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GROTON HISTORICAL SERIES.
A COLLECTION OF PAPERS
RELATING TO THE
HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF GROTON,
MASSACHUSETTS.
BY
SAMUEL ABBOTT GREEN, M.D.
3 .٧ VOL. III.
A wise man will make better use of an idle pamphlet than a fool will do of sacred scripture.
MUITON'S Arcopugitica.
GROTON:
1893.
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University Press : JOHN WILSON AND SON, CAMBRIDGE.
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A THIRD VOLUME of this HISTORICAL SERIES is herewith presented to the public; and the Editor takes the oppor- tunity to say that it is somewhat doubtful whether another will be issued. He hopes, however, that his labor in compil- ing these articles will prove to be of interest to the reader, and of value to the historical student.
APRIL 19, 1893.
S. A. G.
CONTENTS.
No. I.
THE PHYSICIANS OF GROTON : GROTON JUNCTION. - A LIST OF PHYSICIANS, NATIVES OF GROTON, WHO PRACTISED THEIR PRO- FESSION ELSEWHERE. - CITY PHYSICIANS. - THE DENTISTS OF GROTON. - MARRIAGES.
APPENDIX : MEDICAL STUDENTS. - INDEX. Pages 1-90
No. II.
MAINE SETTLERS FROM GROTON. - GILSON FAMILY. - LAKIN FAM- ILY. - PERLEY FAMILY. - SWAN FAMILY. - HOLDEN FAMILY. - EATON BROTHERS. - CARRIEL FAMILY. - LIST OF MARRIAGES, ETC., FROM THE LANCASTER RECORDS. - LIST OF MARRIAGES FROM THE WOBURN RECORDS. - EPITAPH. - A LETTER OF DIS- MISSION. - AN INSTANCE OF LONGEVITY. - CAPT. SAMUEL TAR- BELL. - AN ODD MISTAKE. - LIST OF DEATHS.
91-114
No. III.
FOREIGN MISSIONARIES FROM GROTON. - SOME OLD FUNERAL CUS- TOMS. - A FREE READING ROOM. - A FATED FAMILY. - THE SHIP "GROTON." - THE USE OF A PILLION. - A GROTON LOTTERY. 115-138
No. IV.
MY VISITS TO SEVERAL TOWNS CALLED GROTON. - THE PARK FAMILY. - DISTRICT SCHOOL NO. 1. - A LIST OF CIVIL OFFI- CERS. - A LIST OF JUSTICES OF THE PEACE. - GROTON DURING THE INDIAN WARS. - THE AMES FAMILY. - OBITUARY NOTICE. - LIST OF MARRIAGES. - LIST OF DEATHS. 139-162
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No. V.
THE PHYSICIANS OF GROTON. - WAYSIDE MONUMENTS. - HENRY A. GREEN, ESQ. - MAJOR MOSES P. PALMER. - THE FARNSWORTH FAMILY. - THE INTRODUCTION OF THE TOMATO. - THE FIRST PARISH, GROTON. - CONCERNING SWAN POND AND RALPH READ. - THE OLD TAVERNS OF GROTON. - JOSEPH CHAMBERLIN'S FAMILY. - LIST OF DEATHS. Pages 163-186
No. VI.
THE LAWYERS OF GROTON. - NATIVES OF GROTON, AND PERSONS CONNECTED BY RESIDENCE WITH THE TOWN, WHO HAVE PRAC- TISED LAW ELSEWHERE. - A PARTIAL LIST OF THOSE WHO HAVE STUDIED LAW AT GROTON, WITH SKETCHES OF THEIR LIVES.
APPENDIX : GROTON AS A SHIRE TOWN. - GROTON PROBATE COURT. - MISCELLANEOUS. - LIST OF MARRIAGES.
187-334
No. VII.
THE LAWYERS OF GROTON. - THE DARK DAY OF 17SO. - A WILD DEER IN GROTON. - WILD DEER IN MASSACHUSETTS. - THE GEOGRAPHY OF GROTON. - AN ATTEMPT TO SET OFF SHIRLEY. - HON. HUGH BLAIR GRIGSBY. - HARVARD, MASS. - JOHN LONGLEY AND JONATHAN PAGE. - MOSES CHILD. - CHARLES B. RICHARD- SON. - MAINE SETTLERS FROM GROTON. - LISTS OF DEATHS AND MARRIAGES. 335-358
No. VIII.
