. The Granite monthly : a magazine of literature, history and state progress. rs boy killed inhis first campaign. But when thebattle was hot, and Stark was charg-ing the Hessian intrenchments, Cap-tain Parker saw Jerry Smith by hisside. What are you here for? Oh, sir, I thought I ought to followmy captain. His gun was disabledby a British bullet; he caughtanother from a dying comrade, and 224 THE SMITHS AND WALKERS. fought on till night; and then helpedguard the Hessian prisoners in theBennington ehureh. Remaining atCambridge two years, lie was solittle pleased with his instructionunder Dr. La
. The Granite monthly : a magazine of literature, history and state progress. rs boy killed inhis first campaign. But when thebattle was hot, and Stark was charg-ing the Hessian intrenchments, Cap-tain Parker saw Jerry Smith by hisside. What are you here for? Oh, sir, I thought I ought to followmy captain. His gun was disabledby a British bullet; he caughtanother from a dying comrade, and 224 THE SMITHS AND WALKERS. fought on till night; and then helpedguard the Hessian prisoners in theBennington ehureh. Remaining atCambridge two years, lie was solittle pleased with his instructionunder Dr. Langdon (a wise scholar,but with no gift for managing acollege), that he migrated to Rutgerscollege in New Jersey, and there brilliant young Hamilton, to whoseparty in Congress he finally attachedhimself, when sent from the Hills-borough district in 1790 to representNew Hampshire at Philadelphia,where Washington was then carry-ing on the government. In the inter-val between 17S1 and his congres-sional life he had studied law at w--r v * x^jz V/:f: •- • : • - -S •--rr. graduated in 1780, about the time(August 30), that Dr. Langdon with-drew from his thankless labors to thelittle parish of Hampton Falls, wherehe spent the last seventeen years ofhis worthy life. Leaving college in debt, Smithremained at home for two )rears, andin that time, while driving cattle forWashingtons army to Peekskill, hethere met for the first time, the Barnstable and Salem, had privatepupils, taught in a young ladiesschool, and in Andover had amonghis pupils Dr. Abbot, afterwards ofExeter, and Josiah Quincy; beenadmitted to the bar at Amherst,N. H., in 1786, against the wish ofJoshua Atherton, grandfather of thedemocratic senator, and for threeyears, ijS8-go, represented his na-tive town in the state legislature THE SMITHS AND WALKERS. 225 at Concord. Such rapid promotionfor so young a man—he was notquite thirty-one when chosen toCongress—would have been remark-able, had he not been well known
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