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ELEAZAR WHEELOCK, A. M., one of the two youngest sons of the founder of the college, was born in 1756. He commenced trade after he graduated, and failed in business. He then removed his family to Ohio and soon after died. Ibid.

LEVI WILLARD, A. B., son of Colonel Willard, of Hartland, Vermont, was the most prominent for talents of any belonging to his class, but habits of intemperance, which became confirmed after he left college, abated his intellectual energies, and he settled down in obscurity, in which he has ever since remained.-Ibid.

1777.-ASA BURTON, A. M., D. D., was born at Preston, in Connecticut, in 1752. He studied theology with Rev. Levi Hart, D. D., and having been licensed to preach, he was ordained the first Congregational minister in Thetford, Vermont, 19 January, 1779. He has published a considerable number of sermons and philosophical essays, which have been well received by the Christian community. Since 1829, his health has been so impaired that he has been unable to preach, being confined mostly to the house. He received on the 5th of January 1825, as Colleague, Charles B. White, who has since been dismissed, and Rev. Elisha G. Babcock installed.

SOLOMON HOWE, A. B., from Brookfield, Massachusetts, was born about 1750. Soon after he left college, he married, built a house with one room in it, on a rock, at Brookfield. One of his contemporaries at college, says he saw him in 1784, at his house; that he had several children, was poor, and labored at day's work to support his family.

GEORGE TRIMBLE, A. B., from the State of

New Jersey, or still farther South, was a fine scholar, and amiable and elegant in his manners. He did not leave college, after he entered, until he was graduated.--MS. Letter Hon. J.P. Buckingham.

1780.-NOAH MILES, A. M., died at Temple, New Hampshire, 20 November, 1831, in the 80th year of his age, and the 50th of his ministry. "He had long labored in the vineyard of the Lord, and came to his grave as a shock of corn fully ripe. He was a tender husband, an affectionate father, a true friend and peace-maker, and a faithful minister of the gospel. In his sickness he was patient; his mind calm and serene, being supported by the gospel, and died in. hope of a blessed immortality.-Farmers' Cabinet, December 17, 1831

Letter from Rev. Thomas Fessenden of Walpole to Rev. Jeremy Belknap of Boston.

REV. SIR,

WALPOLE, Jan. 22, 1790.

This town is the western boundary of the State upon Connecticut river; was called Number 3 while it was supposed to belong to the Bay Province, now State; lies south of Charlestown, or Number 4, and north of Westmoreland or Number three [two] is about nine miles long upon the river, including the contents of six miles square. Its charter from New Hampshire was granted in 1751 [1752.] One family settled here in the Spring of 1749 under the Bay claim; But the [New] Hampshire Proprietors began in 1742, and in 1753

Colonel Benjamin Bellows moved his family into town-when the French war beginning soon after, he was obliged to fortify and live in a garrison. In July, 1755, two men were killed not far from the garrison and scalped, viz. Daniel Twitchel and — -Flynt. Within a week after, a little before Johnson's fight, a body of Indians, 50 or 60, attacked twenty men with Col. Bellows at their head. They exchanged several shot at each other, when the Colonel broke through them, and retired to the fort without any killed or wounded, though he supposed he killed and wounded several of the enemy. The Indians being joined by two other parties, that had lain in ambush the one on the great river road, and the other on Cold river to the amount of 170* or more, assaulted the garrisoned house of Mr. John Kilburn, who was the first settler in 1749. In the house were said Kilburn, Mr. Pike [Peak] and their two sons, with several women, who bravely kept the enemy off, and obliged them to retire with several killed and wounded. Mr. John Pike [Peak] was wounded which proved mortal for want of timely aid and assistance. Some of these same Indians were in the army under Dieskau when the Hampshire forces attacked them the day after Johnson's defeating them. The town has remained unmolested ever since. But four families settled in town until after the reduction of Canada in 1759. The following year, a number of families moved in, and are now increased to about 200. They live chiefly by farming, though we have mechanics of various sorts.

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*[The number in the Article from the Cheshire Gazette, published in our 2d vol. pp. 49-58, is represented as being several hundreds.]

In this town are what are called Bellows' Falls, the largest on the river, beyond which the shad cannot pass. At this place, Col. Enoch Hale in 1785 built what is called the Great Bridge, the only one across this river-in length 365 feet, and is supported by a great rock in the middle of the river, forming two channels of 90 feet each. At very low water, one channel only gives birth for the whole of said river about 16 feet wide, the depth in that narrow pass not known. Masts of any length or size may pass down under the bridge with safety, if they go end ways; but if they turn crossways, they break. The 'privilege of building said bridge was granted to said Hale by the General Court of the State. The toll for passing is the same as a ferry. As to the perpendicular height of the Falls, this is not ascertained, as there are several sets of them, one above another for half a mile. The largest pitch is at the Bridge. In the Spring of the year, these Falls are noted for taking of salmon and shad. I have nothing more that is material to add. If you should come this way, I should be glad to wait upon you. I am, Sir,

with due respect,

Your humble servant,

THOMAS FESSENDEN.*

*[Mr. Fessenden was the second minister of Walpole, where he was ordained 7 January, 1767. He was a native of Cambridge, Massachusetts, and was graduated at Harvard College in 1758. He died 9 May, 1813, aged 74. His son Thomas G. Fessenden, of Boston, has been long known for his various publications, and has done much for the benefit of agriculturalists by the publication of the New Englaud Farmer.]

Memoir of Hon. David Barker. By Rev. ISAAC WILLEY.

DAVID BARKER, Jr., an original member of the New Hampshire Historical Society, was born at Stratham, in this State, on the 8th of January, 1797. He was the eldest son of Col. David Barker, formerly of that place, but who removed to Rochester, in the adjoining county of Strafford, when this child was in his infancy. Nothing of his early history has been gathered of special interest, previous to his entering Phillips Academy at Exeter, excepting that he was from the first, a good scholar and of a feeble constitution. He was in the eleventh year of his age when he entered that Institution, and continued there three years. In the year 1811, when in the fourteenth year of his age, he entered Harvard College. He took his first degree in due course in 1815, and his second degree in 1819. We find associated with him as classmates the names of Rev. Convers Francis, of Watertown, Hon. Gayton P. Osgood, member of Congress from Massachusetts, Rev. John G. Palfrey, Professor of Sacred Literature in Harvard University, and the Rev. Jared Sparks, the American Biographer. After leaving College, he entered immediately upon the study of his profession with the late John P. Hale, Esq., of Rochester. In the year 1819, he commenced the practice of law in that place in the 22nd year of his age. Mr. Barker was connected in marriage in the fall of 1823 with the eldest daughter of the late Hon. Nathaniel Upham, and has left two children. +

He early entered upon political life;-was several years a representative in the State Legis

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