GROTON DURING THE INDIAN WARS: MAJOR WILLARD'S NARRA- TIVE; ENOSHI LAWRENCE; GROTON MILITARY COMPANY ; RICHARD BLOOD AND ROBERT PARRIS; THE ASSAULT OF JULY 27, 1694; LIEUT .- GOV. WM. TAILER ; JOHN DAVIS; A FORT ON THE NASHUA ; LOVEWELL'S FIGHT. - BENJAMIN STONE. - HIGHWAY FROM GROTON TO CONCORD. - MISS MARY E. NUTTING. - REV. GERSHOM HOBART. - JONATHAN SHEPLE'S PETITION. - HON. JOSEPH B. VARNUM. - THOMAS TARBELL. - HIGHWAY TO CHELMS- FORD. - MIDDLESEX COUNTY BRIDGES. - LIST OF DEATHS.
359-382
No. IX.
WM. NUTTING'S DIARY : REVOLUTIONARY ITEMS ; GROTON LIBRARY. - THE PARKER FAMILY : CAPT. JAMES PARKER; JOSEPH PARKER ; JOSEPH PARKER, JR. - EPITAPH. - JACOB ONG. - MISS PRESCOTT'S SCHOOL. -- FIRST WARRANT RECORDED. - LIST OF DEATHS.
383-406
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No. X.
THE PHYSICIANS OF GROTON. -- MILESTONES. - GROTON ACADEMY. - REV. CRAWFORD NIGHTINGALE. - JONATHAN MORSE. - DR. SAM- UEL GELSTON. - BROOKLINE AND PEPPERELL RAILROAD. - THE POOR OF BOSTON. - REV. HORACE HERRICK. - REV. E. HALE BARSTOW. - MRS. SUSAN F. CARTER. - A LIST OF CIVIL OFFI- CERS. - PETERSHAM, MASS. - MRS. SARAH BOLTON. - REV. SAM- UEL WIGGLESWORTH. - OBITUARY : REVOLUTIONARY SOLDIERS. - LIST OF DEATHS. Pages 407-430
No. XI.
WAR OF INDEPENDENCE. - BATTLE OF BUNKER HILL. - COAT ROLLS. - CAPTAIN COREY'S COMPANY. - CAPT. ASA LAWRENCE'S COMPANY. - MOSES CHILD PAPERS. - THE SHAYS REBELLION. -- MIDDLESEX MUSICAL SOCIETY. - TUNES CALLED " GROTON."- GEORGE D. BRIGHAM. - ASA S. LAWRENCE. - COL. WM. A. BANCROFT. - LIST OF DEATHS. 431-454
No. XII.
BIBLIOGRAPHY OF GROTON. - GROTON NEWSPAPERS. - OLD GROTON. - REV. GERSHOM HOBART. - LIST OF SUBSCRIBERS TO IMPOR- TANT BOOKS, ETC. - REVOLUTIONARY PENSIONERS. - BOG-ORE. - CAPT. JAMES PARKER. - THE NAMING OF GROTON. - AN IN- STANCE OF LONGEVITY. - REV. AARON WHITTEMORE. - BENJAMIN GARFIELD. - THOMAS BROWNE, DISH-TURNER. 455-483
INDEX. 485-48S
GROTON, MASSACHUSETTS, 1890.
HISTORICAL SERIES, VOL. III., No. I.
THE PHYSICIANS OF GROTON.
DURING the early days of New England there was no dis- tinct class of men following the profession of medicine, but the practice was taken up in connection with some other calling. In every community either the minister or the schoolmaster or some skilled nurse was expected to act in cases of need, and for the most part such persons per- formed the duties now undertaken by the faculty ; and at that period obstetrical practice was taken by women. In the early part of 1672 the Reverend Samuel Willard wrote a long account of a case of witchcraft which befell Elizabeth Knapp, of Groton, and he relates how the " Physitian " came to see her on November 5, 1671, when he gave his judgment on the case, or, in other words, made the diagnosis. It would be an interesting fact to know who was the doctor then practising in the neighborhood, but this is now beyond the reach of historical inquiry.
