2. Lucinda Adams, b. Sept. 20, 1814; d. unmarried.

3. Elizabeth, married George Moulton, and died 1866. V. Barry's Framingham, p. 184.

BLUNT, Edward, New York, Sept. 3, aged 67 years. He was a native of Newburyport, Mass., but long resident in New York.

He surveyed the harbor of New York at the age of 17, and has made many surveys in the waters of the Gulf and in our Coast Survey service. He and his brother are widely known, too, from their revised editions of the "American Coast Pilot," first published by their father, who died a few years ago at a great age. BURR, William, Editor of the Morning

Star, Dover, N. H., Nov. 5, aged 60 years. He was a native of Hingham, Mass., and learned the printer's trade of John G. Frost, of Boston, and, upon the establishment of the Morning Star, then printed at Limerick, Me., in 1826, he became its publisher and retained his connection with the paper until his death.

CLAPP, Mrs. Ellen C., wife of Francis H. Clapp, Detroit, Oct. 7, aged 38. She was the daughter of the late William B. Fowle, of Boston.

CLARK, Capt. John, formerly of the Boston Courier, Chicago, Ill, Oct. 14, about 44 years of age.

At the breaking out of the late war he accepted a commission as Commissary of Subsistence, and was with the expedition to Hatteras. He was then appointed to the staff of General Williams, and afterwards was attached to the Department of the South, under the command of Gen. Butler. On the return of Gen. Butler to the North and to Norfolk he accompanied him, and started the Norfolk Post, which paper he relinquished when he resigned his commission at the close of the war.-Traveller. COBB, Rev. Sylvanus, D.D., East Boston, Oct. 31, aged 68 years and 3 months. He was born in Norway, Me., and was settled at Malden and Waltham. He has written a commentary on the New Testament, and several other works. He was also Editor of the Christian Freeman, and held a prominent place among the preachers of the Universalist denomination. His son Sylvanus, born at Waterville, Me., 1823, is a popular writer of Novellettes. He was highly esteemed by all who knew him. CRUFT, Mr. Edward, Boston, Sept. 23, aged about 90 years. The oldest merchant in Boston. "He will be remem

bered by our oldest inhabitants," says the Traveller," as having held the office of Fireward when that was in vogue in this city. Mr. Cruft was a man of energy and ability, and his genial manners and many excellent qualities endeared him to a large circle of friends and acquaintances who will sympathize with his family in their bereavement. He was born in Boston."

CUMMINS, Miss Maria S., Dorchester, Mass., Oct. 21. She was the daughter of the late Judge David Cummins and author of the " Lamp Lighter," 1853, "Mabel Vaughan," "El Furedis,

and "Haunted Hearts." Her first novel had a very extensive sale, and is one of the best of its class.

CURTIS, Dr. Bildad, Watertown, near Marietta, Ohio, July 11th, aged 91. Dr. Curtis was born in Braintree, Mass., on the 31st Oct., 1775. He was the son of Capt. Moses and Mrs. Experience (White) Curtis. His father was the youngest of five brothers, all of whom lived to the age of near 88 years. His mother was daughter of Dea. Matthew White, of Weymouth, Mass., whose (traditional) descent was from Peregrine White, of Plymouth. Dr. Curtis, when four years of age, removed with his parents to Plainfield, Mass. In his 23d year he united with the church there, then under the pastoral care of Rev. Moses Hallock. His wife was Thankful Orcutt, of Goshen, Mass. At the age of 30 he removed to Meredith, Delaware Co., N. Y., where he resided some 20 years. In the year 1828, he removed to Ohio, residing for a few years in Ames, Athens Co., and subsequently in Watertown, Washington Co., for 30 years. Wherever he resided he sought to establish the institutions of his pilgrim ancestry, and in the quiet exercise of his duties in his professional calling, and as a neighbor and a friend, he enjoyed the esteem of all around him.

He had eight children, seven of whom died before him. His wife died in Nov. 1861.

DABOLL, C. L., New London, Ct., Oct. 12, aged 48 years. He was the son of Nathan Daboll, author of "Daboll's Arithmetic," and was the inventor of the Fog Trumpet."

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DAY, Judge Alva, Deerfield, Portage Co., O., Oct., aged 85 years and 7 months, the oldest pioneer of that place.

