. His portrait was painted by his intimate friend and protege, Robert Fulton, who made Barlow's house in Paris his home from 1794 to 1801 ; the engraving by Durand has often been reproduced. Two brief sketches of his life, by P. S. Dupont de Nemours and K. E. Oelsner respectively, were printed in Paris, from material furnished by Mrs. Barlow, in 1813; and a few months later, in August, 1814, the Analectic Magazine, of Philadelphia, published a fuller and really appreciative sketch, of 28 pages, embellished with a portrait. In the next generation, a grand-nephew of Barlow, Lemuel G. Olmstead (Union College 1834), devoted many years to the accumulation of material for his Memoir and an edition of his collected Writings; but died in 1880 with the task still unaccomplished. Finally, Mr. Charles Burr Todd, a native of Barlow's own native place, with the aid of Mr. Olmstead's collections, published in 1886 the Life and Letters of Joel Barlow, zvith extracts from his works (8, pp. iv, 306), a worthy contribution to American lit- erary history. He published : , i. The Prospect of Peace. A Poetical Composition, delivered in Yale-College, at the Public Examination, of the Candidates for the Degree of Bachelor of Arts; July 23, 1778. New-Haven, 1778. 8, pp. 12. [C. H. S. J. Carter Brown Libr. M. H. S. U. T. S. Y. C. Biographical Sketches, 1778 9 This spirited and devout composition is on many accounts remark- able, not least of all, in view of his future history, for the author's glowing tributes to the French king and to the unknown genius, "Who guides the vengeariee of mechanic power, To blast the watery world and guard the peaceful shore." 2. An Elegy on the late Honorable Titus Hosmer, Esq ; . . Hart- ford [1780]. 8, pp. 15. [A. A. S. B. Publ. John Carter Brown Libr. N Y. H. S. Y. C. Anonymous. One of the earliest lines, "The Muse which thy indul- gence bade aspire," recalls the fact that it was Mr. Hosmer's early encouragement which led to Barlow's devotion to the theme which engrossed so much of his life, the Vision of Columbus. 3. A Poem, spoken at the Public Commencement at Yale College, in New-Haven, September 12, 1781. Hartford. 8, pp. 16. [B. Ath. M. H. S. N. Y. H. S. Y. C. This effort is notable as being mainly in theme a prior study of the author's Vision of Columbus, as that in its turn is of his Columbiad. The three publications thus far enumerated were reprinted in Dr. Elihu H. Smith's American Poems, Litchfield, 1793. 4. Doctor Watts's Imitation of the Psalms of David, corrected and enlarged. By Joel Barlow. To which is added, a Collection of Hymns. . . Hartford: Printed by Barlow and Babcock, 1785. 12, pp. 348. [A. C. A. M. H. S. Y. C. Numerous other editions followed in subsequent years. Barlow's contributions consisted of only fourteen Psalms and five Hymns. 5. An Oration, Delivered at the North Church in Hartford, at the Meeting of the Connecticut Society of the Cincinnati, July 4th, 1787. . Hartford, sq. 8, pp. 20. [A. A. S. B. Ath. Brit. Mus. John Carter Brown Libr. C. H. S. Harv. N. Y. H. S. N. Y. Publ. Libr. U. T. S. Y. C. This was also published in Carey's American Museum for August, 1787, vol. 2, pp. 135-42. 6. The Vision of Columbus; a Poem in Nine Books. Hartford, 1787. 8, pp. 258, xii. [B. Ath. Biblioth. national e. Brit. Mus. Brown Urtiv. Harv. M. H. S. N. Y. H. S. N. Y. Publ. Libr. N. Y. Soc. Libr. Y. C. io Yale College With an exceedingly interesting list of subscribers, headed by "His most Christian Majesty, Louis XVI" (to whom the poem is dedicated), "25 copies." The same. 2d ed. Hartford, 1787. 12, pp. 258, v. [A. A. S. John Carter Brown Libr. Harv. L. I. Hist. Soc. Y. C. With a new list of subscribers. The same. London, 1787. 12, pp. xx, 244. [B. Ath. Biblioth. nationale. Brit. Mus. N. Y. Publ. Libr. The dedication to the French king is omitted. The same. The Fifth edition corrected. . To which is added, The Conspiracy of Kings: a Poem, by the same Author. Paris, J 793- 8, pp. iv, 304 and portrait. [Biblioth. nationale. Brown Univ. Harv. M. H. S. Peabody Inst., Bolt. R. I. Hist. Soc. U. S. In a preface the author states that he is informed that the work has been reprinted once in America since 1787, and hence this edition is called the fifth; but this information was apparently incorrect. The same. With explanatory notes. From a revised edition of the Author. Baltimore, 1814. 18, pp. 288. [A. A. S. Brit. Mus. Y. C. This work, the plan of which he had sketched as early as 1779, was a philosophical poem of nearly five thousand lines in length, depicting as in a vision shown to Columbus the future glories of America; and it met such success as to encourage the author in devoting twenty years more to the subject which had already occu- pied him for nearly half that time. 7. Advice to the Privileged Orders in the several States of Europe, resulting from the Necessity and Propriety of a general revolution in the Principle of Government. Part i. London, 1792. 8, pp. iii, 156. [B. Ath. Brit. Mus. Harv. Y. C. Anonymous. Published at the beginning of February, 1792, and suppressed by the British government in November. In a later letter Barlow comments on the title as unfortunate. The same. By Joel Barlow, Esq. Author of the Vision of Columbus, and the Conspiracy of Kings. 2d edition. London, 1792. 8, pp. 157. [B. Ath. Brit. Mus. U. S. Y. C. Biographical Sketches, 1778 n The same. 3d edition. London, 1793. 8, pp. 167. [Biblioth. nat. Bowdoin Coll. Brit. Mus. Y. C. The same. New York, 1792. 8, pp. 118. [B. Ath. J. Carter B'rown Dibr. Brown Univ. Harv. N. Y. H. S. U. S. Y. C. This reprint from the London edition is copyrighted on June n, 1792. The same. Paris, 1792. 8. The same. Part 2. Paris, 1793. 8, pp. 101. Published in September, 1793. [A. A. S. B. Ath. Brit. Mus. Harv. M. H. S. N. Y. H. S. The same. London, 1793. 8, pp. 101. [U. S. The same. New York, 1794. 8, pp. 88. [A. A. S. B. Ath. Harv. U. S. The same. London, 1795. 8, pp. 64. [Biblio'th. nat. Bowdoin Coll. Brit. Mus. Brown. U. S. The same in German, viz: Outer Rath an die Volker Euro- pens bei der Nothwendigkeit, die Regierungsgrundsatze iiberall zu verandern. London, 1792. 16, pp. iv, 132. [Harv. The author's name is given in the Preface, not on the title-page. The same, in French, viz: Avis aux Ordres privilegies, dans les divers etats de 1'Europe. . . 3 e . edition. London, 1794. 8. [Biblioth. nat. Brit. Mus. The same. Seconde partie. Paris, 1794. 8, pp. 76. [R. I. Hist. Soc. U. S. 8. The Conspiracy of Kings ; a Poem : addressed to the Inhab- itants of Europe, from another quarter of the world. London, 1792. 4, pp. 20. [Brit. Mus. U. S. Published in February, 1792 : a poem of 285 lines, on the coa- lition of sovereigns against France. The same. Paris, 1793. 8, pp. 32. [Biblioth. nat. Harv. U. S. Y. C. The same. Newburyport, 1794. 8, pp. 30. [A. A. S. Brown Univ. Harv. M. H. S. The same. 3d edition. London, 1796. 12. [Brit. Mus. iz Yale College 9. The Confederacy of Kings against the Freedom of the World ; being Free thoughts upon the present state of French Politics ; A vindication of the National Assembly in suspending Louis XVI. Conjectures on the movement of the confederate armies; and their influence in reinstating the King, and establishing a Constitution by force. In Three Letters addressed to the Right Hon. Edmund Burke. London, 1792. 8, pp. 76. [B. Publ. This anonymous pamphlet is signed "B.", but is not usually cred- ited to Barlow; and the authorship can only be stated as probable. 10. A letter to the National Convention of France, on the defects in the Constitution of 1791, and the extent of the Amendments which ought to be applied. London, 1792. 8, pp. 70. [Biblioth. national e. Brit. Mus. Brown Univ. Y. C. The Letter is dated, September 26, 1792. The same. London (Published by the Society for Constitu- tional Information, 1792). 8, pp. 48. [Y. C. The same. To which is Added The Conspiracy of Kings, a Poem. New- York. [1795?] 8, pp. 87. [A. A. S. B. Ath. Harv. L. I. Hist. Soc. N. Y. H. S. U. S. Y. C. The last named edition was published by John Fellows (Yale 1783). The same in French, with title : Lettre a la Convention Nationale de France, sur les vices de la Constitution de 1791, et sur 1'etendue des amendemens a y porter, pour lesquels cette Convention a ete convoquee. Traduite de 1'anglais. Paris, 1792. 8, pp. 90. [Biblioth. nationale. Brit. Mus. Y. C. 11. Lettre adressee aux habitants du Piemont, sur les avantages de la Revolution franchise et la necessite d'en adopter les principes en Italic. [Grenoble, 1793.] 8, pp. 32. [Biblioth. nat. An Italian version was printed at Nice in the winter of 1792-93, and reprinted in London in 1795. An English translation appeared, as follows : A Letter addressed to the People of Piedmont, on the Advantages of the French Rev- olution, and the necessity of adopting its principles in Italy. Trans- lated from the French by the Author. New- York, 1795. 16, pp. 45. [A. A. S. B. Ath. Harv. L. I. Hist. Soc. U. S. Y. C. This edition was printed for John Fellows (Y. C. 1783), and has an Advertisement dated July 15, 1794. Biographical Sketches, 1778 13 The same. London, 1795. 8, pp. 48. [Bowdoin Coll. Brit. Mus. U. S. 12. The Hasty-Pudding: a Poem, in Three Cantos. Written at Chambery, in Savoy, January-, 1793. [New Haven, 1796.] 8, PP- IS- [/. Carter Brown Libr. C. H. S. N. Y. H. S. N. Y. Publ. Libr. This first separate edition of Barlow's best-known poem has an Advertisement prefixed, dated at New Haven, April, 1796: it had already been printed in the New-York Magazine for January, 1796, pp. 41-49. The same. Salem, 1799. 12, pp. 21. [B. Ath. Harv. Many later editions. 13. The Political Writings of Joel Barlow. Containing Advice to the Privileged Orders. Letter to the National Convention. Let- ter to the People of Piedmont. The Conspiracy of Kings. A New Edition Corrected. New- York, 1796. 12, pp. 258. [A. A. S. B. Ath. B. Publ. Brit. Mus. Harv. N. Y. H. S. N. Y. Soc. Libr. R. I. Hist. Soc. U. T. S. Y. C. This edition was prepared by John Fellows (Yale 1783), and a very interesting letter, written by Barlow in 1795, and giving directions for it, is printed in the Connecticut Journal for August 28, 1799. 14. The Second Warning or Strictures on the Speech delivered by John Adams, President of the United States of America at the opening of the Congress of said States in November last. Paris, 1798. 8, pp. 28. [M. H. S. The pamphlet is lightened by the introduction of many poetical passages. 15. Joel Barlow to his Fellow Citizens, of the United States of America. Letter I. On the system of policy hitherto pursued by their Government. 8, pp. 32. [A. A. S. B. Ath. M. H. S. Y. C. Dated, Paris, March 4, 1799. The same. 8, pp. 55. [B. Ath. Bowdoin Coll. Harv. L. I. Hist. Soc. The same. Philadelphia, 1800. 8, pp. 27. [Y. C. The same. Letter II. On certain political Measures proposed to their consideration. [Paris, 1799.] 8, pp. 102. [A. A. S. Biblioth. nationale. Harv. M. H. S. Y. C. Dated, Paris, December 20, 1799. 14 Yale College The same. 8, pp. 66. [M. H. S. The same. New York, 1801.' 8, pp. 40. [N. Y. H. S. The same. Philadelphia, 1801. 8, pp. 71. [B. Ath. Brit. Mus. Y. C. The same. Letters I and II, with title: Letters from Paris to the Citizens of the United States of America, on the system of pol- icy hitherto pursued by their government relative to their com- mercial intercourse with England and France, etc. London, 1800. 8, pp. 116. [Brit. Mus. J. Carter Brown Libr. Harv. Y. C. This contains, in an Appendix to Letter I, a letter v To George Washington, dated, Paris, Oct. 2, 1798, in which he pleads against a war with France, and suggests an attempt at negotiation for the existing difficulties. The same, with title : Two Letters to the Citizens of the United States, and one to General Washington. Written from Paris in the year 1799, on our Political and Commercial Relations. New-Haven, 1806. 12, pp. 119. [Biblioth. nationale. Brit. Mus. L. I. Hist. Soc. U. S. Y. C. The first of these Letters was occasioned by the publication (with invidious comments) in the American papers of a garbled copy of a private letter of his to his brother-in-law, Abraham Baldwin, dated in March, 1798. 1 6. A View of the Public Debt, Receipts, and Expenditures of the United States. London, 1800. 8, pp. 67. 17. Prospectus of a National Institution, to be established in the United States. Washington City, 1806. 8, pp. 44. [Harv. N. Y. H. S. U. S. (imperfect). Y. C. Anonymous. Reprinted in the Papers of the American Historical Associ- ation, volume 4, pp. 85-97. New York, 1890, and in the Report of the United States National Museum for 1897, part 2, pp. 329-41. 18. The Columbiad: a Poem. Philadelphia, 1807. 4, pp. xvi, 454 +12 plates. [Biblioth. nationale. B. Ath. Brit. Mus. Brooklyn Libr. Harv. N. 7. H. S. N. Y. Publ. Libr. U. S. Y. C. This magnificent edition was printed from specially made type at the expense of Robert Fulton, and contains an engraving of the author's portrait by Fulton. It is an amplification of No. 6 above. Biographical Sketches, 1778 15 The same. Philadelphia, 1809. 2 vols. 12. [A. A. S. Bowdoin Coll. N. Y. Soc. Libr. Peabody Inst., Bait. U. S. Y. C. The same. London, 1809. 8* ', pp. xxxv, 426. [A. A. S. U. S. Y. C. The same. Paris, 1813. 8, pp. xi, 448 + 4 pi. [Biblioth. nationals. Brit. Mus. Harv. Y. C. The same. With the last corrections of the author. Washing- ton, 1825. 8, pp. xl, 448. [U. S. A French version of the first 140 lines of Book I, is given in Oelsner's Notice of Barlow. 19. Oration delivered at Washington, July Fourth, 1809; at the request of the Democratic Citizens of the District of Columbia. Washington City, 1809. 8, pp. 14. [A. A. S. B. Ath, B. Publ. Harv. R. I. Hist. Soc. Y. C. The same, with title : Oration, pronounced on the Fourth of July, 1809, before the President of the United States, the Heads of Departments, and the Democratic Citizens of the District of Colum- bia, convened in the City of Washington. Newburyport, 1809. 8, pp. 16. [Brown Univ. Y. C. 20. Letter to Henry Gregoire, Bishop, Senator, Compte of the Empire and Member of the Institute of France, in Reply to his Letter on the Columbiad. Washington City, 1809. 8, pp. 14. [A. A. S. B. Ath. Brit. Mus. Harv. L. I. Hist. Soc. N. Y. H. S. Y. C. Dated September 13, 1809. The Abbe Gregoire had published "Critical Observations on the Columbiad," as tending to cast con- tempt on the Catholic religion, and Barlow felt obliged to make a reply. In Dr. E. H. Smith's American Poems, Litchfield, 1793, pp. 94- 136, besides Barlow's Elegy on Hosmer, and Poem at the Com- mencement in 1781, various shorter pieces are given. He also contributed a Preface (15 pages) and Notes to the edi- tion of Trumbull's McFingal, published in London in 1792. He was one of the authors of The Anarchiad, printed in the New-Haven Gazette in 1786-87, and separately in 1861 ; and of The Echo, with other Poems, published in 1807. 1 6 Yale College A letter written by him to James Cheetham, in 1809, in defence of Thomas Paine, is printed in The Theo philanthropist, New York, 1810, pp. 366-69. He translated from the French Brissot de Warville's Ne^v Trav- els in the. United States, London, 1794, 2 vols. 8 ; and also, at the author's request, the Ruins of Volney, Paris, 1802, 2 vols. 12. AUTHORITIES. H. Adams, Hist, of the U. S. under Washington, v, 495-96, 587-88. John- Madison, i, 102-06; v, 299-300, 359, ston, Yale in the Revolution, 338-39. 427; vi, 50, 55-57, 61, 245-^5. /. M cMaster, Hist, of the People of the Adams, Works, viii, 625. J. Q. U. S., ii, 399. Mass. Hist. Society's Adams, Diary, ii, 444. Alden, Amer. Collections, 6th series, viii, 35-36. Epitaphs, iv, 159-62. Amer. Hist. Mitchell, American Lands and Let- Association's Papers, iv, 116-19, 158, ters, 168-78. Monthly Magazine, 1 75-87- American Historical Maga- 1798, vi, 250-51. New Englander, zine, i (1836), 23-25. Analectic xxxii, 413-37; xlvi, 825-35. Pease Magazine, iv, 130-58. 5". Breck, Rec- and Nile's, Gazetteer of Conn, and ollections, 171-72. Conn. Journal, R. I., 187-91. Schenck, Hist, of Aug. 28, 1799. Cutler, Life of Man- Fairfield, i, 352-53. Pres. Stiles, Lit- asseh Cutler, i, 498-517. Dall, Ro- erary Diary, ii, 288, 456, 458, 556-57; mance of the Association, 77-78, iii. 155-56. Thacher, Military Jour- 80-102. Dwight, Strong Family, i, nal, 209. M. C. Tyler, Three Men 761. Everest, Poets of Conn., 73-92. of Letters, 131-80. Unitarian Re- [French], Biographia Americana, 30- view, vi (1876), 158-75. U. S. 32. Hill Genealogy, 13, 17-23, 25-29. National Museum Report for 1897, Historical Magazine, i, 92-93, 375 ; v, ii, 281-83, 329-41. Winsor, The 24, 89-90. Jefferson, Works, ed. Westward Movement, 311-14, 402-06. PHINEAS BARTHOLOMEW, the third son and sixth child of the Rev. Andrew Bartholomew (Yale 1731), of Har- winton, Litchfield County, Connecticut, was born in that town on May 2, 1754. He studied medicine, and settled in practice in Beth- lehem (then part of Woodbury), in the same county. Here he married Sarah, daughter of David Leavitt, Jun- ior, who bore him two daughters and a son, and died in Bethlehem on February 5, 1813, in her 53d year, being then deranged. Before 1795 he is said to have removed to Greene County, New York, on the west bank of the Hudson, where he died, probably in 1816. His death is said to Biographical Sketches, 1778 17 have been the result of professional devotion from con- ducting the post-mortem examination of one of the vic- tims of a virulent epidemic which had baffled the physi- cians of the neighborhood/" AUTHORITIES. Bartholomew Family, 91, 125. Cothren, Hist, of Woodbury, i, 615. ABRAHAM BISHOP, the eldest son of Samuel Bishop, of New Haven, and grandson of Deacon Samuel and Abi- gail (Atwater) Bishop, of the same town, was born here on February 5, and baptized on February 6, 1763. His mother was Mehetabel, second daughter of Abraham and Mehetabel (Street) Bassett, of New Haven. His father was a distinguished citizen of New Haven, and much employed in public office, as Deputy in the General Assem- bly, Town Clerk, and Judge of the County and Probate Courts. He spent a short time after graduation in Philadelphia as a clerk; and later studied law, and was admitted to the bar in New Haven on April 6, 1785. Early in 1787 he went on an extended European tour, from which he returned in October, 1788, "full of Improvement and Vanity," says President Stiles. The anonymous authors of The Echo (1807), one of whom was his classmate Barlow, give currency to an absurd story that his traveling shoes were deposited in the College Museum as a trophy; but the tone of President Stiles's references to Mr. Bishop in his Diary forbids the possi- bility of his connivance in any such exploit. The time spent in France on this foreign trip seems to have left a permanent mark on Mr. Bishop's character in the unset- tlement of his inherited religious views and the develop- ment of his passion for democracy. Immediately after his return he began his political ca- reer by opposing the adoption of the Federal Constitution. i8 He was also an innovator in educational plans, and in April, 1790, was employed by the Trustees of the Hopkins Grammar School in New Haven to open an academy with some new features under their auspices, but was allowed to resign five months later; and he subsequently devoted himself mainly to the excitements of political life. In 1791 he was living temporarily in Boston, and con- tributed to the newspapers there; and on March u, 1792, he was married by the Rev. Edward Bass, D.D., to Nancy, only daughter of the rich and eccentric "Lord" Timothy Dexter, of Newburyport, Massachusetts, and his wife, Elizabeth (Lord, Frothingham) Dexter, she being then in her i6th year, and having made his acquaintance while at boarding-school in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. The rest of his days were spent in New Haven. He was much in public life and an active politician, and secured an appointment as Clerk of the New Haven County Court in 1795, and of the Probate Court in the next year. He also secured the appointment of Clerk of the Superior Court of the County at its establishment in July, 1798, but held it only for two years. His other clerk- ships he held until 1801. He did not enjoy any legal prac- tice of moment. His ability as a writer and speaker was early recog- nized, and led naturally enough to his appointment as Orator before the Phi Beta Kappa Society in 1800. But the managers of the Society were scandalized, just before the date of the meeting, by receiving from Mr. Bishop a printed copy of his proposed oration, and finding that it was a. violent political diatribe, intended to affect an impending State election. There was just time to insert in the public prints an indignant notification of the cancel- ing of his appointment; but the same paper contained a notice from Mr. Bishop that his oration would be deliv- ered independently, and would be on sale immediately. Party feeling ran higher and higher, and Mr. Bishop became more and more notorious as a demagogue. One Biographical Sketches, ijj8 19 incidental result was his dismissal from the clerkship of the Superior Court, on account of political activity. In June, 1801, his father;, then in his 78th year, was appointed by President Jefferson as Collector of the Port of New Haven, and the circumstances indicated that it was expected that the actual work of the office should be done, and its emoluments enjoyed, by the son, as a reward for his exertions in Jefferson's behalf. The strong feeling of opposition evoked found expression in a Remonstrance addressed to the President by the New Haven merchants, to which he made a reply, on July 12, which is famous as containing the defence of his course respecting appoint- ments to office. After his father's death (in August, 1803), Abraham Bishop succeeded him in the office of Collector and his commission was periodically renewed until the accession of President Jackson in 1829. In the preceding Presi- dential campaign he had opposed Jackson, since he had by this time adopted protectionist views; and he voted henceforth with the Whigs. With the attainment of a lucrative office his aggressive opposition to existing conditions abated, and his voice and pen were less often brought into public use. His marriage, already noticed, was an unhappy one, and after the birth of one daughter (who survived her par- ents) his wife returned to Newburyport, and he secured a divorce for desertion. With impaired intellect and con- firmed habits of intoxication she was an object of con- stant care, until her death in Newburyport, on September 30, 1851, at the age of 75. He next married (about 1802) Betsey, daughter of William and Sarah (Hotchkiss) Law, of Cheshire, Con- necticut, who died on September u, 1817, in her 39th year. By this marriage he had four daughters and one son (who died in infancy). He was married thirdly, on January 3, 1819, by the Rev. Samuel Merwin, to Elizabeth, daughter of John 20 Yale College Nicoll, of New Haven, and widow of John H. Lynde (Yale 1796), of New Haven (who died on December 17, 1817). By this marriage there were no children. She survived Mr. Bishop and died in New Haven on October 10, 1863, in her 83d year. His own death occurred on April 28, 1844, in New Haven, in his 82d year. Professor Jared P. Kirtland (M.D. Yale 1815), a polit- ical sympathizer, describes him thus (in 1874) : Mr. Bishop was a gentleman in his manners, of extensive knowl- edge, an artful and shrewd politician, an implacable enemy, a firm and enduring friend, and an active and useful citizen. He was repeatedly a benefactor to the College Library by the gift of valuable books, and in 1829 he presented to the Corporation for the use of the Library a mahogany table and set of chairs of remarkable beauty and interest. Two portraits of Mr. Bishop, one representing him in middle life, and the other in later life, are preserved in the collections of the New Haven Colony Historical Society. At the time of his death he was among the richest citi- zens of New Haven, his estate being inventoried at upwards of $126,000. He published : 1. The Triumph of Truth. History and Visions of Clio. By John Paul Martin, A. M., M. S. P. Boston, 1791. 8, pp. 62. [A. A. S. B. Publ. Brit. Mus. Harv. Y. C. This rhapsodical effort, appearing under a feigned name, pro- fesses to be in the interest of Christianity, and to describe the spir- itual progress of a friend of the author named Clio. In the same year he contributed to the Boston Argus several articles signed by the name used in this pamphlet or by its initials. 2. Georgia Speculation Unveiled; in Two Numbers. Hartford, 1797. 8, pp. 39. [A. A. S. B. Ath. Brit. Mus. Harv. M. H. S. N. Y. H. S. R. I. Hist. Soc. U. S. Y. C. Biographical Sketches, 1778 21 3. Georgia Speculation Unveiled, Second Part. Containing the Third and Fourth Numbers; with a Conclusion, addressed to the Northern Purchasers. Hartford, 1798. 8, pp. 41-144- [A. A. S. B. Ath. Brit. Mils, C. H. S. M. H. S. N. Y. H. S. U. S. Y. C. A legal arraignment of the State of Georgia for fraud in dis- posing of the Indian land on its western borders to Northern land companies. 4. Connecticut Republicanism. An Oration on the Extent and Power of Political Delusion. Delivered in New-Haven, on the Evening preceding the Public Commencement, September, 1800. 1800. 8, pp. iv, 64, xi. [B. Publ. J. Carter Brown Libr. N. Y. H. S. U. S. Y. C. The same. The second edition. Newark, 1800. 8, pp. 71. [B. Publ. N. Y. H. S. Y. C. This edition omits from the title the first two words of the original edition. The same. Philadelphia: Printed for Matthew Carey. Nov. 13, 1800. 8, pp. 80. [A. A. S. B. Ath. Brit. Mus. J. Carter Brown Libr. Hcvrv. Y. C. The same. Albany, 1801. 8, pp. 68, xii. [B. Publ. N. Y. Publ. U. S. This edition includes an Appendix with Jefferson's Inaugural Address. This virulent political pamphlet, designed, it was believed, as an electioneering document, was the subject of two anonymous answers published in the same year : A Rod for the Fool's Back (by Noah Webster), and Three Letters to Abraham Bishop.. By Connecticutensis (David Daggett). Mr. Bishop tells the story of the circumstances attending the delivery of this Oration and its consequences, in an Appendix to his next publication. 5. Oration delivered in Wallingford, on the nth of March 1801, before the Republicans of the State of Connecticut, at their Gen- eral Thanksgiving, for the election of Thomas Jefferson to the Presidency and of Aaron Burr to the Vice Presidency. . New Haven, 1801. 8, pp. 112. [A. A. S. A. C. A. B. Ath. B. Publ. C. H. S. Harv. N. Y. H. S. N. Y. Publ. Libr. R. I. Hist, Soc. U. S. U. T. S. Y. C. 22 Yale College The same. Bennington, 1801. 8. [Brit. Mus. 6. Church and State, a Political Union, formed by the enemies of both. Illustrated by Correspondencies between the Rev. Stan- ley Griswold, and the Rev. Dan Huntington, and between Col. Eph- raim Kirby, and the Rev. Joseph Lyman. 1802. 8, pp. 60. [A. A. S. B. Ath. N. Y. H. S. Y. C. In this anonymous pamphlet the only original matter is The Editor's Preface of 4 pages, and 4^/2 pages in the Appendix; but these portions are distinctly the work of Mr. Bishop, and are to a considerable extent repeated in the next publication, to which his name was attached. 7. Proofs of a Conspiracy, against Christianity, and the Govern- ment of the United States ; exhibited in several views of the Union of Church and State in New-England. Hartford, 1802. 8, pp. 166. [A. A. S. B. Ath. B. Publ. C. H. S. N. Y. H. S. N. Y. Soc. Libr. U. S. U. T. S. Y. C. In this volume the author indulged to the full his bent for impu- dent and unscrupulous personal attack. It is pungently written, and entertaining in its scathing dissection of his contemporaries and neighbors ; but hardly to be trusted for candor and sobriety of judgment. The title was of course a parody of Professor Robison's Proofs of a Conspiracy against all the Religions and Governments of Europe, carried on in the secret Meetings of Freemasons, Illuinin- ati, etc. 8. Oration, in honor of the election of President Jefferson, and the peaceable acquisition of Louisiana, delivered at the National Festival, in Hartford, on the nth of May, 1804. . [New Haven] 1804. 8, pp. 24. [A. A. S. B. Ath. B. Publ. Brit. Mus. Broivn Univ. C. H. S. Harv. N. Y. H. S. U. T. S. Y. C. The subjects announced in the title are but slightly treated, and the real burden of the performance is a scathing arraignment of the abuses of the Connecticut government under the alliance of Church and State. 9. Some Remarks and Extracts, in reply to Mr. Pickering's Letter, on the subject of the Embargo. New Haven. [1808.] 8, pp. 23. [A. A. S. B. Ath. Y. C. This anonymous pamphlet is very different in tone from the author's earlier productions, while thoroughly loyal to Republican Biographical Sketches, 1778 23 principles and strenuous in its defence of President Jefferson's pol- icy; it was appended to a reprint (New Haven, 1808) of the Hon. Timothy Pickering's Letter to Governor Sullivan, and was also published separately. 10. Remarks on Dr. Griffin's Requisition for 700,000 Ministers. New-Haven, 1824. 8, pp. 44. [A. A. S. Brit. Mus. N. Y. H. S. Y. C. A republication of eleven anonymous articles from The (Nezv- Haven} Pilot, of May to August, 1824. They criticize a speech of the Rev. Dr. Edward D. Griffin (Yale 1790) at a meeting of the Education Society, in which he made a plea for the evangelization of the world. The whole forms a caustic attack on the policy of foreign missions. Mr. Bishop had often contributed to 'The Pilot, and was intend- ing to continue the present series, but the paper came to a sudden end in September, 1824, by the death of the publisher. 11. Farmington Canal. To the Citizens of New-Haven. New- Haven, 1827. 8, pp. 14. [Y. C. The first four pages relate to the route of the Canal through New Haven ; the rest of the pamphlet relates to Wooster Square, which was in part a gift to the city from Mr. Bishop. He was also by common report understood to have been the author of the following: William Judd's Address To the People of the State of Con- necticut, on the subject of the removal of himself and four other Justices from Office, by the General Assembly of said State, at their late October Session, for declaring and publishing their Opinion that the People of this State are at present without a Constitution of Civil Government. . . Printed for the General Committee of Republicans. From Sidney's Press. [New Haven.] 1804. 8, pp. 24. [A. A. S. B. Ath. Brit. Mus. N. Y. H. S. U. S. Y. C. Major Judd (Yale 1763) was ill at the time of the preparation of this pamphlet, and died before its publication. In a notice on the last page it is stated that he furnished his friends with his ideas on this subject, which they reduced to writing. The pamphlet is a keen presentation of what was then called the Republican view of Connecticut politics. Two brief and unimportant letters of his to President Jefferson in 1808 are printed in the Papers of the New Haven Colony His- torical Society, volume i, pp. 144-45. 24 Yale College Mr. Bishop was also in his earlier years a frequent contributor to the newspaper press. A good specimen of his scathing political letters is one printed in the short-lived New Haven paper called The Sun of Liberty, on September 9, 1801, in answer to the New- Haven Remonstrance against his father's appointment as Collector. This was reprinted, with supplementary cognate matter, in a pam- phlet published in 1814, with the title, Public Documents. No. I. New-Haven Remonstrance. Together with an Exposition of the Remonstrants ; or A Curi- osity for the Curious. . Printed for Peter Porcupine, on the King's Birth Day. 1814. 12, pp. 24. [Y. C. He was also the author of a Funeral Address included (pp. 14- 22) in the Proceedings of the City of New-Haven, in the Removal of Monuments from its Ancient Burying-Ground, and in the open- ing of a new Ground for burial. New-Haven, January, 1822. 8. [F. C. Mr Bishop was one of the Committee under whose auspices these Proceedings took place (on June 28, 1821), and the anonymous author of the principal address, which was read by another person. AUTHORITIES. Atwater, Hist, of the City of New istrations of Washington and Adams, Haven, 158-59. W. Bentley, Diary, ii, 418-19. 5. G. Goodrich, Recollec- i, 391. Chapman, Trowbridge Fam- tions of a Lifetime, i, 125. Histori- ily> 50, 53. Columbian Register, cal Magazine, 2d series, iv, 25-28. March 14, 1835. Conn. Courant, Kirtland, Song of Jefferson and Aug. 1 6, 1802. Conn. Journal, Sept. Liberty, 3, 8-9, 11-12. McMaster, 10, 1800. Currier, "Quid Newbury," Hist, of the People of the U. S., ii, 575-76. Dickerman Genealogy, 160. 598-600. Pres. Stiles, Literary Diary, The Echo, and other Poems, 5-19, iii, 154, 331, 336, 339, 395. Street 319. Gibbs, Memoirs of the Admin- Genealogy, 30, 44, 76-77. SHUBAEL BREED, the sixth son and seventh child of Gershom and Dorothy (McLaren) Breed, of Norwich, Connecticut, was born in Norwich on April 20, 1759. An elder brother was graduated here in 1768, and a younger in 1781. The most of his life was spent in Norwich, where he was engaged in mercantile business. He married on June 25, 1786, Lydia, youngest child of Jabez and Anna (Lathrop) Perkins, of Norwich. Biographical Sketches, 1778 25 She bore him three sons and five daughters, and died on April 15, 1861, aged 93^ years. He died in Norwich on February 24, 1840, in his 8ist year. AUTHORITIES. Breed Family Record, Nos. 185, Perkins, Old Houses of Norwich, pt. 191. Dwight Family, ii, mo. Per- 2, 554. kins Family of Ipswich, pt. 3, 43. AARON BUELL, the second child and eldest son of Ben- jamin and Sybil Buell, of that part of Hebron, Connecti- cut, now included in the township of Andover, and a grandson of Benjamin and Hannah (Hutchinson) Buell, of Killingworth, Connecticut, was born in Hebron on July 14, 1757. His mother was the only daughter of Captain and Deacon William and Sybil (Post) Buell, of that part of Hebron which is now Marlborough; and he was thus a half-brother of the mother of the Rev. Dr. William Buell Sprague (Yale 1815). For some time after he left College he was employed as a teacher, and in 1786 he took his Master's degree. About 1795 he is said to have married Beulah Dorches- ter in Torrington, Connecticut. His name is first starred in the Triennial Catalogue of graduates issued in 1835. AUTHORITIES. Welles, Hist, of Buell Family, 65, 121. BENJAMIN CHAPLIN, Junior, the only son of Deacon Benjamin Chaplin, of that part of Mansfield, Connecticut, which is now Chaplin, by his first wife, widow Mary Ross, a daughter of Seth Paine, of that part of Pomfret which afterwards became Brooklyn, Connecticut, was born in Mansfield on November 23, 1755. 26 Yale College In College he was thought a young man of special prom- ise, and being heir to a large estate, much was expected of him. He settled in Mansfield, and first married Amanda Sarah, eldest daughter of Captain Jabez Huntington (Yale 1758), of Windham. After her early death he next married, on January 5, 1783, Sarah, eldest child of the Hon. Timothy Edwards (Princeton College 1757) and Rhoda (Ogden) Edwards, of Stockbridge, Massachusetts, and granddaughter of Jonathan Edwards. He died on March 30, 1789, in his 34th year, leaving one daughter and three sons. The youngest son was grad- uated at Yale in 1808. The widow next married Captain Daniel Tyler (Harv. 1771), of Brooklyn, Connecticut, who died in April, 1832. She survived until April 25, 1841 ; dying in her 8oth year. AUTHORITIES. Dimock, Mansfield Records, 41, ton Family, 148. Lamed, Hist, of 221, 310. Dwight Family, ii, 1040. Windham County, ii, 246-47. Edwards Genealogy, 22. Hunting- EBENEZER DAGGETT, the fourth child and third son of the Rev. Dr. Naphtali Daggett (Yale 1748), Professor of Divinity in Yale College, and Sarah (Smith) Daggett, was born in New Haven on December 21, 1760. An elder brother was graduated here in 1775. In July, 1780, he received an appointment as Ensign in the 7th Connecticut Regiment, and in the next year par- ticipated in the Virginia campaign under Lafayette against Cornwallis. On the way home he died of small-pox at the Head of Elk River, Cecil County, in the northeastern corner of Maryland, on November 20, 1781, aged nearly 21 years. The news did not reach his family until nearly a month later. AUTHORITIES. Conn. Journal, Dec. 20, 1781. Dog- Yale in the Revolution, 340. gett-Daggett Family, 119. Johnston, Biographical Sketches, 1778 27 JOHN ALEXIS DIBBLE, the eldest child of John Dibble (Yale 1758), was probably born in that part of Milford, Connecticut, which is now Woodbridge. He studied law and at first settled in New Haven, but after a short time the condition of his health obliged him to spend a series of years in South Carolina. Ultimately he returned to New Haven, and was engaged in business here at the time of his sudden death. On the evening of June 27, 1796, as he was going to bed (at the tavern where he lodged) without a light, he opened a wrong door, and fell down the cellar stairs, fracturing his skull so that he died the next morning. He was about 37 years of age, and unmarried. AUTHORITIES. Conn. Journal, June 29, 1796. Conn. Magazine, x, 734. OBADIAH DICKINSON, the only son of Obadiah Dick- inson, of Northfield, Massachusetts, by his second wife Martha, and a grandson of Deacon Nathaniel and Han- nah (White) Dickinson, was born in Northfield on August 31, 1757- He settled in his native township, and became one of the leading citizens, representing the town in the General Court in 1792 and 1794. He married on June 28, 1787, Sophia, eldest child of Shammah and Anna (Mattoon) Pomeroy, of Northfield, and niece of Dr. Josiah Pomeroy (Yale 1762). She bore him six daughters and six sons, and died on January 14, 1843, at tne a e f 77- He survived his wife, and died in Northfield on March 9, 1844, in his 87th year. AUTHORITIES. Temple and Sheldon, Hist, of 431, 519. Northfield, 172, 338, 352-54. 35$ 364, 28 Yale College HENRY ELY was born in Wilbraham, Massachusetts, on May 15, 1755, the youngest son of Jonathan Ely, of Wilbraham, and grandson of Deacon Jonathan and Lydia (Burt) Ely, of Longmeadow, Massachusetts. His mother was Esther, the eldest child of Henry Chapin, Junior, of Springfield, Massachusetts, by his second wife, Esther Bliss. On leaving College he studied theology, and after longer or shorter occupation in various pulpits he was engaged to preach in the parish of North Killingworth, now the town of Killingworth, Connecticut, during the last illness of the pastor, the Rev. William Seward (Yale 1734), in January, 1782. Mr. Seward died on February 5, and Mr. Ely continued to supply the pulpit until July 9, when he was invited to settle as pastor. Arrangements about the salary to be offered him were not completed until September 2, when 90 a year was voted. He accepted the call, and was ordained on September 25. For eighteen years his pastorate was pleasant, and the people united and happy. No sign of dissatisfaction appears until a Society meeting in November, 1800, when the usual motion to grant to the minister a salary for the ensuing year, was negatived by a large majority. He was regularly dismissed three months later, on February 12, 1801, and returned at once to his native place. Later in the same year he removed to Rome, N. Y., and found employment in preaching in that vicinity. In 1805 ne went to what was then known as "New Con- necticut/' and settled in the present township of Stow, on the eastern border of Summit County, Ohio. He preached gratuitously in a log schoolhouse to the settlers in that vicinity until after the opening of the war with Great Britain, when he was driven from his home by the Indians. He then returned to New York State, and spent the remainder of his days with his children, while also con- Biographical Sketches, 1778 29 tinuing to preach until the infirmities of age pressed too heavily. He died at the house of his youngest daughter, in Watertown, Jefferson County, New York, on August 2, 1835, in his 8ist year. He married, on September 27, 1781, Achsah Bliss, of Wilbraham, the eldest child of Oliver and Catharine (Brewer) Bliss, and a second cousin of his father. She bore him five daughters and three sons, and died on June 19, 1837, in her 78th year. He published: A sermon [from Eccl. vi, 12] delivered November 2Oth, at the funeral of Mr. Reuben Wilcox, a student in the junior class, in Yale-College; and son of Mr. Elijah Wilcox, of Killingworth. Who died November 18, A. D. 1788, in the 24th year of his age. . Norwich. 16, pp. 20. [Y. C. AUTHORITIES. Bliss Genealogy, 79. Nathaniel Hist. Discourse at Killingworth, 19- Ely's Descendants, 22, 43. Miller, 21. EDMUND FOSTER,, the youngest son of Captain Abra- ham Foster, of Reading, Middlesex County, Massachu- setts, and grandson of Samuel and Sarah (Roberts) Fos- ter, was born in Reading on April 18, 1752. His mother was Susanna, eldest daughter of Thomas and Susanna Hartshorne, of Reading. His father died the year after his birth, and his mother a few years later: so that he was obliged to earn the means for a College course. In April, 1775, on the Lex- ington alarm, he joined a company of minute men, and remained in arms for eleven days. He probably did not come to Yale until after this experience. He studied for the ministry, and on January 17, 1781, was ordained as colleague pastor of the Congregational Church in Littleton in his native county. His settlement was not without opposition, partly on account of a move- 30 Yale College ment for a division of the parish, and partly on account of a scarcity of money caused by the times. The senior pastor, the Rev. Daniel Rogers (Harvard 1725), died in 1782, and Mr. Foster continued in office until his own death, which occurred in Littleton, on March 28, 1826, in his 74th year. He was prominent in the affairs of the town, was a member of the House of Representatives from 1809 to 1812, and .then of the State Senate in 1813 and 1814. He was also a delegate to the Massachusetts Constitu- tional Convention in 1820. He married, on October 30, 1783, Phebe, sixth child and fourth daughter of the Rev. William Lawrence (Har- vard 1743) and Love (Adams) Lawrence, of Lincoln, in his native county. She bore him seven sons and six daugh- ters, and died in Littleton on July 14, 1812, aged nearly 50 years. One daughter married her father's successor in the pulpit. The youngest son was a Member of Con- gress from New York State. His second wife, Joanna, survived him. He published: 1. The Ministry of Reconciliation illustrated. A Sermon [from 2 Cor. v, 20], preached at the Ordination of the Rev. Jonathan Osgood,..in Gardner, October 19, 1791. Worcester, 1792. 8, pp. 40. [A. A. S. A. C. A. B. Ath. Brown Univ. Harv. U. T. S. Y. C. The sermon occupies pp. 1-32 of the pamphlet. An anonymous Letter to the author appeared in 1794, animadverting on his doc- trine of decrees. 2. A Sermon [from Job i, 20-22], occasioned by the death of Josiah Hartweel [sic] ; who was drowned on Friday, May 20, 1791, in the I5th year of his age. Preached at Littleton the Sabbath following. Boston, 1793. 8, pp. 23. [A. A. S. B. Ath. Brown Univ. Harv. M. H. S. 3. Husbandry, an Ancient, Honourable and Useful Employment. An Oration, delivered before the Western Society of Middlesex Biographical Sketches, 1778 31 Husbandmen, at their semi-annual meeting at Littleton, on Monday, October 28, 1799. Amherst, N. H., 1800. 8, pp. 15. [Bowdoin Coll. M. H. S. U. S. 4. An Oration, pronounced at"Westford, on the Anniversary of American Independence, July 4, 1804. Boston, 1804. 8, pp. 25. [Brit. Mus. Harv. M. H. S. 5. An Oration pronounced at Littleton, July 4, 1806... Cam- bridge, 1806. 8, pp. 23. [B. Ath. Brit. Mus. Brown Univ. Harv. 6. A Discourse [from Judges vii, 16-18] pronounced before the Middlesex Martial Band and a number of military officers and soldiers in uniform at Westford, March 3, 1808. Cambridge, 1808. 8, pp. 15. [A. A. S. B. Ath. Brit. Mus. Brown Univ. Harv. This discourse is "on the invention of instrumental music; on the improvements made in it; on its powerful effects; and on its various uses and applications." 7. A Sermon [from Ps. ii, n], preached at Littleton, Massa- chusetts, on the 3Oth of November, 1809; being the Day of Annual Thanksgiving. Amherst, N. H., 1810. 8, pp. 22. [Harv. U. S. The sermon shows a strong political bias. 8. A Sermon [from i Cor. xii, 18-21], delivered before His Excellency the Governor,, .and the Legislature of Massachu- setts, May 27, 1812, being the Day of Annual Election. Boston, 1812. 8, pp. 22. [A. A. S. A. C. A. B. Ath. B. Publ. Bowdoin Coll. Brit. Mus. Broivn Univ. Harv. M. H. S. R. I. Hist. Soc. U. S. Y. C. 9. A Sermon [from Ps. cxii, 1-6], preached at Littleton, on the Death of Deacon Daniel Kimball, who departed this life May 24, 1813, aged Ixii. Boston. 8, pp. 16. [A. A. S. Harv. 10. A Sermon [from Ps. xlvi, 7-11], preached at Littleton, April I3th, 1815 ; being the day of National Thanksgiving, for the Res- toration of Peace between the United States of America and Great Britain. Boston, 1815. 8, pp. 16. [A. A. S. Brit. Mus. Broivn Univ. 11. The Works of God declared by one generation to another. A Sermon [from Ps. cxlv, 4], preached at Littleton, Dec. 4, 1815. 32 Yale College On the completion of a Century from the Incorporation of that Town. Concord [1816]. 8, pp. 28. [A. A. S. A. C. A. B. Ath. B. Publ. Brit. Mus. Brown Univ. Harv. M. H. S. U. S. The author mentions that through the whole of his ministry the church has never been specially called together on any matter or concern, except for the choice of deacons. He also appeals for toleration in the treatment of those who do not accept (as he does) the doctrine of the Trinity. 12. A Sermon [from Ps. cxix, 71] on the death of Capt. Jacob Priest, .. preached at Littleton, Feb. 15, 1824. Concord, 1824. 8, pp. 14. [Brit. Mus. Brown Univ. 13. A Sermon [from Gen. xxv, 8], on the Death of Mr. John Russell, who departed this life November 23, 1824, aged 97 years, and 7 months. Preached at Littleton, Dec. 5, 1824. Concord, 1824. 8, pp. 15. [A. C. A. Brit. Mus. Brown Univ. AUTHORITIES. Amer. Quart. Register, xi, 253, 274. Littleton Hist. Society's Proceedings, Bond, Hist, of Watertown, 835. i, 132. Mass. Soldiers and Sailors Drake, Hist, of Middlesex County, of the Revolution, v, 896. Pierce, Mass., ii, 49-50. Eaton, Hist, of Foster Genealogy, 710, 727. Shat- Reading, 80. Genealogy of Family tuck, Hist, of Concord, Mass., 305. of John Lawrence (1869), 55, 94-95. JONATHAN FRISBIE, son of Noah and Margery (Post) Frisbie, was born in Bethlehem parish, in Woodbury, Connecticut, on November 10, 1761. He was prepared for College by the Rev. Ammi R. Robbins, of Norfolk. He settled in Norwich, Connecticut, as a lawyer, and died there in 1804, in his 57th year. His widow, Abigail, died in Norwich, after a long and severe illness, in 1807, aged 46 years. They left no children, and Mrs. Frisbie's tombstone was erected by her nephew, Charles F. Harrington. AUTHORITIES. Cothren, Hist, of Woodbury, iii, 54. Biographical Sketches, 1778 33 EZEKIEL GILBERT, son of Jonathan and Prudence (Har- ris) Gilbert, of Middletown, Connecticut, was born on March 25, 1756. He settled in Hudson, New York (of which city he was one of the founders), and became distinguished as a practicing lawyer. He was a Member of the New York Assembly for three sessions, in 1789-90, 1800, and 1801, and represented his district in Congress from December, 1793, to March, 1797. He was also Clerk of Columbia County from March, 1813, to March, 1815. In the midst of a brilliant and promising career he was seized with a paralysis of the lower limbs; for more than thirty years the disease gradually increased upon him, and rendered him phys- ically helpless. In his later life he lost his property, but he bore his afflictions with calmness, and died in Hudson on July 17, 1841, in his 86th year. He married and had two children, a son and a daughter. AUTHORITIES. Amer. Almanac for 1842, 306. Atkins, Hist, of Middlefield, 165. THOMAS GOLD, the eldest child of the Rev. Hezekiah Gold (Yale 1751)' and Sarah (Sedgwick) Gold, was born in Cornwall, Connecticut, on November 23, 1759. A brother was graduated here in 1786. He settled in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, in the practice of the law in 1782, and acquired wealth and honorable standing. As early as the time of Shays' Rebellion he had attained prominence in the community, and was one of the delegates to the County Convention to consider reformatory measures. Later he was active as a Feder- alist, and in the promotion of local business enterprise. He died in Pittsfield on February 13, 1827, in his 68th year. 3 34 Yale College He married about 1785 Martha, third daughter of Dr. Perez Marsh (Harvard 1748 and honorary Yale 1754) and Sarah (Williams) Marsh, of Dalton, the next town to the eastward, and had by her six daughters and four sons. The eldest son was graduated at Williams College in 1806, and became a lawyer in Pittsfield. The eldest daughter married the Hon. Nathan Apple- ton, of Boston, and their youngest child married the poet Longfellow. After Mr. Gold's death, his house was occupied as a summer residence by Mr. Appleton, and Mr. Longfellow found in it the subject for his poem, The Old Clock on the Stairs. He published: 1. Address, delivered before the Berkshire Association for the promotion of Agriculture and Manufactures, at Pittsfield, Oct. 3d, 1816... Pittsfield. 8, pp. 24. [Brit. Mus. C. H. S. N. Y. H. S. Y. C. The Address occupies pp. 3-19. 2. Address delivered before the Berkshire Association, for the Promotion of Agriculture and Manufactures, at Pittsfield, Oct. 2d, 1817. Pittsfield. 8, pp. 32. [A. A. S. B. Ath. Harv. M. H. S. N. Y. H. S. AUTHORITIES. ^% Gold, Hist, of Cornwall, 290-92. field, i, 400; ii, 6, 195, 247-49, 265-66, Marsh Family of Hartford, 407, 417- 379, 477, 480, 508-09, 687. 18. /. E. A. Smith, Hist, of Pitts- JOHN GOODRICH, of Glastonbury, Connecticut, was first a member of Dartmouth College, and did not enter Yale until July 9 two months before graduation. He was the eldest child of John Goodrich, and grandson of David and Sarah (Edwards) Goodrich, of Glastonbury, where he was born on July 3, 1753. His mother \vas Prudence, second daughter of Colonel Elizur and Ruth (Wright) Talcott, of Glastonbury. Biographical Sketches, 1778 35 He remained in New Haven after graduation, and here married on July 10, 1779, Eunice, the eldest child of Andrew and Sarah (Nichols) Thompson, of Stratford, Connecticut, and widow of Dr. David Atwater, a noted apothecary of New Haven, who was killed by the British at Danbury in April, 1777. One of her sons by her first marriage was graduated at Yale in 1797. In 1784 he became a member of the County Medical Society, but it is uncertain whether he ever engaged in practice. In 1786 and for a few years later he kept a drug-store in his dwelling-house on Chapel Street, on the site now occupied by the Quinnipiack Club. He seems also to have kept an inn, to have had an appointment as con- stable, and by the year 1793 to have become a lawyer. He died in New Haven on January 16, 1800, in his 47th year. His estate proved to be insolvent. His children were three daughters and four sons. Only two of the daughters and the eldest son arrived at matur- ity. A granddaughter married the Rev. L. Smith Hobart (Yale 1837). He published: The Civil and Executive Officers' Assistant. . With the power and duty of Justices of the Peace as contained in the laws of the State of Connecticut. . New-Haven, 1793. 8, pp. xii, 305. [Harv. N. Y. H. S. N. Y. PubL Libr. The same. The Second Edition, revised, corrected, and con- siderably enlarged. Hartford, 1798. 12, PP- xii, 239. [Y. C. AUTHORITIES. Conn. Public Records, ii, 486. ii, 309-11. Pres. Stiles, Literary Goodrich Family, 62, 106. New Diary, ii, 282 ; iii, 517. Talcott Pedi- Haven Colony Hist. Society's Papers, gree, 233. FREDERICK WILLIAM HOTCHKISS, the fifth of seven children of John Hotchkiss (Yale 1748) and Susanna (Jones) Hotchkiss, was born in New Haven on October 30, 1762, and was baptized on the following day. An elder brother was graduated here in 1774. 36 Yale College During the invasion of New Haven by the British on July 4, 1779, he acted as an aid to the officer who com- manded the force raised in resistance. In this conflict his father and two of his uncles were slain. For four years after graduation he taught school, during the latter part of the time in Wethersfield, Connecticut. Meantime he studied theology, and he was licensed to preach by the Hartford South Association of Ministers in October, 1782. Early in the following month he began to supply the pulpit in Saybrook, Connecticut, where the Rev. William Hart (Yale 1732) had been for six months disabled from preaching. He soon received a unanimous invitation to settle as colleague-pastor, but owing to his consciousness of inexperience he deferred compliance with the repeated requests of this people for several months, and was finally ordained on September 24, 1783, over a church of 69 members. The senior pastor died in July, 1784, and Mr. Hotch- kiss remained in sole charge of the society until June, 1838, when in response to his own request a colleague was settled. During this ministry over six hundred persons had been admitted to the church. He continued in office until his death, in Saybrook, after three days' illness, on March 31, 1844, in his 82d year. He was married, on August 29, 1790, by the Rev. Richard Ely, of Westbrook, to Amelia Hart, the youngest child of his predecessor in office, who died on August 8, 1845, a ged 84^/2 years. Their children were two daugh- ters, who survived them. Father Hotchkiss, as he was called, was an ideally faith- ful pastor, and an affectionate, fervent preacher of prac- tical righteousness. His voice was of almost phenomenal strength. Besides his other labors, for a number of years he taught a private school in his own house, at which some thirty young men were fitted for College. A lithograph from his portrait is prefixed to the sermon published after his death. Biographical Sketches, 1778 37 He published: 1. On National Greatness. A Thanksgiving Sermon [from Deut. iv, 7-9], delivered to the FJrst Society in Say-Brook, Novem- ber 29th, 1792. New-Haven, 1793. 8, pp. 23. [Brit. Miis. Harv. N. Hampshire Hist. Soc. U. T. S. Y. C. 2. On a merciful disposition illustrated in the character of the good Samaritan. A Discourse [from Luke x, 37] preached at Saybrook, Nov. 3, 1793, Occasioned by the Death of Mrs. Deborah Sanford. . Norwich, 1795. 8, pp. 27. [A. A. S. A. C. A. 3. An Oration delivered at Saybrook on Saturday, February 22(1, 1800; the day set apart . . for the people of the United States to testify their grief for the death of General George Washington. . New-London, 1800. 8, pp. 32. [U. S. Y. C. 4. A Sermon [from i Cor. xiii, 4-5], delivered at the Installation of Pythagoras Lodge, of Free Masons ; in Lyme, Connecticut, October 7th, 1800. New-London, 1800. 8, pp. 35. [C. H. S. (incomplete). U. S. Y. C. The author speaks as an outsider, who from distrust of the masonic order has come to believe otherwise. 5. The Cross of Christ, the Christian's Glory. A Sermon [from Gal. vi, 14], preached at Guilford, November 8th, 1801. Middle- town, 1802. 8, pp. 40. [C. H. S. 6. On the faithful improvement of our intrustments. A Sermon [from Luke xix, 13], preached in Saybrook (Second Society), October i8th, 1801 : with particular reference to the death of Mr. Uriah Hayden, 2d. . Middletown, 1802. 8, pp. 39. [A. C. A. C. H. S. 7. The Christian Minister Studying to know Christ. A Sermon [from Phil, iii, 7-9], preached at the interment of Rev. Richard Ely. . New-Haven, 1814. 8, pp. 22. [A. C. A. Brit. Mus. Brown Univ. Y. C. The subject of this discourse was a graduate of Yale College in the Class of 1754. 8. Solomon and Hiram: or, Jew and Gentile building the Tem- ple of the latter : day glory: a Sermon [from i Kings v, 18], preached in Haddam, at the Celebration of the Festival of St. John, June 25, 1821. Middletown, 1821. 8, pp. 24. [A. A. S. Y. C. 38 Yale College 9. A Retrospect on the Ministry and Church of Saybrook. A Half Century Sermon [from 2 Tim. iv, 7], preached on Lord's Day, September 22, 1833. New Haven, 1833. 8, pp. 23. [A. C. A. Brit. Mus. Brown Univ. C. PL S. Harv. L. I. Hist. Soc. N. Y. H. S. Y. C. The same. Hartford, 1838. 8,. pp. 23. [Brit. Mus. Y. C. This edition (with a new title-page) was issued to accompany the next pamphlet. 10. A Valedictory Address before the First Church and Congre- gation in Saybrook, January 7th, 1838, in view of a Collegiate Min- istry; in the fifty-fifth year of pastoral service. Hartford, 1838. 8, pp. 16. [A. C. A. Brit. Mus. C. H. S. N. Y. H. S. Y. C. The following was printed after his death: 11. Contemplations of an aged Pastor on completing the six- tieth Year of his Ministry A Sermon [from Titus ii, 1-2] preached at Saybrook, Conn., Sept. 24, 1843, by the late Rev. Frederick Wm. Hotchkiss . . : to which is appended A Brief Notice of his Life, Death, and General Character; by Rev. E. B. Crane, Junior Pastor. New York, 1844. 8, pp. 40 -f- portrait. [Harv. Y. C. He also printed, in the Connecticut Evangelical Magazine, for October, 1810 (vol. 3, New Series), pp. 385-88, A Narrative of the Revival of Religion in Saybrook in 1809. AUTHORITIES. Bailey, Early Conn. Marriages, vii, of the Amer. Pulpit, i, 262. Pres. 58. Hart Family, 377, 406. John- Stiles, Literary Diary, ii, 518; iii, ston, Yale in the Revolution, 340. 329, 494-95. 250th Anniversary, ist McCall, Centennial Sermon at Say- Church, Old Saybrook, 44-56, 127. brook, 1876, 5-8. Sprague, Annals OBADIAH HOTCHKISS,, the son of Obadiah Hotchkiss, a blacksmith, of New Haven, was born on September 4, 1762, and was baptized the following day. His mother was Mercy, daughter of Daniel and Martha (Elcock) Per- kins, of New Haven. He married on February 7, 1782, Hannah, daughter of Captain Nathaniel S. and Mary (Jones) Lewis, of Strat- ford, Connecticut, and subsequently began the practice of medicine in East Haven. About the year 1790 he returned to his native place, and some two years later he added to Biographical Sketches, 1778 39 his professional work the business of a druggist, on the south side of Chapel, between Church and Orange streets. After some years a brother-in-law was associated with him in this business, under the firm-name of Hotchkiss & Lewis. In 1806 Mr. Lewis retired from the firm, and his place was taken by the doctor's son, who assumed the main charge of the business, from which his father retired entirely in 1819. Dr. Hotchkiss sustained a good reputation as a com- petent and faithful family physician. In the last years of his life he did not seek professional business. In politics he took the Democratic side, but was not a violent partisan. In August, 1804, President Jefferson appointed him a commissioner in bankruptcy. He was a member of the Common Council of the City from 1805 to 1808, and again from 1819 to 1822, and in 1825 was made a Justice of the Peace. . During most of his life he was not supposed to be in sympathy with evangelical religion, but he finally united with the First Church in New Haven, and became a zealous Christian. He was social in his habits, genial, and fond of humor. He died in New Haven of a dropsical affection on Jan- uary 28, 1832, in his /oth year. His wife died two months before him, on November 22, 1831, aged 75 years. Their children were two sons and one daughter, but only the younger son lived to grow up. AUTHORITIES. Lewisiana, viii, 5, 61. New Haven 307-09; iii, 535. Tuttle Family, 103. Colony Hist. Society's Papers, ii, STEPHEN JACOB entered College from Sheffield, Massa- chusetts, where he was born on December 7, 1755, being the third son of Richard and Thankful Jacob of that town. He had spent the earlier part of the course in Dartmouth College. 4o Yale College Before he took his first degree his family seems to have removed to Vermont, as he took part in the first anniver- sary celebration of the battle of Bennington, in August, 1778. A little later he settled in Windsor, Vermont, on the Connecticut River, where he practiced law and gained an assured position. In politics he was a Federalist. He represented Windsor in 1781, 1788, 1789, and 1794, in the General Assembly ; was one of the first Council of Censors in 1785; State's Attorney in 1786; a Commis- sioner on the New York boundary in 1790; United States District Attorney in 1791 ; a member of the Constitu- tional Convention of 1793; and a State Councillor from October, 1796, to October, 1801, when he resigned to accept the office of Judge of the Supreme Court, which he held for two years. In 1802 he was elected a Trustee of Dartmouth College, and held that office until his death. He died in Windsor on January 27, 1817, in his 62d year. He married on November 3, 1779, Pamela Farrand, of Canaan, Connecticut, sister of Daniel Farrand (Yale 1781). They had three daughters, who are remembered as women of rare accomplishments and intellectual force. He published: A Poetical Essay, delivered at Bennington, on the Anniversary of the i6th of August, 1777. Hartford, 1779. 8, pp. 8. |P [B. Publ. U. S. This is reprinted, together with the oration on the same occasion by his classmate, Noah Smith (which was originally published with it), in volume I of the Collections of the Vermont Historical Soci- ety, Montpelier, 1870. He was also the principal author of the following: Observa- tions on Facts, Vindicating the Right of Dartmouth College and Moor's Charity School to the Grant made by the Legislature of Vermont, in June, 1785. Windsor, 1807. 8, pp. 16. Biographical Sketches, 1778 41 Signed by John Wheelock, President of Dartmouth College, and himself, as Agents of the Trustees. [U. S. AUTHORITIES. Bailey, Early Conn. Marriages, Governor and Council of Vermont, vii, 72. G. A. Davis, MS. Letter, iv, 106. Vermont Hist. Society's March 26, 1904. Hall, Hist, of East- Collections, i, 253-54, 263-70. ern Vermont, 548, 550. Records of WILLIAM JOHNSON, the youngest son of the Rev. Stephen Johnson (Yale 1743), of Lyme, Connecticut, by his first wife, Elizabeth Diodate, was born in Lyme on June 29, 1757. He died at his home -in Lyme on January 28, 1779, aged 21^/2 years. He was unmarried. AUTHORITIES. Salisbury, Family Histories, ii, 350. Walworth, Hyde Genealogy, ii, 738. DAVID JUDSON, the eldest child of Abner Judson, of Stratford, Connecticut, and a nephew of the Rev. David Judson (Yale 1738), was born in Stratford on August n, 1757. His mother was Hannah, third daughter of Captain Stiles and Rebecca (Judson) Curtis, of Stratford. His father died during his Freshman year. He settled in the adjoining town of Fairfield, where he married on November 13, 1783, Esther, the elder surviv- ing daughter of Deacon Nathan and Sarah (Perry) Bulk- ley, and became a prominent man in various ways. He was at one time postmaster, was a founder and the treasurer of the Academy, and one of the founders of the first public library in the town. When his father-in-law resigned in 1787, on account of ill-health, his office as deacon in the Congregational Church, Mr. Judson was chosen as his successor. 42 Yale College He died in Fairfield on March 3, 1841, in his 84th year. His wife survived him, dying on September 6, 1843, i n her 8 ist year. AUTHORITIES. Bailey, Early Conn. Marriages, vi, 50. Perry, Old Burying Ground of 42. Chapman, Bulkeley Genealogy, Fairfield, 190-91. AARON KELLOGG,, the second son and child of Daniel Kellogg, and grandson of Lieutenant Nathaniel and Sarah (Preston) Kellogg, of Hadley, Massachusetts, was born on May 5, 1754, but was not baptized until November 16, 1755. The delay was probably due to his father's removal at about the date of this son's birth from Hadley to Amherst, Massachusetts, where he afterwards lived. His mother was Esther, daughter of John and Esther (Colton) Smith, of South Hadley. He did not enter College at the beginning of the course. A younger brother was graduated at Dartmouth College in 1775, and received an ad eundem degree here at the time of Aaron Kellogg's graduation. In November, 1778, he went to Boston and enlisted as a mariner on board the frigate Deane, on which he served for one year. The rest of his life was spent in Amherst, and during much of the time he was deranged. He died in Amherst on December n, 1830, aged 76^2 years. He was never married. AUTHORITIES. Hopkins, The Kelloggs, i, 135-36. Judd, Hist, of Hadley, 526. NATHAN LEAVENWORTH, fourth son and fifth child of the Rev. Mark Leavenworth (Yale 1737) by his second wife, Sarah Hull, was born in Waterbury, Connecticut, on December n, 1761. He did not enter College at the opening of the course. Biographical Sketches, J//5 43 Having studied medicine, he joined the 8th Massachu- setts Continental Regiment as Surgeon's Mate, his com- mission being dated February i, 1780. He retained this position until the last of the army was disbanded in Decem- ber, 1783, and was then reappointed in the new American Regiment, which continued on detail at West Point until June or July, 1784. His service was with Washington's main army on the Hudson. He then settled in Waterbury as a physician, but a few weeks later, in October, 1784, removed to Darlington District (or County), in the northeastern part of the State of South Carolina, where he practiced his profession until obliged to leave by ill health in 1793. He then returned to Waterbury, where he continued in painful weakness, but cheerful and resigned, until his death, on January 9, 1799, having just entered on his 38th year. He was never married. Leavenworth post-office, in the northern part of Dar- lington County, near the place of his residence, was named from him, but was discontinued after the civil war. AUTHORITIES. Bugbee, Memorials of Mass. So- Leavenworth Genealogy, 49, 97-98- ciety of the Cincinnati, 327. John- New Haven Colony Hist. Society's ston, Yale in the Revolution, 340-41. Papers, ii, 346. JOSIAH MEIGS, the youngest of thirteen children of Return Meigs, a hatter, of Middletown, Connecticut, and grandson of Janna and Hannah (Willard) Meigs, of East Guilford, now Madison, Connecticut, was born on August 21, 1757. His mother was Elizabeth, daughter of John and Elizabeth (Partridge) Hamlin, of Middletown. A daughter of one of his brothers was the mother of Presi- dent Porter of Yale College. He was elected to a tutorship in the College in January, 1781, while teaching in Claverack, New York, and on February 21, he entered on that office. 44 Yale College He had established a reputation while an undergraduate as a writer and public speaker; and was called upon in November, 1781, to act as orator at the celebration in New Haven of the victory over Cornwallis. During the ensuing winter vacation he was married, on January 21, 1782, to Clara (or Clarissa), third daugh- ter of Colonel John Benjamin, of Stratford, Connecticut, and a sister of De Lucena Benjamin (Yale 1788). In April, 1783, he was admitted to the bar in New Haven, and in February, 1784, on the establishment of a city government here, he was chosen city clerk. He car- ried on the business of this office in connection with the tutorship until the ensuing vacation, when (on May 6), he retired from his College duties. At the same time he established, in partnership with Daniel Bowen and Eleutheros Dana, a printing and pub- lishing office, from which the first number of a weekly newspaper, Called The Neiv-Haven Gazette, was issued on May 13. His partners withdrew from the enterprise in 1786-87, but Mr. Meigs continued to conduct the paper (which became The New-Haven Gazette and the Con- necticut Magazine in February, 1786) until January i, 1789, when it ceased publication. The paper was credit- able to its editor. In the most important crisis of that day, it favored the adoption of the Federal Constitution. The most important literary contribution contained in it was The Anarchiad, a New England poem, by David Humphreys, Joel Barlow, John Trumbull, and Lemuel Hopkins, which appeared in twelve numbers in 1786-87. In the meantime Mr. Meigs was also pursuing addi- tional studies in natural philosophy and astronomy, and his reputation was such that he was employed by the Col- lege Corporation in 1787 as a Lecturer in those subjects; his business, however, was interfered with, so that he resigned the duty after about six months. In December, 1789, he removed to St. George's, in the Bermuda Islands, on the promise of legal business from Biographical Sketches, 1778 45 American clients, and there he remained until May, 1794, when some unpleasant experiences in connection with his services in the protection qf American seamen who had been captured by British privateers, forced him to return to his native country. He spent four or five months in New York City and in Stratford, and on October 8 he received an appointment as Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy at Yale. The appointment was for one year, with the expec- tation that it would be renewed yearly during good behav- ior. He accepted the offer five weeks later, and was form- ally inducted on December 4. President Stiles, through whose personal friendliness this step had been accomplished, died suddenly five months later ; and very soon after that event it began to be pub- licly known that Professor Meigs was not in sympathy with the Federalist party, of which Dr. Dwight, the new President, was so distinguished a light. Although no one doubted his enthusiasm as a teacher, his indiscreet expressions of approval of the French Rev- olution, and his disapproval of the measures of the admin- istration, caused so much friction, that in November, 1800, through the support of the Hon. Abraham Baldwin (Yale 1772), the President of the Board of Trustees, he was elected the first Professor in the new University of Geor- gia, located at Athens in Clarke County. He immediately (in December, 1800) resigned his pro- fessorship at Yale, and went in February, 1801, to Athens, where he was unanimously elected President on June 16, with a salary of $1500. The sentiments of his former friends and pupils are fairly expressed by the following extract from a letter (dated December 26, 1800) of Jedidiah Morse (Yale 1783) to his classmate Daggett: I am not sorry to hear of the removal of Prof. M. I wish him well for what he has been, & for his present merits but as his principles are contagious, it will be best for him I think to go where 46 Yale College they can do no harm, as in Georgia he will find Jacobins formed to his hand & who are past being polluted. The University was without buildings, teachers, or students, and had to be created mainly by the exertions of the new President. He labored with abundant energy, but as in his earlier situation was soon in difficulties, prin- cipally it would seem on account of the impossibility of making bricks without straw. He struggled along, against the distrust and opposition of the Board of Trus- tees, until August, 1810, when he resigned the presidency, though still retaining his Professorship of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy, to which Chemistry was also added at this time. But the causes of difficulty were untouched, and a year later, on August 9, 1811, he was removed from his office, on charges of misconduct, based upon reports of criticisms on the acts of the Trustees. These charges were obviously not the real grounds of his removal, and he had no difficulty in triumphantly refu- ting them. He remained in Georgia for some time longer, but in October, 1812, he received from President Jefferson the appointment of Surveyor-General of the United States, succeeding Colonel Jared Mansfield (Yale 1777), with a salary of $2000. This commission was confirmed by vote of the Senate in November, and he soon after fixed his residence in Cincinnati, Ohio. In October, 1814, he exchanged his appointment for that of Commissioner of the General Land Office of the United States, at Washington, with a salary of $2250, which he retained until his death. He administered his office satis- factorily, and deserves remembrance for having endeav- ored to introduce a system of daily meteorological obser- vations at all of the Land Offices in the country, which were reported monthly to the General Office in Washing- ton, and made the basis of interesting deductions. While living in Cincinnati he was the first president of a scientific association called "The School of Literature Biographical Sketches, 1778 47 and the Arts"; and in Washington he was from 1819 until his death the president of "The Columbian Institute." He was one of the original Trustees of the Columbian College (or University) in 1821, and in the same year was elected Professor of Experimental Philosophy in that institution. He had enjoyed remarkably good health throughout his life; and after an illness of eight days, he died in Washington in the evening of September 4, 1822, at the age of 65 years. His widow died in 1850, at the age of 82, at the house of her daughter in Columbus, Georgia. Their children were six sons and three daughters, of whom four sons and a daughter survived him. The eldest son was graduated at Yale in 1799, and the second and third sons at the University of Georgia, in 1807 and 1809, respectively. The eldest daughter married the Hon. John Forsyth, United States Senator and Governor of Georgia. An interesting sketch of President MeigsV life by a great-grandson was printed in 1887 (8> PP- x i> I 3 2 )- A silhouette likeness is prefixed to this life, and an engrav- ing from a portrait in the possession of the family is given in a recent (1894) History of the University of Georgia. He published: 1. An Oration pronounced before a public Assembly in New- Haven, on the 5th Day of November, 1781, at the Celebration of the glorious Victory over Lieutenant-General Earl Cornwallis. . New-Haven, 1782. sm. 4, pp. 14. [A. A. S. B. Ath. M. H. S. Y. C. 2. Statement of the Causes of the Removal from Office, of the Professor of Mathematics, Natural Philosophy and Chemistry, in the University of Georgia, respectfully addressed to a candid com- munity. Augusta, 1811. 8, pp. 16. [Y. C. AUTHORITIES. A. Bishop, Oration at Wallingford, Hist, of Stratford, ii, 1146. Pres. 1801, 51. Hull, Hist. Sketch of the Stiles, Literary Diary, ii, iii, passim. Univ. of Georgia, 13-25. W. M. Wile ox, Descendants of W. Wilcox- Meigs, Life of Josiah Meigs. Orcutt, son, V. Meigs and R. Webb, 31, 35. 48 Yale College ASHER MILLER, the eldest child of Deacon Giles and Elizabeth (Parsons) Miller, was born in the present town- ship of Middlefield, then a part of Middletown, Connecti- cut, on November 24, 1753. He did not enter College at the opening of the course. He was distinguished in scholarship as an undergrad- uate, and kept up his scientific studies in later years. He studied law and settled in Middletown in practice, and so commended himself to his fellow-townsmen that they chose him as one of their Representatives in the Gen- eral Assembly as early as May, 1785. He was re-elected to this service in ten additional sessions of the Assembly between 1788 and 1793, in which latter year he was first chosen to the Upper House of Assistants. He was also State's Attorney from 1785 to 1794. In 1793 he was appointed a Judge of the Superior Court, but resigned his seat in 1795. He was again elected a Representative in the Legisla- ture in 1798 and 1803-04; and from 1806 to 1817 was again a member of the Upper House, and served ex officio for that time as a Fellow of the College. In 1791 he was elected Mayor of the City of Middle- town, and held this office until his death. He was the presiding Judge of the Middlesex County Court from May, 1807, until his death; and Judge of the Probate District of Middletown from May, 1789, to May, 1793, and again from May, 1807, until his death. He died in Middletown, very suddenly, on December 24, 1821, aged 68 years. He married in Middletown, on December 12, 1781, Sarah, widow of Grove Ward, of Middletown, and daugh- ter of James and Sarah (Shailer) Lord, of Saybrook. She died on March 2, 1826, in her 85th year. An elder sister was the wife of Titus Hosmer (Yale 1757). They had no children, but his step-daughter, Sally Ward, became the wife of Enoch Huntington (Yale 1785)- Biographical Sketches, 1778 49 Judge Miller's estate was hopelessly insolvent. AUTHORITIES. Atkins, Hist, of Middlefield, 41-42. Family, 174. F. F. Starr, MS. Bailey, Early Conn. Marriages, vi, Letters, Oct. 30, 1905, and Oct. 13, 104. Field, Centennial Address at 1906. Middletown, 100-01. Huntington JOHN Mix, Junior, the eldest child of Captain John Mix, of New Haven, by his second wife, Sarah, and grand- son of John and Esther Mix, of New Haven, was bap- tized on October 25, 1761. ' He settled in New Haven, and at the time of his father's death in 1796 he was still in active life; but in 1805 on account of loss of reason it was necessary to put him under a conservator, and he continued insane until his death, in New Haven, on April 3, 1844, in his 83d year. Elizabeth, wife of John Mix, Jr., united with the White Haven Church in New Haven, on profession of faith, in September, 1782; another Mrs. John Mix, Jr., joined the same church in December, 1793; and John Mix, Jr., fol- lowed her example in October, 1795. It is possible that these entries may not refer to this graduate, as another John seems to have been known as John Mix, Jr., in New Haven at or about this time. JOSEPH NOYES, the eldest son of John Noyes (Yale 1753), of New Haven, was born in this town on Febru- ary 14, 1761. His father died in 1767, and his mother (Mary Fish) married in 1775 General Gold S. Silliman (Yale 1752), of Fair field, Connecticut, where the sons by her former marriage henceforth made their home. He was educated as a lawyer, and married on December n, 1783, Amelia, the youngest child of Ebenezer and Amelia (Silliman)- Burr, of Fairfield. Her father had died in 1766, when she was adopted by her uncle, General Silliman, whose step-son she now married. 4 50 Yale College In 1800 Mr. Noyes removed to northeastern Ohio, then known as "New Connecticut," being a proprietor of land in that country; and there attempted, too late in life, the arduous task of reducing the forest to cultivation. His family then consisted of four sons and one daughter ; but his wife and eldest son soon died, and after contracting a second marriage he removed to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where he was engaged in keeping school at the time of his death in the early part of the year 1817, at the age of 56. AUTHORITIES. Bailey, Conn. Marriages, vi, 42. 1858. Todd, Burr Family, 154. Prof. B. Silliman, MS. Letter, Dec., GILES PETTIBONE, Junior, eldest son of Colonel Giles Pettibone, one of the earliest settlers and most prominent citizens of Norfolk, Connecticut, and grandson of Jona- than and Martha (Humphrey) Pettibone, of Simsbury, Connecticut, was born in Norfolk on May 15, 1760. His mother was Desire, eldest child of Colonel Jonathan and Desire (Owen) Humphrey, of Simsbury. One of his brothers entered Yale in 1784, but left without gradua- ting; and two others were graduated at Williams College in 1800 and 1805 respectively. Giles Pettibone was prepared for College by his pastor, the Rev. Ammi R. Robbins. He settled in his native town, and built in 1794 a large house (still standing) facing the green, which he kept during the rest of his life as a hotel. He succeeded his father in the office of Town Treasurer in 1803, and held the position for six years. He died in Norfolk on February 27, 1811, in his 5ist year. He married Louisa, eldest daughter of Nathaniel and Eunice (Allen) Pease, of Enfield and 'Norfolk, who died on August 14, 1835, in her 75th year. Their children were eight daughters and one son. Biographical Sketches, 1778 51 AUTHORITIES. Crissey, Hist, of Norfolk, 539, 614. Family Record, 30. Humphreys Family, 300. Pease DANIEL REED was born in Salisbury, Connecticut, on May 22 (or 24), 1756, being the son of Elias and Mary (Todd) Reed, of Salisbury, and grandson of Thomas and Mary (Olmstead) Reed, of Norwalk, Connecticut. He was prepared for College by the Rev. Ammi R. Robbins, of Norfolk. After graduation he was employed as a surveyor in Salisbury, but later he studied medicine and settled in prac- tice in Rutland, Vermont. He married a daughter of Col- onel James Mead (from Nine Partners, New York) and Mercy (Holmes) Mead, of West Rutland, and from that time lived on a place given to his wife by her father in West Rutland. He represented the town in the General Assembly in 1805. He was considered a skilful physician, particularly in febrile complaints. He was very poor for a considerable part of his life, in consequence of intemperance, which probably prevented his attaining that eminence in his pro- fession which he otherwise might have enjoyed. He was received into the Congregational Church in West Rutland in 1803, and died there on July 28, 1844, aged 88 years. AUTHORITIES. Dr. Joseph Palmer, MS. Letter, Letter, Sept. 7, 1905. Febr. 6, 1852. Malcolm D. Rudd, MS. EBENEZER SAGE, the fifth son of Deacon David Sage, of that part of Middletown, Connecticut, which was incor- porated as Portland in 1841 (having been a part of the town of Chatham since 1767), and grandson of Timothy and Margaret (Hurlbut) Sage, of Middletown, was born on August 1 6, 1755. His mother was Sarah, second 52 Yale College daughter of Stephen and Elizabeth (Hall) Stocking, of Chatham. He settled as a physician in Easthampton, Suffolk County, Long Island, in 1784, and married in 1790 Ruth, daughter of Dr. William and Ruth (Howell) Smith, of Southampton, in that county. In 1796 he returned to his native place, but five years later came back and settled in Sag-Harbor, in the town of Southampton. He was a cautious and skilful physician, and a gentleman of science and literature. Possessing equanimity of temper and a talent for humor, his com- pany and conversation were highly appreciated. In politics he was a disciple of Jefferson, and was a Member of Congress from May, 1809, to March, 1815, and again from December, 1819, to March,. 1821. Although he never attempted a speech in the House, his opinions and judgment were much respected. He was a man of elevated character, and could express his thoughts in writing with facility. In 1821 he was a delegate to the Convention for amend- ing the Constitution of the State of New York. He was appointed a Presidential Elector in 1824, but did not fulfil the duties. He died in Southampton on January 20, 1834, in his 79th year. His wife died in May, 1831, aged 66. Their children were one son and one daughter. The son succeeded his father in his profession. AUTHORITIES. Sage Genealogy, 58-59. South- son, Hist, of L. I., 2d ed., i, 357. ampton Records, iii, 260, 363. Thomp- NOAH SMITH was a native of Suffield, Connecticut, but had removed to Rupert, Vermont, before entering Yale. He was prepared for College by the Rev. Ammi R. Rob- bins of Norfolk, Connecticut. A younger brother was graduated here in 1781. Biographical Sketches, 1778 53 He participated, with his classmate Jacob, in the cele- bration of the anniversary of the battle of Bennington, in August, 1778; and in May, 1779, he was admitted to the bar of the Superior Court of Vermont at Westminster, and was at once appointed State's Attorney, pro tempore, for Cumberland County. In 1781 he settled in Bennington, and at the first session of the County Court in the same year he was appointed State's Attorney for Bennington County, which office he held for several years. In 1789 he was chosen to represent the town of Johnson in the General Assembly, though a resident of Bennington, and while serving in this office he was elected by the Assembly, on October 14, a Judge of the Supreme Court of Vermont. He held this appoint- ment until January, 1791, when he resigned in consequence of a nomination to the office of United States Senator ; he was not, however, elected to the Senate. In March, 1791, he was appointed by President Washington .Supervisor of Excise and Impost for Vermont. While a member of the Governor's Council in 1798 he was re-elected to the Supreme bench, and resigning his seat in the Assembly held the judgeship by annual election until 1801. He was also Collector of the Internal Revenue of the United States under Washington. Soon after the year 1800 he removed to Milton, in the northern part of the State, where he resided until his death, which occurred in that town on December 23 or 24, 1812, in his 56th year. He built a meeting-house in Milton and gave it to the Congregational Church and Society, in 1806 or 1807. He published : A Speech delivered at Bennington, on the Anniversary of the i6th of August, 1777. Hartford, 1779. 8, pp. 8. [B. Publ. U. S. He married, in Canaan, Connecticut, on November 4, 1779, Chloe Burrall, a sister of William Burrall (Yale 1781), who died on March i, 1810, in her 53d year. 54 Yale College AUTHORITIES. Bailey, Early Conn. Marriages, vii, 420-21. Records of Governor and 72. Deming, Catalogue of Vermont Council of Vermont, iii, 188, 226, 489, Officers, 73, 75. Hemenway, Ver- 513-14; iv, 168-69. Vermont Hist, mont Historical Gazetteer, i, 165. Society's Collections, i, 253-61. Hinman, Genealogy of the Puritans, ASA SPALDING was born on May 20, 1757, on a farm in the town of Canterbury, Connecticut, which shortly after his graduation was included in the new township of Brook- lyn. He was the eighth child and fourth son of Ebenezer Spalding, and grandson of Edward and Mary (Adams) Spalding, of Canterbury. His mother was Mary, daugh- ter of Josiah Fassett, of Canterbury. He did not enter College at the beginning of the course. He studied law with Judge Andrew Adams (Yale 1760), of Litchneld, Connecticut, and settled as an attor- ney in Norwich, Connecticut, in 1782. In the beginning of his career he had very limited means and no special patronage, and was forced to practice the most rigid economy ; but by unremitting attention to busi- ness and strict integrity, enforced by his native ability and sound judgment, he acquired an extensive practice and in the end amassed a handsome property. In politics he was a Jeffersonian democrat, and was three times elected to the Legislature as a Represen- tative, in 1795, 1796, and 1804. He was for several years before his death the candidate of his party for the office of Governor, without the remotest prospect of elec- tion. He was also for many years State's Attorney for New London County. His talents were solid and profound, rather than bril- liant; and although an able, he was not a polished or eloquent speaker. He was blunt and peculiar in manner, and his excellence lay in his industry, honesty, and regard for sincerity and truth. During his later years he owned and occupied one of the handsomest residences in Norwich, and he left an Biographical Sketches, 1778 55 estate of $150,000, a great sum for those days. He died in Norwich very suddenly, from angina pectoris, on August n, 1811, in his 55th year. He married, on November 21, 1787, Lydia Shipman, of Norwich. Of their two children, one died in infancy, and the other, a daughter, at the age of twelve. Mrs. Spalding married on August 18, 1819, Captain Bela Peck, of Norwich, as his second wife, and died on August 1 8, 1835, aged 68 years, without children. Two of his nephews were graduated at Yale, in 1817 and 1818 respectively. AUTHORITIES. Caulkins, Hist, of Norwich, 2d ed., ealogy, 341. Perkins, Old Houses of 510-20. Conn. Courant, July 23, Norwich, i, 243-44. Spalding Memo- 1806. Pease and Niles, Gazetteer of rial, 47, 94-96- Conn, and R. I., 149-50. Peck Gen- JOSIAH SPALDING (later written SPAULDING) was born in Plainfield, Connecticut, on January 10, 1751. He was not here at the opening of the course. He pursued theological studies with the Rev. Dr. Stephen West (Yale 1755), of Stockbridge, Massachu- setts, and received a license to preach on January 7, 1780. Early in 1782 he was preaching in Hardwick, Worcester County, Massachusetts, with great acceptance, as an assistant to the aged and infirm pastor, the Rev. David White (Yale 1730) ; but plans for his permanent settle- ment there fell through, and we next hear of him in Uxbridge in the same county, where the Rev. Hezekiah Chapman (Yale 1766) had been dismissed from the pas- torate in April, 1781. Mr Spaulding was ordained as minister of the church in Uxbridge on September n, 1783, but remained there only four years. Early in September, 1787, the town, as the society connected with the church, voted to advise him to seek a dismission; and a council called on October 2 56 Yale College sanctioned his removal. It is surmised that his unpop- ularity was due to his Calvinistic theology. Thence he went to Worthington, in Hampshire County, where he was installed pastor on August 21, 1788. But here also there was dissatisfaction, which led to charges being preferred against him, of neglect in visiting his parishioners, especially the sick, of variations in doctrine, and of falsehood and fraud. A council which was called investigated these charges and found them baseless; but in consequence of the large number of the church and of the town who were dissatisfied they advised his dismis- sion, which, accordingly took place in March, 1794. He left with the reputation of being sound in doctrine, but very eccentric. From Worthington he went to Buckland, a few miles further north in the same county (now in Franklin County), where a Congregational Church had been formed in 1785. Mr. Spaulding was installed as the first pastor on October 15, 1794, and remained' there until his death, in that town, on May 8, 1823, in his 73d year. He married, about the ist of February, 1784, Mary, daughter of Judge Williams, of Taunton, Massachusetts, who died on February n, 1823, aged 67 years. His own health had for some time previously been declining, and a violent attack of disease at the end of April was the beginning of the end. . Their children were four daughters and one son. The son became violently and hopelessly insane while prepar- ing for College; and lived to advanced age in that condition. An obituary notice, written by one of his ministerial neighbors, ascribes to him "powers of intellect of a supe- rior class. To extensive reading he added much thought. There was little in his person or manner in the pulpit that would be called commanding. He possessed not the graces of elocution. Yet he was an instructive preacher. . . As a Christian, he must be considered as pre-eminent/' The Biographical Sketches, 1778 57 historian of Western Massachusetts describes him as "one of the best men, and one of the best ministers, in the County." Though dull and uninteresting in manner, his preaching was weighty and "instructive, and as a pastor and a man he was thoroughly trusted and ioved. Meas- ured by its fruits, his ministry in Buckland was a success- ful one. He published : 1. A Sermon [from Joshua xxiv, 19] on the Nature and Crimi- nality of Man's Inability to Serve the Lord. Delivered at Hard- wick, June I5th, 1782. Worcester [1783?] 