Province. He was commander of the militia, and what was then the army of the country; Speaker of the Assembly, Counsellor, acting Governor, and the only Chief Justice, who, from the first settlement of New-Hampshire to this day, has passed upon any person sentence of death on a charge of High Treason. Edward Gove, of Hampton, in 1683, was indicted for this offence, and was tried before Waldron as Judge, with Vaughan and Daniel, assistants. The prisoner had been a member of the Assembly, and was hurried on by his violent opposition to Cranfield into some gross irregularities, which no reasonable man could approve or justify. Waldron probably loved the Governor no more than the prisoner; but as a magistrate he was resolved to discharge his duty with impartiality and firmness. It was a painful duty, for Gove was convicted, and Waldron wept while pronouncing the sentence, that "he should be carried back to the place from whence he came and from thence be drawn to the place of execution, and be there hanged by the neck and cut down alive, and that his entrails be taken out and burnt before his face, and his head cut off, and his body divided into four quarters, and his head and quarters disposed of at the king's pleasure."

It is gratifying to know, that this sentence was not carried into execution. After several years imprisonment, here and in London, Gove was pardoned and returned home with an order for the restoration of his estate, which had been seized as forfeited to the crown.

Another sentence of Waldron's as a magistrate, when viewed in connexion with its partial execution, is still more disgusting. In 1662, while this Province was under the government of Massachusetts, and the laws against Quakers were rigidly executed, three women of that denomination visited Dover to denounce woe upon the people

and make proselytes. They were arrested and carried before Waldron, who, after trial, made the following order, as preserved in Sewell :

"To the Constables of Dover, Hampton, Salisbury, Newbury, Rowley, Ipswich, Windham, Linn, Boston, Roxbury, Dedham, and until these vagabond Quakers are out of this jurisdiction.

"You and every one of you are required, in the King's Majesty's name, to take these vagabond Quakers Anna Colman, Mary Tompkins, and Ahie Ambrose, and make them fast to the cart's tail, and drawing the cart through your several towns, to whip them upon their naked backs not exceeding ten stripes apiece on each of them in each town; and so to convey them from Constable to Constable till they are out of this jurisdiction, as you will answer it at your peril; and this shall be your warrant.

Per me,

RICHARD WALDRON." "At Dover, dated Dec. 22, 1662."

In Dover, Hampton and Salisbury this disgraceful order was executed, but in the last named town, Walter Barefoot performed almost the only praiseworthy act that stands to his credit in history, by taking these persecuted females from the Constables, under the pretence of delivering them to the Constables of Newbury, and securing them from further cruelty by sending them out of the Province. It is worthy of remark, that in Dover, where only within this Province the Quakers were persecuted, that sect has flourished perhaps to a greater extent than in any other town in NewHampshire.

"There is no man that liveth and sinneth not.". After reading the foregoing order, it is unnecessary to say, that Maj. Waldron was not faultless.

TOL. II.

It

The persecuting spirit which prevailed at that period had seized him. He erred in common with our forefathers of the age in which he lived. would be well for their posterity, if, while lamenting, condemning, and avoiding their faults, we as earnestly study and imitate their fortitude, perseverance, patriotism and moral virtues.

No reader of our history can have forgotten the tragical death of Maj. Waldron. On the 27th of June, 1689, the Indians satisfied their revenge and "crossed out their accounts" against the Major in his blood.* He was killed at the age of eighty.Probably no man of his day was more beloved by his country, or had served it better in so many various offices as it was his lot to fill. His posterity are numerous and respectable. His son Richard, his grandson Richard, and his great grandson Thomas Westbrooke Waldron, (father of the late

Each one exclaimed, "I'll cut out my account."
Then spear, or tomahawk, with vengeance rife,
Gashed in, as if 'twere of a large amount;
And thus they held the cruel, bloody strife,

And practised on the famous Waldron's life.

One cut him on the breast, one on the head,
One through the arm run his long, glistening knife,
From hands and face he prodigally bled,

And o'er his sable coat, the gore was streaming red.

