. Bench and bar of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. BIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 229 strong desire for a more advanced education, he was placed in 1793, at the age oftwenty, under the care of Rev. Zephaniah Willis of Kingston, and fitted for an ad-vanced class in Brown University, where he graduated in 1796 in the class withTristram Burgess. After leaving college he studied law in the office of BenjaminWhitman of Hanover, Mass., and was admitted to the Plymouth county bar at Ply-mouth in 1799. After his admission he removed to Alfred, in the District of Maine,then a town of eight hundred and fifty
. Bench and bar of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. BIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 229 strong desire for a more advanced education, he was placed in 1793, at the age oftwenty, under the care of Rev. Zephaniah Willis of Kingston, and fitted for an ad-vanced class in Brown University, where he graduated in 1796 in the class withTristram Burgess. After leaving college he studied law in the office of BenjaminWhitman of Hanover, Mass., and was admitted to the Plymouth county bar at Ply-mouth in 1799. After his admission he removed to Alfred, in the District of Maine,then a town of eight hundred and fifty inhabitants, and was one of the forty-threelawyers included in the district. Maine being then a part of Massachusetts, he was amember of the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1802-03 and 1811, and a StateSenator in 1813. In 1815 he was appointed by Madison a commissioner under the4th article of the Treaty of Ghent, to make a division between Great Britain and theUnited States of the islands in Passamaquoddy Bay. In 1816 he was chosen a mem-
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