State of New-York, and appears to have been living in 1830.

JOSEPH BLODGET, A. B., a native of Stafford, Connecticut, was ordained the minister of Greenwich, Massachusetts, 8 November, 1786, and continued in the ministerial office in 1831.

ASA DAY, A. M., was employed as a schoolmaster. He was living in 1830.

ELIJAH DUNBAR, A. M., studied law, and settled in practice at Claremont, New-Hampshire, as early as 1797, and while there was appointed a civil magistrate in 1802. He removed to Keene in 1804, and represented that town in the legislature in the years 1806, 1808, and 1810.--Records in Secretary's Office.

JOHN FOSTER, A. M., D. D., brother of Rev. Daniel Foster, who graduated in the class of 1777, was born at Western, Massachusetts, 19 April, 1763. He very early fitted himself for a preacher, as he was ordained at Brighton, Massachusetts, the next year after he graduated. He was dismissed from his ministerial office 31 October, 1827, having on that day completed fortythree years of service. He died 15 September, 1829, in the sixty-seventh year of his age. His doctorate he received from Harvard College in 1815. He published fourteen occasional sermons, and wrote the third volume of the Christian Monitor, published in 1806, containing eight short sermons.-Christian Register of October 3, 1829. TILLY HOWE, A. B., a native of Marlborough, Massachusetts, was a preacher, and for a number of years officiated at Sharon, New-Hampshire. He died at Fryeburg, Maine, in October, 1830, at the age of 80.

HENRY HUNTINGTON, A. M., from Norwich, Connecticut, has acquired a large property by land speculations in the State of New-York.-MS. Letter from Hon. J. P. Buckingham.

CALVIN KNOWLTON, A. M., son of the Hon. Luke Knowlton, one of the early settlers of Newfane, Vermont, was an attorney at law, and settled in Newfane, where he died 20 January, 1800, aged 39. He sustained several civil offices, was a respectable lawyer, and a worthy man.-Thompson, Gazetteer of Vermont, 196.

SAMUEL SARGENT, A. M., from Malden, Massachusetts, was ordained the minister of the Congregational church in Woburn, in that State, 14 March, 1785. He was dismissed 27 May, 1799, afterwards went to Vermont, and died at Chester, in that State, in the year 1818.--Chickering, Dedication Sermon at Woburn.

PELEG SPRAGUE, A. M,, was born in Rochester, Massachusetts, 10 December, 1756. He was brought up in a merchant's store; but on coming to years of maturity, his friends imagined that the endowments of his mind qualified him to move in a different sphere. He was accordingly prepared for college, and passed through his collegiate studies with reputation. He studied law with Hon. Benjamin West, of Charlestown, and was admitted to the Bar in 1787. He opened an office at Dartmouth, now New Bedford, Massachusetts, and continued there a year or two, when conceiving that he could do better somewhere else, he removed to Keene, New-Hampshire, where he soon acquired a good share of practice. He was appointed solicitor for Cheshire county as early as 1794, and was elected member of Congress in 1797, and took his seat on the 15th December, that year. In this situation, he appeared to very good advantage, and his fortitude of mind was of peculiar advantage to him. He was an easy. speaker and felt no kind of intimidation in opposing any measure, however great the characters might be of those who supported it. But at the meridian of life his impaired state of health was

inconsistent with his being any longer a candidate for office. He died in 1800, aged 44. Knapp, Sketches of Lawyers, &c. 337, 338. Coll. of F. § M. iii. 53.

ELISHA TICKNOR, A. M., son of Col. Elisha Ticknor, and a descendant from William Ticknor, who was an inhabitant of Scituate, Mass. in 1656, was born in Connecticut in 1756. After he graduated, he was preceptor of Moor's School at Hanover until 1786, when he removed to Boston, where he was principal of a Grammar School until 1794, and afterwards a successful merchant. The primary Schools of Boston, it is believed owe something to Mr. Ticknor for their present happy arrangement; and the establishment of the Savings institution was an object in which he labored with peculiar interest. His son George Ticknor, born in 1791, graduated at Dartmouth College in 1807, and is the Smith Professor of French and Spanish Literature and Professor of Belles-lettres in Harvard University.-Deane, Hist. Scituate.