The earliest physician in Groton, mentioned by name, of whom I have found any trace, is Dr. HENRY BLASDELL. On May 28, 1725, he petitioned the General Court that an allow- ance be made him for his professional services and for medi- cines furnished during the campaign of the previous autumn, while he was Surgeon to the Western Forces. The amount of his bill was 626 14s., and the General Court allowed him $17 gs. Dr. Blasdell had been impressed into the public service by Colonel Edmund Goffe ; and other particulars are given in " Groton during the Indian Wars " (pages 130, 131).
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DR. EZEKIEL CHASE, of Groton, was married at Newbury, on May 20, 1729, to Priscilla Merrill, of that town. See the first volume of this Historical Serie's (No. XIII. page 51). She was the daughter of Nathan and Hannah (Kent) Merrill, and born at Newbury, on October 16, 1703.
DR. BENJAMIN MORSE was the son of Dr. Benjamin and Abigail (Dudley) Morse, and born at Sutton, on March 20, 1740. He was married on November 27, 1760, to Mary, daughter of Isaac and Sarah Barnard, who was born at Sutton, on September 13, 1741 ; and they had a family of six children born in that town. Dr. Morse came to Groton probably during the Revolutionary period, and was a repre- sentative of the town to the General Court during the session of 1784 and in several succeeding years ; and he was also a delegate to the Convention for adopting the Constitution of the United States in the year 1788, where he opposed the adoption. He lived in the south part of the town, now near the village of Ayer ; and the site of his house is laid down on Mr. Butler's Map of Groton, which was published in 1832. He died on May 31, 1833, aged 93 years; and his widow, on December 16, 1835, aged 94 years.
DR. EPHRAIM WARE, a physician of Groton, was married at Cambridge, on October 13, 1785, to Mrs. Abigail Gamage. See the first volume of this Historical Series (No. XIII. page 45). Dr. Ware was a native of Needham, and born on Janu- ary 14, 1725. His first wife was Martha, daughter of Josiah and Elizabeth Parker, of Groton, where they were married on July 26, 1764. She was born on January 7, 1737, and died at Groton, on April 4, 1776. After their marriage they went to Dedham to live, as the records of that town say : " The Selectmen on the 2" Day of Aug' 1765. gave Orders to Is- rael Everett, Constable, to warn Ephraim Ware, Martha Ware [and three others] to depart this Town in 14 Days, or give Security to indemnify the Town." Such orders were in accordance with an old practice, then common throughout the Province, which aimed to prevent the permanent settle-
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ment of families in towns where they might become a public burden. Their two eldest children, both boys, were born at Dedham ; and three other children - a daughter Sarah, and two sons who both died in infancy - were born at Groton. Sarah, born on September 18, 1769, married Richard Sawtell, of Groton, on March 10, 1796, and died on March 23, 1851, having been the mother of nine children.
DR. EPHRAIM WOOLSON was practising medicine at Groton in the year 1766. He was a son of Isaac and Sibyl Woolson, and born at Weston, on April 11, 1740. He graduated at Harvard College in the Class of 1760, and was married on July 29, 1765, to Mary Richardson. Dr. Woolson appears to have been living at Weston just before his residence at Groton, and in the year 1767 he bought land at Princeton, where six of his children were born. Ile was a Justice of the Peace, and is said to have died in the year 1802.
DR. JONATHAN GOVE was a son of John and Tabitha (Liv- ermore) Gove, and born in that part of Weston which is now Lincoln, on August 22, 1746. He graduated at Harvard Col- lege in the Class of 1768, and studied medicine under the instruction of Dr. Oliver Prescott, of Groton. About the year 1770 he was married to Mary, daughter of Nathan and Mary (Patterson) Hubbard of this town ; and here John and Lucinda, their two eldest children, were born and baptized. This son graduated at Dartmouth College in the Class of 1793, studied law, and died at Chillicothe, Ohio, in the year 1802. From Groton Dr. Gove went to New Boston, New Hampshire, where three more children were born. His wife was born at Groton, on January 9, 1748, and died at New Boston. He was married, secondly, on January 6, 1791, to Polly Dow, who became the mother of three children. In the year 1794 Dr. Gove removed to Goffstown, New Hamp- shire, where he died on March 24, 1818.
