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OCTOBER. 18. William H. Ramsey, of Car- I'sle, Pa., put an end to his life at Bra- 1.19's Hotel, Baltimore, by shooting himself in his right eye. Mr. R. w.as a roambor of the last, and recently elect- ed to the present, Congress from the ! Thirteenth Congressional District of Pernsylvania.
27. There was a slight fall of snow in Boston, but a much more severe one at the North and West of us. At Hartford the snow fell to the depth of nearly six inches, so that the Harts rdj and New Haven Railroad train was de- laved. At Guilford, N. H., at six o'- clock on the morning of the 26th, the ELCor was seven inches deep, and was &th filling. At Nashua it fell to the depth of four or five inches. At New York there was rain but no suow, and the weather cleared of cold.
3 !. A. boy about nine years old. in Baltimore, lost the sight of both his eyes by the discharge of a small can- nou. Another boy applied the match white he was looking into the muzzie t
NOVEMBER.
12. Professor Davis of the Virginia University was killed by a pistol shot trum a masked student, who wie en- giged with others in a nowy College row. He survived the wound 48 hours. The student guilty of the act has since conf:»spd.
14. In the Habeas Corpus case of D'Hauteville, argued at great length be- fire the Court of General S-salons in Philedelphia, the Court delivered its opinion. It decided that the custosty of th . clubl must le at the disco tion of the Court. and giving it in this instance to the mother.
22. The snow storm of this week extended along the sea coast as for
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south as Virgitea. It was said that at f was buried in Christ ch .na var.1. Phi- and near " Ataccom, N. J." there was a very heavy fall of snow-12 inches deen on a level.
26. The remains of General Hugh Mercer, who died at Philadelphia in consequence of' wounds prriver in th- battle of Princeton, Jan. 3, 1777, and
lad-h hii, were disserred on :1 .- 24th, and on this day theu r .- p.s.r went ui the Lord Century was extruded by al erai concours of page. The core !! 'n" s Were very impourg, and an im- in -give address was serresed by Win. E Reed, Faq.
Fires in Boston during the year 1540. JANUARY.
1. Brifing No. 2 North Market street, occupied as a cigar factory and clothing .subsistent. Damage con- siderable.
12. House No. 173 Tremont street. opposite the: Tremont House. The fire was confined to the upper part of the house, and muvet of the furniture was removed.
13. Provision Sture corner of Tre- mont and Elliot s's. Damage slight.
FEBRUARY.
21. Buiding Nos. 22 and 24 Cen- tral st., occupied by Augustus Bruna and Eleinte : Khoader, both with stock- . ofdry goals. The goods were comert- erably damaged ty the water, smok: and flames
26. A.out 5 A. M. wooden building on the corner of Cartihar at. and Chat- hun Row. occured by Kimball Copp ax a W. 1. Goods store, and Juli Charter. as a Junk shop. Nearly the whole contents of the building were de. stroyed. K. and C. were insured $5,000, and Mr. Chanin had som: insurance.
25. 10 P. M., grocery store of Spaulding & Mochon, under the church in Broms vi st. Extinguish-i with little low. Fully covered by ins.
MARCH.
22. A small shanty in N. Market st. Loss trilling.
24. Jxph Chairman's hit and cp store, No. " C"iton st. The building ownMl by E. & S. Pahoer, was ?... much in ares, but the stock, valued at atom 51.20. acer-4 considerally bih franith pratel water. Itisir -!. 31. Printing ofice of Mr. Oaks. in the fourth scary of Maskine's building. corner of Court ait Howard sts.
APRIL.
called out at sa during the mouth.
MAY, There were several aleron, but the
jabon of the sight burning of the round of 2 building, it 1 the turning of some hay
in a stable, doing the being trifling darnge.
JUNE
2. A small stable on Canal street, attached to the world where Mr. Cof rain, and soon aft rwir .. Har hoy in a sind on Friend s!p+t. Butli fires at- tremited to incendiosis. Soon after another building, sites on Brighton sport, and owned by .:. . ₺ irs of Mr. C. Taylor and occupin'as a carpenter's shop ty Theo. Barr, was = t on fir .-.
