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 . about the same time marriedRuth Baldwin of New Haven, a sister of AbrahamBaldwin, who afterward represented the state ofGeorgia in the senate of the United States. Barlowremamed in
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 . about the same time marriedRuth Baldwin of New Haven, a sister of AbrahamBaldwin, who afterward represented the state ofGeorgia in the senate of the United States. Barlowremamed in the army until peace was declared, whenhe abandoned the clerical profession, and returnedto his original intention of practising law. He set-tled in Hartford, where he became known with , Dr. Dwight, and the rest, as one of theHartford wits. Barlow now started a weeklypaper in Hartford, called the American Mercury,which became the field for the exercise of his satiri-cal powers, and those of others of the Hartfordwits. About the .same time he was employed byan association of the clergy of Connecticut to reviseDr. Wattss version of the Psalms, which he accord-ingly did, besides versifying some of the Psalmswhich had been omitted by Dr. Watts, and addingsome original hymns of his own composition. Thisvolume was published in 1785, and was used formany years as the authorized version of the Congre-. gational churches of New England. Two yearslater Barlow published, in 1787, his Vision of Co-lumbus, which was dedicated to Louis XVI., andof which, a few months afterward, editions appearedin London and Paris. He now gave up his newspa-per speculation to open a bookstore in Hartford,where he sold his own productions with some suc-cess. He abandoned the bar, having become famousas a poet, and not being in the least successful as alawyer. He had something to do with the Anar-chiad, the principal poem of the Hartford wits,and he delivered an oration on July 4, 1787, in whic
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