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Alexander Gibson John J. Glasson Guert Gansevoort Israel S. Griffin William F. Grymes Helmuth J. Gaedicke James B. Glentworth J. R. Goldsborough John Graham Arch. M. Green John P. Gillis Spencer C. Gist Charles Green John M. Gardner Oliver S. Glisson 'Theodore P. Green George R. Gray Alberto Griffith
Joseph R. Brown John Q. A. Boyd John E. Bispham S. M. Breckenridge Edward O. Blanchard Walter C. Cutts Jerome Callan Frederick Chatard Charles Crillon John B. Cutting, jr.
C W. Chauncey W. C. G. Carrington Horatio N. Cady Philander F. Canedy Andrew H. Foot
Lewis C. F. Fatio
John E Bunner. Patrick F. Bradlee John L. Ball George Briard Robert L. Browning John C. Carter Richard S. Coxe John W. Cox, jr. Daniel Cameron Joseph Cohen
Ebenezer Farrand Archibald B. Fairfax James T. Homans Robert Fitzhugh Timo. B. Field Wm. C. Farrar James N. Forsyth John Fisher
G William Green Alex. G. Gordon
James W. Crenshaw William M. Glendy Edward H. Hubbard John E, Holt, jr. Charles W. Gay John Graham Sylvanus Godon Farnifold Green William C. Homes William E. Hunt Henry Hoff Daniel Carter Wm. Chandler Robert A. Cassin Wm. C. Chaplin
Charles H. Duryee Ezra T. Doughty Joseph O. Devezin James F. Duncan John C. Davidson Jolın A. Dalılgren Henry D'Arcantal Benjamin M. Dove E Henry Eagle, jr. Francis B. Ellison
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Albert E. Downes
Fitz Allen Deas
Thomas Shields Lewis Deblois Fras. A. Thornton James M. Halsey Edward Fitzgerald Alex. P. Darragh William S. Rogers Samuel P. Todd George Beale
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Horatio M. Houston James B. Lardner
George M. Hooe
William B. Lyne John W. Palmer Robert J. Livingston Reuben R. Pinkham Grey Skipwith
Hugh Y. Purviance Augustus R. Strong Henry Pinckney
Lloyd L. Spilman Alexander F. Porter Jona. W. Swift James M. Prevost Amasa Paine, jr. C. W. Pickering Law. Pennington William D. Porter James S. Palmer Charles H. Poor George A. Prentiss Richard L. Page William H. Peter Cicero Price Samuel Penhallow R John L. Spencer Ferdinand Smith Henry A. Steele T. Edmund M. Russell John G. Rodgers
Cary W. Selden James Southard James B. Sullivan John C. Sharp Benjamin S. Slyc N. G. C. Slaughter James F. Schenck Burrett Shepard Melancthon Smith Raphael Semmes, jr. Israel D. Smith
John Leeds Thomas Elias C. Taylor Robert D. Thorburn Charles C. Turner
Quinton Ratcliffe Henry K. Thatcher Benjamin J. Totton John W. Turk Peter Turner Frederick Rodgers William Rowan H. E. V. Robinson James H. Rowan Chas. A. Thompson Charles S. Renshaw Bushrod W. Turner John A. Russ Alfred Taylor Paul H. Trapier Henry Tooley William Radford Charles K. Ruffin Stephen C. Rowan Robert James Ross
Geo. M. Thompson Fred. A. Thompson
John A. Turley John R. Tucker Edward R. Thomson U
Albert G. Slaughter George I'. Upshur Isaac S. Sterett V Thompson D. Shaw G. J. Van Brunt
H. H. Van Rensselaer Edward M. Vail Pedro C. Valdes
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W. S. J. Washington Wm. G. Woolsey John W. West Wm. C. Whittle
Hampton Westcott George J. Willard
George Izard, jr. Jona. Ingersoll Harry Ingersoll William F. Irving Andrew M. Irwin Edgar Irving J Joshua HI. Justin Robert W. Jones Zach. F. Johnston Charles H. Jackson Kinsey Johns Robert Jones John T. Jenkins Stephen Johnston Joseph W. Jarvis William J. Jenkins Jas. W. M. Jenkins Joseph Johnson K
