Eminent Americans : comprising brief biographies of leading statesmen, patriots, orators and others, men and women who have made American history . ed in the vi-cinity of Easton nearly a year, during which time ho visited the tribes on theSusquehannah in the Wyoming Valley and vicinity. Then he returned, andtook up his abode amongthe New Jersey Indians at Crosswicks, where he wasre:narkably successful. In less than a year, he baptized seventy-seven converts,and the whole tribe became thoroughly reformed in their morals. His healthgradually gave way, and he was compelled to leave the field of d
Eminent Americans : comprising brief biographies of leading statesmen, patriots, orators and others, men and women who have made American history . ed in the vi-cinity of Easton nearly a year, during which time ho visited the tribes on theSusquehannah in the Wyoming Valley and vicinity. Then he returned, andtook up his abode amongthe New Jersey Indians at Crosswicks, where he wasre:narkably successful. In less than a year, he baptized seventy-seven converts,and the whole tribe became thoroughly reformed in their morals. His healthgradually gave way, and he was compelled to leave the field of duty, where hisheart lingered. He went to Boston in July, 1747, and returning to Northamp-ton, he took up his abode with Jonathan Edwards. In the family of that greatand good man his flower of life faded, and when the leaves began to fall inAutumn, he fell, like an apple early ripe, into the lap of the grave. His spiritwent from earth on the 9th of October, 1747, when he was only twenty-nineyears of age. horsewhip mj and steal her, if I would not sell. I tot five pounds pether as a flogging, took it, and he agot the gal. 102 OLIVER •.OLIVER ELLSWOllTH. VTEVER was the harmony between private and public virtue more complete,i\ than that exhibited in tlie character and career of one of the most belovedof ^ew England patriots and jurists, Oliver Ellsworth. Ho was born at Wind-sor, the point of earliest settlement in Connecticut, on the 29th of April, lather was a respectable farmer, and with the strong common sense of lusclass, he prepared Oliver for the stern duties of life, by habits of labor, applica-tion, and frugality. His mental superiority was early discovered, and his fatheralternated the .lads daily life, between vigorous physical labors, and studiespreparatorv to a collegiate course of education. Ho entered Yale College at theage of seventeen years, but greater advantages appearing at Princeton, ho com-pfoted his studies there, where he was graduate
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