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In South-Berwick, Me. EDWARD P. HAYMAN, Esq. a native of Boston, and for sometime Clerk of the Senate of Massachusetts.

In Westborough, THOMAS TWICHELL, a Revolutionary Soldier, aged 74; and the day following, PHOEBE, his wife, aged 66.

In Portland, Rev. CHARLES JENKINS, Pastor of the Third Congregational Society, in that town, aged 43.

In Francistown, N. H. ROBERT DINSMOOR, Esq. aged 80-a revolutionary pensioner.

In Walpole, N. H. SYLVANUS JOHNSON, aged 84. He was captured with his parents in 1754, by the St. Francis Indians, and carried to Canada, where he was detained four years. He was the eldest son of Mr. James Johnson, of Charlestown, N. H. and Mrs. Johnson, whose narrative of her captivity has been somewhat celebrated.

In Concord, Ms. Mr. BENJAMIN HOSMER, aged 80. He was in the battle of White Plains, and was Lieutenant of a company raised to guard Burgoyne's troops, in the spring of 1778, at Cambridge.

In Brookline, Ms. General S. ELLIOT, aged 70. He sustained an illness of many years, and knew himself hourly to be in danger of instant death, with a calmness and patience which was most soothing to those who watched over him; the strongest feature perhaps of his character, his earnest desire to give pleasure to others, was as conspicuous in the retirement of his chamber and the suffering of sickness, as in the days when health and office gave him a wider sphere.

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In Marblehead, Capt. SAMUEL R. TREVETT, aged 81. He was born in that town in 1751. He commanded a company of artillery at the battle of Bunker Hill, and again in the RhodeIsland expedition, in August 1775. He was the last 'surviver of the six individuals who conceived and executed successfully, the daring enterprise of carrying off a chest of arms, which was on board a prize, lying directly under the stern of the Lively' frigate, in the harbor of Marblehead. Capt. Trevett had two sons in the United States Navy, during the whole of the late war, both of whom are dead. One held a commission as Surgeon, with Com. Decatur,-the other was Sailing Master. 1812, Capt. T. was captured by a British vessel, as he was returning from Sweden, where he had resided four years, engaged in commercial transactions. In July, 1814, he received the command of the U. S. Revenue Cutter on the Boston station, from Mr. Madison, a situation he retained till his death. In his manners, Capt. Trevett was a finished gentleman of the old school-his extensive and varied information, and the urbanity and politeness of his manner, rendered him a most agreeable as well as an exceedingly instructive companion; while the rectitude of his life, and the uniform excellence of character which he possessed, rendered him a fit example for all. He retained the faculties of his mind to the last moment, and on the very day of his decease, gave the usual household directions. In conformity with his express injunctions, he was buried at sunset; without any funeral procession, and with no other ceremony than thirteen tolls of a single bell, probably in allusion to the thirteen States,

for whose independence he sacrificed his property and devoted his youth.

In Lynn, Ms. Dr. JAMES GARDNER, aged 69. He was a graduate of Harvard University. When very young, Dr. Gardner served in the army of the American revolution. After the return of peace, he devoted himself to the study and practice of the medical profession, in which he became eminent and acquired an extensive practice. He sustained from time to time various municipal offices. As a citizen,he was always steadily and firmly attached to the welfare and best interests of his country. He courted no popularity that was inconsistent with justice, and like Aristides, was only unpopular for being just. As a member of Mount Carmel Lodge, he was firmly and fearlessly attached to the Institution of Freemasonry during the late persecutions of that order.

In Danvers, Ms. EBENEZER RICHARDSON, aged 80-a soldier in the battle on Bunker Hill.

In Stockbridge, Ms. HENRY D. SEDGWICK, Esq. Counsellor at Law, aged 47. He was well known in the Courts both in Massachusetts and New-York, having been engaged in an extensive and successful practice, until his health and the powers of his active and vigorous mind, became so impaired as to induce him to retire from business. He was of warm and enlarged philanthropy, and, when engaged in any great and worthy undertaking, he concentratred upon it all the powers of his acute mind, and pursued it with an ardor which nothing could chill, and a perseverance which nothing could turn aside. This intense and perpetual activity of his intellectual faculties probably occasioned the malady under which his constitution finally sunk. He has left to his friends, the grateful memory of a life, every moment of which was well and worthily employed.

