(6) Resident Members of the Society. Those with prefixed have died; those with † have resigned, or removed from Ebenezer Adams, Nathaniel Adams,(1) Daniel Adams, Charles H. Atherton, David Barker, Jr. Ichabod Bartlett, Richard Bartlett, Rev. Nathaniel Bouton, Henry B. Chase, Samuel E. Coues, Rev. Jaazaniah Crosby, Charles W. Cutter, *James Freeman Dana, (3) Moses Eastman, John Farmer, (1) Died at Exeter, while attending his duties as Clerk of the Superior Court, 5 Aug. 1829, at the age of 73. See page 110 of this volume. (2) Died in the ministry, at Durham, 9 Feb. 1828, aged 39. See page 207 of this volume. (3) Died in the city of New-York, 15 April, 1827, aged 33. See Memoir of him in Vol. ii. 290-300. (4) Died at Portsmouth, 3 June, 1826, aged 36. See Memoir, Vol. ii. 229–235. Also, the Memoir in his Remains, xi-xl. Rev. William Allen, D. D. Rev. Timothy Alden, Hon. Francis Baylies, James Bowdoin, Esq. *Nathaniel H. Carter, Esq.(2) Hon. John Davis, LL. D. Rev. Thaddeus M. Harris, D. D. Rev. Abiel Holmes, D. D., LL. D. C. C. Rafn, P. D., F. S. A. 1826 Brunswick, Me. 8 do. 1825 Taunton, Ms. 9 do. 1831 Boston, Ms. 9 do. 1831 New-York, N. Y. 8 do. 1825 Washington, D. C. 9 do. 1831 Bostou, Ms. 9 do. 1831 Charlestown, Ms. 15 do. 1827 Dorchester, Ms. 14 do. 1826 Cambridge, Ms. 8 do. 1825 Portland, Me. 15 do. 1827 Copenhagen, Den. 10 Dec. 1828 Boston, Ms. 8 June, 1825 Concord, Ms. 1831 Providence, R. I. 9 do. 1831 Brunswick, Me. 9 do. 1831 Boston, Ms. 9 do. 1831 Salem, Ms. 1831 Boston, Ms. 8 do. 1825 Joseph Willard, LL. B. Boston, Ms. 14 do. 1826 Joseph E. Worcester, A. A. S. Cambridge, Ms. 10 Dec. 1828 (1) Died 29 March, 1830. (2) Died at Marseilles in France, 2 Jan. 1830, aged 43. (3) Died 8 Oct. 1829, aged 41. COLLECTIONS, Memoir of the Life of the HoN. SAMUEL DANA, late of Amherst, in the County of Hillsborough, State of New-Hampshire.-Ey HON. CHARLES H. ATHERTON, of Amherst. SAMUEL DANA was first admitted an attorney in the courts of this State in the county of Hillsborough. He came to the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in the autumn of 1781, when he was 42 years of age. He was admitted an attorney of the Superior Court of Judicature, September Term, in 1783, and continued in the practice of law at Amherst, until the time of his death, the second day of April, 1798, when he had passed, but a few months, his fifty-ninth year. The circumstances which led him to enter the profession of law, at such an advanced age, will appear in the following sketch of his life.. His father was a respectable mechanic in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with a numerous family. Samuel, his second son, was born January 14, 1739, Ó. S., in that part of Cambridge, now Brighton, and was the favorite selected by his parents for a liberal education and for the ministry. He was placed under the tuition of the famous master Minot, of Concord, and in 1751, was admitted a member of the freshman class in Harvard University, at the age of twelve years; a convincing proof of the aptitude of his mind to acquire instruction; for with all the modern improvements in education, it is difficult to fit a boy for college at that early period. In the year 1755, he was regularly graduated in that celebrated class, of which John Adams, late President of the United States, was a member. In pursuance of his original destination, Mr. Dana qualified himself for the ministry in the desultory manner, then but too common, by availing himself of the books and advice of the neighboring clergymen. He began to preach early, and the popularity of the young clergyman, soon secured him a call. He was settled in the ministry at Groton, Massachusetts, June 3, 1761, the successor of the Rev. Caleb Trowbridge. Having now, as he supposed, secured to himself a permanent establishment, and consulting alike his own happiness and his ministerial usefulness, he in the succeeding year (1762) united himself in wedlock with Miss Anna Kenrick. sincere and zealous devotion to his sacred trust, Years of on his part, and of confidence and affection on the part of his parish followed. his brethren of the clergy and caressed by his peoRespected by ple, his prospects in life seemed settled, clear, serene. How little could it then have been apprehended, that he was to terminate his life a member of the profession of the law in a neighboring State? The respect and esteem of the clergy he never lost; but the affection and confidence of his people were soon to fail him. Even then a storm was gathering which was to darken his prospects and blast his hopes. The encroachments of the mother country and the rights of the colonies soon became the topics, which occupied all minds, and overpowered and absorbed all other considerations. Such was the jeopardy in which the country was placed, and such the excited state of the popular feeling, that all other ties yielded to the more intense grasp of political ties. The language of the people was, he who is not for us is against us," and Mr. Dana, if not a royalist, was at least lukewarm in |