8, pp. 40. \A.A.S. A.C.A. B.Ath. B.Pnbl. Brozvn'Univ. N.Y.H.S. 2. The Duty and Importance of Calling upon God Illustrated: in Two Sermons [from Rom. x, 13]. The substance of which was delivered at Shelburne, September 22d, 1799. In which the ques- tion, whether it is better for an unregenerate man to pray, than to omit prayer, is answered. Northampton, 1800. 8, pp. 40. [A. C. A. B. Publ. Brit. Mus. Brown Univ. 3. God's Promise to Zion, of Union and Harmony among her watchmen. A Sermon [from Isaiah Hi, 5], delivered at the Ordin- ation of the Rev. Alvan Tobey, . . in Wilmington, (Ver.) Sep- tember 14, 1803. Northampton, 1805. 8, pp. 38. [Brit. Mus. Brown Univ. C. H. S. 4. Universalism confounds and destroys itself ; or, Letters to a Friend.... Northampton, 1805. 8, pp. 359. [Andover Theol. Sent. B. Publ. Brit. Mus. Brown Univ. Harv. U. S. Y. C. 5. The Burden and Heat of the Day, borne by the Jewish Church. A Sermon [from John iv, 38], preached at Shelburne, before the Auxiliary Society for Foreign Missions, at their Annual Meeting, Oct. 12, 1813. By Joshua Spaulding, A.M., Pastor of the Church in Buckland. Boston, 1814. 8, pp. 28. [B. Ath. Brit. Mus. The argument is that the Jews labored diligently and spent their substance for the maintenance of religious worship; as they have gone to heaven, beyond the reach of our gratitude, we can best repay our debt to them by sending the gospel to the heathen. After his death was published : A Sermon [from Mai. ii, 15], preached March 2, 1823, occa- sioned by the death of his Wife. To which is added a short account 58 Yale College of the life and character of the Author. Greenfield, 1823. 8, pp. 1 6. [Brown Univ. M. H. S. He is sometimes confused (especially in regard to his publications) with the Rev. Joshua Spalding (born 1760, died 1825), of Salem, Massachusetts. AUTHORITIES. [Bisbee and Rice], Hist, of Worth- 325-26. Packard, Churches and Min- ington, 63-64. Blake, Hist, of the isters in Franklin County, Mass., Mendon Association, 119-21. Boston 53-59- Paige, Hist, of Hardwick, Recorder, March 22, 1823. Chapin, 192. Spalding Memorial, 490-91. Address at Uxbridge, 30-32. Hoi- Whitney, Hist, of Worcester County, land, Hist, of Western Mass., ii, 306, 127. SETH STORRS, the third son and seventh child of Thomas Storrs, of Mansfield, Connecticut, and grandson of Thomas and Mehitabel Storrs, of Mansfield, was born in Mans- field on June 24, 1756, and was baptized on July 25. His mother was Eunice, daughter of Robert Paddock, of Mansfield. He did not enter College at the opening of the course. For three or four years after graduation he assisted the Rev. Timothy D wight (Yale 1769) in conducting his Academy in Northampton, Massachusetts. Later he seems to have gone to New York City, and early in 1786 he began the study of law in Bennington, Vermont, in the office of his classmate Smith. Having received a license to practice law, he established himself in 1787 in Addison, then the most important set- tlement in the newly incorporated Addison County. He was appointed the first State's Attorney for the County in 1787, and continued to hold the office by annual appoint- ment for the next ten years. He found board in the fam- ily of General John Strong, the Judge of the County Court, whose second daughter, Electa, he married on November 26, 1789. In 1791 the courts of the county were removed by direc- tion of the Legislature from Addison to Middlebury, and thither Mr. Storrs removed his residence in 1794. Here Biographical Sketches, 1778 59 he not only enjoyed a successful practice, but was among the most efficient agents in counselling and contributing to measures for advancing the prosperity of the town. He was the first to hold the"" office of State Auditor of Accounts, from 1797 to 1801. He had made a profession of religion in early life, and was prominent in promoting its interests. From Decem- ber, 1798, until his death he served as a deacon in the Congregational Church of Middlebury. He was a member of the corporation of the County Grammar School which was located in Middlebury in 1797, and a year or two later he conceived the idea of having a college in the town. As a result of his sugges- tions Middlebury College was chartered in November, 1800, and Colonel Storrs (as he was called) was made one of the trustees. In this capacity he was one of the most active friends of the institution, and the commanding site now occupied by the College buildings was one of his valuable benefactions. In the later years of his life he was more generally employed in various offices of trust than in the labors of his profession. He was town-clerk for twenty-three years between 1801 and 1831. He was a dignified gentleman of the old school, of great sweetness of character. He died in Vergennes, Vermont, while on a visit to friends, on October 5, 1837, in his 82d year. His widow died in Middlebury, on March 15, 1842, in her 72d year. Their children were five daughters and three sons, all of whom grew to maturity. Two of the sons were graduates of Middlebury College, in 1819 and 1832 respectively. One daughter married Professor Edward Turner (Yale 1818), and another married the Rev. Wheelock S. Stone (Middlebury 1828). AUTHORITIES. Dimock, Mansfield Records, 170, mon at Middlebury, 57, 66-67, 9 1 - 381. Dwight, Strong Family, ii, 1017, Storrs Family, 329, 345-47. Swift, 1028-29. Merrill, Semicentennial Ser- Hist, of Middlebury, 238-40. 60 Yale College ZEPHANIAH SWIFT, son of Roland Swift, was born in Wareham, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, on Febru- ary 27, 1759. In his childhood his parents removed to Lebanon, Connecticut, and he was prepared for College at the famous school of Master Tisdale. Immediately on graduation, he began the study of law, and on admission to the bar settled in Mansfield, Connect- icut, but soon removed to the adjoining town of Windham, where he resided until his death. At the bar, uniting industry, integrity, and persever- ance with talents of no common order, he soon became a noted advocate. At this time there was in the community strong opposi- tion to the existing alliance between the Congregational churches and the State, and Mr. Swift became a spokes- man of this party. He was a federalist in politics and a freethinker in religion,, and as such carried the election as Representative in the Legislature in May, 1787, and at eleven more sessions up to the time of his being sent to Congress. After having been Clerk of the Connecticut House for four sessions, he was elected Speaker in Octo- ber, 1792. In 1793 he retired from his profession on being chosen as a Representative in Congress, and he continued an influential member of that body until April, 1797, when he declined a re-election. In the mean time he had published his System of the Laws of Connecticut, which brought him deserved honor, as the first essay of that kind in America. In May, 1799, he was chosen into the Council, or Upper House of the State Legislature; and towards the close of the same year he accompanied Chief Justice Ellsworth as his Secretary on the embassy to France of which he was the head. After a year's residence in Europe, he returned with augmented affection for the institutions of his coun- try. The suffrages ' of his fellow-citizens immediately replaced him in the Council, where he continued a con- Biographical Sketches, 1778 61 spicuous member until October, 1801, when the Legis- lature appointed him a Judge of the Superior Court. This station he held with high and increasing reputation for eighteen years, during the last five of which he was Chief Justice. He was a member of the Hartford Convention in 1814. In 1815 Yale College conferred on him the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws, which honor was also given him at Middlebury College in 1821. After the adoption of the new Constitution of Connecti- cut in 1818, a partisan revolution, which caused his removal from the Judgeship the Legislature selected Judge Swift, with two associates, to revise the Statutes and to cause them to conform to the new order. To Judge Swift was assigned the most laborious part of this work and its exposition to the Legislature. These duties he per- formed to great public satisfaction. He also served the town of Windham again as Representative in 1820, 1821, and 1822. During the last five years of his life his active mind was employed in compiling a Digest of the Common and Stat- ute Law of the State, which was nearly through the press at the time of his death. In August, 1823, he went to Ohio to visit children who were settled there. While at the house of his son (Yale 1816) in Warren, in Trumbull County, he was seized with an inflammatory fever, which terminated his life on September 27, in his 65th year. He first married Jerusha, daughter of John Watrous, of Colchester, Connecticut, who died on May 21, 1792, aged 29 years. He was next married by the Rev. Elijah Waterman, on March 14, 1795, to Lucretia, youngest daughter of Captain Nathaniel Webb (Yale 1757), of Windham. After her husband's death she made her home with a daughter in Akron, Ohio, where she died on January 16, 1843, a ged 68 years. He published : 62 Yale College 1. An Oration on Domestic Slavery. Delivered at the North Meeting-House in Hartford, on the i2th Day of May, A.D. 1791. At the Meeting of the Connecticut Society for the Promotion of Freedom. . Hartford, 1792. 8, pp. 23. [C. H. S. Harv. N. Y, H. S. U. S. U. T. S. Y. C. A strenuous argument against slavery, written in a tone of sym- pathy with religious leaders quite in contrast with some of his later utterances. 2. The Correspondent. Containing, the Publications in the Windham Herald, relative to the Result of the Ecclesiastical Coun- cil, holden at Pomfret, in September, 1792, and the Result of the Consociation of the County of Windham, holden at Pomfret, in December, 1792, respecting the Rev. Oliver Dodge; together with an Appendix, containing, Some general Observations relative to the true Principles and Spirit of the Christian Religion. Windham, 1793. 8, pp. 140. [N. Y. Publ. Libr. U. S. Y. C. This anonymous pamphlet betrays a very bitter spirit, especially towards certain individuals who were prominent in objecting to Mr. Dodge; and is altogether unworthy of the author. Replies were published by the Rev. Moses C. Welch (Yale 1772) and the Rev. Eliphalet Lyman (Yale 1776). 3. An Address to the Reverend Moses C. Welch, containing an Answer to his Reply to the Correspondent. . By the Correspon- dent. Windham, 1794. 8, pp. 62. [A. C. A. 4. A System of the Laws of the State of Connecticut. Wind- ham, 1795-96. 2 vols. 8, pp. iv, 452 -f- pi-, and v, 479, xii. [B. Publ. Brit. Mus. Harv. L. I. Hist. Soc. N. Y. H. S. N. Y. Soc. Libr. Y. C. Containing an interesting list of Subscribers. 5. A Second Address to the Reverend Moses C. Welch, con- taining an Answer to his Letter to the Correspondent. Windham, 1796. 8, pp. 43- [A. C. A. U. S. This pamphlet is very vigorous. Although no author's name is given, the authorship is practically acknowledged. 6. A Digest of the Law of Evidence, in civil and criminal cases. And a Treatise on Bills of Exchange, and Promissory Notes. Hart- ford, 1810. 8, pp. xvi, 361, xxx. [Brit. Mus. Han'. U. S. Y. C. 7. A Vindication of the calling of the Special Superior Court, at Middletown, on the 4th Tuesday of August, 1815, for the Trial of Biographical Sketches, 1778 63 Peter Lung, charged with the crime of murder. With Observations on the constitutional power of the Legislature to interfere with the Judiciary in the administration .of justice. Windham, 1816. 8, pp. 48. ' [C.H. S. U. S. U. T. S. Y. C. A spirited defence of his own conduct as Chief Justice, and an arraignment of the ignorant interference of the Legislature. 8. A Digest of the Laws of the State of Connecticut. New- Haven, 1822-23. 2 vols. 8, pp. 798, 8 + pi., and 856. [F. C. Though in form a new edition of No. 4 (above), this is so much enlarged and improved as to be essentially a new work ; it is of much more than local interest, and was long used to a considerable extent all over the United States, both in legal instruction and as an authority before the courts. A few selections from his letters to the Hon. David Daggett (Yale 1783), written while in Congress in 1793-94, are printed in the Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society for April, 1887, pp. 370-74. AUTHORITIES. Bailey, Early Conn. Marriages, vii, Digest, 1823. The Port Folio, 4th 75. Hoive, Hist. Collections of Ohio, Series (1824), xvii, 87. Vinton, Giles ist ed., 479. Lamed, Hist, of Wind- Memorial, 517-18, 556. Yale Law ham County, ii, 222-23, 227-28, 274- Journal, xi, 2. 75. Memoir, prefixed to vol. 2 of his URIAH TRACY, the second son of Eliphalet and Lucy [or Sarah] (Manning) Tracy, of that part of Norwich, Connecticut, which is now Franklin, and grandson of Winslow and Rachel (Ripley) Tracy, was born on Febru- ary 2, 1755. After graduation he went to Litchfield, Connecticut, and there studied law with the Hon. Tapping Reeve, and was admitted to the Litchfield bar in 1781. He was popu- lar and respected as an attorney, and successful in the management of cases. He held the office of State's Attor- ney for Litchfield County. He was regularly chosen by the town of Litchfield as one of their Representatives in the General Assembly from October, 1788, until his election to Congress in 1793. 64 Yale College The latter station he held until his appointment to the United States Senate (to fill a vacancy caused by the resignation of Jonathan Trumbull, Jr.) in October, 1796; and in this office he continued until his death in Washing- ton, on July 19, 1807, in his 53d year. He was the first person to be interred in the Congressional burying ground. He had suffered acutely for six or seven years from dropsy of the breast, and died after a final illness of four or five months. Besides his political preferment, he passed through the several grades of office in the militia, until he reached the rank of Major-General. His fellow-townsman, James Morris (Yale 1775), wrote of him in 1811 : By his opponents in political opinions, he was highly respected. His mind was large & comprehensive : he had an extensive knowl- edge of the human character; and few excelled him as a politician. Few men have had more wit, or used it more pleasantly. . . . As a religious man, he did not terminate his thoughts in mere specula- tions, but embraced the Gospel with the heart. John Quincy Adams, his colleague in the Senate, wrote thus of him in 1805 : Mr. Tracy shows in all his public conduct great experience, and a thorough familiarity with the order and course of legislative pro- ceedings. His manner is peculiarly accommodating and conciliatory ; his command of temper exemplary. In public affairs, it appears to me, there is no quality more useful and important than good humor. . ; and this quality Mr. Tracy possesses in a high degree. In addition to his solid attainments as a debater and reasoner, he was a charming and instructive social com- panion, abounding in wit and satire. His career, how- ever, during the largest part of his active life, was over- shadowed by depressing ill-health. He married Susan, or Susannah, daughter of Isaac and Eunice (Gillett) Bull, of Hartford, by whom he had one son and four daughters, all of whom married lawyers of distinction. Biographical Sketches, 1778 65 One daughter married the Hon. James Gould (Yale 1791), and another married the Hon. Theron Metcalf (Brown Univ. 1806). Mrs. Tracy died in Hartford on January 7, 1843, aged 84 years. He published : i. Scipio's Reflections on Monroe's View of the Conduct of the Executive on the Foreign Affairs of the United States. Connected with a Mission to the French Republic in the years, 1794, '95, '96. Boston, 1798. 12, pp. iii, 140. [B. Ath. U. S. Y. C. The same with title: Reflections on Monroe's View, of the Conduct of the Executive, as published in the Gazette of the United States, under the signa- ture of Scipio. In which the Commercial Warfare of France is traced to the French Faction in this Country, as its Source, and the Motives of Opposition, etc. [Philadelphia, 1798?] 8, pp. 88. [B. Ath. U. S. Y. C. In this latter form of Mr. Tracy's anonymous newspaper com- munications, five pages of matter not contained in the previous form are appended. 2. To the Freemen of Connecticut. Litchfield, 6th September, 1803. 8, pp. 16. [A. A. S. Y. C. An Address to the electors on the political situation, in Con- necticut and in the United States; in answer to a Republican Address, which is supposed to have been written by his classmate, Alexander Wolcott. 3. Speech in the Senate of the United States, Friday, December 2, 1803, on the passage of the following Amendment to the Consti- tution [respecting the mode of election of President and Vice- President] . . [Washington, 1803.] 8, pp. 24. [B. Ath. B. Publ, Harv. M. H. S. N. Y. H. S. R. I. H. S. U.S. Y.C. ';" In opposition to what was finally passed as the I2th Amendment to the Constitution, on the ground of danger to the small States. This speech is reprinted in E. B. Williston's Eloquence of the United States, vol. ii, pp. 320-48 (Middletown, 1827), and in Frank Moore's American Eloquence, vol. i, pp. 432-42 (N. Y., 1857). Another speech in the Senate, on the Judiciary System, delivered on January 12, 1802, is also reprinted in Moore, pp. 442-46. 5 66 Yale College Six of his letters to the two Oliver Wolcotts, 1797-1801, are in Gibbs's Administrations of Washington and Adams; and three of his letters to Rufus King, 1806, in King's Life and Correspondence, vol. 4. AUTHORITIES. J. Q. Adams, Diary, i, 377. Bos- rich, Recollections of a Lifetime, ii, well, Litchfield Book of Days, 135, 92-93. Hinman, Conn. Puritan Set- J37-38. Conn. Journal, July 29, Aug. tiers, 392. Mass. Hist. Society's Pro- 5 and 12, 1807. Gibbs, Administra- ceedings, xiv, 387. Morris, Statist, tions of Washington and Adams, i, Account of Litchfield County, 109-10. 162, 389, 4IS-I7, 474-75, 478, 537-39; Tracy Genealogy, 42, 68. Wood- ii, 12, 232, 399-400, 495. 5". G. Good- -ward, Hist, of Franklin, Conn., 87. NOAH WEBSTER, second son and fourth child of Deacon and Captain Noah Webster, of (West) Hartford, Con- necticut, and grandson of Captain Daniel and Miriam (Cooke, Kellogg) Webster, of West Hartford, was born in West Hartford, on October 16, 1758. His mother was Mercy Steele, of West Hartford, sister of the Rev. Eli- phalet Steele (Yale 1764). A year before his graduation he marched as a volunteer in his father's militia company against Burgoyne, but was met by the news of his surrender. On leaving College he was thrown upon his own resources, and took up school-teaching, which he pursued in Hartford and the vicinity, reading law in the meantime, until his admission to the bar in 1781. As, however, in the existing state of the country he had no encouragement to begin practice, he resumed the busi- ness of instruction, and opened in May, 1782, a select school in Sharon, Connecticut. Later in the year he trans- ferred himself to Goshen, New York, for the same busi- ness, and here, in a period of despondency, he undertook an employment which gave a complexion to his whole future life. This was the compilation of elementary text- books for teaching the English language, the spelling- book, grammar, and reading-book, which made his name a household word. In 1783 he returned to Hartford to Biographical Sketches, 1778 67 superintend the publication of these works, and at this time began also his career as a political writer. A little later, in 1786, he,.entered the lecture field, and delivered in various cities with considerable acceptance a course of lectures on the English language. During these years he also devoted successfully much of his time and energy to securing the passage of copy- right laws in the various States. The year 1787 he spent in Philadelphia, as superinten- dent of an Episcopal academy. Thence he went to New York, to establish the American Magazine, which, how- ever, was pecuniarily unsuccessful and was discontinued after a single year. In 1789 he settled in Hartford as a lawyer, and on October 26 he married Rebecca, daughter of the Hon. William and Mary (Brown) Greenleaf, of Boston. In 1790 he showed his interest in his Alma Mater by engaging to give one copy of each part of his Grammati- cal Institute for every hundred copies sold henceforth in Connecticut, the proceeds to constitute an annual pre- mium for an Essay written in competition by one of the College students. The premium seems to have been awarded for only five years (1791-95), and the successful essayists received from 4 to 6 annually. His business proved sufficiently lucrative to support him until, in November, 1793, he was induced to remove to New York City, in order to edit in the Federalist inter- est a new daily newspaper called The American Minerva (subsequently The Commercial Advertiser), with a semi-weekly issue called The Herald (subsequently The Spectator). From this busy life he retired to New Haven in the spring of 1798, to devote himself to private literary pur- suits. He did not, however, hold himself aloof from public service: thus, he was for nine sessions (1800-1807) a member of the General Assembly; Councilman of New Haven, 1799-1804; Alderman, 1806-1809; and Judge of 68 Yale College the County Court from 1806 to 1810. The first important results of his leisure were a Compendious English Diction- ary, published in 1806, and an English Grammar which appeared in 1807; and immediately after these he entered on the great work of his life, which had been long in con- templation the preparation of a new and complete Eng- lish dictionary. While pursuing this task he removed, from motives of economy, to Amherst, Massachusetts, in 1812, where he also served as a member of the General Court in 1814, 1815, and 1817; but he returned to New Haven in 1822, and in 1823 received the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws from this College. In June, 1824, he went abroad, his son accompanying him, and spent about a year in Paris and England, for the purpose of consulting rare works and coming into per- sonal contact with foreign scholars. He carried his manu- scripts with him, and completed the first draft of his Dictionary while in Cambridge, in January, 1825, but was not successful in finding an English publisher. On his return he made arrangements for the publication of his work here, and it appeared at the close of 1828. With this event Dr. Webster considered the labors of his literary life as, in a great measure, brought to an end. He continued, however, to busy himself in the revision of some of his minor works, and supervised the second edi- tion of his Dictionary in 1840-41. In the spring of 1843 ne revised an Appendix to his Dictionary (prepared by his son), and shortly after the printing of this was completed, he fell ill from pneumonia, and died in New Haven, quite suddenly, on May 28, 1843, in his 85th year. He had been admitted to the First Church in New Haven on profession of his faith in April, 1808, and died in the full assurance of Christian belief. The Address delivered by the Rev. Dr. N. W. Taylor at his funeral is printed in a volume of Essays by his son-in- law, Professor W. C. Fowler. Biographical Sketches, 1778 69 His widow died in New Haven, after a long period of extreme feebleness, on June 25, 1847, m ner &2d year. Seven of their eight children grew to maturity, six daughters and one son. The eldest daughter was married to the Hon. William W. Ellsworth (Yale 1810) ; the second to Professor Chauncey A. Goodrich, of the same class; the third to Professor William C. Fowler (Yale 1816) ; the fourth to the Rt. Rev. Horatio Southgate (Bowdoin 1832) ; and the fifth to the Rev. Henry Jones (Yale 1820). In his person Dr. Webster was tall and slender and remarkably erect. He was the soul of honor and upright- ness in all his dealings, but so much the retired scholar that he was unduly sensitive of supposed encroachments on the field of labor which he had made so largely his own. A Memoir by his son-in-law, Professor Goodrich, was prefixed to the revised edition of the Dictionary in 1847, and gives a clear and full account of his character and career; and Mr. Horace E. Scudder contributed a sprightly and suggestive study of Webster (302 pages, 1 6) to the American Men of Letters Series in 1881. He published: i. A Grammatical Institute, of the English Language, compris- ing, an easy, concise, and systematic Method of Education, designed for the use of English Schools in America. . . In Three Parts. Part I. Containing, a new and accurate Standard of Pronun- ciation. Hartford [1783]. 12, pp. 120. [A. A. S. (imperfect). Harv. The same. Third Edition. Hartford, 1784. 12. [Harv. The same. Fourth Edition. Hartford, 1785. 12, pp. 138. [/. Carter Brown Libr. The same, with title, The American Spelling Book: containing an easy Standard of Pronunciation. Being the First Part of a Grammatical Institute of the English Language. . Thomas and Andrews's First Edition. Boston (Worcester), 1789. 12, pp. 144. [A. A. S. 70 Yale College The same. Thomas & Andrews' Twenty-fourth Edition. Bos- ton, 1802. 12, pp. 156. [Y. C. The more modern editions are countless. It is computed that more than eighty million copies were sold before 1880. 2. A Grammatical Institute, of the English Language. . . Part II. Containing, A plain and comprehensive Grammar. . . . Hartford, 1784. 12, pp. 139. [A. A. S. Brit. Mus. Harv. R. I. Hist. Soc. U. S. Y. C. The same [2d Edition]. Hartford, 1785. 12, pp. 139. [A. A. S. J. Carter Brawn Libr. R. I. Hist. Soc. The same. The Third Edition, revised and amended. Philadel- phia, 1787. 12, pp. 132. [Brit. Mus. N. Y. Society Libr. Y. C. The same. 4th Edition. Hartford [1787]. 12. [B. Ath. Harv. M. H. S. (incomplete). The same. Thomas & Andrews ist edition. Boston, 1790. 16, pp. 125. [Harv. U. S. The same. Thomas and Andrews's Second Edition. Boston, 1792. 12, pp. 120. [Harv. U. S. Y. C. The same. The third Connecticut Edition. Hartford, 1792. 12, pp. 131. [Brit. Mus. U. S. Y. C. In this edition the Appendix is enlarged and rewritten. There are many later editions. Though not so enormously pop- ular as the Spelling Book, the grammar was much used, and deserved well from its originality and aptness ; it was mainly dis- placed by Lindley Murray's Abridgement of his English Grammar, first published in 1818, 3. A Grammatical Institute of the English Language... Part III. Containing the necessary Rules of reading and speaking, and a Variety of Essays, Dialogues, and declamatory Pieces, moral, political and entertaining.. . Hartford, 1785. 12, pp. 186. [Brit. Mus. Harv. N. Y. Publ. Libr. R. I. Hist. Soc. U. S. Y. C. The same. 2d edition. Hartford [1785]. 12. [L. I. Hist. Soc. The same with new title : An American Selection of Lessons in Reading and Speaking... Being The Third Part of a Grammatical Institute of the English Language. Philadelphia, 1787. 12, pp. 372. [Brit. Mus. U. S. The same. Thomas & Andrews First Edition. Boston, 1790. 12, pp. 239. [U. S. Biographical Sketches, 1778 71 Many later editions; in 1835 with new title, Instructive and Entertaining Lessons for Youth, (pp. 252.) 4. Sketches of American Policy.. . Hartford, 1785. 8, pp. 48. [B. Ath. Brit. Mus. Harv. N.-Y. Publ. Libr. Watkinson Libr. Y. C. This is said to contain "the first distinct proposal made through the medium of the press, for a new Constitution of the United States," and the first strong plea for a national government for this country. 5. An Examination into the Leading Principles of the Federal Constitution proposed by the late Convention held at Philadelphia. With Answers to the Principal Objections that have been raised against the system. By a Citizen of America. Philadelphia, 1787. 8, PP. 55- [/. Carter Brown Libr. Harv. L. I. Hist. Soc. N. Y. Publ. Libr. U. S. Watkinson Libr. Y. C. Reprinted in 1888 in a volume of Pamphlets on the Constitution of the United States, edited by his great-grandson, Paul Leicester Ford. 6. Attention! or, New Thoughts on a serious Subject: being an Enquiry into the Excise Laws of Connecticut; addressed to the Freemen of the State. By a Private Citizen. Hartford, 1789. 8, pp. 18. [M. H. S. N. Y. Publ. Libr. Watkinson Libr. Y. C. 7. Dissertations on the English Language : with Notes. . . To which is added, by way of Appendix, an Essay "on a Reformed Mode of Spelling.. . Boston, 1789. 8, pp. 410. [A. A. S. A. C. A. B. Ath. B. Publ. Brit. Mus. Brown. Harv. M. H. S. N. Y. H. S. N. Y. Publ. Libr. N. Y. Soc. Libr. U. S. Y. C. 8. A Collection of Essays and Fugitiv Writings. On Moral, Historical, Political and Literary Subjects. Boston, 1790. -8, pp. xvi, 414. [A. A. S. B. Ath. B. Publ. Bowdoin Coll. Brit. Mus. Broivn. Harv. M. H. S. N. Y. H. S. N. Y. Publ. Libr. U. S. U. T. S. Y. C. With interesting list of subscribers. 9. The Little Reader's Assistant; containing I. A number of Stories, mostly taken from the history of America, and adorned with Cuts. II. Rudiments of English Grammar. III. A Federal Catechism, being a short and easy explanation of the Constitution 72 Yale College of the United States. IV. General principles of Government and Commerce.. . Hartford, 1790. 16, pp. 48, 80, 13. The same. The second edition. [With the addition of V. The Farmer's Catechizm.] Hartford, 1791. 16, pp. 141. [A. A. S. Y. C. The same. The third edition. [With the addition of a section On a Reform of Spelling.] Northampton, 1791. 16, pp. 137. [A. A. S. (imperfect). The second section of this work, Rudiments of English Grammar, also appears separately, both as an extract from the above editions, and with later dates. 10. The Prompter: or a Commentary on Common Sayings and Subjects, which are full of Common Sense, the best Sense in the World. Hartford, 1791. 12, pp. 94. [B. Publ. Harv. The same. Boston, 1792. 12, pp. 96. [Brit. Mus. U. S. Y. C. Anonymous; many later editions. The most of the volume had been already contributed to the Connecticut C our ant; it was repub- lished in London, with the title: Sentimental and Humourous Essays, conducive to economy and happiness. Drawn from Com- mon Sayings and Subjects... In the Manner of Dr. Franklin. London [Tewkesbury], 1799. 18, pp. 72. [Brit. Mus. N. Y. Publ. Libr. 11. Effects of Slavery, on Morals and Industry. Hartford, 1793. 8, pp. 56. [A. A. S. A. C. A. B. Ath. Brit. Mus. C. H. S. Harv. M. H. S. R. I. H. S. U. S. IVatkinson Libr. Y. C. 12. The Revolution in France, considered in respect to its Prog- ress and Effects. By an American. New-York, 1794. 8, pp. 72. [B. Ath. J. Carter Brown Libr. Harv. IVatkinson Libr. Y. C. Remarkable for its wisdom and foresight. 13. A Collection of Papers on the subject of Bilious Fevers, prevalent in the United States for a few years past. Compiled by Noah Webster, Jun. . . New- York, 1796. 8, pp. x, ix, 246. [A. A. S. B. Publ. Brit. Mus. L. I. Hist. Soc. M. H. S. N. Y. H. S. N. Y. Publ. Libr. IVatkinson Libr. Y. C. 14. A Letter to the Governors, Instructors and Trustees of the Universities, and other Seminaries of Learning, in the United States, on the Errors of English Grammars. New- York, 1798. 8, pp. 36. [A. A. S. A. C. A. B. Publ. Brit. Mus. Harv. U. T. S. IVatkinson Libr. Y. C. or THI UNIVERSITY or Biographical Sketches, 1778 73 15. An Oration pronounced before the Citizens of New-Haven on the Anniversary of the Independence of the United States, July 4 th - 1798... New-Haven. [1798.] 8, pp. 16. [A. C. A. B. Ath. Brit. Mns. C. H. S. Harv. M. H. S. Watkinson Libr. Y. C. 16. A brief History of Epidemic and Pestilential Diseases... Hartford, 1799. 2 vols. 8, pp. 348; 352. [Brit. Mus. L. I. Hist. Soc. M. H. S. N. Y. Publ, Libr. N Y. Soc. Libr. Y. C. 17. Ten Letters to Dr. Joseph Priestly, in answer to his Letters to the Inhabitants of Northumberland. New Haven, 1800. 8, pp. 29. [A. A. S. B. Ath. B. Publ. Brit. Mus. Harv. M. H. S. N. Y. H. S. N. Y. Publ. Libr. Watkinson Libr. Y. C. Mainly in criticism of Priestley's comments on American polity. 18. A Rod for the Fool's Back. [New Haven, 1800.] 8, pp. 10. [Y. C. The same. 1800. 12, pp. 12. [Y. C. The same. New Haven, 1800. 8, pp. n. [Y. C.- A scathing anonymous review of the Oration by his classmate Bishop, delivered in New Haven in September, 1800. 19. A Letter to General Hamilton, occasioned by his Letter to President Adams. By a Federalist. (Signed, Aristides.) 1800. 8, pp. 10. \B. Ath. Harv. N. Y. Publ. Libr. Y. C. 20. Miscellaneous Papers, on Political and Commercial Sub- jects. I. An Address to the President of the United States, on the subject of his administration. II. An Essay, on the Rights of Neutral Nations.. . III. A Letter, on the value and importance of the American Commerce to Great-Britain. IV. A Sketch of the history and present state of Banks and Insurance Companies, in the United States. New-York, 1802. 8, pp. viii, 227, 48. [A. A. S. B. Ath. Bowdoin Coll. Brit. Mus. Harv. N. Y. H. S. N. Y. Publ. Libr. Y. C. The last section of this work, which has a separate paging, was probably also published separately; and the same may be true of some of the other sections. The second section is specially valuable. 74 Yale College 21. An Oration, pronounced before the citizens of New Haven, on the Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence ; July, 1802. . . New Haven, 1802. 8, pp. 30. [B. Ath. B. Publ. C. H. S. Y. C. 22. Elements of Useful Knowledge. Hartford and New Haven, 1802-12. 4 vols. 12. (Vols. i, 2, Containing a Historical and Geographical Account of the United States ; Vol. 3, Containing a Historical and Geograph- ical Account of . . Europe, Asia and Africa ; Vol. 4, History of Animals.) [F. C. 23. An Address to the Citizens of Connecticut. [New Haven, 1803.] 8, pp. 24. [N. Y. H. S. U. S. Y. C. Signed "Chatham." Called out by the invitations issued to a Republican Festival to be held in New Haven on March 9, 1803. . 24. A Compendious Dictionary of the English Language . . New-Haven, 1806. 12, pp. xxiv, 408. [B. Ath. Brit. Mus. U. S. Y. C. 25. An Address, to the Freemen of Connecticut Hartford, 1806. 8, pp. 7. [Y.C. Anonymous ; authorized by a Meeting of Federalists at Hartford, May 24, 1806. 26. A Philosophical and Practical Grammar of the English Language. New-Haven, 1807. 12, pp. 250. [B. Ath. B. Publ. Bowdoin Coll. Brit. Mus. N. Y. H. S. U. S. Y. C. The same. Second edition. New Haven, 1822. 12, pp. 223. [Harv. 27. A Letter to Dr. David Ramsay, of Charleston, (S. C.) respecting the Errors in Johnson's Dictionary, and other Lexicons. New-Haven, 1807. 12, pp. 28. [A. A. S. A. C. A. B. Ath. B. Publ. Brit. Mus. Harv. M. H. S. N. Y. H. S. N. Y. Publ. Libr. Y. C. 28. The Peculiar Doctrines of the Gospel, explained and defended. From the -Panoplist and Missionary Magazine United. [New- York, 1809?] ' 8, pp. 23. [A. A. S. Brit. Mus. C. H. S. Watkinson Libr. Y. C. The same. Poughkeepsie, 1809. 8, pp. 15. [N. Y. Publ. Libr. Watkinson Libr. Biographical Sketches, 1778 75 The same. Third Edition. Portland, 1811. 12, pp. 50. [A. A. S. A. C. A. B. Ath. B. Publ. Brit. Mus. N. Y. Publ. Libr. U. S. 29. An Oration, pronounced before the Knox and Warren Branches of the Washington Benevolent Society, at Amherst, on the celebration of the anniversary of the Declaration of Independ- ence, July 4, 1814. Northampton, 1814. 8, pp. 32. [B Ath. Harv. N. Y. Publ. Libr. Watkinson Libr. Y. C. A Federalist view of the lamentable situation of the country. 30. A Letter to the Honorable John Pickering, on the subject of his Vocabulary; or, Collection of Words and Phrases, supposed to be peculiar to the United States of America. Boston, 1817. 8, pp. 60. [B. Ath. B. Publ. Harv. N. Y. Publ. Libr. N. Y. Soc. Libr. Y. C. 31. An Address, delivered before the Hampshire, Franklin and Hampden Agricultural Society, at their Annual Meeting in North- ampton, Oct. 14, 1818. Northampton, 1818. 8, pp. 28. [B. Ath. Watkinson Libr. U. S. Setting forth the advantages of agriculture, with practical sug- gestions ; and also advocating attention to manufactures. 32. Letter on the Commerce and Currency of the United States. By Aristides. New York, 1819. 8. [L. I. Hist. Soc. 33. An Address, delivered at the laying of the corner stone of the building now erecting for the Charity Institution in Amherst, August 9, 1820. Boston, 1820. 8, pp. 7. [A. A. S. A. C. A. B Ath. Brit. Mus. Brown Univ. C. H. S. Harv. U. T. S. Watkinson Libr. Y. C. Published, with the Sermon on the same occasion by Rev. D. A. Clark, in a pamphlet entitled, A Plea for a miserable world. Mr. Webster was the Vice President of the Board of Trustees of the Amherst Academy, and afterwards the first President of the Trus- tees of Amherst College, which grew out of this Academy. 34. Letters to a Young Gentleman commencing his education: to which is subjoined a brief History of the United States. New- Haven, 1823. 8, pp.. 335. [A. A. S. A. C. A. B. Publ. Brit. Mus. Brown Univ. Harv. Y. C. 76 Yale College 35. An American Dictionary of the English Language . . New Haven, 1828. 2 volumes. 4. [A. C. A. Andover Theol. Sem. B. Ath. B. Publ Bowdoin Coll. Brown. Harv. L. I. Hist. Soc. N. Y. Soc. Libr. U. S. Y. C. The same. London, 1832. 2 volumes. 4. The same. 2d edition. New Haven, 1841. 2 volumes. 8. 1 The same. 3d edition. Springfield, 1847. 4- Numerous subsequent editions, and abridgements. 36. Biography, for the use of schools. New Haven, 1830. 16, pp. 214. [Brit. Mus. U. S. 37. Series of Books for Systematic Instruction in the English Language. [New Haven, 1830.] 8, pp. 16. [A. A. S. B. Ath. Brit. Mus. Harv. N. Y. Publ. Libr. Y. C. This prospectus was also issued in a second edition, with changes, in 1831. 8, pp. 16. [F. C. 38. An Improved Grammar of the English Language. New Haven, 1831. 12, pp. 192. [B. Publ. Y. C. 39. Philology. [From the New-England Magazine for Novem- ber, 1831.] Boston. 8, pp. 12. 40. To the Friends of American Literature. [1831.] 8, pp. 8. [Y. C. An anonymous criticism of Lyman Cobb, a rival maker of school- books. 41. History of the United States . . New-Haven, 1832. 12, pp. 356. [A. C. A. B. Ath. Brit. Mus. Harv. Y. C. 42. The Holy Bible,, .in the Common Version. With Amend- ments of the language. New Haven, 1833. 8, pp. xvi, 907. [A. C. A. Brit. Mus. R. I. H. S. Y. C. Republished, in smaller size, in 1841. 43. Value of the Bible, and Excellence of the Christian Religion : for the use of Families and Schools. New Haven, 1834. 12, pp. 180. [Brit. Mus. N. Y. Publ. Libr. 44. Genealogy. Family of John Webster. New Haven, 1836. 8, pp. 8. [A. A. S. B. Publ. Compiled and printed for presentation only. Biographical Sketches, 1778 77 45. A Letter to the Hon. Daniel Webster, on the political affairs of the United States. By Marcellus. Philadelphia, 1837. 8, pp. 34. [Harv. N. Y. Publ Libr. Y. C. V, 46. Mistakes and Corrections. i. Improprieties and errors in the common version of the Scriptures . . 2. Explanations of prep- ositions . . 3. Errors in English Grammars. 4. Mistakes in the Hebrew Lexicon of Gesenius, and in some derivations of Dr. Horwitz. 5. Errors in Butter's Scholar's Companion, and in Town's Analysis. 6. Errors in Richardson's Dictionary. New Haven, 1837. 8, pp. 28. [B. Publ. Brit. Mus. Harv. Y. C. 47. The Teacher: a Supplement to the Elementary Spelling Book. New Haven, 1837. 12, pp. 156. [U. T. S. A collection of miscellaneous information, the most elaborate por- tions being the explanations of prefixes and affixes and lists of derivatives from Latin and Greek. 48. A Brief View i. Of Errors and Obscurities in the common version of the Scriptures . . 2. Of Errors and Defects in class- books used in seminaries of learning . . To which are added, 3. A few Plagiarisms, showing the way in which books may be made, by those who use borrowed capital. [New Haven, 1839.] 8, pp. 24. [Brit. Mus. N. Y. Public Libr. U. S. Watkinson Libr. Y. C. 49. A Manual of Useful Studies: for the instruction of young persons of both sexes in Families and Schools. New Haven, 1839. 12, pp. 248. [Brit. Mus. Y. C. Also, later editions. 50. Observations on Language, and on the Errors of Class- Books ; addressed to the Members of the New York Lyceum. Also, Observations on Commerce, addressed to the Members of the Mer- cantile Library Association, in New York. New Haven, 1839. 12, pp. 39. [A. C. A. B. Publ. Brit. Mus. Harv. Watkinson Libr. Y. C. Prepared in response to invitations to deliver lectures. 51. State of English Philology. [Part of a pamphlet entitled, Commendations of Dr. N. Webster's Books. 1841 ?] 8, pp. 30. [A. C. A. B. Publ Y. C. 52. A Collection of Papers on Political, Literary and Moral Sub- jects. New York [New Haven], 1843. 8, pp. iv, 4, 373. [A. C. A. B. Ath. Brit. Mus. Harv. L. I. Hist. Soc. N. Y. Soc. Libr. Peabody Inst., Baltimore. U. S. U. T. S. Y. C. 78 Yale College Including a reprint of many of his previous papers. While editor of The American Magazine and The American Minerva he contributed to these papers anonymously many series of essays, sorrie of which were subsequently separately printed. Of many other contributions to periodical literature, the fol- lowing may be specified : In The Nczv-York Magazine, vol. I, pp. 338-40, 383-84, June- July, 1790: A Short View of the Origin and Progress of the Science of Natural Philosophy; with some Observations on the Advantages of Science in general. Delivered at the public Examination of the Candidates for the first Degree, in the Chapel of Yale College, 23d July, 1778. In Memoirs of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, vol. 2, part i, pp. 178-85. Boston, 1793 : On the Theory of Vegetation. In the same, vol. 3, pt. i, pp. 95-103. Cambridge, 1809: Experiments respecting Dew. In Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society, for the year 1794, vol. 3, pp. 4-6: Bill of Mortality. With Remarks on the history of the town of Hartford, in Connecticut. In Memoirs of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences, vol. i, Part i, pp. 1-68; 97-98; 135-36; 175-216. New-Haven, 1810: A Dissertation on the supposed Change in the Temperature of Winter; Number of Deaths, in the Episcopal Church in New- York, in each month,. . 1786-1795 ; On the Decomposition of White Lead Paint; Origin of Mythology. Twelve articles, signed Curtius, mainly from his pen, relating to Jay's Treaty, and entitled, Vindication of the Treaty of Amity, Commerce, and Navigation, with Great Britain, were republished (pages 58-108) in the volume), Treaty of Amity, Commerce, and Navigation, between His Britannic Majesty, and the United States of America . . To which is annexed a Copious Appendix. Second Edition. Philadelphia, 1795. 8. [U.S. Y. C. Express mention should also be made of the following work edited by him : Biographical Sketches, 1778 79 \ A Journal of the Transactions and Occurrences in the settle- ment of Massachusetts and the other New-England Colonies, from the year 1630 to 1644; written by John Winthrop, Esq., First Governor of Massachusetts : and now first published from a cor- rect copy of the original Manuscript. Hartford, 1790. 8, pp. v, 364, iv. Thirty-seven of his letters to the Hon. Timothy Pickering, 1785- 1808, are calendared in the collection of Pickering Papers in the Massachusetts Historical Society. AUTHORITIES. American Ancestry, viii, 205. Amer- Hist., x, 52-56. Mass. Hist. Society's ican Historical Magazine, ed. W. Collections, 5th Series, iii, 23, 59, 69, Storer, 22-23, 119-20, 159-60. Atlan- 71-72, 83-86, 88-94, 97, 101-03, "7, tic Monthly, xxxvi, 330-39. Barnard's 231-33, 238-40. New Englander, i, American Journal of Education, xiii, 565-68. Pickering, Life of T. Pick- 123-25. Buckingham, Specimens of ering, i, 479-80, 529-31, 535-37. The Newspaper Literature and Reminis- Repository, ed. W. H. Starr, ii, 17-18. cences, ii, 165. Congregational Quar- Selections from Porcupine's Gazette, terly, vii, 1-16. Conn. Journal, June v i, 278-81, 376, 428-30. Sparks, Cor- 4, 1800. Connecticut Magazine, vii, respondence of the Revolution, iv, 150-61. W. C. Fowler, Essays, 62- 111-12. Pres. Stiles, Literary Diary, 71. Goodwin, Genealogical Notes, ii, 284, 288; iii, 226-30, 249, 382, 494. 249. Historical Magazine, iii, 119. . S. Thomas, Reminiscences, ii, 168- /. Jay, Correspondence, iv, 372-74, 71. Tyler, Hist, of Amherst College, 455-59- Johnston, Yale in the Revo- 107-09. Wells, Life of Sam. Adams, lution, 13, 77, 341. Lippincott's Mag- iii, 207-08. Wolcott Memorial, 235. azine, v, 448-52. Magazine of Amer. JOHN WELCH was born in Milton Society in Litchfield, Connecticut, on September 23, 1759. During his College course he saw some service in the Revolutionary army. He settled in his native town, without following a pro- fession, and there married, on November 8, 1784, Rosanna Peebles. He was one of the representatives of Litchfield in the General Assembly in 1799-1801, and again in 1819-22. He was appointed a Judge of the County Court in 1819, and held that office until disqualified by age in 1829. He sustained the reputation of a careful and impartial judge. In 1825, 1826, and 1827, he was a member of the State Senate. 8o Yale College He died in Litchfield on December 26, 1844, in his 86th year, the last survivor of his class. His children were six sons and two daughters, of whom two sons and a daughter survived him. His wife died on March 22, 1830, aged 64 years. AUTHORITIES. Hist, of Litchfield County, 1881, Revolution, 663. Pres. Stiles, Liter- 27-28. Payne, Litchfield Inscriptions, ary Diary, ii, 286. Woodruff, Litch- 191. Record of Conn. Men in the field Genealogical Records, 235. ICHABOD WETMORE, Junior, the eldest child and only son of Captain Ichabod Wetmore, of Middletown, Con- necticut, and grandson of Jeremiah and Abigail (Butler) Wetmore, of Middletown, was born on February 12, 1759. His mother was Elizabeth, eldest child of Jonathan Starr, of New London, Connecticut, and a niece of the Rt. Rev. Samuel Seabury (Yale 1748). He died in Middletown on August 9, 1785, aged 26^2 years, and was buried in the Riverside Cemetery in that city. He was engaged at the time of his death to be married to Mary, elder daughter of Richard and Mary .(Wright) Alsop, of Middletown, and sister of Richard Alsop, the poet, and herself a lady of marked literary ability. She remained faithful to her early lover, and at her death, on May 28, 1855, at the age of 93, by her request her remains were laid by his side. AUTHORITIES. Starr Family, 86. Wetmore Family, 444, 452. ALEXANDER WOLCOTT was born in Windsor, Connecti- cut, on September 15, 1758, being the fifth son and eighth child of Dr. Alexander Wolcott (Yale 1731) by his third wife, Mary (Richards). His classmate, Oliver Wolcott, was a first cousin. Biographical Sketches, 1778 81 He studied law and settled in Windsor as an attorney, though he appears to have been temporarily residing in Springfield, Massachusetts, atx-the time of his marriage there, in September, 1785, to Frances, eldest child of Abra- ham Burbank (Yale 1759), of West Springfield. He was strongly Anti-Federalist in politics, and served as a representative of Windsor in the General Assembly in five sessions between May, 1796, and May, 1801. His- wife died in Windsor on June 17, 1800, in her 35th year, after which he removed to Middletown, Connecti- cut, where President Jefferson in August, 1801, made him Collector of the Port, an office which he retained through his life, and in which he was succeeded by his elder son. He was a conspicuous leader of the Democrats in Con- necticut, and was nominated for the Supreme Court of the United States by President Madison in 1810 (in default of more prominent legal talent among his adherents in New England), but the Senate refused to confirm him. He was a member of the State Constitutional Convention of 1818. He is said to have been engaged in woolen manufactur- ing, and to have been interested in the promotion of that industry. He married secondly, in Boston, Massachusetts, on June 7, 1807, Lucy Waldo, of Boston, the second daughter of the late Hon. Samuel Waldo (Harvard 1743) and Sarah (Erving) Waldo, of Portland, Maine. < t He died in Middletown on June 26, 1828, in his 7Oth year. His widow died in Boston, on September 10, 1839, aged 73 years. His children, by his first wife, were two daughters and two sons, the younger son being graduated at Yale in 1809. A political admirer, the Hon. John M. Niles, says of him: Mr. Wolcott possessed a highly original character. A gigantic stature, marked with prominent and intelligent features, with a 6 82 Yale College mind not less gigantic, gave him a commanding personal dignity, inspiring respect without exciting awe, of which there are few examples. His mind was profound rather than brilliant, and, although slow in its operations, it possessed great energy and strength; but a striking, peculiar originality was its characteristic feature. In independence of character and unshaken firmness of purpose he has been surpassed by few, and such was the clearness and force of truth on his mind, that he could never resort to any other means than fair argument and conviction . . He is supposed to have been the author of the following : Republican Address to the Freemen of Connecticut. 1803. 8, pp. 16. [B. Ath. Y. C. Dated, August 30, 1803, and signed, by order of the General Com- mittee of the Republicans of Connecticut, by Levi Ives, Jun., Clerk. AUTHORITIES. H. Adams, Hist, of the U. S., v, of Windsor, 2d ed., ii, 811, 816. Wal- 359-60. Lincoln, Waldo Genealogy, worth, Hyde Genealogy, i, 226; ii, i, 186, 312-13. N. E. Hist, and Gen- 1121. Wolcott Memorial, 140, 211-12. eal. Register, xxx, 196. Stiles, Hist. OLIVER WOLCOTT,, elder son of Governor Oliver Wolcott (Yale 1747), was born in Litchfield, Connecticut, on Jan- uary n, 1760. An interesting fragment of autobiography which has been preserved tells us that his preparation for College was conducted by Nathaniel B. Beckwith (Yale 1766), and describes his visit to New Haven in 1773 for examin- ation for admission. Owing to his youth his entrance to Yale was delayed for another year. While in College he turned out with the militia to repel the British in their raid on Danbury. Upon graduation he began the study of law in Litchfield under Judge Tapping Reeve. In the summer of 1779 he acted as a volunteer aid to his father in his capacity as Major-General of the Connecticut troops, and later held a quartermaster's commission. Biographical Sketches, 1778 83 At his coming of age, in January, 1781, he was admitted to the bar, and then removed to Hartford, where to defray his expenses he accepted a clerkship in the office of the Committee of the Pay-Table:' At Commencement, in September, 1781, he was elected to a tutorship in College, but he declined the position. His diligence in office attracted the notice of some of the leaders in the General Assembly, and led to his being made, in January, 1782, a member of the Committee to which he had been Clerk. To this duty was added in May, 1784, an appointment as a Commissioner (with Oliver Ells- worth) for the settlement of the accounts and claims of Connecticut against the United States, a task which con- tinued through several years. In the meantime he married, on June I, 1785, Elizabeth, only daughter of Captain John Stoughton (Yale 1755), of Windsor, Connecticut, and step-daughter of Colonel Samuel Wyllys (Yale 1758), of Hartford. In May, 1788, a Comptroller of Public Accounts super- seded the Committee of Pay-Table, and Wolcott was promoted to this office and charged with the duty of re-arranging the financial methods of the State. A broader field was opened to him in September, 1789, when the Treasury Department of the National Govern- ment was organized and he was offered the post of Audi- tor, under Alexander Hamilton as Secretary. He entered on the duties of this office in New York in November, and discharged them with such efficiency that when a vacancy occurred in the next higher post of Comptroller, he was advanced (in June, 1791) to that rank. A -few months later, when the United States Bank was organized, he was offered the Presidency, with an ample salary, but declined, "preferring the public service, and believing that such a station would be deemed unsuitable for a young man without property." Finally, on the resignation of Hamilton, he was made (in February, 1795), in recognition of his diligent and 84 Yale College faithful service, Secretary of the Treasury. He served through Washington's administration, and was continued in office by President Adams, though there was no strong bond between them. When the question of a new Presi- dential election came up in 1800, Mr. Wolcott was, from his experience of Adams' qualities, unable to support his candidacy, and was through his friendship with Hamil- ton drawn into such an attitude of criticism and virtual opposition that he thought it his duty to resign at the close of the year 1800 the office which he had filled with unimpeachable ability and integrity. As he had been censured by partisan animosity for his conduct of the pub- lic business, he requested, in view of his resignation, an investigation of the affairs of the Department, the result of which was completely favorable. He had the satisfaction of going out of office poorer than when he entered the service of the government; and the necessities of his family required that he should at once engage in some active employment. Early in February, 1801, he left Washington for Middletown, Connecticut, whither his family had preceded him. On the i8th of the same month President Adams unexpectedly nominated him as one of the Circuit Judges (for the district of New York, Connecticut, and Vermont) under the new Judiciary Act, and he was unanimously confirmed by the Senate, though a large proportion of its members were his political opponents. He accepted the appointment and filled the office until its abolition, by the repeal of the Act w r hich created it, in March, 1802; on which he removed to New York City, and took the headship of a large business house, with a capital of $100,000. In April, 1803, the Merchants' Bank, a joint stock corporation, was organized, and he was elected its President; but he resigned this office in June, 1804. In 1807 he presented the College with $2,000, which was assigned to the Library funds. Biographical Sketches, 1778 85 In 1812 -he embarked nearly all his capital in establish- ing the Bank of America, of which he was chosen first President, and this office fre filled until 1814, when he resigned in consequence of political differences between himself and the directors. About this time he began, in connection with his brother, extensive manufacturing establishments at Wolcottville, near Litchfield. In the conduct of the war with Great Britain he sepa- rated himself from most of his former party associates by actively supporting the government. In July, 1815, he returned to his native town, and occu- pied himself there with agriculture. In February, 1816, he was nominated for the office of Governor of Connecticut (which his father and grand- father had held) by the Democratic party, though known to be a moderate Federalist. The division of parties in Connecticut at this juncture was largely independent of former lines, and Mr. Wolcott's name was widely accept- able, especially to those supporters of the ticket who had formerly voted with the Federalists, and to those who desired protection for manufactures, of which he was a pronounced advocate. He failed narrowly of an election, but a year later, in April, 1817, was successful, and retained the office with honor for ten years. He was chosen a member of the Con- vention which framed the State Constitution of 1818, and presided over that body. At a later period he returned to New York, to be near his children, and died there, the last survivor of Washing- ton's Cabinet, on June I, 1833, in his 74th year. His wife, after seven years' illness from consumption, died in Litch- field on September 24, 1805, at the age of 38. His children were five sons (of whom three died in infancy) and two daughters; one son and one daughter survived him. An excellent portrait, by Trumbull, which has been often engraved, is owned by his only surviving grandson, 86 Yale College Professor Wolcott Gibbs ; another, by Stuart, is owned by Yale University, with a duplicate in the Capitol in Hart- ford; another, by Earle, is in the Library of the Con- necticut Historical Society at Hartford, where also his voluminous manuscripts are deposited. A summary testimony to his worth is this by Charles King, the son of his friend, Rufus King, in the New York American, two days after his death: The character of Mr. Wolcott was strongly marked. Stern, inflexible, and devoted in all that duty, honor, and patriotism enjoined, he was, in private life, of the utmost gentleness, kindness, and sincerity. With strong original powers, early developed by the stirring events of the revolutionary days in which he was born, he had acquired a habit of self-reliance which little fitted him for that sort of political cooperation which results from expediency rather than right. He aimed at the right always and at all events, accord- ing to his best convictions ; and if any questioned his judgment, none could impeach his honesty and sincerity. The honorary degree of Doctor of Laws was conferred on him by both Brown University and Princeton College in 1799, as also by Yale College in 1819. The following were his independent publications: 1. An Address, to the People of the United States, on the sub- ject of the Report of a Committee of the House of Representatives, appointed to "Examine and report, whether monies drawn from the Treasury, have been faithfully applied to the objects for which they were appropriated, and whether the same have been regularly accounted for,". . which Report was presented on the 29th of April, 1802. Boston, 1802. 8, pp. 112. [A. A. S. B. Ath. B. Publ. Brit. Mus. Harv. N. Y. H. S. R. I. H. S. U. S. Y. C. The same. Hartford, 1802. 8, pp. 70. [B. Ath. Harv. U. S. U. T. S. A vindication of his official conduct from the conclusions of a partisan Report drawn up after his retirement from office. 2. British Influence on the Affairs of the United States, proved and explained. Boston, 1804. 8, pp. 23. [B. Ath, B. Publ. Broivn Univ. Harv. U. S. Y. C. Biographical Sketches, 1778 87 An anonymous tract, signed "Marcus," giving an account of Jay's Treaty, in 1794, its causes and effects, and a defence of Federalist policy. 3. Remarks on the present state" xjf Currency, Credit, Commerce, and National Industry : in reply to an Address of the Tammany Society of New- York. New- York, 1820. 8, pp. 43. [B. Ath. B. Publ. Brit. Mus. Harv. N. Y. H. S. N. Y. Publ. Libr. R. I. H. S. U. S. Watkinson Libr. Y. C. He also assisted the Hon. William Loughton Smith, of South Carolina, in the composition of the following anonymous pamphlet : 4. The Pretensions of Thomas Jefferson to the Presidency exam- ined ; and the Charges against John Adams refuted . . United States, October, 1796. 8, pp. 64. i[N. Y. H. S. U. S. Y. C. The same, Part 2. November, 1796. 8, pp. 42. [N. Y. H. S. U. S. These essays were first published in the Gazette of the United States, over the signature of "Phocion." Of the many official papers issued by him while Secretary of the Treasury, the following may be specially mentioned : 5. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, accompanying a Plan for laying and collecting Direct Taxes . . Presented, Decem- ber 19, 1796, folio, pp. 68. 6. Letter and Report of the Secretary of the Treasury, accom- panying a Plan, for regulating the Collection of Duties on Imports and Tonnage . . 25th January, 1798. 8, pp. 158 -(- tables. [Y. C. Of his official papers as Governor of Connecticut the following may be specified : 7. Speech, delivered before both Houses at the Session of the General Assembly of the State of Connecticut, in May, 1817. 8, pp. 8. [U. T. S. Y. C. 8. A Sketch of a Bill providing for the assessment and collection of Taxes in Connecticut, together with an explanation of the prin- ciples on which the Bill is founded. May, 1819. [Hartford.] 8, pp. 23 + 23. [Y. C. 9. Message to the General Assembly of the State of Connecticut, at the Commencement of their Session at Hartford, May, A. D. 1821. Hartford, 1821. 8, pp. 26. [N. Y. H. S. Y. C. 88 Yale College 10. Message to the House of Representatives of the State of Connecticut, containing his Reasons for Returning the Steam-boat Bill to the Legislature, May, 1822. [Printed with Judge Wm. John- son's Opinion, 1823, in the case of the arrest of a British Seaman]. 8, pp. 10-19. [Y. C. 11. Message to the Senate, and House of Representatives of the State of Connecticut, at the Commencement of the Session of the General Assembly, May, A. D. 1823. Hartford, 1823. 8, pp. 13. [N. Y. H. S. 12. Message to the Senate and House of Representatives of Con- necticut, at the commencement of the session of the General Assem- bly, in New-Haven, May, A. D. 1824. New-Haven, 1824. 8, pp. 19. [Brit. Mus. N. Y. H. S. Y. C. 13. Hamilton No. IX. (Remarks on the Speech of Daniel Web- ster on unrestricted trade.) 1824. 8, pp. 8. [U. S. 14. Message to the General Assembly, May Session, A. D. 1825. Hartford, 1825. 8, pp. 16. [F. C. 15. Message to the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Connecticut, at the commencement of the session. May, A. D. 1826. New-Haven, 1826. 8. [Brit. Mus. His grandson, George Gibbs, published in 1846 two volumes entitled : Memoirs of the Administrations of Washington and John Adams, edited from the Papers of Oliver Wolcott, Secretary of the Treasury. This very valuable compilation comprises a mass of letters and papers by Wolcott, as well as letters received by him. Extracts from other letters by him are given in the Wolcott Memorial, edited in 1881 ; and others are printed elsewhere. About twenty (1790-1810) are calendared in the Index of the Pickering Papers, published by the Massachusetts Historical Society. AUTHORITIES. American Annual Register, viii, pt. Society's Proceedings, i, 498. N. E. 2, 447-48. Connecticut Magazine, vii, Hist, and Geneal. Register, iv, 1-2. 291-96. Hildreth, Hist, of U. S., v, Salisbury, Family Histories and Gen- 396, 401, 453; vi, 299, 501, 516, 603, ealogies, ii, 189, 191-96. Pres. Ezra 623. Hubert, The Merchants' Na- Stiles, Literary Diary, ii, 288, 555-57, tional Bank, i, 24-26, 78. Johnston, 561. H. R. Stiles, Hist, of Windsor, Yale in the Revolution, 342. Kil- 2d ed., ii, 730, 813, 817-18. Wolcott bourne, Biographical Hist, of Litch- Memorial, 149, 216-313, 364-79. field County, 24-38. Mass. Hist. Annals, 1778-79 89 Annals, 1778-79 In this year the winter vacation, instead of covering the usual three weeks, continued for seven weeks and a half (December 28-February 18), on account of the difficulty of obtaining flour and other provisions for the supply of the College Commons. A more serious interruption came in July. Early on Monday morning, July 5, from two to three thousand British troops under General Tryon landed in the suburbs of New Haven, and proceeded to plunder the town during the rest of the day.* A company of Yale students, about seventy in number, commanded by George Welles of the Senior Class, assisted in checking the British advance. The College buildings were not damaged, for which exemption Edmund Fanning (Yale 1757), a member of General Tryon's official family, afterwards claimed the credit. At the approach of the enemy, President Stiles dis- missed the students until further orders. A private Com- mencement, for the conferring of degrees, was held on September 8; but no attempt was made to assemble the College for study until the usual time of beginning the fall term (October 22). Abraham Baldwin left the tutorship in June, to join the army as a chaplain, and his place was taken by William Lockwood (Yale 1774). *An excellent account of the affair by Peter Colt (Yale 1764) is printed in the Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society, seventh series, vol. 2, pp. 401-04. OF THT f UNIVERSITY J 90 Yale College Sketches, Class of 1779 * David A ustin, A. M. * 1 83 1 *Guilielmus Baldwin, A.M. *i8i8 ^Benjamin Bell, A.M. 1783 *Jonathan Brace, A.M. 1791, e Congr., Socius ex officio *Jeremias Bradford, et Dartm. 1779, A.M. Dartm. *Jeremias Gates Brainard, A.M., Reip. Conn. Cur. Supr. Jurid. *Daniel Catlin *Justus Cook, A.M. *i828 * David Darling' "1835 *Ozias Eells, A.M. *i8i3 *Zebulon Ely, A.M., Tutor *i824 *Stephanus Fowler, A.M. *i829 *Elizur Goodrich, A.M., LL.D. 1830, Tutor, e Congr., Jurisprud. Prof., Socius ex officio, Secretarius *i849 *Silas Hazeltine "1814 * Samuel Guilielmus Johnson, A.M. et Columb. 1789 "1846 *Ambrosius Kirtland *I7^4 Jonathan Maltby, A.M. *i8so *Nicolaus Shelton Masters, 1790, et A.M. 1790 *I795 *Shadrachus Mead ^Johannes Noyes, A.M. *Elisaeus Payne, A.M. *:8o3 *Samuel Pitkin *i839 *Matthaeus Talcott Russell, A.M., Tutor *i828 * Guilielmus Seymour * l &43 * Johannes Stevens * I 799 *Jeremias Townsend, A.M. * J 8o5 *Samuel Webb "1826 Biographical Sketches, ///p 91 *Georgius Welles *Guilielmus Welles, A.M. *i8i2 *Guilielmus Wheeler, 1793, et A.M. 1793 *i8io *Guilielmus Whitman, A.M. "1846 *Samuel Whittelsey, A.M. "1838 *Elisaeus Whittlesey, A.M. *i8o2 *Ezekiel Woodruff *i8 DAVID AUSTIN,, the eldest son and fourth child of David Austin, of New Haven, and grandson of Deacon David and Rebecca (Thompson) Austin, also of New Haven, was born here on March 19, 1759. His mother was Mary, daughter of Nathaniel and Rebecca (Lines) Mix, of New Haven. A brother was graduated here in 1794, and a half-brother of his father in 1762. His father was a Deacon in the Rev. Dr. Edwards's White Haven Church ; and this son in pursuing the study of theology naturally spent a part of the time with the Rev. Dr. Bellamy, whose doctrinal bias was similar to that of Edwards. He studied also at Yale College, and for a few months at Harvard College, and was licensed to preach by the New Haven Association of Ministers on May 30, 1780. He went to Europe in the autumn of 1781, and after visiting the Low Countries, England, and France, returned in August, 1782. Both before and after this trip he preached to great acceptance in various parishes, but showed no haste to settle permanently. While supplying the Second Church in Norwich, Connecticut, he became engaged to Lydia, only daughter of Dr. Joshua Lathrop (Yale 1743), of Norwich, whom he married on June 5, 1783. His license to preach expired in May, 1784, and he did not apply for its renewal until October, 1787. In August, 1787, his pastor, Dr. Edwards, was invited to take charge of the Presbyterian Church in Elizabeth 92 Yale College Town (now Elizabeth), New Jersey. He declined the invitation, but it was probably through him that Mr. Aus- tin was heard there as a candidate in the following April. On May 7, 1788, this church asked leave of the Presbytery of New York to offer him a call, which was the same day presented. He accepted this call on June I, and was ordained and installed on September 9. He threw himself with intense ardor into the work of the church and parish ; and finding among the prominent members of the congregation an enterprising publisher he early undertook the issue of a bi-monthly magazine, and also edited a number of standard theological works. He very soon began to take an interest in the prophetic studies which were common at that day, and in 1794 began to publish his views on the coming Millennium. A violent attack of scarlet fever in 1795 is supposed to have affected his mind; and after his convalescence his thoughts were wholly absorbed in the study of subjects connected with prophecy. In a series of sermons on the sixtieth chapter of Isaiah, he predicted the second coming of Christ on a certain day in May, 1796, and led a body of his followers to prepare for that event. Their disappoint- ment did not dissipate his delusion, but he proceeded to give himself up to a crusade of preparation for the Second Advent, under the persuasion of an extraordinary and direct call from God to that work. In April, 1797, his congregation applied to the Presby- tery for a dissolution of the pastoral relation. The Pres- bytery took action on May 4, when Mr. Austin renounced their jurisdiction and they declared the pastoral relation dissolved. After a short interval he returned to his native city, and here entered on what for the time were regarded as exten- sive building operations. A large share of his ample patri- mony was expended in erecting houses and stores which he declared were for the use of the Jews in America, who Biographical Sketches, 1779 93 were to assemble here preparatory to embarking for the Holy Land, where they were to await the Messiah's coming. Owing to consequent embarrassments he was for some time detained in the debtors' prison; and when at liberty he made his home with the Rev. Nicholas Street (Yale 1751), of East Haven, who had married his father's half- sister, his own wife having returned to her father in Norwich. He preached as he found opportunity; as, for instance, in the parish of Greenfield Hill, Connecticut, during the year 1797-98. In 1801 he spent some time in the city of Washington. Later he joined the Baptists for a season, and in 1804-05 he spent considerable time in New York and New Jersey, preaching to a section of his- former people while their pulpit was vacant, and made application for restoration to the Presbytery, but was not successful. He was, however, approved as a preacher by the New Haven Association, which had originally licensed him, and thus secured a status in Connecticut. In October, 1807, the death of his father-in-law gave Mrs. Austin abundant means, and they resided thence- forth in Norwich. In 1815 he received a call to the Congregational Church in Bozrah, a small parish adjoining Norwich, where he was installed on May 9, and where he continued in active service until his death, which occurred in Norwich, after a year of declining health, on February 5, 1831, in his 72d year. His wife died in Norwich on October 25, 1818, at the age of 54. They had no children. One of his successors in the church at Elizabeth, the Rev. Dr. Murray, thus summarizes the account of his influence : Mr. Austin was decidedly one of the most popular preachers of his day. Up to the time of his great affliction, no man could be more universally beloved and admired. Dignified in personal appear- 94 Yale College ance, polished in manners, eloquent in his public performances, and prompt to meet every demand that was made upon his ample fortune, he exerted a commanding influence not only over his own congregation, but also over many of the leading minds of his day. His memory was retentive and his conversational powers extraor- dinary. The Rev. Dr. McEwen, one of his ministerial neighbors, says of his last years: He closed life unusually well. Nearly a year before his death, his health began to decline. His forwardness, his eccentricity, his extravagance, his drollery, were all laid aside. An increasing sim- plicity and gentleness, with brotherly love & faith, characterized him the residue of his days. He published: 1. The Millennium: or, the Thousand Years of Prosperity, promised to the Church of God, in the Old Testament and the New, shortly to Commence, and to be carried on to Perfection . . . Eliza- beth Town, 1794. 8, pp. xii, 9-427 -f- pi. [A. A. S. U. S. Y. C. This volume contains a Sermon on the Millennium (1758), by Joseph Bellamy ; An Humble Attempt to promote . . Prayer, for . . the Advancement of Christ's Kingdom on Earth (1747), by Jonathan Edwards ; and The Downfall of Mystical Babylon ; or, a Key to the Providence of God, in the Political Operations of 1793-4. Being the substance of a Discourse [from Rev. xviii, 20], preached, first, at Elizabeth- Town, and afterwards at New-York, on . . April 7, 1793, and now offered, with notes and illustrations, in evidence of the sentiments then delivered. By David Austin, (pp. 323-426.) 2. The Voice of God to the People of these United States. By a Messenger of Peace . . Elizabeth-Town, 1796. 8, pp. 154. [U. S. Y. C. The author includes in this pamphlet a sketch of his own life- history, as showing a remarkable adaptation to God's providential arrangements. 3. A Prophetic Leaf. Containing an Illustration of the Signs of the Times, as now displaying themselves to the Eye of a Spiritual Observer ... By a Friend to the Truth. New-Haven, 1798. 8, pp. 64. [C. H. S. Y. C. Biographical Sketches, 1779 95 This pamphlet contains 23 numbers of a communication addressed by the author to the newspapers, under the title, The Stone against the Image. " v 4. Masonry in its Glory: or, Solomon's Temple Illtfminated': Discerned through the flashes of Prophetic Light ... [A Dis- course, from Hebr. iii, 4.] East- Windsor, 1799. 8, pp. 31. [C. H. S. 5. The Millenial Door Thrown Open, or, The Mysteries of the Latter Day Glory unfolded, in a Discourse [from Daniel vii, 26, 27] delivered at East Windsor, July Fourth, 1799. East-Windsor, 1799. 12, pp. 36. (C. H. S. 6. The Dance of Herodias, through the Streets of Hartford, on Election Day, to the tune of The Stars of Heaven, in the Dragon's Tail ; or, A gentle trip at the heels of the Strumpet of Babylon, Playing tricks in the attire of the Daughters of Zion. [East- Windsor] 1799. 12. Anonymous. 7. A Discourse [from Joel iii, 17], delivered on occasion of the death of George Washington, late President . . in compliance with the request of the Mayor, Aldermen, and Common Council of the Borough of Elizabeth, December 25, 1799. Also Sketches of a run- ning Discourse, delivered to the Union Brigade, on the same occa- sion, at their cantonment on Green Brook, in compliance with a request from Colonel Smith, the Commanding Officer, December 26, 1799. With an Address to the Throne of Grace, offered at the door of the Tabernacle of the cantonment on Green Brook, Feb- ruary 22, the birthday of our National Luminary. New- York, 1800. 4, pp. 36 + pi. '[C.H.S. U.S. 8. The Dawn of Day, introductory to the Rising Sun, whose rays shall gild the clouds ; and open to a benighted world the glowing Effulgence of that Dominion, that is to be given to the People of the Saints of the Most High. In nine Letters . . New-Haven, 1800. 8, pp. 32. [C. H. S. Y. C. This compilation, like some of his earlier and later effusions, is in part political, showing his strong Federalist sympathies. 9. The National "Barley Cake", or, the "Rock of Offence" into a "Glorious Holy Mountain" ; in Discourses and Letters. Washing- ton, January 14, A.D. 1802. 8, pp. 80. [A. A. S. B. Ath. U. S. U. T. S. This contains five discourses, of a semi-political nature, written and delivered in Washington; one was "delivered in the Repre- 96 Yale College sentatives' Chamber, 4th July, 1801"; another was a Christmas discourse ; and another a Masonic discourse. To these are appended nine letters, addressed to individuals (mainly in Washington) and to Congress, which are largely autobiographical and of much interest. 10. Republican Festival, Proclamation, and New Jerusalem. New Haven, March 9th, A.D. 1803. 8, pp. 16. [Harv. Y. C. Political and prophetic jargon. 11. Proclamation for the Millennial Empire. New York, 1805. folio sheet. 12. The Rod of Moses upon the Rock of Calvary; or the moun- tains of fire, and of blood. A Dedicatory Discourse [from Exodus xxiv, 24], at the Opening of a Place of Worship, West-Parish of Franklin, State of Connecticut. December 21, A.D. 1815, Nor- wich, 1816. 8, pp. 32. [C. H. S. Harv. At the end, to fill the remaining pages (27-32) of the form, the following is inserted : Sketches of a Discourse [from Ps. cxviii, 27], delivered in the presence of a numerous congregation of citizens, . . assembled at Franklin, (Con.) for the celebration of the welcome tidings of Peace, between Great-Britain, and the United States, February 27, 1815. He also edited the following: 1. The Christian's, Scholar's, and Farmer's Magazine Elizabeth-Town, 1789-91. 2 volumes. 8. 2. The American Preacher; or, a Collection of Sermons from some of the most eminent Preachers, now living, in the United States . . Elizabeth-Town and New-Haven, 1791-93. 4 vol- umes. 8. A collection of much value. 3. The True Scripture-Doctrine concerning some Important Points of Christian Faith . . By Jonathan Dickinson. With a Preface, and some Sketches of the Life of the Author, by Mr. Austin. Elizabeth Town, 1793. 12. 4. History of Redemption . . By Jonathan Edwards. New- York, 1793. 8. Mr. Austin was attracted by this work in connection with his millenarian studies; and he contributed some Notes to the edition. Biographical Sketches, 1779 97 AUTHORITIES. Caulkins, Hist, of Norwich, 2d ed., kins, Old Houses of Norwich, i, 153, 435-37- Disosway, Earliest Churches 510. Sprague, Annals of the Amer. of ' New York and vicinity, 379-81^ Pulpit, ii, 195-206 ; Memoirs of the Hat field, Hist, of Elizabeth, N. J., McDowells, 9-12. Pres. Stiles, Lit- 596-607, 609-13. Huntington, Lathrop erary Diary, iii, 34, 279. Tuttle Family, 105. Murray, Notes concern- Family, 626. ing Elizabeth-Town, 114-25. Per- WILLIAM BALDWIN, son of Richard and Margaret Baldwin, of Branford, Connecticut, was born in Bran- ford on October 4, 1760. In July, 1780, he was recommended by Colonel Meigs, of the Sixth Connecticut Regiment, for a position as Ensign, but does not appear to have accepted the appoint- ment. He perhaps studied medicine; but eventually settled in Norwich, Connecticut, as the principal of the Lathrop endowed Grammar School, and there married in 1802 Alice, younger daughter of Benjamin and Mary (Carew, Brown) Huntington. He died in Norwich in 1818, aged 58 years. His widow died in Norwich, late in December, 1833, in her 6 ist year. They had no children. The historian of Norwich describes him as "an excel- lent instructor, faithful and apt to teach, but a rigid disciplinarian." AUTHORITIES. Baldwin Genealogy, i, 329. Caul- ston, Yale in the Revolution, 344. kins, Hist, of Norwich, Conn., 2d ed., Perkins, Old Houses of Norwich, i, 543. Huntington Family, 148. John- 92, 259, 493. BENJAMIN BELL, a native of the tract of land called Nine Partners, in the northern part of Duchess County, New York, was born on January 21, 1752, his father, Deliverance Bell, being a native of Norwich, Connecticut, and probably a son of Dr. Robert and Abigail (Tilton, 98 Yale College Fillmore) Bell, and his mother from Ashford, Windham County, Connecticut. His early life was spent on his father's farm, and after he attained his majority he taught school; but on deter- mining- to enter the ministry he quitted farming and store- keeping to begin, in January, 1775, the study of Latin, in Woodbury, Connecticut, and made such progress as to enter College the following September. After graduation he began the study of theology with the Rev. Stephen West (Yale 1755), of Stockbridge, and continued it with the Rev. Dr. Joseph Bellamy (Yale 1735), of Bethlehem, Connecticut, being licensed to preach by the Litchfield South Association of Ministers in 1781. He was then sent as a missionary to Rutland and Addison Counties, Vermont, and later found various preaching engagements in Connecticut. On October 13, 1784, he was ordained pastor of the First Congregational Church in Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts, succeeding the Rev. Thomas Hibbert (Harvard 1748), who had fallen into intemperance. The sermon at his ordination, by the Rev. Samuel Spring (Princeton College 1771), was afterwards published, and contains in an appendix his Confession of Faith. On the 1 6th of the following month he married Rebecca, daughter of the Hon. Phillips White, of South Hampton, New Hampshire (and formerly of Newbury- port, Massachusetts). The field proved a difficult one (the former pastor having led off a secession, which formed a Presbyterian church under his guidance), and Mr. Bell resigned in March, 1790. In November, 1790, he was called to the Congregational church formed by the union of two congregations on opposite sides of the Connecticut River, in Windsor, Ver- mont, and Cornish, New Hampshire. He accepted the call, and was installed in the Cornish meeting-house on November 30, 1790, his residence being fixed in Windsor. Biographical Sketches, ///p 99 His rigid New-Light theology proved after about two years unacceptable, and in consequence of the personal prejudice thus excited, charges were in August, 1/94, pre- ferred against him in the church for extortion and over- reaching in a business transaction (in 1791-92), which resulted in a formal vote of censure by the church in Octo- ber, 1794. By advice of a council he made confession of his fault and was forgiven; but the church subsequently reconsidered its action, and excommunicated him on March 6, 1795. The few members of his church residing in Cornish adhered to him, and requested him to give them his whole time, which he did, until it was clear that they could not afford him an adequate salary, and in August, 1795, he ceased to preach. He then opened a store in Cornish, and continued there for the next winter. In July, 1797, he removed to the house of his wife's father, in South Hampton, New Hampshire, where she died in February, 1803, aged 38 years. Later he found employment as preceptor of a Young Ladies' Seminary on Long Island; whence he went as a missionary to Central and Western New York. He appears to have been preaching in Skaneateles, Onondaga County, in 1807; and in (East) Palmyra, Wayne County, in 1807-09; in October, 1809, ne organized a Congrega- tional church in La Fayette, Onondaga County; in 1810- 1 1 he was stated supply of the Congregational church in Elbridge, in the same county; in 1812-13 he was preach- ing in Steuben, Oneida County; and about 1817 in Nor- wich, Chenango County. About 1822 he returned, broken down by intemperate habits, to his first parish, and died in the almshouse in West Amesbury, on the last day of 1836, in his 85th year. His children were two sons and four daughters. The younger son became a Universalist preacher and editor. He was considered a man of feeble talents and of much eccentricity. ioo Yale College He published: 1. The Nature and Importance of a Pure Peace illustrated; and the Means by which it may be obtained and cultivated, shown, and urged, in a Discourse on Romans, xiv, 17. Delivered before several Members of both Houses of the Legislature of the State of Ver- mont, during their Session in Windsor, October 1791. Published at their particular Desire. Windsor. 8, pp. 19. [B. Publ. U. S. 2. The Folly of Sinners, in excusing themselves from blame, while continuing in an impenitent state, Illustrated ; in a Dis- course, on Genesis iii, 12, 13. Delivered at Cornish, (New-Hamp- shire) 1792. Windsor. 8, pp. 51. [B. Publ. U. S. Y. C. 3. Sleepy Dead Sinners, exhorted to awake out of their Sleep and to arise from the Dead. In a Discourse, on Ephesians v, 14. Windsor, 1793. 8, pp. 24. [B. Publ. Brit. Mus. Brown Univ. C. H. S. M. H. S. U. S. The author's design is "to illustrate the doctrine of original, and total, depravity." 4. The Character of a Virtuous Woman ; delineated in a Lecture on Proverbs, xxxi. 10, Delivered at Cornish (N. H.), July 24th, 1794. New-London. 12, pp. 22. [B. Publ. C. H. S. N. Y. Publ. Libr. With outside title, Sermons to Young Women. The same. Windsor, 1794. 12, pp. 22. [Brit. Mus. 5. An Impartial History of the Trial of Benjamin Bell, A.M. for the pretended Crime of Extortion: exemplified in a series of letters. Windsor, 1797. 12, pp. 155. [A. A. S. B. Publ. N. Y. H. S. Y. C. A convincing presentation of the story of his persecution. 6. The Difference between the present and former days, shown in a Discourse upon Eccles. vii. 10, delivered at Steuben, August 20, 1812, being the day appointed . . as a day of Fasting, Humili- ation and Prayer. Utica, 1812. 12, pp. .72. [A. C. A. B. Ath. Brit. Mus. U. T. S. This sermon is violently Federalist, and in the preface and notes gives abundant proof of the injudiciousness of the author in regard to political preaching. 7. Strictures, upon the Doctrine and Discipline, of the Methodist Episcopal Church: or Methodism exposed, and shown to be incon- Biographical Sketches, /7/p 101 sistent with itself and the Word of God. . . Utica, 1812. 12, pp. 262 + 48. [U. T. S. Y. C. The work is anonymous, though the author's initials are appended to it. Separately paged at the end is a tract entitled, The Calvin- ist's Answer to the Methodist's Question, viz "Did God, from eternity, absolutely and unconditionally foreordain whatsoever comes to pass?" 8. Practical Sermons, upon the most important subjects; com- prising a System of Divinity. Utica, 1813. 2 vols. 12, pp. 308; 300. [U. T. S. Y. C. The Preface explains the writer's desire to leave these printed discourses for the perusal of his children, from whom he has been absent much of the last ten years. 9. A Sermon [from James iv, i] preached at Steuben April 1813. In which are shewn the evil effects of War and when it may be lawful and expedient to go to War. Sangerfield, 1814. 12, pp. 86. [U. S. Very plainspoken in its argument. AUTHORITIES. Amer. Quarterly Register, vii, 246, Johnson, Hist, of the ist Congrega- 256. Contributions to the Ecclesias- tional Church, Norwich, N. Y., 18, 45. tical Hist, of Essex County, Mass., N. Y. Genealogical Record, xxxv, 62. 229. Hotchkin, Hist, of Western Sprague, Annals of the Amer. Pulpit, N. Y., 319, 337, 341, 376. C. R. ii, 87. JONATHAN BRACE, the second son in a family of ten children of Jonathan Brace, a substantial farmer of Har- winton, Litchfield County, Connecticut, and grandson of John 'Brace, of Hartford, was born in Harwinton on November 12, 1754. His .mother was Mary Messenger of West Hartford. His original intention had been to enter the ministry; but during his Junior year, while College was broken up, his Class gathered in Glastonbury, Connecticut, where he boarded with Mrs. Anna (White), widow of Thomas Kimberly (Yale 1766), of Glastonbury, a lady about one year younger than himself, with two young children, whom he married on April 14, 1778. 