The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . preparations to makesaltpetre. Feb. 1st went to Salem, and bought ket-tles for saltpetre works. Aug. 25th he received amessage to go to Dorchester, Mass., and supply theregiment of
The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . preparations to makesaltpetre. Feb. 1st went to Salem, and bought ket-tles for saltpetre works. Aug. 25th he received amessage to go to Dorchester, Mass., and supply theregiment of Col. Ebenezer Francis as its chaplain,to which his church agreed. His commission wasdated Sept. 5, 1776, and signed by order of themajor part of the council. Thischaplaincy was closed by Jan. 1, 1777, and he re-sumed his duties at Ipswich, where his pastoralrelations were continuous thence onward until hisdeath. In 1778 he was chaplain to Gen. Titcombsbrigade in the unsuccessful campaign of Gen. Sulli-van, undertaken to disladge the British from New-port, R. I. In the latter part of this year he beganthe study of medicine, which he prosecuted success-fully, and ultimately secured among the medicalprofession of his day the reputation of a safe andskillful physician. In May and June, 1779, he hadno less than forty small-pox patients under his careat Wenham, JIass. Lords Day, Sept. 13, 1779, he. journalized: Col. Jacksons regiment passedthrough town on their way to the Eastward, andcame as far as here. They encamped in the meeting-house. The field officers. Col. Cobb and Maj. Pres-cott, put up with me. We lodged four commissionedotflcers, and supplied the soldiers with sauce, milk,wood, etc., without pay. In 1782 he opened his pop-ular and successful private reading-school, which wascontinued for more than twenty-five years. He alsotaught seamen the art of navigation, insti-ucting par-ticularly in lunar observations. Meanwhile he wasbotanizing steadily, being the
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