He was a native of Connecticut, and went to Deerfield in 1799 with his father. They both returned to Connecticut on foot soon after, and went back in 1800. He was the father of the first white child born on the Western Reserve (who is

still living), and had held the positions

of Sheriff and Judge. DICKENS,, Augustus N., a brother of Charles the novelist, Chicago, Oct. 5, aged 39 years. He has for many years been employed in the Land Department of Illinois. He was highly respected. DRAPER, Luke, at Toledo, Ohio, of typhoid fever, 17th October, one of the early settlers of the place. He was a son of Jonathan Draper, one of the participants in the battle of Lexington, and a follower of the fortunes of Washington during several years of the Revolution, and was born at Washington, N. H., March 2, 1791. In 1811 he settled at Buffalo, N. Y., and was twice made a prisoner by the British on the Niagara frontier during the war of 1812-15. He subsequently was among the pioneer settlers of Lockport, N. Y., where he settled in 1821; and in 1834 located at Toledo. 1842 he was chosen by the legislature of Ohio one of the Associate Judges of Lucas county, and served acceptably in that capacity for several years.

In

Judge Draper was highly esteemed by his brethren of the Masonic fraternity, and by all who knew him. He leaves an aged widow, and four sonsthe eldest of whom, Lyman C. Draper, has long been a resident of Madison.Madison, Wis. Union.

Jonathan Draper, mentioned above, who died at Hudson, Summit County Ohio, in 1845, in his 95th year, was a native of Roxbury, Mass., born in Dec. 1750, and was a brother of Col. Moses Draper, long a resident of that town, and well known in his day. DWIGHT, Theodore, Brooklyn, N. Y., Oct. 16, aged 70 years. He was the son of Hon. Theodore Dwight, graduated at Yale College 1814, and was greatly distinguished for his philanthropical labors. He wrote a History of Connecticut, N. York, 1841; and Summer Tour in the Northern and Middle States. ELLIS, Lt. Col. Southworth, of the heart disease, East Middleboro', Mass., Aug. 4, aged 71 years and 10 days.

He formerly held the commission of Lt. Col. of the 4th Regt. in 1st Brigade and 5th Division Mass. Militia, to which he was elected Sept. 7, 1826, Benjamin P. Wood, of Middleborough being his Colonel, Ephraim Ward, of M., Brig. General, and Benjamin Lincoln, of New Bedford, Major General.

FRENCH, Phineas C., in Bedford, N. H.,
aged 74 years and 10 months.
GILLETTE, the Rev. Timothy P., Branford,
Ct., Nov. 5, aged 86 years.

He was settled over the Congregational Church in Branford, in 1808, and

has continued uninterruptedly its pastor to the time of his death. He was through life a popular and useful clergyman, and leaves a very large property, the accumulation mainly of a life of economy. His salary at no time ever exceeded $800 per annum, and his estate will equal $100,000. GORDON, Rev. H. J., Fall River, Oct. 20, aged 36 years.

GoULD, Augustus Addison, M.D., of Asiatic cholera, Boston, Sept. 15, aged 61 years.

He was the son of Dea. Nathaniel Duren Gould, the celebrated teacher of music and writing, more widely known as an expert in chirography. The family name was originally Duren; the father, Nathaniel Gould Duren, and the son, Augustus Addison Duren. He gradu- . ated at Cambridge in 1825, and received his medical degree in 1831. Dr. Gould attained eminence in his profession, but was more widely known as a naturalist; his greatest eminence being in the knowledge of invertebrate animals. His great works are the "Mollusca and Shells of the U. S. Exploring Expedition and "Invertebrata of Massachusetts."

He died after a few hours illness of cholera on Saturday morning. The only surviving child of his father is Charles D. Gould, the head of the firm of Gould & Lincoln.

He leaves a wife and seven children. Their grief is shared by the Rowe Street Baptist Church (Dr. Stow's) with which he united in 1831, and by the wide fraternity of naturalists in the New World and the Old, by whom the loss of his experience and skill will be widely felt. GREGORY, Rear Admiral F. H., Brooklyn, N. Y., Oct. 4, aged 77 years.

He entered the service in 1809, was captured on the Lakes in the war of 1812, and taken to England as a prisoner. He commanded the Raritan during the Mexican war, and during the rebellion superintended the building of ironclads. He had been fifty-five years and eleven months in the service of his country.

HANSON, Mrs. John T., niece of Oliver Goldsmith, author of the Vicar of Wakefield, &c., West Hoboken, N. J., Sept. 21, in the 81st year of her age. Her father was a junior brother of Oliver Goldsmith. He was married in the West Indies at the age of 42. Mrs. Hanson was his third child. She was married to Mr. John T. Hanson in 1806. Like the wealth of thousands, his fortune was swept away by the liberation of slaves in Jamaica. The Rev. John Halloway

Hanson, her only son, died in 1853. He was possessed of rare poetical talents, and author of the Lost Prince, a book that contains one of the most remarkable problems in history. Her grandson, a young man of great natural ability, was killed in the late rebellion.

