a Free-will Baptist minister, was: born at Alton, N. H., Dec. 16,1777. Shortly after his conversion, about 1799, he commenced preaching, and was ordained Jan. 25, 1803. For fifty years he served his Master in the ministry of the Gospel. A large part of his life was spent in itinerant labor, in which he was very useful. He resided for a time in Weare and then in Gilmanton, and other places in his native state, and finally closed his labors with the Church in Alton. For several years he was a member of the astate legislature, either of the House of Representatives or the Senate. He died Sept. 6, 1858. See Free-will Baptist Register, 1860, p. 90. (J. C. S.)