APPENDIX.

NOTE A.

Elementary School Books.-For a considerable time the New-England Primer was almost the only elementary book in general use in the New-England Colonies. The Psalter was used as a succeeding book, and children oftea went from the lessons of the Primer to the Psalms of David. The Youth's Instructor was used about as early as the middle of the last century, and was one of the best publications which had preceded it in this country. The Spelling Book of Thomas Dilworth, a schoolmaster at Wapping, in England, who died in 1781, probably followed the Youth's Instructor, and continued in use some years after the American Revolution closed. Perry's Spelling Book was used to a considerable extent as early as 1782, and it is still used in some parts of the country.

Dr. Noah Webster compiled his Spelling Book at Goshen, Orange county, in the State of New-York, in the year 1782. He was then teacher of a classical school in that place. In the autumn of that year, he carried the first copy to Philadelphia, and showed it to several members of Congress. On his way, he called on the Rev. Samuel S. Smith, then Professor of Theology in Nassau Hall, Princeton, who suggested to him the expediency of making an important alteration in putting words ending in tion, which had been considered as forming two syllables, into but one syllable. Doubts were entertained by Mr. W. whether such an innovation would be received by the public; yet he made it, and the event showed the correctness of Mr. Smith's opinion. The work was published by Hudson and Goodwin, at Hartford, in 1783. The number of printed copies of Mr. Webster's Spelling Book, for about thirty years, is supposed not to fall much short of ten millions. Mr. Webster's Grammar, entitled "A Grammatical Institute of the English Language," was published in 1784, and his American Selection of pieces for Reading soon followed. These were used in our schools for many years.

NOTE C,

List of School Books now used, to a greater or less extent in the District Schools of New-Hampshire ;- —so far as known.

I. ELEMENTARY AND READING BOOKS.

Webster's, Marshall's, Cummings, Kelley's, Atwood's (Defining), Emerson's, Spelling Book. New Testament; Popular Lessons; Progressive Reader; Leavitt's Easy Lessons; Analytical Reader, by Samuel Putnam; Book for N. H. Children, by Rev. H. Hildreth; The First Reader, by Rev. J. L. Blake; The English Reader, by Murray; The National Reader, by J. Pierpont; Scott's Lessons; American Preceptor; Historical Reader, by Rev. J. L. Blake; Leonard's Scientific Class Book; Sequel to Analytical Reader, by S. Putnam; Rhetorical Analysis, by E. Porter; Hale's History of the United States; Parley's Frst Book of History; 2d. do.

II. GRAMMAR,

Murray's English Grammar; Murray abridged by Samuel Putnam; Murray, Simplified by A. Fisk; John M. Putnam's Grammar; R. C. Smith's Grammar; Iogersoll's Grammar; Parkhurst's Grammar; Frost's Grammar; Nutting's Grammar.

III. GEOGRAPHY.

Morse's, Cummings', Adams', Worcester's, Olney's, Woodbridge's, Goodrich's, Leavitt's, Peter Parley's.

IV. ARITHMETIC.

Colburn's Arithmetic; Emerson's North American, 1st and 2d part; Pike's, (Improved); Adams', Old and New; Walsh's; Leavitt's Teacher's Assistant.

V. HISTORY.

Hale's History of the United States; Whelpley's Compend; Goodrich's History of the United States; Farmer's Historical Catechism of N. H.; Farmer's Constitution of N. H.

VI. MISCELLANEOUS.

Blair's Rhetoric, abridged.

Conversations on Chemistry. Blake's Natural Philosophy, Vose's Astronomy; Wilkins' Astronomy. Cummings' First Lessons in Astronomy and Geography. Flint's Surveying. Wrifford's Chirography.

NOTE D.

TABLE showing the number of Persons from New-Hampshire who have graduated at Dartmouth, Harvard, Yale, Brown, Williams, Bowdoin, Middlebury, Amherst and Waterville Colleges, since the year 1800, as nearly as can be ascertained.

The number from New-Hampshire at other Colleges is omitted, as the years they severally graduated cannot be given. Four of those who were graduated at Brown, are omitted from not knowing the year they graduated.

CLERGYMEN.

The number of settled ministers in New-Hampshire at the beginning of the eighteenth century was only four, viz. Rev. John Pike of Dover, Rev. John Clark of Exeter, Rev. John Cotton of Hampton, Rev. Nathaniel Rogers of Portsmouth. Rev. John Buss was at the same time a preacher at Durham, and in 1703, Rev. John Emerson was settled at New-Castle.

In 1727, there were eleven ordained ministers in New-Hampshire; who, with all

the civil and military officers in the province, were required to take the oath of allegiance to his Majesty King George II., and to swear that from their hearts, they abhorred, detested, abjured as impious and heretical that damnable doctrine that Princes excommunicated, or deprived by the Pope, or any authority of the See of Rome, may be deposed or murthered by their subjects or any other whatsoever.' In 1767, the number of Congregational and Presbyterian ministers was 65, and the population was 52,700, giving one to every 764 inhabitants.