She was highly esteemed by all who knew her, and few persons have suffered greater reverses or endured more physical and mental agony than this lady. She bore all in a cheerful and Christian spirit.

Her funeral took place on Sunday afternoon, at two o'clock, from St. John's church, West Hoboken. The remains were interred in Trinity Cemetery, Hoboken, N. J.

HAWKS, the Rev. Francis Lister, LL.D., one of the most prominent divines in the Protestant Episcopal church in the country, New York, Sept. 27, aged 68 years. He was born in Newbern, N. C., June 10, 1798, University of North Carolina 1815, studied law and served in the Legislature of his native State.

He was ordained in 1828. He officiated for a brief period in New Haven, Ct., as assistant to Dr. Harry Croswell; and in 1829 he became assistant minister to St. James's church, Philadelphia. Early in 1831 he became rector of St. Stephen's church, New York, which post he resigned at the close of the year. He was then called to St. Thomas's church, New York, of which he continued rector until 1843, when he removed to Mississippi, and was rector of Christ church, New Orleans, till 1849. He was next rector of Calvary church, New York, till the breaking out of the war, when, having Southern proclivities, he went to Baltimore. At the close of the war he again returned to New York and resumed his ministry in the University Chapel, Washington Square. In 1855 he was appointed to the missionary bishopric of the Southwest, in 1843 of Mississippi, and in 1854 of Rhode Island, all of which he declined. Noluit episcopari. In 1837 he, with Dr. Henry, established the New York Review, which he edited for a while. About this time he established a school in Flushing, L. I., which in a few years reduced him to bankruptcy. His contributions to literature and science have been very numerous, Among his most important works are: "Reports of Cases adjudged in the Supreme Court of North Carolina, 1820 -26" (4 vols. 8vo. 1823-8); "Digest of all the Cases Decided and Reported in North Carolina"; Contributions to the Ecclesiastical History of the United States" (2 vols. 8vo., embracing Virgi

Hawks has translated Rovero and Tschudi's" Antiquities of Peru,"

(1854), and has edited the Official and other State papers of Maj. Gen. Alexander Hamilton" (12mo., 1842); and various other literary works." KIDDER, Sergeant Luther T., Vicksburg, Miss., Aug. 24, aged 22 years. LYNDE, John S. M.D., Norridge wock, Me., Oct., aged 78 years.

Dr. Lynde was born in Guilford, Vt., Sept. 4, 1788, graduated at the Medical College in Woodstock, Vt., was a resident of that town and Plymouth until 1827, when he settled at Norridgewock, Me., and has ever since been one of its most prominent citizens. He possessed an original and well cultivated mind, and his scientific attainments were of a high character. He was a poet of no mean order, while as a public lecturer on agricultural and scientific topics he was well known throughout the State, and our readers of ten or fifteen years ago will doubtless remember with pleasure the many contributions, historical, scientific and poetical, that came from his pen.Augusta (Me.) Farmer.

MILLER, Seth, Esq., South Middleboro', Mass., July 29, aged 95 years, 4 months and 23 days.

An extensive land holder, and one of the wealthiest men in that town. He was the father of Major Gen. Darius Miller, and of Seth Miller, Jr. Esq., of Wareham.

NASON, Susan A., daughter of Andrew Nason, Lynn, Mass., Sept. 20, aged 26 years and 6 months. Formerly of Roxbury.

NEWCOMB, Joseph Warren, Jr., Burlington, N. J., at his residence, Oct. 17, aged 35 years. He was great grandson of Gen. Joseph Warren. He was a native of Greenfield, Mass., and author of several popular magazine articles. PATTEN, Dea. Aaron H., Billerica, Mass., Sept. 10, aged 67 years, a worthy and industrious man.

PARKHURST, W. G., a distinguished phonographer, Washington, D. C., Oct. 10. He was a native of New Hampshire, and one of the principal clerks in the Bureau of Internal Revenue. PEIRCE, Anson, Lakeville, Mass., Aug. 12, in the 83d year of his age. He was descended from Abraham Peirce, of Plymouth, the emigrant, through Isaac of Duxbury, Isaac,3 Jr., of Middleboro', Elisha of M. and wife Margaret Peirce, and was the 5th son and 11th child of

Abraham and the eldest born of Mary Russell, a 2d wife. He was born Jan. 14, 1784, and married Sally Hathaway, of Taunton, June 1, 1806. She was descended from John, of Taunton, now Berkley, through John, Jr., of Freetown, Ensign Jacob3 and wife Philip Chase, Melatiah and wife Anna Hoskins, Jobs and wife Mary Chase, and was daughter of Job of Taunton and wife Deborah Becord.