23. Stable in Nie .. Miren sifirt, owned by Mr. Bradensw 2 .. . cupped :y Mesers. White as . S .: th, truck. evo. The building and its contents were nearly consumed. There were no borers in the sull'- i: the Gine. Fire atribute to incen ftir> 4.
25. Workshop ut 3. an Ross, tailor, in Thorlike's bill. C. Harry. The fr -. attributed to an ferreriry, Was woon sullued, with ltd Cathage ..
JULY.
3. Store No. 34, Tremont Row, cwned by Mr. Ping C .:. r. The fr- or ginited in the twi say. occupied ty Mr. Gale, www.ry Lubr. The Exits below wort occupied by E. Allerton - a nattEL. 5 sury room - ar. ! the Linen war tons of Benjamin Jacobs, whose stock ses consideraul. damaged by water. The building, also was much dl una-d.
II. Swore of W. E. Harting, Sor !!: Boston. It was a life- wingon budd- ing, and was ihreste ; al wah poorly an the Stock. Stock A, PP. 520. A wirelwright's shop andsuing, realved ecane mijury.
AUGUST.
1. Carpenter's s'ef in Haverlel! st. Supposed to have .warto he. 17. Hawthorne's E gal gant store, caught by the int .. ... . 2 . match-
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ed by insurance. It is believed that | 9 Hawkins street, was also destroyed- the distillery was struck by lightning.
SEPTEMBER.
2. Building No. 52, Commercial st. The principal loss was in the stock of Mr. Lincoln, math .. butir al ingrument maker, which was, however, insured. The fire cunght from the Blue of a cool- ing stove in a fruit e- Har.
26. Distillery in Disti! House Square, belonging to Barnard & Trull, with the steam engine works, out houses, etc., were destroyed, with a consulterable quantity of mult's s and rum. Loss about $ 12,00) ; no insurance.
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A large double the story dwelling house, owned an ! xcapit by John M. Barnari, No. 10. Hawkins street, at the bottom of Chiri m str vt, Was born- ed down, the furanter- saved. A large double three story trans? adjoining, No.
fruit ire saved. This also belonged to Mr. Barnard, insurance 86,000 on both houses. A large dwelling house, No. 5 Hawkins street, owned by widow Micre, and occupied by her and an- cher p:Tsun, wis also destroyed. Also a two story dwelling house in the rear. Time stable, and out-buildings attached to the distillery of Augustus S. Homes, at the corner of Ivers street, were also burit down.
Opposite B. & T's distillery is a large distillery belonging to A. H. Bowman, an la distillery belonging to W. French, b.ch of which were somewhat injured. and saved with much diffenliv from Feing burnt. A honse in Distil-hous Sognare, owned by Mr. Badger, and oc. cified by a number of funilies, w.s ale considerably injured, and the furni- ture was d'unaged.
Biographies of Eminent Men, Wix by Allen Bratfort, Esq .. for the Boston Almanac. :Continued from page 65 of last year's Almanac.)
Rev. THOMAS THACHER, was | the firet minister of the Old South church, as it his merw been long called. This church was frined in 1670, by s- orders troin the first church ; on account of the latter mariting Rev. John Das. export, from New Haven, to be their minister. Davenport was deemed very rigid in some things, and would bap- tize no children, unless the parents were in full communion with the church, while many at that time, were in favor of triptuing the children of pa- rents who had been capazed, and made a profession of warir Luin in Christ. At that perio1 their way a wann dispute on this subject, at.1 good men were to tbe found on either side, contending earnestly, that rach wes right. When Mr. Davenport was installed in Bos- ton, a large part of the first church sep- arated, atd furtneis new church and Exiety, now the Oll South. Mr. Thecher had been unortime the mini- ter of Weymouth, arfore he was or- dained over the church in Boston. He was a good sch.lar, an able divine, and a physician of reputation, in that day. It was not uncommon then for the chez- gy to study andi practise medicine. This was true of R.v. Leonard Hoar, soinc. time Presi Jeut of Harvard College, and of Rer. Isine Chaney, a set of l'real- deut Chinney. Mr. Toucher cune early to Bitreichweite, and was a man daughter of it-v. Ralph Partridge of Duxbury, in D'.ymonth Colony. And the respectable fa ; tira of the name of Thichier in New England, inchunting stany able ministers of the Gospel,
trace their descent from him. He was tranister of the old South Church about eight years, and until his death.