DR. SAMUEL FARNSWORTH and Betsey Fitch, both of Groton, were married by the Reverend Mr. Chaplin, on November 25, 1788. Dr. Farnsworth was the youngest child of Isaac and
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Anna (Green) Farnsworth, and born on September 29, 1767. He subsequently went to Bridgton, Maine, where he had a successful career as a physician. His wife was a daughter of Captain Zechariah and Lydia (Tuck) Fitch. They had a family of eight children, of whom two sons, Samuel and Benjamin Franklin, were graduates of Dartmouth College in the Class of 1813. Their eldest child, Betsey, was born at Groton on July 2, 1789, and the next one, Samuel, at Bridg- ton on October 9, 1791 ; and the removal from this town took place in the year 1790. Dr. Farnsworth died at Bridg- ton, on November 4, 1817. His ellest son, Samuel, followed in his footsteps, and studied medicine. He succeeded the father in the practice of his profession at Bridgton, where he died on April 13, 1842 ; and the other son, Benjamin Frank- lin, became a minister, and subsequently was connected with institutions of learning in Kentucky and Tennessee. He died on April 13, 1842.
These several physicians practised their profession in the neighborhood of Groton, though they had never taken medi- cal degrees. Before the present century this was the rule throughout the country ; and the instances were very rare, where practitioners could rightfully append M. D. to their names. As a class they were men of shrewd sense and acute observers, and their practice was attended with marked success. Perhaps they made a better use of their opportuni- ties than we make to-day with our richly endowed medical schools and numerous hospitals.
During the last century DR. OLIVER PRESCOTT was an eminent physician of Groton, and took high professional rank throughout the Province. He was the youngest of three dis- tinguished brothers, of whom the eldest was Judge James Pres- cott, of Groton, who filled many important positions in civil as well as in military life; and the second was Colonel William Prescott, of Pepperell, who commanded the American Forces at the Battle of Bunker Hill. Both Dr. Prescott and his son Dr. Oliver Prescott, Jr., occupy such exceptional places in the
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profession of this neighborhood, that I reprint in full, from Dr. James Thacher's " American Medical Biography " (Bos- ton, 1828), the memoirs of these two physicians, as given in the first volume of that work (pages 428-436).
PRESCOTT, Hon. OLIVER, M.D., M.M.S.S. and A.A.S., was born at Groton, Massachusetts, April 27th, 1731. He was of the fourth generation from John Prescott, Esq. who came from England about the year 1640. His father, the late Hon. Benjamin Prescott, of the same Groton, was a distinguished statesman and a leading member of the General Court for many years ; and was once chosen Agent for the Province in England ; but having never had the smallpox, and there being much danger apprehended from it at that time, he declined the appointment. He died the 3d of August, 1738, in the 43d year of his age. The subject of this article was then a little more than seven years old. His mother was Abigail, daughter of the Hon. Thomas Oliver, of Cambridge, one of his majesty's council, and a near relation of the first pro- vincial governor of that name.
Dr. Prescott was educated at Harvard College, in Cambridge, and received his first degree in 1750. He was distinguished at college for his literary attainments and correct deportment. Soon after his graduation he commenced the study of physic under the tuition of Dr. Roby1 of Sudbury, who had been educated in Europe, was a disciple of the celebrated Boerhaave, and an emi- nent physician. After having completed his preparatory studies in medicine, he settled in Groton, his native town, and supported for many years a very extensive practice. As the number of physi- cians who were regularly or suitably educated, was at that day small, and those were settled far apart, the limits of his practice were extended to a great distance on every side ; so that no person in this country, probably, underwent more laborious and continued exercise in the profession than Dr. Prescott, to the time when his services were pressed into civil and political employment.