PORTER, Rev. Noah, D.D., Farmington, Ct., Sept. 24, aged 85 years. Graduated at Yale, class 1803, and ordained in 1806 in his native town, where he continued till his death.

He was contributor to the Christian Spectator from 1814 to 1839. He was held in high esteem.

PUTNAM, Mrs. Elizabeth Anne (Ware), wife

of Rev. George Putnam, D.D., Roxbury, March 24, aged 57 years. See Register, vol. iii. page 150. RAREY, John S., the celebrated horse tamer, Cleveland, O., Oct. 4, aged about 38 years.

He was a native of Franklin Co., O., where he had a fine farm. For an account of his wonderful success, in reducing to subjection the wildest colts and horses, see Harper's Magazine. SHELDON, Rev. Luther, D.D., Easton, Sept. 16, aged 81 years.

He was born in Rupert, Vt., Feb. 18, 1785. He graduated at Middlebury College in 1808, was ordained at Easton, Oct. 21, 1810, thus continuing a connected ministry among the people of his first choice 56 years.

SMITH, Mrs. Abigail J., wife of Mr. Daniel Smith, Lawrence, Mass., Sept. 28, aged 81 years. She was an excellent woman, and mother of Prof. D. Talcot Smith, of Bangor, Me.

SNELLING, Mr. Enoch II., Boston, Aug.

29, aged 76 years. He was a soldier in the war of 1812, and was much respected. SPAULDING, Dea. Amos, Billerica, Mass., Sept. 23, aged 76 years.

STAPLES, Captain Nathaniel, Lakeville,

Mass. The deceased was born in Taunton, but for several years resided in Berkley, where he was commissioned Lieut. of the 1st Foot Company of Infantry, then commanded by Hon. Samuel French, and succeeded the latter as Capt., March 31, 1807; honorably discharged 1809. He removed to Middleborough, now Lakeville, April, 1822, where he resided until his death.

Was

one of the selectmen of Middleborough, and represented that town in State Legislature. His wife was Lydia, a daughter of Capt. Henry Peirce, of Middleborough, and wife Salome, a daughter

of Rev. Ebenezer Hinds. She survived her husband but a brief period. STICKNEY, Miss Esther B., Newburyport, Mass., May 1, daughter of William and Priscilla Stickney, aged 43 years. STOCKTON, Commodore Robert F., Princeton, N. J., Oct. 6, aged 70 years.

He first entered the Navy in 1811, and has been in public life most of his days. He represented New Jersey two sessions in the U. S. Senate, and leaves a wide and honorable reputation.

THURSTON, Miss Mary D., Elmira, N. Y., Aug. 23, aged 39 years. She was the daughter of Dea. Stephen Thurston, late of Bedford, N. H., and granddaughter of Noah Worcester, Esq., of Hollis, N. H. She was beloved by all who knew her, and she fell asleep in Jesus. TILTON, John E., bookseller, Boston, April 7, aged He was son of John G. Tilton, formerly of Newburyport, Mass. TUCKER, the Rev. Elijah Withington, Northfield, Ct., Aug. 6, aged 56 years.

He was born in Dorchester, Mass., March, 1810, and was the son of Atherton and Joanna Tucker; graduated at Brown University 1838, and subsequently at Andover Seminary. He was ordained at South Newmarket, N. H., 1811, where he remained four years. He was installed at Chatham, Mass., March 25, 1846; in Lebanon, Ct., Sept. 28, 1853. He was there and at Preston until the spring of 1865, when he became acting pastor of Northfield church [Litchfield]. He was a good and faithful minister. .

VAN BUREN, John, on board the Steamer Scotia, from Liverpool to New York, Oct. 13, aged 56 years. He was son of Martin Van Buren, former President of the U. S. A. He was for many years a prominent lawyer and politician, figuring extensively in New York politics, and at times exerted a wide influence in the Democratic party. In the early part of the war he came out in favor of the government, and we believe he acted for a year or two with the Republicans, but the McClellan campaign found him acting with his old friends, and last year he became the recognized leader of the party in New York, and accepted the nomination for Attorney General and was defeated.

He was a man of considerable ability, though much of his influence was due to the prestige of his father's name.

