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we have mentioned, that had any offi- cer of the Province detected these in- truders lurking about under cover of the blue mists, it would have become his unquestionable duty to secure their persons, and have them before a mu- nicipal tribunal, from whence we know not what deliverance would have been sent.
The region, at present, is in a wil- derness state, except where trespasses have been committed on the timber or the soil, by removal or cultivation at the hands of unauthorised occupants. Its vast extent, its fertility, proximity to noble streams, and resources treasur- ed up for the day of improvement, must, at no distant period, render it highly valuable. The rapidly increas- ing population of Maine, swelled by constant emigration, is advancing the outposts of cultivation, and the forests are receding before the enterprising in- dustry of the hardy settlers. Massa- chusetts is equally interested with ber sister state in the disputed territory, and, should the claim be established, must receive a great accession to her resources in the revenue accruing from the sales of tracts of land so extensive even at small prices.
A proposition has been made to re- lease the claim of the United States to the 'debateable ground of the East, in consideration of the cession of some unadjusted demands on the West .? Should this exchange be the conclu- sion of the negotiation, equity and jus- tice would require, that the particular benefit should accrue to Maine and Massachusetts, as a slight compensa- tion for the loss of advantages almost above price and invaluable to them.
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CITY RECORD.
IN BOARD OF ALDERMEN.
Tuesday, June 6 .- Met according to adjournment. Present, the whole board except Alderman Welsh.
The joint committee to whom was referred the subject of inquiring into the expediency of abolishing the office of Health Commissioner, reported
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that it is inexpedient to abolish said office ; the report was read and ac- cepted.
The order from the Common Coun- cil appropriated $1000 for the pur- pose of building the Dyke west of the Common was concurred in.
The City Clerk was ordered to give notice in the newspapers, that appli- cations would be received for the of- fice of Sealer of weights and measures until the 19th inst.
IN COMMON COUNCIL ..
Tuesday, June 6, 1826 .- Present, the President and thirty-five members. Absent Messrs. Faxon, Dyer, Curtis, Peabody, Isaac Parker, Gray, Baker, Rice, Brewster and Hatch.
The report of the committee to whom was referred the petition and several reports on the subject of the Marginal street, was read a second time, together with the resolutions ac- companying it.
The two boards met in convention for the purpose of choosing a City and County Treasurer, when upon count- ing the ballots it appeared that Wil- liam Mackay was unanimously chosen.
Monday next, at 5 o'clock, was ap- pointed to choose a resident physician at Hospital Island for the current year
The report of the surveyors of high- ways on the subject of widening Mer- chants Row, which was sent up with an amendment authorising the survey- ors of highways to widen that street, if $10,000 could be obtained by sub- scription, came down with an amend- ment, inserting $6,500 instead of $10,000. The amendment was con- curred in, 24 to 9.
An order to levy a tax of $220,000 for the present year, came down, was read once, and passed to a second reading.
The report of the committee to whom wasreferred the communication of Jonathan Hunnewell and others relative to the city's building a free bridge to South Boston, recommend- ing a resolve that it is not expedient to take any order on the same, nor ac- cede to te e proposals made by the me- morialists, was accepted in the Board
of Aldermen and concurred in the Common Council.
The committee on Neck Lands re- ported that they had sold at auction seven lots, containing in all 36,800 feet, for $7744 60. Read and placed on file.
BOSTON : SATURDAY, JUNE 10, 1826.
CAST. SYMMES.
Notwithstanding the ridicule which has for a long time been levelled at Capt. Symmes's Theory of Polar openings, or in other words, the ho !- lowness of the earth, men of candid minds have listened to him with be- coming respect, and attention. Be- cause he advances a new theory, is he to be treated with neglect and ridicule? His is no more novel than the once supposed visionary dreams of Colum- bus, in relation to a new continent. In Boston, his auditors have been gentle- men of the first respectability and learning, whom, we believe, will indi- vidually confess that they are far from thinking him insane. On the contra- ry, be carries abundant testimony, in his lectures, of deep study and a strong mind for investigation, struggling against a nation of disbelievers in the doctrines which he teaches. In his lectures, he is ardent, and at the same time, brings new and curious illustra- tions in evidence of his opinions. Capt. Symmes is a plain, unaostentatious gentleman, of a good stature, and ap- parently between forty-five and fifty years of age. In his pronunciation, there are occasional provincialisms and some grammatical errors in language. His forehead is high and well turned, and a little inclined to baldness. Hav- ing lost his front teeth, he speaks less distinctly, and sometimes appears to labour with a word before it is articu- lated. There has been some question among strangers how his name is pro- nounced, whether it be Symes or Sims. The latter, Sims, is the true one. Capt. Symmes is a native of New-Jersey, and, by profession, an agriculturist.
