that once knew the familiar touch of fair hands which have been dust for a century and more. Fashionable folk strolled and chattered in the dining-room where Washington sat down to supper, sad-eyed and haggard, on the night of September 21, 1776, and in the tea-room, beloved by M. Jumel, in which Aaron Burr was married, and where Madame lay in state thirty-three years afterward. And one of the hundreds who came and went under the cloudless sky of the perfect spring afternoon, strolled apart to a secluded nook of shrubbery to read and dream over this advertisement printed in the lower left-hand corner of the great, square blue card.

HE Members of Washington Heights

THE

Chapter, D.A.R., are thoroughly imbued with the spirit of Washington and things and incidents pertaining to the Revolutionary period, and the proposed fête champétre is in honor of a visit to the celebrated house on Washington Heights, made by President Washington, accompanied by Mrs. Washington, Vice-President and Mrs. John Adams, their son, John Quincy Adams; Secretary of State and Mrs. Thomas Jefferson, Secretary of War and Mrs. Knox, and Secretary of the Treasury, General Alexander and Mrs. Hamilton. .

"MR

R. HENRY SMITH and his wife and three sons, and two daughters, and three men-servants and two maid-servants . . came from Norfolk,

and settled in New Hingham, 1638." This is the record of the town clerk of Hingham, Massachus

etts.

A family register gives the date (probably the correct one) of 1636 to the immigration aforesaid, and locates Rev. Henry Smith as the first pastor

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of the Wethersfield (Conn.) church, in 1638. Mr. Smith was, we learn furthermore, a Puritan in England, while his father and brother were

Royalists. He resigned home, fortune, and family for "freedom to worship GoD," and "well-proved the terrors of the wilderness," on this side of the Atlantic.

His son Ichabod was the father of Samuel, who became one of the first settlers of Suffield, Conn. While there, he married Jerusha, daughter of the celebrated Cotton Mather, D.D. Their son, Cotton Mather Smith, born in 1731, was a graduate of Yale College in 1751, and in 1755, being twenty-four years of age, he was ordained to the work of the ministry in Sharon, Conn., being the third pastor of the (then) Established Church in that place.

His wife was Temperance Worthington, the granddaughter of Sir William Worthington, one of Cromwell's colonels. The provisions of Rev. Cotton Mather Smith's call to his first and only charge are peculiar and interesting.

"Town Meeting, Jan. 8, 1755. Voted, That a committee confer with Mr. Smith, and know which will be most acceptable to him, to have a larger settlement and a small salary, or a larger salary and a smaller settlement, and make report to this meeting."

"Town Meeting, Jan. 15, 1755.

Voted,

That we will give to said Mr. Smith 420 ounces of silver or equivalent in old tenor Bills, for a settlement to be paid in three years after settlement.

‘Voted, That we will give to said Mr. Smith 220 Spanish dollars, or an equivalent in old tenor Bills, for his yearly salary."

Mr. Smith's acceptance of the call contains. this clause: "As it will come heavy upon some, perhaps, to pay salary and settlement together, I have thought of releasing part of the payment of the salary for a time to be paid to me again.

The first year I shall allow you out of the salary you have voted me, 40 dollars, the 2d 30 dollars, the 3d year 15, the 4th year 20, to be repaid to me again, the 5th year 20 more, the 6th year 20 more, and the 25 dollars that remain, I am willing that the town shall keep 'em for their own use."

He discharged the duties of this pastorate for 52 years. He was distinguished for great eminence in learning, piety, and patriotism, and such gifts of heart, and mind, and person, as endeared him indissolubly to his people. The small-pox breaking out in Sharon while he was still comparatively a young man, he and

Mrs. Smith separated themselves from family and home, and labored diligently among their smitten flock until the pestilence subsided.

His wife thus recounts a scene in the Sharon Meeting - House on the the Sabbath morning chosen by Parson Smith for the improvement of the text " Arise, O Lord, in Thine anger! lift up thyself because of mine enemies, and awake for me to the judgment Thou hast commanded."

Before the close of the last line of the

hymn, a messenger with jingling spurs strode down the aisle and up the high pulpit stairs, where he told the news to my husband, who proclaimed in clear, ringing tones that the die had been cast, that blood had been shed, and there was no more choice between War and Slavery."

Mr. Smith himself volunteered as chaplain to the 4th Connecticut regiment, commanded by Colonel Hinman.

While at Ticonderoga with General Schuyler, he fell dangerously ill, and "Madam" Smith, "being warned of God in a dream," undertook a journey of one hundred and fifty miles by forest and stream, to reach and nurse him. The thrilling narrative as told by herself has