102 Yale College After assuming these responsibilities he employed his leisure time in the study of law, under the direction of the Hon. Oliver Ellsworth (Princeton 1766), of Hart- ford ; and was admitted to the bar at Bennington, in Ver- mont, in November, 1779. He settled immediately in the practice of law in Pawlet, Vermont; but in April, 1782, removed to Manchester, where he obtained an extensive and lucrative practice. He also held the office of State Attorney for Bennington County in 1784-85, and was a member of the First Coun- cil of Censors (1785). In May, 1783, he declined an appointment as Judge of the County Court, but held the office of Judge of Probate for 1784-85. In January, 1786, he returned to Glastonbury, though he was not admitted to the Connecticut Bar until October, 1790. He represented the town in the Legislature at six sessions between 1788 and 1794; and in August, 1794, he removed to Hartford, where he pursued his pro- fessional business with good success. His career there is well described in a biographical notice by Payne K. Kilbourne : There were at that period men of high attainments at the Hart- ford bar, but he was inferior to none of them. His bodily frame was large, manly, and commanding, his voice full and sonorous, his countenance indicative of honesty and benevolence, and his manner easy and popular. Add to this, an intimate acquaintance with the law, and the springs of human conduct the ability of seizing upon the main points in a case, and of reasoning logically on common sense principles, connected with so complete a control of his temper and spirit as never to be thrown off his guard or unduly excited by the remarks of his opponents and you have an idea of what he then was before a jury, and as an effective lawyer. These qualities were duly appreciated, for he was chosen to the offices of State Attorney for the county of Hartford, Judge of the County Court for said county, and Judge of Probate for that District. In May, 1798, he was elected an Assistant; in [October, 1798] he was chosen a member of Congress, in the room of the Hon. Mr. Coit, deceased ; in May, 1800, he was re-elected to Congress, and attended the winter following. That Biographical Sketches, 1779 103 session closed in May 1801, and was the last meeting of that body in Philadelphia. At its close, his health being impaired, he tendered his resignation, which was accepted. He was, however, again chosen an Assistant in May i'8o2, and afterwards annually until May 1819, when the State having adopted a new Constitution, he was chosen a Senator that title being substituted in place of Assistant . . . He was again chosen a Senator in 1820, and attended the session that year in New Haven, and declined a further election. The office of Judge of the County Court he held twelve years [1809-21] and the office of Judge of Probate fifteen years [1809- 24]. He was likewise for a protracted period one of the Common Councilmen for the City of Hartford, subsequently one of the Aldermen, and subsequently still, Mayor, which office he held nine years, and resigned the same [in 1824] on account of age. For more than thirty years he was annually appointed . . a Trustee of the Missionary Society of Connecticut, which office he held until the time of his death. Portions of his family correspondence, which are pre- served in the Yale Library, testify to his sincere Christian character and life. He died in Hartford on August 26, 1837, in his 83d year. His wife survived him, dying in Hartford on the 7th of the following December, aged 84 years. Their only son was graduated at Yale in 1801 ; and their only daughter married (unhappily) Professor Fred- erick Hall (Dartmouth Coll. 1803). AUTHORITIES. Amer. Quarterly Register, xiv, White Memorials, 66. Kilbourne, 384-85. Bailey, Early Conn. Mar- Biographical Hist, of Litchfield riages, vii, 105. Glastenbury Cen- County, 121-25. Records of Ver- tennial, 240-41. Hemenway, Vermont mont Governor and Council, iii, 21, Gazetteer, i, 202-03. Hinman, Gen- 34, 64, 345. Trumbull, Hist, of Hart- ealogy of the Puritans, 308. Kellogg, ford County, i, 117, 385. JEREMIAH BRADFORD, Junior, the eldest son and second child of Dr. Jeremiah Bradford, an able practitioner of Middle Haddam Society, in the present township of Chat- ham, Connecticut, and grandson of Gershom and Priscilla ( Wiswall) Bradford, of Kingston, Massachusetts, and 104 Yale College Bristol, Rhode Island, was baptized at Middle Haddam on October 29, 1758. His mother was Rebecca, daughter of Ebenezer Dart, of Middle Haddam. His College course was begun at Dartmouth College, in New Hamp- shire; but on account of the confusion resulting from the War of Independence, he was admitted to Yale College at the end of Junior year, on July 9, 1778. His degree was granted him in regular course at Dartmouth on August 25, 1779, as well as at Yale two weeks later. He studied medicine with his father, and received a license, but never practiced. On May 19, 1782, he married Mary, daughter of Cap- tain Enoch and Ruth (Goodrich) Smith, of Chatham, by whom he had three daughters and three sons, who grew to maturity. The youngest son was for a time a member of Yale College, but was graduated from the University of Vermont in 1829. He was engaged in manufacturing business in Chat- ham until about 1805, when he removed to Berlin, near Montpelier, Vermont, where he settled on a farm and was mainly occupied in raising sheep and cattle. Though often solicited, he would never accept any public office. He died at the house of his youngest daughter in Berlin, on December 25, 1835, aged 77 years. AUTHORITIES. Bailey, Early Conn. Marriages, iii, nial Address at Middletown, 281. 80. C. D. Bradford, MS. Letter, Jan. Hist, of Middlesex County, Conn., 8, 1852. Chapman, Alumni of Dart- 1884, 202. Pres. Stiles, Literary mouth College, 25. Field, Centen- Diary, ii, 282. JEREMIAH GATES BRAINARD, the third son and fourth child of Judge Daniel and Esther (Gates) Brainerd, of East Haddam, Connecticut, and grandson of Daniel and Hannah (Selden) Brainerd, of East Haddam, was born in that town on July 28, 1759. He was prepared for College by his pastor, the Rev. Elijah Parsons (Yale 1768), and shortly before he entered Biographical Sketches, 1779 105 Yale he was present as a spectator at the battle of Bunker Hill, in which his eldest brother was a combatant. His College rank was good, and he^amed a Berkeley Scholar- ship at graduation. In July, 1780, he was appointed Ensign in the Seventh Connecticut Regiment, but did not remain in service over nine months. He w r as principally employed in attending to the accounts of the Connecticut line at the War Office in Philadelphia. After his resignation he began the study of law with General Dyar Throop (Yale 1759), of East Haddam, and on his admission to the bar he settled in practice in New London, Connecticut, and there married, on December 10, 1783, Sarah, eldest daughter of John and Sarah (Palmes) Gardiner, of that town. He was for many years actively and creditably engaged in his profession, and also held various civil offices. He served as a Representative in the General Assembly in 1786, 1789, and 1794; and in 1805 was chosen Mayor of the city, and held that station for twenty-two years. He was also a Judge of the Superior Court for a somewhat longer period, from 1806 to 1829, when he resigned this office (as he had resigned the office of Mayor) in conse- quence of infirm health. He died in New London on January 7, 1830, in his 7 ist year, and his wife died on June 30 of the same year, aged 63. Their children were three sons and a daughter. The sons were graduated at Yale, in 1798, 1810, and 1815, respectively. An obituary notice in the New-London Gazette says of him: His character was held in the highest estimation by his fellow citizens as a public man, and his domestic virtues adorned human- ity. As a Judge, he was highly esteemed by the Bench, and greatly respected by the bar. Stern integrity ever marked his conduct in his political, civil, and private life. 106 Yale College The tribute of an acute member of the bar is as follows : He was a man of no showy pretensions, very plain and simple in his manners, and very familiar in his intercourse with the bar. He affected very little dignity on the bench, and yet he was regarded as an excellent judge. He despatched business with great facility, and great confidence was placed in his sound judgment and integrity. He published : An Oration, commemorative of the Virtues and Services of General George Washington; spoken in the Presbyterian Church in the City of New London, February 22d, 1800. New-London, 1800. 8, pp. 14. [B. Publ. C. H. S. U. S. AUTHORITIES. Bond, Hist, of Watertown, 946. Johnston, Yale in the Revolution, Brainerd Genealogy, 13, 17-18. Caul- 342-43. Lion Gardiner and his De- kins, Hist, of N. London, 620, 671. scendants, 104. Hist, of Litchfield County, 1881, 27. DANIEL CATLIN, JUNIOR, was a son of Deacon Daniel Catlin, of Harwinton, Litchfield County, Connecticut, and grandson of Benjamin and Margaret (Kellogg) Catlin, of Hartford and Harwinton. His life was spent in his native village, where he filled a useful place in the community. He served as Town Clerk from 1787 until 1803 (the last year of his life), was one of the Representatives in the Legislature for twenty sessions from 1791 to 1802, and a Deacon in the village church from 1795 until his death. He died in Harwinton on July 7, 1804, in his 46th year. His wife Honor survived him, dying in Harwinton, in May, 1836, at the age of 72. He left little or no estate. AUTHORITIES. Chipman, Hist, of Harwinton, 117, of the Puritans, 504. 120-21, 134-36. Hinman, Genealogy Biographical Sketches, 1770 107 JUSTUS COOK, the second son and third child of Eben- ezer Cook, of Wallingford and that part of Waterbury which is now Plymouth, Connecticut, and grandson of Henry and Mary (Frost) Cook, of Waterbury, was born on May 25, 1748. His mother was Phebe, daughter of Deacon Moses Blakeslee, of Plymouth; and a younger brother was graduated here in 1777. He was admitted to the College Church in July of his Senior year. All that is known of his later career is contained in the following extract from a letter written by one of his nephews, in 1848, in reply to a request for information: After leaving College he applied himself to the study of divinity. Being licensed to preach he continued to preach about five years in different places in this [Connecticut] and other States, when he left his profession and turned his attention to farming business, at which time he married a lady in West Hartford by the name of Webster, by whom he had one son and three daughters. He was a man called to pass through scenes of adversity, and temporal prosperity was not his portion. In his last days he was dependent on his children for support. From the best information I can obtain, he died at Whitesborough, [Oneida County,] State of New York, about the year 1828, aged 80. AUTHORITIES. Anderson, Hist, of Waterbury, i, of Wallingford, 715. Pres. Stiles, appendix, 39. Zenas Cooke, MS. Literary Diary, ii, 351. Letter, Apr. 20, 1848. Davis, Hist. DAVID DARLING, a son of Benjamin Darling, of Wren- tham, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, who was probably an immigrant from England, was born in that town on April 14, 1754. He entered Brown University, and had nearly completed his course there when the confusion of the Revolutionary war broke up that College. He subsequently came to New Haven, was admitted here on September 6, 1779, and received the Bachelor's degree the next day. io8 Yale College He studied theology, and on January 18, 1781, was ordained as the first pastor of a Congregational church which had been formed in 1769 in the town of Surry, in south-western New Hampshire. He was dismissed from this charge on December 30, 1783, "difficulties having arisen on account of a marriage." He then removed a few miles southward, to Keene, where he spent the rest of his long life, and died highly respected on March 15, 1835, aged nearly 81 years. He married in 1781 Esther Metcalf, by whom he had five children. He next married, in 1793, Molly Wood, by whom he had eleven children; and in 1818 he married for his third wife Matilda Bowditch. By this marriage there were no children. The eldest child of the second marriage was graduated at Dartmouth College in 1819 (also M.D. in 1825). Another son became a clergyman. AUTHORITIES. Barry, Hist, of Framingham, 219. of N. Hampshire, 29, 41. Lawrence, C. W. Darling, MS. Letter, Aug. 22, N. Hampshire Churches, 293. Pres. 1904. Hazen, Ministry and Churches Stiles, Literary Diary, ii, 368. OZIAS EELLS, a son of the Rev. Edward Eells (Harvard 1733), of Upper Middletown, now Cromwell, Connecticut, and a brother of the Rev. James Eells (Yale 1763) and the Rev. Samuel Eells (Yale 1765), was born on Septem- ber 2, 1755. He was named for his mother's father, Judge Ozias Pitkin. He studied for the ministry, and began preaching on Long Island, but the climate did not agree with him and his health languished. He then went to the village of Barkhamsted, in Litch- field County, Connecticut, where a Congregational Church had been gathered in 1781. The society gave him about the year 1786 a call to settle, Biographical Sketches, 1779 109 which he accepted, after some hesitation, on account of the pioneer work to be done. He was ordained and installed on January 24, 1787, and on the I9th of the following September he married Phebe, second daughter of the Rev. Richard Ely (Yale 1754), of North Madison, Connecticut. For twenty-six years he continued in this remote and narrow field, keeping the sincere respect of all his par- ishioners, and giving himself unreservedly to their service. He was of a tall, erect figure, and of a most amiable disposition, but decided in his conceptions of duty. After three days' illness from spotted fever, he died in Barkhamsted on May 25, 1813, in his 58th year. His widow died in Barkhamsted on August 5, 1829, in her 69th year. Of their eight children two died in infancy; three daughters and three sons survived their parents. The eldest son was graduated at Williams College in 1820, and became a Presbyterian minister. The second son became a physician. AUTHORITIES. Bailey, Early Conn. Marriages, vii, Winsted Herald, Nos. 32-33. Hist. 58. Barkhamsted Centennial, 55-56, of Litchfield County, 1881, 243-44. 72-73, 95, 165-67. Dwight, Strong Pitkin Genealogy, 19. T. Robbins, Family, ii, 1127. Miss M. L. Hart, Diary, i, 554. Barkhamsted Reminiscences, in the ZEBULON ELY, the third child and eldest son of Ezra Ely, a farmer of Hamburg Society in North Lyme, Con- necticut, and grandson of Deacon Richard and Elizabeth (Peck) Ely, of Lyme, was born on February 6, 1759. His mother, Sarah Sterling, died while he was an infant. A half-brother was graduated here in 1786. He was prepared for College by the Rev. Elijah Par- sons (Yale 1768), of East Haddam, Connecticut. In May of his Senior year he joined the College Church, and he apparently remained at College after graduation engaged in the study of theology. He was licensed to no Yale College preach by the New Haven Association of Ministers, in session at North Guilford, on May 30, 1780, and was occu- pied for the succeeding months with brief engagements in various places. While supplying the pulpit in Lebanon, Connecticut, he was elected on October 31, 1781, to a Tutorship, and began his duties on November 13. He retained this office, how- ever, only until Commencement, 1782, having been preach- ing regularly in the mean time, and having received a call in April to the church in Lebanon, and another in August to Branford. On September 18 he accepted the Lebanon call, and was ordained there on November 13. A year later, on October 23, 1783, he married Sarah (or Sally), youngest daughter of Elisha and Mary (De Forest) Mills, of Ripton Parish, now Hunting-ton, Connecticut. His congregation was one of the largest in the State, and of more than average intelligence; and appreciated his sterling qualities as a pastor and preacher. In 1804 an acrimonious dispute about the location of the meeting- house caused the formation of a new society and brought distress to the minister. He continued in full service, though suffering through his life with constant nervous headaches, until October, 1818, when a paralytic shock enfeebled him. A second shock, in August, 1821, laid him aside for two months; in March, 1823, he was finally dis- abled from preaching, and after a gradual decay of his powers he died in Lebanon on November 18, 1824, in his 66th year. Mr. Ely was characterized by soundness and strength of intellect rather than by imagination. He was reserved and unsocial in manner, and seemed able to talk freely with his people only on religious topics. He held pro- nounced evangelical views, which led, for example, to the disuse of the halfway covenant which had formerly been practiced in his parish. The Hon. George S. Hillard, who was in early life under Mr. Ely's charge, says of him, in 1873 : Biographical Sketches, 1779 in He was a rigid Calvinist in doctrine, but his natural temper was kindly, and I felt for him the love which casteth out fear. I sup- pose his attainments to have been moderate. . . His whole library, as I recall it, might have been transported in a wheelbarrow. . . . The good old man was mighty in the Scriptures. To his simple faith the events and the characters of the Bible were as real and distinct as the scenes of his own life and the men and women of his own parish. There was no cloud of doubt in his sky. The word of God was the object of his daily and reverent study, and not only his sermons but his letters and his common speech had a large infusion of the language of the Bible. Upon a salary of less than five hundred dollars a year, aided by a small farm and the tuition fees of a few pupils, he reared a family of twelve children, and left a comfortable property at his death. His wife died on December 13, 1842, in her 8ist year. Their entire family, seven daughters and five sons, reached maturity. The second child, who was graduated at Yale in 1804, was named for President Stiles, under whom Mr. Ely had graduated and had served as Tutor. This son published, the year after his father's death, a thick pamphlet of his Memoirs, mainly in the form of extracts from his Diary, and including the sermon preached at his funeral by the Rev. Samuel Nott (Yale 1780), of the adjoining parish of Franklin. These memoirs witness affectingly to his humble piety and con- secrated life. He published: 1. The death of Moses the Servant of the Lord. A Sermon [from Deut. xxxiv, 5] Preached at the Funeral Solemnity of His Excellency Jonathan Trumbull Esq. L.L.D. late Governor of the State of Connecticut, August 19, 1785. Hartford, 1786. 8, pp. 28. [A. A. S. B. Ath. Bozvdoin Coll. Brit. Mus. Brown Univ. C. H. S. M. H. S. N. Y. H. S. N. Y. Publ. Libr. U. T. S. Y. C. 2. The frailty of all flesh, and the stability of the word of the Lord. A Sermon [from i Peter i, 24-25], Delivered in the first society in Lebanon the Sabbath after the death of Mr. Jonathan L. Leech, who departed this Life . . January 12, 1790, in the 22d Year of his Age. Norwich, 1790. 8, pp. 24. [A. A. S. B. Publ. ii2 Yale, College 3. Evangelical Consolation. A Sermon [from I Thess. iv, 18], delivered at the Funeral of Mrs. Bethiah Huntington, the amiable consort of Captain William Huntington, who departed this Life, July 12, 1799 . . Norwich, 1799. 8, pp. 16. [B. Publ. C. H. S. 4. A summary of the duty of a gospel minister, to testify the gospel of the grace of God. A Sermon [from Acts xx, 24], delivered at the Ordination of the Rev. Shubael Bartlett . . in East-Windsor, Feb. 15, 1804. Hartford, 1804. 8, pp. 23. [B. Publ. Brown Univ. C. H. S. Harv. R. I. Hist. Soc. U. T. S. Y. C. 5. The wisdom and duty of magistrates. A Sermon [from Ps. ii, 10-12], preached at the General Election, May loth, 1804. Hart- ford, 1804. 8, pp. 35. [A. A. S. B. Ath. Brit. Mus. C. H. S. M. H. S. U. T. S. Y. C. 6. A gospel minister, though young, should be respectable by his example. A Sermon [from I Tim. iv, 12], delivered at the Ordi- nation of the Rev. Ezra Stiles Ely, to the pastoral care of the church in West-Chester, in Colchester, October i, 1806. Hartford, 1806. 8, pp. 23. [B. Ath. Bowdoin Coll. Brit. Mus. Broivn Univ. C. H. S. Harv. U. T. S. Y. C. Pages 21-23 are occupied with the Charge by the Rev. Elijah Parsons. 7. The Three Funerals. A Discourse [from Rom. v, 12, Job xxi, 23, and Ps. xlvi, 10] preached at the funeral of Mr. Amos Leech, of Mrs. Lucretia Buel, and of a young Child, daughter of Mr. John and Mrs. Rhoda Champion, who were interred at one time, February 15, 1809. Windham, 1809. 8, pp. 15. [C. H. S. 8. The peaceful end of the perfect man. A Discourse [from Ps. xxxvii, 37], delivered in Lebanon, at the Funeral of His Excel- lency Jonathan Trumbull, Governor of the State of Connecticut. Who died August 7th, 1809. . . Hartford, 1809. 8, pp. 16. [B.-Ath. Brit. Mus. Brown Univ. C. H. S. N. Y. H. S. U. T. S. Y. C. 9. The believer's triumph. A Discourse [from i Cor. xv, 55] delivered in Lebanon, October 14, 1810, occasioned by the death of Solomon Williams, Esq. of New- York .. Hartford, 1811. 8, pp. 15. [Brown Univ. C. H. S. N. Y. H. S. Y. C. 10. A ripe shock seasonably gathered. A Discourse [from Gen. Biographical Sketches, ///p 113 xxv, 8], occasioned by the death of the Honourable William Williams, Esq. of Lebanon, Connecticut, who died August 2, 1811. . . Hartford, 1812. 8, pp. 15. [A. A. S. Brown Univ. C. #. 5. Harv. U. T. S. Y. C. ii. Revelation necessary to Salvation. A Sermon [from Prov. xxix, 18], delivered in Thompson, at a meeting of the Foreign Mission Society of Windham County, Oct. 4, 1815. Hartford, 1815. 8, pp. 1 6. [B. Ath, Brit. Mus. C. H. S. Y. C. Pages 12-16 are occupied with an account of the Society. AUTHORITIES. Bailey, Early Conn. Marriages, vii, Nichols, Historical Sermon at Leba- 88. Contributions to the Ecclesiasti- non, 20-22. Ely Ancestry, 99, 180-81. cal Hist, of Conn., 414-15. DeFor- Sprague, Annals of the Amer. Pulpit, ests of Avesnes, 227. Hillard, Mem- ii, 192. Pres. Stiles, Literary Diary, oir of Jeremiah Mason, 7, 39-40. ii, 333, 551, 562-64; iii, 45, 80. STEPHEN FOWLER, the third son of Josiah Fowler, Jun- ior, of the parish of Northford, in the present town of North Branford, and grandson of Josiah Fowler, of Guil- ford, Connecticut, was born in Northford on May 8, 1756. Soon after graduation he removed to Fairfield, Con- necticut, where he kept a boys' school for a number of years, the elder Professor Silliman being among his pupils. About 1790, in company with Mr. Wright White, he entered into the shipping and general merchandise busi- ness in Newbern, North Carolina. The firm owned several vessels, on which groceries and other goods were trans- ported from New York to Newbern, where they were exchanged with the planters for tar, turpentine, staves, and other products. The partnership was dissolved after a few years by Mr. White's death, but Mr. Fowler con- tinued the business, and in some of his ventures was quite successful. In 1808 Joseph E. Sheffield, the future founder of the Scientific School, entered Mr. Fowler's employ as a clerk; and on reaching his majority, in 1814, he became a partner in the business for a short time. The shipping business 8 ii4 Yale College was, however, given up in consequence of the embargo in 1813, and in 1815 the eldest son of Mr. Fowler was taken into partnership, and the mercantile business conducted under the name of Joseph Fowler & Company; about 1819 the business was transferred to Bay River, a few miles to the eastward, where it was continued until the senior part- ner's death. Mr. Fowler married on October 20, 1785, Mary, eldest surviving child of Joseph and Comfort (Nichols) Strong of (North) Bridgeport, Connecticut. The family residence continued in Fairfield until about 1823, though for many years before the war of 1812 Mr. Fowler was frequently in the habit of taking his wife and children on one of his vessels to Newbern in the fall, and sending them back in the spring. About 1823 they settled in Bay River permanently, and Mrs. Fowler died on June 13, 1826, in her 6oth year, while on board one of her hus- band's vessels in its passage from Bay River to Fairfield. Her husband died in Bay River on March 24, 1829, in his 73d year. Both were brought to Fairfield for burial. Their children were three daughters and four sons, all of whom lived to maturity. AUTHORITIES. Dwight, Strong Family, i, 717. 1900. Perry, Old Burying Ground of John S. Fowler, MS. Letter, Apr. 26, Fairfield, 206-07. ELIZUR GOODRICH, second son and child of the Rev. Dr. Elizur Goodrich (Yale 1752), of Durham, Connecticut, was born in Durham on March 24, 1761. On the invasion of New Haven, in July of his Senior year, he was one of the party of students who went out to repel the British, and was subsequently wounded and taken prisoner but escaped. At graduation the Berkeley Scholarship was awarded to him, and he also delivered the Latin Valedictory oration to his class. Biographical Sketches, 1779 115 He was elected to a tutorship in College in September, 1781, and began duty at the beginning of the ensuing term. He held office for two years, and then resigned to enter on the practice of law in New Haven, having pur- sued professional studies under the tuition of his uncle, Hon. Charles Chauncey. He married on September I, 1785, Anne (or Nancy) Willard, only daughter of Daniel Allen, a master builder of Great Barrington, Massachusetts, whose widow Esther had recently married Deacon David Austin, of New Haven. In 1789 he was elected a member of the Common Coun- cil of the city, and was re-elected for the four following years; he then served as Alderman until 1800, and then again for three years was one of the Council. In 1803 he was elected Mayor, and continued in that office until his resignation in 1822, after which he was twice re-elected Alderman. In May, 1795, he was chosen a representative in the General Assembly, and filled that station in thirteen ses- sions to 1802, during which time he served as Clerk of the House in six sessions, and as Speaker in two. In 1803 he w r as promoted to a seat in the Governor's Council, which he held until the change in the State Constitution in 1818. In 1799 he was elected a member of Congress, and soon made himself known in the House as a man of sound judgment and strong reasoning powers; but early in 1801 he was led to resign on his appointment by President Adams as Collector of the Port of New Haven, in suc- cession to Deacon Austin, his wife's step-father. He was, however, removed from office by President Jefferson soon after his inauguration. From 1802 he was the Judge of the Probate district of New Haven, and on the death of Simeon Bristol (Yale 1760), in October, 1805, he was appointed chief Judge of the County Court; but he was retired from both these offices as the result of the political change in 1818. n6 Yale College In 1 80 1 he was appointed Professor of Law in Yale College, and as such he delivered courses of lectures on the law of nature and of nations, but resigned the office in 1810, as interfering too much with other public duties. As one of the Senior Senators of the State, he was ex officio a member of the Yale Corporation from 1809 to 1818, and on his retirement from this office he was elected Secretary of the Board, and so continued until 1846. He received the honorary degree of LL.D. in 1830. He died in New Haven on November I, 1849, m n ^ s SQth year. His wife died in New Haven, after a week's illness, from lung fever, on November 17, 1818, aged 51 years. Their children were two sons and one daughter. The elder son was graduated at Williams College in 1806. The younger son was graduated at Yale in 1810, and became an eminent Professor here. The daughter married the Hon. Henry L. Ellsworth (Yale 1810). Professor Kingsley at the time of Mr. Goodrich's death wrote of him : He was distinguished for the clearness & strength of his judg- ment, the ease and accuracy with which he transacted business, and the kindness and affability which he uniformly manifested in all the relations of life. His reading was extensive and minute, and what is not very common in public men, he kept up his acquaintance with the ancient classics to the last; being accustomed to read the writings of Cicero, Livy, Sallust, Virgil and Horace down to the 89th year of his age, with all the ease and interest of his early days. His cordial manner, extensive information, and genial humor, combined with unusual conversational powers, made his presence in society particularly agreeable. It is worthy of mention that from the time of his enter- ing College in 1775, he was uninterruptedly connected with the Institution, either as a student, resident graduate, tutor, assistant to the Treasurer, Professor, member of the Corporation, or Secretary of that Board, for the space of seventy-one years. Biographical Sketches, 1779 117 AUTHORITIES. Case, Goodrich Family, 75, 127-28. ii, 333, 346, 556, 561-62; iii, 97, 378. Johnston, Yale in the Revolution, 343. Talcott, Genealogical Notes of N. Y. New Haven City Year Book, 1863, '- and N. E. Families, 536. 91-93. Pres. Stiles, Literary Diary, SILAS HAZELTINE/ the eldest child of Silas Hazeltine, of Sutton, Worcester County, Massachusetts, and grand- son of John and Jane Hazeltine, of Sutton, was born in that town on March 25, 1759. His mother, Judith, eldest child of Dr. Benjamin and Abigail (Dudley) Morse, of Sutton, married in July of his Senior year Eli Whitney, the father of the eminent Yale graduate (1792) of that name, of the neighboring town of Westborough. He married in the summer of 1783, Hannah, third daughter of Joseph and Martha (Death) Baker, of West- borough, and settled in mercantile business in Templeton, in the northern part of the same county. He attained the rank of Colonel in the militia. His father-in-law, Squire Baker, afterwards became the principal proprietor of a large tract of land in northwest- ern Vermont, to which he removed about 1790 and which was called Bakersfield from his name. At the urgent desire of Mr. Baker, Colonel Hazeltine very reluctantly left Templeton and removed to Bakers- field, where he arrived on March I, 1800. He was a prosperous merchant and farmer, and took a leading part in village affairs. He was elected a Repre- sentative in the General Assembly in 1807 and 1808. He died in Bakersfield on June 15, 1814, in his 56th year. His widow died there in 1837. Their children were five sons- (of whom all but one died young) and four daughters. AUTHORITIES. Benedict and Tracy, Hist, of Sut- Historical Gazetteer, ii, 104, 108. ton, 660. 698. S. B. Hazeltine, MS. Westborough Vital Records, 169. Letters, 1866. Hemenway, Vermont nS Yale College SAMUEL WILLIAM JOHNSON, son of the Hon. William Samuel Johnson (Yale 1744), was born in Stratford, Con- necticut, on October 23, 1761. He settled in Stratford as a lawyer, and served as Representative in the General Assembly in seven sessions between 1790 and 1797. In 1815 he was elected an Assistant, and held that office for three years. In 1807 he succeeded the Hon. Joseph Platt Cooke (Yale 1750) as Presiding Judge of the Fairfield County Court, but laid down the office in 1811, in which year he was elected Judge of the Probate Court for Stratford District. He was superseded in this office by the political revolution in 1818. The remaining years of a long and happy life were spent peacefully in Stratford, where he died, very sud- denly, after a few months of failing powers, while he was out driving, on Sunday morning, October 25, 1846, at the age of 85. He was married by the Rev. Dr. Bela Hubbard, on November 27, 1791, to Susan, eldest child of the Hon. Pierpont Edwards (Princeton 1768) and Frances (Og- den) Edwards, of New Haven. She died in Stratford, of old age, on February 19, 1856, in her 8$th year. Their children were two daughters and three sons. The second son was graduated at Yale in 1823, and the others, being graduates of Union College (in 1816 and 1827), received ad eundem degrees here. He was a gentleman of the old school, and was dis- tinguished for the frankness and urbanity of his manners, as well as for the kindness and generosity of his feelings. AUTHORITIES. Bailey, Early Conn. Marriages, vii, Pres. Stiles, Literary Diary, iii, 435, 25. Dwight Family, ii, 1043. Orcutt, 546. Hist, of Stratford, i, 605 ; ii, 1226. Biographical Sketches, ///p 119 AMBROSE KIRTLAND was a son of Ambrose Kirtland, of Saybrook, Connecticut, and grandson of Samuel and Mar- tha (Whittlesey) Kirtland, of Saybrook. He died in Saybrook on January 7, 1784, aged about 24 years. AUTHORITIES. Chapman, Pratt Family, 268. JONATHAN MALTBY, the fourth son and child of Deacon Benjamin Maltby, of Northford, in (North) Branford, Connecticut, and grandson of Daniel and Esther (Moss) Maltby, of Branford, was born on May 2, 1759. His mother was Elizabeth, daughter of Josiah and Hannah (Baldwin) Fowler, of Durham, Connecticut. He studied theology with the Rev. Dr. Benjamin Trum- bull (Yale 1759), of North Haven, Connecticut, and was licensed to preach by the New Haven Association on May 27, 1783. After a short experience in the ministry, he was obliged by pulmonary hemorrhage to give up preaching. By medical advice he then went to Savannah, Georgia, and remained there for a year or two. On his return he engaged in mercantile business, at first in New Haven and later in Northford. Subsequently he was the teacher of an academy in Killingworth, Connecticut, and then for three years carried on a farm in Vernon, Oneida County, New York. He finally returned to New Haven, and lived in retire- ment in the suburbs of the city. He died at his residence in Fair Haven, on September 14, 1850, in his 92d year, being supposed to be at the time of his death the oldest inhabitant of the city, and the last survivor of his Class. He married, on June 17, 1787, Submit, daughter of Nathaniel and Submit (Tyler) Tainter, of Northford, and had by her a family of six sons and two daughters. His wife died on December 18, 1848, at the age of 85. 120 Yale College A paper of his reminiscences of revolutionary incidents is printed in the Genealogy of the Maltby family. He was beloved for his amiable and fervent Christian character, a combination of gentleness and conscientious firmness. AUTHORITIES. Bailey, Early Conn. Marriages, v, 26, 37-40. 17. Maltby-Morehouse Family, 18, NICHOLAS SHELTON MASTERS,, eldest son and third child of James and Eunice (Rogers) Masters, of Judea Society, in Woodbury, now the township of Washington, Connect- icut, was born on May 20, 1759. He read law with Daniel Everett, of New Milford, Con- necticut, and followed the profession after his admission to the bar in 1785, in New Milford, which he represented in the General Assembly in May, 1792, and again in May, 1794. He held the rank of Captain in the local militia. He was removed by an early death, on September 12, 1795, in his 37th year. He first married, on January 28, 1781, Hannah, eldest child of Colonel Josiah and Sarah (Mygatt) Starr, of New Milford, who died on December I, 1781, aged 21 years, leaving one son, who died in early manhood. He next married, on May 9, 1786, Tamar, younger daughter of the Rev. Nathanael Taylor (Yale 1745), of New Milford. She died on December u, 1842, aged 83 years. AUTHORITIES. Bailey, Early Conn. Marriages, iii, and Civil Hist, of Conn., 239. Or- 117-18. Boardman Genealogy, 274. cutt, Hist, of New Milford, 232, 259, Cothren, Hist, of Woodbury, i, 452; 769, 774, 821, 858. Starr Family, 389. iii, 51. Loomis and Calhoun, Judicial Pres. Stiles, Literary Diary, iii, 546. SHADRACH MEAD, the second son and child of Titus and Rachel (Rundle) Mead, of Greenwich, Connecticut, Biographical Sketches, 121 and grandson of Caleb and Mary (Holmes) Mead, of Greenwich, was born on January 15, 1758. He was through his life a practicing physician in Green- wich, and died there on September 16, 1844, in his 87th year. He married, first, Tammy Hobby, who died on April 21, 1814, aged 50 years; and secondly, Abigail Ingersoll, who died on April 7, 1875, aged 94 years. AUTHORITIES. Mead Family Genealogy, 291-92. JOHN NOYES., the second son of John Noyes (Yale 1753), was born in New Haven on August 27, 1762. His father died in 1767, and his mother next married, in May, 1775, General Gold S. Silliman (Yale 1752), of Fairfield, Connecticut. After graduation he studied theology, and was licensed to preach by the Western Association of Fairfield County on October 14, 1783. The Rev. Samuel Sherwood (Yale 1749), minister of the small and scattered flock in Norfield Parish (in Fair- field), now Weston, Connecticut, died in office in May, 1783; and Mr. Noyes preached his first sermon in this pulpit. In due time he was called to settle in Norfield, and was ordained there on May 31, 1786, on a salary of $250 and forty loads of wood. He served this people with great acceptance until March, 1806, when his voice failed and a general prostra- tion disabled him, the result of over-exertion in his call- ing. After a year's rest, seeing no prospect of a speedy recovery, he concurred with the society in his dismissal, which was ratified by vote of the Consociation on May 26, 1807. His residence continued in Weston. In the fall of 1808 he ventured to resume occasional 122 Yale College preaching, and for the next fifteen years was employed as supply by his old church and by various other vacant churches in the vicinity; among the societies which he thus served, were the First Church in Greenwich (1810- 23), the church in Monroe (1813-14), the church in Ridgefield (1814-17), and the church in Darien (1820- 23). After 1823 he confined his labors to his own church, and after December, 1835, he retired in the main from further service. In the midst of a peaceful and happy old age, he died in Weston, of lung fever, after six days' illness, on May 15, 1846, aged nearly 84 years. He married on March 8, 1786, Eunice Sherwood, of Weston, a daughter of his predecessor in office, by whom he had seven sons and two daughters, all of whom grew to maturity except one daughter who died in infancy. The youngest son was graduated at Yale in 1824; and the fifth son died while a member of College. His wife died on March 25, 1824, in her 64th year, and he married secondly, on October 16, 1827, Fanny, widow of Thomas Swan, Jr., of Stonington, Connecticut, and eldest daughter of Amos and Phebe (Brown) Palmer, of Stonington. She was born on July 9, 1776, and survived Mr. Noyes. An epitaph, written by his half-brother, Professor Silli- man, thus characterizes him: In temper, meek and patient, in duty, cheerful and active, through a long and useful life he diffused blessings around him. A man of God, a Christian philanthropist, he lived revered and beloved and died lamented by all. A ministerial neighbor, the Rev. Dr. Edwin Hall, of Norwalk, wrote of him in the New York Observer: No other minister was so extensively known in this region, and no one was more universally beloved. . . . His disposition, as well as his principle, seemed always to be, to harm no one, to speak evil of none, to give unnecessary pain to no creature; but to promote, Biographical Sketches, 1779 123 as far as he was able, the stock of human happiness. It is rare to find any one so attentive to his friends as was "Father Noyes"; and rare to find one whose personal friends are so numerous. . . . His preaching was sound, sober, instructive, experimental ; never startling. But as a Barnabas, a Son of Consolation, he was pre- eminent. He published: 1. A Discourse [from i Cor. ii, i, 2], delivered in Norfield, May 29th, 1836, at the close of the fiftieth year of his ministry. New Haven, 1839. 8, pp. 20. [C. H. S. Y. C. 2. Letters, chiefly of a moral and religious nature to friends of various conditions. New Haven, 1844. 12, pp. 252 -(- pi. [L. I. Hist. Soc. Y. C. Accompanied by an engraving of the author. After his death was published: A Sermon [from 2 Cor. i, 12], written by Rev. John Noyes, of Weston, Ct. (deceased,) for the occasion of the Sixtieth Anni- versary of his ministry, and which was Read to the Congregation on that day, May 31, 1846, being two weeks after his death. New- York, 1846. 8,'pp- 16. [Y. C. AUTHORITIES. Childs, Hist, of ist Congregational 1786. Noyes Family, ii, 89, 105. B. Church, Greenwich, 12-13. Contri- Silliman, MS. Diary, May 14-18, Aug. butions to Eccl. Hist, of Conn,, 303, 2, 1846. Sprague, Annals of the 37O. 395, 428, 470, 503. Davis, Hist. Amer. Pulpit, i, 362. Wheeler, Hist, of Wallingford, 860-70. 5\ G. Good- of Stonington, 491, 521, 615 ; Hist. rich, Recollections of a Lifetime, i, of the First Church, Stonington, 275. 178-79. New-Haven Gazette, June 8, ELISHA PAINE, the only son of Solomon and Mary (Bacon) Payne, of Canterbury, Connecticut, and grand- son of Solomon and Priscilla (Fitch) Payne, was born in Canterbury on July 2, 1757. His grandfather was the first minister of the Separate Church in Canterbury. He studied law after graduation, and practiced a little in his native town, but fell into intemperate habits and died in Canterbury on January 21, 1803, aged 45^ years. 124 Yale College He married Anne Dyer, of Canterbury, and left six children. AUTHORITIES. Rev. R. C. Learned, MS. Letter. SAMUEL PITKIN, the second son and child of 'Squire Elisha Pitkin (Yale 1753), of East Hartford, Connecti- cut, was born in East Hartford on May 8, 1760. He had a useful and prominent career in his native vil- lage. He built, owned, and operated the first cotton-mill in Connecticut (opened in 1794), and was also largely engaged in the manufacture of gunpowder. He rose in the militia to the rank of Major in the Artillery (in 1798) ; was town-clerk and treasurer from 1801 to 1836; was a representative in the Legislature in twenty-one sessions from 1802 to 1815; and a deacon of the Congregational Church in East Hartford from 1813 until his death. He early saw the usefulness of Sabbath-school instruc- tion, and in 1819 established such a school and was its first superintendent. He was one of the, original incor- porators of the Theological Institute of Connecticut (at East Windsor) in 1830. He married on July 25, 1792, Sarah (or Sally), the only child of the Rev. Joseph Parsons (Harvard 1752), of West Brookfield, Massachusetts, whose widow, Sarah (Williams), had married in 1777 the Rev. Eliphalet Wil- liams (Yale 1743), of East Hartford. Mrs. Pitkin was a lady of rare accomplishments and of eminent piety. Their children were two daughters and one son, all of whom survived their parents. Major Pitkin died in East Hartford on December 24, 1839, m ms 8oth year. His wife died, also in her 8oth year, on December I, 1843. He is still remembered as a gentleman of the old school, who wore to the last his knee breeches and silk stockings, and his long white hair gathered in a queue. In manner Biographical Sketches, 7779 125 he was courteous and genial. A good engraving from his portrait is given in the Pitkin Family Genealogy. AUTHORITIES. Bailey, Early Conn. Marriages, ii, bull, Hist, of Hartford County, ii, 86. Goodwin, East Hartford, 229-30. 103, 251. Williams Family, 108-12. Pitkin Family, Ixxv, 30, 57. Trum- MATTHEW TALCOTT RUSSELL, the second son of the Rev. Noadiah Russell (Yale 1750), of Thompson, Connecticut, was born on March 19, 1761. He was named for Colonel Matthew Talcott, of Middle- town, Connecticut (his father's native place), who had married his aunt, and had no children of his own; and Colonel Talcott met the expenses of his education. He had already begun the study of law with the Hon. Oliver Ellsworth, of Windsor, Connecticut, when he entered on a tutorship at the opening of the College year in November, 1782. He was admitted to the College church on profession of his faith in August, 1785. After an unusually successful experience as a tutor, he resigned the office in May, 1786. He had already been admitted to the bar, on January 5, 1786, and now settled in practice in Middletown. Though of a slender constitution and delicate health, he was able through great care and prudence to attend con- tinually to his professional concerns. He was accurate and methodical in every thing, and therefore well fitted to transact the class of business which was entrusted to his hands. He was for some years State's Attorney for Mid- dlesex County, and for sixteen years City Treasurer. The community respected him for his integrity and faithfulness, and the church honored him for his consist- ent Christian character, electing him as a Deacon in April, 1798, which office he held till his death. He died in Win- chester, Connecticut, on November 13, 1828, aged nearly 68 years. 126 Yale College He married, on September 17, 1797, Mary, eldest daughter of the Rev. Enoch Huntington (Yale 1759), of Middletown, who died on June 9, 1857, aged nearly 88 years. Their children were seven daughters and six sons. The fifth son was graduated here in 1833, and the sixth daughter married Dr. Samuel G. Southmayd (Yale 1834). AUTHORITIES. Bailey, Early Conn. Marriages, vi, 211, 228. H. R. Stiles, Hist, of 117. Field, Centennial Address at Wethersfield, ii, 602, 604. Talcott, Middletown, 211, 231. Huntington Geneal. Notes of N. Y. and N. E. Family Memoir, 174-75. Pres. Ezra Families, 676-77. Stiles, Literary Diary, iii, 45, 174-75, WILLIAM SEYMOUR, the second son and child of the Hon. Thomas Seymour (Yale 1755), of Hartford, Con- necticut, was born in Hartford on December 28, 1758. He was with his uncle, Colonel William Ledyard, when Arnold attacked New London in September, 1781, and while assisting in the defence of Fort Griswold on the opposite bank of the river was terribly wounded. One of his legs was amputated above the knee, but he was able eventually to engage in mercantile business in Hartford, where he lived to old age. He died in the adjoining town of Bloomfield, on December 20, 1843, at the age of 85 years. He was never married. AUTHORITIES. Johnston, Yale in the Revolution, 343. N. Y. Geneal. Record, xi, 117-18. JOHN STEVENS was born in Danbury, Connecticut, in the latter part of the year 1750. He became a Christian in November, 1770, in his 2ist year, and came to College from New Milford, Connecticut, but did not enter at the opening of the course. He studied theology, and was licensed to preach in 1780 by the Litchfield South Association of Ministers. In 1781 he was ordained pastor of a Congregational Biographical Sketches, 1779 127 church in New Concord Society, in the town of Chatham, Columbia County, New York. On May 13, 1781, he mar- ried Phebe, eldest child of Lemuel and Sarah (Gaylord) Warner, of New Milford. He was dismissed from his pastorate in 1793, after twelve years of satisfactory service. In the town of New Marlborough, in Berkshire County, Massachusetts, a controversy arose in the year 1793 respecting the location of a new meeting-house: the con- sequence of which was, that a second church, in what was named the South Parish, was organized in April, 1794, over which Mr. Stevens was installed on October 22. The church then consisted of twenty-nine members, and nine more were added during his brief ministry. He died in New Marlborough on the evening of Sun- day, January 6, 1799, in his 49th year, "after a long season of most painful and wasting disorders." His wife next married, on October 24, 1810, the Rev. Peter Starr (Yale 1764), of Warren, Connecticut, who died in 1829. She died oil March 3, 1832, in her 74th year. During his last illness Mr. Stevens wrote an address to his people, and delivered it to the Rev. Dr. Jacob Catlin (Yale 1784), the minister of the mother parish in New Marlborough, to read at his funeral, which was done with solemn effect: it was subsequently printed with the title: A Posthumous Publication, of some of the Writings of the late Rev. John Stevens. . . Hartford, 1799. 12, pp. 35. [V. S. U. T. S. A second edition also appeared, with the title: The Valedictory Address of the late Rev. John Stevens. . . Preceded by an account of his religious experiences, and Thoughts on experimental religion. Hartford, 1800. 12, pp. 24. [C. H. S, U. T. S. Y. C. Two of his sermons, The Church of Christ essentially the same, in all Ages, from Eph. i, 22-23, were published in Sermons on important subjects, Hartford, 1797. 8, pp. 61-109. 128 Yale College The sermon preached at his funeral by Dr. Catlin was also printed. Mr. Stevens was a man of uniform and affectionate seriousness, and was greatly beloved. He served his people with great prudence and with unremitting ardor. AUTHORITIES. Bailey, Early Conn. Marriages, iii, 195. Orcutt, Hist, of New Milford, 117. Field, etc.. Hist, of Berkshire, 792. JEREMIAH TOWNSEND, Junior, the eldest child of Jere- miah Townsend, of New Haven, and grandson of Jere- miah and Hannah (Kneeland) Townsend, of Boston and New Haven, was born here on June 27, 1761, and was baptized on September 20. His mother was Abigail, eld- est child of Judge Timothy and Abigail (Day) Wood- bridge, of Stockbridge, Massachusetts, and sister of Enoch Woodbridge (Yale 1774). He settled in New Haven, and married here, on January 4, 1784, Anna, fourth child of Jeremiah Atwater (Steward of Yale College) and Anne (Mix) Atwater. He was associated in business with his father-in-law as a shipping merchant, but died of yellow fever in New Haven, on July 22, 1805, aged 44 years. He bore an excel- lent reputation in the community. The inventory of his estate was about $18,525. His wife survived him, and died suddenly, of apoplexy, on August 10, 1852, in her 88th year. Their children were five daughters and three sons ; of whom one daugh- ter and one son died young. AUTHORITIES. Atwater History and Genealogy, riages, i, 16. Mitchell, Woodbridge 137, 182. Bailey, Early Conn. Mar- Record, 59. Tuttle Family, 150. SAMUEL WEBB, the second son and fifth child of Colonel Charles Webb, of Stamford, Connecticut, a distinguished officer of the Revolution, and his wife, Mercy Holly, and Biographical Sketches, ///p 129 grandson of Charles and Mary (Smith) Webb, of Stam- ford, was born in that town on March 7, 1760. Upon graduation he entered on the study of medicine in his native town with Dr. John Wilson, whose elder daughter, Molly, he married on December 15, 1781. He practiced his profession successfully in Stamford until his death, enjoying the esteem and confidence of the commu- nity to a remarkable degree. He died very suddenly, of enlargement of the heart, in Stamford, on December 29, 1826, in his 67th year, having previously enjoyed uninterrupted good health through his life. His wife bore him four sons and six daughters; and after her death he married Miss White, of Ballston, New York, by whom he had one son and three daughters. AUTHORITIES. Conn. Medical Society's Proceed- Registration, 122. Wilcox, Meigs, ings, 1853, 32-33. Huntington, Hist. and Webb Families, 58, 63. of Stamford, 364-65, 425; Stamford GEORGE WELLES, son of John Welles, of Glastonbury, Connecticut, and grandson of the Honorable Thomas and Martha (Pitkin) Welles, of Glastonbury, was born in that town on February 13, 1756. His mother was Jerusha, daughter of Samuel Edwards of Hartford. In his Senior year he commanded the company of stu- dents who volunteered to oppose the British invasion of New Haven; and a sketch taken of him in that capacity by St. John Honey wood (Yale 1782) is in possession of his family and has been reproduced in print (e. g., in Pres- ident Stiles's Diary). He settled in his native town, but in 1798 removed to Tioga Point, now Athens, in Bradford County, Pennsyl- vania, near the New York line, where he was soon appointed a Justice of the Peace, and became land agent for the Hon. Charles Carroll of Carrolton. He held a license as innkeeper in Athens from 1798 to 1809. 9 130 Yale College He was a man of ability, and became possessed of large property. He died in Athens on June 10, 1813, in his 58th year. His three sons and two daughters are represented by many descendants. The distinguished geologist, Profes- sor Raphael Pumpelly, is a grandson. AUTHORITIES. Kulp, Families of the Wyoming Stiles, Literary Diary, ii, 353. Welles Valley, ii, 663. Perkins, Early Times Family, 305. on the Susquehanna, 148-49. Pres. WILLIAM WELLES, son of William Welles, of Glaston- bury, Connecticut, was born in Glastonbury on November 22, 1754. He was a first cousin of his classmate, George Welles. He settled in his native town, and married on February 5, 1784, Lucy, third daughter of Captain Samuel and Lucy (Kilbourn) Welles, of Glastonbury, who died on April 8, 1785, at the age of 19. Later he removed to Springfield, Clark County, Ohio, where he was twice married, and had by his first wife three daughters and a son, and by his second wife one son. He probably died late in the year 1812, aged 58 years, as his will (drawn up in 1810 at Fort Wayne, Indiana) was probated at Louisville, Kentucky, on December 14, 1812. AUTHORITIES. Bailey, Early Conn. Marriages, vii, 217. Loomis Female Genealogy, i, 108. Chapin, Glastenbury Centennial, 132. WILLIAM WHEELER, the fifth son and ninth child of Josiah Wheeler, of Abington Parish, in Pomfret, Con- necticut, was born in Abington on August 2, 1754. His mother was Anna (Nanny), daughter of Captain Leices- ter and Mary Grosvenor, of Pomfret. He did not enter College at the opening of the course, and left before the Biographical Sketches, 1779 131 close. President Stiles visited him during a vacation tour in October, 1792, and as a consequence had his name enrolled as a graduate at tfce next Commencement. He studied medicine, and is believed to have seen some service .as a surgeon in the Revolutionary army. He settled at first in Salisbury, Connecticut, and married Diademia, youngest daughter of Philip and Abigail (Moore) Spencer, of North-East, in Duchess County, New York, and formerly of Salisbury, and sister of the Hon. Ambrose Spencer (Harvard 1783). Her only child, a daughter, was born in December, 1780, and she died in Salisbury on January 13, 1781, in her 22d year. He subsequently married, on July 3, 1783, Eliza, eldest child of the Rev. Cotton Mather Smith (Yale 1751), of Sharon, Connecticut. About 1787 he removed to Upper Redhook, Duchess County, New York, where his wife died on January 7, 1788, in her 27th year, leaving two daughters, the elder of whom married John A. Davenport (Yale 1802). In (April ?) 1790 he married Wilhelmina Van Vredenburgh, by whom he had one son. Dr. Wheeler died in Redhook on April 14, 1810, in his 56th year, after a life of great usefulness. His epitaph commends him as having meritoriously dis- charged his several duties with skill, fidelity, tenderness, zeal, and patriotism. His widow died about 1815. AUTHORITIES. Goodwin, Genealogical Notes, 318, 53. H. R. Stiles, Hist, of Wethers- 321. Pres. Ezra Stiles, Literary field, ii, 633. Van Alstyne, Sharon Diary, iii, 476; MS. Itinerary, vi, 34, Record, 135-36. WILLIAM WHITMAN, the youngest child and only son of the Rev. Elnathan Whitman (Yale 1726), pastor of the Second Church in Hartford, Connecticut, was born there, probably in 1760. His father died in March of his Sophomore year. He spent his life in Hartford, at first studying medi- 132 Yale College cine and doing a little business as an apothecary, in which vocation he acquired the title of Doctor. In 1785 he was admitted to the bar, though he is not known to have ever practiced law. Later he was for many years town clerk and clerk of the city court. In his old age he was a quaint, familiar figure in Hartford, addicted to an odd style of dress, and a typical antiquary in habit and speech. He died in Hartford on December 25, 1846, aged about 86 years. He married, on January I, 1800, Lucy, second daughter of Timothy and Sarah (Seymour) Steele, of Hartford, and widow of Ebenezer Beach. She died on May 5, 1801, aged 32 years, leaving an only child, who was graduated at Middlebury College in 1820. He next married, on May 14, 1828, Elizabeth, daughter of Charles and Elizabeth (Humphrey) Seymour, of Hart- ford, who died on December 8, 1838, aged 61 years. AUTHORITIES. Conn. Quarterly, v, 483. Ball, 501. Parker, Hist, of the Second Romance of the Association, 16, 22. Church, Hartford, 360. Trumbull, Durrie, Steele Family, 22. Farnam, Memorial Hist, of Hartford County, Descendants of John Whitman, 61, i, 366. SAMUEL WHITTELSEY, the third son and sixth child of the Rev. Chauncey Whittelsey (Yale 1738), of New Haven, by his second wife, Martha Newton, was born in New Haven on February 10, 1763. He studied law in his native city, and was admitted to the bar here on April 6, 1785. On December 10, 1788, he married in New York City Sarah Van Deursen, whose elder brother had married some ten years before Mr. Whittelsey's elder sister. Their children were two daughters and five sons : two sons died early. He afterwards lived in New Jersey, and in Watertown, New York, near the shore of Lake Ontario, where Mrs. Whittelsey died in April, 181 1, in her 48th year. [Another account gives her death in April, 1814, in her 53d year.] Biographical Sketches, 1779 133 Some time after 1819 Mr. Whittelsey removed to Car- lisle, Sullivan County, Indiana, with his family, where he practiced law. He ultimately removed a few miles south- westward, to Vincennes, in Knox County, on the Wabash River, where he died on March 7, 1838, in his 76th year. AUTHORITIES. Pres. Stiles, Literary Diary, iii, 154. Whittlesey Genealogy, 56, 85-86. ELISHA WHITTLESEY (a second cousin of his class- mate), the eighth son and tenth child of Captain Eliphalet Whittlesey, and grandson of Eliphalet and Mary (Pratt) Whittlesey, of Newington, Connecticut, was born in New- ington on January 8, 1758. His mother was Dorothy, eldest child of Captain Martin and Dorothy (Chester) Kellogg, of Newington. In his infancy the family removed to that part of Kent which is now Washington, Connecticut. He became a lawyer, and settled in Danbury, Connecti- cut, where he held a prominent position. He was a mem- ber of the State Convention for the ratification of the Federal Constitution in 1788; and one of the representa- tives of Danbury in the Legislature in thirteen sessions between 1792 and his early death. He died in Danbury on November 9, 1802, in his 45th year, leaving an estate valued at nearly $14,000. At the time of his death he was a member of the General Assem- bly, and was (as he had repeatedly been) in nomination for the Upper House of Assistants. He married on May 29, 1788, Mary, elder daughter of Thomas and Hannah (Bartow) Tucker, of Danbury, by whom he had three sons and two daughters. Of the two sons surviving infancy, the elder was grad- uated at Yale in 1811, and the younger in 1817. The elder and only surviving daughter married the Rev. Robert W. Condit (Princeton 1814). Mrs. Whittlesey died on August 31, 1852, aged 80 years. 134 Yale College AUTHORITIES. Bailey, Hist, of Danbury, 352. Bar- Literary Diary, iii, 546. Whittlesey tow Genealogy, 159-61. Hopkins, Genealogy, 50, 82. The Kelloggs, i, 98. Pres. Stiles, EZEKIEL WOODRUFF was the tenth in a family of eleven children of Nathaniel Woodruff, of Litchfield, Connecti- cut, and grandson of Captain Nathaniel and Thankful (Wright) Woodruff. He was born on July 29, 1763. His mother was Mary, second daughter of Samuel and Mary (Garritt) Kilbourn, of Litchfield. He is said to have served as an adjutant in the Revolu- tionary army during the later part of the war, but cer- tainly resigned in season for his marriage, in Middletown, Connecticut, on June 30, 1782, to Sarah, sixth child of Captain Giles and Anna (Lord) Hall, of that town. She was born on May 23, 1761. He studied law, and began practice in Litchfield, but within a few years removed to Middletown, where he fol- lowed his profession, and also served as City Clerk from 1786 to his resignation in 1789. In July, 1795, he removed with his family to Newark, now Niagara on the Lake, Ontario, Canada, at the mouth of the Niagara River. He died at Niagara Falls on January 7, 1837, in his 74th year. His wife died on November 26, 1836, aged 71/^2 years. He left five sons and two daughters. Two of the sons were leading merchants and prominent in public affairs; both were members of the Assembly of Upper Canada. The eldest daughter married Samuel De Veaux, who founded De Veaux College at Niagara Falls. AUTHORITIES. Bailey, Early Conn. Marriages, vi, 114. Frank F. Starr, MS. Letter, 105. Field, Centennial Address at Oct. 10, 1906. Woodruff, Geneal. Middletown, 206. Kilbourn Family, Register of Litchfield, 257. Annals, 1779-80 135 Annals, 1779-80 The College year passed without striking events. The great depreciation of the currency paralyzed all trade, and interfered so seriously with the ability to pro- vide food for Commons that the Winter vacation began on December 16 (instead of January 10), and the suc- ceeding term was very slimly attended. During the Spring vacation the memorable "Dark Day" occurred (on May 19). The. Phi Beta Kappa Society, which was for many years an important factor in College life, was granted a charter from the mother society in the College of William and Mary on December 9,* through Elisha Parmele (Harvard 1778), who had spent the first two years of his course here, and was now traveling in Virginia. After his return to his home, in Goshen, Connecticut, he there initiated into the Society, in April, 1780, four members of Yale College, with whom its actual existence began. Chauncey Goodrich (Yale 1776) succeeded William Robinson (Yale 1773) as Tutor at the opening of the College year. The Rev. Richard Salter resigned his office as Trustee at Commencement, and the Rev. Enoch Huntington (Yale 1759) was elected to his place. By this change the Cor- poration for the first time since its organization ceased to have in its membership a Harvard graduate. At Commencement Professor Daggett presented to the Corporation an earnest remonstrance on account of the inadequacy of his salary in this time of inflated prices. *See the transcript of the original record in the William and Mary College Quarterly, for April, 1896, iv, 234. 136 Yale College Sketches, Class of 1780 * Johannes Barnett, A.M. *Samuel Bostwick, A.M. * 1 799 *Stephanus Chester, A.M. * I &35 *Thomas Chester, A.M. et Harv. 1784, Tutor "1831 *Masonus Fitch Cogswell, A.M. 1788, M.D. 1818 et Soc. Med. Conn. 1810, Soc. Med. Conn. Praeses "j^o *Daniel Cooke, A.M. *i?93 *Worthington Ely, A.M. "1803 *Guilielmus Fowler *I782 *Matthaeus Griswold, A.M., Socius ex officio "1842 *Rogerus Griswold, A.M., LL.D. 1812 et Harv. 1811, e Congr., Reip. Conn. Cur. Supr. Jurid. et Vice-Gubern. et Gubern., Soc. ex off. *i8i2 *Johannes Lay, A.M. "1845 *Oliverus Lewis, et Harv. 1781, A.M. "1784 *Thomas Lord, A.M. *yneas Monson, A.M. "1852 * Jonathan Ogden Moseley, A.M., e Congr. "1838 *SamuelNott, A.M., S.T.D. 1825 "1852 *Timotheus Phelps, A.M. *i8i2 *Erastus Pixley, A.M. *i?95 *Daniel Potter *i842 * Johannes Robinson, A.M. et Harv. 1789 *Samuel Russell, A.M. *Jabez Huntington Tomlinson "1849 * Lemuel Tyler, A.M. *i8io *Guilielmus Josephus Whiting, A.M. * I 794 *Guilielmus Augustus Williams, A.M. *i834 *Josua Williams, A.M. "1836 *Guilielmus Woodbridge, A.M. et Harv. 1789 "1836 Biographical Sketches, 1780 137 JOHN BARNETT,, the second son and child of John Barnett, of that part of Windsor which is now Bloomfield, Connecticut, was born on June 26, and baptized on July I, 1753. His father removed to Nine Partners, in Duchess County, New York, in 1770. On graduation he remained in New Haven as a student of divinity, probably intending to read under the direction of Professor Naphtali Daggett; but his death occurred one month after the opening of the College year, and Mr. Barnett was charged with the duty of delivering a Latin oration at the funeral. He then continued his studies with the Rev. Jonathan Edwards, minister of the White Haven Society, and was licensed to preach by the New Haven Association on September 25, 1781. He was also appointed College Butler in January, 1781, and probably served until he left town. He continued in New Haven, supplying vacant congre- gations in the vicinity, until the spring of 1782, when he accepted a chaplaincy in the regiment of Colonel Hopkins of Amenia, New York, at Saratoga. After having offici- ated in this regiment and in the regular army for about eight months, his lungs became seriously affected by the effort of open-air preaching, and he was obliged to resign and to discontinue public speaking altogether. He gradually recovered, and at Commencement in 1783 was able to deliver the Valedictory Oration (in Latin) for the Masters. In February, 1784, he was still in New Haven, and took the oath as a freeman of the newly incorporated city. Soon after this he returned to the vicinity of his father's house, and he there married, about 1785, Tryphena, the second daughter of Philip Spencer, of North East, Duchess County, and widow of Medad Parker, of Salisbury, Con- necticut. One of her sisters had married Dr. William Wheeler, of the preceding class. Their eldest child was born in North East in February, 1787. In the early part of the year 1790 he had occasion to UNIVERSITY 138 Yale College visit Addison County, Vermont, and after preaching for a couple of months to the settlers in Middlebury, received a call to the ministry there on June 15, with an annual salary of 50. On his acceptance being assured, a Con- gregational church of twelve members was organized on September 5 ; and he was ordained as pastor on November n, the sermon being preached by the Rev. Chauncey Lee (Yale 1784). At that time there was no settled minister of any denomination north of him in the State, to the west of the Green Mountain range. He is said by his successor in the pulpit to have been sound in the faith, and an able sermonizer, but not dis- tinguished for much versatility of genius or character. After two or three years a violent controversy arose in the town about the location of the meeting-house, one result of which was the alienation of a part of the society from their minister, which led to his dismission on March 31, 1795. He continued to reside in Middlebury for nearly two years longer, during which time he preached to his former flock as a stated supply. For several years longer he preached in the northern part of the State, and from 1802 to 1813 preached as stated supply (with a yearly stipend of 60) to the "Oblong Society" in Amenia, Duchess County, New York, part of its membership being in the adjoining town of Sharon, Connecticut. His wife died in Amenia on March 9, 1812, in her 57th year. During the latter part of his life he was again so troubled with an affection of his lungs that he seldom preached, and for many years before his death he never officiated as a minister. He resided for a considerable period at the house of his younger son, in Durham, Greene County, New York, where he died on December 5, 1837, in his 85th year. His children were two sons and a daughter. He published: i. An Oration, delivered at Amenia, in Union Society, July 4, 1812 . . Poughkeepsie, 1812. 8, pp. 24. [Y. C. Biographical Sketches, 1780 139 2. Funeral Sermon on Ambrose Spencer, Junior, who died of wounds received in the battle of Lundy's Lane, 1814. The subject was a son of the Hon. Ambrose Spencer (a Justice of the Supreme Court of New York)", and a nephew of Mrs. Barnett. AUTHORITIES. Goodwin, Genealogical Notes, 320- County, 116. Pros. E. Stiles, Liter- 21. Hemenway, Vt. Quarterly Gazet- ary Diary, ii, 483, 501 ; iii, 79, 109. teer, i, 56. Johnston, Yale in the H. R. Stiles, Hist, of Windsor, 2d ed., Revolution, 344. Merrill, Semicen- ii, 60. Swift, Hist, of Middlebury, tennial Sermon at Middlebury, 17-19, 405-06. 68-69. P. H. Smith, Hist, of Duchess SAMUEL BOSTWICK, Junior, the youngest son of Samuel Bostwick, of New Milford, Connecticut, was born in that town on January 19, 1755. His mother was the youngest daughter of Ebenezer and Mehitabel Fisk, of Milford and New Milford. A brother was graduated in 1774. At the Presentation of his class for degrees, in July, 1780, he delivered a poem, on The Genius of America, the manu- script of which is preserved among President Stiles's papers in the Yale Library. Upon graduation he studied law with Daniel Everett, of New Milford, and settled in practice in his native town. He was a representative in the General Assembly in May, 1796. He died in New Milford, of the small pox, on April 3, 1799, in his 45th year. He married on June 27, 1784, Polly Trail, who died soon, leaving one daughter. He next married, on May 14, 1786, Polypheme, fourth daughter of Captain Lazarus and Hannah (Bostwick) Ruggles, of New Milford, who was born on December 4, 1763. By this marriage he had three daughters, of whom one died in infancy. AUTHORITIES. Loomis and Calhoun, Judicial and 821, 845. Pierce, Fiske and Fisk Civil Hist, of Conn., 239. Orcutt, Family, 101. Pres. Stiles, Literary Hist, of New Milford, 661, 664, 757, Diary, ii, 452. 140 Yale College STEPHEN CHESTER, the eleventh child of Colonel John Chester (Harvard 1722), of Wethersfield, Connecticut, was born on October 28, 1761. Two of his elder brothers were graduated here, in 1766 and 1769 respectively; and his youngest brother was his classmate. His life was spent in Wethersfield, where he married on November 5, 1788, Elizabeth (or Betsy), eldest daugh- ter of the Hon. Stephen Mix Mitchell (Yale 1763). He was for many years Sheriff of Hartford County, and maintained the family reputation as a gentleman of elegant bearing. He died in Wethersfield on December 6, 1835, in his 75th year. His widow died on December 22, 1852, aged 82 years. They had six daughters and six sons; the two elder sons were graduates of Yale, in 1813 and 1814 respectively, and one daughter married Dr. Lemuel W. Belden (Yale 1821). '_ AUTHORITIES. Bailey, Early Conn. Marriages, iii, N. E. Hist, and Geneal. Register, 22. Bond, Hist, of Watertown, 739. xxii, 342. Stiles, Hist, of Wethers- Goodwin, Genealogical Notes, 18. field, ii, 215, 217. Hinman, Conn. Puritan Settlers, 565. THOMAS CHESTER, the twelfth and youngest child of the Hon. John Chester, of Wethersfield, Connecticut, and brother of the last-named graduate, was born in Wethers- field on January 7, 1764. He was elected to a tutorship in College on March 12, 1783, and entered on his duties on March 24, being then only a little over 19. He resigned the office at the ensuing Commencement, and returned to Wethersfield, where he entered on the practice of law. In 1794 he was appointed Postmaster. Soon after this he removed to Hartford, and relinquish- ing most flattering prospects of distinction at the bar, Biographical Sketches, 1780 141 accepted the appointments of Clerk of the Court of Com- mon Pleas (in 1796) and of the Superior Court (in 1806), which offices he filled to the entire satisfaction of the bench and of the bar through the rest of his life. He was also Town Clerk, and for a short time Clerk of the Probate Court. He died in Hartford on October 2, 1831, in his 68th year. He married in Wethersfield, on March 26, 1795, Esther Margaret, daughter of Colonel Joseph Bull of Hartford, who died on June 22, 1844, in her 67th year. Their children were four daughters and one son. The son was graduated at Yale in 1818, and the third daughter married Professor Sylvester Hovey (Yale 1819). AUTHORITIES. Bailey, Early Conn. Marriages, iii, Hist, and Geneal. Register, xxii, 342. 26. Bond, Hist, of Watertown, 740. Pros. Ezra Stiles, Literary Diary, iii, Goodwin, Genealogical Notes, 18. 62-63, 97. H. R, Stiles, Hist, of Hinman, Conn. Puritan Settlers, 397, Wethersfield, ii, 215, 217. Trumbull, 565. Loomis and Calhoun, Judicial Memorial Hist, of Hartford County, and Civil Hist, of Conn., 537. N. E. i, 125. MASON FITCH COGSWELL, the third son of the Rev. Dr. James Cogswell (Yale 1742), and brother of Samuel Cogswell (Yale 1777), was born in Canterbury, Con- necticut, on September 28, and was baptized by his father on October 4, 1761. His mother died in his nth year, just after her husband had removed to Scotland Parish, in Windham, Connecticut, where he married in 1773 the widow of his predecessor in office, the Rev. Ebenezer Devotion (Yale 1732). The rest of the boyhood of this son was mainly spent in the family of one of his step- mother's children, who was the wife of the Hon. Samuel Huntington, of Norwich, Connecticut. With a natural gift for surgery he chose the profession of medicine, and pursued his studies under the direction of his eldest brother, Dr. James Cogswell, who was sta- 142 Yale College tioned in Stamford, Connecticut, as Examining Surgeon of Volunteers. Subsequently Dr. Cogswell settled in New York City, and thither his brother Mason followed him, in the sum- mer of 1784, and after further training in surgery in the Soldiers' Hospital, he seems to have been taken into business with his brother in the summer of 1787. In the summer of 1789 he established himself perma- nently in the city of Hartford, Connecticut, where the rest of his life was spent. As a physician he was extensively employed and much esteemed, and as a surgeon he was among the foremost in his generation. He was especially distinguished for the boldness and sound judgment of his diagnosis, and for his accuracy, neatness, and despatch as an operator. He was also the soul of courtesy and cheerfulness, a charming social companion, and on terms of intimacy with the coterie of so-called "Hartford Wits." His benevolence and public spirit were widely known, and were perhaps most conspicuously recognized in the part which he took in founding the Asylum for the Deaf and Dumb in Hartford, his interest in this direction having been first aroused by the affliction which befel one of his daughters in infancy. Many young men pursued professional study with him, and when the Medical Institution of Yale College was established in 1810 he was invited to fill the chair of Sur- gery. After he had reluctantly consented, it was ascer- tained that Dr. Nathan Smith, of Dartmouth College, was available, and Dr. Cogswell withdrew. He served as President of the State Medical Society from 1812 to 1822. He died in Hartford, after an illness of only five days, from pneumonia, on December 10, 1830, in his 7 J with earnestness; but in 1825 the approaching infirmities of age and the perceptible failure of his health induced him to resign, and he returned to Worcester to make his home in the family of a nephew of his wife, who had been adopted and educated as his own son. But immediately after his arrival this nephew died sud- denly (in September, 1825), and Dr. Austin was involved Biographical Sketches, 1783 251 in perplexing business cares, for which he was physically unequal. In consequence he sank rapidly into a state of incurable melancholy and religious depression, in which he continued until relieved by death. In March, 1827, he went to Northampton, Massachusetts, to spend a year with a brother of Mrs. Austin, and thence he removed in the summer of 1828 to the house of a nephew of Mrs. Austin, the Rev. Samuel H. Riddel (Yale 1823), of Glastonbury, Connecticut, where he died on December 4, 1830, in his / ist year. The sermon preached at his funeral by the Rev. Dr. Caleb J. Tenney, of Wethersfield, was afterwards pub- lished, and contains a discriminating sketch of his life and character. He married on September 14, 1788, Jerusha, third daughter of the Rev. Dr. Samuel Hopkins (Yale 1749), of Hadley, Massachusetts, who died in Glastonbury on March 28, 1841, in her 79 th year. They had no children. As a preacher Dr. Austin was ranked among the most able, eloquent, and popular divines of his day. He was regarded by all who knew him as an eminently spiritual and godly man, and was forward and active in all benevo- lent enterprises. He was very instrumental in originating the General Association of Massachusetts Ministers, and took a leading part in the formation of the Massachu- setts Missionary Society, in which he held the offices of Trustee and Secretary until he left the State. He published: 1. A Funeral Oration, on Mr. David Ripley, of Windham; a Junior Sophister in Yale-College: who died June nth, 1782. /Etat. 22. Pronounced in the College Chapel, July nth, 1782. New-Haven, 1783. sq. 8, pp. 12. [A. A. S. This includes a poetical Elegy. 2. The nature and happiness of that habitual preparation for death, which the uncertainty of life demands, illustrated and urged. A Funeral Sermon [from Rev. xvi, 15], delivered at Exe- 252 Yale College ter [Connecticut], on the tenth of April, seventeen hundred and ninety, as a Religious improvement of a singular and very afflic- tive Providence, which removed by Death two Young Persons, Benjamin Smith, Jun. and Mary Smith, a Son and Daughter of Major Benjamin Smith, of Exeter, who both died of a Consump- tion on the Morning of April 8th, 1790. Exeter, 1790. 8, pp. 29. [A. A. S. And over Theol. Sem. 3. Disinterested Love, the Ornament of the Christian, and the Duty of Man. A Sermon [from Phil, ii, 4], Delivered at New- York, June 5, 1790. . . New- York, 1791. 8, pp. 32. [A. A. S. Brit. Mus. Harv. U. S. Y. C. 4. The Manner in which the Gospel should be heard, and the importance of hearing it rightly, illustrated and urged, in a Dis- course [from Luke viii, 18], preached in Worcester, on the Lord's Day immediately succeeding his Installation, September 29th, 1790. Worcester, 1791. 8, pp. 32. [A. A. S. B. Ath. Brit. Mus. Y. C. 5. The most promising life, and death, closely connected. A Sermon [from John xix, 41], delivered at Worcester, November 4th, 1792, the Sabbath subsequent to the death and interment of Miss Hannah Blair, who died of the small pox. Worcester, 1794. 8, pp. 21. [A. A. S. Brit. Mus. Brown Univ. Harv. 6. A Sermon [from Judges iii, 9-11], delivered at Worcester, on the Day of Public Thanksgiving, . .December I5th, 1796. Worces- ter, 1797. 8, pp. 24. [A. A. S. A. C. A. B. Ath. Bowdoin Coll. Brit. Mus. Brown Univ. Harv. U. S. U. T. S. Y. C. 7. The Nature, Extent, and Importance, of the Duty, binding on the Christian Minister, divinely commissioned to bear the Warnings of God to Men: illustrated in a Sermon [from Ezekiel xxxiii, 7], preached in Fitchburgh, Massachusetts, on the 27th day of Septem- ber, 1797, at the Ordination of the Rev. Samuel Worcester; and again, by particular request, in Granville, in the State of New- York, on the 4th day of the following October, at the Ordination of the Rev. Nathaniel Hall. . . Worcester, 1798. 8, pp. 32. [A. A. S. B. Ath. Brown Univ. Harv. Y. C. 8. An Oration, pronounced at Worcester, on the Fourth of July, 1798. . . Worcester, 1798. 8, pp. 38. [A. A. S. B. Ath. B. Publ. Brit. Mus. Brown Univ. Harv. M. H. S. U. S. Y. C. Biographical Sketches, 1783 253 9. The Evangelical Preacher, a faithful, and an affectionate Preacher of Christ. A Sermon [from 2 Cor. iv, 5], delivered at the Ordination of the Rev. Leonard Worcester, . . in Peacham, Vermont, October 3Oth, 1799. Peacham, 1800. 8, pp. 32. [A. A. S. Brit. Mus. Brown Univ. Harv. The sermon occupies pp. 1-27. Mr. Worcester had long been a valued parishioner of Dr. Austin. 10. The diffusion of correct knowledge of the true God, a lead- ing object of the Christian Ministry. A Sermon [from Acts xvii, 23], delivered at the Tabernacle in Salem, April 20, 1803, on the occasion of the Installation of the Reverend Samuel Worcester into the pastoral office. . . Salem, 1803. 8, pp. 27. [A. A. S. B. Ath. Brit. Mus. Brown Univ. Harv. U. S. Y. C. 11. Christians bound to spread the Gospel among all descriptions of their fellow men: A Sermon [from Rom. i, 14-15], preached before the Massachusetts Missionary Society, at their Annual Meet- ing in Boston, May 24th, 1803. . . . Salem, 1803. 8, pp. 32. [A. A. S. B. Ath. Brit. Mus. Brown Univ. M. H. S. N. Y. H. S. U. S. Y. C. The sermon occupies pp. 1-24. 12. An Examination of the Representations and Reasonings con- tained in Seven Sermons, lately published, by the Rev. Daniel Mer- rill, on the Mode and Subjects of Baptism. . . . Worcester, 1805. 16, pp. 108. [A. A. S. B. Ath. Bowdoin Coll. Brown Univ. M. H. S. U. S. Y. C. 13. Mr. Merrill's Defensive Armor taken from him: or a reply to his Twelve Letters to the Author, just from the press, on the Mode and Subjects of Baptism. . . Worcester, 1806. 16, pp. 60. [Andover Theol. Sem. B. Ath. Brown Univ. R. I. Hist. Soc. Y. C. 14. A view of the Economy of the Church of God, as it existed primitively, under the Abrahamic Dispensation and the Sinai Law ; and as it is perpetuated under the more luminous Dispensation of the Gospel ; particularly in regard to the Covenants. Worcester, 1807. 8, pp. 328. [A. A. S. Andover Theol. Sem. U. S. Y. C. This volume probably grew out of the controversy which pro- duced the two publications last preceding. 254 Yale College 15. The incomparable excellency of religion as the life of man. A Sermon [from Deut. xxxii, 47]. Catskill, 1808. 8, pp. 17. [A. A. S. B. Ath. Brit. Mus. Brown Univ. Han'. U. S. Y. C. Extracted from The Columbian Preacher, vol. i, Catskill, 1808; and republished in E. Smalley, The Worcester Pulpit, 1851, pp. 125-45- 16. A Sermon [from 2 Chron. vii, 10], preached at the Dedica- tion of the new Meetinghouse in Hadley, November 3, 1808. Worcester, 1808. 8, pp. 19. [A. A. S. Brit. Mus. Brown Univ. U. S. Y. C. The aged pastor of the Hadley Church was the father of the preacher's wife. 17. The Gospel Minister commissioned by Christ. A Sermon [from John xx, 21], preached at the Ordination of Rev. John Mil- ton Whiton, in Antrim, September 28, 1808. Amherst, N. H., 1809. 8, pp. 28. [A. A. S. Brit. Mus. Brown Univ. Harv. M. H. S. The sermon occupies pp. 1-20. 18. Freedom in Preaching the Gospel, the privilege and the Duty of its Ministers. A Sermon [from Eph. vi, 19-20] preached at the Ordination of the Rev. Warren Fay, to the pastoral care of the church and congregation in Brimfield; November 3 [error for 2], 1808. Worcester, 1809. 8, pp. 35. [A. A. S. Brit. Mus. Brown Univ. Y. C. The sermon occupies pp. 1-25. 19. A Sermon [from Isaiah iii, 9], preached at Worcester, on the Annual Fast, April n, 1811. Worcester, 1811. 8, pp. 32. [A. A. S. A. C. A. B. Ath. Brit. Mus. Brown Univ. Harv. U. T. S. Y. C. Including a scathing arraignment of ex-President Jefferson. 20. The personal insufficiency, and the resource, of the Gospel Minister: A Sermon [from 2 Cor. ii, 16], preached at the Ordi- nation of the Rev. John Nelson, over the church and religious society in Leicester (Mass.) March 4, 1812. Worcester, 1812. 8, pp. 28. [A. A. S. B. Ath. Brit. Mus. -Brown Univ. Harv. Y. C. The sermon occupies only pp. 1-23. Biographical Sketches, 1783 255 21. A Sermon [from Jer. xviii, 7-8], preached in Worcester, Massachusetts, on the occasion of the Special Fast, July 23d. 1812. Published from the press, by the desire of some who heard it, and liked it, by the desire of some who heard it, and did not like it, and by the desire of others who did not hear it, but imagine they should not have liked it, if they had. Worcester, 1812. 8, pp. 28. [A. A. S. A. C. A. B. Ath. Bowdoin Coll. Brit. Mus. Brown Univ. C. H. S. M. H. S. U. S. U. T. S. Y. C. 22. The Apology of Patriots, or the heresy of the friends of the Washington and peace policy defended. A Sermon [from Acts xxiv, 14], preached in Worcester, Massachusetts, on the day of the National Fast, Thursday, August 20, 1812 . . Worcester, 1812. 8, pp. 32. [A. A. S. A. C. A. B. Ath. B. Publ. Bowdoin Coll. Brit. Mus. Brown Univ. C. H. S. Harv. Y. C. The word Apology in the title is used in the sense of Defence; and the sermon includes a personal defence of the preacher's con- duct, of autobiographical interest. 23. Christ crucified, the power of God and the wisdom of God, the grand subject of correct preaching. A Sermon [from I Cor. i, 23-24], delivered at the Ordination of the Rev. Gamaliel S. Olds, to the pastoral care of the Congregational Church and Society in Greenfield, (Mass.) .. Nov. 19, 1813. Greenfield, 1814. 8, pp. 24. [A. A. S. Brown Univ. Y. C. 24. An Inaugural Address, pronounced in Burlington, July 26, 1815. Burlington, 1815. 8, pp. 18. [A. A. S. Brit. Mus. Harv. R. I. Hist. Soc. 25. Religion the glory of a community. A Sermon [from Isaiah Ix, 19], preached on the day of General Election, at Mont- pelier, October 10, 1816, before the Honorable Legislature of Ver- mont. Montpelier, 1816. 8, pp. 27. [A. A. S. Brit. Mus. Harv. U. S. Y. C. 26. Protest against Proceedings of the First Church in Worces- ter. Worcester, 1821. 8, pp. 16. [A. A. S. B. Ath. Brit. Mus. Brown Univ. Harv. Y. C. With reference to the treatment of certain cases of discipline by the Church. 27. An Oration, pronounced at Newport, Rhode-Island, July 4, 1822. . . Newport, 1822. 8, pp. 16. [A. A. S. Brown Univ. 256 Yale College 28. The Nature, Obligations, and Benefits of the Publick Wor- ship of God. A Discourse [from Ps. c, 4-5] delivered at the Dedication of the New Meeting-House erected for the use of the Calvinist Church .., in Worcester, Mass. October 13, 1823. Worcester. 8, pp. 23. [A.A.S. Brit. Mus. Brown Univ. N. Y. H. S. Y. C. 29. Paul, an Example and Proof of the peculiar excellence and usefulness of the Missionary character. A Discourse [from Gal. i, 15-16], delivered in Hartford, Conn., Sept. 15, 1824, at the Fifteenth Annual Meeting of the American Board of Commission- ers for Foreign Missions. Boston, 1824. 8, pp. 30. [A. A. S. Andover Theol. Sem. B. Ath. B. Publ. Brit. Mus. Brown Univ. Harv. Y. C. 30. An Address, pronounced in Worcester, (Mass.) on the Fourth of July, 1825 . . Worcester. 8, pp. 23. [A. A. S. Brit. Mus. Brown Univ. Harv. Y. C. 31. Dissertations upon several fundamental articles of Christian Theology. Worcester [1826]. 8, pp. 260. [U. S. Y. C. Separate sermons from his pen were also published in various collections, as : True Obedience to the Gospel, harmonious and entire. From James ii, 10. In Sermons on Important Subjects, Hartford, 1797. 8, pp. 347-64- God glorified in building up Zion. From Ps. cii, 16. In The Columbian Preacher, vol. i, Catskill, 1808, pp. 27-45. No. 15 in the preceding list also appeared in this volume. The personal experience of saving grace, a powerful testimony to the truth of divine revelation, from i John, v, 10. In E. Smalley's The Worcester Pulpit, Boston, 1851, pp. 147-72. He performed a valued service in editing, in eight volumes, at Worcester, in 1808-09, the works of President Edwards, to which he prefixed Memoirs of Mr. Edwards's Life (99 pp.) and various annotations. He also published at Worcester in 1803 an American edition of the Rev. Thomas Haweis's Impartial and Succinct His- tory of the Revival and Progress of the Church of Christ. Biographical Sketches, 1783 257 AUTHORITIES. American Quarterly Register, ix, 98-172. Sprague, Annals of the 201-20. Caulkins, Hist, of Norwich, Amer. Pulpit, ii, 221-28; Life of J. 542. Button, Hist, of the North Morse, 9. Pres. Stiles, Literary Church in New Haven, 77-83. Good-" Diary, ii, 522, 545 ; iii, 30, 71, 158, win, Genealogical Notes, 112, 115. 246-48, 286, 331, 343, 355, 374, 377-79- Hemenway, Vt. Hist. Magazine, i, Wheeler, Hist. Discourse at the Semi- 525. Lincoln, Hist, of Worcester, Centennial Anniversary of the Univ. 157-62. Smalley, Worcester Pulpit, of Vermont, 21-23. JEHU BRAINERD, the youngest of eight children of Phineas and Jerusha (Towner) Brainerd, of Higganum Parish, in Haddam, Connecticut, and grandson of Elijah and Margaret Brainerd, of Haddam, was born on November 5, 1757. He remained in New Haven after graduation, and mar- ried Abigail Mary, only daughter of Richard Woodhull (Yale 1752). He became the Sheriff of New Haven County about 1795, and remained in office until 1804. He died in New Haven on November 28, 1815, aged 58 years. His wife died on March 5, 1804, aged 41 years, leaving no children. He next married, on June 10, 1810, Harriet Smith, of Shelter Island, who returned with her two daughters to Sag Harbor, Long Island, after his death, and died between 1826 and 1833. AUTHORITIES. Field, Brainerd Genealogy, 219, 223. N. Y. Geneal. Record, iv, 57. DANIEL BROWN, son of Captain Jacob and Anne Brown, and a nephew of Colonel John Brown (Yale 1771), was born in Tyringham, Berkshire County, Massa- chusetts, and on January 20 [or 21], 1764. His father accompanied Arnold on his expedition against Quebec, and died there of small-pox in 1776. While in college the 17 258 Yale College son's residence was in Sandisfield, in the immediate vicinity of Tyringham. He settled in the practice of law in Camden, South Carolina, in 1788, and there married Mary Polk, who survived him, without children. He died in Charleston, South Carolina, on December I, 1802, in his 39th year, being taken ill while on his return to Camden from a visit to his friends in New England. His will, made the day before his death, and written by his physician, the well-known Dr. David Ramsay, disposes of an estate valued at upwards of twelve thousand dollars the most of it being in slaves. AUTHORITIES. Conn. Courant, March 2, 1803. MS. Letter, June 23, 1905. Tyring- Kirkland and Kennedy, Historic ham Vital Records, 17. Camden, i, 341, 393. T. J. Kirkland, MATTHEW COLE was born in Kensington Parish, in Farmington, Connecticut, on November 13, 1760, and was baptized three days later, being the elder son of Captain Matthew Cole, of Kensington, and grandson of Matthew and Ruth (Hubbard) Cole, of Berlin. His mother was Rhoda, daughter of Daniel and Mercy (Hubbard) Smith. He became a physician, and settled in Chittenden County, Vermont: at first in Richmond, where he was also Representative in 1795, and from 1790 to 1796 Judge of Probate, and later in Burlington, where he died on January i, 1810, in his 5Oth year. He was probably never married. His very small estate (appraised at about $66) was divided between three nieces. AUTHORITIES. Julius Gay, MS. Letter, May 29, Letters, July, 1905. Hemenway, Vt. 1905. Professor J. E. Goodrich, MS. Hist. Gazetteer, i, 504, 844-45. Biographical Sketches, 1783 259 ABISHAI COLTON, the second son and child of George Colton, of Longmeadow, Massachusetts, and grandson of George and Experience (Burt) Colton, of Brimfield. and Longmeadow, was born on May 4, 1761. His mother was Sarah, only daughter of Ephraim and Sarah (Burt) Colton, of Longmeadow^, and on two separate lines the third cousin of her husband. He studied theology, and in 1788-89 he was preaching to the newly organized church in Springfield, Windsor County, Vermont, but declined a call to settle. On May 20, 1892, he married Abigail, second daughter of William Denison, a prominent citizen of Stratford, Orange County, Vermont, and originally from North Stonington, Connecticut. She was born on November 4, 1766. On October 15, 1793, he was ordained and installed as the first pastor of the Congregational Church in the town of Stoddard, in southwestern New Hampshire; but after a brief service he was dismissed on September 9, Soon after this he took charge of the Congregational Church in Sandgate, Bennington County, Vermont, to which he ministered for ten years. His residence con- tinued in Sandgate, where he died on January 12, 1823, in the 62d year of his age. His children were six sons and one daughter. AUTHORITIES. Baldwin and Cliff, Descendants of Springfield, Vt, 73, 81-82. Long- George Denison, 114-15. Hazen, Min- meadow Centennial, Appendix, 40, istry and Churches of N. Hampshire, 45-46. 