William H. Kennon James T. M.Donough Thomas O. Selfridge C. H. A. H. Kennedy Richard W. Meade Augustus H. Kilty James F. Miller N Robert H. Nicholls Samuel Swartwout Thomas Sands Frederick A. Neville Lloyd B. Newell Joseph Stallings Samuel W. Stockton William H. Noland James Noble Jefferson Nailor 0 William S. Ogden Gabriel A. ()‘Brien Lewis Ogden Francis S. Key Lewis G. Keith L Arthur Lewis Andrew K. Long John H. Little William F. Lynch James L. Lardner Samuel Lockwood Sidney Smith Lee N. C. Lawrence
Sanford A. Street David M. Stokes Francis Stone Edw. Schermerhorn William J. Slidell Philip A. Stockton
Arthur Sinclair, jr. William Smith
Charles G. Hunter
William A, Howard Joshya W. Larkin John S. Hart Robt. B. Hitchcock George Hurst Mark Hale Timo. A. Huntt William F. Hooc Robt. M. Harrison Robert Handy
John Harker George N. Hawkins Crawford W. Hall Francis Huger Edward L. Handy Lewis P. Higbee Charles Heywood I
Joseph Lanman Win. P. Livingston Saml. Phillips Lee Cranstoun Laurie M H. A. H. Morris - John Marshall Alexander M. Mull Charles V. Morris Henry W. Morris John Manning Richard D. Millen . Rich'd R. M&Mullin John W. Mooers Richard H. Morris John H. Marshall Charles H. M.Blair
William M. A. Moore John M. Rinker Samuel Evans Munn Cadw. Ringgold Albert M'Daniel Murray Mason John H. Maulsby John S. Missroon Alex. H. Marbury William M&Blair Augustus Marrast Edwin W. Moore Matthew F. Maury John K. Mitchell Henry Moor Henry Kip Mower Horatio G. Myers Ezekiel Mulford
Alexander C. Maury Charles S. Ridgely Thomas W. Melvill William Russell S James P. M.Kinstry
Hillary H. Rhodes Robert G. Robb
Daniel L. Randolph Edward J. Tilton
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James M. Watson James H. Ward G. G. Williamson T. M. Washington Chas. E. Wadsworth John Weems
D. G. Woodbridge Wm. J. Wiswall
Thomas S. Wayne Edw. Worthington John T. Wallace George B. Wingerd
Harry P. T. Wood John Wm. Willis
John C. Winans
Alex. W. Wilson Wmn. W. Wetcroft William Ward Zeb. P. Wardell William A. Wurts Henry H. Watters
John J. White S. A. Washington Y Thomas H. Yeatman John Young Alex. K. Yancey
SAILING MASTERS.
William Knight Edward Barry
Jonathan D. Ferris
Salvadore Catalano Augustus Ford Biscoe S. Doxey A. B. Bloodgood Robert Knox
Francis Mallaby
Nathaniel Stoodly
Samuel C. Hixon D. S. Stellwagen James Ferguson Robert S. Tatem Philip S. Meyer Joseph Williston William Miller Nahum Warren
John Carlton A. Cunningham John Robinson James Tewksbury Peter Carson John Quin S. J. Dusenberry N. A. Prentiss
William T. Malbone Henry Worthington Jacob Mull
BOATSWAINS.
Edward Linscott
James Banks
Simon Jordan
John Ball
David Eaton
Eli Dill
John Smith
Thomas R. Smith
James Evans
James Thayer
John Woods
William Smith
David Wesley
GUNNERS.
George Marshall
John Blight ,
Joseph Andrews John Burns
George Jackson
Samuel Hebberd
Asa Curtis John R. Covington
Stephen Jones John Lord
Thomas Stanley
Daniel Kelly
CARPENTERS.
Richard Thomas .
Nehemiah Parker
John Fisher
Caleb Nashı
Zaccheus R. Fuller
Joseph White John Southwick
John Snider
Samuel Phillips Thomas Armstrong John A. Dickason
SAIL-MAKERS.
Henry Van VoorheesJames R. Childs
Benjamin Crow Christian Nelson
Benj. B. Burchstead Nathaniel B. Peed
Samuel B. Banister
Isaac Hall Amos Lewis
MARINE CORPS.
LIEUTENANT COL. COMMANDANT.
Arch'd Henderson
CAPTAINS.
