. Memoirs of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. period of his life fell upon the hard times ofthe Revolution, during the greater part of which his three brothers were engaged in the the bravery of one of these brotiiers. Captain William Treadwell of tlie Artillery, I remem-ber hearing many stories when I was a boy. My father by his industry and prudence, withbut little assistance from his sons, acquired a property in land which at the time of iiisdeath was valued at about seven tliousanrl dollars. I was fdaced at my fathers death underthe guardianship of Colonel Nathaniel Wade,
. Memoirs of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. period of his life fell upon the hard times ofthe Revolution, during the greater part of which his three brothers were engaged in the the bravery of one of these brotiiers. Captain William Treadwell of tlie Artillery, I remem-ber hearing many stories when I was a boy. My father by his industry and prudence, withbut little assistance from his sons, acquired a property in land which at the time of iiisdeath was valued at about seven tliousanrl dollars. I was fdaced at my fathers death underthe guardianship of Colonel Nathaniel Wade, an old Revolutionary soldier, wlio was nmch es-teemed in Ipswich for his honesty and good sense, and went to board in his family. * * The care and kindDess of Colonel Wade were always Iji-Id in grateful remembrance. In Mr. Treadwcllswill, made in 1819 just before sailing for Europe, after a bequest to the (L-iiigbter of Nathaniel Wade, is tliisitem : To Nathaniel Wade, Esq. (as a token of my esteem for this respectable man, who has fw. long extended. VII. Memoir of Daniel MORRILL WYMAN, Presented October 5, 1887. Daniel Treadwell was born on the lOtli of October, 1791, in Ipswich, one ofthe shire towns of Essex County, Massachusetts. His father, Captain Jabez Treadwell,also born in Ipswich, was a descendant of one of the first settlers of the town, whoemigrated to it as early as 1637, from Oxford in England. His mother, ElizabethDodge, was a descendant of Major Isaac Appleton of Ipswich and Priscilla Baker,granddaughter of Lieutenant-Governor Samuel Symonds, — a gentleman, saysHubbard, of an ancient and worshipful family, from Yeldham in Essex, England. In a short Autobiography written by Mr. Treadwell in 1854 is the followingaccount of his early life. My father and all his predecessors to the first settler ^ere farmers, — hard-^vorking andrespectable men, none of whom have left any distinguishing mark either of their virtues orvices upon the community in
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