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Newport, in Kentucky, opposite Cin- cinnati, Ohio, is his place of residence, where his family now reside. Through the whole of the last war, he held a commission, and was distinguished among his superior officers for bravery and punctuality in every duty which devolved upon him in the army. He was in the battle of Bridgewater, and at the memorable sortie of Fort Erie. In the battle at this place, he lost nearly all the men under his com- mand, and although he succeeded in spiking a forty eight pounder, the only one belonging to the enemy, which was served in that soldier-like man- ner, on that eventful day, he escaped without the least personal injury.
His avowed object in travelling through the country, is to promulgate his theory, with reference to raising an expediton to the poles, at some fu- ture period, when the public have more confidence in his predictions, in relation to hollow spheres. Capt. Symmes supposes that the sum of thirty thousand dollars would be suffi- cient to defray the necessary expenses of an expedition-a sum which we hope will yet be raised for that pur- pose. Men of science would at once volunteer their services, and should it ever succeed, it will certainly be one of the most interesting voya- ges ever undertaken. His patron, in Russia, Count Romanzoff, recently di- ed, and it is therefore feared the expe- dition which he invited Capt. Symmes to join, fitted out entirely at his own expense, will be suspended, till the national affairs of Russia will permit the emperor to direct his attention to objects of scientific investigation.
GREENWICH VILLAGE.
Among the great number of enter- prising villages which the traveller passes between Boston and Connecti- cut River, there is one east of Amherst College, that claims particular atten- tion. There are but a few houses, but these are hospitable ones ; a few in- habitants, yet ambitious and ingenious.
Industry is apparent from the very hum of the air. In viewing the opera- tion of some of the masterly machinery in this place, the last week, we were struck with surprise at the effects of human ingenuity. We here allude, particularly, to a late invention for setting card teeth, by Col. Wing, the Post Master. As the traveller ap- proaches the best public house in that section of the country, he will notice several bands crossing the street, high above his head, which lead from a fac- tory near a bridge, in a hollow. and ascend to the ridge-pole of Col Wing's house, at a distance of several rods. Poles, with friction wheels on the top, conduct the bands from one pole to the other, till they finally enter small orifices in the gable end of the house. Although the ingenious proprietor of the machinery was confined by illness, he manifested a willingness to gratify the curiosity of several stage-coach companions, with an inspection of it, while in full operation
Such is the nature of this wonderful machinery, that no one but the man who originated it, can explain its move- ments, which seem to be the result of consciousness and reflection. The wire is wound upon a reel-the end fed into the machine, and there cut off, bent and perfectly set in a leather sheet, of any dimensions, in a twink- ling. From inquiry, we learn this in- vention has higher claims than the one invented many years ago, at Cam- bridge. One or two females watch the movements, but the complete and accurate labour of making a perfect card, of any size, is executed in a rap- id manner without the assistance of hands. The workmanship of the ma- chinery will vie with Birmingham, and does the artist as much credit as the invention does the gentleman who has produced a desideratum in ma- chinery.
Another object of interest, in distinc- tion from many natural beauties in scenery, is the Masonic Hall, near the hotel. The devices on the south front are chaste and elegant, but the neat- ness and general style within, in con-
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nection with the wardrobes and furni- ture belonging to a Royal Arch Chap- ter and an Encampment of Knights Templars, are well worth the stran- ger's inspection. This village posses- ses many natural advantages, and will ultimately become a conspicuous man- ufacturing place : the meeting house is six miles west,-but the centre of the town is far from being interesting in comparison with the spirited little spot which has been the subject of our remarks on this brief article.
CHAPTER OF NETTE.