R. Smith, But. Lieut. Col. R. D. Wainwright - Lieutenant Colonels Samuel Miller by Brevet.
John M. Gamble
Wm. Anderson, But. Major.
Samuel E. Watson William H. Freeman J. L. Kuhn, Pay Mr. Charles R. Broom
Richard A. Munroe Edward Ingraham
Walter Cochran
William B. Brown
James B. Potts
William Vaughan Marmaduke Dove Cornelius Bennett Charles F. Waldo
John Clough F. H. Ellison
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LIEUTENANTS
Captains by Brevet. E. J. Weed, Qr. Ma'r, Ward Marston
Lewi Twiggs Joseph C. Hall
Charles C. Tupper
John Harris
William W. Dulany A. A. Nicholson.
Win. A. Bloodgood
Thomas A. Linton Thomas S. English
James MCawley
Richard Douglas
James Edelin
George W. Walker
P. G. Howle, Ad.& In. Charles Grymes
SECOND LIEUTENANTS.
Charles F. Spering
Joseph L. C. Hardy
John G. Reynolds Francis S. Neville
Alvin Edson
George F. Lindsay
Henry W. Fowler Thos. L. C. Watkins
Horatio N. Crabb
Win. A. Randolph
Francis C. Hall Thomas Lee
Henry B. Tyler
Landon N. Carter
Constantine Smith
F. N. Armistead
VESSELS OF WAR OF THE UNITED STATES NAVY.
Ships of the Line Constitution
Corvettes.
Vincennes Warren
Independence
Guerriere
John Adams
Franklin
Java
Cyane
Schooners, S.c.
Washington
Potomac
Sloops of War.
Dolphin Grampus
Ohio
Frigates, 2d Class.
Erie
Porpoise
North Carolina
Congress
Ontario
Shark
Delaware
Constellation
Peacock
Fox
Frigates, 1st Class. Macedonian
Boston
United States
Fulton, (steam)
Lexington
Alert, (store ship) Sea Gull, (galliot)
RECAPITULATION.
BANK.
Num- Pay Rations ber in per per service month
RANK.
Num- Pay Rations ber in per per service month day
Captains
31
$100
8 ra's
Captains' Clerks
25
1 ra
Do. of a vessel above
Masters' Mates
20
1 do
20 and under 32 guns
75
6 dlo
Boatswains' Mates
19
1 do
MastersCommandant
29
60
5 do
Carpenters' Mates
19
I do
Lieuten'ts. comman'g
50
4 do
Coxswains
18
1 do
Lieutenants
228
40)
3 do
Quarter Gunners
18
1 do
Surgeons
40
50
2 do
Quarter Masters
18
1 do
Surgeons' Mates
40
30
2 do
18
1 do
Pursers
43
40
2 do
Armorers
18
1 do
Chaplains
9
40
2 do
Stewards
18
1 do
Midshipmen
374
19
1 ra
Coopers
18
1 do
Sailing Masters
36
40
2 ra's
Cooks
18
1 do
Boatswains
15
20
2 do
Gunners
14
20
2 do
Lieut.ColCommand't
1 75
6 ra's
Carpenters
11
20
2 do
Captains
9
40
3 do
Sail-makers
9
20
2 do
First Lieutenants
24
30
3 do
School Masters
25
2 do
Second Lieutenants
16
25 2 do
Columbus
Brandywine
Hornet
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Rich'd T. Auchmuty Thomas B. Barton
Benjamin Macomber Job .G. Williams
A. N. Breevoorte Andrew Ross
Marine Corps.
Masters-at-Arms
day
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LIST OF MEMBERS Of the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States. COMPOSING THE TWENTIETH CONGRESS,-FIRST SESSION.
MAINE. Albion K. Paris John Chandler.
NEW HAMPSHIRE. Levi Woodbury Samuel Bell.
MASSACHUSETTS. Nathaniel Silsbee Daniel Webster. CONNECTICUT. Samuel A, Foot. Calvin Willey RHODE ISLAND. Ashur Robbins Nehemiah R. Knight. Ezekiel Chambers. VERMONT. VIRGINIA. Dudley Chase L. W. Tazewell John Tyler. Horatio Seymour.
