Rose Terry Cooke's capital tale of Freedom Wheeler's Controversy, pay fresh tribute to her rare skill in depicting New England traits and customs, in seeing that a third Eliakim stands next to John on the list. They wasted no middle names upon babies, at that date, and even at that had not enough to go around.

The second John, born November 23, 1709, was less than a year old when his father accepted the office of chaplain in the movement against Canada led by Admiral Walker and General Hill, and in the next year revisited the land of his captivity yet again, in the same capacity in a winter expedition under the conduct of Colonel, formerly Captain, Stoddard for the express purpose of redeeming prisoners. For some reason, not given by his biographer, he made a brief sojourn in the unfriendly country. He was back in Deerfield before three months were over, and remained there until his death, June 12, 1729, in the sixtyfifth year of his age and the forty-fourth of his ministry. His people mourned for him as for a prophet and leader.

One biographical notice, penned by a brother clergyman, cites his

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voluntary abandonment of the scenes of his beloved nativity, secure from the incursions of the savages, to settle in a frontier place, perpetually exposed to their and his return to the work of the depredations ministry, subject to the same dangers, after the complicated afflictions of his captivity," as proofs of ardent love for the people of his care; and that "he was animated with the spirit of a martyr in the advancement of the Gospel."

His

This Representative Man of the New England of that hard and heroic period was the very stoutest stuff of which martyrs are made. He fought what his honest soul conceived to be deadly error as Christian fought Apollyon. A volume written by him is still preserved as a literary and ecclesiastical curiosity. autograph is upon the flyleaf and the titlepage bears the caption: Some joco-serious reflections upon Romish fopperies. It was penned in a lighter vein than was common with him at sight of the scarlet flag. In summing up his "afflictions and trials; my wife and two children killed, and many of my neighbors, and myself and so many of my children and friends in a Popish captivity," he meant the italicized words to be the climax of his

sorrows.

Hearing that his son Samuel had been

"turned to Popery," he made time in the intervals of his labors under a taskmaster, to write a letter of ten pages to the lad, which brought him back to the old fold, in which he remained, a joy and comfort to his father, until his death at the early age of twenty-four.

Eleazar was ordained to the work of the ministry in 1710, and his children played about their grandfather's knees before he went to his reward. Stephen, whose narrative of What befell Stephen Williams in his Captivity, indited soon after his release, is an extraordinary production for a boy of twelve, also chose his father's profession, after his graduation from Harvard, and was installed in the picturesque town of Longmeadow, Massachusetts, in 1718. He served his country as chaplain in three campaigns, received the honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity from Yale and also from Dartmouth, and died, full of years and honors, in the ninetieth year of his age. Seven grown sons stood by the coffin at his funeral, three of whom were clergymen.

The grand old hero of Deerfield saw still a third son in the pulpit,—Warham, who was but four years old at the captivity, and so wrought upon the compassion of the Indians that they