In Providence, R. I. Dr. WILLIAM BOWEN, aged 85. Dr. Bowen was born in Providence, March 8, 1747 (O. S.) He was the third son of Dr. Ephraim Bowen, who, for a long time, practised physic in that town, where he died on the 21st October, 1812,-at the age of ninetysix years. Dr. William Bowen was the fifth generation in descent from Dr. Richard Bowen, who emigrated from England, A. D. 1642, and settled in Dorchester, (Mass.) Dr. Bowen's father, grandfather, great grandfather, as well as the first settler, Richard, were physicians. His son, William C. Bowen, (who died in 1815) was also a physician, making the sixth generation devoted to the medical profession. These are curious facts, which, it is believed, have few parallels. The first two years of his collegiate life he passed at Harvard University, and the remaining two at Yale College, where he was graduated in the year 1766. In 1770, he received the degree of Master of Arts, from Rhode Island College, then recently established at Providence. Immediately after leaving College, Dr. B. commenced the study of medicine, under the direction of his father. He subsequently repaired to Philadelphia, the only medical school then existing in the country. In May, 1769, he returned to his native town, having "received diplomas from the different Professors, certifying the proficiency he had made in the healing art." He immediately commenced the practice of his profession, which he continued uninterruptedly, till within a few months of his death-embracing a period of more than SIXTY YEARS. He was

married in 1770, and resided from that time until his death in the same house.

In Wallingford, Ct. Mr. CALEB ATWATER, aged 92.

In New-York, Col. ROBERT TROUP, aged 75. At the commencement of the American Revolution, Col. Troup was engaged in the study of the law in the office of John Jay, afterwards Chief Justice of the United States and Governor of New-York, he quitted his studies, and, with the rank of Lieutenant, joined the Continental Army, then stationed upon Long Island under the command of General Sullivan, early in the year 1776; he was shortly afterwards appointed Aid-de-Camp to Brigadier Gen. Woodhull, and was with the latter at the encampment near Brooklyn, when the Americans were attacked and defeated on the 27th August by the British forces under the command of Generals Sir Henry Clinton, Percy and Cornwallis. In that action, several Generals and Col. Troup were made prisoners; Col. Troup was confined some time in the Jersey Prison Ship at the Wallabout, and subsequently transferred to the Provost Prison in New-York city, where he remained until the spring of 1777, when he was exchanged and joined the army in New-Jersey. General Gates having been, in the same spring, appointed by Congress to the command of the northern army, appointed Col. Troup one of his Aids-de-Camp, and he joined that army in that capacity at Saratoga in August of the same year; he was present at the action at Stillwater, and at the surrender of the British army commanded by Gen. Burgoyne, on the 17th of October. In February, 1778, Col. Troup was appointed by Congress, Secretary of the Board of War, appointed to sit at the seat of government, of which Gen. Gates was President, and continued to act as such secretary until the board was dissolved in the following year, after which Col. Troup went to New-Jersey and completed his law studies with the late Judge Patterson, of the Supreme Court. Some years after the peace, Col. Troup was appointed Judge of the District Court of the United States for the District of New-York, held that office for several years, and then retired to private life.

In Windham, Greene county, N. Y. Mr. JOEL TUTTLE, aged 76, a soldier at Quebec, under Montgomery.

In Beckmantown, Clinton County, N. Y. Mr. THOMAS TREDWELL, aged 88. He was the last surviver of the Convention which framed the Constitution of the State of New-York, in 1777.

In Philadelphia, Penn. Mr. WILLIAM HALL, aged 80. His father was a partner of Dr. Franklin. He was a highly respectable gentleman, and received many proofs of the condence of his fellow citizens.