In early years he was known by the title of Prince John," and was regarded "as the glass of fashion and the mould of form," but he long since assumed the full proportions of a wellconditioned Knickerbocker, and was ad

mired not so much for the graces of person as for a genial temperament, a ready wit, and for an independence of bearing and thought.

WALKER, Rev. Augustus A., a missionary of the American Board, of cholera, Diarbeker, Turkey, Sept. 13. The ravages of the disease had nearly ceased in that city; but he was suddenly seized on the 11th, and no remedies sufficed to save his valuable life. The numerous friends of Mr. and Mrs. Walker, in Massachusetts and elsewhere, will receive this intelligence with peculiar sadness. He was a most excellent man and a most useful missionary. The loss to his associates it is impossible to over-estimate. WHIPPLE, John, Esq., Providence, R I., Oct. 17, aged 82 years. He was one of the most eminent lawyers and orators of Rhode Island.

WHITNEY, L. Henry, Brush Hill, Milton, Mass., eldest son of Mr. Henry A. and Fanny L. Whitney, and grandson of Mr. Joseph Whitney, of Boston, Oct. 23, aged 13 years. He was accidentally shot by a young companion with whom he was gunning. He was a lad of great promise, and we tender our kindest sympathies to the deeply afflicted family. WILDER, Hon. David, North Leominster,

Sept. 21, aged 88 years. He has been Justice of the Peace and Quorum, State Representative and Senator, member of the Governor's Council, and Treasurer of the State from 1837 to 1843, the constitutional term of five years. In 1851 he published a History of the Town of Leominister," but of late years has enjoyed in quiet the declining years of a well spent life. WILLIAMS, Moses Blake, Brookline, Oct. 7, aged 46 years.

WILLIAMS, Maj. Gen. Seth, at the residence

of his brother-in-law, Mr. Lombard, in Boston, on the 23d March, 1866, a. 44.

He was born in March, 1822, and was the son of Daniel Williams, Esq., of Augusta, Maine, and a nephew of the late Hon. Reuel Williams, formerly United States Senator from Maine. He was a grandson of Seth Williams, who migrated from Easton, Massachusetts, to Augusta, Maine, about the year 1783, and died March 18, 1817, who was a son of Seth Williams, who was born at West Bridgewater, May 21, 1722, and moved to the adjoining town of Easton, and died there about the year 1759, who was a son of Josiah3 Williams, who was born in Taunton, Massachusetts, but removed to West Bridgewater in 1719, and died there October 27, 1770, who was the eldest son of Benjamins Williams, of Taunton, who died in or about the

year 1701, who was the youngest son of Richard Williams, one of the first settlers in, and the father of, the town of Taunton, a man of much distinction, and who often represented Taunton in the General Courts of the Plymouth Colony, who was a Welchman by birth, and who died at Taunton in 1693, aged 87.

He grad. at West Point in 1842, and was commissioned in the second artillery. He served with great credit through the Mexican war, and at the breaking out of the rebellion was a Major in the Adjutant General's Department. He served first as Adjutant-General to Gen. McClellan's army, in his campaign in West Virginia in the summer of 1861; and when that officer succeeded General McDowell, Maj. Williams was appointed Adjutant-General of the Army of the Potomac, and was commissioned Brigadier-General in Sept., 1861. In Aug., 1864, he was commissioned Major-General of Volunteers, by brevet. In November he was relieved from his position as Adjutant-General, and was ordered South on a tour of inspection; but returned in time for the last campaign of 1865, when he served on the staff of Lt. Gen. Grant.

He displayed unwearied energy and activity in the management of his department, and his services in the organization of the army can hardly be overestimated.

WRIGHT, Hon. William, U. S. S., Newark, N. J., Nov. 1, aged 72 years. He was a member of the U. S. House of Representatives four years, and was twice elected to the U. S. Senate. He was a democrat.

YERRINGTON, James Brown, Chelsea, Ms., Oct. 16, aged 65 years. He was a printer, having learned his trade in the office of Mr. Hugh Brown, Providence, where he was fellow apprentice with Prof. James D. Knowles.

In early life, in connection with Mr. William Godell, he established the Philanthropist and Investigator, a paper devoted to the interests of general reformatory objects, which was published in both Boston and Providence. Subsequently he was editor and publisher of the Amherst Gazette.. During the existence of the Boston Daily Advocate he was employed in that office as foreman, At a later period he was connected with the Liberator, and was the printer of that paper for the last twenty-five years of its existence. He was a most excellent man, and was much esteemed by all who had his acquaintance. The deceased leaves a wife and five children.