Mr Browere, of New York, who has been so successful in taking busts of living characters, proposes to execute a Statue of Jefferson, and to finish it by the first of July == Pennant's His- tory of London is advertised for sale in the London papers. 'This splendid work is comprised in eight volumes, containing 2300 engravings, and it is said the binding alone cost £200, (900 dollars.)=The London Globe, in speaking of Mr Jefferson, says, ' he has happily an estate which he cannot be deprived of-in the respect and grati- tude of a great part of the civilized world. = The Duke of Saxe Weimer has arrived in Philadelphia from his tour through the Southern and West- ern States .= There are seven men now living in the east parish of Barn- stable, who were in actual service in the war of 1776, fifty years ago .- They were stationed in the rear of Dorchester heights, and three of them belonged to the same mess .=== The Leg- islature of Connecticut has passed an act authorising a lottery to raise the sum of $11,000 for the purpose of erecting a monument on Groton Heights, where the brave Ledyard and his companions fell in the revolutiona- ry war, beneath the treacherous blows of their own surrendered weapons .= Thirteen persons were tried before the Police Court, in this city, last week, for selling India crackers. == A severe hail storm has lately been experienced in Ann Arundel county, Maryland. The hail-stones were of
large size, and covered the ground to the depth of an inch before ; the storm abated .== A man was choked to death with pieces of the shell of a lobster, in a cellar, near the market, last week .=== A physician, recently returned from Jamaica, says the fog is so thick on that island, that he could drive a nail into, and hang his hat upon it .== An apothecary at the south has made a fine speculation by buying up sick slaves, which he cured and sold again to great profit .= Francis Goodrich, re- cently brought from the City of New- York, for the supposed theft of $300, of Col. Billings, at a tavern in Elm St. was examined last week, by the Police, and discharged .== The Mass. Medical Society held their annual meeting at the Medical College in Mason street, on Wednesday last, and dined at a sumptuous table at the Exchange == Several promotions have been made in the U. S. Army .== Mr Lloyd, Senator from Massachusetts, has sent in his resignation to the Governor .== The Turks are preparing, at Constantino- ple, for another expedition to the No- rea, against the Greeks == Miss McBride, who recently made her de- but on the Providence stage, in the character of Albert, in William Tell, is becoming a favourite .= Every thing of the provision kind, with the excep- tion of luxuries, are admitted to Lagui- ra, free of duty, for six months =A shocking accident occurred on Tues- day last ; in raising the roof of Mr Jenks's Meeting house, in Green St. the fastenings gave way, the roof fell and knocked down part of the front wall and the staging, and precipitated some of the workmen into the street, while two or three others saved them- selves by jumping on the roofs of the neighbouring buildings. Mr Stoddard, an apprentice, died before he reached the Hospital, and one other, soon af- ter. Three others, dangerously wound- ed, have a prospect of recovery .=: A man is said to have committed sui- cide, at the jail in Leveret street, on Thursday afternoon, by strangling himself with a stocking.
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HISTORICAL.
LEXINGTON, (Continued from p. 281.)
ECCLESIASTICAL .- Mr Benj. Easta- brook, was settled in 1696 over the parish called ' the Farms,' and died in 1697. Mr John Hancock was conse- crated to the pastoral office, Nov. 2, 1698. 'In Dec. 1728 among other records we read that the selectmen summoned a person to appear before them and answer to a complaint, they being informed that he loitered about and spent his time idly, and behaved himself very disorderly.' In Jan. 1734, Mr Eben'r Hancock was settled as a colleague with his father, but died soon after. In 1755, after the death of Mr Hancock, Mr Jonas Clark was settled. As early as 1693, land had been pur- chased to form a fund ; in 1776 a large addition to this funded property was made by the sale of wood for the use of the continental army at Cam- bridge, &c. The proceeds of sales of timber, &c. for forty years, judiciously managed, gradually increased this min- isterial fund till 1795, when the new meetinghouse was erected. The sale of the pews yielded the sum of $2300 above the cost of the house ; and this amount added to the fund, nets an in- come sufficient for the support of the ministry. For the last 32 years no ministerial tax has been levied. This has furnished an additional induce- ment to settlers to take up their resi- dence in a town which, besides the beautiful building spots it affords, and the richness of its soil, is forever exon- erated from one of the principal items of the annual tax bill. The present house of worship stands 20 feet back of the ground where the former one stood. Rev. Mr Clark died Nov. 15, 1805. Rev. Avery Williams was ordained Dec. 1807, asked a dismis- sion in Sept. 1815, and died Feb. 12, 1816. Mr Charles Briggs was or- dained April 28, 1819, and continues their stated minister.
