wont exceed the 12 or 13th, notwithstanding what Col. Haviland says in his orders, an extract of which I enclose.

If the men are detained until the barracks are finished, its probable they'd be kept all this month: however, I dont lay so much stress upon Colo Haviland's order as I do upon what the general told me himself.

I waited on him about a fortnight ago to know if I should have time to send for to Boston for money for the troops: it was before I heard of the 2000. The General told me that I would not have time, but that I might meet the troops at No. 4. I have the honour to be with great esteem & regd

yr Excellencys Most obedt & most humble servant, Tho. Goldthwait.

Albany, Nov. 7, 1760.

The general referred to was Sir Jeffrey Amherst. No. 4, was a Post at Charlestown on the Connecticut River.

Council records, 1760, Mass. Arch. p. 288, have the following relating to the subject of the preceding letter:

"Representing his want for money to forward the troops home: Advised and consented that a warrant be made out to the Treasurer to pay his Excellency Francis Bernard, Esq., the sum of 600 pounds, and that his Excellency despatch a messenger forthwith to Winchester with the same, to be delivered to Mr. Thomas Goldthwait, to furnish such of the troops as shall need it: he to keep an account of the sum he shall pay, and to what particular men or companies."

[To be continued.]

SKETCHES OF THE LIVES OF EARLY MAINE MINISTERS.

BY WILLIAM D. WILLIAMSON.

Presented to the Maine Historical Society, with an Introduction by Joseph Williamson, December 10, 1881. [CONTINUED.]

REV. TRISTRAM GILMAN.

REV. TRISTRAM GILMAN, Harvard College 1757, was ordained December 8, 1769, the fourth settled minister of North Yarmouth, the successor of Rev. Mr. Brooks. He was a descendant of the sixth generation from Edward Gilman, the first of the name in Exeter, New Hampshire. The grandfather of Rev. Tristram was the eminent Nicholas Gilman, who died in 1783. His father, of the same Christian name, died the minister of Durham, New Hampshire, in April, 1748. John Taylor Gilman was Tristram's uncle, and Joseph was his brother, a judge in Ohio.

But Mr. Gilman not only belonged to a talented ancestral family, but he was, himself, a man of firstrate talents. He wrote with freedom and force and spoke with power. He was one of the best ministers in his day; quite a different man from his predecessor in respect to his pastoral energies and qualifications. His ministry was continued the lengthened period of nearly forty years. He always preached the word faithfully, without artful efforts "to make the doctrines of the gospel palatable to the depraved tastes of men," yet without any remarkable success till he

had preached there more than twenty years. But, during the ever memorable year, 1791, there was truly a wonderful revival of religion in North Yarmouth; a revival, which, with all its circumstances, had not then, and probably has not since been equaled in the state of Maine. The whole town felt that God indeed was present; opposition dared not show itself; and all seemed to make the anxious inquiry, What shall we do to be saved? The house of God was filled even to overflowing on the Sabbath; and the lectures during the week in different parts of the town were much crowded. Multitudes were added to the Lord daily.

The fruits of the Spirit were the hopeful conversion of one hundred and forty-five persons within two years and four months prior to September, 1793, and the whole number admitted to the church by Mr. Gilman was three hundred. Rev. Mr. Greenleaf in his Sketches says, Mr. Gilman's "ministry, taking every circumstance into view, may be considered as the most successful of any minister ever settled in this state." He died April 1, 1809, and according to the promise his spirit will shine forever in glory, as a star of the first magnitude, having turned many from sin to righteousness.

REV. JAMES LYON.

REV. JAMES LYON, Nassau Hall, 1759, was settled at Machias in the spring of 1772, having arrived there in December preceding. He was the first settled minis

ter in that town, or at any place in Maine eastward of the Penobscot waters.

Though this place, originally called " Mechisses, was very early and often visited for the purposes of trade, and though there were some French families at the Falls on Eastern River about 1744, the earliest effectual settlement was accomplished, in 1763, by fifteen families from Scarborough about the Falls in West River and, on the twenty-third of June, 1784, it was incorporated into a town, being ten miles square.

Mr. Lyon was born at Princeton, N. J., where he had his education. He had, previously to his visiting Machias, received a Presbyterian ordination and then settled at Onslow, Nova Scotia. But the people there being unable to support him and his family, consisting of a wife and two children, he removed to Boston, from which, Hon. Stephen Jones gave him a passage in his vessel to Machias. On his settlement a church was gathered, and his remuneration was to be £100 settlement, and the same in an annual salary. He was also "entitled to a right through the township as the first settled minister. " "Mr. Lyon was a gentleman of respectable abilities and a good scholar and, though not much of an orator, he could deliver a written discourse very well, and his compositions were good. In his sentiments he was orthodox, though not rigid, and in his manners, mild and prepossessing. Usefulness, not display, was his aim, and his ministry, which was continued upwards of twenty-two years, was closed by his death, which occurred in October, 1794.

Machias passed through great vicissitudes and suffered many privations, while Mr. Lyon dwelt there, and during most of the war there was a public garrison in it. But at all times, he shone like a morning star.

REV. FRANCIS WINTER.

REV. FRANCIS WINTER, Harvard College, 1765, was ordained June 1, 1768, the first settled minister in Bath. Though this place was made a parish on the seventh of September, 1753, denominated the northerly or second parish of Georgetown, the people were for fifteen years without a settled minister. Within that period, some eight or ten candidates were employed to preach there, but church-members were few and the state of religion low, until the revival which extended to this place from Georgetown, during the first years of Mr. Emerson's ministry in that town.

Mr. Winter received his call six months before he was settled, being quite acceptable to the people as they became more and more acquainted with his abilities and his ministerial qualifications. But in the age immediately before and after he had his theological education, the Congregational ministers stood almost stock still when delivering their sermons, without gesture or emotion. Their utterance, also, was quite too destitute of emphasis, and of appropriate inflections of the voice, and their compositions were too much directed to discussion, argument, and Scripture quotations, without figures, flowers or fancy. To raise doctrine upon a text, prove their work, and give an exhortation, was deemed the great work of the