ican Academy, of the American Philosophical Society, and of the Meteorological Society of Manchester, and published several astronomical and other papers in the scientific journals. His principal work was the Natural and Civil History of Vermont, originally published in 1 vol. 8vo. 1794, and afterwards continued and published in 2 vols. Winchester, Elhanan, an itinerant preacher of the doctrine of restoration, was born in Brookline, Massachusetts, in 1751. Without an academical education he commenced preaching, and was the first minister of the baptist church in Newton. In 1778 he was a minister on Pedee river in South Carolina, zealously teaching the Calvinistic doctrines, as explained by Dr. Gill. In the following year his labors were very useful among the negroes. In 1781 he became a preacher of universal salvation in Philadelphia, where he remained several years. He afterwards endeavored to propagate his sentiments in various parts of America and England. He died at Hartford, Connecticut, in April, 1797, in the forty-sixth year of his age.

Winslow, Edward, governor of Plymouth colony, was born in 1594, in Worcestershire, and came to this country with the first settlers of New England in 1620. Possessing great activity and resolution, he was eminently useful. He went repeatedly to England as an agent for the colony. In 1633 he was chosen governor in the place of Mr. Bradford, and again in 1636 and 1644. He exerted his influence in England to form the society for propagating the gospel among the Indians, which was incorporated in 1649. In 1643, he was appointed a commissioner of the United Colonies, and in 1655, a commissioner to superintend the expedition against the Spaniards

in the West Indies, and died near Jamaica, May 8th, 1655, in the sixty first year of his age. He was the first man married in New England, and married Mrs. White, the mother of the first English child born here.

Winslow, Josiah, governor of Plymouth, the son of the preceding, was chosen governor in 1673, and was continued in this office till 1680. In Philip's War he was commander of the Plymouth forces. He died at Marshfield in 1680 in the 52d year of his age. His grandson, John Winslow, was a major general in the British service in several expeditions to Kennebec, Nova Scotia, and Crown Point. He died at Hingham in 1774, aged seventy-one years.

Winthrop, John, first governor of Massachusetts, was born at Groton, in Suffolk, England, June 12th, 1587. He arrived with the first colonists of Massachusetts at Salem, June 12th, 1630, having a commission as their governor. They soon after removed to Boston. He was elected to the office of governor annually, with the exception of 6 or 7 years, till his death, in 1649, and rendered the most important services to the colony by his judicious administration, his prudent examples as a private man, and his wealth, which was very large, and liberally devoted to the good of the public. He was eminent for uprightness, prudence, piety, and public spirit. He kept a minute journal of the events of the colony down to 1644.

Winthrop, John, governor of Connecticut, was the son of the preceding, and his fine genius was improved by a liberal education in the universities of Cambridge and of Dublin, and by travel upon the continent. He arrived at Boston in October, 1635, with authority to make a settlement in Connecticut, and the next month despatched a number

of persons to build a fort at Saybrook. He was chosen governor in 1657 and again in 1659, and from that period he was annually reelected till his death. In 1661 he went to England and procured a charter, incorporating Connecticut and New Haven into one colony. He died at Boston, April 5, 1676, in the seventy first year of his age. He possessed a rich variety of knowledge, and was particularly skilled in chemistry and physic. His valuable qualities as a gentleman, a Christian, a philosopher, and a magistrate, secured to him universal respect. He published some valuable communications in the philosophical transactions.

Witherspoon, John, D. D. LL. D. president of the college at New Jersey, was born near Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1722, and was lineally descended from John Knox. He was educated at Edinburgh, and became one of the most distinguished of Scotch preachers. He was invited to remove to several distinguished cities in Europe, but at length accepted the presidency of the college at Princeton, New Jersey, and came with his family to this place in 1768. The Revolutionary war dispersing the students, he was called to engage in civil employments. In 1776, he was appointed a member of congress, and retained a seat in that body till the end of the war. He was a signer of the declaration of Independence. He died in 1794 in the seventy-third year of his age. His works were published in 4 vols. with an account of his life by Dr. Rogers.

Wolcott, Roger, governor of Connecticut, was born at Windsor, Con. in 1679, was bred a weaver, and rose to distinction without even the advantages of a common school education, during his early years. He was commissary of the Connecticut forces in the expedition against Canada in 1711. At the capture of Louisburg in 1745, he bore the commission of major general. He died in 1767 in the eightyninth year of his age. He had some poetical talent and wrote several pieces, the chief of which is preserved in the collections of the Massachusetts Hist. Soc. It describes with considerable minuteness the Pequot war.

Wolcott, Oliver, LL. D. son of the preceding, a signer of the declaration of Independence, and governor of Connecticut, was born at East Windsor, Con. Dec. 1725. He was graduated at Yale college in 1747, and the next year commanded a company of soldiers in the French war. Retiring from the military service, he studied physic. In 1751, he was appointed sheriff of Litchfield county, Con. and in 1774 a representative in congress. He was chosen governor in 1796, and died the next year in the seventy-second year of his age. His son Oliver Wolcott was born in 1760. In 1794, he succeeded Gen. Hamilton as secretary of the treasury. In 1817, he was elected governor of Connecticut, which office he held till 1827. He died in New York in June, 1833, being the last survivor of the administration of Washington.

Wooster, David, major general in the Revolutionary war, was born at Stratford in 1711, and was graduated at Yale college in 1738. At the commencement of the war with Great Britain he was appointed to the chief command of the troops in the service of Connecticut, and made a brigadier general in the continental service; but this commission he afterwards resigned. In 1776 he was appointed the first major general of the militia of his native State. While opposing a detachment of British troops, whose object was to

destroy the public stores at Danbury, he was mortally wounded at Ridgefield April 27, 1777, and died on the second of May.

Wyllys, George, governor of Connecticut in 1642, came from England to Hartford in 1638, and died in 1644. He was eminently pious, and from a regard to the purity of Divine worship, left a fine estate in the county of Warwick, and encountered the hardships of a wilderness.-His descendants, Hezekiah, George and Samuel Wyllys, unitedly in succession, held the office of Secretary of Connecticut for ninety-eight years, commencing in 1712, and ending in 1809.

Yale, Elihu, the principal benefactor of Yale college, was born in New Haven, Connecticut, in 1648. He went to England while young, and about the year 1678 to the East Indies, where he acquired a large fortune, both by his industry, and by marriage to an Indian lady of wealth, and became governor of fort St. George. On his return to England he was chosen governor of the East India company. He presented donations to the college then recently established in New Haven, in 1714, 1718, and 1721, amounting in all to about 400 pounds sterling; in commemoration of which, the college bears his name. He died in Wales, July 8th, 1721.