29, 40. Hubbard and Dartt, Hist, of THADDEUS COOK, younger son of Colonel Thaddeus Cook, of Wallingford, Connecticut, and grandson of Captain Samuel and Hannah (Lewis) Cook, of Cheshire and New Haven, was born on May 3, 1764. His mother 260 Yale College was Sarah, eldest daughter of Colonel Benjamin Hall, of Cheshire, and sister of Benjamin Hall (Yale 1754). He lived and died in his native town, his life ending on October 3, 1799, in his 36th year. The stone placed over his grave describes him as "a Gentleman of most aimiable Qualities of Mind, possessed of Benevolence, Generosity & Sincerity in an uncommon Degree." AUTHORITIES. Davis, Hist, of Wallingford, 681. DAVID DAGGETT was born in Attleborough, Massachu- setts, on December 31, 1764, the sixth of nine children of Thomas and Sibulah (Stanley) Daggett, and grandson of Thomas and Elizabeth (Blake) Daggett, of Attleborough. His father was a first cousin of President Naphtali Daggett, of Yale. He was induced to come to this College by the example of his classmate and early friend, Elijah Leonard, and by the encouragement of the Rev. Professor Samuel Wales, a native of the same vicinity ; and he was admitted at the opening of the Junior year in 1781. After graduation he supported himself by teaching in a private school, and also in the Hopkins Grammar School. Meantime he pursued the study of law with the Hon. Charles Chauncey, and in January, 1786, was admitted to the bar and began practice. He held the office of College Butler for a year or more from March, 1785. He was elected to a Tutorship in April, 1786, but declined the offer. He was early called into political service. In October, 1791, he was chosen to represent New Haven in the General Assembly, and was reflected at every session until chosen to the Council, or Upper House, in 1797; he was also Speaker in the six Sessions from May, 1794. He declined a nomination to Congress (to fill a vacancy) in 1797. Biographical Sketches, 1783 261 He retained his seat in the Council until his resignation in 1804, and in 1805 he was again a member of the Lower House. In 1809 he returned to the Upper House, being then as also during the last year of his former period of service a member ex-officio of the Yale Corporation. In June, 1811, he was appointed State's Attorney for New Haven County, and in 1812 he was a Presidential Elector. He continued in the State Senate until chosen a Senator of the United States (as a Federalist) in May, 1813, when he resigned also his office as State's Attorney. At the close of his senatorial term in 1819, he returned to his extensive practice of law. In November, 1824, he became an associate instructor in the Law School now made part of Yale College, and in 1826 he was appointed to the new Kent Professorship of Law, which he held until 1848. In May, 1826, he was chosen an Associate Justice of the Superior Court of the State, by a Legislature in which a decided majority was opposed to him in politics; and after six years' service, he was made Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, though not (as was the usual custom) the Senior Judge in office. He performed the duties of that station until disqualified by law on arriving at the age of seventy years (December 31, 1834). He was Mayor of the City of New Haven from June, 1828, to June, 1830. In 1826 he received from Yale College the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws. He died in New Haven, after ten days' illness, on April 12, 1851, in his 8/th year. The Address at his funeral by his pastor, the Rev. Dr. S. W. S. Dutton, was subsequently published; and contains a discriminating tribute to his memory. Copies of his portrait and of a bust in plaster are in possession of the Yale Law School; an engraving from the portrait is given in volume i*of the Green Bag. 262 Yale College Judge Daggett married, on September 10, 1786, Wealthy Ann, second daughter of Dr. Eneas Munson (Yale 1753), of New Haven, a person of very marked individuality and of strong religious character, who died on July 9, 1839, in her 73d year. He next married Mary, daughter of Captain Major and Susanna (Mansfield) Lines, on May 4, 1840. She survived him, and died in New Haven on December 26, 1854, in her 67th year. By his first marriage he had nineteen children, of whom only two daughters and three sons survived infancy: of these the elder daughter married the Rev. Dr. Sereno E. D wight (Yale 1803), and the sons were graduated at Yale in 1807, 1808, and 1828, respectively. Judge Daggett had as an advocate no superior at the bar of the State ; and the same qualities, of quick insight, well-balanced judgment, and strong common sense, which served him so well at the bar, gave distinction also to his career in the Senate and on the bench ; while his finished courtesy, his wit and humor, and his fund of anecdote made him equally brilliant in social life. He published: 1. An Oration, pronounced in the Brick Meeting-House, in the City of New-Haven, on the fourth of July, A.D. 1787. . . New- Haven. 8, pp. 24. [A. A. S. B. Ath. Harv. M. H. S. N. Y. Publ. Libr. U. S. Y. C. 2. Sketches of the Life of Joseph Mountain, a Negro, who was executed at New-Haven, on the 2Oth Day of October, 1790, for a Rape . . New-Haven. 8. pp. 20. [C. H. S. Y. C. This anonymous compilation was prepared by Mr. Daggett. 3. An Oration on the Death of Mr. -William Heyliger, of St. Croix, in the West-Indies, who died in New-York, January, 1794, aged 23 years. Pronounced before Hiram-Lodge, in New-Haven, in Connecticut, of which the deceased was a member, on the 2ist of November, 1794. New-Haven. 8, pp. 10. [B. Ath. 4. Sun-Beams may be extracted from Cucumbers, but the process is tedious. An Oration, pronounced on the Fourth of July, 1799, Biographical Sketches, 1783 263 at the request of the citizens of New-Haven. New-Haven, 1799. 8, pp. 28. [A. A. S. Brit Mus. Y. C. The same. Second Edition. New-Haven, 1799. 8, pp. 28. [A. A. S. B. Ath. /. Carter Brown Libr. M. H. S. N. Y. H. S. U. S. A whimsical condemnation of theorists, with a political bearing. 5. Three Letters to Abraham Bishop, Esquire, containing some Strictures on his Oration, pronounced, in the White Meeting-House, on the evening preceding the Public Commencement, September 1800, with some Remarks on his conduct at the late election. By Connecticutensis. Hartford, 1800. 8, pp. 36. [C. H. S. M. H. S. Y. C. A savage attack on Abraham Bishop (Yale 1778), the author- ship of which was not generally suspected at the time. 6. Facts are stubborn things, or Nine plain Questions to the People of Connecticut, with a brief reply to each. By Simon Hold-Fast. Hartford, 1803. 8, pp. 23. [B. Ath. N. Y. H. S. U. S. Y. C. An anonymous political tract. 7. Count the Cost. An Address to the People of Connecticut, on sundry political subjects, and particularly on the proposition for a new Constitution. Hartford, 1804. 8, pp. 21, ii. [B. Ath. M. H. S. Y. C. Anonymous. 8. Argument, before the General Assembly of the State of Con- necticut, October, 1804, in the case of Certain Justices of the Peace. To which is prefixed, a brief history of the proceedings of the Assembly. New-Haven, 1804. 8, pp. 30. [A. A. S. B. Ath. B. Publ. Brit. Mus. M. H. S. N. Y. H. S. U. S. Y. C. A speech by Mr. Daggett, as one of the managers of the prosecu- tion of certain minor officials who had taken part in a political meeting which adopted resolutions affirming that Connecticut was without a Constitution. 9. Steady Habits Vindicated: or a Serious Remonstrance to the People of Connecticut, against changing their government. By a Friend to the public welfare. Hartford, 1805. 8, pp. 20. [B. Ath. Y. C. An anonymous argument, on the lines of his former writings, against the movement for a new constitution. 264 Yale College 10. An Eulogium, commemorative of the exalted virtues of His Excellency Roger Griswold, late Governour of this State. Written and delivered at the request of the General Assembly, on the 2pth of October, 1812 . . New-Haven, 1812. 8, pp. 24. [A. A. S. B. Ath. B. Publ. Brit. Mus. Brown Univ. Harv. M. H. S. U. S. Y. C. An Argument against Sumptuary Laws, which he delivered on taking his Master's degree at the College Commencement in 1786, was printed in the New-Haven Gazette for October 12, 1786. He also published the following article, dated March 12, 1800, in volume I of the Memoirs of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences, New-Haven, 1810, pp. 131-34: A brief Account of a Trial at Law, in which the influence of Water, raised by a Mill-Dam. on the health of the inhabitants in the neighborhood, was considered. His voluminous correspondence, that is, the letters received by him, were given to the Yale Library by his family in 1886, together with a few manuscripts of his law lectures, etc. In 1887 a few Selections from these letters, 1786-1802, were printed in the Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society for April, pp. 367-78. AUTHORITIES. Doggett-Daggett Family, 124, 153- Diary, iii, 152, 213, 269, 421, 451, 517, 56. Green Bag, i, 239-41. Hist, of 545, 562. Tuttle Family, 207. Wood, Litchfield County, 1881, 27. Mans- Hist, of the Administration of John field Genealogy, 60. Munson Record, Adams, 380-84. ii, 769, 800-02. Pres. Stiles, Literary EBENEZER DIMON, the only son of Colonel David and Ann Dimon, of Fairfield, Connecticut, and grandson of Ebenezer Dimon (Yale 1728), of Fairfield, was baptized on November 6, 1763. His mother was a daughter of David and Sarah (Gold) Allen, of Fairfield. His father died of fever in the army, in September, 1777; and two years later the homestead was burnt by the British and the family reduced by their losses to indigence. For some reason he did not proceed to a degree with his class, but was graduated a year later. Biographical Sketches, 1783 265 He settled on his paternal estate, and built a house in place of the one destroyed in 1779. On July 23, 1800, he married Mary Sherwood, eldest child of Captain Elisha and Abigail (Dolbeare) Hinman, of New London, Connecticut. He was sheriff of Fairfield County from October, 1806, to June, 1819. He was a gentleman of extensive reading and an interesting talker, speaking French with facility. He was one of the founders and chief supporters of the Fairfield Academy and the Public Library connected with it. He died in Fairfield on December 17, 1841, aged 78 years, leaving an estate of about $60,000. His widow died in Fairfield on May 25, 1852, in her 75th year. Their children were four daughters and five sons. The eldest daughter married the Hon. Thomas B. Osborne (Yale 1817). The second son was a member of the class of 1828, Yale College, but did not graduate. The third son was graduated at the United States Military Academy in 1832, the fourth at Yale in 1835, and the youngest at Williams College in 1840. AUTHORITIES. Bailey, Early Conn. Marriages, ii, man, Genealogy of the Puritans, 821. 37. Dimond Family, 34, 51-53. Hin- Pres. Stiles, Literary Diary, iii, 136. JOHN FELLOWS, son of Ezra and Charity Fellows, of Sheffield, Massachusetts, was born in that town on November 17, 1759. He was prepared for College by the Rev. Ammi R. Robbins (Yale 1760), of Norfolk, Connecticut. In 1775 he enlisted for three months' service in the regiment of minute-men commanded by his uncle, General John Fellows, of Sheffield. As he had another uncle living in Hanover, New Hamp- shire, he took a dismission to Dartmouth College, in 266 Vale College June of his Freshman year ; but he returned to Yale two years later. In 1795 he was established as a bookseller and publisher in New York City, and during the next year he attended to the reprinting in America of some of the political tracts of Joel Barlow. He had already avowed deistical principles; and when Thomas Paine returned to his native country in 1803 Colonel Fellows (as he came to be called) became intimate with him and with his circle of friends. Later in life he followed the business of an auctioneer, and was subsequently a constable in the city courts. In 1836-38 he assisted in editing the first series of the liter- ary and scientific weekly called the Beacon. In political matters he was a disciple of Jefferson. He died in New York City, on January 3, 1844, aged 84 years. The following is an extract from a speech by Walt Whitman, in 1877, in commemoration of Thomas Paine: Some thirty-five years ago, in New York city, at Tammany hall, of which place I was then a frequenter, I happened to become quite well acquainted with Thomas Paine's perhaps most intimate chum, and certainly his later years' very frequent companion, a remark- ably fine old man, Col. Fellows, who may yet be remember'd by some stray relics of that period and spot. If you will allow me, I will first give a description of the Colonel himself. He was tall, of military bearing, aged about 78 I should think, hair white as snow, clean-shaved on the face, dress'd very neatly, a tail-coat of blue cloth with metal buttons, buff vest, pantaloons of drab color, and his neck, breast and wrists showing the whitest linen. Under all circumstances, fine manners; a good but not profuse talker, his wits still fully about him, balanced and live and undimm'd as ever. He kept pretty fair health, though so old. For employ- ment for he was poor he had a post as constable of some of the upper courts. I used to think him very picturesque on the fringe of a crowd holding a tall staff, with his erect form, and his superb, bare, thick-hair'd, closely cropt white head. The judges and young lawyers, with whom he was ever a favorite, and the Biographical Sketches, 1783 267 subject of respect, used to call him. Aristides. It was the general opinion among them that if manly rectitude and the instincts of absolute justice remain'd vital anywhere about New York City Hall, or Tammany, they wereL,to be found in Col. Fellows. He liked young men, and enjoy'd to leisurely talk with them over a social glass of toddy, after his day's work, (he on these occasions never drank but one glass,) and it was at reiterated meetings of this kind in old Tammany's back parlor of those days, that he told me much about Thomas Paine. He published: 1. The Character and Doctrines of Jesus Christ. From the Author's Manuscript To which is added, Reasons for Scepticism in Revealed Religion. By John Hollis. Also, the History of the Man after God's own heart. New York. Printed for J. Fellows. 1796. 12, pp. 113. [N. Y. H. S. Anonymous. The part contributed by Fellows occupies pp. 1-42, and is thoroughly sceptical in its doctrine. 2. The Theophilanthropist ; containing Critical, Moral, Theo- logical and Literary Essays, in monthly numbers. By a Society. New- York, 1810. 8, pp. 384 + i pi. [B. Ath. Brit. Mus. L. I. Hist. Soc. Y. C. Published in nine monthly numbers, by a deistical Society, and edited by Colonel Fellows. 3. The Posthumous Works of Junius. To which is prefixed, an Inquiry respecting the Author: also, a Sketch of the Life of John Home Tooke. New- York, 1829. 8, pp. 450 + 3 pi. [B. Ath. Brit. Mus. N. Y. H. S. N. Y. Soc. Libr. U. S. Y. C. An anonymous compilation, the prefatory matter occupying 304 pages. The object is to prove that Home Tooke was Junius. 4. An Exposition of the Mysteries, or Religious Dogmas and Customs of the ancient Egyptians, Pythagoreans, and Druids. Also : an Inquiry into the origin, history, and purport of Free- masonry. New-York, 1835. 8, pp. xvi, 403 + 8. [Andover Theol. Sem. B. Ath. Brit. Mus. Haru. N. Y. H. S. N. Y. Soc. Libr. Y. C. The author does not appear to be a mason, and criticizes the system freely. 268 Yale College Another edition, with varied title, was published in London in 1860. 5. The Veil removed ; or Reflections on David Humphreys' Essay on the Life of Israel Putnam. Also, Notices of Oliver W. B. Pea- body's Life of the Same, S. Swett's Sketch of Bunker Hill Battle, etc., etc. New York, 1843. I2 > PP- 231. [B. Ath. B. Publ. Brit. Mus. Harv. L. I. Hist. Soc. N. Y. H. S. N. Y. Soc. Libr. U. S. Y. C. The writer believes Humphreys' Life of Putnam to be largely romance. He had already published an article taking the same ground, in The Knickerbocker Magazine for August, 1841, pp. 91- 106, with the title : 'Old Put' at the bar : or some Reflections on Humphreys' Life of Major-General Putnam. AUTHORITIES. American Almanac for 1845, 316. Sailors in the Revolution, v, 595. Conn. Journal, Aug. 28, 1799. Con- Prcs. Stiles, Literary Diary, ii, 440; way, Life of Paine, ii, 352-53, 359, iii, 24. Walt Whitman, Specimen 364, 398, 423. Mass. Soldiers and Days and Collect, 96. ANDREW FOWLER was born in Guilford, Connecticut, on June 10, 1760, the eldest child of Andrew and Martha (Stone) Fowler, and grandson of Benjamin and Andrea (Morgan) Fowler, of Guilford. Though of Congrega- tional parentage, he conformed to the Episcopal Church after his admission to college, and during the last two years of his undergraduate course he served regularly as a lay-reader in the churches of New Haven and West Haven. For three or four years after graduation he had charge of a school in New Rochelle, Westchester County, New York, and during his residence in that county did much in the capacity of a lay-reader to re-establish the Episcopal congregations dispersed by the Revolution. On October 4, 1787, he married Mary, elder daughter of John and Lucy (Smith) Doty, of Cold Spring Harbor, Long Island. Biographical Sketches, 1783 269 He was ordained Deacon by Bishop Provoost at Staten Island on June 21, 1789, and Priest by the same prelate on June 1 8, 1790, at Eastchester. His first rectorship was "on Long Island, where he had charge of three united parishes, in Brookhaven, Hunt- ington, and Oyster Bay ; but after only two years' service he was recalled to Westchester County, where he was instituted Rector of St. Peter's Church in Cortlandt Par- ish, now Peekskill, on August 7, 1792, on 70 salary. He resigned this charge late in the year 1794, and was next for a short time in charge of St. George's Church in Bedford in the same county. Thence he went to New Jersey, where he spent about ten years in two successive rectorships, the first in St. Peter's Church, Spotswood, near New Brunswick, and the second (1799-1806) in Christ Church, Shrewsbury, con- jointly with Christ Church, Middletown. In April, 1806, he began a six months' engagement with Grace Church, Jamaica, Long Island; and in 1807 removed to Charleston, South Carolina, where he was elected Rector of St. Bartholomew's Parish on Febru- ary 3. He resigned this post in 1811, and then spent many years in very useful labor as a missionary among desti- tute parishes in that diocese, and in the establishment of new stations. During a part of the time he also con- ducted an Academy for youth of both sexes. He was permanently disabled by infirmity about 1843, and in 1847 blindness was added to his other trials. He died in Charleston on December 29, 1850, in his 9ist year. His wife died of yellow fever, after a week's illness, at Sullivan's Island, South Carolina, on July 27, 1817, in her 53d year. By her he had four daughters and one son. The son died soon after graduation at Yale in 1822. His second wife, Mrs. Henrietta Fowler, died on Feb- ruary 14, 1854. 270 Yale College Mr. Fowler's life . was one of almost unexampled industry, while he was a pattern of cheerfulness in narrow circumstances, of meekness, and of resignation. He published: 1. A Short Introduction to Christian Knowledge, designed par- ticularly for the use of the Protestant Episcopal Church at East- Woods, Oysterbay. New-York, 1792. 16, pp. 31. [Harv. U. S. 2. Hymns. New York, 1793. 12, pp. v, 51. [Harv. 3. A Sketch of the life and death of Miss Hannah Dyckman, King's Ferry. Danbury, 1795. 12, pp. 36. [N. Y. H. S. The Sketch occupies only three pages, and the rest is made up of Extracts, both in prose and poetry, mainly of a religious nature, in view of death, but partly miscellaneous. 4. The Lessons of the Protestant Episcopal Church, in the United States of America; . . with an Explanation of all the Sundays and Principal Holy-Days throughout the year. New-Brunswick, N. J., 1798. 12, pp. 501. [R. I. Hist. Soc. The same. Second Edition. Charleston, 1838. 12, pp. 552. [Y. C. 5. A Form of Morning and Evening Prayer. Compiled for the Use of an Academy. New- York, 1802. 12, pp. 24. [N. Y. H. S. The Form of Prayer occupies nine pages ; the remaining pages are occupied with appropriate Hymns. 6. An Exposition of the Book of Common Prayer, . . according to the use of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America. Burlington, N. J., 1805. 8, pp. 314, vi, 8. [U. S. The Same. Second Edition. New-York, 1807. 12, pp. xii, 347- [V- T. S. Same. 3d Edition. Middletown, 1826. 16, pp. 382. [U. S. 7. Short Instructions for those who are preparing for Confirma- tion. Charleston, 1813. 16, pp. 32. [U.S. 8. A Sermon, upon the word Amen. Revelation, xxii. 21. Delivered in St. Michael's Church, Charleston, Feb. 7th, 1813. Charleston, 1835. 8, pp. n. [Brown Univ. C. H. S. Biographical Sketches, 1783 271 9. A Short Account of the Rise and Progress of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the City of St. Augustine, East Florida. Charleston, 1835. 12, pp. 22. [A. A. S. Brown Univ. Relating to a mission undertaken by the author in 1821. 10. An Exposition of the Articles of Religion of the Protestant Episcopal Church, in the United States of America. To which are added, Some useful extracts. Charleston, 1839. 12, pp. xii, 192 + pi. [U. S. Y. C. Originally prepared in 1814. A lithographed portrait of the author, taken in 1839, is prefixed. He also printed a Catechism, and perhaps other Sermons ; and edited the following periodical: The Sunday Visitant; or, Weekly Repository of Christian Knowledge. Charleston, 1818 (January) 1819 (December). The only copy I have seen, in the Harvard College Library, ends with the year 1819; but possibly it was continued later. The week's issue was a small quarto sheet, of four pages. AUTHORITIES. Bolton, Hist, of the Prot. Episc. and Geneal. Register, Kii, 316. On- Church in Westchester County, 327, dcrdonk, 'Antiquities of the Parish 472, 512, 595-98, 604. Church Review, Church, Jamaica, 97. Sprague, Annals iv, 153. Dalcho, Hist. Account of the of the Amer. Pulpit, v, 428-29. Pres. Prot. Episc. Church in S. C., 372-73. Stiles, Literary Diary, ii, 521. Doty Family, 507, 515. N. E. Hist. JONATHAN FULLER, eldest son of Dr. Jonathan Fuller, of Mansfield, Connecticut, and a grandson of the Rev. Daniel Fuller (Yale 1721), of Willington, Connecticut, was born on August 17, 1763. His mother was Sibyl, daughter of the Rev. Joseph Meacham (Harvard 1710) and Esther (Williams) Meacham, of Coventry, Connecti- cut. A brother was graduated here in 1798. He joined the college church on profession of faith in July of his Sophomore year. He studied theology, and was licensed to preach by the Hartford South Association of Ministers in June, 1784. On December 8, 1784, he was ordained and installed as pastor of the First Church in Preston, Connecticut. 272 Yale College His career was brief, as he died in Preston on February 22, 1786, in his 23d year. He married Anna, third daughter of the Rev. Eleazer May (Yale 1752), of Haddam, Connecticut. She survived him, with one child, and next married the Rev. Jesse Townsend (Yale 1790). She died on April 13, 1846, aged 83 years. AUTHORITIES. Dimock, Mansfield Records, 84. ary Diary, ii, 545 ; iii, 71, 145. May Family, 85. Pres. Stiles, Liter- HEZEKIAH GILBERT was a son of David Gilbert, of New Haven, and a grandson of David and Experience (Perkins) Gilbert. After graduation he spent some months in Georgia, where he contracted a bilious nervous fever, from which, after great suffering, he died in New Haven on October 10, 1785, in his 23d year. AUTHORITIES. Conn. Journal, Oct. 12, 1785. SAMUEL GOODRICH, the third son of the Rev. Elizur Goodrich (Yale 1752), of Durham, Connecticut, was born on January 12, 1763. He united with the college church on profession of faith in December of his Junior year. He studied theology under his father's direction, and was licensed to preach by the Association of New Haven County, on September 28, 1784. After having declined a call from Farmington, Con- necticut, and another (in the Summer of 1785) from Deerfield, Massachusetts, he was ordained and settled at Ridgefield, Connecticut, on the 6th of July, 1786, with a Biographical Sketches, 1783 273 salary of 120, his father preaching the sermon and giv- ing the charge. The church and society flourished under his super- vision, and he became an instrument of extensive good to the people. During his ministry two special seasons of revival were enjoyed, and large additions were made to the church. On the 22d of January, 1811, at his own request, he was dismissed from his charge, in consequence of political differences; and four months later, on May 29, he was installed in Worthington Society, in the town of Berlin, Connecticut. He found the piety of that church in a low state, from which the revivals enjoyed under his ministry did much to restore it. In 1831 his health became feeble, and he requested a release from his pastoral charge; but his people wishing him to continue, settled a colleague in June of that year. His colleague's health soon failed, and both pastors obtained dismission in November, 1834. He still accepted opportunities of preaching, and his latest sermons were peculiarly animated and effective. For several years he had suffered occasionally from gout, and his last sickness was the result of this disease, culminating in apoplexy. He died in Berlin, on April 19, 1835, in his 73d year. The sermon delivered at his funeral, by the Rev. Royal Robbins, of the same town, was subsequently published, and bears ungrudging testi- mony to his integrity and faithfulness. He was greatly esteemed for the simplicity and sincerity of his character. He married, on July 29, 1784, Elizabeth (or Betsey), second daughter of Colonel John Ely, of Westbrook, in Saybrook, Connecticut, and sister of Dr. Worthington Ely (Yale 1780). Their children were seven daughters and three sons. The eldest daughter married succes- sively Amos Cooke (Yale 1791) and the Hon. Frederick Wolcott (Yale 1786) ; the second daughter married the Rev. Noah Coe (Yale 1808) ; the third married the Rev. Samuel Whittelsey (Yale 1803) ; the fourth married 18 274 Yale College Daniel Dunbar (Yale 1794) ; the fifth married the Hon. Nathaniel B. Smith (Yale 1815) ; and the youngest mar- ried the Rev. Darius Mead (Yale 1828). The remaining daughter died in infancy. The eldest son was graduated here in 1812, and fol- lowed his father's profession ; the second chose a business career, but afterwards achieved fame as a popular writer, under the name of "Peter Parley," and received an hon- orary degree from Yale in 1848; the third died in infancy. Mrs. Goodrich died in Berlin, after a long illness, on March 3, 1837, aged 73 years. He published: 1. A Missionary Sermon [from Phil, i, 12], delivered in the North Presbyterian Church in Hartford, on the evening of May 18, 1813, at the request of the Trustees of the Missionary Society of Connecticut. Hartford, 1813. 8, pp. 16. [B. Ath. Y. C. This sermon was also printed in the Connecticut Evangelical Magazine for June, 1813, pp. 201-10. 2. The Duty of a Gospel Minister, illustrated in a Sermon [from Jer. xxvi, 2], preached at Worcester, Mass., October 9, 1816, at the Ordination and Installation of his son, the Rev. Charles Augustus Goodrich . . Worcester, 1816. 8, pp. 24. [B. Ath. Brown. Y. C. The same. Second Edition. Worcester, 1816. 8. [Brit. Mus. He also wrote in 1800 a history of the town of Ridgefield, which is preserved in manuscript in the Library of the Wadsworth Athenaeum in Hartford. AUTHORITIES. Case, Goodrich Family, 75, 129. Pres. Stiles, Literary Diary, ii, 568. Dzvight, Strong Family, ii, 1289. Ely Talcott, Geneal. Notes on N. Y. and Ancestry, 52. Fowler, Chauncey N. E. Families, 536-37. Teller, Hist. Memorials, 156, 163-68. S. G. Good- of Ridgefield, 96-98. Trumbull, Mem- rich, Recollections of a Lifetime, i, orial Hist, of Hartford County, ii, 19. 16-17, 5IS-I6. 524-25, 531-32, 536, 539- Tuttle Family, 104-06. Sheldon, Hist, of Deerfield, ii, 774-75- Biographical Sketches, 1783 275 ORCHARD GOULD, the eldest child of Dr. William Gould, Junior, of Branford, Connecticut, by his third wife, Mary, daughter of Orchard and Mary (Foote) Guy, of Bran- ford, was born on March I, 1764. A half-brother was graduated here in 1771, and an own brother the distin- guished Judge James Gould in 1791. An own sister married the Hon. Roger M. Sherman (Yale 1792). He followed in his father's footsteps by settling in Branford as a physician; and on November 28, 1790, he married Polly Rogers, born on November 4, 1768, the daughter of Edmund and Lydia (Frisbie) Rogers, of Branford. In the Spring of 1818 he removed with his wife and a married daughter to the neighborhood of Vincennes, Indiana ; and he died in Carlisle, about twenty miles north of Vincennes, on February 4, 1819, aged nearly 55 years. AUTHORITIES. Bailey, Early Conn. Marriages, ii, in. Pres. Stiles, Literary Diary, ii, 387. URIEL GRIDLEY was born in Kensington Society in Ber- lin, Connecticut, on January 9, 1762, being the fourth child of Amos and Azubah Gridley, and grandson of John Gridley. He united with the College Church on profession of his faith in December of his Junior year. After graduation he studied theology (probably with the Rev. Dr. Benjamin Trumbull), and was licensed to preach by the New Haven County Association of Minis- ters on May 25, 1784. After having supplied for several months the pulpit in Watertown, Connecticut, he was ordained as colleague pastor with the Rev. John Trumbull (Yale 1735) over that church on May 25, 1785. 276 Yale College The senior pastor died in December, 1787, and Mr. Gridley continued in office until his death, in Watertown, on December 16, 1820, in his 59th year. He married, two days before his ordination, Susanna, daughter of Roger and Mary (Pratt) Norton, of Berlin, who died on May 8, 1796, in her 33d year. The Rev. Frederick Gridley (Yale 1816) was a son. A daughter married the Rev. Dr. Alfred Ely (Princeton 1804). Mr. Gridley married secondly Sylvia, daughter of Thomas and Abby (Welton) Fenn, who died on Decem- ber i, 1867, in her 93d year. Mr. Gridley was tall and bulky, of a placid temper, and averse to bodily exertion. During his ministry 232 persons were added to the church. AUTHORITIES. Anderson, Churches of Mattatuck, Litchfield County Consociations, 78. 104. Centennial Proceedings of the Pres. Stiles, Literary Diary, ii, 568. ISAAC GRIGGS, the eldest child of Noah and Hannah Griggs, of Watertown, then part of Waterbury, Connec- ticut, was born on April n, 1760. Not long after graduation he removed to Charleston, South Carolina, where he studied law under the direction of the Hon. Robert Goodloe Harper, and was admitted to the bar in 1795. Gifted with a sound understanding, thoroughly well- read, careful and exact, cautious in arriving at conclu- sions, he became an excellent office lawyer, but lacked the ready elocution of a successful pleader. His high stand- ing at the bar was indicated by the fact that in 1811, at the election for Recorder of the City Court, he received but one vote less than the successful candidate. He died of consumption, in Charleston, on September 16, 1816, in his 57th year. Biographical Sketches, 1783 277 Several children survived him. An essay on metaphysics, which he read before the Charleston Literary Society in 1803, is said to have been published. AUTHORITIES. Anderson, Hist, of Waterbury, i, Sketches of the Bench and Bar of Appendix, 57. Fraser, Reminiscences S. C, ii, 176-77. Pres. Stiles, Liter- of Charleston, 80. O'Neall, Biogr. ary Diary, ii, 388. ABIEL HOLMES, the second son and child of Captain and Dr. David Holmes, of Woodstock, Connecticut, by his second wife, Temperance, eldest child of John and Temperance (Lathrop) Bishop, of Newent Parish, in the present town of Lisbon, Connecticut, was born on Decem- ber 24, 1763. The Rev. Stephen Holmes (Yale 1752) was an uncle. His father died the March before he entered college. He united with the College Church on profession of faith in March of his Sophomore year, and graduated with the intention of entering the ministry. Being engaged in teaching in South Carolina in May, 1784, he was invited by the Congregational Church and Society in Midway, Georgia, in the present township of Sunbury, about thirty miles southwest of Savannah, to preach to them for one year, with a salary of 150. He accordingly began this work in August, 1784, and on coming North for a visit in the summer of 1785, was desired by the Church to secure ordination. The mem- bers of the College Corporation, sitting as an ecclesiastical council, performed his ordination on September 15, and he returned to his pastoral charge in November. His health being somewhat impaired, he came North in the summer of 1786, and his place was filled for a year by his fellow-townsman and classmate, Tutor Jedidiah Morse, while Mr. Holmes assumed the duties of the College Tutorship which Mr. Morse had vacated. 278 Yale College He served as Tutor from November, 1786, to October, 1787, and in the summer of 1787 the sermon delivered by the Rev. Dr. Levi Hart two years before at his ordination was printed, and Mr. Holmes appended to it a Pastoral Letter addressed to his flock. After the end of the College year, he returned to Georgia, and continued there in great harmony with his people until June, 1791, when his own health and that of his wife became so much affected by the climate that he felt obliged to resign. Several opportunities for settlement at the North were soon open to him, and in September he began to preach as a candidate in the First Church in Cambridge, Massa- chusetts, which called him to the pastorate on October 19, with a salary of 162. He accepted this call on December 5, and was installed on January 25, 1792; the sermon delivered by the Rev. Dr. James Dana, of New Haven, was afterwards published. In this conspicuous pulpit, with the students and Faculty of Harvard College for a part of his audience for many years, he maintained himself with credit through a long ministry. Of a cautious and conservative temperament, and a lover of peace, he was able, while himself firmly orthodox, to live in harmony with his con- gregation, many of whom were Unitarian in their sym- pathies; but at length, in June, 1829, after two years of uncomfortable controversy, with two-thirds of the mem- bers of the Church he withdrew from the Parish, and united in the formation of a new Society. On December 17, 1829, a colleague pastor was settled, and in conse- quence of age and increasing infirmities Dr. Holmes resigned his charge on September 26, 1831. He continued to preach occasionally until a few months before his death. In March, 1837, he began to be seriously unwell. The last week in May he suffered a severe paralytic shock, and his death followed, in Cam- bridge, on June 4, in his 74th year. Biographical Sketches, 1783 279 Dr. Holmes was married in New Haven, on August 29, 1790, by the Rev. Dr. Samuel Wales, to Mary (Polly), the youngest daughter of President Ezra Stiles. She died in Cambridge, after more than two years of feeble health, on the anniversary of her wedding-day, August 29, 1795, aged 28 years. She had no children, and he next married, on March 26, 1801, Sarah, only daughter of the Hon. Oliver Wendell (Harvard 1753), and Mary (Quincy) Wendell, of Boston, who long survived him, dying in Cambridge on August 19, 1862, in her 94th year. By this marriage he had three daughters and two sons ; the latter were graduated at Harvard College, in 1829 and 1832 respectively, the elder adding distinction to the family name by his place in American literature. The eldest daughter married Usher Parsons, M.D., and the second daughter married the Rev. Charles W. Upham (Harvard' 1821). Dr. Holmes's connection with President Stiles, and service as his literary executor, doubtless had an influence in directing his studies in an historical channel. His interest in such matters led to his early membership and abiding interest in the Massachusetts Historical Society, which he served as Corresponding Secretary for twenty years, from 1813 to 1833. He was also a director in many other associations, and active in the various branches of denominational work. He was especially interested in the Andover Theological Seminary, of which he was a Trustee from 1809 until his death. He received the honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity from the University of Edinburgh in 1805, and that of Doctor of Laws from Alleghany College, Penn- sylvania, in 1822. In his later years he was accounted among the wealth- iest of the orthodox clergy in New England. He published : i. A Sermon [from Deut. xxxiii, 29], on the Freedom and Happiness of America; Preached at Cambridge, February 19, 1795, 280 Yale College the day appointed . . for a National Thanksgiving. Boston. 1795. 8, pp. 31. [A. A. S. A. C. A. B. Ath. Brit. Mus. C. H. S. Harv. M. H. S. R. I. Hist. Soc. U. T. S. Y. C. 2. The Life of Ezra Stiles, D.D. LL.D. . . Boston, 1798. 8, pp. 404 + pi. [A. A. S. B. Ath. B. Publ. Bowdoin Coll. Brit. Mus. J. Carter Broivn TJ.br. Harv. M. H. S. N. Y. H. S. R. I. Hist. Soc. U. T. S. Y. C. A contribution to Yale history of great value. 3. A Sermon [from i Cor. xiv, 19], preached at the Ordination of the Rev. Jonathan Whitaker, . . in Sharon, Massachusetts, Feb- ruary 27, 1799. Dedham, 1799. 8, pp. 49. [A. A. S. B. Ath. Brit. Mus. Brown Univ. C. H. S. Harv. M. H. S. N. Y. H. S. Y. C. The sermon and notes upon it occupy pp. 1-36. 4. A Sermon [from 2 Chron. xxxii, 5-8] preached at Brattle- Street Church, in Boston, and at Cambridge, April 25, 1799, the day appointed . . for a National Fast. Boston, 1799. 8, pp. 31. [A. A. S. A. C. S. B. Ath. B. Publ. Bowdoin Coll. Brit. Mus. J. Carter Broivn Libr. Brown Univ. C. H. S. Harv. M. H. S. R. I. Hist. Soc. Y. C. The author shows his strong sympathy with the Federalists. 5. A Sermon [from Lam. ii, 13], preached at Cambridge the Lord's Day after the Interment of His Excellency, Increase Sumner, Esquire, Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachu- setts, who died June 7, 1799, ^Etat. 53. Boston. 8, pp. 24. [A. A. S. B. Ath. B. Publ. Bowdoin Coll. Brit. Mus. Brown Univ. C. H. S. Harv. M. H. S. U. T. S. 6. A Sermon [from Isa. iii, 1-3], preached at Cambridge, on the Lord's-Day, December 29, 1799, occasioned by the Death of George Washington. . . . Boston, 1800. 8, pp. 23. [A. A. S. B. Ath. Brown Univ. C. H. S. Harv. N.Y.H.S. Y.C. 7. The Counsel of Washington, recommended in a Discourse [from Micah iv, 9], Delivered at Cambridge, February 22, 1800. Boston, 1800. 8, pp. 23. [A. A. S. B. Ath. Brown Univ. C. H. S. Harv. M. H. S. N. Y. H. S. Y. C. Biographical Sketches, 1783 281 The title-page has a poetical quotation from Honeywood, of the Class of 1782, a warm personal friend. 8. A Sermon [from Deut. xviii, 6-7], preached, December 10, 1800, at the Ordination of the Reverend Otis Lane . . in Stur- bridge. Cambridge, 1801. 8, pp. 36. [B. Ath. Brown Univ. Harv. U. T. S. Y. C. 9. A Sermon [ from Deut. xxxii, 7] , preached at Cambridge, Jan- uary 4, 1 80 1, the first Lord's Day in the Nineteenth Century. Cambridge, 1801. 8, pp. 28. [A. A. S. B. Ath. Brit. Mus. Brown Univ. Harv. M. H. S. N. Y. H. S. Y. C. 10. The History of Cambridge. Boston, 1801. 8, pp. 67. [A. A. S. Bowdoin ColL Harv. M. H. S. R. I. Hist. Soc. Y. C. A reprint from the Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society for 1800 (volume 7 of the First Series). 11. A Sermon [from ATatth. x, 16], preached, October 20, 1802, at the Ordination of the Rev. David Kendal . . in Hubbardston. Worcester, 1803. 8, pp. 36. [A. A. S. B. Ath. Brown Univ. M. H. S. U. T. S. Y. C. The sermon occupies pp. 1-28. 12. A Sermon [from 2 Cor. ii, 14], delivered before the Massa- chusetts Missionary Society, at their Annual Meeting in Boston, May 29, 1804. Cambridge, 1804. 8, pp. 28. [A. A. S. B. Ath. Brit. Mus. Brown Univ. C. H. S. Harv. M. H. S. N. Y. H. S. U. T. S. Y. C. 13. A Sermon [from Dan. xii, 3], delivered at Cambridge 30 September, 1804, the first Lord's Day after the Interment of the Rev. Joseph Willard, S.T.D., LL.D., President of Harvard Col- lege. ... Cambridge, 1804. 8, pp. 23. [A. A. S. Brit. Mus. Bowdoin Coll. C. H. S. Harv. M. H. S. 14. American Annals; or a chronological History of America from its discovery in 1492 to 1806. Cambridge, 1805. 2 vol- umes. 8. [A. A. S. B. Ath. B. Publ. Brown Univ. Harv. M. H. S. N. Y. Soc. Libr. R. I.' Hist. Soc. U. T. S. Y. C. The same. London, 1813. 2 volumes. 8. [Brit. Mus. 282 Yale College The same. Second edition, with title : The Annals of America, from the discovery by Columbus in the year 1492, to the year 1826. Cambridge, 1829. 2 volumes. 8. [A. A. S. B. Ath. Bowdoin Coll. Brit. Mus. Harv. M. H. S. N. Y. H. S. R. I. Hist. Soc. Y. C. A work of laborious research, and of much usefulness in its day. 15. A Sermon [from I Thess. ii, 7], delivered at the Ordination of the Reverend William Bascom . . in Fitchburg, 16 October, 1805. Cambridge, 1805. 8, pp. 31. [B. Ath. Brit. Mus. Brown Univ. Harv. M. H. S. Y. C. The sermon occupies pp. 1-24. 16. A Discourse [from Rom. ix, 5], delivered at Plymouth, 22 December, 1806, at the Anniversary Commemoration of the first landing of the Fathers, A.D. 1620. Cambridge, 1806. 8, pp. 32. [A. A. S. B. Ath. Brown Univ. C. H. S. Harv. M. H. S. N. Y. H. S. U. T. S. Y. C. 17. A Discourse [from Acts xi, 24], delivered at Cambridge, August 29, 1803, at the Funeral of the Rev. David Tappan, D.D. . . pp. 22. In Dr. Tappan's Sermons on important subjects. Boston, 1807. 8. 18. A Discourse [from Ps. Ixxii, 17], delivered before the Society for Propagating the Gospel among the Indians and others in North America, at their Anniversary Meeting in Boston, Novem- ber 3, 1808. Boston, 1808. 8, pp. 68. [A. A. S. B. Ath. Brit. Mus. C. H. S. Harv. M. H. S. N. Y. H. S. U. T. S. Y. C. The sermon occupies pp. 1-43. 19. A Sermon [from Jer. ii, 17-19], preached at Cambridge, April 6, 1809, the day of the Public Fast. Cambridge, 1809. 8, pp. 23. [A. A. S. A. C. A. B. Ath, Brit. Mus. Brown Univ. C. H. S. Harv. M. H. S. U. T. S. Y. C. 20. A Sermon [from Haggai ii, 7] delivered at the Episcopal Church in Cambridge, by the request of the Wardens and Vestry, December 25, 1809, in celebration of the Nativity of our Blessed Saviour. Cambridge, 1810. 8, pp. 24. [A. A. S. B. Ath, Brit. Mus. ' C. H. S. U. T. S. Y. C. Preached at a time when the Episcopal Church in Cambridge was for the most part supplied with lay-readers. Biographical Sketches, 1783 283 21. A Discourse [from i Cor. iv, i] on the Validity of Presby- terian Ordination, delivered in the Chapel of the University in Cam- bridge, May 9, 1810, at the^Anniversary Lecture founded by the Hon. Paul Dudley, Esq. Cambridge, 1810. 8, pp. 44. [A. A. S. B. Ath. Brit. Mus. Brown Univ. C. H. S. Harv. M. H. S. N. Y. H. S. U. T. S. Y. C. The publication was requested by a committee of the students, Edward Everett being one. 22. A Sermon [from Phil, i, 17], delivered at the Ordination of the Rev. John Bartlett .. in Marblehead, 22 May, 1811. Cam- bridge, 1811. 8, pp. 47. [A. A. S. B. Ath. Brit. Mus. Brozvn Univ. C. H. S. Harv. N. Y. H. S. U. T. S. Y. C. The sermon occupies pp. 1-33. 23. A Sermon [from Acts xiv, 12], delivered at the Inauguration of the Rev. Ebenezer Porter, A.M. to the office of Bartlet Pro- fessor of Sacred Rhetoric in the Theological Institution at Andover, April i, 1812. . . Boston, 1812. 8, pp. 31. [B. Ath. Brit. Mus. Brown Univ. Harv. M. H. S. U. T. S. Y. C. 24. A Discourse [from Mai. i, n]. delivered at the Old South Church in Boston before the Society for Foreign Missions of Bos- ton and the vicinity, Jan. i, 1813. . . Cambridge, 1813. 8, pp. 36. [A. A. S. B. Ath. B. Publ. Brit. Mus. Brown Univ. Harv. M. H. S. N. Y. H. S. U. T. S. Y. C. 25. An Address, delivered before the Washington Benevolent Society at Cambridge, 5 July, 1813 Cambridge, 1813. 8, pp. 28. [A. A. S. B. Ath. B. Publ. Brit. Mus. C. H. S. Harv. M. H. S. N. Y. H. S. R. I. Hist. Soc. U. T. S. Y. C. On Washington ; largely a resume of Nos. 6 and 7 above. 26. A Sermon [from i Cor. ix, 22], delivered at the Ordination of Rev. Thomas Brattle Gannett . . in Cambridgeport, Jan. 19, 1814. Cambridge, 1814. 8, pp. 36. [A. A. S. B. Ath. .B. Publ. Brit. Mus. Brown Univ. Harv. M. H. S. N.Y. H. S. U. T. S. Y. C. The sermon occupies pp. 1-28. 27. An Address delivered before the American Antiquarian Soci- ety, in King's Chapel, Boston, on their second Anniversary, October 24, 1814. Boston, 1814. 8, pp. 29. [A. A. S. B. Ath. B. Publ. Brit. Mus. Harv. M. H. S. N. Y. H. S. U. T. S. Y. C. 284 Yale College 28. An Historical Sketch of the English Translations of the Bible, by a Member of the Massachusetts Bible Society. 1815. 8, pp. 24. [Harv. Y. C. 29. A Discourse [from Mark xiv, 7], delivered at the opening of the New Almshouse in Cambridge 17 September, 1818. Cambridge, 1818. 8, pp. 28. [A. A. S. B. Ath. Brit. Mus. Brown Univ. Harv. M. H. S. U. T. S. Y. C. 30. A Sermon [from Titus i, 7], delivered before the Conven- tion of the Congregational Ministers of Massachusetts, at their Annual Meeting in Boston, xxvii May, MDCCCXIX. Cambridge, 1819. 8, pp. 36. [B. Ath. B. Publ. Brit. Mus. Brown Univ. C. H. S. Harv. M. H. S. U. T. S. 31. Two Discourses [from Ps. Ixxviii, 2-4], on the completion of the second century from the Landing of the Forefathers of New England at Plymouth, 22 Dec. 1620, delivered at Cambridge 24 Dec. 1820. Cambridge. 1821. 8, pp. 28. [A. A. S. B. Ath. Brit. Mus. Brown Univ. Harv. M. H. S. R. I. Hist. Soc. Y. C. 32. A Sermon [from 2 Tim. iv, 5-7], delivered at the Funeral of the Rev. David Osgood, D.D. . . ; who died 12 December, 1822 . . Cambridge, 1822. 8, pp. 24. [B. Ath. B. Publ. Brit. Mus. Brown Univ. Harv. M. H. S. R. I. Hist. Soc. U. S. 33. A Sermon [from 2 Cor. xii, 19], delivered at the Ordination of the Rev. Plosea Hildreth, A.M. . . in Gloucester, August 3, 1825. Cambridge, 1825. 8, pp. 30. [A. A. S. 'Brit. Mus. Brown Univ. C. H. S. Harv. Y. C. The sermon occupies pp. 1-19. 34. Two Sermons [from 2 Cor. iv, 5, and Ez. ii, 7], preached at Cambridge, 25 January, 1829, the 37 th Anniversary of the Author's Installation. Cambridge, 1829. 8, pp. 31. [B. Ath. B. Publ. Brit. Mus. Brown Univ. Harv. R. I. Hist. Soc. Y. C. 35. An Account of the Controversy in the First Parish in Cam- bridge. 1827-1829 . . Boston, 1829. 12, pp. 58. [A. A. S. Y. C. An anonymous narrative of the events in relation to the separa- tion of Dr. Holmes from his parish. This was replied to in a pam- phlet issued by the parish, also in 1829, with the title, Controversy Biographical Sketches, 1783 285 betzveen the First Parish in Cambridge and the Rev. Dr. Holmes, their late Pastor. Dr. Holmes was also the editor of the following volume: A Family Tablet: containing a Selection of Original Poetry. Boston, 1796. 12, pp. x, 81. [Brit. Mus. Harv. Y. C. This collection was almost entirely composed by members of the family of President Stiles, and Dr. Holmes and his wife were the largest contributors. See a notice in the Historical Magazine, vol. xiv, pp. 276-77. He published in the Memoirs of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, volume iii, pp. 107-12, Cambridge, 1809: Account of meteorological Observations, made in Georgia and South Carolina. He also contributed many articles to various periodicals and to the Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society ; and a num- ber of these, in addition to a few already specified, were printed in separate editions. AUTHORITIES. Ammidown, Hist. Collections, i, New Series, iv, 278-79. R. I. Hist. 390-91. Cambridge First Church Society's Publications, New Series, ii, Records, 282-86, 438-40, 442-48. 172. Sprague, Annals of the Ameri- Harris, Cambridge Epitaphs, 147. can Pulpit, ii, 240-46. Pres. Stiles, Jameson, The Cogswells in America, Literary Diary, ii, 518; iii, 181, 184, 22. Mackenzie, Hist, of First Church i86-S8, 244-45, 284. 401, 405, 421, 428- of Cambridge, 168-216. Mass. Hist. 29, 432, 434, 436, 439, 441-43, 489, 566. Society's Collections, 3d Series, vii, Talcott, Geneal. Notes of N. Y. and 270-82. Midway Church Records, i, N. E. 'Families, 394. passim. Putnam's Hist. Magazine, SAMUEL RUSSELL JOCELIN was a son of Captain Ama- ziah Jocelin, of New Haven, and grandson of Nathaniel and Ann (Wads worth) Jocelin, of East Haven, Connec- ticut. His mother was probably a daughter of Samuel Russell, Junior, of East Haven. He studied law, and settled in Wilmington, North Carolina, where he attained a distinguished position at the bar. He died in Wilmington, early in January, 1817. 286 Vale College He married in New Haven, before his graduation, on June 1 6, 1783, Almira, eldest child of Joseph and Hannah (Hitchcock) Howell, of New Haven. She died in Wil- mington, in May, 1811, aged 44 years. AUTHORITIES. Bailey, Early Conn. Marriages, i, 16. Conn. Journal, Jan. 28, 1817. ROBERT CHARLES JOHNSON, a son of the Hon. William Samuel Johnson (Yale 1744), and a brother of Samuel William Johnson (Yale 1779), was born in Stratford, Connecticut, on May i, 1766. He was chosen the Vale- dictory Orator of his Class at graduation. He studied law and settled in his native town, and married on August 27, 1795, Katherine Ann, daughter of the Hon. Nicholas and Catherine (Livingston) Bayard, of New York City. Three daughters and a son were born to them before her death on April 9, 1806. His own death followed, after a lingering illness, in Stratford, on the 24th of the ensuing September, in his 41 st year; and his children were taken into the family of their uncle, Samuel William Johnson, at Stratford. The eldest daughter married Thomas P. Devereux (Yale 1813) ; and the youngest daughter married first Anthony Rutgers (Princeton 1819), and secondly the Rev. Robert Birch (Dickinson Coll. 1828). Professor Charles F. Johnson (Yale 1855) and Professor William Woolsey Johnson (Yale 1862) are grandsons. Mr. Johnson was good-looking, of medium height, per- sonally active, and very fond of horses, being a fine rider. He was high-spirited and aristocratic, both in tempera- ment and bearing. In the History of Stratford extracts are printed from two letters of his, in 1787, descriptive of his speeches in town-meeting in behalf of the Federal Constitution. Biographical Sketches, 1783 287 AUTHORITIES. Professor Chas. F. Johnson, MS. Stratford, i, 423-25 ; ii, 1226. Pres. Letter, June 23, 1906. N. Y. Geneal. Stiles, Literary Diary, iii, 80. Record, xii, 17. Orcutt, Hist, of EBENEZER KINGSBURY, the youngest son of Captain and Deacon Ebenezer Kingsbury, of (North) Coventry, Connecticut, and grandson of Captain and Deacon Joseph and Ruth (Denison) Kingsbury, of Norwich West Farms, now Franklin, Connecticut, was born on August 30, 1762. His mother was Priscilla, daughter of Captain Nathaniel and Hannah (Denison) Kingsbury, of that part of Windham which is now Hampton, Connecticut, and a double first cousin of her husband. He united with the College Church on profession of his faith in December of his Junior year. He studied theology with the Rev. Dr. Charles Backus (Yale 1769), of Somers, Connecticut; and after some service elsewhere, he was sent by the Connecticut Mission- ary Society as a home missionary to Vermont. He was ordained on June 22, 1791, as pastor of the church in Jericho, Chittenden County, in northwestern Vermont, and was dismissed from this charge on May 17, 1808. He then visited Western New York and Pennsylvania, in the service of the Missionary Society of Connecticut, and on February 21, 1810, received a call to settle as pastor of the Congregational Church in Harford, Susquehanna County, in the northeastern part of Pennsylvania. He accepted the call, and was installed on August 4, 1810. By an arrangement which continued throughout his pastorate he spent one-half of his time in ministering to destitute places in the surrounding region, under the direction of the Missionary Society of Connecticut. He traveled thus over a large district, and assisted in the for- 288 Yale College mation of many churches. Meantime his own church prospered, and enjoyed several seasons of special interest. His pastoral relation to the Church in Harford was dissolved on September 19, 1827, but for several years after this for a portion of the time he continued to per- form missionary labors with various feeble churches in the vicinity, which esteemed him highly. For the last five or six years of his life he seldom preached. He died in Harford on March 22, 1842, in his 8oth year. He married, on February n, 1792, Mary, daughter of Dr. Reynolds, of Longmeadow, Massachusetts. She died in Jericho, Vermont, in December, 1792, in her 28th year, and her infant son was buried with her. He next married, on February 8, 1794, Hannah, the younger sister of his classmate Williston, who died in Harford, on March 23, 1859, in her 89th year. By this marriage he had three daughters and six sons. During his residence in Vermont he was accounted a man of influence among the clergy of that day. He was chosen by the General Convention of Congregational Ministers of the State in 1805 to preach the annual ser- mon at the Commencement of Middlebury College. AUTHORITIES. John M. Comstock, MS. Letter, D. Higbie, MS. Letter, July 7, 1845. June 21, 1905. Conn. Evangelical Kulp, Families of Wyoming Valley, Magazine, 2d Series, iii, 25-26; vii, ii, 881-82. Pres. Stiles, Literary 30. Dimock, Coventry Records, 68. Diary, ii, 568. Talcott, Kingsbury Dwight, Strong Family, ii, 1153. Rev. Genealogy, 215, 247-48. ELIJAH LEONARD, a son of Deacon Elijah and Hannah Leonard, of Raynham, Massachusetts, and a grandson of Deacon and Captain Samuel Leonard, of Raynham, was born on April 28, 1760. He entered Harvard College in 1779; but towards the close of the Sophomore year removed to Yale, in accord- Biographical Sketches, 1783 289 ance with the advice of his first cousin, Professor Samuel Wales. After graduation he studied theology with the Rev. Dr. John Reed (Yale 1772), of West Bridgewater, Massa- chusetts, and preached as a candidate in various pulpits (as in Hebron, Connecticut). In 1787-88 he spent some months in evangelistic work in New Hampshire. He was ordained on January n, 1789, as colleague pastor with the Rev. Atherton Wales (Harvard 1726) over the Second Congregational Church in Marshfield, Massachusetts, with a salary of about 90. The ordina- tion sermon by the Rev. Dr. Perez Fobes (Harvard 1762), the pastor of his youth, then Professor in Brown University, was subsequently published. On May 13, 1792, Mr. Leonard married Molly Wales, the daughter of the Rev. Dr. Perez and Prudence (Wales) Fobes, of Providence, her mother being his first cousin. She died on November 29, 1801, in her 3Oth year, and he next married, on October 16, 1804, Mary, daughter of Benjamin Delano, of South Scituate, Massa- chusetts, who died in Marshfield in April, 1835, aged 58 years. Mr. Leonard's colleague died at an advanced age in November, 1795, and he continued sole pastor until his death, in Marshfield, on February 8, 1834, aged nearly 74 years. By his first marriage he had two sons and two daugh- ters (both of whom died in infancy), and by his second marriage one son, who was drowned in boyhood. His salary was small, but he made sacrifices to secure an education for his second son, the Rev. George Leonard, who was graduated at Harvard in 1823, and succeeded his father in his pastorate in Marshfield and held office for thirty years, making a total period of service for father and son in the same Society of seventy-five years. The two sons of the Rev. George Leonard were also grad- uated at Harvard. 19 .*^5fAH^> v f or THF V B UNIVERSITY ) 290 Yale College Elijah Leonard was a typical Puritan minister, much respected and beloved by his people and the entire com- munity. As a preacher he was direct and fearless in speech, and absolutely sincere and honest in word and deed. AUTHORITIES. Delano Genealogy, 279. Miss. S. E. ii, 203. Sprague, Annals of the Leonard, MS. Letter, April i, 1907. Amer. Pulpit, i, 646. Pres. Stiles, N. E. Hist, and Geneal. Register, v, Literary Diary, ii, 541. 412. Richards, Hist, of Marshfield, SETH LEWIS, the second son and child of Job Lewis, of Southington, then part of Farmington, Connecticut, and brother of Oliver Lewis (Yale 1780), was born in South- ington on June 24, 1759. He studied law for a time, but did not follow the pro- fession. For several years he had a store and tavern in Southington, where he was also Postmaster. He was an adherent of Jefferson in politics, and had the reputation of being very high-spirited and quick to resent insults. He died in Southington on March 26, 1808, in his 49th year. He married, on March 9, 1788, Rhoda, a younger sister of his classmate Cole. She died on March 30, 1854, aged 88 years. Their children were five daughters and two sons. The second daughter married her father's own cousin, Addin Lewis (Yale 1803), and her next younger sister married Dr. Timothy Jones (Yale 1804). AUTHORITIES. Loomis Female Genealogy, i, 228. Appendix, 158, 160. Timlow, Hist, of Southington, 517, LYNDE LORD, Junior, the second and only surviving child of Lynde Lord, of Litchfield, Connecticut, and grandson of Richard and Elizabeth (Lynde) Lord, of Biographical Sketches, 1783 291 Lyme, Connecticut, was born on October 21, 1761. His mother was Lois, daughter of the Hon. Elisha Sheldon (Yale 1730), of Litchfield. He was prepared for College by the Rev. Ammi R. Robbins, of Norfolk. He settled as a lawyer in Litchfield, and served as Deputy Sheriff under his father, who was long the Sheriff of the County. He died in Litchfield on February 12, 1813, in his 52d year. A miniature portrait is preserved in the family. He married on January 30, 1786, Mary, elder sister of his classmate Lyman, and the child of his second cousin. She died on May 13, 1843, in her 8oth year. Their children were two daughters and seven sons ; the elder daughter married the Rev. John Pierpont (Yale 1804). AUTHORITIES. Dwight, Strong Family, ii, 1125. Pres. Stiles, Literary Diary, ii, 539. Payne, Litchfield and Morris Inscrip- Walworth, Hyde Genealogy, i, 159; tions, 31. Salisbury, Family His- ii, 741-43. Woodruff, Geneal. Regis- tories and Genealogies, i, 300-01. ter of Litchfield, 134. JOSEPH LYMAN, the younger son of Captain Joseph Lyman, a farmer in Northampton, Massachusetts, and grandson of Joseph and Abigail (Lewis) Lyman, of Northampton, was born on October 27, 1767. His mother was Mary, third daughter of Benjamin and Mary (Strong) Sheldon, of Northampton. An accident in childhood was the cause of such delicate health that his parents decided to send him to College, instead of keeping him upon the farm. He pursued his classical studies under the guidance of his pastor, the Rev. Solomon Williams (Yale 1770). After graduation he was employed for a while in teach- ing school, and studied law under the direction of the Hon. Caleb Strong (Harvard 1764), of Northampton. He was admitted to the bar in January, 1787, and opened an office about 1789 in Worthington, Massachu- 292 Yale College setts, but soon removed to Westfield to take the place vacated by the death of a personal friend. There he practiced for seven years, and he represented that town once or twice in the Legislature. From Westfield he returned to Northampton, in 1798, and was then appointed Clerk of the County Courts, a position which he held until 1810, when he was appointed Judge of the Common Pleas and of Probate. The Court of Common Pleas was abolished in 1811, when the old Hampshire County was divided. He resigned the Pro- bate Judgeship in 1816, when he was appointed Sheriff, and this latter office he held with great dignity and fidelity until his resignation in 1844. In the Summer of 1841 he suffered from a shock of paralysis, which was followed at intervals by other attacks, more or less severe, until the last and severest of all, which closed his life, in Northampton, on December u, 1847, m ms 8ist year. A memorial discourse by the Rev. Rufus Ellis was published. Judge Lyman married, on January 10, 1792, Elizabeth, eldest daughter of the Hon. Samuel Fowler (Yale 1768), of Westfield, who died on July 16, 1808, in her 37th year. He next married, on October 30, 1811, Anne Jean, the third daughter and child of Lieutenant Governor Edward H. and Elizabeth (Murray) Robbins, of Milton, Massa- chusetts. She left Northampton some two years after her husband's death, and fixed her residence at first in Milton and later in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Her mental powers gradually failed, and she died in the McLean Asylum at Somerville, Massachusetts, on May 24, 1867, in her 79th year. A beautiful record of her life and character, by one of her daughters, has been published (Recollections of My Mother, by Susan I. Lesley). Their home was the center of a most refined and abundant hospitality. Judge Lyman's children by his first marriage were four daughters and two sons, the younger of whom was grad- Biographical Sketches, 1783 293 uated at Harvard College in 1818. By his second mar- riage he had two sons (the elder of whom was graduated at Harvard in 1830) and three daughters. The second daughter married Professor J. Peter Lesley (Univ. of Pa. 1838). Judge Lyman was gifted with striking personal endow- ments, rare amiability of temper, and a peculiar social charm. He was a member of the Hartford Convention in 1814, and of the State Constitutional Convention in 1820. An engraving from his portrait by Chester Hard- ing is given in his wife's Memoir. He was a trustee of Williams College from 1814 to 1832. He was the President of the Hampshire Bank of Northampton during the whole period of its existence. He was a strong pillar in the Second Congregational (Unitarian) Society of Northampton, in the formation of which he took a prominent part. AUTHORITIES. Bridgman, Northampton Epitaphs, Strong Family, ii, 1125-26. Westfield 90. Coleman, Lyman Family, 392-94. Bi-centennial, 201. Dwight, Dwight Family, ii, 906-07; JOSIAH MASTERS, son of James and Eunice Masters, and grandson of Nicholas Masters, an emigrant from the Isle of Guernsey, and Elizabeth (Shelton) Masters, was born in Woodbury, Connecticut, on October [or Novem- ber] 22, 1763. His father probably lived within the limits of the present town of Washington, but in the year of his son's graduation he removed to Schaghticoke, Rensselaer County, New York. The son entered College at the opening of the Sophomore year, and while here was an attendant of the Episcopal Church. Two elder brothers were also members of College (one in the Class of 1779 and one in the Class of 1783), but left early. 294 Yale College On graduating he followed his father to Schaghticoke, where his residence remained throughout his life. He was a member of the State Assembly during three sessions of the Legislature, in 1792-93 and 1800-01. He was also a member of the United States Congress during the Ninth and Tenth Sessions, from December, 1805, to March, 1809. In March, 1808, he was appointed Judge of the Court of Common Pleas for Rensselaer County, and retained that office until his death, which occurred on June 30, 1822, in his 59th year. Judge Masters was three times married, and had a family of four sons and five daughters. AUTHORITIES. Anderson, Landmarks of Rensse- ary of Congress, 1864, 246. Pres. laer County, 357. Cothren, Hist, of Stiles, Literary Diary, ii, 476, 521. Woodbury, iii, 56. Lanman, Diction- JONATHAN MERRICK, the only child of Miner Merrick, of (North) Branford, Connecticut, and grandson of the Rev. Jonathan Merrick (Yale 1725), of North Branford, was born in North Branford on September 28, 1765. His mother was Abigail Russell, of Branford. His father died in his infancy, and the son's residence is given as Wallingford (an adjoining town to Branford) while in College. He afterwards became a farmer in North Branford, and held office in the militia as a Captain. He married on August 10, 1786, Sarah Atwater, of Wallingford, and had five daughters and five sons, all of whom grew to maturity. He died in North Branford on March 24, 1812, in his 47th year. AUTHORITIES. Bailey, Early Conn. Marriages, iv, 64. Merrick Genealogy, 277, 286. Biographical Sketches, 1783 295 JEDIDIAH MORSE, the fourth son and eighth child of Deacon Jedidiah Morse, of Woodstock, Connecticut, and grandson of John and Sarah (Peake) Morse, of Wood- stock, was born in that town on August 23, 1761. His mother was Sarah, third daughter of Captain Benjamin and Patience (Thayer) Child, of Woodstock. He was admitted to the College Church on profession of his faith in March of his Sophomore year. For two years after graduation he remained in New Haven, studying theology with the Rev. Dr. Jonathan Edwards, and conducting very successfully a School for Young Ladies. He was licensed to preach by the Eastern Association of New Haven County, on September 27, 1785, and then succeeded his classmate Austin in charge of an academy in Norwich, Connecticut, where he also found employ- ment as a preacher, until his election to a tutorship in the College in May, 1786. He began his tutorial duties on June 26, but at the opening of the next College year took advantage of an opportunity of transferring his office to his classmate Holmes, while he himself made a journey to Georgia, in the interest of his proposed work on geography. To fur- ther his plans, he was ordained in New Haven on Novem- ber 9. He arrived at Midway, Georgia, in January, 1787, and for about six months preached to the congregation of which Mr. Holmes was pastor. He then returned to New Haven, where he lived until March, 1788, perfecting a new edition of his Geography. After preaching for five months in a Presbyterian Church in New York City, he was invited, in November, 1788, to the pastorate of the First Congregational Church in Charlestown, Massachusetts, with a salary of $972. He accepted the unanimous call on December 6, and was installed on April 30, 1789, the sermon on that occasion by the Rev. Dr. Jeremy Belknap being after- 296 Yale College wards printed. The church at that time consisted of 135 members. The honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity was con- ferred on him in 1794, in recognition of his geographical books, by the University of Edinburgh. The early years of his ministry were in the main happily spent; but when a new Professor of Divinity was about to be chosen in Harvard College, in 1804, Dr. Morse felt called upon, as a member of the Board of Overseers, to oppose the election of the most prominent candidate, on the ground that some of his doctrinal views were at variance with those which the founder of the professor- ship intended should be maintained. Shortly after this, in June, 1805, he originated the Panoplist, a monthly periodical, designed primarily to conserve orthodox interests ; and at a later period he put forth all his energies in aid of the establishment of a Theo- logical Seminary at Andover for the same end. The progress of the Unitarian controversy led inevitably to a division in Dr. Morse's parish, and the minority formed the Second Congregational Society in 1815. Dr. Morse's position grew still more uncomfortable, and he finally resigned his pastorate in February, 1820. He then removed his residence to New Haven, and devoted himself to an object which had already deeply interested him, the condition of the Indian tribes in this country. In February, 1820, he was commissioned by the War Department as a Government Agent to visit the vari- ous tribes and report on their condition and on plans for advancing their civilization and happiness; and in this capacity he made an extended tour in the ensuing sum- mer, and published at his own expense the valuable Report drawn up after his return. His health had for many years been far from good; and after a few weeks of serious illness he died in New Haven on June 9, 1826, in his 65th year. He married, on May 14, 1789, Elizabeth Ann, the only child of Judge Samuel and Rebecca (Finley) Breese, of Biographical Sketches, 1783 297 Shrewsbury, New Jersey, who died in New Haven on May 28, 1828, in her 62d year. They had eleven children, eight of whom died in infancy. The remaining three, all sons, were graduates of Yale, respectively, in 1810, 1811, and 1812; and the eldest of these achieved a world-wide reputation. A portrait of Dr. Morse, owned by the family, has often been reproduced. Another portrait, painted by his son, Samuel F. B. Morse, about 1810, is owned by the University. A Life of Dr. Morse, written by the Rev. Dr. William B. Sprague, was published in 1874. Dr. Morse's usefulness was by no means limited to his special field as a parish minister. His faithfulness as a champion of orthodoxy brought him into prominence and involved him in heavy editorial labor. In all the benevo- lent and missionary enterprises of that day he took a deep interest, and in some bore a leading part. His personal efforts in behalf of the Indians began at an early date, and even earlier he took an active stand for the instruc- tion and uplifting of the colored people. He anticipated by his example the work of the Tract and Bible Societies, and was one of the incorporators of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. His striking characteristics were wide charity, open hospitality, indomitable energy, and ceaseless industry. Those who have described his personal appearance emphasize his tall, slender form, the head always inclin- ing slightly forwards, his rather sharp features, his soft musical voice, his extremely neat dress, and polished, old-school manners. He published: i. Geography made easy . . New-Haven. [1784.] 12, pp. 215 + 2 pi. [Harv. M. H. S. U. S. Y. C. The same. 2d edition. Being an Abridgement of the Amer- ican Geography . . . Boston, 1790. 12, pp. 322 -|- 8 pi. [Brit. Mus. Y. C. 298 Yale College Also, many later editions. This is reckoned as the first Geogra- phy printed in America, and so entitled the author to be called "the Father of American Geography." 2. The American Universal Geography, or, a View of the present Situation of the United States of America . . Elizabeth Town, 1789. 8, pp. xii, 537 + 2 maps. [B. Ath. B. Publ. Bowdoin Coll. Brit. Mus. J. Carter Brown Libr. Harv. N. Y. H. S. N. Y. Soc. Libr. U. S. U. T. S. Y. C. This work was enlarged in a second edition, with the following title : The American Universal Geography, or, a View of the present state of all the Empires, Kingdoms, States, and Republics in the known World, and of the United States of America in particular. In Two Parts . . Boston, 1/93. 2 parts. 8. [A. A. S. B. Ath. B. Publ. Bowdoin Coll. Columbia Univ. Harv. M. H. S. N. Y. Soc. Libr. U. S. Y. C. Of this issue Part I is a new edition of the American Geography,. and Part 2 is a new work, a Geographical Description of the Eastern Continent and Islands. Many later editions and abridgments followed. The first English edition appeared in London in 1792. Translations also appeared in various European languages. 3. A Sermon [from Matth. xxiv, 42-44] Preached Lord's-Day, February 28, 1790, upon the Death of Richard Gary, Esq. of Charles- town . . Boston, 1790. 4, pp. 27. [A. A. S. B. Ath. Bowdoin Coll. Brit. Mus. Harv. M. H. S. 4. The present Situation of other Nations of the World, con- trasted with our own. A Sermon [from Deut. iv, 6, 8-9], delivered at Charlestown, . . Februany 19, 1795 ; being the day recommended . . for Publick Thanksgiving and Prayer. Boston, 1795. 8, pp. 37. [A. A. S. A. C. A. B. Ath. Brit. Mus. Brown Univ. C. H. S. Harv. M. H. S. N. Y. H. S. U. S. U. T. S. 5. Elements of Geography . . Boston, 1795. 12, pp. 143 + 2 maps. [A. A. S. Harv. The same. Second Edition. Boston, 1796. 12, pp. 143 -f 2 maps. [M.H.S. Y. C. Also, in many later editions. 6. The Duty of Resignation under Afflictions, illustrated and enforced from the example of Christ, in a Sermon [from Matth. Biographical Sketches, 1783 299 xxvi, 42] preached at Charlestown, April 17, 1796. Occasioned by the death of the Plonourable Thomas Russell, Esquire . . . Boston, 1796. 8, pp. 31. [A.A.S. B.Ath. B. Publ. ^Bowdoin Coll. Brit. Mus. C.H.S. Harv. M. H. S. N. Y. H. S. R. I. Hist. Soc. U. S. U. T. S. Y. C. 7. The American Gazetteer . . . Boston, 1797. 8, pp. 627 + 7 maps. [A. .A. S. B. Ath. B. Publ. Bowdoin Coll. Brit. Mus. J. Carter Brozvn Libr. Harv. M. H. S. N. Y. Soc. Libr. R. I. Hist. Soc. U. S. U. T. S. Y. C. The same. 2d edition. Charlestown, 1804. 8, pp. vi, 628 -j- 6 maps. [A. A. S. B. Ath. B. Publ. Brit. Mus. Harv. N. Y. H. S. U. S. U. T. S. Y. C. There were also several later editions, besides one published in London in 1798, and an Abridgment issued at Boston in the same year. In 1802 A New Gazetteer of the Eastern Continent was issued by Dr. Morse and the Rev. Elijah Parish as Volume 2 of their work ; and in 1810 the two were combined under the title, Universal Gazetteer of the Eastern and Western Continents. 8. The Character and Reward of a Good and Faithful Servant illustrated in a Sermon [from Matth. xxv, 21], delivered at Charles- town, April 29, 1798, the Lord's Day following the Death and Inter- ment of the Honorable James Russell, Esq. . . . Boston, 1798. 8, pp. 21. [A. A. S. B. Ath. Brit. Mus. Brown Univ. C. H. S. Harv. M. H. S. N. Y. H. S. U. S. 9. A Sermon [from 2 Kings xix, 3-4], delivered at the New North Church in Boston, in the morning, and in the afternoon at Charlestown, May 9th, 1798, being the day recommended . . for Solemn Humiliation, Fasting and Prayer. . . Boston, 1798. 8, pp. 29. [Brown Univ. Harv. N. Y. H. S. U. S. U. T. S. The same. [Second Edition.] Boston, 1798. 8, pp. 30. [N. Y. H. S. Y. C. The sermon bestows extravagant praise on Professor Robison's recently published Proofs of a Conspiracy. 10. A Sermon [from Hebr. xii, 16] delivered before the Grand Lodge of Free & Accepted Masons of the Comonwealth of Massachusetts, at a public Installation of the Officers of the Cor- 300 inthian Lodge, at Concord, . . June 25th, 1798. Leominster, 1798. 8, pp. 24, 8. [A. A. S. B. Alh. Brit. Mus. Brown Univ. Harv. U. T. S. The Prayer by the Rev. Dr. Ezra Ripley on the same occasion is appended. 11. A Sermon [from Ex. xviii, 8-9], preached at Charlestown, November 29, 1798, on the Anniversary Thanksgiving in Massa- chusetts. With an Appendix, designed to illustrate some parts of the Discourse: exhibiting proofs of the early existence, progress, and deleterious effects of French intrigue and influence in the United States. Boston, 1798. 8, pp. 74. [A. C. A. B. Ath. Brit. Mus. Brown Univ. C. H. S. Harv. M. H. S. U. S. U. T. S. Y. C. The same. Second Edition. Boston, 1799. 8, pp. 79. [A. A. S. B. Ath. Brit. Mus. C. H. S. Harv. U. T. S. Y. C. The same. Third Edition. Worcester 1799. 8, pp. 88. [Brit. Mus. N. Y. H. S. 12. A Sermon [from Ps. xi, 3], exhibiting the present dangers, and consequent duties of the citizens of the United States of Amer- ica. Delivered at Charlestown, April 25, 1799, the day of the National Fast. . . Charlestown, 1799. 8> PP- 5- [A. A. S. B. Ath. Bowdoin Coll. Brit. Mus. Brown Univ. C. H. S. Harv. M. H. S. N. Y. H. S. U. T. S. Y. C. The same. Hartford, 1799. 8, pp. 42. [C. H. S. Y. C. The same. New York, 1799. 8, pp. 36. [Brit. Mus. M. PL S. U. T. S. Continuing the line of argument in his Fast Sermon of the year before. 13. An Address, to the Students at Phillips Academy, in Andover. Delivered July 9. 1799. Being the day of the Anniversary Exhibi- tion. .. Tharlestown [sic], 1799. 8, pp. 16. [A. A. S. B. Ath. Brit. Mus. M. H. S. N. Y. H. S. U. S. Y. C. Dr. Morse was a Trustee of the Academy from 1795 until his death. 14. A Prayer and Sermon [from Deut. xxxiv, 5, 7, 8], delivered at Charlestown, December 31, 1799; on the Death of George Wash- ington . . . With an additional Sketch of his Life. . . . Annexed Biographical Sketches, 1783 301 is the "Valedictory [sic] Address" of the Deceased, to his fellow- citizens. Charlestown, 1800. 8, pp. 46 -f- 36 + 2 4- [A. A, S. B. Ath. J. Carter Brown Libr. Brown Univ. Harv. N. Y. H. S. Y. C. Same. London, 1800. 8, pp. 44, 36. Same. Bristol, 1800. 8. 15. A Sermon [from Prov. xi, 17] preached before the Humane Society of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, at their semi- annual meeting, June 9th, 1801. Boston, 1801. 8, pp. 53. [A. A. S. B. Ath. Bou'doin Coll. Brit. Mus. C. H. S. Harv. M. H. S. N. Y. H. S. Y. C. The sermon occupies pp. 1-29. 16. A Sermon [from Ps. Ixxvii, 5], delivered before the Ancient and Honourable Artillery Company, in Boston, June 6, 1803 . . Charlestown, 1803. 8, pp. 32. \A. A. S. B. Ath. B. Publ. Bowdoin Coll. Brit. Mus. C. H. S. Harv. M. H. S. U. S. U. T. S. Y. C. 17. A Sermon [from Matth. xxiv, 45-46], preached at the Ordin- ation of the Rev. Hezekiah May, delivered in Marblehead, June 23, 1803. Charlestown, 1803. 8 > PP- 3 2 - [ B - Ath. N. Y. H. S. The sermon occupies pp. 1-21. 18. A Compendious History of New England, designed for schools and private families. Charlestown, 1804. 12, pp. 388 -j- map. [B. Ath. B. Publ. Brit. Mus. Harv. M. H. S. N. Y. H. S. Y. C. The Rev. Elijah Parish was joint author of this work. The same. Second Edition. Newburyport (Amherst, N. H., printed), 1809. 12, pp. ix, 336 + map. [A. A. S. Harv. Y. C. Also, later editions, besides one printed at London in 1808. 19. The True Reasons on which the Election of a Hollis Pro- fessor of Divinity in Harvard College, was opposed at the Board of Overseers, Feb. 14, 1805. Charlestown, 1805. 8, pp. 28. [A. A. S. B. Ath. B. Publ. Boivdoin Coll. Brit. Mus. Harv. M. H. S. N. Y. H. S. U. S. U. T. S. Y. C. Dr. Morse's breach with his Unitarian brethren began with this publication. 302 Yale College 20. A Sermon [from John xi, n], delivered at Charlestown, the Sabbath after the interment of Miss Mary Russell, who died, July 24, 1806; aged 53 years. [Charlestown,] 1806. 8, pp. 18. [A. A. S. B. Ath. Bowdoin Coll. Brit. Mus. Harv. M. H. S. N. Y. H. S. U. S. U. T. S. Y. C. 21. A Sermon [from Ex. ii, 9], preached in Brattle- Street Church, Boston, September 25, 1807, before the Managers of the Boston Female Asylum, on their seventh Anniversary. [Boston,] 1807. 8, pp. 24. [A.A.S. B.Ath. Bowdoin Coll. Brit. Mus. C.H.S. M.H.S. N. Y. H. S. U. S. Y. C. 22. A Sermon [from 2 Cor. iv 2], delivered, May i8th. 1808, at the Ordination of the Rev. Joshua Huntington, colleague pastor . . of the Church of Christ in Marlborough-Street, Boston. . . Bos- ton, 1808. 8, pp. 32. [A. A. S. B. Ath. Bowdoin Coll. Brit. Mus. C. H. S. Harv. N. Y. H. S. U. S. U. T. S. Y. C. The sermon occupies pp. 1-24; it is a strong plea for doctrinal preaching, very positive and aggressive in its tone. 23. A Discourse [from John viii, 36], delivered at the African Meeting-House, in Boston, July 14, 1808, in grateful celebration of the Abolition of the African Slave-Trade . . Boston, 1808. 8, pp. 28. [A. A. S. B. Ath. B. Publ Boivdoin Coll. Brit. Mus. C. H. S. Han'. U. T. S. Y. C. The same. Second Edition. Boston, 1808. 8, pp. 28. [Y. C. 24. Signs of the Times. A Sermon [from Dan. xii, 4, 10], preached before the Society for Propagating the Gospel among the Indians and others in North America, at their Anniversary, Nov. i, 1810. Charlestown, 1810. 8, pp. 72. [A. A. S. B. Ath. B. Publ. Bowdoin Coll. Brit. Mus. C. H. S. Harv. M. H. S. N. Y. H. S. U. S. U. T. S. Y. C. The sermon occupies pp. 1-52. 25. A Sermon [from I Tim. i, 5], delivered before the Convention of Congregational Ministers in Boston, at their Anniversary Meet- ing, May 28, 1812. Boston, 1812. 8, pp. 28. [A. A. S. B. Ath. B. Publ. Bowdoin Coll. Brit. Mus. C. H. S. Harv. M. H. S. U. S. U. T. S. Y. C. 26. A Sermon [from Titus iii, J, and Joel ii, 1-2], delivered at Charlestown, July 23, 1812, the day appointed . ., to be observed in Biographical Sketches, 1783 303 Fasting and Prayer . . ; in consequence of a declaration of War with Great Britain. . . Charlestown, 1812. 8, pp. 32. [A. A. S. Boivdoin Coll. Brit. Mus. C. H. S. Harv. U. S. U. T. S. Y. C. 27. An Appeal to the Public, on the controversy respecting the Revolution in Harvard College, and the events which have followed it ; occasioned by the use which has been made of certain complaints and accusations of Miss Hannah Adams, against the author. Charlestown, 1814. 8, pp. 192. [A. A. S. B. Ath. B. Publ. Bowdoin Coll. Brit. Mus. Harv. N. Y. H. S. U. T. S. Y. C. The pamphlet is mainly occupied with an answer to Miss Adams, who was aggrieved at a supposed endeavor of Dr. Morse to sup- plant a work of hers by the Compendious History of New England. The author is not altogether satisfactory in his defence. Three editions were published, the last in 1820. 28. The Gospel Harvest, illustrated in a Sermon [from Luke x, 1-2], delivered at the Old South Church, in Boston, before the Society for Foreign Missions of Boston and vicinity, at their Annual Meeting, Jan. 2, 1815. Boston, 1815. 8, pp. 28. [U. S. U. T. S. 29. The Christian Ambassador. A Sermon [from 2 Cor. v, 20] delivered at the Ordination of Rev. Eliakim Phelps, . . in Brookfield, October 23, 1816. Brookfield, 1817. 8, pp. 24. [But. Mus. C. H. S. U. T. S. Y. C. The sermon occupies pp. 1-17. 30. A Sermon [from Psalms ii, 8J, delivered before the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, at their Annual Meeting in Springfield, Massachusetts, September 19, 1821. . . Boston, 1821. 8, pp. 36. [A. A. S. Bowdoin Coll. Brit. Mus. C. H. S. M. H. S. N. Y. H. S. U. T. S. Y. C. The same. Second Edition. Washington, 1822. 8, pp. 31. [N. Y. H. S. Y. C. 31. A Report to the Secretary of War of the United States, on Indian Affairs, comprising a Narrative of a Tour performed in the summer of 1820, under a commission from the President of the United States, for the purpose of ascertaining . . the actual state of the Indian Tribes . . New-Haven, 1822. 8, pp. 400 -J- 2 pi. [A. A. S. B. Ath. B. Publ. Bowdoin Coll. Brit. Mus. Harv. N. Y. H. S. N. Y. Soc. Libr. U. S. U. T. S. Y. C. 304 Yale College An important historical record, representing much labor; it has been described by a competent authority as "the most complete and exhaustive report of the condition, numbers, territory and general affairs of the Indians ever made." 32. Annals of the American Revolution . . . Hartford, 1824. 8, pp. iii, 400 +50 + 5 pi. [B. PubL Brit. Mus. Harv. Y. C. An unimportant compilation. Many other publications of his pen appeared in the periodicals which he edited, or as parts of the works of others. As examples may be mentioned a Review of Belsham's American Unitarianism, and a Review of the Unitarian Controversy, extracted from the Panoplist, 1815-1816, which had an important influence in their day. His name also appears as joint author with others of various atlases and other subsidiary geographical works. The argument in favor of Sumptuary Laws which he delivered on obtaining his Master's degree at Yale was printed in The New- Haven Gazette for October 5 & 12, 1786. An edition of Lord Chesterfield's Letters, revised by him, was published at Boston in 1801. He also published an Adaptation of Winchell's Arrangement of Watts's Psalms and Hymns to Congregational and Presbyterian Worship. AUTHORITIES. A. B. C. F. M. Memorial Volume, iv, 381-84, 406-08, 426-28. Memorial 113-15. /. Q. Adams, Memoirs, iv, of Morse Family, 128, 274-80. Morris 510-11. Child Genealogy, 259-60. Family Register, 25-26. New Eng- Drake, Historic Fields and Mansions land Magazine, N. S., xxviii, 516-24. of Middlesex, 16-19. Hill, Hist, of Salisbury, Family-Memorials, 484-96. the Old South Church, Boston, ii, 245, Sprague, Annals of the Amer. Pulpit, 326. Hunnewell, Century of Town ii, 247-56; Life of J. Morse. Pres. Life in Charlestown, 20-21, 26, 187- Stiles, Literary Diary, ii, 518; iii, 219, 89, 193, 297-98. Mass. Hist. Society's 229, 244, 246-48, 262, 276, 291, 311, 332. Collections, 5th Series, iii, 30-31, 73- Wyman, Charlestown Genealogies 76, 84, 98, 125, 260, 371 ; 6th Series, and Estates, ii, 686. AMOS PEARCE, the youngest child of Deacon John and Hannah (Twichell) Pearce, of Southbury, in Woodbury, Connecticut, and grandson of John and Comfort (Jen- ners) Pearce, was born on August 9, 1763. The Rev. Dr. George E. Pierce (Yale 1816) was his nephew. Biographical Sketches, 1783 305 In March of his Junior year he was expelled from Col- lege for participation in some riotous disorders; but on public confession of his fault he was restored to his Class in the July before graduation. He studied law, and settled as a practitioner in Philadel- phia, where he died, unmarried, probably in 1798. His name was first starred in the College Triennial Catalogue of Graduates in 1802. AUTHORITIES. Cothren, Hist, of Woodbury, i, 670. Literary Diary, iii, 12, 77-78. Peirce Genealogy, 53. Pres. Stiles, SAMUEL PENFIELD came to College from Fairfield, Connecticut, being a son of Samuel and Elizabeth (Lewis) Penfield, of that town, and grandson of Peter and Mary (Allen) Penfield, also of Fairfield. During his Sopho- more year he lived in President Stiles's family. He was engaged in business in Fairfield, and died there, probably early in November, 1791. His widow survived him. AUTHORITIES. Pres. Stiles, Literary Diary, ii, 542. NOAH AMHERST PHELPS, the eldest child of General Noah Phelps, of Simsbury, Connecticut, and grandson of Lieutenant David and Abigail (Pettibone) Phelps, of Simsbury, was born on May 3, 1762. His mother was Lydia, daughter of Edward and Abigail (Gay lord) Griswold, of Windsor, Connecticut. His middle name was probably given in honor of General Amherst, then recently appointed Governor-general of the British pos- sessions in America. He settled in his native town, and after studying law practiced it for many years. He was an active man in 306 Yale College public affairs, and represented Simsbury in the General Assembly in nine sessions between 1799 and 1809. He was also Postmaster of the town for some five or six years before his death, and attained the rank of Colonel in the militia. He died in Simsbury on June 19, 1817, in his 66th year. His miniature is reproduced in the Phelps Family Genealogy. He married, on July 31, 1784, Charlotte, daughter of Ezekiel and Rosannah (Pettibone) Wilcox, of 'Norfolk, Connecticut, who died on December 15, 1831, in her 66th year. Their children were three daughters and five sons, all of whom lived to maturity. The eldest son entered Yale in 1805, but soon withdrew. The fourth son was grad- uated from the Yale Medical School in 1825. AUTHORITIES. Phelps Family, i, 206, 349-50. Stiles, Hist, of Windsor, 2d ed., ii, 575, 577-78. THEODORE PITKIN, the second son of Colonel William and Abigail Pitkin, of East Hartford, Connecticut, and grandson of Governor William and Mary (Woocfbridge) Pitkin, was born in East Hartford in 1764. A brother was graduated in 1787. Their mother was a sister of James Church (Yale 1756). He made his home in East Hartford, but followed no profession. He was commonly known as Major Pitkin, from the rank in the militia which he attained in 1808. He married, on January 29, 1789, his second cousin, Elizabeth, elder daughter of Captain Elisha Pitkin (Yale J753)- Their children were two sons, and the parents finally removed to the residence of the elder son, in Rochester, New York, where Major Pitkin died on June 3, 1829, Biographical Sketches, 1783 307 aged 65 years. His widow died on October 13, 1845, in her 8 ist year. AUTHORITIES. Bailey, Early Conn. Marriages, ii, 86. Pitkin Genealogy, 26, 30, 47. EDWARD SELDEN came to College from Haddam, Con- necticut, where he was born on July 22, 1758, the youngest of four children of Captain Joseph and Silence (Fuller) Selden, and grandson of Thomas and Sarah Selden, of Haddam. He married Sibyl, eldest daughter of the Rev. Eleazar May (Yale 1752), of Haddam, in January, 1784, and early took a prominent part in the life of his native town. He represented the town in the Legislature at fourteen sessions between 1787 and 1805; but about 1806 he removed to Windsor, Connecticut, where he died about the ist of January, 1829, aged 70 years. His wife died in 1849, m ner 89th year. Their children were six daughters and one son (who was graduated at Yale in 1811). The youngest daughter married the Rev. Sylvester Eaton (Williams College 1816). "Squire Selden" was a marked man in many respects; of large stature and well proportioned, he had gigantic strength and great powers of endurance. He was trial- justice for many years, and his decisions were universally respected. AUTHORITIES. Bailey, Early Conn. Marriages, i, Diary, i, 312. 