NEW YORK. Martin Van Buren Nathan Sanford. NEW JERSEY. Mahlon Dickerson Ephraim Bateman. PENNSYLVANIA. William Marks Isaac D. Barnard. DELAWARE. Louis M.Lane
NORTH CAROLINA.
John Branch Nathaniel Macon. SOUTII CAROLINA. William Smith Robert Y. Hayne. GEORGIA. J. M. Berrien Thomas W. Cobb.
Henry M. Ridgeley. John Rowan. MARYLAND. Samuel Smith
Wm. H. Harrison Benjamin Ruggles.
LOUISIANA. Dominique Bouligny Josiah S. Johnson.
INDIANA. William Hendricks James Noble.
MISSISSIPPI. Thos. H. Williams Powhattan Ellis. ' ILLINOIS.
KENTUCKY. Richard M. Johnson Elias K. Kane Jesse B. Thomas. TENNESSEE. ALABAMA. John H. Eaton William R. King Hugh L. White. OHIO. Henry Chambers. MISSOURI. Thomas H. Benton David Barton.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
MAINE. John Anderson Samuel Butman Rufus M'Intyre Jeremiah O'Brien James W. Ripley Peleg Sprague. Jos. F. Wingate NEW HAMPSHIRE. David Barker, jr. Ichabod Bartlett Titus Brown. Joseph Healy Jonathan Harvey Thos. Whipple, jr. VERMONT. Heman Allen. Daniel A. A. Buck Jonathan Hunt Rollin C. Mallary Geo. E. Wales MASSACHUSETTS. Samuel C. Allen John Bailey Isaac C. Bates John Reed Joseph Richardson John Varnum RHODE ISLAND. Tristram Burges Dutee J. Pearce. CONNECTICUT. John Baldwin Noyes Barber Ralph J. Ingersoll Orange Merwin . Elisha Phelps David Plant NEW YORK. Daniel D. Barnard Geo. O. Belden Rudolph Bunner H. C. Martindale Dudley Marvin John Magee C. C. Cambreleng Samuel Chase John C. Clark John D. Dickinson Jonas Earll, jr. B. W. Crowninshield Daniel C. Garnsey John Davis Henry W. Dwight Edwd. Everett Benj. Gorham.
Hodges John Locke
Nath. Garrow John T. De Graff John Hallock, jr. Selah R. Hobbie Martin Hoffman Jeromurs Johnson
Richard Keese Henry Markell John Maynard Thomas J. Oakley S. Van Rensselaer Henry R. Storrs James Strong John G. Stower John W. Taylor G. C. Verplank Aaron Ward John J. Wood Silas Wright, jun. Silas Wood David Woodcock NEW JERSEY. Lewis Condict Geo. Holcombe Isaac Peirson Samuel Swan Hedge Thomson Ebenezer Tucker DELAWARE. Kensey Johns, jr. PENNSYLVANIA. Wm. Addams Samuel Anderson Thomas Barlow James Buchanan Richard Coulter Chauncey Forward Joseph Frey, jr.
Innes Green Saml. D. Ingham George Kremer Adam King. Joseph Lawrence Daniel H. Miller Charles Miner John Mitchell Samuel M·Kean Robert Orr, jr. Win. Ramsay John Sergeant Jas. S. Stevenson J. B. Sterrigere Andrew Stewart J. B. Sutherland Espy Van Horne James Wilson George Wolf MARYLAND.
John Barney Clement Dorsey Levin Gale John Leeds Kerr Peter Little Michael C. Sprigg Geo. C. Washington John C. Weems Ephraim K. Wilson VIRGINIA. Robert Allen Mark Alexander
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Wm. S. Archer
John Long
Wmn. Armstrong, jr. Lemuel Sawyer
John S. Barbour Philip P. Barbour
A. H. Shepherd
Daniel Turner
Burwell Bassett
Lewis Williams
Thomas Newton Jolın Randolphı Win. C. Rives John Roane
SOUTH CAROLINA. John Carter Warren R. Davis
Wm. Drayton
N. H. Claiborne
James Hamilton,
Geo. M.Duffie
Wm. D. Martin Thos. R. Mitchell W. T. Nuckoff's
Starling Tucker GEORGIA. John Floyd Tomlinson Fort Chas. E. Haynes
George E. Gilmer
Wilson Lumkin Wiley Thompson
(Vacancy in room of John Davenport
Forsyth elec'd Gov. James Findlay KENTUCKY.