In 1787, the number was 78, or one to every 1770 inhabitants.

In 1800, the number was 107, or one to every 1718 inhabitants.

In 1810, there were 104, or one to every 2061 inhabitants.

In 1820, the number was reduced to 98, or one to every 2494 inhabitants.

In 1830, the number was 130, or one to every 2073 inhabitants. The oldest ministers who have been settled in N. H. now living, are Hon. Paine Wingate, in his 95th year; Rev. Nathaniel Porter, D. D., in his 89th year; Rev. Jeremiah Shaw, in his 87th year; Rev. Jeremiah Barnard, in his 84th year; and Rev. Samuel Wood, D. D., in his 82d year.

The number of ministers of other denominations at these several periods, could not be ascertained in season for this note; but the whole number who were in the ministry in the State at the commencement of the present year, according to the NewHampshire Annual Register, was 349, or one to 783 inhabitants.

Of the Congregational and Presbyterian clergy, the number educated at college stands as follows:-At Harvard, 186; Dartmouth, 111; Yale, 39; Brown, 21; Middlebury, 20; New-Jersey, 10; Williams, 7; Bowdoin, 3; Amherst, 3; Hamilton, 1; Philadelphia, 1; at the universities of Cambridge, England, and Edinburgh and Glasgow in Scotland, as many as eight.

LAWYERS,

The number of lawyers in New-Hampshire in 1767, according to Mein and Fleeming's Register of New-England for 1768, was only eight, or one to every 6600 inhabitants. Judge Pickering, who died 11 April, 1805, was the last living of these eight. Six years afterwards the number had more than doubled.

In 1787, there were 29 Practising Attorneys in New-Hampshire, or one to every 4600 inhabitants. Of these only two are living, the Hon. JEREMIAH SMITH, LL.D. of Exeter, and the Hon. WILLIAM PLUMER of Epping, both of whom have been governors of the State, and are the oldest members of the N. II. Historical Society. In 1800, the number of lawyers practising at the Superior and Inferior Courts, was 80, or one to every 2300 inhabitants. More than half of this number have since died.

In 1810, the number was 123, or one to every 1800 inhabitants. More than half of this number have since died or left the practice. Thirty-seven of this number have died, and eight are now out of the State.

In 1820, the number was 198, or one to every 1200 inhabitants. Of these one hundred and ninety-eight, thirty-two have died, nineteen others have left the State, and thirty have retired from practice.

In 1830, the number was 232, (not including 13 who had retired from practice) or one to every 1100 inhabitants. The present number in practice may be estimated at about 207. The whole number of lawyers who have been settled in practice in this State is 472. Of this number, 182 were graduated at Dartmouth College, 104 at Harvard, 13 at Bowdoin, 6 at Yale, 6 at Middlebury, 6 at Williams, 3 at Brown, and one at each of Union, New-Jersey, Vermont, and the Roman Catholic College. One hundred and forty-eight did not graduate, although a number of them were members of college before commencing their legal studies.-Memoirs of Lawyers in MSS. by JOHN FARMER.

PHYSICIANS.

The physicians outnumber either of the other professions, but to give the exact number at different periods will be impossible. A Collection of their names in the different towns has been making for several years, but is not completed so far as to present the aggregate who have practised in this State from its first settlement.

MEMORIALS

Of the Graduates of Harvard University, at Cambridge, Massachusetts. By JOHN FARMER.

[Dr. BELKNAP, the accomplished historian of New-Hampshire, in 1793, a few years after he left this State, issued proposals for publishing a work to be continued in volunes, entitled AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY, in which, among various kinds of persons distinguished in America, he proposed to give an historical account of "THE DECEASED GRADUATES OF HARVARD COLLEGE." One volume was published during the life of the author, and another soon after his death, but neither of these brought the work down to so late a period as to include any account of the Graduates of Harvard, and from that time to the present, no publication has appeared proposing to give an account of the deceased sons of the oldest university in the country. The beginning of so desirable an object is here attempted, and should the attempt be sufficiently encouraged, it may be continued in a separate form, for which propos als have already been issued.]

1642.

1. BENJAMIN WOODBRIDGE, D. D., whom Dr. Calamy calls "the lasting glory, as well as the first fruits of the college in New-England, as Bishop Usher was at that of Dublin," was son of Rev. Joh nWoodbridge, minister of the parish of Stanton in Wiltshire, and was born in the year 1622. His paternal ancestors for several generations were clergymen. His mother was daughter of Rev. Robert Parker, a learned puritan divine, and author of De Signo Crucis, De descensu Christi ad Inferos, and De Politeia Ecclesiasticaworks much esteemed by the dissenting clergymen of his time. His brother, Rev. John Woodbridge, was partly educated at Oxford, and came to this country in 1634, withhis uncle Rev. Thomas Parker, and afterwards became the first minister of Andover, Massachusetts. Benjamin Woodbridge had been a member of Magdalen College, in Ox