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by Hon. Thomas Hancock, esq. of Bos- ton, son of Rev. John Hancock of Lex- ington, one of the principal merchants in New England ; he left £1000 for founding a professorship in Harvard college, £1000 to the society for prop- agating the gospel, and numerous oth- er bequests. The bulk of his property was left to his nephew, Gov. Hancock, who also has been a benefactor to the church in this place, presenting the large Bible and 100 dollars in money. He was grandson to Rev. John Han- cock of this town.
The old meetinghouse, taken down in 1793, had no belfry upon it ; the bell was hung in a small tower on an eminence in the neighbourhood. The bullet-holes of the combatants in the battle, remained in the sides of the meetinghouse till pulled down.
When Lord Percy's brigade halted, half a mile below the meeting house, they fired one of their cannon up the road to check their yankee pursuers ; the ball entered through a window of the meetinghouse, and passed out op- posite, near the pulpit.
The present house of worship has a handsome tower and steeple, and a bell weighing 1900 pounds.
There is but one parish in the town.
MILITARY .- The military spirit of the young men of this town has not abated since 1775. During the revo- lutionary war, the 19th of April was statedly observed by the appearance of the militia in arms, and by religious exercises. At present, there is a ritle company, and an artillery company, in complete uniform, one company of in- fantry, and a corps of cavalry; the lat- ter only partly of this town.
BIOGRAPHY AND PROFESSIONAL MEN. -Lexington has few professional men resident in the town. The present worthy pastor, four physicians, 2 law- yers, and the master of the academy, we believe, are the only persons who have received a collegiate education. It has however furnished a great pro- portion of young gentlemen for col- lege, about 40 in number.
The following is a list as far as we have collected them ;
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John Hancock, A.M. graduated 1719, was or- dained over the north church in Braintree, Nov. 2, 1726 ; died May 7, 1746, aged 41.
Jonathan Bowman, A.M. grad. 1724; was or- dained at Dorchester, Nov. 5, 1729 ; died May 30, 1775.
Ebenezer Hancock, A.M. grad. 1728; was or- dained colleague with his father in this town, Jan. 2, 1734 ; died Jan. 28, 1740, aged 29.
Edmund Bowman, A.M. grad. 1728.
Thaddeus Mason, A.M. grad. 1728 ; clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for Middlesex ; died May 1, 1802, aged 96.
Philemon Robbins, A.M. grad. 1729: was or- dained at Branford, Con.
Josiah Brown, A.M. grad. 1735 ; was a preach- er at Lancaster ; died March 4, 1774, aged 59.
Matthew Bridge, A.M. grad. 1741 ; was ordain- ed at Framingham, Feb. 19, 1746 ; died Sept. S, 1775, aged 55.
Nath'l. Trask, A.M. grad. 1742 ; was ordained at Epping, N. Il. ; died in 1789, aged 67.
Nath'l. Robbins, A.M. grad. 1747 ; was ordained at Milton, Feb. 13. 1751; died May 19, 1795, aged 69.
Jonas Merriam, A.M grad. 1758; was ordained at Newton, March 22, 1758 : died Aug 13, 1780, aged 50.
Josiah Bridge, A.M. grad. 1758 ; was ordained at East Sudbury, Nov. 4, 1761 ; died June 19, 1801, aged 62.
Samuel Fiske, A.M. grad. 1759; was an episcopal Minister in Carolina.
Micah Lawrence, A.M. 1759, was ordained at Winchester, N. H. November 14, 1764; died Jan. 1794, aged 55.
Ephraim Woolsou, A.B. grad. 1760 ; was a phy- sician in Hanover, N. H .; died Jan. 1802, aged 61.
Joseph Brown, A.M. grad. 1763 ; was ordained at Winchendon, May 24, 1769; died 1811.
Amos Winship, A.M. M.B. ; grad 1771 ; died --- Benjamin Muzzy, A. B. grad. 1774 : sailed from Boston, Sept, 1777, in the privateer Hero Revenge, as chaplain, and was lost at sea.
