VI. Account of People Distressed by the War in the Massachusetts Colony, taken Jan. 22,1676–77. L. S. D. In Boston, 116 familyes, containing 402 persons, 60 6 0 Boston, Jan. 22, 1676, ie. 1677. Mr. Dean Taylor, Paul Dudley, You are ordered to deliver unto the select Men of the several Towns Mentioned in this list the Sums apportioned to them herein In meal, oatmeal, wheat, malt at 18s per ball, butter 6d and cheese 4d per pound out of the Irish Charity in your hands, whose several receipts for so much shall be your discharge. This order above written woss passed by the Govnor and magistrates this 25th January, 1676, [ie. 1677,] for the distribution of the Irish Charity according to the lists on the other side as Attest EDWARD RAWSON, Secretary. By their order. Sketches of the Graduates of Dartmouth College from the foundation of that Institution in 1769.-BY JOHN FARMER. 1771. LEVI FRISBIE, A. M., the first named graduate on the catalogue of Dartmouth College, was a native of Branford, Connecticut, and born in April, 1748. At the age of sixteen or seventeen, he was placed under the patronage of Rev. Eleazar Wheelock, D. D., with a special view to the ministry. In 1767, he entered Yale College, where he continued more than three years; but his college studies were completed at Dartmouth in 1771. He was installed as the successor of Rev. Nathaniel Rogers, at Ipswich, 7 February, 1776, having been the preceding year ordained as a missionary, in which character he extended his labors to different parts of the country, and into Canada. There is an abstract of his Jour nal of a Mission with Rev. David M'Clure to the Delaware Indians, west of the Ohio, in the years 1772 and 1773, annexed to Rev. Dr. E. Wheelock's Continuation of the Narrative of the Indian Charity School, printed at Hartford in 1773. Mr. Frisbie was highly esteemed at Ipswich, and his ministry was peaceful and happy, and at different periods eminently useful. His life displayed the meekness, humility and benevolence of the christian. He died 25 February, 1806, after a ministry of thirty years, and in the 58th year of his age. The late Levi Frisbie, professor of the Latin language, and afterwards of Moral Philosophy at Harvard University, was his son. He graduated at that institution in 1802, and died 9 July, 1822, aged 38 years.-Allen's Biog. Dict. SAMUEL GRAY, A. M., the only graduate of the first class now living, belongs to Windham in Connecticut, where for more than forty years previous to 1829, he had discharged the duties of clerk of the court. He was engaged in the war of the revolution, soon after which he returned to his native place, where he has resided ever since. He was clerk for the county of Windham of the superior court, and a magistrate of the county in 1821. He attended the commencement at the college at which he graduated in 1827. : : SYLVANUS RIPLEY, A. M., was early ordained as a missionary. He became the first profes sor of Divinity in 1782. He had previously been a tutor. The next year after he graduated, he went on a mission to the Indian tribes in Canada, from which he returned on the 21 September, 1772, and "brought with him eight youths from the Cahgnawaga, and two from the Loretto tribe of Indians," to receive an education at the Indian Charity School, incorporated with the college. The number of Indian children then at Hanover was eighteen. Professor Ripley was appointed a trustee of the college in 1776, and remained as such until his death in July, 1787. He ministered for a number of years to the church connected with the college. See President E. Wheelock's Narrative. Rev. Messrs. M'Clure and Parish's Memoirs of Rev. Eleazar Wheelock. JOHN WHEELOCK, L. L. D., S. H. S., Mass. and New-York, was son of Rev. Eleazar Wheelock, D. D., the founder and first president of the college, and was born at Lebanon, Connecticut, in 1754. He succeeded to the presidency on the death of his father in 1779, and was inducted into the office of professor of Civil and Ecclesiastical History in 1782. For a considerable period, historical investigations employed much of his time, and he once issued a prospectus for publishing a philosophical history which was probably relinquished for want of sufficient patronage. His printed works were only a few occasional pamphlets, which are sufficiently known to the public. President Wheelock was member of several of the learned societies of this country. He was elected a corresponding member of the Massachusetts Historical Society, 25 August, 1807, but he never contributed any thing to the volumes of their Collections. He was the president of the college until 1815. He died 4 April, 1817, aged 63. This sketch is purposely made short, as there is a full account of him in the Eulogy by the Hon. Samuel C. Allen. 1772. EBENEZER GURLEY, A. M., of whom the writer has obtained no information excepting what the catalogue furnishes, it appears received ordination as a minister, and died as early as 1798. AUGUSTINE HIBBARD, A. M., was a native of Windham, Connecticut, and born 7 April, 1748. He was ordained the second minister of Claremont, as successor to Rev. George Wheaton, 20 October, 1774. He joined the American Army in 1776, as chaplain in the regiment under the command of Col. Timothy Bedel, and returned in December following. In July, the following year, he was appointed chaplain in the brigade of General John Stark, when destined for Saratoga. He returned in October, 1777, to his people, with whom he remained until 1785, when he was dismissed. Mr. Hibbard removed to the British dominions, and in 1830, resided at Stanstead, Lower Canada, where he has sustained the office of magistrate under the crown many years. 1773. STEPHEN DAVIS, A. M., appears to have been living when the last triennial Catalogue was print ed. JAMES DEAN, A. M., was early employed on missionary service. In the month of May, before he graduated, he sat out with Mr. Ripley, of the first class, on a mission to visit the Indians at Penobscot and on the bay of Fundy. In President Wheelock's Continuation, printed at Hartford in 1773, I find the following: " Mr. Dean has now finished his course of studies here, and upon finding, as I have already mentioned, that he may with little expense be able to preach to the Hu -1] |