W'm. M'Lean Wm. Russell
John Sloane
Wm. Stanbery
Joseph Vance
Saml. T. Vinton Elisha Whittlesy John Woods John C. Wright LOUISIANA. Wm. L .. Brent Henry H. Gurley Edward Livingston INDIANA. Thomas HI. Blake. Jonathan Jennings Oliver H. Smith
MISSISSIPPI. William Haile ILLINOIS. Joseph Duncan. ALABAMA. Gabriel P. Moore Geo. W. Owen John McKee. MISSOURI.
Edmund Bates. DELEGATES. Arkansas, Henry W. Conway Michigan, Austin E. Wing
- Floridas, Joseph M. White.
MILITARY ACADEMY .- WEST POINT, NEW YORK.
INSPECTOR. Brevet Major General Alexander Macomb, Chief Engineer (ex officio) Inspector of the Military Academy.
SUPERINTENDENT AND COMMANDANT.
Brevet Lieutenant Colonel S. Thayer, Corps of Engineers. INSTRUCTOR OF TACTICS.
Brevet Major W. I. Worth, (1st artillery.)
ASSISTANT INSTRUCTORS.
Captain Ethan A. Hitchcock, (1st infantry.)
2d Lieutenant James Grier, (5th infantry.)
Od Lieutenant Wm. A. Thornton, (4th Artillery.)
Brevet 2d Lieutenaut John M. Berrien, (2d Infantry.)
INSTRUCTOR OF ARTILLERY. 1st Lieutenant Z. J. D. Kinsley, (Sd Artillery.)
ACADEMY STAFF. PROFESSOR OF NATURAL PHILOSOPHY.
Jared Mansfield.
ASSISTANT PROFESSORS. 1st Lieutenant Samuel S. Smith, (Sd Artillery) Brevet 2d Lieutenant Thomas S. Twiss (Corps of Engineers.)
Thos. Davenport John Floyd Isaac Lefler Lewis Maxwell Charles F. Mercer Wm. M.Coy Alexander Smyth Andrew Stevenson John Taliaferro. James Trezvant
NORTH CAROLINA. Willis Alston D. L. Barringer John H. Bryan S. P. Carson H. W. Conner
John Culpepper Thomas Hail
Gabriel Holmes
Joseph Lecompte
Robert P. Letcher Chittenden Lyon. Thomas Metcalfe Robert M.Hatton Thos P. Moore Chas. A. Wickliffe Joel Yancey
(One vacancy.) TENNESSEE. John Bell John Blair
David Crocket.
Robert Desha
Jacob C. Isaacks Pryor I.ea John H. Marable Jas. C. Mitchell James K. Polk OH10. Mordecai Bartley Philemon Beecher
Win. Creighton, jr.
R. A. Rucker
James Clarke
Henry Daniel
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FORTRESS MONROE, VIRGINIA.
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Composed of Ten Companies, detatched from the several Regiments of Artillery.
Lieutenant Colonel, Abraham Eustis, 4th Regiment Artillery.
Major J. B. Crane, 4th Regiment Artillery.
Adjutant, Daniel Tyler, 1st Regiment Artillery.
Assistant Quartermaster, Lieutenant H. W. Fitzhugh, 2d Regiment Artillery.
Assistant Commissary of Subsistence, Lieutenant T. Green, 1st Regiment Artillery] Surgeon, Josiah Everett.
Assistant Surgeon, Henry Stephenson.
Ordnance Officer, Captain R. L. Baker, 1st Regiment Artillery.
Asst. Lieutenant Wm. H. Bell. 4th Regiment Artillery.
Instructor of Mathematics,
Instructor of Engineering. Instructor of Military Drawing.
Professor of Chemistry.
Memoranda of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence.
Chancellor Wythe, of Virginia-A lawyer, a judge of the purest morals and deepest learn- ing, idle and dissipated until thirty years of age, when he first applied himself to the law, the preceptor of Jefferson.
George Read, of Delaware --- An eminent lawyer. His biography is ample,. interesting, and authentic.
William Williams, of Connecticut-Origi- nally a town clerk, but liberally educated- then an upright, benevolent merchant, sacri- ficed the greater part of his gains to the public service.