Rev. JOHN DAVENPORT, refer- red to in the former article, was mitis- ter of the first church about three years, and died suddenly. He was a learned theologian, and published some works in podemnic divinity. He zealously con- tended against what he called a dan- garous innovation, the baptism of chil- dren whose parents were not members of the church, though professing their telef in the Christian religion, and of sober life and conversation.
Rev. JAMES ALLEN was settled as a colleague with Mr. Davenport, in Wr: first church, Dec. 1663; and con- tinned several years, after his death, unal 1710 ; though most of that ume there was another pastor of the church. He had been an or Loaned - minister in England ; and was one of those ejected 1551-62, soon after the restoration of Charles D., when the puritans and non-conformists were treated with great severity and injustice. He Lind Uhr character of a scholar and an able divine. While in Boston, he was high- Jy catremed, as a bathful pastor, and an exemplary Chnstan, He was an overseer of Harvard College, many we3:6; and always convulted the wel- fire and prosperity of that institution. With Mr. Allen, Rev. John Oren- bridge was several years associated, in the ministerial other, over the first church. He too, retired from Eng. I fand, at the primal of intolerance and
persecution already mentioned under King Charles Il .; when a large nointer of worthy tipsters were prohibited from preaching in thurt country, trcans they did not conform to the rites und forms of the est washed church, nor ap- prove of the different rinks among the clergy. Me. Orenbridge lived only fur or five years after his settlement in Boston ; bot bit a good nume as a Christian and Christian minister.
EZEKIEL CHEEVER, the gram- marian and ahol-master, passed the last years of bi, bez lis in Boston. If. came early to New England, and lived twelve years at New Haven, in the useful employment ofinstructing youth. He was a grund classical scholar; am he published a La'in grammar, " calle l the Accidence, which was in general use in teaching : + Latin language, for more than a century. He first to a great ago, heinz anety-there at his de- cener in 1766. When he left N. IL .. ven in 1650, her-moved into Massachusetts Colony, and was sometime a tricher of youth in I weich : thence he reinov. ed to Charleston, when he counnued nine years, in the ouine employment. He tlen settini in Boston, and kept a grammar school Or thirty-eight years, with great rey .tilos as a classica! scholar. H's pri's were usually iet- ter prepared Kr C. Bege, than those of any other inscrever of that peried." Mr. Chrorer wrote on the Scripture prophecies ; and he was esteemed an able their rian, as well as a mostex- Lenplary Christian. Cotton Mather preachettis fineral sermou, and stid he was his master and teacher tiny- seven years before. . He was a Christ- ian of the old fashion," says Dr. Ma- ther; ' an o'd New England Christ- 1." His son was the first minister of Marblehead.
Rev. INCREASE MATHER, a so of Rev. Richard Mather, of Derches- ber, was the recent or Mined minister of the arcond church in Boston, at the north part of the tram, and was sentled
* There hare tern twenty-the or Sour cilitive * Autis grammar ; one edi- tion was presented the Last year in Box- ton. t'Tes for's pains, and Cheaper's That t. , Nes England, art not Mr. Oft ware was 70 years in all, an instructor Y. .. + A Mr. May was the first, side! a few years , fre Mather ; but way youD Felle watts the brighter Tining atar, and It- massa recorded of him.