In Philadelphia, Penn. Mr. STEPHEN GIRARD. He was born at Bordeaux, in 1746, which place he left at about twelve years of age, in the capacity of cabin boy, in a vessel bound to the West-Indies. He arrived in New-York about the year 1775 and settled in Philadelphia in 1779. He was then a very poor man, dealing in old iron and rigging, in the city, and trading on the Delaware as a pedlar, supplying the inhabitants with groceries, ready made clothing, &c. The foundation of his fortune, is to be found in his great industry and frugality, but the particular transaction by which he first realized great wealth and was enabled to engage in mercantile operations, cannot now be known. He became distinguished for his active philanthropic exertions during the ravages of the yellow fever, which nearly depopulated the city, in 1793. In 1812, he established his private bank, into which he put about two millions of dollars. Since that

time his wealth has increased with unheardof expedition. During the last war he took the government loan of five millions, at a period of general despondency, and when the credit of the government was almost, entirely exhausted. At the time of his death his property was estimated to be worth from twelve to fifteen millions of dollars, and he was the most wealthy man in the new world. He was buried with public honors. By his will he distributed his immense wealth in the most liberal manner. He left to the Corporation of Pennsylvania Hospital, $30,000. To the Pennsylvania Institution for the Deaf and Dumb, $20,000. To the Orphan Asylum of Philadelphia, $10,000. To the city of Philadelphia, to be invested, and the proceeds to be expended during the summer in the purchase of fuel which is to be distributed among poor house-keepers during the month of January forever, $10,000. To the Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania, $20,000. To the Township Passyunk, for the establishment of a School for poor white children, $6,000. To certain relatives who are named, his real estate in the city of Bordeaux, and $140,000 in money. To each Sea-Captain in his employ, $1500. To every person bound to him as an apprentice or servant, $500, at the end of his service. In bequests and annuities, $49,000. A portion of real estate, consisting of two hundred and eight thousand arpens of land, situated near Washita, Louisiana, after twenty years, if the present occupant, Judge Henry Bree, shall live so long, otherwise immediately after his death, to the city of New-Orleans. To the

city of New-Orleans one third of the residue of the same estate, and to the city of Philadelphia the other two-thirds. And all the residue and remainder of his real and personal estate is given to the city of Philadelphia, in trust for certain purposes specified. Among these is the sum of $2,000,000, for the erection of a permanent college in Penn Township for the accommodation of at least three hundred poor white male Orphans, above the age of six years. He prescribes the shape and dimensions of this building, the materials of which it shall be composed, and the form in which each part shall be constructed. He evidently intended to erect a building which should defy the ravages of the elements, and as far as possible, those of Time. Perhaps his knowledge of mankind instructed him that the greatest benefits are forgotten unless the tangible monuments are constantly before men's eyes. He might have been restrained had he inquired how many of the graduates of this magnificent Orphan College, of fifty years hence, will remember the name and honor the memory of Stephen Girard. The number of students is to be increased according to the increase of the income. The scholars are to be considered children of the city of Philadelphia, their relations relinquishing all interference with them. If the number of applications for admission shall exceed its means of accommodating them, priority is to be given to orphans born in Philadelphia, next to those of Pennsylvania, then to those born in the city of NewYork, that being the first port in the country in which Mr. Girard arrived, and lastly to those born in New-Orleans, that being the first port in which he traded as a seaman. Proper regard is to be paid to the apparel, health and lodging of the scholars, and they are to be "taught facts and things, rather than words or signs," and instructed in all the various branches of a sound education, according to their various capacities; and between the ages of fourteen and eighteen, they are to be bound out, under the direction of the city authorities, to suitable occupations. Should the income of any year exceed the demands upon it, it is to be invested immediately, and added to the capital; no part of which is

ever to be disposed of or pledged to meet the wants of the institution. It is also enjoined "that no ecclesiastic, missionary, or minister of any sect whatsoever, shall ever hold or exercise any station or duty whatever in said college; nor shall any such person ever be admitted for any purpose, or as a visiter, within the premises appropriated to the purposes of the said college." This restriction is occasioned by no want of respect for the clergy, but to keep the minds of the scholars free from the excitement of the clashing doctrines of sectarians. Out of the residue, $500,000 is appropriated to certain local improvements. The State is to have $300,000 for purposes of Internal Improvement by canal navigation. The Corporation of the City of Philadelphia is required to publish annually in the month of January, an account of the state of all the bequests and devises, and the condition of the College, which he designates as his "primary object." A similar annual report is also to be made to the Legislature of the State. If the City violates any of the conditions upon which it becomes residuary legatee, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania receives the greater part for purposes of internal navigation, and, the Commonwealth failing in the conditions, the remainder is bequeathed to the United States "for the purposes of internal navigation, and no other."