Samuel Huntington, of Connecticut-a mere ploughman until his twenty-second year, after- wards an eminent lawyer, president of Con- gress, chief justice of his state, and governor. Ilis biography highly curious.
William Floyd, of New York-A farmer, a general, enjoyed a large share of state honours.
George Walton, of Georgia-Originally an apprentice to a carpenter in Virginia, self-edu- cated to the law, a colonel, wounded in battle, twice governor of Georgia, chief justice, sena- tor of the United States.
George Clymer, of Pennsylvania-A mer- chant, fond of literature, a terse, sententious writer, an efficient and honourable patriot. His biography full and interesting, but diffuse:
" Goodness his delight, Wisdom his wealth, and glory his reward."
Benjamin Rusb, as a physician and an author, omni laude cumulatus, the most celebrated of the American faculty, distinguished for his po- litical connexions and labours.
Matthew Thornton, of New Hampshire-A successful practitioner of medicine, army sur- geon before the revolution, a president of the provincial convention, a judge of the Supreme Court, a man of wit and humour, continued to practice physic while a judge, wrote political essays for the newspapers, and prepared a me- taphysical work for publication, after he was eighty years of age: died in his eighty-ninth year.
William Whipple, of New Hampshire-Ori- ginally a cabin boy and sailor, a captain at the age of twenty-one, then a merchant, a general, who fought with Gates, and elsewhere, arranged the capitulation of Burgoyne, a judge of the superior court; " As a sailor," says the biogra- phy, " he speedily attained the highest rank in his profession, as a merchant, he was circum- spect and industrious, as a congressman, he was firm and fearless, as a legislator, he was honest and able, as a commander, he was cool and courageous, as a judge, he was dignified and impartial, and as a member of many subordinate
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public offices, be was alert and persevering. He bore all his honours with modesty and pro- priety."
Dr. John Witherspoon, of New Jersey, an cininent and profound pivine, president of Nas- sau Hall College, a political writer of force and talent, a statesman of great influence and ener- gy. His biography is ample and instructive.
Robert Morris, of Pennsylvania, a merchant, the unrivalled financier of the revolution, the pecuniary soul of the cause. His biography, like that of others, needs compression, but it is in- teresting and correct.
Abraham Clark, of New Jersy, a surveyor, a lawyer, and gave gratuitous counsel.
Francis Lewis, of New York, a merchant, and soldier, before the Revolution, very useful as a rebel, his fine estate on Long Island de- stroyed by the British, and his wife carried off a prisoner, she died soon after, from the ill treat- ment which was experienced. He was ruined by the part which he took on the American side --- died in the ninetieth year of his age.
John Pann, of North Carolina, uneducated in early life; became a lawyer, and eminent, by opsimathy.
James Wilson, of Pennsylvania, a lawyer, of rare capacity, and of surpassing faculties as a speaker and writer, an efficient political essay- ist, the principal advocate of the Constitution of 1787, in the Pennsylvania Convention, pro- fessor of law, one of the judges of the Supreme Court of the United States. His biography is replete with valuable information and political anecdote.
Carter Braxton, of Virginia, a planter, be- came a merchant, lost all, and died of a broken heart.
John Morton, of Pennsylvania, a surveyor, speaker of the General Assembly of Pennsylva- nia. a judge of the Supreme Court of the com- monwealth, gave the casting vote of the Penn- sylvania delegation, for the declaration of inde- pendecce, originally a ploughboy.
Stephen Hopkins, of Rhode Island, a plain farmer, surveyor, became speaker of the as- sembly, chief justice, then governor of Rhode Island, a man of superior sense, and a good and successful writer, a distinguished mathemati- cian, and natural philosopher, though his cdu- cation was slight, and a member of the Ameri- can Philosophical Society. His signature of the declaration is the only crooked and feeble oue. " As it indicates," says his biographer, " a very tremulous hand, in perfect contrast with the bold and prominent writing of President Han- cock, it may have engendered surmises unfa- vourable to the determined spirit of Mr. Hop- kins. We therefore state, that for a number of years previous, he had been afflicted with a ner- vous affection, and when he wrote at all, which
was seldom, he was compelled to guide his right hand with his left."