Dr. Prescott was enabled to employ a greater portion of time in the extensive circuit of his professional duty, by having acquired
1 [Dr. Ebenezer Robie was a distinguished physician of the last century. He was a graduate of Harvard College in the Class of 1719, and died at Sudbury, on September 4, 1772. See " The Massachusetts Gazette: and the Boston Weekly News-Letter," September 17, for a long notice of him |
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in early life, what to many persons may appear scarcely credible, a practice of readily sleeping on horseback, when deprived of his necessary rest in bed. On a horse of easy carriage, to which he had been accustomed, and found trustworthy ; and when returning homeward, where no danger was to be apprehended lest the steed should take a wrong direction, he would, when drowsiness came upon him, brace himself in the stirrup, rest a hand on the pommel of the saddle, and resign himself without fear, for miles together, to quiet repose. This was more particularly the case when on a favorite horse, of easy amble, which he owned for nearly twenty years, and which he usually selected for those excursions which must necessarily extend into late hours of the night. The writer of this sketch has frequently travelled with him, and witnessed his sleeping in the manner before described, his horse continuing the whole time at the usual travelling pace. The animal, accustomed to his master's manner of sitting, would seem to be conscious of being left to his own guidance, and therefore to step with more caution.
After Dr. Prescott was called into public life, until a short time previous to his death, every moment which could be spared from public affairs, was devoted to the duties of his profession. It was well and truly observed in a discourse delivered on the Sabbath succeeding his interment by an eminent divine who had known him intimately for many years, that " his distinguished professional ac- quirements, his prompt and unremitted attention to his patients, his peculiarly tender and pleasant manner of treating them in their distress, his moderate charges and forbearance towards the poor, and the general success which attended his practice, operated to render him for nearly half a century one of the most popular, while he was, unquestionably, one of the most eminent and useful physi- cians in the commonwealth." His high standing in the profession gave him a place in the Massachusetts Medical Society at the time of its incorporation in 1781. He was also an honorary member of several medical societies out of the commonwealth.1 He was like- wise President of the Middlesex Medical Society during the whole period of its existence ; and many years before his death the hon- orary degree of Doctor of Medicine was conferred on him by Harvard University.
I [Ile was chosen an honorary member of the New Hampshire Medical Society in the year 1794.1
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Dr. Prescott took an early and decided part in the American revolution, by entering warmly into those measures which were con- sidered necessary to vindicate our national rights, and by assisting cheerfully and largely in their defence. He exerted his influence in moulding the government into its present shape, and remained to the close of his life its invariable defender. He was very influ- ential in suppressing the dangerous insurrection of 1786.
He received from government many appointments and commis- sions. In the militia he was commissioned under the king a major, then lieutenant colonel, and colonel, and in 1775, or beginning of 1776, he was elected and commissioned by the Supreme Executive Council of the Massachusetts Bay, brigadier general of the militia for the county of Middlesex. To this office appertained at that time the direction and superintendence of the numerous guards which were raised and stationed at the bridges of rivers and vari- ous other places, to prevent the tories and enemies of the revolu- tion from all intercourse with the British troops, who were then confined to the capital and its vicinity, or any improper correspond- ence with each other ; as well as to answer the repeated calls for drafts on the militia. These duties, his command including the whole county, joined to his care in aiding to organize the town committees of correspondence in that part of the country in which he lived, made his office and station not only very responsible, but very laborious.
In 1776 he was chosen a member of the Board of War. In 1777, " during the five years interregnum," when there was neither governor nor lieutenant governor, he was elected a member of the Supreme Executive Council of the state, and served in that ca- pacity three years: in the fourth year he was unanimously re- elected to the same office, but declined serving.
In 1778 he was appointed the third Major General of the militia throughout the commonwealth.
In 1779, on the death of the celebrated John Winthrop, LL.D. F.R.S., he was appointed his successor in the office of Judge of Probate of Wills, &c. for the County of Middlesex. This office he retained until his death, giving universal satisfaction by his re- markable urbanity, as well as by his able and correct manner of discharging the duties of that important station. In this depart- ment he always appeared desirous of despatching the business before him, and of preventing, as far as was consistent with cor- rect procedure, an accumulation of costs. His manners were pe-
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culiarly adapted to soothing the feelings of that large class, who, in a state of bereavement and affliction, were called to do business in his court.