50. May Family, 85, 89. T. Robbins, JOHN COTTON SMITH, the younger son of the Rev. Cotton Mather Smith (Yale 1751), was born in Sharon, Connecticut, on February 12, 1765. His preparation for College was completed under the Rev. Daniel Brinsmade 308 Yale College (Yale 1745), of Judea Society, now Washington, Connec- ticut. Immediately upon graduation he entered on the study of law in the office of the Honorable John Canfield (Yale 1762), in his native village; and the sudden death of his preceptor (in October, 1786), about the time of his admis- sion to the bar, made an opening for his settlement in Sharon from the outset. He married, on October 29, 1786, Margaret (or Peggy) Evertson, of Amenia, Duchess County, New York, a neighboring town to Sharon. In May, 1793, he was first chosen to represent the town in the General Assembly; and from 1796 to 1800 he was, without interruption, a member of the Lower House. At the fall session in 1799 he was appointed Clerk; and in both sessions of the following year he occupied the Speaker's chair. In October, 1800, at an election held to supply a vacancy caused by resignation, he was chosen by the Federalists as a Member of Congress ; and he served in that capacity for six years, commanding the respect and winning the confidence of the House and of the country in a time of violent party excitement. He resigned his seat in July, 1806, in order to minister to his father's old age; and did not resume practice at the bar, but devoted himself to the management of his farm and to literary pursuits. But he was again sent to the General Assembly in the fall of the same year, when he was chosen Speaker; and he represented his native town without intermission until 1809, when he was elected to the Upper House. In October, 1809, he was appointed an Associate Judge of the Superior Court; and he reluc- tantly resigned this position in May, 1811, to accept the place of Lieutenant-Governor. The illness of Governor Roger Griswold (Yale 1780) during the summer of 1812 imposed unusual responsibilities on his subordinate; and the Governor's death, in October of that year, made him Biographical Sketches, 1783 309 Acting-Governor. For the four following years, and until the political revolution of 1817 he was elected to the office of Governor, which he filled with eminent ability and faithfulness. From this date until his death, he lived upon his estate in his native town, wholly retired from politics. Much of his time was given to religious studies, and to duties con- nected with various Societies in which he was an officer. He was the first President of the Connecticut Bible Society; in 1826 he was chosen President of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, but resigned the office in 1841 on account of his infirmities, especially his deafness; the Presidency of the American Bible Society he retained from 1831 until his death. In 1814 the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws was conferred on him by Yale College. In 1845 ne consented to preside at the Alumni meeting in New Haven, on August 20, the day before Commence- ment; the fatigue of the journey and the excitement of the occasion affected him unfavorably, and after his return home an illness followed, accompanied by extreme suffering, and terminated by his death, on December 7, 1845, m m ' s 8 ist year. An Eulogy pronounced before the Connecticut Histori- cal Society in May, 1846, by the Rev. William W. Andrews (Yale 1831), of Kent, Connecticut, was pub- lished in 1847, with selections from his correspondence and Miscellanies. His portrait is preserved in the Con- necticut Historical Society, and is engraved in Hollister's History of Connecticut. A profile by Saint-Memin is engraved in Marion Harland's Some Colonial Home- steads. Mrs. Smith died on May 10, 1837, aged 72 years. Their only child was graduated at Yale in 1805. Governor Smith was a man of spotless purity of char- acter, who dignified and adorned every station to which he was called. His natural endowments were of a superior 310 Yale College order, and he was distinguished for the uniform courtesy of his deportment. He was especially happy as a pre- siding officer over deliberative bodies. He published: An Oration, pronounced at Sharon, on the Anniversary of Amer- ican Independence, 4th of July, 1798. Litchfield. 8, pp. 23. [B. Publ. Y. C. He also contributed to the first volume of Memoirs of the Con- necticut Academy of Sciences, New-Haven, 1810 (pp. 81-82), An Account of the Whitten Plaster. His Address at the Alumni Meeting of Yale College, 1845, was printed in the New Englander, vol. 3, pp. 624-26 (October, 1845). After his death was published : The Correspondence and Miscellanies of the Hon. John Cotton Smith, LL.D. . . with an Eulogy pronounced before the Connecticut Historical Society at New Haven, May 27th, 1846, by the Rev. Wil- liam W. Andrews. New York, 1847. I2 > PP- 3 2 ^. [Y. C. Extracts from his letters to his classmate Daggett in 1800-02 were printed in the Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society, 1887, iv, 375-78. AUTHORITIES. Bible Society Record, 1846, 209-12. 107-16. Sedgwick, Hist, of Sharon, Goodivin, Genealogical Notes, 196. 2d ed., 152-54, 184, 194. Sharon Hist, of Litchfield County, 1881, 20. Births, Marriages and Deaths, 116. Hollister, Hist, of Conn., ii, 20, 517- [Terhune], Some Colonial Home- 24. Kilbourne, Litchfield Biography, steads, 332-35. ISAAC STILES, the younger son of President Ezra Stiles (Yale 1746), was born in Newport, Rhode Island, on August 10, 1763. Immediately after graduation he went to the Southern States, with the expectation of finding employment as a private tutor and ultimately settling as a lawyer. Being disappointed in this plan he returned to New Haven, and after completing his studies for the bar he was admitted to practice here on April 6, 1785. Biographical Sketches, 1783 311 In March, 1786, he settled in Tolland, Connecticut, as a lawyer, but not being successful he returned to his father's house in September, 1787. Finally, in June, 1790, he embarked on a seafaring life, and was thus engaged until his death. In April, 1795 (three weeks before his father's death), he sailed from Philadelphia in the Brig Eagle, for Port au Prince, San Domingo; but was never heard from afterwards. AUTHORITIES. Pres. Stiles, Literary Diary, passim. RICHARD SALTER STORRS, the eldest son of the Rev. John Storrs (Yale 1756), was born in Mansfield, Connec- ticut, on August 30, 1763, and was named for the Rev. Dr. Salter, of Mansfield, whose wife was an aunt of his mother. His mother died in his infancy, and at the age of thirteen he was virtually adopted and thenceforth educated by Dr. Salter. At graduation he was chosen by the class to deliver the Latin salutatory oration. After graduation he returned to Mansfield and studied theology under Dr. Salter's direction, being licensed to preach by the Windham Association of Ministers on October 12, 1784. The pulpit in Longmeadow, Massachusetts, was made vacant in 1782 by the death of the Rev. Dr. Stephen Williams (Harvard 1713), and Mr. Storrs (who was the great-grandson of a brother of Dr. Williams) was employed as a candidate, with the result that on July 19, 1785, steps were taken for his settlement; and his ordi- nation and installation followed on December 7. The ordaining sermon by his father was subsequently pub- lished. He continued to discharge the duties of his office with- out interruption until the brief illness which preceded his 312 Yale College death, although for a number of his later years he suffered from a complication of distressing complaints. He died in Longmeadow, after five days' illness from typhus fever, on October 3, 1819, in his 57th year. He married, on October 12, 1785, Sarah (Sally), the elder sister of his classmate Williston, who died from consumption on January 27, 1798, in her 33d year. She was eminent for her piety and virtues and is commemo- rated in the sermon delivered at her funeral, by the Rev. Dr. Charles Backus (Yale 1769), which was published. He next married, in October, 1798, Sarah, third daugh- ter of Samuel and Lucy (Burt) Williams, of Long- meadow, and granddaughter of the Rev. Dr. Stephen Williams. She died on February 7, 1846, in her 8ist year. By his first marriage he had six sons and one daughter, and by his second marriage one son and two daughters. The eldest son, bearing his father's name, was graduated at Williams College in 1807, and became a distinguished clergyman, and the father of a third Richard Salter Storrs, who was yet more eminent. The fourth son also entered the ministry, and was cut down after a brief career of brilliant promise. A portrait of Mr. Storrs is copied in the Longmeadow Centennial Volume. Mr. Storrs was a natural orator, peculiarly gifted in public prayer, and a preacher of rare intellectual gifts; but throughout his ministry he was periodically subject to severe nervous headaches, which were followed by great depression. He published : Ministers of the Gospel characterized, as Servants of Christ, and Stewards of the mysteries of God. In a Sermon [from i Cor. iv, i], delivered at the Ordination of the Rev. Stephen Williams, . . in Fitz-William (N. H.) 5th November, 1800. Keene, 1801. 8, pp. 32. [A. A. S. Brown Univ. C. H. S. Biographical Sketches, Mr. Williams was the preacher's classmate, and also the first cousin of Mrs. Storrs. The sermon occupies pp. 1-24; and is a detailed and ingenious analysis of the method and end of preaching. AUTHORITIES. Bridgman, Northampton Epitaphs, Appendix, 94. E. A. Park, Sermon 145. Christian Spectator, ii, 54-56. at the funeral of Rev. R. S. Storrs, Conant Family, 244-45. Conn. Evan- D.D., 10-18. Sprague, Annals of the gelical Magazine, i, 34-37. Dwight, Amer. Pulpit, ii, 257-60. Storrs Strong Family, ii, 1152-53. Long- Family, 123-24, 126-30. meadow Centennial, 47-50, 170-71 ; JOHN WARNER, the eldest child of Captain John and Phebe (Basset) Warner, of New Haven, was baptized on November 18, 1764. He remained in New Haven until 1797 or a little later, being chiefly employed as a schoolmaster. By 1 80 1 he had removed to New York City, where he continued to follow the business of teaching. He fell dead in the streets of New York about the ist of November, 1812, at the age of 48 years. His wife Nancy, whom he married before August, 1797, was still living in 1804. STEPHEN WEED, the fifth son and ninth child of Heze- kiah Weed, of Stamford, Connecticut, and grandson of Daniel and Elizabeth Weed, of that town, was born there on August 13, 1758. His mother was Mercy, daughter of Obadiah and Susanna Seely, of Stamford. He was admitted to the College Church on profession of his faith in December of his Sophomore year. While in College his means were very limited. He is believed to have died in 1785, at the age of 27. AUTHORITIES. Pres. Stiles, Literary Diary, ii, 384, 489. 314 Yale College SAMUEL WELLES was admitted to the Senior Class in Yale on September 6, 1783, on letters of dismission from the Senior Class in Dartmouth College. Nothing more is known of him. AUTHORITIES. Pres. Stiles, Literary Diary, iii, 91. CHARLES [COOMER] WHITE, the son of Nathaniel White, Junior, of Lebanon, Connecticut, was born on March 8, 1763. His mother was Lois Coomer, from Plympton, Massachusetts, probably daughter of William and Joanna Coomer. He was a good classical scholar in College, and a candidate for the Berkeley Scholarship at graduation. The year after graduation he was teaching school in Norwich, Connecticut. Meantime he studied law, and on April 6, 1785, he was admitted to the bar in New Haven. The next year he made a tour of the Southern States in search of a place to settle, and part of a letter which he wrote to his classmate Daggett in October, 1786, describ- ing his experiences, is printed in the Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society for April, 1887 (pp. 067-68). He finally settled in Philadelphia, and in 1788 was employed as assistant teacher in the Episcopal Academy in that city. His name is marked as deceased in the Triennial Cata- logue of Graduates issued in the fall of 1796. AUTHORITIES. Perkins, Old Houses of Norwich, Diary, iii, 71. 377-78. Pres. Stiles, Literary Biographical Sketches, 1783 315 STEPHEN WILLIAMS, the third son of the Rev. Stephen Williams (Yale 1741), of (West) Woodstock, Connecti- cut, was born in Woodstock on August 8, 1762. He studied theology, probably with his father, and was licensed to preach by the Windham Association of Minis- ters on May 6, 1786. In 1799 his younger brother, Timothy Williams (Yale 1785), supplied for some months the vacant pulpit in Fitzwilliam, Cheshire County, New Hampshire; and early in 1800 Stephen Williams took his brother's place, and on June 25 of that year he was called by the church to be their pastor. The town voted in concurrence, and offered an annual salary of $400. The ordination and installation took place on November 4, 1800; and the sermon, by the pastor's classmate and kinsman, Richard S. Storrs, was afterwards published. Before the ordination, reports derogatory to Mr. Wil- liams's character and habits had been in circulation; and soon afterwards, though a fluent, pleasing speaker, of sound doctrinal belief, his fondness for intoxicating drinks became so apparent as to destroy his usefulness. By mutual consent a council was called, which dis- missed him from his charge on November 19, 1802. He returned to his native town, where he lived thence- forth in retirement and died on September 16, 1822, in his 6ist year. AUTHORITIES. Congregational Quarterly, iii, 355. Hampshire Churches, 261. Norton, Hasen, Ministry and Churches of N. Hist, of Fitzwilliam, 188-91. Hampshire, 13, 62. Lawrence, New PAYSON WILLISTON, the eldest child of the Rev. Noah Williston (Yale 1757), was born in West Haven, Con- necticut, on June 12, 1763. He saw some service in the army before entering Yale. He united with the College Church on profession of faith, the July before his grad- uation. 316 Yale College He studied theology with the Rev. Dr. Benjamin Trum- bull, of North Haven, and was licensed to preach by the Association of New Haven County on May 25, 1784. On April 6, 1789, he received a call to settle as the first pastor of the Congregational Church in Easthampton, Massachusetts, on a salary of 70; and having accepted the call he was ordained there on August 13, 1789, the sermon being preached by his father. For forty-four years he faithfully performed his full duties, but in March, 1833, m y i ew f hi nearness to his 7Oth birthday, he offered his resignation. In accordance with his desire, his dismission was reluctantly acceded to, but he continued to reside among his former people until his death, in Easthampton, on January 30, 1856, in his 93d year. He was the last survivor of his class, and had out- lived all who were graduated before him. He married, on September 12, 1790, Sarah, daughter of the Rev. Nathan Birdseye (Yale 1736), of Stratford, Connecticut, who died in September, 1845, at the a " e ^ 82. The sermon preached at her funeral by the Rev. President Humphrey, of Amherst College, was afterwards published. Their children were three sons and two daughters. The eldest son died in infancy, and the second was the munificent founder of Williston Seminary in Easthamp- ton. The younger daughter was the mother of Professor Josiah Dwight Whitney (Yale 1839), f Professor Wil- liam Dwight Whitney (Williams Coll. 1845), an d of James Lyman Whitney (Yale 1856). Mr. Williston was a thoroughly modest and gentle man, whose earnestness and deep interest in his people made his long ministry a success and a blessing. AUTHORITIES. Bailey, Early Conn. Marriages, v, in the Revolution, 347-48. Lyman, 101. 5". D. Clark, Memoir of J. Hist, of East Hampton, 26-31, 179. Woodbridge, 380-81. Dwight, Strong Pres. Stiles, Literary Diary, ii, 385 ; Family, ii, 1151-52. Johnston, Yale iii, 78, 362. Biographical Sketches, 1783 317 THOMAS GOODSELL WOLCOTT, the only son of Jeremiah Wolcott, and grandson of Dr. Alexander Wolcott (Yale 1731), of Windsor, Connecticut, was born in Branford on August 1 6 (or 17), 1764, and was baptized in New Haven on October 7. His mother was Sarah, only child of Thomas Goodsell (Yale 1724), of East Haven. In March of his Junior year he was expelled from College for participation in a serious disorder, and was not admitted to a degree until a year after his Class had been graduated. He married, on May 27, 1789, Lucy, daughter of Henry Hoffman, of Branford, Connecticut, and had by her five daughters and one son; the latter was graduated at the Yale Medical School in 1823, but died before his father. Mr. Wolcott was teaching school in North Branford in 1792. In later years he lived mainly in Branford and North Haven. He died in the alms-house in New York City, on Janu- ary 22, 1847, m ms &3d year. AUTHORITIES. Conn. Journal, Apr. 25, 1792. Pres. 2d ed., ii, 811. Wolcott Memorial, Ezra Stiles, Literary Diary, iii, 12, 79, 209, 393. 136. H. R. Stiles, Hist, of Windsor, 318 Yale College Annals, 1783-84 The places of the two tutors who had resigned at Com- mencement in 1783 were filled at the opening of the fall term by the accession of Simeon Baldwin and Henry Channing, of the Class of 1781. In the following May Tutor Meigs resigned, and was succeeded by Enoch Per- kins, also of the Class of 1781. An anonymous pamphlet, now known to have been written by Samuel W. Dana (Yale 1775), a young lawyer in Middletown, appeared in January, 1784, with the title, Yale-College subject to the General Assembly. It was largely a legal argument on the right of the Assembly to exercise visitatorial powers; but does not appear to have led to any action. The pamphlet was written with the. concurrence of the Rev. Dr. Timothy Dwight; and also with the approval of the writer's father, the Rev. Dr. James Dana, of New Haven. The critics of the College who had made themselves heard in a Hartford newspaper in 1783 (see above, p. 246), returned to the charge in the Connecticut Journal, pub- lished at New Haven, in April to June, 1784; four articles appeared, with three in reply. Various new points of attack were made, such as objections to the choice of none but Congregational ministers into the Corporation, and to the mode of Professor Wales's removal from Milford. The earlier articles were designed to pave the way for the presentation of a Memorial to the General Assembly, in May, praying for an alteration in the Charter of the College by adding a number of laymen to the clerical members. The Assembly, however, rejected the petition. To the same source as these articles is to be ascribed a petition, purporting to be from the undergraduates, which Biographical Sketches, 1784 319 was presented to the Corporation in March, 1784, praying for the publication of detailed information about the expenditure of amounts received from students. In January, 1784, New Haven was advanced by the General Assembly to the rank of a city. Sketches, Class of 1784 *Joel Augur, A.M. *Stephanus Ball, A.M. * Jonathan Barnes, A.M. *i829 *Amos Bassett, A.M., S.T.D. Guilielm. 1817, Tutor, Socius *i828 *Georgius Bliss, A.M., LL.D. Harv. 1823 *i8so *Guilielmus Bradley, A.M. *i843 *Guilielmus Brown *i8o3 *Henricus Caldwell *i82i *Henricus Caldwell, A.M. 1790 *i8i2 *Jahacobus Catlin, A.M., S.T.D. 1822 *i826 *Russell Catlin *i84- *Rogerus Cogswell *i8i9 *Daniel Cone *I786 *Josephus Denison, A.M., Tutor "1789 *Henricus Packer Bering, A.M. 1791 *i822 *Henricus Dow, A.M. 1790 *i8i4 *Jael Edson *Josephus Eliot *Saulus Fowler *i852 *Elihu Chauncaeus Goodrich, A.M. *i8o2 *Ray Greene, A.M., Rerump. Foed. Sen. *i849 *Elija Gridley, A.M. 1797 *:822 *Sethus Hart *Simeon Hinman 320 Yale College *Timotheus Hinman *i8io *Uriel Holmes, e Congr. "1827 *Thomas Holt, AM. et Harv. 1793 "1836 *Heaton Huggins, A.M. *i?94 *Jabez Huntington, A.M. 1790 "1848 *Radulphus Isaacs *i8i5 *Melinus Conklin Leaven worth *i822 *Chauncaeus Lee, A.M., S.T.D. Columb. 1823 "1842 *Guilielmus Lord *i852 *Guilielmus Lyman, A.M., S.T.D. Neo-Caes. 1808 *i833 *Guilielmus Mansfield *i8i6 *Silas Marsh, A.M. *Samuel Mather, A.M. "1789 *Lemuel Mead *i826 *Elisaeus Munson, A.M. "1841 *Jabez Peck *i?9i * Jonas Prentice, A.M. *i8c>4 ^Benjamin Strong Roe * : 795 * Johannes Punderson Seward (post obit.) *i?84 *Jared Spencer *i82O *Josephus Strong, A.M. *i823 * Johannes Taylor, A.M. *i84O *Andreas Tuttle, A.M. "1807 *Jacobus Wakelee *Roswell Welles, A.M. "1830 *Deodatus Wildman * 1 787 *Hezekias North Woodruff, A.M. 1790 *i833 ^ Aaron Woolworth, A.M., S.T.D. Neo-Caes. 1809 *i82i JOEL AUGUR was baptized in New Haven on April 6, 1766. He was the eldest son of Deacon Abraham Augur, of Woodbridge, then part of New Haven, by his second wife (Sarah, widow of Thomas Allcock, of East Haven), and grandson of John and Elizabeth (Bradley) Augur, of East Haven. A younger brother was for a time a mem- ber of the same class. Biographical Sketches, 1784 321 Nothing is known of his history, beyond his receiving his Master's degree in 1787. His name was first starred in the Triennial Catalogue, of 1826; but this may have been through confusion with another of the name who died in New Haven in April of that year, in his 47th year. , AUTHORITIES. Augur Family, 46. STEPHEN BALL, the third child and only surviving son of Deacon Stephen Ball, of New Haven, and nephew of the Rev. Eliphalet Ball (Yale 1748), was born in New Haven on February 17, 1762. His mother was Abigail, youngest child of Jonathan and Abigail (Bradley) Atwater, of New Haven. A sister married Captain Henry Daggett, Junior (Yale 1775). He spent his life in New Haven, and was latterly known as Colonel Ball, from the rank which he held in the militia. He died here on June 29, 1842, in his 8ist year. His wife, Nabby, died on December i, 1841, aged 65 years. One daughter and two sons survived their parents. AUTHORITIES. Atwater History, 136. Tuttle Family, 146. JONATHAN BARNES, the eldest child of Jonathan Barnes, of Southington, then a parish in Farmington, Connecticut, and grandson of Stephen and Martha (Whedon) Barnes, of Branford and Southington, was born on March 13, 1763. His mother was Elizabeth, eldest daughter of Hezekiah and Sarah (Mason) Woodruff, of Southington. He was admitted to College in August, 1780 his exami- nation having been asked for at that early date in order to secure him exemption from military draft. 21 3 22 Yale College He studied law and settled in Tolland, Connecticut, where he was highly esteemed, not only in his profession but also in social life. Besides uncommon intellectual ability and legal attainments, he was remarkable for promptness and scrupulous exactness in all his dealings. In religious matters he would not commit himself to any creed, but did with earnestness the duty that lay next him. He was State's Attorney for Tolland County from 1808 until his death. He died in Tolland on September 24, 1829, in his 67th year. He married, on February 19, 1789, Rachel, third daugh- ter of Josiah and Elizabeth (Colton) Steele, of Hinesburg, Vermont, and sister of the Rev. Marshfield Steele (Yale 1790). She had been adopted and brought up by her uncle, the Rev. George Colton (Yale 1756), of Bolton, Connecticut. She died in Tolland on July 24, 1847, aged 83 years. Their children were six sons and a daughter (who married Alanson Abbe, M.D. Yale 1821). The first, second, and fifth sons were graduates of Yale College, in the years 1809, 1815, and 1825, respectively. AUTHORITIES. Durrie, Steele Family, 24. Pres. low, Hist, of Southington, 516, xviii- Stiles, Literary Diary, ii, 458. Tim- xix. AMOS BASSETT, the second son of Deacon Amos Bassett, of Seymour, then part of Derby, Connecticut, and grand- son of Captain Samuel and Deborah (Bennett) Bassett, of Derby, was born on June 17, 1764. His mother was Olive Glover, of Newtown, Connecticut. After graduation he taught, in Schenectady, New York, and elsewhere; and in June, 1789, entered on a tutorship in College which he filled with universal esteem until Sep- tember, 1793. He was admitted to the College Church on Biographical Sketches, 1784 323 profession of faith in December, 1790, and having studied theology under the direction of President Stiles he was licensed to preach by the New Haven Western Association on October 30, 1792. After preaching in other places he was called to the Congregational Church in Hebron, Connecticut, where he was ordained and installed on November 5, 1794. During his ministry he gave instruction to many private pupils. He was elected to membership in the Corporation of Yale College in September, 1810. The honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity was given him by Williams College in 1817. He had nearly completed thirty years of faithful ser- vice, and was still strong in the affections of a united people, when he was called to another sphere of duty. The American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions had established at Cornwall, Connecticut, in 1816, a Foreign Mission School, for the education of heathen youth; and after the failure of the health of the first principal, Dr. Bassett was invited to succeed to his place. He accepted the call, and was dismissed from his pastor- ate on September 28, 1824. He gave satisfaction in his new duties, but shortly before his arrival a Cherokee Indian who was a pupil in the School had married a white woman whom he met there; and when in March, 1826, another similar marriage took place, so much feeling was aroused, among the villagers that it was thought best to discontinue the School. Dr. Bassett then removed to Monroe, in Fairfield County, Connecticut, where he supplied the Congrega- tional Church until his death. He had just been invited to take charge of a literary institution in New Jersey, and was making arrangements to enter on his duties, when he was seized with illness while conducting service in Monroe, on Sunday, March 30, 1828; he died on the following Thursday, April 3, in his 324 Yale College 64th year. He had resigned his position as Fellow of the College in the preceding September. Dr. Bassett was distinguished for sound judgment, universal benevolence, and faithful service; but his most marked characteristic was his humility and diffidence which led him to shrink from public observation. He married, on March 30, 1796, Sarah (or Sally), daughter of Captain Sylvanus Tinker, of East Haddam, Connecticut, who died in Hebron on February 26, 1798, aged 25 years. He next married, on May 17, 1801, Sophia, elder daugh- ter of Deacon Martin and Elizabeth (Strong) Bull, of Farmington, Connecticut, who died in Hebron on Febru- ary 7, 1805, in her 36th year. She was a niece of the Rev. Dr. Cyprian Strong (Yale 1763), who preached her funeral sermon. He was married thirdly, on January 19, 1807, by the Rev. Dr. Abel Flint, to Eunice, daughter of Ralph Pom- eroy (Princeton College 1758), of Hartford, Connecticut, and granddaughter of the Rev. Dr. Benjamin Pomeroy (Yale 1733), of Hebron. By his first wife he had one daughter; by his second wife one son (Yale 1823) ; and one son by his third wife. He published : 1. Advantages and Means of Union in Society. A Sermon [from Ps. cxxxiii, i], preached at the Anniversary Election, in Hart- ford, May I4th, 1807. Hartford, 1807. 8, pp. 34. [A. A. S. B. Aih. Brit. Mus. N. Y. H. S. Y. C. Perhaps the most noticeable passage in the Sermon is a strong plea for temperance. 2. He was also the anonymous author of the following : Reply to Mr. Abbot's Statement of Proceedings in the First Soci- ety in Coventry, Connecticut. By the Association in Tolland County. Hartford, 1812. 8, pp. 48. [A. A. S. B. Ath. Y. C. The Rev. Abiel Abbot (Harvard 1787,) of Coventry, had been disciplined by his ministerial brethren for Unitarian sentiments, and Mr. Bassett was a prominent actor in the matter. Biographical Sketches, 1784 325 He also printed, in The Connecticut Evangelical Magazine for July, 1804 (vol. 5, pp. 5-8, 41-45) : A Missionary Sermon [from 'John viii, 56], delivered at Hart- ford on the Evening of the Election Day, May 10, 1804. AUTHORITIES. Bailey, Early Conn. Marriages, vi, 697, 803. Religious Intelligencer, xii, 129. Campbell, Seymour, past and 735. Sprague, Annals of the Amer. present, 388. Dwight, Strong Fam- Pulpit, ii, 294. Pres. Stiles, Literary ily, ij 307. Gold, Hist, of Cornwall, Diary, iii, 251-52, 357, 406, 478, 504, 29, 84-85. Missionary Herald, xxiv^ 544. 165. Orcutt, Hist, of Derby, 676-77, GEORGE BLISS, the eldest child of the Hon. Moses Bliss (Yale 1755), was born in Springfield, Massachusetts, on December 13, 1764. He was admitted to the College Church on profession of faith in July of his Junior year. After graduation he studied law with his father, and in the last year of his tutelage he enlisted in a company of volunteers and was active in the suppression of the Shays Rebellion. He was admitted to practice as an attorney in 1787, and became an eminent lawyer. He also trained many students of the law, and is reported to have been more than usually attentive to their instruction. In 1800 he was elected to the Massachusetts House of Representatives, and in 1805 to the State Senate. He was a strong Federalist, and in 1814 a member of the Hartford Convention. In recognition of his ability the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws was conferred on him by Harvard College in 1823. He was a trustee of Wil- liams College from 1820 to 1825. He was sincerely religious, and for years a Deacon in the First Church of Springfield, and an adherent to that church when the Unitarians seceded. From 1808 to 1826 he was one of the Board of Visitors of the Andover Theological Semi- nary. 326 Yale College He died in Springfield on March 8, 1830, in his 66th year. On May 22, 1789, he married Hannah, third daughter of Dr. John Clark (Yale 1749), of Lebanon, Connecticut; one of her elder brothers had already married his eldest sister. Mrs. Bliss died on September 19, 1795, in her 32d year; and he next married, on May 29, 1799, Mary, second daughter of John Lothrop (Yale 1762), of New Haven. She died on May I, 1803, in her 37th year; and he next married, on November 15, 1804, Abigail (or Nabby), youngest child of the late Rev. David Sherman Rowland (Yale 1743), of Windsor, Connecticut, who survived him, dying on January 21, 1832, in her 58th year. By his first marriage he had three daughters, one of whom died in childhood, and a son. His third wife also bore him three daughters, one of whom died in infancy, and one son. The elder son was graduated at Yale in 1812, and the younger at Amherst in 1831. The third daughter married the Rev. Joseph Brackett (Williams Coll. 1815). On the death of Mr. Bliss the following tribute appeared in the American Jurist in 1830: In his whole bearing as a jurist, and in all his various relations at the bar, he was eminently distinguished by fidelity, integrity, honesty of purpose, and high moral purity. His manners wore the sem- blance of austerity, yet such was not his temperament. The appear- ance arose entirely from his being habitually a man of thoughtful- ness. His conversation was full of instruction, enlivened with interesting anecdotes and occasional sallies of wit. The historian of the Hartford Convention describes him as an eminent lawyer, distinguished in the profession for extensive learning, unwearied industry, uncommon intelligence, the strictest integrity, and the most unshaken independence both of principle and of conduct. Biographical Sketches, 1784 327 AUTHORITIES. W. G. Bates, Address at the Dedi- the Hartford Convention, 427. cation of the New Court House, 46- Goodwin, Genealogical Notes, 27, 48. Bliss Genealogy, 87, 157-58. A\- 29-30. Huntington, Lathrop Family Bradford, Biographical Notices, 68. Memoir, 124. Morris, Hist, of the Chapin, Old Springfield, 57-59. Dur- First Church in Springfield, 42, 47. fee, Biogr. Annals of Williams Col- Pres. Ezra Stiles, Literary Diary, ii, lege, 64. B. W. Dwight, Dwight 476; iii, 78. H. R. Stiles, Hist, of Family, ii, 883. T. Dwight, Hist, of Windsor, 2d ed., ii, 664. WILLIAM BRADLEY, the second child and elder son of Joseph and Sarah (Hill) Bradley, of Guilford and New Haven, Connecticut, and grandson of Joseph and Priscilla (Redfield) Bradley, of Guilford, was born in New Haven on October 27, 1766. He settled as a merchant in Lansingburg, New York, thence removing about 1800 to Troy, where he had a prominent and successful career. He was one of the early vestrymen of St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Troy. He died in Troy, in January, 1843, m n ^ s 67th year. He married Sarah French. They had no children. AUTHORITIES. N. E. Hist, and Geneal. Register, dred Years, 52, 56, 90, 94, 114, 323. Ivii, 140. Weise, Troy's One Hun- WILLIAM BROWN was born in East Guilford, or Madi- son, then part of Guilford, Connecticut, on November 30, 1764, the son of Samuel Brown, of East Guilford, and grandson of James and Esther (Broughton) Brown, of Middletown, Connecticut. His mother was Hannah Lan- don, of Southold, Long Island, a daughter of Judge Samuel and Bethia (Tuthill) Landon. In 1785 he went to Middletown, Connecticut, where he lived for about seven years in the family of Dr. Fred- erick Redfield, whose wife was his sister. There he studied law with Samuel W. Dana and was admitted to practice. He was City Clerk from 1789 to 1792. 328 Yale College Becoming dissatisfied with the prospects for advance- ment in Middletown, he returned to his father's house in 1793, and mainly devoted himself to the care of his aged parents. He married, on January 22, 1795, in East Guilford, Rachel, daughter of Josiah and Anne (Cramp- ton) Bishop. He represented the town in four sessions of the General Court in 1794-96. In 1797 he established himself in his profession in Hart- ford, Connecticut, and removed his family thither in 1798. He soon became distinguished at the bar, and prominent among the Federalists of the State ; but he died, in Hart- ford, from scarlet fever, after a short illness, on Novem- ber 8, 1803, aged nearly thirty-nine years. His wife survived him, with four daughters and one son. She returned to East Guilford, but on January 3, 1813, married Major John Caldwell, of Hartford, and died in Hartford on July 22, 1850, at the age of 79. The eldest daughter married the Rev. Horace Hooker (Yale 1815) ; the second daughter married the Hon. Fran- cis Parsons (Yale 1816) ; and the third daughter married the Rev. Henry Robinson (Yale 1811). The son was graduated from the Yale Medical School in 1826. He published : i. An Oration, spoken at Hartford, in the State of Connecticut, on the Anniversary of American Independence, July 4th, A.D. 1799. Hartford, 1799. 8, pp. 23. [Ham N. Y. H. S. Y. C. The author speaks as an ardent Federalist, and in particular warns his hearers against the danger of foreign alliances, especially with France. "An Elegy in memory of the late William Brown, Esq.", consist- ing of twenty four- line stanzas, was published as a broadside at Hartford soon after his death. , AUTHORITIES. Conn. Courant, Nov. 16, 1803. Francis Parsons, MS. Letter, Aug. Field, Centennial Address at Middle- 8, 1905. town, 206. Humphreys Family, 464. Biographical Sketches, 1784 329 HARRY CALDWELL, the only child of Nathaniel Caldwell (Yale 1757), of Guilford, Connecticut, was born in Guil- ford on December n, 1762. While in College he was a member of the Episcopal Church. Soon after graduation he removed to Petersburg, in what is now Elbert County, Georgia, where he remained as a planter for some years. In his later years he was a merchant in Jersey City, New Jersey, where he died in 1821. He married Catharine, daughter of Joseph Pynchon, of Guilford, a classmate of his father. She was born on August 22, 1768. They had seven daughters and one son. , AUTHORITIES. N. E. Hist, and Geneal. Register, ii, 521 ; iii, 370. Iviii, 37. Pres. Stiles, Literary Diary, HENRY CALDWELL, son of Charles Caldwell, of Hart- ford, Connecticut, was baptized in the First Church in that town on April 21, 1765. He became a Captain in the United States Marine Corps, and died at the Navy Yard in Charlestown, Massa- chusetts, on March 12, 1812, aged 47 years. His portrait is preserved in the rooms of the Connecti- cut Historical Society at Hartford. , AUTHORITIES. Historical Catalogue of ist Church, Hartford, 227. JACOB CATLIN, son of Jacob Catlin^ a farmer of Har- winton, Connecticut, was born in Harwinton in March, 1758. His mother was Hannah, daughter of Deacon Daniel and Sarah Phelps, of Windsor and Harwinton. He was early trained to the work of the farm, but event- 33 Yale College ually becoming religious he was prepared for College by his pastor, the Rev. David Perry (Yale 1772). He joined the College Church by profession of faith in July, 1783. For about a year after graduation he was engaged in teaching; and he then prosecuted his theological studies in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, under the direction of the Rev. Dr. Stephen West (Yale 1755), whose funeral ser- mon he preached many years later. . ' On July 4, 1787, he was ordained as pastor of the Con- gregational Church in New Marlborough, in the southern part of Berkshire County, Massachusetts. Later in the same year he married Mrs. Xenia Strong, a daughter of John and Beulah (Stearns) Jackson, of Tyringham, Massachusetts (born February n, 1760), and the widow of Joseph Strong, a farmer of New Marl- borough, whom she married in June, 1779, and who died in December, 1786. She had by her first husband one son (Yale 1797) and two daughters. By his marriage Mr. Catlin became possessed of a farm, which he managed with great skill, while at the same time -diligent in his parochial work. He also fitted a consider- able number of young men for College, and several others pursued theological studies with him. He was a Trustee of Williams College from 1807 to 1822. In 1822 the degree of Doctor of Divinity was conferred on him by Yale College. Not far from two hundred and fifty persons were added to the church during his ministry. As early as 1822 his mind began to decay, and gradually his bodily and mental powers failed. A colleague pastor was settled in January, 1826, and Dr. Catlin died on April 12, 1826, in his 69th year. His wife survived him. Their children were four sons and three daughters. One son became a physician, and another was graduated at Williams College in 1821 and studied for the ministry. Dr. Catlin was earnest, serious-minded, and thorough in his professional work, and had the esteem of all his par- Biographical Sketches, 1784 331 ishioners. Without any brilliant gifts he was always faithful and consistent, remarkably patient and indus- trious, and strictly Calvinistic in doctrine. He published : i 1. The moral character of Christ the standard of social virtue. A Sermon [from Eph. ii, 20] delivered in New-Marlborough ; on the first day of the year of our Lord, 1796; before the Free and Accepted Masons of the Cincinnatus Lodge: it being the day of their instalment . . . Stockbridge, 1797. 16, pp. 22. [A. A. S. B. Publ. 2. The Gentiles inheritance of the blessing of Abraham, through Jesus Christ; illustrated in a Sermon [from Gal. iii, 13-14]* delivered at New-Marlborough, in the Year of Our Lord 1798. Hartford, 1799. 12, pp. 36. [B. Ath. U. T. S. Y. C. The sermon which gives the title occupies pp. 1-26; and the remaining pages are given to the following, by the same author : A Sermon [from Ps. xcvii, 7], delivered at the Funeral of the Reverend John Stevens, Pastor of the Second Church in New- Marlborough, who departed this life, January 6th, 1799. Another edition is as follows : The Gentiles inheritance of the blessing of Abraham, through Jesus Christ: A Sermon, respecting Infant Baptism. With an Appendix, confuting the mode of Baptism by Immersion . . Can- andaigua, 1799. 12, pp. 44. [U. T. S. In this edition pages 35 to 44 are occupied with Extracts from the Manuscripts of an anonymous writer on the Institution and mode of Christian Baptism. 3. Alarm to the Churches. A Sermon [from Hosea xiii, 9], preached at New-Marlborough, South Parish, July 23, 1812 ; Being a Day of Fasting and Prayer, occasioned by the Declaration of War against Great-Britain. Stockbridge, 1812. 8. pp. 16. [A. C. A. B. Publ. C. H. S. 4. The Horrors of War. A Sermon [from Jer. iv, 19], delivered at New-Marlborough, (Mass.) July 5, 1813 . . Preached and published at the request of a branch o the Washington Benevolent Society. Stockbridge, 1813. 8, pp. n. [Bozvdoin Coll. Brown Univ. C. H. S. U. T. S. Y. C. 33 2 Yale College 5. A Compendium of the System of Divine Truth : contained in a Series of Essays . . . Hartford, 1818. 12, viii, 316. [Andover TheoL Sem. B. Ath. Y. C. The same. Second edition. Middletown. 1824. 12, pp. 304. [Boivdoin Coll. Harv. U. S. U. T. S. Y. C. The same. Third edition. Boston, 1851. 12, pp. viii, 302. [Bowdoin Coll Harv, U. T. S. Y. C. He was also concerned in the publication of two volumes of col- lected Sermons, to which he contributed as follows : to Sermons on important subjects, Hartford, 1797: The Doctrine of Divine Sovereignity, a Motive to Morality; illustrated in a Sermon from Ps. xxxiii, 8-n, pp. 183-210; The Character and Claims of Christ vindicated. A Sermon from John vii, 18, pp. 473-94 = The wicked, on account of worldly prosperity, and unbelief of a future state, openly reject and despise the Almighty. A Sermon from Job xxi, 13-15; and to Sermons on some of the distinguishing doctrines of Divine Revelation, Stockbridge, 1812: Salvation in none but Jesus Christ. A Sermon from Acts iv, 12, pp. 63-78. He published in the Connecticut Evangelical Magazine for Decem- ber, 1801, pp. 224-26: An account of a work of divine grace, in a revival of religion in the town of New-Marlborough (Mass.) in the year 1799. . AUTHORITIES. Dwight, Strong Family, ii, 1254. the American Pulpit, ii, 260-65. Field, Hist, of Berkshire County, Pres. Stiles, Literary Diary, iii, 78. 293-94. Hinman, Conn. Puritan Set- Tyringham Vital Records, 40, 78. tiers, 504-05. Sprague, Annals of RUSSELL CATLIN was a native of Harwinton, Connecti- cut, where he was born on November 29, 1761. He was probably the son of George and grandson of Benjamin Catlin; in which case his mother was Mindwell, second daughter of Captain Edward and Deborah (Griswold, Bissell) Phelps, of Windsor and Harwinton. Biographical Sketches, 1784 333 After leaving College he conformed to the Episcopal Church, and on June 10, 1792, he was ordained deacon by Bishop Seabury in New Haven. On June 9, 1793, he was advanced to the priesthood by the same prelate at Middletown. Immediately after his ordination he took charge of St. James's Church in Arlington, Bennington County, Ver- mont, which was mainly settled from his native county; but he was obliged to leave that place in 1796 in disgrace on account of bad habits. He is said to have officiated after this in Hinesburgh and Charlotte, Chittenden County, for about seven years, and then for six or seven years in Hartland, on the Connecticut River; but there was no improvement in his habits, and he gave up the ministry, though he does not appear to have been formally deposed. After leaving Vermont he returned to Connecticut, and found some employment in teaching. He is said to have died in 1843, or by another account in 1849. His widow was living in 1890. , AUTHORITIES. Centennial Convention of Ver- Records of Convocation of Diocese mont Diocese, 1890, 356. Hemenway, of Conn., 42, 44, 168. Thompson, Vt. Hist. Magazine, i, 131. Hinman, Hist, of Vermont, ii, 196; iii, 4. Conn. Puritan Settlers, 505. Hooper, ROGER COGSWELL, the eldest child of Major William Cogswell, of New Milford, Connecticut, and grandson of Edward and Hannah (Brown) Cogswell, of Ipswich, Massachusetts, Preston, and New Milford, Connecticut, was born in New Preston Society, in the present township of Washington, Connecticut, on July 24, 1763. His mother was Anna, sister of Elisha Whittlesey (Yale 1779)- 334 Yale College He married, on March 12, 1786, in Southbury, a part of Woodbury, Connecticut, Sarah Johnson, a native of that parish. He was a man of talents, and became a merchant and inn-keeper, first in Sheffield, Massachusetts, and later (about 1795) in Hartford, Connecticut. He was for a time prosperous, but subsequently failed in business. He died on August i, 1819, aged 56 years. He had no children, and his widow next married Philo Swift, of Cornwall, Connecticut. . AUTHORITIES. Cothren, Hist, of Woodbury, iii, America, 65, 131. Whittlesey Gene- 473. Jameson, The Cogswells of alogy, 74, 127. DANIEL CONE, a son of Captain Jonah and Elizabeth Cone, and grandson of Deacon Daniel and Mary (Barnes) Cone, of Millington Parish, in East Haddam, Connecticut, was born in Millington, on August 28, 1763. His mother was the second daughter of Joseph and Hannah (Brain- rd) Gates. After graduation he studied law, and was probably admitted to practice; but he died of consumption, at his father's house in East Haddam, on September 27, 1786, in his 24th year. His gravestone describes him as "Daniel Cone, 4th." He married, on September 15, 1784, a week after his graduation, Mercy Otis, of Colchester, Connecticut, by whom he had two daughters. JOSEPH DENISON, the youngest child of Deacon Joseph Denison, of Stonington, Connecticut, and grandson of Joseph and Prudence (Minor) Denison, of Stonington, was baptized on April 28, 1765. His mother was Bridget, Biographical Sketches, 1784 335 daughter of Captain Thomas and Elizabeth (Sanford) Noyes, of Stonington, and widow of Isaac Wheeler. He was elected to a tutorship in College on September 15, 1786, and entered on his duties at the opening of the academic year in the following month. He united with the College Church on profession of his faith in May, 1787. In July, 1788, about six weeks before the close of the College year, he was taken ill with consumptive symptoms, and obliged to go home. On December 8 he sailed for Georgia, in search of health. He spent part of the time with the Rev. Abiel Holmes (Yale 1783), in Midway; and about the middle of July, 1789, he went to the house of his classmate, Harry Caldwell, in Petersburg, where he died, after a steady decline, on August 19, in his 25th year. While an undergraduate he delivered a Funeral Address on a classmate, which was printed as follows : A Funeral Oration, on the Death of Simeon Bristol, of New- Haven ; a Sophimore in Yale-College : who died May 23d, 1782, aetat. 18. New-Haven, 1783. 8, pp. 15. [Y. C. AUTHORITIES. Baldwin and Clift, George Deni- Hist, of Stonington, 347; Hist, of son's Descendants, 185. Pres. Stiles, 1st Congregational Church, Stoning- Literary Diary, iii, 30, 239, 244, 262, ton, 247. 325, 335, 356, 370-71- R. A. Wheeler, HENRY PACKER BERING, the fourth and youngest child of Thomas Bering, of Shelter Island, at the east end of Long Island, New York, and grandson of Henry and Elizabeth (Packer) Bering, was born at Shelter Island on July 3, 1763. His mother was Mary, daughter of Brinley and Mary (Burroughs) Sylvester, of Shelter Island. Buring the Revolution his father lived in Middle- town, Connecticut ; he returned to Shelter Island, and died there in 1785. 33 6 Yale College Mr. Bering, although retaining a considerable landed estate on Shelter Island, resided in Sag Harbor on the main land of Long Island, directly south of Shelter Island. For a few years he engaged in mercantile pursuits, which he relinquished in 1790, on being appointed by President Washington, Collector of the Customs and Post- master at Sag Harbor, which offices he retained with uni- versal acceptance to the close of his life. These and kindred minor duties, with the affairs of his farm, kept him very busy. He also enjoyed a high reputation for hospi- tality and the cultivation of the amenities of life, as well as for integrity and business talent. He died on April 30, 1822, in his 59th year. He married, on December 27, 1793, Anna, daughter of Dr. Thomas Fosdick (Yale 1746), of New London, Con- necticut, who survived him, dying on February 21, 1852. They had four sons and five daughters. Dr. Nicoll H. Dering (Yale 1813) was a nephew. , AUTHORITIES. Mallmann, Shelter Island, 177-78. 373. Wood, Sketch of L. I., 195-97. Thompson, Hist, of L. I., 2d ed., i, HENDRICUS or HENDRICK Dow, a son of Daniel and Elizabeth (Marsh) Dow, of Voluntown, and later of Ash- ford, Connecticut, was born in Ashford in 1761. A younger brother was graduated here in 1793. His father died in 1772, and he was fitted for College by his pastor, the Rev. Enoch Pond (Brown Univ. 1777). After graduation he studied theology, and was licensed to preach by the Windham County Association of Minis- ters on May 20, 1788. He preached for some time in Sunderland, Franklin County, Massachusetts, and next in Shelburne, in the same county, where he was called to succeed the Rev. Biographical Sketches, 1784 337 Robert Hubbard (Yale 1769) in the pastoral office, on July 14, 1789; but he declined the call. From September, 1790,. to April, 1792, he supplied the pulpit of the Fair Haven Church, in New Haven, Connec- ticut, then vacant by reason of the recent removal of the Rev. Samuel Austin (Yale 1783) ; and on April 4, 1792, he was married by the Rev. Dr. James Dana to Hannah, daughter of Deacon James Gilbert, of the White Haven Church in the same city, and of Eunice (Nichols) Gilbert. But although his career in the pulpit had been brilliant, he abandoned it about the time of his marriage, and began the study of law under the Hon. David Daggett, of New Haven. He was admitted to the bar in Windham County in the latter part of the year 1793, and practised his profession with success in Ashford until his death there, on January 24, 1814, in his 53d year. His wife died on November 27, 1850, aged nearly 86 years. Their children were three sons, of whom the second was graduated at Yale in 1820, and the eldest received an honorary degree of M.D. here in 1842. A grandson was graduated in 1856. He is supposed to have been author in part of the following : A Poem. In Two Letters. . . . Newfield, 1795. 16, pp. u. [Y. C. The first letter purports to be written by a physician named S 1 C h, and the answer to it by a divinity student named H y D w. , AUTHORITIES. Bailey, Early Conn. Marriages, i, County, ii, 233, 242, 298. Pres. Stiles, 19. Lamed, Hist, of Windham Literary Diary, iii, 416, 447. JAEL EDSON was a son of Abiezer Edson, of Bridge- water, Massachusetts, and a brother of Adam Edson (Yale 1775). He was admitted to College in April of the Junior year from Dartmouth College. 338 Yale College He studied medicine and settled in Albany, New York, but is early lost sight of. . AUTHORITIES. Pres. Stiles, Literary Diary, iii, 66. JOSEPH ELIOT, the elder son of the Rev. Jacob Eliot (Harvard 1720), of Goshen Society, in Lebanon, Connec- ticut, and grandson of Joseph and Silence Eliot, of Boston, was born on November 2, 1762. His mother was Ann Blanchard, of Stratford, Connecticut. His father died in his infancy. He is believed to have settled after graduation in North Carolina, but no particulars are known. His name was first marked as deceased in the Triennial Catalogue of 1841. , AUTHORITIES. Hine, Early Lebanon, 153. SAUL FOWLER, son of Daniel Fowler, of Westfield, Massachusetts, was born in Westfield on December 2, 1759- He joined the College Church on profession of his faith (being baptized at the same time) in March of his Senior year. He returned to his native town after graduation, but about 1788 removed to Southwick, the adjoining town to the southward, where he resided, following no profession, until his death. He represented the town many times in the Legislature, and was for over forty years a deacon in the Congrega- tional Church. He died in Southwick on April 20, 1852, in his 93d year. Biographical Sketches, 1/84 339 He married Elizabeth Ann, daughter of David and Joanna Welles, of Stratford, Connecticut. , AUTHORITIES. Davis, Hist. Sketch of Westfield, 1330. Pres. Stiles, Literary Diary, 22. Orcutt, Hist, of Stratford, ii, iii, 116. ELIHU CHAUNCEY GOODRICH, the fourth son and child of the Rev. Dr. Elizur Goodrich (Yale 1752), was born in Durham, Connecticut, on September 16, 1764. He studied law, and settled in the practice of his pro- fession in Claverack, Columbia County, New York. He also engaged to a considerable extent in the purchase and sale of Western lands. He died at Niagara, New York, about the last of August, 1802, at the age of 38, from a fever induced by injudicious exposure in bathing during an excursion on the Lakes. He was never married. AUTHORITIES. Case, Goodrich Family, 75. Conn. Strong Family, ii, 1289. Fowler, Courant, Sept. 13, 1802. Dwight, Chauncey Memorials, 168. RAY GREENE, elder son and third child of William Greene, Junior, was born at the family seat in Warwick, Rhode Island, on February 2, 1765. His father and his grandfather each filled the office of Governor of the Colony. His mother was Catharine, daughter of Captain Simon and Deborah (Greene) Ray, of New Shoreham, Block Island. After graduation he studied law in the office of General James M. Varnum, at East Greenwich, Rhode Island, and upon admission to the bar began practice in Providence, though retaining his residence in Warwick for his whole life. 340 Yale College He was very successful in practice, and in October, 1793, was appointed Attorney-General of the State, which office he held until May, 1798. He was also during the same time District Attorney of the United States for the District of Rhode Island. In 1797 he was elected to the Senate of the United States, to fill a vacancy, and served from November of that year until his election in 1799 for a full term. Early in 1 80 1 he resigned, to accept the office of District Judge of the United States for Rhode Island; but although his appointment by President Adams was complete, some error in the wording of his commission was discovered, too late to be rectified by the retiring President ; and as President Jefferson refused to correct it, Mr. Greene retired to private life, and never again held public office. He died in Warwick on January n, 1849, a e d nearly 84 years. He was a man of marked ability, distinguished for the courtliness of his manners, for great benevolence of heart, and incorruptible integrity. He married, on July 23, 1794, Mary Magdalen, daugh- ter of George and Mary Magdalen (Henderson) Flagg, who died on July 21, 1817, aged 44 years. Their children were two sons and three daughters. The younger son was Deputy-Governor of Rhode Island. The youngest daughter married Judge Joseph S. Jenckes (Brown Uni- versity 1824). . AUTHORITIES. Appleton, Cyclopaedia of Amer. Greene, MS. Letter, Sept. 20, 1858. Biography, ii, 755. Clarke, The Pres. Stiles, Literary Diary, i, 451; Greenes of R. I., 175, 294. W. ii, 472. ELIJAH GRIDLEY was born in Farmington, Connecticut, on September 21, 1761, the son of Elnathan Gridley, and grandson of Thomas Gridley, of Farmington. His mother was Sarah, daughter of John and Mary (Root) Biographical Sketches, 1784 341 Pratt. He was prepared for College by the Rev. Ammi R. Robbins, of Norfolk. He settled in the western part of his native town, and married on November i, 1789, Sarah, daughter of Thomas and Sarah (Seymour) Goodman, of Hartford. She died on February 12, 1792, in her 27th year, and he next mar- ried, on November 21, 1793, Hannah, eldest child of Lemuel Whittlesey, of Newington Parish, in Wethersfield, Connecticut, and sister of Roger Whittlesey (Yale 1787). She died on April 28, 1841, in her 76th year. By his first wife he had one daughter, and by his second wife two sons. The elder son was graduated at Yale in 1819, and became a missionary. Mr. Gridley, after a life of uniform piety and useful- ness, died in his native town, on June 12, 1822, in his 6ist year. AUTHORITIES. Julius Gay, MS. Letter, Sept. 8, sionaries, 127. Whittlesey Geneal- 1905. Memoirs of American Mis- ogy, 70, 109-10. SETH HART, the second son and child of Matthew Hart, of Kensington Society in the present township of Berlin, Connecticut, and grandson of Matthew and Sarah (Hooker) Hart, of Kensington, was born on June 21, 1763. His mother was Elizabeth, daughter of Joseph and Elizabeth (Galpin) Hopkins. Both parents were Congre- gationalists. It is probable that he studied medicine after graduation, and that while engaged in practice he married, on October 7, 1788, Ruth, daughter of Benjamin Hall (Yale 1754), of Cheshire, then part of Wallingford, Connecticut, by his second wife, Hannah Burnham, of Kensington. He was thus brought under the influence of the Episcopal Church, an elder sister of his wife being the wife of the Rev. Ambrose Hull (Harvard 1785), of Reading, Connecticut. 34 2 Yale College He seems to have been living in Branford, Connecticut, in 1790, and shortly before the close of that year he decided to enter the ministry. After having officiated for some time as a lay reader in Waterbury, Connecticut, he was ordained deacon at Watertown on October 9, 1791, by Bishop Seabury. He was at once placed in charge of St. James's Church in Waterbury, which he served in conjunction with the parishes in Woodbury and Salem, now Naugatuck. While thus engaged he was ordained priest by Bishop Sea- bury, at Huntington, on October 14, 1792. In the fall of 1794 he became Rector of St. Paul's Church, Wallingford, and St. John's, North Haven, and served these parishes (residing in Wallingford) with abundant zeal. In the spring of 1797 he went to the Western Reserve of Ohio as General Agent and Chaplain of the surveying party sent out by the Connecticut Land Company to develop their settlement in Cleveland and vicinity, and spent six months in that service. Besides showing remarkable energy in his conduct of the expedition, he officiated at the first baptism, the first marriage, and the first burial occurring in Cleveland. In the spring of 1798, having resigned his connection with North Haven, in its place he took charge of Christ Church in Worthington Parish in his native town. With all these duties he yet found leisure to prepare young men for College, and to perfect several mechanical inven- tions, one of which, for making nails, was patented in January, 1799. In 1800 he was elected Rector of St. George's Parish, Hempstead, Long Island, as successor to the Rev. John Henry Hobart, with a salary of 150, besides the use of a parsonage and two farms, and he entered on this office on December 21. The parish was an extensive one, numbering about a thousand souls, with two churches to be served, but the Biographical Sketches, 1784 343 rector was still able to receive a few pupils (among whom was his nephew, James G. Percival, Yale 1815) in his own house. He was an acceptable preacher, a successful teacher, and an amiable man ; of genial and engaging manners, an unfailing fund of humor, and a cheerful, almost jovial temperament. A very severe stroke of paralysis in January, 1829, obliged him to resign his rectorship on the i6th of the following month. He was given a small retiring pension, and lived on in Hempstead until his death on March 14, 1832, in his 69th year. His wife survived him, dying also of paralysis on November 3, 1841, aged 71 years. Their children were five sons and two daughters. One son was graduated at Columbia College, and followed his father's profession. His portrait is preserved in the vestry-room at Hemp- stead, and is reproduced in Shepard's History of St. Mark's Church, New Britain. He published ; A Sermon [from Gen. xviii, 17], preached in (the newly rebuilt) St. George's Church, Hempstead, on the first Sunday after it was consecrated, September 21, 1823. . . New-York, 1823. 8, pp. 16. [Harv. Y. C. A Sermon which he preached in Worthington Parish, Wethers- field, in 1795, is printed from his manuscript in Shepard's History of St. Mark's Church. , AUTHORITIES. Anderson, Hist, of Waterbury, Hist, of St. George's Church, Hemp- i, 656. Andrews, Hart Family, 54, stead, 196-201. Onderdonk, Queens 72-73. Branson, Hist, of Water- County in the Olden Times, 91. bury, 304. Churchman's Magazine, Shepard, Hist, of St. Mark's Church, iv, 172. Conn. Convocation Records, New Britain, 141-48, 151, 153, 169, 167. Davis, Hist, of Wallingford, 171-82. Sprague, Annals of the 257. Rev. Wm. Howard Falkner, Amer. Pulpit, v, 400-01. Pres. Stiles, MS. Sketch of Rev. S. Hart. Jour- Diary, ii, 458. Thompson, Hist, of nal of the Convention of the Dio- L. I., 2d ed., ii, 35. Whittlesey, Early cese of N. Y., 1832, 21, 64. Moore, Hist, of Cleveland, 143, 275. 344 Yale College SIMEON HINMAN, elder son of (Lawyer) Edward Hin- man, of Southbury Parish, in Woodbury, Connecticut, and nephew of Simeon Hinman (Yale 1762), was baptized in March, 1766. His mother was Ann, youngest daughter of Nathan and Martha (Preston) Curtis, of Woodbury. He was a second cousin of his classmate, Timothy Hin- man, and his brother was graduated here in 1789. After graduation he studied law and in 1793 began practice in Southbury. He continued at the bar until about 1809; during the remainder of his life he aban- doned his profession. He was possessed of superior talents, but having a competent estate he preferred a life of pleasure and good company to any higher object. He served as a Representative in October, 1803, and in May, 1811. He died in Southbury in June, 1825, in his 6oth year. He was never married, though reputed to be especially fond of ladies' society. AUTHORITIES. Cothren, Hist, of Woodbury, i, 373, tiers, 840. 562. Hinman, Conn. Puritan Set- TIMOTHY HINMAN, the eldest child of Captain Truman Hinman, of Southbury Parish, in Woodbury, Connecticut, and grandson of Captain Wait and Ann (Hurd) Hinman, of Southbury, was born on July 14, 1764. His mother was Olive, eldest child of Captain Timothy and Emma (Preston) Hinman, of Southbury. She was a second cousin of her husband's father. He spent his life as a merchant and farmer in South- bury. The only offices which he filled were in connection with the militia, in which he attained the rank of Major. He died in Southbury on June 18, 1810, aged nearly 46 years. Biographical Sketches, 1784 345 He married on January 10, 1791, his second cousin, Sarah Ann, eldest child of Edward Hinman, of Southbury, and sister of his classmate. She died on June 17, 1845, aged 80 years. . AUTHORITIES. Cothren, Hist, of Woodbury, i, Puritan Settlers, 840, 861. 562; iii, 475, 506. Hinman, Conn. URIEL HOLMES, the only child of Uriel and Statira Holmes, of East Haddam, Connecticut, and grandson of Deacon Christopher and Sarah (Andrews) Holmes, of East Haddam, was born in East Haddam on August 26, 1764. His mother, who was only 15 years old at her son's birth, was a sister of his classmate, Daniel Cone. The family soon removed to Hartland, Connecticut, where the father became Deacon of the Church and Colonel of Militia. The son was baptized in Hartland on June n, 1769. He established himself as an attorney in Litchfield, Connecticut, where he stood high in his profession and sus- tained an excellent character. He was chosen nine times (1803-14) a Representative in the State Legislature, was a Judge of the Litchfield County Court from 1814 to 1817, and during the latter year was elected a Representative in Congress, but resigned in 1818. While driving through Canton, Connecticut, in May, 1827, he was thrown from his carriage and so injured that he died after a few days' confinement, in Canton, on May 18, in his 63d year. He was buried in Litchfield. He was considerably above medium height, with open countenance and commanding voice, was gentlemanly in his deportment, and in every way a man of prepossessing appearance and much dignity. He married, on October 24, 1794, Esther, second daugh- ter of Judge Aaron and Esther (Kellogg) Austin, of New 346 Yale College Hartford, Connecticut, who died in Litchfield of consump- tion on August 30, 1802, in her 3ist year. They had two sons and one daughter. The daughter died in infancy. The elder son was graduated at the Yale Medical School in 1826. The younger son was grad- uated at Yale College in 1816, and died while studying theology. AUTHORITIES. Hopkins, The Kelloggs in the New and Morris Inscriptions, 78-79. World, i, 212. Kilbourne, Hist, of Woodruff, Genealogical Register of Litchfield, 194. Patterson, Holmes Litchfield, 109. Genealogy, 62, 68. Payne, Litchfield THOMAS HOLT, the third son of Daniel Holt, of that part of Wallingford which is now Meriden, Connecticut, and grandson of Daniel and Rebecca (,Head) Holt, of Wallingford, was born in Meriden on November 9, 1762. His mother was Mary, elder daughter of Nathaniel and Abigail (Hotchkiss) Barnes, of East Haven, Connecticut. He was admitted to the College Church on profession of his faith in July of his Junior year. After graduation he studied theology with Professor Wales at Yale College, and with the Rev. Dr. Benjamin Trumbull, of North Haven. On April 6, 1789, the town of Hardwick, Worcester County, Massachusetts, unanimously concurred with the Congregational Church in extending to him an invitation to become their pastor, with a salary of three hundred dollars. He accepted the call, and was ordained on June 25, the sermon on that occasion by the Rev. Dr. Trumbull being afterwards published. His pastorate was uneventful, and unmarked by any seasons of religious revival. He followed the Hopkinsian system of doctrines. His parishioners finally grew weary of him, so that when he appealed to the town-meeting, on March 4, 1805, for an increase of salary, on the ground that the amount Biographical Sketches, 1784 347 received was less than his necessary expenditures, the town (much to his surprise) unanimously refused his request, and consented to his alternative proposition for a dismission. An ecclesiastical council was accordingly called, which granted him an honorable dismission on March 27. After this he preached occasionally, as opportunity offered, until January 25, 1809, when he was installed as pastor of the church in Chebacco Parish, Ipswich, Massa- chusetts, which afterwards became the town of Essex. But this new home was not permanent. He was esteemed a sound, scriptural preacher ; but after hearing him two or three years, his parishioners began to complain of a want of sufficient variety in his discourses, which they at first imputed to his not writing them. They therefore chose a committee to wait on him, and request him to write his sermons. With this he complied ; and as the evil, in their judgment, was not removed, they then requested him to resign. With this also he complied; and a Council dis- missed him on April 20, 1813. He returned to Hardwick, and during the rest of his life cultivated his farm there, and preached as he had oppor- tunity. He spent considerable time in missionary work in the other New England States, on which occasions he was often absent for six months at a time and performed a large amount of exhausting labor. He died in Hardwick, after a life of consistent piety, on February 21, 1836, in his 74th year. He married, on May 5, 1796, Sarah, second daughter of the Rev. Ebenezer Chaplin (Yale 1763), of Sutton, in the same county, who died on July 4, 1854, aged 84 years. Their children were four daughters and three sons. He published : A Sermon [from 2 Tim. i, 13], delivered at the Ordination of the Rev. Reed Paige . . in Hancock, State of Newhampshire, Sep- tember 2ist, 1791. Worcester, 1792. 8, pp. 44. [A. A. S. Brit. Mus. Brown Univ. U. S. Y. C. Mr. Paige was a parishioner of the author. 34 8 Yale College AUTHORITIES. Amer. Quart. Register, x, 49, 57. 400. Sprague, Annals of the Amer. Boston Recorder, Apr. i, 1836. Pulpit, i, 585. Pres. Stiles, Literary Crowell, Hist, of Essex, 269. Paige, Diary, iii, 81, 129. Tuttle Family, Hist, of Hardwick, Mass., 196-206, 176. HEATON HUGGINS, son of Samuel Huggins, of Bran- ford and New Haven, was born in the latter place on June 14, 1768. His mother was Elizabeth, daughter of Orchard and Mary (Foote) Guy, of Branford, Connecti- cut. He was named for his father's mother, Sarah Heaton, of New Haven. He settled in his native town, and was engaged in busi- ness as a grocer. He married Rachel, second daughter of Captain Abra- ham and Amy (Hemingway) Bradley, of New Haven. In the summer of 1794 New Haven was visited with an epidemic of yellow fever. Mr. Huggins died on October 6, in his 27th year ; and his widow died five days later, in her 28th year. One child died of the same disorder; an older son survived his parents. AUTHORITIES. N. H. Colony Hist. Soc. Papers, Diary, iii, 540-42. Tuttle Family, 286. iii, 541-42. Pres. Stiles, Literary JABEZ HUNTINGTON, the only child of General Jedidiah Huntington (Harvard College 1763), of Norwich, Con- necticut, by his first wife, Faith, elder daughter of Governor Jonathan and Faith (Robinson) Trumbull, of Lebanon, was born in Lebanon on September 17, 1767. His youth was spent with his grandfather Trumbull, after his mother's death in 1775. Two half-brothers were graduated here in 1804 and 1807, respectively. He pursued a business career in Norwich, and was highly respected, as a man of marked conscientiousness, and positiveness of conviction. Biographical Sketches, 1784 349 He was at first connected with the Episcopal Society in Norwich, but later united with the Second Congregational Church, and became a deacon in that society. He was connected with the Norwich Bank, either as Director or President, from its organization in 1796 until about a year before his death. He died in Norwich on August 16, 1848, aged nearly 8 1 years. For the last year or two of his life his reason was obscured. He married, on December 12, 1792, Mary, third daugh- ter of Peter Lanman, of Norwich, and sister of the Hon. James Lanman (Yale 1788). She died on September 29, 1809, in her 37th year; and he next married her eldest sister, Sarah, or Sally, on October 21, 1810, who died on February 19, 1850, in her 85th year. She was totally blind for twenty years before her death. By his first wife he had four sons and two daughters. The eldest son was graduated at Yale in 1814, and the youngest in 1828. The elder daughter married the Rev. Dr. Edward W. Hooker (Middlebury Coll. 1814), and the younger married the Rev. Dr. Eli Smith (Yale 1821). AUTHORITIES. Huntington Family, 242. Perkins, Talcott, Geneal. Notes of N. E. and Old Houses of Norwich, 224, 485. N. Y. Families, 571, 574-76. Pres. Stiles, Literary Diary, ii, 472. RALPH ISAACS, son of Ralph Isaacs (Yale 1761), of New Haven and Branford, Connecticut, was baptized by the Rev. Bela Hubbard in New Haven on December 6, 1767. He received the Berkeley Scholarship at gradua- tion. He spent part of the years 1786 and 1787 in South Carolina and Georgia, and was reported to have killed a Charleston physician in a duel in the former year. In the spring of 1789 he was studying law in New Haven, and in September of the same year he married 35 Yale College Mrs. Elizabeth DeKoven, of Middletown, Connecticut, a daughter of Jacob Sebor, of Middletown. She had secured a divorce, on the ground of desertion, from her first husband, John Louis DeKoven, who was Sergeant Major of a regiment of Hessians in the British army during our Revolution. In 1794 he was in business in New Haven as a dealer in groceries and dry goods. He afterwards lived principally at the South. He was living in Baltimore in 1800, and in Augusta, Georgia, in 1809. He died in Philadelphia, on August 8, 1815, in his 48th year. In the notice of his death he is given the title of Colonel. He did not practice his profession steadily, but "lived by his wits" ; and his reputation was that of a man destitute of fixed principle, and addicted to gambling and other vices. A daughter died in Augusta in 1809, at the age of 16. AUTHORITIES. Pres. Stiles, Diary, ii, 521 ; iii, 120, 249, 348. MELINES CONKLIN LEAVENWORTH, the eldest child of Captain Jesse Leaven worth (Yale 1759), was born in Waterbury, Connecticut, on January 4, 1762. He was probably named for a brother of his mother. He went South after graduation, and settled as a planter in Augusta, Georgia, or rather a little below Hamburg, South Carolina, on the bank of the Savannah opposite Augusta; and there he died, on July 20, 1822, in his 6ist year. He married in 1801 Mrs. Anne Lamar, of Augusta, but had no children; a daughter by Mrs. Leavenworth's first husband was the wife of Governor John Milledge, of Georgia. Biographical Sketches, 1/84 351 AUTHORITIES. Anderson, Hist, of Waterbury, i, Waterbury, 516-17. Leavenworth Appendix, 83. Branson, Hist, of Genealogy, 91, 141. CHAUNCEY LEE, the eldest child of the Rev. Jonathan Lee (Yale 1742) by his second wife, Love (Graham) Brinkerhoff, was born in Salisbury, Litchfield County, Connecticut, on November 9, 1763. He was prepared for College by his father. Shortly after graduation he began the study of the law under the Hon. John Canfield (Yale 1762), of Sharon, Connecticut; and on being admitted to the bar in 1787, he opened an office in his native town. Early in 1788 he married Abigail Stanton, of Salisbury, sister of Joshua Stanton, Junior (Yale 1788). Soon after this a change occurred in his feelings on the subject of religion, and the legal profession being also somewhat dis- tasteful to him, he resolved to enter the ministry. Accord- ingly he spent some months with the Rev. Dr. Stephen West, of Stockbridge, Massachusetts, and was licensed to preach by the Ministerial Association of Litchfield County on June 3, 1789. Meantime his father had died (in October, 1788), and after his licensure he filled for a while very acceptably the vacant pulpit in Salisbury, but was not inclined to accept a call. About the same time his father-in-law, with a number of other inhabitants of Salisbury, removed to Ver- mont, and this led to Mr. Lee's being invited to the care of the First Congregational Church in Sunderland, in that county, over which he was ordained on March 18, 1790, A curious controversy which arose between this Church and another formed in the same town, with regard to the ordination of the first minister, is referred to in a former volume of this work, in the notice of the Rev. Jacob Sherwin (Yale 1759). Mr. Lee resigned his charge in 1795 or 1796 on account of the inability of his people to furnish him an adequate 35 2 Yale College support. In the following winter he was living in Bur- lington, Vermont, and in 1797-98 he taught in Lansing- burg, New York. He then preached in Hudson, New York, for a year or more. In the fall of 1799 he removed to his native town, and on February 12, 1800, he was installed as pastor of the Con- gregational Church in Colebrook, in the same county, then consisting of forty-nine members. His wife died in Colebrook, after a lingering and dis- tressing illness of about eleven months, on Octpber 20, 1805, in her 36th year ; and he next married, in February, 1807, Olive, widow of Alexander Spencer (a younger brother of Chief Justice Ambrose Spencer), of Amenia and North East, New York, and daughter of Captain Jared and Asenath (Stevens) Harrison, of Salisbury. She died on January 5, 1818, in her 44th year; and he married thirdly, on October 15, 1818, Mrs. Rebecca Haynes, the widow of a Virginia gentleman, and daughter of Colonel Samuel Green, of New London. The degree of Doctor of Divinity was conferred on him by Columbia College in 1823. His pastorate in Colebrook continued until the last of January, 1828, when he resigned in consequence of repre- sentations that he had lost his influence with the young people of the parish. On September 29, 1828, he was called to the Congrega- tional Church in Marlborough, Connecticut, and was installed there on November 18. This charge he resigned on January u, 1837, partly in consequence of declining health, and partly from discouragement. After this he removed to the house of his eldest daugh- ter, in Hartwick, Otsego County, New York, where his wife died, and where he continued until his own death, after a brief illness, on November 5, 1842, aged 79 years. Dr. Lee had an active mind, was fond of study, and was an instructive and earnest preacher; in his theological Biographical Sketches, 1784 353 views he was in general accord with the Rev. Dr. Emmons. He was very courteous and agreeable, and was noted for his facetiousness. ,He had also considerable musical taste, which he displayed both as a composer and as a performer. By his first marriage he had one daughter and two sons ; the younger son was graduated at Middlebury College in 1817, and became a clergyman. By his second marriage he had also one daughter and two sons; the daughter married Dr. Gardner M. Dorrance (Williams College 1820). He published : 1. An Oration delivered at Lansingburgh, on the Fourth of July, A. D. 1797, in celebration of the Twenty-first Anniversary of Amer- ican Independence. Lansingburgh: i/9/. 8, pp. 16. [R. I. Hist. Soc. 2. The American Accomptant ; being a plain, practical and sys- tematic Compendium of Federal Arithmetic . . Lansingburgh, 1797. 12, pp. 300, xii + pi. [Brit. Mus. Brown Univ. N. Y. Soc. Libr. U. S. Y. C. It has been claimed that this work was the first to use the sign now commonly in use for the dollar ($). 3. The tree of knowledge of political good and evil. A Discourse [from Gen. iii, 2-3, and Deut. xxxii, 17], delivered at Colebrook, on the twenty-fourth anniversary of American Independence, July 4th, 1800. Hartford, 1800. 8, pp. 31. [B. *Ath. C. H. S. M. H. S. Y. C. A strong Federalist argument. 4. The Trial of Virtue, a Sacred Poem; being a paraphrase of the whole Book of Job . . . To which is annexed, a Dissertation upon the Book of Job. Hartford, 1806. 12, pp. 226. [U.S. Y. C. 5. The Government of God the true source and standard of human government A Sermon [from Matth. vi, 13], preached on the day of the General Election, at Hartford, . . May I3th, 1813. Hartford, 1813. 8, pp. 56. [A. A. S. A. C. A. B. Ath. Bowdoin Coll. Brit. Mus. C. H. S. M. H. S. R. I. Hist. Soc. U. S. U. T. S. Y. C. 23 354 Yale College 6. The faithful servants of God, the benefactors of men. A Sermon [from 2 Kings, ii, 12], delivered at the Funeral of the Rev. Ammi Ruhamah Robbins, Pastor of the Church of Christ in Nor- folk, who departed this life, October 31, 1813. Hartford, 1814. 8, pp. 43- [A.A.S. A.C.A. B. Ath. Brown. C. H. S. U. T. S. Y. C. The author had already published, in the Connecticut Evangelical Magazine for December, 1813 (pp. 450-54), a less complete sketch, entitled, Memoirs of the Rev. Ammi Ruhamah Robbins. 7. The Importance of the Gospel Ministry. A Sermon [from Isa. Hi, 7], preached at the Ordination of the Rev. Jonathan Lee, . . in Otis, June 28th, 1815. . . Pittsfield. 8, pp. 32. [A. C. A. Brit. Mus. Brown Univ. U. T. S. Y. C. Jonathan Lee (Yale 1809) was a nephew of the author. The sermon occupies pp. 1-28. 8. A Sermon [from 2 Cor. v, 8], delivered at the Funeral of Mrs. Asenath Harrison, of Salisbury, (Con.) wife of Capt. Jared Har- rison, who departed this life June i6th, 1816, aet. 66. Poughkeepsie, 1816. 8, pp. 23. [A. C. A. Brit. Mus. Mrs. Harrison was the mother of Mrs. Lee. 9. A Sermon [from Prov. xiv, 32] delivered at the Funeral of Mr. Cyrus Babcock, A.B. son of Elder Rufus Babcock, Pastor of the Baptist Church in Colebrook ; . . who departed life, in Cole- brook, on Thursday, March 6, 1817; aged 28 years: and was interred on the Lord's Day following. Hartford, 1817. 8, pp. 16. [Y. C. 10. Correspondence between Mr. , a member of College, and the Rev. , of , . Andover (New England Tract Soci- ety), 1821. 12, pp. 16. [Y. C. This correspondence between Dr. Lee and John Todd (Yale 1821) was published with the object of awakening interest in the work of the American Education Society, for helping students for the ministry. 11. Sermons on the distinguishing doctrines and duties of exper- imental religion, and especially designed for Revivals. Middle- town, 1824. 12, pp. 479. [A. C. A. U. T. S. Y. C. Containing forty-eight sermons. 12. Scriptural Hymns, adapted to Sermons designed for Revivals. Middletown, 1824. 12. [Y. C. (imperfect.) Biographical Sketches, 1784 355 Published in connection with the preceding volume, and also containing a few miscellaneous hymns. 13. The Remembrancer. A Farewell Sermon [from Rev. iii, 3], delivered in Colebrook, on the first Sabbath in February, 1828. Hartford, 1828. 8, pp. 16. [A. C. A. C. H. S. Harv. U. T. S. Y. C. 14. Letters from Aristarchus to Philemon; in which the distin- guishing doctrines of the Gospel are discussed, and objections stated and answered. Hartford, 1833. 12, pp. 221. [A. C. A. U. T. S. Written to recall the arguments of Hopkins and Edwards on the Arminian controversy, and containing animadversions on the New Haven theology of Dr. Taylor and his school. . AUTHORITIES. Conn. Evangelical Magazine, vi, 408, 414-15. N. E. Hist, and Geneal. 344-50. Dwight, Strong Family, ii, Register, xxviii, 401. N. Y. Ob- poo, 982-83. Fowler, Chauncey Me- server, Dec. 24, 1842. Sprague, An- morials, 230-31. Goodwin, Geneal. nals of the Amer. Pulpit, ii, 288-91. Notes, 322. Hall, Marlborough Cen- Pres. Stiles, Literary Diary, ii, 443. tennial, 19, 59-60. Hemcnway, Ver- Trumbull, Hist, of Hartford County, mont Gazetteer, i, 240. John Lee of . ii, 270-71. Farmington and Descendants, 2d ed., WILLIAM LORD, fourth son and fifth child of Captain Enoch Lord, of Lyme, Connecticut, and grandson of Richard and Elizabeth (Lynde) Lord, of Lyme, was born in that town on July 16, 1762. His mother was Hepzibah, only surviving child of Joseph and Jane (Lay) Marvin, of Lyme. He studied medicine and settled in an active and success- ful practice in Stonington, Connecticut, where he con- tinued until about the year 1837, when he retired to his native town, where he died on February 13, 1852, in his 9Oth year. Dr. Lord married on September 4, 1790, Anna, eldest daughter of Samuel and Lois (Griswold) Mather, of Lyme, who died in Stonington on October 31, 1818, at the age of 51. 356 Yale College He next married Nancy Howe, of Stonington. He had no children by either marriage. AUTHORITIES. N. E. Hist, and Geneal. Register, tories and Genealogies, i, 316. Wal- xxxi, 211. Salisbury, Family His- worth, Hyde Genealogy, i, 159. WILLIAM LYMAN, the second of nine children and eldest son of William and Mary (Barker) Lyman, of Lebanon, Connecticut, and a nephew of Jonathan Lyman (Yale 1758), was born in Lebanon on September 5, 1764. A brother was graduated here in 1797. He was admitted to the College Church on profession of his faith in July of his Junior year. After graduation he studied theology, and was ordained on December 13, 1787, as pastor of the Congregational Church in Milling- ton Society, in East Haddam, Connecticut, where he soon became known as one of the most popular and eloquent preachers in that region. He was gifted with an unusu- ally, powerful voice and an easy flow of words, and all his writings showed vigor; while his dry humor and eccen- tricity were manifested even in the pulpit. The honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity was given him by Princeton College in 1808. In the latter part of his ministry he became afflicted with hypochondria; and this, in connection with his masterful manner, finally aroused a desire for a change. At a Society meeting on May 23, 1822, a committee was appointed to consider the situation, and in accordance with their suggestions an ecclesiastical council was called which dismissed the pastor on August 28. His farewell sermon, replete with denunciations of the sins and shortcomings of his flock, was delivered with such vigor and eloquence that it was long remembered. From Millington he removed to Western New York, several of his children being already settled in Livingston Biographical Sketches, i4 357 County. For a few years he performed some useful ser- vice as a home missionary, in connection with the Presby- terian Church, principally in Livingston and Wyoming Counties; but a tendency to excessive mental depression overshadowed these later years and put an end to all public activities. He died in the town of China, now Arcade, in Wyoming County, New York, on June 5, 1833, in his 69th year. Dr. Lyman married, on December 24, 1789, Rhoda, fourth daughter of Captain William and Bethia (Throop) Huntington, of Lebanon, by whom he had seven daughters and three sons. The second son entered the ministry. He published : 1. Modern Refinement. Or the Art of Dancing, as taught and practiced at the present day, considered in reference to its moral tendency. A Discourse [from Job xxi, 14], delivered at East- Haddam, Second Society, Dec. 24, 1800: at a Public Lecture. New- London, 1801. 8, pp. 19. [Brown Univ. Y. C. 2. A Virtuous Woman the bond of domestic union, and the source of domestic happiness. Considered in a Sermon [from Prov. xxxi, 28], delivered at Lyme, Jan. 6, 1802; at the Funeral of Mrs. Sarah Griswold, wife of Deacon John Griswold . . . New- London, 1802. 8, pp. 23. [A. A. S. A. C. A. Harv. 3. A Sermon [from Dent, xviii, 6-7], delivered at Hamden, Sept. 9th, 1802 ; at the Ordination of the Rev. Asa Lyman. . . New Haven, 1802. 8, pp. 26. [B. Ath. Brit. Mus. Brown Univ. Y. C. The year of delivery was 1800, not 1802. 4. The Happy Nation. A Sermon [from Jer. xxxi, 23], preached at the Anniversary Election, in Hartford, May 8th, 1806. Hartford, 1806. 8, pp. 42. [A. C. A. B. Ath. Brit. Mus. M. H. S. N. Y. State Libr. U. S. Y. C. 5. The people of God conducted to Zion, and made joyful in His House of Prayer: or God's House an House of Prayer for all people. A Sermon [from Isa. Ivi, 7], delivered at Lebanon, in the South Society, at the Dedication of the New Brick Meeting House, January 21, 1807. Hartford, 1807. 8, pp. 32. [A. A. S. A. C. A. Brit. Mus. Brown Univ. Harv. Y. C. 358 Yale College 6. The design and benefits of Instrumental Musick. Considered in a Sermon [from Zech. xiv, 20], Delivered at Lebanon Goshen, May 7, 1807, on the occasion of having an Organ introduced as an aid in the worship and melody of God's house. New-London, 1807. 8, pp. 18. [B. Ath. Brit. Mus. Y. C. 7. A Sermon [from Phil, iii, 8], delivered in Goshen, October 24th, 1810, at the Ordination of the Rev. Joseph Harvey . . Hart- ford. 8, pp. 24. [A. C. A. B. Ath. Brit. Mus. ' Brozm Univ. Y. C, 8. A Discourse [from Hosea xiv, 3], delivered April 2, 1811, at the Funeral of Capt. Amos Loomis, in Lyme . . Norwich, 1811. 8, pp. 15- And, as part of the above, without separate imprint: A Discourse [from Hebr. xii, 5-6], delivered in Lyme, April 29, 1811, at the Funeral of Mr. Joseph Loomis, of Lebanon. . . 8, pp. 15. [Brit. Mus. Y. C. Mr. Joseph Loomis was the father of Capt. Amos Loomis. 9. A Missionary Sermon [from Ps. Ixxiv, 20], delivered at Hart- ford, on the evening of May 14, 1811. Hartford, 1811. 8, pp. 19. [A. C. A. B. Ath. M. H. S. Y. C. This sermon was also printed (from the same type) in the Con- necticut Evangelical Magazine for June, 1811, pp. 201-14. , AUTHORITIES. Coleman, Lyman Family, 168, 170- Chimney Stacks of E. Haddam, 49- 71. Conn. Courant, June 24, 1833. 51. Pres. Stiles, Literary Diary, iii, Huntington Family, 183. Loomis 81. Female Genealogy, i, 335. Niles, Old WILLIAM MANSFIELD, the seventh in a family of twelve children of the Rev. Dr. Richard Mansfield (Yale 1741), of Derby, Connecticut, was baptized on January 12, 1764. His life was spent in Derby, where he was a merchant, carrying on an extensive business, though he died insolv- ent. He was also engaged in the manufacture of linseed oil. He died in that part of Derby which is now Seymour, on October I, 1816, in his 53d year. Biographical Sketches, 1784 359 He married Eunice Hull, by whom he had seven daugh- ters and four sons. His wife survived him, with five of their daughters. All of the children died unmarried except two daughters. AUTHORITIES. Mansfield Genealogy, 66, 115-16. Vital Statistics of Seymour, 109. Orcutt, Hist, of Derby, 745. Sharpe, SILAS MARSH, the eldest child of Silas Marsh (Yale 1764), of Amenia, Duchess County, New York, was born on January 18 [or 28], 1766. He had a considerable reputation while in College for literary ability. After graduation he studied law in Poughkeepsie, New York; but his chief occupation consisted in the buying and selling of Revolutionary soldiers' claims. He thus acquired much land in the western part of the State, and died in the township of Victor, Ontario County. His name was first starred in the Triennial Catalogue of Graduates printed in 1829. /He held the rank of Major in the militia from 1807 to 1815. He married Elizabeth Beebe, a neighbor from child- hood, on May 10, 1792, and had by her nine daughters and six sons the youngest born in 1816. Mrs. Marsh was born in April, 1774, and died about 1870. _ , AUTHORITIES. Marsh (Hartford) Genealogy, 124- 102, 136. 25. Pres. Stiles, Literary Diary, iii, SAMUEL MATHER, Junior, the eldest son of Dr. Samuel Mather (Yale 1756), of Westfield, Massachusetts, was born on December 13, 1764. 