Isaac Reed, A.M. grad. 1780; died, Dec. 5, 1789, aged 35.
Ebenezer Bowman, A.M. grad. 1782; attorney at law in Wilksbarre, Penn.
Joseph Eastabrook, A.M. grad. 1782 ; was or- dained at Athol, Nov. 21, 1787.
Nathan Underwood, A.M. grad. 1788; was or- dained at Harwich, Nov. 21, 1792.
Samuel Chandler, A.M. grad. 1790 ; was ordain- ed at Eliot, N. H. Oct. 27, 1792.
Joseph Dennie, A.B. grad. 1790; instituted and edited the Port Folio, a literary publication of high merit, in Philadelphia ; died, Jan. 7, 1812. He has been called the American Addison.
Daniel Marrett, A.M. grad. 1790 ; was ordained at Standish, Me. Sept. 21, 1796.
William Muzzy, A. B. grad. 1793; was ordain- ed at Sullivan, N. H. Feb. 7, 1798.
Abiel Chandler, A,B. grad. 1798 ; died, Feb. 11, 1799.
Phineas Adams, A.B. grad. 1801.
Elias Phinney, A. M. grad. 1801 ; attorney at law in Charlestown.
Timothy Willington, A.M. grad. 1806 ; physician in West Cambridge.
Oliver Danforth, A. B. grad. at Williams Col- lege, 1811.
Samuel Mulliken, A.B. grad. 1819 ; now a phy- sician at Dorchester.
John Fessenden A.B. grad. 1818 ; a tutor at Ilar- vard University.
Jonas Bridge, drowned at Cambridge, while in the senior class. ,
Artemas B. Muzzy, A.B. graduated 1824.
Marshal Tufts, in College.
Curtis Cutler, do.
Nineteen of these have been preachers, and sey- enteen ordained ministers.
Lexington has furnished many mem- bers for the senate and council, who had not a collegiate education.
Gentlemen of liberal education, na- tives of this town, have generally left it, after receiving their academical honours, in quest of more conspicuous spheres of action ; but the substantial farmers, and after them one or more of their sons, commonly become as it were identified with the soil. It is probable that two thirds of the families of this town have been located on the same spot ever since the first incorporation of the town. The history of any one of these families, generally speaking,is the history of all, and would furnish a key to solve an anomaly or mystery in New England history ; we mean that sort of annual ' swarming,' which has peopled new states, in a ratio of more than fifty times the whole tide of foreign emigration --- peopled them with cor- rect puritan habits of industry,integrity and economy, together with thews and nerves of brass and principles of free- dom, religious, moral. and intellectual, transported on wheels from Massachu- setts along with their hatchets, iron pots, and pumpkin seeds to the banks of the Mohawk and Mississippi. From this town, and from every town in N. Eng- land, the surplus population has con- tinually been rolling westward, becom- ing ad infinitum the patriarchs of new dynasties in other towns and states ;- of late years, however, emigration to the west has almost entirely ceased.
LONGEVITY, &c .- The salubrity of the mountain air of Lexington is evi-
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dent from the following extract from MrWilliams'Century Sermon : ' There are now living in town fifty persons, who are over 70 years of age. Of the seventy-five, who have died since my ordination, twenty were 70 or over 70, and eight over 80 years of age.' The proportion of aged people is as great or greater at the present time.
William Tidd,* lieutenant of the company at the battle of Lexington, is still living, and retains all his facul- ties in a remarkable degree.
Col. William Munroe, orderly ser- geant on the same occasion, is also living, and at the age of 84, occasion- ally works on his farm. At the late visit of Gen. Lafayette, he escorted him round the battle ground to the monument, followed by about twenty other survivors. The town provided refreshments on the occasion under an awning and tent on the common.
Capt. Edm. Munroe and George Munroe, two members of the compa- ny, were afterwards killed by the same cannon-ball at the battle of Mon- mouth, June 28, 1778. Capt. M. had been the companion of Gens. Putnam and Pomeroy in the French war, and an officer of rangers with Cols. Nixon, Rogers, &c. in 1759 and 1760. He was Captain in the revolutionary war, in Bigelow's regiment, was at the bat- tles of Ticonderoga, Crown Point, Stillwater, Saratoga, at the surrender of Burgoyne, battles in the Jersies, &c.
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