Thomas M·Kcan, of Pennsylvania, a lawyer of great abilities and ardent revolutionary pa- triotism, chief justice of the commonwealth, governor, died eighty-three years old. His bi- ography entirely authentic, and replete with instructive details.
James Smith, of Pennsylvania, lawyer and surveyor, remarkable for facetiousness and ec- centricity, practised the law for upwards of six- ty years, died a nonagenarian. His article very pleasant.
Thomas Nelson, of Virginia, educated in England, an opulent planter, active military officer, commander-in-chief of the Virginia Ini- litia, whom he bravely and skilfully headed at the siege of Yorktown, governor of Virginia, died in reduced circumstances, having made enormous pecuniary sacrifices to the revolu- tionary cause.
Joseph Hawes, of North Carolina, a success- ful merchant, bred a Quaker, died when attend- ing Congress, in 1779.
George Taylor, of Pennsylvania, on arriving in America from Ireland, bound himself for a term of years, as a common labourer, at the iron works at Durham on the Delaware, near East- on, was made clerk to the works, the proprietor dying, he espoused his widow, and finally be- came himself owner of the whole, amassed a large fortune, got into the provincial assembly, a member of business .- Nothing more is recol- lected of him in the vicinity of his residence, than that "he was a fine man and a furious whig.”
John Hart, of New Jersey, a farmer, surnam- ed " honest John," had never held a public office, when he was chosen a delegate to Con- gress, his farm pillaged and destroyed by the Hessians, bis biography possesses a peculiar interest, as a very edifying illustration of the character and course of an American yeoman.
Lewis Morris, of New York, gentleman far- mer and large landed proprietor, his whole do- main laid waste and ruined by the enemy, had three gallant sons in the field, the celebrated Gouverneur Morris his half brother.
Wm. Ellery, of Rhode Island, a well educa- ted lawyer, an early revolutionary patriot, a very useful member of Congress, throughout the war. " He often," says his biographer, " spoke of the signing of the Declaration of In- dependence, and he spoke of it as an event, which many regarded with awc, perhaps, with uncertainty, but none with fear. He used to relate, that he placed himself beside the Secre- tary, Thompson, and eyed each delegate close- ly as he affixed his naine to the document, and he saw dauntless resolution in every 'counte- nance. Ellery died without pain at the age of
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ninety-three, sitting upright in bed, and read- . Josiah Bartlett, of New Hampshire, a suc- ing Tully's Offices in the Latin.
"Of no distemper, of no blast he died, But fell like autumn-fruit that mellow'd long; Ev'n wonder'd at because he falls no sooner. Fate seemed to wind up for fourscore years: Yet freshly ran he on twelve winters foure; Till, like a clock worn out with eating time, "The wheel of weary life at last stood still."
Lyman Hall, of Georgia, an emigrant froin Connecticut, a well trained physician, a useful member of Congress, made great sacrifices, Governor of Georgia, 1783.
Oliver Wolcott, of Connecticut, a graduate of Yale College, captain in the army before the Revolution, studied modicine, a major general of militia, aided in conquering Burgoyne, a judge, finally Governor of Connecticut.
Richard Stockton, of New Jersey, an accom- plished lawyer and scholar, unrivalled at the bar of his state. After acquiring a competent fortune in his profession, travelled with much eclat in Great Britain, one of the judges of the Supreme Court of New Jersey, embarked early and vehemently in the Revolution, surprised and captured by the enemy, and committed to the common jail at New York. Congress direct- ed General Washington to interfere in his be- balf, and threaten retaliation, his health impair- ed, his property devastated, died prematurely of complicated afflictions, occasioned by his pa- triotism.
Button Gwinnett, of Georgia, originally a merchant, became a planter, au enthusiastic rebel; president of the provincial council, killed in a duel with general McIntosh, 1777, at the age of forty-five.
cessful practitioner of medicine, a leading whig in his province, commanded a regiment, the first who voted in Congress for the Declaration, and the second who signed it, chief justice of New Hampshire, the first republican governor of that state.
Philip Livingston, of New York, one of the cornmittee of five appointed to prepare the De- claration of Independence, a graduate of Yale College, a prosperous and honoured merchant, conspicuous member of the provincial Legisla- ture, speaker, died while attending Congress, in 1778, a martyr to his public zeal. -
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