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ver brought the first framed house into town. It was set up on the farm now owned by Mr. Alfred French. Mrs. Judith Smith, daughter-in-law of Oliver, now lives at the old place, retaining most of her faculties to a remarkable degree, for so old a lady. There is preserved the powder horn carried at Bunker Hill, holding more than a pound, which, says Mrs. Judith, "I heard him say he fired all away in one battle."

Biley Smith was also out in the war. He had a good deal of military spirit, and is said to have been quite anxious to enlist in 1812, although more than the allotted period of life had passed over his whitening locks.

The anecdotes related in connection with these notices, are preserved on account of no intrinsic worth, and it is not imagined that they will possess any very great interest, unless it be to those immediately concerned. Each family has its own store, however meagre, of "household words," and the most trivial incident derives its value, to them, from the fact that its simple story came from loved and honored lips of sire or mother, long since sleeping in the dust.

It is a matter of regret that the information in regard to many of the early settlers is not more full and satisfactory in its nature. The time in which this information was obtained, the impossibility of submitting it in form of manuscript, or proof, to those from whom it came, must be a sufficient excuse for any errors which may be detected,

GENERAL NOTICES.

MINISTERS.

DAVID JEWETT graduated at Harvard in 1769. He was settled in 1771, and dismissed in 1780, after which he removed to Winthrop, Me., where he died in 1786, aged 34.

JOSEPH PRINCE was a native of Boston, Mass., born in 1723. He was not settled, being prevented from discharging many of the more active duties of a pastor by blindness, but was [hired for a term of seven years. He died January 15, 1791, and his mortal remains are entombed in the same vault with those of Whitfield, in Newburyport. His immediate descendants were for some time inhabitants of this town, but are now in Boston and other places, with the exception of Sarah, a grand-daughter, who married Capt. Jesse Ea

ton.

JESSE REMINGTON graduated at Harvard, in 1784,

respecting whom we can do no better than to give the following extract from a sermon preached on the occasion of his funeral by the Rev. Mr. Prentice, of Northwood, March 6th, 1815:

"The Rev. Jesse Remington was born in Abington, Mass., in 1760. In early life he had serious impressions. A little before he entered College, I think he once told me, he became a hopeful subject of renewing grace, which gave a new turn to all his views of divine things, and engaged his heart to the work of the christian ministry. In 1790 he was ordained to the great work of the gospel ministry in this place, where he has continued little more than twenty-four years. He was indeed an evangelical preacher, sound in the faith, remarkably clear in the doctrines of grace, a lover of hospitality, a lover of good men, holding forth the faithful word.

He was solemn and impressive. in his manner, evidently realizing the weight of his own responsibility to his Lord and Master. He felt those truths himself which he exhibited to others. He declared the whole counsel of God, was by no means a man-pleaser.

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In his death, his bereaved family, the church and religious society in this place, and at large, have sustained a great loss indeed. A loss of his pious instructions, his ardent and fervent prayers, should be received as an awful frown of heaven."

He was in the 55th year of his age at the time of his death, and now sleeps in the church yard surrounded by many members of his flock. Near him are the

remains of a son, who was cut off by the untimely hand of death, in the first flush of manhood.

It is to be hoped that the people, who owe so much of their character to the influence of his instructions, will erect some more suitable monument over his final resting place, to tell those who shall come after, of his virtues, although it should by no means be said that the tomb stones procured by the people of his charge were not, at the time, ample testimonials of their regard for him. The old stone and inscription should be preserved, whatever else be done.

ABRAHAM WHEELER was born in Holden, Mass., in 1779, graduated at Williams College in 1810, was settled January 13th, 1819, and dismissed in 1832. He has since taken orders and become a preacher of the Episcopalian denomination in Grafton, Ohio.

CHARLES P. RUSSELL, a native of Greenfield, Mass., settled Dec. 25, 1833. He combined in an unusual degree the qualities of the scholar and the gentleman, and has a lasting place in the affection of many of the christian people of Candia. His health interfering with the discharge of his pastoral labors, he asked and received a dismission in 1841, and has since resided in Washington, D. C.

WILLIAM MURDOCK is a native of West Boylston, Mass., born in 1813. He graduated at Amherst Col lege, in 1837, and at the Andover Theological Semi

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