360 Yale College He studied law in Northampton, and was admitted to the Hampshire County Bar in 1786. He then began practice in Westfield, but died early, on March 15, 1789, in his 25th year. His father adminis- tered on his estate, as he was unmarried. , AUTHORITIES. Mather Family (1890), 139. LEMUEL MEAD, the sixth son and seventh child of Abram and Ruth (Lyon) Mead, of Greenwich, Connecti- cut, and grandson of Elnathan and Sarah (Lyon) Mead, of Greenwich, was born on April i, 1763. He became a physician and settled in Warren County, New York. He died in Chester in that county, on January 28, 1826, in his 63d year. He married Jerusha Pool, who died on August 17, 1860, aged 78 years. Their children were five daughters and three sons. , AUTHORITIES. Mead Family Genealogy, 443-44. ELISHA MUNSON, eldest son of Captain Joseph Munson, of New Haven, and grandson of Israel and Elizabeth (Bishop) Munson, was born in New Haven in April, 1761. His mother was Sarah, daughter of Samuel and Abigail (Attwater) Bishop, of New Haven, and a first cousin of her husband. He spent his entire life in New Haven, engaged partly in mercantile pursuits and in handling real estate and partly in public business. He held office as town-clerk from 1801 to his resigna- tion in 1832, and as city-clerk from 1805 until his death. Biographical Sketches, 1784 361 Squire Munson, as he was universally called, died in New Haven on August 30, 1841, in his 8ist year. He was never married, but lived (after his father's death in 1793) with his five maiden sisters in the old family resi- dence, on the southwest corner of College and Wall Streets. AUTHORITIES. Munson Record, 678, 684-86. Tuttle Family, 672. JABEZ PECK, third son of Simeon Peck, of Norwich, Connecticut, and grandson of Joseph and Hannah (Car- rier) Peck, was born in Norwich on October 18, 1761. His mother was Ruth, fourth daughter of the Rev. Henry Willes (Yale 1715), of Franklin, then part of Norwich. By the time he was ready for College his father had removed to Lebanon, New Hampshire; and he conse- quently entered Dartmouth College in 1780. In April, 1783, he joined the Junior class in Yale, and three months later he was received into the College Church on a letter from the Church in Dartmouth College. After graduation he taught school in East Hampton, Long Island, and was later a teacher of the Latin and Greek languages in New York City. He died in New York, after a short indisposition, on October 4, 1791, at the age of 30. He married in 1790 or 1791 Nancy Rysam, and left issue. _____ AUTHORITIES. Peck Genealogy, 334. Miss E. H. Pres. Stiles, Literary Diary, iii, 66, 78. Shelton, MS. Letter, Febr. 22, 1900. JONAS PRENTICE, Junior, son of Colonel Jonas Prentice, of Stonington, Connecticut, and New Haven, was born in 1767. His mother was Amie, daughter of Captain Jabez and Amie Smith, of Groton and New Haven. 362 Yale College According to one account he studied law and began practice in Stamford, Connecticut ; but this is doubtful. He was engaged in business in New Haven as a drug- gist for some time prior to 1795, when he removed to New York City. After two or three years, however, he returned to New Haven, and died here on April 16, 1804, aged 36 years. His estate was insolvent. His widow, Rebecca, died in New London on December 23, 1808, aged 32 years. BENJAMIN STRONG ROE, the fourth son and child of Phillips Roe, a merchant and farmer at Port Jefferson, Long Island, and grandson of Nathaniel and Elizabeth Roe, was born on February 7, 1763. His mother was Submit, second daughter of Thomas and Susannah (Thompson, Muncy) Strong, of Setauket, Long Island. He was for a short time a merchant in New York City, but died (by his own hand) in Port Jefferson, on May 28, 1795, in his 33d year. He married Sarah Hudson, of Wading' River, in River- head, Long Island, and had by her one daughter. AUTHORITIES. Dwight, Strong Family, i, 611-12. JOHN PUNDERSON SEWARD, the second child of the Rev. William Seward (Yale 1734), of the parish of North Killingworth, now the town of Killingworth, Connecticut, by his second wife, Mabel Smith, was born on April 21, 1765; His mother died in his infancy. He entered College in April of the Freshman year; and his father died in the following winter. He was a person of exemplary piety ; and was admitted to the College Church on profession of his faith in July of his Junior year. Biographical Sketches, 1784 363 According to custom, the class to which he belonged completed their College work seven weeks before Com- mencement, and young Seward, like many others, went home to have his graduation suit of homespun prepared; while there he died, it is said of scarlet fever, on August 26 (1784), in his 2Oth year. He was intending to study for the ministry. His scholarship was excellent, and his name was enrolled among the graduates. , AUTHORITIES. Conn. Journal, Sept. I, 1784. N. Pres. Stiles, Literary Diary, ii, 530; E. Hist, and Geneal. Register, Hi, 325. iii, 81, 135-36. JARED SPENCER, the fourth son of Major General Joseph Spencer, of Millington Parish, in East Haddam, Connec- ticut, and a nephew of the Rev. Dr. Elihu Spencer (Yale 1746), was born on July 5, 1762, and was baptized by his pastor, the Rev. Hobart Estabrook (Yale 1736), on the 25th of the same month. His mother was Hannah Brown, whose first husband was Captain Daniel South- mayd (Yale 1741). After graduation he prepared himself for the profession of the law, which he practiced in his native town until his death. He married on November 29, 1789, Ann (or Nancy), youngest daughter of Captain James and Ruth (Marshall) Green, of East Haddam, by whom he had five children. Squire Spencer (as he was called) perished in a snow- storm on November n, 1820, in his 59th year. Three daughters and one son survived him. His widow died on November n, 1855, in her 88th year. AUTHORITIES. Bailey, Early Conn. Marriages, vi, E. Haddam, 94, 123-24. 128. Niles, Old Chimney Stacks of 364 Yale College JOSEPH STRONG, the second child and eldest son of the Rev. Joseph Strong (Yale 1749), of Granby, Connecticut, was born in Granby on April 7, 1756. His father was dismissed from his parish in Granby in November, 1779; and the son was living in Windsor, Connecticut, when he was admitted to College in May of the Freshman year, when over 25 years old. In the following December his father was installed in Williamsburg, Massachusetts. He joined the College Church in July of his Junior year. He studied theology with his father and after being licensed to preach by the Hampshire Association on August 2, 1785, performed missionary labor in Maine, and in 1789-90 officiated as a stated supply in Southampton, Long Island. He went thence to Heath, Massachusetts, where a Congregational Church had been organized in 1785. Of this church he was ordained the first pastor on October 27, 1790. He had already married, on May 20, 1786, Sophia, youngest child of the Rev. John Wood- bridge (Yale 1726), of South Hadley, Massachusetts. Mr. Strong was remarkably conscientious and devoted to his work, but his salary was small, and to support his family he was obliged to cultivate a large farm in addition to his regular duties. It was perhaps owing to this that his people became dissatisfied and requested his resigna- tion, offering him $200 as an inducement. He was accord- ingly dismissed on June 10, 1803, and left the town, driving his cattle before him, with his wife and one daugh- ter on horseback, and the other children and goods follow- ing in a wagon. They found an asylum with Mrs. Strong's father in South Hadley, while Mr. Strong performed a mission in Maine. In April, 1806, he was called to settle over the Congre- gational Church in Eastbury Parish, now called East Glastonbury, Connecticut, on a salary of $300, and was installed there soon after. He continued there until Biographical Sketches, 1784 365 August, 1817, when the Society voted to call a council for his dismission. He then resided for a short time in Belchertown, Massa- chusetts, and again in South Hadley. In 1823 he began preaching in the Congregational Church in Preble, Cortland County, New York, but while on a visit to his second son, then a Professor in Hamilton College, died of liver complaint, from which he had long suffered, in Clinton on December 19, 1823, in his 68th year. His widow died in Clinton, at the house of her second daughter, on June 27, 1832, in her 7ist year. Their remains were removed to South Hadley some years later. Their children were six sons and three daughters. The second, third, and fourth sons were graduated at Yale in 1812, 1815, and 1819, respectively, the eldest of these being the distinguished Professor Theodore Strong; the two younger sons died in infancy. The eldest daughter married Dr. Benjamin Woolsey Dwight (Yale 1799) ; the second daughter married Professor Charles Avery (Hamilton College 1820) ; and the youngest daughter married Stephen V. R. Bogert, M.D. (Fairfield Medical School 1826). Mr. Strong was a man of great tenderness of feeling, meekness, and modesty. His personal piety was undoubted, and he had a peculiar gift of sympathy with those in trouble. AUTHORITIES. Chapin, Glastonbury Centennial, Record, 55-56. Packard, Hist, of 135. Dwight, Strong Family, i, 356- Churches and Ministers in Franklin 62. Holland, Hist, of Western County, Mass., 227-28. Pres. Stiles, Mass., i, 383. Mitchell, Woodbridge Literary Diary, ii, 534; iii, 81. JOHN TAYLOR, the youngest in a family of thirteen children of Eldad Taylor, of Westneld, Massachusetts, who was the youngest and fourteenth child of the Rev. Edward Taylor (Harvard 1671), was born in Westfield 366 Yale College on December 23, 1762. He was thus a first cousin of President Stiles. His mother was Thankful, the youngest child of John and Mary (Smith) Day, of Suffield, Con- necticut. He joined the College Church in July of his Junior year, having recently passed through a period of intense religious feeling. He studied theology with the Rev. Noah Atwater (Yale 1774), of Westfield, and was licensed to preach by the Hampden Association of Ministers in January, 1786. In November, 1786, he received a call to settle over the Congregational Church in Deerfield, Massachusetts, on a salary of 100; and having accepted he was ordained there on February 14, 1787. The sermon delivered on that occasion by the Rev. Noah Atwater (Yale 1774) was afterwards published. He married, on June 24, 1788, Elizabeth Terry, of Enfield, Connecticut, a sister of Nathaniel Terry (Yale 1786). His pastorate was successful, and in 1802 he spent three months on a missionary tour in western New York. It was probably in consequence of exposure on this tour that his voice failed suddenly in 1804. After a struggle with increasing debility for two years, he requested a dismissal on June 9, 1806, and it was granted by an ecclesiastical council on August 6. In 1807 he settled on a farm in his wife's native town of Enfield, where he took a leading position. He was a representative in nine sessions of the General Assembly of the State between 1808 and 1815. As his health improved he preached occasionally, and in 1817 he removed to Mendon, Monroe County, New York, where he supplied the pulpits in the destitute settle- ments in the vicinity, and was an efficient agent in organiz- ing several Congregational Churches. He declined an invitation to settle in Canandaigua. In 1832 he removed with his second son to the new Bruce Township, Macomb County, Michigan, about thirty- five miles north of Detroit, where he ministered for the Biographical Sketches, 1784 367 rest of his life to a small Congregational Church of about thirty members. His mental vigor was almost unimpaired, and he took extreme interest in the temper- ance and anti-slavery movements. He died in Bruce, from the effects of an apoplectic stroke, on December 20, 1840, aged 78 years. His widow died in Bruce on September 17, 1843, at tne a " e f 77- Their children were five daughters and six sons, of whom the four youngest (two daughters and two sons) died in infancy. The eldest daughter married the Rev. James Taylor (Williams 1804). The third son was graduated at Yale in 1816. He published : 1. An Oration, delivered on the Anniversary of Independence, at Deer field, on the Fourth of July, 1796. Greenfield, 1796. sq. 8, pp. 20. [A. C. A. C. H. S. Harv. M. H. S. N. Y. H. S. U. T. S. Y. C. Strongly Federalist in expression. 2. A Sermon [from Deut. xi, 12], delivered on the day of Pub- lic Thanksgiving, at Deerfield ; Nov. 29, '98. Greenfield, sq. 8, pp. 19. [A. C. A. C. H. S. M. H. S. Y. C. \ 3. A Century Sermon [from Ps. Ixxix, 1-3] ; preached at Deer- field, February 29, 1804: in Commemoration of the Destruction of the Town of Deerfield by the French and Indians. Greenfield, 1804. 8, pp. 32. [A.A.S. A. C. A. B. Ath. Brown Univ. C. H. S. M. H. S. U. S. U. T. S. An interesting and valuable historical account. 4. A Farewell Sermon [from i Cor. xi, 2, and 2 Cor. xiii, n]. Delivered in Deerfield, at the time of his dismissal, August 6th, 1806, by James Taylor. Greenfield, 1806. 8, pp. 23. [A.A.S. Brown Univ. U. S. Y. C. On account of the author's loss of voice, this sermon was read (as intimated on the title-page) by his son-in-law. He also published, in the Rev. John Williams's Redeemed Cap- tive returning to Zion, 4th edition, Greenfield, 1793 : 368 Yale College Appendix ; containing some account of the mischief done by the enemy in Deerfield, and its vicinity, from the death of the Rev. Mr. Williams, to the conclusion of the French war. This Appendix was reprinted in many later editions. And in Sermons on various important Doctrines and Duties of the Christian Religion; selected from the Manuscripts of several Min- isters, Members of the Northern Association, in the County of Hampshire. Northampton, 1799: Sermon xvii. Persuasives to an Attendance on the Lord's Sup- per. From Luke xxii, 19. pp. 273-87. Sermon xxi. Dissuasives from excessive and sinful Diversions. From Eccl. ii, I. pp. 340-53. After his death the following was published : Journal of a Missionary Tour through the Mohawk & Black River Counties in 1802. In Documentary History of New York, vol. 3, Albany, 1850. 4, pp. 671-96. AUTHORITIES. Bailey, Early Conn. Marriages, vii, Mass., 131-36. Sheldon, Hist, of 80. Chute Genealogies, ccviii-ccx. Deerfield, ii, 775-82, (pt. 2) 335. Dwight Family, i, 366-68. Hist, of Pres. Stiles, Literary Diary, iii, 75, Macomb County, Mich. (1882), 763- 78, 251. J. T. Terry, Rev. Edward 64. Hotchkin, Hist, of Western N. Taylor, 21-23,' 76-79- S. Terry, Y., 254. Packard, Hist, of Churches Terry Families, 35, 72. and Ministers in Franklin County, ANDREW TUTTLE, the second son and child of Hezekiah Tuttle, of New Haven, and grandson of Captain Andrew and Eunice (Sherman) Tuttle, was born in New Haven on January 4, 1762. His mother was Martha, daughter of Abner and Abigail (Gilbert) Bradley, of New Haven. He spent his life in his native town, where he was in business as a shopkeeper. He was found dead in his bed in New Haven on November 19, 1807, aged nearly 46 years. He was never married. AUTHORITIES. Tuttle Family, 169. Biographical Sketches, 1784 369 JAMES WAKELEE was a son of James Wakelee, who lived in that part of Stratford which was incorporated as the town of Huntington, Connecticut, in 1789. A James Wakelee was married to Ameritta Patterson by the rector of the Episcopal Church in Huntington on July 6, 1788; but it is uncertain whether this was the graduate. The graduate was living at the distribution of his father's estate in February, 1801, but is marked as dead in the Triennial Catalogue of Graduates issued in the fall of 1802. ROSWELL WELLES, a son of Captain Jonathan Welles (Yale 1751), was born in Glastonbury, Connecticut, on August 20, 1761. His mother was a sister of Roswell Saltonstall (Yale 1751). He studied law, and settled in 1786 in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, where he was admitted to the Luzerne County bar at the organization of that County on May 27, 1787. He practiced his profession with credit, and on April 26, 1793, was appointed one of the associate Judges of the Court of Common Pleas for the County. About 1800 he commanded a regiment of State Militia. He also represented Luzerne County in the State Legis- lature in 1797-98, 1802, and 1804-06. He died in Wilkes-Barre on March 19, 1830, in his 69th year. He married in Wilkes-Barre, in 1788, Hannah, only daughter of Colonel Zebulon and Anna (Lord) Butler, of Lyme, Connecticut, born February 28, 1770. In her childhood her father removed to Wilkes-Barre. Their children were one son and one daughter. , AUTHORITIES. Chapin, Glastonbury Centennial, Valley, i, 119; iii, 1050. Walworth, 217. Kulp, Families of Wyoming Hyde Genealogy, ii, 767-68. 24 37 Yale College DEODAT WILDMAN, a son of the Rev. Benjamin Wild- man (Yale 1758), was probably born in 1761. After graduation he returned to his father's parish of Southbury, Connecticut, and studied law. He married on February 6, 1785, Phebe, second daugh- ter of Amos and Phebe (Curtiss) Hicock, of Southbury. He died in Southbury on January 16, 1787, aged 25 years. , AUTHORITIES. Cothren, Hist, of Woodbury, i, 566 ; Diary, ii, 452. iii, 484, 513. Pres. Stiles, Literary ,HEZEKIAH NORTH WOODRUFF was born in Farming- ton, Connecticut, in 1763, the eldest son of Timothy Woodruff, and of Lucy Treadwell, a sister of Governor John Treadwell (Yale 1767). A younger brother was graduated here in 1797. In early life he studied medicine, and began practice in New Jersey; but he there met with a change, which led him to seek a College education, with the sole view of entering the ministry. After graduation he studied theology, and was licensed to preach by the New London Association early in 1789. In March- April, 1789, he was called by unanimous votes of the First Congregational Church and Society in Ston- ington, Connecticut, to be their pastor, with a salary of 100. He accepted the call, and was ordained there on July 2. The sermon on that occasion, by the Rev. Dr. Nathan Perkins, of West Hartford, was afterwards published. He continued to labor with this people very acceptably for fourteen years, until dismissed by a mutual council in June, 1803. During his pastorate fifty-two persons were admitted to the church. Biographical Sketches, 1784 371 He removed immediately to Central New York, settling at first in Aurora, then part of Scipio, in Cayuga County, and being installed soon after as pastor of the First Pres- byterian . Church in Scipio. He was dismissed from this charge on June 2, 1813. Three weeks -later, on June 22, he was settled in Auburn, in the same county, as pastor of a newly organized Congregational Church, which in August, 1814, became by unanimous vote Presbyterian. He was dismissed from Auburn in August, 1816, and in less than a year was installed over the two churches in Herkimer and Little Falls, in Herkimer County. In 1822-23 he was settled in Manlius, in Onondaga County. He died at Oneida Castle, Oneida County, New York, on August n, 1833, in his 7ist year. He married before his ordination Sarah, widow of Jonathan Alden, of Lebanon, Connecticut, by whom he had several children. After about five years of pro- tracted illness, she went in the summer of 1803 for a visit to a daughter by her first marriage, the wife of Mr. Woodruff's brother, who was settled in Coventry, Connec- ticut. She died there, while her husband was absent, on September 14, in her 47th year. One son became a clergy- man and subsequently a lawyer. He published: 1. The Life and Character of a Gospel Minister, delineated in a Sermon [from I Tim. iv, 16] preached in Boston, at the Ordination of the Rev. Clark Brown, pastor over the Christian Church and Society in Machias. Boston, 1795. 8, pp. 31. [A. A. S. A. C. A. B. Ath. Brown Univ. Harv. M. H. S. 2. A Sermon [from Deut. xxxiv, 5, 8, 10], occasioned by the Death of Gen. George Washington. . . Preached December 29, 1799. Stonington-Port, 1800. 8, pp. 16. [C. H. S. M. H. S. U. S. 3. A Sermon [from 2 Tim. i, 7], delivered at the Ordination of the Rev. Ephraim T. Woodruff . . in North Coventry. On the 8th of April, 1801. Hartford, 1801. 8, pp. 23. .[A. C. A. C. H. S. M. H. S. Y. C. 37 2 Yale College 4. The danger of ambition considered, in a Sermon [from 2 Sam. iii, 34], preached at Scipio, N. Y., Lord's Day, August 12, 1804; occasioned by the Death of General Alexander Hamilton . . Albany, 1804. 8, pp. 23. [C. H. S. Y. C. 5. A Sermon [from Acts xxvi, 18], preached at Scipio, N. Y., at the Execution of John Delaware, a native; for the Murder of Ezekiel Crane. August 17, 1804. Albany, 1804. 8, pp. 22. [C. H. S. U. S. 6. The Change, and Perpetual Obligation of the Sabbath, con- sidered, in a Sermon [from Ex. xx, 8-10], delivered at Sempronius, before the Presbytery of Cayuga, at the opening of their meeting, March, 1811, and published at their request. Auburn, 1813. 8, pp. 27. [C. H. S. 7. The First Annual Report of the Herkimer Bible Society; together with Discourse [from Rom. x, 18] delivered by their Presi- dent, at the Annual Meeting, Feb. 10, 1818, and an Address of their Committee, to the public. Herkimer, 1818. 8, pp. 20. [A. C. A. The whole pamphlet was presumably prepared by Mr. Woodruff, who was the President of the Society. 8. A Sermon [from Haggai i, 8, & ii, 9] preached at the Dedi- cation of the Presbyterian Church, at Little-Falls, Herkimer: June 4, 1818. Herkimer, 1818. 8, pp. 19. [A. C. A. Brown Univ. AUTHORITIES. Conn. Evangelical Magazine, vii, 52. Sprague, Annals of The Amer. 137-41. Fowler, Hist, of the Church Pulpit, ii, 485. Wheeler, Hist, of of Christ in Auburn, 5-6. Hotchkin, First Church, Stonington, 77-78, 96, Hist, of Western N. Y., 80, 345, 351- 260-61. AARON WOOLWORTH, the eldest child of Richard Wool- worth, of Longmeadow, Massachusetts, by his second wife, Lois, daughter of William and Mary (Merrick) Colton, of Longmeadow, was born on October 25, 1763. His father, the son of Richard and Elizabeth (Hall) Woolworth, of Suffield, Connecticut, was a small farmer and shoemaker. The son was admitted to the College Church on profession of faith in August of his Junior year. Biographical Sketches, 1784 373 After graduation he taught for a short time in Enfield, Connecticut; after which he studied theology with the Rev. Dr. Levi Hart, of Preston. He was licensed by the Eastern Association of New London County in 1785, and after preaching for a short time in Easthampton, Massa- chusetts, he went to Long Island in the beginning of the year 1787, and soon began preaching as a candidate in Bridgehampton. That church had been for twelve years without a pastor, and was then in a distracted state; but he gave such satisfaction that a settlement was unani- mously offered him in April, and he was ordained and installed on August 30, 1787. The sermon on that occa- sion by the Rev. Dr. Samuel Buell (Yale 1741) was after- wards published. The church was then Congregational in its organization, but decided for Presbyterianism in 1794. Several powerful revivals of religion occurred under his ministry, particularly one in the year 1800. In 1809 he received the honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity from Princeton College. Dr. Woolworth was a man of great intellectual activity and untiring industry, and his hold on the affection and esteem of his people was very strong. He also found time to receive many young men for instruction, both in classics and in theology. Though his constitution was not vigorous, his health was generally good and he was able to carry on his work until the last. He preached with unusual fervor and tenderness on March 25, 1821, though laboring under a severe cold, which developed into a typhoid affection of the lungs, from which he died the next week, on April 2, in his 58th year. A Sermon occasioned by his death, preached by the Rev. Ebenezer Phillips, of East Hampton, was afterwards printed. He married, on August 27, 1788, Mary, fifth daughter of the Rev. Dr. Samuel Buell (Yale 1741), of East Hamp- ton, Long Island, and had by her four daughters and three sons. The elder surviving son was graduated at 374 Yale College Hamilton College in 1822. Mrs. Woolworth died at his residence in Homer, New York, on September 10, 1846, aged nearly 77 years. The eldest daughter married the Rev. James H. Mills (Williams Coll. 1814), and the third daughter married the Rev. Herman Halsey (Williams 1811). A letter by him, giving some account of a Revival of Religion in Bridgehampton in 1799-1800, was published in the Connecticut Evangelical Magazine, volume I, for December 1800, pp. 214-16. He also contributed to the next volume of the same work, for October-November, 1801, Sketches of the life and death of the Rev. Samuel Buell, D.D., pp. 147-51, 179-82. , AUTHORITIES. Hedges, Bi-centennial Address at Stiles, Literary Diary, iii, 82. Bridge-Hampton (1886), 10-12, iii- Thompson, Hist, of L. I., 2d ed., i, iv. Longmeadow Centennial, Ap- 344-45. Welles, Buell Family, 61, pendix, 96-97. Prime, Hist, of L. 1., in. Woolworth Genealogy, 41, 65- 201-02. Sprague, Annals of the 66. Amer. Pulpit, iii, 468-72. Pres. Annals, 1784-85 375 Annals, 1784-85 The College year was uneventful. At the time of Commencement, 1785, the Episcopal clergy of the State were holding a convocation; and the biographer of Bishop Seabury (Yale 1748) preserves a tradition of his attendance at Commencement and of Pres- ident Stiles's unwillingness to distinguish him by special honor. The number of the graduating class at its entrance in 1781 had been small, owing mainly to the favorable busi- ness opportunities which arose at the close of the war ; but by the time of graduation it had risen to seventy a num- ber which was not exceeded by any graduating class until 1814. The College records preserve the following memo- randum of the expense of the dinner furnished on Commencement Day : A List of Articles used in Commencement Dinner, Sept. 14, 1785 140 Ib. Flour @ 2d % , 1. 6. 3 67 Ib. Fresh Pork @ 4d I. 2. 4 ioy 2 Ib. Lamb @ 4d 3. 6 20 Ib. Butter @ lod 16. 8 2 doz. Fowls @ IDS i. 20 Ib. Salt pork 8d 13. 4 5 Bushlls. Apples y$ 7. 6 i Bushll beats 4. Cabbage 5- Potatoes 3. Spices 6. Pepper ^ Salt 2/ 4. 3 Vinegar ^ Pickles 3/ 4. 6 Hogslard, 10 Ib. 6/ 2 Load Wood i8/ i. 4. i Ib. Candles lid Soap 2/ 2.11 i Woman 3 Days @ 3/ 9. 37 6 Yale College 1 do. 2 l / 2 Days to Scour 3 / 6 8. 9 2 Men 6 Days each @ 4/ 2. 8. i Barrell Cyder 8. 6 Gallns old do 6. 12 Ib. Cheese 6d 6. no Ib. Beef @ 3^d 1.12. i Use of Platters, plates, Table Cloths, &c. ) Sundry small things f To my Time & Trouble in preparing 3.10. 19.11. i Erros Excepted Jeremiah Atwater Steward Sketches, Class of 1785 *Samuel Jacobus Andrews *Jeremias Mix Atwater, A.M. "1832 *Josephus Badger * 184.6 *David Ludovicus Beebe, A.M. 1789 *i8c>3 *Guilielmus Pitt Beers *i8io *David Belden, 1787 "1832 *Ebenezer Belknap *i842 *Barnabas Bidwell, A.M. et Guil. 1797, LL.D. Brun. 1805, Tutor, e Congr., Reip. Mass. Reb. Judic. Praefect. *i833 *Tillotson Blakesley *i8i - *Solomon Blakslee * I 835 *Petrus Bulkley *i8o8 *Fredericus Butler, A.M. "1843 *Caleb Clap ^1787 *Abrahamus Lynsen Clarke, A.M. 1791 *i8io * Jacobus Bayne Clarke *i842 *Enos Cooke * Johannes Devotion *i8io *Abrahamus VanHorn DeWitt *i82O Biographical Sketches, 1785 377 * Johannes Dean Dickinson, e Congr. *i84i *Josephus Drake * I 794 *Rogerus Eells, A.M. *i?9O * Johannes Ellsworth * I 79 I *Richardus Ely, M.D. Soc. Med. Conn. 1814 *i8i6 *Reuben Fairchild "1788 *Simeon Field, M.D. 1817 "1822 *Abel Flint, A.M. et Brim., S.T.D. Cone. 1818 "1825 *Hezekias Goodrich, A.M. 1792 *i8i2 *Russell Goodrich, A.M. "1837 *Guilielmus Graves, A.M. 1801 "1813 *Pearleius Grosvenor *i-7&7 *Levi Hackley, 1786 "1786 *David Hale, A.M. "1822 *Josua Henshaw *i843 *Daniel Nash *Rogerus Newton, A.M., Tutor 378 Yale College *Matthaeus Noyes, A.M., Socius * l &39 *Zacharias Olmsted, A.M. *i8si ^Benjamin Perkins *i84i *Samuel Perkins, A.M. *i85o *Timotheus Pitkin, A.M., LL.D. 1829, e Congr. "1847 *Nathanael Rossiter * I &35 *Elihu Platt Smith "1795 * Robertas Spelman "1803 ^Thomas Stedman *i838 *Guilielmus Taylor, A.M. *i84i *Abrahamus Tomlinson *i82o *Thomas Tousey *i84O *Decius Wadsworth, A.M. *i82i *Guilielmus Wheeler *Ezekiel Williams, A.M. *Timotheus Williams, A.M. 1799 *Gideon Woodruff *i847 *Joel Wright *i797 SAMUEL JAMES ANDREWS, the eldest son of the Rev. Samuel Andrews (Yale 1759), was born in Wallingford, Connecticut, on February 16, 1766. His father's useful ministry in the Episcopal parish in Wallingford was inter- rupted during the Revolution by his loyalty to the crown, and this probably hampered the son's course in College. His account-book, still preserved, shows that he supported himself on an annual allowance of 25. Just after his graduation the rest of the family removed to New Brunswick, and he took up the life of a shipping- merchant in Derby, Connecticut, and married, in 1795, Damaris, daughter of Samuel and Damaris (Atwater) Tyler, of Wallingford. He was eminently successful as a West-India trader, and held a prominent position in Derby, where he was Postmaster by appointment of President Madison. He was, however, well nigh ruined by the Embargo which preceded the War of 1812, with the result that after Biographical Sketches, 1785 379 severe losses his property was substantially reduced to two vessels engaged in the West India trade; and when the last of these was captured by the British blockaders off New Haven harbor, he had little remaining except a large tract of land at the Falls of the Genesee, in Western New York, which he had purchased in 1812, on a visit to that region, in connection with his brother-in-law, Dr. Moses Atwater (Yale 1787). Under these circumstances he made up his mind in 1815 to remove with his family to his Western lands, which were within the limits of the new village of Rochester, where he found only two families already settled. He brought with him a stock of goods for trade, and in 1816 began to erect mills at the Falls, and also built a bridge across the Genesee River and a schoolhouse. In the succeeding years he laid out a large part of the present city, and aided in the establishment and promotion of many of its religious and social institutions. He was one of the founders of St. Luke's Church, the first Episcopal Church in Rochester, in 1817, as also subsequently in 1827 of St. Paul's, the second Episcopal Church, of which the stone for the building was a gift from him. He built for himself a substantial stone house (the first structure, other than wood, in Rochester), which is now occupied by a grandson. He died in Rochester on January 12, 1832, aged 66 years. His wife long survived him, dying in Rochester on September 18, 1855, in her 87th year. A brass tablet with an appropriate inscription to their memory in Latin, is erected in St. Andrew's Church in that city. Five of their six children, three sons and two daughters, survived the father. James Andrews Swan (Yale 1867) is a grandson. AUTHORITIES. J. Sherlock Andrews, MS. Letter, Phelps and Gorham's Purchase, 600. Dec. 2, 1906. Turner, Hist, of 380 Yale College JEREMIAH [Mix] ATWATER, the second son and fifth child of Jeremiah Atwater, of New Haven, for many years the College Steward, and grandson of Jonathan and Martha (Bradley) Atwater, was born in New Haven on February 15, 1767. His mother was Anna, daughter of Nathaniel and Rebecca (Lines) Mix, of New Haven. He assumed a middle name after graduation. /His life was spent in New Haven, where he was engaged in business. He was usually called "Major Jerry" Atwater, from his rank in the militia. He married, on February 3, 1789, Elizabeth, youngest daughter of the Rev. Dr. Naphtali Daggett (Yale 1748), who died on May 20, 1790, aged 21 years. He next married, on February 15, 1793, Mary, daughter of Richard and Hannah (Howell) Cutler, who long sur- vived him, dying on November 8, 1861, aged 91^2 years. By his second marriage he had one son and seven daughters. He died in New Haven on February 27, 1832, aged 65 years. AUTHORITIES. Atwater History, 137, 182-83. Bailey, Early Conn. Marriages, i, 18. JOSEPH BADGER was born in Wilbraham, Massachusetts, on February 28, 1757, the son of poor but pious parents, Henry and Mary (Langdon) Badger, and grandson of Nathaniel and Mary (Lunt) Badger, of Norwich West Farms, now Franklin, Connecticut. In 1766 the family removed to Partridgefield, now Peru, in Berkshire County, about forty miles to the northwest of Wilbraham. In the Spring of 1775 he entered the Revolutionary army; he was present at the battle of Bunker Hill, and was afterwards with General Arnold in Canada. He was discharged in the Spring of- 1777, but soon enlisted again for the remainder of the year. Biographical Sketches, 77^5 381 In February, 1778, he went to New Preston Society, in Washington, Connecticut, to work at weaving, and in the fall became a boarder in the family of the clergyman of the parish, the Rev. Jeremiah Day (Yale 1756), and pursued elementary studies. In 1779 he experienced a new interest in religion, and united with the church. He now gave up his previous intention of returning to the army, and determined to prepare for the ministry. He supported himself in the meantime by teaching, and was able to enter College at Commencement in 1781. While here also he earned money by teaching, and in his Junior year by constructing a Planetarium for the College. In October, .1784, during the fall vacation, he married Lois Noble, of Kent, Connecticut, whom he had known in New Preston, she being the youngest sister of Mrs. Day. During the year after graduation he kept a school in Waterbury, Connecticut, and studied divinity under the direction of the Rev. Mark Leavenworth. He was licensed to preach by the New Haven East Association of Ministers in October, 1786, and for a few months supplied the pulpit in Northbury Society, now Plymouth, Con- necticut. In the Spring of 1787 he set out for Vermont; but stopped in Blandford, Massachusetts, and preached there, until he received a nearly unanimous call to the pastorate, on a salary of three hundred dollars. He accepted the call, and was ordained there on October 24. After a few years he found that his support was inadequate; and as ill-feeling was aroused by his com- plaints, he finally deemed his usefulness at an end and resolved to go elsewhere. He was dismissed by a council on October 24, 1800, and three weeks later set out, under the appointment of the Connecticut Missionary Society (of which his classmate Flint was the Secretary), as a missionary to the Western Reserve of Ohio. After visiting every family on the Reserve he returned to Blandford on January I, 1802. 382 Yale College Having found an open door for extensive ministerial usefulness, he now decided to remove with his wife and six children to the Reserve, and set out in February. They reached Austinburg late in April, and there estab- lished a new home. Though a Congregationalist by conviction Mr. Badger now joined the Ohio Presbytery, as the only organization with which he could unite. His missionary life was extremely laborious, and after the Connecticut Society felt obliged to reduce his stipend (from seven to six dollars a week), he regretfully resigned his appointment (in January, 1806), and accepted one from the Western Missionary Society, located at Pittsburgh. Under their direction he labored among the Wyandotte Indians, in the neighborhood of Sandusky, Ohio, for some three or four years. In April, 1810, he removed his residence a few miles northwards to Ashtabula, and spent half his time in preaching to the church in that town, and the rest in missionary labor in the vicinity under the direction of the Massachusetts Missionary Society. When the War of 1812 broke out, his knowledge of the territory was considered of value, and in order to secure his services General Harrison appointed him Brigade Chaplain and Postmaster, and he remained with the army for six months. After the war he continued preaching, with a very scanty support from the people. His wife died suddenly, after a few days' illness, on August 4, 1818, in her 64th year. In the following February, at the suggestion of friends, he made the acquaintance of Miss Abigail Ely, of North Wilbraham, Massachusetts, who was then visiting her sisters in Salem, Ohio; and as the result they were married on April 13, 1819. In the Spring of 1822 he removed to Kirtland, where and in Chester he preached alternately for four years. Biographical Sketches, 1785 383 In 1826 he was placed on the pension roll as a Revolu- tionary soldier, and from that time received eight dollars a month from the government. In the Spring of 1826, in compliance with an invitation from the people of Gustavus, in Trumbull County, he removed to that place, formed a Congregational Church of twenty-seven members, and was installed pastor of that Society by the Grand River Presbytery in October follow- ing. Here he preached for eight years with measurable success, until his lungs and voice began to fail and his general health to be somewhat impaired. He then pro- posed to give up his charge, but at the request of his people remained with them until a successor was agreed upon. His dismission took effect on June 26, 1835, and in the following October he removed to the house of his only surviving daughter, in Plain, Wood County. He partially recovered the use of his voice, so as to be able to preach in the destitute settlements in that neighbor- hood. In the winter of 1844 he removed to Perrysburg, in the same vicinity, to live with a married granddaughter. He was soon for the most part confined to his room, and died there, on April 5, 1846, in his QOth year. His wife survived him about six months. His children, by his first marriage, were three sons and four daughters. Two children only survived him. The testimony of one who remembered him well is: In personal appearance he was tall, slim, erect, had blue eyes, brown hair, and a pleasing expression of face. In temperament and action he was quick and somewhat impulsive, yet he was con- siderate & slow of utterance, rarely, if ever, uttering an imprudent word. In his social intercourse he was sedate or facetious as the occasion seemed to require. He enjoyed hearing and telling amusing anecdotes. In his style of preaching he was apostolic, plain, simple and logical. He had but one grand aim in life, & that was to do what he could to advance the moral and spiritual welfare of mankind. 3^4 Yale College A sketch of his life, contained in a letter from him to a friend, dated in June, 1840, was published in the American Quarterly Register for February, 1841 (pp. 317-28). After his death a great-nephew of his wife, Professor Henry N. Day (Yale 1828), published the following: A Memoir of Rev. Joseph Badger ; containing an Autobiography, and Selections from his Private Journal and Correspondence. Hudson, Ohio, 1851. 12, pp. 185 -j- plate. The volume is mainly of Mr. Badger's own composition; it also contains an engraving from his portrait. Interesting extracts from his correspondence with the Connecticut Missionary Society, while in their employ, were published in the Connecticut Evangelical Magazine. Two letters of reminiscences, written by him in 1843, are published in The American Pioneer, edited by J. S. Williams, Cincinnati, 1843, vol. 2, pp. 275-78, 374-76. AUTHORITIES. American Quarterly Register, xiii, Centennial ed., iii, 345. Keep, Dis- 317-28. Boltwood, Noble Genealogy, course at Blandford, 13, 21-22. 47, 66-67. Conn. Daily Courant, Kennedy, Plan of Union, 18-23. April 21, 1846. Conn. Evangelical Magazine of Western History, i, Magazine, i, 239, 358-59; ii, 118; iii, 432-43. Sprague, Annals of the 304-05, 317-20; iv, 113-18, 331; vi, Amer. Pulpit, iii, 473-79. Stebbins, 288; 2d series, ii, 154-56. Eaton, Hist. Address at Wilbraham, 269. Hist, of Erie Presbytery, 218-30. Pres. Stiles, Literary Diary, iii, 88, Howe, Hist. Collections of Ohio, 113, 287. DAVID LEWIS BEEBE, the younger son of the Rev. James Beebe (Yale 1745), of Unity Parish, now Trumbull, Connecticut, was born in Trumbull on January 16, 1763. His father died the week before his graduation. He studied theology, but it was not until February 23, 1791, that he was ordained as pastor of the Congrega- tional Church in Woodbridge, Connecticut. The sermon preached on this occasion by the Rev. Izrahiah Wetmore Biographical Sketches, 1785 385 (Yale 1748), the successor in his father's pulpit, was after- wards published. On February 29, 1792, he married Mary (or Polly), second daughter of Caleb and Abigail (Jones) Atwater, of Wallingford, Connecticut. He labored acceptably and successfully in Woodbridge for nine years, but was dismissed on account of ill health on March 18, 1800. He then removed to Wallingford; but soon after went into mercantile business in Catskill, New York, where he died on June 3, 1803, in his 41 st year. His widow died in Wallingford in 1845, a ^ the age of 76. Their children were three daughters and two sons. A granddaughter married the Rev. Edwin R. Gilbert (Yale 1829). AUTHORITIES. Atwater History and Genealogy, ford, ii, 1142.- Pres. Stiles, Literary 123, 151. Bailey; Early Conn. Mar- Diary, iii, 412-13. riages, iv, 65. Orcutt, Hist, of Strat- WILLIAM PITT BEERS, the younger son of Samuel Beers, of Stratford, Connecticut, and grandson of Samuel and Sarah (Sherman) Beers, of Newtown, was born in Stratford on April 12, 1766. His mother was Sarah, second daughter of Colonel Jabez and Elizabeth (Edwards) Huntington, of Windham, Connecticut, and widow of Hezekiah Wetmore, of Middletown, Connec- ticut. He studied law, and settled in Albany, New York, where he became somewhat distinguished in his profession. On June 9, 1793, he married Anna, daughter of the Hon. Jonathan Sturges, of Fairfield, Connecticut, and sister of Lewis B. Sturges (Yale 1782), who was baptized on April 14, 1765. In February, 1810, he was elected Clerk of the City and County of Albany ; but his health soon failed, and he died 25 386 Yale College at his father-in-law's house in Fair field on September 13, 1810, in his 45th year. In one of the notices of his death his Essays on political subjects are likened to those of Junius. His wife survived him. One son was graduated at the Yale Medical School in 1824. AUTHORITIES. Bailey, Early Conn. Marriages, vi, Hist, of Stratford, ii, 1144. Perry, 45. Goodwin, Genealogical Notes, Old Burying Ground of Fairneld, 54. 302. Hurd, Hist, of Fairneld County, Schcnck, Hist, of Fairneld, ii, 499. 293. Huntington Family, 97. Orcutt, DAVID BELDEN was born in Wilton, then part of Nor- walk, Connecticut, on July 16 [or 19], 1764, the youngest son of Azor and Mary Belden, and grandson of William and Margaret (Arms) Belden, of Wilton. He did not receive his degree until 1787. [ In the meantime he had studied theology, and on Sep- tember 21, 1786, had been admitted to the diaconate in the Episcopal Church by Bishop Seabury at Derby. He exercised his ministry for a short time in Fairfield County, his longest service being for four months in 1788 in Ridgefield, but ill health compelled him to forego advancement to the priesthood, and he retired to his farm in Wilton, where he lived quietly for the rest of his days. He died in Wilton, of consumption, on March 2, 1832, in his 68th year. He married on December 21, 1794, Martha, youngest daughter of Seth and Elizabeth (Mallory) Hull, of Red- ding, Connecticut. She died in Danbury, on July 31, 1846, aged 72 years. Their children were two sons and two daughters. AUTHORITIES. Beardsley, Hist, of the Episcopal Convention, 1866, 165. Selleck, Nor- Church in Conn., i, 386-87. Convo- walk, i, 394-95. Stiles, Hist, of cation Records, Diocese of Conn., Wethersfield, ii, 91. Todd, Hist, of 44, 152. Journal of Conn. Episcopal Redding, 200. Biographical Sketches, 1785 387 EBENEZER BELKNAP was probably born in Durham, Connecticut, in 1761. He first entered Dartmouth College, but when a Junior there took a dismission, on February 26, 1784, and applied for admission to Yale in April. He was not then success- ful, but applied again in September and was admitted. After graduation he studied medicine, and practiced for a short time, though apparently not in Connecticut. He then returned to Durham, and about 1816 removed to New York City, where he was employed in the Custom House until near the close of his life. He died in New York on December 8, 1842, aged 81 years. For the first half of his life or more he was a free- thinker but later became a Swedenborgian. AUTHORITIES. Prof. W. C. Fowler, MS. Letter, Diary, iii, 119, 135. March 7, 1867. Pres. Stiles, Literary BARNABAS BIDWELL, younger son of the Rev. Adonijah Bidwell (Yale 1740), was born in that part of Tyringham which is now Monterey, Massachusetts, on August 23, 1763. His mother died in his childhood, and his father in June of his Junior year. He excelled in the languages in his College course. Immediately after graduation he began teaching a young ladies' school in New Haven (formerly taught by Jedidiah Morse, Class of 1783), in conjunction with his classmate Leavitt. On October 18, 1787, he was elected to a tutorship in the College, and he entered on his duties the next week. He continued in the office for three years, retiring at Com- mencement, 1790, with a considerable reputation for elegance as a writer. 388 Yale College He studied law, and settled in practice in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, where he soon became prominent. He se'rved as Treasurer of Berkshire County from September, 1791, to August, 1810. Meantime he was a member of the State Senate from 1801 to 1805, and was then elected to the National House of Representatives. He was a recent convert from Federalism to Republi- canism, and went to Congress with a reputation for leader- ship and oratory from which great things were hoped by his party; but he disappointed their expectations. The honorary degree of Doctor of Laws was conferred on him by Brown University in 1805. In June, 1807, he accepted the appointment of Attorney- General of the State, in preference to a return to Congress. There had previously been some charges against his honesty, but they were supposed to be due to party malice. In June, 1810, however, a private investigation into his accounts as County Treasurer disclosed a failure to pay over sums collected by him and a corresponding falsifica- tion of the records. The matter was on the point of being carried to the Courts, when he absconded, early in August, to avoid a prosecution for embezzlement. The funds abstracted were supposed to amount, with interest, to about ten thousand dollars. Just at that time President Madison had his name under consideration for a place on the bench of the Supreme Court of the United States. He settled with his family in Bath, a village on the Bay of Quinte, north of Lake Ontario, in Upper Canada, whence he removed about 1820 to Kingston, some twenty miles to the eastward. Being an alien he was not admitted to practice in the Courts (though he gave some attention to office-consultations), and he was also unable to accept an election to the Canadian Parliament, though a prominent figure in relation to public affairs. He made a profession of religion in 1825. He retained his mental vigor to the last, and died in Kingston, after a brief illness, on July 27, 1833, at tne Biographical Sketches, 1785 389 of seventy. A Sermon preached on his death, by his pastor, the Rev. J. Smith, was published. One who remembered him well in this last portion of his life describes him as "a profound jurist, a man of great culture and attainments outside of the law as well as in it," "distinguished for his courtly and agreeable manners, his great conversational powers, his mental and personal activity." He married in Watertown, Massachusetts, on February 21, 1793, Mary Gray, a native of Stockbridge. She died on February 2, 1808, in her 44th year. Their children were one daughter, who never married, and one son, who became a distinguished lawyer in Canada and in New York City. He published: 1. The Mercenary Match, a Tragedy. By Barna Bidwell. New- Haven [1784]- 16, pp. 57- [C H. S. (imperfect). U. S. (imperfect). ' Written, and published by Subscription, while the author was a Senior, and acted in College. For a brief notice, see Dunlap's History of the American Theatre, 71. The play is in blank verse, in five acts. The scene is laid in Boston, and the time is that of publication. 2. An Oration on the Death of Roger Newton, Jun'r., A.M., a Tutor of Yale-College, in New-Haven, who died August loth, 1789; Pronounced in the College-Chapel, September 2nd. New- Haven. 8, pp. 23. [A. A. S. A. C. A. Brit. Mus. C. H. S. Y. C. 3. An Oration, delivered at the celebration of American Inde- pendence, in Stockbridge, July, 1795. Stockbridge, 1795. 8, pp. 23. [Harv. M. H. S. Y. C. In strong sympathy with the Federalist party. 4. The Susquehannah Title stated and examined, in a. series of Numbers, first published in the Western Star . . . Catskill, 1796. 12, pp. 115. [N. Y. Publ. Libr. Pa. State Library. U. S. Y. C. * An anonymous legal and historical examination of the claim of Connecticut to the Wyoming Valley, deciding in her favor. 39 Yale College 5. An Address to the People of Massachusetts. [Boston, 1804.] 8, pp. 22. [M. H. S. U. S. Y. C. An electioneering pamphlet, in favor of the Republican candidate for Governor. 6. An Address to the People of Massachusetts. February, 1805. 8, pp. 24. [U. S. Y. C. This pamphlet follows the same lines as the one of the previous year. 7. A Summary, Historical and Political Review of the Revolu- tion, the Constitution and Government of the United States: an Oration, delivered at Sheffield, July 4th, 1805. Pittsfield, 1805. 8, pp. 22. [A. A. S. B. Ath. N. Y. Publ. Libr. N. Y. State Libr. U. S. 8. Commonwealth of Massachusetts. The Attorney General's Report respecting Claims for Confiscated Debts. Boston, 1808. 8, pp. 23. [A. A. S. B. Ath. Brit. Mus. Harv. An Opinion furnished to the Senate concerning the claims against the State preferred by persons who were creditors of Revolutionary Loyalists whose property had been confiscated. He is also said to have contributed some valuable Sketches of Upper Canada to Robert Gourlay's Statistical Account of Upper Canada, London, 1822. , AUTHORITIES. /. Q. Adams, Diary, i, 419. G. Schroeder, Memoirs of Mrs. Board- Allen, Reminiscences, 61. Bidwell man, 102, 112-14, 303. Pres. Stiles, Genealogy, 60, 87. Columbian Centi- Literary Diary, iii, 160, 284-85, 322, nel, Aug. 18 and Sept. 5, 1810. 329, 365, 402. Tyringham Vital Conn. Courant, Aug. 22, 1810. In Records, 12. Memoriam M. S. Bidwell, 33-34. TILLOTSON BLAKESLEY, the youngest child of Tilley Blakesley, of Waterbury, North Haven and New Haven, Connecticut, and grandson of James and Thankful (Upson) Blakesley of Woodbury, was born in North Haven on July 25, 1766, and was baptized at Trinity Church, New Haven, on July 27. His mother was Hannah, daughter of Ebeneaer Allyn, of New Haven. He became insane soon after graduation, and so con- tinued until his death. Biographical Sketches, 1785 391 His name was first starred in the Triennial Catalogue of Graduates issued in 1817. He was living in 1815. AUTHORITIES. Tuttle Family, 640. SOLOMON BLAKESLEY, or BLAKSLEE, as he afterwards wrote it, son of Zophar and Eunice Blakesley, of North Haven, Connecticut, and grandson of Captain Abraham and Elizabeth (Cooper) Blakesley, was born in North Haven on November 9, 1762. He studied theology, probably with the Rev. Dr. Rich- ard Mansfield, of Derby, and spent about a year before his ordination in Claremont, New Hampshire, in charge of a needy parish there, on an annual salary of 52, to be paid in grain. On June 3, 1789, he received deacon's orders in the Episcopal Church from Bishop Seabury at Norwalk. He had just been called to settle in Waterbury, Connecticut, where he had officiated for a short time; but he declined the call and returned to Claremont, much to the delight of that people, where he spent the next two years (Sep- tember, i79O-September, 1792), receiving a salary of 40 in money, and officiating for one-fourth of the time across the Connecticut River in Weathersfield, Vermont. On March i, 1793, he accepted the charge of St. Stephen's Church, East Haddam, Connecticut (having already officiated there for some months), and on the 9th of the following June he was advanced to the priesthood by Bishop Seabury at Middletown. After a service of twenty-two years he was called, on March 27, 1815, to the rectorship of St. James's Church, in New London, Connecticut. He- accepted immediately, and in May removed thither. During his three years' incumbency there was renewed activity and abundant life in the parish. Owing, however, to some dissatisfaction he resigned the rectorship early in 1818; and as the church 39 2 Yale College in East Haddam had been vacant since he left them, they now called him back to his old post, and in April he accepted the call. He continued to serve this parish until October, 1821, when he went to St. James's Church, Great Barrington, Massachusetts, where he did excellent work until May, 1827. In 1828 he returned to East Haddam, without taking any parochial charge; and in 1832 he removed to New Lisbon, Otsego County, New York. As his strength allowed he engaged in mission work in that vicinity. He died in New Lisbon, on April 10, 1835, in his 73d year. The Rev. Dr. Hallam, who remembered Mr. Blakslee as rector in New London, wrote of him: He was a man of peculiarly cheerful, genial, and social tempera- ment, an agreeable companion and associate; but was thought to be by many, perhaps not without reason, somewhat deficient in the gravity and seriousness which became his calling. In 1803, and again in 1816, he was active in sympathy with the Rev. Ammi Rogers (Yale 1790), who had been suspended from the exercise of clerical functions in Con- necticut; and this brought him into temporary disfavor with some of the clergy. Two of the letters which he wrote in this connection are printed in Rogers's Memoirs, PP- 54-55, 59-63- He published: 1. An Oration, delivered at East-Haddam, Feb. 22, 1800, agree- able to the Proclamation of the President of the United States ; on the Death of the late General George Washington. Hartford, 1800. 8, pp. 15. [C. H. S. U. S. In a very stilted style of composition ; apparently delivered at the request of a Lodge of Free Masons. 2. An Address, delivered before the members of the East- Haddam Branch of the Massachusetts Peace Society, December 3Oth, 1819. . . Middletown, 1820. 8, pp. 16. [C. H. S. U. S. Y. C. Biographical Sketches, 1785 393 A poetical Farewell Address, on his leaving New Lon- don, in seven four-line stanzas, is given in the Rev. Andrew Fowler's Sunday Visitant for March 27, 1819. He married, on April 8, 1795, Anna, second daughter of Colonel Jabez and Sarah (Olmsted) Chapman, of East Haddam, who was about five years his junior. Their children were two sons and three daughters. AUTHORITIES. Batchelder, Hist, of the Eastern Convocation Records, 56, 148-50. Diocese, i, 196. Beardsley, Hist, of Hallam, Annals of St. James's the Church in Conn., ii, 31, 155-57. Church, New London, 87-89. Hist Branson, Hist, of Waterbury, 303. of Middlesex County, 1884, 303. Chapman Family, 43, 46-47. Conn. Thorpe, North Haven Annals, 155. PETER BULKLEY was born in Fairfield, Connecticut, on April 3, 1765, the eldest child of Jonathan and Hannah Bulkley. His mother was a daughter of James Hoyt, of Norwalk. His parents' house stood at the rear of the present Town House, and was occupied as headquarters by Tryon when he burned Fairfield. At graduation his scholarship was doubtful, and his degree was granted speciali gratia, two days after Commencement. He returned home after graduation, and in July, 1787, began the issue of a short-lived weekly newspaper called The Fairfield Gazette or the Independent Intelligencer. He is mentioned in his father's will, in April, 1789, but his further history is unknown. AUTHORITIES. Chapman, Bulkley Family, 52. Oct. 28, 1905. Pres. Stiles, Literary Hon. John H. Perry, MS. Letter, Diary, iii, 181, 185. FREDERICK BUTLER, son of Jonathan and Ruth Butler, of Hartford, Connecticut, was born in Wethersfield, Con- necticut, on July 23, 1766. 394 Yale College He spent his life in Wethersfield, engaged in literary studies and in composition, and for much of the time conducted a private school. He married, on January n, 1787, Mary, only daughter of Colonel Thomas Belden (Yale 1751), of Wethersfield. She died in Wethersfield on January 17, 1811, in her 4ist year. He himself died in Wethersfield on April 4, 1843, in his 77th year. His children were five daughters and three sons. The youngest son was graduated at the Yale Medical School in 1828, and became Chief Justice of the State. He published: 1. A Catechetical Compend of General History, Sacred and Pro- fane; from the Creation of the World, to the year 1817, of the Christian Era. Hartford, 1817. 12, pp. iv, 212. . % [A. A. S. U. S. Y. C. Same. 3d edition. Hartford, 1818. 12, pp. 216. [Harv. Same. 4th edition. Hartford, 1819. 12, pp. 216. [U. T. S. Designed for the use of schools. 2. The Farmer's Manual; being a plain, practical Treatise on the Art of Husbandry, designed to promote an acquaintance with the modern improvements in Agriculture, together with remarks on Gardening, and a Treatise on the Management of Bees. Hartford (Middletown printed), 1819. 12, pp. 224. [A. A. S. Harv. The same. Weathersfield (Middletown printed), 1821. 12, pp. 224. [A. A. S. N. Y. Soc. Libr. U. S. From the same types as the foregoing. 3. Sketches of Universal History, sacred and profane, from the creation of the world, to the year 1818, of the Christian era. . . Third edition, corrected by the author. Hartford, 1821. 12, pp. 407. [A. C. A. U. S. Y. C. 4. A Complete History of the United States of America, embrac- ing the whole period from the Discovery of North America, down to the year 1820. Hartford, 1821. 3 v. 8. [A. A. S. B. Publ. Brit. Mus. Harv. U. S. U. T. S. Y. C. The same. Elizabethtown, 1822. 3 v. 8. [Peabody Inst., Bolt. U. S. Biographical Sketches, 1785 395 A depreciatory review of this book, by Edward Everett, is in the North American Review for January, 1823, pp. 156-63. 5. The Elements of Geography and History, combined in a catechetical form: accompanied with an Atlas. Wethersfield, 1825. 12, pp. 360. The same. 2d edition. Wethersfield, 1825. 12, pp. 408. 6. Memoirs of the Marquis de LaFayette, Major-General in the Revolutionary Army. . . Together with his Tour through the United States. Wethersfield, 1825. 12, pp. 418 + 5 pi. [Brown Univ. U. S. 7. A History of the United States of America. Wethersfield, 1827. 12. [L. I. Hist. Soc. The same. Third revised and improved Edition. Wethersfield, 1828. 12, pp. 452. [U. S. AUTHORITIES. N. E. Geneal. and Hist. Register,- Wethersfield, i, 380, 545; ii, 84, xv, 296; xvi, 18. Stiles, Hist, of 190-91. CALEB CLAP was the youngest child of Asahel and Sarah (Wright) Clap, of Northampton, Massachusetts, and grandson of Roger and Elizabeth (Bartlett) Clap, of Northampton. While studying medicine in Westfield, Massachusetts, with Dr. Samuel Mather (Yale 1756), he died there, unmarried, from nervous fever, on November 28, 1787, in the 23d year of his age. He was buried in Westfield. AUTHORITIES. Clapp Memorial, 35. Clark, Northampton Antiquities, 288. ABRAHAM LYNSEN CLARKE came to College from Mil- ford, Connecticut, and was probably the son of Dr. James Clarke. A brother graduated in the same Class. On graduation he became lay reader in St. Peter's Church, Milford, and on June 9, 1786, he was ordained deacon by Bishop Seabury at Stamford. In the spring of 1787 he became Rector of St. Paul's Church, in Hunting- 39 6 Yale College ton, Connecticut, at the same time giving one-third of his time to Christ Church, in Tashua Parish, in the present town of Trumbull. On June 7, 1789, he was ordained priest by Bishop Seabury, in Norwalk. On November 14, 1790, he married Sarah, the youngest daughter of Philip Nichols, of Stratfield, now Bridge- port, a sister of the wife of the Rev. Philo Shelton (Yale 1775). She was born on August 19, 1769. From Huntington he was called to King's Chapel (later St. John's Church), in Providence, Rhode Island, Bishop Seabury writing in commendation of him that he was "not only a gentleman of good character and understand- ing, but also of easy and polite manners, and of diligence in his profession." He began his duties on Easter Day, March 31, 1793, and remained with growing appreciation in Providence until his resignation on March 30, 1800. A week later he took charge of St. Michael's Church, Bristol, Rhode Island, but after a few months it was found to be necessary, in order to secure the use of certain endowments, to reinstate the former Rector, who had retired on account of age, and to make Mr. Clarke As- sistant Minister. The insufficient income thus entailed brought about his resignation early in 1803. In April, 1803, he was inducted into the united parishes of St. James, Newtown, and St. George's, Flushing, on Long Island; and in the discharge of his duties here, with a salary of 300, he was occupied until Flushing was made a separate cure in 1809. Mr. Clarke remained in charge of Newtown, until his death there, after a lingering illness, on December 31, 1810, aged 42 years. His portrait is preserved in the family of his brother-in- law, Mr. Shelton. AUTHORITIES. Conn. Convocation Records, 142- 1256. Riker, Annals of Newtown, 43. Munro, Hist, of Bristol, 155. 252-53. Thompson, Hist, of L. I., Orcutt, Hist, of Stratford, ii, 1031, ad ed., ii, 89, 147. Biographical Sketches, 17^5 397 JAMES BAYNE CLARKE was an elder brother of the preceding graduate. He settled in Brooklyn, New York, as a lawyer, and being a Churchman identified himself in 1807 with St. Ann's Parish, of which he was for some years a Vestry- man. He was an industrious attorney, and also occupied himself to a considerable extent with investments in real estate. For eleven years, from March, 1819, he was District Attorney of Kings County. He died in Brooklyn on December 5, 1842, in his 76th year. He married Eleanor Fisher, of Brooklyn, by whom he had two daughters. AUTHORITIES. Stiles, Hist, of Brooklyn, ii, 63, 82-83, 266. ENDS COOKE, the fourth son of Joseph and Abigail Cooke, of South Hadley and Hadley, Massachusetts, and grandson of Noah and Sarah (Marsh) Cooke, was born in Hadley on December 28, 1755. His mother was a daughter of Luke and Sarah Smith, of Sunderland and Hadley. He united with the College Church on profession of his faith in July of his Sophomore year. In December, 1786, he took charge of the Hopkins Academy in Hadley, and retained that office until November, 1791. Meantime he had studied law, and after this for a short time he practiced his profession in Deerfield, Massa- chusetts. Thence he went to New York City, where all trace of him is lost. AUTHORITIES. History of the Hopkins Fund, 2d ed., pt. 2, 25. Pres. Stiles, Liter- Hadley, 74. Judd, Hist, of Hadley, ary Diary, iii, 81. Yale College JOHN DEVOTION, a son of Judge Ebenezer Devotion (Yale 1759), of Scotland Parish, in Windham, Connecti- cut, was born in 1766. In consequence of ill-health, which made him a cripple, he took a dismission from College at the close of his Junior year; but the Corporation gave him a degree with his class, on certificates of his proficiency. After graduation he went to Boston, where he taught in the Latin School (between 1790 and 1795) and else- where. At a later period he held some government posi- tion there, though a life-long invalid. The University Library has a few specimens of his letters and poetical compositions, remarkable for their elegant penmanship, as well as for their contents. He died in Boston, on July i, 1810, aged 44 years, "deeply lamented," and the small property which he left was inherited by his father. In the probate proceedings he is described as a "Scrivener." AUTHORITIES. N. England Palladium, July 3, ii, 557; iii, 186. 1810. Pres. Stiles, Literary Diary, ABRAHAM VANHORN DEWITT was born in Milford, Connecticut, on August 14, 1767, the son of Garrit Van- Horn DeWitt, of Milford, who came from Holland to America in his childhood. His mother was Margaret, daughter of Abraham and Catherine (Rutgers) VanHorn. Upon graduation he returned to Milford, where, after due preparation, he entered on practice as a lawyer. He represented the town in the Legislature in October, 1791, and was elected to the same office in thirty successive sessions before his death, which occurred on August 29, 1820, at the age of 53. Biographical Sketches, 1785 399 He married in Milford, on January 3, 1790, Martha (or Patty), daughter of Captain Charles and Martha (Miles) Pond. She died on the last day of the following Septem- ber, at the age of 20 ; and he next married, on August 22, 1792, Martha, second daughter of Simeon Belden, of Wethersfield, Connecticut. She died in Wethersfield on April 5, 1841, in her 69th year. Their children were seven sons and two daughters, besides one daughter by his first wife. AUTHORITIES. Bailey, Early Conn. Marriages, v, Letter, Febr., 1907. Stiles, Hist, of 8. N. H. Colony Hist. Soc. Papers, Wethersfield, ii, 84, 284. Tillotson, v, 23. Mrs. Nathan G. Pond, MS. Wethersfield Inscriptions, 51. JOHN DEAN DICKINSON, fourth child and eldest son of Dr. John Dickinson, of Middletown, Connecticut, and grandson of the Rev. Moses Dickinson (Yale 1717), of Norwalk, was born in Middletown on June 28, 1767. His mother was Eunice, second daughter of John Hall, of Wallingford, and sister of Dr. Lyman Hall (Yale 1747). He read law for three years in Albany, in the office of Major Richard Sill (Yale 1775), and about 1790 settled in Lansingburgh, in Rensselaer County, New York, where he was admitted to the bar in April, 1791. In 1792 he was elected Trustee of Lansingburgh Village, and on December 27, 1793, he married Ann Eliza, daughter of Christopher Tillman, of the same place. In 1801 he was chosen the first President of the Far- mers' Bank, the first institution of that nature in Troy, and he soon removed to that city, retaining the presidency of the bank until 1828. He served as a member of the General Assembly of the State from November, 1816, to April, 1817. He was elected to the United States Congress for three sessions, namely, from December, 1819, to March, 1823, and from December, 1829, to March, 1831. 400 Yale College He was regarded as one of the first citizens of Troy, and was prominent in all public enterprises, while his house was a notable center of hospitality, both in Troy and in Washington. He was the first President of the Troy Lyceum of Natural History (in 1818), and one of the original Board of Trustees of the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (in 1824). He was a member of the committee which received Lafayette on his visit to Troy in 1824, and he entertained the General at his home on his second visit in July, 1825. A contemporary, the Hon. John Woodworth (Yale 1788), describes him as "a Lawyer of Learning, of sound Judgment, and extensive Practice." He died in Troy on January 28, 1841, in his 74th year. His widow died in Troy on January 12, 1847, in her 7ist year. They had six children, five of whom died in infancy or early childhood ; the surviving child married Benjamin Ogle Tayloe (Harvard 1815). AUTHORITIES. Mrs. G. B. Warren, MS. Letter, 167. Woodworth, Reminiscences of Nov., 1906. Weise, Hist, of Troy, Troy, 39, 62. 30-31, 69-70, loo, 114, 136, 147, 152, JOSEPH DRAKE, only son of Colonel Joseph and Phebe (Hunt) Drake, of New Rochelle, New York, and New Haven, and grandson of Benjamin Drake, of East Chester, New York, was born in New Rochelle on Decem- ber 2, 1766. (The poet, Joseph Rodman Drake, was a first cousin. ) He followed his father's example by entering on a mer- cantile life in New Haven, but was soon cut down, dying in Demerara on July 16, 1794, in his 28th year. AUTHORITIES. Bolton, Hist. of Westchester H. Colony Hist. Society Papers, iii, County, ii, 515. Conn. Journal, Oct. 515. 8, 1794. Hunt Genealogy, 171. N. Biographical Sketches, 1785 401 ROGER EELLS, the eldest child of the Rev. John Eells (Yale 1755), of Glastonbury, Connecticut, was born in that town on September 22 (or 24), 1764. After graduation he pursued the study of law with David Daggett (Yale 1783), of New Haven, and in 1787 was teaching school in Norwich, Connecticut. He died in September, 1790, at the age of 26. AUTHORITIES. Chapin, Glastenbury Centennial, 88. Huntington Family, 123. JOHN ELLSWORTH, the second son of Daniel Ellsworth, of Ellington, then a parish in Windsor, Connecticut, and grandson of Captain Daniel and Mindwell Ellsworth, of Ellington, was born there in 1762. His mother was Mary, eldest daughter of the Rev. John McKinstry, the first minister of Ellington, and a sister of the Rev. John McKinstry (Yale 1746). Upon graduation he studied divinity, and soon after he began to preach he was invited (on August 31, 1789) to become the pastor of the church in his native parish. The state of his health forbade his acceptance, but a little later he was offered the charge of a Presbyterian Church on the small Island of Saba, east of St. Croix, in the West Indies, which then contained about one hundred and twenty European families. Though in very weak health he accepted the call. He was ordained to this office at East Windsor on December n, 1789, and went to Saba, where he labored with great acceptance until obliged to give up his charge on account of the failure of his health. He then returned to Connecticut, and after a lingering illness died at his father's house in Ellington, from consumption, on Novem- ber 22, 1791, in his 3. M. H. S. N. Y. H. S. N. Y. Publ. N. Y. Soc. Libr. U. S. Y. C. A continuation of this valuable work was prepared by the author in his last years, but remains unpublished. He contributed to the North American Review for January, 1827, a review of Theodore Lyman's Diplomacy of the United States, pp. 92-110. He is also said to have been a contributor to the American Quarterly Review. AUTHORITIES. Farmington Magazine, ii, 6-8. Pitkin Family, 27, 50-51. Pres. Memorial Biographies of the N.-E. Stiles, Literary Diary, iii, 184, 475. Hist. Geneal. Society, i, 76-85. NATHANIEL ROSSITER, the son of Nathaniel and Deborah (Fowler) Rossiter, of Guilford, Connecticut, was born in Guilford on May 21, 1762. 44 Yale College He settled in his native town as a lawyer, and repre- sented Guilford in the General Assembly during six sessions between 1795 and 1804. Later he was Sheriff of New Haven County, from November, 1804, to June, 1819. He was also a Justice o'f the County Court from 1800 to 1805. In his later years he resided successively in Pomf ret and Suffield, Connecticut, and in Rochester and Albany, New York. He died in Albany on March 26, 1835, aged nearly 73 years. He first married, Sarah, the eldest daughter of Joseph Pynchon (Yale 1757), of Guilford, and had by her four sons and one daughter. The eldest son was graduated at Yale in 1810, and the third son in 1815. The two young- est children died in infancy. After his first wife's death he married Mrs. Olney, a widow. AUTHORITIES. Dwight Family, ii, 633. Munsell, L. H. Steiner, Hist, of Guilford, 473, Annals of Albany, x, 240. B. C. 516. Steiner, MS. Letter, Nov. 7, 1906. ELIHU PLATT SMITH was the only child of the Rev. Charles Jeffry Smith (Yale 1757), of Brookhaven, Long Island, who died in his infancy. He became a merchant in New York City, and died there, of yellow fever, on August 14, 1795. He is said to -have been previously engaged to be married to a Miss Havens, and the breaking of the engagement is said to have been partially responsible for his death. His portrait (as well as his mother's) is in possession of Professor Theodore S. Woolsey; it was painted by Ralph Earl in 1794, and represents a large man with blue eyes, dark brown hair, and high-colored complexion. AUTHORITIES. N. Y. Geneal. and Biogr. Record, v, 24. Biographical Sketches, 1785 441 ROBERT SPELMAN, fourth child and second son of Phineas and Elizabeth Spelman, of Durham, Connecticut, was born in Durham, on February 7, 1767, and was baptized the following day. He is said to have died in Durham, on June 10, 1803, in his 37th year ; but no tombstone can be found there. AUTHORITIES. Fowler, Hist, of Durham, 316, 400. THOMAS STEDMAN, the eldest child and only son of Captain James Stedman, of Hampton, then a parish in Windham, Connecticut, and grandson of Deacon Thomas and Anna (Seaver) Stedman, of Brookline, Massachu- setts, and Hampton, was born on November 6, 1761, and was baptized nine days later. His mother was Hannah, daughter of Deacon Ebenezer Griffin, of Hampton. He studied law, and opened an office about 1790, in Hampton, where he greatly distinguished himself in his profession, besides being called "one of the most urbane, genteel, intelligent and obliging men of the day." He represented the town in the General Assembly in 1793, and was thought of for higher public service; but in 1806 he was induced to remove to Massena, near the St. Law- rence River, in Northern New York, where he quickly won public confidence and respect, and acquired a large landed property. He was Town Treasurer in 1806, Supervisor in 1810, and Deacon of the Congregational Church for many years. He died in Massena, on May 18, 1838, aged 7&/2 years. He married, a year or two after graduation, Lucy Warren, who died in Massena, on May 18, 1856, in her 9Oth year. Their children were three daughters and two sons. AUTHORITIES. Lamed, Hist, of Windham County, Geneal. Register, xiv, 70-71. ii, 240-41, 245. N. E. Hist, and 442 Yale College WILLIAM TAYLOR, the youngest son of the Rev. Nathanael Taylor (Yale 1745), of New Milford, Con- necticut, was born in New Milford on March 20, 1764. On graduation he taught for a short time a select school in his native village, where he continued for the rest of his life. During his active career he was a merchant, and accumulated a handsome property. In the militia he attained the rank of Colonel. He died in New Milford on February 24, 1841, aged nearly 77 years. He married, on December 3, 1786, Abigail, daughter of Daniel and Abigail (Dibble) Starr, of Danbury, Connecti- cut, who died in New Milford on August 17, 1845, m ner 78th year. Their children were four sons and one daugh- ter, all of whom lived to maturity. The youngest son was graduated at the Yale Medical School in 1824. AUTHORITIES. Boardman Family, 274. Orcutt, 261, 264, 573, 774-75- Starr Family, Hist, of New Milford, 202, 231-32, 407. ABRAHAM TOMLINSON, the second son and child of Dr. Abraham Tomlinson, of Milford, Connecticut, and grand- son of Jonah and Mary (Moss) Tomlinson of Derby, Connecticut, was born in Milford on April i, 1765. His mother was Abigail, daughter of David Gibson, of Milford and Woodbury. His scholarship was defective, and he received his degree by special grace two days after the Class had graduated. He studied medicine with his father, and took up practice in his native town. He married (perhaps as a second wife) Esther Benja- min, on December 28, 1808. He died in Milford, of apoplexy, in the early summer of 1820, aged 55 years. Biographical Sketches, 1785 443 His wife, Amelia, survived him, with three daughters and four sons. AUTHORITIES. Or cult, Hist, of Stratford, ii, 1312; Pres. Stiles, Literary Diary, iii, 181, Tomlinsons -in America, 68, 104. 185. THOMAS TOUSEY was a grandson of the Rev. Thomas Tousey (Yale 1707), of Newtown, Connecticut. He was prepared for College in Newtown by Professor Nehemiah Strong. All that is known of his later life is that he is said to have died in Rochester, New York, in 1844. DECIUS WADSWORTH, the eldest child of William Wads- worth, of Farmington, Connecticut, and grandson of Captain William and Ruth (Hart) Wadsworth, was born on January 2, 1768. His mother was Mercy, eldest child of John and Elizabeth (Newell) Clark, of Kensington Parish, in the present township of Berlin, Connecticut. After graduation he entered as a law student the office of Judge John Trumbull (Yale 1757), of Hartford; but finding that profession uncongenial, he accepted in 1792 a commission as Captain of Artillery and Engineers in the United States Army. In this service he rose to the rank of Major, in 1800; but the country being in prospect of peace, he resigned in 1802, and soon after established himself in commercial business in Montreal. There his integrity and urbanity gained him many friends, and he was on the way to a pecuniary independence, when at th*e outbreak of the War of 1812 he was urged to re-enter the army, and to assume the direction of the newly organized Ordnance Department, with the rank of Colonel. On the reduction and reorganization of the service, early in 1821, he was retired, in shattered health, and returned to his native State. 444 Yale College He died in New Haven, from a cancerous affection, on November 8, 1821, in his 54th year. He was never married, and his property was left by will to his brothers. AUTHORITIES. Gay, Clark Genealogy, 39-40. Pres. Stiles, Literary Diary, iii, 252- National Intelligencer, Dec. 8, 1821. 53. Wadsworth Family, 170, 243. WILLIAM WHEELER was born in Fairfield, Connecticut, on July 12, 1762, the elder son of Captain Ichabod Wheeler, and grandson of Lieutenant John and Lydia (Porter) Wheeler of Fairfield. His mother was Deborah, fourth daughter of Captain John and Catharine (Wake- man) Burr, of Stratfield Parish, now Bridgeport. He was for many years a school teacher in Fairfield and vicinity. He married Rhoda Parrot in Fairfield on April 13, 1800, and had by her one son and one daughter. She died on November 26, 1808, aged nearly 29 years. He died in Fairfield on January 25, 1845, aged 82^ years, and is buried on Greenfield Hill. His son was his sole heir. Portions of his Journal are still preserved, and an extract which has recently been printed is as follows: After 17 months' preparatory discipline (4 books of Virgil, 4 of Tulley's Orations in Latin, & four evangelists in Greek, being then required) I entered Yale with about 100 men being the largest class that at that time ever entered in the year 1781, under the administration of Ezra Stiles, President, S. T. D., an aged man, who, when abroad wore a large white wig, & used an eye-glass, being near sighted him to honor (raining or not) we must never approach nearer than ten rods without pulling off our hats ; & five rods for a tutor. The first year after entrance they are called Freshmen Second year Sophomores Third year Juniors Fourth year Seniors. After four years they take the first degree A.B. or Bachelor of Arts some time after they take the second degree A.M. or Master of Arts. If a scholar be absent from prayers, which com- mence at the ringing of the bell morning & evening at six o'clock "non audivj campanam," "hahui amicum," or "habui special nego- tium" which is received as an excuse if it does not occur too Biographical Sketches, 1785 445 often if it does he is fined. They recite three lessons a day at morning 1 , noon & evening. At meal time in the morning 1 every one at the ringing of the bell runs with a tea dish at noon with a knife & fork & at supper with a spoon. Their food is often indifferent but cheap (then) only $1.25 per week in the hall. Their hours of relaxation are from 6 till 9, from 12 till 2, & from 5 to 6. There are three weeks' vacation in January 3 weeks in May 6 six beginning in September. Each room in College is furnished with two studios (or closets) where the students keep their books and pursue their studies. My next adventure was in a school at North Fairfield (Weston) for 45 shillings per month for three months. . . . 1783 I began Staples free school for 166 dollars per year, to board myself kept only five months, it being removed to Weston by an act of the Assembly, the donor being Staples of Weston, it was then called Weston Academy. AUTHORITIES. Orcutt, Hist, of Stratford, ii, 1341- 464, 525. Todd, Burr Family, 2d 42. Schenck, Hist, of Fairfield, ii, ed., 142. EZEKIEL WILLIAMS, the second son of Ezekiel Williams, of Wethersfield, Connecticut, was born in Wethersfield, on December 29, 1765. Brothers were graduated here in 1781, 1794, and 1796, respectively. After graduation he studied law, and settled in Hart- ford, where he engaged in the practice of his profession and in various business undertakings. He was at one time postmaster of the city. He died in Hartford on October 18, 1843, m ms ?8th year. He married, in Windsor, Connecticut, on October 20, 1794, Abigail (or Nabby), the eldest child of the Hon. Oliver and Abigail (Wolcott) Ellsworth, who was born on August 1 6, 1774, and survived him. Their only child was graduated at Yale in 1816. AUTHORITIES. Stiles, Hist, of Wethersfield, ii, ii, 219. Stoddard Family, 1865, 78. 816, 818; Hist, of Windsor, 2d ed., 446 Yale College TIMOTHY WILLIAMS, the youngest son of the Rev. Stephen Williams (Yale 1741), of West Woodstock, Con- necticut, was born in Woodstock on April 16, 1764. He joined College in February of the Freshman year. He studied theology, and was licensed to preach by the Windham Association of Ministers on May 15, 1792; and after his father's death, in 1795, he supplied the vacant pulpit in West Woodstock for a time. His active life was, however, mainly given to teaching, and in a lesser degree to evangelistic labors. He taught in an academy in Norwich, Connecticut, for several years, and in 1796-97 was the Preceptor of the Academy since known as Lawrence Academy, in Groton, Massachusetts. Later he taught in an Academy near Albany, New York, and in another in Hampshire County, Virginia, in which latter State he resided for twenty years. ' He fufilled several appointments as a missionary in the employment of the Presbyterian Church and preached as a supply in many parts of the North and South, though never ordained. He returned to New England about 1840, and made his home in the place of his birth, where he died in February, 1849, m ms ^Sth year. He was unmarried. AUTHORITIES. ,., Lamed, Hist, of Windham County, iii, 8. T. Williams, MS. Letter, Sept. ii, 371. Pres. Stiles, Literary Diary, 25, 1843. GIDEON WOODRUFF, the youngest child of Deacon Jonathan Woodruff, of Southington Parish, in Farming- ton, Connecticut, and grandson of Daniel and Lydia (Smith) Woodruff, of Southington, was baptized on October 30, 1763. His mother was Phebe Wiard, of Wethersfield, Connecticut. Biographical Sketches, 1785 447 He studied medicine after graduation with Dr. Jared Potter (Yale 1760), of Wallingford, Connecticut, and settled in Plymouth, then a part of Watertown. After a few years he removed to New Haven, but soon returned to Plymouth, where he was a reputable and useful physician during a long life. He died in Plymouth on September 9, 1847, aged nearly 84 years. He married Sarah Heaton, of New Haven, by whom he had three sons, the youngest of whom was graduated at the Yale Medical School in 1826. She was a daughter of Abraham and Mabel (Cooper) Heaton, of Plymouth, and died on February 23, 1860, in her 88th year. AUTHORITIES. Tintlow, Hist, of Southington, 517, cclxiii, cclxviii. JOEL WRIGHT,, Junior, was born in Northampton, Mas- sachusetts, on September 29, 1769, the son of Joel Wright, and grandson of Captain Noah Wright, of Northampton. After graduation he went to South America, where he was engaged in business for several years. He died in Surinam, Guiana, in August, 1797, aged nearly 28 years. . r > AUTHORITIES. Clark, Antiquities of Northampton, 108-09, 363. 448 Yale College Annals, 178586 In June, 1786, the Senior Tutor, Matthew T. Russell, of the Class of 1779, resigned, and his place was filled by Jedidiah Morse, of the Class of 1783. The three other Tutors (Simeon Baldwin, Henry Channing, and Enoch Perkins, of the Class of 1781) all resigned at Commence- ment in 1786; and were succeeded by Ebenezer Fitch, of the Class of 1777 (who had already served as Tutor in 1780-83), Abiel Holmes, of the Class of 1783, and Joseph Denison, of the Class of 1784. The Rev. Dr. Wales, Professor of Divinity, who had suffered since the fall of 1783 from epileptic fits, became much more seriously affected towards the end of 1785, and in May, 1786, sailed for Europe, but returned in October without substantial benefit. An interesting print was published in June, 1786, giving a view of the two existing College buildings ; this proved of use as a guide in the modern restoration of Connecticut Hall. The bill of expense for the public dinner at Commence- ment of this year is as follows : New Haven, Sept. 13, 1786, Corporation to the Steward, Dr. for Commensment Dinner To 134 Ib. of Wheat flower at 2^d i. 5.1 To 70 Ib. of Fresh pork at 4d i. 6.3 To 102 Ib. of Beef at 3d i. 5.6 To 20 Ib. of Sugar at 7d 1 1.8 To 12 Ib. of Butter at 9d 9. To 24 Ib. of Salt Pork at yd 14. To Cinnemont 4/ To Nut Mages 8/ Spice ^ 13.6 To 5 Bushel of Appels at 2/ 10. To 8 Ib. of hogs Lard at yd 4.8 To Beats & Garrets Ye Pickels 2/ 6.6 Biographical Sketches, 1786 449 To paters 2/ Cabbadge 4/ 6. To 12 Ib. of Cheas at 8d 8. To i Barrel of Cyder 9. To i Do of Beer "". 6. To Vineger i/ Salt i/ Sand i/ 3. To 3^ Gallons of Wine at 8/ 1.8. To Fier Wood 12. To Candels i/ To Sope 3/ 4. To the use of Kitchen Fureneture &c 2. Tabel Cloaths & Sundrs To 2 Men 6 Days Each at 3/ 1.16. To weoman to Scower & Cook 9 Days at 2/ 18. To my Time & Trobbel - 4. 19.16.2 Erroes Excepted Jeremiah Atwater Steward The honorary degree of Doctor of Laws was conferred at this Commencement on Thomas Jefferson, now Ambas- sador to France, a valued correspondent of President Stiles. Sketches, Class of 1786 *Johannes Bird, e Congr. *:8o6 *Tillotson Bronson, S.T.D. Brun. 1813 "1826 *Samuel Platt Broome, et Neo-Caes. 1786, A.M. *i8n *Phineas Bruce, e Congr. *i8c>9 * Samuel Carrington *Lynde Catlin * I &33 *Smith Clark "1813 *Isaacus Clinton, A.M. 1807 "1840 * Aaron Cooke Collins, A.M. "1830 *Oliverus Dudleius Cooke, A.M. * I 833 *Johannes Elliott, A.M,, S.T.D. 1822, Socius "1824 * Jonathan Ellis 29 45 Yale College * Benjamin Ely "1852 *Johannes Ely, A.M. 1790 "1827 *Benjamin Josephus Gilbert, A.M. et Dartm. 1794 *i849 Thomas Ruggles Gold, e Congr. "1827 *Carolus Augustus Goodrich, A.M. *i8o4 *Nathanael Griffing *i845 *Stanleius Griswold, A.M., Territ. Mich. Seer., Rerump. Foed. Sen., Territ. Illin. Cur. Supr. Jurid. "1815 *Guilielmus Brenton Hall *i8c>9 *Edvardus Halsey *i8oi *AsaHillyer, A.M. 1793 et Neo-Caes. 1800, S.T.D. Alleg. 1818 *i840 *Reuben Hitchcock, A.M. 1792 *i?94 *ReubenIves *i8s6 * Johannes Kingsbury * J 844 *Guilielmus Leffingwell, A.M. "1834 *Henricus Gualterus Livingston, A.M., e Congr. *i8io *Isaacus Maltby *i8i9 *Samuel Marsh *i8i4 *Truman Marsh * I &5 1 ' *Calvinus May *i842 *David Miller *:8o3 *Guilielmus Fowler Miller, A.M. *i8i8 *Isaacus Mills, A.M. 1798 *i843 * Abner Moseley * 1 8 1 1 *Elizur Moseley ^833 *Gad Newell *i859 *Elias Perkins, A.M. 1799, e Congr., Socius ex officio *i845 *Edvardus Porter, A.M. *i828 *Guilielmus Brintnall Ripley, A.M. 1792, Socius *i822 * Johannes Saltmarsh, 1795 *i8i5 *Georgius Selden *Samuel Burr Sherwood, e Congr. *Elihu Hubbard Smith, A.M. "1798 *Guilielmus Stone, A.M. "1840 Biographical Sketches, 1786 451 *Simeon Strong, A.M. "1841 *Nathanael Terry, et Dartm. 1786, A.M. 1798, e Cohgr. "1844 *Ambrosius Todd *i8c>9 *Jahacobus Rutsen Van Rensselaer, 1787, Reip. Nov. Ebor. Seer. "1835 *Cahmus White *i853 *Fredericus Wolcott, A.M. 1796, Soc. ex officio "1837 JOHN BIRD, the only child of Dr. Seth Bird, a skilful physician of Litchfield, Connecticut, by his second wife, Hannah Sheldon, was born in Litchfield on November 22, 1768. His father was the son of John and Mary (Atwood) Bird, of Bethlehem, Connecticut, and his mother the daughter of Isaac and Theoda (Hunt) Sheldon, of Northampton, Massachusetts. 1802. AUTHORITIES. New Haven Colony Hist. Society's Papers, ii, 339. 45 8 Yale College LYNDE CATLIN, eldest son of Captain Alexander and Abigail Catlin, of Litchfield, Connecticut, and grandson of Lieutenant John and Margaret (Seymour) Catlin, of Litchfield, was born in 1768. His mother was a daughter of Timothy Goodman, of West Hartford. A sister married Stephen Twining (Yale 1795). He returned to Litchfield after graduation, and on Octo- ber 19, 1793, married Helen Margaret Kip, of Albany. In 1797 he became teller in the Bank of the United States in New York City, and held this position until April, 1803, when on the incorporation of the Merchants Bank in New York, of which Oliver Wolcott (Yale 1778) was the first President, he was elected Cashier of that Institu- tion. While in this office he attracted the notice of Mr. John Jacob Astor, who induced him in 1818 to become Cashier of the New York branch of the United States Bank. He held this office until June, 1820, when he returned to the Merchants Bank as President. His administration of that office was distinguished by great energy and by an unprecedented extension of business. He continued in the presidency until his death, in New York, on October 18, 1833, in his 65th year. His wife survived him for ten or twelve years. He had a family of eight children, among whom were two sons who were graduated at Yale, in 1802 and 1822 respectively. His portrait is reproduced in Hubert's History of the Merchants Bank. He is still remembered as a true Christian gentleman, of sterling personal integrity. AUTHORITIES. Hinman, Genealogy of the Puri- ruff, Litchfield Geneal. Register, 52, tans, 871. Hubert, Merchants Bank 55. of N. Y., 27-28, 102, 105. Wood- Biographical Sketches, 1786 459 SMITH CLARK was born in Maromas, a part of Middle- town, on the banks of the Connecticut, opposite Middle Haddam, on March 8, 1766, being the youngest child of Francis and Alice (Smith?) Clark, of Middletown. He studied medicine with Dr. Hezekiah Brainerd (Yale 1763), of Haddam, and settled in that town, where he practiced his profession with distinction, residing at first in the family of Dr. Brainerd, who retired from practice in 1795. He died in Haddam on June 9, 1813, in his 48th year. He was never married, but left one son (Yale 1817), by his housekeeper, who took his name and inherited his estate. He was a man of short stature and dignified bearing, a faithful, kind and skilful physician, and held in high regard by the people. AUTHORITIES. Conn. Med. Society's Proceedings, Starr, MS. Letter, March 26, 1906. 