in 1063. The church Lud lien feried every years, and hat teachers for bo lim Clic , occasionally. H. wis edu- cati-t at Harvard College, an. # 14 Pm- inent as a scholar amt a Gvine. Ha had the reputation, also, it trung an : de cretaphysician and disputane He of tarsiing children. . . a parte were not members of the church. His father, then living. to the cher side of the question and send to have then more literal in his condiments that the w.n. Itis not micon.non oh !! men income more liberal as they advance in life. arul their knowledge increases - Mr. Mother was somethe President of Harvard College, ban continued to be the restar of the North Church. In 165 -. while Andres was tyrannizing ofer the colony. Mr. Maher went to England. as agent in is tohalf. He ellu . trbedt privately, as h- w w tio: seht ty pastic authority, but to the requested HALT respectable initials. Som the arrived in Engutt, tip rovigo on voit place, which we W ... Prince of Omnes, to the theme of mat kir gdom. He was treated arh month question by the king, and freeand new charter for Massachus.es, in which weIN equal privileges and powers. in 1. .. a respects, to these in de Erst chor- tur which has been anny at hy king James, in 1655, just hir: Aire A s made Governor. in the new chair, however, the king returned to JE Cod of appointing de governor. buy- totant-governor and serve-ry of the Tens, Mr. Mather contin . 1 Preside .. re: 2:1d the office rith'r thin !rave his po ye, it bring them order-i cy the user- s+ts toret the president should uve in Contralze. He was the fire minister who received the degree of D. D. fran ! Harvard College ; and no other per- in hej that honor conferred on bim be ip- wanis of fifty years aforward. Fr Mother lived to le 55, and and in 1.3 wDe bier pastor of Up- 2021 church in Data. He was the ! there of the colo- bad Cotton Mather, wo was ile a very irimed man, but bot so judicious and wise as the parent.
Dr. CHARLES MORTON CHne fy: - England to Musicis Ba te war's the fifth century. He was ot at the f: enviars ef h: do. st. . . . ....
Harvirus Coll gr, wh. s .: - n.d. pl- ... he arrived, andthat we are int- i. He den ertued var ti church in
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however, chosen one of the corporation, and was sometimes styled vice-presi- dent. Hle exceeded most men of that period in the knowledge of mathematics and natural philosophy. There was a treatise on physics, used in the college for some time, which was written by Mr. Morton. He also delivered lec- tures on the subject, to some of the members of the College, at his house in Charlestown. His great knowledge was favor dde to liberal views in reli- gion, and he had a more tobrant and charitable spirit than most of his cleriend bretten. His successor called him " very reverend", and says, "he was very greatly celebrated both in Old England and in New." Other writers of the generation next after hin, als spoke of him as a man of general liter- ature, and one of the greatest scholars who had then visited and resided in the colony. "He had a happy tient for winning youth to the love of virtue and learning, by his pleasant conversation, and a familiar way of explainmis diffi- cuit subjects. He had a swert natural temper, and a generous public spirit." One of his essays has the time of peace maker, and one was published in the Philosophical Transactions, in 1675.
EDWARD GIBBONS was distin- gruishal as an enterprising inan, as a respectable merchant, as a brave sukker, and a judicious legislator. I had landal estate at Winissinnet, Int re- sided chiefly in Boston. Perhaps, Win- issimanet was then a part of Burton, as Noddle's Island his always ven. He was one of the Representatives from Boston in 1638, and for ten years after- wards. In 1514. he was chosen Majur General of the militia, or comumsud-r- in-chief under the Governor, of the inilitary force of Massachusetts ; and in this station he was continued for nine or ten years. He had greit frudass and decision of character, bath as a civil nregistrate and a mulituy officer. He engaged largely also in commen reid! pursuits, and in the prosecution of his plitis of this kindI, he visited the Wint Indies with a vessel of his own, in part, and furnished a laarg : amount of goods to a Freuch officer in Acadie, now Nova Scotia, the most of which he lost, und was thus rducett to poverty, when wlvancet in years. In some of his trailing enterprises be was assigned with Mr. Mererick, who lived on Noille's Island, and who was living there when Boston was settledt iu 1620.
