Memoirs of the judiciary and the bar of New England for the nineteenth century : with a history of the judicial system of New England . .Januai-y. 1 S5:., be began practice in Lvnii,Massatdiusetts, where he remained until 1S.),S,having a large docket of miscellaneous 18)() he was ap[ioinled, and the ne.\t yearelected, register of thr then newly organi/.eilCourt of Insolvency for lOssex county, whichwas m(>rS. He was elected register of the Courts of Tmbateand Insoheucy for Rssex county and held theoHice continually for twenty years from .lanu-ary, 1808, byre-election. He disch
Memoirs of the judiciary and the bar of New England for the nineteenth century : with a history of the judicial system of New England . .Januai-y. 1 S5:., be began practice in Lvnii,Massatdiusetts, where he remained until 1S.),S,having a large docket of miscellaneous 18)() he was ap[ioinled, and the ne.\t yearelected, register of thr then newly organi/.eilCourt of Insolvency for lOssex county, whichwas m(>rS. He was elected register of the Courts of Tmbateand Insoheucy for Rssex county and held theoHice continually for twenty years from .lanu-ary, 1808, byre-election. He discharged theiluties of the otlice willi ability anil generalsatisfaction. As the lirst register of insolvencyand also the lirst register of probate and insfil-\-ency in that county his work in organizingllu> office, in dialtiiig the forms, and in startingthe records was no small undertaking, and re-Ih^cts great credit upon his executixc and legalskill, especially iu \iiW nf the fact that thelabor of making up the un linisbed iccords oftwo of his pr(>decessois in I he ]iiobale ollice de-. C. GOOhELI,, \olved upon him. Ipon assuming the officeof registei- of jirobatc and insolvency be gaveup his law office in Lymi, and since then hasIesided in Salem, devoting himself to bis offi-cial duties, to his ])i-i\alc business and to liter-aiy labors. As a (i lell was \-ery successful, and in bis criminal piatlice ne\ei lost a c; business, bowe\er, was largely in the civilbrancdi of the profession. In the 1 (ourt li(> won some notable his repoited cases the most im|)ortant is][aive\- vs. Moselev, in which was decidetl foi- 706 THE JUDICIARY AND THE BAR OF NEW ENGLAND. tlie first time tlie (juestiou of age of eonseiit ofmarriage in ;an(i Coiumoiiwealtlivs. Hitciiings, wliieli is recognized as a leadingcase and is cited as an antliority l)oth in tiiiscountry and (ireut liritain. Since giving ujihis regular law i)ractic
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