1877, 152-53; 1892, 558. F. F. ISAAC CLINTON was born in Milford, Connecticut, on January 21, 1759. He is said to have seen some service in the Revolutionary army, before entering Yale. He was admitted to membership in the College Church on profession of his faith at the close of his Junior year. He studied theology after graduation, and was licensed to preach by the New Haven County Association of Ministers on May 30, 1787. In the same year he married Charity, daughter of David and Joanna Welles, of Strat- ford, Connecticut. He was ordained pastor of the Congregational Church in Southwick, Hampden County, Massachusetts, on Janu- ary 30, 1788. There he lived with great economy on a small salary, and was even able to lay up money. 460 Yale College Six children were born to him in Southwick, five of whom died within a single week in 1803 of a prevailing dysentery, leaving only one daughter living; two sons were born subsequently. A grandson was graduated at Yale in 1846. On October 13, 1807, a Congregational Church which had just been formed in Lowville, Lewis County, New York, invited him to become their minister, and at the same time to act as Principal of an Academy, which was char- tered the following year. On accepting this offer, he was dismissed from his parish in Southwick in December, 1807, and removed to Lowville, where he began his pastorate in March, 1808. He continued as pastor of the church until February, 1816, and as principal of the Academy (excepting the year 1813-14) until 1818. He was President of the Board of Trustees of the Academy until his death. He had a large farm, and was especially successful in cultivating fine varieties of fruit. For brief periods after leaving the pastorate he engaged in home missionary labor. He died in Lowville on March 18, 1840, in his 82d year. He is remembered as a handsome man, who dressed through life in the old style, with knee-breeches and top- boots. An obituary notice describes him as "liberal in his sentiments, yet distinguished for his fortitude, firmness and energy of character." He published : 1. A Treatise on Infant Baptism. Springfield [1803-4?] 8, pp. 90. [C. H. S. U. S. U. T. S. 2. A Treatise on Infant Baptism. Proving, from the Scriptures, that Infants are proper subjects of Baptism . . Springfield [1805.] 12, pp. 263 + 31. [A. C. A. Andover Theol. Sem. B. Ath. Brit. Mus. Y. C. The main part of the volume is in two divisions, the second of which has the heading, A Treatise on the Connexion and Harmony of the Old and New Testament Scriptures. Appended is, A Treatise on Free Communion at the Lord's Table, in the form of a Biographical Sketches, 1786 461 Sermon from i Cor. x, 17; and, with separate paging, An Appendix, to the argument for the Sabbath, in the form of a Sermon from Mark ii, 27-28. The work is reviewed in the Panoplist for November, 1805. 3. The Love of Christ in giving himself for the Church; a Dis- course preached I2th Sept. 1810, at the Ordination of Jeduthun Higby to the First Congregational Church, Ley den. Utica, 1811. 12, pp. 24. [Brown Univ. 4. A Funeral Sermon occasioned by the much lamented Death of Mrs. Ann H. Perry, Consort of Doctor David Perry, delivered, Nov. 8, 1812 . . Utica, 1813. 8, pp. 19. [Brown Univ. 5. Household Baptism: from various sources vindicated, espe- cially, from the consideration, that God's visible church covenant is Unchangeable, is expressly established with Families, and God is the God of Families. Lowville, 1838. 12, pp. 201. [Y. C. Originally intended for a new edition of his previous book; but almost entirely rewritten. AUTHORITIES. Amer. Quart. Register, x, 382, 397. 68, 261-62. N. Y. Observer, July Davis, Hist. Sketch of Westfield, 35. 4, 1840. Orcutt, Hist, of Stratford, Hampden Pulpit, 55. Hough, Hist. ii, 1330. Pres. Stiles, Literary of Lewis County, N. Y., 164, 167- Diary, iii, 183, 266, 305. AARON COOKE COLLINS, the second son and child of William and Ruth (Cooke) Collins, was born in North Guilford, Connecticut, on May 4, 1762. He joined the College Church on profession of faith in July of his Fresh- man year. At the opening of the Senior year he took a dismission, but was re-admitted in June. After graduation he studied theology, and was licensed to preach by the New Haven County Association of Ministers on May 30, 1787. On April 9, 1789, after having preached in Harwinton, Connecticut, for several months, he was invited to settle in the ministry there, which invitation he declined. On October 19, 1789, he married Love, youngest daugh- ter of the late Rev. Jonathan Lee (Yale 1742), of Salis- bury, Connecticut, who was born on December 5, 1767. 4 6z Yale College On January 25, 1790, he received a call to settle in Morristown, New Jersey, as colleague to the Rev. Dr. Timothy Johnes (Yale 1737), pastor of the Presbyterian Church. After some delay, caused by a charge against his moral character, growing out of the date of birth of his eldest child, he was ordained and installed in 1791. Subsequently the former charge was revived, and he resigned his office in Morristown in September, 1793, with the design of leaving the Presbyterian denomination ; but when his application came before the Presbytery of New York, it was found that he had already, after frequent denials, admitted the truth of the charge made against him, and the Presbytery felt obliged, on October 3, 1793, to depose him from the ministry. After this sentence he next appears in Vermont, where he was installed over the Congregational Church just formed in Williston, near Burlington, on January 23, 1800, with a salary of three hundred dollars. He was dismissed on May 4, 1804, an d subsequently removed to Ontario County, New York, and apparently supplied the Congre- gational Church in East Bloomneld for some time shortly before 1807. After this he desisted from the exercise of ministerial functions ; and in view of this fact and of the judgment of the neighboring ministers, he was restored to full standing by the New York Presbytery on October 8, 1808. In the same year he was installed over the Presbyterian Church in Honeoye, now Richmond, in Ontario County, where he remained until his resignation in August, 1816. Later he returned to East Bloomneld, where he died in 1830. He left a large family of children. AUTHORITIES. S. D. Alexander, Presbytery of 232. MS. Records of the Presbytery New York, 27. Chipman, Hist, of of N. Y. Morristown Presbyterian Harwinton, 71, 141. Dwight, Strong Church Record, ii, 104, 144. Rec- Family, ii, 960, 985. Hemenway, ords of the General Association of Vt. Hist. Gazetteer, i, 904. Hist, of Conn., 147, 154. Pres. Stiles, Lit- Ontario County, N. Y., 1878, 211, erary Diary, iii, 78, 220, 226, 266. Biographical Sketches, 1786 463 OLIVER DUDLEY COOKE, the eldest child of Aaron and Lucretia (Dudley) Cooke,. of Wallingford, Connecticut, and grandson of Captain Aaron and Ruth (Burrage) Cooke, of Wallingford, was born in 1766. The family lived at the south end of the town and attended the church in Northford Society, in North Branford. A half-brother was graduated here in 1793. He studied theology after graduation with the Rev. Dr. John Smalley (Yale 1756), of New Britain, Connecti- cut, and joined his church, on profession of faith, on July 12, 1789; he was licensed to preach by the New Haven Eastera Association of Ministers on September 29, 1789. On May 30, 1792, he was ordained pastor of the small Congregational Church in North New Fairfield, now Sher- man, Connecticut, but was dismissed on November 26, 1793, because of ill health; by the tradition in his family he is also said to have been influenced by conscientious distrust of his fitness for the work. He then removed to Hartford, and engaged successfully in trade as a bookseller and bookbinder. He accumulated a large estate, and was greatly respected. He retired from active business several years before his death. He contributed one thousand dollars to Yale College in 1831. He married Sophia Pratt, by whom he had two sons and two daughters. His wife died on March 20, 1833, in her 58th year; and he died, suddenly, while walking in the street in his usual health, in Hartford, on April 24, 1833, aged 67 years. AUTHORITIES. Andrews, Memorial of New Brit- 1833. Davis, Hist, of Wallingford, ain, 207. Conn. Courant, April 30, 683, 606. JOHN ELLIOTT, the second son and child of Deacon George Eliot, a farmer of Killingworth, now Clinton, Connecticut, and grandson of the Rev. Jared Eliot (Yale 464 Yale College 1706), was born on August 24, 1768. His mother was Hannah, eldest daughter of Captain Samuel and Hannah (Marsh) Ely, of North Lyme, Connecticut. A brother was graduated at Yale in 1802. He was prepared for College by his pastor, the Rev. Achilles Mansfield (Yale 1770). After graduation he was occupied in teaching and in theological study. He united with the church on profes- sion of faith in Schenectady, New York, in 1789. He was licensed to preach by the Middlesex (Connecticut) Asso- ciation of Ministers on July 7, 1790. On August 23, 1791, he preached for the first time in the Congregational Church in East Guilford, now Madison, Connecticut, and in the following week he was called on a salary of 80, to the pastorate. He was ordained and installed on Novem- ber 2 of that year, the church then consisting of eighty- four members. The sermon preached on the occasion by his old pastor, Mr. Mansfield, was afterwards published. He retained his office till the day of his death, through a period of thirty-three years, and admitted three hundred and thirty-five members to his church. In the early part of his ministry he also took pupils, as occasion offered. In September, 1812, he was elected a Fellow of the Corporation of Yale College, and in 1816 a member of the Prudential Committee of that body: in which capaci- ties he was eminently useful. In recognition of his faith- fulness and ability he received the honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity from this College in 1822. His health began to decline in 1823, and he died, in East Guilford, very suddenly, from disease of the heart, on December 17, 1824, in his 57th year. The sermon preached at his funeral by the Rev. Professor Eleazar T. Fitch was afterwards printed; in it he characterizes Dr. Elliott as a man of distinguished prudence, of upright constancy, of affectionate kindness, of peculiar sedateness and solemnity, and of pious devotion. In person he was tall and very thin, precise in speech, and methodical in all his movements. - Biographical Sketches, 1786 465 He was married in Canaan, Connecticut, on November 27, 1793, to Sarah (or Sally), daughter of Lot and Esther Norton, of Salisbury, Connecticut. They had no children. Some years after Dr. Elliott's death she returned to her native place and married General Elisha Sterling (Yale 1787), of Salisbury, where she died on July 9, 1841, aged 75 years. He published : 1. A Discourse [from Joshua xxiv, 29], delivered on Saturday, February 22, 1800, the day recommended by the Congress of the United States to lament the death and pronounce eulogies on the memory of General George Washington. Hartford, 1800. 8, pp. 23. [Brown Univ. U. S. Y. C. 2. A Discourse occasioned by the Death of the Rev. Amos Fow- ler, Pastor of the First Church, Guilford. Middletown, 1800. 8, pp. 26. [Brown Univ. Mr. Fowler (Yale 1743) died on February 10, 1800. 3. A Discourse [from i Cor. vii, 29] delivered on the first Sab- bath after the commencement of the year 1802. Middletown, 1802. 8, pp. 39. [C. H. S. U. T. S. Y. C. The sermon is mainly devoted to the history of Guilford and East Guilford. 4. A Discourse occasioned by the Death of Mrs. Mabel Lee. Middletown, 1802. 8, pp. 27. [Brown Univ. 5. A Discourse [from 2 Cor. xii, 15] delivered at the Ordination of the Rev. David D. Field, . . in Haddam, April n, 1804. Middle- town, 1805. 8, pp. 28. [A. C. A. Broum Univ. M. H. S. U. S. U. T. S. Y. C. The sermon occupies pp. 1-23. Mr. Field had been a pupil of Dr. Elliott. 6. The Providence of God universal; a Sermon [from Matt, x, 29-30], delivered at East-Guilford, Feb. 1807. Occasioned by the death of Capt. William Whittlesey and others. New-Haven, 1807. 8, pp. 24. [Y. C. 7. The deep anxiety of a faithful minister of the gospel for the welfare of his people. A Sermon [from 2 Peter, i, 15], delivered at the interment of the Rev. Thomas Wells Bray, Pastor of the Third Church in Guilford, April 25th, 1808. New-Haven, 1808. 8, pp. 30. [U.T.S. Y.C. 30 466 Yale College 8. The gracious presence of God, the highest felicity and security of any people. A Sermon [from Ps. xlvi, 1-5], preached ... on the Anniversary Election, May loth, 1810. Hartford, 1810. 8, PP- 52. [A. A. S. A. C. A. B. Ath. Brit. Mus. C. H. S. N. Y. H. S. U. S. U. T. S. Y. C. 9. A Sermon [from Rom. xi, 13], preached at the Installation of the Rev. Philander Parmelee, . . in Bolton, November 8, 1815. Hartford, 1816. 8, pp. 23. [Brown Univ. C. H. S. U. T. S. Y. C. 10. A Sermon [from i Cor. xii, 27] delivered before the Con- sociation of the Eastern District of New-Haven County, in Meriden, September 30, 1817. Hartford, 1818. 12, pp. 21. [A.C.A. Brit. Mus. Brown Univ. C. H. S. U. T. S. Y. C. An exposition and defence of the system of consociation. 11. A Sermon [from Acts xx, 26], delivered in New-Haven, at the Ordination of the Rev. Eleazer Thompson Fitch, Professor of Divinity in Yale-College, November 5, 1817. Hartford, 1818. 8, pp. 26. [A. C. A. B. Ath. Brit. Mus. Brown Univ. C. H. S. Harv. M. H. S. U. T. S. Y. C. 12. A Sermon [from Prov. xiv, 32] delivered on the next Lord's Day after the death of Jonathan Todd, Esquire, who departed this life February 10, 1819. Hartford, 1819. 8, pp. 31. [Brown Univ. C. H. S. U. T. S. Y. C. He also published, in conjunction with Samuel Johnson, Junior, the following: A selected, pronouncing and accented Dictionary. Comprising a Selection of the choicest Words found in the best English Authors. Being an Abridgement of the most useful Dictionaries now extant ; together with the addition of a number of words now in vogue not found in any Dictionary. . . Designed for the use of schools in America. Suffield, 1800. Oblong 16, pp. 16, 223. [N. Y. H. S. N. Y. Publ. Libr. Y. C. The same. Second Edition. Suffield, 1800. Obi. 16, pp. 32, 203. [Harv. N. Y. H. S. U. S. The book is properly a second, enlarged edition of a School Dictionary, compiled and published in 1798 by Samuel Johnson, Junior, who was a teacher (born 1757, died 1836) in Guilford. Biographical Sketches, 1786 467 AUTHORITIES. Bailey, Early Conn. Marriages, Pres. Stiles, Literary Diary, iii, 134, vii, 73. Eliot Genealogy, 77, 96-100; 217, 433. Todd, Life of John Todd, 2d ed., 76, 112-14. Ely Ancestry, 164- 51-52. 25oth Anniversary of Guil- 65. Sprague, Annals of the Amer. ford, 29-32, 279. Wai-worth, Hyde Pulpit, ii, 321-23. Steiner, Hist, of Genealogy, ii, 842. Guilford, 355-57, 361, 455, 489, SOL JONATHAN ELLIS, sixth son of the Rev. John Ellis (Harvard Coll. 1750), of Franklin, then part of Norwich, Connecticut, and grandson of Caleb Ellis, of Cambridge, Massachusetts, was born on April n, 1762. After graduation he studied theology, and was licensed to preach by the Windham Association of Ministers on May 15, 1787. In July, 1788, he began to preach in Topsham, Maine, as a candidate for settlement over the Congregational Church. Later in the year he was called to settle there, on a salary of 85, but he declined the call. On June 9, 1789, the town gave him another call, which he accepted; and his ordination took place on September 1 6. The sermon on this occasion, by the Rev. Dr. Andrew Lee (Yale 1766), was afterwards published. In the mean time, however, over one-third of the parish had voted to withdraw, if Mr. Ellis was settled, which led to the incorporation of a Baptist Society. This separation, and other causes, resulted in the gradual dwindling away of the society, and consequent difficulties in the payment of the minister's salary. He was obliged for a portion of the time to teach school in addition to his parochial duties; and in September, 1799, ne was informally dismissed. He continued, however, to reside in Topsham, and was active in local affairs. In 1802 he was a member of the General Court of Massachusetts. He was one of the original Board of Overseers of Bowdoin College in 1794, and its first secretary, and a member of the examining committee until he resigned these offices in 1811; he was 468 Yale College a candidate for the Professorship of Languages in 1802, being a good superior Latin scholar, but a recent Harvard graduate received the appointment. In August, 1811, he left Topsham, unaccompanied by any member of his family, and never returned. He was for some time engaged in teaching in Pennsylvania, and his family received occasional letters from him, up to April, 1827, when he wrote for the last time, from Dela- ware. He married in 1790 Mary, daughter of Robert and Sarah (Patten) Fulton, of Topsham, who died in Upper Stillwater, Maine, on March n, 1860, at the age of 91. They had seven sons and three daughters. Three sons were sailors, and were lost at sea. Another son was graduated M.D. at Bowdoin in 1832, and the youngest son became a Baptist minister. He published : 1. An Eulogical Poem, on General George Washington, . . pro- nounced at Topsham, February 22d, 1800. . . Portland. 8, pp. 24. [M. H. S. N. Y. H. S. As a prefatory note states, this poem was produced at ten days' notice. The plan is mainly biographical. The quality may be judged from the concluding lines, as follows: In midst of sorrow let our thanks arise, To him who rules on earth, and rolls the skies. Tis he each blessing takes, each blessing gives, Tho' Washington's no more, our virtuous Adams lives. The copy in the Library of the New York Historical Society has several manuscript corrections by the author. 2. An Oration delivered at the Court-House in Topsham, July 4th, 1806, on the anniversary of our National Independence, before the Federal Republicans of Brunswick and Topsham. Portland, 1806. 8, pp. 16. [A. A. S. A letter from him, dated April 25, 1794, and addressed to the Hon. James Sullivan, was published in the Collections of the Massa- chusetts Historical Society, volume 3, pp. 141-43, with the title: A Topographical Description of Topsham, in the County of Lincoln. Biographical Sketches, 1786 469 The Right Hand of Fellowship which he gave at the Ordination of Joshua Cushman, in Winslow, Maine, on June 10, 1795, was printed (pp. 35-36) in 1796, with the Sermon on that occasion by the Rev. Kilborn Whitman. AUTHORITIES. Dr. A. Ellis, MS. Letters, Apr. 3, wick, Topsham, and Hartwell, 409-14, 1856, and Febr. 15, 1877. Sprague, 738-39, 833-34. Woodward, Hist, of Annals of the Amer. Pulpit, i, 609; Franklin, 68-69. vi, 827. Wheeler, Hist, of Bruns- BENJAMIN ELY, the third son of Captain Ezra Cullick Ely, of Lyme, Connecticut, was born on July 18, 1767. His mother, Anne Sterling, was a sister of Captain Ely's first wife, who was the mother of the Rev. Zebulon Ely (Yale 1779). He spent his life mainly as a successful teacher, being employed among other places in Lebanon (where his half- brother was settled), Granby, Canton, and Simsbury, Connecticut, and in Philadelphia and Baltimore. He married in Bloomfield, Connecticut, on April 14, 1796, Polly, daughter of Dudley and Mary (Latimer) Pettibone, of Simsbury. He was town-clerk of Simsbury in 1812-14. He died in Bloomfield, from an attack of dysentery, on August 26, 1852, at the age of 85 years. His wife died on June 17, 1850, in her 74th year. Their children were six sons and three daughters. He was a gentleman of the old school, and an active Christian, urbane and benevolent. AUTHORITIES. Ely Ancestry, 99, 181. Simsbury Records, 269. JOHN ELY, the eldest child of Deacon Seth Ely, of North Lyme, Connecticut, and nephew of the Rev. Richard Ely (Yale 1754), and of the Rev. Dr. David Ely (Yale 1769), 47 Yale College was born on June 14, 1763. His mother was Lydia, sixth daughter of John and Lydia (Lord) Reynolds, of Nor- wich, Connecticut. He was prepared for College by his uncle Richard. He united with the College Church, on profession of his faith, in July of his Freshman year. After graduation he studied theology, and was licensed to preach by the Middlesex Association of Ministers, on June 3, 1788. On September 6, 1791, he was called to the Congregational Church in Bethel, then a parish in Danbury, Connecticut, and having accepted the invitation on November 3, he was ordained on November 30. The sermon was preached by his uncle, the Rev. David Ely. In 1802 some excitement arose, on account of an anonymous letter, believed to have emanated from the pastor, which reflected strongly on certain persons in the parish : so that, in November, the Society voted that they did not wish him to continue as their minister. This vote was reconsidered, and a committee raised to call a mutual council ; but on December 28, Mr. Ely made a communica- tion to the church, expressing his anxiety for a reconcilia- tion, and admitting certain past imprudences. A sort of reconciliation was patched up, but the difficulty was not wholly surmounted, and on January 26, 1804, the Society voted to ask Mr. Ely to join them in calling the Consocia- tion to consider his dismission, and the Church concurred in this action on February 13. The Consociation met, and dismissed the pastoral rela- tion on June 7. On the 28th of the following November he was installed pastor of the Presbyterian Church in South Salem, West- chester County, New York, which then numbered forty- nine members. His annual salary was two hundred and fifty dollars, with the use of the parsonage and his fire- wood. He was dismissed from South Salem in December, 1811, having admitted fifty-seven persons to the church during his pastorate. Biographical Sketches, 1786 471 He then returned to Connecticut, and on October 14, 1812, he was installed over the small Congregational Church in the parish of North Bristol, in Guilford, now North Madison, where his uncle, Richard Ely, had for- merly ministered. After fifteen years' service it seemed best to him to resign, and to remove to Central New York, where one of his sons was lately settled; but while making arrange- ments for this removal, he was thrown violently from his wagon in Madison, by the horse taking fright, on Novem- ber 5, 1827, and after lingering for four days in a helpless condition, with little if any exercise of reason, expired on November 9, in his 65th year. He is characterized as a prudent, judicious minister. He married, on January 25, or 26, 1791, Mary, daughter of Captain Abner and Temperance (Colt) Lord, of Lyme, by whom he had eleven children, of whom five sons and one daughter reached maturity. She died in 1841, aged 77 years. He published: 1. A Sermon [from Rom. xiii, 3-4], Delivered in the First Pres- byterian Church in Danbury, November 25, 1798: it being the Day appointed on which the Address from the General Assembly of Connecticut was to be read unto the People assembled for Public Worship through the State: And. also in the Second Presby- terian Church in Danbury, December 9, 1798. Danbury, 1799. 8, pp. 14- [C. H. S. U. T. S. On behalf of the execution of the laws against vice. 2. Blessedness of the Saints. A Sermon [from Rev. xiv, 13], delivered on the Lord's Day at the Funeral of Captain Joseph Starr, who departed this life April the 3d 1802 . . Danbury, 1802. 12, PP- 23- [Y. C. AUTHORITIES. Bailey, Hist, of Danbury, 530. Ely Walworth, Hyde Genealogy, i, 175. Ancestry, 104-05, 191. Hickok, Cen- Webster, Hist, of the Presbyterian tury Sermon at Bethel, 11-13. Church of South Salem, 14, 32, 49, Steiner, Hist, of Guilford, 366. 65. 47 2 Yale College BENJAMIN JOSEPH GILBERT, the second son and child of Colonel Joseph Gilbert, of North Brookfield, Massachu- setts, and grandson of Benjamin Gilbert, of Ipswich and Brookfield, was born on October 5, 1764. His mother was Hannah Wheat, of Boston, whose first husband was Dr. Benjamin Gott, Junior, of Brookfield. After graduation he studied law with the Hon. Dwight Foster (Brown Univ. 1774), of West Brookfield. He established himself as a practitioner in Hanover, New Hampshire, about 1790, and on August 2, 1796, was married in Boston by the Rev. Dr. Samuel West to Sally Shepard. He was appointed County Solicitor in 1799; and elected a Representative in the State Legislature in 1800 and 1801, a member of the Executive Council in 1809 and 1810, and Representative again in 1817 and 1818. He was also a Presidential Elector in 1816. When the controversies respecting Dartmouth College arose, he was interested in behalf of the old College and against the new University. In connection with others, as a committee of the Congregational Church in Hanover, he issued A True and Concise Narrative, of the Origin and Progress of the Church Difficulties, in the Vicinity of Dartmouth College, in Hanover ... By Benoni Dewey, James Wheelock, and Ben. J. Gilbert . . Hanover, 1815. 8, pp. 68. [B. Ath. Brit. Mus. Y. C. An accident rendered him nearly deaf, and his business fell off in consequence ; opportunely, his wife inherited in 1824 a plantation and considerable property from a brother in Richmond, Virginia. Thereupon Mr. Gilbert removed to Boston, and was employed for the rest of his life in the care of his wife's property. He died in Boston on December 30, 1849, m ms year. Biographical Sketches, 1786 473 He had nine children, of whom only three sons and one daughter reached maturity. Mr. Gilbert is commemorated in Bell's Bench and Bar of New Hampshire, where it is said of him : He is represented as having been the best lawyer in Hanover, of his time, and was commonly called Baron Gilbert, as well on account of his superior legal knowledge, as of his loud voice and slightly pompous manner. . . He is said to have gained the popular desig- nation of "the honest lawyer." AUTHORITIES. Bell, Bench and Bar of N. Hamp-' missioners, 3oth Report, 137. Tern- shire, 394-95. Boston Record Com- pie, Hist, of North Brookfield, 601. THOMAS RUGGLES GOLD,, the fourth son and child of the Rev. Hezekiah Gold (Yale 1751), of Cornwall, Litchfield County, Connecticut, and a brother of Thomas Gold (Yale 1778), was born in Cornwall on November 4, 1764. The promise (never fulfilled) of a gift of a library from his great-uncle, the Rev. Thomas Ruggles (Yale 1723), for his name, was the reason for a second Thomas in the same family. He was distinguished while in College for clas- sical scholarship, and pronounced a Greek Oration at graduation. He studied law, and settled in its practice in Goshen, the town adjoining Cornwall on the east, where he married, about 1787, Sarah, elder daughter of Dr. Elisha Sill (Yale 1754). In 1792, when the Whitestown country, in what is now Oneida County, New York, was being settled, he removed to Whitesboro, and established himself there in the profes- sion of the law. He soon acquired a high position, and for a time stood at the head of the bar in Central New York. In 1796 he was elected to the State Senate, of which he continued a member until April, 1802. For most of this time (1797- 1801) he was also Assistant Attorney-General. 474 Yale College In 1800 he formed a law-partnership with his brother- in-law, Theodore Sill (Yale 1797), and the firm was for the next quarter of a century very widely and favorably known, and many candidates for the bar pursued with them their legal studies. Mr. Gold was a close law student and a man of untiring industry. He had an analytical mind, and his mode of address to the Court and jury was earnest, forcible, and somewhat vehement, though not remarkable for ease or eloquence. In 1804 he ran for Congress, but was unsuccessful. In 1807 he was elected to the General Assembly of the State. The next year he was elected to Congress, in which he served for two terms, from May, 1809, to March, 1813. In consequence of a change in Congressional districts, the next election was in the hands of a new constituency, and Mr. Gold was beaten. He was, however, successful in the following election, and served from December, 1815, to March, 1817. During the later years of his life he became a Christian believer. He died quite suddenly, from paralysis, in Whitesboro, on October 24, 1827, at the age of 63. Neither his physical nor mental vigor had at that time become impaired. His widow died in Whitesboro, on July 13, 1852, aged 88 years. Their children were four sons and three daughters, all of whom reached maturity, except the eldest son, who died in infancy. The eldest daughter married the Rev. John Frost (Middlebury Coll. 1806). The second son was graduated at Hamilton College in 1816. He published: i. To the People of the County of Oneida. . . 1800. sm. 4, pp. 28. [B. Publ. N. Y. H. S. N. Y. State Libr. Respecting the location of the Court-House. Biographical Sketches, 1786 475 2. Address delivered before the Agricultural Society for the County of Oneida, at Whitestown, October 18, 1820. Utica, 1820. 8, pp. 21. [N. Y. H. S. AUTHORITIES. Bacon, Early Bar of Oneida, 16. ety's Transactions, ii, 90-95. Pres. Gold, Hist, of Cornwall, 291, 294^-95. Stiles, Literary Diary, iii, 217, 238. P. Jones, Annals of Oneida County, Walworth, Hyde Genealogy, ii, 823- 795-96- Oneida County Hist. Soci- 24. CHARLES AUGUSTUS GOODRICH, the fifth son and child of the Rev. Dr. Elizur Goodrich (Yale 1752), was born in Durham, Connecticut, on March 2, 1768. While in College he had chosen the ministry as a pro- fession ; but soon after graduation, by reason of too close application, he broke down nervously, and for the rest of his life was permanently deranged. For several years he resided with his elder brother, the Rev. Samuel Goodrich (Yale 1783), pastor at Ridgefield, Connecticut, with whose family he was generally able to mingle, though at intervals subject to severe attacks of his malady. In his last days the clouds were lifted, and he realized his condition with calmness and composure. He died on September 8, 1804, m ms 37th year. AUTHORITIES. Case, Goodrich Family, 76. Fowler, Chauncey Memorials, 156, 168-69. NATHANIEL GRIPPING, son of Jasper and Rachel Grif- fing, of Guilford, Connecticut, was born in Guilford, on January 26, 1767. His mother was a daughter of Ebene- zer Lee. He was chosen by his class to deliver the Latin Valedictory Oration on Class Day before graduation. He became a successful merchant in Guilford, and was for many years its leading citizen. In politics he was a strong Federalist, and he represented the town in the Gen- 47 6 Yale College eral Assembly in twenty-three sessions between 1805 and 1836. He was also a delegate to the Constitutional Con- vention of 1818. He was during his life a liberal giver to all good causes in the town and the church ; and after his death his widow established in 1854 by a gift of land and of ten thousand dollars in money an institution for higher education in Guilford. He was one of the Associate Judges of the New .Haven County Court from 1811 to 1818. He died very suddenly, from paralysis, while on a visit in Northampton, Massachusetts, on September 17, 1845, in his 79th year. Judge Griffing was a man of great private worth and sterling integrity, a gentleman of the old school and widely respected for his intelligence, good sense, and moral uprightness. He married, on November 3, 1787, Sarah, daughter of Samuel Brown. Their children were four daughters and four sons. Three of the daughters and the youngest son died in infancy. Mrs. Griffing died on June I, 1865, at tne a g e f 98. AUTHORITIES. New Haven Daily Palladium, Sept. Guilford, 148-49, 277, 404, 479, 516. 19, 1845. B. C. Steiner, MS. Letter, Pres. Stiles, Literary Diary, iii, 233. Ncv. 7, 1906. L. H. Steiner, Hist, of STANLEY GRISWOLD, second son and fourth child of Shubael Griswold, a wealthy farmer of Torrington, Con- necticut, and grandson of Shubael and Phebe (Cornish) Griswold, of Windsor, Connecticut, was born on Novem- ber 14, 1763. His mother was Abigail, eldest daughter of Timothy and Mary (Mygatt) Stanley, of Harwinton, Connecticut. He served for several campaigns in the Biographical Sketches, 1786 477 Revolution, under his father as Captain, and in conse- quence of injuries then received exchanged his prospect of a small patrimony for a College education. He was admitted to the College Church, on profession of his faith, in July of his Freshman year. He was distinguished as a scholar in the languages while in College. On graduation he went to Norwich, Connecticut, as Principal of an Academy, and in 1787 began the study of theology with the Rev. Dr. David McClure (Yale 1769), of East Windsor. In 1789 he began preaching, and soon after declined a call to Lyme, Connecticut, going thence to the Congrega- tional Society of New Milford, Connecticut, where the pastor, the Rev. Nathanael Taylor (Yale 1745), had con- sented to the settlement of a colleague. On August 17 a call to Mr. Griswold was voted, with a salary of 100, and he was ordained and installed on January 20, 1790. The sermon on this occasion, by the Rev. Dr. McClure, was afterwards printed. He soon proved to be a very popular preacher, being a good writer and an easy and graceful speaker, with the advantage of a good voice and fine personal appearance. When first settled he was regarded as a Calvinist; but seven years later, in 1797, charges of his unsoundness in doctrine were present to the Litchfield South Association of Ministers, the special points alleged being that his preaching was inconsistent with the doctrine of total depravity, and that he advocated universal salvation. He declined to stand formal trial as an accused person; and was expelled by the Association, in July, 1797, from its membership. The most influential members of his church and congregation, however, stood by him in this crisis, and he continued to hold his office for five years longer. Meantime the senior pastor died, in December, 1800. The movement of his fellow-ministers against him was no doubt due in part to a recognition of other tendencies 47 8 Yale College which soon became apparent. In general they were sup- porters of the Federalist party, but Mr. Griswold early identified himself with the opposite side, which was espe- cially active in advocating a separation of Church and State and the consequent deposition of the Congregational ministry from their accustomed primacy. His attitude was definitely taken in his appearance as the preacher at a Democratic Jubilee in Wallingford, in March, 1801, in honor of Jefferson's election as President. Before taking this step he had probably decided on laying down the pastorate; and accordingly in the early summer of 1802 he quietly retired from the pulpit, with- out a formal dismission. He subsequently preached for a short time at Greenfield Hill, in Fairfield, Connecticut, but without any design of being settled; and soon after abandoned the pulpit altogether. In 1803 he went to Walpole, New Hampshire, to edit a new weekly democratic newspaper, The Political Obser- vatory, which was started there on November 19, in opposition to a Federalist paper in the same town, The Farmer's Weekly Museum, which had had a remarkably brilliant history. From this situation he was called on March i, 1805, by President Jefferson to the secretaryship of the newly organized Michigan Territory, with residence in Detroit, on a salary of $750. He accepted the appointment, but lack of harmony with the Governor, William Hull (Yale 1772), led to his forced resignation in March, 1808. Dur- ing Hull's absence he was Acting Governor in 1805-06. He then took up his residence in Ohio, and in 1809 received from Governor Samuel Huntington (Yale 1785), the appointment of Senator in Congress, to fill a vacancy for the remainder of the year. In March, 1810, he was nominated by President Madi- son and confirmed by the Senate as United States Judge for the Northwestern Territory. Biographical Sketches, 1786 479 He was destined, however, to occupy this post but a short time. . While on a judicial circuit, he contracted a fever which terminated fat.ally. He died at Shawnee- town, on the Ohio River, in southeastern Illinois, on August 21, 1815, in his 52d year. In this later portion of his life he retained his interest in religious things, and in 1814 was an active friend to the missionary enterprise undertaken in the Western country by Samuel J. Mills (Williams College 1809). He married, on August 5, 1789, Elizabeth Flagg, of East Hartford, Connecticut, who died in East Hartford, on August 15, 1822, at the age of 52. They had several children. He published : 1. A Statement of the singular manner of proceeding of the Rev. Association, of the South part of Litchfield County, in an Ecclesias- tical Prosecution, by them instituted against the Rev. Stanley Gris- v wold . . . With a subsequent Address to said Association, by Nehemiah Strong . . Hartford, 1798. 8, pp. 32. [M. H. S. U. T. S. Y. C. 2. A Funeral Eulogium [from Daniel v, n], pronounced at New- Milford, on the Twenty-second of February, 1800; being the day recommended by Congress for publicly testifying respect to the Memory of George Washington. Being also his Birth-Day. Litchfield. 8, pp. 24. [Brown Univ. C. H. S. M. H. S. N. Y. PubL Libr. U. S. 3. Truth its own test and God its only Judge. Or, an Inquiry, how far men may claim authority over each other's religious opinions? A Discourse [from James iv, 11-12], delivered at New- Milford, October I2th, 1800. Bridgeport, 1800. 8, pp. 32. [A. A. S. A. C. A. C. H. S. N. Y. H. S. N. Y. PubL Libr. [R. I. Hist. Soc. U. S. Y. C. Largely an argument against the alliance of Church and State. 4. The good Man's Prospects in the Hour of Death; and his Voice from the World beyond. Two Discourses [from Deut. xxxiv, 1-5, and Hebr. xi, 4], delivered at New-Milford, Dec. I4th, 480 Yale College 1800. Being the Sabbath next after the decease of the Rev. Nathanael Taylor . . Litchfield, 1801. 8, pp. 32. [C. H. S. U. S. Y. C. 5. Overcoming Evil with Good. A Sermon [Rom. xii, 14-21], delivered at Wallingford, Connecticut, March u, 1801 ; before a numerous collection of the friends of the Constitution, of Thomas Jefferson, President, and of Aaron Burr, Vice-President of the United States. Hartford, 1801. 8, pp. 36. [A. A. S. A. C. A. Brit. Mus. C. H. S. N. Y. H. S. U. S. Y.C. Reprinted at New Haven in 1845 (8, pp. 24), with the legend on the cover, "Let every American Citizen Purchase and Read." An exhortation to unity, instead of partisan triumph. 6. The Good Land we live in. A Sermon [from Deut. viii, 7-14], delivered at Suffield (Connecticut) on the Celebration of the Anni- versary of American Independence. July 7th, 1802. Suffield, 1802. 8, pp. 29. [A. A. S. A. C. A. Brit. Mus. Brown Univ. C. H. S. N. Y. H. S. N. Y. Publ. Libr. U. S. Y. C. A truly Christian sermon. 7. Infidelity not the only enemy of Christianity, or, Hypocrisy and Antichrist exposed. A Discourse [from i Cor. in, 11-15], delivered at New-Haven on the evening preceding the public Commencement, September I3th, 1803. New-Haven, 1803. 8, pp. 24. [B. Ath. C. H. S. U. T. S. Y. C. 8. The Exploits of our Fathers, or a concise history of the Military Events of our Revolutionary War. An Oration delivered at Cincinnati (Ohio) July 3d, 1813 (the 4th being Sunday) in celebration of the thirty-seventh Anniversary of American Inde- pendence. Cincinnati. 12, pp. 27. [Y. C. Notice should also be made of the following, supposed to be edited by Abraham Bishop : Church and State, a political union, formed by the enemies of both. Illustrated by Correspondencies between the Rev. Stanley Griswold, and the Rev. Dan Huntington, and between Col. Ephraim Kirby, and the Rev. Joseph Lyman. 1802. 8, pp. 60. [A. A. S. B. Ath. N. Y. H. S. Y. C. Biographical Sketches, 1786 481 Three letters of Griswold and one of Huntington (in Sept.-Nov., 1801) occupy pp. 5-31. They relate to rumors of a denial of Christianity by Mr. Griswold. AUTHORITIES. Aldrich, Walpole, 88. Campbell, Smith, Report of Missionary Tour, Outlines of Polit. Hist, of Michi- u, 13. W. H. Moore, Torringford gan, 237. Centennial Anniversary of Centennial, 66-67. Orcutt, Hist, of North and South Consociations of New Milford, 256-73, 597-99, 708. Litchfield County, 69-70. N. Ed- Pease and Niles, Gazetteer of Conn. wards, Papers, 101-02. Farmer, and R. L, 262. Reynolds, Pioneer Hist, of Detroit and Michigan, 2d Hist, of Illinois, 402. Pres. Stiles, ed., i, 23, 88, 95, 316-17. Kilbourne, Literary Diary, iii, 78, 129, 134, 217, Litchfield Biography, 84-88. Michi- 248, 366. Warren, Stanley Families, gan Pioneer and Hist. Collections, 243. xv, 27-28, 34. 5". /. Mills and D. WILLIAM BRENTON HALL, the eldest child of Brenton Hall, a farmer of Meriden, then part of Wallingford, Con- necticut, and grandson of the Rev. Samuel Hall (Yale 1716), of Cheshire, was born in Meriden on May 31, 1764. His mother was Lament, eldest child of Captain Jonathan and Agnes (Linn) Collins, of Wallingford. He studied medicine after graduation in part, it is sup- posed, with Dr. Nicholas Romayne, of New York City, and began practice in Wallingford, removing to the adjoining town of Middletown in 1790. With these exceptional advantages of education he made surgery a specialty, and was also among the earliest to practice vaccination in cases of small-pox. He was an active member of the Connecti- cut Medical Society, from the beginning, and its Treasurer from 1799 until his death. A succession of young men studied medicine under his direction. His health failed, from over-zeal and exposure, in Octo- ber, 1808; but he was able to attend to his business to some extent during the ensuing winter. He died in Middletown, somewhat suddenly, on July 29, 1809, in his 46th year. 31 482 Yale College His excellent social position was improved still further by his marriage, on March 7, 1796, to Mehetabel, second daughter of Major General Samuel H. Parsons (Harvard Coll. 1756), of Middletown, by whom he had a daughter, who died in infancy, and two sons. Two grandsons were graduates of Yale, in 1848 and 1856, respectively. Mrs. Hall died in Middletown, on November I, 1828, aged nearly 56 years. A miniature portrait of Dr. Hall is copied in Hall's Genealogical Notes. AUTHORITIES. Bailey, Early Conn. Marriages, vi, try, 368, 376-85. D. B. Hall, Halls 115. Conn. Med. Society's Pro- of N. E., 107, 117. T. P. Hall, Gen- ceedings, 1877, 145-47; 1892, 552-53. ealogical Notes, 49-53, 161-63. Wai- Field, Centennial Address at Middle- worth, Hyde Genealogy, ii, 912. town, 197. C. S. Hall, Hall Ances- EDWARD HALSEY, of Southampton, Long Island, was prepared for College by Silvanus White of that town. No details are known of his life after graduation except that he died in Baltimore, Maryland, on September 20, 1 80 1, aged about 37 years. AUTHORITIES. Pres. Stiles, Literary Diary, iii, 34, 129. ASA HILLYER was born in Sheffield, Massachusetts, on April 6, 1763. His father was a native of Granby, Con- necticut, and a physician in Sheffield, where he married a daughter of Deacon Ebenezer Smith. About 1773 he returned to Granby, and served for a time in the Revolu- tionary army as a surgeon, with his son as an assistant. During this son's College course Dr. Hillyer removed to Bridgehampton, Long Island; and by exposure to a storm on a voyage thither the son is said to have been led to decide to enter the ministry. Biographical Sketches, 1786 483 He studied theology under the direction of the Rev. Dr. Samuel Buell (Yale 1741), of East Hampton, and of the Rev. Dr. John H. Livingston (Yale 1762), of New York City. He was licensed to preach by the Presbytery of Suffolk in the Spring of 1788; and on September 29, 1789, having preached for two Sabbaths to the Presbyterian congrega- tion in Bottle Hill, now Madison, New Jersey, he was invited with great unanimity to become their pastor. He accepted this call, and was ordained and installed there early in 1790, the sermon being preached by the Rev. David Austin (Yale 1779), of Elizabeth. He married on June 8, 1791, Jane, only child of Captain Abraham and Margaret (Riker) Riker, of Newtown, Long Island. His labors at Madison were successful, and he lived in great harmony with his people, until his dismission to take the pastoral charge of the First Presbyterian Church in Orange, New Jersey, one of the largest and most influ- ential of the denomination in the State, to which he was called on October 20, 1801, and over which he was installed on December 16. In this congregation he labored with great acceptance and success for upwards of thirty years, being especially effective in pastoral work. He resigned his charge in 1833, at the a g e f seventy; and from that time devoted himself to occasional ministerial duty in the town. In 1811 he was chosen a Trustee of Princeton College, and held this office until his death. In 1812 he was appointed one of the first Directors of the Princeton Theological Seminary, and was regularly re-elected until after the division of the General Assembly. In 1818 he received the honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity from Alleghany College. In the disruption of the Presbyterian Church in 1837, Dr. Hillyer was associated with the New School; but 484 Yale College without any loss of affection towards his Old School brethren. His health failed during the winter of 1839-40, but he was able to attend church services until a fortnight before his death. He died in Orange on August 28, 1840, in his 78th year. His wife died in Orange, on April 4, 1828, at the age of 60. Their children were four sons and three daughters. Dr. Hillyer had a commanding figure, with regular features and benign and attractive expression, and his manners and bearing were exceedingly bland and genial. He published : 1. A Sermon [from Numbers xiii, 30], preached May, 1820, in the Wall Street Church, New- York, before the Presbyteriaft Educa- tion Society. Newark, 1820. 8, pp. 21. [B. Ath. Brit. Mus. Y. C. 2. A Sermon [from Ps. cxlvii, 20], delivered Dec. 12, 1822, recommended by the Governor of the State, to be observed as a Day of Public Thanksgiving and Prayer. Newark, 1823. 8, pp. 22. [C. H. S. AUTHORITIES. First Church, Orange, Memorial, Stiles, Literary Diary, iii, 46. Tuttle, 1870, 100-05. Riker, Annals of New- Hist, of Presbyterian Church, Madi- town, 313. Sprague, Annals of the son, 39-41. Wickes, Hist, of the Amer. Pulpit, iii, 533-35. Pres. Oranges, 222-28. REUBEN HITCHCOCK, the eldest child of Valentine Hitchcock, of Cheshire, Connecticut, and grandson of Peter and Hannah (Smith) Hitchcock, was born in Cheshire, then part of Wallingford, on January 4, 1764. His mother was Sarah, daughter of Captain Henry and Sarah (Benham) Hotchkiss, of Cheshire. A brother was graduated here in 1801. He united with the College Church, on profession of faith, in January of his Junior year. At graduation he won the Berkeley Scholarship. He remained in New Haven after graduation, teaching school and studying theology, and was licensed to preach Biographical Sketches, 1786 485 by the New Haven West Association on September 25, 1787. He was ordained before the issue of the Triennial Cata- ogue of Graduates in 1790, and preached for a time to the Society in the present township of Prospect, Connecti- cut, which was incorporated in October, 1787. Later he went presumably on account of his health to the New England settlement in Sunbury, Georgia, where he took charge of the Congregational Church. He spent the summer of 1792 with his friends at the North, return- ing to Georgia in November. He died at his home in Cheshire on July 4, 1794, aged 30^/2 years. Dr. Stiles describes him, in ( noticing his death, as "a pious, learned, and excellent young Minister." His little property about 180 was left to his parents. He published : A Funeral Oration on the death of Mr. Elizur Belden, of Wethersfield, a Senior Sophister, in Yale- Co liege : Who died April 8th, 1786, ^tat. 23. Delivered in the College-Chapel, June 8th. 1786. New-Haven, 1786. 8, pp. 22. [Y.C. AUTHORITIES. Hitchcock Genealogy, 135. Pres. 213, 217, 222, 249, 471, 479, 527. Stiles, Literary Diary, iii, 98, 146, REUBEN IVES, son of Zachariah and Lois Ives, of Cheshire, Connecticut, and grandson of Jotham and Abigail (Burroughs) Ives, was born on October 26, 1762. He was absent from College during the most of the Fresh- man year. Being desirous of entering the ministry of the Episcopal Church, he was ordained Deacon by Bishop Seabury in Derby, Connecticut, on September 21, 1786, eight days after receiving his Bachelor's degree. Such hasty action was thought to be justified by the dearth of ministers, and was conditioned on the promise of professional study while in the diaconate. 4&6 Yale College In pursuance of this understanding he lived with Bishop Seabury for over a year, studying under his direction and assisting him in his duties as Rector of St. James's Church, New London. He also took a course in Hebrew with President Stiles. On February 24, 1788, he was ordained Priest by Bishop Seabury, in New London, and at once became Rector of St. Peter's Church, Cheshire, with the proviso that one- third of his time was to be given to missionary work in the vicinity, particularly in Wallingford and North Haven. In this field of labor he continued with marked fidelity until 1820. In his later years he supplied the churches in Walling- ford and Meriden. He died at his home in Cheshire on October 14, 1836, aged 74 years. He was married by the Rev. Dr. Hubbard, of New Haven, to Susannah Anna Maria, daughter of the Rev. John Rutgers Marshall (Columbia 1770), of Woodbury, Connecticut, on January 25, 1789, four days after her father's death. She died in Cheshire, on August 26, 1849, aged 8 1 */2 years. They had four daughters, and one son. The latter received an honorary Master's degree from Yale and was for a time a clergyman of the Episcopal Church, but ultimately became a Roman Catholic. Mr. Ives was beyond any other man responsible for the establishment of the Episcopal Academy in Cheshire, in 1796. He was a great lover of church music, and was one of the first to introduce chanting in Connecticut. An engraving from his miniature is given in the History of Wallingford. AUTHORITIES. Bailey, Early Conn. Marriages, vii, 137-38. Cothren, Hist, of Wood- 25. Beardsley, Addresses and Dis- bury, i, 632. Davis, Hist, of Wai- courses, 7-8, 200, 234-35; Life of lingford, 255-57, 829. Pres. Stiles, Seabury, 264, 283-84, 316. Convoca- Literary Diary, iii, 74, 97, 305. tion Records of Diocese of Conn., Biographical Sketches, 1786 487 JOHN KINGSBURY, third son and fourth child of Deacon Nathaniel and Sarah Kingsbury, of Norwich West Farms, now Franklin, Connecticut, and grandson of Deacon and Captain Joseph and Ruth (Denison) Kingsbury, of Frank- lin, was born on December 30, 1761. His mother was a daughter of Jacob and Susanna (Hancock) Hill, of Cambridge, Massachusetts. He was prepared for College by his cousin, the Rev. Dr. Charles Backus, of Somers, Connecticut, and entered with the Class of 1783, but in consequence of the interruptions caused by the war left at the close of the Freshman year, and before his return to College went on two privateering voyages from New London with his eldest brother. After a long illness he returned to College in November, 1782. Immediately upon graduation he took charge of a new academy for both sexes in Waterbury, Connecticut ; where he taught for about a year. In the spring of 1788 he entered Judge Tapping Reeve's Law School in Litchfield, Connecticut, and in 1790 was admitted to the Litchfield County bar. His health was poor; but at length, in the fall of 1791, he settled in Waterbury for the practice of the law. In 1793 he was chosen Town Clerk, and held the office for much of the time until 1818. Seventeen times between 1796 and 1813 he represented the town in the General Assembly. He was appointed a Justice of the Peace in 1796, and was continued in office until 1830. On the death of Judge Joseph Hopkins in March, 1801, he was appointed to fill the vacancy in the County and Probate Courts ; and he was continued, as Assistant Judge of the New Haven Court until May, 1820 (being Presiding Judge during the last year), and as Judge of Probate for the District of Waterbury until 1834. He was also a large land-owner, and carried on extensive farming opera- tions. 488 Yale College He married, on November 6, 1794, Marcia (or Mercy), eldest daughter of Deacon Stephen and Sarah (Humas- ton) Bronson, of Waterbury, who died on March 21, 1813, in her 49th year. Their children were three sons and one daughter, all of whom left descendants. The Hon. Frederick J. Kingsbury (Yale 1846) is a grandson. Judge Kingsbury was always delicate in health, and for the last twenty years, or more, of his life had strong con- sumptive tendencies. He died in Waterbury, at the house of his son-in-law, with whom he had lived for several years, on August 26, 1844, in his 83d year. Dr. Henry Bronson, the historian of Waterbury, wrote of him in 1858: Judge Kingsbury acquired in an eminent degree the confidence and respect of the community in which he lived. He held many public offices, and always discharged his duties ably, faithfully and acceptably. From the death of Judge Hopkins [1801] to the time of his decease, no man in the town was more honored, respected and beloved. Judge Kingsbury was a popular man, but he became so in conse- quence of the benevolence of his character, his kindly sympathies, his agreeable manners and many excellent qualities. He never sacrificed principle or consistency. He was a good neighbor and trusty friend. Lively in his manner, easy in conversation, often facetious in his remarks, his company was sought by persons of all ages and classes. AUTHORITIES. Anderson, Hist, of Waterbury, 223, 255. Pres. Stiles, Literary iii, 795-97. Bronson, Hist, of Water- Diary, ii, 429 ; iii, 248. bury, 422-23. Kingsbury Genealogy, WILLIAM LEFFINGWELL, the eldest son of Colonel Christopher Leffingwell, one of the most prominent citizens of Norwich, Connecticut, and grandson of Benajah and Joanna (Christophers) Leffingwell, of Norwich, was born on September 28, 1765. His mother was Elizabeth, second daughter of Captain Joseph and Lydia (Lathrop) Coit, of New London. Biographical Sketches, 1786 4 8 9 On September 12, 1786, the evening before his gradua- tion, he was married by the Rev. Achilles Mansfield, uncle of the bride, to Sally Maria, elder daughter of Isaac and Mary (Mansfield) Beers, of New Haven, and then returned to Norwich, where he engaged in mercantile business with his father. He was also Postmaster from 1789 to 1793. In the spring of 1793 he removed to New York City, where he went into business as a shipping merchant in partnership with Hezekiah B. Pierpont. During the war between France and England he lost largely, and changed his business to that of a stock and insurance broker. He thus amassed a considerable fortune, and when he retired to New Haven in 1809, he was accounted the richest citizen of the place. His elegant residence, which is still standing (much altered) on the southwest corner of Chapel and Temple Streets, with a terraced garden extending up towards College Street, was a center of hospitality for many years. He took a deep interest in the College, and contributed liberally at various times to its funds. Mrs. Lefiingwell died on August 25, 1830, at the age of 65, and her husband next married Hannah, eldest daughter of Leonard Chester (Yale 1769), of Wethers- field, Connecticut. Mr. Leffingwell died in New Haven on October 23, 1834, at the beginning of his 7 f East Alstead; and while there was invited to supply the vacant Congregational Church in Nelson, in the same county. He proved equal to the work, and in the following spring received a call to the pastorate. He accepted, and was ordained there on June n, 1794, and thus entered on a ministry of over forty-seven years, which he prosecuted with unusual energy and zeal. In July, 1836, a colleague- pastor was settled, who retired in May, 1840, and on November 4, 1841, the senior pastor was dismissed, on the settlement of a new minister. He continued to live in Nelson, and to assist in the public 502 Yale College services of the church, until the last year of his life, by which time his physical and mental powers were very little impaired. He lived to be the last survivor of his Class, dying in Nelson on February 25, 1859, aged nearly 95^ years. He married, on June n, 1795, Sophia, second daughter of Benjamin and Phebe (Boynton) Clapp, of Easthamp- ton, Massachusetts. She died on September u, 1840, in her 69th year. Of their children, three sons and one daughter, the first two died in infancy. The remaining son was graduated at the Yale Medical School in 1822. The daughter married the Rev. John S. Emerson (Dartmouth Coll. 1826), and went as a missionary to Hawaii. Mr. Newell was a plain and direct preacher, of dignified bearing, simple in expression, free from mannerisms, and from display in voice or gesture. He adhered to the end to the doctrines of the Westminster Confession, and had the satisfaction of seeing his people, remain united and prosperous under his ministry. AUTHORITIES. Andrews, New Britain, 79-80. erary Diary, iii, 73, 183. Timlow, Clapp Memorial, 58. Hall, Newell Hist, of Southington, 485-87, clxxxvii- Family, 33, 75-79. Pres. Stiles, Lit- clxxxviii. ELIAS PERKINS was born in Newent Society, now Lisbon, Connecticut, on April 5, 1767. A twin-brother was graduated a year later, and an older brother a year earlier. He 'left College with a high reputation for scholarship, and after studying law settled in practice in New London, Connecticut, where he married on March 14, 1790, Lucretia Shaw, the only surviving daughter of the Rev. Ephraim Woodbridge (Yale 1765). He was one of the Representatives of the city in the General Assembly during eight sessions between 1795 and Biographical Sketches, ij86 503 1800, and again in 1814 and 1815, in which last session, as in one in 1798, he served as Speaker of the House. At a comparatively early date (1799) he was appointed an Assistant Judge of the County, and in 1807 was promoted to the rank of Chief Judge, which he retained until 1825. In politics he was a Federalist, and as such was elected to Congress for one term, 1801 to 1803. Later he was in the State Senate for six years, from 1817 to 1822, being also for this period ex-officio a Fellow of the Yale Corporation. From 1829 to 1832 he was Mayor of New London. He was the first President of the New London Bank, which was chartered in 1807. In 1817 he was chosen to be a Deacon in the First Con- gregational Church in New London. An engraving from his full-length portrait is given in a volume of the Ameri- can National Register. His wife died on. March 6, 1802, in her 29th year; and he next married on February n, 1805, Mary, second daughter of John and Lucretia (Christophers) Mumford, of the present township of Salem, Connecticut, who died on March 22, 1830, in her 56th year. By his first wife he had four sons and two daughters. The first and second sons were both graduated at Yale in 1812, and the others died in infancy. The younger daugh- ter married Charles Griswold (Yale 1808). Mr. Perkins died in New London on September 27, 1845, in his 79th year. Two of his private letters to Governor Griswold ( 1 800-01) are printed in the Family-Histories and Gen- ealogies of Mr. and Mrs. Salisbury. AUTHORITIES. Amer. Hist. Register, ii (1895), A. Perkins, Perkins Family, Pt. 3, 28, 1371. Bailey, Early Conn. Marriages, 55. M. E. Perkins, Chronicles of a ii, 31. Blake, Early Hist, of 1st Connecticut Farm, 129, 158-59. Salis- Church, N. London, 283. Caulkins, bury, Family-Histories, ii, 95-97. Hist, of N. London, 667, 671. Mitch- Pres. Stiles, Literary Diary, iii, 129, ell, Woodbridge Record, 107. G. 201, 238. 504 Yale College EDWARD PORTER, the eldest child of Deacon Noah Por- ter, of Farmington, Connecticut, was born on April 15, 1765. His mother was Mercy, daughter of Nehemiah and Jerusha (Gridley) Lewis, of Farmington. A brother was graduated here in 1795, and a half-brother, the Rev. Dr. Noah Porter, in 1803. On graduation he took charge of an academy in the North Parish of Lebanon, now the town of Columbia, Con- necticut, but soon began the study of theology. After being licensed to preach he married, on November 25, 1789, Dolly (or Dorothea), daughter of Isaac and Mary (Smith) Gleason, of Farmington. Soon after this he accepted a call to the pastorate of the First Congregational Church in Lyme, Connecticut, where he was ordained in February, 1790. His relation to this parish was terminated in September, 1792 ; and in July, 1794, he began to preach as a candidate in the First Parish in Waterbury, Connecticut. Three months later he was hired for one year, and then received an invitation to settle as colleague-pastor with the Rev. Mark Leavenworth (Yale 1737), on a salary of 100. He accepted the invitation, and was installed on Novem- ber 18, 1795. The senior pastor died in August, 1797, and four months later Mr. Porter expressed a desire to be released from his charge in consequence of failing health. His dismission took place on January 10, 1798. He continued to reside in Waterbury, and engaged in the manufacture of clocks; but became involved in an unfortunate controversy with another member of the church, in which his integrity was questioned. The matter was brought before the church, and though the decision seems to have been substantially in his favor, he was excommunicated from the church on August 16, 1812, and soon after removed his residence, at first to Farming- ton, and eventually, in 1824, to New Haven, where he was Biographical Sketches, 1786 505 chosen Deacon in the United Church in November, 1826. He died in New Haven on March 19, 1828, aged nearly 63 years, "much respected as a citizen and as a man of piety." His wife long- survived him, and died in Norwich, Con- necticut, on December 2, 1845, at tne the a " e ^ 7^. Their children were one daughter and three sons, of whom the second son was graduated at Yale in 1826. AUTHORITIES. Anderson, Hist, of Waterbury, i, Hist, of Waterbury, 290. Conn. 618-19, and Appendix, 105. Branson, Journal, March 25, 1828. WILLIAM BRINTNALL RIPLEY, the eldest son of the Rev. Dr. Hezekiah Ripley (Yale 1763), of Green's Farms, in Fair field, Connecticut, was born on August 3, 1768. After graduation he studied theology, probably under his father's direction, and was licensed to preach by the Fair field West Association of Ministers on May 26, 1789. In January, 1792, he was ordained and installed as pastor of the Presbyterian Church in (East) Ballston, Saratoga County, New York, and continued in that office for about six years. He was installed in November, 1798, over Goshen Parish in Lebanon, Connecticut, where he was pastor until his death, on July 25, 1822, at the age of 54. On September 30; 1792, he married Lucy Clift, by whom he had seven sons, all of whom reached maturity. Mrs. Ripley died in Nichols, Tioga County, New York, on September i, 1832, at the age of 65. On his father's retirement from the Corporation of Yale College, in September, 1817, he was elected to the vacant seat, which he retained until his death. AUTHORITIES. Conn. Journal, Aug. 6, 1822. Ripley Genealogy, 14, 17. 506 Yale College JOHN SALTMARSH, the second son and child of Lieuten- ant William Saltmarsh, of Watertown, Massachusetts, and New Canaan, Columbia County, New York, and grandson of Thomas and Mary Saltmarsh, was born in Watertown on October 19, 1761. His mother was Eliza- beth, eldest daughter of Joseph and Lydia (Marean) Patterson, of Waltham, Massachusetts. He entered Col- lege at the beginning of the Sophomore year. He was absent from College at the time of graduation, but was admitted to a degree in 1795. Meantime he had followed teaching as an employment, and he married in 1795 Rhoda, youngest child of Jabez and Mary (Bassett) Beach, of North Stratford, now Trumbull, Connecticut. They settled at Tioga Point, now Athens^ Pennsylvania, on the Susquehanna River. He soon received the appointment of Justice of the Peace, and kept a public house which always maintained a good reputation. His death, which occurred in Athens on November 9, 1815, at the age of 54, was regarded as a great loss to the community. He had for some years been a religious man. Mrs. Saltmarsh died on July 4, 1847, at tne a g e f 80. Their children were two sons and a daughter. AUTHORITIES. Bond, Hist, of Watertown, 414. Perkins, Early Times on the Sus- Orcutt, Hist, of Stratford, ii, 1125. quehanna, 145, 240. GEORGE SELDEN, the tenth in a family of thirteen chil- dren of Colonel Samuel and Elizabeth Sheldon, of Had- lyme Parish, in Lyme, Connecticut, and grandson of Cap- tain Samuel and Deborah (Dudley), Selden of Hadlyme, was born in Lyme on February 27, and baptized on April 5, 1763. His mother was the eldest child of Richard and Elizabeth (Peck) Ely, of Lyme, and half-sister of the Rev. Richard Ely (Yale 1754), and the Rev. Dr. David Ely Biographical Sketches, 1786 507 (Yale 1769). An elder brother was graduated here in 1777. He studied medicine in Philadelphia, and settled in Natchez, Mississippi, for the practice of his profession. After somewhat extensive travels in the Western region, he returned to New England in 1794, and on May 9, 1795, married Olive West, of Massachusetts. He then settled in Vienna, on the Ohio River, in what is now West Virginia. Thence he removed about ten miles to the northeast, to Marietta, Ohio, where (prob- ably) he died, on May 27, 1817, in his 55th year. His wife died in 1831, aged 56 years. His children were two sons (one of whom became a lawyer, and the other an Episcopal clergyman) and three daughters. AUTHORITIES. Prof. Daniel C. Eaton, MS. Letter, Pres. Stiles, Literary Diary, iii, 523- Dec. 9, 1885. Ely Ancestry, 99, 179. 24. SAMUEL BURR SHERWOOD, a son of the Rev. Samuel Sherwood (Yale 1749), of Nor field Society, now Weston, Connecticut, was born on November 26, 1767. In March of his Senior year, during a time of disturbance in Col- lege, he took a dismission with a view to entering Harvard College; but as his scholarship was not good, he was unsuccessful, and in June he applied for re-admission and was directed to study with the Rev. Dr. Timothy Dwight, of Greenfield Hill, until examination in September. After graduation he studied law, and settled in practice in that part of Fairfield which is now Westport, Connecti- cut, becoming one of the leading members of the Fairfield County Bar. He was a Federalist in politics, and a Representative in the General Court during seven sessions between 1809 and 1815, and a member of the State Senate in 1816. He was 508 Yale College elected to the Fifteenth Congress, serving from 1817 to 1819; but his native modesty and his shrinking from the scramble for office led him to prefer the life of a private citizen. His knowledge of men and of human nature gave him superiority as a jury lawyer ; and aside from his public interests he was a man of remarkable activity, always cheerful and full of good-humor. He continued in uniform good health, and was in active practice until his retirement in 1831. He was prostrated in April, 1833, by a sharp attack of brain-fever, and died at his home in what is now Westport, on the 27th of that month, after a single day's illness, in his 66th year. He married on September 3, 1787, Charity, daughter of Dr. Eliphalet Hull (Yale 1758), of Greenfield Hill, in Fairfield ; and after her death he married her sister, Mrs. Deborah Brush, who survived him for a number of years. By his first wife he had three daughters, of whom the second married the Hon. Clark Bissell (Yale 1806), and the youngest married Charles Jesup (Yale 1814). AUTHORITIES. Bailey, Early Conn. Marriages, v, n. Jessup Genealogy, 177. Pres. 67. Hurd, Hist, of Fairfield County, Stiles, Literary Diary, iii, 227. ELIHU HUBBARD SMITH, the eldest child of Dr. Reuben Smith (Yale 1757), of Litchfield, Connecticut, was born in Litchfield on September 4, 1771, and entered College at the age of eleven. A sister married Thomas Mumford (Yale 1790). After graduation he spent two years at Greenfield Hill, Connecticut, under the further instruction of the Rev. Dr. Timothy Dwight, and then returned to Litchfield, and began the study of medicine under his father's direction. He spent the winter of 1790-91 in Philadelphia, in attend- ance on the courses of medical instruction offered there by Dr. Rush and others. Biographical Sketches, 1786 509 He then chose Wethersfield, Connecticut, as his resi- dence, and entered on practice there ; but although he was highly respected and esteemed, he found little employment, and consequently, in September, 1793, removed to the City of New York, where he devoted himself with ardor to his profession, and by his perseverance and attention to busi- ness surmounted the obstacles which naturally arose from his youth and the limited number of his acquaintance. In 1796 he was elected one of the physicians of the New York Hospital, and by the mode in which he discharged his duties increased his reputation. In the fall of 1796, in conjunction with Dr. Samuel L. Mitchill and Dr. Edward Miller, he projected the publica- tion of a medical periodical in New York, the first of its kind in this country. He was particularly active in the design, and devoted a large part of his attention to its execution, in the five numbers issued during his lifetime. While actively employed in his professional duties, the yellow fever, in September, 1798, visited the city of New York. Dr. Smith contracted the fever in a peculiarly malignant form, and died after four days' illness, on September 19, at the age of 27. He was unmarried. His colleagues in the editorship of the Medical Reposi- tory wrote of him: As a physician, his loss is irreparable. He had explored, at his early age, an extent of medical learning, for which the longer lives are seldom found sufficient. His diligence and activity, his ardour and perseverance, knew no common bounds. The love of science and the impulse of philanthropy directed his whole pro- fessional career. Besides his professional promise, he was also favorably known as a writer of poetry, and in his earlier career con- tributed frequently to the periodical press in Philadelphia and Hartford. An engraving from a portrait accompanies a Sketch of his Life and Character in the American Medical and Philosophical Register for January, 1814. 510 Yale College He was elected a Corresponding Member of the Massa- chusetts Historical Society in December, 1797. He published: 1. American Poems, selected and original. Vol. I. Litchfield [1793]. 8, pp. viii, 304, vii. [B. Publ. Brown Univ. L. I. Hist. Soc. M. H. S. N. Y. H. S. Y. C. This was the first general collection of American poetry ever attempted, and it preserves many interesting pieces which might otherwise have escaped notice. The editor's name is not given, and there is little or nothing of his own composition. 2. Letters to William Buel [sic], Physician, Sheffield, Massachu- setts, on the Fever which prevailed in New- York, in 1795. In Noah Webster's Collection of Papers on the subject of Bilious Fevers, New- York, 1796, pp. 61-144. These letters were addressed to Dr. William Bull (Yale 1777). 3. Edwin and Angelina; or the Banditti. An Opera, in three acts. New- York, 1797. 8, pp. 72. [B. Ath. B. Publ. /. Carter Brown Libr. M. H. S. Y. C. As stated in the Preface, this drama was composed in March, 1791 ; it was first acted in December, 1796. 4. A Discourse, delivered April u, 1798, at the request of and before the New- York Society for promoting the Manumission of Slaves, and protecting such of them as have been or may be liberated. New- York, 1798. 8, pp. 30. [AT. Y. H. S. R. I. Hist. Soc. Y. C. 5. In 1798 he edited, for re-publication, Erasmus Darwin's Botanic Garden, and prefixed a poetic Epistle to the author (pp. 6). Mention should also be made of his valuable contribu- tions to the Medical Repository, on the following subjects among others : History of the Plague of Athens; Case of Mania successfully treated by Mercury ; On the Origin of the Pestilential Fever, which prevailed in the island of Grenada, in 1793 and 1794; On a singular Case of Disease in Infancy; Concerning the Elk; On the Plagues of Syracuse. Biographical Sketches, 1786 511 Andre, a tragedy, New York, 1798, which has been attributed to Dr. Smith, was written by his intimate friend, William Dunlap. AUTHORITIES. Amer. Medical and Philosophical Repository, ii, 145, 227-28. The Register, iv, 391-99. Conn. Journal, Political Green-House, for 1798, n- Sept. 26, 1798. Dunlap, Hist, of the 12. Wai-worth, Hyde Genealogy, ii, Amer. Theatre, 156-57. Everest, 828. Woodruff, Geneal. Register of Poets of Conn., 105-12. Medical Litchfield, 206. WILLIAM STONE, the third son of Seth Stone, of East Guilford, now Madison, Connecticut, and grandson of Ebenezer and Hannah (Norton) Stone, of Guilford, was born on July 10, 1759. His mother was Rachel, second daughter of Caleb and Mary (Hubbard) Leete, of Guil- ford. He served for three years in the Revolutionary army, before entering College, having enlisted as a private soldier in the Seventh Connecticut Line in June, 1777. With this regiment he engaged at the battles of German- town and Monmouth, and wintered at Valley Forge. He spent his Freshman year at Dartmouth College, and after his removal to Yale attained distinction as a scholar. He united with the College Church on profession of his faith in December of his Senior year. After graduation he studied theology with his pastor, the Rev. Jonathan Todd (Yale 1732), and was licensed to preach by the New Haven County Association on May 30, 1787. He was married, by the Rev. Mr. Todd, on December ii, 1787, to Tamson, second daughter of Ebenezer and Mary (Willard) Graves, of East Guilford. For the next four or five years he filled temporary engagements as a teacher and preacher in widely sepa- rated sections of the country, for much of the time in the Carolinas and Georgia, and in particular on General Wayne's plantation. 512 Yale College On returning to the North, he preached for a season on the eastern part of Long Island, where he had previ- ously taught school. He then took charge of a church in New Paltz, Ulster County, New York, and was ordained there the sermon on that occasion being preached by his classmate Griswold. His stay there was brief, and in the spring of 1793 he removed to the present township of Bainbridge on the banks of the Susquehanna, in Chenango County, and for the next four years devoted himself to missionary labor in that vicinity. He removed, in the fall of 1797, some thirty-five miles to the northeastward, to Burlington, in Otsego County, and for ten years preached with varying success in that region. Smarting at some ill-treatment, in 1807 he removed again, to Redfield on Salmon River, in Oswego County, where for seven or eight years more he continued preach- ing in the newer settlements. He also during this period taught for a short time in the well-known Academy in Fairfield, Herkimer County, and was offered the principal- ship, but declined it because dramatic performances were customarily given. In 1817 he removed to Junius, in Seneca County, and thence in 1819 to Sodus, in Wayne County, on the shore of Lake Ontario. He was employed in 1818-19 by the Albany Missionary Society on mission work in the south- western part of the State, and similarly in 1820-21 by the Young Men's Missionary Society of New York; but after this an injury resulting from the felling of a tree disabled him from further labor, and the rest of his life was mainly spent in seclusion. He died in Sodus on March 20, 1840, in his 8ist year. His wife died in Sodus, after a protracted illness, on June 14, 1842, in her 79th year. Their children were six sons and five daughters. The second son was the distin- guished editor and proprietor of the New York Spectator, Biographical Sketches, 1786 513 Mr. Stone was a man of strong intellect, but of a peculiar constitutional and mental temperament, bordering upon eccentricity. He was without worldly ambition, and preferred life on the frontier to any opportunities among cultivated society. The two leading interests (outside of his family) which absorbed him were his religious work, including the study of the Scriptures in the original tongues, and the Greek and Latin classics. AUTHORITIES. Hotchkin, Hist, of Western N. Y., June 22, 1842. Pres. Stiles, Literary 69. Johnston, Yale in the Revolu- Diary, iii, 154, 199, 217, 266. Stone tion, 348. Leete Family, 24. New- Family, 13, 19-28. York Spectator, March 26, 1840, and SIMEON STRONG, the eldest child of Judge Simeon Strong (Yale 1756), was born in Amherst, Massachu- setts, on February 22, 1764. He studied law after graduation, and settled in practice in Conway, Massachusetts, where he married, on June 5, 1795, Lois Cobb, third daughter of the Rev. John Emerson (Harvard Coll. 1764) and Sabra (Cobb) Emerson. In 1802 he removed to Amherst, where his father was still living, and there continued in practice. He repre- sented Amherst in the Legislature in 1809, 1812, 1813, and 1814. He died there on September 2, 1841, aged 77^ years. His wife died five days later, aged 65 years. Their children were four sons, all of whom grew to maturity. The third son was graduated at the Berkshire Medical School in 1829, and the youngest son at Amherst College in 1826. AUTHORITIES. Dwight, Strong Family, ii, 1334. Hist, of Hadky, 2d ed., Appendix, Emerson Family, 135, 182. Judd, 141. 33 514 Yale College NATHANIEL TERRY, the second son of Colonel Nathan- iel Terry, of Enfield, Connecticut, and grandson of Major Ephraim and Ann (Collins) Terry, of Enfield, was born in Enfield on January 30, 1768. His mother was Abiah, fourth daughter of Captain Samuel and Mary (Lyman) Dwight, of Middletown and Enfield. His only sister mar- ried the Rev. John Taylor (Yale 1784). He spent his Freshman year at Dartmouth College. He studied law with the Hon. Jesse Root, in Hartford, after graduation, and was admitted to the bar in 1790. He then began practice in his native town; but in 1796 removed to Hartford, where he married, on March 14, 1798, Catharine, daughter of Colonel Jeremiah Wads- worth (honorary A.M. Yale 1796) and Mehitabel (Rus- sell) Wadsworth. He was one of the Representatives of Hartford in the General Assembly during twelve sessions from 1804 to 1815, and served in that office with distinguished ability. He was a studious and thorough lawyer, of great power as a public speaker, and devoted to his profession; but in May, 1807, he was appointed Chief Judge of the County Court, which obliged him to relinquish his practice, except in the higher Courts. He resigned this office in 1809. He served for one term (1817-19) in Congress, and was a member of the Convention for framing a new Constitution for Connecticut in 1818. He was the President of the Hartford Bank from 1819 to 1828, and Mayor of the City from 1824 to 1831. He was also a General of Militia. His death occurred in New Haven, on June 14, 1844, in his 76th year. His wife died in Hartford, on October 26, 1841, in her 68th year. Their children were six sons and three daughters. The second and third sons were graduated at Yale in 1820 Biographical Sketches, 1786 515 and 1821, respectively. The fifth son was graduated at the Yale Medical School in 1831, and the youngest son at the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York in 1833. The second daughter married the Rev. Dr. Leonard Bacon (Yale 1820), and the youngest daughter married George Brinley (honorary M.A. Yale 1868), a generous benefactor of the Yale Library. AUTHORITIES. Pres. Stiles, Literary Diary, iii, 97. 190-91, 33*, 385, SOG, 602. Wads- Terry Families, 35, 73-74. Trum- worth Family, 201. bull, Hist, of Hartford County, i, 124, AMBROSE TODD, the fourth son of Jonah and Lowly (Harrison) Todd, of Northford Society, in North Bran- ford, Connecticut, and grandson of Stephen and Lydia (Ives) Todd, was born on December 7, 1764. Upon graduation he began his preparation for the ministry of the Episcopal Church, in which he was ordained Deacon by Bishop Seabury, in Stamford, on June i, 1787. He at once took charge of St. Andrew's Church in Simsbury, Connecticut, where he remained for twelve years, being advanced to the priesthood on June 7, 1789, by Bishop Seabury in Norwalk. In November, 1799, finding his salary inadequate, he accepted the rectorship of St. Paul's Church, Huntington, Connecticut, where he labored devotedly to the end of his life. He died in Huntington, from consumption, after three months' illness, on July 25, 1809, in his 45th year. His tombstone bears witness to "his piety and zeal as a preacher, and his benevolence and goodness as a man." He was married on December 25, 1788, by the Rev. Dr. Dibble, of Stamford, to Lavinia, youngest daughter of Samuel and Martha (Seymour) Jarvis, of Stamford, Connecticut, and niece of the Rt. Rev. Abraham Jarvis 516 Yale College (Yale 1761). She died on October 26, 1841, aged 80 years. They had two daughters and three sons; the two elder sons entered the Episcopal ministry, one of whom received an honorary M.A. degree from Yale College in 1824. AUTHORITIES. Bailey, Early Conn. Marriages, vis Family, 18, 30-31. Munson Fam- vii, 21. Churchman's Magazine, vi ily Record, i, 87. Sprague, Annals (1809), 370-72. Conn. Diocesan Con- of the Amer. Pulpit, v, 416. Tuttle vocation Records, 157-58. Hurd, Family, 327, 329. Hist, of Fairfield County, 412. Jar- JACOB RUTSEN VAN RENSSELAER, son of Robert and Cornelia (Rutsen) Van Rensselaer, of Claverack, Colum- bia County, New York, and grandson of Johannes and Angelica (Livingston) Van Rensselaer, of Greenbush and Claverack, was born at the manor house in Claverack in 1767. He was absent from College for most of Senior year, on account of illness, and did not receive his degree until 1787. He studied law, and after being admitted to the bar practiced in Claverack, and was regarded as a lawyer of ability ; but being a strong Federalist he became engrossed in politics, and this with other outside engagements led to his giving up his practice to a large extent. Being a man of talents, liberal, generous, and patriotic, and a bold, active, and zealous politician, he became one of the most popular men in the State. He was a member of the Assembly for ten sessions between 1800 and 1819, and was elected Speaker in 1812. In 1815 he introduced and advocated with great skill the bill which provided for the construction of the Erie Canal. He was County Clerk for one year, 1801-02, and Secre- tary of the State for two years, 1813-15. He had held Biographical Sketches, 1786 517 a commission as Lieutenant Colonel of Militia since 1797, and in the war of 1812 he commanded the men drafted from Columbia County, who were ordered to the defence of New York City. He was advanced to the rank of Brigadier-General in 1819. He was a delegate to the Constitutional Convention of the State in 1821, and exercised great influence in that body, being a ready and frequent debater. He died in New York City on September 22, 1835, in his 69th year. He married Cornelia De Peyster, and had a family of six daughters and three sons. AUTHORITIES. Holgate, Amer. Genealogy, 44. Great Lawyers of Columbia County, Lamb, Hist, of the City of N. Y., 116-17. Pres. Stiles, Literary Diary, ii, 672-73. Miller, A Group of iii, 47. CALVIN WHITE, the seventh child and fifth son of Moses and Huldah (Knowles) White, of Upper Middle- town, now Cromwell, Connecticut, and grandson of Deacon Isaac and Sibyl (Butler) White, of Cromwell, was born on December 17, 1762, and baptized two days later. After graduation he studied theology, and on June 29, 1791, was installed pastor of the Presbyterian Church in Hanover, New Jersey. He married, on February 28, 1792, Phebe, daughter of Captain Nathaniel and Rachel Camp, of Newark, New Jersey. His career in Hanover was brief, and on November 17, 1795, he was dismissed at his own request. As the result of further study he became a candidate for orders in the Episcopal Church, and was ordained Deacon by Bishop Jarvis of Connecticut in Bridgeport, on June 28, 1798. He was then sent to St. John's Church, Stamford, Connecticut, as Assistant to the Rev. Dr. Ebenezer Dibble (Yale 1734), who died in May, 1799. 