Illustrated biography; or, Memoirs of the great and the good of all nations and all times; comprising sketches of eminent statesmen, philosophers, heroes, artists, reformers, philanthropists, mechanics, navigators, authors, poets, divines, soldiers, savans, etc . visit to his churches in New England (making his seventh voyageto this country), and had the satisfaction to know that his adherents were nu-merous on both continents. Under the name of Leuconomus, the characteref Whitefield is well delineated by Cowper. His works form six volumes. ISRAEL PUTNAM. GENERAL ISRAEL PUTNAM, one of the patr
Illustrated biography; or, Memoirs of the great and the good of all nations and all times; comprising sketches of eminent statesmen, philosophers, heroes, artists, reformers, philanthropists, mechanics, navigators, authors, poets, divines, soldiers, savans, etc . visit to his churches in New England (making his seventh voyageto this country), and had the satisfaction to know that his adherents were nu-merous on both continents. Under the name of Leuconomus, the characteref Whitefield is well delineated by Cowper. His works form six volumes. ISRAEL PUTNAM. GENERAL ISRAEL PUTNAM, one of the patriots of the Revolution, was bornon the 7th of January, 1718, at Salem, Massachusetts. Though lacking theadvantages of a mind polished by education, he was gifted with an energy anddecision of character, which distinguished him through life, and the remarkableinstance he gave of it in the destruction of a wolf will ever be associated withhis name. At the age of twenty-one he removed to Pomfret, an inland fertiletown in Connecticut, forty miles east of Hartford, where he applied himselfsuccessfully to agriculture. Here, among many difficulties he encountered, inci-dent to the cultivation of a new farm, was the destruction of his sheep by 278 ISRAEL PUTNAM,. Portrait of General Putnam. wolves. In one night seventy fine sheep and goats were killed. A she wolf,who, with her annual whelps, had for several years infested the vicinity,being considered as the principal cause of the havoc, Mr. Putnam entered into acombination with a number of his neighbors to hunt alternately till they shoulddestroy her. At length the hounds drove her into her den, and a number ofpersons soon collected with guns, straw, fire, and sulphur, to attack the commonenemy. But the dogs were afraid to approach her, and the fumes of brimstonecould not force her from the cavern. It was now ten oclock at night. proposed to his black servant to descend into the cave and shoot thewolf; but, as the negro decl
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