In Prince George's County, Md. Dr. CLEMENT SMITH, aged 75; he was a surgeon in the revolutionary navy, but was confined in GreatBritain during most of the war.

In Baltimore, Md. MATTHEW BROWN, Esq. aged 65. He was formerly the editor of the Baltimore Gazette, which he conducted for twelve years with much ability and success.

In Mecklenburg county, Va. DOROTHEA RIPLEY. She was born at Whitby, England, in the year 1767. She made several attempts to join the Society of Friends, to most of whose rules and regulations she strictly adhered-but as she was much in the habit of traveling in the ministry without leave from the Society, she never was able to obtain admission as a member. She crossed the Atlantic, nineteen times, eleven of which have been since the beginning of 1825.

In Fredericksburg, Va. Rev. ROBERT B. SEMPLE, D. D. aged 65. He had been a preacher in the southeastern section of Virginia, for forty-two years. He was once appointed to the Presidency of Transylvania University. He presided in the Board of Trustees of the Columbian College, in the District of Columbia, the last four years, and was its able and successful agent. He was President of the Baptist General Convention, and at the head of many important societies.

In Richmond, Va. on Christmas day, Mrs. MARY W. MARSHALL, aged 66, wife of John Marshall, Esq. the Chief Justice of the United States.

In Newbern, N. C. Mr. FRANCIS HAWKS, collector of that port for upwards of thirty

years.

In Columbus, Ohio, Hon. ISAAC MINOR, President of the Board of Canal Commissioners of that State.

In Pickaway County, Ohio, FRANCIS S.

MUHLENBERG, Esq. formerly of Reading, Penn. aged 37. Mr. Muhlenberg, a few years ago, resigned his situation as private secretary to Gov. Heister, and removed to Ohio for the purpose of improving his patrimonial estate which consisted in lands derived from the government for revolutionary services. There, as well as in Pennsylvania, his elevated moral character and amiable social qualities secured to him the esteem and confidence of his fellow citizens, who soon manifested the sense of his worth by electing him to the Legislature, and by afterwards honoring him with a seat in Congress.

Near Knoxville, Ten. Col. ROBERT CAMPBELL, aged 77. In a battle with the Cherokees, in 1775, when only nineteen years of age, he was, at one time, so far in advance of his comrades, as to be mistaken for an Indian, and accordingly fired at. Here two bold and reckless warriors, almost simultaneously, rushed upon him; the first having shot at him, was in the act of elevating the tomahawk, when he received a mortal wound from another direction; he dropped his weapon, and throwing his arms round a tree that stood by him, quivered for a moment, and sunk forever. The second having also discharged his piece without effect, although they were not more than twenty paces apart, and whilst in the act of taking aim, the savage hero folded his arms, and met his fate with a dignity and firmness, worthy of the brightest days of chivalry. At this critical period, almost within the enemy's line, disCovering that they were about to surround the white men, he gave the alarm in time to counteract it; and throughout the whole engagement, his youth and daring attracted the attention of his fellow-soldiers. He was one of the volunteers, under the command of Colonel Christie, who invaded the Cherokee country in October, 1776. In 1780, he distinguished himself on the memorable 7th of October, at the battle of King's Mountain. In December, 1780, he was in a third expedition against the turbulent Cherokees; he was despatched, at his own request, with sixty men, to destroy Chilhowee. Having accomplished their object, they immediately commenced a retrogradé movement; and after proceeding several miles, came to a narrow defile, three hundred yards in extent, and guarded by a line of two or three hundred Indians. Without a pause, and with that cool and deliberate spirit that had shone so brightly at King's Mountain, Colonel Campbell, at the head of his detachment, ordered them to sit erect, and charge through single file; and thus, effecting this perilous passage, in the midst of a volley of fire, reached the encampment at Hiwassee, without losing a man. He served the County of Washington, in Virginia, for nearly forty years, as a magistrate; a respectable and highly responsible office. In 1825, he emigrated to the vicinity of Knoxville.

In New-Orleans, La., JOSEPH BERTOULIN, aged 80, a soldier of the French army during the American Revolution, and since then a resident of this country.

In Ponce, Porto Rico, THOMAS DAVIDSON, Esq. the American Consul, at that place, aged

37.