518 Yale College Mr. White's next charge was the church in Middetown, Connecticut, from September, 1799, to July, 1800, when he left without warning. Meantime he was advanced to the priesthood by Bishop Jarvis at Cheshire on December I, 1799. After this he was again in charge of the Stamford parish. On July 21, 1803, ne was inducted as Rector of Grace Church, Jamaica, Long Island, with a salary of $500: but complaints were made of his inefficiency in pastoral duty, and he left this parish also abruptly, on August 17, 1804. He then settled in Derby, Connecticut, as Assistant to the venerable Dr. Richard Mansfield (Yale 1741) in charge of St. James' Church, and continued in this capac- ity, in great poverty, until after Dr. Mansfield's death in 1820. By this time he had adopted certain views of the authority of the Roman Catholic Church which were inconsistent with his professional standing, and by July, 1821, he did not hesitate to avow his practical union with Roman Catholic belief. He continued, however, to minister to his parish until the summer of 1822, when he was formally deposed by Bishop Brownell. For the rest of his life he remained as a layman in the house which he had so long occupied as a rectory, in sight of the church where he had officiated. His wife died in Derby on November 23, 1826, in her 57th year, and he married in 1827, Jane, daughter of John Mardenbrough, of St. Martin Island, in the West Indies. He preserved his faculties and his health perfectly until the last, and died in Derby, from a sudden failure of the digestive organs, on March 21, 1853, m ms 9 Ist year. His widow died there on October 18, 1863, m ner 8oth year. By his first wife he had eight sons, of whom seven Biographical Sketches, 1786 519 reached maturity, and one daughter. Richard Grant White, the author and critic, was a grandson. He was a good scholar, and in particular a master of Hebrew. His sympathies were with the Tories in the Revolu- tionary struggle, and he always spoke of the Revolution as a rebellion. He never voted in his life. Eight of his letters (1805-1818) to Bishop Hobart of New York, who befriended him in his pecuniary need, are given in Dr. McVickar's Memoir of the Bishop's Professional Years. The editor describes him as "a humble country clergyman whose quaintness, learning, and goodheartedness cast a sunbeam upon poverty." AUTHORITIES. Beardsley, Hist, of the Church in H. Palladium, March 23, 1853. On- Conn., ii, u, 104-05. Field, Centen- derdonk, Hist, of Grace Church, nial Address at Middletown, 175. Jamaica, 89-91. Orcutt, Hist, of Kellogg, White Memorials, 91, 145- Derby, 299, 606, 823. Sabine, Amer. 46. McVickar, Professional Years Loyalists, 2d ed., ii, 420. Pres. Stiles, of Bp. Hobart, 114-120, 329-32. N. Literary Diary, iii, 45, 226. FREDERICK WOLCOTT, the younger surviving son of Governor Oliver Wolcott (Yale 1747), was born in Litch- field, Connecticut, on November 2, 1767. He was specially distinguished for classical scholarship in College. He studied law after graduation, but was prevented by ill-health from engaging in active practice. He settled in his native town, where he held the office of Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas from 1793. He was also Clerk of the Superior Court of the County from its establishment in 1798, and Judge of the Litchfield Probate District from 1796. These offices he held until his resignation in 1836. He was also a Representative in the General Assembly in two sessions (1802-03), and a State Senator from 1810 to 1823. By virtue of his seniority in the Senate he was 520 Yale College an ex-officio member of the Corporation of the College from 1817 to 1823. He was chosen a Presidential Elector in 1808, and twice declined offers of a nomination as Governor of the State. He died in Litchfield on May 28, 1837, aged 6954 years. Judge Wolcott was a gentleman of stately manners, distinguished for his courtesy, benevolence, and hospi- tality, of sterling integrity, and uncommonly sound judg- ment. He was the prime mover in extensive manufacturing enterprises established at Wolcottville, now Torrington, Connecticut, in which his brother, Governor Oliver Wol- cott (Yale 1778), was also concerned. Two portraits are owned in the family, one of which is engraved in the Wolcott Memorial. Three of his letters are printed in that volume. He married, on October 12, 1800, Betsey, the only child of Colonel Joshua and Hannah (Huntington) Hunting- ton), of Norwich, Connecticut, who died on April 2, 1812, in her 38th year. He next married, on June 21, 1815, Sally, eldest daugh- ter of the Rev. Samuel Goodrich (Yale 1783), of Berlin, Connecticut, and widow of Amos Cooke (Yale 1791), of Danbury, Connecticut. She died in Litchfield on September 14, 1842, aged 57 years. By his first marriage he had four daughters and two sons, all of whom reached maturity. The third daughter married John P. Jackson (Princeton 1823), and the youngest daughter married Robert G. Rankin (Yale 1826). Judge Wolcott's children by his second wife were three sons (of whom one died in infancy) and one daughter. AUTHORITIES. Case, Goodrich Family, 129. Fow- ealogies, ii, 196-98. Pres. Stiles, Lit- ler, Chauncey Memorials, 167. Hoi- erary Diary, iii, 126, 129, 238. lister, Hist, of Conn., ii, 268-69. Wolcott Memorial, 151, 314-52. Huntington Family Memoir, 247-48. Woodruff, Litchfield Genealogical Salisbury, Family Histories and Gen- Register, 249, 252. Annals, 1786-87 521 Annals, 1786-87 The College year was comparatively uneventful. There was no change in the corps of tutors as arranged for at the preceding Commencement; Tutor Morse, however, was absent on a Southern tour from the beginning of the year, and his resignation of the office was received in May. The Rev. Dr. Josiah Whitney (Yale 1752), of Brooklyn, was elected a Fellow of the Corporation at Commence- ment in 1787, in place of the Rev. Stephen Johnson (Yale 1743), of Lyme, who had died in the previous November. The Rev. Manasseh Cutler (Yale 1765) passed through New Haven on his way to New York in July, 1787, and the following extracts from his published Diary are of interest : Monday, July 2 After I had waited on a barber, I paid my compliments to Dr. Stiles, the President of the college. The doctor was just coming out from his gate, going to the chapel to attend evening prayers. I begged leave to accompany him, and for the first time attended prayers in the college chapel since I took my degree. I declined a seat in the desk. The President introduced me to the stranger's pew. The students were about 160, and the several classes made a very respectable appearance. The dress and manners of the senior class were genteel and graceful. .... Inclosing the burying-ground, and erecting a number of public buildings on the public square, has greatly altered it. But the most affecting change to me is the loss of Mother Yale. Yale College was by far the most sightly building of any one that belonged to the University, and most advantageously situated. It gave an air of grandeur to the others. There are now only Con- necticut Hall, the Chapel, which is three stories, containing the Library and Cabinet, also the Dining-hall and Kitchen. These are all built of brick, but so situated as to make very little show. The city of New Haven covers a large piece of ground, a little descend- ing toward the sea, with a southern aspect. It is laid out in regular 522 Yale College squares, with a public square near the center. Its streets are toler- ably wide, and some of them ornamented with rows of trees. There is a row of trees set round the public square, which were small while I was at college, but are now large, and add much to its beauty; a row across the center has been very lately set out, in a line with the State House, two large Meeting Houses and the Grammar School. Within the square, and on the borders of others adjoining, are six steeples and cupolas on public buildings, within a very small compass of ground. These steeples, when you approach the city in whatever direction, have an agreeable effect. The houses in general are good, some of them elegant, and a great proportion of them built with brick. The streets are generally dry, but very sandy, and will, probably, never be paved, as it must be attended with great expense. The Harbor is good, and the ship- ping very considerable, principally in the coasting and West India trade. Tuesday, July 3. Breakfasted this morning with Dr. Stiles. He has four daughters, unmarried, very agreeable. . . . Immediately after breakfast, the tutors came in to invite me to the College. Dr. Stiles accompanied us. We took a view of the Library, the Philosophy Chamber, and Cabinet. The Library is small; the collection consists principally of rather antiquated authors. The Philosophical apparatus is still less valuable an air- pump, tolerably good; a reflecting telescope, wholly useless, for the large and small mirrors are covered with rust, occasioned by poking in greasy ringers ; a microscope of the compound kind, but very ancient; a miserable electrical machine; a large, homely orrery, made by one of the students ; a hydrostatic balance, and a few other articles, not worth naming. A handsome sum, however, is now being collected for purchasing a complete Philosophical apparatus. The Cabinet is a good collection, but very badly disposed. I had intended to proceed on my journey, but the time passed insensibly in the agreeable company of these gentlemen, who are truly literary characters, and I consented to tarry to dinner. Indeed I could not deny myself the pleasure of spending a little time at the place where I received my education, and from which I had been absent so many years. At ii o'clock the tutors attended their classes, and the Doctor and I returned to his house. Biographical Sketches, 1787 523 Sketches, Class of 1787 *Moses Atwater "1847 *Azel Backus, A.M., S.T.D. Neo-Caes. 1810, Coll. Hamilt. Praeses *i8i6 *Matthaeus Backus *i8o7 * Augustus Baldwin "1807 *Horatius Beardsley, A.M. *Josua Belden *i8o8 * Johannes Bishop, A.M. *i8c>3 *Enos Bliss, A.M. *i852 *Franciscus Bloodgood *i84O *Publius Vergilius Bogue, A.M. *i8s6 *Eli Bullard, A.M. "1824 *Hugo Burghardt, M.D. Harv. 1818 *:822 *Josephus Eleazarus Camp, A.M. 1792 *i838 *Silas Churchill, A.M. "1854 *Daniel Cook *i8o4 *Josua Dewey, 1789 *Ebenezer Button *Christophorus Ellery, A.M., Rerumpubl. Foed. Sen. *i84O *Guilielmus Ely, e Congr. *i8i7 *Guilielmus Ely *i847 *Nicolaus Evertson *i8o7 *Josephus Foot, M.D. 1816 *i836 *Ebenezer Gay, A.M., Tutor "1837 *Gideon Granger, Rerumpubl. Foed. Rei Vered. Curator Summus *i822 *Gaylord Griswold, e Congr. *i8(X) *Josua Hathaway *Guilielmus Hawley *Ebenezer Hunt *i8o8 *David Moody Jewett *i82i 524 Yale College *Roswell Judson, A.M. *Guilielmus Kibbe *Libertas Kimberly *Chauncaeus Langdon, A.M. Mediob. 1803, e Congr. *i830 *Daniel Lathrop, 1789 *i825 *Elija Leonard Lathrop *i843 *Gurdonus Lathrop, 1789 *i828 * Johannes Hosmer Lothrop, A.M. 1792 *i829 *Richardus McCurdy *i857 *Reuben Moss, A.M. 1791 *i8o9 ^Israel Munson *i844 *Abrahamus Nott, A.M. 1801, e Congr., Reip. Carol. Austr. Cur. Supr. Jurid. Princ. *i83 I79i- Not long after this he undertook missionary labor in Vermont, and is first traced at Mount Holly, Rutland County, where a Congregational Church was gathered, probably by his efforts, in October, 1799. He is supposed to have been ordained there, and to have continued as pastor until 1804. On March 9, 1804, the Society connected with the Con- gregational Church in New Haven, Addison County. Vermont, directed their committee to apply to him to preach as a candidate for settlement; and as the result of hearing him the Society voted on December 4 to unite with the Church in calling him to settle as pastor, on a salary of about $250. He was probably installed in January, 1805, and he was useful in his work; but soon found himself unable to do all that was expected of him in a large township with bad roads and a scattered people. Complaints began to be heard, and finally the Society voted on April 12, 1808, that he be dismissed. He continued to reside in New Haven, and in 1809-10 labored as a missionary, in the employ of the Connecticut Missionary Society, in the southern and southwestern towns of the State. He died in New Haven on February 19, 1853, aged 88 years. He married Betsey, third daughter of the Rev. Benajah Roots (Princeton 1754) and Elizabeth (Garnsey) Roots, Biographical Sketches, 1790 663 of Rutland, Vermont, who died on February 6, 1833, in her 62d year. On July 22, 1833, he married Sophia Hinman, widow of Thomas Champlin, who died on April 3, 1872, aged 86 years. He had no children by either marriage. AUTHORITIES. Bingham Genealogy, 74, 113- J- teer, i, 70; iii, 847. Root Genealogy, M. Comstock, MS. Letter, June 18, 59. 1906. Hemenway, Vt. Hist. Gazet- WILLIAM METCALF BLISS, a son of Judge Moses Bliss (Yale 1755), and brother of the Hon. George Bliss (Yale 1784), was born in Springfield, Massachusetts, on Octo- ber 23, 1770. He was admitted to the Church in Yale College, on profession of faith, in March of his Sopho- more year. In January of his Junior year he delivered a funeral oration in the College Chapel on the death of his classmate Reuben Wilcox, which does not appear to have been printed. After graduation he studied law, and settled in Troy, New York, where he engaged successfully in the practice of his profession. He was a member of the General Assembly of the State in 1811, but with this exception held no office outside the place of his residence. He was much esteemed for his legal acumen and great moral worth. He died in Troy on June 10, 1838, in his 68th year. He married, in July, 1797, Charlotte, eldest daughter of Captain Stephen Ashley, of Troy, who died on February 20, 1846, in her 69th year. Their children were four daughters and two sons, none of whom left descendants. AUTHORITIES. Bliss Genealogy, 87, 158. Pres. Trowbridge, Ashley Genealogy, 118. Stiles, Literary Diary, iii, 307, 338. 664 Yale College JOHN FAY was born in Bennington, Vermont, on May i, 1768, being the fifth child and third son of John Fay, and grandson of Captain Stephen and Ruth (Child) Fay, of Hardwick, Massachusetts, and Bennington. His father was killed in the battle of Bennington in 1777, and his mother, Mary, eldest child of Lieutenant Henry and Mary (Stone) Fiske, of Sturbridge, Massachusetts, died a fortnight later. After graduation he read law with the Hon. Samuel Hitchcock, of Burlington, Vermont, and settled in practice in that town. He was also the first postmaster of Bur- lington, and a large holder of and dealer in lands. He died in Burlington on January 8, 1809, in his 41 st year. He married in 1795 his first cousin, Susan, daughter of Dr. Jonas and Sarah (Fassett) Fay, of Bennington, by whom he had one son and two daughters. AUTHORITIES. Fay Genealogy, 34, 63, 131. Paige, Hist, of Hardwick, 372. STEPHEN FENN, the fourth son of Deacon Thomas Fenn, of Watertown, then part of Waterbury, Connecti- cut, and grandson of Thomas and Lydia (Ackley) Fenn, of Wallingford and Watertown, was born on April 16, 1769. His mother was Abi (or Abiah), youngest daughter of Richard and Anna (Fenton) Welton, of Waterbury. After graduation he studied theology, and was licensed to preach by the Hartford South Association of Ministers in June, 1791. In 1793 he emigrated to Harpersfield, Delaware County, New York, where he was ordained and installed in January, 1794, as pastor of the Presbyterian Church. Biographical Sketches, 1790 665 After a successful pastorate he was dismissed in 1829, in consequence of the Anti-Masonic excitement, he being a Mason, and refusing to sever his connection with that order. He had unusual mental and physical vigor, and was a universal favorite in the community. He died very suddenly, of apoplexy, while driving in his wagon to fulfil a preaching appointment, on September 26, 1833, in his 65th year. He married Philomela, second daughter of Samuel and Dorcas (Skinner) Southmayd, of Waterbury. Mr. Fenton is described by those who knew him as "mild in his deportment, affable in his manners, witty as well as grave in his conversation, with a mind stored with a fund of amusing anecdotes." AUTHORITIES. Anderson, Hist, of Waterbury, i, Delaware County, 225, 230. Appendix, 50, 129. Munsell. Hist, of JOHN ALFRED FOOT, the fourth child and eldest son of the Rev. John Foot (Yale 1765), of Cheshire, Connecticut, was born in Cheshire on June 2, 1774. He entered College at the opening of Sophomore year, when only thirteen years of age. After graduation he studied medicine, and early in 1794 was licensed to practice physic and surgery by the examin- ing Committee of the Connecticut Medical Society for New Haven County. He settled in Woodbridge in this county, but was almost immediately prostrated by illness, and died there on August 28, in his 2ist year. He was buried in Cheshire. AUTHORITIES. Conn. Journal, Sept. 3, 1794. Stiles, MS. Itinerary, iv, 146. Goodwin, Foote Family, 210. Pres. 666 Yale College JOHN HART FOWLER,, the only son of the Rev. Amos Fowler (Yale 1753), of Guilford, Connecticut, was born in Guilford on December 24, 1770, and was named for his grandfather, the Rev. John Hart (Yale 1703). After graduation he applied himself to the study of the law, and was probably admitted to the bar, but did not practice to much extent. While still residing in Guilford he was married, in Westbrook, then a parish of Saybrook, by the Rev. John Devotion, on July I, 1797, to Phebe Lay, of Westbrook. He finally entered the ministry, and on October 13, 1813, was ordained and installed as pastor of the Congre- gational Church in Exeter Society, in the northwestern part of Lebanon, Connecticut, where he remained until his dismission in March, 1821. On November 13, 1822, he was installed as pastor of the small Congregational Church in the mountain village of Montgomery, Hampden County, Massachusetts, where he continued until his very sudden death on March 12, 1829, in his 59th year. His widow is said to have died in 1841. A son entered the Presbyterian ministry but soon became a lawyer. AUTHORITIES. Bailey, Early Conn. Marriages, ii, land, Hist, of Western Mass., ii, 100. 120. Hampden Pulpit, 52. Hol- EDWARD DORR GRIFFIN, the second son and child of George Griffin, a well-to-do farmer of vigorous intellect, of East Haddam, Connecticut, and grandson of Lemuel and Phebe (Comstock) Griffin, of East Haddam, was born in that town on January 6, 1770. His mother was Eve, second daughter of Edmund Dorr, of Lyme, and sister of the Rev. Edward Dorr (Yale 1742). A younger brother was graduated here in 1797, and became an Biographical Sketches, 1790 667 eminent lawyer in New York City. His preparation for College was chiefly under the care of the Rev. Joseph Vaill (Dartmouth 1778), of Hadlyme, a parish in his native town. He was distinguished for scholarship in College, and at graduation was expecting to become a lawyer. From New Haven he went to the neighboring town of Derby, as principal of an academy. In the summer of 1791 he came for the first time under the influence of religious impressions, and soon after began the study of divinity under the direction of the Rev. Dr. Jonathan Edwards, of New Haven. In the spring of 1792 he united with the Congregational Church in Derby, and soon after gave up his place in the academy. Having completed his theological studies in New Haven, he was licensed to preach by the West Association of New Haven County on October 31. After preaching for four or five months in the present township of Salem, near his father's house, he went to Farmington, Connecticut, in the early part of June, 1793, as a candidate for settlement. He supplied that pulpit until December, with great ability and reputation, and was then invited to the pastorate. He accepted the invitation in April, 1794, and in May a council was called to ordain him; but a formidable opposition, chiefly con- sisting of partisans of a former candidate, appeared, and the council adjourned without action. A second council was called, but difficulties being still made, Mr. Griffin withdrew from the contest. He was ordained and installed pastor of the Congre- gational Church in New Hartford, Connecticut, on June 4, 1795, having supplied them for some months. On May 17, 1796, he married Frances, eldest daughter of the Rev. Dr. Joseph Huntington (Yale 1762), of Coventry, Connecticut, and adopted daughter of her uncle, Governor Samuel Huntington, of Norwich. 668 Yale College A succession of revivals attended his ministry in New Hartford, and he was brought into intimate relations with a group of pastors who were devoted to such measures, but in the year 1800 Mrs. Griffin's health became so much impaired that a long absence in the milder climate of New Jersey was prescribed. While thus absent a call was given him to settle in Newark as colleague pastor with the Rev. Dr. Alexander McWhorter (Princeton Coll. 1757), over the First Presbyterian Church in that town, with a very large and highly intelligent congregation. His pastoral relation to the church in New Hartford was dissolved in August, 1801, and he then accepted the call to Newark, where he was installed on October 20. The senior pastor died in July, 1807, an d in August, 1808, Mr. Griffin was honored with the degree of Doctor of Divinity from Union College. His pastorate had been markedly successful (474 persons having been admitted by him to the church), and in 1808 the Trustees of the Theological Seminary just established in, Andover, Massachusetts, offered him as a master of sacred oratory the Bartlett Professorship of Pulpit Eloquence; while shortly after he was also offered the pastorate of the new Park Street Congregational Church in Boston. For both these places he was considered as pre- eminently qualified, though it was not without a severe struggle that he came to the determination of accepting the offer first made. He preached his farewell sermon on May 28, 1809, an d on June 21 was inducted into office in Andover. His new situation was in the main congenial (though he was subjected to criticism on account of extravagance), and its duties were acceptably performed, but the church in Boston which had previously called him was unable to secure such a pastor as seemed essential, and after he had supplied them for a long period they unanimously Biographical Sketches, /7po 669 renewed their call, on February i, 1811, and he became convinced that the emergency compelled his acceptance, which he accordingly signified on May I, having already left Andover. He was installed at Boston on July 31. and the sermon on that occasion, by the Rev. Samuel Worcester, was afterwards published. In the latter part of the year 1814 he was invited to return to Newark as pastor of the Second Presbyterian Church, which had recently been formed out of the con- gregation to which he had formerly ministered. In the meantime the Park Street congregation had become embarrassed in consequence of the war, and withal were not wholly united in his support, so that he felt at liberty to accept the invitation now tendered him. He was dis- missed on April 27, 1815, and was installed at Newark on June 20. During this pastorate, besides attending with his accustomed fidelity to the duties of his charge, he devoted himself with great zeal to the establishment and support of several of the leading benevolent institutions of the day. He was, for instance, one of the founders of the American Bible Society, and active in the establishment of the United Foreign Missionary Society. In the spring of 1821 he received an invitation to the Presidency of Centre College, Kentucky, and shortly after a similar invitation to the College of Cincinnati. These were declined; but an election, in August, to the Pres- idency of Williams College, at Williamstown, Massa- chusetts, in which he had always been interested as the cradle of foreign missions, was more successful, owing to some unpropitious circumstances in Newark which had interfered with the growth of his congregation and with their ability to continue to him a competent support. The College was in a depressed state when he was inaugurated to the office of President, on November 14, 1821, the number of students being then forty-eight, 670 Yale College though afterwards gradually rising to one hundred and twenty. In February, 1825, Amherst College obtained a charter, and the attendance at Williams fell off very seriously; but Dr. Griffin applied himself to the raising of funds with success, and the future of the College was secured. He took sole charge of the Senior Class, and was an excellent teacher, though not a good disciplinarian. His health began to decline in the spring of 1833, from a slight paralytic stroke, which was followed by dropsical symptoms in August, 1834; and at length he became so enfeebled that he found himself quite inadequate to the duties of his office. He therefore tendered his resigna- tion in August, 1836, and at the end of September removed to Newark, to reside in the family of his married daughter. Mrs. Griffin died there, of dysentery, after twelve days' illness, on July 25, 1837, in her 68th year; and Dr. Griffin's death followed, from dropsy in the chest, on November 8, 1837, at the same age as his wife. Two daughters survived them, the elder being the wife of Dr. Lyndon A. Smith (Dartmouth Coll. 1817), and the younger the wife of the Rev. Dr. Robert Crawford (Williams Coll. 1836). Dr. Griffin's special eminence was in the pulpit, and particularly in seasons of revival. He was beyond ques- tion one of the most eloquent and pungent preachers of modern days. He was nearly six feet three inches in height, and his frame was in every way well proportioned. His voice was of immense compass, and peculiarly melodious and solemn. The Sermon preached at his interment by the Rev. Dr. Gardiner Spring, of New York, was afterwards published, as was also a Discourse occasioned by his death by President Hopkins of Williams College. An interesting Memoir of his Life, by the Rev. Dr. William B. Sprague (Yale Coll. 1815), of Albany, was prefixed to a post- humous collection of his Sermons in 1839. Biographical Sketches, //po 671 A briefer Memoir was contributed to the American Quarterly Register in 1841, by the Rev. Ansel Nash (Williams Coll. 1809) ; and an article containing Per- sonal Reminiscences by the Rev. Dr. Samuel H. Cox, to the Presbyterian Quarterly Review, in 1858. A very interesting volume of Recollections of Rev. E. D. Griffin, was written for the Massachusetts Sabbath School Society by the Rev. Parsons Cooke (Williams Coll. 1822) in 1855 (12, pp. 205). He published: 1. The Kingdom of Christ: a Missionary Sermon [from Col. i, 16], preached before the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church, in Philadelphia, May 23 d , 1805. Philadelphia, 1805. 8, pp. 30. [A. C. A. B. Ath. B. Publ. C. H. S. Harv. M. H. S. N. Y. H. S. Y. C. Later editions were published, in 1808 and 1821. The sermon was in advance of the age, and gave an impetus to the whole modern missionary movement. 2. A Sermon [from Ps. cxii, 6], preached July 22, 1807, at the Funeral of the Rev. Alexander Macwhorter, D.D., Senior Pastor of the Presbyterian Church, in Newark, New-Jersey. New- York, 1807. 8, pp. iv, 52 + pi. [A. A. S. A. C. A. B. Ath. B. Publ. Brown Univ. C. H. S. Harv. M. H. S. N. Y. H. S. U. T. S. Y. C. 3. A Farewell Sermon [from Acts xx, 32] ; preached May 28, 1809, at Newark, New-Jersey. Newark, 1809. 8, pp. 30. [A. C. A. B. Ath. B. Publ. C. H. S. Harv. M. H. S. U. T. S. Y. C. This was reprinted in the same year, at Newburyport, and also at Pittsfield. Some copies are accompanied with an engraved portrait of the author, from a painting by Wood. 4. An Oration delivered June 21, 1809, on the day of the author's Induction into the office of Bartlet Professor of Pulpit Eloquence in the Divinity College, at Andover. Boston. 8, pp. 27. [A. A. S. A. C. A. B. Ath. B. Publ. Brown Univ. C. H. S. Harv. M. H. S. U. T. S. Y. C. 672 Yale College 5. A Sermon [from 2 Chron. vi, 18], preached Jan. 10, 1810, at the Dedication of the Church in Park Street, Boston. Boston. 8, PP- 34- [A. A. S. A. C. A. B. Ath. B. Publ. Bowdoin Coll Brown Univ. C. H. S. M. H. S. U. T. S. Y. C. 6. A Sermon [from Hebr. xiii, 16], preached August n, 1811, for the benefit of the Portsmouth Female Asylum ; also, with some omissions, for the Roxbury Charitable Society, Sep. 18, 1811. Bos- ton, 1811. 8, pp. 47. [A. C. A. B. Ath. Brown Univ. Harv. U. T. S. Y. C. The same. Second Edition. Boston, 1812. 8, pp. 24. [B. Ath. Bowdoin Coll. Harv. M. H. S. N. Y. H. S. Y. C. 7. A Series of Lectures, delivered in Park Street Church, Bos- ton, on Sabbath Evening. Boston, 1813. 8, pp. 327. [B. Publ. Bowdoin Coll The same. Second Edition. Boston, 1813. 8, pp. 327. [Bowdoin Coll. N. Y. H. S. U. T. S. Y. C. Another edition appeared in 1819. 8. A Sermon [from Luke ii, 34-35], preached October 20, 1813, at Sandwich, Massachusetts, at the Dedication of the Meeting House, recently erected for the use of the Calvinistic Congrega- tional Society in that town. Boston, 1813. 8, pp. 35. [A. A. S. ' A. C. A. Brown Univ. C. H. S. Harv. N. Y. H. S. Y. C. 9. A Sermon [from Acts ix, 6], in which is attempted a full and explicit Answer to the common and highly important question, "What wilt thou have me to do ?" delivered in the ordinary course, on one of the Sabbaths in August, 1814, to the Congregation in Park Street, Boston. Boston, 1814. 8, pp. 20. [U. T. S. Y. C. Later editions appeared, as at Brookfield in 1819, and at Boston in 1824, and at Northampton in 1826. 10. Living to God: a Sermon [from Rom. xiv, 7-8], preached June 16, 1816, at the Brick Presbyterian Church in the City of New- York. New-York, 1816. 8, pp. 22. [A. C. A. B. Ath. C. H. S. N. Y. H. S. U. T. S. Y. C. 11. An Address to the Public, on the subject of the African School, lately established under the care of the Synod of New-York and New-Jersey. By the Directors of the Institution. New- York, 1816. 8, pp. 8. [U. T.S. Biographical Sketches, 1790 673 12. A Plea for Africa. A Sermon [from Ps. Ixviii, 31] preached October 26, 1817, in the First Presbyterian Church in the City of New-York, before the Synod of New- York and New-Jersey, at the request of the Board of Directors of the African School established by the Synod. New- York, 1817. 8, pp. 76. [A. A. S. A. C. A. B. Ath. B. Publ C. H. S. Harv. N. Y. H. S. U. T. S. Y. C. Including valuable statistics on the negroes. 13. An Humble Attempt to reconcile the differences of Christians respecting the Extent of the Atonement, by showing that the con- troversy which exists on the subject is chiefly verbal. To which is added an Appendix, exhibiting the Influence of Christ's Obedience. New- York, 1819. 12, pp. 4/14. [A. A. S. A. C. A. Bowdoin Coll. U. T. S. Y. C. A work of abstract metaphysical reasoning; it was reprinted in 1859 m Professor Edwards A. Park's The Atonement, pp. 137-427. 14. Foreign Missions. A Sermon [from Mark xvi, 15], preached May 9, 1819, at the Anniversary of the United Foreign Missionary Society, in the Garden-Street Church, New- York. New- York, 1819. 8, pp. 27. [A. A. S. B. Publ. Brit. Mus. C. H. S. N. Y. H. S. U. T. S. 15. The Claims of Seamen. A Sermon [from Luke x, 37], preached November 7, 1819, in the Brick Church, New-York, for the benefit of the Marine Missionary Society of that city. New- York, 1819. 8, pp. 22. [B. Ath. C. H. S. Y. C. 16. Thy Kingdom come. Sermon before the Foreign Mission Society of Boston, January, 1820. Boston, 1820. 8. [B. Ath. 17. An Appeal to the Presbyterian Church on the subject of the New Test. 1820. pp. 27. [A. C. A. Anonymous. This has reference to a test of orthodoxy inserted in the plan of the African School ; it was answered, the same year, by an anonymous pamphlet, The Appeal not sustained. 18. An Address delivered to the Class of Graduates of Williams College, at the Commencement, Sep. 4, 1822. Pittsfield, 1822. 8, pp. 12. [Harr. M. H. S. R. I. Hist. Soc. U. T. S. Y. C. 19. The Greek Revolution: an Address, April, 1824. Boston, 1824. 8. [B.Ath. 43 674 Yale College 20. An Address delivered on the I3th May, 1824, at the Anni- versary of the Presbyterian Education Society in the City of New- York. New- York, 1824. 8, pp. 9. [U.T.S. This occasioned the sarcastic pamphlet by Abraham Bishop (Yale 1778), noticed above on page 23. 21. An Address delivered at the Anniversary of the American Society for meliorating the Condition of the Jews, in the City of New- York, May 14, 1824. New- York, 1824. 8, pp. 8. [F. C. 22. An Address delivered before the American Education Society, in Boston, May 23, 1825. Boston, 1825. 8, pp. 15. [A. A. S. A. C. A. U. S, U. T. S. Y. C. 23. A Sermon [from Jer. iii, 15] on the Art of Preaching, delivered before the Pastoral Association of Massachusetts, in Bos- ton, May 25, 1825. Boston, 1825. 8, pp. 35. [A. C. A. B. Ath. Brown Univ. U. T. S. Y. C. This gives practical rules for preaching and the composition of sermons. A second edition appeared the same year. 24. A Sermon [from Matth. xxviii, 18-20] preached September, 14, 1826, before the American Board of Missions, at Middletown, Connecticut. Middletown, 1826. 8, pp. 27. [A. C. A. B. Publ. Brown Univ. C. H. S. U. T. S. This was also published in The National Preacher for September, 1826. 25. A Sermon [from Eph. v, 17], preached September 2, 1827, before the Candidates for the Bachelor's Degree in Williams Col- lege, Williamstown, 1827. 8, pp. 23. [A. C. A. Brown Univ. C. H. S. U. T. S. Y. C. 26. A Sermon [from Nehem. ii, 18] preached before the Annual Convention of the Congregational Ministers of Massachusetts, in Boston, May 29, 1828. Boston, 1828. 8, pp. 24. [A. C. A. B. Publ. Brown Univ. Harv. N. Y. H. S. U. T. S. Y. C. 27. A Sermon [from Deut. viii, 2] preached September 2, 1828, at the Dedication of the New Chapel connected with Williams College, Massachusetts. Williamstown, 1828. 8, pp. 37. [A. C. A. C. H. S. Harv, N. Y. H. S. ' U. T. S. Y. C. 28. Letter to Deacon Asahel Hurlbut on the subject of Open Com- munion. 1829. 12. Biographical Sketches, i/po 675 A Review of this Letter (with a reprint of the text) was pub- lished by Professor Henry J. Ripley, of the Newton Theological Institution, in 1829; the text was also included in J. G. Fuller's Conversations on Communion, second edition, Boston, 1832. 29. An Address at the Fifth Anniversary of the American Sunday School Union. Philadelphia. May 26, 1829. [U. T. S. 30. An Address delivered May 26, 1829, at the Second Anniver- sary of the American Bible Class Society, in the City of Philadelphia : on the Author's taking the chair as President of the Institution. Williamstown, 1830. 8, pp. n. [A. A. S. A. C. A. B. Ath. B. PubL U. T. S. 31. God Exalted and Creatures humbled by the Gospel: A Ser- mon, preached in Murray Street Church, New York. 1830. 32. A Letter to the Rev. Dr. William B. Sprague; published in the Appendix to his Volume of Lectures on Revivals. Albany, 1832, 8, pp. 17. [C. H. S. U. T. S. Y. C. 33. A Letter to the Rev. Ansel D. Eddy, of Canandaigua, N. Y., on the narrative of the late Revivals of Religion, in the Presbytery of Geneva. Williamstown, 1832. 8, pp. 12. [A. C. A. B. Ath. Harv. U. T. S. Y. C. 34. A Letter to a Friend on the connexion between New Doc- trines and the New Measures. Albany, 1833. 8, pp. 8. [A. C. A. B. Publ. U. T. S. 35. The Doctrine of Divine Efficiency, defended against certain Modern Speculations. New-York, 1833. I2 > PP- 221 - [A. C. A. U. T. S. Y. C. Chiefly in criticism of the New-Haven theology. 36. The Causal Power in Regeneration proper direct upon the mind, and not Exerted through the Medium of Motives. Argued upon the principles of the Exercise, though the author believes in a Temper or Nature anterior to Exercise . . North Adams, 1834. 12, pp. 26. [B. Ath. U. T. S. An answer to strictures by David N. Lord on the last-named publication. The following volumes were published after his death : 37. Sermons, to which is prefixed a Memoir of his Life, by Wil- liam B. Sprague, D.D. New-York, 1838. 2 volumes. 8, pp. vi, 597; vi, 596. [A. C. A. B. Publ. U. T. S. Y. C. 676 Yale College Containing sixty sermons, which had been collected and prepared for the press by himself. A striking engraving is prefixed, from a portrait by Waldo & Jewett. 38. Sermons, not before published, on various practical subjects. New- York, 1844. 8, pp. 328. [A. C. A. U. T. S. Y. C. Containing sixty sermons, edited by the Rev. Dr. Sprague ; the volume was originally published in pamphlet parts. Several other sermons were contributed to The National Preacher; also, letters descriptive of revivals in his parishes, to The Connect- icut Evangelical Magazine, 1800-01, and to The Panoplist, 1808. AUTHORITIES. Amer. Quarterly Register, xiii, 343, 365-68, 35- Memorial of An- 365-85. Centennial Anniversary of clover Seminary, 1859, 210-19. Pres- Litchfield County Consociations, 109- byterian Quarterly Review, vi, 12. Durfee, Biogr. Annals of Wil- 587-604. Sprague, Annals of the Hams College, 27-31. Hill, Hist, of Amer. Pulpit, iv, 26-43. Walworth, the Old South Church, Boston, ii, Hyde Genealogy, i, 196; ii, 1000-02. SAMUEL HASKELL was born in 1762, probably in Har- vard, Worcester County, Massachusetts, from which town he entered College in September, 1786. He had served in the army of the Revolution for a few months in the year 1781. After graduation he was employed for two years as a tutor in Rutgers College, at New Brunswick, New Jersey, where he was given a Master's degree in 1794. In 1794 he was admitted to deacon's orders in the Protestant Episcopal Church by Bishop Provoost, of New York, and was inducted into the rectorship of St. Peter's Church, in the manor of Cortlandt, now in Peekskill, Westchester County, New York. He was advanced to the priesthood by Bishop Provoost in 1795, and in August, 1797, was called to the rector- ship of Christ Church in Rye, in the same county. He accepted this call, and remained at Rye until his resignation in April, 1801. Biographical Sketches, 1790 677 In May, 1801, he became rector of Christ Church, Boston, Massachusetts, but resigned this charge in Sep- tember, 1803, when he accepted an invitation, given in the previous July, to become rector of St. Ann's Church, Gardiner, Maine, on a salary of $500. From Gardiner he was recalled in 1809 with gratitude and affection to his old parish in Rye, where he began to officiate in June, and where he continued Until May, 1823, when he retired permanently from active service. The rest of his life was spent in New Rochelle, in the same county, where he died on August 24, 1845, at the age of 83. ^_^ AUTHORITIES. Baird, Hist, of Rye, 340. Bolton, 598-99. Hanson, Hist, of Gardiner, Hist, of the Prot. Episc. Church in 252. Mass. Soldiers and Sailors of Westchester County, 337-39, 342-44, the Revolution, vii, 429. JOHN INGERSOLL, the seventh of nine children of Esquire John Ingersoll, of Westfield, Massachusetts, and grandson of Thomas and Sarah (Dewey) Ingersoll, of Westfield, was born on August 12, 1769. His mother was Margaret, daughter of Colonel David Moseley, of Westfield. After graduation he began the study of law in West- field, and continued it in the office of the Hon. Caleb Strong, of Northampton, where he was admitted to practice in September, 1797. He settled in practice in his native town, and was well established by 1800, when he was married, on July I, in Northampton, to Elizabeth, the only child of John and Hester (Stephens) Martin, of the Island of Antigua. Her father was Collector of the Port, and had sent his daughter to New England in 1798, to escape the yellow fever, to which he himself soon fell a victim. On the organization of Hampden County in 1812, Mr. Ingersoll was appointed Clerk of the Courts for the 678 Yale College County, but he continued to reside in Westfield until November, 1814, when he removed to Springfield, where he lived until his death on December 26, 1840, in his 72d year. His widow died in Springfield on January 31, 1868, in her SQth year. Their children were five daughters and two sons. One daughter married Dr. Worthington Hooker (Yale 1825). Mr. Ingersoll was commonly known among his neigh- bors as "Honest John," and the epithet indicates his reputation as a faithful official and citizen. He was a valued member of the First Congregational Church in Springfield. AUTHORITIES. Bates, Address at the Dedication ley, The Ingersolls of Hampshire, of the Court House, Springfield, 45. 35, 42-45. Westfield Bi-Centennial Chapin, Old Springfield, 233. Rip- Jubilee, 169, 203-04. SAMUEL JONES was born on Long Island on May v 26, 1770, being the second son of Samuel Jones, a distin- guished lawyer of New York City, who was known in his later life as "the Father of the New York Bar," and the grandson of William and Phebe (Jackson) Jones, of West Neck, in the town of Huntington. His mother was Cor- nelia, daughter of Elbert Herring, of New York City. Judge Thomas Jones (Yale 1750) was a first cousin of the graduate's father. Samuel Jones, Junior, entered Columbia College in 1786, but in consequence of ill health left that College, and in April, 1789, entered the Junior class at Yale. After graduation he studied law (together with DeWitt Clinton) in his father's office, and then settled in practice in New York. He was a member of the State Assembly for three sessions, from January, 1812, to April, 1814, and was Recorder of the City of New York in 1823. Biographical Sketches, 1790 679 He was made Chancellor of the State Court of Chancery by Governor Clinton, in January, 1826, and served until April, 1828, when the Superior Court of New York City was established, and he received the appoint- ment of Chief Judge. This office he resigned in May, 1847. The State Constitution of 1846 provided for the election of Judges by the people ; and under this provision he was chosen in June, 1847, a Justice of the Supreme Court for the district of New York. By allotment he became Judge of the Court of Appeals, to January i, 1849. On the expiration of his term, in January, 1850, at the age of eighty, he resumed practice at the bar, and was actively engaged in professional life till within about two months of his death, which occurred at the house of his brother, in Cold Spring, Long Island, on August 9, 1853, in his 84th year. He was active in the councils of the Episcopal Church, and remarkable to the last for his interest in all matters of social and public importance. He was the first President of the Union Club (1836). His distinguished professional eminence was recognized by the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws, conferred on him by Columbia College in 1826 and again by Union Col- lege in 1841. An engraving from his portrait is given in Wilson's Memorial History of New York City. Chancellor Jones married on January 27, 1816, Cath- arine, daughter of Philip J. and Sarah (Rutsen) Schuyler, and granddaughter of General Philip Schuyler. Mrs. Jones died on November 20, 1829, aged 36 years. Their only son, bearing his father's name, was gradu- ated at Columbia College in 1845, and reached distinction in his father's profession. Four daughters also survived him, of whom the eldest married the Rev. Samuel Seabury, D.D. ; the second married the Rev. Isaac Peck (Yale 1821) ; the third was 68o Yale College the Reverend Mother General of the Convent of the Sacred Heart; and the youngest entered a Protestant sisterhood. AUTHORITIES. Appleton, Cyclopaedia of Amer. T. Jones, Hist, of N. Y. during the Biography, iii, 472. Bench and Bar Revolution, i, Ixxi. Pres. Stiles, of N. Y., i, 376. Miss Catharine S. Literary Diary, iii, 350. IVilson, Jones, MS. Letter, Dec. 17, 1906. Memorial Hist, of N. Y., iii, 373. SAMUEL JUDSON, the fourth child and eldest son of Benjamin and Anna (Camp) Judson, of Woodbury, Connecticut, and grandson of Isaac and Rebecca (Hollis- ter) Judson, of Woodbury, was born on December 8, 1767. He -united with the church in Yale College, on profession of faith, in March of his Sophomore year. After graduation he studied divinity with the Rev. Dr. Nathanael Emmons (Yale 1767), and was unanimously called in the summer of 1792 to the pastorate of the Con- gregational Church in Uxbridge, Worcester County, Massachusetts, at an annual salary of 75 (or $400). He accepted the call, and was ordained and installed on October 17, 1792. For nearly forty years, in perfect health, he retained the love and confidence of the people of his charge, until com- pelled by illness to ask a dismission in March, 1832. His successor was ordained on June 6 in that year; and his own death followed, on November n, at the age of 65. His tombstone describes him as "the faithful and beloved pastor" of his church, who "after a life of purity and benevolence, died in the faith and hope of the gospel." The historian of the town calls him "a man of remark- able conscientiousness, rare good nature, and much native common sense." He married on May 28, 1797, Sarah (or Sally), daughter of Walter P. and Elizabeth (Norris) Bartlett, of Salem, Massachusetts, by whom he had three sons and Biographical Sketches, //po 68 1 two daughters. His wife survived him. The eldest son was graduated at Brown University in 1818, and became a physician, but died before his father. The eldest daughter married the Rev. Albert Cole (Bowdoin Coll. 1834). Mr. Judson sympathized with the evangelical churches in the period of the Unitarian division, but his personality held his church united until the end of his active life. He was conscientiously benevolent, and gave in his lifetime $1000 to found a scholarship for the education of pious young men. His estate at his death amounted to a little over $20,000. A sermon occasioned by his death, preached by his successor, the Rev. David A. Grosvenor (Yale 1826), was afterwards published. AUTHORITIES. Amer. Quart. Register, x, 129, 141- of Woodbury, i, 445, 594. Emmons, 42. Blake, Hist, of the Mendon Works, i, 255. Hist, of Worcester Association, 138. Chapin, Address County (1879), ii, 429. Pres. Stiles, at Uxbridge, 33-34. Cothren, Hist. Literary Diary, iii, 307. JOSEPH KIRKLAND, the eldest child of Joseph and Hannah Kirkland, was born in Newent Society, in the present town of Lisbon, then part of Norwich, Connecti- cut, on January 18, 1770. His father was a son of the Rev. Daniel Kirkland (Yale 1720), and his mother was the eldest daughter of Matthew Perkins, and a sister of Enoch Perkins (Yale 1781). He studied law after graduation with the Hon. Zeph- aniah Swift (Yale 1778), of Windham, and began practice in 1794 in the village of New Hartford, Oneida County, New York, being attracted to that neighborhood through his uncle, the Rev. Samuel Kirkland (Princeton Coll. 1765), the Indian Missionary. His industry and strict integrity soon brought him abundant business and reputation, and in 1804-05 he was 682 Yale College chosen by the Federalist party as a representative of the County in the State Assembly for two Sessions. From February, 1813, to February, 1816, he discharged with ability and faithfulness the duties of District Attor- ney for the sixth district of the State, comprising seven counties. In 1813 he transferred his residence to Utica, and for thirty years was prominently identified with the pros- perity and public enterprises of that city. He was again sent to the Legislature in 1818 and in 1820-21, but vacated his seat in the latter year to serve for one term (1821-23) in the United States Congress. After his return he was again elected to the Assembly of 1825. He was the first mayor under the city charter, for the year 1832-33, and again held the office from 1834 to 1836. During his term of office Utica was visited by the cholera, and the boldness and energy of his character had an unexpected scope for their manifestation. General Kirkland (to use the title by which he was latterly known, derived from his service in the militia) died at his home in Utica on February 2, 1844, aged 74 years. A portrait, taken in his old age, is reproduced in Dr. Bagg's Pioneers of Utica. He married Sarah Backus, born July 29, 1777, the youngest child of Major Ebenezer and.Mercy (Edwards) Backus, of Windham, Connecticut, and a sister of DeLucena Backus (Yale 1792), by whom he had twelve children, nine of whom lived to maturity. Three sons were graduates of Hamilton College, in 1816, 1818, and 1837, respectively. One daughter married the Hon. William J. Bacon (Hamilton 1822), and another married Charles Tracy (Yale 1832). AUTHORITIES. W. J. Bacon, Early Bar of Oneida, kins, Perkins Family, pt. 3, 36. 17-20. Bagg, Pioneers of Utica, M. E. Perkins, Old Families of 343-47. Jones, Annals of Oneida Norwich, i, 15. Weaver, Genealogy County, 37, 41, 511-12. G. A. Per- of Ancient Windham, 62. Biographical Sketches, 1790 683 BENJAMIN MAVERICK MUMFORD, the youngest of eight children of Thomas Mumford, of Groton and Norwich, Connecticut, by his first wife, Catharine, sister of Nicoll Havens (Yale 1753), and grandson of Captain Thomas and Abigail (Chesebrough) Mumford, of Groton, was born in Groton on July 28, 1772. In 1793 he settled in New York City as an insurance broker, and was married, June 19, 1802, at the house of James C. Duane, Esq., in Duanesburgh, Schenectady County, New York, by the Rev. Dr. John B. Romeyn, to Harriet, youngest child of Henry and Mary (Myer) Bowers, of Cambridge, Massachusetts, and New York City. He was one of the founders of the New England Society of New York in 1805. From 1806 to 1811 he held a commission as Major in the militia. He continued in New York until 1815, but about that date removed to Schenectady, where he was engaged in business until his death, on March 20, 1843, m ms 7 Ist year. His wife survived him until August 17, 1868, being then in her 87th year. They had four sons and six daughters, but two of the sons and four of the daughters died in infancy. AUTHORITIES. Mallmann, Hist, of Shelter Island, 190-92, 223. 241, 245. Mumford Memoirs, 134, THOMAS MUMFORD, fourth son of David Mumford, of New London, Connecticut, and a first cousin of his class- mate just noticed, was born on July 13, 1770. His mother was Rebecca, eldest daughter of General Gurdon Sal- tonstall (Yale 1725), of New London. He won a Berkeley Scholarship at graduation. He studied law with Judge Samuel Jones, of New York 684 Yale College City, the father of his classmate, and on January 29, 1795, married in Litchfield, Connecticut, Mary Sheldon, daugh- ter of Dr. Reuben Smith (Yale 1757). Just before this he had begun the practice of his profession in Aurora, Cayuga County, New York, and in 1800 he settled per- manently in the neighboring town of Cayuga. He was for many years connected with the militia, and obtained the rank of Colonel in 1819. He died in Cayuga on December 13, 1831, aged 6i l / 2 years. His widow died in New York City, on September I, 1840, aged nearly 67 years. They had five sons and four daughters, of whom two sons and a daughter died early. The eldest son was gradu- ated at Yale in 1814, and the youngest at Union College in 1824. One daughter married Samuel D. Dakin (Hamil- ton Coll. 1821). AUTHORITIES. Mumford Memoirs, 139, 179-85. Turner, Hist, of Phelps and Gor- Pres. Stiles, Literary Diary, iii, 392. ham's Purchase, 592-94. ASAHEL STRONG NORTON, third child and eldest son of Colonel Ichabod Norton, of Farmington, Connecticut, and grandson of Thomas Norton, of Farmington, was born on September 20, 1765. His mother was Ruth, sister of the Rev. Dr. Cyprian Strong (Yale 1763). One of his sisters married the Rev. William Robinson (Yale 1763), and a brother was graduated at Yale in 1804. He was prepared for College by the Rev. Dr. Nathan Perkins, of West Hartford. In July of his Junior year he delivered in the College Chapel a Funeral Oration on a deceased classmate, Charles Kingsbury. After graduation he pursued theological studies, partly under the direction of his uncle, Dr. Strong, and partly under the Rev. Dr. Smalley, of New Britain. He was Biographical Sketches, 1790 685 licensed to preach by the South Association of Hartford County in June, 1792. A Congregational church having been gathered in 1791 in the village of Clinton, which is part of the township of Kirkland, in Oneida County, New York, by the Rev. Dr. Jonathan Edwards, of New Haven, Mr. Norton was invited, upon Dr. Edwards's recommendation, in October, 1792, to preach to them as a candidate for settlement. He accepted the invitation, and on March 25, 1793, received a call to become their pastor, on a salary of 100. Though the country was new, and the field of labor in some respects difficult, he felt constrained to accept, and was accordingly ordained and installed on the i8th of the fol- lowing September, over a church of 27 members. For forty years he devoted himself faithfully and effi- ciently to this charge, and reaped the fruit of his toil. During his ministry over seven hundred members were added to the church; special seasons of revival occurred in 1799-1801 and 1831-32. He received the honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity from Union College in 1815. He was dismissed at his own request in November, 1833. Probably one cogent reason was the introduction of "new measures," as they were termed, in connection with revivals, with which he was too cautious to be entirely in sympathy. He was naturally conservative in temperament, and free from all ostentation. After his retirement he continued to reside on his farm near the village, and remained an object of love and veneration to the whole community. He died in Clinton on May 10, 1853, in his 88th year. He married, on January 10 [or 19], 1795, Mary Clap, fourth daughter of the Rev. Timothy Pitkin (Yale 1747), of Farmington, who died on September n, 1839, aged nearly 70 years. Their children were four sons and four daughters. One son was graduated at Hamilton College in 1828. Professor John Norton Pomeroy (Hamilton 1847) was a grandson. 686 Yale College Dr. Norton was one of the founders of Hamilton Col- lege, and a member of its Corporation until his retirement in 1833. His only publication was : A Sermon [from Ps. cxlv, 2-4], delivered in Clinton, on the Pub- lick Thanksgiving, December 6, 1820. Utica, 1821. 8, pp. 19. [Brit. Mus. Harv. Y. C. The sermon is largely historical with relation to the village of Clinton. AUTHORITIES. Dwight, Strong Family, i, 289, County, 183-86. Pitkin Genealogy, 20/1-95. Gridley, Hist, of Kirkland, 27, 52. Sprague, Annals of the 93-106. Jones, Annals of Oneida Amer. Pulpit, ii, 332-36. AMMI ROGERS, son of Thomas Rogers, of Branford, Connecticut, and grandson of Josiah and Lydia (Goodsell) Rogers, of Branford, was born on May 26, 1770. His mother was Rebecca, daughter of Abigail and Mary (Bartholomew) Hobart, of New London and Branford. While in College he became an Episcopalian; and on graduation he began the study of divinity in Middletown, Connecticut, as an inmate of the family of the Rev. Abra- ham Jarvis (Yale 1761), afterwards Bishop. Being detected there in a flagrant act of immorality, he was obliged to leave the house, and for a very short time studied under the direction of the Rev. Dr. Richard Mans- field, of Derby, and the Rev. Edward Blakeslee, of North Haven. Having learned, however, that Bishop Seabury would decline to ordain him, he went in 1791 to Northern New York, and for some months officiated as lay-reader in the churches at Schenectady and Ballston. On June 24, 1792, he was ordained deacon in New York City by Bishop Provoost, partly on the strength of a testimonial from Connecticut, which was afterwards shown to be fraudu- lent. Biographical Sketches, 1790 687 He then returned to Saratoga County, and for nine years labored diligently as Rector of churches in Ballston and Milton, and Missionary throughout the County, being advanced to the priesthood by Bishop Provoost in New York City on October 19, 1794. His zeal and energy in his work produced lasting results in that neighborhood. In 1794 he married Margaret, only daughter of Joshua and Margaret (Brintnal) Bloore, an English couple who had settled in Waterford, in Saratoga County. She died in the late summer of 1800, in her 26th year, leaving three children. He was a man of pleasing appearance and insinuating address, and a very popular preacher. He interested him- self in public affairs and was one of the original trustees of Union College, at Schenectady, in 1795. He was assiduous in attendance at the diocesan conventions, and in 1799 contrived to secure an election as a delegate to the General Convention. Soon after his wife's death some unpleasant rumors about his integrity and moral character became current; and although his hold upon his parishes was unimpaired, he decided to leave the neighborhood, and in the midsum- mer of 1801 he returned to his native town. He took charge immediately of the Episcopal parishes in Branford, Wallingford, and East Haven, but was noti- fied, by vote of the clergy of the diocese, that he must produce testimonials from the Bishop and Standing Com- mittee of the Diocese of New York before being admitted a member of Convocation. Testimonials were procured but they proved unsatisfac- tory; and as he conducted himself in a defiant and offen- sive manner, especially towards Bishop Jarvis, the Bishop was unanimously requested by the clergy to forbid his officiating in the Diocese. A circular to this effect was issued on June n, 1804, to which he at once published a reply. 688 Yale College At the preceding Easter he had accepted an engagement for six months in the wealthy parish of Stamford; and thus acquired sufficient influence to encourage him to further measures. He justified his attitude towards the Bishop on the ground of persecution, because of his anti- federal bias in politics. The question of his diocesan responsibility (whether to New York or Connecticut) was still in abeyance; and in September, 1804, he carried the case before the House of Bishops. That body pronounced his conduct "insulting, refractory & schismatical in the highest degree," and expressed the opinion that he was amenable to the authority of Connecti- cut, and further that he deserved the censure of degrada- tion from the ministry. Accordingly Bishop Jarvis pronounced a sentence of degradation, which was unanimously approved by the Con- vocation of the Diocese on October 3. This aroused the friends of Mr. Rogers to greater opposition, and a majority of the Stamford parish elected him formally to the rectorship. The minority sued him for trespass, and a long litigation ensued, in which the courts practically held that the Bishop's sentence of degradation was not complete. Early in 1810 Rogers removed to Greenfield, in Sara- toga County, New York, where he organized a parish. While there, in April, 1811, he brought a suit against Bishop Jarvis before the Circuit Court of the United States for slander; but when the trial came on the wit- nesses whom he had expected failed him, and he was non-suited and charged with the costs. Soon after this he quitted Greenfield, and returned to Connecticut, where he secured employment at once as supply of the church in Pettipaug, now Essex, whence he went in 1813 to Hebron. Bishop Jarvis died in May, 1813; and during the next Biographical Sketches, i/po 689 four years, before another Bishop was consecrated, Mr: Rogers was very active in extending the Church in Eastern Connecticut. To his great chagrin, however, Bishop Hobart of New York, when in temporary charge of the diocese, in 1817, refused to recognize him as a clergyman. In January, 1818, he was charged with having seduced a young woman in Griswold, Connecticut, and having procured an abortion. The case came to trial in October, 1820, and he was adjudged guilty and sentenced to imprisonment for two years, the sentence being lightened in mercy to his children. A sensational pamphlet of 56 pages descriptive of the trial was published. He served his .term in jail at Norwich, and then wrote and published a history of his life, in which he endeavored to show the injustice of his conviction. He traveled through Connecticut, Vermont, and New Hampshire, selling copies of his book, and was afterwards for some years in the northern part of Saratoga County, New York, preaching where he could get an audience; meantime the Bishops of the diocese repeatedly advertised him as a deposed clergyman, and cautioned their parishes to give him no credence. At one time he became an agent for a Life Insurance Company. Two of his children grew to maturity: a son, who became a Methodist minister, and a daughter, who married and setted in Saratoga County. A grandson entered the Episcopal ministry. At last he took up his residence with his daughter, in Milton, Ulster County, New York, where he died on April 10, 1852, aged nearly 82 years. He published : i. The Constitution & Canons of the Episcopal Church, relative to the discipline of clergyman ; the Bishop's Vows of Office, rela- tive to discipline: the several petitions and documents relative to 44 690 Yale College the Rev. Ammi Rogers ; and the ecclesiastical proceedings thereon, by Gary Leeds & Samuel Pennoyer, Wardens of the Episcopal Church in Stamford. 1812. 8, pp. 32. [Y. C. Without any author's name, but evidently compiled by Rogers. 2. Memoirs of the Rev. Ammi Rogers, A.M., a Clergyman of the Episcopal Church, . . persecuted in the State of Connecticut, on account of religion and politics, for almost twenty years and finally falsely accused and imprisoned in Norwich Gaol for two years . . . 1824. 12, pp. 264. [Watkinson Libr. Y. C. The same. Second Edition. Schenectady, 1826. sq. 16, pp. 272. \Harv. Y. C. The same. Third Edition : with additions, omissions and alter- ations. Middlebury, Vt., 1830. 12, pp. 268. [B. Publ. Brit. Mus. Horn. U. S. Y. C. The same. Fourth Edition. Concord, N. H.,- 1832. 12, pp. 264. [B. Publ. N. Y. Publ. Libr. The same. Fifth Edition. Concord, 1833. 12, pp. 264. [Y. C The same. Sixth Edition. Troy, N. Y'., 1834. 12, pp. 264. The same. Ninth Edition. Watertown, N. Y., 1848. 12. The volume is written in a bitter and unchristian spirit, and in several important particulars gives a false impression by the suppres- sion of facts. AUTHORITIES. Beardsley, Hist, of the Church in 63, 65-70, 73-74, 93, 184-86, 190. Conn., ii, 29-42, 47-54, 154-59, 447~ White, Memoirs of the Episcopal 52. Conn. Convocation Records, 59, Church, 188-90, 199-200, 353-54. JAMES BANKS ROOT, the seventh child and fifth son of the Hon. Jesse Root (Princeton Coll. 1750), of Coventry, Connecticut, was born on May 20, 1770. An elder brother was graduated here in 1782. After graduation he studied medicine with Dr. Erastus Sergeant, of Stockbridge, Massachusetts, whose daughter Martha he married on June 8, 1797. He seems to have settled at first in Burlington, Vermont, but soon removed thence to Athens, near Catskill New Biographical Sketches, 1790 691 York, where he died on February 28, 1813, in his 43d year. His early and lamented death was the direct consequence of exposure during the prevalence of an epidemic in the town. His widow died in Stockbridge, on March 15, 1821, aged 47 years. Their children were four sons and two daughters. Austin C. Dunham (Yale 1854) is a grandson. Dr. Root is represented by tradition as a skilful physician, of courtly manners of the old school. AUTHORITIES. Dwight, Strong Family, i, 326, 329-30. Root Genealogy, 144, 192. AARON SMITH, the eldest child of Major-General David and Ruth Smith, of Northbury Parish, in Waterbury, now Plymouth, Connecticut, was born on April 19, 1771. A brother was graduated here in 1806, and became an Episcopal clergyman. After graduation he studied law, and settled in Litch- field, Connecticut, where he had a respectable career as a lawyer and merchant. He was one of the Representatives of the town in the General Assembly at eleven sessions between 1808 and 1814. He also attained the rank of Colonel in the militia. He died in Litchfield on September 28, 1834, in his 64th year. He married Amanda, daughter of the Rev. Simon Waterman (Yale 1759), of Plymouth, who died in Litch- field on November 17 (or 19), 1839, aged 66 years. They had one son, who died in early manhood. AUTHORITIES. Anderson, Hist, of Waterbury, i, ruff, Litchfield Genealogical Regis- Appendix, 126. Payne, Litchfield ter, 206-07. and Morris Inscriptions, 103. Wood- 692 Yale College MARSHFIELD STEELED the youngest of nine children of Josiah Steele, of West Hartford, Connecticut, and nephew of the Rev. Eliphalet Steele (Yale 1764), was born in West Hartford on August 10, 1771. His mother was Eliza- beth, daughter of the Rev. Benjamin Colton (Yale 1710). His father removed to Hinesburg, Vermont, about the time this son entered College ; but the latter seems to have remained in the family of his childless uncle, the Rev. George Colton ( Yale 1756), of Bolton, Connecticut. After graduation he studied theology, probably with his uncle, and was licensed to preach by the Tolland Associa- tion of Ministers on June 3, 1794. He seems to have continued to live in Bolton, and there married Rachel, third daughter of Judah and Martha (Alvord) Strong, of Bolton, and step-daughter of his uncle. She was born on October 16, 1774. In the early months of 1800 he labored as a missionary in Vermont. On September 3, 1800, he was ordained and installed pastor of the Congregational Church, of twenty-nine mem- bers, at Machias, Maine, on a salary of five hundred dollars. The ordination sermon by the Rev. Jonathan Fisher (Harvard Coll. 1792), of Bluehill, Maine, was subsequently published. For nearly twenty years he was the only settled minister in Washington County, and served a large territory with faithfulness. He possessed no marked ability as a preacher, but his ministry was greatly blessed to the church and people, and his memory is still cherished as that of a sincerely good man. He was grave, even severe in deportment, painstaking and methodical in his habits, scrupulously conscientious, and strictly orthodox, a man of sincere humanity, purity of life and devoted piety, yet eminently social and genial in disposition. His health was in general quite infirm, and a disease of the throat, probably chronic laryngitis, compelled him to Biographical Sketches, 7790 693 give up preaching altogether in October, 1821, when a colleague-pastor was settled. Two new churches were formed out of the parish in the next ten years. After his retirement he opened a private school in his own house. He died in Machias on June 25, 1831, aged nearly 60 years. Three sons survived him. His portrait is preserved in Machias. During the war of 1812 his residence was broken up, and he spent about ten months in missionary labor in Ver- mont and New York. AUTHORITIES. Amer. Quarterly Register, xiii, Harding, Memorial Address at 255, 264. Conn. Missionary Society, Machias, 27-29; MS. Letter, Aug. Narrative for 1800, 4; do., 1813, 29, 1906. Sprague, Annals of the 5-6. Durrie, Steele Family, 24, 46. Amer. Pulpit, ii, 347. Dwight, Strong Family, i, 50. H. F. SOLOMON STODDARD, the second son of Solomon Stod- dard (Yale 1756), of Northampton, Massachusetts, was born on the ancestral estate in that town on February 18, 1771. His elder brother was graduated here in 1787. After completing his Collegiate course, he entered as a law student the office of Governor Caleb Strong (Harvard 1764), of Northampton. On his admission to the bar he practiced law for a year and a half in Williamstown, Massachusetts, and then settled for the rest of his life in his native town. Here he continued the active duties of his profession until 1810, when he was chosen Register of Deeds for the County of Hampshire. In 1821 he was appointed Clerk of the County Courts, which office he resigned in 1837. He was several times sent by the town as one of their Representatives to the General Court of the Commonwealth, and he filled more- over with scrupulous fidelity many offices of trust in the region of his residence. 694 Yale College He retired from public life at the age of 67, and died in Northampton on October 16, 1860, the last survivor of his Class, in his 9R. .. CO O^ O ^ CO vO CO TJ- >-i o e< O co O ys. Tj- ON o x < ON t^ M 1 H O r^ o^ -3 U (0,^ ^5 H -ll O O r^ N N M o CO CO O CO ! 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ON M m co co *i- en co in vO m M CM r-- O >-l rf NO O O ON CM r}- TJ- in ON * m M M CO r^ ON in NO <^ 11 5 S -i in in vO O CM en NO m co o r- M IH in 8 be < , . 73 in in in \r> in in G ft en Tf n NO t^ 4) 1111 11 in NO NO NO NO *O *O M c< en ^- n o t~ 744 Yale College In spite of the unfavorable assumptions regarding doubtful cases included in the table, there are shown less mortality-rates at almost all ages than were exhibited in the earlier groups of graduates. The same relations between the different age groups are dis- covered as appeared in previous studies, the high mortality immediately after graduation, and in the decade 36-45. It is interesting to compare the ratios between actual and expected deaths in total and by-age groups, with those found in the earlier graduates. There is evident a steady betterment of conditions of living as we pass from pioneer times toward the end of the i8th Century, and indeed we go well to the middle of the iQth Century. This comparison is to a certain extent misleading, because of the presence of a remarkable body of lives in the present group. The American Table states that of 100,000 lives at the age of 10 none may expect to, pass the age of 96. In 100,000 insured lives at the present day one might expect to find as many as four of 96 years of age, or older. It is most extraordinary, therefore, to find in this small i8th-Century group of 540 lives, four that reach the tabular limit, three surpassing it, and one dying in his iO2nd year. RESIDENCES The total number of graduates commemorated in the present volume is 543, of whom the origin of all but one (Samuel Welles, 1783) is known. The places of their nativity are as follows: Connecticut, 443 (New Haven County, 120; Hartford County, 81 ; New London County, 59; Litchfield County, 58; Middlesex County, 41 ; Fairfield County, 40 ; Tolland County, 25 ; Windham County, 19) ; Massachusetts, 68 ; New York, 20 ; Rhode Island, 7; New Hampshire, 2; Vermont, i; South Carolina, I. In the matter of residence those whose later history is known may be classified as follows: Connecticut, 256; New York, 108; Massachusetts, 50; Vermont, 25; Ohio, 12; Pennsylvania, u; South Carolina, 9; Maine, 6; etc. Of these graduates, 168 were lawyers; 129, ministers; 57, doctors. Appendix 745 ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS VOL. I. Page 66, line 2. DANIEL CHAPMAN married, secondly, Grissel, daughter of Albert and Elizabeth (Wakeman) Dennie, of Fairfield; and she died on June 10, 1754, in her 57th year. Page 245, line 15. WILLIAM BRINTNALL'S widow next married Samuel Dar- ling, of New Haven. Page 298, line 12. HENRY CANER died on October 30, 1792. Page 314, line 2 from bottom. BENJAMIN FENN'S widow married Archibald McNeil, of Milford, Branford, and New Haven, and died in 1777-78. Her grandson, William McNeil, was graduated in 1777. Page 374, last line. DAVID OGDEN married Gertrude Gouverneur, probably daughter of Isaac and Sara (Staats) Gouverneur, of New York City, born 1716. Page 514, last line. BENJAMIN THROOP was born on January 9, 1712, being the son of William Throop by his first wife, Martha Collyer, and thus a half-brother of William Throop (Y. C. 1743). His own marriage was on November 27, 1735. Page 537, line 24. AZARIAH HORTON married Eunice Foster, of Southamp- ton, Long Island. Page 562, line 16. JONATHAN HALL'S next older brother was born in January, 1704. Page 573, line 3 from bottom. CHRISTOPHER CHRISTOPHER'S wife died on January 14, 1765, aged 38 years. Page 576, line 2. RICE HALL is called "Dr." in the notice of his death on the Wallingford records. Page 642, line 17. PETER CURTISS removed to Kent, Connecticut, about 1754, and in 1759 to Lanesboro, Massachusetts, where he died on March 12, 1775- Page 769, line n. DAVID WILCOXSON married on December 8, 1756, Israelia, daughter of Thomas and Sarah (Jeanes) Salmon, of Stratford, born 1735- VOL. II. Page 66, line 2. SAMUEL TUTHILL was born on September 22, 1724. His wife was at the time of their marriage the widow of Colonel Jacob Ford, Jr. Page 171, line 3. SOLOMON MEAD first married, on January i, 1755, Hannah Strong, of Stamford, Connecticut, who died on October 20, 1761. He next married, in January, 1765, Hannah, daughter of Thomas and Sarah (Strong) Clark, of Waterbury, Connecticut, who died before him. Page 333, line 2. BENJAMIN HALL married, secondly, on April 16, 1767, Hannah, daughter of Josiah Burnham, of Kensington, Connecticut. Page 503, line 10. NOAH WILLISTON'S second wife was a daughter of Josiah and Lydia (Ashley) Pomeroy, of Northampton, Massachusetts. Page 528, line 22. JOHN DIBBLE'S first wife died on May 9, 1785; and his second early in January, 1813, aged 76 years. Page 552, line 10 from bottom. AARON PHELPS was a brother of Seth Phelps (Yale 1760), born on May 7, 1734. He was a lawyer in Suffield, Connecticut, and died there on June 24, 1804. 74 6 Vale College Page 580, line 5. BENJAMIN DUNNING married Mrs. Anna Botsford, in Newtown, on June 16, 1762. Page 628, line n. NOADIAH WARNER'S widow, Elizabeth, died in South- bury, Connecticut, in September, 1812, aged 75 years. Page 762, line 21. SIMEON MILLER, son of Captain Jonathan and Sarah (Allyn) Miller, was born in Northampton, Massachusetts, in 1743. His parents removed in 1745 to Avon, Connecticut. VOL. III. Page 67, line 21. SAMUEL DANIELSON married secondly Mrs. Elizabeth Spaulding Howe, by whom he had several children. Page 123, line 6 from bottom. STARLING GRAVES is buried in East Haddam, where he died on September 23, 1772, in his 34th year. Page 134, line 9 from bottom. APOLLOS LEONARD married Prudence, daughter of Nathaniel and Sarah (Thrasher) White, of Taunton, born on September I, 1752. Her mother had married Nehemiah Dean in 1766. Page 324, line 6 from bottom. TIMOTHY DWIGHT died on January n, 1817. Page 332, line 13. TIMOTHY DWIGHT was not the author of the Essay on the Stage, as is clear from internal evidence. Page 423, last line. ALLYN MATHER'S wife (Mrs. Townsend) died in Middletown, Connecticut, at the home of a son-in-law, on August 19, 1828, aged 77 years. Page 689, line 4 from bottom. WILLIAM LITTLE married, on May 9, 1790, Frances, daughter of James Boyd, of Newburyport, Massachusetts, who died in 1834, aged 64 years. They had eight children. Robbins Little (Yale 1851) is a grandson. VOL. IV. Page 32, line 7 from bottom. JONATHAN FRISBIE died on December 24, 1804, in his 54th year, and his widow died on April 3, 1807. Page 213, line 6 from bottom, for 1781 read 1782. Page 226, line 15. WALTER KING'S first wife died on May 17, 1791, and his second on March 8, 1799. His third marriage was on December 21, 1803. Page 386, line 3. WILLIAM P. BEERS seems to have remained in Connecticut until near the time of his marriage. He published : 1. An Address to the Legislature and People of the State of Connecticut, on the Subject of dividing the State into Districts for the Election of Representatives in Congress. By a Citizen of Connecticut. New-Haven. 1791. 8, pp. 37- [y- C. 2. An Oration on the Death of General Washington ; pronounced before the Citizens of Albany, on Thursday, January 9th, 1800. Albany. 8, pp. 17. [B. Ath. Harv. M. H. S. N. Y. H. S. INDEX Italics indicate the graduates of whom Biographical Sketches are given. Adams, John, degree to, 588 Andrews, Samuel J. (1785), 378-79 Atwater, Jason (1781), 177 Atwater, Jeremiah M. (1785), 380 Atwater, Moses (1787), 524-25 Atwater, Noah (1774), Tutor, 213 Augur, Joel (1784), 320-21 Austin, David (1779), 91-97 Austin, Samuel (1783), 248-57 Backus, Azel (1787), 525-28 Backus, Matthew (1787), 528 Badger, Joseph (1785), 380-84 Baldwin, Abraham (1772), 89, 175 Baldwin, Augustus (1787), 528-29 Baldwin, Simeon (1781), 178-80; Tutor, 318, 448 Baldwin, William (1779), 97 Ball, Stephen (1784), 321 Barlow, Joel (1778), 3-16 Barnes, Jonathan (1784), 321 Barnett, John (1780), 137-39 Bartholomeiv, Phineas (1778), 16-17 Bassett, Amos (1784), 322-25 ; Tutor, 626 Beardsley, Horace (1787), 529 Beebe, David L. (1785), 384-85 Beers, William P. (1785), 385-86, 746 Belden, David (1785), 386 Bclden, Joshua (1787), 530 Belknqp, Ebenezer (1785), 387 Bell, Benjamin (1779), 97-101 Benedict, Noah B. (1788), 590-91 Benjamin, De Lucena (1788), 591 Bid-well, Barnabas (1785), 387-90; Tutor, 588, 701 Bingham, Silas L. (1790), 662-63 Bird, John (1786), 451-52 Bishop, Abraham (1778), 17-24 Bishop, John (1787), 530-31 Blakesley, Tillotson (1785), 390-91 Blakslee, Solomon (1785), 391-93 Bliss, Enos (1787), 531-32 Bliss, George (1784), 325-27 Bliss, William M. (1790), 663 Bloodgood, Francis (1787), 532 Boardman, Daniel (1781), 181-82 Bogue, Publius V. (1787), 533~34 Bosttvick, Samuel (1780), 139 Bowen, Obadiah (1782), 215 Brace, Jonathan (1779), 101-03 Bradford, Jeremiah (1779), 103-04 Bradley, Dan (1789), 628-29 Bradley, Joel (1789), 630-31 Bradley, William (1784), 327 Brainard, Jeremiah G. (1779), 104-06 Brainerd, Jehu (1783), 257 Breed, Shubael (1778), 24-25 Breed, Simeon (1781), 182 Branson, Tillotson (1786), 452-55 Broome, Samuel P. (1786), 455-56 Brown, Daniel (1783), 257-58 Brown, William (1784), 327-28 Brown, William (1789), 631-32 Bruce, Phineas (1786), 456-57 Buell, Aaron (1778), 25 Buffett, Platt (1791), 703 Bulkley, Peter (1785), 393 Bullard, Eli (1787), 534-35 Burghardt, Hugo (1787), 535 Burrall, Jonathan (1781), 182-83 Butler, Frederick (1785), 393-95 Caldwell, Harry (1784), 329 Caldwell, Henry (1784), 329 Camp, Joseph E. (1787), 535-36 Canfield, Judson (1782), 215-16 Carrington, Samuel (1786), 457 Catlin, Daniel (1779), 106 Catlin, Jacob (1784), 329-32 Catlin, Lynde (1786), 458 Catlin, Russell (1784), 332-33 Caulkins, John (1788), 592 Channing, Henry (1781), 183-86; Tutor, 318, 448 Chapin, Calvin (1788), 592-95 ; Tutor, 740 Chapin, David (1788), 595-96 Chaplin, Benjamin (1778), 25-26 Chapman, Daniel (1789), 632-33 Chenevard, Michael (1788), 596 Chester, Stephen (1780), 140 Chester, Thomas (1780), 140-41; Tutor, 246 Churchill, Silas (1787), 536-37 Clap, Caleb (1785), 395 Clark, Jehu (1794), 701 Clark, Smith (1786), 459 Clarke, Abraham L. (1785), 395-96 Clarke, Adam S. (1788), 596 Clarke, James B. (1785), 397 Clinton, Isaac (1786), 459-61 Cobb, William (1788), 597 Cogswell, Mason F. (1780), 141-43 Cogszvell, Roger (1784), 333-34 Cole, Matthew (1783), 258 Collins, Aaron C. (1786), 461-62 Col ton, Abishai (1783), 259 Cone, Daniel (1784), 334 Cone, Salmon (1789), 633 Cook, Daniel (1787), 537-38 Cook, Justus (1779), 107 Cook, Thaddeus (1783), 259-60 Cooke, Amos (1791), 703-04 Cooke, Daniel (1780), 143-44 Cooke, Daniel B. (1788), 597 Cooke,' Enos (1785), 397 Cooke, Oliver D. (1786), 463 Cornwell, Wait (1782), 216-17 Cowles, Giles H. (1789), 634-35 Cowles, Whitfield (1788), 598-99 Crocker, Daniel (1782), 217-18 Cutler, Manasseh (1765), Diary of, 521-22 Daggett, David (1783), 260-64 Daggett, Ebeneser (1778), 26 Daggett, Naphtali (1748), 135; death of, 175 Dana, Daniel (1782), 218-19 Dana, Samuel W. (1775), tract by, 3i8 Darling, David (1779), 107-08 Deane, Silas (1758), proposal of, I Denison, Joseph (1784), 334~35; Tutor, 448, 626 Dering, Henry P. (1784), 335-36 Devotion, John (1785), 398 Dewey, Joshua (1787), 538-39 DeW'itt, Abraham V. (1785), 398-99 Dibble, John A. (1778), 27 Dickinson, John D. (1785), 399-400 Dickinson, Obadiah (1778), 27 Dimon, Ebeneser (1783), 264-65 Doolittle, Elkanah (1789), 636 Dow, Hendricus (1784), 336-37 Drake, Joseph (1785), 400 Dutton, Ebeneser (1787), 539-40 Eastman, John (1788), 599 Edson, Joel (1764), 337~38 Edwards, Jonathan W. (1789), 636-37 Eells, Osias (1779), 108-09 Eells, Roger (1785), 401 Eliot, Joseph (1784), 338 Ellery, Christopher (1787), 540 Elliot, Nathan (1789), 637-38 Elliott, John (1786), 463-67 Elliott, Stephen (1791), 704-07 Ellis, Jonathan (1786), 467-69 Ellsworth, John (1785), 401-02 El\, Benjamin (1786), 469 Ely, David (1769), Fellow, 588 Ely, Henry (1778), 28-29 Ely, John (1786), 469-71 Ely, Richard (1785), 402-03 Ely, William (1787), 541-42 Ely, Worthington (1780), 144-45 Ely, Zebulon (1779), 109-13; Tutor, 213, 246 Evertson, Nicholas (1787), 543 Fair child, Reuben (1785), 403 Farrand, Daniel (1781), 186-87 Fay, John (1790), 664 Fellows, John (1783), 12-13, 265-68 Fenn, Stephen (1790), 664-65 Field, Simeon (1785), 403-04 Fitch, Ebenezer (1777), Tutor, 175, 247, 448, 740 Flint, Abel (1785), 404-07 Foot, John A. (1790), 665 Foot, Joseph (1787), 543-44 Foote, Enos (1791), 707 Foster, Edmund (1778), 29-32 Fowler, Andrew (1783), 268-71 Fowler, John H. (1790), 666 Fowler, Saul (1784). 338-39 Fowler, Stephen (1779), 113-14 Foider, William (1780), 145 Frisbie, Jonathan (1778), 32, 746 Fuller, Israel (1782), 219 Fuller, Jonathan (1783), 271-72 Gale, Benjamin (1788), 600 Garnsey, Lemuel (1782), 219 Gay, Ebeneser (1787), 544-46; Tutor, 701 Gay, William (1789), 638 Gelston, Maltby (1791), 708-09 Gilbert, Benjamin J. (1786), 472-73 Gilbert, Ezekiel (1778), 33 Gilbert, Hezekiah (1783), 272 Gold, Thomas (1778), 33-34 Gold, Thomas R. (1786), 473-75 Goodrich, Charles A. (1786), 475 Goodrich, Chauncey (1776), Tutor, 135, 175 Goodrich, Ehhu C. (1784), 339 Goodrich, Elizur (1779), 114-17; Tutor, 175, 213, 246 Goodrich, Hesekiah (1785), 407-08 Goodrich, Hezekiah (1788), 600 Goodrich, John (1778), 34-35 Goodrich, Russell (1785), 408 Goodrich, Samuel (1783), 272-74 Gould, James (1791), 709-11 Gould, Orchard (1783), 275 Granger, Gideon (1787), 546-49 Graves, William (1785), 400-10 Greene, Ray (1784), 339-40 Gridley, Elihu (1781), 187 Gridley, Elijah (1784), 340-41 Gridley, Elijah (1788), 600-01 Gridley, Uriel (1783), 275-76 Griffin, Edward D. (1790), 23, 666-76 Griffing, Nathaniel (1786), 475-76 Griggs, Isaac (1783), 276-77 Griswold, Gaylord (1787), 549 Griswold, Matthew (1780), 145-46 Grisivold, Roger (1780), 146-49 Griswold, Stanley (1786), 476-81 Grosvenor, Pearley (1785), 410 Hackley, Levi (1785), 410 Hale, David (1785), 410-12 Hall, Lee (1789), 638-39 Hall, Prince B. (1788), 602 Hall, William B. (1786), 481-82 Hallock, Moses (1788), 602-04 Halsey, Edward (1786), 482 Index 749 Harrison, Roger (1791), 711-12 Hart, Levi (1760), Fellow, 701 Hart, Seth (1784), 341-43 Harvard graduates as Yale Fellows, 135 Harvey, Rufus (1789), 639 Haskell, Samuel (1790), 676-77 Hathaivay, Joshua (1787), 550-51 Hawley, William (1787), 551-52 Hazeltine, Silas (1779), 117 Henshaiv, Joshua (1785), 412-13 Higgins, David (1785), 413-15 Hillhouse, James (1773), Treasurer, 740 Hillyer, Asa (1786). 482-84 Hinckley, Dyar T. (1785), 415-16 Hinckley, Samuel (1781), 188 Hinman, Cyrus (1789), 640 Hinman, Simeon (1784), 344 Hinman, Timothy (1784), 344-45 Hitchcock, Reuben (1786), 484-85 Holmes, Abiel (1783), 277-85 ; Tutor, 448, 588 Holmes, Uriel (1784), 345-46 Holt, Thomas (1784), 346-48 Honcywood, St. John (1782), 219-22 Hooker, Asahel (1789), 640-43 Hooker, John (1782), 222-23 Hopkins, Samuel M. (1791), 712-16 Hosmer, Stephen T. (1782), 223-24 Hotchkiss, Frederick W. (1778), 35-38 Hotchkiss, Obadiah (1778), 38-39 Hubbard, Lucius (1788), 604-05 Hubbard, William (1785). 416 Hubbard, William G. (1785), 416-17 Huggins, Heaton (1784), 348 Hull, David (1785), 417-18 Hunt, Ebenezer (1787), 552 Huntington, Enoch (1759), Fellow, 135 Huntington, Enoch (1785), 418 Huntington, Erastus (1791), 716 Huntington, Jabez (1784), 225, 348-49 Huntington, Jonathan (1789), 643-44 Huntington, Lynde (1788), 605-06 Huntington, Samuel (1785), 419-20 Hyde, Gershom C. (1788), 606 Ingersoll, John (1790), 677-78 Isaacs, Benjamin (1781), 189 Isaacs, Ralph (1784), 349-50 Ives, Isaac (1785), 420-21 Ives, Joseph (1782), 224 Ives, Levi (1791), 717 Ives, Reuben (1786), 485-86 Jacob, Stephen (1778), 39-41 Jefferson, Thomas, degree to, 449 Jezvett, David M.. (1787), 553 Jocelin, Samuel R. (1783), 285-86 Johnson, Caleb (1785), 421-22 Johnson, Robert C. (1783), 286-87 Johnson, Samuel W. (1779), 118 Johnson, Stephen (1743), Fellow, 521 Johnson, William (1778), 41 Johnson, William (1788), 607-08 Jones, Samuel (1790), 678-80 Judson, David (1778), 41-42 Judson, Roswell (1787), 553-55 Judson, Samuel (1790), 680-81 Kellogg, Aaron (1778), 42 Kellogg, Gardiner (1791), 717-18 Kent, James (1781), 189-94 Kibbe, William (1787), 555 Kimberly, Liberty (1787), 555 King, Walter (1782), 224-27, 746 Kingsbury, Ebenezer (1783), 287-88 Kingsbury, John (1786), 487-88 Kirkland, Joseph (1790), 681^82 Kirtland, Ambrose (1779), 119 Kirtland, Dorrance (1789), 644-45 Langdon, Chauncey (1787), 556-57 Langdon, Henry S. (1785), 422-23 Langdon, Timothy (1781), 194-95 Lanman, James (1788), 608-09 Lathrop, Charles (1788), 609-10 Lathrop, Daniel (1733), bequest of, 213 Lathrop, Daniel (1787), 557-58 Lathrop, Elijah L. (1787), 558 Lathrop, Gurdon (1787), 559 Law, Lyman (1791), 718-19 Lay, John (1780), 149-50 Leavenworth, Melines C. (1784), 350-51 Leavenworth, Nathan (1778), 42-43 Leavitt, Jonathan (1785), 423-24 Lee, Chauncey (1784), 351-55 Leffingwell, William (1786), 448-90 Leonard, Elijah (1783), 288-90 Lewis, Daniel W. (1788), 610-11 Lewis, Oliver (1780), 150-51 . Lewis, Seth (1783), 290 Linsly, Noah (1791). 719-20 Livingston, Henry W. (1786), 490-91 Livingston, Peter S. (1789), 645-46 Lockwood, Samuel (1745), death of, 701 Lockwood, William (1774), Tutor, 89, 175 Lord, Lynde (1783), 290-91 Lord, Thomas (1780), 151 Lord, William (1784), 355-56 Lothrop, John H. (1787), 559-61 Lovett, John (1782), 227-29 Lyman, Joseph (1783), 291-93 Lyman, Micah J. (1785), 424-25 Lyman, William (1784), 356-58 McClellan, John (1785), 425-26 McCurdy, Richard (1787), 561-62 Maltby, Isaac (1786), 491-92 Maltby, Jonathan (1779), 119-20 Mansfield, William (1784), 358-59 Marsh, Samuel (1786), 492-93 Marsh, Silas (1784), 359 Marsh, Truman (1786), 493-94 75 Yale College Marvin, Matthew (1785), 426-28 Mason, Jeremiah (1788), 611-14 Masters, Josiah (1783), 293-94 Masters, Nicholas S. (1779), 120 Mather, Charles (1785), 428 Mather, Moses (1739), Fellow, 660 Mather, Samuel (1784), 359-60 May, Calvin (1786), 495 Mead, Lemuel (1784), 360 Mead, Shadrach (1779), 120-21 Meigs, Josiah (1778), 43-47, I7S, 246, 3i8 Meigs, Return J. (1785), 428-30 Merrick, Jonathan (1783), 294 Merriman, Silas (1789), 646 Merwin, Miles (1782), 229 Miles, Smith (1791), 720-21 Miller, Asher (1778), 48-49 Miller, David (1786), 495 Miller, Jonathan (1781), 195-97 Miller, Phineas (1785), 430-31 Miller, William F. (1786), 495-98 Mills, Isaac (1786), 498-99 Mix, John (1778), 49 Monson, JEneas (1780), 151-53 Morgan, Solomon (1791), 721-22 Morris, Asahel (1789), 646-47 Morse, Jedidiah (1783), 295-304; Tutor, 448, 521 Moseley, Abner (1786), 499-500 Moseley, Elizur (1786), 500 Moseley, Jonathan O. (1780), 153-54 Moss, Reuben (1787), 562-64 Mumjord, Benjamin M. (1790), 683 Mumford, Thomas (1790), 683-84 Munson, Elisha (1784), 360-61 Munson, Israel (1787), 564-65 Nash, Daniel (1785), 431-32 Nash, William (1791), 722-23 New Haven, Invasion of, 89 ; descrip- tion of, 521-22 Nezvell, Gad (1786), 501-02 Newell, Samuel (1781), 197 Newton, Roger (1785), 432-33, 626 Norton, Asahel S. (1790), 684-86 Nott, Abraham (1787), 565-67 Nott, Samuel (1780), 154-59 Noyes, James (1782), 229-30 Noyes, John (1779), 121-23 Noyes, Joseph (1778), 49-50 Noyes, Matthew (1785), 433-34 Noyes, William (1781), 198 Olmsted, Zachariah (1785), 434 Osborn, Jonathan (1789), 647 Osgood, Jonathan (1789), 647-48 Paine, Elijah (1789), 649 Parmelc, Reuben (1781), 198-99 "Parnassus," articles entitled, 246 Parsons, Benjamin (1791), 723-24 Payne, Elisha (1779), 123-24 Pearce, Amos (1783), 304-05 Peck, Jabez (1784), 361 Perkins, Benjamin (1785), 435 Perkins, Elias (1786), 502-03 Perkins, Elijah (1787), 567 Perkins, Enoch (1781), 199-200; Tutor, 318, 448 Perkins, John D. (1791), 724-25 Perkins, Samuel (1785), 435-37 Peters, John T. (1789), 650 Pettibone, Giles (1778), 50-51 P helps, Noah A. (1783), 305-06 Phclps, Timothy (1780), 159-60 Phi Beta Kappa Society, 135 Pit kin, Oliver (1787), 567 Pitkin, Samuel (1779), 124-25 Pit kin, Theodore (1783), 306-07 Pitkin, Timothy (1785), 437-39 Pixley, Erastus (1780), 160 Porter, Edward (1786), 504-05 Porter, Isaac (1788), 614 Porter, Peter B. (1791), 725-28 Potter, Daniel (1780), 160-61 Prentice, Jonas (1784), 361-62 Pynchon, Stephen (1789), 651 Raynolds, Freegrace (1787), 568-69 Reed, Daniel (1778), 51 Reynolds, William A. (1789), 652 Ripley, Hezekiah (1763), Fellow, 660 Ripley. William B. (1786), 505 Robbins, Asher (1782), 231-34 Robinson, John (1780), 161-63 Robinson, William (1773), Tutor, 135 Roe, Benjamin S. (1784), 362 Rogers, Ammi (1790), 686^30 Root, Ephraim (1782), 234-35 Root, James B. (1790), 690-91 Rose,_ Daniel (1791), 728-29 Rossiter, Nathaniel (1785), 439-40 Russell, Matthew T. (1779), 125-26; Tutor, 246, 448 Russell, Samuel (1780), 163-64 Sage, Ebcnezer (1778), 51-52 Sage, Sylvester (1787), 569-71 St. John, Eliphalet (1791), 729-30 S alter, John (1788), 615 Salter, Richard, Fellow, 135 Saltmarsh, John (1786), 506 Saltonstall, Dudley (1791), 730 Seabury, Samuel (1748), 375 S carle, Samuel D. (1781), 200-01 Selden, David (1782), 235-36 Selden, Edward (1783), 307 Selden, George (1786), 506-07 Seward, John P. (1784), 362-63 Seymour, William (1779), 126 Sheldon, Alexander (1787), 572 Shelton, William (1788), 615-16 Sherman, Roger (1787), 573 Sherzvood, Samuel B. (1786), 507-08 Slosson, Barzillai (1791), 730-31 Smith, Aaron (1790), 691 Smith, Daniel (1791), 731-32 Smith, Elihu H. (1786), 508-11 Smith, Elihu P. (1785), 440 Index Smith, Elnathan (1788), 616-17 Smith, Israel (1781), 201-02 Smith, John C. (1783), 307-10 Smith, Noah (1778),, 52-54 Smith, S. Samuel (1781), 202-03 Smith, Zephaniah H. (1782), 236-37 Spaulding, Asa (1778), 54-55 Spaulding, Josiah (1778), 55-58 Spelman, Robert (1785), 441 Spencer, Jared (1784), 363 Stanley, Adna (1787), 573-74 Stanton, Joshua (1788), 617 Stearns, John (1789), 652-54 Stebbins, Daniel (1788), 618-19 Stebbins, Josiah (1791), 733-34 Stebbins, Stephen W. (1781), 203-04 Stedman, Thomas (1785), 441 Steele, Marsh field (1790), 692-93 Steele, Nathaniel (1788), 619 Sterling, Elisha (1787), 574-75 Stevens, John (1779), 126-28 Stiles, Isaac (1783), 310-11 Stiles, Nathan (1787), 575-76 Stoddard, John (1787), 576-77 Stoddard, Solomon (1790), 693-94 Stone, William (1786), 511-13 Storrs, Richard S. (1783), 311-13 Starrs, Seth (1778), 58-59 Strong, Joseph (1784), 364-65 Strong, Joseph (1788), 620-21 Strong, Nehemiah (1755), Profes- sor, 213, 246-47 Strong, Simeon (1786), 513 Sturgcs, Lewis B. (1782), 237-38 Sturges, Samuel (1787), 577-78 Swift, Zephaniah (1778), 60-63 Taylor, John (1784), 365-68 Taylor, William (1785), 442 Taylor, William (1787), 578-79 Terry, Nathaniel (1786), 514-15 Thompson, James (1789), 654-55 Thompson, Samuel (1790), 694 Thompson, William A. (1782), 238-40 Todd, Ambrose (1786), 515-16 Todd, Eli (1787), 579-82 Tomlinson, Abraham (1785), 442-43 Tomlinson, Daniel (1781), 205-06 Tomlinson, Jabez H. (1780), 164-65 Tomlinson, Zachariah (1788), 621 Tousey, Thomas (1785), 443 Townsend, Jeremiah (1779), 128 Townsend, Jesse (1790), 695-96 Tracy, Uri (1789), 656 Tracy, Uriah (1778), 63-66 Trumbull, Benjamin (1790), 697 Trumbull, John (1735), Fellow, 588 Tuttle, Andrew (1784), 368 Tyler, Calvin (1787), 582 Tyler, Lemuel (1780), 165-66 Van Rensselaer, Jacob R. (1786), 516-17 Wadsworth, Decius (1785), 443-44 Wads-worth, James (1787), 582-84 Waite, Ezra (1782), 240-41 Wakelce, James (1784), 369 Waldo, Daniel (1788), 621-23 Wales, Samuel (1767), Professor, 448 Warner, John (1783), 313 Warner, Selden (1782), 241 Washington, George, 175, 660 Waterman, Elijah (1791), 734-38 Webb, Samuel (1779), 128-29 Webster, Noah (1778), 66-79 Weed, Stephen (1783), 313 Welch, John (1778), 79-80 Welles, George (1779), 129-30 Welles, Ro swell (1784), 369 Welles, Samuel (1783), 314 Welles, William (1779), 130 Wells, Sylvester (1781), 206-07 Wetmore, Ichabod (1778), 80 Wheeler, William (1779), 130-31 W 'heeler, William (1785), 444-45 White, Calvin (1786), 517-19 White, Charles C. (1783), 314 Whiting, William J. (1780), 167 Whitman, William (1779). 131-32 Whitney, Josiah (1752), Fellow, 521 Whittelsey, John (1791), 739 Whittelsey, Samuel (1779), 132-33 Whittlesey, Elisha (1779), 133-34 Whittlesey, Roger (1787), 584-85 Wildman, Deodat (1784), 370 Willard, John (1782), 242-43 Williams, Esekiel (1785), 445 Williams, John (1781), 207-09 Williams, Joshua (1780), 167-69 Williams, Nathan (1755), Fellow, 5.88 Williams, Nathan (1782), 243-44 Williams, Stephen (1783), 315 Williams, Timothy (1785), 446 Williams, Warham (1745), Fellow, 5.88 Williams, William A. (1780), 169-70 Williston, David H. (1787), 585-87 Williston, Payson (1783), 315-16 Wolcott, Alexander (1778), 80-82 Wolcott, Frederick (1786), 519-20 Wolcott, Oliver (1778), 82-88 Wolcott, Thomas G. (1783), 317 Woodbridge, William (1780), 170-74 Woodruff, Esekiel (1779), 134 Woodruff, Gideon (1785). 446-47 Woodruff, Hezekiah N. (1784), 370-72 Woodruff, Samuel (1782), 244-45 Woodward, Aaron (1789), 657-58 Wood^vard, Israel B. (1789), 658-59 Woodworth, John (1788), 623-25 Woolworth, Aaron (1784), 372-74 Woostcr, Benjamin (1790), 697-700 Wooster, Joseph L. 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