HERCULES WESTON, A. B., was ordained the minister of Cornwall, in Connecticut, in 1791, and was living in 1831, as appears from the triennial catalogue.

1784.

SOLOMON AIKEN, A. M., a native of Hardwick, Massachusetts, was ordained the minister of Dracut, in that State, 4 June, 1788, and was in the ministry more than twenty years. He was known as a political partisan, and published several sermons, in which he vindicated the measures and principles of the party then in power, and which had a considerable circulation then in NewEngland. These works were two sermons delivered at Dracut, 6 April, 1809; a letter addressed to Rev. Samuel Spring, D. D., of Newburyport,

on the subject of his sermons, 12mo. pp. 34; and a Fast sermon, on the rise and progress of religious dissention in the United States, preached 11 May, 1811, 8vo. pp. 22. Mr. Aiken left Dracut, and it is believed went to the State of New-York. He has been dead several years.

BENJAMIN CHAPMAN, A. M., is said to be the same with Benjamin Chatman, mentioned in Greenleaf's Ecclesiastical Sketches, p. 152, as being settled in Edgecombe, in Maine, 4 March, 1801, and who died 13 July, 1804.

NATHAN CHURCH, A. M., from South Hadley, Mass., was ordained the first minister of Bridgton, Me., 17 June, 1789.

RUFUS FAIRBANKS, A. B., from Brimfield, Massachusetts, settled as a merchant in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and was living in 1830.--MS. Letter of Rev. W. F. Rowland.

THOMAS GROSs, A. M., was ordained the first minister of Hartford, Vermont, 7 June, 1786; dismissed February, 1808.-Thompson, Gaz. Vermont. His son, Hon. Ezra C. Gross, a member of Congress from New York, and of the New York Legislature, died at Albany, 9 April, 1829.

WILLIAM MONTAGUE, A. M., from South Hadley, Massachusetts, became the Episcopal minister of Christ Church in Boston, April, 1786, and left within about six years. He went to Dedham in 1791, and became the rector of the Episcopal church in that place, where he remained until he was dismissed by Bishop Griswold, in July, 1818. He was also during some part of the last period, the preacher at Quincy, where, on 8th of April, 1793, the Episcopal society contracted with him to preach monthly, which he did until 1799.-Bowen's Picture of Boston, 133. Worthington, History of Dedham, 123. Whitney, History of Quincy, 42.

ETHAN OSBORN, A. B., a native of Litchfield, Connecticut, was settled as a preacher at Fairfield, New-Jersey.-MS. Letter of Rev. W. F. Rowland.

JACOB OSBORN, A. M., was also a native of Litchfield, in Connecticut.-Ibid.

CHRISTOPHER PAIGE, A. M., son of William Paige, was born at Hardwick, Massachusetts, 12 June, 1762. He was ordained the first minister of Pittsfield, New-Hampshire, in 1789, and was dismissed in 1795. He was installed the first minister of Roxbury, in the same State, 21 Nov. 1816; was dismissed 11 March, 1819, and died at Salisbury, New-Hampshire, 12 October, 1822, in the 65th year of his age. His wife was the widow of Rev. Elijah Fletcher, of Hopkinton. Elijah Fletcher Paige, his son, graduated at Harvard College in 1810, and died in Virginia in 1817.

ELIJAH PAYNE, A. M., son of Col. Elisha Payne, of Lebanon, an early trustee of Dartmouth College, settled in Lebanon; was appointed justice of the peace for the county of Grafton, 5 January, 1795, and died in early life.

DAVID PORTER, A. B., D. D., son of Mr. Increase Porter, was born at Hebron, in Connecticut, 27 May, 1761, studied theology with several clergymen, and preached in various places until 1789. He received a call to settle over the church in Spencertown, New York, and was ordained 14 September, 1789. From this station he was dismissed, and was installed over the church in Cattskill, in the same State, in October, 1803, where he now resides. He received from Williams College the honorary degree of D. D. in 1814. He has published from fifteen to twenty sermons, besides a treatise on baptism.

AMBROSE PORTER, A. B., cousin of the preceding, was was son of David Porter, of Hebron,