In 1781 he was appointed the second Major General of the militia ; but he considered there was not, at that time, that urgent call upon his patriotism, which in the earlier state of the war had induced him to accept a military command, and he soon tendered his resignation.
In the month of February of this year, 1781, Dr. Prescott re- ceived from government a commission to " cause to be apprehended and committed to gaol, any person, whom you shall deem the safety of the Commonwealth requires to be restrained of his personal liberty, or whose enlargement within the Commonwealth is danger- ous thereto." The delegation of such authority and power shows that government held him in high estimation for true patriotism and sound discretion. He was in early life appointed a Justice of the Peace and of the quorum for his county, and was for many years a justice throughout the commonwealth ; and he received several commissions to negociate business of importance for the state.
Dr. Prescott was incorporated a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1780. He regarded schools and the edu- cation of the rising generation as highly interesting and important to the community. Incorporated as one of the Trustees of Groton Academy, and first president thereof, he was its patron and bene- factor, employing his extensive influence to promote its reputation and usefulness. He was employed in all important town business ; served as town clerk for thirteen years in succession, and was one of the selectmen for more than thirty years.
Dr. Prescott married in 1756 Lydia, daughter of the late David Baldwin, Esq. of Sudbury, by whom he had ten children ; only four of whom, two sons and two daughters, survived him. He was a firm believer in the christian religion, and, together with his consort, on entering the connubial state, made a public profession, continuing to the end of his life a conspicuous, influential and useful member of the church in Groton, contributing much to its peace, regularity and reputation.
Dr. Prescott was in stature full six feet, and rather corpulent. The versatility of his powers was remarkable. To the transaction of all matters of difficulty and moment, he showed himself at once competent. Hence the wonderful diversity of his attainments, and
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the surprising rapidity with which he rendered himself master of whatever came before him. He possessed and ever practised a peculiar suavity and politeness of manner, a pleasant facetiousness of address, joined to that firm, gentlemanly deportment, which was well calculated to command both esteem and respect. His col- loquial talents, ready wit, and fondness for anecdote, joined to a great fund of information and learning, made him a pleasing com- panion, notwithstanding his hearing was imperfect for many of the last years of his life. He died at Groton of a pectoral dropsy, November 17th, 1804, aged 73 years and about 7 months.
It is not known that he wrote any thing for the public, in the department of his profession. Indeed, his employments were too numerous, and his time was too much engrossed by public con- cerns and professional duties, to afford leisure for composing a book or treatise on medicine.
Dr. Prescott had but two brothers, viz. the late Hon. James Prescott, who died February 15th, 1800, aged about 79 years, and who was for many years a Senator, Counsellor, High Sheriff, and at the time of his death Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas for the County of Middlesex ; and the late Col. William Prescott, who so greatly distinguished himself in the battle of Bunker's Hill and elsewhere, and who died October 13th, 1795, aged 70 years. He had also four sisters, one of whom only lived to be married, viz. Elizabeth, wife of the late Hon. Abijah Wil- lard of Lancaster, who was, at the commencement of the revolu- tion, one of his majesty's Mandamus Counsellors for the Province.
This article contains but little more than a chronological sketch very hastily prepared. So various were the employments and the offices, which had been held by the accomplished physician and eminent man, who is the subject of it; and so numerous were the incidents of his eventful life, that much more time would have been necessary to have filled up the sketch properly, than the writer could command ; and therefore it is presented in this imperfect state. - O. Prescott, M.D.
PRESCOTT, OLIVER, M.D., M.M.S.S. was born in Groton, Massachusetts, April 4th, A. D. 1762. He was placed at Dummer School in Newbury, Byfield Parish, and was there prepared for admission to IFarvard College, by the celebrated Samuel Moody. This was at that time the only free school in New-England, if not in North America. Ile was matriculated at Harvard University
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