ROBERT KEAYNE arrived at Dos- Un FI An early periout of its affirment, and was long a prominent citizen of the tren. In 1638, four years after the first General Court in Slosuchtati's, .--------- ---
he was one of the Representatives from Boston, and the same year was chown Speaker. Ile was a Representative from the town for seven years after, though not without the intervention of some years, Mr. Kravne was also distinguished as a military character. Ile was the first commander of the artillery company, now known as the Ancient and Honorab'e. The com- pany was formed in 1638-39, and proved a nursery for young men of military taste. And at that period it ! was necessary for the safety of the Colo- ny, to have armed and disciplined torce, as some tribes of ludians were always hostile towards the English st- thers. The officers ant most of the company were of respectable funili-s, and preuliar privileges were granted the corps by the General Court. Cap- tain Keayne favored and promoted the plan of making a settlement in New England, two or three years before the Mussachuseus company cune; and was one of the merchant adventurers who assisted the Plymouth 1> ople in 1626. There is thus full evidence of his being a zealous puritan, and an early promoter of the plantation at Boston and the vicinity.
JOHN LEVERETT was Governor of Massachusetts from 1673 to 1679. He had been deputy governor when Bellinghun was chief magistrate ; and when he succeeded that able sistesman, was several years younger than some of the assistants. He had also been Ma- Jor General in the Colony, and was often employed in other public business. He was the principu of a board of commissioners appointed to govern Maine, at that time under the jurisdic- tion of Musichusetts, though other claims were set up to govern it. The administration of Gov. Leverett has byen represented as "wis., just. firm, amd hierd." He was several years a Representative from Boston in the Gen- erd Court, and in 1651 was Speaker of ; the House. As one proof of his popu- lanty and moral worth, we may nouce ts: uncommon respect shown to his memory, tut his funeral. The civil and military parade on the occasion was greater than before known in the coun- try. One of his sone was judge of the Superior Court in Musichusets, and afterwards priny years dr. alde and januar president of Harvard College, in the early part of the last century.
SIMON BRADSTREET, who Euc- cered Leveret as chef magistrate, w is an inhabitant of Salem and not of Boston ; we only refr w lam. there- ture, as a paldie char wirr in the Columny. Hin Came over with the first company in
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1630, when he was quite young, and soon after he had finished bes educa- tion, which was at one of de unl- versiting in England. This character was very projectatde, both for party and talents. He was d'in one of the assistants, and in 1661 was an agent for the Colony to the court of Charles II. When chown governor in 1679, he was an old man, but he was in that station sverd years, there the arlatriry Andros Was appunted by King James 11. He survived al others of the first company, ant leit a emi who was a settled clergyman in Chiriet- town.
SAMUEL SEWALI,, a citizen of Boston, near the curse of fish and in beginning of 150: century, was a dis- tinguished character both ax 3 lawyer and judge, and as a general scholar. The father of Jader Souale w is one of the early freemen of Massachusetts, and a worthy character, and the funtiy has been numeris and tea, sulle. Str uel Sewall helt the very meponsible and honoralle office of darf pusuce of the Superior Court of the Colony for several years. 11. had the chir icter of an able and upright judge, but at that period few if any in Massachusetts were so learned in the law as many have been in later tuura. Rev. Dr. Sewall, pastor vi the Old South Church was his son, and two of the fanily, Stephen and Suneel, have been chi-f justices of the highest judicial ulbond, another a jo.lze of sifr court, and two hold the office of attorury general in the Province. Julgo Nowall was also come years one of dr: & iarue Execu- tive Council in Massachusetts ; but at a later period, not however iall the revolu- sion, it was considered that the office of ¡jure was incompatible with that of a member of the executive. And by our slate 'constitution, a julze of Suprvite Judicial Court is properly mengibie as a member of the legislative tesly. He published a work on unit mysterious book, the Aporntypse, but y nuout giv- ing mich autistaction by las explains- tions and conjectures. Judge Sewall
koje a journal of events and wait.
when the judge livet. He didn " year lise, post w) years of age.