The lightning glances faded from his eye,
Down from his looks the living spirit fell,
E'en the dark foemen trembled to see him die,
While round their feet, as from a gushing well,
They viewed the torrents from his bosom swell.
No sigh, no groan, no tear-drop found its way,
All calmly from its earthly citadel,
"Its broken walls and tenement of clay,"
The spirit took its flight far to the realms of day.
Upham's Sketches.

Daniel Waldron, Esq., of Dover,) were successively members of the Royal Council for this Prov

ince.

NOTE.

Maj. Waldron was twice married. Two of his sons died at Harvard College. Two of his daughters married Gerrishes-another had four husbands, and died in New Jersey. RICHARD, his only surviving son, was born in 1650, married a daughter of President Cutt, by whom he had one son Samuel, who lived about one year. Mrs. W. died in 1682. Maj. W. again married in 1693, Eleanor, daughter of Maj William Vaughan, who was born March 5, 1690; she died in Sept. 1727. Their children were.

1. Richard, born Feb. 21, 1694; graduated H. C., 1712; married a daughter of Thomas Westbrooke; was a counsellor from 1728 for many years, and secretary of the province to about the time of his death in 1753. His son Thomas Westbrooke Waldron was a captain in the expedition against Louisbourg, afterwards a commissioner at Albany, a counsellor in 1782, and died 3 April, 1785. 2. Margaret, born Nov. 16, 1695, who married Eleazer Russell May 18, 1721, and died May 10, 1753.

3. William, born 4 August, 1697. was educated a clergyman; married in Boston to Elizabeth Allen, from Martha's Vineyard, and died Sept. 11th, 1727.

4. Anna, born 1699, married Henry Rust in 1719, and died at Stratham in 1736.

5. Abigail, born 1702, married Judge Saltonstall in 1726, and died 1735.

6. Eleanor, born 1704, died Aug. 1726, from drinking cold water after dancing at Portsmouth.

REV. LEMUEL WADSWORTH, BROOKLINE.

[By Rev. Ebenezer Hill.]

The REV. LEMUEL WADSWORTH was born of respectable parents at Stoughton, Massachusetts, March 9th, 1769. In the early part of life he had no more advantages of education than what were common, at that time, to all classes of people. His circumstances did not allow him to follow his strong inclination to obtain a collegiate education, until his time was his own. Then under many forbidding circumstances and embarrassments, he applied himself to study with resolution. With little charitable aid, principally by his own exertions, he maintained himself when fitting for college, and through the course of his studies. While a member of college, he conducted himself with such regularity, sobriety, meekness, unassuming manners,

and close application, as to gain the esteem of the officers, and of his fellow students. At the age of 24 years, he graduated at Brown College in Providence, in the year 1793, and, without delay, applied himself to the study of divinity. He soon became a candidate for the gospel ministry; the object for which he labored to qualify himself. Divine Providence directed him to this place; and after preaching a suitable time for the people to be acquainted with his gifts, a church being formed, he received the almost unanimous call of the church and town to settle with them as their minister.-Their call he accepted, and was ordained October 11, 1797. From that time he continued to labor among them, and to enjoy, in a degree, very remarkable at this day, the high esteem of his people, until suddenly removed by death on the twentyfifth instant, (25 November, 1817, aged 48.]

It was in the milder virtues, meekness, humility, gentleness, condescension, filial piety, brotherly Jove and christian kindness, Mr. WADSWOTTH shone with distinguished brightness. He was exemplary in his life, and a pattern of christian forbear ance and forgiveness. He always appeared contented with the allotment of Divine Providence, for he did not seek great things for himself here. Philanthrophy and kindness were congenial to his heart. He was at all times ready with whatever he possessed, to administer relief to the distressed, and comfort to his friends; and all men were his friends. Not only was the law of kindness on his lips, but all who had occasion for it, experienced his kindness. His liberality to the poor was extended to the utmost of, if not beyond his ability. And even the vicious he sought to reclaim rather by kindness than by severity. His filial piety, and brotherly affection shone brightly in his tender care and liberal support of an aged mother, and a helpless sister, to the close of their life. His