History of Worcester and its people . - I-K I80:!. Earnum of Waterford. lo. Charles, b. Eeb. 18. ,. d. .\). 180o. 11. Sarah, b. lune .V I80i;. d. Dec. 2;!, 18:18: m. |ohn P. Pdake. 12. Dorothy, d. y. ]:,. Anne. b. Oct. 31, 1809: m. Dr. Charles Ingalls, professor in Jackson College. La.: she d. in UIKI illl,.\Ci;. UAVKK .\\4) ;VV.—1-4. 50 HISTORY OF WORCESTER George Bancroft (Rev. Aaron. Samuel, Samuel*, Thomas-, Thom-as-, John\) was born in this city October 3, 1800; died January 7, graduated at Harvard in 1817 and received the de


History of Worcester and its people . - I-K I80:!. Earnum of Waterford. lo. Charles, b. Eeb. 18. ,. d. .\). 180o. 11. Sarah, b. lune .V I80i;. d. Dec. 2;!, 18:18: m. |ohn P. Pdake. 12. Dorothy, d. y. ]:,. Anne. b. Oct. 31, 1809: m. Dr. Charles Ingalls, professor in Jackson College. La.: she d. in UIKI illl,.\Ci;. UAVKK .\\4) ;VV.—1-4. 50 HISTORY OF WORCESTER George Bancroft (Rev. Aaron. Samuel, Samuel*, Thomas-, Thom-as-, John\) was born in this city October 3, 1800; died January 7, graduated at Harvard in 1817 and received the degree of doctor ofphilosophy at Gottingen when he was but twenty years old. He returnedto this country in 1823 and became a tutor in Harvard College. In1833 he published a volume of poems and in 182-1: a translation ofHeerens Politics of Ancient Greece, and in the same year with J. established the celebrated Round Hill School at Northamp-ton. The first volume of his History of the United States was pub-lished in 1834; ten volumes of this great work were completed in 1874,forty years later, bringing the narrative to the end of the Revolution. In 1838 Mr. Bancroft was appointed Collector of the Port of Bos-ton. In politics he was a Democrat, and in 1840 he was the nominee ofhis party for governor of Massa


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