. Centennial proceedings and historical incidents of the early settlers of Northfield, Vt. : with biographical sketches of prominent business men who have been and are now residents of the town . ars. Mr. Gregory desires to put on record his fidelity to thetwo great reforms that have agitated the country duringthe last forty years, ^^Human Freedom^ d^n^^^TemperanceyNovember 8th, 1844, the following vote was passed andpublished in the Boston Trumpet: Universalists onSlavery. At the recent annual meeting oi the Old Col-ony Association at New Bedford, Mass., the followingresolution, offered by th
. Centennial proceedings and historical incidents of the early settlers of Northfield, Vt. : with biographical sketches of prominent business men who have been and are now residents of the town . ars. Mr. Gregory desires to put on record his fidelity to thetwo great reforms that have agitated the country duringthe last forty years, ^^Human Freedom^ d^n^^^TemperanceyNovember 8th, 1844, the following vote was passed andpublished in the Boston Trumpet: Universalists onSlavery. At the recent annual meeting oi the Old Col-ony Association at New Bedford, Mass., the followingresolution, offered by the Rev. John Gregory, of FallRiver, was adopted: Resolved, That as Slavery has been voted by this body to be ineverlasting hostility to the true spirit of Jesus Chvist, we herel)ledge ourselves to discountenance this evil in all possible waysand forms; and will agitate the question in our several societies,and endeavor to diffuse abroad an honest moral sentiment on thesubject. While in the Senate Mr. Gregory delivered a speechon Suffering Kansas, that was instrumental in a votebeing passed directing the Governor to appropriate $20-000 for the relief of the people in Kansas, should he as- r. fcrtaiii tliry witc in ;i siillc liii^ cniidit inn. Il«hasi|clivcriMl a hi\y;r nuniliiT u| atldrissrs in Massacluisctts amiWrinniit (III those rci\>ruMi,dUt\ tK( roni/xnsn-lion. Ml-. (Jrii^ttiv ivsiiKs ill Nnrtlilicid ( DrjMii \illa-c). miMain street, in the only lirick house in that parf ol thetown, it iHinu the Ihinl lioii-e luiilt on ihal stret-t. ORVIS DARWIN EDGERTON, Esq., Was horn in Iotsdani. St. Lawrence coiinty, N. Au-gust lo, 1S21, and was the second ol a liiniily of sevenchildren. Ills lather, James Harvey lM;^erfon. wasainon;_^the early settlers of that county, from HrooklieM, in thisState. The minority of Mr. Ed}j:erton was passeil verylittle difVerent from that of many others—{^tinj;: to a• iistrict !-chuol, w\)rkinjj; on a farm,and at mechanical with \\
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