ReY. SAMUEL WILLARD SUC- certo Mr. Ther, at pastor ( th Sinh Church is 15is, and Cual. ti goal in that station 30 years. He had been tffal at Giroton, a few years to for. den a new frontier settlement in M.a. eicintaetle, and was obliged to fre with most of the is habitante, on ac- count of the general war against the English, at the in-tigation of Philip. richie of Mount Hope. Mr. Wil- land was a learned and orthonor di- vins, according to the theology Is- loin of the day. He Finished a "Lly of divinity," which is surely read or known as prement. Il? wir some years vice president of Harvard Collage, and accent as the prisonel . that seminary. Ils memory h's al- wass ben cherished by schul ts and theologians, as one of the buried hirn of that age. Lise Dr. Mither 1: p ... sifal in Boston, w te among the Joy ple of his charge, but often visit die college, to or nee the pages and trackers, and to assist in its litering lahore. Several ocasional seridois written by Mr. Willard, were ya.b. ished, stul were tremed sof. je ..... cions, and useful discourses. They s. cover much reading and rt-cdun. Mr. Willard did not favor tire prov .- cution agenst the pretended with .s. in 1992 ; it werts be tonight it a celui- sion and an error, white Dr. Meyer and many other dersynon approved of the severe and er el treatment : gun-' there must unfortunate persons, wie were charged with making a coren. in with the ile.i. Rev. Joshua Mody. then preaching in Boston, wis als uppused to the prosecutions against Le Accused, and Assu SORRY to WAIT. Josich Willand, many years a'ur thi! torial, the worthy secretary of the Privnice, Was his s.t.
Legal Tender of Gold and Silver Coin.
American Eagle, coined prior to
July, 31, 1534, 270 gr. is, - $10-65
Hdf Eigla, IL5 gr. is, - . 5-33
Forrica, coined since July, 1554, - 10.00 Parts in proportion.
Doutroons, 17 det. 5 gr. is, · - 15.53
ilalf Johannas, 9 dwt. is, . - 8.57 British Sovereign, 5 dwt. 3 1-4 gr. 4.83
Fr. Napoleon, i dwt 31-2 gr. $35) Spanish Dollar, FF dwt Fer. 2 . 1.0. Mexican Dehar, 17 de 1. 7 .7. 6 . 1.4 Per.van D." 8, 17 dut. 7 gr. 4 . 1 im Chili Dollar, 17 dwt. F gr. Is - . 150 Central Alner .1, 17 dwt. 7 gr. is 1 0 French Five Franc Piece, IG dwt. is .3
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Census and List of Towns in Massachusetts, Their distances from Boston, and number of Inhabitants ; also their Repre- sentation in the General Court.
The figures in the column of Towns, show the number of Representatives each 'Sown is entitled to by the anden ment of the Constitution. The figures before the dash (-) show the nunder they are entitled to send in each year during the next ten years. The figure> after the dash show the number of years, in the next ten, in which they are tutitled to send one.
Counties and Representation of Towns.
Dist. from Boot
Pop. 1-10.
Counties and Representation of Towns.
Dist. fruits Bost.
Pop. 1510.
BARNSTABLE.
2
63
4:297
Raynham,
30
1319
Brewster,
20-1
Rehoboth,
40
2036
Chatham,
87
2375
Serkank,
41
1331
Dennis, .
2792
Sourerant,
43
1017
Haytham,
88
911
Swanzey,
16
1421
Falmouth,
:1
2504
Taunton,
32
7544
1
Brimfield,
70
1434
Marlonugh,
M. Hord,
5
247
: Granville,
115
1:284
Natick, .
16
Sandwich,
54
Chilmark, - -3
92
2
435
Truro,
103
1916
FAlgartown,
91
1503
Wolfe+t,
100
2.56
Tisbury, .
25-0
ESSEX.
BERKSHIRE.
Amesbury,
40
2580
Adams, 2
120
3639
Andover,
20
4951
Alford,
1:25
519
Beverly,
17
4685
Becket,
130
11:23
Boxford,
424
561
Keshire,
150
Bradford,
30
Clarksburg,
125
403
Danvers,
15
5140
Wales, .
67
,15
Dalton,
1.0
1343
Ensex,
25
3
28
6391
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